has anyone found a way to submit comments via he web? Having to submit comments in writing is silly, and inconsistent with what other US government agencies do.
The Xerox Star was commercial product. It was marketed to Executives, not average folks. Cost was something like $10,000 (in 1981), if I recall correctly.
It's sort of funny that people make such as big deal about the GUI, when in reality the laser printer was (and still is) equally important. Guess who invented the laser printer? Hint... it starts with a X...
Xerox used to sell several ink jet printers and multi-functions that had seperate print heads. Although Xerox no longer activly supports them, you can still purchase the replacement heads.
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Anybody else remember the series of AS articles about polywater. I'm sure that a lot of people tried to make the stuff before it was found that it did not exist.
I'm having trouble visualizing what the worlds biggest hacker would look like. I mean, what is the criteria? Does he have to be at least Seven Feet Tall and weigh Four Hundred Pounds to even be considered a candidate? The claim simply is not credible without at least a few more details.
It took a long time for the music companies to approve online sales, and even now it's not clear whether outright sales vs. rents (subscriptions) will win in the long run. The video companies are just starting down that road, and by some accounts they are even more paranoid that the music companies were.
It's not that the video companies are different; but rather that most of us would like them to accept online sales more quickly than the music companies did.
That's an easy one. Why would somebody open an online store selling high quality video material, if they believe that their customers will then make copies and give it all away?
I tend to agree with some of the previous/. posts on this topic. Video makes no sense on a portable iPod device. The iPod is a natual extension to what people already do. Video is not a natural extension.
On first reading, it sounds like the new NASA Administrator has some visionary ideas. But one has to wonder if some of these proposals are really intended to keep key members of the House and Senate happy by preserving jobs in their districts. Take a look at what effects these changes would have on the employmene tsituation at some key NASA installations, and then be your own judge on whether science or politics is at work here.
I spent several years managing a test team in a Fortune 100 company, and I have seen this situation many times (it's probably the norm, rather than the exception, in industry today).
Let the documented requirements for the code (or product) be your guide. Use those requirements to develop test cases, then design one or more tests that hit all of the test cases.
If there are no documented requirements, then you should ask yourself why you are working there. This situation usually leads to many arguments about what the code/product is really suppose to do, and you'll just become frustrated while you waste lots of time. It's not worth it.
The mainstream science community is pretty much ignoring this so-called "trial". While I can respect that position, I think it's a mistake. Conservative Christians are attacking science at many levels, and the general public may begin to believe them if the world class experts do not speak up loud and clear on the side of science.
When reading patents the important thing is the claims, not the description. iPod does seem to infringe on some of the patent claims, so this could get messy for Apple. More than likely, however, Apple will offer to pay a lump sum for rights to use the patent, and after some negotiations they will reach an agreement with the patent holder. It's a business issue, not a technical issue.
I first learned about Ted Taylor from an episode of the US science television program NOVA titled The Plutonium Connection that was broadcase in 1975. So, no, this is not a new idea.
For some years now, the principle investigator for the 1976 Viking Lander Labeled Release Experiment has claimed that his experiment did find evidence of life on Mars. The problem is that the results from the other Viking experiments was inconsistent with this, so NASA decided that the LRE detected a non-biological chemical reaction.
Is this new data about methane consistent with the Viking LRE data?
Tim Cahill discusses this in his short book Lost in My Own Backyard : A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (which is a great book, BTW). The Yellowstone caldera is believed to be 30+ miles wide. It has exploded several times, and in more recent times has been erupting about once every 600K years. The fact that the last explosion was 640K years ago can lead to some sobering thoughts.
Some claim that the next eruption is overdue, a fact that the USGS disputes.
Interesting results. I suggest that a potentially better test would be to run the MS program before running Ad-Aware or Spybot. The Syybot and Ad-Aware results would tell you whether MS lets anything through that would be caught by the other two programs.
This is all good and well, but my perception over the past year is that the NWS forecasts are more accurate than TWC's forecasts for my area (Rochester, NY). The NWS is also more acurate than Accuweather. My guess is that neither of the these commercial services has a good handle on how Lake Ontario affects our local weather, but that is just a guess.
I spent many, many hours playing with Matchbox Cars. They were cheaper than Hot Wheels, and less prone to problems if you played with them outside in the dirt.
I agree. Their existing infrastructure would be well suited for things like domain registration, web hosting, blog hosting, etc. Some of these would not fit well into their existing business model, but who knows? The key here is that Google has tons of cpu power and disk storage that is just itching for new applications.
In the early (?) days the Cray XMP got the most attention, but CDC continued to make supercomputers. The Cyber-205 was it's main competitor. Funny, I can't find a web page dedicated to it. I wonder if anyone collects them.
A few places (such as Purdue) even had one of each.
This is probably a dumb question, but how difficult is it to migrate from Mozilla to Firefox? I'm running Mozilla 1.7.3 on WinXP, and quite happy, but I would like to play with Firefox's RSS support. Is migrating as easy as just installing Firefox, or should I uninstall Mozilla first? Will Firefox automagically find my Mozilla Bookmarks?
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has anyone found a way to submit comments via he web? Having to submit comments in writing is silly, and inconsistent with what other US government agencies do.
The Xerox Star was commercial product. It was marketed to Executives, not average folks. Cost was something like $10,000 (in 1981), if I recall correctly.
It's sort of funny that people make such as big deal about the GUI, when in reality the laser printer was (and still is) equally important. Guess who invented the laser printer? Hint... it starts with a X...
Xerox used to sell several ink jet printers and multi-functions that had seperate print heads. Although Xerox no longer activly supports them, you can still purchase the replacement heads.
Anybody else remember the series of AS articles about polywater. I'm sure that a lot of people tried to make the stuff before it was found that it did not exist.
I'm having trouble visualizing what the worlds biggest hacker would look like. I mean, what is the criteria? Does he have to be at least Seven Feet Tall and weigh Four Hundred Pounds to even be considered a candidate? The claim simply is not credible without at least a few more details.
It took a long time for the music companies to approve online sales, and even now it's not clear whether outright sales vs. rents (subscriptions) will win in the long run. The video companies are just starting down that road, and by some accounts they are even more paranoid that the music companies were.
It's not that the video companies are different; but rather that most of us would like them to accept online sales more quickly than the music companies did.
That's an easy one. Why would somebody open an online store selling high quality video material, if they believe that their customers will then make copies and give it all away?
I tend to agree with some of the previous /. posts on this topic. Video makes no sense on a portable iPod device. The iPod is a natual extension to what people already do. Video is not a natural extension.
On first reading, it sounds like the new NASA Administrator has some visionary ideas. But one has to wonder if some of these proposals are really intended to keep key members of the House and Senate happy by preserving jobs in their districts. Take a look at what effects these changes would have on the employmene tsituation at some key NASA installations, and then be your own judge on whether science or politics is at work here.
I spent several years managing a test team in a Fortune 100 company, and I have seen this situation many times (it's probably the norm, rather than the exception, in industry today).
Let the documented requirements for the code (or product) be your guide. Use those requirements to develop test cases, then design one or more tests that hit all of the test cases.
If there are no documented requirements, then you should ask yourself why you are working there. This situation usually leads to many arguments about what the code/product is really suppose to do, and you'll just become frustrated while you waste lots of time. It's not worth it.
The mainstream science community is pretty much ignoring this so-called "trial". While I can respect that position, I think it's a mistake. Conservative Christians are attacking science at many levels, and the general public may begin to believe them if the world class experts do not speak up loud and clear on the side of science.
When reading patents the important thing is the claims, not the description. iPod does seem to infringe on some of the patent claims, so this could get messy for Apple. More than likely, however, Apple will offer to pay a lump sum for rights to use the patent, and after some negotiations they will reach an agreement with the patent holder. It's a business issue, not a technical issue.
I first learned about Ted Taylor from an episode of the US science television program NOVA titled The Plutonium Connection that was broadcase in 1975. So, no, this is not a new idea.
For some years now, the principle investigator for the 1976 Viking Lander Labeled Release Experiment has claimed that his experiment did find evidence of life on Mars. The problem is that the results from the other Viking experiments was inconsistent with this, so NASA decided that the LRE detected a non-biological chemical reaction.
Is this new data about methane consistent with the Viking LRE data?
I was thinking about building a similar set up, also using a Pundit-R, and a PVR-250. Any hints on how to quickly get it up and running?
I could not find any reference in either list to Xerox PARC's Mesa, which is often credited as one of Wirth's inspirations for Modula-2.
Tim Cahill discusses this in his short book Lost in My Own Backyard : A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (which is a great book, BTW). The Yellowstone caldera is believed to be 30+ miles wide. It has exploded several times, and in more recent times has been erupting about once every 600K years. The fact that the last explosion was 640K years ago can lead to some sobering thoughts.
Some claim that the next eruption is overdue, a fact that the USGS disputes.
Interesting results. I suggest that a potentially better test would be to run the MS program before running Ad-Aware or Spybot. The Syybot and Ad-Aware results would tell you whether MS lets anything through that would be caught by the other two programs.
The URL in the parent message is pointing to the 0.9 release notes. Is there an update for the 1.0 release?
This is all good and well, but my perception over the past year is that the NWS forecasts are more accurate than TWC's forecasts for my area (Rochester, NY). The NWS is also more acurate than Accuweather. My guess is that neither of the these commercial services has a good handle on how Lake Ontario affects our local weather, but that is just a guess.
I spent many, many hours playing with Matchbox Cars. They were cheaper than Hot Wheels, and less prone to problems if you played with them outside in the dirt.
I agree. Their existing infrastructure would be well suited for things like domain registration, web hosting, blog hosting, etc. Some of these would not fit well into their existing business model, but who knows? The key here is that Google has tons of cpu power and disk storage that is just itching for new applications.
In the early (?) days the Cray XMP got the most attention, but CDC continued to make supercomputers. The Cyber-205 was it's main competitor. Funny, I can't find a web page dedicated to it. I wonder if anyone collects them.
A few places (such as Purdue) even had one of each.
This is probably a dumb question, but how difficult is it to migrate from Mozilla to Firefox? I'm running Mozilla 1.7.3 on WinXP, and quite happy, but I would like to play with Firefox's RSS support. Is migrating as easy as just installing Firefox, or should I uninstall Mozilla first? Will Firefox automagically find my Mozilla Bookmarks?
Thanks,