Well many people have criticised Google for branching, I still reserve judgement. Personally I think Froogle was a natural expansion of Google. After all, they are already indexing the pages anyway, and I usually research products I buy using Google, so why wouldn't I look for products when I got to buy them using Froogle? It is an innovative application of what they already do. It is not a stretch to capture something new but a natural progression. The same I would argue is true for GMail to a lesser extent. Now I can search my own data, after all who doesn't lose an email or want to re-read a joke from way back when whose punchline was: "...but the duck didn't quack!." I personally love Google News since I can get various source for the same issue to get multiple perspectives. There again is Google tailouring it's searching skills to areas which are adjacent but not directly under their search engine buisness.
Look at my name, I'm not corporate friendly, but I don't think that Google is being tyranical as some of you tinfoilers. Hell, if Google can make my shopping easier if would be a shame if they didn't because of some "purity" principle.
in this post/rant I examined what I believed to be the natural conclusion regarding the 2nd Amendment to Nuclear weapons. His response to it seems to be inline with what I pondered.
I've never seen Civ 3 really eat into my CPU cycles. I assume the same would be said for any game that doesn't involve 3D. Not all modern games involve 3D, most of the best ones don't. Unfortunatley, the most popular do.
It's *really* weird to see not only my home town but my school on the front page...
anyway for anyone at UWO already I believe this gives us yet another reason to celebrate the $2.50 pint on fridays at The Wave. Heh, makes this could be a way to show all those cute Health-Sci chicks that we are interested in our health.;)
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Netcraft confirms it... GNOME is dying! I couldn't find a single server or otherwise headless machine running it. These are dark days in indeed. In fact the recent release of GNOME 2.8 and the upcoming release of FreeBSD 5 are only more nails in the proverbial coffin.
It turns out they were both off-by-one errors that were easy to fix but notoriously difficult to spot
I was wondering if this is the kind of thing that most likely would ahve been avoided in a more "modern" language, like pointer arithmetic problems could be avoided by not using C? Not a trool -really- I was just wondering. I RTFA but can't tell from reading it...
I don't know what country you live in, maybe it's one that has no enemies and thats why your so hot for everyone to have nukes, but sitting here, with as much hate as a good portion of the world feels against the US, I'm not comfortable with nations like North Korea having nuclear weapons.
Canada. Frankly, the the only country I worry about attacking US *is* the United States- like mentioned in Fallout. We have tons of natural resources and littles defence but pesky environmental legislation. It's like living inside an unguarded picnic basket.
Of course everyone would rather have no nukes (or guns for that matter in my case...) and definitely would rather be dominant, you gotta admit if you weren't in the US you'd be worried about the US and wished you had nukes or at least someone did to challenge their superiority. Frankly, I think the US cutting it's "defence" (since most of it goes for attacking rather than defending "pre-empt" my ass..) it would do a lot to diffuse global tension... not likely but we can dream can't we?
US government doesn't like UN and NATO is in America's pocket. That won't do for the other nations. America would just ignore rulings against them.
And the environmental damage wit Hydrogen bombs is neglible to comparison to normal nukes, would that make you sleep better? The concept is the same as the 2nd amendment as far as I can see. BTW how else would you propse the smaller nations keep the US in check without nukes?
But how is this different then unstable people have guns? Frankly I think it's just a matter of scale. Crazy people can get guns crazy nations get nukes. Now if we wanted to take nukes away from just crazy natiosn then we'd have to establish and independent third party that has power over everyone (like the government has over citizens so that criminals in jail don't get guns). But the US has always resisted any body which would restrain or bind it.
Like I know everyone has their minds set on WMD but couldn't it just be a bigger-than-chernobyl fuck-up? Just a thought...
Frankly I'm not that concerned about North Korea having nukes. I'm going to support this is an unusual place... the American constituion. I am not an American citizen. But I am a little world about American being the global power it is. Iti s known that plans are underway to increase America's nuclear capabilities. I figure that nuclear weapons are to nations as guns are to individuals, and a case can be made for seeing theUS as at least the global goverment in a certain sense. Therefore the more countries with nuclear power the bigger an incentive for the US to hammer out comprises (ie. Iraq). Really I think this the spirit of the second amendment taken to a global perspective. Now, if I were a Neo-Con I'd be antsy about my loosening grip on nuclear weapons, but I think as a whole this isn't too much too worry about. And any arguments about mad countries that can be made can apply to mad citizens with AK-47s.
Mind you, I have been enjoying the Politics section a lot lately. Maybe they'll make sections for other prominent countries on/. ?
I *just* read this http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1072 142004 before I saw this story. Really I think the 22nd century will see the Western world relapse yet again into a dark age. Perhaps it will the Arabs and the Chinese to rise. However, has technology progressed to the point a police state can never be toppled? I'm not some fanatic but I'm pretty sure that in 200 years America will be in a dismal state. It will also be interesting how the arts and philosophy will change. As-is America is the biggest influence right now. Sorry this kinda got OT.
Everyone's first goal is to survive. Otherwise you are shooting yourself in the foot. And this way you still might be able to use your former boss as a reference before he gets hauled off. Plus it's ballsy because you never know if they are gonna try to pin it all on you or take you down with them.
I'd really love to see some *BSD troll rewrite that Pearl Jam cover of "Last Kiss" yet again but for "where oh where can my floppy be, the lord took it away from me..." I mean that double entendre could be funny... I tried to take a stab at it but it just wasn't working for... oh where is a troll when you need one?
I don't understand why the FreeBSD folk would already tag a FreeBSD 6 branch when 5.3 is not yet stable? Doesn't this just encourage developers to get distracted from stabilising the 5 branch? After all isn't Linus keeping people working on 2.6 to get it more stable and that is why there is no 2.7 yet? This doesn't seem to be inline with their organized structured direction of the project... anyone want to shed light on the reasons? Perhaps it's a dumping ground for features that they can't seem to stabilise for 5? Is 6 expected to take less time than 5? Anyone have a ballpark figure? 18 months? 4 years?
Oh and as a Linux user looking forward to FreeBSD 5 to try it out, I've heard plenty about it's ports system but I have yet to hear what kind of binary support (eg. apt) if any it has...
I wish. No pen input no portability. If makes ever makes TabletPC I'll buy one immediately. However I doubt they ever will since they have to much pride to follow Microsoft's footsteps and the market demand for TabletPCs aren't huge either... though if they just added that feature to all the Powerbooks... hmm.
NeXt cube was a long time ago so I wouldn't say that particular situation is relevant anymore
How many home users actually transport files? Most of them just work on their own computer.
If they need transfer files to work more likely than not they'll just e-mail themselves.
If they want to transfer onto a physical medium the can burn a cdr/cd-rw with any of the iMacs and burn dvd-r/dvd-rw on the top two models. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if more computers had CD-ROM or better than have floppy drives.
Who actually ever uses floppy disks anymore? I just use them to boot my old P.O.S. boxes I hobby on
There is USB for your pendrive (or whatever you want to call it) which is probably the most popular current transportable medium and leagues better than floppy drives.
I don't recall there being any floppy drives on any of the SUN UltraSPARC boxes at my school's lab and they are at least several years old.
I just went to Dell.com>Small Buisness>Desktops>Dimension and it doesn't look like any (let alone most or all) come with a floppy drive either.
You can get a USB floppy drive so that you can read your floppies without ruinng the sexy design of the iMac for everyone else with the added bulk.
Now is that faster as in.java->.class time or faster in the sense that bytecode (aka "binaries") are faster (eg. more effeceint better optimized code path*)?
*I have no idea how much the Java standard limits this or not.
How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;
Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:
Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?
Personally I blame the gamers. When it comes down to it few of them (in my experience) have sophisticated tastes in art, film, theatre, and so on. Most of them seem to dismiss it as pretentious crap. When gamers say stuff like (quote from a conversation from yesterday) "I watch movies to turn off my brain" is it any suprise that games off as low-brow as they are? And think about even the books gamers read. Most of them are technical, or if they aren't they tend to be fairly blunt.* I find it a shame since I am doing a combined CS/Liberal Art degree.
*By blunt I mean you can't miss the point, some SciFi have have good points about technology and society or pollution or something, but its fairly in your face lacking it subtlety and nuance. Also they don't seem to be drawn to behavioural novels, more plot driven ones.
water proof, sturdy case (ie. metal not plastic, Mg-Al alloy?), bluetooth builtin (i don't want to carry a cable to sync my pda), WiFi or a not proprietary expansion slot so I could buy one (eg. pcmcia), USB plug, J2ME so I can hack my own apps if needed (never actually used J2ME but J2SDK and I think thats what it is for... could be wrong), perferrably black-and-white to reduce cost, back light screen (indigo style for example), none of those goofy rice sized key boards, when I plug it into the USB I want to be able to drag and drop files for transport like a usb key, ~16Mb to store shit.
Unlike most people I believe I might actually see what I want one day. There are a few out there right now that look appealing. The Palm Zire 72 looks pretty damn close right now. Drop the phone, make MP3 support a software thing (perferrably bundled), get a better colour screen or go b/w to reduce cost, I'd rather the white shell personally but meh, and I'd be sold really. Oh and bring it down to like ~$200 USD (by dropping colour screen and camera).
Sounds reasonable non?
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Look at my name, I'm not corporate friendly, but I don't think that Google is being tyranical as some of you tinfoilers. Hell, if Google can make my shopping easier if would be a shame if they didn't because of some "purity" principle.
in this post/rant I examined what I believed to be the natural conclusion regarding the 2nd Amendment to Nuclear weapons. His response to it seems to be inline with what I pondered.
I've never seen Civ 3 really eat into my CPU cycles. I assume the same would be said for any game that doesn't involve 3D. Not all modern games involve 3D, most of the best ones don't. Unfortunatley, the most popular do.
anyway for anyone at UWO already I believe this gives us yet another reason to celebrate the $2.50 pint on fridays at The Wave. Heh, makes this could be a way to show all those cute Health-Sci chicks that we are interested in our health. ;)
Netcraft confirms it... GNOME is dying! I couldn't find a single server or otherwise headless machine running it. These are dark days in indeed. In fact the recent release of GNOME 2.8 and the upcoming release of FreeBSD 5 are only more nails in the proverbial coffin.
I was wondering if this is the kind of thing that most likely would ahve been avoided in a more "modern" language, like pointer arithmetic problems could be avoided by not using C? Not a trool -really- I was just wondering. I RTFA but can't tell from reading it...
Oh, and by the way: peace be with you. I found you interesting. Take care.
I don't know what country you live in, maybe it's one that has no enemies and thats why your so hot for everyone to have nukes, but sitting here, with as much hate as a good portion of the world feels against the US, I'm not comfortable with nations like North Korea having nuclear weapons. Canada. Frankly, the the only country I worry about attacking US *is* the United States- like mentioned in Fallout. We have tons of natural resources and littles defence but pesky environmental legislation. It's like living inside an unguarded picnic basket. Of course everyone would rather have no nukes (or guns for that matter in my case...) and definitely would rather be dominant, you gotta admit if you weren't in the US you'd be worried about the US and wished you had nukes or at least someone did to challenge their superiority. Frankly, I think the US cutting it's "defence" (since most of it goes for attacking rather than defending "pre-empt" my ass..) it would do a lot to diffuse global tension... not likely but we can dream can't we?
US government doesn't like UN and NATO is in America's pocket. That won't do for the other nations. America would just ignore rulings against them. And the environmental damage wit Hydrogen bombs is neglible to comparison to normal nukes, would that make you sleep better? The concept is the same as the 2nd amendment as far as I can see. BTW how else would you propse the smaller nations keep the US in check without nukes?
But how is this different then unstable people have guns? Frankly I think it's just a matter of scale. Crazy people can get guns crazy nations get nukes. Now if we wanted to take nukes away from just crazy natiosn then we'd have to establish and independent third party that has power over everyone (like the government has over citizens so that criminals in jail don't get guns). But the US has always resisted any body which would restrain or bind it.
Like I know everyone has their minds set on WMD but couldn't it just be a bigger-than-chernobyl fuck-up? Just a thought... Frankly I'm not that concerned about North Korea having nukes. I'm going to support this is an unusual place... the American constituion. I am not an American citizen. But I am a little world about American being the global power it is. Iti s known that plans are underway to increase America's nuclear capabilities. I figure that nuclear weapons are to nations as guns are to individuals, and a case can be made for seeing theUS as at least the global goverment in a certain sense. Therefore the more countries with nuclear power the bigger an incentive for the US to hammer out comprises (ie. Iraq). Really I think this the spirit of the second amendment taken to a global perspective. Now, if I were a Neo-Con I'd be antsy about my loosening grip on nuclear weapons, but I think as a whole this isn't too much too worry about. And any arguments about mad countries that can be made can apply to mad citizens with AK-47s. Mind you, I have been enjoying the Politics section a lot lately. Maybe they'll make sections for other prominent countries on /. ?
I *just* read this http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1072 142004 before I saw this story. Really I think the 22nd century will see the Western world relapse yet again into a dark age. Perhaps it will the Arabs and the Chinese to rise. However, has technology progressed to the point a police state can never be toppled? I'm not some fanatic but I'm pretty sure that in 200 years America will be in a dismal state. It will also be interesting how the arts and philosophy will change. As-is America is the biggest influence right now. Sorry this kinda got OT.
Everyone's first goal is to survive. Otherwise you are shooting yourself in the foot. And this way you still might be able to use your former boss as a reference before he gets hauled off. Plus it's ballsy because you never know if they are gonna try to pin it all on you or take you down with them.
site seems down to me so I'm wondering if anyone has started a torrent for the book?
you might want to qualify that as "on the desktop"
I'd really love to see some *BSD troll rewrite that Pearl Jam cover of "Last Kiss" yet again but for "where oh where can my floppy be, the lord took it away from me..." I mean that double entendre could be funny... I tried to take a stab at it but it just wasn't working for... oh where is a troll when you need one?
Oh and as a Linux user looking forward to FreeBSD 5 to try it out, I've heard plenty about it's ports system but I have yet to hear what kind of binary support (eg. apt) if any it has...
I wish. No pen input no portability. If makes ever makes TabletPC I'll buy one immediately. However I doubt they ever will since they have to much pride to follow Microsoft's footsteps and the market demand for TabletPCs aren't huge either... though if they just added that feature to all the Powerbooks... hmm.
Now is that faster as in .java->.class time or faster in the sense that bytecode (aka "binaries") are faster (eg. more effeceint better optimized code path*)?
*I have no idea how much the Java standard limits this or not.
when will Gentoo get this? ;)
Guy #1: Hey, I'm having a hard time breathing!
Act 2, Scene 5
JULIET
How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;
Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:
Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?
*By blunt I mean you can't miss the point, some SciFi have have good points about technology and society or pollution or something, but its fairly in your face lacking it subtlety and nuance. Also they don't seem to be drawn to behavioural novels, more plot driven ones.
didn't you just basically describe PGP? wouldn't that do? in fact why wasn't that the first place they looked? RSA too resource demanding?
water proof, sturdy case (ie. metal not plastic, Mg-Al alloy?), bluetooth builtin (i don't want to carry a cable to sync my pda), WiFi or a not proprietary expansion slot so I could buy one (eg. pcmcia), USB plug, J2ME so I can hack my own apps if needed (never actually used J2ME but J2SDK and I think thats what it is for... could be wrong), perferrably black-and-white to reduce cost, back light screen (indigo style for example), none of those goofy rice sized key boards, when I plug it into the USB I want to be able to drag and drop files for transport like a usb key, ~16Mb to store shit. Unlike most people I believe I might actually see what I want one day. There are a few out there right now that look appealing. The Palm Zire 72 looks pretty damn close right now. Drop the phone, make MP3 support a software thing (perferrably bundled), get a better colour screen or go b/w to reduce cost, I'd rather the white shell personally but meh, and I'd be sold really. Oh and bring it down to like ~$200 USD (by dropping colour screen and camera). Sounds reasonable non?