My understanding is that the gyroscopes that keep the Hubble oriented properly need occasional replacing. A space tug isn't going to get rid of the problem of failing gyroscopes, only shuttle missions. 2 shuttles blown to kingdom come argue effectively against dedicating a mission to getting a couple extra years out of Hubble.
The shuttle is old tech that needs a total redesign. I'm glad the administration is forward thinking on the whole issue. They haven't necessarily chosen what I would call the best path- but its better than the drift and mission creep that NASA has suffered through lately.
Paul responded to a poster on his site by stating that the Apple/HP deal was "contraversial at best"... This was my response:
The only place that the HP deal was "controversial" is on this site and in Redmond. Most of the media reports I have read praise HP's savvy for hitching itself to a rising star like the iPod.
As far as licensing "Protected AAC," if Microsoft wants to make a deal with Apple to include Quicktime in all its Windows iterations, I'm sure Apple would be amenable. Then any Windows program would have the hooks available to play protected content without downloading a thing, including iTunes.
After the anti-trust decisions, there is nothing to stop HP from loading any software they want on their systems, most likely including the "Media Center" type PC's. This would allow more choice, not less.
You keep harping on incompatibilities- it seems to me that adding a supported format is more like a burner supporting + and - DVD formats- you are *enhancing* compatibility. Like the DVD format wars neither P-AAC or WMA is going away anytime soon- that being the case isn't it in the best interest of the consumer and HP to give the consumer a choice? Its not like HP is going to stop selling its WMA devices, it will be selling a *single* device with P-AAC support and letting the consumer choose? Where exactly is the downside?
The reason you sound like a MS shill is that there is no discernable downside to anyone except Microsoft. They lose their united front and it makes Apple appear like a standard setter that compete with the behemoth. It is a radical perception change in the industry for Apple. Its huge for them and a huge perceptual threat to Microsoft.
Microsoft has spent so much time building a perception of dominance and invulnerability specifically so that it could bully others into accepting de facto standards in which it controlled critical intellectual property. But the house of cards is built on that perception alone. Now Apple has smashed that perception to smithereens- and Bill won't be able to put humptey dumptey back together again.
Please respond to these kind of specific points rather than only responding to the trolls and flamebait and complaining about them.
JFK was a highly accelerated speaker, by far the fastest of the recorded presidents- he was also a very fast speed reader, which also improves comprehension when done properly.
High school debate was an interesting forum for both speed reading and speaking, though it often passed into the domain of unintelligibility with certain speakers.
An excellent book that focused on a new generalist class of scientist- that was made possible by learning at high speed. Though I still like the Oz method of popping a book pill for learning...;)
Null routing only changes the problem, it doesn't eliminate it. The domain still will return an address- it will just be unreachable. The error returned is therefore wrong.
This will force recoding on an insane scale. And what do we do when they change the IP address every couple of days?
This cannot stand and I would be surprised if it did.
I cannot imagine a more vapid thing to do than this- and to not even give any notice! The monomania and self delusion that they are exhibiting is truly amazing.
Does anyone have an idea of how we can start returning correct error messages immediately?
IIRC I was shown a satellite picture of Australia with a noticeable green/brown differential between the states of South Australia and New South Wales/Victoria. It was attributed to the unlimited grazing policies in South Australia.
I was also amazed to find out the incredible amount of sub-tropical hardwood forests that were stripped from NSW/Queensland. There was a massive pre-historic forest that was stripped in the 20s/30s.
I hadn't realized the British Merchantilist system was still stripping the world of so many irreplacable natural resources well into the 20th century.
The problem with drugs, especially with drugs like ecstacy, is that they create *permanent* changes in brain chemistry. Sometimes very damaging changes. This is not even going into the addictive properties of most drugs.
If it is found at any time that these machines make permanent changes in mental funtioning or are addictive in nature, he will have to proceed a lot more carefully and under a very big microscope.
Its interesting to get unfiltered Steveness like this. For those decrying his rudeness... where have you been? He has been like this from the beginning.
The important thing is he was giving them the unvarnished truth. His insightfulness was genuine- he saw directly to the heart of the issues.
The insiders were obviously much too close to things, too sure of themselves. They had insulated themselves for too long- they would have benefitted much more if they had brought outsiders like Jobs and Bezos' much earlier in the process.
His rejection of the pleasantries and Powerpoint crap was the essential "Don't waste my time" of someone who actually values their time. He has two companies to run- he doesn't need to waste time watching somneone click through a stupid time-wasting presentation.
I am not like him at all- much too polite in real life. But he sure as hell makes sure things happen and he makes real products that people will pay premium dollars for. They should have paid even closer attention to what he said than they did.
TI 99/4A was the perfect machine for learning. It had a decent built in basic, an excellent Extended Basic Cart, and good learning documentation. I remember going from a total neophyte in 5th grade to writing cool little skiing games over the summer... may have to ebay one or find a decent emulator for my son...
I have 3 brothers and 7 sisters (and the parents of course). Luckily most of the girls have married into techhead types (or at least PC gaming types) and don't need my help any more. You would think that in a family of 11 kids their would be more than 1 geek. But noooo... just me.
To keep the aggravation I won't support the one's who don't buy Mac's, except my parents who needed a PC for their church mission to Argentina, so I sold them my laptop that I knew the configruration of backwards and forwards. The Mac only rule simplifies things for me- exactly 0 hardware failures in about 19 years or so and 11 or so Macs.
But those calls to Argentina to support that 1 PC laptop can get expensive...
I doubt the 12" would exist without the Japanese market. They love their laptops small with lots of features. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the best selling Mac overall in Japan.
They took the components developed for the 17" powerbook and decided to recycle them in the 12" 'book. So they must of thought the keyboard was just right to begin with and designed the smallest possible chassis around it.
Its been a looonnnggg time, but as I recall Hypercard automatically created a thumbnail history tree as you browsed through a stack.
I've always wondered why their isn't an equivalent button on my browser which could instantly show a drop down menu of the last 20 pages or so and let me choose one by clicking on the *picture* (with optional titling of course) of the page I want.
It is heallaciously useful, simple, stripped to the bare, with nonobtrusive, yet centered ads. Bandwidth usage has to be minimal, s/n ratio very high, the advertising non-annoying and targeted to be useful to the user. No graphics, pop-ups, or extranious html. Back to the future!
1- Minitel is actually a long-term drag on France. As another poster in this thread noted the backward condition of the telephone network worked to France's advantage when it did upgrade during the "digital age". Conversely Minitel is a drag on adoption of the internet and use of the French language on it.
2- There seems to be a consistent thread of anti-religious bias coming from French posts. It appears there is an active antagonism being taught by the French school system equating religion to ignorance. I would urge those who have been indoctrinated in this way to throw their own blinders off. Religious belief is not necessarily an impediment to rational thought, education, or enlightenment. The comment that "Republican ideals naturally spurns religion as something which enslaves humanity" smacks more of a Communist tract or the Reign of Terror than anything truly Republican.
3- The American university system rewards individual achivement as much as any in the world. Scholarships are available from every institution and the cream of the crop are recruited heavily to the top schools- which aren't generally state sponsored schools by the way. If you're good enough you'll not pay a dime and likely have a stipend as well. Yes, being a capitalistic society a space is made for big donors- but those big donors make available thousands of scholarships available to the best and the brightest.
4- Considering the constraints placed upon us by our relatively light population density, I would say that America gets more bang for the taxpayer dollar for government services than any country excepting Australia (which is largely funded by taxing its natural resources). Our infrastructure is highly dependend upon the policies of the local state and municipalities. Many American cities have services that can favorably compare with any European city.
Many non-americans are as myopic about us as we are about them. Those of us from either group who have lived in both America and internationally tend to have a balanced view of the whole thing. America *as a whole* and *considering its unique geography and demographic challenges* has created an unmatched and dynamic society that is the most technologically advanced, economically powerful, and politically responsive in the world. Many other countries can match or pass us in individual categories, especially those with monocultures. I really, really wish that many Europeans would be happy with their own successes and strengths and not need to demean America to make themselves feel superior, it gets old, quick. Yes many American yahoos get their jollies by baiting internationals, but please don't make it so easy on them.
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My understanding is that the gyroscopes that keep the Hubble oriented properly need occasional replacing. A space tug isn't going to get rid of the problem of failing gyroscopes, only shuttle missions. 2 shuttles blown to kingdom come argue effectively against dedicating a mission to getting a couple extra years out of Hubble.
The shuttle is old tech that needs a total redesign. I'm glad the administration is forward thinking on the whole issue. They haven't necessarily chosen what I would call the best path- but its better than the drift and mission creep that NASA has suffered through lately.
Paul responded to a poster on his site by stating that the Apple/HP deal was "contraversial at best"... This was my response:
The only place that the HP deal was "controversial" is on this site and in Redmond. Most of the media reports I have read praise HP's savvy for hitching itself to a rising star like the iPod.
As far as licensing "Protected AAC," if Microsoft wants to make a deal with Apple to include Quicktime in all its Windows iterations, I'm sure Apple would be amenable. Then any Windows program would have the hooks available to play protected content without downloading a thing, including iTunes.
After the anti-trust decisions, there is nothing to stop HP from loading any software they want on their systems, most likely including the "Media Center" type PC's. This would allow more choice, not less.
You keep harping on incompatibilities- it seems to me that adding a supported format is more like a burner supporting + and - DVD formats- you are *enhancing* compatibility. Like the DVD format wars neither P-AAC or WMA is going away anytime soon- that being the case isn't it in the best interest of the consumer and HP to give the consumer a choice? Its not like HP is going to stop selling its WMA devices, it will be selling a *single* device with P-AAC support and letting the consumer choose? Where exactly is the downside?
The reason you sound like a MS shill is that there is no discernable downside to anyone except Microsoft. They lose their united front and it makes Apple appear like a standard setter that compete with the behemoth. It is a radical perception change in the industry for Apple. Its huge for them and a huge perceptual threat to Microsoft.
Microsoft has spent so much time building a perception of dominance and invulnerability specifically so that it could bully others into accepting de facto standards in which it controlled critical intellectual property. But the house of cards is built on that perception alone. Now Apple has smashed that perception to smithereens- and Bill won't be able to put humptey dumptey back together again.
Please respond to these kind of specific points rather than only responding to the trolls and flamebait and complaining about them.
JFK was a highly accelerated speaker, by far the fastest of the recorded presidents- he was also a very fast speed reader, which also improves comprehension when done properly.
High school debate was an interesting forum for both speed reading and speaking, though it often passed into the domain of unintelligibility with certain speakers.
An excellent book that focused on a new generalist class of scientist- that was made possible by learning at high speed. Though I still like the Oz method of popping a book pill for learning... ;)
Null routing only changes the problem, it doesn't eliminate it. The domain still will return an address- it will just be unreachable. The error returned is therefore wrong.
This will force recoding on an insane scale. And what do we do when they change the IP address every couple of days?
This cannot stand and I would be surprised if it did.
I cannot imagine a more vapid thing to do than this- and to not even give any notice! The monomania and self delusion that they are exhibiting is truly amazing.
Does anyone have an idea of how we can start returning correct error messages immediately?
Just picked up Neverwinter Nights for $5 from MacPlay... I think that is as cheap if not cheaper than you can find it for Windows.
willing to create some new SlashCode to automatically take this troll beneath my viewing threshold? Its getting old... fast.
IIRC I was shown a satellite picture of Australia with a noticeable green/brown differential between the states of South Australia and New South Wales/Victoria. It was attributed to the unlimited grazing policies in South Australia.
I was also amazed to find out the incredible amount of sub-tropical hardwood forests that were stripped from NSW/Queensland. There was a massive pre-historic forest that was stripped in the 20s/30s.
I hadn't realized the British Merchantilist system was still stripping the world of so many irreplacable natural resources well into the 20th century.
The problem with drugs, especially with drugs like ecstacy, is that they create *permanent* changes in brain chemistry. Sometimes very damaging changes. This is not even going into the addictive properties of most drugs.
If it is found at any time that these machines make permanent changes in mental funtioning or are addictive in nature, he will have to proceed a lot more carefully and under a very big microscope.
He is a nice guy, but he is either going senile, or he thinks everyone is pirating his sappy music.
Yeah, I'm sure that the song: "The Answer's Not in Washington" is the #1 pirated piece of IP around...
Doh!!!
Its interesting to get unfiltered Steveness like this. For those decrying his rudeness... where have you been? He has been like this from the beginning.
The important thing is he was giving them the unvarnished truth. His insightfulness was genuine- he saw directly to the heart of the issues.
The insiders were obviously much too close to things, too sure of themselves. They had insulated themselves for too long- they would have benefitted much more if they had brought outsiders like Jobs and Bezos' much earlier in the process.
His rejection of the pleasantries and Powerpoint crap was the essential "Don't waste my time" of someone who actually values their time. He has two companies to run- he doesn't need to waste time watching somneone click through a stupid time-wasting presentation.
I am not like him at all- much too polite in real life. But he sure as hell makes sure things happen and he makes real products that people will pay premium dollars for. They should have paid even closer attention to what he said than they did.
TI 99/4A was the perfect machine for learning. It had a decent built in basic, an excellent Extended Basic Cart, and good learning documentation. I remember going from a total neophyte in 5th grade to writing cool little skiing games over the summer... may have to ebay one or find a decent emulator for my son...
I have 3 brothers and 7 sisters (and the parents of course). Luckily most of the girls have married into techhead types (or at least PC gaming types) and don't need my help any more. You would think that in a family of 11 kids their would be more than 1 geek. But noooo... just me.
To keep the aggravation I won't support the one's who don't buy Mac's, except my parents who needed a PC for their church mission to Argentina, so I sold them my laptop that I knew the configruration of backwards and forwards. The Mac only rule simplifies things for me- exactly 0 hardware failures in about 19 years or so and 11 or so Macs.
But those calls to Argentina to support that 1 PC laptop can get expensive...
I doubt the 12" would exist without the Japanese market. They love their laptops small with lots of features. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the best selling Mac overall in Japan.
Slow as molasses here. Only an Apple keynote seems to do this to Slashdot. What is the hit rate Pudge?
They took the components developed for the 17" powerbook and decided to recycle them in the 12" 'book. So they must of thought the keyboard was just right to begin with and designed the smallest possible chassis around it.
Its been a looonnnggg time, but as I recall Hypercard automatically created a thumbnail history tree as you browsed through a stack.
I've always wondered why their isn't an equivalent button on my browser which could instantly show a drop down menu of the last 20 pages or so and let me choose one by clicking on the *picture* (with optional titling of course) of the page I want.
While the available LCD screen wasn't bolted on it was probably the earliest transportable with an LCD screen, that could be used as an all-in-one.
It is heallaciously useful, simple, stripped to the bare, with nonobtrusive, yet centered ads. Bandwidth usage has to be minimal, s/n ratio very high, the advertising non-annoying and targeted to be useful to the user. No graphics, pop-ups, or extranious html. Back to the future!
1- Minitel is actually a long-term drag on France. As another poster in this thread noted the backward condition of the telephone network worked to France's advantage when it did upgrade during the "digital age". Conversely Minitel is a drag on adoption of the internet and use of the French language on it.
2- There seems to be a consistent thread of anti-religious bias coming from French posts. It appears there is an active antagonism being taught by the French school system equating religion to ignorance. I would urge those who have been indoctrinated in this way to throw their own blinders off. Religious belief is not necessarily an impediment to rational thought, education, or enlightenment. The comment that "Republican ideals naturally spurns religion as something which enslaves humanity" smacks more of a Communist tract or the Reign of Terror than anything truly Republican.
3- The American university system rewards individual achivement as much as any in the world. Scholarships are available from every institution and the cream of the crop are recruited heavily to the top schools- which aren't generally state sponsored schools by the way. If you're good enough you'll not pay a dime and likely have a stipend as well. Yes, being a capitalistic society a space is made for big donors- but those big donors make available thousands of scholarships available to the best and the brightest.
4- Considering the constraints placed upon us by our relatively light population density, I would say that America gets more bang for the taxpayer dollar for government services than any country excepting Australia (which is largely funded by taxing its natural resources). Our infrastructure is highly dependend upon the policies of the local state and municipalities. Many American cities have services that can favorably compare with any European city.
Many non-americans are as myopic about us as we are about them. Those of us from either group who have lived in both America and internationally tend to have a balanced view of the whole thing. America *as a whole* and *considering its unique geography and demographic challenges* has created an unmatched and dynamic society that is the most technologically advanced, economically powerful, and politically responsive in the world. Many other countries can match or pass us in individual categories, especially those with monocultures. I really, really wish that many Europeans would be happy with their own successes and strengths and not need to demean America to make themselves feel superior, it gets old, quick. Yes many American yahoos get their jollies by baiting internationals, but please don't make it so easy on them.