George Harrison: If there's a shortcoming for us on GameCube, it's not delivering enough consistent breadth and variety of software. That really is the key.
It's going to take time. A whole lot of precious time. It's going to take patience and time. To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it right.
Every time the Sun burps, we up here get a little antsy. The problem is that although we have quite a bit of shielding protecting us from most of the bombardment, the ozone is pretty thin. Certainly, it's not a massive hole like down at the South Pole, but it's definitely noticeable at these latitudes.
It's gotten to the point that we have to wear sunscreen when going outdoors or risk of getting a severe sunburn. It's double the problem because of all the snow which reflects the UV.
But the UV issue really isn't either here or there in regards to this story, which I was hoping to eventually bring the shielding point back around to.
The shielding that we've got is pretty thick, but no match for the massive amount of neutrinos and other charged particles that we are bombarded by. Luckily we've got the VA Radiation Belt as a natural shield.
There ought to be a nice show tonight in the skies!
Game makers do this all the time with their 'Classic Arcade' packages. Thus, any software that someone still holds the copyright to can be claimed to be not abandonware.
The saddest thing about this whole DMCA fiasco is that there were enough people illegally distributing copyrighted works that the publishers saw fit to put these idiotic controls in.
Both sides are wrong, but it was the copyright infringers who were wrong first.
Now we are stuck with these controls and a completely braindead law that makes it a crime to exercise what was once accepted as 'inalienable rights'.
I can't remember the last time I went to a site and didn't find either a Dreamweaver or Frontpage content tag. I also can't remember the last time the internet wasn't bogged down by the Flash/custom tags/CSS/ECMAScript crap that pollutes the Information Superhighway these days.
We've got all this bandwidth. Do we really need to use it up with heavy pages? Wouldn't it be better to save that excess bandwidth for some nice, juicy porn?
You aren't going to tell me that some Randian group was able to produce anything of artistic value, are you?
It's one thing to reconcile the value of art with some form of utility like the Millsians do, but it's a whole 'nother thing to throw the baby out with the bath water like the Randians do. I'm amazed that a company that would name themselves after one of the most fascist books ever written would be able to put out something worthy of being noticed as art, much less be awarded for it.
Or perhaps this is more of an indication of where the 'Academy's philosophical roots lay.
Back in the early days of the web, when Yahoo was still a catalog of links and not some super news/search/auction/ebusiness/do-it-all website that it is now, searches were much more fun.
You really never knew what would turn up as you traversed the Yahoo directory structure. You start searching for blues music and you'd end up with a list of 15 or so good links with.wav samples and more than likely an artist you'd never heard of before. That was the best part, getting introduced to things you hadn't even thought to look for.
As search techniques are becoming more refined, we are now able to do specific word searches on websites and now books. That's fine if you know exactly what you are looking for. For example if you want to get that book about 'replicants' you'll find Blade Runner, but you won't find anything else. You won't get any information except exactly the thing you are looking for.
And I think that that is where the problem with this kind of search lies for books/music/etc. If you want to find a song or a book, it most likely isn't going to be a specific word you remember, it will be the tune or the plot, both of which are not searchable.
I don't see this improvement in Amazon's search system as that much of an improvement. A better improvement could be made to the 'We thought you'd like' feature. Instead of finding only what I'm looking for, I'd like to find other things I might also be interested in.
From the growing interest in Open Source at each successive Comdex, it is clear that at some point the interest in Open Source will outweigh the interest in Closed Source. We can already see a replacement of the standard Closed Source presentations (lectures, classes, etc.) by brash, up and coming Open Source presentations. Also, the floor space occupied by Open Source presenters is growing and crowding out Closed Source vendors.
At this rate of growth, it is more than likely that we could see Open Source fully replace Closed Source as THE viable software solution within 10 years. Just 5 years ago Open Source was a joke, but today it is a serious threat to the Closed Source business model. In 10 years time when these Open Source projects and their developers mature, they will be unstoppable.
While it's nice that we can get power out in the middle of nowhere (and face it, most of Australia is "the middle of nowhere"), doesn't the environmental damage posed by the building and throwing away of these solar panels negate much of the benefits of having a non-fossil fueled car?
That said, you'd think that a country with more cloudy weather would do better at squeezing the last little bit of energy out of a solar panel than somewhere sunny like Holland.
Rarely, if ever, has there been any trouble getting the Russian mafia to take care of business in a quick and efficient manner. And unlike the Chinese and Italian boobs who think they own you after *you* hired *them*, the Russian mafia goes about its merry way after the job is done and fees are paid in full.
Highly recommended, especially over the alternatives.
Linux is and has always been a server OS. Why? Because it is patterned around UNIX which is designed as a scaled down version of Multics which is a server OS.
You can train the OS all you like with fancy window managers and scalable fonts and all the rest of the eye candy that desktop users want, but at its heart the OS is still yearning to be driven by the commandline. That's why most GUI programs are usually thin wrappers around sophisticated commandline applications.
This isn't to say that Linux couldn't be ready to overtake Windows on the desktop one day. Take a look at where Linux is today. It is the fastest growing server operating system out there. Windows couldn't hope to beat it there.
I don't mean to sound like some astroturfer, but RedHat has definitely brought Linux to the fore of server operating systems.
With the rapid decline of AIX and Solaris, Win2K and RedHat Linux are making steady gains in the server market.
What's more, with Linux you don't need to have a server farm like NT requires, so in the long run you save your company money by choosing to go with RedHat.
I went laptop shopping to see what kinds of options were available for Mrs. Claus's sister in Germany.
I was absolutely blown away by the iBook. Not in a good way though. In the current line of iBooks, though stylish and finally Unix-based, the laptops are large and fairly oversized when compared to comparable laptop systems. The Toshiba, Sharp, and Panasonic models are much smaller, offer more power, and frankly look better than the somewhat dated iBook models.
However, if the G4 will be installed, perhaps all that size will pay off.
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George Harrison: If there's a shortcoming for us on GameCube, it's not delivering enough consistent breadth and variety of software. That really is the key.
It's going to take time. A whole lot of precious time. It's going to take patience and time. To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it right.
Why work on such esoteric stuff when we have tons of people sitting idle?
They can be our "smart detectors".
A file was placed in the wild and if hackers got hold of it and figured out ways to alter the results it would be a bad thing.
And this would be better with an Open Source solution?
It's like geeks all became lawyers and can't stop talking about the repercussions of this and that.
Why isn't the Apache story on the front page? Or the video game story? Or even the dinosaur story?
Why must we wait for the repeats before these much more interesting stories finally make the front page?
Someone is looking for their lost dog, Lola, and if you have found her to please return the phone call as soon as possible.
However, there was no number left to return the call to. So I don't know what to do with this stupid dog now.
doo dah doo dah
Matt Biondi surrenders.
Every time the Sun burps, we up here get a little antsy. The problem is that although we have quite a bit of shielding protecting us from most of the bombardment, the ozone is pretty thin. Certainly, it's not a massive hole like down at the South Pole, but it's definitely noticeable at these latitudes.
It's gotten to the point that we have to wear sunscreen when going outdoors or risk of getting a severe sunburn. It's double the problem because of all the snow which reflects the UV.
But the UV issue really isn't either here or there in regards to this story, which I was hoping to eventually bring the shielding point back around to.
The shielding that we've got is pretty thick, but no match for the massive amount of neutrinos and other charged particles that we are bombarded by. Luckily we've got the VA Radiation Belt as a natural shield.
There ought to be a nice show tonight in the skies!
Game makers do this all the time with their 'Classic Arcade' packages. Thus, any software that someone still holds the copyright to can be claimed to be not abandonware.
The saddest thing about this whole DMCA fiasco is that there were enough people illegally distributing copyrighted works that the publishers saw fit to put these idiotic controls in.
Both sides are wrong, but it was the copyright infringers who were wrong first.
Now we are stuck with these controls and a completely braindead law that makes it a crime to exercise what was once accepted as 'inalienable rights'.
For far less than the price of a real desktop, you can get a Windows Thin Client that will work and play well with your NT servers.
For a lab, you may even be able to get volume pricing.
I can't remember the last time I went to a site and didn't find either a Dreamweaver or Frontpage content tag. I also can't remember the last time the internet wasn't bogged down by the Flash/custom tags/CSS/ECMAScript crap that pollutes the Information Superhighway these days.
We've got all this bandwidth. Do we really need to use it up with heavy pages? Wouldn't it be better to save that excess bandwidth for some nice, juicy porn?
You aren't going to tell me that some Randian group was able to produce anything of artistic value, are you?
It's one thing to reconcile the value of art with some form of utility like the Millsians do, but it's a whole 'nother thing to throw the baby out with the bath water like the Randians do. I'm amazed that a company that would name themselves after one of the most fascist books ever written would be able to put out something worthy of being noticed as art, much less be awarded for it.
Or perhaps this is more of an indication of where the 'Academy's philosophical roots lay.
This is certainly exciting!
Back in the early days of the web, when Yahoo was still a catalog of links and not some super news/search/auction/ebusiness/do-it-all website that it is now, searches were much more fun.
.wav samples and more than likely an artist you'd never heard of before. That was the best part, getting introduced to things you hadn't even thought to look for.
You really never knew what would turn up as you traversed the Yahoo directory structure. You start searching for blues music and you'd end up with a list of 15 or so good links with
As search techniques are becoming more refined, we are now able to do specific word searches on websites and now books. That's fine if you know exactly what you are looking for. For example if you want to get that book about 'replicants' you'll find Blade Runner, but you won't find anything else. You won't get any information except exactly the thing you are looking for.
And I think that that is where the problem with this kind of search lies for books/music/etc. If you want to find a song or a book, it most likely isn't going to be a specific word you remember, it will be the tune or the plot, both of which are not searchable.
I don't see this improvement in Amazon's search system as that much of an improvement. A better improvement could be made to the 'We thought you'd like' feature. Instead of finding only what I'm looking for, I'd like to find other things I might also be interested in.
How many are just "old" species with an extra stripe or dot?
Sometimes it seems like taxonomists get a little carried away with their differentiating.
A guppy is a guppy is a guppy.
You mean you go all the way to Jupiter and pay $11 to tour a run-down shack with tilted tables and floors?
I am now cleaning coffee off of my keyboard. You think they have billboards between here and Jupiter?
From the growing interest in Open Source at each successive Comdex, it is clear that at some point the interest in Open Source will outweigh the interest in Closed Source. We can already see a replacement of the standard Closed Source presentations (lectures, classes, etc.) by brash, up and coming Open Source presentations. Also, the floor space occupied by Open Source presenters is growing and crowding out Closed Source vendors.
At this rate of growth, it is more than likely that we could see Open Source fully replace Closed Source as THE viable software solution within 10 years. Just 5 years ago Open Source was a joke, but today it is a serious threat to the Closed Source business model. In 10 years time when these Open Source projects and their developers mature, they will be unstoppable.
Yay Open Source!
While it's nice that we can get power out in the middle of nowhere (and face it, most of Australia is "the middle of nowhere"), doesn't the environmental damage posed by the building and throwing away of these solar panels negate much of the benefits of having a non-fossil fueled car?
That said, you'd think that a country with more cloudy weather would do better at squeezing the last little bit of energy out of a solar panel than somewhere sunny like Holland.
Matsui
Mitsui
Rarely, if ever, has there been any trouble getting the Russian mafia to take care of business in a quick and efficient manner. And unlike the Chinese and Italian boobs who think they own you after *you* hired *them*, the Russian mafia goes about its merry way after the job is done and fees are paid in full.
Highly recommended, especially over the alternatives.
It doesn't matter what my feelings are about it because in the end it will be preinstalled on all new systems anyway whether you like it or not.
Linux is and has always been a server OS. Why? Because it is patterned around UNIX which is designed as a scaled down version of Multics which is a server OS.
You can train the OS all you like with fancy window managers and scalable fonts and all the rest of the eye candy that desktop users want, but at its heart the OS is still yearning to be driven by the commandline. That's why most GUI programs are usually thin wrappers around sophisticated commandline applications.
This isn't to say that Linux couldn't be ready to overtake Windows on the desktop one day. Take a look at where Linux is today. It is the fastest growing server operating system out there. Windows couldn't hope to beat it there.
I don't mean to sound like some astroturfer, but RedHat has definitely brought Linux to the fore of server operating systems.
With the rapid decline of AIX and Solaris, Win2K and RedHat Linux are making steady gains in the server market.
What's more, with Linux you don't need to have a server farm like NT requires, so in the long run you save your company money by choosing to go with RedHat.
I went laptop shopping to see what kinds of options were available for Mrs. Claus's sister in Germany.
I was absolutely blown away by the iBook. Not in a good way though. In the current line of iBooks, though stylish and finally Unix-based, the laptops are large and fairly oversized when compared to comparable laptop systems. The Toshiba, Sharp, and Panasonic models are much smaller, offer more power, and frankly look better than the somewhat dated iBook models.
However, if the G4 will be installed, perhaps all that size will pay off.
Gray text on gray background is good design?
4pt font is good design?
Physician, heal thyself!