Oddly enough that was exactly what I thought. The other stories that people always claim are slashvertisements, don't tend to be written in a modern marketing style. This is actually written like a modern marketing piece, with whole sentences sounding like soft sell marketing speak. Also the use of "clients" is kind of rare among slashdot readers, and listing the clients?
Also in this story Softroad is a complete non site. It says it will go live 9/9, and I would have extreme trouble figuring out what softroad did exactly, without the slashdot story, and am still not certain what exactly they do. And thier Whois information gives this lovely address for both admin and technical: mensa259@yahoo.com.
I mean something seems slightly off about the whole deal.
Actually going faster would mean you could fit less hours into the week. To fit more hours of game time into the rest of the worlds week acelerate the rest of the world, and stay still.
I do not worry about it because languages change and grow. 'U' is perfectly fine as a word; it is clear, and does not conflict with existing usages of 'U'. '4' is a bit trickier, as it is not made of letters. In practice it is not often confusing, but it is a rule breaker. 'K' is already creeping out in to the rest of the word, perhaps because it replaces a very colloquial phrase "'kay". It really isn't a concern though, it is still quite understandable.
Yeah that was my thought to I mean the network icon already has the whole SkyNet thing down, this one has the whole robot/borg thing going.
The apple Icons Have a plethroa of single glaring circular thing from box type icons (networking, media, and even wireless . Hmmmm the paranoid can think of that what they will.
Maybe they can just use "AI"(in a pretty font) as the icon.
Well previous units released in Japan were still using the original ZaurusOS as it has poplarity there. Indeed Sharp tried to steer app development to the Java engine in part because it would work on thier japanese units. The original expectations was a half million abroad and a half million in Japan. By releasing a Linux based unit in Japan (the SL-5500 does not apear to have been released in Japan) Sharp is bassically merging the sucesful lines into one unified OS, which means they will be more supportive of native Linux applications.
For more information regarding the lack of availibilty of the SL-5500 try out this unoffical FAQ
There wasn't much of an article to read now was there just some pictures that I didn't load at the time.
I think the idea is more in the way of customization and extension of existing open source apps to the unique needs of Venezuela government contracts. So, if mySQL lacked a certain feature, you could spend the equivilant cost of buying MS SQL, or Oracle on local software companies to make SQL fit the project. Or at least that is how I would implement it.
A nation's cashflow balanc is very important, if money stays in the country it will stimulate the local exonomy, if it goes to microsoft, it will stimulate whatever MS investments decides to buy to store its enormous cash reserves. Of course the US has a masive trade debt, and depends on foriegn capital investment to make it up, Venezuela is unlikely to attract such massive capital investments.
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Actually I jaw a normal vending machine with a nice piece of technology to fix that. It was called "goldeneye", but aside from the bad Bond reference was pretty cool. It used a camera to record the drop. Pretty simple really, it just turns the screw until it drops then stops. They claimed 100% accuracy which is of course imposible, if nothing else the flourescent light will burn out.
A firewall does not prevent the possibility of MS getting access by other means. If it is an agreed to part of the EULA, then they can take such steps as needed to effect the clauses. I would also be worried about the no cause software audits that some MS volume plans have. I mean obviously if you have a search warrant then you have to let them in, even if they might incidentally find some records, but by lowering the standard needed to perform an audit might have legal implications. I would ask your in house counsel, about both the EULA and the licensing agreements.
IANAL, and even if I was this would not be legal advice.
Microsoft has steadily been adding in natural language support to all thier programs, indeed Microsoft's Speech SDK is up to 5.1 already. Windows XP comes with speech recognition (and hand writting recognition too.) so does office 2000, and XP I believe. The interfaces(i.e. hooks for the MS speech APIs) have been there for years though.
Jast a FYI but pornographic video has been around, well since the movie business got out of direct control of Edison (and Edison's first big sucess was risque).
Pornagraphic art, well goes back as far as one can find them though the line between religion and erotica is hard to discern at times. (i.e. Dionysus's (A classical(?) greek god) phallus was commonly shown overlarge, and supposedly a phallus played a major role in his parade. Nude nymphs and Satyrs frolicked in the edges of many murals (sometimes just the satyrs, too).
I agree with everything except the extending part.
I see assemblyish code in the screen shots, and the address of the site places it in the Radeon SDK. This looks like a nice tool to ease the customization/creation of low lever shaders. Certainly interesting, but not at all what Slashdot story seems to imply.
Because Cg is written more or less directly to NVidia's methodology and silicon. So if you don't share that methodology, and want to do things differently you will be working against the design goals of the language. Which would you prefer a hack that adds on some functionality, or proper well designed language?
Well it was docked in Havana's (Cuba) harbor to protect American property and to be ready to ferry out American nationals, and then it blew up during a rather intense period of sabre rattling. An inquest board was formed, and after a month or so they reported back that the explosion was the work of an external explosive device, according to the inquest probably a Spanish mine. This was coupled with the tabloid jounralism at the time (which didn't wait for the inquest to be over to blame the Spanish) to form a popular cause for intervention in Cuba; oh and BTW all that agitation was formed in part by the Cuban exiles feeding stories, so the US has long been controlled by Cuban exiles see. Anyways, demands were made, and the Spanish ceded to the demands but the declaration of war passed the Spanish cession in tranist (some say intentionally).
Anyways the Maine was eventully looked at in the 1930s or so. Vauge mutterings were made, and the wreck was towed out of the harbor into deep water and sunk, so that no one could look at it too closely. Then later technology got to the point where the wreck could be rexamined and it was found that source of the explosion was iternal. Current thinking is that the coal dust in the coal bunker exploded, ie. an accident.
Actually given the lead times of game development it would be unlikely that any project would be completed or even properly started before the spike disipated. What is more likely is that the games coming out just as the spike hit would order a larger run of discs, and probably get screwed on them. I wasn't being serious about it, as it would have unintended consequences (like say legistation after that little stunt). Besides, MS would almost certainly pick up something.
2) No MS would not be aeriously hamed if XBox never sold any units. They have tons of cash reserves, and don't pay dividends. MS is just putting it's fingers in the pie, and in doing so they managed to scare Sony into trying a risky technology for the next generation, which if it fails will give MS a good chance to pick up some major market share, and MS does not give up market share.
No it doesn't population of the US divided by one million = ~280. And it doesn't depend on the definition of miracle, the odds of a one in a million hellish accident would yield the same. Of course most things aren't defined in dailyy terms but in terms of a year, or number of times a task is done.
You don't buy and XBox but someone else does: -100+ Royalties = profit
In other words so long as MS doesn't end up with excess Xboxes buying one does more damage, because then they have to make more. The best solution would be a massive coordianated campaign to buy thousands of Xboxes in a short period then stop. Thus causing MS to overestimate demand and get stuck with unsold inventory. However as a practical mater one can assume that MS will predict demand at this point in the cycle with some accuracy, so buying an Xbox now does the most damage as MS will take a hit, and the Xbox would have been sold anyways.
Well the first ultralights were various hang gliders with snowblower/lawnmower engines attatched. and hang gliders are certainly light enough, they can be backpacked in and out, also wingspan wouldn't be much of a problem. You would have to use an older topped version to get the wingspan right though. And if you can fit a powered booster into 21kg, surely you fit a sort of messed up pedal system with much more to play with.
Of course the "contest" isn't serious but it is doable.
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Oddly enough that was exactly what I thought. The other stories that people always claim are slashvertisements, don't tend to be written in a modern marketing style. This is actually written like a modern marketing piece, with whole sentences sounding like soft sell marketing speak. Also the use of "clients" is kind of rare among slashdot readers, and listing the clients?
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Also in this story Softroad is a complete non site. It says it will go live 9/9, and I would have extreme trouble figuring out what softroad did exactly, without the slashdot story, and am still not certain what exactly they do. And thier Whois information gives this lovely address for both admin and technical: mensa259@yahoo.com
I mean something seems slightly off about the whole deal.
Actually going faster would mean you could fit less hours into the week. To fit more hours of game time into the rest of the worlds week acelerate the rest of the world, and stay still.
I do not worry about it because languages change and grow. 'U' is perfectly fine as a word; it is clear, and does not conflict with existing usages of 'U'. '4' is a bit trickier, as it is not made of letters. In practice it is not often confusing, but it is a rule breaker. 'K' is already creeping out in to the rest of the word, perhaps because it replaces a very colloquial phrase "'kay". It really isn't a concern though, it is still quite understandable.
Yeah that was my thought to I mean the network icon already has the whole SkyNet thing down, this one has the whole robot/borg thing going.
The apple Icons Have a plethroa of single glaring circular thing from box type icons (networking, media, and even wireless . Hmmmm the paranoid can think of that what they will.
Maybe they can just use "AI"(in a pretty font) as the icon.
Well previous units released in Japan were still using the original ZaurusOS as it has poplarity there. Indeed Sharp tried to steer app development to the Java engine in part because it would work on thier japanese units. The original expectations was a half million abroad and a half million in Japan. By releasing a Linux based unit in Japan (the SL-5500 does not apear to have been released in Japan) Sharp is bassically merging the sucesful lines into one unified OS, which means they will be more supportive of native Linux applications.
For more information regarding the lack of availibilty of the SL-5500 try out this unoffical FAQ
There wasn't much of an article to read now was there just some pictures that I didn't load at the time.
Wouldn't this device not run Linux, as Sharp was to continue with thier old OS in Japan and us Linux for internatinal markets?
This might work better.
The Specs suck the price sucks, and you still have the whole keyboard dies = dead computer thing, but it looks cool.
Bertelsmann got a lot of free advertising out of this, so it is not like they lost all of thier investment.
No I think China is far more worried about 'tibet' or web searches for tibet and etc.
Sand Barge (which for the record I only know because of Dark Forces)
Impresive?
As compared to what?
But anyways that is impresive wish they said more about how it was built though (ie. in progress stuff like the mechwarrior tree fort)
Which takes money of the country How?
I think the idea is more in the way of customization and extension of existing open source apps to the unique needs of Venezuela government contracts. So, if mySQL lacked a certain feature, you could spend the equivilant cost of buying MS SQL, or Oracle on local software companies to make SQL fit the project. Or at least that is how I would implement it.
A nation's cashflow balanc is very important, if money stays in the country it will stimulate the local exonomy, if it goes to microsoft, it will stimulate whatever MS investments decides to buy to store its enormous cash reserves. Of course the US has a masive trade debt, and depends on foriegn capital investment to make it up, Venezuela is unlikely to attract such massive capital investments.
Actually I jaw a normal vending machine with a nice piece of technology to fix that. It was called "goldeneye", but aside from the bad Bond reference was pretty cool. It used a camera to record the drop. Pretty simple really, it just turns the screw until it drops then stops. They claimed 100% accuracy which is of course imposible, if nothing else the flourescent light will burn out.
A firewall does not prevent the possibility of MS getting access by other means. If it is an agreed to part of the EULA, then they can take such steps as needed to effect the clauses. I would also be worried about the no cause software audits that some MS volume plans have. I mean obviously if you have a search warrant then you have to let them in, even if they might incidentally find some records, but by lowering the standard needed to perform an audit might have legal implications. I would ask your in house counsel, about both the EULA and the licensing agreements.
IANAL, and even if I was this would not be legal advice.
Microsoft has steadily been adding in natural language support to all thier programs, indeed Microsoft's Speech SDK is up to 5.1 already. Windows XP comes with speech recognition (and hand writting recognition too.) so does office 2000, and XP I believe. The interfaces(i.e. hooks for the MS speech APIs) have been there for years though.
Jast a FYI but pornographic video has been around, well since the movie business got out of direct control of Edison (and Edison's first big sucess was risque).
Pornagraphic art, well goes back as far as one can find them though the line between religion and erotica is hard to discern at times. (i.e. Dionysus's (A classical(?) greek god) phallus was commonly shown overlarge, and supposedly a phallus played a major role in his parade. Nude nymphs and Satyrs frolicked in the edges of many murals (sometimes just the satyrs, too).
I agree with everything except the extending part.
I see assemblyish code in the screen shots, and the address of the site places it in the Radeon SDK. This looks like a nice tool to ease the customization/creation of low lever shaders. Certainly interesting, but not at all what Slashdot story seems to imply.
Because Cg is written more or less directly to NVidia's methodology and silicon. So if you don't share that methodology, and want to do things differently you will be working against the design goals of the language. Which would you prefer a hack that adds on some functionality, or proper well designed language?
Shift+Scrolling the wheel down = Back in IE
Isn't quite a gesture but is helpful.
Well it was docked in Havana's (Cuba) harbor to protect American property and to be ready to ferry out American nationals, and then it blew up during a rather intense period of sabre rattling. An inquest board was formed, and after a month or so they reported back that the explosion was the work of an external explosive device, according to the inquest probably a Spanish mine. This was coupled with the tabloid jounralism at the time (which didn't wait for the inquest to be over to blame the Spanish) to form a popular cause for intervention in Cuba; oh and BTW all that agitation was formed in part by the Cuban exiles feeding stories, so the US has long been controlled by Cuban exiles see. Anyways, demands were made, and the Spanish ceded to the demands but the declaration of war passed the Spanish cession in tranist (some say intentionally).
Anyways the Maine was eventully looked at in the 1930s or so. Vauge mutterings were made, and the wreck was towed out of the harbor into deep water and sunk, so that no one could look at it too closely. Then later technology got to the point where the wreck could be rexamined and it was found that source of the explosion was iternal. Current thinking is that the coal dust in the coal bunker exploded, ie. an accident.
Actually given the lead times of game development it would be unlikely that any project would be completed or even properly started before the spike disipated. What is more likely is that the games coming out just as the spike hit would order a larger run of discs, and probably get screwed on them. I wasn't being serious about it, as it would have unintended consequences (like say legistation after that little stunt). Besides, MS would almost certainly pick up something.
2) No MS would not be aeriously hamed if XBox never sold any units. They have tons of cash reserves, and don't pay dividends. MS is just putting it's fingers in the pie, and in doing so they managed to scare Sony into trying a risky technology for the next generation, which if it fails will give MS a good chance to pick up some major market share, and MS does not give up market share.
No it doesn't population of the US divided by one million = ~280. And it doesn't depend on the definition of miracle, the odds of a one in a million hellish accident would yield the same. Of course most things aren't defined in dailyy terms but in terms of a year, or number of times a task is done.
You forgot:
You don't buy and XBox but someone else does: -100+ Royalties = profit
In other words so long as MS doesn't end up with excess Xboxes buying one does more damage, because then they have to make more. The best solution would be a massive coordianated campaign to buy thousands of Xboxes in a short period then stop. Thus causing MS to overestimate demand and get stuck with unsold inventory. However as a practical mater one can assume that MS will predict demand at this point in the cycle with some accuracy, so buying an Xbox now does the most damage as MS will take a hit, and the Xbox would have been sold anyways.
Well the first ultralights were various hang gliders with snowblower/lawnmower engines attatched. and hang gliders are certainly light enough, they can be backpacked in and out, also wingspan wouldn't be much of a problem. You would have to use an older topped version to get the wingspan right though. And if you can fit a powered booster into 21kg, surely you fit a sort of messed up pedal system with much more to play with.
Of course the "contest" isn't serious but it is doable.
They are everywhere in populated areas. They are gum.