Ok dudes, we got 14 years until the replacements. With the right dosage of obesity, alcohol abuse and smoking, the replacements will be just in time for some of us.
I predict that this prediction will not happen. Take that, biotech! Hahahaha!
On a serious note, I remember that episode of Ray Bradbury's Theater where a guy lied to have travelled in the future and saw all ecological issues solved, no wars, and no poverty.
And it indeed happened like this, because people believed themselves they could do it. And his time machine turned out to be just a mirror trick for the press.
We all need a shot of sci-fi in our blood to keep us motivated.
"Windows Media Player... was sorely lacking in almost every respect and laughing stock of the entire Mac community. It won't be missed."
Same can be said about QuickTime on Windows. This sorry excuse for a media player takes ages to start, and sometimes instead of starting crashes, or hangs my browser (Firefox). Won't be missed but I still have to use it because of the exclusive QT content on apple and some other sites.
Oh well, I believe MS is making a mistake but it's their thing. For one, this makes Flash the lightest and most cross-platform compatible video player.
At less than a megabyte download and swiftingly fast, it delivers not only vector/bitmap/text/font/sockets/scripting/effects and so on and so on, but also support for mp3 loading and Sorenson & VP-6 videos (including non-rectangular with 8-bit alpha channel or clipping mask).
When you take complete date with seconds, minutes, days etc. etc. instead of just a timestamp, you have to implement much better logic that implements rolling of seconds into minutes, minutes into hours etc. then months into years, also account for leap years and so on.
If the programmer got lazy and implemented logic up to months, you'll experience odd behaviour each new year's eve.
But nothing is odd on new years eve, if you take the timestamp (timestamp is usually a flat number of milliseconds that have passed since specific point of time, say 1980) there's no even such thing as new year in it, everything flows smoothly.
And as for the leap second, well all devices that work in networks have to account for latency, drop outs and so on which means they the Internet doesn't have One Global Super Accurate Clock which if desyched can break.
So I just call BS on that quote in my previous post (plus it's Jan2 and noone reported something big weird happen).
We all know what it was like for Y2K, and although nuclear bombs didn't fly out randomly from military bases across the world, now newspapers couldn't resist not to hype up the friggin' leap second again:
Quote: "If you don't get all the clocks synchronized when the leap second occurs -- you could have potentially interesting effects," Chester said. "The Internet could stop working, cell phones could go out."
AMD's always been the little bastard brother of Intel, and always try to copy what they do, to keep up (marketing wise).
Intel's got 586, AMD got 5K (5xx numbering). When later Intel pushed "Pentium", AMD also forgot numbers and went with Athlon. Intel's got Celeron, AMD got Duron (later Sempron) - they sound so alike.
Now with Intel's Grand Vision for a Better World, I expect AMD will feel little and try to follow...
Oh wait, check their site, they are already doing it. The banner on their home page is showing photos of African people with slogan "our vision for a connected world".
Damn, now they only need a new slogan:)
NOTE: I'm not making fun of AMD, it's hard to stay in business, but it's still an interesting to mention.
"Do you really think that this system is immune from malware?"
Do you really see something I've not written? I fixed the unpatched issue you're talking about with a simple unregistering of a DLL that's mostly useless (it didn't wreck my thumbnails surprisignly).
And BTW I also use Firefox. Using Firefox doesn't mean I don't use Windows.
Ouch dude, the Internet is not directly useful for them? What a monumental understatement.
For a very basic start, just check all the mathematical, biological, chemical and so on information collected on Wikipedia. And that's just one single site of millions containing useful information - instantly searchable and accessible.
A pack of critics barking at company X "It SUCKS, it'll FAIL, it's WRONG, it's ABSURD", while said company sells in the millions and the huge majority enjoys their products just fine.
And this again until the next product line-up. Well at least makes for an interesting newspaper filler material.
I agree Nintendo has a good going there with casual gaming, but damn, this is 2005 (2006?) and it's not as if there's only 4 geeks in the world capable of playing the mightily complex Half Life 2 for starters.
Slashdot Mirror
"...artificial human organs by 2020...."
Ok dudes, we got 14 years until the replacements. With the right dosage of obesity, alcohol abuse and smoking, the replacements will be just in time for some of us.
I predict that this prediction will not happen.
Take that, biotech! Hahahaha!
On a serious note, I remember that episode of Ray Bradbury's Theater where a guy lied to have travelled in the future and saw all ecological issues solved, no wars, and no poverty.
And it indeed happened like this, because people believed themselves they could do it. And his time machine turned out to be just a mirror trick for the press.
We all need a shot of sci-fi in our blood to keep us motivated.
"Windows Media Player ... was sorely lacking in almost every respect and laughing stock of the entire Mac community. It won't be missed."
Same can be said about QuickTime on Windows. This sorry excuse for a media player takes ages to start, and sometimes instead of starting crashes, or hangs my browser (Firefox). Won't be missed but I still have to use it because of the exclusive QT content on apple and some other sites.
Oh well, I believe MS is making a mistake but it's their thing. For one, this makes Flash the lightest and most cross-platform compatible video player.
At less than a megabyte download and swiftingly fast, it delivers not only vector/bitmap/text/font/sockets/scripting/effects and so on and so on, but also support for mp3 loading and Sorenson & VP-6 videos (including non-rectangular with 8-bit alpha channel or clipping mask).
It's a new product by Google, comin' soon: Google Rumours. It makes up stuff related to Google, so article writers and bloggers shouldn't have to.
BTW, question: if robots do the work for us in factories, and AI will do the thinking for us... What the hell will people do!?
"Spam Is Dead"
Let me guess, some sort of pun related to the fact that most of the spam comes from zombie pc-s and can't be stopped.
Looks like a piece of bad software to me ;)
When you take complete date with seconds, minutes, days etc. etc. instead of just a timestamp, you have to implement much better logic that implements rolling of seconds into minutes, minutes into hours etc. then months into years, also account for leap years and so on.
If the programmer got lazy and implemented logic up to months, you'll experience odd behaviour each new year's eve.
But nothing is odd on new years eve, if you take the timestamp (timestamp is usually a flat number of milliseconds that have passed since specific point of time, say 1980) there's no even such thing as new year in it, everything flows smoothly.
And as for the leap second, well all devices that work in networks have to account for latency, drop outs and so on which means they the Internet doesn't have One Global Super Accurate Clock which if desyched can break.
So I just call BS on that quote in my previous post (plus it's Jan2 and noone reported something big weird happen).
Well that should be close to the amount of people who knowingly use a browser.
Versus using "Internet when I d-click the Blue E picture".
We all know what it was like for Y2K, and although nuclear bombs didn't fly out randomly from military bases across the world, now newspapers couldn't resist not to hype up the friggin' leap second again:
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-sec01
Quote: "If you don't get all the clocks synchronized when the leap second occurs -- you could have potentially interesting effects," Chester said. "The Internet could stop working, cell phones could go out."
YEA. SURE!
With a nation that has huge overpopulation problem, killing porn is like shooting yourself in the foot :)
I mean see how USA is solving the problem in Afrika: giving every kid a $100 laptop with Internet.
Voting for most ridiculous stat ever posted in an article for Slashdot (sand the **AA losses from 'piracy')
"Not sure if that was ment to be a joke or not, extreme technoloving or just ignorant"
Then I guess it wasn't funny enough. I laughed though. Will get me through the day.
AMD's always been the little bastard brother of Intel, and always try to copy what they do, to keep up (marketing wise).
:)
Intel's got 586, AMD got 5K (5xx numbering).
When later Intel pushed "Pentium", AMD also forgot numbers and went with Athlon.
Intel's got Celeron, AMD got Duron (later Sempron) - they sound so alike.
Now with Intel's Grand Vision for a Better World, I expect AMD will feel little and try to follow...
Oh wait, check their site, they are already doing it. The banner on their home page is showing photos of African people with slogan "our vision for a connected world".
Damn, now they only need a new slogan
NOTE: I'm not making fun of AMD, it's hard to stay in business, but it's still an interesting to mention.
If I could get a penny for every newspaper that pulls out "top 10 whatever" straight out of its *ss.
When will all figure out that the top 10 for the article writer has nothing to do with our top 10, whatever it is.
"Not undrinkable, but creating a GOOD wine basically an art. You can't replace a Van Gogh with electronics."
Well, I hate to bring the bad news:
http://www.allersoft.com/vangogh.htm
"Van Gogh is a fully automated painting system that lets you create paintings from your photos..."
.. is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
What's the big deal? Duck and cover & you're set.
Dude, CP/M is the msot secure OS. No Internet worm affects it. I swear.
go for it.
"Do you really think that this system is immune from malware?"
Do you really see something I've not written?
I fixed the unpatched issue you're talking about with a simple unregistering of a DLL that's mostly useless (it didn't wreck my thumbnails surprisignly).
And BTW I also use Firefox. Using Firefox doesn't mean I don't use Windows.
Ouch dude, the Internet is not directly useful for them?
What a monumental understatement.
For a very basic start, just check all the mathematical, biological, chemical and so on information collected on Wikipedia. And that's just one single site of millions containing useful information - instantly searchable and accessible.
"Evil Lord Xenu froze all the alien races and dumped..."
That's it. We're gonna sue the moderators who modded this up, sue Slashdot, sue your ISP, sue your software vendors, hardware manifacturers.
Oh dang, and we'll sue you as well of course.
They arose in Asia, but were quickly deemed illegal monopoly and split in several pieces accross the world.
Not to mention they can't enforce it cuz they're not monitoring it.
So, in a way, you could leave a country undetected and land wherever you wish undetected.
If you had several billion spaceship that is.
But I always wondered how illegal traffickers don't use secretly built underground tunnels. That seems cheaper, don't ee [sic]?
Imagine the picture.
A pack of critics barking at company X "It SUCKS, it'll FAIL, it's WRONG, it's ABSURD", while said company sells in the millions and the huge majority enjoys their products just fine.
And this again until the next product line-up. Well at least makes for an interesting newspaper filler material.
I agree Nintendo has a good going there with casual gaming, but damn, this is 2005 (2006?) and it's not as if there's only 4 geeks in the world capable of playing the mightily complex Half Life 2 for starters.
"Even Apollo 11 had to fill out a customs declaration."
How high do I have to jump to be outside US?
"But even that may be in jeopardy. What happens if people use OpenOffice.org, Firefox, etc?"
Dunno, insert coins and I'll tell you the future.