Um, I've been able to "hack it" for twenty years and it's still hildarious after all this time, the lengths CLI users will go to to avoid a little typing!
Worse than that, Iranian hackers stormed the Virtual Embassy and took 52 user accounts hostage.
Obama is rumored to have ordered a strike team assembled from the top elite US Battlefield 2 soldiers, to stage a daring rescue in high-polygon-count Virtual Blackhawk helicopters.
But what if you're doing a fantasy or science fiction movie? Do you really want realism? Once you introduce magic or dragons or FTL travel or something, realism pretty much goes out the window.
Avatar's scenes on Pandora didn't look remotely realistic to me, but they were gorgeous and didn't remove me from the story at all.
In fact, I think the CGI enhanced the story by transporting me to a fantastic place minimally familiar to an earthling!
If you're like me and saw the Seattle protests against WTO and the Group of 8 on the news in 1999 and wondered "what the heck are they shouting about?" now you know.
The parent is correct - any potential danger from radiation is overblown.
"Radiation... yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous LIES about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's BAD for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand 100 chest x-rays a year. They ought to have them, too!"
No, Apple didn't steal anything. They didn't buy anything. They didn't license anything. They got a peek at the Alto and Smalltalk system, that's all. Apple didn't get any Xerox hardware or software, just inspiration.
Nevertheless, Xerox knew what they were doing. They didn't accidentally let Apple eat their lunch. They bore as much responsibility as Apple did.
When Adele Goldberg of PARC was asked to give Jobs and his engineers a demo, "I said, 'no way.' I had a big argument with the Xerox executives, telling them that they were about to give away the kitchen sink, and I said I would only do it if I were ordered to do it... because then, of course, it would be their responsibility. And that's what they did."
Again, more evidence of slashdot simply not getting it.
When you get the user experience right, the hardware doesn't matter. It's not just "marketing" and "being duped into buying inferior hardware" here - the iPad works very well for what it does. Companies that try to market on "it has a faster processor than the iPad, so it's better!" are missing the point and aren;t going to attract the audience.
It's the same old argument as when it was on the desktop. The vast majority of what makes it "better" is in software, and the software won't run on just any old hardware - it has to be run on Apple hardware.
Yes, Apple keeps their audience by creating a superior experience that people want and will pay for. They also know that if they didn't lock it down to their own hardware, they would be dead in the device market.
What I *meant* to write is that if you stay logged in, you should expect the plugin to recognize you, but don't be surprised if it does anyway based on your cookie.
That's because FB social plugins are Facebook. They are run from FB servers and are like mini-sites built into Yathoo! etc. It shouldn't be surprising that if you stay logged in to FB, their proxies on other sites will know who you are.
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Um, I've been able to "hack it" for twenty years and it's still hildarious after all this time, the lengths CLI users will go to to avoid a little typing!
Very true. Unix programmers seem to follow these rules:
So these tools will likely be run as "ctxtfrgrp" and "hierdiff" or just "cfgrep" and "hdiff"
I'm not convinced it's a good idea to stake the future of humanity on what we might discover.
"What if we discover perpetual motion and warp drive?? Wouldn't that be great!!" Yep.
This is not a job for rookies, soldier! We need L337 battle-hardened players. :)
Worse than that, Iranian hackers stormed the Virtual Embassy and took 52 user accounts hostage.
Obama is rumored to have ordered a strike team assembled from the top elite US Battlefield 2 soldiers, to stage a daring rescue in high-polygon-count Virtual Blackhawk helicopters.
Avatar's scenes on Pandora didn't look remotely realistic to me, but they were gorgeous and didn't remove me from the story at all.
In fact, I think the CGI enhanced the story by transporting me to a fantastic place minimally familiar to an earthling!
Q: What kind of shoes can you eat?
A: Cashews!
Yep. And I hope you'll at least agree that aunicornism, aleprechaunism, and abigfootism are all religions too.
Unlike turtle stacking, which is NP-hard and completely useless...
You're thinking of McRosoft.
Mod parent +1 Beat-me-to-it!
If you're like me and saw the Seattle protests against WTO and the Group of 8 on the news in 1999 and wondered "what the heck are they shouting about?" now you know.
"Radiation... yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous LIES about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's BAD for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand 100 chest x-rays a year. They ought to have them, too!"
It's funny, Raskin said that even Lisa wouldn't have been graphical if he hadn't specified it for the Macintosh beforehand!
"The Lisa was very Star-like; the Lisa stole things from Star right and left—it stole people, it stole ideas, even stole the font names, exactly."
http://library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/interviews/raskin/parc.html
No, Apple didn't steal anything. They didn't buy anything. They didn't license anything. They got a peek at the Alto and Smalltalk system, that's all. Apple didn't get any Xerox hardware or software, just inspiration.
Nevertheless, Xerox knew what they were doing. They didn't accidentally let Apple eat their lunch. They bore as much responsibility as Apple did.
When Adele Goldberg of PARC was asked to give Jobs and his engineers a demo, "I said, 'no way.' I had a big argument with the Xerox executives, telling them that they were about to give away the kitchen sink, and I said I would only do it if I were ordered to do it... because then, of course, it would be their responsibility. And that's what they did."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Bg461mnN8#t=12m43s
A hologram is imprinted on a surface of some kind. You have to look at the surface to see the holographic image.
Now this is a free-space display!
Maybe we're omniscient and we don't even know it!
Must have meant "plate o' death," as Turing ate a poisoned apple. Actually that would be more of a Snow White death, wouldn't it?
Socrates drank the Cup-o-Death.
He defined the type. You might even say he was typecast!
Why do you suppose the court was attracted to this case? It seems like it could be very polarizing.
And you call me retarded?
It's the same old argument as when it was on the desktop. The vast majority of what makes it "better" is in software, and the software won't run on just any old hardware - it has to be run on Apple hardware.
Yes, Apple keeps their audience by creating a superior experience that people want and will pay for. They also know that if they didn't lock it down to their own hardware, they would be dead in the device market.
Nice attitude - righteous and judgmental.
Assuming you're over 16 years old, you should have learned by now that one size does not fit all.
Yeah, that came out wrong.
What I *meant* to write is that if you stay logged in, you should expect the plugin to recognize you, but don't be surprised if it does anyway based on your cookie.
That's because FB social plugins are Facebook. They are run from FB servers and are like mini-sites built into Yathoo! etc. It shouldn't be surprising that if you stay logged in to FB, their proxies on other sites will know who you are.