I've had a glowring on my keychain for about 4 years now. Still glowing strong. They are indeed illegal to import to the US, but they're on ebay all the time.
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Site overloaded. Oh. Slashdot. That would explain things. Hello.
Ideally this money would come from the MA government(in this specific case). Rather than spend money on proprietary, closed software, they should plow that money into open source development projects that will meet their needs. In this case, they need better accessibility features, so they could pay a team(either OO or some independent group) to develop those features. All the resulting developments would be open, so that the people who paid for it(the taxpayers) can also benefit from it.
I don't think the prize-based model is the right way to go about it, especially when dealing with large projects. No team is going to spend a few months working on a project just on the basis that they might get paid. I think the standard method of accepting bids and drawing up a contract with the winning bidder would be better. That way both sides know exactly what their expectations are from the very beginning, and they know they will get paid.
How is this magical cpu virtualizer going to know what it can split up and send to different computers? Like another poster mentioned, latency is the big issue. If your cpu virtualizer arbitrarily sends instructions over the network to other nodes, but the original program still expects them to be executed at local cpu speed then things are going to get fucked up fast. I wouldn't be surprised if the final result is actually slower than just running the job on one box.
Basically, what's wrong with this idea is the clustering software has no way of knowing what it can chunk up and spit out to other nodes unless the programmer of the software in question tells it. Some multithreaded programs can be run on clusters without a rewrite, but there is already clustering software for that application. What the OP is suggesting is similar to rerouting highway traffic by arbitrarily plucking cars off the highway and putting them on random side streets. They all may get there eventually and, at first, it may seem like they are moving faster, but in the end it just takes everyone a lot longer to reach their destination. Now, if the drivers themselves planned alternate routes to help alleviate congestion on the highways, then there's a good chance everyone would get to their destinations faster.
What is this shit? We are all equal unless there isn't enough blacks or mexicans? Then all of a sudden their differences are big enough to warrant a call for more of them? If we are all equal, then what in the fuck is up with this big fucking focus on diversity?
Poetry is supposed to rhyme and use a set form? Perhaps if you'd been exposed to a bit more poetry than what you've seen in elementary school then you would know that there are many many forms of poetry that either don't rhyme or don't use a set form.
I wasn't trying to troll. Perhaps my comments are a bit offtopic for this topic, but they certainly weren't intended to troll.
In addition to the height, width, and depth constraints you listed, there are other constraints such as angles. I can place two blocks together in very few, very limited ways. Can you not see how this restricts creativity? I honestly tried playing with legos when I was young, but I often got frustrated because I simply could not put the legos together the way I wanted to. Perhaps this encourages problem solving or something, but certainly not creativity as everyone claims. Anyway you look at it, lego blocks can only go together in a very limited number of ways. Sure, the more blocks you use, the more different things you can build and the more variations you can build. You are still working with the same fundamental restrictions, though. Interconnectivity doesn't mean shit if there are only a few ways to interconnect any two given pieces.
Okay. I never understood why legos were always considered to be the fucking pinnacle of creativity. You have blocks of predefined size, shape and colour. Sure there are many permutations of those three attributes, but at the end of the day you still just have little blocks. How fucking exciting is that? Build a house/castle/boat/whatever, set it on the floor, and THAT'S IT! Sure sure, imagination is a big part of it. Fuck that shit though. I can imagine a goddamn paperclip is a spaceship and wave it around in the air just as much as I can imagine a few blocks are a spaceship and wave that around in the air. If I want to use my creativity and imagination then I'll get some steel and work that shit. Or some fucking playdoh or something. Legos are just so restrictive that I really don't understand why so many geeks love them. Most of us bitch about people telling us what we can and cannot do, yet so many of you love legos, which restrict creativity to certain defined patterns.
Half the comments so far are saying something to the effect of the world would be a completely different place if Kilby didn't invent the integrated circuit. Slashdot wouldn't exist, we wouldn't have personal computers, etc. Do you people honestly think that Jack Kilby was the ONLY person who could have possibly envisioned integrated circuits? Do you people honestly think that we would still be building computers with discrete components if it wasn't for Kilby? I'm not saying that what he did wasn't a major accomplishment and the integrated ciruit did indeed change the world. However, it is quite foolish to think that we would not have integrated circuits today if Jack Kilby hadn't invented them.
And your cd player remembers the location you stopped for every cd you use in it? What happens when you want to listen to something else for a change, and then go back to the audiobook?
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The proper name for something like that is marx generator. Damn cool shit. Just be careful.
I've had a glowring on my keychain for about 4 years now. Still glowing strong. They are indeed illegal to import to the US, but they're on ebay all the time.
Site overloaded. Oh. Slashdot. That would explain things. Hello.
http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html
Popup blockers might not, but adblock sure as hell does.
Ideally this money would come from the MA government(in this specific case). Rather than spend money on proprietary, closed software, they should plow that money into open source development projects that will meet their needs. In this case, they need better accessibility features, so they could pay a team(either OO or some independent group) to develop those features. All the resulting developments would be open, so that the people who paid for it(the taxpayers) can also benefit from it.
I don't think the prize-based model is the right way to go about it, especially when dealing with large projects. No team is going to spend a few months working on a project just on the basis that they might get paid. I think the standard method of accepting bids and drawing up a contract with the winning bidder would be better. That way both sides know exactly what their expectations are from the very beginning, and they know they will get paid.
How is this magical cpu virtualizer going to know what it can split up and send to different computers? Like another poster mentioned, latency is the big issue. If your cpu virtualizer arbitrarily sends instructions over the network to other nodes, but the original program still expects them to be executed at local cpu speed then things are going to get fucked up fast. I wouldn't be surprised if the final result is actually slower than just running the job on one box.
Basically, what's wrong with this idea is the clustering software has no way of knowing what it can chunk up and spit out to other nodes unless the programmer of the software in question tells it. Some multithreaded programs can be run on clusters without a rewrite, but there is already clustering software for that application. What the OP is suggesting is similar to rerouting highway traffic by arbitrarily plucking cars off the highway and putting them on random side streets. They all may get there eventually and, at first, it may seem like they are moving faster, but in the end it just takes everyone a lot longer to reach their destination. Now, if the drivers themselves planned alternate routes to help alleviate congestion on the highways, then there's a good chance everyone would get to their destinations faster.
Once again, Windows Messenger != MSN Messenger.
That's the worst idea I've ever heard.
umm... because reading everything from a cd and uncompressing it is a shitload slower than reading everything from a harddrive.
What is this shit? We are all equal unless there isn't enough blacks or mexicans? Then all of a sudden their differences are big enough to warrant a call for more of them? If we are all equal, then what in the fuck is up with this big fucking focus on diversity?
These guys are addicted to peaceohol? Either that or alcoholics are addicted to alc. I don't know.
Sorry about that dude. I'll try not to wear her out as much next time.
something like that...
You are so cool! I wish I had totalfark so that I could be as awesome as you guys. Thanks for sharing. We all appreciate your valuable input.
Poetry is supposed to rhyme and use a set form? Perhaps if you'd been exposed to a bit more poetry than what you've seen in elementary school then you would know that there are many many forms of poetry that either don't rhyme or don't use a set form.
I wasn't trying to troll. Perhaps my comments are a bit offtopic for this topic, but they certainly weren't intended to troll.
In addition to the height, width, and depth constraints you listed, there are other constraints such as angles. I can place two blocks together in very few, very limited ways. Can you not see how this restricts creativity? I honestly tried playing with legos when I was young, but I often got frustrated because I simply could not put the legos together the way I wanted to. Perhaps this encourages problem solving or something, but certainly not creativity as everyone claims. Anyway you look at it, lego blocks can only go together in a very limited number of ways. Sure, the more blocks you use, the more different things you can build and the more variations you can build. You are still working with the same fundamental restrictions, though. Interconnectivity doesn't mean shit if there are only a few ways to interconnect any two given pieces.
Okay. I never understood why legos were always considered to be the fucking pinnacle of creativity. You have blocks of predefined size, shape and colour. Sure there are many permutations of those three attributes, but at the end of the day you still just have little blocks. How fucking exciting is that? Build a house/castle/boat/whatever, set it on the floor, and THAT'S IT! Sure sure, imagination is a big part of it. Fuck that shit though. I can imagine a goddamn paperclip is a spaceship and wave it around in the air just as much as I can imagine a few blocks are a spaceship and wave that around in the air. If I want to use my creativity and imagination then I'll get some steel and work that shit. Or some fucking playdoh or something. Legos are just so restrictive that I really don't understand why so many geeks love them. Most of us bitch about people telling us what we can and cannot do, yet so many of you love legos, which restrict creativity to certain defined patterns.
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
I never said he shouldn't get the credit and I never said I didn't like it.
Half the comments so far are saying something to the effect of the world would be a completely different place if Kilby didn't invent the integrated circuit. Slashdot wouldn't exist, we wouldn't have personal computers, etc. Do you people honestly think that Jack Kilby was the ONLY person who could have possibly envisioned integrated circuits? Do you people honestly think that we would still be building computers with discrete components if it wasn't for Kilby? I'm not saying that what he did wasn't a major accomplishment and the integrated ciruit did indeed change the world. However, it is quite foolish to think that we would not have integrated circuits today if Jack Kilby hadn't invented them.
And your cd player remembers the location you stopped for every cd you use in it? What happens when you want to listen to something else for a change, and then go back to the audiobook?
The only thing it lacks is a good text editor.
So buy a usb barcode reader. What's the big deal?
I'm sure they have more bandwidth than god and I'm sure its either free or deeply discounted.