If Yahoo is a "me too" move, Google was a "look how good we are" move. Regardless, it's good for not only the administrators, but obviously for their large user base too.
Secondly, this software isn't designed for joe schmo, its designed for professional applications.
"The Celestia program has broad appeal--from second graders all the way up to NASA scientists and engineers. By driving high-performance imagery from high-end servers onto commodity hardware, NVIDIA also brings this capability into every classroom and home. Celestia is a fantastic programming achievement--it gives everyone a window into our universe."
-- Alan Federman, senior engineer, Raytheon Technical Services Co., LLC, NASA Ames Research Center.
Yeah, the "related stories" in the end of his article just led to his own del.icio.us links, on user "rpiquepa". wtf??
Re:I don't think I like the tone of this post....
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He didn't necessarily mean IJ 4 is small art, what I find more likely is that he said he wish to do a final IJ movie, then smaller film projects. This is the kind of ambiguous quote anyway:
But Lucas said he'll likely keep away from the center and instead focus on developing a final "Indiana Jones" film and smaller film projects.
He has earlier said he nowadays do movies for himself, something I find easy to believe considering his wealth. He could live a happy rich life at his age if he wished to.
Try it yourself some time. Running windows without admin rights is a nightmare.
I agree this seem to be a problem, and I can only blame Microsoft for making Windows by default letting us use admin-status accounts and even unpassworded without raising an eyebrow. So people do that. And so developers start assuming things and designing their apps in an ugly way. And then I guess Microsoft never dare to change how it all works (requiring passworded accounts, defaulting to restricted privilege accounts, etc) since many apps would break. Wohooo:-/
Exactly -- Windows is largely aimed at novice users, so why don't Microsoft take their responsibility and
1) Require admin (equivalent to "root") accounts to have a password. 2) Try to design the installer and login so it takes extra/specail actions to login as administrator.
Installing Windows XP for a non-passworded admin account used as the default is surprisingly enough the default for Windows today. Sure, there *is* a password text box at install time, but nothing at all is said if you leave it empty, and the normal for it is to be empty. Doh!
... on Google Maps?
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You can see EVERYONEs house from here!, Everyone on the PLANET.
No, the resolution is too low in most cases. I guess they have still better US coverage than elsewhere. Where I live, for example only the capital has resolution enough to see individual houses.
Err, because I already have a "pimped-out x86 box" as you say yourself?
You get a unsupported OS on your PC that may or may not work right with the combination of cards, chipset, and BIOS you happen to have. Do people really think that there's going to be any enterprise demand for that? Really?
This will surely not be for the enterprise to use, but for computer enthusiasts, and that group is far larger than "a few Slashdotters".
after all, Apple puts a lot more engineering into their boxes than the typical PC vendor does
I have no idea what you're talking about here. Are you saying nVidia doesn't put a lot of engineering into their latest 7800 GTX cards or their more mainstream 6600 GT cards? Or that cheap Soundblaster Audigy's lack in features for pretty much any regular computer user?
If people can at all get OS X to easily run with a ISO that installs everything like usual, I'm pretty sure a large community may form to make OS X drivers. Sounds like a fun hobby for hackers to do on their spare time, as an alternative to Linux driver devlopment. Maybe they can even base the work on existing BSD drivers?
Yes, in both cases, so why is the other equally expensive for less material? Shouldn't the creativity be valued the same in both cases? If not, why not?
If you don't think it is worth it DON'T BUY! No one sticks a gun to your head and says "buy it".
And that's exactly what he's doing. T-shirts instead, etc.
I'd rather have Google focus on providing powerful services for global information management and retrieval, instead of spending a lot of time on documenting a minor area this way in fancy 3D.
I'd rather have them spend money on search engine R&D than this.
Re:Interesting Concept, but needs moderation
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You've already used a simple command line search ( you're confusing "search" with "internet" by the way;-) ) -- just look at Google. If you'd prefix your keywords there with "google", they'd instead look like commands, complete with special switches of the kind "filetype:", "site:", and - operators, etc. Search engines are already like generic and quite complex commands.
I agree, for this reason it's not terribly useful.
Out of curiosity, I checked out the "slashdot" command. I then saw that it searched articles. Great, sort of what you could expect. It's "man page" says:
Search Slashdot for a given term.... as it's intent.
But what happens when you actually use the command as e.g. "slashdot google"? It only search Science topics, because the smart guy who made the command gave it this string:
And now no one can fix it besides creating own personal things like my_slashdot?
Sure, right now it's just a matter of clicking to fix the search to be non-science only, but when they implement piping as one of the planned features, then that's not a solution.
That, frankly, is rubbish. Someone who doesn't know about the commands and what they do will have to learn their names anyway; it doesn't matter, for example, whether you have to remember "get-process" or "ps". In fact, it might be easier to remember "ps", as it is shorter and more concise.
On the other hand, Monad is very consistent in its naming scheme, so there are other "get-" commands as well.
I've heard one "definition" being that intelligence decide how quickly you can adapt to new situations. Period.:-)
It makes sense too -- older people lose intelligence as more brain cells die and there's no new production, and they generally have a harder time to adapt to vastly new situations. Job-wise, life-wise, etc.
I sort of like that definition, since a great intelligence should logically make it easy for a person to without former experience with a situation quickly be able to absorb the knowledge.
Slashdot Mirror
If Yahoo is a "me too" move, Google was a "look how good we are" move.
Regardless, it's good for not only the administrators, but obviously for their large user base too.
Secondly, this software isn't designed for joe schmo, its designed for professional applications.
"The Celestia program has broad appeal--from second graders all the way up to NASA scientists and engineers. By driving high-performance imagery from high-end servers onto commodity hardware, NVIDIA also brings this capability into every classroom and home. Celestia is a fantastic programming achievement--it gives everyone a window into our universe."
-- Alan Federman, senior engineer, Raytheon Technical Services Co., LLC, NASA Ames Research Center.
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Yeah, the "related stories" in the end of his article just led to his own del.icio.us links, on user "rpiquepa". wtf??
He didn't necessarily mean IJ 4 is small art, what I find more likely is that he said he wish to do a final IJ movie, then smaller film projects. This is the kind of ambiguous quote anyway:
But Lucas said he'll likely keep away from the center and instead focus on developing a final "Indiana Jones" film and smaller film projects.
He has earlier said he nowadays do movies for himself, something I find easy to believe considering his wealth. He could live a happy rich life at his age if he wished to.
What, doesn't a normal user account has access to its own HKCR branch!?
Jeez, that's insanely stupid if true.
Read-only access to HKLM I can understand, but HKCR??
But that requires you to mess around with script files to make things easy, something you never need to do in L... No wait...
Try it yourself some time. Running windows without admin rights is a nightmare.
:-/
I agree this seem to be a problem, and I can only blame Microsoft for making Windows by default letting us use admin-status accounts and even unpassworded without raising an eyebrow. So people do that. And so developers start assuming things and designing their apps in an ugly way. And then I guess Microsoft never dare to change how it all works (requiring passworded accounts, defaulting to restricted privilege accounts, etc) since many apps would break. Wohooo
Exactly -- Windows is largely aimed at novice users, so why don't Microsoft take their responsibility and
1) Require admin (equivalent to "root") accounts to have a password.
2) Try to design the installer and login so it takes extra/specail actions to login as administrator.
Installing Windows XP for a non-passworded admin account used as the default is surprisingly enough the default for Windows today. Sure, there *is* a password text box at install time, but nothing at all is said if you leave it empty, and the normal for it is to be empty. Doh!
Is that what this huge dirt place is all about?
Maybe the pictures were actually captured a while back.
You can see EVERYONEs house from here!, Everyone on the PLANET.
No, the resolution is too low in most cases. I guess they have still better US coverage than elsewhere. Where I live, for example only the capital has resolution enough to see individual houses.
Yup, that's basically what amaroK seem to do.
Whoa, wait a minute, where did you read all this??
All I've heard from Apple themselves is simply that OS X won't run on regular beige box PC's.
Then perhaps Yahoo?
Yahoo already use DomainKeys, and so does Gmail.
It would be better if Hotmail used that, as two large mail providers already do since maybe a year back.
Why run OS X on generic PCs, anyways?
Err, because I already have a "pimped-out x86 box" as you say yourself?
You get a unsupported OS on your PC that may or may not work right with the combination of cards, chipset, and BIOS you happen to have. Do people really think that there's going to be any enterprise demand for that? Really?
This will surely not be for the enterprise to use, but for computer enthusiasts, and that group is far larger than "a few Slashdotters".
after all, Apple puts a lot more engineering into their boxes than the typical PC vendor does
I have no idea what you're talking about here. Are you saying nVidia doesn't put a lot of engineering into their latest 7800 GTX cards or their more mainstream 6600 GT cards? Or that cheap Soundblaster Audigy's lack in features for pretty much any regular computer user?
If people can at all get OS X to easily run with a ISO that installs everything like usual, I'm pretty sure a large community may form to make OS X drivers. Sounds like a fun hobby for hackers to do on their spare time, as an alternative to Linux driver devlopment. Maybe they can even base the work on existing BSD drivers?
It was a free call, but if I knew how long it was going to take for the auto responder to read out really really long numbers for me to type
Yes, probably an entire 3-5 minutes.
Krita is swedish for "chalk"... Maybe more languages too, I don't know.
It's probably behind the name anyway.
You are buying someone's creativity.
Yes, in both cases, so why is the other equally expensive for less material? Shouldn't the creativity be valued the same in both cases? If not, why not?
If you don't think it is worth it DON'T BUY! No one sticks a gun to your head and says "buy it".
And that's exactly what he's doing. T-shirts instead, etc.
I'd rather have Google focus on providing powerful services for global information management and retrieval, instead of spending a lot of time on documenting a minor area this way in fancy 3D.
I'd rather have them spend money on search engine R&D than this.
You've already used a simple command line search ( you're confusing "search" with "internet" by the way ;-) ) -- just look at Google. If you'd prefix your keywords there with "google", they'd instead look like commands, complete with special switches of the kind "filetype:", "site:", and - operators, etc. Search engines are already like generic and quite complex commands.
I agree, for this reason it's not terribly useful.
... as it's intent.
h or=&sort=1&op=stories
Out of curiosity, I checked out the "slashdot" command. I then saw that it searched articles. Great, sort of what you could expect. It's "man page" says:
Search Slashdot for a given term.
But what happens when you actually use the command as e.g. "slashdot google"?
It only search Science topics, because the smart guy who made the command gave it this string:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=14&query=%s&aut
Bold face mine.
And now no one can fix it besides creating own personal things like my_slashdot?
Sure, right now it's just a matter of clicking to fix the search to be non-science only, but when they implement piping as one of the planned features, then that's not a solution.
There's no pictures of them.
Err, I mean of the women, not the mainboards in production!
Not that there's anything wrong with being attracted to the latter.
One thing I'd like to know is their position on spyware and why it has to be installed along with the actual program?
Err, it's not.
This wasn't Niklas idea, it was the idea of Sharman Networks.
And Skype actually doen't have spyware at all.
This has to be among the most common misunderstandings of Kazaa and this guy and it always comes up in these discussions.
That, frankly, is rubbish. Someone who doesn't know about the commands and what they do will have to learn their names anyway; it doesn't matter, for example, whether you have to remember "get-process" or "ps". In fact, it might be easier to remember "ps", as it is shorter and more concise.
On the other hand, Monad is very consistent in its naming scheme, so there are other "get-" commands as well.
I've heard one "definition" being that intelligence decide how quickly you can adapt to new situations. Period. :-)
It makes sense too -- older people lose intelligence as more brain cells die and there's no new production, and they generally have a harder time to adapt to vastly new situations. Job-wise, life-wise, etc.
I sort of like that definition, since a great intelligence should logically make it easy for a person to without former experience with a situation quickly be able to absorb the knowledge.