The girls are much hotter at Stanford. Of course, given that you're a math geek, arrogant, and also a Slashdotter, that's unlikely to be a factor for you anyway.
Instamatic was Kodak's cartridge loading technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instamatic [wikipedia.org]), not Polaroid.
I was going to just say "instant", but I wanted something more old-timey looking and hyphenated, so went with insta-matic. The relation to any product by Kodak or any other manufacturer is purely coincidental.
Come sit on your grandpa's knee and I'll tell you a story.
Long before you were born, back when I was just a lad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was no such thing as "digital photo-graphy". The only way to capture an image of someone or something (or "steal their soul" as we called it back then) was to use a primitive device that would capture light reflected from the target and project it on to a chemical "film", which would end up with a copy of the image embedded into it.
Later, we would take this film to an old-fashioned building known as a "drug-store" (sort of like Amazon, but you had to drive there, and sometimes you even had to interact with other people in order to purchase goods and services). We would drop off our film, it would be sent off to a magic "photo development center", and transformed into a picture printed on special photo-graphic paper.
If for some reason you didn't want to wait, you could instead take a picture with a so-called "Polaroid insta-matic camera", which had self-developing film. You would take the picture, and within seconds it would come out of the camera. However, it would still take several seconds to fully develop. Many people thought shaking the picture made it develop faster, but of course that was just silly superstition. The real way to make it develop faster was to sacrifice a goat, but few people tried that, and so were stuck with slowly developing pictures.
Now, of course, everyone has these "digital photo-graphical machines" which make Polaroids obsolete, and so soon no one will know the simple joy of shaking a Polaroid picture.
Come back tomorrow, and I'll tell you about how we had to use "floppy disk-ettes" to transfer files from one computer to another, and how we were able to dodge saber-toothed tigers using 1/2-inch tape reels.
Sex scenes are just more offensive and/or disturbing than violence when a family is involved, I can't explain it, its just the way it is
My theory is that this is because of our intense taboo against any kind of sexual activity between family members. We tend to view our family members as almost the opposite of a sexual being, so when we are exposed to sexual content around our family members, we get extremely uncomfortable. In my experience, this happens whether anyone in the room is a minor or not.
I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.
Unfortunately, I have a Masters Degree in Drunken Calculus, so that feature won't help me:(
It happens more often than you think. I've had plenty of times when I've clicked send and almost instantaneously realized I had a mistake in the email. This will save me from having to immediately reply to my own email to make that correction, thus looking like a fool (I have plenty of other ways to make myself look like a fool, thank you very much).
Now, if they could just add a feature that held any emails sent after 2am for 12 hours, aka the "sober up first" rule, thus preventing me from waking up after a bender thinking, "oh crap, did I really send that email confessing my true feelings to that girl I had a crush on in high school but hadn't talked to in 15 years?", life would be just great.
Linux got accepted because some big vendors like IBM started supporting it. Until you can get some big trusted vendors to start supporting these apps, they won't see large-scale deployment in the enterprise.
They can call me when they've demonstrated seamless live migration between Intel and AMD chips, not just generations of their own hardware. Nobody wants to build a large-scale cloud if they're going to be locked to one vendor forever once they get started.
People have been predicting the death of the desktop computer almost since it was invented. Thin clients attached to powerful servers (or the newest buzzword "the cloud") have been touted as the future of computing for decades.
The simple fact is that even if these things worked flawlessly and without latency (they don't), the consumer just doesn't want to give up that kind of control to a central entity. We like to have our own applications on our own box, and we don't trust some big company to keep our stuff safe and private. The desktop hardware may continue to shrink, but it will still be the desktop. The death of the desktop has been 5 years away for the past 30 years, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
The British would not have surrendered had the French fleet not cut off reinforcements to Yorktown from Britain by taking control of the coast of Virginia. They also had soldiers, including high level officers, assisting the Americans. This is all in addition to all the funding.
It's highly unlikely the Americans would have been able to win the war without French assistance, and it would do us well to remember that. America and France have a long history of helping each other out of tight situations, and we do ourselves a disservice by forgetting that.
Religion demands we blindly accept it, and offers nothing as proof other than your own personal belief that it's true.
Science asks that we accept it, and offers a 600 page book written over two decades exhaustively proving it using clearly observable phenomena and repeatable experimentation.
Jindal was right! We don't have to monitor volcanoes, just wait for them to erupt and the news media will monitor them for us! Who wants to monitor them when they aren't doing anything interesting anyway? That would be like monitoring weather patterns out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...boring and useless.
Regarding city driving, yah the size helps, but the lack of power steering sure doesn't. I lived in an urban area without power steering before, and it can get annoying trying to parallel park without it. On the bright side, my arm strength increased quite a bit during that time.
My impression regarding any ability to get this in the US is that the company has taken advantage of the fact that India has lax (nonexistent?) safety and emissions standards in order to keep the price low. Making one of these that would actually be street legal in the US would probably cost thousands more.
Oracle Metalink [oracle.com] now requires flash to work at all. I mean, it is sort of like using GIMP to edit text files.
Not sure about your other claims, but this one is just a flat out lie. Right on the front page of Metalink is a selector where you can choose to login to the "classic" HTML-only site instead of using the whizbang Flash version.
Those guys can be really picky too. You can tell them your Oracle Linux or CentOS stuff is identical to RHEL, but if it doesn't actually say RHEL on it, they won't support their stuff at all.
My advice is to use Oracle Linux and take advantage of their end to end support contracts for the servers that are running Oracle products (and keep in mind Oracle owns a lot of products businesses use now like Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, etc), and run RHEL on servers that are running non-Oracle stuff.
I think you're misreading what Oracle is trying to do. Oracle is not particularly interested in creating the best Linux distribution out there. Oracle is interested in creating the best *end to end Enterprise solution* out there. Most of their acquisitions over the past several years have been toward that goal. Oracle wants to be the single source for every part of the software stack in Enterprise computing.
Right now, Oracle can offer a total end to end solution with one support contract for OS, DB, Middleware, and front end apps. No one else right now can do that, and that's a huge deal for the executives of the large companies that tend to run Oracle software. Oracle is not trying to compete with RedHat, Oracle is trying to compete with ERP providers like SAP. RedHat is just providing them with free OS development.
Of course there will be, they haven't even managed to create the black hole that will destroy mankind yet. This could be your big chance at.00000000001 seconds of fame before we all collapse into a singularity!
Seriously. Unless his previous job involved rendering pork fat or defusing mines, he should probably just stay where he is. Leave IT to those of us who made the mistake of getting in years ago and are now stuck because our minds have warped so much that we're unfit for normal society.
at the cost of all gba games. they removed that slot for memory. but hey, i think its an improvement
I've not seen a ton of information about the DSi, but how is it a big improvement over the DS? From what I've seen, it's basically a DS with a couple of really low resolution cameras and no more backward compatibility. Assuming I don't want to use my handheld game platform as a PDA, why would I want to "upgrade" to the DSi?
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I agree...we have been sans-Serif for too long!
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The girls are much hotter at Stanford. Of course, given that you're a math geek, arrogant, and also a Slashdotter, that's unlikely to be a factor for you anyway.
Yes, because I would have been devastated to see my kids attend MIT before this.
Instamatic was Kodak's cartridge loading technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instamatic [wikipedia.org]), not Polaroid.
I was going to just say "instant", but I wanted something more old-timey looking and hyphenated, so went with insta-matic. The relation to any product by Kodak or any other manufacturer is purely coincidental.
Come sit on your grandpa's knee and I'll tell you a story.
Long before you were born, back when I was just a lad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was no such thing as "digital photo-graphy". The only way to capture an image of someone or something (or "steal their soul" as we called it back then) was to use a primitive device that would capture light reflected from the target and project it on to a chemical "film", which would end up with a copy of the image embedded into it.
Later, we would take this film to an old-fashioned building known as a "drug-store" (sort of like Amazon, but you had to drive there, and sometimes you even had to interact with other people in order to purchase goods and services). We would drop off our film, it would be sent off to a magic "photo development center", and transformed into a picture printed on special photo-graphic paper.
If for some reason you didn't want to wait, you could instead take a picture with a so-called "Polaroid insta-matic camera", which had self-developing film. You would take the picture, and within seconds it would come out of the camera. However, it would still take several seconds to fully develop. Many people thought shaking the picture made it develop faster, but of course that was just silly superstition. The real way to make it develop faster was to sacrifice a goat, but few people tried that, and so were stuck with slowly developing pictures.
Now, of course, everyone has these "digital photo-graphical machines" which make Polaroids obsolete, and so soon no one will know the simple joy of shaking a Polaroid picture.
Come back tomorrow, and I'll tell you about how we had to use "floppy disk-ettes" to transfer files from one computer to another, and how we were able to dodge saber-toothed tigers using 1/2-inch tape reels.
Sex scenes are just more offensive and/or disturbing than violence when a family is involved, I can't explain it, its just the way it is
My theory is that this is because of our intense taboo against any kind of sexual activity between family members. We tend to view our family members as almost the opposite of a sexual being, so when we are exposed to sexual content around our family members, we get extremely uncomfortable. In my experience, this happens whether anyone in the room is a minor or not.
I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.
Unfortunately, I have a Masters Degree in Drunken Calculus, so that feature won't help me :(
It happens more often than you think. I've had plenty of times when I've clicked send and almost instantaneously realized I had a mistake in the email. This will save me from having to immediately reply to my own email to make that correction, thus looking like a fool (I have plenty of other ways to make myself look like a fool, thank you very much).
Now, if they could just add a feature that held any emails sent after 2am for 12 hours, aka the "sober up first" rule, thus preventing me from waking up after a bender thinking, "oh crap, did I really send that email confessing my true feelings to that girl I had a crush on in high school but hadn't talked to in 15 years?", life would be just great.
Linux got accepted because some big vendors like IBM started supporting it. Until you can get some big trusted vendors to start supporting these apps, they won't see large-scale deployment in the enterprise.
They can call me when they've demonstrated seamless live migration between Intel and AMD chips, not just generations of their own hardware. Nobody wants to build a large-scale cloud if they're going to be locked to one vendor forever once they get started.
People have been predicting the death of the desktop computer almost since it was invented. Thin clients attached to powerful servers (or the newest buzzword "the cloud") have been touted as the future of computing for decades.
The simple fact is that even if these things worked flawlessly and without latency (they don't), the consumer just doesn't want to give up that kind of control to a central entity. We like to have our own applications on our own box, and we don't trust some big company to keep our stuff safe and private. The desktop hardware may continue to shrink, but it will still be the desktop. The death of the desktop has been 5 years away for the past 30 years, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
The British would not have surrendered had the French fleet not cut off reinforcements to Yorktown from Britain by taking control of the coast of Virginia. They also had soldiers, including high level officers, assisting the Americans. This is all in addition to all the funding.
It's highly unlikely the Americans would have been able to win the war without French assistance, and it would do us well to remember that. America and France have a long history of helping each other out of tight situations, and we do ourselves a disservice by forgetting that.
If you have Tux Racer, you don't need any other games.
Religion demands we blindly accept it, and offers nothing as proof other than your own personal belief that it's true.
Science asks that we accept it, and offers a 600 page book written over two decades exhaustively proving it using clearly observable phenomena and repeatable experimentation.
Please tell me you can see the difference.
That's not fair...Mississippi has been the leader in poverty and underachieving in education for decades.
Jindal was right! We don't have to monitor volcanoes, just wait for them to erupt and the news media will monitor them for us! Who wants to monitor them when they aren't doing anything interesting anyway? That would be like monitoring weather patterns out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...boring and useless.
Regarding city driving, yah the size helps, but the lack of power steering sure doesn't. I lived in an urban area without power steering before, and it can get annoying trying to parallel park without it. On the bright side, my arm strength increased quite a bit during that time.
My impression regarding any ability to get this in the US is that the company has taken advantage of the fact that India has lax (nonexistent?) safety and emissions standards in order to keep the price low. Making one of these that would actually be street legal in the US would probably cost thousands more.
Oracle Metalink [oracle.com] now requires flash to work at all. I mean, it is sort of like using GIMP to edit text files.
Not sure about your other claims, but this one is just a flat out lie. Right on the front page of Metalink is a selector where you can choose to login to the "classic" HTML-only site instead of using the whizbang Flash version.
Those guys can be really picky too. You can tell them your Oracle Linux or CentOS stuff is identical to RHEL, but if it doesn't actually say RHEL on it, they won't support their stuff at all.
My advice is to use Oracle Linux and take advantage of their end to end support contracts for the servers that are running Oracle products (and keep in mind Oracle owns a lot of products businesses use now like Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, etc), and run RHEL on servers that are running non-Oracle stuff.
I think you're misreading what Oracle is trying to do. Oracle is not particularly interested in creating the best Linux distribution out there. Oracle is interested in creating the best *end to end Enterprise solution* out there. Most of their acquisitions over the past several years have been toward that goal. Oracle wants to be the single source for every part of the software stack in Enterprise computing.
Right now, Oracle can offer a total end to end solution with one support contract for OS, DB, Middleware, and front end apps. No one else right now can do that, and that's a huge deal for the executives of the large companies that tend to run Oracle software. Oracle is not trying to compete with RedHat, Oracle is trying to compete with ERP providers like SAP. RedHat is just providing them with free OS development.
Of course there will be, they haven't even managed to create the black hole that will destroy mankind yet. This could be your big chance at .00000000001 seconds of fame before we all collapse into a singularity!
Seize the moment.
Seriously. Unless his previous job involved rendering pork fat or defusing mines, he should probably just stay where he is. Leave IT to those of us who made the mistake of getting in years ago and are now stuck because our minds have warped so much that we're unfit for normal society.
So that would mean that Slashdot has (or likely will be) blacklisted
On the bright side, productivity in Australian IT departments will skyrocket.
Not to mention the thing plays DS GAMES!
at the cost of all gba games. they removed that slot for memory. but hey, i think its an improvement
I've not seen a ton of information about the DSi, but how is it a big improvement over the DS? From what I've seen, it's basically a DS with a couple of really low resolution cameras and no more backward compatibility. Assuming I don't want to use my handheld game platform as a PDA, why would I want to "upgrade" to the DSi?