I think you are wrong on both accounts. Bio-Informatics will profoundly change our lives but its Hype-factor will be less than the internet as people can not readily get a tactile "feel" for it as they can with the intenet.
Now get to my main point about the Internet being Hyped. Yes it was hyped, but rightly so.
The famous remark by Elison "The Internet changes everything" is truer today than when it was uttered a few year ago.
Go thru what you do on a daily basis and think about how this has been changed over the last few years.
All business communication (Human as well as machine to machine) is transformed. Most retail we do is transformed. Brick and Mortar retailers is relying on Internet to promote deals, We all use Google etc. to look at product information.
Science is changed forever as the Internet is now the premier reference vehichle. If a scientific paper is not available online it might as well not exist.
I could jammer on but the point is that the Hype was justified. The Economic dislocation of whealth behind the Hype was the problem, not the hype per se.
(Yes, the Netscape 7 spellchecker is currently once more working on linux builds, but not on windows.)
There is a working windows spellchecker for Mozilla 1.21. It's based on the OpenOffice spellchecker I believe. It works for me, but someone on the mailing list has reported problems, but try it.
Basically you've set the project back almost 2 days
The project only has value if its existence is known . It's called advertising, you might have heard of it. The point is not to review the stuff but get it onto the machines of windows users.
This is slightly o/t but too funny to pass up and the site is./'ed anyway. Head over to The Register and read a story about Amazon's personalization gone bongers. I almost choked my morning coffee.
This is in Europe anyway so what does the anti-trust case have to do with it?
There is an antitrust case ongoing against MS in Europe in case you didn't know. This means that MS needs to be careful what they do. Sony can do what they want as MS can't retaliate. This is the time for Sony et al to provoke them.
No this is much better. Let the ones with "special needs" go play in they own sandbox. They can do whatever they want in the Kids.us domain and I would never need to worry about it. If your plan of XXX domain was implemented who was to say what was xxx material and what is not? This way we have preserved Free speech and given the ones that wants to be subject to censoring a mechanism to play.
Notice the all caps. It's a name for service. In case you do not know try and subscribe. You get send a word (or phrase) everyday incl. meaning and origin. Each week tend to be theme based.
Maybe, maybe not. I object equally to the context and in doing so the rituals comes across as strange and primitive. Your comment in general is very well written though. I just picked the Christian ritual as an example since most people on/. probably are most familiar with that one.
I find it hard to understand how intelligent reflective people can accept religion at face value. I understand the need for us as humans to have some rules to play by thereby enhancing our survivability as a specie, but I find the dogma intolerable.
If we want sacred texts the UN declaration of human rights, or the US Constitution are far better than some obnoxious books like the Bible or the Koran.
extreme conditions were probably populated last not first
The concept of extreme conditions makes little sense when you do not know the structure of the life form. Sulphur based life forms would find a sunny day on a Disney cruise line extremely hostile.
Why they might find the idea of plunging a 'red' lobster into a tank of boiling water to be as offensive
So with that reasoning all the things that can be seen as offensive to some is to be censored? I personally find religious acts offensive, like eating the flesh of the alleged savior to name a grotesque ritual, does that mean I have a case for banning religious sites? Think not.
Thanks, I vaguely remember I have seen this before.
It must have been strange to be a USSR engineer at the time. On one hand playing along with all the Anti West rhetoric, at the same time having to steal technology just to keep up.
They used a fair amount of Western technology, mainly at the board level. Back in the 70's it was common knowledge (I worked in the industry) that certain distributors that covered "University accounts" shipped into the east block. It was centered around Finland, Austria and for Telecom products France. They paid a huge premium as the boards was marked-up by two or three levels of distribution.
I have high quality Ogg files on my computer that I listen to. When I go jogging I bring along my Zaurus to play the files. I do not need the same quality on the Zaurus as I do on the PC, and the PDA has MUCH less storage so why wouldn't I want to have the quality automatic stripped down to the quality leves set for the PDA or any other device when I copy the files over.
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Intel would never take up x86-64, Doing so admits defeat to the industry i.e.
Intel is a very pragmatic company. If they felt at some point that they needed to introduce x86-64 they will do so. They have enough marketing clout to pull it off.
Look at the way they are handling the Itanic. It is being positioned narrower and narrower, it will never die just "fade away".
I am taking your comment a bit serious. The problem for MS is that the industry does not want them. They are all afraid of of being commoditized with any value going to MS as happened in the PC space.
Where would MS go with Version 2 and 3? They almost have to go into the business themselves like Xbox to get a shot at it now or use some minor far-east player.
say it blue screened on
There is a special feature whereby you can select the Screen Of Death TM in 10 different colors. It's called SSOD (Select), and works with the game console XBOX.
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Now get to my main point about the Internet being Hyped. Yes it was hyped, but rightly so.
The famous remark by Elison "The Internet changes everything" is truer today than when it was uttered a few year ago.
Go thru what you do on a daily basis and think about how this has been changed over the last few years.
All business communication (Human as well as machine to machine) is transformed. Most retail we do is transformed. Brick and Mortar retailers is relying on Internet to promote deals, We all use Google etc. to look at product information.
Science is changed forever as the Internet is now the premier reference vehichle. If a scientific paper is not available online it might as well not exist.
I could jammer on but the point is that the Hype was justified. The Economic dislocation of whealth behind the Hype was the problem, not the hype per se.
Yes, for one the OpenBeOS folks would most likely love to have it. It was the defacto (if there ever was such a thing) Office Suite standard on BeOS.
There is a working windows spellchecker for Mozilla 1.21. It's based on the OpenOffice spellchecker I believe. It works for me, but someone on the mailing list has reported problems, but try it.
The project only has value if its existence is known . It's called advertising, you might have heard of it. The point is not to review the stuff but get it onto the machines of windows users.
This is slightly o/t but too funny to pass up and the site is ./'ed anyway. Head over to The Register and read a story about Amazon's personalization gone bongers. I almost choked my morning coffee.
The latest extentions of copyright's thanks to Tree Hugger Bono (It got you babe) should make the 1924 cartoon character a cinch to protect.
I liked Gateway until they ditched AMD. Now with DRM included they should replace the Cow with Milquetoast as a logo.
The fact that the US uses miles, inches etc. makes no difference to the rest of the world.
There is an antitrust case ongoing against MS in Europe in case you didn't know. This means that MS needs to be careful what they do. Sony can do what they want as MS can't retaliate. This is the time for Sony et al to provoke them.
This George is a few years older but WAY smarter.
No this is much better. Let the ones with "special needs" go play in they own sandbox. They can do whatever they want in the Kids.us domain and I would never need to worry about it. If your plan of XXX domain was implemented who was to say what was xxx material and what is not? This way we have preserved Free speech and given the ones that wants to be subject to censoring a mechanism to play.
It is a joke, Mr. Clueless
Notice the all caps. It's a name for service. In case you do not know try and subscribe. You get send a word (or phrase) everyday incl. meaning and origin. Each week tend to be theme based.
Maybe, maybe not. I object equally to the context and in doing so the rituals comes across as strange and primitive. Your comment in general is very well written though. I just picked the Christian ritual as an example since most people on /. probably are most familiar with that one.
I find it hard to understand how intelligent reflective people can accept religion at face value. I understand the need for us as humans to have some rules to play by thereby enhancing our survivability as a specie, but I find the dogma intolerable.
If we want sacred texts the UN declaration of human rights, or the US Constitution are far better than some obnoxious books like the Bible or the Koran.
The concept of extreme conditions makes little sense when you do not know the structure of the life form. Sulphur based life forms would find a sunny day on a Disney cruise line extremely hostile.
Come to think of it maybe you do have a point ;-)
So with that reasoning all the things that can be seen as offensive to some is to be censored? I personally find religious acts offensive, like eating the flesh of the alleged savior to name a grotesque ritual, does that mean I have a case for banning religious sites? Think not.
One does not preclude the other.
Posting a story about Chinese censorship does not mean that you implicit condone censorship somewhere else.
It must have been strange to be a USSR engineer at the time. On one hand playing along with all the Anti West rhetoric, at the same time having to steal technology just to keep up.
I have high quality Ogg files on my computer that I listen to. When I go jogging I bring along my Zaurus to play the files. I do not need the same quality on the Zaurus as I do on the PC, and the PDA has MUCH less storage so why wouldn't I want to have the quality automatic stripped down to the quality leves set for the PDA or any other device when I copy the files over.
Intel is a very pragmatic company. If they felt at some point that they needed to introduce x86-64 they will do so. They have enough marketing clout to pull it off.
Look at the way they are handling the Itanic. It is being positioned narrower and narrower, it will never die just "fade away".
Correct, but there is such a thing as Civil Disobedience.
Stop buying CD's and DVD's. RIP all the stuff you have and post to usenet. Support EFF, ACLU etc.
Where would MS go with Version 2 and 3? They almost have to go into the business themselves like Xbox to get a shot at it now or use some minor far-east player.
- It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson