If I owned a building, I'd buy it and set it up in the lobby. I dont mean a small building, I mean a building where there is lots of people to come and see it.
Oh yes! Lets create more laws! Thats exactly what we need! Now its illegal to own dinosaur skeletons because some pompous bastard deemed it so!
Please, what you want to happen should not be made into a law prohibiting things you don't like. Im sure many people wouldn't like it if it _does_ go to some rich guy's house, but we all don't suggest making it against the law.
Are you trying to tell me that you wouldn't mind having a point-and-click kernel recompile with a snazzy interface that autodetects the optimal configuration for your system and then installs it automatically and asks you "would you like to reboot?" when it's done?
"Linux has detected a newer version of the kernel exists. Please wait while a convienent program download unknown files from a remote server to install on your machine without asking, which later may or may not work and may require several reboost and maybe even a reinstall."
"Linux has not been shut down properly. Please wait while Linux scans all of your data and may attempt to fix data it interpretes as corrupt which may or may not make it work or contain essential files."
"Linux has detected a new monitor. Please wait while Linux scans your entire harddrive, updates random files, creates directories in weird places, calls the CIA, and assasinates Jimmy Hoffa."
I fear that its ranking rests more in terms of current market index.. Linux is popular and hip and new and something for people to cling to... where Windows is starting to look antiquated and old... but I doubt it will stay that way long. Despite how good Linux is, I fear that it is doomed to live in terms of media coverage after its 15 minutes are up.
I have never been able to find a clear definition for XML. I have seen languages that claim to use XML, and I have seen pages that supposedly help you with XML, but I have never seen it defined. Which leads me to one of the following suppositions:
Nobody knows what XML is, and are just trying to be cool by saying that their product uses it or that they know how to use it.
XML in fact does not exist. If this were the case, the first supposition could and most likely is still true.
This disturbs me greatly, because the XML people hyped it up to the point where this disturbs me greatly.
Well, I wouldnt say that its ludicrous. There are lots of ludicrous ideas and thats not one of them. It may be speculative and farfetched, but not ludicrous.
Anyways either I am misinterpreting the article or this is far advanced over what I knew we could do previously.
Im sorry, but thats just retarded. Amiga is dying, BeOS is getting better, who would want BeOS to 'catch up' to Amiga? Plus BeOS is not designed as a replacement OS like all misinformed seem to think it is. I run BeOS on one drive and Win98 on the other just because I like BeOS for development and Win for gaming..
I think the much harder part would be interpreting brain waves to simulate these senses than the actual simulation.
Frankly, Im surprised as hell they got this far. If they can interprete and send brain signals as images, thats more than I knew was possible before. I didnt know we were near to this type of technology.
However, was this blind person previously not blind? If he wasn't how does he know that what hes seeing is anything like reality? For all we know, the signals could be interpreted wrong and give him some distorted view.
Even if they saw themselves as a direct competitor to Debian theyd have no reason to push it ahead and have more problems.. then nobody would want to use it.
"Even BeOS"? BeOS is not Oper Sourced and therefore can only be purchased in a store and cannot be downloaded for free (excluding warez) online. Where would one purchase BeOS if not in a store? Thats where many people hear of products that otherwise they would have no idea existed.
The best and worts thing that Transmeta has done is not tell anyone what they're doing.
They're creating incredible hype generated by people who expect the best thing since the first protein, which gets Transmeta's name around in preperation for both product release and IPO.
But when they do release what they are going to release, it can not possibly be as good as everyones expectations which will at least in some way hurt the company and their image.
What they are going to release will be great, from a certain point of view, but don't get too angry at the company if you've been misled to think that it will stop the world from turning.
There was irony in my post that was intended as humurous. I have not studied anatomy, and nothing on the subject, other than that my liver will be bad if I drink to much, and that my bowels most definately do not come near my brain.
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure? Monty Python and The Meaning of Life? Even Ernest goes to Jail had a shadow of the reaper on the wall just before he was going to get killed. If they do cut it out, it would most likely be to condense the book into a movie, not because they don't like to meet the reaper.
Hey, no matter what way you cut it more people see movies than read books. So when an author gets his/her book movie-ized, its like a fast-track to success. To refuse to do that would keep you books only popular in the niche market that reads them. But something like this, most people who see the movie probably wont be aware that there is a book behind it.
Thats a standard complaint just because most people don't realize that your not going to be able to fit much more than a short story into a movie without removing parts, and the parts that are removed people suddenly cling to as the good parts. However, some movies cannot do what the book did, as in Sphere. I like the movie for the sole reason that I like the book. Most people did not like the movie because it was long with little development, but nowhere near as long as the book. Oh well.
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If I owned a building, I'd buy it and set it up in the lobby. I dont mean a small building, I mean a building where there is lots of people to come and see it.
Oh yes! Lets create more laws! Thats exactly what we need! Now its illegal to own dinosaur skeletons because some pompous bastard deemed it so!
Please, what you want to happen should not be made into a law prohibiting things you don't like. Im sure many people wouldn't like it if it _does_ go to some rich guy's house, but we all don't suggest making it against the law.
Aha.. thank you.
You mean the stars would have to be larger. The black holes themselves would be much smaller. That is why they are black.
This is exactly what we need... more satellites producing more high quality NASA Desktop Art. Send em up by the dozen! (Im serious too)
If he was a true nerd he would just start fscking...
Are you trying to tell me that you wouldn't mind having a point-and-click kernel recompile with a snazzy interface that autodetects the optimal configuration for your system and then installs it automatically and asks you "would you like to reboot?" when it's done?
"Linux has detected a newer version of the kernel exists. Please wait while a convienent program download unknown files from a remote server to install on your machine without asking, which later may or may not work and may require several reboost and maybe even a reinstall."
"Linux has not been shut down properly. Please wait while Linux scans all of your data and may attempt to fix data it interpretes as corrupt which may or may not make it work or contain essential files."
"Linux has detected a new monitor. Please wait while Linux scans your entire harddrive, updates random files, creates directories in weird places, calls the CIA, and assasinates Jimmy Hoffa."
Uh... nothanks.
I fear that its ranking rests more in terms of current market index.. Linux is popular and hip and new and something for people to cling to... where Windows is starting to look antiquated and old... but I doubt it will stay that way long. Despite how good Linux is, I fear that it is doomed to live in terms of media coverage after its 15 minutes are up.
Thank you for a voice of clarity in the morning, and have pity on all who fail to catch the sarcasm, for they are devoid of common sense.
humph ok. to tell the truth i wasn't looking too hard.
This may seem like a stupid question, but what does it do? Right now I can get complete site dynamics with CGI programs, so how is XML an advantage?
This is not a troll, I seriously don't know and want to.
- Nobody knows what XML is, and are just trying to be cool by saying that their product uses it or that they know how to use it.
- XML in fact does not exist. If this were the case, the first supposition could and most likely is still true.
This disturbs me greatly, because the XML people hyped it up to the point where this disturbs me greatly.Well, I wouldnt say that its ludicrous. There are lots of ludicrous ideas and thats not one of them. It may be speculative and farfetched, but not ludicrous.
Anyways either I am misinterpreting the article or this is far advanced over what I knew we could do previously.
Im sorry, but thats just retarded. Amiga is dying, BeOS is getting better, who would want BeOS to 'catch up' to Amiga? Plus BeOS is not designed as a replacement OS like all misinformed seem to think it is. I run BeOS on one drive and Win98 on the other just because I like BeOS for development and Win for gaming..
Or, more accurately, Lily C.A.T.
I think the much harder part would be interpreting brain waves to simulate these senses than the actual simulation.
Frankly, Im surprised as hell they got this far. If they can interprete and send brain signals as images, thats more than I knew was possible before. I didnt know we were near to this type of technology.
However, was this blind person previously not blind? If he wasn't how does he know that what hes seeing is anything like reality? For all we know, the signals could be interpreted wrong and give him some distorted view.
I would think not.
Even if they saw themselves as a direct competitor to Debian theyd have no reason to push it ahead and have more problems.. then nobody would want to use it.
"Even BeOS"? BeOS is not Oper Sourced and therefore can only be purchased in a store and cannot be downloaded for free (excluding warez) online. Where would one purchase BeOS if not in a store? Thats where many people hear of products that otherwise they would have no idea existed.
The best and worts thing that Transmeta has done is not tell anyone what they're doing.
They're creating incredible hype generated by people who expect the best thing since the first protein, which gets Transmeta's name around in preperation for both product release and IPO.
But when they do release what they are going to release, it can not possibly be as good as everyones expectations which will at least in some way hurt the company and their image.
What they are going to release will be great, from a certain point of view, but don't get too angry at the company if you've been misled to think that it will stop the world from turning.
There was irony in my post that was intended as humurous. I have not studied anatomy, and nothing on the subject, other than that my liver will be bad if I drink to much, and that my bowels most definately do not come near my brain.
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure?
Monty Python and The Meaning of Life?
Even Ernest goes to Jail had a shadow of the reaper on the wall just before he was going to get killed. If they do cut it out, it would most likely be to condense the book into a movie, not because they don't like to meet the reaper.
Hey, no matter what way you cut it more people see movies than read books. So when an author gets his/her book movie-ized, its like a fast-track to success. To refuse to do that would keep you books only popular in the niche market that reads them. But something like this, most people who see the movie probably wont be aware that there is a book behind it.
Thats a standard complaint just because most people don't realize that your not going to be able to fit much more than a short story into a movie without removing parts, and the parts that are removed people suddenly cling to as the good parts. However, some movies cannot do what the book did, as in Sphere. I like the movie for the sole reason that I like the book. Most people did not like the movie because it was long with little development, but nowhere near as long as the book. Oh well.
What is Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas about?
And can they compare to one of the best movies ever Time Bandits, also directed by Terry Gilliam?
Guiness is good jedi knight.