My favorite fishism in here is the "The whole world is in sole possession of the Chinese Linux operating system, steadily beats a drum to announce the start of a watch the freedom."
The people are 'profiting', since the problem is wasted time in development and for end users, and additional tech support the money is actually going to normal people in the form of salaries.
Can someone explain to me how one digital-to-digital bitwise copy mechanism can result in 'superior sound quality'
They're probably thinking of the download and burn process using MP3s. A high bitrate MP3 is, to me anyway, indistinguishable from a CD, but there if you're downloading from P2P or Usenet there is a hell of a lot of crap out there.
Not a good argument, but the only one I can think off. A copy of your own CD on a consumer CDR will not be inferior to a kiosk.
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
Jamming is achieved by making sure your signal is stronger than anyone elses', I hope the hypothetical detonation device doesn't simply look for a signal of a significant strength.
There will be more than "blocking 911" to worry about then.
I don't know how frequently eye transplants occur,
Never.
Or rather, the retina (the bit the biometrics looks at) is never transplanted. What is replaced in an eye-transplant is the cornea, Part of the front of the eye that helps focussing.
The super-villian is not 100% evil, he's got the brains to make all these amazing world-destroying devices, powerful computers, wonderful transportation devices.
The 100% evil people are the ones who haven't quite got the brains. They make crappy computers, pathic transportation devices, not quite soul-destroying robots and then, and this is the evil bit, they persuade us to turn over our hard-earned cash and use them on ourselves:-(
I don't mean the mythical object-oriented filesystem that is part of "Cairo" but the (admitedly half-hearted) attempt at hiding the filesystem from the user.
Explorer's "task view" tries not to use the word file (it does in loads of places, but avoids doing so in lots of other places where techies would use the word). Select an image 'file' and you are given options to "print this picture", "email this picture" etc.
Of course every window has a File menu, so it is far from a perfect example, but at least it shows other people are thinking like you.
The article is a red-herring. The future of usable interfaces lies in making it behave the way you want, not the designer.
The MIT made an interface where you move things with your finger. Good... for some people. Others might feel more comfortable interacting in other ways; speech, mice, etc. etc.
Usability research is excellent, improvements are always welcome, but it is still the software producers saying "this is the interface you have to use".
When you can interact fully the way you feel like at that moment will be when computers are human centric.
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My favorite fishism in here is the "The whole world is in sole possession of the Chinese Linux operating system, steadily beats a drum to announce the start of a watch the freedom."
Let's hope it doesn't flounder.
I knew you were going to say that.
I reduced my car's emissions by 100% ... I cycle to work.
The people are 'profiting', since the problem is wasted time in development and for end users, and additional tech support the money is actually going to normal people in the form of salaries.
Intelligence is overrated
Oh, right, got it.
CmdrTaco's jokes smell like a wheel of fish.
Why is CmdrTaco like Conan the Librarian?
.... I don't understand the reference.
They both smell like a Wheel of Fish.
Or something
1) Invent a moderation system.
2) ?
3) WooHoo! No trolls!
and book a flight
... CDs burnt in an Australian kiosk won't work back home, they spin the other way.
Don't waste your time and money
Can someone explain to me how one digital-to-digital bitwise copy mechanism can result in 'superior sound quality'
They're probably thinking of the download and burn process using MP3s. A high bitrate MP3 is, to me anyway, indistinguishable from a CD, but there if you're downloading from P2P or Usenet there is a hell of a lot of crap out there.
Not a good argument, but the only one I can think off. A copy of your own CD on a consumer CDR will not be inferior to a kiosk.
Wow .. listen to everyone get defensive. "Sales are down because Moby is crap now!"
Err. how do you know it's crap if you didn't buy it and listen? It's the album after the crap one that is meant to suffer.
I would rather have a DIVX hardware ENcoder
Just swap the cables.
Since the download is /.ed, there is something claiming to be this alt.binaries.cd.image.xbox
$65
Tell me more
James Cameron, Steven Soderbergh, and George Clooney
My God, it's full of stars!
HSX ticker SOLAR
Why don't you move to a democracy where everyone has a saying the running and policing of the country?
Jamming is achieved by making sure your signal is stronger than anyone elses', I hope the hypothetical detonation device doesn't simply look for a signal of a significant strength.
There will be more than "blocking 911" to worry about then.
I don't know how frequently eye transplants occur,
Never.
Or rather, the retina (the bit the biometrics looks at) is never transplanted.
What is replaced in an eye-transplant is the cornea, Part of the front of the eye that helps focussing.
And no more $99.95; instead everything will cost $63.63.
Where's the 'instant slashdotting'?
The nearly-instant-slashdotting device can be found here. Just enter the URL and press [Submit]
The super-villian is not 100% evil, he's got the brains to make all these amazing world-destroying devices, powerful computers, wonderful transportation devices.
:-(
The 100% evil people are the ones who haven't quite got the brains. They make crappy computers, pathic transportation devices, not quite soul-destroying robots and then, and this is the evil bit, they persuade us to turn over our hard-earned cash and use them on ourselves
Seen Windows XP?
I don't mean the mythical object-oriented filesystem that is part of "Cairo" but the (admitedly half-hearted) attempt at hiding the filesystem from the user.
Explorer's "task view" tries not to use the word file (it does in loads of places, but avoids doing so in lots of other places where techies would use the word). Select an image 'file' and you are given options to "print this picture", "email this picture" etc.
Of course every window has a File menu, so it is far from a perfect example, but at least it shows other people are thinking like you.
who decides though, what is human centric?
... for some people. Others might feel more comfortable interacting in other ways; speech, mice, etc. etc.
The user.
The article is a red-herring. The future of usable interfaces lies in making it behave the way you want, not the designer.
The MIT made an interface where you move things with your finger. Good
Usability research is excellent, improvements are always welcome, but it is still the software producers saying "this is the interface you have to use".
When you can interact fully the way you feel like at that moment will be when computers are human centric.