Considering that each and every word must be separated from each and every other word with "nothingness", I fail to see where its place of honor is diminished by the lack of pixels being illuminated by its use.
Yeah, it's just like that useless number zero. Totally useless I tell you! Lets try it out:
2 + 0 = 2
No effect at all. Totally useless.
Seriously: He has a few valid points, but as he doesn't come with any new ways of solving these old problems or any new insights into them his article is fairly useless it self.
(but they should spend the money on one of those that can keep the time, if it looses power for five seconds. Nothing is cooler that having to reset the watch in the microware oven after you moved it a bit).
... everybody who buys a preconfigured "closed" intel box will get one of these CPUs and it will be tooted as an extra feature.
My guess is that the first round is for testing and then it will probably be back portet to a level of CPU's that somebody want to use in a set-top box.
This is where functionality like this would really shine in the eye of the media companies. A chipset/cpu like this, Windows Media Edition 2007 DRM+, will probably give you a box that nobody normal (joe-consumer) would be able to hack, making it possible to subsidise heavily (e.i. give it away) as you would be sure that it wouldn't be used for anything but the content you sell.
Intel will probably be able live down the loss of sale to geeks, when they sell 700 million of these boxes to AOL-TimeWarmer-Sony-Vivendi-MegaGlobalHyper-ROC-Co rp.
If you had a large RAM lazey-write cache you would loose everything come that big crash.
With a flash based cache on the drive, the drive would just keep on writing the next time it gets power.
The low access times of this, would actually mean that you could do some funky stuff (like moving data around in a file) really fast with out fear of loosing anything.
For databases think how this would impact transaction based things...
I posted about this on PocketPC Thought about three weeks ago. You can see screen captures there and there's a link to the new version 0.003 (which I can't get to work on my axim v50x) as well...
... how about a small firefox plug-in that will allow you to right click on any word (or selected piece of text) and select to have a search done on it? Wouldn't that give some of the same functinality?
Depends on whether or not you really cate to impress people, who are impressed by thing, that only sound clever. Eh...
So you *sound* clever and people *pretend* to think you sound clever, and you actually might begin to think that what you are saying is clever, and people will pick up on that and know that you aren't really that clever, if you actually believe things you should know only sound clever, but really isn't.
The question of whether something is art or not is probably one of the most, uninteresting questions ever.
1. Even if somebody will agree with you on the answer, it'll probably be for different reasons. 2. Nobody cares. Really. It's just an excuse to say things that *sound* clever.
When I switched company half a year ago, I was offerede any phone I wanted by the new company, so I went hunting... I ended up with a siemens S55. The S55 was the lightest phone with the features I wanted (bluetooth and gprs). Can't get any games to work on it, the colors on the screen are kind of off and it's kind of lo-res, no camera, but it's light and small and it was easy to get my T|T3 to connect to the internet over bluetooth and gprs (it was even easier with my new Axim x50v).
I try not to rant and rave about this, to my non-nerd friends, but sometimes I just can't help my self... but it seems nobody really cares. They will just mumble something like "but think about the children" and surrender their freedom. Damn.
Anyway, I've all but given up, except I digitally sign (s/mime) all my mails and I've a pgp key that I'll use when requested.
Now digitally signing my mails may not seem like much, but I don't know a single other person (Nerds/Geeks or not) that has a digital signature, so I can't encrypt (I've one work colleage with a pgp key). But sometimes somebody asks me what that strange symbol by my mail is about and I have an opening to talk a bit about security (I often add something about spam), but I still haven't managed to get a single other person to get a digital signature.
Not that I've anything sinister to mail about, but I just want to keep those NSA servers busy. Trying to break a 2048bit key, just to get to a message about soup.
I've read a SF book where tiny cheap wireless cameras where a part of the background. They where so cheap that just about every part of earth was covered and the chances of you getting watched, if you did something bad (warcrimes was a part of the plot) was fairly big. Privacy issues wheren't metioned.
But I can't come up with a name... I think Linda Nagata's Limit of Vision had something like this, but I'm fairly sure the protagonist (or maybe it was everybody) had a camera build in to her glasses. Maybe Neal Stephenson, Ken MacLeod or John Barnes...?
Yeah, well, maybe it's kind of OT, but I'm just trying to say that, it has been thought of before, I've just mislayed the evidence...
Try search for "star wars definitive original" on the emule/edonkey network.
Just might be the versions you are looking for.
Is downloading something that you can't get any other way bad? Not in my world. At least not in this case.
(yeah, you could hunt down the original LD versions and buy a laser disc player, or build a machine that will take you to a parallel dimension where Lucas didn't lose his mind and buy the new not fubared DVDs... but maybe downloading them is easier and non of the "don't buy the new version DVD" options make Lucas, of this dimension, any money, anyway)
Not entirely sure what you want, but it sounds a bit like ALE. I've played around with it a bit and it's quite cool. Does have it's limitations, though...
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Yeah, it's just like that useless number zero. Totally useless I tell you! Lets try it out:
2 + 0 = 2
No effect at all. Totally useless.
Seriously: He has a few valid points, but as he doesn't come with any new ways of solving these old problems or any new insights into them his article is fairly useless it self.
I thought Microsoft was proprietary and didn't use open source like zlib? Snicker. I guess Microsoft is being assimilated.
Yeah, all windows applications are written by Microsoft....
... they could just use other words... like saying, hm... say "french" instead of "freedom" and "dubya" instead of "democracy"...
Welcome to 1984...
It should also include a digital clock.
Can't get to many of those...
(but they should spend the money on one of those that can keep the time, if it looses power for five seconds. Nothing is cooler that having to reset the watch in the microware oven after you moved it a bit).
... everybody who buys a preconfigured "closed" intel box will get one of these CPUs and it will be tooted as an extra feature.
o rp.
My guess is that the first round is for testing and then it will probably be back portet to a level of CPU's that somebody want to use in a set-top box.
This is where functionality like this would really shine in the eye of the media companies. A chipset/cpu like this, Windows Media Edition 2007 DRM+, will probably give you a box that nobody normal (joe-consumer) would be able to hack, making it possible to subsidise heavily (e.i. give it away) as you would be sure that it wouldn't be used for anything but the content you sell.
Intel will probably be able live down the loss of sale to geeks, when they sell 700 million of these boxes to AOL-TimeWarmer-Sony-Vivendi-MegaGlobalHyper-ROC-C
If you had a large RAM lazey-write cache you would loose everything come that big crash.
With a flash based cache on the drive, the drive would just keep on writing the next time it gets power.
The low access times of this, would actually mean that you could do some funky stuff (like moving data around in a file) really fast with out fear of loosing anything.
For databases think how this would impact transaction based things...
I posted about this on PocketPC Thought about three weeks ago. You can see screen captures there and there's a link to the new version 0.003 (which I can't get to work on my axim v50x) as well...
... how about a small firefox plug-in that will allow you to right click on any word (or selected piece of text) and select to have a search done on it? Wouldn't that give some of the same functinality?
Depends on whether or not you really cate to impress people, who are impressed by thing, that only sound clever. Eh...
So you *sound* clever and people *pretend* to think you sound clever, and you actually might begin to think that what you are saying is clever, and people will pick up on that and know that you aren't really that clever, if you actually believe things you should know only sound clever, but really isn't.
Please somebody stop me...
The question of whether something is art or not is probably one of the most, uninteresting questions ever.
1. Even if somebody will agree with you on the answer, it'll probably be for different reasons.
2. Nobody cares. Really. It's just an excuse to say things that *sound* clever.
I'll give you odds 1:364 that you can't guess mine.
(no, you wouldn't get to try 365 times)
When I switched company half a year ago, I was offerede any phone I wanted by the new company, so I went hunting... I ended up with a siemens S55. The S55 was the lightest phone with the features I wanted (bluetooth and gprs). Can't get any games to work on it, the colors on the screen are kind of off and it's kind of lo-res, no camera, but it's light and small and it was easy to get my T|T3 to connect to the internet over bluetooth and gprs (it was even easier with my new Axim x50v).
Oh, and it's cheap.
I try not to rant and rave about this, to my non-nerd friends, but sometimes I just can't help my self... but it seems nobody really cares. They will just mumble something like "but think about the children" and surrender their freedom. Damn.
Anyway, I've all but given up, except I digitally sign (s/mime) all my mails and I've a pgp key that I'll use when requested.
Now digitally signing my mails may not seem like much, but I don't know a single other person (Nerds/Geeks or not) that has a digital signature, so I can't encrypt (I've one work colleage with a pgp key). But sometimes somebody asks me what that strange symbol by my mail is about and I have an opening to talk a bit about security (I often add something about spam), but I still haven't managed to get a single other person to get a digital signature.
Not that I've anything sinister to mail about, but I just want to keep those NSA servers busy. Trying to break a 2048bit key, just to get to a message about soup.
In the same way that nobody, who is really interested in music (say, enough to be able to play an instrument) would watch the MTV music award show(s).
It's simply that the mass marked is that much bigger.. a.k.a. better paying ads.
Yeah! Halo 2, WoW Beta, and now Half-Life 2! Say good bye to my GPA!
What's this GPA you are talking about? Grand Pheft Auto? Is it any good?
My site is actually index'ed, they just don't index anybody, who links to me.
8 billion pages and not a single link to my blog.
/.
Can't figure of I should just shoot my self or maybe just open a subscription to
I've read a SF book where tiny cheap wireless cameras where a part of the background. They where so cheap that just about every part of earth was covered and the chances of you getting watched, if you did something bad (warcrimes was a part of the plot) was fairly big. Privacy issues wheren't metioned.
But I can't come up with a name... I think Linda Nagata's Limit of Vision had something like this, but I'm fairly sure the protagonist (or maybe it was everybody) had a camera build in to her glasses. Maybe Neal Stephenson, Ken MacLeod or John Barnes...?
Yeah, well, maybe it's kind of OT, but I'm just trying to say that, it has been thought of before, I've just mislayed the evidence...
Try search for "star wars definitive original" on the emule/edonkey network.
... but maybe downloading them is easier and non of the "don't buy the new version DVD" options make Lucas, of this dimension, any money, anyway)
Just might be the versions you are looking for.
Is downloading something that you can't get any other way bad? Not in my world. At least not in this case.
(yeah, you could hunt down the original LD versions and buy a laser disc player, or build a machine that will take you to a parallel dimension where Lucas didn't lose his mind and buy the new not fubared DVDs
Does anybody have an idea about the cost of such a telescope (if you where to build a new one) compared to the Hubble?
Maybe a space based replacement for Hubble isn't needed...
They need to shape it as something interesting and pass it on as prices or bonuses.
Like you get a small glow-in-the-dark Wolverine figure, when you see X-Men n, and you even get a chance at having X-Men like kids of your own!
It's just at questing of selling it right.
Not entirely sure what you want, but it sounds a bit like ALE. I've played around with it a bit and it's quite cool. Does have it's limitations, though...
...Sony releases the Clie VZ90. To bad it's for Japan only, as Sony has decided to pull out of USA and Europe when comes to PDAs.
No but they usually have a hard(er) time learning it.
See it as if they do have a Word2Phonemic function but it basicly returns the input unaltered...