I don't know about you, but I liked the "vehicles" based Voltron much better. Somehow the one based on tiger-like vehicles didn't appeal to me
The main reason is I liked the robots with much more details, like the transformers.
Are we talking about the same Transformers? Do you mean animation details? Because the animation was in the same style (you mention EVA so I think you might be talking about a later version of Transformers in which case it's unfair to compare animation quality to that of Voltron). At least the Voltron Lions (I don't remember the cars version) had some idea of scale. The lions were huge and when they formed Voltron it was bigger than the single lions. You could tell by the relative size to the monster sent to destroy them. Transformers, however, didn't bother with trivial things like "where does Prime's trailer go when he transforms?" and "why does Megatron shrink so much when he becomes a gun?".
All they need is $1,000,000... I mean... $250,000!
(Do I get bonus points for geeky references?;-))
You almost got the bonus points but unfortunately the answer we were looking for was $6,000,000 not $1,000,000. Sorry. Thanks for playing and we have some lovely parting gifts for you.
Favorite line from "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"...
Bender: Although you'll have to metaphorically make a deal with the Devil. And by Devil I mean Robot Devil. And by metaphorically, I mean get your coat.
Dennis has already made his views on Gitmo very clear. Check out this photo -- "High waves crash on the shoreline of the U.S. Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba on Thursday." (CNN Caption)
web based file services for document distribution -- That's exactly what a webserver is.
I read the problem as the Uni wanting to give students easily accessible space so they could store presentations and the like for easy retrieval in the classroom, dorm, or cluster. If the professor wants to distribute pdf documents and other material to students the best option is a class webpage or wiki where it can be posted once, not copied 300 times into 300 separate storage directories.
Quite the opposite, actually. If you provide a service and say "we provide a service that allows you to do and here's a link to a tutorial we wrote teaching you how to use it" the students who want to use the service will read the tutorial and learn. The others won't probably because they don't think it's a better solution that what they had been doing (floppies, cd, or emailing to themselves).
Even if it's the most intuitive, user-friendly system in the world there are still people who will need instructions so there's no need to dumb things down to try to eliminate that group. (I guess this is why I never liked HCI classes)
Yes, ftp programs can be hard if you don't know how to use them. But it's for a University so teaching is what they do. They should teach them how to use ftp programs. It wouldn't be that hard.
In the business world there are tons of companies using GPLed OSS to run their businesses which is why the projects are growing. But how many actually incorporate GPLed OSS into their products? Very few. Even fewer when you take the subset of companies that intend to sell the product (thus excluding Apple's use of KHTML).
GPL is a quid pro quo license (you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours). Businesses understand quid pro quo and use it every day as a means of getting things done.
BSD is a charity license. As far as businesses are concerned, charity is good, but business is business and the last thing you want to do is give charity to your competitors.
You've got it backwards. Companies would rather use the BSD license because they can take the work and do whatever they want to it without having to release the source for their competitors to use. You'll notice that Microsoft doesn't have any problems with BSD and used the BSD network stack code in their OSes.
Or it could be that you dial using the scrollwheel. Goodness help us if that's the case, as I've used iPod Linux before which has a similar scheme, and it's horrible.
My grandmother has a phone that you dial using a scrollwheel and I actually kinda like using it.
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I don't know about you, but I liked the "vehicles" based Voltron much better. Somehow the one based on tiger-like vehicles didn't appeal to me
The main reason is I liked the robots with much more details, like the transformers.
Are we talking about the same Transformers? Do you mean animation details? Because the animation was in the same style (you mention EVA so I think you might be talking about a later version of Transformers in which case it's unfair to compare animation quality to that of Voltron). At least the Voltron Lions (I don't remember the cars version) had some idea of scale. The lions were huge and when they formed Voltron it was bigger than the single lions. You could tell by the relative size to the monster sent to destroy them. Transformers, however, didn't bother with trivial things like "where does Prime's trailer go when he transforms?" and "why does Megatron shrink so much when he becomes a gun?".
Yeah, it's under the seat.
Regular B&W iPods have been discontinued (the mini is still B&W, though). All full-size iPods are color now.
Favorite line from "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"...
Bender: Although you'll have to metaphorically make a deal with the Devil. And by Devil I mean Robot Devil. And by metaphorically, I mean get your coat.
Like using a microfilm copy of a newspaper at a library.
You mean he posted before you AND the message number was lower? What are the chances?
You don't need more sleep, just more coffee.
Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Dennis has already made his views on Gitmo very clear. Check out this photo -- "High waves crash on the shoreline of the U.S. Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba on Thursday." (CNN Caption)
Latency is the key. For your money the best bandwidth is a FedEx box full of DVDs...but the latency is killer.
How player pianos killed piano players.
When dropped on them, yes.
web based file services for document distribution -- That's exactly what a webserver is.
I read the problem as the Uni wanting to give students easily accessible space so they could store presentations and the like for easy retrieval in the classroom, dorm, or cluster. If the professor wants to distribute pdf documents and other material to students the best option is a class webpage or wiki where it can be posted once, not copied 300 times into 300 separate storage directories.
You've obviously never worked at a University.
Quite the opposite, actually. If you provide a service and say "we provide a service that allows you to do and here's a link to a tutorial we wrote teaching you how to use it" the students who want to use the service will read the tutorial and learn. The others won't probably because they don't think it's a better solution that what they had been doing (floppies, cd, or emailing to themselves).
Even if it's the most intuitive, user-friendly system in the world there are still people who will need instructions so there's no need to dumb things down to try to eliminate that group. (I guess this is why I never liked HCI classes)
Yes, ftp programs can be hard if you don't know how to use them. But it's for a University so teaching is what they do. They should teach them how to use ftp programs. It wouldn't be that hard.
not dead, it just lurks in the dark, more like undead.
Exactly. The primary users of DECnet are grues.
The electric device was a microphone being swung behind an old TV.
In the business world there are tons of companies using GPLed OSS to run their businesses which is why the projects are growing. But how many actually incorporate GPLed OSS into their products? Very few. Even fewer when you take the subset of companies that intend to sell the product (thus excluding Apple's use of KHTML).
Which why the GPL loses. It's not the way companies want to work.
GPL is a quid pro quo license (you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours). Businesses understand quid pro quo and use it every day as a means of getting things done.
BSD is a charity license. As far as businesses are concerned, charity is good, but business is business and the last thing you want to do is give charity to your competitors.
You've got it backwards. Companies would rather use the BSD license because they can take the work and do whatever they want to it without having to release the source for their competitors to use. You'll notice that Microsoft doesn't have any problems with BSD and used the BSD network stack code in their OSes.
Now I think I might need to duck and cover.
comments like this makes me wonder why doesnt /. has a "+1 sarcastic" mod...
It would also need a "-1 doesn't get it" mod for the posts that follow a "+1 sarcastic"
Or it could be that you dial using the scrollwheel. Goodness help us if that's the case, as I've used iPod Linux before which has a similar scheme, and it's horrible.
My grandmother has a phone that you dial using a scrollwheel and I actually kinda like using it.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to have braille on walk-up ATM buttons. It's the drive-through ones that scare me.
ding ding ding!
I think the blind and deaf would benefit from a preemptive scheduler in addition to a journaling filesystem.
And not having to power a laptop screen means you should get great battery life.
*imagine
I previewed but that was obviously a waste.