Myth: Publicly releasing open source code will attract flurries of patches and new contributors. Myth: Stopping new development for weeks or months to fix bugs is the best way to produce stable, polished software. Myth: New developers interested in the project will best learn the project by fixing bugs and reading the source code. Myth: Installation and configuration aren't as important as making the source available. Myth: Bad or unappealing code or projects should be thrown away completely. Myth: It's better to provide a framework for lots of people to solve lots of problems than to solve only one problem well. Myth: Even though your previous code was buggy, undocumented, hard to maintain, or slow, your next attempt will be perfect. Myth: Warnings are just warnings. They're not errors and no one really cares about them. Myth: Users don't mind upgrading to the latest version from CVS for a bugfix or a long-awaited feature.
but wouldn't Thermal Imaging would be too confusing to superpose over the regular picture ? and it would normally not correspond to the pictures we are used to see... ie a recently parked car would "shine" while a car parked a while ago would be dark
On the other hand the flaring problem would be solved
This would probably increase the usage of Helmets, if only for the coolness factor of a HUD.
Other ideas:
- The helmet should also play mp3 and display the song at the bottom or top each time it changes (tho this could be distracting, and the RIAA would oppose it;)
- 0 Lux camera to superpose picture at night to improve visibility on highways and blacktops. But with enough intelligence to supress the flaring of incoming vehicle
- SMS !! So you can get localized spam from nearby stops and restaurants (joke)
BTW: no bikers i know would even want to know/care the speed and deceleration of their heads hitting pavement. I believe the whole point of riding a bike is not to crash;)
The NSA is doing something smart. BUT wouldn't OSS be a better way to go ? and... after finally deciding on using commercial software, isnt it ironic that the NSA is using Canadian software for this ? so not only commercial but foreign
That is in fact, EXCATLY what happened to me. I was about to paste the address when i thouhgt, well what if they are monitoring the logs as we speak.
Since i am not an American BUT i travel a lot to the us for business the possibility of entry denial by immigrations was too expensive for me to risk it.
i could use a string of proxies, but it was too much trouble for sightseeing.
You have a laptop with a thin, ultra portable 10x12 form factor (ie 15 inch display)... and suddenly you open (unfold) the screen upwards or sideways (maybe both ? like landscape/portrait modes) and end up with a 23.5 inch Screen in a ultra-portable !!
i'd say its sweet...
Obviously if you think about it from the desktop point of view its pretty useless, unless you travel with your desktop a lot, like to lan-parties, but that would make it an extremely small market to recoup the r&d.
There are lots of apps to resize the XP ntfs partition, safer and easier to use than the ntfsresize app. Like Partition Magic or Partition Manager, or this freeware one: http://www.ranish.com/part/
It was not bad logic at all, your example should be: We live on planet earth, there are astronomically more planets than earth, therefore on some other planet people like us live (not probably, since the aggregate of that 0.000000001% chance in zillion zillion zillions of planets IS 1) and of course you could also add that in some those zillion planets of people like is us, they have slashdot too and are discussing a similar article.
Its analogous to the infinte monkeys/infinte typrewriters... which is obviously exactly the same as one monkey/one typewriter/infinte time.
In this case its similar to the second case, as no matter how small the probability is now, in the time that will take the human race to extinct ourselves;) a matrix like sim is 100% likely to happen.
Keeping a ship still in one place is an INCEDIBLY hard thing to do needing specialized engines pointing in all directions and a computer control. Sadly none of this is equiped on an aircraft carrier which is designed for exactly the opposite, keep moving fast to help planes take off and land.
Keeping a ship this big in a same spot is even harder beacause it sits quite high on the water and all that metal surfaces act as huge sails moving the ship.
Another idea could be to place some buoys hooked to the cable with microwave anteannae pointed to the ship (everywhere around actually, like an omni anntenna), that way the carrier would be able to move a bit, and rotate with the wind, and still manange to get some antennas pointed to the buoys.
OMG, Seriously ? somthing has got to be wrong in the world when 70-80% of 300M wants to go to war. And i also mean the ppl who gave them reson to want to go to war.
I don't believe that wars abroad have anything to do with "national defense". So called "surgical-strikes" maybe, all-out war, never.
What i find amazing about this post-war time is the absolute news silence about post war irak, it is like it has literallly vanished from the globe. It went from being on CNN 24-7 to 0-0. Where are the WMD ? What was the total civilian toll ? What was the civilian cost ? Who's rebuilding? Who's in charge now ?
Don't get me wrong, i like the US, i am not a stupid fanatic or anything, i drive an american car, i am wearing american clothes, i have american friends (close ones), and i go there a few times a year. But i believe that this war was wrong, it gave american haters everywhere a union they never had, hell it even almost made you feel sorry for Saddam (almost because no sane person can feel sorry for that bastard).
The government should also provide health and education which i think are "higher" purposes for that kind of money
I don't live anywhere near the US so i couldn't care less in what they do with their money domestically, as long as it is constructive. I will still bitch as hell if they spending tapping into emails that happen to go thru the us en-route to/from japan or europe.
I am sure, however, that the american ppl would rather spend it to improve their lives rather than invading irak.
Ohh you unparalleled genuious of superior intellect, did it ever ocurr in that all knowing mind that i OWN a digital LCD and KNOW what i am talking about ?
There are both analog and digital LCDS, there is no way to tell them apart by the picture.
There is no signal degradadation on digital links using perfect mediums of connection (like that exists) even fiber needs repeaters and boosters.
Just think of what good could've come out of spending that money instead of just attacking irak. Ahh well... when will governments learn that is OUR money that they are spending not theirs. What would you rather have, a Saddam free irak and have him roaming planning for revenge or have almost free (i don't think 100% free is good) medicine for everyone in the us who needs it ?
Anyway, whew on those 100 billion, considering that Saddam snuck away close to 1 billion i was thinking maybe he could build a couple of these and detonate the nukes in the US.
I wonder what this neutrino shower would do to a nuclear reactor. I mean, if it affects the core of a bomb it sure as hell can affect the rods in a reactor.
When all "design" magazines and sites show pc/notebook workareas completely uncluttered by ungainly cables ?
How realistic is that ? my pc has at least 10 cables shooting out of it and my monitor has at least 4 (it has a usb hub built into its base). They look like spaghetti.
Looking at this chair just made it even funnier... i don't think they built special cases for those monitors with the cables shooting out inside the red tube... and that would make the monitor cable a few meters longer than the usual, degrading image quality.
That is SOME expert ! does this "expert" know than more than 1/2 of the world population hasn't ever seen/used a telephone ? Picture that for a sec. PLEASE ! what could such a person care about what the MPAA does or says he never saw any movie and he never will. Let's keep american legislature focused on its impact on the american people, and those countries that seem to follow suit in this laws (uk,autralia)
I can't believe this guys have given the basis to dismiss all future lawsuits against p2p services. They themselves have shown that the p2p services have, at least, the legal use of contacting ppl breaking the law and "warning" (ok, threaten) them.
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Myth: Publicly releasing open source code will attract flurries of patches and new contributors.
;D
Myth: Stopping new development for weeks or months to fix bugs is the best way to produce stable, polished software.
Myth: New developers interested in the project will best learn the project by fixing bugs and reading the source code.
Myth: Installation and configuration aren't as important as making the source available.
Myth: Bad or unappealing code or projects should be thrown away completely.
Myth: It's better to provide a framework for lots of people to solve lots of problems than to solve only one problem well.
Myth: Even though your previous code was buggy, undocumented, hard to maintain, or slow, your next attempt will be perfect.
Myth: Warnings are just warnings. They're not errors and no one really cares about them.
Myth: Users don't mind upgrading to the latest version from CVS for a bugfix or a long-awaited feature.
For explanations of each RTFA
OSS or not, i report ALL bugs i find. At least the first times. If i keep reporting them or not depends on the attitude of the developers.
...)
I've had good experiences with smoothwall, emule mods, azureus, and believe it or not Windows. (i am a MS beta tester
but wouldn't Thermal Imaging would be too confusing to superpose over the regular picture ? and it would normally not correspond to the pictures we are used to see ... ie a recently parked car would "shine" while a car parked a while ago would be dark
On the other hand the flaring problem would be solved
This would probably increase the usage of Helmets, if only for the coolness factor of a HUD.
;)
;)
Other ideas:
- The helmet should also play mp3 and display the song at the bottom or top each time it changes (tho this could be distracting, and the RIAA would oppose it
- 0 Lux camera to superpose picture at night to improve visibility on highways and blacktops. But with enough intelligence to supress the flaring of incoming vehicle
- SMS !! So you can get localized spam from nearby stops and restaurants (joke)
BTW: no bikers i know would even want to know/care the speed and deceleration of their heads hitting pavement. I believe the whole point of riding a bike is not to crash
I took them this long to shift from copyrights violators to actual, real theft.
Kudos ! Its nice to see them focusing on "real" crime with "real" victims, with tangible losses for a change.
ROFL ... VERY good point. I guess crypto export regulations bit them in the ass huh ? :)
The NSA is doing something smart. BUT wouldn't OSS be a better way to go ? and ... after finally deciding on using commercial software, isnt it ironic that the NSA is using Canadian software for this ? so not only commercial but foreign
OOPS, now why didn't I push preview ? well, you know what i meant
Yes BUT those are not red flagged as "terrorist" sites while slashdot is not.
That is in fact, EXCATLY what happened to me. I was about to paste the address when i thouhgt, well what if they are monitoring the logs as we speak.
Since i am not an American BUT i travel a lot to the us for business the possibility of entry denial by immigrations was too expensive for me to risk it.
i could use a string of proxies, but it was too much trouble for sightseeing.
The land of the free indeed.
I meant VERISIGN and not Verio
And SITEFINDER instead of seeker. dammit
Now why didn't i pressed preview ?
Yes, unless your site gets knocked down (or something stupider, its mistyped) and you get verio's siteseeker page instead :) so, no 404 there !
... think about it this way ...
...
You have a laptop with a thin, ultra portable 10x12 form factor (ie 15 inch display)... and suddenly you open (unfold) the screen upwards or sideways (maybe both ? like landscape/portrait modes) and end up with a 23.5 inch Screen in a ultra-portable !!
i'd say its sweet
Obviously if you think about it from the desktop point of view its pretty useless, unless you travel with your desktop a lot, like to lan-parties, but that would make it an extremely small market to recoup the r&d.
There are lots of apps to resize the XP ntfs partition, safer and easier to use than the ntfsresize app. Like Partition Magic or Partition Manager, or this freeware one: http://www.ranish.com/part/
I don't know why he went to all that trouble
Trillian has had SecureIM over the ICQ protocol for AGES.
:)
I never realized that would make it an illegal product to use in some states
almost nothing has 0 probability.
It was not bad logic at all, your example should be: We live on planet earth, there are astronomically more planets than earth, therefore on some other planet people like us live (not probably, since the aggregate of that 0.000000001% chance in zillion zillion zillions of planets IS 1) and of course you could also add that in some those zillion planets of people like is us, they have slashdot too and are discussing a similar article.
... which is obviously exactly the same as one monkey/one typewriter/infinte time.
;) a matrix like sim is 100% likely to happen.
Its analogous to the infinte monkeys/infinte typrewriters
In this case its similar to the second case, as no matter how small the probability is now, in the time that will take the human race to extinct ourselves
A good idea, but only for satellite internet.
Keeping a ship still in one place is an INCEDIBLY hard thing to do needing specialized engines pointing in all directions and a computer control. Sadly none of this is equiped on an aircraft carrier which is designed for exactly the opposite, keep moving fast to help planes take off and land.
Keeping a ship this big in a same spot is even harder beacause it sits quite high on the water and all that metal surfaces act as huge sails moving the ship.
Another idea could be to place some buoys hooked to the cable with microwave anteannae pointed to the ship (everywhere around actually, like an omni anntenna), that way the carrier would be able to move a bit, and rotate with the wind, and still manange to get some antennas pointed to the buoys.
OMG, Seriously ? somthing has got to be wrong in the world when 70-80% of 300M wants to go to war. And i also mean the ppl who gave them reson to want to go to war.
I don't believe that wars abroad have anything to do with "national defense". So called "surgical-strikes" maybe, all-out war, never.
What i find amazing about this post-war time is the absolute news silence about post war irak, it is like it has literallly vanished from the globe. It went from being on CNN 24-7 to 0-0. Where are the WMD ? What was the total civilian toll ? What was the civilian cost ? Who's rebuilding? Who's in charge now ?
Don't get me wrong, i like the US, i am not a stupid fanatic or anything, i drive an american car, i am wearing american clothes, i have american friends (close ones), and i go there a few times a year. But i believe that this war was wrong, it gave american haters everywhere a union they never had, hell it even almost made you feel sorry for Saddam (almost because no sane person can feel sorry for that bastard).
The government should also provide health and education which i think are "higher" purposes for that kind of money
I don't live anywhere near the US so i couldn't care less in what they do with their money domestically, as long as it is constructive. I will still bitch as hell if they spending tapping into emails that happen to go thru the us en-route to/from japan or europe.
I am sure, however, that the american ppl would rather spend it to improve their lives rather than invading irak.
Ohh you unparalleled genuious of superior intellect, did it ever ocurr in that all knowing mind that i OWN a digital LCD and KNOW what i am talking about ?
There are both analog and digital LCDS, there is no way to tell them apart by the picture.
There is no signal degradadation on digital links using perfect mediums of connection (like that exists) even fiber needs repeaters and boosters.
Sadly, there is nothing funny about that.
... when will governments learn that is OUR money that they are spending not theirs. What would you rather have, a Saddam free irak and have him roaming planning for revenge or have almost free (i don't think 100% free is good) medicine for everyone in the us who needs it ?
Just think of what good could've come out of spending that money instead of just attacking irak. Ahh well
Anyway, whew on those 100 billion, considering that Saddam snuck away close to 1 billion i was thinking maybe he could build a couple of these and detonate the nukes in the US.
I wonder what this neutrino shower would do to a nuclear reactor. I mean, if it affects the core of a bomb it sure as hell can affect the rods in a reactor.
When all "design" magazines and sites show pc/notebook workareas completely uncluttered by ungainly cables ?
... i don't think they built special cases for those monitors with the cables shooting out inside the red tube ... and that would make the monitor cable a few meters longer than the usual, degrading image quality.
... marketing ppl, gotta love'em
How realistic is that ? my pc has at least 10 cables shooting out of it and my monitor has at least 4 (it has a usb hub built into its base). They look like spaghetti.
Looking at this chair just made it even funnier
ahhh
That is SOME expert ! does this "expert" know than more than 1/2 of the world population hasn't ever seen/used a telephone ? Picture that for a sec.
PLEASE ! what could such a person care about what the MPAA does or says he never saw any movie and he never will.
Let's keep american legislature focused on its impact on the american people, and those countries that seem to follow suit in this laws (uk,autralia)
ROFL you are absolutely right. I stand corrected.
I can't believe this guys have given the basis to dismiss all future lawsuits against p2p services. They themselves have shown that the p2p services have, at least, the legal use of contacting ppl breaking the law and "warning" (ok, threaten) them.