Anybody can find a girlfriend. The question is, how difficult is it to find one that meets his criteria. If he's trying to find one that's super hot, enchanted by him, not a deranged bitch, and not in it for the money, then maybe his chances of finding alien life are actually higher.
The absolute coolest use for this in games would have to be video game characters (especially enemies) that know when you're looking at them, and when you're not...
1. You received the mail with my family pictures. I need the one that has a picture of my house in it. Find it and send it back to me.
2. You receive a ton of new albums in mp3 format, but since your mp3 player is short on space, you need to weed out the "interludes", which are each less than 1 megabyte. Save the songs, but delete the interludes.
3. Take a link from the email, go to that website, and post the albums and pictures to the "cloud" for backup.
Just a few things I'd think would really suck to do with a command line interface.
On behalf of everybody who has ever been a wife, I'd say putting a disc into a computer is not too much to ask. I do it every time I play a DVD. What I don't understand is, if they're offering a downloadable version for the PS3 later, why aren't they offering a downloadable version for the Wii. And even if it's really low resolution, why not a downloadable version for the DSi?
I didn't mean to be so harsh but I couldn't find any other way to concisely express how I felt. I didn't think that was an obvious ending. I thought the only predictable Hollywood element would be the native falling in love with the soldier, regardless of him coming there to cause the downfall of her and her people.
Then they should have done that in the first place. The problem is not (trying to sell something). The problem is (taking something that was free, and putting a price on it). It's bait-and-switch.
We're here at the premiere of the new Spider-Man movie, where we've secretly replaced Toby Maguire and Sam Raimi with Folger's Crystals. Let's see what the audience's reaction is....
The movie's boring enough to put me to sleep, yet I'm wide awake...
If every city's utility companies are like the ones in Kansas City, whichever energy source Americans become the most dependent on will end up being the most expensive. It's obvious what gas companies have done. But every time something changes, the electric company uses it as an excuse for a rate increase. First, our mayor put rules in place requiring utility companies to remove their metal plates from the road, or make the road smooth with the plate on it. They got a rate increase to pay for this "new expense", even though they were supposed to be doing this in the first place, which means it's not a new expense. Now they're required to upgrade to more "green" power plants. They're getting a rate increase to build it. I wonder if the rate will go back down after they're built... An increasing number of cars getting recharged every year will offer an excellent excuse to increase rates every year. Finally, people will realize gas and electric are the same price and it was cheaper to do an all-gas car because they cost less. But maybe I'm just being overly pessimistic because I overestimate how much energy companies like to screw people over.
I think if you compare custom Linux to standard Windows 3.11, Linux wins. But it gets more interesting if you compare (standard Windows to generic Linux) or (custom Windows to custom Linux).
Comparing "right-out-of-the-box" versions of both, standard Windows 3.11 will support whatever VGA resolution this phone uses and maybe even the sound, while generic Linux won't. The lack of pre-emptive multitasking won't be a problem if you're used to only running one app at a time on your phone anyway. And yes there is an awful lot of software out there for old Windows; even Photoshop is available.
If you compare custom versions of both operating systems then both will work fine. Most of the advances in Linux won't matter on a phone. And in any case, Windows 3.11 would kill any modern desktop OS in terms of CPU usage and memory requirements. It will have way better battery life and way more free memory. As a bonus, you get to run the version of Norton utilities from back when it was worth something...
Maybe they've been watching too much Dollhouse.
I don't think anything special will come out of this. But it is a special moment for Slashdot. It's their first article that mentions a programmable device without somebody asking if it can run Linux. At least as far as I've read.
That's not going to help. You'll have to reinstall everything. Make sure you have your whole brain backed up first. I can't tell you how many people back up just the part they're using right now, only to find out they have to know how to cook a Bundt cake later...
Ahhh religion, where changing flesh into bread and blood into wine isnt considered "witchcraft". Yet all other "magics" was at one time punishable.
Hypocrisy, it loves religion.
And Slashdot, where every story about biology turns into an attack on Christianity or some other faith. Things were different in the Pit & the Pendulum days, but lately it seems like you attack them way more than they attack you.
What I've read here makes it seem like the problem started when "white" people invaded their land and all of the things, the aboriginals were doing to survive, stopped working when combined with Western influences, specifically drugs and alcohol. And you say money, education, and "leaving them alone" didn't work. So my suggestion would be to just undo what caused the problem in the first place and get out of Australia. You see, you didn't really leave them alone. You just segregated Australia. You'd have to actually get out and give them back all of their land. They probably wouldn't end up building a space shuttle but, without access to the things that caused them to fall apart, I'd bet their old way of doing things would eventually start working for them again. And I'm not trying to troll or flamebait. I'm just answering the question you asked.
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The joke's on you at the end of the year, when you find out the credit card company charges you $5.00 per transaction.
Anybody can find a girlfriend. The question is, how difficult is it to find one that meets his criteria. If he's trying to find one that's super hot, enchanted by him, not a deranged bitch, and not in it for the money, then maybe his chances of finding alien life are actually higher.
The absolute coolest use for this in games would have to be video game characters (especially enemies) that know when you're looking at them, and when you're not...
1. You received the mail with my family pictures. I need the one that has a picture of my house in it. Find it and send it back to me.
2. You receive a ton of new albums in mp3 format, but since your mp3 player is short on space, you need to weed out the "interludes", which are each less than 1 megabyte. Save the songs, but delete the interludes.
3. Take a link from the email, go to that website, and post the albums and pictures to the "cloud" for backup.
Just a few things I'd think would really suck to do with a command line interface.
That's the same as saying "no jokes on Slashdot".
On behalf of everybody who has ever been a wife, I'd say putting a disc into a computer is not too much to ask. I do it every time I play a DVD. What I don't understand is, if they're offering a downloadable version for the PS3 later, why aren't they offering a downloadable version for the Wii. And even if it's really low resolution, why not a downloadable version for the DSi?
I'm not saying I'm entitled to anything. I'm saying what the problem is. After they go out of business, they're going to wonder what the problem was.
I didn't mean to be so harsh but I couldn't find any other way to concisely express how I felt. I didn't think that was an obvious ending. I thought the only predictable Hollywood element would be the native falling in love with the soldier, regardless of him coming there to cause the downfall of her and her people.
Are they going to plant a binary tree every time they use a gigabyte?
Then they should have done that in the first place. The problem is not (trying to sell something). The problem is (taking something that was free, and putting a price on it). It's bait-and-switch.
Maybe the plan to make NASA part of the military will make that happen.
Fuck you for saying how that movie ends before I got the DVD.
We're here at the premiere of the new Spider-Man movie, where we've secretly replaced Toby Maguire and Sam Raimi with Folger's Crystals. Let's see what the audience's reaction is....
The movie's boring enough to put me to sleep, yet I'm wide awake...
Is there a way to disable the disabling of my Flash plugin when they decide it's not safe for me?
If every city's utility companies are like the ones in Kansas City, whichever energy source Americans become the most dependent on will end up being the most expensive. It's obvious what gas companies have done. But every time something changes, the electric company uses it as an excuse for a rate increase. First, our mayor put rules in place requiring utility companies to remove their metal plates from the road, or make the road smooth with the plate on it. They got a rate increase to pay for this "new expense", even though they were supposed to be doing this in the first place, which means it's not a new expense. Now they're required to upgrade to more "green" power plants. They're getting a rate increase to build it. I wonder if the rate will go back down after they're built... An increasing number of cars getting recharged every year will offer an excellent excuse to increase rates every year. Finally, people will realize gas and electric are the same price and it was cheaper to do an all-gas car because they cost less. But maybe I'm just being overly pessimistic because I overestimate how much energy companies like to screw people over.
Only fair, since that's what the Droid guys did in their "Droid does" campaign.
What happens if you collect the credit card information without using SSL?
If all that can be fit into a cellphone, imagine what can be fit into a laptop or desktop...
I think if you compare custom Linux to standard Windows 3.11, Linux wins. But it gets more interesting if you compare (standard Windows to generic Linux) or (custom Windows to custom Linux).
Comparing "right-out-of-the-box" versions of both, standard Windows 3.11 will support whatever VGA resolution this phone uses and maybe even the sound, while generic Linux won't. The lack of pre-emptive multitasking won't be a problem if you're used to only running one app at a time on your phone anyway. And yes there is an awful lot of software out there for old Windows; even Photoshop is available.
If you compare custom versions of both operating systems then both will work fine. Most of the advances in Linux won't matter on a phone. And in any case, Windows 3.11 would kill any modern desktop OS in terms of CPU usage and memory requirements. It will have way better battery life and way more free memory. As a bonus, you get to run the version of Norton utilities from back when it was worth something...
Maybe they've been watching too much Dollhouse. I don't think anything special will come out of this. But it is a special moment for Slashdot. It's their first article that mentions a programmable device without somebody asking if it can run Linux. At least as far as I've read.
Not until they patent technology to overlay ads on every scene you record.
Where's this guy when we need him?
That's not going to help. You'll have to reinstall everything. Make sure you have your whole brain backed up first. I can't tell you how many people back up just the part they're using right now, only to find out they have to know how to cook a Bundt cake later...
Ahhh religion, where changing flesh into bread and blood into wine isnt considered "witchcraft". Yet all other "magics" was at one time punishable. Hypocrisy, it loves religion.
And Slashdot, where every story about biology turns into an attack on Christianity or some other faith. Things were different in the Pit & the Pendulum days, but lately it seems like you attack them way more than they attack you.
What I've read here makes it seem like the problem started when "white" people invaded their land and all of the things, the aboriginals were doing to survive, stopped working when combined with Western influences, specifically drugs and alcohol. And you say money, education, and "leaving them alone" didn't work. So my suggestion would be to just undo what caused the problem in the first place and get out of Australia. You see, you didn't really leave them alone. You just segregated Australia. You'd have to actually get out and give them back all of their land. They probably wouldn't end up building a space shuttle but, without access to the things that caused them to fall apart, I'd bet their old way of doing things would eventually start working for them again. And I'm not trying to troll or flamebait. I'm just answering the question you asked.