Is this just a new press release for a rebrand of Amazon Unbox, the badly-named service that I have been using with my TiVo for a long time now? I checked the site, and I don't see anything to indicate otherwise. As long as they don't change the way it works, then I'll be happy. If they added some new features, then I might be even happier.
everyone bought a wii and thought it was going to be amazing because wii sports gave the impression that such a 1:1 ratio was possible, but if you really examine how wii sports interprets motion controls, it's ultimately just a cheap trick to emulate 1:1 controls, which it only gets away with because the games are so simple.
Wow. I'd hate to be there when someone sits you down and explains the reality of movie CGI, or stuntmen, or how magicians make things "disappear", or any number of other "cheap tricks" that make the world interesting and fun. Sure, I can't play baseball on the Wii with a 1:1 control ratio or whatever. But you know what I can do? GO OUTSIDE AND THROW A BASEBALL. I don't play games on the Wii to emulate real life. I play to have fun. Same story with any console. You want to have lifelike experiences? Enjoy real life. In the meantime, while you're busy complaining, can I have your controller?
P.S. I apologize if you are a plumber in real life and you just discovered that you don't make money by hitting bricks with your head.
Am I the only one that is a bit skeptical of downloading.msi packages from nsa.gov?
I'm not wary at all. Any access they might want into your Windows system was probably built in. I imagine they already have that kind of access to every Windows computer. Anything they can give you to help keep your Windows machine from turning into part of a North Korean botnet can only benefit both you and the government.
The process is much more dynamic, involving a miniature molecular machine that must run constantly to keep memories going. Jamming the machine briefly can erase long-term memories.
Not sure what kind of research these scientists have been doing, but I routinely "jam the machine" with whiskey.
I don't think it will stand up in court. A few years ago, a friend and I were taken to small claims court and we won. When it was over, we asked the guy to sign a thing saying that he would never sue us for anything. Our lawyer said that it wouldn't hold up in court, but "he might not know that."
So why submit this if you don't like it? Why not at least title it "Lucasfilm thinks it's soooo great."? I'm sure you've seen bigger data centers, and you can type 500 lines of code a minute, and maybe you defeated a ninja in hand-to-hand combat, but for the rest of us "normal" nerds it's still neat to read about the machines that get the work done in a business. Of course it's hyped up, it's a press release disguised as news. Take it for what it is, relax, and try to imagine those 2,000 servers in a secret cave under your house, manipulating the stock market in your favor. That's what I do.
'In 10 years, I'd like people to say Google changed the world less for its search engine than for the way in which it changed philanthropy to make the world a better place.'
So is google.org going to start by shutting down or opening up google.cn?
That reminds me of a story I heard in the mid-1980s. A manufacturer of VCRs shipped each box with a videotape explaining how to use the VCR. The tape included instructions on how to hook up the VCR.
A few years ago, my brother in law bought a hard drive that came with instructions on CD-ROM. He ruined the drive by hooking it up with the power still on, because the instructions never said to turn the computer off.
What Automator looks like to me is nothing but a system for building small AppleScripts using a series of menus. My dad just switched to Apple, and I've been writing little AppleScripts to let him do little things (like moving the files he leaves on the Desktop into the correct directories), and it looks like now I'm going to be replaced by Automator. I look forward to it.
I think it's a big step toward an ultimate goal of an operating system that helps you use your applications, instead of an OS that gets in your way when you're trying to get work done, e.g. my dad doesn't want to worry about where he needs to save a song he downloaded, he just wants iTunes to play the song. He's a lot like me (and you too, I suspect). If he can spend 5 minutes in Automator to save 2 minutes of moving files every day, he will.
This is the worst comment to ever be on slashdot, and I'm even counting the Goatse one.
He doesn't even begin to do a little bit of basic research before replying with "This is teh suck" to the whole interview and moving on. He provides no insight into his own personality or character and sounds rather uninteresting.
You really should check his book out. Your point is addressed in The Humane Interface, and he has a pretty good understanding of it. That's why he designed a system where you don't have to remember (or care at all) where something is saved, or what the file name was. That's all taken care of by the operating system, which is like a combination OS/typical application suite/desktop search tool. No more "I made this in Word, I have to open that one in Acrobat because it's in another format" stuff. Just type it, save it, and go. He has quite a few really good ideas. I don't like all of them, but there are some that I'd like to have in my OS right now.
It's still a UI even if it's not a GUI. Every part of a device that lets you manipulate the device or check on its status is the user interface. Part of Apple's appeal, at least for me, has always been their attention to EVERY part of the user interface, even things that I wouldn't have thought to ask for. They make mistakes now and then, or maybe something turns out to be less durable than they expected (like an iPod battery), but overall their products are VERY easy to use, and I don't expect any less out of the new iPod.
On the other hand, if it does suck, they can give me my damn money back as quickly as I forked it over to them.
So you want computer manufacturers to monitor and record the locations of the laptops they sell, just in case one gets stolen someday? Something just doesn't sound right about that.
Privacy concerns aside, it sounds like a support nightmare for computer manufacturers too. The extra cost of tracking every laptop they make would drive laptop prices back up, just when they're getting low enough for me to buy one for myself.
Also, as you pointed out, this just isn't going to work against people who know what they're doing. The man who steals your laptop in the airport (for example. If that's where yours was stolen, it wasn't me!) doesn't want it so he can get online. He wants quick money for it. And those people will learn to just format the machines and sell them without ever getting them on the internet. You might eventually recover your computer, but your data will be long gone, and so will the thief.
Your best bet for not getting your laptop stolen is just don't let go of it in public. Don't let it out of your sight, and if someone suspicious approaches, shoot to kill.
That's a good point, if you're looking at a desktop system. Most people use one of the 2 big desktop environments. However, a Linux server isn't always going to have the desktop environment installed, so we don't have to worry about KDE bugs. Windows doesn't really give you that option so the whole package has to be included.
So if I'm looking at numbers for a server system, then I'm going to want to check the system that's closest to what I'll put in production. If I'm purchasing desktop systems for work, then I will have to go somewhere else to find information on GNOME and KDE bugs. If I'm purchasing a desktop system for my house, I just go to www.apple.com and click "Buy".
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Good point. I typed in "icy h" and got "icy hot stuntaz" at the top of the list. Damn rappers, using their drug money to advertise their CDs...
Seriously, though, if they're thinking about that maybe they could have "sponsored" matches show up in another color or something.
A harbinger describes things to come, so this phrase is equal to "A fortelling of things to come of things to come".
Doesn't "foretell" also mean "to describe things to come"? So this phrase is equal to "Talking about things to come of things to come of things to come". Not that it really matters. This is Slashdot, and "harbinger of things to come" is poetry compared to ninety percent of the stuff here.
Pet Peeve #1977833: I hate it when people inject their own personal beliefs into any system. Face it, some people are religious. Even people who write scientific articles. Reporters are not robots, and the news is full of personal bias. That's what makes you read one newspaper instead of another: you pick the one that agrees with your taste.
That said, the word "genesis" did not come from the Bible, nor did the word "heaven". "Genesis" is a beginning or creation, "the heavens" describes the sky, and "reading too much into stuff" describes both of us, I think.
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Is this just a new press release for a rebrand of Amazon Unbox, the badly-named service that I have been using with my TiVo for a long time now? I checked the site, and I don't see anything to indicate otherwise. As long as they don't change the way it works, then I'll be happy. If they added some new features, then I might be even happier.
everyone bought a wii and thought it was going to be amazing because wii sports gave the impression that such a 1:1 ratio was possible, but if you really examine how wii sports interprets motion controls, it's ultimately just a cheap trick to emulate 1:1 controls, which it only gets away with because the games are so simple.
Wow. I'd hate to be there when someone sits you down and explains the reality of movie CGI, or stuntmen, or how magicians make things "disappear", or any number of other "cheap tricks" that make the world interesting and fun. Sure, I can't play baseball on the Wii with a 1:1 control ratio or whatever. But you know what I can do? GO OUTSIDE AND THROW A BASEBALL. I don't play games on the Wii to emulate real life. I play to have fun. Same story with any console. You want to have lifelike experiences? Enjoy real life. In the meantime, while you're busy complaining, can I have your controller?
P.S. I apologize if you are a plumber in real life and you just discovered that you don't make money by hitting bricks with your head.
I'm not wary at all. Any access they might want into your Windows system was probably built in. I imagine they already have that kind of access to every Windows computer. Anything they can give you to help keep your Windows machine from turning into part of a North Korean botnet can only benefit both you and the government.
And thanks, Emacs, for being so enormous that there is a reasonable expectation that any given command will do something.
Please...never, ever answer your Sybian phone if we're both in the same room...
The process is much more dynamic, involving a miniature molecular machine that must run constantly to keep memories going. Jamming the machine briefly can erase long-term memories.
Not sure what kind of research these scientists have been doing, but I routinely "jam the machine" with whiskey.
If Schrödinger wrote the script, all you had to do is open your TiVo box to know.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Tony makes a loud buzzing noise and catches fire. My house burns down. Damn, an interactive show finale! Great job, HBO!
I don't think it will stand up in court. A few years ago, a friend and I were taken to small claims court and we won. When it was over, we asked the guy to sign a thing saying that he would never sue us for anything. Our lawyer said that it wouldn't hold up in court, but "he might not know that."
So why submit this if you don't like it? Why not at least title it "Lucasfilm thinks it's soooo great."? I'm sure you've seen bigger data centers, and you can type 500 lines of code a minute, and maybe you defeated a ninja in hand-to-hand combat, but for the rest of us "normal" nerds it's still neat to read about the machines that get the work done in a business. Of course it's hyped up, it's a press release disguised as news. Take it for what it is, relax, and try to imagine those 2,000 servers in a secret cave under your house, manipulating the stock market in your favor. That's what I do.
Katamari Damacy.
Wario Ware.
Dance Dance Revolution.
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.
Animal Crossing.
The games are there, if you look around.
(Of course, for most normal people, neat gadgets come before life necessities and productivity boosters...)
So is google.org going to start by shutting down or opening up google.cn?
A few years ago, my brother in law bought a hard drive that came with instructions on CD-ROM. He ruined the drive by hooking it up with the power still on, because the instructions never said to turn the computer off.
Some sort of sex toy that you stick in your bellybutton?
I think Ikea sells them.
I think it's a big step toward an ultimate goal of an operating system that helps you use your applications, instead of an OS that gets in your way when you're trying to get work done, e.g. my dad doesn't want to worry about where he needs to save a song he downloaded, he just wants iTunes to play the song. He's a lot like me (and you too, I suspect). If he can spend 5 minutes in Automator to save 2 minutes of moving files every day, he will.
He doesn't even begin to do a little bit of basic research before replying with "This is teh suck" to the whole interview and moving on. He provides no insight into his own personality or character and sounds rather uninteresting.
And he's anti-stoner. Jesus fuck.
You really should check his book out. Your point is addressed in The Humane Interface, and he has a pretty good understanding of it. That's why he designed a system where you don't have to remember (or care at all) where something is saved, or what the file name was. That's all taken care of by the operating system, which is like a combination OS/typical application suite/desktop search tool. No more "I made this in Word, I have to open that one in Acrobat because it's in another format" stuff. Just type it, save it, and go. He has quite a few really good ideas. I don't like all of them, but there are some that I'd like to have in my OS right now.
On the other hand, if it does suck, they can give me my damn money back as quickly as I forked it over to them.
Privacy concerns aside, it sounds like a support nightmare for computer manufacturers too. The extra cost of tracking every laptop they make would drive laptop prices back up, just when they're getting low enough for me to buy one for myself.
Also, as you pointed out, this just isn't going to work against people who know what they're doing. The man who steals your laptop in the airport (for example. If that's where yours was stolen, it wasn't me!) doesn't want it so he can get online. He wants quick money for it. And those people will learn to just format the machines and sell them without ever getting them on the internet. You might eventually recover your computer, but your data will be long gone, and so will the thief.
Your best bet for not getting your laptop stolen is just don't let go of it in public. Don't let it out of your sight, and if someone suspicious approaches, shoot to kill.
So if I'm looking at numbers for a server system, then I'm going to want to check the system that's closest to what I'll put in production. If I'm purchasing desktop systems for work, then I will have to go somewhere else to find information on GNOME and KDE bugs. If I'm purchasing a desktop system for my house, I just go to www.apple.com and click "Buy".
Seriously, though, if they're thinking about that maybe they could have "sponsored" matches show up in another color or something.
Go ahead and move to the moon. We'll be up there to "liberate" the moon soon enough. Dubya wants to reduce our dependency on foreign cheese.
At the rate our political campaigns are going, I think we're going to find out this November.
Doesn't "foretell" also mean "to describe things to come"? So this phrase is equal to "Talking about things to come of things to come of things to come". Not that it really matters. This is Slashdot, and "harbinger of things to come" is poetry compared to ninety percent of the stuff here.
That said, the word "genesis" did not come from the Bible, nor did the word "heaven". "Genesis" is a beginning or creation, "the heavens" describes the sky, and "reading too much into stuff" describes both of us, I think.