Sources say that the atmospheric pressure around the Google campus spiked severely this morning, causing the instantaneous implosion of more than 80% of the staff. Nearly all Google interns perished.
Rumors surrounding the event hint that the tragedy was the result of a bug in Google's new Weather Control System, currently in beta [weather.google.com].
Strangely, this story failed to make the front page of a popular online news forum due to their recent boycotting of Google news.
Why does/. post this kind of crap? This is so obviously a fake; the guy that posted the _original_ thread ( grab_grab) doesn't deserve this kind of publicity. Even respondents to the thread itself identify this obvious lie.
We at/. should have even higher standards. How dare we spread FUD around a Microsoft product when we condemn them for the same act?
Allowing this story to remain on the front page of/. is libelous and irresponsible. It should be removed, or at the very least, edited, as soon as possible.
Could now be the time that we finally get to test this idea in court? If a company must argue that they are not legally bound by the terms of their own EULA it could set a precedent allowing customers to argue the same thing.
The question is not what the machine _can_ do. The question is what it is designed to do. Don't get me wrong: this kind of announcement/prediction is plagued by buzzwords and vaporware; but the underlying concept is what makes Mac people so loyal and Linux people so elitist: unification.
Linux-based OS's are more capable than pretty much anything out there; but for people that don't live inside a computer, it's much harder. Macs (traditionally) are not as capable, but are usuable by pretty much anyone.
Don't get me wrong, I will, most likely, be just as interested as I was with Windows Media Center (read: not at all); but for some people, this could be great.
I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I'd hate to see a Star Trek series die like this, especially when there is no alternative (in the Star Trek universe) to take its place. I am one of the few who enjoy Enterprise; it has something that most of the others have lost out on: contiguous storylines. The 'Brady Bunch' syndrome of Voyager really got annoying.
Still, I'm afraid of what would happen if someone takes pity on the series. I am reminded of Stargate SG-1, the MGM masterpiece that turned quick-and-dirty sci-fi. I would hate for Enterprise to start reminding me of Andrommeda.
In your October 2004 interview with VNUnet.com you deny that Microsoft must compete with Linux in your operating systems, going so far as to say that 'nothing could be further from the truth.' With this in mind, why does Microsoft not aid in the development of API's designed to enable Linux-based operating systems to run Microsoft applications? If the Linux community and Microsoft are not competitors, as you claim, it seems to follow that collaboration on such projects as Wine (Win32) and Cedega (DirectX) would do nothing but benefit the community overall, and do much for future interoperability.
OK, lets be honest: I haven't read the article. Still, with the mention of 'dark matter,' I thought I'd ask the opinion of my fellow/.'rs.
From what I understand, the theory of 'dark matter' is the way we explain the existence of forces that seem to have no originating matter. We see the effects, but don't see the matter that is causing it. So we say that there is 'dark matter.'
Fast forward a few decades. We have this new thing called string theory. One part of string theory is that our force of gravity is not, as it seems, a force inferior to our other forces, but that gravity 'strings' do not have endpoints on our own plane, but in stead loop back upon themselves. This allows for the idea of gravity 'leaking' from our plane into parallel dimensions.
Here is my idea: if gravity can leak from our plane to parallel dimensions, isn't it plausable that forces might leak from parallel dimensions into our plane? Wouldn't that explain the apparently massless forces that we observe?
Actually, TDK has developed a 'new' coating for optical media (they call it 'Armor Plated') that supposedly prevents all scratch-related damage to data. They coat the disc with two layers of silica and a layerof fluorine resin. Though TDK hasn't revealed exactly how this protects the disc, those that have gotten their hands on the media have been 'unable to damage the disc at all,' attacking it with steel wool and permanent marker (it just wipes right off). Because of the promise of this technology, Sony has decided to forgo caddy-based media; and if Sony's that sure of it, I'm pretty inclined to trust it as well.
This is something that I have not understood from the get-go:
The way it was explained to me, while blu-ray is based on the combination of today's video compression technology with an advancement in optical technology (blue lasers), hd-dvd is based on the combination of today's optical technology (perhaps incrementally improved, I'm not sure) with an advancement in video compression (mpeg-4).
My question, then, is why is there this unnecessary competition? Why not combine these two standards bring to the table, using mpeg-4 on blue-laser optical media.
Of course, hd-dvd still has the benefit of being an easy manufacturing transition, but that didn't keep us from converting our tapes to cd's.
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Sources say that the atmospheric pressure around the Google campus spiked severely this morning, causing the instantaneous implosion of more than 80% of the staff. Nearly all Google interns perished.
Rumors surrounding the event hint that the tragedy was the result of a bug in Google's new Weather Control System, currently in beta [weather.google.com].
Strangely, this story failed to make the front page of a popular online news forum due to their recent boycotting of Google news.
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Why does /. post this kind of crap? This is so obviously a fake; the guy that posted the _original_ thread ( grab_grab) doesn't deserve this kind of publicity. Even respondents to the thread itself identify this obvious lie.
We at /. should have even higher standards. How dare we spread FUD around a Microsoft product when we condemn them for the same act?
Allowing this story to remain on the front page of /. is libelous and irresponsible. It should be removed, or at the very least, edited, as soon as possible.
Could now be the time that we finally get to test this idea in court? If a company must argue that they are not legally bound by the terms of their own EULA it could set a precedent allowing customers to argue the same thing.
The question is not what the machine _can_ do. The question is what it is designed to do. Don't get me wrong: this kind of announcement/prediction is plagued by buzzwords and vaporware; but the underlying concept is what makes Mac people so loyal and Linux people so elitist: unification.
Linux-based OS's are more capable than pretty much anything out there; but for people that don't live inside a computer, it's much harder. Macs (traditionally) are not as capable, but are usuable by pretty much anyone.
Don't get me wrong, I will, most likely, be just as interested as I was with Windows Media Center (read: not at all); but for some people, this could be great.
I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I'd hate to see a Star Trek series die like this, especially when there is no alternative (in the Star Trek universe) to take its place. I am one of the few who enjoy Enterprise; it has something that most of the others have lost out on: contiguous storylines. The 'Brady Bunch' syndrome of Voyager really got annoying.
Still, I'm afraid of what would happen if someone takes pity on the series. I am reminded of Stargate SG-1, the MGM masterpiece that turned quick-and-dirty sci-fi. I would hate for Enterprise to start reminding me of Andrommeda.
I've heard of something like that... I think it's called an 'X-Box.'
It probably won't catch on, though. Surely not.
In your October 2004 interview with VNUnet.com you deny that Microsoft must compete with Linux in your operating systems, going so far as to say that 'nothing could be further from the truth.' With this in mind, why does Microsoft not aid in the development of API's designed to enable Linux-based operating systems to run Microsoft applications? If the Linux community and Microsoft are not competitors, as you claim, it seems to follow that collaboration on such projects as Wine (Win32) and Cedega (DirectX) would do nothing but benefit the community overall, and do much for future interoperability.
OK, lets be honest: I haven't read the article. Still, with the mention of 'dark matter,' I thought I'd ask the opinion of my fellow /.'rs.
From what I understand, the theory of 'dark matter' is the way we explain the existence of forces that seem to have no originating matter. We see the effects, but don't see the matter that is causing it. So we say that there is 'dark matter.'
Fast forward a few decades. We have this new thing called string theory. One part of string theory is that our force of gravity is not, as it seems, a force inferior to our other forces, but that gravity 'strings' do not have endpoints on our own plane, but in stead loop back upon themselves. This allows for the idea of gravity 'leaking' from our plane into parallel dimensions.
Here is my idea: if gravity can leak from our plane to parallel dimensions, isn't it plausable that forces might leak from parallel dimensions into our plane? Wouldn't that explain the apparently massless forces that we observe?
Actually, TDK has developed a 'new' coating for optical media (they call it 'Armor Plated') that supposedly prevents all scratch-related damage to data. They coat the disc with two layers of silica and a layerof fluorine resin. Though TDK hasn't revealed exactly how this protects the disc, those that have gotten their hands on the media have been 'unable to damage the disc at all,' attacking it with steel wool and permanent marker (it just wipes right off). Because of the promise of this technology, Sony has decided to forgo caddy-based media; and if Sony's that sure of it, I'm pretty inclined to trust it as well.
This is something that I have not understood from the get-go: The way it was explained to me, while blu-ray is based on the combination of today's video compression technology with an advancement in optical technology (blue lasers), hd-dvd is based on the combination of today's optical technology (perhaps incrementally improved, I'm not sure) with an advancement in video compression (mpeg-4). My question, then, is why is there this unnecessary competition? Why not combine these two standards bring to the table, using mpeg-4 on blue-laser optical media. Of course, hd-dvd still has the benefit of being an easy manufacturing transition, but that didn't keep us from converting our tapes to cd's.