Why do reasonable people always try to find some way for bible stories to have their foundation in some actual event? What if it's just straight-up bullshit? You know, like Greek myths, or 8-armed Hindu gods, Cthulu, FSM, etc.? Sometimes I think that even trying to find a way to fit biblical stories into reality is like accepting that there's some modicum of truth to these stories.
But if you really think about it, what stories could possibly survive 2000 years of sharing and still resemble their origins? Have you ever played the telephone game? Within 10 minutes, the story is so distorted that you can't even recognize the original. Add in centuries of illiteracy, dozens of ulterior motives, and there is no reason to think that *any* story in the bible has any basis in reality.
yeah, backwards compatibility for software and hardware really sucks. I like to buy all new stuff every 5 years. Seriously, I've been able to use my games and controllers for 8 to 10 years per generation. I feel like I'm being treated like dirt.
The review really glosses over some major flaws in the Windows software:
no MP3 support
no iTunes support
DOESN'T RUN AS A SERVICE!!!
Because of the last, you must leave somebody logged
in and running the software in order for your
scheduled recordings to record. If you want to play
your files on a non-WMA-enabled device, you have
to record as WAV and then write your own automation
to convert to MP3. Then you still have to manually
import the files into iTunes.
I don't think there's much hope of trying to
run the existing software as a service, since
it launches the GUI and turns on the audio when
you launch it! D'oh!
The packaging is really misleading, suggesting that
there is more direct iTunes support.
But it does work if the software is running.
But honestly, how much more work would it have
taken to make it a true Windows service? Lame.
This is also the excuse folks make for buying PCs as opposed to something more userfriendly for their situation -- I can run my business software at home with this so I can work virtual 100 hour a week jobs and get paid for 40 of them.
I think you meant to say "so I can borrow my company's copies of MS Office and Photoshop and save myself $1000."
Too few offices have copies of MS Office for Mac that employees can "borrow".
Anybody who says Google is useless doesn't use it to search Usenet. This resource is by far the most valuable archive on the planet for software developers and anybody else who has a narrowly focused need for information that is available on Usenet.
I use it 40-50 times daily. Admittedly, I don't use the Web search much, so I haven't witnessed google's "demise", but I think it's still an incredible tool. And I heap tons of praise on google's management for not caving to the pressure to crap up their site with graphical ads, lots of self-promotional links, irrelevant information, etc.
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even better is a short called "Shadow Puppets". I don't know which came first, but as I watched "More", all I could think of was "Shadow Puppets", which I haven't seen since 1994 at SIGGRAPH.
...the other browsers out there, Mozilla and Opera mainly, will make gains in the market because of standards, constant updates and new features being added, support for new technologies that may emerge in the next few years, etc...
Oh, how I wish this were true. But if we think back to the peak of the browser wars in the late 1990s, the thing that drove changes in server-side technologies was changes in browser capabilities. If MS doesn't release a new browser, and it controls 95% of the market, site publishers will have little reason to change the structure of their sites. Even if Mozilla came up with the most incredible new feature that would improve sites drastically, how many publishers would adopt the technology?
We've reached a period of stagnation which from the perspective of a publisher, is a good thing. To spur real innovation, you have to rev up that old cycle; to do that, you need at least two competitors with nearly equivalent (and substantial) market share.
Not only did you miss the point about absolute versus relative coordinates, but the special paper also tells the pen (and any associated software) WHAT PAGE you were writing on, out of a collection of millions of unique pages. This is an extremely powerful concept. The software can determine that you're filling out an "e-mail form", and knows that when you write in a 6-inch box that is 2 inches from the top of the page and 1 inch from the left side of the page, you're filling out an e-mail address, and it can apply handwriting recognition accordingly, then generate an e-mail message to your recipient using an image of your handwriting. And this is a trivial example.
The reason that the grids are unique on different pieces of paper is so that software can get some context about what you're writing on. The statement that no two pieces of paper are the same is not entirely correct. Each piece of paper in the larger grid is assigned a unique ID. That ID is mapped to a particular application, so that by calling the Anoto lookup service, software could know that you're filling out an insurance application, or that you're sending e-mail to somebody. It can then interpret the ink intelligently, since it can then determine where the various fields are on the page and what they mean.
How exactly do you make your parents' computer run faster with Linux+X? I have _never_ installed Linux and X on a machine and ended up with a faster, more responsive machine than I had under Windows. This goes for machines across the power spectrum, high-end machines as well as low-end.
I'm sure it's because for the average user, an OS upgrade is beyond the realm of reasonable possibilities. Some users don't even separate the OS from the applications that run on it.
Since PC sales started slowing down two years ago, there haven't been enough people buying Win2K and WinXP preinstalls to change the stats dramatically. I doubt that OS upgrades amount to more than 5-10% of users.
IMHO, the Mozilla developers made a very bad decision when they decided to create their own GUI toolkit from scratch rather than rely on the interface of each operating system Mozilla ran on.
As a user of a non-mainstream OS (and as a Mac user, you'll surely take exception with this, spouting stats about being the most widely used UNIX or something), you should be thankful that the team chose to build a cross-platform toolkit. How long do you think you would have to wait for a Mozilla port to Mac? Or when upgrades came out, how far behind would the Mac port lag?
Give the Mozilla team a break. They've written a marvelous app that spawned a number of incredibly useful side projects (Bugzilla, Gecko, etc.) that will improve the state of open source computing for years to come.
The point is that it's non-trivial to "create a real JPEG virus". You have to find that "jackpot" vulnerability that will render millions of machines helpless against your exploit. McAfee did not find such a hole. Yet my local paper was running an article about this huge new vulnerability in JPEGs. I'll probably soon be answering mail from my mother about them. They're creating hype plain and simple.
If you have this executable (EXTRK.EXE) installed on your system, and if the registry has been altered in a very specific way, you're vulnerable.
In other news, a new virus that turns every e-mail you get into a timebomb was discovered. You are vulnerable if you have replaced outlook.exe with f-u.exe (which for every message you receive in your POP3 mailbox, sends 100 copies to all your friends, then promptly removes all your files. Before shutting down, it displays yummy.gif on your screen). Users worldwide are in a panic over this hugely dangerous virus.
I think a lot of people don't consider how incredibly bulky an iPaq is with an expansion sleeve (required for wireless connectivity).
If you want elegance, go with a Jornada 568 (while you still can) along with the Symbol 802.11b CF card Other options include the Casio E-200 (but you can't use the Symbol card with it; you have to buy some other Casio-sanctioned card), the NEC P300 and Toshiba's offering (although I haven't tested the Symbol card with either of these). The last three options have the bonus of an SD slot, too.
Marketing StarOffice won't make a bit of difference, no matter how good it is. In the corporate world, IT managers are spending other people's money, and will continue to buy MS Office, despite the existence of a free office suite. A large percentage of the IT workforce knows nothing but Microsoft solutions.
At home, how many copies of MS Office are "borrowed" copies from one's employer? As long as it's easy to steal, people will continue to use MS Office heavily at home.
Of course, with the new activaction madness in XP products, maybe things _will_ change...
Nice thought, but I don't know that such a generic tool could ever really work.
Didn't MS build some generic configuration tool that could configure any and every application? I recall seeing something like that a few years ago -- maybe it was abadoned; I don't know.
But the fact is that the interface was absolutely awful. It is an extremely difficult task to write a tool that can configure any random piece of software and have any sort of usability left in the interface.
If your salary increased at an "annual rate of 50%" for 5 years, you'd be making 760% of what you made the first year. Not bad; I don't think you're going to improve on that with _any_ degree.
But if you meant that your salary had increased by 50% over those 5 years, then I can see why you might be looking for more...
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Why do reasonable people always try to find some way for bible stories to have their foundation in some actual event? What if it's just straight-up bullshit? You know, like Greek myths, or 8-armed Hindu gods, Cthulu, FSM, etc.? Sometimes I think that even trying to find a way to fit biblical stories into reality is like accepting that there's some modicum of truth to these stories.
But if you really think about it, what stories could possibly survive 2000 years of sharing and still resemble their origins? Have you ever played the telephone game? Within 10 minutes, the story is so distorted that you can't even recognize the original. Add in centuries of illiteracy, dozens of ulterior motives, and there is no reason to think that *any* story in the bible has any basis in reality.
yeah, backwards compatibility for software and hardware really sucks. I like to buy all new stuff every 5 years. Seriously, I've been able to use my games and controllers for 8 to 10 years per generation. I feel like I'm being treated like dirt.
Because of the last, you must leave somebody logged in and running the software in order for your scheduled recordings to record. If you want to play your files on a non-WMA-enabled device, you have to record as WAV and then write your own automation to convert to MP3. Then you still have to manually import the files into iTunes.
I don't think there's much hope of trying to run the existing software as a service, since it launches the GUI and turns on the audio when you launch it! D'oh!
The packaging is really misleading, suggesting that there is more direct iTunes support.
But it does work if the software is running. But honestly, how much more work would it have taken to make it a true Windows service? Lame.
I think you meant to say "so I can borrow my company's copies of MS Office and Photoshop and save myself $1000."
Too few offices have copies of MS Office for Mac that employees can "borrow".
I don't think that teaching students assembly makes them programming aces. I think that programming aces embrace difficult techniques like assembly.
If you try to jam assembly down the throats of a wider audience, you'll just have _more_ students bailing from computer-related fields.
You'll probably get the same number of programming gurus out the other end as you would have without broadening the exposure to assembly programming.
Anybody who says Google is useless doesn't use it
to search Usenet. This resource is by far the
most valuable archive on the planet for software
developers and anybody else who has a narrowly
focused need for information that is available on
Usenet.
I use it 40-50 times daily. Admittedly, I don't
use the Web search much, so I haven't witnessed
google's "demise", but I think it's still an
incredible tool. And I heap tons of praise on
google's management for not caving to the pressure
to crap up their site with graphical ads, lots of
self-promotional links, irrelevant information,
etc.
even better is a short called "Shadow Puppets". I don't know which came first, but as I watched "More", all I could think of was "Shadow Puppets", which I haven't seen since 1994 at SIGGRAPH.
I'd love to get THAT on DVD.
Nice that zebos.com is using an "evaluation only" copy of a Java applet on their homepage. I hope they put the $35 they saved to good use! :-P
Oh, how I wish this were true. But if we think back to the peak of the browser wars in the late 1990s, the thing that drove changes in server-side technologies was changes in browser capabilities. If MS doesn't release a new browser, and it controls 95% of the market, site publishers will have little reason to change the structure of their sites. Even if Mozilla came up with the most incredible new feature that would improve sites drastically, how many publishers would adopt the technology? We've reached a period of stagnation which from the perspective of a publisher, is a good thing. To spur real innovation, you have to rev up that old cycle; to do that, you need at least two competitors with nearly equivalent (and substantial) market share.
Not only did you miss the point about absolute versus relative coordinates, but the special paper also tells the pen (and any associated software) WHAT PAGE you were writing on, out of a collection of millions of unique pages. This is an extremely powerful concept. The software can determine that you're filling out an "e-mail form", and knows that when you write in a 6-inch box that is 2 inches from the top of the page and 1 inch from the left side of the page, you're filling out an e-mail address, and it can apply handwriting recognition accordingly, then generate an e-mail message to your recipient using an image of your handwriting. And this is a trivial example.
The reason that the grids are unique on different pieces of paper is so that software can get some context about what you're writing on. The statement that no two pieces of paper are the same is not entirely correct. Each piece of paper in the larger grid is assigned a unique ID. That ID is mapped to a particular application, so that by calling the Anoto lookup service, software could know that you're filling out an insurance application, or that you're sending e-mail to somebody. It can then interpret the ink intelligently, since it can then determine where the various fields are on the page and what they mean.
Not only that, but if you're going to render 3D images of your product, at least use the Perspective filter on your fake-ass button icons! :-)
How exactly do you make your parents' computer run faster with Linux+X? I have _never_ installed Linux and X on a machine and ended up with a faster, more responsive machine than I had under Windows. This goes for machines across the power spectrum, high-end machines as well as low-end.
I second this!
even better -- use Mozilla bookmark keywords; I only have to type
php shm_attach
to get the documentation on the shm_attach() function. Mozilla and PHP rule!
I'm sure it's because for the average user, an OS upgrade is beyond the realm of reasonable possibilities. Some users don't even separate the OS from the applications that run on it.
Since PC sales started slowing down two years ago, there haven't been enough people buying Win2K and WinXP preinstalls to change the stats dramatically. I doubt that OS upgrades amount to more than 5-10% of users.
As a user of a non-mainstream OS (and as a Mac user, you'll surely take exception with this, spouting stats about being the most widely used UNIX or something), you should be thankful that the team chose to build a cross-platform toolkit. How long do you think you would have to wait for a Mozilla port to Mac? Or when upgrades came out, how far behind would the Mac port lag?
Give the Mozilla team a break. They've written a marvelous app that spawned a number of incredibly useful side projects (Bugzilla, Gecko, etc.) that will improve the state of open source computing for years to come.
This is the funniest goddamn post I've ever read on Slashdot! Way to go, Beatlebum!
The point is that it's non-trivial to "create a real JPEG virus". You have to find that "jackpot" vulnerability that will render millions of machines helpless against your exploit. McAfee did not find such a hole. Yet my local paper was running an article about this huge new vulnerability in JPEGs. I'll probably soon be answering mail from my mother about them. They're creating hype plain and simple.
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Read this:
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=995
If you have this executable (EXTRK.EXE) installed on your system, and if the registry has been altered in a very specific way, you're vulnerable.
In other news, a new virus that turns every e-mail you get into a timebomb was discovered. You are vulnerable if you have replaced outlook.exe with f-u.exe (which for every message you receive in your POP3 mailbox, sends 100 copies to all your friends, then promptly removes all your files. Before shutting down, it displays yummy.gif on your screen). Users worldwide are in a panic over this hugely dangerous virus.
I think a lot of people don't consider how incredibly bulky an iPaq is with an expansion sleeve (required for wireless connectivity).
If you want elegance, go with a Jornada 568 (while you still can) along with the Symbol 802.11b CF card Other options include the Casio E-200 (but you can't use the Symbol card with it; you have to buy some other Casio-sanctioned card), the NEC P300 and Toshiba's offering (although I haven't tested the Symbol card with either of these). The last three options have the bonus of an SD slot, too.
Marketing StarOffice won't make a bit of difference, no matter how good it is. In the corporate world, IT managers are spending other people's money, and will continue to buy MS Office, despite the existence of a free office suite. A large percentage of the IT workforce knows nothing but Microsoft solutions.
At home, how many copies of MS Office are "borrowed" copies from one's employer? As long as it's easy to steal, people will continue to use MS Office heavily at home.
Of course, with the new activaction madness in XP products, maybe things _will_ change...
Nice thought, but I don't know that such a generic tool could ever really work.
Didn't MS build some generic configuration tool that could configure any and every application? I recall seeing something like that a few years ago -- maybe it was abadoned; I don't know.
But the fact is that the interface was absolutely awful. It is an extremely difficult task to write a tool that can configure any random piece of software and have any sort of usability left in the interface.
Hmmm... how exactly do they know you're using a wireless network? Is there a configuration option somewhere?
If your salary increased at an "annual rate of 50%" for 5 years, you'd be making 760% of what you made the first year. Not bad; I don't think you're going to improve on that with _any_ degree.
But if you meant that your salary had increased by 50% over those 5 years, then I can see why you might be looking for more...
> demand that you provide an actual inventory of
> what products you use, and proofs of purchase.
But the cool thing is that if you stole ALL of the MS software installed on your machines, you've surrendered no such right!