This is all irrelevant. We have been using 'conversational computing' in our labs for a few months, and its been a complete disaster. We have several clusters set up right now expending countless peta-FLOPS calculating the intersection of a toilet and pope, and we would probably be finished by now where it not for 'conversational computing'. Had we have finished calculating the intersection of a toilet and a pope, we could have begun calculating the intersection of much larger objects, like the intersetcion of a farm and a railway station.
Homer: Where is Lisa? I want her to isntall a new operating system on my PC Bart: Lisa is installing Ubuntu on your PC Homer: I forgot about that. Where is Marge? Tell her I want her to install a new operating system on my PC Bart: Marge is trapped under some rocks in the basement. Homer: Doh!
I don't know about KAT, but Spotlight on OSX (and the indexing service on Windows) gives huge advantages over grep. For one, they are orders of magnitude quicker. Secondly, specific importers are used to index specific file types, so you aren't restricted to plain text searches. For instance, I could write an importer that performs voice recognition or OCR.
Homer: Bart whats on the telly tonight? Bart: I don't know dad, why don't you look in the paper? Homer: I don't have a paper, boy, I lost it while trapping foxes down the old mine!
I agree that the DMCA is possibly the wrong tool for them to be using, but their principles are fine.
If all the ISPs in an area started requiring that you buy a computer from them in order to connect to the Internet, and that such a computer would be locked down so you could only add programs you bought from the ISP, I think you'd find that to be unacceptable.
No, theres nothing unacceptable about that at all. If a company wants to set up such a ridiculous business ethic, thats fine, because they clearly explain the lock-in and people should be intelligent enough to stear clear.
Why should a cell phone be any different?
It isn't, but its beside the point. It doesn't matter how tyrranical the contract is - you enter into it of your own free will. If you don't like the consequences, don't go with them, and if you do you don't cry foul later and think you're somehow morally correct to rip them off.
You people really need to grow the fuck up, stop acting the victim, and take some responsibility for yourselves.
What? Are you stupid or something? Of course theres a reason for that business model to be protected by law - you entered in to an agreement when you bought the phone that said you'd stick with them or pay a transfer fee. Don't like it? Go with someone else. Just don't whine about how unfair it all is later. Handset unlocking is an 'injustice', you are breaking your side of the contract that you made when you bought the fucking phone.
If you want to be able to roam free, get a contract that lets you do that. If that means your poor ass has to get a phone that doesn't have a built in PS3, well cry me a river.
I have to say that we in my lab are thrilled with the progress in the Linux kernel. We have been running Linux in our labs for ages, and it now controls the massive coils that circle all the corridors in our buildings, ominously humming in the night. Before, we had Windows XP controlling the titantic voltages that flow through the rings, and we found that very often the control threads would become scheduled into irrelevance and the voltages would become unstable. This would lead to devastating magnetic fields that would reverse the path of time across the carpet in my room, staining it really badly.
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How exactly does Enlightenment push any envelopes? Looks like a blind rip-off of Aqua (with some randomly added Windows 2000) made by people who don't understand that most of the eye candy in OSX is functional.
If I see one more website with 'monkey' somewhere in the title, I'm going to single handedly smash the internet to bits.
PS I didn't check out your links.
And, of course, there's another element: DRM. Intel cut Apple a good deal because it gives them a chance to start edging their hardware-based DRM into the market (think iTunes). Apple is happy to include DRM as long as they get a discount on the hardware.
Yeah, because despite Jobs saying multiple times that he hates DRM with a passion, OSX is absolutely riddled with DRM! I mean, its used for iTMS, and...and...er...hmm...
I'm not missing the point. The game has nothing going for it, compared to other racers, except stylised graphics, and you said yourself graphics don't make the game.
Driving games is one genre where modern ones totally kick the snot out of older games. Show me a racer on a 8/16-bit machine that comes within a million miles of being as much fun as something like Burnout3 or FlatOut.
Did you read the same answers I did? Everything he said was touchy feely likely Linux but in a totally non-committal, fact free, marketing-droid kind of way. I'm suprised he didn't mention how he liked to touch base and/or recannoiter with the OSS community vis a visreading from the same hymn sheet.
Thanks for the help, wise dustmite, but I think you'll find you are wrong. A universe infinite in time and space does not mean an infinite number of chances of any one event happening. It doesn't matter how many times you add 2 to 6, you won't ever get 3.
And there's that pesky entropy thing to worry about too.
What do you mean 'or so we thought anyway'? This place needs a '+1 Slashbot' moderation for bellends such as yourself who fail to see the hypocrisy of calling 'joe sixpack' a 'sheep' yet mindlessly tow the Slashdot line.
iTMS would not exist without DRM, full stop. Maybe in some ridiculous Linux-hippy dream world, but not in real life. It is possible the new DRM will be used for something other than stopping you from running OSX, but seeing as OSX doesn't contain any form of DRM anywhere at all (besides iTMS) I think its pretty unlikely. They give you DRM-free CD ripping software, DVD ripping software, DVD player that happily plays its own rips of your HD, screen-capture software that captures DVD player content...blah blah...Apple doesn't like DRM. Do you see?
The single button to close windows is one of the most annoying things about the 'tabs' in IE6, apart from the fact that closing a tab often closes the whole window. I think Safari's method of a little close box for every tab is much nicer.
In layman's terms, numbers like '5' aren't very random, and a number like '10' isn't random at all. Numbers like '57' and '183' OTOH are very random and have much higher entropy, so they have greater weightings.
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This is all irrelevant. We have been using 'conversational computing' in our labs for a few months, and its been a complete disaster. We have several clusters set up right now expending countless peta-FLOPS calculating the intersection of a toilet and pope, and we would probably be finished by now where it not for 'conversational computing'. Had we have finished calculating the intersection of a toilet and a pope, we could have begun calculating the intersection of much larger objects, like the intersetcion of a farm and a railway station.
Homer: Where is Lisa? I want her to isntall a new operating system on my PC
Bart: Lisa is installing Ubuntu on your PC
Homer: I forgot about that. Where is Marge? Tell her I want her to install a new operating system on my PC
Bart: Marge is trapped under some rocks in the basement.
Homer: Doh!
Homer: Marge, can I cook dinner tonight
Marge: Yes, Homer, what are you going to cook?
Homer: Lettuce
I don't know about KAT, but Spotlight on OSX (and the indexing service on Windows) gives huge advantages over grep. For one, they are orders of magnitude quicker. Secondly, specific importers are used to index specific file types, so you aren't restricted to plain text searches. For instance, I could write an importer that performs voice recognition or OCR.
Homer: Bart whats on the telly tonight?
Bart: I don't know dad, why don't you look in the paper?
Homer: I don't have a paper, boy, I lost it while trapping foxes down the old mine!
No, theres nothing unacceptable about that at all. If a company wants to set up such a ridiculous business ethic, thats fine, because they clearly explain the lock-in and people should be intelligent enough to stear clear.
It isn't, but its beside the point. It doesn't matter how tyrranical the contract is - you enter into it of your own free will. If you don't like the consequences, don't go with them, and if you do you don't cry foul later and think you're somehow morally correct to rip them off.
You people really need to grow the fuck up, stop acting the victim, and take some responsibility for yourselves.
What? Are you stupid or something? Of course theres a reason for that business model to be protected by law - you entered in to an agreement when you bought the phone that said you'd stick with them or pay a transfer fee. Don't like it? Go with someone else. Just don't whine about how unfair it all is later. Handset unlocking is an 'injustice', you are breaking your side of the contract that you made when you bought the fucking phone.
If you want to be able to roam free, get a contract that lets you do that. If that means your poor ass has to get a phone that doesn't have a built in PS3, well cry me a river.
Grow up, for fucks sake.
I have to say that we in my lab are thrilled with the progress in the Linux kernel. We have been running Linux in our labs for ages, and it now controls the massive coils that circle all the corridors in our buildings, ominously humming in the night. Before, we had Windows XP controlling the titantic voltages that flow through the rings, and we found that very often the control threads would become scheduled into irrelevance and the voltages would become unstable. This would lead to devastating magnetic fields that would reverse the path of time across the carpet in my room, staining it really badly.
How exactly does Enlightenment push any envelopes? Looks like a blind rip-off of Aqua (with some randomly added Windows 2000) made by people who don't understand that most of the eye candy in OSX is functional.
If I see one more website with 'monkey' somewhere in the title, I'm going to single handedly smash the internet to bits. PS I didn't check out your links.
I'm not missing the point. The game has nothing going for it, compared to other racers, except stylised graphics, and you said yourself graphics don't make the game.
Driving games is one genre where modern ones totally kick the snot out of older games. Show me a racer on a 8/16-bit machine that comes within a million miles of being as much fun as something like Burnout3 or FlatOut.
But this looks rubbish. There are far better free driving games on the net, like Racer for instance. Win/Lin/Mac.
Did you read the same answers I did? Everything he said was touchy feely likely Linux but in a totally non-committal, fact free, marketing-droid kind of way. I'm suprised he didn't mention how he liked to touch base and/or recannoiter with the OSS community vis a vis reading from the same hymn sheet.
Thanks for the help, wise dustmite, but I think you'll find you are wrong. A universe infinite in time and space does not mean an infinite number of chances of any one event happening. It doesn't matter how many times you add 2 to 6, you won't ever get 3.
And there's that pesky entropy thing to worry about too.
Sorry, I got that wrong. I meant:
"In cold, all wars are space"
- Shitram Brown, Slashdot, 8/8/2005
"In wars, all space are cold"
- Shitram Brown, Slashdot, 8/8/2005
An infinite universe doesn't imply an infinite number of 'chances' to produce our current universe.
What do you mean 'or so we thought anyway'? This place needs a '+1 Slashbot' moderation for bellends such as yourself who fail to see the hypocrisy of calling 'joe sixpack' a 'sheep' yet mindlessly tow the Slashdot line.
iTMS would not exist without DRM, full stop. Maybe in some ridiculous Linux-hippy dream world, but not in real life. It is possible the new DRM will be used for something other than stopping you from running OSX, but seeing as OSX doesn't contain any form of DRM anywhere at all (besides iTMS) I think its pretty unlikely. They give you DRM-free CD ripping software, DVD ripping software, DVD player that happily plays its own rips of your HD, screen-capture software that captures DVD player content...blah blah...Apple doesn't like DRM. Do you see?
The single button to close windows is one of the most annoying things about the 'tabs' in IE6, apart from the fact that closing a tab often closes the whole window. I think Safari's method of a little close box for every tab is much nicer.
Its not so much "hear my cheap speakers distort" as "hear my cheap speakers rattle my shitty body kit".
Um, the top corners are customisable too, even though it sounds clumsy it works nice.
Top left = dont sleep, top right = sleep, bottom left = Dashboard, bottom right = expose desktop.
...that if we had Identity Cards, none of this would have happened.
Not everything, but transparency means drop shadows, and drop shadows mean windows dont need borders, which in turn means less wasted screen space.
In layman's terms, numbers like '5' aren't very random, and a number like '10' isn't random at all. Numbers like '57' and '183' OTOH are very random and have much higher entropy, so they have greater weightings.