Wasn't there anything company with a similar gimmick, where you could play a game like Pong or something from your phone, and have it displayed on the building...
That's bullshit. I bought my store copy, for 299.99, and when it came time to install Service Pack 1, 'Sorry, you have an invalid CD-key'. After much bitching and bellyaching, and mailing of reciepts and UPC codes and crap, Microsoft finally sent me a 'complemntary' copy to 'resolve the issue'. It's still sitting on the box, over there, on the shelf, while I type this through Mozilla, on my PowerBook.
I use LinuxToday way too much to just _stop_. It's kinda like Google for me. Or slasdhot, maybe, even.
As for the ads themselves, I find them funny. Like, I see it the same as any other/.er, Microsoft bad, Linux good. And Microsoft is paying out the ass for these ads, and they have tons of money to burn on it. Think about this. The money itself is going to support OSDN practices, and develop Open Source Software. All the while, we, as OSDN-participants understand the insanity of these ads (Lower MS TCO), and those of us who are confident in the inability of these ads to sway our crowd, can laugh.
So it's like a stand-up comic, throwing wads of cash at us, and telling us to spend it on ammunition to fire at him.
My iPod serves as a backup storage drive for important files (dev directories, web apps and such, personal information) and holds Disk Images of assorted crap. I think it's about half full right now, a quarter of that being music. It really is a nifty little device. The only downside is, unlike a USB pen drive, you can't just plug it into someone elses box to offload data.
To continue using Safari safely, just uncheck 'Open 'safe' files after downloading.' - which prevents the automagic mounting of disk images you download. No one should be using that option.
...security on the game itself would have been better. Like, modchip that PS2 such that the chip provides a code in ROM that allows that DVD to read only in a PS2 with THAT chip. I dunno, just a thought, not that it matters _now_.
I can say, scary as it may be, that such technology would be invaluable, not only to doctors on the ER deck, but to EMTs in the back of the ambulance. Take in a patients ID, xmit to central data center, which returns the patients records. Would have saved atleast a few lives that I can think about. Lots of people have medical complications and they DO NOT carry it on any form of ID, or any sort of Medic Alert bracelet. That, or the bracelet gets lost in something like a car accident or building fire.
Even better, if the ID can be transmitted to the 911 Emergency Operations Center when the initial emergency response call is made, the operator can trace/track the location of the call, immediately, and route the nearest rig. Ambulance drivers aren't always the most efficient beings. It's not easy to think of the best route to a location, compensating for traffic patterns, and dodging Mr. Jones on his bananular phone.
Scary? Sure. Useful? Indispensable. But it'll never happen.
Law enforcement agencies all across the United States are searching for Tommy Vercetti. He is wanted for a string of felonies including (but not limited to) murder, assualt, battery, weapons sales, grand larceny, and above all else Grand Theft Auto.
So, it seems to be a bad idea to give the kids ThinkPads. I half agree, there. I think that ThinkPads/iBooks for high school level students is a good idea, I think that laptops for 5th and 6th graders is not.
Of course, the option is to continue with the aged book idea. The heavy, clunky, destroyable paper volumes.
I propose an alternative; e-books; available online via e-library. Much like O'Reilly's Safari. Of course, an internet connection is requisite for that, but only to update the volumes. Perhaps produce a CD full of the material for each student to take home? That would warrant a computer, but, one can only flex so much. It'd have to be either the CD or the hardcovers.
Not true. A recursive function, by definition, calls itself, iterating either up or down. To call an a recursion inside an infinite loop, the recursive function being an infinite loop (such as your iteration suggests), would create a series of loops which never loop, just start once and never iterate.
When my laptop is sitting on my desk, it's plugged into the 400 FireWire 120GB external enclosure. I built it, cheap, 150$, max.
It's not that hard.
When I need to carry files around, they get written to the disc. When not, I don't store them. 256,512,etc USB keychains work VERY well, too.
For those of you who will go 'Well, you can't very well carry that around all the time' - I don't. It's a drop box. It gets plugged into the deskbox when not in use, so I can sftp and grab what I need if needbe.
I've never really found a need for excessive laptop harddrive space.
Maybe Bill's found a way to replicate matter... (oohs and aahs).
Wait. What's that, Bill? Oh. Oh. Oh I see. Yes, yes, we all suspected that you couldn't figure out how to work even a lightswitch efficiently.
Seriously, the reason software is free: you can copy it. All it takes is a few electrons. You can not split a NIC into two pieces and, voila! NICs for everyone! You end up with two semi-worthless and utterly unusable chunks of polymers, alloys, and ceramics. Whereas the copy of whatever open source software you wanted is still being reproduced; copied across mirrors, onto hard disks, and so on and so fourth. I'd love to see hardware upgrades propogate like that, though I do think my provider would be a.. little put off to see an nVidia GeForce 4 or better, bigger hard drive try to fit through the pipe. Infact, that illustrates my point quite exactly; free software (across this 'useless internet' - thank you, Bill.)... and, well, most kinds of not-free software.. are readily available. You find the source (http://Fedora.RedHat.com) and boom! You download it for local use. Now, you could either make copies for your friends, or use the ones you have. Hell, it'd be easy enough to do both! Unless Gates has some idea for some huge hardware-library which you can go and check things out of at no cost to you, I don't see free hardware distribution being viable.
To drop the price of the PS2 down to $149. I also forsee Sony dropping the price of their network-enabled console bundle to $179, or just dropping the non-bundle completely.
Honestly, my PS2 is starting to die. I've been thinking about getting another one when it finally kicks the bucket, or try to repair it atleast. Enough to use it as a Linux box.
That does beg the question, though: what's on the horizon in terms of PS2 games, when we may very well have the PlayStation 3 this christmas?
...women certainly need to be treated differently due to the difference in technical skill level.
I disagree completely. Having a penis does not immediately bestow upon you computeresque intellect. Many male figures familiar to me couldn't navigate themselves around an AOL interface, let alone figure out how to not break the printer. And by that same token, many females in my life have had exceptional computer knowledge.
Although, my current environment lends me to see people as equals, male and female having the same skill level, and the rest of the world is simply uneducated with no desire to learn (see also: stupid), or inexperienced.
The backlight system on the Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP is simply a thin-film LED which coats the 240x160 pixel screen. When the backlight is on, it illuminates the pane which exists between the display layer(s) and the front of the device (or the user's 'eye'). The system is highly effective, and very simple to implement. Better for laptops, too, maybe.
Take out RedHat allies at the knees. A long-time buyer of RedHat (Enterprise?) technologies coming down hard might scare away other buyers, for fear of the same thing happening to them. Just like a fascist regime.
'Fear will keep the local systems in line - fear of this battlestation!'
Agreed. I was wondering precisely the same thing. I can easily say that I would have _less_ of a problem with them tracking my transactions, but merely because I'm an honest person with my finances. Depends on whether or not they decide to throw me in jail for my occasional purchases of lab equipment, etc. Perhaps they could use that to call me a terrorist, or something. That's where it becomes uncomfortable.
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Wasn't there anything company with a similar gimmick, where you could play a game like Pong or something from your phone, and have it displayed on the building...
I use Safari regularly. And I made a faux pas - the browser I was referring to is actually FireFox, not plain simple Mozilla.
And yes, I use Paranoid Android. Among the first things installed on the box.
That's bullshit. I bought my store copy, for 299.99, and when it came time to install Service Pack 1, 'Sorry, you have an invalid CD-key'. After much bitching and bellyaching, and mailing of reciepts and UPC codes and crap, Microsoft finally sent me a 'complemntary' copy to 'resolve the issue'. It's still sitting on the box, over there, on the shelf, while I type this through Mozilla, on my PowerBook.
Sorry, but you're wrong.
I use LinuxToday way too much to just _stop_. It's kinda like Google for me. Or slasdhot, maybe, even.
/.er, Microsoft bad, Linux good. And Microsoft is paying out the ass for these ads, and they have tons of money to burn on it. Think about this. The money itself is going to support OSDN practices, and develop Open Source Software. All the while, we, as OSDN-participants understand the insanity of these ads (Lower MS TCO), and those of us who are confident in the inability of these ads to sway our crowd, can laugh.
As for the ads themselves, I find them funny. Like, I see it the same as any other
So it's like a stand-up comic, throwing wads of cash at us, and telling us to spend it on ammunition to fire at him.
*shrug* That's all.
My iPod serves as a backup storage drive for important files (dev directories, web apps and such, personal information) and holds Disk Images of assorted crap. I think it's about half full right now, a quarter of that being music. It really is a nifty little device. The only downside is, unlike a USB pen drive, you can't just plug it into someone elses box to offload data.
To continue using Safari safely, just uncheck 'Open 'safe' files after downloading.' - which prevents the automagic mounting of disk images you download. No one should be using that option.
Today is the 21st. Does this mean that a company is actually thinking ahead in the security process?
...security on the game itself would have been better. Like, modchip that PS2 such that the chip provides a code in ROM that allows that DVD to read only in a PS2 with THAT chip. I dunno, just a thought, not that it matters _now_.
I can say, scary as it may be, that such technology would be invaluable, not only to doctors on the ER deck, but to EMTs in the back of the ambulance. Take in a patients ID, xmit to central data center, which returns the patients records. Would have saved atleast a few lives that I can think about. Lots of people have medical complications and they DO NOT carry it on any form of ID, or any sort of Medic Alert bracelet. That, or the bracelet gets lost in something like a car accident or building fire.
Even better, if the ID can be transmitted to the 911 Emergency Operations Center when the initial emergency response call is made, the operator can trace/track the location of the call, immediately, and route the nearest rig. Ambulance drivers aren't always the most efficient beings. It's not easy to think of the best route to a location, compensating for traffic patterns, and dodging Mr. Jones on his bananular phone.
Scary? Sure. Useful? Indispensable. But it'll never happen.
Law enforcement agencies all across the United States are searching for Tommy Vercetti. He is wanted for a string of felonies including (but not limited to) murder, assualt, battery, weapons sales, grand larceny, and above all else Grand Theft Auto.
So, it seems to be a bad idea to give the kids ThinkPads. I half agree, there. I think that ThinkPads/iBooks for high school level students is a good idea, I think that laptops for 5th and 6th graders is not.
Of course, the option is to continue with the aged book idea. The heavy, clunky, destroyable paper volumes.
I propose an alternative; e-books; available online via e-library. Much like O'Reilly's Safari. Of course, an internet connection is requisite for that, but only to update the volumes. Perhaps produce a CD full of the material for each student to take home? That would warrant a computer, but, one can only flex so much. It'd have to be either the CD or the hardcovers.
I dunno. Thoughts?
Star Trek and the Olsen Twins having something remotely in common.
Not true. A recursive function, by definition, calls itself, iterating either up or down. To call an a recursion inside an infinite loop, the recursive function being an infinite loop (such as your iteration suggests), would create a series of loops which never loop, just start once and never iterate.
;)
Wrap that one around your mind.
And it is my signature.
When my laptop is sitting on my desk, it's plugged into the 400 FireWire 120GB external enclosure. I built it, cheap, 150$, max.
It's not that hard.
When I need to carry files around, they get written to the disc. When not, I don't store them. 256,512,etc USB keychains work VERY well, too.
For those of you who will go 'Well, you can't very well carry that around all the time' - I don't. It's a drop box. It gets plugged into the deskbox when not in use, so I can sftp and grab what I need if needbe.
I've never really found a need for excessive laptop harddrive space.
Maybe Bill's found a way to replicate matter... (oohs and aahs).
Wait. What's that, Bill? Oh. Oh. Oh I see. Yes, yes, we all suspected that you couldn't figure out how to work even a lightswitch efficiently.
Seriously, the reason software is free: you can copy it. All it takes is a few electrons. You can not split a NIC into two pieces and, voila! NICs for everyone! You end up with two semi-worthless and utterly unusable chunks of polymers, alloys, and ceramics. Whereas the copy of whatever open source software you wanted is still being reproduced; copied across mirrors, onto hard disks, and so on and so fourth. I'd love to see hardware upgrades propogate like that, though I do think my provider would be a.. little put off to see an nVidia GeForce 4 or better, bigger hard drive try to fit through the pipe. Infact, that illustrates my point quite exactly; free software (across this 'useless internet' - thank you, Bill.)... and, well, most kinds of not-free software.. are readily available. You find the source (http://Fedora.RedHat.com) and boom! You download it for local use. Now, you could either make copies for your friends, or use the ones you have. Hell, it'd be easy enough to do both! Unless Gates has some idea for some huge hardware-library which you can go and check things out of at no cost to you, I don't see free hardware distribution being viable.
The very idea is flawed.
To drop the price of the PS2 down to $149. I also forsee Sony dropping the price of their network-enabled console bundle to $179, or just dropping the non-bundle completely.
Honestly, my PS2 is starting to die. I've been thinking about getting another one when it finally kicks the bucket, or try to repair it atleast. Enough to use it as a Linux box.
That does beg the question, though: what's on the horizon in terms of PS2 games, when we may very well have the PlayStation 3 this christmas?
- ...women certainly need to be treated differently due to the difference in technical skill level.
I disagree completely. Having a penis does not immediately bestow upon you computeresque intellect. Many male figures familiar to me couldn't navigate themselves around an AOL interface, let alone figure out how to not break the printer. And by that same token, many females in my life have had exceptional computer knowledge.Although, my current environment lends me to see people as equals, male and female having the same skill level, and the rest of the world is simply uneducated with no desire to learn (see also: stupid), or inexperienced.
...how is operating a piece of computer hardware ever gender-specific?
Smells like somewhat of a double standard to me.
*waves hands* I did! I did! Kinda sad that it isn't, though.
Will no one pick up Futurama? *sniff*
Oh, and how is the Season 3 DVD set?
- (And, I hope, a great backlight for laptops.)
The backlight system on the Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP is simply a thin-film LED which coats the 240x160 pixel screen. When the backlight is on, it illuminates the pane which exists between the display layer(s) and the front of the device (or the user's 'eye'). The system is highly effective, and very simple to implement. Better for laptops, too, maybe.KOTOR! :-D Sysadmin savior everywhere. Atleast now that it's out on PC. Go HK-47. ;)
Definately not. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=kkk.com
Almost all of their machines are *nix, and in violation of SCOs 'intellectual property'.
Of course.
Take out RedHat allies at the knees. A long-time buyer of RedHat (Enterprise?) technologies coming down hard might scare away other buyers, for fear of the same thing happening to them. Just like a fascist regime.
'Fear will keep the local systems in line - fear of this battlestation!'
Agreed. I was wondering precisely the same thing. I can easily say that I would have _less_ of a problem with them tracking my transactions, but merely because I'm an honest person with my finances. Depends on whether or not they decide to throw me in jail for my occasional purchases of lab equipment, etc. Perhaps they could use that to call me a terrorist, or something. That's where it becomes uncomfortable.