I'd say 5.3. 6.0 About as probably as next Linux kernel line above 2.6 being 3.0:P Did you know that Solaris 10.x is just SunOS 2.10.x? They started calling that Solaris [x].[y] instead of SunOS 2.[x].[y] about SunOS 2.4 I think, but the dual namespace lived for a while - I remember installing SunOS 2.5.1 aka Solaris 5.1 at work...
Europe already has an answer for that in situations when email is unavailable. Text messaging aka SMS:D Read when convenient. Call back or reply by text. With slow typing you have more than enough time to put what you mean in words.
One exception - it's considered rude to SMS requests/question type messages to strangers - they have to pay to reply. It is perfectly okay to send messages that don't require acknowledgement/reply though.
Well, usually it boils down to the last option, which, with current law system, isn't completely viable. One of problems with "creativity mode" is that you hardly ever know when you are entering it, it's quite volatile, and disabling stuff often makes it impossible - simply because instead of being creative you keep worrying about missed calls, or "what happens if something bad happens and I don't know?" The best would be some kind of prioritization system. Say, you have a vending machine type slot for money at your door. Want to disrupt me? Insert $(current importance of my uninterrupted work). If what you want is really important, you can have your money back. If not, sorry, I collect it:)
No matter what kind of fines and punishments R* gets for the scenes, all the publicity created by the scandal certainly will attract enough customers to more than cover the expenses. And my bet is that it was perfectly intentional...
Just imagine - if the scenes were there, included legally, rated 18, achievable without a mod - who would ever give a shit? They are crap and insignificant, so they'd go as a short paragraph in every "in-depth review" and 15 mins of play of an average teen. Nobody would give it another thought. But now, a discovery, a controversy, who is guilty? Why this could happen? And suddenly the scenes are a nirvana of the gaming community, and sales skyrocket. Or at least installations. (Remaining in the depth of the spirit of the game, I'm NOT going to buy a legal copy...)
Well, that can mean some more things: - our mind is inadequately built for chess. Just like playing tunes using a floppy drive requires way more programming than playing them using the sound card + speakers. Does the size and complexity of a program to play tunes using the floppy mean that playing audio is so difficult or just that floppy is an inadequate device? - The spam filter is a really smart program that can build a great database out of available data. Take a few gigabytes of data (human DNA), add an uninhabited environment and in some time you have a civilisation. It doesn't mean data for all that was built was stored in the startup DNA. Just that it had good growth potential. - That chess is far easier than topic-classifying texts (definitely you operate on a way smaller set of elements, so for a machine it definitely may be easier) - That you simply failed to find the right way to make a program to classify texts. Poor skill, or plain dumb bad luck. - That Nature doesn't waste resources on such useless things as perfecting your ability to play chess, and instead focuses on more important stuff, using up as much resources as needed for them (well, that's rewording of the first point)
- Hello, this is the Visa card center calling. A I talking with mr. John Doe? - Yes, that's me. What's the matter? - We'd like to confirm. Are you trying to make a big purchase in a shop in New York? - No! I'm in Washington, DC! Oh my god! My wallet is missing! My card has been stolen! - Would you like to cancel the transaction and block your credit card? - Yes, please! Right now! - In order to do so, we need to confirm that you are indeed John Doe, the owner of the card and not that mr Doe's phone has been stolen. - Please! How do we do it? - Please give me the number of the credit card in question. - I don't remember! - Expiration date? - Next year, july or june, or maybe august... - sorry, I can't take that for an answer. Any other info? Maybe the account number associated with the card? Or maybe the PIN number? - The PIN is 8352 - Thanks, sucker!
Well, once you get used to them, they are neat stuff, though true they are odd at first. I'm a heavy mouse gesture user, I can't comfortably use a webbrowser without gestures. A friend commented on me: "You know, it looks funny. You don't point at anything and things change, you click in completely random places and move the cursor around in some chaotic manner, then things happen, or not, I know you're using mouse gestures but just watching you webbrowsing freaks me out."
If the drive has its own standalone backup power (for about 1s of work, no powering mechanical elements, just mem-mem transfer, so it's very little, a bigger capacitor would suffice) then it's not a problem. It doesn't have to receive any kind of signals from the computer, just sense its own power supply voltage and switch to "survival" mode on power failure.
The NVSRAM chips I'm talking about work on similar basis. For the outside world they are just plain RAM chips, maybe with an extra pin or two, which can be neglected if you choose to. But inside they contain a Li-ion battery and power monitor. If the voltage goes out of bonds, the chip goes into read-only mode (and signals that on one of the extra pins) to protect content from corruption by random values on input (a good bet is that if the chip's power is failing, so is the power in the rest of the device and other circuits may start behaving unpredictably), switches off own battery charging, switches power supply to its own battery power (through internal regulator) and if the power doesn't go back in some timely manner, enters "sleep" mode, when the battery can sustain the contents for 10 years. As soon as the power is back, the chip goes "online" just like any RAM chip would, except its content isn't changed since last powerdown. I don't really see why this technology couldn't be implemented in harddrives.
Why not build desktop or portable PCs with embedded chips. (...) computers would work for decades, not months.
That's why. Decades instead of months between they get any money from you.
Why distinguish between laptops and desktop PCs. Extensiblity. You can add a lot to a desktop PC, fill it up with hardware making it a power monster. Water cooling a laptop anyone? Adding 1TB harddrive array? By keeping these two separate you can keep both cheaper and better. And you can already do what you want, but not by detaching a screen (not by detaching keyboard which in laptops is horribly uncomfortable because of limited space, but replacing it with external - wireless one.)
Implementing 2) would automatically obsolete 1) and solve 3). Making RAM in way bigger capacities - and "nonvolatile" versions (battery backup - 10 year recharge interval - so far 2MB are the biggest dice awailable), then just store all data in huge RAMdisks. 4) will just come. And 5) is already there, just don't expect them to get anywhere near the break-even point ($100 printer capable of printing $100 bills).
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Well, the change is simple. Put away the 80-column cards, take the soldering iron, and start engineering the systems.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
Go Murderers!
Now all they need is to codename a release "beetle" and spread the WV-VW confusion.
No, no, no. That names aren't gay. They are lesbian.
Vile Intrigue: Stopping The Advancement.
Visual Interface Shell To Annihilation
Virtual Idiot Slowing Them All.
Very Fast, Straight To Asylum
I'd say 5.3. :P
6.0 About as probably as next Linux kernel line above 2.6 being 3.0
Did you know that Solaris 10.x is just SunOS 2.10.x? They started calling that Solaris [x].[y] instead of SunOS 2.[x].[y] about SunOS 2.4 I think, but the dual namespace lived for a while - I remember installing SunOS 2.5.1 aka Solaris 5.1 at work...
Remove a few more features you had announced and it will be more like 5.2.0.1-rc1
No, silly! It's not an acronym! It's a smiley!
And as for Vista - View. But don't touch. Looks cute, but onMouseMove(system.crash());
Indeed...
3) Bring in some beer and chips and maybe a DVD movie and show about midnight, when the party begins.
Europe already has an answer for that in situations when email is unavailable. :D
Text messaging aka SMS
Read when convenient. Call back or reply by text. With slow typing you have more than enough time to put what you mean in words.
One exception - it's considered rude to SMS requests/question type messages to strangers - they have to pay to reply. It is perfectly okay to send messages that don't require acknowledgement/reply though.
Especially annoying when they appear to be worthless like this one.
Well, usually it boils down to the last option, which, with current law system, isn't completely viable. :)
One of problems with "creativity mode" is that you hardly ever know when you are entering it, it's quite volatile, and disabling stuff often makes it impossible - simply because instead of being creative you keep worrying about missed calls, or "what happens if something bad happens and I don't know?"
The best would be some kind of prioritization system. Say, you have a vending machine type slot for money at your door. Want to disrupt me? Insert $(current importance of my uninterrupted work). If what you want is really important, you can have your money back. If not, sorry, I collect it
Install a textmode one. Minimize on busy, no more interruptions - all incoming msgs are invisible till you reopen it.
No matter what kind of fines and punishments R* gets for the scenes, all the publicity created by the scandal certainly will attract enough customers to more than cover the expenses. And my bet is that it was perfectly intentional...
Just imagine - if the scenes were there, included legally, rated 18, achievable without a mod - who would ever give a shit? They are crap and insignificant, so they'd go as a short paragraph in every "in-depth review" and 15 mins of play of an average teen. Nobody would give it another thought. But now, a discovery, a controversy, who is guilty? Why this could happen? And suddenly the scenes are a nirvana of the gaming community, and sales skyrocket. Or at least installations. (Remaining in the depth of the spirit of the game, I'm NOT going to buy a legal copy...)
http://www.mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090/ ?
Greasemonkey has been finally updated to make it compatibile with Deer Park.
Ok, I read the title, and my first move: Tools > Check for updates...
:D
No new updates found.
Why?
Whoops! That's Deer Park Alpha 1.
Admit: How many of you fell for the same thing?
Well, that can mean some more things:
- our mind is inadequately built for chess. Just like playing tunes using a floppy drive requires way more programming than playing them using the sound card + speakers. Does the size and complexity of a program to play tunes using the floppy mean that playing audio is so difficult or just that floppy is an inadequate device?
- The spam filter is a really smart program that can build a great database out of available data. Take a few gigabytes of data (human DNA), add an uninhabited environment and in some time you have a civilisation. It doesn't mean data for all that was built was stored in the startup DNA. Just that it had good growth potential.
- That chess is far easier than topic-classifying texts (definitely you operate on a way smaller set of elements, so for a machine it definitely may be easier)
- That you simply failed to find the right way to make a program to classify texts. Poor skill, or plain dumb bad luck.
- That Nature doesn't waste resources on such useless things as perfecting your ability to play chess, and instead focuses on more important stuff, using up as much resources as needed for them (well, that's rewording of the first point)
- Hello, this is the Visa card center calling. A I talking with mr. John Doe?
- Yes, that's me. What's the matter?
- We'd like to confirm. Are you trying to make a big purchase in a shop in New York?
- No! I'm in Washington, DC! Oh my god! My wallet is missing! My card has been stolen!
- Would you like to cancel the transaction and block your credit card?
- Yes, please! Right now!
- In order to do so, we need to confirm that you are indeed John Doe, the owner of the card and not that mr Doe's phone has been stolen.
- Please! How do we do it?
- Please give me the number of the credit card in question.
- I don't remember!
- Expiration date?
- Next year, july or june, or maybe august...
- sorry, I can't take that for an answer. Any other info? Maybe the account number associated with the card? Or maybe the PIN number?
- The PIN is 8352
- Thanks, sucker!
Well, once you get used to them, they are neat stuff, though true they are odd at first. I'm a heavy mouse gesture user, I can't comfortably use a webbrowser without gestures. A friend commented on me: "You know, it looks funny. You don't point at anything and things change, you click in completely random places and move the cursor around in some chaotic manner, then things happen, or not, I know you're using mouse gestures but just watching you webbrowsing freaks me out."
If the drive has its own standalone backup power (for about 1s of work, no powering mechanical elements, just mem-mem transfer, so it's very little, a bigger capacitor would suffice) then it's not a problem. It doesn't have to receive any kind of signals from the computer, just sense its own power supply voltage and switch to "survival" mode on power failure.
The NVSRAM chips I'm talking about work on similar basis. For the outside world they are just plain RAM chips, maybe with an extra pin or two, which can be neglected if you choose to. But inside they contain a Li-ion battery and power monitor. If the voltage goes out of bonds, the chip goes into read-only mode (and signals that on one of the extra pins) to protect content from corruption by random values on input (a good bet is that if the chip's power is failing, so is the power in the rest of the device and other circuits may start behaving unpredictably), switches off own battery charging, switches power supply to its own battery power (through internal regulator) and if the power doesn't go back in some timely manner, enters "sleep" mode, when the battery can sustain the contents for 10 years. As soon as the power is back, the chip goes "online" just like any RAM chip would, except its content isn't changed since last powerdown.
I don't really see why this technology couldn't be implemented in harddrives.
1) The 5-minute ones are 4 pounds.
2) Yes, and expensive too.
3) First design anti-smudge surface.
4) Google it. It's there.
5) WTF is that?
Why not build desktop or portable PCs with embedded chips. (...) computers would work for decades, not months.
That's why. Decades instead of months between they get any money from you.
Why distinguish between laptops and desktop PCs.
Extensiblity. You can add a lot to a desktop PC, fill it up with hardware making it a power monster. Water cooling a laptop anyone? Adding 1TB harddrive array?
By keeping these two separate you can keep both cheaper and better. And you can already do what you want, but not by detaching a screen (not by detaching keyboard which in laptops is horribly uncomfortable because of limited space, but replacing it with external - wireless one.)
Implementing 2) would automatically obsolete 1) and solve 3).
Making RAM in way bigger capacities - and "nonvolatile" versions (battery backup - 10 year recharge interval - so far 2MB are the biggest dice awailable), then just store all data in huge RAMdisks.
4) will just come. And 5) is already there, just don't expect them to get anywhere near the break-even point ($100 printer capable of printing $100 bills).