Perhaps partmentalizing the balloon will improve safety? If the skin tears, only a small volume can escape (and it being hydrogen) will always go up, where it can do no harm. Even if it catches fire, it seems unlikely to generate enough heat to burn holes in the skin and light up even more hydrogen.
I agree and I don't agree.
It is true that OS-iness does not in any way has a direct connection to creativeness of software.
At the same time I can see that, for me as an end user, software hasn't changed in a fundamental new way for me over the last 15 years or so. I run into little problems everyday, for which there are easy fixes, but, given todays tech, I could/should not even have to realise what I'm doing. For example: given the fact that we are surrounded by computers this day and age, I would find it very convenient to have running programs 'move' between devices/users. For example, I started typing a document and downloading a movie on my main system, but then I want to take that work with my on a laptop into the garden, why shouldn't I be able to just move the running programs over? Same goes for files, with GB's and TB's everywhere, why should I worry about partition, physical drives and multiple computers? (ZFS for example is what I'd call creative, alas it isn't available on an OS I use). Or something simpler: touch screen. They're still rare. Or why shouldn't I be able to use my $mp3_player to control my music server? And still no really usable ways of controlling computers with voice these days.
Those are some of the things that, you know, would make life lots easier but most energy seems to be going into optimizing and perfecting existing paradigms (I know, shouldnt use that word). XP/Vista/OSX/Gnome2.20/KDE4, they are really not that much of a difference, and hard to get excited about, if you think about how you could control devices (like Star Trek or Minority Report).
In this way I can see that creativity is lacking (although TFA may not be implying this at all), although I understand that these all require coordinated efforts that the often small OS-project cannot bring about. Still, software as a whole, for me as an end-user, is very unexciting these days. To join in the wheel-metafore: the wheel cannot be perfected, but we can move over to wings (or add them, to be used together with the wheel, whatever).
I'm sorry I'm going to go Godwin on you, but here goes:
HA! Guess you can say HITLER has GUTS for showing his face and telling his real name while endloesing der Juden.
That some wackos have bended your/some minds into thinking this is right, doesnt make this officers honesty admirable.
Apple's Webkit adopted by KDE? Big ups for the Mac Propaganda department... It's was the Konqueror guys who did the heavy lifting. Although Apple did indeed improve it even further, the KDE-team had to pry very hard to get some results back from the deal.
I actually use the NoScript plugin for Firefox. It blocks all javascript (so no datacollecting and cookieplacing nonsense, and no ads, since they all use javascript) and all plugins like Java and Flash by default (so certainly no flashy resourcehogging ads). You can whitelist the sites you like (for example Youtube), so you can have the best of both world: java(script) and Flash when you want it, and only when you want it.
I like it a lot.
Sensitive data like how advanced the user has become from all that looking into the source so that Negroponte's commandos can 'rescue' the little kids on time for his next meal. You know Negroponte eats little kids brains, no?
What do youy mean by damn slow? I can work pretty fast in Gnome I think, and KDE4 is also said to be the fastest KDE yet.
What am I supposedly missing out on?
For me, ME was the most stable and compatible MS OS there ever was, until 2000/XP. I never had the nightmares and troubles others seemed to have, but then again, I was very pleased when 2K came along, because stability was it's middle name.
Point being: some OSes are stable for some, and not for others. That you find Vista no-so-bad, doesn't mean it's really not that bad. The general concensus, the aggrerate of experience, seems to indicate it's not, or at least not better than XP.
A 5 year wait on something not better than what we already have is unimpressive, hence the reason to dislike Vista.
The fact that the OS is more annoying with it's inappropriate system of authorisation, for example, illustrates that from a users point of view there's just nothing to be gained.
The OS doesn't seem to be better. Why pay or be excited about software that not better than what we've had for the past half decade?
Oh boy.
Please check out European news before you spew such nonsense. European co's are constantly under fire for anti-competitive practices. A lot more often than non-EU ones.
If you think Outlook is used mostly for email, you're mistaken. The whole point here is that Outlook is NOT just a mail-client. The whole synchronized agenda thing is a central pillar and maybe more things that I don't know are in there. Managers and administrations are intertwined with all the features Outlook has, so please, stop the FUD that's only an emailclient.
the native version of OpenOffice is probably several months away at best.
You mean just like KOffice 2.0?
I have found NeoOffice to work fine with OSX. No crashes or strange things. Sometimes a tad sluggish, because it eats memory, but thats all. When OOo becomes ative, I'll check it out and probably KOffice too, but there's no problems with NeoOffice.
This 'feature', called NTLMv2 or something like that, is already present in Vista. How Microsoft argues that it is well recieved I can't understand, as I can view Vista-shaer with my Linux box....
95% chance if you find someone anti-UN, it's an American.
The basic thing to keep in mind here is that Americans and diplomacy do not mix. Only in popular politics you can argue that the UN hasn't done anything but cost money. If you're only digging slightly deeper, you know, getting to know the truth instead of comparing dicksize...
Perhaps they need a full scale war on their own soil too to appreciate diplomacy in general and the UN in specific. For a country that has never seen any action for its own civilians they sure seem to know why, when and how foreigners need to see it.
Something else about bureaucracy: it's the reason democracy works in the first place. THE WHOLE POINT is that things take time. Distribution of responsibility and all that. Protection against extreme elements... etc.
I'm crossposting here (across sites!), but on LAS/forum I just made a post about exactly this:
Show me a device that has 160GB, ~55hrs of playback (yeah, I couldn't believe it either), supports MP3 and a lossless format (apart from wav of course), is as thin/small as iPod and costs 350. Only iPod. Archos has one or two devices that have 160GB, but neither supports a lossless format, get only like 10-20 hrs, are almost as big as a VHS casette and cost somewhere around 500, at least. The only thing missing on the iPod is FLAC support, but since you encode only once, and ALAC decoders are abundant, I can live with that.
I've got 165GB of music, so you can see why I'm interested in the 160GB, but the 80GB's specs arent shabby either and at 250, I can think of only a Creative player, which is much bulkier and gets 10-15hrs.
Long story short: there is no competition. I agree that in the area of the nano there's a lot of good other options, but still, the nano gives you excellent value for the money.
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Perhaps partmentalizing the balloon will improve safety? If the skin tears, only a small volume can escape (and it being hydrogen) will always go up, where it can do no harm. Even if it catches fire, it seems unlikely to generate enough heat to burn holes in the skin and light up even more hydrogen.
redstar, apparently, has something to compensate for, I conclude from his message, which has a bit too many comma's in it.
I agree and I don't agree. It is true that OS-iness does not in any way has a direct connection to creativeness of software. At the same time I can see that, for me as an end user, software hasn't changed in a fundamental new way for me over the last 15 years or so. I run into little problems everyday, for which there are easy fixes, but, given todays tech, I could/should not even have to realise what I'm doing. For example: given the fact that we are surrounded by computers this day and age, I would find it very convenient to have running programs 'move' between devices/users. For example, I started typing a document and downloading a movie on my main system, but then I want to take that work with my on a laptop into the garden, why shouldn't I be able to just move the running programs over? Same goes for files, with GB's and TB's everywhere, why should I worry about partition, physical drives and multiple computers? (ZFS for example is what I'd call creative, alas it isn't available on an OS I use). Or something simpler: touch screen. They're still rare. Or why shouldn't I be able to use my $mp3_player to control my music server? And still no really usable ways of controlling computers with voice these days. Those are some of the things that, you know, would make life lots easier but most energy seems to be going into optimizing and perfecting existing paradigms (I know, shouldnt use that word). XP/Vista/OSX/Gnome2.20/KDE4, they are really not that much of a difference, and hard to get excited about, if you think about how you could control devices (like Star Trek or Minority Report). In this way I can see that creativity is lacking (although TFA may not be implying this at all), although I understand that these all require coordinated efforts that the often small OS-project cannot bring about. Still, software as a whole, for me as an end-user, is very unexciting these days. To join in the wheel-metafore: the wheel cannot be perfected, but we can move over to wings (or add them, to be used together with the wheel, whatever).
Maybe we didn't understand GW Bush correctly and maybe he was talking about those damn "tur'rists" and the "War on Tur'rism" all along.
Ha, from that comment I could swear you're the/an auther of Paint.Net ;)
I'm sorry I'm going to go Godwin on you, but here goes: HA! Guess you can say HITLER has GUTS for showing his face and telling his real name while endloesing der Juden. That some wackos have bended your/some minds into thinking this is right, doesnt make this officers honesty admirable.
Apple's Webkit adopted by KDE? Big ups for the Mac Propaganda department... It's was the Konqueror guys who did the heavy lifting. Although Apple did indeed improve it even further, the KDE-team had to pry very hard to get some results back from the deal.
I actually use the NoScript plugin for Firefox. It blocks all javascript (so no datacollecting and cookieplacing nonsense, and no ads, since they all use javascript) and all plugins like Java and Flash by default (so certainly no flashy resourcehogging ads). You can whitelist the sites you like (for example Youtube), so you can have the best of both world: java(script) and Flash when you want it, and only when you want it. I like it a lot.
It is, and statically in most cases. Apperantly QT can be lean and mean.
Sensitive data like how advanced the user has become from all that looking into the source so that Negroponte's commandos can 'rescue' the little kids on time for his next meal. You know Negroponte eats little kids brains, no?
What do youy mean by damn slow? I can work pretty fast in Gnome I think, and KDE4 is also said to be the fastest KDE yet. What am I supposedly missing out on?
99% percent of the users of hotmail.com will use hotmail.
For me, ME was the most stable and compatible MS OS there ever was, until 2000/XP. I never had the nightmares and troubles others seemed to have, but then again, I was very pleased when 2K came along, because stability was it's middle name. Point being: some OSes are stable for some, and not for others. That you find Vista no-so-bad, doesn't mean it's really not that bad. The general concensus, the aggrerate of experience, seems to indicate it's not, or at least not better than XP. A 5 year wait on something not better than what we already have is unimpressive, hence the reason to dislike Vista. The fact that the OS is more annoying with it's inappropriate system of authorisation, for example, illustrates that from a users point of view there's just nothing to be gained. The OS doesn't seem to be better. Why pay or be excited about software that not better than what we've had for the past half decade?
Good thing mathematicians didn't really like realworld anyway. Now finally they can do what we always thought they already did: math for maths sake.
Yeah, please. At least say a "feisty dose of ~" or a "gutsy dose of ~"...
Oh boy. Please check out European news before you spew such nonsense. European co's are constantly under fire for anti-competitive practices. A lot more often than non-EU ones.
If you think Outlook is used mostly for email, you're mistaken. The whole point here is that Outlook is NOT just a mail-client. The whole synchronized agenda thing is a central pillar and maybe more things that I don't know are in there. Managers and administrations are intertwined with all the features Outlook has, so please, stop the FUD that's only an emailclient.
Ever heard of slipstreaming/nLite? Makes your life better...
This 'feature', called NTLMv2 or something like that, is already present in Vista. How Microsoft argues that it is well recieved I can't understand, as I can view Vista-shaer with my Linux box....
You mean that we'd have nothing BUT to do with it.
For Linux on the Desktop those games are essential for succes, and these driver (OSS or not) too.
Here, I have a copy of untangible Windows for you. Only $9.99.
95% chance if you find someone anti-UN, it's an American. The basic thing to keep in mind here is that Americans and diplomacy do not mix. Only in popular politics you can argue that the UN hasn't done anything but cost money. If you're only digging slightly deeper, you know, getting to know the truth instead of comparing dicksize... Perhaps they need a full scale war on their own soil too to appreciate diplomacy in general and the UN in specific. For a country that has never seen any action for its own civilians they sure seem to know why, when and how foreigners need to see it. Something else about bureaucracy: it's the reason democracy works in the first place. THE WHOLE POINT is that things take time. Distribution of responsibility and all that. Protection against extreme elements... etc.
I'm crossposting here (across sites!), but on LAS/forum I just made a post about exactly this: Show me a device that has 160GB, ~55hrs of playback (yeah, I couldn't believe it either), supports MP3 and a lossless format (apart from wav of course), is as thin/small as iPod and costs 350. Only iPod. Archos has one or two devices that have 160GB, but neither supports a lossless format, get only like 10-20 hrs, are almost as big as a VHS casette and cost somewhere around 500, at least. The only thing missing on the iPod is FLAC support, but since you encode only once, and ALAC decoders are abundant, I can live with that. I've got 165GB of music, so you can see why I'm interested in the 160GB, but the 80GB's specs arent shabby either and at 250, I can think of only a Creative player, which is much bulkier and gets 10-15hrs. Long story short: there is no competition. I agree that in the area of the nano there's a lot of good other options, but still, the nano gives you excellent value for the money.