"I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots."
Linus, who's becoming more outspoken as he ages, needs to find that line between anonymous forum geek and software spokesperson...and then not cross it. Calling anyone an incompetent idiot is both non-constructive if you're hoping to improve a situation, and just plain unfriendly in an area where cooperation amongst developers is so crucial (open source).
I feel that a concert delivers an experience above and beyond what listening to a CD can provide, no matter the stereo or venue. You're there, in front of this person, who is hopefully doing amazing things with her voice, right in front of you. I'm not belittling the CD-making process - it's tortuous, long-houred for all involved, and costs a lot of money. But I feel that at a concert, you almost always get your money's worth, because the person before you is working, doing it "for real". Band or DJ? If the band is good, people will almost unanimously choose the band.
All that being said, $250 for a concert better give you near front-row access. We paid $125 for Billy Joel tickets in 1989, and even he mentioned the ridiculous price people were paying. But damn if it wasn't worth every penny.
One of the biggest risks in postponing a product launch is being out-hustled to market by rivals.
In an industry where there is no originality, only evolution, having your competitor's product out before yours doesn't mean much. People will buy yours if it's better or has features they want. If you're making another XBox 360 but calling it Joe 180, it's your own fault. I for one wouldn't mind things slowing down some, more in software than hardware. Pay programmers not for the final product (or the nth iteration of the product), but for their work on it.
Windows' backward compatibility and long next-version-time-to-market is probably the best thing going. Better than having to try to make your product for a particular version of Linux and then right 20 pages of documentation detailing how to get it to work with another version.
Duke Nukem Forever postponed waiting on release of next version of SeaMonkey. Single-Player demo...err...video clip...umm...sound byte...sigh...unedited text from blog at 11!
I wonder if, for a true Star Trek-like force field, if you could have something like a sustainable high-energy laser spread into a wide arc (or several wide-ish linear lasers) fired from the top of the tank into either the ground (bummer for the ground) or some sort of mirror that can bounce it upwards or even back into itself (perhaps feedback-driven to keep a reaction going).
Ideally, the tank would have a series of laser towers with a wide spread mounted on its top such that they could fire down the length of the tank towards the front where the receiver or reflector would be. Whenever radar picks up an incoming, it predicts near impact time and fires for a full second, hopefully vaporizing whatever was incoming (rather than just exploding it which might also work but runs the risk of destroying the "shield" generators).
You know, Walmart seems to be such a huge force everywhere, but because I don't shop there, it's hard for me to see it that way. I suppose it's like not watching TV or reading the news - one day you wake up and wonder why there's an armed guard in the subway knocking a soda off a garbage can and telling you in a menacing voice to "Pick it up."
Democrats but forward a suggestion to protect certain companies from those that control the access to the internet. Block AT&T from giving Microsoft.com 50% of its bandwidth, for example, while all of AT&Ts smaller customers share the other 50%.
Republicans block suggestion, stating it is bad for the economy to stifle competition and cronyism. If MS wants to pay for that much bandwidth, let them. Otherwise AT&T isn't making the profits it might.
My conclusion: What the Republicans have done is essentially deregulated the Internet and allowed big business to take over. If you don't include clauses like the one the Democrats suggested, companies will think, "How can I make more money?" and you'll get ideas like, "I can throttle bandwidth to all but the highest bidders, regardless of how much the consumers pay to get like service between content providers!"
If "stifling the economy" means throwing consumer rights in the toilet and flushing twice, I'm very excited about the 2006 Republican sweep in the congressional elections (not).
This concerns me as well. If the War Against Terror expands to the Internet, how will the administration manipulate/ignore our Constitution to better fight it? Are anti-Bush websites now terror suspects? Can they search GoDaddy's records for sites they deems questionable to determine if the owner is in the U.S. and can possibly be prosecuted? I'm waiting for the next enemy combatant term that will render our rights incapacitated until further notice.
"What he's saying, on the internets, isn't speech. It's not. If it were speech, he'd be talking, like I am now. I'm giving a speech. Therefore, I am a speech giver. This person on the internets...he isn't talking, so therefore the Constitution does not apply."
How much is too much? And when it becomes too much, who can we rely on to help us? The Supreme Court? Congress?
Even with a piece of paper being churned out after you vote for you to "verify", if the counters only look at the machine results, it doesn't mean a thing. Paper says, "Bush!", machine says, "Gore!" It would make elections only semi-anonymous, but if you took your ballot number and were able to verify your vote online (and even tally everyone else's), THAT would be a use for electronic voting. Otherwise, it's just a faster way to cheat the elections.
It's not the voters who decide on the candidate who is elected. It is those counting the votes. - Paraphrase from someone I don't want to look up right now...
I agree. In HL2, I really felt like I was trying to get away from a bad world, then trying to stop that bad world from becoming worse. Good stuff. But for a great storyline in an FPS, try F.E.A.R. Combat is amazing, if unvaried...but the story is definitely cool.
I might be off here, but what I think the original poster was talking about was the effect of Special Relativity. As the superconductor spins close to relativistic speeds, its mass would increase, possibly increasing to the point it has its own gravitational field, however small. I'm not sure on the size or speed of rotation of the superconductor, but I don't think it's moving near the speed of light (I think around.95c is where you start actually noticing an increase in mass), so that dismisses the increase in mass through S.R.
But then again, perhaps the poster was talking about something else.
Meh...just bought parts for a $700 PC. Runs all the latest games at max settings.
Of course, a 30 inch LCD is bigger than most people's television sets. (Well, it USED to be bigger...nowadays, you need to be able to see the TV from both ends of the couch...)
"Dude, you go to class yesterday?" "Yep. It was my turn, wasn't it?" "Cool. Got the notes?"
It's different than just copying your friend's notes because, really, they didn't do any work either if the teacher has pre-made notes.
That being said, I think the teacher should be able to teach how she wants. It's the way it has always been and that's good. Gets kids out of their bubbles sometimes.
As some have said, it's an issue of access. Just because I can kill you, doesn't mean I have to. So just because your web site, accessible from anywhere in the world, has obscene content, doesn't mean I have to look at it and sue you because I'm offended.
Regulating web content will be one the world's biggest hurdles and should be on a case-by-case basis. Sure, pull pro-nazi materials off E-bay if enough complaints happen. But leave up the pro-nazi web site run by neo-nazi folk...those who want to look at it, will. Most won't.
Your biggest problem will be when one country is actively censoring free speech. The Internet's borders are notoriously nebulous and hard to define. Who does the censoring country blame when "bad" content gets in?
Hmm...it's my data, I provided it, where's my cut? I'd say $10 for every company my information was sold to. And I get royalties for every time a new company takes it from one of the original buyers. At least that would be incentive to give up your information.
Meh. For web-based applications on a small to medium level, PHP is the way to go. You can say it's just a scripting language and therefore not a "real" programming language if your definition of "real" does not include a language with defined syntax, for loops, variables, arrays, system calls, objects, classes, etc.
But then what would you call it? An egg? No...that's taken by those round things chickens lay. I've no idea really. I'll just go with programming language and leave the modifiers out.
I grew up on Nantucket. Cousin's dad had a house on Muskeget (the even smaller island west of Tuckernuck). Not sure what he did for power, but you're right, there isn't any out there. And New England is alot like England...no consistent sunlight...so solar power is generally not a viable solution (some people use it though).
All this being said, and I may be slightly opinionated here...best beaches in the world (for non-snorkelling, diving activities). I've toured Hawaii, Greece, Mexico, Florida, France, Bermuda...the only place that comes close is Fire Island in New York.
So quick! Buy your $200 plane ticket for the 45 minute flight from Boston today! (Or rather, 5 months from now when the water is actually swimmable...)
Perhaps there's a preference to change this, but having to scroll over the images to get their particulars (size, location) is a little time consuming. Being able to resize the thumbnails is a good feature, but I don't like the pop-out. I want streamlined, not MacOS X eye candy!;-)
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Battlestar Galactica is good, but dark.
Firefly was good, but kept things kind of light-hearted.
Which was better? For me, Firefly. Curse the gods for its untimely demise!
"I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots."
Linus, who's becoming more outspoken as he ages, needs to find that line between anonymous forum geek and software spokesperson...and then not cross it. Calling anyone an incompetent idiot is both non-constructive if you're hoping to improve a situation, and just plain unfriendly in an area where cooperation amongst developers is so crucial (open source).
I feel that a concert delivers an experience above and beyond what listening to a CD can provide, no matter the stereo or venue. You're there, in front of this person, who is hopefully doing amazing things with her voice, right in front of you. I'm not belittling the CD-making process - it's tortuous, long-houred for all involved, and costs a lot of money. But I feel that at a concert, you almost always get your money's worth, because the person before you is working, doing it "for real". Band or DJ? If the band is good, people will almost unanimously choose the band.
All that being said, $250 for a concert better give you near front-row access. We paid $125 for Billy Joel tickets in 1989, and even he mentioned the ridiculous price people were paying. But damn if it wasn't worth every penny.
Concerns me that we actually need a Civil Liberties Officer....
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In an industry where there is no originality, only evolution, having your competitor's product out before yours doesn't mean much. People will buy yours if it's better or has features they want. If you're making another XBox 360 but calling it Joe 180, it's your own fault. I for one wouldn't mind things slowing down some, more in software than hardware. Pay programmers not for the final product (or the nth iteration of the product), but for their work on it. Windows' backward compatibility and long next-version-time-to-market is probably the best thing going. Better than having to try to make your product for a particular version of Linux and then right 20 pages of documentation detailing how to get it to work with another version.
Duke Nukem Forever postponed waiting on release of next version of SeaMonkey. Single-Player demo...err...video clip...umm...sound byte...sigh...unedited text from blog at 11!
I wonder if, for a true Star Trek-like force field, if you could have something like a sustainable high-energy laser spread into a wide arc (or several wide-ish linear lasers) fired from the top of the tank into either the ground (bummer for the ground) or some sort of mirror that can bounce it upwards or even back into itself (perhaps feedback-driven to keep a reaction going).
Ideally, the tank would have a series of laser towers with a wide spread mounted on its top such that they could fire down the length of the tank towards the front where the receiver or reflector would be. Whenever radar picks up an incoming, it predicts near impact time and fires for a full second, hopefully vaporizing whatever was incoming (rather than just exploding it which might also work but runs the risk of destroying the "shield" generators).
You know, Walmart seems to be such a huge force everywhere, but because I don't shop there, it's hard for me to see it that way. I suppose it's like not watching TV or reading the news - one day you wake up and wonder why there's an armed guard in the subway knocking a soda off a garbage can and telling you in a menacing voice to "Pick it up."
Funny...I read the article and I saw this:
Democrats but forward a suggestion to protect certain companies from those that control the access to the internet. Block AT&T from giving Microsoft.com 50% of its bandwidth, for example, while all of AT&Ts smaller customers share the other 50%.
Republicans block suggestion, stating it is bad for the economy to stifle competition and cronyism. If MS wants to pay for that much bandwidth, let them. Otherwise AT&T isn't making the profits it might.
My conclusion: What the Republicans have done is essentially deregulated the Internet and allowed big business to take over. If you don't include clauses like the one the Democrats suggested, companies will think, "How can I make more money?" and you'll get ideas like, "I can throttle bandwidth to all but the highest bidders, regardless of how much the consumers pay to get like service between content providers!"
If "stifling the economy" means throwing consumer rights in the toilet and flushing twice, I'm very excited about the 2006 Republican sweep in the congressional elections (not).
This concerns me as well. If the War Against Terror expands to the Internet, how will the administration manipulate/ignore our Constitution to better fight it? Are anti-Bush websites now terror suspects? Can they search GoDaddy's records for sites they deems questionable to determine if the owner is in the U.S. and can possibly be prosecuted? I'm waiting for the next enemy combatant term that will render our rights incapacitated until further notice.
"What he's saying, on the internets, isn't speech. It's not. If it were speech, he'd be talking, like I am now. I'm giving a speech. Therefore, I am a speech giver. This person on the internets...he isn't talking, so therefore the Constitution does not apply."
How much is too much? And when it becomes too much, who can we rely on to help us? The Supreme Court? Congress?
No problem. Just hand me a gravity gun, or better, a crowbar. That'll take care of those flash-bulbing, existence-monitoring machines!
It's not the voters who decide on the candidate who is elected. It is those counting the votes. - Paraphrase from someone I don't want to look up right now...
I agree. In HL2, I really felt like I was trying to get away from a bad world, then trying to stop that bad world from becoming worse. Good stuff. But for a great storyline in an FPS, try F.E.A.R. Combat is amazing, if unvaried...but the story is definitely cool.
I know better...the money I gave had been through the wash and was all crinkled, especially near the edges.
I might be off here, but what I think the original poster was talking about was the effect of Special Relativity. As the superconductor spins close to relativistic speeds, its mass would increase, possibly increasing to the point it has its own gravitational field, however small. I'm not sure on the size or speed of rotation of the superconductor, but I don't think it's moving near the speed of light (I think around .95c is where you start actually noticing an increase in mass), so that dismisses the increase in mass through S.R.
But then again, perhaps the poster was talking about something else.
Meh...just bought parts for a $700 PC. Runs all the latest games at max settings.
Of course, a 30 inch LCD is bigger than most people's television sets. (Well, it USED to be bigger...nowadays, you need to be able to see the TV from both ends of the couch...)
"Dude, you go to class yesterday?"
"Yep. It was my turn, wasn't it?"
"Cool. Got the notes?"
It's different than just copying your friend's notes because, really, they didn't do any work either if the teacher has pre-made notes.
That being said, I think the teacher should be able to teach how she wants. It's the way it has always been and that's good. Gets kids out of their bubbles sometimes.
As some have said, it's an issue of access. Just because I can kill you, doesn't mean I have to. So just because your web site, accessible from anywhere in the world, has obscene content, doesn't mean I have to look at it and sue you because I'm offended.
Regulating web content will be one the world's biggest hurdles and should be on a case-by-case basis. Sure, pull pro-nazi materials off E-bay if enough complaints happen. But leave up the pro-nazi web site run by neo-nazi folk...those who want to look at it, will. Most won't.
Your biggest problem will be when one country is actively censoring free speech. The Internet's borders are notoriously nebulous and hard to define. Who does the censoring country blame when "bad" content gets in?
Hmm...it's my data, I provided it, where's my cut? I'd say $10 for every company my information was sold to. And I get royalties for every time a new company takes it from one of the original buyers. At least that would be incentive to give up your information.
Meh. For web-based applications on a small to medium level, PHP is the way to go. You can say it's just a scripting language and therefore not a "real" programming language if your definition of "real" does not include a language with defined syntax, for loops, variables, arrays, system calls, objects, classes, etc.
But then what would you call it? An egg? No...that's taken by those round things chickens lay. I've no idea really. I'll just go with programming language and leave the modifiers out.
I would never in a million years pay for something that's going to give me advertising!
Now excuse me while I watch my cable TV programming...for $60/month...
If I remember correctly, it something like:
"A robot cannot allow, directly or through inaction, humanity to come to harm." Sort of a key point in "Robots of Dawn".
I grew up on Nantucket. Cousin's dad had a house on Muskeget (the even smaller island west of Tuckernuck). Not sure what he did for power, but you're right, there isn't any out there. And New England is alot like England...no consistent sunlight...so solar power is generally not a viable solution (some people use it though).
All this being said, and I may be slightly opinionated here...best beaches in the world (for non-snorkelling, diving activities). I've toured Hawaii, Greece, Mexico, Florida, France, Bermuda...the only place that comes close is Fire Island in New York.
So quick! Buy your $200 plane ticket for the 45 minute flight from Boston today! (Or rather, 5 months from now when the water is actually swimmable...)
Perhaps there's a preference to change this, but having to scroll over the images to get their particulars (size, location) is a little time consuming. Being able to resize the thumbnails is a good feature, but I don't like the pop-out. I want streamlined, not MacOS X eye candy! ;-)