People, for the most part don't buy useless gadgets. People value their time and money and generally spend both on things that add value to their life.
Is Katz's somehow suggesting that in the arena of technology people are becoming blind to pragmatic concerns and using technology for technology's sake? Some perhaps, but I should think that large corporations are more guilty of this particular sin.
People for the most part only adopt things that make their life simpler and easier. Where exactly are these harried info-addicts Jon et al. keep wringing their hands about? Non of my friends are that wired. One of my friends has a cell phone, a palm pilot, and a wireless PDA all kept within close proximity, and none of them have succeeded in overwhelming him with information yet. They are simply tools that he uses to conduct his day to day business. He spends LESS time working because of his gadgets, otherwise he would not use them.
I think that this is a case of journalists and pundits getting wrapped up in gadget overload at technology expos. Most of this crap will never make it into the consumer markets, and very little of that will succeed (the TCP/IP coffee maker will never fly). Just because a few professional journalists and techno-philes can't make sense of it all, doesn't mean the market place won't eventually sort it all out.
Give us some credit Jon. You underestimate the common sense and adaptibility of your species.
Nothing ruffles their feathers. The British laugh at the anti-government 'paranoia' they see in the US. Yes, we are all a bunch of conspiritorial wackos. When I was working over their recently I was amazed at how my British co-workers did not seem to care much about the increasing pervasiveness of government sponsored video surveillance.
They thought it was incredibly funny when an American friend of mine freaked out when he realized what looked like a lamp post in a park was actually a concealed camera, pointing at him.
In England, there are cameras EVERYWHERE, and now the cameras can recognize them without human intervention, greatly reducing the cost of creating an even more expansive surveillance network.
The brits just seem to trust in the benign intent of their grand paternalistic government. But once any entity has enough information about you and power over you, there can be no trust relationship.
AT&T worldnet requires that you signup with a piece of windows software and then is configured to work only with their dialer (windows only).
I figured out that I could get windows to dialup and connect without the AT&T dialer. So I tried to read the userid/password out of the windows dial up networking configuration, but the install software configured a password for me, without telling me what it was, or allowing me to change it. Go figure.
I had to call AT&T's support and get them to read me this ten digit gibberish password over the phone so that I could setup a ppp script in linux. AT&T claims that it is done this way for security sake.
Good to see that using Linux as a tool, a company can provide a commercial grade super computer at what appears to be a very attractive cost/performance ratio.
Along with the use of Linux in digital VCRs and other Internet appliances this goes a long way to validating Linux as a viable, and very flexible commercial platform.
-josh
Is it just me or is this too complicated?
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If, by his theory there are more good people than bad, ditch all the levels of moderation and just let EVERYONE moderate EVERYTHING. It will all wash out in the end.
Rob is trying to tinker and control too much. Let the community decide.
Oh, and can we find a way to eliminate all the idiotic meta-commentary on moderation. I am tired of seeing crap like "moderate this up please" - "why was that given 'funny' when I was moderated down as 'flamebait'".
It seems like slashdot has become obsessed with moderation. To tell the truth my internal moderator did a pretty good job before all this tinkering. I just don't see that the moderation system has added all that much value to be worrying about it this much. And the levels and Karma just go to create a social hierarchy within slashdot that is entire uneeded and distracting.
Having worked in IT within a number of large corporate HR organizations I can say unequivecally that not a one of the corporations had a clue with respect to the Internet and a proper usage policy.
Number of points:
1. Scanning incoming emails seems dumb. I cannot control what I receive. I have some friends that send me some pretty foul crap.
2. In general internet/email usage should NOT be an issue of monitoring and logging. If your damned managers don't know what their employees are doing until some tech-weenies gives them a web access report the manager should lose his or her job. Employees can spend all day on the phone, or playing computer games, or talking at the water cooler - the internet is nothing new.
3. Why should HR care if someone is downloading porn for four hours a day as opposed to surfing for beenie babies on eBay for four hours a day. I mean if the idiot is showing it to other co-workers then treat it just like they had brougth a hustler into work, but if it is only on their monitor, HR should not care what it is.
It seems idiotic to me that someone who spends a few hours a day reading their hotmail can skim under the radar, while one hit at playboy.com can get another person fired. Again these HR droids do not have a clue.
4. If they are worried about usage from a capacity standpoint (too many large attachments) put a cap on incoming attachment sizes (from the Internet) - this should stop most of those cutesie executables that everyone sends around. Just plain text emails from friends are never going to tax their capacity.
What employees can do to protect themselves:
1. Don't use your company inbox for personal email. Get a yahoo or hotmail (I know, I know) account and access it via the web. If someone looks at a report and wants to know why you are using hotmail, tell them you have used that address for work related requests for literature or vendor information or on work related discussion groups, so you need to check it on a regular basis.
2. (common sense)Try to limit Internet usage at work and do not even think about hitting a porn site.
3. Many times usage reports list heavy users on top, and try to estimate usage time based on surfing patterns. Try to stay low on the list. If you have a lot of email to send (via a web email service), type it up before hand in a text editor and cut and paste it. If there are web sites you regularly visit, hit the major pages you read all at once and then go back and read the pages from cache.
4. If you do happen to get one of those 'access forbidden - incident logged' errors on what you thought was an innocent site, record the date and time, and the address of the site you thought you were accessing, and what you thought it was. You might need to explain. In general don't guess at addresses, or go to an address which you are unsure of.
5. Know your company's Internet policy, and if you are not a techie, or are a techie in the wrong department, get to know the person that is responsible for generating usage reports. Information they give you can help you slip under the radar.
6. In general, the bigger the place, the easier it is to avoid attention - be extra careful at smaller companies if they have a logging system in place.
It is laid out that the Federal government can not do ANYTHING to regulate inter-state trade. Whether or not this would hold up, I am not sure
They may not be able to levy interstate taxes, but they sure as hell can regulate interstate trade, this was one of the priciple reasons for creating a federal government - Interstate trade was in a shambles with all sorts of tariff wars.
MySQL leaves out features in exchange for speed. PostGreSQL doesn't. Which one to use depends on whether you need those features or not. For web site use you usually don't need those features. If you were writing an accounting or inventory package, on the other hand, I would not do it without having full transaction with rollbacks support, i.e. PostGreSQL. Otherwise you run the risk of database inconsistencies that could be the death of your business.
I think the transactional capability of modern RDBMS's is a highly overrated feature. I have done a ton of batch database programming in a payroll and benefits environment and have rarely come accross an instance where I really needed transactions. Sure they are nice, and it's good to know that if your program craps out there is no harm done, but in almost every case I would have traded a little bit more coding complexity for the increase in speed.
-josh
Re:Open Source Journalism w/compensation
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Wired on Slashdot
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If you had some reasons behind your banal negativism please trot them out.
-josh
Re:Open Source Journalism w/compensation
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Wired on Slashdot
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I've been thinking about something like this too. Utlimately you don't really need editors (CmrdTaco, Hemos, et al). Let anyone post a link, or a story or feature.
Let the readers sort out what is good and bad. There are certainly some technical challenges in implementing that, but they are not insurmountable.
If you get enough eyeballs and ad-revenue you could offer to pay the authors of the best content.
The Subnetting features of IPv4 did not offer much through options and choice regarding IP Address assignment, allocation, or Networking in general. And while Subnetting the Network ( The sub-division of the Parent Network IP Address ) did relieve congestion, provided performance gains, and improved management. Needless to say, these were indeed significant benefits for the groping beginnings. Still, it did nothing to increase the number of IP Addresses for allocation to establish a new Network, that is, offer another outside connection: the Parent Network. However, it did provide the IETF with a foundation, if exploited, would have avoided the necessity of an urgency fostered by explosive growth, to implement a new IP Addressing Scheme.
This guy might have something worthwhile to say but I find it almost impossible to follow his reasoning. The author's communication skills are sorely lacking.
This reminds me of computers/Internet in the schools. There has been much said about the disparity of deployment of computers and the Internet in inner city/minority schools versus suburban, majority white schools.
Never mind the fact that the inner city schools are falling apart. Never mind the fact that the kids that graduate from these schools can't read. Let's give them a computer on every desk and access the the Internet. That should fix everything.
Why is it that the media seems to see technology as some sort of universal panacea? A computer and Internet access is not going to fix a broken household.
The underlying problems are economic and social. One of the symptoms *may* be (I haven't seen good stats) less prevalent access to computer technology and the Internet.
Let's get to the root cause, and stop treating the symptoms.
Seem to be a lot of very strong responses to the survey.
If you want to get in contact with the author(s) of the survey, their website is www.virtual-addiction.com. Click the feedback button.
-josh
I think people are missing the point
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Delphi for Linux
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Yes, it would be cool to have such a full featured development environment in Linux, but that's not the point.
The point is to have a entirely cross 'platform' Windows/Linux development environment. Most of the people here do not seem all that interested in the cross platform benefits of this announcement - but a large percentage of the people who answered the survey were very interested in being able to port apps simply back and forth.
I read about a proposed project several years ago that would have done essentially the same thing, but allow the 'bugs' to migrate from computer to computer over the internet, executing on a portable virtual machine.
It was expected that as CPU usage changed during the day, the bugs would move around the world to the point of lowest usage (greatest resources).
The idea was to let it run for a very long time, on a lot of computers, and see what sort of bugs were produced.
I never heard anything more about this. Perhaps the thought of having random code travelling from computer to computer over the Internet did not make it politically feasibile for many to host this experiment.
I think we need to take a step back. I think it is almost impossible to define transactions that take place over the Internet, and the distinction between an internet transaction and more traditional means of completing a transaction is only technical.
Take a step back. Any Interstate transaction that involves the delivery of physical goods should be taxed consistently, no matter how order place place - rather it is via telephone, email, web phone, or IVR. Who cares? How is ordering over the Internet any different than ordering from a catalog and calling a 1-800 number? Why should the transactions be treated any differently?
- Is the look of the model copyright-able? Anyone with a sufficiently powerful computer will eventually be able to generate virtual models. Will anything stop them from cloning the look of each other's models?
- I think a picture of a person has a different legal status than other types of pictures or computer generated images. What are the implications of this?
- Computer porno - these girls will do ANYTHING for free.
- Clothing, in particular fabric texture and the way fabric moves on the body is devillishly hard to simulate. Sure, they will have some stock simulated fabric types but what the model is wearing will never look/behave exactly the same way the garment does in real life.
- Some other people have pointed this out already: These models are not constrained by the human genome. They will eventually mutate into a gross caricature of the human form. Each fashion mag that uses them will tweak the current look just a bit. Bigger boobs, smaller waist, etc... Presto chango, eventually we've got barbie all over again.
I image they wanted to keep the Pilot's power supply and the wireless power supply seperate - as each has dreastically different power requirements. If the wireless drains the batteries at least you can still use the Pilot offline until you get some new AAA's.
The question is, will is use the cradle's supply for wireless when docked? That would be nice.
1 Easily adaptable to new and changing situations. dv,hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr 2 Likes to wear a uniform. dv,bf 3 Motivated in competitive situations. dv,hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr 4 Trust your own judgement. dv,hs,bf,ob,ch,pr 5 Unconcerned with a bad haircut. dv,hs,lu,pr 6 Will not compromise, no matter what. dv,bf,pr 7 Able to prioritize plans and execute multiple tasks. hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr 8 Accessorize well. bf,ch,pr 9 Accurately read a situation to figure out the outcome. bf,ob 10 Good with guns. hs,lu,bf,ch,pr 11 Have an entrepreneurial spirit, and the ability to follow through on it hs, bf 12 Strong technical and mechanical skills. hs,lu,bf,ch 13 Often caught in overwhelming situations. dv,c3,lu 14 Spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. dv,c3,hs,lu 15 Accept the support of others. c3,lu,ob,ch,pr 16 Complex grooming needs. c3,ch,pr 17 Disdain changing environments. c3 18 Listen well. c3,ob,ch 19 Multi-lingual. c3,hs,ch 20 Expect rewards and recognition for work. dv,c3,hs,bf, 21 Generates new ideas from surrounding situations. dv,c3,hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr 22 Consistently well-prepared, well-spoken, and/or polished. c3,bf,ob,pr 23 Think the Boss in Dilbert should strangle his lackeys. dv 24 Skilled at conveying information to others in a clear manner. c3,hs,bf,ob 25 Like working alone. c3,bf 26 Seek the respect of others. c3,hs,bf,ob 27 Able to integrate a variety of tasks to work smoothly. dv,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr 28 Able to market and sell services and ideas. dv,hs,bf,ob 29 Believe in a way out of any situation. dv,hs,bf,pr 30 Brimming with confidence. dv,hs,bf,pr 31 Strong at mathematical computations. c3 32 Whine readily. c3,lu 33 Willing to accept blame. c3,lu 34 Willing to take things easy. c3 35 Able to bring others around to your way of thinking. dv,lu,ob,ch 36 Handle loss poorly. dv,hs,ch 37 Overly impulsive. dv,hs,lu,pr 38 Politically-minded. dv,pr 39 Use mental abilities to full potential. dv,lu,ob,pr 40 Charitable tendencies. hs,lu,ob,ch,pr 41 Stir the thoughts of others and motivate them to grow. ob,pr 42 Trained to be among society's elite from an early age. pr 43 Willing to accept change to accomplish goals. hs,lu,ob,ch,pr 44 Work well with others. lu,ob,ch
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The fact that anyone involved with this program was doing ANY calculations in English units is simply unforgivable.
I mean, TOTALLY unforgivable. Feet, inches. Give me a break.
And the fact that NASA did not set a standard is all the more idiotic.
-josh
There is a reference on the Jesux homepage to emails received from slashdotters, claiming definitively in response that it is NOT a hoax.
I think their intent to change the names of system calls such as 'abort' pretty much singles this out as a hoax.
-josh
People, for the most part don't buy useless gadgets. People value their time and money and generally spend both on things that add value to their life.
Is Katz's somehow suggesting that in the arena of technology people are becoming blind to pragmatic concerns and using technology for technology's sake? Some perhaps, but I should think that large corporations are more guilty of this particular sin.
People for the most part only adopt things that make their life simpler and easier. Where exactly are these harried info-addicts Jon et al. keep wringing their hands about? Non of my friends are that wired. One of my friends has a cell phone, a palm pilot, and a wireless PDA all kept within close proximity, and none of them have succeeded in overwhelming him with information yet. They are simply tools that he uses to conduct his day to day business. He spends LESS time working because of his gadgets, otherwise he would not use them.
I think that this is a case of journalists and pundits getting wrapped up in gadget overload at technology expos. Most of this crap will never make it into the consumer markets, and very little of that will succeed (the TCP/IP coffee maker will never fly). Just because a few professional journalists and techno-philes can't make sense of it all, doesn't mean the market place won't eventually sort it all out.
Give us some credit Jon. You underestimate the common sense and adaptibility of your species.
-josh
Nothing ruffles their feathers. The British laugh at the anti-government 'paranoia' they see in the US. Yes, we are all a bunch of conspiritorial wackos. When I was working over their recently I was amazed at how my British co-workers did not seem to care much about the increasing pervasiveness of government sponsored video surveillance.
They thought it was incredibly funny when an American friend of mine freaked out when he realized what looked like a lamp post in a park was actually a concealed camera, pointing at him.
In England, there are cameras EVERYWHERE, and now the cameras can recognize them without human intervention, greatly reducing the cost of creating an even more expansive surveillance network.
The brits just seem to trust in the benign intent of their grand paternalistic government. But once any entity has enough information about you and power over you, there can be no trust relationship.
-josh
AT&T worldnet requires that you signup with a piece of windows software and then is configured to work only with their dialer (windows only).
I figured out that I could get windows to dialup and connect without the AT&T dialer. So I tried to read the userid/password out of the windows dial up networking configuration, but the install software configured a password for me, without telling me what it was, or allowing me to change it. Go figure.
I had to call AT&T's support and get them to read me this ten digit gibberish password over the phone so that I could setup a ppp script in linux. AT&T claims that it is done this way for security sake.
But I did get it working in Linux.
-josh
Good to see that using Linux as a tool, a company can provide a commercial grade super computer at what appears to be a very attractive cost/performance ratio.
Along with the use of Linux in digital VCRs and other Internet appliances this goes a long way to validating Linux as a viable, and very flexible commercial platform.
-josh
If, by his theory there are more good people than bad, ditch all the levels of moderation and just let EVERYONE moderate EVERYTHING. It will all wash out in the end.
Rob is trying to tinker and control too much. Let the community decide.
Oh, and can we find a way to eliminate all the idiotic meta-commentary on moderation. I am tired of seeing crap like "moderate this up please" - "why was that given 'funny' when I was moderated down as 'flamebait'".
It seems like slashdot has become obsessed with moderation. To tell the truth my internal moderator did a pretty good job before all this tinkering. I just don't see that the moderation system has added all that much value to be worrying about it this much. And the levels and Karma just go to create a social hierarchy within slashdot that is entire uneeded and distracting.
-josh
I betcha he is celebrating too - he was in it from the very beginning. Hat's off Al!
Having worked in IT within a number of large corporate HR organizations I can say unequivecally that not a one of the corporations had a clue with respect to the Internet and a proper usage policy.
Number of points:
1. Scanning incoming emails seems dumb. I cannot control what I receive. I have some friends that send me some pretty foul crap.
2. In general internet/email usage should NOT be an issue of monitoring and logging. If your damned managers don't know what their employees are doing until some tech-weenies gives them a web access report the manager should lose his or her job. Employees can spend all day on the phone, or playing computer games, or talking at the water cooler - the internet is nothing new.
3. Why should HR care if someone is downloading porn for four hours a day as opposed to surfing for beenie babies on eBay for four hours a day. I mean if the idiot is showing it to other co-workers then treat it just like they had brougth a hustler into work, but if it is only on their monitor, HR should not care what it is.
It seems idiotic to me that someone who spends a few hours a day reading their hotmail can skim under the radar, while one hit at playboy.com can get another person fired. Again these HR droids do not have a clue.
4. If they are worried about usage from a capacity standpoint (too many large attachments) put a cap on incoming attachment sizes (from the Internet) - this should stop most of those cutesie executables that everyone sends around. Just plain text emails from friends are never going to tax their capacity.
What employees can do to protect themselves:
1. Don't use your company inbox for personal email. Get a yahoo or hotmail (I know, I know) account and access it via the web. If someone looks at a report and wants to know why you are using hotmail, tell them you have used that address for work related requests for literature or vendor information or on work related discussion groups, so you need to check it on a regular basis.
2. (common sense)Try to limit Internet usage at work and do not even think about hitting a porn site.
3. Many times usage reports list heavy users on top, and try to estimate usage time based on surfing patterns. Try to stay low on the list. If you have a lot of email to send (via a web email service), type it up before hand in a text editor and cut and paste it. If there are web sites you regularly visit, hit the major pages you read all at once and then go back and read the pages from cache.
4. If you do happen to get one of those 'access forbidden - incident logged' errors on what you thought was an innocent site, record the date and time, and the address of the site you thought you were accessing, and what you thought it was. You might need to explain. In general don't guess at addresses, or go to an address which you are unsure of.
5. Know your company's Internet policy, and if you are not a techie, or are a techie in the wrong department, get to know the person that is responsible for generating usage reports. Information they give you can help you slip under the radar.
6. In general, the bigger the place, the easier it is to avoid attention - be extra careful at smaller companies if they have a logging system in place.
-josh
It is laid out that the Federal government can not do ANYTHING to regulate inter-state trade. Whether or not this would hold up, I am not sure
They may not be able to levy interstate taxes, but they sure as hell can regulate interstate trade, this was one of the priciple reasons for creating a federal government - Interstate trade was in a shambles with all sorts of tariff wars.
-josh
MySQL leaves out features in exchange for speed. PostGreSQL doesn't. Which one to use depends on whether you need those features or not. For web site use you usually don't need those features. If you were writing an accounting or inventory package, on the other hand, I would not do it without having full transaction with rollbacks support, i.e. PostGreSQL. Otherwise you run the risk of database inconsistencies that could be the death of your business.
I think the transactional capability of modern RDBMS's is a highly overrated feature. I have done a ton of batch database programming in a payroll and benefits environment and have rarely come accross an instance where I really needed transactions. Sure they are nice, and it's good to know that if your program craps out there is no harm done, but in almost every case I would have traded a little bit more coding complexity for the increase in speed.
-josh
If you had some reasons behind your banal negativism please trot them out.
-josh
I've been thinking about something like this too. Utlimately you don't really need editors (CmrdTaco, Hemos, et al). Let anyone post a link, or a story or feature.
Let the readers sort out what is good and bad. There are certainly some technical challenges in implementing that, but they are not insurmountable.
If you get enough eyeballs and ad-revenue you could offer to pay the authors of the best content.
-josh
An example snippet:
The Subnetting features of IPv4 did not offer much through options and
choice regarding IP Address assignment, allocation, or Networking in
general. And while Subnetting the Network ( The sub-division of the
Parent Network IP Address ) did relieve congestion, provided
performance gains, and improved management. Needless to say, these
were indeed significant benefits for the groping beginnings. Still,
it did nothing to increase the number of IP Addresses for allocation
to establish a new Network, that is, offer another outside connection:
the Parent Network. However, it did provide the IETF with a foundation,
if exploited, would have avoided the necessity of an urgency fostered
by explosive growth, to implement a new IP Addressing Scheme.
Can someone translate?
This guy might have something worthwhile to say but I find it almost impossible to follow his reasoning. The author's communication skills are sorely lacking.
-josh
This reminds me of computers/Internet in the schools. There has been much said about the disparity of deployment of computers and the Internet in inner city/minority schools versus suburban, majority white schools.
Never mind the fact that the inner city schools are falling apart. Never mind the fact that the kids that graduate from these schools can't read. Let's give them a computer on every desk and access the the Internet. That should fix everything.
Why is it that the media seems to see technology as some sort of universal panacea? A computer and Internet access is not going to fix a broken household.
The underlying problems are economic and social. One of the symptoms *may* be (I haven't seen good stats) less prevalent access to computer technology and the Internet.
Let's get to the root cause, and stop treating the symptoms.
-josh
Seem to be a lot of very strong responses to the survey.
If you want to get in contact with the author(s) of the survey, their website is www.virtual-addiction.com. Click the feedback button.
-josh
Yes, it would be cool to have such a full featured development environment in Linux, but that's not the point.
The point is to have a entirely cross 'platform' Windows/Linux development environment. Most of the people here do not seem all that interested in the cross platform benefits of this announcement - but a large percentage of the people who answered the survey were very interested in being able to port apps simply back and forth.
-josh
I read about a proposed project several years ago that would have done essentially the same thing, but allow the 'bugs' to migrate from computer to computer over the internet, executing on a portable virtual machine.
It was expected that as CPU usage changed during the day, the bugs would move around the world to the point of lowest usage (greatest resources).
The idea was to let it run for a very long time, on a lot of computers, and see what sort of bugs were produced.
I never heard anything more about this. Perhaps the thought of having random code travelling from computer to computer over the Internet did not make it politically feasibile for many to host this experiment.
-josh
I think we need to take a step back. I think it is almost impossible to define transactions that take place over the Internet, and the distinction between an internet transaction and more traditional means of completing a transaction is only technical.
Take a step back. Any Interstate transaction that involves the delivery of physical goods should be taxed consistently, no matter how order place place - rather it is via telephone, email, web phone, or IVR. Who cares? How is ordering over the Internet any different than ordering from a catalog and calling a 1-800 number? Why should the transactions be treated any differently?
-josh
- Is the look of the model copyright-able? Anyone with a sufficiently powerful computer will eventually be able to generate virtual models. Will anything stop them from cloning the look of each other's models?
- I think a picture of a person has a different legal status than other types of pictures or computer generated images. What are the implications of this?
- Computer porno - these girls will do ANYTHING for free.
- Clothing, in particular fabric texture and the way fabric moves on the body is devillishly hard to simulate. Sure, they will have some stock simulated fabric types but what the model is wearing will never look/behave exactly the same way the garment does in real life.
- Some other people have pointed this out already: These models are not constrained by the human genome. They will eventually mutate into a gross caricature of the human form. Each fashion mag that uses them will tweak the current look just a bit. Bigger boobs, smaller waist, etc... Presto chango, eventually we've got barbie all over again.
-josh
I image they wanted to keep the Pilot's power supply and the wireless power supply seperate - as each has dreastically different power requirements. If the wireless drains the batteries at least you can still use the Pilot offline until you get some new AAA's.
The question is, will is use the cradle's supply for wireless when docked? That would be nice.
-josh
Sorry about the formatting. Straight from the Java script.
dv=Darth,hs=Han,lu=Luke,bf=Boba Fett,ob=Obi-wan,C3=C3PO,ch=Chewy,pr=Leia
1 Easily adaptable to new and changing situations.
dv,hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr
2 Likes to wear a uniform.
dv,bf
3 Motivated in competitive situations.
dv,hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr
4 Trust your own judgement.
dv,hs,bf,ob,ch,pr
5 Unconcerned with a bad haircut.
dv,hs,lu,pr
6 Will not compromise, no matter what.
dv,bf,pr
7 Able to prioritize plans and execute multiple tasks.
hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr
8 Accessorize well.
bf,ch,pr
9 Accurately read a situation to figure out the outcome.
bf,ob
10 Good with guns.
hs,lu,bf,ch,pr
11 Have an entrepreneurial spirit, and the ability to follow through on it
hs, bf
12 Strong technical and mechanical skills.
hs,lu,bf,ch
13 Often caught in overwhelming situations.
dv,c3,lu
14 Spend a lot of time thinking about yourself.
dv,c3,hs,lu
15 Accept the support of others.
c3,lu,ob,ch,pr
16 Complex grooming needs.
c3,ch,pr
17 Disdain changing environments.
c3
18 Listen well.
c3,ob,ch
19 Multi-lingual.
c3,hs,ch
20 Expect rewards and recognition for work.
dv,c3,hs,bf,
21 Generates new ideas from surrounding situations.
dv,c3,hs,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr
22 Consistently well-prepared, well-spoken, and/or polished.
c3,bf,ob,pr
23 Think the Boss in Dilbert should strangle his lackeys.
dv
24 Skilled at conveying information to others in a clear manner.
c3,hs,bf,ob
25 Like working alone.
c3,bf
26 Seek the respect of others.
c3,hs,bf,ob
27 Able to integrate a variety of tasks to work smoothly.
dv,lu,bf,ob,ch,pr
28 Able to market and sell services and ideas.
dv,hs,bf,ob
29 Believe in a way out of any situation.
dv,hs,bf,pr
30 Brimming with confidence.
dv,hs,bf,pr
31 Strong at mathematical computations.
c3
32 Whine readily.
c3,lu
33 Willing to accept blame.
c3,lu
34 Willing to take things easy.
c3
35 Able to bring others around to your way of thinking.
dv,lu,ob,ch
36 Handle loss poorly.
dv,hs,ch
37 Overly impulsive.
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38 Politically-minded.
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39 Use mental abilities to full potential.
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40 Charitable tendencies.
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41 Stir the thoughts of others and motivate them to grow.
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42 Trained to be among society's elite from an early age.
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43 Willing to accept change to accomplish goals.
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44 Work well with others.
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http://www.sunlabs.com/research/spotless for a descriptionw nload.html to download
http://www.sunlabs.com/research/spotless/doc/do
-josh
Very nice, and fast, especially on an overclocked Palm V.
I was very disappointed that the thread demo (multiple balls bouncing off square walls) limited me at 30 balls - I had hoped to crash the VM...
Now, how do I upload my own classes? I want to try to port my java version of tetris to it.
-josh