As you and I both feared, the new error screens are much like IE. I liked the old error screens that actually gave me some idea of what had happened. I am saddened to see Firefox go this way. I am not running the new beta yet, but has anyone found a way to turn this new "feature" off?
Laws are installed now too eh? I hope they come with a better unintsaller than some of the software I have seen on computers lately. My guess is that some of these laws will be engineered much like spyware, so embedded in the system that the only way to fix them is to erase the whole mess and start over.;)
I am surprised, this being/. and all, that nobody seems to have mentioned that the source code for their simulation is available. So not only is their plan interesting, but they seem to want the community to help engineer both their software and the device itself through testing and simulation.
So, does someone want to tell me what those are supposed to be? Maybe my imagination is just not working today. I was guessing some stage of mitosis but judging by the other comments I am wrong. Is it a confectionary reference to goatse.cx?
Have you ever told it to someone who uses a cane or crutches...
Last year I had a serious injury to my left leg. I now limp considerably when I walk. People at work frequently refer to me as 'the gimp' in jest. I am honored to share a nickname with a tool I have often found useful. It could be worse, they could be calling me 'IE'. I may limp, but at least I am not letting strangers install stuff through my backdoor. Now THAT would be painful.
Sure, they are not intelligent, but it is only one step away.
I am not particularly worried about a robot taking my job, but if automation makes my job easier, than so be it. Personally, I would like to see automation reduce working hours for employees, rather than removing positions. Of course I live in the US, where part-time means no health coverage, which is essentially flirting with bankruptcy.
Did it ever occur to anyone that the/. editors just might not care if the person submitting might profit from a story being posted? Sure, I would like full disclosure if the/. editors were profiting in some direct way from posting a particular submission, but as long as the content is interesting who cares where it comes from. Of course that last little bit is questionable sometimes. I figure either my interests are a little out of whack, or sometimes the editors are drunk. Either way I don't care.
" While the disc can theoretically be eaten, it is coated by a 0.1-millimeter (0.004-inch) thick layer of resin and is too hard for even the strongest teeth."
A few years back I owned and operated a small PC repair shop. We had this one customer with a PC that was just endless problems. Of course the problems were not caused by the user, or even the hardware itself, but just HAD to be caused by one my my techs who worked on it. Needless to say we were all frustrated with working on the thing. Well, one day when I called the customer to let her know it was fixed she informed me that she had seen some commercial on TV and had bought a new PC that was supposed to be super-wiz-bang and would not have all these problems. Needless to say my heart was not broken that she had not decided to buy her new PC from us. She said she was not going to pay for her repair and that we could sell her machine to cover the costs (as our service agreement stated would happen if the repair was not paid for and picked up within so many days). Yeah, right. The next day I brought in a sledge hammer from home. I took the PC out back and set it up on some cinder blocks. I put up an "Out to Lunch" sign and brought all the guys out back and we said our goodbyes. It was an emotional moment, but we all needed it. Such a PC needs to be mourned over. Don't deny yourself the experience.
I did Tux two years ago. Last year I carved;) in my pumpkin. This year I skipped the computer theme and somebody stole my pumpkin. Next year I think I am going to carve some binary, but have not decided what yet. Any suggestions?
OK, if you were talking about remote vacations to places that people can not go, than I could understand, but I have not heard of any souvenir shops on Mars, so I don't think that is what you had in mind. Perhaps you should consider taking a real vacation. It sounds like you need it.
On another note, can you imagine what it would be like when a bunch of/.ers end up on remote vacations like this? The queue at popular tourists spots is going to end up looking like a scene from Battlebots.
OK, is it just me, or is that the most normal profile I have ever read for someone on/. ? I mean, where is all the h4X0r language and stuff? She doesn't mention anything relating to computers at all. Is she schizo or just ashamed? Is this really the same person?
Take my advice. If you are at all sleepy than rest before driving. After spending an afternoon installing Windows patches (no joke) I left work for a 30 minute commute to my new home. I had two weeks left at this job and would not have to commute after that. I remember feeling tired and bored and glad to be leaving work, but I thought that going out in the cold and driving (and being away from computers) would revive me. I was wrong. I woke up 12 days later in an ICU unit. I had driven full speed head on into a semi truck 10 minutes after leaving work. I am lucky to be typing this. If you think you will be fine, assume you are wrong. A few minutes rest is nothing. I just started walking without crutches this week, and the accident was 10 months ago. I don't want sympathy, I just don't want others to endure what I have been through. I certainly won't drive again if I feel at all tired, but that would not stop me from buying a system like this if the cost was reasonable.
Finally, it is unlikely design patents can be extended to smells. Design patents protect new, nonobvious ornamental designs applied to useful things. Application requires a drawing of the design, and protection is narrowly limited to that design. Therefore, this patent set provides protection for visual elements of things. Even if a change in the law were permitted - how does one draw a scent? Submit a sample of a scent? How does one check to see if a scent infringes? Everything, theoretically has a smell, should every item manufacturered have a scent patent?
It seems to me that you have just outlined the required modifications to the law that would be needed in order to establish scent patents. The ability to specifically quantify a scent in a human-centered way is exactly what the recent Nobel prize was recognizing. It could be argued that the scent is a design implemented on top of a common delivery mechanism. I am not saying that I would be in favor of such changes to the law, but I am almost sure that some entity will attempt this once they realize that they have a new, concrete way to codify their scents other than just a recipe.
I don't even see where this is really a matter of Google enforcing Chinese law. They simply are removing search results for pages that the Chinese people are already denied access to. Seems like a clear case of returning relevent results, which is exactly what Google is for. "Don't be evil"!="Save the world."
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What more can I say?
As you and I both feared, the new error screens are much like IE. I liked the old error screens that actually gave me some idea of what had happened. I am saddened to see Firefox go this way. I am not running the new beta yet, but has anyone found a way to turn this new "feature" off?
Gearry
Buy a clue?
They can start here.
Laws are installed now too eh? I hope they come with a better unintsaller than some of the software I have seen on computers lately. My guess is that some of these laws will be engineered much like spyware, so embedded in the system that the only way to fix them is to erase the whole mess and start over. ;)
I am surprised, this being /. and all, that nobody seems to have mentioned that the source code for their simulation is available. So not only is their plan interesting, but they seem to want the community to help engineer both their software and the device itself through testing and simulation.
So, does someone want to tell me what those are supposed to be? Maybe my imagination is just not working today. I was guessing some stage of mitosis but judging by the other comments I am wrong. Is it a confectionary reference to goatse.cx?
Have you ever told it to someone who uses a cane or crutches...
Last year I had a serious injury to my left leg. I now limp considerably when I walk. People at work frequently refer to me as 'the gimp' in jest. I am honored to share a nickname with a tool I have often found useful. It could be worse, they could be calling me 'IE'. I may limp, but at least I am not letting strangers install stuff through my backdoor. Now THAT would be painful.
Added to that no one is going to trust intelligent robots with guns for a very long time
Ummm...did you see this yet?
Military Robots Get Machine Guns
Sure, they are not intelligent, but it is only one step away.
I am not particularly worried about a robot taking my job, but if automation makes my job easier, than so be it. Personally, I would like to see automation reduce working hours for employees, rather than removing positions. Of course I live in the US, where part-time means no health coverage, which is essentially flirting with bankruptcy.
" Every year during my review, I just pray the words 'slashdot.org' aren't mentioned."
I just had to say that your sig both made me smile, and a little nervous. I think I know how you feel.
I am at work now.
My Shop-Vac does both. It all depends on where you stand.
This guy at work is always pointing the exaust of our Data-Vac toward my desk. He sucks.
Did it ever occur to anyone that the /. editors just might not care if the person submitting might profit from a story being posted? Sure, I would like full disclosure if the /. editors were profiting in some direct way from posting a particular submission, but as long as the content is interesting who cares where it comes from. Of course that last little bit is questionable sometimes. I figure either my interests are a little out of whack, or sometimes the editors are drunk. Either way I don't care.
Not only that, but there is a whole class of diseases named for her. Jupiter should be sure to wrap it up.
From the article:
" While the disc can theoretically be eaten, it is coated by a 0.1-millimeter (0.004-inch) thick layer of resin and is too hard for even the strongest teeth."
A few years back I owned and operated a small PC repair shop. We had this one customer with a PC that was just endless problems. Of course the problems were not caused by the user, or even the hardware itself, but just HAD to be caused by one my my techs who worked on it. Needless to say we were all frustrated with working on the thing. Well, one day when I called the customer to let her know it was fixed she informed me that she had seen some commercial on TV and had bought a new PC that was supposed to be super-wiz-bang and would not have all these problems. Needless to say my heart was not broken that she had not decided to buy her new PC from us. She said she was not going to pay for her repair and that we could sell her machine to cover the costs (as our service agreement stated would happen if the repair was not paid for and picked up within so many days). Yeah, right.
The next day I brought in a sledge hammer from home. I took the PC out back and set it up on some cinder blocks. I put up an "Out to Lunch" sign and brought all the guys out back and we said our goodbyes. It was an emotional moment, but we all needed it. Such a PC needs to be mourned over. Don't deny yourself the experience.
I did Tux two years ago. Last year I carved ;) in my pumpkin. This year I skipped the computer theme and somebody stole my pumpkin. Next year I think I am going to carve some binary, but have not decided what yet. Any suggestions?
OK, if you were talking about remote vacations to places that people can not go, than I could understand, but I have not heard of any souvenir shops on Mars, so I don't think that is what you had in mind. Perhaps you should consider taking a real vacation. It sounds like you need it.
/.ers end up on remote vacations like this? The queue at popular tourists spots is going to end up looking like a scene from Battlebots.
On another note, can you imagine what it would be like when a bunch of
OK, is it just me, or is that the most normal profile I have ever read for someone on /. ? I mean, where is all the h4X0r language and stuff? She doesn't mention anything relating to computers at all. Is she schizo or just ashamed? Is this really the same person?
Take my advice. If you are at all sleepy than rest before driving. After spending an afternoon installing Windows patches (no joke) I left work for a 30 minute commute to my new home. I had two weeks left at this job and would not have to commute after that. I remember feeling tired and bored and glad to be leaving work, but I thought that going out in the cold and driving (and being away from computers) would revive me. I was wrong. I woke up 12 days later in an ICU unit. I had driven full speed head on into a semi truck 10 minutes after leaving work. I am lucky to be typing this. If you think you will be fine, assume you are wrong. A few minutes rest is nothing. I just started walking without crutches this week, and the accident was 10 months ago. I don't want sympathy, I just don't want others to endure what I have been through. I certainly won't drive again if I feel at all tired, but that would not stop me from buying a system like this if the cost was reasonable.
It seems to me that you have just outlined the required modifications to the law that would be needed in order to establish scent patents. The ability to specifically quantify a scent in a human-centered way is exactly what the recent Nobel prize was recognizing. It could be argued that the scent is a design implemented on top of a common delivery mechanism. I am not saying that I would be in favor of such changes to the law, but I am almost sure that some entity will attempt this once they realize that they have a new, concrete way to codify their scents other than just a recipe.
Gearry
Maybe they should team up with these other award winning researchers.
You're second wish is at least partially met by DateBk. It has the added advantage of a linux desktop app that uses the DateBk extensions, J-Pilot
I don't even see where this is really a matter of Google enforcing Chinese law. They simply are removing search results for pages that the Chinese people are already denied access to. Seems like a clear case of returning relevent results, which is exactly what Google is for. "Don't be evil"!="Save the world."
It is worth noting that the author of The Genome War also wrote this article. Apparently he has been following Venter for some time.
I can sympathize. Right now I am wearing a name tag that says "IS Systems Technician".
Would you mind sharing your source for the remote? I need a spare for my van, and like you found that the dealer prices are a no go.