But as a first-order rough approximation, calling the internet a "bunch of tubes" sounds as accurate as it gets. Can you find a term as short and simple as that that describes the internet, even as partially as that? "Internet" is already a short and simple self descriptive term. You can always kind of dumb it down ad infinitum and call it "stuff". Or magic. As outlined above, the "tubes" thing was coined by someone who didn't have even the first clue about the whole thing. To him it was indeed "stuff". He then made up his own kind of mythology around his limited perception of the whole thing. A few centuries ago he could have been high priest.
Well, maybe you could use the earth's gravity then; you would step into your time travel vehicle, move back a second, fall back to earth, move back another second, fall back to earth again (or reposition yourself). If you do it quickly, you wouldn't notice, and you'd still be on earth when you arrived. That's pretty much the system I'm using, except I'm moving forward in time, not back, and it takes a second to move a second. But it's very reliable so I'm confident I'll get there eventually.
This shows to have PR value, an offer has to have something that might interest MS. It must be something in which MS could recognize its own enlightened self-interest. Maybe we could give them access to the Linux source code ! They could certainly learn stuff from it.
All this does is move the goal post. It's crap. Insurance companies will dump millions into it only to find that surprises still happen. Hurricanes plow into cities. Cities drown. The govt is too incompetent to help, so it farms it all out to their buddies in related industries. Naomi Wolf can tell you how such Modeling surprise ideas would work for Certain People.
Ah. Right... So this isn't even remotely related to party strippers then I gather...
Yes but there's a big difference between ventriloquism and the content in the main post. In ventriloquism you're still vocalizing the words while giving the illusion that you're not. In this case you are not making vocal sounds but rather, sending neuron signals to a computer to do the talking for you. It's a hell of a lot closer to telepathy than you might think. Like the GP, I don't see assisted wireless ventriloquism as being any closet to telepathy than Hawking's rig is. Easier to use and carry around, certainly, but that's about it. It doesn't read sounds, it's another interface to drive a speech synthesizer. It's interesting because it could be a much more natural one, although the "training required" bit is problematic but we can probably expect that to get better. And that non-invasive hands-free interface can of course potentially be used to drive lots of other things.
Well configured ftp servers don't allow download of files that have been uploaded. Mine doesn't even allow you to 'ls' the upload directory. It's a black hole. I seem to remember that was actually the default configuration of anon FTP servers by a lot of Linux distributions (been a while since I actually installed an anon FTP server though). Which makes sense as it is sort of a standard setup.
Except the double-slit experiment. It's based on the fact that light has wavefront qualities, while ray tracing treats it as particles. There's also the problem of the raytracing of moving objects. Especially when they move at a significant fraction of c.
No, raytracing has way too many drawbacks to be used seriously nowadays.
Got that? Okay. Good. Now imagine that you just want to go to Microcenter to pick up some more Bawls but your laptop is SCREAMING at the top of it's 2" speakers that it wants Serial-ATA. You know that it doesn't use Serial-ATA, but it is just making all kinds of noise, and shaking. Bah... sudo amixer -c1 set Master mute
I know that when I first set foot in a starbucks (somewhere in California I think) I couldn't even figure which thing was the plain coffee since everything had weird names I'd never heard before, being European.
So I asked for a small black coffee, which luckily was available (can't remember what it was called).
They have opened a number of outlets in Paris nowadays:( and don't even offer free WiFi. So there's no real point in going there. I entered one once, couldn't make sense of the product names there either so got out and went to a café instead.
You must appreciate the IT Director who demands (and I mean vehemently demands) that all 5000 computers deployed MUST HAVE FEET. I think it's so that they can evacuate in case of fire. Makes sense to me.
Glad to be of service, but I'd rather use simple voice commands to control a portable device. My cellphone has the ability to dial by voice, recognizing both names and numbers. It's not perfect, but it is usually faster than typing or searching for contacts.
Voice control and other methods are only infants compared to keyboards, but just like the keyboard improved from a mechanical device on a typewriter into a simple multi-function electronic device, other input technologies will improve.
I'm just looking forward to the day when the computer interfaces with my brain and provides all inputs so that I can just lie in some tube and experience the reality that the computer determines is best for me.
Where did I read "Text-based interfaces have proven that most users can't read. Graphic interfaces have proven that most users can't understand abstractions. Mind reading interfaces will prove that most users can't think."
That *crash* will not come as a surprise It will be on a phone. I've never seen one crash. Then again, I haven't had much exposure to Windows Mobile. My former Sony Ericsson cellphone (V600i I think, I've lost it anyway, which reminds me I'll have to get a replacement one of these days) had to be restarted every couple day or it would regularly ignore calls, refuse to dial or to ring, etc. It wasn't a smartphone and it didn't look like it ran Windows mobile although you can probably dress it up to look like a proper embedded system nowadays so maybe it was after all... Whatever it ran it did crash quite a bit.
I thought when you said actual piracy you meant boarding freighters, killing the crew and taking their valuables. I can see how that might lead to more violent crimes. I can't.
But then I can't really find a "more violent crime", especially since I know a number of people who have been captains or senior officers on large long haul freighters that have seen piracy up close. Even cruise ships and private small crafts such as sailboats aren't immune either in some areas.
Piracy can get very very nasty despite the romantic image it currently carries.
That warning only appears on the special anti-viral Kleenex. Anti viral tissues, cool. You wouldn't want your garbage can to start sneezing in your face... (amazed at the inventiveness of the marketing dept. these days)
The problem is; who will pay for the cleanup? Nobody has to. A lot of animals and insects have evolved to take care of carrion quite effectively. And metal carcasses will oxidise and vanish in a few decades (hopefully by then the plastic bits will be scavenged by the roaming bands of road warriors)..
See ? It's all taken off through the wonders of nature.
I'm thinking of moving back away from Mac, personally. Turns out I don't really like their window manager very much, or the poor integration with (or segregation of?) X11 and limited availability of free software on the platform. That pretty much sums up why I gave up my iBook and went back to a Linux laptop after a year as well. Can't say I really miss it although I wish I could find a better use for it than a paperweight.
Not to mention that on my compact 12" laptop, off the grid, with the CPU in economy mode and with a slow HD, Open Office takes all of five seconds to create a blank window (never started this session). I'm not that starved for time that I mind a 5 second wait.
Now I'm on Macintosh/Hackintosh, I can use real software. Like Photoshop and MS Office. (I suck too much at games to ever enjoy them.)
Why not GIMP and OpenOffice? Because they both suck. GIMP is unusable and lacks major features. (No CMYK? WTF?) Since I do semi-professional photography and exclusively use Linux to do so (and have done for years), I'll reply to the only vaguely sensible remark you made. Besides CMYK being useless in photography (although it's useful in prepress which is another matter). Gimp *has* CMYK support though. However it doesn't have Pantone support. Which can be a problem if you need it for prepress work.
What the Gimp *does* lack for photo editing is support of more than 8bit per pixel colour depth (so it's either CinePaint or Krita). But then I almost never edit my photos in a bitmap editor. It's almost always done in a photo manipulation program such as Bibble or RawTherapee or the digiKam editors (courtesy of the KiPi plugins mostly).
Apart from that, Gimp works just fine of course. It probably does help that the last time I used Photoshop it was on an SGI with the elderly Mac OS 7 (or so) interface ported with some obscure hack into Irix. So I never really had to "forget" the Photoshop ways. I'd certainly waste hours poking at all the menus and icons if I had to try it again today (which presumably goes to show that it must suck too I guess).
Anyway repeating hearsay FUD doesn't really help making you look good on forums...
Even SSL fails with this method of attack. Too many ways to add a new root certificate. You'd have to edit the cache so that the new key matches though (because it won't be the same one).
That's not true. As you could see in the posts above, Apple's actions do bother at least some of their customers. I know it annoys me. But they compensate for their practices a lot better a=than MS does by offering a vastly superior OS and beutiful hardware that in some cases is worth the extra money. While that's potentially debatable (I, for one, find that there isn't really all that much difference between Mac OS and Windows, but then I'm a Unix geek so I'm part of a small enough minority that I don't really count, although I'll gladly agree that the hardware is usually good), the *real* point isn't whether one company's actions is or isn't compensated by its hardware (I do use a MS mouse at the moment because that was the only midrange wireless mouse that was available at the nearby shop) but whether it has a monopoly in its market.
Does Microsoft has a monopoly in the operating system market ? Yes. Does Apple ? No (so they can do whatever they like including giving away gold plated laptops in exchange for firstborns) Does Microsoft have a monopoly in desktop peripherals ? No (so I did buy a MS mouse even though I resent giving them yet more money after they screwed me out of a Vista licence) Does Apple ? No, so feel free to buy "mighty mice" and bury yourself in a pile of them (knobbly but fun). Does anybody else ? No. There are major players (like Logitech or MS in that market, but none have 80% of sales, so nobody cares).
The *problem* is that when I recently had to buy a laptop to replace the iBook G4 which I did *not* like (I like KDE better than Mac OS, can't help it), I had the choice between utterly crappy generic systems that came with Linux, or regular machines that came with Vista. And from what I gathered from the Vista EULA, if you don't agree with it you have to return *everything* (that is including the machine) for a refund. Whereas with the XP EULA you could just say "I don't want this crappy system" and (theoretically) have a refund. And then you'd enjoy your Linux/BSD/BeOS/FreeDOS/Whatever machine -- and maybe get between $60 to $100 out of the deal.
Me, I just overwrote the Vista disk with another system, figured I'd lost about $100 in the process and that was that. OTOH, I now have a machine that I enjoy using instead of the iBook which did work ok but which I didn't like.
Anyway, I'm not anti-Apple, of course they use MS tactics. They try to sell their stuff. It's all fair game. I'm mostly pro-diversity. If the network was 40% MS, 40% Apple and 20% Linux, it would still be much saner than it is now (although of course I'd rather have 1/3rd for each).
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Um, no, wait...
Ah. Right...All this does is move the goal post. It's crap. Insurance companies will dump millions into it only to find that surprises still happen. Hurricanes plow into cities. Cities drown. The govt is too incompetent to help, so it farms it all out to their buddies in related industries. Naomi Wolf can tell you how such Modeling surprise ideas would work for Certain People.
So this isn't even remotely related to party strippers then I gather...
Oh and of course, you can only trace fairly large objects.
So what if you want to play an electron in the new "Atomic Adventure" ?
No, raytracing has way too many drawbacks to be used seriously nowadays.
And cowbells. Can't go wrong with cowbells.
sudo amixer -c1 set Master mute
Silly laptops.
I know that when I first set foot in a starbucks (somewhere in California I think) I couldn't even figure which thing was the plain coffee since everything had weird names I'd never heard before, being European.
:( and don't even offer free WiFi. So there's no real point in going there. I entered one once, couldn't make sense of the product names there either so got out and went to a café instead.
So I asked for a small black coffee, which luckily was available (can't remember what it was called).
They have opened a number of outlets in Paris nowadays
You must appreciate the IT Director who demands (and I mean vehemently demands) that all 5000 computers deployed MUST HAVE FEET. I think it's so that they can evacuate in case of fire. Makes sense to me.
Glad to be of service, but I'd rather use simple voice commands to control a portable device. My cellphone has the ability to dial by voice, recognizing both names and numbers. It's not perfect, but it is usually faster than typing or searching for contacts.
Voice control and other methods are only infants compared to keyboards, but just like the keyboard improved from a mechanical device on a typewriter into a simple multi-function electronic device, other input technologies will improve.
Where did I readI'm just looking forward to the day when the computer interfaces with my brain and provides all inputs so that I can just lie in some tube and experience the reality that the computer determines is best for me.
"Text-based interfaces have proven that most users can't read.
Graphic interfaces have proven that most users can't understand abstractions.
Mind reading interfaces will prove that most users can't think."
I have little doubt that it will happen that way.
Whatever it ran it did crash quite a bit.
But then I can't really find a "more violent crime", especially since I know a number of people who have been captains or senior officers on large long haul freighters that have seen piracy up close. Even cruise ships and private small crafts such as sailboats aren't immune either in some areas.
Piracy can get very very nasty despite the romantic image it currently carries.
(amazed at the inventiveness of the marketing dept. these days)
Bah, those other people are just addicted to having something better to do.
See ? It's all taken off through the wonders of nature.
Is that really all you've got?
Not to mention that on my compact 12" laptop, off the grid, with the CPU in economy mode and with a slow HD, Open Office takes all of five seconds to create a blank window (never started this session).I'm not that starved for time that I mind a 5 second wait.
1/ No Photoshop
2/ No GAMES
3/ No MS Office
Now I'm on Macintosh/Hackintosh, I can use real software. Like Photoshop and MS Office. (I suck too much at games to ever enjoy them.)
Why not GIMP and OpenOffice?
Because they both suck. GIMP is unusable and lacks major features. (No CMYK? WTF?) Since I do semi-professional photography and exclusively use Linux to do so (and have done for years), I'll reply to the only vaguely sensible remark you made. Besides CMYK being useless in photography (although it's useful in prepress which is another matter). Gimp *has* CMYK support though. However it doesn't have Pantone support. Which can be a problem if you need it for prepress work.
What the Gimp *does* lack for photo editing is support of more than 8bit per pixel colour depth (so it's either CinePaint or Krita). But then I almost never edit my photos in a bitmap editor. It's almost always done in a photo manipulation program such as Bibble or RawTherapee or the digiKam editors (courtesy of the KiPi plugins mostly).
Apart from that, Gimp works just fine of course. It probably does help that the last time I used Photoshop it was on an SGI with the elderly Mac OS 7 (or so) interface ported with some obscure hack into Irix. So I never really had to "forget" the Photoshop ways. I'd certainly waste hours poking at all the menus and icons if I had to try it again today (which presumably goes to show that it must suck too I guess).
Anyway repeating hearsay FUD doesn't really help making you look good on forums...
Too many ways to add a new root certificate. You'd have to edit the cache so that the new key matches though (because it won't be the same one).
Does Microsoft has a monopoly in the operating system market ? Yes.
Does Apple ? No (so they can do whatever they like including giving away gold plated laptops in exchange for firstborns)
Does Microsoft have a monopoly in desktop peripherals ? No (so I did buy a MS mouse even though I resent giving them yet more money after they screwed me out of a Vista licence)
Does Apple ? No, so feel free to buy "mighty mice" and bury yourself in a pile of them (knobbly but fun).
Does anybody else ? No. There are major players (like Logitech or MS in that market, but none have 80% of sales, so nobody cares).
The *problem* is that when I recently had to buy a laptop to replace the iBook G4 which I did *not* like (I like KDE better than Mac OS, can't help it), I had the choice between utterly crappy generic systems that came with Linux, or regular machines that came with Vista. And from what I gathered from the Vista EULA, if you don't agree with it you have to return *everything* (that is including the machine) for a refund. Whereas with the XP EULA you could just say "I don't want this crappy system" and (theoretically) have a refund. And then you'd enjoy your Linux/BSD/BeOS/FreeDOS/Whatever machine -- and maybe get between $60 to $100 out of the deal.
Me, I just overwrote the Vista disk with another system, figured I'd lost about $100 in the process and that was that. OTOH, I now have a machine that I enjoy using instead of the iBook which did work ok but which I didn't like.
Anyway, I'm not anti-Apple, of course they use MS tactics. They try to sell their stuff. It's all fair game.
I'm mostly pro-diversity. If the network was 40% MS, 40% Apple and 20% Linux, it would still be much saner than it is now (although of course I'd rather have 1/3rd for each).