somehow combining the free driver and any CAD package gets you a very slow experience
Not quite true for me: Maya and Blender work fine. In fact, Maya is noticeably faster that it is on Windows 7 on the same machine, and I have taken no special steps to make it faster on Linux. I am using the laziest Linux distribution there is (Wubi Ubuntu, click click click until you have a working OS)
Minecraft is faster and more solid too (not exactly a CAD, but it uses GPUs if I am not mistaken)
Dammit I do not know - but it is not going to be soon; how could they opensource it and prevent disclosing secrets to their competitors at the same time?
Will it be "Gates will probably insist they use only Windows toilets!"?
I habitually stick all the windows-related sticker crap that comes with new hardware to my house appliances like the toaster, microwave, blender etc. The "Windows Vista" one, I reserved it for the toiled bowl flush.
A short while after I did this, it stopped working properly.
Saudis have been, and still are, the US's "friends" for decades now.
Of course they mutilate people for minor offences, most of them leave in poverty, and they treat women horribly, but the remaining handful have so much oil to sell that this can be overlooked (--almost all of the French people I have spoken with genuinely believe that France is in Afghanistan to end corruption and liberate its citizens from oppression).
I should be glad that my 'scoop' got posted, but I still cannot enjoy it; with the exception of few posts (yeay!./ moderation works!) there is so much trolling, bitterness and even anger - seriously, is everything a competition to you people?
Am I wrong in reading at '-1' ?
These are new exciting times; and you are worried that China will be pissing on you from orbit? Or that superpower leaders are stupid enough to go to war?
If you are afraid that China will colonize low Earth orbit and "force" you to conform to some twisted communist standards in order to share the spoils, then go there too; stay with them; show them how you think it should be done, help them out if they ask, and perhaps learn a thing or two yourselves (and about yourselves) in the process.
Say his work days are Mon - Fri, that would be 52*5 = 260 working days per year. Assuming his flights are on working days and an even spread, ~4 out of his 5 working days involve a flight - for the past 29 years!
The airline should put a statue of him on display, this is far beyond the "naming planes out of you" point.
.. it seems like a great invention, trully ground-breaking if it works. All we have to do now is wait for the patent wars to be over (suddenly $BigCorp and $PatentTroll "discover that this infringes on their innovations somehow and some such"), and by 2054 this will be a commonplace in cooling.
Now I wander if the guy was under contract- if he was, he will probably get nothing but his salary out of it. One of my friends is family with the guy that invented the dictionary in cellphones; but since he was under contract he got nothing more than that month's paycheck..
It's like going from hotmail to gmail back when it launched.
Google did something very, very clever; sit back and wait (develop in the shadows, actually) while people where getting more and more frustrated with Facebook (like they were with Hotmail), and feeling that they got "stuck with it" because of the lack of alternatives. That part was bound to happen.
You manage your "friends" easily. [..] I wouldn't have any issue adding my boss and co-workers to, unlike facebook.
In a sense, Google has learned from the mistakes of others; I still cannot fathom why Facebook did not add such functionalities - so many of its users would had welcomed them. Perhaps their coding skills are poor, or they are more busy trying to hire marketing people instead of coders, to figure out how they can sell your information to third parties more efficiently.
The cynic in me is eager to yell that "they are the same shit, all of them"; though I have to hand it to Google that they played this one very smooth; Facebook has had a hard time making a sensible file out of you; who are your closest friends? Who are the relatives, coworkers, and who are the "people you just know"? With Google+ interface, it is the user is completing this task for Google
Per the Hotmail/Gmail analogy, Google has the reputation of being more geeky; you want to use Google because you get a sense that you actually do creative stuff, they develop and give new functionalities out and they keep it alive. And it does keep you a notch over the flock, making you feel special - c'mon, you know it does.
I am absolutely confident that their interface will be getting better and better for decades to come- they will expand and develop and incorporate new technologies. But now, profiling will reach levels never seen before- the fraction of your online time logged with Google will be enormous - let us see how Google will handle that.
.. Apple has been also doing its share of patent trolling, eh? Granted, they do produce some pretty functional and shiny hardware, fully plug and play, but they are not saints and they do employ armies of lawyers for the sole purpose of "Sued you! Now your shit is mine!"
Zoom out a little bit, and both of them (Apple and Personal Audio LLC) seem like trolls fighting over something that is not theirs. Playlists? Seriously?
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While I was dickish [..]
Apology accepted; just do not take the next one for granted.
I have neither the time ..
Try spending less time being a smartass- it works fine for me
.. nor the ability
It seems that you do have the ability, and a fine one I might add. You explained what CAD is pretty well, as did others, and now I know.
Maya and Blender both are not CAD
CAD = Computer Aided Design, right? Am I missing something here?
keeping features locked away is a competitive advantage because it keeps "the other guy" from copying hardware or such.
I could not agree more (see my post further below)
somehow combining the free driver and any CAD package gets you a very slow experience
Not quite true for me: Maya and Blender work fine. In fact, Maya is noticeably faster that it is on Windows 7 on the same machine, and I have taken no special steps to make it faster on Linux. I am using the laziest Linux distribution there is (Wubi Ubuntu, click click click until you have a working OS)
Minecraft is faster and more solid too (not exactly a CAD, but it uses GPUs if I am not mistaken)
Dammit I do not know - but it is not going to be soon; how could they opensource it and prevent disclosing secrets to their competitors at the same time?
If you (*clears throat*) RTFA, you will perhaps agree with me that instead of stating
"Amazon Plans iPad Competitor (and 2 New Kindles)"
it would be more appropriate to say
"Amazon Plans 2 New Kindles (and iPad Competitor)"
Anyway, given a fair price and connectivity, I am game if it;
a) can be read under direct sunlight,
b) has a refresh rate slightly above pathetic, and
c) has a rudimentary operating system that I can mess around with (and am officially allowed to do so).
A sensible set of demands I got there, would you not agree?
Already sick of tablets and their non-standardization.
Standardization is for insects.
You're excluding the possibility of multiple flights in one day
Explicitly yes, but these are just some median values I am spitting out there; it is very plausible that he has been flying twice, even thrice a day.
Will it be "Gates will probably insist they use only Windows toilets!"?
I habitually stick all the windows-related sticker crap that comes with new hardware to my house appliances like the toaster, microwave, blender etc. The "Windows Vista" one, I reserved it for the toiled bowl flush.
A short while after I did this, it stopped working properly.
Saudis have been, and still are, the US's "friends" for decades now.
Of course they mutilate people for minor offences, most of them leave in poverty, and they treat women horribly, but the remaining handful have so much oil to sell that this can be overlooked (--almost all of the French people I have spoken with genuinely believe that France is in Afghanistan to end corruption and liberate its citizens from oppression).
Well, think about it.
Excuse me, Sir,
please do not feed the Trolls.
.. especially now that there is no more Space Shuttle
Sure. They do it all the time -
Which country's military are we talking about?
You stay logged in and FB follows you where you click. Where's the switch for that behavior?
Ctrl + Shift + Del clears your browser's data. Knock yourself out.
I should be glad that my 'scoop' got posted, but I still cannot enjoy it; with the exception of few posts (yeay! ./ moderation works!) there is so much trolling, bitterness and even anger - seriously, is everything a competition to you people?
Am I wrong in reading at '-1' ?
These are new exciting times; and you are worried that China will be pissing on you from orbit? Or that superpower leaders are stupid enough to go to war?
If you are afraid that China will colonize low Earth orbit and "force" you to conform to some twisted communist standards in order to share the spoils, then go there too; stay with them; show them how you think it should be done, help them out if they ask, and perhaps learn a thing or two yourselves (and about yourselves) in the process.
until you get it wet.
Then you do some involuntary robot dancing.
And with that mental image, I am off to prepare some dinner.
more averages;
6000/30 flights/year ~ 200 flights/year
Say his work days are Mon - Fri, that would be 52*5 = 260 working days per year. Assuming his flights are on working days and an even spread, ~4 out of his 5 working days involve a flight - for the past 29 years!
The airline should put a statue of him on display, this is far beyond the "naming planes out of you" point.
0. The plane would fly regardless of whether this one single guy bought a ticket or not.
Great mentality- not our fault, eh?
Burying your head in the sand of statistics and anonymity is not an admirable quality to pass to your children.
.. it seems like a great invention, trully ground-breaking if it works. All we have to do now is wait for the patent wars to be over (suddenly $BigCorp and $PatentTroll "discover that this infringes on their innovations somehow and some such"), and by 2054 this will be a commonplace in cooling.
Now I wander if the guy was under contract- if he was, he will probably get nothing but his salary out of it. One of my friends is family with the guy that invented the dictionary in cellphones; but since he was under contract he got nothing more than that month's paycheck ..
the government should NOT be involved in providing luxuries like cell phone charging
Why not? They are your elected servants, it is within their obligations to elevate quality of living.
GRAV: monitor the local gravitational field
Yes, I cannot even remember life before that ..
It's like going from hotmail to gmail back when it launched.
Google did something very, very clever; sit back and wait (develop in the shadows, actually) while people where getting more and more frustrated with Facebook (like they were with Hotmail), and feeling that they got "stuck with it" because of the lack of alternatives. That part was bound to happen.
You manage your "friends" easily. [..] I wouldn't have any issue adding my boss and co-workers to, unlike facebook.
In a sense, Google has learned from the mistakes of others; I still cannot fathom why Facebook did not add such functionalities - so many of its users would had welcomed them. Perhaps their coding skills are poor, or they are more busy trying to hire marketing people instead of coders, to figure out how they can sell your information to third parties more efficiently.
The cynic in me is eager to yell that "they are the same shit, all of them"; though I have to hand it to Google that they played this one very smooth; Facebook has had a hard time making a sensible file out of you; who are your closest friends? Who are the relatives, coworkers, and who are the "people you just know"? With Google+ interface, it is the user is completing this task for Google
Per the Hotmail/Gmail analogy, Google has the reputation of being more geeky; you want to use Google because you get a sense that you actually do creative stuff, they develop and give new functionalities out and they keep it alive. And it does keep you a notch over the flock, making you feel special - c'mon, you know it does.
I am absolutely confident that their interface will be getting better and better for decades to come- they will expand and develop and incorporate new technologies. But now, profiling will reach levels never seen before- the fraction of your online time logged with Google will be enormous - let us see how Google will handle that.
.. Apple has been also doing its share of patent trolling, eh? Granted, they do produce some pretty functional and shiny hardware, fully plug and play, but they are not saints and they do employ armies of lawyers for the sole purpose of "Sued you! Now your shit is mine!"
Zoom out a little bit, and both of them (Apple and Personal Audio LLC) seem like trolls fighting over something that is not theirs. Playlists? Seriously?
How come this is not modded informative but -1?
Because it was also modded by a Jew.