I see crashes on roughly a weekly basis. They generally happen when I a) get too click-happy (hitting bookmarks and the back button too many times in a short time) or b) when I leave pages using Java.
The Java is the less frequent of the two, and seems to be confined to pages containing multiple applets.
I find that when playing FPS games I can get away with a much lower screen resolution if the game has good sound. The "you are there" effect suffers less from a lack of pixels than it does a lack of sounds, smells, temperature...
...people will buy these disks, perhaps not even knowing they are HD-DVD compatible. Some time later, when shopping for a new DVD player, when the salesman says "and if you have any DVD-HD-DVD disks, you will get better quality from your existing disks!" thus sealing the deal for lots of people...
The problem that I see with this scenario is that if people do not realize that the discs are HD-DVD compatible when they buy them, they will not have a clue about it when the salesman mentions the "better quality" perk.
Three reasons for the difference in quality between business email and other forms of written communication immediately spring to mind.
1. In many companies (mine is one), email is a less intrusive replacement for face-to-face conversations. Rather than walk across the building to ask something that is not urgent, I will send an email and wait for the reply. In this context, email is replacing not written correspondence, but oral communication. Thus, I would expect it to mirror the latter, with the style of speech rather than writing.
2. Since a single email is a piece of something (the contents of a mailbox) rather than a standalone document (e.g., a Word document), it has less "weight" in the mind of many people and does not deserve as much time in construction. The fact that it is electronic exacerbates this. A former boss had nicely eloquent writing in Word, yet was consistently using words like "yo" and "shouldda" in email.
3. Many of the people sending email would not be preparing written documents 15 years ago (frequently for the reasons listed in my first point). Thus, comparing corporate literacy now to that in the past is far from apples-to-apples.
Of course, none of this is an excuse for the abysmal failures of grammar given in the article.
While manned space flight, and manned ventures by private corporations have quite a bit of PR sizzle, it seems to me that unmanned space flight has at least as much, if not more, to offer in a prize-based system such as this.
For one thing, I would imagine that much of the red tape would be lifted if a craft has nothing alive on board. (If nothing else, there would be no need for medical clearance.) In addition, the R&D costs could be smaller for the companies in the business of winning the prizes and their associated benefits.
As for the PR value, if I heard that a small company was going to do something like fling a camera around the moon and back, my attention would certainly be grabbed. While that may not be quite as flashy as a civilian going into space, it's no small feat, either.
Offhand, I would imagine that the expense of implementing such a system would outweigh the savings for the bank. That said, I would be delighted to use such a system.
I wonder to what degree federal regulations (in the U.S., that is) would affect the implementation of such a system. I know the health industry is all but strangled by red tape; does anyone have insight into the banking industry?
The article suggests that one of the main targets here is to accommodate third-party developers in creating multimedia applications for the handset device. (I'll leave the "should we?" argument on that one for another day.)
Decent quality multimedia on a handheld, however, is generally best obtained by utilizing the on-handset chips (e.g., MPEG-4 decoders) rather than "advanced software."
Unless handset manufacturers start standardizing on the chipsets (which I'm sure they'd all be happy to do... provided that they got a cut of the chipset sale), does Linux have benefits here that another OS doesn't?
Of course, if the "Yes-No-No-No-No-No..." poll taught us anything, it's that even when we have 10 mirrors to choose from, most of us will end up hitting the same mirror.
For the mirrors it's like a game of Russian roulette.
After all, you've never had monkeys fly out of your butt before, so therefore the longer you go without having monkeys fly out of your butt, the greater the chance that they eventually will, right?
The easiest counter there is that this logic would imply that the longer I go without dying, the less likely I am to die. And as much as I relish the idea, I just don't believe it.
That said, I desperately hope the avoid Monkey Butt Syndrome.
On the surface, I agree that the act is unlikely to hold up in court. The disturbing part, however, is that I was thinking the same thing when the first of the over-the-top DMCA suits were filed. But far too often those have stayed alive.
The problem here is in determining what programs a user intends to run. If a user agrees to run a given program, does that imply "permission" for that program to start other programs? Plenty of programs do this for legitimate reasons, so some provision has to be made, but carte blanche here wouldn't be any better.
On running as root, on the other hand, I have to agree. Other that a few special cases, there are simply too many reasons not to have administrative access on a day-to-day basis.
Slashdot Mirror
Reading that response, I completely expected to get to this Wikipedia entry.
I see crashes on roughly a weekly basis. They generally happen when I a) get too click-happy (hitting bookmarks and the back button too many times in a short time) or b) when I leave pages using Java.
The Java is the less frequent of the two, and seems to be confined to pages containing multiple applets.
Perhaps the Japanese can help with this one (the smell of Colorado still, not the smell of bunny-hopping).
I find that when playing FPS games I can get away with a much lower screen resolution if the game has good sound. The "you are there" effect suffers less from a lack of pixels than it does a lack of sounds, smells, temperature...
...people will buy these disks, perhaps not even knowing they are HD-DVD compatible. Some time later, when shopping for a new DVD player, when the salesman says "and if you have any DVD-HD-DVD disks, you will get better quality from your existing disks!" thus sealing the deal for lots of people...
The problem that I see with this scenario is that if people do not realize that the discs are HD-DVD compatible when they buy them, they will not have a clue about it when the salesman mentions the "better quality" perk.
1. In many companies (mine is one), email is a less intrusive replacement for face-to-face conversations. Rather than walk across the building to ask something that is not urgent, I will send an email and wait for the reply. In this context, email is replacing not written correspondence, but oral communication. Thus, I would expect it to mirror the latter, with the style of speech rather than writing.
2. Since a single email is a piece of something (the contents of a mailbox) rather than a standalone document (e.g., a Word document), it has less "weight" in the mind of many people and does not deserve as much time in construction. The fact that it is electronic exacerbates this. A former boss had nicely eloquent writing in Word, yet was consistently using words like "yo" and "shouldda" in email.
3. Many of the people sending email would not be preparing written documents 15 years ago (frequently for the reasons listed in my first point). Thus, comparing corporate literacy now to that in the past is far from apples-to-apples.
Of course, none of this is an excuse for the abysmal failures of grammar given in the article.
If Slashdot gets that interview, will we have to submit our questions in the form of answers?
While manned space flight, and manned ventures by private corporations have quite a bit of PR sizzle, it seems to me that unmanned space flight has at least as much, if not more, to offer in a prize-based system such as this.
For one thing, I would imagine that much of the red tape would be lifted if a craft has nothing alive on board. (If nothing else, there would be no need for medical clearance.) In addition, the R&D costs could be smaller for the companies in the business of winning the prizes and their associated benefits.
As for the PR value, if I heard that a small company was going to do something like fling a camera around the moon and back, my attention would certainly be grabbed. While that may not be quite as flashy as a civilian going into space, it's no small feat, either.
Whose cheek?
I wonder to what degree federal regulations (in the U.S., that is) would affect the implementation of such a system. I know the health industry is all but strangled by red tape; does anyone have insight into the banking industry?
Unless handset manufacturers start standardizing on the chipsets (which I'm sure they'd all be happy to do... provided that they got a cut of the chipset sale), does Linux have benefits here that another OS doesn't?
Of course, if the "Yes-No-No-No-No-No..." poll taught us anything, it's that even when we have 10 mirrors to choose from, most of us will end up hitting the same mirror. For the mirrors it's like a game of Russian roulette.
I think you start by putting S1m0ne and Aki Ross (from "Final Fantasy") in bikinis.
With one half of Watson & Crick gone, I'm pretty sure that we have to turn in one of our DNA helices. It's single helix time now...
After all, you've never had monkeys fly out of your butt before, so therefore the longer you go without having monkeys fly out of your butt, the greater the chance that they eventually will, right?
The easiest counter there is that this logic would imply that the longer I go without dying, the less likely I am to die. And as much as I relish the idea, I just don't believe it.
That said, I desperately hope the avoid Monkey Butt Syndrome.
On the surface, I agree that the act is unlikely to hold up in court. The disturbing part, however, is that I was thinking the same thing when the first of the over-the-top DMCA suits were filed. But far too often those have stayed alive.
Carpe technology? Sounds more like carpe tunnel!
The problem here is in determining what programs a user intends to run. If a user agrees to run a given program, does that imply "permission" for that program to start other programs? Plenty of programs do this for legitimate reasons, so some provision has to be made, but carte blanche here wouldn't be any better.
On running as root, on the other hand, I have to agree. Other that a few special cases, there are simply too many reasons not to have administrative access on a day-to-day basis.
Gmail may be a stunt, but Newsmap wouldn't be -- Google isn't behind it.