sIFR is really only intended for replacing header text, not body text.
Flash is also not meant to be used to make web sites with, but just wait until some kind of brain dead "web designer" (or whatever they're called this week) gets hold of this and they'll find astoundingly obnoxious ways to use it.
I'd rephrase that to say Apple has an effective case... because I certainly wouldn't call what they're doing "good".
And as we all know, it always takes one bad Apple...
So this would explain why Mac users never turn their Apple computers off. Apparently PsyStar wasn't the first one to be hit with this. They probably have agents hidden in all major Starbucks. "Hey ! Did you just boot that Macintosh and make a copy of the operating system ?"
They'd probably work in pairs, scissoring back and forth in long arcs to get his attention.
Drop a few flares or do a loud afterburner pass. That'll wake your ass up in a hurry.
Remember they had their laptops out. If you're really engrossed in your game of Solitaire, you're bound to miss flares and afterburner antics (as in "huh, did you say something, AH, A BLACK 3 !!").
Solution ? port Solitaire (or Minesweeper) to the plane's embedded software. "Gold 2 to Gold leader, how do I mark a mine with the joystick, do I use the main trigger or the hat ? over" "Gold leader to Gold wing, you should have gotten a memo forbidding in-flight Minesweeper, stop right now, over" "Gold 4 to Gold leader, aaah, um. I, uh, I got the memo, but... about Solitaire...
Maemo 5 and Android have received a lot of publicity lately, despite the former not even shipping yet. Both have become famous partly for using the Linux kernel, but now that we have a choice, how do we pick one?
I assume that you'd probably pick the one that you can actually buy. Or you could opt to buy nothing, but that's not really picking one.
"We" don't really have a choice, do we?
My choice wa a tough one. My mobile network salespeople were peskering me because I had accumulated a number of points that made me eligible for a new handset for a symbolic price. So I went to look at their online boutique and after a long pondering decided to go with a Samsung [something] (I think it has "star" in the model name, which may or may not be what my network calls it, or just a local name, or maybe it's what it's really called... but it's not on the Samsung web site)
Anyway, I wanted : reasonably decent phone (as in making calls and manageing contacts) interface, possibly Visio, definitely radio (we happen to have quality radio in Europe), maybe a few toys, BlueTooth would be a plus... and um... "Ideally"... if I was able to ssh and open an xterm or even (hah) an X11/ssh tunnel to my network that would have been kind of neat. Although poking at networks on a cell phone that didn't have a real keyboard (as in the clamshell Nokia units that came along a few years ago, no idea what they were called) would, while geeky and fun, be mostly pointless. (Presumably there's a menu item for ^] or something...). And displaying my workstation's display in QVGA (or pretty much any normal app) would be an exercise in futility.
So I just went for a regular, marginally augmented phone. It can display a calendar, it can handle about ten alarms, it has a dozen fields per contact, it does 3G+ and handles GSM and whatever that US norm is. It also has a number of useless widgets to keep me amused. It has the mandatory useless camera. It cost me 20 €.
And I'll stick with my 12.something inch laptop that weighs a bit under 2kg and lasts roughly 4hours whenever I actually want to talk to a proper computer on the other side.
So while I certainly *would* have considered an open source terminal (and that's assuming the Samsung handset I have runs 100% proprietary code), it didn't look alike any were available. If some were, I didn't bother going to page 5 (130 € and up). And on top of that, I'm still not convinced I need that much functionality inside what is mostly a disposable unit (sit on it, drop it, forget it, get it snatched, flood it --beer, water, coffee, soda--, have your friend's kids turn it into a spaceship, etc.)
OTOH I know I won't forget my laptop. I also know it was fairly easy to script an automated backup as soon as it auto-logged into my home Wi-Fi (not so easy with a phone, unless it *really* is wide open ; but how many actually are). Losing my laptop won't ever be much of an issue (unless I happen to be memory starved for my camera on a trip and have to re-use flash cards, unlikely given how many I have and how I work but who can tell) since my personal insurance will cover most of the loss anyway and my data won't be accessible to the thief (ok, maybe if it's the TSA and they pass it on to the NSA, that is if I decide to go back to the US).
In conclusion, while I understand that it certainly would be convenient to have a "one for all" device, IMO current phones are way off the mark. Every now and then, an interesting idea pops up, usually to be quickly killed by the network operator's (or some kind of patent troll's) greed.
Of course it *will* happen eventually. And a lot of tech and design firms are trying to push their designs forward. That they mostly suck is natural (getting it right will take some time) but the blunt of the blame isn't to rest on the designer's shoulders but on the ones who benefit most from neutering the hardware.
As always, follow the money.
We techies sometimes, for right or wrong, believe that we can fix pretty much any problem with a judicious application of technology. But we always forget that greedy people believe they can make an extra [$currency] by preventing us to do so (and they're often right).
Exactly, by moving the date 8 years out, when it does come on 2012, we won't be expecting t and the mass hysteria will only last a few minutes at most.
That link has been known for several hundred years - it was a key plot element in Macbeth - and probably has a lot to do with the Christian tradition of baptism.
It's much more likely than it's the other way round. Jewish tradition used to have ritual bathing before entering the temples (and then *the* temple when the other ones were closed). Innumerable religions have similar rituals. Washing to remove a moral stain is well documented and certainly has nothing to do with baptism since for most christians (outside of some US groups) it's not a very important thing in their life. It's done when they're infants and they have no say in it.
>Pepper sauce? Pepper sauce?!? Do you have any idea what the carbon footprint of pepper sauce is? My brother ate pepper sauce once. He had to eat a whole zoo full of animals to make up for it! Stay away from the sauce!
They list it at £199. According to Google, this is $324.569 and some zeroes. A more realistic comparison is $400 if the exchange rate was actually set at the true relative value of £ and $.
I just checked this in France and the Amazon home page lists the kindle as being available on "amazon.com". So apparently it's priced at $259 + tax which should add up to $309.80 (+ shipping). So until they sell it on their local pages with the "usual" exchange rate ($1 for a bit more than a euro), I suppose it's some sortof a good deal for people who want one.
There doesn't seem to be much localised content (although Le Monde seems to be available) which may or may not be a problem for the early adopters here (if there are any).
To be hip and "with-it" on the web, you have work with beta stuff that crashes.
MySpace must have been super hip for a while then. It still looks like a beta from 1998. Some of the photographers I know work on concerts and point me to their MySpace page (for some reason, anything that has to do with music here apparently *has* to have a MySpace page) but those things are just too atrocious.
The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body...
Whenever I get a new gadget, the first thing I do is always to write its name with a permanent pen on its power supply (usually black on black but it's still legible enough). Failing that, I'm stuck with yet another "Celestial Happy Power Co (ROC)" gadget with no obvious clue as to what it's supposed to be paired with. I sometimes experimented which has on several occasions let the magical smoke out and finally decided on my current methodology which has proved to be effective so far.
Are there any multiplatform viruses that exist yet?
Somewhat, I think there are a few malicious scripts for OOo which *should* by their nature be multi-platform if they're properly written. After that it mostly depends on what they try to achieve. I don't think they are very frequent in the wild.
But... "compiling for your platform" is just another way to install software. You could wrap this in a little application (call it "setup"), where you click "Next >" several times, and as a result you have a binary for your platform. For those who know what they are doing, there is always the "expert configuration" button.
There's a reason why some people chose not to run Gentoo. Not to mention that nowadays, it's frequent for basic dev tools not to be installed on desktop machines by default (for non Gentoo users).
So while a proper fat binary supporting SPARC, SPARC64, Alpha, ARM, x86, ia64, m68k, PPC, s390 and MIPS (I'm sure I forgot a bunch) might be a bit overweight, I don't know if switching to Gentoo is the solution.
I absolutely love Picasa. But I am not sure here we are talking about just a desktop application. I just hope Google buys Media Monkey (one of the very few proprietary s/w I use - even in its free version, its fantastic) and get done with the desktop application part.
I'd never heard of MediaMonkey but the fact that the download is a.exe file suggests that it's limited to a single platform.
What's next? Concise Oxford charging for words explained in the dictionary?
Not sure about the Concise Oxford but I'm pretty sure that I was charged something like 20 or 30 for the New Oxford Dictionary sitting on the shelf behind me. Maybe they changed their way of doing things since then.
I am confused by the moral aspects of this headline. Is moving into the assassination field a step down from patent trolling, or merely a lateral move?
I'm not sure (not being a lawyer and all) but I think they're trying to redeem themselves.
If this thing is a 3D display, shouldn't there be another pixel dimension quoted here?
Judging by the quoted figures, they were probably too embarrassed.
Journalist: "So what are the 3 dimensions that you can display in ?" Sony : "It's 128 pixels by 96 pixels by mumblemumble but it's still very experimental. And look at the vibrant colours !" Journalist : "Sorry I didn't get that last figure" Sony : "Did you notice the refresh rate, oh yes it's 128x96xmumble, look, we have a great tree model, let me load it for you" Journalist : "sorry, times what ?" Sony (squeaky) "times three..." (in an overly enthusiastic voice) "Look, the branches are moving, doesn't it look like..." Journalist : "Wait, not only is it a bit small to start with but that's barely 3D, it's more like 2 1/2 D" Sony : "Who are you, what are you doing here ? Security !"
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Okay thats interesting. In wonder how you would go pumping sea water into it?
That's easy, you'd just use a series of tubes.
Wait, I just had an idea...
sIFR is really only intended for replacing header text, not body text.
Flash is also not meant to be used to make web sites with, but just wait until some kind of brain dead "web designer" (or whatever they're called this week) gets hold of this and they'll find astoundingly obnoxious ways to use it.
I'd rephrase that to say Apple has an effective case... because I certainly wouldn't call what they're doing "good".
And as we all know, it always takes one bad Apple...
So this would explain why Mac users never turn their Apple computers off. Apparently PsyStar wasn't the first one to be hit with this. They probably have agents hidden in all major Starbucks.
"Hey ! Did you just boot that Macintosh and make a copy of the operating system ?"
FWIW, I'm a Christian and I've never felt "pressured" by my local church body to spend money on something I didn't want.
If you feel you've been missing something, you can probably join online !
They'd probably work in pairs, scissoring back and forth in long arcs to get his attention.
Drop a few flares or do a loud afterburner pass. That'll wake your ass up in a hurry.
Remember they had their laptops out. If you're really engrossed in your game of Solitaire, you're bound to miss flares and afterburner antics (as in "huh, did you say something, AH, A BLACK 3 !!").
Solution ? port Solitaire (or Minesweeper) to the plane's embedded software.
"Gold 2 to Gold leader, how do I mark a mine with the joystick, do I use the main trigger or the hat ? over"
"Gold leader to Gold wing, you should have gotten a memo forbidding in-flight Minesweeper, stop right now, over"
"Gold 4 to Gold leader, aaah, um. I, uh, I got the memo, but... about Solitaire...
(apologies to Star Wars)
Maemo 5 and Android have received a lot of publicity lately, despite the former not even shipping yet. Both have become famous partly for using the Linux kernel, but now that we have a choice, how do we pick one?
I assume that you'd probably pick the one that you can actually buy. Or you could opt to buy nothing, but that's not really picking one.
"We" don't really have a choice, do we?
My choice wa a tough one. My mobile network salespeople were peskering me because I had accumulated a number of points that made me eligible for a new handset for a symbolic price. So I went to look at their online boutique and after a long pondering decided to go with a Samsung [something] (I think it has "star" in the model name, which may or may not be what my network calls it, or just a local name, or maybe it's what it's really called... but it's not on the Samsung web site)
Anyway, I wanted : reasonably decent phone (as in making calls and manageing contacts) interface, possibly Visio, definitely radio (we happen to have quality radio in Europe), maybe a few toys, BlueTooth would be a plus... and um...
"Ideally"... if I was able to ssh and open an xterm or even (hah) an X11/ssh tunnel to my network that would have been kind of neat. Although poking at networks on a cell phone that didn't have a real keyboard (as in the clamshell Nokia units that came along a few years ago, no idea what they were called) would, while geeky and fun, be mostly pointless. (Presumably there's a menu item for ^] or something...). And displaying my workstation's display in QVGA (or pretty much any normal app) would be an exercise in futility.
So I just went for a regular, marginally augmented phone. It can display a calendar, it can handle about ten alarms, it has a dozen fields per contact, it does 3G+ and handles GSM and whatever that US norm is. It also has a number of useless widgets to keep me amused. It has the mandatory useless camera.
It cost me 20 €.
And I'll stick with my 12.something inch laptop that weighs a bit under 2kg and lasts roughly 4hours whenever I actually want to talk to a proper computer on the other side.
So while I certainly *would* have considered an open source terminal (and that's assuming the Samsung handset I have runs 100% proprietary code), it didn't look alike any were available. If some were, I didn't bother going to page 5 (130 € and up). And on top of that, I'm still not convinced I need that much functionality inside what is mostly a disposable unit (sit on it, drop it, forget it, get it snatched, flood it --beer, water, coffee, soda--, have your friend's kids turn it into a spaceship, etc.)
OTOH I know I won't forget my laptop. I also know it was fairly easy to script an automated backup as soon as it auto-logged into my home Wi-Fi (not so easy with a phone, unless it *really* is wide open ; but how many actually are). Losing my laptop won't ever be much of an issue (unless I happen to be memory starved for my camera on a trip and have to re-use flash cards, unlikely given how many I have and how I work but who can tell) since my personal insurance will cover most of the loss anyway and my data won't be accessible to the thief (ok, maybe if it's the TSA and they pass it on to the NSA, that is if I decide to go back to the US).
In conclusion, while I understand that it certainly would be convenient to have a "one for all" device, IMO current phones are way off the mark. Every now and then, an interesting idea pops up, usually to be quickly killed by the network operator's (or some kind of patent troll's) greed.
Of course it *will* happen eventually. And a lot of tech and design firms are trying to push their designs forward. That they mostly suck is natural (getting it right will take some time) but the blunt of the blame isn't to rest on the designer's shoulders but on the ones who benefit most from neutering the hardware.
As always, follow the money.
We techies sometimes, for right or wrong, believe that we can fix pretty much any problem with a judicious application of technology. But we always forget that greedy people believe they can make an extra [$currency] by preventing us to do so (and they're often right).
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Exactly, by moving the date 8 years out, when it does come on 2012, we won't be expecting t and the mass hysteria will only last a few minutes at most.
That's for a very large value of 8 of course...
Exactly why should we worry about a calendar developed by a civilization that worshiped corn?
As opposed to a civilisation that worships wafers ? Some progress...
So... what you're saying is that armies and religions should use more Windex ?
That link has been known for several hundred years - it was a key plot element in Macbeth - and probably has a lot to do with the Christian tradition of baptism.
It's much more likely than it's the other way round. Jewish tradition used to have ritual bathing before entering the temples (and then *the* temple when the other ones were closed). Innumerable religions have similar rituals.
Washing to remove a moral stain is well documented and certainly has nothing to do with baptism since for most christians (outside of some US groups) it's not a very important thing in their life. It's done when they're infants and they have no say in it.
It depends on which of the ethical schools you're subscribing to.
You forgot Moses. Can't place my hands on the source, but it has something to do with not stealing.
That one has long since been deprecated.
Boiling water and rocks have also been used
But they don't really smell of anything... Religious people really make no sense at all.
>Pepper sauce? Pepper sauce?!? Do you have any idea what the carbon footprint of pepper sauce is? My brother ate pepper sauce once. He had to eat a whole zoo full of animals to make up for it! Stay away from the sauce!
But it's *green* pepper !
I just looked at the UK Amazon site.
They list it at £199. According to Google, this is $324.569 and some zeroes. A more realistic comparison is $400 if the exchange rate was actually set at the true relative value of £ and $.
I just checked this in France and the Amazon home page lists the kindle as being available on "amazon.com". So apparently it's priced at $259 + tax which should add up to $309.80 (+ shipping). So until they sell it on their local pages with the "usual" exchange rate ($1 for a bit more than a euro), I suppose it's some sortof a good deal for people who want one.
There doesn't seem to be much localised content (although Le Monde seems to be available) which may or may not be a problem for the early adopters here (if there are any).
To be hip and "with-it" on the web, you have work with beta stuff that crashes.
MySpace must have been super hip for a while then. It still looks like a beta from 1998.
Some of the photographers I know work on concerts and point me to their MySpace page (for some reason, anything that has to do with music here apparently *has* to have a MySpace page) but those things are just too atrocious.
The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body...
Whenever I get a new gadget, the first thing I do is always to write its name with a permanent pen on its power supply (usually black on black but it's still legible enough).
Failing that, I'm stuck with yet another "Celestial Happy Power Co (ROC)" gadget with no obvious clue as to what it's supposed to be paired with. I sometimes experimented which has on several occasions let the magical smoke out and finally decided on my current methodology which has proved to be effective so far.
Are there any multiplatform viruses that exist yet?
Somewhat, I think there are a few malicious scripts for OOo which *should* by their nature be multi-platform if they're properly written. After that it mostly depends on what they try to achieve. I don't think they are very frequent in the wild.
But... "compiling for your platform" is just another way to install software. You could wrap this in a little application (call it "setup"), where you click "Next >" several times, and as a result you have a binary for your platform.
For those who know what they are doing, there is always the "expert configuration" button.
There's a reason why some people chose not to run Gentoo.
Not to mention that nowadays, it's frequent for basic dev tools not to be installed on desktop machines by default (for non Gentoo users).
So while a proper fat binary supporting SPARC, SPARC64, Alpha, ARM, x86, ia64, m68k, PPC, s390 and MIPS (I'm sure I forgot a bunch) might be a bit overweight, I don't know if switching to Gentoo is the solution.
I absolutely love Picasa. But I am not sure here we are talking about just a desktop application. I just hope Google buys Media Monkey (one of the very few proprietary s/w I use - even in its free version, its fantastic) and get done with the desktop application part.
I'd never heard of MediaMonkey but the fact that the download is a .exe file suggests that it's limited to a single platform.
What's next? Concise Oxford charging for words explained in the dictionary?
Not sure about the Concise Oxford but I'm pretty sure that I was charged something like 20 or 30 for the New Oxford Dictionary sitting on the shelf behind me. Maybe they changed their way of doing things since then.
Right. Because what you really need to run your web site's forum is to first buy an Oracle database license. Just in case.
I am confused by the moral aspects of this headline. Is moving into the assassination field a step down from patent trolling, or merely a lateral move?
I'm not sure (not being a lawyer and all) but I think they're trying to redeem themselves.
People say that the two things that drive technology are war and porn.
And games.
Just wait till my PornWars MMO gets released, it will make a killing !
(won't be available in the US, obviously. Or Australia).
96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall
If this thing is a 3D display, shouldn't there be another pixel dimension quoted here?
Judging by the quoted figures, they were probably too embarrassed.
Journalist: "So what are the 3 dimensions that you can display in ?"
Sony : "It's 128 pixels by 96 pixels by mumblemumble but it's still very experimental. And look at the vibrant colours !"
Journalist : "Sorry I didn't get that last figure"
Sony : "Did you notice the refresh rate, oh yes it's 128x96xmumble, look, we have a great tree model, let me load it for you"
Journalist : "sorry, times what ?"
Sony (squeaky) "times three..."
(in an overly enthusiastic voice) "Look, the branches are moving, doesn't it look like..."
Journalist : "Wait, not only is it a bit small to start with but that's barely 3D, it's more like 2 1/2 D"
Sony : "Who are you, what are you doing here ? Security !"
Pr0n of course
96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall pr0n, think of the possibilities !