Sounds like a great idea. While there will be more DLLs in the registry, at least each and every program will have it's "own" DLL and can't be broken. Although I wonder if the software will default to the newest DLL and then go back if it doesn't function correctly.
I can't imagine how bad Usenet would be without UDPs. It's totally overrun by spam as it is. You can't go into any unmoderated thread without seeing hundreds of Lolita and girl/horse sex adverts. I've never gotten a good answer to a tech question from Usenet either. Is Usenet even relevant anymore, being full of spam and the technical illiterates? I find sites such as Slashdot and the Futuremark boards to be much more informative.
I'm not too clear on how this works. Wouldn't it be quite easy to disrupt a beam of light, through physical or other means? Seems you could put a piece of aluminum foil in it's path or disrupt the beam with other beams quite easily. And what about safety issues? Is it visible to drivers? I remember reading that when PARC first had a line of sight laser to connect two buildings across a highway, during inclement weather drivers would crash while distracted. If it's too high, would have to worry about aircraft. And since a laser can damage your eyes, wonder if this type of light can as well.
Samsung is the worst hardware ever. I bought a Samsung SyncMaster 950p monitor, it had a gash on the screen. So I exchanged it, it was defective, exchanged, defective, up to the ninth monitor (which is still defective). Samsung only replaces defective hardware with refurbished hardware, which in this case means "broken crap we never fixed." Samsung doesn't care about the customer, and will happily sell crap and commit warranty fraud because people are still buying the flimsy stuff.
Of course not. "I forgot about the power cable." How can anything be toasted without electricity? The IDE ports are just connectors and there's no difference it you plug in an IDE cable and leave it or plug an IDE cable into a cold drive.
I've hotplugged hard drives (WD and Maxtor) and a Promise IDE controller in an old 430HX-based board. They seem quite sturdy. Although I did have a WD drive die on me recently, it was second-hand free and wasn't being used anyways.
I'm fairly certain I've damaged motherboards before with improper EDS protection countermeasures. Now I always ground myself to what I'm working on, not the outlet (oops).
One doesn't *have* to create strawman arguments. When a Democrat suggets we nationalize healthcare, give more money to the non-productive, or join France in Germany in their anti-Americanism, it isn't neccessary to create strawmen. And if we had to, most of us wouldn't. As for narrowing contextual evidence, Liberals are famous for this ploy. Take the Koyoto Protocol. Not only would it have neligble effect on global warming (which despite Time magazine, the existence of which is in much debate), it would have specifically targeted our economy, while letting China and Europe get away with little to no economical devastation. If you think the current economy is bad... And I don't know what radio talk show you're listening to, but Extreme Games in Boston welcomes callers of the Liberal persuasion. It's not conservative's fault if most of them are intellectually decimated by the host. And re: your sig, John Stuart Mill was talking about a quite different group of "conservatives" than todays conservatives, just as todays "liberals" have nothing at all to do with 19th century Liberalism. Talk about ignoring contextual evidence!
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Nope. Government co-erced socialism is not freedom, ergo not American. However, if one wants to go be a socialist and not force the rest of us to go along with them, that's fine.
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It's not a troll. Salon is failing, see the uber-parent. Why? Not enough people paying? For what? Liberal garbage. Liberalism does enslave. Communism, socialism, fascism, these are all variants of liberalism. And they weren't exactly known for freedom. *Classical* Liberalism, on the other hand...
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"I would be sorry to see it go. I think it's funny that people think Salon is "left". I mean, if it is left, what is the Boston Phoenix [bostonphoenix.com] or the Village Voice [villagevoice.com]?"
Just as anti-American socialist as Salon, but in hardcopy. Although the Boston Phoenix doesn't seem to be quite as crooked as the Village Voice.
Exactly. People don't like being lied to, and are slowly realizing that the Left is Anti-American and Anti-Freedom. Also, most people who read NR and listen to talk radio are the best and brightest (in Boston), unlike certain other groups who don't understand a logical argument or inconsistency.
I've only read chapters 1 and 2, but so far it is very thoughful and deals with issues that the mainstream media refuse to deal with, perhaps for igorance though (which is a good thing, as we can't have them running around screaming doomsday over our future). Death is death, regardless of how it is caused. The 1st Rule of Robotics will obviously have to be revised, as I view the aspect of forced enternity as Hell. Voluntary is another matter alotogether. So far, I am a bit disturbed that in this view of the future humans are under the benevolent dictatorship of a computer, and have the same mental abilities that we have today. The Singularity is supposed to augment and transform us, not turn us into peons of a computerized nanny state. Absolute moral relativity is another problem that has to be worked into the Rules of Robotics. We can't not punish crimimals, nor be prevented from terminating them. To do otherwise would to absolve them of all guilt and render their crimes non-crimes. The more I think about this, it seems that Prime Intellect (the uber-comp) is a Democrat of sorts, who won't let live or die on our own terms, and frees the criminals into society, who aren't guilty enough of anything to be punished. And what point is living in perpetuity if it's just a holodeck with no enhanced humanity? Humanity is forever static, never evolving, always existing, and now forever alone, that all other species have been terminated. This is the bleak, barren landscape of our future Hell if we are not careful.
Either this isn't a PDA but some other product whose true purpose is being hidden, IBM doesn't know what it is yet, it is a PDA but is light years ahead of Palm OS and PPC, or someone made a huge mistake. Palm OS and PPC dominate the PDA OS market, with Palm in the lead. A sliver represents Linux etc. If IBM's product is not at least three times as good as Palm/PPC or significantly underpriced, it will fail. If it has blazing performance, excellent hand writing recongnition, and advanced AI (maybe similiar to the Newton but enhanced), it won't sell, especially in a depressed economy. It will need several killer features that no one else has to succeed.
It is also possible that it is just a tool for the IBM server market. Although why anyone couldn't use a Palm/PPC device instead is an open question. Or IBM is tossing out a hardware ref and seeing what happens, who bites, what develops.
Clear Channel owns every radio station? I've never heard of Clear Channel, and none of the stations I listen to are owned by Clear Channel. What/where is this Leviathan that you speak of?
Other people have already spoken on this, but I feel the need to as well. Cringely is a complete buffoon who tosses names and history around without really know what he's talking about; which is why he can only get a job on the dole. To whine about a command line in Windows while speaking about windowing systems and Linux itself is ludicrous. I guess we can't use Linux, either because it has a command line. Wait, it doesn't, because it has a pretty GUI. Oh, wait, it is, because the pretty GUI has a command line, repeat.
"Linux is better, faster, stronger than whatever is living underneath XP now, right?"
Apples and oranges, sometimes, stronger how?
"Apple has made a virtue of doing exactly this with MacOS-X, heralding its Mach kernel and BSD roots. Couldn't Microsoft do the same?"
The NT kernel is based on the Mach kernel, you idiot.
"As Mike Class points out, by not having to develop its own OS, Microsoft could also save money."
Um, no, because Windows is worth more than the sum of its parts. And if the Windows GUI was ported over to Linux, that means we wouldn't have DirectX and all the other goodies Windows has. Since when was breaking all the software to move over to another kernel that's just different (in construction and generation) a good idea?
I would contact Cringely directly, but there's no e-mail, and the forum is down. Hmm...
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Sounds like a great idea. While there will be more DLLs in the registry, at least each and every program will have it's "own" DLL and can't be broken. Although I wonder if the software will default to the newest DLL and then go back if it doesn't function correctly.
I can't imagine how bad Usenet would be without UDPs. It's totally overrun by spam as it is. You can't go into any unmoderated thread without seeing hundreds of Lolita and girl/horse sex adverts. I've never gotten a good answer to a tech question from Usenet either. Is Usenet even relevant anymore, being full of spam and the technical illiterates? I find sites such as Slashdot and the Futuremark boards to be much more informative.
One more reason why Congress shouldn't be delegating legislative power to unanswerable federal agencies.
I'm not too clear on how this works. Wouldn't it be quite easy to disrupt a beam of light, through physical or other means? Seems you could put a piece of aluminum foil in it's path or disrupt the beam with other beams quite easily. And what about safety issues? Is it visible to drivers? I remember reading that when PARC first had a line of sight laser to connect two buildings across a highway, during inclement weather drivers would crash while distracted. If it's too high, would have to worry about aircraft. And since a laser can damage your eyes, wonder if this type of light can as well.
Samsung is the worst hardware ever. I bought a Samsung SyncMaster 950p monitor, it had a gash on the screen. So I exchanged it, it was defective, exchanged, defective, up to the ninth monitor (which is still defective). Samsung only replaces defective hardware with refurbished hardware, which in this case means "broken crap we never fixed." Samsung doesn't care about the customer, and will happily sell crap and commit warranty fraud because people are still buying the flimsy stuff.
Thank you.
Of course not. "I forgot about the power cable." How can anything be toasted without electricity? The IDE ports are just connectors and there's no difference it you plug in an IDE cable and leave it or plug an IDE cable into a cold drive.
I've hotplugged hard drives (WD and Maxtor) and a Promise IDE controller in an old 430HX-based board. They seem quite sturdy. Although I did have a WD drive die on me recently, it was second-hand free and wasn't being used anyways.
I'm fairly certain I've damaged motherboards before with improper EDS protection countermeasures. Now I always ground myself to what I'm working on, not the outlet (oops).
One doesn't *have* to create strawman arguments. When a Democrat suggets we nationalize healthcare, give more money to the non-productive, or join France in Germany in their anti-Americanism, it isn't neccessary to create strawmen. And if we had to, most of us wouldn't. As for narrowing contextual evidence, Liberals are famous for this ploy. Take the Koyoto Protocol. Not only would it have neligble effect on global warming (which despite Time magazine, the existence of which is in much debate), it would have specifically targeted our economy, while letting China and Europe get away with little to no economical devastation. If you think the current economy is bad... And I don't know what radio talk show you're listening to, but Extreme Games in Boston welcomes callers of the Liberal persuasion. It's not conservative's fault if most of them are intellectually decimated by the host. And re: your sig, John Stuart Mill was talking about a quite different group of "conservatives" than todays conservatives, just as todays "liberals" have nothing at all to do with 19th century Liberalism. Talk about ignoring contextual evidence!
Nope. Government co-erced socialism is not freedom, ergo not American. However, if one wants to go be a socialist and not force the rest of us to go along with them, that's fine.
It's not a troll. Salon is failing, see the uber-parent. Why? Not enough people paying? For what? Liberal garbage. Liberalism does enslave. Communism, socialism, fascism, these are all variants of liberalism. And they weren't exactly known for freedom. *Classical* Liberalism, on the other hand...
"I would be sorry to see it go. I think it's funny that people think Salon is "left". I mean, if it is left, what is the Boston Phoenix [bostonphoenix.com] or the Village Voice [villagevoice.com]?" Just as anti-American socialist as Salon, but in hardcopy. Although the Boston Phoenix doesn't seem to be quite as crooked as the Village Voice.
Exactly. People don't like being lied to, and are slowly realizing that the Left is Anti-American and Anti-Freedom. Also, most people who read NR and listen to talk radio are the best and brightest (in Boston), unlike certain other groups who don't understand a logical argument or inconsistency.
I've only read chapters 1 and 2, but so far it is very thoughful and deals with issues that the mainstream media refuse to deal with, perhaps for igorance though (which is a good thing, as we can't have them running around screaming doomsday over our future). Death is death, regardless of how it is caused. The 1st Rule of Robotics will obviously have to be revised, as I view the aspect of forced enternity as Hell. Voluntary is another matter alotogether. So far, I am a bit disturbed that in this view of the future humans are under the benevolent dictatorship of a computer, and have the same mental abilities that we have today. The Singularity is supposed to augment and transform us, not turn us into peons of a computerized nanny state. Absolute moral relativity is another problem that has to be worked into the Rules of Robotics. We can't not punish crimimals, nor be prevented from terminating them. To do otherwise would to absolve them of all guilt and render their crimes non-crimes. The more I think about this, it seems that Prime Intellect (the uber-comp) is a Democrat of sorts, who won't let live or die on our own terms, and frees the criminals into society, who aren't guilty enough of anything to be punished. And what point is living in perpetuity if it's just a holodeck with no enhanced humanity? Humanity is forever static, never evolving, always existing, and now forever alone, that all other species have been terminated. This is the bleak, barren landscape of our future Hell if we are not careful.
Either this isn't a PDA but some other product whose true purpose is being hidden, IBM doesn't know what it is yet, it is a PDA but is light years ahead of Palm OS and PPC, or someone made a huge mistake. Palm OS and PPC dominate the PDA OS market, with Palm in the lead. A sliver represents Linux etc. If IBM's product is not at least three times as good as Palm/PPC or significantly underpriced, it will fail. If it has blazing performance, excellent hand writing recongnition, and advanced AI (maybe similiar to the Newton but enhanced), it won't sell, especially in a depressed economy. It will need several killer features that no one else has to succeed. It is also possible that it is just a tool for the IBM server market. Although why anyone couldn't use a Palm/PPC device instead is an open question. Or IBM is tossing out a hardware ref and seeing what happens, who bites, what develops.
Clear Channel owns every radio station? I've never heard of Clear Channel, and none of the stations I listen to are owned by Clear Channel. What/where is this Leviathan that you speak of?
Other people have already spoken on this, but I feel the need to as well. Cringely is a complete buffoon who tosses names and history around without really know what he's talking about; which is why he can only get a job on the dole. To whine about a command line in Windows while speaking about windowing systems and Linux itself is ludicrous. I guess we can't use Linux, either because it has a command line. Wait, it doesn't, because it has a pretty GUI. Oh, wait, it is, because the pretty GUI has a command line, repeat. "Linux is better, faster, stronger than whatever is living underneath XP now, right?" Apples and oranges, sometimes, stronger how? "Apple has made a virtue of doing exactly this with MacOS-X, heralding its Mach kernel and BSD roots. Couldn't Microsoft do the same?" The NT kernel is based on the Mach kernel, you idiot. "As Mike Class points out, by not having to develop its own OS, Microsoft could also save money." Um, no, because Windows is worth more than the sum of its parts. And if the Windows GUI was ported over to Linux, that means we wouldn't have DirectX and all the other goodies Windows has. Since when was breaking all the software to move over to another kernel that's just different (in construction and generation) a good idea? I would contact Cringely directly, but there's no e-mail, and the forum is down. Hmm...