This is not 'pre-Boston Tea Party', it's just that the sovereign state doesn't feel like being held hostage by proprietary formats - in this case, MS's.doc files
I wish I had mod points to give you; you're right on the money. There are very few people who really invest the time to do ANYTHING well enough to truly be part of any particular niche. Its far easier to learn how to talk a good game than it is to actually develop skill.
Maybe its not really geeks that have gone mainstream, its the idea of applying yourself.
40 odd years ago, the guy who spent all day working on his car was considered cool; before that, there were other things. Its the persistence and talent (the m4d 5kill2 that kiddies claim to have) that make the whole thing appealing.
If you have the time, have a second programmer take a brief look at the code and evaluate it. If they are able to read the comments/code and give an accurate description of what the code does, then pass it. If not, send it back to the first programmer to be cleaned up.
How dare you claim the Nanos don't "work properly". [Because they scratch easily]
You're right, of course. Because if my car's windshield got scratched to hell every time a bug flew into it, I'd just shrug it off and say "Well, its not really interfering with the operation of the car itself; just my interaction with it. Therefore, it still works properly."
This would be the second problem that the nano has had, already apple has had to replace nanos when the screens actually cracked. How is this not their fault; they put their name on the product, so it's up to them to make sure that it works properly.
I'm torn between marveling at the enginuity behind this and pointing out that this is really bluring the line between 'computer' and 'glorified watch'. Even the wikipedia article it links to describes this as a clockwork mechanism.
When the title reads 'ancient greek computer', I would expect something more along the lines of the machine that Babbage designed.
Every once in a while someone makes a +5 Insightful comment about how there should be a version of Firefox with the more popular extentions built in so that the average user gets more functionality and doesn't have to do all the work themselves.
Finally someone does it, and people are quick to start belittling it for not being something fantastic and earth shattering. It said straight up that it was based on Firefox.
It's not doing anything nasty like Netscape did, so this just means that there are more alternatives out there. Last time I checked, that was considered to be good around here.
Google maps seems to be running very slowly, but it doesnt seem that the slow-down is contained to google maps, either. The google mail server continually goes on and off line like a yo-yo, usually right when I'm about to hit 'Send'.
Even their search pages seem to be taking more time than normal to be served. Maybe speedy, widespread adoption of all these new services is comming back to bite them in the rear.
Everyone seems to think that can only be a bad thing - not so.
Even if this isnt something that can be accurately measured, its the kind of stuff that managers seem to love, When someone in an IT department somewhere starts pushing for OpenOffice over MS Office, and the higher-ups hum and haw, asking for proof that it can be trusted, they can be pointed to this. It has at least an appearance of legitimacy, and just may go a long way towards convincing people that its OKAY to switch to FOSS.
Sorry, but until a major provider that matters picks an anti-spam tech, they will accomplish nothing more than effectively depriving their customers from using email.
Just because they don't matter to you changes nothing. Hotmail, Yahoo, etc have more users than you give them credit for. The fact is that if hotmail adopts this work-in-progress standard, it will apply pressure on other providers to do the same for the much-touted interoperability.
Just because you dont know anyone who uses hotmail doesn't mean that their users don't exist.
How long until google branches out to the point where they're in direct competition with eBay. From google wallet to google auction.
You get to use google's extra-spiffy search features to find exactly what you're looking for. Plus, google would probably be able to create something 10x less cumbersome and akward than ebay's interface.
I found reading the prequels to the Foundation series (Asimov) to be very rewarding. Because the series started out as a collection of short stories, there was very little information available about what came before to be spoiled.
The point is that now Linux is in the stores, being sold pre-configured to people that don't know how to do something like that. I wouldnt be too surprised if any kind of support warranty would become void as soon as you stopped running their OS.
They could justify it by saying that other distros may not handle the hardware properly, and that the hardware problem is actually in the operating system.
One of the things that I think will happen if this catches on enough will be the creation of a "Best Buy" distro of Linux, or something similar for other stores. Standardizing will allow them to have more control over how the system works and will reduce the amount of training that a store's techs will need. Seeing the "Best Buy" logo every time you boot the computer would be a nice piece of advertising, too.
At the very least, each companies will probably 'partner' with a prefered distro in order to control them.
Planetary magnetic fields are caused by the activity in the interior of the planet.
From Wikipedia:
The Earth's core, however, is hotter than 1043 K, the Curie point temperature at which the orientations of electron orbits within iron become randomized. Such randomization tends to cause the substance to lose its magnetic field. Therefore the Earth's magnetic field is caused not by magnetised iron deposits, but mostly by electric currents (known as telluric currents).
Another feature that distinguishes the Earth magnetically from a bar magnet is its magnetosphere. At large distances from the planet, this dominates the surface magnetic field. In addition, the magnetized elements within the planetary core are undergoing rotation and are not static.
Electric currents induced in the ionosphere also generate magnetic fields. Such a field is always generated near where the atmosphere is closest to the Sun, causing daily alterations which can deflect surface magnetic fields by as much as one degree.
As the planet ages, the core cools, and the resultant magnetic field decreases.
Cehck out the full wikipedia article
"A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled. At that stage, when the user attempts to load the reassembled file, he or she is greeted by an installation notice for an adware bundle distributed by MMG (Marketing Metrix Group), a Canadian company that specializes in P2P network marketing."
Does this mean that they'll only be wrapping otherwise illegial media with this adware as an alternate means of revenue for these works? Or will it be bundled around anything and everything that they can get their hands on.
Loading up illegal media with adware is one thing. To redistribute Linux ISOs or other legal files with adware included would be another thing entirely.
This is most likely not the case. Dell would probably have to build in the same hardware restrictions on their OSXi machines that Apple will on their own. This doesnt mean that it will run on ANY x86 machine, only specific models from vendors that Apple approves of.
It's very rare that you see anyone in the movie industry taking the time to make their technology realistic. In most cases there's no incentive to do so; The movie will only seem less realistic to a small number of people who really know the difference. This movie, however, has a large enough pre-existing existing fan base that does care, and in this case the higher level of detail is a worthwhile one.
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This is not 'pre-Boston Tea Party', it's just that the sovereign state doesn't feel like being held hostage by proprietary formats - in this case, MS's .doc files
There are some calls that I'd rather not hear even half of
Wow. With my cell phone provider, thats a bundled, always-on feature...
I wish I had mod points to give you; you're right on the money. There are very few people who really invest the time to do ANYTHING well enough to truly be part of any particular niche. Its far easier to learn how to talk a good game than it is to actually develop skill.
Maybe its not really geeks that have gone mainstream, its the idea of applying yourself.
40 odd years ago, the guy who spent all day working on his car was considered cool; before that, there were other things. Its the persistence and talent (the m4d 5kill2 that kiddies claim to have) that make the whole thing appealing.
If you have the time, have a second programmer take a brief look at the code and evaluate it. If they are able to read the comments/code and give an accurate description of what the code does, then pass it. If not, send it back to the first programmer to be cleaned up.
How dare you claim the Nanos don't "work properly". [Because they scratch easily]
You're right, of course. Because if my car's windshield got scratched to hell every time a bug flew into it, I'd just shrug it off and say "Well, its not really interfering with the operation of the car itself; just my interaction with it. Therefore, it still works properly."
I can't tell; is this sarcasm or fanaticism?
This would be the second problem that the nano has had, already apple has had to replace nanos when the screens actually cracked. How is this not their fault; they put their name on the product, so it's up to them to make sure that it works properly.
I'm torn between marveling at the enginuity behind this and pointing out that this is really bluring the line between 'computer' and 'glorified watch'. Even the wikipedia article it links to describes this as a clockwork mechanism.
When the title reads 'ancient greek computer', I would expect something more along the lines of the machine that Babbage designed.
Every once in a while someone makes a +5 Insightful comment about how there should be a version of Firefox with the more popular extentions built in so that the average user gets more functionality and doesn't have to do all the work themselves.
Finally someone does it, and people are quick to start belittling it for not being something fantastic and earth shattering. It said straight up that it was based on Firefox.
It's not doing anything nasty like Netscape did, so this just means that there are more alternatives out there. Last time I checked, that was considered to be good around here.
Google maps seems to be running very slowly, but it doesnt seem that the slow-down is contained to google maps, either. The google mail server continually goes on and off line like a yo-yo, usually right when I'm about to hit 'Send'.
Even their search pages seem to be taking more time than normal to be served. Maybe speedy, widespread adoption of all these new services is comming back to bite them in the rear.
Not to mention the ability to screw up a computer even more with an ordinary fridge magnet. I cant wait.
the only thing that makes it look like MS designed the page is the fact that it fails the W3C validator.
That and the fact that it breaks firefox's middle-click new tab functionality. Hotmail anyone?
Everyone seems to think that can only be a bad thing - not so.
Even if this isnt something that can be accurately measured, its the kind of stuff that managers seem to love, When someone in an IT department somewhere starts pushing for OpenOffice over MS Office, and the higher-ups hum and haw, asking for proof that it can be trusted, they can be pointed to this. It has at least an appearance of legitimacy, and just may go a long way towards convincing people that its OKAY to switch to FOSS.
If the ratings are good.
Sorry, but until a major provider that matters picks an anti-spam tech, they will accomplish nothing more than effectively depriving their customers from using email.
Just because they don't matter to you changes nothing. Hotmail, Yahoo, etc have more users than you give them credit for. The fact is that if hotmail adopts this work-in-progress standard, it will apply pressure on other providers to do the same for the much-touted interoperability.
Just because you dont know anyone who uses hotmail doesn't mean that their users don't exist.
How long until google branches out to the point where they're in direct competition with eBay. From google wallet to google auction.
You get to use google's extra-spiffy search features to find exactly what you're looking for. Plus, google would probably be able to create something 10x less cumbersome and akward than ebay's interface.
I found reading the prequels to the Foundation series (Asimov) to be very rewarding. Because the series started out as a collection of short stories, there was very little information available about what came before to be spoiled.
I thought that episode IV kind of established that Luke's life up to that point had been really boring...
How can you make a tv series that needs 20-24 interesting things to happen each year out of that?
The point is that now Linux is in the stores, being sold pre-configured to people that don't know how to do something like that. I wouldnt be too surprised if any kind of support warranty would become void as soon as you stopped running their OS. They could justify it by saying that other distros may not handle the hardware properly, and that the hardware problem is actually in the operating system.
One of the things that I think will happen if this catches on enough will be the creation of a "Best Buy" distro of Linux, or something similar for other stores. Standardizing will allow them to have more control over how the system works and will reduce the amount of training that a store's techs will need. Seeing the "Best Buy" logo every time you boot the computer would be a nice piece of advertising, too.
At the very least, each companies will probably 'partner' with a prefered distro in order to control them.
In Soviet Russia; old, tired, worn-out joke tells you
Does this mean that they'll only be wrapping otherwise illegial media with this adware as an alternate means of revenue for these works? Or will it be bundled around anything and everything that they can get their hands on.
Loading up illegal media with adware is one thing. To redistribute Linux ISOs or other legal files with adware included would be another thing entirely.
This is most likely not the case. Dell would probably have to build in the same hardware restrictions on their OSXi machines that Apple will on their own.
This doesnt mean that it will run on ANY x86 machine, only specific models from vendors that Apple approves of.
It's very rare that you see anyone in the movie industry taking the time to make their technology realistic. In most cases there's no incentive to do so; The movie will only seem less realistic to a small number of people who really know the difference. This movie, however, has a large enough pre-existing existing fan base that does care, and in this case the higher level of detail is a worthwhile one.