Worse still, each country, or employer, will want it's own special chip. How long will it take before the typical 40 year old has 27 chips in their arm, one for each school, country visited, and employer?
Would this even work, or would the chips interfere with each other and stop working?
Under Linux you are probably better off using the appropriate tools for CD burning, making backups, importing and editing pictures, etc. Having a bloatware application to do the lot is very much the Windows way of doing things, and seems completely out of place.
I installed Picasa and tried it out, but didn't notice any function that I couldn't do better and easier already with an appropriate tool. It's now uninstalled.
Am I the only person alive that has not heard of "Second Life" ?
It has been mentioned on Slashdot previously, so it seems like you haven't been paying attention.
However it's a Windows game, and I can't accept a new life that can only be reached by running Windows. Not that the old life is much different these days, if you want to have an income.
I think this concern is outdated. Now that Microsoft have.NET they are hardly likely to put much effort into Java.
I think even at the time such problems could have been avoided by releasing Java with a GPL licence. Most likely Microsoft simply wouldn't have touched it on those terms. Any changes they made would have been available to anyone in any case. Even if the "market decided" to prefer Microsoft's version over Sun's, it's would hardly have been the end of Java.
Now with a dominant.NET on the other hand, what would be Sun's position in the desktop computing world? The supplier of a browser plugin for use by a few legacy web games.
The code isn't going to fork itself. If Sun is doing a reasonable job maintaining the source code, they don't have much to fear from a fork. If they are not doing a good job, a fork would hardly be a bad thing.
Windows NT still uses microkernel concepts like message passing to tie all the components together.
Interesting. You make it sound like they take all the pain of the microkernel communication methods without the benefits that would come from actually having a microkernel.
The Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty doesn't say that a party to the treaty will "forfeit all their entire program" due to infringements of the inspections clause. In fact, Article IV says there is an "inalienable right" to nuclear research for peaceful purposes.
In any case the USA would also be at risk of forfeiting its entire program, since it doesn't seem to have done much concerning its Article VI obligations lately.
Shouldn't a daemon be designed to run indefinitely?
Yeah, they should. But in the real world nothing is perfect and sometimes I'd like to run a daemon even if I know it has a few bugs. User error can be a problem too, e.g., accidently killing an sshd on a distant server and not being able to reconnect to fix it.
The builtin solution that Unix/Linux provides, init, supposedly does the job, but it's not very convenient.
Yes, it gives me an interesting new idea for a business model.
Create original copyrighted work. This is easy, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes with a digital camera or text editor.
Create filtering software specially designed to prevent my original copyright work from being distributed over a network and offer copies for sale for only one million dollars per site.
Require every university in the USA to buy a copy under forthcoming RIAA sponsered legislation.
The only ??? part is what to spend all the money on.
It just knows how many pixels it can display. It needs to be told how many inches/centimeters those pixels take up.
I thought these days it was done automatically through DDC, i.e., the OS can read the physical monitor size from the video card, which receives it from the monitor.
This seems to be the case for the computer I'm using now, running Ubuntu, the approximately correct size is logged in/var/log/Xorg.0.log.
I would have thought Microsoft would support it properly, since they usually have a finger in the design of these things. Since we are talking about the contents of a browser window, the behaviour of other applications doesn't matter.
A "point" is an absolute unit of measurement, so a 12pt font will display at the same size on any properly configured monitor.
The problem comes when you start mixing in bitmap graphics, with size specified in pixels. HTML doesn't seem to support absolutely sized image rescaling.
E.g., <img width="10cm" src="file.jpg"> <!-- is not allowed! -->
The US constitution explicitly allows free speech to be limited by copyright restrictions, if I remember correctly. So I don't see how it can be used to trump a copyright law.
This doesn't seem very plausible. If I wanted to get rid of a huge pile of US dollars I'd buy Microsoft itself, not a gazillion copies of its products.
As long as the religious don't try to impose a way specific of living and moral on other (religious or not) I think things will be fine.
They have been doing it for the whole of recorded history, and they still do it. This is one of the main reasons to fight religion, instead of just shrugging off the religious as crackpots.
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Sexist + Ageist ! And there's nothing wrong with short women.
The weapon of choice in Amsterdam is the halberd.
Would this even work, or would the chips interfere with each other and stop working?
Actually I think I confused it with some other game.
I installed Picasa and tried it out, but didn't notice any function that I couldn't do better and easier already with an appropriate tool. It's now uninstalled.
It has been mentioned on Slashdot previously, so it seems like you haven't been paying attention.
However it's a Windows game, and I can't accept a new life that can only be reached by running Windows. Not that the old life is much different these days, if you want to have an income.
Although it's more expensive, the lawyers et al. should be sent into the Sun where they belong.
I think even at the time such problems could have been avoided by releasing Java with a GPL licence. Most likely Microsoft simply wouldn't have touched it on those terms. Any changes they made would have been available to anyone in any case. Even if the "market decided" to prefer Microsoft's version over Sun's, it's would hardly have been the end of Java.
Now with a dominant .NET on the other hand, what would be Sun's position in the desktop computing world? The supplier of a browser plugin for use by a few legacy web games.
The code isn't going to fork itself. If Sun is doing a reasonable job maintaining the source code, they don't have much to fear from a fork. If they are not doing a good job, a fork would hardly be a bad thing.
Interesting. You make it sound like they take all the pain of the microkernel communication methods without the benefits that would come from actually having a microkernel.
In any case the USA would also be at risk of forfeiting its entire program, since it doesn't seem to have done much concerning its Article VI obligations lately.
For that matter, social interaction typically seems to involve doing the same stupid thing over and over again.
I don't think there's any gender difference in tolerance for stupid things.
Yeah, they should. But in the real world nothing is perfect and sometimes I'd like to run a daemon even if I know it has a few bugs. User error can be a problem too, e.g., accidently killing an sshd on a distant server and not being able to reconnect to fix it.
The builtin solution that Unix/Linux provides, init, supposedly does the job, but it's not very convenient.
The only ??? part is what to spend all the money on.
I thought these days it was done automatically through DDC, i.e., the OS can read the physical monitor size from the video card, which receives it from the monitor.
This seems to be the case for the computer I'm using now, running Ubuntu, the approximately correct size is logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
I would have thought Microsoft would support it properly, since they usually have a finger in the design of these things. Since we are talking about the contents of a browser window, the behaviour of other applications doesn't matter.
Actually there is an indirect way of doing this:
<html>
<style>
div.image10 {
width: 10cm;
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="image10">
<img width="100%" src="file.jpg">
</div>
The problem comes when you start mixing in bitmap graphics, with size specified in pixels. HTML doesn't seem to support absolutely sized image rescaling.
E.g., <img width="10cm" src="file.jpg"> <!-- is not allowed! -->
The US constitution explicitly allows free speech to be limited by copyright restrictions, if I remember correctly. So I don't see how it can be used to trump a copyright law.
Sometimes it's more amusing to lose, and from a safe distance watch them try to implement what they proposed.
"McDonalds: yes/no?" doesn't give them a 50% shot. It gives them a 0% shot.
This doesn't seem very plausible. If I wanted to get rid of a huge pile of US dollars I'd buy Microsoft itself, not a gazillion copies of its products.
They have been doing it for the whole of recorded history, and they still do it. This is one of the main reasons to fight religion, instead of just shrugging off the religious as crackpots.
I overhear all kinds of bizarre stories from people explaining why they are only 30 minutes late for work dispite the appalling conditions.
Ha, a survivor reality show with unwitting participants. I think it would be quite popular.
The article says the navigation provider is removing the route from its system, so that should fix it.