Surely nothing that obvious. A new attachment for the controller no more revolutionary (no pun intended) than bongos or running mats or steering wheels or arcade-style gamepads or anything else that has been previously available. I think we can look for something a little more unexpected from an announcement like this.
Generally speaking, yes automated tech support systems suck. I've used a few though that didn't actually try to solve my problem, but rather just wanted to figure out what my problem was so it could send it off to the appropriate branch of tech support. The voice recognition ones worked especially well in that purpose. And in cases like these if your problem falls into one of those hard-to-classify areas, the system dishes you off to a representative right away, rather than having to go through 4 levels of menus just to hit '0'.
Wow, first4internet's coding quality is really showing through in this whole debacle. There's further evidence of just how badly this thing was put together here and here.
This has turned into quite a piece of work on their behalf.
When you look how absurd some of the intellectual property or business model patents have been recently, it was only a matter of time before the patent office started issuing absurd patents for (non-existant) physical products.
/me rushes off to get patent for inertial dampening
The major difference between this experiment and the Mythbuster's episode (at least as far as I could tell, the server was still too/.'ed to be able to see pictures) is that the Mythbusters used a large parabolic array of mirrors, wheras this setup used mirrors all at the same height level. The MB's approach would work better if the sun were directly behind the ship, but if it were overhead it would be considerably harder to focus the beam than in TFA.
Then again I don't have much more than high school physics so what do I know?
Hefty cost for the eye candy...
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Ok, so it looks nice. What they don't tell you is that if you want all the fancy translucency, 3D-accelerated-whatevertheheck, you're going to need a video card with at least 256MB and pixel shader 2.0. Otherwise you've got to live with the toned down versions of the UI.
Why in GODS NAME does Java NOT USE Native Widgets?
Ever played with Java-Gnome? True, some aspects are still under development but you can make some pretty good looking gnome apps with it.
I respond to advertising online the same way I respond to salespeople in real life: the pushier (and more obtusive) they are, the more likely I'm going to go somewhere else to get what I need. Why do you think some big box stores have started pushing 'no commission' as an incentive to visit there store? If people feel comfortable in your store they're more likely to buy something.
Same thing with online advertising. If you're endlessly hounding the consumer, you're going to get the exact opposite of what you're trying to achieve. I completely agree with yagu in that if I am going to buy something based on an ad I saw online, it's not going to be from some obnoxious popup.
So am I (Toronto) and it's been 30+ for the last week with the humidity well over 60%. I'm seriously contemplating building this thing just so I don't have to drop $130 on a real air conditioner
FC4's been available as a development release for a while now, I've been running it for the last month or so with no problems. I'm skeptical that anything got patched up between the "development" FC and the official release that wasn't available through yum
Now to me, just because someone predicts that is going to die because of , even if they were right about , doesn't mean that ipso facto it's going to happen. Now I don't want to sound like I'm standing on the burning ship saying everything's fine, but as I developer I don't have any plans on moving from Linux to MacOS quite yet. I admit the move does change my perspective of apple, but I still think the Linux OS has enough advantages of it's own to warrant my sticking around. And unless I'm the only OSS developer out there that thinks this, a "flood", at least in the near future, seems a little unlikely.
Goes a little deeper than that, actually.
When companies buy RHEL what they're buying is the skills of someone who knows more about the system then they do to keep it up and running no matter what. (This mostly applies to RHEL AS, but even to the other versions, albeit less so) It's that "well even *if* something breaks they'll fix it, and they'll fix it fast" promise that floats the bottom line
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Gee, I wonder why he said that?Surely nothing that obvious. A new attachment for the controller no more revolutionary (no pun intended) than bongos or running mats or steering wheels or arcade-style gamepads or anything else that has been previously available. I think we can look for something a little more unexpected from an announcement like this.
Then again, maybe I'm the exception
This has turned into quite a piece of work on their behalf.
Conclude what ye will...
/me rushes off to get patent for inertial dampening
For those not in the know, "First Light" is when a telescope is first used to capture an image after construction.
The major difference between this experiment and the Mythbuster's episode (at least as far as I could tell, the server was still too /.'ed to be able to see pictures) is that the Mythbusters used a large parabolic array of mirrors, wheras this setup used mirrors all at the same height level. The MB's approach would work better if the sun were directly behind the ship, but if it were overhead it would be considerably harder to focus the beam than in TFA.
Then again I don't have much more than high school physics so what do I know?
Ok, so it looks nice. What they don't tell you is that if you want all the fancy translucency, 3D-accelerated-whatevertheheck, you're going to need a video card with at least 256MB and pixel shader 2.0. Otherwise you've got to live with the toned down versions of the UI.
Why in GODS NAME does Java NOT USE Native Widgets? Ever played with Java-Gnome? True, some aspects are still under development but you can make some pretty good looking gnome apps with it.
I respond to advertising online the same way I respond to salespeople in real life: the pushier (and more obtusive) they are, the more likely I'm going to go somewhere else to get what I need. Why do you think some big box stores have started pushing 'no commission' as an incentive to visit there store? If people feel comfortable in your store they're more likely to buy something.
Same thing with online advertising. If you're endlessly hounding the consumer, you're going to get the exact opposite of what you're trying to achieve. I completely agree with yagu in that if I am going to buy something based on an ad I saw online, it's not going to be from some obnoxious popup.
If the Unix virus scanners were intended to stop the spread of Windows malware, couldn't this potentially lead to MS shooting themselves in the foot?
So am I (Toronto) and it's been 30+ for the last week with the humidity well over 60%. I'm seriously contemplating building this thing just so I don't have to drop $130 on a real air conditioner
FC4's been available as a development release for a while now, I've been running it for the last month or so with no problems. I'm skeptical that anything got patched up between the "development" FC and the official release that wasn't available through yum
...now Quebec has a precident
Now to me, just because someone predicts that is going to die because of , even if they were right about , doesn't mean that ipso facto it's going to happen. Now I don't want to sound like I'm standing on the burning ship saying everything's fine, but as I developer I don't have any plans on moving from Linux to MacOS quite yet. I admit the move does change my perspective of apple, but I still think the Linux OS has enough advantages of it's own to warrant my sticking around. And unless I'm the only OSS developer out there that thinks this, a "flood", at least in the near future, seems a little unlikely.
... even if it is only a model
... is a cpu made out of Lego, using gates like these
Goes a little deeper than that, actually. When companies buy RHEL what they're buying is the skills of someone who knows more about the system then they do to keep it up and running no matter what. (This mostly applies to RHEL AS, but even to the other versions, albeit less so) It's that "well even *if* something breaks they'll fix it, and they'll fix it fast" promise that floats the bottom line