C'mon- give the Internet a break- it's just going through a little bit of denial.
Don't worry, the Internet, it's OK to be 35- you're a hot technology trend! You know what they say about the lifetime of those! The Internet, why are you sobbing? Come back!
Yes, every girlfriend loves a speedy hard drive! After all, it allows her to perform everyday computing tasks, such as finding the MS Word document she's looking for or installing a new version of Quicken.
This new lubricant will allow the the hard disk to go faster because it will form an interface between the moving parts and the part of the head that touches them. The smooth, slippery, evenly-coated moving parts will slide much more easily against the head, prolonging its life. Really, this is one magnificent technological achievement.
And to think, all the comments I've read so far have been pornographic innuendos made by "+1, Funny"-hording neanderthals. But your post, on the other hand....
I always though that the "proper" way to do this is to make people to bet for/against the event, odds are calculated as the ratio of $$ in those two pots. Then bookie loses nothing (and always gets his fee from both winners and losers).
Gee, sounds like a futures market to me... and I just discovered this site which does just that, but without using real money. There's a huge amount of stuff to bet on, including some of the things the mentioned in the NewScientist article. If games like this get popular enough, how long before people are playing for keeps, like at HSX?
I know this is a joke, but you actually can "bet" on it (albeit with funny money) at TechReview's Innovation Futures markets. Unlike a bookie, you are betting against other investors rather than the house, which means you have more latitude when it comes to turning the odds in your favor.
/me buys a couple shares of "NO" and waits to flip 'em off once the price gets pumped up by an influx of pessimistic/.ers
grandparent post: It's fun to get your panties in a knot about every patent filed by every company, but they are just trying to cover their bases....
parent post: Forgot a third choice: Public Domain.
So, in other words you're saying that all the company's bases should be belong to us? For great justice? Main screen turn on! I want to play with public domain videogame technologies!
A truly revolutionary idea would be to include and project IR and UV in addition to RGB/CMY.
Why didn't I think of that? This is huge! It would mean that us cave-dwelling worms will get tans, skin cancer, and cataracts just like everyone else- just by sitting in front of our monitor. Also, we could use the IR radiation to heat our TV dinners so we wouldn't have to keep going back to the oven or microwave to check if its done yet.
Heh, whatever. Laura Bush is a librarian. Although I guess its possible she has completely different political beliefs than her husband, but keeps her mouth shut about them in public like a good Christian housewife.
Well, that explains all those "ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!" messages I've been getting...kinda....dammit, Jim, stop logging in as root and echoing crap to my termiRELAXEN UND WATCHEN DAS BLINKENLICHTENnals!
Well, on one episode, the question for the ladies was: "What's the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?" Jason Lee: "Whoopee? What the hell does that mean!?"
(This was back in the '70s, you couldn't say "made love" or "had sex" on TV, so they would say "whoopee.") Jason Lee: "Oh. You mean, like fucking?!" Audience: GAAASSSSP
How about they just give all the children a shot of sugar water and then say that they are "vaccinated"? Then they'd never try drugs because there'd be no point (or so they'd think).
I mean just think of what the iPod COULD have been. Along with the lack of wireless, I was also pissed that Apple left out the following features:
-The ability to create a Beowulf cluster of multiple iPods. Just imagine- a render farm on the go! -AltiVec Velocity Engine -Videoconferencing -floppy drive -alpha-channel transparency (c'mon this is APPLE we're talking about here!) -"eject" button- in the current iPod, you would have to drag the disk to the trash in order to eject it! -The ability to interface with ANY Swedish vibrator. -Support for Ogg Vorbis AND Ogg Theora. -Drivers for Linux/BSD/Hurd. -Gyroscopically-controlled 3D pointing device. -The ability to modulate subliminal messages into the music that will make me stop being so damn fat. -Support for both the NX (no-execute) AND Evil bits.
I think flowers would be into blues- you know, the kind where they use a wa-wa petal. I suppose they could just listen to Tripping Daisy or the Posies, however. Or maybe Guns 'n Roses when they have an appetite for getting their leaves destroyed.
Will it handle the X11 dependency gracefully? I spent many, many hours trying to get Fink either to recognize that I had XFree86 installed as a binary or to compile it from source without getting errors all over the place. I'm not a newbie to package managers like apt and ports, but despite this I eventually ended up giving up trying to install X11 apps with Fink because I just didn't have the time to spend trying to get it to work properly. As a result, I am now using Quicken instead of GNUCash.
...that IBM must be on crack. After all, they spent all that money advertising a technology that they obviously won't be able to make any money from because it's GPL'd.
I warn thee to keep back, or I shall unsheath my IE-only htm file that's ridden with broken JavaScript, popup windows, Flash advertisements, and 500KB-gifs that were composed making excessive use of Kai's Power Tools!
Without having to spend their money on propritary closed source software, people will have more money to spend on other things - resulting in a net gain for any society that uses Free software. Note this effect is even more greatly enhanced by the fact that the free software will not be taxed unlike proprietary software.
Whenever Gates or some other Microsoftee talks about the damage that Open Source is doing to the job market, I think back to all those M$ Windows 2K* commercials that emphasize the fact that you will need fewer administrators if your servers are running M$ software. So, using the same flawed logic, I could argue that M$ software is wreaking havoc on the job market for system administrators because their software is so damn cheap to run (or so they claim). The thing that Bill Gates misses is that if a company saves a dollar through increased efficiency, they will immediately be looking for ways to spend it that will give them an edge over their competitors. Often, the company will decide to spend it on improving their products/services. And to do that, they'll have to hire more people, resulting in no loss of jobs and a better value for the consumer. I'm sure everyone else is coming up with more pessimistic things that the company will be spending the saved dollar on- executive bonuses, dividends for the shareholders, more marketing, etc. But technology companies that don't make long-term investments in R&D and improvements to their products will die. A company that suffers from excessive risk-aversion and unwillingness to invest in expansion isn't good for the job market regardless of the type of software that they use.
Launching something the size of the Apollo lunar module would take six million such units, and about 12 gigawatts of electrical power for several minutes.
12 gigawatts!? 12 gigawatts!? Great Scott! Where are we going to come up with that kind of power? We'd need to harness a lightning bolt as it strikes the Clock Tower or something!
Too bad that nuclear power looks a lot cheaper than it is due to the fact that it is heavily subsidized. If we decide to subsidize a non-cost-effective energy generation, why not subsidize something that has fewer hazardous waste products, is more down-scaleable, and less of a magnet for terrorists- like wind or solar power?
NASA's already got this monstrosity (the Mobile Launcher Platform, not the shuttle), so why can't they just throw some bunk beds in it and blast it into space? Oh, and food. They'd need food as well.
Oh, c'mon. If our government can build cruise missiles that can reliably fly through the goalposts of a football field after being launched from hundreds of miles away, I don't think they'd be using Bronze age technology for storing our vital public records.
I'm sure that they designed a new high-density storage medium that encodes bits of information as the polarizations of photons bouncing around in nanoscale optical cavities.
After storing all that data, the government realized that thanks to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, if we now attempt to read the information, we will destroy its quantum state, thus destroying the data in the process. I'm sure that's it- they're just dumbing down the details so that us SlashDotters can understand it... *snicker*
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C'mon- give the Internet a break- it's just going through a little bit of denial.
Don't worry, the Internet, it's OK to be 35- you're a hot technology trend! You know what they say about the lifetime of those! The Internet, why are you sobbing? Come back!
Yes, every girlfriend loves a speedy hard drive! After all, it allows her to perform everyday computing tasks, such as finding the MS Word document she's looking for or installing a new version of Quicken.
This new lubricant will allow the the hard disk to go faster because it will form an interface between the moving parts and the part of the head that touches them. The smooth, slippery, evenly-coated moving parts will slide much more easily against the head, prolonging its life.
Really, this is one magnificent technological achievement.
And to think, all the comments I've read so far have been pornographic innuendos made by "+1, Funny"-hording neanderthals. But your post, on the other hand....
I just re-read it. nevermind....
I always though that the "proper" way to do this is to make people to bet for/against the event, odds are calculated as the ratio of $$ in those two pots. Then bookie loses nothing (and always gets his fee from both winners and losers).
Gee, sounds like a futures market to me... and I just discovered this site which does just that, but without using real money. There's a huge amount of stuff to bet on, including some of the things the mentioned in the NewScientist article. If games like this get popular enough, how long before people are playing for keeps, like at HSX?
Most of IF's predictive markets are based on economic benchmarks, but a month or so ago you could bet on when iTMS would sell its 100,000,000th song.
Ooh lemme try:
"furry androgyne ferret bestiality pyromaniac necrophilia kiddie elephantitis nasal sex pics"
Now THAT's deviant. DO I WIN!? (and if so) WHAT DO I WIN!?
A restraining order? Wow, thanks...
grandparent post: It's fun to get your panties in a knot about every patent filed by every company, but they are just trying to cover their bases. ...
parent post: Forgot a third choice: Public Domain.
So, in other words you're saying that all the company's bases should be belong to us? For great justice? Main screen turn on! I want to play with public domain videogame technologies!
A truly revolutionary idea would be to include and project IR and UV in addition to RGB/CMY.
Why didn't I think of that? This is huge! It would mean that us cave-dwelling worms will get tans, skin cancer, and cataracts just like everyone else- just by sitting in front of our monitor. Also, we could use the IR radiation to heat our TV dinners so we wouldn't have to keep going back to the oven or microwave to check if its done yet.
Heh, whatever. Laura Bush is a librarian. Although I guess its possible she has completely different political beliefs than her husband, but keeps her mouth shut about them in public like a good Christian housewife.
Well, that explains all those "ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!" messages I've been getting...kinda. ...dammit, Jim, stop logging in as root and echoing crap to my termiRELAXEN UND WATCHEN DAS BLINKENLICHTENnals!
Well, on one episode, the question for the ladies was: "What's the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?"
Jason Lee: "Whoopee? What the hell does that mean!?"
(This was back in the '70s, you couldn't say "made love" or "had sex" on TV, so they would say "whoopee.")
Jason Lee: "Oh. You mean, like fucking?!"
Audience: GAAASSSSP
How about they just give all the children a shot of sugar water and then say that they are "vaccinated"? Then they'd never try drugs because there'd be no point (or so they'd think).
I mean just think of what the iPod COULD have been. Along with the lack of wireless, I was also pissed that Apple left out the following features:
-The ability to create a Beowulf cluster of multiple iPods. Just imagine- a render farm on the go!
-AltiVec Velocity Engine
-Videoconferencing
-floppy drive
-alpha-channel transparency (c'mon this is APPLE we're talking about here!)
-"eject" button- in the current iPod, you would have to drag the disk to the trash in order to eject it!
-The ability to interface with ANY Swedish vibrator.
-Support for Ogg Vorbis AND Ogg Theora.
-Drivers for Linux/BSD/Hurd.
-Gyroscopically-controlled 3D pointing device.
-The ability to modulate subliminal messages into the music that will make me stop being so damn fat.
-Support for both the NX (no-execute) AND Evil bits.
WTF? Is that too much to ask!
I think flowers would be into blues- you know, the kind where they use a wa-wa petal. I suppose they could just listen to Tripping Daisy or the Posies, however. Or maybe Guns 'n Roses when they have an appetite for getting their leaves destroyed.
Well, that and Kraftwerk, anyway. Kraftwerk's "Computerlove" is one of my favorite coding songs.
Will it handle the X11 dependency gracefully? I spent many, many hours trying to get Fink either to recognize that I had XFree86 installed as a binary or to compile it from source without getting errors all over the place. I'm not a newbie to package managers like apt and ports, but despite this I eventually ended up giving up trying to install X11 apps with Fink because I just didn't have the time to spend trying to get it to work properly. As a result, I am now using Quicken instead of GNUCash.
...that IBM must be on crack. After all, they spent all that money advertising a technology that they obviously won't be able to make any money from because it's GPL'd.
(Damn--what's a good Web designer combat weapon?)
I warn thee to keep back, or I shall unsheath my IE-only htm file that's ridden with broken JavaScript, popup windows, Flash advertisements, and 500KB-gifs that were composed making excessive use of Kai's Power Tools!
Unix To Beef Up Longhorn
If names mean anything, I'd expect Longhorn to be the OS with all the "beef".
*ow!*
Without having to spend their money on propritary closed source software, people will have more money to spend on other things - resulting in a net gain for any society that uses Free software. Note this effect is even more greatly enhanced by the fact that the free software will not be taxed unlike proprietary software.
Whenever Gates or some other Microsoftee talks about the damage that Open Source is doing to the job market, I think back to all those M$ Windows 2K* commercials that emphasize the fact that you will need fewer administrators if your servers are running M$ software. So, using the same flawed logic, I could argue that M$ software is wreaking havoc on the job market for system administrators because their software is so damn cheap to run (or so they claim).
The thing that Bill Gates misses is that if a company saves a dollar through increased efficiency, they will immediately be looking for ways to spend it that will give them an edge over their competitors. Often, the company will decide to spend it on improving their products/services. And to do that, they'll have to hire more people, resulting in no loss of jobs and a better value for the consumer.
I'm sure everyone else is coming up with more pessimistic things that the company will be spending the saved dollar on- executive bonuses, dividends for the shareholders, more marketing, etc. But technology companies that don't make long-term investments in R&D and improvements to their products will die. A company that suffers from excessive risk-aversion and unwillingness to invest in expansion isn't good for the job market regardless of the type of software that they use.
Launching something the size of the Apollo lunar module would take six million such units, and about 12 gigawatts of electrical power for several minutes.
12 gigawatts!? 12 gigawatts!? Great Scott! Where are we going to come up with that kind of power? We'd need to harness a lightning bolt as it strikes the Clock Tower or something!
Too bad that nuclear power looks a lot cheaper than it is due to the fact that it is heavily subsidized. If we decide to subsidize a non-cost-effective energy generation, why not subsidize something that has fewer hazardous waste products, is more down-scaleable, and less of a magnet for terrorists- like wind or solar power?
NASA's already got this monstrosity (the Mobile Launcher Platform, not the shuttle), so why can't they just throw some bunk beds in it and blast it into space?
Oh, and food. They'd need food as well.
A redundant acronym on Slashdot?! Well I never! I can hardly believe my LCD display!
Yes, it's the all-new Heisenberg Data Store 2000 from Uncertain Storage Inc.
Why not just use a 3.5" floppy? Now THAT's uncertain. Those things go corrupt if you look at 'em cockeyed.
Oh, c'mon. If our government can build cruise missiles that can reliably fly through the goalposts of a football field after being launched from hundreds of miles away, I don't think they'd be using Bronze age technology for storing our vital public records.
I'm sure that they designed a new high-density storage medium that encodes bits of information as the polarizations of photons bouncing around in nanoscale optical cavities.
After storing all that data, the government realized that thanks to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, if we now attempt to read the information, we will destroy its quantum state, thus destroying the data in the process.
I'm sure that's it- they're just dumbing down the details so that us SlashDotters can understand it... *snicker*