Is that realy the way to behave on such a beautiful day like today?
Suicide shouldn't be contemplated when the sun is shining so. Can you remember a day such as today? I mean this weather we've been having recently has been quite strange, but today . ..
Oh, today, I dream about days like today, not a cloud in the sky, not like last week, do you remember that day, you know the day with the clouds, you must remember it, I remember talking about it with you that day.
Oh you must remember, you looked quite pensive that day as well, "You look worse than the weather" I said, and you, well, your mood seemed to darken the stranger the weather got . . .
As long as the research released has gone through the same peer review as typical academic papers/journals, I can only see great benefits coming from this.
If not, and the open source nature of research spreads, it could be that the info can only ever be treated like the current internet's information, and, as such, be treated be extreme caution. With the potential effect of almost diluting the information to be unusable.
And it's one company that is bringing to the attention of a fair few people some fairly decent software that they might not otherwise heard of.
I think next time I want to get some of my software known about, I might just give Maui X-Stream a call, they seem to have some fairly good contacts in the tech media world.
The US is the longest running continuous government in the modern world.
No idea what you mean here or what relevance it has, but you do realise that Britain had a Prime Minister before the start of the US' War of Independence? (1735, Sir Robert Walpole first entered 10 Downing Street)
For Internet users, the most visible change will be an expanded use of ads with graphics and animation on many of the Web sites for which Google sells advertising, rather than the short text ads that have been Google's hallmark.
Possibly the most disheartening news I've heard today.
Part of the reason why I accepted Google's advertising were the unobtrusiveness of the ads. If these turn into animated horrors, I have a feeling my next search on Google may be for a new search engine.
I should imagine there will be the same problem, as with Worldwind, in that it is up to the government or the license holders to release the sat images.
Pat Lawlor's finest creation in my opinion. That man was so damn prolific, and passionate about his machines. One of the defining quotes of his, which sort of sums him up:-
"Anyone in this business who designs something looks at that product like it is one of their children. You take a year to create this thing, put your own personality into it, and heaven forbid something should happen when you release it because it's like your child is misbehaving. You become attached to the games and they are important to you."
I think the difference is that after 'misunderstanding' what "check oil" means, there is generally a fairly hefty bill to pay to fix the problem.
After 'misunderstanding' the consequences of "Do you wish to open this attatchment? It may contain viruses", or whatever, the only consequence is a slightly slower computer, with possibly 'interesting' new features.
This is not the greatest conditioning tool.
If the virus/worm/whatever, actually killed the computer stone dead, and the user was then charged a fee to get it working again, I would imagine they would quickly learn.
The problem will come if mailing out new CD's becomes a habit for the bank.
It would be quite easy for someone to slip in a cracked and hacked version, for which the customers (out of habit and routine) will happily treat as the new version, then pass on their banking details to whoever is listening.
Agreed, when I was living out in Singapore, the tech orientated shopping malls had XP selling for $5, hell, every shopping mall had XP selling for $5. No manual, no packaging box, just a plastic sheathing with the CD inside.
The culture seems to have a fairly healthy lack of respect for 'official' versions. It always struck me as somewhat at odds with the otherwise strict PAP government the proliferation of shops wlling to sell, out in the open, blatantly pirated software.
And from my travels, this seemed to be fairly well reflected throughout SE Asia, thus the lack of ability to sell the Starter Edition is hardly unexpected to me.
True, but the more frightening policy would be if Google went with their current business model. Free, but every single piece of data you produce, they may share with whom they like, building a profile of yourself and doing with it what they like.
Personally, I prefer the subscription model, well actually, I would rather they had absolutely nothing to do with my data.
Mostly agree, and if someone describes their individual wants and needs by signing up to the personalized newsletters, then I would guess they would appreciate some more personalized adverts, rather than requests to buy products they have no desire for. And would probably not recognise that they are being targetted in such a way.
If you absolutely have to have adverts forced down your throat, then I'm sure the general public would prefer those adverts tailored for them.
I'm currently looking for a small/cheapish computer/case, that has optical out capabilities, to pipe music from my server through my sound system's dac, to replace my current dying box. Would love the mac mini, but it doesn't appear to have the necessary capabilities.
Does anyone know of any small form factor(aesthetics in this case are pretty important, as it needs to go on show) PC's with this capacity, most I see have very basic sound capability(the difference between non optical/optical output on my system is night and day)?
For soldiers operating in the field, especially in desert areas that receive lots of sunlight, the new "solar tube" cells could provide an alternate power source for the growing number of electronic devices they use
Given the amount of energy this "growing number of electronic devices" probably puts out, doesn't it make the slodiers easier to spot due to the energy signatures they are putting out? If so, doesn't it slightly impact on the actual usefulness of the electronic devices?
I'm guessing this is factored in, but how much shielding is possible, and how far would the new "solar tube" be able to be shield it's energy signature from the enemy?
India/China/Brazil are not in Kyoto as per head of population they do not contribute as much towards to Carbon dioxide problem as Western nations. The only so called industrialized nations not signed up to Kyoto are the US and Australia.
Australia is the one that amuses me, their PM's statement
"Until such time as the major polluters of the world including the United States and China are made part of the Kyoto regime, it is next to useless and indeed harmful for a country such as Australia to sign up"
Especially when their leading oppposition party states that
Australia is the world's worst greenhouse gas polluter per capita because of its heavy use of coal-burning power stations.
The arguement that because so and so aren't doing it, why should we, is not only childish, but considering stances against some countries for not commiting to certain agreements, it seems down right hypocritical.
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Is that realy the way to behave on such a beautiful day like today?
Suicide shouldn't be contemplated when the sun is shining so. Can you remember a day such as today? I mean this weather we've been having recently has been quite strange, but today . .
Oh, today, I dream about days like today, not a cloud in the sky, not like last week, do you remember that day, you know the day with the clouds, you must remember it, I remember talking about it with you that day.
Oh you must remember, you looked quite pensive that day as well, "You look worse than the weather" I said, and you, well, your mood seemed to darken the stranger the weather got . . .
Personally, I prefer the idea of controlling the global weather.
Putting aside the intricacies of controlling such a chaotic enviroment, the impact on an Englishman's typical conversation would be astounding.
Would we be able to adapt?
What would we talk about?
I wonder when the government will require everyone to have a bank account, ban bank notes, and require all purchases to be made by card.
All in the interests of removing profits by terrorists through counterfeiting, and of course to keep track of terrorists purchasing habits.
You forgot one thing, the chair.
Get one and your back will love you for it.
In the UK we have to be thankful for the BBC. and their podcast experiment.
Just wish they would get over this pointless strike at the moment.
If the BBC essentially runs a public domain service anyway, why are the shows deleted after seven days?
This ceratinly doesn't need to happen on a video recording.
As long as the research released has gone through the same peer review as typical academic papers/journals, I can only see great benefits coming from this.
If not, and the open source nature of research spreads, it could be that the info can only ever be treated like the current internet's information, and, as such, be treated be extreme caution. With the potential effect of almost diluting the information to be unusable.
And it's one company that is bringing to the attention of a fair few people some fairly decent software that they might not otherwise heard of.
I think next time I want to get some of my software known about, I might just give Maui X-Stream a call, they seem to have some fairly good contacts in the tech media world.
The US is the longest running continuous government in the modern world.
No idea what you mean here or what relevance it has, but you do realise that Britain had a Prime Minister before the start of the US' War of Independence? (1735, Sir Robert Walpole first entered 10 Downing Street)
For Internet users, the most visible change will be an expanded use of ads with graphics and animation on many of the Web sites for which Google sells advertising, rather than the short text ads that have been Google's hallmark.
Possibly the most disheartening news I've heard today.
Part of the reason why I accepted Google's advertising were the unobtrusiveness of the ads. If these turn into animated horrors, I have a feeling my next search on Google may be for a new search engine.
Must be why there is a huge popularity of mugs at MS bearing the obnoxious logo:-
"You don't have to be a developer to work here, but it helps".
From the link, got to love this conversation.
Strangely, it seems only to willing to broadcast the virtues of Lynx.
I should imagine there will be the same problem, as with Worldwind, in that it is up to the government or the license holders to release the sat images.
Would've done, but either someone purposely set up a SEP field, or the movie is actually pretty good.
Where the hell is the classical geek answer?
Because.
Because I can, possibly the greatest reason known.
Without doubt one of my favorite machines made.
Pat Lawlor's finest creation in my opinion. That man was so damn prolific, and passionate about his machines. One of the defining quotes of his, which sort of sums him up:-
"Anyone in this business who designs something looks at that product like it is one of their children. You take a year to create this thing, put your own personality into it, and heaven forbid something should happen when you release it because it's like your child is misbehaving. You become attached to the games and they are important to you."
A true craftsman.
I think the difference is that after 'misunderstanding' what "check oil" means, there is generally a fairly hefty bill to pay to fix the problem.
After 'misunderstanding' the consequences of "Do you wish to open this attatchment? It may contain viruses", or whatever, the only consequence is a slightly slower computer, with possibly 'interesting' new features.
This is not the greatest conditioning tool.
If the virus/worm/whatever, actually killed the computer stone dead, and the user was then charged a fee to get it working again, I would imagine they would quickly learn.
The problem will come if mailing out new CD's becomes a habit for the bank.
It would be quite easy for someone to slip in a cracked and hacked version, for which the customers (out of habit and routine) will happily treat as the new version, then pass on their banking details to whoever is listening.
Agreed, when I was living out in Singapore, the tech orientated shopping malls had XP selling for $5, hell, every shopping mall had XP selling for $5. No manual, no packaging box, just a plastic sheathing with the CD inside.
The culture seems to have a fairly healthy lack of respect for 'official' versions. It always struck me as somewhat at odds with the otherwise strict PAP government the proliferation of shops wlling to sell, out in the open, blatantly pirated software.
And from my travels, this seemed to be fairly well reflected throughout SE Asia, thus the lack of ability to sell the Starter Edition is hardly unexpected to me.
True, but the more frightening policy would be if Google went with their current business model. Free, but every single piece of data you produce, they may share with whom they like, building a profile of yourself and doing with it what they like.
Personally, I prefer the subscription model, well actually, I would rather they had absolutely nothing to do with my data.
Mostly agree, and if someone describes their individual wants and needs by signing up to the personalized newsletters, then I would guess they would appreciate some more personalized adverts, rather than requests to buy products they have no desire for. And would probably not recognise that they are being targetted in such a way.
If you absolutely have to have adverts forced down your throat, then I'm sure the general public would prefer those adverts tailored for them.
I'm currently looking for a small/cheapish computer/case, that has optical out capabilities, to pipe music from my server through my sound system's dac, to replace my current dying box. Would love the mac mini, but it doesn't appear to have the necessary capabilities.
Does anyone know of any small form factor(aesthetics in this case are pretty important, as it needs to go on show) PC's with this capacity, most I see have very basic sound capability(the difference between non optical/optical output on my system is night and day)?
For soldiers operating in the field, especially in desert areas that receive lots of sunlight, the new "solar tube" cells could provide an alternate power source for the growing number of electronic devices they use
Given the amount of energy this "growing number of electronic devices" probably puts out, doesn't it make the slodiers easier to spot due to the energy signatures they are putting out? If so, doesn't it slightly impact on the actual usefulness of the electronic devices?
I'm guessing this is factored in, but how much shielding is possible, and how far would the new "solar tube" be able to be shield it's energy signature from the enemy?
India/China/Brazil are not in Kyoto as per head of population they do not contribute as much towards to Carbon dioxide problem as Western nations. The only so called industrialized nations not signed up to Kyoto are the US and Australia.
Australia is the one that amuses me, their PM's statement
"Until such time as the major polluters of the world including the United States and China are made part of the Kyoto regime, it is next to useless and indeed harmful for a country such as Australia to sign up"
Especially when their leading oppposition party states that
Australia is the world's worst greenhouse gas polluter per capita because of its heavy use of coal-burning power stations.
The arguement that because so and so aren't doing it, why should we, is not only childish, but considering stances against some countries for not commiting to certain agreements, it seems down right hypocritical.
More importantly, will Microsoft be willing to include an Adblock of some form?
Somehow I doubt that owners of websites/advertisers would appreciate such a move.