Female anglers grow to be more than a yard long and can produce millions of eggs in a single spawning. The males, which live alone until maturity, reach a length of only 4 to 6 inches.
That sounds like a psychologist's peek into the mind of a/.er...
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration." (emphasis added) How is an agency tasked with collecting revenue under a clear and broad constitutional mandate not constitutional?
If you don't like it, get your Congressman or Senator to introduce a bill to repeal the 16th Amendment.
He may not care a bit about defending on the issue of liability. He may only care about defending on the issue of calculating damages (how much loss did he really cause Apple?) or about appearing sweet and naive in front of a jury. Go back, re-read the interview for instances where he talks about how nice he is, and then ask yourself how a jury might react to that.
Apple would do something verrrrrry interesting if they bundled this sort of unit with a 5th Gen iPod. No, not just so Timmy and Lisa can listen to their music. Rather, if you put a slightly higher performance HD in the 'pod, then used the MacMini chassis as a cradle. The OS, all the applications, all the data (including Timmy and Lisa's music) reside on the iPod and you could theoretically go from chassis to chassis transparently just by plugging in the pod. Something a/.-er would use? Probably not, but for a school or family, it could be magical.
Well, it's thirty-nine that this one person has found. And, really, how many daily-use applications of a general sort do you need? Web browsing, mail, file transfer, messaging, office documents, media, image viewing and manipulation... that's a large chunk of an average user's daily needs, and an average user doesn't need, for example, Gaim and Trillian and Miranda installed to chat with friends. Not that there's anything wrong with choice or with FreeBSD's collection, but it's nice to see a simple, quick repository of trusted (with the qualification that we're trusting this guy's judgment in the absence of any certification method) applications for setting up a box. I don't want to be confronted with 12,157 choices when all I want to do is set up the basics in half an hour. If I'm setting up a special-purpose box then, sure, I'll take some more time to find the absolute best tool for the job.
Personally, I've used theopencd in the past to do things like set up my sister's and father's computers to be a bit more idiot-proof, but I'll bookmark this one too.
Man, I couldn't disagree more with centauri's response to you. The Sparrow is a fantastic book. Irrespective of the philosophy/theology of the book, it's just a pleasure to read such extraordinary characters. Her humor is wonderful and subtle. And, ultimately, the questions she has about faith are disturbing and thought-provoking.
What I'd like is to have one, centralized server-based clearinghouse (of my links; not talking about the clearinghouse from your post) that would keep track of the feeds I'm interested in, and, based on some sort of flag, fire off SMS, IM, or some other proprietary alert to me wherever I am. In-browser is where it gets tricky for me as a user: I don't want my aggregator to take up a whole window. I'd much rather have a sidebar or floating window interface than one that fills the screen... I'm just looking for headlines here and maybe the briefest blurb. No doubt, there is a product out there that does some of this (maybe even Bloglines - I haven't explored it fully), but I'm moderating my wishlist with the knowledge that RSS is not an entirely mature culture (even if the technology is good to go).
So, in addition to death by its own success, RSS faces the problem of crusty users like me who have work habits that RSS is currently fighting (kind of like using a TV-based media navigator when you're used to the extremely rapid and efficient navigation of iTunes or winamp).
Bloglines is quite good, and I appreciate that it's very chummy with Firefox, but I'm not 100% satisfied with it. I wish I could articulate what bugged me about it (especially to the founder, heh), but I find it's slower for me to check bloglines than it is to just swoop through my bookmarks every once in a while.
By far the best RSS experience I've had has been with the Konfabulator RSS widget, which pops up when it finds a new entry and hides away when there's nothing new. It's elegant and simple. Bloglines is a fantastic service for aggregating large amounts of information, but it's still not very efficient at providing it to me quickly.
On topic, the problem with RSS seems to me to be that it's a solution in search of a problem that, in turn, creates more problems (through the non-caching, etc). I suppose it's useful for keeping tabs on all those LJ blogs you read (but don't admit to reading), but, honestly, if the BBC posts a news item about, say, a nuclear explosion in Karachi (apologies to both Indians and Pakistanis reading this), I don't want to wait for my RSS client to cycle. I guess there's some element of push and some element of browse that need to be mixed together.
This thing isn't perfect. Hell, the first personal computers (as we would recognize them today) were heavy, loud, ugly, and could barely calculate a square root. I won't buy this thing, but I will step back and recognize that it's a pretty extraordinary little device: a Walkman-sized box that receives significant and complex information from satellites floating way up in space. Think about that in the context of, say, 1960... or 1980. GPS does, broadly, the same thing, but think about how much more limited the bandwidth requirements are for a GPS unit.
Based on your 5-digit id, you must be positively ancient.:) Hell, I remember printing out Star Trek ASCII art with my VAX time on a "computer" in the basement of a college library.
I'm not proud.. I'm just sayin'.
Anyway, there's some real genius in those basements (then and now), but to be a saleable product, there needs to be SOME sort of... context.
Based on the amount of abandoned projects, weak support, buggy code, inconsistent UI, and so forth I've seen in projects that were "neat ideas", I'd say yes, some standards would be useful. Especially when there are projects like Firefox, OpenOffice, and Gaim to carry the banner (plus many other lower-profile projects).
OSS still has a bit of a reputation of being "kids in basements wearing black t-shirts hacking out amateur software surrounded by Matrix screen savers" and not always undeservedly.
But not always deservedly either. And some sort of cert program (I leave to people smarter than I am the how, where, and when of certification) could be helpful. Would it make it more difficult for an innovative project to take root? Well, yes, but that would be the point, and it would guard against projects that are abandoned when, for example, their creators graduate from university.
I agree 110%, but that's the result of a rather wimpish optimization of IE (and Office) -- always remain resident. It's a bogus comparison at the micro level, but at the macro level of encountering the software, well, it's something to be considered. (And, notably, with the OpenOffice agent, or whatever it's called, OOo have done something about it.)
But wait! Assuming that the 3D support from this card will be dog slow assumes that a community project must be dog slow. Ok, OpenOffice doesn't launch as blindingly quickly as MS Word and Firefox (disclaimer: my browser of choice, so this is tempered criticism) doesn't appear instantly like IE, but I think the "market" goals of these two communities was to get something developed that was competitive and then work on optimization down the road.
I'm off-track though: my point is that if the "market" of community developers wants to focus on blindingly fast 3D performance, it's not impossible to believe that it'll happen. What's holding optimal 3D performance from 3D ATI cards on Linux? Seems to me it's ATI being stingy with their support of community developers (which is their right as owners of a property).
Which is kinda what you said. Heh. But if this company has any hardware savvy at all, then there's no reason this thing couldn't compete with ATI or nVidia.
So I guess we're left relying on this co. to come up with some decent hardware, which is pretty much what you said, so I'm just going to shut up and go back to reading about the Reformation.:)
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Female anglers grow to be more than a yard long and can produce millions of eggs in a single spawning. The males, which live alone until maturity, reach a length of only 4 to 6 inches.
That sounds like a psychologist's peek into the mind of a /.er...
If you don't like it, get your Congressman or Senator to introduce a bill to repeal the 16th Amendment.
He may not care a bit about defending on the issue of liability. He may only care about defending on the issue of calculating damages (how much loss did he really cause Apple?) or about appearing sweet and naive in front of a jury. Go back, re-read the interview for instances where he talks about how nice he is, and then ask yourself how a jury might react to that.
IANAL.
I'm just waiting for a no-clothes hack that actually has anatomically correct models instead of those disturbing androgynes.
Uh, at least, that's what a friend of mine said at the Chinese Buffet last night.. er...
(I don't even own TheSims or TheSims2... I promise!)
Similarly, Populous, a much better game. (old school)
I predict that by midnight UMT, that jumping robot with lightsabers picture will be the desktop background image of, like, 1.4 million geeks...
Apple would do something verrrrrry interesting if they bundled this sort of unit with a 5th Gen iPod. No, not just so Timmy and Lisa can listen to their music. Rather, if you put a slightly higher performance HD in the 'pod, then used the MacMini chassis as a cradle. The OS, all the applications, all the data (including Timmy and Lisa's music) reside on the iPod and you could theoretically go from chassis to chassis transparently just by plugging in the pod. Something a /.-er would use? Probably not, but for a school or family, it could be magical.
Personally, I've used theopencd in the past to do things like set up my sister's and father's computers to be a bit more idiot-proof, but I'll bookmark this one too.
Hot pod on pod action?
Foot fetish?
Golly, it's 3:30am...
Yeah. You're asking for technical support on /. :)
What do we call it when /. actually tries to help alleviate bandwidth shortage?
todhsalsing?
You forgot "Its more then rediculous!"
Man, I couldn't disagree more with centauri's response to you. The Sparrow is a fantastic book. Irrespective of the philosophy/theology of the book, it's just a pleasure to read such extraordinary characters. Her humor is wonderful and subtle. And, ultimately, the questions she has about faith are disturbing and thought-provoking.
Thanks for replying. :)
What I'd like is to have one, centralized server-based clearinghouse (of my links; not talking about the clearinghouse from your post) that would keep track of the feeds I'm interested in, and, based on some sort of flag, fire off SMS, IM, or some other proprietary alert to me wherever I am. In-browser is where it gets tricky for me as a user: I don't want my aggregator to take up a whole window. I'd much rather have a sidebar or floating window interface than one that fills the screen... I'm just looking for headlines here and maybe the briefest blurb. No doubt, there is a product out there that does some of this (maybe even Bloglines - I haven't explored it fully), but I'm moderating my wishlist with the knowledge that RSS is not an entirely mature culture (even if the technology is good to go).
So, in addition to death by its own success, RSS faces the problem of crusty users like me who have work habits that RSS is currently fighting (kind of like using a TV-based media navigator when you're used to the extremely rapid and efficient navigation of iTunes or winamp).
Anyway, I'm rambling.
Bless you, Quixote, for stirring these passions so long laid dormant in my loins. I thought Pointcast was lost to us forever.
Bloglines is quite good, and I appreciate that it's very chummy with Firefox, but I'm not 100% satisfied with it. I wish I could articulate what bugged me about it (especially to the founder, heh), but I find it's slower for me to check bloglines than it is to just swoop through my bookmarks every once in a while.
By far the best RSS experience I've had has been with the Konfabulator RSS widget, which pops up when it finds a new entry and hides away when there's nothing new. It's elegant and simple. Bloglines is a fantastic service for aggregating large amounts of information, but it's still not very efficient at providing it to me quickly.
On topic, the problem with RSS seems to me to be that it's a solution in search of a problem that, in turn, creates more problems (through the non-caching, etc). I suppose it's useful for keeping tabs on all those LJ blogs you read (but don't admit to reading), but, honestly, if the BBC posts a news item about, say, a nuclear explosion in Karachi (apologies to both Indians and Pakistanis reading this), I don't want to wait for my RSS client to cycle. I guess there's some element of push and some element of browse that need to be mixed together.
Indiana Jones: Bigger, Longer, Older.
This thing isn't perfect. Hell, the first personal computers (as we would recognize them today) were heavy, loud, ugly, and could barely calculate a square root. I won't buy this thing, but I will step back and recognize that it's a pretty extraordinary little device: a Walkman-sized box that receives significant and complex information from satellites floating way up in space. Think about that in the context of, say, 1960 ... or 1980. GPS does, broadly, the same thing, but think about how much more limited the bandwidth requirements are for a GPS unit.
Absolutely amazing.
In Soviet Korea, old people email you!
Based on your 5-digit id, you must be positively ancient. :) Hell, I remember printing out Star Trek ASCII art with my VAX time on a "computer" in the basement of a college library.
... context.
I'm not proud.. I'm just sayin'.
Anyway, there's some real genius in those basements (then and now), but to be a saleable product, there needs to be SOME sort of
well, at least we can all make fun of the Dragonball Z kids.
I keed, I keed...
(not really)
Based on the amount of abandoned projects, weak support, buggy code, inconsistent UI, and so forth I've seen in projects that were "neat ideas", I'd say yes, some standards would be useful. Especially when there are projects like Firefox, OpenOffice, and Gaim to carry the banner (plus many other lower-profile projects).
OSS still has a bit of a reputation of being "kids in basements wearing black t-shirts hacking out amateur software surrounded by Matrix screen savers" and not always undeservedly.
But not always deservedly either. And some sort of cert program (I leave to people smarter than I am the how, where, and when of certification) could be helpful. Would it make it more difficult for an innovative project to take root? Well, yes, but that would be the point, and it would guard against projects that are abandoned when, for example, their creators graduate from university.
I'm a big fan of Free software, btw.
Flaming space sharks! with lasers!
(and ninjas)
*claps*
PS. That pop culture reference referred to the, um, space combat, not the porn. One can't be too careful in 2004, you know...
I agree 110%, but that's the result of a rather wimpish optimization of IE (and Office) -- always remain resident. It's a bogus comparison at the micro level, but at the macro level of encountering the software, well, it's something to be considered. (And, notably, with the OpenOffice agent, or whatever it's called, OOo have done something about it.)
But wait! Assuming that the 3D support from this card will be dog slow assumes that a community project must be dog slow. Ok, OpenOffice doesn't launch as blindingly quickly as MS Word and Firefox (disclaimer: my browser of choice, so this is tempered criticism) doesn't appear instantly like IE, but I think the "market" goals of these two communities was to get something developed that was competitive and then work on optimization down the road.
:)
I'm off-track though: my point is that if the "market" of community developers wants to focus on blindingly fast 3D performance, it's not impossible to believe that it'll happen. What's holding optimal 3D performance from 3D ATI cards on Linux? Seems to me it's ATI being stingy with their support of community developers (which is their right as owners of a property).
Which is kinda what you said. Heh. But if this company has any hardware savvy at all, then there's no reason this thing couldn't compete with ATI or nVidia.
So I guess we're left relying on this co. to come up with some decent hardware, which is pretty much what you said, so I'm just going to shut up and go back to reading about the Reformation.