Basically - Siri is neat, but it is NOT new, and it is NOT revolutionary. Calling Siri revolutionary is like calling a touchscreen revolutionary at this point in the game.
I'm just an uninformed schmuck on the intarweb, haven't read TFA, and am responding anyhow (welcome to Slashdot)... that being said, there were more than a few MP3 players on the market before the first generation iPod came out, right? But Apple did things "different"(ly). It turned out well for them, whether it was interface, polish, marketing, or something else entirely. Just sayin'.
...if you are allowed to have complex raw materials.
Fire self replicates. Fallen-down dominoes self-replicate. The line between "chain reaction" and "self replication" is very blurry.
I don't think it's as blurry as you'd make it out to be. Fire and falling dominoes are instances of entropy, quite the opposite of what these scientists are after, I believe.
I recently listened to a podcast from NPR's Science Friday in which the interviewee (whose name I don't recall) suggested that her research indicated that one of the 9/11 hijackers had some anthrax DNA on his hands that matched the strain in the envelope/mail attacks. The additional information she provided indicated that the Bora Bora caves (where we just missed Bin Laden) had twice tested with positive matches for the same anthrax strain.
The suggestion was that the 9/11 hijackers had possibly sent out the mailings of anthrax just prior to undertaking their hijackings.
There may or may not be significant holes in these theories, but I'm presenting them from what I recall in the NPR interview. Anyone else care to provide further details, dispute these claims (or just tell me I'm dumb)?
I stopped using PDFCreator back when their SF installer started coming with malware auto-installed, even if you said no to the browser bar.
Instead, I use the MS plugin for Office which supplies PDF as a save as option.
I completely understand, and I'm by no means a fan of apps installing browser crap of one kind or another. However, if you're careful and say "no", it won't install the browser / BHO crap. Foxit PDF I think also is another free product that comes with potential crapware, but I've just learned (and re-learned!) to be careful installing pretty much anything at all.
As for PDF generation, I've gotta tell you that I still use PDFCreator. Yeah, OOo / LO has that button, but I've found that PDFCreator makes them a bit slimmer in terms of file size. Install it now from sf.net and you won't find yourself changing from MS to LO just for getting a snazzy PDF.
Religion is the normative study of how things should be.
Popular religion as it is practised in the west is not the study of anything. It's all about being part of the crowd and proclaiming your own righteousness above others.
And yes, I include Islam as practiced in the west in this.
You must have an incredibly large can of paint to accommodate a brush of such width.
I'm a developer for an internal application at work that used to not support Chrome. But after all the FF stupidity in their release cycles, plus its resource usage on my Win7 laptop, I've ditched FF and gone to Chrome. And then I found the JS-related bugs in our internal app that caused Chrome issues and fixed them.
I was a tremendously staunch FF supporter at work. I'd push our analysts to try using it over IE, and they have. But now I'm telling them, "Hey, you can use Chrome now. I fixed that bug [xyz]." I've found that Chrome has lots of the extensions I want, from gestures, cookie management, adblock plus, web developer, firebug (isn't that ironic).
The only time I go to FF is when I need to do additional testing or be able to right-click on a frame for "View Page Info" which I can't seem to do with Chrome (I'm sure there's an extension!).
The satellite company always send the most knowledable folks available.
This. We had a guy running some coaxial cable back in my last house. I told him I wanted to run the cable to my corner office of the basement, where, aside from it being finished in the 70's, was in decent shape. He took a drill with a 1-1/2" spade bit and punched a coarse hole right through the paneling on both sides of the framing about 12" above the floor. He didn't even ask about location (he did it on the WRONG SIDE of the door). Not to mention there were rafters and things exposed and the cable could have been run overhead.
Yep... consider that the ReactOS roadmap shows that the earliest releases were in 1998. 13 years later, the project is now version 0.3.13 in ALPHA. By the time ReactOS is out of beta, half the world will be using Windows 14. Now I'm not saying that it's not a worthy goal, but if their project doesn't get some muscle behind it (like Russian dollars), I don't really see it being more than a tool for developers to learn, rather than a project for consumers to actually use as an OS.
Unless the "stiff fines" cost the company even more than the implementation of storage guidelines, why would they bother? When laws against corporations hit only their pocketbooks (say the cost of a few weeks' worth of hookers and blow for the CEO), they frequently don't have any teeth.
I had an urgent need for a piece of software and downloaded it from C|Net late on Friday night. I stupidly did the very thing that most uses do, the thing I almost never do -- I "fast-clicked" through the install process. I ended up with a BHO search toolbar promoting Bing that I had to figure out how to remove -- was it a browser plug-in? An add-on? Nope, turns out it was a "full application" I had to uninstall through the Control Panel.
Yeah, I felt pretty stupid, but I was still even more angry at C|Net. I looked around their site for a while trying to find a "contact us" form so I could send them some hate mail, and couldn't even find that, either. Instead, I'll just never go back, and will direct family and friends elsewhere.
Seems half the comments here are people who say how stupid this guy was -- that they could have done a much more thorough job of destruction AND covered their tracks better. Shows what kind of geeks we are.;)
Go ahead, post your "I could have done it better" comments here.
Exactly. Add-ons are the only reason I use Firefox. If they simply start breaking at random I might as well just use Chrome.
^this!^
I've read the discussion thread above (about the first half of it) and Asa Dotzler comes off as self-important and detached from reality. He doesn't know who his users are. In MY anecdotal experience, Firefox users are first and foremost geeks and intarweb developers; secondly, they are close friends and family of the first group. If the can't-be-wrong Dotzler ignores the first group, they'll just migrate away (as many have done) and likewise will migrate their friends and family away. Since reading this discussion, I'm disgusted. Already am typing this comment using Chrome, and I've gone and added five extensions that I use in FF, probably with more to come.
Asa, I think you're disenfranchising the people who have been your biggest champions. Polish up your resume, will you? In 2 years time, FF will be completely dead at this rate. If your application were entirely "in the cloud" like Google Docs (or whatever) and had no external dependencies, well then, go for it. But people have add-ons and extensions, and if you are "silently updating" the browser, you will also be persistently "silently breaking" add-ons and extensions. Nobody will stand for it.
Either I didn't dig deep enough, or I was looking in the wrong place. But is there any evidence that Apple is not shipping the hardware to the Asian continent for "recycling" methods that pollute their land and poison their workers?
After some digging, I found this: http://www.tara.org/about/press/public-statement/. On that site you can also find the bio of the woman in question. She's highly recognized in the Buddhist community as the first western woman to be an "intentional reincarnation" (see this). I don't pretend to know what that all means or how important it clearly must be to Buddhists.
An extract from the first link:
Persons seeking the path of truth do not taunt and seek to hurt others through hateful and demeaning epithets directed at women and sexual orientation.
I suppose that gives us a very vague idea that the speech was probably something many of us would find offensive, but it doesn't really reveal the content of the tweet which would seem to be to be relevant in order to determine if/how the law was properly applied (as it was written), whether the law was being abused, or the law should be changed.
I know plenty will say that it's not germane to the case itself regarding defense of free speech, but... WTF did this guy say in his "tweet", and about whom?
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I can't imagine there's a single Apple "first-in-liner" that wouldn't let Woz cut to the front of the line if he showed up at the last minute.
I can only imagine the kids in line saying, "Who the fuck are you?" Kids these days...
Everything is entropy. Self-replicating machines included.
Really? Everything? So then, order and disorder are just a matter of opinion? Well, let's put down our books and get in line for the local megachurch.
Basically - Siri is neat, but it is NOT new, and it is NOT revolutionary. Calling Siri revolutionary is like calling a touchscreen revolutionary at this point in the game.
I'm just an uninformed schmuck on the intarweb, haven't read TFA, and am responding anyhow (welcome to Slashdot)... that being said, there were more than a few MP3 players on the market before the first generation iPod came out, right? But Apple did things "different"(ly). It turned out well for them, whether it was interface, polish, marketing, or something else entirely. Just sayin'.
...if you are allowed to have complex raw materials.
Fire self replicates. Fallen-down dominoes self-replicate. The line between "chain reaction" and "self replication" is very blurry.
I don't think it's as blurry as you'd make it out to be. Fire and falling dominoes are instances of entropy , quite the opposite of what these scientists are after, I believe.
Pulitzer prize winner Laurie Garrett, author of e-book ‘I Heard The Sirens Scream’.
Listen to the audio interview with her
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201108261
Her audio-book at Amazon ($5.99):
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B005DFHYQK/sciencefriday/
I can't say that they found the hand AFTER the hijacking. Perhaps it was swabbed from some surface prior to the incident? I don't know.
My memory is as good as my geography. that'd be TORA Bora.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora
I recently listened to a podcast from NPR's Science Friday in which the interviewee (whose name I don't recall) suggested that her research indicated that one of the 9/11 hijackers had some anthrax DNA on his hands that matched the strain in the envelope/mail attacks. The additional information she provided indicated that the Bora Bora caves (where we just missed Bin Laden) had twice tested with positive matches for the same anthrax strain.
The suggestion was that the 9/11 hijackers had possibly sent out the mailings of anthrax just prior to undertaking their hijackings.
There may or may not be significant holes in these theories, but I'm presenting them from what I recall in the NPR interview. Anyone else care to provide further details, dispute these claims (or just tell me I'm dumb)?
All we need are the Patriot Guard in black turtlenecks to even up the numbers.
www.patriotguard.org
Ganty
Yes... holding up large, blank, glossy-white placards.
I stopped using PDFCreator back when their SF installer started coming with malware auto-installed, even if you said no to the browser bar.
Instead, I use the MS plugin for Office which supplies PDF as a save as option.
I completely understand, and I'm by no means a fan of apps installing browser crap of one kind or another. However, if you're careful and say "no", it won't install the browser / BHO crap. Foxit PDF I think also is another free product that comes with potential crapware, but I've just learned (and re-learned!) to be careful installing pretty much anything at all.
As for PDF generation, I've gotta tell you that I still use PDFCreator. Yeah, OOo / LO has that button, but I've found that PDFCreator makes them a bit slimmer in terms of file size. Install it now from sf.net and you won't find yourself changing from MS to LO just for getting a snazzy PDF.
Religion is the normative study of how things should be.
Popular religion as it is practised in the west is not the study of anything. It's all about being part of the crowd and proclaiming your own righteousness above others.
And yes, I include Islam as practiced in the west in this.
You must have an incredibly large can of paint to accommodate a brush of such width.
Interesting. The percentage was added to the wikipedia article TODAY. Where do those numbers come from? Thought you might want to know.
Have some children. That oughtta make everything cheaper!
I'm a developer for an internal application at work that used to not support Chrome. But after all the FF stupidity in their release cycles, plus its resource usage on my Win7 laptop, I've ditched FF and gone to Chrome. And then I found the JS-related bugs in our internal app that caused Chrome issues and fixed them.
I was a tremendously staunch FF supporter at work. I'd push our analysts to try using it over IE, and they have. But now I'm telling them, "Hey, you can use Chrome now. I fixed that bug [xyz]." I've found that Chrome has lots of the extensions I want, from gestures, cookie management, adblock plus, web developer, firebug (isn't that ironic).
The only time I go to FF is when I need to do additional testing or be able to right-click on a frame for "View Page Info" which I can't seem to do with Chrome (I'm sure there's an extension!).
The satellite company always send the most knowledable folks available.
This. We had a guy running some coaxial cable back in my last house. I told him I wanted to run the cable to my corner office of the basement, where, aside from it being finished in the 70's, was in decent shape. He took a drill with a 1-1/2" spade bit and punched a coarse hole right through the paneling on both sides of the framing about 12" above the floor. He didn't even ask about location (he did it on the WRONG SIDE of the door). Not to mention there were rafters and things exposed and the cable could have been run overhead.
What an asshole.
Yep... consider that the ReactOS roadmap shows that the earliest releases were in 1998. 13 years later, the project is now version 0.3.13 in ALPHA. By the time ReactOS is out of beta, half the world will be using Windows 14. Now I'm not saying that it's not a worthy goal, but if their project doesn't get some muscle behind it (like Russian dollars), I don't really see it being more than a tool for developers to learn, rather than a project for consumers to actually use as an OS.
Unless the "stiff fines" cost the company even more than the implementation of storage guidelines, why would they bother? When laws against corporations hit only their pocketbooks (say the cost of a few weeks' worth of hookers and blow for the CEO), they frequently don't have any teeth.
Evil and OpenDNS Work On Global Internet Speedup.
I think from now on simply replacing the word Google with Evil should be an auto-correct feature.
And who, exactly, is forcing you to use OpenDNS?
I had an urgent need for a piece of software and downloaded it from C|Net late on Friday night. I stupidly did the very thing that most uses do, the thing I almost never do -- I "fast-clicked" through the install process. I ended up with a BHO search toolbar promoting Bing that I had to figure out how to remove -- was it a browser plug-in? An add-on? Nope, turns out it was a "full application" I had to uninstall through the Control Panel.
Yeah, I felt pretty stupid, but I was still even more angry at C|Net. I looked around their site for a while trying to find a "contact us" form so I could send them some hate mail, and couldn't even find that, either. Instead, I'll just never go back, and will direct family and friends elsewhere.
Seems half the comments here are people who say how stupid this guy was -- that they could have done a much more thorough job of destruction AND covered their tracks better. Shows what kind of geeks we are. ;)
Go ahead, post your "I could have done it better" comments here.
Exactly. Add-ons are the only reason I use Firefox. If they simply start breaking at random I might as well just use Chrome.
^this!^
I've read the discussion thread above (about the first half of it) and Asa Dotzler comes off as self-important and detached from reality. He doesn't know who his users are. In MY anecdotal experience, Firefox users are first and foremost geeks and intarweb developers; secondly, they are close friends and family of the first group. If the can't-be-wrong Dotzler ignores the first group, they'll just migrate away (as many have done) and likewise will migrate their friends and family away. Since reading this discussion, I'm disgusted. Already am typing this comment using Chrome, and I've gone and added five extensions that I use in FF, probably with more to come.
Asa, I think you're disenfranchising the people who have been your biggest champions. Polish up your resume, will you? In 2 years time, FF will be completely dead at this rate. If your application were entirely "in the cloud" like Google Docs (or whatever) and had no external dependencies, well then, go for it. But people have add-ons and extensions, and if you are "silently updating" the browser, you will also be persistently "silently breaking" add-ons and extensions. Nobody will stand for it.
Either I didn't dig deep enough, or I was looking in the wrong place. But is there any evidence that Apple is not shipping the hardware to the Asian continent for "recycling" methods that pollute their land and poison their workers?
Soylent Orange is Crustaceans!
After some digging, I found this: http://www.tara.org/about/press/public-statement/. On that site you can also find the bio of the woman in question. She's highly recognized in the Buddhist community as the first western woman to be an "intentional reincarnation" (see this). I don't pretend to know what that all means or how important it clearly must be to Buddhists.
An extract from the first link:
Persons seeking the path of truth do not taunt and seek to hurt others through hateful and demeaning epithets directed at women and sexual orientation.
I suppose that gives us a very vague idea that the speech was probably something many of us would find offensive, but it doesn't really reveal the content of the tweet which would seem to be to be relevant in order to determine if/how the law was properly applied (as it was written), whether the law was being abused, or the law should be changed.
I know plenty will say that it's not germane to the case itself regarding defense of free speech, but... WTF did this guy say in his "tweet", and about whom?