An interesting application for this would be for printable coupons. You get a piece of this paper in the mail with some sort of promotion. The instructions tell you feed the paper into your printer and visit a certain URL to print a "special one day only" coupon.
Why would anyone choose to do so, rather than print the coupon on a regular piece of paper?
Furthermore, it would be far cheaper and easier for every party to simply print an expiration date. I guess it's a novel gimmick idea, though.
Maybe they should have built their systems near a deep lake, and instead of paying ridiculous prices for AC, they could just pump water from the lake and circulate it.
Right, I mean who cares about the environmental implications of trashing lakes for our fickle cooling purposes, after all!
The water at the bottom of lakes is always around 4C
...for presumptuously optimistic values of "always".
From the sound of things, I'd guess it's not an engineering failure so much as a management failure. [...] Or when an engineer refuses to sign off on an incomplete or incorrect design, the manager brings in a new graduate because they're more "cooperative" (read: will sign anything to get a paycheck).
To me you just described an engineering failure (i.e. the "cooperative new grad" made a failure of judgment unbecoming of a qualified engineer).
Clearly, slashdot editors aren't much into photography. First of all, even a toddler knows that the sensor is worthless (no matter its esoteria or expense) if the lenses in front of it are garbage. Secondly, the idea of CMOS isn't new; Canon has been using them for quite awhile now (e.g. 350D).
If I were Apple Corp, I would start selling the new "Apple Macintosh" online.
It would be interesting to see how Apple Computer responds to that, since they haven't sold a product with "Macintosh" in the name for many years. (PowerMac, iMac, PowerBook... the last "Macintosh" I can think of is the beige 1997-era Power Macintosh G3).
(I realise that by "Apple Corp" you mean "Apple Corps")
No, really, who cares? Are there people clamoring to get their hands on this new OS ASAP (WTF BBQ) and who will be extremely put out if it is not available until later on in the future? My question for these people is: what will this new OS do for you that isn't true right now?
And as a side note, I am really bloody tired of reading stories about things that "analysts" think. "Joe Analyst issues a note to Judy Analyst, under the table, in the back of the classroom. Investors giggled to themselves and rubbed their index fingers together..."
And everyone complains (often rightfully so) about open-source projects coming up with stupid names. Well, such insight is obviously not limited to non-commercial enterprises!
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I see what you're trying to say, but it still doesn't really hold water. Just because Macs can run Windows doesn't mean they will. Your argument shows the software developer trying to dictate the behaviour of the customer ("run Windows on your Mac"). That's about akin to saying today "go buy a cheap PC". User still has to buy Windows, still has to run Windows.
Are you retarded? Like, all those other 5% were just waiting for an easy way to install WIndows on their Mac hardware because they couldn't stand the Mac OS yet inexplicably did not think to simply purchase cheaper wintel hardware.
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Critical functionality, like running the fans etc., should not depend on the operating system.
And they do?
If the OS can influence the behavior of such hardware functionality, there should be smart failsafe mechanisms.
And there aren't?
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An interesting application for this would be for printable coupons. You get a piece of this paper in the mail with some sort of promotion. The instructions tell you feed the paper into your printer and visit a certain URL to print a "special one day only" coupon.
Why would anyone choose to do so, rather than print the coupon on a regular piece of paper?
Furthermore, it would be far cheaper and easier for every party to simply print an expiration date. I guess it's a novel gimmick idea, though.
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Although all their technology page says is that this alleged free energy solution has to do with magnets. Not much else.
Maybe the manufacture of this "company" is part of a subversive publicity campaign for the upcoming season of Lost...
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Isn't a parentheses one of these ( )?
And aren't these " " called quotation marks?
Pretty close... one of those curved things is a parenthesis. Two of them are parentheses. Your thinking is in the right place though.
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just a bridge in whatever continent Hungaria is in.
Is Taco being funny here or truly demonstrating an offensive ignorance of world political geography?
I guess the joke is on me since I can't tell. (Slashdot "quality" these days...)
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...uh, no, they "typo-squatted" all of the .cm domain space.
Sure, "cm" is similar to "com" but there is no other relation between the two.
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Maybe they should have built their systems near a deep lake, and instead of paying ridiculous prices for AC, they could just pump water from the lake and circulate it.
Right, I mean who cares about the environmental implications of trashing lakes for our fickle cooling purposes, after all!
The water at the bottom of lakes is always around 4C
...for presumptuously optimistic values of "always".
-b
From the sound of things, I'd guess it's not an engineering failure so much as a management failure. [...] Or when an engineer refuses to sign off on an incomplete or incorrect design, the manager brings in a new graduate because they're more "cooperative" (read: will sign anything to get a paycheck).
To me you just described an engineering failure (i.e. the "cooperative new grad" made a failure of judgment unbecoming of a qualified engineer).
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It is literally the beast that cannot be fed.
Heh, right; of course it absolutely is not. It's a piece of software, not a living animal which consumes food.
Shall we ascribe random meanings to other words, too, or is there something special about "literally" which makes it an excusable candidate?
(As Ze Frank would sing, "say the opposite, say the opposite"...)
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As much as I would like to make fun of Quayle, mosquitoe is the British spelling much like colour is the British spelling of color.
:)
Do y'all eat a potatoe with your dinner over there, too?
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The first thoughts that came to my head were these [...]
Ah, perfect! You're posting on the right forum, then.
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...he's just a bott.
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Clearly, slashdot editors aren't much into photography. First of all, even a toddler knows that the sensor is worthless (no matter its esoteria or expense) if the lenses in front of it are garbage. Secondly, the idea of CMOS isn't new; Canon has been using them for quite awhile now (e.g. 350D).
-ben
If I were Apple Corp, I would start selling the new "Apple Macintosh" online.
It would be interesting to see how Apple Computer responds to that, since they haven't sold a product with "Macintosh" in the name for many years. (PowerMac, iMac, PowerBook... the last "Macintosh" I can think of is the beige 1997-era Power Macintosh G3).
(I realise that by "Apple Corp" you mean "Apple Corps")
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No, really, who cares? Are there people clamoring to get their hands on this new OS ASAP (WTF BBQ) and who will be extremely put out if it is not available until later on in the future? My question for these people is: what will this new OS do for you that isn't true right now?
And as a side note, I am really bloody tired of reading stories about things that "analysts" think. "Joe Analyst issues a note to Judy Analyst, under the table, in the back of the classroom. Investors giggled to themselves and rubbed their index fingers together..."
-b
And everyone complains (often rightfully so) about open-source projects coming up with stupid names. Well, such insight is obviously not limited to non-commercial enterprises!
-ben
Indies, make sure you join CIRAA.
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Are you going for a Troll/Flamebait on the subject line, or an Insightful on the content? :)
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He's not the only one. I'm using Safari (release) on Mac OS X, and like the OP, I saw the tags the first day, and never since.
The bug is on slashdot's side.
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There is obviously a problem with botnets, virii [sic], and trojans
Oh, do you mean viruses?
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I see what you're trying to say, but it still doesn't really hold water. Just because Macs can run Windows doesn't mean they will. Your argument shows the software developer trying to dictate the behaviour of the customer ("run Windows on your Mac"). That's about akin to saying today "go buy a cheap PC". User still has to buy Windows, still has to run Windows.
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Are you retarded? Like, all those other 5% were just waiting for an easy way to install WIndows on their Mac hardware because they couldn't stand the Mac OS yet inexplicably did not think to simply purchase cheaper wintel hardware.
Hellooooo fallacious troll!
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So the format is proprietary and closed. That makes it "universal" how?
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Hahahaha... +4 Insightful instead of Funny? This really is slashdot...
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All these years we've been giving MS monopoly rent for OS software in the belief that we were paying for an exciting future
Heh, speak for yourself!
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