Next thing they'll do is start commercial breaks in the middle of the movies.
You laugh, but I have actually seen this in Bollywood movies; the distributor actually prints the trailers in the middle of the film rather than on the beginning.
1. As fast or faster than portable thunderbird over USB1.1. Obviously not faster than binary apps (though really really close for being a web app)
2. The only thing Thunderbird/Outlook have on GMail is having the Reply/Forward buttons not on a submenu.
3. Yes. Much better. Search would be Google's "core competancy", or, as normal people say it, "what they're good at".
4. 2GB is big when you're talking small text objects. A moderately used email account probably won't use it up, so you might as well call it 'enough' in the same way a couple gigs free on local disk is 'enough' for Outlook to keep things.
I presume that you would back in the same way that you yaw and pitch... either some sort of small thruster in the manner of Battlestar Galactica, or an internal system of gyros (more likely).
It also helps to bank into turns so that you get pushed into the seat rather than into the side of the cockpit... you're much less likely to break your innards that way.
Optimally, it would be a jabber client in the form of a Google Desktop sidebar plugin. Of course, since both the sidebar API and the Jabber protocol are open, that's bound to happen at no cost to Google all on its own.
There's always been QA in the form of 'official' accessories. Forcing *everyone* to use the official accessory licensing program just means that those of us willing to accept a crappy headset at a reduced price are out of luck. Preventing a transaction that would otherwise generate a surplus is just bad economics.
DVDs for fair use? pah! Laserdisc is where it's at. Closest thing to corporate stupidity there is the conflict between the various high-end video standards (in that not all of them can coexist on the same disc)
You're asking why a for-profit company is selling real hardware to developers who *have* to have it, rather than mailing them an image on a CD? When they're over a barrel, it's time to step UP the flogging.
While your numbers are dodgy, you do have a point. If our cheap hydrogen making bacteria go out of control over the oceans, we really just have to light the resultant cloud of gas on fire. Probably look really bad from space to see flaming oceans, but it beats slime-green, I guess.
It's really the general public that's challenged. They think 'Nuke plant? OMG! Danger!', and then 'Water supply? I turn the faucet and the water comes, it's super safe!'. Of course, because of this general public opinion of nuclear power, the industry has responded with the massive security and feet-of-steel containment measures you see today.
How much are we going to have to pay for access to this hypothetical remote Photoshop? It's a beastly server than can do the image processing of thousands of clients at once as fast as they could do it themselves. In any case, even if you somehow get processing offloaded remotely without limb-a-month subscriptions, remote storage of anything valuable is just dumb. "oh, you want to cancel and move from PS to GIMP? Sure, just as soon as you pay ransom on your files"
The games will still run, just not as fast as they would if OGL was implemented properly. I think the theory is that DX will take over, and the only OGL games will be older ones that will run the same speed they did five years ago, but on cutting edge equipment. The big flaw in this plan, of course, is that Doom 3 is one of the most graphically demanding titles out there, and probably won't have a happy time going through an emulation layer.
Of course, who plays Doom3? You should be playing Halo and buying an XBox360!
There is a risk of infection associated with any sort of implantation. Heck, you could lose a limb if there's a little piece of the right stuff on the end of a needle getting immunized. The difference is, the risk of limb loss from dirty needles is less than the risk of dying from tuberculosis of you don't get immunized. These chips don't have quite the same positive effect on life expectancy.
Don't misunderstand the Bible and reject it because people have twisted it. Read it. Study it. Perhaps you too may learn what it says and why it says that.
There is no reason to follow your religious text more than any other. In fact, you could follow a non-religious text of sufficient volume and get much the same result. As long as you can pick out sentences to say "we should all get along, and by the way the government is evil. oh, and don't forget to hate people who aren't like you". Can you honestly come up with any other themes from your personal escape of choice?
In the event of a power outage, they are no more likely to do anything than any other flourescent lamp. I mean, sure there's the outside chance of a massive power surge before the outage doing something weird, but in general they're safe unless you treat them like javelins or lightsabers.
Yeah, but if you brought a lead weight into the classroom you'd be crucified for endangering the children with lead, and if you brought a small feather it you're dead either for exposing them to avian viruses or torturing animals. And let's not even think about the witchcraft trial over your sleight of hand wizardry...
A comparison between copying the text of a book and distributing it and installing a piece of software on hardware other than that which the software company mandates is invalid. Installing OSX on a whitebox x86 machine is more akin to copying the text of that Harry Potter book into another book, for you to read (perhaps larger type, smaller formfactor, etc). You're not causing a loss for the manufacturer; JK Rowling got 1 book worth of royalty, and you got 1 book worth of reading pleasure. Likewise, when you install OSX on a whitebox PC, Steve Jobs gets 1 OSX sale and you get 1 computer running a shiny OS.
As a computer science major, I find it depressing that I only know what half those words mean, and I learned them all in electrical engineering courses. We really need to get back to "Computer Science is highly organized math" rather than "Computer Science is objects".
If a significant portion of Cisco shareholders expressed their dissatisfaction with human rights policy by selling their shares, the stock price would drop and the executives would notice. The best part is, no one will try and shoot you when you post the shares for sale.
The interesting similarity is this pair of conversations:
China: I need a router. Cisco: What sort of router? China: A router that can filter all mention of free thought and democracy. Cisco: Ah, you want the UberWhip9000.
Parent: I need a router. Best Buy: What sort of router? Parent: A router that can block off large portions of the internet. Best Buy: Ah, you want the SuperRouter9000.
So, really, the Chinese government is one giant safety mom, with a billion kids. That minivan must get really poor gas milage.
Because a community college is a great poster child for free-thinking institutes of higher education...
I find your belief that everyone who drinks a) drinks toxic amounts and b) immediately hops in the car if the alcohol didn't kill them somewhat bizarre. If you're drinking in a social environment, there's probably a system in place to keep the drunks away from the wheel, and to do something about the guy who's been unconcious on the floor of the bathroom for the past hour. If you're at a party smart enough to have a network-enabled keg, they're probably smart enough to take measures to minimize casualties.
Holidays are still celebrated on the appointed day; we simply make an observation of them on the nearest work-day if they fall on a weekend because three-day weekends are a happy thing. If you observe the day off for a holiday on a Thursday, how many people are *not* going to try and take Friday off?
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Next thing they'll do is start commercial breaks in the middle of the movies.
You laugh, but I have actually seen this in Bollywood movies; the distributor actually prints the trailers in the middle of the film rather than on the beginning.
1. As fast or faster than portable thunderbird over USB1.1. Obviously not faster than binary apps (though really really close for being a web app)
2. The only thing Thunderbird/Outlook have on GMail is having the Reply/Forward buttons not on a submenu.
3. Yes. Much better. Search would be Google's "core competancy", or, as normal people say it, "what they're good at".
4. 2GB is big when you're talking small text objects. A moderately used email account probably won't use it up, so you might as well call it 'enough' in the same way a couple gigs free on local disk is 'enough' for Outlook to keep things.
I presume that you would back in the same way that you yaw and pitch ... either some sort of small thruster in the manner of Battlestar Galactica, or an internal system of gyros (more likely).
It also helps to bank into turns so that you get pushed into the seat rather than into the side of the cockpit ... you're much less likely to break your innards that way.
Optimally, it would be a jabber client in the form of a Google Desktop sidebar plugin. Of course, since both the sidebar API and the Jabber protocol are open, that's bound to happen at no cost to Google all on its own.
Well, if you have an OGG plugin for iTunes, and an iTunes plugin for Google Desktop ... then yes, yes it does.
I find remark #2 amusing, in light of Macs not even having dodgy eject buttons on drives, let alone working ones.
There's always been QA in the form of 'official' accessories. Forcing *everyone* to use the official accessory licensing program just means that those of us willing to accept a crappy headset at a reduced price are out of luck. Preventing a transaction that would otherwise generate a surplus is just bad economics.
DVDs for fair use? pah! Laserdisc is where it's at. Closest thing to corporate stupidity there is the conflict between the various high-end video standards (in that not all of them can coexist on the same disc)
You're asking why a for-profit company is selling real hardware to developers who *have* to have it, rather than mailing them an image on a CD? When they're over a barrel, it's time to step UP the flogging.
That's funny ... my 3062 edition of The Guide says of the revolution, "rock climbing guy was the first against the wall when the revolution came".
While your numbers are dodgy, you do have a point. If our cheap hydrogen making bacteria go out of control over the oceans, we really just have to light the resultant cloud of gas on fire. Probably look really bad from space to see flaming oceans, but it beats slime-green, I guess.
It's really the general public that's challenged. They think 'Nuke plant? OMG! Danger!', and then 'Water supply? I turn the faucet and the water comes, it's super safe!'. Of course, because of this general public opinion of nuclear power, the industry has responded with the massive security and feet-of-steel containment measures you see today.
How much are we going to have to pay for access to this hypothetical remote Photoshop? It's a beastly server than can do the image processing of thousands of clients at once as fast as they could do it themselves. In any case, even if you somehow get processing offloaded remotely without limb-a-month subscriptions, remote storage of anything valuable is just dumb. "oh, you want to cancel and move from PS to GIMP? Sure, just as soon as you pay ransom on your files"
The games will still run, just not as fast as they would if OGL was implemented properly. I think the theory is that DX will take over, and the only OGL games will be older ones that will run the same speed they did five years ago, but on cutting edge equipment. The big flaw in this plan, of course, is that Doom 3 is one of the most graphically demanding titles out there, and probably won't have a happy time going through an emulation layer.
Of course, who plays Doom3? You should be playing Halo and buying an XBox360!
There is a risk of infection associated with any sort of implantation. Heck, you could lose a limb if there's a little piece of the right stuff on the end of a needle getting immunized. The difference is, the risk of limb loss from dirty needles is less than the risk of dying from tuberculosis of you don't get immunized. These chips don't have quite the same positive effect on life expectancy.
Don't misunderstand the Bible and reject it because people have twisted it. Read it. Study it. Perhaps you too may learn what it says and why it says that.
There is no reason to follow your religious text more than any other. In fact, you could follow a non-religious text of sufficient volume and get much the same result. As long as you can pick out sentences to say "we should all get along, and by the way the government is evil. oh, and don't forget to hate people who aren't like you". Can you honestly come up with any other themes from your personal escape of choice?
In the event of a power outage, they are no more likely to do anything than any other flourescent lamp. I mean, sure there's the outside chance of a massive power surge before the outage doing something weird, but in general they're safe unless you treat them like javelins or lightsabers.
Yeah, but if you brought a lead weight into the classroom you'd be crucified for endangering the children with lead, and if you brought a small feather it you're dead either for exposing them to avian viruses or torturing animals. And let's not even think about the witchcraft trial over your sleight of hand wizardry ...
A comparison between copying the text of a book and distributing it and installing a piece of software on hardware other than that which the software company mandates is invalid. Installing OSX on a whitebox x86 machine is more akin to copying the text of that Harry Potter book into another book, for you to read (perhaps larger type, smaller formfactor, etc). You're not causing a loss for the manufacturer; JK Rowling got 1 book worth of royalty, and you got 1 book worth of reading pleasure. Likewise, when you install OSX on a whitebox PC, Steve Jobs gets 1 OSX sale and you get 1 computer running a shiny OS.
As a computer science major, I find it depressing that I only know what half those words mean, and I learned them all in electrical engineering courses. We really need to get back to "Computer Science is highly organized math" rather than "Computer Science is objects".
If a significant portion of Cisco shareholders expressed their dissatisfaction with human rights policy by selling their shares, the stock price would drop and the executives would notice. The best part is, no one will try and shoot you when you post the shares for sale.
The interesting similarity is this pair of conversations:
China: I need a router.
Cisco: What sort of router?
China: A router that can filter all mention of free thought and democracy.
Cisco: Ah, you want the UberWhip9000.
Parent: I need a router.
Best Buy: What sort of router?
Parent: A router that can block off large portions of the internet.
Best Buy: Ah, you want the SuperRouter9000.
So, really, the Chinese government is one giant safety mom, with a billion kids. That minivan must get really poor gas milage.
Because a community college is a great poster child for free-thinking institutes of higher education ...
I find your belief that everyone who drinks a) drinks toxic amounts and b) immediately hops in the car if the alcohol didn't kill them somewhat bizarre. If you're drinking in a social environment, there's probably a system in place to keep the drunks away from the wheel, and to do something about the guy who's been unconcious on the floor of the bathroom for the past hour. If you're at a party smart enough to have a network-enabled keg, they're probably smart enough to take measures to minimize casualties.
Holidays are still celebrated on the appointed day; we simply make an observation of them on the nearest work-day if they fall on a weekend because three-day weekends are a happy thing. If you observe the day off for a holiday on a Thursday, how many people are *not* going to try and take Friday off?