The palm m505 is so hopelessly overpriced that these things have to potential to sell well. I've been a plam user from the start but I'm looking for an alternative. Let's just hope the usual open source tilt towards completely ignoring any kind of marketing doesn't haunt DA.
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I hope it doesn't put off any harmful radiation like the pentium 4.
I work for a magazine called foreign policy. Late last year we did a very interesting set of rankings that rated how "global" different countries are. We worked with AT Kearney to develop a system to measure and compare things like, # of secure interent hosts, amount of foreign direct investment, # of long distance telephone calls. The results of the study were interesting and suprinsing. This year we'll be publsishing the same report in January.
I disagree, we have basic rights outlined on the bill of rights. Open and unlimited communication is part of our freedom of speech and assembly.
I'm not talking about my right to have a cell phone, a computer, etc. I'm talking about the fundamentals of inalienable rights. Going whereever you want is a right. Getting on an airplane and doing so is not a right, it's a privlidge. Doing it in a timely fashion is a convenience.
Scanning internet communications, which cause people to live in fear of communications goes against those rights. Profiling people and grilling them is not presuming innocense.
Giving up freedom is not waiting in longer lines to fly on an airplane. That's giving up convience. In this country, Flying, like driving is a privlidge, not a right.
The freedoms we risk losing are more fundamental to our democratic process. The freedom to practice religion, to speech, to have a government seperate from our church, to live without fear.
The responses I've seen to this story so far are exactly the kinds of sentiments that are keeping me up at night.
The terrorist attack was not designed to be an attack on people. Sadly, that was only a means to and end. The motivation behind the attack was to make us doubt our freedom. To force us to cower in fear.
If we allow this fear to control us, it is an insult to those people who have already been killed. It is an insult to every individual to has ever fought for the comfort and security that define life in the U.S..
It is clear that during any wartime situation we will be forced to give up some freedoms. The press is more restricted, etc. However, our grandparents (since everyone else is dragging them into this) didn't face the same threats to thier lines of communication and personal expression as we do today. And, many of the choices, like the Japanese Internment camps, were simply a BAD idea.
The knee-jerk reaction of forking over our civil liberties in return for some perceived security poses more of a threat than any other action. The more we hand over our liberties, the more power we're concentrating into the hands of very few people. To be honest, there aren't many other people I would trust with my personal freedoms.
I'm very skeptical of anyone who has all of the answers at this point.
Based on all the posts here claiming this is old news, it looks like this reseach is benefiting the news directors of television magazine shows more than anyone else....
I appreciate your view on this, but (and I'm far from being a physicist!) I'd assume that supercavitation could occour on a partially submerged object.
My understanding is that the submerged object is surrounded by an envelope of "air" because it moves so quickly and produces so much pressure, that the water around the vessel is turned to vapor. I don't understand why this wouldnt' also be true of an object that is partially submerged, and producing the same types of forces underwater.
(Maybe I'm an Idiot)
Travis
Question....Super cavitating hydrofoils?
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If a fully submerged object can break mach 1 due to cavitation (sp?) why couldn't a hydrofoil blade do so as well?
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but only 500 have been shipped in the U.S. It will be next spring before we can ship more.
-Sony Corp
These supertowers. I don't understand why builders and architects have to keep building such monsters when there is clearly rarely a need. Yes, I'm aware of the structual and asthetic signifigance, but if you can't make a building ecnomicially self-sustaining, it just becomes a big vacant eyesore.
Buildings like the Sears tower are nearly always on the verge of bankruptcy because they can't fill their floors. (yes, the power of generalization is strong on slashdot)
Granted, Bejing might be a special case since it has such high population density, (and govt regulated industry) I know the petronas (sp?) towers have overcome the "lack of lease" somewhat, but the last time I checked many of the towers' floors were still technically under construction. It may be too soon to tell.
I'm sure someone more well-informed than myself will put me in my place.
This is a very valid argument, but I think there's one flaw in the logic.
If you want people working on the same platform as yourself, to enable easier cross-compatabilty--or you simply want your platform to be recognized as a standard, then your interface needs to be user-friendly before it will win acceptance.
If the goal of the linux community is simpoly to build thousands of individualized and specialized systems, then great. forget the user interface. However, for your technoligical improvements to have any effect on tech outside that world, the user friendlyness has got to be upped...
And this brings me to the "Yes" answer. Yes, we need higher standards, but if we are to get there without coercion and official designations (read:
governmental regulation), it has to come through pressure exerted by the audience themselves.
Here's a solution to the bad journalism on the web: Universities, High schools and even elemenntary schools should devote major parts of thier curicculum to teaching students to filter information.
Since the web is now full of so much Raw unfiltered data, that's a key skill for any person who wants to glean information.
Try contacting the DM register as a sponsor for your cam. They always send out a small army of photographers to cover the event, and I'm sure they'd love to get some exposure through your website, (or put your updates on thier own website, if you're willing)
As a former Register employee, and knowing the way they're crazy about drumming up RAGBRAI press, I'm sure you might get some interest.
Slashdot Mirror
The palm m505 is so hopelessly overpriced that these things have to potential to sell well. I've been a plam user from the start but I'm looking for an alternative. Let's just hope the usual open source tilt towards completely ignoring any kind of marketing doesn't haunt DA.
Shameless plugs:
I hope it doesn't put off any harmful radiation like the pentium 4.
tcd004
It's the box office I'm worrried about!
tcd004
on oragami.
I work for a magazine called foreign policy. Late last year we did a very interesting set of rankings that rated how "global" different countries are. We worked with AT Kearney to develop a system to measure and compare things like, # of secure interent hosts, amount of foreign direct investment, # of long distance telephone calls. The results of the study were interesting and suprinsing. This year we'll be publsishing the same report in January.
Slate, since its redesign, also doesn't work on my
Mac in Netscape 4.7 or IE 5.1.
Part of the page reders, but most is either gone or garbled.
T
Nowhere in the Bill of rights does it say that individuals have the right to fly on airplanes. It is a provlidge governed by the feds.
Why do you think it's so easy for the FAA to say:
All planes are grounded. No govt agency could revoke a personal right in that same manner.
Travis
I disagree, we have basic rights outlined on the bill of rights. Open and unlimited communication is part of our freedom of speech and assembly.
I'm not talking about my right to have a cell phone, a computer, etc. I'm talking about the fundamentals of inalienable rights. Going whereever you want is a right. Getting on an airplane and doing so is not a right, it's a privlidge. Doing it in a timely fashion is a convenience.
Scanning internet communications, which cause people to live in fear of communications goes against those rights. Profiling people and grilling them is not presuming innocense.
Travis
Giving up freedom is not waiting in longer lines to fly on an airplane. That's giving up convience. In this country, Flying, like driving is a privlidge, not a right.
The freedoms we risk losing are more fundamental to our democratic process. The freedom to practice religion, to speech, to have a government seperate from our church, to live without fear.
Travis
The responses I've seen to this story so far are exactly the kinds of sentiments that are keeping me up at night.
The terrorist attack was not designed to be an attack on people. Sadly, that was only a means to and end. The motivation behind the attack was to make us doubt our freedom. To force us to cower in fear.
If we allow this fear to control us, it is an insult to those people who have already been killed. It is an insult to every individual to has ever fought for the comfort and security that define life in the U.S..
It is clear that during any wartime situation we will be forced to give up some freedoms. The press is more restricted, etc. However, our grandparents (since everyone else is dragging them into this) didn't face the same threats to thier lines of communication and personal expression as we do today. And, many of the choices, like the Japanese Internment camps, were simply a BAD idea.
The knee-jerk reaction of forking over our civil liberties in return for some perceived security poses more of a threat than any other action. The more we hand over our liberties, the more power we're concentrating into the hands of very few people. To be honest, there aren't many other people I would trust with my personal freedoms.
I'm very skeptical of anyone who has all of the answers at this point.
Travis
Tcd004
Like a Condit on the Run
Condit on the run.
Damned Dirty Space Fungi
tcd004
I appreciate your view on this, but (and I'm far from being a physicist!) I'd assume that supercavitation could occour on a partially submerged object.
My understanding is that the submerged object is surrounded by an envelope of "air" because it moves so quickly and produces so much pressure, that the water around the vessel is turned to vapor. I don't understand why this wouldnt' also be true of an object that is partially submerged, and producing the same types of forces underwater.
(Maybe I'm an Idiot)
Travis
If a fully submerged object can break mach 1 due to cavitation (sp?) why couldn't a hydrofoil blade do so as well?
tcd004
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but only 500 have been shipped in the U.S. It will be next spring before we can ship more. -Sony Corp
tcd004
Stating the Obvious so you don't have to.
tcd004
Ok, it was late, I didn't read too clearly...
Buildings like the Sears tower are nearly always on the verge of bankruptcy because they can't fill their floors. (yes, the power of generalization is strong on slashdot)
Granted, Bejing might be a special case since it has such high population density, (and govt regulated industry) I know the petronas (sp?) towers have overcome the "lack of lease" somewhat, but the last time I checked many of the towers' floors were still technically under construction. It may be too soon to tell.
I'm sure someone more well-informed than myself will put me in my place.
I do love the observation deck on the sears tower though. especially at sunset.
tcd004
Punishments fitting for Micro$oft
tcd004
If you want people working on the same platform as yourself, to enable easier cross-compatabilty--or you simply want your platform to be recognized as a standard, then your interface needs to be user-friendly before it will win acceptance.
If the goal of the linux community is simpoly to build thousands of individualized and specialized systems, then great. forget the user interface. However, for your technoligical improvements to have any effect on tech outside that world, the user friendlyness has got to be upped...
tcd004
Stockphotos
Here's a solution to the bad journalism on the web: Universities, High schools and even elemenntary schools should devote major parts of thier curicculum to teaching students to filter information.
Since the web is now full of so much Raw unfiltered data, that's a key skill for any person who wants to glean information.
tcd004
See inside the Pentium 4!
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"Due to company turnover rates, our 401K doesn't go into effect untill you've been with us for 12 hours."
tcd004
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What more do you expect from Jerry Bruckheimer?
tcd004
As a former Register employee, and knowing the way they're crazy about drumming up RAGBRAI press, I'm sure you might get some interest.
tcd004
The Pentium 4 Revealed!
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