"Terry, you have shown all the subtlety and restraint of somebody who sells dead trees for a living. Know that your pain shall be equalled only by my serenity."
I think that's the funniest thing I've read in the last year, bravo! In all seriousness, the CEO or Orange (Stéphane Richard) already hinted at video chat, so I doubt that Terry McGraw is first on "the list." Further, I don't think that either has spilled the beans in the way that ATI did in 2000 which made Apple kill all mention of ATI being in the G4 Cube...
The ".com" button is a big fat joke. It's a waste of valuable real estate that isn't even applicable most of the time.
If anything, it's a nice reminder of how awkward it is to type on that virtual keyboard.
Really? I guess you're entitled to your opinion. I'll admit that I was surprised the first time I saw it, but it's never gotten in my way. It takes the spot of the space and return buttons.
I just don't see how that button is irrelevant when you're typing in an email address or a HTTP address, it's a whole four characters. If you hold it down it lets you choose.net.edu or.org and that's 99% of the TLDs I visit. If anything, I think it's a good example of what a virtual keyboard can do.
Consistency doesn't necessarily mean "stays the same," it can mean "does the same thing, the same way." Take OXO Good Grips, for example. A different tool for every task, but the handles are always black and little squishy so even people who have never cored a pineapple know how to hold the tool.
If a UI changes to suit a task, that's ok. The UI in the iPhone is constantly changing, but a button shaped like an arrow pointing to the right always opens a sub-menu. Selecting a text box always brings up a keyboard. And it gets more specialized than that, but not more confusing. If you're typing in a field that expects an email address, you get a ".com" button. I haven't seen anyone look at the ".com" button and freak out.
If you think that gray market products are inherently trustworthy, and that it's safe for the FBI to buy product A and unknowingly use product B instead (even though it could turn out to be an exact duplicate of product A), then I don't have the time right now to explain how those link are relevant to the parent post.
Modding "Disagree" is censorship. A rational rebuttal makes Slashdot better.
Modding "Disagree" is not censorship. It's an important tool to safeguard other readers from thinking your post was anywhere near "Insightful." If you really thought the original post required citations, why not add them yourself? Or better yet, why not edit your post now that you have some. Maybe Slashdot should add a "Dangerously Ignorant" or "Falsely Claims that a Different Opinion Lacks Supporting Evidence" mod for posts like yours. If you really thought that a "rational rebuttal" would make Slashdot better, why didn't you do some trivial research before you posted?
I don't mean to troll, I'm really hoping that someone can explain what the point of all this worry is. Can Oracle really make MySQL not be free? It's my understanding that they could start charing people to buy or license MySQL from them, but that they can't stop people from taking the MySQL source code that's already available, and using it for whatever they want, including selling it. No matter how Oracle changes the licensing terms, or how many proprietary extensions Oracle adds, anyone should be able to take one of the old, freely released versions of MySQL, and sell it for money without Oracle being able to stop them. Even if MySQL is a trademarked name, the new seller would just have to use a different name. I really don't understand what Widenius is talking about.
AAC doesn't have built-in DRM. The encryption Apple used for AAC files sold via the iTunes store was a proprietary extension to the ISO/IEC AAC standard, if I understand correctly. VLC plays my AAC files, and the iTunes music store has been selling DRM-free AAC files for the better part of a year.
I'm going to put my jerk hat on and say that's 66 math problems, total. Each table of 144 entries is identical, and multiplication is commutative, so almost half of those 144 problems are identical to another problem in the table, i.e. once you have 4*6 you don't have to solve for 6*4.
I think that's the most valuable lesson you can learn from multiplication tables, that multiplication is commutative and that the answer to those problems don't change day-to-day.
I'm going to replace my jerk hat with my "feeling stupid" hat and say it's actually 78 problems.:-/
When I was in fourth grade, I had trouble learning my multiplication tables. So I had to write out from 1x1 to 12x12 (144 problems) 12 times a night. That's over a 1000 math problems a night in fourth grade!
I'm going to put my jerk hat on and say that's 66 math problems, total. Each table of 144 entries is identical, and multiplication is commutative, so almost half of those 144 problems are identical to another problem in the table, i.e. once you have 4*6 you don't have to solve for 6*4.
I think that's the most valuable lesson you can learn from multiplication tables, that multiplication is commutative and that the answer to those problems don't change day-to-day.
I may be uninformed, but shouldn't a hard drive with an accelerometer park its head without software notification? Shouldn't a battery tell the OS that it's fully charged without a special driver?
Religious tendencies change over time. I'm not on expert on genealogy, but apparently some of my ancestors left the catholic church after being stoned by their neighbors. They were originally married in a church, but it was later discovered that the building where they were married failed to be a church on some technical ground. It wasn't tall enough, IIRC. When their neighbors discovered that the church they were married had retroactively been downgraded to a regular building, meaning that my ancestors had retroactively been living in sin, they stoned them. Those ancestors escaped with their lives and switched to protestantism.
Also, I believe the Bible allows work on Sunday if it's of necessity, piety, or charity.
Do you want to discuss the topic, or attack the person?
Jhon, with all due respect, it doesn't seem like you want to discuss the topic. You trivialize the issue at hand by pointing out that gay people can still enter heterosexual marriage, and then you act offended and surprised when someone threatens online to punch you "the mean bean machine."
As for your question:
"How can something be taken away which really hasn't existed historically?"
The commenter you were responding to was asking about taking away Forge (2456)'s right to marriage, meaning his/her right to marry a heterosexual partner. That right has historically existed. Comparing a heterosexual who can't marry the person they love and a homosexual who can'y marry the person they love is a valid comparison.
Cursive handwriting, even good cursive handwriting, is much more difficult to read than printed text. If an individual can write faster in cursive, then good for them. I personally believe that the past popularity of cursive writing had more to do with the writing instruments that were used - quills and fountain pens - rather than speed of writing or attractiveness of script. Writing with a fountain pen is much easier (in my experience) when you don't take the tip off of the paper. When you lift a fountain pen off of the paper, ink starts to pool at the tip, when you start to write again, you get a big blot if you're not careful. I imagine that quills operate in the same way. Ballpoint pens don't have that disadvantage, although they do require the user to push down on the paper.
My mother was a professional calligrapher. Am I sorry that computers put her out of a job? No. I'm dysgraphic, thank you very much.
Good cursive handwriting today can be used to impress people, it's technically difficult and requires practice and a steady hand, but I don't think anyone should lament that it isn't being taught in most schools today. One of my girlfriend's coworkers can catch rabbits with his bare hands. It's impressive, but I don't think anyone is upset that we don't teach that in school. Besides, people are still using ham radios and Morse code, I'm sure that clubs and hobbyists will keep cursive writing alive.
Edit: Not learning enough HTML to fix Slashdot's comment system is something I do regret.
Just out of curiosity, how many of the iPhones that you see do you think are grey market iPhones and how many of them are shanzhai phones? This is something I've wondered because both types seem to be popular:
Also, what's the prevalence of WAPI vs WiFi near where you live and work? Wikipedia says that there's a "government preference" towards WAPI, but that it's not mandatory. Maybe the Chinese government wants it to be usable by state workers?
I never considered Itanium for a compile farm before, interesting. I can believe that it works well, I just have no idea how. Maybe that's because I don't know enough about compilers. Could it be related to the cache size?
Of course, anything beats the shit that is x86.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that. x86 may have inherited a lot of baggage, but there are a lot of really good x64 processors out there.
[...] Itanium (yeah, its still Intel, but has great performance) [...]
Does a VLIW processor with lots of cache really do well (in terms of transactions per Watt) compared to a non-VLIW processor for hosting web apps? My understanding was that Itanium chips were made on older processes because of their large die size, they need the lowest possible defect rate to get good yields. That hurts their performance / power. Also, I don't know if having a large amount of cache is cost effective for hosting web apps unless you're hosting the same content again and again, at least compared to having lots of RAM and fast memory access. Using power and transistors on cache doesn't seem like a good idea to me when you're serving that much data for random access requests. Also, I don't see how Instruction level parallelism would work for a web app that's as customizable as Facebook, because each user request will require a slightly different response.
I'd be interested in seeing Fujitsu chips enter the fray, I forgot to mention them in my post.
Well, Sun's Niagara 2 processor seems pretty good at number of network I/O operations per Watt. And if he doesn't like that, he can try IBM's Power6, although I hear it's better for floating-point than integer (relative to Intel and AMD's offerings.) If he doesn't like that, he can sell his company to Google and ask them to build servers for him.
"Urban Renewal" knocked down occupied buildings and stuffed people into substandard housing with terrible security, which was then poorly maintained. This new project knocks down unoccupied buildings (which are bad for property values and safety) and replaces them with grass.
I'll take the bait. The phrase "poacher turned gamekeeper" refers to someone who now protects the interests they previously attacked. Jeff Moss never (in public knowledge) attacked the security of the United States. He has exposed weaknesses in various security systems, but that's often considered helpful. It would be more like a naturalist with a BA in Criminal Justice turned gamekeeper.
maybe that's why we haven't seen much of him lately, hes been hard at work on a new iPancreas, which will not only produce insulin but will transmit blood sugar levels to his iPhone via bluetooth
Now they've brought up Anita Mathew from Lifescan (a Johnson and Johnson company). Please show the iPhone heart surgery app / hardware combo. No... just diabetes testing. This could be cool.
So true. Yuengling is great, Black and Tan is my favorite of the beers they brew. My personal list of other good American beers with fairly good distribution throughout the states:
- Widmer (from Oregon)
- Ithaca Beer Company's Apricot Wheat (from New York)
- Dale's Pale Ale (from Colorado)
- Brooklyn Lager (also from New York)
- Anything from Ommegang Brewery (New York again)
Widmer is a fantastic summer beer, Brooklyn Lager goes really well with hamburgers, Ommegang makes Three Philosophers which is my favorite American beer (although it's expensive).
Here's looking forward to the end of classes, cheers!
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"Terry, you have shown all the subtlety and restraint of somebody who sells dead trees for a living. Know that your pain shall be equalled only by my serenity."
I think that's the funniest thing I've read in the last year, bravo! In all seriousness, the CEO or Orange (Stéphane Richard) already hinted at video chat, so I doubt that Terry McGraw is first on "the list." Further, I don't think that either has spilled the beans in the way that ATI did in 2000 which made Apple kill all mention of ATI being in the G4 Cube...
The ".com" button is a big fat joke. It's a waste of valuable real estate that isn't even applicable most of the time.
If anything, it's a nice reminder of how awkward it is to type on that virtual keyboard.
Really? I guess you're entitled to your opinion. I'll admit that I was surprised the first time I saw it, but it's never gotten in my way. It takes the spot of the space and return buttons.
I just don't see how that button is irrelevant when you're typing in an email address or a HTTP address, it's a whole four characters. If you hold it down it lets you choose .net .edu or .org and that's 99% of the TLDs I visit. If anything, I think it's a good example of what a virtual keyboard can do.
Consistency doesn't necessarily mean "stays the same," it can mean "does the same thing, the same way." Take OXO Good Grips, for example. A different tool for every task, but the handles are always black and little squishy so even people who have never cored a pineapple know how to hold the tool.
If a UI changes to suit a task, that's ok. The UI in the iPhone is constantly changing, but a button shaped like an arrow pointing to the right always opens a sub-menu. Selecting a text box always brings up a keyboard. And it gets more specialized than that, but not more confusing. If you're typing in a field that expects an email address, you get a ".com" button. I haven't seen anyone look at the ".com" button and freak out.
At least Hulu let's you choose "like" or "dislike" for ads. I find that if I choose "dislike" enough time for an ad, it stops coming up.
If you think that gray market products are inherently trustworthy, and that it's safe for the FBI to buy product A and unknowingly use product B instead (even though it could turn out to be an exact duplicate of product A), then I don't have the time right now to explain how those link are relevant to the parent post.
Citation needed.
Slashdot | Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese Cisco Gear
Slashdot | FBI Says Military Had Counterfeit Cisco Routers
Modding "Disagree" is censorship. A rational rebuttal makes Slashdot better.
Modding "Disagree" is not censorship. It's an important tool to safeguard other readers from thinking your post was anywhere near "Insightful." If you really thought the original post required citations, why not add them yourself? Or better yet, why not edit your post now that you have some. Maybe Slashdot should add a "Dangerously Ignorant" or "Falsely Claims that a Different Opinion Lacks Supporting Evidence" mod for posts like yours. If you really thought that a "rational rebuttal" would make Slashdot better, why didn't you do some trivial research before you posted?
I don't mean to troll, I'm really hoping that someone can explain what the point of all this worry is. Can Oracle really make MySQL not be free? It's my understanding that they could start charing people to buy or license MySQL from them, but that they can't stop people from taking the MySQL source code that's already available, and using it for whatever they want, including selling it. No matter how Oracle changes the licensing terms, or how many proprietary extensions Oracle adds, anyone should be able to take one of the old, freely released versions of MySQL, and sell it for money without Oracle being able to stop them. Even if MySQL is a trademarked name, the new seller would just have to use a different name. I really don't understand what Widenius is talking about.
AAC doesn't have built-in DRM. The encryption Apple used for AAC files sold via the iTunes store was a proprietary extension to the ISO/IEC AAC standard, if I understand correctly. VLC plays my AAC files, and the iTunes music store has been selling DRM-free AAC files for the better part of a year.
I'm going to put my jerk hat on and say that's 66 math problems, total. Each table of 144 entries is identical, and multiplication is commutative, so almost half of those 144 problems are identical to another problem in the table, i.e. once you have 4*6 you don't have to solve for 6*4.
I think that's the most valuable lesson you can learn from multiplication tables, that multiplication is commutative and that the answer to those problems don't change day-to-day.
I'm going to replace my jerk hat with my "feeling stupid" hat and say it's actually 78 problems. :-/
When I was in fourth grade, I had trouble learning my multiplication tables. So I had to write out from 1x1 to 12x12 (144 problems) 12 times a night. That's over a 1000 math problems a night in fourth grade!
I'm going to put my jerk hat on and say that's 66 math problems, total. Each table of 144 entries is identical, and multiplication is commutative, so almost half of those 144 problems are identical to another problem in the table, i.e. once you have 4*6 you don't have to solve for 6*4.
I think that's the most valuable lesson you can learn from multiplication tables, that multiplication is commutative and that the answer to those problems don't change day-to-day.
I may be uninformed, but shouldn't a hard drive with an accelerometer park its head without software notification? Shouldn't a battery tell the OS that it's fully charged without a special driver?
Religious tendencies change over time. I'm not on expert on genealogy, but apparently some of my ancestors left the catholic church after being stoned by their neighbors. They were originally married in a church, but it was later discovered that the building where they were married failed to be a church on some technical ground. It wasn't tall enough, IIRC. When their neighbors discovered that the church they were married had retroactively been downgraded to a regular building, meaning that my ancestors had retroactively been living in sin, they stoned them. Those ancestors escaped with their lives and switched to protestantism.
Also, I believe the Bible allows work on Sunday if it's of necessity, piety, or charity.
Do you want to discuss the topic, or attack the person?
Jhon, with all due respect, it doesn't seem like you want to discuss the topic. You trivialize the issue at hand by pointing out that gay people can still enter heterosexual marriage, and then you act offended and surprised when someone threatens online to punch you "the mean bean machine."
As for your question:
"How can something be taken away which really hasn't existed historically?"
The commenter you were responding to was asking about taking away Forge (2456)'s right to marriage, meaning his/her right to marry a heterosexual partner. That right has historically existed. Comparing a heterosexual who can't marry the person they love and a homosexual who can'y marry the person they love is a valid comparison.
Be careful, the warranty is void after any "jailbreaking" - http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/miscellaneous/a09b/
Cursive handwriting, even good cursive handwriting, is much more difficult to read than printed text. If an individual can write faster in cursive, then good for them. I personally believe that the past popularity of cursive writing had more to do with the writing instruments that were used - quills and fountain pens - rather than speed of writing or attractiveness of script. Writing with a fountain pen is much easier (in my experience) when you don't take the tip off of the paper. When you lift a fountain pen off of the paper, ink starts to pool at the tip, when you start to write again, you get a big blot if you're not careful. I imagine that quills operate in the same way. Ballpoint pens don't have that disadvantage, although they do require the user to push down on the paper.
My mother was a professional calligrapher. Am I sorry that computers put her out of a job? No. I'm dysgraphic, thank you very much.
Good cursive handwriting today can be used to impress people, it's technically difficult and requires practice and a steady hand, but I don't think anyone should lament that it isn't being taught in most schools today. One of my girlfriend's coworkers can catch rabbits with his bare hands. It's impressive, but I don't think anyone is upset that we don't teach that in school. Besides, people are still using ham radios and Morse code, I'm sure that clubs and hobbyists will keep cursive writing alive.
Edit: Not learning enough HTML to fix Slashdot's comment system is something I do regret.
Just out of curiosity, how many of the iPhones that you see do you think are grey market iPhones and how many of them are shanzhai phones? This is something I've wondered because both types seem to be popular:
After China Ships Out iPhones, Smugglers Make It a Return Trip
In China, Knockoff Cellphones Are a Hit
Also, what's the prevalence of WAPI vs WiFi near where you live and work? Wikipedia says that there's a "government preference" towards WAPI, but that it's not mandatory. Maybe the Chinese government wants it to be usable by state workers?
Of course, anything beats the shit that is x86.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that. x86 may have inherited a lot of baggage, but there are a lot of really good x64 processors out there.
[...] Itanium (yeah, its still Intel, but has great performance) [...]
Does a VLIW processor with lots of cache really do well (in terms of transactions per Watt) compared to a non-VLIW processor for hosting web apps? My understanding was that Itanium chips were made on older processes because of their large die size, they need the lowest possible defect rate to get good yields. That hurts their performance / power. Also, I don't know if having a large amount of cache is cost effective for hosting web apps unless you're hosting the same content again and again, at least compared to having lots of RAM and fast memory access. Using power and transistors on cache doesn't seem like a good idea to me when you're serving that much data for random access requests. Also, I don't see how Instruction level parallelism would work for a web app that's as customizable as Facebook, because each user request will require a slightly different response. I'd be interested in seeing Fujitsu chips enter the fray, I forgot to mention them in my post.
Well, Sun's Niagara 2 processor seems pretty good at number of network I/O operations per Watt. And if he doesn't like that, he can try IBM's Power6, although I hear it's better for floating-point than integer (relative to Intel and AMD's offerings.) If he doesn't like that, he can sell his company to Google and ask them to build servers for him.
"Urban Renewal" knocked down occupied buildings and stuffed people into substandard housing with terrible security, which was then poorly maintained. This new project knocks down unoccupied buildings (which are bad for property values and safety) and replaces them with grass.
I'll take the bait. The phrase "poacher turned gamekeeper" refers to someone who now protects the interests they previously attacked. Jeff Moss never (in public knowledge) attacked the security of the United States. He has exposed weaknesses in various security systems, but that's often considered helpful. It would be more like a naturalist with a BA in Criminal Justice turned gamekeeper.
Well, can't beat that... ... unless you jailbreak the iPhone.
Happy hacking!
maybe that's why we haven't seen much of him lately, hes been hard at work on a new iPancreas, which will not only produce insulin but will transmit blood sugar levels to his iPhone via bluetooth
I know you're being funny, but they really did make an app that does that. From: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/live-from-apples-iphone-os-3-0-preview-event/
Now they've brought up Anita Mathew from Lifescan (a Johnson and Johnson company). Please show the iPhone heart surgery app / hardware combo. No... just diabetes testing. This could be cool.
So true. Yuengling is great, Black and Tan is my favorite of the beers they brew. My personal list of other good American beers with fairly good distribution throughout the states:
- Widmer (from Oregon)
- Ithaca Beer Company's Apricot Wheat (from New York)
- Dale's Pale Ale (from Colorado)
- Brooklyn Lager (also from New York)
- Anything from Ommegang Brewery (New York again)
Widmer is a fantastic summer beer, Brooklyn Lager goes really well with hamburgers, Ommegang makes Three Philosophers which is my favorite American beer (although it's expensive).
Here's looking forward to the end of classes, cheers!
The Belgians brew the best beer in the world.
Agreed! Gulden Draak is my personal favorite.