Yeah, not ostensibly. Presumably. As in, I'm presuming that he's saying the vents are more vulnerable to spills by being on top (since the only thing he says about the vents is that they're too large). Not as pretentious as throwing a random "per se" in there, as I actually did mean *something* by using that word. It was the wrong word, however.
And it's more humorous since, just today, just 6 hours ago or so, my Web site had an article going off on people who use "parameter" when they mean "perimeter". -----
I agree, it's seems to be fake. But suggesting that it's fake because no one would put have vents that size (or, ostensibly, on top) because they'd be vulnerable to spills is silly.
I know for a fact (for a fact) that monitors are quite vulnerable to water spills. Multiple water spills. Angled just right to let the entire glass spill into them. -----
If we say the Insight gets 70mpg and the Neon gets 35mpg (reasonable?) then at a $10,000 price difference with gas prices at a nicely calculable $1.50, you break even after just 233,333 miles, I believe. -----
Does that compute? Right now I've got 96ppi/1600x1200 and not quite 11x17 display size.
I would think you'd have to have quite a bit more than 2560x2048 at that ppi to get a screen that size. Or am I doing the math wrong/missing some calculation?
In addition, the screen ratio they give is 1.25, as opposed to the 1.33 of most other resolutions. -----
Glad to hear I'm not the only one wasting away my hours on the Web. Sure I work 50 hour weeks, but 10+ of that is spent on here, over on my site, or on any of the other halfdozensites I keep current with daily.
I was beginning to think I was the laziest tech worker in the world.
(Hmm, do any of my bosses read slashdot? I guess we'll find out) -----
Can a pawn shop sue burglary-victims if the pawn shop's inventory is repossessed by the police?
Can I sue the St. Louis Cardinals if the traffic created by people getting to the stadium causes the ambulance to my house to be late and my mom to die?
Could I sue 1(900)Mix-A-Lot if the phone company accidentally switched the lines so I got all those phone calls?
Seems like the ISP could legitimately sue the hijackers, but it's obvious he's just looking for the biggest pot of money and suing them, relevant or not. -----
I'm a little lost on this "whoring for karma" business. If I post something that's useful to readers, should it matter what my internal personal reasons are for posting it?
I'd hate for someone to avoid posting something useful because they didn't want to look like they were seeking out karma.
[not to mention, if I was desperate for karma, I would've bypassed the +1 bonus. The comment would have still been moderated to 3 and I would have received an additional karma point.] -----
"free" doesn't always mean "no money". The NY Times gets higher advertising rates by showing off their registration numbers. By bypassing their registration, you are lowering their overall registration numbers and (in principal) earning them less advertising money. So, while it doesn't cost you any money to register, it does cost them money for you not to register.
(and, by the way, the partners link does still appear to be working for me, though it didn't in a previous story) -----
Oh yep, it is hip for the guy to put a LAN and a LAN in one WAN, but I am a bit sad to see no one cry for the dog or cat or pig who die. I bet he did not try to see if it may get hot on the way. Too bad for the old man who is on the top of his hut and may get a bit too tan.
It's not going across the Internet, just across "a typical fiber-optic network."
According to the C|Net News.com article: "Qwest will use a private connection to send the file, alleviating the possibility that hackers could disrupt the transfer of the movie." -----
We get a list of Aqua interface flaws, and the bad news that most of them still exist in DP4. Yet, as far as I can tell, nearly every change in DP4 solves (or moves towards solving) the problems
Use of bold-faced application name in place of small application icon - He admits this is much clearer for novice users and "according to Eric Schlegel of Apple, the eventual goal is to allow the application menu to take the form of an icon, an icon plus a name, or just name, according to the user's preference." Doesn't sound like a problem to me.
Useless Apple Logo - "The Apple logo at the center of the menu bar remains (and remains non-functional), but blessedly disappears in DP4 when an application's menus extend past it." Not a solution, but at least it no longer breaks the system.
Finder is now Desktop - Aside from a learning curve for the Mac veterans, "Calling it the Desktop makes more sense and, thankfully, does not hurt experienced users."
DP4 includes Preference Panels - "This is quite an improvement over DP3"
You can "Kill" the dock - In addition to improved organization of the dock (apps on left, everything else on right), and the return of the bottom 4 screen pixels (previously used for underlining active apps), you can send a "Quit" Apple Event to the dock. How much can you complain about a feature you can turn off? Seems like the next logical step to make the dock a Preference option.
So, he has some (valid) points about the Dock still (Icons aren't obvious tiles - only the icon itself is clickable), but other than that, where's the "Bad News" the heading promises? Sounds to me like they could (and possibly are trying to) respond and fix his every complaint and he'd still be upset about the new User Interface. -----
For me, as I'm downloading from Napster, if I find I'm downloading a couple of different songs from the same Napster user, I'll add them to my hotlist and check out what other songs they have available.
If it's mostly bands I know and like and some bands I haven't heard of, I'll download the unknown bands' songs. -----
But couldn't it take into account previous searches (like "chicken-eating"), as well as general population search percentages (98% of "geek" searches are tech related), or possibly time-based searches (GeekPride festival's 2 weeks away, next carnival is 3 months away).
I know nothing about quantum algorithms, but I thought part of the promise was incorporating way more data into each analysis than merely the obvious variables entered. -----
I could make up a list of people I alleged to have copyrighted works of mine available for download on Napster. It appears you don't have to have any evidence whatsoever, merely a list of names.
According to the DMCA, the list of names is submitted under penalty of perjury. Surely they're wrong on at least 1 of those 300,000 names.
If we could prove 1 case of it, could we send NetPD/Metallica to court for perjury? That might slow down they're crusade. -----
Is there any justification for them taking the exact same name (capitalization differences aside) as something universally hated among the techy crowd?
I wasn't aware that we ran out of every other possible combination of letters. I suggest MivZ -----
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And it's more humorous since, just today, just 6 hours ago or so, my Web site had an article going off on people who use "parameter" when they mean "perimeter".
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I agree, it's seems to be fake. But suggesting that it's fake because no one would put have vents that size (or, ostensibly, on top) because they'd be vulnerable to spills is silly.
I know for a fact (for a fact) that monitors are quite vulnerable to water spills. Multiple water spills. Angled just right to let the entire glass spill into them.
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If we say the Insight gets 70mpg and the Neon gets 35mpg (reasonable?) then at a $10,000 price difference with gas prices at a nicely calculable $1.50, you break even after just 233,333 miles, I believe.
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For instance, how was the previous IBM prototype the same 200ppi/2560x2048 with a diagonal viewing area of only 16.3 inches?
Pythagoras says we need a hypotenuse of 20.2" to get a 11x17 viewing area.
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Slashdot Article - December 13th
IBM Fact Sheet linked in Slashdot Article
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Does that compute? Right now I've got 96ppi/1600x1200 and not quite 11x17 display size.
I would think you'd have to have quite a bit more than 2560x2048 at that ppi to get a screen that size. Or am I doing the math wrong/missing some calculation?
In addition, the screen ratio they give is 1.25, as opposed to the 1.33 of most other resolutions.
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If it weren't for the X-men movie, or that Mutant Watch special last night, our web site wouldn't be getting flooded by hits.
Why? Check out the results when you search for mutant watch special on google.
This is almost as good as when we were ranked #4 for "whassup commercials".
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Glad to hear I'm not the only one wasting away my hours on the Web. Sure I work 50 hour weeks, but 10+ of that is spent on here, over on my site, or on any of the other half dozen sites I keep current with daily.
I was beginning to think I was the laziest tech worker in the world.
(Hmm, do any of my bosses read slashdot? I guess we'll find out)
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Can a pawn shop sue burglary-victims if the pawn shop's inventory is repossessed by the police?
Can I sue the St. Louis Cardinals if the traffic created by people getting to the stadium causes the ambulance to my house to be late and my mom to die?
Could I sue 1(900)Mix-A-Lot if the phone company accidentally switched the lines so I got all those phone calls?
Seems like the ISP could legitimately sue the hijackers, but it's obvious he's just looking for the biggest pot of money and suing them, relevant or not.
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"I'll soon be leaving for the planet Mongo, in a rocket-ship of my own design." - Dr. Zarkoff
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I'm a little lost on this "whoring for karma" business. If I post something that's useful to readers, should it matter what my internal personal reasons are for posting it?
I'd hate for someone to avoid posting something useful because they didn't want to look like they were seeking out karma.
[not to mention, if I was desperate for karma, I would've bypassed the +1 bonus. The comment would have still been moderated to 3 and I would have received an additional karma point.]
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"free" doesn't always mean "no money". The NY Times gets higher advertising rates by showing off their registration numbers. By bypassing their registration, you are lowering their overall registration numbers and (in principal) earning them less advertising money. So, while it doesn't cost you any money to register, it does cost them money for you not to register.
(and, by the way, the partners link does still appear to be working for me, though it didn't in a previous story)
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Which you can access through this convenient link.
Of course, this side-steps the issue of whether it's ethical to take someone's content for free that they are requesting you to register for.
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Oh yep, it is hip for the guy to put a LAN and a LAN in one WAN, but I am a bit sad to see no one cry for the dog or cat or pig who die. I bet he did not try to see if it may get hot on the way. Too bad for the old man who is on the top of his hut and may get a bit too tan.
[If you can not say it in 1 or 2 or 3, why say it at all?]
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It's not going across the Internet, just across "a typical fiber-optic network."
According to the C|Net News.com article:
"Qwest will use a private connection to send the file, alleviating the possibility that hackers could disrupt the transfer of the movie."
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For:
Limp Bizkit
Chuck D.
The Offspring
Against:
Metallica
Dr. Dre
Madonna
On the Fence:
Weird Al (Question 4)
Anyone know any other artists' stance?
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For instance, the FAST search: 11,009 for deCSS and 19,985,801 for sex.
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Anyone care to put together a list/explanation of the points I'm not quoting that support the "Bad News" part?
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Use of bold-faced application name in place of small application icon - He admits this is much clearer for novice users and "according to Eric Schlegel of Apple, the eventual goal is to allow the application menu to take the form of an icon, an icon plus a name, or just name, according to the user's preference." Doesn't sound like a problem to me.
Useless Apple Logo - "The Apple logo at the center of the menu bar remains (and remains non-functional), but blessedly disappears in DP4 when an application's menus extend past it." Not a solution, but at least it no longer breaks the system.
Finder is now Desktop - Aside from a learning curve for the Mac veterans, "Calling it the Desktop makes more sense and, thankfully, does not hurt experienced users."
DP4 includes Preference Panels - "This is quite an improvement over DP3"
You can "Kill" the dock - In addition to improved organization of the dock (apps on left, everything else on right), and the return of the bottom 4 screen pixels (previously used for underlining active apps), you can send a "Quit" Apple Event to the dock. How much can you complain about a feature you can turn off? Seems like the next logical step to make the dock a Preference option.
So, he has some (valid) points about the Dock still (Icons aren't obvious tiles - only the icon itself is clickable), but other than that, where's the "Bad News" the heading promises? Sounds to me like they could (and possibly are trying to) respond and fix his every complaint and he'd still be upset about the new User Interface.
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If it's mostly bands I know and like and some bands I haven't heard of, I'll download the unknown bands' songs.
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I know nothing about quantum algorithms, but I thought part of the promise was incorporating way more data into each analysis than merely the obvious variables entered.
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Comedy-Drama">Big Step in Quantum</pun>
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ISS
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I could make up a list of people I alleged to have copyrighted works of mine available for download on Napster. It appears you don't have to have any evidence whatsoever, merely a list of names.
According to the DMCA, the list of names is submitted under penalty of perjury. Surely they're wrong on at least 1 of those 300,000 names.
If we could prove 1 case of it, could we send NetPD/Metallica to court for perjury? That might slow down they're crusade.
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Is there any justification for them taking the exact same name (capitalization differences aside) as something universally hated among the techy crowd?
I wasn't aware that we ran out of every other possible combination of letters. I suggest MivZ
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