It's a twisty semantic argument that says "this embryo is living outside its GENETIC mother's womb..."
The phrase "live outside of it's mother's womb" is not twisty at all. Why is an artificial womb less valid than an incubator for accomplishing the goal of keeping the embryo alive, for these purposes?
If legality is decided with that criteria, then when we can move the foetus at will from the natural to an artificial environment at any point after conception, abortion will be effectively banned.
Windows, at present, only supports a single platform.
Nope. They support two fundamentally different platforms -- PC and embedded systems. And if you argue that "Windows" means only Windows XP and not Windows CE, then you're missing a big part of the.NET strategy.
It is pretty scary. I hadn't heard anything about it either. I guess the companies do all they can to play down the issue, much like the diamond company.
I'm no Lucas lover, but the opening credit crawl is brilliant!
You can continue hating Lucas then, because he borrowed it from Flash Gordon.
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I think it's all about execution. Monty Python and the early Zucker Bros. films had incredible comedic talent and great direction. When you pull off slapstick with such style and with such subtle nuance, it's funny no matter how lowbrow the content.
Perhaps when people that normally find slapstick humor boring catch themselves laughing at these movies, they just have to invent the "subversive intellectual quality" as an excuse.
However, you can put all the greatest graphics in the world, but if you don't add something interesting in terms of the game itself
Give me a break. This is a tired old cliche that someone is guaranteed to haul out of the attic every few months and beat on for a while, trying to sound wise.
It's a truism, alright? Everyone knows that you can make shitty games with great technology, and great games with shitty technology. The fact remains that more resources (CPU, memory, gigapixels, etc.) give developers more options, and allow them to produce a product that is closer to the concept in their head.
Do you really think movies would be better today if they were all in grainy black & white, with a mono soundtrack? It's only the pseudointellectual fine-arts undergrads that think so. The fact that you CAN make a great movie with old tech, doesn't mean that's the best or only way to do it. Color and high quality sound give producers BETTER TOOLS to create the great (or shitty) movies that they're capable of.
Exactly my thought. What on earth does the type of content have to do with a particular technology? It's like creating an image viewer specifically for pictures of boats.
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Is there anything else to that show even worth watching?
The series, no. It's awful. But watch the original 4 episode miniseries if you get a chance, it's good, dark, moody sci-fi. Dune on crack.
and in a short time, we'll no longer be able to put CD tracks directly into MP3 format.
Not gonna happen, ever.
Bit-perfect "ripping" may possibly become impossible, though I think even that is unlikely. But there simply isn't a way that they can prevent sampling the line out from a music player and converting to MP3. You lose some quality there, but very little. Probably less than the MP3 compression itself causes.
Perfect rips are a nice luxury, but it's definitely not a requirement that will kill MP3 (or Ogg) if we can't do it.
It's sort of like calculating the maximum hull speed for steam ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean and saying there is a theoretical maximum speed to intercontinental travel. Then someone comes along and invents airplanes.
More to the point, it's like doing that TODAY, when airplanes already exist. Nobody is currently advocating flat p2p systems like the old gnutella in favor of supernode systems like FastTrack or extended gnutella.
Of course, this paper was written over a year ago, but it shouldn't be news to anyone now.
I'm consultant for OO/UML, Design Patterns, C++ and JAVA.
Isn't that like being a consultant in wood, nails, and saws, instead of being a carpenter? That whole concept just seems wrongheaded to me. That the technologies and methodologies are the ends in themselves. The goal should be solving problems, not applying specific technology.
I never start a project without sketching the minimal informations I have at the start with UML.... And elaborating them into code. For me source code and UML is just the same only different visualizations.
So, the "minimal information" you have at the start, becomes the foundation of your code. It's insane! But I've seen exactly that application of UML myself, where the quick information-gathering sketches from client meetings are turned into a horribly ugly system design that is generated automagically by Rose.
Where's the synthesis, that leap from requirements to the elegant architecture that solves the problem? There's a creative element there that I don't think UML provides an opportunity for. The Rational/UML fans seem to think that software development is a purely mechanical process that follows a deterministic path after the "use cases" are input. That's just not the case, not for good software. The best designs often take a completely othogonal approach to what use cases might indicate.
with UML you are up to 5 times faster
Heh. Now you just sound like a Rational salesdroid.
This thing is very carefully sealed *and* has a snorkel.
Great. Now you have to worry about maintaining and replacing dozens of gaskets and seals, on top of all the other high-tech gadgets. Why not just go with the simplest solution?
I didn't even consider that it wasn't diesel! Crazy.
I'd add D) They're much more useful when you're driving through deep water. Electrically ignited gas engines have to be very carefully sealed. Diesel engines only need to get air from somewhere. (Hence the "snorkel" on military trucks.)
if people just look at the site they would have found out that this truck, bike, UAV, powerboat etc, was entirely build for EXPEDITIONS!
I sure hope not. I think it has to be just a showcase for all sorts of new technology. Because something that complex would be USELESS for truly rugged work. Can you imagine adding the job of maintaining dozens of computers on top of everything else while on a trek?
Why on earth would you want an ultra high-performance jet boat that you'd never have a prayer of repairing in the field? Why a huge BMW cruiser bike when a simple dirt bike or four-wheeler would be more flexible and have half as many parts to carry replacements for?
Heavy duty equipment for remote expeditions has to be VERY easy to maintain in the field. The last thing you'd ever want is a bunch of extra feature-crap that costs you the whole trip when it starts to fail.
I wish they'd make it more clear that it's just a concept vehicle, because as an actual work platform it's pointless.
Appears. The problem is that is DOES none of those things. The dlls and vxd are bogus files, copied from other software and renamed. The rest is just a simple VB application that shows menus and fails to initialize the video, so you can't run anything.
If people haven't noticed that the "screenshots" all replicate shots already published on the web, you can look at the files: The two DLLs are from MSN Messenger, and the VXD is a file from Wolfenstein 3D.
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The phrase "live outside of it's mother's womb" is not twisty at all. Why is an artificial womb less valid than an incubator for accomplishing the goal of keeping the embryo alive, for these purposes?
If legality is decided with that criteria, then when we can move the foetus at will from the natural to an artificial environment at any point after conception, abortion will be effectively banned.
Best subject line ever.
s/Mono/Gnome/ Sorry.
SAMBA was never about "making a better and stronger linux" in and of itself. It was realy only about compatibility.
Miguel's point is that the CLI would be a good thing for Mono even as an incompatible bastard child of .NET proper. Compatibility is gravy.
Nope. They support two fundamentally different platforms -- PC and embedded systems. And if you argue that "Windows" means only Windows XP and not Windows CE, then you're missing a big part of the .NET strategy.
It is pretty scary. I hadn't heard anything about it either. I guess the companies do all they can to play down the issue, much like the diamond company.
You can continue hating Lucas then, because he borrowed it from Flash Gordon.
Perhaps when people that normally find slapstick humor boring catch themselves laughing at these movies, they just have to invent the "subversive intellectual quality" as an excuse.
What's wrong is that you have butchered the capitalization of a proper name. The product name is "GeForce3 Ti".
"GeForce3 Tis" ends up parsing as a different word entirely, so the apostrophe is a useful separator.
Give me a break. This is a tired old cliche that someone is guaranteed to haul out of the attic every few months and beat on for a while, trying to sound wise.
It's a truism, alright? Everyone knows that you can make shitty games with great technology, and great games with shitty technology. The fact remains that more resources (CPU, memory, gigapixels, etc.) give developers more options, and allow them to produce a product that is closer to the concept in their head.
Do you really think movies would be better today if they were all in grainy black & white, with a mono soundtrack? It's only the pseudointellectual fine-arts undergrads that think so. The fact that you CAN make a great movie with old tech, doesn't mean that's the best or only way to do it. Color and high quality sound give producers BETTER TOOLS to create the great (or shitty) movies that they're capable of.
Exactly my thought. What on earth does the type of content have to do with a particular technology? It's like creating an image viewer specifically for pictures of boats.
The series, no. It's awful. But watch the original 4 episode miniseries if you get a chance, it's good, dark, moody sci-fi. Dune on crack.
Not gonna happen, ever.
Bit-perfect "ripping" may possibly become impossible, though I think even that is unlikely. But there simply isn't a way that they can prevent sampling the line out from a music player and converting to MP3. You lose some quality there, but very little. Probably less than the MP3 compression itself causes.
Perfect rips are a nice luxury, but it's definitely not a requirement that will kill MP3 (or Ogg) if we can't do it.
I don't see it. Does anyone bang in random URLs containing a search word as a means of finding sites?
Even "x".com is not usually a useful site if you're interested in "x", much less "x".anyotherdomain.
Short, obvious URLs do have value, but I think it's the "legitimacy" (such as it is) of the short name, not the url-searching potential.
So it's OK to plagiarize on an exam, as long as you get permission and attribute the original author!
You first, because you obviously have no clue what you're talking about. No one ever used the DX retained mode.
More to the point, it's like doing that TODAY, when airplanes already exist. Nobody is currently advocating flat p2p systems like the old gnutella in favor of supernode systems like FastTrack or extended gnutella.
Of course, this paper was written over a year ago, but it shouldn't be news to anyone now.
Isn't that like being a consultant in wood, nails, and saws, instead of being a carpenter? That whole concept just seems wrongheaded to me. That the technologies and methodologies are the ends in themselves. The goal should be solving problems, not applying specific technology.
I never start a project without sketching the minimal informations I have at the start with UML. ... And elaborating them into code. For me source code and UML is just the same only different visualizations.
So, the "minimal information" you have at the start, becomes the foundation of your code. It's insane! But I've seen exactly that application of UML myself, where the quick information-gathering sketches from client meetings are turned into a horribly ugly system design that is generated automagically by Rose.
Where's the synthesis, that leap from requirements to the elegant architecture that solves the problem? There's a creative element there that I don't think UML provides an opportunity for. The Rational/UML fans seem to think that software development is a purely mechanical process that follows a deterministic path after the "use cases" are input. That's just not the case, not for good software. The best designs often take a completely othogonal approach to what use cases might indicate.
with UML you are up to 5 times faster
Heh. Now you just sound like a Rational salesdroid.
Great. Now you have to worry about maintaining and replacing dozens of gaskets and seals, on top of all the other high-tech gadgets. Why not just go with the simplest solution?
Three words: "Shades of Grey".
I can't recall the exact details, but one of the writers/producers' own comments on the show was "It's shit. Utter shit.".
I'd add D) They're much more useful when you're driving through deep water. Electrically ignited gas engines have to be very carefully sealed. Diesel engines only need to get air from somewhere. (Hence the "snorkel" on military trucks.)
I sure hope not. I think it has to be just a showcase for all sorts of new technology. Because something that complex would be USELESS for truly rugged work. Can you imagine adding the job of maintaining dozens of computers on top of everything else while on a trek?
Why on earth would you want an ultra high-performance jet boat that you'd never have a prayer of repairing in the field? Why a huge BMW cruiser bike when a simple dirt bike or four-wheeler would be more flexible and have half as many parts to carry replacements for?
Heavy duty equipment for remote expeditions has to be VERY easy to maintain in the field. The last thing you'd ever want is a bunch of extra feature-crap that costs you the whole trip when it starts to fail.
I wish they'd make it more clear that it's just a concept vehicle, because as an actual work platform it's pointless.
Appears. The problem is that is DOES none of those things. The dlls and vxd are bogus files, copied from other software and renamed. The rest is just a simple VB application that shows menus and fails to initialize the video, so you can't run anything.
You have all been trolled by Slashdot.
Heck, any 14 year-old fanboy would have confirmed that it worked before posting it on his Geocities page. Not so here.
The real question is what does it actually do when you run it.