Yeah, if you're jonesing for standard resolution videos only
Sounds great to me. I don't have HD, nor do I plan to upgrade any time soon (I have no desire to have my livingroom dominated by a 40"+ monster, and given the viewing distances in my livingroom, HD would be a waste on anything smaller).
Building an array of telescopes on the Moon would likely require astronauts to spend months on the Moon
Good lord, did you even read the summary? Here, I'll quote the relevant bit for you:
"the modules would be moved into place on the lunar surface by automated vehicles"
See? No humans involved. You just land 'em on the lunar surface, and robotic vehicles are used to deploy them.
Of course, that's not to say this isn't still a pipe dream. I'm willing to bet nothing will really come of it. But it's not a completely out-of-reach idea, as you seem to think.
ROFL, I was gonna post, quite literally, the exact same question. According to wikipedia, it's "a full-featured collaboration suite that supports email and group calendars". Apparently it also features SOAP, XML, Ajax, Web 2.0, and mashups, so it's gotta be good!
And that's ignoring the hell of trying to merge two corporations, with two different corporate cultures, into a single whole. Worse, they don't just want to take Yahoo onto the side of MSFT... that wouldn't be so bad (just look at how AOL handled Nullsoft... at least, in the beginning). No, what they want to do is assimilate the technology Yahoo has and combine it with their own. And *that* is exceedingly hard, both technologically, and from a cultural/social/manpower perspective.
Except anyone being sued by MS can use promissory estoppel as a defense. 'course, you have to be able to afford to defend yourself, but I guess that's where the EFF comes in.
I really don't know why you're bothering to rant on... and on... and on. It's very simple: you made a claim that the Cuban government goes out and arrests any citizen who makes a disparaging comment about the government on the internet. I asked you for proof. You didn't provide any. You provided plenty of examples of *other* violations of human rights, and yay you. Congratulations. But you've provided absolutely no substance to back your original assertion.
So, either you were lying, or you were deliberately exaggerating while stating your claim as fact. The former is stupid and dishonest, and the latter is devious. Either way, your comments can only be counterproductive. After all, as you say, clearly the Cuban government is mistreating it's people. Why the need to lie and exaggerate? Or can't you just state the facts and let them speak for themselves?
In short: either make claims backed with facts, or shut the fuck up.
Umm... okay, here's who got arrested: "Those detained include journalists, owners of private libraries and pro-democracy members of illegal opposition parties, including promoters of the Proyecto Varela"
Did any of those people "go on the internet... write something critical of castro" and then get arrested? Nope. Hell, we're not even talking about average, run-of-the-mill Cubans, here. Journalists? Members of illegal opposition parties? And they got arrested... I'm shocked.
That's not to say this is a good thing. Absolutely not. *However*, that event, which happened 5 years ago, is hardly evidence for the kind of Big Brother-style crackdowns you claim occur there.
So, give me an example of one single Cuban who simply posted a comment online and got arrested, and I will conceed the point.
And no, this isn't moving the goalposts. That's all I asked for in the first place. You responded with a terrible event that's basically unrelated. It would be akin to me claiming the US is a dictatorship that arrests all citizens critical of the government, and then citing Guantanamo when challenged on the issue. Is it a bad thing? Yes. But it doesn't address the question at hand.
How about the person making the supposition supporting their claims? I know, what a crazy idea here on Slashdot, the bastion of the baseless assertion...
You know autocomplete and the like work in Eclipse as well, right? There are also vim scripts that do the same thing.
Well, yes, that's true to some degree. But any non-biased developer must admit that the VS package *is* pretty impressive. Are those features available in other IDEs? Certainly. Are they as polished, or all available within the same package? Well, Eclipse probably comes close. But plugins for Vim and Emacs? Please. They pale in comparison.
That said, I still love Vim (and I used to be a huge Emacs fan). But VS *is* a pretty impressive toolkit (aside from the fact that it's an unbelievable pig, and decidedly buggy at times).
'course, the interesting thing is that, sometimes, it takes more than 2 years to take something from patent to product (I work in such a business... we filed our first patents (patents that I think are legitimate) at least 5 or 6 years ago, but because of the nature of the industry (lots of big, established players who are extremely slow to move), it's taken this long, and will take longer, before we see our first cent of income).
As such, I would argue 2 years is far too short for a realistic patent horizon. 5-7 makes more sense to me (in our case, we could've held off our filing a bit, relying on trade secret law).
Uhuh, that's all well and good, but the GP said "Webmasters should have a means to tell search engines what type of content is ok to index vs what kind is not." My point was, that exists. If you disagree with the original premise, go argue with him/her.
Umm... frankly... I know of only *one* person who got a PS2 for the DVD capabilities, and surprise, surprise, he was a young, single guy. Sorry, but your average blue collar worker or housewife doesn't want to use a joypad to control their DVD player. The idea that PS2 was somehow the magic that caused the DVD to take off is a Sony fanboi wet dream, and nothing more.
I find it hard to believe that the professional programmers at Mozilla can't do this
I can only assume you've never written a heavily multithreaded application before.
It doesn't matter how experienced you are. Deeply threaded applications are *hard*, particularly when there is a lot of thread interactions. Even moreso if you're trying to graft a threaded architecture on a previously single-threaded application.
And comparing Eclipse to Firefox is completely, largely meaningless. The two applications are vastly different in terms of their problem domain, and comparing them isn't terribly useful.
any distro that expects relatively frequent "wipe and fully reinstall"
Err, what? Ubuntu is a Debian-based distribution. As such, upgrading forward to the next release is a standard operation. Just modify your apt.conf to point it at the new version, and do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". I moved my box from Feisty to Gutsy that way and it worked like a charm. And my Debian box has been rolling forward like that for years.
Dark matter is simply the mass of the error margin
Umm, no, it's not, and if you believe that, you haven't been keeping up with the latest discoveries. The Bullet Cluster results demonstrably show that *something* is there, different from regular matter, but exerting a gravitational force. What it is, we don't know, but it's presence is undeniable.
Tell that to DS Lite owners with flakey shoulder buttons. In my case, I dropped my DS, and it happened to land right on the left shoulder button. It's now works intermittently, at best. *sigh*
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"higher res tv is much better to watch no matter what the viewing distance"
If you believe that, you don't understand the physics of human vision.
Yeah, if you're jonesing for standard resolution videos only
Sounds great to me. I don't have HD, nor do I plan to upgrade any time soon (I have no desire to have my livingroom dominated by a 40"+ monster, and given the viewing distances in my livingroom, HD would be a waste on anything smaller).
Linux + mythfrontend + wiimote sounds like a pretty killer multimedia option. And that's just the first thing that came to mind.
We got to see at least three major (and differing) implementations of Marx' setup.
I hate to break it to you, but no, we didn't. Last I checked, Marx wasn't a big advocate for totalitarianism.
Building an array of telescopes on the Moon would likely require astronauts to spend months on the Moon
Good lord, did you even read the summary? Here, I'll quote the relevant bit for you:
"the modules would be moved into place on the lunar surface by automated vehicles"
See? No humans involved. You just land 'em on the lunar surface, and robotic vehicles are used to deploy them.
Of course, that's not to say this isn't still a pipe dream. I'm willing to bet nothing will really come of it. But it's not a completely out-of-reach idea, as you seem to think.
ROFL, I was gonna post, quite literally, the exact same question. According to wikipedia, it's "a full-featured collaboration suite that supports email and group calendars". Apparently it also features SOAP, XML, Ajax, Web 2.0, and mashups, so it's gotta be good!
I have three words for you: Mythical Man Month.
And that's ignoring the hell of trying to merge two corporations, with two different corporate cultures, into a single whole. Worse, they don't just want to take Yahoo onto the side of MSFT... that wouldn't be so bad (just look at how AOL handled Nullsoft... at least, in the beginning). No, what they want to do is assimilate the technology Yahoo has and combine it with their own. And *that* is exceedingly hard, both technologically, and from a cultural/social/manpower perspective.
Except anyone being sued by MS can use promissory estoppel as a defense. 'course, you have to be able to afford to defend yourself, but I guess that's where the EFF comes in.
I really don't know why you're bothering to rant on... and on... and on. It's very simple: you made a claim that the Cuban government goes out and arrests any citizen who makes a disparaging comment about the government on the internet. I asked you for proof. You didn't provide any. You provided plenty of examples of *other* violations of human rights, and yay you. Congratulations. But you've provided absolutely no substance to back your original assertion.
So, either you were lying, or you were deliberately exaggerating while stating your claim as fact. The former is stupid and dishonest, and the latter is devious. Either way, your comments can only be counterproductive. After all, as you say, clearly the Cuban government is mistreating it's people. Why the need to lie and exaggerate? Or can't you just state the facts and let them speak for themselves?
In short: either make claims backed with facts, or shut the fuck up.
Thank you, you've demonstrated you can't actually support your claim with real-world examples. That's all I wanted to know.
Umm... okay, here's who got arrested: "Those detained include journalists, owners of private libraries and pro-democracy members of illegal opposition parties, including promoters of the Proyecto Varela"
... write something critical of castro" and then get arrested? Nope. Hell, we're not even talking about average, run-of-the-mill Cubans, here. Journalists? Members of illegal opposition parties? And they got arrested... I'm shocked.
Did any of those people "go on the internet
That's not to say this is a good thing. Absolutely not. *However*, that event, which happened 5 years ago, is hardly evidence for the kind of Big Brother-style crackdowns you claim occur there.
So, give me an example of one single Cuban who simply posted a comment online and got arrested, and I will conceed the point.
And no, this isn't moving the goalposts. That's all I asked for in the first place. You responded with a terrible event that's basically unrelated. It would be akin to me claiming the US is a dictatorship that arrests all citizens critical of the government, and then citing Guantanamo when challenged on the issue. Is it a bad thing? Yes. But it doesn't address the question at hand.
How about you do the work.
How about the person making the supposition supporting their claims? I know, what a crazy idea here on Slashdot, the bastion of the baseless assertion...
You know autocomplete and the like work in Eclipse as well, right? There are also vim scripts that do the same thing.
Well, yes, that's true to some degree. But any non-biased developer must admit that the VS package *is* pretty impressive. Are those features available in other IDEs? Certainly. Are they as polished, or all available within the same package? Well, Eclipse probably comes close. But plugins for Vim and Emacs? Please. They pale in comparison.
That said, I still love Vim (and I used to be a huge Emacs fan). But VS *is* a pretty impressive toolkit (aside from the fact that it's an unbelievable pig, and decidedly buggy at times).
what happens next to said cuban?
Excellent question. Do you have a documented example of something bad happening? Or are you, too, simply scaremongering?
'course, the interesting thing is that, sometimes, it takes more than 2 years to take something from patent to product (I work in such a business... we filed our first patents (patents that I think are legitimate) at least 5 or 6 years ago, but because of the nature of the industry (lots of big, established players who are extremely slow to move), it's taken this long, and will take longer, before we see our first cent of income).
As such, I would argue 2 years is far too short for a realistic patent horizon. 5-7 makes more sense to me (in our case, we could've held off our filing a bit, relying on trade secret law).
And then I go back and re-read and realize that I'm just a git who can't read... woo! IOW, everything is right with the world...
Uhuh, that's all well and good, but the GP said "Webmasters should have a means to tell search engines what type of content is ok to index vs what kind is not." My point was, that exists. If you disagree with the original premise, go argue with him/her.
Once FIOS becomes more widespread
Right, and at the current rate of expansion... 20-30 years from now? Awesome, I look forward to it.
Umm... frankly... I know of only *one* person who got a PS2 for the DVD capabilities, and surprise, surprise, he was a young, single guy. Sorry, but your average blue collar worker or housewife doesn't want to use a joypad to control their DVD player. The idea that PS2 was somehow the magic that caused the DVD to take off is a Sony fanboi wet dream, and nothing more.
The OP brings up a very good issue. Webmasters should have a means to tell search engines what type of content is ok to index vs what kind is not.
Yeah... it's called password protection.
Of course, you could also just use the industry-standard robots.txt file, which Google will honour (though not everyone will).
I find it hard to believe that the professional programmers at Mozilla can't do this
I can only assume you've never written a heavily multithreaded application before.
It doesn't matter how experienced you are. Deeply threaded applications are *hard*, particularly when there is a lot of thread interactions. Even moreso if you're trying to graft a threaded architecture on a previously single-threaded application.
And comparing Eclipse to Firefox is completely, largely meaningless. The two applications are vastly different in terms of their problem domain, and comparing them isn't terribly useful.
any distro that expects relatively frequent "wipe and fully reinstall"
Err, what? Ubuntu is a Debian-based distribution. As such, upgrading forward to the next release is a standard operation. Just modify your apt.conf to point it at the new version, and do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". I moved my box from Feisty to Gutsy that way and it worked like a charm. And my Debian box has been rolling forward like that for years.
Yeah, it was a fairly tenuous hope.
Particularly since you massively underestimate the public's willingness to consume the incredibly crappy content put out by most US media outlets.
Dark matter is simply the mass of the error margin
Umm, no, it's not, and if you believe that, you haven't been keeping up with the latest discoveries. The Bullet Cluster results demonstrably show that *something* is there, different from regular matter, but exerting a gravitational force. What it is, we don't know, but it's presence is undeniable.
Tell that to DS Lite owners with flakey shoulder buttons. In my case, I dropped my DS, and it happened to land right on the left shoulder button. It's now works intermittently, at best. *sigh*