After 2 years of Linux on my home box I went reluctantly back to Win 2K for much the same reasons. I install and remove a lot of shareware (not crapware, but progs that may be useful for development purposes) and found that I was spending more time getting things to work using a myriad of different configuration methods than I was actually using my computer for useful work.
I love Linux and have regretted going back to Windows occasionally, but at the moment I'm even considering deleting my Linux partition as I haven't booted into Linux for months.
Interesting to note what's current and what's in production...
Dimensions: display + pixels + aperture Display size: 71 mm x 96 mm (diameter 119 mm). Number of pixels: 240 x 320. Optical aperture: 79%. Driving: refresh rate, voltages, power consumption, volume electronics Optimum refresh rate: 50 Hz. Operating voltages: column voltage range: -15V, +15V; row voltage range: -25V, +25V; common electrode voltage range: 0, +5 V.
Power consumption: maximum power consumption of the display: 52 mW. Typical power consumption (10% duty cycle) of the display: 1 mW. Contrast, reflectance, switching time, bi-stable, grey levels, colour Contrast: 9:1. White reflectance: 25% Switching time: 800 ms. Bi-stable Number of grey levels: current: 2; in product: 4. Colour: current 1; in future product: 1 Flexibility, thickness Display thickness: current: 350 m; product: 100 m. Display flexibility: current bending radius: 20 mm; future product bending radius: 10 mm. Stick facts: (user interface, bluetooth) Component area of the addressing electronics: 48 cm2. Height of the addressing electronics: 2 mm. Typical size of a 0.5 Wh rechargeable Li-ion battery (10% duty cycle, 1 hour use per day): 1,3 cm3. Battery life under the same conditions: approximately 1 month. Bluetooth interface
As the availability of simple, catchy, unique names that are real words is drying up I wonder if in the future we will start to see more of the "entire sentence as product name" category - such as I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
How about "It's An Even Better Word Processor" or "What A Great Graphics Card" as product names?
(Of course, some people are already doing this in the form of recursive names - someone already pointed out GNU for instance!)
Nah - seriously, something like this would probably cost a hell of a lot - but that's why such things are playthings for the rich and famous rather than we average mortals.
And that's the sort of lesson that the education system is building you up for - you're probably gonna always be drooling over unaffordable gadgets. It's life! Get over it:-D
I tend to listen only to Internet radio stations where I can steer the type of programming I listen to. There is all too little original programming on broadcast radio that makes it worthwhile - and waaay too much commercialised pop rubbish.
Think about it - when was the last time you actually *looked forward* to something on the radio? And when was the lst time on TV?
Read the original poster's text again. Amazing how if this text were written comparing MS to Samba in the *other* direction everyone would be up in arms about the FUD value!
We need to be careful that we don't end up tarred with our own brush!
The SiteFinder fiasco was the final impetus for me to remove my last couple of domains from NetSol's hands to a more internet friendly domain registrar. Apart from saving me money in the process I'm pleased I finally got off my ass and voted with my wallet!
A friend of mine who is a Linux whizz and who is looking into setting up a charity organisation for techies to be able to contribute time & know-how for good causes might well be interested in this project.
I guess that if anything is going to help spread news about its availability, this is the right place to be.
Now, while I'm *pretty* sure this is a troll (and if not them I sympathise with your family position), I'd just like to point out a few inconsistencies...
1) You own a "family oriented" record store with a huge christian section, but you say things like "Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back."? That's very christian and tolerant of you!
2) "Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame." You don't know whether people prefer to do other things, but you DO know that Internet piracy is to blame?? Very perceptive of you! Or alternatively this is just your opoinion!
3) "People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected pirates to a hotline, similar to TIPS." Ah - perfect! A "dob-in-your-neighbour" scheme. The perfect vehicle for people to get revenge on those they have a problem with.
4) Finally, I think your idea is just about outrageous enough that the RIAA might actually take it seriously! Given how they have so far flown in the face of public opinion by implementing extremely unpopular solutions, I expect your proposal to be implemented within the next few weeks. The only problem is that it will probably drive the entire record industry out of business as I can't see people wanting to have to identify themselves in order to buy some music.
The music industry as a whole needs to take a leaf out of the film industry's book. The RIAA are fighting a losing battle, but if instead they encouraged record labels to use some of that incredible store of creative talent, then they could come up with some great solutions to the problem.
Think about the market for DVD's for instance. If the music you could buy in shops came with booklets/video snippets/multimedia additions/extra artwork etc then more people would be encouraged to buy the original to get the whole experience.
If less new bands were mass produced *blah* then the record buying public might become excited about music again and buy more.
If new distribution possibilities were explored with the aggressivity that the RIAA are applying to "fighting" piracy, then you and other record retailers might be able to find exciting new markets, such as print-on-demand music sales, sales of single tracks (at reasonable prices) for immediate download onto portable music players and much more.
The answer to the problem isn't legislation against progress (because while piracy is a problem, the move towards more and more digital music formats is undoubtedly progress), but instead to explore creative new solutions to the problem. Instead of wasting your time on anger, why not focus on new creative ways to get people back into your shop. I'm sure it is possible, but it may not be as simple as sitting back and letting the RIAA try and legislate the problem away (which they will surely fail to do).
OK - following the money, I deduce that if California manages to claim $10000 / peice of spam then it will very quickly become the world's richest economy!
Slashdot Mirror
After 2 years of Linux on my home box I went reluctantly back to Win 2K for much the same reasons. I install and remove a lot of shareware (not crapware, but progs that may be useful for development purposes) and found that I was spending more time getting things to work using a myriad of different configuration methods than I was actually using my computer for useful work.
I love Linux and have regretted going back to Windows occasionally, but at the moment I'm even considering deleting my Linux partition as I haven't booted into Linux for months.
Interesting to note what's current and what's in production...
Dimensions: display + pixels + aperture
Display size: 71 mm x 96 mm (diameter 119 mm).
Number of pixels: 240 x 320.
Optical aperture: 79%.
Driving: refresh rate, voltages, power consumption, volume electronics
Optimum refresh rate: 50 Hz.
Operating voltages: column voltage range: -15V, +15V; row voltage range: -25V, +25V; common electrode voltage range: 0, +5 V.
Power consumption: maximum power consumption of the display: 52 mW. Typical power consumption (10% duty cycle) of the display: 1 mW.
Contrast, reflectance, switching time, bi-stable, grey levels, colour
Contrast: 9:1.
White reflectance: 25%
Switching time: 800 ms.
Bi-stable
Number of grey levels: current: 2; in product: 4.
Colour: current 1; in future product: 1
Flexibility, thickness
Display thickness: current: 350 m; product: 100 m.
Display flexibility: current bending radius: 20 mm;
future product bending radius: 10 mm.
Stick facts: (user interface, bluetooth)
Component area of the addressing electronics: 48 cm2.
Height of the addressing electronics: 2 mm.
Typical size of a 0.5 Wh rechargeable Li-ion battery (10% duty cycle, 1 hour use per day): 1,3 cm3.
Battery life under the same conditions: approximately 1 month.
Bluetooth interface
That episode of "The Vicar of Dibley" was on BBC Prime last night! ;-)
As the availability of simple, catchy, unique names that are real words is drying up I wonder if in the future we will start to see more of the "entire sentence as product name" category - such as I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
How about "It's An Even Better Word Processor" or "What A Great Graphics Card" as product names?
(Of course, some people are already doing this in the form of recursive names - someone already pointed out GNU for instance!)
Yup - I wear Ecco shoes day-in, day-out and they are extremely comfortable with no metal parts whatsoever.
Imagine going out to a club and getting a frozen "light cube" in your drink which releases a stream of photons as it melts.
Could bring a whole new dimesnion to the humble Tequila Sunrise huh?
- It's Mr Plow!!! :-D
It's "Red sky at night, Reagans delight.
;-)
Red sky in the morning, four minute warning!"
(Though one might want to account for modern times by swapping out Bush for Reagan of course
Coming soon...
... etc - ad nauseum.
Life after Worldcom
Life after Boo.com
Life after SCO
Given that ever single developer I know has changed job at least once in the last 3 years this is one nepotistic story!
Evil foreign governments? Benign foreign governments?
Hell - even I'd want one! Wouldn't you??
Well then - get yer hair cut and get a job ;-)
:-D
Nah - seriously, something like this would probably cost a hell of a lot - but that's why such things are playthings for the rich and famous rather than we average mortals.
And that's the sort of lesson that the education system is building you up for - you're probably gonna always be drooling over unaffordable gadgets. It's life! Get over it
A reason to listen to "normal" radio again!
I tend to listen only to Internet radio stations where I can steer the type of programming I listen to. There is all too little original programming on broadcast radio that makes it worthwhile - and waaay too much commercialised pop rubbish.
Think about it - when was the last time you actually *looked forward* to something on the radio? And when was the lst time on TV?
Right!
No, we have eople for that! :-p
Top hits for "Claria is" on Google...
Claria is looking for talented web developer with strong design and Java development and skills.
Claria is a top quality commercial headset at a very reasonable price.
Claria is supposed to be adorable but..ehm...please, be kind...give her back her bunny doll?
Claria is a trademark of Claria.
Claria is generally considered one of the best universities in the world
Claria is a brown eyed, brown haired, rather voluptuous 27 year old woman of average height.
Claria is the leading strategic hiring partner for technology start-ups
claria (TM) is a registered trademark of Claria Headsets
Slashdot filtered out the - a with an umlaut, which means that my incredible witty post ended up looking pretty dumb :-P
Gator ar spyware
Read the original poster's text again. Amazing how if this text were written comparing MS to Samba in the *other* direction everyone would be up in arms about the FUD value!
We need to be careful that we don't end up tarred with our own brush!
After all the closing comment to the article was "Villain fingers pussycat"!
You don't want to go popping that pinky in your mouth after that!!
That is astounding! Big thanks for posting the link - I am awestruck!
Having both ridden unicycles and mountainbiked, I would never have considered combining the two.
The SiteFinder fiasco was the final impetus for me to remove my last couple of domains from NetSol's hands to a more internet friendly domain registrar. Apart from saving me money in the process I'm pleased I finally got off my ass and voted with my wallet!
A friend of mine who is a Linux whizz and who is looking into setting up a charity organisation for techies to be able to contribute time & know-how for good causes might well be interested in this project.
I guess that if anything is going to help spread news about its availability, this is the right place to be.
Remind me not to let you anywhere near my laptop then! ;-p
Ah! I kinda thought so!
I've only seen it the once though - I guess my other internet addictions have been taking time from my Slashdot reading!
Now, while I'm *pretty* sure this is a troll (and if not them I sympathise with your family position), I'd just like to point out a few inconsistencies...
1) You own a "family oriented" record store with a huge christian section, but you say things like "Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back."? That's very christian and tolerant of you!
2) "Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame." You don't know whether people prefer to do other things, but you DO know that Internet piracy is to blame?? Very perceptive of you! Or alternatively this is just your opoinion!
3) "People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected pirates to a hotline, similar to TIPS." Ah - perfect! A "dob-in-your-neighbour" scheme. The perfect vehicle for people to get revenge on those they have a problem with.
4) Finally, I think your idea is just about outrageous enough that the RIAA might actually take it seriously! Given how they have so far flown in the face of public opinion by implementing extremely unpopular solutions, I expect your proposal to be implemented within the next few weeks. The only problem is that it will probably drive the entire record industry out of business as I can't see people wanting to have to identify themselves in order to buy some music.
The music industry as a whole needs to take a leaf out of the film industry's book. The RIAA are fighting a losing battle, but if instead they encouraged record labels to use some of that incredible store of creative talent, then they could come up with some great solutions to the problem.
Think about the market for DVD's for instance. If the music you could buy in shops came with booklets/video snippets/multimedia additions/extra artwork etc then more people would be encouraged to buy the original to get the whole experience.
If less new bands were mass produced *blah* then the record buying public might become excited about music again and buy more.
If new distribution possibilities were explored with the aggressivity that the RIAA are applying to "fighting" piracy, then you and other record retailers might be able to find exciting new markets, such as print-on-demand music sales, sales of single tracks (at reasonable prices) for immediate download onto portable music players and much more.
The answer to the problem isn't legislation against progress (because while piracy is a problem, the move towards more and more digital music formats is undoubtedly progress), but instead to explore creative new solutions to the problem. Instead of wasting your time on anger, why not focus on new creative ways to get people back into your shop. I'm sure it is possible, but it may not be as simple as sitting back and letting the RIAA try and legislate the problem away (which they will surely fail to do).
OK - following the money, I deduce that if California manages to claim $10000 / peice of spam then it will very quickly become the world's richest economy!