The computer monitors voice communications constantly, and is clever enough to figure out where to route the transmission to, and when it's completed. Also, it's not strictly necessary to tap the communicator while onboard ship, although it's often done for the sake of habit. It is neccessary on away missions to conserve power.
Yes, I have the NCC1701-D technical manual. Yes, I remember most of it. Yes, I'm a sad bastard. =)
My favourite was the one where someone got annoyed with a robot, and told it to "get lost". Which it promptly did, and they had a hell of a job finding it again. Makes you wonder how easy it would be for a robot to misunderstand your intentions. Human languages are never particularly precise in their contexts.
Well, I was pretty happy with the results of a search on my name...happier than with Google in that once case, though that's but a single tiny datapoint.
Funny, my name didn't even get a hit, whereas it's the first match on Google. But, like you say, it's a tiny datapoint. I'll stick with Google though.
The only thing I'm missing is a way to make "recursive" library updates.. For example, if I upgrade libSDL to a new version, all apps that depends on SDL should be recompiled automatically.. There is still no easy way to do this in Gentoo, but I heard that it is comming in portage v2...
Wouldn't that mean that upgrading something like libc would require *everything* to be recompiled? And what would be the point anyway? If they are shared libraries, your programs will use the new versions immediately. I fail to see what recompiling will do, unless there are new features in the libraries. But in that case the apps themselves would need to be modified to use them.
It sounds somewhat lame I know, but perhaps this is a chance to start doing it right. Using renewable energy sources (solar being the obvious one on Mars) will be a requirement for the start of a Mars mission. Generating energy from water etc is all possible too.
Agreed. Software that runs air traffic control, and airplanes themselves, not to mention other saftey-critical roles, needs a lot of careful coding. A lot of money is spent on software like this.
And what use would open sourcing it be? Granted, there may be the opportunity to look through the code, but how many home hackers have a spare 747 sitting in the backyward to test their changes on? The whole idea of open source is to a allow contributed development. I fail to see how that would help in this situation.
Who is going to be motivated to work on software that they can probably never run themselves?
They didn't "go" very fast with me. I've only just managed to move my domain from them, after nearly 3 months of hassle and denied transfer requests. Not to mention the slow email support, and the complete lack of answering any of my questions.
I don't agree with what Verisign is doing, but then I'm not overly impressed with BulkRegister either.
Actually that business model is not as good as it once once. Certainly over here in the UK, over 65% of the population own mobile phones, so there is already market saturation. Also, the big players now have huge debts after paying stupendous amounts of money for the 3G licenses. Phone prices are increasing now, not decreasing.
Care to expand on that little nugget? I fail to see why Linux has any advantage over Symbian in this context. In fact, I fail to see how Linux even comes close.
I used to drive past this place every day on my way to work. I often used to wonder what a magical place it must have been to work in. I always hoped I'd get the chance to work there myself someday. Bang goes that idea. Strangely enough I can see the new Microsoft Research Centre from my flat. I guess that would be a cool place to work too, if it weren't for the owners. Cambridge has long been known for its hotbed of innovation. I'm sad to see us lose a bit of that.
Indeed. When I started using Emacs about 7 years ago, I found the keystrokes bizzare. C-x C-c to quit? Eh? Whats wrong with C-q?;)
Now, its just second nature, so much so that I'm always typing it in other editors and getting annoyed when it doesn't work. I found a lot of interesting features poking through the menus. Another nice thing is if you do M-x something, and its bound to a key, Emacs will tell you. If you do it often enough you'll get to remember that keystroke and start using it more and more. My favourite is completion (M-/). I expect that accounts for up to half my keystrokes;)
I disagree. While I love animals, many people think pets are a good idea until they've had them for a while, then they get fed up and either mistreat them or get rid of them, sometimes in the most horiffic ways. At least with robots, if you decide you don't want it you can sell/dismantle it. No mistreatment of living animals.
Agreed, it really was a very good season. My personal favourite was the one where Crichton was in the Roadrunner cartoon. Totally bizarre but very funny in places. A refreshing break from Star Trek. It's a very dark series, almost depressing in some episodes. Makes it all the more addictive.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If it weren't for religion, the world would be a much better place. You're right though, its definately a cult. How desperate must people be to fall for this shit?
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The computer monitors voice communications constantly, and is clever enough to figure out where to route the transmission to, and when it's completed. Also, it's not strictly necessary to tap the communicator while onboard ship, although it's often done for the sake of habit. It is neccessary on away missions to conserve power.
Yes, I have the NCC1701-D technical manual. Yes, I remember most of it. Yes, I'm a sad bastard. =)
Everyone should know better than to accept advice from random slashdot comments!
;)
Like this one?
My favourite was the one where someone got annoyed with a robot, and told it to "get lost". Which it promptly did, and they had a hell of a job finding it again. Makes you wonder how easy it would be for a robot to misunderstand your intentions. Human languages are never particularly precise in their contexts.
Well, I was pretty happy with the results of a search on my name...happier than with Google in that once case, though that's but a single tiny datapoint.
Funny, my name didn't even get a hit, whereas it's the first match on Google. But, like you say, it's a tiny datapoint. I'll stick with Google though.
The only thing I'm missing is a way to make "recursive" library updates.. For example, if I upgrade libSDL to a new version, all apps that depends on SDL should be recompiled automatically.. There is still no easy way to do this in Gentoo, but I heard that it is comming in portage v2...
Wouldn't that mean that upgrading something like libc would require *everything* to be recompiled? And what would be the point anyway? If they are shared libraries, your programs will use the new versions immediately. I fail to see what recompiling will do, unless there are new features in the libraries. But in that case the apps themselves would need to be modified to use them.
Interesting to see KDE mentioned, but not Gnome. Not meaning to start a flamewar here. Well, okay, I am.. . >:-)
It sounds somewhat lame I know, but perhaps this is a chance to start doing it right. Using renewable energy sources (solar being the obvious one on Mars) will be a requirement for the start of a Mars mission. Generating energy from water etc is all possible too.
Agreed. Software that runs air traffic control, and airplanes themselves, not to mention other saftey-critical roles, needs a lot of careful coding. A lot of money is spent on software like this.
And what use would open sourcing it be? Granted, there may be the opportunity to look through the code, but how many home hackers have a spare 747 sitting in the backyward to test their changes on? The whole idea of open source is to a allow contributed development. I fail to see how that would help in this situation.
Who is going to be motivated to work on software that they can probably never run themselves?
Go bulkregister!
They didn't "go" very fast with me. I've only just managed to move my domain from them, after nearly 3 months of hassle and denied transfer requests. Not to mention the slow email support, and the complete lack of answering any of my questions.
I don't agree with what Verisign is doing, but then I'm not overly impressed with BulkRegister either.
Actually that business model is not as good as it once once. Certainly over here in the UK, over 65% of the population own mobile phones, so there is already market saturation. Also, the big players now have huge debts after paying stupendous amounts of money for the 3G licenses. Phone prices are increasing now, not decreasing.
applying makeup might be difficult in light that has color and intensity variations
;-)
Oh, I agree. Theres nothing worse than going out wearing blue lipstick when you meant it to be purple. Really makes you look like a prat...
Yeah, and that one word is... Donuts ;)
Britney does not want you.
;)
Oh, thank God for that. It *was* a bad dream after all...
altough nothing can beat linux...
Care to expand on that little nugget? I fail to see why Linux has any advantage over Symbian in this context. In fact, I fail to see how Linux even comes close.
Geez, you only have to say "Shields up!" and problem solved. I've seen it on the TV so it must be true... ;)
I used to drive past this place every day on my way to work. I often used to wonder what a magical place it must have been to work in. I always hoped I'd get the chance to work there myself someday. Bang goes that idea. Strangely enough I can see the new Microsoft Research Centre from my flat. I guess that would be a cool place to work too, if it weren't for the owners. Cambridge has long been known for its hotbed of innovation. I'm sad to see us lose a bit of that.
The plugin crashes my (0.9.9+) mozilla build. Oh well, easy download, easy delete ;)
Nope, I use both. I use vim too, but only for editing remotely or small config files. Writing code in vim is a pain.
Indeed. When I started using Emacs about 7 years ago, I found the keystrokes bizzare. C-x C-c to quit? Eh? Whats wrong with C-q? ;)
;)
Now, its just second nature, so much so that I'm always typing it in other editors and getting annoyed when it doesn't work. I found a lot of interesting features poking through the menus. Another nice thing is if you do M-x something, and its bound to a key, Emacs will tell you. If you do it often enough you'll get to remember that keystroke and start using it more and more. My favourite is completion (M-/). I expect that accounts for up to half my keystrokes
I think we're all perfectly aware that BT is shite. We *do* live here you know. Unfortunately we have little choice.
Its always the same isn't it. Years and years and no citties to be seen. Then suddenly three turn up at once! ;-)
I disagree. While I love animals, many people think pets are a good idea until they've had them for a while, then they get fed up and either mistreat them or get rid of them, sometimes in the most horiffic ways. At least with robots, if you decide you don't want it you can sell/dismantle it. No mistreatment of living animals.
Agreed, it really was a very good season. My personal favourite was the one where Crichton was in the Roadrunner cartoon. Totally bizarre but very funny in places. A refreshing break from Star Trek. It's a very dark series, almost depressing in some episodes. Makes it all the more addictive.
And, given the choice, would you rather have a child the natural way, or a clone of someone with admirable genes?
;-)
The natural way please. There's more jiggy jiggy
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If it weren't for religion, the world would be a much better place. You're right though, its definately a cult. How desperate must people be to fall for this shit?