"duplicating the functionality"?! How can anyone put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write such utter nonsense? All other platforms have competing products that try to achieve the same or similar functionality in a better or different way, so does Apple really think their shit is going to fly? Do they think their users are idiots?
Yes, Xandros Linux on the Eee PC has an (Asus branded) application that interfaces with most Huawei dongles. I had it working for a week - works better than on Windows XP with the Huawei-bundled software, believe it or not.
Without external communications capabilities (e.g. WWVB or NTP), I guarantee you that this clock keeps more accurate time than any timepiece you've ever owned.
Citation needed. Tone down the karma-whoring hyperboles to yourselves and stick to what you KNOW to be a fact.
Last Friday I was using our reflectometer and was impressed by the fact that the PC that controls it boots in about 6 seconds directly into the application! It's based on DOS and the PC is a.... 33MHz Intel 386! It would be cool if a contemporary PC based on a 3GHz CPU could boot into such an application in 0.06 seconds. I know, I/O is the main bottleneck, I guess, though hard disks have indeed gotten about 100 times faster in data transfer, and about 5 times faster in seek time, since the 386 was the hotness.
There is a difference between natural gas and CO2: the latter is heavier than oxigen or nitrogen (i.e. air) and will stay in the low areas, potentially suffocating aerobic animals.
Could the CO2 escape in a massive way from these underground layers? It depends from case to case, but I am sure that I would feel much safer living on top of a deposit of natural gas, rather than CO2.
We all know that the overpaid Slashdot editors can't be bothered with correcting the text of the submissions, much less to check the links in the submission. But I have not seen, so far, that they would manage to get the title wrong, too!?
For the record, at this moment the title of this story reads "Lockheed Gets $485M From NASA To Create MAVAN Craft".
Sooner or later it'll come out, and the later it does, the more people have forgotten about it and built or just come above the area. A million ton of CO2 can kill a million people, because it's heavier than air and it will linger around until it kills every human, animal and definitely a lot of plants.
A good MD will try to be informed on developments in medical science, and you can't do that if you don't understand organic chemistry well. For instance, some substances that can stop ostheoporosis caused by some forms of cancer, can also induce osteonecrosis, especially in the presence of certain metals. An MD confronted with a patient with cancer-induced osteoporosis has a few options but must be alert and aware of the existing scientific papers on this specific field - and must be able to understand those papers! Of course, he/she can also just be a mediocrity that will cause his/her patient more harm than benefit.
I chipped in what I can, humbly, afford. Research assistants have some of the worst paid jobs in the whole world, but I am happy to contribute. Godspeed Ray!
When people will be looking back at the madness, deceit, lies and coercion that has become so commonplace with some of the RIAA's strong-arm tactics, someone like Ray will stand as an exemplary model of integrity and fairness
And a lot of musicians will look, in retrospect, as a bunch of Douchebag Kings.
he probably has the highest karma in the history of Slashdot
Damn fucking right.
The silver lining in all of this is, the RIAA is on the way out. Eventually, and definitely in our lifetimes, this fortress is going to come crushing down in a cloud of dust, because it's simply unsustainable. In the meantime, however, they are going to (try to) hurt a lot of innocent people, a lot of people who can't defend themselves. Ray has been one of the very few who came to their help, for nothing else but the innate affinity to do GOOD. And while this kind of activity is one of the most energizing and refreshing, after a while a human being gets depleted of his energies. Ray is just a human being, let's not forget this. If I was a lawyer or a rich person, I would help him, and I would feel great about it. I hope there's someone (or someones) else that will take that honourable and uplifting task upon themselves. Here's hoping.
This is what I don't get, after reading about half of the posts in this thread: About 95% of the posts don't mention the right to privacy, at all. But monitoring e-mail traffic by secret service in order to catch terrorists or prevent possible terrorist attacks, is frown upon by the great majority of Slashdotters.
I tend to put myself in other people's shoes, and here I definitely feel I would feel miserable if my e-mails and family photos were exposed to the world. Not because I have something terrible to hide, but just because it's such a cruel thing to do.
Slashdot readers and posters are very big on privacy - well, this is one grave (and I think extremely insensitive) breach of a person's privacy.
Damn right. 7-zip is not only a functional piece of software; even its user interface is good, and it's well integrated with 'doze. I'd say it's at least as good as the best of the for-pay compressors/decompressors, if not better!
Several years ago I worked in a very large and respectable company that shall remain unnamed (but whose name rhymes with, say, "Nokia"...) and we just shipped our turnkey system with our software AND with the source code. And the company wasn't (and still isn't, AFAIK, but don't work for them since a long time) an open-source company:o) It was a screwup by the consultant guys in India.
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, knowing the level of QC that happens in India and China.
...that a good 10% of scientific work goes into inventing catchy acronyms:o) My boss is particularly good at this. And he has to, in order to secure the maximum amount of funding for our research. The catchier the better.
As for protecting themselves: they can hire a security company to take care of that, including well-armed manpower. There is no reason why they couldn't do it. Of course, IF the cost of security would make the whole enterprise unviable, then that would be a reason why not - but otherwise, you are free to protect yourself against pirates.
I don't think a pipe on the bottom of the ocean is your biggest concern when you put hundreds of thousands of computers on a man made island, exposed to possible tsunamis and hurricanes.
If it's floating, it's the safest place as far as tsunamis go.
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This is what I love about Google as a company: they get it. Look at 3 of the 4 main points that are right smack in your face on that webpage:
Open
All applications are equal
Fast & easy development
This is what a developer wants. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that Android is going to be a success.
iPhone-owning friends who are rationalising this behaviour
I am allergic to this form of idiocy. Strong cognitive dissonance.
"duplicating the functionality"?! How can anyone put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write such utter nonsense? All other platforms have competing products that try to achieve the same or similar functionality in a better or different way, so does Apple really think their shit is going to fly? Do they think their users are idiots?
Yes, Xandros Linux on the Eee PC has an (Asus branded) application that interfaces with most Huawei dongles. I had it working for a week - works better than on Windows XP with the Huawei-bundled software, believe it or not.
Without external communications capabilities (e.g. WWVB or NTP), I guarantee you that this clock keeps more accurate time than any timepiece you've ever owned.
Citation needed. Tone down the karma-whoring hyperboles to yourselves and stick to what you KNOW to be a fact.
Last Friday I was using our reflectometer and was impressed by the fact that the PC that controls it boots in about 6 seconds directly into the application! It's based on DOS and the PC is a .... 33MHz Intel 386! It would be cool if a contemporary PC based on a 3GHz CPU could boot into such an application in 0.06 seconds. I know, I/O is the main bottleneck, I guess, though hard disks have indeed gotten about 100 times faster in data transfer, and about 5 times faster in seek time, since the 386 was the hotness.
There is a difference between natural gas and CO2: the latter is heavier than oxigen or nitrogen (i.e. air) and will stay in the low areas, potentially suffocating aerobic animals.
Could the CO2 escape in a massive way from these underground layers? It depends from case to case, but I am sure that I would feel much safer living on top of a deposit of natural gas, rather than CO2.
OK, I stand corrected, thanks. But:
The 700mhz Spectrum Auction In Perspective
I can't find faults with that one.
We all know that the overpaid Slashdot editors can't be bothered with correcting the text of the submissions, much less to check the links in the submission. But I have not seen, so far, that they would manage to get the title wrong, too!?
For the record, at this moment the title of this story reads "Lockheed Gets $485M From NASA To Create MAVAN Craft".
Sooner or later it'll come out, and the later it does, the more people have forgotten about it and built or just come above the area. A million ton of CO2 can kill a million people, because it's heavier than air and it will linger around until it kills every human, animal and definitely a lot of plants.
A good MD will try to be informed on developments in medical science, and you can't do that if you don't understand organic chemistry well. For instance, some substances that can stop ostheoporosis caused by some forms of cancer, can also induce osteonecrosis, especially in the presence of certain metals. An MD confronted with a patient with cancer-induced osteoporosis has a few options but must be alert and aware of the existing scientific papers on this specific field - and must be able to understand those papers! Of course, he/she can also just be a mediocrity that will cause his/her patient more harm than benefit.
I chipped in what I can, humbly, afford. Research assistants have some of the worst paid jobs in the whole world, but I am happy to contribute. Godspeed Ray!
When people will be looking back at the madness, deceit, lies and coercion that has become so commonplace with some of the RIAA's strong-arm tactics, someone like Ray will stand as an exemplary model of integrity and fairness
And a lot of musicians will look, in retrospect, as a bunch of Douchebag Kings.
he probably has the highest karma in the history of Slashdot
Damn fucking right.
The silver lining in all of this is, the RIAA is on the way out. Eventually, and definitely in our lifetimes, this fortress is going to come crushing down in a cloud of dust, because it's simply unsustainable. In the meantime, however, they are going to (try to) hurt a lot of innocent people, a lot of people who can't defend themselves. Ray has been one of the very few who came to their help, for nothing else but the innate affinity to do GOOD. And while this kind of activity is one of the most energizing and refreshing, after a while a human being gets depleted of his energies. Ray is just a human being, let's not forget this. If I was a lawyer or a rich person, I would help him, and I would feel great about it. I hope there's someone (or someones) else that will take that honourable and uplifting task upon themselves. Here's hoping.
They just want you to think that he no longer works for them... how do you think he got his judge position in the first place, hmmm?
Oh really? You don't say.
it is just an exercise of the cilt
You know, at first I misread that and was extremely amused.
This is what I don't get, after reading about half of the posts in this thread: About 95% of the posts don't mention the right to privacy, at all. But monitoring e-mail traffic by secret service in order to catch terrorists or prevent possible terrorist attacks, is frown upon by the great majority of Slashdotters.
I tend to put myself in other people's shoes, and here I definitely feel I would feel miserable if my e-mails and family photos were exposed to the world. Not because I have something terrible to hide, but just because it's such a cruel thing to do.
Slashdot readers and posters are very big on privacy - well, this is one grave (and I think extremely insensitive) breach of a person's privacy.
I completely agree. Thanks for FTFM.
Who needs WinRAR when you have 7-Zip?
Damn right. 7-zip is not only a functional piece of software; even its user interface is good, and it's well integrated with 'doze. I'd say it's at least as good as the best of the for-pay compressors/decompressors, if not better!
Several years ago I worked in a very large and respectable company that shall remain unnamed (but whose name rhymes with, say, "Nokia"...) and we just shipped our turnkey system with our software AND with the source code. And the company wasn't (and still isn't, AFAIK, but don't work for them since a long time) an open-source company :o) It was a screwup by the consultant guys in India.
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, knowing the level of QC that happens in India and China.
oh, right, I forgot that it does indeed happen. Even nowadays (de javu).
Sun had 8-core server CPUs since several years now. They didn't have any problems allocating the die's surface.
...that a good 10% of scientific work goes into inventing catchy acronyms :o) My boss is particularly good at this. And he has to, in order to secure the maximum amount of funding for our research. The catchier the better.
As for protecting themselves: they can hire a security company to take care of that, including well-armed manpower. There is no reason why they couldn't do it. Of course, IF the cost of security would make the whole enterprise unviable, then that would be a reason why not - but otherwise, you are free to protect yourself against pirates.
I don't think a pipe on the bottom of the ocean is your biggest concern when you put hundreds of thousands of computers on a man made island, exposed to possible tsunamis and hurricanes.
If it's floating, it's the safest place as far as tsunamis go.