This kind of one upmanship is excellent on the whole for consumers like myself. However, I am going to be more than a little wary of new chipsets and chip designs in this kind of a cycle of fierce competition. Remember, testing is the easiest part of development to shorten, at least in a manager's eyes. These chips already have cooling systems from (or perhaps for) hell, and I'm going to wait until a certain ammount of "public beta testing" is over before I put them in a production system.
I would like to take my mother along to see what I'm sure will be an excellent movie. However, I am concerned about her tendency toward motion sickness. She can go to IMAX movies, but not the ones that have a lot of panning or swooping. (Something about the whole field of vision moving without moving her inner ear) So, whoever has seen the movie: is there a lot of rapid "camera" motion in this?
You are right. I am a bonehead. I got so excited my fingers kept flying but my brain disengaged. What I meant to say was "a supernovicular explosion of features".
Slashdot = News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Freshmeat = New cool open source related software. Not all of the new software is news, not all of the news is related to new software. But having the crossover in both places is good. Anyone who actually reads freshmeat can tell you, it's easy to let an important program get lost in the shuffle. There are now rougly 60 new items on freshmeat daily. As someone who reads both, I am glad to have the redundancy.
I'm so excited about XFree86 4.0 any new info should be written on the moon and stars. As I understand it, this will be a quantum leap forward in Gaming, Graphics and usability for Linux. Goodness knows we could use it.
Even just the stretching excercises help.
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I practice on and off, but simply doing the stretching excercises from class once or twice a day helps immensely. IMHO, any geek who is having the beginnings of wrist problems should find an advanced student to show them the simple stretches from class.
My uncle only has the use of three fingers on one hand and two on the other. (airplane hangar doors are heavier than they look) He has had great success with voice recognition software. (under Windoze admittedly) He can compose and send entire emails without touching the keyboard. The keyboard will never dissappear, but it's days as a primary interface may be limited.
One could see this as a protest against the failure to include UDMA support in other distributions. (There are very good reasons, certain drives spontaneously corrupt data under UDMA) In essence, getting UDMA to work under many distros is somewhat difficult and obscure. (you can email me for pointers,which are beyond the scope of this comment)
Many slashdot readers have a passion for computers that extends beyond any rational behavior.
I would work on (read 'play with') computers even if I weren't paid for it. I would use them even if it were proven that they made a third arm grow out of my forehead. I can attempt to justify my love of these wonderful machines, but I cannot truly explain it to someone who does not have a similar passion. To most passionate artists, engineers and authors the explanation is obvious, if somehow difficult to express in words. To the outsider, this fascination seems excessive, even pathological. Perhaps it is.
This kind of fervor is, I believe, the reason for studies like the Stanford study. As long as there are engineers, programmers and neophiles with a mad passion for one technology or annother, there will be psychologists with a need to show how these technologies can consume time to the exclusion of 'normal' behavior.
There is a huge ammount of information being passed around on the internet these days for Government and Military purposes. Though dwarfed by XNet and CorpNet, this is a signifigant ammount of traffic that doesn't easily fit into your other categories.
You will also notice that some of these categories get their own domain classes. (.mil.gov.com.edu) It would greatly serve the internet, IMHO, to have domain classes for each of these "continents". (.sex.tec.alt) This is what DNS was designed for, and it's sad to see this feature go unused.
Perhaps annother way for companies to generate revenue would be to include sufficiently generic distributed computational software with their clients. This kind of app could also appear in web pages as a Java applet. (I would, of course, advocate an option to turn it off, and "nice"ing of all processing) Imagine what kind of stock market analysis or data mining one could do with ICQ or yahoo.com so enabled. Companies would pay good money for access to such a powerful processing force.
If you give your real credit card number (and I'm not saying you shouldn't) Be very careful to cancel at the end of your trip. Several of my friends have ended up paying for many months of unused AOL simply because they forgot to cancel. (or in one case due to a postage goof when they did try to cancel through the mails, but the postage was insufficient)
I believe you could get a similar deal (with similar warnings to cancel) from earthlink.
The first is the free speech fight. I don't think this is one we can win. Repeated court rulings have shown that pornography simply doesn't fall under the first ammendment. Fine. (though we could probably lobby to have sexually explicit relegious content (like the bible) banned as well)
The second fight, however, is more subtile, and more suited to slashdot. This is the fight against poorly designed software. This may be a problem we can solve. Better "porn detection" software is a possible solution. Or perhaps a community effort to establish a better blacklist (perhaps some kind of open source censorware?) Or.sex (sexual content).off (offensive fortunes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H content).vil (violent content) and.reg (religious content) Surely the slashdot community has enough technopolitical leverage to convince NSI to enact and enforce these.
One reason that balance is forgotten is that it is always there. Aside from zero-g (which few of us experience at all, let alone often), there is always information for our sense of balance to pick up.
In addition, there is much less information to be picked up. I can smell the difference between cinnamon hazel nut bread and ordinary hazel nut bread, but there is only one down.
Or was it really a rhetorical question? I get so confused about these things...
Not only that, but the Barbie portion of Mattel represents more than half of their revenue.
Mind you, my information is at least two years old. This is lifted from an article I read about "skydancer" toys. (I think it was in the New York Times) The article was talking about trying to make a successful toy for girls that wasn't Barbie.
As I understand it the "Barbie Dance Studio" video game is actually quite successful.
This is an autocatalytic effect. The male targeted adds encourage a male demographic. The male demographic encourages male targeted adds. If you are really looking for an original cause, consider how male dominated the entire world of technology has been until recently.
Hopefully, the free market system represents a larger feedback loop that will slowly sap this autocatalisys.
On the other hand, one quick look at the (addmitedly younger) toy market shows a great deal of gender demographic targeting. (If Barbie were her own toy corporation, she would be the largest toy corporation in the world)
Yes, Caldera has a valid case. No, I don't think Microsoft should get away with with this kind of aggressive behavior. However, it can't be healthy for a company's future to invest in anything that might damage Microsoft. Shouldn't these companies be focusing on profit? Or at least making products that are better than Microsoft's? Adversarial behavior is ugly enough when it comes from Microsoft, but uglier still when it comes from companies I actually like.
My experience has been that shielding can become an issue in a situation like this. Sure, you can put it on a wall, but you must make sure that there are no other electronics or magnetic fields within 3 feet on either side of the wall.
I have worked for a government contractor for about a year now, and all I can say is yikes! There are mountains of obscure paperwork and requirements for everything you do. If you thought that the government passed a lot of laws controlling private citizens, you should see the laws it passes about itself!
The most recent move has been toward COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software. The real question is: is Open Source stuff COTS? The obvious answer is yes, but how do you convince someone who hasn't seen the real world since the 80's of this?
As and example of how wierd things get, someone periodically removes tcsh from our systems believing it to be "shareware" (and therefore not COTS). Since we all have/bin/tcsh in/etc/passwd, nobody can login. Eventually, someone with a backdoor (for just such a purpose) sneaks in and puts tcsh back.
I don't envy anyone trying to introduce anything "new" or "innovative" or even "useful" to the government.
It seems a shame that none of the journaling filesystems that are in the works are going to be ready in time for 2.4 (i.e. ext3, ReiserFS, or XFS) (unless I lost one of them somewhere in the alphabet soup)
There was some talk of these on Kernel Traffic, but apparently to no avail.
This is still one area that NT kinda shows linux up. (though there are plenty of bones to pick with NTFS, don't get me wrong) Not only that, but it's a neat, useful idea that adds much and takes nothing away. (I'm sure you'll be able to use ext2 'till the earth falls into the sun.)
In addition to being able to generate emails without the user's knowledge, the code can be engineered to forward emails from sent mail or saved mail folders.
This is the part that concerns me. It would be easy to catch someone who was using a malicious web page to spam. (find the source webtv address, ask them to check their history, sooner or later you'll find the offending page.) Finding someone who was using a malicious web page to read WebTV users' sent or saved mail folders might be a different story.
I would hope, for the sake of your survival, that you have a certain ammount of legal expertise on board now. Does "all comments are owned by those who posted them" really cover all legal possibilities? Are there still circumstances where you would have to delete a comment? What about slanderous / copyrighted / government secret material? Now that you actually have money, you are probably more of a target for legal action...
I have spent some time trying to think of a use for overclocking, and I can't. I seriously question the sanity of anyone who overclocks a production system. The speed of modern games seems more governed by the graphics card than the processor. (So I guess I understand overclocking your graphics card.) I can understand overclocking your chip for the sake of cool. But I can't imagine any good use for that kind of speed that couldn't be accomplished with SMP.
Given that Amazon doesn't need to make money, (which they do, eventually) they are still hurt by bad press. In essence, money comes from investors or profits. In the case of profit, the act of the boycott is effective. In the case of investors, one must merely give the very public impression that one is boycotting. So Amazon is, in fact, more vulnerable to this sort of activity, not less. (because it's easier said than done)
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This kind of one upmanship is excellent on the whole for consumers like myself. However, I am going to be more than a little wary of new chipsets and chip designs in this kind of a cycle of fierce competition. Remember, testing is the easiest part of development to shorten, at least in a manager's eyes. These chips already have cooling systems from (or perhaps for) hell, and I'm going to wait until a certain ammount of "public beta testing" is over before I put them in a production system.
I would like to take my mother along to see what I'm sure will be an excellent movie. However, I am concerned about her tendency toward motion sickness. She can go to IMAX movies, but not the ones that have a lot of panning or swooping. (Something about the whole field of vision moving without moving her inner ear) So, whoever has seen the movie: is there a lot of rapid "camera" motion in this?
I believe he uses one of the Dragonsys products. Email me if you want me to get more details from him.
You are right. I am a bonehead. I got so excited my fingers kept flying but my brain disengaged.
What I meant to say was "a supernovicular explosion of features".
Slashdot = News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Freshmeat = New cool open source related software.
Not all of the new software is news, not all of the news is related to new software. But having the crossover in both places is good. Anyone who actually reads freshmeat can tell you, it's easy to let an important program get lost in the shuffle. There are now rougly 60 new items on freshmeat daily. As someone who reads both, I am glad to have the redundancy.
I'm so excited about XFree86 4.0 any new info should be written on the moon and stars. As I understand it, this will be a quantum leap forward in Gaming, Graphics and usability for Linux. Goodness knows we could use it.
I practice on and off, but simply doing the stretching excercises from class once or twice a day helps immensely. IMHO, any geek who is having the beginnings of wrist problems should find an advanced student to show them the simple stretches from class.
My uncle only has the use of three fingers on one hand and two on the other. (airplane hangar doors are heavier than they look) He has had great success with voice recognition software. (under Windoze admittedly) He can compose and send entire emails without touching the keyboard. The keyboard will never dissappear, but it's days as a primary interface may be limited.
One could see this as a protest against the failure to include UDMA support in other distributions. (There are very good reasons, certain drives spontaneously corrupt data under UDMA) In essence, getting UDMA to work under many distros is somewhat difficult and obscure. (you can email me for pointers,which are beyond the scope of this comment)
Many slashdot readers have a passion for computers that extends beyond any rational behavior.
I would work on (read 'play with') computers even if I weren't paid for it. I would use them even if it were proven that they made a third arm grow out of my forehead. I can attempt to justify my love of these wonderful machines, but I cannot truly explain it to someone who does not have a similar passion. To most passionate artists, engineers and authors the explanation is obvious, if somehow difficult to express in words. To the outsider, this fascination seems excessive, even pathological. Perhaps it is.
This kind of fervor is, I believe, the reason for studies like the Stanford study. As long as there are engineers, programmers and neophiles with a mad passion for one technology or annother, there will be psychologists with a need to show how these technologies can consume time to the exclusion of 'normal' behavior.
There is a huge ammount of information being passed around on the internet these days for Government and Military purposes.
.gov .com .edu) .tec .alt)
Though dwarfed by XNet and CorpNet, this is a signifigant ammount of traffic that doesn't easily fit into your other categories.
You will also notice that some of these categories get their own domain classes. (.mil
It would greatly serve the internet, IMHO, to have domain classes for each of these "continents". (.sex
This is what DNS was designed for, and it's sad to see this feature go unused.
Perhaps annother way for companies to generate revenue would be to include sufficiently generic distributed computational software with their clients. This kind of app could also appear in web pages as a Java applet. (I would, of course, advocate an option to turn it off, and "nice"ing of all processing) Imagine what kind of stock market analysis or data mining one could do with ICQ or yahoo.com so enabled. Companies would pay good money for access to such a powerful processing force.
If you give your real credit card number (and I'm not saying you shouldn't) Be very careful to cancel at the end of your trip. Several of my friends have ended up paying for many months of unused AOL simply because they forgot to cancel. (or in one case due to a postage goof when they did try to cancel through the mails, but the postage was insufficient)
I believe you could get a similar deal (with similar warnings to cancel) from earthlink.
There are two fights here.
.sex (sexual content) .off (offensive fortunes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H content) .vil (violent content) and .reg (religious content) Surely the slashdot community has enough technopolitical leverage to convince NSI to enact and enforce these.
The first is the free speech fight. I don't think this is one we can win. Repeated court rulings have shown that pornography simply doesn't fall under the first ammendment. Fine. (though we could probably lobby to have sexually explicit relegious content (like the bible) banned as well)
The second fight, however, is more subtile, and more suited to slashdot. This is the fight against poorly designed software. This may be a problem we can solve. Better "porn detection" software is a possible solution. Or perhaps a community effort to establish a better blacklist (perhaps some kind of open source censorware?) Or
One reason that balance is forgotten is that it is always there. Aside from zero-g (which few of us experience at all, let alone often), there is always information for our sense of balance to pick up.
In addition, there is much less information to be picked up. I can smell the difference between cinnamon hazel nut bread and ordinary hazel nut bread, but there is only one down.
Or was it really a rhetorical question? I get so confused about these things...
Not only that, but the Barbie portion of Mattel represents more than half of their revenue.
Mind you, my information is at least two years old. This is lifted from an article I read about "skydancer" toys. (I think it was in the New York Times) The article was talking about trying to make a successful toy for girls that wasn't Barbie.
As I understand it the "Barbie Dance Studio" video game is actually quite successful.
This is an autocatalytic effect. The male targeted adds encourage a male demographic. The male demographic encourages male targeted adds. If you are really looking for an original cause, consider how male dominated the entire world of technology has been until recently.
Hopefully, the free market system represents a larger feedback loop that will slowly sap this autocatalisys.
On the other hand, one quick look at the (addmitedly younger) toy market shows a great deal of gender demographic targeting. (If Barbie were her own toy corporation, she would be the largest toy corporation in the world)
Yes, Caldera has a valid case.
No, I don't think Microsoft should get away with with this kind of aggressive behavior.
However, it can't be healthy for a company's future to invest in anything that might damage Microsoft.
Shouldn't these companies be focusing on profit? Or at least making products that are better than Microsoft's?
Adversarial behavior is ugly enough when it comes from Microsoft, but uglier still when it comes from companies I actually like.
My experience has been that shielding can become an issue in a situation like this. Sure, you can put it on a wall, but you must make sure that there are no other electronics or magnetic fields within 3 feet on either side of the wall.
I have worked for a government contractor for about a year now, and all I can say is yikes! There are mountains of obscure paperwork and requirements for everything you do. If you thought that the government passed a lot of laws controlling private citizens, you should see the laws it passes about itself!
/bin/tcsh in /etc/passwd, nobody can login. Eventually, someone with a backdoor (for just such a purpose) sneaks in and puts tcsh back.
The most recent move has been toward COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software. The real question is: is Open Source stuff COTS? The obvious answer is yes, but how do you convince someone who hasn't seen the real world since the 80's of this?
As and example of how wierd things get, someone periodically removes tcsh from our systems believing it to be "shareware" (and therefore not COTS). Since we all have
I don't envy anyone trying to introduce anything "new" or "innovative" or even "useful" to the government.
It seems a shame that none of the journaling filesystems that are in the works are going to be ready in time for 2.4 (i.e. ext3, ReiserFS, or XFS) (unless I lost one of them somewhere in the alphabet soup)
There was some talk of these on Kernel Traffic, but apparently to no avail.
This is still one area that NT kinda shows linux up. (though there are plenty of bones to pick with NTFS, don't get me wrong) Not only that, but it's a neat, useful idea that adds much and takes nothing away. (I'm sure you'll be able to use ext2 'till the earth falls into the sun.)
In addition to being able to generate emails without the user's knowledge, the code can be engineered to forward emails from sent mail or saved mail folders.
This is the part that concerns me. It would be easy to catch someone who was using a malicious web page to spam. (find the source webtv address, ask them to check their history, sooner or later you'll find the offending page.) Finding someone who was using a malicious web page to read WebTV users' sent or saved mail folders might be a different story.
I would hope, for the sake of your survival, that you have a certain ammount of legal expertise on board now. Does "all comments are owned by those who posted them" really cover all legal possibilities? Are there still circumstances where you would have to delete a comment? What about slanderous / copyrighted / government secret material? Now that you actually have money, you are probably more of a target for legal action...
You are going to pay for your overclocking in cooling equipment or reduced processor life. A hotter processor simply doesn't last as long.
I have spent some time trying to think of a use for overclocking, and I can't. I seriously question the sanity of anyone who overclocks a production system. The speed of modern games seems more governed by the graphics card than the processor. (So I guess I understand overclocking your graphics card.) I can understand overclocking your chip for the sake of cool. But I can't imagine any good use for that kind of speed that couldn't be accomplished with SMP.
Given that Amazon doesn't need to make money, (which they do, eventually) they are still hurt by bad press. In essence, money comes from investors or profits. In the case of profit, the act of the boycott is effective. In the case of investors, one must merely give the very public impression that one is boycotting. So Amazon is, in fact, more vulnerable to this sort of activity, not less. (because it's easier said than done)