Is it really worth being a dick about semantics when the reality is we don't rotate OR revolve about the sun, but we travel in a straight line through curved spacetime? As a physics person, I think in terms of frames of reference, and rotational frame of reference makes sense - revolutionary does not.
As some have noted, the speed mentioned in this case is that of rotation about the sun. There is, however, a more universal method to measure our speed through the universe. You can do this by looking at the cosmic microwave background. Just because relativity says there's no preferred frame of reference, doesn't mean we can't choose sensible ones based on the things we see around us.
2. A reasonably priced printer that prints on both sides of the paper.
HP has a number of reasonably priced printers which can do this. The Photosmart 7755 at around a hundred bucks use have an optional attachment (~30 if memory serves) to do two sided. The Business Inkjet 1200d at around 200 bucks includes the functionality out of the box. They have had this for quite some time. Several years ago I was working as a retail whore selling computer stuff, and I sold a lot of cheap inkjets with double sided printing.
4. an ez-un-jamming printer. When a paper doesn't go in 100% perfectly straight, hilarity ensues trying to pull the confetti out without damaging things.
Again, I had very good experience with HP printers not jamming EVER, throughout tons of product demos for customers using the cheapest generic store brand paper as well as various weights of photo papers. This was again a couple of years ago, so I would imagine every major printer company would have been able to pull this relatively simple task off by now.
EXACTLY! As a physics grad student doing computational work, I'm surrounded by linux people, and in fact use linux quite a bit in my work. I dump code off to knoppix clusters to crunch numbers, and I used to run linux as my primary desktop.
Then, my advisor bought us all ibooks, so we could work on our code at home. It's been a pure dream to have a laptop that runs something unix-y and everything just plain works, without recompiling the kernel to get the power management functionality I want, or tweaking an X config file to get the screen setup I want.
Now I've bought a dual g5 powermac to use at home. Once I started using os X, I came to such a huge appreciation of having a unix command line and all the tools built into a system with a damn slick user interface, most linux software available, and most importantly a simple way to configure most things. When I started, I was doing all my work in emacs running under KDE on Xdarwin. Nowadays, I'm using xcode and loving it. All my friends are calling me a traitor, saying I'm not a real geek anymore, even calling me a mac zealot.
I tell them I'd rather spend more of my time at work actually working, so I get finished sooner, and can get home in time to go outside and BBQ some bugers before bed.
Nothing amuses me quite as much as anal-retentive slashdotters arguing semantics. A Mac is a Mac, and a PC is a PC. Technicalities aside, any sensible person immediately understands the difference. Pull the stick out of your ass and move on.
Then again, at least you didn't post to correct me on the openfirmware issue, like the upteen other posters who felt it neccesary to repeat the same statement ad nauseum.
Several folks have pointed out that the intel macs will in fact NOT use open firmware. You can still bet the ranch on the fact that os X will NOT be able to run on commodity PC hardware, though. (Unless of course someone comes up with a hack to do so).
Thanks for correcting the troll before I had a chance to do so. There's nothing quite like someone screaming "RTFA" when they haven't done so themselves. I also get a huge kick out of the "Apple is losing their edge" trolls. The modern Apple is all about the style and user experience. OS X will still only run on Macs, Apple industrial design will still be the object of much lust, and people will still either love or hate it, based on random points of zealotry that have little to do with the actual usability of the system. Whether it's powered by a G5, pentium, or a squirell, as long as the eye candy is rendered smoothly, people will drool.
Uh, no. They are going to put intel chips inside their machines. They will still use openfirmware, and not a pc bios, and still allow the os to only run on their proprietary machines. x86 != PC
Funny, maybe... but at the WWDC keynote just a few short minutes ago, Jobs officially announced the rumors are in fact true, and they WILL be going to intel.
Yeah that's wonderful, until you want something that's not in the repository. Or until a glitch in synaptic requires you to go to the command line to force an install or an uninstall. Or until you have to install a driver for a new piece of hardware you bought. Synaptic does NOT come anywhere near the ease of installation on windows or os x. FWIW, I MUCH prefer the method used in os x, where most programs are installed via a simple drag-n-drop to the applications folder.
How can you say that with a straight face? While it MIGHT be true that gnome or kde is a more intuitive, better designed graphical shell, depending on your point of view, there is NO WAY IN HELL linux is better on the desktop than windows. Until linux has a simple, clean software/hardware installtion and removal system, it will come nowhere near windows or os x in terms of being ready for the desktop. Even on the supposedly userfriendly distros like ubuntu, you will eventually need to fuck around with obscure command line tools or text configuration files to get something working. Linux has come a LONG ass way on the desktop, but it's not even got a chance of being superior to windows on the desktop.
I couldn't agree with you more. All rutan did was pay some people to build a sub-orbital space vehicle. NASA funds SCIENTIFIC research in a huge number of fields that greatly advance our understanding of the universe. The whole "NASA sucks" virgin-galactic worship thing really pisses me off. You're talking about one of the largest, most productive research organizations in the history of humankind, and comparing it to a guy who solved a minor engineering problem by drawing from existing technologies. I'm not saying NASA couldn't use some serious reorganization and better administration, but comparing the work of its many talented scientists to a company that built a glorified airplane is foolish, disrepectful, and incredibly short-sighted.
Yeah, let me tell you, when Metallica does a big show, they only take home 150 bucks from it.
If you aren't making enough money to survive as a musician, it's because no one gives a shit about your music. A big label record contract doesn't make you money because of the cd sales, it makes you money because there's a PR/marketing machine that force feeds your music to people, so they will become interested in your music, and pay to come see it. Most professional artists make the majority of their money touring.
As another poster said, your friend needs a better agent. Or maybe he just needs to become a better musician.
That "joke" is about as subtle as a four foot steel dildo upside the head. The fact that a couple of people marked it funny does not automatically define it as funny. The fact that the moderation system around here is so fucked up further undermines the validity of your "its +4, it MUST be funny" argument. The joke sucks, plain and simple.
What is that troll term that's applicable here? You fail it? The whole point of the mastercard commercials is short, concise statements with prices and no extraneous qualifiers. Your complete lack of creativity has managed to take a slightly amusing joke, beat it to death, tie it to the bumper of a pickup truck, and drag it through the depths of unfunny. You fail it.
I have one of the water clocks. Cute idea, but I have enough trouble remembering to water my plants. Watering my clock is a royal PITA. The clock is also annoying to set, so when it loses power and you have to refill it, you get to go through that fun of settng it all over again.
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Is it really worth being a dick about semantics when the reality is we don't rotate OR revolve about the sun, but we travel in a straight line through curved spacetime? As a physics person, I think in terms of frames of reference, and rotational frame of reference makes sense - revolutionary does not.
As some have noted, the speed mentioned in this case is that of rotation about the sun. There is, however, a more universal method to measure our speed through the universe. You can do this by looking at the cosmic microwave background. Just because relativity says there's no preferred frame of reference, doesn't mean we can't choose sensible ones based on the things we see around us.
2. A reasonably priced printer that prints on both sides of the paper.
HP has a number of reasonably priced printers which can do this. The Photosmart 7755 at around a hundred bucks use have an optional attachment (~30 if memory serves) to do two sided. The Business Inkjet 1200d at around 200 bucks includes the functionality out of the box. They have had this for quite some time. Several years ago I was working as a retail whore selling computer stuff, and I sold a lot of cheap inkjets with double sided printing.
4. an ez-un-jamming printer. When a paper doesn't go in 100% perfectly straight, hilarity ensues trying to pull the confetti out without damaging things.
Again, I had very good experience with HP printers not jamming EVER, throughout tons of product demos for customers using the cheapest generic store brand paper as well as various weights of photo papers. This was again a couple of years ago, so I would imagine every major printer company would have been able to pull this relatively simple task off by now.
EXACTLY! As a physics grad student doing computational work, I'm surrounded by linux people, and in fact use linux quite a bit in my work. I dump code off to knoppix clusters to crunch numbers, and I used to run linux as my primary desktop.
Then, my advisor bought us all ibooks, so we could work on our code at home. It's been a pure dream to have a laptop that runs something unix-y and everything just plain works, without recompiling the kernel to get the power management functionality I want, or tweaking an X config file to get the screen setup I want.
Now I've bought a dual g5 powermac to use at home. Once I started using os X, I came to such a huge appreciation of having a unix command line and all the tools built into a system with a damn slick user interface, most linux software available, and most importantly a simple way to configure most things. When I started, I was doing all my work in emacs running under KDE on Xdarwin. Nowadays, I'm using xcode and loving it. All my friends are calling me a traitor, saying I'm not a real geek anymore, even calling me a mac zealot.
I tell them I'd rather spend more of my time at work actually working, so I get finished sooner, and can get home in time to go outside and BBQ some bugers before bed.
Thanks for ruining the movie for me. Well, at least I still don't know whether Anakin will go to the dark side or not.
BAH! My geek cred is ruined :(
geek guys are only interested in geek girls.
Funny, I was under the impression that most geek guys were interested in anything with a hole and a pulse.
Best... True Genius reference.. EVER.
As an aside, it's scary to think I'm a part of a community in which it's assumed there have been OTHER True Genius references in the past.
Nothing amuses me quite as much as anal-retentive slashdotters arguing semantics. A Mac is a Mac, and a PC is a PC. Technicalities aside, any sensible person immediately understands the difference. Pull the stick out of your ass and move on.
Then again, at least you didn't post to correct me on the openfirmware issue, like the upteen other posters who felt it neccesary to repeat the same statement ad nauseum.
Several folks have pointed out that the intel macs will in fact NOT use open firmware. You can still bet the ranch on the fact that os X will NOT be able to run on commodity PC hardware, though. (Unless of course someone comes up with a hack to do so).
Thanks for correcting the troll before I had a chance to do so. There's nothing quite like someone screaming "RTFA" when they haven't done so themselves. I also get a huge kick out of the "Apple is losing their edge" trolls. The modern Apple is all about the style and user experience. OS X will still only run on Macs, Apple industrial design will still be the object of much lust, and people will still either love or hate it, based on random points of zealotry that have little to do with the actual usability of the system. Whether it's powered by a G5, pentium, or a squirell, as long as the eye candy is rendered smoothly, people will drool.
As others have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the dev kit includes the hardware. They aren't just shipping a Tiger CD you pop into your dell.
Uh, no. They are going to put intel chips inside their machines. They will still use openfirmware, and not a pc bios, and still allow the os to only run on their proprietary machines. x86 != PC
Funny, maybe... but at the WWDC keynote just a few short minutes ago, Jobs officially announced the rumors are in fact true, and they WILL be going to intel.
Wiping hard drives counts as white hat now?
Honestly, who cares? I heard in the next version of the Mustang, they are gonna change 'gearshift" to "gear changer"
I was thinking the exact same thing, then I saw who submitted the article, and suddenly had a strong urge to take a crap on my computer screen.
Yeah that's wonderful, until you want something that's not in the repository. Or until a glitch in synaptic requires you to go to the command line to force an install or an uninstall. Or until you have to install a driver for a new piece of hardware you bought. Synaptic does NOT come anywhere near the ease of installation on windows or os x. FWIW, I MUCH prefer the method used in os x, where most programs are installed via a simple drag-n-drop to the applications folder.
How can you say that with a straight face? While it MIGHT be true that gnome or kde is a more intuitive, better designed graphical shell, depending on your point of view, there is NO WAY IN HELL linux is better on the desktop than windows. Until linux has a simple, clean software/hardware installtion and removal system, it will come nowhere near windows or os x in terms of being ready for the desktop. Even on the supposedly userfriendly distros like ubuntu, you will eventually need to fuck around with obscure command line tools or text configuration files to get something working. Linux has come a LONG ass way on the desktop, but it's not even got a chance of being superior to windows on the desktop.
I couldn't agree with you more. All rutan did was pay some people to build a sub-orbital space vehicle. NASA funds SCIENTIFIC research in a huge number of fields that greatly advance our understanding of the universe. The whole "NASA sucks" virgin-galactic worship thing really pisses me off. You're talking about one of the largest, most productive research organizations in the history of humankind, and comparing it to a guy who solved a minor engineering problem by drawing from existing technologies. I'm not saying NASA couldn't use some serious reorganization and better administration, but comparing the work of its many talented scientists to a company that built a glorified airplane is foolish, disrepectful, and incredibly short-sighted.
Yeah, let me tell you, when Metallica does a big show, they only take home 150 bucks from it.
If you aren't making enough money to survive as a musician, it's because no one gives a shit about your music. A big label record contract doesn't make you money because of the cd sales, it makes you money because there's a PR/marketing machine that force feeds your music to people, so they will become interested in your music, and pay to come see it. Most professional artists make the majority of their money touring.
As another poster said, your friend needs a better agent. Or maybe he just needs to become a better musician.
That "joke" is about as subtle as a four foot steel dildo upside the head. The fact that a couple of people marked it funny does not automatically define it as funny. The fact that the moderation system around here is so fucked up further undermines the validity of your "its +4, it MUST be funny" argument. The joke sucks, plain and simple.
What is that troll term that's applicable here? You fail it? The whole point of the mastercard commercials is short, concise statements with prices and no extraneous qualifiers. Your complete lack of creativity has managed to take a slightly amusing joke, beat it to death, tie it to the bumper of a pickup truck, and drag it through the depths of unfunny. You fail it.
I have one of the water clocks. Cute idea, but I have enough trouble remembering to water my plants. Watering my clock is a royal PITA. The clock is also annoying to set, so when it loses power and you have to refill it, you get to go through that fun of settng it all over again.
Do you HONESTLY think this was ever an issue?