Did you even look at the website you linked to? Everything there has a functioning prototype that you can play with. There's a whole fucking box called "Graduates of Lab", which shows former lab projects that you're now probably familiar with as part of Google!
The entire House of Representatives, and 1/3 of the Senate are up for grabs in only 18 months.
You're joking, right? The vast, vast majority of House seats are never "up for grabs" thanks to bipartisan gerrymandering. To run for Senate, you need quite a bit of money and the support of a major party. Politics is a career.
The USA has what is perhaps the most stable democracy in the world, which is partially by design. The system changes very slowly.
Instead of a petition, what we really need is the ability to give the Presidential Office back line-item veto power. With that power, the President could happily strike out stupid attachments like these without being accused of holding back "important legislation".
The line-item veto gives the President an insane amount of power that he, as chief executive, has no right to. Anyway, do you really think George Bush or Bill Clinton gives a crap about the broadcast flag? Hardly.
A more realistic (and Constitutional!) solution could be reached if the House and/or Senate would amend their rules to disallow unrelated riders.
This is where the beauty of something like 'Google desktop' would come in handy.
All your files are stored online in your account. You can sign into your email from anywhere. Want to edit a document? Built-in Java-based Microsoft-compatible office suite. It's all the same on any computer you use.
You're describing Citrix, or a zillion other thin-client "solutions" (bah, I hate that word) that businesses and other organizations use. Offering such a service to the public at large is considerably more challenging, especially if you're giving it away for free.
Remember all those free "online drive" services a couple years back? They're mostly gone, probably because of the rampant warez trading. I'd like Google to offer a similar service, perhaps with a nifty tool that lets you automatically backup/restore your system settings, etc. But the file trading via shared GMail accounts is already going on, even without gmailfs. I fear it would be abused to the point where Google starts losing money and getting serious legal threats.
Gibson is certainly a gifted self-publicist, but Ill leave others more qualified to comment on whether he is a good security consultant...
Steve's no idiot, but he does have quite an ego. He brags that he writes his little GUI tools (which do little more than make a few API calls) in "pure assembly". Why? I have no idea. It was amusing when he reinvented SYN cookies...
In fact, we know that we know almost nothing about the fundamental nature of this Universe, and it's just pointless to discuss what one can and can not do with it.
Accelerating to the speed of light is demonstrably impossible. However, this doesn't rule out stuff like wormholes, however unlikely. I'm being slightly pedantic, but I think this distinction is important.
Idealism is not a dirty word. Idealism means seeing the bigger picture and foregoing fleeting fancies in the pursuit of long-term success. If you're too short-sighted to understand that then perhaps Linux is not for you.
I agree. Unfortunately, the desktop video card market is largely binary (NVIDIA/ATI), and NVIDIA is clearly superior in their support for Linux. There are many theoretical and practical problems with binary drivers, but NVIDIA has gotten it mostly right. ATI's Linux drivers are awful, which is why I'll never buy their cards.
I couldn't find any pretty graphs, but see here. Current approval for the Iraq war is about 40%, down from, what, 80% at the beginning of the invasion? In short, you're completely off base.
It's a story *for* children. They're supposed to watch the various episodes as they grow older.
Which explains why Episode 3 is much more disturbing than 4-6...oh, no it doesn't. Please show where George Lucas has said that his target audience is children.
This is a pititful excuse by game developers who don't want to change their attitudes or outlooks. All that make your game easily portable requires is dumping all the DirectBlah BS and using an API that doesn't make you Microsoft's whipping boy.
Thank you! Writing cross-platform is not difficult, even for applications as big and complex as 3D games, if you do a bit of planning beforehand. Use SDL. Use a video codec that isn't restricted to Windows. That gets you about 95% of the way there.
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Check out your local independent shop that buys/sells used CDs.
Phish, Grateful Dead, Bela Fleck, Derek Trucks, etc. are not my favorite music to listen to, but they're pretty good.
No, of course not. BitTorrent might be improved by implementing some kind of "peer ratings" at the tracker, I suppose.
The trouble with Avalanche is that you need to have *two* FEC blocks before you figure out that one (or both) of them is bad.
How did this get modded up?
Yay, someone else remembers Yserbius and Twinion! I have the boxed single-player versions of both games, but half the fun was the multiplayer.
You're joking, right? The vast, vast majority of House seats are never "up for grabs" thanks to bipartisan gerrymandering. To run for Senate, you need quite a bit of money and the support of a major party. Politics is a career.
The USA has what is perhaps the most stable democracy in the world, which is partially by design. The system changes very slowly.
The line-item veto gives the President an insane amount of power that he, as chief executive, has no right to. Anyway, do you really think George Bush or Bill Clinton gives a crap about the broadcast flag? Hardly.
A more realistic (and Constitutional!) solution could be reached if the House and/or Senate would amend their rules to disallow unrelated riders.
Pfft, anyone can compile a kernel. Girls really dig a man who can write kernel patches and knows where to put his curly braces.
Or the second.
See Ask A Scientist.
No! Photons have momentum. This does not imply that they have mass.
All your files are stored online in your account. You can sign into your email from anywhere. Want to edit a document? Built-in Java-based Microsoft-compatible office suite. It's all the same on any computer you use.
You're describing Citrix, or a zillion other thin-client "solutions" (bah, I hate that word) that businesses and other organizations use. Offering such a service to the public at large is considerably more challenging, especially if you're giving it away for free.
Remember all those free "online drive" services a couple years back? They're mostly gone, probably because of the rampant warez trading. I'd like Google to offer a similar service, perhaps with a nifty tool that lets you automatically backup/restore your system settings, etc. But the file trading via shared GMail accounts is already going on, even without gmailfs. I fear it would be abused to the point where Google starts losing money and getting serious legal threats.
And taught in colleges/art schools. Lithography is a form of printmaking, and you can do some neat stuff with it.
Steve's no idiot, but he does have quite an ego. He brags that he writes his little GUI tools (which do little more than make a few API calls) in "pure assembly". Why? I have no idea. It was amusing when he reinvented SYN cookies...
Accelerating to the speed of light is demonstrably impossible. However, this doesn't rule out stuff like wormholes, however unlikely. I'm being slightly pedantic, but I think this distinction is important.
I think he's proposing that you run your own IRC network as a honeypot and hope that bot authors use it. Seems kinda inefficient.
I wouldn't call it "terrible", but the script/story was rather dull. It's sad, because the production values were excellent.
I don't know. I don't function properly without my l='ls -al -h --color' alias. That's one of the many reasons I carry my .bashrc wherever I go.
And yes, claiming that "get-process" or "where" is intuitive is simply asinine, or a gross misunderstanding of the word intuitive.
What's wrong with that? Do you want it to become an even bigger mess?
I agree. Unfortunately, the desktop video card market is largely binary (NVIDIA/ATI), and NVIDIA is clearly superior in their support for Linux. There are many theoretical and practical problems with binary drivers, but NVIDIA has gotten it mostly right. ATI's Linux drivers are awful, which is why I'll never buy their cards.
I couldn't find any pretty graphs, but see here. Current approval for the Iraq war is about 40%, down from, what, 80% at the beginning of the invasion? In short, you're completely off base.
And for every search, Google kills a kitten! OMG!!!1111!!!!!!
Evidence?
Which explains why Episode 3 is much more disturbing than 4-6...oh, no it doesn't. Please show where George Lucas has said that his target audience is children.
Thank you! Writing cross-platform is not difficult, even for applications as big and complex as 3D games, if you do a bit of planning beforehand. Use SDL. Use a video codec that isn't restricted to Windows. That gets you about 95% of the way there.