Um. Because I like money? Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
(Thanks for the link, and I'm definitely thinking of throwing some spare cash at Good Causes through it, but "Why lend when you can give" is a pretty stupid question)
This moderator looks like a pasty white Linux geek who hasn't left his parents' basement in at least a month. He is unsubtle, and quick to anger.
>attack moderator
The moderator is unphased by your ad hominem attack (Score:-1, Troll) (Your karma has just gone down by one point)
>tell moderator about linux
The moderator already knows about linux. (Score:-1, Redundant) (Your karma has just gone down by one point)
>tell moderator about linux superiority
You tell the moderator stuff he already knows about how much better Linux is than Windows. Even though he already knows it, he likes hearing about it. (Score:+5, Insightful) (Your karma has just gone up by five points)
Remember that old Good Times virus hoax? People who were In The Know knew that it was a hoax because it claimed that, just by opening it, it could physically destroy your computer.
Then a few years later, Microsoft brought us Outlook with automatic attachment opening, making the first part possible, and now Intel has given us the potential for the second part.
Good Times apparently wasn't a hoax, it was just ahead of its times.:)
Did anyone else see the title and think that the company was making a new GTA game called "Grand Theft Auto: Civil Case"? Presumably in which you'd drive a car around breaking contracts and whatnot...
And my God, just imagine the amount of steam that would be needed to power a difference engine with that many Pentium cores!
The point I'm trying to make, and that Kurzweil makes, is that he's basing that Moore's-law-is-running-out statement on current technology without considering the possibility that, like we've done many times before, we're going to figure out a better way to do things that gets around the limitations of the tech we work with today. There's no guarantee that this will happen, I'll grant you...just that it's always happened in the past, every time we've approached a technological wall.
> Being computer 'savvy' is different skillset altogether.
But we're not talking about being computer savvy right now. We're talking about being computer literate. That's kinda the point. I'd say your description qualifies for 'Computer Literate' but not 'computer savvy'.
Being computer savvy isn't a different skillset altogether. I'd say it's a superset of the computer-literate skillset. And if you think anyone can do the things you mentioned above, go find someone who's never touched a computer and do a real-world test on that theory.
Backwards compatibility. The fixed version of gets() (fgets()) requires a second argument to say how big the buffer it's reading into is. So any code that was written for gets() would stop compiling if they just redefined it.
That's right, folks. That system everyone's been using up until this point? Windows dead. Microsoft just never wanted to admit that they were trying to sell a shambling zombie operating system until they came up with an alternative.
Okay, here's what a lot of people aren't quite getting: 1. It's not a 'Video iPod', it's just an iPod. This iPod is replacing the previous bunch of iPods. It's the same price, with slighty better features. And it's smaller than the old top-of-the-line iPods. 2. Video is an extra bonus feature.
There is no downside here if you don't think of it as a dedicated video player but rather just think of it as a music player that can also view videos. Apple isn't bringing a video player to market too early, they're bringing out a new version of their extremely popular music player which will also give them the opportunity to capture a big chunk of the portable video market if and when it ever actually appears.
My main complaints with a "Video iPod" when the idea was first breached was that I didn't want to have a player that was too bulky to use as a normal music player like I do with my current 4th Gen 20gig iPod. What Apple actually came out with was a player that was less bulky than the old iPod for the exact same price. And while I wouldn't want to watch movies on the iPod screen, I would be up for watching episodes of television shows and video podcasts (e.g., Rocketboom and the like) on it.
Far from being a mistake, Apple has taken the crappy situation of how to market a portable video player where there's no real portable video player market and has reduced it to the problem of how to sell a music player, which they already know the solution to.
And your mistake is assuming that it's pretending to be. It's a common mistake for some reason. Slashdot doesn't claim to be journalism, they don't claim to be original, and they don't claim to be unbiased.
I don't know where people manage to get the impression that a site run by a guy calling himself "Commander Taco" should be held to the same journalistic standards as CNN.
The Slashdot editors post stories that they'd want to read as Slashdot readers. Since the editors are heavily anti-Microsoft, pro-Apple, pro-Linux, pro-Unix, anti-Republican, etc, those are the sorts of stories that they post.
Complaining about "hidden" bias on Slashdot is like complaining about "hidden" bias in a press release or at the Democratic National Convention.
1. Actually, only the Prius gets worse highway mileage than city. The Honda hybrids all get better highway than city. I don't actually know about the newer hybrid SUVs and whatnot. 2. However: The Prius still gets better highway mileage than any other internal-combustion gas car out there (there are diesels and cars you can buy in other countries that get better, though) 3. To clear up some misconceptions I've noticed, the reason the Prius gets better mileage with stop-and-go driving is that there's a lot less wind resistance at the low speeds. This is true for normal cars, too, but they have the problem that all of their braking energy is lost, they keep running their engines when they're not going anywhere, and most of them have certain speeds where they're more efficient than others because of their gearing. The Prius saves some of its kinetic braking energy, turns off its engine when it stops moving, and has a CVT.
The Prius is more efficient than normal cars on the highway for a couple of reasons: It's seriously streamlined, so it has less wind resistance than just about anything out there, and the CVT means it's always running at peak efficiency.
(I've owned my Prius for the past four months or so. I realize it's not going to save me any money whatsoever over, say, a non-hybrid Honda Civic, but it's just such a cool car that I'd still buy a Prius if I had to do it all over again. Oh, and I normally get around 50-53mpg with my 10% city, 90% interstate commute. The thing that really kills me is the bridges I have to go over. Driving uphill makes my gas mileage sad.)
(But I still get better gas mileage going uphill than the best-case gas mileage of my old GMC Safari van)
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> Hey, why lend when you can give?
Um. Because I like money? Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
(Thanks for the link, and I'm definitely thinking of throwing some spare cash at Good Causes through it, but "Why lend when you can give" is a pretty stupid question)
Because not everyone's going to be wearing a space suit.
(I.e., if the weather's crappy, the guy in the suit will be fine, but the spectators won't be having much fun)
>examine moderator
This moderator looks like a pasty white Linux geek who hasn't left his parents' basement in at least a month. He is unsubtle, and quick to anger.
>attack moderator
The moderator is unphased by your ad hominem attack
(Score:-1, Troll)
(Your karma has just gone down by one point)
>tell moderator about linux
The moderator already knows about linux.
(Score:-1, Redundant)
(Your karma has just gone down by one point)
>tell moderator about linux superiority
You tell the moderator stuff he already knows about how much better Linux is than Windows. Even though he already knows it, he likes hearing about it.
(Score:+5, Insightful)
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Agreed. Alliteration? Always awesome.
Oh, you can do way better than that. E.g.,
"Corleonesque Crime Captain Captured: Cops Crack Crappy Caesar Crypto Concealing Critical Communications"
Remember that old Good Times virus hoax? People who were In The Know knew that it was a hoax because it claimed that, just by opening it, it could physically destroy your computer.
:)
Then a few years later, Microsoft brought us Outlook with automatic attachment opening, making the first part possible, and now Intel has given us the potential for the second part.
Good Times apparently wasn't a hoax, it was just ahead of its times.
Did anyone else see the title and think that the company was making a new GTA game called "Grand Theft Auto: Civil Case"? Presumably in which you'd drive a car around breaking contracts and whatnot...
And my God, just imagine the amount of steam that would be needed to power a difference engine with that many Pentium cores!
The point I'm trying to make, and that Kurzweil makes, is that he's basing that Moore's-law-is-running-out statement on current technology without considering the possibility that, like we've done many times before, we're going to figure out a better way to do things that gets around the limitations of the tech we work with today. There's no guarantee that this will happen, I'll grant you...just that it's always happened in the past, every time we've approached a technological wall.
Lobster Bites made with 100% real Kawaida Lobster.
In 2004, when they first spotted it, they gave it a 1 in 3000 chance of hitting us. Now they've upped that to a 1 in 1000 chance.
It was clear to me.
And after he gives it wireless, he could bump the capacity up so it has more space than a Nomad...
Licensing fees?
Didn't Apple design the FireWire interface? Why would they need to pay licensing fees for it? Do you have a source on that?
I want to know how many of these words' constituent chemicals could actually combine into a valid molecule.
Grandparent wasn't saying Jobs was a techie, he was saying Amelio (co-inventor of the CCD, among other credentials) was.
Oh man.
I'd totally forgotten that Yahoo used to be a categorized directory of web sites...
> Being computer 'savvy' is different skillset altogether.
But we're not talking about being computer savvy right now. We're talking about being computer literate. That's kinda the point. I'd say your description qualifies for 'Computer Literate' but not 'computer savvy'.
Being computer savvy isn't a different skillset altogether. I'd say it's a superset of the computer-literate skillset. And if you think anyone can do the things you mentioned above, go find someone who's never touched a computer and do a real-world test on that theory.
Backwards compatibility. The fixed version of gets() (fgets()) requires a second argument to say how big the buffer it's reading into is. So any code that was written for gets() would stop compiling if they just redefined it.
--AC
That's right, folks. That system everyone's been using up until this point? Windows dead. Microsoft just never wanted to admit that they were trying to sell a shambling zombie operating system until they came up with an alternative.
Okay, here's what a lot of people aren't quite getting:
1. It's not a 'Video iPod', it's just an iPod. This iPod is replacing the previous bunch of iPods. It's the same price, with slighty better features. And it's smaller than the old top-of-the-line iPods.
2. Video is an extra bonus feature.
There is no downside here if you don't think of it as a dedicated video player but rather just think of it as a music player that can also view videos. Apple isn't bringing a video player to market too early, they're bringing out a new version of their extremely popular music player which will also give them the opportunity to capture a big chunk of the portable video market if and when it ever actually appears.
My main complaints with a "Video iPod" when the idea was first breached was that I didn't want to have a player that was too bulky to use as a normal music player like I do with my current 4th Gen 20gig iPod. What Apple actually came out with was a player that was less bulky than the old iPod for the exact same price. And while I wouldn't want to watch movies on the iPod screen, I would be up for watching episodes of television shows and video podcasts (e.g., Rocketboom and the like) on it.
Far from being a mistake, Apple has taken the crappy situation of how to market a portable video player where there's no real portable video player market and has reduced it to the problem of how to sell a music player, which they already know the solution to.
And your mistake is assuming that it's pretending to be. It's a common mistake for some reason. Slashdot doesn't claim to be journalism, they don't claim to be original, and they don't claim to be unbiased.
I don't know where people manage to get the impression that a site run by a guy calling himself "Commander Taco" should be held to the same journalistic standards as CNN.
The Slashdot editors post stories that they'd want to read as Slashdot readers. Since the editors are heavily anti-Microsoft, pro-Apple, pro-Linux, pro-Unix, anti-Republican, etc, those are the sorts of stories that they post.
Complaining about "hidden" bias on Slashdot is like complaining about "hidden" bias in a press release or at the Democratic National Convention.
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Wouldn't the time-related changes *be* his results?
Fuel guzzling? Are you kidding? This gets better gas mileage than my van!
(1994 GMC Safari. ~17mpg, if you have a tailwind)
1. Actually, only the Prius gets worse highway mileage than city. The Honda hybrids all get better highway than city. I don't actually know about the newer hybrid SUVs and whatnot.
2. However: The Prius still gets better highway mileage than any other internal-combustion gas car out there (there are diesels and cars you can buy in other countries that get better, though)
3. To clear up some misconceptions I've noticed, the reason the Prius gets better mileage with stop-and-go driving is that there's a lot less wind resistance at the low speeds. This is true for normal cars, too, but they have the problem that all of their braking energy is lost, they keep running their engines when they're not going anywhere, and most of them have certain speeds where they're more efficient than others because of their gearing. The Prius saves some of its kinetic braking energy, turns off its engine when it stops moving, and has a CVT.
The Prius is more efficient than normal cars on the highway for a couple of reasons: It's seriously streamlined, so it has less wind resistance than just about anything out there, and the CVT means it's always running at peak efficiency.
(I've owned my Prius for the past four months or so. I realize it's not going to save me any money whatsoever over, say, a non-hybrid Honda Civic, but it's just such a cool car that I'd still buy a Prius if I had to do it all over again. Oh, and I normally get around 50-53mpg with my 10% city, 90% interstate commute. The thing that really kills me is the bridges I have to go over. Driving uphill makes my gas mileage sad.)
(But I still get better gas mileage going uphill than the best-case gas mileage of my old GMC Safari van)
Which raises the question... why did you bother running your freezer during an ice storm?
Hey, they'd chop us up and make us into paper too if they had the chance.
I have no sympathy for them. Smug bastards, always just sitting there, staring at us...