Really? You are making this about immigrants?
I am here on a H1B visa and if I lose my job then I will get deported within 24 hours. I will lose my house. I will lose my car. I will lose everything I worked for after I came to the states.
You can start a business and fail and all you get is a bad credit score. If I start a business and fail I lose everything!
--Like cars, computers will become boring sealed appliances, built mainly for safety & ease of use. Thanks Apple fans!
You're welcome. I look forward to this future where we can start doing stuff in stead of tinkering with our tools. Oh, and I want the new Camaro SS laptop when it comes out!
I don't know why it gets any special advantages at all.
It should have to physically push a buzzer.
Being able to control a small servo from a computer is really no great feat is it? Have you heard of automated garage doors?
... and a printer with comic sans makes this more impressive, how?
Also, it should have to watch the board itself.
Realtime OCR has been done on computers with much less CPU power. See Word Lens.
It should have no electronic linkages to any outside information.
It has to be able to parse the physical environment of Jeopardy, and interact with the physical environment of Jeopardy (At least while the show it running, it doesn't have to enter or leave under its own power.)
Until then, it's not really 'playing Jeopardy', is it?
All the other elements to playing Jeopardy can be easily solved. These guys are handling language processing. That is no small feat in itself. Try RTFA. It helps to appreciate what was done here.
I think the number of hollywood shows available on a given box will be the deciding factor.
I hope UI will be the deciding factor, but I fear it won't.
Last time I checked Snow Leopard was only about $29. You might want to spend your time on something slightly more profitable than fighting for a refund for that particular item...
There's always somebody who'd only be interested if they can get a lot of luxury goods for very little money. What makes you think you are in Apples target audience?
Anyone who is thinking as they read instead of blindly ploughing through the words would have realized that Earth has not reached it's final century yet?
Perhaps we have, but we're less than 100 years into it.
We usually are less than 100 years into any given century, seeing as how a century is 100 years long.
Which is why those of us to disagree with apple but use their product out of necessity exclaim, long live the jailbreak!
Out of necessity?! It's a smartphone for crying out loud! The only case where you are required to use an iPhone is when you work in iPhone development, and in that case you would not jailbreak it!
You made it this far without people building custom firmware. Now you've forced people to find ways to put custom firmware on the PS3. Next up is "indie" games followed by pirates followed by the game industry going back to PCs or over to other consoles.
Too bad. I actually liked by PS3. Hopefully something new will come along soon so I won't have to buy an xbox...
"French lawmakers have voted to approve a draft law to filter Internet traffic that Slashdot previously discussed."
I didn't read the article. I didn't even read the rest of the text beyond that sentence. Any traffic related to something which has previously been discussed on/. should be filtered in France...
Although a great recurring Slashdot meme, the "just fix your business model" viewpoint is utterly and completely retarded and ignorant.
It would not be validly applied in any other circumstance. E.g. let's say that businesses using Open Source are taxed heavily to compensate for lost VAT in commercial software. Consequently, a group of Open Source developers who rely on donations to do full-time development work experience a shortfall in donations and complain about that. Comments like "Yeah, learn to live with it", "You're behind the times", "Dinosaurs do one thing: Die out", "Rethink your development model", "Just find out how to do it" etc. are meaningless.
Even if the artists shouldn't change their business model, why is it in order to punish those who did change their business model?
This tax is going to target companies completely unrelated to artists (SaaS companies for instance). I'm pretty sure they aren't the ones pirating music. Also I'm also pretty sure that their customers (people who buy SaaS) generally don't pirate music.
Explain to me again why I would like my OS developers to work on speeding up reboot times rather than working on making an OS that does not require reboots?
More like it would really reeaally suck to have all those smug apple fan boys drop by just to show off their new shiny hardware and try to mock the actual customers.
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Really? You are making this about immigrants? I am here on a H1B visa and if I lose my job then I will get deported within 24 hours. I will lose my house. I will lose my car. I will lose everything I worked for after I came to the states. You can start a business and fail and all you get is a bad credit score. If I start a business and fail I lose everything!
Unless you're using Virtual Earth.
You're welcome. I look forward to this future where we can start doing stuff in stead of tinkering with our tools. Oh, and I want the new Camaro SS laptop when it comes out!
Given how many people hate their jobs I'd say the penalty for joyriding should be higher than the penalty for speeding to get to work on time...
Several. Google for "URL expander".
I don't know why it gets any special advantages at all.
It should have to physically push a buzzer.
Being able to control a small servo from a computer is really no great feat is it? Have you heard of automated garage doors?
... and a printer with comic sans makes this more impressive, how?
Also, it should have to watch the board itself.
Realtime OCR has been done on computers with much less CPU power. See Word Lens.
It should have no electronic linkages to any outside information.
It has to be able to parse the physical environment of Jeopardy, and interact with the physical environment of Jeopardy (At least while the show it running, it doesn't have to enter or leave under its own power.)
Until then, it's not really 'playing Jeopardy', is it?
All the other elements to playing Jeopardy can be easily solved. These guys are handling language processing. That is no small feat in itself. Try RTFA. It helps to appreciate what was done here.
They reproduce asexually. Hasn't that been the only option for geeks for some time now?
Here's a tip: don't friend your boss. Seriously. He doesn't need to know what you do n your own time.
This is overwhelmingly not ironic!
I think the number of hollywood shows available on a given box will be the deciding factor. I hope UI will be the deciding factor, but I fear it won't.
Last time I checked Snow Leopard was only about $29. You might want to spend your time on something slightly more profitable than fighting for a refund for that particular item...
There's always somebody who'd only be interested if they can get a lot of luxury goods for very little money. What makes you think you are in Apples target audience?
Perhaps we have, but we're less than 100 years into it.
We usually are less than 100 years into any given century, seeing as how a century is 100 years long.
Which is why those of us to disagree with apple but use their product out of necessity exclaim, long live the jailbreak!
Out of necessity?! It's a smartphone for crying out loud! The only case where you are required to use an iPhone is when you work in iPhone development, and in that case you would not jailbreak it!
I hope you are happy Sony.
You made it this far without people building custom firmware. Now you've forced people to find ways to put custom firmware on the PS3. Next up is "indie" games followed by pirates followed by the game industry going back to PCs or over to other consoles.
Too bad. I actually liked by PS3. Hopefully something new will come along soon so I won't have to buy an xbox...
"French lawmakers have voted to approve a draft law to filter Internet traffic that Slashdot previously discussed."
/. should be filtered in France...
I didn't read the article. I didn't even read the rest of the text beyond that sentence. Any traffic related to something which has previously been discussed on
Yes. "Online."
Grandparent replied about their ability to make money, whereas I commented on their ability to make money online.
</sarcasm> is not a sentence.
I didn't write [twitter.com] - the /. software did
Finally, I am neither rich nor a kid.
Reading comprehension was never one of your strong suits, was it?
Although a great recurring Slashdot meme, the "just fix your business model" viewpoint is utterly and completely retarded and ignorant.
It would not be validly applied in any other circumstance. E.g. let's say that businesses using Open Source are taxed heavily to compensate for lost VAT in commercial software. Consequently, a group of Open Source developers who rely on donations to do full-time development work experience a shortfall in donations and complain about that. Comments like "Yeah, learn to live with it", "You're behind the times", "Dinosaurs do one thing: Die out", "Rethink your development model", "Just find out how to do it" etc. are meaningless.
Even if the artists shouldn't change their business model, why is it in order to punish those who did change their business model?
This tax is going to target companies completely unrelated to artists (SaaS companies for instance). I'm pretty sure they aren't the ones pirating music. Also I'm also pretty sure that their customers (people who buy SaaS) generally don't pirate music.
Everything about this tax is misguided
That is true. You missed the last word of the sentence I wrote, though...
Make companies who actually make money online pay for those companies which do not understand how to make money online...
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... a beowulf cluster of those! ;)
(Sorry, it had to be said)
Explain to me again why I would like my OS developers to work on speeding up reboot times rather than working on making an OS that does not require reboots?
True, but I'd still not want to work in a shop subjected to that...
wooosh....
More like it would really reeaally suck to have all those smug apple fan boys drop by just to show off their new shiny hardware and try to mock the actual customers.
We've had that in Denmark for years now. OpenDNS should be the solution to all of your problems...