The appetite for war and death posted here is quite depressing.
Ex-military talking about how bitchen' more "death from above" is. Geeks making Austin Powers jokes thinking that this is just a big funny movie. Brainless shills bringing up Osama/Saddam and how we'll kick his ass.
And you would think that slashdot readers would be at least a little more enlightened than the average cow grazing in Wal-mart.
There's no intelligent life here, at least none that's detectable.
I didn't know anything about this case but when I read the article headline I thought: "Hmmm, some guy's wearing a crypto suit.
Probably someone from MIT walking around and scaring people.
What'll those nerds think up next?"
Most of what Apple produces is proprietary,just like most manufacturers of goods (unless you're making things like 'Equate'-brand clones for Wal-Mart).
But I wouldn't call them a monopoly.
If somebody is looking for something completly "open", there's plenty of generic boxes out there. A plain box with the word "computer" on it. If Apple did that, they would no longer be Apple and it's moot.
I'm just glad they're around. There's lots of choices out there. I've tried almost everything over the years. I've done my best work on a Mac. For me, nothing comes close to working as well. (Even if I can't change GUI background textures).
I'd be happy if there was a control panel with a set of HSV sliders so I could change the Aqua-blue into the color of my choice. Sort of like what iChat lets you do for the talk bubbles, but more flexible. This, of course, leads to more features; a seperate color setting for widgets, the highlighted menu item, a different color setting for each app...
Which is probably why Apple wants to avoid the whole issue. 98% of the skins I've seen for window managers or things like winamp are awful. Murky, and unintuitive. Somebody spent a lot of time to make a skin they think is bitchen but I'm rarely impressed. I think this shows that effective GUI design is difficult and might best be left to experts. Besides, don't we have better things to do? Then again, if you want to paint your computer, or desktop, or house, or car, or fingernails a different color each week, knock yourself out.
The whole thing is computer-assisted gimmickry. Computer Motion has been pushing this system for a long time. It's just a way of selling really expensive toys to surgical centers that want to "look" cutting edge.
The Hermes voice recognition is clunky. most of the hardware running this thing is over eight years old. Sure, if the doc is trained on it, they can make it do things but it really de-augments the surgeon's abilities.
Like tying a brick onto a pencil. You can write with it, but certainly not any better than before, and probably much worse.
If you're doing component placement on some pc boards or manipulating other consistent man-made items, robotics work well. Working on wetware is a whole other thing.
Every case is different. Stuff moves, sags, and flows. A surgeon with good hands can be quicker and much more precise. It's all about the surgeon's heightened senses of touch, vision, hearing, even smell. This thing only gets in the way.
It does Computer Motion and it's OEMS a lot of money though. The cameras, voice control box, the arm and it's attachments, training will run you way past a quarter Mil for each surgical suite. It does everything but give the best in patient care. It also makes for slick copy in the annual report.
Think about something much simpler like cutting your food and feeding yourself. Now imagine doing it with voice control and a joystick. Sure you could eventually learn to do it, but how much more efficiently and skillfully can you do it using your hands, a knife and fork?
The training you'll get will be so dumbed down and slow paced that it'll take you 8 times as long to learn the same thing in the real world.
The military wants you to think that you'll gain an exciting life, a rewarding career, valuable work experience, travel the world, be a patriot and geek out on the highest of tech. But in reality, you'll be stripped of your individualism, be used as muscle to expand corporate interests abroad, have a hand in killing other human beings and quite possibly be killed yourself.
Do we really care what Germans think? They did invade and attempt to subjugate Europe twice
Well, the US is just now getting serious in the "invade and subjugate" business. Nothing like the voice of experience to show you the ropes I always say.
The original poster asked for insight on issues for a website. He wasn't offering seats in the Senate for "foreigners". He just wanted opinions and information.
This anti-everybody-but-the-US mindset will be our downfall.
You know, many of us have spouses or sons and daughters living abroad. It's not the closed world you want it to be. We all interact and influence each other on a global level. The US seems to want this influence to work in one direction only, by force if needed.
...use the money from the sale to help balance the budget deficit... Yeah, right.
The auction insures that only the deepest pockets have access to what should be a public resource.
In 5 years, probably only 5 companies will be broadcasting content. We, the great unwashed, will be only permitted to consume that content. That is, except for the personal surveillance feed from our telescreens.
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The appetite for war and death posted here is quite depressing.
Ex-military talking about how bitchen' more "death from above" is.
Geeks making Austin Powers jokes thinking that this is just a big funny movie.
Brainless shills bringing up Osama/Saddam and how we'll kick his ass.
And you would think that slashdot readers would be at least
a little more enlightened than the average cow grazing in Wal-mart.
There's no intelligent life here, at least none that's detectable.
>rm -rf /bin/laden /bin/laden not found
rm:
I didn't know anything about this case but when I read the article headline I thought:
"Hmmm, some guy's wearing a crypto suit.
Probably someone from MIT walking around and scaring people.
What'll those nerds think up next?"
...O'Brien is waiting for you.
I don't think that middle party members or the proles are allowed to have guns. At least there's no mention of it.
Just considering a firearm is thoughtcrime.
I don't know about Japan, but I just read that he'll be delivering the opening keynote address for Macworld Expo/San Francisco 2003.
What's the advantage of having a monolithic kernel tacked onto a microkernel?
That's easy. Chicks dig it!
all that reseach and then you go and make the wrong decision.
My son teaches English for Nova.
Not much money the first year but it'll get you over there.
He's happy.
Most of what Apple produces is proprietary,just like most manufacturers of goods (unless you're making things like 'Equate'-brand clones for Wal-Mart).
But I wouldn't call them a monopoly.
If somebody is looking for something completly "open", there's plenty of generic boxes out there. A plain box with the word "computer" on it. If Apple did that, they would no longer be Apple and it's moot.
I'm just glad they're around. There's lots of choices out there. I've tried almost everything over the years.
I've done my best work on a Mac. For me, nothing comes close to working as well. (Even if I can't change GUI background textures).
I'd be happy if there was a control panel with a set of HSV sliders so I could change the Aqua-blue into the color of my choice. Sort of like what iChat lets you do for the talk bubbles, but more flexible. This, of course, leads to more features; a seperate color setting for widgets, the highlighted menu item, a different color setting for each app...
Which is probably why Apple wants to avoid the whole issue. 98% of the skins I've seen for window managers or things like winamp are awful. Murky, and unintuitive. Somebody spent a lot of time to make a skin they think is bitchen but I'm rarely impressed. I think this shows that effective GUI design is difficult and might best be left to experts. Besides, don't we have better things to do? Then again, if you want to paint your computer, or desktop, or house, or car, or fingernails a different color each week, knock yourself out.
Hmmm.
The Hauppage page says the $149 board uses a software decoder. The upcoming board (WinTV-PVR-250) does mpeg in hardware, it's $100 more.
The whole thing is computer-assisted gimmickry.
Computer Motion has been pushing this system for a long time.
It's just a way of selling really expensive toys to surgical centers
that want to "look" cutting edge.
The Hermes voice recognition is clunky.
most of the hardware running this thing is over eight years old.
Sure, if the doc is trained on it, they can make it do things
but it really de-augments the surgeon's abilities.
Like tying a brick onto a pencil. You can write with
it, but certainly not any better than before, and
probably much worse.
If you're doing component placement on some pc boards
or manipulating other consistent man-made items, robotics
work well. Working on wetware is a whole other thing.
Every case is different. Stuff moves, sags, and flows.
A surgeon with good hands can be quicker and much
more precise. It's all about the surgeon's heightened
senses of touch, vision, hearing, even smell.
This thing only gets in the way.
It does Computer Motion and it's OEMS a lot of money though.
The cameras, voice control box, the arm and it's
attachments, training will run you way past a quarter Mil
for each surgical suite. It does everything but give the best
in patient care. It also makes for slick copy in the annual report.
Think about something much simpler like cutting your food
and feeding yourself. Now imagine doing it with voice control
and a joystick. Sure you could eventually learn to do it, but
how much more efficiently and skillfully can you do it using
your hands, a knife and fork?
Point that thing someplace else.
oops. I'm a paste-buffer moron.
...Hey, it wasn't flamebait.
The training you'll get will be so dumbed down and slow paced
that it'll take you 8 times as long to learn the same thing in the real world.
It's called `democracy'...
Indeed.
That's not what it is. But that's what it's called.
Hey, it wasn't flamebait.
The training you'll get will be so dumbed down and slow paced
that it'll take you 8 times as long to learn the same thing in the real world.
The military wants you to think that you'll gain an exciting life, a rewarding
career, valuable work experience, travel the world, be a patriot and geek out on the
highest of tech. But in reality, you'll be stripped of your individualism,
be used as muscle to expand corporate interests abroad, have a hand in killing
other human beings and quite possibly be killed yourself.
One less soldier is one step closer to peace.
Do we really care what Germans think? They did invade and attempt to subjugate Europe twice
Well, the US is just now getting serious in the "invade and subjugate" business. Nothing like the voice of experience to show you the ropes I always say.
not the opinions of European appeasers or third world kleptocrats
Indeed. Who needs 'em when we've got our own First world kleptocrats running things?
Dubya can't read "priceless".
He can, if it's printed in really big letters.
Preferably in a pop-up book with pictures of fuzzy caterpillars.
The original poster asked for insight on issues for a website.
He wasn't offering seats in the Senate for "foreigners".
He just wanted opinions and information.
This anti-everybody-but-the-US mindset will be our downfall.
You know, many of us have spouses or sons and daughters living abroad.
It's not the closed world you want it to be. We all interact and influence each
other on a global level. The US seems to want this influence to work in one
direction only, by force if needed.
Upon further consideration, this can't be dubya because he can't read. Sorry for the confusion.
Thanks dubya, I didn't know you were a ./ reader.
If this is dubya, or even if not, you're an ass.
...use the money from the sale to help balance the budget deficit...
Yeah, right.
The auction insures that only the deepest pockets
have access to what should be a public resource.
In 5 years, probably only 5 companies
will be broadcasting content. We, the great unwashed,
will be only permitted to consume that content.
That is, except for the personal surveillance
feed from our telescreens.
You sir, are a casting genius.
An in-depth investigation of corn starch!