And that's not a troll. The market for portable music players is already crowded with 'almost-there' devices. iPod is slick but doesn't play OGG. Neuros plays OGG and has MyFi (the two things I look for most) but the interface is kludgy and it doesn't work with OS X. The iRiver has OGG capability but no MyFi. All have much larger capacity than this device. Why would I be interested in this if I'm already not buying the competitors' products that are already on the market with better specs? Seriously, why would you bring a product like this to market?
Good point. The next level of attack after that would be spammers with valid accounts. So then you have to screen each comment from anyone who is not on your "friends list".
I read LiveJournal and I have noticed this. Anonymous comments with a link to some page I guess they are hoping you will click on out of curiousity. LiveJournal allows you to easily delete such comments but like e-mail spam it is still a hassle.
The solution is simple: stop buying what spammers are offering and they will go under soon after.
My boss, a wise old business man, once commented to me about how ironic it was that we went from mainframes to PC's and now we're headed back to mainframes again, maybe not in the strictest sense but the concept is the same. Personally, as a system administrator, I like the thin client environment. PC's make it difficult to do the things you actually want to do while making it quite easy to things you really don't.
Frank Herbert wrote about the exact same thing in his book "The Ascension Factor." Only there it was sentient kelp. The coolest part was how the kelp could create ultra realistic holograms. Wouldn't that be an interesting twist on display technology?
I agree that it is important and that many people do want to know about it. I hope you didn't think I was implying otherwise. All I was saying is that I personally don't want to read the stories (on the front page, this is the first one I have clicked through to) and something that gets so much attention should have its own section anyway.
Can we please have a SCO section so that I can block all these SCO stories? As it stands now I would have to block just about every category on/. to avoid this stuff. I don't care about SCO and don't want to read these stories. Hell I can block stories about Beanies, and there hasn't been a Beanies story in 3 years!
'Earth: Final Conflict' featured this technology heavily, even for more complex tasks like flying a small air/space-craft. Always thought it looked pretty cool. Just another example of life imitating art. Er, make that corporations imitating tv.
Religious tolerance means tolerating other people's religions and not just forcing greater acceptance of your own. What you are suggesting sounds a lot like the destruction of one religion at the sake of another, which is exactly what you say the problem is in the first place.
Anybody else get a blank page when clicking that link? I am using Konqueror 3.0.5, and the document source looks like it should work, but all I get is whitespace.
I agree wholeheartedly. I just took a DB exam yesterday, and we had to use QWERTY keyboards because ITS at my school won't let you install anything useful. Long story short it hurt after about 10 minutes of typing. At home on my Dvorak keyboard, I can type for hours with no stress whatsoever. I recommend anyone with wrist strain (which I'm sure everyone has by now to some degree) switch to Dvorak. It takes some time to learn, but once you do it is *much* faster and easier than QWERTY.
With all these dim views of the future of cyberspace, and current trends do point in that direction, perhaps it is time to start implementing a FreeNet. Something outside of the mainstream Internet, away from corporate and government controls. Something entirely for geeks, by geeks.
In all honesty, I don't see any way around it. When non-Microsoft, non-FBI-bugged operating systems are outlawed, only outlaws will run Linux/BSD/etc.
I'm a CS major at a private university in the South. I have three semesters left to go. Those three semesters should be the most interesting yet. Why? Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, senior project (my first real programming project). With all the boring electives and necessaries out of the way, I can concentrate on something that peaks my interest and do some real design/coding. Are you taking any high-level theory courses? If not, why not? Are you working on any real projects? If not, ask yourself what the quality of your education has been/will be when you graduate.
From your post it sounds like you majored in CS to get paid well and make some radical impact on the world. Well, that's just not what CS is about. The fun stuff, like AI, is rare. More often than not it's about working hard at solving problems and fixing other people's mistakes. Depending on what kind of work you do, it can be financially rewarding. But if solving problems for the fun of it doesn't interest you anymore, money won't make up for that.
It sounds like you need to make some hard choices about your education and your future.
Since surveillance cameras are cheap, can be unobtrusive, (can you tell me where the cameras are around you?)
Funny that you should ask. Actually, I can tell you where the cameras are in my area. I've been very observant about the cameras watching me at Subway, in the gas station, at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, etc. I'm very disturbed by the trend, not only to put cameras everywhere but also by the fact that I seem to be the only one around here who cares! (BTW I live in a rapidly-expanding town just south of Memphis.)
Since these cameras will be installed in community owned spaces surveying community owned property, you'll have absolutely no say in the matter.
Since these areas are community owned, I should have a say in the matter. After all, I am a part of the community.
As a former hardware/software support tech, I have to say I would not want to work under that kind of pay system. I would probably have cut corners in most if not all areas of my work. Not to mention the fact that residential customers would never have gotten serviced. They tend to haggle about prices and often times refuse to let you do the work. Big corporate customers, however, might be very happy with their service. They tend to pay on time and don't haggle too much, as well as being a continual source of sales.
I bought a small wireless network from my boss (I worked in a very small hardware/software support company) about a year ago. When we were discussing the different components, one of the things that came up was the PCI-to-PCMCIA adapter. I remember him pointing out that the adapter was designed to work with any PCMCIA card and not just the wireless card. My thinking is that the people designing these things decided not to include an EPROM socket simply because it was meant to be interchangeable in that manner. I'm just speculating here, and I can't speak for any other brand (mine's an Aviator Webgear), but odds are that you will have to a) build one yourself or b) pay someone to custom build this for you.
Basically, scientists think there is this stuff we can't see called "dark matter" because their theories' predictions about the amount of matter in the universe are *WAY* off. I think it would be more "scientific" to modify the theories to fit the evidence. Atleast that's what they taught me in school.
This article seems to be more about "fetish clubs" on Yahoo! and less about the sale/removal of porn tapes from their online store. Personally, as far as the tapes go, I think it's a matter of supply-and-demand. If the users want porn, they're going to get it *somewhere* and Yahoo! was doing the logical thing by catering to what the users want. Those who complained probably never so much as once "accidentally" found the porn section of the Yahoo! store. Yahoo! is very structured, and all sections are clearly marked. Those who complained were just excercising their "moral authority" over the rest of the Internet, as is all the rage these days.
These types of things would make interesting scientific platforms for marine research. And what about NASA? I bet they could save some major cheese on rocket/shuttle launches.
Or maybe they'll just be used as "Floating Fortresses" (ala 1984).
In other news today, the HAL project was scrapped due to a lack of profit margins. Low projections on investment returns led CompuTech Industries to kill the project in a 5-0 vote. Quote one boardmember, "Why throw away money on a system that's going to fail and try to kill people?"
Seriously, politics and profit margins will continue to kill scientific research, which is why the real 2001 doesn't look much like 2001.
I can just imagine some poor, lonely guy in charge of re-positioning the satellite "accidentally" sending it over some nude beaches and snapping off a few full-color shots.
It is the government's new M.O. Local and state governments are attempting to expand their reach beyond their jurisdiction and into every corner of the world. For example, I just read an article about the mayor of Chicago obtaining a list of registered gun owners in ALL 50 STATES. Now what right does a city mayor have to these records? None. It seems politicians don't care about what's "right" anymore, especially when it involves Gun Owners, Content Pirates, and Drug Smugglers.
I read a small article in Popular Science, though I cannot presently locate it, within the last year or so that stated a female researcher had developed a disc with a very similar function. I find it interesting that this man's research is portrayed as being the first in his field. Also, I have an article in my home directory that came from the PS website (found it while looking for the first article) that gives Thomas Townsend Brown credit for testing similar discs in the 50's!
I have been reading Slashdot anonymously for about a year. I recently made an account and submitted a few Ask Slashdot questions, everything from how much should I sell my domain name for to which OS works best on a laptop. All were rejected. Ok, no big deal. But today I see this, and I think to myself "Gee, didn't I submit this exact same Ask Slashdot and it was rejected?" I guess because I haven't hit the karma cap that my questions don't matter. Oh well.
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And that's not a troll. The market for portable music players is already crowded with 'almost-there' devices. iPod is slick but doesn't play OGG. Neuros plays OGG and has MyFi (the two things I look for most) but the interface is kludgy and it doesn't work with OS X. The iRiver has OGG capability but no MyFi. All have much larger capacity than this device. Why would I be interested in this if I'm already not buying the competitors' products that are already on the market with better specs? Seriously, why would you bring a product like this to market?
Good point. The next level of attack after that would be spammers with valid accounts. So then you have to screen each comment from anyone who is not on your "friends list".
I read LiveJournal and I have noticed this. Anonymous comments with a link to some page I guess they are hoping you will click on out of curiousity. LiveJournal allows you to easily delete such comments but like e-mail spam it is still a hassle. The solution is simple: stop buying what spammers are offering and they will go under soon after.
My boss, a wise old business man, once commented to me about how ironic it was that we went from mainframes to PC's and now we're headed back to mainframes again, maybe not in the strictest sense but the concept is the same. Personally, as a system administrator, I like the thin client environment. PC's make it difficult to do the things you actually want to do while making it quite easy to things you really don't.
Frank Herbert wrote about the exact same thing in his book "The Ascension Factor." Only there it was sentient kelp. The coolest part was how the kelp could create ultra realistic holograms. Wouldn't that be an interesting twist on display technology?
I agree that it is important and that many people do want to know about it. I hope you didn't think I was implying otherwise. All I was saying is that I personally don't want to read the stories (on the front page, this is the first one I have clicked through to) and something that gets so much attention should have its own section anyway.
Can we please have a SCO section so that I can block all these SCO stories? As it stands now I would have to block just about every category on /. to avoid this stuff. I don't care about SCO and don't want to read these stories. Hell I can block stories about Beanies, and there hasn't been a Beanies story in 3 years!
'Earth: Final Conflict' featured this technology heavily, even for more complex tasks like flying a small air/space-craft. Always thought it looked pretty cool. Just another example of life imitating art. Er, make that corporations imitating tv.
These guys have been talking about the same thing only with wireless access points. Check out this story to see what they intend to do with it.
I like the idea of aggregate bandwidth, and I think it is something we *will* see en masse very soon.
Religious tolerance means tolerating other people's religions and not just forcing greater acceptance of your own. What you are suggesting sounds a lot like the destruction of one religion at the sake of another, which is exactly what you say the problem is in the first place.
Anybody else get a blank page when clicking that link? I am using Konqueror 3.0.5, and the document source looks like it should work, but all I get is whitespace.
I agree wholeheartedly. I just took a DB exam yesterday, and we had to use QWERTY keyboards because ITS at my school won't let you install anything useful. Long story short it hurt after about 10 minutes of typing. At home on my Dvorak keyboard, I can type for hours with no stress whatsoever. I recommend anyone with wrist strain (which I'm sure everyone has by now to some degree) switch to Dvorak. It takes some time to learn, but once you do it is *much* faster and easier than QWERTY.
With all these dim views of the future of cyberspace, and current trends do point in that direction, perhaps it is time to start implementing a FreeNet. Something outside of the mainstream Internet, away from corporate and government controls. Something entirely for geeks, by geeks.
In all honesty, I don't see any way around it. When non-Microsoft, non-FBI-bugged operating systems are outlawed, only outlaws will run Linux/BSD/etc.
I'm a CS major at a private university in the South. I have three semesters left to go. Those three semesters should be the most interesting yet. Why? Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, senior project (my first real programming project). With all the boring electives and necessaries out of the way, I can concentrate on something that peaks my interest and do some real design/coding. Are you taking any high-level theory courses? If not, why not? Are you working on any real projects? If not, ask yourself what the quality of your education has been/will be when you graduate.
From your post it sounds like you majored in CS to get paid well and make some radical impact on the world. Well, that's just not what CS is about. The fun stuff, like AI, is rare. More often than not it's about working hard at solving problems and fixing other people's mistakes. Depending on what kind of work you do, it can be financially rewarding. But if solving problems for the fun of it doesn't interest you anymore, money won't make up for that.
It sounds like you need to make some hard choices about your education and your future.
Since surveillance cameras are cheap, can be unobtrusive, (can you tell me where the cameras are around you?)
Funny that you should ask. Actually, I can tell you where the cameras are in my area. I've been very observant about the cameras watching me at Subway, in the gas station, at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, etc. I'm very disturbed by the trend, not only to put cameras everywhere but also by the fact that I seem to be the only one around here who cares! (BTW I live in a rapidly-expanding town just south of Memphis.)
Since these cameras will be installed in community owned spaces surveying community owned property, you'll have absolutely no say in the matter.
Since these areas are community owned, I should have a say in the matter. After all, I am a part of the community.
As a former hardware/software support tech, I have to say I would not want to work under that kind of pay system. I would probably have cut corners in most if not all areas of my work. Not to mention the fact that residential customers would never have gotten serviced. They tend to haggle about prices and often times refuse to let you do the work. Big corporate customers, however, might be very happy with their service. They tend to pay on time and don't haggle too much, as well as being a continual source of sales.
I bought a small wireless network from my boss (I worked in a very small hardware/software support company) about a year ago. When we were discussing the different components, one of the things that came up was the PCI-to-PCMCIA adapter. I remember him pointing out that the adapter was designed to work with any PCMCIA card and not just the wireless card. My thinking is that the people designing these things decided not to include an EPROM socket simply because it was meant to be interchangeable in that manner. I'm just speculating here, and I can't speak for any other brand (mine's an Aviator Webgear), but odds are that you will have to a) build one yourself or b) pay someone to custom build this for you.
Basically, scientists think there is this stuff we can't see called "dark matter" because their theories' predictions about the amount of matter in the universe are *WAY* off. I think it would be more "scientific" to modify the theories to fit the evidence. Atleast that's what they taught me in school.
This article seems to be more about "fetish clubs" on Yahoo! and less about the sale/removal of porn tapes from their online store. Personally, as far as the tapes go, I think it's a matter of supply-and-demand. If the users want porn, they're going to get it *somewhere* and Yahoo! was doing the logical thing by catering to what the users want. Those who complained probably never so much as once "accidentally" found the porn section of the Yahoo! store. Yahoo! is very structured, and all sections are clearly marked. Those who complained were just excercising their "moral authority" over the rest of the Internet, as is all the rage these days.
These types of things would make interesting scientific platforms for marine research. And what about NASA? I bet they could save some major cheese on rocket/shuttle launches.
Or maybe they'll just be used as "Floating Fortresses" (ala 1984).
In other news today, the HAL project was scrapped due to a lack of profit margins. Low projections on investment returns led CompuTech Industries to kill the project in a 5-0 vote. Quote one boardmember, "Why throw away money on a system that's going to fail and try to kill people?"
Seriously, politics and profit margins will continue to kill scientific research, which is why the real 2001 doesn't look much like 2001.
I can just imagine some poor, lonely guy in charge of re-positioning the satellite "accidentally" sending it over some nude beaches and snapping off a few full-color shots.
It is the government's new M.O. Local and state governments are attempting to expand their reach beyond their jurisdiction and into every corner of the world. For example, I just read an article about the mayor of Chicago obtaining a list of registered gun owners in ALL 50 STATES. Now what right does a city mayor have to these records? None. It seems politicians don't care about what's "right" anymore, especially when it involves Gun Owners, Content Pirates, and Drug Smugglers.
I read a small article in Popular Science, though I cannot presently locate it, within the last year or so that stated a female researcher had developed a disc with a very similar function. I find it interesting that this man's research is portrayed as being the first in his field. Also, I have an article in my home directory that came from the PS website (found it while looking for the first article) that gives Thomas Townsend Brown credit for testing similar discs in the 50's!
I have been reading Slashdot anonymously for about a year. I recently made an account and submitted a few Ask Slashdot questions, everything from how much should I sell my domain name for to which OS works best on a laptop. All were rejected. Ok, no big deal. But today I see this, and I think to myself "Gee, didn't I submit this exact same Ask Slashdot and it was rejected?" I guess because I haven't hit the karma cap that my questions don't matter. Oh well.