I can understand that a mainstream (non-tech) news website would focus on a cutesy term like "man cave" to describe this new module, but would it have killed the Slashdot editors to include something about what the module is actually going to be used for?
(turns out it'll be used as a storeroom. It doesn't have enough radiation shielding to allow it to be used as crew quarters).
No, it's not a "man cave", and no, the R2 robot will not be used to serve drinks. It'll be used to investigate the potential of robots to perform EVA duties.
It doesn't matter which way you enter the address into your browser, it still resolves to the same IP. If that IP is blocked, you won't get through even if you use this method.
FTFA:
it’s possible to imagine URL filtering tools having the same lack of support.
In other words, no testing has been done at all. What is this poorly-thought-out bit of speculation doing on the front page of Slashdot?
From the Kotaku post that describes a Japan-only 3D title for the DSi, it appears that this new device (if using similar technology) is not 3D in the "Avatar" sense, but 3D in the "Johnny Lee Head Tracking on Wii" sense.
The image itself is still flat, but the system updates the image to present different angles based on the way you hold it (using the camera with head tracking). So you can turn the 3DS to look around objects. I think that would be a very effective (and useful) use of 3D than simply making things look like they're coming out of the screen.
The real killer application for a chip like this would be in a tablet. If you can drive the cost of a tablet down by making it little more than display+battery+wifi, a whole new market could be opened up.
Think about that scene in Avatar when the technician was monitoring Sully's brain scan. He dragged the live scan image from his desktop machine onto a tablet, so he could watch it while he walked around the lab. I think there's a market for a tablet that acts as a portable display (+touchscreen) for a bigger machine nearby, as long as the price was low enough.
Get away from the idea of Gigahertz desktops and $1000 laptops and join the real computer revolution!
You're right! I'm going to throw my laptop out the windows right now! Reading slashdot will be so much more fun on a computer smaller than a sunflower seed.
Yeah, they should really put their products through some sort of testing phase, perhaps open to members of the public so that bugs like this can be reported and fixed.
Perhaps Professor Nutt knows a little bit more about drug safety and legislation than you. He knows there are safer drugs, yet he also knows that they're not going to be legalised anytime soon.
That's when I decided that "the information revolution has begun."
You mean that's when you realised the information revolution had begun. We've been able to access wikipedia on our phones long before the iPhone came around - and I'd argue that the 'revolution' didn't begin just because you're reading about orbital mechanics with your phone instead of your laptop.
When will the revolution be finished? Perhaps when we can access the internet with a neural interface?
I thought it strange that this move would be called "deeply insidious". Here's the context in Dave Winer's blog post:
It’s a beautiful move. As I said to Matt in an email: it’s both deeply respectful and deeply insidious. It’s exactly what I would do if I were in his shoes. In fact, I did do it, in 1999, when the Blogger API came out. I immediately implemented it in our Manila blogging software.
The implications? Well, the Twitter API may have just become an open standard. I know that Identica has already implemented it, but wordpress.com has a much larger installed base. Where the client vendors may have overlooked the connection to Identica, they will be tempted by the connection to WordPress. Should they implement special features for WordPress? Hmmm.
Since there is effectively now dozens of twitter clients capable of connecting to wordpress via this api, the api becomes a de-facto standard for accessing blogs.
The rationale is that a speck of ink (or other unwanted mark) is less likely to be confused for a comma than it is for a point.
Since the thousands separator is merely decoration, it doesn't matter if you mistake a speck of ink for one. But the decimal separator is crucial, so it should be as unambiguous as possible.
A comma is also bigger than a point, so it's easier to read for people with poor eyesight. It makes the difference between a 1,5ml dose of a drug and a 15ml dose.
It seems to me that 750 joules of kinetic energy in a bullet would do a lot more damage to a target than 750 joules of electromagnetic energy. A laser can only burn through tissue, and that'll always take longer than a metal slug takes to penetrate, given the same amount of energy, right?
If they're looking for drugs and they find a pistol in a sock drawer (rather than a proper gun safe), I think most judges would agree that it's reasonable for them to seize it.
How many people have a stack of ARM software to run on ARM Windows?
It's relatively easy to recompile software for a different architecture, as long as the API is the same. Of course there's no ARM Windows software now, but that would change pretty quickly.
From the product page: http://www.sinautecus.com/products.html "Sinautec's forty-one seat Ultracap Buses have been serving the Greater Shanghai area since 2006. "
The e-book itself is using an OLED display. This is different to the Kindle's eInk display which only requires power to update, so it has a battery life of several weeks. Chances are you'd be able to plug it in during that time, so there's not much need for a solar panel.
LG are a big manufacturer of LCD and OLED screens. Adding a solar panel to their e-book is simply to make up for the fact that their display uses far more power than competing products.
Phone companies don't give away phones. You buy them as part of a contract. If that's what OnLive is doing, fine, but then they shouldn't say that the hardware is so cheap they can "give it away".
The razor-and-razorblades model doesn't work if you give away the razors for free.
Hey Perlman (if that is your real name): the dot-com bubble called. They want their failed business strategy back. Subsidise the hardware, sure, but don't give it away. That's just asking for financial disaster. Your business is risky enough as it is.
"and access the internet browser from anywhere in the world. "
You mean I can connect my phone to my PS3 over the internet, and use that to get access to the internet? Well done, Sony. But would it have killed you to choose a name that doesn't like a word sometimes used to describe your execs?
"The report goes on to say the drop is likely due to continued, widespread ISP P2P shaping"
The data allows no such conclusion to be drawn. In fact, since all they've done is compared P2P as a percent of total traffic, it's probably more likely that the total traffic has increased.
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I can understand that a mainstream (non-tech) news website would focus on a cutesy term like "man cave" to describe this new module, but would it have killed the Slashdot editors to include something about what the module is actually going to be used for?
(turns out it'll be used as a storeroom. It doesn't have enough radiation shielding to allow it to be used as crew quarters).
No, it's not a "man cave", and no, the R2 robot will not be used to serve drinks. It'll be used to investigate the potential of robots to perform EVA duties.
It doesn't matter which way you enter the address into your browser, it still resolves to the same IP. If that IP is blocked, you won't get through even if you use this method.
FTFA:
In other words, no testing has been done at all. What is this poorly-thought-out bit of speculation doing on the front page of Slashdot?
From the Kotaku post that describes a Japan-only 3D title for the DSi, it appears that this new device (if using similar technology) is not 3D in the "Avatar" sense, but 3D in the "Johnny Lee Head Tracking on Wii" sense.
The image itself is still flat, but the system updates the image to present different angles based on the way you hold it (using the camera with head tracking). So you can turn the 3DS to look around objects. I think that would be a very effective (and useful) use of 3D than simply making things look like they're coming out of the screen.
The real killer application for a chip like this would be in a tablet. If you can drive the cost of a tablet down by making it little more than display+battery+wifi, a whole new market could be opened up.
Think about that scene in Avatar when the technician was monitoring Sully's brain scan. He dragged the live scan image from his desktop machine onto a tablet, so he could watch it while he walked around the lab. I think there's a market for a tablet that acts as a portable display (+touchscreen) for a bigger machine nearby, as long as the price was low enough.
You're right! I'm going to throw my laptop out the windows right now! Reading slashdot will be so much more fun on a computer smaller than a sunflower seed.
If you can't vote for multiple parties then you don't have a real democracy. Your coin-voting system just serves to keep out the minor parties.
Australia has instant-runoff voting. Your proposal won't work here, nor is it necessary.
With 95% voter turnout at each election, and four different parties currently in the Senate, I think our current method gives us plenty of say.
Yeah, they should really put their products through some sort of testing phase, perhaps open to members of the public so that bugs like this can be reported and fixed.
Perhaps Professor Nutt knows a little bit more about drug safety and legislation than you. He knows there are safer drugs, yet he also knows that they're not going to be legalised anytime soon.
You mean that's when you realised the information revolution had begun. We've been able to access wikipedia on our phones long before the iPhone came around - and I'd argue that the 'revolution' didn't begin just because you're reading about orbital mechanics with your phone instead of your laptop.
When will the revolution be finished? Perhaps when we can access the internet with a neural interface?
I thought it strange that this move would be called "deeply insidious". Here's the context in Dave Winer's blog post:
Since there is effectively now dozens of twitter clients capable of connecting to wordpress via this api, the api becomes a de-facto standard for accessing blogs.
The rationale is that a speck of ink (or other unwanted mark) is less likely to be confused for a comma than it is for a point.
Since the thousands separator is merely decoration, it doesn't matter if you mistake a speck of ink for one. But the decimal separator is crucial, so it should be as unambiguous as possible.
A comma is also bigger than a point, so it's easier to read for people with poor eyesight. It makes the difference between a 1,5ml dose of a drug and a 15ml dose.
It seems to me that 750 joules of kinetic energy in a bullet would do a lot more damage to a target than 750 joules of electromagnetic energy. A laser can only burn through tissue, and that'll always take longer than a metal slug takes to penetrate, given the same amount of energy, right?
This is madness!
Madness? No... this is Yellowstone
"Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
I'm trying to imagine it, man, but it's BLOWING MY FREAKIN' MIND.
Wait, I thought this article was about using voice control with the display, not the display itself (which is ancient).
If they're looking for drugs and they find a pistol in a sock drawer (rather than a proper gun safe), I think most judges would agree that it's reasonable for them to seize it.
"No, not the one which will end up building terminator robots."
How can you be so sure? Are you from the future?
It's relatively easy to recompile software for a different architecture, as long as the API is the same. Of course there's no ARM Windows software now, but that would change pretty quickly.
From the product page:
http://www.sinautecus.com/products.html
"Sinautec's forty-one seat Ultracap Buses have been serving the Greater Shanghai area since 2006. "
The e-book itself is using an OLED display. This is different to the Kindle's eInk display which only requires power to update, so it has a battery life of several weeks. Chances are you'd be able to plug it in during that time, so there's not much need for a solar panel.
LG are a big manufacturer of LCD and OLED screens. Adding a solar panel to their e-book is simply to make up for the fact that their display uses far more power than competing products.
Phone companies don't give away phones. You buy them as part of a contract. If that's what OnLive is doing, fine, but then they shouldn't say that the hardware is so cheap they can "give it away".
The razor-and-razorblades model doesn't work if you give away the razors for free.
"is so cheap they plan to give it away"
Hey Perlman (if that is your real name): the dot-com bubble called. They want their failed business strategy back. Subsidise the hardware, sure, but don't give it away. That's just asking for financial disaster. Your business is risky enough as it is.
There are only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising: the US and New Zealand.
"and access the internet browser from anywhere in the world. "
You mean I can connect my phone to my PS3 over the internet, and use that to get access to the internet? Well done, Sony. But would it have killed you to choose a name that doesn't like a word sometimes used to describe your execs?
"The report goes on to say the drop is likely due to continued, widespread ISP P2P shaping"
The data allows no such conclusion to be drawn. In fact, since all they've done is compared P2P as a percent of total traffic, it's probably more likely that the total traffic has increased.