Of course muscle cars go sideways when you turn, they have so much power that you straighten out at the end of the turn anyways. That's why they're badass! Besides, a non-original muscle car typically has tons of modern parts in it, making it handle and function much more like a modern car. A rice rocket, factory built, has a warranty, which is the one thing going for them. A muscle car is not easy to maintain, but when you take it out, it's like having your own personal parade of positive attention, that's how awesome everyone knows that they are.
It's not that it's "slow" to "run" (i.e. boot + sit there idling), but it doesn't do what it looks like it would do, i.e. run as many apps as you feel like (within reason). Nothing on the computer tells you that you've opened one too many things (perhaps just 2, perhaps 10, maybe more depending on your hardware), except that it will slow down and/or crash. That's no user experience if you asked me. My windows XP machine can handle a bunch of stuff running at once, but it's not any 200 mhz pentium pro... try to open as much as I have open on that computer and you'll be waiting a while, if not rebooting and swearing.
The first time this happened was with regular windows and windows 95... all the machines they put it on were too slow to run it and more than 1 application at a time. That's what they're gonna do for sure. They'll sell you a machine woefully underpowered for the OS, period. No one cares, no one will refund your money, thanks and have a nice day:)
The preview feature is useless because 1) it's not on every page that comes back and 2) it's not updated live. What is the point, really? Here's what i'd see in 2 seconds? I'll just spend the 2 seconds, who cares! It's much nicer to have, oh i dunno, a longer summary like Google has.
Microsoft's paying Hotmail customers get completely screwed... boy, I'd really feel like an asshole if I ever paid for Hotmail and now they're gonna give it away in any fashion. My money paid for what exactly? Another jet for some executive?
Basically there's no technology to buy there, they're buying 2 billion dollars worth of ad space. They intend to use the site to ad/spam the crap out of the members (because where else is there a revenue stream with that site?) and then run it into the ground a la mp3.com. It is inevitable that the winners are the people who get the $2B, the people paying that are buying a particular demographic's attention for a few weeks until the demographic bails on the site, that's all.
Of course you're seeing that in Mountain View, CA. You might as well be on the starship enterprise compared to Central Ohio... let me fill you in. People here would be all, "look, maw! look, jim-bo! this store's got one o' them h-dee tee-vee's! well, shoot the horse and slap me silly, you some bitch monkey nuts!" and then queue the beer drinking, indoor-smoking, rival-school-color-car-flipping, backwoods hee-haw nonsense you probably sometimes see on the news...in Albertsons... on their HDTV.
It's a little odd to compare Tiffany and Microsoft. If you buy your girlfriend a copy of Windows XP, she'll just look at you funny. If you buy her a Tiffany bracelet, well, let's just say the results will be significantly more positive in your favor. Then again, if you'd buy your girlfriend a copy of Windows XP, chances are you don't have a girlfriend anyways (or you won't for long), so I guess it doesn't really matter.
I think the point is that price fixing fosters piracy, so you can't both claim that piracy is hurting your business, and then charge 'a hundred billun dollars' for some song(s). Anyone who wants those has to steal them, just like with prohibition... making something that is already extremely popular illegal just makes everyone an outlaw and fails to address the problem.
I have news for you: It doesn't matter what format the documents are in. If one format is unreadable, they all are. For example, if I can't read hello from 68 65 6C 6C 6F, then how in the hell would i understand hello from 3C 74 65 78 74 3E 68 65 6C 6C 6F 3C 2F 74 65 78 74 3E?
No way, either they'll be able to read it or they won't, it doesn't make any difference if we tag the text. I personally think sticking to ASCII would at least yield some possibility they could get the text back, because at least then the set of things you're deciphering is limited to the actual content, and not to some goofy markup that they could certainly care less about (we have 30,000 year old cave drawings... so just draw it on a rock if you want the future to have a picture of it).
There's just one big problem with hitting it away: if we guess wrong on the mass of the asteroid, there is a good chance that we could actually hit it into a more direct collision course with Earth. We're better off letting it swing past us. Knocking it off course might work this time, but since its orbit is left to question, the next time around it may hit us for sure, with nothing we can do about it.
Of course, there's also the option that we just split it into more targets, that we either have to nuke or will hit us and also do damage. So basically, if it's gonna hit, then we're screwed.
And in other news, Microsoft hostile takeover of Google, film at 11.... Sure, they're gonna displace the brand name that's actually a documented synonym for "search the internet". Just like how they took over AOL and Yahoo from instant messenger.
From TFA: "Exposure to faults and intellectual property claims.
Relevant to all open source use.
Disclosure of confidential code/ No rights to use.
Relevant where software has been infected by an open source licence."
They talk about it like there aren't IP claims with proprietary source code. I would argue that these "legal issues" are in fact features of open source that are hampered generally in commercial closed-source software. Closed source tends to have more of the issues above by default, right? Sure looks that way to me!
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The xbox 360 really has to struggle against its own features in order to have good games. The great graphics are... well, great, but because producing them requires work, that's all work not going into things like entertainment value or playability. That's why the old Nintendo games are more fun -- they didn't necessarily spend more or less money, but the vast majority of the money was not going into modeling 3d textures or stuff like that.
There will not be publicly linked databases, because no DBA is going to let the whole world just hammer their db into the ground. If there are systems that appear to be linked databases, it will be from RSS feeds, or from intelligent agents that "copy" all your data off of your website systematically, and then merge it into a (virtually single) db with everyone else's data (i.e. google search).
we already have mobile blogging, sending e-mail to blog, etc. You can sign up for a free flickr account and send picture "blog" type posts with e-mails to your flickr account, for example, not that I'm associated with flickr. What they mean is, they're going to try to attract every moron that doesn't have a blog to make one, which will just wreck it for anyone that's trying to do it now with blog viruses, spam, etc. Joy!:)
Yeah, we all know how well having a digital stream helps protect content. Most piracy is conducted over the internet, which is digital media? OK. I don't think this is going to stop, slow down, or hamper piracy in any way. It's a way to get more HDTV's sold to the people who were already suckers enough to buy them the first time (videophiles don't count, they always buy the latest thing, I'm talking about regular Joe's who now will hate HD). Good job, everyone.
If Linux allowed anyone to install anything without having to think first, then you'd get what windows has: tons of viruses and malware. If it is easy to dupe people, then people will be duped. Unfortunately, this is the catch-22 for linux: how to achieve an install base like Windows while maintaining a Macintosh-like affinity with hackers, so that the user base won't get attacked.
Think of how many tech products of obvious low quality to any expert are big sellers. This applies to consumer products in general as well... it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone!
Great, if everyone starts using AJAX to build "sick" web apps, then it's just a matter of time before they're hitting some registers that will force me to reboot my windoze pc at work from a freaking javascript error. Yay!
I have direct knowledge of the first major program they ran with the ENIAC, because my dad was there when they did it. It was a program to calculate the first 1000 digits of Pi... and it worked too. They had a process by which you had to review any functions that were going into the computer before you put them in... if only we still did that. Expensive but extremely effective at reducing software bugs in code... the only time the machine was down was for tubes and hardware.
I'd love to have a pair of resolution-sharpening glasses for doing artwork. There are lots of times when it would be helpful to see what was going on in detail without having to get so close to the canvas that I can't see the whole picture anymore.
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Of course muscle cars go sideways when you turn, they have so much power that you straighten out at the end of the turn anyways. That's why they're badass! Besides, a non-original muscle car typically has tons of modern parts in it, making it handle and function much more like a modern car. A rice rocket, factory built, has a warranty, which is the one thing going for them. A muscle car is not easy to maintain, but when you take it out, it's like having your own personal parade of positive attention, that's how awesome everyone knows that they are.
It's not that it's "slow" to "run" (i.e. boot + sit there idling), but it doesn't do what it looks like it would do, i.e. run as many apps as you feel like (within reason). Nothing on the computer tells you that you've opened one too many things (perhaps just 2, perhaps 10, maybe more depending on your hardware), except that it will slow down and/or crash. That's no user experience if you asked me. My windows XP machine can handle a bunch of stuff running at once, but it's not any 200 mhz pentium pro... try to open as much as I have open on that computer and you'll be waiting a while, if not rebooting and swearing.
The first time this happened was with regular windows and windows 95... all the machines they put it on were too slow to run it and more than 1 application at a time. That's what they're gonna do for sure. They'll sell you a machine woefully underpowered for the OS, period. No one cares, no one will refund your money, thanks and have a nice day :)
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The preview feature is useless because 1) it's not on every page that comes back and 2) it's not updated live. What is the point, really? Here's what i'd see in 2 seconds? I'll just spend the 2 seconds, who cares! It's much nicer to have, oh i dunno, a longer summary like Google has.
Microsoft's paying Hotmail customers get completely screwed... boy, I'd really feel like an asshole if I ever paid for Hotmail and now they're gonna give it away in any fashion. My money paid for what exactly? Another jet for some executive?
Basically there's no technology to buy there, they're buying 2 billion dollars worth of ad space. They intend to use the site to ad/spam the crap out of the members (because where else is there a revenue stream with that site?) and then run it into the ground a la mp3.com. It is inevitable that the winners are the people who get the $2B, the people paying that are buying a particular demographic's attention for a few weeks until the demographic bails on the site, that's all.
Of course you're seeing that in Mountain View, CA. You might as well be on the starship enterprise compared to Central Ohio... let me fill you in. People here would be all, "look, maw! look, jim-bo! this store's got one o' them h-dee tee-vee's! well, shoot the horse and slap me silly, you some bitch monkey nuts!" and then queue the beer drinking, indoor-smoking, rival-school-color-car-flipping, backwoods hee-haw nonsense you probably sometimes see on the news...in Albertsons... on their HDTV.
It's a little odd to compare Tiffany and Microsoft. If you buy your girlfriend a copy of Windows XP, she'll just look at you funny. If you buy her a Tiffany bracelet, well, let's just say the results will be significantly more positive in your favor. Then again, if you'd buy your girlfriend a copy of Windows XP, chances are you don't have a girlfriend anyways (or you won't for long), so I guess it doesn't really matter.
I think the point is that price fixing fosters piracy, so you can't both claim that piracy is hurting your business, and then charge 'a hundred billun dollars' for some song(s). Anyone who wants those has to steal them, just like with prohibition... making something that is already extremely popular illegal just makes everyone an outlaw and fails to address the problem.
I have news for you: It doesn't matter what format the documents are in. If one format is unreadable, they all are. For example, if I can't read hello from 68 65 6C 6C 6F, then how in the hell would i understand hello from 3C 74 65 78 74 3E 68 65 6C 6C 6F 3C 2F 74 65 78 74 3E?
No way, either they'll be able to read it or they won't, it doesn't make any difference if we tag the text. I personally think sticking to ASCII would at least yield some possibility they could get the text back, because at least then the set of things you're deciphering is limited to the actual content, and not to some goofy markup that they could certainly care less about (we have 30,000 year old cave drawings... so just draw it on a rock if you want the future to have a picture of it).
There's just one big problem with hitting it away: if we guess wrong on the mass of the asteroid, there is a good chance that we could actually hit it into a more direct collision course with Earth. We're better off letting it swing past us. Knocking it off course might work this time, but since its orbit is left to question, the next time around it may hit us for sure, with nothing we can do about it.
Of course, there's also the option that we just split it into more targets, that we either have to nuke or will hit us and also do damage. So basically, if it's gonna hit, then we're screwed.
And in other news, Microsoft hostile takeover of Google, film at 11....
Sure, they're gonna displace the brand name that's actually a documented synonym for "search the internet". Just like how they took over AOL and Yahoo from instant messenger.
From TFA: "Exposure to faults and intellectual property claims.
Relevant to all open source use.
Disclosure of confidential code/ No rights to use.
Relevant where software has been infected by an open source licence."
They talk about it like there aren't IP claims with proprietary source code. I would argue that these "legal issues" are in fact features of open source that are hampered generally in commercial closed-source software. Closed source tends to have more of the issues above by default, right? Sure looks that way to me!
The xbox 360 really has to struggle against its own features in order to have good games. The great graphics are ... well, great, but because producing them requires work, that's all work not going into things like entertainment value or playability. That's why the old Nintendo games are more fun -- they didn't necessarily spend more or less money, but the vast majority of the money was not going into modeling 3d textures or stuff like that.
There will not be publicly linked databases, because no DBA is going to let the whole world just hammer their db into the ground. If there are systems that appear to be linked databases, it will be from RSS feeds, or from intelligent agents that "copy" all your data off of your website systematically, and then merge it into a (virtually single) db with everyone else's data (i.e. google search).
we already have mobile blogging, sending e-mail to blog, etc. You can sign up for a free flickr account and send picture "blog" type posts with e-mails to your flickr account, for example, not that I'm associated with flickr. What they mean is, they're going to try to attract every moron that doesn't have a blog to make one, which will just wreck it for anyone that's trying to do it now with blog viruses, spam, etc. Joy! :)
Yeah, we all know how well having a digital stream helps protect content. Most piracy is conducted over the internet, which is digital media? OK. I don't think this is going to stop, slow down, or hamper piracy in any way. It's a way to get more HDTV's sold to the people who were already suckers enough to buy them the first time (videophiles don't count, they always buy the latest thing, I'm talking about regular Joe's who now will hate HD).
Good job, everyone.
If Linux allowed anyone to install anything without having to think first, then you'd get what windows has: tons of viruses and malware. If it is easy to dupe people, then people will be duped. Unfortunately, this is the catch-22 for linux: how to achieve an install base like Windows while maintaining a Macintosh-like affinity with hackers, so that the user base won't get attacked.
Think of how many tech products of obvious low quality to any expert are big sellers. This applies to consumer products in general as well... it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone!
Great, if everyone starts using AJAX to build "sick" web apps, then it's just a matter of time before they're hitting some registers that will force me to reboot my windoze pc at work from a freaking javascript error. Yay!
I have direct knowledge of the first major program they ran with the ENIAC, because my dad was there when they did it. It was a program to calculate the first 1000 digits of Pi... and it worked too. They had a process by which you had to review any functions that were going into the computer before you put them in... if only we still did that. Expensive but extremely effective at reducing software bugs in code... the only time the machine was down was for tubes and hardware.
I'd love to have a pair of resolution-sharpening glasses for doing artwork. There are lots of times when it would be helpful to see what was going on in detail without having to get so close to the canvas that I can't see the whole picture anymore.
The results will of course be classified!
Being a pro tennis player has way better fringe benefits than being a pro video game player.