No no... What the guy is saying, is why did it have to be transparant at all (i.e., why plexigless). This wasn't a wale show, they just needed to carry them on the ship for like a half hour.
What the guy is saying, is why did it have to be transparant at all (i.e., why plexigless). This wasn't a wale show, they just needed to carry them on the ship for like a half hour.
Question: Why the hell would you need "financial incentive" to see this "great work" published? If it is so great, wouldn't the desire to see it being enjoyed be incentive enough? Give it to project Guterburg, They'd publish it for you. Or publish it yourself on the web. Geez, I hope everyone else in this species isn't as greedy as you purport to be, or we'll all be in hell in a handbasket before I hit 50.
Big Deal. Diid you know McDonald's owns a trademark on the phrase "Smile" ? (Yeah that's right. It used to be on their cups when they were running some "Smile your at McDonal's campaign or something) Kimberly-Clark owns the trademark on Kleenex, do you think the cops come after me whenever I call my no-name tissue "Kleenex"? The point is, just because they own a trademark doesn't mean you can't use the word in whatever context you like, it means that you can't sell products under that same mark in the same field, or otherwise portray your products to belonging to that mark when they don't.
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This is not a troll, nor is it MS hype. It is the truth -.Net is going to be big, if soley for the one reason that MS is behind it. That fact alone is going to push THOUSANDS of projects around it, both from inside MS and also outside, as developers ramp up into all the nifty things Visual Studio.Net is capable of.
Sure, it's beed done before. Sure, it's alot like java. The difference is that the worl's biggest software monopoly is behind it. You think if Joe hacker had come up with this idea of an IL and common runtime and submitted it to the ECMA, it'd be this big a deal? No, but the fact that the operating system that sits on 90% of the worlds desktops is going to be running this stuff makes it one.
.Net isn't something to be taken lightly, nor is it something to be bashed. Miguel has the right idea,.Net can be AWESOME for linux if a capable Open Source development environment and runtime can be created. Think about it - no more wine. Programs compiled for windows instantly run on Linux. GTK and QT programs run on Linux. Instant interoperability. It will be all the things Java promised to be, but never delivered on. Mainly because it's backed by this goliath, MS. Sure, Sun had their chance, but they ruined it. Not to mention that.Net GUi programs will run light-years faster than Java ones, mainly because the System.Window.Forms classes will have low-level access to the MS api's, as will their GTK counterparts.
Seriously, Don't be so quick to bash it. This thing is going to have huge implications for everyone.
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I agree with the tabbed browsing, I can't wait for t to appear in 3.1. But the smart bookmarks toolbar; I find that vastly inferior to Konqueror's web shortcuts feature, mainly because it is so much simpler to use. Why do I need a bulky toolbar cluttering up my screen when I can just type "php:fopen" to search the php manual, or "rf:gaim" to search freshmeat? It's very cool. if you've never tried this feature, go into your konqueror settings under "Enhanced Browsing". It's very easy to add your own sites.
You don't understand the way.Net works. The entire API is made up of a set of base classes and their data objects and associated methods. Every single one of these classes will eventually be imlimented in Mono. If an accessor method changes, it is TRIVIAL to duplicate that in the corrosponding method in Mono. Even if MS decides to trash certain classes in favour of new ones, Mono can do the same, with even less amount of effort than MS, since Mono is just duplicating the API design, thilw MS had to design it in the first place. This is not the same as COM or MFC, not even close.
VERY dangerous, but don't forget the benefits
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Ever see that IBM commercial where the guy grabs all this stuff, hides it under the jacket, and starts to walk out of the store? The security gruard grabs him, and you're supposed to think he's going to arrest him, but he really just says something stupid. Then the guy keeps walking, and these scanners pick up all the stuff he bought, and he just pays for the stuff. He's out of the store in like 15 seconds, none of this waiting in line for 15 mins.
Now, I know I may be speaking to the wrong crowd here (who in slashdot actually COOKS stuff???) but I HATE grocery store lineups (Can I have a pricecheck on canned tomatores????) and the delays they cause.
If these tags were somehow keyed to a specific store (with something like a public encryption key?), so that once you exited the premises they became disabled and/or useless, I can see no real privicy concerns. After all, they are just tags or stickers, if you're really paranoid just trash em when you get home. But the benefits to shopping would be immense. Not only would it speed up checkouts, it would be a very effective shoplifting deterrant (alot like existing systems that have a magnetic tag, but these ones you cant "sneak" around the scanners, cause they run on RF.)
What are you smoking..NET already portable. If the class definitions for any objects in the.NET api change, it is TRIVIAL to update these classes in Mono.
Totally agree, except I hope you aren't serious about the Kylix GUI. Kylix is slow as hell, mainly because most of its GUI components are driven through Wine.
The difference between a streaming video format and a non-streaming one is just in the semantics. MPlayer can play partialy downloaded DivX files while they are still being downloaded, and it continues to play frames as they are recieved. So you could say that MPlayer can "stream" DivX just fine.
The worst and most blatent product placement in recent memory was in the movie The Fast and the Furious. Guy goes to other guys house, "You want a beer? You can drink whatever you want, as long as its a Corona!" Proceeds to go to guys fridge, EVERY beer is a Corona (and this is a houseparty with like 30 people). Everyone's drinking Corona and having a jolly good time. Wonder how much they paid for that 20 min scene.
The problem with modern society is that evolution has no CHANCE to take its course. Let's use your Sickle-Cell gene as an example. In any other species on the planet, Sickle-Cell genes would be gradually phased out of the population, as people with them died at an earlier age, and thus having less offspring than those that don't. The same rings true for basiclly all genetic diseases; the reason evolution takes care of them IN THE FIRST PLACE is beacause they kill the animals with the defects off.
The same rings true for animals born with advantagous mutations. They have a greater chance of survival, and thus, for producing offspring. Over generations, the breed with the mutations is so much more likely to survive than those that won't, that it eventually takes over, and the inferior breed dies off.
Human's don't follow this trend any more. People with genetic diseases are given drug treatments and so forth to prolong their lives as long as possible, often far beyond what they would achieve otherwise. And they definitly mate as well, thus passing the defective gene along.
Without the threat of extinction, evolution falls apart. When a species becomes as dominant over its environment as humans have, how can its environment have any impact on it? It is totally illogical.
I think that, unless we move in with some other alien species and start cross-mating, physical evolution by humans has indeed come to an end. As for cultural evolution, that is a never ending process that has nothing to do with external environmental factors.
Er, what are you talking about. Your internet works finr with the TV, the only difference is your max download has been reduced from around 200 KBps to 140 KBps. And your phone works fine as well.
The rest of this is insanity. NBTel doesn't do port scans, they don't charge per MB transferred, and they don't block rogers.ca or any other domains, and there i sno transparant proxy anymore.
In TV over DSL, the channels are multicast. This saves a MASSIVE amount of bandwidth on the backplane of the network, and the servers that output the channels. For example, the NBC server has to output only one NBC stream, for 5000 customers. This is all at around 3 Mbps. Now say just 20 people want to watch Star Wars on a given night, using VOD (Video on Demand). Since its VOD, they won't all be choosing to start the movie at the exact same time, so you're running 20 seperare 3 Mbps streams, for a total of 60Mbps. Now multiply that by 10 for the 10 other movies you ar eoffering this month, and you'll see the traffic demands start going through the roof. And also don't forget you have to maintain regular TV at the same time.
The problem with VOD isn't storage, thats simple. Its the bandwidth required for delivery to X customers at once.
Actually, the biggest drawback to VibeVIsion is you can only have it on a maximum of two televisions in your home at once. This is due to the bandwidth restrictions of current DSL.
Yes, our ISP here in NB Canada has been running digital TV over DSL for 2 years now. You use a digital set top box, simmilar to cable. I worked there for a time and this is how it works. The TV streams are encoded into MPEG-2 at the head end of the ISP, and sent over DSL to your set top box, where they are decoded and displayed. One channel uses around 2.5 - 4Mbps, which is well within the 6-7 Mbps limit for a 2 km DSL loop. The channels are multicasted over the TCP network to minimize bandwidth needs throughout the city. When you change channels, the set top sends a IGMP join request to join the multicast stream for that particular channel, so you only recieve one MPEG stream at a time. The downside is, because you only have 6-7 Mbps to work with, you can only have a maximum of two set tops in your house at the moment, though they are working on new compression technologies and DSL technologies ot get this up to three.
Thats a good idea, but... How do you purpose to keep the platform suspended? Is it hanging "off" the satelite? If so, won't its weight drag the satelite into a lower orbit, eventually destroying it? Or is the satelite going to be continuously firing retro-rockets, which would need enormous amounts of fuel, thereby negating the purpose of the elevator? Not to mention the wind blowing said platform around.
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No no... What the guy is saying, is why did it have to be transparant at all (i.e., why plexigless). This wasn't a wale show, they just needed to carry them on the ship for like a half hour.
What the guy is saying, is why did it have to be transparant at all (i.e., why plexigless). This wasn't a wale show, they just needed to carry them on the ship for like a half hour.
Question: Why the hell would you need "financial incentive" to see this "great work" published? If it is so great, wouldn't the desire to see it being enjoyed be incentive enough? Give it to project Guterburg, They'd publish it for you. Or publish it yourself on the web. Geez, I hope everyone else in this species isn't as greedy as you purport to be, or we'll all be in hell in a handbasket before I hit 50.
Big Deal. Diid you know McDonald's owns a trademark on the phrase "Smile" ? (Yeah that's right. It used to be on their cups when they were running some "Smile your at McDonal's campaign or something) Kimberly-Clark owns the trademark on Kleenex, do you think the cops come after me whenever I call my no-name tissue "Kleenex"? The point is, just because they own a trademark doesn't mean you can't use the word in whatever context you like, it means that you can't sell products under that same mark in the same field, or otherwise portray your products to belonging to that mark when they don't.
This is not a troll, nor is it MS hype. It is the truth - .Net is going to be big, if soley for the one reason that MS is behind it. That fact alone is going to push THOUSANDS of projects around it, both from inside MS and also outside, as developers ramp up into all the nifty things Visual Studio .Net is capable of.
Sure, it's beed done before. Sure, it's alot like java. The difference is that the worl's biggest software monopoly is behind it. You think if Joe hacker had come up with this idea of an IL and common runtime and submitted it to the ECMA, it'd be this big a deal? No, but the fact that the operating system that sits on 90% of the worlds desktops is going to be running this stuff makes it one.
.Net isn't something to be taken lightly, nor is it something to be bashed. Miguel has the right idea, .Net can be AWESOME for linux if a capable Open Source development environment and runtime can be created. Think about it - no more wine. Programs compiled for windows instantly run on Linux. GTK and QT programs run on Linux. Instant interoperability. It will be all the things Java promised to be, but never delivered on. Mainly because it's backed by this goliath, MS. Sure, Sun had their chance, but they ruined it. Not to mention that .Net GUi programs will run light-years faster than Java ones, mainly because the System.Window.Forms classes will have low-level access to the MS api's, as will their GTK counterparts.
Seriously, Don't be so quick to bash it. This thing is going to have huge implications for everyone.
I agree with the tabbed browsing, I can't wait for t to appear in 3.1. But the smart bookmarks toolbar; I find that vastly inferior to Konqueror's web shortcuts feature, mainly because it is so much simpler to use. Why do I need a bulky toolbar cluttering up my screen when I can just type "php:fopen" to search the php manual, or "rf:gaim" to search freshmeat? It's very cool. if you've never tried this feature, go into your konqueror settings under "Enhanced Browsing". It's very easy to add your own sites.
Perhaps my training as a journalist and editor make me "more aware" of the book's many spelling and grammatical errors...
Weird how none of the editors here seem to take advantage of all their training.
Perhaps you totally missed the whole "portable at compile time" requirement?
You don't understand the way .Net works. The entire API is made up of a set of base classes and their data objects and associated methods. Every single one of these classes will eventually be imlimented in Mono. If an accessor method changes, it is TRIVIAL to duplicate that in the corrosponding method in Mono. Even if MS decides to trash certain classes in favour of new ones, Mono can do the same, with even less amount of effort than MS, since Mono is just duplicating the API design, thilw MS had to design it in the first place. This is not the same as COM or MFC, not even close.
Ever see that IBM commercial where the guy grabs all this stuff, hides it under the jacket, and starts to walk out of the store? The security gruard grabs him, and you're supposed to think he's going to arrest him, but he really just says something stupid. Then the guy keeps walking, and these scanners pick up all the stuff he bought, and he just pays for the stuff. He's out of the store in like 15 seconds, none of this waiting in line for 15 mins.
Now, I know I may be speaking to the wrong crowd here (who in slashdot actually COOKS stuff???) but I HATE grocery store lineups (Can I have a pricecheck on canned tomatores????) and the delays they cause.
If these tags were somehow keyed to a specific store (with something like a public encryption key?), so that once you exited the premises they became disabled and/or useless, I can see no real privicy concerns. After all, they are just tags or stickers, if you're really paranoid just trash em when you get home. But the benefits to shopping would be immense. Not only would it speed up checkouts, it would be a very effective shoplifting deterrant (alot like existing systems that have a magnetic tag, but these ones you cant "sneak" around the scanners, cause they run on RF.)
What are you smoking. .NET already portable. If the class definitions for any objects in the .NET api change, it is TRIVIAL to update these classes in Mono.
This seems to be a modem chip that will, though probably have an external option, will mainly be installed inside notebooks.
Totally agree, except I hope you aren't serious about the Kylix GUI. Kylix is slow as hell, mainly because most of its GUI components are driven through Wine.
The difference between a streaming video format and a non-streaming one is just in the semantics. MPlayer can play partialy downloaded DivX files while they are still being downloaded, and it continues to play frames as they are recieved. So you could say that MPlayer can "stream" DivX just fine.
The worst and most blatent product placement in recent memory was in the movie The Fast and the Furious. Guy goes to other guys house, "You want a beer? You can drink whatever you want, as long as its a Corona!" Proceeds to go to guys fridge, EVERY beer is a Corona (and this is a houseparty with like 30 people). Everyone's drinking Corona and having a jolly good time. Wonder how much they paid for that 20 min scene.
The problem with modern society is that evolution has no CHANCE to take its course. Let's use your Sickle-Cell gene as an example. In any other species on the planet, Sickle-Cell genes would be gradually phased out of the population, as people with them died at an earlier age, and thus having less offspring than those that don't. The same rings true for basiclly all genetic diseases; the reason evolution takes care of them IN THE FIRST PLACE is beacause they kill the animals with the defects off.
The same rings true for animals born with advantagous mutations. They have a greater chance of survival, and thus, for producing offspring. Over generations, the breed with the mutations is so much more likely to survive than those that won't, that it eventually takes over, and the inferior breed dies off.
Human's don't follow this trend any more. People with genetic diseases are given drug treatments and so forth to prolong their lives as long as possible, often far beyond what they would achieve otherwise. And they definitly mate as well, thus passing the defective gene along.
Without the threat of extinction, evolution falls apart. When a species becomes as dominant over its environment as humans have, how can its environment have any impact on it? It is totally illogical.
I think that, unless we move in with some other alien species and start cross-mating, physical evolution by humans has indeed come to an end. As for cultural evolution, that is a never ending process that has nothing to do with external environmental factors.
Microsoft Stops New Work To Fix Bugs
Anyone read this as meaning that they are stopping all new work on bugs???
Er, what are you talking about. Your internet works finr with the TV, the only difference is your max download has been reduced from around 200 KBps to 140 KBps. And your phone works fine as well.
The rest of this is insanity. NBTel doesn't do port scans, they don't charge per MB transferred, and they don't block rogers.ca or any other domains, and there i sno transparant proxy anymore.
In TV over DSL, the channels are multicast. This saves a MASSIVE amount of bandwidth on the backplane of the network, and the servers that output the channels. For example, the NBC server has to output only one NBC stream, for 5000 customers. This is all at around 3 Mbps. Now say just 20 people want to watch Star Wars on a given night, using VOD (Video on Demand). Since its VOD, they won't all be choosing to start the movie at the exact same time, so you're running 20 seperare 3 Mbps streams, for a total of 60Mbps. Now multiply that by 10 for the 10 other movies you ar eoffering this month, and you'll see the traffic demands start going through the roof. And also don't forget you have to maintain regular TV at the same time.
The problem with VOD isn't storage, thats simple. Its the bandwidth required for delivery to X customers at once.
Actually, the biggest drawback to VibeVIsion is you can only have it on a maximum of two televisions in your home at once. This is due to the bandwidth restrictions of current DSL.
Yes, our ISP here in NB Canada has been running digital TV over DSL for 2 years now. You use a digital set top box, simmilar to cable. I worked there for a time and this is how it works. The TV streams are encoded into MPEG-2 at the head end of the ISP, and sent over DSL to your set top box, where they are decoded and displayed. One channel uses around 2.5 - 4Mbps, which is well within the 6-7 Mbps limit for a 2 km DSL loop. The channels are multicasted over the TCP network to minimize bandwidth needs throughout the city. When you change channels, the set top sends a IGMP join request to join the multicast stream for that particular channel, so you only recieve one MPEG stream at a time. The downside is, because you only have 6-7 Mbps to work with, you can only have a maximum of two set tops in your house at the moment, though they are working on new compression technologies and DSL technologies ot get this up to three.
In konqueror, I just changed my User-Agent to MSIE and it worked fine.
Hotdogs are gross boild, and its a tremendous waste of energy to heat up all that water for a few weiners. Use the microwave for gods sake.
Thats a good idea, but... How do you purpose to keep the platform suspended? Is it hanging "off" the satelite? If so, won't its weight drag the satelite into a lower orbit, eventually destroying it? Or is the satelite going to be continuously firing retro-rockets, which would need enormous amounts of fuel, thereby negating the purpose of the elevator? Not to mention the wind blowing said platform around.
If you've got a bunch of hubs Ill take those :)