OMG, I can access a website on a phone! I wasn't aware that almost every phone on the market can now do this, because I've lived under a rock for the last five to ten years!"
Being able to access the web is a far cry from being able to USE it. I can access the net via a text only terminal and a 1200 baud modem, but I sure as hell won't get much done.The web "browsers" on phones SUCKED HARD. For years millions of us were waiting for a day when phone makers stopped trying to whittle the web down to phone screen size and instead scaled up the screen and juiced up the browser's power. I'm not an Apple fanboy, the last Apple product I had was an ancient black and white Mac from the dawn of time, and I got it free, played with it. However, one thing Apple did right, if not perfect, was the Safari browser on the iPhone. There is nothing close to the usability and agility of Safari on the iPhone. Fennec has potential, but it's slower than molasses in January right now.
We've seen "get the Internet on your cell phone" for years. People are surprised because now it's actually usable.
I don't to see how health care should be any different.
Because I can live without $50 steaks and $100,000 cars. I for one would be dead without a simple medication. I had a medical emergency last year that is relatively simple to perform by a surgeon, took all of 45 minutes under the knife, but I'd have DIED without it. That's why it should be different.
Yes, it's fun, people love to play it with friends, it's a very casual game. But number one? No, sorry, not even close. The rest of the list looks very accurate, if not a little debatable, but Mario Kart is in no way the most influential console game ever.
Wow, Violet Blue gave a talk-- oh, THAT Violet Blue, the one who stole the porn chick's name [1] [2] [3] (note, having a name doesn't mean you own it if someone else gets famous with that name before you, but of course you can outspend them in court anyway!), and later was erased from BoingBoing (eliminating any sense of credibility BB had, and showing they have no problem with revisionist journalism) because she broke up with Xeni [4] [5].
I also got a call. Again. At 3 in the morning. Apparently your future self still thinks crank calling me is funny. The upside is I see there's no point in asking the the current you to stop. Also, now that I know there'll be time machines in 50 years, I can go back in time, and fuck your mom. That means I'm your father. NOW GO TO YOUR ROOM UNTIL ALL YOUR FUTURE SELVES LEARN CRANK CALLS AREN'T FUNNY ANYMORE. And no space jello tonight either.
No, see, he's saying if we set London as the frame of reference, in otherwords, it's fixed and everything else is measured with reference to London. In THAT CASE, London is fixed, it's the rest of the universe that's moving.
First, quantum mechanics "proves" no such thing. What you're talking about related to the fact that atomic scale objects (molecules, atoms, protons, neutrons, etc) behave in ways consistent both with waves and particles.
Second, the uncertainty principle deals with PARTICLES ONLY, in that you can not know with infinite precision both the location of a particle, and it's velocity. The greater precision you measure one, the less certain the other becomes.
Third, you have proven beyond a doubt that having a low slashdot UID truly does NOT mean one is smarter than high UID users. For this, I thank you.
First, manufactured discs are pressed, not burnt. Second, I wouldn't call a blob of epoxy over the chip and PCB in the DVD drive "military technology".
A NASA official has denied a claim made by a book author that blueprints for the mighty Saturn 5 rocket used to push Apollo astronauts to the moon were lost.
The denial came in response to a recent story in SPACE.com that reported on a claim John Lewis made in his 1996 book, Mining the Sky, that he went looking for the Saturn 5 blueprints a few years ago and concluded, incredibly, they had been "lost."
Well, it's also different because with a warrant they can gain access to your house and safe and such without your cooperation, worst case they call a locksmith and open the safe without your help. But an encryption key can be considered testimony, since it's something you know as opposed to a physical object. Further, theoretically they can brute force your encryption if it's important enough.
See, it's comments like these that show how ignorant the public is. The moon landings weren't faked. We went to the moon to GET samples of HIV and unleash it on the enemies of good Christians! It's actually the Selenite common cold, but has much worse effects on humans, as discovered by a Doctor Cavor.
I notice you left out "And still call it firefox" in all but the first part of your reply. Mozilla can't stop anyone from supporting Firefox 1.5, or even 0.9, or any other version, ever. They can only say "We don't want that called Firefox."
Actually, Debian IS allowed to make some changes to firefox and still use the TM'ed name and logo. The issue was Debian didn't want to follow Mozilla's updated policy about it, and the PROBLEM came about that it was no longer trivial for Debian to merely change the branding information due to them braking the branding switch which Mozilla engineered specifically to make changing the branding easy. Debian could no longer merely add a compile time switch and change a couple files in a special directory, this caused them a large amount of grief to undo the problem they caused for themselves, and it came late in a dev cycle.
Mozilla's requirements were that Debian submit their changes in smaller, easier to read patches, rather than the single monolithic patch they submitted. There were also some changes Mozilla wasn't happy about. But the big problem was that it wasn't easy for Debian to change the branding due to them breaking the branding switch. Had that still been working, they'd have just turned it off and dealt with the TM issues later, although they still probably would have created their own brand because they wanted to make more changes than Mozilla would have allowed to still be called Firefox.
In the end, it was about identity, which Debian is well aware. Debian wants to protect their identity, and so does Mozilla. Mozilla will let you make changes in a distro of Firefox and still use the logos and name, but you have to abide by their rules. If you think about that, it's pretty fair. And if you don't like those rules, you can still take the code and do what you wish with it, but you have to give it your own name. I don't see that as being a bad thing.
Mozilla is actually quite amenable to use of their trademarks, so calling them "restrictive trademarks" is unfair. They're only restrictive when you run afoul of the guidelines they set out. One could say that the GPL is a "restrictive license" because it won't allow me to make proprietary changes to the code and keep them secret. The truth is that the GPL is quite permissive as long as you follow its rules. Rules are by definition "restrictive". It's unfair to label Mozilla's TM guidelines as restrictive when referring to instances where people are breaking the rules.
First, he wasn't an MS schill back then, in the later years he was an American Express schill. Second, so he's doing pitches for MS, so what? It's not like he's getting up there staring into the camera and saying, "Windows Vista is the greatest thing since penicillin." He's a comedian and he's being paid to do some ads. He's not a business ethicist or technologist, he probably knows as much on MS's business practices or technical stances as your average person, which is next to none.
Third, RACIST? What the hell? Can you PLEASE explain that, because I REALLY don't get that one. Honestly, I haven't a clue where you got that and really want to know.
In late 1999 I heard buzz from my fellow geeks that Google provided amazing results, so I tried it out. Within a couple days, I completely abandoned Alta Vista for Google, and even scaled back bothering with Yahoo because the results were just crazy accurate. I found myself boosting it to friends both of the geek persuasion and not, and everyone liked it. IMO, it was truly a case of a superior product trouncing the competition, the entire point of capitalism. They built a better mouse trap (pun not entirely intended).
I can't say it's my fave of all time, but it's damn sure one of my faves, and I play it as often as I can. Recently I introed a friend to it, and he said I should take a look at Day of Defeat Source. I checked it out. It had better gfx and nothing that made ET fun. Medics don't revive, no objectives to build, no tanks or trucks or boats to move, etc. ET is still awesome in every respect.
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OMG, I can access a website on a phone! I wasn't aware that almost every phone on the market can now do this, because I've lived under a rock for the last five to ten years!"
Being able to access the web is a far cry from being able to USE it. I can access the net via a text only terminal and a 1200 baud modem, but I sure as hell won't get much done.The web "browsers" on phones SUCKED HARD. For years millions of us were waiting for a day when phone makers stopped trying to whittle the web down to phone screen size and instead scaled up the screen and juiced up the browser's power. I'm not an Apple fanboy, the last Apple product I had was an ancient black and white Mac from the dawn of time, and I got it free, played with it. However, one thing Apple did right, if not perfect, was the Safari browser on the iPhone. There is nothing close to the usability and agility of Safari on the iPhone. Fennec has potential, but it's slower than molasses in January right now.
We've seen "get the Internet on your cell phone" for years. People are surprised because now it's actually usable.
I don't to see how health care should be any different.
Because I can live without $50 steaks and $100,000 cars. I for one would be dead without a simple medication. I had a medical emergency last year that is relatively simple to perform by a surgeon, took all of 45 minutes under the knife, but I'd have DIED without it. That's why it should be different.
Yes, it's fun, people love to play it with friends, it's a very casual game. But number one? No, sorry, not even close. The rest of the list looks very accurate, if not a little debatable, but Mario Kart is in no way the most influential console game ever.
Wow, Violet Blue gave a talk-- oh, THAT Violet Blue, the one who stole the porn chick's name [1] [2] [3] (note, having a name doesn't mean you own it if someone else gets famous with that name before you, but of course you can outspend them in court anyway!), and later was erased from BoingBoing (eliminating any sense of credibility BB had, and showing they have no problem with revisionist journalism) because she broke up with Xeni [4] [5].
I wish I mad mod points just so I could +1 this for the Niven reference.
Assuming you don't include PCs in "modern MP3 player", then all of them.
I also got a call. Again. At 3 in the morning. Apparently your future self still thinks crank calling me is funny. The upside is I see there's no point in asking the the current you to stop. Also, now that I know there'll be time machines in 50 years, I can go back in time, and fuck your mom. That means I'm your father. NOW GO TO YOUR ROOM UNTIL ALL YOUR FUTURE SELVES LEARN CRANK CALLS AREN'T FUNNY ANYMORE. And no space jello tonight either.
No, see, he's saying if we set London as the frame of reference, in otherwords, it's fixed and everything else is measured with reference to London. In THAT CASE, London is fixed, it's the rest of the universe that's moving.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Note to self: DON'T DO THIS AGAIN. I haven't had this much email since I needed help moving $40m out of Nigeria.
"Winners" are being emailed shortly.
Quake Live is awesome. It's really fun. BUT, needs more people, frankly.
To that end... I have some invites. Ask nicely. :)
Hey, if that's failure, I'd take ten percent of the computer market and be happy in my failboat.
First, quantum mechanics "proves" no such thing. What you're talking about related to the fact that atomic scale objects (molecules, atoms, protons, neutrons, etc) behave in ways consistent both with waves and particles.
Second, the uncertainty principle deals with PARTICLES ONLY, in that you can not know with infinite precision both the location of a particle, and it's velocity. The greater precision you measure one, the less certain the other becomes.
Third, you have proven beyond a doubt that having a low slashdot UID truly does NOT mean one is smarter than high UID users. For this, I thank you.
First, manufactured discs are pressed, not burnt. Second, I wouldn't call a blob of epoxy over the chip and PCB in the DVD drive "military technology".
So we can blame him for giving Hubbard his start? Not something I'd brag about. ;)
http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/saturn_five_000313.html
First two paragraphs:
Well, it's also different because with a warrant they can gain access to your house and safe and such without your cooperation, worst case they call a locksmith and open the safe without your help. But an encryption key can be considered testimony, since it's something you know as opposed to a physical object. Further, theoretically they can brute force your encryption if it's important enough.
See, it's comments like these that show how ignorant the public is. The moon landings weren't faked. We went to the moon to GET samples of HIV and unleash it on the enemies of good Christians! It's actually the Selenite common cold, but has much worse effects on humans, as discovered by a Doctor Cavor.
I notice you left out "And still call it firefox" in all but the first part of your reply. Mozilla can't stop anyone from supporting Firefox 1.5, or even 0.9, or any other version, ever. They can only say "We don't want that called Firefox."
Actually, Debian IS allowed to make some changes to firefox and still use the TM'ed name and logo. The issue was Debian didn't want to follow Mozilla's updated policy about it, and the PROBLEM came about that it was no longer trivial for Debian to merely change the branding information due to them braking the branding switch which Mozilla engineered specifically to make changing the branding easy. Debian could no longer merely add a compile time switch and change a couple files in a special directory, this caused them a large amount of grief to undo the problem they caused for themselves, and it came late in a dev cycle.
Mozilla's requirements were that Debian submit their changes in smaller, easier to read patches, rather than the single monolithic patch they submitted. There were also some changes Mozilla wasn't happy about. But the big problem was that it wasn't easy for Debian to change the branding due to them breaking the branding switch. Had that still been working, they'd have just turned it off and dealt with the TM issues later, although they still probably would have created their own brand because they wanted to make more changes than Mozilla would have allowed to still be called Firefox.
In the end, it was about identity, which Debian is well aware. Debian wants to protect their identity, and so does Mozilla. Mozilla will let you make changes in a distro of Firefox and still use the logos and name, but you have to abide by their rules. If you think about that, it's pretty fair. And if you don't like those rules, you can still take the code and do what you wish with it, but you have to give it your own name. I don't see that as being a bad thing.
Mozilla is actually quite amenable to use of their trademarks, so calling them "restrictive trademarks" is unfair. They're only restrictive when you run afoul of the guidelines they set out. One could say that the GPL is a "restrictive license" because it won't allow me to make proprietary changes to the code and keep them secret. The truth is that the GPL is quite permissive as long as you follow its rules. Rules are by definition "restrictive". It's unfair to label Mozilla's TM guidelines as restrictive when referring to instances where people are breaking the rules.
The downside is that processes are a lot heavier than threads.
Kinda like yarn!
starring a Microsoft shill & a racist.
First, he wasn't an MS schill back then, in the later years he was an American Express schill. Second, so he's doing pitches for MS, so what? It's not like he's getting up there staring into the camera and saying, "Windows Vista is the greatest thing since penicillin." He's a comedian and he's being paid to do some ads. He's not a business ethicist or technologist, he probably knows as much on MS's business practices or technical stances as your average person, which is next to none.
Third, RACIST? What the hell? Can you PLEASE explain that, because I REALLY don't get that one. Honestly, I haven't a clue where you got that and really want to know.
In late 1999 I heard buzz from my fellow geeks that Google provided amazing results, so I tried it out. Within a couple days, I completely abandoned Alta Vista for Google, and even scaled back bothering with Yahoo because the results were just crazy accurate. I found myself boosting it to friends both of the geek persuasion and not, and everyone liked it. IMO, it was truly a case of a superior product trouncing the competition, the entire point of capitalism. They built a better mouse trap (pun not entirely intended).
So you're 100% certain your tax returns are 100% accurate? Good job, even this law professor can't say that.
I can't say it's my fave of all time, but it's damn sure one of my faves, and I play it as often as I can. Recently I introed a friend to it, and he said I should take a look at Day of Defeat Source. I checked it out. It had better gfx and nothing that made ET fun. Medics don't revive, no objectives to build, no tanks or trucks or boats to move, etc. ET is still awesome in every respect.