Just because in this day and age people can sue other people for just about any reason, doesn't mean that everything needs to be turned into a legal issue.
Well, the thing with text is that it's hard to tell cynicism apart from anything else. The unfortunate thing is, that as you pointed out we DO live in a day and age where people sue each other for just about anything.
However, I wasn't trying to make a legal issue out of it, I was poking at the fact that there ARE a number of people and companies out there who use lawsuits as a way to generate revenue.
but I think it doesn't even perform up to the same bar that has been set by exoskeleton systems.
The diff between this and the exo-skeletons (I've seen anyway) is that this thing is actually moving under it's own power and it's not just a mockup in a construction cage. It stands on it's own.
Also, I believe it is the first such mecha to be armed. Not saying that is good or bad, but it is different. I've heard talk of arming the Bleex exo-skeleton (which is only a partial) but have yet to see practical implementation for it.
Well, with the Starz thing Real is doing, you pay a pretty small price ($13/mo) to download and watch unlimited (well, within the limits of the catalog) movies at your leisure.
I will now put on my firesuit in preparation for the incoming flames.
Can we then file church groups and other "reactionary" organizations under the heading "terrorist groups" too?
Sure you can. Any civilian group, regardless of why it exists, that takes part in organized violence (abortion clinic bombings, destroying animal test labs, flying planes into office buildings) to further their cause should be branded as a terrorist group because they are, as the name implies, inflicting terror. They are using terror as a method of achieving (or trying to achieve) their goals.
An individual who robs a gun store because god told him to is proably just a lunatic. BUT, when you have one individual leading a group of people to ALL rob gun stores because god told him (the leader) to, then you have a terrorist group.
On the anarchists as sissies note, I got trolled down for a similar view:)
Yeah, you're right. You can say whatever you want, however, whatever you do say may not be protected by the freedom of speech - as with all laws, there a limits to this. And with laws come consequences for violating them.
Another thing people may be overlooking is that now more than ever, anarchist groups and other "radical" organizations can now be filed under the heading "terrorist groups" (and you know, maybe they should be?) and they can be acted against.
How do you distinguish between the freedom of speech and violation of law? Where is the line drawn? Is it when you go from saying the government should be overthrown to actually trying to overthrow a government? What about all the "speech" and "expression" in between? Marches or handbooks on how it COULD be done? Does it cross the line when training camps are set up? When it spreads from a small group of people to a large mass? When people start arming themselves? Participating in violent demonstrations?
With the views that he has, he should be thanking his lucky ass that he lives in a country where the gestapo "asked" for the info rather than just swarm over the whole operation in the middle of the night, seize all the property, take him away and make it look like he never existed.
Treason and conspiracy against the state is a bitch, if you practice it, promote it and beg for it- you better not cry like a bitch when it bites you in the ass.
Before you can make money on anything, the damn thing has to work. Even if you did steal it from somewhere else and rebrand it, if it won't install or run as promised when the end user gets it, how long can it survive?
Personally, I couldn't get CherryOS to work. PearPC on the other hand, did, no doubt in large part due to the docs they had available.
BUT, even after installing it and trying to get stuff set up, I found it easier (if you have the funding, say from work) to just buy a Mac mini and a KVM or app like Timbuktu.
I do think it (PearPC) is an awesome piece of work and would hope that it continues. I can't say that for CherryOS.
I read both (and others) daily and seems like at least one thing from Gizmodo shows up on the front page here per day. Nothing wrong with that, but when I'm bored and trying to find new "news" and other interesting things, it's just a drag to see the same thing proliferated across sites.
The camera, they say, doesn't lie. (At least not often). With a good camera, digital or film, it's really hard to hide flaws that are obvious. The shot of the card slots show a screwhead sticking up (look under the monitor edge). Edges are not straight, they're wavy. And the filler on the veneer is visible and gives the whole thing a 70's trailer home "complete with wood paneling" appearance.
It's OK, but not great. Honestly, IMO, the workmanship seems really rough on the wooden laptop.
If I were to make one, I think I would have:
- Recessed the screws (or at least made sure they were flush, sheesh)
- Used hidden joints
- NOT used verneer
- Put more effort into thje finish
It felt like some steroid-pumped baseball player had swung a bat at my shoulder.
Maybe it depends on the device manufacturer or even the vaccine itself. I've had a number of vaccines (I hope) from the Army using these jet guns and it only ever felt like a sting. Granted, it was like the sting from a wasp, but it was brief and wasn't sore afterward.
In case you don't know, Nielsen Net Ratings works by giving a family some software to install that acts as a proxy between them and the rest of the Net. You get paid a savings bond every 6 months for as long as you keep this installed. Your only interaction with it is selecting which user is on the computer by way of a dialog box with radio buttons that appears if the system has been idle for a while and at system start up.
The problem with Nielsen NR (and the TV audience version, too) is that they're tracking only the people they have deployed tracking software/hardware to, which is only a segment of a cross section of the population.
This is like calling say, 150 people, at random from your local phone book, asking them questions about an issue/person/product and calling them your test market.
As someone pointed out, you can't be on much longer than 24 hours in a day. More than that though, once a portion of the population using a tool (the Internet in this case) reaches saturation, further growth is impossible among that group and so new ways must be found to draw in new groups of people.
At each step of the way, you're going to get plateaus.
Too bad there's not a mod point for porn potential, the shot of their demo panning up and down on the woman gave me the idea that this would be perfect for all manner of perversions. It's like an X10 on wheels.
Even if someone makes a browser that does everything designers AND developers want it to, it still won't do any good to those of us stuck supporting browsers that DON'T do all of it. The entire world is unlikely to switch instantly to the new wonder browser, leaving us to support legacy products.
Where I work our top tier browser/OS matrix is:
Win 98 - XP; IE5>, Mozilla 1.3>, Firefox 1>, Netscape 6.2>
Linux; Mozilla 1.3>, Firefox 1>, Netscape 6.2>
Mac OSX; Safari, IE 5.3>, Mozilla 1.3>, Firefox 1>, Netscape 6.2>
This is a nightmare to build, even worse to QA.
Opera, ironically enough, is not in our top tier BECAUSE it rendered pages differently enough from the other browsers- even though we were authoring XHTML 1.0 trans and CSS2 compliant- that it got shunted to a lower tier of support.
If you pick any of those, IE would be the worst example, you can get different implementations between versions of how a page is supposed to render.
I think this is why a large portion of the pages on the Web are authored they way they are- the broadest reach for the narrowest buck.
Mac isn't the only brand with a cult. Build the world's best browser and you'll still have legions of people SWEARING that their choice in browser is the best, and pages that look like shit in it are due to the page not being written correctly rather than the browser's render engine using its own interpretation of WHAT the page is SUPPOSED to look like
On the cynical side, I think a browser that did everything that Web designers wanted might come out something like Homer's car.
The same kind of thing was recently put into place on certain routes of the Washington State Ferries, one of which I use daily.
It's a really good idea, but I wonder if rail will have the same limitations I experience with our own system (boats).
Mobilisa's "Wireless Over Water" is cool- when we're in the slip or not too far from it. The trip I take is 35 minutes each way, the first 5-7 minutes and the last 5-7 minutes are awesome, but the whole time in between (from either Seattle or Bainbridge Island) is riddled with drop outs and disconnects.
Well, it's a boat in the middle of the water, you might say. Yes, but not really any different from a train that has to move between access points along its own route. If they put enough of them in, great, but on a bullet train how bad would it suck to have a drop out every few minutes while it moves from one hotspot to the next?
Yes of course the contractor implementing it will say that won't happen, but they said that about our in-commute Wi-Fi, too.
Reading just the headline "Humans are Causing Global Warming" presents an interesting point itself. 6 billion plus people milling about would generate (I would think) a massive amount of heat by kinetic motion. I remember hearing that that big ass mall doesn't even have a heating system, people provide all the heat it needs. On smaller scales, my house gets hot enough when the family is over for Xmas that I have the heat off and windows open.
So, wouldn't it be possible, given the atmosphere above us acting as the enclosure, that all of us down here are rasing the temp?
Keanu Reeves announced today that he himself will write, direct, produce, film and star in the Matrix Reloaded 2: Electric Boogaloo, despite legal threats from the Wachowski brothers. All roles will be played by him and will feature another hot scene between Neo (Reeves) and Trinity (Reeves) in a cave (Reeves). There will be no stunt or special effects work, everything you see will be real, or will it?, except the spoons.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because in this day and age people can sue other people for just about any reason, doesn't mean that everything needs to be turned into a legal issue.
Well, the thing with text is that it's hard to tell cynicism apart from anything else. The unfortunate thing is, that as you pointed out we DO live in a day and age where people sue each other for just about anything.
However, I wasn't trying to make a legal issue out of it, I was poking at the fact that there ARE a number of people and companies out there who use lawsuits as a way to generate revenue.
but I think it doesn't even perform up to the same bar that has been set by exoskeleton systems.
The diff between this and the exo-skeletons (I've seen anyway) is that this thing is actually moving under it's own power and it's not just a mockup in a construction cage. It stands on it's own.
Also, I believe it is the first such mecha to be armed. Not saying that is good or bad, but it is different. I've heard talk of arming the Bleex exo-skeleton (which is only a partial) but have yet to see practical implementation for it.
And how many exo-skeletons can skate?
Paris Hilton isn't involved, is she?
Well, with the Starz thing Real is doing, you pay a pretty small price ($13/mo) to download and watch unlimited (well, within the limits of the catalog) movies at your leisure.
I will now put on my firesuit in preparation for the incoming flames.
Can we then file church groups and other "reactionary" organizations under the heading "terrorist groups" too?
Sure you can. Any civilian group, regardless of why it exists, that takes part in organized violence (abortion clinic bombings, destroying animal test labs, flying planes into office buildings) to further their cause should be branded as a terrorist group because they are, as the name implies, inflicting terror. They are using terror as a method of achieving (or trying to achieve) their goals.
An individual who robs a gun store because god told him to is proably just a lunatic. BUT, when you have one individual leading a group of people to ALL rob gun stores because god told him (the leader) to, then you have a terrorist group.
On the anarchists as sissies note, I got trolled down for a similar view
You're allowed to say extreme things.
Yeah, you're right. You can say whatever you want, however, whatever you do say may not be protected by the freedom of speech - as with all laws, there a limits to this. And with laws come consequences for violating them.
Another thing people may be overlooking is that now more than ever, anarchist groups and other "radical" organizations can now be filed under the heading "terrorist groups" (and you know, maybe they should be?) and they can be acted against.
How do you distinguish between the freedom of speech and violation of law? Where is the line drawn? Is it when you go from saying the government should be overthrown to actually trying to overthrow a government? What about all the "speech" and "expression" in between? Marches or handbooks on how it COULD be done? Does it cross the line when training camps are set up? When it spreads from a small group of people to a large mass? When people start arming themselves? Participating in violent demonstrations?
With the views that he has, he should be thanking his lucky ass that he lives in a country where the gestapo "asked" for the info rather than just swarm over the whole operation in the middle of the night, seize all the property, take him away and make it look like he never existed.
Treason and conspiracy against the state is a bitch, if you practice it, promote it and beg for it- you better not cry like a bitch when it bites you in the ass.
The pear or the cherry?
Before you can make money on anything, the damn thing has to work. Even if you did steal it from somewhere else and rebrand it, if it won't install or run as promised when the end user gets it, how long can it survive?
Personally, I couldn't get CherryOS to work. PearPC on the other hand, did, no doubt in large part due to the docs they had available.
BUT, even after installing it and trying to get stuff set up, I found it easier (if you have the funding, say from work) to just buy a Mac mini and a KVM or app like Timbuktu.
I do think it (PearPC) is an awesome piece of work and would hope that it continues. I can't say that for CherryOS.
At first I thought you were kidding. Something along the lines of...
Slashdot's Hardware Section
I read both (and others) daily and seems like at least one thing from Gizmodo shows up on the front page here per day. Nothing wrong with that, but when I'm bored and trying to find new "news" and other interesting things, it's just a drag to see the same thing proliferated across sites.
The camera, they say, doesn't lie. (At least not often). With a good camera, digital or film, it's really hard to hide flaws that are obvious. The shot of the card slots show a screwhead sticking up (look under the monitor edge). Edges are not straight, they're wavy. And the filler on the veneer is visible and gives the whole thing a 70's trailer home "complete with wood paneling" appearance.
It's OK, but not great. Honestly, IMO, the workmanship seems really rough on the wooden laptop.
If I were to make one, I think I would have:
- Recessed the screws (or at least made sure they were flush, sheesh)
- Used hidden joints
- NOT used verneer
- Put more effort into thje finish
It felt like some steroid-pumped baseball player had swung a bat at my shoulder.
Maybe it depends on the device manufacturer or even the vaccine itself. I've had a number of vaccines (I hope) from the Army using these jet guns and it only ever felt like a sting. Granted, it was like the sting from a wasp, but it was brief and wasn't sore afterward.
Nielsen Report Says Internet Usage Flattening
In case you don't know, Nielsen Net Ratings works by giving a family some software to install that acts as a proxy between them and the rest of the Net. You get paid a savings bond every 6 months for as long as you keep this installed. Your only interaction with it is selecting which user is on the computer by way of a dialog box with radio buttons that appears if the system has been idle for a while and at system start up.
The problem with Nielsen NR (and the TV audience version, too) is that they're tracking only the people they have deployed tracking software/hardware to, which is only a segment of a cross section of the population.
This is like calling say, 150 people, at random from your local phone book, asking them questions about an issue/person/product and calling them your test market.
As someone pointed out, you can't be on much longer than 24 hours in a day. More than that though, once a portion of the population using a tool (the Internet in this case) reaches saturation, further growth is impossible among that group and so new ways must be found to draw in new groups of people.
At each step of the way, you're going to get plateaus.
microsoft doesnt conform to any standards
Why conform to existing standards when you can make your own?
Shooting upskirt photos isn't forbidden under Asimov's laws, it it?
Maybe in some of his earlier writings
Too bad there's not a mod point for porn potential, the shot of their demo panning up and down on the woman gave me the idea that this would be perfect for all manner of perversions. It's like an X10 on wheels.
In short, no.
Even if someone makes a browser that does everything designers AND developers want it to, it still won't do any good to those of us stuck supporting browsers that DON'T do all of it. The entire world is unlikely to switch instantly to the new wonder browser, leaving us to support legacy products.
Where I work our top tier browser/OS matrix is:
Win 98 - XP; IE5>, Mozilla 1.3>, Firefox 1>, Netscape 6.2>
Linux; Mozilla 1.3>, Firefox 1>, Netscape 6.2>
Mac OSX; Safari, IE 5.3>, Mozilla 1.3>, Firefox 1>, Netscape 6.2>
This is a nightmare to build, even worse to QA. Opera, ironically enough, is not in our top tier BECAUSE it rendered pages differently enough from the other browsers- even though we were authoring XHTML 1.0 trans and CSS2 compliant- that it got shunted to a lower tier of support.
If you pick any of those, IE would be the worst example, you can get different implementations between versions of how a page is supposed to render.
I think this is why a large portion of the pages on the Web are authored they way they are- the broadest reach for the narrowest buck.
Mac isn't the only brand with a cult. Build the world's best browser and you'll still have legions of people SWEARING that their choice in browser is the best, and pages that look like shit in it are due to the page not being written correctly rather than the browser's render engine using its own interpretation of WHAT the page is SUPPOSED to look like
On the cynical side, I think a browser that did everything that Web designers wanted might come out something like Homer's car.
Or Opera.
The same kind of thing was recently put into place on certain routes of the Washington State Ferries, one of which I use daily.
It's a really good idea, but I wonder if rail will have the same limitations I experience with our own system (boats).
Mobilisa's "Wireless Over Water" is cool- when we're in the slip or not too far from it. The trip I take is 35 minutes each way, the first 5-7 minutes and the last 5-7 minutes are awesome, but the whole time in between (from either Seattle or Bainbridge Island) is riddled with drop outs and disconnects.
Well, it's a boat in the middle of the water, you might say. Yes, but not really any different from a train that has to move between access points along its own route. If they put enough of them in, great, but on a bullet train how bad would it suck to have a drop out every few minutes while it moves from one hotspot to the next?
Yes of course the contractor implementing it will say that won't happen, but they said that about our in-commute Wi-Fi, too.
See also from Friday - right here.
Reading just the headline "Humans are Causing Global Warming" presents an interesting point itself. 6 billion plus people milling about would generate (I would think) a massive amount of heat by kinetic motion. I remember hearing that that big ass mall doesn't even have a heating system, people provide all the heat it needs. On smaller scales, my house gets hot enough when the family is over for Xmas that I have the heat off and windows open.
So, wouldn't it be possible, given the atmosphere above us acting as the enclosure, that all of us down here are rasing the temp?
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Your client is not allowed to access the requested object.
S'okay, I didn't want to look at your pictures any damn way.
With a compiled page the issue would never have happened.
With some kind of QA it would have never made it live
Jebus, did I actually write that?!
uh, since when do comments get compiled into the binary?
Uh, anytime the Web server isn't actually compiling pages, like pages written in a scripting language or interpreted markup.
Free RTOS has an open source RT kernel as well as some handy dandy how-tos and technical resources.
Keanu Reeves announced today that he himself will write, direct, produce, film and star in the Matrix Reloaded 2: Electric Boogaloo, despite legal threats from the Wachowski brothers. All roles will be played by him and will feature another hot scene between Neo (Reeves) and Trinity (Reeves) in a cave (Reeves). There will be no stunt or special effects work, everything you see will be real, or will it?, except the spoons.