I have to agree--I love my trackpoint. I'd still put the mouse ahead of it for accuracy (if you ignore the bothersome "only works on a flat surface" issue) but for a laptop, I utterly despise trackpads.
By that logic, then you might as well count every computer sold. The fact that a PS2 and PS3 *can* run Linux has little to do with how many actually will.
Feedburner seems to miss quite a lot, but unless it is really undercounting linux, it would look like slashdot readers prefer XP as a plurality.
I'm usually running Windows XP when I browse slashdot. Of course, this is because I usually browse slashdot when I'm goofing off at work and have no choice in the matter of which operating system my work PC will run. =) And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
That's one thing I really like about KDE--very "Kohesive" branding with its sub projects/applications. If you go for the full KDE suite, you'll have all the essentials and they'll all look and behave consistently. Similar results can be had with GNOME, to be sure, but GNOME isn't really aiming to be a whole suite and doesn't really badge spinoff projects as "all part of the family" like KDE.
No, it doesn't come with the Nunchuk.
You're mis-remembering.
Incorrect. The console ships with one Wii remote, one nunchuck, a sensor bar, a power adapter, an AV cable, Wii Sports, two AA batteries, a console stand, a plastic stabilizer for the console stand, and a stand for the sensor bar (along with the usual assortment of manuals, warranty registration info, packing materials and etc).
Perhaps you're confused by standalone Wii remotes which do not include the nunchuck.
They released it last week?! Wow. What kind of howling-idiot company pits their marketing department against Steve Jobs? That's, well, madness of the non-Spartan variety.
Right now it's only offered in a few areas. I suspect this is more of a test-marketing push rather than a full rollout. T-mobile is probably just dipping their toes in the VOIP waters and may not have rolled out enough IP/phone network gateways to handle a huge amount of subscribers. I'm willing to bet T-mobile deliberately unveiled this during iPhone week so they can just as quietly withdraw the service from the market if they decide it isn't worth it to do the full push.
I think RFID is great! Much better than barcodes for inventory tracking. Maybe someday RFID readers will be common in cell phones and I can wave my phone by a product and find out if it's available at a lower price down the road. I mean, there are lots of really great uses for passive RFID tags.
Living in Orlando which has lots of toll roads, I'll even commend the RFID toll payment system--whiz through the fast lane and pay the toll without even slowing down. It's a battery powered device that sticks behind my rearview mirror and has reasonable security and accountability. There's a limited amount in that account, I must authorize re-fills, and if the balance recorded in the tag doesn't match DOT/Expressway Authority's records, the potential breach would be detected quickly.
That being said, I don't want one in my credit card. Ever. I'm even paranoid about RFID "keyless" entry and ignition systems appearing in cards. If RFID product tracking is compromised a cashier or stock clerk might have to key in a few UPC codes manually. If my E-pass is compromised, I stand to lose, at most $25.00. Credit limits and car values are much much higher. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer at least a *touch* of physical security for non-trivial amounts.
I hope this isn't the end of low prices on ebay. Where else can you buy a cell phone charger or USB cable for $2 shipped?
This only affects first-sales, not resales. So it shouldn't impact ebayers. All this ruling does is manufacturers can turn to discount retailers and say "sell at $x price, or we won't send you any more of our product." As long as the ebayer has legally obtained their products, they're free to charge whatever they want.
Ummm . . . how exactly can one type faster than they can think? Unless we're talking about nonsensical mashing of keys. BFHoduighs vzlkSDjfsd ajklehfklsda jflasjkd hwsfhsj.
I can envision Google looking into this as an option for a Google OS. Browser plugin that enables a quasi-VM on the system for cross-platform applications.
I'm not familiar with Inferno, so I have to ask: Why? There are already tons of VMs, quasi VMs and multi-platform toolkits readily available. What benefits would developing with Inferno have over using Java,.net/mono, Flash, XUL, Qt, GTK+, etc?
If we assume that there has been intelligent life somewhere in the galaxy . . . then the fact that we are not already part of some vast galactic empire tends to suggest, with high probability, that such travel is simply not possible or at best not practicable
That's the Fermi paradox, and it's based on some very flawed assumptions. Cheifly, we do not know what a highly advanced galactic civilization would look like, its preferred habitats or what resources are of any value to it. As a planet-bound civilization, we like a nice rocky planet at just the right spot near our yellow dwarf star.
A multi-billion year old advanced intelligence might very feasibly prefer to set up shop completely surronding a dim red dwarf, transmuting whatever elements they desire and soaking up every photon of radiation they can capture. There are plenty of patches of warm gas and dust in our sky that (for all we know) could be those "missing" galactic civilizations. And maybe they're not interested in our system of a few rocks with unpleasant gravity wells and a sun that's burning too hot and fast to bother building another system-city around.
In any event, proposing that something isn't possible or likely because we haven't seen an example of it yet is very very naive when we don't even know what features to look for.
Since they carry digital data over a digital medium, I would disagree. They aren't "modulating" anything.
Dial up modems may have been true and proper modems, but I think it's a little ironic how pedantic some are being over the use of the term "modem" when dial-up modems and modern telephones don't actually have dials.
And unless I permit it, they're not allowed to arbitrarily switch the license.
If Linus were to decide to go the GPL3 route, I don't see why the existing code can't be GPL2 and any new additions simply marked GPL3. This would effectively GPL3 the whole shooting match since anybody wanting GPL2 (i.e. Tivo) can't use any of the new releases, they have to go back to the GPL2-only codebase and roll their own updates/enhancements.
Well, that depends on your definition of "time"... and "travel"... and "is".
Not really. We're all time travellers, it's just a one-way trip into the future. It's also perfectly possible to alter the rate at which time passes for one observer vs. another by changing relative velocities--though the effects are negligible at any speeds we're capable of (outside of particle streams in accelerators).
I don't understand why Tivo should be required to help you do so, however.
Because they're selling devices running an operating system that was developed by a community under a "share and share alike" philosophy. They're profiting from this community--which is fine by itself--but a lot of members of the community are really miffed that we can't go out and buy a Tivo, put in a custom kernel, run myth, tinker, etc. If it was my code, I'd be upset too. In fact, I'd be upset enough to make sure all future versions explicitly prohibit this behavior.
Tivo followed the letter of the law w/ the GPL 2, but they violated its spirit. GPL 3 spells it out more. They can either update their codebase themselves or unlock the boxes they're selling, but many folks in the FOSS community aren't willing to help a company that locks down free software.
What I would like to see is a technology that synthesizes fuel oil by taking water, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and electricity and putting out something roughly comparable to diesel fuel, kerosene, or something else.
Why? Plants and algae will do that already (and they're solar powered). We can process them (with varying degrees of efficiency) into vegetable oil, biodiesel, ethanol, we could probably even simulate the cocktail of hydrocarbons that makes up gasoline.
Now if someone would just hold a gun to the heads of the textbook manufacturers to make cheaper electronic versions of their books
Oh, I don't think the textbook companies would be upset at all over selling you ebooks with no printing or shipping costs that you can't re-sell because of the DRM forcing everyone to always pay full menu price.
The Ubuntu that will ship not have Wine installed by default.
Question: Does Ubuntu currently ship with Wine included in the default install? I vaguely remember having to get it via synaptic when I installed edgy but could be misremembering and haven't done a clean install of Feisty yet.
So if I cheat on my wife, until she observes it it doesn't mean anything? Hmmm...
Until observed, it's just a probability. However, considering this is Slashdot, I believe the probability of you having both a wife and a mistress is quite low.
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They mean to say that a network with arbitrary caps and rate limiting consumes less bandwidth than an unrestricted one? Say it ain't so!
Next up: Conserve water by tying a knot in your garden hose.
I have to agree--I love my trackpoint. I'd still put the mouse ahead of it for accuracy (if you ignore the bothersome "only works on a flat surface" issue) but for a laptop, I utterly despise trackpads.
By that logic, then you might as well count every computer sold. The fact that a PS2 and PS3 *can* run Linux has little to do with how many actually will.
I'm usually running Windows XP when I browse slashdot. Of course, this is because I usually browse slashdot when I'm goofing off at work and have no choice in the matter of which operating system my work PC will run. =) And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
That's one thing I really like about KDE--very "Kohesive" branding with its sub projects/applications. If you go for the full KDE suite, you'll have all the essentials and they'll all look and behave consistently. Similar results can be had with GNOME, to be sure, but GNOME isn't really aiming to be a whole suite and doesn't really badge spinoff projects as "all part of the family" like KDE.
Actually, explorer.exe is the shell. It provides the start bar, desktop and file browser and calls bits of IE for web browser functions.
Incorrect. The console ships with one Wii remote, one nunchuck, a sensor bar, a power adapter, an AV cable, Wii Sports, two AA batteries, a console stand, a plastic stabilizer for the console stand, and a stand for the sensor bar (along with the usual assortment of manuals, warranty registration info, packing materials and etc).
Perhaps you're confused by standalone Wii remotes which do not include the nunchuck.
Right now it's only offered in a few areas. I suspect this is more of a test-marketing push rather than a full rollout. T-mobile is probably just dipping their toes in the VOIP waters and may not have rolled out enough IP/phone network gateways to handle a huge amount of subscribers. I'm willing to bet T-mobile deliberately unveiled this during iPhone week so they can just as quietly withdraw the service from the market if they decide it isn't worth it to do the full push.
I think RFID is great! Much better than barcodes for inventory tracking. Maybe someday RFID readers will be common in cell phones and I can wave my phone by a product and find out if it's available at a lower price down the road. I mean, there are lots of really great uses for passive RFID tags.
Living in Orlando which has lots of toll roads, I'll even commend the RFID toll payment system--whiz through the fast lane and pay the toll without even slowing down. It's a battery powered device that sticks behind my rearview mirror and has reasonable security and accountability. There's a limited amount in that account, I must authorize re-fills, and if the balance recorded in the tag doesn't match DOT/Expressway Authority's records, the potential breach would be detected quickly.
That being said, I don't want one in my credit card. Ever. I'm even paranoid about RFID "keyless" entry and ignition systems appearing in cards. If RFID product tracking is compromised a cashier or stock clerk might have to key in a few UPC codes manually. If my E-pass is compromised, I stand to lose, at most $25.00. Credit limits and car values are much much higher. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer at least a *touch* of physical security for non-trivial amounts.
But I thought its goal was to use the marriage to unleash the Chaos Heart and destroy all worlds?
This only affects first-sales, not resales. So it shouldn't impact ebayers. All this ruling does is manufacturers can turn to discount retailers and say "sell at $x price, or we won't send you any more of our product." As long as the ebayer has legally obtained their products, they're free to charge whatever they want.
And what rough box, its RMA come round at last,
Slouches towards Redmond to be reborn?
Ummm . . . how exactly can one type faster than they can think? Unless we're talking about nonsensical mashing of keys. BFHoduighs vzlkSDjfsd ajklehfklsda jflasjkd hwsfhsj.
I'm not familiar with Inferno, so I have to ask: Why? There are already tons of VMs, quasi VMs and multi-platform toolkits readily available. What benefits would developing with Inferno have over using Java, .net/mono, Flash, XUL, Qt, GTK+, etc?
That's the Fermi paradox, and it's based on some very flawed assumptions. Cheifly, we do not know what a highly advanced galactic civilization would look like, its preferred habitats or what resources are of any value to it. As a planet-bound civilization, we like a nice rocky planet at just the right spot near our yellow dwarf star.
A multi-billion year old advanced intelligence might very feasibly prefer to set up shop completely surronding a dim red dwarf, transmuting whatever elements they desire and soaking up every photon of radiation they can capture. There are plenty of patches of warm gas and dust in our sky that (for all we know) could be those "missing" galactic civilizations. And maybe they're not interested in our system of a few rocks with unpleasant gravity wells and a sun that's burning too hot and fast to bother building another system-city around.
In any event, proposing that something isn't possible or likely because we haven't seen an example of it yet is very very naive when we don't even know what features to look for.
. . . and even if there was or might be some future invention making it possible, just run memtest and overwrite it all with garbage.
Dial up modems may have been true and proper modems, but I think it's a little ironic how pedantic some are being over the use of the term "modem" when dial-up modems and modern telephones don't actually have dials.
If Linus were to decide to go the GPL3 route, I don't see why the existing code can't be GPL2 and any new additions simply marked GPL3. This would effectively GPL3 the whole shooting match since anybody wanting GPL2 (i.e. Tivo) can't use any of the new releases, they have to go back to the GPL2-only codebase and roll their own updates/enhancements.
Not really. We're all time travellers, it's just a one-way trip into the future. It's also perfectly possible to alter the rate at which time passes for one observer vs. another by changing relative velocities--though the effects are negligible at any speeds we're capable of (outside of particle streams in accelerators).
Because they're selling devices running an operating system that was developed by a community under a "share and share alike" philosophy. They're profiting from this community--which is fine by itself--but a lot of members of the community are really miffed that we can't go out and buy a Tivo, put in a custom kernel, run myth, tinker, etc. If it was my code, I'd be upset too. In fact, I'd be upset enough to make sure all future versions explicitly prohibit this behavior.
Tivo followed the letter of the law w/ the GPL 2, but they violated its spirit. GPL 3 spells it out more. They can either update their codebase themselves or unlock the boxes they're selling, but many folks in the FOSS community aren't willing to help a company that locks down free software.
Why? Plants and algae will do that already (and they're solar powered). We can process them (with varying degrees of efficiency) into vegetable oil, biodiesel, ethanol, we could probably even simulate the cocktail of hydrocarbons that makes up gasoline.
Oh, I don't think the textbook companies would be upset at all over selling you ebooks with no printing or shipping costs that you can't re-sell because of the DRM forcing everyone to always pay full menu price.
Question: Does Ubuntu currently ship with Wine included in the default install? I vaguely remember having to get it via synaptic when I installed edgy but could be misremembering and haven't done a clean install of Feisty yet.
Until observed, it's just a probability. However, considering this is Slashdot, I believe the probability of you having both a wife and a mistress is quite low.