I don't know about you, but I'll be renaming my.ogg files.xph and associating that file type with my player. "Ogg" would be okay if it was pronounced "ohg", but I think "ahg" is ugly. And after all, the standard is being created by the Xiph foundation...
Then go back to Circus Shitty (they deserve this kind of hassle because of their old Divx "rental" format), whine that "it won't play in my DVD player!" and demand a refund.
How do you know they won't just tell you all you can get is an exchange for a CD or other merchandise of the same value? A slimy company is likely to have slimy business practices.
Here's a Circut City horror story: Several years ago, my girlfriend purchased a Compaq from C-City. While it was still under warranty, the hard drive started having a large number of errors, and she sent it in for a fix. They were supposed to replace it, but it came back -- slightly SMALLER -- which means that all they did was run some software utiliies on it to quarantine off the bad sectors. Several days after it was returned, something went bad on the motherboard. They said that this was NOT covered under warranty, but they would be happy to replace the motherboard for $500.
I was able to get a replacement motherboard for ~$100.
The average person has a hard enough time understanding what a megabyte is, let alone a kilobyte. Let them continue to think it is one million bytes. The rest of us easily understand that one kilobyte = 1024 bytes, and so on. It's close enough for practical purposes, don't you think? The amount of memory in the computer isn't going to change if no matter what you rename it.
BeOS... sigh... Such a great OS. Maybe Palm will GPL it, or the OpenBeOS (no URL, sorry: http://openbeos.sourceforge.net, i think) people will finish their clone. But the kernel... maybe it will live on. Maybe. New Apps will be released, but it will eventually fall into an Amiga-Style situation, except that Amiga [amiga.com] is still around. Cross your fingers, and hope for a release of all the source code!
Not going to happen. But perhaps you might be the first person to start work on an open source clone? Like DOS, sure it had no security and it's limitations, but a lot of people considered it a decent OS. So somebody started a clone, and called (actually, later renamed) it FreeDOS
It means that there is no real choice in the typical election. When people go to the polls they generally vote against a candidate rather than for a candidate. (I.E. Joe votes for Bush Jr. because he hates Gore, and Jane votes for Gore because she hates Bush Jr. -- Neither really likes the candidate they voted for.) That is essentially manipulating the voting system but it's doing so in a perfectly acceptable way. Unfortunately, since almost everybody does this, a third party candidate has virtually no chance of becoming a strong contender. And third parties get a bad wrap because they "siphon" off votes from a particular candidate. (Note that the number of people who voted for Perot wasn't enough to ruin the election for Dole, but the number of people who voted for Nader certainly would have been enough to put Gore over the top.) In theory, voting should be a system where everybody votes for the candidate they want to elect. Then again, theory is a perfect realm. Thus the Republicrats remain in control. This hardly does an adequate job of representing what the populace really wants! One solution to this problem is to have runoff elections, which is better, but this doesn't go very far in helping third party candidates who the people really want. Another solution would be to give each person more than one vote. There are those who promote a ranking system, but personally I favor one where each person gets two equal votes. One for who they really want to win, and one for who they think has the best chance of winning against the candidate that they don't want to win. If I think two candidates are equally slimy, I don't want to have to rank one over the other. =)
(I didn't vote for either Republicrat in the last election.)
Others include: Limewire & Bearshare. They're both spyware / adware, but Limewire works great for me. It's at version 2.0, though last I checked the webpage they had reverted to the "Newest Version: 1.8c" logo for some reason...
I think that in the future we'll see chips shaped into a hollow cylider that object that increases speed by letting parts at (what would be) opposite ends (of a flat chip) communicate very quickly due to the reduced distance. A fan could blow directly through the center to cool the chip. Heck, even wrap it around a cooling pipe. The only problem I see is that if you drop the CPU before it's in the socket it will roll away...
What about a hybrid of conventional computers and quantumn computers such as this one? The quantum computers could do relatively small tasks that would take a conventional computer some time to do, and pass that information back to the conventional computer to speed processing times.
A red flag should go off when a Slashdot poster, or comment acceptor chooses a text with a link identical to one in an earlier story within a certain time period. Sort of a "Warning: Are you sure this hasn't been posted before? Check the story below to be sure this isn't a duplicate." message.
Yes, even the kings of slashdot could benefit from idiot-proof software.
Since it's going to take thousands of years, perhaps we could do something to help the process along a bit? Maybe send a few SUVs over or something? I suppose it is a bit ambitious however...
Yes! I can see it now -- NASA and Ford join forces to make the world a better place!... by removing all Ford vehicles from this planet.
There have been quite a few posts speculating on what exactly you would need to walk around on the Surface of mars should it warm up. But wouldn't the atmosphere still be too then for our fleshy-and-pressurized bodies?
Until people generally have the scientific background to understand these issues there should be more not less discussion in the media. Atmospheric effects of mans activities are poorly understood, so two main points of view are adopted - 'how can little old us effect something so big???' and 'don't piss in the bath'.
[...]
I'm a 'don't piss in the bath' person myself.
This is why I'm glad so many people who didn't support the Kyoto protocol take showers instead.
Nintendo is a Japanese company, and the Gamecube is hardly a domestic console. In fact I believe the X-Box to be the first truely domestic console.
Hm, really? I wasn't aware that the COnneticut LEather COmpany was located outside of the United States. Funny how those States of the union seem to drift around in the Atlantic...
I emailed Tom's Hardware pointing out several mistakes they had made on the same day it was posted, including some missing systems like the 3DO unit in the console list and listing the Dreamcast as a 64-bit system, rather than a 128-bit system. Amongst other complaints I made were the inclusion of Doom, which had very little role in the console realm, and over the lacking actual history in the history section. No mention of the great video game Crash of 1984? Or how the advent of polygon gaming changed the scene entirely? There was no response to my letter, and no change to the article. Personally I wonder if any of the writers has ever played on a console before the Playstation era.
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I don't know about you, but I'll be renaming my .ogg files .xph and associating that file type with my player. "Ogg" would be okay if it was pronounced "ohg", but I think "ahg" is ugly. And after all, the standard is being created by the Xiph foundation...
Then go back to Circus Shitty (they deserve this kind of hassle because of their old Divx "rental" format), whine that "it won't play in my DVD player!" and demand a refund.
How do you know they won't just tell you all you can get is an exchange for a CD or other merchandise of the same value? A slimy company is likely to have slimy business practices.
Here's a Circut City horror story: Several years ago, my girlfriend purchased a Compaq from C-City. While it was still under warranty, the hard drive started having a large number of errors, and she sent it in for a fix. They were supposed to replace it, but it came back -- slightly SMALLER -- which means that all they did was run some software utiliies on it to quarantine off the bad sectors. Several days after it was returned, something went bad on the motherboard. They said that this was NOT covered under warranty, but they would be happy to replace the motherboard for $500.
I was able to get a replacement motherboard for ~$100.
(Some nice "DEFECTIVE CD" stickers would help, I think)
Could you elaborate, please? I don't understand.
Redmond Linux is supposed to be pretty simple. Haven't installed it just yet, but will pretty soon here.
In the future, Linux may have as few as 1,000 vacuum tubes will weigh only 1.5 tons.
The average person has a hard enough time understanding what a megabyte is, let alone a kilobyte. Let them continue to think it is one million bytes. The rest of us easily understand that one kilobyte = 1024 bytes, and so on. It's close enough for practical purposes, don't you think? The amount of memory in the computer isn't going to change if no matter what you rename it.
BeOS... sigh... Such a great OS. Maybe Palm will GPL it, or the OpenBeOS (no URL, sorry: http://openbeos.sourceforge.net, i think) people will finish their clone. But the kernel... maybe it will live on. Maybe. New Apps will be released, but it will eventually fall into an Amiga-Style situation, except that Amiga [amiga.com] is still around. Cross your fingers, and hope for a release of all the source code!
Not going to happen. But perhaps you might be the first person to start work on an open source clone? Like DOS, sure it had no security and it's limitations, but a lot of people considered it a decent OS. So somebody started a clone, and called (actually, later renamed) it FreeDOS
What the heck does the .sig mean?
Quothe myself. =)
It means that there is no real choice in the typical election. When people go to the polls they generally vote against a candidate rather than for a candidate. (I.E. Joe votes for Bush Jr. because he hates Gore, and Jane votes for Gore because she hates Bush Jr. -- Neither really likes the candidate they voted for.) That is essentially manipulating the voting system but it's doing so in a perfectly acceptable way. Unfortunately, since almost everybody does this, a third party candidate has virtually no chance of becoming a strong contender. And third parties get a bad wrap because they "siphon" off votes from a particular candidate. (Note that the number of people who voted for Perot wasn't enough to ruin the election for Dole, but the number of people who voted for Nader certainly would have been enough to put Gore over the top.) In theory, voting should be a system where everybody votes for the candidate they want to elect. Then again, theory is a perfect realm. Thus the Republicrats remain in control. This hardly does an adequate job of representing what the populace really wants! One solution to this problem is to have runoff elections, which is better, but this doesn't go very far in helping third party candidates who the people really want. Another solution would be to give each person more than one vote. There are those who promote a ranking system, but personally I favor one where each person gets two equal votes. One for who they really want to win, and one for who they think has the best chance of winning against the candidate that they don't want to win. If I think two candidates are equally slimy, I don't want to have to rank one over the other. =)
(I didn't vote for either Republicrat in the last election.)
At least spell "candidate" correctly.
Thank you.
but always respect and honor.
Er... no.
Others include: Limewire & Bearshare. They're both spyware / adware, but Limewire works great for me. It's at version 2.0, though last I checked the webpage they had reverted to the "Newest Version: 1.8c" logo for some reason...
How about those who call it Lye-nucks?
Right here. Who is anybody to tell me I have to pronounce it as the ugly "Lihnux"? After all, Linus himself calls it "Lee-nooks."
Use poopy name, get sued, settle out of court, change to better name, use court publicity to sell product....
:)
Sounds like a great plan to me
Yeah, if your company is Sun / Intel / IBM or some other corporate giant.
Does Lindows have the money to settle?
Imagine how much money AOL could save in shipping if they could mail you a tiny chip instead of a CD!
And it would weigh less, so imagine how much less effort it would take to throw it away!
I think that in the future we'll see chips shaped into a hollow cylider that object that increases speed by letting parts at (what would be) opposite ends (of a flat chip) communicate very quickly due to the reduced distance. A fan could blow directly through the center to cool the chip. Heck, even wrap it around a cooling pipe. The only problem I see is that if you drop the CPU before it's in the socket it will roll away...
(Hmm... Quick, somebody file a patent!)
> Big fucking atoms...
They're Bigons!
(What, you don't get it?)
What about a hybrid of conventional computers and quantumn computers such as this one? The quantum computers could do relatively small tasks that would take a conventional computer some time to do, and pass that information back to the conventional computer to speed processing times.
Well, according to your theory, there would have to be a large number of geek-girls on the market for the all of the geeks to breed with.
If you ever figure out where this huge cache of geek-girls is, please let me know.
Anything but Athlon Pro!
A red flag should go off when a Slashdot poster, or comment acceptor chooses a text with a link identical to one in an earlier story within a certain time period. Sort of a "Warning: Are you sure this hasn't been posted before? Check the story below to be sure this isn't a duplicate." message.
Yes, even the kings of slashdot could benefit from idiot-proof software.
Since it's going to take thousands of years, perhaps we could do something to help the process along a bit? Maybe send a few SUVs over or something? I suppose it is a bit ambitious however...
... by removing all Ford vehicles from this planet.
Yes! I can see it now -- NASA and Ford join forces to make the world a better place!
There have been quite a few posts speculating on what exactly you would need to walk around on the Surface of mars should it warm up. But wouldn't the atmosphere still be too then for our fleshy-and-pressurized bodies?
Until people generally have the scientific background to understand these issues there should be more not less discussion in the media. Atmospheric effects of mans activities are poorly understood, so two main points of view are adopted - 'how can little old us effect something so big???' and 'don't piss in the bath'.
[...]
I'm a 'don't piss in the bath' person myself.
This is why I'm glad so many people who didn't support the Kyoto protocol take showers instead.
Nintendo is a Japanese company, and the Gamecube is hardly a domestic console. In fact I believe the X-Box to be the first truely domestic console.
Hm, really? I wasn't aware that the COnneticut LEather COmpany was located outside of the United States. Funny how those States of the union seem to drift around in the Atlantic...
I emailed Tom's Hardware pointing out several mistakes they had made on the same day it was posted, including some missing systems like the 3DO unit in the console list and listing the Dreamcast as a 64-bit system, rather than a 128-bit system. Amongst other complaints I made were the inclusion of Doom, which had very little role in the console realm, and over the lacking actual history in the history section. No mention of the great video game Crash of 1984? Or how the advent of polygon gaming changed the scene entirely? There was no response to my letter, and no change to the article. Personally I wonder if any of the writers has ever played on a console before the Playstation era.