That is one of the coolest things I've read on/. in a long time!!!
Thanks for the perspective and to illustrate how much the world has changed within a span of a lifetime.
How did you become so tech savvy? In my experience, most people my Parents/Grandparents (Sorry I'm 22 and you're probably older) age are scared of them.
As a Grad Student rushing/hating to finish his Master's Thesis, I think I can offer something here.
Typically there are two sectors where research is done, academia or industry. In the USA, Industrial research unfortunately is usually the first to take a hit during bad economic conditions as we are presently in. Furthermore although some companies still do longterm innovative research that may not yield results for many years, this is becoming less common. What little research is still being done is done more for immediate application based work.
The traditional research for the general betterment of society without much regard for profit happens in academia. Unfortunately, academic research is suffering recently in the US. First as mentioned, due to the recent emphasis in defense funding and more grants available from DARPA, DoE, DoHomelandSecurity, research is focused into the application/results based work these agencies require rather than the open knowledge for discovery's sake approach of the NSF.
Furthermore, the core element of academic research are the Grad Students that do all the grunt work. In the US, most Science/Engineering grad students are international students. Given current visa restrictions, harrasement and a host of other problems, international student applications to the US have dropped significantly. This is having a noticable impact on research in universities.
Finally, meaningful R&D is now not exclusive to the US as it was a few decades ago. Many other countries are now making breakthroughs, or striving to establish resesarch institutions. For example, Indians know that their outsourcing days are limited, either 'cause either the outsourcing trend will stop or someone else (Phillipines, etc) will do it for even cheaper. So their next big thrust is to bring R&D into the country.
Nothing too organized there, just a few random musings that I thought could add to the discussion.
Well, After the Nth spyware that infected IE, about 10 days ago I finally had enough of it and switched to Firefox. Haven't looked back since, Firefox rocks.
So after I read this/. story, went to the Windows Update website, and lo and behold, it only works with IE. I can go to the Microsoft Download Center if I use another browser besides IE, but I actually like the way Windows update works, scanning my computer and giving me options for what I can install.
Looked through the Firefox FAQs, couldn't find any mention of this. Anyone have another suggestion, or should I use IE for updates and Firefox for everything else?
Unfortunately this isn't the complete video, only a small portion of it. There's a funny fight scene between Gates and Balmer a la Morpheus and Neo in the Japanese Dojo. That would be hillarious to see.
Speaking as a Grad student, almost all work done within the Academic realm is open source. Professors get funding from various sources, and they are able to publish their work, and then make the source available.
What you are proposing should work, but it all depends on the source of the funding. Would they be happy with an open source solution, do they even know what open source is? You need to discuss and evaluate this with them, but in theory it should work.
Soo many people had rallied around him because of the problems minorities (especially Muslim ones) face in today's conditions. Unfortunately because he has pleaded guilty, next time people will just assume the person is guilty, and they won't rally around the new person, even though he/she may be innocent.
Mark my words, there will be innocents who get caught up, and due to cases like this people will be reluctant to support them. Sad.
I agree with this. I am not a videophile, most of the time I just want to watch a movie, and not the crappy screener versions. A DIVX 700 MB file is good enough quality, I enjoy the movie, can see it, and can conveniently store it on one CD.
Was watching one of those stand up comedians on comedy central. She said, that nothing in the song "Ironic" is ironic. A black fly in your chardonnay, or rain on your wedding day is UNFORTUNATE, but not ironic.
Already mentioned, Manimal: Great series about a man who had the power to change into any animal. Usually if I remember right he was a puma or a black panther, but there were other things too, includign birds. Very interesting.
Automan: My memory about this is vague, but it was about a nuclear man or something, he was blue and could do strange thigns, like call cars or something. I can't remember it much, but it was good
Highwayman: kind of like an old Knightrider. It was about these two guys who drove around in super trucks. The trucks could decompose into things like helicopters and stuff. Funniest thing was the guy switching the truck's driving wheel for a joystick to drive the helicopter. Was pretty cool.
Other newer series I'd love to see redone because the originals jumped the shark and got bad quickly: Seaquest DSV and Viper.
Look at the average Joe Schmoe, or even us uber-users, who really needs a 3+ GHz machine? Even some of the cornerstones of fast computing such as computational problem solving are being addressed by grid/cluster based solutions which typically don't use high end machines.
I'm perfectly happy with my P3 800MHz, but I run out of hard drive space everyday.
Cheap, YET RELIABLE high density storage solutions are still not readily available. I know we are now down to a $1 per Gig, but the average size of a user's file has increased now. Media (legal or otherwise), games, and other programs are chewing up hard drive space.
There needs to be more research into trustworthy, lowcost high volume storage mediums.
This may be kinda offtopic, but I figured it's a good place to ask. What exactly is the (present) relationship between Stan Lee and Marvel? I mean Stan Lee is understood to be they guy who created most, if not all of Marvel's famous universe. I always thought he was the head honcho at Marvel then retired. But now, I hear there used to be people who were on top of him in the Marvel hierarchy. And what is his relationship now, is he totally disconnected? Is he still involved? If so, why did he sue Marvel? Thanks.
Here's the thing though then, the issue of cross border internet related laws is still a thorny one. What if all spam operations then simply shifted overseas? What then, these laws couldn't be enforced there? Maybe it'd be another excuse to invade: they SPAM us!
It's weird, but the one major, well known network I've seen that actually has people disagreeing with the war and giving intelligent reasons for their views has been MTV.
And it's not like they are anti war themselves, they've also shown pro war people also. But they are the only network doing a good job, IMO, of presenting all sides fairly.
That said, I wonder how much of the way he replied had to do with his not fully grasping what/. is? Not that we're some all powerful force or anything (well except for unsuspecting websites) but I wonder if he thought that we were just a group of a dozen pimply faced nerds not very far removed from Trekies/ers?
We aren't?? Since when?
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The Giver went a lot deeper than that. Due to there being no emotion, people couldn't even see color. Everything was grey scale. Kinda like Pleasentville.
That's just one example of how The Giver was different from F451 and Brave New World. It was a similar genre/type of book though.
A NO prize was a pretty cool trick that someone at Marvel (probably Stan Lee I think) came up with.
Basically, sometimes you find discrepancies in comics, such as for example a superhero may have a ripped shirt in one frame, then in the next frame of the battle, the shirt is whole again, not ripped. Or other plot/graphical (usually graphical) inconsistencies that up.
The No prize was given to people who would find such errors, and then EXPLAIN THEM WITHIN THE CONTEXT of the story. Continuing the above example, you could say that the hero used the magical beacon to renew their uniform, or something else that made sense within the context of the story.
It's called the NO prize because that's simply what it was, nothing. You got an envelope from Marvel congratulating you, but it was empty. It became a HUGE craze, and getting the NO prize was very prestigous among fans. Also saved Marvel money:).
You know, this is what happens when companies become corporations. When the original driving forces leave/are driven out and money mongers come in whose only goal is profit and they really don't care about the rich history behind a company.
I mean, Marvel comics actually used to be a great company. They produced rich, complex and intriguing characters that you could really get behind. Anyone remember the No Prize? That was a great time.
Now, they just rehash the old stuff, don't even come up with new characters/situations. How many more alternate universes/reset scenarios/Ultimate series will we have so that the same old stories get re-served? CREATE, INNOVATE, Stan Lee had great characters and stories, but was always working on new ones, introducing us to new inviting personas and worlds.
This is a place where DC has actually been doing well over the past decade or so. The characters have undergone changes, matured, and we've been along for the ride. Lois and Clark got married. Dick Grayson grew up, Robins have come and gone. There is a new Green Lantern.
I am a HUGE comic fan, I have TONS lying around. Sometimes I just wish they would stop trying to make money through shocking/special editions, etc and just tell good stories. That's why I started reading 'em in the first place!
Isn't IBM leaving the Harddrive market?
I'm glad they're working on this though. IBM has recently been on the cutting edge of personal computing devices with being the driving force beyond harddrive research and technoligies such as MRAM.
I've been using a hotmail account since before Microsoft bought it, for many years. Too many people know about that account, and it would be almost impossible for me to get in touch with all the people I've given that email address to and tell them that I'm moving.
Plus, it's not like other free email places don't do these sleazy tactics either.
I'm just frustrated that I have to daily, sometimes multiple times a day delete all the crap and spam that comes in, otherwise M$ will shutdown the account and I won't get the emails that are actually for me.
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In the Aug 23 story on how most students prefer Interdisciplinary studies to CS. This poster had the best response to the topic I've read.
That is one of the coolest things I've read on /. in a long time!!!
Thanks for the perspective and to illustrate how much the world has changed within a span of a lifetime.
How did you become so tech savvy? In my experience, most people my Parents/Grandparents (Sorry I'm 22 and you're probably older) age are scared of them.
Thanks again!
As a Grad Student rushing/hating to finish his Master's Thesis, I think I can offer something here.
Typically there are two sectors where research is done, academia or industry. In the USA, Industrial research unfortunately is usually the first to take a hit during bad economic conditions as we are presently in. Furthermore although some companies still do longterm innovative research that may not yield results for many years, this is becoming less common. What little research is still being done is done more for immediate application based work.
The traditional research for the general betterment of society without much regard for profit happens in academia. Unfortunately, academic research is suffering recently in the US. First as mentioned, due to the recent emphasis in defense funding and more grants available from DARPA, DoE, DoHomelandSecurity, research is focused into the application/results based work these agencies require rather than the open knowledge for discovery's sake approach of the NSF.
Furthermore, the core element of academic research are the Grad Students that do all the grunt work. In the US, most Science/Engineering grad students are international students. Given current visa restrictions, harrasement and a host of other problems, international student applications to the US have dropped significantly. This is having a noticable impact on research in universities.
Finally, meaningful R&D is now not exclusive to the US as it was a few decades ago. Many other countries are now making breakthroughs, or striving to establish resesarch institutions. For example, Indians know that their outsourcing days are limited, either 'cause either the outsourcing trend will stop or someone else (Phillipines, etc) will do it for even cheaper. So their next big thrust is to bring R&D into the country.
Nothing too organized there, just a few random musings that I thought could add to the discussion.
Well,
/. story, went to the Windows Update website, and lo and behold, it only works with IE. I can go to the Microsoft Download Center if I use another browser besides IE, but I actually like the way Windows update works, scanning my computer and giving me options for what I can install.
After the Nth spyware that infected IE, about 10 days ago I finally had enough of it and switched to Firefox. Haven't looked back since, Firefox rocks.
So after I read this
Looked through the Firefox FAQs, couldn't find any mention of this. Anyone have another suggestion, or should I use IE for updates and Firefox for everything else?
Unfortunately this isn't the complete video, only a small portion of it. There's a funny fight scene between Gates and Balmer a la Morpheus and Neo in the Japanese Dojo. That would be hillarious to see.
Speaking as a Grad student, almost all work done within the Academic realm is open source. Professors get funding from various sources, and they are able to publish their work, and then make the source available.
What you are proposing should work, but it all depends on the source of the funding. Would they be happy with an open source solution, do they even know what open source is? You need to discuss and evaluate this with them, but in theory it should work.
Soo many people had rallied around him because of the problems minorities (especially Muslim ones) face in today's conditions. Unfortunately because he has pleaded guilty, next time people will just assume the person is guilty, and they won't rally around the new person, even though he/she may be innocent.
Mark my words, there will be innocents who get caught up, and due to cases like this people will be reluctant to support them. Sad.
I agree with this. I am not a videophile, most of the time I just want to watch a movie, and not the crappy screener versions. A DIVX 700 MB file is good enough quality, I enjoy the movie, can see it, and can conveniently store it on one CD.
Was watching one of those stand up comedians on comedy central. She said, that nothing in the song "Ironic" is ironic. A black fly in your chardonnay, or rain on your wedding day is UNFORTUNATE, but not ironic.
Already mentioned, Manimal: Great series about a man who had the power to change into any animal. Usually if I remember right he was a puma or a black panther, but there were other things too, includign birds. Very interesting.
Automan: My memory about this is vague, but it was about a nuclear man or something, he was blue and could do strange thigns, like call cars or something. I can't remember it much, but it was good
Highwayman: kind of like an old Knightrider. It was about these two guys who drove around in super trucks. The trucks could decompose into things like helicopters and stuff. Funniest thing was the guy switching the truck's driving wheel for a joystick to drive the helicopter. Was pretty cool.
Other newer series I'd love to see redone because the originals jumped the shark and got bad quickly:
Seaquest DSV
and Viper.
Can you tell I'm a technogeek?
Look at the average Joe Schmoe, or even us uber-users, who really needs a 3+ GHz machine? Even some of the cornerstones of fast computing such as computational problem solving are being addressed by grid/cluster based solutions which typically don't use high end machines.
I'm perfectly happy with my P3 800MHz, but I run out of hard drive space everyday.
Cheap, YET RELIABLE high density storage solutions are still not readily available. I know we are now down to a $1 per Gig, but the average size of a user's file has increased now. Media (legal or otherwise), games, and other programs are chewing up hard drive space.
There needs to be more research into trustworthy, lowcost high volume storage mediums.
This may be kinda offtopic, but I figured it's a good place to ask. What exactly is the (present) relationship between Stan Lee and Marvel? I mean Stan Lee is understood to be they guy who created most, if not all of Marvel's famous universe. I always thought he was the head honcho at Marvel then retired. But now, I hear there used to be people who were on top of him in the Marvel hierarchy. And what is his relationship now, is he totally disconnected? Is he still involved? If so, why did he sue Marvel? Thanks.
Here's the thing though then, the issue of cross border internet related laws is still a thorny one. What if all spam operations then simply shifted overseas? What then, these laws couldn't be enforced there? Maybe it'd be another excuse to invade: they SPAM us!
It's weird, but the one major, well known network I've seen that actually has people disagreeing with the war and giving intelligent reasons for their views has been MTV.
And it's not like they are anti war themselves, they've also shown pro war people also. But they are the only network doing a good job, IMO, of presenting all sides fairly.
Ok, got 39 minutes to go for the large one, jumped on this asap, but i'm getting the first one too, and already bandwidth's dropping. Come on baby!
Well that sucks, the ATMs in my neighborhood give out all the money in increments of $20 bills!
What does that say?
What is this trial about? Why is he being tried? Where is it being held? Why was he phoned and not in court?
As others have said, those responses...were..a...bit..lacking.
How about an interview with Patrick Stewart sometime too?
That said, I wonder how much of the way he replied had to do with his not fully grasping what /. is? Not that we're some all powerful force or anything (well except for unsuspecting websites) but I wonder if he thought that we were just a group of a dozen pimply faced nerds not very far removed from Trekies/ers?
We aren't?? Since when?
The Giver went a lot deeper than that. Due to there being no emotion, people couldn't even see color. Everything was grey scale. Kinda like Pleasentville.
That's just one example of how The Giver was different from F451 and Brave New World. It was a similar genre/type of book though.
A NO prize was a pretty cool trick that someone at Marvel (probably Stan Lee I think) came up with.
:).
Basically, sometimes you find discrepancies in comics, such as for example a superhero may have a ripped shirt in one frame, then in the next frame of the battle, the shirt is whole again, not ripped. Or other plot/graphical (usually graphical) inconsistencies that up.
The No prize was given to people who would find such errors, and then EXPLAIN THEM WITHIN THE CONTEXT of the story. Continuing the above example, you could say that the hero used the magical beacon to renew their uniform, or something else that made sense within the context of the story.
It's called the NO prize because that's simply what it was, nothing. You got an envelope from Marvel congratulating you, but it was empty. It became a HUGE craze, and getting the NO prize was very prestigous among fans. Also saved Marvel money
You know, this is what happens when companies become corporations. When the original driving forces leave/are driven out and money mongers come in whose only goal is profit and they really don't care about the rich history behind a company.
I mean, Marvel comics actually used to be a great company. They produced rich, complex and intriguing characters that you could really get behind. Anyone remember the No Prize? That was a great time.
Now, they just rehash the old stuff, don't even come up with new characters/situations. How many more alternate universes/reset scenarios/Ultimate series will we have so that the same old stories get re-served? CREATE, INNOVATE, Stan Lee had great characters and stories, but was always working on new ones, introducing us to new inviting personas and worlds.
This is a place where DC has actually been doing well over the past decade or so. The characters have undergone changes, matured, and we've been along for the ride. Lois and Clark got married. Dick Grayson grew up, Robins have come and gone. There is a new Green Lantern.
I am a HUGE comic fan, I have TONS lying around. Sometimes I just wish they would stop trying to make money through shocking/special editions, etc and just tell good stories. That's why I started reading 'em in the first place!
Isn't IBM leaving the Harddrive market? I'm glad they're working on this though. IBM has recently been on the cutting edge of personal computing devices with being the driving force beyond harddrive research and technoligies such as MRAM.
Also, Thanks to the One from the Matrix, we know that the speed of the bus can't be lower than 50 (insert unit of speed here) thus it can only go up.
I've been using a hotmail account since before Microsoft bought it, for many years. Too many people know about that account, and it would be almost impossible for me to get in touch with all the people I've given that email address to and tell them that I'm moving.
Plus, it's not like other free email places don't do these sleazy tactics either.
I'm just frustrated that I have to daily, sometimes multiple times a day delete all the crap and spam that comes in, otherwise M$ will shutdown the account and I won't get the emails that are actually for me.