This is amazing, and the implications are epic and nightmarish for anyone sleeping in that city. That said, then what the hell is at the bottom of that hole? The pictures do not tell the story. I gotta know. Anybody with a few hundred feet of rope and a wench want to drop me into it?
With just innovation and marketing chutzpah, Apple has created its own kingdom, not unlike Disneyland, where they get to make the rules. That is one of the big rewards of success in business. They have the right to do what they want with the product they sell, including confusing business practices that competitors can use to beat them. As I recall, many were complaining about Microsoft Windows Mobile until Apple came along and helped destroy Microsoft's dominant share in the mobile market. As for the AppStore approval process, I find it perfectly clear when compared to the federal tax code.
I gave up caffeine a few years ago, and it was an interesting experience. I would tend to agree with these findings. I gave up refined sugar too. I was amazed at how my mood changed. I was also amazed by how much I had put my body through for so many years. You never know until you try and then you never know again until you stop.
Pretend that you are a scientist and I am Monty Hall. Normally, I have three doors for you to pick and once you have picked one, I reveal a door and offer you the chance to choose the other. You are a good mathematician and would choose the other, and I know this. So, for you there are not three doors, there are an infinite number of doors. Only one has the answer to the universe -- be that God, nothing, the Matrix, whatever the answer is (I am not telling). So you pick a door, and I, as usual, reveal a door with "wrong door" and, as usual, offer you a second chance to pick one of, this time, the infinite number of other doors. Would you choose differently? Would it matter? The odds say 'no'.
That is the game of life. No one gets out alive, and no one returns to explain what, if anything, is after life. No one knows, and no religion offers a replay. Even those with reincarnation have a twist that does not bring YOU back as YOU. So, with one shot at life, you take what you can get. If it makes your life and the lives of others better to believe ANYTHING, then it must be a good thing for you and yours. Don't knock it. As for the dogma and the religious politics, well, anything can be corrupted.
Remember, there are many people in this world who have no real hope of ever having those things we take for granted. Religion brings hope to life that has no other hope, and for that we should tolerate it as we enjoy not having to depend on a prayer as the only thing that gets us through our day.
"fairly-up-to-date" is kind of you. I submitted this 'news' when Atlantis launched, ten days ago (http://slashdot.org/submission/1238864/Where-to-Park-the-Space-Shuttle), even mentioning that it might not be the final voyage and that there was talk about parking the shuttle at the Space Station to use in an emergency. It was rejected three days ago, I guess for being too-up-to-date.
How about on a T-shirt? One across the chest that alternates between "Do Not Look at MyBreasts" and a video of a pair of breasts -- just stupid enough to sell a few million at $500 each. Guess it is time for me to file that patent.
I really didn't understand it, but it was new and I could get to some documents. Never knew how to use any chat function, but I do remember that I used a terminal, a breath of fresh air after punching Hollerith cards. A friend wrote a program to draw images on it. Little did I know.
. . . that such an advanced society as ours is saddled with a small set of practically ancient expressions to express our contemporary feelings. Words that rhyme with duck and sit and hunt and tips for such profoundly emotional moments such as when the IRS sends an audit notice or your ex-wife publishes You Tube video of her and your former best friend copulating while she moans "finally a real piece of meat" or when your boss informs you that your job has moved to India and left you here alone. These "lifetime memories" deserve something more than the same short guttural epitaphs used by 19th Century cattlemen or, even worse, "$#*!" that cannot even be pronounced. After all, we are in the Third Millennium, the age of Urban Dictionary and Wiktionary. Let's try to come up with something more original and certainly more profane than "$#*!"
but no one was there to hear it. Would there still be information? Ah, the philosophy of quantum physics. I know nothing about physics, ever had a class. After reading 238 postings on this topic, I still know nothing but feel like I am in good company.
3.0 sold a lot, but Windows 386 convinced Microsoft to give up on OS/2 and live the "Windows! Windows! Windows!" mantra. The key was its support for all those DOS applications using the DOS-box VM with the i80386 EMS in hardware, something the 80286 OS/2 could not do without special hardware. If IBM had not been so fixated on the 80286 architecture (e.g., segmented addressing verses the linear address space of the 80386), OS/2 may have succeeded.
. . . is that I have always set DNS addresses manually. Back before the days of DHCP, I got to know the two primary DNS addresses for Level3 (now Verizon), 4.2.2.4 & 4.2.2.5. Since I have an easier time remembering numbers than names, they stuck. I use them even though they are not my ISPs, which makes DN look-ups a little slow.
There are a number of well known DNS exploits, especially with DNSSEC (http://www.dnssec.net) being a late comer to the Internet and not widely implemented beyond top level domains. It is actually a bigger problem for foreign countries, whose resources to oversee these technical things may be very limited.
True, the classic automobile was designed for a monolithic engine, drive train and fuel tank. The balance of the vehicle handling and safety was all formed around the big blocks of metal. Today, Michelin has the entire drive train in the wheel - http://www.hybridcars.com/components/michelins-reinvents-wheel-with-motors-25308.html. This is just version 1.0. Now the elephant in the auto is the battery. Batteries can be distributed for weight and heat dissipation.
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This is amazing, and the implications are epic and nightmarish for anyone sleeping in that city. That said, then what the hell is at the bottom of that hole? The pictures do not tell the story. I gotta know. Anybody with a few hundred feet of rope and a wench want to drop me into it?
. . . against nature: if their Senate was allowed to breed with their Supreme Court -- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/03/2133222/Guess-My-Speed-and-Give-Me-a-Ticket-In-Ohio. Perhaps it is too late -- http://science.slashdot.org/story/05/07/09/0544230/Genetic-Research-In-The-Heart-of-Amish-Country.
Microsoft is 100% Microsoft compatible (restrictions and exclusions apply).
Completely untrue and an insult to medicine. It is actually like choosing to live under Hilter or Stalin.
With just innovation and marketing chutzpah, Apple has created its own kingdom, not unlike Disneyland, where they get to make the rules. That is one of the big rewards of success in business. They have the right to do what they want with the product they sell, including confusing business practices that competitors can use to beat them. As I recall, many were complaining about Microsoft Windows Mobile until Apple came along and helped destroy Microsoft's dominant share in the mobile market. As for the AppStore approval process, I find it perfectly clear when compared to the federal tax code.
That is right. God does not say 'please' or "thank you."
I gave up caffeine a few years ago, and it was an interesting experience. I would tend to agree with these findings. I gave up refined sugar too. I was amazed at how my mood changed. I was also amazed by how much I had put my body through for so many years. You never know until you try and then you never know again until you stop.
. . . in hearing about my missile silo.
OK - http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20004170-54.html . It may mean that you have to hold it up to the sun to use it.
. . . is a calculated move.
Pretend that you are a scientist and I am Monty Hall. Normally, I have three doors for you to pick and once you have picked one, I reveal a door and offer you the chance to choose the other. You are a good mathematician and would choose the other, and I know this. So, for you there are not three doors, there are an infinite number of doors. Only one has the answer to the universe -- be that God, nothing, the Matrix, whatever the answer is (I am not telling). So you pick a door, and I, as usual, reveal a door with "wrong door" and, as usual, offer you a second chance to pick one of, this time, the infinite number of other doors. Would you choose differently? Would it matter? The odds say 'no'.
That is the game of life. No one gets out alive, and no one returns to explain what, if anything, is after life. No one knows, and no religion offers a replay. Even those with reincarnation have a twist that does not bring YOU back as YOU. So, with one shot at life, you take what you can get. If it makes your life and the lives of others better to believe ANYTHING, then it must be a good thing for you and yours. Don't knock it. As for the dogma and the religious politics, well, anything can be corrupted.
Remember, there are many people in this world who have no real hope of ever having those things we take for granted. Religion brings hope to life that has no other hope, and for that we should tolerate it as we enjoy not having to depend on a prayer as the only thing that gets us through our day.
"fairly-up-to-date" is kind of you. I submitted this 'news' when Atlantis launched, ten days ago (http://slashdot.org/submission/1238864/Where-to-Park-the-Space-Shuttle), even mentioning that it might not be the final voyage and that there was talk about parking the shuttle at the Space Station to use in an emergency. It was rejected three days ago, I guess for being too-up-to-date.
Has /. now become the Associated Press?
How about on a T-shirt? One across the chest that alternates between "Do Not Look at My Breasts" and a video of a pair of breasts -- just stupid enough to sell a few million at $500 each. Guess it is time for me to file that patent.
I really didn't understand it, but it was new and I could get to some documents. Never knew how to use any chat function, but I do remember that I used a terminal, a breath of fresh air after punching Hollerith cards. A friend wrote a program to draw images on it. Little did I know.
. . . that such an advanced society as ours is saddled with a small set of practically ancient expressions to express our contemporary feelings. Words that rhyme with duck and sit and hunt and tips for such profoundly emotional moments such as when the IRS sends an audit notice or your ex-wife publishes You Tube video of her and your former best friend copulating while she moans "finally a real piece of meat" or when your boss informs you that your job has moved to India and left you here alone. These "lifetime memories" deserve something more than the same short guttural epitaphs used by 19th Century cattlemen or, even worse, "$#*!" that cannot even be pronounced. After all, we are in the Third Millennium, the age of Urban Dictionary and Wiktionary. Let's try to come up with something more original and certainly more profane than "$#*!"
. . . no need for paper. HP has the second best thing going. The first? Cellular carriers selling SMS at 20 cents per 140 bytes.
. . . wouldn't Fox News have reported on it? I thought Murdoch had an exclusive on 'impossible' news.
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge," MK.
Shit stinks, and these guys will get sued. Sad facts, you can flush them both but they still stink.
but no one was there to hear it. Would there still be information? Ah, the philosophy of quantum physics. I know nothing about physics, ever had a class. After reading 238 postings on this topic, I still know nothing but feel like I am in good company.
If you want the jet to scram, send it into the ocean at Mach 6. Just hope it doesn't land on a ship.
3.0 sold a lot, but Windows 386 convinced Microsoft to give up on OS/2 and live the "Windows! Windows! Windows!" mantra. The key was its support for all those DOS applications using the DOS-box VM with the i80386 EMS in hardware, something the 80286 OS/2 could not do without special hardware. If IBM had not been so fixated on the 80286 architecture (e.g., segmented addressing verses the linear address space of the 80386), OS/2 may have succeeded.
. . . is that I have always set DNS addresses manually. Back before the days of DHCP, I got to know the two primary DNS addresses for Level3 (now Verizon), 4.2.2.4 & 4.2.2.5. Since I have an easier time remembering numbers than names, they stuck. I use them even though they are not my ISPs, which makes DN look-ups a little slow.
There are a number of well known DNS exploits, especially with DNSSEC (http://www.dnssec.net) being a late comer to the Internet and not widely implemented beyond top level domains. It is actually a bigger problem for foreign countries, whose resources to oversee these technical things may be very limited.
True, the classic automobile was designed for a monolithic engine, drive train and fuel tank. The balance of the vehicle handling and safety was all formed around the big blocks of metal. Today, Michelin has the entire drive train in the wheel - http://www.hybridcars.com/components/michelins-reinvents-wheel-with-motors-25308.html. This is just version 1.0. Now the elephant in the auto is the battery. Batteries can be distributed for weight and heat dissipation.