No censorship, I agree. The part I find amusing is "...as well as having parent-controlled lockout features installed in consoles by 2010..." And, so Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are just going to easily comply with an expensive change to suite ONE state? Sorry, New Yorkers, you will have to buy your vgc's in New Jersey in 2010.
OpenID sounds good on paper, but in this day and age of identity theft, it does seem like a security boondoggle waiting to happen. Not only will a script kiddie have gained access to your Facebook account, but then your AIM and everywhere else at the same time you've signed up for.
Get on board MS! Why would anyone in their right mind set up a Web/SQL platform using MS products?
Because, despite your prejudice, there is a business case for it. And business wins over OS zealotry. Besides, it is open source. Someone who is able to exercise common sense will simply port it to Windows.
And stop telling me what platform I should use for my apps, darn it! I don't see your time and money here in front of me doing the work, so stfu and just give me the tools that will get the job done.
They already exist. They are used for short-haul and yard movements. They don't have the capacity for long-haul, though.
The current crop of long-haul diesel-electrics emit far less pollution than the average car. It's diesel motor is solely used for making electricity, so they are very efficient at that task. And once they are moving, its like a ship in space, no energy needed to keep moving if their if even a 1% grade.
Being a team begins with being on the same page, and can't be on the same page until you know each other. If you want to be a good coding team, you to get to know each other, hobbies, interests, favorite soda, etc. Geting to know HOW the other person thinks will reduce future problems that are usually the result of misunderstanding.
We dodged a real bullet there, I tell ya! I mean, had they not enacted this extension when they did, we would have been stuck. And I mean STUCK with the large devices are forced to use now.
I think Casmir should be taken out behind the tool shed and whipped for his bad behavior.
It may take an amount of time equal to that of the development of Duke Nukem, but gosh darn it, he is gonna follow through with his promise! I think the topic of the next vaporware list should be these promised technologies.
That's about right. If you're looking for Ubuntu, you don't typically go buy it – and if you come across it at Best Buy, you're not going to know what it is. Who buys stuff they don't need?
Here is some perspective, HTML5 has finally added a tag for handling video. Flash 6 came out with video support in 2002!
HTML has had a tag for video, from the very beginning: anchor. <A HREF="blahblah.mpg">watch this video</A>
Not the same thing. That is just a link, that would open either a new web page, or fire off an external app. What about the embedded movie player as per flash? THAT is what is being referenced...and HTML still doesn't it.
... have some sort of predictive system that deletes the less popular movies, keeping them available to download again if you decide to watch it again.
"Howard the Duck", "Ishtar" and the ST:TOS episode "Spock's Brain" would never last under such an algorithm.
On a less piratical note, distributing movies on HDD would be interesting. The HDD would be in a study case and easily inserted into the player. The HDD would not have the same data through-put issues the optical media has, but would suffer being less reliable due to the mechanical nature of the HDD. And not as study if you drop it or allow your toddler to gnaw on it while they are teething.
A 500 GB HDD costs less than a single one of these discs, is reliable, rewritable a million times, lasts decades if properly stored, is already available, is faster, and requires no fancy hardware.
And there's always tape for true archiving.
But you can't go out and buy ST:TNG seasons 1-7 on HDD.
This is why we need to limit Congress to one term in each office. Nothing gets in the way of principle like rational self-interest.
Given how the sen's and rep's are acting these days, I whole-heartedly agree. There was a time in this country when having no limits was a good thing, back when advanced education was not wide-spread, or the communication network as the speed of a horse. But now, our society as a whole is more educated -- despite the acts of stupidity we still witness, I still believe this. But, what exactly are the odds of getting the very people who would be victim of the new standard, passing the new standard of 1 term only, or 1 consecutive term (while still allowing future chances to be voted in)?
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No censorship, I agree. The part I find amusing is "...as well as having parent-controlled lockout features installed in consoles by 2010..." And, so Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are just going to easily comply with an expensive change to suite ONE state? Sorry, New Yorkers, you will have to buy your vgc's in New Jersey in 2010.
The very problem this psycho was railing against, he was a cause and symptom. Ironic.
You must be new here.
Some of us keep the fact that we are married, and have children, a secret.
Oops!
OpenID sounds good on paper, but in this day and age of identity theft, it does seem like a security boondoggle waiting to happen. Not only will a script kiddie have gained access to your Facebook account, but then your AIM and everywhere else at the same time you've signed up for.
Get on board MS! Why would anyone in their right mind set up a Web/SQL platform using MS products?
Because, despite your prejudice, there is a business case for it. And business wins over OS zealotry. Besides, it is open source. Someone who is able to exercise common sense will simply port it to Windows.
And stop telling me what platform I should use for my apps, darn it! I don't see your time and money here in front of me doing the work, so stfu and just give me the tools that will get the job done.
OS Zealots are worse than spammers.
...electric trains...
They already exist. They are used for short-haul and yard movements. They don't have the capacity for long-haul, though.
The current crop of long-haul diesel-electrics emit far less pollution than the average car. It's diesel motor is solely used for making electricity, so they are very efficient at that task. And once they are moving, its like a ship in space, no energy needed to keep moving if their if even a 1% grade.
I love my pen-based laptop. I never use my touch pad mouse. I find the pen to be far more efficient at getting to a place on the screen.
Being a team begins with being on the same page, and can't be on the same page until you know each other. If you want to be a good coding team, you to get to know each other, hobbies, interests, favorite soda, etc. Geting to know HOW the other person thinks will reduce future problems that are usually the result of misunderstanding.
We dodged a real bullet there, I tell ya! I mean, had they not enacted this extension when they did, we would have been stuck. And I mean STUCK with the large devices are forced to use now.
I think Casmir should be taken out behind the tool shed and whipped for his bad behavior.
The simplicity and brilliance of this idea is astounding.
I foresee a weak stream of jokes from this article.
...the clone war.
What are the odds of people actually returning their much-less-costly Mac clone?
OK smartass:
Without using a calculator, 21467 seconds are how many feet?
t*s=d
s ft/sec, where s is the speed of the item being measured.
Fill in your own speed you snarky git.
vaporware, literally.
It may take an amount of time equal to that of the development of Duke Nukem, but gosh darn it, he is gonna follow through with his promise! I think the topic of the next vaporware list should be these promised technologies.
Billions of dollars in capital and they give us a retread of AlphaWorld from 1996? What's next, GoogleMUD?
A MUD hosted by Google...that would be so retro-awesome! I still have a copy of TinyFugue laying around.
lively.com might even feel faster with this new switching technology!
Bill G. retires. And now Jack T. is being disbarred. Who will be the slashdot editor post about for us to all agree on in our complaints?!
That's about right. If you're looking for Ubuntu, you don't typically go buy it – and if you come across it at Best Buy, you're not going to know what it is. Who buys stuff they don't need?
The same people who paid money for a 'pet rock'.
"Requires Windows Vista/XP with Internet Explorer or Firefox
By using Lively you agree to these Terms"
Didn't click on the link, didja?
Why? Nobody really gives a damn what fuels their cars, they care about cost...
Um, this is Mercedes we are talking about. If you want cost-conscious, you buy a Hyundai Accent that gets 40 MPG and costs $9,999.
HTML has had a tag for video, from the very beginning: anchor. <A HREF="blahblah.mpg">watch this video</A>
Not the same thing. That is just a link, that would open either a new web page, or fire off an external app. What about the embedded movie player as per flash? THAT is what is being referenced...and HTML still doesn't it.
... have some sort of predictive system that deletes the less popular movies, keeping them available to download again if you decide to watch it again.
"Howard the Duck", "Ishtar" and the ST:TOS episode "Spock's Brain" would never last under such an algorithm.
On a less piratical note, distributing movies on HDD would be interesting. The HDD would be in a study case and easily inserted into the player. The HDD would not have the same data through-put issues the optical media has, but would suffer being less reliable due to the mechanical nature of the HDD. And not as study if you drop it or allow your toddler to gnaw on it while they are teething.
A 500 GB HDD costs less than a single one of these discs, is reliable, rewritable a million times, lasts decades if properly stored, is already available, is faster, and requires no fancy hardware.
And there's always tape for true archiving.
But you can't go out and buy ST:TNG seasons 1-7 on HDD.
This is why we need to limit Congress to one term in each office. Nothing gets in the way of principle like rational self-interest.
Given how the sen's and rep's are acting these days, I whole-heartedly agree. There was a time in this country when having no limits was a good thing, back when advanced education was not wide-spread, or the communication network as the speed of a horse. But now, our society as a whole is more educated -- despite the acts of stupidity we still witness, I still believe this. But, what exactly are the odds of getting the very people who would be victim of the new standard, passing the new standard of 1 term only, or 1 consecutive term (while still allowing future chances to be voted in)?