If only your post was actually relevant to the discussion at hand....
Since when is a "smart phone" an embedded device? Does the Treo have only 100K RAM?
Smart phones are less embedded devices than they are shrunken multi-function devices. They've got more power than PC's from not too long ago, shnazzy color screens, and teenage girls to press their buttons.
Just get somebody to maybe, I don't know, SKIm the damn script before they start shooting? Terrible dialogue is one thing, but if I have to hear another stupidly-named character or poorly-obfuscated english word I will drive to Lucas's house and scream random words from the OED until my vocal chords melt.
Seriously, does George ask his pre-pubescent kid to come up with the names of characters? Dooku? Greedo? And don't get me started on Jar-Jar.
Yeah -- the Uniden wireless router I just got for $20 AR has 'parental access controls' built in -- they let you block certain sites, subnets, etc, and it has packet filtering and port-forwarding, so you could block certain ports or whatever.
The Aquarius was, I am not ashamed to say, my first computer, and my only one for quite a while.
I think my parents got it at a yardsale in 1985 for like $5, and I hooked it up to the B&W TV in my bedroom and proceeded to learn BASIC. If I recall, the manual had a complete syntax guide and some sample programs.
I managed to code up a few little character-based games on there, but you couldn't get too fancy with so little RAM. And I never labelled my tapes, so I frequently recorded over my programs with silly pop songs.
Well, obviously he is underclocking so he can run fanless without scorching his butt cheeks through his nylon backpack!
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Dude, I am totally with you on that. This would be the absolute answer to my problems, and my father's (he's hearing impaired).
I've heard of this (voicemail-to-text) in some enterprise contexts -- It can't be too hard to reproduce.
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-- Not too well, at least with XFree86 4.x.
I've had some luck using 3.3.6, but it can be difficult to get the full color depth and resolution that the Windows drivers provide.
Yeah -- it's a good thing that the Slashdot editors don't want to be taken seriously as journalists, or else their self-esteem would be very low right now.
Well, "Technology Taliban" might be a little harsh, but you're examples all show the basic insecurity that most people share.
People fear change in general, and when you've invested a lot of time & mental effort in learning a certain OS or language, the threat of having to learn something new, and all the associated stress can cause people to enter whine mode pretty easily.
I think you're right, though I refrained from carrying the argument that far out, for fear of scaring the 14-year-olds who read this site.
Truth is, we're pretty much screwed. Our culture is at about the same level of development as a 16-year old kid. We think we know everything, and that everything we do is right, and we really like doing things that make us feel good.
Unfortunately, we are going to end up unemployed and pregnant, probably on welfare to the uncaring 'state' of our robot children.
Pass the booze, TGIF & all that -- I just depressed myself.
Add to this the fact that the whole thing is unsustainable, and the brink we're teetering on suddenly looks much closer.
What I mean by this is, there is a limit, economically, to the amount of growth that can occur here on plant earth. The moves toward outsourcing, especially of manufacturing, are signs of the attempt to constantly decrease the costs of doing business while increasing the $$ value of goods sold. While this makes basic business sense to the greedy suits at the top, they disregard the ripple effect that will bring the whole thing tumbling down.
Eventually, labor costs will hit bottom. After moving manufacturing from Mexico to China to Vietnam, companies are starting to hit the floor in those costs. Outsourcing development and accounting and everything else to India will eventually move down the ladder until a Bantu tribesman is doing your taxes, which amount to over 50% of your miniumum wage salary that you earned working in the food service or retail industry -- the only jobs left in the US.
And there's no escaping it. To get Marxist for a second, the owners of the means of production don't care about your standard of living -- only theirs. Prices are irrelevant to them, becuase when you have more cash on hand than all of Sub-Saharan Africa, everything is cheap.
Soon, once the immortal mega-corps have taken over the planet and achieved their dream of returning us all to strongly-classed society, the educated poor will realize that we must do something to prevent this. But it will, of course, be much too late.
I'll add my own -1 Redundant to this, but I concur with the parent on this.
I recently relocated, and took a job for a consulting agency, for about 10% less than I was making in my previous job (but COL is lower here).
I've been at the same client for 6 months now, and I do a little of everything (coding, admin, PM, sales) so they like having me around. To me, it's beginning to get boring, so I may look elsewhere.
But the nice thing is, if the client decides they can't afford me any more, my employer will find me a new placement (hopefully) -- so there's less risk of being suddenly unemployed.
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Quick question -- was it by chance the ECVT transmission that you needed replaced? If not, which one?
That reminds me of Dacia (Renault's attempt to bring decent cars to 'emerging markets'), and the failed Africar project of may years ago.
Have you considered this one?
If only your post was actually relevant to the discussion at hand....
Since when is a "smart phone" an embedded device? Does the Treo have only 100K RAM?
Smart phones are less embedded devices than they are shrunken multi-function devices. They've got more power than PC's from not too long ago, shnazzy color screens, and teenage girls to press their buttons.
Do you really think "The Phantom Menace" 'rocks' as a name for a movie?
Well, you see, the Liberal Media won't report on this because, um...
'Cause it wouldn't be Fair and Balanced?
"Liberal Media" my ass.
Yeah -- I was introduced to this stuff at "Nerd Camp" at Alfred University when I was in high school -- probably like 1990 or so.
Just get somebody to maybe, I don't know, SKIm the damn script before they start shooting? Terrible dialogue is one thing, but if I have to hear another stupidly-named character or poorly-obfuscated english word I will drive to Lucas's house and scream random words from the OED until my vocal chords melt.
Seriously, does George ask his pre-pubescent kid to come up with the names of characters? Dooku? Greedo? And don't get me started on Jar-Jar.
What business do you have reading Slashdot without a calculator watch?!
And he blew his whole salary last year on an iTMS download of "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.
Like getting married, I imagine.
... And that truth of that statement is proof enough that Shatner can do whatever he wants -- it's obviously entertaining somebody.
Yeah -- the Uniden wireless router I just got for $20 AR has 'parental access controls' built in -- they let you block certain sites, subnets, etc, and it has packet filtering and port-forwarding, so you could block certain ports or whatever.
But for posterity's sake, I have to sake the weirdest gift I received this year was the briefcase full of knives my parents gave me.
Not sure how to take that one.
The Aquarius was, I am not ashamed to say, my first computer, and my only one for quite a while.
I think my parents got it at a yardsale in 1985 for like $5, and I hooked it up to the B&W TV in my bedroom and proceeded to learn BASIC. If I recall, the manual had a complete syntax guide and some sample programs.
I managed to code up a few little character-based games on there, but you couldn't get too fancy with so little RAM. And I never labelled my tapes, so I frequently recorded over my programs with silly pop songs.
Well, obviously he is underclocking so he can run fanless without scorching his butt cheeks through his nylon backpack!
Dude, I am totally with you on that. This would be the absolute answer to my problems, and my father's (he's hearing impaired). I've heard of this (voicemail-to-text) in some enterprise contexts -- It can't be too hard to reproduce.
-- Not too well, at least with XFree86 4.x.
I've had some luck using 3.3.6, but it can be difficult to get the full color depth and resolution that the Windows drivers provide.
Not impossible, though.
Yeah -- it's a good thing that the Slashdot editors don't want to be taken seriously as journalists, or else their self-esteem would be very low right now.
And don't forget iRaq and iRan!
Hey, maybe Apple is behind our recent foreign policy moves.
Damn that Steve Jobs! I knew his ego would never settle for anything short of world domination!
Well, "Technology Taliban" might be a little harsh, but you're examples all show the basic insecurity that most people share.
People fear change in general, and when you've invested a lot of time & mental effort in learning a certain OS or language, the threat of having to learn something new, and all the associated stress can cause people to enter whine mode pretty easily.
Is Cg cross-platform? (i.e., can you write programs for Radeon GPUs with it?)
Then again, is Brook cross-platform?
If either is general-purpose enough, they could be used to implement routines on less expensive GPUs, wuch as those from SiS et al.
I think you're right, though I refrained from carrying the argument that far out, for fear of scaring the 14-year-olds who read this site.
Truth is, we're pretty much screwed. Our culture is at about the same level of development as a 16-year old kid. We think we know everything, and that everything we do is right, and we really like doing things that make us feel good.
Unfortunately, we are going to end up unemployed and pregnant, probably on welfare to the uncaring 'state' of our robot children.
Pass the booze, TGIF & all that -- I just depressed myself.
Add to this the fact that the whole thing is unsustainable, and the brink we're teetering on suddenly looks much closer.
What I mean by this is, there is a limit, economically, to the amount of growth that can occur here on plant earth. The moves toward outsourcing, especially of manufacturing, are signs of the attempt to constantly decrease the costs of doing business while increasing the $$ value of goods sold. While this makes basic business sense to the greedy suits at the top, they disregard the ripple effect that will bring the whole thing tumbling down.
Eventually, labor costs will hit bottom. After moving manufacturing from Mexico to China to Vietnam, companies are starting to hit the floor in those costs. Outsourcing development and accounting and everything else to India will eventually move down the ladder until a Bantu tribesman is doing your taxes, which amount to over 50% of your miniumum wage salary that you earned working in the food service or retail industry -- the only jobs left in the US.
And there's no escaping it. To get Marxist for a second, the owners of the means of production don't care about your standard of living -- only theirs. Prices are irrelevant to them, becuase when you have more cash on hand than all of Sub-Saharan Africa, everything is cheap.
Soon, once the immortal mega-corps have taken over the planet and achieved their dream of returning us all to strongly-classed society, the educated poor will realize that we must do something to prevent this. But it will, of course, be much too late.
I'll add my own -1 Redundant to this, but I concur with the parent on this.
I recently relocated, and took a job for a consulting agency, for about 10% less than I was making in my previous job (but COL is lower here).
I've been at the same client for 6 months now, and I do a little of everything (coding, admin, PM, sales) so they like having me around. To me, it's beginning to get boring, so I may look elsewhere.
But the nice thing is, if the client decides they can't afford me any more, my employer will find me a new placement (hopefully) -- so there's less risk of being suddenly unemployed.