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The Van Halen M&Ms thing wasn't stupid. It was right in the middle of a bunch of important safety stuff that was particularly important due to the huge crowds Van Halen was drawing. If no M&Ms, they knew the venue hadn't carefully gone through the safety stuff.
Cleverbot is real, yeah. Everything it says is based on things users have said to it in the past. User says something, Cleverbot tries to match it to a conversation it had in the past, pulls out something a user said then. So at some point somebody told Cleverbot it was a unicorn, and something the other Cleverbot instance said reminded it of that conversation.
When today's teenagers and young adults are old enough to be running for public office and such, this, along with whatever archives of Facebook and the like may exist, will make for some great entertainment.
"Sorry, no plans. Due to its Java-based operating system and the inability to build native components, Firefox is not compatible on the Blackberry OS."
If you don't have an account, how would they have any info on your browsing history? Unless they were just tracking your computer by IP address, and why would they bother? It could easily change at anytime.
Those who are only using the code under the GPL can only distribute it to others under the GPL. Those who own the code can also sell commercial licenses. Also, the name MySQL itself has built up a great deal of brand recognition and loyalty.
I imagine this is the sort of thing you'd try to sell not so much to individual users but to businesses- a business with a lot of employees on doing work on computers that has everything it needs its employees to do as a web app (or could have everything as a web app after, perhaps, paying Google to help them set that up) installs this thin-client OS on all their employee workstations and, assuming it works as well Google hopes, cuts down on IT headaches.
So does this mean the other Doctor born out of the original's severed hand last season would represent a fork? Which I guess would make Rose a developer who defects. . .
I've wondered if the most useful application of WINE would not be necessarily its ability to sometimes sorta maybe run Windows apps on *nix systems as-is, but as a way for the developers of those Windows apps to more quickly and easily port them to other platforms (and thus an incentive for them to do so). Change everything about your program that doesn't already work with a given version of WINE so that it does, package the result with a copy of WINE (so that it won't be broken by later updates), and viola, you've got a Linux/OSX/whatever port of your software. Arguably inelegant, but in a lot of cases probably a lot more straightforward than porting from scratch.
So does this mean Microsoft will have to support XP throughout 7's lifetime? Or after a few years will they just stick a dialog box on it saying "WARNING: This virtual machine has not had a security update in a couple years, use at your own risk."
Some gays and lesbians don't like transgendered people. Many others are okay with them. Some gays and lesbians don't like bisexuals either, but they keep the B in the acronym anyway. It's just a convenient acronym for identifying a set of people who are often discriminated against for sex/gender-related reasons.
It's more than just search keywords, though- you can use it for that, but you can also write whatever javascript you want to be triggered by a given command and its arguments.
What always confuses me about these things is how this many computers end up unpatched. Automatic updating regularly is the default behavior of Windows, isn't it? So the users must be turning it off. Why? Who knows how to stop security patches from installing who doesn't also know why not to? Are all of these Conficker infectees business computers whose network admins turned the security updates off?
Why not just give the code to the FBI and let them turn it on? I'm sure they'd be more than happy to. Or ask them for immunity on this point. It's not like the Feds don't want this thing gone as much as anyone.
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The Van Halen M&Ms thing wasn't stupid. It was right in the middle of a bunch of important safety stuff that was particularly important due to the huge crowds Van Halen was drawing. If no M&Ms, they knew the venue hadn't carefully gone through the safety stuff.
Cleverbot is real, yeah. Everything it says is based on things users have said to it in the past. User says something, Cleverbot tries to match it to a conversation it had in the past, pulls out something a user said then. So at some point somebody told Cleverbot it was a unicorn, and something the other Cleverbot instance said reminded it of that conversation.
. . . why? How does making people think Groklaw is run by someone named PJ help IBM?
When today's teenagers and young adults are old enough to be running for public office and such, this, along with whatever archives of Facebook and the like may exist, will make for some great entertainment.
Great for leading your people to freedom from Nanopharaoh.
"Sorry, no plans. Due to its Java-based operating system and the inability to build native components, Firefox is not compatible on the Blackberry OS."
If you don't have an account, how would they have any info on your browsing history? Unless they were just tracking your computer by IP address, and why would they bother? It could easily change at anytime.
Those who are only using the code under the GPL can only distribute it to others under the GPL. Those who own the code can also sell commercial licenses. Also, the name MySQL itself has built up a great deal of brand recognition and loyalty.
I imagine this is the sort of thing you'd try to sell not so much to individual users but to businesses- a business with a lot of employees on doing work on computers that has everything it needs its employees to do as a web app (or could have everything as a web app after, perhaps, paying Google to help them set that up) installs this thin-client OS on all their employee workstations and, assuming it works as well Google hopes, cuts down on IT headaches.
So does this mean the other Doctor born out of the original's severed hand last season would represent a fork? Which I guess would make Rose a developer who defects. . .
I've wondered if the most useful application of WINE would not be necessarily its ability to sometimes sorta maybe run Windows apps on *nix systems as-is, but as a way for the developers of those Windows apps to more quickly and easily port them to other platforms (and thus an incentive for them to do so). Change everything about your program that doesn't already work with a given version of WINE so that it does, package the result with a copy of WINE (so that it won't be broken by later updates), and viola, you've got a Linux/OSX/whatever port of your software. Arguably inelegant, but in a lot of cases probably a lot more straightforward than porting from scratch.
No longer an issue. Nemesis broke the curse by sucking.
So does this mean Microsoft will have to support XP throughout 7's lifetime? Or after a few years will they just stick a dialog box on it saying "WARNING: This virtual machine has not had a security update in a couple years, use at your own risk."
Some gays and lesbians don't like transgendered people. Many others are okay with them. Some gays and lesbians don't like bisexuals either, but they keep the B in the acronym anyway. It's just a convenient acronym for identifying a set of people who are often discriminated against for sex/gender-related reasons.
It's more than just search keywords, though- you can use it for that, but you can also write whatever javascript you want to be triggered by a given command and its arguments.
What always confuses me about these things is how this many computers end up unpatched. Automatic updating regularly is the default behavior of Windows, isn't it? So the users must be turning it off. Why? Who knows how to stop security patches from installing who doesn't also know why not to? Are all of these Conficker infectees business computers whose network admins turned the security updates off?
Why should you know or care about ANYTHING in a profile? It's a profile. You're supposed to write a bit about yourself in it. That's what it's for.
Why not just give the code to the FBI and let them turn it on? I'm sure they'd be more than happy to. Or ask them for immunity on this point. It's not like the Feds don't want this thing gone as much as anyone.
Then any reason homebrew drivers couldn't be written to use it for sculpting in a 3d modeling program?