If you haven't downloaded this yet - do yourself a favour and get it instead of whoring yourself for karma complaining how sucky M14 was (months ago).
IT WORKS!
The acid test for me until now has been IMAP support - every single build I've tried has crashed trying to read my IMAP messages. That and deathly slow.
I honestly think M16 is *gasp* _faster_ than Navigator. They've pulled out some of the bloat, the rough edges are starting to come off - menus work, highlighting works. This is really getting to be sweet.
So jump on the bandwagon now folks... before the rest of the world discovers it and you have to turn to Opera to be cool again. =)
I don't know about you, but a lot of this stuff sounds like it could give those Popular Science spots from the 50's a run for their money.
So, just to show how easy it is to make fantastic predictions like this, I'll make one of my own:
The Newspaper that Writes Itself
Publishers of the NYT are already working on replacing the leagues of expensive and under-talented journalists they currently employ.
"Really, they don't do much. I suppose we could just hire a thousand monkeys and still come up with the same quality newspaper" says Joe Owner.
But monkeys still need food and, left alone, can produce unsanitary conditions rather quickly. The newspaper reporter of the future will require nothing more than a little electricity to write quality articles.
Researchers are already developing electronic editors: software that searches the Internet for current events and writes commentary for the morning edition - thus freeing their human counterparts to focus more on more important matters.
Says Rob Malda, of Slashdot, "since we installed our JonKatz, the amount of editorial effort we expend has decreased exponentially. Now, on slow news days, we just fire up Jon and instantly have something for our readers to discuss."
However, the technology has yet to be perfected. At present, these eEditors typically produce long ramblings, usually with a largely tilted political slant. The creators of JonKatz attribute this to the significant difficulty of finding any opposing viewpoints among the programming staff.
The journalist of the future will be a small box with a video camera and sound recording equipment. A field journalist will simply bring the box to any live event and the device will begin recording events, interviewing passersby and writing an article. Articles will be instantly available on a website and surfers will even be able to direct the virtual reporter in real-time - thus personalizing the news even more.
Every company is going to push whatever standard they perceive will give them the greatest market advantage.
Personally, I don't really think it makes much difference which standard is decided as long as some standard is finally *laugh* agreed upon.
Does it really matter? DTV - even if the highest-quality, cheapest to implement, no privacy invading, open source solution is chosen - still won't replace the gaping hole left in your existence where a social life used to be. =)
Get out some more, don't worry about TV too much, it'll still be there when you get back. Who cares if it's missing a few lines of resolution? =-)
I have to admit, I would have filtered out Jon's ramblings a long time ago if I didn't get immense amusement out of them.
But lately, I've been cultivating a theory: that JonKatz is not actually a human being, but in fact software that takes some random topic and turns it into a long, redundant, rambling essay on the dangers of globalization, media, capitalism, corporatism, ageism, intellectualism, polymorphism, foodism and the Geo Prizm.
I wonder if we could develop an open source version of JonKatz? GnuKatz?
Maybe, with enough work, we could finally get him to say something useful for once.
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Denman said the reason not all residence halls have ethernet is because OSU does not have enough money. "It's financial," he said. "There's not air conditioning in all the halls. There's not cable TV in all the halls. "There's a lot of things at the university that we'd like to do, but we just don't have the money."
I wonder if Mr. Denman has ever taken a look at the amount of money spent by the Men's Basketball team at OSU. What they really ought to be saying is that - at OSU - supplying degrees to a few gifted athletes and raking in the financial benefits of their talent (with no compensation for them) takes precedence over supplying the REAL academic needs of your students.
If anyone tries to tell me that NCAA basketball generates much-needed revenue for the university, I think I'll puke. Where IS that money? It doesn't cost _that much_ to wire dorms for ethernet.
Kudos to Microsoft for trying to improve their flagship OS with a feature that's definitely going to be useful.
BUT, they wouldn't NEED any of this, if they didn't have such a crappy model in the first place! WHY WHY WHY do we still have drive letters?!
It would just make life so much easier if I didn't have to sweat every time I move around some drives and reboot - praying that all my applications won't break because the registry has decided they're not where they're supposed to be.
Why does everyone think Y2K is/was just one day?
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What kills me is all the people who thought that Y2K would cause computers all over the world to grind to a halt as the clock struck midnight. Especially the ones who thought that it was THEIR time zone that was pivotal.
Any techno-geek can tell you that GMT was the real measuring stick. But any techno-geek with half a brain will also tell you that Jan 1, 2000 was just another day on a long list of days that could have seen things go wrong.
If there had been major Y2K problems, they would have surfaced long before Jan 1, 2000. When your bank went to calculate your mortgage payments, when you got your telephone bill, 9/9/99... So few people understand that the 98-99 rollover was at least as critical to financial institutions (and just about any other IT-centric organization) as the actual 2000 rollover.
Of course, no one was about to risk his/her neck and say there would be NO problems - yours truly included. Murphy's Law has held way too often for any intelligent person to make an absolute statement so broad-ranging.
I suspect the media frenzy we saw was just another example of the poor journalism we see all across America. "Grab your viewer's attention, any way you can." Don't worry too much about any substance, you won't fit it into that 60 second spot anyways. Just crease your brow, throw out some techno-babble and make everyone worry - a little. Not too much. Make them feel safe and secure, knowing that Action News is looking out for their interests.
Coming up: Candles Could Be Fatal, Action News at 11 tells you how to protect your family from the newest threat to your safety - Fire.
I wish Linux would endorse KDE or gnome, thus (de facto) killing off one or the other.
Who exactly is Linux, there's no one in the Linux community to say "Gnome is dead, and that's the bottom line, cause Bill Gates said so."
You will NEVER have that happen. It totally goes against everything Linux is about.
The challenge is to get these guys to work together. Instead of developing 200 different window managers, work together to develop one that is flexible enough to let group A have their cake and to let group B eat it too.
The guy with the +5 above is right on. My first thought when reading that comment was "BAM, that's it!".
Get these splintered developers to sit down and agree on how to proceed. Draft some guidelines (or god forbid, some standards) and set about making stuff work together! Isn't that what Linux is about?
Why don't Linux people understand this?! It drives me nuts. Every decides that THEIR button placement is the best way and you end up with buttons that disappear behind tabs and other ridiculous things like that. It's just nutty.
Even if you don't follow the guidelines. At least read them. They are SO LOGICAL it's disgusting. =)
is pretty easy when you know how it works, but there's no reason that this couldn't somehow be condensed into a double-click.
Hey, let's do it...
On the face of it, it's not all that hard: parse the Makefile and pull out any configuration options. Present them to the user in a nice friendly format (complete with default options already selected) and give them a button to push.
Two problems: 1. Assuming that authors will always be sensible and follow the rules (ie, configure;make;make install) is pretty dumb. There's always some bonehead who reinvents the wheel. 2. Idiots will still screw it up by changing default options or neglecting to change options they need to change.
This is why administrators are usually the only ones with authority to install software system-wide. It takes a bit of know-how. You can't automate know-how. =)
It's a good idea, but on a generic level, I don't think it's all that feasible. Maybe for a distribution like Corel's - where the target audience is newbies with no real multi-user needs. But for any serious server, IMHO this would be disastrous.
But hydrogen is periodic table element #1, it has only 2 electrons, and both are in the lowest possible electron shell already
Dude, hydrogen has ONE rather promiscuous electron, that's why it's so reactive. Helium has two, which fills up the lowest valence orbital and makes it more conservative than Ross Perot and Margaret Thatcher's love child.
This guy's just peddling a bunch of easy answers for feeble minds. I was just waiting for him to say that hydrinos when fed into a flux capacitor operating at 1.1 Jigawatts while travelling 85 miles per hour would facilitate time travel (my apologies to the diehard Back to the Future fans who have that all memorized as I'm surely misquoting).
Sir Isaac Newton said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." This guy claims that he's seen further by developing a UFO. =)
Come on... this kind of sensationalistic tripe is what makes paupers out of the less informed folk. Not only that, but it detracts from legitimate work being done by credible, respected scientists and the ground-breaking work that has been done.
You're asking for a lot... Not only do you want to bring a PC outside, you want to mount it on an antenna mast? It's a lightning magnet. Even without lightning strikes, you're dealing with a lot of static electricity. If that doesn't kill your PC, chances are the variances in temperature and humidity would.
Having said that, it still sounds cool.
I have to wonder though, if your only concern is cable length, why don't you just install a signal repeater or cable driver of some kind outside and bring the PC indoors somewhere?
A cable driver is a lot less expensive than a PC... =)
Sure it is... And how exactly do you intend to enforce this email tax? Who's to stop the spammers from finding an ISP in another country that doesn't have an email tax? You know, I'm all for an omnipotent tax collector who can track down every email sent on the net (not to mention COLLECT), but come on, you can't seriously think it's possible?
quote --- bacteria are interesting, but as life goes, they're also so primitive, tiny and relatively simple that I don't see anything wrong with playing with them in any way they want. --- end quote
Are you on crack? Yes, bacteria are primitive lifeforms, yes they are tiny but they are not "simple". Single-celled organisms, sure, but not simple.
These scientists admit that they have NO IDEA what 111 of the genes do!! That's over 35% of the entire genome of this bacteria! You think it's ok for them to "play" with something when they have no clue what 1/3 of it even does? Would you try to design and fly your own airplane without a thorough understanding of aerodynamics? Sure, you might know how to build an engine and some spiffy control systems. But two out of three leaves you dead when you drop your plane off a 747 at 40,000 feet.
That's what these guys are doing here, they are leaping into the unknown and it doesn't take much for them to create something they cannot handle. Especially when they don't fully understand ALL of what they're dealing with.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they should pack up and go home. But for them to even consider creating life without first understanding every piece of the puzzle is grossly irresponsible - and, quite frankly, more than a little frightening.
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IT WORKS!
The acid test for me until now has been IMAP support - every single build I've tried has crashed trying to read my IMAP messages. That and deathly slow.
I honestly think M16 is *gasp* _faster_ than Navigator. They've pulled out some of the bloat, the rough edges are starting to come off - menus work, highlighting works. This is really getting to be sweet.
So jump on the bandwagon now folks... before the rest of the world discovers it and you have to turn to Opera to be cool again. =)
PS: Anybody got any cool skins yet?
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So, just to show how easy it is to make fantastic predictions like this, I'll make one of my own:
<smashes his crystal ball into a thousand pieces>
With apologies to JonKatz. Nah, nevermind... =)
Personally, I don't really think it makes much difference which standard is decided as long as some standard is finally *laugh* agreed upon.
Does it really matter? DTV - even if the highest-quality, cheapest to implement, no privacy invading, open source solution is chosen - still won't replace the gaping hole left in your existence where a social life used to be. =)
Get out some more, don't worry about TV too much, it'll still be there when you get back. Who cares if it's missing a few lines of resolution? =-)
To be honest, I hadn't heard of KatzBot since he hasn't posted much lately. =)
I must admit though, VirtualJonKatz does a marvellous job, as mentioned in this thread.
I have to admit, I would have filtered out Jon's ramblings a long time ago if I didn't get immense amusement out of them.
But lately, I've been cultivating a theory: that JonKatz is not actually a human being, but in fact software that takes some random topic and turns it into a long, redundant, rambling essay on the dangers of globalization, media, capitalism, corporatism, ageism, intellectualism, polymorphism, foodism and the Geo Prizm.
I wonder if we could develop an open source version of JonKatz? GnuKatz?
Maybe, with enough work, we could finally get him to say something useful for once.
What hypocrisy!
I wonder if Mr. Denman has ever taken a look at the amount of money spent by the Men's Basketball team at OSU. What they really ought to be saying is that - at OSU - supplying degrees to a few gifted athletes and raking in the financial benefits of their talent (with no compensation for them) takes precedence over supplying the REAL academic needs of your students.
If anyone tries to tell me that NCAA basketball generates much-needed revenue for the university, I think I'll puke. Where IS that money? It doesn't cost _that much_ to wire dorms for ethernet.
Hehe, I especially like this one:
But then again, $50M in funding ain't nuttin' to sneeze at. Anybody got a spare mech suit lying around? ;)
Amen brother!
Kudos to Microsoft for trying to improve their flagship OS with a feature that's definitely going to be useful.
BUT, they wouldn't NEED any of this, if they didn't have such a crappy model in the first place! WHY WHY WHY do we still have drive letters?!
It would just make life so much easier if I didn't have to sweat every time I move around some drives and reboot - praying that all my applications won't break because the registry has decided they're not where they're supposed to be.
What kills me is all the people who thought that Y2K would cause computers all over the world to grind to a halt as the clock struck midnight. Especially the ones who thought that it was THEIR time zone that was pivotal.
Any techno-geek can tell you that GMT was the real measuring stick. But any techno-geek with half a brain will also tell you that Jan 1, 2000 was just another day on a long list of days that could have seen things go wrong.
If there had been major Y2K problems, they would have surfaced long before Jan 1, 2000. When your bank went to calculate your mortgage payments, when you got your telephone bill, 9/9/99... So few people understand that the 98-99 rollover was at least as critical to financial institutions (and just about any other IT-centric organization) as the actual 2000 rollover.
Of course, no one was about to risk his/her neck and say there would be NO problems - yours truly included. Murphy's Law has held way too often for any intelligent person to make an absolute statement so broad-ranging.
I suspect the media frenzy we saw was just another example of the poor journalism we see all across America. "Grab your viewer's attention, any way you can." Don't worry too much about any substance, you won't fit it into that 60 second spot anyways. Just crease your brow, throw out some techno-babble and make everyone worry - a little. Not too much. Make them feel safe and secure, knowing that Action News is looking out for their interests.
Coming up: Candles Could Be Fatal, Action News at 11 tells you how to protect your family from the newest threat to your safety - Fire.
I wish Linux would endorse KDE or gnome, thus (de facto) killing off one or the other.
Who exactly is Linux, there's no one in the Linux community to say "Gnome is dead, and that's the bottom line, cause Bill Gates said so."
You will NEVER have that happen. It totally goes against everything Linux is about.
The challenge is to get these guys to work together. Instead of developing 200 different window managers, work together to develop one that is flexible enough to let group A have their cake and to let group B eat it too.
The guy with the +5 above is right on. My first thought when reading that comment was "BAM, that's it!".
Get these splintered developers to sit down and agree on how to proceed. Draft some guidelines (or god forbid, some standards) and set about making stuff work together! Isn't that what Linux is about?
Why don't Linux people understand this?! It drives me nuts. Every decides that THEIR button placement is the best way and you end up with buttons that disappear behind tabs and other ridiculous things like that. It's just nutty.
Even if you don't follow the guidelines. At least read them. They are SO LOGICAL it's disgusting. =)
is pretty easy when you know how it works, but there's no reason that this couldn't somehow be condensed into a double-click.
Hey, let's do it...
On the face of it, it's not all that hard: parse the Makefile and pull out any configuration options. Present them to the user in a nice friendly format (complete with default options already selected) and give them a button to push.
Two problems:
1. Assuming that authors will always be sensible and follow the rules (ie, configure;make;make install) is pretty dumb. There's always some bonehead who reinvents the wheel.
2. Idiots will still screw it up by changing default options or neglecting to change options they need to change.
This is why administrators are usually the only ones with authority to install software system-wide. It takes a bit of know-how. You can't automate know-how. =)
It's a good idea, but on a generic level, I don't think it's all that feasible. Maybe for a distribution like Corel's - where the target audience is newbies with no real multi-user needs. But for any serious server, IMHO this would be disastrous.
Time cube good is revelation for I.
Nature's four harmonic time cube is forbidden truth enslavement not for me.
Cube thanks you.
Guy, that's the funniest site I've seen yet =) The guy can't even string a coherent sentence together yet he blasts people for "hiding" his discovery.
But hydrogen is periodic table element #1, it has only 2 electrons, and both are in the lowest possible electron shell already
Dude, hydrogen has ONE rather promiscuous electron, that's why it's so reactive. Helium has two, which fills up the lowest valence orbital and makes it more conservative than Ross Perot and Margaret Thatcher's love child.
This guy's just peddling a bunch of easy answers for feeble minds. I was just waiting for him to say that hydrinos when fed into a flux capacitor operating at 1.1 Jigawatts while travelling 85 miles per hour would facilitate time travel (my apologies to the diehard Back to the Future fans who have that all memorized as I'm surely misquoting).
Sir Isaac Newton said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." This guy claims that he's seen further by developing a UFO. =)
Come on... this kind of sensationalistic tripe is what makes paupers out of the less informed folk. Not only that, but it detracts from legitimate work being done by credible, respected scientists and the ground-breaking work that has been done.
I wonder if anyone will give you an "Informative" bonus for the tidbit about Sun Polar Observer landing at night....
rofl...
You're asking for a lot... Not only do you want to bring a PC outside, you want to mount it on an antenna mast? It's a lightning magnet. Even without lightning strikes, you're dealing with a lot of static electricity. If that doesn't kill your PC, chances are the variances in temperature and humidity would.
Having said that, it still sounds cool.
I have to wonder though, if your only concern is cable length, why don't you just install a signal repeater or cable driver of some kind outside and bring the PC indoors somewhere?
A cable driver is a lot less expensive than a PC... =)
Sorry...
You have to admit though... the average /.-er is perfectly capable of generating that kind of solution - and believing it. =)
Sure it is... And how exactly do you intend to enforce this email tax? Who's to stop the spammers from finding an ISP in another country that doesn't have an email tax? You know, I'm all for an omnipotent tax collector who can track down every email sent on the net (not to mention COLLECT), but come on, you can't seriously think it's possible?
bacteria are interesting, but as life goes, they're also so primitive, tiny and relatively simple that I don't see anything wrong with playing with them in any way they want.
--- end quote
Are you on crack? Yes, bacteria are primitive lifeforms, yes they are tiny but they are not "simple". Single-celled organisms, sure, but not simple.
These scientists admit that they have NO IDEA what 111 of the genes do!! That's over 35% of the entire genome of this bacteria! You think it's ok for them to "play" with something when they have no clue what 1/3 of it even does? Would you try to design and fly your own airplane without a thorough understanding of aerodynamics? Sure, you might know how to build an engine and some spiffy control systems. But two out of three leaves you dead when you drop your plane off a 747 at 40,000 feet.
That's what these guys are doing here, they are leaping into the unknown and it doesn't take much for them to create something they cannot handle. Especially when they don't fully understand ALL of what they're dealing with.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they should pack up and go home. But for them to even consider creating life without first understanding every piece of the puzzle is grossly irresponsible - and, quite frankly, more than a little frightening.