Even an omnipotent deity cannot make 1 + 1 = anything other than 2. Sorry, math and logic are above omnipotence, i.e. the unlimited number of things that can be done in the physical world.
Well, they were paired, so if the sack held 6 atheist packages, you'd think that there'd be 6 unmarked packages in that same sack too.
Unless of course, the 6 atheist packages were put in a different sack than the 6 unmarked packages, and said sack just so happened to have been "lost" in transit.
Nokia is not a design company. They're an engineering company. Which to start, means that their phones probably would turn out more like Linux than OSX.
That having been said, Nokia's R&D also is more engineering-focused. Hardware, signals processing, accessibility, etc. They'll be trying to cram a large swiss army knife worth of tools into a phone, or coming up with new antenna designs to improve signal transmission and reception, or finding new materials to make lighter, thinner phone casings.
I don't know what's more sad, that the editors didn't notice or didn't bother pointing out the typo, or that they quoted from and linked to an article whose entire quality can be summarized by the repeated presence of the typo.
I sometimes wonder if Slashdot's just run by a bunch of unpaid interns now.
I saw a Leonid meteor shower around 10 years ago, and that ended with quite the bang too. It peaked, a large one appeared with sound and all, and then it quieted down almost immediately, much like your typical fireworks show.
designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory
I'm not sure what's more interesting; that the IRS has an existing shotgun inventory, or that these are merely the only authorized shotguns in their arsenal. Either way, if they really want teeth, they should go into lobbying congress.
Also, how you build a browser on a desktop is very different from how you build one on mobile.
Not particularly. Android on something like the Asus Transformer series shows what kind of an OS it would be on a full desktop/laptop. Which is to say, it isn't perfect, because a developed-for-desktop OS would probably be more powerful and a bit less clunky, but it is certainly usable and not inconvenient at all.
The paradigms are not all that different. For starters, the app listing on the iPhone and Android is merely a smaller version of the desktop. The home button is just a glorified start button. And the pop-up keyboard is merely a real physical keyboard that's not going to take up screen space. The only difference is in the number of drivers that a desktop might need, and possibly aspect ratio support.
This reminds me of the 128-bit encryption "export controls" from back in the day. All this paranoid political hubbub does is make the entire world (including ourselves) poorer.
What Microsoft gets, and that no other tech company except maybe IBM does (and probably pioneered, no less), is that people were able to run their legacy 16-bit applications up until 64-bit Windows.
And I expect the legacy 32-bit emulation layer for Windows is going to be here to stay, because I don't really see humanity pushing the limits of 64-bit computing for a long, long time.
And didn't really want to do it anyway. You can tell right off the bat that Metro was implemented half-assed. It's a marketing gimmick, not a technical project (which would've overhauled the entire Windows UI, not just tack a "start screen" onto it).
Next Slashdot headline: Is Google Turning Into the Next Microsoft?
Answer: Probably.
That's the risk of being a publically-traded company. Investors demand Google promote revenue-generating services and growth opportunties. They may not make such demands vocally, but the stock price reflects this. Google must push people into using Google+, because that's their largest growth opportunity.
The difference between a rigid company like Microsoft or IBM or Oracle and one that is more free-flowing like Google is that Microsoft can simply throw all of their resources into "synergy" at the drop of a hat (see the Windows 8 debacle), while Google cannot.
Killing certain apps is how Google's dealing with investor pressure. They can't move users to go where they want, so they'll just cut where they don't want their users to be, and hope that those users will move themselves.
It's not that Google's a bad company, or evil, or any such thing. Their culture, especially their structure, probably isn't appropriate for Wall Street. They still haven't "grown up" (Eric Schmidt's term) because their decentralized, free-flowing corporate culture doesn't really allow them to.
I wonder why. Is it because Microsoft is becoming less relevant (in the online world where NSLs would apply), or because there's a reduction in NSLs overall.
I suspect, considering Google didn't see a similar decline, the former.
the un-Open Web (really, what do you call the alternative)
You mean the closed web?
who exactly is crippled by the current state of the Internet? Is there someone or some organization out there fundamentally unable to use the Internet because its not "open".
These are two separate questions, and one does not lead into the other. To answer the first, no one in the free world really is crippled at the moment, because the web is still open. The answer the second, you can look at all the places where the web is closed. China, Iran, Syria, Australia, etc. But instead of government, you can replace it with corporations. Corporations telling you what you can put online and what you can't, what you can say online and what you can't, which sites are deemed acceptable and which ones aren't.
So for starters, any whistleblowing site would be blacklisted. Counter-culture sites (e.g. 4chan), dissident sites, and yes, even piracy sites. Hell, Google wouldn't be able to continue indexing the web and offering search results because they'd risk violating somebody's TOS somewhere. You'd send the internet back to the AOL, Prodigy, Compuserv days of closed, managed content. Which is good for nobody, except corporations and powerful monied interests.
As for Netflix being the majority of internet traffic, it's true Netflix uses most of the bandwidth, but that's only because video content requires high-bandwidth. I'll bet there are more content requests by users to Wikipedia and YouTube than to Netflix a day. In fact, YouTube just hit their 1 Billion unique users in a month milestone. Netflix and all the app traffic in the world isn't even close.
A figurehead CEO is a shitty CEO. The CEO is the Chief Executive Officer. It's his (or her) job to lead the damn company. If John Riccitiello said, "No DRM", there'll be no DRM on EA's games. If the company isn't executing his orders, then he's ineffective and should resign anyway (or he should start firing people).
This whole thing just sounds like he's incompetent, and not capable of leading a major game publishing company, either because he doesn't understand the business, or he doesn't have an effective team reporting to him. It's not surprising. Most CEOs are picked not because of what they know, but because of who they know.
The frame keeps the GPU from having to render the entire city all at once. What's keeping the city from having to simulate the entire city all at once? The frame isn't going to do it (unless you want to put parts of you city that you can't see on hold).
It's the other way around. They can crank the graphics up to 11, but the simulation can only be so complex or the city so large before a commodity CPU can't handle it any longer.
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omnipotent means he can do *anything*
Even an omnipotent deity cannot make 1 + 1 = anything other than 2. Sorry, math and logic are above omnipotence, i.e. the unlimited number of things that can be done in the physical world.
Blackouts are known to occur at 10g speeds.
Well, they were paired, so if the sack held 6 atheist packages, you'd think that there'd be 6 unmarked packages in that same sack too.
Unless of course, the 6 atheist packages were put in a different sack than the 6 unmarked packages, and said sack just so happened to have been "lost" in transit.
Nokia is not a design company. They're an engineering company. Which to start, means that their phones probably would turn out more like Linux than OSX.
That having been said, Nokia's R&D also is more engineering-focused. Hardware, signals processing, accessibility, etc. They'll be trying to cram a large swiss army knife worth of tools into a phone, or coming up with new antenna designs to improve signal transmission and reception, or finding new materials to make lighter, thinner phone casings.
I don't know what's more sad, that the editors didn't notice or didn't bother pointing out the typo, or that they quoted from and linked to an article whose entire quality can be summarized by the repeated presence of the typo.
I sometimes wonder if Slashdot's just run by a bunch of unpaid interns now.
Guess who won in Libya.
I saw a Leonid meteor shower around 10 years ago, and that ended with quite the bang too. It peaked, a large one appeared with sound and all, and then it quieted down almost immediately, much like your typical fireworks show.
one implement in the storage vessel.
Just how many implements are in that storage vessel anyway? Wait, nevermind, I don't want to know the answer if it's more than one.
They're just getting ready for next year's event at Montreal.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory
I'm not sure what's more interesting; that the IRS has an existing shotgun inventory, or that these are merely the only authorized shotguns in their arsenal. Either way, if they really want teeth, they should go into lobbying congress.
Sorry, but if we have to work together then we both have to have some consideration for each other.
Part of that means you learning tolerance. And how to tune people you find offensive out.
Tidal is not in any way linked to the sun. Not that tidal works particularly well...
Nor is geothermal. But again, that's not a major source of renewable energy.
It comes with William Shatner.
Also, how you build a browser on a desktop is very different from how you build one on mobile.
Not particularly. Android on something like the Asus Transformer series shows what kind of an OS it would be on a full desktop/laptop. Which is to say, it isn't perfect, because a developed-for-desktop OS would probably be more powerful and a bit less clunky, but it is certainly usable and not inconvenient at all.
The paradigms are not all that different. For starters, the app listing on the iPhone and Android is merely a smaller version of the desktop. The home button is just a glorified start button. And the pop-up keyboard is merely a real physical keyboard that's not going to take up screen space. The only difference is in the number of drivers that a desktop might need, and possibly aspect ratio support.
Chrome OS will be more dead than Google Reader.
Is that mostly dead, or all dead?
This reminds me of the 128-bit encryption "export controls" from back in the day. All this paranoid political hubbub does is make the entire world (including ourselves) poorer.
What Microsoft gets, and that no other tech company except maybe IBM does (and probably pioneered, no less), is that people were able to run their legacy 16-bit applications up until 64-bit Windows.
And I expect the legacy 32-bit emulation layer for Windows is going to be here to stay, because I don't really see humanity pushing the limits of 64-bit computing for a long, long time.
And didn't really want to do it anyway. You can tell right off the bat that Metro was implemented half-assed. It's a marketing gimmick, not a technical project (which would've overhauled the entire Windows UI, not just tack a "start screen" onto it).
Next Slashdot headline: Is Google Turning Into the Next Microsoft?
Answer: Probably.
That's the risk of being a publically-traded company. Investors demand Google promote revenue-generating services and growth opportunties. They may not make such demands vocally, but the stock price reflects this. Google must push people into using Google+, because that's their largest growth opportunity.
The difference between a rigid company like Microsoft or IBM or Oracle and one that is more free-flowing like Google is that Microsoft can simply throw all of their resources into "synergy" at the drop of a hat (see the Windows 8 debacle), while Google cannot.
Killing certain apps is how Google's dealing with investor pressure. They can't move users to go where they want, so they'll just cut where they don't want their users to be, and hope that those users will move themselves.
It's not that Google's a bad company, or evil, or any such thing. Their culture, especially their structure, probably isn't appropriate for Wall Street. They still haven't "grown up" (Eric Schmidt's term) because their decentralized, free-flowing corporate culture doesn't really allow them to.
I wonder why. Is it because Microsoft is becoming less relevant (in the online world where NSLs would apply), or because there's a reduction in NSLs overall.
I suspect, considering Google didn't see a similar decline, the former.
There goes one of the best ways to vote with your dollars.
I can still make political campaign donations to my heart's content. That's what you mean by "vote with your dollars", right? Right?
the un-Open Web (really, what do you call the alternative)
You mean the closed web?
who exactly is crippled by the current state of the Internet? Is there someone or some organization out there fundamentally unable to use the Internet because its not "open".
These are two separate questions, and one does not lead into the other. To answer the first, no one in the free world really is crippled at the moment, because the web is still open. The answer the second, you can look at all the places where the web is closed. China, Iran, Syria, Australia, etc. But instead of government, you can replace it with corporations. Corporations telling you what you can put online and what you can't, what you can say online and what you can't, which sites are deemed acceptable and which ones aren't.
So for starters, any whistleblowing site would be blacklisted. Counter-culture sites (e.g. 4chan), dissident sites, and yes, even piracy sites. Hell, Google wouldn't be able to continue indexing the web and offering search results because they'd risk violating somebody's TOS somewhere. You'd send the internet back to the AOL, Prodigy, Compuserv days of closed, managed content. Which is good for nobody, except corporations and powerful monied interests.
As for Netflix being the majority of internet traffic, it's true Netflix uses most of the bandwidth, but that's only because video content requires high-bandwidth. I'll bet there are more content requests by users to Wikipedia and YouTube than to Netflix a day. In fact, YouTube just hit their 1 Billion unique users in a month milestone. Netflix and all the app traffic in the world isn't even close.
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A figurehead CEO is a shitty CEO. The CEO is the Chief Executive Officer. It's his (or her) job to lead the damn company. If John Riccitiello said, "No DRM", there'll be no DRM on EA's games. If the company isn't executing his orders, then he's ineffective and should resign anyway (or he should start firing people).
This whole thing just sounds like he's incompetent, and not capable of leading a major game publishing company, either because he doesn't understand the business, or he doesn't have an effective team reporting to him. It's not surprising. Most CEOs are picked not because of what they know, but because of who they know.
The frame keeps the GPU from having to render the entire city all at once. What's keeping the city from having to simulate the entire city all at once? The frame isn't going to do it (unless you want to put parts of you city that you can't see on hold).
It's the other way around. They can crank the graphics up to 11, but the simulation can only be so complex or the city so large before a commodity CPU can't handle it any longer.