Indeed. I think it says something that using Win98, I _still_ routinely call up a DOS prompt for basic file management (copy, move, delete, etc.), small text-editing, and myriad other little chores.
Far easier to make a meanigful mis-click/drag/drop than it is to make a meanigful typo, and often easier to correct.
Some things will always be easier/safer in a CLI, I think. Whichever CLI that happens to be.
This isn't actually that bad of a plan, assuming there are that many people willing to pay ~$20 mil to go orbital.
At least this way the tourists get shunted off somewhere they can't screw serious research up. And if people with way too much money for their own good want to spend it taking trips into space, why stop them?
Although anyone who's interested will probably just go to
www.startrek.com
directly, you wouldn't want to subject innocent StarTek to a slashdotting from people that just click the link, would you?
I'd think that "previously known only to God" sounds a lot more dramatic than, say, "written completely by random chance".
Especially when the majority of people (myself excluded) believe in some sort of deity.
It doesn't really say anything about his beliefs, just his public speaking skills.
Slashdot Mirror
All well and good, except that the damn thing weighs 65 pounds. Carrying it on a bus is right out.
I don't see Segway hitting it big yet. What's needed is some time to miniaturize the components and bring down the price a bit.
Actually, when my friends and I first saw the trailer for 'The One', we thought it might be a Matrix sequel of some sort.
:)
You have to admit that the Freaky Jet Li Powers are right out of the Matrix, frex.
The premise and plot, now that I know something of them, are far closer to Highlander, but the movie itself is _a lot_ like the Matrix.
Except worse, of course.
Indeed. I think it says something that using Win98, I _still_ routinely call up a DOS prompt for basic file management (copy, move, delete, etc.), small text-editing, and myriad other little chores.
Far easier to make a meanigful mis-click/drag/drop than it is to make a meanigful typo, and often easier to correct.
Some things will always be easier/safer in a CLI, I think. Whichever CLI that happens to be.
'.ac' stands for "academic", as I recall.
Exactly. I linked to a Salon article recently, blinked, and the ad was gone. I didn't even catch what it was about!
Granted, I have DSL, but seriously, it's a small price to pay.
It doesn't take that much longer for Salon ads to load for me than it does to flip past a magazine ad. And I don't even have to pay for Salon.
Slashdot idealists notwithstanding, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Deal with it.
This isn't actually that bad of a plan, assuming there are that many people willing to pay ~$20 mil to go orbital.
At least this way the tourists get shunted off somewhere they can't screw serious research up. And if people with way too much money for their own good want to spend it taking trips into space, why stop them?
Star Wars Galaxies.
'Nuff said.
But making server software that can run for four years without human intervention probably would. :)
I don't know, I think we've plenty of apoplectic responders right here.
Am I in the minority in that I actually laughed at some of these?
Although anyone who's interested will probably just go to www.startrek.com directly, you wouldn't want to subject innocent StarTek to a slashdotting from people that just click the link, would you?
Dallan
I'd think that "previously known only to God" sounds a lot more dramatic than, say, "written completely by random chance".
Especially when the majority of people (myself excluded) believe in some sort of deity.
It doesn't really say anything about his beliefs, just his public speaking skills.