Imagine a not-quite-Beowulf cluster of these -- your own homebrewed VLA. It'll receive in the "waterhole band", and VLBI ain't too hard to figure out. Set up enough ground stations and switch between them as-needed to compensate for what you're viewing and the rotation of the Earth, and you've got a fulltime radio telescope with a dish effectively as large as the earth, whenever you want it...
Honestly, there are plenty of great options for open source programming languages. And if Java stays closed-source, we'll see the development of more great stuff like Ruby on Rails.
Only to an extent. The iPod, thus far, is what has caused Apple's explosive growth. Mac OS X is a great OS, and given my choice, I'd use it for every system I come into contact with, but because it is hardware-dependent, I can't go that route.
Back in the day, however, MacWorld was pinning their hopes on Copland, CyberDog, OpenDoc, Quicktime VR, and a countless slew of other inconsequential developments.
Apple has a real shot right now to take the reigns from Microsoft -- if they're willing to concede some ground in the hardware side of the business.
Be that as it may, the conclusions they're drawing don't coincide with the data.
How many families are going to put the family boxen out to pasture to buy a new Mac? Not many, with what Macs cost. I'd argue that Ubuntu Linux is in a better position to gain market share than Mac OS X based on the information given, and I'm a fucking Mac-head.
If Apple is going to capitalize on the distrust people have for Microsoft, they need to get OS X 10.4 running on any Wintel box and they need to do it now, and have it for sale on shelves before the eye-candy smoke-and-mirrors that is Vista can be shoved out the door by Microsoft.
Okay, I'm a Mac geek, and as much as I'd like to see that, please, for fuck's sake, consider the source -- MacWorld has always been a pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking magazine. Back in the day, when Apple was one bad day from becoming a memory, MacWorld had a glowing-postive view of the future. A little success now, and they think that every bad review for Microsoft means that millions of users are just going to jump ship in a heartbeat.
I mean really? This is news? Product-specific magazine predicts rosy future for the product it reports on? No shit?
...so if I were to pirate Windows (I'm speaking hypothetically as Mac OS X user), and MS knows it, they'll prevent me from using the part of the OS that sucks up system resources like there's no tomorrow? Awesome. Pirate Windows and it will run faster.
Probably not a cost effective idea. Really, once the cats start approaching some semblence of "shape", the mice will need to be replaced on a daily basis. Furthermore, the cats will need more exercise to work off the mouse calories.
A subscription model? You're kidding me, right? I'm sorry, if I am going to be paying $50-$60 for a new game, the last thing I am doing is shelling out more money on a monthly basis to play online. Furthermore, given the stupid subsciption model, where's the incentive to upgrade from my PS2? I can still play SOCOM and Madden online, if I'm inclined.
OTOH, I don't think there's a single PS2 game that has me inspired to play online -- of the four years I've owned my PS2, I've had it plugged into a network for maybe 10 days.
...the last thing I need is fucking Clippy popping up in my rifle sights.
"It looks like you are attempting a center-of-mass shot at 250 meters. Would you like help?
O Get help taking the shot. O Just take the shot without help. O Get help relocating your target, who is long-gone by the time you've finished mousing around this lame-assed help interface."
Wait. What? Do they run cables down from those satellites? Someone! Quick! Tell the space elevator group that the directv group has it figured out already!
Ah, but I'd be willing to bet that Joe Average only watches about six or eight channels on a regular basis. In order to protect their income, they'll probably set it up so that you have to pay $x for the ala carte service, and then another $y per channel (which will vary per channel), so that when Joe Average subscribes to his 6-8 channels, the amount he's paying will be similar to what he pays now.
See, cable is practically an institution in this country now -- I don't know a single person who doesn't have it -- and they've established a pricing structure like the cellphone companies have. Exorbitant costs for something that costs them next to nothing now that the infrastructure is established and has probably given them complete ROI.
I have a new laptop arriving at my office today (rather than have it delivered to my apartment steps where some shiftless hippie layabout can gank it), and I'm planning on running Ubuntu nearly fulltime (with the occasional venture into Windows to run Civ 3 and Civ 4). Given all the shit with my Windows laptop here, I may just try to make the fulltime switch.
Okay, my brain hurts. Does anyone have a general overview of what's happening (beyond "Darl McBride is an ass-clown" and "SCO sucks")? Like, give it to me from square one?
Hey. Didn't this already hit theatres? Some guy sees a bright flash of light, and he becomes, like, super smart and gets all sorts of mind powers like ESP and telekinesis? In the end, it was just a brain tumor and it killed him. I think it starred that guy from that disco movie and that other movie with the boxer and the hit-men and the gimp.
This Song kid better watch out or the MPAA is going to be up his ass with a microscope soon. If the brain tumor doesn't kill him, the MPAA will.
Amen. I'm about two years away from giving up the phat paychecks that come with being management and heading out to open my own bike (bicycle) shop. It's a sure-fire way to be poor, but at least I'll be doing something that I love.:-)
"...you don't have to return them to earth (astronauts are picky about that one)..."
Not so much, really. I'm sure you could find thousands of candidates who would happily agree to be the first permanent Mars colonists. Shit, I'd find a way to get into the front 1% of the line.
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Imagine a not-quite-Beowulf cluster of these -- your own homebrewed VLA. It'll receive in the "waterhole band", and VLBI ain't too hard to figure out. Set up enough ground stations and switch between them as-needed to compensate for what you're viewing and the rotation of the Earth, and you've got a fulltime radio telescope with a dish effectively as large as the earth, whenever you want it...
Open source radio astronomy anyone?
A.: Who cares?
A2.: I hope not.
Honestly, there are plenty of great options for open source programming languages. And if Java stays closed-source, we'll see the development of more great stuff like Ruby on Rails.
Pssst! At the rate they're going, it never will be, either!
Only to an extent. The iPod, thus far, is what has caused Apple's explosive growth. Mac OS X is a great OS, and given my choice, I'd use it for every system I come into contact with, but because it is hardware-dependent, I can't go that route.
Back in the day, however, MacWorld was pinning their hopes on Copland, CyberDog, OpenDoc, Quicktime VR, and a countless slew of other inconsequential developments.
Apple has a real shot right now to take the reigns from Microsoft -- if they're willing to concede some ground in the hardware side of the business.
Be that as it may, the conclusions they're drawing don't coincide with the data.
How many families are going to put the family boxen out to pasture to buy a new Mac? Not many, with what Macs cost. I'd argue that Ubuntu Linux is in a better position to gain market share than Mac OS X based on the information given, and I'm a fucking Mac-head.
If Apple is going to capitalize on the distrust people have for Microsoft, they need to get OS X 10.4 running on any Wintel box and they need to do it now, and have it for sale on shelves before the eye-candy smoke-and-mirrors that is Vista can be shoved out the door by Microsoft.
Okay, I'm a Mac geek, and as much as I'd like to see that, please, for fuck's sake, consider the source -- MacWorld has always been a pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking magazine. Back in the day, when Apple was one bad day from becoming a memory, MacWorld had a glowing-postive view of the future. A little success now, and they think that every bad review for Microsoft means that millions of users are just going to jump ship in a heartbeat.
I mean really? This is news? Product-specific magazine predicts rosy future for the product it reports on? No shit?
...so if I were to pirate Windows (I'm speaking hypothetically as Mac OS X user), and MS knows it, they'll prevent me from using the part of the OS that sucks up system resources like there's no tomorrow? Awesome. Pirate Windows and it will run faster.
Probably not a cost effective idea. Really, once the cats start approaching some semblence of "shape", the mice will need to be replaced on a daily basis. Furthermore, the cats will need more exercise to work off the mouse calories.
A subscription model? You're kidding me, right? I'm sorry, if I am going to be paying $50-$60 for a new game, the last thing I am doing is shelling out more money on a monthly basis to play online. Furthermore, given the stupid subsciption model, where's the incentive to upgrade from my PS2? I can still play SOCOM and Madden online, if I'm inclined.
OTOH, I don't think there's a single PS2 game that has me inspired to play online -- of the four years I've owned my PS2, I've had it plugged into a network for maybe 10 days.
...the last thing I need is fucking Clippy popping up in my rifle sights.
"It looks like you are attempting a center-of-mass shot at 250 meters. Would you like help?
O Get help taking the shot.
O Just take the shot without help.
O Get help relocating your target, who is long-gone by the time you've finished mousing around this lame-assed help interface."
Nevermind that NBC took one of the funniest shows on BBC ("Coupling") and totally hosed it for the American market.
Ada reported as being "soooooooo....uh.....never....was?"
Apparently, you peeled off the users' label on the Semtex. It requires that you put a blasting cap on those wires.
Wait. What? Do they run cables down from those satellites? Someone! Quick! Tell the space elevator group that the directv group has it figured out already!
Ah, but I'd be willing to bet that Joe Average only watches about six or eight channels on a regular basis. In order to protect their income, they'll probably set it up so that you have to pay $x for the ala carte service, and then another $y per channel (which will vary per channel), so that when Joe Average subscribes to his 6-8 channels, the amount he's paying will be similar to what he pays now.
See, cable is practically an institution in this country now -- I don't know a single person who doesn't have it -- and they've established a pricing structure like the cellphone companies have. Exorbitant costs for something that costs them next to nothing now that the infrastructure is established and has probably given them complete ROI.
I have a new laptop arriving at my office today (rather than have it delivered to my apartment steps where some shiftless hippie layabout can gank it), and I'm planning on running Ubuntu nearly fulltime (with the occasional venture into Windows to run Civ 3 and Civ 4). Given all the shit with my Windows laptop here, I may just try to make the fulltime switch.
Okay, my brain hurts. Does anyone have a general overview of what's happening (beyond "Darl McBride is an ass-clown" and "SCO sucks")? Like, give it to me from square one?
Yeah, because Wikipedia is a carefully fact-checked journal that only the most thoroughly factual data appears in. *eye roll*
Hey. Didn't this already hit theatres? Some guy sees a bright flash of light, and he becomes, like, super smart and gets all sorts of mind powers like ESP and telekinesis? In the end, it was just a brain tumor and it killed him. I think it starred that guy from that disco movie and that other movie with the boxer and the hit-men and the gimp.
This Song kid better watch out or the MPAA is going to be up his ass with a microscope soon. If the brain tumor doesn't kill him, the MPAA will.
- Schloönge
- Loob
- Vügeena
Ad nauseum...I didn't realize that monopolies could be so incestual. What we have here is a clear example of one trying to fuck another one.
Amen. I'm about two years away from giving up the phat paychecks that come with being management and heading out to open my own bike (bicycle) shop. It's a sure-fire way to be poor, but at least I'll be doing something that I love. :-)
"...you don't have to return them to earth (astronauts are picky about that one)..."
Not so much, really. I'm sure you could find thousands of candidates who would happily agree to be the first permanent Mars colonists. Shit, I'd find a way to get into the front 1% of the line.
So a dimenson where geeks bathe regularly and can make eye contact with a woman when talking to her, then?
With a link over at BoingBoing to "The Onion in 2005"...highlighting the art in the ads.