So this is what all those fancy 3D desktops are good for. Just set wobbliness and fuzzy effects to max and no one will be able to make sense of what is going on on your screen (including you - trust no one).
Yes, let us put young people in jail for listening to music that they wouldn't have bought anyway. That must surely teach them to respect the righteousness of the law.
This company makes a metaphor about tubes, and suddenly it is news as if Ted Stevens' assertion might perhaps have been correct all along. But a user interface metaphor including tubes doesn't mean the internet is a series of them.
In fact, I have an application where I drop files onto a duck (Cyberduck widget for Mac OS X), with the result that they are transferred to someplace else, but still the internet is not a series of ducks (I hope).
From TFA:
"Unbelievable as it seems, he was in the bidding to buy his own stolen GPS,'' Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. From ebay.com:
Shill bidding is when a seller - or someone associated with a seller - bids on that seller's own item. These bids artificially increase the price or desirability of the item, and damage buyers' faith in the integrity and fairness of the marketplace. Shill Bidding is not allowed on eBay.
What is the very essence of human civilization? What is our culture? I would say that the spoken and written language is at the very heart of things, if not the most important aspect. As such it should be free for anyone to use for any purpose.
Sure, small tribe stand up against the shade business practitioners that is Microsoft. You really *want* to be on the side of the tribe, but this time I think they are wrong. Besides, I don't think they would really care if someone else used their language, someone who doesn't have a boatload of money that is.
Well, the dinosaurs appeared about 230 million years ago, primates some 60 million years ago. I would say 5 billion years are plenty of time for a new space faring species to evolve.
Well, that depends on what your expectations for the future are. I don't think it is impossible that demands on multimedia will reach high enough sometime. Let us as an example consider a movie file from the Future (tm). Given better and bigger screens (perhaps covering whole walls) a frame dimension of 3000 x 2000 pixels is not inconceivable. Each pixel might consist of three RGB values of 16 bits each. Such a movie, if two hours long and running with 25 frames / second, would require about 6.5 TB in raw format.
framedimensions = 3000 x 2000 framebytes = framedimensions x 6 moviebytes = framebytes x 25 x 60 x 120
So the solution is to limit the storage capacity of computers, to ease the work of keeping data organized? Wow, why didn't anyone think of that when we had 500 MB hard disks? Organizing data would be a breeze for us now; but no, instead we are stuck with our large capacity systems.
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It doesn't look like the same person anymore, but a completely different person with a different face while keeping the same hair and clothes.
Why did you think the room is locked?
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
That's the point of the "terrorist attack" code. Terrorists use it to create havoc, panic and destruction.
Just throw this into the kernel and we are good to go.
247 lawsuits filed against a Mr. Anonymous Coward for postings causing "immense amounts of frustration and emotional distress".
I'm sure there are places where it's more like 40-60.
Besides, it's only hilarious until the incompetency hits you in the face.
Which means that you are either Irish or play too much World of Warcraft.
Well, yes. The greens will not accept being murdered by anything as environmentally unfriendly as Polonium-210, thank you very much.
So this is what all those fancy 3D desktops are good for. Just set wobbliness and fuzzy effects to max and no one will be able to make sense of what is going on on your screen (including you - trust no one).
I beg to differ, for the majority of Slashdot readers the 70s were a long long time ago.
Yes, let us put young people in jail for listening to music that they wouldn't have bought anyway. That must surely teach them to respect the righteousness of the law.
Just stop injecting medkits you find lying around in some random alley and you will be fine.
Who will now protect us from the evil Dr. Copyleft?!
Look how many MegaMirrors my new camera has!
This company makes a metaphor about tubes, and suddenly it is news as if Ted Stevens' assertion might perhaps have been correct all along. But a user interface metaphor including tubes doesn't mean the internet is a series of them.
In fact, I have an application where I drop files onto a duck (Cyberduck widget for Mac OS X), with the result that they are transferred to someplace else, but still the internet is not a series of ducks (I hope).
It was a joke (and apparently a bad one).
Ever heard of those computers that come pre-loaded with a ROM containing only Microsoft Bob and a web browser?
Well... me neither, but it doesn't hurt to be prepared.
It means that they have fewer tubes.
What is the very essence of human civilization? What is our culture? I would say that the spoken and written language is at the very heart of things, if not the most important aspect. As such it should be free for anyone to use for any purpose.
Sure, small tribe stand up against the shade business practitioners that is Microsoft. You really *want* to be on the side of the tribe, but this time I think they are wrong. Besides, I don't think they would really care if someone else used their language, someone who doesn't have a boatload of money that is.
Well, the dinosaurs appeared about 230 million years ago, primates some 60 million years ago. I would say 5 billion years are plenty of time for a new space faring species to evolve.
Well, that depends on what your expectations for the future are. I don't think it is impossible that demands on multimedia will reach high enough sometime. Let us as an example consider a movie file from the Future (tm). Given better and bigger screens (perhaps covering whole walls) a frame dimension of 3000 x 2000 pixels is not inconceivable. Each pixel might consist of three RGB values of 16 bits each. Such a movie, if two hours long and running with 25 frames / second, would require about 6.5 TB in raw format.
framedimensions = 3000 x 2000
framebytes = framedimensions x 6
moviebytes = framebytes x 25 x 60 x 120
moviebytes / 10^12 ~= 6.5
So the solution is to limit the storage capacity of computers, to ease the work of keeping data organized? Wow, why didn't anyone think of that when we had 500 MB hard disks? Organizing data would be a breeze for us now; but no, instead we are stuck with our large capacity systems.