"Everyone i know shaves so I don't see how effective this would be."
Everyone you know? How/Why do you know this...? Of all the people I know, aside from my wife, I know exactly ZERO (0) % about their personal grooming down pubic region. Why in the world would you know this in your circle?
Right. The technical aspects of h.264 were never an issue, its always been about the licensing. I don't think this is necessarily any kind of an issue for end users so much. If you to keep your linux rig purely oss, then opt of of installing that driver. This is really an issue if you want to distribute ubuntu in your nifty new thingamabob product, puts in an extra layer of paperwork and licensing for that. Now on the other hand, creeping non-oss is a little scary, I don't blame those who feel like a near-total freak out is in order. Canonical ultimately can do what it wants, but if it wants to keep serving the oss community (at least better than red hat did), its need to check this kind of activity to a minimum.
...this would turn out to be the case. I should have published a book on how little this would work. But I did have my doubts, way back in the 90's. It came down to a simple question for me; could a speech recognizer ever "get" irony. I came to the conclusion that it would be very difficult at that time. Guess I was right.
I think the underlining point is still valid, however, while I do have an XBox 360 connected to my big screen lcd, which is nice, my dual core (Athlon 64-bit) windows 7 with 2 still decent 19" lcd's can run circles around it. Plus, if I want to nudge it a little more, I can upgrade the gpu, add more ram, up the cores with even faster processors, higher bandwidth FSB mobos, whatever. Its kind of like an open hardware platform. That's very attractive to geeks and hobbyists. But I think consumers mostly want to grab ready to go hw off the shelf.
Way back in early '94 or so gopher was a thing, that and ftp, of course. Since then I don't think I've given it a second thought. In fact, I'm having a hell of a time remember anything useful I found via gopher. I once gopher'd a complete list of internet hosts (ips.) I can't remember the list being more than a few thousand lines. That was probably the last time I use gopher.
Jobs is whining about flash because Apple didn't invent it. That's all. He's right about its license, its old technology, it will be gone in, I dunno, 10 years or so, but its no reason to whine about it. Just deal with it. People still use flash today, just put it in already ya lil b*tch Jobs.
"... and I've given up. Between the backport madness, button relocation debate, purplification, and a complete disassociation with the community I did something which I didn't think I'd ever do. After 10 years of.deb distros, I'm running Fedora."
So long, cya, don't let the reboot command hit ya on the you know... Yeah, the purple theme thing is weird. I changed it after first boot. The window control buttons on the left was lame, so I moved 'm back to the right. After that, I had a strange problem with X losing its xorg.conf (or what ever the main config file is called) after installing the "reccomended" nVidia driver for my box. Removed that and installed the cutting edge ver. Since then, no issues. Lucid LTS is pretty sweet. Even after the slight pain of dealing with the video driver I was hardly ready to go to Fedora. You must have a pretty thick skin when it comes to your OS's.
I'm sure there's varying degrees to this, as everything else and everyone's needs are different, but as time marches on I've been finding my need to print things has become less and less urgent. Am I alone?
...under DOS, you have complete control of the hardware.
But that's an application requirement, not an illustration of the failures of other operating systems. Complete and total control of the hardware isn't generally a good thing to give users who need to do various and sundry computing tsaks. In, hhoever, a process control application, a non-predictive OS is totally inappropriate. Using XP for these kinds of applications is not a good idea, and I'm surprised any engineer would try to make it happen. In my own company we are just now getting away from using DOS in our products and moving to a Linux-based RTOS. Machine bit width was the main reason I think. XP for RTOS applications? Really?? Why?
So, as you can see, that baseless comment on usenet's post volume is not only baseless but also badly thought out.
But that still doesn't change the fact that usenet is by and large populated by uber-geeks and porn surfers, and the ratio of the latter to the former is by magnitudes larger, and both are slowly withering anyway. Folks like what they are used to. First time kids who start using the net in earnest do not clamor for their news groups. Tell me I'm wrong.
Interesting idea. I don't know if its for me, per se, especially since I'm not a very prolific, writer, thinker, inventor, or all-around brilliant mind, but it is a way to leave a virtual presence postmortem.
Government IT people don't go crazy by not realizing that their marching orders are insane.
Government people don't really do anything other than take money from me (and I assume you) and then go spend it on crap, useless crap, and a few programs for the indigent. Funny how they are incredibly efficient at collecting our money. At one of my first jobs in Silicon Valley we had an engineer who was caught surfing porn, this was back around '95. He was fired on the spot. Move that guy's position to something in the Fed. and he probably makes $120K+. Some of those ass clowns spent their entire 8 hours cruising for ass pix. I wish I could emancipate myself from their slimy, c*m-soaked grip.
Please at least try to claim what you really wanted to claim: you don't use usenet (at least for something other than feeding your porn habits) and as you don't use it you believe it somehow sucks. Yet, that doesn't make it true, does it?
I shouldn't respond to your nonsense, and I won't, other than to say I was of course right, your a die-hard usenet fanatic, and you object to others maligning an essentially useless technology. Slap yourself in the face, wake up, and try to get a girl friend. That's about as the best advice I can give you.
Sure, but in this case, I dunno that Cox are being the complete ass clowns they usually are. I was a big time usenet user, long ago. Lately, I've forgotten myself that it evens exists. Yes, I'm sure that there are die-hards who will take issue with this. To them I say "GET A LIFE". There's so many better, richer alternatives out there now for connecting with masses of people with the same interests. Besides, usenet has become a huge pornography distribution network with a few anecdotal, non-porn topics anyway, who really gives a sh*t if isp's are getting a little tired of carrying it. There's better ways to distribute porn than usenet as well. Usenet was one of those great protocols that came with this new-fangled internet thingy. Now its a little passed its prime and ready for pasture. Let it go.
I dont understand the drive to implement them so often and frequently.
The cynic in me says 'Yeah, its a money grab; new cpu = new socket, and the user shells out for new hw, Intel wins big until everyone else reverse engineers the whole set up and sells clones." But then the rationalist in me knows that socket aside, the new cpu is going to require a new chip set, especially if the package contains a gpu as well. So its kind of moot. Plus, anything they can do to remove pins is generally a good thing. Generally. One less pin sounds like they've made something more efficient.
You probably meant "No, it's not. Not if the warhead is nuclear." Read the post. I said "almost". This cloak would be nearly completely effective against bullets. Nukes would not be. Man I get tired of you children.
I'll be damned if the people who walk off the podium after accepting an academy don't "act" like winners. Would appear to be that those stupid awards appear to gauge winners and losers, as well as the constant report of ticket sales every week with regard to new box office draws. I do respect Ebert, I've been a long time fan of his show going way back before Gene Siskel passed on and Richard Roeper came on board (the new show by the way with Scott and Philips is schytte, the producers have ruined it with their game show-like nonsense), but he's sounding a bit like Grandpa. Art is a changing canvas, technology advances everything, even the definition of art. If you live in the Age of Technology and are stuck in static definitions for every day life experiences, your pretty much screwed. Movies will probably evolve to include more and more viewer interaction anyway, its inevitable. Then where will ya be, old man Ebert??
He was often heard to ask total strangers whom he'd just met if he could borrow enough cash to purchase a hamburger and would promise to gladly pay them back on Tuesday.
No kidding, this is like html 101. Every employer I've spoken to since the 90's who was considering me for any kind of web work has asked me if I know how to guard against xss and sql injection attacks. This is not some arcane black art. No wonder Palm is failing. And I like WebOS as a platform.
"All this spin about precrime is utterly absurd. "
I think we have a future offender here, lets put him in the "program".
If you have a hard time telling snerky comments from earnest point-making (mine almost certainly obviously being the former), I think they sell score cards in the/. lobby.
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"Everyone i know shaves so I don't see how effective this would be."
Everyone you know? How/Why do you know this...? Of all the people I know, aside from my wife, I know exactly ZERO (0) % about their personal grooming down pubic region. Why in the world would you know this in your circle?
Agreed. This is troll bait.
"Except that is already the case."
Right. The technical aspects of h.264 were never an issue, its always been about the licensing. I don't think this is necessarily any kind of an issue for end users so much. If you to keep your linux rig purely oss, then opt of of installing that driver. This is really an issue if you want to distribute ubuntu in your nifty new thingamabob product, puts in an extra layer of paperwork and licensing for that.
Now on the other hand, creeping non-oss is a little scary, I don't blame those who feel like a near-total freak out is in order. Canonical ultimately can do what it wants, but if it wants to keep serving the oss community (at least better than red hat did), its need to check this kind of activity to a minimum.
...this would turn out to be the case. I should have published a book on how little this would work. But I did have my doubts, way back in the 90's. It came down to a simple question for me; could a speech recognizer ever "get" irony. I came to the conclusion that it would be very difficult at that time. Guess I was right.
I think the underlining point is still valid, however, while I do have an XBox 360 connected to my big screen lcd, which is nice, my dual core (Athlon 64-bit) windows 7 with 2 still decent 19" lcd's can run circles around it. Plus, if I want to nudge it a little more, I can upgrade the gpu, add more ram, up the cores with even faster processors, higher bandwidth FSB mobos, whatever. Its kind of like an open hardware platform. That's very attractive to geeks and hobbyists. But I think consumers mostly want to grab ready to go hw off the shelf.
"...why would they (the hospital) have a marketing department?"
Are you kidding me? Here is S. Cal we're inundated with advertising for medical concerns, both private and publicly funded. Its ridiculous.
Way back in early '94 or so gopher was a thing, that and ftp, of course. Since then I don't think I've given it a second thought. In fact, I'm having a hell of a time remember anything useful I found via gopher. I once gopher'd a complete list of internet hosts (ips.) I can't remember the list being more than a few thousand lines. That was probably the last time I use gopher.
Jobs is whining about flash because Apple didn't invent it. That's all. He's right about its license, its old technology, it will be gone in, I dunno, 10 years or so, but its no reason to whine about it. Just deal with it. People still use flash today, just put it in already ya lil b*tch Jobs.
Agreed. WebOS is a nice os and I hope HP with all its marketing resources can get it more visibility.
"... and I've given up. Between the backport madness, button relocation debate, purplification, and a complete disassociation with the community I did something which I didn't think I'd ever do. After 10 years of .deb distros, I'm running Fedora."
So long, cya, don't let the reboot command hit ya on the you know... Yeah, the purple theme thing is weird. I changed it after first boot. The window control buttons on the left was lame, so I moved 'm back to the right. After that, I had a strange problem with X losing its xorg.conf (or what ever the main config file is called) after installing the "reccomended" nVidia driver for my box. Removed that and installed the cutting edge ver. Since then, no issues. Lucid LTS is pretty sweet. Even after the slight pain of dealing with the video driver I was hardly ready to go to Fedora. You must have a pretty thick skin when it comes to your OS's.
I'm sure there's varying degrees to this, as everything else and everyone's needs are different, but as time marches on I've been finding my need to print things has become less and less urgent. Am I alone?
Understood. Difficult to find off the shelf stuff for free, but there's this; http://www.lynuxworks.com/embedded-linux/embedded-linux.php
...under DOS, you have complete control of the hardware.
But that's an application requirement, not an illustration of the failures of other operating systems. Complete and total control of the hardware isn't generally a good thing to give users who need to do various and sundry computing tsaks. In, hhoever, a process control application, a non-predictive OS is totally inappropriate. Using XP for these kinds of applications is not a good idea, and I'm surprised any engineer would try to make it happen. In my own company we are just now getting away from using DOS in our products and moving to a Linux-based RTOS. Machine bit width was the main reason I think. XP for RTOS applications? Really?? Why?
So, as you can see, that baseless comment on usenet's post volume is not only baseless but also badly thought out.
But that still doesn't change the fact that usenet is by and large populated by uber-geeks and porn surfers, and the ratio of the latter to the former is by magnitudes larger, and both are slowly withering anyway. Folks like what they are used to. First time kids who start using the net in earnest do not clamor for their news groups. Tell me I'm wrong.
Interesting idea. I don't know if its for me, per se, especially since I'm not a very prolific, writer, thinker, inventor, or all-around brilliant mind, but it is a way to leave a virtual presence postmortem.
Government IT people don't go crazy by not realizing that their marching orders are insane.
Government people don't really do anything other than take money from me (and I assume you) and then go spend it on crap, useless crap, and a few programs for the indigent. Funny how they are incredibly efficient at collecting our money. At one of my first jobs in Silicon Valley we had an engineer who was caught surfing porn, this was back around '95. He was fired on the spot. Move that guy's position to something in the Fed. and he probably makes $120K+. Some of those ass clowns spent their entire 8 hours cruising for ass pix. I wish I could emancipate myself from their slimy, c*m-soaked grip.
Please at least try to claim what you really wanted to claim: you don't use usenet (at least for something other than feeding your porn habits) and as you don't use it you believe it somehow sucks. Yet, that doesn't make it true, does it?
I shouldn't respond to your nonsense, and I won't, other than to say I was of course right, your a die-hard usenet fanatic, and you object to others maligning an essentially useless technology. Slap yourself in the face, wake up, and try to get a girl friend. That's about as the best advice I can give you.
Capitalism in action.
Sure, but in this case, I dunno that Cox are being the complete ass clowns they usually are. I was a big time usenet user, long ago. Lately, I've forgotten myself that it evens exists. Yes, I'm sure that there are die-hards who will take issue with this. To them I say "GET A LIFE". There's so many better, richer alternatives out there now for connecting with masses of people with the same interests. Besides, usenet has become a huge pornography distribution network with a few anecdotal, non-porn topics anyway, who really gives a sh*t if isp's are getting a little tired of carrying it. There's better ways to distribute porn than usenet as well. Usenet was one of those great protocols that came with this new-fangled internet thingy. Now its a little passed its prime and ready for pasture. Let it go.
I dont understand the drive to implement them so often and frequently.
The cynic in me says 'Yeah, its a money grab; new cpu = new socket, and the user shells out for new hw, Intel wins big until everyone else reverse engineers the whole set up and sells clones."
But then the rationalist in me knows that socket aside, the new cpu is going to require a new chip set, especially if the package contains a gpu as well. So its kind of moot. Plus, anything they can do to remove pins is generally a good thing. Generally. One less pin sounds like they've made something more efficient.
No, it's not. Not unless the warhead is nuclear.
You probably meant "No, it's not. Not if the warhead is nuclear." Read the post. I said "almost". This cloak would be nearly completely effective against bullets. Nukes would not be.
Man I get tired of you children.
Okay, so it's not art because you can "win".
I'll be damned if the people who walk off the podium after accepting an academy don't "act" like winners. Would appear to be that those stupid awards appear to gauge winners and losers, as well as the constant report of ticket sales every week with regard to new box office draws. I do respect Ebert, I've been a long time fan of his show going way back before Gene Siskel passed on and Richard Roeper came on board (the new show by the way with Scott and Philips is schytte, the producers have ruined it with their game show-like nonsense), but he's sounding a bit like Grandpa. Art is a changing canvas, technology advances everything, even the definition of art. If you live in the Age of Technology and are stuck in static definitions for every day life experiences, your pretty much screwed. Movies will probably evolve to include more and more viewer interaction anyway, its inevitable. Then where will ya be, old man Ebert??
That's what I'm saying. Shifting the apparent location of a target is almost as good.
He was often heard to ask total strangers whom he'd just met if he could borrow enough cash to purchase a hamburger and would promise to gladly pay them back on Tuesday.
No kidding, this is like html 101. Every employer I've spoken to since the 90's who was considering me for any kind of web work has asked me if I know how to guard against xss and sql injection attacks. This is not some arcane black art. No wonder Palm is failing. And I like WebOS as a platform.
"All this spin about precrime is utterly absurd. "
I think we have a future offender here, lets put him in the "program". /. lobby.
If you have a hard time telling snerky comments from earnest point-making (mine almost certainly obviously being the former), I think they sell score cards in the