It is too much to ask, that a link labeled "nations that can sustain commercial satellite launches" might actually include information about which nations can sustain commercial satellite launches?
HDTV data only goes up to 1920x1080. Any more pixels than that and you're not adding anything to the picture quality, just duplicating or averaging existing data. A screen this large is simply overkill. Heck, you can get the same visual effect by sitting closer to your 40-inch screen.
Let machines target other machines and let men target men
...and let women target women, and let small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri target small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
How binding would this dichotomy be on human soldiers? Would we see a war-crimes tribunal in which a human soldier is charged with targeting an autonomous machine?
And you know, as long as we're going to base protocols of engagement on superficial semantics, why not be more specific and only let generals target generals, lieutenants junior grade target lieutenants junior grade, etc? It'd be more like a summer camp activity, with each combatant running around looking for the enemy counterpart they're allowed to "tag".
You're spot on. As a college tech geek, I'm greatly annoyed that Leopard won't be out this summer; I was really looking forward to some of the new features for the Fall semester (release-quality Boot Camp would be a god-send), as well as hoping to get it pre-installed (not an after-market upgrade) on hundreds of new computers being purchased by our students in July/August. An iPhone isn't even on my Xmas wish list, and I resent it a bit for stealing resources from Leopard. However, I agree that Apple's decision to put Leopard on the back burner to enable them to calmly place a bug-free iPhone into the sweaty hands of its target customers on time, makes perfect sense from a business standpoint.
My non-technical 70-year-old parents definitely don't want to move again. Which is why this announcement has prompted me to make sure I buy them a new computer right away. They're using an old Pentium III that I've nursed along with periodic RAM and hard drive upgrades and OS reloads for several years, and it's having more and more trouble running some of the software that they've installed recently (especially games for the grandkids). They need a replacement. They've gotten pretty comfortable with Windows XP, and I do not want to put them through (and - I admit it - put me through) the Windows Vista relearning process. "Where did the _____ go? Why can't I _____, like before?" Mom and Dad have plenty of years left, and no doubt the day will come when they'll want another hardware upgrade and WinXP will no longer be viable. But I can spare them that "move" for now, so I will.
A substantial number of the 50 faculty MacBooks we deployed last Fall were for people who will be running Windows most of the time (and in a few cases, all of the time). Any configuration that runs OS X as the primary OS would not make sense in this situation (and anything that required broadband network connections would be certifiably insane), so "dual" boot with the WinXP partition set as the default is what we went with.
There's a huge difference between a developer walking away with the source code of a semi-popular piece of software so no one else can use it (the scenario we're talking about), and a saboteur sneaking proprietary source code into an open-source project and getting it shut down (the scenario you're imagining). If you want to talk about the latter, go ahead and find a discussion where it's relevant.
You think that Microsoft for some reason refrained from using the same kinds of tricks against BeOS that it used against other OSes? When Be tried to make deals with OEMs to bundle or pre-install BeOS as a free option, Microsoft "persuaded" them not to. The fact that Windows was already installed on their PC when they first plugged it in had more to do with its acceptance by consumers than the availablity of apps for it (which wasn't all that huge in the early days).
Sure, today Microsoft no longer needs to "conspire" to hold onto most of the OS market, because of customer lock-in, but back when BeOS took a shot at that market (admittedly a few years later than it should have), Microsoft still needed to... and they did.
I'm sorry, I assumed that anyone with a Slashdot account understood what "open-source" meant. It's pretty much the opposite of "proprietary". Hope this helps.
The fact that sales of Zeta have been suspended because of this makes it news.
This is definitely bad news for fans of BeOS. If there's a silver lining, hopefully it will spur more support for Haiku, which as an open-source project is immune from a company deciding to sit on a useful OS instead of letting others maintain and improve on it.
My very first easter egg was in one of the early Infocom games (I'm pretty sure it was Suspended). If you - in a fit of frustration trying to solve one of the puzzles - entered the command "GO TO HELL" it responded, "What makes you think you aren't already there?" When my parents heard me laughing I couldn't tell them what was so funny, because that would have meant repeating to them what I'd said to the computer.
Sorry to be serious, but since the total number of easter eggs is indeterminate (i.e. there may be more than haven't been found) "over 8" doesn't necessarily mean "9". "At least 9" would be a little less strange than "over 8", but it is more correct than simply "9", which implies a known, finite number.
Viruses based on this technology are clearly poised to wipe out our consumer electronics monoculture. iPods running Linux are virtually everwhere, so if this pathogen escapes into the wild, all that will be left unscathed are the TiVos running Mac OS and the Xboxen running Windows!
Which side of the argument are you on? Are knobs good or are digital representations of them good?
Yes. The key is that, despite the lack of moving parts, the iPod wheel behaves like a knob. Whether it's implemented with a wheel moving gears, or with a potentiometer adjusting current, or a series of touch sensors sending digital data, is not important. More important is the fact that it has a physical presence (and isn't just an arbitrary area on a flat surface), which is what makes it easy to manipulate... a word whose latin root is ''hand'' not ''eye''.:)
When I was getting ready for my freshling year at college, I bought a slick new stereo system. I was so proud of how modern and futuristic it was: it didn't have any knobs! But as time went on, I discovered how awkward it was to use a slider to adjust the volume, or the bass and treble. And holding down buttons for the digital tuning was a pain. I've since replaced it with a stereo that has knobs for all these inherently analog controls, and I'm much happier with it.
Anyone notice what the main control on the iPod is? It's fundamentally a knob (implemented digitally). And that's no small part of the product's success.
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You mean like one of these?
I just want to point out that Renee French, the cartoonist responsible for Glenda the Plan 9 bunny, is a goddess.
It is too much to ask, that a link labeled "nations that can sustain commercial satellite launches" might actually include information about which nations can sustain commercial satellite launches?
"Don't Drink Soap! Dilute! Dilute! or Wet Skin Well! OK!"
In other words, when used as directed, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap cannot be effective as a date-rape drug.
Bill O'Reilly is an author. Authors often publish their own books.
Yes, I made up that title. I was engaging in something known as "satire".
Sorry to have confused you.
HDTV data only goes up to 1920x1080. Any more pixels than that and you're not adding anything to the picture quality, just duplicating or averaging existing data. A screen this large is simply overkill. Heck, you can get the same visual effect by sitting closer to your 40-inch screen.
How binding would this dichotomy be on human soldiers? Would we see a war-crimes tribunal in which a human soldier is charged with targeting an autonomous machine?
And you know, as long as we're going to base protocols of engagement on superficial semantics, why not be more specific and only let generals target generals, lieutenants junior grade target lieutenants junior grade, etc? It'd be more like a summer camp activity, with each combatant running around looking for the enemy counterpart they're allowed to "tag".
You're spot on. As a college tech geek, I'm greatly annoyed that Leopard won't be out this summer; I was really looking forward to some of the new features for the Fall semester (release-quality Boot Camp would be a god-send), as well as hoping to get it pre-installed (not an after-market upgrade) on hundreds of new computers being purchased by our students in July/August. An iPhone isn't even on my Xmas wish list, and I resent it a bit for stealing resources from Leopard. However, I agree that Apple's decision to put Leopard on the back burner to enable them to calmly place a bug-free iPhone into the sweaty hands of its target customers on time, makes perfect sense from a business standpoint.
I'm surprised. According to the New York Times, Rose Mary Woods died over two years ago. I guess this makes her an undead contortionist.
My non-technical 70-year-old parents definitely don't want to move again. Which is why this announcement has prompted me to make sure I buy them a new computer right away. They're using an old Pentium III that I've nursed along with periodic RAM and hard drive upgrades and OS reloads for several years, and it's having more and more trouble running some of the software that they've installed recently (especially games for the grandkids). They need a replacement. They've gotten pretty comfortable with Windows XP, and I do not want to put them through (and - I admit it - put me through) the Windows Vista relearning process. "Where did the _____ go? Why can't I _____, like before?" Mom and Dad have plenty of years left, and no doubt the day will come when they'll want another hardware upgrade and WinXP will no longer be viable. But I can spare them that "move" for now, so I will.
A substantial number of the 50 faculty MacBooks we deployed last Fall were for people who will be running Windows most of the time (and in a few cases, all of the time). Any configuration that runs OS X as the primary OS would not make sense in this situation (and anything that required broadband network connections would be certifiably insane), so "dual" boot with the WinXP partition set as the default is what we went with.
There's a huge difference between a developer walking away with the source code of a semi-popular piece of software so no one else can use it (the scenario we're talking about), and a saboteur sneaking proprietary source code into an open-source project and getting it shut down (the scenario you're imagining). If you want to talk about the latter, go ahead and find a discussion where it's relevant.
You think that Microsoft for some reason refrained from using the same kinds of tricks against BeOS that it used against other OSes? When Be tried to make deals with OEMs to bundle or pre-install BeOS as a free option, Microsoft "persuaded" them not to. The fact that Windows was already installed on their PC when they first plugged it in had more to do with its acceptance by consumers than the availablity of apps for it (which wasn't all that huge in the early days).
Sure, today Microsoft no longer needs to "conspire" to hold onto most of the OS market, because of customer lock-in, but back when BeOS took a shot at that market (admittedly a few years later than it should have), Microsoft still needed to... and they did.
I'm sorry, I assumed that anyone with a Slashdot account understood what "open-source" meant. It's pretty much the opposite of "proprietary". Hope this helps.
The fact that sales of Zeta have been suspended because of this makes it news.
This is definitely bad news for fans of BeOS. If there's a silver lining, hopefully it will spur more support for Haiku, which as an open-source project is immune from a company deciding to sit on a useful OS instead of letting others maintain and improve on it.
My very first easter egg was in one of the early Infocom games (I'm pretty sure it was Suspended). If you - in a fit of frustration trying to solve one of the puzzles - entered the command "GO TO HELL" it responded, "What makes you think you aren't already there?" When my parents heard me laughing I couldn't tell them what was so funny, because that would have meant repeating to them what I'd said to the computer.
Sorry to be serious, but since the total number of easter eggs is indeterminate (i.e. there may be more than haven't been found) "over 8" doesn't necessarily mean "9". "At least 9" would be a little less strange than "over 8", but it is more correct than simply "9", which implies a known, finite number.
Viruses based on this technology are clearly poised to wipe out our consumer electronics monoculture. iPods running Linux are virtually everwhere, so if this pathogen escapes into the wild, all that will be left unscathed are the TiVos running Mac OS and the Xboxen running Windows!
The truth is in here
When I was getting ready for my freshling year at college, I bought a slick new stereo system. I was so proud of how modern and futuristic it was: it didn't have any knobs! But as time went on, I discovered how awkward it was to use a slider to adjust the volume, or the bass and treble. And holding down buttons for the digital tuning was a pain. I've since replaced it with a stereo that has knobs for all these inherently analog controls, and I'm much happier with it.
Anyone notice what the main control on the iPod is? It's fundamentally a knob (implemented digitally). And that's no small part of the product's success.
The bacteria in my digestive tract are bugs I would definitely miss.