Look. I don't care if the LCD screen breaks.. I mean, I do, but if you can build a screen robust enough so that the device is still SOMEWHAT usable in a pinch, then we're golden. And engineer your interface so that if the touch-screen is malfunctioning, you can still use the device (Treo!), great.
I pity all the iPhone users with broken screens and I'm terrified of the day I break the screen on my iPod Touch.
I've broken the screen on my treo, and it was usable, except for a few apps that didn't function well without a touchscreen, or when the touchscreen was stuck (and I had to break it extra good to get it to stop trying to SMS some dude in Somalia).
No one said anything about you running your own domain. If you don't want a website, but want email, you simply forward it to your current ISP. Set it on auto-renew, and you never have to worry about squatters.
VMware isn't interested in solving some of these complex problems. They've (so far) left it for third parties to fulfill. Licensing is turning out to be a major pain in the ass with our Lab Manager deployment, but as far as I can tell, there's nothing like it in the KVM/Xen world.
Great. Someone had a great idea back in 1988. And you want to let them milk it for eternity?
Lets take bejeweled as an example. Something that first showed up on Palm 5 or 6 years ago (it may have existed before then)... I bought it for PalmOS, and I just bought it for my iPhone. There's tons of clones, but the Bejeweled guys keep making theirs better.
Evolve or die. Stay stagnant, and get your clock cleaned.
Sitting in the second row at Jordan's Natick Imax, I nearly puked at the opening scene, where my brain almost couldn't tell which way was up or down in the spaceship. When the background voice said (and I paraphrase) "If you're experiencing nausea, please use one of the space bags", I looked to make sure there was enough room for me to vomit in my popcorn bucket.
So no, the 3D itself doesn't make me ill - the illusion that it presents my brain kickstarts the general motion sickness I get whenever I'm dehydrated (like I was that day).
It's not the 3D. It's the illusion of movement while sitting still.
Jesus Christ, my iPod Touch has a 5 computer activation limit, and my laptop, through a bug in iTunes, has managed to consume 2 of those activations in less than 3 months.
Right. You stick to your belief, and go off and use a library that accidently issues a blocking connect() call to a server that isn't listen()-ing. Without out-of-band message loop, your GUI will hang.
You are right. You ABSOLUTELY can write decent event driven apps that don't use threading, but odds are they don't do anything of much substance.
still lacks support for multi-threading (running on different processors) </quote>
If Firefox supported threading, you would expect it to register over 100% on multi-core processors. It doesn't. So either one of two things is going on:
1. Firefox doesn't support threading.
2. top/taskmgr do not support measuring multi-core performance of a single process using threads.
I'm willing to believe either or both of those are true.
I've always though it would be useful to have thread-level memory page protections. But then I just drop back to fork() and say fuck-all to threading. Unfortunately, that leaves me crippled on non-Posix systems (windows) which don't support fork(). Which just irritates me. Microsoft invented this cheesy Fiber API, and still doesn't have a decent user-level fork() mechanism, even though the OS on the whole supports every single fork() kernel semantic. ARGH!
If Microsoft would implement a User-level fork(), then we could have lightweight unix-style multiprocessing without all the multithreading headaches. Argggg. Seriously, just give me fork(), Redmond!!!
I was a FF early adopter and loved it, and to be fair I gave Chrome a good shakeout. If I could live without AdBlock+, maybe it'd be great. Tab isolation is nice. But the Chrome feature-set just isn't there. Great, it has a superfast Javascript engine. Tuned for Google Apps. Great. Big F'in Deal.
Firefox has six YEARS of polish and 100's of extensions, of which I use about 30 on a daily basis. Firefox's only major issues in my opinion:
1. Memory consumption 2. No mechanism to batch 100 tabs worth of AJAX requests. Firefox routinely hovers 30-100% CPU usage on me when I have a lot of tabs open. 3. Not being able to run multiple instances of the same profile.
That's about it, IMHO, and #3 really isn't that big a deal. The first two are the ones that kill me every single day.
When I reload firefox using TabMix or SessionManager, it attempts to load every tab at once, sometimes upwards of 100-150 tabs. This is maniacal and crushes my poor little home router (which surprising performs better than the multimillion dollar work infrastructure I use).
Can we get staged loading of tabs, say load 4 or 5 at a time, rather than 150 all at once?
OMG, a 100 cu/ft of naturally occuring helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and the radioactive radon. Once a week. Times 1000 reactors? Christ, I probably breathe more than that every month in naturally occuring atmospheric air.
If you subscribe to newspapers, a kindle version might pay for itself in a year. My father subscribes to the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Just getting the Globe on the Kindle at $10/month saves him $50/month in subscription.
Steven King tried this with a book back in Y2K or thereabouts - and based on *HIS* criteria, it was an absolute flop.
But that sort of brings a good point into play. With digital books, I could conceivably print them to paper in any fashion I want (for personal use). For instance, I want a nice leather-bound set of King's Dark Tower series - I'd love to get a digital version to get one of the print-on-demand companies to make a copy for me. Or Harry Potter, or Dune, or any number of a classics that I can't get in a particular form.
In a world where we can count 300+ million votes and elect a president, I think we can directly execute laws as well. Once per year we all get in a room with our friends and cast our votes for 10 or 20 new laws. Period.
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No it didn't. Hell you could probably mold a whole season around Book, or stories from the war...
Look. I don't care if the LCD screen breaks.. I mean, I do, but if you can build a screen robust enough so that the device is still SOMEWHAT usable in a pinch, then we're golden. And engineer your interface so that if the touch-screen is malfunctioning, you can still use the device (Treo!), great.
I pity all the iPhone users with broken screens and I'm terrified of the day I break the screen on my iPod Touch.
I've broken the screen on my treo, and it was usable, except for a few apps that didn't function well without a touchscreen, or when the touchscreen was stuck (and I had to break it extra good to get it to stop trying to SMS some dude in Somalia).
No one said anything about you running your own domain. If you don't want a website, but want email, you simply forward it to your current ISP. Set it on auto-renew, and you never have to worry about squatters.
You don't NEEED a website.
It would work better if you used tinyurl. Lol.
VMware isn't interested in solving some of these complex problems. They've (so far) left it for third parties to fulfill. Licensing is turning out to be a major pain in the ass with our Lab Manager deployment, but as far as I can tell, there's nothing like it in the KVM/Xen world.
Great. Someone had a great idea back in 1988. And you want to let them milk it for eternity?
Lets take bejeweled as an example. Something that first showed up on Palm 5 or 6 years ago (it may have existed before then)... I bought it for PalmOS, and I just bought it for my iPhone. There's tons of clones, but the Bejeweled guys keep making theirs better.
Evolve or die. Stay stagnant, and get your clock cleaned.
Sitting in the second row at Jordan's Natick Imax, I nearly puked at the opening scene, where my brain almost couldn't tell which way was up or down in the spaceship. When the background voice said (and I paraphrase) "If you're experiencing nausea, please use one of the space bags", I looked to make sure there was enough room for me to vomit in my popcorn bucket.
So no, the 3D itself doesn't make me ill - the illusion that it presents my brain kickstarts the general motion sickness I get whenever I'm dehydrated (like I was that day).
It's not the 3D. It's the illusion of movement while sitting still.
i dunno, while I was watching Avatar in Imax, during the storms and flying and battle scenes they kicked on the air blowers... so they're trying.
We don't have to imagine. We already have that data. If you mean a Hiroshima style attack once per day, that's different. But once every four years?
A blip on the radar.
Nuclear Holocaust is highly overblown.
It's about not getting shells inside the car when they're ejected - held horizontally, the shells would tend to fly over the car roof.
Jesus Christ, my iPod Touch has a 5 computer activation limit, and my laptop, through a bug in iTunes, has managed to consume 2 of those activations in less than 3 months.
That sucks ass.
And my answer would be... duh duh duh!!!! Virtualbox with a hardened WindowsXP install.
Right. You stick to your belief, and go off and use a library that accidently issues a blocking connect() call to a server that isn't listen()-ing. Without out-of-band message loop, your GUI will hang.
You are right. You ABSOLUTELY can write decent event driven apps that don't use threading, but odds are they don't do anything of much substance.
still lacks support for multi-threading (running on different processors)
</quote>
If Firefox supported threading, you would expect it to register over 100% on multi-core processors. It doesn't. So either one of two things is going on:
1. Firefox doesn't support threading.
2. top/taskmgr do not support measuring multi-core performance of a single process using threads.
I'm willing to believe either or both of those are true.
I've always though it would be useful to have thread-level memory page protections. But then I just drop back to fork() and say fuck-all to threading. Unfortunately, that leaves me crippled on non-Posix systems (windows) which don't support fork(). Which just irritates me. Microsoft invented this cheesy Fiber API, and still doesn't have a decent user-level fork() mechanism, even though the OS on the whole supports every single fork() kernel semantic. ARGH!
If Microsoft would implement a User-level fork(), then we could have lightweight unix-style multiprocessing without all the multithreading headaches. Argggg. Seriously, just give me fork(), Redmond!!!
I was a FF early adopter and loved it, and to be fair I gave Chrome a good shakeout. If I could live without AdBlock+, maybe it'd be great. Tab isolation is nice. But the Chrome feature-set just isn't there. Great, it has a superfast Javascript engine. Tuned for Google Apps. Great. Big F'in Deal.
Firefox has six YEARS of polish and 100's of extensions, of which I use about 30 on a daily basis. Firefox's only major issues in my opinion:
1. Memory consumption
2. No mechanism to batch 100 tabs worth of AJAX requests. Firefox routinely hovers 30-100% CPU usage on me when I have a lot of tabs open.
3. Not being able to run multiple instances of the same profile.
That's about it, IMHO, and #3 really isn't that big a deal. The first two are the ones that kill me every single day.
When I reload firefox using TabMix or SessionManager, it attempts to load every tab at once, sometimes upwards of 100-150 tabs. This is maniacal and crushes my poor little home router (which surprising performs better than the multimillion dollar work infrastructure I use).
Can we get staged loading of tabs, say load 4 or 5 at a time, rather than 150 all at once?
More importantly, they were traveling MUCH faster than predicted, and the fires are what ultimately doomed the buildings.
Although I think the South Tower still would have gone down from a stiff wind sooner or later if the fires had miraculously extinguished themselves.
The bhuddist in me would claim that every stabbing/murder short of self-defense (including war), is motivated and predicated by hatred.
But that's just me.
OMG, a 100 cu/ft of naturally occuring helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and the radioactive radon. Once a week. Times 1000 reactors? Christ, I probably breathe more than that every month in naturally occuring atmospheric air.
If you subscribe to newspapers, a kindle version might pay for itself in a year. My father subscribes to the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Just getting the Globe on the Kindle at $10/month saves him $50/month in subscription.
So as a newsreader, it's arguably better.
Steven King tried this with a book back in Y2K or thereabouts - and based on *HIS* criteria, it was an absolute flop.
But that sort of brings a good point into play. With digital books, I could conceivably print them to paper in any fashion I want (for personal use). For instance, I want a nice leather-bound set of King's Dark Tower series - I'd love to get a digital version to get one of the print-on-demand companies to make a copy for me. Or Harry Potter, or Dune, or any number of a classics that I can't get in a particular form.
Except the people loved Caesar, no? It was the senate who feared him... fear of losing their power.
:-)
Or did I misunderstand HBO's Rome?
In a world where we can count 300+ million votes and elect a president, I think we can directly execute laws as well. Once per year we all get in a room with our friends and cast our votes for 10 or 20 new laws. Period.
End the whole representative democracy bullshit.