Oh, for the umpteenth time: Apple mice use one button because their research indicates that non-professional computer users never know what to do with a second mouse button anyway. My wife and in-laws are experienced consumers, and they never touch the second button, even after I tell them what they can do with it.
It's a good idea, and Apple's stuck with it. If you really need those extra buttons, you may as well buy a new mouse. You're paying a premium for Apple hardware anyway, so I'm sure you can afford it.
Didn't CowboyNeal once say he wished that the ".dot" TLD had been approved, just so that he could register (read it out loud) http://slash.slashdot.dot ?
If you ask anyone, at any point in history, they will tell you that things were better "before". Music in the 70s was not all great. Neither was music in the 60s or 80s.
A coworker and I recently agreed that the 1980s had the best pop music ever, while the 1970s had the best rock. Not so sure about the 1960s, but the kind of pop music you had back then makes for great children's music today.
We weren't able to come to an opinion on what the 1990s gave us, musically speaking. Perhaps the best country. Grunge is ineligible, since it's not the best of anything.
Find me a feasable system for quickly and widley distributing a biological or chemical agent and i'll start to worry.
Y'know, the whole point of biological warfare is that it quickly and widely spreads itself through plain ol' cell division. The fact that the anthrax spores failed to do so just means that the wrong delivery approach was used.
One could argue that the real risk, at least where pathogens are concerned, isn't so much the scientists using them for terrorist activities, but someone else getting ahold of them who would. No matter what the research is for, the scientists in this modern climate need to maintain an elevated security when dealing with possible/probable bioweapons.
One unlikely problem could be capturing the public's imagination. "When we actually start launching this it's going to be kind of boring," Dr Edwards said. "There's no smoke, there's no pillars of fire and there's no loud rumbling noises. There's just this thing that slowly ascends the ribbon into space."
This problem would be neatly solved once the initial expense of the elevator was recouped. At this point it would be much cheaper to send objects into orbit, including people... ride up the chain, get on a space suit, get out on your own nanotube cable and float around 36,000 km above the earth without ever needing to learn how to help fly a space shuttle.
I foresee an enormous tourist interest, to the point that someday several elevators will be sent up exclusively for tourists to use.
Replace the paper faceplate with a programmable LCD color screen. Now you can animate your faceplate, take a photo with the camera and display it right away on the back of your phone... endless possibilities.
So what if it sucks the batteries? It sells phones.
This looks like the sort of user interface you'd find in one of those Hollywood movies. It doesn't lend itself well to the OS as a whole, since it certainly doesn't conform to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
Still, looks like a great idea stylishly, if not practically, well-implemented.
Yes, but Google also gives you the option to remove your information from their searchable database -- there's a link right next to your results if you do a search for your own information. So do most other reverse-phone-lookup sites.
Whois gives you no such option, and would probably actively resist if you even asked.
No, the hero fought, and then overcame great odds by finally beating up enough Smiths that he could make a getaway. It's not like he won in the end, or ever expected to. He just needed breathing room so he could get away, and the Smiths weren't making it easy.
"Go soak your head"? How childish a defense is that?
Actually, it wasn't on-topic. If you read the news page for that strip, you'd see they were making a comment on the "N-Gage Special Forces" promotional crew more than the system itself.
So how is that a valid complaint that "wah the cartidges are so small and easy to loose"
Because SD cards are small and easy to lose. The game-size-vs-portability issue is one that Nintendo tackled and resolved just fine on the Game Boy systems.
It's not the fact that you have to turn it off that's annoying; it's the fact that you have to remove a cover, take out the battery, replace both, and wait. All together, that's a real nuisance if you're switching games more than once a week.
It's unfair to say that x percent of all successful attacks were against Linux servers unless you compare that to the percentage of all servers that run Linux.
A more meaningful statistic would be the percentage of all *nix servers that were successfully attacked, compared to the percentage of all Windows servers that were successfully attacked during the same time period.
Raffling off one's computer parts to pay off the RIAA is almost a confession. True poetic justice would have been for them to raffle/auction off their used CD collection to pay the settlement.
FWIW, Apple users have the same reaction to "iAnything". As do Windows users to "Anything XP" (or "Anything 2000", or "Anything95", or "WinAnything"....)
You miss my point. "Compete" implies that it's targetting the same audience. It's like saying American television programs compete with Japanese ones for advertising dollars. Linux computers are unable to run Dreamweaver at all (without WINE or a dual-boot, anyway), so there's no "competition" to speak of.
If Quanta were available on Windows, it would be a competitor for Dreamweaver on Windows -- but still not on Linux.
Joseph Dvorak, a researcher at Motorola US, predicts the computers and technology we wear in four or five years time will not draw attention to ourselves.
Heck, what's the point of being a geek if your wearable gear doesn't draw attention?
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Oh, for the umpteenth time: Apple mice use one button because their research indicates that non-professional computer users never know what to do with a second mouse button anyway. My wife and in-laws are experienced consumers, and they never touch the second button, even after I tell them what they can do with it.
It's a good idea, and Apple's stuck with it. If you really need those extra buttons, you may as well buy a new mouse. You're paying a premium for Apple hardware anyway, so I'm sure you can afford it.
Perhaps it's because Apple has their own C/C++ IDE already?
Didn't CowboyNeal once say he wished that the ".dot" TLD had been approved, just so that he could register (read it out loud) http://slash.slashdot.dot ?
If you ask anyone, at any point in history, they will tell you that things were better "before". Music in the 70s was not all great. Neither was music in the 60s or 80s.
A coworker and I recently agreed that the 1980s had the best pop music ever, while the 1970s had the best rock. Not so sure about the 1960s, but the kind of pop music you had back then makes for great children's music today.
We weren't able to come to an opinion on what the 1990s gave us, musically speaking. Perhaps the best country. Grunge is ineligible, since it's not the best of anything.
Find me a feasable system for quickly and widley distributing a biological or chemical agent and i'll start to worry.
Y'know, the whole point of biological warfare is that it quickly and widely spreads itself through plain ol' cell division. The fact that the anthrax spores failed to do so just means that the wrong delivery approach was used.
One could argue that the real risk, at least where pathogens are concerned, isn't so much the scientists using them for terrorist activities, but someone else getting ahold of them who would. No matter what the research is for, the scientists in this modern climate need to maintain an elevated security when dealing with possible/probable bioweapons.
Thats the longest extension on a CAT-5 I've ever heard of, I'd go with wireless instead.
Brings a whole new meaning to "satellite broadband", too.
"Where d'you want us to send the cable into your house?" "Oh, just drop it straight down through the chimney, same as everyone else."
One unlikely problem could be capturing the public's imagination. "When we actually start launching this it's going to be kind of boring," Dr Edwards said. "There's no smoke, there's no pillars of fire and there's no loud rumbling noises. There's just this thing that slowly ascends the ribbon into space."
This problem would be neatly solved once the initial expense of the elevator was recouped. At this point it would be much cheaper to send objects into orbit, including people... ride up the chain, get on a space suit, get out on your own nanotube cable and float around 36,000 km above the earth without ever needing to learn how to help fly a space shuttle.
I foresee an enormous tourist interest, to the point that someday several elevators will be sent up exclusively for tourists to use.
Actually, at 36,000 km from earth, objects take a day, not a year to complete a full orbit.
Yeah, that bit made me wonder, too. Glad I wasn't the only one to catch it.
Replace the paper faceplate with a programmable LCD color screen. Now you can animate your faceplate, take a photo with the camera and display it right away on the back of your phone... endless possibilities.
So what if it sucks the batteries? It sells phones.
This looks like the sort of user interface you'd find in one of those Hollywood movies. It doesn't lend itself well to the OS as a whole, since it certainly doesn't conform to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
Still, looks like a great idea stylishly, if not practically, well-implemented.
News for Nerds? What the hell?
What if the submitter had suggested a custom faceplate showing Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, eating a bowl of hot grits?
basically, there are only two revenue models in this world
You forgot "3: PROFIT!"
Yes, but Google also gives you the option to remove your information from their searchable database -- there's a link right next to your results if you do a search for your own information. So do most other reverse-phone-lookup sites.
Whois gives you no such option, and would probably actively resist if you even asked.
No, the hero fought, and then overcame great odds by finally beating up enough Smiths that he could make a getaway. It's not like he won in the end, or ever expected to. He just needed breathing room so he could get away, and the Smiths weren't making it easy.
"Go soak your head"? How childish a defense is that?
Actually, it wasn't on-topic. If you read the news page for that strip, you'd see they were making a comment on the "N-Gage Special Forces" promotional crew more than the system itself.
So how is that a valid complaint that "wah the cartidges are so small and easy to loose"
Because SD cards are small and easy to lose. The game-size-vs-portability issue is one that Nintendo tackled and resolved just fine on the Game Boy systems.
It's not the fact that you have to turn it off that's annoying; it's the fact that you have to remove a cover, take out the battery, replace both, and wait. All together, that's a real nuisance if you're switching games more than once a week.
It's unfair to say that x percent of all successful attacks were against Linux servers unless you compare that to the percentage of all servers that run Linux.
A more meaningful statistic would be the percentage of all *nix servers that were successfully attacked, compared to the percentage of all Windows servers that were successfully attacked during the same time period.
Who the hell would have signed up for that raffle!!!!!!???
Why, anyone who wanted to help stick it to the RIAA by paying less than full price and giving the industry none of the profits, of course.
Raffling off one's computer parts to pay off the RIAA is almost a confession. True poetic justice would have been for them to raffle/auction off their used CD collection to pay the settlement.
FWIW, Apple users have the same reaction to "iAnything". As do Windows users to "Anything XP" (or "Anything 2000", or "Anything95", or "WinAnything"....)
You miss my point. "Compete" implies that it's targetting the same audience. It's like saying American television programs compete with Japanese ones for advertising dollars. Linux computers are unable to run Dreamweaver at all (without WINE or a dual-boot, anyway), so there's no "competition" to speak of.
If Quanta were available on Windows, it would be a competitor for Dreamweaver on Windows -- but still not on Linux.
Joseph Dvorak, a researcher at Motorola US, predicts the computers and technology we wear in four or five years time will not draw attention to ourselves.
Heck, what's the point of being a geek if your wearable gear doesn't draw attention?
it will mean that Dreamweaver finally has competition on Linux
That would first require that Dreamweaver be available on Linux, wouldn't it?
When do we get to see a good movie with a good STORYLINE again?
When you get over your elitism and are willing to enjoy movies that aren't overencumbered with special effects and celebrity actors and actresses.