Wow, I'm between "badass" and "moderately respectable". I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined. *sniffle*
He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones:
"It's almost as if people care more about expressing phonetical when writing more than gramatical accuracy and correct spelling."
I think you meant to say something like this: It's almost as if people, when writing, care about expressing phonetic accuracy more than grammatical accuracy and correct spelling.
A guy would have to reverse engineer the patented device in order to replicate it.
No, he'd just have to look at the patent. They're generally supposed to go into quite a bit of detail. I think in the past it was even neccessary to present a prototype to apply for a patent.
Sterling wrote another story about spontaneous mobs, "Deep Eddy", in A Good Old-Fashioned Future. There they took over entire cities, and they called them 'Wende's. Sort of like Mardi Gras, but unplanned. One character says (sort of like 'in soviet russia...') "You don't 'throw' a Wende. A Wende throws you."
Can anyone actually think of a useful expansion card that wouldn't duplicate something on a new motherboard (occasional firewire ommisions and scsi excluded)?
TV tuner card? Are there any motherboards with those integrated? I also think it's a good idea to keep a generic interface, like PCI, available, "just in case". There will always be something someone wants that the mobo manufacturers didn't think of.
My first thought when reading the/. article was "Why would anyone want to duplicate such an awful look?" They seem to use the rounded blue titlebars on the website, even. But when I got to the screenshots, they all had the win98 look. What gives? Do they have a setting (in XP or XPde) to change the look?
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they'd set off a Blue Screen of Death and earth would have been safe!
You mean Earth would have been in safe mode:-)
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The point with the jellyfish is that it both dries them out and turns the dried jellyfish into powder. RTA.
When I first read the title, I thought "Hitchhiker's Guide To Being Made Into A Movie" like the article was about a howto on being turned into a movie:)
on topic: Wasn't there already a movie made of this? Or was it just one book? (sorry for my ignorant attempt at on-topic-ness:)
how "useful" would a primitive wing that can't produce lift, can't grasp objects and can't forage for food have been for the species to have considered it a "beneficial mutation" to continue via natural selection?
Noone ever said that primitive wings couldn't grasp anything. Look at bats! They have little claws on their wings. As to how useful non-flying wings are, look at 'flying' squirrels. They probably started out with a squirrel with slightly webbed limbs who didn't hit the ground quite so hard when he missed a branch. Bigger webs got selected for, and eventually they were able to leap between more distant branches, by gliding.
Likely a similar thing happened with dinosaurs turning into birds. The more webbed ones could jump farther and fall farther without getting hurt, and eventually one of them decided to flap its webs and they became wings. Feathers are just longer, more flexible scales, that make flying even easier.
I do agree that what the robot in the article did was not evolution, it was learning. It wasn't even learning a particularly useful form of 'flying', either; it was attached to vertical poles!
name something that you can download with p2p legally that you can't download on a public website?
hence p2p is useless for legal reasons.
name something that you can download with ftp legally that you can't download via http?
hence (by your logic) ftp is useless for legal reasons.
Don't outlaw something just because its only legal uses can be done by something else. If we keep doing that, we'll end up removing everyone's teeth because they might bite someone, and they can chew their food with their fingernails:)
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Did anyone else misread this as:
more serious, lengthy German board games which last a few years
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Wow, I'm between "badass" and "moderately respectable". I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined. *sniffle*
He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones:
"It's almost as if people care more about expressing phonetical when writing more than gramatical accuracy and correct spelling."
I think you meant to say something like this:
It's almost as if people, when writing, care about expressing phonetic accuracy more than grammatical accuracy and correct spelling.
Actually his unit was Hz, not seconds, so his mistake was using 5.391 as opposed to 1/5.391.
;-)
The real frequency is something like 1.85494*10^43 Hz, according to my TI-89.
(P.S. I win at nitpicking
It was probably meant to be parsed "((new chipset)-based) motherboards", not "new (chipset-based) motherboards". English needs explicit scoping
You're just not making complicated enough scenes
Ein Volk, ein Riech, ein Fuehrer!
They have that. It's called page up and page down.
No, he'd just have to look at the patent. They're generally supposed to go into quite a bit of detail. I think in the past it was even neccessary to present a prototype to apply for a patent.
Fine. I'll just build my own internet, with blackjack, and hookers! In fact, forget the internet!
Not sure about TV out, but it has TV in if you want it. Read the chart on the first page:
RTA.
Sterling wrote another story about spontaneous mobs, "Deep Eddy", in A Good Old-Fashioned Future. There they took over entire cities, and they called them 'Wende's. Sort of like Mardi Gras, but unplanned. One character says (sort of like 'in soviet russia...') "You don't 'throw' a Wende. A Wende throws you."
TV tuner card? Are there any motherboards with those integrated? I also think it's a good idea to keep a generic interface, like PCI, available, "just in case". There will always be something someone wants that the mobo manufacturers didn't think of.
The C64 can use a TV set as a display. I'd say that's common hardware already.
No, I think it's 'lies'. see here, found in a google search.
I believe you can, you just need a boot disk that will in turn boot the cdrom. I think RedHat used to do this, I don't know if it still works...
My first thought when reading the /. article was "Why would anyone want to duplicate such an awful look?" They seem to use the rounded blue titlebars on the website, even. But when I got to the screenshots, they all had the win98 look. What gives? Do they have a setting (in XP or XPde) to change the look?
You mean Earth would have been in safe mode
The point with the jellyfish is that it both dries them out and turns the dried jellyfish into powder. RTA.
I don't know about you, but this (9th image from the top) sure looks like frost to me.
When I first read the title, I thought "Hitchhiker's Guide To Being Made Into A Movie" like the article was about a howto on being turned into a movie :)
:)
on topic:
Wasn't there already a movie made of this? Or was it just one book? (sorry for my ignorant attempt at on-topic-ness
Yes, it does. You have to press '/' then 'a' at bootup, when it gives the 'Wait' prompt. The options when you press '/' are:
q (x): Qtopia
a (e): Linux Console
e (e): init 3 (ttyS0:-free-)
r (e): init 4 (ttyS0:terminal)
t (e): init 5 (ttyS0:pppd)
Likely a similar thing happened with dinosaurs turning into birds. The more webbed ones could jump farther and fall farther without getting hurt, and eventually one of them decided to flap its webs and they became wings. Feathers are just longer, more flexible scales, that make flying even easier.
I do agree that what the robot in the article did was not evolution, it was learning. It wasn't even learning a particularly useful form of 'flying', either; it was attached to vertical poles!
hence (by your logic) ftp is useless for legal reasons.
Don't outlaw something just because its only legal uses can be done by something else. If we keep doing that, we'll end up removing everyone's teeth because they might bite someone, and they can chew their food with their fingernails