Well I still like paper books. I find it far easier to read if it is printed, I can't even read more than a page or two of a pdf before I print it out...
Enter Amazon, and the Kindle! I soooooooooooooooooooo want one. The display quality is absofrickinlutely awesome for ebooks. The guy next to me on my last chicago-nashville flight had one and I got to -touch- it.. Ok, That sounds a little weird. Suffice it to say that after a brief in-person kindle experience I am now a convert.
Amazon: You need to find somebody to show these off. The pictures really do not do it justice.... Back to the OP, this is just another step in the evolution of publishing, quite similar to the paradigm shift in the recording industry. Books that are available electronically are currently the exception to the rule and that will change in our lifetimes. Major publishers are currently the only way to get wide circulation of a book. That too will change.
Sadly, the $300 textbook is not likely to disappear any time in the near future.
SPAWAR has been able to reproduce the experiment and publish results. Correct me if I am wrong here, but that vindicates the original Fleischmann & Pons experiment. Therefore != debacle?
To me SPAWAR's more interesting experiments are the anomalous heat from electrolytic cells series. They were able to reproduce excess heat effects as well as transmute Tungsten into a number of other elements. A lot of reactions can be explained away chemically but transmutation has to be a nuclear effect.*
-ellie
* My apologies to any budding alchemists out there.
Script Picture of a cellphone. Text appears "I'm Linux". A person grabs it and says, "I'm free." Picture of a TomTom. The tomtom voice says "I'm Linux". Camera pans out to a person driving the car. "I'm free." Picture of an Olpc. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Camera pans out to remote village with small child that says "I'm free." Picture of racks full of servers. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Camera pans to It person. "I'm free." Picture of a netbook. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Camera pans out to student in crowded lecture hall. "I'm free." Picture of a desktop. Some flashy video editing running. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Pan out to office scene with skyline view visible through windows. "We're free." Picture of a boxed copy of Linux. "I'm Linux". Voice over. "Try it, It's Free."
Too bad the entry period is over, this would be a pretty cool commercial.
After the recent high-profile battery failures and recalls, part of me wonders if a Li-Ion battery discharging in 10s is such a great idea. How many years ago was it that we had credible airlines considering banning in-flight battery use?
According to Mr. Childs, the passwords were requested by his skip-skip-level boss, 2 HR people, and an unknown number of people listening in via speakerphone in an unscheduled meeting he was pulled into while onsite at one of the office locations. A Police detective was also standing by.
I can only hope the true story of what happens here comes out eventually.. but that is unlikely.
Hi. You should take a look at archive.org and the wayback machine. They have the existing infrastructure and technology to maintain this sort of archive. If you are looking for a problem to solve, get to work on figuring out how to archive all the content hidden behind forms and web 2.0 technologies.
Donations can be sent to..
Internet Archive 116 Sheridan Avenue Presidio of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94129
For just pennies a day, you too can help support a struggling website, and provide desperately needed electrons for a whole village of archived content.
Did it change? When I was there (2002) they had just transitioned to a a one-day exam format that consisted of configuring a number of routers (8) with a crapton of different technologies. The primary network was frame-relay with OSPF. On top of that there was an isdn dial backup site, an Atm point-to-point link (and you had to configure the PVC in the atm switch) a Token ring switch I never did manage to get right, and Cat 6x Ethernet switches. I had to configure a single voip station and some SNA transport. The IPX was fairly minimal, assigning IPX addresses and something with SAP.
On top of the physical technologies there was OSPF across the core network plus rip, eigrp, igrp, and BGP redistributed a half-dozen different ways.
Referring to the OP, it is worth noting that Gmail has a Beer goggles plugin available. It should prevent this, unless you do 3rd grade math in your sleep.
-ellie
OpenArena, Bzflag, and Armagetron would also be top picks.
Please, for the love of god and country, DO NOT PUT FROZEN BUBBLE ON THERE.. Frozen bubble has stolen days..weeks.. years? of my life. Please, stop the madness. End the addiction cycle. Do not further the spread of Frozen Bubble.
On second thought, frozen bubble would be fine. A little couldn't hurt right? I think I'll go play right now. Just one game? One game won't hurt. I can quit after one game.
Stanford's CS106A Programming Methodology course is available on free YouTube. I wish it had been there when I was 14. It would have saved a lot of bad code over the years. Thanks Mr. Sahami.
It teaches object oriented programming and top down design in an accessible way. It also passes my equivalent of the Girlfriend test. (You didn't think we knew about the girlfriend test, 'eh? )
End of life, no. End of civilization, yes. Part of me wants to say we would die of hypoxia first, but another part of me says that excessive CO2 would cause death first, and a third part says that some die-hards would probably jig up electrolysis units or scavenge enough Liquid/compressed O2 to stay alive until they had the luxury of starving to death.
I assumed that most/.'rs would understand that to mean a 50% drop in the remaining 50%, or x/(2^n) where n is the successive reduction. Comparative to the original number that would be 50-25-12.5-6.25-3.125-1.625-.8125.
A much more interesting top ten would be the myriad ways that civilization could end. The next article on the main page discusses possible environmental causes of a 50% drop in sperm counts. Double that a few more times and you get a tidy end to civilization, attrition. Then there are natural or man made pandemics, massive climate changes, global thermonuclear war. How about a subtle shift in one of the universal constants of physics? The universe isn't going to keep expanding forever either. Too far fetched? Take heart, evolution is cooking up lots of nasty little things to use against us too.
My personal favorite end-of-civilization would be the global spread of a hardy airborne virus that causes plants to be unable to photosynthesize. Fin.
In firefox, ctrl-f is the find command. According to Ctrl-f, Ping wasn't in either of the parents. I was talking about "it takes 30 ms to get a full data packet from A, and 140 ms from B" I'll take A as the preferred host.
_or_
A is 4 hops away, B is 13, prefer host A logic.
Neither is perfect, and they accomplish different goals. The low-hop-count goal would benefit ISP's. The low latency method benefits... em... nobody? Unless Latency is a function of hop count or congestion...
Slashdot Mirror
Well I still like paper books. I find it far easier to read if it is printed, I can't even read more than a page or two of a pdf before I print it out...
Enter Amazon, and the Kindle! I soooooooooooooooooooo want one. The display quality is absofrickinlutely awesome for ebooks. The guy next to me on my last chicago-nashville flight had one and I got to -touch- it.. Ok, That sounds a little weird. Suffice it to say that after a brief in-person kindle experience I am now a convert.
Amazon: You need to find somebody to show these off. The pictures really do not do it justice. ... Back to the OP, this is just another step in the evolution of publishing, quite similar to the paradigm shift in the recording industry. Books that are available electronically are currently the exception to the rule and that will change in our lifetimes. Major publishers are currently the only way to get wide circulation of a book. That too will change.
Sadly, the $300 textbook is not likely to disappear any time in the near future.
-ellie
Ok Mr. sun, bring it on. I can network _and_ blacksmith. :D
-ellie
And you didn't even mention the Hydrino theory, from the fellow that that thinks he is stripping off 1/2 of the electron from a Hydrogen. ;)
SPAWAR has been able to reproduce the experiment and publish results. Correct me if I am wrong here, but that vindicates the original Fleischmann & Pons experiment. Therefore != debacle?
To me SPAWAR's more interesting experiments are the anomalous heat from electrolytic cells series. They were able to reproduce excess heat effects as well as transmute Tungsten into a number of other elements. A lot of reactions can be explained away chemically but transmutation has to be a nuclear effect.*
-ellie
* My apologies to any budding alchemists out there.
Script
Picture of a cellphone. Text appears "I'm Linux". A person grabs it and says, "I'm free."
Picture of a TomTom. The tomtom voice says "I'm Linux". Camera pans out to a person driving the car. "I'm free."
Picture of an Olpc. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Camera pans out to remote village with small child that says "I'm free."
Picture of racks full of servers. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Camera pans to It person. "I'm free."
Picture of a netbook. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Camera pans out to student in crowded lecture hall. "I'm free."
Picture of a desktop. Some flashy video editing running. Screen Text "I'm Linux". Pan out to office scene with skyline view visible through windows. "We're free."
Picture of a boxed copy of Linux. "I'm Linux". Voice over. "Try it, It's Free."
Too bad the entry period is over, this would be a pretty cool commercial.
After the recent high-profile battery failures and recalls, part of me wonders if a Li-Ion battery discharging in 10s is such a great idea. How many years ago was it that we had credible airlines considering banning in-flight battery use?
-ellie
Gm needs to defend their position on the Volt.. not because of the cost of the tech, but because they took a progressive looking concept car... and made it look like the bastard child of a prius and an aveo. link.. requires flash.. click photo gallery
A PDF version instead of two-paragraphs per page hunt-and-click-next would be really nice..
Am I the only one that read this and said "That is effing awsome?"
According to Mr. Childs, the passwords were requested by his skip-skip-level boss, 2 HR people, and an unknown number of people listening in via speakerphone in an unscheduled meeting he was pulled into while onsite at one of the office locations. A Police detective was also standing by.
I can only hope the true story of what happens here comes out eventually.. but that is unlikely.
-e.g.
Should we move the wayback machine to sealand? They have a rather optimistic view of copyright law.
-ellie
Att: Lynne Brindley
c/o the British Library
Hi. You should take a look at archive.org and the wayback machine. They have the existing infrastructure and technology to maintain this sort of archive. If you are looking for a problem to solve, get to work on figuring out how to archive all the content hidden behind forms and web 2.0 technologies.
Donations can be sent to..
Internet Archive
116 Sheridan Avenue
Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94129
For just pennies a day, you too can help support a struggling website, and provide desperately needed electrons for a whole village of archived content.
-ellie
I absolutely love that movie!
xoxoxo tiny cute robots!
Sorry, my fangirl is showing.
-ellie
How many self-replicating-self-assembling robots have you seen. .. 0? The DIY stereo lithograph is close, but that self-assembling bit kills it.
-ellie
Did it change? When I was there (2002) they had just transitioned to a a one-day exam format that consisted of configuring a number of routers (8) with a crapton of different technologies. The primary network was frame-relay with OSPF. On top of that there was an isdn dial backup site, an Atm point-to-point link (and you had to configure the PVC in the atm switch) a Token ring switch I never did manage to get right, and Cat 6x Ethernet switches. I had to configure a single voip station and some SNA transport. The IPX was fairly minimal, assigning IPX addresses and something with SAP.
On top of the physical technologies there was OSPF across the core network plus rip, eigrp, igrp, and BGP redistributed a half-dozen different ways.
All in 8 hours.
That was a long day.
-ellie
Like I'll have any left following the divorce and child abandonment lawsuits. :) Sorry, I can't afford to be an enabler, I'm already addicted.
Does anyone else feel that "Perfectly Safe" needed quotation marks or an asterisk or something?
Referring to the OP, it is worth noting that Gmail has a Beer goggles plugin available. It should prevent this, unless you do 3rd grade math in your sleep. -ellie
Lol, I had uninstalled Crack Attack at the insistence of my SO and Kids. :) Thanks for the reminder!
-ellie
I second Wesnoth.
OpenArena, Bzflag, and Armagetron would also be top picks.
Please, for the love of god and country, DO NOT PUT FROZEN BUBBLE ON THERE.. Frozen bubble has stolen days..weeks.. years? of my life. Please, stop the madness. End the addiction cycle. Do not further the spread of Frozen Bubble.
On second thought, frozen bubble would be fine. A little couldn't hurt right? I think I'll go play right now. Just one game? One game won't hurt. I can quit after one game.
-ellie
Stanford's CS106A Programming Methodology course is available on free YouTube. I wish it had been there when I was 14. It would have saved a lot of bad code over the years. Thanks Mr. Sahami.
It teaches object oriented programming and top down design in an accessible way. It also passes my equivalent of the Girlfriend test. (You didn't think we knew about the girlfriend test, 'eh? )
-ellie
End of life, no. End of civilization, yes. Part of me wants to say we would die of hypoxia first, but another part of me says that excessive CO2 would cause death first, and a third part says that some die-hards would probably jig up electrolysis units or scavenge enough Liquid/compressed O2 to stay alive until they had the luxury of starving to death.
Fin.
I assumed that most /.'rs would understand that to mean a 50% drop in the remaining 50%, or x/(2^n) where n is the successive reduction. Comparative to the original number that would be 50-25-12.5-6.25-3.125-1.625-.8125.
-ellie
A much more interesting top ten would be the myriad ways that civilization could end. The next article on the main page discusses possible environmental causes of a 50% drop in sperm counts. Double that a few more times and you get a tidy end to civilization, attrition. Then there are natural or man made pandemics, massive climate changes, global thermonuclear war. How about a subtle shift in one of the universal constants of physics? The universe isn't going to keep expanding forever either. Too far fetched? Take heart, evolution is cooking up lots of nasty little things to use against us too.
My personal favorite end-of-civilization would be the global spread of a hardy airborne virus that causes plants to be unable to photosynthesize. Fin.
Now back to the news,
-ellie
In firefox, ctrl-f is the find command. According to Ctrl-f, Ping wasn't in either of the parents. I was talking about "it takes 30 ms to get a full data packet from A, and 140 ms from B" I'll take A as the preferred host.
_or_
A is 4 hops away, B is 13, prefer host A logic.
Neither is perfect, and they accomplish different goals. The low-hop-count goal would benefit ISP's. The low latency method benefits... em... nobody? Unless Latency is a function of hop count or congestion...