Back in High School chemistry we had to do a section on environmental chemistry to fulfill the IB (International Baccalaureate) requirement. From what I recall ozone itself is created by the ionizing (bad) UV light that supposedly does damage to humans and wildlife. Once the ozone is created the energy from the UV light has be expended creating the ozone and is no longer harmful. CFCs can then come over and react with the ozone, and turn it back into oxygen. CFCs didn't interfere in the production of the ozone it merely ripped off the extra oxygen to make more O2 which was then free to react and make more ozone, repeat ad nauseum. The lack of ozone has no detrimental effects. Either way the non-ionizing UV light still gets through. It was the O2 that stopped the ionizing UV light, not the ozone, and no one's claiming there's a lack of O2.
Microsoft Vice President Craig Mundie, for example, said in a recent speech that all open-source software "has inherent security risks and can force intellectual property into the public domain."
While the "security risks" statement is FUD, the second part is true. The GNU GPL DOES force IP into the public domain. I think MS has confused all open source software with GPL'd software, at least in their press releases. The GPL is dangerous for a company trying to hold on to its IP while still trying to build on existing technology, and I believe Microsoft has proven this by using BSD licensed code. Honestly, if you were a small business would you want your top application possibly being forced under the GPL where you would have to release the code to the public for everyone to see and take, or would you want it under the BSD license where you merely have to give credit where credit is due? ---
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The fact is they're in the business of selling things. If they can sell cell phones, they will. If they can sell cell phones with radiation shielding for more money, so be it. It's simple economics. All this means is that they realize there's money to be made in radiation shielded cell phones, whether or not it actually causes cancer is irrelevant as people obviously think it does and are willing to pay money to avoid it. ---
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I made a patch for RENDER support on Mach64 a week after RENDER came out, but have since lost the patch. It's not too important to me since I dumped that Pentium for this beast, though.;) ---
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Capitalism IS a wonderful thing, especially when combined with technology. This allows smoother price changes to comply with supply and demand, and as such will allow the market to perform at its optimum. From what I understand this is going to allow companys to function at MR=AC(=MC) (Marginal Revenue (or Demand), Average Cost, and Marginal Cost) and as such allows them to produce at the lowest cost, lowest price, and highest production. This is a wonderful thing, my friend. Protesting is unwarranted, rejoicing, however, may be.
IANAE (I Am Not An Economist, but I play one at school) ---
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No! Sell the resulting mulch to Hormel. They'll know what to do with it...;)
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ok, how about this:
cd/usr/src && make update buildworld installworld kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC && mergemaster
and if you were good and edited/etc/make.conf you get machine specific optimizations. ---
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Check this month's Scientific American for more information on the technology involved, or read here. There's also some links from the article to various sites relating to telepresence. Enjoy! ---
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Well, it's a matter of bandwidth. We use our own video codec to cut WAY down on bandwidth for the wireless devices. The video can be viewed from anywhere with wireless interenet access, rather than in just an area with wireless ethernet, which would be required for the full colour and higher image quality. There's also a matter of cost, the palm pilot and visor is simply cheaper than the other solutions.;)
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That's nothing new. The people I work for (Trakonic) already have software for streaming video to Palm Pilots and visors. We sell all sorts of security related stuff, we can broadcast video to web clients (live or recorded), to a specific client, or just record. The video also has software motion detection, and can trigger devices upon motion being detected. All from a single server that handles 8 cameras (16 soon). It's not slow either, over network we get 30fps with two cameras, and 20fps per camers with four.
Laptops aren't a big deal, but if they can do better than streaming video to wireless palm pilots, then I'm interested.;) ---
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*sigh* Why do I get the feeling Apple will never ship OS X for Intel until it's too late? The hardware is too expensive, and there's already a HUGE market out there for OSes running on Intel. They could truly give Microsoft a run for their money. OS X is stunning, yet I know Apple will refuse to ship it for anything but THEIR hardware, and this will be their downfall. It can't be as hard as they'd want us to believe can it? Darwin already boots on x86, I know that's the core OS, but it's a huge start. Don't do this again, Apple. Just ship the damned OS, advertise, and people will buy it. Talk to OEMs, demonstrate it, undercut MS if you have to, at least it will provide some competition and more than likely cut you a large slice of the market. Don't do this again. ---
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Odd...
A few months ago a spammer really got on my nerves , 4-5 mails from the same idiot. I decided then and there it was time to contact the ISP, even though it's usually useless. I contacted PSInet (his ISP) and they replied they'd look into it. I figured I'd just been brushed off, and went about my business. A week later, I got a mail from PSInet, that the person I had reported was indeed a spammer, and that they had canceled his account. I was really impressed with them, the fact that they took action, and that they even took the time to mail me back. PSInet isn't all bad.
--Craig ---
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At my HS the geeks are the ones who get the praise and recognition. When funding cuts hit, the sports teams get hit, not anything academic. I find I can't relate to any of the stories posted here, about being ridiculed and such. In fact, I find myself and my friends ridiculing the academic (as opposed to the IB [International Baccalauriate]) students. Even the teachers ridicule them, they tend to detest those that are less fortunate (read: moronic). You need to organize. There's 30-40 of us at our school, all geeks, know it, and love it. There's arts geeks, computer geeks, science geeks, etc. The people who get recognition and praise in my school are the top scoring students, and the debate team (#1 in country for almost 10 years:). It's a public school, just like everyone (almost) here. I know my school is the exception, but there ARE some schools where the idiots are treated as such. (Even though this tends toward an elitist bunch... even in a left-wing canadian school;). Geeks aren't harrassed, or anything of the sort. Hell, there's a fair amount of us on the rugby team. Oh well.
--Dest
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Whatever happened to ICQ? It's what I use, it's what my friends use. I know there's well over 70,000,000 numbers issued, however many are active is anyone's guess, but still, 90% of the market is AOLIM? That's sickening among other things considering the worthlessness of AIM.
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This has fascinated me for a while. I'm finding more and more that people with more tech-savvy, or education in general tend to steer clear of organized religions, or any religion at all. I've only done one (very unscientific) polling of my highschool, and found that the people who tend to do better (not always a measure of intelligence, but sometimes can be) or attend better programs (IB,AP) usually lack any specific religion (agnostic) or are tried and true atheists (as myself). It seems to me there is a trend towards atheism with the well educated of my area. I'd like to know if this holds true elsewhere. [warning, possibly offensive statement ahead] (RANT)Personally I've always found religions to be comfort for the weak of mind, those who need the comfort of a 'god' to justify their existance. This saddens me. (and no, it's not because I was raised this way -- I was actually brought up Roman Catholic, I enjoyed the ceremonies, they were always nice, but I never found myself actually believing any of it -- too many contradictions, unexplained things, and others easily explained that the bible gives an extensive explanation for. There are entire books whose purpose was propaganda (revelations, anti-rome) and have been integrated into the book because the guy was supposedly visited by god in his dreams.)(/RANT)
Anyway, I talk too much. ---
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Incentive to produce Digital Material
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According to the article the companies keep complaining they would have no incentive to produce in a digital format. It occurs to me, after only taking a year of economics, that their incentive isn't protection, but consumer demand -- even if they're not afforded protection, if consumers demand it, the company will fulfill that need or die. They shouldn't need protection incentives, in fact they don't, this is merely a rouse under which to hide from the truth -- they want movies played on players THEY sanction (and probably own a portion of and/or license the technology for). Just my two cents. --
I've been with this show from the beginning, on the original station that bought it (YTV - Canadian only), and it's great. I've seen episodes done in 1994 (They had a 'making of' or something, I don't remember exactly), they were quite awful, but cutting edge for the time, it had the same characters, content, etc. The thing with CGI is that cutting edge one year isn't cutting edge another. Beasties, Beast Wars once it was exported to the US (also by Mainframe, the company that made reboot), had better animation than Reboot Season two. However Season three of Reboot had better animation than Season 1 of Beasties, who then ran Season 2 which was better than Season 3 Reboot (Note: in case you're wondering WHY Season 3 was delayed it was because they were working on Beasties;)! It never ends! Their latest program, Beast Machines, is absolutely fantastic animation wise. Good plot too. This company is really great, I love all of their shows. Anyway, back to the point, I see all these people posting complaining about the CGI, the barefacts are the show was released in 1996, it was cutting edge! Their 1994 footage was cutting edge for 1994, everything this company does is cutting edge. --
Are these the people that think we're learning something useful in school now? As far as I can tell, about the only thing worthwhile that they teach at my school is computer literacy. In a time when computers are becoming integrated into every part of society it's very gratifying to see the school trying to teach its students how to use a computer and not to be afraid of one. We have clusters in most of our classrooms at school, and we find them very useful in alot of classes, we have software and hardware for the physics class to collect data, we use the computers in our economics class to research world problems with current data pertaining to what we're covering. Now, economics itself is pretty useless in the real world, but using a computer is something everyone in the western world will eventually be doing on a daily basis.
I find it sad when I come accross a student frantically searching through ancient library books looking for current information to use in his/her project, while ignoring the computer lab next door. The simple fact is they're ignoring the lab because they're afraid of the computers. The earlier we're exposed to them, the better off we'll be. I'm not advocating them as a sole means of teaching, I'm advocating using them as a tool in the entire process of teaching, and teaching their use too.
In short: teach us something we'll use, don't cut the only thing you're doing right. --
Slashdot Mirror
At least some geeks might be breeding. ;)
The traveling salesman problem is NP-Hard. Sorry. :)
Back in High School chemistry we had to do a section on environmental chemistry to fulfill the IB (International Baccalaureate) requirement. From what I recall ozone itself is created by the ionizing (bad) UV light that supposedly does damage to humans and wildlife. Once the ozone is created the energy from the UV light has be expended creating the ozone and is no longer harmful. CFCs can then come over and react with the ozone, and turn it back into oxygen. CFCs didn't interfere in the production of the ozone it merely ripped off the extra oxygen to make more O2 which was then free to react and make more ozone, repeat ad nauseum. The lack of ozone has no detrimental effects. Either way the non-ionizing UV light still gets through. It was the O2 that stopped the ionizing UV light, not the ozone, and no one's claiming there's a lack of O2.
MFC = Merged From Current
Just means that changes in the -CURRENT tree were merged into the -STABLE tree for inclusion in the next -RELEASE.
Why, yes they can.
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%#@$! SMP support just fragged me!
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While the "security risks" statement is FUD, the second part is true. The GNU GPL DOES force IP into the public domain. I think MS has confused all open source software with GPL'd software, at least in their press releases. The GPL is dangerous for a company trying to hold on to its IP while still trying to build on existing technology, and I believe Microsoft has proven this by using BSD licensed code. Honestly, if you were a small business would you want your top application possibly being forced under the GPL where you would have to release the code to the public for everyone to see and take, or would you want it under the BSD license where you merely have to give credit where credit is due?
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The fact is they're in the business of selling things. If they can sell cell phones, they will. If they can sell cell phones with radiation shielding for more money, so be it. It's simple economics. All this means is that they realize there's money to be made in radiation shielded cell phones, whether or not it actually causes cancer is irrelevant as people obviously think it does and are willing to pay money to avoid it.
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I made a patch for RENDER support on Mach64 a week after RENDER came out, but have since lost the patch. It's not too important to me since I dumped that Pentium for this beast, though. ;)
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Capitalism IS a wonderful thing, especially when combined with technology. This allows smoother price changes to comply with supply and demand, and as such will allow the market to perform at its optimum. From what I understand this is going to allow companys to function at MR=AC(=MC) (Marginal Revenue (or Demand), Average Cost, and Marginal Cost) and as such allows them to produce at the lowest cost, lowest price, and highest production. This is a wonderful thing, my friend. Protesting is unwarranted, rejoicing, however, may be.
IANAE (I Am Not An Economist, but I play one at school)
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No! Sell the resulting mulch to Hormel. They'll know what to do with it... ;)
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ok, how about this: cd /usr/src && make update buildworld installworld kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC && mergemaster
and if you were good and edited /etc/make.conf you get machine specific optimizations.
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Check this month's Scientific American for more information on the technology involved, or read here. There's also some links from the article to various sites relating to telepresence. Enjoy!
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Someone has finally harnessed the great sucking power of a Mac for a vacuum! Keep the nozzle away from the family cat and everything should be fine...
;)
(This is a joke, albeit a bad one.
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Well, it's a matter of bandwidth. We use our own video codec to cut WAY down on bandwidth for the wireless devices. The video can be viewed from anywhere with wireless interenet access, rather than in just an area with wireless ethernet, which would be required for the full colour and higher image quality. There's also a matter of cost, the palm pilot and visor is simply cheaper than the other solutions. ;)
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That's nothing new. The people I work for (Trakonic) already have software for streaming video to Palm Pilots and visors. We sell all sorts of security related stuff, we can broadcast video to web clients (live or recorded), to a specific client, or just record. The video also has software motion detection, and can trigger devices upon motion being detected. All from a single server that handles 8 cameras (16 soon). It's not slow either, over network we get 30fps with two cameras, and 20fps per camers with four. Laptops aren't a big deal, but if they can do better than streaming video to wireless palm pilots, then I'm interested. ;)
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*sigh* Why do I get the feeling Apple will never ship OS X for Intel until it's too late? The hardware is too expensive, and there's already a HUGE market out there for OSes running on Intel. They could truly give Microsoft a run for their money. OS X is stunning, yet I know Apple will refuse to ship it for anything but THEIR hardware, and this will be their downfall. It can't be as hard as they'd want us to believe can it? Darwin already boots on x86, I know that's the core OS, but it's a huge start. Don't do this again, Apple. Just ship the damned OS, advertise, and people will buy it. Talk to OEMs, demonstrate it, undercut MS if you have to, at least it will provide some competition and more than likely cut you a large slice of the market. Don't do this again.
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Don't try to read the code. Really. Need aspirin.
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Odd... A few months ago a spammer really got on my nerves , 4-5 mails from the same idiot. I decided then and there it was time to contact the ISP, even though it's usually useless. I contacted PSInet (his ISP) and they replied they'd look into it. I figured I'd just been brushed off, and went about my business. A week later, I got a mail from PSInet, that the person I had reported was indeed a spammer, and that they had canceled his account. I was really impressed with them, the fact that they took action, and that they even took the time to mail me back. PSInet isn't all bad.
--Craig
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At my HS the geeks are the ones who get the praise and recognition. When funding cuts hit, the sports teams get hit, not anything academic. I find I can't relate to any of the stories posted here, about being ridiculed and such. In fact, I find myself and my friends ridiculing the academic (as opposed to the IB [International Baccalauriate]) students. Even the teachers ridicule them, they tend to detest those that are less fortunate (read: moronic). You need to organize. There's 30-40 of us at our school, all geeks, know it, and love it. There's arts geeks, computer geeks, science geeks, etc. The people who get recognition and praise in my school are the top scoring students, and the debate team (#1 in country for almost 10 years :). It's a public school, just like everyone (almost) here. I know my school is the exception, but there ARE some schools where the idiots are treated as such. (Even though this tends toward an elitist bunch... even in a left-wing canadian school ;). Geeks aren't harrassed, or anything of the sort. Hell, there's a fair amount of us on the rugby team. Oh well.
--Dest
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Whatever happened to ICQ? It's what I use, it's what my friends use. I know there's well over 70,000,000 numbers issued, however many are active is anyone's guess, but still, 90% of the market is AOLIM? That's sickening among other things considering the worthlessness of AIM.
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This has fascinated me for a while. I'm finding more and more that people with more tech-savvy, or education in general tend to steer clear of organized religions, or any religion at all. I've only done one (very unscientific) polling of my highschool, and found that the people who tend to do better (not always a measure of intelligence, but sometimes can be) or attend better programs (IB,AP) usually lack any specific religion (agnostic) or are tried and true atheists (as myself). It seems to me there is a trend towards atheism with the well educated of my area. I'd like to know if this holds true elsewhere. [warning, possibly offensive statement ahead] (RANT)Personally I've always found religions to be comfort for the weak of mind, those who need the comfort of a 'god' to justify their existance. This saddens me. (and no, it's not because I was raised this way -- I was actually brought up Roman Catholic, I enjoyed the ceremonies, they were always nice, but I never found myself actually believing any of it -- too many contradictions, unexplained things, and others easily explained that the bible gives an extensive explanation for. There are entire books whose purpose was propaganda (revelations, anti-rome) and have been integrated into the book because the guy was supposedly visited by god in his dreams.)(/RANT) Anyway, I talk too much.
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According to the article the companies keep complaining they would have no incentive to produce in a digital format. It occurs to me, after only taking a year of economics, that their incentive isn't protection, but consumer demand -- even if they're not afforded protection, if consumers demand it, the company will fulfill that need or die. They shouldn't need protection incentives, in fact they don't, this is merely a rouse under which to hide from the truth -- they want movies played on players THEY sanction (and probably own a portion of and/or license the technology for). Just my two cents.
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I've been with this show from the beginning, on the original station that bought it (YTV - Canadian only), and it's great. I've seen episodes done in 1994 (They had a 'making of' or something, I don't remember exactly), they were quite awful, but cutting edge for the time, it had the same characters, content, etc. The thing with CGI is that cutting edge one year isn't cutting edge another. Beasties, Beast Wars once it was exported to the US (also by Mainframe, the company that made reboot), had better animation than Reboot Season two. However Season three of Reboot had better animation than Season 1 of Beasties, who then ran Season 2 which was better than Season 3 Reboot (Note: in case you're wondering WHY Season 3 was delayed it was because they were working on Beasties ;)! It never ends! Their latest program, Beast Machines, is absolutely fantastic animation wise. Good plot too. This company is really great, I love all of their shows. Anyway, back to the point, I see all these people posting complaining about the CGI, the barefacts are the show was released in 1996, it was cutting edge! Their 1994 footage was cutting edge for 1994, everything this company does is cutting edge.
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Are these the people that think we're learning something useful in school now? As far as I can tell, about the only thing worthwhile that they teach at my school is computer literacy. In a time when computers are becoming integrated into every part of society it's very gratifying to see the school trying to teach its students how to use a computer and not to be afraid of one. We have clusters in most of our classrooms at school, and we find them very useful in alot of classes, we have software and hardware for the physics class to collect data, we use the computers in our economics class to research world problems with current data pertaining to what we're covering. Now, economics itself is pretty useless in the real world, but using a computer is something everyone in the western world will eventually be doing on a daily basis.
I find it sad when I come accross a student frantically searching through ancient library books looking for current information to use in his/her project, while ignoring the computer lab next door. The simple fact is they're ignoring the lab because they're afraid of the computers. The earlier we're exposed to them, the better off we'll be. I'm not advocating them as a sole means of teaching, I'm advocating using them as a tool in the entire process of teaching, and teaching their use too.
In short: teach us something we'll use, don't cut the only thing you're doing right.
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