"Gee, from the tone..."
I do not believe that I abused Hemos or any other/. editor with this post? I pointed out that placing an email address unobscured on the front page will invite spam and trolls.
If you take a look at my comments, you will see that I tend to give constructive criticism in the forums because/. has no other public method of moderation for the editors. That's beside the other stuff I post, unlike your posts which seem to most be about bashing Microsoft. I decided to read your other posts becuse this post could be a poster child for intelligent sarcasam, it's not.
Describe a typical Linux user and I'll see if I fit the profile:-)
"Now let's think a little.."
From your comment it would seem that you only thought a little. This makes little or no sense, this wasn't about moderation but about an editor making, what I believe to be, a mistake. but I see you slipped in some Microsoft bashing.
"Hopefully many people will..."
Hopefully there will not be much noise generated by/. but that is unlikely. Every other time an email address has hit the front page of/. the recipient has been buried under a torrent of abuse.
Lastly, I see that you do not publish your email address, why not?
You put an email address on the front page of/. and you do not even obscure it.
/. is _NOT_ the place to post email addresses of individuals who are percieved not to get it. The typical/. reader is not going to be objective or polite. It mostly certainly is not going to aid the cause of putting Linux on these machines.
I wonder if/. hurts more than helps the wide spread adoption of Linux?
I agree totally with the above rant and maybe, just maybe it is flamebait. But until/. has a public forum for feedback where else should people object to the editoral comments.
But ranting about Mikey, and for that matter Katz and Timmy, is not going to do any good./. is only interested in generating page views so they can justify their ad revenue.
/. will not post stories that criticise/. or it's editors, see this page for a comment on Mikeys ethics. Then try and get it posted:-)
What is most sad about/. is the fact that a site that is supposed to attract intelligent people in reality swamps any thoughtful comments with group think moderation.
Remember, a little power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The SARA, ARRL or DX zone. You've probably done the google search for "amateur radio telescope" Given that you have the hardware it would seem you need to find someone who has the skills to design the thing. My guess is that your local ham or astrology club would have people who have the knowledge and desire to help. Do you have a university close by, prehaps they might want to take it on as a grad project. But my first port of call would be SARA.
IMHO this is the sort of question that/. should post, I doubt there will be many posts but who cares. I want thought provoking or interesting questions. In short I want questions that make me go and hunt down some ideas.
This idea intrigues the hell out of me. This could be the start of a whole new era in gaming. A whole plethora of games could be developed around this tech, from simple 'tag' to very involved RPG scenarios.
Don't get me wrong I usually love hacked stuff, portable 2600, tetris on a building, laser mame etc. But this is shite. Take a pentium out of a case and throw it into a tree, big deal. Anyone want to see my linux bookcase?
I cannot believe the russian chappies freedom doesn't make the front page but this does, arrgh.
"One whole section of a computer's logic would be eliminated."
I doubt it, probably just attributed to another person. There are very few ideas that are not part of the society they spring from. It just depends on who is recognised as being first.
"Robotics and Atificial Intelligence.." total drivel deleted. This has to be the typical/. kiddie post.
Robotics has already transformed society. Being as it was last century you may not be old enough to recall when people worked on production lines.
AI, if you can define it then your doing a lot better than most researchers. We do not yet have a clear idea of what intelligence is, yet people want to go and make it:-)
Debate about AI has raged for decades, 2001 A Space Odessey? Hmmm, that never raised the spector of AI. I'm sure there were written works long before movies that dealt with the ideas of AI.
So take a deep breath and realise this is me insulting you.
America currently has to many special interest laws. The courts cannot seem to administer the current laws in a timely, consistent and approprate manner. By adding new laws what is the congressman going to achieve?
America is currently invading a soverign country, and strongly suggesting it will once again attack other nations.
The president, who's election read like a putsch, has garnered more and more executive powers, did congress vote to invade Afghanistan?
The current political climate reads more and more like animal farm.
Just this morning I submitted a question to ASK/. In effect I was trying to find out what new tech was being developed in the labs. You know Plan9, Inferno & EROS are really just like *nix. That KDE, windows, gnome etc etc are much of a muchnes. That hardware is running in circles and not going anywhere.
I wanted to know what revolutionary thinkers were working on, the moderen equivalents of Fenyman and Da Vinci. Suprise, suprise it was rejected obviously far to difficult for mere geeks to ponder.
But Bruce Sterling points out the same thing and/. rushes to post it. It helps that he spiced it up with violence and Mikey thought it entertaining.
SO WHAT SITES ARE GOOD FOR DISCUSSING COMPUTING AND FUTURE TECH?
/. NEWS FOR KIDS, STUFF THAT SELLS ADS
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Bollocks... Reaction time is not relative to speed, it still takes the same time, just a far greater distance to react.
Then you do some preaching to the choir that has nothing to do with the original argument. Doing twice the speed of traffic is raising the risk to a level I find too much, but tell me at what speed does it start being excessive? 101%, 102%, 103%...
I was using 100% when I shuld have used 99.999% excuse the rounding error:-)
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My argument is that you, or anyone else, cannot define excessive. Your last paragraph seems to go some way to supporting this, although you were trying to prove the opposite. I've ridden at mach2 in far greater safety than you do at 55mph, of course I was sitting in concorde:-)
175 mph is safe until you have the accident, any speed is safe until your butt is sliding down the asphalt and your head is bouncing off lamp posts and your bike is taking out by standers. This was the part about risk assessment, you decide what level of risk you're happy with. When I rode at 150 mph I knew it was far more dangerous than riding at 100mph, but the risk was worth it to me, I got to Switzerland in time for dinner. Other people might have ridden at 70 mph and been killed when a tire failed.
At a 175mph it would take a 175ft before you could even relax the throttle, your braking distance is 1532 ft. So to stop you need over 1700ft! Compare this with a stopping distance of 600ft at 100mph. Given this knowledge you still cannot tell me which of these speeds is safer, remember the only 100% safe speed is 0mph..
All the speed has done is made the probablity of you avoding and surviving an accident plummet. back to risk assessment.
Safety is an illusion, give up the illusion and embrace reality. None of us ride safely, there are times each journey when all you can make is the best choice of the given options and trust that this is not your time.
I've just had a quick read of Plan9 along with inferno. I've heard about them in the past, but no one could give me a quick overview of their advantages of what we have now?
I'm a software engineer with 10+ years experience and I have trouble understanding what the great advance is with either of these. It seems to me just to follow the idea that the network is the computer. Can Java not be used in this manner?
How did you manage that, divorce, third DUI? Inquiring minds want to know:-)
I would get pinball tables, a CD juke box, and then I'd set up a couple of mame cabinets, with switchable controllers.
It would definetely make the home less marketable, unless you find a sad geek with a _VERY_ understanding missus.
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While I agree with most of your comments, the last paragraph makes no sense. A poor decision on a bike is almost guaranteed to get you hurt. In a car you have numerous safety devices including a nice steel safety cage and a wheel at each corner.
Here's another thought excessive speed is not a problem! You cannot rationalise the excessive part, if 55 is safe, is 56 safe... how about 120, 150! The only 100% safe speed is 0mph for every vehicle. So once you set the bike in motion you've accepted there is a risk, now the only decision is how much risk you are prepared to accept? Well that and do you have enough money for the bail bond:-)
Lastly, you, quite rightly, point poin the danger of riding drunk, but you rode in conditions that may well have affected you as much as drinking. Dehydration and over heating affect you in a similar way to drink.
Yes there are problems with linux, but they do not constitute a plan, it's just they are better than anything else submitted. Just for the record mount points are so much better than drives, IMHO.
"We would instead see something that was hodgepodge..."
Linux is a hodge podge, just like Unix was. If some radical, and I mean radical, change in computing came along do you think Linux would not adopt it?
"When was the last time you saw someone being selected against because they didn't have 20/20 vision?"
Pilots for a start, then it depends on how severe the disability, blind people don't drive. Colour blind people cannot become electricians. Deaf people do not make very good opera singers etc etc etc
Oh for gods sake, what is microsoft going to do if they establish market dominance? Why are they spending 500 million on advertising alone? Why is such a big company taking such a big risk?
I do not hate M$, it is after all just a corporation. I do hate when supposedly intelligent people can not or will not exercise a little grey matter. My fear is not that the box will be succesful but that it will become ubiquitos.
As for the compaq comment. I was working as a software engineer when the thing was introduced in the UK. It had so much promise and look what we've got and think how long it has taken to get here.
...is that the xbox will become the console of choice soley because anybody will be able to develop games for it.
When Linux is bootable from a CD-RW on the xbox expect many companies to start releasing games. I'm not talking about the biggies but small teams etc.
A few of these 'garage' games will become mainstream. Mostly because they are not the same as a FPS, RPG etc but quirky good games.
Success breeds success so that more small companies will try and try and try. Pretty soon all the people who want to write games will be familiar with the XBOX.
In the end M$ will have a machine in every living room and will be the defacto standard. All because the machine was easy to hack.
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OK I'll bite :-)
/. editor with this post? I pointed out that placing an email address unobscured on the front page will invite spam and trolls.
/. has no other public method of moderation for the editors. That's beside the other stuff I post, unlike your posts which seem to most be about bashing Microsoft. I decided to read your other posts becuse this post could be a poster child for intelligent sarcasam, it's not.
:-)
/. but that is unlikely. Every other time an email address has hit the front page of /. the recipient has been buried under a torrent of abuse.
"Gee, from the tone..."
I do not believe that I abused Hemos or any other
If you take a look at my comments, you will see that I tend to give constructive criticism in the forums because
Describe a typical Linux user and I'll see if I fit the profile
"Now let's think a little.."
From your comment it would seem that you only thought a little. This makes little or no sense, this wasn't about moderation but about an editor making, what I believe to be, a mistake. but I see you slipped in some Microsoft bashing.
"Hopefully many people will..."
Hopefully there will not be much noise generated by
Lastly, I see that you do not publish your email address, why not?
You put an email address on the front page of /. and you do not even obscure it.
/. reader is not going to be objective or polite. It mostly certainly is not going to aid the cause of putting Linux on these machines.
/. hurts more than helps the wide spread adoption of Linux?
/. is _NOT_ the place to post email addresses of individuals who are percieved not to get it. The typical
I wonder if
This is good for 5000ft where as a mile is 5280ft. :-)
I agree totally with the above rant and maybe, just maybe it is flamebait. But until /. has a public forum for feedback where else should people object to the editoral comments.
/. is only interested in generating page views so they can justify their ad revenue.
/. or it's editors, see this page for a comment on Mikeys ethics. Then try and get it posted :-)
/. is the fact that a site that is supposed to attract intelligent people in reality swamps any thoughtful comments with group think moderation.
But ranting about Mikey, and for that matter Katz and Timmy, is not going to do any good.
/. will not post stories that criticise
What is most sad about
Remember, a little power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I really like soft diffused light, I have 40watt bulbs that I bounce off my walls and ceiling the reflected light is much softer.
If you have to do a lot of paper reading then this is not the best solution but for staring at a TV or monitor it works well for me.
Of course the other solution is not to do any work after dark!
The little boy Timmy is the problem.
Does he suggest a good open doc standard?
Does he suggest a way in which the UK can quickly move away from doc or pdf and still service the tax payers?
Does he add a witty insight?
Does he add anything at all?
In short Timmy couldn't keep his big mouth shut and just post an intersting story, he had to add some meaningless troll.
One of the many reasons editors should not add comments to the posted stories they should have to post messages like the rest of us.
The SARA, ARRL or DX zone. You've probably done the google search for "amateur radio telescope" /. should post, I doubt there will be many posts but who cares. I want thought provoking or interesting questions. In short I want questions that make me go and hunt down some ideas.
Given that you have the hardware it would seem you need to find someone who has the skills to design the thing. My guess is that your local ham or astrology club would have people who have the knowledge and desire to help. Do you have a university close by, prehaps they might want to take it on as a grad project. But my first port of call would be SARA.
IMHO this is the sort of question that
So rotate it 90 degress?
This idea intrigues the hell out of me. This could be the start of a whole new era in gaming. A whole plethora of games could be developed around this tech, from simple 'tag' to very involved RPG scenarios.
Don't get me wrong I usually love hacked stuff, portable 2600, tetris on a building, laser mame etc. But this is shite. Take a pentium out of a case and throw it into a tree, big deal. Anyone want to see my linux bookcase?
I cannot believe the russian chappies freedom doesn't make the front page but this does, arrgh.
"One whole section of a computer's logic would be eliminated."
I doubt it, probably just attributed to another person. There are very few ideas that are not part of the society they spring from. It just depends on who is recognised as being first.
"Robotics and Atificial Intelligence.." total drivel deleted. This has to be the typical /. kiddie post.
:-)
Robotics has already transformed society. Being as it was last century you may not be old enough to recall when people worked on production lines.
AI, if you can define it then your doing a lot better than most researchers. We do not yet have a clear idea of what intelligence is, yet people want to go and make it
Debate about AI has raged for decades, 2001 A Space Odessey? Hmmm, that never raised the spector of AI. I'm sure there were written works long before movies that dealt with the ideas of AI.
So take a deep breath and realise this is me insulting you.
Go here Despite it's name the message boards are pretty OS agnostic
Personally I want a eVilla.
I was just thinking about this today, check out eink, they say they have a product for release in 1st Quater '02.
America currently has to many special interest laws. The courts cannot seem to administer the current laws in a timely, consistent and approprate manner. By adding new laws what is the congressman going to achieve?
America is currently invading a soverign country, and strongly suggesting it will once again attack other nations.
The president, who's election read like a putsch, has garnered more and more executive powers, did congress vote to invade Afghanistan?
The current political climate reads more and more like animal farm.
Just this morning I submitted a question to ASK /. In effect I was trying to find out what new tech was being developed in the labs. You know Plan9, Inferno & EROS are really just like *nix. That KDE, windows, gnome etc etc are much of a muchnes. That hardware is running in circles and not going anywhere.
/. rushes to post it. It helps that he spiced it up with violence and Mikey thought it entertaining.
I wanted to know what revolutionary thinkers were working on, the moderen equivalents of Fenyman and Da Vinci. Suprise, suprise it was rejected obviously far to difficult for mere geeks to ponder.
But Bruce Sterling points out the same thing and
SO WHAT SITES ARE GOOD FOR DISCUSSING COMPUTING AND FUTURE TECH?
/. NEWS FOR KIDS, STUFF THAT SELLS ADS
Bollocks... Reaction time is not relative to speed, it still takes the same time, just a far greater distance to react.
:-)
Then you do some preaching to the choir that has nothing to do with the original argument. Doing twice the speed of traffic is raising the risk to a level I find too much, but tell me at what speed does it start being excessive? 101%, 102%, 103%...
I was using 100% when I shuld have used 99.999% excuse the rounding error
My argument is that you, or anyone else, cannot define excessive. Your last paragraph seems to go some way to supporting this, although you were trying to prove the opposite. I've ridden at mach2 in far greater safety than you do at 55mph, of course I was sitting in concorde :-)
175 mph is safe until you have the accident, any speed is safe until your butt is sliding down the asphalt and your head is bouncing off lamp posts and your bike is taking out by standers. This was the part about risk assessment, you decide what level of risk you're happy with. When I rode at 150 mph I knew it was far more dangerous than riding at 100mph, but the risk was worth it to me, I got to Switzerland in time for dinner. Other people might have ridden at 70 mph and been killed when a tire failed.
At a 175mph it would take a 175ft before you could even relax the throttle, your braking distance is 1532 ft. So to stop you need over 1700ft! Compare this with a stopping distance of 600ft at 100mph. Given this knowledge you still cannot tell me which of these speeds is safer, remember the only 100% safe speed is 0mph..
All the speed has done is made the probablity of you avoding and surviving an accident plummet. back to risk assessment.
Safety is an illusion, give up the illusion and embrace reality. None of us ride safely, there are times each journey when all you can make is the best choice of the given options and trust that this is not your time.
I've just had a quick read of Plan9 along with inferno. I've heard about them in the past, but no one could give me a quick overview of their advantages of what we have now?
:-)
I'm a software engineer with 10+ years experience and I have trouble understanding what the great advance is with either of these. It seems to me just to follow the idea that the network is the computer. Can Java not be used in this manner?
What am I missing? Please keep it simple
How did you manage that, divorce, third DUI? Inquiring minds want to know :-)
I would get pinball tables, a CD juke box, and then I'd set up a couple of mame cabinets, with switchable controllers.
It would definetely make the home less marketable, unless you find a sad geek with a _VERY_ understanding missus.
While I agree with most of your comments, the last paragraph makes no sense. A poor decision on a bike is almost guaranteed to get you hurt. In a car you have numerous safety devices including a nice steel safety cage and a wheel at each corner.
:-)
Here's another thought excessive speed is not a problem! You cannot rationalise the excessive part, if 55 is safe, is 56 safe... how about 120, 150! The only 100% safe speed is 0mph for every vehicle. So once you set the bike in motion you've accepted there is a risk, now the only decision is how much risk you are prepared to accept? Well that and do you have enough money for the bail bond
Lastly, you, quite rightly, point poin the danger of riding drunk, but you rode in conditions that may well have affected you as much as drinking. Dehydration and over heating affect you in a similar way to drink.
Ummm....
"Look at all the horrible legacy that Linux..."
Yes there are problems with linux, but they do not constitute a plan, it's just they are better than anything else submitted. Just for the record mount points are so much better than drives, IMHO.
"We would instead see something that was hodgepodge..."
Linux is a hodge podge, just like Unix was. If some radical, and I mean radical, change in computing came along do you think Linux would not adopt it?
"When was the last time you saw someone being selected against because they didn't have 20/20 vision?"
Pilots for a start, then it depends on how severe the disability, blind people don't drive. Colour blind people cannot become electricians. Deaf people do not make very good opera singers etc etc etc
"The only time the relative velocity will be 0 is if they are both in exactly the same orbit."
The above is not true, the higher the orbit the greater the length of the orbit. The outer sat has to travel faster to keep up with the inner sat.
So they can have a relative velocity of zero when they are not in the same orbit.
Oh for gods sake, what is microsoft going to do if they establish market dominance? Why are they spending 500 million on advertising alone? Why is such a big company taking such a big risk?
I do not hate M$, it is after all just a corporation. I do hate when supposedly intelligent people can not or will not exercise a little grey matter. My fear is not that the box will be succesful but that it will become ubiquitos.
As for the compaq comment. I was working as a software engineer when the thing was introduced in the UK. It had so much promise and look what we've got and think how long it has taken to get here.
...is that the xbox will become the console of choice soley because anybody will be able to develop games for it.
When Linux is bootable from a CD-RW on the xbox expect many companies to start releasing games. I'm not talking about the biggies but small teams etc.
A few of these 'garage' games will become mainstream. Mostly because they are not the same as a FPS, RPG etc but quirky good games.
Success breeds success so that more small companies will try and try and try. Pretty soon all the people who want to write games will be familiar with the XBOX.
In the end M$ will have a machine in every living room and will be the defacto standard. All because the machine was easy to hack.