Nothing, at least as far as I can tell. It's just like any other transaction when dealing with Tiger Direct. I've bought from them a number of times, everything shipped on time, never had a defective part arrive, and that hasn't been the case with every tech shop I've dealt with. People say all sorts of horrible things about them on a regular basis and I just haven't had that experience. Now I deal with tigerdirect.ca - same company as I understand it, but maybe it's the US side of the company that gets people up in arms. Use your head and make sure you research what you are buying before you spend your money, not every deal they have is so great, but welcome to the reality of commerce.
Betavoltaics, the method that the new battery uses, has been around for half a century, but its usefulness was limited due to its low energy yields. The new battery technology makes its successful gains by dramatically increasing the surface area where the current is produced. The Advanced Materials paper details how these wells were dug in a random fashion, yielding a 10-fold increase in current over the conventional design. The team is already working on a technique to create and line the wells in a much more uniform, lattice formation that should increase the energy produced by as much as 160-fold over current technology.
It was all in the article, they aren't increasing the number of particles but the number that actually get intercepted and used to generate energy. Did you read that essay the same way?
Alice Walker? Who is that? Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers.
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18, 1939. She published her first book of poetry in 1961 while attending the University of Toronto. She later received degrees from both Radcliffe College and Harvard University, and pursued a career in teaching at the university level.
Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale in West Berlin and Alabama in the mid-1980s. The novel, published in 1986, quickly became a best-seller. The Handmaid's Tale falls squarely within the twentieth-century tradition of anti-utopian, or "dystopian" novels, exemplified by classics like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984.
Yes I agree that the US seems to be trying to develop a theocracy in recent years. Of course the nice thing about democracy is that the madness comes in waves. At some point the pendulum should oscillate back and the US will calm down.
this guy puts out the articles every 3 weeks, crying about how his freedoms are restricted or the dangers of the Canadian governments latest proposal for regulations. Honestly he would be better off living in china or russia where he could really have something to complain about. I honestly can't stand this guy. Take everything he says with a grain of salt and remember that he is all about the worst case scenarios even if they don't actually come close to the reality.
"So Doug,' he growled, 'We're gonna eat a little lunch, maybe take a few moments to go over the idea and the money - and then we're gonna talk about what kinda animal ya like to sleep with..."
who ever had this conversation.
not that they are making things easy on themselves the past few weeks with nasty lawsuits and sneaky business practices, but damn when did they become the evil empire? next thing you know they fall into a pool of molten lava and get some cool head gear.
The researchers programmed E. coli bacteria to emit red or green fluorescent light in response to a signal emitted from another set of E. coli. The living cells were commanded to make a bull's-eye pattern, for example, around central cells based on communication between the bacteria.
The bacteria "have an exquisite capability to sense molecules in the environment," he said.( Ron Weiss) "The bull's-eye could tell you: This is where the anthrax is."
Pretty fascinating stuff, stuff like bacteria and viruses have been kicking our asses for years really, sure antibiotics gave us a temporary edge, but now we have super dooper antibiotic resistant versions. All our approaches have really been hit and miss, but now we can develop and program our own little bacteria super soldiers and fight them on their own terms with intelligent strategy backing us up.
I know that this is way down the list so unlikely to be read - however here goes - I'm running open office 2.0 on 4 computers I maintain for my family. I dumped MSOffice off of them months ago since it was starting to get really annoying to steal a copy with all the appropiate patches and stuff. It is a very powerful application which for the student of the house has been more then enough to allow them to complete their assignemnts, and the compatibility with MSOffice is better and better with each release. I have more problem opening an MSOffice doc in OO then opening an OO doc saved as MSOffice format in MSOffice. There is a number of tutorials online for the Open Office products as well to help people get started, though if you have used a word processor before then OO should be easy enough to pick up. For people who really want to tweak their word processor OO offers that ability by allowing you to modify menus and the design of documents, which is really usefull to hardcore writers.
Essentially the same idea to me, however people seem to agree it's common sense to lock their doors and forget to do so with files that represent an investment upon someones part. Strangely though in my rural community nobody locks their doors and and theft rates are lower then in the cities. Either way what is interesting to note is my government has never felt it necessary to legislate the locking of doors.
We were concerned that even with all of the advancements with online media in the past few years, it was still pretty difficult just to find new independent music that you liked.
It sounds like all the elements have finally come together for this kind of program. This kind of software could be used one day to share other independantly produced media - ie books, movies, and really fancy flash stuff:). Basically whatever we can produce for the medium can be shared and evaluated by others, ideally with cream floating to top.
The article also mentions this is based on iRate with a cleaner interface.
Wow what a stupid thread was spawned off of my comment. Seriously would a 13 year old today even know what a Super Famicom is? Granted my sentence structure was crude(call it creative license) but comprehension must have been running low today. 14 years ago when the SNES came out I was 13, do the math and that means I'm 54 today. Jesus, what a bunch of monkeys. I was really hoping to hear about all the great products that most of us who grew up in the Console ERA wished for but never received for whatever reason, or in the end having received were oh so disappointed. The Neo Geo Gold (ass kicker, no games though), the portable Turbo Graphix 16 (I love BONK), The ATARI Lynx (damn what a sexy portable), my god what great devices that didn't survive. Remember the rumoured mega machine from Sony and NES, or the SGI based N64 which really wasn't SGI based and the Virtual Boy with it's oh so cool design? Hours I spent poring over specs for these items before they were released, just dreaming of the video game power that would be mine if I could afford it, and if it was ever released.
I tell you as a 13 year old I learned more about the economics and marketing tricks of consumer electronics by waiting and waiting for my Super Famicom - uhm I mean SNES (North American release), Just watching all the consoles that never were (err the Play Station was, though Nintendo bailed) showed me how committed to product schedules Nintendo was.
I left enexplained and likely understood I hope that the PM coordinates regular meetings (with agenda's, minutes and all that) on the products design, development, and testing on a regular basis (weekly)with all involved parties (devs,QA,Mkting,etc) to ensure that the product is matching the expectations laid out in the documentation.
A Good Product Manager
This person should follow the development of a product from beginning to end, and document as well as be responsible for the production of the Design Requirements.
The Product Manager should work in the business/marketing side of the company, as ultimately the customer will determine the success of the product, however they should have a strong enough background in the technologies that they aren't some caricature from a Dilbert cartoon. It isn't necessary to define individual segments of code since the basic technologies may change by the time the project moves to design and later phases - but the end results of the implementation of the elements of the product should be documented, the developers can then always know what their product should be capable of. Of course everybody who does work should be documenting their work and ideally to document specs laid out by the Product Manager to ensure consistency with all the product materials.
Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, JFCCNW
Man what a painful acronym, however it's being disregarded for most of the article and replaced with : Computer Network Attack, or as some military personnel refer to it, CNA.
"I've got to tell you we spend more time on the computer network attack business than we do on computer network defence because so many people at very high levels are interested," said former CNA commander, Air Force Maj. Gen. John Bradley
Which is funny since the DoD was targeted:
last year nearly 75,000 times with intrusion attempts.
So what do they really have as a mission for this group? Verton said the unit's capabilities are highly classified, but he believes they can destroy networks and penetrate enemy computers to steal or manipulate data.
Nice, a govt funded agency with little regard for the institutions it's supposed to protect (free speech and due process) or other nations sovereignty and the apparent mission plan of 13 year old script kiddies everywhere. Where's the story?
sure sure, that would work great to track leaks from external recipients of internal apple documents, but I was talking about people and documents internal to the company. If I was an employee of Apple leaking info I wouldn't use a unique codename that was only on docs I had, I'd use the general internal codename that everybody else uses. Internally, the code name could be something that doesn't get out at all
That's what I was talking about - operating on the premise that Q86J was an internal code name. The structure of it seems to indicate it's some sort of unique identifier - other identifiers wouldn't be synonyms, they would also be unique. Could you imagine the conversation:
so how's work coming on Q86J?
huh? you mean M32T right?
uhh, no I think I mean P78N, you know, also called B23L.
Well it'd be pretty confusing if everybody at the office was using different code names for the same project, and there aren't a lot a lost of synonyms for Q86J.
Two eMac models, code-named Q86J
I remember reading about different techniques to track leaks of top secret documents from the CIA, one method was to use synonyms of different words in each copy of the document and see if the leaks used the same synonyms in their materials. While I doubt the code-name is an example of this, I wonder in Apple's quest to track it's leaks what kind of internal tracking/security features it's using for documents about new products.
I always knew that StopLights were a binary system,
Green go, Yellow go faster. Never figured out that red one, maybe it's just a fancy case mod.
Freaky, someone I dated 10 years ago is stopping light, well her legs could stop traffic, so I guess she's taken it to the next level.
I put in the explanation, because I personally hesitate before clicking unexplained links in a post.(something about people promoting their own websites through slashdot posts) I did click that link in the end, realized that the poster wasn't a nut, and threw up a comment on it for others like me. Dood was trying to be funny, but his little sentence at the beginning doesn't really provide enough info to let you know that he isn't a crackpot.
This is apparently a randomly generated complaint letter, and not the ravings of a mad AC who hates slashdot. Though I could be wrong, it's so close to so many other posts I've seen, but usually those people don't AC themselves.
see all this time and money being invested into research to block killing babies. But we need to rethink our premises: does killing babies even need to be blocked? Is it actually a problem?
What you call "killing babies", I call "emails that help me learn about the latest products, websites, and business models". You want less of it? I want MORE of it. "killing babies" keeps me informed about the world. And the fact is, consumers LIKE killing babies. Why do you think killing babies is profitable? Because people buy the products advertised! Studies show that 3 in 5 people who dislike "killing babies" have actually bought something online. So frankly, you need to be real careful about how you define "killing babies" because you could be targeting something you LIKE.
Well they weren't really a spam company, they sold software that allowed you to generate spam messages. I was going to do some telephone sales for them, cold call their market (I know, it's evil but I was calling corporations, not individuals, and I needed some cash) but after I got a copy of their software and became familiar with it's capabilities I felt icky, like I stepped in something, I couldn't in good conscience work for them. It had been presented to me as a customer contact software package - but it had too many little sneaky features that marked it to me as spam software, (built in SMTP server, throttle control on smtp activity so your ISP didn't get mad at you, and a bunch of message generation/tracking options) or at least there was nothing stopping customers from using it in that way, no matter how the company described their product.
Thanks for reading today. I know it was quite a commitment to make it through these 21 pages, but I hope it was of some value to you.
It's either actually doing this myself on a budget - and it was painful - I never seem to buy stable powersupplies, or supported hardware, and blood is surprisingly conductive.
I wasn't offended at all. It's pretty clear that people hate the implication that their country isn't better then all the others on the basis of an earth shattering result in a programming contest. Just as I was tickled pink to see Waterloo in the top 4. However no matter how good our programming is in Canada - we just don't have the military forces to arbitrarily invade countries on flimsy pretexts - so they can whip it out, measure and feel better.
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing, at least as far as I can tell. It's just like any other transaction when dealing with Tiger Direct. I've bought from them a number of times, everything shipped on time, never had a defective part arrive, and that hasn't been the case with every tech shop I've dealt with. People say all sorts of horrible things about them on a regular basis and I just haven't had that experience. Now I deal with tigerdirect.ca - same company as I understand it, but maybe it's the US side of the company that gets people up in arms. Use your head and make sure you research what you are buying before you spend your money, not every deal they have is so great, but welcome to the reality of commerce.
Betavoltaics, the method that the new battery uses, has been around for half a century, but its usefulness was limited due to its low energy yields. The new battery technology makes its successful gains by dramatically increasing the surface area where the current is produced.
The Advanced Materials paper details how these wells were dug in a random fashion, yielding a 10-fold increase in current over the conventional design. The team is already working on a technique to create and line the wells in a much more uniform, lattice formation that should increase the energy produced by as much as 160-fold over current technology.
It was all in the article, they aren't increasing the number of particles but the number that actually get intercepted and used to generate energy. Did you read that essay the same way?
Alice Walker? Who is that? Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers.
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18, 1939. She published her first book of poetry in 1961 while attending the University of Toronto. She later received degrees from both Radcliffe College and Harvard University, and pursued a career in teaching at the university level.
Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale in West Berlin and Alabama in the mid-1980s. The novel, published in 1986, quickly became a best-seller. The Handmaid's Tale falls squarely within the twentieth-century tradition of anti-utopian, or "dystopian" novels, exemplified by classics like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984.
Yes I agree that the US seems to be trying to develop a theocracy in recent years. Of course the nice thing about democracy is that the madness comes in waves. At some point the pendulum should oscillate back and the US will calm down.
this guy puts out the articles every 3 weeks, crying about how his freedoms are restricted or the dangers of the Canadian governments latest proposal for regulations. Honestly he would be better off living in china or russia where he could really have something to complain about. I honestly can't stand this guy. Take everything he says with a grain of salt and remember that he is all about the worst case scenarios even if they don't actually come close to the reality.
"So Doug,' he growled, 'We're gonna eat a little lunch, maybe take a few moments to go over the idea and the money - and then we're gonna talk about what kinda animal ya like to sleep with..."
who ever had this conversation.
not that they are making things easy on themselves the past few weeks with nasty lawsuits and sneaky business practices, but damn when did they become the evil empire? next thing you know they fall into a pool of molten lava and get some cool head gear.
The researchers programmed E. coli bacteria to emit red or green fluorescent light in response to a signal emitted from another set of E. coli. The living cells were commanded to make a bull's-eye pattern, for example, around central cells based on communication between the bacteria. The bacteria "have an exquisite capability to sense molecules in the environment," he said.( Ron Weiss) "The bull's-eye could tell you: This is where the anthrax is."
Pretty fascinating stuff, stuff like bacteria and viruses have been kicking our asses for years really, sure antibiotics gave us a temporary edge, but now we have super dooper antibiotic resistant versions. All our approaches have really been hit and miss, but now we can develop and program our own little bacteria super soldiers and fight them on their own terms with intelligent strategy backing us up.
I know that this is way down the list so unlikely to be read - however here goes - I'm running open office 2.0 on 4 computers I maintain for my family. I dumped MSOffice off of them months ago since it was starting to get really annoying to steal a copy with all the appropiate patches and stuff. It is a very powerful application which for the student of the house has been more then enough to allow them to complete their assignemnts, and the compatibility with MSOffice is better and better with each release. I have more problem opening an MSOffice doc in OO then opening an OO doc saved as MSOffice format in MSOffice. There is a number of tutorials online for the Open Office products as well to help people get started, though if you have used a word processor before then OO should be easy enough to pick up. For people who really want to tweak their word processor OO offers that ability by allowing you to modify menus and the design of documents, which is really usefull to hardcore writers.
Essentially the same idea to me, however people seem to agree it's common sense to lock their doors and forget to do so with files that represent an investment upon someones part. Strangely though in my rural community nobody locks their doors and and theft rates are lower then in the cities. Either way what is interesting to note is my government has never felt it necessary to legislate the locking of doors.
We were concerned that even with all of the advancements with online media in the past few years, it was still pretty difficult just to find new independent music that you liked. :). Basically whatever we can produce for the medium can be shared and evaluated by others, ideally with cream floating to top.
It sounds like all the elements have finally come together for this kind of program. This kind of software could be used one day to share other independantly produced media - ie books, movies, and really fancy flash stuff
The article also mentions this is based on iRate with a cleaner interface.
Wow what a stupid thread was spawned off of my comment. Seriously would a 13 year old today even know what a Super Famicom is? Granted my sentence structure was crude(call it creative license) but comprehension must have been running low today. 14 years ago when the SNES came out I was 13, do the math and that means I'm 54 today. Jesus, what a bunch of monkeys.
I was really hoping to hear about all the great products that most of us who grew up in the Console ERA wished for but never received for whatever reason, or in the end having received were oh so disappointed. The Neo Geo Gold (ass kicker, no games though), the portable Turbo Graphix 16 (I love BONK), The ATARI Lynx (damn what a sexy portable), my god what great devices that didn't survive. Remember the rumoured mega machine from Sony and NES, or the SGI based N64 which really wasn't SGI based and the Virtual Boy with it's oh so cool design? Hours I spent poring over specs for these items before they were released, just dreaming of the video game power that would be mine if I could afford it, and if it was ever released.
I tell you as a 13 year old I learned more about the economics and marketing tricks of consumer electronics by waiting and waiting for my Super Famicom - uhm I mean SNES (North American release), Just watching all the consoles that never were (err the Play Station was, though Nintendo bailed) showed me how committed to product schedules Nintendo was.
I left enexplained and likely understood I hope that the PM coordinates regular meetings (with agenda's, minutes and all that) on the products design, development, and testing on a regular basis (weekly)with all involved parties (devs,QA,Mkting,etc) to ensure that the product is matching the expectations laid out in the documentation.
A Good Product Manager
This person should follow the development of a product from beginning to end, and document as well as be responsible for the production of the Design Requirements.
The Product Manager should work in the business/marketing side of the company, as ultimately the customer will determine the success of the product, however they should have a strong enough background in the technologies that they aren't some caricature from a Dilbert cartoon. It isn't necessary to define individual segments of code since the basic technologies may change by the time the project moves to design and later phases - but the end results of the implementation of the elements of the product should be documented, the developers can then always know what their product should be capable of. Of course everybody who does work should be documenting their work and ideally to document specs laid out by the Product Manager to ensure consistency with all the product materials.
Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, JFCCNW
Man what a painful acronym, however it's being disregarded for most of the article and replaced with :
Computer Network Attack, or as some military personnel refer to it, CNA. "I've got to tell you we spend more time on the computer network attack business than we do on computer network defence because so many people at very high levels are interested," said former CNA commander, Air Force Maj. Gen. John Bradley
Which is funny since the DoD was targeted:
last year nearly 75,000 times with intrusion attempts.
So what do they really have as a mission for this group?
Verton said the unit's capabilities are highly classified, but he believes they can destroy networks and penetrate enemy computers to steal or manipulate data.
Nice, a govt funded agency with little regard for the institutions it's supposed to protect (free speech and due process) or other nations sovereignty and the apparent mission plan of 13 year old script kiddies everywhere. Where's the story?
sure sure, that would work great to track leaks from external recipients of internal apple documents, but I was talking about people and documents internal to the company. If I was an employee of Apple leaking info I wouldn't use a unique codename that was only on docs I had, I'd use the general internal codename that everybody else uses.
Internally, the code name could be something that doesn't get out at all
That's what I was talking about - operating on the premise that Q86J was an internal code name. The structure of it seems to indicate it's some sort of unique identifier - other identifiers wouldn't be synonyms, they would also be unique. Could you imagine the conversation:
so how's work coming on Q86J?
huh? you mean M32T right?
uhh, no I think I mean P78N, you know, also called B23L.
Well it'd be pretty confusing if everybody at the office was using different code names for the same project, and there aren't a lot a lost of synonyms for Q86J.
Two eMac models, code-named Q86J
I remember reading about different techniques to track leaks of top secret documents from the CIA, one method was to use synonyms of different words in each copy of the document and see if the leaks used the same synonyms in their materials. While I doubt the code-name is an example of this, I wonder in Apple's quest to track it's leaks what kind of internal tracking/security features it's using for documents about new products.
I always knew that StopLights were a binary system, Green go,
Yellow go faster.
Never figured out that red one, maybe it's just a fancy case mod.
Freaky, someone I dated 10 years ago is stopping light, well her legs could stop traffic, so I guess she's taken it to the next level.
I put in the explanation, because I personally hesitate before clicking unexplained links in a post.(something about people promoting their own websites through slashdot posts) I did click that link in the end, realized that the poster wasn't a nut, and threw up a comment on it for others like me. Dood was trying to be funny, but his little sentence at the beginning doesn't really provide enough info to let you know that he isn't a crackpot.
This is apparently a randomly generated complaint letter, and not the ravings of a mad AC who hates slashdot. Though I could be wrong, it's so close to so many other posts I've seen, but usually those people don't AC themselves.
Spam = killing babies
see all this time and money being invested into research to block killing babies. But we need to rethink our premises: does killing babies even need to be blocked? Is it actually a problem?
What you call "killing babies", I call "emails that help me learn about the latest products, websites, and business models". You want less of it? I want MORE of it. "killing babies" keeps me informed about the world. And the fact is, consumers LIKE killing babies. Why do you think killing babies is profitable? Because people buy the products advertised! Studies show that 3 in 5 people who dislike "killing babies" have actually bought something online. So frankly, you need to be real careful about how you define "killing babies" because you could be targeting something you LIKE.
Well they weren't really a spam company, they sold software that allowed you to generate spam messages. I was going to do some telephone sales for them, cold call their market (I know, it's evil but I was calling corporations, not individuals, and I needed some cash) but after I got a copy of their software and became familiar with it's capabilities I felt icky, like I stepped in something, I couldn't in good conscience work for them. It had been presented to me as a customer contact software package - but it had too many little sneaky features that marked it to me as spam software, (built in SMTP server, throttle control on smtp activity so your ISP didn't get mad at you, and a bunch of message generation/tracking options) or at least there was nothing stopping customers from using it in that way, no matter how the company described their product.
It's either actually doing this myself on a budget - and it was painful - I never seem to buy stable powersupplies, or supported hardware, and blood is surprisingly conductive.
or making it through the reading of the article
I wasn't offended at all. It's pretty clear that people hate the implication that their country isn't better then all the others on the basis of an earth shattering result in a programming contest. Just as I was tickled pink to see Waterloo in the top 4. However no matter how good our programming is in Canada - we just don't have the military forces to arbitrarily invade countries on flimsy pretexts - so they can whip it out, measure and feel better.