You obviously haven't discovered this wonderful thing called email! Every day people send me loads offers of "g37 ch1ck5 4 fr33" through this email thing. Sometimes even the chicks themselves send them.
I know they're spammers, but don't you think you're being a little too harsh. I mean, imagine what it would be like to be Clippy's bitch:
"I see you're picking up some soap... Would you like some help?"
That would help Microsoft, not hinder them. They're own of the few companies around that can afford to ruthlessly persue every single patent infringement, real or perceived, no matter how trivial. Smaller organisations would suffer as they would lose a patent when they couldn't persue a minor infringement because of the legal costs.
I seen a passenger carrying jumbo landing where all the pilot did was close the throttle once the plane had landed (I'm pretty sure the taxiing was manually controlled). I don't know what system was being used, but it was accurate enough for it to land on the the lights running down the center of the runway without any human intervention since cruising altitude was reached after taking off.
"This is also an example of a clueful Anonymous Coward correcting glaring inaccuracies in the posts of registered users. Only on Slashdot!
You should realise the 'cluefulness' bar for becoming a registered user is very low. There isn't an IQ test or anything like that. Anyway, Microsoft's Windows trademark applies to its use as a proper noun, not a common noun. The term 'windows' is a common noun in both the glass and GUI contexts.
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Seriously, MS operating systems never get finished. . .."
No non-trivial piece of software is ever finished. There are always bugs to fix, features to add or optimizations to be performed.
I agree gentoo isn't suitable for beginners, but emerge and the like show that Linux doesn't have to be a dependancy nightmare. A slick GUI interface and pre-compiled packages might actually be more user-friendly than the double-click setup.exe system. Firstly because you could get all your software from one trusted source (i.e. the programs would be written by loads of different people/groups but the people who produce the packages for your distro would have independantly reviewed/tested the code to a certain extent) which might reduce the amount of malware clogging up peoples systems. Secondly, one could get a list of the available software of one type (e.g. word processors) quickly and make an informed choice, instead of trawling the internet.
Using emerge with gentoo, I haven't had any dependancy problems. I suspect the same is true for many people using other linux distros or *BSD with similar package management progams.
Ion drives derive thrust from ions (often caesium IIRC) escaping in the direction opposite to the required motion. That's why they are called ion drives. The ions don't have great mass, but they can be accelerated to very high speeds (close to the speed of light). This makes them very efficient, even though they only produce small amounts of thrust.
There have always been better things to do than channel hopping, but people still did/do it (well at least since there have been enough channels for it).
The BBC world service was around long before the internet, and offered uncensored news in many different languages. However, it didn't ever cause any revolutions (as far as I know).
Does anyone else find the use of quote marks here a bit sinister? It's almost as if they are implying that moving to OO.o involves training administered by a man named Bob in an Electric Needle Hut, not just playing around with the software for a few hours.
I didn't say Google should block personal websites entirely, just it would be nice if there was an option to do so. However, it's unlikely the.ind TLD will be adopted anyway.
It would be great if all the blogs and personal homepages had and used only one TLD (.ind). Then Google could have an option to block all these websites. That would increase the relevancy of their search results.
Now, if only we could convince the spammers to use.spam...
What about parcel delivery? I'd like to see you download your next computer hardware upgrade off the internet. You might buy it online, but someone has to deliver it.
"Or you feed it back into the 'printer', where it's destroyed and you try again."
The printout would need advanced and numerous forgery protection measures (like the ones in modern bank notes). Otherwise, what's to stop someone voting, getting their printout and then feeding a slip of paper of the same size back in so they can vote again without destroying their original.
From the 2002 GBRW UK edition p.168 (I don't know if all countries have the same content):
Fastest computer: IBM's RS/6000 ASCI white, capable of 12 trillion calculations per second, with 6Tb memory and 160Tb storage memory
Most powerful PDA: Compaq H3360 iPaq Pocket PC
There are still some non-'silly little "I got mine" thingys[sic]' in the GBWR. For example, the fastest 100m sprint, or most of the engineering achievements. These aren't things you could just decide to do one day, unlike attaching lots of pegs to your face (what are the odds that the guy who holds that record reads/. and replies saying it took him many years to perfect the skill).
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You obviously haven't discovered this wonderful thing called email! Every day people send me loads offers of "g37 ch1ck5 4 fr33" through this email thing. Sometimes even the chicks themselves send them.
I know they're spammers, but don't you think you're being a little too harsh. I mean, imagine what it would be like to be Clippy's bitch: "I see you're picking up some soap... Would you like some help?"
That would help Microsoft, not hinder them. They're own of the few companies around that can afford to ruthlessly persue every single patent infringement, real or perceived, no matter how trivial. Smaller organisations would suffer as they would lose a patent when they couldn't persue a minor infringement because of the legal costs.
I seen a passenger carrying jumbo landing where all the pilot did was close the throttle once the plane had landed (I'm pretty sure the taxiing was manually controlled). I don't know what system was being used, but it was accurate enough for it to land on the the lights running down the center of the runway without any human intervention since cruising altitude was reached after taking off.
"This is also an example of a clueful Anonymous Coward correcting glaring inaccuracies in the posts of registered users. Only on Slashdot! You should realise the 'cluefulness' bar for becoming a registered user is very low. There isn't an IQ test or anything like that. Anyway, Microsoft's Windows trademark applies to its use as a proper noun, not a common noun. The term 'windows' is a common noun in both the glass and GUI contexts.
" Seriously, MS operating systems never get finished. . . ."
No non-trivial piece of software is ever finished. There are always bugs to fix, features to add or optimizations to be performed.
I agree gentoo isn't suitable for beginners, but emerge and the like show that Linux doesn't have to be a dependancy nightmare. A slick GUI interface and pre-compiled packages might actually be more user-friendly than the double-click setup.exe system. Firstly because you could get all your software from one trusted source (i.e. the programs would be written by loads of different people/groups but the people who produce the packages for your distro would have independantly reviewed/tested the code to a certain extent) which might reduce the amount of malware clogging up peoples systems. Secondly, one could get a list of the available software of one type (e.g. word processors) quickly and make an informed choice, instead of trawling the internet.
Using emerge with gentoo, I haven't had any dependancy problems. I suspect the same is true for many people using other linux distros or *BSD with similar package management progams.
Ion drives derive thrust from ions (often caesium IIRC) escaping in the direction opposite to the required motion. That's why they are called ion drives. The ions don't have great mass, but they can be accelerated to very high speeds (close to the speed of light). This makes them very efficient, even though they only produce small amounts of thrust.
I didn't know that SCO were the original authors of 'hello world'. How kind of them to be licensing it for free.
There have always been better things to do than channel hopping, but people still did/do it (well at least since there have been enough channels for it).
The BBC world service was around long before the internet, and offered uncensored news in many different languages. However, it didn't ever cause any revolutions (as far as I know).
Does anyone else find the use of quote marks here a bit sinister? It's almost as if they are implying that moving to OO.o involves training administered by a man named Bob in an Electric Needle Hut, not just playing around with the software for a few hours.
She forgot to mention that Microsoft invented email, spreadsheets, the computer, electricity and gravity.
I didn't say Google should block personal websites entirely, just it would be nice if there was an option to do so. However, it's unlikely the .ind TLD will be adopted anyway.
It would be great if all the blogs and personal homepages had and used only one TLD (.ind). Then Google could have an option to block all these websites. That would increase the relevancy of their search results.
Now, if only we could convince the spammers to use .spam ...
What about parcel delivery? I'd like to see you download your next computer hardware upgrade off the internet. You might buy it online, but someone has to deliver it.
It's whack.
What are the chances of Darl knowing that the caps lock key exists. I BET HE JUST HOLDS SHIFT DOWN.
A significant proportion (I've heard estimates of 98%) of the matter that you consist of right now wasn't part of you this time last year.
God uses apache.
"Or you feed it back into the 'printer', where it's destroyed and you try again."
The printout would need advanced and numerous forgery protection measures (like the ones in modern bank notes). Otherwise, what's to stop someone voting, getting their printout and then feeding a slip of paper of the same size back in so they can vote again without destroying their original.
From the 2002 GBRW UK edition p.168 (I don't know if all countries have the same content):
Fastest computer: IBM's RS/6000 ASCI white, capable of 12 trillion calculations per second, with 6Tb memory and 160Tb storage memory Most powerful PDA: Compaq H3360 iPaq Pocket PCThere are still some non-'silly little "I got mine" thingys[sic]' in the GBWR. For example, the fastest 100m sprint, or most of the engineering achievements. These aren't things you could just decide to do one day, unlike attaching lots of pegs to your face (what are the odds that the guy who holds that record reads /. and replies saying it took him many years to perfect the skill).
I think largest screen and fastest processor (in MIPS not Hz) are already listed.