I'm really looking forward to seeing Mozilla becoming a major competitor for IE. I'm actually very surprised that MS doesn't put effort into developing IE for Linux. I'm sure the thought crosses their minds though, probably just afraid that they'd be forced to open source it (and we all know how evil open source is). Go Mozilla.
Pup-under ads are, in my opinion, much more tolerable than their counterpart, the evil pop-up ad. At least, the ones that don't spawn new ones. I can stand the ads that merely apear behind what I'm doing and don't interupt my browsing. And in agreeing with CmdrTaco, I hope that the patent does go through, just to discourage others.
I'm glad that Blizzard is still alive and kicking through all the problems that the tech field seems to be having. I guess that as long as they can keep putting out new games that people will play, they have nothing to worry about.
You'd think someone would have figured it out
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With all of the tech-savvy people around, you'd figure that *someone* would have gotten suspicious and done some investigating of their own. I'm also surprised that when he failed to put out a physical prototype, the media companies didn't automatically pull out, figuring it was a hoax that he could put them out of business with this "magic box." If I were Priest, I'd be sure to watch my back as there are most likely some very disgruntled associates.
I'm kind of torn over this decision. On the one hand, you have to respect their decision to not allow characters from the series to be allowed, as someone may exploit it somehow. Also, it isn't making them be creative and think of their own people. But on the other hand, by not allowing that, you are taking away aspects from other parts of the movie. If you have to devote time into thinking of new characters and what kind of a personality they have, you are taking away time from other things, such as set, props, a script.
Maybe in the end, the best decision will be found out, whether it be the one that they went with or not.
A couple teachers have SmartBoards and dry erase marker boards in their classes. One of my teacher had been writing on the marker board so he still had the marker in his hand. He walked up to the SmartBoard and commenced to writing on it. He scared himself very badly and hurridly erased it. He was quite happy that it erased all the way. Later, I let him know that it could also be a marker board.
Another thing he likes to do is pick up the eraser, and then use his index finger to try and erase small portions of something he's written. Hmm...doesn't seem to make it more precise. He also likes to lose the pens in his pocket, and even his hand on occassions. Good for a laugh or two most days.
My high school is using them and they are actually very helpful. One thing that my calculus teacher does is he writes down the steps we went throught to solve problems and then saves the slide so he will be able to look back on it later. It was very creative for someone like himself. We were quasi-proud...
Re:Why can't we advance things like this?
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>perhaps then/. could lower their power bill and get rid of the subscriptions.
hehe...
Re:Why can't we advance things like this?
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I did, but I'm talking about using a push to get it started and then letting it power itself with a current. The article is talking about unpowered motion which can't happen because of different parts of physics, the whole energy lost to heat deal, blah blah...
Why can't we advance things like this?
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We can make something this simple, so why can't we make some kind of "ideal machine" similarly? I know that calling it an ideal machine is wrong, but that's the closest I can get to it. Why not use a similar setup, only circular, to make something that can generate electricity with only a push needed to start it. After that it could not only support itself with the power it produces, but make excess and actually power something. I know that things like this (motors) are already made, but for as much as I can remember, not to this extent.
Oy, covad is taking a beating from this. My dad owns stock in it and it's being very not good. Granted, it's up a *lot* from where it was this time 3-4 months ago, but a dollar drop in about a week is not that great, especially for a stock whose base seems to go along with news and not product.
The one i'm using now? no, i didn't. Win98 on the other hand was purchased and WAS regretted because it was a very unstable piece of OS. And as far as 3.1 going open source, like i said, just because. Kind of as a novelty type thing.
What is your problem anyway? This was a very innocent post. Calm down...
Microsoft would probably sue everyone for trying to put them out of business if free software became more dominent then Windows. I honestly don't have a whole lot again Microsoft other than they try to get every possible penny out of you that they can. If Windows were free, I'd use it w/out any regrets.
MS should open source 3.1, that would be pretty cool just for the sake of it. Plus, it would be interesting to see how coding has changed over the decade.
I'm worried about when our every day appliances are all networked together and can be accessed by something like a computer or a handheld. What's to keep a hacker from getting into it and screwing with your everyday life? Sure that shower feels good now, but what about when the hot water is turned up all the way and you are getting steam-cooked (I know, most intelligent people would have jumped out/turned the water off in a matter of seconds, but it could happen)? Or just something like your refrigerator. I don't remember where I read it (it was probably from here), but I remember reading about a refrigerator that could tell you what you needed while you were at the store through wireless communication. It wouldn't be anything major, but you most likely spent a lot of money and wouldn't appreciate it when your fridge tells you to pick up "a TV for it to make sweet love to."
So this may seem a bit exaggerated, but it still wouldn't surprise me to see aggrivations like this happen once everything is networked. I'm not against the technology, I think it would be awesome to tell, for instance, your coffee to start brewing before you get home.
Let's just hope that he doesn't do something along the same lines that he did with the oracle version he said was "unbreakable" with the new Linux system. Granted, it would most likely be a config problem on their part, it wouldn't be very good for them to try and pass it off as a "Linux problem" if something goes wrong.
This isn't completely on topic, but the thought it was kind of interesting. I wonder how long it will be before the Internet can/will be broadcast wirelessly on a large scale. Sort of in the same fashion that cell phone towers are popping up now. That could definitely make wireless anything much more accessible and possible. It would be pretty neat to be able to have a net connection while going down the street or riding in a car and not have to worry about losing the connection or horrendous fees.
Black holes are weird things. I mean, think about it, something that is strong enough that light can't even get out of it. And like it warps space. That's deep...
What would be really cool to see would be programmers actually constructing arenas out of real models or something and getting images from them for their game. Also, doing the same with the guns and the people. That would be awesome and probably wouldn't be as hard on a system.
What happens when they put this kind of thing in consumer electronics to make it so that only a professional can repair something as simple as a game controller and then they just magically start going off for no reason? Can you say fire hazard?
Microsoft just has to face the fact that they can't be the "leader" (i say that rather lightly) in everything that they want to be. This is like shooting themself in the foot by adding one more thing to be added to their "monopoly." They should just calm down for a while, let the competition grow a little bit, and start again. I'm not a M$ fan or anything, but it seems to me that there are very easy ways for them to get out of the situation they are in
Google seems to be getting involved with a lot of things. It's nice to see that a group is not only trying to push the Internet forward, but also trying to preserve the past.
I'm more concerned with the fact that I don't personally want to buy anything for it. I'd like to see something that could just grab it and save it into movie format. That's what I was talking about, for the cheap people.
But you're still not going to be able to search it just because you have a TV card in your comp. There is going to have to be some kind of program that can connect to and interpret the data. And unless the actual developers are into the FSF, I doubt that they are going to be too keen on handing out software to replace what they are doing.
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This sounds vaguely familiar. Why is it that people feel they must claim other people's work as their own. And no, I'm not trying to say I wrote that.
I'm really looking forward to seeing Mozilla becoming a major competitor for IE. I'm actually very surprised that MS doesn't put effort into developing IE for Linux. I'm sure the thought crosses their minds though, probably just afraid that they'd be forced to open source it (and we all know how evil open source is). Go Mozilla.
Pup-under ads are, in my opinion, much more tolerable than their counterpart, the evil pop-up ad. At least, the ones that don't spawn new ones. I can stand the ads that merely apear behind what I'm doing and don't interupt my browsing. And in agreeing with CmdrTaco, I hope that the patent does go through, just to discourage others.
I'm glad that Blizzard is still alive and kicking through all the problems that the tech field seems to be having. I guess that as long as they can keep putting out new games that people will play, they have nothing to worry about.
With all of the tech-savvy people around, you'd figure that *someone* would have gotten suspicious and done some investigating of their own. I'm also surprised that when he failed to put out a physical prototype, the media companies didn't automatically pull out, figuring it was a hoax that he could put them out of business with this "magic box." If I were Priest, I'd be sure to watch my back as there are most likely some very disgruntled associates.
I'm kind of torn over this decision. On the one hand, you have to respect their decision to not allow characters from the series to be allowed, as someone may exploit it somehow. Also, it isn't making them be creative and think of their own people. But on the other hand, by not allowing that, you are taking away aspects from other parts of the movie. If you have to devote time into thinking of new characters and what kind of a personality they have, you are taking away time from other things, such as set, props, a script.
Maybe in the end, the best decision will be found out, whether it be the one that they went with or not.
A couple teachers have SmartBoards and dry erase marker boards in their classes. One of my teacher had been writing on the marker board so he still had the marker in his hand. He walked up to the SmartBoard and commenced to writing on it. He scared himself very badly and hurridly erased it. He was quite happy that it erased all the way. Later, I let him know that it could also be a marker board.
Another thing he likes to do is pick up the eraser, and then use his index finger to try and erase small portions of something he's written. Hmm...doesn't seem to make it more precise. He also likes to lose the pens in his pocket, and even his hand on occassions. Good for a laugh or two most days.
My high school is using them and they are actually very helpful. One thing that my calculus teacher does is he writes down the steps we went throught to solve problems and then saves the slide so he will be able to look back on it later. It was very creative for someone like himself. We were quasi-proud...
>perhaps then /. could lower their power bill and get rid of the subscriptions.
hehe...
I did, but I'm talking about using a push to get it started and then letting it power itself with a current. The article is talking about unpowered motion which can't happen because of different parts of physics, the whole energy lost to heat deal, blah blah...
We can make something this simple, so why can't we make some kind of "ideal machine" similarly? I know that calling it an ideal machine is wrong, but that's the closest I can get to it. Why not use a similar setup, only circular, to make something that can generate electricity with only a push needed to start it. After that it could not only support itself with the power it produces, but make excess and actually power something. I know that things like this (motors) are already made, but for as much as I can remember, not to this extent.
Oy, covad is taking a beating from this. My dad owns stock in it and it's being very not good. Granted, it's up a *lot* from where it was this time 3-4 months ago, but a dollar drop in about a week is not that great, especially for a stock whose base seems to go along with news and not product.
The one i'm using now? no, i didn't. Win98 on the other hand was purchased and WAS regretted because it was a very unstable piece of OS. And as far as 3.1 going open source, like i said, just because. Kind of as a novelty type thing.
What is your problem anyway? This was a very innocent post. Calm down...
Microsoft would probably sue everyone for trying to put them out of business if free software became more dominent then Windows. I honestly don't have a whole lot again Microsoft other than they try to get every possible penny out of you that they can. If Windows were free, I'd use it w/out any regrets.
MS should open source 3.1, that would be pretty cool just for the sake of it. Plus, it would be interesting to see how coding has changed over the decade.
I'm worried about when our every day appliances are all networked together and can be accessed by something like a computer or a handheld. What's to keep a hacker from getting into it and screwing with your everyday life? Sure that shower feels good now, but what about when the hot water is turned up all the way and you are getting steam-cooked (I know, most intelligent people would have jumped out/turned the water off in a matter of seconds, but it could happen)? Or just something like your refrigerator. I don't remember where I read it (it was probably from here), but I remember reading about a refrigerator that could tell you what you needed while you were at the store through wireless communication. It wouldn't be anything major, but you most likely spent a lot of money and wouldn't appreciate it when your fridge tells you to pick up "a TV for it to make sweet love to."
So this may seem a bit exaggerated, but it still wouldn't surprise me to see aggrivations like this happen once everything is networked. I'm not against the technology, I think it would be awesome to tell, for instance, your coffee to start brewing before you get home.
Let's just hope that he doesn't do something along the same lines that he did with the oracle version he said was "unbreakable" with the new Linux system. Granted, it would most likely be a config problem on their part, it wouldn't be very good for them to try and pass it off as a "Linux problem" if something goes wrong.
This isn't completely on topic, but the thought it was kind of interesting. I wonder how long it will be before the Internet can/will be broadcast wirelessly on a large scale. Sort of in the same fashion that cell phone towers are popping up now. That could definitely make wireless anything much more accessible and possible. It would be pretty neat to be able to have a net connection while going down the street or riding in a car and not have to worry about losing the connection or horrendous fees.
Black holes are weird things. I mean, think about it, something that is strong enough that light can't even get out of it. And like it warps space. That's deep...
I see what you're talking about, but it isn't like the picture I have in my head. If I could draw it I might, but that would defeat the purpose, hehe.
What would be really cool to see would be programmers actually constructing arenas out of real models or something and getting images from them for their game. Also, doing the same with the guns and the people. That would be awesome and probably wouldn't be as hard on a system.
What happens when they put this kind of thing in consumer electronics to make it so that only a professional can repair something as simple as a game controller and then they just magically start going off for no reason? Can you say fire hazard?
Microsoft just has to face the fact that they can't be the "leader" (i say that rather lightly) in everything that they want to be. This is like shooting themself in the foot by adding one more thing to be added to their "monopoly." They should just calm down for a while, let the competition grow a little bit, and start again. I'm not a M$ fan or anything, but it seems to me that there are very easy ways for them to get out of the situation they are in
Google seems to be getting involved with a lot of things. It's nice to see that a group is not only trying to push the Internet forward, but also trying to preserve the past.
I'm more concerned with the fact that I don't personally want to buy anything for it. I'd like to see something that could just grab it and save it into movie format. That's what I was talking about, for the cheap people.
But you're still not going to be able to search it just because you have a TV card in your comp. There is going to have to be some kind of program that can connect to and interpret the data. And unless the actual developers are into the FSF, I doubt that they are going to be too keen on handing out software to replace what they are doing.