You realize, of course, that HP *is* DEC. Compaq acquired DEC, and HP has now merged with Compaq. There's some Tandem bloat in there too, along with some lesser seasonings.
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I might even consider replacing my Newton if it weren't for the price ...if it had a built-in microphone ...and if it had decent battery life ...and if it had handwriting recognition ...and it didn't come with a bloated desktop OS ...and did I mention the price?
The common explanation is that the manufacturing techniques used then tended to produce panes that were thicker at the bottom and that the "common sense" installation was simply to put the thicker portion at the bottom, just as you'd put the thicker or heavier logs at the bottom in a log cabin.
glass also feels solid at room temperature but is actually liquid
Commonly believed but untrue. (And I don't care what your high school/college physics teacher said.)
From Journal of Chemical Education, 1989: The glassy state resembles a liquid in having short-range [molecular] order without long-range order,but differs in that the entire network is rigid, whereas in the liquid state enough energy is available tobreak and reform bonds continuously.
While this artificial dependence works one way (i.e., Notepad stops working if you remove IE), it doesn't explain an artificial dependence that would cause IE to stop working if you removed Notepad.
If, as others have pointed out, you actually read the transcript, you'll see that he does indeed know the difference between an OS and a GUI.
It also becomes clear, that the Microsoft strategy is simply to confuse the court, since it is undoubtedly not clear to the judge, what exactly is kernel, application, middleware, etc. All MS wants to do is muddy the waters so much that the judge will be over-cautious.
As an example, it appears from the transcript that Microsoft had previously claimed "crossdependency" between IE and Notepad.
Q. Are you aware that Mr. Short used the term cross-dependencies? A. I don't recall what exact term he used. Q. If there are cross-dependencies, doesn't that apply that Notepad relies on Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer relies on Notepad? A. I can't speak for him. Q. Is that what the term cross-dependencies means to you? A. That would be a one interpretation, yes.
Now, clearly ignoring the weasel words, there's no technical reason for the cross dependencies, and if they actually exist (which I personally doubt) it's because MS has been putting them in on purpose purely to make the case that Windows is one monolithic thing.
Maybe the state should introduce some of the NT design documents that claim how modular it is.
While I agree it's annoying and kind of dumb, I don't think it's a media term, per se. The web site Jump the Shark has been around for about 5 years, and I really think it's a fan term. It may be that the media types have just caught on to it recently though, and the phrase is now in vogue.
Not according to critic Roger Ebert. I heard him on KQED (San Francisco) recently, and he thought digital was inferior, even for digitally-created films.
This has nothing to do with the delivery quality, which is your problem with cable, but with color and resolution.
Unfortunately, the article reads like an account of two warring clans in the Appalachians. How quaint. The important point, which is that Google, which does NOT publish the "contested" information, is being forced to delist it.
The current use of the DMCA is like forcing the phone company to delist businesses anytime someone files a complaint against that business. Until the writer's make clear what a travesty this is, Joe Public isn't going to be concerned.
Don't forget that Visual Studio costs over $1000. There are a large number of decent Java tools that are free (as in beer.) For the notoriously cheap developer community, that is significant.
I'm not sure I could think of any other response that Google could've made that would have been any better.
I can think of one thing that would be better. If they would also create Google page listing ALL takedowns due to DMCA. It could be on their about page.
In the House, however (HR.2281), it appears that it was put up for unanimous consent, and there is no record, but basically that means that you can assume that everyone voted for it.
Note that under the so-called "Patriot Act", not only will the FBI be able to seize these kinds of records, but it will be illegal for the media to report on any such seizure. How's that for the ability to rewrite history, Soviet-style? Details here.
But web pages aren't the only things digital images are used in. Think cameras.
This site illustrates the difference in quality between JPEG and JPEG2K. You get essentially a 5x reduction in storage space without losing quality, and the type of artifacts aren't as annoying, either.
It's not the size that bothers me, it's the weight. When I picked the Newton 2100 over the Palm five years ago, I wanted the extra screen space. If you use it for taking notes, as I have often done, it's really essential.
What I've come to regret, however, is how heavy thing is. If Steve Jobs hadn't killed Newton, Inc., I'm sure there'd be a much lighter version available today. As it is, I haven't seen a PDA to take its place.
While these three books are targeted at the juvenile audience, it is likely that they'll get additional attention from older F&SF readers because of the success of Harry Potter.
I must say that I thought "The Golden Compass" was quite well done. It's original, dark (so much so that I kept the book for a few years before giving it to my Harry Potter-loving niece), and inventive.
The two sequels, however, I found very disappointing. Rather than inventing a parallel universe with it's own rules and logic, Pullman succumbs to the same draw that ruins much of science fiction on TV - he want's his world to be "real," and starts throwing in concepts from particle physics to "explain" his universe.
If you cringe every time they say things like "his DNA is reconfiguring" on Star Trek, you'll probably have the same reaction to the "explanations" in Pullman's last two books.
Better choices for fantasy: the "Earthsea" books by Ursula LeGuin (especially for kids), and for older readers, Stephen R. Donaldson's two "Thomas Covenant" trilogies.
Why even bother posting this story? It's clearly one of those "slow news day, look for something off-beat to say" kind of stories that has no content whatsover.
One guy is bored with the web. Guess what, radio has been around for decades and it's still going strong.
Is the NYT so trend setting that if they post a content-free article, everyone else has to post a content-free article, too?
If you think Godford Park was actually about the murder, then you've kinda missed the point.
True enough, but I had the opposite reaction. The point was not only clearly made, but it was beaten to death with a pointed stick. Not only that, but the class system is pretty much a non-issue for an American film by an American director.
I think Monty Python did the equivalent of Gosford Park in one five-minute sketch, the
Upper-Class Twit of the Year Contest. It has the "carriage envy", the sex with the debutante, the insensitivity, and much better very of the shooting party.
This presents a serious problem. Since they started with fish muscle tissue, you might assume that the resulting "tissue" was fish, but since it was grown in "a vat of fetal bovine serum", would that make it beef?
The stories are almost shockingly realistic and compelling.
Maybe I just hit the lemons, but neither adjective applied to what I read. If you want compelling, experimental short fiction, by a true master, may I suggest Donald Barthelme.
Sorry, it's not hypertext, or cyber-anything, but it is great literature.
Yes, he's clearly wrong here, as the practisioners of Google bombing have noted. It can take only a few days to have an effect.
I suspect this is due to a more frequent crawl at sites Google considers interesting, so if you put up a site and no one hears about it for a while, it could take longer, but in general they're quite responsive.
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You realize, of course, that HP *is* DEC. Compaq acquired DEC, and HP has now merged with Compaq. There's some Tandem bloat in there too, along with some lesser seasonings.
I might even consider replacing my Newton if it weren't for the price
...if it had a built-in microphone
...and if it had decent battery life
...and if it had handwriting recognition
...and it didn't come with a bloated desktop OS
...and did I mention the price?
The common explanation is that the manufacturing techniques used then tended to produce panes that were thicker at the bottom and that the "common sense" installation was simply to put the thicker portion at the bottom, just as you'd put the thicker or heavier logs at the bottom in a log cabin.
glass also feels solid at room temperature but is actually liquid
,but differs in that the entire network is rigid, whereas in the liquid state enough energy is available tobreak and reform bonds continuously.
Commonly believed but untrue. (And I don't care what your high school/college physics teacher said.)
From Journal of Chemical Education, 1989:
The glassy state resembles a liquid in having short-range [molecular] order without long-range order
See http://www.urbanlegends.com/ for more.
While this artificial dependence works one way (i.e., Notepad stops working if you remove IE), it doesn't explain an artificial dependence that would cause IE to stop working if you removed Notepad.
Blatant karma whoring...
The risks forum is available as a moderated newsgroup, or you can subscribe to the e-mail version. See the Risks info page.
It also becomes clear, that the Microsoft strategy is simply to confuse the court, since it is undoubtedly not clear to the judge, what exactly is kernel, application, middleware, etc. All MS wants to do is muddy the waters so much that the judge will be over-cautious.
As an example, it appears from the transcript that Microsoft had previously claimed "crossdependency" between IE and Notepad.
Now, clearly ignoring the weasel words, there's no technical reason for the cross dependencies, and if they actually exist (which I personally doubt) it's because MS has been putting them in on purpose purely to make the case that Windows is one monolithic thing.
Maybe the state should introduce some of the NT design documents that claim how modular it is.
While I agree it's annoying and kind of dumb, I don't think it's a media term, per se. The web site Jump the Shark has been around for about 5 years, and I really think it's a fan term. It may be that the media types have just caught on to it recently though, and the phrase is now in vogue.
Not according to critic Roger Ebert. I heard him on KQED (San Francisco) recently, and he thought digital was inferior, even for digitally-created films.
This has nothing to do with the delivery quality, which is your problem with cable, but with color and resolution.
Post-human is to 2002 as ...
Nuclear-powered automobiles is to 1952
Unfortunately, the article reads like an account of two warring clans in the Appalachians. How quaint. The important point, which is that Google, which does NOT publish the "contested" information, is being forced to delist it.
The current use of the DMCA is like forcing the phone company to delist businesses anytime someone files a complaint against that business. Until the writer's make clear what a travesty this is, Joe Public isn't going to be concerned.
Don't forget that Visual Studio costs over $1000. There are a large number of decent Java tools that are free (as in beer.) For the notoriously cheap developer community, that is significant.
I'm not sure I could think of any other response that Google could've made that would have been any better.
I can think of one thing that would be better. If they would also create Google page listing ALL takedowns due to DMCA. It could be on their about page.
I'm no expert on the House/Senate rules, but I believe you still get a record by voice vote. At least one is listed for the senate on S.2037 (105th Congress) .
In the House, however (HR.2281), it appears that it was put up for unanimous consent, and there is no record, but basically that means that you can assume that everyone voted for it.
Note that under the so-called "Patriot Act", not only will the FBI be able to seize these kinds of records, but it will be illegal for the media to report on any such seizure. How's that for the ability to rewrite history, Soviet-style?
Details here.
The FBI was never here, go about your business.
But web pages aren't the only things digital images are used in. Think cameras.
This site illustrates the difference in quality between JPEG and JPEG2K. You get essentially a 5x reduction in storage space without losing quality, and the type of artifacts aren't as annoying, either.
IANAL, of course, but I wonder if the defendants could move the case from civil to criminal court by charging Novak with criminal intimidation.
That seems like a reasonable description of what he's done, essentially saying "Pay me a few thousand or I'll make sure you pay even more court fees."
Whether you use a tire iron or the court system is pretty much irrelevant.
As far as size, yeah it was kind of a pain.
It's not the size that bothers me, it's the weight. When I picked the Newton 2100 over the Palm five years ago, I wanted the extra screen space. If you use it for taking notes, as I have often done, it's really essential.
What I've come to regret, however, is how heavy thing is. If Steve Jobs hadn't killed Newton, Inc., I'm sure there'd be a much lighter version available today. As it is, I haven't seen a PDA to take its place.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=58 5&u=/nm/20020328/sc_nm/science_solar_dc_2
Whine:* 2002-03-28 22:53:09 Paint-on solar cells (articles,news) (rejected)
While these three books are targeted at the juvenile audience, it is likely that they'll get additional attention from older F&SF readers because of the success of Harry Potter.
I must say that I thought "The Golden Compass" was quite well done. It's original, dark (so much so that I kept the book for a few years before giving it to my Harry Potter-loving niece), and inventive.
The two sequels, however, I found very disappointing. Rather than inventing a parallel universe with it's own rules and logic, Pullman succumbs to the same draw that ruins much of science fiction on TV - he want's his world to be "real," and starts throwing in concepts from particle physics to "explain" his universe.
If you cringe every time they say things like "his DNA is reconfiguring" on Star Trek, you'll probably have the same reaction to the "explanations" in Pullman's last two books.
Better choices for fantasy: the "Earthsea" books by Ursula LeGuin (especially for kids), and for older readers, Stephen R. Donaldson's two "Thomas Covenant" trilogies.
Why even bother posting this story? It's clearly one of those "slow news day, look for something off-beat to say" kind of stories that has no content whatsover.
One guy is bored with the web. Guess what, radio has been around for decades and it's still going strong.
Is the NYT so trend setting that if they post a content-free article, everyone else has to post a content-free article, too?
If you think Godford Park was actually about the murder, then you've kinda missed the point.
True enough, but I had the opposite reaction. The point was not only clearly made, but it was beaten to death with a pointed stick. Not only that, but the class system is pretty much a non-issue for an American film by an American director.
I think Monty Python did the equivalent of Gosford Park in one five-minute sketch, the Upper-Class Twit of the Year Contest. It has the "carriage envy", the sex with the debutante, the insensitivity, and much better very of the shooting party.
This presents a serious problem. Since they started with fish muscle tissue, you might assume that the resulting "tissue" was fish, but since it was grown in "a vat of fetal bovine serum", would that make it beef?
What to serve, red wine or white?
The stories are almost shockingly realistic and compelling.
Maybe I just hit the lemons, but neither adjective applied to what I read. If you want compelling, experimental short fiction, by a true master, may I suggest Donald Barthelme.
Sorry, it's not hypertext, or cyber-anything, but it is great literature.
Yes, he's clearly wrong here, as the practisioners of Google bombing have noted. It can take only a few days to have an effect.
I suspect this is due to a more frequent crawl at sites Google considers interesting, so if you put up a site and no one hears about it for a while, it could take longer, but in general they're quite responsive.