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Actually, using a text to speach dealie would be even better, especially if you got the oldest, nastiest, hardest to understand one that you could find and have it go at it REALLYFASTSOTHATITSHARDTOUNDERSTANDANYWAY.
Okay, I stand if not corrected, then better informed.
Of course, since intel is now going to try and push USB in all its myriad and compatible (Irony)sure, I belive it!(/irony)forms down our throats, I would venture to say that firewire is going to die, leaving a spiraling, smoking trail as it falls from the sky. Too bad, too.
And for the most part, I agree with you, except that apple, instead of letting 1394 be cheap and ubiquitous is doing what apple usually does... charge out the wazoo for it. If they would lower the costs, then yes, Firewire would rock.
The other problem is that Intel hath decreed that This Is The Way. And once again, superior technology is overwhelmed by mass-produced, cheap mediocrity.
Yeah, truth be told, I would have wanted one too. (Grin) But what I really meant to point out is that 90% of the people you would have offered this to would have just looked at you and said "Huh?" And, being the son of a teacher and a principal, I know what I am talking about. It's shameful to see how under provided schools are now, but at the time that the Lisa was being landfilled, they were just not as big of an issue, as most schools just didnt have the funding or the knowlege on how to use them properly.
Today, yes this would have been a bummer. But you are dealing with a different situation here:
"The computer" at this time was still thought to be a large, mysterious box, not something approchable and useable by the unwashed masses.
The Lisa was not the Mac. (duh) And it suffered greatly from NoApplicationItis.
Most schools wouldn't have been able to do anything with them at the time.
Remeber, this happened in the Paleolithic Era of computing. Heck, IBM was just warming up, so most people were ignorant of the Term "Personal Computer" and wouldnt have known what to do with one if they had one.
One of the big complaints I hear about this idea is that the virtual you would just be a copy, and the copy wouldn't really be you. Well, there is a way around this.
First, you, wide awake, have the top of your head cut open. A nice, nanotech(for want of a more magic technology) cap comes down and settles on the top of your open, steaming cranium. For this experience you get to stay wide awake, talking to the technician, don't notice that trillions of nanomanipulators are settling in between your cells, mapping their function, and replacing them with chunks of nanotech processor, doing the same thing, but faster, smaller, 1/2 the calories ect... This continues with you babbling on, awake, still concious, until what you have left is a nanocomputer running You v.2.0.0(tm) and several chunks of brain meat floating in formaldyhyde. Throughout the entire experience you have been awake, alert, and aware. You are still you.
Finally, You get the top of your head sealed up, stand up, and walk out to go home. Or, alternatly, your body gets taken off to an organ bank/crematorium/soylent green factory and you (still awake and aware through the entire experience...) get taken off to the central brain repostitory, where you are plugged in to the net, where you can browse slashdot.org forever, and complain that slash 1.0 still hasnt been released.
It's the Feel. Rosewood has a warm, soft texture that is so much nicer than cold hard plastic. The conversion (which was completely awesome woodworking, btw.) probably made his palm a lot nicer to hold while he is working on it. Wood just feels "right."
Well, speaking as a former support tech for Windows systems, yes, sometimes you do have to delete the OS and start from scratch. Yes, you can track down a lot of the changes made by a program, but often the program installs, it replaces a slightly different version of some critical library. Whether the library needs to be updated or not. To this day, it amazes me that an installation program can replace Any.DLL in the OS. Nice planning, Billg. That's security for you.
This is also the main cause of "OS Rot", where over time as the user works on the machine, it slows down, and gets more and more unstable. As they are installing things, different versions of important things creep in, and before you know it, stuff wont work right anymore. Deleteing or (ha ha ) uninstalling the program usually doesnt fix the problem, as the uninstal routine won't nuke the new stuff and bring back the old stuff.
If you are a masochist, you can go plumbing in the depths of the system, checking files for date and size against the stuff in the cabs on the CD... but then office might not work. Often, installing office is like installing a Windows 9x service pack. Trying to figure out the correct versions becomes harder depending on how much stuff you have installed on the box.
Back in the day, when I was on the phone (convulsion) we often saw HUGE problems when people installed AOL. AOL had this nasty habit of trying to install it's own libraries for running the modem, and in many cases, replace the TC/IP stack with one that was an order of magnitude smaller than the one windows had. It would take a fiel that was roughly (running from fuzzy buffers here) 700 odd KB and replace it with one that was 40-60! No doubt designed just to run AOL, nothing else, thank you very much Steve Case. This was back in the AOL 2/3 days, but I can't imagine things have gotten any better.
If you are running a windows system, and you havent partioned the OS to the C drive and everything you use and want to keep intact to other places (and with tweakUI, you can do this easily..) then you deserve the endless ordeal of installing all your software again, and restoring data backups.
Anyway, Nuking the OS and starting over is usually the easyist way to fix problems caused by bad installs...
Simply put, if intel releases a P4 with MMX^3 instructions, all the folks at transmeta have to do is Reverse Engineer the sucker, write some code to emulate what it does on the metal, then burn a CD or post an upgrade for the chips on their website.
they are not limited by what future moves intel does. The hardware is software upgradeable.
Besides that, who gives a rats ass about those "enhanced for Intel" websites anyway? most of them tend to be "ooo-pretty" empty anyway..
I saw this a while back during the episode one hype (in fact, this hype is referenced in the film.) the editor was a genius...
My favorite points:
Vader, continuing to mutter under his breath.
The stormtroopers standing in the shop, with the Titanic behind them out the window.
The AT-AT standing on the iceberg
Flaming Ewoks! 'Nuff said.
a direct strike from the death star on the Titanic!
Now, the only thing that would have been better is a freezing, drowning Jar-Jar "Meesa Freezin!" holding on to Celine Dion as he slips beneath the ocean's surface... but alas, that horror had yet to be inflicted upon us, or I am sure the editor would have done something along those lines...
In a related next-movie RUMOR (heard over at aint-it-cool-news.com) Gillian Anderson may be weilding a light saber as a member of the Jedi Council in the next prequel.
I don't buy it, but you never can tell. It's not like Lucas needs to draw in more fanboys, or anything... heh
The thing that has me scratching my head is why someone wants the bones at all?
Now, most people are saying "mount it in my living room / lobby / whatever.."
Here is a dirty little secret: all those skeletons you see in the museum? some are the real deal, but a lot of em are just Castings. Thats correct, a lot of those towering, impressive skeletons you see are actually hollow fiberglass, cast from the real bones, and painstakingly painted to look just like the real thing.
So it seems to me that you should be really interested in getting a Casting of this skeleton, rather than the skeleton itself. Cripes, those things are made of ROCK. they are Heavy.
Give the boys in the lab coats the real thing, give me a casting.
This kind of thing is done now at sporting events regularly. The same technology that was used to put the CBS logo over the NBC sign allows networks to display whatever advertising they want, right where they want it during a game. Its currently being used, too.
I may be wrong in this next point, but I think that its an offshoot of this technology that lets the people broadcasting (american) football games to put the 1st down line on the feild, and not have it overlay a player when he walks over it. I understand that this is non-trivial to do, requiring a semi trailer full of SGI gear.
You know, the name "The Beanies" makes me think of small, fuzzy characters that are over hyped. Surely there had to be a better name lurking out there in the Noosphere than "The Beanies." Sigh.
And shouldn't it be the GNU-Beanies anyway?
And I would like to nominate Slashdot Reader Lotek for his contribution to the Open-source movement. He is deserving of the Open Source Charity award merely for the entertaining and humorous posts he makes on Slashdot. In addition, he should also get the award for Unsung Hero for the literally minutes of work he puts in a day over his hot, steaming keyboard (ew!) attempting to make the people out there who really code and create cool software smile quietly to themselves as they wonder about how Lotek's mother could have gone so terribly wrong...
Wait a second.. don't moderate this to funny... I'm Serious!
Hey, why not? deny the fact that you would be able to feel Oh so superior if you are standing there in the line at Fry's, and you whip out a gold card with/. and a little penguin on it as you pay for that latest version of Caldera...
Or pictures of Hemos, or a GNU, or whatever..
Hey, I would transfer my money to this fine theoretical establishment!
Captain Klutz was Don Martin doing the dead-on accurate spearing of superhero comics YEARS before it was trendy.. Much of the subversive humor to be found in the Tick can be seen, years earlier in the Captain Klutz book. I only wish that I still had mine.. sigh. Thanks mom, for cleaning out my room..
Don Martin, wherever you are right now, Keep on Flortzinooglizing.
Wow, I remember this. There was a painful rendition of the Twelve days of christmas that included "Artoo-Detoo Fish" and other horrible things like that. They actually got the movie actors to do this POS. The sets looked a lot like pressboard with paint, (suprise! they were!) and the story was just laughable.
Now for the good geek part. This special was the first recorded appearance of the coolest character in the series, namely Boba Fett. Sure, it was in cartoon form, but he was there.
Personally, I think that its one of the rare cultural treasures that we have, and it needs to be preserved. (ducks) No, Really! its the one time that Lucas let something SW get out of his control. Besides that, they were so embarrassed that they had to do Empire to make up for it. And as we all know, that was the best of the movies so far! (IMNSHO)
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Actually, using a text to speach dealie would be even better, especially if you got the oldest, nastiest, hardest to understand one that you could find and have it go at it REALLYFASTSOTHATITSHARDTOUNDERSTANDANYWAY.
Of course, since intel is now going to try and push USB in all its myriad and compatible (Irony)sure, I belive it!(/irony)forms down our throats, I would venture to say that firewire is going to die, leaving a spiraling, smoking trail as it falls from the sky. Too bad, too.
The other problem is that Intel hath decreed that This Is The Way. And once again, superior technology is overwhelmed by mass-produced, cheap mediocrity.
Yeah, truth be told, I would have wanted one too. (Grin) But what I really meant to point out is that 90% of the people you would have offered this to would have just looked at you and said "Huh?" And, being the son of a teacher and a principal, I know what I am talking about. It's shameful to see how under provided schools are now, but at the time that the Lisa was being landfilled, they were just not as big of an issue, as most schools just didnt have the funding or the knowlege on how to use them properly.
- "The computer" at this time was still thought to be a large, mysterious box, not something approchable and useable by the unwashed masses.
- The Lisa was not the Mac. (duh) And it suffered greatly from NoApplicationItis.
- Most schools wouldn't have been able to do anything with them at the time.
Remeber, this happened in the Paleolithic Era of computing. Heck, IBM was just warming up, so most people were ignorant of the Term "Personal Computer" and wouldnt have known what to do with one if they had one.Yep, I was getting this for a while, until I cleared my browser cache and forced it to reload the page. Worked like a charm after that.
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I learned everything I know about Nanotechnology from the Nanites up on the satellite of love!
Man, I miss MST3K...
First, you, wide awake, have the top of your head cut open. A nice, nanotech(for want of a more magic technology) cap comes down and settles on the top of your open, steaming cranium. For this experience you get to stay wide awake, talking to the technician, don't notice that trillions of nanomanipulators are settling in between your cells, mapping their function, and replacing them with chunks of nanotech processor, doing the same thing, but faster, smaller, 1/2 the calories ect... This continues with you babbling on, awake, still concious, until what you have left is a nanocomputer running You v.2.0.0(tm) and several chunks of brain meat floating in formaldyhyde. Throughout the entire experience you have been awake, alert, and aware. You are still you.
Finally, You get the top of your head sealed up, stand up, and walk out to go home. Or, alternatly, your body gets taken off to an organ bank/crematorium/soylent green factory and you (still awake and aware through the entire experience...) get taken off to the central brain repostitory, where you are plugged in to the net, where you can browse slashdot.org forever, and complain that slash 1.0 still hasnt been released.
Sign me up.
It's the Feel. Rosewood has a warm, soft texture that is so much nicer than cold hard plastic. The conversion (which was completely awesome woodworking, btw.) probably made his palm a lot nicer to hold while he is working on it. Wood just feels "right."
Okay sir, type in the following: F.. O.. R.. M.. A.. (you get the idea..)
BTW, Opman rocks. Just what I wanted for Opera..
This is also the main cause of "OS Rot", where over time as the user works on the machine, it slows down, and gets more and more unstable. As they are installing things, different versions of important things creep in, and before you know it, stuff wont work right anymore. Deleteing or (ha ha ) uninstalling the program usually doesnt fix the problem, as the uninstal routine won't nuke the new stuff and bring back the old stuff.
If you are a masochist, you can go plumbing in the depths of the system, checking files for date and size against the stuff in the cabs on the CD... but then office might not work. Often, installing office is like installing a Windows 9x service pack. Trying to figure out the correct versions becomes harder depending on how much stuff you have installed on the box.
Back in the day, when I was on the phone (convulsion) we often saw HUGE problems when people installed AOL. AOL had this nasty habit of trying to install it's own libraries for running the modem, and in many cases, replace the TC/IP stack with one that was an order of magnitude smaller than the one windows had. It would take a fiel that was roughly (running from fuzzy buffers here) 700 odd KB and replace it with one that was 40-60! No doubt designed just to run AOL, nothing else, thank you very much Steve Case. This was back in the AOL 2/3 days, but I can't imagine things have gotten any better.
If you are running a windows system, and you havent partioned the OS to the C drive and everything you use and want to keep intact to other places (and with tweakUI, you can do this easily..) then you deserve the endless ordeal of installing all your software again, and restoring data backups.
Anyway, Nuking the OS and starting over is usually the easyist way to fix problems caused by bad installs...
Simply put, if intel releases a P4 with MMX^3 instructions, all the folks at transmeta have to do is Reverse Engineer the sucker, write some code to emulate what it does on the metal, then burn a CD or post an upgrade for the chips on their website.
they are not limited by what future moves intel does. The hardware is software upgradeable.
Besides that, who gives a rats ass about those "enhanced for Intel" websites anyway? most of them tend to be "ooo-pretty" empty anyway..
My favorite points:
Now, the only thing that would have been better is a freezing, drowning Jar-Jar "Meesa Freezin!" holding on to Celine Dion as he slips beneath the ocean's surface... but alas, that horror had yet to be inflicted upon us, or I am sure the editor would have done something along those lines...
In a related next-movie RUMOR (heard over at aint-it-cool-news.com) Gillian Anderson may be weilding a light saber as a member of the Jedi Council in the next prequel.
I don't buy it, but you never can tell. It's not like Lucas needs to draw in more fanboys, or anything... heh
Now, most people are saying "mount it in my living room / lobby / whatever.."
Here is a dirty little secret: all those skeletons you see in the museum? some are the real deal, but a lot of em are just Castings. Thats correct, a lot of those towering, impressive skeletons you see are actually hollow fiberglass, cast from the real bones, and painstakingly painted to look just like the real thing.
So it seems to me that you should be really interested in getting a Casting of this skeleton, rather than the skeleton itself. Cripes, those things are made of ROCK. they are Heavy.
Give the boys in the lab coats the real thing, give me a casting.
I may be wrong in this next point, but I think that its an offshoot of this technology that lets the people broadcasting (american) football games to put the 1st down line on the feild, and not have it overlay a player when he walks over it. I understand that this is non-trivial to do, requiring a semi trailer full of SGI gear.
Flamebait is when J. Clueless Hacker comes on and says something along the lines of:
Linux sux! Mac Rools Joo!
This post, on the other hand, made me laugh.
Don't inflict negative karma on this poor poster because of your lack of humor.
Thank you and Good night now!
And shouldn't it be the GNU-Beanies anyway?
And I would like to nominate Slashdot Reader Lotek for his contribution to the Open-source movement. He is deserving of the Open Source Charity award merely for the entertaining and humorous posts he makes on Slashdot. In addition, he should also get the award for Unsung Hero for the literally minutes of work he puts in a day over his hot, steaming keyboard (ew!) attempting to make the people out there who really code and create cool software smile quietly to themselves as they wonder about how Lotek's mother could have gone so terribly wrong...
Wait a second.. don't moderate this to funny... I'm Serious!
Hey, why not? deny the fact that you would be able to feel Oh so superior if you are standing there in the line at Fry's, and you whip out a gold card with /. and a little penguin on it as you pay for that latest version of Caldera...
Or pictures of Hemos, or a GNU, or whatever..
Hey, I would transfer my money to this fine theoretical establishment!
Don Martin, wherever you are right now, Keep on Flortzinooglizing.
Hey, how did this get bumped up to a 2?
Sure, like the standard "1st poster" even understands the word eschew. right now they are trying to figure out if you sneezed on them or something.
Yeah, I know. Couldn't resist.
Now for the good geek part. This special was the first recorded appearance of the coolest character in the series, namely Boba Fett. Sure, it was in cartoon form, but he was there.
Personally, I think that its one of the rare cultural treasures that we have, and it needs to be preserved. (ducks) No, Really! its the one time that Lucas let something SW get out of his control. Besides that, they were so embarrassed that they had to do Empire to make up for it. And as we all know, that was the best of the movies so far! (IMNSHO)