That's a stereogram. The biggest difference is that a stereogram offers exactly two points from which you can see it, one for each eye. A hologram has ? (infinity, if slashdot breaks my character) points.
As long as you don't move, they're functionally identical.:)
In the any space travel thread: "All this exploration is pointless and a waste of taxpayer money!" In the anto-aging thread: "OMG WTF Overpopulation!"
As scientific advancements cause our population to increase, so will scientific advancements find new places to put that population, be it in space, the oceans, wherever.
Then when I search for something I wanna buy and five ads come up on the side, I can click on only one link and come back an hour (or a week) later?
No. First, you'll be able to click on as many links as you want, they'll only be counted for one click. Second, this would be for one site... so if you get results for both ebay, and priceline, each one of those would get one click.
I think if they only allow 1 click per IP to count (during a time period, like 1 click per IP per week or something), then most ad-users would not be able to significantly increase their revenues without insert a "fake-click" mechanism in a virus or spyware of some sort.
And Google can keep track of any ad-user that tries to pull this by cooperating with antivirus software makers: if a fake click for company X is found in a virus, just cut company X from the program. It's not perfect, but it's better than what they already have.
Even local exploits, such as might travel freely and easily on Windows via email, aren't as possible or practical on Mac OS X (e.g., a potential Mac exploit of this nature that spread via email would have to have its own MTA or a lot more complexity than a simple script on Windows where Outlook and the OS does all the work for you).
As secure as I believe Mac OS X to be, it would be quite trivial t write an Applescript to do nearly anything that doesn't require root access. Unfortunately, that includes:
tell application "Finder" to delete every item of home folder
...as well as reading any (unencrypted) file withinn the home directory, and a lot of files elsewhere.
Granted, there's still a lot less it can do than on Windows (the keychain is pretty well off limits as far as spyware, for example.) And your other points are still valid. But the hypothetical Mac virus could do more than you imply it could.
And let's not even get into a "real" program's abilities.
The only problem is there's no *standard* for desktop PCs to do this, apart from APM/ACPI. And those standards absolutely suck, and rarely work well out in real life, except in controlled and tested circumstances like laptops.
Yeah, I left out the solution to this because I didn't want to sound like an Apple zealot.:-) But since Apple controls everything on their desktops. It would be a small matter (or at least more so than Wintel boxes) to create their own standard, and incorporate it into the PS, BIOS, and OS all at once. Plus, most Apple customers are willing to pay a slight premium for a feature like this. Those that aren't, will still have the iMac and eMac.
Wintel can copy it later, when it can be done more cheaply.
Your laptop, on the other hand, uses about 40 watts (check your power adapter). We're talking almost a 10-fold increase in the amount of juice that has to be supplied here...
Which can be nicely balanced by a tenfold decrease in the amount of time it must last.:-) so for the system itself, you're still talking about a $100 price increase. This doesn't include design costs, but like I said, this would be something that Apple could minimize.
But that logic doesn't make sense. If you're going to IM someone to ask if you can IM them, it's too late - the deed is done. Just send the actual message, they can get around to it when they get around to it.
Unless getting a reply is necessary, there's no reason to preface a question with a question asking if a question can be asked.
The battery in my laptop lasts a good 3 or 4 hours, and it costs $80 to replace. I can't see a properly designed battery/system designed to sumply dump the contents of the RAM to the hard drive costing any more that that - and probably significantly less. Consider that you don't have to power anything but the RAM, one HD, and minimal processor (if the processor supports stepping), and you only have to do it for a minute or so. How much do those components take? 100 watts?
And that's assuming perfect efficiency (impossible).
Er, you mean "that's assuming perfectly efficient use of the power supply, which is impossible"? because that IS impossible, and most power supplies aren't used near their full potential, except for the dirt cheap systems - which would be the last to receive this technology anyway.
(With apologies to any 17 year old transgender grandmothers I may have offended.)
Is that even physically possible? you'd have to have a child at 8, who would have to have a child at 8.... it's either impossible or very, very wrong....
Oh, and you have to fit a gender change in there somewhere.
First off, what happens if we strip mine that sucker and change its mass significantly? What are the chances of it being pulled in by the Earths gravity?
Consider how large the moon is.... Now consider the odds that we could change that in any remotely significant way by mining H3. Get back to me.
Oh, and while you're at it, go read up on orbital physics. changing the moon's mass would not in any way affect its distance from earth. What might affect it (again, in a very, very slight way) would be the rockets firing off from it to return the stuff to earth. Even if that does become a problem (which would likely push the moon away from us, rather than towards), just start launching from the other side and coming around.
Exactly how much do you think we could possibly mine from the moon? In a thousand years, we might excavate 1% of its mass. And that's being generous.
Our "meteor shield" is our atmosphere. Maybe you were thinking "asteroid shield" or something, in which case you might have a point, except that the moon is too far away to be much use as that, either.
And it's spelled "hollow". "Hallow" is a verb, meaning "to make holy" or something to that effect.
Please, if you could think for two seconds before you post, that would be greeaaat. Thanks. </lumbergh>
Here's the thing: they do switch away, but it's usually out of necessity: they need X program to run (often a game, or something for business), or.... actually that's the only reason I've ever heard of anyone switching away from Mac OS. (Not counting the dark years a while back, when Apple licensed everything out and everything sucked... that would be an excusable switch IMO.)
Well, i can only assume this was meant as a joke... but it wouldn't be hard at all to get linux to run on a DS. It uses a StrongARM processor, which Linux has been compiled for. So, it's just a matter of getting all the hardware detected and functional. Even better, you could have it run off a cartridge, so as to seperate the PDA functions from the game functions. I see lots of potential in Linux for NDS.
It would be just like Linux, though, to take too long fulfilling this potential for anyone to care. (I know that will piss some diehards off, but it's the truth.)
What about the first Incredibles trailer? It was a guy sitting in front of a camera, talking. And not a particularly impressive-looking (from a technological perspective) guy, either.
I'm not sure why no one likes the Cars trailer... But then, I thought Monsters, Inc, looked stupid and it turned out to be one of my favorite movies, and I'm not making that mistake again:P
I have no idea - I can access it just fine, and the latest comic is from November 8 this year.
Sounds like you (and Wayback) have a DNS issue.... machall.com resolves to 66.207.160.118 for me, though putting that into my browser just gives me a blank 'Index of/' page for some reason.
You might want to email them about it, I'm sure it's a limited-scope problem they aren't aware of.
He actually implied the exact opposite of that with his question... though the other reply did clarify it, I'd forgotten he was asking this to the PA authors rather than to slashdotters.
You seem to think everyone's favorite comic is PA.... which it's certainly not. I feel they've gotten lazier with their jokes (relying more on cliches and overdone punchlines) since they started making those pretty backgrounds. Sure they do funny strips sometimes, but only occasionally do I actually laugh at PA anymore.
IMO, the funniest strip today is Real Life, while artistically, I'd have to go for the likes of Mac Hall or Applegeeks.
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That's a stereogram. The biggest difference is that a stereogram offers exactly two points from which you can see it, one for each eye. A hologram has ? (infinity, if slashdot breaks my character) points.
:)
As long as you don't move, they're functionally identical.
I love Slashdot.
In the any space travel thread: "All this exploration is pointless and a waste of taxpayer money!"
In the anto-aging thread: "OMG WTF Overpopulation!"
As scientific advancements cause our population to increase, so will scientific advancements find new places to put that population, be it in space, the oceans, wherever.
Then when I search for something I wanna buy and five ads come up on the side, I can click on only one link and come back an hour (or a week) later?
No. First, you'll be able to click on as many links as you want, they'll only be counted for one click. Second, this would be for one site... so if you get results for both ebay, and priceline, each one of those would get one click.
I think if they only allow 1 click per IP to count (during a time period, like 1 click per IP per week or something), then most ad-users would not be able to significantly increase their revenues without insert a "fake-click" mechanism in a virus or spyware of some sort.
And Google can keep track of any ad-user that tries to pull this by cooperating with antivirus software makers: if a fake click for company X is found in a virus, just cut company X from the program. It's not perfect, but it's better than what they already have.
That sounds dangerous.... do any plants in the US use it?
As secure as I believe Mac OS X to be, it would be quite trivial t write an Applescript to do nearly anything that doesn't require root access. Unfortunately, that includes:...as well as reading any (unencrypted) file withinn the home directory, and a lot of files elsewhere.
Granted, there's still a lot less it can do than on Windows (the keychain is pretty well off limits as far as spyware, for example.) And your other points are still valid. But the hypothetical Mac virus could do more than you imply it could.
And let's not even get into a "real" program's abilities.
The only problem is there's no *standard* for desktop PCs to do this, apart from APM/ACPI. And those standards absolutely suck, and rarely work well out in real life, except in controlled and tested circumstances like laptops.
:-) But since Apple controls everything on their desktops. It would be a small matter (or at least more so than Wintel boxes) to create their own standard, and incorporate it into the PS, BIOS, and OS all at once. Plus, most Apple customers are willing to pay a slight premium for a feature like this. Those that aren't, will still have the iMac and eMac.
:-) so for the system itself, you're still talking about a $100 price increase. This doesn't include design costs, but like I said, this would be something that Apple could minimize.
Yeah, I left out the solution to this because I didn't want to sound like an Apple zealot.
Wintel can copy it later, when it can be done more cheaply.
Your laptop, on the other hand, uses about 40 watts (check your power adapter). We're talking almost a 10-fold increase in the amount of juice that has to be supplied here...
Which can be nicely balanced by a tenfold decrease in the amount of time it must last.
But that logic doesn't make sense. If you're going to IM someone to ask if you can IM them, it's too late - the deed is done. Just send the actual message, they can get around to it when they get around to it.
Unless getting a reply is necessary, there's no reason to preface a question with a question asking if a question can be asked.
The battery in my laptop lasts a good 3 or 4 hours, and it costs $80 to replace. I can't see a properly designed battery/system designed to sumply dump the contents of the RAM to the hard drive costing any more that that - and probably significantly less. Consider that you don't have to power anything but the RAM, one HD, and minimal processor (if the processor supports stepping), and you only have to do it for a minute or so. How much do those components take? 100 watts?
And that's assuming perfect efficiency (impossible).
Er, you mean "that's assuming perfectly efficient use of the power supply, which is impossible"? because that IS impossible, and most power supplies aren't used near their full potential, except for the dirt cheap systems - which would be the last to receive this technology anyway.
And with a touch screen, you could use the stylus to move the zoomed-in area around....
You may be on to something here. That would be one kickass browser....
(With apologies to any 17 year old transgender grandmothers I may have offended.)
Is that even physically possible? you'd have to have a child at 8, who would have to have a child at 8.... it's either impossible or very, very wrong....
Oh, and you have to fit a gender change in there somewhere.
He'd have to buy a new computer to run HL3 anyway.
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First off, what happens if we strip mine that sucker and change its mass significantly? What are the chances of it being pulled in by the Earths gravity?
Consider how large the moon is.... Now consider the odds that we could change that in any remotely significant way by mining H3. Get back to me.
Oh, and while you're at it, go read up on orbital physics. changing the moon's mass would not in any way affect its distance from earth. What might affect it (again, in a very, very slight way) would be the rockets firing off from it to return the stuff to earth. Even if that does become a problem (which would likely push the moon away from us, rather than towards), just start launching from the other side and coming around.
I wish I could mod you down -1, Dumbass.
Exactly how much do you think we could possibly mine from the moon? In a thousand years, we might excavate 1% of its mass. And that's being generous.
Our "meteor shield" is our atmosphere. Maybe you were thinking "asteroid shield" or something, in which case you might have a point, except that the moon is too far away to be much use as that, either.
And it's spelled "hollow". "Hallow" is a verb, meaning "to make holy" or something to that effect.
Please, if you could think for two seconds before you post, that would be greeaaat. Thanks. </lumbergh>
Here's the thing: they do switch away, but it's usually out of necessity: they need X program to run (often a game, or something for business), or.... actually that's the only reason I've ever heard of anyone switching away from Mac OS. (Not counting the dark years a while back, when Apple licensed everything out and everything sucked... that would be an excusable switch IMO.)
I have received many a Bible for Christmas/birthday. I have a stack of them in my room.
Do I touch them? Nope. Don't have to. Don't feel obligated to.
If I really wanted to, I could pass the Bibles along to someone who would use them. Same with a live-cd.
But like another reply said, it's not a religion.
Well, i can only assume this was meant as a joke... but it wouldn't be hard at all to get linux to run on a DS. It uses a StrongARM processor, which Linux has been compiled for. So, it's just a matter of getting all the hardware detected and functional. Even better, you could have it run off a cartridge, so as to seperate the PDA functions from the game functions. I see lots of potential in Linux for NDS.
It would be just like Linux, though, to take too long fulfilling this potential for anyone to care. (I know that will piss some diehards off, but it's the truth.)
What about the first Incredibles trailer? It was a guy sitting in front of a camera, talking. And not a particularly impressive-looking (from a technological perspective) guy, either.
Niven's Rainbow Mars (among my favorite books) featured a giant tree as a space elevator that migrates from Mars to Earth. Highly recommended read.
I'm not sure why no one likes the Cars trailer... But then, I thought Monsters, Inc, looked stupid and it turned out to be one of my favorite movies, and I'm not making that mistake again :P
I have no idea - I can access it just fine, and the latest comic is from November 8 this year.
/' page for some reason.
Sounds like you (and Wayback) have a DNS issue.... machall.com resolves to 66.207.160.118 for me, though putting that into my browser just gives me a blank 'Index of
You might want to email them about it, I'm sure it's a limited-scope problem they aren't aware of.
He actually implied the exact opposite of that with his question... though the other reply did clarify it, I'd forgotten he was asking this to the PA authors rather than to slashdotters.
Oh, forgot about the rules of interviews.... and how they interfere with ordinary discussion.
You seem to think everyone's favorite comic is PA.... which it's certainly not. I feel they've gotten lazier with their jokes (relying more on cliches and overdone punchlines) since they started making those pretty backgrounds. Sure they do funny strips sometimes, but only occasionally do I actually laugh at PA anymore.
IMO, the funniest strip today is Real Life, while artistically, I'd have to go for the likes of Mac Hall or Applegeeks.