Interesting choice of name. Selene was a lunar deity and is the Greek word for the moon.
No, it's not an interesting choice of name! It's like Anime going to the moon or sommat. What we need here is name like Susano and he's going to go all samurai on the Moon! Good grief, what is the world coming to?;-)
china, not to be outdone by fierce rivals Japan have announced plans to lauch their own lunar surveyor named Ripple of Leaf Falling on Water of Still Pond at Sunrise
How can they do such a lousy effort this yet be one of the largest sectors of industry?
Perhaps they're more accustomed to people just rolling over with a chilling effects letter. Plenty of hard work keeps things finely tuned, it's evident that there have been a lot of legal people collecting retainer fees who have spent very little time practicing. Seriously, this is pretty amaturish.
back when I wrote SF and Fantasy gaming articles in the 80s.
Regardless of what happened since then, it's sad to see them go.
I met Michael Stackpole on GEnie where FASA had a considerable BattleTech and Shadowrun presence in the 80's. After GEnie because too much of an expense and I left them I kept contact with Mike through email and his website. I picked up some euro editions of his books and sent them back to him so he could study what changes were edited into the euro copies. In the mid 90's it was apparent the wheels were coming off of FASA. Mike and other authors were having difficulty getting paid and for a while he refused to write any new books, which was a shame as he was their leading writer. The books and Ralph Reeds illicit BattleMech (and BattleFort) were way more fun than anything FASA had yet released. Since they had a deal with Activision they effectively settled with Ralph and his code never saw light of day again - A real loss, because it would have made an awesome MMORPG with some additions. His combat system was nearly perfect.
Oh, that's swell. I just spend a half hour composing a submission on this:o(
I felt ill when I heard Microsoft had acquired FASA Interactive, which meant all and future BattleTech video gaming properties (except those held by Activision) would have to come through the hands of a giant corporation which acquires properies which quietly die and fade away.
If I had just sunk some change into Shadowrun I'd be rather pissed right now. At least for me I spent most of my happy hours with the illicit BattleMech and BattleFort games written by Ralph Reed for the Amiga.
I'm pretty sure the EULA states somewhere MS can do this. You agree to it when clicking that little checkbox for accepting the license when installing the damn OS.
It's covered under: That's not wrongdoing, a lie by omission of bugs being patched, that's a feature.
NTP might have had a hold over RIM because their business was depending on continued service, but NTP just picked a fight with multi-billion dollar businesses who are not going to roll over. This is just like SCO picking on IBM. When you fight a well funded opponent you better make damn sure you got the goods because their *multiple* law firms will eat your lunch.
The telcos will have it easier, too as there's no precedence, with RIM it was actually an out of court settlment. Still, IBM had a long, long battle with SCO. Depending upon how much NTP asks for they telcos may just write them a cheque with no ongoing revenue due NTP.
Because the BPAI may toss our patents any time and then we'll have to run though court processes
to try to reassert ownership of some of these dubious patents.
I find the concept of leveraging open ideas, such as email, through some specific processes, abominable. It's not like these bastards invented
email. So if I patent delivering a letter to someone's house by means of walking to my car, unlocking it, sitting in the driver seat, closing the door, putting on my safety belt, placing the key in the ignition, putting the car in gear, driving to the destination, reversing the previous steps, delivering the letter than repeating the whole previous process in reverse to return to home base and making note it has
been delivered, I can sue anyone who does likewise. That's just stupid, but that's what's happening. Isn't it?
Ok so the Universe came into being with rapid inflation, during the first 0.001 seconds or whatever it was. Then things settled down to all this matter getting itself organised into hydrogen clouds, which formed starts, some of which were super massive and only existed for 100 million years, before blowing themselves to bits, thus creating second generation stars (like Sol) and the stuff of heavier and various other elements (which makes up most of the planets and debris whizzing around Sol), but many stars actually collapse into black holes, or suck up so many other stars they're crushed by their own density and gravity to the point where neutrons are accellerating towards the cores and and emitting radiation bursts (converting matter to energy) until the black holes cease to exist (all this happening in an apparent timeframe which doesn't appear to support some of the physics and estimates of the universe's age. So anyway, if all this matter is turning into energy, why didn't it just do that initially rather than go through this labourious process of creating stars, galaxies, nebulae, etc?
space is big, space is dark, it's hard to find, a place to park. Burma Shave - from Workbench lander
No doubt, this looks arse-backward to me too. Where once the world was run on operating systems neatly tailored to their hardware, we have pretty well gone the direction of a Jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none OS bodged into a nearly infinite combination of hardware, which means its rarely optimised for the hardware, you usually guess at a lot of things before you give up and say, 'feck it, it's good enough' and as a result of the fine fit it often goes tits up with a not so humourous BSoD. Back when Sun was a giant, creating the sort of hardware geeks lusted for, did anyone ever think they'd see the day Sun would be peddling the Wal-Mart of computers?
This marks the beginning of perhaps the greatest 'Opportunity' for new discoveries on Mars.
Reminds me of the old joke about a mysterious hole being found, experts are looking into it.
That aside, I wonder what they're really expecting to find at the bottom of this crater. Any material from the blast which formed it should be available outside the crater for a large radius. Down in the crater are they expecting to examine strata to search for traces of water, life, indications of Mars earlier life? I suspect most of this, like the debris of the meteorite would be easily found outside the crater without the risk of entering it. I'm afraid once Opportunity enters the crater that's the last of it's exploring days, roaming the surface of Mars and its only Crater News Network from now on.
to the astonishment of NASA a titleist was found at the bottom of the crater
Besides, and I am not exaggerating, the $35,000 Apple is promising probably wouldn't even cover the cost of tasking a union city crew to remove the meters, rebuild the sidewalk and put the meters someplace else.
There's the matter of cars taking up the spots all day, unless it's posted Car Park limit 1 Hour, also having a parking warden come along and chalk tyres and monitor vehicles where the old meter was simply expired or not. (Though were I live they keep a limit of two hours on a vehicle in the same spot, meter paid up or no.)
And this is a story how? Why should a city remove meters because the business is Apple. If Apple doesn't want to deal with the meters they shouldn't have put the store there.
I think Apple visualises Minis, BMWs, Jaguars, Mercedes, etc. parked in front of their stylish new foothold. As soon as they see a lot of rusting hulks parked there they'll opt for the removal of the parking places.
i remember when a "slushie" was when you had a lot of snow down your boot
Next up: Microsoft's Power bill - 10,000 PC's running at the same time, is Redmond driving global warming?
You're probably off by at least a factor of 10. Last I heard there was something like 3.4 computers per employee * ~70,000 employees would be roughly 230,000 computers.
If you can back that up and submit it, I've got an invite to the firehose.
Seriously, we're all running more power hungry computers than ever and have strips of wall-warts under our desks, there's got to be a Technology driving Global Warming story there somewhere.
You know it's a Slow newsday when "We've never done it before, so we can't."
by Montreal burros constitutes news because it
includes Apple.
Certainly they can't be... nooooo... can't be... they're suggesting they've never accepted money to
change the way something is done or not done? What next, Gérald Tremblay caught on camera
stating he's giving up his Treo?
Next up: Microsoft's Power bill - 10,000 PC's running at the same time, is Redmond driving global warming?
Personally I preferred 5.1, 6.0 was great for having a DOS GUI... That meant I could run a WYSIWYG in DOS... That was something special in those days.
I had WP 4.1 for the Amiga and loved it. One day I was busily typing in a very log document and lightning hit a nearby power line. Once the power was restored I found I had only lost a sentence or two of typing, as I had auto backup running at the time. Best WP feature was ALT-F3 - reveal codes. That was extremely useful when trying to trackdown where some attribute was on or off.
My main gripe with Word is, every time I get a new workstation or an upgrade of Office, I spend about 30 minutes going through turning off all the automated crap which corrects on the fly, questions my grammar, etc. As a programmer, using programming jargon and a lot of acronyms one doesn't want any help or corrections on the fly.
I certainly hope the options are easier to find and disable in Open Office. In Word they're usually buried in the least obvious menu.
So basically, M$ is going to screw customers if their OEMs screw M$. This should be fun to watch. Just another reason for linux.
So the problem, as you see it, aside from a MS Screwup(TM) is people suffering for purchasing from a shady dealer. People who buy from shady dealers should learn not to, not really MS's problem there, it's the cheapskates who do business with scumbags. People stung will have to go back to the cheatie dealer and demand satisfaction.
If things weren't so horribly intrusive and capable of tracking a user's entire internet experience, for the sole purpose of selling you stuff, people wouldn't bitch.
The primary reason I disable Flash and block ads was due to the extreme annoyance of ads. Every now and then I'll visit a site which I don't have a block for and see those stupid jumping around ads which look like a Windows system notification with jumping beans embedded. I'm particularly vexed by flash ads with all their damn animations.
A good ad should catch your attention with its message or an interesting design. Motion catches your attention, or more like, distracts you from reading content, which is defeating the site as well (how can you read their content if some jumping gif or flashy flash is constantly drawing your eyes toward it?) Be reasonable in regard to accepting ads and I won't block them. Allow disruptive crap and I'll do everything in my power to disable it.
As for those dhtml or whatever they are, which place some object over the content until I click close or wait for it to expire, well, there's old browsers out there which won't understand that junk and I continue to use one, it's that or stop visiting the site because it's such a pain to access.
Lastly, there's the bloat of this stuff. I'm still on a dial-up and have limited patience for downloading some 500K+ flash or animated gif.
With the bloat of webpages these days, we are getting back to where we were in perception of speed, when the first 54Kbaud modems hit the shelves. Everything was so fast, but pages were tiny and didn't contain loads of unnecessary behind the scenes content generated by IDEs. At some point Broadband will appear choked and slow.
I too learned Pascal in the early 80's when it was that or Fortran IV. Both seemed to me to require a lot of typing to accomplish anything. I picked up Modula2 for my Amiga as I already knew Pascal and it was quite similar, the Modula2 compiler was relatively inexpensive and the executables were tight and fast. Eventually I picked up Lattice C for the Amiga (an earlier version in a bargain bin, which I paid a bit more and upgraded to the latest release:o) and never looked back.
I guess they are conveniently ignoring copyright law as written when it comes to fair use. Next step massive lobbying in congress to change it. Naw, they'd never be able to buy our upright legislators...would they?
It's already a done deal. The law's there in black and white, exactly as they've paid for, along with that 70 years after original creators death, which will be updated to 170 years in a few more decades.
Lobbying is almost as old a profession as prostitution and basically the same thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting choice of name. Selene was a lunar deity and is the Greek word for the moon.
No, it's not an interesting choice of name! It's like Anime going to the moon or sommat. What we need here is name like Susano and he's going to go all samurai on the Moon! Good grief, what is the world coming to? ;-)
china, not to be outdone by fierce rivals Japan have announced plans to lauch their own lunar surveyor named Ripple of Leaf Falling on Water of Still Pond at Sunrise
How can they do such a lousy effort this yet be one of the largest sectors of industry?
Perhaps they're more accustomed to people just rolling over with a chilling effects letter. Plenty of hard work keeps things finely tuned, it's evident that there have been a lot of legal people collecting retainer fees who have spent very little time practicing. Seriously, this is pretty amaturish.
back when I wrote SF and Fantasy gaming articles in the 80s. Regardless of what happened since then, it's sad to see them go.
I met Michael Stackpole on GEnie where FASA had a considerable BattleTech and Shadowrun presence in the 80's. After GEnie because too much of an expense and I left them I kept contact with Mike through email and his website. I picked up some euro editions of his books and sent them back to him so he could study what changes were edited into the euro copies. In the mid 90's it was apparent the wheels were coming off of FASA. Mike and other authors were having difficulty getting paid and for a while he refused to write any new books, which was a shame as he was their leading writer. The books and Ralph Reeds illicit BattleMech (and BattleFort) were way more fun than anything FASA had yet released. Since they had a deal with Activision they effectively settled with Ralph and his code never saw light of day again - A real loss, because it would have made an awesome MMORPG with some additions. His combat system was nearly perfect.
Oh, that's swell. I just spend a half hour composing a submission on this :o(
I felt ill when I heard Microsoft had acquired FASA Interactive, which meant all and future BattleTech video gaming properties (except those held by Activision) would have to come through the hands of a giant corporation which acquires properies which quietly die and fade away.
If I had just sunk some change into Shadowrun I'd be rather pissed right now. At least for me I spent most of my happy hours with the illicit BattleMech and BattleFort games written by Ralph Reed for the Amiga.
I'm pretty sure the EULA states somewhere MS can do this. You agree to it when clicking that little checkbox for accepting the license when installing the damn OS.
It's covered under: That's not wrongdoing, a lie by omission of bugs being patched, that's a feature.
NTP might have had a hold over RIM because their business was depending on continued service, but NTP just picked a fight with multi-billion dollar businesses who are not going to roll over. This is just like SCO picking on IBM. When you fight a well funded opponent you better make damn sure you got the goods because their *multiple* law firms will eat your lunch.
The telcos will have it easier, too as there's no precedence, with RIM it was actually an out of court settlment. Still, IBM had a long, long battle with SCO. Depending upon how much NTP asks for they telcos may just write them a cheque with no ongoing revenue due NTP.
Because the BPAI may toss our patents any time and then we'll have to run though court processes to try to reassert ownership of some of these dubious patents.
I find the concept of leveraging open ideas, such as email, through some specific processes, abominable. It's not like these bastards invented email. So if I patent delivering a letter to someone's house by means of walking to my car, unlocking it, sitting in the driver seat, closing the door, putting on my safety belt, placing the key in the ignition, putting the car in gear, driving to the destination, reversing the previous steps, delivering the letter than repeating the whole previous process in reverse to return to home base and making note it has been delivered, I can sue anyone who does likewise. That's just stupid, but that's what's happening. Isn't it?
Ok so the Universe came into being with rapid inflation, during the first 0.001 seconds or whatever it was. Then things settled down to all this matter getting itself organised into hydrogen clouds, which formed starts, some of which were super massive and only existed for 100 million years, before blowing themselves to bits, thus creating second generation stars (like Sol) and the stuff of heavier and various other elements (which makes up most of the planets and debris whizzing around Sol), but many stars actually collapse into black holes, or suck up so many other stars they're crushed by their own density and gravity to the point where neutrons are accellerating towards the cores and and emitting radiation bursts (converting matter to energy) until the black holes cease to exist (all this happening in an apparent timeframe which doesn't appear to support some of the physics and estimates of the universe's age. So anyway, if all this matter is turning into energy, why didn't it just do that initially rather than go through this labourious process of creating stars, galaxies, nebulae, etc?
space is big, space is dark, it's hard to find, a place to park. Burma Shave - from Workbench lander
Running SunOS Under Windows VM? Holy Crap!
No doubt, this looks arse-backward to me too. Where once the world was run on operating systems neatly tailored to their hardware, we have pretty well gone the direction of a Jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none OS bodged into a nearly infinite combination of hardware, which means its rarely optimised for the hardware, you usually guess at a lot of things before you give up and say, 'feck it, it's good enough' and as a result of the fine fit it often goes tits up with a not so humourous BSoD. Back when Sun was a giant, creating the sort of hardware geeks lusted for, did anyone ever think they'd see the day Sun would be peddling the Wal-Mart of computers?
On this path they'll be another Gateway or Dell.
This marks the beginning of perhaps the greatest 'Opportunity' for new discoveries on Mars.
Reminds me of the old joke about a mysterious hole being found, experts are looking into it.
That aside, I wonder what they're really expecting to find at the bottom of this crater. Any material from the blast which formed it should be available outside the crater for a large radius. Down in the crater are they expecting to examine strata to search for traces of water, life, indications of Mars earlier life? I suspect most of this, like the debris of the meteorite would be easily found outside the crater without the risk of entering it. I'm afraid once Opportunity enters the crater that's the last of it's exploring days, roaming the surface of Mars and its only Crater News Network from now on.
to the astonishment of NASA a titleist was found at the bottom of the crater
There's the matter of cars taking up the spots all day, unless it's posted Car Park limit 1 Hour, also having a parking warden come along and chalk tyres and monitor vehicles where the old meter was simply expired or not. (Though were I live they keep a limit of two hours on a vehicle in the same spot, meter paid up or no.)
I think Apple visualises Minis, BMWs, Jaguars, Mercedes, etc. parked in front of their stylish new foothold. As soon as they see a lot of rusting hulks parked there they'll opt for the removal of the parking places.
i remember when a "slushie" was when you had a lot of snow down your boot
Most of all though, WP was just a non-bloated word processor,
I ran WP4.1 WYSIWYG in about 1 Meg of memory. I think that says a lot.
If you can back that up and submit it, I've got an invite to the firehose.
Seriously, we're all running more power hungry computers than ever and have strips of wall-warts under our desks, there's got to be a Technology driving Global Warming story there somewhere.
SlAshDot Guffaw Dept.
You know it's a Slow newsday when "We've never done it before, so we can't." by Montreal burros constitutes news because it includes Apple.
Certainly they can't be ... nooooo ... can't be ... they're suggesting they've never accepted money to
change the way something is done or not done? What next, Gérald Tremblay caught on camera
stating he's giving up his Treo?
Next up: Microsoft's Power bill - 10,000 PC's running at the same time, is Redmond driving global warming?
Personally I preferred 5.1, 6.0 was great for having a DOS GUI... That meant I could run a WYSIWYG in DOS... That was something special in those days.
I had WP 4.1 for the Amiga and loved it. One day I was busily typing in a very log document and lightning hit a nearby power line. Once the power was restored I found I had only lost a sentence or two of typing, as I had auto backup running at the time. Best WP feature was ALT-F3 - reveal codes. That was extremely useful when trying to trackdown where some attribute was on or off.
The last time I installed it, yes.
My main gripe with Word is, every time I get a new workstation or an upgrade of Office, I spend about 30 minutes going through turning off all the automated crap which corrects on the fly, questions my grammar, etc. As a programmer, using programming jargon and a lot of acronyms one doesn't want any help or corrections on the fly.
I certainly hope the options are easier to find and disable in Open Office. In Word they're usually buried in the least obvious menu.
I wonder if Open Office defaults to all the annoying rubbish turned on.
I really miss Word Perfect 4.1 :o(
So basically, M$ is going to screw customers if their OEMs screw M$. This should be fun to watch. Just another reason for linux.
So the problem, as you see it, aside from a MS Screwup(TM) is people suffering for purchasing from a shady dealer. People who buy from shady dealers should learn not to, not really MS's problem there, it's the cheapskates who do business with scumbags. People stung will have to go back to the cheatie dealer and demand satisfaction.
If things weren't so horribly intrusive and capable of tracking a user's entire internet experience, for the sole purpose of selling you stuff, people wouldn't bitch.
The primary reason I disable Flash and block ads was due to the extreme annoyance of ads. Every now and then I'll visit a site which I don't have a block for and see those stupid jumping around ads which look like a Windows system notification with jumping beans embedded. I'm particularly vexed by flash ads with all their damn animations.
A good ad should catch your attention with its message or an interesting design. Motion catches your attention, or more like, distracts you from reading content, which is defeating the site as well (how can you read their content if some jumping gif or flashy flash is constantly drawing your eyes toward it?) Be reasonable in regard to accepting ads and I won't block them. Allow disruptive crap and I'll do everything in my power to disable it.
As for those dhtml or whatever they are, which place some object over the content until I click close or wait for it to expire, well, there's old browsers out there which won't understand that junk and I continue to use one, it's that or stop visiting the site because it's such a pain to access.
Lastly, there's the bloat of this stuff. I'm still on a dial-up and have limited patience for downloading some 500K+ flash or animated gif.
With the bloat of webpages these days, we are getting back to where we were in perception of speed, when the first 54Kbaud modems hit the shelves. Everything was so fast, but pages were tiny and didn't contain loads of unnecessary behind the scenes content generated by IDEs. At some point Broadband will appear choked and slow.
I too learned Pascal in the early 80's when it was that or Fortran IV. Both seemed to me to require a lot of typing to accomplish anything. I picked up Modula2 for my Amiga as I already knew Pascal and it was quite similar, the Modula2 compiler was relatively inexpensive and the executables were tight and fast. Eventually I picked up Lattice C for the Amiga (an earlier version in a bargain bin, which I paid a bit more and upgraded to the latest release :o) and never looked back.
"The truth is, I thought it mattered - I thought that a closed player mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter."
I guess they are conveniently ignoring copyright law as written when it comes to fair use. Next step massive lobbying in congress to change it. Naw, they'd never be able to buy our upright legislators...would they?
It's already a done deal. The law's there in black and white, exactly as they've paid for, along with that 70 years after original creators death, which will be updated to 170 years in a few more decades.
Lobbying is almost as old a profession as prostitution and basically the same thing.
The dumpster hungers.