At first glance I thought NDGPS was some synonymic acronym for WAAS and it sounded disturbing. On a slightly closer reading I see that WAAS is not in danger. It never was and won't be. Hundreds if not Thousands of 'connected' yacht owners would never find their moorings if WAAS was shut down. Some of these are the source of government, er, oil. I'm sure no one in government would want to loose these users of WAAS.
You don't thing google can't follow your personal query signature across any number of proxies? Google has you in thier database. They got your number. Don't fight it, they even know what's best for you.
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I'd agree most any forum other than Slashdot. If a slashdoter is fooled by a link or fails to do their own research they should be reading zdnet...
Anyone been watching the news recently? Congress is on the verge of outlawing mining just to avoid the bad press when a few minors endure the result of bad or under funded engineering.
It will likely be in the next Bond flick, he'll strap it on at a moments notice zoom for 23 seconds, land lightly on the balcony of a magnificent mountainside stronghold/resort, toss off the wings, strip down to his tux, slip inside and kiss some bimbo. Damn I want that job.
"3 Know your history. In the beginning, there was the commandline. "
The comand line is actually rather late. Knowing the existance of punch cards would be worthwhile. Details like that actually help one to understand where artifacts such as why 80 character widths are common.
The logo should switch automatically depending on which side of the Chicago. Can you see the the scene, riding the El and all the jerseys switch from Cubs to Sox?
Just a bug note: I posted this in the article about SGI enterinng Chapter 11. The article that I responded to seemed in the wrong place and this has mysteriously drifted into the Nebula thread.
"Developers motivated by self interest"...? Isn't it amazing what radical subversive thought can slip though the open source ff (man -k filosofy filter).
What is the need for backwards compatibility anyway? The Dosification of Linux?
Anyway, why not have a rarely updated, minimal branch for ancient hardware, like anything over 3 years old?
This would be an ideal place for a fully randomized collection of letters. Make the conspiracy code crackers real crazy! A true cryptographer would identify the randomness quickly but the wackos would just assume he is part of the conspiracy.
My Bad (to coin a phrase), I didn't address your direct question. As to that, I don't think so (as there does not exist a 'cocktail' for the common cold virus) but I really do not know.
See Thing's comment below for more scary details. Erk!
The flu has not mutated into the form that is highly contagious to humans yet. When that occurs there will be a race to cultivate the vaccine. During the period between the high volume production of the vaccine (months, many months) the death toll could be significant.
I don't know from statistics, but the only user groups that are packed to overflowing in the Boston area involve Java. Perl gets a solid dozen, Microsoft-ish groups get a great showing, almost filling a small conference room. A good Java topic, SRO, 300 or more.
"The challenge will be conducted in a "head-to-head" competition format in late 2006 or early 2007 and will require teams to excavate and deliver as much regolith as possible in 30 minutes."
Sure sounds like all the excavatuion bots will need to defend and to win, disable the evil Chinese, Japanese and Russian bots. This will be the REAL space race!
Yes, why do we need or should desire fancy new games? Chess or poker have not dropped in popularity. Why can't a video game be played for a couple decades, that like 0.001% of the lifetime of chess.
What the movie industry does NOT do for each film is totally change the core infrastructure. Even Pixar or ILM makes small incremental improvements to it's production pipeline. Yet the game developers seem to need to create a new engine and rendering tools for any significant new FPS. Something in that industry needs to stabilize or the unfeeling laws of economics will stabilize it for them.I am sure there is some reuse of core technologies but if it's the look that is what counts, then they need to find some core tech that lets artists rather than programmers have control of the production. The next wildly successful game company will probably not have many if any 'engine' programmers, but rather a system that lets the writers, game designers and artists build a game without massive software efforts.
In any case, there a lots of great small online flash games that are quite clever and seem to be built by one or a few developers.
Slashdot Mirror
At first glance I thought NDGPS was some synonymic acronym
for WAAS and it sounded disturbing. On a slightly closer
reading I see that WAAS is not in danger. It never was
and won't be. Hundreds if not Thousands of 'connected'
yacht owners would never find their moorings if WAAS was
shut down. Some of these are the source of government, er,
oil. I'm sure no one in government would want to loose
these users of WAAS.
You don't thing google can't follow your personal query
signature across any number of proxies? Google has you
in thier database. They got your number. Don't fight it,
they even know what's best for you.
I'd agree most any forum other than Slashdot. If a slashdoter is fooled by a link or
fails to do their own research they should be reading zdnet...
Put management offices in the tunnels.
Anyone been watching the news recently? Congress is
on the verge of outlawing mining just to avoid the
bad press when a few minors endure the result of bad
or under funded engineering.
The solution? Put the bosses in the mines.
as in they didn't post to slashdot coporate strategic plans.
Think of all the great advice they would get!
It will likely be in the next Bond flick, he'll strap it
on at a moments notice zoom for 23 seconds, land lightly on
the balcony of a magnificent mountainside stronghold/resort,
toss off the wings, strip down to his tux, slip inside and
kiss some bimbo. Damn I want that job.
Cost it almost the only issue. The caveat is to double check
that the CA's public key is seeded into IE and Firefox.
Maybe if you're expecting to do a lot, finding the 'least annoying'
key administration might be worth review.
My first thought at the headline was: some software glitch
caused one of those cheesie web kiosks to catch on fire?
Cool.
"3 Know your history. In the beginning, there was the commandline. "
The comand line is actually rather late. Knowing the
existance of punch cards would be worthwhile. Details
like that actually help one to understand where artifacts
such as why 80 character widths are common.
Check out the posters sig and the authors first name? Correlation? Nawww...
The logo should switch automatically depending on which
side of the Chicago. Can you see the the scene, riding the
El and all the jerseys switch from Cubs to Sox?
Just a bug note: I posted this in the article
about SGI enterinng Chapter 11. The article that
I responded to seemed in the wrong place and this
has mysteriously drifted into the Nebula thread.
Buggy software or I'm on drugs, take your pick.
Well I wish that were fiction.
"Requium for a Cool Software Company"
"Developers motivated by self interest"...? Isn't it
amazing what radical subversive thought can slip
though the open source ff (man -k filosofy filter).
What is the need for backwards compatibility anyway?
The Dosification of Linux?
Anyway, why not have a rarely updated, minimal branch
for ancient hardware, like anything over 3 years old?
Perhaps the googleplex mindshare is cognizant of
that growing dichotomy (gotta use them beeg words)
When will pure search be 10% of googles business?
Is 'Everyone' nimble enough to catch all
of the cool stuff sneaking out of googlelabs?
Is google like the internet and will route around
any blockages like Microsoft or Yahoo?
We shall see...
This would be an ideal place for a fully randomized
collection of letters. Make the conspiracy code crackers
real crazy! A true cryptographer would identify the
randomness quickly but the wackos would just assume
he is part of the conspiracy.
For that really important appointment, a yellow sitcker on the edge of the monitor saves the day.
Late Adopotors live longer.
I'll be pretty funny if on the first pass it
sends back images of Chinese workers waving.
My Bad (to coin a phrase), I didn't address your direct question. As to that, I don't think so (as there does not exist a 'cocktail' for the common cold virus) but I really do not know.
See Thing's comment below for more scary details. Erk!
>Am I oversimplifing things too much?
Not at all actually. But consider the timeline.
The flu has not mutated into the form that is highly
contagious to humans yet. When that occurs there will be
a race to cultivate the vaccine. During the period between
the high volume production of the vaccine (months, many months)
the death toll could be significant.
I don't know from statistics, but the only user
groups that are packed to overflowing in the Boston
area involve Java. Perl gets a solid dozen, Microsoft-ish
groups get a great showing, almost filling a small
conference room. A good Java topic, SRO, 300 or more.
Don't believe me, RTFA buckos:
"The challenge will be conducted in a "head-to-head" competition format in late 2006 or early 2007 and will require teams to excavate and deliver as much regolith as possible in 30 minutes."
Sure sounds like all the excavatuion bots will need to defend and to win, disable the evil Chinese, Japanese and Russian bots. This will be the REAL space race!
... the first person on Mars owns both Mars and Earth ;-)
Yes, why do we need or should desire fancy new games? Chess or poker have not dropped in popularity. Why can't a video game be played for a couple decades, that like 0.001% of the lifetime of chess.
What the movie industry does NOT do for each film is totally change the core infrastructure. Even Pixar or ILM makes small incremental improvements to it's production pipeline. Yet the game developers seem to need to create a new engine and rendering tools for any significant new FPS. Something in that industry needs to stabilize or the unfeeling laws of economics will stabilize it for them.I am sure there is some reuse of core technologies but if it's the look that is what counts, then they need to find some core tech that lets artists rather than programmers have control of the production. The next wildly successful game company will probably not have many if any 'engine' programmers, but rather a system that lets the writers, game designers and artists build a game without massive software efforts.
In any case, there a lots of great small online flash games that are quite clever and seem to be built by one or a few developers.