Better interfaces benefit everyone especially the people who know what they are doing as at the very least they are a way of checking multiple settings at a glance. It's good to have the command line as a fallback and second level check on what the interface is saying that it's doing, but I won't downplay the utility of having a functioning front end configuration utility.
'I'm shocked that the military opted to charge Pfc. Bradley Manning today with the capital offense of 'aiding the enemy,' says Jeff Paterson, project director of Courage to Resist, which has raised money for Manning's defense.
I fully expected the prosecution to throw the book at Manning. Waving the threat of capital punishment serves as a great way to make future Mannings think twice before replicating his actions. (or at least to remain sensibly quiet about doing so)
A mere forty years ago a great whistleblower did his work and risked all, but did not get placed in brutal imprisonment and danger of death for putting his country's moral character to a test, and even a corrupt President would voluntarily resign upon the revelation of his lawbreaking. I speak of course of Danny Ellsberg and President Nixon.
Fortunately for Daniel Ellsberg, the Comedian only existed in the pages of Watchmen.
500 million planets within the "habitable zone". With the zones as defined, three planets Venus, Mars, and Earth fall into that category here in the Sol System. Unfortunately two of them fall rather short in the market as prime real estate. As much as a 5 percent deviation in either way would send the Earth to either Runaway Hothouse or Runaway Glaciation. So that number needs to be taken with a great deal of salt.... especially given the major amount of factors of both low and unknown levels of probability that contribute to making this world and abode for life.... being at the right distance, and having a rather handy large satelite to stabllise the Earth's axis from wild precessions. So far the latest observations of exo systems have told us that pretty much the bulk of what we assumed of planetary system evolution has to be rolled up and pitched into the nearest waste bin. Given the present situation we have very little handle to establish the probability of an actual Earthlike world emerging from the set of stars that have long tierm viability for planets.
Presumaably because you really can't direct the net once it's released. It's travel is influenced by lines of magnetic force and you simply just can't call a stop to it.
And orbital changes aren't as free as you think.. especially when you're changing inclination, not just height.
Steve Jobs breathed life back into a dying Apple. It was his management that turned the company from a third-rate HW vendor into a juggernaut of ideas, concepts, products, and customer satisfaction. Sculley, Amelio, and the rest never could have done that.
But if Steve goes, whence Apple? I'm sure he has a large cadre of lieutenants who can make good decisions in his stead, but can they get along? Can they drive the teams and call BS on half-assed engineering like Jobs? Do they have his business acumen?
The problem of building a company around a single person means that person is the weakest link. When Steve decides to give up the mantle, will Apple be able to adjust to the absence and still succeed in the same ways?
I doubt it, and that's why I've shorted Apple stock. Frankly, I suggest you all do likewise.
I doubt that you've done ANYTHING with Apple stock. Personally Jobs has set up a good cadre of people who've already been running things since he took extended leave last year. I do think that he can't be replaced, but just as Microsoft will survive beyond Gates, Apple has a good shot to continue in a post-Jobs era.
Your point is noted. I do however don't think that there is any planetary model that would allow an Earth to be formed as a moon of Jupiter. It'd be rather disappointing though... that constant bath of radiation would preclude any life forming on the surface of such a world. Europa is a promising candidate because of the shielding its icy surface would provide for an interior ocean of life.
As I understand it... the bulk of the large moons in our solarsystem are made of low density materials essentially they're mini-frozen Jupiters in themselves or water ice balls like Enceladus. Wouldn't the formation of an Earthlike planet be precluded so close to a Jovian mass... Something with a substantial rocky core like Earth's forming at the same distance as a Jovian would have become a Jovian itself and most likely would have merged with the parent body? The Inner planets as I understand it were Jovians that had the bulk of thier gas envelopes blown clear during our Sun's T'Tauri phase of super strong solar winds.
Presumably the 2015 that old Biff returned to was in the timeline where Doc and Marty were successful in recovering the almanac. Old Biff had succeeded in delivering it to his past self but was somehow unaware that his past self had lost it mere days later.
Which of course doesn't make any sense either.
if you go by the CoNTinum rules it was because that old Biff never realised that he had been successfully Fragged by Doc and Marty's subsequent actions in the past.:)
The gag about using a team of horses to pull the Delorean up to speed. Doc has his little speedometer to check the speed. Yeah, it was a nice visual but completely nonsensical. The only way you're getting a horse up to 88 mph is if you're hauling it in a trailer. The writers are portraying Doc as an idiot for even trying something like this without realizing it's stupid right from the start.
No... actually Doc is realising that true Science operates from the Laws of Madness and one of the conditions you must respect is The Rule of Funny.
And why exactly is the new 11" Air *not* a netbook? Sounds like we are mincing words here...
Its a damn netbook, and not even a full year after Steve claimed at the iPad keynote that netbooks have no use...
It doesn't quite fit the netbook space on two areas....size it's a bit on the large side for that category.... and price. it's definitely far outside the 300 dollar space.
Slashdot unlike a private home is not your property. If you're viewing my post it's because you're making the effort to do so. you've virtually "left your wall to come here" so your straw argument does not apply.
While I understand Schneider's perspective in the "War on Photography", I also see the other side. As a former photographer myself I can make the unequivacal statement that many phtographers are quite simply... jerks who feel they have the right to take what they want from other people in the name of "news" or "art". Taking pictures of someone home to post on streetview SPECIFICALLY because they've requested them to be taken down smacks of the kind of arrogant asshattery I'm referring to.
Because very shortly after they've been cast aside, expended stages quickly become tumbling masses unsafe to approach. With ongoing collisions of space debris, they also would become new sources of space junk themselves.
They're not the same... any more than plastic is the same thing as the compressed dinosaur remains they came from. they're concentrated, they've been saturated with the products of fission which have vastly different qualities in terms of half-life and toxicity then they did when they were dug up.
Nuclear waste problems have the following issues they did not have as mineral deposits.
1. Nontrivial amounts of fisssion products including radioactive isotopes with long (in human terms) half-lives. Some of these like Strontium -9 are in addition a biochemical health hazard as well as radioactive.
2. Security... these materials even while not fissionable can be used to make dirty bombs which if released in a metropolitan area can cause a large number of radiation poison casualties for relatively little effort.
3. Long term disposal. these wastes last a long time... simply shoving them back into the ground will introduce the toxins into our water supply and the biosphere at large. The question is can we develop a waste management system that can be maintained and operated on timescales of 10,000 years or more. And can it hope to keep up with the volume of waste production.
Let's hope the Slashdot crowd doesn't break the empathy counter on the downside."
I expect that we'll get quite a few who not only score low, but come back to the boards boasting of how low they go.
Hackers and hacker wannabes by the most part tend to be interested in empathy only in how to use social engineering to manipulate others.
There was a "compromise like the Amiga", the Amiga itself. the problem was it rapidly became an unstable mess due to sloppy programmers who insisted on banging the hardware, and coding whatever they felt like on it. Coupled with the fact that same decisions were made by 3rd party hardware makers, and you had machines in which stabillity and reliability were concepts that rapidly left the building.
The Amiga was a great machine for hackers and very specialised uses. However the inherent flaws in it's execution listed above doomed it to a status of niche machine.
The Amiga was much like a Harley Davidson, a computer you had no buisness owning unless you were determined to be at least a part time mechanic. Apple has never been in the buisness of making that kind of hardware. Thier paradigm is to make things that "just work". And in order to do that paradigm requires that they maintain the level of control they enforce.
Do I think you have the right to jailbreak your hardware? Yes I do. But I do not believe you are entitled to demand that Apple support your decision.
the Iphone OS is not and has never been stated to be MacOS. It has some relationship to MacOS but that is in the underlayers not the overall GUI. The OP is simply a lazy coder who is trying to shoehorn one paradigm into another, who apparantly refuses to consider that a UI designed for a Hi resoution monitor and pointing device can not be the same kind of UI set up for a small screen and fingertip control.
So...yes Fork or be dammed.
So after the decades of the Slashdotters complaining about MacOS being MacOS, thier complaint about the iPhone OS is that it's NOT MacOS?
What IS the OP smoking? Where where all of you when it was made abundantly clear that the iPhone and especially the iPad were not to be treated as shrunken down Macs?
And throw away any of that objection about the iPhone not being "open" that argument leaves the building when you decide to develop for the device.
This particular item was more of an homage to Sagan and co. than an actual scientific experiment.
That said, I do remember reading about Areceibo in a National Geographic article, which stated that Arecibo could pick up a message from a duplicate of itself transmitting anywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy, barring unfavorable local conditions within line of sight.
I highly suspect that Boeing's cessage of it's contracts with China (assuming that actually occurred) had a lot more to do with dollar matters than some sudden concern for the Chinese population. Another reason to consider this fallacious. We launch spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force base, including some heavy Titan 3 loads. Last time I checked the majority of the U.S. landmass is below the launch path.
I am a Windows and Linux user and I love Apple for their genious approach to computers. I watch every WWDC just because it' s awesome and I paid 1200 euro' s without the monitor on a desktop computer while I could have grabbed a Mac... So why does anyone wants to assemble a hackingtosh?!
For the one reason no one wants to mention. They want the Mac experience without paying for it. They want to download it from some Pirate Bay clone and install it on thier homebrew POS without paying Apple a dime.
Apple's hardware is distinctly apple, just the same as Gigabyte's motherboards are different than what Creative markets. So yes, Apple Hardware is still Apple designed even if it uses parts from Intel and others. It's also an Efi-based system board instead of BIOS which puts it in a different class altogether, along with a unique Apple designed ROM as well.
And any claim that Apple is not designing Apple hardware is just laughable period.
If you consider Starship Troopers acceptable but the Lord of the Rings an abomination, that says miles for your total lack of proportion. Yes, certain things of Lord of the Rings were changed for better screen presence and the tightening up to a very constrained time format of about 10 hours to condense a megawork. In any reasoned opinion LOTR was a fantastic adaptation to movie constraints, and Starship Troopers was fairly okay full of that right wing macho testosterone that Heinlein main characters tend to reek of it. (and those that don't like Smith in Strangers, have those characters to back them up)
If your beef with LOTR was those minor changes and deletions that had to be done to fit the work into a movie trilogy, then I suggest you never watch a movie adaptation of any literary work you enjoy because you are bound for a series of raging disappointments.
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Better interfaces benefit everyone especially the people who know what they are doing as at the very least they are a way of checking multiple settings at a glance. It's good to have the command line as a fallback and second level check on what the interface is saying that it's doing, but I won't downplay the utility of having a functioning front end configuration utility.
'I'm shocked that the military opted to charge Pfc. Bradley Manning today with the capital offense of 'aiding the enemy,' says Jeff Paterson, project director of Courage to Resist, which has raised money for Manning's defense.
I fully expected the prosecution to throw the book at Manning. Waving the threat of capital punishment serves as a great way to make future Mannings think twice before replicating his actions. (or at least to remain sensibly quiet about doing so)
A mere forty years ago a great whistleblower did his work and risked all, but did not get placed in brutal imprisonment and danger of death for putting his country's moral character to a test, and even a corrupt President would voluntarily resign upon the revelation of his lawbreaking. I speak of course of Danny Ellsberg and President Nixon.
Fortunately for Daniel Ellsberg, the Comedian only existed in the pages of Watchmen.
500 million planets within the "habitable zone". With the zones as defined, three planets Venus, Mars, and Earth fall into that category here in the Sol System. Unfortunately two of them fall rather short in the market as prime real estate. As much as a 5 percent deviation in either way would send the Earth to either Runaway Hothouse or Runaway Glaciation. So that number needs to be taken with a great deal of salt.... especially given the major amount of factors of both low and unknown levels of probability that contribute to making this world and abode for life.... being at the right distance, and having a rather handy large satelite to stabllise the Earth's axis from wild precessions. So far the latest observations of exo systems have told us that pretty much the bulk of what we assumed of planetary system evolution has to be rolled up and pitched into the nearest waste bin. Given the present situation we have very little handle to establish the probability of an actual Earthlike world emerging from the set of stars that have long tierm viability for planets.
Presumaably because you really can't direct the net once it's released. It's travel is influenced by lines of magnetic force and you simply just can't call a stop to it. And orbital changes aren't as free as you think.. especially when you're changing inclination, not just height.
Steve Jobs breathed life back into a dying Apple. It was his management that turned the company from a third-rate HW vendor into a juggernaut of ideas, concepts, products, and customer satisfaction. Sculley, Amelio, and the rest never could have done that.
But if Steve goes, whence Apple? I'm sure he has a large cadre of lieutenants who can make good decisions in his stead, but can they get along? Can they drive the teams and call BS on half-assed engineering like Jobs? Do they have his business acumen?
The problem of building a company around a single person means that person is the weakest link. When Steve decides to give up the mantle, will Apple be able to adjust to the absence and still succeed in the same ways?
I doubt it, and that's why I've shorted Apple stock. Frankly, I suggest you all do likewise.
I doubt that you've done ANYTHING with Apple stock. Personally Jobs has set up a good cadre of people who've already been running things since he took extended leave last year. I do think that he can't be replaced, but just as Microsoft will survive beyond Gates, Apple has a good shot to continue in a post-Jobs era.
Obama made no promises regarding net neutrality. Besides he's now in the Triangulation phase of his Clintonian Presidency.
Your point is noted. I do however don't think that there is any planetary model that would allow an Earth to be formed as a moon of Jupiter. It'd be rather disappointing though... that constant bath of radiation would preclude any life forming on the surface of such a world. Europa is a promising candidate because of the shielding its icy surface would provide for an interior ocean of life.
As I understand it... the bulk of the large moons in our solarsystem are made of low density materials essentially they're mini-frozen Jupiters in themselves or water ice balls like Enceladus. Wouldn't the formation of an Earthlike planet be precluded so close to a Jovian mass... Something with a substantial rocky core like Earth's forming at the same distance as a Jovian would have become a Jovian itself and most likely would have merged with the parent body? The Inner planets as I understand it were Jovians that had the bulk of thier gas envelopes blown clear during our Sun's T'Tauri phase of super strong solar winds.
Presumably the 2015 that old Biff returned to was in the timeline where Doc and Marty were successful in recovering the almanac. Old Biff had succeeded in delivering it to his past self but was somehow unaware that his past self had lost it mere days later.
Which of course doesn't make any sense either.
if you go by the CoNTinum rules it was because that old Biff never realised that he had been successfully Fragged by Doc and Marty's subsequent actions in the past. :)
The gag about using a team of horses to pull the Delorean up to speed. Doc has his little speedometer to check the speed. Yeah, it was a nice visual but completely nonsensical. The only way you're getting a horse up to 88 mph is if you're hauling it in a trailer. The writers are portraying Doc as an idiot for even trying something like this without realizing it's stupid right from the start.
No... actually Doc is realising that true Science operates from the Laws of Madness and one of the conditions you must respect is The Rule of Funny.
And why exactly is the new 11" Air *not* a netbook? Sounds like we are mincing words here...
Its a damn netbook, and not even a full year after Steve claimed at the iPad keynote that netbooks have no use...
It doesn't quite fit the netbook space on two areas....size it's a bit on the large side for that category.... and price. it's definitely far outside the 300 dollar space.
Slashdot unlike a private home is not your property. If you're viewing my post it's because you're making the effort to do so. you've virtually "left your wall to come here" so your straw argument does not apply. While I understand Schneider's perspective in the "War on Photography", I also see the other side. As a former photographer myself I can make the unequivacal statement that many phtographers are quite simply... jerks who feel they have the right to take what they want from other people in the name of "news" or "art". Taking pictures of someone home to post on streetview SPECIFICALLY because they've requested them to be taken down smacks of the kind of arrogant asshattery I'm referring to.
Because very shortly after they've been cast aside, expended stages quickly become tumbling masses unsafe to approach. With ongoing collisions of space debris, they also would become new sources of space junk themselves.
They're not the same... any more than plastic is the same thing as the compressed dinosaur remains they came from. they're concentrated, they've been saturated with the products of fission which have vastly different qualities in terms of half-life and toxicity then they did when they were dug up. Nuclear waste problems have the following issues they did not have as mineral deposits. 1. Nontrivial amounts of fisssion products including radioactive isotopes with long (in human terms) half-lives. Some of these like Strontium -9 are in addition a biochemical health hazard as well as radioactive. 2. Security... these materials even while not fissionable can be used to make dirty bombs which if released in a metropolitan area can cause a large number of radiation poison casualties for relatively little effort. 3. Long term disposal. these wastes last a long time... simply shoving them back into the ground will introduce the toxins into our water supply and the biosphere at large. The question is can we develop a waste management system that can be maintained and operated on timescales of 10,000 years or more. And can it hope to keep up with the volume of waste production.
Let's hope the Slashdot crowd doesn't break the empathy counter on the downside."
I expect that we'll get quite a few who not only score low, but come back to the boards boasting of how low they go. Hackers and hacker wannabes by the most part tend to be interested in empathy only in how to use social engineering to manipulate others.
That's not exactly a high bar to meet. Shatner's not even a good ham, especially compared to Brian Blessed.
There was a "compromise like the Amiga", the Amiga itself. the problem was it rapidly became an unstable mess due to sloppy programmers who insisted on banging the hardware, and coding whatever they felt like on it. Coupled with the fact that same decisions were made by 3rd party hardware makers, and you had machines in which stabillity and reliability were concepts that rapidly left the building. The Amiga was a great machine for hackers and very specialised uses. However the inherent flaws in it's execution listed above doomed it to a status of niche machine. The Amiga was much like a Harley Davidson, a computer you had no buisness owning unless you were determined to be at least a part time mechanic. Apple has never been in the buisness of making that kind of hardware. Thier paradigm is to make things that "just work". And in order to do that paradigm requires that they maintain the level of control they enforce. Do I think you have the right to jailbreak your hardware? Yes I do. But I do not believe you are entitled to demand that Apple support your decision.
the Iphone OS is not and has never been stated to be MacOS. It has some relationship to MacOS but that is in the underlayers not the overall GUI. The OP is simply a lazy coder who is trying to shoehorn one paradigm into another, who apparantly refuses to consider that a UI designed for a Hi resoution monitor and pointing device can not be the same kind of UI set up for a small screen and fingertip control. So...yes Fork or be dammed.
So after the decades of the Slashdotters complaining about MacOS being MacOS, thier complaint about the iPhone OS is that it's NOT MacOS? What IS the OP smoking? Where where all of you when it was made abundantly clear that the iPhone and especially the iPad were not to be treated as shrunken down Macs? And throw away any of that objection about the iPhone not being "open" that argument leaves the building when you decide to develop for the device.
This particular item was more of an homage to Sagan and co. than an actual scientific experiment. That said, I do remember reading about Areceibo in a National Geographic article, which stated that Arecibo could pick up a message from a duplicate of itself transmitting anywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy, barring unfavorable local conditions within line of sight.
I highly suspect that Boeing's cessage of it's contracts with China (assuming that actually occurred) had a lot more to do with dollar matters than some sudden concern for the Chinese population. Another reason to consider this fallacious. We launch spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force base, including some heavy Titan 3 loads. Last time I checked the majority of the U.S. landmass is below the launch path.
For the one reason no one wants to mention. They want the Mac experience without paying for it. They want to download it from some Pirate Bay clone and install it on thier homebrew POS without paying Apple a dime.
Apple's hardware is distinctly apple, just the same as Gigabyte's motherboards are different than what Creative markets. So yes, Apple Hardware is still Apple designed even if it uses parts from Intel and others. It's also an Efi-based system board instead of BIOS which puts it in a different class altogether, along with a unique Apple designed ROM as well. And any claim that Apple is not designing Apple hardware is just laughable period.
If you consider Starship Troopers acceptable but the Lord of the Rings an abomination, that says miles for your total lack of proportion. Yes, certain things of Lord of the Rings were changed for better screen presence and the tightening up to a very constrained time format of about 10 hours to condense a megawork. In any reasoned opinion LOTR was a fantastic adaptation to movie constraints, and Starship Troopers was fairly okay full of that right wing macho testosterone that Heinlein main characters tend to reek of it. (and those that don't like Smith in Strangers, have those characters to back them up) If your beef with LOTR was those minor changes and deletions that had to be done to fit the work into a movie trilogy, then I suggest you never watch a movie adaptation of any literary work you enjoy because you are bound for a series of raging disappointments.