"What? In a lot of applications, if you hold down the button, you get the equivalent of a right-click menu. How in the world does this restrict developers?
Since it is difficult to access the right click menu, developers tend to put all the available options in the left-click menu or the top menus.
"What I would really like would be for there to be two contact switches under the button on Apple's laptop. It would work just like it does now. It's one solid button, and it works like one button. BUT if you know what you are doing, there is a "secret" option in the OS that interprets things differently. Click the left half of the button, you get a left click. Click the right half of the button, you get a right click. And if you accidently click both at once, that's a left click (just to make things easier). That would give the laptop's a second button, but you'd have to enable it and know what you were doing, so Aunt Tillie wouldn't have to deal with two buttons. I would LOVE this."
Really useful suggestion. I hope someone at Apple really thinks about this.
Also, people assume that since Britain ruled over India for 200 years and were driven out, Indians must somehow hate the English. This is simply not true. Remember that the freedom movement was largely a peaceful one thanks to the Mahatma and others. So when the British were finally 'driven out', it was not by war or revolutin - it was through discussions and negotiations (and many other things - I do not wish to over-simplify the whole freedom process).
So today there are tons of Indians in Britain, and Indians study about colonial excesses and make films about 'those lousy bastards', but the average Indian does not hate the British. They just happen to be part of our history. As in, they really are a part of our history and culture. Like the zillion other invaders who came to India and became part of our culture. No hard feelings.
If you bothered to read the article you linked to, you would realize that Microsoft pointed its DNS to Akamai's servers to survive DDOS attacks. It so happens that Akamai's servers run Linux, but they could be running Windows/OSX/AnyOS - the reason Akamai was used was for their caching system, not their OS.
Sometimes I wish there was a moderation option to do so. The story uses the donation to take cheap shots at everyone and true to/. culture, everyone has taken the bait.
All the stereotypes mentioned here are absolutely true, but seriously, it's a different genre. Bollywood movies may feel weird to someone who hasn't experienced much of it before, but for someone like me who grew up in India, they seem perfectly natural. (The Hollywood style of filmmaking seems perfectly good to me too). You have to suspend logic while watching a Bollywood movie and remember that there is only one objective - to provide entertainment. So there will be dances, songs, flashy clothes and cool dialogues. Logic/story are secondary. It's just a different thing:-)
As noted in another post, the movie is Dil Se by Mani Rathnam who is a wonderful director. That particular song was shot in a hill station in India named Ooty where they have these meter guage trains (the tracks are narrower than the usual broad gauge tracks in India) that are slow (so the scene you saw was not as dangerous as it looked)
true, but note that CISCO is talking about the immediate future, so even though this may be a big thing in the future, there may not be many sales in the next decade.
From an April 2004 news report. There is an interesting quote there:
"..isco does not expect to develop a business selling space hardware, and estimated that the market for satellite-based Internet routers may be only 15 or 20 units over the next decade. Instead, Cisco's plans are focused on the ground-systems business that could be created if satellites are able to communicate using Internet protocols. With Internet-based communications, laptop computers and personal digital assistants could become de facto satellite ground stations."
Maybe this is a sign of things to come. As we send spacecrafts to Mars and other planets (and someday planets beyond our solar system), the InterPlanetary Internet will need such routers. A router satellite followed by routers in space and on other planets would create a nice little backbone to base our communications on. There would be one hell of a delay, but we could send our spacecrafts farther and farther away without losing the ability to communicate.
The flash demos are quite impressive, so here's my question: How do you create such a flash demo that records your actions? Is there some kind of a tool that does this (on whatever platform)?
I like this statement by Robert Hutchings in the introductory letter:
As I used to say to my students at Princeton, linear analysis will get you a much-changed caterpillar, but it won't get you a butterfly. For that you need a leap of imagination. We hope this project, and the dialogue it stimulates, will help us make that leap--not to predict the world of 2020, which is clearly beyond our capacity--but to better prepare for the kinds of challenges that may lie ahead.
For those who do not want to read the entire report, here are a few key points:
* Al Qaeda is replaced by decentralized terror groups which are equally deadly.
* China and India emerge as new global players. (But they could be competitive instead of cooperative)
* Rise in military strength of China and India - could lead to conflicts.
* Russia and Central Asia decline (in terms of democracy)
* Democracy grows in the Middle east.
* More competitive world for the United States
* India's Bollywood outshines Hollywood
* Rise of Korean Pop.
For those who might cite the First Amendment: The judge based his decision on the test established by the SC in the Lemov vs. Kurtzman:
Under the Lemon test, a government-sponsored message violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment if: (1) it does not have a secular purpose, (2) its principal or primary effect advances or inhibits religion, or (3) it creates an excessive entanglement of the government with religion.
Since putting the sticker violated rules (2) and (3), it was deemed to be unconstitutional.
Slashdot Mirror
The aricle says that Apple teamed up with Sony to create the Powerbooks. Anyone care to give some details? :-)
I posted the original article. Apple tops North America, not Google. My mistake :-) (sleepy eyes.. midnight post.. stupidity, whatever)
Anil
"What? In a lot of applications, if you hold down the button, you get the equivalent of a right-click menu. How in the world does this restrict developers?
Since it is difficult to access the right click menu, developers tend to put all the available options in the left-click menu or the top menus.
"What I would really like would be for there to be two contact switches under the button on Apple's laptop. It would work just like it does now. It's one solid button, and it works like one button. BUT if you know what you are doing, there is a "secret" option in the OS that interprets things differently. Click the left half of the button, you get a left click. Click the right half of the button, you get a right click. And if you accidently click both at once, that's a left click (just to make things easier). That would give the laptop's a second button, but you'd have to enable it and know what you were doing, so Aunt Tillie wouldn't have to deal with two buttons. I would LOVE this."
Really useful suggestion. I hope someone at Apple really thinks about this.
True.
Also, people assume that since Britain ruled over India for 200 years and were driven out, Indians must somehow hate the English. This is simply not true. Remember that the freedom movement was largely a peaceful one thanks to the Mahatma and others. So when the British were finally 'driven out', it was not by war or revolutin - it was through discussions and negotiations (and many other things - I do not wish to over-simplify the whole freedom process).
So today there are tons of Indians in Britain, and Indians study about colonial excesses and make films about 'those lousy bastards', but the average Indian does not hate the British. They just happen to be part of our history. As in, they really are a part of our history and culture. Like the zillion other invaders who came to India and became part of our culture. No hard feelings.
No that was John Kerry :-)
If you bothered to read the article you linked to, you would realize that Microsoft pointed its DNS to Akamai's servers to survive DDOS attacks. It so happens that Akamai's servers run Linux, but they could be running Windows/OSX/AnyOS - the reason Akamai was used was for their caching system, not their OS.
Sometimes I wish there was a moderation option to do so. The story uses the donation to take cheap shots at everyone and true to /. culture, everyone has taken the bait.
Would you also care to explain why most of us who do not have the knowledge to come 5th cannot learn from them?
All the stereotypes mentioned here are absolutely true, but seriously, it's a different genre. Bollywood movies may feel weird to someone who hasn't experienced much of it before, but for someone like me who grew up in India, they seem perfectly natural. (The Hollywood style of filmmaking seems perfectly good to me too). You have to suspend logic while watching a Bollywood movie and remember that there is only one objective - to provide entertainment. So there will be dances, songs, flashy clothes and cool dialogues. Logic/story are secondary. It's just a different thing :-)
And here's a discussion of that scene and the train :-)
As noted in another post, the movie is Dil Se by Mani Rathnam who is a wonderful director. That particular song was shot in a hill station in India named Ooty where they have these meter guage trains (the tracks are narrower than the usual broad gauge tracks in India) that are slow (so the scene you saw was not as dangerous as it looked)
close your eyes and pick any movie :-)
true, but note that CISCO is talking about the immediate future, so even though this may be a big thing in the future, there may not be many sales in the next decade.
More from Vincent Cerf on creating an interplanetary IP network.
Maybe this is a sign of things to come. As we send spacecrafts to Mars and other planets (and someday planets beyond our solar system), the InterPlanetary Internet will need such routers. A router satellite followed by routers in space and on other planets would create a nice little backbone to base our communications on. There would be one hell of a delay, but we could send our spacecrafts farther and farther away without losing the ability to communicate.
use vnc2swf
The flash demos are quite impressive, so here's my question: How do you create such a flash demo that records your actions? Is there some kind of a tool that does this (on whatever platform)?
is available on mirrdot.
If it's decentralized, how can it be a "group"?
It means that the groups will operate independently.
For those who do not want to read the entire report, here are a few key points:
* Al Qaeda is replaced by decentralized terror groups which are equally deadly.
* China and India emerge as new global players. (But they could be competitive instead of cooperative)
* Rise in military strength of China and India - could lead to conflicts.
* Russia and Central Asia decline (in terms of democracy)
* Democracy grows in the Middle east.
* More competitive world for the United States
* India's Bollywood outshines Hollywood
* Rise of Korean Pop.
Now make your own predictions.
can be found here.
Since putting the sticker violated rules (2) and (3), it was deemed to be unconstitutional.