The application for Linux failed because everyone and their brother use the word Linux in their product names. Including Debian. So "Linux" can refer to Debian Linux, S.u.S.e. Linux, Knopppix Linux, RedHat Linux, Pop's Chicken Fried Linux, etcetry etcetry.
On the other hand, Debian refers to a specific Linux that originates from the Debian group. There isn't Ubuntu Debian, Microsoft Debian, or Mom's Ole Fashioned Debian. It passes the test which the Linux AU trademark app failed.
The benefit of the Treo IMO is its commonality as a platform; there are multiple options for Palm SSH clients. I currently use TuSSH, which is SSH2 compliant, supports identity files, and special characters, and has display modes up to 40x12.
I noticed that the power cord from some old radio fit in the Capsella motor plug, so I plugged it in. Then I plugged it into the wall. My little 'car' made a nice pop and went the fastest three feet of it's (short) life.
Only if they're dumb enough to live in a different city than the one they work in. Or Los Angeles (but that's kind of redundant, calling Californians stupid).
See, I really hate people like this -- people who have no problem with uprooting themselves every year or two to shuffle 20 miles away because their job has moved. People who can find work that allows them a salary in which to house themselves and their family in the same dense urban overpriced core -- or who don't mind spending way too much for housing.
Wait, these people don't have families, because they have no social skills, and so remain loners and put on false facades of superiority over those who don't have to worry about the effects on their family members and other ramifications if they suddenly up and ship off across state, country or world.
It's nice when you can get it, but you're not better than people because you have it. Grow up.
I didn't have this problem, but I guess I don't normally start flailing and trying to start a pit in the middle of a tight crowd. Cause I'm not a fucktard.
I was able to rock out fine. (Although I've been told that I headbang "with wide range" -- apparently most people hardly move when they headbang, I dunno where that came from, must be a west coast thing. I figure I've got the hair for it, so go for it.) But I also wanted to watch the performers, not just be a dervish.
The poster doesn't have to be a dick about it.
''There is dancing and shoving at the front of the stage. It's where people are fun and excited. ''
Yeah, I go to a show cause I want to get whacked and scratched and knocked down by ignorant dipshits who can't control themselves. Fuck you, go to a GWAR show and stfu. There's something to be said for being considerate, not just being a selfish twerp and then bitching about how no one else likes you smacking into them wildly.
It was a geek show. Act like you know.
I admit though I agree with one person's comment:
''I mean, come on, there would jsut be something special about saying you were in a mosh pit to megaman or contra.''
Either way though, seeing Minibosses live is pretty damn special.
There is no longer any business value in training employees. With offshoring, companies have found that quite often, someone else is more than willing to provide or subsidize the training. And lately, it's been the governments of developing and competing countries. (Not this one, of course -- that would be a tremendous waste of taxes that we shouldn't even be paying in the first place!) Where there's demand in tech, companies now know that somewhere in the world there is someone who either already has the knowledge, or will get it from other sources.
On the job training, like entry level jobs, is nonexistent today except in fast food and retail.
You guys all suck. First place anyone should have looked was The Dead Media Project. A search on dictation turned up this possiblity:
The Recordon, aka the Mail-A-Voice, was a magnetic disc-based dicatation device made in the 50s. It used a paper-based disc (originally; later it used plastic discs) which in theory could be folded, mailed in an envelope, and played back. The media was sold by 3M but not made by them.
A search on DeadMedia for "magnetic disk" also turns up the Timex Magnetic Recorder, though it's believed this was never actually sold.
My question is: If we can just safely remove these gap fillers, why the hell are we blowing shrinking NASA/STS budget money on them in the first place?
The Shuttle needs to be retooled instead of jury-rigged and duct-taped. After 25 years there must be a better way to heat-shield and power it than crumbly square tiles and ungodly amounts of hydrogen and other violently flammable liquids. (After all, it only took one Hindenburg to convince most people that pure hydrogen is kind of dangerous.)
Hell, in most states a 25-year old vehicle qualifies as an antique.
The "zoom" feature is annoying as hell. Clicking from the main map, the image "zooms" -- as in zooming a static image, complete with ugly mosaic side-effect -- to about 4x size, then jumps down to the actual imagery of the next level at 2x.
The labels on streets and other items in the hybrid satellite view are much, much harder to read than Google's. The street lines are barely visible above the imagery.
And then there's the imagery. This is just good old Terraserver data -- that is, ugly black and white and more than eigth years old in most places.
Then there's Virtual Earth's embarrasing zoom feature. In most places, maximum zoom is not available.
Microsoft admits its Local Search doesn't even come close to Google's, limited only to inner urban areas. How helpful.
You can't do a simple click-pan -- double click comes with an implied zoom. Counterproductive if you're using double-click repeatedly to continuously pan (which is sometimes a lot more convenient than constant repeated mouse-drag).
Images load embarrasingly slowly. Google's had some bouts of image gaps in loading, but MSVE unapologetically drops its tiles in place while you watch, often with lots of gaps. Some gaps don't ever fill in -- eventually any Google maps gap will fill in, but in MSVE quickly gives up and the missing tiles appear as ugly missing-image placeholders.
As is typical with any MS application, it's bloated. The UI is graphics-heavy. Google is smart to spend its loading and graphics effort on the actual important part of the application (the MAPS, you know?), while MS can't resist against putting lots of high-res graphics in its presentation and controls.
And the final killer reason why Google Maps trumps MSVE: Google Maps API.
I think I own my DSL modem. But I'm honestly not sure. The difference is that you CAN get your own DSL modem (as long as your provider / service agreement permits/supports it) a lot easier than you can get your own cable modem. But often, the DSL provider gives you a loaned modem as part of service without an upfront cost.
This isn't all that odd, as CATV equipment has traditionally been cable company equipment for decades. (I can remember simple 1-2 coax splitters and antenna-leads-to-coax dongles on the back of the TV clearly saying "PROPERTY OF CABLE COMPANY -- DO NOT REMOVE".) The set-top box is usually owned by the cable company; though this subsided somewhat with the invention of cable-ready TVs, it is the norm again with the advent of digital cable. (Maybe digital cable will standardize, and we'll start seeing digital-cable-ready TVs someday. But with the number of special features in digital cable [e.g. show listings, on-demand, etc.], this isn't so simple.)
(Subscription satellite TV is a different issue; I don't know how that works, but I'm pretty sure you can get your own satellite reciver, such as the HUMAX combination sat receiver/Tivo device, as long as it is compatible with your satellite provider.)
Of course, a few decades ago, your telephone was loaned to you by the phone company, and you were obligated to give it back to them if it broke or you terminated service. Eventually that changed, of course -- I don't even know if you *can* loan a phone from the average telco anymore.
You get outside *and* you get to play with technology gadgets. A little more reading up on it and you can even go on about satellites, time-difference signals, calculating parabolic intersections, and all that boring geeky stuff......while in the middle of the *woods*.
is that the Tile Stitcher Wallpaper pulled in the Google images, and created new images from them by putting them together. None of the real Google Maps hacks do that; they simply reuse the regular Google Maps interface with overlaid enhancements.
But so what. Are there no PD Modern English translations of this 600 year old Middle English work that GP could provide the searcher by default, instead of a view-restricted, copyright-appropriated version?
Perhaps "scrapped" is a harsh suggestion. But the fact that GP will by default show me an appropriated, view-restricted version of a PD work instead of a PD, non-restricted view shows a major flaw in its execution at least as far as its intent seems to be -- to make works available to the public.
Yay enforcing the stereotype of computers and their users being antisocial!
"I don't like going into a cafe, any cafe, including my own, and just seeing a sea of laptops and people not interacting."
How would he know if they're interacting with anyone? Is interaction within the local sphere of strangers whose only thing in common is a love for espresso somehow a superior interaction technique than meeting people in online fora where you have something substantial in common with?
Only to a neophyte whose only understanding of high speed internet was that "customers seemed to want it".
Wow, overrated. You seem to assume that high school kids (or anyone else) working for a radio station are paid. And your average educational station puts out at a paltry 10W. I have a handheld CB with more output than that.
Some manage to do more than that, and they manage to be mostly member-supported, thanks to their pre-existing popularity. I only know of one, though.
There's a serious problem here in inviting publishers to submit their material. Publishers seem eager to submit their reprints -- for which they only have copyright over the book's design -- of public domain works. As a result, completely free works are listed in Google Print as "Copyrighted Material" -- in turn, allowing the publisher to misappropriate copyright w/in G. Print over written material they do not have copyright over.
See, for example, The Canterbury Tales in Google Print. This was written in the 1300s. I would very much like to see Penguin's proof of copyright over the works of Chaucer, who died in 1400.
Likewise, see Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespeare, who died in 1616. Or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1819. Clearly no present-day entity has copyright over any of these works. Regardless, the publishers who have submitted their versions of them are able to enforce a 3-page-view limit on them without legal right to do so.
Google Print should be scrapped, and instead, the spotlight shined on Project Gutenberg.
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The application for Linux failed because everyone and their brother use the word Linux in their product names. Including Debian. So "Linux" can refer to Debian Linux, S.u.S.e. Linux, Knopppix Linux, RedHat Linux, Pop's Chicken Fried Linux, etcetry etcetry.
On the other hand, Debian refers to a specific Linux that originates from the Debian group. There isn't Ubuntu Debian, Microsoft Debian, or Mom's Ole Fashioned Debian. It passes the test which the Linux AU trademark app failed.
...as it adds the first Commodore system to its list of sites it has personally knocked offline.
Some apps (mostly audio) are able to run in the background, like PocketTunes and RealPlayer. Why there isn't a network one yet I'm not sure.
The benefit of the Treo IMO is its commonality as a platform; there are multiple options for Palm SSH clients. I currently use TuSSH, which is SSH2 compliant, supports identity files, and special characters, and has display modes up to 40x12.
Especially those damned small connectors. "Get, *OOF!* off!" *THUCK-BANG!*
Which is why mine had so many little dents in them. From teeth.
Just like most of my old Legos did, come to think of it. Stubborn little f**kers.
(And also probably why I ended up with assorted little chips in my teeth. Bah, the price you pay for a productive childhood.)
I noticed that the power cord from some old radio fit in the Capsella motor plug, so I plugged it in. Then I plugged it into the wall. My little 'car' made a nice pop and went the fastest three feet of it's (short) life.
I think you're my new hero.
Only if they're dumb enough to live in a different city than the one they work in. Or Los Angeles (but that's kind of redundant, calling Californians stupid).
See, I really hate people like this -- people who have no problem with uprooting themselves every year or two to shuffle 20 miles away because their job has moved. People who can find work that allows them a salary in which to house themselves and their family in the same dense urban overpriced core -- or who don't mind spending way too much for housing.
Wait, these people don't have families, because they have no social skills, and so remain loners and put on false facades of superiority over those who don't have to worry about the effects on their family members and other ramifications if they suddenly up and ship off across state, country or world.
It's nice when you can get it, but you're not better than people because you have it. Grow up.
It does seem like User Friendly has fallen off of the geek consciousness.
I didn't have this problem, but I guess I don't normally start flailing and trying to start a pit in the middle of a tight crowd. Cause I'm not a fucktard.
I was able to rock out fine. (Although I've been told that I headbang "with wide range" -- apparently most people hardly move when they headbang, I dunno where that came from, must be a west coast thing. I figure I've got the hair for it, so go for it.) But I also wanted to watch the performers, not just be a dervish.
The poster doesn't have to be a dick about it.
''There is dancing and shoving at the front of the stage. It's where people are fun and excited. ''
Yeah, I go to a show cause I want to get whacked and scratched and knocked down by ignorant dipshits who can't control themselves. Fuck you, go to a GWAR show and stfu. There's something to be said for being considerate, not just being a selfish twerp and then bitching about how no one else likes you smacking into them wildly.
It was a geek show. Act like you know.
I admit though I agree with one person's comment:
''I mean, come on, there would jsut be something special about saying you were in a mosh pit to megaman or contra.''
Either way though, seeing Minibosses live is pretty damn special.
There is no longer any business value in training employees. With offshoring, companies have found that quite often, someone else is more than willing to provide or subsidize the training. And lately, it's been the governments of developing and competing countries. (Not this one, of course -- that would be a tremendous waste of taxes that we shouldn't even be paying in the first place!) Where there's demand in tech, companies now know that somewhere in the world there is someone who either already has the knowledge, or will get it from other sources.
On the job training, like entry level jobs, is nonexistent today except in fast food and retail.
because google isn't the small underdog anymore. Nobody likes a leader.
Everyone likes a contender, though. Go Google! Love the maps, though ya could use a lot more Linux support...
except:
"That's... WONderful... isn't it!"
You guys all suck. First place anyone should have looked was The Dead Media Project. A search on dictation turned up this possiblity:
The Recordon, aka the Mail-A-Voice, was a magnetic disc-based dicatation device made in the 50s. It used a paper-based disc (originally; later it used plastic discs) which in theory could be folded, mailed in an envelope, and played back. The media was sold by 3M but not made by them.
A search on DeadMedia for "magnetic disk" also turns up the Timex Magnetic Recorder, though it's believed this was never actually sold.
I was under the impression that astronaut suits were already radiation-shielded. Doesn't the moon receive cosmic radiation too?
My question is: If we can just safely remove these gap fillers, why the hell are we blowing shrinking NASA/STS budget money on them in the first place?
The Shuttle needs to be retooled instead of jury-rigged and duct-taped. After 25 years there must be a better way to heat-shield and power it than crumbly square tiles and ungodly amounts of hydrogen and other violently flammable liquids. (After all, it only took one Hindenburg to convince most people that pure hydrogen is kind of dangerous.)
Hell, in most states a 25-year old vehicle qualifies as an antique.
First impressions of Virtual Earth:
The "zoom" feature is annoying as hell. Clicking from the main map, the image "zooms" -- as in zooming a static image, complete with ugly mosaic side-effect -- to about 4x size, then jumps down to the actual imagery of the next level at 2x.
The labels on streets and other items in the hybrid satellite view are much, much harder to read than Google's. The street lines are barely visible above the imagery.
And then there's the imagery. This is just good old Terraserver data -- that is, ugly black and white and more than eigth years old in most places.
Then there's Virtual Earth's embarrasing zoom feature. In most places, maximum zoom is not available.
Microsoft admits its Local Search doesn't even come close to Google's, limited only to inner urban areas. How helpful.
You can't do a simple click-pan -- double click comes with an implied zoom. Counterproductive if you're using double-click repeatedly to continuously pan (which is sometimes a lot more convenient than constant repeated mouse-drag).
Images load embarrasingly slowly. Google's had some bouts of image gaps in loading, but MSVE unapologetically drops its tiles in place while you watch, often with lots of gaps. Some gaps don't ever fill in -- eventually any Google maps gap will fill in, but in MSVE quickly gives up and the missing tiles appear as ugly missing-image placeholders.
As is typical with any MS application, it's bloated. The UI is graphics-heavy. Google is smart to spend its loading and graphics effort on the actual important part of the application (the MAPS, you know?), while MS can't resist against putting lots of high-res graphics in its presentation and controls.
And the final killer reason why Google Maps trumps MSVE: Google Maps API.
I guess that means in the US people with cable don't own their own modems?
Cable (CATV provider broadband) modems, true. DSL (phoneline based) modems, usually true.
I think I own my DSL modem. But I'm honestly not sure. The difference is that you CAN get your own DSL modem (as long as your provider / service agreement permits/supports it) a lot easier than you can get your own cable modem. But often, the DSL provider gives you a loaned modem as part of service without an upfront cost.
This isn't all that odd, as CATV equipment has traditionally been cable company equipment for decades. (I can remember simple 1-2 coax splitters and antenna-leads-to-coax dongles on the back of the TV clearly saying "PROPERTY OF CABLE COMPANY -- DO NOT REMOVE".) The set-top box is usually owned by the cable company; though this subsided somewhat with the invention of cable-ready TVs, it is the norm again with the advent of digital cable. (Maybe digital cable will standardize, and we'll start seeing digital-cable-ready TVs someday. But with the number of special features in digital cable [e.g. show listings, on-demand, etc.], this isn't so simple.)
(Subscription satellite TV is a different issue; I don't know how that works, but I'm pretty sure you can get your own satellite reciver, such as the HUMAX combination sat receiver/Tivo device, as long as it is compatible with your satellite provider.)
Of course, a few decades ago, your telephone was loaned to you by the phone company, and you were obligated to give it back to them if it broke or you terminated service. Eventually that changed, of course -- I don't even know if you *can* loan a phone from the average telco anymore.
Good, maybe they'll leave the filesharers alone and we can go back to scouring the nets for the songs they refuse to sell us.
Wassamatter, never heard of Geocaching?
...while in the middle of the *woods*.
You get outside *and* you get to play with technology gadgets. A little more reading up on it and you can even go on about satellites, time-difference signals, calculating parabolic intersections, and all that boring geeky stuff...
is that the Tile Stitcher Wallpaper pulled in the Google images, and created new images from them by putting them together. None of the real Google Maps hacks do that; they simply reuse the regular Google Maps interface with overlaid enhancements.
FWIW, the copyright isn't held by Penguin.
But so what. Are there no PD Modern English translations of this 600 year old Middle English work that GP could provide the searcher by default, instead of a view-restricted, copyright-appropriated version?
Methinks you doth misseth myne pointe.
Perhaps "scrapped" is a harsh suggestion. But the fact that GP will by default show me an appropriated, view-restricted version of a PD work instead of a PD, non-restricted view shows a major flaw in its execution at least as far as its intent seems to be -- to make works available to the public.
Yay enforcing the stereotype of computers and their users being antisocial!
"I don't like going into a cafe, any cafe, including my own, and just seeing a sea of laptops and people not interacting."
How would he know if they're interacting with anyone? Is interaction within the local sphere of strangers whose only thing in common is a love for espresso somehow a superior interaction technique than meeting people in online fora where you have something substantial in common with?
Only to a neophyte whose only understanding of high speed internet was that "customers seemed to want it".
Wow, overrated. You seem to assume that high school kids (or anyone else) working for a radio station are paid. And your average educational station puts out at a paltry 10W. I have a handheld CB with more output than that.
Some manage to do more than that, and they manage to be mostly member-supported, thanks to their pre-existing popularity. I only know of one, though.
So, in short, you're an idiot.
There's a serious problem here in inviting publishers to submit their material. Publishers seem eager to submit their reprints -- for which they only have copyright over the book's design -- of public domain works. As a result, completely free works are listed in Google Print as "Copyrighted Material" -- in turn, allowing the publisher to misappropriate copyright w/in G. Print over written material they do not have copyright over.
See, for example, The Canterbury Tales in Google Print. This was written in the 1300s. I would very much like to see Penguin's proof of copyright over the works of Chaucer, who died in 1400.
Likewise, see Romeo and Juliet , written by Shakespeare, who died in 1616. Or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , first published in 1819. Clearly no present-day entity has copyright over any of these works. Regardless, the publishers who have submitted their versions of them are able to enforce a 3-page-view limit on them without legal right to do so.
Google Print should be scrapped, and instead, the spotlight shined on Project Gutenberg.