Lessee.... I frequently stare intently into my monitor when it's vibrating... Ok, well, shaking anyway... usually because the desk is shaking... because... oh... uh, oh....
Personally, I don't like having the mail client integrated with the browser. I don't want HTML mail support (reading or composition). I certainly don't want any scripting support. I don't want a newsreader built in (I use pan/nget for that). I want smarter filtering capabilities, or no filtering capabilities and lastly I don't want any of the offline reading support. I'm not even sure I want the address book.
In fact, you don't really want the computer. You'd rather chip messages on stone and have a messenger slap on his sandles and run the slabs to the recipient.
You're kidding, right? Personally, I like to have the HTML reading capability (combined with the option to not receive the images, thereby foiling some spammers), and while I don't use the address book that much, the autofill on the address line is indispensable.
My boss recently came to me with the idea that we could "rewrite" the application to do X, Y, and maybe even Z. I showed him that article and then sent him an email with a project plan that had us implementing X, Y, Z, and the other 23 letters of the alphabet in a timely manner with a minimum of stress. And y'know what? He was ok with that.
Looks pretty cool, better than those CGI cartoons I've seen - although definitely not even Final Fantasy quality.
How can you tell? The stupid movie is 180x144 -- I can hardly tell what I'm looking at. From what little I could see, the quality of the CGI was just as good as FF if not better. The mouth movements of the speaker were definitely better. One thing that bugged me all the way through FF was how they managed to speak while barely moving their mouths. It would have been more realistic if they'd all had Southern accents......;)
Hm. I don't think so. Nothing in our solar system would qualify, and I think the baseline for our definition should include Earth.
Here're my 3 params:
1. Should revolve around a star (exceptions to this rule that fit the other rules may be termed "rogue planets")
2. Should have enough mass that, during it's creation, the heat generated from its accretion would have resulted in the majority of the body becoming molten.
Why was this scored as a "troll"? Someone should mod this up. At the very heart of internet censorship is not only the access children have to inappropriate material (as rightfully defined by their parents) but also the access that pedophiles have to the children. It's imperative that every measure be taken to protect children, not only mentally and emotionally, but physically.
I believe the exact quote was something like, "nukular parred"...
Come on! Bush can't pronounce "interplanetary", much less use it properly in a sentence. The only way he'd support NASA is if NASA came up with gasoline powered shuttles that would put more money in his oil buddies' pockets.
Have you read about how NASA was used as a giant flying pork barrel? Congressmen were making deals with NASA lobbyists to secure funding, but only if the Congressmens' home states saw some kind of kickback.
And Bush had just released a budget that curbed growth at NASA. George could care less if the solar system's other planet's potential is realized.
So yeah, I can definitely pin the "down on space" tail on the donkey... er... elephant... um, Bush... you know....
1. The "racks" are interesting in and of themselves -- very minimalistic, easy to disperse heat.
2. The assembly takes 6 power supplies? Wow. Now *that's* a bit of juice.
3. And the whole rig is sitting, from what I can see in the picture, in front of a radiator. Wouldn't that be redundant?
4. Huge amount of heat, huge amount of electricity, and for what? To store 33megs of data in a vast ocean of 1.8T according to the picture at the bottom. This guy is a nerd!
Better applaud quick -- before his home office burns down faster than a Chicago nightclub...
That's complete crap. It is not safer than my freeway drive to work. Columbia was on its 28th mission. I've driven to work far more than 28 times without having it blow up as I pull into my driveway.
That's not to say that I don't completely agree with your last statement. I'd be on one in a heartbeat. Period. No doubt. I'd roll that dice with no qualms. Space exploration is simply to important to our evolution and survival as a species.
Tests in the late 80s and early 90s where stem cells and fetal brain cells were introduced into a monkey's brain resulted in massive seizures as the cells differentiated into various types of brain cells and randomly connected to the existing brain structure. The seizures and other side effects nearly always resulted in death.
off topic: Checked the link in your sig. It actually looked good until I got to the "safety" section. They'll repel attacking planes with sound waves, they'll detect "potential detonations" (using psychic powers?), and they'll use iris scans and 3D body scanning to detect known terrorists.
I run a consumer advocacy/consumer rant page. I think it's really polite of Ford to create a car that can be recycled, since models like the Escort and Focus are in such dire need of being recycled right off the show room floor.
And let's talk about their Greenleaf program, in which they recycle parts that didn't make the "Q1" quality standard, thus making them ineligible for use in new cars. With Greenleaf those same substandard parts make it into your vehicle if you take it in to be serviced, and you none the wiser.
Yeah, Ford and recycling -- a match made in the hell of necessity...
Mod me up, baby, I know whereof I speak... erm... write... ?
"White Republicans"? How did this crap get moderated as "Interesting"? Are you frikkin' serious? No, let me guess: It's a Black Thang, and all them White folks wouldn't understand, right? Man, step all the way off. Idiot.
Yeah, I'll go to karma hell for this letter, but that author deserves nothing less than to be slapped back with his own racism.
That's neat and all, but when do they expect to come with a *writer*? CDs didn't really become useful to me until I could write them myself.
On the other hand, if this is a medium that requires a lot of special hardware to write the card information, it wouldn't surprise me to see music being released on these. Wouldn't that be a natural progression for the RIAA? If the bought the rights to this technology, then only released drivers that did output straight to the speakers, they could control how easy it is to copy the music. Yeah, sure, you could run the output to another computer input and record the music, but the digital to analog to digital conversion will degrade the quality of the recording, etc., etc.
Music and video equipment manufacturers would jump on the bandwagon looking for some reason to convince consumers to dump those out of date, bulky DVD readers and step up to the new and improved Card Readers. Selling point: you could fit the [insert favority group here]'s entire collection onto a single card!
Ok, I think the/. crowd has certainly expounded justifiably on Mr. Cringely's ignorance. To add fuel to the fire:
Up through Windows 3.11 both these products worked as well or better under Windows than MS-DOS, and some people have claimed to have made them work under later Windows versions, too.
That's actually not true. Windows 3.1 (3.11? it's been a while) was made to generate an error if you attempted to start it up on DRDOS. It's my understanding that there was no technical reason for this except that Gates didn't like competition.
In hindsight, I think a trend could have been detected even then...
Remember the crazy hijackers from November the Ninth 2001? They were living for quite some time in the States, if not full-blown Yanks themselves.
Is "canuck" Canadian for "idiot?" Full-blown Yanks themselves. Some friends of mine and I, stuck in Wisconsin during a snowstorm, came to the conclusion that the only reason that state was populated was because people wandered in when the weather was nice, and then BAM! Winter hit, and the cold made them too stupid to find their way out again. I would imagine that's what's going on in Canada right now. The full brunt of winter made you utter that tremendously uninformed, if not downright stupid, remark.
See that box that sits on top of the TV flashing "12:00" at you? That's a VCR. Read the f*ing manual and learn to record the shows you *want* to see, then play them at the time you *want* to see them.
Come on, people, is this really what you logged on to chat about today?
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I hate jumping into this sort of discussion, but...
It becomes "shrouded" and "treacherous" when rules, whether they apply (don't eat the cow, etc.) or don't apply (don't eat pig in a desert -- even if you don't live in a desert or can start a kerosene fire to properly cook the meat) are used to *control* people rather than guide and protect them. Rules whose sole purpose is to give power to those that enforce them are evil. Those that create those rules are rightly labeled a "treacherous priesthood."
Oh, and have a Happy New Year.
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Lessee.... I frequently stare intently into my monitor when it's vibrating... Ok, well, shaking anyway... usually because the desk is shaking... because... oh... uh, oh....
OH MY GOD! I'M GOING BLIND!!!
That still doesn't explain why Verizon is charging for it.
The lens could lead to amplified antennas, smaller cell phones and increased data storage on CD-ROMs...
And washing machines that spit out extra socks...
Personally, I don't like having the mail client integrated with the browser. I don't want HTML mail support (reading or composition). I certainly don't want any scripting support. I don't want a newsreader built in (I use pan/nget for that). I want smarter filtering capabilities, or no filtering capabilities and lastly I don't want any of the offline reading support. I'm not even sure I want the address book.
In fact, you don't really want the computer. You'd rather chip messages on stone and have a messenger slap on his sandles and run the slabs to the recipient.
You're kidding, right? Personally, I like to have the HTML reading capability (combined with the option to not receive the images, thereby foiling some spammers), and while I don't use the address book that much, the autofill on the address line is indispensable.
But I have to agree with an earlier poster: a rewrite is the WORST possible approach. If they meant "refactor", then I whole-heartedly support the move. Modularization would certainly be appreciated. But read , which directly mentions Netscape, to see why a rewrite would be a Bad Thing.
My boss recently came to me with the idea that we could "rewrite" the application to do X, Y, and maybe even Z. I showed him that article and then sent him an email with a project plan that had us implementing X, Y, Z, and the other 23 letters of the alphabet in a timely manner with a minimum of stress. And y'know what? He was ok with that.
Looks pretty cool, better than those CGI cartoons I've seen - although definitely not even Final Fantasy quality.
;)
How can you tell? The stupid movie is 180x144 -- I can hardly tell what I'm looking at. From what little I could see, the quality of the CGI was just as good as FF if not better. The mouth movements of the speaker were definitely better. One thing that bugged me all the way through FF was how they managed to speak while barely moving their mouths. It would have been more realistic if they'd all had Southern accents......
Actually, it gets better. In theory, if you looked far enough with a strong enough telescope, you could see the back of your own head...
Should be 5% bigger than the parent star
Hm. I don't think so. Nothing in our solar system would qualify, and I think the baseline for our definition should include Earth.
Here're my 3 params:
1. Should revolve around a star (exceptions to this rule that fit the other rules may be termed "rogue planets")
2. Should have enough mass that, during it's creation, the heat generated from its accretion would have resulted in the majority of the body becoming molten.
3. It cannot support fusion.
Why was this scored as a "troll"? Someone should mod this up. At the very heart of internet censorship is not only the access children have to inappropriate material (as rightfully defined by their parents) but also the access that pedophiles have to the children. It's imperative that every measure be taken to protect children, not only mentally and emotionally, but physically.
I believe the exact quote was something like, "nukular parred"...
Come on! Bush can't pronounce "interplanetary", much less use it properly in a sentence. The only way he'd support NASA is if NASA came up with gasoline powered shuttles that would put more money in his oil buddies' pockets.
Have you read about how NASA was used as a giant flying pork barrel? Congressmen were making deals with NASA lobbyists to secure funding, but only if the Congressmens' home states saw some kind of kickback.
And Bush had just released a budget that curbed growth at NASA. George could care less if the solar system's other planet's potential is realized.
So yeah, I can definitely pin the "down on space" tail on the donkey... er... elephant... um, Bush... you know....
The tiny "Made In Centauri 5" label was a dead give away.
Ok, a couple of thoughts:
1. The "racks" are interesting in and of themselves -- very minimalistic, easy to disperse heat.
2. The assembly takes 6 power supplies? Wow. Now *that's* a bit of juice.
3. And the whole rig is sitting, from what I can see in the picture, in front of a radiator. Wouldn't that be redundant?
4. Huge amount of heat, huge amount of electricity, and for what? To store 33megs of data in a vast ocean of 1.8T according to the picture at the bottom. This guy is a nerd!
Better applaud quick -- before his home office burns down faster than a Chicago nightclub...
Issue 8.5 (June of 2000), Shift Magazine, mint condition, cover story: "Hugh Hefner 2.0," an article on the brainy-porn periodical, "Nerve."
Will trade for shares of Microsoft.... not....
That's complete crap. It is not safer than my freeway drive to work. Columbia was on its 28th mission. I've driven to work far more than 28 times without having it blow up as I pull into my driveway.
That's not to say that I don't completely agree with your last statement. I'd be on one in a heartbeat. Period. No doubt. I'd roll that dice with no qualms. Space exploration is simply to important to our evolution and survival as a species.
Tests in the late 80s and early 90s where stem cells and fetal brain cells were introduced into a monkey's brain resulted in massive seizures as the cells differentiated into various types of brain cells and randomly connected to the existing brain structure. The seizures and other side effects nearly always resulted in death.
off topic: Checked the link in your sig. It actually looked good until I got to the "safety" section. They'll repel attacking planes with sound waves, they'll detect "potential detonations" (using psychic powers?), and they'll use iris scans and 3D body scanning to detect known terrorists.
Yeah. Uh-huh.
Did you read the article? Java is not at fault; Solaris and its version of the JRE are what the memo slams.
And yeah, the memo, while certainly chock full of interesting tidbits, seems addressed to the wrong people. Looks like a possible hoax?
I can't resist this opportunity to plug my site:
http://www.tgrigsby.com/views/ford.htm
I run a consumer advocacy/consumer rant page. I think it's really polite of Ford to create a car that can be recycled, since models like the Escort and Focus are in such dire need of being recycled right off the show room floor.
And let's talk about their Greenleaf program, in which they recycle parts that didn't make the "Q1" quality standard, thus making them ineligible for use in new cars. With Greenleaf those same substandard parts make it into your vehicle if you take it in to be serviced, and you none the wiser.
Yeah, Ford and recycling -- a match made in the hell of necessity...
Mod me up, baby, I know whereof I speak... erm... write... ?
"White Republicans"? How did this crap get moderated as "Interesting"? Are you frikkin' serious? No, let me guess: It's a Black Thang, and all them White folks wouldn't understand, right? Man, step all the way off. Idiot.
Yeah, I'll go to karma hell for this letter, but that author deserves nothing less than to be slapped back with his own racism.
That's neat and all, but when do they expect to come with a *writer*? CDs didn't really become useful to me until I could write them myself.
On the other hand, if this is a medium that requires a lot of special hardware to write the card information, it wouldn't surprise me to see music being released on these. Wouldn't that be a natural progression for the RIAA? If the bought the rights to this technology, then only released drivers that did output straight to the speakers, they could control how easy it is to copy the music. Yeah, sure, you could run the output to another computer input and record the music, but the digital to analog to digital conversion will degrade the quality of the recording, etc., etc.
Music and video equipment manufacturers would jump on the bandwagon looking for some reason to convince consumers to dump those out of date, bulky DVD readers and step up to the new and improved Card Readers. Selling point: you could fit the [insert favority group here]'s entire collection onto a single card!
Does your head bounce more or less than your hand? (If they're in sync already, then you're fine.)
Typically, if my hand is bouncing, my head is steady so my eyes can focus on....
Oh, nevermind....
Ok, I think the /. crowd has certainly expounded justifiably on Mr. Cringely's ignorance. To add fuel to the fire:
Up through Windows 3.11 both these products worked as well or better under Windows than MS-DOS, and some people have claimed to have made them work under later Windows versions, too.
That's actually not true. Windows 3.1 (3.11? it's been a while) was made to generate an error if you attempted to start it up on DRDOS. It's my understanding that there was no technical reason for this except that Gates didn't like competition.
In hindsight, I think a trend could have been detected even then...
Einstein was a sex GOD!
Remember the crazy hijackers from November the Ninth 2001? They were living for quite some time in the States, if not full-blown Yanks themselves.
Is "canuck" Canadian for "idiot?" Full-blown Yanks themselves. Some friends of mine and I, stuck in Wisconsin during a snowstorm, came to the conclusion that the only reason that state was populated was because people wandered in when the weather was nice, and then BAM! Winter hit, and the cold made them too stupid to find their way out again. I would imagine that's what's going on in Canada right now. The full brunt of winter made you utter that tremendously uninformed, if not downright stupid, remark.
Oh, and have a nice day.
See that box that sits on top of the TV flashing "12:00" at you? That's a VCR. Read the f*ing manual and learn to record the shows you *want* to see, then play them at the time you *want* to see them.
Come on, people, is this really what you logged on to chat about today?
I hate jumping into this sort of discussion, but...
It becomes "shrouded" and "treacherous" when rules, whether they apply (don't eat the cow, etc.) or don't apply (don't eat pig in a desert -- even if you don't live in a desert or can start a kerosene fire to properly cook the meat) are used to *control* people rather than guide and protect them. Rules whose sole purpose is to give power to those that enforce them are evil. Those that create those rules are rightly labeled a "treacherous priesthood."
Oh, and have a Happy New Year.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic....