I don't get it. Why is it assumed that we have a natural gravitational model somehow programmed into us? These astronauts haven't been living in a closet all their life. They have played catch with objects on earth for years and years. Isn't a plausible explanation simply that anticipating gravity is a learned skill from birth? Something we got from all those years of PE?:) Not something we somehow have naturally from birth.
Take typing for instance, if I all of a sudden changed the keys on your keyboard would it not screw you up? You just have to relearn it.
"We didn't have a choice with Xbox. If we didn't get it right with version one, Sony and Nintendo would eat us alive."
Now there's an interesting comment from Microsoft. Basically, he's saying that MS thinks it's ok to not get Windows right till the second or third version since there is no competition that will eat them alive in the OS market. Great.
Of course it wears out. Don't you know that's why Microsoft forces people to upgrade to the latest and supposedly greatest? If they didn't you'd spring bit-bucket leaks all over the place.
Most of those projects don't plan on trying to make money. A vast majority of those projects are by people like you and me who have an itch to scratch. If someone else finds it useful, then great.
I think Shawn Gordon is right in saying that for a user-friendly piece of software there is no money to be made in services because the goal of the software is to be easy to use. If they meet that goal, no one needs the service.
Yeap, every comp sci student who takes a class on networking is forced to learn about ALOHA. Personally, I think smoke signals are a much better way to communicate from island to island.:)
Some people have replied that they claim a 14 hour battery life. That is a hell of a lot more than the current line of Pocket PC devices. Does anyone know how they achieved such a long battery life? I know Li-Polymer is supposed to be superior to Li-Ion but surely not by a factor of 2 or 3?
I've done the same thing here in the Dallas area. In Plano, where I live, the water tastes like crap when the warm weather sets in. It may not be unhealthy, but I'd rather not use it.
I wonder what the real cost of "water from the sea" would be if we were forced to use it on a grand scale. It's probably like the electric car debate...it'll become affordable once we are all forced to use it.
When I worked at Raytheon it was exactly the same. i'm not sure what these cards are good for, other than easily being able to identify expenses that go to the comany since they are on a separate bill. If you travel for your company you always have to use your card, since it is required to stay at hotels and to rent cars. Oh well.
On a related note, I saw today that Tom's Hardware has teamed up with The Register. You should go check out the reasons why, they claim they will be able to provide much more un-biased material than most other sites put out. Check out the "burn in hell" comment they make about the bias due to money influence in IT news.
I remember reading an article in Time about the new imac. Steve apparently didn't want the side mounted CD drive because they aren't as fast as horzontal mount.
So if I understand this article right, the US may actually be willing to use nukes if Taiwan and China went to war? Is this incredibly stupid or what...If we send a nuke to China, they are simply going to send 100 right back. What's the point in that?
You'd think the this sue happy day in age that improper use of this would result in a lot of court cases. I'm sure they must be thinking about that. If the police cause broken bones simply to calm down a riot surely they would get in trouble? Well, that is until you call the rioters "terrorists." Then all will be well.
Addison Wesley, as most of us know, already has a vast array of great programming books. This is definitely not their entry in the field.
Since everyone else has done it, I thought I'd put in my recommendation for one of my all-time favorites: Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets. This book is awesome and full of insight. Just look for tha orange book in the programming section of your favorite book store.
In the University of Texas system, you can buy Microsoft software for EXTREMELY low prices. I picked up Windows 2000 for $10, and Visual Studio for $30. Note that these aren't crippled versions, they are the full professional releases.
This very type of situation has been in the back of my mind for a while now. I have several co-workers that are archiving old family pictures and slides onto CD with the idea that they will "last forever." But how much longer can we expect to be able to purchase hardware that can read the current CD-R/CD-RW formats? 10 years maybe? That's a far cry from the "forever" these family archivists were hoping for. The next generation may never get to see good photos of their great-grandparents.
"...even though the sixth or seventh copy of analog becomes unwatchable"
This is total BS. You can copy a analog signal from the same source as many times as you'd like and each copy will be alike. It's only when you make copies of the copies that this happens. This little detail is important and convieniently missing from the argument.
If KDE and GNOME both strive for the same look and feel, at least as a default, what will this mean for the two desktops in the long run? Most users will most likely keep the default theme that comes with their desktop. What would be the impetus to use one or the other? Perhaps then the desktop that will become the standard will be the one that gets installed by default on the most distros?
I met some of the guys that work (or worked?) for DC about two years ago in a bar in Richardson, Texas. They were pretty confident back then I can tell you. One of the guys insisted on paying the ~$200 tab because he was "basically rich". I got a kick out of that. I guess none of those guys is rich in any sense now. Bwahahahahahaaaaaa:)
Uh huh, and you can also very painfully do OO to some extent using carefully crafted C. The question is: who would want to go through the pain and agony?
Hey, anyone remember the famous USENET bout between our beloved Linus and Mr T? Funny that the first sentence describing Amoeba is "Amoeba is a powerful microkernel-based system..."
Here's what I expect the networks to do shortly with the advent of PVRs: Place banner ads on TV much the way they are placed on the web. I realize it might not be too difficult to program a PVR to automagically remove them, but would still be harder than to simply stop recording when ads are on. Also, networks may have a stronger suit against PVRs if they removed portions of the broadcast screen as opposed to simply not showing commercials.
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I don't get it. Why is it assumed that we have a natural gravitational model somehow programmed into us? These astronauts haven't been living in a closet all their life. They have played catch with objects on earth for years and years. Isn't a plausible explanation simply that anticipating gravity is a learned skill from birth? Something we got from all those years of PE? :) Not something we somehow have naturally from birth.
Take typing for instance, if I all of a sudden changed the keys on your keyboard would it not screw you up? You just have to relearn it.
I'm afraid the act of replacing said copyrighted music with your own is a circumvention of the way the DVD was meant to be decoded.
What a world we live in today.
"We didn't have a choice with Xbox. If we didn't get it right with version one, Sony and Nintendo would eat us alive."
Now there's an interesting comment from Microsoft. Basically, he's saying that MS thinks it's ok to not get Windows right till the second or third version since there is no competition that will eat them alive in the OS market. Great.
Of course it wears out. Don't you know that's why Microsoft forces people to upgrade to the latest and supposedly greatest? If they didn't you'd spring bit-bucket leaks all over the place.
Most of those projects don't plan on trying to make money. A vast majority of those projects are by people like you and me who have an itch to scratch. If someone else finds it useful, then great.
I think Shawn Gordon is right in saying that for a user-friendly piece of software there is no money to be made in services because the goal of the software is to be easy to use. If they meet that goal, no one needs the service.
Yeap, every comp sci student who takes a class on networking is forced to learn about ALOHA. Personally, I think smoke signals are a much better way to communicate from island to island. :)
Some people have replied that they claim a 14 hour battery life. That is a hell of a lot more than the current line of Pocket PC devices. Does anyone know how they achieved such a long battery life? I know Li-Polymer is supposed to be superior to Li-Ion but surely not by a factor of 2 or 3?
On the desktop? What kind of OS? And who makes it?
I've done the same thing here in the Dallas area. In Plano, where I live, the water tastes like crap when the warm weather sets in. It may not be unhealthy, but I'd rather not use it.
I wonder what the real cost of "water from the sea" would be if we were forced to use it on a grand scale. It's probably like the electric car debate...it'll become affordable once we are all forced to use it.
When I worked at Raytheon it was exactly the same. i'm not sure what these cards are good for, other than easily being able to identify expenses that go to the comany since they are on a separate bill. If you travel for your company you always have to use your card, since it is required to stay at hotels and to rent cars. Oh well.
On a related note, I saw today that Tom's Hardware has teamed up with The Register. You should go check out the reasons why, they claim they will be able to provide much more un-biased material than most other sites put out. Check out the "burn in hell" comment they make about the bias due to money influence in IT news.
I remember reading an article in Time about the new imac. Steve apparently didn't want the side mounted CD drive because they aren't as fast as horzontal mount.
So if I understand this article right, the US may actually be willing to use nukes if Taiwan and China went to war? Is this incredibly stupid or what...If we send a nuke to China, they are simply going to send 100 right back. What's the point in that?
You'd think the this sue happy day in age that improper use of this would result in a lot of court cases. I'm sure they must be thinking about that. If the police cause broken bones simply to calm down a riot surely they would get in trouble? Well, that is until you call the rioters "terrorists." Then all will be well.
Addison Wesley, as most of us know, already has a vast array of great programming books. This is definitely not their entry in the field.
Since everyone else has done it, I thought I'd put in my recommendation for one of my all-time favorites: Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets. This book is awesome and full of insight. Just look for tha orange book in the programming section of your favorite book store.
In the University of Texas system, you can buy Microsoft software for EXTREMELY low prices. I picked up Windows 2000 for $10, and Visual Studio for $30. Note that these aren't crippled versions, they are the full professional releases.
This very type of situation has been in the back of my mind for a while now. I have several co-workers that are archiving old family pictures and slides onto CD with the idea that they will "last forever." But how much longer can we expect to be able to purchase hardware that can read the current CD-R/CD-RW formats? 10 years maybe? That's a far cry from the "forever" these family archivists were hoping for. The next generation may never get to see good photos of their great-grandparents.
"...even though the sixth or seventh copy of analog becomes unwatchable"
This is total BS. You can copy a analog signal from the same source as many times as you'd like and each copy will be alike. It's only when you make copies of the copies that this happens. This little detail is important and convieniently missing from the argument.
If KDE and GNOME both strive for the same look and feel, at least as a default, what will this mean for the two desktops in the long run? Most users will most likely keep the default theme that comes with their desktop. What would be the impetus to use one or the other? Perhaps then the desktop that will become the standard will be the one that gets installed by default on the most distros?
I met some of the guys that work (or worked?) for DC about two years ago in a bar in Richardson, Texas. They were pretty confident back then I can tell you. One of the guys insisted on paying the ~$200 tab because he was "basically rich". I got a kick out of that. I guess none of those guys is rich in any sense now. Bwahahahahahaaaaaa :)
Sure, it's only a Windows/Linux solution but what do you think about Delphi/Kylix?
Uh huh, and you can also very painfully do OO to some extent using carefully crafted C. The question is: who would want to go through the pain and agony?
You know, for being in the same price range as the new Palm, it sure as hell does a lot more. Anyone else notice that?
Hey, anyone remember the famous USENET bout between our beloved Linus and Mr T? Funny that the first sentence describing Amoeba is "Amoeba is a powerful microkernel-based system..."
Here's what I expect the networks to do shortly with the advent of PVRs: Place banner ads on TV much the way they are placed on the web. I realize it might not be too difficult to program a PVR to automagically remove them, but would still be harder than to simply stop recording when ads are on. Also, networks may have a stronger suit against PVRs if they removed portions of the broadcast screen as opposed to simply not showing commercials.