They wouldn't do a scroll wheel on the side. For one, that just isn't an ipod. It would be just like any other mp3 player out there. Secondly, the scroll wheel is one of the most ergonomic and natural feeling controls on the market. Instead of pushing down a button and waiting for the hardware to start scrolling, it's moving and soon as you are, and stops as soon as you stop. Plus, there's no awkward move it down, move your finger back up, move it down... etc. Apple would be stupid to give up something so ingenious as the click wheel. As for the wheel being digitized, I'm not too hot on the idea. The reason that the 3G didn't really fly as well as it should have was because there was no tactile feedback. You get the 'click' when you press the button on all of the other models, but 3G you didn't get that. In addition, you had to move your thumb to get to the menu buttons.
the need to specify the OS for a particular application will fade away
This just in! Bill Gates says that Windows will start supporting OSX and Linux programs. In other news, people all over the country are being hospitalized as exhausted pigs plummet from the sky.
The brief never specified whether or not she had a P2P client installed, but my impression was that she didn't. In that case, it is invasion of privacy, because unless she happens to have her hard drive shared across the internet (not quite sure how you would do that...) it's not publicly available. I'm just glad somebody's finally fighting back. It sounds like the RIAA has a whole system set up specifically for getting money out of people, regardless of whether they have proof of sharing or not.
Speaking of fuel... It's pretty interesting how spaceship one was fueled. It's basically a mix of kerosene and chopped up old tires, but it does the job, and pretty darn well. Another ingenious thing about SS1 is the reentry mechanism. Rather than weighting the craft down with thousands of custom made thermal tiles (like NASA does), it instead raises its wings vertical, which gives a lot of drag on reentry. Essentially, this slows the craft down so quickly that you don't have to worry about it overheating. I bet the guys at NASA are slapping themselves across the face on that one...
They claim that it's an enterprise product, another class of software than OpenSSH. They don't seem to have much of an argument for why it's so much different. The only comparison they manage to draw is that OpenSSH doesn't have very good SFTP, which they neglect to back by any comparison to their own. Straw man at best it seems. Anyway, what is so 'enterprise' about it that OpenSSH doesn't have? Seems to me that every 'enterprise' server running a *nix has it, so doesn't that make it enterprise enough?
Unless you're going to rip any DVD that you might want to watch to it's relatively small hard drive, it really can't play movies. Sure, you could get a USB DVD player, but that defeats the purpose of the small form factor. In fact, it seems like for a lot of applications with the OQO you would need an external disk drive (like installing programs for instance).
I don't want to be one of those jerks who corrects people... but here I go. A Gold clickwheel wouldn't work because they work on Capacitance. For that to happen, you have to have some kind of an insulator between your finger and the detector. Thus the plastic on all iPods. Plus you would get some nasty smudges on you gold clickwheel.
15 MB? That was a steal back before GMail. My yahoo account, which had been around for a while, was lucky enough to have 6MB, but that was because they can't reneg allotted space from an existing account. If I remember correctly, either Hotmail or Yahoo (maybe both) only offered 2 MB a year or two before GMail came out.
I have to agree with some of the above posts. With my old 6 MB account, I was constantly erasing emails because I simply didn't think I would need them anymore. With GMail I pretty much keep everything except for the automatically filtered junk. I have to commend GMail on making it more difficult to delete emails, because it saved me a lot of grief for a school project. It was my high school senior project, which had a number of papers connected to it. One day I pop in my jump drive, and surprise!, my jump drive had shorted out. Luckily I had emailed all of those documents, so I was able to recover them. Anyway, that's my story for GMail.
Actually, that is not the case. I just finished a unit in my Calculus class on that very idea. The method totally sucks to use, but it gets the job done, albeit very error-pronely (that's not a word is it?)
This is an interesting enough concept, but the math involved with it would require a bit more algebra than I knew when I learned the trig basics. Also, this doesn't seem like it would have much practical application in calculus. Anyone who's ever taken calculus beyond just the basics can tell you that it is a pain in the butt integrating and deriving rational functions. Unless his replacements for sine and cosine, etc, are all related in the way they are in classical trig, it would be a nightmare trying to do the simplest of integrations, like proving the sine is the antiderivative of cosine.
I think that's probably open much like.Net was "open". The whole thing stinks of the.Net strategy anyway. It's just Microsoft trying to gain a bigger market share by creating easier development, but limiting it to the win32 platform..Net wasn't a bad idea, it's just that it was Microsoft creating it.
Sorry to rain on your little bush-hating parade here, but the president never found out about the 9/11 threats until after they happened. If you remember the whole 9/11 report thing, they identified the FBI as where the threats were ignored.
And, IMHO, having a dead brain is better than being a robot with none.
4 Gigs is actually a hardware limitation for 32 bit processors, as far as I understand it. And if we're talking about "64-bit" windows, good luck. The 64-bit version of XP is little more than a hastily put together 32 bit emulation for 64 bit hardware.
Amen to that! I was my high school's web master for 2 years, and because it was nearly impossible getting the district admins to do the simplest of tasks for me (like set up CGI, which was already set up on the district site), I found workarounds (like using PHP scripting instead of perl and using XML or plain text files instead of databases). I don't know that the site is entirely what you call 'stable', but it worked reasonably well. Now to see if my replacement will ever be able to figure it out...
I agree, we'll all write kernels and bootloaders in something easy like BASIC... **Cringe**. But seriously, I think reading a perl regex over the phone would be way worse than 'add eax to eax then jump to the label foo, etc'
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK Apple doesn't lock out unapproved hardware, they just don't support or provide drivers for hardware that is not approved. There was some talk of them doing this on the Macintel systems, but I'm pretty sure that got shot down (too lazy to look up the article...)
That's all fine and good for MS, but what about the people who managed to obtain copies of corporate editions of the software? These copies will report tons of hits, undetected by MS.
To clarify what I said above about the sponsored results, I hate that Yahoo allows companies to bump themselves up to the top of a search query, instead of ads on the side of the page. The Yahoo sponsored ads always seem to try to sell me something when I'm clearly not searching for anything that I would buy. I can live with Google ads... I just ignore them because they're usually not in the main meat of a page or search query.
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They wouldn't do a scroll wheel on the side. For one, that just isn't an ipod. It would be just like any other mp3 player out there. Secondly, the scroll wheel is one of the most ergonomic and natural feeling controls on the market. Instead of pushing down a button and waiting for the hardware to start scrolling, it's moving and soon as you are, and stops as soon as you stop. Plus, there's no awkward move it down, move your finger back up, move it down... etc. Apple would be stupid to give up something so ingenious as the click wheel. As for the wheel being digitized, I'm not too hot on the idea. The reason that the 3G didn't really fly as well as it should have was because there was no tactile feedback. You get the 'click' when you press the button on all of the other models, but 3G you didn't get that. In addition, you had to move your thumb to get to the menu buttons.
They actually still use that in satellites and other space bound things because it resists corruption from solar waves and whatnot.
the need to specify the OS for a particular application will fade away This just in! Bill Gates says that Windows will start supporting OSX and Linux programs. In other news, people all over the country are being hospitalized as exhausted pigs plummet from the sky.
Wouldn't retrieving a 20 ton metal object from space have much the same impact as the asteroid crashing into the earth?
Here's a whole bunch. They're designed so that they must be solved by computer, but in order to do so you must understand the math behind them.
The brief never specified whether or not she had a P2P client installed, but my impression was that she didn't. In that case, it is invasion of privacy, because unless she happens to have her hard drive shared across the internet (not quite sure how you would do that...) it's not publicly available. I'm just glad somebody's finally fighting back. It sounds like the RIAA has a whole system set up specifically for getting money out of people, regardless of whether they have proof of sharing or not.
Speaking of fuel... It's pretty interesting how spaceship one was fueled. It's basically a mix of kerosene and chopped up old tires, but it does the job, and pretty darn well. Another ingenious thing about SS1 is the reentry mechanism. Rather than weighting the craft down with thousands of custom made thermal tiles (like NASA does), it instead raises its wings vertical, which gives a lot of drag on reentry. Essentially, this slows the craft down so quickly that you don't have to worry about it overheating. I bet the guys at NASA are slapping themselves across the face on that one...
They claim that it's an enterprise product, another class of software than OpenSSH. They don't seem to have much of an argument for why it's so much different. The only comparison they manage to draw is that OpenSSH doesn't have very good SFTP, which they neglect to back by any comparison to their own. Straw man at best it seems. Anyway, what is so 'enterprise' about it that OpenSSH doesn't have? Seems to me that every 'enterprise' server running a *nix has it, so doesn't that make it enterprise enough?
Unless you're going to rip any DVD that you might want to watch to it's relatively small hard drive, it really can't play movies. Sure, you could get a USB DVD player, but that defeats the purpose of the small form factor. In fact, it seems like for a lot of applications with the OQO you would need an external disk drive (like installing programs for instance).
I don't want to be one of those jerks who corrects people... but here I go. A Gold clickwheel wouldn't work because they work on Capacitance. For that to happen, you have to have some kind of an insulator between your finger and the detector. Thus the plastic on all iPods. Plus you would get some nasty smudges on you gold clickwheel.
15 MB? That was a steal back before GMail. My yahoo account, which had been around for a while, was lucky enough to have 6MB, but that was because they can't reneg allotted space from an existing account. If I remember correctly, either Hotmail or Yahoo (maybe both) only offered 2 MB a year or two before GMail came out. I have to agree with some of the above posts. With my old 6 MB account, I was constantly erasing emails because I simply didn't think I would need them anymore. With GMail I pretty much keep everything except for the automatically filtered junk. I have to commend GMail on making it more difficult to delete emails, because it saved me a lot of grief for a school project. It was my high school senior project, which had a number of papers connected to it. One day I pop in my jump drive, and surprise!, my jump drive had shorted out. Luckily I had emailed all of those documents, so I was able to recover them. Anyway, that's my story for GMail.
Actually, that is not the case. I just finished a unit in my Calculus class on that very idea. The method totally sucks to use, but it gets the job done, albeit very error-pronely (that's not a word is it?)
This is an interesting enough concept, but the math involved with it would require a bit more algebra than I knew when I learned the trig basics. Also, this doesn't seem like it would have much practical application in calculus. Anyone who's ever taken calculus beyond just the basics can tell you that it is a pain in the butt integrating and deriving rational functions. Unless his replacements for sine and cosine, etc, are all related in the way they are in classical trig, it would be a nightmare trying to do the simplest of integrations, like proving the sine is the antiderivative of cosine.
I think that's probably open much like .Net was "open". The whole thing stinks of the .Net strategy anyway. It's just Microsoft trying to gain a bigger market share by creating easier development, but limiting it to the win32 platform. .Net wasn't a bad idea, it's just that it was Microsoft creating it.
Sorry to rain on your little bush-hating parade here, but the president never found out about the 9/11 threats until after they happened. If you remember the whole 9/11 report thing, they identified the FBI as where the threats were ignored. And, IMHO, having a dead brain is better than being a robot with none.
4 Gigs is actually a hardware limitation for 32 bit processors, as far as I understand it. And if we're talking about "64-bit" windows, good luck. The 64-bit version of XP is little more than a hastily put together 32 bit emulation for 64 bit hardware.
Amen to that! I was my high school's web master for 2 years, and because it was nearly impossible getting the district admins to do the simplest of tasks for me (like set up CGI, which was already set up on the district site), I found workarounds (like using PHP scripting instead of perl and using XML or plain text files instead of databases). I don't know that the site is entirely what you call 'stable', but it worked reasonably well. Now to see if my replacement will ever be able to figure it out...
I agree, we'll all write kernels and bootloaders in something easy like BASIC... **Cringe**. But seriously, I think reading a perl regex over the phone would be way worse than 'add eax to eax then jump to the label foo, etc'
Well, I guess they could hiss and click at you (the equivalent of listening to a modem line), but unless you're rainman, that's not very helpful.
As I've said before, soap boxes are on aisle 5.
500 Megawatts... that's kind of a lot, as long as you dont need 1.21 Gigawatts to charge up your flux capacitor.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK Apple doesn't lock out unapproved hardware, they just don't support or provide drivers for hardware that is not approved. There was some talk of them doing this on the Macintel systems, but I'm pretty sure that got shot down (too lazy to look up the article...)
That's all fine and good for MS, but what about the people who managed to obtain copies of corporate editions of the software? These copies will report tons of hits, undetected by MS.
To clarify what I said above about the sponsored results, I hate that Yahoo allows companies to bump themselves up to the top of a search query, instead of ads on the side of the page. The Yahoo sponsored ads always seem to try to sell me something when I'm clearly not searching for anything that I would buy. I can live with Google ads... I just ignore them because they're usually not in the main meat of a page or search query.
OH! That's Right. Now I remember why slashdot automatically hides Anonymous Coward comments.