>Before this attempt the NASA JPL team were playing in their own sandpit trying to replicate the conditions on Mars.
Okay, so I gather that the sand was to simulate martian soil conditions, and the radio-operated vehicle simulated the rover's movements. But what was the significance of the tanning lotion and beach umbrella?:P
According to this article on silicon.com, Firefox is still growing! As of April 29th, Firefox had captured 6.8 percent of the browser market and IE slipped to 88.9 percent market share. Break out the champagne, folks!
Crap, do Sun and IBM know about this? They'll have to make a couple more purchases just to keep up with Google. Wake me up when there's only one fish left in the pond...
I'm sure this is just a toe in the water for Apple to start offering movies and other on-demand video with ITMS. Anyone who's been watching how movie trailers are hosted by Apple, how iTunes interfaces with HQ trailers, how Jobs has been talking of late, and how ITMS has been dabbling in video can't help but see the writing on the wall. Apple wants to be your one-stop media shop, not just the place where you buy songs or little music players. They're looking to marginalize entire swaths of the old regime in one fell swoop, and for my part, I'm rather looking forward to the shake-up.
Yes, a lot of the preceding has been hinted at by Cringely, there's nothing wrong with agreeing with someone else's take on things.:)
That's the problem with them damn Brits, they don't realize it's boobies in movies that's the real corrupting influence, not a little innocent killing and maiming.
I don't understand how this is any different than having an open standard with open-source drivers? It seems to me this is roughly the same thing, but without the big companies, years of experience, corporate support, or breadth of input. Does someone want to enlighten me on the fundamental difference I'm missing?
My question is, what's to stop this sort of behaviour? Most free software projects operate under a tight budget as it is, how many have the funds to sue anyone who misappropriates their GPLed code? If every victim has to solicit donations to fund a lawsuit then what's to be done? Sure the FSF can probably help, but I doubt they'd have the resources to defend the GPL on multiple fronts if violators launched a wholesale attack.
How does allowing domains to be registered using Chinese characters have anything to do with censorship? The linked articles just prove that China already filters web traffic, regulates content, and shuts down sites they don't like. How is the ability to use Chinese characters in your location bar an indication of a sinister new plot? Sure, there is a sinister plot afoot, but I don't see how this is an astonishing new development...
Okay, the CGI, sound, and effects were outstanding. But the acting and dialogue made me pray I'd be struck by a passing meteorite. Wait a minute, that was a verbatim transcript of my opinions of Ep1 & 2... Maybe these folks are on to something...
This sounds to me like a marketing message that will fall on deaf ears. Do people really care that iTunes is only iPod-compatible? After all, most people have an iPod. To the average consumer it's not iTunes that's proprietary, it's anything that can't play on an iPod that's considered incompatible. You can't really point at the defacto standard, that people know and love, and scream "proprietary, proprietary!" Proprietary it may be, but it's a convoluted and diluted message that that will just confuse consumers. The iTunes marketing message is "Cool, and hip, and all your friends are doing it." The Napster marketing message is "we're not proprietary?" Someone needs to go take Marketing 101.
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While this article includes nothing new for any regular/. reader, it's still a really good one. It avoids the all-to-common journalistic practise of balancing one positive statement with one negative statement. This article doesn't serve as a bullborn for FUD, it's entirely positive wrt Linux and the open source model. And it's written in a way that any shmoe can understand.
So why would us slashdotters care about an article written for average shmoes? Well, because we can forward it to friends and family who have a hard time relating to this "Linux" thing they keep hearing us enthusiastically blathering about. I've already sent it to my friends and family, you should too. C'mon, get going.
No, I have no stock in BusinessWeek, don't be so cynical.
This is totally awesome, I've been an X-Files fan for years. I really respect how Darryl D'Anchovie left the series to pursue his own independent acting career in Hollywood. I absolutely loved him as "the bouncer" in 25th Hour, and he was great as "raving fan" in Elektra, or "towel boy" in "Million Dollar Baby." See? There really is life after X-Files, good on him for standing up for what's right and leaving the show at its height...
What's your IQ, like 2? It's called a comparison. I merely said that the storage industry bests Moore's Law. Yanno, helping people understand a concept by comparing it to one that they're familiar with? Dullard.
This article is terrible. Looks like nothing more than a usenet rant to me. The author decries the terrible progress of the storage industry, obviously completely ignorant of the fact that the storage industry has consistently bested Moore's Law for at least a decade. If processors increased in speed at the pace that hard drives increase in size, we'd have processors in the tens of gigahertz today. Besides moaning about the slow pace of one of the fastest-paced areas in the industry, what is it the author thinks they should be focusing on? In his own words:
we would certainly like to see a set pattern where users can expect something significant in this industry
"Something." That's as specific as the author gets. Storage capacity is doubling every 12 months, but we need to see something significant. Nothing in particular, mind you. Just something. Go figure it out, come back to us when you're done. That's 5 mins of my life I'll never get back...
Huh? How is this "-1 Free Speech?" No one is being told they can't practise religion, no one is being told they can't teach it. But they are ruling that it is unconstitutional to place a sticker on every copy of a textbook that teaches evolution to say that it's only a theory. This is the same as if the government insisted every copy of the bible or koran be sold with a sticker on it that says "the opinions contained herein are bunk." They can't do that, nor can they mandate stickers on books that teach evolution. It's got absolutely nothing to do with free speech.
I think this is an excellent idea, another example of Disney's new groundbreaking philosophy. A groundbreaking... sequel. Get Eddie Murhpy in to do some voices, add a breakfast cereal tie-in, a trailer that only airs in front of one of their other loser movies, a McDonald's meal toy, and you're well on your way to a Disney classic!
Almost forgot, better hire Pixar to do the actual movie itself, Disney only does cross-promotional advertising now...
Yeah I have to agree. I think 99% of all "video" games ever made are designed around a false assumption: that players enjoy failing. So games are all built around the concept of completing tasks of ever-increasing difficulty where you are rewarded for success and punished for failure. Punishment is usually doled out in the way of death, XP debt, item wear, lost money etc. What is wrong with this picture?
Surely in 1985 a puzzle was a sure way to keep people occupied, and increasing levels of difficulty is what kept people interested in what was ultimately an extremely repetitive and simple game. It was necessary. But no longer. Game designers are stuck with principles that only served them on a Commodore 64.
Now we have massively multiplayer online games with massive, sprawling maps that make up entire worlds. Games should be open-ended and engaging, players should be driven by a love to explore an amazing new world. To see and do everything they possibly can in a fantasy world that they relate to. Not continue to pursue a punishment/reward feedback loop. Kill, level, kill, die, kill, level, die... Games designers, wake up!
>Christopher Lee still did an absolutely brilliant job as Saruman
And how... I have to admit I'm a "new-school" fan of Christopher Lee, the oldest film I've seen him in is Sleepy Hollow. But my gosh, this man has been brilliant in everything I've ever seen him in. I've since learned that he was a film legend long before I was born, I'm glad to see he's getting his due from a younger generation as well.
Personally I can't imagine LoTR without him. And he was certainly the best actor in Star Wars Episode II. Considering most of the other actors in Ep2 have vaguely hinted that Lucas insisted they act wooden and stiff, one can only assume Lee simply flaunted the direction he was given and acted brilliantly in spite of Lucas' requests.
And thank God for that, because I can't picture a better casting choice for Saruman than Christopher Lee. And with an equally impressive choice of Ian McKellen as Gandalf, the showdown in FoTR was nothing less than spectacular.
In fact, if you ask me we've seen three of movie-making's best "clashes of the Titans" all in recent years. Christopher Lee and Ian McKellen in LoTR. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in X-Men. Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman in HP:TPoA. All examples of fantastic casting, IMO.
Wow, that's such a simple idea but for some reason I've never thought of it that way. If not for Apache, we'd be in a living hell where Microsoft controlled every aspect of the web. They were just a hair's width from global domination, that's gotta burn their butts.:P
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>Before this attempt the NASA JPL team were playing in their own sandpit trying to replicate the conditions on Mars.
Okay, so I gather that the sand was to simulate martian soil conditions, and the radio-operated vehicle simulated the rover's movements. But what was the significance of the tanning lotion and beach umbrella? :P
According to this article on silicon.com, Firefox is still growing! As of April 29th, Firefox had captured 6.8 percent of the browser market and IE slipped to 88.9 percent market share. Break out the champagne, folks!
Uh yeah, nice article. Glass half empty...
Crap, do Sun and IBM know about this? They'll have to make a couple more purchases just to keep up with Google. Wake me up when there's only one fish left in the pond...
I'm sure this is just a toe in the water for Apple to start offering movies and other on-demand video with ITMS. Anyone who's been watching how movie trailers are hosted by Apple, how iTunes interfaces with HQ trailers, how Jobs has been talking of late, and how ITMS has been dabbling in video can't help but see the writing on the wall. Apple wants to be your one-stop media shop, not just the place where you buy songs or little music players. They're looking to marginalize entire swaths of the old regime in one fell swoop, and for my part, I'm rather looking forward to the shake-up.
Yes, a lot of the preceding has been hinted at by Cringely, there's nothing wrong with agreeing with someone else's take on things. :)
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Yuh-hunh. Sin City and Kill Bill Volume 1 move over, this one's a blood bath. OOOOooooo....
That's the problem with them damn Brits, they don't realize it's boobies in movies that's the real corrupting influence, not a little innocent killing and maiming.
I don't understand how this is any different than having an open standard with open-source drivers? It seems to me this is roughly the same thing, but without the big companies, years of experience, corporate support, or breadth of input. Does someone want to enlighten me on the fundamental difference I'm missing?
My question is, what's to stop this sort of behaviour? Most free software projects operate under a tight budget as it is, how many have the funds to sue anyone who misappropriates their GPLed code? If every victim has to solicit donations to fund a lawsuit then what's to be done? Sure the FSF can probably help, but I doubt they'd have the resources to defend the GPL on multiple fronts if violators launched a wholesale attack.
How does allowing domains to be registered using Chinese characters have anything to do with censorship? The linked articles just prove that China already filters web traffic, regulates content, and shuts down sites they don't like. How is the ability to use Chinese characters in your location bar an indication of a sinister new plot? Sure, there is a sinister plot afoot, but I don't see how this is an astonishing new development...
And directing both series' will be acclaimed hollywood director "Ben Dover."
Okay, the CGI, sound, and effects were outstanding. But the acting and dialogue made me pray I'd be struck by a passing meteorite. Wait a minute, that was a verbatim transcript of my opinions of Ep1 & 2... Maybe these folks are on to something...
This sounds to me like a marketing message that will fall on deaf ears. Do people really care that iTunes is only iPod-compatible? After all, most people have an iPod. To the average consumer it's not iTunes that's proprietary, it's anything that can't play on an iPod that's considered incompatible. You can't really point at the defacto standard, that people know and love, and scream "proprietary, proprietary!" Proprietary it may be, but it's a convoluted and diluted message that that will just confuse consumers. The iTunes marketing message is "Cool, and hip, and all your friends are doing it." The Napster marketing message is "we're not proprietary?" Someone needs to go take Marketing 101.
While this article includes nothing new for any regular /. reader, it's still a really good one. It avoids the all-to-common journalistic practise of balancing one positive statement with one negative statement. This article doesn't serve as a bullborn for FUD, it's entirely positive wrt Linux and the open source model. And it's written in a way that any shmoe can understand.
So why would us slashdotters care about an article written for average shmoes? Well, because we can forward it to friends and family who have a hard time relating to this "Linux" thing they keep hearing us enthusiastically blathering about. I've already sent it to my friends and family, you should too. C'mon, get going.
No, I have no stock in BusinessWeek, don't be so cynical.
This is totally awesome, I've been an X-Files fan for years. I really respect how Darryl D'Anchovie left the series to pursue his own independent acting career in Hollywood. I absolutely loved him as "the bouncer" in 25th Hour, and he was great as "raving fan" in Elektra, or "towel boy" in "Million Dollar Baby." See? There really is life after X-Files, good on him for standing up for what's right and leaving the show at its height...
And yet the answer is counter-intuitive. Economists are bad at genetics!
What's your IQ, like 2? It's called a comparison. I merely said that the storage industry bests Moore's Law. Yanno, helping people understand a concept by comparing it to one that they're familiar with? Dullard.
This article is terrible. Looks like nothing more than a usenet rant to me. The author decries the terrible progress of the storage industry, obviously completely ignorant of the fact that the storage industry has consistently bested Moore's Law for at least a decade. If processors increased in speed at the pace that hard drives increase in size, we'd have processors in the tens of gigahertz today. Besides moaning about the slow pace of one of the fastest-paced areas in the industry, what is it the author thinks they should be focusing on? In his own words:
we would certainly like to see a set pattern where users can expect something significant in this industry
"Something." That's as specific as the author gets. Storage capacity is doubling every 12 months, but we need to see something significant. Nothing in particular, mind you. Just something. Go figure it out, come back to us when you're done. That's 5 mins of my life I'll never get back...
Huh? How is this "-1 Free Speech?" No one is being told they can't practise religion, no one is being told they can't teach it. But they are ruling that it is unconstitutional to place a sticker on every copy of a textbook that teaches evolution to say that it's only a theory. This is the same as if the government insisted every copy of the bible or koran be sold with a sticker on it that says "the opinions contained herein are bunk." They can't do that, nor can they mandate stickers on books that teach evolution. It's got absolutely nothing to do with free speech.
I think this is an excellent idea, another example of Disney's new groundbreaking philosophy. A groundbreaking... sequel. Get Eddie Murhpy in to do some voices, add a breakfast cereal tie-in, a trailer that only airs in front of one of their other loser movies, a McDonald's meal toy, and you're well on your way to a Disney classic!
Almost forgot, better hire Pixar to do the actual movie itself, Disney only does cross-promotional advertising now...
Yeah I have to agree. I think 99% of all "video" games ever made are designed around a false assumption: that players enjoy failing. So games are all built around the concept of completing tasks of ever-increasing difficulty where you are rewarded for success and punished for failure. Punishment is usually doled out in the way of death, XP debt, item wear, lost money etc. What is wrong with this picture?
Surely in 1985 a puzzle was a sure way to keep people occupied, and increasing levels of difficulty is what kept people interested in what was ultimately an extremely repetitive and simple game. It was necessary. But no longer. Game designers are stuck with principles that only served them on a Commodore 64.
Now we have massively multiplayer online games with massive, sprawling maps that make up entire worlds. Games should be open-ended and engaging, players should be driven by a love to explore an amazing new world. To see and do everything they possibly can in a fantasy world that they relate to. Not continue to pursue a punishment/reward feedback loop. Kill, level, kill, die, kill, level, die... Games designers, wake up!
>Christopher Lee still did an absolutely brilliant job as Saruman
And how... I have to admit I'm a "new-school" fan of Christopher Lee, the oldest film I've seen him in is Sleepy Hollow. But my gosh, this man has been brilliant in everything I've ever seen him in. I've since learned that he was a film legend long before I was born, I'm glad to see he's getting his due from a younger generation as well.
Personally I can't imagine LoTR without him. And he was certainly the best actor in Star Wars Episode II. Considering most of the other actors in Ep2 have vaguely hinted that Lucas insisted they act wooden and stiff, one can only assume Lee simply flaunted the direction he was given and acted brilliantly in spite of Lucas' requests.
And thank God for that, because I can't picture a better casting choice for Saruman than Christopher Lee. And with an equally impressive choice of Ian McKellen as Gandalf, the showdown in FoTR was nothing less than spectacular. In fact, if you ask me we've seen three of movie-making's best "clashes of the Titans" all in recent years. Christopher Lee and Ian McKellen in LoTR. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in X-Men. Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman in HP:TPoA. All examples of fantastic casting, IMO.
Wow, that's such a simple idea but for some reason I've never thought of it that way. If not for Apache, we'd be in a living hell where Microsoft controlled every aspect of the web. They were just a hair's width from global domination, that's gotta burn their butts. :P
Try reading the article. It plunged 17.5%, not 7.5%. Or in your rush to FP did you just read the first couple sentences?