S'cuse me, what did av.com to you ? I still happen to use it because I *love* its query language... But I don't like the fact the Search input text in Safari cannot be pointed to send the query anywhere else than Google.* However good is Google, I do not want it to rule my (e-)life.
Google is good for many things, but it is so intrusive that I do not want it anywhere near my private friend groups. I'm sure I'd regret having it showing our affrays to the rest of the net...
Why is the above insightful ? Didn't occur to you the fact that we might coexist with alien civilizations by exchanging our concepts above philosophies and that, with 2 thousand years of history, the Christianism is quite a mature in itself ? The basic idea is that nobody asks anybody to believe in whoever or in whatever fact : the message is important, the rest is just a part of the folklore, a paraboel aimed at illustrating the value of the message.
According to the Bible, Jesus is God made a man, now, how could you convert an alien to this idea if he doesn't give a fuck what a man actually is whereas he wants to exchange ideas in order to help both civilizations advance...
Now go and watch Dogma 10 times in a row until you understand what is Good and Important and what isn't.
You're a nice person, but I think you're quite new here;-) There are mods and there are metamods. The only problem is that metoamod are considered invalid if the acceptance rate is below a given threshold, which means, if a mod acts (expectingly) as a real moron (I prefer being modded 2 times Flamebait to being modded 5 times Insightful because I do not think others than directly implied people should get such mods) then he might get along with it.
So, no problem : it's just a number and it doesn't even describe me but only some anonymous cretinoids' trestosteron stream.
The story submiter actually suggested this'd be a potential concurrent for the iPod, hence my remark. Now, I am sure this could be helpful in some ways.
BTW, why do some mods come on Slashdot whenever they feel touchy enough to mod anything they disagree with as Flamebait ?
With such temperatures, I'd suggest you brought your pc closer to your hair, you might look like Freddy Krueger afterwards, but you'll definitely save your remaining 0.05 hours.
Another OS which proposed a very ergonomical approach to file system design and implementation was RiscOS. Check its Programmer Reference Manuals if you can find these.
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Only if a Zilog Z80 assembly language listing along with a target appear on his/her face:)
In Switzerland, we've got a fixed 15CHF fee, so it might also be more expensive but we're accepting it the way it is because it offers such a big guarantee.
We've got some nice feature offerd by the Swiss Post: By sending goods per "Nachnahme" (pay upon reception), both the seller and the buyer are respectively guaranteed to get paid or get delivered. But it sounds like eBay.ch is a little fuzzier than ricardo.ch, though. More traffic but also more noise.
"Redundant" ? My ass ! This post was the first in this story which refer to this very term. If you are too stupid to mod something, just kill yourself, illiterate self proclaimed nerd (pleonasm, I know)
s/sex/gender/: this is not about reproduction, but purely about anthropomorphism.
Otherwise, here's a mirror because it might get/.ed by sex-starving nerds:
Robot Sex
Sure, they're only machines. But the more they interact with us humans, the more important their apparent gender becomes.
By Simson Garfinkel The Net Effect May 5, 2004
Is your Roomba a boy or a girl?
The Roomba, of course, is that clever little house-cleaning robot. I reviewed Roomba in October 2002, then bought my own a few months later. Since then it's been happily sweeping my living room and dining room every week or so. It also terrifies my cats and my three-year-old twin boys. All well and good--but what's the Roomba's gender?
"It's a girl," says my wife. "It's round. It's close to the floor. It ends with an 'a'. I always think of it as a 'wom-ba.'"
But if the Roomba is a girl, then Asimo is definitely a boy. Developed by Honda Motor, Asimo is a humanoid robot that walks around like a short astronaut in a white space suit. Four-foot tall Asimo is the latest in a long line of the company's bipedal robots. These days Asimo spends his time as Honda's goodwill ambassador to the world's science museums, auto shows, and other venues. Last month he was spotted in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Asimo doesn't look especially boy-like--there's no slingshot in his back pocket, there's no telltale bulge under his belt, and there's no hint of facial hair. In fact, you can't even see his face: the robot's head is covered with a visor that has just two big holes for its video-camera eyes. But Honda repeatedly refers to the robot with the pronoun "he" on the Asimo website.
Indeed, Honda has taken great pains to make its walking robots more lifelike, and part of that realism appears to include giving the robot a friendly sounding name (the previous generation was called simply "P3"). The company's earliest attempts at walkers were really nothing more than a pair of legs and feet with a big box on top of them. But over the years the robot forms have become decidedly more human--and more male.
Whether or not you think that gender belongs in our mechanical creations has a lot to do with your vision of how these creatures will fit into our future. It certainly takes more effort to make a robot that's gendered than one that's asexual. But engineers just want to have fun. Building gender into robots might be a way for the robots' designers to express their own playfulness and creativity.
Dig a little deeper, though, and you'll discover another reason why gender might be a good thing for our robot servants: gender will make robots more compatible with their human masters.
As human beings, we constantly try to layer emotions, desires, and other human qualities onto our machines. Computers aren't aware of the emotional traits that we assign to them, of course. We might say "the computer ate my file because it's having a bad day" because we lack a better explanation for what's happening inside the system's microprocessor (its "brain.") Yes, there have been attempts to develop synthetic emotions for machines, but that's all artifice. Most people realize that fundamentally there's nothing going on inside the silicon except the cold calculation of ones and zeros.
Still, if you are interested in building an effective interface between humans and computers, you might just be better off creating a machine that projects a simulated emotional response. Because human beings are hard-wired for emotions, we might find it easier to work with such machines--especially if these machines were sharing our physical surroundings, rather than being good little drones on the factory floor or up on Mars.
Such thinking is behind a growing movement in robotics to build machines that portray emotions. Cynthia Breazeal was a
Some artists do not even know they are subject to reimbursement or royalties from the RIAA, they just happen to sign up with a small company (which is part of)^n an RIAA member...
All DVD Shrink does is take the existing compressed (and it is already compressed to fit on a DVD-9) video and chuck away some of the data to make it fit a DVD-5. No, this depends on many things and the way you describe is only a possibility. most "shrinked" dvd I "saw" were severely damaged because of quick and dirty video RE-compression.
In 1993, the first time I installed Linux, I had no other choice than English... and I was in France. Same with NetBSD... So the keyword is "Readiness" (if such a word may exist without triggerism Slashdot's monolingual dictionazis).;)
I guess the above is a good joke which a moronator thought was intentionally informative;-)
Anyway I wanted to ask the same as the grandparent, especially concerning the internationalization of X... I should check the KDE language options to see if Arabic is there, of course, but I want to know if it's ready enough to be used by an actual Arabic writer.
How is this a Flamebait if the previous post was interesting ? Sounds like we have some Pentiumn M-oderator...
Nope, sincerely, if you want a quiet machine, you can go with most laptops, especially mac ones, but also with RiscOS machines (an Iyonix)... With a remotely stored one...
Now, if you want to play Doom3 or Duke Nukem Forever, you'll need a silent video board...
When you bought the iPod, you knew you obviously would not be able to connect it o a Linux computer, but did buy it anyway so you are in a very questionable position.
The hack is technically nice but it still require legal acceptance to be spreadable.
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S'cuse me, what did av.com to you ?
I still happen to use it because I *love* its query language...
But I don't like the fact the Search input text in Safari cannot be pointed to send the query anywhere else than Google.*
However good is Google, I do not want it to rule my (e-)life.
Google is good for many things, but it is so intrusive that I do not want it anywhere near my private friend groups. I'm sure I'd regret having it showing our affrays to the rest of the net...
Why is the above insightful ?
Didn't occur to you the fact that we might coexist with alien civilizations by exchanging our concepts above philosophies and that, with 2 thousand years of history, the Christianism is quite a mature in itself ?
The basic idea is that nobody asks anybody to believe in whoever or in whatever fact : the message is important, the rest is just a part of the folklore, a paraboel aimed at illustrating the value of the message.
According to the Bible, Jesus is God made a man, now, how could you convert an alien to this idea if he doesn't give a fuck what a man actually is whereas he wants to exchange ideas in order to help both civilizations advance...
Now go and watch Dogma 10 times in a row until you understand what is Good and Important and what isn't.
I hope it freecached itself :)
You're a nice person, but I think you're quite new here ;-)
There are mods and there are metamods.
The only problem is that metoamod are considered invalid if the acceptance rate is below a given threshold, which means, if a mod acts (expectingly) as a real moron (I prefer being modded 2 times Flamebait to being modded 5 times Insightful because I do not think others than directly implied people should get such mods) then he might get along with it.
So, no problem : it's just a number and it doesn't even describe me but only some anonymous cretinoids' trestosteron stream.
We've been hearing of Oqo for so long now that we'll have to face it : it might not come out before Duke Nukem Forever.
The story submiter actually suggested this'd be a potential concurrent for the iPod, hence my remark.
Now, I am sure this could be helpful in some ways.
BTW, why do some mods come on Slashdot whenever they feel touchy enough to mod anything they disagree with as Flamebait ?
This has far too much button to feel as ergonomical as its white^WSnow^Wmulticolor counterpart.
With such temperatures, I'd suggest you brought your pc closer to your hair, you might look like Freddy Krueger afterwards, but you'll definitely save your remaining 0.05 hours.
Another OS which proposed a very ergonomical approach to file system design and implementation was RiscOS.
Check its Programmer Reference Manuals if you can find these.
Only if a Zilog Z80 assembly language listing along with a target appear on his/her face :)
Do they plan to support Salesforce.com who only propose such apps ?
What if SCO choose to attack them like the ??AA went to war against p2p users ?
Small users cannot afford lawyers, after all...
In Switzerland, we've got a fixed 15CHF fee, so it might also be more expensive but we're accepting it the way it is because it offers such a big guarantee.
We've got some nice feature offerd by the Swiss Post :
By sending goods per "Nachnahme" (pay upon reception), both the seller and the buyer are respectively guaranteed to get paid or get delivered.
But it sounds like eBay.ch is a little fuzzier than ricardo.ch, though. More traffic but also more noise.
"Redundant" ?
My ass !
This post was the first in this story which refer to this very term.
If you are too stupid to mod something, just kill yourself, illiterate self proclaimed nerd (pleonasm, I know)
this is not about reproduction, but purely about anthropomorphism.
Otherwise, here's a mirror because it might get
Some artists do not even know they are subject to reimbursement or royalties from the RIAA, they just happen to sign up with a small company (which is part of)^n an RIAA member...
All DVD Shrink does is take the existing compressed (and it is already compressed to fit on a DVD-9) video and chuck away some of the data to make it fit a DVD-5.
No, this depends on many things and the way you describe is only a possibility.
most "shrinked" dvd I "saw" were severely damaged because of quick and dirty video RE-compression.
In 1993, the first time I installed Linux, I had no other choice than English... and I was in France. ;)
Same with NetBSD...
So the keyword is "Readiness" (if such a word may exist without triggerism Slashdot's monolingual dictionazis).
I guess the above is a good joke which a moronator thought was intentionally informative ;-)
Anyway I wanted to ask the same as the grandparent, especially concerning the internationalization of X...
I should check the KDE language options to see if Arabic is there, of course, but I want to know if it's ready enough to be used by an actual Arabic writer.
How is this a Flamebait if the previous post was interesting ?
Sounds like we have some Pentiumn M-oderator...
Nope, sincerely, if you want a quiet machine, you can go with most laptops, especially mac ones, but also with RiscOS machines (an Iyonix)... With a remotely stored one...
Now, if you want to play Doom3 or Duke Nukem Forever, you'll need a silent video board...
Why use robots when TOYS did it so well ?
When you bought the iPod, you knew you obviously would not be able to connect it o a Linux computer, but did buy it anyway so you are in a very questionable position.
The hack is technically nice but it still require legal acceptance to be spreadable.
s/this/these/
/. courtesy of Roland Piquepaille and Simoniker who obviously forgot it... ;)
BTW, the above already got mentioned on