"Innovation is critical. 'Because we have this modern Unix-based technology in Mac OS X we are able to innovate much faster than Redmond (Microsoft Corp.). Their last release was in 2001, but you'll see us continue to innovate in our OS.' "
One of Apple's major strengths lies in its design and ease of use, which isn't so much different from Microsoft, but from the majority of the open source world. Apple couples these two design principles, ease of use and configurability, with their OS and also their other products, so their products are very appealing to many customers, especially designers, drawers, and graphic people.
In the near future, I believe there are going to be more and more of such jobs, and so Apple plays a large role in the IT field. I think the $10 billion limit can be reached.
I don't agree with you that art has to involve feelings. It can express intelligence, structure, ideas and so on and doesn't have to involve feelings. Take music as an example. Most music is indeed about feelings, but some music (especially modern music) expresses logic or structure or some other idea not related to feelings.
How your content (comments, photos, files etc.) is being valued is also related to where you put it on the Net. Sites like Slashdot is reliable, which means that a bad comment posted here will be more valued than a comment posted on a personal homepage. A site like photo.net is a very good place to upload your pictures, and though your picture isn't considered of high quality, all other pictures on the site add up to a relatively high quality overall.
I once tried Jaws for a project at school. It worked as planned, but any normal human being will soon become sick of the irritating Commadore 64 computer voice. Actually, I remember no difference between the speach in Commadore and the one in Jaws.
Granted, for someone who's very familiar with the controllers, this may not be a very big issue, but for casual players it can be quite difficult to instantly remember where the triangle-button is located.
If you have played just a small number of games on the Playstation, you'll soon find out that the triangle button escapes the menus (ie. acts as the Escape button on a computer keyboard), the X button selects items (as the Enter key) and such things. The other two main buttons, the square button and the circle button, respectively acts as brake and handbrake in racing games, and has other "similar" functions in other game types.
I think I would find it annoying if these four buttons had different shapes now that I'm so familiar with the controller. I never look at the controller when operating in the menus nor when playing.
If you look at the definition at Wikipedia, you'll notice this:
"Originally, a hack [...] meant a quick fix to a computer program problem." And so you can't really say that creativity has to be involved, but the term is normally used that way:
"The surface implication was [...] a casual attempt to fix the problem, but the deeper meaning was, often, something more clever and thus impressive."
I think Google might want to reconsider offering so many service.
I don't think it'll be a problem with Google because nearly every Internet user knows about it, and hearing about Google's Image Search for example would not confuse anyone familiar with Google. But if it had been another search engine that offered new services all the time, people would be confused.
Re:This has been the "story" for the past two year
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Although new searching algorithms and techniques are being developed and matured by researchers and used by new search companies, I don't think they will become more popular than Google is now. Google has reached a high popularity and is known by almost all Internet users. Maybe there'll be some who wants to use the new technologies that other search engines has to offer, but Google's popularity is hard to break down.
And Google isn't exactly dead, its alive and coping with the new stuff all the time.
A3 x 30.
Taken in the studio this series of photographs depicts the artist fending off a swarm of silicon chips as if they were flying insects. The work deals with the effect, intended or not, of technology on the individual.
Google email is interesting, but I hope they stop there. If the Google front page starts looking like Yahoo!'s bloat-fest, they'll be losing one of the things that really gives them an edge over the competition.
One of Google's mayor strenghts is its simple interface. When compared to other search engines including Yahoo, Google's interface seems very clean and simple, and also the way the whole site is put together. Regular users don't need all the features that Google has to offer, but power users may want to use them, and they can easily find out where they are accessed. For example, Advanced search is on the front page where all can find it; but one must know about other features to use them, and that's not a problem for the users who wants to use these.
My first post was just an attempt to be humorous (it got a 'Funny' point), but I guess it was taken too seriously.
Tim Berners Lee invented HTML and HTTP. That's not the internet. Without HTTP there is still FTP, Gopher, Telnet, and a jillion other internet protocols.
OK, my mistake. But again, the humorous point wouldn't get through if I said DARPA. Or maybe it would; don't know.
It's still amazing to me that a project as large as Linux was able to be so successfull BEFORE the changes that were made to the development process. It lacked a centralized CVS, coherent bug tracking, automated testing...
Without beeing too sure, I believe that Linux developer's in the beginning focused more on fixing bugs than keeping things clean and structured. That's mainly because the base of the system needed to be developed, and little attention was drawn to factors like speed and optimization. "First make it work, then make it fast."
And most bugs were indeed caught. Linus's law, states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". More formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone." (From Wikipedia)
Just don't spend more time organizing your thoughts than you do actual work.
FreeMind is just a way to write down Mind maps. I have tried to use mind maps for my notes at school and when I read some important book. What I don't like about mind maps is that they focus on the organisation, and as a result, the information itself is not prioritized as much as it should be. When I "read" the mind maps after some time, I'm surprised of how little of it is neccessary.
Basicly what I'm trying to say is that mind maps are a bad way in my opinion to take notes. You need to write more text and prioritize the actual work as the parent poster said.
Rechy at full power, February 14, 2004
Reviewer: A reader from California
This tour de force from one of our best writers, could become a classic. It's a compelling, intelligent and fascinating book, I loved it. Bravo!
And it has received one helpful vote. Maybe from himself?
What person doesn't promote his or her own work? That's just normal..
Many authors and artists have published their work under a different name. One of the authors that I know of is Stephen King who has written five books under the name Richard Bachman. That the audience later found out that it was Stephen King is another matter.
The responder's best point is the last; if you trust software from some unknown project or company, who knows what you're getting. But trusting in major players, such as Apache, you can be at least as sure (if not more so) that you're getting good, stable, secure software as anything shipped from Redmond.
I have just rebooted Windows for the third time now because it won't install the Real One Player. I use Linux too, and by experience I know that what you say is true - I have never experienced a stable release of a large open source projects that crashed or did anything else weird.
I use contact lenses myself, but wear glasses occasionally. My idea was just that smart people (including geeks) tend to have a reduced sight, and some scientific studies has in fact concluded that the majority of people with a reduced sight are intellectually above average.
Have the people who OK'd this movie actually SEEN and COMPARED newer episodes of Simpsons to ones that aired back in its' glory days?
This is one of those shows I wish they'd take off the air for its' own good.
That's exactly how I feel about Friends too. The first four seasons were briliant, and maybe the fifth was okay too, but then starting at season six they just repeated the same jokes over and over again and turned the characters into stereotypes. At first they were themselves - a thing that characterizes a good show in my opinion.
The crackers encountered computers in their teens
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When you seperate the crackers from the hackers, you'll discover that all the crackers' first encounter with a computer was in their teenage years or in their childhood. John Draper, Mark Abene, Robert Morris, Kevin Mitnick, Kevin Poulsen at least. But also Linus Torvalds and many other of the hackers. There is a connection between how addictive you are to computers and how much you played with them in your teens. And I guess it's just another form of teenage revenge. What seperates crackers from hackers is how the technology is used.
I first encountered and played with computers in my childhood, so it looks like I have great potential.
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One of Apple's major strengths lies in its design and ease of use, which isn't so much different from Microsoft, but from the majority of the open source world. Apple couples these two design principles, ease of use and configurability, with their OS and also their other products, so their products are very appealing to many customers, especially designers, drawers, and graphic people.
In the near future, I believe there are going to be more and more of such jobs, and so Apple plays a large role in the IT field. I think the $10 billion limit can be reached.
I don't agree with you that art has to involve feelings. It can express intelligence, structure, ideas and so on and doesn't have to involve feelings. Take music as an example. Most music is indeed about feelings, but some music (especially modern music) expresses logic or structure or some other idea not related to feelings.
How your content (comments, photos, files etc.) is being valued is also related to where you put it on the Net. Sites like Slashdot is reliable, which means that a bad comment posted here will be more valued than a comment posted on a personal homepage. A site like photo.net is a very good place to upload your pictures, and though your picture isn't considered of high quality, all other pictures on the site add up to a relatively high quality overall.
I once tried Jaws for a project at school. It worked as planned, but any normal human being will soon become sick of the irritating Commadore 64 computer voice. Actually, I remember no difference between the speach in Commadore and the one in Jaws.
If you have played just a small number of games on the Playstation, you'll soon find out that the triangle button escapes the menus (ie. acts as the Escape button on a computer keyboard), the X button selects items (as the Enter key) and such things. The other two main buttons, the square button and the circle button, respectively acts as brake and handbrake in racing games, and has other "similar" functions in other game types.
I think I would find it annoying if these four buttons had different shapes now that I'm so familiar with the controller. I never look at the controller when operating in the menus nor when playing.
"Originally, a hack [...] meant a quick fix to a computer program problem." And so you can't really say that creativity has to be involved, but the term is normally used that way:
"The surface implication was [...] a casual attempt to fix the problem, but the deeper meaning was, often, something more clever and thus impressive."
I don't think it'll be a problem with Google because nearly every Internet user knows about it, and hearing about Google's Image Search for example would not confuse anyone familiar with Google. But if it had been another search engine that offered new services all the time, people would be confused.
And Google isn't exactly dead, its alive and coping with the new stuff all the time.
Yeah, yeah chips in your hair. 2000.
A3 x 30. Taken in the studio this series of photographs depicts the artist fending off a swarm of silicon chips as if they were flying insects. The work deals with the effect, intended or not, of technology on the individual.
One of Google's mayor strenghts is its simple interface. When compared to other search engines including Yahoo, Google's interface seems very clean and simple, and also the way the whole site is put together. Regular users don't need all the features that Google has to offer, but power users may want to use them, and they can easily find out where they are accessed. For example, Advanced search is on the front page where all can find it; but one must know about other features to use them, and that's not a problem for the users who wants to use these.
Tim Berners Lee invented HTML and HTTP. That's not the internet. Without HTTP there is still FTP, Gopher, Telnet, and a jillion other internet protocols.
OK, my mistake. But again, the humorous point wouldn't get through if I said DARPA. Or maybe it would; don't know.
He invented programming too?
8. Al Gore, former vice president of the United States
Then: "Created the Internet."
I thought it was Tim Berners-Lee.
Without beeing too sure, I believe that Linux developer's in the beginning focused more on fixing bugs than keeping things clean and structured. That's mainly because the base of the system needed to be developed, and little attention was drawn to factors like speed and optimization. "First make it work, then make it fast."
And most bugs were indeed caught. Linus's law, states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". More formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone." (From Wikipedia)
FreeMind is just a way to write down Mind maps. I have tried to use mind maps for my notes at school and when I read some important book. What I don't like about mind maps is that they focus on the organisation, and as a result, the information itself is not prioritized as much as it should be. When I "read" the mind maps after some time, I'm surprised of how little of it is neccessary.
Basicly what I'm trying to say is that mind maps are a bad way in my opinion to take notes. You need to write more text and prioritize the actual work as the parent poster said.
No, you are right. But he could create a new account ("another reader from Chicago") and vote from that account.
Rechy at full power, February 14, 2004 Reviewer: A reader from California This tour de force from one of our best writers, could become a classic. It's a compelling, intelligent and fascinating book, I loved it. Bravo!
And it has received one helpful vote. Maybe from himself?
Many authors and artists have published their work under a different name. One of the authors that I know of is Stephen King who has written five books under the name Richard Bachman. That the audience later found out that it was Stephen King is another matter.
I have just rebooted Windows for the third time now because it won't install the Real One Player. I use Linux too, and by experience I know that what you say is true - I have never experienced a stable release of a large open source projects that crashed or did anything else weird.
I tried that link, but I was disapointed to see that it wasn't Linus standing on a ASUS DigiMatrix!
I use contact lenses myself, but wear glasses occasionally. My idea was just that smart people (including geeks) tend to have a reduced sight, and some scientific studies has in fact concluded that the majority of people with a reduced sight are intellectually above average.
It seems like the smartest people in the world has a large head and wears glasses.
They are all Amazon "So you'd like to..." guides, but they are worth looking at, anyway.
This is one of those shows I wish they'd take off the air for its' own good.
That's exactly how I feel about Friends too. The first four seasons were briliant, and maybe the fifth was okay too, but then starting at season six they just repeated the same jokes over and over again and turned the characters into stereotypes. At first they were themselves - a thing that characterizes a good show in my opinion.
I first encountered and played with computers in my childhood, so it looks like I have great potential.