Just think of when your kid gets old enough to realize you're tracking her every move. Do you think that's going to go over well with her? What if you want to keep it on her to make sure she's not going to any "unacceptable" parties? There's a BIG consequence in doing something like this, in the parent/child relationship.
I'd go w/everyone else and say "Get her a cell phone". There are plenty out there for kids that lock down so they can't call foreign countries and text 1000s of times to her friends. Simple. If she's in trouble or lost, she can call you. No need to go CIA on her.
I'd have to say that this is kind of the wrong way to go about expressing yourself directly from your brain. The brain doesn't naturally think in language. Language is manmade and is a "higher level protocol" if you will, so something that directly accesses brainwaves (via EEG) and tries to output English or another language is kind of dumb IMHO.
Why not make something that expresses emotion (happy/sad/mad/regretful/passionate) first? It'd probably be way easier to get directly from the ole noggin.
If the train station was more than a few blocks away from peoples' destinations, how many lazy Americans do you think will want to walk that far? I think most would say - F' it, I'll drive in.
Most lazy Americans are lazy *because* they have a car. This is an alternative that might not get you to the front door, but will get you there much faster, with less to worry about (gas/insurance/registration/other stupid drivers/etc) and actually lets you relax while you get where you're going.
Americans aren't all lazy - just the lazy ones. A 10 minute walk might actually help you *gasp* get some exercise. Imagine that!
...which clearly had no copyright infringement besides mentioning an auto system cleaning product. I made the video myself. No answer was given to me, only that I had a hit against my account and if I got 3, it would be deleted. There's obviously no way to battle their decision. It sucks.
One of the primary focuses of my business is to deploy Linux LTSP in schools. From my experience so far, it's been absolutely great for the students (and the district's budget). They were on the verge of having to upgrade all 7 schools' computer labs, classroom PCs etc. for Windows Vista (they were currently on Windows 2000 Pro). I got involved and about a year later, 7 schools were running LTSP on their existing infrastructure (minus server purchases). Now we're just making improvements (things like automated thin client shutdown at night via cron, and automated bootup in the morning via WoL) so they can save money on electricity.
It's nice to focus on improvements to the overall system, and not chasing malware threats and borked systems. The LTSP community (#ltsp on Freenode) is absolutely phenomenal, and great people to work with on a day to day basis. I have nothing but good things to say about the project, the people and the benefits to schools and education. If you want, shoot me a message and I'd gladly talk to you more about it.
That is absolutely amazing, what you wrote in your sleep. I've never written/typed while sleeping, but I have had lots of lucid dreams. One of which I remember quite well (most recent), where I was conversing with a dream character about the fact that I was lucid dreaming. I remember, word for word, one sentence I muttered to him, trying to explain the concept of lucid dreaming:
"It's like virtual reality for your brain, but you're not in it (your brain)."
That always stuck with me. Your excerpt makes me wonder whether there are parallels.
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When you sleep, you are in a Theta/Delta state of consciousness (generally 0.5 - 7 cycles per second). Doesn't mean you can't function, you just function in a very different state of consciousness as you do when you're awake (Beta/Alpha, genrally 8-40 cps). Theta states are associated with meditation, "super learning" and other things (possibly sleep walking/talking/emailing).
At the very least, I find it intriguing and would love to learn more about how people communicate during these states of consciousness.
No shockwave for Linux, Flash 64 gets released JUST for Linux, Sun open-sources Java, but now no JavaFX for Linux...
Can't we all just get along? My head is spinning at all the end-user requests for their intarwebs to work correctly. I guess it's just too much to ask for a real, open standard that just works (like...umm...html?)
Not me. I want a bluetooth screamer. Like the universal TV remote off switch, except this one shrieks static/feedback/tarzan yell onto all the bluetooth frequencies. I can just see all the people in an airport ripping that thing out of their ears all at the same time.
I live in California, where it now looks like an army of cyborgs has invaded. Everyone walks around with one of those damn bluetooth headsets on since it became law to use a hands-free device while driving. Wouldn't you think that some RESEARCH and TESTING had taken place before enacting this law?
I sure wish I was in the bluetooth headset business.
I would agree with you, at least partly, on the initial price issue of thin-clients vs. new systems. However, the long term energy saving benefits of using a thin-client (10 watts anyone?) vs. a full-blown workstation (100-200W minimum actual usage?) is enough to send even the most skeptical "going green" company into supporting thin-clients. Low energy usage, less cooling. I turned on a typical 500MHz P3 server the other day in my office. Walking in the next morning showed me an 8 degree (F) rise in temperature from the norm.
There's also the case of using outdated workstations as LTSP clients, utilizing the power of the LTSP server, breathing new life into it.
I'm a network engineer, like a lot of Slashdotters here. I focus on Ubuntu & LTSP in educational type environments.
I would *gladly* pay Canonical for upper-tier support, if it were affordable to me, the small-business. As of right now, Canonical support services offers server support (which includes LTSP servers) for $750/year, PER SERVER - and this is just 9-5, weekday only, 10 "cases/issues" maximum, support. This is pretty difficult for me, as one of my clients is a 7-site elementary school district, which have all migrated to Ubuntu and LTSP. That would be US $5,250 a year. It seems that you can't span the 10 support cases over different servers, which is one of the reasons why this support model is so unattractive to me.
It's amazing how much LTSP has developed over the past few years, but there are still tons of things that can be improved, with a little TLC and bugfixing. As it is now, I am very active in helping report and troubleshoot bugs - but again, I want support from Canonical because IANAP, and they employ people who work directly on LTSP in Ubuntu. I've heard straight from them that they just don't have enough time to work on it - and it's a shame, given the number of people with LTSP up and running. If the support model was a bit more flexible for us smaller tech businesses (usually the ones who push Linux in the first place), I think Canonical could be incredibly successful.
Actually, Canonical is a "sponsor" of Ubuntu, and sells contracts for both server and desktop versions - Ubuntu is maintained by the community as well as them.
I'm actually pretty surprised. I know Ubuntu == Debian in a lot of aspects, but... To go to a distro that is *mainly* geared toward the desktop market (I know they have a server version, blah) for something as huge as Wikimedia, I'd think they'd rather go to Debian since it's considered more stable (although maybe more outdated as well). I have been a Debian zealot since the mid 90's and moved my DESKTOP to Ubuntu later on - but still think Debian is a best fit for servers.
Of course, there's always the whole "Ubuntu offers real support contracts" thing. That, in itself, is enough for any larger company to make the choice, right there.
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1) Send Mozilla Firefox team a cake .NET add-on through Windows Updates
2) Quietly install
3) *classified*
4) Profit!
Just think of when your kid gets old enough to realize you're tracking her every move. Do you think that's going to go over well with her? What if you want to keep it on her to make sure she's not going to any "unacceptable" parties? There's a BIG consequence in doing something like this, in the parent/child relationship.
I'd go w/everyone else and say "Get her a cell phone". There are plenty out there for kids that lock down so they can't call foreign countries and text 1000s of times to her friends. Simple. If she's in trouble or lost, she can call you. No need to go CIA on her.
If Antrax was in charge, the disease would be called "The Cow Cold". But that's a different band all together.
I'd have to say that this is kind of the wrong way to go about expressing yourself directly from your brain. The brain doesn't naturally think in language. Language is manmade and is a "higher level protocol" if you will, so something that directly accesses brainwaves (via EEG) and tries to output English or another language is kind of dumb IMHO.
Why not make something that expresses emotion (happy/sad/mad/regretful/passionate) first? It'd probably be way easier to get directly from the ole noggin.
If the train station was more than a few blocks away from peoples' destinations, how many lazy Americans do you think will want to walk that far? I think most would say - F' it, I'll drive in.
Most lazy Americans are lazy *because* they have a car. This is an alternative that might not get you to the front door, but will get you there much faster, with less to worry about (gas/insurance/registration/other stupid drivers/etc) and actually lets you relax while you get where you're going.
Americans aren't all lazy - just the lazy ones. A 10 minute walk might actually help you *gasp* get some exercise. Imagine that!
...which clearly had no copyright infringement besides mentioning an auto system cleaning product. I made the video myself. No answer was given to me, only that I had a hit against my account and if I got 3, it would be deleted. There's obviously no way to battle their decision. It sucks.
One of the primary focuses of my business is to deploy Linux LTSP in schools. From my experience so far, it's been absolutely great for the students (and the district's budget). They were on the verge of having to upgrade all 7 schools' computer labs, classroom PCs etc. for Windows Vista (they were currently on Windows 2000 Pro). I got involved and about a year later, 7 schools were running LTSP on their existing infrastructure (minus server purchases). Now we're just making improvements (things like automated thin client shutdown at night via cron, and automated bootup in the morning via WoL) so they can save money on electricity.
It's nice to focus on improvements to the overall system, and not chasing malware threats and borked systems. The LTSP community (#ltsp on Freenode) is absolutely phenomenal, and great people to work with on a day to day basis. I have nothing but good things to say about the project, the people and the benefits to schools and education. If you want, shoot me a message and I'd gladly talk to you more about it.
AT&T? I hear his dad and him have some pretty intimate contacts there up in Corporate..
Who's to rule that possibility out?
On our own planet, even?
The early presidents all found spying ok, all engaged in it, and all inspected foreign mail during war. Ok, so does that make it OK? *slap*
Crazy. You don't experience the memory loss at any other point during the day?
That is absolutely amazing, what you wrote in your sleep. I've never written/typed while sleeping, but I have had lots of lucid dreams. One of which I remember quite well (most recent), where I was conversing with a dream character about the fact that I was lucid dreaming. I remember, word for word, one sentence I muttered to him, trying to explain the concept of lucid dreaming:
"It's like virtual reality for your brain, but you're not in it (your brain)."
That always stuck with me. Your excerpt makes me wonder whether there are parallels.
When you sleep, you are in a Theta/Delta state of consciousness (generally 0.5 - 7 cycles per second). Doesn't mean you can't function, you just function in a very different state of consciousness as you do when you're awake (Beta/Alpha, genrally 8-40 cps). Theta states are associated with meditation, "super learning" and other things (possibly sleep walking/talking/emailing).
At the very least, I find it intriguing and would love to learn more about how people communicate during these states of consciousness.
No shockwave for Linux, Flash 64 gets released JUST for Linux, Sun open-sources Java, but now no JavaFX for Linux...
Can't we all just get along? My head is spinning at all the end-user requests for their intarwebs to work correctly. I guess it's just too much to ask for a real, open standard that just works (like...umm...html?)
Not me. I want a bluetooth screamer. Like the universal TV remote off switch, except this one shrieks static/feedback/tarzan yell onto all the bluetooth frequencies. I can just see all the people in an airport ripping that thing out of their ears all at the same time.
I think I just found a new project!!!
I live in California, where it now looks like an army of cyborgs has invaded. Everyone walks around with one of those damn bluetooth headsets on since it became law to use a hands-free device while driving. Wouldn't you think that some RESEARCH and TESTING had taken place before enacting this law?
I sure wish I was in the bluetooth headset business.
Wow, I was actually joking, but ... cool. I actually thought it worked more like a mainframe/*nix terminal server.
So, like, how do so many people use the computer effectively? Do they have a sign-in sheet? I bet there's a long line. :p~
I would agree with you, at least partly, on the initial price issue of thin-clients vs. new systems. However, the long term energy saving benefits of using a thin-client (10 watts anyone?) vs. a full-blown workstation (100-200W minimum actual usage?) is enough to send even the most skeptical "going green" company into supporting thin-clients. Low energy usage, less cooling. I turned on a typical 500MHz P3 server the other day in my office. Walking in the next morning showed me an 8 degree (F) rise in temperature from the norm.
There's also the case of using outdated workstations as LTSP clients, utilizing the power of the LTSP server, breathing new life into it.
A barcode scanner at every normal person's PC that "allows" them to view advertisements on products they've already purchased? Count me in!
I'm a network engineer, like a lot of Slashdotters here. I focus on Ubuntu & LTSP in educational type environments.
I would *gladly* pay Canonical for upper-tier support, if it were affordable to me, the small-business. As of right now, Canonical support services offers server support (which includes LTSP servers) for $750/year, PER SERVER - and this is just 9-5, weekday only, 10 "cases/issues" maximum, support. This is pretty difficult for me, as one of my clients is a 7-site elementary school district, which have all migrated to Ubuntu and LTSP. That would be US $5,250 a year. It seems that you can't span the 10 support cases over different servers, which is one of the reasons why this support model is so unattractive to me.
It's amazing how much LTSP has developed over the past few years, but there are still tons of things that can be improved, with a little TLC and bugfixing. As it is now, I am very active in helping report and troubleshoot bugs - but again, I want support from Canonical because IANAP, and they employ people who work directly on LTSP in Ubuntu. I've heard straight from them that they just don't have enough time to work on it - and it's a shame, given the number of people with LTSP up and running. If the support model was a bit more flexible for us smaller tech businesses (usually the ones who push Linux in the first place), I think Canonical could be incredibly successful.
Actually, Canonical is a "sponsor" of Ubuntu, and sells contracts for both server and desktop versions - Ubuntu is maintained by the community as well as them.
When you've got global secrets, the whole globe will try to find them out.
Let's hope they publicize as many "secrets" as possible - and then, maybe, we can all wake up from this nightmare of economic control.
I'm actually pretty surprised. I know Ubuntu == Debian in a lot of aspects, but... To go to a distro that is *mainly* geared toward the desktop market (I know they have a server version, blah) for something as huge as Wikimedia, I'd think they'd rather go to Debian since it's considered more stable (although maybe more outdated as well). I have been a Debian zealot since the mid 90's and moved my DESKTOP to Ubuntu later on - but still think Debian is a best fit for servers.
Of course, there's always the whole "Ubuntu offers real support contracts" thing. That, in itself, is enough for any larger company to make the choice, right there.
FORGET the $2B (or whatever it is and change) for space exploration and the advancement of the human race... WE NEED TO SAVE WALL STREET!