Remember Johnny Mnemonic? Instead of lugging a terabyte in a metallic case the size of a cigarrete pack, why not use the spare neurons in your brain (we slashdotters have plenty of these) to smuggle petabytes of data around?????
However, Keanu`s head could only carry a few Mb, if I remember (it was so pre-CDRW!). I could have paid more attention to the flick, but when I saw the talking dolphin... it was a little too much.
It's so interesting to see how pen computing was able to burn an impressive amount of money and yet it led nowhere.
I find it more fascinating how Palm devised a way to capitalize on the flaws of its predecessors to create a reasonably priced, decent working PDA.
What was the turning point on pen computing? The concept of Grafitti writing? Powerful processors? Better requirements? A more realistic approach to market?
I understand that the future, given current human activity, will bring more disasters like floods, temperature swings, the end of the seasons, drought, etc., but I just cannot see the link between climate changes and earthquakes.
In the other hand, the changes in climate will be disastrous only in regards to how it affects human population. I mean, there will be floodings and coastline erosion, but nothing really prevents from cities to be created in less affected places. It's just a very long term change, but those who can, surely will.
Awwww. Come on. The guy's clearly a genius. This kind of people must be encouraged to use and discover their full potential.
He got the job mostly because he wanted to. See, I'm pretty sure he had options, like spending the rest of his school days (in Brazil, school usually begins at 7 AM and ends by 12:30PM) playing soccer or videogames but he chose to learn C instead.
Child labour laws protect those kids who do not have an option and, clearly, that was not the case.
...Microsoft researchers found out that they couldn't keep Windows stable, even after the last major rewrite, which modularized the Windows' kernel, implemented fully-compliant POSIX and is known to be compiled with GCC.
"It seems that GPL must be in place to bring stability to the thing", said one of the core group leaders.
It is puzzling since the exact same version of Windows was setup and only the GPL-labeled boxes were able to keep an extended uptime. The same core group leader said "It is extremely odd. We suspect that the GPL has some magical attributes to it, making everything under those three letters run better. See, we've made a test and enabled users to select the licensing scheme, whether to follow our usual EULAs or GPL. After the selection, the software was installed as usual, with no differences whatsoever, since we did not let users customize the install after the license selection. We found out that installations made when the user clicked on the EULA option tended to be more susceptible to hangups than installs made under the GPL".
PowerPoint is only a freaking tool. It gives the option to bulletize the stuff you'd like to explain, but you do not have to follow those guidelines.
The problem with PowerPoint is that Microsoft tried to "make it easier on the users", creating a lot of tools that depend on a unique, certain way to work. In other words, if you do not bulletize every f***ing phrase, you'll lose some features like outline editing, which we became so dependent upon.
On the other hand, it is almost impossible, given the most common choices available (PowerPoint and OO.org), to convey graphical information by Tufte's standards.
I'm a big fan of Tufte's work and I've tried to create grahpics using some ideas from his books, but I just found it impossible to do with Excel.
Some 15 years ago, there was a law in Brazil that enforced the protection of domestic technology and markets. The aim was to completely substitute imports with local technology and products, because Brazilian government accounts were bleeding with the imports (nowadays, countries still bleed money to foreign players, but through interest payment on international loans, but this is OT)
The result? Brazil suffered big time until the early 90s, with crappy products and outdated technology. The protection mechanism only widened the gap between Brazil and the outside world.
When the Brazilian market was reopened to the world, the technology gap was so f***** big that Brazil suffered a lot due to the incredible influx of imports, that fueled inflation and a severe currency crisis (local currency used to devaluate a lot, on a daily basis). Brazilian products could not keep with the competition and as a result, Brazil saw lots of banruptcies and unemployment. Most of its local companies had to be sold to foreign corporations.
It is a clear example of the backlash of a stupid protectionist policy, which also created the piracy culture, still prevalent in Brazil, but seen as harmless by most of Brazilian society (in Brazil, such tech industry does not contribute significantly in terms of employment and therefore Brazilians who do not work for foreign IT companies undestandably do not give a shit on the issue of software piracy.)
When Moncau talks about the risk of creating a tech island, he refers specifically to the fear of going back to that situation. It's a fear that is deeply rooted into the Brazilian psyche.
Due to the nature of the GPL, I believe that it might not happen (the tech island thing), but the MS guy uses this fear as FUD fodder against Brazilian society.
But your post would make an awesome, enlightening ending for the Matrix.
Try to expand it and make a book out of it! This is the way things should end (although it's more tech-oriented than the raw philosophy stuff the saw on M1), and let the audiences gain some perspective on how to handle life's inconsistencies.
Great job! Awesome! Although it's too bad I won't see it on the screen:^(
They dropped the Aqua theme and the pinstripe thing, which I really loved, and they've gone back to the brushed metal theme. Which is, by the way, predominantly gray, just like Windows used to be.
Next thing, Apple will finally drop entirely the Mac interface and adopt KDE or Gnome.
Hope they bring their UI expertise to Gnome, that would make it a killer desktop!!!!
Each day I see more of useless statistics at Slashdot.
For example, this story reads: ETA for the first quantum computers: 10 to 100 years.
fsck! 10 to 100 years is not precise enough to be mentioned. I could say "ETA for me to get millionaire: 10 to 100 years". Or "ETA to SCO bankruptcy: 10 to 100 years". Or, "ETA to get mod points at Slashdot: 10 to 100 years"!
In this other article you'll see the number bloat effect, which I see mostly at Marketing presentations: [IBM Blue Gene will have] 16 trillion bytes of memory. Why not write down these numbers in the familiar Giga, Tera or Peta? Why make it so verbose?
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However, Keanu`s head could only carry a few Mb, if I remember (it was so pre-CDRW!). I could have paid more attention to the flick, but when I saw the talking dolphin... it was a little too much.
But I cannot saw much more on the underlying OS...
I find it more fascinating how Palm devised a way to capitalize on the flaws of its predecessors to create a reasonably priced, decent working PDA.
What was the turning point on pen computing? The concept of Grafitti writing? Powerful processors? Better requirements? A more realistic approach to market?
In the other hand, the changes in climate will be disastrous only in regards to how it affects human population. I mean, there will be floodings and coastline erosion, but nothing really prevents from cities to be created in less affected places. It's just a very long term change, but those who can, surely will.
I know this is hardly new, but the last very innovative scroller game I saw was Pandemonium, published/produced (cannot remember) by Crystal Dynamics.
It had some great graphics and was very fast-paced but not insanely fast like Sonic is.
I'm happy to see that it is available on the N-Gage.
When my current cell wears out, I guess I'll go for N-Gage, just for that game....
Erm... convenience? IMHO, Trackpoints are hardly ergonomical, since they usually cause strain to the shoulder articulation...
Means that the device will die off by flash memory exhaustion in the near future?
He got the job mostly because he wanted to. See, I'm pretty sure he had options, like spending the rest of his school days (in Brazil, school usually begins at 7 AM and ends by 12:30PM) playing soccer or videogames but he chose to learn C instead.
Child labour laws protect those kids who do not have an option and, clearly, that was not the case.
Same thing is happening in other surrounding cities.
That's prevalent enough for me!
"It seems that GPL must be in place to bring stability to the thing", said one of the core group leaders.
It is puzzling since the exact same version of Windows was setup and only the GPL-labeled boxes were able to keep an extended uptime. The same core group leader said "It is extremely odd. We suspect that the GPL has some magical attributes to it, making everything under those three letters run better. See, we've made a test and enabled users to select the licensing scheme, whether to follow our usual EULAs or GPL. After the selection, the software was installed as usual, with no differences whatsoever, since we did not let users customize the install after the license selection. We found out that installations made when the user clicked on the EULA option tended to be more susceptible to hangups than installs made under the GPL".
The problem with PowerPoint is that Microsoft tried to "make it easier on the users", creating a lot of tools that depend on a unique, certain way to work. In other words, if you do not bulletize every f***ing phrase, you'll lose some features like outline editing, which we became so dependent upon.
On the other hand, it is almost impossible, given the most common choices available (PowerPoint and OO.org), to convey graphical information by Tufte's standards.
I'm a big fan of Tufte's work and I've tried to create grahpics using some ideas from his books, but I just found it impossible to do with Excel.
Guess we'll have to compromise, huh???
Heh! :^)
Hummm... Chicken is closed-source. I want to see you make one from scratch!!!!
Nah. Make tt a dual screen tablet PC then!
I see. But according to your list, in the future the cinemas will be supported by advertisers, since it will not make any sense to pay to watch ads.
The headline "New Security Hole found in IE" hardly qualifies as news anymore...
At least, Brazilian electronic voting systems works!!!!
Some day MS will eventually decide to price aggressively. That day I'll sit back and laugh!
The result? Brazil suffered big time until the early 90s, with crappy products and outdated technology. The protection mechanism only widened the gap between Brazil and the outside world.
When the Brazilian market was reopened to the world, the technology gap was so f***** big that Brazil suffered a lot due to the incredible influx of imports, that fueled inflation and a severe currency crisis (local currency used to devaluate a lot, on a daily basis). Brazilian products could not keep with the competition and as a result, Brazil saw lots of banruptcies and unemployment. Most of its local companies had to be sold to foreign corporations.
It is a clear example of the backlash of a stupid protectionist policy, which also created the piracy culture, still prevalent in Brazil, but seen as harmless by most of Brazilian society (in Brazil, such tech industry does not contribute significantly in terms of employment and therefore Brazilians who do not work for foreign IT companies undestandably do not give a shit on the issue of software piracy.)
When Moncau talks about the risk of creating a tech island, he refers specifically to the fear of going back to that situation. It's a fear that is deeply rooted into the Brazilian psyche.
Due to the nature of the GPL, I believe that it might not happen (the tech island thing), but the MS guy uses this fear as FUD fodder against Brazilian society.
Try to expand it and make a book out of it! This is the way things should end (although it's more tech-oriented than the raw philosophy stuff the saw on M1), and let the audiences gain some perspective on how to handle life's inconsistencies.
Great job! Awesome! Although it's too bad I won't see it on the screen :^(
Uh... where did you hear of widespread World Wars before the 1900s?
Next thing, Apple will finally drop entirely the Mac interface and adopt KDE or Gnome.
Hope they bring their UI expertise to Gnome, that would make it a killer desktop!!!!
For example, this story reads: ETA for the first quantum computers: 10 to 100 years.
fsck! 10 to 100 years is not precise enough to be mentioned. I could say "ETA for me to get millionaire: 10 to 100 years". Or "ETA to SCO bankruptcy: 10 to 100 years". Or, "ETA to get mod points at Slashdot: 10 to 100 years"!
In this other article you'll see the number bloat effect, which I see mostly at Marketing presentations: [IBM Blue Gene will have] 16 trillion bytes of memory. Why not write down these numbers in the familiar Giga, Tera or Peta? Why make it so verbose?
We know it is a sig (not a smart one, though), but since it is part of the document, do you think that lwayers will care whether it is a sig or not??
After that, I never touch the ps2-style connectors while the pc is plugged in.