Now... while I like the idea, I don't really see it working for real. It is a nice hippie pipe dream at best. Whoever "designed" it forgets that people don't use printers because they have bad handwriting, but because they need clear, efficient, quick and presentable printouts. Manually powered... I don't think so. Plus... that last point kind of defeats the eco-idea of the printer by itself. How much water would be wasted annually that way?
Use:
1. Insert a paper in the middle of the printer 2. Put the coffee or tea dregs into the ink case on the top of the printer 3. Move the ink case left and right as you draw on a paper 4. When the print finishes, pull out the paper from the printer and wash the ink case
Some other "designs" on the list are also intriguing but most seem as they have been envisioned either by children or over-privileged westerners. Like someone who never heard of indoor drying racks and power-socket timers and thinks that you could solve the power crisis by harnessing the immense untapped potential of doormats and trampolines. You know... those same people that find a wallet that would overheat, smell bad, bite your hand and otherwise embarrass it's owner when he/she tries to take money out of it - a fuckin great idea.
Oh... and that portable hard-drive you have, that fits in your pocket? Wouldn't you be a lot happier with one that needs a bag just so you could lug it around - cause it is a god damn concrete brick! Concrete would prevent such heavy metals your portable drive is made of like imaginarium and unobtanium from leaching into the landfill. Once you get sick of hauling 20 pounds of bricks around with you and you just chuck the god damn thing out of the window of your car. Hopefully, one might eventually hit the inventor in the head. Or the wallet guy.
Modern cockroaches have been around for 140 million years. They are so well adapted that they live in practically every corner of this planet. Yet... they have never formed a civilization, culture, or means of communication with other species.
The paper talks about communicative civilizations, capable of interstellar communication or at least capable of sending an interstellar of sufficient power and duration for another communicative civilization with similar capabilities to hear it.
Signals DO get lost in the noise over time. Civilizations CAN go extinct. Hell... we had excellent chances to wipe ourselves out through a nuclear apocalypse dozens of times already. It is a god damn miracle we are still around when you look at that list. And we came up with that one 64 years ago. At the same time, we have been actively listening for extraterrestrial signals for only 49 years. For a signal coming over a single form of communication.
We had entire 15 years to simply stop existing without even trying to listen if there is someone out there. Signals deteriorate. Civilizations go extinct.
Being non-american and not really giving a damn about all the fine details and political smears of the previous US presidential elections - I had no idea who the guy was. Oh I am SURE CNN tried to inform me about it during the previous year or so - but I actually tried to be kept out of the loop as much as I could. Same way I would try to be out of the loop of German, French, Russian or Australian elections. Alas... it was not the case. I was bombarded 24/7 with US political propaganda so much I'm almost surprised I didn't actually get to vote - someone was obviously trying so hard to inform me about all the fine details of the campaign(s).
Still William Ayers escaped me. From "Sarah Palin boogieman" I actually thought that he was some clueless nutjob on Sarah Palin's team who said something or other about how tech or video games are the work of Satan.
Or something along those lines. You know... something that geeks would scare the little kids with. Hence - Boogieman.
The Finns stood up to Stalin and resisted his aggressive designs -- they managed to stalemate the Soviets for more than three months even though they were outnumbered 4 to 1 (in men, the disparity in tanks/aircraft/artillery was even worse) and kept their sovereignty.
Sure, it's not open to 6 billion people, but it might be open to several million, and that's a heck of a lot better than closed in someone's desk drawer.
How exactly is that different than something like this:
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4. LIMITATIONS ON REVERSE ENGINEERING, DECOMPILATION, AND DISASSEMBLY. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
5. NO RENTAL/COMMERCIAL HOSTING. You may not rent, lease, lend or provide commercial hosting services with the Software.
It is ours not yours. You may do only what we let you. You can't give it away.
Million drawers or just one - same thing if there is only one key to all the drawers.
Open within a community that is guaranteed to be all "U.S. Persons" for export control purposes, perhaps.
Apple's and MS' products are open within their own community too - is that also Open Source?
Also... How can something military be open source at all?
Military, unless we are talking para-military guerrilla troops somewhere in the jungle/desert, represents a particular government. Say... government of Canada. Or Peru. Now... that government is responsible and accountable to IT'S people. Not to the people of say... Singapore. Or Italy. People and nations that are on a good day economic competition and on a bad day vile evildoers.
So, giving access to state secrets to potential enemies (and open source does not exactly mean "Anyone but our current enemies") isn't something I see any government doing. At least not on purpose. And ANYTHING military can be declared a state secret - right down to the brand of toilet paper used cause the enemy might just decide to inconvenience "our boys" a little further by denying them the ass wipes they are used to by sabotaging the toilet paper factory.
So, it is either not a completely thought through action (someone trying to be cool and hip using terms like OSS, or just plain not understanding what it stands for)... Or, it is some strange kind of OSS which can with a flip of a switch become not just proprietary but also a state secret that can get you a one way ticket to Gitmo or some similar exotic resort.
Come on... how can ANYTHING that works by these rules be considered "open".
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Open as in slammed-shut-in-a-box-and-hauled-away-to-be-hidden-somewhere-inside-Area-51-kinda-open I guess?
Also... dump the Wi-Fi and LAN and have them as external USB-plug-able devices. No hard drive - use SD cards instead. At under $1 per GB - small extra cost. Use existing batteries - like rechargeable AA or mobile phone batteries for power supply. No packaging.
One isn't as quick to take a shot at a King or a Queen. The majesty of royalty, you see... You can see that there's a dignity in royalty... a majesty... that precludes the likelihood of assassination. Why, if you were to point a pistol at a King or a Queen, sir, I can assure you your hand would shake as though palsied... I can assure you, the sight of royalty would cause you to dismiss all thoughts of bloodshed and stand... in awe.
It is at best a colloquial, informal abbreviation that some lazy illiterate asses jotted down cause Photographer was just too long and too hard for them to spell. So later someone, maybe, referenced it someplace as an "interesting example" of an abbreviation. (Interesting as in "Hey, come see this guy stick a fork in his eye!".) Not that anyone gave a damn, cause idiots that make abbreviations in the middle of a syllable don't usually consult dictionaries beforehand.
Also, DO note that one of your "examples" has it spelled wrong. "Swedish fotogs". But I guess that IS to be expected when illiterate lazy bums start thinking up words.
Hey! You know what? Lets think up a brand new abbreviation for a photographer. This is a PERRRRFECT opportunity. Over the next 50 years someone is bound to cite this in a blog or a tweet somewhere. From there, it is only a hip, skip and a jump away from being in the good old OED!
Hmm... How about ph00? People can pronounce it as "pü", and there is room in those double zeroes for 99 more abbreviations for other photo related words. But hey! Why stop there?!
Ph00 R.G. Rts McB01 Dp07 "NA"
MUCH BETTER (and shorter) title for the article!! Or in the sspk - MBs!
There are these things called syllables. They are the reason why we say "a photo" instead of "a photogr" or "a phot".
Also, note that (for all means and purposes) photo-G is actually a case of ADDING a letter to an existing short word (photo) - not shortening a complex one (Photo-grapher).
While you are pondering on that, take this one home with you as well.
Aeroplanes, from aeras and plane are called planes for short - not aerops or airops. Humans generally don't like words crashing in the middle of the syllable, you know?
Gurch, v. is a made up word. Pelight, n. is a made up word. Clunes, n. pl. is a made up word. Froond v. is a made up word.
Photog is just someone being too lazy to type Photographer and too stupid to think up something like PhotR. Or SnpR (pronounced Snap-aR - from "snapping a photo").
Neither would be any more needed or valid than photog though. There is a reason we don't have and use just 4-5 letter words for everything. Not only is the information in those extra letters important - it is often far more beautiful.
The word "photography" comes from the Greek (phos) "light" + (graphis) "stylus", "paintbrush" or (graphê) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light." Traditionally, the products of photography have been called negatives and photographs, commonly shortened to photos.
The One Who Draws With Light or an ugly "snub-nosed" bitten off newspeak like photog?
"Photog" is as much of a real word describing "A person who takes photographs" as "sandw" is a word used to describe "Two or more slices of bread with a filling such as meat or cheese placed between them".
Tell it to my (ex) boss. When we upgraded one of our old switches to a 1MB/s router - it was a fucking event. He kept bragging to clients as if it was something extraordinary. Most machines kept their old 10/100 NICs though.
As for my and my colleagues' time, from his point of view - worthless. Our clients were generally not charged for my and my colleagues' services (DTP and design) - only for materials and "manual labor". Ergo - our time was free.
Which meant that it was perfectly fine to drop more important Job A and take up less important Job B just to please the customer who dropped in cause he had the time. Meh... don't get me started on that place and the business practices there. Glad I have left that place. Should have left sooner.
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1.45 kg is just slightly too much in my opinion. I love my 701 weighing in at just over 900 grams, I'd prefer a model weighing 1.3 kg or less.
Yeah... cause lugging around the extra weight equivalent of couple of Mars bars is more than anyone should be forced to endure.
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Now... while I like the idea, I don't really see it working for real.
It is a nice hippie pipe dream at best.
Whoever "designed" it forgets that people don't use printers because they have bad handwriting, but because they need clear, efficient, quick and presentable printouts.
Manually powered... I don't think so.
Plus... that last point kind of defeats the eco-idea of the printer by itself.
How much water would be wasted annually that way?
Use:
1. Insert a paper in the middle of the printer
2. Put the coffee or tea dregs into the ink case on the top of the printer
3. Move the ink case left and right as you draw on a paper
4. When the print finishes, pull out the paper from the printer and wash the ink case
Some other "designs" on the list are also intriguing but most seem as they have been envisioned either by children or over-privileged westerners.
Like someone who never heard of indoor drying racks and power-socket timers and thinks that you could solve the power crisis by harnessing the immense untapped potential of doormats and trampolines.
You know... those same people that find a wallet that would overheat, smell bad, bite your hand and otherwise embarrass it's owner when he/she tries to take money out of it - a fuckin great idea.
Oh... and that portable hard-drive you have, that fits in your pocket?
Wouldn't you be a lot happier with one that needs a bag just so you could lug it around - cause it is a god damn concrete brick!
Concrete would prevent such heavy metals your portable drive is made of like imaginarium and unobtanium from leaching into the landfill.
Once you get sick of hauling 20 pounds of bricks around with you and you just chuck the god damn thing out of the window of your car.
Hopefully, one might eventually hit the inventor in the head. Or the wallet guy.
Modern cockroaches have been around for 140 million years.
They are so well adapted that they live in practically every corner of this planet.
Yet... they have never formed a civilization, culture, or means of communication with other species.
The paper talks about communicative civilizations, capable of interstellar communication or at least capable of sending an interstellar of sufficient power and duration for another communicative civilization with similar capabilities to hear it.
Signals DO get lost in the noise over time. Civilizations CAN go extinct.
Hell... we had excellent chances to wipe ourselves out through a nuclear apocalypse dozens of times already.
It is a god damn miracle we are still around when you look at that list. And we came up with that one 64 years ago.
At the same time, we have been actively listening for extraterrestrial signals for only 49 years.
For a signal coming over a single form of communication.
We had entire 15 years to simply stop existing without even trying to listen if there is someone out there.
Signals deteriorate. Civilizations go extinct.
Being non-american and not really giving a damn about all the fine details and political smears of the previous US presidential elections - I had no idea who the guy was.
Oh I am SURE CNN tried to inform me about it during the previous year or so - but I actually tried to be kept out of the loop as much as I could.
Same way I would try to be out of the loop of German, French, Russian or Australian elections.
Alas... it was not the case.
I was bombarded 24/7 with US political propaganda so much I'm almost surprised I didn't actually get to vote - someone was obviously trying so hard to inform me about all the fine details of the campaign(s).
Still William Ayers escaped me.
From "Sarah Palin boogieman" I actually thought that he was some clueless nutjob on Sarah Palin's team who said something or other about how tech or video games are the work of Satan.
Or something along those lines.
You know... something that geeks would scare the little kids with. Hence - Boogieman.
The Finns stood up to Stalin and resisted his aggressive designs -- they managed to stalemate the Soviets for more than three months even though they were outnumbered 4 to 1 (in men, the disparity in tanks/aircraft/artillery was even worse) and kept their sovereignty.
A simple, yet effective presentation.
Did you even bother to read the Forge.mil User Agreement?
Sure, it's not open to 6 billion people, but it might be open to several million, and that's a heck of a lot better than closed in someone's desk drawer.
How exactly is that different than something like this:
3. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this EULA. The Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft or its suppliers own the title, copyright, and other intellectual property rights in the Software. The Software is licensed, not sold.
4. LIMITATIONS ON REVERSE ENGINEERING, DECOMPILATION, AND DISASSEMBLY. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
5. NO RENTAL/COMMERCIAL HOSTING. You may not rent, lease, lend or provide commercial hosting services with the Software.
It is ours not yours. You may do only what we let you. You can't give it away.
Million drawers or just one - same thing if there is only one key to all the drawers.
Open within a community that is guaranteed to be all "U.S. Persons" for export control purposes, perhaps.
Apple's and MS' products are open within their own community too - is that also Open Source?
Also... How can something military be open source at all?
Military, unless we are talking para-military guerrilla troops somewhere in the jungle/desert, represents a particular government.
Say... government of Canada. Or Peru.
Now... that government is responsible and accountable to IT'S people. Not to the people of say... Singapore. Or Italy.
People and nations that are on a good day economic competition and on a bad day vile evildoers.
So, giving access to state secrets to potential enemies (and open source does not exactly mean "Anyone but our current enemies") isn't something I see any government doing. At least not on purpose.
And ANYTHING military can be declared a state secret - right down to the brand of toilet paper used cause the enemy might just decide to inconvenience "our boys" a little further by denying them the ass wipes they are used to by sabotaging the toilet paper factory.
So, it is either not a completely thought through action (someone trying to be cool and hip using terms like OSS, or just plain not understanding what it stands for)...
Or, it is some strange kind of OSS which can with a flip of a switch become not just proprietary but also a state secret that can get you a one way ticket to Gitmo or some similar exotic resort.
Come on... how can ANYTHING that works by these rules be considered "open".
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Use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring for all lawful purposes.
Open as in slammed-shut-in-a-box-and-hauled-away-to-be-hidden-somewhere-inside-Area-51-kinda-open I guess?
You know... for all those people who will suddenly start wearing Guy Fawkes masks whenever they leave their respective homes.
Or for those with less... panache... perhaps adds for matching surgical gloves to go with their surgical masks?
Also... dump the Wi-Fi and LAN and have them as external USB-plug-able devices.
No hard drive - use SD cards instead. At under $1 per GB - small extra cost.
Use existing batteries - like rechargeable AA or mobile phone batteries for power supply.
No packaging.
But they hope for a lower price with mass production.
"At this stage, the price is working out to be $20 but with mass production it is bound to come down," R P Agarwal, secretary, higher education said.
Meanwhile, this laptop is still priced at $12.25.
About 1.6 gallons of whisky per household member?
As a photographer and writer, I see no problem with the term.
Good for you. I only hope you are a better photographer than writer.
Oh... and there are three p's in appropriately.
Duke. It's the Duke. "Duke of Death."
Maybe. But no King or a Queen.
One isn't as quick to take a shot at a King or a Queen. The majesty of royalty, you see...
You can see that there's a dignity in royalty... a majesty... that precludes the likelihood of assassination.
Why, if you were to point a pistol at a King or a Queen, sir, I can assure you your hand would shake as though palsied...
I can assure you, the sight of royalty would cause you to dismiss all thoughts of bloodshed and stand... in awe.
If it is "over a century old" - then why is it not in the 1909. edition?
WARNING! 359 MB PDF file.
Page 795.
Photoengraving, Photoepinastic, PhotoGALVANIC...
No Photog.
It is at best a colloquial, informal abbreviation that some lazy illiterate asses jotted down cause Photographer was just too long and too hard for them to spell.
So later someone, maybe, referenced it someplace as an "interesting example" of an abbreviation. (Interesting as in "Hey, come see this guy stick a fork in his eye!".)
Not that anyone gave a damn, cause idiots that make abbreviations in the middle of a syllable don't usually consult dictionaries beforehand.
Also, DO note that one of your "examples" has it spelled wrong. "Swedish fotogs".
But I guess that IS to be expected when illiterate lazy bums start thinking up words.
Hey! You know what?
Lets think up a brand new abbreviation for a photographer. This is a PERRRRFECT opportunity.
Over the next 50 years someone is bound to cite this in a blog or a tweet somewhere.
From there, it is only a hip, skip and a jump away from being in the good old OED!
Hmm... How about ph00?
People can pronounce it as "pü", and there is room in those double zeroes for 99 more abbreviations for other photo related words.
But hey! Why stop there?!
Ph00 R.G. Rts McB01 Dp07 "NA"
MUCH BETTER (and shorter) title for the article!!
Or in the sspk - MBs!
I just wanted to ask a question.
What does God need with a youtube channel?
http://xkcd.com/255/
There are these things called syllables.
They are the reason why we say "a photo" instead of "a photogr" or "a phot".
Also, note that (for all means and purposes) photo-G is actually a case of ADDING a letter to an existing short word (photo) - not shortening a complex one (Photo-grapher).
While you are pondering on that, take this one home with you as well.
Aeroplanes, from aeras and plane are called planes for short - not aerops or airops.
Humans generally don't like words crashing in the middle of the syllable, you know?
English Bob?
Gurch, v. is a made up word.
Pelight, n. is a made up word.
Clunes, n. pl. is a made up word.
Froond v. is a made up word.
Photog is just someone being too lazy to type Photographer and too stupid to think up something like PhotR.
Or SnpR (pronounced Snap-aR - from "snapping a photo").
Neither would be any more needed or valid than photog though.
There is a reason we don't have and use just 4-5 letter words for everything.
Not only is the information in those extra letters important - it is often far more beautiful.
The word "photography" comes from the Greek (phos) "light" + (graphis) "stylus", "paintbrush" or (graphê) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light." Traditionally, the products of photography have been called negatives and photographs, commonly shortened to photos.
The One Who Draws With Light or an ugly "snub-nosed" bitten off newspeak like photog?
"Photog" is as much of a real word describing "A person who takes photographs" as "sandw" is a word used to describe "Two or more slices of bread with a filling such as meat or cheese placed between them".
Why make it a feature when it can be a "special bonus" or an "extra"?
Plus... haven't you heard of "downgrading to XP" costs for Vista laptops and desktops?
"Downgrading" is the new "works out of the box".
Tell it to my (ex) boss.
When we upgraded one of our old switches to a 1MB/s router - it was a fucking event. He kept bragging to clients as if it was something extraordinary.
Most machines kept their old 10/100 NICs though.
As for my and my colleagues' time, from his point of view - worthless.
Our clients were generally not charged for my and my colleagues' services (DTP and design) - only for materials and "manual labor".
Ergo - our time was free.
Which meant that it was perfectly fine to drop more important Job A and take up less important Job B just to please the customer who dropped in cause he had the time.
Meh... don't get me started on that place and the business practices there.
Glad I have left that place.
Should have left sooner.