Home users? Why would an "I broke the cupholder" home user use an encrypted drive? Encryption takes some knowledge to actually work reliably, and the dumb home user that you invented for your own purposes (noone was talking about that) doesn't probably have it.
It's great. If this works, men can choose not to have kids, and girls could do that already. It's good, because kids should be opt-in, not opt-out. If your grl doesn't want to have kids, and is on BC behind your back, you probably don't want to have kids with that kind of person, anyway.
Aside from that, condoms are great for the other issue, everybody can feel protected with them. The only small problem is breakage, but eh, nothing is perfect!
User perception of responsiveness on interfaces has a lower bound of 200 ms. Some times even lower.
Just because 1 seconds seems fast, it doesn't mean that it's fast enough to stop improving. When you reach that 200ms barrier, the interface has perfect responsiveness, a bigger interval is always perfectible.
Moderation is a mixture of a reward for the poster, and helping other readers to find the good stuff. That's why comments that are moderated up are more visible, plus the poster gets karma.
When we are dealing with funny, that balance is broken, because the poster doesn't get a karma reward. A +5 Funny is not as much of a reward as a -1 Offtopic, or -1 Overrated is a punishment, because the last two affect your karma, and funny doesn't. When you see "Funny" moderations, it's mostly stuff that people want to make relevant to other readers, more than a reward for the posters. Of course, you don't have the same sense of humor they have, but you can always configure Funny posts not to be relevant in your user configuration, once you decide to log in.
I think the whole point of Consumer IT is to make life easier, more productive, enjoyable and entertaining. I'd rather have an OS that enables me to process, edit and share photos and videos of my last vacation with my friends and family then one that enables me to "pwn" my HW or compile a new version of vi. We shouldn't be slaves to our computer or barred from using IT just because we're not smart enough.
That problem has been solved. The software is there. The issue right now is marketing and distribution.
Ubuntu with Automatix does everything you want, easily. Installing Ubuntu from the live CDs is too easy. And they send you the CDs for free, if you don't want to download them, or don't get them from a friend (at least 5 friends of mine converted with my CDs, successfuly, and with Ubuntu 7.04 I'm planning on all my familiy as they need new OSes).
Microsoft beats them, because you get Windows readily installed on new computers.
It's not feature of the software per se, but a distribution issue. I think that the focus should be there, right now. Not about the software itself, but improving the way it gets distributed, and marketed.
Once it is installed, there is another issue, Automatix, that takes care of codecs, and proprietary software(there you get the ability to share pics with your friends with Picasa, just like your friends do it).
After that, using and administering Ubuntu is a walk in the park. A consistent interface, very easy. Installing new stuff is done in two ways. Most stuff is either preinstalled, like OpenOffice, or comes through the Package Manager. Proprietary stuff comes from Autmatix. No hunting for the downloads.
There, the distribution problem is solved much more easily in Ubuntu. I think that with better distribution, and more publicity, Ubuntu is ready for the desktop, when ease of use is our target. Or at least it's a lot more ready than XP.
I live in Uruguay, and here you find some programmers working for 500 dollars a month (luckily not all of them), and the numbers didn't add up for me for doing extra work, although I did make just about 700$ back then. A week of extra work, plus the administrative issues of managing a small project surely is worth much more than 200 dollars to me. The cost of living should be at least 10 times less than in the US to make a profit working at RAC rates.
Hi Slashdot. A friend of mine has been hitting on me for a few weeks now. And while I like him, his advances makes me uncomfortable. How do I tell him that I don't want a relationship, without damaging the friendship that we share?
He will understand if you don't want a relationship. If he gets romantic on you, just give him a BJ for comfort, and tell him you only want to be friends.
Yo Slashdot. I've got this yellowish reddish spot. It's about the size of a quarter, and it's getting bigger. And it's all puffy and stuff. It's right on the back of my knee, but it doesn't really hurt. Should I be worried?
What is your Zodiac sign? Cancer? I thought so. Start shopping for a cane.
Hello. I'm going to Bill's house for a party, so I thought I'd bring a bottle of Castello di Borghese 71. But dear Muffy says that Bill just returned form the Promise clinic, and has to stay clean. What else should I bring to a party instead of wine? A dog or something?
Cocaine.
I have a 1989 chevy K2500 that has a vacuum problem. truck runs very rough at idle. has a new egr valve that is working properly, new egr solenoid, all vacuum lines are good, everything is working like it is supposed to except that i am getting almost twice the vacuum to the egr than it is supposed to get. has anyone seen this problem before or any tips? thanks alot!
Get a Toyota. You are not man enough to handle a chevy.
Yeah, you are right, specially if you agree with me (!). I took it the wrong way.
About unrealistic animation being better than the realistic kind, that's right. Some stories are better served by non realistic scenes. Some asian movies, like "Hero" have stunts that are hardly credible, even visually, but allowing themselves to show more than what is easily believable gives them more expression.
>>>> I think it'll be a while before the industry starts putting out photo realistic digital animations of people.
>>> Uh, The Matrix II. The fight scene with neo vs. a bajillion agent smiths? All of that was CG. from the moment the fighting started. No wirework at all. Go watch it. Not perfect maybe, but really, really, good.
>> Not really, really good. Maybe state of the art, but not really, really good.
When I said "not really, really good" it was in the context of evaluating realism. If you evaluate other things, it might have been real good. It was real nice visually, while not completely awesome - breath taking like the effects from the original movie, with 360 degree views and all. Lots of Smiths scene was enjoyable, but very noticeably CG. And it was not even as great, realism aside, as the CG and specially non-CG effects from the original Matrix movie.
100 years ago, oil was not that important. Then, the world changed. If it runs out in 70 years, it will probably not be that important, because the world didn't cease to change. For example, nuclear fission is a good source, with its only downside being security or military issues. Environmental issues are non important, specially when they could substitute plants that really harm the environment.
Fusion will most probably happen in less than 50 years but take a bit longer to be economically substainable.
With electricity to spare, we can use whatever we want to power our cars.
Oil was good, and convenient, we just need something better, and we will get it.
It was an evolution, not a revolution. Using a small or invisible frame/iframe to send hidden requests was older than that. And lots of people (at least me) used to push some logic to the javascript side, and modify html input elements according to other elements. Hidden (or shown) iframes were/Are great for queries.
The same behavior of ajax pages could be acheived, and the effect for the user was the same. All without a C00l buzzword.
Not really, really good. Maybe state of the art, but not really, really good. The way the bodies deform in that scene is very unnatural, and it's very easy for someone who didn't see a behind the scenes video, to spot the digital characters. On full-body shots, the motion and the way the body and sp. the clothing deforms is great, but not realistic enough, physics are just too clean. On close ups, well, it's too hard to simulate skin, and they did a great job. But you don't mistake them as real. At least not in the cinema. Maybe on small screens it's better.
The guys a Transmeta are doing the best use of patents I can think of.
They failed at developing a product, for more than just technological reasons, and now they want to get paid for stuff they invented and other people supposedly implemented.
That is how patents are supposed to work, there is no failure.
The problem is that patents as a whole, even when they do what they are supposed to do, and nobody abuses the system, just don't work well for the community.
It's would be great that Transmeta got paid for what they developed, but if they are succesful in this, everybody else loses. Chip companies will have more legal work regarding patents, and that is less money for R&D. Lots of paths of development will be closed by other companies patents, so innovation actually happens more slowly.
For me, the problem is that some people think that patents are granted, because somehow the "inventor" deserves to get paid for what he developed. That is something like a subsidy to inventors. You invent something, and the government gives you a monopoly on whatever you invented. In the old days, it was a great deal for everybody. A player invented something, and only 14/20 years later, all the industry was that one step ahead. Usually, new technologies took more than that time to develop, so all the competitors went faster due to this.
Right now, it just doesn't work, because companies achieve the same breakthroughs with years of difference, and when you get a patent on something, you don't advance the knowledge in that area, you just slow it, for 20 years.
Firefox doesn't have a ridiculous memory usage. The issue is that it is useful to open lots of tabs, and the 20 or so tabs I have open would take the same amount of memory in any browser. Of course, it would be kind of uncomfortable, or even stupid, to have 20 IE windows open. How would you navigate through them? Then, when you use IE, it's difficult to have more than 10 windows open, and that uses less memory than 20 tabs. Duh.
I don't understand that. Someone kills another person in a fit of rage, and afterwards, realizes what he has done.
I think a rational person would try not to go to jail for what he had done. Covering his tracks would only be sensible. Acting like that doesn't imply that the crime was premeditated. It only shows that, after commiting the crime, he doesn't want to go to jail.
Of course, if you could prove that the crime had some planning, it's another issue.
I use Reiser 3.x, but ext4 is not that a great idea, in fact, all ext* are sub par. The only sensible reason to have an ext3 paritition is to have a partition easily readable by the gaming OS. Aside from that, ext3 is way slower than reiser for everyday use, specially for system files (everything that involves a lot of small files - slooooooooow), and needs a full fsck every once in a while. Granted, Reiser takes more work to get recovered from a broken disc, or power source, but when it works it's way superior.
I was going to try reiser4, but now I'm not that sure, there is not a great community behind Reiser, if the guy gets caged, I will lose my FS.
Why is it OK then for Lebanon to invade Israel, but not for Israel to fight back? That is what happened here. I'm glad to see you have backed away from the claim that the holocaust was smaller than it actually was and that Jews created and ran it.
First of all, I am a different poster than the one you were responding to, that's why I forked the discussion.
About Lebanon, and Israel, I just said that I am against it, I'm not trying to change you into thinking what I think, I was just making a point, and this wasn't it.
You are right. The FSF is not critical to the continued existance of "open source" (quotations only because I dislike the term I was talking about, and I like to use "free software", I don't care about "open source" that is not "free software" too).
The FSF is critical to its continued relevance to the general public. The problem is that some proprietary software providers do see a threat in "open source" , and they have the power to crush it with contracts, NDAs and stuff. The idea of having a whole community acts as a protection.
Alright, but I was choosing an example broad enough. Most people can learn a difficult spoken language, if they try. What I mean is that given that you can teach Japanese to a French person, you should obvioulsy be able to teach a much more simple language, like Java, to the same guy.
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Home users?
Why would an "I broke the cupholder" home user use an encrypted drive?
Encryption takes some knowledge to actually work reliably, and the dumb home user that you invented for your own purposes (noone was talking about that) doesn't probably have it.
It's great.
If this works, men can choose not to have kids, and girls could do that already.
It's good, because kids should be opt-in, not opt-out.
If your grl doesn't want to have kids, and is on BC behind your back, you probably don't want to have kids with that kind of person, anyway.
Aside from that, condoms are great for the other issue, everybody can feel protected with them.
The only small problem is breakage, but eh, nothing is perfect!
User perception of responsiveness on interfaces has a lower bound of 200 ms. Some times even lower.
Just because 1 seconds seems fast, it doesn't mean that it's fast enough to stop improving.
When you reach that 200ms barrier, the interface has perfect responsiveness, a bigger interval is always perfectible.
Moderation is a mixture of a reward for the poster, and helping other readers to find the good stuff.
That's why comments that are moderated up are more visible, plus the poster gets karma.
When we are dealing with funny, that balance is broken, because the poster doesn't get a karma reward.
A +5 Funny is not as much of a reward as a -1 Offtopic, or -1 Overrated is a punishment, because the last two affect your karma, and funny doesn't.
When you see "Funny" moderations, it's mostly stuff that people want to make relevant to other readers, more than a reward for the posters.
Of course, you don't have the same sense of humor they have, but you can always configure Funny posts not to be relevant in your user configuration, once you decide to log in.
I think the whole point of Consumer IT is to make life easier, more productive, enjoyable and entertaining. I'd rather have an OS that enables me to process, edit and share photos and videos of my last vacation with my friends and family then one that enables me to "pwn" my HW or compile a new version of vi. We shouldn't be slaves to our computer or barred from using IT just because we're not smart enough.
That problem has been solved. The software is there.
The issue right now is marketing and distribution.
Ubuntu with Automatix does everything you want, easily.
Installing Ubuntu from the live CDs is too easy.
And they send you the CDs for free, if you don't want to download them, or don't get them from a friend (at least 5 friends of mine converted with my CDs, successfuly, and with Ubuntu 7.04 I'm planning on all my familiy as they need new OSes).
Microsoft beats them, because you get Windows readily installed on new computers.
It's not feature of the software per se, but a distribution issue.
I think that the focus should be there, right now. Not about the software itself, but improving the way it gets distributed, and marketed.
Once it is installed, there is another issue, Automatix, that takes care of codecs, and proprietary software(there you get the ability to share pics with your friends with Picasa, just like your friends do it).
After that, using and administering Ubuntu is a walk in the park. A consistent interface, very easy. Installing new stuff is done in two ways. Most stuff is either preinstalled, like OpenOffice, or comes through the Package Manager.
Proprietary stuff comes from Autmatix. No hunting for the downloads.
There, the distribution problem is solved much more easily in Ubuntu.
I think that with better distribution, and more publicity, Ubuntu is ready for the desktop, when ease of use is our target. Or at least it's a lot more ready than XP.
Beautiful seven minutes.
I live in Uruguay, and here you find some programmers working for 500 dollars a month (luckily not all of them), and the numbers didn't add up for me for doing extra work, although I did make just about 700$ back then.
A week of extra work, plus the administrative issues of managing a small project surely is worth much more than 200 dollars to me.
The cost of living should be at least 10 times less than in the US to make a profit working at RAC rates.
Hi Slashdot. A friend of mine has been hitting on me for a few weeks now. And while I like him, his advances makes me uncomfortable. How do I tell him that I don't want a relationship, without damaging the friendship that we share?
He will understand if you don't want a relationship. If he gets romantic on you, just give him a BJ for comfort, and tell him you only want to be friends.
Yo Slashdot. I've got this yellowish reddish spot. It's about the size of a quarter, and it's getting bigger. And it's all puffy and stuff. It's right on the back of my knee, but it doesn't really hurt. Should I be worried?
What is your Zodiac sign? Cancer? I thought so. Start shopping for a cane.
Hello. I'm going to Bill's house for a party, so I thought I'd bring a bottle of Castello di Borghese 71. But dear Muffy says that Bill just returned form the Promise clinic, and has to stay clean. What else should I bring to a party instead of wine? A dog or something?
Cocaine.
I have a 1989 chevy K2500 that has a vacuum problem. truck runs very rough at idle. has a new egr valve that is working properly, new egr solenoid, all vacuum lines are good, everything is working like it is supposed to except that i am getting almost twice the vacuum to the egr than it is supposed to get. has anyone seen this problem before or any tips? thanks alot!
Get a Toyota. You are not man enough to handle a chevy.
No! No, no, not 6! He said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who programs in 6 lines of Perl? You won't even get started, not even Larry Wall could do it.
Yeah, you are right, specially if you agree with me (!). I took it the wrong way.
About unrealistic animation being better than the realistic kind, that's right. Some stories are better served by non realistic scenes.
Some asian movies, like "Hero" have stunts that are hardly credible, even visually, but allowing themselves to show more than what is easily believable gives them more expression.
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Realistic animation != good animation.
Obviously, please, read the whole thread:
>>>> I think it'll be a while before the industry starts putting out photo
realistic digital animations of people.
>>> Uh, The Matrix II. The fight scene with neo vs. a bajillion agent smiths? All of that was CG. from the moment the fighting started. No wirework at all. Go watch it. Not perfect maybe, but really, really, good.
>> Not really, really good.
Maybe state of the art, but not really, really good.
When I said "not really, really good" it was in the context of evaluating realism.
If you evaluate other things, it might have been real good.
It was real nice visually, while not completely awesome - breath taking like the effects from the original movie, with 360 degree views and all.
Lots of Smiths scene was enjoyable, but very noticeably CG. And it was not even as great, realism aside, as the CG and specially non-CG effects from the original Matrix movie.
100 years ago, oil was not that important. Then, the world changed.
If it runs out in 70 years, it will probably not be that important, because the world didn't cease to change.
For example, nuclear fission is a good source, with its only downside being security or military issues. Environmental issues are non important, specially when they could substitute plants that really harm the environment.
Fusion will most probably happen in less than 50 years but take a bit longer to be economically substainable.
With electricity to spare, we can use whatever we want to power our cars.
Oil was good, and convenient, we just need something better, and we will get it.
It was an evolution, not a revolution.
Using a small or invisible frame/iframe to send hidden requests was older than that.
And lots of people (at least me) used to push some logic to the javascript side, and modify html input elements according to other elements.
Hidden (or shown) iframes were/Are great for queries.
The same behavior of ajax pages could be acheived, and the effect for the user was the same. All without a C00l buzzword.
CGI seems to have knocked old Disney animators out of their Florida studio.2 8
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/15/02332
New kinds of animations could leave current animators without a job, and employ others.
Of course, these animators could learn the skills to do mocap finishing, but propbably they don't like their jobs.
Not really, really good.
Maybe state of the art, but not really, really good.
The way the bodies deform in that scene is very unnatural, and it's very easy for someone who didn't see a behind the scenes video, to spot the digital characters.
On full-body shots, the motion and the way the body and sp. the clothing deforms is great, but not realistic enough, physics are just too clean.
On close ups, well, it's too hard to simulate skin, and they did a great job. But you don't mistake them as real. At least not in the cinema. Maybe on small screens it's better.
The issue is patents.
The guys a Transmeta are doing the best use of patents I can think of.
They failed at developing a product, for more than just technological reasons, and now they want to get paid for stuff they invented and other people supposedly implemented.
That is how patents are supposed to work, there is no failure.
The problem is that patents as a whole, even when they do what they are supposed to do, and nobody abuses the system, just don't work well for the community.
It's would be great that Transmeta got paid for what they developed, but if they are succesful in this, everybody else loses.
Chip companies will have more legal work regarding patents, and that is less money for R&D. Lots of paths of development will be closed by other companies patents, so innovation actually happens more slowly.
For me, the problem is that some people think that patents are granted, because somehow the "inventor" deserves to get paid for what he developed. That is something like a subsidy to inventors. You invent something, and the government gives you a monopoly on whatever you invented. In the old days, it was a great deal for everybody. A player invented something, and only 14/20 years later, all the industry was that one step ahead. Usually, new technologies took more than that time to develop, so all the competitors went faster due to this.
Right now, it just doesn't work, because companies achieve the same breakthroughs with years of difference, and when you get a patent on something, you don't advance the knowledge in that area, you just slow it, for 20 years.
Firefox doesn't have a ridiculous memory usage.
The issue is that it is useful to open lots of tabs, and the 20 or so tabs I have open would take the same amount of memory in any browser.
Of course, it would be kind of uncomfortable, or even stupid, to have 20 IE windows open. How would you navigate through them? Then, when you use IE, it's difficult to have more than 10 windows open, and that uses less memory than 20 tabs. Duh.
I don't understand that.
Someone kills another person in a fit of rage, and afterwards, realizes what he has done.
I think a rational person would try not to go to jail for what he had done.
Covering his tracks would only be sensible. Acting like that doesn't imply that the crime was premeditated. It only shows that, after commiting the crime, he doesn't want to go to jail.
Of course, if you could prove that the crime had some planning, it's another issue.
I use Reiser 3.x, but ext4 is not that a great idea, in fact, all ext* are sub par.
The only sensible reason to have an ext3 paritition is to have a partition easily readable by the gaming OS.
Aside from that, ext3 is way slower than reiser for everyday use, specially for system files (everything that involves a lot of small files - slooooooooow), and needs a full fsck every once in a while.
Granted, Reiser takes more work to get recovered from a broken disc, or power source, but when it works it's way superior.
I was going to try reiser4, but now I'm not that sure, there is not a great community behind Reiser, if the guy gets caged, I will lose my FS.
Obviously.
Why is it OK then for Lebanon to invade Israel, but not for Israel to fight back? That is what happened here. I'm glad to see you have backed away from the claim that the holocaust was smaller than it actually was and that Jews created and ran it.
First of all, I am a different poster than the one you were responding to, that's why I forked the discussion.
About Lebanon, and Israel, I just said that I am against it, I'm not trying to change you into thinking what I think, I was just making a point, and this wasn't it.
You are right.
The FSF is not critical to the continued existance of "open source" (quotations only because I dislike the term I was talking about, and I like to use "free software", I don't care about "open source" that is not "free software" too).
The FSF is critical to its continued relevance to the general public.
The problem is that some proprietary software providers do see a threat in "open source" , and they have the power to crush it with contracts, NDAs and stuff.
The idea of having a whole community acts as a protection.
Alright, but I was choosing an example broad enough.
Most people can learn a difficult spoken language, if they try.
What I mean is that given that you can teach Japanese to a French person, you should obvioulsy be able to teach a much more simple language, like Java, to the same guy.