Comment Re:Sweet spot (Score 1) 1027
Every time a Steam game has asked me for a CD-Key the little Steam overlay has always been there providing it exactly when it was needed.
Sometimes it's even pre-filled-in. Neat.
Every time a Steam game has asked me for a CD-Key the little Steam overlay has always been there providing it exactly when it was needed.
Sometimes it's even pre-filled-in. Neat.
how about electronic life? we know electricity can effect certain types of crystal growth, how about an electro-chemical beast that is something like self-modifying circuitry with switching elements and substrate that can be grown or re-absorbed based on current ebb and flow.
Well, they wouldn't be "ugly bags of mostly water."
I am using the new Steam UI, and it does not have this issue. All the font rendering is unsmoothed.
Hi, I am the Historian from the Future.
I've travelled to the past to tell you that no one in my time cares about your websites.
So? Nobody's going to care about Obama's election campaign 50 years from now, just like nobody cares about FDR's election campaign - other than the fact "he won" and he promised "change" from the Hoover's failed policies.
Those darn Celerons, good for a short burst, but then rapidly tail off to be breakfast.
A sense of purpose is a hard thing to pin down and a hard thing to maintain for a free thinking being. I think its true that purpose and need for survival are inextricably linked.
How about a declaration that within a decade we'll have a space infrastructure that can actually support multiple goals at once, including LEO tourism, NEO mining, a Mars and Moon landing, and deep space exploration. Not saying NASA shouldn't be doing pure science, but I feel we're to the point now where the infrastructure is more important, at least if we ever want space exploration and exploitation to become commonplace.
Of course, that is essentially what the White House's new innitiative is saying, they just haven't thrown enough money at it to make it happen.
I'm sorry Mr. Coward, but you clearly lack the power to control that famous quote.
When you abandon satellite, fuel tanks or anything else in the space, why not just push it floating further away in space? Let some aliens take care of them.
Why should the foreigners have all the fun? And rather than pushing them into space, do what has been done for years -- push it towards earth and let it burn up in the atmosphere. Ten or so years ago I saw a remarkable a spectacular bright green shooting star, which I found out a few days later was a piece of space junk with a lot of copper the Russians had discarded from MIR. I'm all for space junk buring in the atmosphere, it's really a sight from earth.
Yes. Rules like this probably reflect the difficulty of the issue. And when Microsoft was under scrutiny in the US, they claimed that the "browser is an integral part of the operating system". I.e. they put technical reasons forward.
Except there was a bit of wool-pulling there: the html rendering and http components may have been integral to the OS, but removing the IE "front end" - which is what competes with Firefox, Opera et. al. - is a cinch.
But the decision is artificially constrained by the exclusivity of the deal. It's anti-competitive.
...but that's not a problem with OEM bundling per se. PCs have come with bundled operating systems since the year dot. If a particular OS producer says to PC manufacturers "we won't license our OS to you at a competitive price if you also offer bare PCs or competing OSs" then you're back to antitrust law. (IANAL but I'm pretty sure that's never been legal - the problem is getting it enforced!)
If they ever achieve monopoly, I bet we will see them arguing "MacOS is an integral part of the Apple computer".
Well, it is: Windows minus IE is still Windows; a Mac minus Mac OS is just a generic PC in a designer case.
However, if Apple wanted a Mac monopoly they'd probably have to unbundle somewhere along the line anyway in order to offer a comprehensive range of hardware choices: their current bundling strategy makes perfect sense for a niche premium-priced laptop, SFF & workstation market. Currently, they seem happy there.
There are still major restrictions such as the AppStore.
The AppStore may be restrictive, but its also bootstrapped a largely new arm of the software industry. Its certainly not very Free As In Speech but it seems to have given a lot of small developers easy access to a huge market. Anyway - I see the App store as a temporary measure while mobile internet connections evolve: once you have dependable, always on mobile internet, browser-based "cloud" applications make so much more sense. Currently, if I want to run my own software on an iPhone, the best bet is to write it in AJAX and host it on my home server (which probably means it will work on Android, Palm, Nokia...).
My solution is to use free software (i.e. GNU/Linux, Amarok, Okular, Gwenview,
Until the EU demands that linux distros have a choice screen... "Do you want VIM or EMACS?", "Do you want to use LaTeX, DocBook, nroff...", "OpenOffice or KOffice or ABiword", "Amarok or Rhythmbox", "PHP, Perl or Python..."
(Yes, that's silly for all sorts of reasons, but be careful what you wish for because the EU and the DOJ are not particularly strong on common sense...)
A lot of "operating systems" store passwords, with badly written applications. Go take a look at "The-25-Most-Dangerous-Programming-Errors" thread a few days ago on Slashdot, and the long thread I started there about how most setups of Subversion store your passwords in cleartext, on the server for svnserve, and on the UNIX and Linux clients for svnserver, HTTP, HTTPS, and some SSH access.
So how many miles per unit of coal do you get then?
There are many places and times where you get infinite miles per unit of coal. It remains a bad idea.
Photoshop 1.0 actually ran on a B&W Mac? Seriously? What's the point in that?
Photoshop was made for the needs of the publishing industry, not specifically photographers. Photographers would want precision and fidelity at every turn, which would definitely limit the program's usefulness, but printers just care that photographs get printed to the paper in a way that it still looks good. In 1990, most of newspapers were black and white. Heck, in 2010, a lot of newspapers are still black and white - printing in one ink is cheaper than printing in four.
If you want to process photographs for black and white newspaper, all you need is the ability to touch up greyscale images - or, you can scan in colour photographs, and process individual components, as long as the end result is represented in greyscale. Going from greyscale to B/W, you get dithering on screen, and you want halftones on final printed page.
Obviously there's much use for graphics editing on B/W, even when the application is obviously not as capable as the current programs.
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
