I always interpreted that as one part humor, and one part frustration with the kludgy, BSOD-prone "state of the art" as pushed by Microsoft in those days. It never really seemed like Linus wanted to specifically eradicate Microsoft. On the contrary: It seemed like he wanted to just do his own thing, and hopefully make it really useful and good. That aligns with the true hacker spirit, for sure.
I recall a job posting for MS a while back, where they discussed developing a 128-bit OS. I wonder if that's making it in, and if so, which CPU(s) they are targeting with it...?
Well, that brings us neatly around to my original point: If you have the freedom to install apps from anywhere, you have the freedom to install malware. This freedom does not come with what should be the prerequisite dependencies of common sense nor investigative abilities. So in essence, you now have the freedom to hurt yourself, alongside the freedom to do anything you want. You can't have one without the other.
I can agree that appliances should be restricted in their functionality. My current phone doesn't have "apps", it just handles calls and SMS, and I like it that way.
My deliciously ironic gripe is that people complain no matter what they have. Apparently an app store policing submissions = evil gestapo, while an app store failing to police submissions well enough = why didn't you protect meeee *whine*
Remember, photons are photons whether they are reflected or traveling directly from a light source. There is no implication of their source. If you designed a satellite to observe celestial bodies, would you build it so it could observe sources and reflecting bodies? I would.
Spatial resolution is spatial resolution no matter what units you're using. You've still got to translate pixels to microarcseconds somehow - I'm sure that stellar parallax must still be derived from multiple measurements over time, which are now much finer with the new satellite. Yes, having a vast spatial resolution is excellent news!
When I'm talking about non-spatial resolutions, I'm mostly speaking in terms of how many photons are required to trigger the "Hey! There is a signal!" response of an individual sensing element. You can't measure zero photons, and it's not usually feasible to detect one photon - so how faint of a source can it detect? Fainter and fainter sources being detected could mean that we can directly observe planets that we had previously only calculated should exist.
I look forward to seeing some new images from this satellite!
Everyone goes ga-ga over the number of megapixels, while the professionals care about subject material and the sensor's dynamic range, gain characteristics and noise floor.
Interesting thoughts. The executives where I work (a Fortune 500 company) use their Blackberries for Exchange, OCS and surfing the Web. They have people in cubicles to do the last two things (and sometimes the first), and those concierge services from their really high end credit cards to do the first. So when they get together and whip out their phones for a high tech geek contest, it's always about the apps and features that don't help them do business. You know, getting live sports updates mid-game, reading the WSJ, some random motion activated light saber app, more megapixels in the built in camera, checking the weather, who's got a better web browser or cooler ringtone options, that sort of thing. I see it all the time. I also know that I would never, ever want someone running a background check on me while they were in line at the airport Starbucks. That capability just shouldn't exist.
How about having good call quality, and being easier to integrate into your company's integrated communications infrastructure? That would provide the IT people with a selling point.
The term "spam" as used to represent junk e-mail wasn't originally an acronym. They took the term 'spam' from the classic Monty Python sketch about spam, because it represented something unwanted. "I don't like spam!"
Believe me, advertising people will jump on any chance they see to sell some more ads, and there's a sucker born every minute who will pay for those ads to be distributed.
Just wait until they start using this to determine cover fees when a band is playing, or using it to game the system so they appear at the top of the list.
Bar owner via headset, from the back room on his computer: "It's mostly men at the EXTRA BRUTAL ANTI-WOMEN HARDCORE BAND concert that's playing. Bouncer, there aren't enough women." Or, "We are at 10th place on the guy/girl ratio list. We need to get to the top of that list. Bouncer, do what you need to do." Bouncer: "Sorry dude at the door, until more girls show up, it'll be $7 for you to get in. But the girls get in free. You got any with you? No? Too bad."
You think I'm kidding, but I know plenty of bars that would do that, and some that do that without all the extra technology. I help out with sound and hang around my sound tech friends, so I always get in free no matter what... but I see all the junk that the bar/club owners do, and hear them talking about it at the end of the night after all the patrons went home and we're tearing down. If they can make a few extra bucks off guys by getting more girls in, they'll totally do it without a moment's hesitation.
I haven't been to McDonald's in ages, but I seem to recall they sell these "apple pie" things that might qualify as fried pie... for some definition of the word pie.
Whoa whoa, half a whale, that's an awfully big change all at once. We'd better introduce smaller individual parts first, before we can talk about larger changes to the ecosystem.
We will be holding a premeeting to discuss the scheduling of the agenda planning meeting, prior to the big planning meeting.
Aw, don't paint all of us with the same brush, okay? I realize you said "most", but that word gets lost in the comment. The loudest, most boisterous, most palm greasing people get to be politicians and news makers. There are some of us, though, who try to live a humble life doing things by the book, not by a bunch of hokey rules that people made up over the centuries.
Except... lots of people get paid under the table, bypassing all government oversight.
There's a bit of a "don't ask" mentality when it comes to many small businesses' and farms' hiring practices, especially the ones who pay everyone cash under the table, and people who need a handyman or whatever don't always check them out. I've known of entire companies that don't legally exist, and I've met plenty of farm workers who would tell you off the record that this is true. This problem is NOT exclusive to AZ.
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There were four options.
So, when are you Americans going to exercise your Second Amendment rights and just shoot this bastard?
This is the text of the Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I realize you're half kidding, but... that text doesn't grant anybody the right to shoot someone they disagree with. Sorry.
I always interpreted that as one part humor, and one part frustration with the kludgy, BSOD-prone "state of the art" as pushed by Microsoft in those days. It never really seemed like Linus wanted to specifically eradicate Microsoft. On the contrary: It seemed like he wanted to just do his own thing, and hopefully make it really useful and good. That aligns with the true hacker spirit, for sure.
You are correct, sir/madam.
I recall a job posting for MS a while back, where they discussed developing a 128-bit OS. I wonder if that's making it in, and if so, which CPU(s) they are targeting with it...?
Which one equates to Galaxy Quest, then? :)
XP was more like Windows 2003 than 2000 under the hood, actually. The same patches usually apply to both platforms, whereas Win2k has a different set.
JavaScript is analogous to McDonald's. Sure, it's cheap, they have plenty of options and they are everywhere, but there's much better stuff out there.
Well, that brings us neatly around to my original point: If you have the freedom to install apps from anywhere, you have the freedom to install malware. This freedom does not come with what should be the prerequisite dependencies of common sense nor investigative abilities. So in essence, you now have the freedom to hurt yourself, alongside the freedom to do anything you want. You can't have one without the other.
I can agree that appliances should be restricted in their functionality. My current phone doesn't have "apps", it just handles calls and SMS, and I like it that way.
My deliciously ironic gripe is that people complain no matter what they have. Apparently an app store policing submissions = evil gestapo, while an app store failing to police submissions well enough = why didn't you protect meeee *whine*
WHAT? You mean freedom also provides the opportunity to freely injure one's self?!?! You don't say!
Remember, photons are photons whether they are reflected or traveling directly from a light source. There is no implication of their source. If you designed a satellite to observe celestial bodies, would you build it so it could observe sources and reflecting bodies? I would.
Spatial resolution is spatial resolution no matter what units you're using. You've still got to translate pixels to microarcseconds somehow - I'm sure that stellar parallax must still be derived from multiple measurements over time, which are now much finer with the new satellite. Yes, having a vast spatial resolution is excellent news!
When I'm talking about non-spatial resolutions, I'm mostly speaking in terms of how many photons are required to trigger the "Hey! There is a signal!" response of an individual sensing element. You can't measure zero photons, and it's not usually feasible to detect one photon - so how faint of a source can it detect? Fainter and fainter sources being detected could mean that we can directly observe planets that we had previously only calculated should exist.
I look forward to seeing some new images from this satellite!
Hooray for being someone who gets that.
Everyone goes ga-ga over the number of megapixels, while the professionals care about subject material and the sensor's dynamic range, gain characteristics and noise floor.
Interesting thoughts. The executives where I work (a Fortune 500 company) use their Blackberries for Exchange, OCS and surfing the Web. They have people in cubicles to do the last two things (and sometimes the first), and those concierge services from their really high end credit cards to do the first. So when they get together and whip out their phones for a high tech geek contest, it's always about the apps and features that don't help them do business. You know, getting live sports updates mid-game, reading the WSJ, some random motion activated light saber app, more megapixels in the built in camera, checking the weather, who's got a better web browser or cooler ringtone options, that sort of thing. I see it all the time. I also know that I would never, ever want someone running a background check on me while they were in line at the airport Starbucks. That capability just shouldn't exist.
How about having good call quality, and being easier to integrate into your company's integrated communications infrastructure? That would provide the IT people with a selling point.
What wizardry is this?!
Copper's resistivity would cause more energy to be lost after a certain length, too.
The term "spam" as used to represent junk e-mail wasn't originally an acronym. They took the term 'spam' from the classic Monty Python sketch about spam, because it represented something unwanted. "I don't like spam!"
Believe me, advertising people will jump on any chance they see to sell some more ads, and there's a sucker born every minute who will pay for those ads to be distributed.
Just wait until they start using this to determine cover fees when a band is playing, or using it to game the system so they appear at the top of the list.
Bar owner via headset, from the back room on his computer: "It's mostly men at the EXTRA BRUTAL ANTI-WOMEN HARDCORE BAND concert that's playing. Bouncer, there aren't enough women." Or, "We are at 10th place on the guy/girl ratio list. We need to get to the top of that list. Bouncer, do what you need to do."
Bouncer: "Sorry dude at the door, until more girls show up, it'll be $7 for you to get in. But the girls get in free. You got any with you? No? Too bad."
You think I'm kidding, but I know plenty of bars that would do that, and some that do that without all the extra technology. I help out with sound and hang around my sound tech friends, so I always get in free no matter what... but I see all the junk that the bar/club owners do, and hear them talking about it at the end of the night after all the patrons went home and we're tearing down. If they can make a few extra bucks off guys by getting more girls in, they'll totally do it without a moment's hesitation.
I haven't been to McDonald's in ages, but I seem to recall they sell these "apple pie" things that might qualify as fried pie... for some definition of the word pie.
There already IS a MoMA, though: the Museum of Modern Art.
And what exactly do you suppose would happen if you removed all the sand? You'd still have a desert, just without sand.
Whoa whoa, half a whale, that's an awfully big change all at once. We'd better introduce smaller individual parts first, before we can talk about larger changes to the ecosystem.
We will be holding a premeeting to discuss the scheduling of the agenda planning meeting, prior to the big planning meeting.
Aw, don't paint all of us with the same brush, okay? I realize you said "most", but that word gets lost in the comment. The loudest, most boisterous, most palm greasing people get to be politicians and news makers. There are some of us, though, who try to live a humble life doing things by the book, not by a bunch of hokey rules that people made up over the centuries.
Except... lots of people get paid under the table, bypassing all government oversight.
There's a bit of a "don't ask" mentality when it comes to many small businesses' and farms' hiring practices, especially the ones who pay everyone cash under the table, and people who need a handyman or whatever don't always check them out. I've known of entire companies that don't legally exist, and I've met plenty of farm workers who would tell you off the record that this is true. This problem is NOT exclusive to AZ.
See, that's what I used to say, when I was accused of being a couch potato. I was actually being quite productive at a cellular level.
How about intersections like this one?
East Ave & East St.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=east+ave+and+east+blvd,+rochester,+ny&hl=en&sll=43.148799,-77.568821&sspn=0.011178,0.015342&z=16