Forgive me for being skeptical of a GOP dominated House that has scant respect for science and engineering and whose gut instinct to de-regulate foretell a national disaster on the scale of Grenfell Tower.
It has never been clear how many people actually use the thing, but the numbers are most probably quite small.
Think closer to ten thousand than ten million.
The user In 2017 expects agility and speed, all sorts of content accessed adeptly and interactively, not the static web pages of GeoCities and dial-up AOL.
It also seems fair to suggest that most users are not interested in installing software that links them directly to the dark underside of the net. Freenet is not the kind of program you want resident on your taskbar when clearing your laptop through customs.
Interactive films were produced for the world's fairs of the sixties and seventies. The problem is that production costs grow exponentially with the number of genuinely distinct and entertaining --- branching --- storylines.
Interactive films were produced for the world's fairs of the sixties and seventies. The problem is that production costs grow exponentially with the number of genuinely distinct and entertaining --- branching --- storylines.
I
I
I know this is anathema to the geek. But consumer electronics has been headed in this direction since the invention of the transistor.
You see it as well in the evolution of the automobile, major appliances home maintenance and so on. Compare your granddad's household repair kit to your own --- or read through the 200 page back issues of Popular Science from the 40s and 50s to be found searching Google Books. Learn how to replace the sash weights of a double-hung window. The perils of ladder work at twenty-five feet.
When Betamax was introduced, most US TV sets had RF input only and a maximum color resolution of 330 lines.
When Betamax was introduced, most US TV sets had RF input only and a maximum color resolution of 330 lines. It was impossible to record movies or sports conveniently --- and slow-motion and freeze-framing the action of the big game was a huge driving force in VCR sales.
T
Mission Impossible wasn't civil engineering. Excepting some small-scale physical illusions. The Hyperloop is about making something like a high speed vacuum tube railway commercially viable and safe for human transport. The webcam simply requires microscopic photocells and the logic to scan them --- an interesting technical challenge to be sure, but rather more fault-tolerant.
The geek has been dancing to this tune since 1995 but the only Linux client distribution to win significant popular acceptance is Android --- arguably the least secure of all mass market oriented operating systems.
T
The geek never learns this lesson: The OEM system install is essential for mass market sales --- and being "forced" to purchase an OEM license for Windows 95 wasn't a problem for HP or pragmatists like Michael Dell.
The WSJ was one of the first to move to a subscription service model online. If you are at a certain level in politics, business or finance you read the WSJ and that is not going to change.
There is nothing like felony convictions for conspiracy and extortion to shut down your favorite pirate sites permanently. No more pretending this is harmless "file sharing" and not old-school big time crime.
Bilbo described it as being stretched too thin. Despite not feeling the least bit frail in mind or body. He felt off without knowing why and didn't trust the way things were headed.
But most administrators have neither the desire or the resources to support multiple operating systems and software libraries in the classroom. Nor do they see mastery of the command line as particularly relevant here.
What interests them is a relatively small set of familiar and trusted programs that will run reliably on securely locked down systems and hardware at will give them as little trouble as possible.
Why the past? Because it is recognizable to the audience. The tech has limits, the characters and their world are flawed in ways that are least distantly familiar and plausible. The series can offer hope for the future but it doesn't run on magic.
And use technology to create an amazing decentralized pirate torrenting site that can never be shut down!
And deliver certified safe downloads. Consistently high quality rips --- HD or 4K UHD --- that can compete with legit free or subscription services costing $10--$5/mo US.That don't take an eternity to download or require a major commitment of the pirate's own bandwidth and other resources. And. of course, no signicant legal exposure for its sponsors. Who must still find a way to pay the light bill;
But if i asked 10 random people if 'file sharing' was wrong and should be illegal, they would say 'No! you should be able to share files"
But maybe not OK to share files with 10,000 of your closest friends on the P2P nets. "File sharing" as the geek understands it has always been about unlicensed wholesale distribution --- and that is why juries have been willing to convict;
When the American power plant at Niagara was destroyed in a rockslide in 1954, the private power replacement proposed replicated the ugliness of the original design with no additional protection. Moses cut the plant into the cliff face and produced an attractive and distinctive architectural abstraction. Very different from the approach taken by Ontario Hydro but still valid I think.
But try telling that to the general birthed in the nineteenth century who builds the impenetrable defense wall that can be easily outflanked by a fast-moving tank or an aircraft. The admiral whose big gun ships will fall victim to the submarine, the carrier or the guided missile.
The app is built into every device that has an Internet connection. The 4K UHD TV on your living room wall. The smart watch on your wrist. No Netflix. No sale. No content protection. No Netflix. No add free music service with 26 million tracks in all genres.
The app doesn't have to conform to the conventions of the generic web browser or appease the FSF. If the geek wants the browser to remain competitive he has to be realistic about what the alternatives in the app world have to offer.
One of the many versions of Office365 is customized for the medical profession. Fundamentally a bundle of software and services that meet very complex needs. Correspondence. Documents. Records. Analysis. That meet specific legal and professional requirements. It is not a trivial problem.
The geek has been trying to dethrone Microsoft Office for longer than I care to remember without having any great impact on Microsoft's small business and enterprise markets. Photoshop remains the choice of professionals.
Ideological purity or political correctness is not a substitute for the software users need or want.
Part of the problem is that the geek sees only the code and not every element that contributes to the success or failure of a program --- and there his resources are often lacking. The game engine is not the game.
I find it hard to take seriously any discussion about MS Windows on a site flat out refuses to use the actual Windows logo. It gives an unmistakable signal how posters are expected to respond.
The root of the privilege against self-incrimination is the use of intimidation and torture to extract confessions.
To be admitted under oath. It was not in its beginnings an unconditional right to withhold relevant information from the courts to protect your own interests. Refusal to surrender a key can be legitimately considered contempt of court --- and that will have consequences. But you are not being forced to take to the stand and flat out admit to having committed a crime.
There's really no logical reason that famous film stars are also billed prominently for animation, and yet that's what we have.
The vocal performance and personality of the actor shapes and defines the animation of the character.
Disney understood that from the beginning, which is why three generations of stars from film, radio, television and theater have recorded for Disney. Try imaging the animated Aladdin without the manic improvisation of Robin Williams.
For bonus points, try re-casting the voice of Rocket Raccoon and see if you if you still have a CGI and motion capture character that audiences will actually give a damn about, help anchor a new franchise and deliver a billion-dollar pay-off at the box office.
The problem is "that thing" is the generic stand-alone office suite of the nineties. Sans Outlook. Which is not what you are looking for if you are shopping around for alternatives to the corporate editions of Office365.
the one I have concluded that translation is an art form.
The artful and conscientious translation will remain recognizable as a translation to those who know the original. It will still be a clearly derivative work. You can botch a translation badly and the source can still be plain to see.
Slashdot Mirror
Forgive me for being skeptical of a GOP dominated House that has scant respect for science and engineering and whose gut instinct to de-regulate foretell a national disaster on the scale of Grenfell Tower.
Freenet has been around for seventeen years.
It has never been clear how many people actually use the thing, but the numbers are most probably quite small.
Think closer to ten thousand than ten million.
The user In 2017 expects agility and speed, all sorts of content accessed adeptly and interactively, not the static web pages of GeoCities and dial-up AOL.
It also seems fair to suggest that most users are not interested in installing software that links them directly to the dark underside of the net. Freenet is not the kind of program you want resident on your taskbar when clearing your laptop through customs.
i ,p
.
.
it
Interactive films were produced for the world's fairs of the sixties and seventies. The problem is that production costs grow exponentially with the number of genuinely distinct and entertaining --- branching --- storylines. Interactive films were produced for the world's fairs of the sixties and seventies. The problem is that production costs grow exponentially with the number of genuinely distinct and entertaining --- branching --- storylines. I I
I know this is anathema to the geek. But consumer electronics has been headed in this direction since the invention of the transistor.
You see it as well in the evolution of the automobile, major appliances home maintenance and so on. Compare your granddad's household repair kit to your own --- or read through the 200 page back issues of Popular Science from the 40s and 50s to be found searching Google Books. Learn how to replace the sash weights of a double-hung window. The perils of ladder work at twenty-five feet.
When Betamax was introduced, most US TV sets had RF input only and a maximum color resolution of 330 lines. When Betamax was introduced, most US TV sets had RF input only and a maximum color resolution of 330 lines. It was impossible to record movies or sports conveniently --- and slow-motion and freeze-framing the action of the big game was a huge driving force in VCR sales. T
on the Interstate highways. Buy lots of cheap land and put in a charging station every so many miles
I wasn't aware that land with direct access to the Interstates could be had on the cheap.
Mission Impossible wasn't civil engineering. Excepting some small-scale physical illusions. The Hyperloop is about making something like a high speed vacuum tube railway commercially viable and safe for human transport. The webcam simply requires microscopic photocells and the logic to scan them --- an interesting technical challenge to be sure, but rather more fault-tolerant.
switch to Linux
The geek has been dancing to this tune since 1995 but the only Linux client distribution to win significant popular acceptance is Android --- arguably the least secure of all mass market oriented operating systems. T
The geek never learns this lesson: The OEM system install is essential for mass market sales --- and being "forced" to purchase an OEM license for Windows 95 wasn't a problem for HP or pragmatists like Michael Dell.
The WSJ was one of the first to move to a subscription service model online. If you are at a certain level in politics, business or finance you read the WSJ and that is not going to change.
There is nothing like felony convictions for conspiracy and extortion to shut down your favorite pirate sites permanently. No more pretending this is harmless "file sharing" and not old-school big time crime.
What natural course?
Bilbo described it as being stretched too thin. Despite not feeling the least bit frail in mind or body. He felt off without knowing why and didn't trust the way things were headed.
I know this will come as a shock to the geek.
But most administrators have neither the desire or the resources to support multiple operating systems and software libraries in the classroom. Nor do they see mastery of the command line as particularly relevant here.
What interests them is a relatively small set of familiar and trusted programs that will run reliably on securely locked down systems and hardware at will give them as little trouble as possible.
Why the past? Because it is recognizable to the audience. The tech has limits, the characters and their world are flawed in ways that are least distantly familiar and plausible. The series can offer hope for the future but it doesn't run on magic.
And use technology to create an amazing decentralized pirate torrenting site that can never be shut down!
And deliver certified safe downloads. Consistently high quality rips --- HD or 4K UHD --- that can compete with legit free or subscription services costing $10--$5/mo US.That don't take an eternity to download or require a major commitment of the pirate's own bandwidth and other resources. And. of course, no signicant legal exposure for its sponsors. Who must still find a way to pay the light bill;
But if i asked 10 random people if 'file sharing' was wrong and should be illegal, they would say 'No! you should be able to share files"
But maybe not OK to share files with 10,000 of your closest friends on the P2P nets. "File sharing" as the geek understands it has always been about unlicensed wholesale distribution --- and that is why juries have been willing to convict;
Nothing Robert Moses thought of was a good idea
When the American power plant at Niagara was destroyed in a rockslide in 1954, the private power replacement proposed replicated the ugliness of the original design with no additional protection. Moses cut the plant into the cliff face and produced an attractive and distinctive architectural abstraction. Very different from the approach taken by Ontario Hydro but still valid I think.
The next war is never like the last war.
But try telling that to the general birthed in the nineteenth century who builds the impenetrable defense wall that can be easily outflanked by a fast-moving tank or an aircraft. The admiral whose big gun ships will fall victim to the submarine, the carrier or the guided missile.
The app is built into every device that has an Internet connection. The 4K UHD TV on your living room wall. The smart watch on your wrist. No Netflix. No sale. No content protection. No Netflix. No add free music service with 26 million tracks in all genres.
The app doesn't have to conform to the conventions of the generic web browser or appease the FSF. If the geek wants the browser to remain competitive he has to be realistic about what the alternatives in the app world have to offer.
Not being a programmer I have to ask:
Does infinite speed imply infinite resources? Does infinite speed imply strong A.I.? Because that is what most of the posters here seem to be saying.
Office is the weapon of choice for memos.
One of the many versions of Office365 is customized for the medical profession. Fundamentally a bundle of software and services that meet very complex needs. Correspondence. Documents. Records. Analysis. That meet specific legal and professional requirements. It is not a trivial problem.
The geek has been trying to dethrone Microsoft Office for longer than I care to remember without having any great impact on Microsoft's small business and enterprise markets. Photoshop remains the choice of professionals.
Ideological purity or political correctness is not a substitute for the software users need or want.
Part of the problem is that the geek sees only the code and not every element that contributes to the success or failure of a program --- and there his resources are often lacking. The game engine is not the game.
I find it hard to take seriously any discussion about MS Windows on a site flat out refuses to use the actual Windows logo. It gives an unmistakable signal how posters are expected to respond.
To be admitted under oath. It was not in its beginnings an unconditional right to withhold relevant information from the courts to protect your own interests. Refusal to surrender a key can be legitimately considered contempt of court --- and that will have consequences. But you are not being forced to take to the stand and flat out admit to having committed a crime.
There's really no logical reason that famous film stars are also billed prominently for animation, and yet that's what we have.
The vocal performance and personality of the actor shapes and defines the animation of the character.
Disney understood that from the beginning, which is why three generations of stars from film, radio, television and theater have recorded for Disney. Try imaging the animated Aladdin without the manic improvisation of Robin Williams.
For bonus points, try re-casting the voice of Rocket Raccoon and see if you if you still have a CGI and motion capture character that audiences will actually give a damn about, help anchor a new franchise and deliver a billion-dollar pay-off at the box office.
The problem is "that thing" is the generic stand-alone office suite of the nineties. Sans Outlook. Which is not what you are looking for if you are shopping around for alternatives to the corporate editions of Office365.
the one I have concluded that translation is an art form.
The artful and conscientious translation will remain recognizable as a translation to those who know the original. It will still be a clearly derivative work. You can botch a translation badly and the source can still be plain to see.