I heard that the latest C'64's only had one chip on the inside. So even back then there was plenty of empty space inside. And the '64 always had a TV-out; you only had to make a DIN->scart connector. I had it connected to my TV like that for a long time.
This is one of MS's most brilliant moves ever. They turn one of their weaknesses into cash by selling sofware that patches flaws in their own software. This shows that Bill still is a marketing genius. I guess almost every/.-er knows someone who trusts MS and will certainly buy this handy new product of theirs. MS, although I don't love your products I have to congratulate you with this one.
This is really cool! I want a new body (mine isn't working properly) and this could be a mayor step forward towards a total body transplant! You know, put my bran into someone elses body and the grow the severed spinal cords together again.
Since the Chinese have no industrial history to speak of, they can try and develop in a more 'green' way than the western countries have done. They have the advantage of knowing what's bad for the environment, something that we had to find out the hard way. Of course everybody wants a car in China, but they can skip the first 100 years of car development and build 'clean' cars from the start. Since labour is still cheap in China getting rid of old cars can also be done in an environmentally friendly way much easier than here in the West. That is a huge advantage. Let's hope money doesn't stand too much in the way of the development of a greener, modern (as in 'westernized') China.
Oh well, we'll just have to use GaAs or some other semiconductor with a zincblende structure. Makes the chips sooo much faster and sooo much more expensive...
If they patented the structures they show in the images on their website (I can't read Japanese so I'm not sure) then they may have a point (and the world may have a big problem). On the other hand, carbon nanotubes are things that are easily formed in nature (it's the purification process that's complicated, and of course the processes involved in making carbon nanotubes with specified properties). Therefore patenting carbon nanotubes is like patenting iron, or silicon oxide. And I'm not sure if such a patent will hold in court.
I don't give a shit about what happens to my computer and data at work. Viruses etc are not my responsibility there. At home I have a firewall to protect my data.
I work in a research institute where we have a clean room. One of my colleagues got his drive working again by taking it apart in the clean room and putting it back together again.
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Download it and then try to find a legal copy. That's what I often do... In my opinion, if they don't want you to download it, the least they can do is make it possible for you to buy it without having to order it in the 'States or some other faraway place.
How many of you have had the experience that when you tell people that you use Mozilla because it's better than IE, they say something like `IE is very good, must be better than that nerdy crap you are using'? This is THE way to get those people using Mozilla, and Google at the same time. It's a fantastic idea, you should patent it!
But, if the industry works together on common WinFS schemas (not just for contacts either, but other types of data too), we'll come away with some really great new capabilities. It really will take getting developers excited about WinFS's promise and getting them to lose their fears about opening up their data types.
If M$ would work together with the industry and open up its data types we would come away with some really great new capabilities. This is incredible: they want 'the industry' to do what they never do, and I expect they will succeed. Prepare for the even more total domination of Microsoft in the near future.
What I mean is that insects probably don't "understand" or form "concepts" as we do. I don't think a nervous system of insectile complexity supports awareness to that degree.
You're right (well maybe). And I was talking about 'material' concepts like holes and other insects. But I once saw a film about two insects fighting. One was clearly losing because he was pushed back further and further, but sometimes it also gained some ground back on its opponent. But eventually it gave up and walked away. Now you and I can see that it had lost, but how the hell did this insect know that?
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I heard that the latest C'64's only had one chip on the inside. So even back then there was plenty of empty space inside. And the '64 always had a TV-out; you only had to make a DIN->scart connector. I had it connected to my TV like that for a long time.
This is one of MS's most brilliant moves ever. They turn one of their weaknesses into cash by selling sofware that patches flaws in their own software. This shows that Bill still is a marketing genius. I guess almost every /.-er knows someone who trusts MS and will certainly buy this handy new product of theirs. MS, although I don't love your products I have to congratulate you with this one.
Sorry, I saw Back to the future yesterday...
The Philips DVD 737 also plays all this. It looks nice too. I have it; it works well.
I think that day is coming sooner than we think.
I've heard people say that for the last ten years or so. I'll believe it when I see it. I hope you're right though.
I don't think we will live longer if we go back to 19th century living.
Does anyone here have an idea about the lifetime of OLEDs? I wouldn't want to have to buy a new TV every year or so...
Yes let's go for that 'simple' solution! :-)
What a crappy camera. It's all blurry! :-)
This is really cool! I want a new body (mine isn't working properly) and this could be a mayor step forward towards a total body transplant! You know, put my bran into someone elses body and the grow the severed spinal cords together again.
Wasn't something like this in Gabriel Knight II: Blood of the sacred, blood of the damned?
Since the Chinese have no industrial history to speak of, they can try and develop in a more 'green' way than the western countries have done. They have the advantage of knowing what's bad for the environment, something that we had to find out the hard way. Of course everybody wants a car in China, but they can skip the first 100 years of car development and build 'clean' cars from the start. Since labour is still cheap in China getting rid of old cars can also be done in an environmentally friendly way much easier than here in the West. That is a huge advantage. Let's hope money doesn't stand too much in the way of the development of a greener, modern (as in 'westernized') China.
That would go further than the steps Microsoft had to take when it settled an antitrust case in the United States in late 2001.
I mean, basically the US govt said: 'Bad MS! Don't do it again!' And then MS came with WinXP.
Also nice for connecting pacemakers to hearts and other serious stuff! Less worries about breaking cables.
Oh well, we'll just have to use GaAs or some other semiconductor with a zincblende structure. Makes the chips sooo much faster and sooo much more expensive...
If they patented the structures they show in the images on their website (I can't read Japanese so I'm not sure) then they may have a point (and the world may have a big problem). On the other hand, carbon nanotubes are things that are easily formed in nature (it's the purification process that's complicated, and of course the processes involved in making carbon nanotubes with specified properties). Therefore patenting carbon nanotubes is like patenting iron, or silicon oxide. And I'm not sure if such a patent will hold in court.
I don't give a shit about what happens to my computer and data at work. Viruses etc are not my responsibility there. At home I have a firewall to protect my data.
Don't rub your eyes after rubbing the cables with that stuff!
I work in a research institute where we have a clean room. One of my colleagues got his drive working again by taking it apart in the clean room and putting it back together again.
Download it and then try to find a legal copy. That's what I often do... In my opinion, if they don't want you to download it, the least they can do is make it possible for you to buy it without having to order it in the 'States or some other faraway place.
Just download The Emulator (vice)!
People trust Google.
How many of you have had the experience that when you tell people that you use Mozilla because it's better than IE, they say something like `IE is very good, must be better than that nerdy crap you are using'? This is THE way to get those people using Mozilla, and Google at the same time. It's a fantastic idea, you should patent it!
But, if the industry works together on common WinFS schemas (not just for contacts either, but other types of data too), we'll come away with some really great new capabilities. It really will take getting developers excited about WinFS's promise and getting them to lose their fears about opening up their data types.
If M$ would work together with the industry and open up its data types we would come away with some really great new capabilities. This is incredible: they want 'the industry' to do what they never do, and I expect they will succeed. Prepare for the even more total domination of Microsoft in the near future.
Wow, there should be a '+5, nerd' option for the moderators!
What I mean is that insects probably don't "understand" or form "concepts" as we do. I don't think a nervous system of insectile complexity supports awareness to that degree.
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You're right (well maybe). And I was talking about 'material' concepts like holes and other insects. But I once saw a film about two insects fighting. One was clearly losing because he was pushed back further and further, but sometimes it also gained some ground back on its opponent. But eventually it gave up and walked away. Now you and I can see that it had lost, but how the hell did this insect know that?
Thinking about this really makes you crazy