This is a nice compilation, but how much sense do CDs like these make - by the time they are released some of the software will already be out-dated. I guess people don't have to have the latest version of everything all the time.
1) why do you assume my native tongue is English? It's not.
2) You (and a few other people in this thread) completely ignore the context. Combine the context and a few brain cells with a little knowledge of English, and you realize that WET PANT is a misspelling and nothing more.
1) If English is so hard to learn, it's amazing that so many people speak it.
2) A human language is not a programming language. While programming languages have to be precise, human language does not always have to be precise. How boring would that be? Our libraries would be much smaller if our languages were so strict.
3) The primary value of human languages is communication, so as long as you can speak it and communicate, this primary function is satisfied. As a funny note, I returned home this evening and found a sign on the front door of the building that said 'WET PANT'. Incorrect spelling, but I got the message
Actually, this has been my question all along. No IBM PC Unit means no ThinkPads, I guess. But what happens to the ThinkPad line in general? Will the new owner keep making them?
I was about to buy an IBM ThinkPad, but now I wonder if there is any point in doing that. It would be stupid to do that now, wouldn't it?
Not only gee-whizzy, but also browser-slow-downin'. Whenever I open a page with a default-sized photo on Flickr, my browser (whether Firefox or IE) takes about 1-2 seconds to 'digest' the page. But this is technology -- it can be changed. The service they provide IS good and VERY popular.
Let me speculate.... Google will create an appliance akeen to Tivo. It will have a PILE of disk space and allow you to record EVERYTHING ALL the time. In other words, you won't have to instruct your device to record certain programs, it will have enough memory to save it all. You will then be expected to come home, turn into a couch potatoe, but instead of rewind/forward and such functions, there will be search, label, recommend, archive, share with friends, etc. They'll hook it up to your desktop/laptop via the network, as well as Google.com and Gmail.com. All information you can tap into will be accessible from any of your devices. Since fridges nowadays come with built-in TVs, this means you will quickly and easily be able to pull up a recipe stored on your computer or anywhere on the Web from the kitchen, and that you will be able to IM while cooking. Add to that some voice recognition, and you will no longer be forced to sit in front of a device and type/click to control it. I need another life to see all this! Anyone knows if Google is working on eternal life?
If you can judge by the presence of iPods in New York City (and you can't), you'd think there are no other MP3 players on the market. Everyone has an iPod here, to the point where it looks lame, too much of a fashion statement for my taste.
Now why would you sell the source code of the operating system that sucks so badly?
Perhaps an even better question to pose is: why would anyone pay for that source code when you can get the source code to superior operating systems for free?
Yeah, why is this funny? I wasn't trying to be funny - this is a valid question.
All this talk about GBrowser (Google's browser), for instance.... what do you think it is going to be based on? Firefox, of course! You don't think Google would be crazy not to make use of that powerful, flexible, extensible platform that runs on all major operating systems, has support of geeks and hackers to the point where they contribute $250K for The New York Times advert.
Considering the big 1.0 for Firefox is out, I would think people who wanted their Semantic Web browsing software to be wide-spread would implement it as a Firefox plugin, no?
I was thinking the same thing. While Spotlight is tied to the Filesystem (another Slashdot reader pointed that out earlier), Beagle seems to rely on a Linux kernel patch that can send out notifications about file updated in real-time. I suppose that is how beagle can keep the Lucene(.Net) index in sync with the changes in the file system.
A number of people these days speculate that Google will be entering the browser war, especially when they bring up the fact that Google hired the main IE guy from Microsoft. Google _won't_ be building a browser, and it won't even be leasing it. Google may be investing their time, money, and people in pushing the existing Firefox browser, and enhancing its already powerful platform-like features (e.g. extensions and plugins). For an example, you can try Firefox/Mozilla search plugin that lets you _full-text_ search your bookmarks from Firefox via Simpy[1]. I am sure you will see a lot more of that stuff soon.
Firefox is powerful, and when 1.0 hits download servers, all major newspapers will be blabbering about it, just like they were blabbering about GOOG's IPO. Then even non-tech people will dump IE in favour of Firefox.
Recycling that $100 piece of hardware?
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It's amazing that they want to make something for less than $100, yet it's so expensive to recycle computer hardware.
Compare that to the situation in paper industry - to make 1 ton of paper you need 2 trees, 240,000 liters of water, and 4750 kWh. To make the same amount of paper from recycled material you need 0 trees, 180 liters of water, and half the energy.
Note the capitalized words. Would you ever want to sit in a car that's controlled by Winblows? I know I would not - I'd make it dual-boot and boot it into Linux or some BSD flavour.
Mozilla foundation has a BIG following. Why not just declare one day a 'Mozilla Day' and have everyone who likes Mozilla and wants to help use a Mozilla-supplied.signature that day. Maybe a Mozilla Day could be a Mozilla Week or Mozilla Month. Wouldn't that be more effective than the NY Times ad, in the end?
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Here is a good presentation of this technology:
Justin's presentation (Flash). I just watched it earlier today.
This is a nice compilation, but how much sense do CDs like these make - by the time they are released some of the software will already be out-dated. I guess people don't have to have the latest version of everything all the time.
Two more quick notes:
1) why do you assume my native tongue is English? It's not.
2) You (and a few other people in this thread) completely ignore the context. Combine the context and a few brain cells with a little knowledge of English, and you realize that WET PANT is a misspelling and nothing more.
Three quick comments:
1) If English is so hard to learn, it's amazing that so many people speak it.
2) A human language is not a programming language. While programming languages have to be precise, human language does not always have to be precise. How boring would that be? Our libraries would be much smaller if our languages were so strict.
3) The primary value of human languages is communication, so as long as you can speak it and communicate, this primary function is satisfied.
As a funny note, I returned home this evening and found a sign on the front door of the building that said 'WET PANT'. Incorrect spelling, but I got the message
Actually, this has been my question all along. No IBM PC Unit means no ThinkPads, I guess. But what happens to the ThinkPad line in general? Will the new owner keep making them?
I was about to buy an IBM ThinkPad, but now I wonder if there is any point in doing that. It would be stupid to do that now, wouldn't it?
Not only gee-whizzy, but also browser-slow-downin'. Whenever I open a page with a default-sized photo on Flickr, my browser (whether Firefox or IE) takes about 1-2 seconds to 'digest' the page. But this is technology -- it can be changed. The service they provide IS good and VERY popular.
Is it just me, or is Google getting closer and closer to the dark side of the force?
Let me speculate....
Google will create an appliance akeen to Tivo. It will have a PILE of disk space and allow you to record EVERYTHING ALL the time. In other words, you won't have to instruct your device to record certain programs, it will have enough memory to save it all. You will then be expected to come home, turn into a couch potatoe, but instead of rewind/forward and such functions, there will be search, label, recommend, archive, share with friends, etc. They'll hook it up to your desktop/laptop via the network, as well as Google.com and Gmail.com. All information you can tap into will be accessible from any of your devices. Since fridges nowadays come with built-in TVs, this means you will quickly and easily be able to pull up a recipe stored on your computer or anywhere on the Web from the kitchen, and that you will be able to IM while cooking. Add to that some voice recognition, and you will no longer be forced to sit in front of a device and type/click to control it. I need another life to see all this! Anyone knows if Google is working on eternal life?
Use it like this: like this
More about Coral: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/.
I bet some of those users were not aware of the freely available PearPC project, which lets you run OS X inside both Windows and Linux.
o f_search=soft
Here are relevant PearPC and related projects:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=pearpc&type_
If you can judge by the presence of iPods in New York City (and you can't), you'd think there are no other MP3 players on the market. Everyone has an iPod here, to the point where it looks lame, too much of a fashion statement for my taste.
Somebody should tell him to install Thunderbird.
If they can mimic cockroaches maybe they can mimic humans, too. I'm looking for a robotic W for home entertainment purposes.
Now why would you sell the source code of the operating system that sucks so badly?
Perhaps an even better question to pose is: why would anyone pay for that source code when you can get the source code to superior operating systems for free?
Beats me. How much was he selling it for anyway?
Do you know if Dotster will protect you? ... or I need to move to GoDaddy.
Yeah, why is this funny? I wasn't trying to be funny - this is a valid question.
All this talk about GBrowser (Google's browser), for instance.... what do you think it is going to be based on? Firefox, of course! You don't think Google would be crazy not to make use of that powerful, flexible, extensible platform that runs on all major operating systems, has support of geeks and hackers to the point where they contribute $250K for The New York Times advert.
Considering the big 1.0 for Firefox is out, I would think people who wanted their Semantic Web browsing software to be wide-spread would implement it as a Firefox plugin, no?
I'm actually one of the Lucene developers, so I would be very much interested in any development in that direction.
I was thinking the same thing. While Spotlight is tied to the Filesystem (another Slashdot reader pointed that out earlier), Beagle seems to rely on a Linux kernel patch that can send out notifications about file updated in real-time. I suppose that is how beagle can keep the Lucene(.Net) index in sync with the changes in the file system.
Perhaps then we should ask: Why doesn't anybody listen to Hans Reiser?
What's the answer? I don't know it, but your statement certainly makes me wonder, especially since I'm familiar with his good work.
Here are the stats for Simpy[1]:
Netscape/Mozilla 230701 (38.8%)
Explorer 217704 (36.6%)
Obviously, this an early-adopters-type site for those who dig PersonalWeb concept.
[1] Simpy
A number of people these days speculate that Google will be entering the browser war, especially when they bring up the fact that Google hired the main IE guy from Microsoft. Google _won't_ be building a browser, and it won't even be leasing it. Google may be investing their time, money, and people in pushing the existing Firefox browser, and enhancing its already powerful platform-like features (e.g. extensions and plugins).
For an example, you can try Firefox/Mozilla search plugin that lets you _full-text_ search your bookmarks from Firefox via Simpy[1]. I am sure you will see a lot more of that stuff soon.
Firefox is powerful, and when 1.0 hits download servers, all major newspapers will be blabbering about it, just like they were blabbering about GOOG's IPO. Then even non-tech people will dump IE in favour of Firefox.
[1] Simpy
It's amazing that they want to make something for less than $100, yet it's so expensive to recycle computer hardware.
Compare that to the situation in paper industry - to make 1 ton of paper you need 2 trees, 240,000 liters of water, and 4750 kWh. To make the same amount of paper from recycled material you need 0 trees, 180 liters of water, and half the energy.
Note the capitalized words. Would you ever want to sit in a car that's controlled by Winblows? I know I would not - I'd make it dual-boot and boot it into Linux or some BSD flavour.
Mozilla foundation has a BIG following. Why not just declare one day a 'Mozilla Day' and have everyone who likes Mozilla and wants to help use a Mozilla-supplied .signature that day. Maybe a Mozilla Day could be a Mozilla Week or Mozilla Month. Wouldn't that be more effective than the NY Times ad, in the end?