It'd be awesome to have one of these for the Boston to Washington D.C. route. You could go from Boston to New York in one hour and to Washington D.C. in two hours. Those travel times would be for the regular speed of this train, not the time trial. It'd never get funded though. Amtrak is essentially bankrupt.
This is just bogus. It looks like someone has an axe to grind with Lucas. Science fiction was drive-in fodder back in the 50's. If anything, Lucas moved things forward. I'm not a huge fan but give credit where credit is due.
I'd bet money that Google bought YouTube to get face time/leverage with television/movie execs. Google has failed miserably to get the entertainment folks on board. I think they made an expensive gamble that they could leverage YouTube to get the studios on board and they lost.
"What bothers me about this report... and everything like it which has been trotted out over the last few years... is that people are expected to be stupid enough to believe it."
Don't kid yourself; people *are* stupid enough to believe it otherwise they wouldn't waste their money, especially politicians. To the rest of us within IQ above 80 it is insulting.
Matt Damon as Kirk might be interesting. I could see Sinise as McCoy (not Scotty!). But there is no way on earth Brody is going to play Spock. It ain't gonna happen.
I agree with you, but not having standards has some value as well. Once you publish a standard it makes it a lot easier for someone to create an exploit that will not be detected by that standard testing method. Of course, that assumes the standards will stay the same which hopefully they will not, but this is the federal government and when have they ever been nimble about responding to a threat?
That's probably not a great solution because some of the servers that host these sites are either compromised or the servers host multiple other legitimate sites or the content on the page has been hijacked from a legitimate site.
If you block all of the IPs on the page you may be blocking legitimate traffic. Would you rather get 1000 complaints that your users can't get to Bank of America or take the risk that 10 users may be duped? Despite the fact that the injury to the duped user is probably greater from a business perspective the answer is obvious: don't do it.
It also sets an annoying precedent. Do you want SysAdmins policing all of the content their users download? Because I'm sure Congress would love for you to do that (e.g. COPA, etc).
Uh, because you think it is the best environment in which to develop? Other than the market share of the platform that's the only other relevant consideration. It may actually make Apple work harder to make Cocoa more appealing.
P.S. You also lose points for having zero originality. This argument is ancient and all of the trade-offs are well known.
I'll grant that much of this article is horse crap, but it's always disappointing to so see how vehement people become in their reactions when their livelihood is threatened. It's a shame because they are so busy defending themseles they can't take the time to find out if there is anything worthwhile being said. I bet 85% of the people responding haven't even read the article. Of course that's typical Slashdot...
Everyone is so focused on our big brains that I think it'll probably end up obscure something more fundamental. I am not saying that we aren't different because of our brain size, but I think it'll be something indirect that allows us to have such a big brain. There are some obvious ones like cranium size, but I'm thinking something at the immune system level.
I am serious. It's absurd that hyterical mothers have such political clout that they are able to curtail our Constitutional rights (for those of us in the USA). Once again sentimentality overwhelms reason. To be fair, it's not just hysterical mothers. It's the same with people that are willing to trade freedom for "security" because they are afraid of terror. Fear is the motivator in both cases.
I didn't say I was for drinking and driving that would obviously be idiotic. I said I was against draconian drinking and driving laws. For example, suspension of your license for refusing to incriminate yourself with a breathalyzer (MA) or impounding your car because you are accused of drunken driving (NY). The first comes close to violating the fifth amendment and the second violates the principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty.
or terrified mothers or teatotaling mothers. They are responsible for such great legislation like prohibition, draconian drinking and driving laws. If they're afraid of freedom, they should just lock themselves up.
Nice. Great post. The only thing I'd add is that if media PCs could be made as easy to use as a TV remote (which is unlikely), then they might have some more sales. And it's not because the average person is too stupid to figure out how ot use it otherwise. It's because taking the time to figure it out and/or configure the device is not worth it to them. Single purpose devices are indeed in some cases quite superior.
The parents are the ones flipping out here. The police were simply doing their job. I admire their professionality in the face of what obviously would be an unpopular action. The parents claim their children were "treated like hardened criminals" and "in the same room as rapists and murderers". Apparently not while rapists and murderers were present. This kind of hyperbole speaks for itself. Overall I think it's a good lesson: if you break the law, you will be arrested.
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Uh, you do know that Leopard was delayed until November-ish, right? Timelines seem to match to me.
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I don't mind that...
It'd be awesome to have one of these for the Boston to Washington D.C. route. You could go from Boston to New York in one hour and to Washington D.C. in two hours. Those travel times would be for the regular speed of this train, not the time trial. It'd never get funded though. Amtrak is essentially bankrupt.
This is just bogus. It looks like someone has an axe to grind with Lucas. Science fiction was drive-in fodder back in the 50's. If anything, Lucas moved things forward. I'm not a huge fan but give credit where credit is due.
I'd bet money that Google bought YouTube to get face time/leverage with television/movie execs. Google has failed miserably to get the entertainment folks on board. I think they made an expensive gamble that they could leverage YouTube to get the studios on board and they lost.
It's a good thing I set the bar low with the "IQ of 80" comment considering my grammar and spelling mistakes in my last post.
"What bothers me about this report ... and everything like it which has been trotted out over the last few years ... is that people are expected to be stupid enough to believe it."
Don't kid yourself; people *are* stupid enough to believe it otherwise they wouldn't waste their money, especially politicians. To the rest of us within IQ above 80 it is insulting.
Can we have less free advertising (i.e. press releases) and more articles that are actually informative? I know it's asking a lot... but come on, man!
Matt Damon as Kirk might be interesting. I could see Sinise as McCoy (not Scotty!). But there is no way on earth Brody is going to play Spock. It ain't gonna happen.
Is that like DLL hell? Fedora is clearly on its way to being a successful operating system, if it has something in common with Windows!
Or its so bad there are some glaring examples that can be addressed right off. The stuff users find can wait till the Second Edition. ;-)
Too bad he has been preempted by the Venice Project/Joost.
I agree with you, but not having standards has some value as well. Once you publish a standard it makes it a lot easier for someone to create an exploit that will not be detected by that standard testing method. Of course, that assumes the standards will stay the same which hopefully they will not, but this is the federal government and when have they ever been nimble about responding to a threat?
"I don't think anyone is going to "buy" Vista."
;-)
True, unless of course they are buying it to run under Boot Camp on a Mac.
That's probably not a great solution because some of the servers that host these sites are either compromised or the servers host multiple other legitimate sites or the content on the page has been hijacked from a legitimate site.
If you block all of the IPs on the page you may be blocking legitimate traffic. Would you rather get 1000 complaints that your users can't get to Bank of America or take the risk that 10 users may be duped? Despite the fact that the injury to the duped user is probably greater from a business perspective the answer is obvious: don't do it.
It also sets an annoying precedent. Do you want SysAdmins policing all of the content their users download? Because I'm sure Congress would love for you to do that (e.g. COPA, etc).
Uh, because you think it is the best environment in which to develop? Other than the market share of the platform that's the only other relevant consideration. It may actually make Apple work harder to make Cocoa more appealing.
P.S. You also lose points for having zero originality. This argument is ancient and all of the trade-offs are well known.
I'll grant that much of this article is horse crap, but it's always disappointing to so see how vehement people become in their reactions when their livelihood is threatened. It's a shame because they are so busy defending themseles they can't take the time to find out if there is anything worthwhile being said. I bet 85% of the people responding haven't even read the article. Of course that's typical Slashdot...
Don't forget the Commodore 128! It came with CP/M installed in ROM (I think). Not too shabby for a "toy" computer.
Everyone is so focused on our big brains that I think it'll probably end up obscure something more fundamental. I am not saying that we aren't different because of our brain size, but I think it'll be something indirect that allows us to have such a big brain. There are some obvious ones like cranium size, but I'm thinking something at the immune system level.
I am serious. It's absurd that hyterical mothers have such political clout that they are able to curtail our Constitutional rights (for those of us in the USA). Once again sentimentality overwhelms reason. To be fair, it's not just hysterical mothers. It's the same with people that are willing to trade freedom for "security" because they are afraid of terror. Fear is the motivator in both cases.
I didn't say I was for drinking and driving that would obviously be idiotic. I said I was against draconian drinking and driving laws. For example, suspension of your license for refusing to incriminate yourself with a breathalyzer (MA) or impounding your car because you are accused of drunken driving (NY). The first comes close to violating the fifth amendment and the second violates the principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty.
or terrified mothers or teatotaling mothers. They are responsible for such great legislation like prohibition, draconian drinking and driving laws. If they're afraid of freedom, they should just lock themselves up.
Nice. Great post. The only thing I'd add is that if media PCs could be made as easy to use as a TV remote (which is unlikely), then they might have some more sales. And it's not because the average person is too stupid to figure out how ot use it otherwise. It's because taking the time to figure it out and/or configure the device is not worth it to them. Single purpose devices are indeed in some cases quite superior.
The parents are the ones flipping out here. The police were simply doing their job. I admire their professionality in the face of what obviously would be an unpopular action. The parents claim their children were "treated like hardened criminals" and "in the same room as rapists and murderers". Apparently not while rapists and murderers were present. This kind of hyperbole speaks for itself. Overall I think it's a good lesson: if you break the law, you will be arrested.