If by 'innovative' you mean 'old hat', then yes. I mean, what do you think people _did_?
"Sorry, Bob, the data doesn't suit the target device." "Well, can't we put some sort of extra link in the chain, to, you know, convert it to the right format?" "WHATTT??? He speaks HERESY! Kill him, my children -- and BURN HIS BODY WITH FIRE!!"
I mean, if you'd said 1986, it would still not have been true, but in 1996 it was even being done on the forkin' WEB ffs!
Just as I don't believe we're anywhere near to running out of oil in the next 1000 years,
That's a pretty unconventional view -- actually, a unique view -- in the minerals world.
One of the reasons I formulated my anarcho-capitalist belief system
Ahh:) I'm sure you derive great personal pleasure from your politics but if I were using your research, I would want it to be driven by a rational understanding that mineral resources are finite, not by your 'belief system'.
Hrm, you're not very good with the Far Eastern languages, are you?
The manga in original Japanese was very complex, and written in mostly in kanji (chinese characters) which has caused even the average Japanese difficulties in understanding it.
The average Japanese preteen, possibly. It ain't exactly rocket science, though.
To give you an idea of the use of kanji, the common Japanese only needs to know about 500 or so kanji to be literate
2000 for basic literacy. More if you want to read books for fun, or if you just want to avoid appearing a bit dumb.
, resorting to hiragana and katakana the rest of the time. The common Chinese needs 1200 (Since it's all chinese characters).
I can't even begin to express what an extraordinary insult to the Chinese language this is.
This is very normal of Shirow's style as his writing and stories and a partial reason of why his stories are quite intricate.
Not good with English grammar either, hm?
To give you an idea, it would be like comparing the writing styles of JK Rowling to William Gibson, one is very simple and easy to read, the other is very high-level and in-depth.
Ah, perhaps broader reading might help...
Ok, I'm just bashing now. I'll stop. Man, those Japanophiles!
I actually laughed out loud, but after about a second I realized you were serious.
I admit, it is a little unclear how a product can be a 'datacenter platform' and also a '.NET competitor', given that the two things hardly overlap at all.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was really a set of Java wrappers for Oracle Fusion, bundled up for Solaris 10 to create a one-step solution for getting a datacenter going. The weakness of such a product would, of course, be that it has Fusion:)
Unisys had an entire system like this back in the old days -- each component just had a bus connector on each side, you started with the CPU and added boxes to the ends until you had a long grey rectangle of a computer.
Of course that was:
1) Before there were only about 2 kinds of computer in the world 2) Before it would occur to people to patent shapes...so here we have the same thing again with a Microsoft/Apple look.
Hm, that's a bit of a non sequitur. I was pointing out that the mice apparently didn't suffer much pain or fear. The 'okay'-ness of uncle-strangling was kind of outside the scope of those remarks.
I expect you're very glad the mice were anaesthetized, then, and you were writing to point that out, rather than merely to suggest that the kind of people who get sentimental about dead mice are also the kind of people who aren't good at reading comprehension.
Of course it is possible that the mice deduced the purpose of the anaesthetic and were therefore briefly afraid...
Yeah, I've been decapitated once a week since I was 12, and it never did me any harm.
If I can't create my own content, it's pointless
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I would TOTALLY use one of these things (especially because I have seen the type of display they use, and it's really very nice). I would use it to work on my novel, read bits of text that I'm translating while on the train, take a report from work to look at on the plane -- as long as it can read plain text and HTML files it's fine. Excel, and powerpoint would be good too but I can see how there could be issues there. But text and HTML are fine.
Oh, wait.
I can use it to read particular selected books that Sony has done a deal with Random House on. And PDF files. That are on a Sony(r) brand memory stick. In other words, no attempt is made to make it useful as a general purpose display device -- the focus is a game console like business model where they make the money on licensing someone else's content to me.
Well done, Sony. Another great idea from the planet's most bloated, directionless and internally divided consumer goods megacorp. Here is a lollipop for you. Now sit in a corner and wait till a Chinese or Korean company buys you.
Shouldn't they be forced to compensate the shareholders for their losses?
No. No, they shouldn't. The shareholders bought the stock hoping it would go up. It went down. The shareholders factored in various kinds of risk -- market risk, credit risk, compliance risk. Looks like they should have allowed more for compliance risk in this case, but that's life.
Are you suggesting that whenever a stock goes down because of human stupidity/greed/malice, investors who were holding it at the time should be compensated?
What about when a stock goes up? Should investors with short positions, be compensated?
Who should do the compensating? I don't think McAfee has that kind of money now.
I think it might be a lot simpler and fairer to just expect investors to take responsibility for their own investments.
I also think that it's pretty fucking sad that the above is no longer intuitively obvious to everyone.
Now then now then, I know it's tempting but you can't tell someone on./ the difference between copyright infringement and theft. It can't be done. It would be cool if it could be done, but it can't be done. You can tell them about how one is part of civil law and the other is criminal... you can tell them about how one relates to the right to copy and the other to possession... you can point them at dictionaries, at law sites, it doesn't matter.
The technically correct response to the grandparent post is:
Having the keys lined up straight is considerably nicer. When you go back to a keyboard with a staggered layout, you realize how many extra little side-to-side movements you are doing.
The reason for the offset is to make room for the metal bars holding the letters in a mechanical typewriter. I think it would be reasonable to assign that factor a lower priority these days:)
Bah, as long as a meaning is foolishly hardcoded to each key combination, a keyboard lacks the flexibility to be optimal. And as long as keys are laid out on a plane, it's ergonomics are in doubt too. Now, would the rest of the world please get with the program and visit http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/ for a good alternative keyboard?
Eventually the individual solders will drift out of the command structure and find that they have to make a seperate peace with the local people.
Oh yeah, bound to. I mean, it's simply so much easier to just sorta 'drift out of the command structure', desert, change skin color, learn Arabic, and become an Iraqi than it is to finish your tour and go home.
You may not be aware of this, but as things currently stand:
--The US Army, as a rule, frowns on soldiers who 'drift out of the command structure'. --Iraq, as a rule, does not appear to offer an easy path to a happy and secure life to deserters from occupying armies.
I agree, though, that if the parent post's sheer naievete could be weaponized, it would be deadly enough to force any of these circumstances to change.
Wow, it's the outfit Bob Calvert dreamed of but could never afford!
This Bob Calvert reference was brought to you by a stubborn desire to refer to the things that nobody else bothers to refer to. I would type more but I'd hate to give away too many clues to the sonic conspiracy.
...is what I thought this might be. I thought it might be a deep and timely inquiry into how the legal battles of the new era can be fought effectively when it falls to amateurs and part-timers to fight them.
But then I noticed it was in The Register! Haw! You guys got me good!
Now, to be fair, there are many very interesting record companies that specialize in vinyl. In the same way, I'm sure there will be small but interesting paper book companies decades from now:)
...and retreat to the lands of Corel, where mighty Painter still blooms with the multicolored light of Fractal Design. There is nothing for us now in the lands of mortal applications.
Unless they buy Corel too and Painter dies. But surely the Valar would intervene in such a case. Boy, the Silmarillion really ought to address this sort of problem.
3/ It's very difficult to express the rich level of complexity of Apache configurations in a GUI. Just imagine how on Earth a GUI can be made to handle nested VirtualHosts, Directorys, and Files
Hmm, it's almost like some kind of tree like structure might be appropriate:) If only there were well known and freely available ways to represent such things in a GUI.
I realize that it is possible to create confusing arrangements in Apache which do not form a simple tree, but the same is true of filesystems and nobody has had much difficulty making viewers for them. To be honest, even a list of directories etc -- maybe where each one expands into a list of the filesystem objects it currectly applies to -- hey, there's a lot of scope for a useful GUI there.
Mr. Seigenthaler has committed the terrible act of jumping from a perfectly ordinary valid grievance (Wikipedia has a questionable entry about him) to a completely bizarre and horribly dangerous generalization about information in general (people who provide connectivity should be liable for the actions of their customers).
Ok, Seigenthaler (can I call you Ziggy?), let's see you sue my ISP.
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If by 'innovative' you mean 'old hat', then yes. I mean, what do you think people _did_?
"Sorry, Bob, the data doesn't suit the target device."
"Well, can't we put some sort of extra link in the chain, to, you know, convert it to the right format?"
"WHATTT??? He speaks HERESY! Kill him, my children -- and BURN HIS BODY WITH FIRE!!"
I mean, if you'd said 1986, it would still not have been true, but in 1996 it was even being done on the forkin' WEB ffs!
Kids!
Your tenses are correct. I hereby award you the Grammar Star! Don't bend the corners -- it is only made of cardboard wrapped in tinfoil :(
:)
By 'paster than past' you mean the pluperfect tense. You also mean 'more past than past'
1. Grant China Most Favored Nation trading status.
2. Bend over backwards to ensure that US/China meetings are not harmed by any silly protests about Tibet (or Xinjiang, or anywhere else...)
3. Move manufacturing to China.
4. Deal with annoying 'pandering to China to make a short-term buck' image, by freaking out at US companies who obey local laws.
5. Profit! Actually, profit at every step!
Didn't need the ??? this time, cause it's all kind of straightforward.
Just as I don't believe we're anywhere near to running out of oil in the next 1000 years,
That's a pretty unconventional view -- actually, a unique view -- in the minerals world.
One of the reasons I formulated my anarcho-capitalist belief system
Ahh
Hrm, you're not very good with the Far Eastern languages, are you?
The manga in original Japanese was very complex, and written in mostly in kanji (chinese characters) which has caused even the average Japanese difficulties in understanding it.
The average Japanese preteen, possibly. It ain't exactly rocket science, though.
To give you an idea of the use of kanji, the common Japanese only needs to know about 500 or so kanji to be literate
2000 for basic literacy. More if you want to read books for fun, or if you just want to avoid appearing a bit dumb.
, resorting to hiragana and katakana the rest of the time. The common Chinese needs 1200 (Since it's all chinese characters).
I can't even begin to express what an extraordinary insult to the Chinese language this is.
This is very normal of Shirow's style as his writing and stories and a partial reason of why his stories are quite intricate.
Not good with English grammar either, hm?
To give you an idea, it would be like comparing the writing styles of JK Rowling to William Gibson, one is very simple and easy to read, the other is very high-level and in-depth.
Ah, perhaps broader reading might help...
Ok, I'm just bashing now. I'll stop. Man, those Japanophiles!
I actually laughed out loud, but after about a second I realized you were serious.
I admit, it is a little unclear how a product can be a 'datacenter platform' and also a '.NET competitor', given that the two things hardly overlap at all.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was really a set of Java wrappers for Oracle Fusion, bundled up for Solaris 10 to create a one-step solution for getting a datacenter going. The weakness of such a product would, of course, be that it has Fusion
Unisys had an entire system like this back in the old days -- each component just had a bus connector on each side, you started with the CPU and added boxes to the ends until you had a long grey rectangle of a computer.
Of course that was:
1) Before there were only about 2 kinds of computer in the world
2) Before it would occur to people to patent shapes
Hm, that's a bit of a non sequitur. I was pointing out that the mice apparently didn't suffer much pain or fear. The 'okay'-ness of uncle-strangling was kind of outside the scope of those remarks.
I expect you're very glad the mice were anaesthetized, then, and you were writing to point that out, rather than merely to suggest that the kind of people who get sentimental about dead mice are also the kind of people who aren't good at reading comprehension.
Of course it is possible that the mice deduced the purpose of the anaesthetic and were therefore briefly afraid...
Yeah, I've been decapitated once a week since I was 12, and it never did me any harm.
I would TOTALLY use one of these things (especially because I have seen the type of display they use, and it's really very nice). I would use it to work on my novel, read bits of text that I'm translating while on the train, take a report from work to look at on the plane -- as long as it can read plain text and HTML files it's fine. Excel, and powerpoint would be good too but I can see how there could be issues there. But text and HTML are fine.
Oh, wait.
I can use it to read particular selected books that Sony has done a deal with Random House on. And PDF files. That are on a Sony(r) brand memory stick. In other words, no attempt is made to make it useful as a general purpose display device -- the focus is a game console like business model where they make the money on licensing someone else's content to me.
Well done, Sony. Another great idea from the planet's most bloated, directionless and internally divided consumer goods megacorp. Here is a lollipop for you. Now sit in a corner and wait till a Chinese or Korean company buys you.
Shouldn't they be forced to compensate the shareholders for their losses?
No. No, they shouldn't. The shareholders bought the stock hoping it would go up. It went down. The shareholders factored in various kinds of risk -- market risk, credit risk, compliance risk. Looks like they should have allowed more for compliance risk in this case, but that's life.
Are you suggesting that whenever a stock goes down because of human stupidity/greed/malice, investors who were holding it at the time should be compensated?
What about when a stock goes up? Should investors with short positions, be compensated?
Who should do the compensating? I don't think McAfee has that kind of money now.
I think it might be a lot simpler and fairer to just expect investors to take responsibility for their own investments.
I also think that it's pretty fucking sad that the above is no longer intuitively obvious to everyone.
Now then now then, I know it's tempting but you can't tell someone on
The technically correct response to the grandparent post is:
PWNED!
Impressive, even for /. -- if you actually read the link you posted, you'll find:
The idea for the million dollar script derived from the highly successful "Million Dollar Homepage", started by Alex Tew.
Having the keys lined up straight is considerably nicer. When you go back to a keyboard with a staggered layout, you realize how many extra little side-to-side movements you are doing.
The reason for the offset is to make room for the metal bars holding the letters in a mechanical typewriter. I think it would be reasonable to assign that factor a lower priority these days
Bah, as long as a meaning is foolishly hardcoded to each key combination, a keyboard lacks the flexibility to be optimal. And as long as keys are laid out on a plane, it's ergonomics are in doubt too. Now, would the rest of the world please get with the program and visit http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/ for a good alternative keyboard?
Eventually the individual solders will drift out of the command structure and find that they have to make a seperate peace with the local people.
Oh yeah, bound to. I mean, it's simply so much easier to just sorta 'drift out of the command structure', desert, change skin color, learn Arabic, and become an Iraqi than it is to finish your tour and go home.
You may not be aware of this, but as things currently stand:
--The US Army, as a rule, frowns on soldiers who 'drift out of the command structure'.
--Iraq, as a rule, does not appear to offer an easy path to a happy and secure life to deserters from occupying armies.
I agree, though, that if the parent post's sheer naievete could be weaponized, it would be deadly enough to force any of these circumstances to change.
to the very best of my knowledge our eyes and ears are analog devices.
Speak for yourself, flesh creature.
Wow, it's the outfit Bob Calvert dreamed of but could never afford!
This Bob Calvert reference was brought to you by a stubborn desire to refer to the things that nobody else bothers to refer to. I would type more but I'd hate to give away too many clues to the sonic conspiracy.
But then I noticed it was in The Register! Haw! You guys got me good!
I like inkscape and I like SVG, but it ain't no Painter! But thanks for reminding me that 0.43 is out now.
Now, to be fair, there are many very interesting record companies that specialize in vinyl. In the same way, I'm sure there will be small but interesting paper book companies decades from now
Unless they buy Corel too and Painter dies. But surely the Valar would intervene in such a case. Boy, the Silmarillion really ought to address this sort of problem.
3/ It's very difficult to express the rich level of complexity of Apache configurations in a GUI. Just imagine how on Earth a GUI can be made to handle nested VirtualHosts, Directorys, and Files
Hmm, it's almost like some kind of tree like structure might be appropriate
I realize that it is possible to create confusing arrangements in Apache which do not form a simple tree, but the same is true of filesystems and nobody has had much difficulty making viewers for them. To be honest, even a list of directories etc -- maybe where each one expands into a list of the filesystem objects it currectly applies to -- hey, there's a lot of scope for a useful GUI there.
Mr. Seigenthaler has committed the terrible act of jumping from a perfectly ordinary valid grievance (Wikipedia has a questionable entry about him) to a completely bizarre and horribly dangerous generalization about information in general (people who provide connectivity should be liable for the actions of their customers).
Ok, Seigenthaler (can I call you Ziggy?), let's see you sue my ISP.