That's why Microsoft added the Gadget Bar. To fill up space that could not be taken up sufficiently by the application. It's a great way to make those annoyingly wide monitors feel more like your good ol' friendly standard monitor!
Dammit, you beat me to the reference. I thought the exact same thing. I remember when seeing that scene, thinking, that certainly looks cool, but there's no way it could work like that. After reading about this (admittedly still far from anything like that scene), I almost wonder if it's not that far off from possible.
VP: Hey, Bob. I've got this applicant to fill the open Engineer position above you. He looks stellar. Take a look and tell me what you think.
Jr Engineer looks over application, who has none of the required skillsets, but--engineer notes--goes to went to same college as VP.
Jr Engineer: Weeell, yes, he is a stellar candidate. Good eye on that one. And he thinks just like us. He's a Googlite alright. So... I think you can see what would be even more brilliant than hiring him.
Jr Engineer pauses, expectantly.
VP: If we...
Jr Engineer: Yes, exACTly. If we let him stay at our competitor...
VP: Then...
Jr Engineer: Yes, then he can help change our competitor to think like us, making it easier to finally...
VP: Assimilate them.
Jr Engineer: That's a brilliant idea you have there, Mr VP.
VP: Why, thank you, Bob. But what are we going to do about the Sr Engineer position?
Jr Engineer smiles to himself: Well, I happen to have an idea about that.
Later that month...
VP: I recently had a discussion with an engineer at Google...
Or at least, the point of the verbage. It's news that people who buy an upgrade stop using the old version? Is news is that people weren't buying Vista and and people are convinced that Windows 7 is the Windows upgrade that Vista was supposed to be all along. I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I really don't get what point is being made here. All the responses I've seen have been about the effect on the Linux/MacOS market, and that might all be true, but it doesn't seem to be the point the OP is trying to make. Or is the point really just "here's some sales numbers" and the headline is just the best one can do with such a bland piece of news?
quantum mechanics ALLOWS for the virgin birth, since everything is possible (if highly improbable) in quantum mechanics).
I just have to nitpick about this. Quantum mechanics doesn't say everything is possible. It says--by one interpretation--that everything that can happen does happen. The key words are probable and possible. Every possible alternative, no matter how improbable, exists. But that doesn't mean that everything is possible.
In the classic experiment with a lead sheet with slits in it and shining a light through it, the light passes through all the slits, not just one or the other. The light does not pass through the lead or show up on Mars or turn into water.
there are (and were) cults out in the US today that do much, much worse.
Yes, and being murdered is worse than being raped, but you can bet I don't want either one to happen to me. Comparing something bad to something more bad doesn't make it any less bad.
Netscape introduced no less than six non-standard HTML tags: blink, keygen, layer, multicol, and nolayer--the most famous/notorius being blink. Which you can do when you're a dominant browser. I realize it's cynical, but standards compliance hasn't always been a selling point, and justifiably so. I don't want to philosophize about standards, since that will just get torn to shreds, but I think the idea that standards were well defined and universally followed by everyone else until Microsoft showed up is certainly hard to defend.
This is why I love Slashdot (I'm still too noob to call it/.)--I was all set to make my post in defense of the fired employee, but after reading the cogent arguments of the "5, Insightfuls", I've actually changed my opinion. It would be different if the employee had been fired because of an anonymous post made during personal time on personal equipment. But you don't have the same rights when using business equipment while on the job.
On the other hand, I'm still disturbed that the site owner didn't respect his own claim to comments being anonymous. I certainly have no right to expect anonymity. I would certainly be unwise to believe I have anonymity just because a site claims I do. But if a site owner claims you can make anonymous comments and then breaks that "agreement", I think it should discredit him. He's lost his site's users' trust at that point.
He probably assumed everyone could manage looking up thorium on Google and finding the Wikipedia article on it. As for why not use it, I assume the reasons are complex, although from the Wikipedia article alone, I'd conclude a big reason is the stated lack of funding that ended the original research into it and the heavy investment we already have in uranium. It seems likely that newly developing countries might be in more of a position to invest in new thorium reactors. Of course, if we truly run out of uranium soon, we'd be forced to start investing in thorium reactors, if not other alternatives.
Calling this a "real-time" raytracing server seems a bit disingenuous. Is it blazing fast? Yes. Is it real-time (as the demo claims)? I suppose it's symantics, but I think it would have to be x-frames-per-second to be real-time. TFA calling it near-real-time seems a little more reasonable, but still hype. Can "within seconds" still be considered even near-real-time?
They look like chicklet keys. I know this is a casual device and I'm not going to be typing my senior thesis on this thing, but I wonder if this is going to have the same fate as so many "Internet in your kitchen" devices of five years ago--which is to say, they mostly failed.
I've not been following these practices for about ten years, as well as without using AV, and I have never had malware on my machine. I would hardly use that argument to suggest anything less than 100% of all operating system users should be using AV. Saying you don't need AV if you know what you're doing is like saying you don't need insurance if you're careful or you don't need regular medical checkups if you eat right and keep in shape. You might, as an individual, be just fine--purely through statistical possibility--but that's luck, not because you know what you're doing.
No. I didn't. But if I'm going to have to hear an asshole in the administration speak for four to eight years, I'd rather have to hear one who's articulate than one who can barely put two words together to make a coherent sentence.
You walk into an accounting firm to hire an accountant to manage your finances. One accountant graduated from Harvard and has $5 million in disclosed assets. The other accountant graduated from the local community college and is $30,000 in debt. Which accountant do you hire to manage your money?
You've hit on just what bothers me about these "dead author's estates" selling rights to something they didn't personally create in the first place. I could possibly argue for the creator having the right to their ideas for all time, but their descendants are not them. It's obviously a way to make money off something I didn't work for.
On the other hand, why shouldn't I be able to leave my legacy to my descendants? If I had built a company, or made a fortune, I could leave those to my descendants and while some might lament if they had destroyed my legacy by squandering it, few people would argue that my descendants have a right to do whatever they wish with it once I've left it to them.
That will work just fine until the proliferation of aggregator aggregators, at which point we'll need an aggregator aggregator aggregator. Which is why they need to just make an aggregator than can aggregate itself. They can name it Aggregator(Aggregator).
Slashdot Mirror
It was better than the other name they threw around in brainstorming sessions--the NigNig.
How about a two-screen laptop with a traditional LCD display on one screen and a textbook display on the other to render crisp printlike graphics?
That's why Microsoft added the Gadget Bar. To fill up space that could not be taken up sufficiently by the application. It's a great way to make those annoyingly wide monitors feel more like your good ol' friendly standard monitor!
Dammit, you beat me to the reference. I thought the exact same thing. I remember when seeing that scene, thinking, that certainly looks cool, but there's no way it could work like that. After reading about this (admittedly still far from anything like that scene), I almost wonder if it's not that far off from possible.
Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a social anthropologist!
VP: Hey, Bob. I've got this applicant to fill the open Engineer position above you. He looks stellar. Take a look and tell me what you think.
Jr Engineer looks over application, who has none of the required skillsets, but--engineer notes--goes to went to same college as VP.
Jr Engineer: Weeell, yes, he is a stellar candidate. Good eye on that one. And he thinks just like us. He's a Googlite alright. So... I think you can see what would be even more brilliant than hiring him.
Jr Engineer pauses, expectantly.
VP: If we...
Jr Engineer: Yes, exACTly. If we let him stay at our competitor...
VP: Then...
Jr Engineer: Yes, then he can help change our competitor to think like us, making it easier to finally...
VP: Assimilate them.
Jr Engineer: That's a brilliant idea you have there, Mr VP.
VP: Why, thank you, Bob. But what are we going to do about the Sr Engineer position?
Jr Engineer smiles to himself: Well, I happen to have an idea about that.
Later that month...
VP: I recently had a discussion with an engineer at Google...
Or at least, the point of the verbage. It's news that people who buy an upgrade stop using the old version? Is news is that people weren't buying Vista and and people are convinced that Windows 7 is the Windows upgrade that Vista was supposed to be all along. I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I really don't get what point is being made here. All the responses I've seen have been about the effect on the Linux/MacOS market, and that might all be true, but it doesn't seem to be the point the OP is trying to make. Or is the point really just "here's some sales numbers" and the headline is just the best one can do with such a bland piece of news?
quantum mechanics ALLOWS for the virgin birth, since everything is possible (if highly improbable) in quantum mechanics).
I just have to nitpick about this. Quantum mechanics doesn't say everything is possible. It says--by one interpretation--that everything that can happen does happen. The key words are probable and possible. Every possible alternative, no matter how improbable, exists. But that doesn't mean that everything is possible.
In the classic experiment with a lead sheet with slits in it and shining a light through it, the light passes through all the slits, not just one or the other. The light does not pass through the lead or show up on Mars or turn into water.
there are (and were) cults out in the US today that do much, much worse.
Yes, and being murdered is worse than being raped, but you can bet I don't want either one to happen to me. Comparing something bad to something more bad doesn't make it any less bad.
Why are they invading your toilets?
im in ur bathroom, invading ur toilet
^^Citation needed... by me. Netscape Only HTML Tags
Netscape introduced no less than six non-standard HTML tags: blink, keygen, layer, multicol, and nolayer--the most famous/notorius being blink. Which you can do when you're a dominant browser. I realize it's cynical, but standards compliance hasn't always been a selling point, and justifiably so. I don't want to philosophize about standards, since that will just get torn to shreds, but I think the idea that standards were well defined and universally followed by everyone else until Microsoft showed up is certainly hard to defend.
Link to the Print version--article on one page with no advertising since I haven't seen that posted yet.
This is why I love Slashdot (I'm still too noob to call it /.)--I was all set to make my post in defense of the fired employee, but after reading the cogent arguments of the "5, Insightfuls", I've actually changed my opinion. It would be different if the employee had been fired because of an anonymous post made during personal time on personal equipment. But you don't have the same rights when using business equipment while on the job.
On the other hand, I'm still disturbed that the site owner didn't respect his own claim to comments being anonymous. I certainly have no right to expect anonymity. I would certainly be unwise to believe I have anonymity just because a site claims I do. But if a site owner claims you can make anonymous comments and then breaks that "agreement", I think it should discredit him. He's lost his site's users' trust at that point.
Maybe you want to start a private social network, geared to one specific group of people.
An anti-social social network. I like it!
He probably assumed everyone could manage looking up thorium on Google and finding the Wikipedia article on it. As for why not use it, I assume the reasons are complex, although from the Wikipedia article alone, I'd conclude a big reason is the stated lack of funding that ended the original research into it and the heavy investment we already have in uranium. It seems likely that newly developing countries might be in more of a position to invest in new thorium reactors. Of course, if we truly run out of uranium soon, we'd be forced to start investing in thorium reactors, if not other alternatives.
Calling this a "real-time" raytracing server seems a bit disingenuous. Is it blazing fast? Yes. Is it real-time (as the demo claims)? I suppose it's symantics, but I think it would have to be x-frames-per-second to be real-time. TFA calling it near-real-time seems a little more reasonable, but still hype. Can "within seconds" still be considered even near-real-time?
They look like chicklet keys. I know this is a casual device and I'm not going to be typing my senior thesis on this thing, but I wonder if this is going to have the same fate as so many "Internet in your kitchen" devices of five years ago--which is to say, they mostly failed.
I've not been following these practices for about ten years, as well as without using AV, and I have never had malware on my machine. I would hardly use that argument to suggest anything less than 100% of all operating system users should be using AV. Saying you don't need AV if you know what you're doing is like saying you don't need insurance if you're careful or you don't need regular medical checkups if you eat right and keep in shape. You might, as an individual, be just fine--purely through statistical possibility--but that's luck, not because you know what you're doing.
No. I didn't. But if I'm going to have to hear an asshole in the administration speak for four to eight years, I'd rather have to hear one who's articulate than one who can barely put two words together to make a coherent sentence.
You walk into an accounting firm to hire an accountant to manage your finances. One accountant graduated from Harvard and has $5 million in disclosed assets. The other accountant graduated from the local community college and is $30,000 in debt. Which accountant do you hire to manage your money?
You've hit on just what bothers me about these "dead author's estates" selling rights to something they didn't personally create in the first place. I could possibly argue for the creator having the right to their ideas for all time, but their descendants are not them. It's obviously a way to make money off something I didn't work for.
On the other hand, why shouldn't I be able to leave my legacy to my descendants? If I had built a company, or made a fortune, I could leave those to my descendants and while some might lament if they had destroyed my legacy by squandering it, few people would argue that my descendants have a right to do whatever they wish with it once I've left it to them.
Have you been following the news at all?
[...]they are not calculated or deliberate. There is no super secrete leak committee.
That's exactly what a super secret leak committee would want people to think!
That will work just fine until the proliferation of aggregator aggregators, at which point we'll need an aggregator aggregator aggregator. Which is why they need to just make an aggregator than can aggregate itself. They can name it Aggregator(Aggregator).