They song it played was "When you wish upon a star". Which is of course the most famous song about a robot that wants to become a human (Pinnochio). In case people did'nt get it, they put a green feather behind the robot's ear.
But of course Disney will never allow them to use that song publicly.
The song it's playing in the video is "When you wish upon a star". Unfortunately you can't hear it because Disney owns the rights to that song until the year 4000 or something.
There is a multi-trillion dollar economy out there that is currently ignoring Linux almost entirely. If that industry turns to Linux as it's bread-and-butter OS, all will change, forever.
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Just as the web became riddled with OBJECT tags and Flash menus, Linux distros will follow the money and be ruled by the desires of the PHBs that control that money. There will be ads. There will be godawful UI's. Talking paperclips. And....DRM!!!
Finally, we will find out that Linus is Bill Gates' son.
Someday, someone will explain to me why 'We' want linux to be adopted by the other 95% of the market. 'we' all lament what has happened to the Internet since 'they' finally found out about it (and thought it had just been invented). We pine about the good old days of the usenet, when it was like, useful.
I dread a scenario where, around 2005, everyone and their grandma is buying a Linux box (that new OS that just came out year or so ago). And it all goes to shit. You just know it will.
Everyone will run as root, open viruses, execute them. All our favorite apps will become add-filled feature-burdened piles of stinking filth rushed to market despite thousands of high severity bugs.
It willl suck hard and we'll all look back fondly on the good old days.
When these things are actually out in the field doing their jobs, they're going to be doing it on LEGS, not wheels
Actually, I think they'll use WINGS.
How's that for obvious?
Yah, flying is harder than driving. But autonomous flying over rough terrain is WAY easier than autonomous driving over rough terrain. Even autonomous landing is probaly easier than autonomous "running up a hill and jumping over a fence".
Most planes have been landed by computers for many years now. Sure it's on a smooth runaway. But throw in VTOL (vertical take off and landing -- which we've been doing for decades), and autonomous landing becomes way easier than driving.
You heard it here first: In the future, robots will fly.
OK, I had laser surgery and it's the best thing I've ever done for myself. But, one thing I thought it would do was reduce my eye strain.
Bear with me.
I have a bad asygmatism (sp?). For going on a few months, my eyes started hurting pretty bad whenever I put on the glasses. I tried different glasses and still had the problem.
I figured it was time to fix my vision so I got the surgery. Good news: 20/15 vision (wuhoo!) Bad news: Now I had the 'I'm wearing glasses' hurt ALL THE TIME. It drove me freaking mad. I asked the doctor and he said "Maybe you should get glasses". That's where he lost me.
Anyhoo, my eyes are great now, here's why:
[drum roll]
I stared running. Outdoors. In the sunlight. With nothing but far away things to look at like mountains, sky, clouds, trees, OTHER PEOPLE, all illuminated by constant unflickering sunlight along with it's magnificent ultraviolet rays.
So, I say, to fix your eyes, buy some running shoes.
Yep. It is $0.00 at my contractor too. We had a class where they explained the rules. For example, after a meeting, it's raining, can you offer the gov employee a ride home? No. Absolutely not. You will be fired if you do.
I've worked for MS though, and I can completely understand them doing this. It's not that their crooked, it's that they have no process whatsoever. At most, they'd send out an email saying 'don't bribe people", which no one would read.
This code can be run from ANY client that allows attachments...and is stupid enough to allow clueless users to run as root while reading their email.
In most Unix installations, people run X wherever, as a normal user, with write access to only their home dir, and no ability to open low ports.
On my shared 'nix machine, the worst I could do is hose some of my files, which are backed up every night. Noone else on the same box would even know anything happened.
I keep hearing about how Windows is only attacked because it's a big target. It's just not true. Windows is an unsecure pile of shit. People should know all this is partially MS's fault.
I love the part about the "body scanning device", and the part about "automatically sending information to mechanics so they can contact the women directly".
I can just see them at the shop "Dude, you take the fat chick with the thrown rod, I'll take the curvacious babe with low air in her tires."
I've been on the management end of this. Do you seriously believe we flip a coin to see who gets fired?
Managers are typically told, "you need to eliminate N people, choose them". The manager, trying to imagine how (s)he will continue to get shit done after the layoff, pics the people that (s)he could live without.
Managers typically have a list of people they'd like to let go anyway, but can't because of the near certainty of getting sued. When a 'round of layofs' arrives, it's a welcome opportunity to get rid of the dead weight.
Search for free 9 year old os in Google, you get a result set mostly of links about Mac OS 9. (Not what I wanted, but understandable).
Searched for free 9 year old os on MSN. The first result is a link to search Dictionary.com for "free 9 year-old nude girls". When clicked, Dictionary.com offers a link to search for "free 1 year-old nude girls", which thankfully yeilds nothing.
I'd like to see you tell a woman that you're going to take pictures of her, show these pictures to millions of people, and not allow her to take up at least one tube of lipstick and one of mascara.
Some people get edgier and better with age - Lucas, unfortunately, pretty much lost it
Err..lets not forget that Lucas wrote the Star Wars Holiday Special back in 1978. Try watching that before you watch eps I and II, they seem so you'll be sayin "My god Lucas has gotten so much better".
Reminds me of how my friends would use Atari 2600 conrollers (the black one with the stick and the red button). They were always convinced that pushing the lever harder made the car/guy/player go faster. I would try to explain to them that inside, it's just a peice of plastic that flips a switch, and that pressing so hard will not help, but instead ruin the joystick. They never got it.
This same behaviour can be seen in adults, who think making a throwing motion when pushing buttons on a tv remote control will make the signal go further.
From my knowledge of Asian culture, I believe these are the most likely scenarios:
1) Microsoft had discovered an ancient form of super-Karate, and was training hordes of minions in the art, with plans to take over the world. But, a lone anti-trust agent, has discovered a long lost form of Karate that is even more powerful. He, a few trusty sidekicks with little fighting experience, and a girl with an unusual aptitude for fighting, raid Microsoft and defeat the faceless hordes. Finally Steve Ballmer himself leaps into the fray for a one-on-one fight to the death with the hero. Ballmer is defeated, and begs to be spared. The girl leaps in to finish him, but the hero holds her back, showing mercy to Ballmer. As the hero and heroine walk away, Ballmer leaps at them with a knife, and the hero sidesteps, and cuts Ballmer in half.
2) Microsoft is fashioning a set of super swords that, if combined, will have the power to....never mind.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it really necessary to have sufficient armaments to destroy the planet seven times over?
Sure you say that now, but wait until Earth is attacked by 7 other planets, then you'll be singing a different tune!
They song it played was "When you wish upon a star". Which is of course the most famous song about a robot that wants to become a human (Pinnochio). In case people did'nt get it, they put a green feather behind the robot's ear.
But of course Disney will never allow them to use that song publicly.
The song it's playing in the video is "When you wish upon a star". Unfortunately you can't hear it because Disney owns the rights to that song until the year 4000 or something.
Don't underestimate the power of the dark side.
There is a multi-trillion dollar economy out there that is currently ignoring Linux almost entirely. If that industry turns to Linux as it's bread-and-butter OS, all will change, forever.
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Just as the web became riddled with OBJECT tags and Flash menus, Linux distros will follow the money and be ruled by the desires of the PHBs that control that money. There will be ads. There will be godawful UI's. Talking paperclips. And....DRM!!!
Finally, we will find out that Linus is Bill Gates' son.
Jack Hammer
Ok, that's my new "If I were a porn star" name.
Someday, someone will explain to me why 'We' want linux to be adopted by the other 95% of the market. 'we' all lament what has happened to the Internet since 'they' finally found out about it (and thought it had just been invented). We pine about the good old days of the usenet, when it was like, useful.
I dread a scenario where, around 2005, everyone and their grandma is buying a Linux box (that new OS that just came out year or so ago). And it all goes to shit. You just know it will.
Everyone will run as root, open viruses, execute them. All our favorite apps will become add-filled feature-burdened piles of stinking filth rushed to market despite thousands of high severity bugs.
It willl suck hard and we'll all look back fondly on the good old days.
UtahJazz's "Three Laws of Film Adaptations"
1: An film may not injure a book or, through inaction, allow a book to come to harm.
2: A film must obey orders given it by fans except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3: A film must protect its profits as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
4: Fuck laws 1..3 and make as much profit as possible.
When these things are actually out in the field doing their jobs, they're going to be doing it on LEGS, not wheels
Actually, I think they'll use WINGS.
How's that for obvious?
Yah, flying is harder than driving. But autonomous flying over rough terrain is WAY easier than autonomous driving over rough terrain. Even autonomous landing is probaly easier than autonomous "running up a hill and jumping over a fence".
Most planes have been landed by computers for many years now. Sure it's on a smooth runaway. But throw in VTOL (vertical take off and landing -- which we've been doing for decades), and autonomous landing becomes way easier than driving.
You heard it here first: In the future, robots will fly.
It's a girl
Can't believe I spent time finding this.
OK, I had laser surgery and it's the best thing I've ever done for myself. But, one thing I thought it would do was reduce my eye strain.
Bear with me.
I have a bad asygmatism (sp?). For going on a few months, my eyes started hurting pretty bad whenever I put on the glasses. I tried different glasses and still had the problem.
I figured it was time to fix my vision so I got the surgery. Good news: 20/15 vision (wuhoo!) Bad news: Now I had the 'I'm wearing glasses' hurt ALL THE TIME. It drove me freaking mad. I asked the doctor and he said "Maybe you should get glasses". That's where he lost me.
Anyhoo, my eyes are great now, here's why:
[drum roll]
I stared running. Outdoors. In the sunlight. With nothing but far away things to look at like mountains, sky, clouds, trees, OTHER PEOPLE, all illuminated by constant unflickering sunlight along with it's magnificent ultraviolet rays.
So, I say, to fix your eyes, buy some running shoes.
Could someone post a mirror please?
Yep. It is $0.00 at my contractor too. We had a class where they explained the rules. For example, after a meeting, it's raining, can you offer the gov employee a ride home? No. Absolutely not. You will be fired if you do.
I've worked for MS though, and I can completely understand them doing this. It's not that their crooked, it's that they have no process whatsoever. At most, they'd send out an email saying 'don't bribe people", which no one would read.
Sun acknowledges, with thanks, Tim Wort (Tim.Wort@InklingResearch.com) for contacting
us regarding this issue.
I'm glad Sun thanked him by publishing his email address on a page now linked directly from the front of Slashdot.
This code can be run from ANY client that allows attachments ...and is stupid enough to allow clueless users to run as root while reading their email.
In most Unix installations, people run X wherever, as a normal user, with write access to only their home dir, and no ability to open low ports.
On my shared 'nix machine, the worst I could do is hose some of my files, which are backed up every night. Noone else on the same box would even know anything happened.
I keep hearing about how Windows is only attacked because it's a big target. It's just not true. Windows is an unsecure pile of shit. People should know all this is partially MS's fault.
I love the part about the "body scanning device", and the part about "automatically sending information to mechanics so they can contact the women directly".
I can just see them at the shop "Dude, you take the fat chick with the thrown rod, I'll take the curvacious babe with low air in her tires."
(-1) Bitter
I've been on the management end of this. Do you seriously believe we flip a coin to see who gets fired?
Managers are typically told, "you need to eliminate N people, choose them". The manager, trying to imagine how (s)he will continue to get shit done after the layoff, pics the people that (s)he could live without.
Managers typically have a list of people they'd like to let go anyway, but can't because of the near certainty of getting sued. When a 'round of layofs' arrives, it's a welcome opportunity to get rid of the dead weight.
Search for free 9 year old os in Google, you get a result set mostly of links about Mac OS 9. (Not what I wanted, but understandable).
Searched for free 9 year old os on MSN. The first result is a link to search Dictionary.com for "free 9 year-old nude girls". When clicked, Dictionary.com offers a link to search for "free 1 year-old nude girls", which thankfully yeilds nothing.
I'd like to see you tell a woman that you're going to take pictures of her, show these pictures to millions of people, and not allow her to take up at least one tube of lipstick and one of mascara.
I don't know, take a look at this, and this.
It was long enough for hydrated minerals to form and salt lake signatures to form
Again, are we *sure* these rovers aren't really exploring Utah?
Some people get edgier and better with age - Lucas, unfortunately, pretty much lost it
Err..lets not forget that Lucas wrote the Star Wars Holiday Special back in 1978. Try watching that before you watch eps I and II, they seem so you'll be sayin "My god Lucas has gotten so much better".
although only if you don't know the Chewbacca is Luke's true biological mother
None of this makes any sense.
Reminds me of how my friends would use Atari 2600 conrollers (the black one with the stick and the red button). They were always convinced that pushing the lever harder made the car/guy/player go faster. I would try to explain to them that inside, it's just a peice of plastic that flips a switch, and that pressing so hard will not help, but instead ruin the joystick. They never got it.
This same behaviour can be seen in adults, who think making a throwing motion when pushing buttons on a tv remote control will make the signal go further.
and they get lots more snow
In Utah, this is considered a good thing.
It amazed me when I moved elsewhere. In Utah people pray for snow. Elsewhere, people treat it like it's a national disaster.
They have correspondents out in the street like they're in a war zone.
"My god, it's coming down in huge flakes!! Run for your lives!!!"
"Governor declares a state of emergency".
"250 people die fleeing the snow".
Wear a coat. Drive slow. Chill.
"The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned."
-Steve Jobs
(OK it was actually Bruce Ediger that said that, but Steve Jobs sounds better)
From my knowledge of Asian culture, I believe these are the most likely scenarios:
....never mind.
1) Microsoft had discovered an ancient form of super-Karate, and was training hordes of minions in the art, with plans to take over the world. But, a lone anti-trust agent, has discovered a long lost form of Karate that is even more powerful. He, a few trusty sidekicks with little fighting experience, and a girl with an unusual aptitude for fighting, raid Microsoft and defeat the faceless hordes. Finally Steve Ballmer himself leaps into the fray for a one-on-one fight to the death with the hero. Ballmer is defeated, and begs to be spared. The girl leaps in to finish him, but the hero holds her back, showing mercy to Ballmer. As the hero and heroine walk away, Ballmer leaps at them with a knife, and the hero sidesteps, and cuts Ballmer in half.
2) Microsoft is fashioning a set of super swords that, if combined, will have the power to