As a Christian I agree with you. I don't think my faith should be forced on anyone, especially not in a public school. To me, religion should be something that people decide to accept, not something that they are just made to accept.
Also, I don't see why Christians should rule out that God could have used evolution as a natural process on Earth to create new species or evolve existing species. Honestly, if God could create the world, the galaxy and the universe and all the natural systems that we observe in these domains, what is to say that He couldn't have created evolution?
I agree, that if true that Intel purposely breaks code for AMD's chips, is an ethically wrong act. However, when you asked Intel to support AMD processors too, did you actually expect them to agree? I mean to go out of their way and put a programmer on that task only to support a competitors product does seem unreasonable. I wouldn't expect Intel's compilers to produce really good code for anything other than Intel chips. Still, that doesn't mean that purposely using poorly performing code is the right thing to do.
My guess for the real reason for putting Java on a set-top box is to have real a real encryption system. This way the box could be programmed to use a high quality encryption system, perhaps one like what is used to encrypt web traffic today. I'm guessing a system like this would be much harder to crack than one that is in use today, but it doesn't seem impossible to me.
*Sigh* This is getting utterly ridiculous. How long before people, including the government, start ignoring the MPAA/RIAA when they make such claims?
Blaming BitTorrent on copyright infringement is like trying to blame air for murder because that is what a bullet traveled through to strike its victim. Just about any technology can be used for evil or good, so why blame a protocol as a whole?
Well, that is assuming that the RIAA has court submissable evidence that you committed copyright infringement. I was under the impression that coming up with evidence was the difficult part for the RIAA in these John/Jane Doe lawsuits. Anyone can say that they are filing suit against someone, but that doesn't mean that the evidence they have in mind is actually something the court would accept.
I've been wondering if any individual, when faced with a law suit, has actually taken RIAA to court rather than settled out of court. I would think that the whole idea of this is just a threat by the RIAA and I wonder what would happen if someone actually took them up on their offer to test the legality of their actions in court.
The article mentions that the content will be available on demand 24 hours, but they didn't really state if they meant through the websites only. Since G4 is a Comcast company, I'm hoping they will take advantage of Comcast's On Demand television technology so I can access all of this from my television any time. Hopefully Comcast companies will take advantage of their own technology.
I could see some programming jobs being outsourced to India, especially programming that revolves around the web, but you you really think that all software design will be outsourced? What about the people who develop software to run robotics? What about the people who work on operating systems, 3D engines, software to run jets or military systems or other things like this. While there are less jobs of this type than say web developer, it seems to me that every position that requires and engineer to develop hardware will most likely be complimented by a software group to utilize the hardware. Maybe I am just naive, but it doesn't seem to me that CS majors will be unable to find a position in the future.
I could easily see this being a mock up unit made specifically for E3 and not necessarily close to what will be on shelves when the unit is released. Any one remember the giant metal X that was shown when MS first started talking about the original Xbox? Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.
I like Expose, but what I've been wondering is if there is a way to use expose or even the windowing options of indvidual programs to have all the windows for that one program tiled across the screen? What I mean by this is to tile the windows and keep them that way, not untiling everything when I click on a window.
You've made some good points. I'm excited to see how well Spotlight actually indexes the content of a file. I'm hoping Xcode will have a Spotlight interface or bindings of its own. It would be really nice to search for a method within Xcode and it would provide results from other things that I've created. Still, I think it doesn't quite make sense to stop using a good directory structure on disk and simply rely on spotlight. I'm just hoping it makes it easier for me to keep track of stuff that is already organized in my directory structure. I think that's where its potential lies.
Humm...I'm not sure if smart folders will really change the way I do things. On my hard drive I have a folder for C++ code and folders within that for various projects. Say for instance I create a smart folder for C++ code. If my C++ smart folder just lumps all the C++ files into one listing, that would be bad (or at least not what I want).
If I have to put in my smart folder another smart folder that groups everything based on a certain project, then I'm not really doing anything different than what I was doing before, only everything is abstracted one level.
What would be ideal would be if Spotlight could figure out what project my file belongs to without me having to actually write any meta data for it. I'm not sure if Spotlight will do things like this or not so I won't judge it, I'm just saying it has the potential to not change anything for me.
I know someone will say, just type in what you are looking for everytime I need to find something, but is that really much better than typing cd ~/c++/project ?
I dunno, I'm sure Spotlight will make many things about searching my hard drive better, but I don't think it will cause me to lump everything into one folder. In a few years, I could see people having smart folders in smart folders and so on until a smart folder tree is really no different (or I should say no less complex) than the tree that represents my documents currently. I guess only time will tell.
My company was given a demo of a similar product only from another vendor. It was a pretty interesting demonstration consisting of video and real time 3D animations. The only problem I could see with their implementation was that it had "sweet spots", four if I recall correctly, and unless you were viewing the display from an one of the correct angles it didn't look quite right. One thing that was pretty impressive was that using a custom driver that they made, it would be technically possible to alter any program on the fly to appear correctly on their display. Apparently their driver looks at the data in the Z buffer and constructs the various angles required to make the image look 3D. Also, they could turn almost any monitor with a high enough resolution into a 3D monitor by applying their special coating to it. All in all it was very interesting, but I still think it needs some work, mostly to get the sweet spots larger and create a slightly clearer picture. Otherwise it was impressive.
I was thinking the same thing. For documents, this seems pretty much useless. For images it works well, but XP already does this. What approach I really like is the one Mac OS X takes where you can click on an icon and (in pane view anyway) get a preview of it to the right. This makes more sense because the preview is larger than the icon, and I only see it if I want to see it.
I have to agree with many of the other posters here about the selling point for most Mac hardware is OS X. Don't get me wrong, I like linux and its great for a lot of purposes, but on my laptop, I just want everything to function properly without having to think of it. If I can get a system that does that using a Unix core, then I'm interested right there. My iBook is a nice piece of hardware, but it isn't really anything special. What is special is OS X. I can't really say that any other operating system can match it when you evaluate it as a whole. If it wasn't for OS X, I'd probably have a Windows laptop and just left Linux to run my server.
The key difference between America and Japan is that in Japan most teens have an almost completely disposable income. The reason for this is the expensive price for apartments in Japan. Because the price is so high, most teens/20-somethings live with their parents until a much later age than what is typically seen in America. So, all of their income goes towards buying the latest fashions/gadgets, unlike Americans of the same age who usually have to spend money on housing/living expenses.
Its much easier than that, you don't need to have the program set the computer on fire, let the user do it!
Just send an email like the following:
Hello,
We have recently upgraded our service with faster speeds. However, for your computer to take advantage of our new, faster network, we need you to follow a few simple steps:
1. Shut down your computer 2. Rapidly flick the power switch on your computer on and off at least 30 times, as fast as you can. 3. Enjoy!
Now, I wonder how do all of those scams that want to give you money really work? Do they really get people who reply immediately with bank account numbers or the like? Or do they actually carry out converstaions until the build the person up to giving out their personal info? Maybe I should respond to one once...
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As a Christian I agree with you. I don't think my faith should be forced on anyone, especially not in a public school. To me, religion should be something that people decide to accept, not something that they are just made to accept.
Also, I don't see why Christians should rule out that God could have used evolution as a natural process on Earth to create new species or evolve existing species. Honestly, if God could create the world, the galaxy and the universe and all the natural systems that we observe in these domains, what is to say that He couldn't have created evolution?
I've heard rumors that v2.0 would support h.264 playback, so is this in there and if so does it work well?
I probably use my PSP as a portable video player more often than to play games, so having a better codec would really be cool.
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I agree, that if true that Intel purposely breaks code for AMD's chips, is an ethically wrong act. However, when you asked Intel to support AMD processors too, did you actually expect them to agree? I mean to go out of their way and put a programmer on that task only to support a competitors product does seem unreasonable. I wouldn't expect Intel's compilers to produce really good code for anything other than Intel chips. Still, that doesn't mean that purposely using poorly performing code is the right thing to do.
My guess for the real reason for putting Java on a set-top box is to have real a real encryption system. This way the box could be programmed to use a high quality encryption system, perhaps one like what is used to encrypt web traffic today. I'm guessing a system like this would be much harder to crack than one that is in use today, but it doesn't seem impossible to me.
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This is getting utterly ridiculous. How long before people, including the government, start ignoring the MPAA/RIAA when they make such claims?
Blaming BitTorrent on copyright infringement is like trying to blame air for murder because that is what a bullet traveled through to strike its victim. Just about any technology can be used for evil or good, so why blame a protocol as a whole?
Well, that is assuming that the RIAA has court submissable evidence that you committed copyright infringement. I was under the impression that coming up with evidence was the difficult part for the RIAA in these John/Jane Doe lawsuits. Anyone can say that they are filing suit against someone, but that doesn't mean that the evidence they have in mind is actually something the court would accept.
I've been wondering if any individual, when faced with a law suit, has actually taken RIAA to court rather than settled out of court. I would think that the whole idea of this is just a threat by the RIAA and I wonder what would happen if someone actually took them up on their offer to test the legality of their actions in court.
The article mentions that the content will be available on demand 24 hours, but they didn't really state if they meant through the websites only. Since G4 is a Comcast company, I'm hoping they will take advantage of Comcast's On Demand television technology so I can access all of this from my television any time. Hopefully Comcast companies will take advantage of their own technology.
I could see some programming jobs being outsourced to India, especially programming that revolves around the web, but you you really think that all software design will be outsourced? What about the people who develop software to run robotics? What about the people who work on operating systems, 3D engines, software to run jets or military systems or other things like this. While there are less jobs of this type than say web developer, it seems to me that every position that requires and engineer to develop hardware will most likely be complimented by a software group to utilize the hardware. Maybe I am just naive, but it doesn't seem to me that CS majors will be unable to find a position in the future.
A nuclear detonation localized in your computer case.
I could easily see this being a mock up unit made specifically for E3 and not necessarily close to what will be on shelves when the unit is released. Any one remember the giant metal X that was shown when MS first started talking about the original Xbox? Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.
I like Expose, but what I've been wondering is if there is a way to use expose or even the windowing options of indvidual programs to have all the windows for that one program tiled across the screen? What I mean by this is to tile the windows and keep them that way, not untiling everything when I click on a window.
Some companies choose their name very carefully and then stick to it.
You've made some good points. I'm excited to see how well Spotlight actually indexes the content of a file. I'm hoping Xcode will have a Spotlight interface or bindings of its own. It would be really nice to search for a method within Xcode and it would provide results from other things that I've created. Still, I think it doesn't quite make sense to stop using a good directory structure on disk and simply rely on spotlight. I'm just hoping it makes it easier for me to keep track of stuff that is already organized in my directory structure. I think that's where its potential lies.
Humm...I'm not sure if smart folders will really change the way I do things. On my hard drive I have a folder for C++ code and folders within that for various projects. Say for instance I create a smart folder for C++ code. If my C++ smart folder just lumps all the C++ files into one listing, that would be bad (or at least not what I want).
If I have to put in my smart folder another smart folder that groups everything based on a certain project, then I'm not really doing anything different than what I was doing before, only everything is abstracted one level.
What would be ideal would be if Spotlight could figure out what project my file belongs to without me having to actually write any meta data for it. I'm not sure if Spotlight will do things like this or not so I won't judge it, I'm just saying it has the potential to not change anything for me.
I know someone will say, just type in what you are looking for everytime I need to find something, but is that really much better than typing
cd ~/c++/project
?
I dunno, I'm sure Spotlight will make many things about searching my hard drive better, but I don't think it will cause me to lump everything into one folder. In a few years, I could see people having smart folders in smart folders and so on until a smart folder tree is really no different (or I should say no less complex) than the tree that represents my documents currently. I guess only time will tell.
My company was given a demo of a similar product only from another vendor. It was a pretty interesting demonstration consisting of video and real time 3D animations. The only problem I could see with their implementation was that it had "sweet spots", four if I recall correctly, and unless you were viewing the display from an one of the correct angles it didn't look quite right. One thing that was pretty impressive was that using a custom driver that they made, it would be technically possible to alter any program on the fly to appear correctly on their display. Apparently their driver looks at the data in the Z buffer and constructs the various angles required to make the image look 3D. Also, they could turn almost any monitor with a high enough resolution into a 3D monitor by applying their special coating to it. All in all it was very interesting, but I still think it needs some work, mostly to get the sweet spots larger and create a slightly clearer picture. Otherwise it was impressive.
I was thinking the same thing. For documents, this seems pretty much useless. For images it works well, but XP already does this. What approach I really like is the one Mac OS X takes where you can click on an icon and (in pane view anyway) get a preview of it to the right. This makes more sense because the preview is larger than the icon, and I only see it if I want to see it.
I have to agree with many of the other posters here about the selling point for most Mac hardware is OS X. Don't get me wrong, I like linux and its great for a lot of purposes, but on my laptop, I just want everything to function properly without having to think of it. If I can get a system that does that using a Unix core, then I'm interested right there. My iBook is a nice piece of hardware, but it isn't really anything special. What is special is OS X. I can't really say that any other operating system can match it when you evaluate it as a whole. If it wasn't for OS X, I'd probably have a Windows laptop and just left Linux to run my server.
The key difference between America and Japan is that in Japan most teens have an almost completely disposable income. The reason for this is the expensive price for apartments in Japan. Because the price is so high, most teens/20-somethings live with their parents until a much later age than what is typically seen in America. So, all of their income goes towards buying the latest fashions/gadgets, unlike Americans of the same age who usually have to spend money on housing/living expenses.
Its much easier than that, you don't need to have the program set the computer on fire, let the user do it!
Just send an email like the following:
Hello,
We have recently upgraded our service with faster speeds. However, for your computer to take advantage of our new, faster network, we need you to follow a few simple steps:
1. Shut down your computer
2. Rapidly flick the power switch on your computer on and off at least 30 times, as fast as you can.
3. Enjoy!
Thank you,
Tech Support
Now, I wonder how do all of those scams that want to give you money really work? Do they really get people who reply immediately with bank account numbers or the like? Or do they actually carry out converstaions until the build the person up to giving out their personal info? Maybe I should respond to one once...
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