If windows did come out for PPC, it would not be able to use the huge library of software avaliable for its x86 counterpart.
I believe that the one solid merit of Windows is its compatibility, just like the customizability of Linux and BSD, and the user interface of Mac. If it was not avaliable, I see no reason to use Windows at all over Mac OS.
The UC regents are just as conservative as the leadership of any private school. It's just that in the 60's they were forced to concede free speech due to a massive student movement.
UC tolerates free speech, it does not support it. Pretty much everything related to free speech on the UC Berkeley campus, minus a few historical plaques here and there, are student run. Even the Free Speech Movement Cafe (on campus) is not technically affiliated with the university.
Even so, China has more of a resource that the US has less of, and that is people. However dehumanizing it may sound to "spend" people, it is exactly what the goverment and the nation was designed to do as a socialist economy: change into a war machine overnight.
The question of whether or not the US could hold out in a land war in Asia is certainly debatable, however, the question of whether or not the US _would_ hold a land war in asia is definately no. Being a civilized republic, "spending" thousands, perhaps millions of people to fight a far off nation would be incredibly unpopular. Just look at Iraq: 2,000 casulties (a handful compared to the mass loss of human life in the world wars) and it already has become more or less unpopular.
If a moon is technically nothing more than a natrual satellite, and a natrual satellite is essentially a celestial body that orbits around another, it raises the question:
What is the lower bound for something to be considered a "moon"?
Certainly meteoroids no larger than a small boulder are oribiting planets, but why are these objects not considered "moons"?
Heh, yes I realized that when I tried slashdot with the 2w subdomain. I meant it with sarcasm in my reply to the grandparent, as I knew that slashdot could not have possibly put a new subdomain just for the sake of one post.
Well, I wouldn't get my hopes up too much if I were you. After reading the article, COLOSSAL's website, and the patents that they have, I'm beginning to think that they don't even know what it is they're talking about themselves.
I mean, let's have a quick reality check here... Affordable optical media for consumers right now is in the form of DVD+/-R(W), with a maximum capacity of 19GB or so per disc. Suddenly, totally out of the blue, a totally incredible technology, presented by a company that has never produced anything before, shown on a news site that has no scientific credentials whatsoever (not to mention extremely poor grammar, sentence structure, and diction) changes the way that we store information forever? I'm trying to look at this optimistically, but I'm still unable to come up with any conclusion other than "it's not likely," and "it's probably a hoax, if anything."
I would like media that holds 100TB to exist as much as the next person, but being a bit skeptical about such incredible claims is not a bad thing either...
Is it really that hard to say 18,800 jobs in the headline, as opposed to writing the word "almost?" I believe that saying 19,000 does not increase the effect of the headline any, using up some extra characters and making it sound like a marketing gimmick more than anything else.
As a quote goes on bash.org:
" There was a 23% drop in temperature.
That's almost 25%!... That was one of the most worthless comments I've ever heard."
Diebold makes notoriously insecure and unreliable ATM's and voting systems. Some states have already filed lawsuits against this company for faulty systems, and let's not forget about the time there was the crashed ATM you could play solitare on. They didn't use specially designed microcontrollers and display systems in their devices, they just made an application on top of windows.
Pratically speaking, Windows Embedded is still absolute overkill for a system of this magnitude and this purpose.
I don't see why you would have to re-purchase all 300 of your DVD's when you have the choice of not using them with a PS3 (if that _is_ what you're talking about)
My concern is not whether or not the blu-ray laser can read older formats like DVD or CD, but rather because of the physical differences of this technology. Each disc comes in a case, somewhat like the M-O cartridges, effectively preventing the system from using cd/dvd as those have to be slot/tray loaded.
A probable scenario is where sony introduces a case caddy (like those used in really old CDROM drives) that you can load discs in and then stick em into the PS3.
If it's market penetration you're talking about, I doubt that blu-ray will trump DVD anytime soon. I mean, look at VHS for example, you can still buy movies on VHS, and it has already been many years since the introduction of DVD.
The "blu-ray" laser can also read previous standards like DVD and CD, not just discs designed for it only. I don't see the point in putting a traditional infra-red laser when this obviously superior laser can read all.
Before I took a keyboarding class in 8th grade, I would do four finger hunt-and-peck, which actually turned out to be pretty fast. However, I was able to touch type at about 70WPM just about two weeks into the class. This was because of the fact that all those years of looking at the keyboard and pressing keys helped a lot, and it was just the introduction of using all 9 fingers (I only use my right thumb to press space) that made all the difference.
Nowadays, I switch between QWERTY and Dvorak (being faster at the latter), and I don't really credit that class with being able to type fast, but rather just using computers a lot.
Of _course_ it does. How obvious of a question is that?
AND you had to post the question on/. to get an answer?
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I have had a terrible experience with Lexar as well when it comes to digital media. I class I was taking provided everyone with a Lexas Jumpdrive (USB flash memory drive) and it turns out that almost half of them just stopped working after a few weeks. Data could not be written/read off of them, and they would not format either.
It may have been the USB controller that was damaged. The way that these drives were designed was that the connector was attached directly to the circuit board, without anything else holding it in place. Or, perhaps it may have been the flash memory that was faulty, like in your circumstance.
I'm glad to hear someone putting insight into the positive points of Microsoft software in such a way that does not offend anyone or overly extend any truth. It's very hard to make any meaningful discussion when it's all Microsoft or Linux bashing.
Don't forget that Yahoo offers more than search, while google is really still just a search engine, with the possible exception of Gmail, which has not been made avaliable to the general public.
Then again, "market share" is a very vague term, and I take it to mean the overall market share of these webportals.
First of all, go look at BuyMusic.com. Their interface is "just a website," and it has caused so many problems that it never was any real competetion for iTunes anyway.
Secondly, Apple will _never_ accomplish a "draconian lock-in" with iTunes/iPod because they aren't providing the only way of getting music onto the iPod, but rather, one way that some people may find to be more convinent: online. I heard a good point recently: while iTunes has about 750,000 songs, Amazon has just about every song that you could posibly want on CD's, which you can then rip onto your iPod. Then there's P2P, if you want to play it that way.
Now, tell me, HOW is apple taking away "choice" and promoting vendor lock-in?
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Remember that Solaris is actually a derivative of BSD. According to a chart by the Open Group, it was derived originally from 4.2BSD.
Let's do it!!!" -Homer Simpson
I believe that the one solid merit of Windows is its compatibility, just like the customizability of Linux and BSD, and the user interface of Mac. If it was not avaliable, I see no reason to use Windows at all over Mac OS.
UC tolerates free speech, it does not support it. Pretty much everything related to free speech on the UC Berkeley campus, minus a few historical plaques here and there, are student run. Even the Free Speech Movement Cafe (on campus) is not technically affiliated with the university.
Natrually, you would expect their bandwidth to have at least some relation to this fact.
The question of whether or not the US could hold out in a land war in Asia is certainly debatable, however, the question of whether or not the US _would_ hold a land war in asia is definately no. Being a civilized republic, "spending" thousands, perhaps millions of people to fight a far off nation would be incredibly unpopular. Just look at Iraq: 2,000 casulties (a handful compared to the mass loss of human life in the world wars) and it already has become more or less unpopular.
Or have we collectively forgotten how to handwrite?
What is the lower bound for something to be considered a "moon"?
Certainly meteoroids no larger than a small boulder are oribiting planets, but why are these objects not considered "moons"?
Thanks for pointing that out though.
It looks like the ppl over at /. took your suggestion, just a few minutes after it was posted!
I mean, let's have a quick reality check here... Affordable optical media for consumers right now is in the form of DVD+/-R(W), with a maximum capacity of 19GB or so per disc. Suddenly, totally out of the blue, a totally incredible technology, presented by a company that has never produced anything before, shown on a news site that has no scientific credentials whatsoever (not to mention extremely poor grammar, sentence structure, and diction) changes the way that we store information forever? I'm trying to look at this optimistically, but I'm still unable to come up with any conclusion other than "it's not likely," and "it's probably a hoax, if anything."
I would like media that holds 100TB to exist as much as the next person, but being a bit skeptical about such incredible claims is not a bad thing either...
As a quote goes on bash.org: " There was a 23% drop in temperature. That's almost 25%! ... That was one of the most worthless comments I've ever heard."
At least you don't use Dvorak, where the longest word that you can type with one hand is "papaya."
Reliability.
Diebold makes notoriously insecure and unreliable ATM's and voting systems. Some states have already filed lawsuits against this company for faulty systems, and let's not forget about the time there was the crashed ATM you could play solitare on. They didn't use specially designed microcontrollers and display systems in their devices, they just made an application on top of windows.
Pratically speaking, Windows Embedded is still absolute overkill for a system of this magnitude and this purpose.
My concern is not whether or not the blu-ray laser can read older formats like DVD or CD, but rather because of the physical differences of this technology. Each disc comes in a case, somewhat like the M-O cartridges, effectively preventing the system from using cd/dvd as those have to be slot/tray loaded.
A probable scenario is where sony introduces a case caddy (like those used in really old CDROM drives) that you can load discs in and then stick em into the PS3.
If it's market penetration you're talking about, I doubt that blu-ray will trump DVD anytime soon. I mean, look at VHS for example, you can still buy movies on VHS, and it has already been many years since the introduction of DVD.
The "blu-ray" laser can also read previous standards like DVD and CD, not just discs designed for it only. I don't see the point in putting a traditional infra-red laser when this obviously superior laser can read all.
Nowadays, I switch between QWERTY and Dvorak (being faster at the latter), and I don't really credit that class with being able to type fast, but rather just using computers a lot.
Yes. You can find more about it here.
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AND you had to post the question on /. to get an answer?
It may have been the USB controller that was damaged. The way that these drives were designed was that the connector was attached directly to the circuit board, without anything else holding it in place. Or, perhaps it may have been the flash memory that was faulty, like in your circumstance.
Fanaticism just makes everyone sound incredible.
Then again, "market share" is a very vague term, and I take it to mean the overall market share of these webportals.
Secondly, Apple will _never_ accomplish a "draconian lock-in" with iTunes/iPod because they aren't providing the only way of getting music onto the iPod, but rather, one way that some people may find to be more convinent: online. I heard a good point recently: while iTunes has about 750,000 songs, Amazon has just about every song that you could posibly want on CD's, which you can then rip onto your iPod. Then there's P2P, if you want to play it that way.
Now, tell me, HOW is apple taking away "choice" and promoting vendor lock-in?
That's true, however, this update affects Linux in a major way, as most distributions ship with bash as the default shell.