I don't know why they could be so far behind schedule, they hired John Romero and the project manager for Falcon 4 to help keep them on track. What could have happened?
The Parkes facility is more powerful than that currently used to record the data at Arecibo, Peurto Rico and its addition would widen the search for extra-terrestrials to the Southern Hemisphere.
I would think it might be more productive to scan outer space instead of the southern half of our own planet, but whatever floats their boat.
I agree, the names are chosen because they sound good. And MS names are no better in terms of describing what the product is.
What some people don't seem to understand if that when you decide to publish a piece about a software program that was declared dead 2 years ago, and never made it out of beta, maybe you should mention a little more than just the name of the package.
What's with the stupid Excel examples? Ok, I disagree, because unless you live in a hole you know what Excel is. It's taught in high school. EVERYBODY knows what Excel is.
Do I need to say "Saturn the car, not the planet", if I'm talking about a new 4 door sedan? You can figure out the meaning based on the context.
I'm not going to endure a lengthy/. search, but I would think that the term "Mozilla Browser" was probably mentioned somehwere, and not just, "There's a new program called Mozilla, check it out".
I saw a post just the other day from somebody complaining about the lack of descriptive names in OSS projects. Here's a good example.
Moonlight 3D. It's obviously related to 3D in some way. Is it a modeller, raytracing engine, game, scientific 3D analysis, 3D star map maybe? Give one sentence at least. Don't make me go read the damn article to figure out if I'm even interested in reading about it.
Now I've gone an had to follow the link to find out it's a modeller/renderer. You couldn't say "Moonlight 3D modeller/renderer released"?
What store's are you shopping in, Dave's DVD Warehouse? I haven't had any problems find new releases in VHS. They're usually in the section under the sign that says "VHS", next to the one marked "DVD".
Why changes millions of webpages instead of making a few screen readers work better? It seems like spending billions of dollars throughout the country on upgrading everyones webpage isn't quite as effecient as spending a few million to research and develop some better OCR technology.
I think Microsoft just wants to ignore this until it goes away. Further actions that would end up in the news would not be in their best interest. By tomorrow most people will have forgotten about it, except the thousands of slashdot users that will make references to it anytime a MS article is posted for the next 2 years.
How rowdy can that party be? All the/. crew laying around on couches shining their ThinkGeek LED lights around the room while listening to "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", in Ogg format of course.
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I don't know why they could be so far behind schedule, they hired John Romero and the project manager for Falcon 4 to help keep them on track. What could have happened?
Isn't that when your boss gives you several conflicting ideas on how he wants a product to be implemented, all at the same time?
I think #3 would be "Sell Banner Ads".
You're surprised? I'm going to get sued for posting their proprietary searching technology, but here's the source for the SearchKing algorithms:
SELECT * FROM LinksTable ORDER BY AmountPaid DESC
One of the professors here actually poured some liquid nitrogen in his mouth
And people complain about Jackass and Beavis & Butthead setting a bad example for our children?
"but it's been a long time since I studied any of this stuff hard-core. (I'm married now. :P)"
;)
Is it me, or does that statement just not add up
Alabama? Tennesee? Kentucky?
Fetch me switch Margaret! I's a gonna whoop a these youngins good.
Maybe a lot more vendors will be there since they don't have to worry about Jobs coming over to their booths and yelling and screaming at them ;)
The Parkes facility is more powerful than that currently used to record the data at Arecibo, Peurto Rico and its addition would widen the search for extra-terrestrials to the Southern Hemisphere.
I would think it might be more productive to scan outer space instead of the southern half of our own planet, but whatever floats their boat.
1000000000000? You may want to square that number... several times.
Maybe they've already found a signal from another advanced species, it just turned out to be 18 hours of static.
YES, an intelligent response. Thank you.
I agree, the names are chosen because they sound good. And MS names are no better in terms of describing what the product is.
What some people don't seem to understand if that when you decide to publish a piece about a software program that was declared dead 2 years ago, and never made it out of beta, maybe you should mention a little more than just the name of the package.
What's with the stupid Excel examples? Ok, I disagree, because unless you live in a hole you know what Excel is. It's taught in high school. EVERYBODY knows what Excel is.
Do I need to say "Saturn the car, not the planet", if I'm talking about a new 4 door sedan? You can figure out the meaning based on the context.
I'm not going to endure a lengthy /. search, but I would think that the term "Mozilla Browser" was probably mentioned somehwere, and not just, "There's a new program called Mozilla, check it out".
I saw a post just the other day from somebody complaining about the lack of descriptive names in OSS projects. Here's a good example.
Moonlight 3D. It's obviously related to 3D in some way. Is it a modeller, raytracing engine, game, scientific 3D analysis, 3D star map maybe? Give one sentence at least. Don't make me go read the damn article to figure out if I'm even interested in reading about it.
Now I've gone an had to follow the link to find out it's a modeller/renderer. You couldn't say "Moonlight 3D modeller/renderer released"?
What store's are you shopping in, Dave's DVD Warehouse? I haven't had any problems find new releases in VHS. They're usually in the section under the sign that says "VHS", next to the one marked "DVD".
Why changes millions of webpages instead of making a few screen readers work better? It seems like spending billions of dollars throughout the country on upgrading everyones webpage isn't quite as effecient as spending a few million to research and develop some better OCR technology.
Isn't Word XP version 10? I have Word 2000 here and it says 9.0 so I'm just assumming that XP would be 10, I could be wrong though.
"Look at the pretty colors"
"It doesn't lock up as much as previous versions."
"Look at the pretty colors"
Why did she mention /.? Wired had it posted hours earlier. I'm sure it just a rueters or AP article anyway. It's not like /. actually broke the story.
Because the 13 year old script kiddie crowd wouldn't stoop that low.
There's been plenty of people that switched from Apple to Windows, they're just too embarrassed to publicly admit their mistake.
I think Microsoft just wants to ignore this until it goes away. Further actions that would end up in the news would not be in their best interest. By tomorrow most people will have forgotten about it, except the thousands of slashdot users that will make references to it anytime a MS article is posted for the next 2 years.
How rowdy can that party be? All the
That's why Lucas wants all the actors to be computerized.
After he achieves that, he'll start working on making all production assistants robotic.