Directive 4 was classified. I'm not sure what zeroth law is supposed to mean, but then again I've never read Asimov. Rather I recognize references to 80' sci-fi movies.
The standard drink for the new standards organization will be Grog. The standardized procedure for making Grog will be as follows.
1. Make a rum and water (like Word 95 did it) 2. Hold the water. 3. Add more rum. 4. Repeat if necessary. 5. Party with Ted Kennedy. 6. Dump the dead hooker in the lake. ??? 8. Profit
Furthermore, Microsoft said they won't even attempt to get Office 2007 to support it via a Service Pack. Instead, they won't attempt to support that standard until the next version of Office at the earliest, and that could mean at any point in that product's life span.
You can get a used XBox for $100. Put in a cheap hard drive. Purchase a mod chip on the cheap, or do a soft mod. Install XBMC and MythTV, and then suddenly you've got a pretty sweet setup on the cheap. I love it.
You don't say "Call to them" do you? There are times that prepositions are optional. "Write them a letter" is acceptable grammatically, and so is "write them".
Last year I was in a car accident. Someone rear-ended me and totaled my car. The insurance agent called me, and without seeing the car or knowing any facts, said I was 15% liable for being rear-ended. I didn't speed, I stayed in my lane, etc. I called a lawyer who said I was screwed. There wasn't enough money to justify fighting the case in court. The body shop guy said he saw it ever day in my state, that the insurance company wouldn't pay the full claim and just screwed people if the case was small enough to stay out of court. He saw someone parked on the street had their car totaled, and the insurance company said they were partially liable for being parked on the street legally. If the car wasn't on the road, it never would have been hit.
I was furious, so I called my state senator to talk about the partial liability law. We have term limits, so he wasn't up for reelection and wouldn't personally benefit, but he called me back several times to get info. He researched the law, and several cases like mine where we were ripped off. Then he went into legislation and fixed the law.
Sometimes there are a few decent people in office who want to do good. But if you never bring these things to their attention, nothing will ever be done.
Contacting your elected officials may not work, but it beats doing nothing.
I wager that 95% of the members of Congress never heard about any of this. Write them. Tell them how you feel. Educate them on the issue. Maybe one of them will actually give a damn.
Let us put it to good for once. Everyone reading this article should send at the very least one email to their elected government official. Google will tell you who to contact. We need to let our governments know how we feel about this ISO fiasco.
By that I meant, rasterization is sticking around at least 3-5 years even if ray tracing were on the horizon, yet Intel claims rasterization will disappear very soon.
Intel's last demo was running on 8 GPUs wasn't it? On those were GPUs designed for ray tracing I thought.
I like Nvidia's approach to use existing architecture, and I agree with the poster above who says this is a much better method for consumers.
I disagree however with Intel saying rasterization is dying any time soon. Intel and Nvidia can't produce these effects with reasonably priced hardware, and even when the hardware becomes affordable, we still need games designed for this, and then a few years for the technology to be accepted by the masses.
Given releases every six months (with Intrepid Ibex coming up soon) then three years from now, we should be on Ostentatious Otter. Then again, the article said three years from now, in 2012. Four years would lead up to Quintessential Quetzalcoatl.
But most people will still be using Prissy Peacock.
PHBs will always insist on metrics for things that can't properly be quantified.
What I would do is suggest that he task a team from another department to run a survey on satisfaction amongst wiki users. Has the wiki helped them? How often do they use it? What would they like to see changed.
This should distract the PHB for a while, while diverting your responsibility to come up with a metric.
...or is the author basically predicting that in 2012 we'll have the things we have now?
We currently have pay distros, free distros, and libre distros. KDE 4 already exists. There are already Linux netbooks, and major OEM preinstalls. In the future apparently we'll have Gmail and OpenOffice.
The author also MAGICALLY predicts storage costs will go down.
Linux will also be on servers, and support virtualization.
The article does say that, but I just watched the video twice and I can't see a single person walk out, nor does the video show any empty seats anywhere. The video shows plenty of laughter and applause, including Bush laughing repeatedly at his own expense. As soon as Colbert was done, Bush walked up to him, shook his hand and said "you did a good job".
The only two moments of pronounced akward silence seemed to come when Colbert told arguably two inappropriate jokes. It is quite possible that some people were offended and not shown on the video, but the TV footage doesn't jive with what Wikipedia says.
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Directive 4 was classified. I'm not sure what zeroth law is supposed to mean, but then again I've never read Asimov. Rather I recognize references to 80' sci-fi movies.
Control over DVR recordings. You basically use XBMC as your media player, app launcher, etc. XBMC can tie into MythTV as well.
That could be the case with the Dream, but doesn't the Diamond have auto-rotate?
The standard drink for the new standards organization will be Grog. The standardized procedure for making Grog will be as follows.
1. Make a rum and water (like Word 95 did it)
2. Hold the water.
3. Add more rum.
4. Repeat if necessary.
5. Party with Ted Kennedy.
6. Dump the dead hooker in the lake.
???
8. Profit
Furthermore, Microsoft said they won't even attempt to get Office 2007 to support it via a Service Pack. Instead, they won't attempt to support that standard until the next version of Office at the earliest, and that could mean at any point in that product's life span.
No, because I've been reading all the articles. You'll find that there is plenty there to be pissed off about.
You can get a used XBox for $100. Put in a cheap hard drive. Purchase a mod chip on the cheap, or do a soft mod. Install XBMC and MythTV, and then suddenly you've got a pretty sweet setup on the cheap. I love it.
Maybe Twitter is a CmdrTaco sock-puppet. ;)
Recursive insanity ensues.
The video I saw of the HTC Dream prototype had a slide out keyboard.
The HTC Diamond is pretty impressive, and the Dream is supposed to be even better.
You don't say "Call to them" do you? There are times that prepositions are optional. "Write them a letter" is acceptable grammatically, and so is "write them".
Last year I was in a car accident. Someone rear-ended me and totaled my car. The insurance agent called me, and without seeing the car or knowing any facts, said I was 15% liable for being rear-ended. I didn't speed, I stayed in my lane, etc. I called a lawyer who said I was screwed. There wasn't enough money to justify fighting the case in court. The body shop guy said he saw it ever day in my state, that the insurance company wouldn't pay the full claim and just screwed people if the case was small enough to stay out of court. He saw someone parked on the street had their car totaled, and the insurance company said they were partially liable for being parked on the street legally. If the car wasn't on the road, it never would have been hit.
I was furious, so I called my state senator to talk about the partial liability law. We have term limits, so he wasn't up for reelection and wouldn't personally benefit, but he called me back several times to get info. He researched the law, and several cases like mine where we were ripped off. Then he went into legislation and fixed the law.
Sometimes there are a few decent people in office who want to do good. But if you never bring these things to their attention, nothing will ever be done.
Contacting your elected officials may not work, but it beats doing nothing.
I wager that 95% of the members of Congress never heard about any of this. Write them. Tell them how you feel. Educate them on the issue. Maybe one of them will actually give a damn.
Let us put it to good for once. Everyone reading this article should send at the very least one email to their elected government official. Google will tell you who to contact. We need to let our governments know how we feel about this ISO fiasco.
By that I meant, rasterization is sticking around at least 3-5 years even if ray tracing were on the horizon, yet Intel claims rasterization will disappear very soon.
Intel's last demo was running on 8 GPUs wasn't it? On those were GPUs designed for ray tracing I thought.
I like Nvidia's approach to use existing architecture, and I agree with the poster above who says this is a much better method for consumers.
I disagree however with Intel saying rasterization is dying any time soon. Intel and Nvidia can't produce these effects with reasonably priced hardware, and even when the hardware becomes affordable, we still need games designed for this, and then a few years for the technology to be accepted by the masses.
I say rasterization sticks around 3-5 years.
bestbuy.com shows the ASUS Eee PC is available in most stores.
It is likely the closest "metric" that will answer the question.
NTFS-3G works pretty well. I'm not sure FAT32 is really necessary any more.
We all know that the OS that causes the end of mankind will be Windows Vienna.
Given releases every six months (with Intrepid Ibex coming up soon) then three years from now, we should be on Ostentatious Otter. Then again, the article said three years from now, in 2012. Four years would lead up to Quintessential Quetzalcoatl.
But most people will still be using Prissy Peacock.
PHBs will always insist on metrics for things that can't properly be quantified.
What I would do is suggest that he task a team from another department to run a survey on satisfaction amongst wiki users. Has the wiki helped them? How often do they use it? What would they like to see changed.
This should distract the PHB for a while, while diverting your responsibility to come up with a metric.
That would greatly lower the cost of doing special effects, if you didn't have to do them frame by frame.
...or is the author basically predicting that in 2012 we'll have the things we have now?
We currently have pay distros, free distros, and libre distros. KDE 4 already exists. There are already Linux netbooks, and major OEM preinstalls. In the future apparently we'll have Gmail and OpenOffice.
The author also MAGICALLY predicts storage costs will go down.
Linux will also be on servers, and support virtualization.
Will all this stuff happen before 2012?
I'd say so, considering it is all true today.
Joining the armed forces makes you a weak-willed traitor, but bashing them is very cool.
You sir, are a tool.
The article does say that, but I just watched the video twice and I can't see a single person walk out, nor does the video show any empty seats anywhere. The video shows plenty of laughter and applause, including Bush laughing repeatedly at his own expense. As soon as Colbert was done, Bush walked up to him, shook his hand and said "you did a good job".
The only two moments of pronounced akward silence seemed to come when Colbert told arguably two inappropriate jokes. It is quite possible that some people were offended and not shown on the video, but the TV footage doesn't jive with what Wikipedia says.