It's out of bandwidth. We really need a term for this sort of thing. Maybe something like "excess consumption of hyperlinks from popular news internet sites" or something.
My point? Did anyone grab a copy before it died? Thanks much.
If you don't know the term "to reboot the computer" you don't deserve to be using the computer, and even if you were to use the computer it would probably not have Linux on it, and if it did have Linux on it there is zero chance that you would have installed it yourself, meaning that you probably wouldn't need to reboot the computer in the first place.
shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects; larger ones could be hidden only to long-wavelength radiation such as microwaves.
So basically they've managed to come up with a way of hiding from view things that were too small to see anyway!
The "clickable progressbar" there is not just any old progress bar, though. You can still create a media player with a draggable thumb (but you can't call it media player!); you're not allowed to create one that has the capability of selecting a certain amount of the timeline for presentation using an explicit start and stop image, and that also has controls to speed up and slow down the processing of the medium as it plays along the timeline.
The network drives one still looks a bit catch-all though. I don't see how MS's Remote Assistance program bypasses that one. Myabe it's because it's not an OS extension but is actually a separate program. Technically.
Why not just encrypt the files outside of Office, using something renowned, tried, tested and passed? And why would the layperson want such high security on their documents? Surely the layperson and the security-conscious are different sets? I suppose that's the most naive thing I've ever come up with, right?
I don't know what kind of things you program that need 3.2GHz. bloat?
A processor-heavy app, maybe? It's all very well and good having a laptop that's just about capable of simple text editing but then you'd surely need a high-powered desktop PC to test it on. If you're doing this as a hobby rather than as an actual job then it's feasible you'd want to do it where your hope PC isn't, such as the arduous train journey to and from work, or in the garden in summer...
studies show neither dvorak nor qwerty have an advantage.
Sod the studies. I tried Dvorak myself. It took me several months to get any good at typing with it, and I had to re-learn things like ctrl-z to use the other ctrl. Also, with it being an American layout, the only way I could get a £ was to do alt-0163, and there was no key. And they switched my " and @ around. And there was no way of doing a ? either.
I'm back on QWERTY now. QWERTY is a lot faster to type on a QWERTY keyboard than on a Dvorak.
Surely this scheme (the last thing you mentioned) is largely identical to a copyright scheme? The main point of your patent-and-sell-licences idea is to stop other people copying the same innovation, such as the SHA encryption algorithm you mentioned, while allowing them to implement it at a small fee. Isn't this basically what copyright does? If you create something and sell it on to the people who want to use it, and you have a copyright on it, then you are fulfilling the same purpose. And this also allows for people to make something and distribute it freely; without the cost of a patent, people are more inclined to create free software, and the copyright law still protects them from people who pass off the work as their own.
Correct. Einstein actually dropped out of high school and composed his first theories while working at a mumblemumble. I can't remember what but it was something mundane. Their equivalent of working for McDonald's.
Ward's team found evidence of a gradual extinction over about 10 million years followed by a sharp increase in extinction rate that lasted another 5 million years.
Over ten million years, you'd have to be a pretty hardy life form to not go extinct or evolve to adapt, surely? I mean, if mankind is still on this planet in ten million years, or even five million years, or even when Bush is out of office, I'll eat my hat. Apart from I'd be dead.
And can we stop talking about "heading for an ice age" when we've not finished the one we've got, yet? Thank you!
It's also interesting to try to calculate the difference between the computing power required to run the Half-Life 2 engine and the computing power available to your average secondary school.
First problem: When did you last visit a school with a computer that's good enough to run Quake? The education budget in this country, at least, is sorely lacking, and as such the IT facilites of most schools are little or none. My old school couldn't even afford a licence for Microsoft Word; we were still using Works when I left less than two years ago, and on pentiums on Windows 95.
Secondly, I can imagine Half-Life 2 being used to teach kids physics. I mean, its physics engine is better than the real world's! But can you really imagine kids using games to learn, when they could be using games to play and have fun instead of listening to the teacher?
There's a reason learning games are so boring, you know.
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Oh, never mind. While I was being witty someone mirrored it. Ta.
It's out of bandwidth. We really need a term for this sort of thing. Maybe something like "excess consumption of hyperlinks from popular news internet sites" or something.
My point? Did anyone grab a copy before it died? Thanks much.
If you don't know the term "to reboot the computer" you don't deserve to be using the computer, and even if you were to use the computer it would probably not have Linux on it, and if it did have Linux on it there is zero chance that you would have installed it yourself, meaning that you probably wouldn't need to reboot the computer in the first place.
If I get woken up at 6am by a phone AOLer wanting to know my ASL I'm going to sue.
They're in Los Angeles
According to TFA,
shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects; larger ones could be hidden only to long-wavelength radiation such as microwaves.
So basically they've managed to come up with a way of hiding from view things that were too small to see anyway!
That's progress, that.
Hmm...
The "clickable progressbar" there is not just any old progress bar, though. You can still create a media player with a draggable thumb (but you can't call it media player!); you're not allowed to create one that has the capability of selecting a certain amount of the timeline for presentation using an explicit start and stop image, and that also has controls to speed up and slow down the processing of the medium as it plays along the timeline.
The network drives one still looks a bit catch-all though. I don't see how MS's Remote Assistance program bypasses that one. Myabe it's because it's not an OS extension but is actually a separate program. Technically.
You also get disqualified for saying "Pizza" because there's only one Z in Scrabble
However, if the user is forced to install "non adware and/or spyware" to use their service,
No, I'm pretty sure it will be adware.
From TFA (well, the site with TFA on it)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
This site is currently SLASHDOTTED and you will experience slow download. If you can not wait please bookmark and return later.
Oh, you guys.
Why not just encrypt the files outside of Office, using something renowned, tried, tested and passed? And why would the layperson want such high security on their documents? Surely the layperson and the security-conscious are different sets? I suppose that's the most naive thing I've ever come up with, right?
Funny? I'd've rated this insightful!
I don't know what kind of things you program that need 3.2GHz. bloat?
A processor-heavy app, maybe? It's all very well and good having a laptop that's just about capable of simple text editing but then you'd surely need a high-powered desktop PC to test it on. If you're doing this as a hobby rather than as an actual job then it's feasible you'd want to do it where your hope PC isn't, such as the arduous train journey to and from work, or in the garden in summer...
Well they did say it's their mission. That certainly implies that they've not managed it yet.
The BBC video online, AFAIK, isn't the same stuff as is shown on the telly. Most of the stuff on TV is separate from the stuff on the Internet.
studies show neither dvorak nor qwerty have an advantage.
Sod the studies. I tried Dvorak myself. It took me several months to get any good at typing with it, and I had to re-learn things like ctrl-z to use the other ctrl. Also, with it being an American layout, the only way I could get a £ was to do alt-0163, and there was no key. And they switched my " and @ around. And there was no way of doing a ? either.
I'm back on QWERTY now. QWERTY is a lot faster to type on a QWERTY keyboard than on a Dvorak.
Surely this scheme (the last thing you mentioned) is largely identical to a copyright scheme? The main point of your patent-and-sell-licences idea is to stop other people copying the same innovation, such as the SHA encryption algorithm you mentioned, while allowing them to implement it at a small fee. Isn't this basically what copyright does? If you create something and sell it on to the people who want to use it, and you have a copyright on it, then you are fulfilling the same purpose. And this also allows for people to make something and distribute it freely; without the cost of a patent, people are more inclined to create free software, and the copyright law still protects them from people who pass off the work as their own.
Damn. Urban legend. I was sure I read it in an encyclopedia...
Correct. Einstein actually dropped out of high school and composed his first theories while working at a mumblemumble. I can't remember what but it was something mundane. Their equivalent of working for McDonald's.
The things I'd say I wish I'd been told in school, they actually told me, but I didn't believe them, because they sounded silly.
I know what I last used "BS" to mean...
Ward's team found evidence of a gradual extinction over about 10 million years followed by a sharp increase in extinction rate that lasted another 5 million years.
Over ten million years, you'd have to be a pretty hardy life form to not go extinct or evolve to adapt, surely? I mean, if mankind is still on this planet in ten million years, or even five million years, or even when Bush is out of office, I'll eat my hat. Apart from I'd be dead.
And can we stop talking about "heading for an ice age" when we've not finished the one we've got, yet? Thank you!
While we're on the subject, do you, or anyone else, happen to know where it is/what it's called?
It's also interesting to try to calculate the difference between the computing power required to run the Half-Life 2 engine and the computing power available to your average secondary school.
First problem: When did you last visit a school with a computer that's good enough to run Quake? The education budget in this country, at least, is sorely lacking, and as such the IT facilites of most schools are little or none. My old school couldn't even afford a licence for Microsoft Word; we were still using Works when I left less than two years ago, and on pentiums on Windows 95.
Secondly, I can imagine Half-Life 2 being used to teach kids physics. I mean, its physics engine is better than the real world's! But can you really imagine kids using games to learn, when they could be using games to play and have fun instead of listening to the teacher?
There's a reason learning games are so boring, you know.
You're thinking of Black Adder. It was actually Baldrick that burned it, and it wasn't the dictionary after all, it was Edmond's novel.