If they can get a good job now, why the heck not. Work while the economy is smokin'.
When you can't get the job you want is the time to go to school.
I'm all about continuing education, but folks have to remember that learning for the joy of learning doesn't have to take place in the classroom and learning to qualify for your dream job is stupid if you are already qualified.
A couple of years ago, merchant republics in cyberspace might have seemed a wacky, even
utopian, prediction. No more.
Unfortunately for the goals of some, it is wacky. Even the one place in world with a prayer of pulling something like that off, Sealand, is in trecherous waters.
The cyber revolution will change government as much as the industrial one did. Which, while significant, isn't revolutionary.
What makes biological evolution interesting and powerful is that new
parts arise without a pre-conceived design.
Well I guess that's true, but the building blocks of DNA, for example, are really simple and look where we've gotten. This article talks about building blocks that are at least as varied as CTGA of DNA.
As for a pre-conceived design, you missed a subtle point. The robot wasn't told look for a design that the makers already know. The task was come up with a design that solves a known problem.
Genetic Algorythms are really interesting things. See Alife for as good a launching point as any into the field.
Humans may be the first species to create it's own successor.
Except for the bad PR, there isn't an urgent reason to move these services to a Win2K platform. It'll occur, just not immediately.
No no no no no!
Don't let them off the hook. The god damn Microsoft rep keeps telling me I have to use Windows X because it is better! He practically tells me I'm being irresponsible running a business on Linux/Sun/DEC.
So I say, FUCK YOU. Get your own servers running that cluster fuck of an operating system and I'll see how your uptimes are. Until then, I'm sticking with solutions that I know work.
The company has decided not to sell force-feedback mice because people find them distracting and
not advanced enough to be of much use on the Web, said Mary Starman, a spokeswoman for
Microsoft's hardware division.
The way they have been predicting the market lately this, IMO, pretty much locks things for Logitech. They have a winner on their hands.
Now if they could just such the damn blinkers off on their light mouse packaging so I can shop without going into a seizure, they'll conquer the world!
/.ers sick of the two party duopoly should vote for Hagelin. Hagelin.org for scoop. He's a Harvard educated physicist and his running mate is an internet entrepreneur.
What more can you ask for!
While I appreciate the sentiment behind the story it would be way better to vote for a qualified candidate than whine about how Gore/Bush isn't a choice.
I know that SDSS (www.sdss.org) uses Linux in it's effort to map the sky. Can you tell us about the hardware, OS and software used for your kind of control and DAQ work and what considerations were particularly relevant in the selection process?
At a minimum it is disturbing because it is anti-competitive. They should be able to attempt to recover their losses from the original registrant, but doing so by public auction means that no other registrar has an oppourtunity to dip into the existing pool of names.
Why stop at non-payment. If I decide to cancel my name, why won't they (or do they already) schedule and auction in order to keep the name 'in the family' if you will.
I think that Network Solutions would be a great name for a company, therefore unless you reply to this note by June 28th with a check for $1M (USD) I will be selling at my auction site.
Yours, rw2
P.S. If you try to sell what isn't yours you sometimes reap what you sow.
Use latex/tex to typeset your book, then you can generate just about any useful format you might need. Cross platform and all other such goodness is, of course, available.
For publishing, if your a first author interested in self publishing you might be interested in doing a net search for micropublishers. You can do short runs for those who want the paper on the bus and electronic for other folks.
The python doc, for example, is available from http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/
I think a lot of the problem is one of perception. The GUI is good idea has been around for a long time, but is difficult to substantiate. Ease of use means taking the least amount of time/effort to complete a task. The substantial up front learning to become a shellophile is paid back every day by *not* having to use a menu for every task.
One example is simply finding the file one is looking for. Using grep, find, xargs, cut, sort and their ilk one can find any file he wants. Not so with the fancy pants 'find' utility in Visual C++. So the advantage of having the find facility a keystroke away and integrated into the IDE is quickly lost.
Another example is Star Trek (hey Lederman made Star Trek analogies, why can't I!). They use displays as feedback mechanisms, but for interacting with the computer they talk. Why? Well two reasons, GUIs are really bad TV and also because it is much more intuitive to describe your problem in natural language and let the computer do the rest.
So, as other posters have pointed out GUIs are gaining ground, but let's not forget the power of text to represent the world. The sooner I can talk to my computer the better!
BTW, does anyone know a good speech to text tool that I can use from a command line? I'm using Festival to go the other direction and need something to complete the loop.
But I remained fixated on the idea that there is no Regulon in the Semiosphere, no natural barrier to the endless flow and reproduction of electronic information. We have no way to keep CNN, weatherman, flamers, spammers, Web site designers, e-do gooders and nit-picking coders, pundits, zealots, smart-asses and grumps in check. Each is breeding information and media. We can't stem or steer the natural proliferation of movies, TV shows, books, songs, poems, pitches, spins, videogames, junk mail, ads, Washington talk shows and radio hosts.
You are forgetting the input part of the equation. Humands need Apples, media needs eyeballs. Without the eyeballs they die.
As has been pointed out, neither the referenced URI nor many of the posts here are dealing with gadgets. Paper, Quills, Printing press! Come on! Important inventions, but gadgets!
Now here are some gadgets that were/are awesome for their time! (and in no particular order)
Mostly true IMHO, but I still believe Bush is a lesser of two evils.
Maybe but only in the most useless of senses.
Let's imagine that I'm 65 years old and I have 200,000 in the bank. I have a choice between one scumbag who is going to take it all or another who is going to take 199,800. Which do I choose? The lesser of two evils of course. At least I can break the news to my wife over a nice dinner.
Since Limbaugh has turned liberal into a dirty word I'll claim to be a progressive, but I still think your guy Brown is a Big Mac with fries better than the grease bags the major parties put up for us to choose from.
Come on, tell me how you can honestly believe that Clinton and Co. are valiant protectors of our freedom
Of course I don't why would you think I do!
Ahhh, I see. Because I dissed Bush you assume that I support Clinton. While this might be the societal norm, you might do well to keep a bit more open mind. Bush and the bulk of the GOP are every bit as dangerous as Clinton and the bulk of the Democrats.
Before this gets modded -1 offtopic you should spin by my web site listed in the sig. If you aren't convinced by my accusations of an arms for hostages Slick Willy style then we can continue this discussion there.
It's kind of amusing (though I of course understand the motivational differences) to see a lot of the same people that decry banner advertising as a waste of bandwidth looking at this kind of obfuscation as a pet project.
Given our next President and the impending erosion of freedoms I can understand the motivation though. Once a CIA brat, always a CIA brat...:-)
It shows the usage by platform. There are a couple significant Apache derivatives that aren't grouped into the more conservative number that is used for the graph.
In fact, the bulk of the tailing off shown in the graph for Apache was actually slack picked up by Apache derivatives!
I'm growing more worried by the day about the catastrophy looming in our immediate future. I'm referring, of course, to Y2K.
I'm a functionally illiterate jock, as witnessed by my dictation (huh-huh, I said dictation), of this letter to my coach. So I'm quite concerned about whether or not I will still be able to play football in a few weeks.
You see, if I were not able to hang out with other naked guys and flex for the girls that I was planning to slip a mickey to I don't know what I would do all weekend.
Slashdot Mirror
As if the IP number shortage wasn't enough, now we're going to run out of AMEX numbers too. AMEXv6 anyone?
I just hope they didn't issue all the AMEX card numbers starting with 18 to MIT!
If they can get a good job now, why the heck not. Work while the economy is smokin'.
When you can't get the job you want is the time to go to school.
I'm all about continuing education, but folks have to remember that learning for the joy of learning doesn't have to take place in the classroom and learning to qualify for your dream job is stupid if you are already qualified.
Unfortunately for the goals of some, it is wacky. Even the one place in world with a prayer of pulling something like that off, Sealand, is in trecherous waters.
The cyber revolution will change government as much as the industrial one did. Which, while significant, isn't revolutionary.
They should send them $118M in Holiday in towels. Think they'll get it?
Or these guys http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbiblioteca/
I wonder why they don't send a nastygram to the folks at http://www.readerware.com/ also?
Well I guess that's true, but the building blocks of DNA, for example, are really simple and look where we've gotten. This article talks about building blocks that are at least as varied as CTGA of DNA.
As for a pre-conceived design, you missed a subtle point. The robot wasn't told look for a design that the makers already know. The task was come up with a design that solves a known problem.
Genetic Algorythms are really interesting things. See Alife for as good a launching point as any into the field.
Humans may be the first species to create it's own successor.
No no no no no!
Don't let them off the hook. The god damn Microsoft rep keeps telling me I have to use Windows X because it is better! He practically tells me I'm being irresponsible running a business on Linux/Sun/DEC.
So I say, FUCK YOU. Get your own servers running that cluster fuck of an operating system and I'll see how your uptimes are. Until then, I'm sticking with solutions that I know work.
The way they have been predicting the market lately this, IMO, pretty much locks things for Logitech. They have a winner on their hands.
Now if they could just such the damn blinkers off on their light mouse packaging so I can shop without going into a seizure, they'll conquer the world!
/.ers sick of the two party duopoly should vote for Hagelin. Hagelin.org for scoop. He's a Harvard educated physicist and his running mate is an internet entrepreneur.
What more can you ask for!
While I appreciate the sentiment behind the story it would be way better to vote for a qualified candidate than whine about how Gore/Bush isn't a choice.
Did anyone see Futurama last night? This patent must have been at the bottom of the pile!
Nope, no laws. In fact, my latest Ameritech bill came with an adevertisement for the service at $1.00 a pop.
I know that SDSS (www.sdss.org) uses Linux in it's effort to map the sky. Can you tell us about the hardware, OS and software used for your kind of control and DAQ work and what considerations were particularly relevant in the selection process?
At a minimum it is disturbing because it is anti-competitive. They should be able to attempt to recover their losses from the original registrant, but doing so by public auction means that no other registrar has an oppourtunity to dip into the existing pool of names.
Why stop at non-payment. If I decide to cancel my name, why won't they (or do they already) schedule and auction in order to keep the name 'in the family' if you will.
Dear Sirs,
I think that Network Solutions would be a great name for a company, therefore unless you reply to this note by June 28th with a check for $1M (USD) I will be selling at my auction site.
Yours,
rw2
P.S. If you try to sell what isn't yours you sometimes reap what you sow.
http://sourceforge.net/
Use latex/tex to typeset your book, then you can generate just about any useful format you might need. Cross platform and all other such goodness is, of course, available.
For publishing, if your a first author interested in self publishing you might be interested in doing a net search for micropublishers. You can do short runs for those who want the paper on the bus and electronic for other folks.
The python doc, for example, is available from http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/
I think a lot of the problem is one of perception. The GUI is good idea has been around for a long time, but is difficult to substantiate. Ease of use means taking the least amount of time/effort to complete a task. The substantial up front learning to become a shellophile is paid back every day by *not* having to use a menu for every task.
One example is simply finding the file one is looking for. Using grep, find, xargs, cut, sort and their ilk one can find any file he wants. Not so with the fancy pants 'find' utility in Visual C++. So the advantage of having the find facility a keystroke away and integrated into the IDE is quickly lost.
Another example is Star Trek (hey Lederman made Star Trek analogies, why can't I!). They use displays as feedback mechanisms, but for interacting with the computer they talk. Why? Well two reasons, GUIs are really bad TV and also because it is much more intuitive to describe your problem in natural language and let the computer do the rest.
So, as other posters have pointed out GUIs are gaining ground, but let's not forget the power of text to represent the world. The sooner I can talk to my computer the better!
BTW, does anyone know a good speech to text tool that I can use from a command line? I'm using Festival to go the other direction and need something to complete the loop.
You are forgetting the input part of the equation. Humands need Apples, media needs eyeballs. Without the eyeballs they die.
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Now here are some gadgets that were/are awesome for their time! (and in no particular order)
1) Cyberscope
2) Trebuchet
3) Picavet Suspension
4) Cameras
5) Cordless stuff
6) Standard based home automation
7) Scale combat
8) Webcams
9) Thermos
10) Slashdot
Maybe but only in the most useless of senses.
Let's imagine that I'm 65 years old and I have 200,000 in the bank. I have a choice between one scumbag who is going to take it all or another who is going to take 199,800. Which do I choose? The lesser of two evils of course. At least I can break the news to my wife over a nice dinner.
Since Limbaugh has turned liberal into a dirty word I'll claim to be a progressive, but I still think your guy Brown is a Big Mac with fries better than the grease bags the major parties put up for us to choose from.
Like you I choose to skip them this time.
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Of course I don't why would you think I do!
Ahhh, I see. Because I dissed Bush you assume that I support Clinton. While this might be the societal norm, you might do well to keep a bit more open mind. Bush and the bulk of the GOP are every bit as dangerous as Clinton and the bulk of the Democrats.
Before this gets modded -1 offtopic you should spin by my web site listed in the sig. If you aren't convinced by my accusations of an arms for hostages Slick Willy style then we can continue this discussion there.
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Given our next President and the impending erosion of freedoms I can understand the motivation though. Once a CIA brat, always a CIA brat...
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It shows the usage by platform. There are a couple significant Apache derivatives that aren't grouped into the more conservative number that is used for the graph.
In fact, the bulk of the tailing off shown in the graph for Apache was actually slack picked up by Apache derivatives!
Dear Nike,
I'm growing more worried by the day about the catastrophy looming in our immediate future. I'm referring, of course, to Y2K.
I'm a functionally illiterate jock, as witnessed by my dictation (huh-huh, I said dictation), of this letter to my coach. So I'm quite concerned about whether or not I will still be able to play football in a few weeks.
You see, if I were not able to hang out with other naked guys and flex for the girls that I was planning to slip a mickey to I don't know what I would do all weekend.
Please make this problem go away.
Please.