Wandering nomads would collect the best fruits and grains and cary them to their campsites. Being creatures of habit, they'd use the same campsites every season, and once they were there, inevitably they would spill some grain or seeds. Gradually, over the years, the areas around those campsites became more and more productive as the best seeds sprouted. Eventually, millenia later, a few of the nomads stopped wandering and stayed at the productive campsites, tended the crops and invented wheels.
At least they did if the plants were hermaphroditic and bred true. If the plants were unable to self-pollinate (as in Australia and few other regions), there were no producive campsites to remain in, and the nomads continued wandering. Wheels were amusing playthings.
the first couple of guys that came up with the wheel weren't promptly strapped to it and set on fire for being witches,
They probably just starved to death because they'd wasted so much time on something of no value.
Like most things,wheels weren't perfected instantaneously. Early wheels didn't have nice bearings and tryres, so they wore out quickly, after just a few Km.
Hunter gatherers travel more than 40Km/day, so wheels are useless to them. It toook the development of agriculture and settlements before wheels were worth using. In fact, oddly enough, without hermaphrodites, wheels were unlikely to ever be more than toys.
I find it funny how most geeks who espouse the wonderful benefits of Linux and other open source software now hate Firefox and love Chrome.
I find it funny that you FUDsters are so easily amused.
"Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web."
http://www.chromium.org/
"In February 2009, France Telecom indicates the Minitel network still has 10 million monthly connections, among which 1 million on the 3611 (directory). France Telecom is planning to retire the service on 30 June 2012."
It would be nice to have an Android device that can run apps, but still be designed for decent security, even if someone's E-mails matter to only them.
It's been there for a while. Look under Settings/Security/Encrypt Tablet for ISC. Earlier versions had the setting under Location and Security.
But the dock connector doesn't work in host mode, nor does it power portable hard drives. With the tools I have now, I can plug my ordinary 1Tb portable drive straight into the tablet.
What makes you say that? I'm using it already, and it's fine for the purpose. The touchscreen is tactile and HDMI out even makes it simple to preflight the videos.
So seriously, most of the time, the number of cores doesn't even matter, because unless you're playing a high-end game, the cores won't even be woken up.
I'm more interested in video/image editing than games. Those extra cores help a lot with tasks like that.
"The saying [about a camel going through the eye of a needle] is current in the East, and in all probability it was a common saying there long before the advent of Christ. But I never knew that small door in a city or a castle gate to be called the needle's eye; nor indeed the large gate to be called the needle. The name of that door, in the common speech of the country, is the "plum," and I am certain the Scriptural passage makes no reference to it whatever.
The Koran makes use of this expression in one of its purest classical Arabic passages. The term employed here- sum-el-khiat- can mean only the sewing instrument, and nothing else."
Other scholars have noted that the Aramaic word "gamla" means either camel, a large rope or a beam, depending on context. Saying it'd be impossible for a large rope to go through a small needle would make sense, considering JC was preaching in Judea which was a fishing village with plenty of ropes, but no city gate.
In any case, it doesn't matter much, since the message is clear. Since the disciples were astonished by the statement, and asked "Who then can be saved?", it was clear he was saying it was impossible for a person selfishly bound up in their own riches to go to heaven, but if they put God before wealth, they'd be in with a chance.
Anyway, what's the point of news like that when you cannot buy any of these devices.
Don't be so sure. Asus have a habit of following through on promises.
They've even just upgraded the original Tranformer TF101s to Ice Cream Sandwich. Mine quietly upgraded itself on the weekend, and works very nicely with its new OS.
Apple has been deeply involved from the start. When the complaints of children working in poor conditions at FoxConn were raised, Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) complained that Apple tipped off Foxconn that the inspectors were coming and executives assigned child workers elsewhere.
And while Apple now use Reverb for their astroturfing, they're no strangers to Burson-Marsteller either. These business relationships run deep and muddy.
You can replace the name "FoxConn" with any corporations name and still be as correct.
Sort of.
Burson-Marsteller should be familiar to all Slashdot denizens - they've been long-term astroturfers here for both Microsoft and Facebook. Both companies have been caught using them for smear campaigns against Google.
Now it looks like Apple/FoxConn have joined the pack, I'd say the Axis is complete again.
They'll be subject to huge FUD and smear campaigns from the get go, have supply and distribution channels blocked, approvals refused and so on ad nauseum.
It's a shame, but efforts like this to open up our society scare the hell out of governemnt and business interests.
No it doesn't, it's searches are actually quite good.
From Wikipedia:
"DuckDuckGo's results are a mashup of many sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha and its own Web crawler, the DuckDuckBot.[2][21][22] It uses data from crowd-sourced sites, especially Wikipedia, to populate "Zero-click Info" boxes, which are grey boxes containing topic summaries and related topics above results.[23] DuckDuckGo also offers the ability to show mostly shopping sites or mostly info (non-shopping) sites via search buttons on its homepage.[24]"
Slashdot Mirror
...what?
Wandering nomads would collect the best fruits and grains and cary them to their campsites. Being creatures of habit, they'd use the same campsites every season, and once they were there, inevitably they would spill some grain or seeds. Gradually, over the years, the areas around those campsites became more and more productive as the best seeds sprouted. Eventually, millenia later, a few of the nomads stopped wandering and stayed at the productive campsites, tended the crops and invented wheels.
At least they did if the plants were hermaphroditic and bred true. If the plants were unable to self-pollinate (as in Australia and few other regions), there were no producive campsites to remain in, and the nomads continued wandering. Wheels were amusing playthings.
the first couple of guys that came up with the wheel weren't promptly strapped to it and set on fire for being witches,
They probably just starved to death because they'd wasted so much time on something of no value.
Like most things,wheels weren't perfected instantaneously. Early wheels didn't have nice bearings and tryres, so they wore out quickly, after just a few Km.
Hunter gatherers travel more than 40Km/day, so wheels are useless to them. It toook the development of agriculture and settlements before wheels were worth using. In fact, oddly enough, without hermaphrodites, wheels were unlikely to ever be more than toys.
I find it funny how most geeks who espouse the wonderful benefits of Linux and other open source software now hate Firefox and love Chrome.
I find it funny that you FUDsters are so easily amused.
"Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web." http://www.chromium.org/
"In February 2009, France Telecom indicates the Minitel network still has 10 million monthly connections, among which 1 million on the 3611 (directory). France Telecom is planning to retire the service on 30 June 2012."
It probably failed where Minitel succeeded because it's owners needed to commercialize it too early in its development life.
To whom? Marketers?
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Spell Lao Tzu correctly.
It would be nice to have an Android device that can run apps, but still be designed for decent security, even if someone's E-mails matter to only them.
It's been there for a while. Look under Settings/Security/Encrypt Tablet for ISC. Earlier versions had the setting under Location and Security.
RFC 2549 is not an encryption standard, and is highly vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (with shotgun) attacks.
Why do you think that's a better question?
Instead, it's up to a bunch of unethical misbegotten nerds from 4Chan to save the day.
Studies conducted on behalf of Microsoft? You mean, like their "Get the Facts" studies?
Why would I want to make it more complicated?
I keep my files on external hard drives and plug them into the Transformer's USB ports. How do I do that with an iPad?
What makes you say that? I'm using it already, and it's fine for the purpose. The touchscreen is tactile and HDMI out even makes it simple to preflight the videos.
So seriously, most of the time, the number of cores doesn't even matter, because unless you're playing a high-end game, the cores won't even be woken up.
I'm more interested in video/image editing than games. Those extra cores help a lot with tasks like that.
"The saying [about a camel going through the eye of a needle] is current in the East, and in all probability it was a common saying there long before the advent of Christ. But I never knew that small door in a city or a castle gate to be called the needle's eye; nor indeed the large gate to be called the needle. The name of that door, in the common speech of the country, is the "plum," and I am certain the Scriptural passage makes no reference to it whatever.
The Koran makes use of this expression in one of its purest classical Arabic passages. The term employed here- sum-el-khiat- can mean only the sewing instrument, and nothing else."
Other scholars have noted that the Aramaic word "gamla" means either camel, a large rope or a beam, depending on context. Saying it'd be impossible for a large rope to go through a small needle would make sense, considering JC was preaching in Judea which was a fishing village with plenty of ropes, but no city gate.
In any case, it doesn't matter much, since the message is clear. Since the disciples were astonished by the statement, and asked "Who then can be saved?", it was clear he was saying it was impossible for a person selfishly bound up in their own riches to go to heaven, but if they put God before wealth, they'd be in with a chance.
Anyway, what's the point of news like that when you cannot buy any of these devices.
Don't be so sure. Asus have a habit of following through on promises.
They've even just upgraded the original Tranformer TF101s to Ice Cream Sandwich. Mine quietly upgraded itself on the weekend, and works very nicely with its new OS.
And while Apple now use Reverb for their astroturfing, they're no strangers to Burson-Marsteller either. These business relationships run deep and muddy.
You can replace the name "FoxConn" with any corporations name and still be as correct.
Sort of.
Burson-Marsteller should be familiar to all Slashdot denizens - they've been long-term astroturfers here for both Microsoft and Facebook. Both companies have been caught using them for smear campaigns against Google.
Now it looks like Apple/FoxConn have joined the pack, I'd say the Axis is complete again.
I'm happy (enough) with Android, where you can roll your own.
Nobody is going to sue them.
Suing will be the least of their problems.
They'll be subject to huge FUD and smear campaigns from the get go, have supply and distribution channels blocked, approvals refused and so on ad nauseum.
It's a shame, but efforts like this to open up our society scare the hell out of governemnt and business interests.
Every entry in their databases indicates someone who got smarter and figured out a new hole to exploit.
Moving to a different hole in a colander is not the same as getting smarter.
duk duo go pulls search queries from bing
No it doesn't, it's searches are actually quite good.
From Wikipedia:
"DuckDuckGo's results are a mashup of many sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha and its own Web crawler, the DuckDuckBot.[2][21][22] It uses data from crowd-sourced sites, especially Wikipedia, to populate "Zero-click Info" boxes, which are grey boxes containing topic summaries and related topics above results.[23] DuckDuckGo also offers the ability to show mostly shopping sites or mostly info (non-shopping) sites via search buttons on its homepage.[24]"
So tell me again what the point of Unity is if it's not for touchscreen devices?
One device is not an entire market.