Right now I'm looking at my main monitor, which is on top of a commodore 1701 monitor, which is on top of my main computer. Next to that is the C64 itself, surrounded by the floppy and tape drive. On the other side is a socket7 box next to a 486. Scattered in neat little piles nearby are apples, amigas, etc.
English (or pretty much any spoken language)is hardly the best medium for concise commands. How many people here have posted something in a message board,IRC channel, etc. that was completely misunderstood?
The beauty of English is in its nuances and shades of meaning. For programming, that's a nightmare.
This could actually be pretty cool for online games. You could be on a team with friends from out of town, and know who you were playing with.
On the other hand, it could lead to some creepy deja vu if you see someone at the mall!
Weather or not this is held up by the courts isn't the issue. Weather or not the whole idea is viable isn't the issue. Can you think of one thing along these lines that hasn't been hacked? The issue to the consumer is that this is costing you money. Developing the technology, implementing it, all of that goes into the price of the TV. What you end up with is a TV that won't do things that your old TV did, but it will cost more.
.."Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire." Protector of the Order of the BSOD, Royal Disseminator of FUD, and Patcher of the Realm.
Being someone who likes to play around with BEAM robotics, I think this is a horrible waste of a good stepper motor. The magnets are useful for pendulum projects too.
As far as the platters go, I think if you'd give a few good swipes with one of those magnets, there really wouldn't be anything left.
People have been having a "moment of silence" long before the advent of recorded material. That being the case, any period of silence would just be a modern arrangement of a traditional..um, song?
I have to agree with that. I have some of those programs on my machine and they are absolutely phenomenal. KStars in particular made my jaw drop. Something like that might be a strain on that system, although this machine is 2.4GHz with 512meg of memory and I've had no problems. Some of the other apps (periodic tables, graphing, etc.) don't seem like they are memory hogs at all, so they'd probably run without a hitch.
>>Interestingly, if I use IE for those same sites, I get a other popups, but I don't get the ones that I was getting under Firefox.
It wouldn't surprise me if the advertisers aren't trying to do more than just find ways to get the pop-ups to show. Depending on what products they are trying to sell, I'd think they'd try to circumvent a certain browsers blocker.
If you know that your demographic is more likely to use Firefox or a Mac, why waste time getting around IE's defenses?
Hats off to the folks who are working on these robots. They truly are amazing bits of engineering. But are we really so narcissistic that we think something that looks and acts human is a good design? After all, the robots that really are useful to us (mostly in manufacturing) don't look human.
With the emergence of VoIP, I wonder how much of a fight they'll have on their hands for the liscenced frequencies. I don't see someone like Sprint giving up bandwidth to the competition.
There are other bits of the spectrum that are being looked at as well. Among them is on the 6MHz TV channel.
How long do you think it will be till you read about some joker hacking grandma's old RCA to get online?
If this random number generator can predict world events, and the new processors are expected to have a degree of unpredictability, I guess we'll have prescient computers.
Microsoft could change their slogan to "We knew that's where you wanted to go today."
Yes, but there are phrases that are easily remembered yet are apocryphal even to those to whom they mean something. For instance "Dr. Lovibond and the frothy nipple of love" would probably mean nothing to anyone but myself and the one person that I was brewing beer with that day. On the other hand, he could shout "What's your passphrase?" across a crowded room,I could shout back "The frothy nipple band!", and I'd still defy anyone to guess what the passphrase was.
Shrub keeps his head up his...in the sand. That's not exactly a news flash.
This is a president who has no use for scientific facts or evidence. He decides what he wants to believe then expects someone to show the world why he's right. If someone should have the audacity not to toe the line, they get axed.
Is it any wonder that they got such a poor response rate? The point, as I see it, is not that so few responded, but that so few dared to respond.
Liberal or Conservative is beside the point. This kind of willful ignorance by a president is bad for America.
I have found a lot of Linux distros just as easy to use as XP. Granted, there are a few things to get used to. It's handy to know some commands (ok, you have to know some commands to do anything useful) but anyone who remembers DOS should be used to that.
Software installation can be a bit more of a chore. Most software that "mom and pop" would want is available as an RPM though. Once you figure out how to use something like YAST, you're in. These are not people who want to compile from source or be on the bleeding edge. They want to check email, plug in their digital camera and save photos, surf the web, etc.
The CD burning thing being more difficult I just don't get. Recently I got a new machine and was running XP. I decided to snag some ISO's and set up a Linux system or two since I had spare drives. Now everything else is there, but burning an ISO wasn't. I had to go around my ass to get to my elbow to get this done. In Linux, I download the image, bring it to the CD burning program, click "burn iso", done. Data and music files seem just as easy.
The one real problem I had was that my wireless card was not recognized and I had to install Madwifi to make it work. Of course if a larger percentage of users had Linux, they'd have packaged an RPM with the card wouldn't they?
>"What do Clannad, Enya, the Corrs, Tori Amos, Enigma, Loreena McKennit, Peter Gabriel - and the Sisters of Mercy have in common?"
Those are the people whos songs will be on the RIAA lawsuit after Mercora scans your hard drive?
Which is just a "white list". What I'm talking about is something that would put senders from the address book on top, something that may or may not be from a forum that you read in the middle, and our nigerian benefactor on the bottom or directly to the spam box.
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Hey, I'm an artist! Who knew?
The beauty of English is in its nuances and shades of meaning. For programming, that's a nightmare.
This could actually be pretty cool for online games. You could be on a team with friends from out of town, and know who you were playing with. On the other hand, it could lead to some creepy deja vu if you see someone at the mall!
Since it turns into a butterfly and we're talking about something that is often spread by email, it is somewhat appropriate.
...It's definately time to upgrade when someone pops out of their cubicle and asks, "Hey, what does Guru meditation error mean?"
Weather or not this is held up by the courts isn't the issue. Weather or not the whole idea is viable isn't the issue. Can you think of one thing along these lines that hasn't been hacked? The issue to the consumer is that this is costing you money. Developing the technology, implementing it, all of that goes into the price of the TV. What you end up with is a TV that won't do things that your old TV did, but it will cost more.
.."Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire." Protector of the Order of the BSOD, Royal Disseminator of FUD, and Patcher of the Realm.
As far as the platters go, I think if you'd give a few good swipes with one of those magnets, there really wouldn't be anything left.
People have been having a "moment of silence" long before the advent of recorded material. That being the case, any period of silence would just be a modern arrangement of a traditional..um, song?
I have to agree with that. I have some of those programs on my machine and they are absolutely phenomenal. KStars in particular made my jaw drop. Something like that might be a strain on that system, although this machine is 2.4GHz with 512meg of memory and I've had no problems. Some of the other apps (periodic tables, graphing, etc.) don't seem like they are memory hogs at all, so they'd probably run without a hitch.
Bastards!
It wouldn't surprise me if the advertisers aren't trying to do more than just find ways to get the pop-ups to show. Depending on what products they are trying to sell, I'd think they'd try to circumvent a certain browsers blocker.
If you know that your demographic is more likely to use Firefox or a Mac, why waste time getting around IE's defenses?
I've got big money riding on this whole idea. I lost my ass on videophone booths and internet kiosks.
Hats off to the folks who are working on these robots. They truly are amazing bits of engineering. But are we really so narcissistic that we think something that looks and acts human is a good design? After all, the robots that really are useful to us (mostly in manufacturing) don't look human.
There are other bits of the spectrum that are being looked at as well. Among them is on the 6MHz TV channel.
How long do you think it will be till you read about some joker hacking grandma's old RCA to get online?
>> Up until recently, it had been given solely to people in theory. "Hey, I heard you won the Turing award." "Well, in theory"
Precession must have some bearing on Stonehenge, and it looks like one hell of a thing to have to calibrate.
If this random number generator can predict world events, and the new processors are expected to have a degree of unpredictability, I guess we'll have prescient computers. Microsoft could change their slogan to "We knew that's where you wanted to go today."
Yes, but there are phrases that are easily remembered yet are apocryphal even to those to whom they mean something. For instance "Dr. Lovibond and the frothy nipple of love" would probably mean nothing to anyone but myself and the one person that I was brewing beer with that day. On the other hand, he could shout "What's your passphrase?" across a crowded room,I could shout back "The frothy nipple band!", and I'd still defy anyone to guess what the passphrase was.
What a coincidence, all my passwords are pig latin translated to "ab" from the old kids show "Zoom", and then rendered in l337.
Shrub keeps his head up his...in the sand. That's not exactly a news flash. This is a president who has no use for scientific facts or evidence. He decides what he wants to believe then expects someone to show the world why he's right. If someone should have the audacity not to toe the line, they get axed. Is it any wonder that they got such a poor response rate? The point, as I see it, is not that so few responded, but that so few dared to respond. Liberal or Conservative is beside the point. This kind of willful ignorance by a president is bad for America.
I have found a lot of Linux distros just as easy to use as XP. Granted, there are a few things to get used to. It's handy to know some commands (ok, you have to know some commands to do anything useful) but anyone who remembers DOS should be used to that. Software installation can be a bit more of a chore. Most software that "mom and pop" would want is available as an RPM though. Once you figure out how to use something like YAST, you're in. These are not people who want to compile from source or be on the bleeding edge. They want to check email, plug in their digital camera and save photos, surf the web, etc. The CD burning thing being more difficult I just don't get. Recently I got a new machine and was running XP. I decided to snag some ISO's and set up a Linux system or two since I had spare drives. Now everything else is there, but burning an ISO wasn't. I had to go around my ass to get to my elbow to get this done. In Linux, I download the image, bring it to the CD burning program, click "burn iso", done. Data and music files seem just as easy. The one real problem I had was that my wireless card was not recognized and I had to install Madwifi to make it work. Of course if a larger percentage of users had Linux, they'd have packaged an RPM with the card wouldn't they?
>"What do Clannad, Enya, the Corrs, Tori Amos, Enigma, Loreena McKennit, Peter Gabriel - and the Sisters of Mercy have in common?" Those are the people whos songs will be on the RIAA lawsuit after Mercora scans your hard drive?
...more prone to use a cheap WiFi connection, if one is available." Ya think?
Which is just a "white list". What I'm talking about is something that would put senders from the address book on top, something that may or may not be from a forum that you read in the middle, and our nigerian benefactor on the bottom or directly to the spam box.