Rosser has developed a course called Top Gun, in which surgical trainees warm up their coordination, agility and accuracy with a video game before entering the operating room.
What if the doc plays poorly? Is he going to be agitated when he walks into the OR?
The doc in the interview was playing Super Happy Monkey Ball Fun Mr. Sparkle Game, but I can see some folks leaning toward FPSs.
You need to back your assertions.
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I am listening to RealPlayer version 6.0 on XP Pro, all current patches (on the OS), on a Dell Dimension 2400 (2.8GHz P4, 1GB RAM). RealPlayer will typically run continuously for well over 24 hours, and never "causes a hard lockup of XP"; the menus work just fine. Methinks you should investigate your platform a little more thoroughly.
As an aside, if you don't want v10 you can find older versions of RealPlayer here.
A catenary is the curve describing a rope or chain hanging loosely between two supports. At first glance, it looks like a parabola. In fact, it corresponds to the graph of a function called the hyperbolic cosine.
Yeah, I always get those confused...
[frink]Oy, with the wheels and the squares and the riding and the graphing, ng'hey, glaven.[/frink]
Some of you who were on #linux on friday will know part or most of this
story already as i witnessed some of it (while drinking a truly
delicious hot chocolate).
You know, more people should mention what they're drinking when relating news like this.:-)
There is an interesting and [somewhat] related article on The Register.
no supportable position == play the race card
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If I had a nickel for every unfounded cry of 'racism!' I would have enough to buy a SCO/Linux license.
Go read some history and come back when you have a clue.
Adopting a "top-ten" list detailing industry best practices. Patches should be
well-tested, small, localized, reversible, and easy to install. Patches would also not
require reboots, use consistent registration methods, include no new features, provide
a consistent user experience, and support diverse deployment methods.
I thought Microsoft was involved in the partnership. How is that going to work??
This is not a troll. MS patches generally violate some or all of the goals stated above.
Selling *anything* at WallyWorld practically guarantees broad exposure in markets that a vendor might not otherwise reach. Imagine if - years ago - you could have walked into [that store] and picked up an Ultra 10. I use the U10 as an example because it is/was essentially a low-end, mass-marketed (sort of) item from the Sun line. Wal-mart would be unlikely to carry the Ultra 60 just like they are unlikely to carry gigantic plasma TVs: the clientele probably are not the ones to buy high-end merchandise (or at least not buy it there).
PS Microtel makes very, very small communications devices. You're welcome.:-)
You didn't even have to read the article for this one: the wireless access will be a separate charge next year. This year it will be positioned as a loss leader: get people using/hooked on the product for free, then start charging (also called the drug dealer's sales model).
And so what if you don't want to use it? Don't use it - there, that was easy. It's possible someone will. I don't want to drive a dump truck around but I understand there are people with different needs that might be able to use a dump truck. You != everyone.
customer makes an extremely subtle mod to the item (writes a small 'X' inside the garment using invisible ink, etc.)
customer returns the item
customer [or agent thereof] comes back to the store, finds the marked item, and shoplifts it
alarm doesn't go off because the RFID was already disabled
This is not a perfect plan, of course. The RFID tag might be read-only (but could be disabled some other way). The store will almost certainly have other anti-theft measures - like cameras - in place. I guess it would only work if the other types of hardware dongles were discontinued.
PS I was not about to number the list and put "N) Profit!" at the end. This is a pre-emptive 'shh'.
I don't recall if it was KEYKatcher or another product, but when recovering data from the dongle one could choose to view the raw keystrokes (the potentially munged data you mentioned) or the end result, i.e. all the typing with backspaces, etc. applied, so instead of "fooo^Hbar" you would see "foobar". I don't know how CTRL-{C|X|V|B|U|I} and other combinations would be represented - guess I better buy one and find out.:-)
Wiretapping involves capturing information that is being sent (i.e. is already in transit), meaning the tap is between points A and B; spyware [generally] initiates and handles its own sessions, meaning points A and B are different. Spyware usually sends metadata as well: "information about [your] activities" != the actual keystrokes that were sent.
I posted this link earlier in the thread. You might want to go there and read about wiretapping.
I haven't heard anyone say they are using Framemaker for serious development of anything in years.
That's because FM is not a general-purpose Joe-and-Jane office worker word processor: FM's strengths lie in really large documents, like books and other things that are over ~200 pages. Not many people have a need for that. FM on Solaris (SPARC) is a very nifty combination.
You and your acquaintances are not a statistically significant sample set.
between desktops and laptops/notebooks, too: for a given class of machine (CPU, RAM, HD, display) the laptop would cost significantly more than the desktop.
However, in recent years the gap has narrowed: now a 2.4GHz Celeron laptop with a 14" display can cost under $700. (Scroll down to the Inspiron 1100) The laptop still costs more than the same class desktop, but the gap isn't nearly as wide as it once was.
I believe that - as the PDA/handheld market matures - the price gap will close a bit. There will always be expensive stuff on the high end, but the entry- to mid-level stuff will offer pretty darn good performance.
A few days later, the Opportunity rover left its lander and started roving across Mars. In images returned after that, it looked like Opportunity had run over the "bunny"! Worse, Opportunity had made a little side excursion while moving, making it look like NASA had run over the object on purpose. Was NASA trying to cover up the existence of an alien?
No, they were trying to hide evidence of the Easter Bunny! Conspiracy!
They at least could have waited until after Easter. Bastards.
what the droid at Best Buy, et al tells him to buy.
This is not to denigrate Mr. Sixpack. He will ask if it works with Windows Whatever and (maybe) if he can make home movies with it [for the DVD player in the living room]. That's about all. Sales Droid will hand him a drive and a stack of media and send him on his way.
The large open source projects could drive Java deep into Linux, and bring it new life, just as Linux revived UNIX as a whole. (my emphasis)
I disagree with this statement. Unix was doing quite well in the server and workstation market in the mid-1990s when Linux began to make its presence known. (Yes, Linux existed before then; no, it had not made significant inroads as of ~1995. Sorry, fanboys.)
Yes, Linux made the Unix-oriented evnvironment available to more people, but piggybacking on a current and widely-used platform != revival.
Your asertion that short-form characters were adopted on a "small scale" is way off.
Your reading comprehension is way off: I was talking about the use of short-form characters in Taiwan, not mainland China. Can you address that or would you like to misread something else?
As an aside, jiantizi still have the radicals and other visual and auditory clues [for reading] but are much easier to write when not using a computer, which is how at least 80% of mainland China does it. I don't think Mao was concerned with Big5 (et al)...
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From the article:
Rosser has developed a course called Top Gun, in which surgical trainees warm up their coordination, agility and accuracy with a video game before entering the operating room.
What if the doc plays poorly? Is he going to be agitated when he walks into the OR?
The doc in the interview was playing Super Happy Monkey Ball Fun Mr. Sparkle Game, but I can see some folks leaning toward FPSs.
I am listening to RealPlayer version 6.0 on XP Pro, all current patches (on the OS), on a Dell Dimension 2400 (2.8GHz P4, 1GB RAM). RealPlayer will typically run continuously for well over 24 hours, and never "causes a hard lockup of XP"; the menus work just fine. Methinks you should investigate your platform a little more thoroughly.
As an aside, if you don't want v10 you can find older versions of RealPlayer here.
A catenary is the curve describing a rope or chain hanging loosely between two supports. At first glance, it looks like a parabola. In fact, it corresponds to the graph of a function called the hyperbolic cosine.
Yeah, I always get those confused...
[frink]Oy, with the wheels and the squares and the riding and the graphing, ng'hey, glaven.[/frink]
From the article:
Some of you who were on #linux on friday will know part or most of this story already as i witnessed some of it (while drinking a truly delicious hot chocolate).
You know, more people should mention what they're drinking when relating news like this.
There is an interesting and [somewhat] related article on The Register.
If I had a nickel for every unfounded cry of 'racism!' I would have enough to buy a SCO/Linux license.
Go read some history and come back when you have a clue.
I would be more concerned about a possible unfavorabe comparison with MS. Both MS and Sun sell proprietary operating systems.
True, but Sun also offers an open-source OS, i.e. one from each camp (so to speak). MS offers only proprietary/closed-source* OSs.
* Recent compromises and other goings-on notwithstanding.
but if I were a teen today I don't think my parents would buy me a $3199 laptop for playing games. linky
Yeah, this is probably off-topic... (Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn! Meshugganah brats... *grumble*)
PS If your kid is saying "It works as good as a normal computer" perhaps games shouldn't be a priority. I'm just sayin'.
Adopting a "top-ten" list detailing industry best practices. Patches should be well-tested, small, localized, reversible, and easy to install. Patches would also not require reboots, use consistent registration methods, include no new features, provide a consistent user experience, and support diverse deployment methods.
I thought Microsoft was involved in the partnership. How is that going to work??
This is not a troll. MS patches generally violate some or all of the goals stated above.
Just feed the popcorn to the chickens. Done and done!
Selling *anything* at WallyWorld practically guarantees broad exposure in markets that a vendor might not otherwise reach. Imagine if - years ago - you could have walked into [that store] and picked up an Ultra 10. I use the U10 as an example because it is/was essentially a low-end, mass-marketed (sort of) item from the Sun line. Wal-mart would be unlikely to carry the Ultra 60 just like they are unlikely to carry gigantic plasma TVs: the clientele probably are not the ones to buy high-end merchandise (or at least not buy it there).
PS Microtel makes very, very small communications devices. You're welcome.
You didn't even have to read the article for this one: the wireless access will be a separate charge next year. This year it will be positioned as a loss leader: get people using/hooked on the product for free, then start charging (also called the drug dealer's sales model).
And so what if you don't want to use it? Don't use it - there, that was easy. It's possible someone will. I don't want to drive a dump truck around but I understand there are people with different needs that might be able to use a dump truck. You != everyone.
Scenario:
customer goes to $CLOTHING_STORE and buys an item
RFID tag is disabled on purchase
customer makes an extremely subtle mod to the item (writes a small 'X' inside the garment using invisible ink, etc.)
customer returns the item
customer [or agent thereof] comes back to the store, finds the marked item, and shoplifts it
alarm doesn't go off because the RFID was already disabled
This is not a perfect plan, of course. The RFID tag might be read-only (but could be disabled some other way). The store will almost certainly have other anti-theft measures - like cameras - in place. I guess it would only work if the other types of hardware dongles were discontinued.
PS I was not about to number the list and put "N) Profit!" at the end. This is a pre-emptive 'shh'.
I don't recall if it was KEYKatcher or another product, but when recovering data from the dongle one could choose to view the raw keystrokes (the potentially munged data you mentioned) or the end result, i.e. all the typing with backspaces, etc. applied, so instead of "fooo^Hbar" you would see "foobar". I don't know how CTRL-{C|X|V|B|U|I} and other combinations would be represented - guess I better buy one and find out.
Wiretapping involves capturing information that is being sent (i.e. is already in transit), meaning the tap is between points A and B; spyware [generally] initiates and handles its own sessions, meaning points A and B are different. Spyware usually sends metadata as well: "information about [your] activities" != the actual keystrokes that were sent.
I posted this link earlier in the thread. You might want to go there and read about wiretapping.
Read all about it here.
Think back to two years ago: do you think perhaps Adobe was swamped with DMCA-related questions?
Where exactly did you send your query? To a person or to a {help|info|webmaster|etc}@adobe address?
Was your question a FAQ? Did you bother to check?
To recap:
you sent email to a huge company
you didn't get a reply
feeling slighted, you sent a "less polite" email threatening to "boycott their products"
for some amazing reason, you didn't get a response to the second email
you took all this personally, and now are waging jihad against a company that doesn't know/care about your [alleged] lost business
Wow.
I haven't heard anyone say they are using Framemaker for serious development of anything in years.
That's because FM is not a general-purpose Joe-and-Jane office worker word processor: FM's strengths lie in really large documents, like books and other things that are over ~200 pages. Not many people have a need for that. FM on Solaris (SPARC) is a very nifty combination.
You and your acquaintances are not a statistically significant sample set.
Around 1994 or so I had an updated version of this working. It was a major revision, so it was called SVGA.
between desktops and laptops/notebooks, too: for a given class of machine (CPU, RAM, HD, display) the laptop would cost significantly more than the desktop.
However, in recent years the gap has narrowed: now a 2.4GHz Celeron laptop with a 14" display can cost under $700. (Scroll down to the Inspiron 1100) The laptop still costs more than the same class desktop, but the gap isn't nearly as wide as it once was.
I believe that - as the PDA/handheld market matures - the price gap will close a bit. There will always be expensive stuff on the high end, but the entry- to mid-level stuff will offer pretty darn good performance.
A-IMSOL.
(read each letter individually)
From the linked site:
A few days later, the Opportunity rover left its lander and started roving across Mars. In images returned after that, it looked like Opportunity had run over the "bunny"! Worse, Opportunity had made a little side excursion while moving, making it look like NASA had run over the object on purpose. Was NASA trying to cover up the existence of an alien?
No, they were trying to hide evidence of the Easter Bunny! Conspiracy!
They at least could have waited until after Easter. Bastards.
what the droid at Best Buy, et al tells him to buy.
This is not to denigrate Mr. Sixpack. He will ask if it works with Windows Whatever and (maybe) if he can make home movies with it [for the DVD player in the living room]. That's about all. Sales Droid will hand him a drive and a stack of media and send him on his way.
The large open source projects could drive Java deep into Linux, and bring it new life, just as Linux revived UNIX as a whole. (my emphasis)
I disagree with this statement. Unix was doing quite well in the server and workstation market in the mid-1990s when Linux began to make its presence known. (Yes, Linux existed before then; no, it had not made significant inroads as of ~1995. Sorry, fanboys.) Yes, Linux made the Unix-oriented evnvironment available to more people, but piggybacking on a current and widely-used platform != revival.
Your asertion that short-form characters were adopted on a "small scale" is way off.
Your reading comprehension is way off: I was talking about the use of short-form characters in Taiwan, not mainland China. Can you address that or would you like to misread something else?
As an aside, jiantizi still have the radicals and other visual and auditory clues [for reading] but are much easier to write when not using a computer, which is how at least 80% of mainland China does it. I don't think Mao was concerned with Big5 (et al)...