Erm, there is a major problem, and it's to do with attitudes like yours.
Ever wondered why the rest of the world treats the US as a threat? It's because when Americans get in a group known as 'Government', they become obsessive patriots who cannot see beyond the US borders and the "might" of the "god-blessed stars and stripes" of the "noble country" that is the USA.
The fear is perfectly logical, no other country thinks they have the right to rule the world, and no other country to my knowledge has such a background of being generally self-righteous assholes.
Not to say that Americans aren't fine, some of my best friends are American. It's just when you get in groups you suddenly become completely immune to common sense.
I trust China over the US, at least they're open and efficient about censorship. The US needs 14 think-tanks, 3 government surveys, 12 months, $250,000 and a lot of secrecy to censor anything. Unless someone says it's going to "harm the children", in which case it's deal with in 2 days despite evidence to the contrary.
Strange, last time I plugged a Mac into my Windows/Linux network it took about 30 seconds to orient itself, then got on with life. It could browse, access Samba shares, print, and even talk iTunes using Rendezvous to our Windows machines.
It's your network, sorry but it is. I'm no Mac zealot, although I do think they're a really nice system, but I have never seen a Mac fail to deal with networks elegantly and quickly.
As for the PHP/mySQL powered website - what on earth does that have to do with anything? That *is* your problem, and has jack all to do with Mac/Windows/Linux issues.
What makes/models were you using? I know that certain configs on Macs don't like playing with certain protocols, but they are usually proprietary. Standard communication methods always work for me and everyone else I know.
It's not even teenie-pop crap. The latest mainstream teenie-pop crap is some 6 months old, nowadays it's all crotch-grabbing arm-waving bling-wearing 'rapping' to some 2 bars of synthetic drums put on repeat.
Grammatically it's fine, "write my congressman" means the same as "write to my congressman", at least in most locations. I suppose it's down to personal preference.
Standard MS procedure is that beta software expires. The anti-spyware beta expired, as did alphas and betas of Windows 2000 and Windows XP which I have.
Also, my Longhorn tech release has an expiry date (Can't remember what tho, and can't be bothered reinstalling to find out).
I think this is just to stop people from being foolish and leaving beta software on their systems when there's a newer version out.
Vegetating bit aside, no it couldn't. The human brain is very very *very* fast, but not for a lot of things requiring thought. The day-to-day operation of a body requires massive amounts of capacity and rapid turnaround of signals, and your brain can beat 99% of PCs in tasks such as facial recognition.
This is because it's optimised for something entirely different. Building a virtual brain along the same lines as a human brain will show a similar pattern, it would take a long time to reshuffle into a pattern of behaviour to do different tasks quickly.
Hey, I agree with the guy! After finding the address of the person I wrote a letter to by the digitally zoomed image in a mirror, they could look on the envelope gum for DNA and track me down in seconds.
It plays merry hell with any kind of shared networking (Bridges, ICS etc.) which prompted me to go out and buy a load of networking kit to just bypass the domain controller.
Aside from that, it seems fairly solid. I haven't noticed anything abruptly stop working.
On a side note - the Security Wizard it ships with is a load of balls, touch it not!
Installing XPSP2 does a lot of this - unless you run Automatic Updates, a firewall of some flavour, and an antivirus, then it will complain.
XPSP2 is one of the nicest things to come out of MS in a very, very long time (I'm using an IntelliMouse Optical, it's nice...) in that it practically forces people to turn the goddamn updates on, and let the firewall do its job. If not, it will bitch at you until either a. you fix it or b. you get a pro around to tell it that you don't want bitching at.
Personally, I feel that OSS has plenty of missionaries. Sadly they're all the kind who beat on your door then wax lyrical about something you don't care about.
OSS needs the missionaries who can go and get people interested on what they find useful.
For example, Firefox. Don't go banging on about security vs. IE, and the fact it has no ActiveX, because they don't care. Show people tabbed browsing and they're hooked.
Unless they've got some very, very, *very* clever electronics and a load of overly complex joints, most walkers (and certainly anything bipedal) would be susceptible to a push. As of yet I've seen no way to fit the required dimensions of movement on enough joints without each joint casing being the size of a watermelon.
Think about it, some joints (such as elbows) are simple hinges, but something like a hip joint has to roll the 'leg' forwards and backwards, side to side, rotate, and do all these on 'instinct' and fast enough to compensate for what happened.
I'll stick with my good solid prod to the kidneys for disabling the gun-toting bipedal robots of the future.
This is why things like The Office (Original UK, not the abysmal failure which was the US series) are funny yet painful at the same time, because you actually associate with the characters.
How long until Google invites the creators to join the team for coming up with such a great idea? Or failing that, aquire the rights to the concept and implement it.
Google have a habit of doing great things with software they get hold of, can't wait to see what they do with this.
I'm with you on this, I'm currently looking at getting a Mac simply because iTunes and iPod are so slick at working together, and given Apple's reputation for keeping on at something until they get it right (along with a quick prod at OS X) I think it's safe to assume everything is just seamless.
Since the easiest way to keep people alive in the 'lift' is to have life support for the journey, plus extra backup, in there with you then the problem of running out of oxygen becomes no more so than in regular space travel (if not less).
As for getting stuck - how? This is a serious question, since the lifting gear would be contained within the 'lift' as well. If motors fail, make sure the design includes the capacity to disengage those motors from the cable and run on a backup.
If all else fails, attach a 'lifeboat' to the bottom of the cable, send it up to dock with the 'lift', and then bring it back down. Deal with the higher mass 'lift' by sending a 'tug' up when the people are out safely.
If all else fails, send up the 'lifeboat' with re-entry capabilities. Or even build one onto the main 'lift' body.
I absolutely adore the way that people don't have the balls to post with a username any more.
The whole point of Open Source is that people have CHOICES ABOUT WHAT THEY USE TO DO A TASK. If they don't like it they can tweak the code so it does what they want.
Last time I checked, using BitKeeper constituted a CHOICE on the part of Linus. One of the core principles behind OSS.
CVS is abysmal, and Subversion doesn't fit the Linux development model. Proprietary software may be evil, but if it's the best tool for the task then why should people deal with inferior OSS crap, which may need serious hacking to make it do what they want, when there's the option - the CHOICE - of using proprietary software?
Yes, but things in the US aren't sold for $5 just because it's equivalent to the £2. In fact, the actual cost in real terms was less in the US than here in the UK. At least where I travelled (Arizona/Utah/Nevada) most micropayment things weren't selling for $5.
$5 is not really a suitable amount for coins, in the UK although $5 coins do exist and are legal tender they never replaced £5 notes, since most things are either best paid for by burning your existing change or breaking into a £5 note.
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Erm, there is a major problem, and it's to do with attitudes like yours.
Ever wondered why the rest of the world treats the US as a threat? It's because when Americans get in a group known as 'Government', they become obsessive patriots who cannot see beyond the US borders and the "might" of the "god-blessed stars and stripes" of the "noble country" that is the USA.
The fear is perfectly logical, no other country thinks they have the right to rule the world, and no other country to my knowledge has such a background of being generally self-righteous assholes.
Not to say that Americans aren't fine, some of my best friends are American. It's just when you get in groups you suddenly become completely immune to common sense.
I trust China over the US, at least they're open and efficient about censorship. The US needs 14 think-tanks, 3 government surveys, 12 months, $250,000 and a lot of secrecy to censor anything. Unless someone says it's going to "harm the children", in which case it's deal with in 2 days despite evidence to the contrary.
Strange, last time I plugged a Mac into my Windows/Linux network it took about 30 seconds to orient itself, then got on with life. It could browse, access Samba shares, print, and even talk iTunes using Rendezvous to our Windows machines.
It's your network, sorry but it is. I'm no Mac zealot, although I do think they're a really nice system, but I have never seen a Mac fail to deal with networks elegantly and quickly.
As for the PHP/mySQL powered website - what on earth does that have to do with anything? That *is* your problem, and has jack all to do with Mac/Windows/Linux issues.
What makes/models were you using? I know that certain configs on Macs don't like playing with certain protocols, but they are usually proprietary. Standard communication methods always work for me and everyone else I know.
It's not even teenie-pop crap. The latest mainstream teenie-pop crap is some 6 months old, nowadays it's all crotch-grabbing arm-waving bling-wearing 'rapping' to some 2 bars of synthetic drums put on repeat.
Grammatically it's fine, "write my congressman" means the same as "write to my congressman", at least in most locations. I suppose it's down to personal preference.
+1 Accurate
Standard MS procedure is that beta software expires. The anti-spyware beta expired, as did alphas and betas of Windows 2000 and Windows XP which I have.
Also, my Longhorn tech release has an expiry date (Can't remember what tho, and can't be bothered reinstalling to find out).
I think this is just to stop people from being foolish and leaving beta software on their systems when there's a newer version out.
The iPod certainly does. Turn off auto-sync (ie put it onto full manual load) then just select from the iPod and drag onto the local library.
DRM tunes won't play until you authorise that specific machine to the account they were bought on though.
Vegetating bit aside, no it couldn't. The human brain is very very *very* fast, but not for a lot of things requiring thought. The day-to-day operation of a body requires massive amounts of capacity and rapid turnaround of signals, and your brain can beat 99% of PCs in tasks such as facial recognition.
This is because it's optimised for something entirely different. Building a virtual brain along the same lines as a human brain will show a similar pattern, it would take a long time to reshuffle into a pattern of behaviour to do different tasks quickly.
Hey, I agree with the guy! After finding the address of the person I wrote a letter to by the digitally zoomed image in a mirror, they could look on the envelope gum for DNA and track me down in seconds.
It plays merry hell with any kind of shared networking (Bridges, ICS etc.) which prompted me to go out and buy a load of networking kit to just bypass the domain controller.
Aside from that, it seems fairly solid. I haven't noticed anything abruptly stop working.
On a side note - the Security Wizard it ships with is a load of balls, touch it not!
Installing XPSP2 does a lot of this - unless you run Automatic Updates, a firewall of some flavour, and an antivirus, then it will complain.
XPSP2 is one of the nicest things to come out of MS in a very, very long time (I'm using an IntelliMouse Optical, it's nice...) in that it practically forces people to turn the goddamn updates on, and let the firewall do its job. If not, it will bitch at you until either a. you fix it or b. you get a pro around to tell it that you don't want bitching at.
It's called H2G2 Mobile, and a Palm with WiFi
You're allowed to copy, but you have to get half of it from someone else.
Unauthorised changes will be punished by immediate confusion, lack of essential faculties, or wetting of pants.
Personally, I feel that OSS has plenty of missionaries. Sadly they're all the kind who beat on your door then wax lyrical about something you don't care about.
OSS needs the missionaries who can go and get people interested on what they find useful.
For example, Firefox. Don't go banging on about security vs. IE, and the fact it has no ActiveX, because they don't care. Show people tabbed browsing and they're hooked.
Unless they've got some very, very, *very* clever electronics and a load of overly complex joints, most walkers (and certainly anything bipedal) would be susceptible to a push. As of yet I've seen no way to fit the required dimensions of movement on enough joints without each joint casing being the size of a watermelon.
Think about it, some joints (such as elbows) are simple hinges, but something like a hip joint has to roll the 'leg' forwards and backwards, side to side, rotate, and do all these on 'instinct' and fast enough to compensate for what happened.
I'll stick with my good solid prod to the kidneys for disabling the gun-toting bipedal robots of the future.
This is why things like The Office (Original UK, not the abysmal failure which was the US series) are funny yet painful at the same time, because you actually associate with the characters.
How long until Google invites the creators to join the team for coming up with such a great idea? Or failing that, aquire the rights to the concept and implement it.
Google have a habit of doing great things with software they get hold of, can't wait to see what they do with this.
I'm with you on this, I'm currently looking at getting a Mac simply because iTunes and iPod are so slick at working together, and given Apple's reputation for keeping on at something until they get it right (along with a quick prod at OS X) I think it's safe to assume everything is just seamless.
Because he can. That's the whole point!
The proprietary OS didn't do what he wanted, so he wrote a kernel. However, BitKeeper did what he wanted better than the OSS ones, so he used that.
Yes, but who'd choose the curtains?
Since the easiest way to keep people alive in the 'lift' is to have life support for the journey, plus extra backup, in there with you then the problem of running out of oxygen becomes no more so than in regular space travel (if not less).
As for getting stuck - how? This is a serious question, since the lifting gear would be contained within the 'lift' as well. If motors fail, make sure the design includes the capacity to disengage those motors from the cable and run on a backup.
If all else fails, attach a 'lifeboat' to the bottom of the cable, send it up to dock with the 'lift', and then bring it back down. Deal with the higher mass 'lift' by sending a 'tug' up when the people are out safely.
If all else fails, send up the 'lifeboat' with re-entry capabilities. Or even build one onto the main 'lift' body.
I absolutely adore the way that people don't have the balls to post with a username any more.
The whole point of Open Source is that people have CHOICES ABOUT WHAT THEY USE TO DO A TASK. If they don't like it they can tweak the code so it does what they want.
Last time I checked, using BitKeeper constituted a CHOICE on the part of Linus. One of the core principles behind OSS.
CVS is abysmal, and Subversion doesn't fit the Linux development model. Proprietary software may be evil, but if it's the best tool for the task then why should people deal with inferior OSS crap, which may need serious hacking to make it do what they want, when there's the option - the CHOICE - of using proprietary software?
Yes, but things in the US aren't sold for $5 just because it's equivalent to the £2. In fact, the actual cost in real terms was less in the US than here in the UK. At least where I travelled (Arizona/Utah/Nevada) most micropayment things weren't selling for $5.
"Ihts bad eenuhf that wirdz arnt spehld ehkzaktlee haoo thehee sownd, buht swahping lehtirz for no gud reesuhn shud bee avoeedihd wehnehver pahsihbuhl."
Exactly. So why center, when centre had already been used for hundreds of years?
As for aluminum/aluminium - how on earth can you just lose a syllable?
$5 is not really a suitable amount for coins, in the UK although $5 coins do exist and are legal tender they never replaced £5 notes, since most things are either best paid for by burning your existing change or breaking into a £5 note.