I keep seeing these stories about governments deciding to legislate the internal usage of ODF. Is the standard really ready for prime time? I can't say I know much about the details of ODF (if anything), but it seems like it's such a new standard that there are likely issues that would need to be worked out before it's so widely adopted.
Having said that, I think it's high time our public offices stop feeding monopolistic practices by continuing with document format requirements that more or less pre-determine software choice.
I'll grant that D20 possibly better than GURPS. I find it somewhat cumbersome, what with all the modifications that apply at particular points in gameplay (+1 Dodge bonus to AC if you're in waist high grass on a savannah at noon). It's been years since I've played GURPS, though, and at the time, I liked it way better than the AD&D rules. I still don't like the class-based system that D20 uses, but, as the OP says, it's what people play.
Beautiful. Now, how would nanobots produce the slime? Where do they get the sugar? The water? How do they assemble the stuff? Maybe a biologic component to them? Seems like a lot of machinery to me, no matter what. If we have nanomotors, I think nanopropellers would produce motive force for any machine large enough to take advantage of liquid jet propellant.
In related news, the virtualization system known as "Ken" offers a secure way to run BarbieOS. From TFA, "A hardened Ken kernel can support multiple instances of Barbie software running on top of it. When enough cache is available, swapping is very efficient, and several Barbies can happily cohabitate, though package management can be tricky. A warning, though: reduced cache availability significanly hampers Ken's ability to maintain Barbie instances."
Strangeness... I'm reading this on a ThinkPad R40, and took the time to examine the mouse button placement, which I've never given much attention to before. I've used both left and right mouse buttons for the TrackPoint, as well as for the TrackPad. I'd never paid much attention before, but the set of buttons for the TrackPoint also has a middle button. Staring at it for a moment, I wondered what it did. Moving the mouse to a neutral area on the page so as not to inadvertently click something, I pushed the button. My browser (Firefox on OpenSuse) immediately jumped to a page on the Perseid Meteor Shower. I don't remember ever visiting that page, but I wouldn't say that I've never been there before, either. I just tried it in another tab, and it goes to the same place. Very strange. I may have to dig into my settings and see what the middle button does...
I didn't bother to RTFA, expecting that the commentary would be the most interesting part. That said, I suspect if anything like this did come about, it would be more from interface designers building clients based on MMO technologies rather than game companies suddenly deciding that singing Kum-ba-yah is a good idea.
It's taken us ten years to get from "web as extended text document" to "web as a unique presentation model", and we're not really realizing the fullness of it yet, but we're at least getting there. The next major leap may come after someone takes a game engine and writes a network client around it. If it's got cool factor, the growth pattern will follow that of MySpace. If the client is written using open standards, then others will implement their own clients, and a new round of browser wars will be on.
I think they did it because religious wars are something we (given the history of the Western world) can understand. I think it's amusing that the bad guys are the ones with the monotheistic religion and the good guys are the pagans; something that probably creates a certain amount of consternation among Judeo-Christian or Islamic religiously-minded fans of the show.
Heh. Well, it's maybe not what you think. Yes, I've used legacy hardware before, but not extensively. We have a growing array of IBM P570 machines here, though, that are divided up into LPARs (a recycled IBM term). You can run either AIX or Linux on the LPARs, give them scalable, on-demand processor and memory settings, reboot them independent of the rest of the LPARs on the host, share hardware resources, etc. With AIX 5.3, you can create an LPAR that uses processors in 0.1 processor increments. In theory, you can have an LPAR that only uses 0.1 processors, but I don't believe we've configured one at less than 0.5.
Using virtualization is about the only way I'd want to pursue Windows on a Mac (or any computer, for that matter). I want the option to switch to a Windows LPAR running concurrently on the box, but not have to shut down the main OS to do so. VMWare or VirtualPC get part of the way there, but, as you say, some sort of hypervisor would be the way to go.
Microsoft is evidently going to start shipping a multimedia keyboard for the Mac in June. It will probably work just fine with Windows as well. I don't imagine them shipping any hardware that DIDN'T work with Windows.
After burning up a couple of COTS shredders (don't believe the outside of the boxes when they describe how much they can cut at once), my wife and I have resorted to burning junk mail in the fireplace. We toss in a couple of logs, sit back with cups of tea, and enjoy the warmth provided by a couple months' collection of junk mail.
Oh, wouldn't that be ironically amusing; to see the spirit of some suicide bomber standing at the gates to heaven, saying to the greeter, "Whaddya mean fruit basket? Where are my virgins?"
AFAIK, Muslims consider Jesus and Abraham to be great prophets, and to them, Mohammed is just another prophet. Well, okay, not "just another prophet"; they consider him the greatest one. He certainly had a lot of really smart things to say.
Islam started with Mohammed, who lived in the late 500's (date uncertain, evidently even to Mohammed, who was an orphan, though 545 is the "official" date) and died in 632. I'm not expert on Islamic history, but I'm reading an excellent book entitled "No god but God" by Reza Aslan. It's a very approachable look at the history (that's as far as I've gotten) of Islam and the culture of the Arabic world around Mohammed's time.
Not necessarily. The more power (hp or kw) per volume of fuel you generate, the more efficient your fuel consumption is per unit of consumption of power (typically miles or kilometers). The issue becomes one of drive train design; you have to design your transmission, differential and wheels (diameter, tire inflation parameters, etc.) to take into account a low-rev, high torque engine.
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Right. It's also got penguins. It must run Linux.
I keep seeing these stories about governments deciding to legislate the internal usage of ODF. Is the standard really ready for prime time? I can't say I know much about the details of ODF (if anything), but it seems like it's such a new standard that there are likely issues that would need to be worked out before it's so widely adopted.
Having said that, I think it's high time our public offices stop feeding monopolistic practices by continuing with document format requirements that more or less pre-determine software choice.
And what effect does it have on the price of VirtualPC for Macintosh??
I'll grant that D20 possibly better than GURPS. I find it somewhat cumbersome, what with all the modifications that apply at particular points in gameplay (+1 Dodge bonus to AC if you're in waist high grass on a savannah at noon). It's been years since I've played GURPS, though, and at the time, I liked it way better than the AD&D rules. I still don't like the class-based system that D20 uses, but, as the OP says, it's what people play.
BETA vs. VHS: Quality doesn't necessarily impart popularity.
Beautiful. Now, how would nanobots produce the slime? Where do they get the sugar? The water? How do they assemble the stuff? Maybe a biologic component to them? Seems like a lot of machinery to me, no matter what. If we have nanomotors, I think nanopropellers would produce motive force for any machine large enough to take advantage of liquid jet propellant.
For many of the same reasons the sibling post outlines, it should be renamed "usednet".
In related news, the virtualization system known as "Ken" offers a secure way to run BarbieOS. From TFA, "A hardened Ken kernel can support multiple instances of Barbie software running on top of it. When enough cache is available, swapping is very efficient, and several Barbies can happily cohabitate, though package management can be tricky. A warning, though: reduced cache availability significanly hampers Ken's ability to maintain Barbie instances."
Strangeness... I'm reading this on a ThinkPad R40, and took the time to examine the mouse button placement, which I've never given much attention to before. I've used both left and right mouse buttons for the TrackPoint, as well as for the TrackPad. I'd never paid much attention before, but the set of buttons for the TrackPoint also has a middle button. Staring at it for a moment, I wondered what it did. Moving the mouse to a neutral area on the page so as not to inadvertently click something, I pushed the button. My browser (Firefox on OpenSuse) immediately jumped to a page on the Perseid Meteor Shower. I don't remember ever visiting that page, but I wouldn't say that I've never been there before, either. I just tried it in another tab, and it goes to the same place. Very strange. I may have to dig into my settings and see what the middle button does...
I didn't bother to RTFA, expecting that the commentary would be the most interesting part. That said, I suspect if anything like this did come about, it would be more from interface designers building clients based on MMO technologies rather than game companies suddenly deciding that singing Kum-ba-yah is a good idea.
It's taken us ten years to get from "web as extended text document" to "web as a unique presentation model", and we're not really realizing the fullness of it yet, but we're at least getting there. The next major leap may come after someone takes a game engine and writes a network client around it. If it's got cool factor, the growth pattern will follow that of MySpace. If the client is written using open standards, then others will implement their own clients, and a new round of browser wars will be on.
Blood relations aren't the only way to be part of a family.
I think they did it because religious wars are something we (given the history of the Western world) can understand. I think it's amusing that the bad guys are the ones with the monotheistic religion and the good guys are the pagans; something that probably creates a certain amount of consternation among Judeo-Christian or Islamic religiously-minded fans of the show.
Heh. Well, it's maybe not what you think. Yes, I've used legacy hardware before, but not extensively. We have a growing array of IBM P570 machines here, though, that are divided up into LPARs (a recycled IBM term). You can run either AIX or Linux on the LPARs, give them scalable, on-demand processor and memory settings, reboot them independent of the rest of the LPARs on the host, share hardware resources, etc. With AIX 5.3, you can create an LPAR that uses processors in 0.1 processor increments. In theory, you can have an LPAR that only uses 0.1 processors, but I don't believe we've configured one at less than 0.5.
Using virtualization is about the only way I'd want to pursue Windows on a Mac (or any computer, for that matter). I want the option to switch to a Windows LPAR running concurrently on the box, but not have to shut down the main OS to do so. VMWare or VirtualPC get part of the way there, but, as you say, some sort of hypervisor would be the way to go.
Microsoft is evidently going to start shipping a multimedia keyboard for the Mac in June. It will probably work just fine with Windows as well. I don't imagine them shipping any hardware that DIDN'T work with Windows.
After burning up a couple of COTS shredders (don't believe the outside of the boxes when they describe how much they can cut at once), my wife and I have resorted to burning junk mail in the fireplace. We toss in a couple of logs, sit back with cups of tea, and enjoy the warmth provided by a couple months' collection of junk mail.
Oh, wouldn't that be ironically amusing; to see the spirit of some suicide bomber standing at the gates to heaven, saying to the greeter, "Whaddya mean fruit basket? Where are my virgins?"
Notice also that the general idea of a Christian is Anglo. By count, I bet most of them are either Asian or Latino.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their places, but believe not that man changes his nature.
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
AFAIK, Muslims consider Jesus and Abraham to be great prophets, and to them, Mohammed is just another prophet. Well, okay, not "just another prophet"; they consider him the greatest one. He certainly had a lot of really smart things to say.
Right. And what have the Romans ever done for us?
Islam started with Mohammed, who lived in the late 500's (date uncertain, evidently even to Mohammed, who was an orphan, though 545 is the "official" date) and died in 632. I'm not expert on Islamic history, but I'm reading an excellent book entitled "No god but God" by Reza Aslan. It's a very approachable look at the history (that's as far as I've gotten) of Islam and the culture of the Arabic world around Mohammed's time.
That only works if the same side is facing the sun all the time. Most objects in the solar system have some sort of rotation.
Not necessarily. The more power (hp or kw) per volume of fuel you generate, the more efficient your fuel consumption is per unit of consumption of power (typically miles or kilometers). The issue becomes one of drive train design; you have to design your transmission, differential and wheels (diameter, tire inflation parameters, etc.) to take into account a low-rev, high torque engine.
The CBS article is dated Feb 17th, so I believe so.