The font part was a joke... on a monitor with this high or a resolution, though, you're gonna need huge icons, and generally huge EVERYTHING (graphical widgets that is) to be usable.
"My Fat Greek Wedding" (A far better movie) won't beat it at the box office this year. Yes, "My Fat Greek Wedding" is better than Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
Strangely you got the Star Wars movie title correct, including the colon, yet misnamed My Big Fat Greek Wedding both times.
Here's another idea... you know how you smell after you come back from the beach? They should make a cologne that smells like that... they could call it... the beach... by CK.*
Manufacturers who provide Linux support are enabling their users. In my modest life experience, those people and organizations that are more generous in enabling others are also more likely (not a perfect correlation, but a significant one) to be honest and straightforward in other ways. Openness tends to generalize across dimensions.
Give me a break!
Or perhaps they're just shrewd businessmen, and would like to sell as many printers as possible by opening it up to more platforms?
In my opinion Windows Media Player is freaking great. It's fast, it's not bloated
I've tried WMP several times, including the latest, and I find this statement above to be the complete opposite of my experience. Compared to WinAmp 2.x, it is slow as FUCK loading MP3 playlists and playing, and I get a ton of snap/crackle/pop while listening to MP3's, which I attribute to the increased CPU load that WMP places on my system.
Then again, I "only" have a 1Ghz system with 400MB RAM!
The only thing I use WMP for now is playing non-quicktime movies and burning audio CD's from playlists (in windows xp).
And in Classic Microsoft style the security bulletin notes that patches are avaible ONLY for Windows XP and NT
95 isn't supported ( ok, I can understand that ) 98 isn't supported ( getting a little too close for my comfort ) ME isn't supported ( didn't that just come out 2 years ago? ) 2K isn't supported ( What about people running servers? )
Just another tactic to force people to upgrade
As someone who is actually subscribed to receive these bulletins from MSFT, I note that they sent a second revision out today. I quote:
Reason for Revision: ==================== Normally, Microsoft releases the patches for all affected products simultaneously, in order to provide a complete solution. However, exploit code for this issue has already been posted, and we are therefore releasing the patches as they become available, in order to allow customers to begin protecting their systems as quickly as possible.
The bulletin has been updated to include patch availability for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me.
Patches are now available for:
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 Second Edition
- Windows Me
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition
- Windows XP
- Windows XP 64 bit Edition
Patches will be available shortly for:
- Windows 2000
- Microsoft Office v.X for Mac
- Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft Office 98 for the Macintosh
- Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac (for OS 8.1 to 9.x)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac (for OS X)
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0.5 for Mac
The story is good, except it's not quite the whole truth. If it were, everyone would be using Linux instead of Windows.
You could make the story more accurate by noting that the $5 lemonade comes in a an easy to hold cup that occasionally springs a leak, whereas the free water comes locked inside a small combination safe, and it might take you a while to be able to drink it.
I am releasing no code because it is both sucky and useless (you see, I don't really think swapping scans of old records across p2p networks will become common practice any time soon).
More like he'd rather get his practical joke on slashdot, and if he supplied the code, it'd be a lot easier to prove it's fake.
Let's apply Occam's Razor.
Those music samples could have been generated by software that reads stitched together images of scanned vinyl records.
Or they could be just regular samples of music taken off a record/cd/tape and run through a static-izer for effect.
Let me get this straight... a comment that ridicules the fact that a commonly embedded computer item is getting smaller gets rated +5 on slashdot, home of the techno-geek?
So that gives you a really small radius around your PC to take pictures, if you're transmitting to a desktop PC. Although with a Laptop it should be fairly easy, but still, that's a lot of hardware to carry around. Not practical at all.
Think outside the box. Or at least open the box up a bit. Who says you even need a laptop? What a PDA device with bluetooth and CF card? Instead of using a CF card in your camera, and another in your PDA, you can just have your PDA in your pocket with the CF card, and share the CF card between the two pieces of hardware. And you know they're going to come out with a version of the camera with local CF card abilities as well.
The bluetooth technology really gets on my nerves. The range is horrible, and should be replaced by something better. It's not a God's gift to consumers. It's vapor.
This is such a lame comment. Bluetooth was specifically designed to provide short-range wireless communication that doesn't require line-of-sight like infrared, but a protocol specifically designed and standardized for data transfer in this short range. Therefore it can use less power and be cheaper than things like 802.11b. It's like wireless USB. It's perfect for what it's designed for.
Ok, lets say I have a Ericsson mobile phone, and it can intercept and store blootooth signals. I doubt there is a phone out there which will store massive uncompressed image data on a tiny memory block. Totally useless.
And yesterday there wasn't a camera available that could transmit it's images via Bluetooth. You do understand the concept of technological progress, right?
I can see no further applications within the next couple of years.
Based on your other comments, this hardly surprises me.
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How exactly would these two ideas be any easier than just CLEANING THE FUCKING WINDOWS?!
Giving away software does not make you a monopoly. Immoral business practices do.
Wrong. Monopolies are fine and dandy. Perfectly legal. The goal of every public business is to become a monopoly.
However once you are a monopoly, you have to play by a different set of rules, or the government will step in like they are with Microsoft.
I tried reading your website, but I couldn't get past the quote on the first page.
It's "inconceivable" not "inconVeivable."
And it's Inigo Montoya, not InDigo Montoya.
I never have bought this one. Sleeping is exactly what most carnivores do after eating. Have you ever seen a fat tiger?
Tigers have a good diet and run around on all fours during the day when they're not sleeping. Why would a tiger get fat?
Why should someone not eat before bed just to eat at 8:00 AM and sit at a desk for 9 hours?
Because when you're sleeping, your metabolism slows waaaaay down. This is why you will get fat if you eat meals right before you go to sleep.
From Alton's response, I think that he thought the poster was completely immersing the chicken in the Lava.
So Alton can cook well, but is unable to read?
The font part was a joke... on a monitor with this high or a resolution, though, you're gonna need huge icons, and generally huge EVERYTHING (graphical widgets that is) to be usable.
Now I only need to set windows to use 300x300 icons and 50pt print in order to be able to use regular software on this thing!
Then he would need to make like another $120 million with this IMAX version... uhhh...
"My Fat Greek Wedding" (A far better movie) won't beat it at the box office this year. Yes, "My Fat Greek Wedding" is better than Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
Strangely you got the Star Wars movie title correct, including the colon, yet misnamed My Big Fat Greek Wedding both times.
Robert X. Cringely announced today that he is using the world's first "computer without an operating system."
Details at 11.
Here's another idea... you know how you smell after you come back from the beach? They should make a cologne that smells like that... they could call it... the beach... by CK.*
* Cosmo Kramer.
If the smell tastes burnt, investigate the smell right away.
Hrmmm...
Manufacturers who provide Linux support are enabling their users. In my modest life experience, those people and organizations that are more generous in enabling others are also more likely (not a perfect correlation, but a significant one) to be honest and straightforward in other ways. Openness tends to generalize across dimensions.
Give me a break!
Or perhaps they're just shrewd businessmen, and would like to sell as many printers as possible by opening it up to more platforms?
There's NOTHING better than that "new computer smell."
In my opinion Windows Media Player is freaking great. It's fast, it's not bloated
I've tried WMP several times, including the latest, and I find this statement above to be the complete opposite of my experience. Compared to WinAmp 2.x, it is slow as FUCK loading MP3 playlists and playing, and I get a ton of snap/crackle/pop while listening to MP3's, which I attribute to the increased CPU load that WMP places on my system.
Then again, I "only" have a 1Ghz system with 400MB RAM!
The only thing I use WMP for now is playing non-quicktime movies and burning audio CD's from playlists (in windows xp).
Seems like a bit of javascript could fix this?
Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. ~School superintendent on The Simpsons
I don't know about all this god stuff, but at least I got a new sig out of the whole affair!
95 isn't supported ( ok, I can understand that )
98 isn't supported ( getting a little too close for my comfort )
ME isn't supported ( didn't that just come out 2 years ago? )
2K isn't supported ( What about people running servers? )
Just another tactic to force people to upgrade
As someone who is actually subscribed to receive these bulletins from MSFT, I note that they sent a second revision out today. I quote:
Now, let's be honest here...
The story is good, except it's not quite the whole truth. If it were, everyone would be using Linux instead of Windows.
You could make the story more accurate by noting that the $5 lemonade comes in a an easy to hold cup that occasionally springs a leak, whereas the free water comes locked inside a small combination safe, and it might take you a while to be able to drink it.
Well, he posted his code, so please tell us what you think.
I'm glad he did, and now it's a credible story. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Let's apply Occam's Razor again:
1) You really wanted some code to pour over to see if this guy was legit.
2) You wanted to some quick karma by immediately discrediting his work with no intention to do anything else.
Let's apply Occam's Razor to your razor:
1) I wanted some quick karma by calling it a hoax.
2) My karma is capped and I call it like I see it.
Besides I would not stick any of my 12 maxi singles of 1980s Billy Idol in the scanner to be scraped against the glass. ;).
Yes, apparantly scraping them with a small diamond is the limit of your tolerance level.
I am releasing no code because it is both sucky and useless (you see, I don't really think swapping scans of old records across p2p networks will become common practice any time soon).
More like he'd rather get his practical joke on slashdot, and if he supplied the code, it'd be a lot easier to prove it's fake.
Let's apply Occam's Razor.
Those music samples could have been generated by software that reads stitched together images of scanned vinyl records.
Or they could be just regular samples of music taken off a record/cd/tape and run through a static-izer for effect.
Which is simpler?
Let's see the code, please...
Let me get this straight... a comment that ridicules the fact that a commonly embedded computer item is getting smaller gets rated +5 on slashdot, home of the techno-geek?
Christ-on-a-cracker!
So that gives you a really small radius around your PC to take pictures, if you're transmitting to a desktop PC. Although with a Laptop it should be fairly easy, but still, that's a lot of hardware to carry around. Not practical at all.
Think outside the box. Or at least open the box up a bit. Who says you even need a laptop? What a PDA device with bluetooth and CF card? Instead of using a CF card in your camera, and another in your PDA, you can just have your PDA in your pocket with the CF card, and share the CF card between the two pieces of hardware. And you know they're going to come out with a version of the camera with local CF card abilities as well.
The bluetooth technology really gets on my nerves. The range is horrible, and should be replaced by something better. It's not a God's gift to consumers. It's vapor.
This is such a lame comment. Bluetooth was specifically designed to provide short-range wireless communication that doesn't require line-of-sight like infrared, but a protocol specifically designed and standardized for data transfer in this short range. Therefore it can use less power and be cheaper than things like 802.11b. It's like wireless USB. It's perfect for what it's designed for.
Ok, lets say I have a Ericsson mobile phone, and it can intercept and store blootooth signals. I doubt there is a phone out there which will store massive uncompressed image data on a tiny memory block. Totally useless.
And yesterday there wasn't a camera available that could transmit it's images via Bluetooth. You do understand the concept of technological progress, right?
I can see no further applications within the next couple of years.
Based on your other comments, this hardly surprises me.