Are people that desperate to have their smartphone on at all times that they need to harvest the energy their heart generates to power it? Maybe that's a little drastic, but they mentioned personal electronics. Do people really need to have their devices charged by blood flow? I understand pacemakers or things of that nature because they keep you alive. If it isn't necessary, why POWER it with YOUR HEART? The fact that people even thought that is a little appalling.
That's what I think first when I see stories like these. How are you going to get internet penetration when many people can barely afford the basic needs of a human? Honestly, lets think about food, water, AIDS, and regular communication before we think of internet connections. I understand that the internet is of great use to a society, but all of that money that you would need to spend to set up and maintain a telecommunication infrastructure could be better used.
Woo! For some reason when developments like this come out of a school you attend, a wave of pride just comes over you. They actually have an impressive solar array on top of the Student Center with a little terminal that reads out the power production. It's pretty nifty. I believe it's the biggest array in New Jersey. I'm glad they are making progress.
Now all they need to do is develop a way for girls to attend the school.
Most people are probably using Mozilla based FF/Galeon/Iceweasel/etc., but I would like to see how many are actually using things like Konqueror, Opera, lynx (maybe?), and other less commonly used browsers. It would just be an interesting figure. Of course, it wouldn't come close to reflecting real world usage.
Do people that use software, really pay attention to licenses? I mean, we as geeks do, but we are not the garden variety user. If you give Ubuntu to grandma she wont notice the transition from GPLv2 to GPLv3. The only people this really effects is developers.
Duh?
Why is this even news? Many music groups have one good song, and the rest of the album stinks. Most people that use the usual peer to peer networks download one song, and not entire albums. I perfer legal torrents because you get the album in just one convenient download. But I still perfer to buy my music in LP vinyl format.
I think they are concentrating a little too much on Africa's broadband penetration. I mean, they are having troubles with genocide and starvation which may be a little more important.
That's why I suggest everyone go back to vinyl. In all seriousness. Vinyl sounds better, because it's mastered better. I just purchased a mint condition copy of The Times they are a Changin by Bob Dylan record for 3$ and it sounds a lot better then the CD. The harmonica stands out over the guitar and vocals like it should. All these new "REMASTERED!!!11!" versions of new albums suck. Nothing beats hearing it like the artist originally intended.
My Index finger and Ring finger are the same size. My verbal score on my SAT was a 650 and my math score was a 620. According to this article, shouldn't my math have been the higher score?
I always considered HDMI a anti-consumer,DRM laden, proprietary, and expensive USB cord. What's wrong with DVI? It's more compatible and I don't believe it requires any licensing to use in a product. So I ask you again, what is wrong with DVI? Why is everyone so HDMI-centric?
Is this not a threat to U.S. Constitutional rights. A person should have the ability to tell others about a way (s)he learned to play something extremely similar to a song. It is not actually the song, as most tabs are not 100% accurate. Therefore it is just a song the themselves made up, but is heavily based on the song they were trying to copy. Even if there isn't enough of a difference to distinguish one from another, the tab is still the fruit of their labor, and thus should be shared at their own will.
Do you honostly trust big corporations implanting chips in your brain? I don't care what ability it gives me, that is just something that can be used to supress our rights further. I don't need to be on call 24/7, I check my email every other day, and if I'm deaf/blind I'll stick with the hearing aid and seeing eye dog. I grew up with technology, as most people did who read slashdot, however it is getting scary to see where it is going. It's getting too advanced for our own good. Pretty soon we are going to be dependant on technology for every day to day task that may depend on some outside service (power/network). That is the day I move to the middle of nowhere, build my own solar panel array, plow my own fields, and live a self sustaining life not dependant on outside services.
Why bother with the complexity of Gentoo or LFS. Just use Debian or Arch's (i686 optimized a.k.a Fast!] base install. That just installs the basic stuff to get the kernel, hardware, and their package manager to run. After that you can use apt-get [Debian] or pacman [arch] to install the bare essentials that you need. What I do is after the install finishes. I install Xorg then XFCE then all the other typical desktop apps. You'll have a bare minimum install that only takes 20 minutes to do as compared to a day or two with LFS and Gentoo.
I say we send one doctorate from every field to 40 Eridani A after it is discovered to be habitable. There they can edit The Great Wiki. and fill it with all the information in every field in all it's technical glory. Then we would have the ultimate source of knowladge forever perserved incase there is all out nuclear war/anarchy/Christianity on Earth.
I want to know what the big deal is between not using Linux because it has too many options. Majority of the distros are either based on Debian or Red Hat. I haven't seen software that only worked on one distro, and things like apt-get, yum, synaptic, and all the other package managers can be installed on most of the distros. That just doesn't seem like a valid reason to automatically dismiss any Linux solution. Just use one distro throughout the whole comapny, problem solved.
Estonia has a population of 1.3 million people. California has a population of 35+ million people. Even if it were still down to each state, America is on a scale too large for electronic election. Voting for a represetitive of an entire country that can change world history is the one thing I do not trust being done electronicaly.
What about PC-BSDs.pbi files? They work exactly the same way windows.exe or.msi files work. You just double click,they install, and you later have the option of going into a menu and uninstalling. They also use the ports system and so you have the big repository still at your finger tips. It's the best of both worlds in my opinion.
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Are people that desperate to have their smartphone on at all times that they need to harvest the energy their heart generates to power it? Maybe that's a little drastic, but they mentioned personal electronics. Do people really need to have their devices charged by blood flow? I understand pacemakers or things of that nature because they keep you alive. If it isn't necessary, why POWER it with YOUR HEART? The fact that people even thought that is a little appalling.
That's what I think first when I see stories like these. How are you going to get internet penetration when many people can barely afford the basic needs of a human? Honestly, lets think about food, water, AIDS, and regular communication before we think of internet connections. I understand that the internet is of great use to a society, but all of that money that you would need to spend to set up and maintain a telecommunication infrastructure could be better used.
Woo! For some reason when developments like this come out of a school you attend, a wave of pride just comes over you. They actually have an impressive solar array on top of the Student Center with a little terminal that reads out the power production. It's pretty nifty. I believe it's the biggest array in New Jersey. I'm glad they are making progress. Now all they need to do is develop a way for girls to attend the school.
Most people are probably using Mozilla based FF/Galeon/Iceweasel/etc., but I would like to see how many are actually using things like Konqueror, Opera, lynx (maybe?), and other less commonly used browsers. It would just be an interesting figure. Of course, it wouldn't come close to reflecting real world usage.
Yeah I didn't think that through. Grandma wouldn't be using samba, ever. It's not something for the lay person.
Do people that use software, really pay attention to licenses? I mean, we as geeks do, but we are not the garden variety user. If you give Ubuntu to grandma she wont notice the transition from GPLv2 to GPLv3. The only people this really effects is developers.
I wonder if it could withstand the Balmer Chair of Death. That would be the most impressive animal if it were living.
"Says me!" - The G-Man I'm a bit of a "prophet". I just don't think we should do things for the sole purpose of messing with nature.
Time to extract the DNA and impregnate an African elephant to mess with nature in a way we shouldn't.
Duh? Why is this even news? Many music groups have one good song, and the rest of the album stinks. Most people that use the usual peer to peer networks download one song, and not entire albums. I perfer legal torrents because you get the album in just one convenient download. But I still perfer to buy my music in LP vinyl format.
I think they are concentrating a little too much on Africa's broadband penetration. I mean, they are having troubles with genocide and starvation which may be a little more important.
That's why I suggest everyone go back to vinyl. In all seriousness. Vinyl sounds better, because it's mastered better. I just purchased a mint condition copy of The Times they are a Changin by Bob Dylan record for 3$ and it sounds a lot better then the CD. The harmonica stands out over the guitar and vocals like it should. All these new "REMASTERED!!!11!" versions of new albums suck. Nothing beats hearing it like the artist originally intended.
Wow, one graph per page. Why do PC reviews think spreading out the entire review on 20+ pages is such a good idea?
My Index finger and Ring finger are the same size. My verbal score on my SAT was a 650 and my math score was a 620. According to this article, shouldn't my math have been the higher score?
I always considered HDMI a anti-consumer,DRM laden, proprietary, and expensive USB cord. What's wrong with DVI? It's more compatible and I don't believe it requires any licensing to use in a product. So I ask you again, what is wrong with DVI? Why is everyone so HDMI-centric?
Is this not a threat to U.S. Constitutional rights. A person should have the ability to tell others about a way (s)he learned to play something extremely similar to a song. It is not actually the song, as most tabs are not 100% accurate. Therefore it is just a song the themselves made up, but is heavily based on the song they were trying to copy. Even if there isn't enough of a difference to distinguish one from another, the tab is still the fruit of their labor, and thus should be shared at their own will.
Do you honostly trust big corporations implanting chips in your brain? I don't care what ability it gives me, that is just something that can be used to supress our rights further. I don't need to be on call 24/7, I check my email every other day, and if I'm deaf/blind I'll stick with the hearing aid and seeing eye dog. I grew up with technology, as most people did who read slashdot, however it is getting scary to see where it is going. It's getting too advanced for our own good. Pretty soon we are going to be dependant on technology for every day to day task that may depend on some outside service (power/network). That is the day I move to the middle of nowhere, build my own solar panel array, plow my own fields, and live a self sustaining life not dependant on outside services.
Why bother with the complexity of Gentoo or LFS. Just use Debian or Arch's (i686 optimized a.k.a Fast!] base install. That just installs the basic stuff to get the kernel, hardware, and their package manager to run. After that you can use apt-get [Debian] or pacman [arch] to install the bare essentials that you need. What I do is after the install finishes. I install Xorg then XFCE then all the other typical desktop apps. You'll have a bare minimum install that only takes 20 minutes to do as compared to a day or two with LFS and Gentoo.
I say we send one doctorate from every field to 40 Eridani A after it is discovered to be habitable. There they can edit The Great Wiki. and fill it with all the information in every field in all it's technical glory. Then we would have the ultimate source of knowladge forever perserved incase there is all out nuclear war/anarchy/Christianity on Earth.
I want to know what the big deal is between not using Linux because it has too many options. Majority of the distros are either based on Debian or Red Hat. I haven't seen software that only worked on one distro, and things like apt-get, yum, synaptic, and all the other package managers can be installed on most of the distros. That just doesn't seem like a valid reason to automatically dismiss any Linux solution. Just use one distro throughout the whole comapny, problem solved.
Estonia has a population of 1.3 million people. California has a population of 35+ million people. Even if it were still down to each state, America is on a scale too large for electronic election. Voting for a represetitive of an entire country that can change world history is the one thing I do not trust being done electronicaly.
Sorry for replying to my own comment, but felt it was necessary. I should have including the link. Here you go: http://www.pbidir.com/
What about PC-BSDs .pbi files? They work exactly the same way windows .exe or .msi files work. You just double click,they install, and you later have the option of going into a menu and uninstalling. They also use the ports system and so you have the big repository still at your finger tips. It's the best of both worlds in my opinion.
It's the Schrödinger quantum procesor!
I could severly cut down on my bandwidth usage simply by going to http://www.slashdot.org/palm as opposed to the usual front page.