"Once fermented into a clear alcohol spirit, whisky blends are added to give colour, taste and viscosity, and the product is bottled with the name and age of the contributor."
A summary that mentions "evolving" and "intelligent design" in the same sentence? Now that really is impressive (and guaranteed to upset both Darwinists and Creationists at the same time )
Perhaps the website is the first part of the recruitment process - "if you can hack this, then we could offer you a job as a white hat" Or something like
You have been detected as using a "think of the children" argument or related argument. This message is to inform you that you have summarily lost the argument.
Looks like you have defined a variation on Godwin's Law. Congratulations on defining "Duradin's Law"!
It seems as though the "kill switch" option is an attempt to hard-wire an equivalent to Asimov's laws of robotics (obey all orders / don't harm humans / protect self). However, Asimov's "I, Robot" stories were written to highlight how even something hard wired could have its pitfalls - and that was someone who wrote the stories and also the 'rules' behind the stories.
When I was trying to find that quote to respond to a similar "control it by gesture" comment a few days ago, I couldn't find it. All I kept getting was things like "Mostly Harmless", and "Space is big...."
If you run as a user with the "Allow user to administer this computer" checked, then, yes, installations to the Applications folder don't require a password. If, on the other hand, you have an admin only account, and run as a user, then, yes, you will need the password.
Anyone remember how many titles were available for the 5150 when it launched?
No, but hardly anyone bought it at launch. A couple of years later, when it ran Lotus 1-2-3, it was a business essential (and even if it didn't run any other apps, it was still needed). It's not having a lot of apps that's important, it's having the few that people want (which, I think, was your point). Having a lot does increase the probability that you'll have the one everyone wants though, especially since 'everyone' varies from market to market (the PC was really only aimed at the business / accounts market).
Interestingly enough, I remember seeing a billboard poster for the PC (could have been around 1982-1983 time) which showed a stack of software titles, and stated something along the lines of "with so many applications, there will be one that meets your needs"
Nick Pope used to work for the British Ministry of Defence and for 3 years headed up their UFO project.
Not exactly recent news - IIRC he worked in that part until around 1994 (and did not "head it up" either). 15 years on, and he's still milking that one.
Acid2 isn't a standard. It also isn't a part of the test suite of W3C. Acid3 isn't a standard. It also isn't part of the test suite of W3C. It's a marketing gimmick of Opera
a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium
, so may not be part of W3C, but wants to work to their guidelines.
Whoops, conflated the FoIA and the DPA there. The former applies to the public sector, the latter to the private.
The public sector is bound by both FoIA and DPA. DPA is about an individual's access to information held about themselves. FoIA is about general information held by (mainly) public sector organisations.
There's a delicious irony that some of the best comments on this thread (about the "desire" to abandon anonymity - yeah right) have been posted by ACs.
So, as the OP points out, will they hanker after VPNs, or will they really come up with replacements for all the TCP/UDP/IP protocols (and, at a higher layer, replacements for http / ftp).
If the latter, how will they convince people to adopt a new browser, particularly those people who barely understand the concept of the current browsers?
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. "
Definitely prior art! And I like her design better, with the arrows and dial, I wonder how long it will take before someone makes a fully functioning copy of that.
I'd get worried if it could tell me when I'm in Mortal Peril
Except on Slashdot, where 1984 has to be referenced regardless of whether or not it's applicable. (For the record, I don't recall it being the case in 1984 that the whereabouts of citizens were tracked at all times.)
a child growing up on the internet will be exposed to improper punctuation and grammar more frequently than a child growing up reading proofread and edited printed materials. That is probably a good thing.
Slashdot Mirror
"Once fermented into a clear alcohol spirit, whisky blends are added to give colour, taste and viscosity, and the product is bottled with the name and age of the contributor."
So it's not a single malt. It's a blend.
A summary that mentions "evolving" and "intelligent design" in the same sentence?
Now that really is impressive (and guaranteed to upset both Darwinists and Creationists at the same time )
Boffo! A good one!
Perhaps the website is the first part of the recruitment process -
"if you can hack this, then we could offer you a job as a white hat" Or something like
Indeed - "Box falls to earth; man falls out of box; man eats fish custard"
What's not to like?
You have been detected as using a "think of the children" argument or related argument. This message is to inform you that you have summarily lost the argument.
Looks like you have defined a variation on Godwin's Law. Congratulations on defining "Duradin's Law"!
It seems as though the "kill switch" option is an attempt to hard-wire an equivalent to Asimov's laws of robotics (obey all orders / don't harm humans / protect self).
However, Asimov's "I, Robot" stories were written to highlight how even something hard wired could have its pitfalls - and that was someone who wrote the stories and also the 'rules' behind the stories.
Be interesting to see how this one pans out.
Why doesn't the headline list Firefox, too?
But... when you're running Firefox, it reads:
Slashdot|Insecure Plugins Ding IE, Safari, Chrome, Opera - Mozilla Firefox
so Firefox is part of the headline!
Oh wait...
Brilliant!
When I was trying to find that quote to respond to a similar "control it by gesture" comment a few days ago, I couldn't find it. All I kept getting was things like "Mostly Harmless", and "Space is big...."
It's easier to prevaricate and then blame your political successors for lack of action than it is to decide to just get on with it.
Especially when there is no spare money to procure a wholly new reactor type.
"Start me up
You make a grown man cry"
I think they dropped it when people dug out their Rolling Stones albums and heard the next line...
If you run as a user with the "Allow user to administer this computer" checked, then, yes, installations to the Applications folder don't require a password. If, on the other hand, you have an admin only account, and run as a user, then, yes, you will need the password.
I don't think Apple has a right to say what piece of hardware you can run OS X on. It's paid for, end of story.
They may not have a right (morally, that is), but, since the EULA states what you can run OS X on, they would seem to have a legal right.
And don't forget Apple legal have honed their skills on things like 'look and feel' suits, so don't hold your breath on common sense breaking out
I can definitely recommend Ubuntu for the Acer Aspire One
I have been using it for almost a year now, and it runs better on it than the Windows XP it came on
I reckon Ubuntu is also better than the Linpus Linux it came with
Anyone remember how many titles were available for the 5150 when it launched?
No, but hardly anyone bought it at launch. A couple of years later, when it ran Lotus 1-2-3, it was a business essential (and even if it didn't run any other apps, it was still needed). It's not having a lot of apps that's important, it's having the few that people want (which, I think, was your point). Having a lot does increase the probability that you'll have the one everyone wants though, especially since 'everyone' varies from market to market (the PC was really only aimed at the business / accounts market).
Interestingly enough, I remember seeing a billboard poster for the PC (could have been around 1982-1983 time) which showed a stack of software titles, and stated something along the lines of "with so many applications, there will be one that meets your needs"
Hmm. Power outage stops /. posts. News at 11
Not exactly recent news - IIRC he worked in that part until around 1994 (and did not "head it up" either). 15 years on, and he's still milking that one.
Or does this read like the venture into a modularized price structure for an Operating System.
Sounds like it. :-(
It may also be a way around anti-bundling lawsuits - "But we didn't bundle a working media player - the user had to pay extra for it"
~Hmmm. come to think of it, it sounds awfully like Apple shipping OS X, but charging extra for the fully functional QuickTime Pro
Acid2 isn't a standard. It also isn't a part of the test suite of W3C. Acid3 isn't a standard. It also isn't part of the test suite of W3C. It's a marketing gimmick of Opera
Or maybe, from the Web Standards Project -
a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium
, so may not be part of W3C, but wants to work to their guidelines.
Whoops, conflated the FoIA and the DPA there. The former applies to the public sector, the latter to the private.
The public sector is bound by both FoIA and DPA. DPA is about an individual's access to information held about themselves. FoIA is about general information held by (mainly) public sector organisations.
There's a delicious irony that some of the best comments on this thread (about the "desire" to abandon anonymity - yeah right) have been posted by ACs.
So, as the OP points out, will they hanker after VPNs, or will they really come up with replacements for all the TCP/UDP/IP protocols (and, at a higher layer, replacements for http / ftp).
If the latter, how will they convince people to adopt a new browser, particularly those people who barely understand the concept of the current browsers?
download.microsoft.com - linux
search.microsoft.com - linux
vista.gallery.microsoft.com - linux
MS wouldn't let associate sites use non-Windows, would they?
See, I would recommend actually reading 1984, rather than quoting a single line from it and saying, "Seems to me...".
Let's see:
Original claim - 1984 didn't advocate tracking the whereabouts of the citizens at all times.
Single line quote - refutes claim.
More proof (contained in the link)
Definitely prior art! And I like her design better, with the arrows and dial, I wonder how long it will take before someone makes a fully functioning copy of that.
I'd get worried if it could tell me when I'm in Mortal Peril
Except on Slashdot, where 1984 has to be referenced regardless of whether or not it's applicable. (For the record, I don't recall it being the case in 1984 that the whereabouts of citizens were tracked at all times.)
"BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU"
Seems to me like they were tracking everyone at all times
a child growing up on the internet will be exposed to improper punctuation and grammar more frequently than a child growing up reading proofread and edited printed materials. That is probably a good thing.
You think? I h8 txt spk*
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