At least, every timekeeping instrument I've ever heard of is designed to measure fractions of the interval defined as a day/year/trip around the galactic center (at this point, I'm considering the calendar to be an extension of the clock).
I'm sure the fx would cost considerably less nowadays, and frankly some of the original episodes were a bit formulaic (a necessary evil of producing a series under network auspices back in the nineties - quality be damned, just get it out on time and under budget, viewers aren't that smart anyhow . . . ).
Still one of the best science fiction television series' of all time, IMHO. Unfortunately, Warner is still one of the aforementioned network studios - the rights will probably never be granted to anybody, and I'm sure the executroids at WB won't see a way to make money from it while simultaneously acting to see to it that nobody else does.
Hundreds of (presumably) intelligent people all passing on an opportunity to prove that they can read. *Sigh*
Apple's patent was pretty specific - and probably intended to prevent third-party manufacturers from making attachable lenses for iJunk without cutting Apple in for a slice of the pie. If somebody were to devise a (similar but different) mechanism for a non-Apple smartphone, it would almost certainly differ sufficiently from Apple's mechanism to be allowed (but only after Apple attempted to sue and get an injunction, of course). Again - *Sigh*.
Let's also remember one other point - All the iPhones in existence were made by Apple, to the best of my knowledge. There are many manufacturers of Android devices. Apple may well be able to standardize their bayonet mount (their bat, their ball, their rules), but within the Android ecosystem such an item would require cooperation and buy-in from a majority of Android device manufacturers. Ever seen a horse designed by a committee? We call it a 'camel'.
My takeaway point was "it isn't good enough for me, but it's good enough to give to charity". Y'know, sometimes that's true - I give away my old stuff to Goodwill on a recurring basis - but if the clothing/furniture/appliances I give away are defective, the recipient can discover this, presumably without suffering any personal loss or injury.
We're talking about food here - and about people who probably can't afford to be too discriminating about the quality of their food if they intend to eat. Never mind the lawsuits - if a food item isn't fit for my table, I can't conceive an ethical argument for putting it on someone else's table. Better I leave the poor to find wholesome food than to trick them into thinking they have already found it.
This, of course, is an ethical argument. Wholly subjective, I'm afraid. What's your ethical take on knowingly giving compromised food to charity?
Don't tell me what I personally remember from my own life experience was a myth. Wikipedia article notwithstanding, I remember quite clearly the debates, public reporting. To be sure, I see more credible evidence to support the current theories regarding global warming, but take my word for it - global cooling was a very big concern back in the seventies.
So is global cooling. Check the history of this globe (no citation provided; I assume/. readers are capable of doing independent research).
It's been a lot hotter here in the past, it's been a lot cooler here in the past. I remember the seventies; the scientific consensus was that air pollution was increasing the Earth's albedo, thereby causing global cooling. Snowball Earth was the inevitable result, and there was a lot of panic on the subject.
Two questions, then. 1) Is global warming the result of humankind's actions on the planet, and 2) regardless of the answer to #1, is there anything humankind can do about it?
While we're at it, why don't we donate our damaged or defective food products to a local food bank (only if we don't want it ourselves because of potential poisoning issues, and only after a small random sample shows only quality related issues). Hey, I'm not going to eat it because it isn't good enough for me, but it's good enough to give to charity, after all.
I live in West Seattle and I stream both Netflix and HuluPlus simulataneously in two different rooms over the same (Comcast/Xfinity) wifi router (and I do NOT pay extra for that damned "boost" stupidity). Works just fine in HD on both screens (both supported by wifi-enabled blu-ray players - not even computers, although I'm pretty sure those will work just as well).
The terrible part is - the poor make better targets than the rich. They're less likely to perceive the importance of monitoring their credit rating and financial standing; if a thief can open one line of credit anywhere with the stolen identity, he's won - and a poor individual is not only less likely to catch the fraud quickly, they're less likely to have the resources to force their new "creditors" to admit they've been duped.
Light pens (which I really missed until touchscreen came along)?
Curved displays (just make it 2' radius and let me wear it over my head)?
Need I go on? Turns out, most people don't really want what I (or we geeks?) want. They want a lightswitch on the wall, not "Computer - dim lights". They want their credit card to work (always!), not a display on the card telling them their balance. They want a brass key that unlocks stuff, not an RFID chip that'll do it for 'em when they walk up. This stuff looks great in sci-fi, but in reality people want what they grew up with, only better. Kids want new stuff, but they grow up to be just like us eventually. All they want is what they've got, only better. They don't want new (although they'll accept "new" when it isn't anymore).
Actually, back when it was OpenOffice they encountered this question. A known exploit which took advantage of the Word file format was replicated to allow the same exploit to work in OpenOffice. The justification (which was quite correct) was that the exploit took advantage of the file format specification, not a code bug. I.e. - the format itself was flawed, and a correct implementation of the format would not correct the design flaw.
OTOH, Microsoft doesn't own Rich Text format, and RTF is not inherently subject to this exploit. It is a code bug in MS-Office, not in the.rtf format; therefore it is not replicated in LibreOffice/Wordpad/[insert text reader/editor of choice here, except for MS-Office].
Still wouldn't use MS-Office; I can't afford $495.00 for a souped up typewriter.
A frelling troll got it right. We can iconify/glorify/deify our "founding fathers" - but most of 'em were slave owners, weren't they? When they wrote down that "All men are created equal" thing, they meant "All US men are created equal.
Nothing has changed much. Don't mess with the US Government - it's about like a mouse messin' with a gorilla.
Uh, governments invented money. And they've been very careful through the centuries to preserve their patent rights. Same goes for currency.
And as has been pointed out elsewhere - you can do the barter thing - but you'd still better come up with something your government considers money to pay taxes on all that bartering, 'cuz the government isn't interested in a couple gallons of goat milk or a few dozen eggs, or borrowing your car on the weekends. Savvy?
Sure - as a barter item, not as a currency. It didn't become a currency until someone had the bright idea to mint coins - suddenly, how much and how pure weren't questions any more. That someone was (as a matter of history, wait for it) . . . a government! Go figure.
According to your logic, a '97 Ford Thunderbird is currency. I traded one for a '95 Buick Regal. Was that Buick money too?
A definition of intermediate generality is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.[4] Under this definition, British pounds, U.S. dollars, and European euros are different types of currency, or currencies. Currencies in this definition need not be physical objects, but as stores of value are subject to trading between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies.[5] Currencies in the sense used by foreign exchange markets, are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.
So you're right, I'm wrong - because cryptocurrency isn't currency of any kind. Is it? Let me emphasize -...are defined by governments.... Every other reasonable definition of money and currency both contain this kind of wording. You're right, there. Ergo, cryptocurrency isn't currency at all - just a really clever pyramid scheme.
Still happens - I've got a Gateway ZX-6980, needed to do a full restore. Bought the five-disk restore set and when I'm done - the bluetooth doesn't work. Looks like they supplied four or five different drivers, none of them was the right one.
Multiple downloads, driver updates, etc. later, still no bluetooth. Hey, I got 95% of my hardware back, that's what, 2-sigma (almost)? Not bad for Gateway (and before anybody says it - the reason I'm reinstalling Winders 8 is for my wife's use - CentOS6 was just fine by me, took a bit of fiddling to get the touchscreen working but beyond that...).
Agreed. I just wish the marketing and execudroids hadn't idiotically gone with that "one desktop fits all" paradigm. Just make sure the underlying support is identical across platforms and let desktop users continue using the interface they've been taught to use for over twenty years!. I'm okay if it looks different on a tablet than on a desktop, as long as it works identically on both platforms, I'm okay. The desktop is just an abstraction layer anyhow (or is that still not true in the MS/Win environment?) - one desktop for phones, a (slightly different) representation for tablets, and a (somewhat different) presentation layer for laptop/desktop machines, that's what I'd have liked to see. Turning that little 'Start' button into a screen all of its own? I'm running dual 23" flat panels - I really don't need that much start menu, guys!
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At least, every timekeeping instrument I've ever heard of is designed to measure fractions of the interval defined as a day/year/trip around the galactic center (at this point, I'm considering the calendar to be an extension of the clock).
If this can be made into some sort of organic computer, some moron somewhere will try to overclock it. Do we really want faster microorganisms?
Still one of the best science fiction television series' of all time, IMHO. Unfortunately, Warner is still one of the aforementioned network studios - the rights will probably never be granted to anybody, and I'm sure the executroids at WB won't see a way to make money from it while simultaneously acting to see to it that nobody else does.
Apple's patent was pretty specific - and probably intended to prevent third-party manufacturers from making attachable lenses for iJunk without cutting Apple in for a slice of the pie. If somebody were to devise a (similar but different) mechanism for a non-Apple smartphone, it would almost certainly differ sufficiently from Apple's mechanism to be allowed (but only after Apple attempted to sue and get an injunction, of course). Again - *Sigh*.
Let's also remember one other point - All the iPhones in existence were made by Apple, to the best of my knowledge. There are many manufacturers of Android devices. Apple may well be able to standardize their bayonet mount (their bat, their ball, their rules), but within the Android ecosystem such an item would require cooperation and buy-in from a majority of Android device manufacturers. Ever seen a horse designed by a committee? We call it a 'camel'.
Nonsense. There are trillions more electronic bits just like those, all waiting to be wasted.
I think the answer he was looking for was "light switch".
We're talking about food here - and about people who probably can't afford to be too discriminating about the quality of their food if they intend to eat. Never mind the lawsuits - if a food item isn't fit for my table, I can't conceive an ethical argument for putting it on someone else's table. Better I leave the poor to find wholesome food than to trick them into thinking they have already found it.
This, of course, is an ethical argument. Wholly subjective, I'm afraid. What's your ethical take on knowingly giving compromised food to charity?
Don't tell me what I personally remember from my own life experience was a myth. Wikipedia article notwithstanding, I remember quite clearly the debates, public reporting. To be sure, I see more credible evidence to support the current theories regarding global warming, but take my word for it - global cooling was a very big concern back in the seventies.
It's been a lot hotter here in the past, it's been a lot cooler here in the past. I remember the seventies; the scientific consensus was that air pollution was increasing the Earth's albedo, thereby causing global cooling. Snowball Earth was the inevitable result, and there was a lot of panic on the subject.
Two questions, then. 1) Is global warming the result of humankind's actions on the planet, and 2) regardless of the answer to #1, is there anything humankind can do about it?
While we're at it, why don't we donate our damaged or defective food products to a local food bank (only if we don't want it ourselves because of potential poisoning issues, and only after a small random sample shows only quality related issues). Hey, I'm not going to eat it because it isn't good enough for me, but it's good enough to give to charity, after all.
I live in West Seattle and I stream both Netflix and HuluPlus simulataneously in two different rooms over the same (Comcast/Xfinity) wifi router (and I do NOT pay extra for that damned "boost" stupidity). Works just fine in HD on both screens (both supported by wifi-enabled blu-ray players - not even computers, although I'm pretty sure those will work just as well).
Yeah, that's why I used Clipper. It turned dBase code into very excellent standalone applications, and faster than the dBase interpreter.
The terrible part is - the poor make better targets than the rich. They're less likely to perceive the importance of monitoring their credit rating and financial standing; if a thief can open one line of credit anywhere with the stolen identity, he's won - and a poor individual is not only less likely to catch the fraud quickly, they're less likely to have the resources to force their new "creditors" to admit they've been duped.
Curved displays (just make it 2' radius and let me wear it over my head)?
Need I go on? Turns out, most people don't really want what I (or we geeks?) want. They want a lightswitch on the wall, not "Computer - dim lights". They want their credit card to work (always!), not a display on the card telling them their balance. They want a brass key that unlocks stuff, not an RFID chip that'll do it for 'em when they walk up. This stuff looks great in sci-fi, but in reality people want what they grew up with, only better. Kids want new stuff, but they grow up to be just like us eventually. All they want is what they've got, only better. They don't want new (although they'll accept "new" when it isn't anymore).
OTOH, Microsoft doesn't own Rich Text format, and RTF is not inherently subject to this exploit. It is a code bug in MS-Office, not in the .rtf format; therefore it is not replicated in LibreOffice/Wordpad/[insert text reader/editor of choice here, except for MS-Office].
Still wouldn't use MS-Office; I can't afford $495.00 for a souped up typewriter.
How long have you been working for Microsoft?
Until you have done that, please stop posting here on /. IQ's used to be a lot higher when UID's were lower. *Sigh*
Nothing has changed much. Don't mess with the US Government - it's about like a mouse messin' with a gorilla.
And as has been pointed out elsewhere - you can do the barter thing - but you'd still better come up with something your government considers money to pay taxes on all that bartering, 'cuz the government isn't interested in a couple gallons of goat milk or a few dozen eggs, or borrowing your car on the weekends. Savvy?
According to your logic, a '97 Ford Thunderbird is currency. I traded one for a '95 Buick Regal. Was that Buick money too?
From Wikipedia :
So you're right, I'm wrong - because cryptocurrency isn't currency of any kind. Is it? Let me emphasize - ...are defined by governments.... Every other reasonable definition of money and currency both contain this kind of wording. You're right, there. Ergo, cryptocurrency isn't currency at all - just a really clever pyramid scheme.
No? Okay, later.
Multiple downloads, driver updates, etc. later, still no bluetooth. Hey, I got 95% of my hardware back, that's what, 2-sigma (almost)? Not bad for Gateway (and before anybody says it - the reason I'm reinstalling Winders 8 is for my wife's use - CentOS6 was just fine by me, took a bit of fiddling to get the touchscreen working but beyond that...).
Agreed. I just wish the marketing and execudroids hadn't idiotically gone with that "one desktop fits all" paradigm. Just make sure the underlying support is identical across platforms and let desktop users continue using the interface they've been taught to use for over twenty years!. I'm okay if it looks different on a tablet than on a desktop, as long as it works identically on both platforms, I'm okay. The desktop is just an abstraction layer anyhow (or is that still not true in the MS/Win environment?) - one desktop for phones, a (slightly different) representation for tablets, and a (somewhat different) presentation layer for laptop/desktop machines, that's what I'd have liked to see. Turning that little 'Start' button into a screen all of its own? I'm running dual 23" flat panels - I really don't need that much start menu, guys!