The article failed to mention Matrox's staple of the stock-trading world, the G200 MMS. It's a quad-head card PCI card with ability to drive 4 DVI panels. I've been using one for about eighteen months now, and after using good DVI panels (I now have IBM 17" LCDs) I will never go back to an MM setup with analog panels. The difference in clarity and response is well worth it. http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/g200_mms/home .c fm
Righto to both of you. Thanks. Yeah, I guess most autonomous robots are pretty boring. But still, I think one could make a spastic fighting bot that would work on its own. Especially given that it will be operating within a closed ring on a flat surface, and all it will have to do is shoot anything that moves...:-)
The European Commission isn't actually very large and does not actually have a very large budget. Finding 250000 euros isn't necessarily that easy.
Nice story. I guess I spoke too soon... I should probably learn the difference between the "European Commission" and the "European Council" at some point. Especially as I'm about to marry in to EU citizenship...:-) (Czesc Kohanie!)
That they've only budgeted 250,000 euros for a study really shows that they are complacent with a Microsoft dominated IT scheme. That rather insignificant amount of money could easily be blown on six months of a consultant's time and stock research reports from Jupiter, Ovum, and Gartner.
CF-to-IDE adapter from various sources, for about $20
If CF-to-IDE adapters are so cheap, why are the CF based solid state IDE hard disks so expensive!?! I've been waiting for Sandisk's 1GB 2.5" ide drive to come down under $500 so I can replace my laptop drive. It doesn't look like that will happen any time soon.
No, the best way to build a battlebot is to spend half your time building and half your time driving.
This is precisely why I refuse to watch battlebots. As long as a human is driving it, it's nothing more than an RC car. A competition of autonomous robots, OTHO, I would be interested to see.
If you like, blame the tacit geek belief that any language they learn should allow inline assembler, have CORBA bindings, multithread, and let you hack a serial port monitor to control intelligent coffeemakers.
ColdFusion can connect to CORBA services. I use JacORB.;-)
This really is turning into a vi vs. emacs fight, all this PHP vs. Perl. But whatever. I mean, I like Pico.:-)~
Right now, only NBM (nothing but Microsoft) users and legacy systems run IIS. It doesn't offer anything valuable, except customer lock-in. (which is very valuable, but only for Microsoft)
There's no way you can back that statement up. Corporations generally have a few outward-facing web servers, and yes, these are most likely running apache, but the vast majority of Intranet web servers are still IIS. After that you'll see Lotus Domino and iPlanet, and then Apache.
(This is from my experience with large corporations, though the IT rags such as Information Week and Network Computing back me up.)
IIS is the standard for Intranet web servers for a reason - it's standard. It comes with every NT server. It's easy, and setup/administration hasn't changed in years. Any clown with knowledge of Windows can make it work, and it is stable and reliable.
In the last 7.5 years I have administered just about every popular web server written (including NCSA HTTPd, WebStar, and IIS on NT 3.51 back in the day). Of all of them, I've found IIS the easiest to work with. Coupled with Win2k workstation on the desktop, it's almost fun to administer them with MMC and watch their behavior with PerfMon.
The reason I deploy mainly IIS servers is that I can order a server from the IT department with a standard Win2k build and have secure applications (with access control) running on it within minutes of taking delivery of the box. Try that with a Solaris, Irix, or Linux box, I dare you. (Yes, I currently deploy and manage Apache on Solaris, Irix, and Linux, just not as often as IIS on NT/Win2k.)
Sure Open Source has a place in corporate webservers. That place just isn't big, and won't be until Apache is easy to configure and integrates seamlessly with Windows NT security. When an idiot with an IT degree from the local community college can integrate Apache on Unix with a corporate network and can authenticate users and implement access controls without opening a book, then Open Source will have arrived in the corporation, and will start to eat into IIS market share of the Intranet. Until then, it'll be fringe, relegated to use on big systems with unix sysadmins doing the implementation.
Gosh, I think I'll shave today, maybe wear some slacks, and I think I'll stand at the coffee machine for half the day talking about some TV movie I didn't watch last night.
Maybe I'll even spend an hour in the cafe, instead of taking my lunch back to the office so I can work while eating.
I'll definitely take a double-dose of antidepressants and maybe some pain killers. I'm sure people will like me better if I do.
To quote the protagonist from As Good as it Gets, "You make me want to be a better man.":-)
Incidentally, I don't know why anyone bothers with logging referrer information.
It's good to know who is sending users to a dead link. Just by checking the referrer information for the 404 entries in your logs can determine what website is pointing users to a document that you have deleted or moved.
She had V-Shield on there from 1999. She had no idea that she would need to update it.
Newer products do solve this problem without customer education. My McAfee VirusScan checks for updates daily and generally downloads new definitions once or twice a week. I don't have to take the initiative to update it or buy new software.
What bugs me is the two stories about the Linux Grafitti was all about a good advertising scheme, and this is about 'vandalization'. Petty narrowmindedness is annoying.
Quit whining. The IBM Linux ads were portrayed as vandalization and grafitti on Slashdot too. IBM was reprimanded by SF, Chicago, Cambridge, etc., and it was reported about on Slashdot.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/21/0212208.sh tm l
"Just look at an HTML file exported form Word2k. I would not call that compatible with any HTML I've ever learned"
The trick is, does it validate to W3C specs? Last time I checked, though it was a disaster to look at, it did indeed validate.
I frequently receive Word and Excel documents that need to be presented on the web. Generally I leave them as-is, storing them in a document management system and just serving metadata via the web, but on occasion I do a conversion. Though the HTML output from Word 2k is ugly, it is machine readable (for parsing and cleaning) and perfectly compliant.
Re:Highway funds only persuasive to some states
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"Specifically, highway funds come from a Federal pool to which each state contributes according to their ability, and from which funds are allocated to each state, according to their need."
Ooh those are dirty, fighting words. Methinks someone has had their head in Any Rand lately.
Just remember, there are two kinds of freedom: freedom to, and freedom from.
While I enjoy the freedom to go 65 mph in my German car with four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes, I also enjoy the freedom from those in other, less safe cars going 90 miles an hour. Most cars on the road today were not designed with safe driving at speeds higher than 65 in mind, especially SUVs and Geo Metros. Speed limits at least allow the cops to pull over those with less regard for life than I.
Though libertarian at heart, I also agree that given the current system, Motorcycle helmets also need to be legislated due to the exhoribtant cost of injuries to helmetless drivers thrust upon taxpayers. The pragmatist says freedom from paying to fix the head of some anonymous helmetless driver is more important than the freedom to ride without a helmet. (now if we ditched all public support for health care it would be a different story. no helmet? no money or insurance to pay for brain surgery? see ya. too bad. hope you end up in heaven.)
Guess it comes down to one simple thing: How much is a human life worth?
Economically I am sure one can put a price tag on it, the question is should you?
The worth of a human life is a very interesting question.
You could measure their earning potential, or even extrapolate the economic impact of their presence or absence to their family, friends and country. If it were all economic worth though, you'd find many people with negative value - liabilities, as opposed to assets. Then what to do?
To answer the question you have to have some way of quantifying their non-economic value.
It'll be interesting to see how non-economic value is taken in to account by the judge dispersing funds to families of 9/11 victims.
Peace Corps does have a number of things going for it:
The "things going for it" you list don't exactly coincide with the poster's desires, but at least they're accurate.
I found that the Peace Corps bureaucracy is pretty much the worst nightmare of any free thinking geek. And the tech jobs they talk about just don't exist. While I wouldn't trade my time as a volunteer for anything, I certainly wouldn't sign up again.
I was accepted in 1997, invited in 1998, delayed, invited, delayed, and finally made it to Poland in 1999. I had planned to teach networking skills, having owned an ISP in the early days. I ended up as an English teacher in a rural school, because that's pretty much what Peace Corps does. The school treated me like a kid, because that's what their previous volunteers were.
I resigned after a year in-country, (having outlasted almost half of PC Poland 15) resolving never to work for the US Government again.
I certainly see myself volunteering again, but next time will be with a privately funded NGO. Or maybe just on my own.
Advice to poster: steer clear of Peace Corps. Do some serious research before committing to any organization. Or if you're not of that mindset, put $4000 in your bank account, grab "Lonely Planet" Eastern Europe, and wander around for a year. Email me if you like - I know your situation well.
The Brazilians should make biodiesel fuel from sugar cane instead
No, they shouldn't.
Biodiesel is a lipid. A lipid is a glycerol with three fatty acid chains attached. We've all heard of such lipids as Soybean oil, Corn oil, Canola oil, and Peanut oil. But has anyone ever heard of "Sugar Cane oil?" No, because it isn't efficient to turn sugar cane into a lipid.
Sugar cane produces sugar (CnH2nOn). It is efficient to turn this into alcohol, which will power a gasoline based engine.
Just as you don't put diesel in a gas engine, you don't put gas in a diesel engine.
The Brizilians have it right, and should not be making biodiesel from their sugar cane.
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The article failed to mention Matrox's staple of the stock-trading world, the G200 MMS. It's a quad-head card PCI card with ability to drive 4 DVI panels. I've been using one for about eighteen months now, and after using good DVI panels (I now have IBM 17" LCDs) I will never go back to an MM setup with analog panels. The difference in clarity and response is well worth it.
e .c fm
http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/g200_mms/hom
I have 140GB of OGGs and MP3s, 500GB of DivXs and VCDs (including porn), 100GB of installed games, 6 different OSes, and all kinds of other crap.
Yes, but do you have a life?
"capsules 2 feet in diameter and 8 feet long could be used for one person lying down" (from the faq)
I wonder... who in the world would climb into a capsule lying down to use this transport? Even space capsules of the 1960s had more room!
Righto to both of you. Thanks. Yeah, I guess most autonomous robots are pretty boring. But still, I think one could make a spastic fighting bot that would work on its own. Especially given that it will be operating within a closed ring on a flat surface, and all it will have to do is shoot anything that moves... :-)
The European Commission isn't actually very large and does not actually have a very large budget. Finding 250000 euros isn't necessarily that easy.
:-) (Czesc Kohanie!)
Nice story. I guess I spoke too soon... I should probably learn the difference between the "European Commission" and the "European Council" at some point. Especially as I'm about to marry in to EU citizenship...
That they've only budgeted 250,000 euros for a study really shows that they are complacent with a Microsoft dominated IT scheme. That rather insignificant amount of money could easily be blown on six months of a consultant's time and stock research reports from Jupiter, Ovum, and Gartner.
CF-to-IDE adapter from various sources, for about $20
If CF-to-IDE adapters are so cheap, why are the CF based solid state IDE hard disks so expensive!?! I've been waiting for Sandisk's 1GB 2.5" ide drive to come down under $500 so I can replace my laptop drive. It doesn't look like that will happen any time soon.
No, the best way to build a battlebot is to spend half your time building and half your time driving.
This is precisely why I refuse to watch battlebots. As long as a human is driving it, it's nothing more than an RC car. A competition of autonomous robots, OTHO, I would be interested to see.
If you like, blame the tacit geek belief that any language they learn should allow inline assembler, have CORBA bindings, multithread, and let you hack a serial port monitor to control intelligent coffeemakers.
;-)
:-)~
ColdFusion can connect to CORBA services. I use JacORB.
This really is turning into a vi vs. emacs fight, all this PHP vs. Perl. But whatever. I mean, I like Pico.
Right now, only NBM (nothing but Microsoft) users and legacy systems run IIS. It doesn't offer anything valuable, except customer lock-in. (which is very valuable, but only for Microsoft)
There's no way you can back that statement up. Corporations generally have a few outward-facing web servers, and yes, these are most likely running apache, but the vast majority of Intranet web servers are still IIS. After that you'll see Lotus Domino and iPlanet, and then Apache.
(This is from my experience with large corporations, though the IT rags such as Information Week and Network Computing back me up.)
IIS is the standard for Intranet web servers for a reason - it's standard. It comes with every NT server. It's easy, and setup/administration hasn't changed in years. Any clown with knowledge of Windows can make it work, and it is stable and reliable.
In the last 7.5 years I have administered just about every popular web server written (including NCSA HTTPd, WebStar, and IIS on NT 3.51 back in the day). Of all of them, I've found IIS the easiest to work with. Coupled with Win2k workstation on the desktop, it's almost fun to administer them with MMC and watch their behavior with PerfMon.
The reason I deploy mainly IIS servers is that I can order a server from the IT department with a standard Win2k build and have secure applications (with access control) running on it within minutes of taking delivery of the box. Try that with a Solaris, Irix, or Linux box, I dare you. (Yes, I currently deploy and manage Apache on Solaris, Irix, and Linux, just not as often as IIS on NT/Win2k.)
Sure Open Source has a place in corporate webservers. That place just isn't big, and won't be until Apache is easy to configure and integrates seamlessly with Windows NT security. When an idiot with an IT degree from the local community college can integrate Apache on Unix with a corporate network and can authenticate users and implement access controls without opening a book, then Open Source will have arrived in the corporation, and will start to eat into IIS market share of the Intranet. Until then, it'll be fringe, relegated to use on big systems with unix sysadmins doing the implementation.
Gosh, I think I'll shave today, maybe wear some slacks, and I think I'll stand at the coffee machine for half the day talking about some TV movie I didn't watch last night.
:-)
Maybe I'll even spend an hour in the cafe, instead of taking my lunch back to the office so I can work while eating.
I'll definitely take a double-dose of antidepressants and maybe some pain killers. I'm sure people will like me better if I do.
To quote the protagonist from As Good as it Gets, "You make me want to be a better man."
Incidentally, I don't know why anyone bothers with logging referrer information.
It's good to know who is sending users to a dead link. Just by checking the referrer information for the 404 entries in your logs can determine what website is pointing users to a document that you have deleted or moved.
Again I believe Slashdot has fallen victim to guerilla marketing. Were the poster in fact a real person, they would have linked to their university.
The post might as well have been straight from a textbook. No facts, just unsubstantiated hype.
The question is: who is the poster working for? Acer? Microsoft?
(And the next question is, why is Taco falling for this shit?)
I wonder whether we will see a small blade housing being sold for desktop use.
I think this is what you're looking for:
from rocketcalc
as seen on slashdot
(granted it was a long time ago...)
She had V-Shield on there from 1999. She had no idea that she would need to update it.
Newer products do solve this problem without customer education. My McAfee VirusScan checks for updates daily and generally downloads new definitions once or twice a week. I don't have to take the initiative to update it or buy new software.
What bugs me is the two stories about the Linux Grafitti was all about a good advertising scheme, and this is about 'vandalization'. Petty narrowmindedness is annoying.
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Quit whining. The IBM Linux ads were portrayed as vandalization and grafitti on Slashdot too. IBM was reprimanded by SF, Chicago, Cambridge, etc., and it was reported about on Slashdot.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/21/0212208.s
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/04/19/ibm
a convient and fairly comprehensive translation table
That's one of the more frightening things I've ever seen the US government do. I wonder if it was for the sake of W...
"Just look at an HTML file exported form Word2k. I would not call that compatible with any HTML I've ever learned"
The trick is, does it validate to W3C specs? Last time I checked, though it was a disaster to look at, it did indeed validate.
I frequently receive Word and Excel documents that need to be presented on the web. Generally I leave them as-is, storing them in a document management system and just serving metadata via the web, but on occasion I do a conversion. Though the HTML output from Word 2k is ugly, it is machine readable (for parsing and cleaning) and perfectly compliant.
"How is this better than a signed hash of the image?"
A signed hash can be separated from an image, while this type of watermarking cannot.
I have yet to actually see anyone making the claim of "Increased costs of healthcare" actually produce figures to back it up.
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Having debated this issue while in college, I've done my homework. Here's some reading:
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/s
"Specifically, highway funds come from a Federal pool to which each state contributes according to their ability, and from which funds are allocated to each state, according to their need."
Ooh those are dirty, fighting words. Methinks someone has had their head in Any Rand lately.
Just remember, there are two kinds of freedom: freedom to, and freedom from.
While I enjoy the freedom to go 65 mph in my German car with four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes, I also enjoy the freedom from those in other, less safe cars going 90 miles an hour. Most cars on the road today were not designed with safe driving at speeds higher than 65 in mind, especially SUVs and Geo Metros. Speed limits at least allow the cops to pull over those with less regard for life than I.
Though libertarian at heart, I also agree that given the current system, Motorcycle helmets also need to be legislated due to the exhoribtant cost of injuries to helmetless drivers thrust upon taxpayers. The pragmatist says freedom from paying to fix the head of some anonymous helmetless driver is more important than the freedom to ride without a helmet. (now if we ditched all public support for health care it would be a different story. no helmet? no money or insurance to pay for brain surgery? see ya. too bad. hope you end up in heaven.)
Guess it comes down to one simple thing: How much is a human life worth?
Economically I am sure one can put a price tag on it, the question is should you?
The worth of a human life is a very interesting question.
You could measure their earning potential, or even extrapolate the economic impact of their presence or absence to their family, friends and country. If it were all economic worth though, you'd find many people with negative value - liabilities, as opposed to assets. Then what to do?
To answer the question you have to have some way of quantifying their non-economic value.
It'll be interesting to see how non-economic value is taken in to account by the judge dispersing funds to families of 9/11 victims.
Peace Corps does have a number of things going for it:
The "things going for it" you list don't exactly coincide with the poster's desires, but at least they're accurate.
I found that the Peace Corps bureaucracy is pretty much the worst nightmare of any free thinking geek. And the tech jobs they talk about just don't exist. While I wouldn't trade my time as a volunteer for anything, I certainly wouldn't sign up again.
I was accepted in 1997, invited in 1998, delayed, invited, delayed, and finally made it to Poland in 1999. I had planned to teach networking skills, having owned an ISP in the early days. I ended up as an English teacher in a rural school, because that's pretty much what Peace Corps does. The school treated me like a kid, because that's what their previous volunteers were.
I resigned after a year in-country, (having outlasted almost half of PC Poland 15) resolving never to work for the US Government again.
I certainly see myself volunteering again, but next time will be with a privately funded NGO. Or maybe just on my own.
Advice to poster: steer clear of Peace Corps. Do some serious research before committing to any organization. Or if you're not of that mindset, put $4000 in your bank account, grab "Lonely Planet" Eastern Europe, and wander around for a year. Email me if you like - I know your situation well.
An entire OS running natively in 64-bit mode.
Gee. It'll almost be like my AlphaStation, which has been running 64 bit Linux since 1998!
The Brazilians should make biodiesel fuel from sugar cane instead
No, they shouldn't.
Biodiesel is a lipid. A lipid is a glycerol with three fatty acid chains attached. We've all heard of such lipids as Soybean oil, Corn oil, Canola oil, and Peanut oil. But has anyone ever heard of "Sugar Cane oil?" No, because it isn't efficient to turn sugar cane into a lipid.
Sugar cane produces sugar (CnH2nOn). It is efficient to turn this into alcohol, which will power a gasoline based engine.
Just as you don't put diesel in a gas engine, you don't put gas in a diesel engine.
The Brizilians have it right, and should not be making biodiesel from their sugar cane.