It runs inside a browser, probably is a collection of javascript and dhtml script piles. It's not an OS. It's maybe an application suite, a framework, a collection of javascript application libraries, whatever, but it's not an OS. Putting the "internet" word before it doesn't help.
I don't care how you spin it. 1024 is the multiple. NOT 1000!
It's all because of technology getting widespread. Don't get me wrong I _don't_ mean people getting more technological, just more of them using it. Engineers, coders, etc. just know what a byte is, what the whole binary system is/has been used for, why 1024 as a multiplier was nice, things about computer history, we just don't "get" the whole "ambiguous" story what people were referring to when they introduced the whole kibibyte joke. We just know what we are talking about, what we are referring to and there's no ambiguity. But, among the general public, kilo just means kilo, they don't know or just simply don't care about the whole 1024 issue, and you know, the crowd always wins. We just have to live with it. But, thing is, we don't have to blindly accept it. I always use the 1024 base when appropriate and when somebody looks questioningly, I tell them what's all about, if they are willing to listen.
Otherwise I just don't care. If they want kibi or kilo, give them kibi or kilo.
put the drivers on my USB key, then boot the Vista install disk. Go through the usual setup with the drivers
Now that, my friends, is the feature that we had to wait how many years for ? Yeah, we don't even remember. Other than that, no wonder a Vista install goes smooth if one has hardware that is supported, bah. Others, please meet what Linux people had to go through for years. And thing is, for many years now I could easier configure my new hardware under Linux than under Windows, how's that for another success story.
Just imagine, creating a new form of tax, without the need to do or spend anything for it, just make people pay some more every time they buy these things, and money will just pour in like sweet autumn rain. This is just unbelievably nice. And, better yet, we still will fine everyone who just junks their electronic waste as before. And even better, remember those recycling places where people can bring their stuff and pay for their stuff to be recycled ? We won't touch them, so they will make money as before and of course that means we will also continue to make money as before, just better:) This is way too cool:)
Well, when you're the one who's collecting the money, that is.
This is crap. Thise "closed" journals are not closed, they are abailable, for a fee. And yes, those journals generally provide higher quality papers, better written, better presented, and generally more relevant to the topic it covers. People spend time and resources in developing those results and then another amount of time and resrouces to write them, then another pack of people spend an amount of time and resources to review those wtitings and then some money to publish them. Why on Earth do people think the final product of this sometimes quite consuming and lengthy process should be made freely available to the rest of them ? This is stupid.
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able to be reproduced in your exact entirety at the desire of others. Not that this is unfair or unpleasant
So, you think the way some part of out society thinks Intellectual Property should be thought of and handled today to be the good way, the best way, the only way ? It's somewhat reasonable to think that an intelligence developed by us would think similarly, but I can just hope that intelligence will figure out a new philosophy regarding IP and kick us in the butts big time.
And remember, copying oneself is a form of reproduction, and a fairly effective one, why do you think an artificial life form would not consider reproducing this way ? Creating a new conciousness and implanting into it the data of experiences, knowledge gained by the creator might just be a natural way to create artificial siblings.
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Once you are there, human minds can travel via laser transmissions at the speed of light:O
Not much use unless you can transfer it back to a human. Remember, it's our life, our knowledge, our experiences that we want to enrich, not some digital mind's.
It's great that the guy charting that course is best known for a show called LOST.
Well, at least we can be sure that there will be a sequel, since most probably at the end of the movie people will just look to their neighbors and see that I-don't-have-a-clue-what-just-happened look on their faces.
It's interesting when different people have different opinions.
Not so long ago, to some extent even today, there have been certain parts of this planet where that could have been called interesting indeed, but that only by some elements of their governments. Now, you calling that interesting makes an interesting picture of you.
Those who wish to use emails, telephones, etc. for nefarious purposes will find a work-around
Maybe some didn't notice yet, but such measures - as well as the passenger-nagging measures at airports - never seem good enough to be considered being able to stop anyone with bad intentions. But, maybe they'll just put off their plans when they see that how much hassle is to get along, even when staying clean. Of course I'm not serious. Terrorists and co. will probably find a way around any measure. This doesn't mean that all current measures should be eliminated (they can at least prevent a drunken angryman hijack a plane), but some people should really spend some quality time on devising some preventive measures which really can stop such people without making the rest feel like radioactive tagged shaven sheep with tattooed barcodes on their necks.
Either initiate a revolution or adjust behavior accordingly.
We have quite nice examples of the latter coming from the west. And as we can see lately we take and follow all the examples of the west. Add the two together and check the result. The IYHNTH (i.e. if you have nothing to hide) policy will conquer Europe as well.
Well, you should ask some law to be established which would prevent any kind of commercial ads being displayed in schools, and prevent any kind of donations which would depend on showing/displaying ads. Laws should be created that say that donations given to schools or charity [etc] could not be given with such requirements [i.e. one could post the name of donating entity on a website and such, but forcing students to watch ads shouldn't be allowed].
Well, these days, if you don't want to get kicked in the arse, better get your ads certified and blessed by the ministry of truth before putting them out in the open. I would think it was not their fault some idiot thought those things were bombs (even my non-tech sister just laughed about the whole thing, me, well, I didn't laugh, I was sad), but I don't matter I've got used to that.
And you'd better going to start forgetting pretty fast too, since what you'll hear probably ain't going to be what you'll get. Or maybe it will. Or not. Well, after the last few years of windows feature hypes, it's hard to believe anything. That is, if you care to even bother.
AMD's actually guilty of the same flawed logic though - their criticism of Intel's 4 core processor being just 2 dual cores stuck together is just as pointless. It doesn't matter what matters is how well the processor meets the requirements of its target market.
I don't think it's about that. I mean, since Intel quickly pumped out something which seems like being 4 core cpu which took far shorter than to develop a new quad core design cpu makes them seem to lag behind, so what can you do to explain ? Not much really, besides what they said above, that Intel got quicker because it's not really a quad core design. Everyone will have their own multicore designed cpus sooner or later, so it won't really matter.
I say intentions don't count. What counts is what you did and what you did not. A toy to help clear that issue should be welcome. A toy to mess around with people supposedly intend to do something... well, let's put it this way: keep it out of my sight or you won't need it to get a clear view of my intentions.
I don't get it [i.e. I get it, I just don't want to get it] why we should pick a group of people, now women, and a) suggest they are at a disadvantage because in a particular area males are in higher numbers and b) try to artificially generate higher proliferation just because some people think more woman presence would be nicer [hell, I'd really love to see more women at my workplace, that would be nice, for the morale and for the soul]. Despite what some extra-equality preachers say, there are areas of life where the distribution of men and women are just not equal, and why should they be ? People have much more freedom of choice these days in choosing their ways of life and their presence in some particular field, we should let them act accordingly. If we begin to artificially "help" to increase some numbers, imbalance could occur which would be harder to counter. Then, if we pick a group of people, what's to stop us from picking another later, and then another, and what we end up with is money spent in vain.
There were times [somewhat still existent] when women just could not get into some fields, but today this has changed enormously. Today even pregnancy doesn't count that much since most women have children at a much later age nowadays than they used to be one or two decades ago and they have time to establish themselves to ensure they will have a continuing career after pregnancy.
So, where do I got with this ? I don't really know. All in all, I wouldn't mind seeing a higher number of IT women, but I don't think we should treat them as being at such high disadvantage.
Ladies, please feel free to argue otherwise, I'd - and I think many of us would - really like to see whether such studies really reflect your status and wishes.
Could they take away by force the people's right to give something away for free and/or without any restrictions ? Ok, I know they could do it, in a theory [i.e. they can do anything these days with none to any repercussions], but could they do it in practice ? Would the Act get signed ? Would the people let it happen ? This whole thing sounds so ridiculously ignorant. But, I have to add, not really surprising.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, etc means etc. And it's really the "place-where-config-files-go". And wow, this must be the day when a question like this made into /. :)
and that browser could be Firefox. Or OSX/Safari, or Suse/Konqueror, or.....
Not until their own webpage fails the validation checks.
It runs inside a browser, probably is a collection of javascript and dhtml script piles. It's not an OS. It's maybe an application suite, a framework, a collection of javascript application libraries, whatever, but it's not an OS. Putting the "internet" word before it doesn't help.
I don't care how you spin it. 1024 is the multiple. NOT 1000!
It's all because of technology getting widespread. Don't get me wrong I _don't_ mean people getting more technological, just more of them using it. Engineers, coders, etc. just know what a byte is, what the whole binary system is/has been used for, why 1024 as a multiplier was nice, things about computer history, we just don't "get" the whole "ambiguous" story what people were referring to when they introduced the whole kibibyte joke. We just know what we are talking about, what we are referring to and there's no ambiguity. But, among the general public, kilo just means kilo, they don't know or just simply don't care about the whole 1024 issue, and you know, the crowd always wins. We just have to live with it. But, thing is, we don't have to blindly accept it. I always use the 1024 base when appropriate and when somebody looks questioningly, I tell them what's all about, if they are willing to listen.
Otherwise I just don't care. If they want kibi or kilo, give them kibi or kilo.
put the drivers on my USB key, then boot the Vista install disk. Go through the usual setup with the drivers
Now that, my friends, is the feature that we had to wait how many years for ? Yeah, we don't even remember. Other than that, no wonder a Vista install goes smooth if one has hardware that is supported, bah. Others, please meet what Linux people had to go through for years. And thing is, for many years now I could easier configure my new hardware under Linux than under Windows, how's that for another success story.
Just imagine, creating a new form of tax, without the need to do or spend anything for it, just make people pay some more every time they buy these things, and money will just pour in like sweet autumn rain. This is just unbelievably nice. And, better yet, we still will fine everyone who just junks their electronic waste as before. And even better, remember those recycling places where people can bring their stuff and pay for their stuff to be recycled ? We won't touch them, so they will make money as before and of course that means we will also continue to make money as before, just better :) This is way too cool :)
Well, when you're the one who's collecting the money, that is.
open-access sites and the closed journals
This is crap. Thise "closed" journals are not closed, they are abailable, for a fee. And yes, those journals generally provide higher quality papers, better written, better presented, and generally more relevant to the topic it covers. People spend time and resources in developing those results and then another amount of time and resrouces to write them, then another pack of people spend an amount of time and resources to review those wtitings and then some money to publish them. Why on Earth do people think the final product of this sometimes quite consuming and lengthy process should be made freely available to the rest of them ? This is stupid.
able to be reproduced in your exact entirety at the desire of others. Not that this is unfair or unpleasant
So, you think the way some part of out society thinks Intellectual Property should be thought of and handled today to be the good way, the best way, the only way ? It's somewhat reasonable to think that an intelligence developed by us would think similarly, but I can just hope that intelligence will figure out a new philosophy regarding IP and kick us in the butts big time.
And remember, copying oneself is a form of reproduction, and a fairly effective one, why do you think an artificial life form would not consider reproducing this way ? Creating a new conciousness and implanting into it the data of experiences, knowledge gained by the creator might just be a natural way to create artificial siblings.
Once you are there, human minds can travel via laser transmissions at the speed of light :O
Not much use unless you can transfer it back to a human. Remember, it's our life, our knowledge, our experiences that we want to enrich, not some digital mind's.
If you're complaining about major labels not releasing material, it's probably too late and you are part of the problem.
We shalt bow beforee thy knees, my master.
It's great that the guy charting that course is best known for a show called LOST.
Well, at least we can be sure that there will be a sequel, since most probably at the end of the movie people will just look to their neighbors and see that I-don't-have-a-clue-what-just-happened look on their faces.
Another US only service.
Nothing more to add.
It's interesting when different people have different opinions.
Not so long ago, to some extent even today, there have been certain parts of this planet where that could have been called interesting indeed, but that only by some elements of their governments. Now, you calling that interesting makes an interesting picture of you.
Those who wish to use emails, telephones, etc. for nefarious purposes will find a work-around
Maybe some didn't notice yet, but such measures - as well as the passenger-nagging measures at airports - never seem good enough to be considered being able to stop anyone with bad intentions. But, maybe they'll just put off their plans when they see that how much hassle is to get along, even when staying clean. Of course I'm not serious. Terrorists and co. will probably find a way around any measure. This doesn't mean that all current measures should be eliminated (they can at least prevent a drunken angryman hijack a plane), but some people should really spend some quality time on devising some preventive measures which really can stop such people without making the rest feel like radioactive tagged shaven sheep with tattooed barcodes on their necks.
Either initiate a revolution or adjust behavior accordingly.
We have quite nice examples of the latter coming from the west. And as we can see lately we take and follow all the examples of the west. Add the two together and check the result. The IYHNTH (i.e. if you have nothing to hide) policy will conquer Europe as well.
colonize the galaxy, remain on Earth, or become extinct
:)
Well, a theory is only good so far as it encompasses all possibilities, since either of them comes true they always can say I told ya so
Well, you should ask some law to be established which would prevent any kind of commercial ads being displayed in schools, and prevent any kind of donations which would depend on showing/displaying ads. Laws should be created that say that donations given to schools or charity [etc] could not be given with such requirements [i.e. one could post the name of donating entity on a website and such, but forcing students to watch ads shouldn't be allowed].
but steals the press from more competitive
Now that's what I call journalism.
Well, these days, if you don't want to get kicked in the arse, better get your ads certified and blessed by the ministry of truth before putting them out in the open. I would think it was not their fault some idiot thought those things were bombs (even my non-tech sister just laughed about the whole thing, me, well, I didn't laugh, I was sad), but I don't matter I've got used to that.
you're going to start hearing more and more
And you'd better going to start forgetting pretty fast too, since what you'll hear probably ain't going to be what you'll get. Or maybe it will. Or not. Well, after the last few years of windows feature hypes, it's hard to believe anything. That is, if you care to even bother.
Am i missing something or am i completly wrong?
Uhmm... yes.
AMD's actually guilty of the same flawed logic though - their criticism of Intel's 4 core processor being just 2 dual cores stuck together is just as pointless. It doesn't matter what matters is how well the processor meets the requirements of its target market.
I don't think it's about that. I mean, since Intel quickly pumped out something which seems like being 4 core cpu which took far shorter than to develop a new quad core design cpu makes them seem to lag behind, so what can you do to explain ? Not much really, besides what they said above, that Intel got quicker because it's not really a quad core design. Everyone will have their own multicore designed cpus sooner or later, so it won't really matter.
I say intentions don't count. What counts is what you did and what you did not. A toy to help clear that issue should be welcome. A toy to mess around with people supposedly intend to do something... well, let's put it this way: keep it out of my sight or you won't need it to get a clear view of my intentions.
I don't get it [i.e. I get it, I just don't want to get it] why we should pick a group of people, now women, and a) suggest they are at a disadvantage because in a particular area males are in higher numbers and b) try to artificially generate higher proliferation just because some people think more woman presence would be nicer [hell, I'd really love to see more women at my workplace, that would be nice, for the morale and for the soul]. Despite what some extra-equality preachers say, there are areas of life where the distribution of men and women are just not equal, and why should they be ? People have much more freedom of choice these days in choosing their ways of life and their presence in some particular field, we should let them act accordingly. If we begin to artificially "help" to increase some numbers, imbalance could occur which would be harder to counter. Then, if we pick a group of people, what's to stop us from picking another later, and then another, and what we end up with is money spent in vain.
There were times [somewhat still existent] when women just could not get into some fields, but today this has changed enormously. Today even pregnancy doesn't count that much since most women have children at a much later age nowadays than they used to be one or two decades ago and they have time to establish themselves to ensure they will have a continuing career after pregnancy.
So, where do I got with this ? I don't really know. All in all, I wouldn't mind seeing a higher number of IT women, but I don't think we should treat them as being at such high disadvantage.
Ladies, please feel free to argue otherwise, I'd - and I think many of us would - really like to see whether such studies really reflect your status and wishes.
would be obligated to implement
Could they take away by force the people's right to give something away for free and/or without any restrictions ? Ok, I know they could do it, in a theory [i.e. they can do anything these days with none to any repercussions], but could they do it in practice ? Would the Act get signed ? Would the people let it happen ? This whole thing sounds so ridiculously ignorant. But, I have to add, not really surprising.