Please see here.
That last sentence intrigued me as well when I first read it. "Exit"? Does that mean take your millions and run and hide somewhere tropical?
Scientists have long observed a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence, in which a burst of ultrasound causes a bubble in a liquid to collapse and emit a flash of light; some have speculated that the gases trapped in the collapsing bubbles could be heated to temperatures hot enough for fusion to occur.
So *that*s where siamese twins come from: parental over-anxiety. O c'mon you know it's funny!...
I think that's the problem. The books are wonderful, but there's just too much to squish into even 3 movies. When you have to develop the complicated plot (they *do* split up into several parties and all go their own ways), build up suspense, describe who's who and where's where, etc. etc. there's hardly time to touch on the themes, and when you do, there's not much time to let it absorb because something else has to happen. I think the themes are much more apparent if you've read the books already, or if you watch it again. I say this as someone who watched the first 2 movies, then read all the books, then watched the last movie. The first couple of times, all the hobbits looked alike to me and I had trouble keeping up with what was going on. The first one was especially confusing.
I've been using Windows for years, and will soon try out Linux for the first time. I'm not totally noob to computers: I know rudimentary C++, Java, XHTML, VB. What worries me about trying Linux is the technical knowledge required to just do regular day-to-day stuff, and you've just confirmed my worst fears: I looked at your 5 instructions (you listed "2" twice, btw) and thought: WTFing HELL MOTHER OF GOD?
I just bought "Linux in a Nutshell" and am just starting to learn to do basic tasks, like navigating directories, copy files, move directories, make links. Yes, I'm a true blue linux noob, which is maybe why I can provide good feedback to you guys I hope.
Anyway, I'm starting to get the hang of linux basics, and just started thinking: "hmm.... not too hard at all, pretty simple", and then you show me *this*, just to install a fucking printer? You've gotta be kidding me. "-db hpoj hpijs" looks like something I'd angrily bang out on my keyboard with my fists if I got frustrated because I couldn't get a printer working! Worst of all, you said this at the end:
"4) http://localhost:631, add printer, not hard"
Not hard? The measure of difficulty is never to YOU, but the END USER. Put in another way, the question is not "How hard is it to do?" per se, but "How hard is it to learn how to do?" And if you want Linux widely adopted, you have to design for the end user. Of course it's not difficult to you guys, THAT'S WHY YOU GUYS ARE SYS ADMINS! It's like if you ask Steven Hawking whether time travel is possible and he looks at you like you're an idiot and sighs and says: "All the math textbooks and equations are already out there, fool, so go RTF-Math-Textbooks!"
I have absolutely NO IDEA what any of those acronyms were. I already consider myself someone who likes to learn background knowledge, not just follow blind instructions. I like to tweak with things, and explore. But to learn the background of all these commands will take days to weeks (I have no idea how much learning is involved here). And this is just to install a printer directly to my computer? In Windows I'd be done in 10-15 minutes or less, and get on with my endless work. It's not always about willingness to learn and all, but sometimes you just have too much to do than cram for a couple of months to memorize all these unintuitive commands, and then forget them half a year from now when something changes (new hardware, system crash, whatever), and have to cram all over again. You know how much you hate to study for exams? Can you imagine studying for months when you don't really have to because you can always run into the arms of Windows?
I can't imagine (or don't want to imagine) the stuff you need to know to set up a network between 2 computers, and share files and printers. Not to mention first having to make Linux recognize my hardware...
Man, you just scared another potential Windows-To-Linux convert. Haven't scared me AWAY from Linux, but have seriously lowered my eagerness to try it out. Anyway, I hope this feedback will make its way into at least 1 person out there who will design a UI that makes learning Linux on-the-fly easier. Maybe you could have an option on bootup: "Standard" (noob) UI or "Advanced" (linux geek) UI?
otherwise it would not have been an open letter to the public. By writing in personable, reasonable, friendly, and customer-oriented language, he's made himself into the "good guy" and portrayed himself as a part of the open-source movement. Now he's put Sun in a PR tight spot: "Do you support open source or not?" This isn't a proposal, I think it's pressure from the biggest of all blues and a clever political framing of the situation.
Can anyone see why IBM would want Sun to open-source Java though? Then again, if you know, you probably work for IBM so can't say.:)
I love it when reality hits blind businessmen and marketers over the head: IF YOU'RE PRODUCT IS TERRIBLE, ADVERTISEMENT AND SPYWARE DOES NOT MAKE IT BETTER! Don't mess with the user/customer, especially in a competitive market. Quality products and good service is what counts. ARE YOU LISTENING REAL?
The irony is that you call yourselves "Real" but seem to live in a fantasyland.
Isn't this one of the best things to have happened to linux in the past year? How many operating systems can boast about having ***NSA***-quality security? Whether that's the whole story is another issue: this is marketing pure gold! That line in and of itself would be enough to catch the interest of most managers, I think. This may really kick open the door for Linux moving into the corporate space.
and yes, I realize that Bill said "640k etc...." just a few years ago, so I shouldn't underestimate technological progress. But I'm quite sure about this because the problem isn't grafting neurons and chips together, it's understanding how our brain works. The human brain is the most complicated object known to humanity in the known universe. What makes it especially difficult to investigate is that its almost impossible to verify any theory because you can't really conduct experiments on it, because no 2 brains are ever the same (look up the formal definition of an "experiment" if you're not sure what I mean). All you can do is observe and theorize. Tinkering around with it would most likely damage it.
Despite all the technological achievements, nobody knows how we remember, why we are conscious, how knowledge and judgement works, etc. All this information is "soft" knowledge (dunno if that's the technical term), so its not like we can make some calculations and decide where to graft cards and make the brain accept and use it. All we know is that if you are scared, then this part of the brain gets more blood, and if you're remembering, then this part of the brain gets more voltage. But to insert a chip somewhere in the brain? You'd probably just do brain damage. We don't even know where you'd graft the chip onto, much less how, much less without doing damage, much less how to make the brain use it. As if all that weren't enough, here's the final obstacle for scientists: it seems that every person's brain is different!
Intel has enough money and market clout to wait and survive for a year without announcing a 64-bit chip (it's been about a year since Opteron, right? and Intel is still the major CPU brand). By waiting until AMD has spent all its money touting 64-bit computing to release its own 64-bit chip, Intel can deal a very devastating blow to AMD. If Intel steals AMD's 64-bit market with its humongous marketing account, what then for AMD?
A bruise for big ol' Intel who has lots of extra meat, yes, but Intel can easily survive, but if worse comes to worst this could be a dagger in the poor skinny ribs of AMD.
Guess we'll have to see whether I should take off my tinfoil hat, or buy an upgraded one...
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Don't forget the pink-to-mouth, the asking for a bajillion dollars, and the slowly dying bouts of evil laughter.
and because the site always gets /.'d, they'll have to add another smart-ass AC post remarking on how "The server must be running on one of these!"...
Please see here.
That last sentence intrigued me as well when I first read it. "Exit"? Does that mean take your millions and run and hide somewhere tropical?
If Linux is to take over the desktop, things must change!
be a porn star? : )
Scientists have long observed a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence, in which a burst of ultrasound causes a bubble in a liquid to collapse and emit a flash of light; some have speculated that the gases trapped in the collapsing bubbles could be heated to temperatures hot enough for fusion to occur.
So *that*s where siamese twins come from: parental over-anxiety. O c'mon you know it's funny! ...
it's probably because they want to create a cute mini-human bot, and most humans have 2 legs. Otherwise, it'd be harder to market.
It's only stereotypical to us. For them it's a natural and regular day-to-day gesture.
we must save the fist gesture to load up the pr0n browser!
you forgot b + a + b + a + select + start
Hey! We might be onto something here...
:D
Imagine this:
1) Build a helmet with LCD for eyes and built-in gyroscopes.
2) Everywhere you really turn and look, you look and turn in the game!
3) Profit!
Eight bucks? LoL those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end, we'd sing and laugh...
"So many universal themes touched on."
I think that's the problem. The books are wonderful, but there's just too much to squish into even 3 movies. When you have to develop the complicated plot (they *do* split up into several parties and all go their own ways), build up suspense, describe who's who and where's where, etc. etc. there's hardly time to touch on the themes, and when you do, there's not much time to let it absorb because something else has to happen. I think the themes are much more apparent if you've read the books already, or if you watch it again. I say this as someone who watched the first 2 movies, then read all the books, then watched the last movie. The first couple of times, all the hobbits looked alike to me and I had trouble keeping up with what was going on. The first one was especially confusing.
You can also marry a pr0n star, like I did. Really.
I've been using Windows for years, and will soon try out Linux for the first time. I'm not totally noob to computers: I know rudimentary C++, Java, XHTML, VB. What worries me about trying Linux is the technical knowledge required to just do regular day-to-day stuff, and you've just confirmed my worst fears: I looked at your 5 instructions (you listed "2" twice, btw) and thought: WTFing HELL MOTHER OF GOD?
I just bought "Linux in a Nutshell" and am just starting to learn to do basic tasks, like navigating directories, copy files, move directories, make links. Yes, I'm a true blue linux noob, which is maybe why I can provide good feedback to you guys I hope.
Anyway, I'm starting to get the hang of linux basics, and just started thinking: "hmm.... not too hard at all, pretty simple", and then you show me *this*, just to install a fucking printer? You've gotta be kidding me. "-db hpoj hpijs" looks like something I'd angrily bang out on my keyboard with my fists if I got frustrated because I couldn't get a printer working! Worst of all, you said this at the end:
"4) http://localhost:631, add printer, not hard"
Not hard? The measure of difficulty is never to YOU, but the END USER. Put in another way, the question is not "How hard is it to do?" per se, but "How hard is it to learn how to do?" And if you want Linux widely adopted, you have to design for the end user. Of course it's not difficult to you guys, THAT'S WHY YOU GUYS ARE SYS ADMINS! It's like if you ask Steven Hawking whether time travel is possible and he looks at you like you're an idiot and sighs and says: "All the math textbooks and equations are already out there, fool, so go RTF-Math-Textbooks!"
I have absolutely NO IDEA what any of those acronyms were. I already consider myself someone who likes to learn background knowledge, not just follow blind instructions. I like to tweak with things, and explore. But to learn the background of all these commands will take days to weeks (I have no idea how much learning is involved here). And this is just to install a printer directly to my computer? In Windows I'd be done in 10-15 minutes or less, and get on with my endless work. It's not always about willingness to learn and all, but sometimes you just have too much to do than cram for a couple of months to memorize all these unintuitive commands, and then forget them half a year from now when something changes (new hardware, system crash, whatever), and have to cram all over again. You know how much you hate to study for exams? Can you imagine studying for months when you don't really have to because you can always run into the arms of Windows?
I can't imagine (or don't want to imagine) the stuff you need to know to set up a network between 2 computers, and share files and printers. Not to mention first having to make Linux recognize my hardware...
Man, you just scared another potential Windows-To-Linux convert. Haven't scared me AWAY from Linux, but have seriously lowered my eagerness to try it out. Anyway, I hope this feedback will make its way into at least 1 person out there who will design a UI that makes learning Linux on-the-fly easier. Maybe you could have an option on bootup: "Standard" (noob) UI or "Advanced" (linux geek) UI?
A classic like Windows deserves a classic name:
Armageddon Now
Don't forget
5) Windows: the BSOD Strikes Back
6) Windows: the Return of the BSOD
etc...
otherwise it would not have been an open letter to the public. By writing in personable, reasonable, friendly, and customer-oriented language, he's made himself into the "good guy" and portrayed himself as a part of the open-source movement. Now he's put Sun in a PR tight spot: "Do you support open source or not?" This isn't a proposal, I think it's pressure from the biggest of all blues and a clever political framing of the situation.
:)
Can anyone see why IBM would want Sun to open-source Java though? Then again, if you know, you probably work for IBM so can't say.
I love it when reality hits blind businessmen and marketers over the head: IF YOU'RE PRODUCT IS TERRIBLE, ADVERTISEMENT AND SPYWARE DOES NOT MAKE IT BETTER! Don't mess with the user/customer, especially in a competitive market. Quality products and good service is what counts. ARE YOU LISTENING REAL?
The irony is that you call yourselves "Real" but seem to live in a fantasyland.
Isn't this one of the best things to have happened to linux in the past year? How many operating systems can boast about having ***NSA***-quality security? Whether that's the whole story is another issue: this is marketing pure gold! That line in and of itself would be enough to catch the interest of most managers, I think. This may really kick open the door for Linux moving into the corporate space.
1. Is this "Laser" mounted on a giant shark?
2. Will this "Laser" still work if mini-me's humping it?
and yes, I realize that Bill said "640k etc...." just a few years ago, so I shouldn't underestimate technological progress. But I'm quite sure about this because the problem isn't grafting neurons and chips together, it's understanding how our brain works. The human brain is the most complicated object known to humanity in the known universe. What makes it especially difficult to investigate is that its almost impossible to verify any theory because you can't really conduct experiments on it, because no 2 brains are ever the same (look up the formal definition of an "experiment" if you're not sure what I mean). All you can do is observe and theorize. Tinkering around with it would most likely damage it.
Despite all the technological achievements, nobody knows how we remember, why we are conscious, how knowledge and judgement works, etc. All this information is "soft" knowledge (dunno if that's the technical term), so its not like we can make some calculations and decide where to graft cards and make the brain accept and use it. All we know is that if you are scared, then this part of the brain gets more blood, and if you're remembering, then this part of the brain gets more voltage. But to insert a chip somewhere in the brain? You'd probably just do brain damage. We don't even know where you'd graft the chip onto, much less how, much less without doing damage, much less how to make the brain use it. As if all that weren't enough, here's the final obstacle for scientists: it seems that every person's brain is different!
damn you, hraefn, damn yoooooooooooooooooooo!!!
btw, I'm a troll? who did i just troll above?
too bad i don't know what this games about :(
and yes, I should be working, and no, i don't have a life.
Intel has enough money and market clout to wait and survive for a year without announcing a 64-bit chip (it's been about a year since Opteron, right? and Intel is still the major CPU brand). By waiting until AMD has spent all its money touting 64-bit computing to release its own 64-bit chip, Intel can deal a very devastating blow to AMD. If Intel steals AMD's 64-bit market with its humongous marketing account, what then for AMD?
A bruise for big ol' Intel who has lots of extra meat, yes, but Intel can easily survive, but if worse comes to worst this could be a dagger in the poor skinny ribs of AMD.
Guess we'll have to see whether I should take off my tinfoil hat, or buy an upgraded one...