Go ahead and mod me down...I'm still stuck in another era;)
In A.D. 2005
War was beginning.
Adobe: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the GIMP.
Operator: We get signal.
Adobe: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Adobe: It's You !!
GIMP: How are you gentlemen !!
GIMP: All your GUI are belong to us.
GIMP: You are on the way to destruction.
Adobe: What you say !!
GIMP: You have no chance to survive make your time.
GIMP: HA HA HA HA....
Adobe: Take off every 'GimpShop' !!
Adobe: You know what you doing.
Adobe: Kill 'GimpShop'.
Adobe: For great justice.
I think that it should be "Yahoo! tunes into...", unless you're actually talking about a service by Yahoo! called Tunes. Obviously, I have too much time on my hands;o) here are a few sites that agree with me:
Yahoo!s privacy policy "Yahoo! takes", "Yahoo! treats", "Yahoo! products and services"...
Their currency converter "Neither Yahoo! nor"
Geocities main page "Yahoo! member sign-in"
But as for the actual story;), it looks to me like they've seen how powerful it has been for google, and are pretty much copying them. Will it be successful? I don't think so; why would I want to use this new service by Yahoo! when I can use a more established service by google?
But let's face it, most people don't think that way. Most people will see their other friends' blogs, say "I want one", and click that handy signup button right at the page they're on. And they know it's good, because their friend is using it. IMO, Yahoo! should've bought off another social networking company and taken advantage of an instant userbase.
One more point: At the bottom of the article (you DID read it, didn't you?) it says that it's going to (initially) be invite-based, a la google. Well, IMHO this is a crappy idea. It worked for google because when they have something, it's (usually) fresh, new, and innovated. Plus, they always have the bonus of a fanclub. Yahoo!, on the other hand, does not enjoy such benefits. It doesn't seem any better than what I can get right now without begging for an invite.
"So I gather some of the 3000 users may have read the EULA but dismissed the possibility of real cash prize., just like not everybody entered suparmarket prize draw thinking that they won't be so lucky."
I disagree. If they did dismiss the possibility of geting a real cash prize, I'll bet my pickle that they would email anyways...it's very easy to send an email. How long does it take to send a simple email like that...a minute?
Those kind of clauses are pretty rare; if someone didn't find that interesting, then they probably didn't really read it at all.
OK, you're right:). Until all cities have one wifi connection covering it, not much of a privacy concern- but just to clear up something:
it doesn't only work at legoland. this page says that "Bluesoft's Aeroscout(TM) wireless LAN location system is a novel technology platform that location-enables a standard Wi-Fi wireless network". So even if you have the tag and the location system, it would only work within a Wi-Fi connection (and that's ANY wi-fi area, NOT just legoland's)
Well, if somebody gets ahold of one of these devices, what's to stop them from taking it apart and using the tag to spy on somebody who is not their 8 year old?
the audience for this guide would be current users of MSOffice
No, I think that current users of OO.org are also targeted. They not only want to convince people not to switch, but they wouldn't mind trying to prove to current OO.org users that the software they're using is inferior to ms office. Also, oo.org is compatible with ms office (although sometimes formatting is lost), so users of oo.org could read the file anyways. Besides, why should they narrow their audience when they can target everybody (ok, well the people w/o pdf readers aren't targeted, but then again, there's an html version- but you get the point)?
For anybody who doesn't have software to read.pdf files (or for anybody who doesn't want to download the pdf file), here is a link to the HTML version of the above mentioned on the above link.
also, here is a translation of the link to linuxfr.org. Slashdot should have posted another link to the english version- i don't think the majority of/. readers can read french fluently.
OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or
support rteam.Consequently,if bugs go unresolved,users
have the option to resolve problems by scouring through
numerous community sites and chat rooms.
This sounds like a fun thing to play around with, but I certainly don't see myself using it as a normal web browser. I'll most likely stick with my keyboard.
as for their statement about it being a replacement for powerpoint, I don't think that this will fly either unless they either:
a) find a company to make a powerpoint alternative which saves to html files
b) make the aforementioned software themselves.
Even if they accomplished that, people's stupidity and ignorance has proven time and time again that whether microsoft's software is better, worse, or just as good as its competitors- people will buy microsoft's software instead of others. Look at openoffice.org, mozilla (most people use ie)/opera/konquer/galeon/netscape/etc, linux, amd a bunch of other superior software. Maybe a couple could be explained (linux often involves use of the command line interface, netscape is slower to load (even though ie cheats by loading some of the program at startup time)), but most of it is due to a problem which exists somewhere between the keyboard and the chair. Besides, I would find a remote control a better option than speech, since a remote control wouldn't force me to scream "NEXT SLIDE" across the room like an idiot before it recognizes what I'm saying. It would also be much smoother to just press a button on a remote control.
I believe that they do have to take antirejection drugs- regardless of their age. this site says (on the 7th page) "Again, as with the tiny premature babies and the dialysis patients, that up-front cost gives us an expanded capability to
keep people with failed hearts alive a lot longer so they can receive even more care. Transplant patients can live for a very long time. The post-transplant follow-up care?including ongoing antirejection drugs . .." So there you go. In addition, this site also claims that "Babies who now receive an incompatible blood-type heart still must take immunosuppressant drugs to ensure their bodies don't reject the donor heart. All transplant recipients, regardless of their age, blood type or the organ they receive, must do so."
I think that the title is a little bit misleading. If you go to the site, the text directly above "Google Home" and "Local Search Help" says: "Find local businesses and services on the web." This isn't to find your neighbors: it's to find your nearest McDonalds, etc.
Also, the local search help page talks about finding businesses, and mentions nothing of finding specific people.
BitTorrent is basically another p2p service, except it's different (yes, i'm trying to be very specific here)
It allows for people to take advantage of bandwith by downloding bits of a large file from different users hosting a 'torrent.' At the end, all these pieces are put together. Yes, it is pretty good.
I don't think that the price of the liquid would be too much of an issue, since:
1: it only sprays minute amounts
2: you could always choose to fill it up with another liquid instead (anybody know the going price for liquid nitrogen?
I think the real issue is if the average person be willing to open up their computer every few months to fill up the tank. Most average users i know would not be very willing to do that.
Here's google's cache of the same page. I know the site isn't completely slashdotted- as it runs fine at some moments, and VERY slow at others. As usual, google's cache is much more reliable.
However scared they may be, doctors would be breaking an oath if they refused to treat patients because they sued. All doctors take an oath at the time of their graduation that they will try to treat all patients who are willing to be treated. Although I doubt that it's mandatory to do this, it would definately be immoral to not treat somebody because they sued (well, in my opinon anyways). Does anybody know if the posted site checks to make sure the patient actually sued, and the doctor isn't just lying? I think that maybe if the person has sued twice, then a red flag should go up, but people have a right to sue if the doctor was just being plain careless.
Wow! What a horrible search engine! Xfree86 porn doesn't bring up the warning because it's not the EXACT term which they have in their database. I suspect that they compiled a list of terms likely to bring up adult content, but they fail to check if somebody used a combination of those words.
Seach for porn, and you'll get the nightsurf thing. Search for nude, and you'll also get the nightsurf warning. But- if you search for porn nude then you'll get no warning at all!!! This is stupid even for microsoft standards.
Oh yes! It's a gootastic decision!!!
On a more serious note- lucas arts does seem to sometimes have a problem sometimes with the pace of their games. But what difference would postponing the game's release do? I didn't really enjoy the Clone Wars game too much, but Knights of the Old Republic was supposed to be a good game (i think), wasn't it? I haven't played it though- so I'm not apt to give an adequate review of how enjoyable it really was.
However, judging by the comments posted here, the first game seemed to be good, so they should have probably reaped the benefits of one of the good games which they have produced- I'll bet that it would have sold well if the first one was as good as people say it was. It all depends on how they played their cards.
What's wrong with implementing OpenVPN- the SSL approach? I suppose it may be difficult for some companies to upgrade . . . but if they require it, and it is a viable alternative- why not?
Would it really be that difficult for somebody to take over the development? Maybe their role could be more to administer the operation rather than code a lot of it.
Also, this (google's cache) or the PDF version of the above claims that FreeS/WAN does not support PKI.
is this like an infinite number of monkeys with those typewriters? And since time passes so strangly there, why the heck haven't we detected x-rays sending Shakespear?
No, i think that we haven't detected Shakespear because we've been looking for him rather than Shakespeare
Ah hah! The cable companies (and maybe some of the TV channels- I never did trust FOX...) must have sponsored Philips to develop this- think about it:
What are most couch potatoes? OBESE
What do people find disgusting? Fatness
What will the couch potato see when they turn off the TV? THEMSELVES! (they will see fatness)
Ergo, I have concluded that it's a scam so people can NEVER turn off the TV. It's a pretty good idea, actually...
I'm not completely sure, but this site says that BellSouth's backbone could download the library of congress in 126 seconds- so it's gotta be pretty fast.
for those too lazy to register an account- here's the new york times article:
RADAR technology was once synonymous with the big and the bulky - for instance, the heavy, rotating antennas at the airport, scanning skies and runways.
But lately radar, like so many other technologies, has been slimming down.
Now a team of electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology has shrunk the functions of a radar system into one tiny, intricately designed silicon chip and eight minuscule antennas.
The basic building blocks of the radar system are all fully integrated on the chip, including power generation, signal processing, and dozens of other functions.
The intricate parallel circuitry is designed so that the eight antennas can work together to focus and steer a beam of microwaves. Although the circuit design is highly complex, the silicon chip can be made in bulk using inexpensive lithographic methods, said Ali Hajimiri, an associate professor of electrical engineering who leads the group on high-speed integrated circuits that created the chip.
"It should cost no more than a few dollars," he said.
The high-frequency beams that the system generates and receives may one day handle many functions, including the usual radar jobs of ranging and location. In cars, for example, the chip might be used to detect other vehicles looming in the fog.
The chip may also be used for wireless communications, since it has a broad bandwidth or range of frequencies at which it communicates. And it produces a bit stream at roughly the rate of fiber optics, more than enough for quick downloads of movies and other digital data.
"D.S.L. can go to several hundred kilobits, and fiber can go to several gigabits per second," Dr. Hajimiri said. The radar chip can achieve bit rates up to a gigabit per second, partly because of the concentrated nature of the beam, he said. "The beam created by the chip is highly focused," he said.
The chip could combine the functions of sensing and communication, say, for a group of army tanks that needs to stay in touch in the field.
"Using these extremely high frequencies, you can first capture location, sending out pulses and scanning the area like a bat," said Volkan Ozguz, chief scientist at Irvine Sensors in Costa Mesa, Calif. Irvine Sensors makes miniature electronic systems, including sensors. "Then, using the same chipset, you can start communicating at high frequency," exchanging information without switching to different equipment, he said.
The new radar chips do not create pulses as powerful as those now used in aviation systems, but they could be used in arrays to multiply their power, Dr. Hajimiri said.
The eight antennas on the new chip are not the sort that protrude from old-fashioned rotating radar shells. Instead, the antennas - actually traces of metal on a PC board - do not move at all: their bearings are adjusted not mechanically but electrically by circuits that imitate the behavior of rotating antennas, focusing and steering the beam of radio signals in the right direction.
Usually the radiated signals arrive at the separate antennas at different times. But electronic devices called phase shifters compensate for these delays, in effect combining and enhancing the collective power of the signal for a desired direction, and rejecting emissions from other directions.
"It's neat because you can get the eight antennas to work together so that you can transmit in a narrow beam," said David B. Rutledge, a professor of electrical engineering at Caltech and a colleague of Dr. Hajimiri. "Then you transmit with eight times as much power."
The phased array antennas can be made insensitive to unwanted signals, limiting interference. "In cellphones, when you add people, there's interference," he said. "But these circuits can figure out how to reduce power from a direction they don't want."
Dr. Hajimiri used a comparison between a light bulb and a laser pointer to explain how the chip could make the best use of its power. Light bulbs illuminate the whole space, he said, but a laser c
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Go ahead and mod me down...I'm still stuck in another era ;)
....
In A.D. 2005
War was beginning.
Adobe: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the GIMP.
Operator: We get signal.
Adobe: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Adobe: It's You !!
GIMP: How are you gentlemen !!
GIMP: All your GUI are belong to us.
GIMP: You are on the way to destruction.
Adobe: What you say !!
GIMP: You have no chance to survive make your time.
GIMP: HA HA HA HA
Adobe: Take off every 'GimpShop' !!
Adobe: You know what you doing.
Adobe: Kill 'GimpShop'.
Adobe: For great justice.
Sorry about that, the link is Special:Listusers I tried to email the on-duty editor, but they didn't see it on time :-(
I think that it should be "Yahoo! tunes into...", unless you're actually talking about a service by Yahoo! called Tunes. Obviously, I have too much time on my hands ;o) here are a few sites that agree with me:
;), it looks to me like they've seen how powerful it has been for google, and are pretty much copying them. Will it be successful? I don't think so; why would I want to use this new service by Yahoo! when I can use a more established service by google?
Yahoo!s privacy policy "Yahoo! takes", "Yahoo! treats", "Yahoo! products and services"...
Their currency converter "Neither Yahoo! nor"
Geocities main page "Yahoo! member sign-in"
But as for the actual story
But let's face it, most people don't think that way. Most people will see their other friends' blogs, say "I want one", and click that handy signup button right at the page they're on. And they know it's good, because their friend is using it. IMO, Yahoo! should've bought off another social networking company and taken advantage of an instant userbase.
One more point: At the bottom of the article (you DID read it, didn't you?) it says that it's going to (initially) be invite-based, a la google. Well, IMHO this is a crappy idea. It worked for google because when they have something, it's (usually) fresh, new, and innovated. Plus, they always have the bonus of a fanclub. Yahoo!, on the other hand, does not enjoy such benefits. It doesn't seem any better than what I can get right now without begging for an invite.
OK, you're right :). Until all cities have one wifi connection covering it, not much of a privacy concern- but just to clear up something:
it doesn't only work at legoland. this page says that "Bluesoft's Aeroscout(TM) wireless LAN location system is a novel technology platform that location-enables a standard Wi-Fi wireless network". So even if you have the tag and the location system, it would only work within a Wi-Fi connection (and that's ANY wi-fi area, NOT just legoland's)
Well, if somebody gets ahold of one of these devices, what's to stop them from taking it apart and using the tag to spy on somebody who is not their 8 year old?
The AeroScout Location System can locate the tags which I believe is in use with Lego's Kidspotter Wi-Fi tracking watch. The tag itself seems to be very small. Privacy concerns, anybody?
also, here is a translation of the link to linuxfr.org. Slashdot should have posted another link to the english version- i don't think the majority of
is it just me, or is microsoft the one who we usually hear about leaving bugs unresolved for months?
This sounds like a fun thing to play around with, but I certainly don't see myself using it as a normal web browser. I'll most likely stick with my keyboard.
as for their statement about it being a replacement for powerpoint, I don't think that this will fly either unless they either: a) find a company to make a powerpoint alternative which saves to html files b) make the aforementioned software themselves. Even if they accomplished that, people's stupidity and ignorance has proven time and time again that whether microsoft's software is better, worse, or just as good as its competitors- people will buy microsoft's software instead of others. Look at openoffice.org, mozilla (most people use ie)/opera/konquer/galeon/netscape/etc, linux, amd a bunch of other superior software. Maybe a couple could be explained (linux often involves use of the command line interface, netscape is slower to load (even though ie cheats by loading some of the program at startup time)), but most of it is due to a problem which exists somewhere between the keyboard and the chair. Besides, I would find a remote control a better option than speech, since a remote control wouldn't force me to scream "NEXT SLIDE" across the room like an idiot before it recognizes what I'm saying. It would also be much smoother to just press a button on a remote control.
looks to me like it could be Canadian dollars- but according to the conversion rates I have, 13.5 million should be 17.94 . . .
I believe that they do have to take antirejection drugs- regardless of their age. this site says (on the 7th page) "Again, as with the tiny premature babies and the dialysis patients, that up-front cost gives us an expanded capability to keep people with failed hearts alive a lot longer so they can receive even more care. Transplant patients can live for a very long time. The post-transplant follow-up care?including ongoing antirejection drugs . . ." So there you go. In addition, this site also claims that "Babies who now receive an incompatible blood-type heart still must take immunosuppressant drugs to ensure their bodies don't reject the donor heart. All transplant recipients, regardless of their age, blood type or the organ they receive, must do so."
I think that the title is a little bit misleading. If you go to the site, the text directly above "Google Home" and "Local Search Help" says: "Find local businesses and services on the web." This isn't to find your neighbors: it's to find your nearest McDonalds, etc.
Also, the local search help page talks about finding businesses, and mentions nothing of finding specific people.
BitTorrent is basically another p2p service, except it's different (yes, i'm trying to be very specific here)
It allows for people to take advantage of bandwith by downloding bits of a large file from different users hosting a 'torrent.' At the end, all these pieces are put together. Yes, it is pretty good.
I don't think that the price of the liquid would be too much of an issue, since:
1: it only sprays minute amounts
2: you could always choose to fill it up with another liquid instead (anybody know the going price for liquid nitrogen?
I think the real issue is if the average person be willing to open up their computer every few months to fill up the tank. Most average users i know would not be very willing to do that.
Here's google's cache of the same page. I know the site isn't completely slashdotted- as it runs fine at some moments, and VERY slow at others. As usual, google's cache is much more reliable.
However scared they may be, doctors would be breaking an oath if they refused to treat patients because they sued. All doctors take an oath at the time of their graduation that they will try to treat all patients who are willing to be treated. Although I doubt that it's mandatory to do this, it would definately be immoral to not treat somebody because they sued (well, in my opinon anyways). Does anybody know if the posted site checks to make sure the patient actually sued, and the doctor isn't just lying? I think that maybe if the person has sued twice, then a red flag should go up, but people have a right to sue if the doctor was just being plain careless.
Wow! What a horrible search engine! Xfree86 porn doesn't bring up the warning because it's not the EXACT term which they have in their database. I suspect that they compiled a list of terms likely to bring up adult content, but they fail to check if somebody used a combination of those words.
Seach for porn, and you'll get the nightsurf thing. Search for nude, and you'll also get the nightsurf warning. But- if you search for porn nude then you'll get no warning at all!!! This is stupid even for microsoft standards.
Oh yes! It's a gootastic decision!!!
On a more serious note- lucas arts does seem to sometimes have a problem sometimes with the pace of their games. But what difference would postponing the game's release do? I didn't really enjoy the Clone Wars game too much, but Knights of the Old Republic was supposed to be a good game (i think), wasn't it? I haven't played it though- so I'm not apt to give an adequate review of how enjoyable it really was.
However, judging by the comments posted here, the first game seemed to be good, so they should have probably reaped the benefits of one of the good games which they have produced- I'll bet that it would have sold well if the first one was as good as people say it was. It all depends on how they played their cards.
What's wrong with implementing OpenVPN- the SSL approach? I suppose it may be difficult for some companies to upgrade . . . but if they require it, and it is a viable alternative- why not?
Would it really be that difficult for somebody to take over the development? Maybe their role could be more to administer the operation rather than code a lot of it.
Also, this (google's cache) or the PDF version of the above claims that FreeS/WAN does not support PKI.
is this like an infinite number of monkeys with those typewriters? And since time passes so strangly there, why the heck haven't we detected x-rays sending Shakespear?
No, i think that we haven't detected Shakespear because we've been looking for him rather than Shakespeare
"Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne may owe John Preskill a set of encyclopedias of his choice"
I guess so, but only if wiki is what Preskill chose.
Ah hah! The cable companies (and maybe some of the TV channels- I never did trust FOX...) must have sponsored Philips to develop this- think about it:
What are most couch potatoes? OBESE
What do people find disgusting? Fatness
What will the couch potato see when they turn off the TV? THEMSELVES! (they will see fatness)
Ergo, I have concluded that it's a scam so people can NEVER turn off the TV. It's a pretty good idea, actually...
I'm not completely sure, but this site says that BellSouth's backbone could download the library of congress in 126 seconds- so it's gotta be pretty fast.
for those too lazy to register an account- here's the new york times article:
RADAR technology was once synonymous with the big and the bulky - for instance, the heavy, rotating antennas at the airport, scanning skies and runways. But lately radar, like so many other technologies, has been slimming down. Now a team of electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology has shrunk the functions of a radar system into one tiny, intricately designed silicon chip and eight minuscule antennas. The basic building blocks of the radar system are all fully integrated on the chip, including power generation, signal processing, and dozens of other functions. The intricate parallel circuitry is designed so that the eight antennas can work together to focus and steer a beam of microwaves. Although the circuit design is highly complex, the silicon chip can be made in bulk using inexpensive lithographic methods, said Ali Hajimiri, an associate professor of electrical engineering who leads the group on high-speed integrated circuits that created the chip. "It should cost no more than a few dollars," he said. The high-frequency beams that the system generates and receives may one day handle many functions, including the usual radar jobs of ranging and location. In cars, for example, the chip might be used to detect other vehicles looming in the fog. The chip may also be used for wireless communications, since it has a broad bandwidth or range of frequencies at which it communicates. And it produces a bit stream at roughly the rate of fiber optics, more than enough for quick downloads of movies and other digital data. "D.S.L. can go to several hundred kilobits, and fiber can go to several gigabits per second," Dr. Hajimiri said. The radar chip can achieve bit rates up to a gigabit per second, partly because of the concentrated nature of the beam, he said. "The beam created by the chip is highly focused," he said. The chip could combine the functions of sensing and communication, say, for a group of army tanks that needs to stay in touch in the field. "Using these extremely high frequencies, you can first capture location, sending out pulses and scanning the area like a bat," said Volkan Ozguz, chief scientist at Irvine Sensors in Costa Mesa, Calif. Irvine Sensors makes miniature electronic systems, including sensors. "Then, using the same chipset, you can start communicating at high frequency," exchanging information without switching to different equipment, he said. The new radar chips do not create pulses as powerful as those now used in aviation systems, but they could be used in arrays to multiply their power, Dr. Hajimiri said. The eight antennas on the new chip are not the sort that protrude from old-fashioned rotating radar shells. Instead, the antennas - actually traces of metal on a PC board - do not move at all: their bearings are adjusted not mechanically but electrically by circuits that imitate the behavior of rotating antennas, focusing and steering the beam of radio signals in the right direction. Usually the radiated signals arrive at the separate antennas at different times. But electronic devices called phase shifters compensate for these delays, in effect combining and enhancing the collective power of the signal for a desired direction, and rejecting emissions from other directions. "It's neat because you can get the eight antennas to work together so that you can transmit in a narrow beam," said David B. Rutledge, a professor of electrical engineering at Caltech and a colleague of Dr. Hajimiri. "Then you transmit with eight times as much power." The phased array antennas can be made insensitive to unwanted signals, limiting interference. "In cellphones, when you add people, there's interference," he said. "But these circuits can figure out how to reduce power from a direction they don't want." Dr. Hajimiri used a comparison between a light bulb and a laser pointer to explain how the chip could make the best use of its power. Light bulbs illuminate the whole space, he said, but a laser c