But what if some idiot rams into your car, with airbag/pointy spike fitted, in a car which has no airbag/pointy spike fitted? It would reverse the process of natural selection entirely, interfering with evolution. Which would be very dangerous.
In my experience, this is how people carry out such short conversations.
Party 'B': Hello, B speaking. Party 'A': Hello, it's me. Party 'B': Hello, A. Party 'A': Whereabouts are you? Party 'B': I'm just walking past the music shop opposite the church. Where are you? Party 'A':I'm walking past the hotel. I'll meet you at the swimming pool. Party 'B': OK, see you later. Goodbye.
The law in the UK covers 'reckless' driving 'without due care and attention'. However, the problem there is to clarify what 'due care and attention' is. Some think that they can still provide due care and attention with a handheld phone call - or eating a cream cake while they're driving.
Then again, maybe natural selection is a good thing.
...as I type, the full programme from which the interview is sourced is on BBC Two until 8pm. It's hosted by Fiona Bruce and is called How a Geek Changed the World. It'll shortly be available on the BBC iPlayer, alternatively I'm sure some kind Beastmaster-lover (or hater) with a TV capture card will upload it to YouTube in good time.
This is hardly new technology. Isn't 'deep zooming' what I've been brought up to know as... well... 'zooming'?
I believe there was a demo, around a year ago, that Steve Jobs did at WWDC to demonstrate how Mac OS X had new 64-bit exploitation abilities in Leopard. If I remember correctly, he brought up two copies of the same image, to do a 'race' (32-bit vs. 64-bit). It was a wide shot of a chamber in the Library of Congress, and it was sufficiently detailed that one could zoom in and read the labels on the spines.
Now, with this, Jobs was demonstrating that the technology to zoom in to such hi-res images has been around for ages. It's hardly new technology.
It was - it was almost as buggy as one of the betas, or perhaps 10.0.
I highly doubt it'll be called 'Snow Leopard' - Apple has registered the trademarks 'Cougar' and 'Lynx'. I have doubts about Lynx, because there is already LynxOS, and Lynx deodorant.
I also highly doubt they'll be abandoning PowerPC entirely yet. We'll probably see G4 support being dropped, but I highly doubt Apple would make such a rushed transition.
I recall being taught about fractions in Year 2 (when I was around 6 or 7). I've no idea how the UK education system (the one I'm native to) corresponds to the US grading system, but I think it'd be somewhere between first and third grade.
While some points made are valid (eg portage, along with most other package managers sucks, and Gentoo's management is inefficient) it seems like the distro is completely misguided.
If anything, we need to be focusing on user-friendly *nixes, not developer torture - less still something more hellish than Gentoo. If someone desperately wants a system like this, they can read LFS. Or strip down a Gentoo install. That way, they're also more likely to get something that's more suited to their needs. And isn't written by someone who looks like they'd happily eat n00b stew for lunch.
I have to agree with you there. True, I do send text messages, emails and use Twitter, but I still use paper mail, and telephony (be it via VoIP or an old-fashioned phone). And I steadfastly refuse to use anything like Spazbook or Myface. What the point of them actually is remains a mystery to me.
I don't condemn people who don't use the above technologies. It's their own decision.
True, I tell them about the benefits of having an e-mail address (instant-ish delivery, free), but I don't condemn them for not having one.
It's good that Asus is pushing Linux harder, but the Eee PC's default Linux is, in my view, awful. It's based on Xandros, which sucks anyway, but the OS just stinks of being unfinished.
Asus really need to create something more polished if it's going to become mainstream.
True, GNOME is quite nice, and WLM is rather bloated, but at least it doesn't have text overflowing out of text labels or badly-proportioned icons.
The problem isn't with Pidgin's look, it's Pidgin's layout. It's totally awful, disobeying just about every UI convention out there. True, it has improved lately, but it still sucks.
A major problem with almost every FOSS UI is that, by default, it uses Bitstream Vera or DejaVu Sans as their system fonts. Both are awful and spindly at low sizes and messy and sprawling when blown up. The first thing I do with any new system is to swap such abominations for FreeSans.
There are a few decent KDE apps, such as konsole and ktechlab, but mostly, they suck. That's why M$ might be deterred from taking advice from certain FOSS developers when it comes to UIs. They've made a good choice with Blender, because that's very good, but don't expect this to become commonplace if certain FOSS UIs continue to suck as much as they do.
Really? Looking at how awful and ugly some OSS user interfaces are (see Pidgin as a prime example, or KDE4 - yuck!) I can see why M$ wouldn't be seen dead letting the open-source community fiddle with the Windows interface. True, things like the glassy window borders are pointless, but at least it's mostly aesthetically pleasing, and a lot cleaner and more intuitive than anything written in Qt.
Yes, but surely a bug is a bug? Whether it's a broken readdir() function in a certain sequence or a critical security flaw with SSH, it boils down, at code level, to being an oversight or typo by the programmer, which may be almost invisible when skimming through it in SVN or an IDE. Simple as.
However, considering that it was two years and that this is such an important part of the system, perhaps some should consider setting up "code patrols" - ie someone roots through all the code and gives it the once over every month or so, and pulls out or fixes any bugs or vulnerabilities. Especially with important things like SSH, this might be very useful.
Hang on. There was a story here the other day about a bug in BSD that had been carried down to all its descendants (FreeBSD, OS X, NetBSD etc) for twenty-five years without anyone noticing. Two years is nothing.
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Secondly, when Apple came out with the DV iMac a few years later--featuring FireWire ports and (gasp!) a DVD drive--they should have offered a remote. How much better would that have made the iMac for dorms and kids? Apple did, of course, wind up moving to remote-controlled, entertainment-oriented systems just a few years ago. They really, really missed an opportunity ten years ago.
Remember, though, that the idea of the 'digital life hub' was still in its infancy in 2000. Although the iMac DV was more suited to video use, it was still mostly targeted at families, children, and those in higher education, who wanted a machine they could realistically save up for within less than a year, was easy to use, ready to start work immediately, and - most importantly - write their documents (letters, homework, dissertations etc). That's what most people expect a computer to do, and remember that Steve Jobs was still trying to convince other tech companies to partner with him in his 'digital lifestyle' idea.
As it happens, they didn't. And Apple are no worse off for it. Good on them.
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I disagree. My 2000 iMac DV is running Tiger, which is still supported well. Quarterly security updates are still released.
The only problem the machine's ever given me is that its old AirPort card doesn't like WPA2 networks using AES encryption. Otherwise, it's still running perfectly. And quite well, considering it's had at least two previous owners. At times, it runs Tiger quicker than Vista runs on a brand-new £500 (~$1000) PC. But, then again, Vista sucks, so that's understandable.
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The hockey puck was awful, yes, but in reality, recent Apple mice have become a lot better. The Mighty Mouse isn't bad at all (just needs a sleeve rubbing against the scroll wheel to clean it every few months) and the keyboard, in particular, is now a lot better. It's pretty too.
The fact also remains that if you're not doing anything illegal, you shouldn't have anything to worry about with reference to CCTV. Your "fact" is wrong. I do have something to worry about, and that is the CCTV being abused by those who operate them, be it the low payed laborers who watch them or their superiors.
With the greatest of respect, that argument is completely irrelevant. It concerns the fact that CCTV may be used (and abused) by human beings, particularly when they're in arse-covering mode.
But anything may be abused in that way. Look at the Internet, for example. That's a prime example of a neutral medium being used for good purposes, and bad purposes (I won't go into specifics here, you know the drill). In other words, the CCTV medium is neutral. It is how it is used that is the problem, and I believe that if we were to cancel CCTV projects because they have the potential to be misused, it sets an awful precedent. Are we to then ban books, as people may use them for malicious purposes? Perhaps it'd be more convenient just to get rid of all the humans on the earth. That would make things far simpler.
By no means am I condoning the misuse of such systems. I just think that, in this case, the benefits far outweigh the potential for misuse.
It happens in the UK too: disgruntled motorists (read: Daily Express readers) have been known to try to destroy speed cameras, and then be absolutely shocked to be prosecuted for vandalism. Even more shocked when they discover that the speed camera they were trying to break actually captured pictures of them.
That's Britain for you.
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But what if some idiot rams into your car, with airbag/pointy spike fitted, in a car which has no airbag/pointy spike fitted? It would reverse the process of natural selection entirely, interfering with evolution. Which would be very dangerous.
But surely if she considers it irresponsible, she shouldn't do it, EVEN if it is not specifically illegal?
In my experience, this is how people carry out such short conversations.
Party 'B': Hello, B speaking.
Party 'A': Hello, it's me.
Party 'B': Hello, A.
Party 'A': Whereabouts are you?
Party 'B': I'm just walking past the music shop opposite the church. Where are you?
Party 'A':I'm walking past the hotel. I'll meet you at the swimming pool.
Party 'B': OK, see you later. Goodbye.
In that case, how long would it be since I get a text reading
And in that case, WTF is wrong with just making a phone call?
The law in the UK covers 'reckless' driving 'without due care and attention'. However, the problem there is to clarify what 'due care and attention' is. Some think that they can still provide due care and attention with a handheld phone call - or eating a cream cake while they're driving.
Then again, maybe natural selection is a good thing.
despite some near-accidents
Enough said.
Also, just because someone hasn't had an accident in the past, it doesn't mean they won't have an accident in the future.
...a stuffed toy penguin with a badge reading "Don't fear me"?
...as I type, the full programme from which the interview is sourced is on BBC Two until 8pm. It's hosted by Fiona Bruce and is called How a Geek Changed the World. It'll shortly be available on the BBC iPlayer, alternatively I'm sure some kind Beastmaster-lover (or hater) with a TV capture card will upload it to YouTube in good time.
This is hardly new technology. Isn't 'deep zooming' what I've been brought up to know as... well... 'zooming'?
I believe there was a demo, around a year ago, that Steve Jobs did at WWDC to demonstrate how Mac OS X had new 64-bit exploitation abilities in Leopard. If I remember correctly, he brought up two copies of the same image, to do a 'race' (32-bit vs. 64-bit). It was a wide shot of a chamber in the Library of Congress, and it was sufficiently detailed that one could zoom in and read the labels on the spines.
Now, with this, Jobs was demonstrating that the technology to zoom in to such hi-res images has been around for ages. It's hardly new technology.
It was - it was almost as buggy as one of the betas, or perhaps 10.0.
I highly doubt it'll be called 'Snow Leopard' - Apple has registered the trademarks 'Cougar' and 'Lynx'. I have doubts about Lynx, because there is already LynxOS, and Lynx deodorant.
I also highly doubt they'll be abandoning PowerPC entirely yet. We'll probably see G4 support being dropped, but I highly doubt Apple would make such a rushed transition.
I recall being taught about fractions in Year 2 (when I was around 6 or 7). I've no idea how the UK education system (the one I'm native to) corresponds to the US grading system, but I think it'd be somewhere between first and third grade.
While some points made are valid (eg portage, along with most other package managers sucks, and Gentoo's management is inefficient) it seems like the distro is completely misguided.
If anything, we need to be focusing on user-friendly *nixes, not developer torture - less still something more hellish than Gentoo. If someone desperately wants a system like this, they can read LFS. Or strip down a Gentoo install. That way, they're also more likely to get something that's more suited to their needs. And isn't written by someone who looks like they'd happily eat n00b stew for lunch.
I have to agree with you there. True, I do send text messages, emails and use Twitter, but I still use paper mail, and telephony (be it via VoIP or an old-fashioned phone). And I steadfastly refuse to use anything like Spazbook or Myface. What the point of them actually is remains a mystery to me.
I don't condemn people who don't use the above technologies. It's their own decision.
True, I tell them about the benefits of having an e-mail address (instant-ish delivery, free), but I don't condemn them for not having one.
It's good that Asus is pushing Linux harder, but the Eee PC's default Linux is, in my view, awful. It's based on Xandros, which sucks anyway, but the OS just stinks of being unfinished.
Asus really need to create something more polished if it's going to become mainstream.
I'm tempted to suggest that they should go and run fsck -f /, but that joke is probably so old that I would get metamodded into karmaic oblivion.
True, GNOME is quite nice, and WLM is rather bloated, but at least it doesn't have text overflowing out of text labels or badly-proportioned icons.
The problem isn't with Pidgin's look, it's Pidgin's layout. It's totally awful, disobeying just about every UI convention out there. True, it has improved lately, but it still sucks.
A major problem with almost every FOSS UI is that, by default, it uses Bitstream Vera or DejaVu Sans as their system fonts. Both are awful and spindly at low sizes and messy and sprawling when blown up. The first thing I do with any new system is to swap such abominations for FreeSans.
There are a few decent KDE apps, such as konsole and ktechlab, but mostly, they suck. That's why M$ might be deterred from taking advice from certain FOSS developers when it comes to UIs. They've made a good choice with Blender, because that's very good, but don't expect this to become commonplace if certain FOSS UIs continue to suck as much as they do.
Really? Looking at how awful and ugly some OSS user interfaces are (see Pidgin as a prime example, or KDE4 - yuck!) I can see why M$ wouldn't be seen dead letting the open-source community fiddle with the Windows interface. True, things like the glassy window borders are pointless, but at least it's mostly aesthetically pleasing, and a lot cleaner and more intuitive than anything written in Qt.
Yes, but surely a bug is a bug? Whether it's a broken readdir() function in a certain sequence or a critical security flaw with SSH, it boils down, at code level, to being an oversight or typo by the programmer, which may be almost invisible when skimming through it in SVN or an IDE. Simple as.
However, considering that it was two years and that this is such an important part of the system, perhaps some should consider setting up "code patrols" - ie someone roots through all the code and gives it the once over every month or so, and pulls out or fixes any bugs or vulnerabilities. Especially with important things like SSH, this might be very useful.
Is this seeded or unseeded?
Hang on. There was a story here the other day about a bug in BSD that had been carried down to all its descendants (FreeBSD, OS X, NetBSD etc) for twenty-five years without anyone noticing. Two years is nothing.
Remember, though, that the idea of the 'digital life hub' was still in its infancy in 2000. Although the iMac DV was more suited to video use, it was still mostly targeted at families, children, and those in higher education, who wanted a machine they could realistically save up for within less than a year, was easy to use, ready to start work immediately, and - most importantly - write their documents (letters, homework, dissertations etc). That's what most people expect a computer to do, and remember that Steve Jobs was still trying to convince other tech companies to partner with him in his 'digital lifestyle' idea.
As it happens, they didn't. And Apple are no worse off for it. Good on them.
I disagree. My 2000 iMac DV is running Tiger, which is still supported well. Quarterly security updates are still released.
The only problem the machine's ever given me is that its old AirPort card doesn't like WPA2 networks using AES encryption. Otherwise, it's still running perfectly. And quite well, considering it's had at least two previous owners. At times, it runs Tiger quicker than Vista runs on a brand-new £500 (~$1000) PC. But, then again, Vista sucks, so that's understandable.
The hockey puck was awful, yes, but in reality, recent Apple mice have become a lot better. The Mighty Mouse isn't bad at all (just needs a sleeve rubbing against the scroll wheel to clean it every few months) and the keyboard, in particular, is now a lot better. It's pretty too.
With the greatest of respect, that argument is completely irrelevant. It concerns the fact that CCTV may be used (and abused) by human beings, particularly when they're in arse-covering mode.
But anything may be abused in that way. Look at the Internet, for example. That's a prime example of a neutral medium being used for good purposes, and bad purposes (I won't go into specifics here, you know the drill). In other words, the CCTV medium is neutral. It is how it is used that is the problem, and I believe that if we were to cancel CCTV projects because they have the potential to be misused, it sets an awful precedent. Are we to then ban books, as people may use them for malicious purposes? Perhaps it'd be more convenient just to get rid of all the humans on the earth. That would make things far simpler.
By no means am I condoning the misuse of such systems. I just think that, in this case, the benefits far outweigh the potential for misuse.
It happens in the UK too: disgruntled motorists (read: Daily Express readers) have been known to try to destroy speed cameras, and then be absolutely shocked to be prosecuted for vandalism. Even more shocked when they discover that the speed camera they were trying to break actually captured pictures of them.
That's Britain for you.