Now THAT seems not only reasonable, but probable. I had forgotten about the Diebold problem (since I was forced to use one in our gubernatorial election here in VA, maybe I'm in a state of denial).
Your comment is on point. But I'd give him less than a 50% chance. To delay the 2008 election successfully, he would need a strong military backing. Based on the fact that top-level generals have been retiring due to the handling of Iraq, I don't think he and Rummy have the respect they keep saying they have in the Pentagon.
If he were to try, it'd be an interesting show. Congress would be up in arms, on both side of the partisan fence. Revolution is a mild term, but imagine how nice it would be if such an event was the catalyst for sweeping government reform. We can always dream I guess.
The beginning of your comment is more likely. Bush knows he's a lame duck, so he'll fritter away his final months in the frat-boy nonchalance we've grown accustomed to seeing. And history will look back on him as the asshat he has been.
I filmed Mr. Musk's guest lecture at Virginia Tech, and I remember him mentioning that LOX+Kerosene is also very cheap compared to other rocket fuel combinations. Part of SpaceX's design/implementation strategy is minimizing costs in order to undercut Boeing/Lockheed's prices, so that's just another reason to use it.
I've got a Myspace page, because it's the most convenient way to keep in touch with some of my old classmates. I've often thought about how few practical applications these kinds of 'social networking' sites provide, aside from general time-wasting. I've also scoffed at the number of young kids who have thousands of friends, as if it's the high school popularity contest in digital form.
So this guy found a way to win the popularity contest. I scoff at him too, though at the same time I must laud him for his creativity. If other./ers have insight as to what kind of malicious applications his XSS could be used for, I welcome the opportunity to learn. Also, what exactly IS XSS? Cross-site (to me) indicates that the script performs a function across multiple webpages... would this refer to all the peers in the Myspace cluster?
Their documentation is already pretty good; between that and the forums, I don't see how useful live support would be; Gentoo has always seemed like the hobbyists' distro to me (disclaimer: I run it, and know people who use it in production environments). It just seems to me that if support is important to a person/firm, they'll pony up the $50/$100/$whatever for a license that offers support as well.
(Someone else want to check what happens when we burn all the coal?)
Well, from what I've read on my own and learned in college the short answer is: 'we don't know'. But here's some info and theories:
Island nations are dealing with the fact that they're losing acreage to the encroaching ocean, and constantly rebuilding due to stronger and more frequent storms NOW. That helped to spark the Kyoto and Bonn summits.
If atmospheric carbon triples compared to present-day amounts, we can expect a.5-5 degree C change in average global temperature... maybe more. Doesn't sound like much, but that's enough to wipe out a few sensitive animal and plant species. I also heard from my boss a few weeks ago that he read that a 2-degree average increase in the ocean's temperature could cause hurricane season to last year-round (scary, but another theory states that melting icecaps will interrupt the Gulf Stream, i.e. fewer hurricanes). That one's unsubstantiated.
Plant growth will increase on average due to increased carbon, but some plants (conifers, corn and other C14 plants) which fix carbon more efficiently may outcompete other plants (oaks and other deciduous trees), leading to their endangerment.
So yeah, there's a lot of theories, and we don't know for sure, but I think it's the uncertainty that makes a lot of scientists sound very alarmist. For example, I for one enjoy backpacking through mature oak stands in the fall, and I also love oak furniture. It'd be a shame for them to become endangered due to the ability for a loblolly pine to grow faster than they can. And it'd be a shame if my children or grandchildren were unable to have access to the same types of forests for hiking and recreation in the fall or to have to settle for plantation-grown pine furniture (yes, they could deal, but I think sustainability is a far better goal than offering future generations our table scraps).
A swamp is a specific type of wetland. And they're useful beyond the fuzzy-cuddly factor (seriously, couldn't that also be called 'habitat'?). I know you're just trying to be sarcastic, but if New Orleans hadn't drained their wetlands for expansion and creation of their useless-in-this-scenario levees, they would act as an effective natural buffer for the storm surge that's tearing up the city right now. Belittle it all you want, but wetlands offer many functions and values that benefit urban areas (see also: chemical and sediment 'sinks', floodwater storage, biomass production, accumulation & creation of peat).
Before I RTFA, I would have said YES! But it looks like it uses PCI only for power; all data transfer is done over SATA-bus, which becomes the speed bottleneck at something around 150 Mbit/sec. Since that's the case, I don't see why they made it a PCI card at all... I assume the FPGA and the DDR memory require low-voltage power not offered by a normal hard-drive-style 12V molex connector. Meh.
It just seems to me that the card itself is very bulky, and a similarly-priced RAMdisk with greater storage and a better form-factor is just waiting to be implemented. Oh, and it's not 4GB RAMdisk for $100, b/c you have to purchase the DDR as well:/
I've been following the work of the Otherpower.com folks for a while now. They're damn good DIY engineers. Not only are their wind turbines quite nice, but my interest was also piqued by their use of single-cylinder Lister engines. Coupled with a biodiesel recipe, it looks like they can run their entire shop for 8 hours on a single gallon of carbon-neutral gas.
One of my lifelong goals is to live simply, on a large plot of undeveloped land somewhere. I'm glad there are people like the Otherpower folks who are paving the way as far as alternative energy creation, and being considerate enough to document their work as they go.
Since he's returning to school and has some experience in the private sector, I beg to differ... This probably isn't a student-employee-type job, but more likely a salaried position. I've done both, and while I agree with you about student employment, there is most certainly more credibility associated with a salaried position, especially of a technical nature. As a programmer, he will [hopefully] have a chance to work some fairly groundbreaking or research-associated projects, although he did state whether or not this is a major research university he is courting.
I've had my salaried university position for 6 months (just had my performance review today, and it went quite well), and although my department is pretty laid-back, I think it's safe to say that it's not too bad. You actually have to work hard at sucking if you want to be fired. However, if you feel 'stuck' or want your job to provide more value than a paycheck, don't be afraid to network with faculty and staff to broaden your horizons or to find the position that most closely matches your interests or field of study.
Another thing -- beware faculty. My position involves development of course content, advertising material, etc (We are a video-production-oriented dept.) so I deal with all sorts, and I must say that many (not all) professors walk in with an ego so large it becomes the biggest setback to reaching a deadline or goal. Be accommodating in situations like these because they WILL NOT. Just leave your ego at home when you come to work in these sorts of scenarios.
so much to the aboriginal "living in harmony with nature" bullshit
You seem to think that not only is this not a worthy goal, but you also seem to believe that our complex civilization would have to debase itself to achieve this goal. Simply untrue. Intelligent natural resource management, coupled with the development of new energy sources, could bring us a lot closer to living in harmony (or closer to it) sooner than you think. All without the need to revert to hunter-gatherer lifestyles!
It seems like a lot of people these days believe anthropocentric falsehoods just because that's what they're comfortable with.
dave, you seem a little bitter about last night's thread, but I won't hold it against you;) You made some good points last night.
I could live with DRM'ed content if, as the article mentions, it is priced comparatively to a rental fee. However, if physical media were to go the way of the dodo and consumers were expected to accept DRM'ed downloads in lieu of owning physical media they could (by right) copy and manipulate for personal use, I don't think that would be an acceptable outcome. Several people mentioned last night that purchasing media give the purchaser rights to resell, copy, etc. Now if an EULA explicitly restricts you from doing these things and you still accept it, that's your problem. But if the day comes that consumers are given no choice (i.e. their rights to copy for personal use are negated by the fact that the only available format for purchase removes these rights), that's when DRM will start to smell funny to me.
Just my 2cents, and FWIW it seems like I fall somewhere in between daveschroeder's opinion, and the opinion of many other slashdotters who commented on the 'DVD Jon' story last night. But like you suggested dave, I do not patronize iTMS for the specific reason that DRM is not worth circumventing if the same media can be purchased on formats that don't restrict my personal choices.
That's really too bad. I don't use Yahoo! for much, but their Launch radio seems to depend heavily on some bastardized combo of IE and Flash (unless you're using the built-in radio in Yahoo! messenger). Either way, it really limits my choices when I'm sitting in front of my Linux box.
Parent is absolutely on the money. Our college's radio station, though operated independently of the institution, isn't exactly the most tech-savvy group of people, but when they began webcasting their stream again (after that whole pay-per-listener thing was waived for certain nonprofits) someone must have shown them the quality difference between mp3 and ogg, b/c they're streaming with ogg now at 67kbps. Give a listen if you're interested: http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg
It's the weekend == international programming == don't judge WUVT based on the Turkish pop music you might hear, it's an excellent station.
I don't want to troll, and this borders on OT, so I'll try to keep this short. I'll take my institution (Virginia Tech) as an example. If a larger fraction of football-related revenue (hell I'd be happy with just the TV revenue of 1.7 million dollars per season) were reinvested in research and education, we'd be making our way toward the 'top-notch' research and educational institution our mission statement claims. As it is, most of the football-related revenue that leaves the Athletic department goes into the building fund, and currently the most expensive construction project is (guess what!!) an expansion to the stadium.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but let me be one who says: Open-Source developers are my heroes. As a student who tried programming, but gave it up for another discipline, I'm both glad and relieved by Open-Source software, and am savvy enough to appreciate its advantages over a certain personal-computing alternative.
So, you keep coding it, and I'll keep using it, and one day there will be enough power-users like me to put a dent in overall market share measurements using the code you so carefully, thoughtfully, and freely provide. Kudos.
That's what I'm thinking. The Konfabulator site is down for the count, but this smacks of Gdesklets-style eye candy to me.... I wonder which once can claim prior art...
I guess it depends on the laptop. I run Linux on a Dell Latitute C610 at work/home, and most everything worked exactly as I expected, in both Fedora and Gentoo. Granted, it helps to have a fully-documented driverset, especially when it comes to wireless (mine is orinoco_cs), and Fedora Core 2 had this weird issue where it tried to start the wireless before it started PCMCIA, but a simple fix involving changing a filename was found on Google. I even wrote an init script that detects whether or not my laptop is docked, and it adjusts my xorg.conf file and network config files for dock and standalone usage.
I'm not saying that putting Linux on a desktop/laptop isn't ever a royal pain in the ass, but it's rarely impossible, and once you're done, you feel like you've accomplished something. That and the feeling that you're in total control of your system are two things that draw me to spending time doing it;-)
I don't have the time or energy to RTFA (8am class tomorrow) but I assume that only AT&T's wireless subsidiary was purchased.
That said, I must admit my interest is speculative only. I don't own a mobile phone, nor do I plan to until I need it as a matter of profession. You wouldn't believe how many people walk mindlessly around campus, oblivious to the Real World(tm) because they're so engaged in the cellphone conversations. Makes me sick, especially since as a bicyclist, these normally sober and aware individuals turn into slalom cones.
I'm too lazy to sift through the thread and see if someone's already answered this, but cows, sheep, goats, etc. will all eat trees. Specifically, this article is referring to natural regeneration; not trees in the large-and-I-can-make-furniture-out-of-them sense, but trees in the in-120-years-I-can-make-furniture-out-of-them-sens e. Nothing more than a branch sticking out the ground, so to speak. IAAPF (I am a Professional Forester) so I can say that some species are actually quite tasty too! (Sassafras tastes like root beer, and black birch tastes like wintergreen for example)
There isn't much point, unless you're a developer. Now I finally have an open-source solution to developing and testing SMIL content. Real is still a company not to be trusted, but when you're in a corporate setting where you've been locked into using Real codecs and SMIL for content creation, personal choice gets thrown out the window.
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Now THAT seems not only reasonable, but probable. I had forgotten about the Diebold problem (since I was forced to use one in our gubernatorial election here in VA, maybe I'm in a state of denial).
Your comment is on point. But I'd give him less than a 50% chance. To delay the 2008 election successfully, he would need a strong military backing. Based on the fact that top-level generals have been retiring due to the handling of Iraq, I don't think he and Rummy have the respect they keep saying they have in the Pentagon.
If he were to try, it'd be an interesting show. Congress would be up in arms, on both side of the partisan fence. Revolution is a mild term, but imagine how nice it would be if such an event was the catalyst for sweeping government reform. We can always dream I guess.
The beginning of your comment is more likely. Bush knows he's a lame duck, so he'll fritter away his final months in the frat-boy nonchalance we've grown accustomed to seeing. And history will look back on him as the asshat he has been.
I filmed Mr. Musk's guest lecture at Virginia Tech, and I remember him mentioning that LOX+Kerosene is also very cheap compared to other rocket fuel combinations. Part of SpaceX's design/implementation strategy is minimizing costs in order to undercut Boeing/Lockheed's prices, so that's just another reason to use it.
I've got a Myspace page, because it's the most convenient way to keep in touch with some of my old classmates. I've often thought about how few practical applications these kinds of 'social networking' sites provide, aside from general time-wasting. I've also scoffed at the number of young kids who have thousands of friends, as if it's the high school popularity contest in digital form.
./ers have insight as to what kind of malicious applications his XSS could be used for, I welcome the opportunity to learn. Also, what exactly IS XSS? Cross-site (to me) indicates that the script performs a function across multiple webpages... would this refer to all the peers in the Myspace cluster?
So this guy found a way to win the popularity contest. I scoff at him too, though at the same time I must laud him for his creativity. If other
Their documentation is already pretty good; between that and the forums, I don't see how useful live support would be; Gentoo has always seemed like the hobbyists' distro to me (disclaimer: I run it, and know people who use it in production environments). It just seems to me that if support is important to a person/firm, they'll pony up the $50/$100/$whatever for a license that offers support as well.
(Someone else want to check what happens when we burn all the coal?)
.5-5 degree C change in average global temperature... maybe more. Doesn't sound like much, but that's enough to wipe out a few sensitive animal and plant species. I also heard from my boss a few weeks ago that he read that a 2-degree average increase in the ocean's temperature could cause hurricane season to last year-round (scary, but another theory states that melting icecaps will interrupt the Gulf Stream, i.e. fewer hurricanes). That one's unsubstantiated.
Well, from what I've read on my own and learned in college the short answer is: 'we don't know'. But here's some info and theories:
Island nations are dealing with the fact that they're losing acreage to the encroaching ocean, and constantly rebuilding due to stronger and more frequent storms NOW. That helped to spark the Kyoto and Bonn summits.
If atmospheric carbon triples compared to present-day amounts, we can expect a
Plant growth will increase on average due to increased carbon, but some plants (conifers, corn and other C14 plants) which fix carbon more efficiently may outcompete other plants (oaks and other deciduous trees), leading to their endangerment.
So yeah, there's a lot of theories, and we don't know for sure, but I think it's the uncertainty that makes a lot of scientists sound very alarmist. For example, I for one enjoy backpacking through mature oak stands in the fall, and I also love oak furniture. It'd be a shame for them to become endangered due to the ability for a loblolly pine to grow faster than they can. And it'd be a shame if my children or grandchildren were unable to have access to the same types of forests for hiking and recreation in the fall or to have to settle for plantation-grown pine furniture (yes, they could deal, but I think sustainability is a far better goal than offering future generations our table scraps).
Hope that helps put things into perspective.
A swamp is a specific type of wetland. And they're useful beyond the fuzzy-cuddly factor (seriously, couldn't that also be called 'habitat'?). I know you're just trying to be sarcastic, but if New Orleans hadn't drained their wetlands for expansion and creation of their useless-in-this-scenario levees, they would act as an effective natural buffer for the storm surge that's tearing up the city right now. Belittle it all you want, but wetlands offer many functions and values that benefit urban areas (see also: chemical and sediment 'sinks', floodwater storage, biomass production, accumulation & creation of peat).
Before I RTFA, I would have said YES! But it looks like it uses PCI only for power; all data transfer is done over SATA-bus, which becomes the speed bottleneck at something around 150 Mbit/sec. Since that's the case, I don't see why they made it a PCI card at all... I assume the FPGA and the DDR memory require low-voltage power not offered by a normal hard-drive-style 12V molex connector. Meh.
:/
It just seems to me that the card itself is very bulky, and a similarly-priced RAMdisk with greater storage and a better form-factor is just waiting to be implemented. Oh, and it's not 4GB RAMdisk for $100, b/c you have to purchase the DDR as well
I've been following the work of the Otherpower.com folks for a while now. They're damn good DIY engineers. Not only are their wind turbines quite nice, but my interest was also piqued by their use of single-cylinder Lister engines. Coupled with a biodiesel recipe, it looks like they can run their entire shop for 8 hours on a single gallon of carbon-neutral gas.
One of my lifelong goals is to live simply, on a large plot of undeveloped land somewhere. I'm glad there are people like the Otherpower folks who are paving the way as far as alternative energy creation, and being considerate enough to document their work as they go.
Since he's returning to school and has some experience in the private sector, I beg to differ... This probably isn't a student-employee-type job, but more likely a salaried position. I've done both, and while I agree with you about student employment, there is most certainly more credibility associated with a salaried position, especially of a technical nature. As a programmer, he will [hopefully] have a chance to work some fairly groundbreaking or research-associated projects, although he did state whether or not this is a major research university he is courting.
I've had my salaried university position for 6 months (just had my performance review today, and it went quite well), and although my department is pretty laid-back, I think it's safe to say that it's not too bad. You actually have to work hard at sucking if you want to be fired. However, if you feel 'stuck' or want your job to provide more value than a paycheck, don't be afraid to network with faculty and staff to broaden your horizons or to find the position that most closely matches your interests or field of study.
Another thing -- beware faculty. My position involves development of course content, advertising material, etc (We are a video-production-oriented dept.) so I deal with all sorts, and I must say that many (not all) professors walk in with an ego so large it becomes the biggest setback to reaching a deadline or goal. Be accommodating in situations like these because they WILL NOT. Just leave your ego at home when you come to work in these sorts of scenarios.
so much to the aboriginal "living in harmony with nature" bullshit
You seem to think that not only is this not a worthy goal, but you also seem to believe that our complex civilization would have to debase itself to achieve this goal. Simply untrue. Intelligent natural resource management, coupled with the development of new energy sources, could bring us a lot closer to living in harmony (or closer to it) sooner than you think. All without the need to revert to hunter-gatherer lifestyles!
It seems like a lot of people these days believe anthropocentric falsehoods just because that's what they're comfortable with.
yea, and timothy said unto the unwashed masses:
/. degradation yet... or maybe I wasn't paying attention before.
"my bad. really."
--sigh-- this day has been the most evident of
dave, you seem a little bitter about last night's thread, but I won't hold it against you ;) You made some good points last night.
I could live with DRM'ed content if, as the article mentions, it is priced comparatively to a rental fee. However, if physical media were to go the way of the dodo and consumers were expected to accept DRM'ed downloads in lieu of owning physical media they could (by right) copy and manipulate for personal use, I don't think that would be an acceptable outcome. Several people mentioned last night that purchasing media give the purchaser rights to resell, copy, etc. Now if an EULA explicitly restricts you from doing these things and you still accept it, that's your problem. But if the day comes that consumers are given no choice (i.e. their rights to copy for personal use are negated by the fact that the only available format for purchase removes these rights), that's when DRM will start to smell funny to me.
Just my 2cents, and FWIW it seems like I fall somewhere in between daveschroeder's opinion, and the opinion of many other slashdotters who commented on the 'DVD Jon' story last night. But like you suggested dave, I do not patronize iTMS for the specific reason that DRM is not worth circumventing if the same media can be purchased on formats that don't restrict my personal choices.
That's really too bad. I don't use Yahoo! for much, but their Launch radio seems to depend heavily on some bastardized combo of IE and Flash (unless you're using the built-in radio in Yahoo! messenger). Either way, it really limits my choices when I'm sitting in front of my Linux box.
Apologies, but I must voice appreciation for your sarcasm ;-)
Parent is absolutely on the money. Our college's radio station, though operated independently of the institution, isn't exactly the most tech-savvy group of people, but when they began webcasting their stream again (after that whole pay-per-listener thing was waived for certain nonprofits) someone must have shown them the quality difference between mp3 and ogg, b/c they're streaming with ogg now at 67kbps. Give a listen if you're interested: http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg
It's the weekend == international programming == don't judge WUVT based on the Turkish pop music you might hear, it's an excellent station.
I don't want to troll, and this borders on OT, so I'll try to keep this short. I'll take my institution (Virginia Tech) as an example. If a larger fraction of football-related revenue (hell I'd be happy with just the TV revenue of 1.7 million dollars per season) were reinvested in research and education, we'd be making our way toward the 'top-notch' research and educational institution our mission statement claims. As it is, most of the football-related revenue that leaves the Athletic department goes into the building fund, and currently the most expensive construction project is (guess what!!) an expansion to the stadium.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but let me be one who says: Open-Source developers are my heroes. As a student who tried programming, but gave it up for another discipline, I'm both glad and relieved by Open-Source software, and am savvy enough to appreciate its advantages over a certain personal-computing alternative.
So, you keep coding it, and I'll keep using it, and one day there will be enough power-users like me to put a dent in overall market share measurements using the code you so carefully, thoughtfully, and freely provide. Kudos.
Give me Wordperfect = 5.0 any day. Oh, the good ole days of DOS, XtreeGold file manager, and Wordperfect, all on an 8088.
Yeah.
That's what I'm thinking. The Konfabulator site is down for the count, but this smacks of Gdesklets-style eye candy to me.... I wonder which once can claim prior art...
Photoshop 7 runs via wine.
Its latency is high, but most professional graphic designers have bitchin' systems anyways, and I bet a preemptible kernel would help alot too.
I guess it depends on the laptop. I run Linux on a Dell Latitute C610 at work/home, and most everything worked exactly as I expected, in both Fedora and Gentoo. Granted, it helps to have a fully-documented driverset, especially when it comes to wireless (mine is orinoco_cs), and Fedora Core 2 had this weird issue where it tried to start the wireless before it started PCMCIA, but a simple fix involving changing a filename was found on Google. I even wrote an init script that detects whether or not my laptop is docked, and it adjusts my xorg.conf file and network config files for dock and standalone usage.
;-)
I'm not saying that putting Linux on a desktop/laptop isn't ever a royal pain in the ass, but it's rarely impossible, and once you're done, you feel like you've accomplished something. That and the feeling that you're in total control of your system are two things that draw me to spending time doing it
I don't have the time or energy to RTFA (8am class tomorrow) but I assume that only AT&T's wireless subsidiary was purchased.
That said, I must admit my interest is speculative only. I don't own a mobile phone, nor do I plan to until I need it as a matter of profession. You wouldn't believe how many people walk mindlessly around campus, oblivious to the Real World(tm) because they're so engaged in the cellphone conversations. Makes me sick, especially since as a bicyclist, these normally sober and aware individuals turn into slalom cones.
Sleepy rant complete. 'Night all.
I'm too lazy to sift through the thread and see if someone's already answered this, but cows, sheep, goats, etc. will all eat trees. Specifically, this article is referring to natural regeneration; not trees in the large-and-I-can-make-furniture-out-of-them sense, but trees in the in-120-years-I-can-make-furniture-out-of-them-sens e. Nothing more than a branch sticking out the ground, so to speak. IAAPF (I am a Professional Forester) so I can say that some species are actually quite tasty too! (Sassafras tastes like root beer, and black birch tastes like wintergreen for example)
There isn't much point, unless you're a developer. Now I finally have an open-source solution to developing and testing SMIL content. Real is still a company not to be trusted, but when you're in a corporate setting where you've been locked into using Real codecs and SMIL for content creation, personal choice gets thrown out the window.