Uh, was that implied? It was only stated that the US has a bad reputation in Europe. The US is certainly free to still have a bad reputation everywhere else - and it probably has.
I know that you Americans are always against paying taxes, but how the hell that got modded to insightful is completely beyond me. Yeah, right, actually paying for your expenses always gives the idea that you can spend even more. What kind of argument is that?
As stars are sometimes flung out of galaxies during "collisions", I guess there must be lonely stars out there. And apparently they don't even always stay in the cluster out of themselves. It would not be a great surprise if a few went on a trip together.
I guess they do travel together:), of course these are stars that are considered part of our galaxy (it presume it would be a bit difficult to detect a single star travelling all by itself outside a galaxy).
As for the "Who gives a shit", maybe alien life forms living on them, but certainly not me.
I think we live in a relatively large galaxy (at least, I heard it was in the process of swallowing up to smaller ones), so I don't think that would quickly be the case. Googled it:
In the netherlands there are a lot of public servants that get it for use in meetings - the general idea being that you distribute your presentations with it. This gets rid of the paper (and it stops the annoying sound of keyboards tapping away, I would imagine).
What the heck would you have done with the corpses? Shoot them into space? Store them in used gas fields? I mean, he did not kill anyone that wasn't going to die anyway, now did he?
I was going to mod, but I cannot let this pass. Browsers have always added features that's true. And in some ways it is required, you cannot make progress by mindlessly adding to the standard, you will have to try out new features first.
But any *mainstream* site should be able to choose a HTML version to support, maybe taking into account some features that are badly supported by the browsers. This way you can be reasonably sure that most browsers (and with the internet appliances market soaring, there are many important ones) will parse & display the page as intended.
Now if you remove this idea of a base set of features, which is captured in the version number, you are left with checking each and every device. There are already too many choices within most standards - the more choices of differentiation, the more bugs and incompatibilities.
I'm involved in some international standardization, and it's mind-boggling how many unneeded choices are added to standards in the name of technology, flexibility and - of course - politics. Each and everyone adds to at least another branch in source code to test. Some choices are so uncommon that they are never really tested at all (and you can imagine what happens if they are encountered).
Android *by itself* does not restrict you to anything. The thing may be that Android is *too* open, as it gives a lot of power to the manufacturer and network operators. I can very easily install proprietary firmware on my HTC Hero phone and I can use it as a modem out of the box. As a tech savvy user I asked my network operator before buying though, this is not something your average consumer is going to do.
Funny you would say that, none of my use cases involve doing too much computational intensive stuff. Applications that really require CPU power are things like voice recognition (if this is still the case) and image processing (well, video processing and high end photographic editing at least). I don't think that the math the students have to learn will tax the CPU beyond its limits.
The number of times that I've taxed both cores of my CPU at work to the max are countable on one hand, although having idiotic settings of McAfee installed by the IT dept certainly helps. The 4 cores that came with my home system? Never! My processor is running at 27 degrees Celsius at the moment (unfortunately my fan-less dedicated GPU is running at 60 degrees Celcius all the time).
When I was working for Gateway way back, I think it was about 2 telephone calls to support and the device was sold at a loss. Fortunately, most people never call in. Imagine what happens when people were allowed to run linux distro X *and* be eligible for support. I'm a staunch supporter of Linux, trying new distro's all the time and I've been running Ubuntu for 2 years now (on both my laptop & my PC), but even I cannot see how you could ever support such systems.
The problem with O/S is that you never know what you are dealing with. Managers just hate uncertainty. It's all fine and dandy, but you cannot start or support a project that may never finish, even if it does not cost loads of money. If you start a product you make commitments to clients/upper management. Managers won't make a commitment unless they are sure they can deliver.
Now I do think that linux should have much broader support from hardware companies, and I do think it will deliver if they do (if only to allow the price of Windows to be lowered in the long term). But there are quite a few snags on the road.
Good, back to hacking my video/monitor setup, and trying if I can get TRIM to work, I'll have to convert to EXT4 first, (I think). Oh, and my power safe features have failed *AGAIN* - no suspend and I cannot upgrade my SSD firmware for some reason, and that locks my machine in suspend mode now and then - the times that suspend works that is. Ugh.
I really liked the first parts of Alien 4, but after that it quickly deteriorated. Especially the mother alien and baby alien were just cinematic crap. But the start is true cyberpunk, the idea that earth is threatened is a good idea, and the crew is worked out pretty well. So I'll just remember the first parts, the few cyberpunk ideas in it and - of course - Sigourney and Winona, who played their parts brilliantly.
TFA sais you *can* connect it to your bank account. Even though this is just a translation, I have the feeling that it actually is the idea behind it. You may be able to connect it to the bank account of each bank if you want to.
From the user point of view, I don't feel it as going back to the dark ages. It more feels that the much abused HTML standard is replaced by something more sensible. There are many things that are more application than web-page. For normal PC's it mostly means that an over-designed browser is trying to be an application. On these devices, we've got specialized applications that take advantage of their specific runtime-environments, such as a smart phone. This includes the additional features such as GPS and multi-touch, but it also includes a much less reliable connection and less memory and CPU power. On my Android it becomes obvious really fast that web-pages fade in comparison with even the most basic apps.
Its a bit of a nuisance that good GUI design is so hard, because I've long experienced that browser interfaces can leave a lot to be desired. Then again, I've been burned multiple times when my company or the client insisted on having a browser interface for an overly complex application, so maybe I'm a bit biased.
I personally think the iPad is wondrously well engineered. Whoever choose the components was really doing a good job. But the screen is a LED backlit IPS screen, the screen is really brilliant, the touchpad is very sensitive and the battery tech is top notch. The performance is more than alright and the design is beautifully minimalistic.
Note that I'm not that big an Apple fan, and I do not own any Apple products.
What? Are you joking? These capacitive screens are way way better than those devices. Oh, yea gods, the horror. Fortunately I was a bit later in the game, and the Philips VG8235 MSX computer had a keyboard I thoroughly enjoyed. Actually, it bested current PC keyboards on many points (like being able to be read out key by key - no locking issues, the easily detected INS & DEL keys, the large [ENTER] keys, the very usable arrow keys, the lack of numerical keyboard).
I don't think gambling is a big issue for mankind the first couple of thousands of years, if we have that many. I would also like to point out the ever growing population, which will happily grow around those invulnerable to gambling. That and taking gambles might be very advantageous in life, although probably not in casino's. Your case is rambling like a bad slot machine.
Where is voice recognition by the way? I haven't seen any of the old contenders for a while. I heard that Dragon Naturally Speaking is still going "strong", but is it usable beyond the niche market it has always been in? I've certainly got oodles of processor cycles and memory to spare - it can have 6GB and 3 cores out of 4 for all I care. Maybe a good topic for "ask slashdot"?
I'm not saying that Starship Troopers is not an entertaining movie, but if there was ever a movie that you should not watch to gain wisdom, it's Starship Troopers. The only thing that possibly lacks even more wisdom is the book (which does not contain the oh so fine spread sarcasm in the movie - the author seems to actually believe in the military way of gaining citizenship for instance).
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Uh, was that implied? It was only stated that the US has a bad reputation in Europe. The US is certainly free to still have a bad reputation everywhere else - and it probably has.
I know that you Americans are always against paying taxes, but how the hell that got modded to insightful is completely beyond me. Yeah, right, actually paying for your expenses always gives the idea that you can spend even more. What kind of argument is that?
As stars are sometimes flung out of galaxies during "collisions", I guess there must be lonely stars out there. And apparently they don't even always stay in the cluster out of themselves. It would not be a great surprise if a few went on a trip together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system
I guess they do travel together :), of course these are stars that are considered part of our galaxy (it presume it would be a bit difficult to detect a single star travelling all by itself outside a galaxy).
As for the "Who gives a shit", maybe alien life forms living on them, but certainly not me.
Make another one of those bad jokes and I'll have you for dinner.
I think we live in a relatively large galaxy (at least, I heard it was in the process of swallowing up to smaller ones), so I don't think that would quickly be the case. Googled it:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/001205a.html
In the netherlands there are a lot of public servants that get it for use in meetings - the general idea being that you distribute your presentations with it. This gets rid of the paper (and it stops the annoying sound of keyboards tapping away, I would imagine).
I would not say it is horrible, I think the site is very easy on the eyes - until you are trying to read the actual content :)
Garrett should just darken the grey letters a bit (say to almost black) and it should be fine.
What the heck would you have done with the corpses? Shoot them into space? Store them in used gas fields? I mean, he did not kill anyone that wasn't going to die anyway, now did he?
And where are we supposed to find such primitive tribes? American prisons?
Uh, don't watch the spoilers?
As long as they are not posted on the 8 o-clock news or broadcasted on the radio, I would call them teasers, not spoilers.
I was going to mod, but I cannot let this pass. Browsers have always added features that's true. And in some ways it is required, you cannot make progress by mindlessly adding to the standard, you will have to try out new features first.
But any *mainstream* site should be able to choose a HTML version to support, maybe taking into account some features that are badly supported by the browsers. This way you can be reasonably sure that most browsers (and with the internet appliances market soaring, there are many important ones) will parse & display the page as intended.
Now if you remove this idea of a base set of features, which is captured in the version number, you are left with checking each and every device. There are already too many choices within most standards - the more choices of differentiation, the more bugs and incompatibilities.
I'm involved in some international standardization, and it's mind-boggling how many unneeded choices are added to standards in the name of technology, flexibility and - of course - politics. Each and everyone adds to at least another branch in source code to test. Some choices are so uncommon that they are never really tested at all (and you can imagine what happens if they are encountered).
Android *by itself* does not restrict you to anything. The thing may be that Android is *too* open, as it gives a lot of power to the manufacturer and network operators. I can very easily install proprietary firmware on my HTC Hero phone and I can use it as a modem out of the box. As a tech savvy user I asked my network operator before buying though, this is not something your average consumer is going to do.
Funny you would say that, none of my use cases involve doing too much computational intensive stuff. Applications that really require CPU power are things like voice recognition (if this is still the case) and image processing (well, video processing and high end photographic editing at least). I don't think that the math the students have to learn will tax the CPU beyond its limits.
The number of times that I've taxed both cores of my CPU at work to the max are countable on one hand, although having idiotic settings of McAfee installed by the IT dept certainly helps. The 4 cores that came with my home system? Never! My processor is running at 27 degrees Celsius at the moment (unfortunately my fan-less dedicated GPU is running at 60 degrees Celcius all the time).
When I was working for Gateway way back, I think it was about 2 telephone calls to support and the device was sold at a loss. Fortunately, most people never call in. Imagine what happens when people were allowed to run linux distro X *and* be eligible for support. I'm a staunch supporter of Linux, trying new distro's all the time and I've been running Ubuntu for 2 years now (on both my laptop & my PC), but even I cannot see how you could ever support such systems.
The problem with O/S is that you never know what you are dealing with. Managers just hate uncertainty. It's all fine and dandy, but you cannot start or support a project that may never finish, even if it does not cost loads of money. If you start a product you make commitments to clients/upper management. Managers won't make a commitment unless they are sure they can deliver.
Now I do think that linux should have much broader support from hardware companies, and I do think it will deliver if they do (if only to allow the price of Windows to be lowered in the long term). But there are quite a few snags on the road.
Good, back to hacking my video/monitor setup, and trying if I can get TRIM to work, I'll have to convert to EXT4 first, (I think). Oh, and my power safe features have failed *AGAIN* - no suspend and I cannot upgrade my SSD firmware for some reason, and that locks my machine in suspend mode now and then - the times that suspend works that is. Ugh.
I really liked the first parts of Alien 4, but after that it quickly deteriorated. Especially the mother alien and baby alien were just cinematic crap. But the start is true cyberpunk, the idea that earth is threatened is a good idea, and the crew is worked out pretty well. So I'll just remember the first parts, the few cyberpunk ideas in it and - of course - Sigourney and Winona, who played their parts brilliantly.
TFA sais you *can* connect it to your bank account. Even though this is just a translation, I have the feeling that it actually is the idea behind it. You may be able to connect it to the bank account of each bank if you want to.
From the user point of view, I don't feel it as going back to the dark ages. It more feels that the much abused HTML standard is replaced by something more sensible. There are many things that are more application than web-page. For normal PC's it mostly means that an over-designed browser is trying to be an application. On these devices, we've got specialized applications that take advantage of their specific runtime-environments, such as a smart phone. This includes the additional features such as GPS and multi-touch, but it also includes a much less reliable connection and less memory and CPU power. On my Android it becomes obvious really fast that web-pages fade in comparison with even the most basic apps.
Its a bit of a nuisance that good GUI design is so hard, because I've long experienced that browser interfaces can leave a lot to be desired. Then again, I've been burned multiple times when my company or the client insisted on having a browser interface for an overly complex application, so maybe I'm a bit biased.
I personally think the iPad is wondrously well engineered. Whoever choose the components was really doing a good job. But the screen is a LED backlit IPS screen, the screen is really brilliant, the touchpad is very sensitive and the battery tech is top notch. The performance is more than alright and the design is beautifully minimalistic.
Note that I'm not that big an Apple fan, and I do not own any Apple products.
No, I'm pretty sure it still does all that even if you would have to shell out thousands of dollars each month.
I am not saying it is worth it for you, but the functionality is certainly there.
There is a threat to democracy, quick, suspend all civil liberties!
What? Are you joking? These capacitive screens are way way better than those devices. Oh, yea gods, the horror. Fortunately I was a bit later in the game, and the Philips VG8235 MSX computer had a keyboard I thoroughly enjoyed. Actually, it bested current PC keyboards on many points (like being able to be read out key by key - no locking issues, the easily detected INS & DEL keys, the large [ENTER] keys, the very usable arrow keys, the lack of numerical keyboard).
I don't think gambling is a big issue for mankind the first couple of thousands of years, if we have that many. I would also like to point out the ever growing population, which will happily grow around those invulnerable to gambling. That and taking gambles might be very advantageous in life, although probably not in casino's. Your case is rambling like a bad slot machine.
Where is voice recognition by the way? I haven't seen any of the old contenders for a while. I heard that Dragon Naturally Speaking is still going "strong", but is it usable beyond the niche market it has always been in? I've certainly got oodles of processor cycles and memory to spare - it can have 6GB and 3 cores out of 4 for all I care. Maybe a good topic for "ask slashdot"?
I'm not saying that Starship Troopers is not an entertaining movie, but if there was ever a movie that you should not watch to gain wisdom, it's Starship Troopers. The only thing that possibly lacks even more wisdom is the book (which does not contain the oh so fine spread sarcasm in the movie - the author seems to actually believe in the military way of gaining citizenship for instance).