Any popular story, such as the recent Bin Laden killing story, opens SSLLOOWWLLYY... It takes maybe 2-3 minutes to open
Happens to me too. Using chrome on windows. Story section loads but the comment section seems to get stuck, which often requires a refresh of the page. Clicking a partially hidden story sometimes results in the page scrolling up to its grandparent, which makes me lose my place on the comment page. Very annoying.
The Franz Ferdinand assassination was indeed the final straw that triggered WWI, which indirectly steered Germany toward Nazism and WWII.
But what's more unfortunate is the mistake that lead to it: the first attempt on Ferdinand while he was on his way to Sarajevo *failed* -- a bomb was thrown at his car but it bounced off and exploded amidst bystanders. His security detail immediately plotted an alternate route for the trip out of Sarajevo. Unfortunately, nobody told the driver. Ferdinand was shot dead on the way back.
By unpowered, I mean un-propelled, otherwise it would be a micro missile, not a bullet. Power is clearly required for actuators -- I thought that would be obvious enough. "Fins" are not suitable for minor course corrections at such speeds, not to mention the drag stress on them. As you suggested, one can use MEMS for tiny surface deformations. Please note that gyroscopic stabilization does not require that the *entire* projectile rotate as a unit. As for remote guidance, what is important is the time difference between two consecutive corrections, which is longer than 333ns since we have to account for processing & sensing latency at either end. But I suppose it could be done. And yes, I did take physics (and engineering). There is no need to become argumentative.
The best way to build a guided bullet, methinks, is to build an unpowered projectile with with microscopic steering surfaces on the exterior, with a very simple built in circuit that does nothing more than correcting to stay inside a laser guidance beam that's painting the target. Remote guidance is a bad idea (because light speed limitation becomes non-trivial at the time frames considered). It may even be theoretically possible to build an electromechanical (i.e. non-electronic) system that changes aerodynamic properties the moment a part of the projectile strays outside the guide beam. The only problem is, can any such system respond fast enough to make a meaningful correction within a bullet's short flight time? Perhaps we can make the bullet slower -- provided we can correct for gravity, we can sacrifice speed in favor of accuracy.
I tried very hard to adopt open office myself, being a believer and all. But still, I can get work done on MS office faster than on OO. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for the day the tables turn. I give it a few more years.
I see your point, but no other scientific or engineering discipline received the attention of young people in their home as computing did. Not everyone could make a jet engine in his/her basement, but almost anybody could write programs. Analogy doesn't always map to the subject one-to-one.
We ran into pretty much the same problems. You need a decent administrator for the knowledge base and WYSIWYG input (which is hard to come by in the wiki world).
The recent Google cloud connect for MS office is also worth looking into, although my initial impression of it was ruined because it requires you to keep a copy on your disk and let google sync it.
As an aside, I think a lot of other disciplines have suffered because computing has sucked in a lot of brainpower in the last decade. It is not really a bad thing, and I think thing may begin to normalize again before the end of the decade.
This is of course, assuming you're trying to solve the problem of not being able to get everyone into the same room. Also things differ quite a bit based on what type of work your team does. Since you're asking slashdot, I'm assuming your team is technical like ours. Here's what worked:
Meet using www.teamviewer.com (or something similar) -- Participants would all join and the conductor(s) would use a drawing canvas while discussing ideas (we had a pen device -- I suggest you get one too).
Screen capture your sessions if members in different zones can't make it (we use CamStudio)
Try to avoid email in the decision making process -- it soon degenerates into a mass of replies nobody can track. Setup a in internal web forum with search capability.
Avoid word documents -- they degenerate into a mess of different versions on peoples computers. Consider a wiki (DokuWiki or MediaWiki)
Always have a detailed plan (of what is to happen when and who is responsible) at least a few weeks into the future and publish it to all members (preferably on a Wiki page). You can try MS project, but it was a nightmare for us.
If your organization allows it, use Google Apps for business -- it will help you with both of the above problems
Chat - Get an internal IM system up and running for quick communication between members (or use a sufficiently secure public service, if allowed)
You mean being a philanthropist with all the money collected by driving a lot of small and medium software/hardware companies out of business? Perhaps he saw the light in his old age and changed his ways (in which case more power to him), but somehow I doubt it.
If the government won't step in and federalize this......then I'm glad China is there to ignore IP laws and make a car we can drive ASAP at less cost...
The sooner we get solutions to rising gas prices the better, regardless of how that happens...
While we're at it, why don't we also get the federal government to confiscate assets from the rich and distribute it to the poor? The sooner we get solutions to our problems the better, *regardless of how that happens*.
His 'knack', i think, is for having a very clear picture in his mind about how a device should look, feel and behave. He keeps pushing the implementation team until they bring him that device.
It's not really sociopathy that you see in business leaders. It's alpha male characteristics. Almost everybody in slashdot is a 'beta' -- they pull the weight of the herd, but they don't lead. They *can't* lead because they have stronger 'do unto others' brain wiring than alphas do. So we resent those who are not encumbered by it. There's no justice in it, but its reality. At least I think it is.
It's kind of harsh to say that the mainland Chinese are *immoral*.
My experience has been that they haven't really developed the concept of doing something on the basis of principle, rather than on a basis of utility. For instance, they would do the bare minimum to legally fulfill their part of the development contract and then say "OK we're done" without thinking long term (which is another way of saying 'thinking in terms of principle').
Being the country that developed government bureaucracies and the concept of official documents centuries ago, and also had some traditional sense of honor, I can only wonder whether this is a recent thing, since the introduction of communism. I recall someone pointing out that the Cultural Revolution actually wiped out a lot of their traditional culture.
As someone who used vi for years and switched to VS due to repetitive stress injury, I agree. The more often you repeat a task, the stronger the case for a CLI method of doing it. The more varied the types of tasks you perform within a context, stronger the case for GUIs. But neither is always true.
It's because Apple makes appliances and everybody else makes computers and gadgets.
If I were offered two microwave ovens: Model A with only 2 dials - one for power and another for time, and model B with advanced control of frequencies, wave distribution within the oven with multiple emitters, the ability to program for power variation with time etc., I'd pick model A. Even though I'm a lifelong geek and find all gadgets and physics fascinating.
I do not own Apple products but I have used a few. I can understand why Apple users like their products -- they serve their purpose and get out of the way.
1. Rise of APTs (advanced persistent threats) - SecureID breach, Google China etc.
2. Anonymous, Wikileaks and other activists
3. Firesheep, Creepy and other social media privacy exploits
4. Botnets and other advanced commercial malware
5. Stuxnet and other government actors
.
In the 90's and early 00's it was the Frontier, where everyone gave everyone else a hand. Now, we need to start walking around with six shooters.
Slashdot Mirror
I need to keep open:
One large tabbed window for code (C++)
Three front ends (system management, business configuration and user console) that connect to a test instance of our system (for developer testing)
A terminal to the test instance server
A terminal to the compiler machine
Specification document
Browser and mail client are kept minimized when I'm working
Keeping all that in a single screen drains productivity. I know because I'm doing that now.
This story is missing the Canada tag. Because, you know, this story is about trains and Canada has trains.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/Media/Simple_Expt_Anima-Flash.html has a simple animation explaining the gravity probe B experiment.
Any popular story, such as the recent Bin Laden killing story, opens SSLLOOWWLLYY... It takes maybe 2-3 minutes to open
Happens to me too. Using chrome on windows. Story section loads but the comment section seems to get stuck, which often requires a refresh of the page. Clicking a partially hidden story sometimes results in the page scrolling up to its grandparent, which makes me lose my place on the comment page. Very annoying.
The Franz Ferdinand assassination was indeed the final straw that triggered WWI, which indirectly steered Germany toward Nazism and WWII.
But what's more unfortunate is the mistake that lead to it: the first attempt on Ferdinand while he was on his way to Sarajevo *failed* -- a bomb was thrown at his car but it bounced off and exploded amidst bystanders. His security detail immediately plotted an alternate route for the trip out of Sarajevo. Unfortunately, nobody told the driver. Ferdinand was shot dead on the way back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria
On the other hand, would the UN exist today if not for the events of 1914-1940's?
If George Orwell had known, he'd have replaced telescreens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen) with smart phones
By unpowered, I mean un-propelled, otherwise it would be a micro missile, not a bullet. Power is clearly required for actuators -- I thought that would be obvious enough. "Fins" are not suitable for minor course corrections at such speeds, not to mention the drag stress on them. As you suggested, one can use MEMS for tiny surface deformations. Please note that gyroscopic stabilization does not require that the *entire* projectile rotate as a unit. As for remote guidance, what is important is the time difference between two consecutive corrections, which is longer than 333ns since we have to account for processing & sensing latency at either end. But I suppose it could be done. And yes, I did take physics (and engineering). There is no need to become argumentative.
The best way to build a guided bullet, methinks, is to build an unpowered projectile with with microscopic steering surfaces on the exterior, with a very simple built in circuit that does nothing more than correcting to stay inside a laser guidance beam that's painting the target. Remote guidance is a bad idea (because light speed limitation becomes non-trivial at the time frames considered). It may even be theoretically possible to build an electromechanical (i.e. non-electronic) system that changes aerodynamic properties the moment a part of the projectile strays outside the guide beam. The only problem is, can any such system respond fast enough to make a meaningful correction within a bullet's short flight time? Perhaps we can make the bullet slower -- provided we can correct for gravity, we can sacrifice speed in favor of accuracy.
Come on people! Step it up, we're almost there at Godwin
I tried very hard to adopt open office myself, being a believer and all. But still, I can get work done on MS office faster than on OO. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for the day the tables turn. I give it a few more years.
I see your point, but no other scientific or engineering discipline received the attention of young people in their home as computing did. Not everyone could make a jet engine in his/her basement, but almost anybody could write programs. Analogy doesn't always map to the subject one-to-one.
We ran into pretty much the same problems. You need a decent administrator for the knowledge base and WYSIWYG input (which is hard to come by in the wiki world).
The recent Google cloud connect for MS office is also worth looking into, although my initial impression of it was ruined because it requires you to keep a copy on your disk and let google sync it.
Don't forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverider . That's pretty fast.
As an aside, I think a lot of other disciplines have suffered because computing has sucked in a lot of brainpower in the last decade. It is not really a bad thing, and I think thing may begin to normalize again before the end of the decade.
This is of course, assuming you're trying to solve the problem of not being able to get everyone into the same room. Also things differ quite a bit based on what type of work your team does. Since you're asking slashdot, I'm assuming your team is technical like ours. Here's what worked:
You mean being a philanthropist with all the money collected by driving a lot of small and medium software/hardware companies out of business? Perhaps he saw the light in his old age and changed his ways (in which case more power to him), but somehow I doubt it.
MSR was itself responsible for ClearType (Windows XP), Surface and a slew of others tools you take for granted
I for one, would *never* take Surface for granted.
is at http://www.space.com/11336-space-race-united-states-soviets-spaceflight-50years.html
Why do we keep getting second hand news links?
If the government won't step in and federalize this... ...then I'm glad China is there to ignore IP laws and make a car we can drive ASAP at less cost...
The sooner we get solutions to rising gas prices the better, regardless of how that happens...
While we're at it, why don't we also get the federal government to confiscate assets from the rich and distribute it to the poor? The sooner we get solutions to our problems the better, *regardless of how that happens*.
His 'knack', i think, is for having a very clear picture in his mind about how a device should look, feel and behave. He keeps pushing the implementation team until they bring him that device.
It's not really sociopathy that you see in business leaders. It's alpha male characteristics. Almost everybody in slashdot is a 'beta' -- they pull the weight of the herd, but they don't lead. They *can't* lead because they have stronger 'do unto others' brain wiring than alphas do. So we resent those who are not encumbered by it. There's no justice in it, but its reality. At least I think it is.
It's kind of harsh to say that the mainland Chinese are *immoral*.
My experience has been that they haven't really developed the concept of doing something on the basis of principle, rather than on a basis of utility. For instance, they would do the bare minimum to legally fulfill their part of the development contract and then say "OK we're done" without thinking long term (which is another way of saying 'thinking in terms of principle').
Being the country that developed government bureaucracies and the concept of official documents centuries ago, and also had some traditional sense of honor, I can only wonder whether this is a recent thing, since the introduction of communism. I recall someone pointing out that the Cultural Revolution actually wiped out a lot of their traditional culture.
As someone who used vi for years and switched to VS due to repetitive stress injury, I agree. The more often you repeat a task, the stronger the case for a CLI method of doing it. The more varied the types of tasks you perform within a context, stronger the case for GUIs. But neither is always true.
It's because Apple makes appliances and everybody else makes computers and gadgets.
If I were offered two microwave ovens: Model A with only 2 dials - one for power and another for time, and model B with advanced control of frequencies, wave distribution within the oven with multiple emitters, the ability to program for power variation with time etc., I'd pick model A. Even though I'm a lifelong geek and find all gadgets and physics fascinating.
I do not own Apple products but I have used a few. I can understand why Apple users like their products -- they serve their purpose and get out of the way.
No "CANADIAN students create thought controlled prosthetic arm"?
Disclaimer: Big fan of Canada. I'm joking and I'm drunk.
2. Anonymous, Wikileaks and other activists
3. Firesheep, Creepy and other social media privacy exploits
4. Botnets and other advanced commercial malware
5. Stuxnet and other government actors
.
In the 90's and early 00's it was the Frontier, where everyone gave everyone else a hand. Now, we need to start walking around with six shooters.
The amount of data breaches alone are frightening: http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach#CP , http://www.databreaches.net/