Sure it's a Beta, but its a public Beta. If you ask then entire world to help do your QA for you, then you can expect the bugs found to be known to the entire world. And Beta also implies that it has been through the Alpha stage and is very close to production ready code. Considering that the buffer overflow is the security bug celebrity of the year I would expect those to be found in the Alpha.
Without all the gold and chrome what else will reflect the light from your glowing IDE cables through the picture window in your case?:)
If you are not the type to do that then you see the gold and chrome for the 5 minutes it takes to install the thing and you don't have to see it again until the next upgrade and probably won't care.
Sure 50 gigs would give them more "creative expression", but that is going to be more expensive to produce. But the bigger issue is cutting into impulse buying and repeat sales. Consider 9 hours of content. It is going to be much easier to sell it as 9 1 hour DVDs at $15 than to sell 1 9 hour DVD at even $100. Look at the VHS porn you can see today. I don't think most porn movies last as long as regular feature films and porn titles with sequels in the double digits is not uncommon.
Then consider the biological part of the equation. How many people are going to last through 9 hours? A porn longer than 3 hours is most likely overkill for the vast majority of consumers.
If I am writing a paper on a Web service and need to provide a background to either the application area or to the general technology wiki may well provide a free description that is at least as good as a background citation to a standard text. It also has the advantage of being at least potentially being updated to reflect changes since.
But that liklihood of being updated also poses a danger. If you point to something like an RFC, that will stay the same. It may be superceded by another RFC, but at least your paper points to what was valid at the time. There is no gaurantee that a Wiki entry will retain anything that pertains to your original. Say you have a paper on web services and you mention the ASP model. As time goes on, both Active Server Pages and Application Service provider may fall out of usage both technology and terminology-wise. So someone decides to remove mention of them from the entry. Now you have a paper on web technology that points to an article about poisonous snakes.
OK, so how did Sidious, Maul, and Tyrannus all exist at the same time? And frankly, calling yourself a "Lord" when there are only 2 of you reminds me a lot of Calvin declaring himself Supreme Dictator for Life.
MSN Gaming Zone still uses passport, and it has subscription games that require a credit card. Anyone who wants to get a Microsoft certification or use the special web sites available to certified people needs a passport. And that requires that you have real info in it so your certifcation has your real name and your nice little pin and wallet card etc. arrive at the correct address.
I remember when TBS used to have all their shows start and end at 5 or 35 minutes after the hour. Not only does it make it difficult to switch to other shows already in progress it also gave TBS their own subheading in the TV Guide so their shows didn't get lost in the huge list which usually had bigger networks listed first. That was probably 20 years ago. Don't know when they switched to normal hourly schedules. Now that lots of people use on-screen listings the guide advantage is gone.
I don't think everyone can get the same sense of accomplishment and satisfaction from PHP/Perl/Java/etc web stuff as you would creating 3D worlds. I think controlling gravity, the length of a day, the general physics of a world would give me slightly more of the "I AM GOD" feeling than taking numbers from form fields and putting them in a database.
Your partner gets gunned down and you are out of bullets and reach for his gun to return fire.
Then you need more training on the firing range. Because 1) You should carry a reload 2)You should be able to reload faster than you can pry a gun out of someone's dead hand, especially when that hand is probably in the open where you would be in danger to grab it 3) If you have emptied an entire clip and not hit the guy then you are not shooting well or responsibly.
Suppose I come up with some new widget design. I have CAD drawings for my widget and have run it through simulations and all sorts of other stuff, but I don't happen to have the fabrication equipment to actually produce my widget. Under your system, the first machinist I take my design to would get the patent because he is the one who "created" it. If you don't allow patents on things not yet created, then you are limiting patents to those with the capital to buy the machinery.
The article may be old news, but fully reactive software stunt men have been around since 2002. I did hours of "research" on this topic with some really good software.
Is it really a good thing to blur the lines of what is on your PC and what is on the network? MS made a big push for this when they decided that explorer and iexplorer would be interchangable. If you don't have to specifically start a network aware app then how can you tell what resources should be treated with more care?
I remember when the whole "Death of Superman" comic came out. There was a huge uproar, but amidst all that some comic historian put things in perspective a little by revealing that Superman had died in the comic at least 50 times before. It had just been so long since they had done it that most people were not aware. So no, you can't just make them disappear, but it seems you can kill them as many times as you want.
Well if you also make an assumption that hyperspace involves bending space then the falcon's ability to bend space to the point where a 12 parsec jump route is available would be impressive compared to other ships that can't bend space as efficiently.
Yes, the lack of creativity in responses it pretty disappointing. I was hoping for at least one reference to the satellite getting lonely and using its laser to redraw the Nazca lines and animals. Or maybe something about the satellite continuously sending "Need Input" and reconfiguring nearby satellites to act like/broadcast the three stooges.
So many people are complaining about this being a slashvertisement. When there was a story about Yellow Dog 4 coming out no one complained. Or the distro with the swahili name. If announcing new software or new versions is so horrible why isn't everybody up in arms about the freshmeat section on the front page?
If you really feel that FOSS is the better answer and that FOSS projects can compete solely on their merits then equal exposure is not only fair, it is critical to proving that. If someone posts about a proprietary project, rather than whine about it, point out which FOSS solution does the job better. If one doesn't exist, write it. Or if you can't do those things and you think that the proprietary software in question sucks, post a review of it. Do something constructive.
I just wish they would switch to naming schemes that make it easier to figure out relative power within the same brand. I don't do enough gaming anymore to stay on top of the video card market. So nVidia has MX, FX, Ti, GT and who knows what else, and none of it is intuitive as to which is a later chipset or which is the budget chipset.
Are you sure about that? Have you never heard of Script Kiddies? The term is based on users without real knowledge using shell scripts they got from somewhere else. Obviously they get those scripts from somewhere else. Then there is the term "rootkit". Both of these show that there is plenty of publishing going on for exploits in the non-Microsoft world. And what about tools like SATAN, nmap etc.? Does the closed source world have anywhere near as many widely published tools for finding vulnerabilities? Have you ever seen the metasploit project?
Don't fool yourself, there is plenty of publishing of exploits going on in the OSS world.
Is dictation really the most common or most useful application of speech to text? If you are using it for dictation then a long training period is acceptable. But I find voice recognition in use much more often in phone IVR systems. When I call up my power company it asks me to say my account number. When I call a major hotel chain it asks which property I want info about and connects me appropriately. I saw a demo from IBM several years ago where they were doing money management and the system was recognizing mutual fund names. Movie theatre listings, 411, and the list could go on. Not only are these things that are probably a lot more commonly used than dictation, but they are also the things that would save companies the most money. For the price of something like Dragon Dictate most people would save money hiring some starving college kid to type up whatever it is for the frequency they need it. Being able to shut down call center locations instead of just outsourcing them to India or the prison system saves a lot more money.
Domains don't always help. Not all legitimate business use the exact domain of the corporate entity you are dealing with. If you have a mortgage with chase manhattan then you are going to be doing your account management at chasehomecustomers.com. Lots of other places host their web apps on different domains than their marketing presence. And then there is the chance that your financial institution didn't manage to get the domain you would expect. For instance there is a chain of banks called Compass Bank in Massachusetts and there is a chain with the same name in several southern states. Only one got the official looking TLD.
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And I suppose that for the biology savvy person, sex is only for transmitting genetic material.
There are bands whose music I like, but would prefer to listen to it without annoying crowd noise, the smell of pot, crowded conditions, tickets that cost several times what the CD would cost etc.
Studio music is often done using several takes. So if someone in the band is having an off day, or an instrument is slightly out of tune, or they didn't feel they really captured the essence of the song they can do it again and again until they feel it is perfect. Personally I prefer hearing the perfect version of the song.
Then there is the on demand aspect. As I am driving along feeling happy and nostalgic listening Glad All Over by the Dave Clark Five and some jerk cuts me off, I like the fact that I can hit a button and immdiately be listening to Head Like a Hole by NIN. Getting just those two bands to ride along in my car with me to perform on demand would be tough let alone whoever else might be in my changer.
Concerts do me no good. They satisfy almost nothing of what I am looking to get out of music.
Yes. If "Internet bullying" (sic) is all a child has to worrry about these days, well, frankly, good.
How often does physical bullying have a permanent effect versus emotional bullying? When you hear the term "scarred for life" are they usually talking about actual scar tissue? I don't think in all the stories of school shooters, suicides or any other clear signs of someone going over the edge that physcial bullying was the main reason.
And you know what, if someone puts up a web site that publishes embarassing pictures of you or hurtful rumors they aren't going to politely link to your well-crafted retort. Or when someone gathers their friends and shows the text of the awful message they are about to send and makes sure you are in view so they can see your reaction, they aren't going to gather that same group hours later to view your perfect SMS reply.
Think back to high school and consider the following situation. Emotional Bully A says to student B (in front of a good size audience) some suitably horrible and false statement, "Man those were some nasty skidmarks you had in the lockerroom yesterday". Student B replies "Thats a lie and you know it." Who wins?
Emotional bullying is serious and the larger the audience the worse it can get. The entire internet is a pretty big audience.
As someone who calls himself weirdofreak, do you really think you represent the target demographic of normal everyday teenager? I would guess that you won't buy any of the "for dummies" or "for idiots" series either because you refuse to refer to yourself that way even if indirectly.
And don't think that just because you use Linux that you are safe from floppies and CDs. Both are bootable media you know. And a virus that destroys your partition table isn't going to care if those partitions are FAT32, ext2 for whatever.
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Sure it's a Beta, but its a public Beta. If you ask then entire world to help do your QA for you, then you can expect the bugs found to be known to the entire world. And Beta also implies that it has been through the Alpha stage and is very close to production ready code. Considering that the buffer overflow is the security bug celebrity of the year I would expect those to be found in the Alpha.
Without all the gold and chrome what else will reflect the light from your glowing IDE cables through the picture window in your case? :)
If you are not the type to do that then you see the gold and chrome for the 5 minutes it takes to install the thing and you don't have to see it again until the next upgrade and probably won't care.
Sure 50 gigs would give them more "creative expression", but that is going to be more expensive to produce. But the bigger issue is cutting into impulse buying and repeat sales. Consider 9 hours of content. It is going to be much easier to sell it as 9 1 hour DVDs at $15 than to sell 1 9 hour DVD at even $100. Look at the VHS porn you can see today. I don't think most porn movies last as long as regular feature films and porn titles with sequels in the double digits is not uncommon.
Then consider the biological part of the equation. How many people are going to last through 9 hours? A porn longer than 3 hours is most likely overkill for the vast majority of consumers.
If I am writing a paper on a Web service and need to provide a background to either the application area or to the general technology wiki may well provide a free description that is at least as good as a background citation to a standard text. It also has the advantage of being at least potentially being updated to reflect changes since.
But that liklihood of being updated also poses a danger. If you point to something like an RFC, that will stay the same. It may be superceded by another RFC, but at least your paper points to what was valid at the time. There is no gaurantee that a Wiki entry will retain anything that pertains to your original. Say you have a paper on web services and you mention the ASP model. As time goes on, both Active Server Pages and Application Service provider may fall out of usage both technology and terminology-wise. So someone decides to remove mention of them from the entry. Now you have a paper on web technology that points to an article about poisonous snakes.
OK, so how did Sidious, Maul, and Tyrannus all exist at the same time? And frankly, calling yourself a "Lord" when there are only 2 of you reminds me a lot of Calvin declaring himself Supreme Dictator for Life.
MSN Gaming Zone still uses passport, and it has subscription games that require a credit card. Anyone who wants to get a Microsoft certification or use the special web sites available to certified people needs a passport. And that requires that you have real info in it so your certifcation has your real name and your nice little pin and wallet card etc. arrive at the correct address.
I remember when TBS used to have all their shows start and end at 5 or 35 minutes after the hour. Not only does it make it difficult to switch to other shows already in progress it also gave TBS their own subheading in the TV Guide so their shows didn't get lost in the huge list which usually had bigger networks listed first. That was probably 20 years ago. Don't know when they switched to normal hourly schedules. Now that lots of people use on-screen listings the guide advantage is gone.
I don't think everyone can get the same sense of accomplishment and satisfaction from PHP/Perl/Java/etc web stuff as you would creating 3D worlds. I think controlling gravity, the length of a day, the general physics of a world would give me slightly more of the "I AM GOD" feeling than taking numbers from form fields and putting them in a database.
Then you need more training on the firing range. Because 1) You should carry a reload 2)You should be able to reload faster than you can pry a gun out of someone's dead hand, especially when that hand is probably in the open where you would be in danger to grab it 3) If you have emptied an entire clip and not hit the guy then you are not shooting well or responsibly.
Suppose I come up with some new widget design. I have CAD drawings for my widget and have run it through simulations and all sorts of other stuff, but I don't happen to have the fabrication equipment to actually produce my widget. Under your system, the first machinist I take my design to would get the patent because he is the one who "created" it. If you don't allow patents on things not yet created, then you are limiting patents to those with the capital to buy the machinery.
The article may be old news, but fully reactive software stunt men have been around since 2002. I did hours of "research" on this topic with some really good software.
Is it really a good thing to blur the lines of what is on your PC and what is on the network? MS made a big push for this when they decided that explorer and iexplorer would be interchangable. If you don't have to specifically start a network aware app then how can you tell what resources should be treated with more care?
I remember when the whole "Death of Superman" comic came out. There was a huge uproar, but amidst all that some comic historian put things in perspective a little by revealing that Superman had died in the comic at least 50 times before. It had just been so long since they had done it that most people were not aware. So no, you can't just make them disappear, but it seems you can kill them as many times as you want.
Well if you also make an assumption that hyperspace involves bending space then the falcon's ability to bend space to the point where a 12 parsec jump route is available would be impressive compared to other ships that can't bend space as efficiently.
I would have though that "If you give a pig a pancake" would have been the more appropriate book reference when talking about monopolies :)
Yes, the lack of creativity in responses it pretty disappointing. I was hoping for at least one reference to the satellite getting lonely and using its laser to redraw the Nazca lines and animals. Or maybe something about the satellite continuously sending "Need Input" and reconfiguring nearby satellites to act like/broadcast the three stooges.
So many people are complaining about this being a slashvertisement. When there was a story about Yellow Dog 4 coming out no one complained. Or the distro with the swahili name. If announcing new software or new versions is so horrible why isn't everybody up in arms about the freshmeat section on the front page?
If you really feel that FOSS is the better answer and that FOSS projects can compete solely on their merits then equal exposure is not only fair, it is critical to proving that. If someone posts about a proprietary project, rather than whine about it, point out which FOSS solution does the job better. If one doesn't exist, write it. Or if you can't do those things and you think that the proprietary software in question sucks, post a review of it. Do something constructive.
I just wish they would switch to naming schemes that make it easier to figure out relative power within the same brand. I don't do enough gaming anymore to stay on top of the video card market. So nVidia has MX, FX, Ti, GT and who knows what else, and none of it is intuitive as to which is a later chipset or which is the budget chipset.
Are you sure about that? Have you never heard of Script Kiddies? The term is based on users without real knowledge using shell scripts they got from somewhere else. Obviously they get those scripts from somewhere else. Then there is the term "rootkit". Both of these show that there is plenty of publishing going on for exploits in the non-Microsoft world. And what about tools like SATAN, nmap etc.? Does the closed source world have anywhere near as many widely published tools for finding vulnerabilities? Have you ever seen the metasploit project?
Don't fool yourself, there is plenty of publishing of exploits going on in the OSS world.
Is dictation really the most common or most useful application of speech to text? If you are using it for dictation then a long training period is acceptable. But I find voice recognition in use much more often in phone IVR systems. When I call up my power company it asks me to say my account number. When I call a major hotel chain it asks which property I want info about and connects me appropriately. I saw a demo from IBM several years ago where they were doing money management and the system was recognizing mutual fund names. Movie theatre listings, 411, and the list could go on. Not only are these things that are probably a lot more commonly used than dictation, but they are also the things that would save companies the most money. For the price of something like Dragon Dictate most people would save money hiring some starving college kid to type up whatever it is for the frequency they need it. Being able to shut down call center locations instead of just outsourcing them to India or the prison system saves a lot more money.
Domains don't always help. Not all legitimate business use the exact domain of the corporate entity you are dealing with. If you have a mortgage with chase manhattan then you are going to be doing your account management at chasehomecustomers.com. Lots of other places host their web apps on different domains than their marketing presence. And then there is the chance that your financial institution didn't manage to get the domain you would expect. For instance there is a chain of banks called Compass Bank in Massachusetts and there is a chain with the same name in several southern states. Only one got the official looking TLD.
And I suppose that for the biology savvy person, sex is only for transmitting genetic material.
Some people don't like live.
There are bands whose music I like, but would prefer to listen to it without annoying crowd noise, the smell of pot, crowded conditions, tickets that cost several times what the CD would cost etc.
Studio music is often done using several takes. So if someone in the band is having an off day, or an instrument is slightly out of tune, or they didn't feel they really captured the essence of the song they can do it again and again until they feel it is perfect. Personally I prefer hearing the perfect version of the song.
Then there is the on demand aspect. As I am driving along feeling happy and nostalgic listening Glad All Over by the Dave Clark Five and some jerk cuts me off, I like the fact that I can hit a button and immdiately be listening to Head Like a Hole by NIN. Getting just those two bands to ride along in my car with me to perform on demand would be tough let alone whoever else might be in my changer.
Concerts do me no good. They satisfy almost nothing of what I am looking to get out of music.
How often does physical bullying have a permanent effect versus emotional bullying? When you hear the term "scarred for life" are they usually talking about actual scar tissue? I don't think in all the stories of school shooters, suicides or any other clear signs of someone going over the edge that physcial bullying was the main reason.
And you know what, if someone puts up a web site that publishes embarassing pictures of you or hurtful rumors they aren't going to politely link to your well-crafted retort. Or when someone gathers their friends and shows the text of the awful message they are about to send and makes sure you are in view so they can see your reaction, they aren't going to gather that same group hours later to view your perfect SMS reply.
Think back to high school and consider the following situation. Emotional Bully A says to student B (in front of a good size audience) some suitably horrible and false statement, "Man those were some nasty skidmarks you had in the lockerroom yesterday". Student B replies "Thats a lie and you know it." Who wins?
Emotional bullying is serious and the larger the audience the worse it can get. The entire internet is a pretty big audience.
As someone who calls himself weirdofreak, do you really think you represent the target demographic of normal everyday teenager? I would guess that you won't buy any of the "for dummies" or "for idiots" series either because you refuse to refer to yourself that way even if indirectly.
And don't think that just because you use Linux that you are safe from floppies and CDs. Both are bootable media you know. And a virus that destroys your partition table isn't going to care if those partitions are FAT32, ext2 for whatever.