Standing more than 62 inches (1.6 meters) tall and weighing about three pounds (1.4 kilograms) at launch, the most detailed reproduction of a Saturn 5 readily available today is 1/70th the size and 1/2,166,666th the weight of the original.
"It's small step for man, a giant step for Mini Me" -- Dr. Evil
- Go to Edit --> Preferences --> Navigator - Put www.altavista.com, www.webcrawler.com, www.yahoo.com (ah no, that's powered by google) in "Home Page" - Edit your bookmark and remove similar google.com links as search engines.
Or even better, system-wise:
- Edit/etc/hosts - Insert the following lines in it:
www.google.com 127.0.0.1
Additionally, you can add that in/etc/profile: alias ping="ping -f www.google.com"
Hope this helps. Mind you, I suspect this story is a huge troll. But then again, knowing google, maybe not...
[...] a digital signal processor chip that uses optical connections rather than silicon transistors. [...] The prototype being showcased is rather large, but Lenslet is hoping to have it shrunk down to a chip within five years.
I'm sure they didn't choose Mr. Lenslet at random for the job of shrinking optical an processor...
The New York Times asked 11 prominent people to write about a device that they'd like to see invented
Hmm, if they can think of something to invent, didn't they just invented it? I thought an invention was essentially something new that nobody thought about before (and no, it's not the same as something that's patented : you can patent something everybody wants).
Here's the invention I'm working on : a machine with a dictionary of technical words, verbs and old english expressions, that spits out random descriptions and diagrams, staples everything together, puts it in an envelope, stick a stamp on it and sends it to the USPTO automatically. It then sits on google, waits for pages with a lot of similar words, and automatically dials my attorney's number when it finds one. I expect to reap great profits from such a machine.
vouchers used for software need not be used to purchase Microsoft products.
But how much do you bet they will anyway?
Like: Hey, we've got all this money we can do whatever we want with : how about we go get new computers? guess what's installed on the computers that will be paid in the machines' price tag?
Unless people massively buy non-Intel boxes and/or Unix software, I'm willing to bet this will mean more money in the bank and more market penetration for Microsoft. Even if Linux, BSD or some other non-Windows OSes are actively promoted, you'll find a lot of Microsoft keyboards or mice in the hardware.
How could it be otherwise? Microsoft has the market so well cornered that sooner or later, a lot of the settlement money will come back to them.
What do traffic jams, obesity and spam have in common?
Development:
What does it mean for "family time" when every room has a TV? What does it mean for my company when everyone has instant messaging? What does it mean for newspapers when everyone has access to digital paper? What does it mean for the telecom industry when everyone has a wireless network?
Conclusion:
Any technology which creates abundance poses problems for any process which existed to benefit from scarcity.
Hmmm, duh...
Thanks Peter for your great insight. I'll check if I can find more of your great articles here.
Today we are surrounded by an excess of food and the body continues to follow a proven survival strategy -- it stores energy in fat for lean days which no longer arrive.
Given Peter de Jager's mugshot I think he has some authority on the matter.
For another, it recommends a public sector-led effort to adopt an XML-based standard document format, either that of OpenOffice or a new one developed by the EU. Will they push ahead with these plans or is it just more talk?
Yes, they come out of the printer's estate in big cardboxes, are stocked on his car park for a while, then lorry drivers arrive and queue up to load them, they transport them on the motorway to the nearest port, then it's shipped over the pond.
America just has to post the order to get them, and the shipment arrives some weeks later in the port of Bostom. I hear there are complaints about the price of postage stamps to mail the orders though...
wouldn't it be cheaper for them to threaten/subpoena/sue the whole US population as an entity (since everybody with a computer and a little experience does P2P)? who's the US people's representant again, isn't it the govern..... oops, nevermind.
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This gives hope to everyone that even Duke Nukem Forever can arrive one day.
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Still waiting for Pong-The Movie myself
You couldn't build a scale model with only 2 atoms so this point is moot.
You could build a pretty nice planetary model with 2 atoms though. Even with only one in fact.
Standing more than 62 inches (1.6 meters) tall and weighing about three pounds (1.4 kilograms) at launch, the most detailed reproduction of a Saturn 5 readily available today is 1/70th the size and 1/2,166,666th the weight of the original.
"It's small step for man, a giant step for Mini Me" -- Dr. Evil
Verisign's Sitefinder doesn't look so bad now does it ? ;-)
In Mozilla:
/etc/hosts
/etc/profile:
...
- Go to Edit --> Preferences --> Navigator
- Put www.altavista.com, www.webcrawler.com, www.yahoo.com (ah no, that's powered by google) in "Home Page"
- Edit your bookmark and remove similar google.com links as search engines.
Or even better, system-wise:
- Edit
- Insert the following lines in it:
www.google.com 127.0.0.1
Additionally, you can add that in
alias ping="ping -f www.google.com"
Hope this helps. Mind you, I suspect this story is a huge troll. But then again, knowing google, maybe not
[...] a digital signal processor chip that uses optical connections rather than silicon transistors. [...] The prototype being showcased is rather large, but Lenslet is hoping to have it shrunk down to a chip within five years.
...
I'm sure they didn't choose Mr. Lenslet at random for the job of shrinking optical an processor
The New York Times asked 11 prominent people to write about a device that they'd like to see invented
Hmm, if they can think of something to invent, didn't they just invented it? I thought an invention was essentially something new that nobody thought about before (and no, it's not the same as something that's patented : you can patent something everybody wants).
Here's the invention I'm working on : a machine with a dictionary of technical words, verbs and old english expressions, that spits out random descriptions and diagrams, staples everything together, puts it in an envelope, stick a stamp on it and sends it to the USPTO automatically. It then sits on google, waits for pages with a lot of similar words, and automatically dials my attorney's number when it finds one. I expect to reap great profits from such a machine.
He's scaled back from an X-Prize launch to a mere 15,000 feet with a sky-diving return.
Isn't that what a lot of small airfields propose under the name of "parachute jump" for $100, 1-hour training session included for first-timers ?
vouchers used for software need not be used to purchase Microsoft products.
But how much do you bet they will anyway?
Like: Hey, we've got all this money we can do whatever we want with : how about we go get new computers? guess what's installed on the computers that will be paid in the machines' price tag?
Unless people massively buy non-Intel boxes and/or Unix software, I'm willing to bet this will mean more money in the bank and more market penetration for Microsoft. Even if Linux, BSD or some other non-Windows OSes are actively promoted, you'll find a lot of Microsoft keyboards or mice in the hardware.
How could it be otherwise? Microsoft has the market so well cornered that sooner or later, a lot of the settlement money will come back to them.
Problem:
...
What do traffic jams, obesity and spam have in common?
Development:
What does it mean for "family time" when every room has a TV?
What does it mean for my company when everyone has instant messaging?
What does it mean for newspapers when everyone has access to digital paper?
What does it mean for the telecom industry when everyone has a wireless network?
Conclusion:
Any technology which creates abundance poses problems for any process which existed to benefit from scarcity.
Hmmm, duh
Thanks Peter for your great insight. I'll check if I can find more of your great articles here.
Today we are surrounded by an excess of food and the body continues to follow a proven survival strategy -- it stores energy in fat for lean days which no longer arrive.
Given Peter de Jager's mugshot I think he has some authority on the matter.
The day whitehouse.com is forced off the web by puritans in the whitehouse.gov, is the day I pick up a gun to remove a Dictator!
1 - If you really intended to do it, you wouldn't say it beforehand.
2 - People who brag about being able to do such thing usually do nothing, or cowardly go to Canada when the heat comes toward them.
3 - Welcome to your first day as a person watched by the SS for the rest of your life, for having hinted that you might kill the president.
The 'full-fledged Windows [XP] computer that measures 3 inches by 5 inches
That'd be the world's smallest space heater.
Unless MS can show off some new functionality that can help the bottom line, their days are numbered.
If you like to bet, I'm game : I'll even let you bet 20 to 1 that Microsoft's days are numbered. How about it?
An article at Internet Week describes some of the goals: avoiding viruses, worms, and 'building apps that are as smart as Outlook.
...)
One of these 3 goals says much about the level of innovation Microsoft is capable of. Can you find which one?
(the two others too in fact, they should have been met a long time ago really. Oh well, I guess I'll just stay with Linux for now
For another, it recommends a public sector-led effort to adopt an XML-based standard document format, either that of OpenOffice or a new one developed by the EU. Will they push ahead with these plans or is it just more talk?
What's wrong with good old reliable existing formats?
Have you looked at their business model? and their millions in investments?
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More like : this free Slashdot informercial brough to you by the TellMe board of directors
This just in - who gives a fuck?
I'll tell you who does : the legions of people who download those screeners on P2P. They are the true big losers of this decision.
For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper
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Yes, they come out of the printer's estate in big cardboxes, are stocked on his car park for a while, then lorry drivers arrive and queue up to load them, they transport them on the motorway to the nearest port, then it's shipped over the pond.
America just has to post the order to get them, and the shipment arrives some weeks later in the port of Bostom. I hear there are complaints about the price of postage stamps to mail the orders though
A laser arms race already is under way, chiefly in California.
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Wow, Goverminator hasn't been elected for 2 weeks and Skynet is already flexing its muscles
My now-wife and I were talking using VoIP almost 3 years ago
Maybe it's time you two meet face to face ?
There are few organizations more loathed than the telephone company.
MPAA, RIAA, Telemarketers, car mechanics, McDonald's, DigitalConvergence, SCO, Microsoft, ???
I have a better idea : present a complex differential equation and ask the person to solve it in less than 10s. If he fails, he's human.
Slashdot could benefit from such a human checker, each time someone posts, so that idiocies from crapflood scripts could be kept in check.
wouldn't it be cheaper for them to threaten/subpoena/sue the whole US population as an entity (since everybody with a computer and a little experience does P2P)? who's the US people's representant again, isn't it the govern..... oops, nevermind.