Microsoft won't comment on where Whistler is in the development process. But sources close to the company say the latest "stable" internal developers build is numbered 2207. The most recent internal test build is 2214, sources add.
Read Neal Stephonson's book The Diamond Age, its fiction to be sure, but it explores some of the cool ideas of nanotechnology and the efect they would have on life.
IV. Any resemblance of any character to any person living or dead is coincidental. Some freakazoid left a comment on Slashdot claiming to know "Beth" from Geek Fantasia. Look, SHE DOESN'T EXIST. I named her "Beth" after an old friend. I gave her the body of a dancer I dated in college. Hey, Slashdot-comment guy, does the "Beth" you know have a strong background in SP/2 systems administration? I didn't think so.
"One hopes, however, that the survey's designers have built in some safeguards to prevent tampering. Open-source hackers, organizing at hubs like Slashdot, are notorious for rushing en masse at new Web surveys and submitting their answers multiple times in brazen attempts to skew the data one way or another."
One would normally assume that a network would look, well, mechanical, but I saw no real mechanism behind them. Take the map of the Mbone: It could be mistaken for a 2-d rendering of, say, bacterial growth vectors.
Akk if Gould saw your comment he would freak! His point (if you manage to make it through one of his books) seems to be that 1)graphical represntation of anything can be very misleading, and 2)many human created things tend to take on bio-like apperences becouse the way we create thing is like evoution (not realy, but his point is that it is close enough so that, becouse of 1., the corse simalrity ends up looking realy close).
That said, I think its realy cool but should be looked at as art, and not much more.
Looks like yahoo is: "Barabasi and his colleagues studied the distribution of links on a variety of sites -- at Notre Dame, at South Korea's Seoul National University, at the White House, at Yahoo"
If you took out the search engines, it would be alot larger right?
Woa, wait a sec. Actualy its not, with the exception of (the few) people like you who see it like you do (I think a lot of people are going to realize this flaw and just not bother upgrading), most people will end up buying a g4, that makes a lot more $$ for apple.
er, duh, it makes sense: to be smitten (smitted ?) is to be attacked, so you can be attacked with love (more corectly to have an attack of love) or you can be attacked in the meaning of origainal post.
No, from non-encrypted backups that are stored off site in a vault.:) (what happens when you forget your combo to the vault?) BTW, y are we so worryed about securety anyway?
check this quote from his page: "WebTV users will find that the page does not automatically refresh. However, simply selecting a sharp knife and plunging it into your right eyesocket, and then the left one (don't worry if half of the image disappears, this is normal, keep going) will load new images in your head."
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Microsoft won't comment on where Whistler is in the development process. But sources close to the company say the latest "stable" internal developers build is numbered 2207. The most recent internal test build is 2214, sources add.
I love that, they put stable in quotes!
Read Neal Stephonson's book The Diamond Age, its fiction to be sure, but it explores some of the cool ideas of nanotechnology and the efect they would have on life.
From Terms and Conditions(on About monkeybagel.com):
IV. Any resemblance of any character to any person living or dead is coincidental. Some freakazoid left a comment on Slashdot claiming to know "Beth" from Geek Fantasia. Look, SHE DOESN'T EXIST. I named her "Beth" after an old friend. I gave her the body of a dancer I dated in college. Hey, Slashdot-comment guy, does the "Beth" you know have a strong background in SP/2 systems administration? I didn't think so.
"One hopes, however, that the survey's designers have built in some safeguards to prevent tampering. Open-source hackers, organizing at hubs like Slashdot, are notorious for rushing en masse at new Web surveys and submitting their answers multiple times in brazen attempts to skew the data one way or another."
Right boys go get 'em!
One would normally assume that a network would look, well, mechanical, but I saw no real mechanism behind them. Take the map of the Mbone: It could be mistaken for a 2-d rendering of, say, bacterial growth vectors.
Akk if Gould saw your comment he would freak! His point (if you manage to make it through one of his books) seems to be that 1)graphical represntation of anything can be very misleading, and 2)many human created things tend to take on bio-like apperences becouse the way we create thing is like evoution (not realy, but his point is that it is close enough so that, becouse of 1., the corse simalrity ends up looking realy close).
That said, I think its realy cool but should be looked at as art, and not much more.
and I liked the characters a lot
Yes I think his characters are realy good, from punks (YT) to nerds (Da5id). He seems to realy let the characters live.
I still think /. readers not familiar with Neil Stephenson's work should start with Snow Crash.
Well, I think many first time readers can be put off by Snow Crash's "cyberpunkeshness" (?!? wow, could that possably be a word?)
I loved SC but I think as far as lit. goes, Dimond Age was by far Stephenson's best book.
is it like a mud? could it be set up that way? that would rule, playing somthing like LOD on it.
woa this dust stuff was created at "Berzerkeley" also. (oh dear)
Looks like yahoo is: "Barabasi and his colleagues studied the distribution of links on a variety of sites -- at Notre Dame, at South Korea's Seoul National University, at the White House, at Yahoo"
If you took out the search engines, it would be alot larger right?
At least it appears that they include themselves in this survey.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is #7 (WOOP)
yikes! i cant belive i just saw that!
uhh, it sez right at the top, Matthew Haughey
What a horrible business tactic.
Woa, wait a sec. Actualy its not, with the exception of (the few) people like you who see it like you do (I think a lot of people are going to realize this flaw and just not bother upgrading), most people will end up buying a g4, that makes a lot more $$ for apple.
er, duh, it makes sense: to be smitten (smitted ?) is to be attacked, so you can be attacked with love (more corectly to have an attack of love) or you can be attacked in the meaning of origainal post.
No, from non-encrypted backups that are stored off site in a vault. :) (what happens when you forget your combo to the vault?)
BTW, y are we so worryed about securety anyway?
Oh ya... well i once multitasked with only .00002K of memory!!!!
check this quote from his page:
"WebTV users will find that the page does not automatically refresh. However, simply selecting a sharp knife and plunging it into your right eyesocket, and then the left one (don't worry if half of the image disappears, this is normal, keep going) will load new images in your head."
"As cable modems and other fat pipes reach every household"
Right... can we say Alaska, can we even say rural Alaska?
Tho even in Anchorage only a few places get cable!