While that's likely true (the caffeine levels are probably suboptimal) I guess I forgot the 'for humorous purposes only, not to be taken internally or seriously for that matter' disclaimer.
The reason Microsoft is still the favored desktop OS is probably linux taking forever to get its shit together and create a user-focused OS like Ubuntu, giving Microsoft all the time it needed to create Windows 7. I remember well the many attempts I made with earlier linuxes, only to be disappointed each and every time because shit just didn't work. Ubuntu is a breeze these days, sure, but that's too little, too late.
It has little to do with a good UI (look at the most popular OS on the planet, XP) - it has all to do with developers, developers, developers. That and Active Directory. Take away the need for commercial programs to require XP and come up with a good replacement for AD and then figure out how to support all that and Microsoft loses it's grip. Since that combination of factors is rather unlikely, Microsoft will be with us for a long while.
I expect to see XP running in the nursing home my wife stuffs me into when I get to be too much of a problem, likely twenty years from now.
Those were the good old days. I remember my first computer as a kid. A true 8086 with a color CGA monitor and a 20mb hard disk and 2 x 5 1/2" floppy drives. Big pimpin' in those days.
Color? You're indeed a child, grasshopper. Hell, we didn't have displays when I was a kid. Just teletypes. And we liked them (the dots from the punch tape were fun).
After reading article 'The Universe as a Hologram', I've an idea to apply this theory into telecommunication system.
Briefly, in "holographic universe" theory, reality is stored in a high dimension space. Reality is a kind of superhologram which the past, present and future all exist simultaneously. Men can only receive/project a part of that reality. Maximum men can receive/project is only 4 dimensions (3 for space, 1 for time), and it's not the entire space and time. It's just a point in space and time ocean.
If we could store data in at least 5 dimension space! The sender stores the data there and the receiver projects to the same data/reality. This is what causes the instantaneous telecommunication system.
This can change future of 'the Net'. All traffic can be transmitted instantaneously. In 5 dimension space, the 'state' of the net is all possible states, so Akamai report no longer necessary haha.
Here, This might help you understand things better. You're pretty close.
While this certainly is a victory for this guy, things will change in the movie industry. No longer will props be bought without huge contracts that take away every single right of the people who design and build them. I foresee this causing the elimination of most independent shops designing and developing props. Movie studios will instead go to (or create their own) industrial prop houses and hire cheap talent to crank out props. The really good artists will be replaced by wage slaves just showing up for a paycheck. Sadly, winning this battle may eventually cause the war to be lost.
You're a couple of decades too late. Once people figured out you could make money with the flotsam and jetsam of movie production, the lawyers sauntered in and tied down everything tighter than an intelligent thought trying to escape from Sarah Palin's brain. This sort of thing would never happen in real time. There WOULD be a contract. Yet there are independent shops out there that do exactly what you're complaining they won't. They just hired their own lawyers.
In an ideal world, all the governments of the world would coat it in a special atmosphere-proof heat-shield of goo, and attach parachutes - big ones. Then plunge it into the atmosphere and hopefully save whats left in a space museum.
In fact if it was scorched from the atmosphere it would look all the better in a museum - more life like.
In an ideal world Anonymous Cowards would not suggest irrational, insane or physically impossible ideas on Slashdot.
Oh, and democrats and republicans would get along well enough to actually govern the country.
There is a difference between an academic publication accessible to a small number of people, and science journalism conducted by reporters writing for a public audience.
They are suppressing a popularized account based on her explanations to reporters, not the technical account which few could understand.
Yes, but the information is out there. It's published in one of the highest visibility general science journals in the English language. Since there are many people who's lives are impacted by this research, and there are other researchers in the field, it's not likely that the information is going to be repressed in any meaningful way.
It's a dumbshit move, typical of politicians and may not even be malevolent, but it's not a very good way to keep the knowledge closely kept.
I'm curious - what is the point of having her NOT talk to the press before this judicial inquiry (which isn't a trial as far as I can tell) while the information is already out in the public domain? Will the evidence be tainted? Are there precedents for this sort of thing?
You realize that the article in question was published in one of the more visible science journals? All the idiots in the Canadian government did was muzzle attempts at having they lay press talk about the research. That is to be condemned and will turn out to be futile, but you don't need Wikileaks, just a subscription to Science.
Science (the magazine) while not quite as politically involved as Nature (the magazine, not the mother) is still pretty activist. It will be interesting to see if they get wind of it and make it a Streisand Effect issue.
He doesn't have a dash -- he has a hyphen. (Not that he needs a hyphen either.)
Also, what are you doin' with that apostrophe before "sayin"? Apostrophes are used to denote where you elided letters, so unless you meant "gsayin" rather than "saying", you're doing it wrong. (If you did mean "gsayin", you're doing something different wrong...)
I didn't buy an expensive 62" high-def display, Oppo BD player, component surround sound system, and nice speakers so I can watch the crap quality of what Netflix and everyone else today calls HD.
Simple, sell them and get a 32". You can now watch Neflix and what everyone calls HD today, will really be HD, and be equivalent to even bluray.
Easier. Take off your glasses. Remove the hearing aids.
The quality of recent streams has improved substantially.
That's good to know it doesn't suck everywhere. I dropped streaming because of late, we never use it. Selection spotty and inconsistent, video utter crap on a 42" HTDV with horrid compression artifacts and unsynched audio. This on either a 3M down /.5 up DSL or a 10 M down / 1 M up Cable. For $2 / month it was worth keeping just for those occasional moments of sheer boredom when you wanted to watch something. For $8 a month, it just didn't add up. Perhaps if they pulled this stunt in a few years (after they fixed the above problems) I would have thought differently. But premium prices for crap doesn't fly - something that the rest of the industry is going to have to worry about as they try to push video down the clogged tubes.
So walmart will team with Google and become an ISP. Then offer tiered network access where if you stream from them, it doesn't apply to your monthly cap.
You do realize that being an ISP requires access to the last mile? I don't think even the combination of Google / Walmart / Apple, the Vatican and Santa Claus can wire the entire planet. Or even the US.
I could tolerate occasional outburst of idiocy from the marketing staff at ESA, but please spoon the constant outpoor of diarrhea from the bad astronomer yourself.
Then, after you finish up correcting your spelling AND grammar, could you please explain in simple declarative English just what the fuck you are doing posting in this discussion?
"Very complicated", referring of course to the process of determining whether your political leanings are threatening or not to the government in power.
No, remember this is a Senate committee. "Very complicated" is anything more advanced than a fork.
They say they are looking to add other capabilities, like searching by components. It would be pretty cool if you could say 'here are some components I have, what have people done with them'.
Geek imports all the contents of his junk box into the system, then asks "What can a make out of this?"
Question is do the cancer cells naturally accumulate gold and platinum when other cells do not, and if so, why?
If they did, we could mine cancer patients and they could finally pay for their therapy. I agree, where did THIS little bit come from? I suppose you can try to tag the cancerous particles with gold or palladium, but there are plenty of other toxic therapies that would be improved by targeting only cancer cells. The trick is to figure out how to select cancer cells and leave the rest of the body alone and do it in the body and not the test tube.
It is if you treat it as an abbreviation for failure. This is the internet, communication mangling is its specialty on every level from the Link Layer to the Organic layer.
It's not really the Internet, it's English:
English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary."
I think its a good example of how the spread of ideas and ideologies can be damaging to societies, and why it's so important to challenge this spread in the early stages, because believe me, it's impossible to reverse things once the wildfire takes hold of the wider population.
So, we're too late to sink Michelle Bachman? Maybe we should get those Shuttles working again.
If you're using statistics, you aren't doing science.
Yeah! Damn quantum physicists always pretending that they're scientists...
If one modified flaming error's statement to say "If you're using statistics, you aren't doing science that anyone else understands" you get remarkably close to the truth....
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Yes! The Hercules card. Best bit of hardware completely unsupported by software ever made.
While that's likely true (the caffeine levels are probably suboptimal) I guess I forgot the 'for humorous purposes only, not to be taken internally or seriously for that matter' disclaimer.
The reason Microsoft is still the favored desktop OS is probably linux taking forever to get its shit together and create a user-focused OS like Ubuntu, giving Microsoft all the time it needed to create Windows 7. I remember well the many attempts I made with earlier linuxes, only to be disappointed each and every time because shit just didn't work. Ubuntu is a breeze these days, sure, but that's too little, too late.
It has little to do with a good UI (look at the most popular OS on the planet, XP) - it has all to do with developers, developers, developers. That and Active Directory. Take away the need for commercial programs to require XP and come up with a good replacement for AD and then figure out how to support all that and Microsoft loses it's grip. Since that combination of factors is rather unlikely, Microsoft will be with us for a long while.
I expect to see XP running in the nursing home my wife stuffs me into when I get to be too much of a problem, likely twenty years from now.
Haha! I got you all beat! My first DOS Version was just called 'Ugh'.
That was the one where you had to extinguish the little flaming torches that were used as memory indicators with your fingers, right?
Those were the good old days. I remember my first computer as a kid. A true 8086 with a color CGA monitor and a 20mb hard disk and 2 x 5 1/2" floppy drives. Big pimpin' in those days.
Color? You're indeed a child, grasshopper. Hell, we didn't have displays when I was a kid. Just teletypes. And we liked them (the dots from the punch tape were fun).
After reading article 'The Universe as a Hologram', I've an idea to apply this theory into telecommunication system.
Briefly, in "holographic universe" theory, reality is stored in a high dimension space. Reality is a kind of superhologram which the past, present and future all exist simultaneously. Men can only receive/project a part of that reality. Maximum men can receive/project is only 4 dimensions (3 for space, 1 for time), and it's not the entire space and time. It's just a point in space and time ocean.
If we could store data in at least 5 dimension space! The sender stores the data there and the receiver projects to the same data/reality. This is what causes the instantaneous telecommunication system.
This can change future of 'the Net'. All traffic can be transmitted instantaneously. In 5 dimension space, the 'state' of the net is all possible states, so Akamai report no longer necessary haha.
Here, This might help you understand things better. You're pretty close.
While this certainly is a victory for this guy, things will change in the movie industry. No longer will props be bought without huge contracts that take away every single right of the people who design and build them. I foresee this causing the elimination of most independent shops designing and developing props. Movie studios will instead go to (or create their own) industrial prop houses and hire cheap talent to crank out props. The really good artists will be replaced by wage slaves just showing up for a paycheck. Sadly, winning this battle may eventually cause the war to be lost.
You're a couple of decades too late. Once people figured out you could make money with the flotsam and jetsam of movie production, the lawyers sauntered in and tied down everything tighter than an intelligent thought trying to escape from Sarah Palin's brain. This sort of thing would never happen in real time. There WOULD be a contract. Yet there are independent shops out there that do exactly what you're complaining they won't. They just hired their own lawyers.
Sound familiar?
Quoth young Skywalker: "I can't see a thing in this helmet."
Quoth young Lea "Aren't you a little short to be a storm trooper"
/extreme pedantry
As usual, not entirely sure where I'm going here, but it might not be the armor's fault all of the time.
In an ideal world, all the governments of the world would coat it in a special atmosphere-proof heat-shield of goo, and attach parachutes - big ones. Then plunge it into the atmosphere and hopefully save whats left in a space museum.
In fact if it was scorched from the atmosphere it would look all the better in a museum - more life like.
In an ideal world Anonymous Cowards would not suggest irrational, insane or physically impossible ideas on Slashdot.
Oh, and democrats and republicans would get along well enough to actually govern the country.
But enough crazy talk.
There is a difference between an academic publication accessible to a small number of people, and science journalism conducted by reporters writing for a public audience. They are suppressing a popularized account based on her explanations to reporters, not the technical account which few could understand.
Yes, but the information is out there. It's published in one of the highest visibility general science journals in the English language. Since there are many people who's lives are impacted by this research, and there are other researchers in the field, it's not likely that the information is going to be repressed in any meaningful way.
It's a dumbshit move, typical of politicians and may not even be malevolent, but it's not a very good way to keep the knowledge closely kept.
I'm curious - what is the point of having her NOT talk to the press before this judicial inquiry (which isn't a trial as far as I can tell) while the information is already out in the public domain? Will the evidence be tainted? Are there precedents for this sort of thing?
You realize that the article in question was published in one of the more visible science journals? All the idiots in the Canadian government did was muzzle attempts at having they lay press talk about the research. That is to be condemned and will turn out to be futile, but you don't need Wikileaks, just a subscription to Science.
Science (the magazine) while not quite as politically involved as Nature (the magazine, not the mother) is still pretty activist. It will be interesting to see if they get wind of it and make it a Streisand Effect issue.
He doesn't have a dash -- he has a hyphen. (Not that he needs a hyphen either.)
Also, what are you doin' with that apostrophe before "sayin"? Apostrophes are used to denote where you elided letters, so unless you meant "gsayin" rather than "saying", you're doing it wrong. (If you did mean "gsayin", you're doing something different wrong...)
Ah, it's pedantry all the way down.
I didn't buy an expensive 62" high-def display, Oppo BD player, component surround sound system, and nice speakers so I can watch the crap quality of what Netflix and everyone else today calls HD.
Simple, sell them and get a 32". You can now watch Neflix and what everyone calls HD today, will really be HD, and be equivalent to even bluray.
Easier. Take off your glasses. Remove the hearing aids.
Everything will be fine.
I don't think you need a dash in between 'overly' and 'pedantic'.
Just 'sayin.
The quality of recent streams has improved substantially.
That's good to know it doesn't suck everywhere. I dropped streaming because of late, we never use it. Selection spotty and inconsistent, video utter crap on a 42" HTDV with horrid compression artifacts and unsynched audio. This on either a 3M down / .5 up DSL or a 10 M down / 1 M up Cable. For $2 / month it was worth keeping just for those occasional moments of sheer boredom when you wanted to watch something. For $8 a month, it just didn't add up. Perhaps if they pulled this stunt in a few years (after they fixed the above problems) I would have thought differently. But premium prices for crap doesn't fly - something that the rest of the industry is going to have to worry about as they try to push video down the clogged tubes.
So walmart will team with Google and become an ISP. Then offer tiered network access where if you stream from them, it doesn't apply to your monthly cap.
You do realize that being an ISP requires access to the last mile? I don't think even the combination of Google / Walmart / Apple, the Vatican and Santa Claus can wire the entire planet. Or even the US.
Or were you thinking of dialup?
I could tolerate occasional outburst of idiocy from the marketing staff at ESA, but please spoon the constant outpoor of diarrhea from the bad astronomer yourself.
Then, after you finish up correcting your spelling AND grammar, could you please explain in simple declarative English just what the fuck you are doing posting in this discussion?
"Very complicated", referring of course to the process of determining whether your political leanings are threatening or not to the government in power.
No, remember this is a Senate committee. "Very complicated" is anything more advanced than a fork.
They say they are looking to add other capabilities, like searching by components. It would be pretty cool if you could say 'here are some components I have, what have people done with them'.
Geek imports all the contents of his junk box into the system, then asks "What can a make out of this?"
System replies: "A toaster"
Question is do the cancer cells naturally accumulate gold and platinum when other cells do not, and if so, why?
If they did, we could mine cancer patients and they could finally pay for their therapy. I agree, where did THIS little bit come from? I suppose you can try to tag the cancerous particles with gold or palladium, but there are plenty of other toxic therapies that would be improved by targeting only cancer cells. The trick is to figure out how to select cancer cells and leave the rest of the body alone and do it in the body and not the test tube.
Just a wee bit of handwaving....
It is if you treat it as an abbreviation for failure. This is the internet, communication mangling is its specialty on every level from the Link Layer to the Organic layer.
It's not really the Internet, it's English:
English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll
How the hell does an executable within an attached ZIP file disguised as a PDF get launched anyway?
Click
Click
Click
WHAM
I think its a good example of how the spread of ideas and ideologies can be damaging to societies, and why it's so important to challenge this spread in the early stages, because believe me, it's impossible to reverse things once the wildfire takes hold of the wider population.
So, we're too late to sink Michelle Bachman? Maybe we should get those Shuttles working again.
If you're using statistics, you aren't doing science.
Yeah! Damn quantum physicists always pretending that they're scientists...
If one modified flaming error's statement to say "If you're using statistics, you aren't doing science that anyone else understands" you get remarkably close to the truth....