I dont mean to be pedantic but as this is slashdot.....
you say "{IE}... should not be bundled with lets say, ubuntu"... well firefox is not "bundled" with *ubuntu but it can be installed from the repos so no, it is not the same as Windows and IE.
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? XERXES: Brought peace. REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!
The title not very clear. I first thought that this was a Mac only wireless. Like Airport extreme, that kind of thing. But no Airport as in planes and standing in line for hours to x-ray your shoes airport.
Sounds like a great place to live. Remind me to vote for you. After all look at all the great happy democratic leaders that had such systems in place. Hitler, Stalin, Hirohito. . ..(By mentioning Godwin's Law I hope to aviod it!)
...yes yes yes, But I dont see how them only now adopting the Open Sound System will help. Most people now use ALSA for their sound needs. This is yet again the government wasting taxpayers money on outdated technology.
For me it is really simple. I will buy one when you can get a HD-DVD Blu-Ray all in one player. In the same way that there was DVD+R and DVD-R. In the beginning there were two and now the only ones on sale are multi format.
I know that there are differnt lasers and lenses but so what.
I think this whole thread is going off in the wrong direction. This has nothing ot do with tradmarks and infringment. This is a simple contractual dispute. Apple computer signed a contract with Apple Corps saying they wouldnt do something. Apple Corps says they are now breaking the contract, Apple computer sya they are not. The judge will decide.
It does not matter who is moraly right or if "Corps" have the "right" to tell "Computer" to not sell music. The simple act is that once the contract is done you cant go back. If you imagine "computer" had made a deal with "corps" not to sell computer hardware that would still be legally binding.
Your two hands comment is actually very correct. This many provide a useful tool for people who type alot of the time in a "conventional" manner but most of the time I am doing other things with one of my hands (I can predict the replies to this part of my comment). I like to eat, drink, hold up a piece of paper or hold one of my kids on my lap. Plus my kids will be pissed that it does not seem to be able fit their hands very well.
On the whole a good idea and a great device for alot of people but not for me.
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If you want real physics in a space combat game there was an Elite sequel called Frontier...a long time ago for amiga and atari st days. (I think there were some java conversions running round the net...to play now that is ). This game used real physics... and I can tell you it was almost totally unplayable. You accelerate and accelarate and half way there you have to slow down...or you smash into a planet at several hundred km/sec. You try to fight and the other guy is travelling 150km/sec in one direction and you are at 200km/sec in the other. You have 1 second to get him in your sights at 100km range before he is gone.... then good luck in turning round. Great idea but could have met you half way. Anyway...happy childhood memories.
There is a more important point than this "THE FILENAME DOES NOT EQUAL THE FILE"
Let me put it like this. I can share a folder called windows_vista_source_code.zip that does not make it Windows Code. Saying that I had file with a name does not make it so. I feel that the RIAA should have to prove the file is the file.
>>well, you generally don't find complex life at temperatures where water and most (all?) hydrocarbons freeze,
Life on earth evolved to use complex hydrocarbons because they "work" well at the temperatures we experiance. Remember that we live at around 300 kelvin. Some things on earth live at 200 kelvin some at close to 450 kelvin. This is quite a wide range. Where hydrocarbons dont work something else will.
>>do you? i'm sorry you're 'fed up' with this kind of rampant speculation, but given that life anywhere will still have to obey the same physics,
I think that you underestimate "life" we have plants that eat "light". We live on a planet with an 20% oxygen atmosphere. This was put there by those plants.
We have bacteria that use sulfur instread of iron. We have creature that change color at will. We have creatures that emmit light. We have creatures that live in the middle of the sahara desert.
-220 C may be cold for us but what you need for life is a energy differential. Our fish swim in water, birds fly in the air. On another planet they may swim and fly in molten lead or liquid sulfuric gas, somewhere else they may swim in methane.
On earth some creature survive on caffine solution and hot dogs! There is no reason to assume that alien life should be anything like our own.
Let me put it this way if you told a 19th century biologist that on earth there were creatures who live at 400 Bar of pressure at +130C in extreme saline conditions they would say it was impossible, that life could not exist under these conditions.
It is silly to make a prediction of probabilities with a data set of a single sample.(In this case life on earth)We have not even looked properly for life on any of the other planets in our solar system.
"at -220 C.......so the chance of finding life on this planet is essentially zero."
I get fed up with people saying this. Our data set for planets that can support life is 1. We have no idea what "other" lifeforms can survive. Pretty much everywhere we look on earth we find life.
We find it at +120C at several thousand atmospheres of pressure next to thermal vents.
We find it at -40 C under meters of ice.
We find it living in our stomachs at a pH of less than 2.0.
We find it making a living from cleaning the insides of a sharks mouth.
I am sure that if you go into the charred remains of Reactor core number 4 chernobyl you will find plenty of life.
All you need for life is some form of energy that can be harnessed and some raw materials to use. There is no justification for saying that we should look for life at 300 kelvin and 1 atmoshphere pressure and 20% oxygen. For the report on a "scientific" article it is just lame speculation dressed as informed fact.
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I hate to make a pedantic point but 7.5% of $871,368,364 comes in at around 65 million not 6.5!
I dont mean to be pedantic but as this is slashdot .....
... should not be bundled with lets say, ubuntu" ... well firefox is not "bundled" with *ubuntu but it can be installed from the repos so no, it is not the same as Windows and IE.
you say "{IE}
.. and sue them good!
REG:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES:
Brought peace.
REG:
Oh. Peace? Shut up!
...well there are certain hormones that you can take to enable this feature and thus have a full feature set!
Ooooh... Kreversi, KMajhong.... both essential components of my desktop experience. The article is a little thin to say the least.
The title not very clear. I first thought that this was a Mac only wireless.
Like Airport extreme, that kind of thing.
But no Airport as in planes and standing in line for hours to x-ray your shoes airport.
Well I thought I smelt a discordian.
Anyway your offer of a cabinet position resolves all my moral objections to you benelovent and merciful rule. I accept.
Sounds like a great place to live. Remind me to vote for you. After all look at all the great happy democratic leaders that had such systems in place. Hitler, Stalin, Hirohito. .(By mentioning Godwin's Law I hope to aviod it!)
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...yes yes yes, But I dont see how them only now adopting the Open Sound System will help. Most people now use ALSA for their sound needs. This is yet again the government wasting taxpayers money on outdated technology.
Is this god news or not... It could be a trojan horse ...(in the Greeks bearing gifts sense...not script kiddie sense)
One correctly spelt word: barratry.
For me it is really simple. I will buy one when you can get a HD-DVD Blu-Ray all in one player. In the same way that there was DVD+R and DVD-R. In the beginning there were two and now the only ones on sale are multi format.
I know that there are differnt lasers and lenses but so what.
I think this whole thread is going off in the wrong direction. This has nothing ot do with tradmarks and infringment. This is a simple contractual dispute. Apple computer signed a contract with Apple Corps saying they wouldnt do something. Apple Corps says they are now breaking the contract, Apple computer sya they are not. The judge will decide.
It does not matter who is moraly right or if "Corps" have the "right" to tell "Computer" to not sell music. The simple act is that once the contract is done you cant go back. If you imagine "computer" had made a deal with "corps" not to sell computer hardware that would still be legally binding.
...no no no It it the fitness of your childrens childerns children...(n) that is what counts.
So I think you will find that most biologists tend to just say how many childern you produce.
Your two hands comment is actually very correct. This many provide a useful tool for people who type alot of the time in a "conventional" manner but most of the time I am doing other things with one of my hands (I can predict the replies to this part of my comment). I like to eat, drink, hold up a piece of paper or hold one of my kids on my lap. Plus my kids will be pissed that it does not seem to be able fit their hands very well.
On the whole a good idea and a great device for alot of people but not for me.
If you want real physics in a space combat game there was an Elite sequel called Frontier ...a long time ago for amiga and atari st days. (I think there were some java conversions running round the net...to play now that is ). This game used real physics ... and I can tell you it was almost totally unplayable. You accelerate and accelarate and half way there you have to slow down ...or you smash into a planet at several hundred km/sec. You try to fight and the other guy is travelling 150km/sec in one direction and you are at 200km/sec in the other. You have 1 second to get him in your sights at 100km range before he is gone.... then good luck in turning round. Great idea but could have met you half way. Anyway ...happy childhood memories.
........er how can this be +5% insightful.
10% of 1.5 bilion British Pounds is 150 million Pounds NOT 1.5 million.
Bad mods, naughty mods.
>By my calculations, based on Godwin's law, this thread is likely to die quickly.
That is because you use Nazi techniques to do your calculations.
I dont think that they can do you for perjury in your own defense.
It goes like this:
Prosecuter: I accuse you of murder
You: It wasnt me!
Jury: Guilty of murder.
Prosecuter: And he lied about it! I now accuse him of perjury.
There is a more important point than this "THE FILENAME DOES NOT EQUAL THE FILE"
Let me put it like this. I can share a folder called windows_vista_source_code.zip that does not make it Windows Code. Saying that I had file with a name does not make it so. I feel that the RIAA should have to prove the file is the file.
OK Ill bite:
>>well, you generally don't find complex life at temperatures where water and most (all?) hydrocarbons freeze,
Life on earth evolved to use complex hydrocarbons because they "work" well at the temperatures we experiance. Remember that we live at around 300 kelvin. Some things on earth live at 200 kelvin some at close to 450 kelvin. This is quite a wide range. Where hydrocarbons dont work something else will.
>>do you? i'm sorry you're 'fed up' with this kind of rampant speculation, but given that life anywhere will still have to obey the same physics,
I think that you underestimate "life" we have plants that eat "light". We live on a planet with an 20% oxygen atmosphere. This was put there by those plants.
We have bacteria that use sulfur instread of iron. We have creature that change color at will. We have creatures that emmit light. We have creatures that live in the middle of the sahara desert.
-220 C may be cold for us but what you need for life is a energy differential. Our fish swim in water, birds fly in the air. On another planet they may swim and fly in molten lead or liquid sulfuric gas, somewhere else they may swim in methane.
On earth some creature survive on caffine solution and hot dogs! There is no reason to assume that alien life should be anything like our own.
Let me put it this way if you told a 19th century biologist that on earth there were creatures who live at 400 Bar of pressure at +130C in extreme saline conditions they would say it was impossible, that life could not exist under these conditions.
It is silly to make a prediction of probabilities with a data set of a single sample.(In this case life on earth)We have not even looked properly for life on any of the other planets in our solar system.
"at -220 C .......so the chance of finding life on this planet is essentially zero."
I get fed up with people saying this. Our data set for planets that can support life is 1. We have no idea what "other" lifeforms can survive. Pretty much everywhere we look on earth we find life.
We find it at +120C at several thousand atmospheres of pressure next to thermal vents.
We find it at -40 C under meters of ice.
We find it living in our stomachs at a pH of less than 2.0.
We find it making a living from cleaning the insides of a sharks mouth.
I am sure that if you go into the charred remains of Reactor core number 4 chernobyl you will find plenty of life.
All you need for life is some form of energy that can be harnessed and some raw materials to use. There is no justification for saying that we should look for life at 300 kelvin and 1 atmoshphere pressure and 20% oxygen. For the report on a "scientific" article it is just lame speculation dressed as informed fact.
no no...its much better to protect your data by security through obscurity. If nobody can open your file then your data is safe.
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Let me be the first to say...HA HA HA HA! My heart bleeds for the worlds 2nd largest bank.