Several years ago, my roommate had a 40M hard drive he was bringing back to school in Austin from his home in Houston.
He packs his car up and drives off. As he rounds the first corner, he hears a strange noise, but didn't see anything, so he continues on the three-hour drive back to Austin.
When he arrives, he finds that the hard drive is nowhere to be found. He remembered bringing it out to the car and setting it on roof to load it up. Then he remembered the noise as he turned the corner. So he calls home, his sister walks down the street, and finds the hard drive laying in the gutter where it fell off the roof of his car.
He want back the next week and got it. The alignment of the heads had been b0rked by the fall from his car roof onto concrete at 30mph, so the data was a total loss, but after doing a low-level format, the drive itself was fine and ran for several years.
No, he's just trolling. Or he just doesn't get it. Or both.
Tivo breaks you free from the TV. You no longer have to be there when the show is on, or do the constant shuffling of tapes and schedules on a VCR.
It gives your time back to you and allows you to watch what you want when you feel like watching rather than when someone at the network decides you should be. You are free to get out of the house and do what you want at any time. And when you don't have anything else going on, or just feel like relaxing for a bit, your shows are there waiting for you.
Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?
Ummm, no.
The whole point of natural language processing is that I shouldn't have to learn another language to talk to the computer - it should learn to understand the language I'm already using.
My wife and I bought a Prius a tad over a year ago, and the more I drive it, the more I like it.
It handles really well, and has the tightest turning radius of any car I've ever owned. It has very good pickup, and doesn't have any problems at highway speeds. One of these days I'll have to see what the maximum speed is, but I've cruised at 80 with no problems at all.
The gas mileage is great, and will be even better in the winter when we don't have to use the AC. If you live in a place where you can get away with no AC in a car, then so much the better for you.
If you're looking for a recommendation, mine is "yes".
I don't see a problem with this as long as the ads only pop up during the install, and don't wait for you to hit enter before proceeding.
I don't see it as any more annoying than the "Windows will make everything you do more fun" message that they used to put on the Windows install. Actually, that message always cracked me up, so I can't really count it as annoying.
If they start taking money to install a folder on the desktop full of "special offers from our partners" then it might cross a line.
The "dead resurrected on Jupiter" thing made me think of Clifford Simak's City stories, in which humanity is transformed to live on Jupiter (which was some sort of paradise to the ransformed).
The "Submit. Obey." reminded me of John Carpenter's They Live.
They couldn't create a mountain of their own, but they could pay tribute to the mountain by climbing it.
"Having just paid our respects to the highest mountain in the world, I then had no choice but to urinate on it." - Sir Edmund Hillary in his autobiography "View from the Summit"
Back in the 1950s, chlorophyll was a fad food, and supposedly had the power to make you and your breath smell better. They put it in everything: toothpaste, candy, all sorts of stuff. Even dog food, so that your pooch would smell better. I think Clorets is the sole survivor from that time.
The fad ended when it was pointed out that goats practically live on chlorophyll, but they still stink.
When the suit was started, IBM really did have a stranglehold on the computer market. Remember, the term FUD was originally applied to IBM.
But something happened in between the time that the suit was started and the time it was dropped: the PC revolution. The market changed. PCs and workstations were where the action was, and mainframes were becoming less relevant. So the suit was dropped.
The AT&T lawsuit was started at about the same time, and that one went on to conclusion and the breakup of the Bell System.
Not EVERY land mass. While there are (I think) seven nations that have territorial claims on Antarctica, there is still a great honking chunk of that continent that's still unclaimed.
Unfortunately, it's unclaimed for a reason. The environment isn't just harsh, it's actively hostile to human life. You'd have to import virtually everything in order to stay alive.
But if you had the cash, you could outfit a colony and set up shop on an unclaimed bit of land.
Established five years ago, IPv6 creates enough IP addresses for every person on Earth to have 1,000 Web-enabled devices. It does so by quadrupling the size of the IP address itself.
The versions created 30 years ago were 32 bits long. Under that scheme, there are 4.3 billion different number combinations.
IPv6 addresses are 128 bits. The resulting list of IP addresses is two googols long, an enormous number.
2^128 / 6,000,000,000 = far far more than 1,000 addresses per person.
Going to the FAQ there, specifically here, and you see this:
Q1: How fast is USB?
A1: High speed USB products have a design data rate of 480 Mb/s. Full speed USB devices signal at 12Mb/s, while low speed devices use a 1.5Mb/s subchannel.
However, I can't find out anything where they say to refer to "USB 1.1" as "USB 2". It's chock-full of Hi-Speed/Full-Speed marketspeak, though. This is very confusing nomenclature.
I did this in the original Sim City. No roads AT ALL, and it worked. My main incentive was not to get rid of the roads, it was to get rid of that annoying traffic helicopter and the "Skywatch One reporting heavy traffic" that went off every 30 seconds. It had a really extensive rail network. I think I still have that savegame around somewhere...
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This is the equivalent of "VCR for Radio", or a timer hooked up to a recorder. It's not integrated with a schedule.
People who have never used a Tivo might fail to see the distinction, but it's an important one. With Tivo, I don't have to know what time or channel something comes on - I just say "Record all episodes of the Simpsons" or "Record all movies directed by Stanley Kubrick", and it handles all the scheduling details for me.
These devices sound like you have to tell it to "at 10pm, tune to 101.3 and record for 30 minutes".
She, on the other hand, believes that we shouldn't meddle, because if we do as I just described, it's a small step to handing prospective parents a form, letting them choose their baby's sex, hair colour, height, etc. I say, "so what?" Once again, why *wouldn't* you want to let people choose what their children will look like? The child has to have SOME eye colour, it's going to be either brown or blue or green or something ANYWAY, so what's the harm in letting the parents pick?
Because the parents may choose what is best for them, not the child, without regard to any future consequences.
For example, in India, sons are much desired. They are so desired that parents are using prenatal scans to determine the sex of the unborn child and abort it if it's a girl. No big deal, you say? But now there are villages with skewed sex ratios. The men coming of age have an extreme shortage of women to marry. Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2723513.stm
This is just one example.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't be able to fix bugs in someone's genes, but we need to be very careful about what kinds of elective procedures are made available, and keep the Law of Unintended Consequences in mind.
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Several years ago, my roommate had a 40M hard drive he was bringing back to school in Austin from his home in Houston.
He packs his car up and drives off. As he rounds the first corner, he hears a strange noise, but didn't see anything, so he continues on the three-hour drive back to Austin.
When he arrives, he finds that the hard drive is nowhere to be found. He remembered bringing it out to the car and setting it on roof to load it up. Then he remembered the noise as he turned the corner. So he calls home, his sister walks down the street, and finds the hard drive laying in the gutter where it fell off the roof of his car.
He want back the next week and got it. The alignment of the heads had been b0rked by the fall from his car roof onto concrete at 30mph, so the data was a total loss, but after doing a low-level format, the drive itself was fine and ran for several years.
No, he's just trolling. Or he just doesn't get it. Or both.
Tivo breaks you free from the TV. You no longer have to be there when the show is on, or do the constant shuffling of tapes and schedules on a VCR.
It gives your time back to you and allows you to watch what you want when you feel like watching rather than when someone at the network decides you should be. You are free to get out of the house and do what you want at any time. And when you don't have anything else going on, or just feel like relaxing for a bit, your shows are there waiting for you.
Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?
Ummm, no.
The whole point of natural language processing is that I shouldn't have to learn another language to talk to the computer - it should learn to understand the language I'm already using.
Repeat after me: THE WEB IS NOT THE INTERNET.
The page that IE pops up is generated locally, by IE, in response to a "domain not found" response by DNS.
With Sitefinder, ANY invalid address was returned as the Sitefinder IP address, whether it was requested by a web browser or not.
My wife and I bought a Prius a tad over a year ago, and the more I drive it, the more I like it.
It handles really well, and has the tightest turning radius of any car I've ever owned. It has very good pickup, and doesn't have any problems at highway speeds. One of these days I'll have to see what the maximum speed is, but I've cruised at 80 with no problems at all.
The gas mileage is great, and will be even better in the winter when we don't have to use the AC. If you live in a place where you can get away with no AC in a car, then so much the better for you.
If you're looking for a recommendation, mine is "yes".
I don't see a problem with this as long as the ads only pop up during the install, and don't wait for you to hit enter before proceeding.
I don't see it as any more annoying than the "Windows will make everything you do more fun" message that they used to put on the Windows install. Actually, that message always cracked me up, so I can't really count it as annoying.
If they start taking money to install a folder on the desktop full of "special offers from our partners" then it might cross a line.
I'm sorry, I just can't go through with the remainder of this post.
The "dead resurrected on Jupiter" thing made me think of Clifford Simak's City stories, in which humanity is transformed to live on Jupiter (which was some sort of paradise to the ransformed).
The "Submit. Obey." reminded me of John Carpenter's They Live.
They couldn't create a mountain of their own, but they could pay tribute to the mountain by climbing it.
"Having just paid our respects to the highest mountain in the world, I then had no choice but to urinate on it."
- Sir Edmund Hillary in his autobiography "View from the Summit"
Back in the 1950s, chlorophyll was a fad food, and supposedly had the power to make you and your breath smell better. They put it in everything: toothpaste, candy, all sorts of stuff. Even dog food, so that your pooch would smell better. I think Clorets is the sole survivor from that time.
The fad ended when it was pointed out that goats practically live on chlorophyll, but they still stink.
When the suit was started, IBM really did have a stranglehold on the computer market. Remember, the term FUD was originally applied to IBM.
But something happened in between the time that the suit was started and the time it was dropped: the PC revolution. The market changed. PCs and workstations were where the action was, and mainframes were becoming less relevant. So the suit was dropped.
The AT&T lawsuit was started at about the same time, and that one went on to conclusion and the breakup of the Bell System.
Not EVERY land mass. While there are (I think) seven nations that have territorial claims on Antarctica, there is still a great honking chunk of that continent that's still unclaimed.
Unfortunately, it's unclaimed for a reason. The environment isn't just harsh, it's actively hostile to human life. You'd have to import virtually everything in order to stay alive.
But if you had the cash, you could outfit a colony and set up shop on an unclaimed bit of land.
No. Interestingly, Linear B and Etruscan are supported. http://www.unicode.org/standard/supported.html
It seems to be on the proposed list, though: http://www.unicode.org/pending/pending.html
You sound like a person with their fingers in their ears shouting "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA".
You asked "How?"
Someone replied "SMS".
It answered your question. Many places use SMS to patch and update Windows machines remotely and en masse.
You many not like SMS. You may think SMS sucks. You may even be right.
But that does not change the fact that there are tools out there to remotely administer Windows machines, and that SMS is one such tool.
Do not be blinded by advocacy.
Yeah, and every copy of it I ever saw had been pirated.
Insert obligatory Beowulf cluster joke here.
That's because you misspelled "Carrie-Anne Moss".
The article refers you to www.usb.org.
Going to the FAQ there, specifically here, and you see this:
Q1: How fast is USB?
A1: High speed USB products have a design data rate of 480 Mb/s. Full speed USB devices signal at 12Mb/s, while low speed devices use a 1.5Mb/s subchannel.
However, I can't find out anything where they say to refer to "USB 1.1" as "USB 2". It's chock-full of Hi-Speed/Full-Speed marketspeak, though. This is very confusing nomenclature.
I did this in the original Sim City. No roads AT ALL, and it worked. My main incentive was not to get rid of the roads, it was to get rid of that annoying traffic helicopter and the "Skywatch One reporting heavy traffic" that went off every 30 seconds. It had a really extensive rail network. I think I still have that savegame around somewhere...
This is the equivalent of "VCR for Radio", or a timer hooked up to a recorder. It's not integrated with a schedule.
People who have never used a Tivo might fail to see the distinction, but it's an important one. With Tivo, I don't have to know what time or channel something comes on - I just say "Record all episodes of the Simpsons" or "Record all movies directed by Stanley Kubrick", and it handles all the scheduling details for me.
These devices sound like you have to tell it to "at 10pm, tune to 101.3 and record for 30 minutes".
I've always wondered why they don't just enclose the cabin in a Faraday cage.
Oh yeah. It'd cost money to do that. Never mind.
She, on the other hand, believes that we shouldn't meddle, because if we do as I just described, it's a small step to handing prospective parents a form, letting them choose their baby's sex, hair colour, height, etc. I say, "so what?" Once again, why *wouldn't* you want to let people choose what their children will look like? The child has to have SOME eye colour, it's going to be either brown or blue or green or something ANYWAY, so what's the harm in letting the parents pick?
Because the parents may choose what is best for them, not the child, without regard to any future consequences.
For example, in India, sons are much desired. They are so desired that parents are using prenatal scans to determine the sex of the unborn child and abort it if it's a girl. No big deal, you say? But now there are villages with skewed sex ratios. The men coming of age have an extreme shortage of women to marry. Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2723513.stm
This is just one example.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't be able to fix bugs in someone's genes, but we need to be very careful about what kinds of elective procedures are made available, and keep the Law of Unintended Consequences in mind.
So it's a closed system. So what? It's an APPLIANCE.
Cell phones are also closed systems, and most of them are considerably less open than the Tivo. Are you going to avoid getting one of those too?
You can already LEGALLY control and add just about any software you want to the Tivo. It's just that Tivo will not support you if you screw it up.
There are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks.