In an ironic historical twist, you don't call for the Calvary anymore . . . call for a Navajo Code Talker . . .
Of course, large criminal gangs will also start recruiting native talkers . . . just like criminals pay for information from informants in the police themselves. But this will at least cut out the phone app scanner crowd . . .
. . . until someone writes an app to translate Navajo in real-time.
Any good suggestions, or should I wait for Tizen devices to hit the market?
I haven't seen much from Tizen beyond their initial press release. And, yes, I subscribe to their mailing list. So I would speculate that it is all chartware at the moment. Maybe we will see a Tizen SDK next year sometime. And maybe even devices in 2013. Or maybe, like Maemo and MeeGo before it, just before it is ready to go prime time . . . someone will say, "Hey, let's give it a new name and start all over again, yippee!"
MeeGoo is already alive and kicking on the Nokia N9. It's a lot of fun having a cell phone that you can VNC to, mount with SSHFS, etc. Is all this necessary? No, but it's fun.
Supercomputer buyer: " . . . a shrubbery! One that looks nice . . . and not too expensive . . . "
Supercomputer seller: "Um . . . okay . . . "
Supercomputer buyer: ". . . and . . . another shrubbery . . . only a bit higher, so we get the two level effect, with a path down the middle for the service technician to walk along . . . "
Supercomputer seller: "Your supercomputer shall be the fastest in the world . . . for a few weeks, anyway . . . and it will look nice!"
What if Apple built a supercomputer? Those accessories would cost a fortune, but you could really flaunt them to the supercomputing community.
. . . along with
* an external hard drive
* empower + ac adapter, with anything-to-anything plug adapter
* 5 port netgear switch
* a few cables
* gaffer tape
* leatherman
* cable ties
Hell, with all that stuff, MacGyver could build an atomic powered laser . ..
And after a particularly problematic experience in Gaza, I've added a tiny USB keyboard to the list.
"Mr. President, I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy at the bottom of some of our deeper mine shafts . . . Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years."
"Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
Levying taxes is like plucking a live goose for feathers: you want to get a maximum number of feathers, with the least amount of fuss. There is no point in taxing poor folks . . . they have no money. If you tax everyone directly, you end up with a lot of fussy geese on your streets, like in Greece.
Everyone knows that the Internet is awash in gazillions of money. So tax the ISPs. The geese don't see the tax directly, but the ISP passes the costs on to them indirectly.
Everyone likes to see a tax on other folks than themselves. They hear "Rich Internet Companies" are paying the tax, and feel that the ISPs are just paying their fair share.
I would personally prefer an http://improveverywhere.com/ WikiLeaks Theater Orchestration. On one day, lots of folks all over the world get dressed up like cold war movie land spies: beige raincoat, sunglasses, a newspaper, and a briefcase full of play money. Then they follow officials leaving government buildings, and offer them the briefcase for a leak, insisting, "Julian sent me!"
. . . and don't forget the sign/countersign . . . "It is warm in Moscow this spring . . . The camels are in heat . . . "
The gag here, is that all these government officials would report these bizarre incidents, and the security services will be totally baffled.
Oh, and some officials might actually take the play money.
Outside of the Geek and Government universes, most normal folks probably have no idea what WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are.
No, you're thinking of the broken toilet on the IIS. Trapped in close quarters with a bunch of other folks, orbiting the Earth in a tin can . . . and the toilet doesn't work.
That, my friends, is a zero gravity fate worse then death. I wonder if they have NASA air freshener spray up there?
No, the government is just being selective about who they save in the event of a catastrophe. Apparently, they believe that we will need NPR listeners in the post-apocalyptic world. Alt Rock and R&B listeners, they think they can do without.
What about security threats that exist in dimensions prophesied by String Theory? These areas cannot ignored, or death shall await us, for sure, from dimension N + 1 . . . with huge pointy teeth . . .
Here is an interesting scientific question: Does receiving a royal title make you wacky? Or are wacky folks given royal titles?
A "Baroness," you say? Well, I never voted for her. Or are such titles the result of hurling scimitars in mythical aquatic ceremonies?
However, her Wikipedia entry seems to indicate that she is a serious scientist, with a popular science sideshow. Which baffles me a bit, as to her statement and, more so, her reaction to the criticism.
So does dabbling in popular science erode scientific thinking and skills . . . ? Where is The Bad Astronomer when you need him . . . ?
I would like to meet the Baroness. Maybe she could answer a question that has bothered me all my life:
On their Website ( http://www.streetscooter.eu/ ) they mention "Mobilitätsdienstleistungen" (chew on THAT German word for breakfast!). They want to offer "car sharing" and "leasing" packages as well. Also, that the car is for short hops (SDV: Short Distance Vehicle), just like a Straßenroller (scooter), for the most common short trips. It was started by a couple of university professors, and grew into a consortium; some of the partners: http://www.streetscooter.eu/unternehmen-a-strategie/wer-sind-unsere-partner.html .
Have a look at the site, even if you don't speak German. The site is so full of English buzzwords, that you will be able to figure out what they are talking about.
Oh, and there is a cool Godzilla-esque picture of a giant kid stepping over Autobahn overpasses . . .
So I guess they have an astroturfing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing) department, as well. They spread positive stuff on America's actions in foreign social networks.
So I hope that the mining folks don't pick up something spread by their own astroturfing folks. Gee, wouldn't that be a major failure of intelligence gathering.?
I picked up a cheap external 2T Seagate drive yesterday at my local discount supermarket, in their specials sections. I guess that they are not aware of the disk shortage, and thus didn't raise the price on it. Now in a computer or electronics store, it is probably a different story. They have "heard" about the shortage, and thus have raised the prices. If everyone keeps talking about the shortage, the prices will continue to rise, despite the supply. For a while, at least.
"CNN - Due to a glitch in Research In Motion's infrastructure, all combat operations for this week have ceased. Now to our correspondent in the field . . . what's going on down there on the field, Nic?"
"Well, both sides have laid down their arms, and are gaming with each other instead . . . not much to report here . . . you got some old Lindsay Lohan footage to show instead . . . ?"
This could have been a hoot and a half, if people actually believed that it was happening, like with Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds"- Folks driving around in pickups, blasting away at anything that moves with shotguns.
It would certainly get the voters' minds off economic problems.
Slashdot Mirror
They sure worked well in World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
In an ironic historical twist, you don't call for the Calvary anymore . . . call for a Navajo Code Talker . . .
Of course, large criminal gangs will also start recruiting native talkers . . . just like criminals pay for information from informants in the police themselves. But this will at least cut out the phone app scanner crowd . . .
. . . until someone writes an app to translate Navajo in real-time.
Any good suggestions, or should I wait for Tizen devices to hit the market?
I haven't seen much from Tizen beyond their initial press release. And, yes, I subscribe to their mailing list. So I would speculate that it is all chartware at the moment. Maybe we will see a Tizen SDK next year sometime. And maybe even devices in 2013. Or maybe, like Maemo and MeeGo before it, just before it is ready to go prime time . . . someone will say, "Hey, let's give it a new name and start all over again, yippee!"
MeeGoo is already alive and kicking on the Nokia N9. It's a lot of fun having a cell phone that you can VNC to, mount with SSHFS, etc. Is all this necessary? No, but it's fun.
Supercomputer seller: "What do you want in your supercomputer?"
Supercomputer buyer: "640K petaflop/s, Intel Gargantuaium nodes, POWER9 nodes, SPARC and Kindle nodes . . . "
Supercomputer seller: "Anything else . . . ?"
Supercomputer buyer: " . . . a shrubbery! One that looks nice . . . and not too expensive . . . "
Supercomputer seller: "Um . . . okay . . . "
Supercomputer buyer: ". . . and . . . another shrubbery . . . only a bit higher, so we get the two level effect, with a path down the middle for the service technician to walk along . . . "
Supercomputer seller: "Your supercomputer shall be the fastest in the world . . . for a few weeks, anyway . . . and it will look nice!"
What if Apple built a supercomputer? Those accessories would cost a fortune, but you could really flaunt them to the supercomputing community.
. . . along with
* an external hard drive
* empower + ac adapter, with anything-to-anything plug adapter
* 5 port netgear switch
* a few cables
* gaffer tape
* leatherman
* cable ties
Hell, with all that stuff, MacGyver could build an atomic powered laser . . .
And after a particularly problematic experience in Gaza, I've added a tiny USB keyboard to the list.
Hmmm . . . I must have missed that episode . . .
"Mr. President, I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy at the bottom of some of our deeper mine shafts . . . Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years."
"Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
Levying taxes is like plucking a live goose for feathers: you want to get a maximum number of feathers, with the least amount of fuss. There is no point in taxing poor folks . . . they have no money. If you tax everyone directly, you end up with a lot of fussy geese on your streets, like in Greece.
Everyone knows that the Internet is awash in gazillions of money. So tax the ISPs. The geese don't see the tax directly, but the ISP passes the costs on to them indirectly.
Everyone likes to see a tax on other folks than themselves. They hear "Rich Internet Companies" are paying the tax, and feel that the ISPs are just paying their fair share.
Except for a few folks on Slashdot . . .
I would personally prefer an http://improveverywhere.com/ WikiLeaks Theater Orchestration. On one day, lots of folks all over the world get dressed up like cold war movie land spies: beige raincoat, sunglasses, a newspaper, and a briefcase full of play money. Then they follow officials leaving government buildings, and offer them the briefcase for a leak, insisting, "Julian sent me!"
. . . and don't forget the sign/countersign . . . "It is warm in Moscow this spring . . . The camels are in heat . . . "
The gag here, is that all these government officials would report these bizarre incidents, and the security services will be totally baffled.
Oh, and some officials might actually take the play money.
Outside of the Geek and Government universes, most normal folks probably have no idea what WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are.
. . . the Earth's core might have concealed weapons in there . . .
. . . and fondle the Earth's fiery crotch just to make sure . . .
a zero gravity death trap.
No, you're thinking of the broken toilet on the IIS. Trapped in close quarters with a bunch of other folks, orbiting the Earth in a tin can . . . and the toilet doesn't work.
That, my friends, is a zero gravity fate worse then death. I wonder if they have NASA air freshener spray up there?
No, the government is just being selective about who they save in the event of a catastrophe. Apparently, they believe that we will need NPR listeners in the post-apocalyptic world. Alt Rock and R&B listeners, they think they can do without.
See my submission for Bloomberg's non-paywall version: http://slashdot.org/submission/1842986/barnes-noble-urges-us-to-probe-microsoft-o
Ehh, nothing a good lick won't fix!
. . . or the tape will stick to your tongue. This sounds like "licking a flag pole in winter advice" . . .
(Having had Geckos, I know that they actually do this quite a bit.)
Yeah, but did they hobble around with their feet stuck to their tongues . . . ?
What about security threats that exist in dimensions prophesied by String Theory? These areas cannot ignored, or death shall await us, for sure, from dimension N + 1 . . . with huge pointy teeth . . .
there is nothing cyborg about this.
. . . yet . . .
"Oh, my God! The vat of yeast has formed into a giant yeast-hand, which is fiddling with the flashing red light control!"
Beware of the coming yeast infection . . .
Here is an interesting scientific question: Does receiving a royal title make you wacky? Or are wacky folks given royal titles?
A "Baroness," you say? Well, I never voted for her. Or are such titles the result of hurling scimitars in mythical aquatic ceremonies?
However, her Wikipedia entry seems to indicate that she is a serious scientist, with a popular science sideshow. Which baffles me a bit, as to her statement and, more so, her reaction to the criticism.
So does dabbling in popular science erode scientific thinking and skills . . . ? Where is The Bad Astronomer when you need him . . . ?
I would like to meet the Baroness. Maybe she could answer a question that has bothered me all my life:
"Who's been sleeping in my brain?"
On their Website ( http://www.streetscooter.eu/ ) they mention "Mobilitätsdienstleistungen" (chew on THAT German word for breakfast!). They want to offer "car sharing" and "leasing" packages as well. Also, that the car is for short hops (SDV: Short Distance Vehicle), just like a Straßenroller (scooter), for the most common short trips. It was started by a couple of university professors, and grew into a consortium; some of the partners: http://www.streetscooter.eu/unternehmen-a-strategie/wer-sind-unsere-partner.html .
Have a look at the site, even if you don't speak German. The site is so full of English buzzwords, that you will be able to figure out what they are talking about.
Oh, and there is a cool Godzilla-esque picture of a giant kid stepping over Autobahn overpasses . . .
So I guess they have an astroturfing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing) department, as well. They spread positive stuff on America's actions in foreign social networks.
So I hope that the mining folks don't pick up something spread by their own astroturfing folks. Gee, wouldn't that be a major failure of intelligence gathering.?
Gee, $1M could sure buy a lot of these: http://www.amazon.com/Battery-Operated-Tennis-Racket-Shaped/dp/B003U55W6Y
And Mr Gates could certainly strong arm a much better price out of the supplier, or just buy the manufacturer.
The downside is that once in your hand, you cannot remove the racket, and are forced to buy upgrades.
"A Tennis Racket Bug Zapper For Every Child!"
I picked up a cheap external 2T Seagate drive yesterday at my local discount supermarket, in their specials sections. I guess that they are not aware of the disk shortage, and thus didn't raise the price on it. Now in a computer or electronics store, it is probably a different story. They have "heard" about the shortage, and thus have raised the prices. If everyone keeps talking about the shortage, the prices will continue to rise, despite the supply. For a while, at least.
You can't sue. You broke the seal on the EULA when you opened the car door.
EULA Rule Number One: "No suing!"
"The producer of this vehicle is not responsible if it starts driving like someone out of "Death Race 2000"
"You bought it, you used it . . . it's your problem now . . ."
Wow, that would be a cash cow! Getting a IP royalty payment for each and every vote cast, in every election!
"CNN - Due to a glitch in Research In Motion's infrastructure, all combat operations for this week have ceased. Now to our correspondent in the field . . . what's going on down there on the field, Nic?"
"Well, both sides have laid down their arms, and are gaming with each other instead . . . not much to report here . . . you got some old Lindsay Lohan footage to show instead . . . ?"
Big E-Books are pushing for a ban on paper books on airlines, so they can sell more E-Readers.
This could have been a hoot and a half, if people actually believed that it was happening, like with Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds"- Folks driving around in pickups, blasting away at anything that moves with shotguns.
It would certainly get the voters' minds off economic problems.
. . . the Italian Robo-Doggie will be powered by cold fusion, and will quick enough to chase faster-than-light neutrinos . . .