Brilliant observation. While Apple does have some neat stuff, I think that their business model of designing products to ride the waves of trends is even more fascinating. Building a product around technological trends is risky and expensive. But somehow Steve Jobs and his Reality Distortion Field have found a way to make it profitable and sustainable. I think the RDF generator must be part of the black turtlenecks.
That's because if the general public were to even begin to understand the magic concepts of Science, their heads would explode. Small doses like this keep them informed, yet it keeps everything "Scientific" still magical.
Have you ever tried to explain how something works to someone? I mean, I have to use analogies with elves, envelopes, and a giant series of tubes to explain how the interwebs work! I still end-up with a deer in the headlights stare.
I'm in my mid 20's and am low man on the totem pole where I work. Sick day today so you guys can't rip on me for Slashdotting at work.
During the course of a normal business day I barely get a chance to sit down or take a lunch break; let alone fuck with the rarely-used computer at my desk. My company likes to handle tech support in a face-to face manner. So I'm running around the building all day fixing things on other people's computers. I just find it hilarious that others my age and in my profession have that much time on their hands.
Because I can't exactly afford the latest and greatest in computer hardware just to run the latest version of Windows. I kinda got tired of looking at XP. It is a good OS and it suited my needs but after 7 years, it was time for an upgrade.Vista was totally out of the question and I have been tooling-around with various distros throughout the years.
I finally settled on Gentoo due to the fact that it can be as bloated or as light-weight as I wanted it to be. Also, I could run as little or as much **bling** as I wanted depending on the load on the CPU and GPU. Linux suits my needs as well as XP did and was quite a learning experience in the total switchover process.
You say nuclear, they think Hiroshima. You say reactor, they think Chernobyl. I think the misinformed greenies out there should do their homework as to the benefits of nuclear power versus their preconceived notion of risk to personal safety. I've lived near a nuclear facility my entire life and really haven't seen much merit to what people like Greenpeace have to say.
Since Singularity is supposed to run every application, driver, service, or whatever, would it take your entire computer out of commission if it crashed? When Explorer gets locked up and has to restart it takes everything that had anything to do with it out of commission. At least then it's not doing a dump of my drivers, running programs and etc.
That would be the crash heard around the world... thanks to my screaming!
I used to be a part of calleridmask.com until what we were doing was 50 state illegal. Of course, a few kids got busted stalking their ex-girlfriends or something like that using our service. The police found our site in the kids' phones and that was the end of that. I really hate litigation.
Think of it like a Medieval castle: in layers. The outer wall is Internet 1.0. The inner wall is Internet 2.0 and the keep is Internet 3.0. We'll keep going deeper and deeper into hiding from these cyber-Barbarians while under siege instead of actually confronting the underlying issue. Bullocks to this idea. Internets 1 & 2 are just fine. We don't need another one!
This sort-of reminds me of an episode of Star Trek DS9 where a bunch of really intelligent humans calculated that the end of the universe was a billion years away. Frantic, they tried to save the universe. But in the end, they finally thought it to not be worth it since it was such a long way off.
Similarly, why would we worry about the Earth being engulfed by plasma when the seas, lakes, streams will have boiled-off long before that?
Finally a little man stood up to a corporation and won! And on Guy Fox day nonetheless. I'm just wondering where all the money for attorneys came from.
That would require my parents to work together to 1. try to kill me and 2. cover it up. Since I don't think there's a chance in hell of getting them both in the same room together, I'm not going to Bennigan's anytime soon.
...so three times, not four, but still, a spacecraft tripling its expected useful life is a strong testament to the skill of its engineers. Our Martian Robotic Geologists' (Spirit and Opportunity) primary mission was only supposed to last 90 days. And they landed in 2004. So that makes them somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 times older than they're supposed to be.
This kinda makes me wonder if NASA and other space agencies purposely over-estimate the useful lives of their spacecraft.
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That's for the Computer Forensics experts to decide. In the meantime, yeah, totally fucked.
Brilliant observation. While Apple does have some neat stuff, I think that their business model of designing products to ride the waves of trends is even more fascinating. Building a product around technological trends is risky and expensive. But somehow Steve Jobs and his Reality Distortion Field have found a way to make it profitable and sustainable. I think the RDF generator must be part of the black turtlenecks.
...In other news, statistics have shown that the center of the road is the safest place to walk. Movie at 11.
That's because if the general public were to even begin to understand the magic concepts of Science, their heads would explode. Small doses like this keep them informed, yet it keeps everything "Scientific" still magical.
Have you ever tried to explain how something works to someone? I mean, I have to use analogies with elves, envelopes, and a giant series of tubes to explain how the interwebs work! I still end-up with a deer in the headlights stare.
I'm in my mid 20's and am low man on the totem pole where I work. Sick day today so you guys can't rip on me for Slashdotting at work.
During the course of a normal business day I barely get a chance to sit down or take a lunch break; let alone fuck with the rarely-used computer at my desk. My company likes to handle tech support in a face-to face manner. So I'm running around the building all day fixing things on other people's computers. I just find it hilarious that others my age and in my profession have that much time on their hands.
To put it in business speak, in my mind, it had reached the point in the SDLC where I needed to start thinking about replacement.
Because I can't exactly afford the latest and greatest in computer hardware just to run the latest version of Windows. I kinda got tired of looking at XP. It is a good OS and it suited my needs but after 7 years, it was time for an upgrade.Vista was totally out of the question and I have been tooling-around with various distros throughout the years.
I finally settled on Gentoo due to the fact that it can be as bloated or as light-weight as I wanted it to be. Also, I could run as little or as much **bling** as I wanted depending on the load on the CPU and GPU. Linux suits my needs as well as XP did and was quite a learning experience in the total switchover process.
You say nuclear, they think Hiroshima. You say reactor, they think Chernobyl. I think the misinformed greenies out there should do their homework as to the benefits of nuclear power versus their preconceived notion of risk to personal safety. I've lived near a nuclear facility my entire life and really haven't seen much merit to what people like Greenpeace have to say.
Considering the EU has a Constitution, free travel from member state to member state, free trade within I would say it could be considered a country.
We are supposed to protect ourselves except we all kinda forget that part of the Constitution.
Since Singularity is supposed to run every application, driver, service, or whatever, would it take your entire computer out of commission if it crashed? When Explorer gets locked up and has to restart it takes everything that had anything to do with it out of commission. At least then it's not doing a dump of my drivers, running programs and etc.
That would be the crash heard around the world... thanks to my screaming!
Who on Mars will ever need more than one terabyte?
That depends on how your routing protocols are configured.
I used to be a part of calleridmask.com until what we were doing was 50 state illegal. Of course, a few kids got busted stalking their ex-girlfriends or something like that using our service. The police found our site in the kids' phones and that was the end of that. I really hate litigation.
Either way, I think my file server needs more space.
Retarded? Excuse me? My grandmother, uncle, cousin, and father all worked for Diebold. I think I know how its pronounced... Retard!
Think of it like a Medieval castle: in layers. The outer wall is Internet 1.0. The inner wall is Internet 2.0 and the keep is Internet 3.0. We'll keep going deeper and deeper into hiding from these cyber-Barbarians while under siege instead of actually confronting the underlying issue. Bullocks to this idea. Internets 1 & 2 are just fine. We don't need another one!
I couldn't watch much after the 50th time they mispronounced Diebold. It's Dee-bold! Not Die-bold!
This sort-of reminds me of an episode of Star Trek DS9 where a bunch of really intelligent humans calculated that the end of the universe was a billion years away. Frantic, they tried to save the universe. But in the end, they finally thought it to not be worth it since it was such a long way off.
Similarly, why would we worry about the Earth being engulfed by plasma when the seas, lakes, streams will have boiled-off long before that?
My mother was a Philistine you insensitive clod!
Sorry for the misspelling. I don't get to see the name written very often (never) in the United States.
Yeah I kinda realized that and know I'm getting dinged for it. Thanks for the reminder.
Finally a little man stood up to a corporation and won! And on Guy Fox day nonetheless. I'm just wondering where all the money for attorneys came from.
That would require my parents to work together to 1. try to kill me and 2. cover it up. Since I don't think there's a chance in hell of getting them both in the same room together, I'm not going to Bennigan's anytime soon.
...so three times, not four, but still, a spacecraft tripling its expected useful life is a strong testament to the skill of its engineers. Our Martian Robotic Geologists' (Spirit and Opportunity) primary mission was only supposed to last 90 days. And they landed in 2004. So that makes them somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 times older than they're supposed to be.This kinda makes me wonder if NASA and other space agencies purposely over-estimate the useful lives of their spacecraft.
It means people are willing to pay to get crappy gas mileage.