I'll agree, as long as you exclude the...tree must be pruned before it can bear fruit... since when? A tree that bears fruit will do so, pruning just makes the tree grow more fruit, because its sort of biological momentum is still there, but you removed parts where the normal nutrients would be going so it puts them into the fruit. It's actually kinda evil in a way, tree's naturally grow less fruit as they get bigger and older, because it itself is using more of the nutrients from the soil than it used to, so in some sort of sub-concious awareness of it's surroundings (likely just a chemical equation, but you decide), it knows that the immediate area it's in isn't as good of a source of nutrients as it used to be, so it tries to find an equilibrium.
Exactly. If the Tuna are bigger, and less prone to diseases, they will be eating more, and not dying as much from (normal non-human) predators. And on that note, what about the other animals that eat tuna? will they be strong enough to still kill the tuna they normally do, will they eat less, or start eating younger ones and sort of usurping this whole plan? Plus if they are bigger and stronger, they will likely linger in climate zones they would normally leave sooner, also (rather drastically, which is the key point) altering the natural sequence of migrations and predator V. prey.
I hope they have a rather lengthy trial in some giant pool before they release these into the wild.
I would assume so, it's basically an over-sized wireless router, instead of being able to network with your neighbour, you can network with the other side of a city. I'm too lazy to bother looking further into it, but I would hope that it can (or it should) be able to sort of repair itself, ie: if you had 10 of these set up, then only one would need to be connected to the Internet, the rest would link through that one. In a really desperate situation you could drop (if they were completely self-contained, parachute them down, etc) like 100 of them in a row spaced to whatever their range is and cross a small country. If it's more densely propagated, then destruction of some of them wouldn't really make much difference, 30 seconds or whatever for them to route around it much like wired internet.
You forgot the "get off my lawn". I don't see "cloud" computing leaving anytime soon, or ever, because it makes the most sense from both a business and a consumer perspective.
1. Company X develops "product" Y which remains on their servers. 2. Charge people for an account to gain access. 3. ??? 4.Profit!
From the consumer perspective, cheaper PC's and what "appears" to be cheaper software (pay-as-you-go, "low monthly fee", etc), access to all your shit from anywhere (via some universal wireless not yet developed), even if it's not your PC/hand-held/toaster you are using, etc, etc.
Personally, I love the idea ideologically, in some sort of Over-Unity kind of way, but I see years of abuse by business' (and/=/or Government) before it's actually as free or ubiquitous as it could be. It's just a part of the natural evolution of the Internet, first it was just a few computers, then a few networks, then one big network. First it was a few computers, then a few super-computers, then one big computer and millions of monitors.
The reason we have so much violence in games these days is that in the very early arcade games...
I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that there is violence in video-games is because in reality we are increasingly less able to do it. 50 years ago, you had an urge to fight, you went to the bar, you wanted excitement, you drove fast, you wanted to explore, you went outside... now-a-days most people don't really have any exciting in their lives, nor are they really allowed to (even Raves, and Concerts are usually "locked down", even sports are tame now), so they look for that visceral experience where they can, in video-games and movies.
I was going to comment on that as well, shouldn't every new OS by ___ developer be more successful than the last? Especially since most PC's are tied to an OS when purchased, there are far more people buying computers now than in 2001, and probably more in 2010 than in 2006. The same could be said for most software in general, Pidgin is more successful than Gaim, WinAmp 3 was probably more successful than WinAmp 2 (going by downloads), which is less successful than WinAmp 5, etc...
Their success is measured in units sold, but if you asked all the people who had used XP for a significant amount of time, then used Vista, I'm sure that "success" would be much different. And a lot of PC users that use Vista, have never used another version so have nothing to compare it to.
After a $2.43 million takeover offer by the Private Media Group, an adult entertainment company, Napster's brand and logos were acquired at bankruptcy auction by the company Roxio, Inc. which used them to rebrand the pressplay music service as Napster 2.0.
In September 2008, Napster was purchased by US electronics retailer Best Buy for $US 121 million.
Net revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2007 was $25.5 million, up 9% from $23.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2006. Net revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 was a record $28.4 million, up 21% from $23.5 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2006. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 grew to $29.1 million, up 9 percent from $26.8 million in the prior year quarter and up from $28.4 million... On April 3, 2007 Napster reported it had over 830,000 paid subscribers. (@ $5 per month (9.95 per month in the UK), or $14.95 per month (14.95 per month in the UK) for transfers)... September 15, 2008 - Napster is purchased by Best Buy for $121 million
However...
Revenue: $111.08 million USD (FY 2007) Net income: $36.83 million USD (FY 2007)
May not have worked very well for the original creators or the people that used it, but seems to be working fairly well for the company.
Indeed, he's already bought and played with all the toys he wanted, been everywhere he wanted to go, etc... he's past the normal age of retirement, and will likely end up in some minimum security old folks home, living out his days telling stories about the Great Swindle of '96 or whatever, and writing his biography.
IE has an XSS Filter... I don't use IE enough to have bothered to investigate it though, otherwise Opera, Safari, Chrome, don't seem to be doing anything special about XSS, at least not advertising it, other than patching their own vulnerabilities against a few known methods.
So... you must not support voting of any sort then?
Voting in person is far from flawless in validating that you are who you are, and coercion is almost as easy for "walk in" voting as it is "online". $$$ for your vote, some employment benefit, sex, etc, either by assurance of more of it, or threat of less of it.
I think that the worst part of online voting, is that it will only trivialize it more, if you have to physically go somewhere to vote, you feel like you actually "did" something, online voting would be like, deleting spam from your inbox, something you did, but doesn't really matter that you did it.
Wikipedia says: "Weorc or Work (Anglo-Saxon leader). Gave name to Workington or 'Weorc-inga-tun' which means the 'tun' (settlement) of the 'Weorcingas' (the people of Weorc or Work)"
Merriam-Webster says: Etymology: Middle English werk, work, from Old English werc, weorc; akin to Old High German werc work, Greek ergon, Avestan varÉ(TM)zem activity Date: before 12th century
...it's not just different, it's worse in many cases.
Indeed, although as a whole I quite like Win7, I really wish they would split the UI into a "Normal User", and then a "Power User", leave the extra dialogs and mouse clicks for people who aren't familiar with it, but remove them for people who are familiar.
Either that, or go all out in ToolTips, keep the interface to as few dialogs/clicks and as exact named/linked (no more: Everything -> Sub-Group -> Sub-Group -> What You Actually Want) as possible, but then have descriptions/directions for n00bs in ToolTips, or perhaps integrate Help into the Search, "Network Settings", or "Change Gateway" etc, will tell you "A, B, C then D" or just give you the link to it directly, have the OS capable of teaching people how to use it, but not forcing you to take an exam in hardware and software layers every time you want to do something.
Same with "Common Tasks", should be editable, or a Tree view, expand it to show text-based sub-categories, or just click on it to show them visually in a window (as per normal)
Microsoft Bob, or Paperclip, Search Dog, were good ideas just poorly implemented, people generally don't want their PC to make them feel like a 5 year old.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll agree, as long as you exclude the ...tree must be pruned before it can bear fruit... since when? A tree that bears fruit will do so, pruning just makes the tree grow more fruit, because its sort of biological momentum is still there, but you removed parts where the normal nutrients would be going so it puts them into the fruit. It's actually kinda evil in a way, tree's naturally grow less fruit as they get bigger and older, because it itself is using more of the nutrients from the soil than it used to, so in some sort of sub-concious awareness of it's surroundings (likely just a chemical equation, but you decide), it knows that the immediate area it's in isn't as good of a source of nutrients as it used to be, so it tries to find an equilibrium.
Or... maybe I should go to bed...
...make a super version of whatever Tuna eat.
Exactly. If the Tuna are bigger, and less prone to diseases, they will be eating more, and not dying as much from (normal non-human) predators. And on that note, what about the other animals that eat tuna? will they be strong enough to still kill the tuna they normally do, will they eat less, or start eating younger ones and sort of usurping this whole plan? Plus if they are bigger and stronger, they will likely linger in climate zones they would normally leave sooner, also (rather drastically, which is the key point) altering the natural sequence of migrations and predator V. prey.
I hope they have a rather lengthy trial in some giant pool before they release these into the wild.
I would assume so, it's basically an over-sized wireless router, instead of being able to network with your neighbour, you can network with the other side of a city. I'm too lazy to bother looking further into it, but I would hope that it can (or it should) be able to sort of repair itself, ie: if you had 10 of these set up, then only one would need to be connected to the Internet, the rest would link through that one. In a really desperate situation you could drop (if they were completely self-contained, parachute them down, etc) like 100 of them in a row spaced to whatever their range is and cross a small country. If it's more densely propagated, then destruction of some of them wouldn't really make much difference, 30 seconds or whatever for them to route around it much like wired internet.
Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript Some 20 days ago.
There's a Mormon joke there somewhere.
If you just wanted this torrent, and weren't just interested in Demonoid.
http://www.btmon.com/Other/Unsorted/Clifford_Simak_The_80_Works_Collection.torrent.html
or
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1702369
I would, If I could give you it without 1200 other people seeing it.
Or 80 of his in DOC & RTF though.
City
On Amazon
Audio Book
You forgot the "get off my lawn". I don't see "cloud" computing leaving anytime soon, or ever, because it makes the most sense from both a business and a consumer perspective.
1. Company X develops "product" Y which remains on their servers.
2. Charge people for an account to gain access.
3. ???
4.Profit!
From the consumer perspective, cheaper PC's and what "appears" to be cheaper software (pay-as-you-go, "low monthly fee", etc), access to all your shit from anywhere (via some universal wireless not yet developed), even if it's not your PC/hand-held/toaster you are using, etc, etc.
Personally, I love the idea ideologically, in some sort of Over-Unity kind of way, but I see years of abuse by business' (and/=/or Government) before it's actually as free or ubiquitous as it could be. It's just a part of the natural evolution of the Internet, first it was just a few computers, then a few networks, then one big network. First it was a few computers, then a few super-computers, then one big computer and millions of monitors.
The reason we have so much violence in games these days is that in the very early arcade games...
I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that there is violence in video-games is because in reality we are increasingly less able to do it. 50 years ago, you had an urge to fight, you went to the bar, you wanted excitement, you drove fast, you wanted to explore, you went outside... now-a-days most people don't really have any exciting in their lives, nor are they really allowed to (even Raves, and Concerts are usually "locked down", even sports are tame now), so they look for that visceral experience where they can, in video-games and movies.
Yes, I did notice your nad...
I was going to comment on that as well, shouldn't every new OS by ___ developer be more successful than the last? Especially since most PC's are tied to an OS when purchased, there are far more people buying computers now than in 2001, and probably more in 2010 than in 2006. The same could be said for most software in general, Pidgin is more successful than Gaim, WinAmp 3 was probably more successful than WinAmp 2 (going by downloads), which is less successful than WinAmp 5, etc...
Their success is measured in units sold, but if you asked all the people who had used XP for a significant amount of time, then used Vista, I'm sure that "success" would be much different. And a lot of PC users that use Vista, have never used another version so have nothing to compare it to.
Napster
After a $2.43 million takeover offer by the Private Media Group, an adult entertainment company, Napster's brand and logos were acquired at bankruptcy auction by the company Roxio, Inc. which used them to rebrand the pressplay music service as Napster 2.0.
In September 2008, Napster was purchased by US electronics retailer Best Buy for $US 121 million.
Napster 2.0
Net revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2007 was $25.5 million, up 9% from $23.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2006. ... ...
Net revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 was a record $28.4 million, up 21% from $23.5 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2006.
Net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 grew to $29.1 million, up 9 percent from $26.8 million in the prior year quarter and up from $28.4 million
On April 3, 2007 Napster reported it had over 830,000 paid subscribers. (@ $5 per month (9.95 per month in the UK), or $14.95 per month (14.95 per month in the UK) for transfers)
September 15, 2008 - Napster is purchased by Best Buy for $121 million
However...
Revenue: $111.08 million USD (FY 2007)
Net income: $36.83 million USD (FY 2007)
May not have worked very well for the original creators or the people that used it, but seems to be working fairly well for the company.
Yeah, I remember reading this a few minutes ago, it was even on Slashdot I believe, only there wasn't any Unicode to ASCII fuck ups.
Indeed, he's already bought and played with all the toys he wanted, been everywhere he wanted to go, etc... he's past the normal age of retirement, and will likely end up in some minimum security old folks home, living out his days telling stories about the Great Swindle of '96 or whatever, and writing his biography.
IE has an XSS Filter... I don't use IE enough to have bothered to investigate it though, otherwise Opera, Safari, Chrome, don't seem to be doing anything special about XSS, at least not advertising it, other than patching their own vulnerabilities against a few known methods.
"Keytop" I believe.
http://www.google.com/search?q=orange+pie
So... you must not support voting of any sort then?
Voting in person is far from flawless in validating that you are who you are, and coercion is almost as easy for "walk in" voting as it is "online". $$$ for your vote, some employment benefit, sex, etc, either by assurance of more of it, or threat of less of it.
I think that the worst part of online voting, is that it will only trivialize it more, if you have to physically go somewhere to vote, you feel like you actually "did" something, online voting would be like, deleting spam from your inbox, something you did, but doesn't really matter that you did it.
But doubling military costs may do better than double the size and effectiveness of your units.
You write p3n1s 3n14rgm3nt spam don't you? /kidding
Wikipedia says:
"Weorc or Work (Anglo-Saxon leader). Gave name to Workington or 'Weorc-inga-tun' which means the 'tun' (settlement) of the 'Weorcingas' (the people of Weorc or Work)"
Merriam-Webster says:
Etymology:
Middle English werk, work, from Old English werc, weorc; akin to Old High German werc work, Greek ergon, Avestan varÉ(TM)zem activity
Date:
before 12th century
If you know anything further, please inform.
...it's not just different, it's worse in many cases.
Indeed, although as a whole I quite like Win7, I really wish they would split the UI into a "Normal User", and then a "Power User", leave the extra dialogs and mouse clicks for people who aren't familiar with it, but remove them for people who are familiar.
Either that, or go all out in ToolTips, keep the interface to as few dialogs/clicks and as exact named/linked (no more: Everything -> Sub-Group -> Sub-Group -> What You Actually Want) as possible, but then have descriptions/directions for n00bs in ToolTips, or perhaps integrate Help into the Search, "Network Settings", or "Change Gateway" etc, will tell you "A, B, C then D" or just give you the link to it directly, have the OS capable of teaching people how to use it, but not forcing you to take an exam in hardware and software layers every time you want to do something.
Same with "Common Tasks", should be editable, or a Tree view, expand it to show text-based sub-categories, or just click on it to show them visually in a window (as per normal)
Microsoft Bob, or Paperclip, Search Dog, were good ideas just poorly implemented, people generally don't want their PC to make them feel like a 5 year old.
Exactly.
I can't wait for someone to fork that Mutter!