Okay, the implementation sucks, but the form-factor makes sense. I'd like to see something like the Atrix, but running an open source software stack. The Atrix itself isn't that impressive - it doesn't know how to take advantage of the larger displays it can connect to and the software stack is not open, but it's a start.
When I plug something like an Atrix into the laptop adapter, I'd like to have a little processing horsepower to go with my keyboard, mouse and 14" display.
When I plug something like an Atrix into the docking bay on a television, I'd like to have a little processing horsepower to go with my keyboard, mouse and 55" display.
Okay, so belief in ghosts pretty much requires a belief in the supernatural, including various God concepts, right? Do so many people believe the Universe is so poorly constructed?
Me, I'm not a believer; but I'm always amazed by how much power religious types insist on ascribing to their assorted devils, spooks and spirits.
I see two possibilities, in order of decreasing likelihood...
1 - The seller got his hand on a bunch of identical, lightly-used machines and decided to resell 'em as "new". Creep.
---or
2 - The seller imaged a bunch of boxes from a used machine (with the end in view of not having to register/activate multiple copies of Windows) - i.e., the seller is pushing a pirated version of Windows with his new machines. Creep.
If it is possible to send information back in time, that results in paradoxes of its own. Consider:
Our universe contains some quantity of information. Let's call that quantity (x).
Now, some information comes from the future at the LHC. Our universe now contains more information than it did before. Let's call that quantity (x)+n
Finally, the moment that extra information came from arrives. Now our universe contains (x+n)-n, or x amount of information again - but for that brief period, our universe contained more information. Was information created and subsequently destroyed?
So that Oracle can sue me into oblivion for copyright infringement? (See: Java / Android)
And don't tell me that they're different situations - that'll only stay true until Oracle sees an opportunity to 1) crush a perceived competitor in the marketplace, or 2) take huge sums of money from anybody using their technologies who isn't already paying huge sums of money for the privilege.
I can't wait until they get around to killing MySQL.
I generally don't touch posts by A/C, but in this case . . . WTF? The man has a valid point, he put it succinctly and clearly. Whoever modded the post 'troll' needs to re-read the moderator guidelines.
Shouldn't their whole mission be getting people and stuff into the air and/or into space? For bonus points, getting those people/things back would be kinda cool (where applicable - frankly, they can leave satellites in orbit if that's what's required).
Science? That sounds like a job for some other organization. NASA should strictly be in the business of managing air/spacecraft (although with the FAA existing to handle atmospheric flight, I suppose we could change the acronym to NSA - National Space Administration:^).
We're gonna need a whole body of laws to deal with space travel - how much junk you're allowed to leave in orbital space, precisely what orbit you're allowed to leave that junk at, what orbits you can have, how long, who pays when stuff goes wrong, et cetera. We're also gonna need a whole body of technology to get there. Let someone else (National Weather Service, Universities, etc.) do the science. The new NSA will be there to make sure that they can put stuff in space to do the science, and it would divorce pure and commercial research from direct government control. NSA should see to it that space travel is available, affordable (as possible) and safe (as possible). Leave science to scientists (lets face it, the current NASA is a quasi-military organization). Leave profit to corporations. Let the new NSA give us a path to the stars, and let that be their only mandate. The government doesn't need to decide what to do in space, only how best to get us there.
I'll point out that Browncoat is merely expressing an inability to understand why our current president's priorities differ so greatly from his own.
To be sure, I also find the current administration's stance on this subject incomprehensible. It reminds me of the first shuttle disaster (Challenger). I was in Berkeley and a (hyper-)liberal associate of mine was thrilled at the Challenger disaster. He thought this was just the thing to get the US to stop spending money in space and instead spend it on our own homeless and poor. Too bad the poor sap couldn't see that any money which this freed up was almost certainly destined to end up in the military budget, not social services.
That said, the current administration has tried to make good on some of its promises, abandoned others. Nothing new here. Best we get used to the idea that for the forseeable future, the United States of America has given up on manned spaceflight. When we get good and embarassed by no longer being a spacefaring people, we'll vote in a new administration which will (hopefully) listen to the well thougtht-out and carefully phrased arguments in favor of continuing to explore more than just our little planet.
It's a common enough trap. I won't fault Microsoft for evolving their own standards with Internet Explorer, it makes perfect sense when considering the proprietary software model. Here's the trap - when software is obliged to evolve (due to exploits, demands for new functionality, etc.) there's an inevitable question of "pay now or pay later". Every organization I've ever worked for, large and small alike, invariably answer with "Pay later!". You can point out the "interest" associated with that choice and the answer is still "PAY LATER!!". In the opensource world there's certainly a mindset oriented towards staying compatible with the latest stable release of anything, but the proprietary model involves money. Nothing's free, not even an upgrade - if you get it free, it just means they built the cost into something else. Hence the lockin on a legacy technology which is now quite obsolete - hell, even Microsoft themselves have been screaming at everyone to please update to the latest-and-most-mediocre version of Internet Explorer for years now.
Microsoft is like McDonald's - it's not their fault we're stuck with the pain of getting rid of a legacy application - all they did was make us the offer "Pay now or pay later". It's not their fault Corporate America couldn't put down the cheeseburger and back their fat(-cat) butts away from the table.
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When I plug something like an Atrix into the laptop adapter, I'd like to have a little processing horsepower to go with my keyboard, mouse and 14" display.
When I plug something like an Atrix into the docking bay on a television, I'd like to have a little processing horsepower to go with my keyboard, mouse and 55" display.
You ARE aware of why the Rocky Mountains exist, right? Does that mechanical process strike you as one which is going to reverse itself?
Me, I'm not a believer; but I'm always amazed by how much power religious types insist on ascribing to their assorted devils, spooks and spirits.
This nimrod's just a script-kiddie with delusions of grandeur. Lock 'im up!
1 - The seller got his hand on a bunch of identical, lightly-used machines and decided to resell 'em as "new". Creep.
---or
2 - The seller imaged a bunch of boxes from a used machine (with the end in view of not having to register/activate multiple copies of Windows) - i.e., the seller is pushing a pirated version of Windows with his new machines. Creep.
Our universe contains some quantity of information. Let's call that quantity (x).
Now, some information comes from the future at the LHC. Our universe now contains more information than it did before. Let's call that quantity (x)+n
Finally, the moment that extra information came from arrives. Now our universe contains (x+n)-n, or x amount of information again - but for that brief period, our universe contained more information. Was information created and subsequently destroyed?
Just askin'.
I've got a slide-rule, if that helps with the math and trig.
Now, go watch an .avi of Star Trek.
Oh, and the "gas gauge" indicators in MS Windows (for example, when installing software), perhaps we could get something like:
"Your wait from this point: 20 minutes"
And somebody please tell me why my hard drive heads are parked someplace called "Tigger 14" . . .
Although I do use this technique - I just don't tell anybody around my workplace how the magic's done. You know - the obsecurity model.
#!/bin/bash
#
#####
# Use 'hcitool scan' to find the MAC address of the desired bluetooth device
MACADDR="00:00:00:00:00:00"
STATE="$(hcitool name ${MACADDR})"
if [ "${STATE}" = "" ] ; then
echo "Bluetooth device not found at startup. Exiting..." >&2
exit 1
fi
LOCK="UNSET"
CHECK="$(ps -ef | grep gnome-screensaver | grep -v grep | cut -c49- )"
if [ "${CHECK}" = "gnome-screensaver" ] ; then
LOCK="gnome-screensaver-command -a"
UNLOCK="gnome-screensaver-command -d"
fi
CHECK="$(ps -ef | grep xscreensaver | grep -v grep | cut -c49- )"
if [ "${CHECK}" = "xscreensaver" ] ; then
LOCK="xscreensaver-command -lock"
UNLOCK="xscreensaver-command -deactivate"
fi
if [ "${LOCK}" = "UNSET" ] ; then
echo "Supported screensaver not running" >&2
exit 2
fi
SLEEP_TIME=15
# Enter main loop
while true ; do
if [ "${STATE}" = "" ] ; then
${LOCK}
else
${UNLOCK}
fi
sleep ${SLEEP_TIME}
STATE=$(hcitool name ${MACADDR})
done
exit 0
I'll be at the Tomohawk room in Chippewa tomorrow night if you want to discuss it.
And don't tell me that they're different situations - that'll only stay true until Oracle sees an opportunity to 1) crush a perceived competitor in the marketplace, or 2) take huge sums of money from anybody using their technologies who isn't already paying huge sums of money for the privilege.
I can't wait until they get around to killing MySQL.
The web browser was obviously just a spinoff technology!
The RIAA can refile if they wish (no prejudice), and
Lindor has to pay for his own attorney, UMG is totally off the hook ("no harm, no foul")
They were right: government of the people, by the people and for the people - but in the court system, big business rulez!
I generally don't touch posts by A/C, but in this case . . . WTF? The man has a valid point, he put it succinctly and clearly. Whoever modded the post 'troll' needs to re-read the moderator guidelines.
Science? That sounds like a job for some other organization. NASA should strictly be in the business of managing air/spacecraft (although with the FAA existing to handle atmospheric flight, I suppose we could change the acronym to NSA - National Space Administration :^).
We're gonna need a whole body of laws to deal with space travel - how much junk you're allowed to leave in orbital space, precisely what orbit you're allowed to leave that junk at, what orbits you can have, how long, who pays when stuff goes wrong, et cetera. We're also gonna need a whole body of technology to get there. Let someone else (National Weather Service, Universities, etc.) do the science. The new NSA will be there to make sure that they can put stuff in space to do the science, and it would divorce pure and commercial research from direct government control. NSA should see to it that space travel is available, affordable (as possible) and safe (as possible). Leave science to scientists (lets face it, the current NASA is a quasi-military organization). Leave profit to corporations. Let the new NSA give us a path to the stars, and let that be their only mandate. The government doesn't need to decide what to do in space, only how best to get us there.
To be sure, I also find the current administration's stance on this subject incomprehensible. It reminds me of the first shuttle disaster (Challenger). I was in Berkeley and a (hyper-)liberal associate of mine was thrilled at the Challenger disaster. He thought this was just the thing to get the US to stop spending money in space and instead spend it on our own homeless and poor. Too bad the poor sap couldn't see that any money which this freed up was almost certainly destined to end up in the military budget, not social services.
That said, the current administration has tried to make good on some of its promises, abandoned others. Nothing new here. Best we get used to the idea that for the forseeable future, the United States of America has given up on manned spaceflight. When we get good and embarassed by no longer being a spacefaring people, we'll vote in a new administration which will (hopefully) listen to the well thougtht-out and carefully phrased arguments in favor of continuing to explore more than just our little planet.
Microsoft is like McDonald's - it's not their fault we're stuck with the pain of getting rid of a legacy application - all they did was make us the offer "Pay now or pay later". It's not their fault Corporate America couldn't put down the cheeseburger and back their fat(-cat) butts away from the table.
Of FLAC, OGG and (probably to a huge extent) LAME. After all, Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder, right?
Anybody but me see a correlation here?
Anybody but me see a possible correlation here?
Early opensource implementations of RSA encryption?
If efforts to stop these failed (and there were efforts, and they did fail), I suspect this will also fail.
Nothing to see here folks. Move along. Move along.
I mean, the man is just another Chicago politician. Duhh...