For home users I've been told my little system is as close to a "perfect computer" as they have ever had. Even the older P4 off lease office machines I sell end up with happy smiling customers because of my little trick. We geeks might like tearing into the guts of the OS and tweaking away, but the average Joe don't want to know about anything like that.
Well goddamnit Cletus if your there computer business ain't the best in the whole of the southern states.
The fact they are supporting Mac is a huge boon to me.
The basic fact is that supporting other OS platforms is going to be a huge PITA for them, OS X and Windows are fairly standardised, trying to offer support for Linux/BSD/Chrome/BeOS or whatever the fuck you run is counterproductive when you consider the percentage that will be using the service over the dramas and added costs it will take to implement.
says Claire Cranton, a GSM spokeswoman,...snip...To do this while supposedly being concerned about privacy is beyond me.'
Wow, how narrow minded and short sighted of you, not all people break, crack and hack stuff for nefarious means, seriously, are you that stupid that the reasoning behind this is "beyond you"? or is it that you think others are beneath you?
Some do it because they can, other to see if they can, and some to show narrow minded, short sighted execs what _could_ be done by those with the skills.
Wise up, listen and act instead of pointing fingers and jumping up and down.
But when the "respectable business" i.e. a restaurant, treats it's current customers like shit, drops food all over them then laughs, charges exorbitant prices for a greasy burger and fries, and has more than enough money to expand and accommodate new people, are they then really a respectable business?
A 5 megapixel CCD is still completely useless unless they fix the abysmal image quality issues.
My 3Gs has a 3.2 and should be more than capable of producing a nice photo.
It doesn't.
,quote.The glitter-sized solar sequins are made from crystalline silicon and use 100 times less material to generate the same amount of electricity as standard solar cells made from 6-inch square solar wafers
Does this mean they are also 100th of the size of a contemporary cell with the same output ratings?
If so, that's a very impressive figure and I would be quite excited about this tech.
The solar cells could be incorporated into unusual shapes and materials such as tents, building facades, and clothing, making it possible for people to recharge cell phones and other electronic devices as they walk around or rest.
The last thing I want to worry about whilst camping is even having a cell phone turned on, let alone recharging it.
I can't wait for someone to deregulate the Australian telco business.
I'm with Telstra due to my remote location, and I pay exorbitant prices for voice and data.
It's disgusting.
But for the love of God, and sweet Jesus titty-fucking Christ, can someone please get rid of the inane facefuck and twatter.
Am I the only one that despises these things?
It's not just american geeks who gained from him.
It's geeks all over the world mate.
It was translated into dozens of languages, ad shown in hundreds of countries http://www.gaire.com/trek/trivia.htm.url
Thats not to forget the hundreds of thousands of ooks published.
even if he was in print, scotty would still be pictured...
I post something, hoping to help.
I'm at work, busy, and therefore I get modded down as a troll, I have read slashdot for years, but only just started posting.
How far up their own arses do these moderators have to be to moderate a post as a troll when I'm trying to be informative, this has happened with some of my other posts also.
Fucking bunch of wankers is all I say.
Bollocks to the lot of you.
Alright, it would appear, that unlike a lot of you, I AM AT WORK!
I posted this to be helpful, but obviously, people have got more time to flame me about the formatting, and things that are already in the article, if it's that much of an issue, format it yourself you fucking lazy bitch.
Neal Stephenson: The Past Through Tomorrow August 2004
Neal Stephenson grew up in Iowa and graduated from Boston University in 1981 majoring in geography with a minor in physics. His first published novel The Big U, a college thriller with SF elements, appeared in 1984, followed by Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller (1988). Snow Crash (1992), a cyberpunk classic, made him a star in the SF field. He wrote two thrillers in collaboration with his uncle, George Jewsbury, under the name "Stephen Bury": Interface (1994) and Cobweb (1996), and published solo novel The Diamond Age, winner of the Hugo and Locus Awards, in 1995. Cryptonomicon followed in 1999; also a Locus Award winner, this massive, Pynchonesque novel of history and cryptography proved tremendously popular with SF fans. Later that year he
Photo by Charles N. Brown
www.nealstephenson.com
published In the Beginning...Was the Command Line, a non-fiction commentary on computers and culture. The past seven years were spent on the vast three-volume "Baroque Cycle", beginning with Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Quicksilver (2003) and followed by The Confusion (2004) and The System of the World (2004). These books, set in the 17th century and featuring historical characters like Leibniz and Newton along with the ancestors of characters from Cryptonomicon, are Stephenson's latest attempt to push the boundaries of SF. Stephenson lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife (married 1985) and their two children.
Excerpts from the interview:
"One of the defining characteristics of SF is that it's about worlds. You create a world first, and then you tell one or more stories in that world. That's why so frequently in SF, people will go back again and again to the same world and tell additional tales. That's kind of what's going on here. The world of the 'Baroque Cycle' happens to be 99% factual history, or as close as I can come to it, but what readers of this kind of fiction are looking for is the ability to become immersed in a different world. That's why there is a big crossover between historical fiction and SF. For me, the world-building process is part and parcel of writing. It's the only way I really know how to play this game. I guess that's why I feel so firmly that I'm in the SF camp, no matter where my work is set.
"I had been working on a future storyline connected to Cryptonomicon, but in attempting to write it I realized I needed to go back instead. So I did that, and it ended up taking seven years! The 'Baroque Cycle' project was never envisioned to be as big and long as it turned out to be. There's a line from Tolkien where he says, 'This tale grew in the telling.' I'm reluctant to quote that directly because it sounds like I'm copping an attitude, but that's what happened with this: it started out smaller and got bigger. I never slogged. I enjoyed every minute of writing it. Of course, I badly wanted to get to the end, but when I did, I was sad it was over. At various points along the line, I tried various superstitious tactics; at one point I said, 'I'm not gonna cut my hair until this thing is done.' I finally wound up on Christmas Eve 2003. A couple of weeks later I felt this overpowering need to have short hair again, so I just kept whacking until there was nothing left. And I plan to keep it that way."
*
"People keep asking me why I think of the 'Cycle' as science fiction. When I was a kid I used to read these huge anthologies of science fiction stories, and there would always be some oddball stories that were set during the Crusades, or with cave men, or what have you. They weren't overtly science fiction, but there didn't seem to be any doubt in anyone's mind that they belonged. I make an analogy to cycling through stations on the FM dial, trying to get something other than morning talk show idiocy: when I come to a jazz station, I know within less than a second that what I am hearing is jazz. There's a particular aesthetic impression you get from jazz that you can identify and recognize right away. It's the same with SF -- once you get used to it
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For home users I've been told my little system is as close to a "perfect computer" as they have ever had. Even the older P4 off lease office machines I sell end up with happy smiling customers because of my little trick. We geeks might like tearing into the guts of the OS and tweaking away, but the average Joe don't want to know about anything like that.
Well goddamnit Cletus if your there computer business ain't the best in the whole of the southern states.
In what is billed as a world first, a life-size robotic girlfriend complete with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin
Can we send it in for a full refund? Or will they issue a patch to correct this flaw?
The fact they are supporting Mac is a huge boon to me. The basic fact is that supporting other OS platforms is going to be a huge PITA for them, OS X and Windows are fairly standardised, trying to offer support for Linux/BSD/Chrome/BeOS or whatever the fuck you run is counterproductive when you consider the percentage that will be using the service over the dramas and added costs it will take to implement.
Maximum surface area for adverts and branding!
says Claire Cranton, a GSM spokeswoman,...snip...To do this while supposedly being concerned about privacy is beyond me.'
Wow, how narrow minded and short sighted of you, not all people break, crack and hack stuff for nefarious means, seriously, are you that stupid that the reasoning behind this is "beyond you"? or is it that you think others are beneath you? Some do it because they can, other to see if they can, and some to show narrow minded, short sighted execs what _could_ be done by those with the skills. Wise up, listen and act instead of pointing fingers and jumping up and down.
But when the "respectable business" i.e. a restaurant, treats it's current customers like shit, drops food all over them then laughs, charges exorbitant prices for a greasy burger and fries, and has more than enough money to expand and accommodate new people, are they then really a respectable business?
A 5 megapixel CCD is still completely useless unless they fix the abysmal image quality issues. My 3Gs has a 3.2 and should be more than capable of producing a nice photo. It doesn't.
Does this mean they are also 100th of the size of a contemporary cell with the same output ratings? If so, that's a very impressive figure and I would be quite excited about this tech.
The solar cells could be incorporated into unusual shapes and materials such as tents, building facades, and clothing, making it possible for people to recharge cell phones and other electronic devices as they walk around or rest.
The last thing I want to worry about whilst camping is even having a cell phone turned on, let alone recharging it.
Schmidt was an advisor to President Bush on cyber-security matters.
Well I for one hope that he knows how to use The Googles to make sure the Internets is secure.
How do they plan on dealing with the ah, excess males? Send them off to war?
You should perhaps be more concerned about this comment than you currently are....
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/3125598008_6e1055dcd2.jpg
Isn't it wonderful when Christian fundamentalists prove themselves to be hypocrytical scum. This man makes my skin crawl. http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/conroy-birth-prompts-review-of-surrogacy-laws/2006/11/07/1162661685121.html
I can't wait for someone to deregulate the Australian telco business. I'm with Telstra due to my remote location, and I pay exorbitant prices for voice and data. It's disgusting.
But for the love of God, and sweet Jesus titty-fucking Christ, can someone please get rid of the inane facefuck and twatter. Am I the only one that despises these things?
But I don't have a Donkey?
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:http://davyd. angrygoats.net/gnome-2-8/
There ya go!
It's not just american geeks who gained from him. It's geeks all over the world mate. It was translated into dozens of languages, ad shown in hundreds of countries http://www.gaire.com/trek/trivia.htm.url Thats not to forget the hundreds of thousands of ooks published. even if he was in print, scotty would still be pictured...
buy buy.
A cluster cluster.... Now if you used it to format a hard drive, would that be a cluster fsck?
I post something, hoping to help. I'm at work, busy, and therefore I get modded down as a troll, I have read slashdot for years, but only just started posting. How far up their own arses do these moderators have to be to moderate a post as a troll when I'm trying to be informative, this has happened with some of my other posts also. Fucking bunch of wankers is all I say. Bollocks to the lot of you.
Alright, it would appear, that unlike a lot of you, I AM AT WORK! I posted this to be helpful, but obviously, people have got more time to flame me about the formatting, and things that are already in the article, if it's that much of an issue, format it yourself you fucking lazy bitch.
Neal Stephenson: The Past Through Tomorrow August 2004 Neal Stephenson grew up in Iowa and graduated from Boston University in 1981 majoring in geography with a minor in physics. His first published novel The Big U, a college thriller with SF elements, appeared in 1984, followed by Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller (1988). Snow Crash (1992), a cyberpunk classic, made him a star in the SF field. He wrote two thrillers in collaboration with his uncle, George Jewsbury, under the name "Stephen Bury": Interface (1994) and Cobweb (1996), and published solo novel The Diamond Age, winner of the Hugo and Locus Awards, in 1995. Cryptonomicon followed in 1999; also a Locus Award winner, this massive, Pynchonesque novel of history and cryptography proved tremendously popular with SF fans. Later that year he Photo by Charles N. Brown www.nealstephenson.com published In the Beginning...Was the Command Line, a non-fiction commentary on computers and culture. The past seven years were spent on the vast three-volume "Baroque Cycle", beginning with Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Quicksilver (2003) and followed by The Confusion (2004) and The System of the World (2004). These books, set in the 17th century and featuring historical characters like Leibniz and Newton along with the ancestors of characters from Cryptonomicon, are Stephenson's latest attempt to push the boundaries of SF. Stephenson lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife (married 1985) and their two children. Excerpts from the interview: "One of the defining characteristics of SF is that it's about worlds. You create a world first, and then you tell one or more stories in that world. That's why so frequently in SF, people will go back again and again to the same world and tell additional tales. That's kind of what's going on here. The world of the 'Baroque Cycle' happens to be 99% factual history, or as close as I can come to it, but what readers of this kind of fiction are looking for is the ability to become immersed in a different world. That's why there is a big crossover between historical fiction and SF. For me, the world-building process is part and parcel of writing. It's the only way I really know how to play this game. I guess that's why I feel so firmly that I'm in the SF camp, no matter where my work is set. "I had been working on a future storyline connected to Cryptonomicon, but in attempting to write it I realized I needed to go back instead. So I did that, and it ended up taking seven years! The 'Baroque Cycle' project was never envisioned to be as big and long as it turned out to be. There's a line from Tolkien where he says, 'This tale grew in the telling.' I'm reluctant to quote that directly because it sounds like I'm copping an attitude, but that's what happened with this: it started out smaller and got bigger. I never slogged. I enjoyed every minute of writing it. Of course, I badly wanted to get to the end, but when I did, I was sad it was over. At various points along the line, I tried various superstitious tactics; at one point I said, 'I'm not gonna cut my hair until this thing is done.' I finally wound up on Christmas Eve 2003. A couple of weeks later I felt this overpowering need to have short hair again, so I just kept whacking until there was nothing left. And I plan to keep it that way." * "People keep asking me why I think of the 'Cycle' as science fiction. When I was a kid I used to read these huge anthologies of science fiction stories, and there would always be some oddball stories that were set during the Crusades, or with cave men, or what have you. They weren't overtly science fiction, but there didn't seem to be any doubt in anyone's mind that they belonged. I make an analogy to cycling through stations on the FM dial, trying to get something other than morning talk show idiocy: when I come to a jazz station, I know within less than a second that what I am hearing is jazz. There's a particular aesthetic impression you get from jazz that you can identify and recognize right away. It's the same with SF -- once you get used to it
Not really, no.
Not even one post and it's slashdotted... Maybe it's a problem with my browser?
Or the ones that run very fast. Away drom the drug testing officials.