Add some BlueTooth and you might finally have a decent platform to run all those household appliances you've been wanting to network at home. Interesting possibilities at least.
Oh yea sure. I'm just giddy with anticipation. Soon my blender will talk to my washing machine!!!!!! YES!
Ooooooohhh BABY YES! wash and blend
wash and blend wash and blend in syncronization.
I'm sorry but I must now inform you that you are NEVER GOING TO GET A CHICK.
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then....and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably.
Where are all of the "information wants to be free" folks now? What, anyone should be able to take and use any information any way they want so long as they are not Microsoft?
In essence, your question is very much the same as saying "why is carrying a gun around illegal? Who decided that any government could make laws telling me I can't carry a gun? Who gives them such power to enforce 'laws'?" The reason why is that it would be disruptive to society otherwise - that's why the FCC is there.
That is a very poor analogy since in the vast majority of the US mainland it is perfectly legal to carry a gun.
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then....and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably......and imagine a beo [smack
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then....and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably......and imagine a beo [smack
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then....and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably......and imagine a beo [smack]
If you dont like it, you could always get your ass into the car, drive for a half hour in any given direction, and watch your stars.
Ha! More like 12 hours and then some. Have you ever tried to catch a whisp of distant nebula with an amateur telescope? It was easy to do in the 70's and is now often impossible. What a shame. It is more or less impossible to find a dark sky anywhere in the U.S. anymore. In fact, only 1 % of the US population lives under a dark sky today!
I remember when the orange streetlamps started to be installed in the 70's. Before that, all streetlamps were of the bluish variety and gave very little light pollution. I have no idea why they all use orange ones now, I guess they are cheaper? I think the orange ones are called "sodium vapor."
I wish we could go back to blue, or at least redesign the orange ones so that they don't shine so much light into the sky. I remember as a kid looking up and seeing the milky way. Now I'm lucky if I manage to see Jupiter through the orange haze.
Three or four years ago, the head of the planetarium and observatory in Bradenton, FL was arrested while shooting out streetlamps near the observatory with a shotgun. I totally understand that guy. He was just fed up.
I've been waiting for a package like this for 4 years. I can't believe someone actually did it. Just one more application needs to arrive and I'll leave Windows behind forever. What is that application?
Does it really matter what my particular missing app is? Everyone that can't migrate yet has one. I suppose my point is this just goes to show that eventually all the missing apps will be there and then:
This has happened to me on three different machines, two running XP home, and one running XP pro. It is a documented bug on bugzilla.
1. Start Phoenix. 2. Resize the Phoenix window with the corner widget, bottom left. 3. Hit f11 for fullscreen 4. Hit f11 to go back to non-fullscreen mode.
You should now be missing the top widget bar, the one with the title of the page in it and the resizing/closewindow (red x) widgets in top left corner. You can only quit the browser by selecting File>Exit.
I just thought it was really weird that my story was rejected, knowing that the exact same story would be posted some hours later, which it just was. So let's see, the story was rejected because it wasn't old news yet?
I think your right about getting a life. Absolutely. This page has been sucking my time away ever since I found it.
I installed exactly according to instructions, wiping my old 0.4 installation and running the ProfileManager to create a new profile.
Window sizing is still a mess, and if I quit the browser in fullscreen mode, the next time I start it up and then go to fullscreen, the titlebar is rendered over the top of the screen making the window unmovable until I re-exit and restart the program.
Also, there is STILL no fullscreen button available in the toolbar customization options, forcing me to leave the mouse and go to the keyboard (F11) whenever I want to do that.
Oddly, in bugzilla I've seen references to a fullscreen button, but I have no idea what they are talking about.
It's also interesting that I submitted this story 10 hours ago (moments after the DL was available) and it was rejected. I suppose the/. editors all wanted to get their copy first before everyone here took down the servers?
And finally, kudos to the Phoenix/Mozilla folk. It used to be that I always had to switch back to IE because there were things that only IE could do and I had to get them done. Starting with the 0.4 Phoenix release, I starting having to open up Phoenix from time to time to get things done because IE couldn't do them. Finally about two weeks ago I removed the IE icon from my quicklaunch because I just didn't use it any more -- Phoenix now does so many things that IE cannot do: Tabbed browsing, Password managing that actually works, spyware control though a decent cookie manager, no popups (!), obnoxious blinking banner add removal, bookmarks-menu-navigation all lined up on one toolbar, etc.
Go to the the mozilla.org main page and click on the 0.4 link and you can download the offical release of 0.5. It really is the offical release, a lot of us have been waiting all day. They just havn't updated the main mozilla.org page yet.
Last I saw, the LOC was 13 TeraBYtes. You'd need 26 of these drives. Alternatively, Each drive holds ~4% of a LOC. Yes, I understand your question was kind of a joke, but I thought I'd do the math real quick just to consider the implications. I wonder if anyone has a good estimate of how long it will be until the typical consumer PC has sufficient storage space to hold the LOC?
...that point being that big iron is not about processing at all, but rather about manipulation of huge quantities of data that would choke even a beowulf of beowulf clusters in a matter of seconds.
But for those of you that still don't get it, here is a guide for the layperson:
It might be a mainframe if...
If you could kill someone by tipping it over on them, it might be a mainframe.
If the only "mouse" it has is the one living inside it, it might be a mainframe.
If you need earth-moving equipment to relocate it, it might be a mainframe.
If you've ever lost an oscilloscope inside of it, it might be a mainframe.
If it's big enough to be used as an apartment, it might be a mainframe.
If it has ever had a card-punch designed for it, it might be a mainframe.
If it weighs more than an RV, it might be a mainframe.
If lights in the neighborhood dim when it's powered up, it might be a mainframe.
If it arrived in its own moving van, it might be a mainframe.
If its disk platters are big enough to cook pizzas on, it might be a mainframe.
If Michael Jordan would need his entire annual salary to buy one, it might be a mainframe.
If keeping all of the manuals together creates a fire hazard, it might be a mainframe.
If it's so large that a dropped pen will slowly orbit it, it might be a mainframe.
If it's ever been mistaken for a refrigerator, (or if the disk drive has ever been mistaken for a washing machine), it might be a mainframe.
If anyone has ever frozen to death in the room where it's kept, it might be a mainframe.
If it has a power supply that's bigger than your car, it might be a mainframe.
If it has its own postal code, it might be a mainframe.
If the operators considered the addition of COBOL to be an upgrade, it might be a mainframe.
If it was designed before you were born, it might be a mainframe.
If its main power cable is thicker than your neck, it might be a mainframe.
If the designers have since died from old age, it might be a mainframe.
The simple test is this: I never have a moment like "I am in Windows, and I have the need to boot to Linux to do something." But I often have the "Ah shit I am in Linux, now I need to reboot to windows before I can do this" moment.
This simple succinct comment sums up my Linux vs. Windows experience over the past four years better than anything I have ever seen. I have never been able to come up with such a short and perfect statement of why I never seem to be able to completely migrate over to Linux no matter how hard I try. I have tried all distros, with Gentoo being my favorite and on the other half of my hard drive -- but I'm in Windows again now because today I needed to get something done, *quickly* and I just havn't gotten around to (or seen the need to) boot back.
Slashdot Mirror
...and now that I think about it:
Any folks within a hundred light years that have the wherewithall to make their own bit telescope -- they already know about us.
Maybe we need to get on this pretty quick!
Add some BlueTooth and you might finally have a decent platform to run all those household appliances you've been wanting to network at home. Interesting possibilities at least.
Oh yea sure. I'm just giddy with anticipation. Soon my blender will talk to my washing machine!!!!!! YES!
Ooooooohhh BABY YES! wash and blend
wash and blend
wash and blend in syncronization.
I'm sorry but I must now inform you that you are NEVER GOING TO GET A CHICK.
sheesh.
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
...and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably.
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then.
Where are all of the "information wants to be free" folks now? What, anyone should be able to take and use any information any way they want so long as they are not Microsoft?
In essence, your question is very much the same as saying "why is carrying a gun around illegal? Who decided that any government could make laws telling me I can't carry a gun? Who gives them such power to enforce 'laws'?" The reason why is that it would be disruptive to society otherwise - that's why the FCC is there.
That is a very poor analogy since in the vast majority of the US mainland it is perfectly legal to carry a gun.
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
...and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably... ...and imagine a beo [smack
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then.
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
...and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably... ...and imagine a beo [smack
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then.
The greatest question of all time is: "Are we alone?"
...and yes I know the dark side of the moon isn't always dark, but we'd want to cut down on earthshine too probably... ...and imagine a beo [smack]
That's really the other ultimate goal of space exploration, isn't it? (The first goal is to find us a new place to live after the earth is used up).
But there is such a simple way to answer the question: Take all the cash we are using on rediculous stuff like the ISS and:
BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN SPACE OR ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
And I mean BIG.
One so Hugeomegagigantic that it can actually SEE the surface of extra solar earth sized planets in detail to pick out cities, roads, and lights.
And then, if we saw with our own eyes that there was another civilization -- imagine the space program we'd start to have then.
If you dont like it, you could always get your ass into the car, drive for a half hour in any given direction, and watch your stars.
Ha! More like 12 hours and then some. Have you ever tried to catch a whisp of distant nebula with an amateur telescope? It was easy to do in the 70's and is now often impossible. What a shame. It is more or less impossible to find a dark sky anywhere in the U.S. anymore. In fact, only 1 % of the US population lives under a dark sky today!
I remember when the orange streetlamps started to be installed in the 70's. Before that, all streetlamps were of the bluish variety and gave very little light pollution. I have no idea why they all use orange ones now, I guess they are cheaper? I think the orange ones are called "sodium vapor."
I wish we could go back to blue, or at least redesign the orange ones so that they don't shine so much light into the sky. I remember as a kid looking up and seeing the milky way. Now I'm lucky if I manage to see Jupiter through the orange haze.
Three or four years ago, the head of the planetarium and observatory in Bradenton, FL was arrested while shooting out streetlamps near the observatory with a shotgun. I totally understand that guy. He was just fed up.
No and no. But oddly, since I've installed the Fullscreen extension (I didn't know it existed, it's wonderful) the bug seems to have gone away.
I've been waiting for a package like this for 4 years. I can't believe someone actually did it. Just one more application needs to arrive and I'll leave Windows behind forever. What is that application?
Does it really matter what my particular missing app is? Everyone that can't migrate yet has one. I suppose my point is this just goes to show that eventually all the missing apps will be there and then:
IT'S A FREE SOFTWARE WORLD BABY!
I'll try to explain this:
This has happened to me on three different machines, two running XP home, and one running XP pro. It is a documented bug on bugzilla.
1. Start Phoenix.
2. Resize the Phoenix window with the corner widget, bottom left.
3. Hit f11 for fullscreen
4. Hit f11 to go back to non-fullscreen mode.
You should now be missing the top widget bar, the one with the title of the page in it and the resizing/closewindow (red x) widgets in top left corner. You can only quit the browser by selecting File>Exit.
Did it screw up for you?
Full Screen Button := F11
Oh duh! I kept thinking they meant a toolbar button.
I just thought it was really weird that my story was rejected, knowing that the exact same story would be posted some hours later, which it just was. So let's see, the story was rejected because it wasn't old news yet?
I think your right about getting a life. Absolutely. This page has been sucking my time away ever since I found it.
I installed exactly according to instructions, wiping my old 0.4 installation and running the ProfileManager to create a new profile.
/. editors all wanted to get their copy first before everyone here took down the servers?
Window sizing is still a mess, and if I quit the browser in fullscreen mode, the next time I start it up and then go to fullscreen, the titlebar is rendered over the top of the screen making the window unmovable until I re-exit and restart the program.
Also, there is STILL no fullscreen button available in the toolbar customization options, forcing me to leave the mouse and go to the keyboard (F11) whenever I want to do that.
Oddly, in bugzilla I've seen references to a fullscreen button, but I have no idea what they are talking about.
It's also interesting that I submitted this story 10 hours ago (moments after the DL was available) and it was rejected. I suppose the
And finally, kudos to the Phoenix/Mozilla folk. It used to be that I always had to switch back to IE because there were things that only IE could do and I had to get them done. Starting with the 0.4 Phoenix release, I starting having to open up Phoenix from time to time to get things done because IE couldn't do them. Finally about two weeks ago I removed the IE icon from my quicklaunch because I just didn't use it any more -- Phoenix now does so many things that IE cannot do: Tabbed browsing, Password managing that actually works, spyware control though a decent cookie manager, no popups (!), obnoxious blinking banner add removal, bookmarks-menu-navigation all lined up on one toolbar, etc.
Damn editors rejected the story!
0.5 is out.
Go to the the mozilla.org main page and click on the 0.4 link and you can download the offical release of 0.5. It really is the offical release, a lot of us have been waiting all day. They just havn't updated the main mozilla.org page yet.
Were they? Both the Alpha and the Athlon seem to have run into a speed wall whereas the apparent long term bumpability of the P4 is mind boggling.
Last I saw, the LOC was 13 TeraBYtes. You'd need 26 of these drives. Alternatively, Each drive holds ~4% of a LOC. Yes, I understand your question was kind of a joke, but I thought I'd do the math real quick just to consider the implications. I wonder if anyone has a good estimate of how long it will be until the typical consumer PC has sufficient storage space to hold the LOC?
...that point being that big iron is not about processing at all, but rather about manipulation of huge quantities of data that would choke even a beowulf of beowulf clusters in a matter of seconds.
But for those of you that still don't get it, here is a guide for the layperson:
It might be a mainframe if...
If you could kill someone by tipping it over on them, it might be a mainframe.
If the only "mouse" it has is the one living inside it, it might be a mainframe.
If you need earth-moving equipment to relocate it, it might be a mainframe.
If you've ever lost an oscilloscope inside of it, it might be a mainframe.
If it's big enough to be used as an apartment, it might be a mainframe.
If it has ever had a card-punch designed for it, it might be a mainframe.
If it weighs more than an RV, it might be a mainframe.
If lights in the neighborhood dim when it's powered up, it might be a mainframe.
If it arrived in its own moving van, it might be a mainframe.
If its disk platters are big enough to cook pizzas on, it might be a mainframe.
If Michael Jordan would need his entire annual salary to buy one, it might be a mainframe.
If keeping all of the manuals together creates a fire hazard, it might be a mainframe.
If it's so large that a dropped pen will slowly orbit it, it might be a mainframe.
If it's ever been mistaken for a refrigerator, (or if the disk drive
has ever been mistaken for a washing machine), it might be a mainframe.
If anyone has ever frozen to death in the room where it's kept, it might be a mainframe.
If it has a power supply that's bigger than your car, it might be a mainframe.
If it has its own postal code, it might be a mainframe.
If the operators considered the addition of COBOL to be an upgrade, it
might be a mainframe.
If it was designed before you were born, it might be a mainframe.
If its main power cable is thicker than your neck, it might be a mainframe.
If the designers have since died from old age, it might be a mainframe.
My bad!
I modded the above comment up for the following reasons:
1. The autopackage link.
2. Use them or lose them!
I've never heard that before.
I LIKE IT!
I'm going to add that phrase to my vocabulary if no one has (tm)ed it yet.
"Mono Platform" pretty much says it all doesn't it?
It's why I don't run OSX. It's why I am trying to get off Windows. Why should I be constrained to mono platform?
what about Crusoe? what's the status of the Crusoe processor and why don't they take advantage of this opportunity and jump into the market?
What about Crusoe indeed!
The simple test is this: I never have a moment like "I am in Windows, and I have the need to boot to Linux to do something." But I often have the "Ah shit I am in Linux, now I need to reboot to windows before I can do this" moment.
This simple succinct comment sums up my Linux vs. Windows experience over the past four years better than anything I have ever seen. I have never been able to come up with such a short and perfect statement of why I never seem to be able to completely migrate over to Linux no matter how hard I try. I have tried all distros, with Gentoo being my favorite and on the other half of my hard drive -- but I'm in Windows again now because today I needed to get something done, *quickly* and I just havn't gotten around to (or seen the need to) boot back.