1. Component video Out. 2. Some ability to access networked content, perhaps by supporting a few low-priced USB wired & wireless ethernet adapters. It seems that the main market for this is geeks and this geek doesn't want to burn a bunch of disks just to watch stuff on TV.
If I did, I'd be watching stuff on my 27" TV rather than my 19" monitor.
There may be no contract, but surely you are smart enough to understand that if they try to run their business around certain informal expectations, and those expecations aren't met, then something is going to change. Or maybe you aren't.
It is a bit like coffee at some offices. Everyone who drinks coffee is expected to chip in for coffee. They don't lock up the coffee maker, but if people start abusing the system then those who do pitch in may get fed up and just start bringing a thermos in in the morning.
So, you can argue that you never agreeed to view their ads with their content, but then, they never agreed to show you their content without you seeing their ads.
I'd adopt a spririt of compromise, if I were you, and maybe both sides can get something they want. The alternative is probably neither side getting what they want.
It might be a nit, but saying that Soderberg has lately been focusing more on Elmore Lenoard style thrillers as a departure from his earlier character driven work is just silly.
As evidence for this assertion, three movies are listed. 1. Out of Sight 2. Traffic 3. Oceans 11
Never mind that most of these more caper-flicks than thrillers. They are also only about half of his output over the last 5 years, and, in the case of out of sight, have strong introspective character driven components.
But please, don't forget Erin Brockovitch, The Limey & Full Frontal, all released since Out of Sight. Taken togeather, think it is hard to charactarize his recent output according to some simple trend.
If anything, you might say that he seems to alternate between more commercial and more artistically focused efforts, but even this breaks down.
Out of Sight might fit as a commercial film, but really only in retrospect. George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez weren't big stars when it was made, and its complex narrative structure would seem at odds with the success it enjoyed.
Erin Brokovich looks like a play to make a commercial picture, what with it featuring an established star, but Soderberg's subsequent engangeent with Clooney and Roberts looks more motivated by friendship or artistic interests than simple commerce.
OpenDoc had a lot of problems, including the fact that Apple couldn't do much of anything right at the time. Its failure isn't necessarily an indictement of Document Centered computing, or, more broadly, non-application centered computing.
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"Database filesystem" can mean a lot of things. I am still trying to understand what ReiserFS4 does (the documentation is a bit eliptical), and I don't know what they are doing with the LonghornFS, but they could be rather different.
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The desire to move away from application centric computing is an old one. Apple put a lot of money into their failed document-centric computing technology (OpenDoc). That it failed doesn't necesarrily mean that we can't do better than the current computing paradigm.
I will give Microsoft credit for trying something new, they haven't done much of it to this point, and god knows, computers suck, they need all the help they can get.
These things aren't much more expensive than the Thin & Light notebooks that I tend to buy.
Comparing them to larger laptops, which are often cheaper, isn't really appropriate, in my mind. Those larger laptops may be more capable in terms of screen size, processor power, drive bays & sometimes battery life, but they aren't anywhere near as portable and are often to big to use on a plane or bus.
As for battery life, from what I have heard, the tablets do pretty well. They may not run all day on a charge, but they should get you through lunch.
My big problem with the tablets is that they are not good enough to be your primary PC, but the software & hardware isn't quite where it needs to be to mitigate that shortcoming.
What I would like to see is either: 1) A docking solution that uses a single flexible cable & software support to provide seamless desktop extension so you can use the tablet as a tablet while making use of a full sized monitor, mouse and keyboard. (Ideally this would be wireless, but that isn't going to work well enough to give decent video performance) Either the tablets lack a docking station, or they aren't very useable as tablets when they are docked.
2) Better cooperative computing so I can use my tablet in conjunction with another system. At the very least, I want file & preference synchronization/sharing between machines to be seamless, but process migration would be even better.
Protiens are what turn DNA into other proteins. Those new and existing proteins then interact with eachother, so the VM/bytecode analogy works better than you think. I would suggest that the protiens might be analogus to instantiated objects. They intract with eachother in a manner that is not necesarily dependant on the underlying bytecode or VM.
Of course, the idea of the virtual machine isn't necessary, since the machine is real.
DNA is less like a C header file than it is like a C program.
The basic mechanisms by which DNA is used create proteins is well understood on one level. What isn't well understood is all the regulatory mechanisms that interact with that process.
Why is a given stretch of DNA transcribed into mRNA? Why is it that only particular pieces of a stretch of DNA end up in the mRNA. What determines how long that mRNA transcript exists in a cell, and how many times it is translated into a protein?
These are all open questions before you even get to the question of protein folding and catalysis, and you have to assume that all the proteins in a cell have some involvement in gene regulation. How does a muscle cell know that it is time to stop producing myosin. Somehow, there is a feedback loop.
You can't say that anyone knows that genes can't jump species as diverse as corn to soybean. It may not have been observed, yet, which isn't suprising, since it would probably be a rare occurance, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. Of course, most people on slashdot don't know enough to make such distincitons.
In fact, I think there is every reason to think that they can, especially when we are dealing with genetically modified organisms. One method of inserting genes into genomes uses sequences that are known to be associated with the mobility of DNA sequences. Given the low level this is working at, I would expect a transposable sequence from one species to work equally well for getting a sequence into the genome of another species.
The issue then becomes, how likely is this comingling of DNA between species outside the lab. It is probably relatively rare, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Especially when you consider the scale at which crops are grown.
Agreed, I have to wonder if this is deliberate misinformation, or just sloppyness.
In any case, it would be really cool if genes did jump from corn to soya, from a scientifc standpoint. It would be a real bitch from an engineering standpoint.
The real irony is that most of Disney's hits have been based on public-domain stories (robin hood, snow white, sleeping beauty, etc), and yet Disney, by buying legislation to extend copyright terms indefinitely, are starving the public domain.
It is particularly Ironic, because the works that Disney based their works by people like Hans Christian Andersen and The Brothers Grim, were themselves derivitives of public domain works. They were tellings of folklore.
This isn't a bad way to keep other sites from "abusing" your content or bandwidth since it requires a client-side mod to get around. It, of course, does nothing against determined clients, but that is a different matter.
I don't think the fact that ink text isn't stores as typed letters is a good thing. What happens when you get passed someone elses ink notes? Are you really going to be able to read their handwriting?
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What an idiot.
Consider tho, that $170 for 36 hours of gameplay is ~$4.72/hour. Pretty cheap compared to many alternatives.
Cheap compared to what alternatives? A serious strip club habit? Operating a racing yacht?
I'm sure that North Korea will get it next.
1. Component video Out.
2. Some ability to access networked content, perhaps by supporting a few low-priced USB wired & wireless ethernet adapters. It seems that the main market for this is geeks and this geek doesn't want to burn a bunch of disks just to watch stuff on TV.
If I did, I'd be watching stuff on my 27" TV rather than my 19" monitor.
with some exceptions, mail order vendors are supposed to charge sales tax on customers from many states, and remit the proceeds to each state.
that is exactly my point, you don't have to view their ads, even if they want you do, and they don't have to show you their content.
You may be "in the right" leagally, but so are they if they take their toys and go home.
I was never fond of AOL, but at least Steve Case wasn't "one of them" (old-media type).
There may be no contract, but surely you are smart enough to understand that if they try to run their business around certain informal expectations, and those expecations aren't met, then something is going to change. Or maybe you aren't.
It is a bit like coffee at some offices. Everyone who drinks coffee is expected to chip in for coffee. They don't lock up the coffee maker, but if people start abusing the system then those who do pitch in may get fed up and just start bringing a thermos in in the morning.
So, you can argue that you never agreeed to view their ads with their content, but then, they never agreed to show you their content without you seeing their ads.
I'd adopt a spririt of compromise, if I were you, and maybe both sides can get something they want. The alternative is probably neither side getting what they want.
Smaller ISPs also peer with one-another on a "free" basis.
It might be a nit, but saying that Soderberg has lately been focusing more on Elmore Lenoard style thrillers as a departure from his earlier character driven work is just silly.
As evidence for this assertion, three movies are listed.
1. Out of Sight
2. Traffic
3. Oceans 11
Never mind that most of these more caper-flicks than thrillers. They are also only about half of his output over the last 5 years, and, in the case of out of sight, have strong introspective character driven components.
But please, don't forget Erin Brockovitch, The Limey & Full Frontal, all released since Out of Sight. Taken togeather, think it is hard to charactarize his recent output according to some simple trend.
If anything, you might say that he seems to alternate between more commercial and more artistically focused efforts, but even this breaks down.
Out of Sight might fit as a commercial film, but really only in retrospect. George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez weren't big stars when it was made, and its complex narrative structure would seem at odds with the success it enjoyed.
Erin Brokovich looks like a play to make a commercial picture, what with it featuring an established star, but Soderberg's subsequent engangeent with Clooney and Roberts looks more motivated by friendship or artistic interests than simple commerce.
The brain behind the Terraserver, is involved with a similar sounding project called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
OpenDoc had a lot of problems, including the fact that Apple couldn't do much of anything right at the time. Its failure isn't necessarily an indictement of Document Centered computing, or, more broadly, non-application centered computing.
"Database filesystem" can mean a lot of things. I am still trying to understand what ReiserFS4 does (the documentation is a bit eliptical), and I don't know what they are doing with the LonghornFS, but they could be rather different.
The desire to move away from application centric computing is an old one. Apple put a lot of money into their failed document-centric computing technology (OpenDoc). That it failed doesn't necesarrily mean that we can't do better than the current computing paradigm.
I will give Microsoft credit for trying something new, they haven't done much of it to this point, and god knows, computers suck, they need all the help they can get.
These things aren't much more expensive than the Thin & Light notebooks that I tend to buy.
Comparing them to larger laptops, which are often cheaper, isn't really appropriate, in my mind. Those larger laptops may be more capable in terms of screen size, processor power, drive bays & sometimes battery life, but they aren't anywhere near as portable and are often to big to use on a plane or bus.
As for battery life, from what I have heard, the tablets do pretty well. They may not run all day on a charge, but they should get you through lunch.
My big problem with the tablets is that they are not good enough to be your primary PC, but the software & hardware isn't quite where it needs to be to mitigate that shortcoming.
What I would like to see is either:
1) A docking solution that uses a single flexible cable & software support to provide seamless desktop extension so you can use the tablet as a tablet while making use of a full sized monitor, mouse and keyboard. (Ideally this would be wireless, but that isn't going to work well enough to give decent video performance) Either the tablets lack a docking station, or they aren't very useable as tablets when they are docked.
2) Better cooperative computing so I can use my tablet in conjunction with another system. At the very least, I want file & preference synchronization/sharing between machines to be seamless, but process migration would be even better.
As Socrates once said, "what a rack!"
Socrates? Hmmmm.
Protiens are what turn DNA into other proteins. Those new and existing proteins then interact with eachother, so the VM/bytecode analogy works better than you think. I would suggest that the protiens might be analogus to instantiated objects. They intract with eachother in a manner that is not necesarily dependant on the underlying bytecode or VM.
Of course, the idea of the virtual machine isn't necessary, since the machine is real.
DNA is less like a C header file than it is like a C program.
The basic mechanisms by which DNA is used create proteins is well understood on one level. What isn't well understood is all the regulatory mechanisms that interact with that process.
Why is a given stretch of DNA transcribed into mRNA? Why is it that only particular pieces of a stretch of DNA end up in the mRNA. What determines how long that mRNA transcript exists in a cell, and how many times it is translated into a protein?
These are all open questions before you even get to the question of protein folding and catalysis, and you have to assume that all the proteins in a cell have some involvement in gene regulation. How does a muscle cell know that it is time to stop producing myosin. Somehow, there is a feedback loop.
Not to mention that a lot of web sites burned through far more than $80million with a lot less to show for it.
You can't say that anyone knows that genes can't jump species as diverse as corn to soybean. It may not have been observed, yet, which isn't suprising, since it would probably be a rare occurance, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. Of course, most people on slashdot don't know enough to make such distincitons.
In fact, I think there is every reason to think that they can, especially when we are dealing with genetically modified organisms. One method of inserting genes into genomes uses sequences that are known to be associated with the mobility of DNA sequences. Given the low level this is working at, I would expect a transposable sequence from one species to work equally well for getting a sequence into the genome of another species.
The issue then becomes, how likely is this comingling of DNA between species outside the lab. It is probably relatively rare, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Especially when you consider the scale at which crops are grown.
Agreed, I have to wonder if this is deliberate misinformation, or just sloppyness.
In any case, it would be really cool if genes did jump from corn to soya, from a scientifc standpoint. It would be a real bitch from an engineering standpoint.
The real irony is that most of Disney's hits have been based on public-domain stories
(robin hood, snow white, sleeping beauty, etc), and yet Disney, by buying legislation to extend copyright terms indefinitely, are starving the public domain.
It is particularly Ironic, because the works that Disney based their works by people like Hans Christian Andersen and The Brothers Grim, were themselves derivitives of public domain works. They were tellings of folklore.
Cool idea.
This isn't a bad way to keep other sites from "abusing" your content or bandwidth since it requires a client-side mod to get around. It, of course, does nothing against determined clients, but that is a different matter.
No, it isn't perfect, but it is one mechanism.
Or a man.
I don't think the fact that ink text isn't stores as typed letters is a good thing. What happens when you get passed someone elses ink notes? Are you really going to be able to read their handwriting?