While your post was cute, it's obvious that you didn't read the article.
Cross the other person's path, and you lose. The path is defined by the GPS. In the movie (and the game) it was a tad more dramatic when a player lost.:)
And the worst part of Slashdot is that for some odd reason, crap like this keeps getting on the front page, despite the fact that the Editors should know better.
Oh, the irony that this was posted only a few hours before...
Just use this baby as a backup machine and keep the originals on your computer somewhere. Then you've got two copies which will likely survive any data loss not related to disasters like fire or flood.
This makes it the third planet known to orbit this star. The other two planets have orbits of 30 and 60 days. It's worth noting that Mercury orbits the sun every 88 days, so there are three planets in this system at distances well within the Sun-Mercury distance.
More extraordinary, is that this star is about 1/3 the mass of the sun, which would mean that these planets would have to be even closer to this star to orbit at that speed. More than likely, these planets all formed further from the star than they are now, but their orbits were unstable and are steadily spiraling into the star. It's entirely possible that there were several more planets before, but they're gone now.
A more major nit, is the fact that he spent money and time in building a radiator. He could have just done the same thing by picking up a second-hand car radiator, and he would even have a mount for the fan...
JWZ has always hated Linux. He hated Linux back when he was working at Netscape. Instead, he was using an SGI with IRIX because you plugged it in, turned it on, and it *worked*. No tinkering for days with stupid hardware-related bullshit. He had work to do, and needed to get it done in a certain timeframe. It's just that OS X is the latest incarnation of Unix that works out of the box and makes a good desktop. And way cheaper than an SGI box too.
Isn't it odd that a gung-ho American company that's all for free market capitalism can so very easily make itself look like a soul-crushing, freedom-hating, communist-friendly entity by just removing a couple of words from all its websites?
Kind of says something about the state of affairs in America these days.
I'm sure this sounds like another "two legs bad!" sort of post, but honestly, Microsoft never invents anything.
I remember how all the new features in DOS 5.0 were introduced by shareware writers two years before. The now-defunct "disk compression on the fly" feature of Windows 98 (ME? 95?) was an idea stolen from another company that did it first. IE itself was an effort to catch up to Netscape. The general interface for Windows 95 onward so strongly resembles the Mac desktop that there was a lawsuit. DOS 1.0 was a total ripoff of CP/M.
I think there've been about two inventions to come out of Redmond - possibly ever, but certainly since 1990. Wizards, and e-mail viruses, which didn't actually exist at all until they added VB script capability to Windows Messenger.
People won't move back to IE after the release of IE7. That's because noone uses anything else. 90+% of the computing public uses it without the barest clue that anything else exists. That's because IE is what comes with people's computers, and there's no reason for them to download anything else, even if the competition has whiz-bang features that improve the experience exponentially. Heck, most of the computing public has trouble with the concept of having more than one application open at once, or how to task-switch using the taskbar. Tabbed browsing? That's overwhelmingly complicated!
Heh. Of all the Indians I've met, most of them speak English in a very proper manner. They have a very odd accent of course, but hey, they're just from yet another corner of the commonwealth.
Heh. I, for one, believe that posting the link to slashdot for the webserver in question is cruel and unusual punishment.
This man poured blood, sweat, and tears into this project only to have it reduced to a smoking puddle of solder. The original poster is incredibly irresponsible in that regard, and should not have posted the IP address. Heck, even the real web host for the details of the project couldn't take the load.
They seem to make a special case for you. If, for instance, you got it as a gift, you would still be eligible.
Now, whether or not it applies if you bought it second hand off ebay 4 years ago is another matter. Mine was allegedly refurbished, but had this problem right out of the box. I rather liked using it, although now I've got something that works better as a dumb terminal for work (at a cost of about 4x the weight...)
It seems rumors of the franchise's demise were greatly exaggerated!
Honestly, I think it's high time that someone made that demise come about, whether by natural causes or not...
Who looks at the keyboard anyway?
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If it's forcing you not to look at the keyboard while you're touch-typing, then it's only because you suck to begin with. So sure, it could double your speed... if you're currently typing at 20wpm.
I think the real reason that windows costs less to patch is that fewer patches are released for windows. Sort of a "we patch every 6 months whether it needs it or not" sort of scenario.
Okay, so this is a different number and it's kind of like comparing apples and oranges...
But in 1990, Compute! magazine took a poll of its subscribers. Over 80% of them had pirated software at least once.
But now the percentage of computer users who pirate software is a lot lower.
Why is that?
Because back in 1990, the only people who were really using computers at home were geeks. And they all knew how to get around the copy protection. These days, copy protection is a little harder, and access to methods around it are readily available on the internet, but 80% of the people who use the internet haven't got the first clue about how to circumvent copy protection. Or even know where to find the cracks that do it. Or how to use them. Add to the fact that you can't exactly download an 800 megabyte application off the web as easily as you can get the latest copy of Eudora. Sure, there's torrent sites, but you have to *know* they exist, and *know* where they are. But considering the number of people who even *know* where Eudora's website is, or even that Firefox is a browser like Internet Explorer, and all of a sudden the problem seems quite a lot smaller.
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While your post was cute, it's obvious that you didn't read the article.
:)
Cross the other person's path, and you lose. The path is defined by the GPS. In the movie (and the game) it was a tad more dramatic when a player lost.
I tend to think about the British Navy's stated goal for... well, most of the history of the British Navy.
"Make the world English."
Now that's a mission statement!
And the worst part of Slashdot is that for some odd reason, crap like this keeps getting on the front page, despite the fact that the Editors should know better.
that's enough money to keep the Iraq war going until the year 9188
Cool! Then we can have oil *forever!*
Oh, the irony that this was posted only a few hours before...
Just use this baby as a backup machine and keep the originals on your computer somewhere. Then you've got two copies which will likely survive any data loss not related to disasters like fire or flood.
Buy this and put them out of business.
This makes it the third planet known to orbit this star. The other two planets have orbits of 30 and 60 days. It's worth noting that Mercury orbits the sun every 88 days, so there are three planets in this system at distances well within the Sun-Mercury distance.
More extraordinary, is that this star is about 1/3 the mass of the sun, which would mean that these planets would have to be even closer to this star to orbit at that speed. More than likely, these planets all formed further from the star than they are now, but their orbits were unstable and are steadily spiraling into the star. It's entirely possible that there were several more planets before, but they're gone now.
A more major nit, is the fact that he spent money and time in building a radiator. He could have just done the same thing by picking up a second-hand car radiator, and he would even have a mount for the fan...
It would probably look just as good too.
I thought it was *always* 70F in San Francisco. Every day. It's like you don't even need to bother with a weather forecaster.
75F, *that* would be a heat wave.
JWZ has always hated Linux. He hated Linux back when he was working at Netscape. Instead, he was using an SGI with IRIX because you plugged it in, turned it on, and it *worked*. No tinkering for days with stupid hardware-related bullshit. He had work to do, and needed to get it done in a certain timeframe. It's just that OS X is the latest incarnation of Unix that works out of the box and makes a good desktop. And way cheaper than an SGI box too.
Isn't it odd that a gung-ho American company that's all for free market capitalism can so very easily make itself look like a soul-crushing, freedom-hating, communist-friendly entity by just removing a couple of words from all its websites?
Kind of says something about the state of affairs in America these days.
this means that Dell's headquarters are 46 million kilometers from Redmond.
I always knew that Redmond was on another planet...
has invention died over in Redmond?
I'm sure this sounds like another "two legs bad!" sort of post, but honestly, Microsoft never invents anything.
I remember how all the new features in DOS 5.0 were introduced by shareware writers two years before. The now-defunct "disk compression on the fly" feature of Windows 98 (ME? 95?) was an idea stolen from another company that did it first. IE itself was an effort to catch up to Netscape. The general interface for Windows 95 onward so strongly resembles the Mac desktop that there was a lawsuit. DOS 1.0 was a total ripoff of CP/M.
I think there've been about two inventions to come out of Redmond - possibly ever, but certainly since 1990. Wizards, and e-mail viruses, which didn't actually exist at all until they added VB script capability to Windows Messenger.
People won't move back to IE after the release of IE7. That's because noone uses anything else. 90+% of the computing public uses it without the barest clue that anything else exists. That's because IE is what comes with people's computers, and there's no reason for them to download anything else, even if the competition has whiz-bang features that improve the experience exponentially. Heck, most of the computing public has trouble with the concept of having more than one application open at once, or how to task-switch using the taskbar. Tabbed browsing? That's overwhelmingly complicated!
Heh. Of all the Indians I've met, most of them speak English in a very proper manner. They have a very odd accent of course, but hey, they're just from yet another corner of the commonwealth.
I remember that claim.
Oh yeah. It's secure. Just so long as you don't ever connect it to a network.
Security on the console is utterly pointless if it has more backdoors on the network than a cat has whiskers.
So it's more or less "one company, one sysadmin."
:)
I fail to see a problem.
Sysadmins are being automated out of existenance.
And the way you automate a sysadmin out of existence is by first hiring a sysadmin...
Heh. I, for one, believe that posting the link to slashdot for the webserver in question is cruel and unusual punishment.
This man poured blood, sweat, and tears into this project only to have it reduced to a smoking puddle of solder. The original poster is incredibly irresponsible in that regard, and should not have posted the IP address. Heck, even the real web host for the details of the project couldn't take the load.
Oh great! I have a palm m105, and it's always had that exact problem. Mind you, I bought it used off ebay (about 3 years ago). And I live in Canada.
It seems I'm screwed. Unless someone can think of a way around that.
They seem to make a special case for you. If, for instance, you got it as a gift, you would still be eligible.
Now, whether or not it applies if you bought it second hand off ebay 4 years ago is another matter. Mine was allegedly refurbished, but had this problem right out of the box. I rather liked using it, although now I've got something that works better as a dumb terminal for work (at a cost of about 4x the weight...)
It seems rumors of the franchise's demise were greatly exaggerated!
Honestly, I think it's high time that someone made that demise come about, whether by natural causes or not...
If it's forcing you not to look at the keyboard while you're touch-typing, then it's only because you suck to begin with. So sure, it could double your speed... if you're currently typing at 20wpm.
But I know that I'll be coming back some day
I'll be playing this part 'till I'm old and gray
The long-term contract that I had to sign
Says I'll be making these movies till the end of time!
With my Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda
I think the real reason that windows costs less to patch is that fewer patches are released for windows. Sort of a "we patch every 6 months whether it needs it or not" sort of scenario.
Okay, so this is a different number and it's kind of like comparing apples and oranges...
But in 1990, Compute! magazine took a poll of its subscribers. Over 80% of them had pirated software at least once.
But now the percentage of computer users who pirate software is a lot lower.
Why is that?
Because back in 1990, the only people who were really using computers at home were geeks. And they all knew how to get around the copy protection. These days, copy protection is a little harder, and access to methods around it are readily available on the internet, but 80% of the people who use the internet haven't got the first clue about how to circumvent copy protection. Or even know where to find the cracks that do it. Or how to use them. Add to the fact that you can't exactly download an 800 megabyte application off the web as easily as you can get the latest copy of Eudora. Sure, there's torrent sites, but you have to *know* they exist, and *know* where they are. But considering the number of people who even *know* where Eudora's website is, or even that Firefox is a browser like Internet Explorer, and all of a sudden the problem seems quite a lot smaller.