They're great, until they suddenly fail to mount. Then they show up as unformatted under Disk Management. Lacie offered a patch for the first batch that did this. Now it's happening again a few months later. Losing half a terabyte of data is very inconvenient.
Three years ago I managed to get into FDA phase 3 trials for Staar Surgical's implantable contact lens (ICL). The lens is already widely used in other countries. The results have been good. I was extraordinarly near-sighted (-17 D), so LASIK as not a good option. I now see 20/30, owing to some residual astigmatism the lens is not designed to correct. I wear some very light, thin glasses when I want things to be crisp, like night driving.
There are a number of implantables in trials right now. They have the advantage of being reversible and the optics are more precise because you are not dealing with tissue.
If you see this as just business as usual (which it is) and would like to be reminded that it is wrong (which it is), may I recommend Arianna Huffington's "How to Overthrow the Government."
Since they invented the holodeck on STTNG (or was Neuromancer the source), science fiction tv and film can do nothing else. (Holodeck: a software world that looks and feels completely real.) The matrix is a holodeck. The nexus (Star Trek movies) is a holodeck with a joy upgrade. It's a cool idea; once; maybe ten times. But something different would be nice, don't you think.
I too am amused by the tendency of all the posters to dismiss this article so completely. As a regular slashdot reader, I've learned to take as given that Windows is inherently insecure. To learn that one can add up a count of anything bad, unfairly or no, and get a higher number for Linux than Windows, well, hell, it's news, at least.
Interix looks to be a dead product. It does not show up in Microsoft's product list and does not turn up in a search of their support knowledge base.(!) The email address for support is no longer in service.
I tried Interix, not for porting, but as a unix utility, particularly for manipulating AIT2 tape drives. Cygwin has a few issues with AIT2, and so did Interix. But the cygwin mailing list is alive and well. With Interix, there is nowhere to turn for help.
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I use Netscape because I can delete to an IMAP folder with one click, it doesn't continue to clutter my inbox, and I can recover it if I need to. OE won't do that.
I saw this done on TV news a long time ago, before the 1996 date quoted on the site. The implication then was, "Music comes from our genes." I thought it was pretty cool at the time, so I was surprised that years passed without hearing about it again. The more I have thought about it, the more I wondered if any 4 notes, if cleverly chosen, will sound musical if played at random.
or should I say observation: Increased C02 increases plant growth.
Because most of the world's land mass is in the Northern Hemisphere, there is an annual cycle in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. When plants die off in winter, C02 goes up; in summer, CO2 goes down. Some researchers claim to have observed a widening of this swing. The overall increase in CO2 from fossil fuel burning causes an overall increase in deciduous plant growth in the Northern Hemisphere in summer, followed by a larger die off and a more radical CO2 drop in winter.
What does this mean for global warming? Umm..
I must be missing something. Aren't most of our computer problems these days network related How are you going to fix my network problem over the network?
Two things are irrelevent:
1) Gore won the popular vote.
2) Bush won more states.
Two things are relevant:
1) The electoral college is the law of the land.
2) So are the courts.
"Some merit" is the highest compliment I have found in the comments. I think the article deserves better. I'll stack my atheist credentials up against the best of them, but the possibility of finding the American spirit on the Net makes my noodle hard.
This uniqueness/improbable argument reminds me of the arguments my Baptists friends at Baylor used to make for the existence of god. "How remarkable is the human eye! It could not just randomly come to be. There had to be a design and a designer." "Solid water, ice, is less dense than liquid water. How remarkable is that! If otherwise, lakes and oceans would freeze from the bottom up, killing everything. Good thing God knew what he was doing on that one." This kind of thinking falls under the "a little knowledge is dangerous" category. Presently, we know enough to realize that the six number are just right to produce life (us). We are a long way from knowing what other combinations might do.
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They're great, until they suddenly fail to mount. Then they show up as unformatted under Disk Management. Lacie offered a patch for the first batch that did this. Now it's happening again a few months later. Losing half a terabyte of data is very inconvenient.
Three years ago I managed to get into FDA phase 3 trials for Staar Surgical's implantable contact lens (ICL). The lens is already widely used in other countries. The results have been good. I was extraordinarly near-sighted (-17 D), so LASIK as not a good option. I now see 20/30, owing to some residual astigmatism the lens is not designed to correct. I wear some very light, thin glasses when I want things to be crisp, like night driving. There are a number of implantables in trials right now. They have the advantage of being reversible and the optics are more precise because you are not dealing with tissue.
If you see this as just business as usual (which it is) and would like to be reminded that it is wrong (which it is), may I recommend Arianna Huffington's "How to Overthrow the Government."
Since they invented the holodeck on STTNG (or was Neuromancer the source), science fiction tv and film can do nothing else. (Holodeck: a software world that looks and feels completely real.) The matrix is a holodeck. The nexus (Star Trek movies) is a holodeck with a joy upgrade. It's a cool idea; once; maybe ten times. But something different would be nice, don't you think.
I too am amused by the tendency of all the posters to dismiss this article so completely. As a regular slashdot reader, I've learned to take as given that Windows is inherently insecure. To learn that one can add up a count of anything bad, unfairly or no, and get a higher number for Linux than Windows, well, hell, it's news, at least.
Interix looks to be a dead product. It does not show up in Microsoft's product list and does not turn up in a search of their support knowledge base.(!) The email address for support is no longer in service.
I tried Interix, not for porting, but as a unix utility, particularly for manipulating AIT2 tape drives. Cygwin has a few issues with AIT2, and so did Interix. But the cygwin mailing list is alive and well. With Interix, there is nowhere to turn for help.
I use Netscape because I can delete to an IMAP folder with one click, it doesn't continue to clutter my inbox, and I can recover it if I need to. OE won't do that.
I saw this done on TV news a long time ago, before the 1996 date quoted on the site. The implication then was, "Music comes from our genes." I thought it was pretty cool at the time, so I was surprised that years passed without hearing about it again. The more I have thought about it, the more I wondered if any 4 notes, if cleverly chosen, will sound musical if played at random.
Absoft makes a thoroughly decent compiler, which I use in Windows. They have a Linux version.
Your point about compulsory software registration is interesting. I hope you are right.
or should I say observation: Increased C02 increases plant growth. Because most of the world's land mass is in the Northern Hemisphere, there is an annual cycle in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. When plants die off in winter, C02 goes up; in summer, CO2 goes down. Some researchers claim to have observed a widening of this swing. The overall increase in CO2 from fossil fuel burning causes an overall increase in deciduous plant growth in the Northern Hemisphere in summer, followed by a larger die off and a more radical CO2 drop in winter. What does this mean for global warming? Umm..
I must be missing something. Aren't most of our computer problems these days network related How are you going to fix my network problem over the network?
Two things are irrelevent: 1) Gore won the popular vote. 2) Bush won more states. Two things are relevant: 1) The electoral college is the law of the land. 2) So are the courts.
The next President of the United States will be decided by the Miami relatives of Elion Gonzales.
"Some merit" is the highest compliment I have found in the comments. I think the article deserves better. I'll stack my atheist credentials up against the best of them, but the possibility of finding the American spirit on the Net makes my noodle hard.
This uniqueness/improbable argument reminds me of the arguments my Baptists friends at Baylor used to make for the existence of god. "How remarkable is the human eye! It could not just randomly come to be. There had to be a design and a designer." "Solid water, ice, is less dense than liquid water. How remarkable is that! If otherwise, lakes and oceans would freeze from the bottom up, killing everything. Good thing God knew what he was doing on that one." This kind of thinking falls under the "a little knowledge is dangerous" category. Presently, we know enough to realize that the six number are just right to produce life (us). We are a long way from knowing what other combinations might do.