The last statement in the summary is completely uncalled for.
Ned Wright is known to have a pretty sharp wit. Besides, Myhrvold used his notoriety to grandstand with the press before his work was peer-reviewed, basically calling Wright a moron. I would get a little testy too.
If Myhrvold wants to play the YOU-ARE-NOT-CREDIBLE-BECAUSE-YOUR-ORGANIZATION-MAKES-BAD-SOFTWARE game, he need only mention Mars Climate Orbiter. Oops! See how that works?
I think we're witnessing a new class of rich assholes who think they're superman or something.
Not Superman. Maybe he's trying for Tony Stark. The closer (though obscure) parallel that came to mind was the wealthy industrialist Tim Hamner from the novel Lucifer's Hammer.
I remember my prof saying that it was German for "smear." I also remember thinking he was making that up, and assuming (wrongly, I find out 30 years later) it was really named for some guy named Schlieren. Thanks for the info!
This headline could have been from the 40's or 50's. This is the way supersonic flow has been visualized as long as it has been studied. The supersonic wind tunnel and the Schlieren setup at the university I attended appeared pretty ancient to me in the 1980s.
Ha! They've painted themselves into a corner of obsolescence. Our GIGA-SCALE OS, named Ginormous Gui 16.04 LTS, releases in a couple weeks. (TERRA-SCALE is still in alpha).
Godwin has company. Gtall's Law (or named in honor of someone else if it has already been suggested in another thread) seems kind of stuffy. Maybe it would be more modern and fun to make it a verb form: "He just Poettered that discussion." "Dude, you're totally Peottering!"
If one takes off the team R or team D goggles and thinks about recent history, it becomes clear:
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies... is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies." Carroll Quigley
In their modified version of android, the apps run in windows to make it a desktop experience. I have one of the 2GB models, and have found that it is pretty solid for web, email and xbmc. If someone is deep into the android ecosystem already, with a phone and maybe a tablet, and If you don't need Adobe CS or MS Office, then I suppose it makes sense.
That is what I have done. I run CS in a virtualbox container. Works great for my uses. I like being able to move my whole environment from desktop to laptop and back.
Same for me. My computer booted to Windows95, unless you had the mystery floppy in the drive (1 of hundreds scattered about) -- Then it would boot to linux. What did I use this secret installation for? Nothing useful at the time. I just missed the unix machines I had access to in college.
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The last statement in the summary is completely uncalled for.
Ned Wright is known to have a pretty sharp wit. Besides, Myhrvold used his notoriety to grandstand with the press before his work was peer-reviewed, basically calling Wright a moron. I would get a little testy too.
If Myhrvold wants to play the YOU-ARE-NOT-CREDIBLE-BECAUSE-YOUR-ORGANIZATION-MAKES-BAD-SOFTWARE game, he need only mention Mars Climate Orbiter. Oops! See how that works?
Not to mention Spaceport Command and Control System (SCCS) Doh!
I think we're witnessing a new class of rich assholes who think they're superman or something.
Not Superman. Maybe he's trying for Tony Stark. The closer (though obscure) parallel that came to mind was the wealthy industrialist Tim Hamner from the novel Lucifer's Hammer.
This is one of the few stories where I expect a lot of people to throw all long-established /. tradition overboard and rush to RTFA.
I clicked this submission just to see what the App-App-Appers guy will say. Maybe he's not awake yet.
He's also made other outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark.
Increased concentrations of CO2 has lead to an increase in duplicate stories and comments on slashdot.
Webscale!
I've got amazon video on my ipad and a galaxy tab and my phone. It works pretty much anywhere.
I remember my prof saying that it was German for "smear." I also remember thinking he was making that up, and assuming (wrongly, I find out 30 years later) it was really named for some guy named Schlieren. Thanks for the info!
This headline could have been from the 40's or 50's. This is the way supersonic flow has been visualized as long as it has been studied. The supersonic wind tunnel and the Schlieren setup at the university I attended appeared pretty ancient to me in the 1980s.
Yesterday: We have received NULL warrant requests...
Today: We have received 0-1000 warrant requests...
Some pigs are more equal than you.
Ha! They've painted themselves into a corner of obsolescence. Our GIGA-SCALE OS, named Ginormous Gui 16.04 LTS, releases in a couple weeks. (TERRA-SCALE is still in alpha).
or Apple's i-anything
I think Woody stole that line from Groucho --
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/18/groucho-resigns
Godwin has company. Gtall's Law (or named in honor of someone else if it has already been suggested in another thread) seems kind of stuffy. Maybe it would be more modern and fun to make it a verb form: "He just Poettered that discussion." "Dude, you're totally Peottering!"
They are more than happy to let you spin up a linux instance on Azure. Having their stack work across them all seems like a reasonable thing to do.
If one takes off the team R or team D goggles and thinks about recent history, it becomes clear:
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies... is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies."
Carroll Quigley
They know it, even if you don't.
What is the brand and model number of this funky convertible?
In their modified version of android, the apps run in windows to make it a desktop experience. I have one of the 2GB models, and have found that it is pretty solid for web, email and xbmc. If someone is deep into the android ecosystem already, with a phone and maybe a tablet, and If you don't need Adobe CS or MS Office, then I suppose it makes sense.
If you can afford to freeze your system in time,
That is what I have done. I run CS in a virtualbox container. Works great for my uses. I like being able to move my whole environment from desktop to laptop and back.
As an actual, certified bad-ass, I doubt he'd care about a ridiculous remake of a ridiculous show in which he was once a part.
It only took 1 ticket to convince me to keep the bike rack on my car at all times...
Forget the money. I want to know more about this gravitational orbit thingy.
Alexander Selkirk.
Same for me. My computer booted to Windows95, unless you had the mystery floppy in the drive (1 of hundreds scattered about) -- Then it would boot to linux. What did I use this secret installation for? Nothing useful at the time. I just missed the unix machines I had access to in college.