For the past year I have had a hard-core right-winger as a guest in my house. I can tell you that there is no lack of right-wing blogs, they just spew hatred and rarely include any fact-checking. My guess is that these blogs are a primary source of venom for the serpentine email networks.
Absolutely! Think about the TV ad. People look like they are having fun flipping their Wii controllers around. That's good marketing. Now think about the TV ad for a brain-only controller. Oooh, scary!
I think the ideal would be a device that combines full body gestures with brain activity. This could use a Wii-like controller or even better, motion sensitive gloves with AR-style sensors that detect finger position. This gives you natural pushing, pulling, grasping, throwing, object swinging, waving, and bird-flipping!
It was a limitation of DOS and the Intel chipset of the day that . From Wikipedia...
The 640 KiB barrier is an aspect of the IBM PC and compatibles when running under MS-DOS, which could only address up to 640 KiB of memory for running applications. This is due to an architectural limitation of the Intel 8088 CPU, used in the original IBM PC.The 8088 and 8086 were only capable of addressing 1024 KiB of memory (220 bytes), since the chip offered only 20 address lines; of these 1024 KiB, IBM reserved the upper 384 KiB for system purposes -- the Upper Memory Area. This left only the lower 640 KiB for user programs and data.
If this worked, I would like to take all of our historical transcripts from white house press conferences, political debates, fireside chats, etc (with attribution to source) and run them through the truth processor. Could we then chart how much more/less truthfull politicians are today than in the past? Could we chart the propensity of individual politicians and staffers to lie as their careers progress?
On the other hand, what is the measuring stick for truth? If it is simply to weigh the number of supporting statements vs opposing statements on the Web, then we can look forward to a massive campaign to spam the Internet with political lies (not that this doesn't already happen).
They are free to extend all they want as long as they do not use their dominant market position to force those extensions on their customers to unfairly place burdens on their competitors.
That's true. Embracing and extending would never have been a problem if it weren't for the propensity of Microsoft to force the extensions on their customers and unfairly place burdens on their competitors. Uh, how is this good news again?
Does anyone have a good **long** list of Microsoft's idea theft misdeeds? It would be fun to make a mock award show for the thought thieves competition. "And the winner is..."
I am fascinated to hear that more gospels may be revealed. The Gospel of Thomas was enlightening and actually led me to a better understanding of mainstream Christianity. Non-ecumenical gospels are fascinating because they haven't been highly tainted through interpretations and translations.
it's unclear why Dashboard widgets can't simply work on the normal Mac desktop (which is how Konfabulator works, incidentally). Having to move into and out of the Dashboard to perform these tasks seems a bit unnecessary. Why segregate them like that?
Um, because the dashboard is convenient and reduces desktop clutter. Because you can also run widgets in your web browser if you want to.
How do you know those are breasts? They could contain ink for a hasty get-away. They could be bouyancy controlling air sacks. Just really conveniently placed air sacks.
I see Linux and OS X as complementary products, not strictly as competitors. The spread of Linux is helping businesses to see that it doesn't have to be a Windows-only world, this helps Apple. Also, Apple is strong in education. With kids learning about computers on OS X they'll have less fear of using other Unix variants, this helps Linux/*BSD. I have used Macs for a long time, my early experience learning about OS X v10.0 lead me to buy my first-ever x86 pc ($99 used) so that I could play with various Linux distros.
Can you drag and drop in sphere mode? I find that this is one of the most useful aspects of OS X. I love being able to clear 20 windows off the screen for a moment, grab a file from the desktop, then instantly tile all 20 windows so I can drop the file on any one of them. This would also be cool in a sphere.
All you have to do is look at the face image on the shroud. It is a completely orthogonal image. If the shroud was wrapped in any way around a person's face, there is no way that the image could have been generated.
Hey kids, you can try this at home. Just wet your face and lightly wrap a paper towel around it for a second and then see if you recognize yourself in the image.
I knew that OS X inherits from NeXT, but I was surprised by the similarities. This also makes me believe that OS X is more mature than I had previously thought.
Commodity market realities are settling in at Apple. Now that Apple is entering the commodity market, the demand curve for upgrades and services has actually shifted to the left. This is largely because their new customers aren't factoring the value of professional installation service into their decision. Apple is used to dealing with a hyper-loyal, price-insensitive customer base that is happy to pay more for perceived value of Apple services. This is not true of switchers whose last computer was a Compaq or a Dell.
You have to go back a long way to see Steve Jobs out of uniform. He's actually wearing a button down shirt and bow tie. Reality distortion field still in full effect, however.
You could be right. Unless Massachusetts whitelists *specific* open formats, there is no value in their current position.
Instead of just saying RTF, they should say "RTF reference implementation X that parses correctly on reference platform Y". In the case of XML, an open reference platform is necessary and they should maintain a whitelist of specific DTDs.
Someday, I hope to see artists successfully and profitably release songs to the Internet unencumbered by industry contracts. When I think about it, pretty much all of the functions of the industry can be replicated effectively by the Internet community today (promotion, sales, distribution, etc). The only things missing are a centralized ratings system and a standard business model. These are not technical hurdles as much as they are problems of critical mass. I think that the more lame and generic industry 'hits' become, the better the chances for a new and better music paradigm.
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Open up some old/busted VCRs. You'll be surprised how many goodies are in there. The older the better.
For the past year I have had a hard-core right-winger as a guest in my house. I can tell you that there is no lack of right-wing blogs, they just spew hatred and rarely include any fact-checking. My guess is that these blogs are a primary source of venom for the serpentine email networks.
Oh, and mod parent funny!
Absolutely! Think about the TV ad. People look like they are having fun flipping their Wii controllers around. That's good marketing. Now think about the TV ad for a brain-only controller. Oooh, scary!
I think the ideal would be a device that combines full body gestures with brain activity. This could use a Wii-like controller or even better, motion sensitive gloves with AR-style sensors that detect finger position. This gives you natural pushing, pulling, grasping, throwing, object swinging, waving, and bird-flipping!
Have you tried opening your redacted (black text on black background) PDF file in a text editor? I suggest you try it. ;)
If this worked, I would like to take all of our historical transcripts from white house press conferences, political debates, fireside chats, etc (with attribution to source) and run them through the truth processor. Could we then chart how much more/less truthfull politicians are today than in the past? Could we chart the propensity of individual politicians and staffers to lie as their careers progress?
On the other hand, what is the measuring stick for truth? If it is simply to weigh the number of supporting statements vs opposing statements on the Web, then we can look forward to a massive campaign to spam the Internet with political lies (not that this doesn't already happen).
They are free to extend all they want as long as they do not use their dominant market position to force those extensions on their customers to unfairly place burdens on their competitors.
That's true. Embracing and extending would never have been a problem if it weren't for the propensity of Microsoft to force the extensions on their customers and unfairly place burdens on their competitors. Uh, how is this good news again?
In Soviet Russia, strategic targets hit you!
What does this mean for open standards?
Does anyone have a good **long** list of Microsoft's idea theft misdeeds? It would be fun to make a mock award show for the thought thieves competition. "And the winner is..."
Any nominations for runner up?
I use a 3rd party capture card for DVR just so I can make funny edits to clips from the shows that my friends watch. Can't do that with Tivo.
I am fascinated to hear that more gospels may be revealed. The Gospel of Thomas was enlightening and actually led me to a better understanding of mainstream Christianity. Non-ecumenical gospels are fascinating because they haven't been highly tainted through interpretations and translations.
it's unclear why Dashboard widgets can't simply work on the normal Mac desktop (which is how Konfabulator works, incidentally). Having to move into and out of the Dashboard to perform these tasks seems a bit unnecessary. Why segregate them like that?
Um, because the dashboard is convenient and reduces desktop clutter. Because you can also run widgets in your web browser if you want to.
How do you know those are breasts? They could contain ink for a hasty get-away. They could be bouyancy controlling air sacks. Just really conveniently placed air sacks.
No, that won't trigger a query to the MS activation registry. You're safe with Ghost.
Where are the videos of Carly Fiorina showing off the latest HP LaserJet?
There aren't any, and there never will be.
Makes me want to play with GNUstep. Only 2 lines of code for this simple app. The rest was built with the GUI, cool.
I see Linux and OS X as complementary products, not strictly as competitors. The spread of Linux is helping businesses to see that it doesn't have to be a Windows-only world, this helps Apple. Also, Apple is strong in education. With kids learning about computers on OS X they'll have less fear of using other Unix variants, this helps Linux/*BSD. I have used Macs for a long time, my early experience learning about OS X v10.0 lead me to buy my first-ever x86 pc ($99 used) so that I could play with various Linux distros.
Can you drag and drop in sphere mode? I find that this is one of the most useful aspects of OS X. I love being able to clear 20 windows off the screen for a moment, grab a file from the desktop, then instantly tile all 20 windows so I can drop the file on any one of them. This would also be cool in a sphere.
All you have to do is look at the face image on the shroud. It is a completely orthogonal image. If the shroud was wrapped in any way around a person's face, there is no way that the image could have been generated.
Hey kids, you can try this at home. Just wet your face and lightly wrap a paper towel around it for a second and then see if you recognize yourself in the image.
I knew that OS X inherits from NeXT, but I was surprised by the similarities. This also makes me believe that OS X is more mature than I had previously thought.
Commodity market realities are settling in at Apple. Now that Apple is entering the commodity market, the demand curve for upgrades and services has actually shifted to the left. This is largely because their new customers aren't factoring the value of professional installation service into their decision. Apple is used to dealing with a hyper-loyal, price-insensitive customer base that is happy to pay more for perceived value of Apple services. This is not true of switchers whose last computer was a Compaq or a Dell.
You have to go back a long way to see Steve Jobs out of uniform. He's actually wearing a button down shirt and bow tie. Reality distortion field still in full effect, however.
You could be right. Unless Massachusetts whitelists *specific* open formats, there is no value in their current position.
Instead of just saying RTF, they should say "RTF reference implementation X that parses correctly on reference platform Y". In the case of XML, an open reference platform is necessary and they should maintain a whitelist of specific DTDs.
Someday, I hope to see artists successfully and profitably release songs to the Internet unencumbered by industry contracts. When I think about it, pretty much all of the functions of the industry can be replicated effectively by the Internet community today (promotion, sales, distribution, etc). The only things missing are a centralized ratings system and a standard business model. These are not technical hurdles as much as they are problems of critical mass. I think that the more lame and generic industry 'hits' become, the better the chances for a new and better music paradigm.