The two reasons for ever-on PCs is either when the user doesn't like to wait the (in my case) minutes for the boot sequence to run through: whether that's Linux or Microsoft, it's far too long. (...)
Getting the the boot sequence to go down to a few seconds is a great step forwards, but after that I still need the following applications open: Mail, Browser, Media Player (and possibly a couple more, depending whether it's the work computer, home desktop, or home laptop). Plus having those apps' sessions just right.
A good sleep implementation allows you to easily pick up where you left off, which is still a serious advantage.
Maybe that's the real issue. Apple changes their stuff far too often, and in far too fundamental ways.
With Windows, I can try to figure out how to connect the machine to an LDAP server (for example), write a cheat sheet about it, and come back 3 years later on a new Windows machine, and my cheat sheet still applies.
If you were to write an "iTunes plugin cheatsheet", you'd find that 3 years later it'd still apply. Or, at least, this would seem to imply that the API has remained stable for almost 2 years. Instead of following the Device Plugin mechanism provided by Apple, Palm decided instead to resort to hackery to trick the application into believing the Pre is an iPhone. They also brazenly claimed they'd provide seamless integration with iTunes without actually getting Apple on board. Exactly how, or why, compatibility was broken is irrelevant: you should expect solutions based on hacking away at an application's internals to break frequently, which already fails to accomplish the premise of "seamless integration" without even getting on Apple's bad side. So, unless someone can convince me the API is unwarrantedly crippled, this choice by Palm is indefensible.
OK, I was under the impression that you actually needed to prove the statement, not just belief. A quick lookup yielded that that is indeed the case under UK electoral law, and the confusion was a matter of scope. Interestingly, you can still be sued for defamation under UK electoral law if you say something that is true, if you didn't actually know it to be true at the time you said it.
You got it wrong. In the US, it suffices that you believe your statements to be true. In the UK, belief isn't enough, you need to prove that what you said is actually true (it's this shift of burden of proof that characterizes affirmative defence, afaik).
For example, if I were to say "Techno-vampire goes out to bars dressed in drag", you could sue me for slander. In the US, if I could make a reasonable argument that I believed you to be a drag queen, I'd be off the hook. In the UK, actual proof that you had been in a bar while dressing in drag would be needed to successfully defend myself.
Saint Nicholas is a historical person who has simply had more myths and legends attach themselves to him than has George Washington, also still a historical person despite the Cherry Tree and Dollar across the Potommac stories.
The myth of Santa Claus has taken such a scale that, though Saint Nicholas might be a historical person, it's fair to say that Santa Claus is a separate entity, a myth based on a historical figure.
They disallow you from installing a standalone framework in the iPhone -- but that doesn't stop you from developing your application using said framework, and then statically linking the whole shebang. What Novell is offering is the toolchain necessary to produce binaries with.NET built-in.
Yeah, but these sharks with freaking lasers are just tomorrow's generation of kids with their freaking mobiles. In my days, if you wanted to talk, you had to get out of the water. Now get off my lawn.
All this time, I thought the iPhone was just an overhyped, overpriced smartphone that explodes. Now I see that, incredibly, it is doing some good:
From this data alone, it seems that it actually is doing something right: it would seem it's the first smartphone where people actually put the smartphone features to use.
Ok, perhaps "worked" should've read "handled". Still, what is considered mandatory for a course curriculum, and what constitutes elementary geek general knowledge are different things. Personally, I find that having an instinctive knowledge of what's happening when you play with coloured cellophane and a flash light is part of geekishness 101.
A great example is silver. In the very close UV, like 310 nm, it's completely transparent. Light goes thru it perfectly. by the time you get to Green light, it's over 90% effective at reflections
Silver? Screw that. Anybody in/. who has never worked with plain old optical filters that transmit/reflect at different parts of the visible spectrum should hand in his geek card.
I don't think it counts as "testing" if you just go over the existing data again rather than constructing an experiment that could actually falsify the hypothesis if it happens to be incorrect.
Going over existing data is only a problem if you actually used that data to produce the model. "Existing data" says absolutely nothing about how it was collected, and if the collection was useful enough, you can perfectly well reuse the data.
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I NEED A USB3.0 KYBOARD. I CAN TYP SO FAST THAT MY CRAPY USB2.0 KEYBORD WILL DROP THE OCCASONAL KEYSTROKE.
That's OK, once you're done typing the post that fast, you then have a few seconds to spellcheck it until slashdot will let you post.
The two reasons for ever-on PCs is either when the user doesn't like to wait the (in my case) minutes for the boot sequence to run through: whether that's Linux or Microsoft, it's far too long. (...)
Getting the the boot sequence to go down to a few seconds is a great step forwards, but after that I still need the following applications open: Mail, Browser, Media Player (and possibly a couple more, depending whether it's the work computer, home desktop, or home laptop). Plus having those apps' sessions just right.
A good sleep implementation allows you to easily pick up where you left off, which is still a serious advantage.
Wrong. OS X's kernel is based on Carnegie Mellon's Mach kernel, with a 4.3BSD userland, with some userland bits since ported over from FreeBSD.
What's next, airplanes with two or three sets of wings?
Been there. Done that. Minimalism is all the rave nowadays, like doing away with the freaking fuselage.
Aha, OK. That sucks then. :(
This iTunes lockout is really lame, but the USB-IF shouldn't have to be involved in it.
What lockout? Just because Palm decided to do it wrong doesn't mean there isn't a right way to do it.
They'll keep a lid on "their" collection of music that I've bought.
Hi there, and welcome to 2009, when neither iTMS and Amazon are DRM-encumbered.
Maybe that's the real issue. Apple changes their stuff far too often, and in far too fundamental ways.
With Windows, I can try to figure out how to connect the machine to an LDAP server (for example), write a cheat sheet about it, and come back 3 years later on a new Windows machine, and my cheat sheet still applies.
If you were to write an "iTunes plugin cheatsheet", you'd find that 3 years later it'd still apply. Or, at least, this would seem to imply that the API has remained stable for almost 2 years. Instead of following the Device Plugin mechanism provided by Apple, Palm decided instead to resort to hackery to trick the application into believing the Pre is an iPhone. They also brazenly claimed they'd provide seamless integration with iTunes without actually getting Apple on board. Exactly how, or why, compatibility was broken is irrelevant: you should expect solutions based on hacking away at an application's internals to break frequently, which already fails to accomplish the premise of "seamless integration" without even getting on Apple's bad side. So, unless someone can convince me the API is unwarrantedly crippled, this choice by Palm is indefensible.
Low Tech wasn't a requirement. Rather, the point was that, being low-tech, handwriting isn't vulnerable to a lot of things to which computers are.
OK, I was under the impression that you actually needed to prove the statement, not just belief. A quick lookup yielded that that is indeed the case under UK electoral law, and the confusion was a matter of scope. Interestingly, you can still be sued for defamation under UK electoral law if you say something that is true, if you didn't actually know it to be true at the time you said it.
You got it wrong. In the US, it suffices that you believe your statements to be true. In the UK, belief isn't enough, you need to prove that what you said is actually true (it's this shift of burden of proof that characterizes affirmative defence, afaik).
For example, if I were to say "Techno-vampire goes out to bars dressed in drag", you could sue me for slander. In the US, if I could make a reasonable argument that I believed you to be a drag queen, I'd be off the hook. In the UK, actual proof that you had been in a bar while dressing in drag would be needed to successfully defend myself.
Saint Nicholas is a historical person who has simply had more myths and legends attach themselves to him than has George Washington, also still a historical person despite the Cherry Tree and Dollar across the Potommac stories.
The myth of Santa Claus has taken such a scale that, though Saint Nicholas might be a historical person, it's fair to say that Santa Claus is a separate entity, a myth based on a historical figure.
incandescents have the advantage of putting off a lot of heat, if you're going to use one as a cheap heat lamp and light provider.
I'd rather my space heater didn't waste energy by turning it into light, thank you very much.
They disallow you from installing a standalone framework in the iPhone -- but that doesn't stop you from developing your application using said framework, and then statically linking the whole shebang. What Novell is offering is the toolchain necessary to produce binaries with .NET built-in.
Stuff 9? As in stuff 9 fingers? That's almost like fisting. Pervert!
'Jupiter's gravity captured a comet in the mid-20th century
Old news?
It's not very good for small systems, though, as it also takes up that much more space.
Yeah, but these sharks with freaking lasers are just tomorrow's generation of kids with their freaking mobiles. In my days, if you wanted to talk, you had to get out of the water. Now get off my lawn.
But the shoplifted copy would have DRM.
All this time, I thought the iPhone was just an overhyped, overpriced smartphone that explodes. Now I see that, incredibly, it is doing some good:
From this data alone, it seems that it actually is doing something right: it would seem it's the first smartphone where people actually put the smartphone features to use.
Ok, perhaps "worked" should've read "handled". Still, what is considered mandatory for a course curriculum, and what constitutes elementary geek general knowledge are different things. Personally, I find that having an instinctive knowledge of what's happening when you play with coloured cellophane and a flash light is part of geekishness 101.
I would have gotten a better pun as the first post, but my computer froze.
So you didn't get a good first post because your computer operated as intended?
A great example is silver. In the very close UV, like 310 nm, it's completely transparent. Light goes thru it perfectly. by the time you get to Green light, it's over 90% effective at reflections
Silver? Screw that. Anybody in /. who has never worked with plain old optical filters that transmit/reflect at different parts of the visible spectrum should hand in his geek card.
I don't think it counts as "testing" if you just go over the existing data again rather than constructing an experiment that could actually falsify the hypothesis if it happens to be incorrect.
Going over existing data is only a problem if you actually used that data to produce the model. "Existing data" says absolutely nothing about how it was collected, and if the collection was useful enough, you can perfectly well reuse the data.
A patent does not automatically mean that IBM won't license the technology
No, but a man can hope.