That was the first thing I noticed. There should be some rule that states a minimum percentage of samples before statistical data can be published. A mere 0.001% of Americans would have been a sample of 30,800 rather than 1019 - over 30x as accurate?
And how hard is it to collect polling data these days. The most recent poll on Slashdot, posted yesterday, already has over 7900 votes. The prior poll from five days ago has over 27600 and ten days ago is up to 41300.
Once Linux is installed on the hard drive is the optical boot disk required? Seems like it isn't, but I honestly can't recall (it's been a few sleeps since the last time I messed with it).
If not, an ISO of the installed OS could be provided on the torrentz for anyone interested. Assuming their hardware is similar;D
My knee-jerk reaction was, "Well shit, that looks a lot like someone else's stealth fighter! Chinese, ripping off everything from a pack of chewing gum to a stealth fighter."
But then I reminded myself that when two people are trying to achieve the same scientific goal their solution will likely be very similar, even if the two people have never met. This has been proven many times over throughout time and around the globe. When two people are trying to achieve the same opinion based goal their solutions are often wildly different.
I realize these guys are quite literally rocket scientists, but it doesn't take that level of sophisticated mind to keep from talking over your conversee. WHY DO MY FAMILY AND COWORKERS HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME GRASPING THIS CONCEPT!?!
I've nicknamed several people "Interruptus Maximus" because they're incapable of keeping their damn mouth shut while someone else is speaking.
You could do that with a PS2. It wouldn't be as powerful, obviously, but you don't have to break anything to make it work either. And it'd be damn near free at this point, with half your friends keeping their unused PS2 in the bottom of their closet.
You'd need a PS2, network adapter, PATA HDD, and a distro disk. The VGA dongle is a nice thing to have but by no means required. And I think the disk is duplicable.
You could mount them flat in a 1U configured for five tall and fifteen wide for a grand total of 75 hot swappable units. Using the current 80 GB unit you'd have 6000 GB. With a simple RAID 5 array with, lets say two hot spares for good measure, you'd have 5760 super redundant usable GB and at a theoretical sustained write speed of 5760 MB/s. If one dies it's replaced by a hot spare in 17 minutes (80 GB at 80 MB/s) and you replace the failed one for a new 'chip' at your earliest convenience.
I've never been in charge of something that needed that kind of speed or availability, but it sure sounds cool!
It appears most people want a bigger screen - the size of the iPad for example. The iPad's screen isn't big enough for me! I want a screen that is the size and shape of either A4 or 8.5x11. A true paper replacement. And it would need to be fairly high resolution, and speedy.
That's what I use. Works great. The bits missing from the Google TV stuff is integrating the current TV listing / viewing with internet content. Say you're watching Lost and there's an obvious cameo. You hit pause, get the list of actors for the episode, and load an IMDB page for the person in about 3 seconds. In a non-integrated solution you have to do a lot of extra manual switching and searching to get the data together.
Removing caps lock might be beneficial. Figuring out how to enforce punctuation and proper spelling would be preferable to me. Perhaps a reward system for grammatically correct responses. Starting with a rather restrictive commenting system where users can only comment under certain limited conditions, twice per day, only on topics in designated groupings, only old topics, only topics with existing comments, etc, and reward good comments on a scale by reducing the limitations over time. For the most part, this can be handled by software. Bad comments of course move the user down the sliding scale.
On top of that add user-based moderation and staffed-based meta-moderation systems. Moderation doesn't have to be in real time, so long as it takes place on a daily routine.
With these systems users who make crappy comments are limited to the comments they can submit, and the moderators' work load is reduced dramatically. Users still have the freedom to post "UR A TULE DYRTBAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", but when they do their ability to post again anytime soon is dramatically reduced. Perhaps the moderators are automatically notified of a 'bad comment' and can quickly review all comments by that user to meta-moderate their scoring.
The user-based moderators could be anonymous and periodically changing, similar to Slashdot, and require multiple users to make the same or similar moderation changes to individual comment before it takes effect. That way it's like jury peer review, and it's more difficult for a group of users or a piece of software to hijack the system.
This is one of the most rational posts I've ever seen on Slashdot. If more consumers operated with this perspective we'd see a big shift in the way things are created.
I typically use IE for hardware configuration duties, like HP switches and Cisco wireless access points. Those devices don't get their web interfaces updated particularly often and they were developed as much as a decade ago when IE was the most popular and non-standards-based browser. Trying to view the sites in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari often results in a broken interface and broken control.
But that's a pretty outlandish thing to use as an example of Chrome not being compatible.
No way that would work. The USAF would shoot down every missile full of "school girl panties" before they even crossed the coast line. But if the shipshore customer transport was missiles the travel time would be greatly reduced for anyone going to the ship. And you get two rides inside a missile.
Good idea! But you'd also have to have some ferry system, and to my knowledge you have to be pretty far out to be in international waters. Price of admission would outway savings on taxes. And there are limitations on what you can bring into a city.
Hookers and blow, my friend. Hookers and blow.
But I don't think you could push it far beyond that sort of thing, lest you start encouraging the morality police to attack you. Just because it's an aircraft carrier doesn't mean it's invulnerable to low grade attacks.
I work for a company that does work on private yachts and we joke occasionally about their owners continually trying to out-do each other. The first one to buy an aircraft carrier and refit it for private accommodations will win that battle. Though the stuff their building custom is getting close to the length of HMS Invincible!
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That was the first thing I noticed. There should be some rule that states a minimum percentage of samples before statistical data can be published. A mere 0.001% of Americans would have been a sample of 30,800 rather than 1019 - over 30x as accurate?
And how hard is it to collect polling data these days. The most recent poll on Slashdot, posted yesterday, already has over 7900 votes. The prior poll from five days ago has over 27600 and ten days ago is up to 41300.
The Gospel of Tux.
http://www.gis.net/~cht/gospel.html
Hey that's cheating!
Oh right, that's what Google is for.
Once Linux is installed on the hard drive is the optical boot disk required? Seems like it isn't, but I honestly can't recall (it's been a few sleeps since the last time I messed with it).
If not, an ISO of the installed OS could be provided on the torrentz for anyone interested. Assuming their hardware is similar ;D
My knee-jerk reaction was, "Well shit, that looks a lot like someone else's stealth fighter! Chinese, ripping off everything from a pack of chewing gum to a stealth fighter."
But then I reminded myself that when two people are trying to achieve the same scientific goal their solution will likely be very similar, even if the two people have never met. This has been proven many times over throughout time and around the globe. When two people are trying to achieve the same opinion based goal their solutions are often wildly different.
I realize these guys are quite literally rocket scientists, but it doesn't take that level of sophisticated mind to keep from talking over your conversee. WHY DO MY FAMILY AND COWORKERS HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME GRASPING THIS CONCEPT!?!
I've nicknamed several people "Interruptus Maximus" because they're incapable of keeping their damn mouth shut while someone else is speaking.
Fucking geek soap opera. Glad I never got into Dr Who. ...
Why's it getting so warm in here?
You could do that with a PS2. It wouldn't be as powerful, obviously, but you don't have to break anything to make it work either. And it'd be damn near free at this point, with half your friends keeping their unused PS2 in the bottom of their closet.
You'd need a PS2, network adapter, PATA HDD, and a distro disk. The VGA dongle is a nice thing to have but by no means required. And I think the disk is duplicable.
Wow there are a lot of explosive emotional comments on this - WAY more than typical Apple posts on Slashdot. Lets review the posting, shall we?
"David Gewirtz's blog post over at ZDNet warns of ..."
I think that's all we need. You can see where the problem is.
It's an opinion article, not journalism. Simmer down folks. And quit clicking on links to blogs. You're embarrassing yourselves.
Skype sucks, don't use Skype?
You could mount them flat in a 1U configured for five tall and fifteen wide for a grand total of 75 hot swappable units. Using the current 80 GB unit you'd have 6000 GB. With a simple RAID 5 array with, lets say two hot spares for good measure, you'd have 5760 super redundant usable GB and at a theoretical sustained write speed of 5760 MB/s. If one dies it's replaced by a hot spare in 17 minutes (80 GB at 80 MB/s) and you replace the failed one for a new 'chip' at your earliest convenience.
I've never been in charge of something that needed that kind of speed or availability, but it sure sounds cool!
It appears most people want a bigger screen - the size of the iPad for example. The iPad's screen isn't big enough for me! I want a screen that is the size and shape of either A4 or 8.5x11. A true paper replacement. And it would need to be fairly high resolution, and speedy.
This list is a good start. Don't consider purchasing software that doesn't meet these criteria.
That's what I use. Works great. The bits missing from the Google TV stuff is integrating the current TV listing / viewing with internet content. Say you're watching Lost and there's an obvious cameo. You hit pause, get the list of actors for the episode, and load an IMDB page for the person in about 3 seconds. In a non-integrated solution you have to do a lot of extra manual switching and searching to get the data together.
If Wal-Mart is the only place you can shop you're either not looking hard enough or you are poor as dirt.
Prove to me there is a town where Wal-Mart is the only place to buy food or cloths.
It appears the shit is beginning to hit the fan.
You use yahoo for mail. All your points are invalid.
Removing caps lock might be beneficial. Figuring out how to enforce punctuation and proper spelling would be preferable to me. Perhaps a reward system for grammatically correct responses. Starting with a rather restrictive commenting system where users can only comment under certain limited conditions, twice per day, only on topics in designated groupings, only old topics, only topics with existing comments, etc, and reward good comments on a scale by reducing the limitations over time. For the most part, this can be handled by software. Bad comments of course move the user down the sliding scale.
On top of that add user-based moderation and staffed-based meta-moderation systems. Moderation doesn't have to be in real time, so long as it takes place on a daily routine.
With these systems users who make crappy comments are limited to the comments they can submit, and the moderators' work load is reduced dramatically. Users still have the freedom to post "UR A TULE DYRTBAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", but when they do their ability to post again anytime soon is dramatically reduced. Perhaps the moderators are automatically notified of a 'bad comment' and can quickly review all comments by that user to meta-moderate their scoring.
The user-based moderators could be anonymous and periodically changing, similar to Slashdot, and require multiple users to make the same or similar moderation changes to individual comment before it takes effect. That way it's like jury peer review, and it's more difficult for a group of users or a piece of software to hijack the system.
This is one of the most rational posts I've ever seen on Slashdot. If more consumers operated with this perspective we'd see a big shift in the way things are created.
I typically use IE for hardware configuration duties, like HP switches and Cisco wireless access points. Those devices don't get their web interfaces updated particularly often and they were developed as much as a decade ago when IE was the most popular and non-standards-based browser. Trying to view the sites in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari often results in a broken interface and broken control.
But that's a pretty outlandish thing to use as an example of Chrome not being compatible.
No way that would work. The USAF would shoot down every missile full of "school girl panties" before they even crossed the coast line. But if the shipshore customer transport was missiles the travel time would be greatly reduced for anyone going to the ship. And you get two rides inside a missile.
Commercials? Am I saying that right? What is a "commercials"? My TV doesn't show me one of those.
Shoot him in the face.
No!
Build a contraption in which he is placed that requires him to read spam email out loud continuously lest it begin doing evil things to his person.
Then when he's read all the spam shoot him in the face. Don't bother getting the gun ready.
Good idea! But you'd also have to have some ferry system, and to my knowledge you have to be pretty far out to be in international waters. Price of admission would outway savings on taxes. And there are limitations on what you can bring into a city.
Hookers and blow, my friend. Hookers and blow.
But I don't think you could push it far beyond that sort of thing, lest you start encouraging the morality police to attack you. Just because it's an aircraft carrier doesn't mean it's invulnerable to low grade attacks.
I work for a company that does work on private yachts and we joke occasionally about their owners continually trying to out-do each other. The first one to buy an aircraft carrier and refit it for private accommodations will win that battle. Though the stuff their building custom is getting close to the length of HMS Invincible!
http://www.yachteclipse.com/