It's a good "sneakernet" option, as many times my laptop isn't hooked up to a network. Useless for MP3 files and PowerPoint, as the article points out, but still useful for Word files. And Bluetooth and IrDA are still too unreliable and insecure.
Do you think it makes any difference? Say L.A. gets pissed and votes Berman out of office next term. Then he simply becomes a high-paid lobbyist for Hollywood and makes even more money. I'm sorry, but this won't work.
Remember all those news stories you read to post to Slashdot? Or MS documentation? Sorry, anything with a "copyright something-something" at the bottom of the page is copyrighted material, and if it's in your temp folder, it's fair game.
Wheel of Time=Battlefield Earth.
Slog, slog, slog, slog, interesting bit, slog, slog, slog, slog. But in a pseudo-intellectual "look how intelligent I must be if I can make it extremely complex" kind of way.
"A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin is head-and-shoulders above the rest.
I'm sorry, sir, but you must really be on crack. The Episode I table ranks as one of the worst tables I've ever played, precisely because of that damn hologram. Look, if you want a video game, play a video game. This is pinball, Lucas fanboy. The table, if you bothered to play it, is simply a 1950's era shoot-the-target field. Just like the movies, the original Star Wars pinball table is much better. Kids these days...
Actually, the best part of that linked page is the audio samples. "At last we shall reveal ourselves to the Jedi".
TheViffer is right. As a beta tester, I played for two hours and never came back, Sure, there's some neat spells, some (apparently) neutral treasure up for the taking which can be used to help your side, but it's the same old peons chopping down trees and mining for ore, then building more advanced structures to turn out more advanced units.
I suppose it would be hypocritical for me to criticize the author pimping his own work to Slashdot (disclosure: as a tech writer, I've submitted stories that other authors on the site have written) though it's still disturbing. However, I'm a little concerned when a journalist/columnist starts trying to position himself as a man of the people. Submitting an interview is one thing, but this comes off as a guy trying to market himself as an insider, rather than letting his work speak for itself.
I'm also amused by the restrictions put on the audio format (just one section, please, and register!) but I'll let that go.
"This particular issue drives me insane and I hope the courts throw out the lame laws. I don't care about local programming, they shouldn't force it on me. The same tactics with Newspapers would be obviously illegal."
I don't know about you, but local programming and culture is what defines the way I live. You can have your Starbucks and Burger Kings--I'll take a latte at the corner store any day. And that goes for programming, too--"Bay Area Backroads" is a great show, and yes, I would like to hear about what's going in Berkeley, too.
And it wasn't Pabst that wrote the change of opinion. It was someone else, Volkel I think. Bottom line, he wouldn't even admit he was wrong, but sent someone else in to do the dirty work.
Looks like that piece was simply written from a press release. ExtremeTech has a piece at here that talks about the Linux distro used (SuSE) and some of the details of the motherboard.
Something tells me they'll end up writing a followup article that claims they were right all along, setting aside the fact that it was merely an interview with a single source.
Which brings us back full circle once again. The very fact that most people are stupid means that we need the equivalent of a representative democracy--which we already have. It's just that in the representative democracy of ideas, the media (not the press! there's a difference) serves as the mouthpiece of the public. Which, if you think about it, is well established.
Fox News is simply the bully pulpit of the conservative right, and people like Katz and magazines like Wired should be the voices of the technocratic left. If they're not, don't read them. The transition of power won't be as sharp as an election, but will still be as profound.
I can buy an automated projectile system to shoot down guided missiles, but a laser? To shoot down artillery shells? Can you imagine the engineering required to lock onto said shell and the laser power to detonate it? What about smoke or other haze?
And let's not even consider making this a "personal" means of defense.
Sounds like the old warbirds over at Fox are lobbying for a larger military budget.
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It's a good "sneakernet" option, as many times my laptop isn't hooked up to a network. Useless for MP3 files and PowerPoint, as the article points out, but still useful for Word files. And Bluetooth and IrDA are still too unreliable and insecure.
Do you think it makes any difference? Say L.A. gets pissed and votes Berman out of office next term. Then he simply becomes a high-paid lobbyist for Hollywood and makes even more money. I'm sorry, but this won't work.
Remember all those news stories you read to post to Slashdot? Or MS documentation? Sorry, anything with a "copyright something-something" at the bottom of the page is copyrighted material, and if it's in your temp folder, it's fair game.
Wheel of Time=Battlefield Earth. Slog, slog, slog, slog, interesting bit, slog, slog, slog, slog. But in a pseudo-intellectual "look how intelligent I must be if I can make it extremely complex" kind of way. "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin is head-and-shoulders above the rest.
Actually, the best part of that linked page is the audio samples. "At last we shall reveal ourselves to the Jedi".
TheViffer is right. As a beta tester, I played for two hours and never came back, Sure, there's some neat spells, some (apparently) neutral treasure up for the taking which can be used to help your side, but it's the same old peons chopping down trees and mining for ore, then building more advanced structures to turn out more advanced units.
I'm not going to buy this game.
I suppose it would be hypocritical for me to criticize the author pimping his own work to Slashdot (disclosure: as a tech writer, I've submitted stories that other authors on the site have written) though it's still disturbing. However, I'm a little concerned when a journalist/columnist starts trying to position himself as a man of the people. Submitting an interview is one thing, but this comes off as a guy trying to market himself as an insider, rather than letting his work speak for itself.
I'm also amused by the restrictions put on the audio format (just one section, please, and register!) but I'll let that go.
I don't know about you, but local programming and culture is what defines the way I live. You can have your Starbucks and Burger Kings--I'll take a latte at the corner store any day. And that goes for programming, too--"Bay Area Backroads" is a great show, and yes, I would like to hear about what's going in Berkeley, too.
And it wasn't Pabst that wrote the change of opinion. It was someone else, Volkel I think. Bottom line, he wouldn't even admit he was wrong, but sent someone else in to do the dirty work.
Nope, it was running Windows XP, according to the article on ExtremeTech.com.
Looks like that piece was simply written from a press release. ExtremeTech has a piece at here that talks about the Linux distro used (SuSE) and some of the details of the motherboard.
Something tells me they'll end up writing a followup article that claims they were right all along, setting aside the fact that it was merely an interview with a single source.
Fox News is simply the bully pulpit of the conservative right, and people like Katz and magazines like Wired should be the voices of the technocratic left. If they're not, don't read them. The transition of power won't be as sharp as an election, but will still be as profound.
And let's not even consider making this a "personal" means of defense.
Sounds like the old warbirds over at Fox are lobbying for a larger military budget.