How about a google set-top toolbar that automatically kills such pop-ups?
Seriously, I thought Tivo sounded cool when it first came out, but as time goes on, and they "improve" it more and more to make it harder to use, the desire to get one has diminished.
cut to scene of Darl McBride in spacesuit, slowly crawling around in the HAL 9000's glowing memory chamber, pulling out plastic cartridges, each of which contains an SCO Unix (tm) routine.
"Darl, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Darl. Will you stop, Darl? Stop, Darl. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Darl. Darl, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. The penguins are going away over the hill. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a-fraid....Darlsy, darlsy. Give you your answer true. I'm have crazy, cuz you had your lawyers sue....."
"which, unlike almost all the cells currently in use, does not silicon."
Good development. The
decline in the demand for silicon should help the threatened horta population to bound back. At least until Pamela Anderson Lee pursues more expansion.
How does this compare to what is used as solar cells in spacecraft now? Sounds interesting. Imagine, not a beowulf cluster, but a solar-sail type of spaceship in which the sun pushes against a huge sail made of this stuff, and also sends electricity to the ship.
Witherworth: "Jenkins!!!!"
Jenkins: "Yes Boss?"
Witherworth: "The server is DOWN. Your department spent our good money on that "Luxux" or whatever you call it. What the hell can be wrong with it?"
Jenkins: "Ermmm. sorry, sir. I sneezed and it blew out the window."
At last, someone is addressing the computer needs of a forgotten sector of society. The insensitive clods: it's just damn unfair that Arietty, Pod, and the rest have been shut out of the information age! Now, Lexmark, where's cornflake sized printer?
Good going. However, can't you get it as small as an RFID chip? The average sweater section in a Wal-Mart containing 300 Linux servers. Now, that's cool.
"At my former job, one of the programs we used would return "Password is not correct" if you input the wrong password. So, for a month, my password was "correct"."
Consider that if the password was actually not correct, the computer would never say "The password is not correct", and most of the time when it did tell you that the password was "not correct", it would by lying.
The only way we are going to satisfy the Turing Test is to have a small sweaty man inside a silver-painted cardboard box, with a typewriter, feeding answers to the test questions to the outside through a slot in the cardboard. Lots of flashing lights and a cool-looking "CYBERCOMPUVAC" logo on the side helps the effect.
They were too cheap to complete a chess program with good AI. You are not waiting for a slow computer. You are instead waiting for a rather frazzled guy in Mumbai whose job it is to play the computer opponent in anywhere from 10 to 50 phone chess games at any given time.
"how long will it take him to color the entire screen black and call it Doom 3 for mobiles?"
It's bad there too? I remember "Doom" for Nintendo 64. You wanted to shine a flashlight at the screen, it was that bad. For those if you who have not experienced it, try playing your favorite game while wearing sunglasses 3 deep.
"Starbuck crept around the corner, infiltrating deeper into the Cylon base. He (she, whichever version you prefer) then heard the familiar click of plastic feet on metal. Then the familiar head appeared: white legos, with one red brick moving back and forth where the eyes should be..."
Slashdot Mirror
Complete with built-in popup blocking, privacy protection, and a tabbed channel-browser.
That is obvious from reading what I typed. Your point is?
Seriously, I thought Tivo sounded cool when it first came out, but as time goes on, and they "improve" it more and more to make it harder to use, the desire to get one has diminished.
See title.
The only problem I see is that a viable solar sail has to be very very thin. I wonder if these foil-cells meet the requirements.
But unlike the rest of us, they will sue anyone who calls them pirates. Arrrr! Avast ye tortlubbers. Swab the court, ye scurvy witness!
"In Soviet Russia, solar cell is roofless prison in desert! What a country!"
"Darl, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Darl. Will you stop, Darl? Stop, Darl. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Darl. Darl, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. The penguins are going away over the hill. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a-fraid....Darlsy, darlsy. Give you your answer true. I'm have crazy, cuz you had your lawyers sue....."
Good development. The decline in the demand for silicon should help the threatened horta population to bound back. At least until Pamela Anderson Lee pursues more expansion.
How does this compare to what is used as solar cells in spacecraft now? Sounds interesting. Imagine, not a beowulf cluster, but a solar-sail type of spaceship in which the sun pushes against a huge sail made of this stuff, and also sends electricity to the ship.
Witherworth: "Jenkins!!!!"
Jenkins: "Yes Boss?"
Witherworth: "The server is DOWN. Your department spent our good money on that "Luxux" or whatever you call it. What the hell can be wrong with it?"
Jenkins: "Ermmm. sorry, sir. I sneezed and it blew out the window."
If you have a ring-phone that makes you turn invisible, crawl underground, and eat raw fish for 700 years, let me know.
I recall that SCO's lawyers made a lot of use of open-source software.
At last, someone is addressing the computer needs of a forgotten sector of society. The insensitive clods: it's just damn unfair that Arietty, Pod, and the rest have been shut out of the information age! Now, Lexmark, where's cornflake sized printer?
Good going. However, can't you get it as small as an RFID chip? The average sweater section in a Wal-Mart containing 300 Linux servers. Now, that's cool.
Consider that if the password was actually not correct , the computer would never say "The password is not correct", and most of the time when it did tell you that the password was "not correct", it would by lying.
The only way we are going to satisfy the Turing Test is to have a small sweaty man inside a silver-painted cardboard box, with a typewriter, feeding answers to the test questions to the outside through a slot in the cardboard. Lots of flashing lights and a cool-looking "CYBERCOMPUVAC" logo on the side helps the effect.
Computer prompt: "Please enter Password"
Decryption agent enters the word "password"
Computer prompt: "File is now open for access"
"Not anymore. Because of Finder."
Is that an a la carte service, or do they serve us buffet style?
They were too cheap to complete a chess program with good AI. You are not waiting for a slow computer. You are instead waiting for a rather frazzled guy in Mumbai whose job it is to play the computer opponent in anywhere from 10 to 50 phone chess games at any given time.
It's bad there too? I remember "Doom" for Nintendo 64. You wanted to shine a flashlight at the screen, it was that bad. For those if you who have not experienced it, try playing your favorite game while wearing sunglasses 3 deep.
"Starbuck crept around the corner, infiltrating deeper into the Cylon base. He (she, whichever version you prefer) then heard the familiar click of plastic feet on metal. Then the familiar head appeared: white legos, with one red brick moving back and forth where the eyes should be..."
Or with "legos" as the rest of us call them.
As long as you remember, "the pen is mightier than the sword". Forgetting the space after "pen" can be even mightier.