Leopard supports five year old desktops and laptops. If they release this on schedule they will be abandoning some people with three year old hardware at that point.
No more than to train everyone to be a secretary or an accountant.
Most people don't use most of what they learn in school, but you never know what 10% they're going to use.
What they're doing is the equivalent of stopping mathematics teaching at long division because most people never use trigonometry after school, then switching from teaching math to teaching speed calculator techniques because they're more practical.
1. Create hoax crypto extortion virus 2. Call for trade sanctions against Lower Bananastan 3. Ram the "criminalize crypto and authorize panoptic surveillance" (CCRAP) treaty through the G8 4. Profit^H^H^H^H^H^HAll our base belong to whitehouse.gov.
Oh, this is going to be rich. These guys have read too much William Gibson. Unless the whole thing is a Joe-job trying to get some innocent (ish) third party in trouble, these folks are going to find it pretty damn hard to collect any money without being traced, and this is more than commonly illegal.
Oh, I'm sure I'll hate them ten different ways, but before Sprint I was on Verizon, who was even less fun than Sprint... but that was a company phone so I could let someone else deliver the hate, and before that on Cingular... all phones are pieces of junk, all cellular companies are hateful, but at least with GSM I can ration the hate out in tiny packages...:)
If I could use my SIM card in it, I wouldn't care if my phone used TDMA, CDMA, GSM, BDSM, or Avian Carriers.
But after 2 years with Sprint hoping my piece of junk phone would hold out long enough for me to escape to T-Mobile without having to sign up for another piece of junk phone from Sprint because I can't just buy a used piece of junk phone (there pretty much aren't any non-piece-of-junk phones out there) and stick my SIM in it... I'm done with CDMA, thank you very much.
I can't imagine that the person honestly doesn't know any shenanigans would take place long before the machines were on public display.
Your imagination is a pretty poor thing. You can not conceive of someone having heard about a problem and immediately asking other people instead of doing their own research? You've never even see that happen on Slashdot? Damn.
When I was a kid, computers in schools meant punch cards at universities. By the time I was a teenager, it was an Apple II in the math lab and the only people interested were the real computer nerds. I was reading about things like PLATO and computer languages designed for teaching... languages better than Basic... but they were out of reach. I figured my kids would benefit.
Then the personal computer revolution hit its peak and we got an Atari and Logo and all that good stuff, and then my kids were born, but by the time they were old enough to be really interested in computers and what Daddy was doing what they mostly had in school were IBM PCs that were running Office and used to teach kids how to be secretaries and accountants.
Computers in schools seem to miss the point more often than not.
x86 segments (we'll make it work like Pascal). Until they gave up on the 64k segments it was excruciating. iApx432... the ultimate CISC (the terminal CISC) i860... The compilers will make it work (they didn't) IA64... It's not really VLIW! We'll call it EPIC! The compiler's will make it work! Honest!
The fuzzy thinking response to that is that you'll end up with a zombie that acts just like a human and tells you that it thinks it's a human but it's just a very sophisticated simulation that's not really self-aware, because it's lacking some mystical essence... they used to call it a soul but now they're dressing it up in pop-science terms like "quantum entanglement".
The only thing that's entangled is the logic that assumes we can't figure out how that bit works.
Why doesn't microsoft just announce an XP extension program that lasts as long as people are willing to PAY for updates.
Because they want to be able to tell the MPAA and RIAA that Windows boxes with enough power to play videos have all the cool encryption technology in the Vista core that keeps people from ripping videos with modified drivers. Or at least makes it slightly harder.
They could get the same effect by making Windows Media Player pop up a dialog saying "you need to install Vista to play this video", but given how Microsoft refused to back down on the almost criminally insecure "active desktop" with its insecurity zones even when it looked like they were going to be broken up by Judge Jackson, don't expect mere customer demand to budge them from their course.
I'm not a member of the bar. Does this mean my right to free speech has been curtailed? By whom? By myself, for never having attempted to pass a law exam I'm unqualified to pass? You have to be a practicing lawyer to enjoy the right of free speech? I don't get it. Seriously. What are you talking about?
I'd rather they (or anyone else) would develop a word processor that doesn't make me want to cut my hands off and write raw HTML by whistling morse code into a telephone because it would suck less.
I am SO tired of every word processor out there, including the one by the white kool aid clan, mimicking the worst drawbacks of word because it makes it a bit easier to roundtrip documents to and from Word. I'd rather have the native format something like Docbook, but I'll take HTML if that's the only way to get real nested document structures and markup as THE native format.
Gilbert Gosseyn proved that computers could handle non-Aristotelian logic through the use of the Distorter tube in A. E. Van-Voght's seminal thesis "Worlds of Null-A".
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It's not going to be Cheney, it's going to be some Ollie North clone.
did Cheney shoot his friend in the face because he was pissed off at him, or because he is a buffoon?
Why is this an "either-or" question?
http://www.angryflower.com/cheneys.html
Leopard supports five year old desktops and laptops. If they release this on schedule they will be abandoning some people with three year old hardware at that point.
No more than to train everyone to be a secretary or an accountant.
Most people don't use most of what they learn in school, but you never know what 10% they're going to use.
What they're doing is the equivalent of stopping mathematics teaching at long division because most people never use trigonometry after school, then switching from teaching math to teaching speed calculator techniques because they're more practical.
Crikey! I wish I was sure I was joking.
What if that country doesn't care?
1. Create hoax crypto extortion virus
2. Call for trade sanctions against Lower Bananastan
3. Ram the "criminalize crypto and authorize panoptic surveillance" (CCRAP) treaty through the G8
4. Profit^H^H^H^H^H^HAll our base belong to whitehouse.gov.
Oh, this is going to be rich. These guys have read too much William Gibson. Unless the whole thing is a Joe-job trying to get some innocent (ish) third party in trouble, these folks are going to find it pretty damn hard to collect any money without being traced, and this is more than commonly illegal.
Oh, I'm sure I'll hate them ten different ways, but before Sprint I was on Verizon, who was even less fun than Sprint... but that was a company phone so I could let someone else deliver the hate, and before that on Cingular... all phones are pieces of junk, all cellular companies are hateful, but at least with GSM I can ration the hate out in tiny packages... :)
It's a pretty poor imagination that only works one way, as the White Queen might say.
If I could use my SIM card in it, I wouldn't care if my phone used TDMA, CDMA, GSM, BDSM, or Avian Carriers.
But after 2 years with Sprint hoping my piece of junk phone would hold out long enough for me to escape to T-Mobile without having to sign up for another piece of junk phone from Sprint because I can't just buy a used piece of junk phone (there pretty much aren't any non-piece-of-junk phones out there) and stick my SIM in it... I'm done with CDMA, thank you very much.
I can't imagine that the person honestly doesn't know any shenanigans would take place long before the machines were on public display.
Your imagination is a pretty poor thing. You can not conceive of someone having heard about a problem and immediately asking other people instead of doing their own research? You've never even see that happen on Slashdot? Damn.
When I was a kid, computers in schools meant punch cards at universities. By the time I was a teenager, it was an Apple II in the math lab and the only people interested were the real computer nerds. I was reading about things like PLATO and computer languages designed for teaching... languages better than Basic... but they were out of reach. I figured my kids would benefit.
Then the personal computer revolution hit its peak and we got an Atari and Logo and all that good stuff, and then my kids were born, but by the time they were old enough to be really interested in computers and what Daddy was doing what they mostly had in school were IBM PCs that were running Office and used to teach kids how to be secretaries and accountants.
Computers in schools seem to miss the point more often than not.
Why on earth would a printer have its own public IP?
Because it's on a network with a public IP address space?
Funny how just about anything can be made into a decent video game...
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05282008.shtml
which laptops normally can get 5 hours of use from a battery?
My Toshiba Libretto managed it.
How could Intel have got it so wrong?
... the ultimate CISC (the terminal CISC) ... The compilers will make it work (they didn't) ... It's not really VLIW! We'll call it EPIC! The compiler's will make it work! Honest!
That's what they do best. Getting it wrong.
x86 segments (we'll make it work like Pascal). Until they gave up on the 64k segments it was excruciating.
iApx432
i860
IA64
The fuzzy thinking response to that is that you'll end up with a zombie that acts just like a human and tells you that it thinks it's a human but it's just a very sophisticated simulation that's not really self-aware, because it's lacking some mystical essence... they used to call it a soul but now they're dressing it up in pop-science terms like "quantum entanglement".
The only thing that's entangled is the logic that assumes we can't figure out how that bit works.
Either you're referring to a different message than me or the post I'm commenting on is completely incoherent.
Why doesn't microsoft just announce an XP extension program that lasts as long as people are willing to PAY for updates.
Because they want to be able to tell the MPAA and RIAA that Windows boxes with enough power to play videos have all the cool encryption technology in the Vista core that keeps people from ripping videos with modified drivers. Or at least makes it slightly harder.
They could get the same effect by making Windows Media Player pop up a dialog saying "you need to install Vista to play this video", but given how Microsoft refused to back down on the almost criminally insecure "active desktop" with its insecurity zones even when it looked like they were going to be broken up by Judge Jackson, don't expect mere customer demand to budge them from their course.
I'm not a member of the bar. Does this mean my right to free speech has been curtailed? By whom? By myself, for never having attempted to pass a law exam I'm unqualified to pass? You have to be a practicing lawyer to enjoy the right of free speech? I don't get it. Seriously. What are you talking about?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over?
I'd rather they (or anyone else) would develop a word processor that doesn't make me want to cut my hands off and write raw HTML by whistling morse code into a telephone because it would suck less.
I am SO tired of every word processor out there, including the one by the white kool aid clan, mimicking the worst drawbacks of word because it makes it a bit easier to roundtrip documents to and from Word. I'd rather have the native format something like Docbook, but I'll take HTML if that's the only way to get real nested document structures and markup as THE native format.
FreeBSD's development model isn't all that similar to Linux, so why do you think they should use a tool designed to support a very different model?
Having been at a Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert that was interrupted so that a member from the \\noflamebait\\ party could present its platform [...]
:) :) :)
I have this sudden image of "Mr Moran" standing up announcing his candidacy...
Gilbert Gosseyn proved that computers could handle non-Aristotelian logic through the use of the Distorter tube in A. E. Van-Voght's seminal thesis "Worlds of Null-A".