"is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction."
Makes for a nice lead in, but the large gold nugget that is also being auctioned off, and expected to bring +USD$1 mil., will do a considerable bit more staving if you ask me. I can understand how a restored mastodon skull paper-weight would grab more attention leading up to said auction, however.
'other multitiuch...'? Tracking hand-movement has nothing to do with touch-sensitive screens or surfaces. MS Surface tracks, just as the Hitachi system. Neither has touch-coordinate capability.
"Now, 37" is marginal and 42" is where it really starts getting to be noticeable"
You, Sir, have obviously never watched terrestrial HD TV on a 24" Intel iMac... 1920x1080, 16.37 Mbps, 29.97 fps DD5.1, 48 kHz, 384 kbps.
And while you position yourself as an expert, your time in the supposed lab is perhaps restricting your view of technology overall, where video is one of the drivers. Increased video performance drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives...
"Better grab a pack of the current bulbs while you still can..."
Don't light 'em if you get 'em.
By 2012, they will be able to detect those 'current bulbs' if you put just one online. Flipping the switch will get you a nasty note from your insurance/power/water/communications/medical provider.
"First of all, they'll try to find out why the heck so many people knew about it."
One announcement on TV to, oh say, 200 or so million viewers, and then a few seconds of fast paced texting and in less time than you can make instant noodles you've got, oh say 200 or so million clients hitting the site. No mystery why...
They have announcements down pat. However, they are still learning about the risks involved in hiring the first guy that claims he knows how to run a website.
"giraffe - Wiktionary
giraffe (plural giraffes). A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African Savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest..."
So, if they haven't gotten the DNA analysis wrong (I think they may have), they would bump the genus up to specie and run the a, b, c, d, e, f routine - works for me:)
Apple has a legitimate reason for keeping the drive which is described on the form given to the customer - it believes the drive can be fixed and sold.
Bullshit - they get $$ - credit from the manuf. Apple sends it back.
...may have something to do w/being kicked/punched/head-butted in the head/face/jaw/mouth thousands of times, over the last 40 years and that's not counting the bricks, floors, walls, doors and dashboards he has taken t' the face....?
Or - he had that lisp when young and was teased about it and bullied - he eventually took self-defense lessons, which led to the current fame and fortune.
Chuck Norris can read: ...raw postscript. ...all international barcodes. ...two separate Morse code streams - one with each eye...while sending two separate Morse code streams, one with each eyelid, all at one time. ...palms with his tongue. ...minds with his palms. ...braille with the inside surfaces of his toes. ...smoke signals in the dark.
...doesn't bend spoons w/his mind - he shits them out, all shiny and new, as needed.
...once completely sucked a man's eyeball clear out of the socket during a fight in the Philippines - optic never and all. He then spit it out into his hand, handed it to the poor bloke and whispered "I'm betting you NEVER look at me the same way ever again, Hector!"
...was born a woman, but decided early on he liked the thought of having hair on his back, so he willed himself into becoming the man is he today.
...took-off and landed a shot-up Cessna that had lost its landing gear simply by sticking his feet out of the cabin doors.
...chewed his own hand off to get out of hand-cuffs during a hostage situation that involved migrating pygmies. He then sewed it back on, using hair off his back as thread and a straightened paper clip - he burned a hole in one end of the paper clip by stacking disposable contacts onto his left eye, while looking at the clip and staring into the Sun.
...once rode a motorcycle backwards uphill in the desert for thirty-five miles in the dark...blind-folded. Of course drunk and with a bladder full of oxygenated white wine.
...made long distance phone calls in the 1980's using nothing but his vocal cords to hack the tone-controlled switchbanks.
Being in the same size class as the 1908 Tunguska asteroid, they should be fine (earth wasn't darkened by giant dust clouds in 1908, no?) While the article says that there will be a significant dust plume, I guess it'll seetle more rapidly and be more localized."
Since the atmosphere on Mars is much thinner than on Earth and primarily carbon dioxide, the Mars event will be more impact/strike related, where the Tunguska asteroid exploded before it had a chance to do much physical damage on its own.
Slashdot Mirror
"... similar to the wake that develops behind a fast-moving boat."
Only different. Without water. Or a propeller. And no gasoline. Or a steering wheel...forget about steering - really.
"I feel I'm beginning to understand ...
Perhaps the greatest achievement of AI would be to understand female behavior"
Understand that you can never 'understand' female behavior and be done with the entire exercise...
"I'm posting this so you guys can have a place to talk amongst yourselves..."
/. is a supposed $-making enterprise has NOTHING to do with such an ideal - riiiiggghhht.
And the fact that
"I'm sorry but you that took it personally need to grow up."
:)
If you find public rants so stressful, perhaps you should forgo them altogether
"..."The Word" is inerrant in the Bible, but the Bible is not The Word!"
I have seen the Light and the Light is not bright!
Inerrant is as inerrant does, Brother! Amen, pitipat and don't sit down!
"is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction."
Makes for a nice lead in, but the large gold nugget that is also being auctioned off, and expected to bring +USD$1 mil., will do a considerable bit more staving if you ask me. I can understand how a restored mastodon skull paper-weight would grab more attention leading up to said auction, however.
"Or do what other multitouch systems do - "
'other multitiuch...'? Tracking hand-movement has nothing to do with touch-sensitive screens or surfaces. MS Surface tracks, just as the Hitachi system. Neither has touch-coordinate capability.
"Now, 37" is marginal and 42" is where it really starts getting to be noticeable"
You, Sir, have obviously never watched terrestrial HD TV on a 24" Intel iMac... 1920x1080, 16.37 Mbps, 29.97 fps DD5.1, 48 kHz, 384 kbps.
And while you position yourself as an expert, your time in the supposed lab is perhaps restricting your view of technology overall, where video is one of the drivers. Increased video performance drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives drives faster pipes, increased storage, more efficient processors and improved displays which in turn drive increased video performance which drives...
"This must be surreal in person"
..?
'...that must be unreal in reality...'
As opposed to surreal not in person? How else can one do surreal anyhoo.
ZONK puts up a submittal and gives credit, instead of taking it...? How is that so?
Holy Shit is right - someone submits a story, gets rejected and ZONK puts it up... Wow - how 'bout that for coincidence...
"if they would support dimming in any reasonable fashion whatsoever."
Haven't tried the two-stage elements, I take it.
Bit of the ol' workman blaming his tools, what?
"Better grab a pack of the current bulbs while you still can..."
Don't light 'em if you get 'em.
By 2012, they will be able to detect those 'current bulbs' if you put just one online. Flipping the switch will get you a nasty note from your insurance/power/water/communications/medical provider.
"First of all, they'll try to find out why the heck so many people knew about it."
One announcement on TV to, oh say, 200 or so million viewers, and then a few seconds of fast paced texting and in less time than you can make instant noodles you've got, oh say 200 or so million clients hitting the site. No mystery why...
They have announcements down pat. However, they are still learning about the risks involved in hiring the first guy that claims he knows how to run a website.
"giraffe - Wiktionary ..."
:)
giraffe (plural giraffes). A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African Savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest
So, if they haven't gotten the DNA analysis wrong (I think they may have), they would bump the genus up to specie and run the a, b, c, d, e, f routine - works for me
You mean, like:
- giraffa
- giraffb
- giraffc
- giraffd
- giraffe
- girafff
?Apple has a legitimate reason for keeping the drive which is described on the form given to the customer - it believes the drive can be fixed and sold.
Bullshit - they get $$ - credit from the manuf. Apple sends it back.
The Great Wall in China put similar means to use hundreds of years earlier.
:)
Colored flags, whistling arrows, fires & hand signals all worked as part of a communication chain that spanned greater distances as well (6,400 km).
And 'man-in-the-middle' attacks were usually over before they began
...may have something to do w/being kicked/punched/head-butted in the head/face/jaw/mouth thousands of times, over the last 40 years and that's not counting the bricks, floors, walls, doors and dashboards he has taken t' the face....?
...raw postscript.
...all international barcodes.
...two separate Morse code streams - one with each eye...while sending two separate Morse code streams, one with each eyelid, all at one time.
...palms with his tongue.
...minds with his palms.
...braille with the inside surfaces of his toes.
...smoke signals in the dark.
Or - he had that lisp when young and was teased about it and bullied - he eventually took self-defense lessons, which led to the current fame and fortune.
Chuck Norris can read:
...generates his own gravitational field.
...doesn't bend spoons w/his mind - he shits them out, all shiny and new, as needed.
...once completely sucked a man's eyeball clear out of the socket during a fight in the Philippines - optic never and all. He then spit it out into his hand, handed it to the poor bloke and whispered "I'm betting you NEVER look at me the same way ever again, Hector!"
...was born a woman, but decided early on he liked the thought of having hair on his back, so he willed himself into becoming the man is he today.
...took-off and landed a shot-up Cessna that had lost its landing gear simply by sticking his feet out of the cabin doors.
...chewed his own hand off to get out of hand-cuffs during a hostage situation that involved migrating pygmies. He then sewed it back on, using hair off his back as thread and a straightened paper clip - he burned a hole in one end of the paper clip by stacking disposable contacts onto his left eye, while looking at the clip and staring into the Sun.
...once rode a motorcycle backwards uphill in the desert for thirty-five miles in the dark...blind-folded. Of course drunk and with a bladder full of oxygenated white wine.
...made long distance phone calls in the 1980's using nothing but his vocal cords to hack the tone-controlled switchbanks.
...invented OBEs.
Being in the same size class as the 1908 Tunguska asteroid, they should be fine (earth wasn't darkened by giant dust clouds in 1908, no?) While the article says that there will be a significant dust plume, I guess it'll seetle more rapidly and be more localized."
You've perhaps missed the recent news that puts the bulk of the Tunguska event's destruction on the preceding fireball & blast wave when the (now presumed much more smaller) asteroid exploded in the atmosphere, while making the 'size' of the object itself strictly dependent on composition - "Because of the additional energy transported toward the surface by the fireball, what scientists had thought to be an explosion between 10 and 20 megatons was more likely only three to five megatons. The physical size of the asteroid, says Boslough, depends upon its speed and whether it is porous or nonporous, icy or waterless, and other material characteristics."
Since the atmosphere on Mars is much thinner than on Earth and primarily carbon dioxide, the Mars event will be more impact/strike related, where the Tunguska asteroid exploded before it had a chance to do much physical damage on its own.
"And you can't fix it either!
:)
Gee, and here Apple has moved on w/5.8GHz for 802.11n
"All this said and done, has anyone here on /. actually upgraded a network to be IPv6 compliant and what can you tell us about real world experience."
Apple uses IPv6 for Bonjour...printer sharing, etc. Been that way for some time. China & Europe have large networks in action as well.
'Why do they claim "As of now there is no theoretical explanation for why the fluid has the effects it does on laser light."?'
Because the 'effect' is a false positive - wait for the other shoe to drop where they explain their mistake...
The 'claim' is a _dis_claim(er) - big as can be.
Sorry for you - tons of proof... http://www.geocities.com/mw0440/earth.html