Interesting point in the article about the cost of bringing back the tiger. However, it makes me think. Cloning is a technology that is very "sexy" right now. This means that scientists are going to be running around like headless chickens trying to get gramnts for bigger and better cloning projects.
This worries me a little. I'm worried, because it sounds like these scientists are trying to bite off more than they can chew. The more high price, but high risk projects that fail, the less likely that companies will stump up the money for further projects. Eventually, cloning whithers up and becomes a pariah science - like VR research did in the late 80's.
Of course, VR research still goes on, but if there hadn't been so much hype, bandwagon hopping and generally badly thought out, but highly publicised projects, a steady stream of investments into VR might by now have produced greater results.
Of course, the majority of experiments should go ahead, but when I hear of "cloning extinct Auzzie marsupials back to life", I just know that this is going to make it to all the tabloids around the world, with no mention of how astronomically difficult such a venture should be.
Perhpas we should try reviving something a little simpler first before issuing the press releases about mammoth steaks being reanimated!
Interesting point in the article about the cost of bringing back the tiger. However, it makes me think. Cloning is a technology that is very "sexy" right now. This means that scientists are going to be running around like headless chickens trying to get gramnts for bigger and better cloning projects.
This worries me a little. I'm worried, because it sounds like these scientists are trying to bite off more than they can chew. The more high price, but high risk projects that fail, the less likely that companies will stump up the money for further projects. Eventually, cloning whithers up and becomes a pariah science - like VR research did in the late 80's.
Of course, VR research still goes on, but if there hadn't been so much hype, bandwagon hopping and generally badly thought out, but highly publicised projects, a steady stream of investments into VR might by now have produced greater results.
Of course, the majority of experiments should go ahead, but when I hear of "cloning extinct Auzzie marsupials back to life", I just know that this is going to make it to all the tabloids around the world, with no mention of how astronomically difficult such a venture should be.
Perhaps we should try reviving something a little simpler first before issuing the press releases about mammoth steaks being reanimated!
It will be interesting to see how Red Hat fare in Europe. As the article points out, SuSe have a very strong base in Europe, although in my experience Red Hat still have very strong recognition here. It's not difficult to find Red Hat here in Sweden for instance, as long as you know where to buy good quality software.
I would be interested to know more about how they plan to reach the market here (Europe). Obviously getting RH into the stores is the main thing, but are we likely to see country customised websites, advertising campaigns and the like over here? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
In my experience, European marketing is often very different to US marketing. I have frequently criticised Netscape in the past for concentrating on the end-user server market here, when leased line costs are so expensive, that the vast majority of companies host with ISP's. If Netscape had focussed on selling to ISP's first and cooperating in helping them deliver new services, they could have a way bigger market share. As it is, most ISP's here offer IIS for database driven sites.
My point is that Red Hat will need people with local experience and be prepared to listen to them if they want to crack the local markets (you guys listening? Drop me a mail;-).
Excellent news! With any luck, the console will play many games that currently are released on the PC platform only.
Why would this be a good thing?
Well, how many posts here do you see that say "The release of *INSERT GAME TITLE HERE* on Linux is all that's stopping me from ditching Win* for ever!!!"
Now we Linux supporters may have the opportunity to strip M$ prods from our real machines and have a $300 machine for the games alone (assuming of course that it does end up playing PC titles in some format or other).
I'm inlcined to agree that this has been blown a little out of proportion. I've submitted an article to evolt.org http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=389&catid= 25 that I hope paints a slightly clearer picture of the situation.
From an interview with RMS at http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworldtoday/lwt-inde pth7.html
"Richard Stallman: I use Lynx. I'm not terribly interested in pictures anyway. I consider eye-candy distracting and annoying in Web pages. It makes them hard to read and the ads are likely to be graphical, and I don't want to see the ads. "
So the person who has raised "the alarm" over this issue is also someone who would have their whole browsing experience improved by a sudden rush to remove gifs from the web.
Hmmmm.
Seriously, I wouldn't believe that RMS thought that way, but the notification of this issue is *way* too alarmist. Simple solution - get a cheap but licensed product that creates gifs and saves a header ID string and run all the gifs on your site through it.
Since when do Jpeg's make a nice job of graphics with large flat areas of colour? Have you ever seen what Jpeg compression does to an image that has uniform colour areas?
Why on earth do you think that people use gifs AND jpegs on websites?
Just a point, but did anyone else notice that tobacco was missing from the list of "other addictions" that one might have had? Drugs (Illicit and prescription) just doesn't seem to cover that for me.
(Sidenote - I must be predisposed to addiction based upon how many of those on the list have been a long part of my life, but fortunately none of them have ever become too detrimental - yet!)
You maybe mean Holland, but even there, dope is not exactly legal, but decriminalised. It would be very difficult indeed for any country to actively legalise consumption of canabis. Ther is a huge international treaty (I forget the name, perhaps someone can remind me) that binds all the signatory countries to hold quite specific laws regarding drug use.
However, a country can keep the laws on their books, but choose to turn a blind eye towards prosecution. Certainly in the UK, there are several places where if you are caught with personal quantities of marijuana, you may even escape being cautioned.
I've been using my Palm for reading Gutenberg textx for almost a year now. I'm actually really pleased with the experience. Sure you need to get the light right, but paging through the book is simplicity itself and I am so used to reading electronic text that I am not finding any real problems with the setup.
Of course it could be improved, the digital ink idea for future e-paper sounds like it could supply the extra resolution a serious read requires. However - for travelling, the Palm reader has been a godsend. I used to carry 3 or 4 books for a week's travel - now I have saved that space and weight by taking the Palm.
I'll stick to books for everyday use though of course.
Hmm, this is an interesting article. Having given up on SETI after all the hoohaw about repeated packets and the overload of users, I thought this might provide some pointers for getting into some *real science*. However, it only really seems to be useful for those who already know what they are doing.
The HOWTO in particular caught my attention, but it is more of a "HOW TO set up a Linux system" than "HOW TO get involved in X-Ray astronomy".
I guess that if one doesn't have the appropriate background, this isn't a suitable subject for beginners to get involved in.
Maybe I'll stick to my home gene-splicing experiments:-)
Not that it really affects the discussion much, but this is news that has been floating around for a long while.
the Rapidly Changing Face of Computing did an article on this http://www.digital.com/info/rcfoc/19990329.htm#K ibibytes_A_New_HighTech
Which has a link to the original source http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb99 03.htm#Information Technology
Not that I really mind too much, but this dates back to March of this year!
Apart from that, I think the names sound pretty odd - don't you? I agree with Jeff Harrow from RCFOC who says that a Kibibyte sounds like a type of dogfood.
Oh well, like most things of this nature, I guess nobody will really ever use them except to show off their knowledge. (That'll be me then!)
I chatted with the site's designers earlier today - they are based in Japan and the site was not actually released yet! They were aware that there are spelling errors (which should now be corrected) and the site will get an official launch sometime next week.
Is it just my imagination, or are Wired really coming up with some drivel these days? You could write an article like this about any profession that involves long hours and high stress. Just change the examples round a bit. There seem to have been a string of such tabloid articles coming from their direction lately.
Anyway, on the subject of sex - it was quite handy in my last job that my GF and I lived in two separate countries. We saw each other maybe for a week or two every couple of months. It worked out pretty well, as I was working like a maniac at the time.
Now I've moved to Sweden to be nearer her though and nothing much has changed:-) I'm still working like a maniac to try and make a footing in a new country and we both seem to get on fine with a "once every few weeks" frequency.
Well duh! Open your mind a little. Stop thinking about what you can gain from such an experiment and think more about the questions such an experiment asks. This idea challenges ingrained concepts of nationality - don'cha think?
I've often been intrigued by the concept of an anarchist society where a top-down rule structure is not required, as people choose to take responsibility for the society around them. However, the biggest block I can see to such a system is human beings. Yup, people like you who cannot see past the "What's in it for me" attítude and who will never realise that quite simply, life would be better in a society where people aren't just taking all the time.
I guess overall, CY is a single step towards a virtual country. You don't think that's a goal worth trying to move towards? As others have pointed out here, there have been other attempts at this idea - more power to them all say I. we'll keep on pushing the idea and one day the mixture will be right and suddenly a lot of us will be citizens of the world.
Sorry - it's early and I haven't had my coffee yet!
Slashdot Mirror
Doh!
Press the any key to submit.
Which of these is the any key?
I'll just try them all.
Where are there so many copies of my article!
It wasn't quite like that, but apologies anyway for submitting twice!
Interesting point in the article about the cost of bringing back the tiger. However, it makes me think. Cloning is a technology that is very "sexy" right now. This means that scientists are going to be running around like headless chickens trying to get gramnts for bigger and better cloning projects.
This worries me a little. I'm worried, because it sounds like these scientists are trying to bite off more than they can chew. The more high price, but high risk projects that fail, the less likely that companies will stump up the money for further projects. Eventually, cloning whithers up and becomes a pariah science - like VR research did in the late 80's.
Of course, VR research still goes on, but if there hadn't been so much hype, bandwagon hopping and generally badly thought out, but highly publicised projects, a steady stream of investments into VR might by now have produced greater results.
Of course, the majority of experiments should go ahead, but when I hear of "cloning extinct Auzzie marsupials back to life", I just know that this is going to make it to all the tabloids around the world, with no mention of how astronomically difficult such a venture should be.
Perhpas we should try reviving something a little simpler first before issuing the press releases about mammoth steaks being reanimated!
Interesting point in the article about the cost of bringing back the tiger. However, it makes me think. Cloning is a technology that is very "sexy" right now. This means that scientists are going to be running around like headless chickens trying to get gramnts for bigger and better cloning projects.
This worries me a little. I'm worried, because it sounds like these scientists are trying to bite off more than they can chew. The more high price, but high risk projects that fail, the less likely that companies will stump up the money for further projects. Eventually, cloning whithers up and becomes a pariah science - like VR research did in the late 80's.
Of course, VR research still goes on, but if there hadn't been so much hype, bandwagon hopping and generally badly thought out, but highly publicised projects, a steady stream of investments into VR might by now have produced greater results.
Of course, the majority of experiments should go ahead, but when I hear of "cloning extinct Auzzie marsupials back to life", I just know that this is going to make it to all the tabloids around the world, with no mention of how astronomically difficult such a venture should be.
Perhaps we should try reviving something a little simpler first before issuing the press releases about mammoth steaks being reanimated!
http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux /truetype/index.html
This got me up and running with True Type Fonts in no time at all.
Also, for a great source of more "way out" TTF's take a look at http://www.acidcool.com
Shouldn't bounce *too* happily - it'll make the CD's skip!
;-)
It will be interesting to see how Red Hat fare in Europe. As the article points out, SuSe have a very strong base in Europe, although in my experience Red Hat still have very strong recognition here. It's not difficult to find Red Hat here in Sweden for instance, as long as you know where to buy good quality software.
;-).
I would be interested to know more about how they plan to reach the market here (Europe). Obviously getting RH into the stores is the main thing, but are we likely to see country customised websites, advertising campaigns and the like over here? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
In my experience, European marketing is often very different to US marketing. I have frequently criticised Netscape in the past for concentrating on the end-user server market here, when leased line costs are so expensive, that the vast majority of companies host with ISP's. If Netscape had focussed on selling to ISP's first and cooperating in helping them deliver new services, they could have a way bigger market share. As it is, most ISP's here offer IIS for database driven sites.
My point is that Red Hat will need people with local experience and be prepared to listen to them if they want to crack the local markets (you guys listening? Drop me a mail
In the same sense that it is correct to say
Microsoft Windows (As Slashdotter's favourite O/S)
teehee!
Excellent news! With any luck, the console will play many games that currently are released on the PC platform only.
Why would this be a good thing?
Well, how many posts here do you see that say "The release of *INSERT GAME TITLE HERE* on Linux is all that's stopping me from ditching Win* for ever!!!"
Now we Linux supporters may have the opportunity to strip M$ prods from our real machines and have a $300 machine for the games alone (assuming of course that it does end up playing PC titles in some format or other).
Whaddaya think guys?
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I'm inlcined to agree that this has been blown a little out of proportion. I've submitted an article to evolt.org= 25
http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=389&catid
that I hope paints a slightly clearer picture of the situation.
From an interview with RMS at http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworldtoday/lwt-inde pth7.html
"Richard Stallman: I use Lynx. I'm not terribly interested in pictures anyway. I consider eye-candy distracting and annoying in Web pages. It makes them hard to read and the ads are likely to be graphical, and I don't want to see the ads. "
So the person who has raised "the alarm" over this issue is also someone who would have their whole browsing experience improved by a sudden rush to remove gifs from the web.
Hmmmm.
Seriously, I wouldn't believe that RMS thought that way, but the notification of this issue is *way* too alarmist. Simple solution - get a cheap but licensed product that creates gifs and saves a header ID string and run all the gifs on your site through it.
Hellooo! Reality check.
Since when do Jpeg's make a nice job of graphics with large flat areas of colour? Have you ever seen what Jpeg compression does to an image that has uniform colour areas?
Why on earth do you think that people use gifs AND jpegs on websites?
Swedish would go down well too.
;-)
Not that I would pass the credit checks over here, what with being a bloody immigrant and all
... I can give it up any time I want *sniff*...
... besides - there's always heroin to fall back on!
Absolutely right.
;-) (The biggest cause for me refreshing /. 5 times an hour)
That and my JenniCam slashbox
Now I've gotta get back to figuring why this fricking VBScrap Dictionary onject isn't doing what it's advertised to!
Just a point, but did anyone else notice that tobacco was missing from the list of "other addictions" that one might have had? Drugs (Illicit and prescription) just doesn't seem to cover that for me.
.sig here;
(Sidenote - I must be predisposed to addiction based upon how many of those on the list have been a long part of my life, but fortunately none of them have ever become too detrimental - yet!)
Heh! - appropriate
You maybe mean Holland, but even there, dope is not exactly legal, but decriminalised. It would be very difficult indeed for any country to actively legalise consumption of canabis. Ther is a huge international treaty (I forget the name, perhaps someone can remind me) that binds all the signatory countries to hold quite specific laws regarding drug use.
However, a country can keep the laws on their books, but choose to turn a blind eye towards prosecution. Certainly in the UK, there are several places where if you are caught with personal quantities of marijuana, you may even escape being cautioned.
I've been using my Palm for reading Gutenberg textx for almost a year now. I'm actually really pleased with the experience. Sure you need to get the light right, but paging through the book is simplicity itself and I am so used to reading electronic text that I am not finding any real problems with the setup.
Of course it could be improved, the digital ink idea for future e-paper sounds like it could supply the extra resolution a serious read requires. However - for travelling, the Palm reader has been a godsend. I used to carry 3 or 4 books for a week's travel - now I have saved that space and weight by taking the Palm.
I'll stick to books for everyday use though of course.
Hmm, this is an interesting article. Having given up on SETI after all the hoohaw about repeated packets and the overload of users, I thought this might provide some pointers for getting into some *real science*. However, it only really seems to be useful for those who already know what they are doing.
:-)
The HOWTO in particular caught my attention, but it is more of a "HOW TO set up a Linux system" than "HOW TO get involved in X-Ray astronomy".
I guess that if one doesn't have the appropriate background, this isn't a suitable subject for beginners to get involved in.
Maybe I'll stick to my home gene-splicing experiments
Not that it really affects the discussion much, but this is news that has been floating around for a long while.
K ibibytes_A_New_HighTech
9 03.htm#Information Technology
the Rapidly Changing Face of Computing did an article on this
http://www.digital.com/info/rcfoc/19990329.htm#
Which has a link to the original source
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb9
Not that I really mind too much, but this dates back to March of this year!
Apart from that, I think the names sound pretty odd - don't you? I agree with Jeff Harrow from RCFOC who says that a Kibibyte sounds like a type of dogfood.
Oh well, like most things of this nature, I guess nobody will really ever use them except to show off their knowledge. (That'll be me then!)
I chatted with the site's designers earlier today - they are based in Japan and the site was not actually released yet! They were aware that there are spelling errors (which should now be corrected) and the site will get an official launch sometime next week.
What platform you got? Bed, dining room table, stairs, boss's desk :-)
Is it just my imagination, or are Wired really coming up with some drivel these days? You could write an article like this about any profession that involves long hours and high stress. Just change the examples round a bit. There seem to have been a string of such tabloid articles coming from their direction lately.
:-) I'm still working like a maniac to try and make a footing in a new country and we both seem to get on fine with a "once every few weeks" frequency.
Anyway, on the subject of sex - it was quite handy in my last job that my GF and I lived in two separate countries. We saw each other maybe for a week or two every couple of months. It worked out pretty well, as I was working like a maniac at the time.
Now I've moved to Sweden to be nearer her though and nothing much has changed
Is that more detail than you all wanted?
Well duh! Open your mind a little. Stop thinking about what you can gain from such an experiment and think more about the questions such an experiment asks. This idea challenges ingrained concepts of nationality - don'cha think?
I've often been intrigued by the concept of an anarchist society where a top-down rule structure is not required, as people choose to take responsibility for the society around them. However, the biggest block I can see to such a system is human beings. Yup, people like you who cannot see past the "What's in it for me" attítude and who will never realise that quite simply, life would be better in a society where people aren't just taking all the time.
I guess overall, CY is a single step towards a virtual country. You don't think that's a goal worth trying to move towards? As others have pointed out here, there have been other attempts at this idea - more power to them all say I. we'll keep on pushing the idea and one day the mixture will be right and suddenly a lot of us will be citizens of the world.
Sorry - it's early and I haven't had my coffee yet!
Duh! Everyone knows it's 42.
:-)