Except for that Philosophy isn't a Pseudo science, and that an argument for god in Philosophy class would be even more out of place than in Science. Science skirts the issue of God, in modern Philosophy, God is dead.
I think you're missing the point. Instead of putting all of the files for project A in a folder called project A, you could tag the file with the term Project A (assuming that the term isnt already contained in the document). But say that the documents is for project A, and is some sort of invoice. With the traditional folder structure you would have to put it either in a Project A folder or an invoice folder. Folders limit you to one indentifier at a time (or at least a heirarchy of indentifiers) With spotlight you could instanly call up all invoices, all project A documents, all project A invoices, etc.
This is very true, but also all that old equipment would be incredibly usefull to the Philly school district. A 3 or 4 year old computer (say 400mhz p2) would be very nice to be in alot of their classrooms. Yeah it would be expensive for Microsoft to keep it state of the art, but they'd get alot of it back in tax breaks and free advertising.
I'm sure Microsoft gets something out of this, like tax breaks, free beta testing etc, but that really isn't the point. Philadelphia schools are about the most missmanaged, poor schools in the country, They're constantly low on funds despite paying about half as much per student as the surrounding suburbian schools. The technology situatuation is usually a computer for every few classes, and its 5 years old. This is most likely to become one of the better if not best schools in the district. But if some of this 46million doesnt go to support and training of the students and teachers, its gonna be money that was wasted.
As PC's and consoles get more and more powerfull, they'll have more and more processing power to spare. They'll probably be tools like visual basic for games. Drag and drop games, minimal coding. It won't make the next doom3, but anyone who could make a map for quake3 would be able to make their own little game. It won't be state of the art, but it wont have to be. People still make games based off of the q3 engine and thats a few years old.
This could actually be something useful.
Nobody likes fines, but no one likes reckless drivers either. If more flexible and adaptable driving laws were put into place, this could allow for higher speed limits when and where it would be safe, plus it would guarantee equality in fines (with maybe a bias toward middle/upper class if this was only put into new cars).
If done with the SAFETY of people in mind, not revenue, it would allow for higher speed limits, and maybe some other features (i.e. the speed limit is 80, but there would be an audio warning and you had 30 seconds to get back down to give you time to pass)
If the government still plans to pull the same amount of revenue from traffic violations, this would allow them to do it fairly, and with smaller more frequent fines.
I don't really see this doing anything to the blog world. If aol did one (or partnered with someone) It could be really usefull. Let it replace buddy profiles, have a little button on AIM to post a blog, Have a read my blog button in an AIM window. Hold the blogs at central server, but serve them locally (the only person who would hit there server would be the user, everyone else would read the blog off of the users computer, like the profiles are now).
Im not really saying this will be usefull in anyway to the internet at large, but I't would let let blogs grow.
In that sense it seems a decent idea. Think everyone who has a power source for there house could use it to power their own needs (like your processor powers your applications), and if you had any extra power you could push it back onto the grid, just like using the idle time of the processor. Only this seems like it would make more sense for somethign like solar, wind or other fueless sources of energy, because with hyrdogen you would need to constantly buy fuel (unless its sucking it out of the air or some crazy scheme). Im not EE, and really have no idea of the logistics behind this, but I would think that the closer the power source is to where the power is being consumed, the smaller the amount of energy lost (through heating the wires).
Even though SCO is a bunch of loonies, I don't they are trying to say that one million lines of code are copied and pasted from UNIX. I'm pretty sure whatever calculations they used it was a little bit of fuzzy math. They also said that pre 2.4 was ok, so by looking at the chart above almost 2/3's of the code added between 2.2 and 2.4 is theres (I know were not just dealing with added code, but also optimizations and such, but its still crazy). If they were claiming that the code was copied way back a 1.0 or so and that from that code 1 million lines were added they may be believeable (but it wouldnt make it their million lines). It really is a moot point though. We've all pretty much dismissed SCO as desperate, and even if it makes it to court, by the time the whole thing is settled, the code will likely no longer resemeble anything that was ever SCO's.
except blaster would be a reason to get a patch out sooner, not later. Plus theres the rumor over at The Inquirer that states theres a mini-sp or sp1a that could come out in a few weeks (because of blaster).
...That probably won't amount to much. I don't see any real benefits. More range and bandwith are nice, but ubiquity is more important. I'd much rather see the spread of (secure) 802.11x. Also the fact that it "relies on taking advantage of huge amounts of computing power" makes be think it'll draw to much power. 802.11 products can hurt a laptops battery, and can cripple smaller devices. I hate to be a killjoy but this doesn't seem to offer much.
I've always viewed my mp3 experiences as getting "getting the word out" on bands. Most of the stuff I download is from smaller bands on smaller labels (which has the added benefit that I would be a very unlikely RIAA target). To me the downloading of an entire album with no intent to re-imburse the band is kinda stealing, and im not really intrested as online music as anythign other than marketing. Do you think that the labels could stand to release some free music (singles, etc) as marketing tools? My thinking has always been give a little music away, if I like it I'm buying the CD, and im probably going to come to your concert (but then again the indie nature of the music leads its self to 10$ cds and 10$ shows).
...it worked so well for Real. I mean, realOne is just such brilliant, usefull software. Hopefully they don't add the bloat, that what makes them nicer the windows mobile devices (for business purposes). Because I swear to god if my palm starts beeping and buzzing, and I pull the thing out of my pocket so it can tell me "whats cool for August" I'll smash the thing to little pieces.
Didn't necessarily mean fuel cells per se, just something. Solar, some fuel cell, wind maybe. Household devices are becoming more and more efficient, and these technologies are producing more and more output, I don't want to sound like the loony on Conan singing ~in the year 2000~, but I really think that something if something doesn't replace the grid, it will at least decrease our reliance on it.
...Probably. But at what cost in time and money? Its not working in NY, its not work in California. How long before its cheaper and easier to make your own from fuel cells or some other crazy new wave power supply (probably too long). Cities will still need power though, and big companies, but I wouldn't be suppriesed if there wasn't much of a power grid in 30-40 years. But then again, thats along way off.
I'm not so sure of this. There are many advantages in size in cost. To the US military 10 million is nothing, and that would get them 1000 of these suckers. They're cheap enough that they could be overly redundant. They have an effective radius of half a mile, so just throw down 50 of them in that half mile area. They will not be easy to find. Try finding 40 objects over a square mile. If you find 39, the system still pretty much works. Plus these will probably be for temporary confusion, not long term communication interuption.
...are the minimum specs for a reason. I wouldn't expect much out of Windows Xp with its minimum specs of running a 233mhz Celeron with 128mb ram.
Newer OS run faster on faster equipment. Trying to run the latest and greatest OS on older equipment is a trying experience. In general I would recomend sticking with the OS the computer came with, its cheaper, and most likely beter suited for the machine.
It may sound like Apple is being all great by refunding all or part of the purchase price, but they're only doing that 'cause they got sued.
Unless I'm reading this wrong this would also invalidate any site license for software, which allow for unlimited copies (albeit with some restrictions), it would also make freeware and pretty much everything else given away illegal. No court is going to buy this argument and deny the right to give things away.
On the other hand, if SCO had sold something that had be GPL'd they might have a case that they had the right to sell it, but I really don't find anyone believing the "Hey You Guys, no giving away things for free" argument.
...sounds like an amazing idea, not just for my hands but for my sanity. If I didn't spend 10 minutes an hour meandering arround the office I would probably go insane.
What I want is a computer that entangles more of my senses. Yeah, I want smell-o-vision. The more senses that are touched by a medium, the more it envelops us. Right now of the 5 senses we have one done really well (sound), another moderately well (visual), one barely (force feedback), and two pretty much not at all (smell, taste).
I think the keyboard and mouse are fine instruments for input for work purposes, but for games I want to see force feedback gloves that make it feel like I'm holding the weapon, some sort of treadmill system for moving the character around (on a different note I think more people would exercise if the were playing a game at the time, then just jogging on a treadmill, but I digress).
The main draw for using USPS over UPS or Fedex is cost. Its a great way to send something for 37 cents, and for even less if its bulk or 4th class or whatever. Most packages don't need to be tracked. Sears has no use for tracking every catalog they send out, and if I need to know something is getting somewhere I'll used registered mail / UPS / Fedex. It would be nice if all the return envelopes that come with bills were equiped with this though. That way I could track the payment going back. Also it could potentialy cut back on lost mail, or at least create more accountability for it
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Except for that Philosophy isn't a Pseudo science, and that an argument for god in Philosophy class would be even more out of place than in Science. Science skirts the issue of God, in modern Philosophy, God is dead.
...what happens when our heatsink tries to kill John Connor?
I think you're missing the point. Instead of putting all of the files for project A in a folder called project A, you could tag the file with the term Project A (assuming that the term isnt already contained in the document). But say that the documents is for project A, and is some sort of invoice. With the traditional folder structure you would have to put it either in a Project A folder or an invoice folder. Folders limit you to one indentifier at a time (or at least a heirarchy of indentifiers) With spotlight you could instanly call up all invoices, all project A documents, all project A invoices, etc.
This is very true, but also all that old equipment would be incredibly usefull to the Philly school district. A 3 or 4 year old computer (say 400mhz p2) would be very nice to be in alot of their classrooms. Yeah it would be expensive for Microsoft to keep it state of the art, but they'd get alot of it back in tax breaks and free advertising.
I'm sure Microsoft gets something out of this, like tax breaks, free beta testing etc, but that really isn't the point. Philadelphia schools are about the most missmanaged, poor schools in the country, They're constantly low on funds despite paying about half as much per student as the surrounding suburbian schools. The technology situatuation is usually a computer for every few classes, and its 5 years old. This is most likely to become one of the better if not best schools in the district. But if some of this 46million doesnt go to support and training of the students and teachers, its gonna be money that was wasted.
As PC's and consoles get more and more powerfull, they'll have more and more processing power to spare. They'll probably be tools like visual basic for games. Drag and drop games, minimal coding. It won't make the next doom3, but anyone who could make a map for quake3 would be able to make their own little game. It won't be state of the art, but it wont have to be. People still make games based off of the q3 engine and thats a few years old.
This could actually be something useful. Nobody likes fines, but no one likes reckless drivers either. If more flexible and adaptable driving laws were put into place, this could allow for higher speed limits when and where it would be safe, plus it would guarantee equality in fines (with maybe a bias toward middle/upper class if this was only put into new cars). If done with the SAFETY of people in mind, not revenue, it would allow for higher speed limits, and maybe some other features (i.e. the speed limit is 80, but there would be an audio warning and you had 30 seconds to get back down to give you time to pass) If the government still plans to pull the same amount of revenue from traffic violations, this would allow them to do it fairly, and with smaller more frequent fines.
I don't really see this doing anything to the blog world. If aol did one (or partnered with someone) It could be really usefull. Let it replace buddy profiles, have a little button on AIM to post a blog, Have a read my blog button in an AIM window. Hold the blogs at central server, but serve them locally (the only person who would hit there server would be the user, everyone else would read the blog off of the users computer, like the profiles are now). Im not really saying this will be usefull in anyway to the internet at large, but I't would let let blogs grow.
In that sense it seems a decent idea. Think everyone who has a power source for there house could use it to power their own needs (like your processor powers your applications), and if you had any extra power you could push it back onto the grid, just like using the idle time of the processor. Only this seems like it would make more sense for somethign like solar, wind or other fueless sources of energy, because with hyrdogen you would need to constantly buy fuel (unless its sucking it out of the air or some crazy scheme). Im not EE, and really have no idea of the logistics behind this, but I would think that the closer the power source is to where the power is being consumed, the smaller the amount of energy lost (through heating the wires).
Even though SCO is a bunch of loonies, I don't they are trying to say that one million lines of code are copied and pasted from UNIX. I'm pretty sure whatever calculations they used it was a little bit of fuzzy math. They also said that pre 2.4 was ok, so by looking at the chart above almost 2/3's of the code added between 2.2 and 2.4 is theres (I know were not just dealing with added code, but also optimizations and such, but its still crazy). If they were claiming that the code was copied way back a 1.0 or so and that from that code 1 million lines were added they may be believeable (but it wouldnt make it their million lines). It really is a moot point though. We've all pretty much dismissed SCO as desperate, and even if it makes it to court, by the time the whole thing is settled, the code will likely no longer resemeble anything that was ever SCO's.
except blaster would be a reason to get a patch out sooner, not later. Plus theres the rumor over at The Inquirer that states theres a mini-sp or sp1a that could come out in a few weeks (because of blaster).
WinInformant says that the statement meant Fiscal year 2004, which ends in June 2004 for Microsoft, and that SP2 is due out mid 2004.
...That probably won't amount to much. I don't see any real benefits. More range and bandwith are nice, but ubiquity is more important. I'd much rather see the spread of (secure) 802.11x. Also the fact that it "relies on taking advantage of huge amounts of computing power" makes be think it'll draw to much power. 802.11 products can hurt a laptops battery, and can cripple smaller devices. I hate to be a killjoy but this doesn't seem to offer much.
I've always viewed my mp3 experiences as getting "getting the word out" on bands. Most of the stuff I download is from smaller bands on smaller labels (which has the added benefit that I would be a very unlikely RIAA target). To me the downloading of an entire album with no intent to re-imburse the band is kinda stealing, and im not really intrested as online music as anythign other than marketing. Do you think that the labels could stand to release some free music (singles, etc) as marketing tools? My thinking has always been give a little music away, if I like it I'm buying the CD, and im probably going to come to your concert (but then again the indie nature of the music leads its self to 10$ cds and 10$ shows).
...it worked so well for Real. I mean, realOne is just such brilliant, usefull software. Hopefully they don't add the bloat, that what makes them nicer the windows mobile devices (for business purposes). Because I swear to god if my palm starts beeping and buzzing, and I pull the thing out of my pocket so it can tell me "whats cool for August" I'll smash the thing to little pieces.
Didn't necessarily mean fuel cells per se, just something. Solar, some fuel cell, wind maybe. Household devices are becoming more and more efficient, and these technologies are producing more and more output, I don't want to sound like the loony on Conan singing ~in the year 2000~, but I really think that something if something doesn't replace the grid, it will at least decrease our reliance on it.
...Probably. But at what cost in time and money? Its not working in NY, its not work in California. How long before its cheaper and easier to make your own from fuel cells or some other crazy new wave power supply (probably too long). Cities will still need power though, and big companies, but I wouldn't be suppriesed if there wasn't much of a power grid in 30-40 years. But then again, thats along way off.
I'm not so sure of this. There are many advantages in size in cost. To the US military 10 million is nothing, and that would get them 1000 of these suckers. They're cheap enough that they could be overly redundant. They have an effective radius of half a mile, so just throw down 50 of them in that half mile area. They will not be easy to find. Try finding 40 objects over a square mile. If you find 39, the system still pretty much works. Plus these will probably be for temporary confusion, not long term communication interuption.
...are the minimum specs for a reason. I wouldn't expect much out of Windows Xp with its minimum specs of running a 233mhz Celeron with 128mb ram. Newer OS run faster on faster equipment. Trying to run the latest and greatest OS on older equipment is a trying experience. In general I would recomend sticking with the OS the computer came with, its cheaper, and most likely beter suited for the machine. It may sound like Apple is being all great by refunding all or part of the purchase price, but they're only doing that 'cause they got sued.
Unless I'm reading this wrong this would also invalidate any site license for software, which allow for unlimited copies (albeit with some restrictions), it would also make freeware and pretty much everything else given away illegal. No court is going to buy this argument and deny the right to give things away. On the other hand, if SCO had sold something that had be GPL'd they might have a case that they had the right to sell it, but I really don't find anyone believing the "Hey You Guys, no giving away things for free" argument.
...sounds like an amazing idea, not just for my hands but for my sanity. If I didn't spend 10 minutes an hour meandering arround the office I would probably go insane.
What I want is a computer that entangles more of my senses. Yeah, I want smell-o-vision. The more senses that are touched by a medium, the more it envelops us. Right now of the 5 senses we have one done really well (sound), another moderately well (visual), one barely (force feedback), and two pretty much not at all (smell, taste). I think the keyboard and mouse are fine instruments for input for work purposes, but for games I want to see force feedback gloves that make it feel like I'm holding the weapon, some sort of treadmill system for moving the character around (on a different note I think more people would exercise if the were playing a game at the time, then just jogging on a treadmill, but I digress).
The main draw for using USPS over UPS or Fedex is cost. Its a great way to send something for 37 cents, and for even less if its bulk or 4th class or whatever. Most packages don't need to be tracked. Sears has no use for tracking every catalog they send out, and if I need to know something is getting somewhere I'll used registered mail / UPS / Fedex. It would be nice if all the return envelopes that come with bills were equiped with this though. That way I could track the payment going back. Also it could potentialy cut back on lost mail, or at least create more accountability for it