32bit, eh? I thought we'd finally get over that phase...
Anyway, this naming scheme is too unlikely to be an incident. Anybody who's ever been to Northwood, NH, will know what I mean.
Northwood, NH, is a place were the color peels off the buildings, the only motels are smelly roach traps, and half the town deals in -this is no joke- antiques.
Babelfish is really the product of a company called Systrans (or similar). I think they're based in France. So I doubt AV could release that code, even if they wanted, they just licensed it.
Hey, how am I supposed to know? Nobody besides those pesky Americans uses that outdated system. But I did know that 0C was freezing, thank you very much.;)
Well since TI doesn't produce PCs (or do they? Never heard of a ti pc), he's probably hallucinating. Yes, smaller, portable computers (pdas, webpads, notebooks, handhelds, whatever) will become more and more improtant, but I doubt few people would want to not-have a PC at home. Let's face it, PCs are just too versatile. You can do anything with them, while portables are always more specialized. You can write your letters and emails with your PC AND play the latest 3d-games.
If nothing else, desktop pcs will always have the advantage of size - you can just cram much more hardware into those things, and power is never a concern.
So yes, desktop PCs will become somewhat less dominant, but to say that their era is ending anytime soon is nothing more than proof of a vivid imagination.;)
I want to have Baldur's gate, Planescape:Torment, and sequels (like Icewind Dale) on Linux. And I think they're not that for away either, Baldur's Gate was a Hit, and Linux is a GEEK's operating system.
Show me the one true geek who doesn't love role-playing games...;-)
I want one of these things. No, make that two. If they work anything like advertised, they're the best thing that happened since Linus started to code that hobby OS.
Again a tip for those not getting a feed from zdtv, try CNN, works great. It's advertised on their front page.
What are you talking about? I just went to the zdnet site and there's a plain link in the right-hand box to a.ram file. I don't think you need a plugin for that.;-)
This is gonna be the most thrilling technical thingie this millenium[1], or the biggest disappointment. I think my pessimistic nature expects the later...
Guess we'll finally see in, uh, 48 minutes.
[1] Yes I know everybody and their kid sister celebrated three weeks ago. Not my problem.;)
Actually there have been experiments with feedback, too - There was a case where a paralyzed guy was able to control a computer cursor with his brain waves - only in "up/down" directions, but also a very impressive start. Sorry, I don't have any links handy right now.
I say give this technology five to ten years, and see what happens.
The only scary thing is, what if they really succeede to build a "thought reader"? It's not that unrealistic, you know....
I *loved* this. It's been on my wishlist for Linux forever. I've written to Firaxis (orhwateveritsspelled), to loki etc and I guess it payed off.
I gotta bribe Kayt to get me on that beta, too...;-)
I think Linux is finally catching up on the really cool games. Now, I am waiting and crossing my fingers if they ever manage to get the Baldur's Gate series ported. I'd told them I'd pay 150 bucks for Baldur's gate.
If they pull that off, then I'll start to worship the ground they walk on:-)
...I am not a skilled hacker, I sit on the other side of the conflict;-) This could be a fun job - you get to hack the coolest targets, you get the best equipment, stuff they don't even have in the commercial world I am sure, and it all has the romantic "Sneakers" feel. You'd finally find out just how many backdoors they put into Windows. All with total impunity. Sounds cool to me. Too bad that you'd never be allowed to brag about your exploit.... so that kinda kills the spirit.
- in Lille, France the Metro system has been down for at least 2 days.. no reason given, so I dunno if it's a y2k bug or not...
- customers of Eplus, a German cellular phone company, could not use France Telecom or Bouygtel as a roaming provider after 1/1/00... officially not a y2k bug, but the "workaround" given by the service rep was so lame, I am pretty sure it was a y2k issue.
Can you guess where I was for new year?;-)
Otherwise the world's still in the same fucked-up state as it was when I last read Slashdot/the news.. Yeltsin resigned? My....
I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I'd say that once ebvay explicitely says "no", then no, you can't copy their contents. However, linking, and even "grabbing" stuff from websites is so deeply entrenched in the way the web works and is utilized that it's a dangerous precedent at best.
While the problem of Spam seems to have lessened in recent years (it did for me, anyway), I still think Spammers should be hit with everything we can must.
Real-life advertisments are bad enough, but Spam really takes the buiscuit. It's often illegal or immoral, and almost always the spammers hide by abusing a honest netuser's badly maintained mailserver to handle the load of traffic, generating in fact large damages. Also, some spammers go even further - Twice, a spammer used my email address in the From field. This, as you may understand, caused in me a "zero tolerance to spammers" attitude.
If Spam was properly labelled and included valid from: information, I could tolerate it (and feed them their own spam). Just like in the Real World.
Anyway, the bottom line: I think with lawsuits like this, justice is served.
...no offense, but this is something the world has known for a couple of decades...
Seriously though, I wouldn't be surprised if this is common to all industrialized nations. I am just wondering why this is so... or maybe ALL of humanity is basically nuts to some extent?
...I tried napster on a friend's Windoze computer, found something interesting, and ORDERED THE CD. That's fifteen or so bucks the record label would have never earned had it not been for napster.
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32bit, eh? I thought we'd finally get over that phase...
Anyway, this naming scheme is too unlikely to be an incident. Anybody who's ever been to Northwood, NH, will know what I mean.
Northwood, NH, is a place were the color peels off the buildings, the only motels are smelly roach traps, and half the town deals in -this is no joke- antiques.
Babelfish is really the product of a company called Systrans (or similar). I think they're based in France.
So I doubt AV could release that code, even if they wanted, they just licensed it.
Hey, how am I supposed to know? Nobody besides those pesky Americans uses that outdated system. But I did know that 0C was freezing, thank you very much. ;)
Well since TI doesn't produce PCs (or do they? Never heard of a ti pc), he's probably hallucinating. Yes, smaller, portable computers (pdas, webpads, notebooks, handhelds, whatever) will become more and more improtant, but I doubt few people would want to not-have a PC at home. Let's face it, PCs are just too versatile. You can do anything with them, while portables are always more specialized. You can write your letters and emails with your PC AND play the latest 3d-games.
;)
If nothing else, desktop pcs will always have the advantage of size - you can just cram much more hardware into those things, and power is never a concern.
So yes, desktop PCs will become somewhat less dominant, but to say that their era is ending anytime soon is nothing more than proof of a vivid imagination.
I want to have Baldur's gate, Planescape:Torment, and sequels (like Icewind Dale) on Linux. And I think they're not that for away either, Baldur's Gate was a Hit, and Linux is a GEEK's operating system.
;-)
Show me the one true geek who doesn't love role-playing games...
So I bet this is one that Loki would love to get.
Here are my picks of What Shaped The Century:
;)
Jet planes (airliners; flight in general)
Aritifcial fertilizer
Nuclear weapons
The Pill
Telephones
Microcomputers
I specifically exclude the following because they will only really affect the NEW century:
The Net
Gentechnology
Can't think of any more, my brain's fried.
34F? That's below freezing, isn't it?
I want one of these things. No, make that two. If they work anything like advertised, they're the best thing that happened since Linus started to code that hobby OS.
Again a tip for those not getting a feed from zdtv, try CNN, works great. It's advertised on their front page.
Check CNN, they are doing a live broadcast in real format as well.
What are you talking about? .ram file. I don't think you need a plugin for that. ;-)
I just went to the zdnet site and there's a plain link in the right-hand box to a
Hmmm, a dreamcast powered by Transmeta processors running Debian, maybe? ;-)
This is gonna be the most thrilling technical thingie this millenium[1], or the biggest disappointment. I think my pessimistic nature expects the later...
;)
Guess we'll finally see in, uh, 48 minutes.
[1] Yes I know everybody and their kid sister celebrated three weeks ago. Not my problem.
17 hours in what time? A week? A month? A year?
I mean, that's my consumption for an average day.
(Yes I have no life, yes I work in the industry.)
Actually there have been experiments with feedback, too - There was a case where a paralyzed guy was able to control a computer cursor with his brain waves - only in "up/down" directions, but also a very impressive start. Sorry, I don't have any links handy right now.
I say give this technology five to ten years, and see what happens.
The only scary thing is, what if they really succeede to build a "thought reader"? It's not that unrealistic, you know....
...it's called stenography: text entry by abstract "characters". So in fact I think neither company could patent this kind of thing.
And don't give me this "unistroke is easier" stuff, I looked at the unistroke sheet, I'd never be able to memeorize these.
Palm's graffitti is much closer to real handwriting than this unistroke stuff.
I *loved* this. It's been on my wishlist for Linux forever. I've written to Firaxis (orhwateveritsspelled), to loki etc and I guess it payed off.
;-)
:-)
I gotta bribe Kayt to get me on that beta, too...
I think Linux is finally catching up on the really cool games. Now, I am waiting and crossing my fingers if they ever manage to get the Baldur's Gate series ported. I'd told them I'd pay 150 bucks for Baldur's gate.
If they pull that off, then I'll start to worship the ground they walk on
...I am not a skilled hacker, I sit on the other side of the conflict ;-) This could be a fun job - you get to hack the coolest targets, you get the best equipment, stuff they don't even have in the commercial world I am sure, and it all has the romantic "Sneakers" feel. You'd finally find out just how many backdoors they put into Windows. All with total impunity. Sounds cool to me. Too bad that you'd never be allowed to brag about your exploit.... so that kinda kills the spirit.
- in Lille, France the Metro system has been down for at least 2 days.. no reason given, so I dunno if it's a y2k bug or not...
;-)
- customers of Eplus, a German cellular phone company, could not use France Telecom or Bouygtel as a roaming provider after 1/1/00... officially not a y2k bug, but the "workaround" given by the service rep was so lame, I am pretty sure it was a y2k issue.
Can you guess where I was for new year?
Otherwise the world's still in the same fucked-up state as it was when I last read Slashdot/the news.. Yeltsin resigned? My....
I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I'd say that once ebvay explicitely says "no", then no, you can't copy their contents. However, linking, and even "grabbing" stuff from websites is so deeply entrenched in the way the web works and is utilized that it's a dangerous precedent at best.
It also helps to use a RBL if you run your own mailserver (www.orbs.org) but it does catch "innocent" email, as well.
;-(
Also not posting to usenet helps a LOT....
While the problem of Spam seems to have lessened in recent years (it did for me, anyway), I still think Spammers should be hit with everything we can must.
Real-life advertisments are bad enough, but Spam really takes the buiscuit. It's often illegal or immoral, and almost always the spammers hide by abusing a honest netuser's badly maintained mailserver to handle the load of traffic, generating in fact large damages. Also, some spammers go even further - Twice, a spammer used my email address in the From field. This, as you may understand, caused in me a "zero tolerance to spammers" attitude.
If Spam was properly labelled and included valid from: information, I could tolerate it (and feed them their own spam). Just like in the Real World.
Anyway, the bottom line: I think with lawsuits like this, justice is served.
Now, for the Amazon Patent trials... *SIGH*...
I spend roughly 800 bucks a year on books with Germany's Amazon. That's probably 750 bucks more than the average customer....
...no offense, but this is something the world has known for a couple of decades...
Seriously though, I wouldn't be surprised if this is common to all industrialized nations. I am just wondering why this is so... or maybe ALL of humanity is basically nuts to some extent?
Better yet start to distribute GIFs and get sued by UNISYS.
...I tried napster on a friend's Windoze computer, found something interesting, and ORDERED THE CD. That's fifteen or so bucks the record label would have never earned had it not been for napster.