I think it will be a while before the translation software catches up to reality.
Sure, they'll be able to translate the words, and soon even proper grammar on the fly.
But when, if ever, will you get an automated system that can understand the cultural references made by the primary speaker?
How does this bode for the growth of a language? Many words cross languages. Will this continue if everybody can speak in their native tongue, and no middleground is met?
Just thinking out loud, not pointing out problems...
The picture doesn't label the other two. They're down by the SCSI controller pointing forward instead of up. They're also on the RAID with the ones in the picture.
Remember the big room the Ark is put in at the end?
There are rooms like that, all over the country, filled with documents from every branch of gov't, from the beginning of each location's existance.
I worked for a county government as a temp one year out of high school. They had me filing, making copies, and the other mindless stuff you give 18 year old temps.
The county was sued, and they needed documentation from 5-10 years ago as part of their defense.
My boss drove me over to a warehouse big enough to be an airplane hangar. Floor to ceiling boxes with enough room between the shelves to get a forklift through.
My job, search boxes for materials marked "X".
This was a county government, for a city of 20,000, in a town that had only been around since the 40's.
Do some multiplication, and you can imagine the time, space, and manpower you'd need just to maintain a database for all of these kinds of things.
As the requests come in? Try funding for that one. They ask for funding, and then slashdot goes bonkers as the gov't is trying to gather all info into one place. Enter the skynet freaks, etc.
It would be cool. And this will work. When a country is started on Mars. Every shred of what's done from the very beginning can be indexed right away. Here, now? Not so much.
For all we know, Microsoft said that they're not planning on making MORE changes to their OS, even for such a good cause.
They may have said, "See you in 2005-2006" and that's why HP put it back in the lab, instead of just outright cancelling the project and deleting the source code. (Which is the implication your post makes.)
The article states that we have a Magnetosphere, Mars doesn't.
That is our protection. Over 3.5 million years, without that protection, it's POSSIBLE that the water was blown off of Mars.
Why is military IT not as good as it could be?
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Wonder why the Air Force and other military branches don't have superior IT staff?
When their time to re-enlist comes up, they can take that knowledge (and security clearance) and go get paid 5-10 times what the service pays them to work for a contactor to the NSA, FBI, CIA, or the big defense contractors.
Why would you stay?
Wonder why there are so many guys not re-enlisting? Is it that they don't want to serve or go back to Iraq? Nope. They see the private security guys there making 10-20 times what they make for the same job...
Some very good people were running that booth. They hadn't decided exactly where it was going to be sold, but they knew who they wanted to buy it.
It was running Mandrake there, but certainly an older version. The way it came off, was that Mandrake had been chosen due to its popularity in Europe, and that the original solution was coming from the labs in France.
When it was explained to me, they were talking about giving an option to poor families in developing countries. Looks like they took a different direction.
This is the perfect use for the idea. Schools are so important, to give a less expensive option that isn't just our throw away Pentium systems is a wonderful idea.
I had vowed to never go back, thanks to all the awful support in store, and online that I received.
Things like discounts not being applied, sale prices not showing up on the final invoice, etc.
I was dragged back in as they had a "great" Comcast deal. It would turn out to be a free cable modem, after rebate(s).
There were 3 rebates. - $25 store credit - $20 rebate from Linksys (for their modem) - $60 rebate from Best Buy for buying the Linksys modem.
I used their kiosk, with their employee. I expected to wait the obligatory 6-8 weeks.
In very short order, the store credit showed up. Followed quickly by the Linksys rebate. 2 weeks later, the denial letter showed up from BB. They said I hadn't bought a Linksys modem. Interesting that they returned my orignal submission, and that receipt clearly showed the modem that they had on rebate.
When it arrived the rebate program had ended, so they screwed me out of $60.00. Another lesson in BB's incompetence.
I sold the store credit to somebody else. I wanted them to have to pony up that money for something, but it wouldn't be me.
Aren't there a set number of accesses that a flash memory device can handle before they're toast?
I think that's what is holding back adoption of flash based PCs. Screw the expense, if the thing can't have a drive failure, some industries will buy it.
I thought it was a warning about Goatse...
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Before Area 51 was the big name, it was Hangar 18.
Hangar 18 was on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Area 51 / Groom Lake is just a flight strip for testing stealth equipment, etc.
Hangar 18 was storage at one of the most secure bases in the country. This base is where the Air Force Research Lab is, their aerospace projects started there, etc.
For a long time it was considered "bad mojo" to make a machine that was easy to service. That implied that the system NEEDED to be serviced, so we'd better make it easy. In the time I've been paying attention to PC systems, it's gone from needing special tools to open, all the way to machines that can be disassembled with one finger. (Not that finger, people.)
IBM had handles on some of their systems, and they were ridiculed because that must have meant that they needed to be carried in to service...
Dell wasn't the first, but it sure was a kick in the butt to the other manufacturers.
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HARP was the name of the weapons satellite that he was trying to find out about.
Unfortunately, it was the one in the movie that was fake.
I think it will be a while before the translation software catches up to reality.
Sure, they'll be able to translate the words, and soon even proper grammar on the fly.
But when, if ever, will you get an automated system that can understand the cultural references made by the primary speaker?
How does this bode for the growth of a language? Many words cross languages. Will this continue if everybody can speak in their native tongue, and no middleground is met?
Just thinking out loud, not pointing out problems...
I read an interview once where George said that he lets his kids name that characters...
Hence: Jar Jar, Dooku, Grievous, Elan Sleazebaggo (don't believe me? look it up), etc.
The picture doesn't label the other two. They're down by the SCSI controller pointing forward instead of up. They're also on the RAID with the ones in the picture.
Trust me.
(I have one of these boards at my desk.)
Remember the big room the Ark is put in at the end?
There are rooms like that, all over the country, filled with documents from every branch of gov't, from the beginning of each location's existance.
I worked for a county government as a temp one year out of high school. They had me filing, making copies, and the other mindless stuff you give 18 year old temps.
The county was sued, and they needed documentation from 5-10 years ago as part of their defense.
My boss drove me over to a warehouse big enough to be an airplane hangar. Floor to ceiling boxes with enough room between the shelves to get a forklift through.
My job, search boxes for materials marked "X".
This was a county government, for a city of 20,000, in a town that had only been around since the 40's.
Do some multiplication, and you can imagine the time, space, and manpower you'd need just to maintain a database for all of these kinds of things.
As the requests come in? Try funding for that one. They ask for funding, and then slashdot goes bonkers as the gov't is trying to gather all info into one place. Enter the skynet freaks, etc.
It would be cool. And this will work. When a country is started on Mars. Every shred of what's done from the very beginning can be indexed right away. Here, now? Not so much.
That and a culture of research and development.
You get a lot of smart people, ask that they publish, and watch what happens.
Add that to the understanding that licensing is just free money for stuff you don't feel like building yourself, and it's very smart.
Free online tax prep.
Print it and send it your darn self.
The only reason it has FreeDOS is to keep it cheap.
China is one of the countries with rampant software piracy. If you bundle an OS, you're not competitive.
They are well aware that pirated Windows will be installed. They just can't put that in the press release.
For all we know, Microsoft said that they're not planning on making MORE changes to their OS, even for such a good cause.
They may have said, "See you in 2005-2006" and that's why HP put it back in the lab, instead of just outright cancelling the project and deleting the source code. (Which is the implication your post makes.)
Under different hardware configs, with different software already there.
No problems, not once.
It's my daily use OS on my notebook and my 2nd machine at home. Games, music, other normal stuff is all working fine.
But then again, I didn't have problems with the early releases.
I've done fresh installs from their ISOs, and xpsp2 type installs into existing OS's.
I wonder what people are doing, or what kind of gear they're trying to get it to run on.
AMD, Intel, integrated video, ATI video, Nvidia, weird notebook drivers, all have been fine.
Wireless networking, wired networking, browsing, downloading, everything has been smooth.
Are they actively trying to make it fail? (i.e. it fails every time I turn it off by pulling power during the initial load.)
What am I doing RIGHT?
Because colors have their "owners" right now.
Black: Dell
Silver: HP
White: Apple
So he doesn't RTFA, and you give *ME* shit?
:-)
Good catch.
The article states that we have a Magnetosphere, Mars doesn't.
That is our protection. Over 3.5 million years, without that protection, it's POSSIBLE that the water was blown off of Mars.
Wonder why the Air Force and other military branches don't have superior IT staff?
When their time to re-enlist comes up, they can take that knowledge (and security clearance) and go get paid 5-10 times what the service pays them to work for a contactor to the NSA, FBI, CIA, or the big defense contractors.
Why would you stay?
Wonder why there are so many guys not re-enlisting? Is it that they don't want to serve or go back to Iraq? Nope. They see the private security guys there making 10-20 times what they make for the same job...
I see a trend here.
a couple of years ago.
Some very good people were running that booth. They hadn't decided exactly where it was going to be sold, but they knew who they wanted to buy it.
It was running Mandrake there, but certainly an older version. The way it came off, was that Mandrake had been chosen due to its popularity in Europe, and that the original solution was coming from the labs in France.
When it was explained to me, they were talking about giving an option to poor families in developing countries. Looks like they took a different direction.
This is the perfect use for the idea. Schools are so important, to give a less expensive option that isn't just our throw away Pentium systems is a wonderful idea.
I had vowed to never go back, thanks to all the awful support in store, and online that I received.
Things like discounts not being applied, sale prices not showing up on the final invoice, etc.
I was dragged back in as they had a "great" Comcast deal. It would turn out to be a free cable modem, after rebate(s).
There were 3 rebates.
- $25 store credit
- $20 rebate from Linksys (for their modem)
- $60 rebate from Best Buy for buying the Linksys modem.
I used their kiosk, with their employee. I expected to wait the obligatory 6-8 weeks.
In very short order, the store credit showed up. Followed quickly by the Linksys rebate. 2 weeks later, the denial letter showed up from BB. They said I hadn't bought a Linksys modem. Interesting that they returned my orignal submission, and that receipt clearly showed the modem that they had on rebate.
When it arrived the rebate program had ended, so they screwed me out of $60.00. Another lesson in BB's incompetence.
I sold the store credit to somebody else. I wanted them to have to pony up that money for something, but it wouldn't be me.
Ergo, they're evil.
If you mean I-25 north of Denver, i.e. Wyoming, ok. But I-25 north is the biggest disaster cone zone I've seen in some time.
Longmont north gets better, but too many idiots and the 34 interchange is just death waiting to happen.
So there!
:-)
(nice answer)
Aren't there a set number of accesses that a flash memory device can handle before they're toast?
I think that's what is holding back adoption of flash based PCs. Screw the expense, if the thing can't have a drive failure, some industries will buy it.
But it was so much worse.
:-)
I need a new keyboard.
Before Area 51 was the big name, it was Hangar 18.
Hangar 18 was on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Area 51 / Groom Lake is just a flight strip for testing stealth equipment, etc.
Hangar 18 was storage at one of the most secure bases in the country. This base is where the Air Force Research Lab is, their aerospace projects started there, etc.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
I don't know about Mandrake, but hasn't SuSe had their live version for a while now?
Checking...
Yes.
LinuxISO's SuSe directory
You can get the LiveEval for 9.1 (w/ 2.6.4...)
It comes with 2.6.4-54 (off the top of my head, so I may be wrong about the sub-revision)
For a long time it was considered "bad mojo" to make a machine that was easy to service. That implied that the system NEEDED to be serviced, so we'd better make it easy. In the time I've been paying attention to PC systems, it's gone from needing special tools to open, all the way to machines that can be disassembled with one finger. (Not that finger, people.)
IBM had handles on some of their systems, and they were ridiculed because that must have meant that they needed to be carried in to service...
Dell wasn't the first, but it sure was a kick in the butt to the other manufacturers.
Outlook 2003 blocks images as well.
Outlook Express will when XP SP2 hits at end of July.