> And if you attack our freedom I am not, I am pointing out that there has been an attack on our freedom for many years and people don't seem to be to notice it. If you know history, and you see what's been happening in these past 5 years, you should be concerned, and possible terrified.
I can understand charging smoker more, or someone doing extreme sports. Christian beliefs are to help the sick and needy. Even though I am not a Christian, most of modern society has been shaped by it, and it has worked better then those societies that don't help the sick and needy like Hindu's for example.
Also it's not someone fault if they have a genetic disease or catch some infection or cancer for example where the person sick didn't do anything to create his condition. Even being overweight isn't something that most people can actively control and is mostly cause by stress and our modern crappy processed food. Both are direct side effects of the way our society is going.
If someone fall on the side walk, do you just step over them; or stop to help them? What about if someone is being attacked by someone, lets say a women being beaten by her boyfriend. Do you just ignore it. Or an accident on the side of the road, would you stop to help? Well why should that help end after the ambulance take them away? Now we should charge the injured person more for insurance while he is sick and out of work? What if they as a result are disabled?
What if that person was you injured and having medical problems? Should be force you to sell your house to pay the bills, and put you out on the street?
I can't tell you how many times I have stepped up to the plate to help people, from 2 days ago being first on site after a wreck on the highway to call 911 and rush to help the injured. To going as far as confronting someone waving a gun and disarming them. There is even one well talked about on slashdot at debconf6 where 10 guys rushed Jonathan Walther to attack him and I step in front and stopped them. I have also helped homeless people get there lives back together.
If you want freedom, then someone must step up and make sure the weak are not trampled, that is what freedom is about at it's core, protecting the weak from the powerful. Freedom from tyranny, oppression, injustice. It's the reason for a Bill of Right.
In a land where there are enough laws that every one is at one point or another forced to break a law either knowing or unknowing, or depending upon interpretation, then it's really a matter of selective prosecution, or persecution.
Have you looked around lately, or do you just believe everything reported on Fox News?
Where did you get the idea that we are Free, we started to loose that 40 years ago, GWB is just finishing the job. You have obviously never traveled globally? Considering the current state of affairs, Hell yea I'd settle for comfortable at this point. I am even nervous about posting this, and getting a knock on the door late at night and never to be seen or heard from again.
Compared with other countries, the United States has among the highest incarceration rates in the world. More people are behind bars in the United States than any other country, according to available official figures. As of 2006, a record 7 million people were behind bars, on probation or on parole. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerated population. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United _States
Any these are only the ones reported, we have no idea how many are in secret prisons, or how many are being torchered.
We could just put all the unhealthy people in gas chambers and kill them. Oh yea, that was tried in the 1940's and for some reason people didn't like that. (don't flame me, I am being sarcastic.)
For someone who is sick or with a family member who is sick, just keeping a job and earning money is difficult, then add to that charging more health insurance costs, even if they could afford insurance would just push more people over the edge.
Increasing insurance costs would just be a slower, less obvious and more politically correct way to kill them off.
But it would be just as immoral, maybe even more so!
Anyhow Sick-o the movie already points out how screwed the system is.
I can very easily see how an attempt to divert a near miss could turn it into an something far more dangerous. The effects of such a blast could easily turn a meteor into a cloud of large boulders some of which will impact the earth.
With blast patterns, most of the force will push the center of gravity away from the source of the blast, some will be deflected back in the opposite direction towards the blast. For example look at the high speed photos of an apple being shot with a bullet, some of the apple is ejected back in the direction of the bullet. even if the debris miss us, now we will have a much higher chance of scattered smaller meteors hitting us in the next pass.
This is why the gentler approaches are preferred, keeping the meteor in one piece, by using a solar sail or ion engines.
"great chef" almost alway have apprentices to chop onions and peel potatoes.
It's not that the chef can't cut onions but on a larger cooking project has more important things to do and in a sense "lacks patience"
I actually know several great chef in real life that tell me when the go home, don't feel like cooking.
So, Dude your proving my point in your effort to debunk me.
I just did a bunch of google searches, and came up with nothing but reprints of the same dam article.
I know people have been experimenting for years to see the effects of blinking lights and colors.
I'm sure you see those relaxation goggles that blink leds to help your reach some theta wave state or some crap like that.
You'd think there would be something in the patents or medical literature on that colors/frequencies work to have this effect.
But I can't find much.
I would really like to know. Also could this be done on a TV or computer screen.
I remember there was some Japaneses cartoon a few years ago that just happened to flash or do something that sent hundreds of kids into seizures, the parents really freaked out about that and that cartoon disappeared never to be seen again. I'd like to get a hold of that one to so I can see what the heck cause that effect. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/651224.stm Approximately 685 Japanese children suffered the fits after watching a Pokemon television cartoon in 1997.
For 100's of years you have the senior crafts man and his apprentices. You can't get good quality with just Senior crafts man, or just junior apprentice types.
The Junior ones just don't know how to make the trade offs or the how and why things are done a certain way and end up painting then selves into a corner or making a mess for the next guy to deal with. But they are young and full of energy.
The Senior ones, just don't have the patients or excitement about over all of the stupid little details. They just can't get excited about doing the same thing over and over. But they think ahead for the next guy, they know how to avoid problems and usually know how to fix problem when they arise. Also they have usually have a long list of other senior developers they can call on for help and advice. Often on a really difficult problem the phone and E-mail are your best tools.
As my former partner the infamous Jesus Monroy used to say, on a boat you need rower and captains. Too many of either doesn't work.
As a senior developer, I find I am best at working the really difficult problems, but lack the patients for the more mundane bulk coding. Also like doing architecture work. But thing work best when there a Junior programmer that will get stuck on a problem and usually hide in the cube for weeks trying to solve it. Where when I am around I usually can take one look and tell then exactly how to fix it. As a result they tend to get 10x or more work done when I am around.
Also junior programmer usually just start writing code when giving a project with little consideration on design. The end result tends to be large, slow and almost impossible to debug. As someone experienced, I find that laying out the design, the foundation, if you will that everything else is to be built of from is critical. Once designed correctly, the code is much smaller, simpler, is easy to work on and debug. It also less code means it runs faster, loads faster and uses less resources. Also less code, means it faster to implement. So I'll spend more then 1/2 of the development time on research and testing, and design, before I ever type the first line of code in. But in the end, I get done faster and almost never have any logical bugs, memory leaks and have never needed a debugger, just type-o's as mostly, of only I could spell...
Gold Leopard King GLK has computers the are selling all over Asia, from China to India.
These PC retail for the equivalent of $5 US!
There is only a single chip in a cartridge the rest is just buttons and interconnect, no chips. They have at least 15 models that I have seen.
They support printers, modems, a mouse, and supports 100 of video games from perfect clones of most Atari 2600, and early Nintendo like Mario Brothers.
I have been trying to track down this company, there products are in shops everywhere, but there is no Address, website or any information on how to contact the company.
Even the shop owners don't know how to contact them because there are just people that come around selling then to the shops.
Model numbers look like GLK-6102, GNC-1133, GLK-5002, GLK-1119, GLK-2012,GLK 98, GLK 1339, GLK 5002
They also seem to come under many other brand names, and make lower end game clones that are sold here in the US, and even in Walmart China.
With a little bit more work, they would be able to add a web browser and many other cool apps.
I would really like to get in touch with this company.
Yup.
In 1999 I was pulled over by a police car with such a system. The put in the police car for a while and I could see each cars place number come up on a laptop and it would run it's plate, then run a check on the registered owners. All automatically.
I was pulled over for a suspended license from some mixup with the franchise tax board in California.
Anyhow I don't know if it was a trial or business as usual, but I was shocked to see it, Each cars plate numbers came up,
grey at first then would turn either red, yellow or green. Most were green with some yellow, and red's were pulled over.
This was being done in the downtown bar and club area of San Jose on a Saturday Evening as cars pass by on one of the main streets there.
For LCD's it's all the same, the backlight is always on and it's fixed current. The light or dark is from polarization of liquid crystals and this just absorb the light.
There a very few plasma screen and OLED screen users that this would hold true for.
I would expect with CRT's it takes more power to make black!
Yes, the reason is the electron guns power consumption and output are fixed. But to reduct the output of the electron gun you has to send high voltage to produce a field to block the beam and make that part of the screen dark, so If I cut the RGB lines into the back of the CRT tube itself you should get a full white image. The Cathode drive is negative, e.g. +130V = black, +30V = white. So I would expect white to uses less power.
Has anyone really done measurements of this? A reputable group testing on several monitors?
I visited Shen Zhen China (just inland from Hong Kong) about 2 months ago and while I was there Spiderman 3 came out 3 days earlier in China then in the US. On Wednesday there time which is +16 from Los Angeles.
So I went to see it opening night. Ticket prices were about $10.40 each 80 RMB. Per Ticket, a very high price in China considering most people in that neighborhood only made 1000 RMB or less even.
As I left the theater, there was a street vendor there holding out a very professional looking DVD package of Spiderman 3 and offering it for 20 RMB I think it was around that price. Which is around $2.50 US.
Interesting thing is they sold more copy's of our TV shows like CSI, and soap operas then movies! They also sold more Japanese movies then US ones.
Sorry, ( I mean thermal conductivities) watt per square meter kelvin[W/(mK)] I use WMK To put this into perspective Steel is around 60 WMK, Silicon 149 WMK , Aluminum is 200 WKM, Copper is 400 WMK
And some nanotubes where reported as almost 10,000 WMK
Buckytubes (which are just rolled-up graphene) are also known as Nanotubes, have conductivities of almost 1000 WKM (watts per meter kelvin) Graphene sheets should also have similar conductivities. I expect it would also be quite strong under tension.
This will allow for much more efficient cooling of electronics, even more then Silicon on Diamond technology that is just starting to come out.
I have seen these Automatic Identification of MP3 files mess up often. Even in scenarios where I record some of my own voice,just me just speaking into a mic and recording it, these systems have misidentified it as some pop song and shows an album cover of this mistakenly identified song.
So it's just a matter of time before they will try to force me to pay to listen to these recording that I make myself when ever this wonderful scheme messes up.
Only a truly evil mind could invent such a scheme.
I have a better solution I am looking to build
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It's basically related to upload/download ratios. It assumes any user with a good u/d gets a white listed. Doesn't matter who they are, or credentials or anything like that and it's much much cheaper. Although Money is the only motivator against spammers. You need to make it unprofitable. So people need to pay you to receive an email! You pay then back with a reply. Although things like legitimate Mailing lists have a special white list bypass that the receiver must open up.
Initially I am looking to replace some components in Q Mail or build some POP3 relay that deals with this. I was thinking of putting it on maildr.com or unmailable.com
Yes, but again, 400 samples taken where? How?
I agree with those number, but this only holds true under certain conditions where there are random distributions and no biasing.
For example are you measuring people height this would be fine normally, unless your samples were taking in front of a big and tall clothing outlet or inside an NBA locker room.
This is the thing that always messes up almost every political poll is finding a un-biased source to take your samples.
Even something like poll taking in a Red State or Blue state would bias the linux vs. windows results. Where I suspect red states would lean more towards windows.
It might be but with a sample of "400 developers and IT managers in North America" there is just far to small of a sample that the margin of error is probably well over 20%
Also where and how where these "developers and IT managers" sampled.
At a Microsoft Developers conference?
Most Linux developers I know are broke and living on almost nothing but air. Many are student, very green (save the environment) or have some other oddness like being idealistic or so focused on Cool stuff they forget that they need to have an income.
Odds are that these guys did not get surveyed.
With only such a small sample, I don't give much weight to the results. Also it take about 10 Windows developers to get the same work accomplished as one Linux developer. Most windows development is dealing with Bugs, Features, bad documentation and changes from Microsoft rather then with real forward progress.
I'd love to know what they think developers are moving over too? Cross platform stuff like Ajax, TCL, PHP and Java? Cross platform C++ and C? Much of the application layer stuff I work on tends to be platform Agnostic like that. The rest is Kernel and Drivers that are every OS specific, although I even did 2 drivers that were windows and Linux cross platform. It even worked to my own amazement.
Well there are several scenarios that had come across, 2 were under NDA's so I can't talk about those,
But let's take the situation of Multiheaded displays.
You can put 4 to even 16 screens on One PC. Or even one really massive high res big screen.
Think ultimate extreme programming or gaming.
One user has a screen, another user has their own, but either could just move the mouse off of one screen onto the others display and start using the apps there, Copy and paste, and come back to their screen. Or even grab a whole window and drag it back to his screen. Now take this to the next level and do this between separate networked PC's.....
Lets say, I am working on a document, I can just drag it over to another screen right now just fine, but what if I wanted my friend to started editing on it.
I'd have to save, quit, copy (or shared net drive), then they would have to re-open and find where I was in that document before they could resume edits in the same place. Usually it's much easier to just get up from you chair and let them take your keyboard and mouse.
But with what I am proposing you could just drag it over to their side of the screen or over their screen and let them take over the focus on that app, then you could just go onto something else without giving up what else your doing.
It would allow several people to collaborate very tightly.
Until you have worked in some similar situations it's hard to imaging it's value, but it's that multi-person interaction that I think makes things like second life so popular.
With some hacking/coding with teams working very closely, ether in the same room, or remotely with skype and IM,
Right now the closest I have come is with VNC or gotomypc where, I am helping another programmer, and can take over his editor, fix something and let him resume, all on the same desktop and window.
Also another entirely different thing is look at Multitouch screen where they grab an object with to pointers in the video demo it was 2 finger and can rotate and scale an image at the same time, see advancedgui.com
Anyhow now that I have explained it here on slashdot, I wonder how long before it shows up on Ubuntu. I'd love to see it.
I have this sort of whole Ted Nelson-ish vision I call Amorphous OS, http://www.dnull.com/os/ that would make Linux, Apple and Microsoft's current GUI implementations look as obsolete as the old DOS command lines.
Sorry my online document doesn't go into nearly as clear and deep details as I'd like.
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> And if you attack our freedom
I am not, I am pointing out that there has been an attack on our freedom for many years and people don't seem to be to notice it.
If you know history, and you see what's been happening in these past 5 years, you should be concerned, and possible terrified.
I can understand charging smoker more, or someone doing extreme sports.
Christian beliefs are to help the sick and needy. Even though I am not a Christian, most of modern society has been shaped by it, and it has worked better then those societies that don't help the sick and needy like Hindu's for example.
Also it's not someone fault if they have a genetic disease or catch some infection or cancer for example where the person sick didn't do anything to create his condition. Even being overweight isn't something that most people can actively control and is mostly cause by stress and our modern crappy processed food. Both are direct side effects of the way our society is going.
If someone fall on the side walk, do you just step over them; or stop to help them?
What about if someone is being attacked by someone, lets say a women being beaten by her boyfriend. Do you just ignore it.
Or an accident on the side of the road, would you stop to help? Well why should that help end after the ambulance take them away?
Now we should charge the injured person more for insurance while he is sick and out of work?
What if they as a result are disabled?
What if that person was you injured and having medical problems?
Should be force you to sell your house to pay the bills, and put you out on the street?
I can't tell you how many times I have stepped up to the plate to help people, from 2 days ago being first on site after a wreck on the highway to call 911 and rush to help the injured.
To going as far as confronting someone waving a gun and disarming them.
There is even one well talked about on slashdot at debconf6 where 10 guys rushed Jonathan Walther to attack him and I step in front and stopped them.
I have also helped homeless people get there lives back together.
If you want freedom, then someone must step up and make sure the weak are not trampled, that is what freedom is about at it's core, protecting the weak from the powerful. Freedom from tyranny, oppression, injustice. It's the reason for a Bill of Right.
I have come to find the more something it touted the less likely it is to be true.
In a land where there are enough laws that every one is at one point or another forced to break a law either knowing or unknowing, or depending upon interpretation, then it's really a matter of selective prosecution, or persecution.
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Have you looked around lately, or do you just believe everything reported on Fox News?
http://www.aztlan.net/lapd_attack_on_immigrants.h
One of the most respected UniVision reporters was intentionally shot at by police with rubber bullets for reporting the news.
Where did you get the idea that we are Free, we started to loose that 40 years ago, GWB is just finishing the job.
You have obviously never traveled globally?
Considering the current state of affairs, Hell yea I'd settle for comfortable at this point. I am even nervous about posting this, and getting a knock on the door late at night and never to be seen or heard from again.
Compared with other countries, the United States has among the highest incarceration rates in the world. More people are behind bars in the United States than any other country, according to available official figures. As of 2006, a record 7 million people were behind bars, on probation or on parole. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerated population.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_Unite
Any these are only the ones reported, we have no idea how many are in secret prisons, or how many are being torchered.
We could just put all the unhealthy people in gas chambers and kill them.
Oh yea, that was tried in the 1940's and for some reason people didn't like that. (don't flame me, I am being sarcastic.)
For someone who is sick or with a family member who is sick, just keeping a job and earning money is difficult, then add to that charging more health insurance costs, even if they could afford insurance would just push more people over the edge.
Increasing insurance costs would just be a slower, less obvious and more politically correct way to kill them off.
But it would be just as immoral, maybe even more so!
Anyhow Sick-o the movie already points out how screwed the system is.
Please read, I said a "Near Miss", meaning if it's close but not going to hit and we try to divert it, it could cause pieces to hit.
I can very easily see how an attempt to divert a near miss could turn it into an something far more dangerous.
The effects of such a blast could easily turn a meteor into a cloud of large boulders some of which will impact the earth.
With blast patterns, most of the force will push the center of gravity away from the source of the blast, some will be deflected back in the opposite direction towards the blast.
For example look at the high speed photos of an apple being shot with a bullet, some of the apple is ejected back in the direction of the bullet.
even if the debris miss us, now we will have a much higher chance of scattered smaller meteors hitting us in the next pass.
This is why the gentler approaches are preferred, keeping the meteor in one piece, by using a solar sail or ion engines.
This almost isn't even worth replying to.
"great chef" almost alway have apprentices to chop onions and peel potatoes.
It's not that the chef can't cut onions but on a larger cooking project has more important things to do and in a sense "lacks patience"
I actually know several great chef in real life that tell me when the go home, don't feel like cooking.
So, Dude your proving my point in your effort to debunk me.
I just did a bunch of google searches, and came up with nothing but reprints of the same dam article.
I know people have been experimenting for years to see the effects of blinking lights and colors.
I'm sure you see those relaxation goggles that blink leds to help your reach some theta wave state or some crap like that.
You'd think there would be something in the patents or medical literature on that colors/frequencies work to have this effect.
But I can't find much.
I would really like to know. Also could this be done on a TV or computer screen.
I remember there was some Japaneses cartoon a few years ago that just happened to flash or do something that sent hundreds of kids into seizures, the parents really freaked out about that and that cartoon disappeared never to be seen again. I'd like to get a hold of that one to so I can see what the heck cause that effect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/651224.stm Approximately 685 Japanese children suffered the fits after watching a Pokemon television cartoon in 1997.
For 100's of years you have the senior crafts man and his apprentices.
You can't get good quality with just Senior crafts man, or just junior apprentice types.
The Junior ones just don't know how to make the trade offs or the how and why things are done a certain way and end up painting then selves into a corner or making a mess for the next guy to deal with. But they are young and full of energy.
The Senior ones, just don't have the patients or excitement about over all of the stupid little details. They just can't get excited about doing the same thing over and over. But they think ahead for the next guy, they know how to avoid problems and usually know how to fix problem when they arise.
Also they have usually have a long list of other senior developers they can call on for help and advice.
Often on a really difficult problem the phone and E-mail are your best tools.
As my former partner the infamous Jesus Monroy used to say, on a boat you need rower and captains. Too many of either doesn't work.
As a senior developer, I find I am best at working the really difficult problems, but lack the patients for the more mundane bulk coding.
Also like doing architecture work.
But thing work best when there a Junior programmer that will get stuck on a problem and usually hide in the cube for weeks trying to solve it. Where when I am around I usually can take one look and tell then exactly how to fix it. As a result they tend to get 10x or more work done when I am around.
Also junior programmer usually just start writing code when giving a project with little consideration on design. The end result tends to be large, slow and almost impossible to debug.
As someone experienced, I find that laying out the design, the foundation, if you will that everything else is to be built of from is critical.
Once designed correctly, the code is much smaller, simpler, is easy to work on and debug. It also less code means it runs faster, loads faster and uses less resources.
Also less code, means it faster to implement. So I'll spend more then 1/2 of the development time on research and testing, and design, before I ever type the first line of code in. But in the end, I get done faster and almost never have any logical bugs, memory leaks and have never needed a debugger, just type-o's as mostly, of only I could spell...
I hate nothing worse the Bloated code.
Gold Leopard King GLK has computers the are selling all over Asia, from China to India.
h tmd _leopard_king.htm
These PC retail for the equivalent of $5 US!
There is only a single chip in a cartridge the rest is just buttons and interconnect, no chips. They have at least 15 models that I have seen.
They support printers, modems, a mouse, and supports 100 of video games from perfect clones of most Atari 2600, and early Nintendo like Mario Brothers.
I have been trying to track down this company, there products are in shops everywhere, but there is no Address, website or any information on how to contact the company.
Even the shop owners don't know how to contact them because there are just people that come around selling then to the shops.
Model numbers look like GLK-6102, GNC-1133, GLK-5002, GLK-1119, GLK-2012,GLK 98, GLK 1339, GLK 5002
They also seem to come under many other brand names, and make lower end game clones that are sold here in the US, and even in Walmart China.
With a little bit more work, they would be able to add a web browser and many other cool apps.
I would really like to get in touch with this company.
Here is an example:
http://famiclone.emucamp.com/goldleopardking/glk.
http://www.museo8bits.com/famiclones.htm
http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/famiclones/gol
http://n-europe.com/special.php?sid=retro3&page=2
Yup.
In 1999 I was pulled over by a police car with such a system. The put in the police car for a while and I could see each cars place number come up on a laptop and it would run it's plate, then run a check on the registered owners. All automatically.
I was pulled over for a suspended license from some mixup with the franchise tax board in California.
Anyhow I don't know if it was a trial or business as usual, but I was shocked to see it, Each cars plate numbers came up,
grey at first then would turn either red, yellow or green. Most were green with some yellow, and red's were pulled over.
This was being done in the downtown bar and club area of San Jose on a Saturday Evening as cars pass by on one of the main streets there.
For LCD's it's all the same, the backlight is always on and it's fixed current. The light or dark is from polarization of liquid crystals and this just absorb the light.
There a very few plasma screen and OLED screen users that this would hold true for.
I would expect with CRT's it takes more power to make black!
Yes, the reason is the electron guns power consumption and output are fixed. But to reduct the output of the electron gun you has to send high voltage to produce a field to block the beam and make that part of the screen dark, so If I cut the RGB lines into the back of the CRT tube itself you should get a full white image.
The Cathode drive is negative, e.g. +130V = black, +30V = white.
So I would expect white to uses less power.
Has anyone really done measurements of this? A reputable group testing on several monitors?
I visited Shen Zhen China (just inland from Hong Kong) about 2 months ago and while I was there Spiderman 3 came out 3 days earlier in China then in the US. On Wednesday there time which is +16 from Los Angeles.
So I went to see it opening night. Ticket prices were about $10.40 each 80 RMB. Per Ticket, a very high price in China considering most people in that neighborhood only made 1000 RMB or less even.
As I left the theater, there was a street vendor there holding out a very professional looking DVD package of Spiderman 3 and offering it for 20 RMB I think it was around that price. Which is around $2.50 US.
Interesting thing is they sold more copy's of our TV shows like CSI, and soap operas then movies!
They also sold more Japanese movies then US ones.
And the reason so many Scientist fled to the US?
Only one problem, where do you go now to avoid censorship of science truth?
Need I say more.
Sorry, ( I mean thermal conductivities) watt per square meter kelvin[W/(mK)] I use WMK
To put this into perspective Steel is around 60 WMK, Silicon 149 WMK , Aluminum is 200 WKM, Copper is 400 WMK
And some nanotubes where reported as almost 10,000 WMK
Somehow I thought Silicon was more like 60wmk but is higher according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon
Buckytubes (which are just rolled-up graphene) are also known as Nanotubes, have conductivities of almost 1000 WKM (watts per meter kelvin) Graphene sheets should also have similar conductivities. I expect it would also be quite strong under tension.
This will allow for much more efficient cooling of electronics, even more then Silicon on Diamond technology that is just starting to come out.
I would like to have had the chance to put my mailclad.com idea into the running on that one.
Anyhow I need to actually get my code up on sourceforge first I guess.
Anyone want to help get this thing off the ground.
John
I have seen these Automatic Identification of MP3 files mess up often.
Even in scenarios where I record some of my own voice,just me just speaking into a mic and recording it, these systems have misidentified it as some pop song and shows an album cover of this mistakenly identified song.
So it's just a matter of time before they will try to force me to pay to listen to these recording that I make myself when ever this wonderful scheme messes up.
Only a truly evil mind could invent such a scheme.
It's basically related to upload/download ratios.
It assumes any user with a good u/d gets a white listed.
Doesn't matter who they are, or credentials or anything like that and it's much much cheaper. Although Money is the only motivator against spammers. You need to make it unprofitable. So people need to pay you to receive an email! You pay then back with a reply.
Although things like legitimate Mailing lists have a special white list bypass that the receiver must open up.
Initially I am looking to replace some components in Q Mail or build some POP3 relay that deals with this.
I was thinking of putting it on maildr.com or unmailable.com
Anyone want to help?
Next weeks slashdot post will talk about how the Blue Ray DRM was cracked.
Or maybe next months.
Envisioneering Group this is Dan Sokol's company, one of the founders of Apple..
unfortunately I don't think I am related.
Sound like a lot of fun, but I would never bother with anything from Apple no matter how cool they act.
But my heart would really flutter with joy when I see a fat penguin on that screen though.
Yes, but again, 400 samples taken where? How?
I agree with those number, but this only holds true under certain conditions where there are random distributions and no biasing.
For example are you measuring people height this would be fine normally, unless your samples were taking in front of a big and tall clothing outlet or inside an NBA locker room.
This is the thing that always messes up almost every political poll is finding a un-biased source to take your samples.
Even something like poll taking in a Red State or Blue state would bias the linux vs. windows results. Where I suspect red states would lean more towards windows.
It might be but with a sample of "400 developers and IT managers in North America"
there is just far to small of a sample that the margin of error is probably well over 20%
Also where and how where these "developers and IT managers" sampled.
At a Microsoft Developers conference?
Most Linux developers I know are broke and living on almost nothing but air. Many are student, very green (save the environment) or have some other oddness like being idealistic or so focused on Cool stuff they forget that they need to have an income.
Odds are that these guys did not get surveyed.
With only such a small sample, I don't give much weight to the results.
Also it take about 10 Windows developers to get the same work accomplished as one Linux developer.
Most windows development is dealing with Bugs, Features, bad documentation and changes from Microsoft rather then with real forward progress.
I'd love to know what they think developers are moving over too? Cross platform stuff like Ajax, TCL, PHP and Java? Cross platform C++ and C? Much of the application layer stuff I work on tends to be platform Agnostic like that. The rest is Kernel and Drivers that are every OS specific, although I even did 2 drivers that were windows and Linux cross platform. It even worked to my own amazement.
John
Well there are several scenarios that had come across, 2 were under NDA's so I can't talk about those,
But let's take the situation of Multiheaded displays.
You can put 4 to even 16 screens on One PC. Or even one really massive high res big screen.
Think ultimate extreme programming or gaming.
One user has a screen, another user has their own, but either could just move the mouse off of one screen onto the others display and start using the apps there, Copy and paste, and come back to their screen. Or even grab a whole window and drag it back to his screen. Now take this to the next level and do this between separate networked PC's.....
Lets say, I am working on a document, I can just drag it over to another screen right now just fine, but what if I wanted my friend to started editing on it.
I'd have to save, quit, copy (or shared net drive), then they would have to re-open and find where I was in that document before they could resume edits in the same place. Usually it's much easier to just get up from you chair and let them take your keyboard and mouse.
But with what I am proposing you could just drag it over to their side of the screen or over their screen and let them take over the focus on that app, then you could just go onto something else without giving up what else your doing.
It would allow several people to collaborate very tightly.
Since I have come up with this idea Microsoft did something a little similar, but far less ambitious. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/06/16623
Until you have worked in some similar situations it's hard to imaging it's value, but it's that multi-person interaction that I think makes things like second life so popular.
With some hacking/coding with teams working very closely, ether in the same room, or remotely with skype and IM,
Right now the closest I have come is with VNC or gotomypc where, I am helping another programmer, and can take over his editor, fix something and let him resume, all on the same desktop and window.
Also another entirely different thing is look at Multitouch screen where they grab an object with to pointers in the video demo it was 2 finger and can rotate and scale an image at the same time, see advancedgui.com
But having several people operating on one large virtual desktop would really increase productivity.
http://www.panoramtech.com/ for an example. Large control center screens that look like Apollo Mission control.
http://www.michaelp.org/photos/kennedy_space_cent
Anyhow now that I have explained it here on slashdot, I wonder how long before it shows up on Ubuntu. I'd love to see it.
I have this sort of whole Ted Nelson-ish vision I call Amorphous OS, http://www.dnull.com/os/ that would make Linux, Apple and Microsoft's current GUI implementations look as obsolete as the old DOS command lines.
Sorry my online document doesn't go into nearly as clear and deep details as I'd like.