Although you're being funny, morebeer.com does sell conical fermenters for fermenting beer that are temperature controlled using peltiers. They are capable of getting the beer 30-40 degrees below ambient. So, I guess the answer to your question is kinda "yes".
This might be useful for concentrating the heat in one place. However, what about using that heat by attaching micro-sized stirling engines to generate electricity which could recharge the batteries of a laptop? That would be kinda like a hybrid laptop: recapturing the wasted energy from the inefficiencies of the processor. That's something I'd like to see.
I forgot to mention that the biggest feature of Aperture or Lightroom is the ability to make non-destructive edits. The original RAW file is left untouched and it is accompanied by a "recipe" that contains all of the changes to your image. You can cycle through your changes or revert back. Plus, it saves HD space by never duplicating the image.
It also allows you to rate your photos which is immensely important when you come back from a shoot with lots of photos. It also allows you to group and stack photos...their thumbnails are literally stacked and you can unstack them and restack them, along with promoting photos within a stack. A file manager is no substitute for a photo manager when you are a photographer.
The article is totally bogus. I went out to the parking lot on my lunch break and blew a load into the gas tank of my camry. The fuel gauge didn't change and the performance of the automobile didn't increase.
However, if I ever get stuck on the side of the road again without any gas, I guess it couldn't hurt to drain your nuts into your fuel tank. How many miles per load (MpL) can a '07 Camry get anyway? Will I need to schedule a bukkake if I want enough fuel to drive cross-country?
Sometimes science cums up big!
You are absolutely correct. In fact, NeXT was positioning OPENSTEP as what Java later turned out to be; write once, run anywhere. Actually, Sun was very interested in NeXT and included it in Solaris. However, a funny thing happened. About a year or two after Sun became involved in OPENSTEP, they dropped it and came out with their own environment called Java. Amazing to think how history might have changed if they stayed the course with OPENSTEP, rather than coming out with their own Java.
So, OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP/Cocoa/GNUstep are in no way tied to their BSD underpinnings, and have actually been implemented over other OSes.
UNIX is 1960s technology.... so what does that mean? The year a software product began development is irrelevant. The quality and throught they put into building a rock solid foundation are what matter. OpenStep/Cocoa and Objective-C are as rock-solid as the UNIX that it runs upon. Things like garbage collection, which have been added to Objective-C 2.0, are not critical to a good development platform, are mostly there for noobs IMHO (with the exception that it can be useful for highly threaded apps), and can always be added at a later date. The critical part of a development environment which must be there from day one is the development model and philosophy of the platform. That is where Cocoa and Objective-C shine, and that is why every cocoa developer that I know loves it.
You are completely missing the point. Their efforts are not to create a MacOS X skin, but rather an OS compatible with cocoa. From the developers perspective, if they can achieve near parity with the cocoa libraries (they already had a great start since they had OpenStep), then you can just recompile a MacOS X application to run on this GNUStep based OS. In my opinion, this represents a quantum leap in the opensource movement. Stop trying to copy the knuckleheads in Redmond, and start copying the guys in Cupertino.
If this project catches on, it could fuel development into the GNUStep libraries and be a huge boon to linux developers (that want a high-end and highly object oriented development environment), the Mac Community (because there would be more developers knowledgable about cocoa), Mac developers (because it could mean a painless port of their Mac app to linux) and all Mac and Linux users (because it could mean a more developed and application rich environment).
Let's hope this project gets embraced by the opensource community.
You do realize that the M$ demo was a fake, and that their "Surface" isn't capable of those features at this time. M$ admitted to this. The linux demo was a real demo. The iPhone is a real product. M$ is in fantasy land with a big useless table.
Actually M$ should stick to doing all their demos as fakes considering their bad track record of watching their stuff lockup or BSOD during real live demos.
I'm so sick of hearing that most users don't need anything greater than say a P3. That is bogus. Users today do more things with their computers than was done during P3's day. Today, people retouch photos and import them into a library with thousands of photos, they render home movies taken from their camcorder, they run movies (quicktime, flash, etc.) at hi resolutions and at full screen, they rip CDs, they sometimes rip DVDs, video teleconferencing, and so much more. Heck, you need a decent system to render most popular websites today.
Here's my generalization: Most slashdotters don't give "Joe Six-Pack" enough credit. He may not know how it works, but he uses more features than you think. The fact is that the software has gotten easier and more powerful, thus allowing people to use more and more features. To say that most users don't need anything more than 6 year old technology is insulting to software developers. It essentially is saying that these developers have been wasting their time for the past 6 years.
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I recall Steve Jobs claiming back in February that if iTunes Fairplay was cracked, they were under contract with the Record Labels to repair the crack within something like 24 hours. He used this as a reason why Apple couldn't license Fairplay to third-parties. Do you think M$ has a similar agreement? Maybe the Labels will have to wait until Patch Tuesday.
February 2007 after Steve Jobs' call to end DRM - Jobs is lying.. they would never agree to get rid of DRM because that would be against their business intersts in customer lock-in.
April 2007 after Steve Jobs announces Deal to drop DRM - They just read the tea leaves sooner than everyone else. This is not against their business model.
I disagree. It should be in M$' best interest to make great products that people want to buy, which includes allowing that web developer in your example to run his ASP.Net app on Apache. I hate to keep pointing out Apple, but look at the contrast. Apple gives the Webobjects developent environment for free with MacOS X, and once developed, it can be deployed on any Java server, including linux. They don't try to sell MacOS X servers buy requiring Webobjects to only run on MacOS X boxes. They try to sell their servers based upon their own merit. A company can operate this way and turn a nice profit.
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I just searched weepad through youtube... LOL....LOL...LOL
I doubt that this would be an issue for the average slashdot reader.
Agreed. They ought to start administering this to the whores.
pixel-lensing? Do they have this in a Canon EF mount?
Although you're being funny, morebeer.com does sell conical fermenters for fermenting beer that are temperature controlled using peltiers. They are capable of getting the beer 30-40 degrees below ambient. So, I guess the answer to your question is kinda "yes".
This might be useful for concentrating the heat in one place. However, what about using that heat by attaching micro-sized stirling engines to generate electricity which could recharge the batteries of a laptop? That would be kinda like a hybrid laptop: recapturing the wasted energy from the inefficiencies of the processor. That's something I'd like to see.
Did anyone else read the headline as Verified by Vista?
I forgot to mention that the biggest feature of Aperture or Lightroom is the ability to make non-destructive edits. The original RAW file is left untouched and it is accompanied by a "recipe" that contains all of the changes to your image. You can cycle through your changes or revert back. Plus, it saves HD space by never duplicating the image.
It also allows you to rate your photos which is immensely important when you come back from a shoot with lots of photos. It also allows you to group and stack photos...their thumbnails are literally stacked and you can unstack them and restack them, along with promoting photos within a stack. A file manager is no substitute for a photo manager when you are a photographer.
Now begins the lumens war.
The article is totally bogus. I went out to the parking lot on my lunch break and blew a load into the gas tank of my camry. The fuel gauge didn't change and the performance of the automobile didn't increase. However, if I ever get stuck on the side of the road again without any gas, I guess it couldn't hurt to drain your nuts into your fuel tank. How many miles per load (MpL) can a '07 Camry get anyway? Will I need to schedule a bukkake if I want enough fuel to drive cross-country? Sometimes science cums up big!
I could be wrong, but I think you're describing a thermocouple.
Didn't Al Gore already take credit for this?
You are absolutely correct. In fact, NeXT was positioning OPENSTEP as what Java later turned out to be; write once, run anywhere. Actually, Sun was very interested in NeXT and included it in Solaris. However, a funny thing happened. About a year or two after Sun became involved in OPENSTEP, they dropped it and came out with their own environment called Java. Amazing to think how history might have changed if they stayed the course with OPENSTEP, rather than coming out with their own Java.
So, OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP/Cocoa/GNUstep are in no way tied to their BSD underpinnings, and have actually been implemented over other OSes.
UNIX is 1960s technology.... so what does that mean? The year a software product began development is irrelevant. The quality and throught they put into building a rock solid foundation are what matter. OpenStep/Cocoa and Objective-C are as rock-solid as the UNIX that it runs upon. Things like garbage collection, which have been added to Objective-C 2.0, are not critical to a good development platform, are mostly there for noobs IMHO (with the exception that it can be useful for highly threaded apps), and can always be added at a later date. The critical part of a development environment which must be there from day one is the development model and philosophy of the platform. That is where Cocoa and Objective-C shine, and that is why every cocoa developer that I know loves it.
You are completely missing the point. Their efforts are not to create a MacOS X skin, but rather an OS compatible with cocoa. From the developers perspective, if they can achieve near parity with the cocoa libraries (they already had a great start since they had OpenStep), then you can just recompile a MacOS X application to run on this GNUStep based OS. In my opinion, this represents a quantum leap in the opensource movement. Stop trying to copy the knuckleheads in Redmond, and start copying the guys in Cupertino.
If this project catches on, it could fuel development into the GNUStep libraries and be a huge boon to linux developers (that want a high-end and highly object oriented development environment), the Mac Community (because there would be more developers knowledgable about cocoa), Mac developers (because it could mean a painless port of their Mac app to linux) and all Mac and Linux users (because it could mean a more developed and application rich environment).
Let's hope this project gets embraced by the opensource community.
You do realize that the M$ demo was a fake, and that their "Surface" isn't capable of those features at this time. M$ admitted to this. The linux demo was a real demo. The iPhone is a real product. M$ is in fantasy land with a big useless table.
Actually M$ should stick to doing all their demos as fakes considering their bad track record of watching their stuff lockup or BSOD during real live demos.
I can finally touch my pr0n.
I'm so sick of hearing that most users don't need anything greater than say a P3. That is bogus. Users today do more things with their computers than was done during P3's day. Today, people retouch photos and import them into a library with thousands of photos, they render home movies taken from their camcorder, they run movies (quicktime, flash, etc.) at hi resolutions and at full screen, they rip CDs, they sometimes rip DVDs, video teleconferencing, and so much more. Heck, you need a decent system to render most popular websites today. Here's my generalization: Most slashdotters don't give "Joe Six-Pack" enough credit. He may not know how it works, but he uses more features than you think. The fact is that the software has gotten easier and more powerful, thus allowing people to use more and more features. To say that most users don't need anything more than 6 year old technology is insulting to software developers. It essentially is saying that these developers have been wasting their time for the past 6 years.
I recall Steve Jobs claiming back in February that if iTunes Fairplay was cracked, they were under contract with the Record Labels to repair the crack within something like 24 hours. He used this as a reason why Apple couldn't license Fairplay to third-parties. Do you think M$ has a similar agreement? Maybe the Labels will have to wait until Patch Tuesday.
The FSF is starting to sound a lot like M$. Unsupported and undocumented software/license threats.
M$ software isn't even computer-ready?
Will it come in brown?
M$ Zealot Timeline
January 2007 - Apple is a DRM pushing monopoly
February 2007 after Steve Jobs' call to end DRM - Jobs is lying.. they would never agree to get rid of DRM because that would be against their business intersts in customer lock-in.
April 2007 after Steve Jobs announces Deal to drop DRM - They just read the tea leaves sooner than everyone else. This is not against their business model.
I disagree. It should be in M$' best interest to make great products that people want to buy, which includes allowing that web developer in your example to run his ASP.Net app on Apache. I hate to keep pointing out Apple, but look at the contrast. Apple gives the Webobjects developent environment for free with MacOS X, and once developed, it can be deployed on any Java server, including linux. They don't try to sell MacOS X servers buy requiring Webobjects to only run on MacOS X boxes. They try to sell their servers based upon their own merit. A company can operate this way and turn a nice profit.