Speaking is overrated, I use AIM to IM my neighbor across the street and to IM my sister in the next room. Who needs to speak? I look forward to the day when the telephone is abolished, the world will be much happier place to live; with nice IM chimes instead of phone rings, and plenty of carpal tunnel syndrome to go around. It will be nice to have my whole social life right in front of me in the comfort of my room...it even glows in the dark...oh wait, I think that already happened.
I think Louis Armstrong sung it best, when he belted out, "Oh, what a wonderful world". You just can't beat that, not even with a techno bassline.
Yup, I looked it up one time and saw that it was a law firm, that's what makes it so much better. How stupid can they be to make a web site mofo.com though...I feel that they deserve my spam.
These were not mentioned in the link, and are posted in my car for passenger reference:
The driver has final say in all ties and disputes. The driver has the right to suspend or remove all shotgun privileges from one or more persons.
Special Cases
These special exceptions to the rules should be considered in the order presented; the case listed first will take precedence over any of the cases beneath it, when applicable.
1. In the instance that the normal driver of a vehicle is drunk or otherwise unable to perform their duties as driver, then he/she is automatically given Shotgun.
2. If the instance that the person who actually owns the vehicle is not driving, then he/she is automatically given Shotgun, unless they decline.
3. In the instance the the driver's spouse, lover, partner, or hired prostitute for the evening is going to accompany the group, he/she is automatically given Shotgun, unless they decline.
4. In the instance that one of the passengers may become so ill during the course of the journey that the other occupants feel he/she will toss their cookies, then the ill person should be given Shotgun to make appropriate use of the window.
5. In the instance that only one person knows how to get to a given location and this person is not the driver, then as the designated navigator for the group they automatically get Shotgun, unless they decline.
6. In the instance that one of the occupants is too wide or tall to fit comfortably in the back seat, then the driver may show mercy and award Shotgun to the genetic misfit. Alternatively, the driver and other passengers may continually taunt the poor fellow as they make a three hour trip with him crammed in the back.
The Survival of the Fittest Rule
1. If the driver so wishes, he/she may institute the Survival of the Fittest Rule on the process of calling Shotgun. In this case all rules are suspended and the passenger seat is occupied by whoever can take it by force.
2. The driver must announce the institution of the Survival of the Fittest Rule with reasonable warning to all passengers. This clause reduces the amount of blood lost by passengers and the damage done to the vehicle.
The most logical and economical solution to your problem is to start a cult and attract 10-15 monks who will spend their every waking hour recreating your precious technical documents in digital form.
He was definitely a cliché lunatic. If you consider someone who kills everyone on a commercial jet just to steal a brief case from one man on the plane, or cuts off part of his "trusted" sidekick's finger just for suspecting that his "girlfriend" is the enemy, not a lunatic, then you have some soul searching to do.
You don't understand, that's the wholepoint of DVD. The one Das Boot disc has both the subtitled version and the dubbed version and the original german version all on it. This is why DVD is so great, i have seen the DVD version of Das Boot and watched it dubbed in english with english subtitles on. It was real cool because they didn't parallel and I got to see two different versions of the German translation.
Finally they get something out of the investment..
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The Newton was truly an amazing device. Before anyone bashes it on the stereotypes that people had against it, realize that in the later versions the handwriting recognition was excellent, it had a 200mhz processor on a HANDHELD, was able to record sound, accept TWO PCMCIA cards, get on the internet, fax, print, infared connection between two Newtons, wireless printing, play sound, and many more things right out of the box.
Now also realize that the Newton 2100 (the last version) came out over 3 years ago. The main reason it wasn't successful was because of its large size and high price, but the thing was WAAAY ahead of its time, I can't see how anyone can deny that.
Aside from that, Apple just canned it when Jobs came on board, supposedly because Jobs just didn't like them. I'm not bitter about it, it was probably the right decision. Some people on here asked why Apple doesn't revive it, well the story goes that much of the design information for the newton OS and hardware is lost/scattered throughout the apple campus. Plus, the handwriting recognition is about the only thing that is transferrable to another product.
I don't really see why someone would want to write on the trackpad when they have a keyboard right there; except just to draw on the screen easily, but that is not handwriting recognition. It certainly adds to the coolness factor though.
Quake on the Newton was a hoax. All it was was a 1mb program with nothing in it. I remember it was a real big deal for about a day until no one could get the program to run. The handwriting recognition was almost definitely software, it was too dynamic to be hardware.
What is with slashdot and all the rumors lately? I come here for news not speculation. This is quickly turning into a rumor discussion forum. Is there not enough tech news to go around that they have to make up news? We do a lot of bashing on the "sensationalist" media here, and now this site is becoming sensationalized.
I realize slashdot and Macosrumors used to be (or still are?) affiliated with each other, but the slogan says News for Nerds not fun possible stories that might be coming in the tech industry...
I agree with you, cuz I submitted this Ars Technica article over a week ago, and it was rejected. If there was a system where everyone could see the rejects, interesting articles might not slip through.
How would there be any possible way to analyze the information? All it would be is data from the brain, the computer wouldn't be able to be you...unless we make some incredibly groundbreaking AI advancements (which is possible). IMHO opinion, this is just a fairy tale.
Why would you even want a copy of yourself alive? If you want a piece of yourself in this world, have some kids! The copy isn't YOU, it is just like having an identical twin alive after you die. Even if in some distant time this technology were to come true, I don't see the point in it, maybe we should ask RoboCop what he thinks of the idea...
The award they were given has almost nothing to do with the tech. they presented. From their description, the whole contest sounds somewhat bland and menial.
The only interesting thing is the fact that they wrote it for Amiga, though they really didnt have to use it. They said that the only reason Amiga was used was because the programmer had experience in that area, not because Amiga was much better for what they were doing.
Both UPS and FedEx have a few sorting stations throughout the country that ALL packages in that region go through, in this case the East. FedEx's main sorting complex, I believe, is in Memphis.
So if I sent a FedEx package from Pittsburg to Philadelphia via FedEx, it would go through memphis first. Obviously they have figured out that it is more cost effective to do it this way than to have hundreds of small sorting stations.
* The apple menu is stuck higeldy pigeldy in the middle part of the finder. This makes it a much harder target to aim for. Another thing changed from traditional Mac OS layout that decreases usability.
The Apple menu is in the same place it has always been, but now it is the Friendly Mac face menu. That Apple logo in the top middle is just a logo with no functionality. From what I have read, clicking on the mac face in the upper left is the same as clicking on the modern apple menu.
Also, in regard to your entire comment, the preview of Mac OS X was just that, a preview. OSX is still only in Developer releases, not even beta yet. It will probably change somewhat before the final version.
Sorry to raid on your little scent parade, but as far as I know, scents can't be patented/copyrighted...this is how all the knockoff companies stay in business.
There has to be exceptions to this theory that the brain is serial. I can think of one example, though it is not an every day one: It is said that Leonardo Da Vinci was able to write with both hands at the same time and in a different language with each hand. This may be somewhat of a myth and is far from provable, but if it is true than I would think that the brain has to be parallel.
I agree with one poster who said something about the brain being able to change from parallel to serial. Sometimes I find myself barely able to concentrate on any one thought, and other times I am able to think of several things at the same time (As in read a newspaper or do schoolwork while listening to the radio or carrying on a conversation).
Well, I can take a six year old 7100 (or 7something hundred, I'm not a mac trivia nut, but basically I know this can be done with a 6 year old mac) and put a G4 upgrade card in it, without swapping motherboards, only the chip. That was mainly what I was referring to. Most of the PowerPCs can be upgraded to the latest processor.
Everyone chill your nuts, I can picture apple loyalists going on murderous rampages, slaughtering helpless sheep and launching their innards at Apple HQ.
THIS IS A RUMOR! There is nothing announced yet, and no one outside of apple and its tight ring of beta testers has seen this machine yet. Also, one of the main selling lines in the past for Macs have been that they last 25% longer than wintel machines because of upgradeability. Why would they change this?
Most importantly people, look at the competing Mac rumors site Macosrumors.com, they claim that the boot rom is not on the daughtercard but on the mainboard as it should be, and it is all confused. Realize that these sites sensationalize and sometimes probably make up the rumors they post. They have seen all the commotion over the boot ROM patch and this site has found a way to stir it up even more and get hundreds of thousands of more hits by getting posted here on Slashdot.
To Rob - have we had enough Apple stories for one day?? I mean I love Apple but this is starting to become a little overkill. Also this story was a little out of line, it is a malicious rumor that is probably not true.
I think most of the people who feel that way aren't neccessarily jealous, but they are mad at the way he abuses his power and is so greedy.
I personally am mad because he has sooooo much damn money and what does he do with it? He just keeps buying up other companies and getting more power. Think of all the good that could be done with just half of his money.
If I had that kind of money I would be donating it and making the world a better place with it. What has he done? All I can see is he donated about $400million to put Windows PCs in some libraries. Who does that help? That is chump change to him, plus it is such a stupid cause when there are much more important problems in this country and the world than libraries with old computers.
He claims he will give his fortune away, but I don't see that happening.
I think people who were really into the first movie and saw it many times would not like this movie on a "whether it is a good movie basis" but will still enjoy the humor a lot. The big fans may have been expecting an original plot then see it and realize that it is essentially the same plot only backwards (goes back in time instead of forwards, and attacks from moon instead of center of the earth).
This leads big fans to not really enjoy it on a cinematic basis, but you have to realize that nearly EVERY little and big thing in this movie is a satire. The generic plot is making fun of the generic plots of the spy movies, so you really can't criticize it for that. The first one was more original because it was the first one. It is hard to use the same characters and still be original in the sequel.
I think the reason the star wars trilogy was so well recieved is because they didn't have VCR then and the fans couldn't buy the movie and watch it a million times then be disappointed when they saw the sequel because they had grown to love the the first or second one (you get the point). With this the fans have been watching the first movie so much and may be expecting so much (see: TPM) only to be let down by certain elements.
Think of it this way, if this movie had been the first one would you have liked Austin Powers as much? Personally, I thought this movie was funnier though it may not have the repeatability the first movie had.
Whether you like each character, can't really help that. I hated Fat Bastard, I thought he was extremely stupid and unneccesary, but Mini-Me was absolutely hilarious. Fat Bastard's only funny thing was "Get in my tummy!" (overplayed in the commercials).
Just try to look at the movie for how it was, and forget what you expected it to be. Movies are so much better when you know nothing about them going into it (why i hate critics).
I thought the movie was one of the funniest I have ever seen. It may have just been the laughing mood I was in, but I cracked up at nearly everything. There are so many small little Simpson-eque type jokes thrown in throughout the movie that you only really appreciate the second time you see it.
But, they missed a HUGE joke, which I was waiting for the entire "Shuttle" scene. I would think since the movie is all about England they would have gotten this, but why wasn't there a SHUTTLECOCK joke?
It kind of made me mad they didn't have one, but oh well. The movie was great and I highly reccomend it if you are in a jovial mood at the time.
like I said, all it needs is some maintanance, clear the cache, defrag the HD, reinstall windows every 6mos. etc. The same with the macs at the orginal poster's school. get some maintanence, and it would run much better.
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Speaking is overrated, I use AIM to IM my neighbor across the street and to IM my sister in the next room.
Who needs to speak? I look forward to the day when the telephone is abolished, the world will be much happier place to live; with nice IM chimes instead of phone rings, and plenty of carpal tunnel syndrome to go around.
It will be nice to have my whole social life right in front of me in the comfort of my room...it even glows in the dark...oh wait, I think that already happened.
I think Louis Armstrong sung it best, when he belted out, "Oh, what a wonderful world". You just can't beat that, not even with a techno bassline.
Yup, I looked it up one time and saw that it was a law firm, that's what makes it so much better. How stupid can they be to make a web site mofo.com though...I feel that they deserve my spam.
I use skank@mofo.com, and any spammers can blow me.
These were not mentioned in the link, and are posted in my car for passenger reference:
The driver has final say in all ties and disputes. The driver has the
right to suspend or remove all shotgun privileges from one or more
persons.
Special Cases
These special exceptions to the rules should be considered in the order
presented; the case listed first will take precedence over any of the
cases beneath it, when applicable.
1. In the instance that the normal driver of a vehicle is drunk or
otherwise unable to perform their duties as driver, then he/she is
automatically given Shotgun.
2. If the instance that the person who actually owns the vehicle is not
driving, then he/she is automatically given Shotgun, unless they decline.
3. In the instance the the driver's spouse, lover, partner, or hired
prostitute for the evening is going to accompany the group, he/she is
automatically given Shotgun, unless they decline.
4. In the instance that one of the passengers may become so ill during
the course of the journey that the other occupants feel he/she will toss
their cookies, then the ill person should be given Shotgun to make
appropriate use of the window.
5. In the instance that only one person knows how to get to a given
location and this person is not the driver, then as the designated
navigator for the group they automatically get Shotgun, unless they
decline.
6. In the instance that one of the occupants is too wide or tall to fit
comfortably in the back seat, then the driver may show mercy and award
Shotgun to the genetic misfit. Alternatively, the driver and other
passengers may continually taunt the poor fellow as they make a three
hour trip with him crammed in the back.
The Survival of the Fittest Rule
1. If the driver so wishes, he/she may institute the Survival of the
Fittest Rule on the process of calling Shotgun. In this case all rules
are suspended and the passenger seat is occupied by
whoever can take it by force.
2. The driver must announce the institution of the Survival of the
Fittest Rule with reasonable warning to all passengers.
This clause reduces the amount of blood lost by passengers and
the damage done to the vehicle.
The most logical and economical solution to your problem is to start a cult and attract 10-15 monks who will spend their every waking hour recreating your precious technical documents in digital form.
He was definitely a cliché lunatic. If you consider someone who kills everyone on a commercial jet just to steal a brief case from one man on the plane, or cuts off part of his "trusted" sidekick's finger just for suspecting that his "girlfriend" is the enemy, not a lunatic, then you have some soul searching to do.
You don't understand, that's the wholepoint of DVD. The one Das Boot disc has both the subtitled version and the dubbed version and the original german version all on it. This is why DVD is so great, i have seen the DVD version of Das Boot and watched it dubbed in english with english subtitles on. It was real cool because they didn't parallel and I got to see two different versions of the German translation.
The Newton was truly an amazing device. Before anyone bashes it on the stereotypes that people had against it, realize that in the later versions the handwriting recognition was excellent, it had a 200mhz processor on a HANDHELD, was able to record sound, accept TWO PCMCIA cards, get on the internet, fax, print, infared connection between two Newtons, wireless printing, play sound, and many more things right out of the box.
Now also realize that the Newton 2100 (the last version) came out over 3 years ago. The main reason it wasn't successful was because of its large size and high price, but the thing was WAAAY ahead of its time, I can't see how anyone can deny that.
Aside from that, Apple just canned it when Jobs came on board, supposedly because Jobs just didn't like them. I'm not bitter about it, it was probably the right decision. Some people on here asked why Apple doesn't revive it, well the story goes that much of the design information for the newton OS and hardware is lost/scattered throughout the apple campus. Plus, the handwriting recognition is about the only thing that is transferrable to another product.
I don't really see why someone would want to write on the trackpad when they have a keyboard right there; except just to draw on the screen easily, but that is not handwriting recognition. It certainly adds to the coolness factor though.
Quake on the Newton was a hoax. All it was was a 1mb program with nothing in it. I remember it was a real big deal for about a day until no one could get the program to run.
The handwriting recognition was almost definitely software, it was too dynamic to be hardware.
What is with slashdot and all the rumors lately? I come here for news not speculation. This is quickly turning into a rumor discussion forum. Is there not enough tech news to go around that they have to make up news? We do a lot of bashing on the "sensationalist" media here, and now this site is becoming sensationalized.
I realize slashdot and Macosrumors used to be (or still are?) affiliated with each other, but the slogan says News for Nerds not fun possible stories that might be coming in the tech industry...
I agree with you, cuz I submitted this Ars Technica article over a week ago, and it was rejected. If there was a system where everyone could see the rejects, interesting articles might not slip through.
How would there be any possible way to analyze the information? All it would be is data from the brain, the computer wouldn't be able to be you...unless we make some incredibly groundbreaking AI advancements (which is possible). IMHO opinion, this is just a fairy tale.
Why would you even want a copy of yourself alive? If you want a piece of yourself in this world, have some kids! The copy isn't YOU, it is just like having an identical twin alive after you die. Even if in some distant time this technology were to come true, I don't see the point in it, maybe we should ask RoboCop what he thinks of the idea...
The award they were given has almost nothing to do with the tech. they presented. From their description, the whole contest sounds somewhat bland and menial.
The only interesting thing is the fact that they wrote it for Amiga, though they really didnt have to use it. They said that the only reason Amiga was used was because the programmer had experience in that area, not because Amiga was much better for what they were doing.
Also, the Linux program was written using C++.
Both UPS and FedEx have a few sorting stations throughout the country that ALL packages in that region go through, in this case the East. FedEx's main sorting complex, I believe, is in Memphis.
So if I sent a FedEx package from Pittsburg to Philadelphia via FedEx, it would go through memphis first. Obviously they have figured out that it is more cost effective to do it this way than to have hundreds of small sorting stations.
I can just see it now, the "Cuban Cubane Crisis".
* The apple menu is stuck higeldy pigeldy in the
middle part of the finder. This makes it a much
harder target to aim for. Another thing changed
from traditional Mac OS layout that decreases
usability.
The Apple menu is in the same place it has always been, but now it is the Friendly Mac face menu. That Apple logo in the top middle is just a logo with no functionality. From what I have read, clicking on the mac face in the upper left is the same as clicking on the modern apple menu.
Also, in regard to your entire comment, the preview of Mac OS X was just that, a preview. OSX is still only in Developer releases, not even beta yet. It will probably change somewhat before the final version.
Sorry to raid on your little scent parade, but as far as I know, scents can't be patented/copyrighted...this is how all the knockoff companies stay in business.
There has to be exceptions to this theory that the brain is serial. I can think of one example, though it is not an every day one:
It is said that Leonardo Da Vinci was able to write with both hands at the same time and in a different language with each hand. This may be somewhat of a myth and is far from provable, but if it is true than I would think that the brain has to be parallel.
I agree with one poster who said something about the brain being able to change from parallel to serial. Sometimes I find myself barely able to concentrate on any one thought, and other times I am able to think of several things at the same time (As in read a newspaper or do schoolwork while listening to the radio or carrying on a conversation).
Well, I can take a six year old 7100 (or 7something hundred, I'm not a mac trivia nut, but basically I know this can be done with a 6 year old mac) and put a G4 upgrade card in it, without swapping motherboards, only the chip. That was mainly what I was referring to. Most of the PowerPCs can be upgraded to the latest processor.
Everyone chill your nuts, I can picture apple loyalists going on murderous rampages, slaughtering helpless sheep and launching their innards at Apple HQ.
THIS IS A RUMOR! There is nothing announced yet, and no one outside of apple and its tight ring of beta testers has seen this machine yet. Also, one of the main selling lines in the past for Macs have been that they last 25% longer than wintel machines because of upgradeability. Why would they change this?
Most importantly people, look at the competing Mac rumors site Macosrumors.com, they claim that the boot rom is not on the daughtercard but on the mainboard as it should be, and it is all confused. Realize that these sites sensationalize and sometimes probably make up the rumors they post. They have seen all the commotion over the boot ROM patch and this site has found a way to stir it up even more and get hundreds of thousands of more hits by getting posted here on Slashdot.
To Rob - have we had enough Apple stories for one day?? I mean I love Apple but this is starting to become a little overkill. Also this story was a little out of line, it is a malicious rumor that is probably not true.
I am pretty sure MS didn't invent their mice, they just manufacture them.
I think most of the people who feel that way aren't neccessarily jealous, but they are mad at the way he abuses his power and is so greedy.
I personally am mad because he has sooooo much damn money and what does he do with it? He just keeps buying up other companies and getting more power. Think of all the good that could be done with just half of his money.
If I had that kind of money I would be donating it and making the world a better place with it. What has he done? All I can see is he donated about $400million to put Windows PCs in some libraries. Who does that help? That is chump change to him, plus it is such a stupid cause when there are much more important problems in this country and the world than libraries with old computers.
He claims he will give his fortune away, but I don't see that happening.
I think people who were really into the first movie and saw it many times would not like this movie on a "whether it is a good movie basis" but will still enjoy the humor a lot. The big fans may have been expecting an original plot then see it and realize that it is essentially the same plot only backwards (goes back in time instead of forwards, and attacks from moon instead of center of the earth).
This leads big fans to not really enjoy it on a cinematic basis, but you have to realize that nearly EVERY little and big thing in this movie is a satire. The generic plot is making fun of the generic plots of the spy movies, so you really can't criticize it for that. The first one was more original because it was the first one. It is hard to use the same characters and still be original in the sequel.
I think the reason the star wars trilogy was so well recieved is because they didn't have VCR then and the fans couldn't buy the movie and watch it a million times then be disappointed when they saw the sequel because they had grown to love the the first or second one (you get the point). With this the fans have been watching the first movie so much and may be expecting so much (see: TPM) only to be let down by certain elements.
Think of it this way, if this movie had been the first one would you have liked Austin Powers as much? Personally, I thought this movie was funnier though it may not have the repeatability the first movie had.
Whether you like each character, can't really help that. I hated Fat Bastard, I thought he was extremely stupid and unneccesary, but Mini-Me was absolutely hilarious. Fat Bastard's only funny thing was "Get in my tummy!" (overplayed in the commercials).
Just try to look at the movie for how it was, and forget what you expected it to be. Movies are so much better when you know nothing about them going into it (why i hate critics).
I thought the movie was one of the funniest I have ever seen. It may have just been the laughing mood I was in, but I cracked up at nearly everything. There are so many small little Simpson-eque type jokes thrown in throughout the movie that you only really appreciate the second time you see it.
But, they missed a HUGE joke, which I was waiting for the entire "Shuttle" scene. I would think since the movie is all about England they would have gotten this, but why wasn't there a SHUTTLECOCK joke?
It kind of made me mad they didn't have one, but oh well. The movie was great and I highly reccomend it if you are in a jovial mood at the time.
like I said, all it needs is some maintanance, clear the cache, defrag the HD, reinstall windows every 6mos. etc. The same with the macs at the orginal poster's school. get some maintanence, and it would run much better.