As many genealogists know, there are entire archives of fire insurance photographs of many homes and other buildings from the 1880s to 1970. This is nothing new, except for the correlation with satellite images.
No, moron, disagreeing with the current majority rightwing Republican worldview doesn't constitute "flamebait." Whoever's in charge here needs to relieve this pinhead of his moderating privileges. I do what I can as a meta-moderator, but there are only so many idiots I can set straight that way. Any jackass who doesn't understand the very basics of American history has no business moderating anything. And as I have suggested before, there should be a way of preventing folks who haven't been potty trained yet from even posting here.
You are no doubt speaking of the "New Europe" as opposed to the old one that colonized the world. Why is it always the converts who scream the loudest about the other guys doing what they used to do before they saw the light?
Sorry, I'm just naturally sarcastic. It comes from a long family history of watching you guys through the eyes of outsiders. But really, there's no point in exploring space without taking advantage of the materials at hand. You won't get very far trying to pack your lunch to alpha-Centauri. Whether there are any natives to worry about, I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility of advanced life on Mars. Any advanced civilization would have long ago moved underground. As for farther out, remember the old maps of the world where unexplored places were illustrated with dragons and sea monsters. These turned out to be mythical, but there were dangers from the local inhabitants none-the-less. Don't assume the natives will be friendly. And don't think they will roll over like Uncle Saddam. Habitable planets may be a dime a dozen, or they may be in much greater demand. Try not to make too much noise on the way out. You might wake up one of those monsters.
I didn't claim anything. I was just annoyed at the high-handed dismissal of the proposition, as if it weren't possible somehow. The fact is that many FBI agents in the deep south cast a blind eye to the abuses of local law enforcement agencies during segregation in the US. And there was a period when the abuses of this agency came directly from the top, i.e., J. Edgar Hoover, the world's most famous cross-dresser. It seems only reasonable to assume that remnants of these attitudes still exist in the agency, though obviously I can't prove it. If I had that evidence I certainly wouldn't post it here under my own name. Also keep in mind that the folks currently doing the dirty work of the big corporations in regard to IP policing and the like are the same subclass of humanity who, under the guise of the various states police, assaulted and murdered union organizers during the 30s. As the old Chinese proverb asserts, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
To be honest, I haven't seen a popup in months, with one exception. But I have a long memory. And that one did manage to break its way though somehow, so these guys are working on ways to do it. Try not to be too smug. This may only be a temporary respite.
Do you have evidence to the contrary? Or is this just your inner child refusing to believe that the decendants of Elliot Ness couldn't possibly do such a thing?
Customer satisfaction? I make it a point of never buying from ANYONE who pops ME up! X10? Never! Macys? Never! Get the picture? Some folks just have to get hit over the head with a lead weight to get the message.
"produce a map of the mineral composition of the surface at 100 m resolution"
Do you suppose we'll pretend to offer democracy to Mars as we steal their mineral resources? I haven't heard anything about Martian weapons of mass destruction yet, but that could change. It would be a heck of a sight easier to get the bill through congress if the administration would just fake an attack by a Martian gunboat. Maybe that's why all these craft keep "disappearing." Somewhere down the line we declare that they have all been destroyed by Martian terrorists.
"In the January 12 notice of compliance, SCO said that they have fully complied with interrogatory no. 12....The Tibbits declaration identifies only that bits of AIX and Dynix have been copied, and says nothing about System V. Thus it appears that SCO has admitted that there is no System V code in Linux....This could get very bad for SCO."...And their stockholders.
"Far from seeing the computer die out, it's becoming an increasingly common part of people's entertainment systems."
I didn't say computers would die out. I said computer GAMES would die out.
"A big reason people convert their library to MP3 to begin with is so they can have it all available at once on their HD."
At once? Like my DVD movie (see above) was available "at once"? After an hour and a half of dicking with the drivers? Is that Bill's vision of the future? Nothing works until you reboot the damned computer? Washing machine? Refrigerator? Heart-lung machine? Automobile controls? Hit the brake and you get the message, if you're still alive to read it, "Please release the brake, reboot, and try again."
Not me buddy. And not a lot of other people either.
"CDs didn't become popular because they sounded better."
CDs became popular precisely because there was no needle scratching and no tape hiss. I still have LPs. The sound quality is a bit better but they make this godawful sound between tracks and on quiet passages. As for wearing out, this is also a function of noise. The older they get the noisier they get.
"Who would want to convert all their MP3s back to plain CDs?"
Come now, how many MP3s on how many computers do you think came off of a CD owned by that person? Give me a brake, fellah. I'm not a total idiot.
So I turn off the internet connection and plunk in a DVD movie I bought today, "AI" if you really want to know, and SURPRISE! no sound. Fine. So now instead of watching a movie I spend a good hour+ troubleshooting the damned computer. Finally reinstalled the XP update to the Creative driver that wouldn't reinstall properly.
This is precisely why convergence is not going to happen in any form that Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds imagines in terms of multimedia computers or onboard sound chips or video chips or the like. This all comes down to what I call The Washing Machine Metaphor. If you bought a washing machine that was networked with your computer and when you tried to wash your clothes, the water didn't come out because the godforsaken water driver didn't work right, what would you do? You'd bring the damned thing back to the store and buy one with its own onboard circuitry. This is the bottom line. When you want to wash your clothes, you want to wash your clothes, and when you want to watch a movie, you want to watch a movie, not dick around (yeah, I'm angry) with some piece of bovine offal written by some idiot who can't even spell in his native language. This is why it doesn't matter how good the sound from your computer is. That sound just isn't dependable enough for anything anyone in his right mind would call consumer equipment.
You can't burn the mp3s to a CD and play them on your stereo/5.1 system? Even the Niro plays mp3-encoded CDs. Personally, I don't have any mp3s. It's just not worth the hassle, either technically or, now, legally.
People who do serious video editing use really expensive professional equipment. The guys who try to do it on their PCs are mostly amateurs who are just noodling around and are the same subset of computer users who complain that Photoshop is too expensive and therefore use cracked copies.
As for games, I would seriously suspect that as soon as HD LCD TVs come into wide distribution the computer-based game will die a lingering death in favor of the consoles.
As a piece of hobbyist technology, yes, it would be nice if the main board had decent built-in audio. But as a stepping stone toward integration and convergence of audio/video and computers, it is my current personal opinion that putting a few more chips inside the receiver makes a whole lot more sense than trying to turn a PC into something it never was and never will be.
As far as I can see, the only conceivable reason for this process is a social one. There are a lot of guys out there who would rather sit in their den/workshop/computer-room and consume their media there than to come out into the living room and watch a movie with their wives. And Intel ain't gonna solve that problem anytime soon.
And why again, beyond playing computer video games, do I need this on my computer? After my first experience with XP SP1 killing my onboard DVD player, I have decided to put my extra AV cash into my non-computerized, non-windowized, non-BillyGatesized, non-rebootized, instant-on audio/video system. Other than running my computer sound through my stereo, the farther away my LCD TV and audio systems are from my computer, the happier I will be. And the fewer profits Mr. Gates receives from my near-term upgrades, the more ecstactic I will be.
Some of you guys need to wake up from your computer-induced hypnotic states and forget this convergence nonsense. It's all a big mind-freak to let Billyboy take control of an area he hasn't even the intelligence to understand.
Sorry, I usually try not to be this blunt, but there's a point where geekdom sometimes loses track of the bigger techno-picture.
My impression of Indian English is not that it is not spoken well, but that it is a different dialect of English, just like American English differs from the British version. In this regard, I have noticed specific tendencies that I at first thought were simply errors but turned out to repeat themselves with such frequency that I realised that they were just part of the dialect.
In case you missed it, there's a major trend in interior decorating towards the Moroccan look, which is basically to paint each room a different color, preferably all visible from the entry hall at one time. With these lights, you don't have to go out and buy paint.
"Because of the absolutely phenomenal number of requests for this site (due to its being listed on Slashdot), we have had to take the unusual step of temporarily disabling the content of the site until things calm down:-) We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause." Ha!
I'm already lighting mainly with screw-in fluorescents, which saves me a bit of cash. Aside from the neat effects, what's the energy use vs. fluorescent? I mean I can light up the place like a Christmas tree for a hundred watts right now. I guess it would save you a bit on wall paint, though. Just change the lights rather than the paint color.
Methinks this is ezactly why they are tossing MS in the river. Just tired, I suspect, of playing silly games with The Beast. There's a reason when you sell a diner you charge the new owner for "good will."
I was just giving the guy credit for at least having some semblance of a defensible theory. If he was just throwing around the idea of "an infinite god" because he couldn't think of anything cogent to say, then there's no point in even discussing his silly ideas. As for what anybody believes, this just points out your thorough misunderstanding of what science is all about. Obviously, individual scientists may have beliefs, but the process known as science has nothing to do with belief. The HYPOTHESIS presented in the article is just that, an hypothesis. It is not "believed" by anyone, not even the authors of the hypothesis. They are simply throwing out a suggested explanation for some of the inconsistencies of the theory of black holes. It is then up to them and others to determine whether this hypothesis is consistent and in line with everything else that is known. This does not include infinite gods or the belief systems of folks who can't conceive of any other explanation of the existence of reality than some deus ex machine from which things came to be.
You can't conceive of "zillions of states hiding in a black hole" but you can facily throw us the concept of an infinite universe ruled by an infinite mystical entity not of that universe but having a one-to-one correspondence with that universe? I think I'll nominate you for the Miles Hayes Award for explaining the simple in terms of the complex.
Personally, I suspect that what we're looking at is the conservation of information--the indestructable info-quantum.
Are these the same serious analysts who bought Enron? Are they fundamentalists or are they playing the momentum? And why is SCO off of its high? Somebody doesn't see such a rosy outcome for them. Certainly the stock price doesn't reflect a high probability of them winning. It reflects a statistical possibility of them winning. It's a relatively small wager on a horse who usually comes in third from last but runs well in the mud while the favorite has a propensity to slip and fall down. As for selling them short, I would think it makes a lot more sense to buy IBM long. As someone has already pointed out, most of SCO's stock is in the hands of a very few and easily manipulated.
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"though I havn't heard anything sense"
I haven't heard anything sense either...
As many genealogists know, there are entire archives of fire insurance photographs of many homes and other buildings from the 1880s to 1970. This is nothing new, except for the correlation with satellite images.
The first part of the question is understood, at least by those who understand such things: "[Is this a] Microsoft mailworms gang war?"
No, moron, disagreeing with the current majority rightwing Republican worldview doesn't constitute "flamebait." Whoever's in charge here needs to relieve this pinhead of his moderating privileges. I do what I can as a meta-moderator, but there are only so many idiots I can set straight that way. Any jackass who doesn't understand the very basics of American history has no business moderating anything. And as I have suggested before, there should be a way of preventing folks who haven't been potty trained yet from even posting here.
You are no doubt speaking of the "New Europe" as opposed to the old one that colonized the world. Why is it always the converts who scream the loudest about the other guys doing what they used to do before they saw the light?
Sorry, I'm just naturally sarcastic. It comes from a long family history of watching you guys through the eyes of outsiders. But really, there's no point in exploring space without taking advantage of the materials at hand. You won't get very far trying to pack your lunch to alpha-Centauri. Whether there are any natives to worry about, I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility of advanced life on Mars. Any advanced civilization would have long ago moved underground. As for farther out, remember the old maps of the world where unexplored places were illustrated with dragons and sea monsters. These turned out to be mythical, but there were dangers from the local inhabitants none-the-less. Don't assume the natives will be friendly. And don't think they will roll over like Uncle Saddam. Habitable planets may be a dime a dozen, or they may be in much greater demand. Try not to make too much noise on the way out. You might wake up one of those monsters.
I didn't claim anything. I was just annoyed at the high-handed dismissal of the proposition, as if it weren't possible somehow. The fact is that many FBI agents in the deep south cast a blind eye to the abuses of local law enforcement agencies during segregation in the US. And there was a period when the abuses of this agency came directly from the top, i.e., J. Edgar Hoover, the world's most famous cross-dresser. It seems only reasonable to assume that remnants of these attitudes still exist in the agency, though obviously I can't prove it. If I had that evidence I certainly wouldn't post it here under my own name. Also keep in mind that the folks currently doing the dirty work of the big corporations in regard to IP policing and the like are the same subclass of humanity who, under the guise of the various states police, assaulted and murdered union organizers during the 30s. As the old Chinese proverb asserts, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
To be honest, I haven't seen a popup in months, with one exception. But I have a long memory. And that one did manage to break its way though somehow, so these guys are working on ways to do it. Try not to be too smug. This may only be a temporary respite.
Do they also include impersonation of Secret Service agents?
Do you have evidence to the contrary? Or is this just your inner child refusing to believe that the decendants of Elliot Ness couldn't possibly do such a thing?
Customer satisfaction? I make it a point of never buying from ANYONE who pops ME up! X10? Never! Macys? Never! Get the picture? Some folks just have to get hit over the head with a lead weight to get the message.
"produce a map of the mineral composition of the surface at 100 m resolution"
Do you suppose we'll pretend to offer democracy to Mars as we steal their mineral resources? I haven't heard anything about Martian weapons of mass destruction yet, but that could change. It would be a heck of a sight easier to get the bill through congress if the administration would just fake an attack by a Martian gunboat. Maybe that's why all these craft keep "disappearing." Somewhere down the line we declare that they have all been destroyed by Martian terrorists.
From the Inquirer:
...And their stockholders.
"In the January 12 notice of compliance, SCO said that they have fully complied with interrogatory no. 12....The Tibbits declaration identifies only that bits of AIX and Dynix have been copied, and says nothing about System V. Thus it appears that SCO has admitted that there is no System V code in Linux....This could get very bad for SCO."
"Far from seeing the computer die out, it's becoming an increasingly common part of people's entertainment systems."
I didn't say computers would die out. I said computer GAMES would die out.
"A big reason people convert their library to MP3 to begin with is so they can have it all available at once on their HD."
At once? Like my DVD movie (see above) was available "at once"? After an hour and a half of dicking with the drivers? Is that Bill's vision of the future? Nothing works until you reboot the damned computer? Washing machine? Refrigerator? Heart-lung machine? Automobile controls? Hit the brake and you get the message, if you're still alive to read it, "Please release the brake, reboot, and try again."
Not me buddy. And not a lot of other people either.
"CDs didn't become popular because they sounded better."
CDs became popular precisely because there was no needle scratching and no tape hiss. I still have LPs. The sound quality is a bit better but they make this godawful sound between tracks and on quiet passages. As for wearing out, this is also a function of noise. The older they get the noisier they get.
"Who would want to convert all their MP3s back to plain CDs?"
Come now, how many MP3s on how many computers do you think came off of a CD owned by that person? Give me a brake, fellah. I'm not a total idiot.
So I turn off the internet connection and plunk in a DVD movie I bought today, "AI" if you really want to know, and SURPRISE! no sound. Fine. So now instead of watching a movie I spend a good hour+ troubleshooting the damned computer. Finally reinstalled the XP update to the Creative driver that wouldn't reinstall properly.
This is precisely why convergence is not going to happen in any form that Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds imagines in terms of multimedia computers or onboard sound chips or video chips or the like. This all comes down to what I call The Washing Machine Metaphor. If you bought a washing machine that was networked with your computer and when you tried to wash your clothes, the water didn't come out because the godforsaken water driver didn't work right, what would you do? You'd bring the damned thing back to the store and buy one with its own onboard circuitry. This is the bottom line. When you want to wash your clothes, you want to wash your clothes, and when you want to watch a movie, you want to watch a movie, not dick around (yeah, I'm angry) with some piece of bovine offal written by some idiot who can't even spell in his native language. This is why it doesn't matter how good the sound from your computer is. That sound just isn't dependable enough for anything anyone in his right mind would call consumer equipment.
You can't burn the mp3s to a CD and play them on your stereo/5.1 system? Even the Niro plays mp3-encoded CDs. Personally, I don't have any mp3s. It's just not worth the hassle, either technically or, now, legally.
People who do serious video editing use really expensive professional equipment. The guys who try to do it on their PCs are mostly amateurs who are just noodling around and are the same subset of computer users who complain that Photoshop is too expensive and therefore use cracked copies.
As for games, I would seriously suspect that as soon as HD LCD TVs come into wide distribution the computer-based game will die a lingering death in favor of the consoles.
As a piece of hobbyist technology, yes, it would be nice if the main board had decent built-in audio. But as a stepping stone toward integration and convergence of audio/video and computers, it is my current personal opinion that putting a few more chips inside the receiver makes a whole lot more sense than trying to turn a PC into something it never was and never will be.
As far as I can see, the only conceivable reason for this process is a social one. There are a lot of guys out there who would rather sit in their den/workshop/computer-room and consume their media there than to come out into the living room and watch a movie with their wives. And Intel ain't gonna solve that problem anytime soon.
And why again, beyond playing computer video games, do I need this on my computer? After my first experience with XP SP1 killing my onboard DVD player, I have decided to put my extra AV cash into my non-computerized, non-windowized, non-BillyGatesized, non-rebootized, instant-on audio/video system. Other than running my computer sound through my stereo, the farther away my LCD TV and audio systems are from my computer, the happier I will be. And the fewer profits Mr. Gates receives from my near-term upgrades, the more ecstactic I will be.
Some of you guys need to wake up from your computer-induced hypnotic states and forget this convergence nonsense. It's all a big mind-freak to let Billyboy take control of an area he hasn't even the intelligence to understand.
Sorry, I usually try not to be this blunt, but there's a point where geekdom sometimes loses track of the bigger techno-picture.
My impression of Indian English is not that it is not spoken well, but that it is a different dialect of English, just like American English differs from the British version. In this regard, I have noticed specific tendencies that I at first thought were simply errors but turned out to repeat themselves with such frequency that I realised that they were just part of the dialect.
In case you missed it, there's a major trend in interior decorating towards the Moroccan look, which is basically to paint each room a different color, preferably all visible from the entry hall at one time. With these lights, you don't have to go out and buy paint.
"Because of the absolutely phenomenal number of requests for this :-) We apologise for any inconvenience
site (due to its being listed on Slashdot), we have had to take
the unusual step of temporarily disabling the content of the
site until things calm down
that this may cause." Ha!
I'm already lighting mainly with screw-in fluorescents, which saves me a bit of cash. Aside from the neat effects, what's the energy use vs. fluorescent? I mean I can light up the place like a Christmas tree for a hundred watts right now. I guess it would save you a bit on wall paint, though. Just change the lights rather than the paint color.
Methinks this is ezactly why they are tossing MS in the river. Just tired, I suspect, of playing silly games with The Beast. There's a reason when you sell a diner you charge the new owner for "good will."
The writing hasn't changed. They just fired most of the editors and all of the proof readers.
I was just giving the guy credit for at least having some semblance of a defensible theory. If he was just throwing around the idea of "an infinite god" because he couldn't think of anything cogent to say, then there's no point in even discussing his silly ideas. As for what anybody believes, this just points out your thorough misunderstanding of what science is all about. Obviously, individual scientists may have beliefs, but the process known as science has nothing to do with belief. The HYPOTHESIS presented in the article is just that, an hypothesis. It is not "believed" by anyone, not even the authors of the hypothesis. They are simply throwing out a suggested explanation for some of the inconsistencies of the theory of black holes. It is then up to them and others to determine whether this hypothesis is consistent and in line with everything else that is known. This does not include infinite gods or the belief systems of folks who can't conceive of any other explanation of the existence of reality than some deus ex machine from which things came to be.
Then the search for nonexistent WMDs in Iraq isn't a crusade? I never would have guessed....
You can't conceive of "zillions of states hiding in a black hole" but you can facily throw us the concept of an infinite universe ruled by an infinite mystical entity not of that universe but having a one-to-one correspondence with that universe? I think I'll nominate you for the Miles Hayes Award for explaining the simple in terms of the complex.
Personally, I suspect that what we're looking at is the conservation of information--the indestructable info-quantum.
Are these the same serious analysts who bought Enron? Are they fundamentalists or are they playing the momentum? And why is SCO off of its high? Somebody doesn't see such a rosy outcome for them. Certainly the stock price doesn't reflect a high probability of them winning. It reflects a statistical possibility of them winning. It's a relatively small wager on a horse who usually comes in third from last but runs well in the mud while the favorite has a propensity to slip and fall down. As for selling them short, I would think it makes a lot more sense to buy IBM long. As someone has already pointed out, most of SCO's stock is in the hands of a very few and easily manipulated.