let's say Congress passed a law making it illegal to have a first name that is a verb (Don't laugh, the White House cease and desisted The Onion!) Well I guess 'Rob' would have to go. My friends would still recognize me: I'd still have the same face, address, and social security number. I'd just have a cool new name like "Captain Fantastic Malda".
Uh, isn't "Captain" a verb? (not that I expect any slashdot editors to understand this whole 'Grammar' thing).
It is by no means easy or simple to get music to synchronously, wirelessly play on two different nodes (not to mention the case where only one node is in range of the computer). And still you need a full computer as a remote control.
Given that a large part of their market has CIFS built in, and given that linux and most other platforms have great CIFS support (samba), what's the problem? You're only indexing metadata. Why wouldn't they cache the index? This product has been in a testable state for some time now -- they're just getting the hardware out the door.
Do you really know anything about NFS internals? It's an old system, and later versions have just been focused on generating more research papers and not on improving user experience. CIFS is not proprietory! Yes the reference implementation is microsoft, but this is, sort of, an official spec. And NFS linux integration has been noticibly flakey (i.e., network problems capable of bringing down your system) over the years...
Okay, with airport express you have to use your desktop/laptop as a remote control -- that's not what you want to do if you're hosting a party that's not in a dorm room.
Also, airport express plays to one room, max, and I'm pretty sure you can't even synchronously play from the computer's speakers while you do that. With Sonos, you can dynamically group zone-players to be playing the same or different content seamlessly through your whole house. Airport express is just not even on the same planet, as far as features.
Step 1: install 37 operating operating systems on one machine Step 2: mount everything possible in linux (not sure about partition types, inconsequential detail though), cat it all to/dev/audio. Convince moma that this is a somber reflection on the fractured nature of our decentralized, technological culture. Step 3: Profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had the (dis)pleasure of trying pepsi blue for the first time. I had stopped at a gas station to get something to drink and was enticed by the promotional $.89/20oz. price.
what a tragic mistake. I can not seriously believe that they ran this drink by a focus group, product testers, or basically anyone who actually consumed it. They probably put up a large list of potential formulas on a corkboard, got drunk as hell, and threw darts.
i think "berry soda" fusion would be a lot more apt than "berry cola;" this essentially tastes like berry-flavored seltzer, but whereas those are, let's say, 1/20th flavor, 19/20th seltzer, pepsi blue is 19/20th flavor. a disgusting, cough-syrup like flavor that leaves you wanting to drink the wiper fluid from your car to get the taste out of your mouth.
some drinks have come to grow on me after a dismal first sip (moxie comes to mind), but after drinking what felt like all of the bottle judging by the pain i endured, i looked down to see it 3/4 full (or maybe 1/4 empty for you optimists out there). avoid this foul beast at all costs.
In short, this is the new clear pepsi, but it tastes worse.
okay, a scientist's experiments go wrong, causing a portal to open, and aliens that turn people into strange creatures come out...
This is the single-player experience they're spending all their time on? The plot, at least as described, is just a little derivative of one "game of the year." just do s/Mars/Black Mesa/ and throw in Gordon and you're gold.
The concept of a game that regulates how fast you can play it and then has a pricing system based on time periods rather than episodes struck me as an odd combination to start.
While the beginning plot was done rather well, describing a world where Majestic had started off as a game until things went horribly awry, it tried to do to much. To have a plot centered on a conspiracy is one thing; to include every alleged conspiracy of the twentieth century, from JFK to the Illuminati, from black helicopters to mind control, was a bit much.
By far the biggest problem was the bots. They spent a great deal of time and Real Video (emails web sites etc.) creating believable characters with distinct personalities to whom you could relate. Then you talked to them, and they have the IQ of slime mold. It was a little too free form for its own good.
First of all, regarding another reply to this, corporations do have first amendment rights: they are treated as individuals under the law, i.e. they are protected by the same rights as an individual. i personally do not agree with this strategy but so be it...
Anyway, you say "you don't have the right to use my equiptment [sic] to show me your message." later "if they stuff it in your in-box...." But what about mail spam of the physical variety? Theoretically if i left town for long enough the junk mail could force my house to collapse at the rate it pours in, so I don't quite understand your logic.
"There is not much code yet, but discussions have gone quite far." - from the openbios webpage. In similar news ford is now producing floating cars that run on solar power. or discussing it, or something...
One thing I haven't yet seen mentioned especially is what I consider to be one of Java's most important features in an educational context: the ease with which one can create graphical programs. Sure stuff like GridBagLayout is sort of confusing at first, but if you write a frame to interface classes students write, you can have them seeing the results of their work very quickly.
This was in fact done in the first and most recent cs class I took, Harvard's CS51 (www.fas.harvard.edu/~lib51). It's the second semester intro course. We learned CLISP, Java, and C++, in that order. Our final project was to write a LISP interpreter in C++. The Java assignments exploited it's enormous library of functions and the power of Swing: first we just filled in the guts of functions that resulted, thanks to a ShapeShowCase class writtn for us, simple shapes we could rotate scale etc. As our third assignment we wrote a GUI calculator, similar in appearence to the windows calculator.
It may sound like an outlandish reason, but to an extent students in CS, especially and primarily intro CS, want to come out having made cool stuff, and as cool as something that spits out the details of an application of Dijkstra's algorithm to a randomly constructed graph is, the never having to use the windows calculator again is something that leaves me at least feeling a little more accomplished
firstly, regarding the comments that it's just because of its time slot that CSI is doing so well, realize that it was the highest rated new drama BEFORE it switched. CBS's thursday night lineup right now is out to get NBC, and NBC has retaliated by having 40 minute episodes of friends etc. C.S.I is definitely a case of putting its big guns on thurs. to crush CBS, even though survivor 2 is insanely popular it's still insane to put just any old show against NBC's thursday and expect it to suceed. c.s.i. is there because they know people watch it, not so that people watch it
As another point, doesn't anyone realize this same show was done 20 years ago with jack klugman, and called quincy. especially in the earlier episodes, each show was a carefully constructed murder mystery relying on science and evidence. true in the later years it got to be political grandstanding and crap, but c.s.i. has a lot to owe to quincy...
MODERATORS: all the AC posts saying it's an goatse.cx link are just AC posts...this is actually a damn useful link...look at the URLs, nothing too bad-looking about them...the first doesn't work actually but the second is a good mirror of the pictures...stop modding this down
if the guillotine hadn't been invented do you think all the people who have been killed with it would have been spared? plenty of people were executed when our technology of death included little more than throwing stones...it's easy to execute someone, and i'd sure as hell rather be guillotined than stoned to death. this is a bad example
do you really think a world populated by any intelligence species (or at the very least intelligence as we know it: humans) could go on without using techology for war and destruction? our history and evolution has, in the end, often been decided by who survives. you can say "you shouldn't do that" all you want but all it takes is one person with the intelligence to make the discovery and pandora's box has been opened. i don't think it possible that the atomic bomb would never have been developed, regardless of how horrible a future it could potentially lead to.
You are the idiot who, when confronted with Galileo says "things are fine as they are there's no reason to introduce this imbalance." you think the astronauts on the Challenger were fools? do you really think the wonders of zero gravity will do nothing for medicine? that's like saying the people who died finding a vaccine for malaria were fools.
the ad for the soda can gun is obviously a joke, after all: "This unit was used in the making of the many Mountain Dew commercials you see each day!" I seriously doubt the actually fired any of those cans...basically it's a parody of a mountain dew advertising campaign...since when has this become a poorman's theonion?
the NYT reports the news, slashdot comments on it...CmdrTaco et. al. are not reporters. The NYT notes that self-adaptive sites are good for establishing a community, collecting people's opinions, and in the Everything2 style amassing information. but to say that this is ironic is like listening to a pastry chef say "wow, a hammer is really useful to a carpenter" and then being like "gee then why doesn't the pastry chef use it."
To quote, Americans invented "the legal notion of individual, constitutionally- protected privacy". If this were the case, one could only assume that this constitutional protection would come in the bill of rights, if one knows the the history of the constitution's creation.
While we are guarenteed that we won't be prohibited from exercising free religion, for example, there is no guarentee that people and the government will not know what our religion is. Similarly, a hundred years ago you could walk around town, and, if you knew the gossips, get all the dirt about who I had been flirting with, whose flowers my dog dug up, etc. Now the inquiring person doesn't have to leave his house, but this is only a difference in degree not kind.
As true as Lessig's observations are, they are not entirely relevant here. True, your house was private in the time of the Constitution, but still if you welched on bets or screwed up your accounts the whole town would know, b/c you didn't do that kind of thing in your home, instead you did it out in public, at the bank, etc., i.e. in a non-protected environment.
Your public actions are public knowledge. The notion that judgements are now made on the numbers and not on a personal level is not a result of more data being forfitted but instead due to the power and efficiency of databases and computing in general. There has never been anything preventing companies having guys follow you around and see where you shop, it is, after all "a free country" to quote the maxim, but it's not efficient.
the problem, in the end, and in my opinion, is not that our public actions are public, but that the private acitions of corporations, because by the silliness of the law they are considered individuals, are private, however. if people decide to hate us based on our dog in that flower bed, though, they have every right.
From Deyo (brooklyn bridge guy): "This is New York City and the cops have other concerns than some people who are basically participating in a minor victimless crime," he shrugs.
Yes the cops were probably busy on the way to arrest a recreational drug user to be put in front of the wonderful Rockefeller laws.
Just giving the obligatory reference to the A&E documentary based on this story and, i presume, this book. You can get the movie (VHS&DVD) at A&E. Most notably, from the A&E store, we have this:
"enriched with 178 lavish illustrations--including portraits, maps and scientific illustrations--complete with expansive, elegant captions that illuminate and expand upon the captivating story."
Also available for a tad cheaper at amazon, i.e. shop around.
So basically, if we weren't so focused on cross promotion with thinkgeek, the one major criticism is moot ey?
Slashdot Mirror
Oh God, who will Apollo choose!? Who Will Starbuck Choose?! Who are the final 5? Is Baltar a Cylon?!
I sat at the edge of my seat during the third season vomiting into the pail I had placed there for such an occasion.
Watch The Wire and learn what a show without throwaway episodes and with a long arc the writers know from the beginning looks like.
Sorry that it doesn't take place in outer space.
Only SMB is required.
It is by no means easy or simple to get music to synchronously, wirelessly play on two different nodes (not to mention the case where only one node is in range of the computer). And still you need a full computer as a remote control.
Given that a large part of their market has CIFS built in, and given that linux and most other platforms have great CIFS support (samba), what's the problem? You're only indexing metadata. Why wouldn't they cache the index? This product has been in a testable state for some time now -- they're just getting the hardware out the door.
Do you really know anything about NFS internals? It's an old system, and later versions have just been focused on generating more research papers and not on improving user experience. CIFS is not proprietory! Yes the reference implementation is microsoft, but this is, sort of, an official spec. And NFS linux integration has been noticibly flakey (i.e., network problems capable of bringing down your system) over the years...
Okay, with airport express you have to use your desktop/laptop as a remote control -- that's not what you want to do if you're hosting a party that's not in a dorm room.
Also, airport express plays to one room, max, and I'm pretty sure you can't even synchronously play from the computer's speakers while you do that. With Sonos, you can dynamically group zone-players to be playing the same or different content seamlessly through your whole house. Airport express is just not even on the same planet, as far as features.
Step 1: install 37 operating operating systems on one machine /dev/audio. Convince moma that this is a somber reflection on the fractured nature of our decentralized, technological culture.
Step 2: mount everything possible in linux (not sure about partition types, inconsequential detail though), cat it all to
Step 3: Profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had the (dis)pleasure of trying pepsi blue for the first time. I had stopped at a gas station to get something to drink and was enticed by the promotional $.89/20oz. price.
what a tragic mistake. I can not seriously believe that they ran this drink by a focus group, product testers, or basically anyone who actually consumed it. They probably put up a large list of potential formulas on a corkboard, got drunk as hell, and threw darts.
i think "berry soda" fusion would be a lot more apt than "berry cola;" this essentially tastes like berry-flavored seltzer, but whereas those are, let's say, 1/20th flavor, 19/20th seltzer, pepsi blue is 19/20th flavor. a disgusting, cough-syrup like flavor that leaves you wanting to drink the wiper fluid from your car to get the taste out of your mouth.
some drinks have come to grow on me after a dismal first sip (moxie comes to mind), but after drinking what felt like all of the bottle judging by the pain i endured, i looked down to see it 3/4 full (or maybe 1/4 empty for you optimists out there). avoid this foul beast at all costs.
In short, this is the new clear pepsi, but it tastes worse.
This is the single-player experience they're spending all their time on? The plot, at least as described, is just a little derivative of one "game of the year." just do s/Mars/Black Mesa/ and throw in Gordon and you're gold.
The concept of a game that regulates how fast you can play it and then has a pricing system based on time periods rather than episodes struck me as an odd combination to start.
While the beginning plot was done rather well, describing a world where Majestic had started off as a game until things went horribly awry, it tried to do to much. To have a plot centered on a conspiracy is one thing; to include every alleged conspiracy of the twentieth century, from JFK to the Illuminati, from black helicopters to mind control, was a bit much.
By far the biggest problem was the bots. They spent a great deal of time and Real Video (emails web sites etc.) creating believable characters with distinct personalities to whom you could relate. Then you talked to them, and they have the IQ of slime mold. It was a little too free form for its own good.
basic subtext of your post: i got a 5 on ap chem when i wasn't even a sr!
the point is remarkably irrelevant
Anyway, you say "you don't have the right to use my equiptment [sic] to show me your message." later "if they stuff it in your in-box...." But what about mail spam of the physical variety? Theoretically if i left town for long enough the junk mail could force my house to collapse at the rate it pours in, so I don't quite understand your logic.
"There is not much code yet, but discussions have gone quite far." - from the openbios webpage. In similar news ford is now producing floating cars that run on solar power. or discussing it, or something...
This was in fact done in the first and most recent cs class I took, Harvard's CS51 (www.fas.harvard.edu/~lib51). It's the second semester intro course. We learned CLISP, Java, and C++, in that order. Our final project was to write a LISP interpreter in C++. The Java assignments exploited it's enormous library of functions and the power of Swing: first we just filled in the guts of functions that resulted, thanks to a ShapeShowCase class writtn for us, simple shapes we could rotate scale etc. As our third assignment we wrote a GUI calculator, similar in appearence to the windows calculator.
It may sound like an outlandish reason, but to an extent students in CS, especially and primarily intro CS, want to come out having made cool stuff, and as cool as something that spits out the details of an application of Dijkstra's algorithm to a randomly constructed graph is, the never having to use the windows calculator again is something that leaves me at least feeling a little more accomplished
s/in legislators/on Slashdot/
northern exposure
As another point, doesn't anyone realize this same show was done 20 years ago with jack klugman, and called quincy. especially in the earlier episodes, each show was a carefully constructed murder mystery relying on science and evidence. true in the later years it got to be political grandstanding and crap, but c.s.i. has a lot to owe to quincy...
MODERATORS: all the AC posts saying it's an goatse.cx link are just AC posts...this is actually a damn useful link...look at the URLs, nothing too bad-looking about them...the first doesn't work actually but the second is a good mirror of the pictures...stop modding this down
do you really think a world populated by any intelligence species (or at the very least intelligence as we know it: humans) could go on without using techology for war and destruction? our history and evolution has, in the end, often been decided by who survives. you can say "you shouldn't do that" all you want but all it takes is one person with the intelligence to make the discovery and pandora's box has been opened. i don't think it possible that the atomic bomb would never have been developed, regardless of how horrible a future it could potentially lead to.
You are the idiot who, when confronted with Galileo says "things are fine as they are there's no reason to introduce this imbalance." you think the astronauts on the Challenger were fools? do you really think the wonders of zero gravity will do nothing for medicine? that's like saying the people who died finding a vaccine for malaria were fools.
the fact that this got modded up makes me ill
While we are guarenteed that we won't be prohibited from exercising free religion, for example, there is no guarentee that people and the government will not know what our religion is. Similarly, a hundred years ago you could walk around town, and, if you knew the gossips, get all the dirt about who I had been flirting with, whose flowers my dog dug up, etc. Now the inquiring person doesn't have to leave his house, but this is only a difference in degree not kind.
As true as Lessig's observations are, they are not entirely relevant here. True, your house was private in the time of the Constitution, but still if you welched on bets or screwed up your accounts the whole town would know, b/c you didn't do that kind of thing in your home, instead you did it out in public, at the bank, etc., i.e. in a non-protected environment.
Your public actions are public knowledge. The notion that judgements are now made on the numbers and not on a personal level is not a result of more data being forfitted but instead due to the power and efficiency of databases and computing in general. There has never been anything preventing companies having guys follow you around and see where you shop, it is, after all "a free country" to quote the maxim, but it's not efficient.
the problem, in the end, and in my opinion, is not that our public actions are public, but that the private acitions of corporations, because by the silliness of the law they are considered individuals, are private, however. if people decide to hate us based on our dog in that flower bed, though, they have every right.
--(Harvard's) b1nd0x
Yes the cops were probably busy on the way to arrest a recreational drug user to be put in front of the wonderful Rockefeller laws.
The Illustated Version of Longitude
"enriched with 178 lavish illustrations--including portraits, maps and scientific illustrations--complete with expansive, elegant captions that illuminate and expand upon the captivating story." Also available for a tad cheaper at amazon, i.e. shop around.
So basically, if we weren't so focused on cross promotion with thinkgeek, the one major criticism is moot ey?
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