Still doesn't work for me. I picked a sweater at random - the left side of the frame is an oversized blank that should probably have a picture. Pulldown fields are hidden, can't see the picture, etc.
Maybe I should try "export HOME=$HOME/emptySpot firefox" and see if it's my settings.
I get overlays that go right over the pulldowns to select size, color, etc. It displays, but is unusable for ordering - or at least it was a month or two ago. Did you just look, or did you try to go into the detail selection process for an item?
I have the standalone game, and have tried on and off to get it running under WINE. Never success, but varying degrees and types of failure, and I was hoping for maybe one of these days. A native version will obviously be better, and I know that members of the Uru crowd have been asking for this.
Uru is my last reason to dual-boot Windows. The Eddie Bauer website doesn't format/view under Linux, but does work OK under WINE. (My wife's need for Windows)
We also tend to be blinded by the "black holes are utterly massive!" meme. If the LHC achieves a black hole, it'll be because a whole lot of energy is squeezed into an incredibly tiny space. But remember that practically all of the mass going into that black hole came out of the European electric grid. We're not even talking asteroidal, moon, or Death Star mass, here. I don't really know, but I doubt if we've even created any sort of macroscopic mass, here. Maybe a dust mote? E=mc2 can be a real sonofagun, sometimes.
I read one article suggesting that even if a black hole was formed, it would be so small that Hawking radiation would cause it to evaporate before it even had a chance to leave the beam, much less interact with any solid matter. The only evidence that it had ever existed would be a peculiar shower of particles caused by it's "death." The author was looking forward to the search.
So you're really saying that China has *bought* all of that data we generated, and we're not delivering in a timely fashion, so they're simply collecting it on their own.
Unfortunately I tend to think of it as "Beater Eff Exx". You know, like the old car you drive in the winter, so your good car never gets near the road salt. Of course for some of us, our good summer car is a beater, too.
Russia may not be the target, or planned aggressors that an ABM is meant to to guard against, but placing them in Poland sure makes it seem that way.
Beyond that, especially as far as it goes with Russia, impressions are more important than facts, and we have played right into the hands of the Russian hyper-nationalist wing. They have regained the power they lost with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, if not the territory - yet.
I would argue that the ABM - at least for the defense of US territory - is largely a boondoggle. As for Islamic terrorists getting some sort of nuclear weapon, either a bomb or polluting device, it's far more likely to be smuggled in. Any sort if ICBM is the least likely delivery vehicle - ships, trucks, and vans being the most likely. An ABM against Russia or China is likely to be overwhelmed by sheer quantity of attacking missiles, not to mention submarine-delivered devices. About the only thing the ABM is good for is protecting the US from North Korea, or protecting Israel.
One funny thing about ICBMs - for anything but submarine launched, the point of origin becomes well-known immediately, and subject to retaliation.
I thought lace cards were what you stuck in the decks of other people in the computer lab, not your own. Kind of like "How many med students does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
Caveat: I have done real work with punch cards, I even made a lace card for the fun of it, and to see how fragile it was. But I have never stuck such a card anywhere where it could be fed into a reader.
One of the biggest powers of the President is to project an image, wielding the bully pulpit - and Obama is already doing that. Incidentally, that simple part has already bought us a pile of good will in the rest of the world, without spending a cent of eating a single helping of crow or humble pie.
As for real power, you're right. But come on, who in the/. audience doesn't appreciate things virtual, including virtual power?
I would suggest that at least in the case of Russia, W did far from nothing. Practically the day after taking office, the focus of the State Department became getting out of the ABM treaty, so we could begin deployment of Star Wars leftovers. That went a long way to restarting the Cold War by lending credence to the hyper-nationalistic forces backing Putin. We've barely missed going toe-to-toe again, but from what I can see, the Cold War is very nearly back.
As a plus, while the State Department was fully focused on the ABM treaty, we turned an utterly and completely blind eye to the Middle East and Islamic world in general. What little information tried to like in - little reports like, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in US," were forcefully neglected.
Sheer waste. Obviously the land should have been privatized, and the whole job could have been done much cheaper and more effectively by business. Heck, had Haliburton been in charge of the Manhattan Project, the Bomb would have been ready in time to use against Hitler. Just imagine if we had put Wall Street Wonders like Bear Sterns and Merrill Lynch in charge of retirement plans - workers could be retiring like kings.
(Sarcasm alert, because on/. sometimes it seems necessary to telegraph such intent. Whooooosh!)
I once heard that the design of the automotive airbag was a similar "propping up" for those same companies, as part of the "peace dividend." The way I heard it, the ordinance in an airbag is basically solid rocket fuel, and it's rather nasty as it comes out, so they put it through a chemical drier to clean it up.
The way I hear it, replacement airbags cost in the $1500-$3000 range, and frequently an airbag deployment becomes reason to total a vehicle. Oh, plus many of those replacement airbags are also non-functional fakes, because the high cost means high fraud potential.
They also finally added the extra capacity, so now with a larger crew, perhaps a little science can happen as well as maintenance. I still maintain that the ISS is a valuable engineering exercise. We're never going to build and run something larger and/or more sophisticated without going through what we're doing with the ISS.
I quit after the last Moore, but probably more circumstances than anything else. I've seen snatches of Dalton and Brosnan as they're on TV, but never really watched any of them - until yesterday.
I just saw it yesterday, without having seen Casino Royale. (The new one, that is. I've seen the David Niven/Woody Allen farce.) The action was very thick, but there was a plot in there, you just had to really be paying attention to ferret it out.
All in all, I liked it better than the later Roger Moore Bond films. By that time he seemed to be mugging and smirking his way through the films, laughing all the way to the bank. This film was very dark, any hint of humor would have gotten shot, thrown out of the vehicle, and blown up immediately, but I still rather liked it.
I thought "Quantum of Solace" referred to the tiniest amount of relief from his grief after the last movie. But I would have sworn I heard a few references to "Quantum" as an organization, and saw a few flashes of "Q" logo. I don't know if it was a hint, something I needed to see Casino to understand, or a changed direction that wasn't completely removed.
Speaking of which, (incompletely removed change of direction) don't forget that they're making, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" into a movie, as well as Ridley Scott doing "The Forever War." I've heard that in the latter, he wants to emphasize the lost feeling or returning home to a changed world, after losing time to relativistic travel.
In fact, in the Greg Egan book the growing false vacuum was merely annoying, as it had swallowed several start systems, including evacuated planets, in a few hundred years. They were getting worried for the long run, however.
Your answer bears more resemblance to one of the commenting scientists in the Haldeman book, "It'll damp out within a third of a light-year or so, so it's no problem to the universe. Of course Earth is another matter." OK, so producing a false vacuum isn't a major threat on the galactic scale of things. But someone producing one on Earth would just plain ruin my day - in much less than a second.
"Saga of Cuckoo", by Frederik Pohl. Their interstellar transportation was essentially by replicator. Though not the main plot point, littering duplicates across the galaxy helped to create some twists.
> We bash MS because they took 5 years to produce an OS that for most people, > isn't an upgrade. Sure there are some nice features, but for the We bash MS > because they took 5 years to produce an OS that for most people, isn't an > upgrade. Sure there are some nice features, but for the average user, most > of the changes were cosmetic. Other changes actually were not beneficial. > More DRM. Shifting security to the user by having them approve everything? > And MS wasn't very honest about what the real requirements were.average > user, most of the changes were cosmetic. Other changes actually were not > beneficial. More DRM. Shifting security to the user by having them approve > everything? And MS wasn't very honest about what the real requirements were.
That's all true, but it's really only part of the problem. Another essence of the whole thing came in several levels up in this thread, and that's *cheap* computers. What has really happened in the marketplace is that practically ALL of the value in today's computer is focused in 2 places, Intel (FAR more profitable than AMD) processors and Microsoft operating systems. Practically every other piece of the computer has been forced into commodity status, except these two. In fact, the profit situation is SO bad that PCs practically aren't profitable at all, until you get the advertising kickbacks from "Intel Inside" and "Designed for Microsoft Windows" stickers, or those 4 musical notes at the end of commercials.
So monopoly power allows 2 companies whose contributions probably should be commodities to prevent them from becoming so - but it makes for an artificially twisted marketplace. When you consider the the Operating System should probably be an "invisible" way to get to applications, it makes things especially twisted. In order to get people to pony up for upgrade after upgrade, Microsoft has to change enough to make them think it's worthwhile, yet at the same time change for the sake of change is counter to the fundamentals of how an OS should be.
I think you're reading more into Dr. A. than was there. The Foundation Trilogy was written in the WWII era, when the current rage was big, hulking assemblies of steel with lots of organic (men) moving parts. When he started up again, the new rage was miniaturization.
He was just writing in his culture, advancing it as necessary for the future.
One book I read had a starship that was a flat plate. Period. The extruded stuff out of it as necessary for chairs, tables, etc. The plate moved itself, the people stood on the plate, the substance of the plate adapted to the needs of the people.
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Still doesn't work for me. I picked a sweater at random - the left side of the frame is an oversized blank that should probably have a picture. Pulldown fields are hidden, can't see the picture, etc.
Maybe I should try "export HOME=$HOME/emptySpot firefox" and see if it's my settings.
I get overlays that go right over the pulldowns to select size, color, etc. It displays, but is unusable for ordering - or at least it was a month or two ago. Did you just look, or did you try to go into the detail selection process for an item?
I have the standalone game, and have tried on and off to get it running under WINE. Never success, but varying degrees and types of failure, and I was hoping for maybe one of these days. A native version will obviously be better, and I know that members of the Uru crowd have been asking for this.
Uru is my last reason to dual-boot Windows.
The Eddie Bauer website doesn't format/view under Linux, but does work OK under WINE. (My wife's need for Windows)
We also tend to be blinded by the "black holes are utterly massive!" meme. If the LHC achieves a black hole, it'll be because a whole lot of energy is squeezed into an incredibly tiny space. But remember that practically all of the mass going into that black hole came out of the European electric grid. We're not even talking asteroidal, moon, or Death Star mass, here. I don't really know, but I doubt if we've even created any sort of macroscopic mass, here. Maybe a dust mote? E=mc2 can be a real sonofagun, sometimes.
(obscure reference - see how many get it)
I read one article suggesting that even if a black hole was formed, it would be so small that Hawking radiation would cause it to evaporate before it even had a chance to leave the beam, much less interact with any solid matter. The only evidence that it had ever existed would be a peculiar shower of particles caused by it's "death." The author was looking forward to the search.
> Instead, try blaming the people who made the whole thing necessary in the first place.
We will, as soon as we quit shoveling money at them.
So you're really saying that China has *bought* all of that data we generated, and we're not delivering in a timely fashion, so they're simply collecting it on their own.
Unfortunately I tend to think of it as "Beater Eff Exx". You know, like the old car you drive in the winter, so your good car never gets near the road salt. Of course for some of us, our good summer car is a beater, too.
What's ABL? Haven't heard of that one.
Russia may not be the target, or planned aggressors that an ABM is meant to to guard against, but placing them in Poland sure makes it seem that way.
Beyond that, especially as far as it goes with Russia, impressions are more important than facts, and we have played right into the hands of the Russian hyper-nationalist wing. They have regained the power they lost with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, if not the territory - yet.
I would argue that the ABM - at least for the defense of US territory - is largely a boondoggle. As for Islamic terrorists getting some sort of nuclear weapon, either a bomb or polluting device, it's far more likely to be smuggled in. Any sort if ICBM is the least likely delivery vehicle - ships, trucks, and vans being the most likely. An ABM against Russia or China is likely to be overwhelmed by sheer quantity of attacking missiles, not to mention submarine-delivered devices. About the only thing the ABM is good for is protecting the US from North Korea, or protecting Israel.
One funny thing about ICBMs - for anything but submarine launched, the point of origin becomes well-known immediately, and subject to retaliation.
> Reading a lace card was a real dicey test.
I thought lace cards were what you stuck in the decks of other people in the computer lab, not your own. Kind of like "How many med students does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
Caveat: I have done real work with punch cards, I even made a lace card for the fun of it, and to see how fragile it was. But I have never stuck such a card anywhere where it could be fed into a reader.
One of the biggest powers of the President is to project an image, wielding the bully pulpit - and Obama is already doing that. Incidentally, that simple part has already bought us a pile of good will in the rest of the world, without spending a cent of eating a single helping of crow or humble pie.
As for real power, you're right. But come on, who in the /. audience doesn't appreciate things virtual, including virtual power?
I would suggest that at least in the case of Russia, W did far from nothing. Practically the day after taking office, the focus of the State Department became getting out of the ABM treaty, so we could begin deployment of Star Wars leftovers. That went a long way to restarting the Cold War by lending credence to the hyper-nationalistic forces backing Putin. We've barely missed going toe-to-toe again, but from what I can see, the Cold War is very nearly back.
As a plus, while the State Department was fully focused on the ABM treaty, we turned an utterly and completely blind eye to the Middle East and Islamic world in general. What little information tried to like in - little reports like, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in US," were forcefully neglected.
After all, everything I don't think is important is worthless pork.
Sheer waste. Obviously the land should have been privatized, and the whole job could have been done much cheaper and more effectively by business. Heck, had Haliburton been in charge of the Manhattan Project, the Bomb would have been ready in time to use against Hitler. Just imagine if we had put Wall Street Wonders like Bear Sterns and Merrill Lynch in charge of retirement plans - workers could be retiring like kings.
(Sarcasm alert, because on /. sometimes it seems necessary to telegraph such intent. Whooooosh!)
I once heard that the design of the automotive airbag was a similar "propping up" for those same companies, as part of the "peace dividend." The way I heard it, the ordinance in an airbag is basically solid rocket fuel, and it's rather nasty as it comes out, so they put it through a chemical drier to clean it up.
The way I hear it, replacement airbags cost in the $1500-$3000 range, and frequently an airbag deployment becomes reason to total a vehicle. Oh, plus many of those replacement airbags are also non-functional fakes, because the high cost means high fraud potential.
They also finally added the extra capacity, so now with a larger crew, perhaps a little science can happen as well as maintenance. I still maintain that the ISS is a valuable engineering exercise. We're never going to build and run something larger and/or more sophisticated without going through what we're doing with the ISS.
I quit after the last Moore, but probably more circumstances than anything else. I've seen snatches of Dalton and Brosnan as they're on TV, but never really watched any of them - until yesterday.
I just saw it yesterday, without having seen Casino Royale. (The new one, that is. I've seen the David Niven/Woody Allen farce.) The action was very thick, but there was a plot in there, you just had to really be paying attention to ferret it out.
All in all, I liked it better than the later Roger Moore Bond films. By that time he seemed to be mugging and smirking his way through the films, laughing all the way to the bank. This film was very dark, any hint of humor would have gotten shot, thrown out of the vehicle, and blown up immediately, but I still rather liked it.
I thought "Quantum of Solace" referred to the tiniest amount of relief from his grief after the last movie. But I would have sworn I heard a few references to "Quantum" as an organization, and saw a few flashes of "Q" logo. I don't know if it was a hint, something I needed to see Casino to understand, or a changed direction that wasn't completely removed.
Speaking of which, (incompletely removed change of direction) don't forget that they're making, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" into a movie, as well as Ridley Scott doing "The Forever War." I've heard that in the latter, he wants to emphasize the lost feeling or returning home to a changed world, after losing time to relativistic travel.
In fact, in the Greg Egan book the growing false vacuum was merely annoying, as it had swallowed several start systems, including evacuated planets, in a few hundred years. They were getting worried for the long run, however.
Your answer bears more resemblance to one of the commenting scientists in the Haldeman book, "It'll damp out within a third of a light-year or so, so it's no problem to the universe. Of course Earth is another matter." OK, so producing a false vacuum isn't a major threat on the galactic scale of things. But someone producing one on Earth would just plain ruin my day - in much less than a second.
"Saga of Cuckoo", by Frederik Pohl. Their interstellar transportation was essentially by replicator. Though not the main plot point, littering duplicates across the galaxy helped to create some twists.
> We bash MS because they took 5 years to produce an OS that for most people,
> isn't an upgrade. Sure there are some nice features, but for the We bash MS
> because they took 5 years to produce an OS that for most people, isn't an
> upgrade. Sure there are some nice features, but for the average user, most
> of the changes were cosmetic. Other changes actually were not beneficial.
> More DRM. Shifting security to the user by having them approve everything?
> And MS wasn't very honest about what the real requirements were.average
> user, most of the changes were cosmetic. Other changes actually were not
> beneficial. More DRM. Shifting security to the user by having them approve
> everything? And MS wasn't very honest about what the real requirements were.
That's all true, but it's really only part of the problem. Another essence of the whole thing came in several levels up in this thread, and that's *cheap* computers. What has really happened in the marketplace is that practically ALL of the value in today's computer is focused in 2 places, Intel (FAR more profitable than AMD) processors and Microsoft operating systems. Practically every other piece of the computer has been forced into commodity status, except these two. In fact, the profit situation is SO bad that PCs practically aren't profitable at all, until you get the advertising kickbacks from "Intel Inside" and "Designed for Microsoft Windows" stickers, or those 4 musical notes at the end of commercials.
So monopoly power allows 2 companies whose contributions probably should be commodities to prevent them from becoming so - but it makes for an artificially twisted marketplace. When you consider the the Operating System should probably be an "invisible" way to get to applications, it makes things especially twisted. In order to get people to pony up for upgrade after upgrade, Microsoft has to change enough to make them think it's worthwhile, yet at the same time change for the sake of change is counter to the fundamentals of how an OS should be.
Not worth the cost.
Not worth the trouble.
Not worth the worry.
Planet's better off without 'em.
I think you're reading more into Dr. A. than was there. The Foundation Trilogy was written in the WWII era, when the current rage was big, hulking assemblies of steel with lots of organic (men) moving parts. When he started up again, the new rage was miniaturization.
He was just writing in his culture, advancing it as necessary for the future.
One book I read had a starship that was a flat plate. Period. The extruded stuff out of it as necessary for chairs, tables, etc. The plate moved itself, the people stood on the plate, the substance of the plate adapted to the needs of the people.