My ex-university is phasing out their VMS based mailing system and replacing it to Exchange server. We used to be able to check out mail using telnet (even art majors do that), now they are asking everybody to install Outlook express.. it's depressing.
It is not likely that any companies who do not want to run Linux on desktop is going to run it cos now Office can be run on Linux. They use Windows to have the support from MS (interesting, but true), that is also the reason they buy DELL and HP but not just any cheaper beige box. They want to be able to have a number to call when Office on Windows has a problem.
Really, a PC's life in the corporate world is perhaps 3 years. $2000 compared to the productivity lost by the employee whose salary is at least 40 times more than the PC in that same 3 year span is just not worth it.
They just don't want to take the chance. It's a pity.
One of the worst part of the movie was the detonation of the UV bombs in the suit case.. Like many cinematic effects, it is grossly wrong from physical standpoint.
By combining alot of those small UV (light) bombs, they were able to produce a very bright light, and it BENDS across the winding tunnel!! I thought it'll be a little more convincing if the suitcase will blast the little UV bombs across the tunnel and then detonate each of them.. but boy, they bend light!
Distributed computing != distributed hosting... I don't really know what you mean exactly by distrubted hosting. You have to always get all your data to back to the 'central location' to finally compile the 'answer'.
Pretty much same concept as any clustered computing, the pipes are always important, and no, u can't 'distribute' the connections.
The article is short on details, or perhaps it is classified, but it would be interesting to see how much the Chinese government is spending in this effort.
I am not saying the Chinese effort is comparable to what NASA has done, but if the Chinese have such a successful relatively cheap satellite business, I am guessing they are perhaps more economical in their program. Perhaps NASA can take a look and learn how to spend?
One of the problems in corporate America is that they are driven by the stock market, and the stock holders are never patient.
When you look at most companies in US, you don't see alot of products that only brings in profit years to come being developed. Entertainment robots is viewed as being too risky, especially after the dot.com bust, investers are pretty catious, but I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
When the current economy is pretty much the employer's market, the big guys can always impose more restrictions and come up with just about any logics behind it, to squeeze out every ounce of 'productivity' and to cut cost.
Sooner or later it will be the employee's market again, and lets see what the turnover rate is for a company that impose this rule. I also doubt that by not allowing employees to have some breaks using emails and web privately, productivity increases.
most linux software = half-assed crap, so knock yerself out i guess
For every 1 half-assed linux software, there are probably over 10 half-assed windows shareware, and they are not even free (as in beer, or otherwise)
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A quick run on Dict.org to check shareware.. well, according to this, I was somewhat right. Again, there is not a definition that will be accepted by everyone.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01): shareware
/sheir'weir/ {Freeware} for which the author
requests some payment, usually in the accompanying
documentation files or in an announcement made by the software
itself. Such payment may buy additional support,
documentation or functionality.
See also {careware}, {charityware}, {crippleware},
{guiltware}, {nagware}, {postcardware}, and {-ware}; compare
{payware}.
{The Conception of Shareware
(http://www.halcyon.com/knopf/history.htm)}.
It would be interesting to really see the comparison of piracy to shrink wrapped software and sharewares.
On one hand, people pirate shrink wrapped cos it's too expensive too buy. On the other hand, they pirate shareware cos it's convinient (erase registry entry, anyone?).
I guess I'll still stick with my GNU Linux and all the freebies.;)
Basically a it will only be qualified as shareware if it is a full working version, but time-limited. Anything less than full working software during trial period is demoware.
I know there are many ways one can block the ads, personally I'll never do that, slashdot has been nice, and to me that's just not right.
I don't think I'll pay the subscription as it is, I'll live with it instead. Since most of the time I spent on slashdot is reading the forum, I don't see too much obstructions from the ads.
However, if the subscription service gives me a cache of slashdotted sites, suddenly it looks much useful to me.
many times a crowd control means dispersing the crowd, hence the application of tear gas and many other methods. Putting this slimy thing will just immobilize the crowd, and they'll just, stay there?
Another issue being, how can the person who apply this stuff not affected it? Police officers can wear a mask while using tear gas, I wonder if there's any way to avoid it. Maybe a spike show, like those a spinter wear to run in grass would do. Demonstrators and rioters would probably come prepared if it's just as simple as wearing a different type of shoes.
Having said that, I guess this material is probably going to be useful in some other industrial applications. It's interesting nonetheless.
I am wondering about the implications of search engines such as googles towards flash sites. I know google are able to search PDF, but flash?
It's too bad to see that they are pushing towards the 'closed' standard. HTML, although not particularily elegant, is open and free. I don't think too many of us are going to shelf out $199 just to write a website.
We will probably see bigger corporations starting to adopt it, but I don't foresee many small sites do.
Sometimes I really wish we'd spend more money and effort into discovery the deeper ocean. So far there's been less than 5% of the ocean being explored.
When we run out of hospitable land on earth, the best option wouldn't be moon, mars, or any of these exotic planets. It would probably be the vast ocean on earth itself, either afloat or submerge.
Recent discovery on the ocean floor has revealed a host of other life system unsupported by sun light. It is truely amazing. Yet despite spending 13 billion on NASA budget every year, we only have 3 deep sea subs that can venture into the deep..
It would be really interesting to see how AMD is able to compete with Intel with the 'departure' from the common standard. Of course the new AMD chip ClawHammer, will be able to support current x86 instructions, but it won't really help you much to run it that way.
Hopefully AMD will really work on a compiler that take advantage of the new chip's strength. Maybe hire those SGI engineers?;-O
I just hope we will still have a choice in the processor market a few years from now.
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I agree with this.
My ex-university is phasing out their VMS based mailing system and replacing it to Exchange server. We used to be able to check out mail using telnet (even art majors do that), now they are asking everybody to install Outlook express.. it's depressing.
It is not likely that any companies who do not want to run Linux on desktop is going to run it cos now Office can be run on Linux. They use Windows to have the support from MS (interesting, but true), that is also the reason they buy DELL and HP but not just any cheaper beige box. They want to be able to have a number to call when Office on Windows has a problem.
Really, a PC's life in the corporate world is perhaps 3 years. $2000 compared to the productivity lost by the employee whose salary is at least 40 times more than the PC in that same 3 year span is just not worth it.
They just don't want to take the chance. It's a pity.
Looks like we've found a strategy to hit those MPAA sites, slashdotting them!
hahaha
I agree, but please see the movie, u'll know what I mean. They practically make the light just bend like flames.
One of the worst part of the movie was the detonation of the UV bombs in the suit case.. Like many cinematic effects, it is grossly wrong from physical standpoint.
By combining alot of those small UV (light) bombs, they were able to produce a very bright light, and it BENDS across the winding tunnel!! I thought it'll be a little more convincing if the suitcase will blast the little UV bombs across the tunnel and then detonate each of them.. but boy, they bend light!
It's just too funny for me at that point.
Distributed computing != distributed hosting... I don't really know what you mean exactly by distrubted hosting. You have to always get all your data to back to the 'central location' to finally compile the 'answer'.
Pretty much same concept as any clustered computing, the pipes are always important, and no, u can't 'distribute' the connections.
The article is short on details, or perhaps it is classified, but it would be interesting to see how much the Chinese government is spending in this effort.
I am not saying the Chinese effort is comparable to what NASA has done, but if the Chinese have such a successful relatively cheap satellite business, I am guessing they are perhaps more economical in their program. Perhaps NASA can take a look and learn how to spend?
all software engineers are exactly the same, they're all just interchangeable bodies-at-desks anyway...
:)
I wouldn't agree on that.
The robot runs on Apertos, it's not open source, I'm not gonna buy one until somebody can show me how to hack a Linux distro in it.
One of the problems in corporate America is that they are driven by the stock market, and the stock holders are never patient.
When you look at most companies in US, you don't see alot of products that only brings in profit years to come being developed. Entertainment robots is viewed as being too risky, especially after the dot.com bust, investers are pretty catious, but I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
When the current economy is pretty much the employer's market, the big guys can always impose more restrictions and come up with just about any logics behind it, to squeeze out every ounce of 'productivity' and to cut cost.
Sooner or later it will be the employee's market again, and lets see what the turnover rate is for a company that impose this rule. I also doubt that by not allowing employees to have some breaks using emails and web privately, productivity increases.
Hey hey, if it's universal you'll have to put it in Unicode, that makes it 28 bytes, or 30 including null. hee-hee.. still beats 34 I guess.
hah
This laser keyboard thing is interesting, but take a look at virtual keyboard. Seems to me this one is a little more useful.
most linux software = half-assed crap, so knock yerself out i guess
For every 1 half-assed linux software, there are probably over 10 half-assed windows shareware, and they are not even free (as in beer, or otherwise)
A quick run on Dict.org to check shareware.. well, according to this, I was somewhat right. Again, there is not a definition that will be accepted by everyone.
/sheir'weir/ {Freeware} for which the author
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01):
shareware
requests some payment, usually in the accompanying
documentation files or in an announcement made by the software
itself. Such payment may buy additional support,
documentation or functionality.
See also {careware}, {charityware}, {crippleware},
{guiltware}, {nagware}, {postcardware}, and {-ware}; compare
{payware}.
{The Conception of Shareware
(http://www.halcyon.com/knopf/history.htm)}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1997-10-11)
It would be interesting to really see the comparison of piracy to shrink wrapped software and sharewares.
;)
On one hand, people pirate shrink wrapped cos it's too expensive too buy. On the other hand, they pirate shareware cos it's convinient (erase registry entry, anyone?).
I guess I'll still stick with my GNU Linux and all the freebies.
Basically a it will only be qualified as shareware if it is a full working version, but time-limited. Anything less than full working software during trial period is demoware.
I know there are many ways one can block the ads, personally I'll never do that, slashdot has been nice, and to me that's just not right.
I don't think I'll pay the subscription as it is, I'll live with it instead. Since most of the time I spent on slashdot is reading the forum, I don't see too much obstructions from the ads.
However, if the subscription service gives me a cache of slashdotted sites, suddenly it looks much useful to me.
many times a crowd control means dispersing the crowd, hence the application of tear gas and many other methods. Putting this slimy thing will just immobilize the crowd, and they'll just, stay there?
Another issue being, how can the person who apply this stuff not affected it? Police officers can wear a mask while using tear gas, I wonder if there's any way to avoid it. Maybe a spike show, like those a spinter wear to run in grass would do. Demonstrators and rioters would probably come prepared if it's just as simple as wearing a different type of shoes.
Having said that, I guess this material is probably going to be useful in some other industrial applications. It's interesting nonetheless.
I am wondering about the implications of search engines such as googles towards flash sites. I know google are able to search PDF, but flash?
It's too bad to see that they are pushing towards the 'closed' standard. HTML, although not particularily elegant, is open and free. I don't think too many of us are going to shelf out $199 just to write a website.
We will probably see bigger corporations starting to adopt it, but I don't foresee many small sites do.
I'm not saying money spent on NASA is not worth it, but rather we should maybe put a little bit more than we currently do on oceanic research
Sometimes I really wish we'd spend more money and effort into discovery the deeper ocean. So far there's been less than 5% of the ocean being explored.
When we run out of hospitable land on earth, the best option wouldn't be moon, mars, or any of these exotic planets. It would probably be the vast ocean on earth itself, either afloat or submerge.
Recent discovery on the ocean floor has revealed a host of other life system unsupported by sun light. It is truely amazing. Yet despite spending 13 billion on NASA budget every year, we only have 3 deep sea subs that can venture into the deep..
It would be really interesting to see how AMD is able to compete with Intel with the 'departure' from the common standard. Of course the new AMD chip ClawHammer, will be able to support current x86 instructions, but it won't really help you much to run it that way.
;-O
Hopefully AMD will really work on a compiler that take advantage of the new chip's strength. Maybe hire those SGI engineers?
I just hope we will still have a choice in the processor market a few years from now.
Maybe it's the new XM radio which you can have Snopp Dogg falling to your office. That must be neat.
With so many links on this website, I think those guys who wants to provide a google cache will have some trouble. :P