1/4 philipino, granddaughter of the completely beautiful Glory, slim and curvy, nice breasts, assertive, smart, a swimmer... what is there not to like about Amy Shaftoe?!
simon
p.s. incidentally, am I alone in thinking that the Bobby Shaftoe of Cryptonomicon must be inspired by the traditional children's song?
How about a few thousand images on a single IBM s/390 running Linux kernels, running linux kernels, running linux kernels...running VMWare, running WinNT, to show off the BSOD feature;)
a lot of them are now LEDs, not just the Chevy Impala. Also, the 3rd brake light at the top of the rear window (at least on American cars -- is this also required in Europe? I rather assume so, but don't remember...)
LEDs (nearly) never need replacing, are fairly shock insensitive, are bright. I can't wait till they're cheaper for the colors besides red (which is free, thanks to Radio Shack!:) )
Yeah, the article is about using ambient light; but if you add an efficient light source, all you're talking about is adding a known and reliable *source* for the ambient light. For instance (to be arbitrary) if you were exploring a deep cave and wanted to read all the email you had recently downloaded as a tarball from your server ala RMS, what would you do? Or if you were in a dark bedroom, truly truly dark?
If there's no ambient light to be had (and you don't want to waste your high-power flashlight, which creates a strong beam using lots of battery juice), you switch on the small bank of LEDs (or are there even more efficient light sources? I don't want to drop in cyalume sticks all the time;) )which fit in your portable computer analogous to the backlight in a normal notebook... you get a warm glow and read away.
What I wonder is how long a fiber has to be, and in what configuration, to capture enough light to be useful (For instance, will it collect efficiently if a good portion is coiled? That would seem important in a space-saving screen...)
Also, what is the tightest resolution that could be achieved with these little dots? Lite-bright? 15" SXGA?
The article doesn't really address those issues, unfortunately.
whenever people argue about the definition of an OS, this comes out.
An OS *can* be minimalist, but it needn't be. In other words, I think that yes, if Linus went crazy one day and added a word processor (which was someone inegral to the whole thing, not, say a module) to the kernel, then you *could* have a word processor as part of the OS...
All that an OS *has* to do is allow the rest of the software on a computer to work (I think that's sufficiently vague to get past the definition police;) ). Beyond that, heck, it can include lots of things.
I can buy the idea that an OS include tools for manipulating files graphically etc, but that's way past necessary *and* sufficient!;) [For that reason, I don't think it's all that unreasonable for MS to integrate a browser into their OS, in fact, even a good idea -- just not to claim that something which can clearly be separated cannot be!]
"no particular technology yet offers an ideal solution."
Tell me, what would they consider an "ideal solution"? Imagine the Department of Censorship (cabinet level, of course), with a large sign on the door "Come back later, work in progress."
Also, I take some umbrage at the casual villification of "conservatives," as in "We did consider [madatory filtering], but not even the most-conservative members of the commission felt that was the road to go down."
Depends what you're trying to conserve, I guess, but in the current liberal / conservative dichotomy, a false distinction not only lives but thrives -- there are folks who are against censorship on both sides the aisle, and ones who are staunchly in favor of "protecting our children by whatever means necessary" on both sides, too.
Lieberman, Armey, Hatch -- where do each of them stand on certain online freedoms, and what are their designations as "liberal" v. "conservative"? ZDNet I don't expect great journalism from, and it was in fairness a quote, but it's a misleading one.
(Plus, note that most politicians are meekly saying nothing about either filters or Carnivore until they get a better idea of which way the wind shines...)
According to 1010011010, 7.0 has a usb-to-ethernet driver included for the netgear dongle (and other similar ones as well?).
I just wanted to smile happily and join in the joy at that. Those stupid USB-only machines will soon bend to the will of the Linux kernel and the various distros as drivers become available for printers, scanners, and (importantly) ethernet connections. Considering that USB-ethernet controllers are cheap and everywhere (no, not as cheap as cards, obviously, but under $30 bucks and no reason they shouldn't drop under $20... ) not to mention easily installed physically with a gentle push, they're great for temp. networks esp, if the machines don't have internal cards already. If they do, I wonder if there's any reason they wouldn't work fine as a 2nd ethernet port as if you simply had two cards... eh?
Now, there *are* professional bidders already, of course, but they're not something the ordinary Joe gets to use. There are specialized professional bidders in all kinds of esoteric things, but of course that's not what you're talking about. The interesting thing about near-simultaneous, wide-ranging electronic communications is that the level at which it's practical to have things like this creeps lower -- you don't have to be as rich to use such services if you're paying incrementally in combination with other people (services like ubid.com), and the actual bidding services can be done cheaper and for products for which it wouldn't have made sense a few years ago. (priceline.com, for instance -- groceries etc).
Even pricewatch.com can be seen as a sort of reverse auction, where you can say "Gee, I'm looking for a D-Link PCMCIA modem / ethernet card. Wonder who can give me the best deal on one?" -- BAM a few search terms later, you find one ($128, as of yesterday). Much nicer than trying to sort through dozens of sites for a few bucks' difference.
And the new-economy thing I want to see most is the chance to "roll for more" as featured in R. Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress." It's been a few years, but I believe the basic concept is, when buying anything from a meal to a motel room, it's traditional to pay slightly more in exchange for the chance to win it for free instead. It's gambling, so the house wins (in aggregate) but the player sometimes wins, and to the player wins large. (I'd like that at Motel 6, for instance... am I feeling... lucky?)
Of course, given current ridiculous attitudes about gambling this isn't likely to happen, but...
since they make a profit on every Playstation game sold... The real hot water that the presence of a legally reverse-engineered emu. puts them in is, Why shouldn't Bleem tell other people how to make compatible versions of the software? Then Sony would lose out. They should have embraced Bleem in th first place, and even braught / branded / co-licensed the emu. Dumb business!;) sw
This isn't going to be out for a while, says the article. Companies sometimes reach the projected release a little early, but usually end up being late, with good excuses all the way. (Hey, shit happens -- and the engineering people may not have been consulted on the date that marketing announces... that happens, too!)
You can build a working a decent computer for anywhere from $400 to $40,000, depending on what you want to do and what you're willing to settle for, but waiting for a just-announced chip before you build a system sounds like you're looking for a case of blue balls, metaphorically speaking.
I hope someone in the oil bid'ness can add to the detail here, but for a while there was an annoying Dell brochure saying how some oil company was using a cluster of Dell machines to crunch data for sea-floor mapping... now this was at least 18 months ago, but I'm fairly certain it said those machines were running Linux, went into an impressive cost-savings etc.
Lemme see if Dell's terrible search engine yields anything... incredible! Try this link about amerada-hess to prove that, if nothing else, Dell never throws anything away. (They *sell* their trash;) )
NOC_Monkey complained : "Frankenstein was the name of the doctor. The monster has no name. He is simply Frankenstein's monster. Please don't perpetuate the myth of the creature having a name."
Say what? For all the other faults of this piece, Katz wrote: "When last seen, almost two hundred years ago, Dr. Frankenstein's monster was heading off into the frozen wastes of the Antarctic. If he's still around, he ought to come back. It's safe now. This is Frankenstein time. " sw
Is there some reason that LEDs (now that white ones are available and not *that* expensive) couldn't be used instead of flourescent lamps as the backlight in notebooks? Perhaps the quality of the light isn't quite as nice, and it might take quite a few (expensive) white LEDs in the case, but I would think the increased battery life would be worth it quickly. So what I want;) is a transmeta web pad with an adequately large (12.1 XGA) screen lit with LEDs and running for 9 hours at a stretch... eh? eh? sw
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1/4 philipino, granddaughter of the completely beautiful Glory, slim and curvy, nice breasts, assertive, smart, a swimmer ... what is there not to like about Amy Shaftoe?!
simon
p.s. incidentally, am I alone in thinking that the Bobby Shaftoe of Cryptonomicon must be inspired by the traditional children's song?
How about a few thousand images on a single IBM s/390 running Linux kernels, running linux kernels, running linux kernels ...running VMWare, running WinNT, to show off the BSOD feature;)
simon
I thought the idea of hagfish in corpses was gross enough, but on multi-ton corpses it pretty much gives me the willies.
(Excuse me while I shiver with disgust and revulsion.)
simon
a lot of them are now LEDs, not just the Chevy Impala. Also, the 3rd brake light at the top of the rear window (at least on American cars -- is this also required in Europe? I rather assume so, but don't remember ...)
LEDs (nearly) never need replacing, are fairly shock insensitive, are bright. I can't wait till they're cheaper for the colors besides red (which is free, thanks to Radio Shack!:) )
simon
Yeah, the article is about using ambient light; but if you add an efficient light source, all you're talking about is adding a known and reliable *source* for the ambient light. For instance (to be arbitrary) if you were exploring a deep cave and wanted to read all the email you had recently downloaded as a tarball from your server ala RMS, what would you do? Or if you were in a dark bedroom, truly truly dark?
... you get a warm glow and read away.
...)
If there's no ambient light to be had (and you don't want to waste your high-power flashlight, which creates a strong beam using lots of battery juice), you switch on the small bank of LEDs (or are there even more efficient light sources? I don't want to drop in cyalume sticks all the time;) )which fit in your portable computer analogous to the backlight in a normal notebook
What I wonder is how long a fiber has to be, and in what configuration, to capture enough light to be useful (For instance, will it collect efficiently if a good portion is coiled? That would seem important in a space-saving screen
Also, what is the tightest resolution that could be achieved with these little dots? Lite-bright? 15" SXGA?
The article doesn't really address those issues, unfortunately.
simon
heh - good point re: OS X.
...
;) ). Beyond that, heck, it can include lots of things.
;) [For that reason, I don't think it's all that unreasonable for MS to integrate a browser into their OS, in fact, even a good idea -- just not to claim that something which can clearly be separated cannot be!]
whenever people argue about the definition of an OS, this comes out.
An OS *can* be minimalist, but it needn't be. In other words, I think that yes, if Linus went crazy one day and added a word processor (which was someone inegral to the whole thing, not, say a module) to the kernel, then you *could* have a word processor as part of the OS
All that an OS *has* to do is allow the rest of the software on a computer to work (I think that's sufficiently vague to get past the definition police
I can buy the idea that an OS include tools for manipulating files graphically etc, but that's way past necessary *and* sufficient!
simon
"no particular technology yet offers an ideal solution."
...)
Tell me, what would they consider an "ideal solution"? Imagine the Department of Censorship (cabinet level, of course), with a large sign on the door "Come back later, work in progress."
Also, I take some umbrage at the casual villification of "conservatives," as in "We did consider [madatory filtering], but not even the most-conservative members of the commission felt that was the road to go down."
Depends what you're trying to conserve, I guess, but in the current liberal / conservative dichotomy, a false distinction not only lives but thrives -- there are folks who are against censorship on both sides the aisle, and ones who are staunchly in favor of "protecting our children by whatever means necessary" on both sides, too.
Lieberman, Armey, Hatch -- where do each of them stand on certain online freedoms, and what are their designations as "liberal" v. "conservative"? ZDNet I don't expect great journalism from, and it was in fairness a quote, but it's a misleading one.
(Plus, note that most politicians are meekly saying nothing about either filters or Carnivore until they get a better idea of which way the wind shines
simon
According to 1010011010, 7.0 has a usb-to-ethernet driver included for the netgear dongle (and other similar ones as well?).
... ) not to mention easily installed physically with a gentle push, they're great for temp. networks esp, if the machines don't have internal cards already. If they do, I wonder if there's any reason they wouldn't work fine as a 2nd ethernet port as if you simply had two cards ... eh?
I just wanted to smile happily and join in the joy at that. Those stupid USB-only machines will soon bend to the will of the Linux kernel and the various distros as drivers become available for printers, scanners, and (importantly) ethernet connections. Considering that USB-ethernet controllers are cheap and everywhere (no, not as cheap as cards, obviously, but under $30 bucks and no reason they shouldn't drop under $20
simon
This is a really interesting point!
... am I feeling ... lucky?)
...
Now, there *are* professional bidders already, of course, but they're not something the ordinary Joe gets to use. There are specialized professional bidders in all kinds of esoteric things, but of course that's not what you're talking about. The interesting thing about near-simultaneous, wide-ranging electronic communications is that the level at which it's practical to have things like this creeps lower -- you don't have to be as rich to use such services if you're paying incrementally in combination with other people (services like ubid.com), and the actual bidding services can be done cheaper and for products for which it wouldn't have made sense a few years ago. (priceline.com, for instance -- groceries etc).
Even pricewatch.com can be seen as a sort of reverse auction, where you can say "Gee, I'm looking for a D-Link PCMCIA modem / ethernet card. Wonder who can give me the best deal on one?" -- BAM a few search terms later, you find one ($128, as of yesterday). Much nicer than trying to sort through dozens of sites for a few bucks' difference.
And the new-economy thing I want to see most is the chance to "roll for more" as featured in R. Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress." It's been a few years, but I believe the basic concept is, when buying anything from a meal to a motel room, it's traditional to pay slightly more in exchange for the chance to win it for free instead. It's gambling, so the house wins (in aggregate) but the player sometimes wins, and to the player wins large. (I'd like that at Motel 6, for instance
Of course, given current ridiculous attitudes about gambling this isn't likely to happen, but
simon
since they make a profit on every Playstation game sold ... The real hot water that the presence of a legally reverse-engineered emu. puts them in is, Why shouldn't Bleem tell other people how to make compatible versions of the software? Then Sony would lose out. They should have embraced Bleem in th first place, and even braught / branded / co-licensed the emu. Dumb business!;) sw
You can build a working a decent computer for anywhere from $400 to $40,000, depending on what you want to do and what you're willing to settle for, but waiting for a just-announced chip before you build a system sounds like you're looking for a case of blue balls, metaphorically speaking.
sw
I hope someone in the oil bid'ness can add to the detail here, but for a while there was an annoying Dell brochure saying how some oil company was using a cluster of Dell machines to crunch data for sea-floor mapping ... now this was at least 18 months ago, but I'm fairly certain it said those machines were running Linux, went into an impressive cost-savings etc.
...
Lemme see if Dell's terrible search engine yields anything
incredible! Try this link about amerada-hess to prove that, if nothing else, Dell never throws anything away. (They *sell* their trash;) )
sw
Say what? For all the other faults of this piece, Katz wrote: "When last seen, almost two hundred years ago, Dr. Frankenstein's monster was heading off into the frozen wastes of the Antarctic. If he's still around, he ought to come back. It's safe now. This is Frankenstein time. " sw
Is there some reason that LEDs (now that white ones are available and not *that* expensive) couldn't be used instead of flourescent lamps as the backlight in notebooks? Perhaps the quality of the light isn't quite as nice, and it might take quite a few (expensive) white LEDs in the case, but I would think the increased battery life would be worth it quickly. So what I want ;) is a transmeta web pad with an adequately large (12.1 XGA) screen lit with LEDs and running for 9 hours at a stretch ... eh? eh? sw