Anyway as a challenge I am prepared to spare the life of anyone who can build and deploy for me a secret orbiting battle station to further my ambition of global domination.
PS If it has Battlestar Galactica style fighter launch bays I might throw in an iPod
PPS The laser cannons have to make really cool sounds when they fire or you die with the rest
It was just the Martians giving Beagle a good clean up before they show it of to the Saturnians (they are really proud of their collection of landers on Mars).
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After all its just an attempt to reproduce human though and decision making processes in machines.
No they are going to encourage people to 'volunteer' their information as part of the registered traveller program. After repeated long delays, hassle, inconvenience and strip searches of unregistered travellers I'm sure lots of people will be willing to register their details entirely of their own volition.
Actually I would disagree with you here. For a long time Mozilla was more about what developers wanted to do rather than catering to end user requirements. Most for profit companies are very responsive to the needs of their customers. Pissed off customers = lost revenue. I know plenty of companies who are interested in user feedback and work well with their customers. Microsoft are pretty much a singularity in that they dont really have to care because of their ubiquity but even they listen to their customers (just not all of them).
Also I think many people forget it has taken almost 5 years for the Mozilla project to release stable useable products that we can recommend to friends/family etc. Firefox gets a lot of attention here, and rightly so, its an excellent browser but it is a long way from the original Mozilla concepts, remember when gecko was going to take over the whole universe, remember the bloat and absymal stability/performance ? After 3 years of nothing many people felt the project was on the verge of death, would never produce anything of value and was based on seriously misguided assumptions.
I would actually give Mozilla more credit for recognising (albeit belatedly) that they were not going to take over the world, that developer cool is meaningless to end users and stripping the out the crap and focussing on Firefox and Thunderbird as standalone products. Its just a pity it took so long.
Yes, he is going to bring a small black hole to the meeting which will consume all the delegates thus destroying them. The now completely destroyed delegates will continue to receive spam so proving that some information about them does still exist. Unfortunately for the delegates though their future legacy is to be considered by our decendants as perverts obsessed with their penis size, women having carnal relations with donkeys and perhaps most bizarrely, a toner cartridge fetish.
Cycling is not like Formula One, something I hesitate to call sport any more. Some of the new technology is well cool and anything that makes a bike lighter and stiffer is welcomed by racing cyclists but one fact remains, the cyclist still has to pedal the damn thing. In racing it boils down to legs, lungs and desire at the end of the day because there is no major technology diffentiator possible on a bike. Lance Armstrong on his postmans bike will always thrash his postman on the latest and greatest technology.
So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"
The audience will wear blindfolds. Problem solved. Seriously how many people knew this utterly useless fact of fictional trivia? More importantly who cares. Movie makers are allowed some artistic license, especially when the whole damn thing is made up anyway.
Until the first rocket explodes or the first habitat depressurisation leads to an unpleasant death for everyone on board. It is an exciting development but I think it will be a hard sell after the first accident. Fair play to the guy for trying though and if I had that sort of cash I would be tempted despite the risks.
Depends how you pronounce it. If you pronounce it properly then it a vital part of the OS determining how the various running processes interact with the system, resources and each other. If you use the American pronunciation then its something KDE are probably working on to organise your time.
Starbucks have just opened on Mars and the helpful staff have offered to clean the rover's solar panels once a day and stick in a couple of extra AA batteries.
For the vast majority of people incremental releases are a pain in the ass. I dont want to install an application that has partial or buggy implementation and have to continually install newer versions to get over these issues. Release early/often might work for a limited developer audience but for a mass market I think people will just say if you cant do it properly first time then dont bother.
The space elevator is a great idea but no human has the mental strength to listen to elevator musak for the length of time the trip will require and still retain their sanity.
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Anyway as a challenge I am prepared to spare the life of anyone who can build and deploy for me a secret orbiting battle station to further my ambition of global domination.
PS If it has Battlestar Galactica style fighter launch bays I might throw in an iPod
PPS The laser cannons have to make really cool sounds when they fire or you die with the rest
I blinked, what were we talking about again?
It was just the Martians giving Beagle a good clean up before they show it of to the Saturnians (they are really proud of their collection of landers on Mars).
After all its just an attempt to reproduce human though and decision making processes in machines.
Is that a common way of killing things?
Not me anyway. I put steak through my head all the time. The baked potatoes and veg I also put through it may reduce the danger though.
No they are going to encourage people to 'volunteer' their information as part of the registered traveller program. After repeated long delays, hassle, inconvenience and strip searches of unregistered travellers I'm sure lots of people will be willing to register their details entirely of their own volition.
Actually I would disagree with you here. For a long time Mozilla was more about what developers wanted to do rather than catering to end user requirements. Most for profit companies are very responsive to the needs of their customers. Pissed off customers = lost revenue. I know plenty of companies who are interested in user feedback and work well with their customers. Microsoft are pretty much a singularity in that they dont really have to care because of their ubiquity but even they listen to their customers (just not all of them).
Also I think many people forget it has taken almost 5 years for the Mozilla project to release stable useable products that we can recommend to friends/family etc. Firefox gets a lot of attention here, and rightly so, its an excellent browser but it is a long way from the original Mozilla concepts, remember when gecko was going to take over the whole universe, remember the bloat and absymal stability/performance ? After 3 years of nothing many people felt the project was on the verge of death, would never produce anything of value and was based on seriously misguided assumptions.
I would actually give Mozilla more credit for recognising (albeit belatedly) that they were not going to take over the world, that developer cool is meaningless to end users and stripping the out the crap and focussing on Firefox and Thunderbird as standalone products. Its just a pity it took so long.
Yes, he is going to bring a small black hole to the meeting which will consume all the delegates thus destroying them. The now completely destroyed delegates will continue to receive spam so proving that some information about them does still exist. Unfortunately for the delegates though their future legacy is to be considered by our decendants as perverts obsessed with their penis size, women having carnal relations with donkeys and perhaps most bizarrely, a toner cartridge fetish.
Actually there are only 39 rabid ones now. We had to shoot one this morning after he develeloped an inclination to use the -02 flag instead of -03.
so I am sticking with my dice
Cycling is not like Formula One, something I hesitate to call sport any more. Some of the new technology is well cool and anything that makes a bike lighter and stiffer is welcomed by racing cyclists but one fact remains, the cyclist still has to pedal the damn thing. In racing it boils down to legs, lungs and desire at the end of the day because there is no major technology diffentiator possible on a bike. Lance Armstrong on his postmans bike will always thrash his postman on the latest and greatest technology.
So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"
The audience will wear blindfolds. Problem solved. Seriously how many people knew this utterly useless fact of fictional trivia? More importantly who cares. Movie makers are allowed some artistic license, especially when the whole damn thing is made up anyway.
Until the first rocket explodes or the first habitat depressurisation leads to an unpleasant death for everyone on board. It is an exciting development but I think it will be a hard sell after the first accident. Fair play to the guy for trying though and if I had that sort of cash I would be tempted despite the risks.
Depends how you pronounce it. If you pronounce it properly then it a vital part of the OS determining how the various running processes interact with the system, resources and each other. If you use the American pronunciation then its something KDE are probably working on to organise your time.
Well done grub, most slashdotters dont RTFA before posting. You managed to read as far as the first line of the article before posting.
Starbucks have just opened on Mars and the helpful staff have offered to clean the rover's solar panels once a day and stick in a couple of extra AA batteries.
an absolute, nailed on "please let me bear your children" hit with the ladies.
It isn't. This guy is way too smart to even look at /.
I think I speak for everyone when I say...
I HOPE SO!!
I would gladly shell out the money to see the extended edition in the theater.
I think I speak for everyone blue_adept when I say thanks for offering pay for us all to see the extended version.
PS I would actually like to watch it in Maui if you dont mind shelling out for a flight and hotel as well that would be well cool.
For the vast majority of people incremental releases are a pain in the ass. I dont want to install an application that has partial or buggy implementation and have to continually install newer versions to get over these issues. Release early/often might work for a limited developer audience but for a mass market I think people will just say if you cant do it properly first time then dont bother.
This pattern put a lot of people off JBuilder and Borland products in general. In the long run its probably done them more harm than good.
and png truly is a better standard why should geeks care what happens to gif?
For being able to look past my greying hair and see the vunerable inner child within me. I feel so young and alive now.
But I believe an extension to your house will be required to store the LOTR special edition discs.
The space elevator is a great idea but no human has the mental strength to listen to elevator musak for the length of time the trip will require and still retain their sanity.