Ask that question of the dozens of people selling camrips and illegal copies of dvd's whom I see in the streets all the time. I guess people (customers) figure that this way they are breaking much less laws than the guys who actually bring camcorders to the cinema, burn the dvd's, or put them online for streaming - and do that with hundreds of titles instead of a couple. Which means they would be less likely of a target. And this articles proves them right.
I tried Mac. I tried Linux. Hated them as much as Windows. I'm a sysadmin too. And the software is just as counter-intuitive, buggy, opaque etc. regardless of the system. And I'm sorry, but installing stuff on Linux is not the cute story in the blog but an archaic pain of entering lines upon lines of commands into a terminal. Neither is uninstalling - I tried removing Firefox and had to click through more things that cleaning registry and folders on Windows would have. Oh, and it took down the UI with it.
Ugh the writers of the article (and, consequently, the slashdot user) wrote a badly worded description. I was surprised as I never heard of any particularly strong allotrope of boron. If you actually read the whole thing, it's boron nanowires that give the strength. Key word: nanowires. Researchers used boron, but there are plenty of different materials to make nanowires out of. And it is the particular properties resulting from reinforcing materials with nanowires that give the 'bulletproof' strength.
Why use the word "digitalize", they have CD's, pretty sure those aren't recorded in analog. Oh, and I'm sure all the die-hard Beatles fans have complete discographies in "digital" as it is and wouldn't really care about a new way of downloading it.
I want one! I will disagree with everyone here saying that it's useless. I'd trade the mouse, and pen tablet, and the joystick, and all the rest of those for this. Looks way more convinient - not to mention instinctive - to use. It's like a touchscreen but you don't have to leave greasy fingerprints all over. With this I could even actually draw on computer, while so far any attempts with mouse just ended up with wrist pain and frustration. And just moving the cursor, moving windows, anything... Oh, and games, this will send Wii to an antique museum.
right nex to the sentence you picked, "The fruit fly gene may have implications for human health, as it can help biologists study the function of the nervous system and diseases such as epilepsy", so it's not a complete waste. maybe we should just stop invading random countries and there'll be enough money to pay off our debts and a bit cash in hand to invent anti-gravity
It's not intended to make people safe or feel safe, that's just the excuse and the reason why the excuse works. Really TSA is just another step to reduce people's rights and move to a de-facto authoritarian state... Never doubted it, this story just proves it: they never even cared that it's effective to catch terrorists, nothing to do with that, just get people used to random unwarranted searches and seizures and arrests. It's the government and media that sucks up to it that keep people scared, keep them afraid, keep them in a state of terror... oh wait, isn't that what the evil terrorists are supposed to do not the government that "protects" from them? Does anyone even remember what does the word "terrorist" mean? Sorry for rent, it accumulates every once in a while...
Yea it's retarded. Have the same situation, I'm an engineer though. And to those of you speaking of internships, I did apply to a bunch but got no answers, same as with my job application. The only interview I ever got was for a marginally related position (like QA in your case), but I didn't even get that. Find a better major, sadly, that's what I'm doing, four years wasted and $10k in loans with no job to pay them off.
Tried it, hated it... First thing that killed it for me, it installed into some convoluted directory in Docs and Settings instead of Program Files like a normal real application. And it has none of the features I like and use and no plugins yet. I'm an Opera user myself which I like for not having to download a thousand plugins and still not have half the functionality (speaking of FF) at same performance.
"Ready to speak about Eminem" Yeah I'm sure that persuaded a lot of people using very complex language and very intelligent discussions. Ha... ha-ha...
Ok, my biggest complaints are these, applicable to any Windows I used: 1) Get rid of that horrible monster named registry. It is hard to navigate, it collects crap from every program ever installed, saves tons of useless information, and is a pain to edit. End it or revise it, make it neat and easy to view, clean, and edit, or get rid of it altogether and replace it with configs for individual programs. 2) Make components uninstallable. If I don't want IE or Outlook Express or Windows Media Player or Messenger or MS Games etc, I should be able to just go to Add/Remove programs and remove them. Not just "hide shortcuts" from them, actually remove them from the hard drive. Along with other odd folders in Program Files like "MSN" and "xerox".
Dunno what's the big deal about, I can't even get the thing to work, it just takes up both CPU's and doesn't show anything... On the other hand I can start up Google Earth and it will work in seconds. But that may be some software bug on my side, whatever.
Anyway, I'm sure this may be cool for people in Stockholm, but unless they plan to expand this to worldwide scale, this will just remain another web's curiosity for the bored and an occasional/.-reading tourist. And, mind you, catching up to Google's amount of maps and images and databases would not be an easy thing to do.
Are you kidding me, illegal to make mp3 from a CD? Then why would I ever get a CD in the first place, the RIAA wants way too much and I'm happy that finally someone put them in their place.
I just don't see why point out this one thing. I've seen this practice go on for years now:
Nero tried to install Yahoo toolbar
Sun Java tries to install Google Toolbar and Desktop
Adobe acrobat comes with built in Yahoo search
Apple sometimes makes it really hard to download the Quicktime player without iTunes bundled
and so on and so on and so on, don't have time to write down all of them, though I'm sure I hit another few cases. And of course by default extra programs are selected in the install procedure, so if you just click "next" quickly without looking, you're screwed.
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Ask that question of the dozens of people selling camrips and illegal copies of dvd's whom I see in the streets all the time. I guess people (customers) figure that this way they are breaking much less laws than the guys who actually bring camcorders to the cinema, burn the dvd's, or put them online for streaming - and do that with hundreds of titles instead of a couple. Which means they would be less likely of a target. And this articles proves them right.
Well first they will torture out all the sources. After that - sure
I tried Mac. I tried Linux. Hated them as much as Windows. I'm a sysadmin too. And the software is just as counter-intuitive, buggy, opaque etc. regardless of the system.
And I'm sorry, but installing stuff on Linux is not the cute story in the blog but an archaic pain of entering lines upon lines of commands into a terminal. Neither is uninstalling - I tried removing Firefox and had to click through more things that cleaning registry and folders on Windows would have. Oh, and it took down the UI with it.
Is it just me or holding right hands like this would make the people whose feet/legs we see bend over forward quite far for this angle
Next they'll archive 4chan
Ugh the writers of the article (and, consequently, the slashdot user) wrote a badly worded description. I was surprised as I never heard of any particularly strong allotrope of boron. If you actually read the whole thing, it's boron nanowires that give the strength. Key word: nanowires. Researchers used boron, but there are plenty of different materials to make nanowires out of. And it is the particular properties resulting from reinforcing materials with nanowires that give the 'bulletproof' strength.
No, really, I do care. Safari and Chrome, that covers both Mac and Windows users fully, right? That's like 99.99% of the market, right?
You can't be serious that those browsers put together include only about 10% of users?
Why use the word "digitalize", they have CD's, pretty sure those aren't recorded in analog.
Oh, and I'm sure all the die-hard Beatles fans have complete discographies in "digital" as it is and wouldn't really care about a new way of downloading it.
I want one! I will disagree with everyone here saying that it's useless. I'd trade the mouse, and pen tablet, and the joystick, and all the rest of those for this. Looks way more convinient - not to mention instinctive - to use. It's like a touchscreen but you don't have to leave greasy fingerprints all over. With this I could even actually draw on computer, while so far any attempts with mouse just ended up with wrist pain and frustration. And just moving the cursor, moving windows, anything... Oh, and games, this will send Wii to an antique museum.
Did they find Simon the Invisible Unicorn? (if you don't know the reference, watch the SNL spoof)
right nex to the sentence you picked, "The fruit fly gene may have implications for human health, as it can help biologists study the function of the nervous system and diseases such as epilepsy", so it's not a complete waste. maybe we should just stop invading random countries and there'll be enough money to pay off our debts and a bit cash in hand to invent anti-gravity
It's not intended to make people safe or feel safe, that's just the excuse and the reason why the excuse works. Really TSA is just another step to reduce people's rights and move to a de-facto authoritarian state... Never doubted it, this story just proves it: they never even cared that it's effective to catch terrorists, nothing to do with that, just get people used to random unwarranted searches and seizures and arrests. It's the government and media that sucks up to it that keep people scared, keep them afraid, keep them in a state of terror... oh wait, isn't that what the evil terrorists are supposed to do not the government that "protects" from them? Does anyone even remember what does the word "terrorist" mean? Sorry for rent, it accumulates every once in a while...
Yea it's retarded. Have the same situation, I'm an engineer though. And to those of you speaking of internships, I did apply to a bunch but got no answers, same as with my job application. The only interview I ever got was for a marginally related position (like QA in your case), but I didn't even get that. Find a better major, sadly, that's what I'm doing, four years wasted and $10k in loans with no job to pay them off.
I want the PC version leaked!
Tried it, hated it... First thing that killed it for me, it installed into some convoluted directory in Docs and Settings instead of Program Files like a normal real application. And it has none of the features I like and use and no plugins yet. I'm an Opera user myself which I like for not having to download a thousand plugins and still not have half the functionality (speaking of FF) at same performance.
"Ready to speak about Eminem"
Yeah I'm sure that persuaded a lot of people using very complex language and very intelligent discussions. Ha... ha-ha...
any green glowing food coming for halloween?
Ok, my biggest complaints are these, applicable to any Windows I used:
1) Get rid of that horrible monster named registry. It is hard to navigate, it collects crap from every program ever installed, saves tons of useless information, and is a pain to edit. End it or revise it, make it neat and easy to view, clean, and edit, or get rid of it altogether and replace it with configs for individual programs.
2) Make components uninstallable. If I don't want IE or Outlook Express or Windows Media Player or Messenger or MS Games etc, I should be able to just go to Add/Remove programs and remove them. Not just "hide shortcuts" from them, actually remove them from the hard drive. Along with other odd folders in Program Files like "MSN" and "xerox".
Dunno what's the big deal about, I can't even get the thing to work, it just takes up both CPU's and doesn't show anything... On the other hand I can start up Google Earth and it will work in seconds. But that may be some software bug on my side, whatever.
/.-reading tourist. And, mind you, catching up to Google's amount of maps and images and databases would not be an easy thing to do.
Anyway, I'm sure this may be cool for people in Stockholm, but unless they plan to expand this to worldwide scale, this will just remain another web's curiosity for the bored and an occasional
Are you kidding me, illegal to make mp3 from a CD? Then why would I ever get a CD in the first place, the RIAA wants way too much and I'm happy that finally someone put them in their place.
I just don't see why point out this one thing. I've seen this practice go on for years now: Nero tried to install Yahoo toolbar Sun Java tries to install Google Toolbar and Desktop Adobe acrobat comes with built in Yahoo search Apple sometimes makes it really hard to download the Quicktime player without iTunes bundled and so on and so on and so on, don't have time to write down all of them, though I'm sure I hit another few cases. And of course by default extra programs are selected in the install procedure, so if you just click "next" quickly without looking, you're screwed.