834 pages would be a TON for ANSI-standard SQL, given that there are a lot of things left out of that language (it doesn't even have a method for if-then-elses). I'd say a good intro to ANSI-standard SQL could probably be done in 30 pages. But I could easily see dedicating 100 pages to the extensions provided by each of the major database vendors (MS SQL Server, Sybase ASE, Oracle, etc.)
Yeah, but if this is the case, then how do (actual) people using the holodeck get more than 3^(1/2)*x away from eachother, where x is the length, width, and height of the holodeck room (they always looked cubic to me!).
It'd really suck if you were trying to walk away from someone in a holodeck, and once you got over, say 20 feet away, your nose was suddenly flattened by an invisible wall.
yeah right. I'm guessing his only source of evidence is "OMG!! Look! Episode II made only $15 gagillion dollars! That's like a couple gagillion less than Episode I!!! The movie industry must be dying!!!!!"
I'll ALWAYS pay $7.00 to leave my house and sit in a dark room where I can forget about the outside world for 2 hours.
Just becaues you don't vote doesn't mean you can't complain
Voting IS complaining... only it's a USEFUL form of complaining that elected representatives listen to. If you don't like someone, vote against them. THAT should be how you complain. If you don't vote, you're allowed to complain, sure (free speech and all). But you can't expect your complaints to do any good.
From their site: Yes. The surface contains harmless chemical substances already found in the home, in such things as toothpaste and paint. In fact, with only small amounts of cleaning agents needed, Pilkington Activ(TM) self-cleaning glass is kinder to the environment than ordinary glass.
Funny they should use paint as an example, since it generally has a fair amount of harmFUL chemical substances:)
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be corporations that name everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Starbucks."
Ech. Does anybody else remember the string of 1024x768 sierra hand-drawn games? I think it was Kings Quest VII and Space Quest VI. Ugly ugly ugly.
For some reason, hand-drawn/painted looked good in 320x240... but in 1024x768, too much detail just makes the games look like a thundercats cartoon. eww.
What about the wide variety of Cameras, PDA's, printers, and Digital Camcorders (all NOT made by Apple) that all work flawlessly with programs such as iPhoto, iSync, and iMovie??
I don't think it's all the quality control of hardware that sucks, it's also the terrible drivers created for the PC. If Apple tells you a peripheral is compatible w/ OS X, it WILL work flawlessly with OS X. Not so for Windows, most of the time
so it seems natural to couple them with good software
You mean like OS X? Honestly, I don't see much point in paying for a switch from a Unix-based machine to a Linux-based machine. (And a Linux-based machine that won't run iTunes, iMovie, or iPhoto)
Um... yes? There's a difference between creating games on proprietary disks which are hard to copy and sending data about how often I play/copy a game to Sony HQ.
One of them is a violation of my privacy. I hope you don't need to be told which one.
Seriously though... If you read through EULA's and wrote them up in plain English, than couldn't you just reference the EULA's in a bibliography? You could even cite "sections" of the EULA.
Does treating this project as academic research make it any more legal? It seems like you're allowed to do a lot more if you're reading through documents for research, even if they're copyrighted
Not true. In the US at least, you must spefically state your copyright on everything you produce. In fact, we just had a meeting at my company about how we should copyright every document we write.
However, copyrighting something is as easy as writing "Copyright 1846, Bob" on anything you create.
OK, fine... we at Slashdot are a diverse bunch of people with a diverse set of beliefs and opinions. However, it's often possible to find an opinion or a belief that the majority of slashdot readers agreeon . Example: Microsoft is Evil.
Now, judging from the comments to a recent article posted about Amazon.com, one could surmise that the majority of slashdot readers (or at least a vocal minority), have an antagonistic relationship with said.com.
Judging from the posts on this article, a lot of Slashdot users also like eBay. Somewhere there's got to be an intersection between these two groups. And by questioning how these people perceive these two companies, we 1) force them to justify their position and 2) learn about why people hold these opinions. I'd say that both of these are good methods for strengthening public debate.
Again, I don't think we're assuming everyone agrees here, just asking those who do to justify their opinions. Just because everyone can read the post doesn't mean it applies to them.
Yeah, it's like when the clones are fighting for the Jedi! Like, you know the clones are evil and going to become stormtroopers, but they're fighting for the Jedi, so now they're good! WTF??!?
Wow. Somebody needs to watch a movie instead of just watching the special effects. If you only watched Shrek, Roger Rabbit, and LOTR for the FX, you missed out, bud.
Except that if you offer TOO many options in your computers, the consumer gets confused. This is what happened before Jobs took control again and created the current Business / Home, Desktop / Portable matrix. Slashing their product base down to basically 4 computers, each with a specific function, is exactly what helped bring Apple back to life.
Having more than one home desktop machine is a step in the wrong direction... bringing us back to the days of the PowerMac 7600 SE/LE ver2 rev.M. It's harder to support, and it's harder for consumers to figure out what they want/need.
Except that what's the game like for the person who DOESN'T own the cellphone / VMU now?? Companies are now forcing people to buy an entirely new device so that they can get the full experience out of a game they purchased. This pissed me off about Sonic Adventure for the GC, which required you to buy a Gameboy Advance to raise you're "Chao" (a Chocobo-raising type of mini-game).
So in order to fully complete some PS2 games now, we're going to have to purchase this phone. Great. Great way for Sony to make money that is.
The design definitely lags behind that of the iPod in several areas. I count 11 buttons on the Nomad - two of which are used to skip between songs. Where's the scroll wheel?
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834 pages would be a TON for ANSI-standard SQL, given that there are a lot of things left out of that language (it doesn't even have a method for if-then-elses). I'd say a good intro to ANSI-standard SQL could probably be done in 30 pages. But I could easily see dedicating 100 pages to the extensions provided by each of the major database vendors (MS SQL Server, Sybase ASE, Oracle, etc.)
Yeah, but if this is the case, then how do (actual) people using the holodeck get more than 3^(1/2)*x away from eachother, where x is the length, width, and height of the holodeck room (they always looked cubic to me!).
It'd really suck if you were trying to walk away from someone in a holodeck, and once you got over, say 20 feet away, your nose was suddenly flattened by an invisible wall.
yeah right. I'm guessing his only source of evidence is "OMG!! Look! Episode II made only $15 gagillion dollars! That's like a couple gagillion less than Episode I!!! The movie industry must be dying!!!!!"
I'll ALWAYS pay $7.00 to leave my house and sit in a dark room where I can forget about the outside world for 2 hours.
Just becaues you don't vote doesn't mean you can't complain
Voting IS complaining... only it's a USEFUL form of complaining that elected representatives listen to. If you don't like someone, vote against them. THAT should be how you complain. If you don't vote, you're allowed to complain, sure (free speech and all). But you can't expect your complaints to do any good.
Any individual's vote makes no difference
Gore would disagree with you.
From their site:
:)
Yes. The surface contains harmless chemical substances already found in the home, in such things as toothpaste and paint. In fact, with only small amounts of cleaning agents needed, Pilkington Activ(TM) self-cleaning glass is kinder to the environment than ordinary glass.
Funny they should use paint as an example, since it generally has a fair amount of harmFUL chemical substances
that was a laugh and a half.
Mod parent up! +5 witty
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be corporations that name everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet
Starbucks."
Or unless your listening to that Monty Python record, which had 4 grooves! (Two on side A, two on side B) Anyone remember what that one was called?
This system and it's cousins are pretty much the last time I know of a major computing vendor making an external power source.
What about Apple and the PowerMac G4 Cube? I laughed the first time I saw the huge, honking external power supply on that puppy.
"We fit a supercomputer in 6 inches square. Yeah, and you did it by moving all the parts outside the box!"
DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!!
Ech. Does anybody else remember the string of 1024x768 sierra hand-drawn games? I think it was Kings Quest VII and Space Quest VI. Ugly ugly ugly.
For some reason, hand-drawn/painted looked good in 320x240... but in 1024x768, too much detail just makes the games look like a thundercats cartoon. eww.
What about the wide variety of Cameras, PDA's, printers, and Digital Camcorders (all NOT made by Apple) that all work flawlessly with programs such as iPhoto, iSync, and iMovie??
I don't think it's all the quality control of hardware that sucks, it's also the terrible drivers created for the PC. If Apple tells you a peripheral is compatible w/ OS X, it WILL work flawlessly with OS X. Not so for Windows, most of the time
so it seems natural to couple them with good software
You mean like OS X? Honestly, I don't see much point in paying for a switch from a Unix-based machine to a Linux-based machine. (And a Linux-based machine that won't run iTunes, iMovie, or iPhoto)
Um... yes? There's a difference between creating games on proprietary disks which are hard to copy and sending data about how often I play/copy a game to Sony HQ.
One of them is a violation of my privacy. I hope you don't need to be told which one.
Seriously though... If you read through EULA's and wrote them up in plain English, than couldn't you just reference the EULA's in a bibliography? You could even cite "sections" of the EULA.
Does treating this project as academic research make it any more legal? It seems like you're allowed to do a lot more if you're reading through documents for research, even if they're copyrighted
Not true. In the US at least, you must spefically state your copyright on everything you produce. In fact, we just had a meeting at my company about how we should copyright every document we write.
However, copyrighting something is as easy as writing "Copyright 1846, Bob" on anything you create.
OK, fine... we at Slashdot are a diverse bunch of people with a diverse set of beliefs and opinions. However, it's often possible to find an opinion or a belief that the majority of slashdot readers agreeon . Example: Microsoft is Evil.
.com.
Now, judging from the comments to a recent article posted about Amazon.com, one could surmise that the majority of slashdot readers (or at least a vocal minority), have an antagonistic relationship with said
Judging from the posts on this article, a lot of Slashdot users also like eBay. Somewhere there's got to be an intersection between these two groups. And by questioning how these people perceive these two companies, we 1) force them to justify their position and 2) learn about why people hold these opinions. I'd say that both of these are good methods for strengthening public debate.
Again, I don't think we're assuming everyone agrees here, just asking those who do to justify their opinions. Just because everyone can read the post doesn't mean it applies to them.
um, isn't the l33t-speak for lasor l4x0r where xor sounds like "zore"
Wow, that's true. Thank you for being so astute. We all know how much the l33t-speakers care about spelling.
Yeah, it's like when the clones are fighting for the Jedi! Like, you know the clones are evil and going to become stormtroopers, but they're fighting for the Jedi, so now they're good! WTF??!?
Wow. Somebody needs to watch a movie instead of just watching the special effects. If you only watched Shrek, Roger Rabbit, and LOTR for the FX, you missed out, bud.
Because it's already 2002!
Except that if you offer TOO many options in your computers, the consumer gets confused. This is what happened before Jobs took control again and created the current Business / Home, Desktop / Portable matrix. Slashing their product base down to basically 4 computers, each with a specific function, is exactly what helped bring Apple back to life.
Having more than one home desktop machine is a step in the wrong direction... bringing us back to the days of the PowerMac 7600 SE/LE ver2 rev.M. It's harder to support, and it's harder for consumers to figure out what they want/need.
Except that what's the game like for the person who DOESN'T own the cellphone / VMU now?? Companies are now forcing people to buy an entirely new device so that they can get the full experience out of a game they purchased. This pissed me off about Sonic Adventure for the GC, which required you to buy a Gameboy Advance to raise you're "Chao" (a Chocobo-raising type of mini-game).
So in order to fully complete some PS2 games now, we're going to have to purchase this phone. Great. Great way for Sony to make money that is.
The design definitely lags behind that of the iPod in several areas. I count 11 buttons on the Nomad - two of which are used to skip between songs. Where's the scroll wheel?
The more important issue here is that this bug eliminates the ability to use the "Forward" button too. If you don't go back, you can't go forward!
Congrats, MS, on killing two buttons with one bug.