Probably modded troll because most Windows users know that 'kill process' from Task Manager (NT/Win2K/XP) almost always works just fine. Further discussion pointed out that the GP may have been talking about Windows 95/98/ME which indeed had more trouble killing sick processes, hence the GP is now modded insightful.
Mod this one -1 "Who Cares".
Like some other respondents below, I recently had a chance to try out a Segway on a 90 minute tour at a mountain resort. It was an amazing experience. I was quite surprised how much power those things have - essential for climbing up those trails and twisting resort roads.
And yes, you sure as hell can fall off, especially if you take a turn at speed. The thing turns by counter-rotating the two wheels, so its turning radius is nearly zero. Due to considerable inertia, the turning radius of my body is quite a bit greater than zero when moving forward at 12 mph. Note however, I never fell off, although it was close a couple times.
Is the segway revolutionary? At $5000 a pop, not a chance. Too bad they couldn't get the price down to the $1000 range. Is the segway useful? The people complaining that it just replaces WALKING should note that 3x the speed makes quite a difference, as well as the fact that not all of us could walk 26 miles a day without serious physical discomfort.
Whether it's useful or not, I suspect we'll be seeing more and more operating within the tourism industry.
You mean "Dune! Starring Sting!" ???? What an abomination. The marketing for that movie played up Sting's role as Feyd Ratha (my spelling may be way way off - it's been a while), like it was all that mattered. I heard they spent a fortune for just one dumb scene where a few people walk by an enormous effect shot. The Still Suits were an awful interpretation of Herbert's idea: those poor Freemen would have died off real quick. And the magical ending, where the hell did that come from?
I can't even remember all the other objections to the movie at the time, but there were many.
What were the movie's redeeming features:
Actors, Patrick Stewart, Kyle MacLachlan, Max von Sydow, Dean Stockwell. I don't remember how good or bad they were in Dune, but they're all great actors in general.
A very young, wickedly smart Alicia Witt. She sure grew up!
My favorite 'interpretation' of Dune remains the National Lampoon parody. I invoke the Amway Rule!
Wrong, no consent for that type of usage is required. Consider that competitors mention each other's trademarks in advertising all the time. Do you think they get prior consent for that?
I think the GP was just suggesting that we build the digital-to-analog conversion into the antenna so existing TV equipment would not be obsoleted. Not very different from putting it in a set-top box.
My key ring has at least 5 'loyalty' program cards attached already, except they have bar codes instead of RFID. At least with bar codes I can choose to not show them to the cashier when I don't feel like it. I'd have to be a bit more careful with RFID.
There does eventually come a point where the statement 'N bits ought to be enough for anyone' becomes true, at least for address space if not for data bus bandwidth as well. 2**256 exceeds the estimated number of particles in the universe by quite a bit. The jump from 16-bit to 32-bit was peanuts. The jump from 32 to 64 takes us into the stratosphere. The earliest PC hard drives from 1983 were 5MB. A respectable 2005-vintage 300GB drive is 60,000 times the size of that 5MB. 2**64 bytes represents a single drive which would be as large as 61,000,000 300GB drives. Even if that becomes constraining (??), I doubt we'd need to double the bus again to 128 bits. Humanity will evolve beyond its physical existence (or get blown to bits) before then. Mr. Moore can't be right forever.
With the really low priced tasks, I don't see why they wouldn't just give -every- task to 2 or 3 people, and only accept the result if they all agree. So they pay 2x or 3x the base price: they get a very high probability that they haven't been punkd.
Well, yes, I found the end of Mostly Harmless to be a let down. Obviously Douglas Adams wanted the series to end so he wrote as final an ending as you can imagine. If I had enough motivation to be a fanfic writer, I would have created a follow-up based on a loophole that allowed one Earth to survive. It turned out that there is one more dimension than the creators of the transdimensional Guide were aware of. That extra dimension is the place where Bob reigns (was it Old Thrashbarg who worshipped Bob?), and Earth still exists...
OTOH, the rest of the book was great. The whole 'Perfectly Normal Beasts/Domain of the King' business had me in awe of Adams' imagination. I've actually never read the book, since I have the audio version read by Adams himself. Marvelous to hear him intone, "Click, hum...". I should give it another listen soon.
Well, I bought one of those million videos because it was the only way to get a track I've been waiting almost two years for (ironically, 'Wait for You' by John Bonham). Unlike another poster here, I didn't notice getting a separate AAC file with just the Audio, but I'll check as soon as I can since I'd love to get that track on my non-iPod player. By the way, the video's not bad (if you like '80s power rock').
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Doesn't really matter if Win2K could do it if the feature was buried and the user had no way to use it. Also, Sys Internals seems to imply that only directories may be linked, not specific files. Not quite the same thing. I've been wishing Windows would support this elemental feature for a long time now. I would have used it to create a directory tree with the structure I wanted to burn on CD, without having to move all the actual files around. The CD burning software I've tried doesn't understand shortcuts either. Of course you can usually create the tree you want within the burning app. But then, you have to save it in their proprietary format, and some programs I've used manage to trash that info too.
Ok. I wasn't talking about eliminating the physical media option, and Bill wasn't either. Here's the rest of Bill's comments that were omitted from the summary above:
It's not the physical format that we have the issue with, it's that the protection scheme on Blu is very anti-consumer. If [the Blu-ray group] would fix that one thing, you know, that'd be fine.
For us it's not the physical format. Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. Everything's going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk. So, in this way, it's even unclear how much this one counts.
He says this is the 'last physical format' but he doesn't give a timetable for its elimination. You're right - streaming HD to our PCs is years away. There will be a physical distribution medium for HD video. It will be DRMed whether we like it or not. It makes sense to argue for as much flexibility as possible. I think we are in agreement on that.
Lessee. All my crewmates are male, we can only shower twice a month, 5 o'clock shadow has reached epic proportions, our breath reeks of unpalatable space food. Yep, likelihood of any sex: less than zero (I'll space myself first).
I imagine NASA would solve this one by incorporating a little 'private time' in the daily schedule for each crew member and their own personal video collection. The only thing that worries me is the additional 'raw material' that might be diverted from the waste recycling system.
Besides, I for one prefer to buy stuff on a physical medium that I can store how I want (on a shelf or ripped to my hard drive) - that's why I still buy CDs.
Gee, I can remember when ripping CDs was completely impractical. PCs were too slow. The CD rom drives couldn't read the audio correctly. Where in the world were you going to put six hundred and fifty MEGABYTES of data for each and every CD when your hard drive was only about 2 gigabytes anyway? Oh, MP3? Wasn't invented yet.
You enjoy the freedom you have with CDs. DVDJon not withstanding, doing the same thing with DVDs is not so easy, not because 9.4 GB is an overwhelming amount of data, but because of the CSS you have to deal with.
If BluRay doesn't make the PC copy feature mandatory, it may very well be impossible, at least in your lifetime, to have any freedom with the next generation DVD.
Saying you don't need that freedom because today's hardware can't take advantage of it is incredibly short-sighted.
I thought the point of Good Samaritan laws was to ensure you could not be sued if you did help, and the person ended up disabled/peeved/dead anyway. I didn't think they also required you to help, although I'm not suggesting that's a bad idea. I think the first issue is a much greater problem than the second. Even in the cynical me-first US, accident victims usually get help.
Then why do we refer to efforts like the SpaceShip One flights as 'sub-orbital'? To me, an unpowered object whose path is going to intersect the ground is merely on a ballistic trajectory. By your reasoning, if I throw a baseball, it's in orbit, because it would manage to continue flying around the earth if the earth happened to be the diameter of a grape. Remind me not to book any orbital flights on your spaceline.
Consider what it provides - a battery operated sign that can be mounted almost anywhere and updated remotely over WiFi. I don't know that the battery life is, but since the sign uses e-ink and not an LCD and backlight, it might be very high. The photos on the site show some of the potential.
I find it hard to imagine how much a business would gain with only one of these (other than perhaps the 'wow' factor), but if a business had a dozen or more signs that need to be updated several times a day with common information, it could be very useful. The price will come down in time.
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Probably modded troll because most Windows users know that 'kill process' from Task Manager (NT/Win2K/XP) almost always works just fine. Further discussion pointed out that the GP may have been talking about Windows 95/98/ME which indeed had more trouble killing sick processes, hence the GP is now modded insightful. Mod this one -1 "Who Cares".
Like some other respondents below, I recently had a chance to try out a Segway on a 90 minute tour at a mountain resort. It was an amazing experience. I was quite surprised how much power those things have - essential for climbing up those trails and twisting resort roads.
And yes, you sure as hell can fall off, especially if you take a turn at speed. The thing turns by counter-rotating the two wheels, so its turning radius is nearly zero. Due to considerable inertia, the turning radius of my body is quite a bit greater than zero when moving forward at 12 mph. Note however, I never fell off, although it was close a couple times.
Is the segway revolutionary? At $5000 a pop, not a chance. Too bad they couldn't get the price down to the $1000 range. Is the segway useful? The people complaining that it just replaces WALKING should note that 3x the speed makes quite a difference, as well as the fact that not all of us could walk 26 miles a day without serious physical discomfort.
Whether it's useful or not, I suspect we'll be seeing more and more operating within the tourism industry.
Bad news can travel faster than the speed of light.
You mean "Dune! Starring Sting!" ???? What an abomination. The marketing for that movie played up Sting's role as Feyd Ratha (my spelling may be way way off - it's been a while), like it was all that mattered. I heard they spent a fortune for just one dumb scene where a few people walk by an enormous effect shot. The Still Suits were an awful interpretation of Herbert's idea: those poor Freemen would have died off real quick. And the magical ending, where the hell did that come from?
I can't even remember all the other objections to the movie at the time, but there were many.
What were the movie's redeeming features:
Actors, Patrick Stewart, Kyle MacLachlan, Max von Sydow, Dean Stockwell. I don't remember how good or bad they were in Dune, but they're all great actors in general.
A very young, wickedly smart Alicia Witt. She sure grew up!
My favorite 'interpretation' of Dune remains the National Lampoon parody. I invoke the Amway Rule!
Wrong, no consent for that type of usage is required. Consider that competitors mention each other's trademarks in advertising all the time. Do you think they get prior consent for that?
I think the GP was just suggesting that we build the digital-to-analog conversion into the antenna so existing TV equipment would not be obsoleted. Not very different from putting it in a set-top box.
My key ring has at least 5 'loyalty' program cards attached already, except they have bar codes instead of RFID. At least with bar codes I can choose to not show them to the cashier when I don't feel like it. I'd have to be a bit more careful with RFID.
I have no problem running such a machine on our LAN. Face it, your network is pwned.
There does eventually come a point where the statement 'N bits ought to be enough for anyone' becomes true, at least for address space if not for data bus bandwidth as well. 2**256 exceeds the estimated number of particles in the universe by quite a bit. The jump from 16-bit to 32-bit was peanuts. The jump from 32 to 64 takes us into the stratosphere. The earliest PC hard drives from 1983 were 5MB. A respectable 2005-vintage 300GB drive is 60,000 times the size of that 5MB. 2**64 bytes represents a single drive which would be as large as 61,000,000 300GB drives. Even if that becomes constraining (??), I doubt we'd need to double the bus again to 128 bits. Humanity will evolve beyond its physical existence (or get blown to bits) before then. Mr. Moore can't be right forever.
With the really low priced tasks, I don't see why they wouldn't just give -every- task to 2 or 3 people, and only accept the result if they all agree. So they pay 2x or 3x the base price: they get a very high probability that they haven't been punkd.
Gee, if it's just a theory it could be wrong! Our schools should be open-minded and teach the geocentric theory as well!
If the new telescope gives me a better look at the Canadian named Lala, I'm all for it.
Well, yes, I found the end of Mostly Harmless to be a let down. Obviously Douglas Adams wanted the series to end so he wrote as final an ending as you can imagine. If I had enough motivation to be a fanfic writer, I would have created a follow-up based on a loophole that allowed one Earth to survive. It turned out that there is one more dimension than the creators of the transdimensional Guide were aware of. That extra dimension is the place where Bob reigns (was it Old Thrashbarg who worshipped Bob?), and Earth still exists...
...". I should give it another listen soon.
OTOH, the rest of the book was great. The whole 'Perfectly Normal Beasts/Domain of the King' business had me in awe of Adams' imagination. I've actually never read the book, since I have the audio version read by Adams himself. Marvelous to hear him intone, "Click, hum
Well, I bought one of those million videos because it was the only way to get a track I've been waiting almost two years for (ironically, 'Wait for You' by John Bonham). Unlike another poster here, I didn't notice getting a separate AAC file with just the Audio, but I'll check as soon as I can since I'd love to get that track on my non-iPod player.
By the way, the video's not bad (if you like '80s power rock').
Doesn't really matter if Win2K could do it if the feature was buried and the user had no way to use it. Also, Sys Internals seems to imply that only directories may be linked, not specific files. Not quite the same thing.
I've been wishing Windows would support this elemental feature for a long time now. I would have used it to create a directory tree with the structure I wanted to burn on CD, without having to move all the actual files around. The CD burning software I've tried doesn't understand shortcuts either. Of course you can usually create the tree you want within the burning app. But then, you have to save it in their proprietary format, and some programs I've used manage to trash that info too.
Sorry, but I have no enthusiasm for sever-side anything. Cuts too close to home.
I imagine NASA would solve this one by incorporating a little 'private time' in the daily schedule for each crew member and their own personal video collection. The only thing that worries me is the additional 'raw material' that might be diverted from the waste recycling system.
You enjoy the freedom you have with CDs. DVDJon not withstanding, doing the same thing with DVDs is not so easy, not because 9.4 GB is an overwhelming amount of data, but because of the CSS you have to deal with.
If BluRay doesn't make the PC copy feature mandatory, it may very well be impossible, at least in your lifetime, to have any freedom with the next generation DVD.
Saying you don't need that freedom because today's hardware can't take advantage of it is incredibly short-sighted.
Fred Flintstone:
1. Whose baby is that?
2. What's your angle?
3. I'll buy that!
Bill Gates:
1. Whose baby is that?
2. What's my angle?
3. I'll assimilate that!
4. Profit!
Getting pretty far afield from generic passwords, although "domainmaster" might be a good one.
was the launch code WOPR was searching for to fire off the nukes. Do I win the geek-of-the-year award now?
I thought the point of Good Samaritan laws was to ensure you could not be sued if you did help, and the person ended up disabled/peeved/dead anyway. I didn't think they also required you to help, although I'm not suggesting that's a bad idea. I think the first issue is a much greater problem than the second. Even in the cynical me-first US, accident victims usually get help.
Then why do we refer to efforts like the SpaceShip One flights as 'sub-orbital'? To me, an unpowered object whose path is going to intersect the ground is merely on a ballistic trajectory. By your reasoning, if I throw a baseball, it's in orbit, because it would manage to continue flying around the earth if the earth happened to be the diameter of a grape. Remind me not to book any orbital flights on your spaceline.
I find it hard to imagine how much a business would gain with only one of these (other than perhaps the 'wow' factor), but if a business had a dozen or more signs that need to be updated several times a day with common information, it could be very useful. The price will come down in time.