So then I'd end up with about 100 "Apps" on my desktop, which all might or might not behave a bit differently,
This is a solved problem... look at how mobile phones do it. It'd be 100x easier on a desktop, since there's more space. Chrome is already doing this -- just add a search box. Easier than typing in a full url, right?
and every time I want to switch to another site, I have to switch the app? How would I follow links outside of the app?
I think this is sort of the point -- people get notified when they're leaving the app. It's easy to follow links out of the app, because the platform for ALL apps is the web browser.
Would there still be a way to find websites/desktopapps? If so, what makes sure that those aren't malware?
Put your phone in your pillowcase before you go to sleep, that's what I do. The vibration (both sound and motion) travel through the pillow to your ear/face, while leaving your partner reasonably unmolested.
For insurance, put together a ringtone with 4 or 5 seconds of silence at the beginning (so you can discreetly shut off alarm when you wake up) followed by something really annoying (in case you're really out cold), and set the phone to blaring.
The infrared spectrum is generally broken up into 3 subcategories - shortwave, midwave, and longwave. If you look around a dark room with no windows using a SWIR camera/lens, you won't see anything, because most natural objects (people, walls, basically anything except lights and the cosmos) don't give off SWIR radiation.
MWIR and LWIR, however, would still work because pretty much everything gives off radiation at these wavelengths (MWIR is the region of the spectrum which allows one to measure temperature). I suppose you could call this "pitch-black night vision," although I've never heard that anywhere in the IR optics industry.
FIRST is awesome. I was the main programmer/electronics man my junior and senior years of HS (2005 and 2006), it was more fun than any other club/team I did. The competitions are insane, you won't ever find more geeks in one place, heh. The atmosphere is very competitive, but at the same time there's a comraderie between participants and teams. For instance, I helped a team from a neighboring high school with their program, then went out and dismantled (seriously... we got disqualified) their robot a few rounds later.
I live in New Hampshire, where FIRST was founded, so Dean Kamen makes his token appearance/speech (in the same denim shirt) every year. The kids WORSHIP him - it is incredible. I was never particularly fond of him, especially after the segway flopped, but I have to say-- that failure is far overshadowed by the success of FIRST as far as I am concerned.
Why does this even mention terrorism? Go back and read that again.
"There was no suggestion by either of the sources that the satellite had been purposely damaged as part of a terrorist attack."
Duh. Last time I checked, spy satellites were not exactly high-profile ordeals, making them less-than-desirable targets for any kind of terrorist.
So then WHY include that sentence? Power of suggestion? Keep terrorism in our collective consciousness? Why is it there?
Sandvine is monitoring traffic. Signing up for an account uses considerably less bandwidth than an 8-person multiplayer session... so much less, I'd bet, that new signups are practically insignificant next to the daily bandwidth used by Halo 2 or Gears of War.
at first I thought this was like a networking wireless router/hub type thing... but it's not, it's just a way of adding more USB ports to your computer without wires.
HELLO. MY NAME IS XABBU UGABE. I HAVE RECENTLY COME INTO POSSESSION OF A LARGE MONEYS LEFT TO ME BY LATE RELATIVE. I DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE HOW MUCH IT IS BUT I DO KNOW THAT IT IS A LOT PERHAPS 30 OR 40 MILLION. I AM IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE TO OBTAIN THIS MONEYS. THE MONEY IS IN A BANK IN RUSSIA. UNFORTUNATELY, MY COUNTRY IS CURRENTLY FIGHTING WITH RUSSIA SO I CAN DO NO BUSINESS WITH THEM UNLESS I PUT SOME MONEY DOWN FIRST. I AM WRITING TO YOU HOPING YOU WILL HELP ME OUT. I NEED FOUR THOUSANDS DOLLARS TO PAY BEFORE I GET THE 30 OR 40 MILLION. I AM A HONORABLE MAN YOU HAVE MY WORD THAT I WILL PAY YOU BACK VERY HANDSOMELY. IN ABOUT A MONTH A LARGE CUT WILL BE WIRED TO YOUR PERSONAL ACCOUNT. PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER SO I CAN DO THIS. PLEASE SEND MONEY AND INFORMATION RIGHT AWAY AS CONDITIONS IN OUR COUNTRY ARE WORSEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KINDNESS IT WILL BE REPAID. YOUR TRULY XABBU UGABE
My relatives can email pictures, because someone showed them how and it's familiar. They CAN'T navigate My Computer, though. And cut and paste is outside their talents, believe it or not. They can email pictures but they can't cut and paste...
Also, I think the point of this whole thing is to allow people who are far away to share pictures. It's hard to set "all that" up for them, when you're hundreds of miles away.
I don't know what kind of family you have, but I know that MY mother/aunts/uncles/cousins don't have a HOPE of FTPing pictures on their own.
Just have them email all their pictures to you, and make an easy webpage with dreamweaver or something. It'll take less time in the end, and it'll be easier for everyone.
Oh, and if your email account doesn't have enough room, get GMail.
Anyone heard of UPN's Dance 360? I bring it up because it would be this show's competition, except it was cancelled. Will this show suffer the same fate? Too bad... Dance 360 was absolutely hilarious. "tag your man, tag your man, tag your man!"
yeah... very true. When there's fancy windows and teh intarnet to look at, who wants to program?
Also, perhaps this is part of why TI programming is so popular (at least at my school) and seems so easy?
Right on, man.
"A lot of the really cool frontiers have been supplanted. For example, overclocking is now seen as cooler than programming."
Exactly... I learned everything there is to know about hardware before I even thought about touching programming.
I always thought it would be neat to program, but it seemed just too hard, too steep of a learning curve. I had no books, nor the money to buy one. My parents didn't understand why I wanted one, and I certainly wasn' going to get any help at school.
Um, what's a dithered image?
The definiiton of a hacker, at the high school level, is seriously lame. They call me a "hacker" because I wrote a script to infinitely send "net send" messages. They'd probably faint if I brought in a knoppix disk and reset the admin password.
Yes indeed. The TI-83 is simply awesome for novice programmers; it's easy, very simple, but still exposes you to the basics such as variables, if's, loops, even functions. Computer classes in high school are a joke. My school FORCED me take comp lit, which was totally ridiculous. I learned to type (again), even though I have been typing 70wpm since 5th grade. I learned to use Word, even though I'd been using it since like 3rd grade. I learned to use Microsoft Access... because I'm really going to use that ever again (seriously, wtf? why not Powerpoint at least?). I learned how to open IE and browse the web. Stupid school can't even use Firefox. We have "CS" classes, even a class called "Oracle Academy," but I still know more about programming than the people who have taken all of those... and I don't know all that much. I tried to learn BASIC my freshman year and failed horribly, despite having mentorship from some seriosuly fabulous programmers. At that point, I hadn't yet learned about functions in math, and variables only existed in equations like 2x + 5 = 9. 2 years later, though, I managed to learn rudimentary C with a fair amount of ease. I'm not sure whether it was the TI-83 (very possible) that made the difference or the other classes I took during those two years: Algebra 2, precalc (trig and functions), chemistry, biology, and physics. The concepts taught in these classes-- catalysts, positive/negative body feedback loops, functions (obviously), electricity-- if you understand these, it certainly makes learning how to program easier.
Don't worry, man, we've got you covered.
BANNED BOOKS[upenn.edu]
Did you really think we'd actually let LITERATURE fall into the hands of those unpredictable teens?!
"Laptops... Either the battery dies after 12-18 months [or] it's considered obsolete"
"Screw you, biatch!"
That's all my P2 200mhz laptop manufactured in 1997 has to say.
Maybe they just they just went with the free option.
Maybe products like Apache/OO/Linux were made so people didn't have to spend their hard-earned cash on products from companies like MS.
Maybe it IS all about the money.
So what? I hadn't heard about this yet. That makes it new to me and probably a lot of other slashdotters as well, if you all read the ToS as carefully as I do;).
Who cares what the date says?
Exactly. Single-player is NOT what these games are about, despite what some people think.
Halo 1 was a string of LAN parties for me. I bought a copy of the game and hardly ever played the single-player mode. Yet, I played the game for hours every weekend, holed up in someone's basement surrounded by friends and soda.
Halo 2... there is no doubt that the single-player mode sucks. It was a waste of my time. Bungie should have released the game without it, because playing multiplayer on Live can't be beat by any other xbox game.
Maybe, but... These things are NOT gonna be cheap! These consoles will probably launch with pricetags around $350-$400. At that rate, I know I won't be getting two, and when it comes down to it, I'll choose xbox over ps3 solely because of the Master Chief factor.
<Halo 2 rant> "I'm gonna finish this fight." WHAT KIND OF AN ENDING IS THAT??? </Halo 2 rant>
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So then I'd end up with about 100 "Apps" on my desktop, which all might or might not behave a bit differently,
This is a solved problem... look at how mobile phones do it. It'd be 100x easier on a desktop, since there's more space. Chrome is already doing this -- just add a search box. Easier than typing in a full url, right?
and every time I want to switch to another site, I have to switch the app? How would I follow links outside of the app?
I think this is sort of the point -- people get notified when they're leaving the app. It's easy to follow links out of the app, because the platform for ALL apps is the web browser.
Would there still be a way to find websites/desktopapps? If so, what makes sure that those aren't malware?
Again, solved problem.
Put your phone in your pillowcase before you go to sleep, that's what I do. The vibration (both sound and motion) travel through the pillow to your ear/face, while leaving your partner reasonably unmolested. For insurance, put together a ringtone with 4 or 5 seconds of silence at the beginning (so you can discreetly shut off alarm when you wake up) followed by something really annoying (in case you're really out cold), and set the phone to blaring.
you'll be all set! No, of course you won't get fired.
The infrared spectrum is generally broken up into 3 subcategories - shortwave, midwave, and longwave. If you look around a dark room with no windows using a SWIR camera/lens, you won't see anything, because most natural objects (people, walls, basically anything except lights and the cosmos) don't give off SWIR radiation. MWIR and LWIR, however, would still work because pretty much everything gives off radiation at these wavelengths (MWIR is the region of the spectrum which allows one to measure temperature). I suppose you could call this "pitch-black night vision," although I've never heard that anywhere in the IR optics industry.
FIRST is awesome. I was the main programmer/electronics man my junior and senior years of HS (2005 and 2006), it was more fun than any other club/team I did. The competitions are insane, you won't ever find more geeks in one place, heh. The atmosphere is very competitive, but at the same time there's a comraderie between participants and teams. For instance, I helped a team from a neighboring high school with their program, then went out and dismantled (seriously... we got disqualified) their robot a few rounds later.
I live in New Hampshire, where FIRST was founded, so Dean Kamen makes his token appearance/speech (in the same denim shirt) every year. The kids WORSHIP him - it is incredible. I was never particularly fond of him, especially after the segway flopped, but I have to say-- that failure is far overshadowed by the success of FIRST as far as I am concerned.
Why does this even mention terrorism? Go back and read that again. "There was no suggestion by either of the sources that the satellite had been purposely damaged as part of a terrorist attack." Duh. Last time I checked, spy satellites were not exactly high-profile ordeals, making them less-than-desirable targets for any kind of terrorist. So then WHY include that sentence? Power of suggestion? Keep terrorism in our collective consciousness? Why is it there?
No.
Sandvine is monitoring traffic. Signing up for an account uses considerably less bandwidth than an 8-person multiplayer session... so much less, I'd bet, that new signups are practically insignificant next to the daily bandwidth used by Halo 2 or Gears of War.
at first I thought this was like a networking wireless router/hub type thing... but it's not, it's just a way of adding more USB ports to your computer without wires.
Tricky/vague description.
HELLO. MY NAME IS XABBU UGABE. I HAVE RECENTLY COME INTO POSSESSION OF A LARGE MONEYS LEFT TO ME BY LATE RELATIVE. I DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE HOW MUCH IT IS BUT I DO KNOW THAT IT IS A LOT PERHAPS 30 OR 40 MILLION. I AM IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE TO OBTAIN THIS MONEYS.
THE MONEY IS IN A BANK IN RUSSIA. UNFORTUNATELY, MY COUNTRY IS CURRENTLY FIGHTING WITH RUSSIA SO I CAN DO NO BUSINESS WITH THEM UNLESS I PUT SOME MONEY DOWN FIRST. I AM WRITING TO YOU HOPING YOU WILL HELP ME OUT. I NEED FOUR THOUSANDS DOLLARS TO PAY BEFORE I GET THE 30 OR 40 MILLION. I AM A HONORABLE MAN YOU HAVE MY WORD THAT I WILL PAY YOU BACK VERY HANDSOMELY. IN ABOUT A MONTH A LARGE CUT WILL BE WIRED TO YOUR PERSONAL ACCOUNT. PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER SO I CAN DO THIS. PLEASE SEND MONEY AND INFORMATION RIGHT AWAY AS CONDITIONS IN OUR COUNTRY ARE WORSEN.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KINDNESS IT WILL BE REPAID.
YOUR TRULY
XABBU UGABE
My relatives can email pictures, because someone showed them how and it's familiar. They CAN'T navigate My Computer, though. And cut and paste is outside their talents, believe it or not. They can email pictures but they can't cut and paste... Also, I think the point of this whole thing is to allow people who are far away to share pictures. It's hard to set "all that" up for them, when you're hundreds of miles away.
I don't know what kind of family you have, but I know that MY mother/aunts/uncles/cousins don't have a HOPE of FTPing pictures on their own.
Just have them email all their pictures to you, and make an easy webpage with dreamweaver or something. It'll take less time in the end, and it'll be easier for everyone.
Oh, and if your email account doesn't have enough room, get GMail.
Anyone heard of UPN's Dance 360? I bring it up because it would be this show's competition, except it was cancelled. Will this show suffer the same fate?
Too bad... Dance 360 was absolutely hilarious.
"tag your man, tag your man, tag your man!"
yeah... very true. When there's fancy windows and teh intarnet to look at, who wants to program? Also, perhaps this is part of why TI programming is so popular (at least at my school) and seems so easy?
Right on, man. "A lot of the really cool frontiers have been supplanted. For example, overclocking is now seen as cooler than programming." Exactly... I learned everything there is to know about hardware before I even thought about touching programming. I always thought it would be neat to program, but it seemed just too hard, too steep of a learning curve. I had no books, nor the money to buy one. My parents didn't understand why I wanted one, and I certainly wasn' going to get any help at school. Um, what's a dithered image? The definiiton of a hacker, at the high school level, is seriously lame. They call me a "hacker" because I wrote a script to infinitely send "net send" messages. They'd probably faint if I brought in a knoppix disk and reset the admin password.
Yes indeed. The TI-83 is simply awesome for novice programmers; it's easy, very simple, but still exposes you to the basics such as variables, if's, loops, even functions.
Computer classes in high school are a joke. My school FORCED me take comp lit, which was totally ridiculous. I learned to type (again), even though I have been typing 70wpm since 5th grade. I learned to use Word, even though I'd been using it since like 3rd grade. I learned to use Microsoft Access... because I'm really going to use that ever again (seriously, wtf? why not Powerpoint at least?). I learned how to open IE and browse the web. Stupid school can't even use Firefox.
We have "CS" classes, even a class called "Oracle Academy," but I still know more about programming than the people who have taken all of those... and I don't know all that much.
I tried to learn BASIC my freshman year and failed horribly, despite having mentorship from some seriosuly fabulous programmers. At that point, I hadn't yet learned about functions in math, and variables only existed in equations like 2x + 5 = 9.
2 years later, though, I managed to learn rudimentary C with a fair amount of ease. I'm not sure whether it was the TI-83 (very possible) that made the difference or the other classes I took during those two years: Algebra 2, precalc (trig and functions), chemistry, biology, and physics. The concepts taught in these classes-- catalysts, positive/negative body feedback loops, functions (obviously), electricity-- if you understand these, it certainly makes learning how to program easier.
"and I'm a Microsoft hater as much as the next guy."
haha, I love how it's practically required to throw that in there if you want credibility on Slashdot.
That sounds like something I've been hearing a little too often lately... "Don't worry, we'll fix it in software!" I hate that phrase...
Don't worry, man, we've got you covered. BANNED BOOKS[upenn.edu] Did you really think we'd actually let LITERATURE fall into the hands of those unpredictable teens?!
Congratulations; you earned a "Read More" without mentioning the GNAA! Automatic +5 insightful!
You, my friend, clearly had more than a few things to add.
"but no matter how much people hate the phone company I wish they would stop rooting for it's downfall."
I am not rooting for the telco's downfall; I'm rooting for the preservation of internet access that doesn't discriminate.
"Laptops... Either the battery dies after 12-18 months [or] it's considered obsolete" "Screw you, biatch!" That's all my P2 200mhz laptop manufactured in 1997 has to say.
Maybe they just they just went with the free option. Maybe products like Apache/OO/Linux were made so people didn't have to spend their hard-earned cash on products from companies like MS. Maybe it IS all about the money.
So what? I hadn't heard about this yet. That makes it new to me and probably a lot of other slashdotters as well, if you all read the ToS as carefully as I do ;).
Who cares what the date says?
Exactly. Single-player is NOT what these games are about, despite what some people think. Halo 1 was a string of LAN parties for me. I bought a copy of the game and hardly ever played the single-player mode. Yet, I played the game for hours every weekend, holed up in someone's basement surrounded by friends and soda. Halo 2... there is no doubt that the single-player mode sucks. It was a waste of my time. Bungie should have released the game without it, because playing multiplayer on Live can't be beat by any other xbox game.
Maybe, but...
These things are NOT gonna be cheap! These consoles will probably launch with pricetags around $350-$400. At that rate, I know I won't be getting two, and when it comes down to it, I'll choose xbox over ps3 solely because of the Master Chief factor.
<Halo 2 rant>
"I'm gonna finish this fight." WHAT KIND OF AN ENDING IS THAT???
</Halo 2 rant>