I think you have never played WoW. So you don't know how much work is put into building a char and keepup with the challenges. Losing this because your Windows allows malicios code to run equals to a cataclysm;).
Blizzard has _nothing_ to do with incompentence of users which allow keyloggers and stuff on their computers. The fact that Blizz allows the recovery of your items/gold on _their_ costs, is a fact that you will never find anywhere else.
3. the authenticator is 7 euro. This is two beers. I find it acceptable if i can keep my account thus protected.
Indeed sir, this is the trick. Intelligence grows, evolves. Is a mini-evolution in childrens brain. I only have to add one thing to your conclusion. This journey needs a path, a path that walks in a certain scenery. Without this scenery no evolution takes place. Why might know the path, but we have no scenery ( environment ). Would you grow up an AI as your own child?:)
If we read carefully, it was that the TechnoCore actually orchestrated the "Mistake", which after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocore explanation is actually sometime in 22nd-23rd century. And of course, we also find out that the AI behind it evolved from "20th century search engines";). Interesting read, takes a while to understand the mastery in writing of Dan Simmons.
When you're looking for a particular LOLcat or demotivational poster, or even a specific comic strip based on a remembered punchline, the text in the image is what you want to be able to search for. Aim in ur image, gugling.
I agree 100% with you: we are a small company and the Googles Apps suite ( gmail, calendar, docs, sites ) is perfect for us, and free too. I think until a company reaches >20-25 people there is no need for exchange/outlook. Plus, salesforce is now integrated, which is a double bonus. Of course this depends on what kind of company is, but for IT and software it fits with online.
cc.
14.1" with 1400x1050 vs. 15.4" 1600x1050 ? yes, i choose as a developer the last one. The eye sees more left/right than up/down. With the extra 200x1050 i can keep open my Outline in Eclipse _without_ taking place from my editor in the middle. And for films watching is great too.
So yes, widescreen, no gloss ( it's a tool, not a bling;) ).
Firefox and Openoffice.org have _earned_ their place on a desktop. IE or Mediaplayer didn't: MS used his OS monopoly to push them in the desktop. The same with Apple: they have a _almost_ monopoly for music players, but using this to push Quicktime ( = crap ) on everybody's desktop should not be allowed.
Heh. In 1996 we got our university lab outfitted with 5 SUN machines. What did we do first? Put dgaDoom on them and played. We played for about 48 hours. It was crazy... With the exception of going to bathroom, we stayed and played deathmatches (!) one after another. We even hired the low-graders to bring us food and drinks:).
C'mon guys. Accept it. The geek in us should be overjoyed to see/hear such news. After all that SF we've read, after so many Star Trek episodes seen, this team of astronoms, astrophysicists gives you this list _now_. Can you imagine that not being fiction? I can only hope to see during my left lifetime ( let's say 50 years at least) really flying there. Not that i am bored with news from Spirit, Opportunity, Huygens or Cassini, but this give us hope.
Yep, Dan Simmons raises indeed to the level of Frank Herbert. I read his Hyperion books, and they are.. books. Not crap. But _real_ books, which tell stories.
i need only one thing from google that is mobile: a small tablet like device, big screen, keyboard. Not bigger than the standard blackberry. maybe thinner ( hate bulges ). It needs EDGE/3g, and wifi. no voice functionality. When i need to know something, i pull it out, key the search, get the answer(s). Done. make it 100% worldwide compatible and let me decide where do i get my connectivity.
..this quantum based brain that we have. I was thinking independently of this, then while searching for this, i found many other people which incline to think that the brain might have an ability to harness the quantum properties of..matter. Many Many things can be explained with this theory, including our massive "pattern matching/risk calculation" power. The "parallelism" of the brain might not be because of 100 billion neurons, but because of the quantum possibilities. However, this is just a theory.
You don't pay attention to my words: Google will not build an OS for desktops, as Apple or Microsoft did/do/will possibly do. It will rely on others to carry its applications.
But Google's servers it's another story. They will have an OS....
well, maybe not in 10 years, but maybe 20, nobody will have a PC-as-we-know-it. Maybe some of us, geeks and nerds, will keep some beige boxes on the basement. But majority of the people will carry and interact with highly portable or tiny embedded systems - but with double+ computing power of what we have now ( wild prediction). Which leads to the conclusion that the OS of the future is not what we know of now ( as in Desktop Loaded with a OS called Windows). At least for the client/consumer part. So, Symbian, Linux have great chances for belonging to future. WinCE maybe, possibly. OSX in the iPhone. For all of them video/audio streaming will be a standard. Communication will focus on all major areas: Personal Area Network ( some kind of network between all gadgets on us), LAN ( device at home, or near vicinity), and WAN ( accessing the internet - or whatever will be called in 20years).
On the server side, we will build huge machine-servers, capable of virtualization. Which here i see lots of players, Linux included, but i see no OS from Microsoft. I see Google here too, as provinding enterprise-level services to all of us (aka email, office, anything else). Speaking of that, there is a reason why Google does not build a OS: it's irrelevant. We should follow the pack-leader;)...
And, not to forget, on the enterprise side, i assume a big load of thin-clients will prevail. Maybe Windows-as-it-is-now has a slight chance here...
In Germany we are told at the driving school that the car is a weapon and essentially, the driving license is a weapon carry permit. That's why getting one of this is pretty hard, the exam is quite tough. And quite expensive too, ~2000 euros.
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...for any WoW patch afterdays!
vi or nano does that, even openoffice. kill it and by the next time you want to edit the file, it asks for recovery.
Haha, indeed. That was the photo which of course I _didn't_ look :). Are these photoshopped or they really have nazi banners lying aroud? ?? Funny... :)
that is no svastika!!!! That is the Wehrmacht sign http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht , and today used in a styled way for Bundeswehr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr.
I fell obliged to serve this link http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm/. Short story: 500fps.
You, sir, win one thousend internets. LOLspect!
Indeed sir, this is the trick. Intelligence grows, evolves. Is a mini-evolution in childrens brain. I only have to add one thing to your conclusion. This journey needs a path, a path that walks in a certain scenery. Without this scenery no evolution takes place. Why might know the path, but we have no scenery ( environment ). Would you grow up an AI as your own child? :)
If we read carefully, it was that the TechnoCore actually orchestrated the "Mistake", which after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocore explanation is actually sometime in 22nd-23rd century. And of course, we also find out that the AI behind it evolved from "20th century search engines" ;). Interesting read, takes a while to understand the mastery in writing of Dan Simmons.
I agree 100% with you: we are a small company and the Googles Apps suite ( gmail, calendar, docs, sites ) is perfect for us, and free too. I think until a company reaches >20-25 people there is no need for exchange/outlook. Plus, salesforce is now integrated, which is a double bonus. Of course this depends on what kind of company is, but for IT and software it fits with online. cc.
14.1" with 1400x1050 vs. 15.4" 1600x1050 ? yes, i choose as a developer the last one. The eye sees more left/right than up/down. With the extra 200x1050 i can keep open my Outline in Eclipse _without_ taking place from my editor in the middle. And for films watching is great too. So yes, widescreen, no gloss ( it's a tool, not a bling ;) ).
Firefox and Openoffice.org have _earned_ their place on a desktop. IE or Mediaplayer didn't: MS used his OS monopoly to push them in the desktop. The same with Apple: they have a _almost_ monopoly for music players, but using this to push Quicktime ( = crap ) on everybody's desktop should not be allowed.
i suspect he's been visiting some PvP BGs lately....
... should be enough for all dupes.
Heh. In 1996 we got our university lab outfitted with 5 SUN machines. What did we do first? Put dgaDoom on them and played. We played for about 48 hours. It was crazy... With the exception of going to bathroom, we stayed and played deathmatches (!) one after another. We even hired the low-graders to bring us food and drinks :).
...
Man, what times
C'mon guys. Accept it. The geek in us should be overjoyed to see/hear such news. After all that SF we've read, after so many Star Trek episodes seen, this team of astronoms, astrophysicists gives you this list _now_. Can you imagine that not being fiction? I can only hope to see during my left lifetime ( let's say 50 years at least) really flying there. Not that i am bored with news from Spirit, Opportunity, Huygens or Cassini, but this give us hope.
Yep, Dan Simmons raises indeed to the level of Frank Herbert. I read his Hyperion books, and they are .. books. Not crap. But _real_ books, which tell stories.
isn't the same thing? i remember playing with a thingie called XULPlayer, i loved it.
i need only one thing from google that is mobile: a small tablet like device, big screen, keyboard. Not bigger than the standard blackberry. maybe thinner ( hate bulges ). It needs EDGE/3g, and wifi. no voice functionality. When i need to know something, i pull it out, key the search, get the answer(s). Done. make it 100% worldwide compatible and let me decide where do i get my connectivity.
Oh. and it needs a "Don't Panic" button too.
..this quantum based brain that we have. I was thinking independently of this, then while searching for this, i found many other people which incline to think that the brain might have an ability to harness the quantum properties of ..matter. Many Many things can be explained with this theory, including our massive "pattern matching/risk calculation" power. The "parallelism" of the brain might not be because of 100 billion neurons, but because of the quantum possibilities. However, this is just a theory.
You don't pay attention to my words: Google will not build an OS for desktops, as Apple or Microsoft did/do/will possibly do. It will rely on others to carry its applications. But Google's servers it's another story. They will have an OS....
well, maybe not in 10 years, but maybe 20, nobody will have a PC-as-we-know-it. Maybe some of us, geeks and nerds, will keep some beige boxes on the basement. But majority of the people will carry and interact with highly portable or tiny embedded systems - but with double+ computing power of what we have now ( wild prediction). Which leads to the conclusion that the OS of the future is not what we know of now ( as in Desktop Loaded with a OS called Windows). At least for the client/consumer part. So, Symbian, Linux have great chances for belonging to future. WinCE maybe, possibly. OSX in the iPhone. For all of them video/audio streaming will be a standard. Communication will focus on all major areas: Personal Area Network ( some kind of network between all gadgets on us), LAN ( device at home, or near vicinity), and WAN ( accessing the internet - or whatever will be called in 20years).
;)...
On the server side, we will build huge machine-servers, capable of virtualization. Which here i see lots of players, Linux included, but i see no OS from Microsoft. I see Google here too, as provinding enterprise-level services to all of us (aka email, office, anything else). Speaking of that, there is a reason why Google does not build a OS: it's irrelevant. We should follow the pack-leader
And, not to forget, on the enterprise side, i assume a big load of thin-clients will prevail. Maybe Windows-as-it-is-now has a slight chance here...
In Germany we are told at the driving school that the car is a weapon and essentially, the driving license is a weapon carry permit.
That's why getting one of this is pretty hard, the exam is quite tough. And quite expensive too, ~2000 euros.