Our (very) distant ancestors evolved and thrived in an enviroment without significant amounts of oxygen; heck, it was most likely a poison to them. But then a group dumping it in large amounts showed up, and the rest is history...
Now, it even seems it's quite possible that, what was once a dangerous byproduct, enabled explosion of life later on.
It really frightens me, as far as future of humanity goes, that there are people who consider it likely I didn't notice it's such a simple abbreviation (those people don't frighten me themselves of course, more the causes, types of people they deal with). But the mere mechanism of creating it is not what prompted my comment above...
OTOH remember that god(s) tend to act in quite irrational ways in most stories; holding a contract you were unaware of as valid would be a relativelly mild form of batshit crazy, in comparison.
So I'm here, staring blankly at your comment thinking "w...t...f...what's...it's..." for some time now; I can't be alone, seeing as it's almost 10 minutes since the story which always attracts debate showed up on/. and, well, no other comments here.
Surely you don't think that every place is the same, with exactly the same solutions applicable everywhere? (I'd hope so, if you are indeed behind attaining world peace, as your sig suggests)
For starters, it was probably clear, while drafting the standard, that Europe was bound to have rather high typical density of hotspots. Lower permitted power (and more channels available) probably helps in those circumstances.
Forget SD, what about microSD? Though I can imagine some frantic efforts to make them detectable, at some point... (scent of plastic, low level source of radiation built in, rfid on the same die as flash & working at frequencies impractical to shield, etc.)
By reading some tidbits here and there about Lightworks, it seems its current owners focus somewhat on providing storage & collabaration backends. With some focus on those visible in the press release about opening Lightworks (I guess it would work really great mainly with their backends) - maybe it has a chance of becoming this modern editor that you wrote about, working good with different formats, nicely sharing projects and metadata?
...Because seriously, I don't think I've ever seen any group brag about their religious beliefs as much as atheists do.
What?:) Look around you sometimes. You seriously missed all the churches/etc.? I can see two of them (plus some monument for worshipping) only through my window. Built by funds funneled from poor people led to believe in a fantasy (sadly, in my place there still isn't much use for them; they aren't converted into buildings of public utility, as is more or less the norm in two countries I have behind the border); loudspeakers disseminating words and songs from the inside. Even that's nothing compared to bells (not puny ones...I if'd do such a racket at such hour every day, there would be certainly o considerable fine involved...only first few times), "faith inspired policies", creating a caste of untouchables...I guess all those things become invisible when camp you were brough into since infancy is behind them, eh? Me...I wouldn't care, wouldn't respond if not for all getting in my way.
List of features certainly looks nice (it would be even better to see some presentation; I haven't found much, too niche it seems...plus now search results are swamped with this news). For somebody who is generally fine with Sony Vegas + some nice color grading plugin, this almost looks too good to be true...
Besides, if they've decided to go the open source route, EditShare has effectively acknowledged that the tool provides them little commercial value, and that in turn implies that the company more or less considers the tool to be dead.
I'm sure people on Slashdot can remember many technologies, operating systems or applications which, while great, didn't really have the chance to take off; or died untimely death due to factors external from the product itself.
Even if this tool can be considered "dead" commercially (as far as selling it goes), it can still have bright times ahead once freed.
I wonder if people will now grumble more about UI of Blender or about this Lightworks thing (seems to be fairly advanced, with operation built around hardware peripheral, so it's bound to be "weird" and "hard"...)
Still, can't wait (and you'd think/. would mostly agree)...one step closer to having everything I need under open OS.
If a robot with humanoid torso (two cameras in its head, too) is controlled directly by human operator, it can give a rather nice immersion, "feel", situational awareness; I guess.
Plus if the operator is inside the station, there's even not much of a problem with guerilla arm...
I'd say that all the trouble with maintaining a human in a spacesuit present larger "mechanical hazard" than using a teleoperated robot (which has a shape similar to human torso so that its operator can better relate to its movements)
Last time I checked it's basically a manipulator; made in the shape of human torso so it will feel more "right" when teleoperated. I imagine it could also follow simple preprogrammed movements being routine part of its operation, or more complicated sequences when very carefully prepared.
Robots like this can save the trouble and danger of humans performing tasks in a space suit.
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Actually, there was some exchange of technologies going on between Amiga and OS/2. IBM gave Amiga REXX in exchange for some general desktop enviroment tech; something like that.
"It doesn't compare well to Safari" when Safari has good conditions to work with.
It shows its strenghts when you're in an area with very poor data transfer, when you want to conserve battery a bit more aggresivelly for whatever reason, when you want to limit data traffic.
Opera markets their Mini solution to quite a few cellular operators, for default inclusion on the handsets offered by them. I'd say they have a reputation to protect.
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Our (very) distant ancestors evolved and thrived in an enviroment without significant amounts of oxygen; heck, it was most likely a poison to them. But then a group dumping it in large amounts showed up, and the rest is history...
Now, it even seems it's quite possible that, what was once a dangerous byproduct, enabled explosion of life later on.
More like somebody needs to turn in his humour card...
It really frightens me, as far as future of humanity goes, that there are people who consider it likely I didn't notice it's such a simple abbreviation (those people don't frighten me themselves of course, more the causes, types of people they deal with). But the mere mechanism of creating it is not what prompted my comment above...
Yup, I love them too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_ferry
Then you'll go where 99.9999999+% of human souls go; with such abundance you'll have plenty opportunities to make your pesky "observations"
You'll go to hell.
OTOH remember that god(s) tend to act in quite irrational ways in most stories; holding a contract you were unaware of as valid would be a relativelly mild form of batshit crazy, in comparison.
So I'm here, staring blankly at your comment thinking "w...t...f...what's...it's..." for some time now; I can't be alone, seeing as it's almost 10 minutes since the story which always attracts debate showed up on /. and, well, no other comments here.
Don't do that to us again.
Surely you don't think that every place is the same, with exactly the same solutions applicable everywhere? (I'd hope so, if you are indeed behind attaining world peace, as your sig suggests)
For starters, it was probably clear, while drafting the standard, that Europe was bound to have rather high typical density of hotspots. Lower permitted power (and more channels available) probably helps in those circumstances.
Forget SD, what about microSD? Though I can imagine some frantic efforts to make them detectable, at some point... (scent of plastic, low level source of radiation built in, rfid on the same die as flash & working at frequencies impractical to shield, etc.)
If it makes you feel better, I think I've never eaten Doritos.
...It is a standard tactic to ask for pie in the sky stuff just to make your other requests look more credible....
I wonder why that makes sense to so many people - asking for things which a mad, sociopath lunatic would want makes you more credible? Really?
Border searches of data storage - sure (a small addition of one stated purpose required)
Spyware that deletes infringing content - game DRM is very close; if it "thinks" something's wrong, it nukes your ability to use the content.
Managing to stay mostly under the radar just fine...
By reading some tidbits here and there about Lightworks, it seems its current owners focus somewhat on providing storage & collabaration backends. With some focus on those visible in the press release about opening Lightworks (I guess it would work really great mainly with their backends) - maybe it has a chance of becoming this modern editor that you wrote about, working good with different formats, nicely sharing projects and metadata?
...Because seriously, I don't think I've ever seen any group brag about their religious beliefs as much as atheists do.
What? :) Look around you sometimes. You seriously missed all the churches/etc.? I can see two of them (plus some monument for worshipping) only through my window. Built by funds funneled from poor people led to believe in a fantasy (sadly, in my place there still isn't much use for them; they aren't converted into buildings of public utility, as is more or less the norm in two countries I have behind the border); loudspeakers disseminating words and songs from the inside. Even that's nothing compared to bells (not puny ones...I if'd do such a racket at such hour every day, there would be certainly o considerable fine involved...only first few times), "faith inspired policies", creating a caste of untouchables...I guess all those things become invisible when camp you were brough into since infancy is behind them, eh?
Me...I wouldn't care, wouldn't respond if not for all getting in my way.
But the power pc chip would from the design team of Apple!!!
He won't know you appreciate his comment anyway...
List of features certainly looks nice (it would be even better to see some presentation; I haven't found much, too niche it seems...plus now search results are swamped with this news). For somebody who is generally fine with Sony Vegas + some nice color grading plugin, this almost looks too good to be true...
Besides, if they've decided to go the open source route, EditShare has effectively acknowledged that the tool provides them little commercial value, and that in turn implies that the company more or less considers the tool to be dead.
I'm sure people on Slashdot can remember many technologies, operating systems or applications which, while great, didn't really have the chance to take off; or died untimely death due to factors external from the product itself.
Even if this tool can be considered "dead" commercially (as far as selling it goes), it can still have bright times ahead once freed.
I wonder if people will now grumble more about UI of Blender or about this Lightworks thing (seems to be fairly advanced, with operation built around hardware peripheral, so it's bound to be "weird" and "hard"...)
Still, can't wait (and you'd think /. would mostly agree)...one step closer to having everything I need under open OS.
If a robot with humanoid torso (two cameras in its head, too) is controlled directly by human operator, it can give a rather nice immersion, "feel", situational awareness; I guess.
Plus if the operator is inside the station, there's even not much of a problem with guerilla arm...
I'd say that all the trouble with maintaining a human in a spacesuit present larger "mechanical hazard" than using a teleoperated robot (which has a shape similar to human torso so that its operator can better relate to its movements)
Last time I checked it's basically a manipulator; made in the shape of human torso so it will feel more "right" when teleoperated. I imagine it could also follow simple preprogrammed movements being routine part of its operation, or more complicated sequences when very carefully prepared.
Robots like this can save the trouble and danger of humans performing tasks in a space suit.
Actually, there was some exchange of technologies going on between Amiga and OS/2. IBM gave Amiga REXX in exchange for some general desktop enviroment tech; something like that.
"It doesn't compare well to Safari" when Safari has good conditions to work with.
It shows its strenghts when you're in an area with very poor data transfer, when you want to conserve battery a bit more aggresivelly for whatever reason, when you want to limit data traffic.
It can still be usefull on the iPhone.
Opera markets their Mini solution to quite a few cellular operators, for default inclusion on the handsets offered by them. I'd say they have a reputation to protect.