From TFA: "Imagine you're landing on an aeroplane and the automatic pilot's working," he suggests. "If it divides by zero and the computer stops working - you're in big trouble. If your heart pacemaker divides by zero, you're dead."
The risk of the user circumventing DRM. In a virtual machine, your "sound board" may be sending everything played right to a.wav file, clean of DRM. Same for movies. And Microsoft don't want to give its customers the way to break the law!
"Stephen Bates is given a sneak preview and asks: was there really a tyrannosaurus in the Bible?"
"[The museum] will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely fake."
"...tableaux and a strangely Disneyfied version of the Bible story."
"As for the Grand Canyon - no problem: that was, of course, created in a few months by Noah's Flood."
"But what, I ask wonderingly, about those fossilised remains of early man-like creatures? Marsh knows all about that: 'There are no such things. Humans are basically as you see them today. Those skeletons they've found, what's the word?... they could have been deformed, diseased or something. I've seen people like that running round the streets of New York.'"
"[The workers], too, know they are doing the Lord's Work, and each has signed a contract saying they believe in the Seven Days of Creation theory."
"'[Adam] is appropriately positioned, so he can be modest. There will be a lamb or something there next to him. We are very careful about that: some of our donors are scared to death about nudity.'"
"The museum's planetarium is his pride and joy. Lisle writes the commentary. 'Amazing! God has a name for each star,' it says, and: 'The sun's distance from earth did not happen by chance.' There is much more in this vein, but not what God thought he was doing when he made Pluto, or why." (what has happened to the heliocentric belief?)
About Ken Ham, the museum's director and is inspiration: "Ham is an Australian, a former science teacher - though not, he is at pains to say, a scientist - and he has been working on the project for much of the past 20 years since moving to the US. 'You'd never find something like this in Australia,' he says. 'If you want to get the message out, it has to be here.'"
"Poodles are degenerate mutants of dogs. I say that in my lectures and people present them to me as gifts." (I've always knew that poodles couldn't be real dogs!)
"It is full of books with titles such as Infallible Proofs, The Lie, The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved and even a DVD entitled Arguments Creationists Should Not Use."
Hey, nice!!! This site has some information in english, some in portuguese and some in a language I can't identify (probably norse/swedish/icelandic/atlantean, I happen to know a few languages and that is none of them).
Anyway, I'm not against change, either positive or negative. Actually, first time I saw about non-latin characters in URL's I thought it was a wonderful idea. But I foresee some problems with this, that's all. Japanese people won't have problem with japanese characters in URL's in Japan, same about all other languages. But problems will happen.
Anyway... aren't there more than 37 characters? I can think of the 26 letters (A through Z, both included), 10 digits (0 through 9, both included), dot, slash and dash/hyphen. I don't know if I should include '&', '=' and '?', but that doesn't matter much, because even without them, we would already have more than 37 characters.
As far as Japanese go, there are very usable technologies that allow to type in kanji. Using a standard latin keyboard. It works pretty well, and i'm not sure what other languages have such options available, but since most of Asia uses the same kanji system I'm pretty sure that at least Asia has viable typing options.
I wonder how you got +4 mod points... this makes no sense at all!!
Let's suppose you are are a japanese person and you travel to Brazil. Nevermind if can speak portuguese or not, but then you need to send an e-mail using your company's webmail server from a computer at the hotel. And suppose this webmail server has kanji characters in its URL. How are you going to type them? Believe me, brazilian portuguese Windows has no support for asian languages (at least not by default, and actually I don't know if it's even possible with a regular brazilian Windows XP). What now?
breath... the... stupidity... is too... thick...
Gaaaaaaaaa!!! I can't take it!!! Is there any limit for lameness?!?!?!?
Sorry my fellow slashdotters for this post that doesn't add anything to the subject. But this is too lame for me to not to take it off my chest. Sorry again. I hope you all forgive me someday.
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Your computer should boot in less than 10 seconds with DOS.
1. you buy a firearm
2. you shoot and kill somebody
3. you get arrested by the shooting
4. you sue the firearm manufacturer
5. PROFIT!
"Best Buy has gone extreme, they have completely banished traditional views of office hours."
So, their employees are not allowed to go to work at the same time in two days of the same week? No, I didn't read the article, I am a slashdotter.
From TFA: "Imagine you're landing on an aeroplane and the automatic pilot's working," he suggests. "If it divides by zero and the computer stops working - you're in big trouble. If your heart pacemaker divides by zero, you're dead."
"Try-catch" blocks anyone?
Q: how do you know your car was stolen?
...
A: you go to where it was and it isn't there anymore
Q: how do you know your walled was stolen?
A: you check your back pocket and the it isn't there anymore
Q: do you know your music was stolen?
A:
This should sound familiar to Canadians.
Slashdot is really a weird medium. I've seen people being modded troll for much less than that.
...the government decides what companies can and can not do!
(Don't mod me redundant, this one is not supposed to be funny in the strictu sensu)
I dont understand, what risks?
.wav file, clean of DRM. Same for movies. And Microsoft don't want to give its customers the way to break the law!
The risk of the user circumventing DRM. In a virtual machine, your "sound board" may be sending everything played right to a
My first concern is that I am quite allergic to cyclohexylthiophthalimide (CTP) a chemical used in vulcanizing rubber.
And I thought that I, being allergic to eggplant, had an unusual allergy...
I only hope someone doesn't find some environmental use for used rubbers.
Bubble gum, maybe?
Either one or the other, but not both at the same time.
Oh, bummer... I had the hope of cooling my beer from its own heat! We'd live an utopy!
Send out the X-Wings!
They are not X-Wings... they are Zigs. For greater justice.
Where is the foot icon in this article?!?
... they could have been deformed, diseased or something. I've seen people like that running round the streets of New York.'"
"Stephen Bates is given a sneak preview and asks: was there really a tyrannosaurus in the Bible?"
"[The museum] will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely fake."
"...tableaux and a strangely Disneyfied version of the Bible story."
"As for the Grand Canyon - no problem: that was, of course, created in a few months by Noah's Flood."
"But what, I ask wonderingly, about those fossilised remains of early man-like creatures? Marsh knows all about that: 'There are no such things. Humans are basically as you see them today. Those skeletons they've found, what's the word?
"[The workers], too, know they are doing the Lord's Work, and each has signed a contract saying they believe in the Seven Days of Creation theory."
"'[Adam] is appropriately positioned, so he can be modest. There will be a lamb or something there next to him. We are very careful about that: some of our donors are scared to death about nudity.'"
"The museum's planetarium is his pride and joy. Lisle writes the commentary. 'Amazing! God has a name for each star,' it says, and: 'The sun's distance from earth did not happen by chance.' There is much more in this vein, but not what God thought he was doing when he made Pluto, or why." (what has happened to the heliocentric belief?)
About Ken Ham, the museum's director and is inspiration: "Ham is an Australian, a former science teacher - though not, he is at pains to say, a scientist - and he has been working on the project for much of the past 20 years since moving to the US. 'You'd never find something like this in Australia,' he says. 'If you want to get the message out, it has to be here.'"
"Poodles are degenerate mutants of dogs. I say that in my lectures and people present them to me as gifts." (I've always knew that poodles couldn't be real dogs!)
"It is full of books with titles such as Infallible Proofs, The Lie, The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved and even a DVD entitled Arguments Creationists Should Not Use."
Hey, nice!!! This site has some information in english, some in portuguese and some in a language I can't identify (probably norse/swedish/icelandic/atlantean, I happen to know a few languages and that is none of them).
Anyway, I'm not against change, either positive or negative. Actually, first time I saw about non-latin characters in URL's I thought it was a wonderful idea. But I foresee some problems with this, that's all. Japanese people won't have problem with japanese characters in URL's in Japan, same about all other languages. But problems will happen.
Anyway... aren't there more than 37 characters? I can think of the 26 letters (A through Z, both included), 10 digits (0 through 9, both included), dot, slash and dash/hyphen. I don't know if I should include '&', '=' and '?', but that doesn't matter much, because even without them, we would already have more than 37 characters.
As far as Japanese go, there are very usable technologies that allow to type in kanji. Using a standard latin keyboard. It works pretty well, and i'm not sure what other languages have such options available, but since most of Asia uses the same kanji system I'm pretty sure that at least Asia has viable typing options.
I wonder how you got +4 mod points... this makes no sense at all!!
Let's suppose you are are a japanese person and you travel to Brazil. Nevermind if can speak portuguese or not, but then you need to send an e-mail using your company's webmail server from a computer at the hotel. And suppose this webmail server has kanji characters in its URL. How are you going to type them? Believe me, brazilian portuguese Windows has no support for asian languages (at least not by default, and actually I don't know if it's even possible with a regular brazilian Windows XP). What now?
...one of my friends proposed that microwaves only heat up objects with water in it
Not only water, it also heats fat. I'm not pretty sure at the moment, but I think it heats fat faster than water.
... when I had a MSX, they said I was using a computer as a videogame console. Now I can use a videogame console as a computer!
The robot sentry will say Ni. And then it will shoot you.
Yeah, nothing like a in-office demo with live ammo...
breath... the... stupidity... is too... thick...
Gaaaaaaaaa!!! I can't take it!!! Is there any limit for lameness?!?!?!?
Sorry my fellow slashdotters for this post that doesn't add anything to the subject. But this is too lame for me to not to take it off my chest. Sorry again. I hope you all forgive me someday.
... all that is left for us is to read the articles.
In other news, internet gets slashdotted.
Hey, don't be so anal-retentive! We are in a power shortage here!
No, I haven't noticed...
What about the "clean energy" idea?