how could anyone really think vrml would take off given the large data sets it required (for anything useful) that is.... here's a company that's thinking in the right direction... http://www.perilith.com/projects/
I'm afraid while lot's of people where poring over the latest vrml specs (myself included) they might just have seen the flash out of the corner of their eyes of game companies creating realtime 3d game engines that are turning the game business ( and more traditional business ) on it's head.
this is a possible. I dont know if any slashdotters at the moment realise australian troops are in east timor enforcing the peace. This could be an indonesian 'crack' posing as a US IP.
given the current state of affairs this is a possibility.
I'd go opera every time. On win32 it's faster, easier to use and light. If your a linux user they have a port coming along. They updated on 13Aug99 but it's still a while off.
$35 for a single license
based on the new QT2.0 from Troll Tech supporta any UNIX/Linux platform where there is real demand and Qt is available. available sooner on BeOS, Psion & Mac
Licht's "super-iron" is ferrate, an unusual form of iron combined with oxygen. It is usually unstable but he found that if it is kept very pure, it stays in a stable and usable form. that should be ferrate, not ferrite!
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Description: PGPClick was written to simplify use of PGP encryption for email applications. Once properly set up, most encryption and decryption can be accomplished with just one or two mouse clicks. PGPClick works well with email readers, newsreaders, text editors, word processors, and almost any program that edits text.
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There's also the suggestion that the general press didn't give this story the airplay and column-space that it deserved because of some self-serving interests
i often wonder about this. If your old enough to remember the East-Timor invasion by Indonesia, you also might remember the lack of press coverage about it. Noam Chomsky ~ manufacturing consent (Noam Chomsky on Journalism By Peter Cronau January 1995) also made a nice about how journalism and power can serve against the truth...
Chomsky views the media as an ideological system serving the powerful elites in society. He explains how governments get away with lying, how academics and intellectuals manufacture consent to the actions of government, and how the media confine debate to the conservative middle ground.
Chomsky argues the Western media have neglected their questioning role, instead repeatedly giving primary access to intellectuals who defend the role of Western governments. He sees the media's role as producing consensus amongst the public towards the ruling elites in government and business.
"The [media's] current mission is to ensure that any thought of controlling their destiny must be driven from the minds of the rascal multitude," he has written in, Year 501: The Conquest Continues. And, in Deterring Democracy, he writes: "The goal is to eliminate public meddling in policy formation".
Probably Chomsky's most known book in this country is Manufacturing Consent: the political economy of the mass media, which he wrote in 1988 with Edward Herman, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Propaganda Model sketched out in this book describes the structures and influences that Chomsky believes produce systematic propaganda in the media.
"It traces the routes by which money and power are able to filter out the news fit to print, marginalise dissent, and allow government and dominant private interests to get their messages across to the public."
it's only an opinion, but it's interesting to note the context in which this article describes censorship.
Now they're looking to be cheaper AND Faster. faster maybe...but AMD has a huge debt hole that they want to fill with the K7 pricing. For AMD to stay i business they have to milk the high end market margins (a'la intel). So you may not get cheap K7's straight off.
Prime Meridian ISO/IEC 6709:1983 Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations Characteristics/description Latitude is measured positively north of the equator and negatively south. Longitude is measured postively east of Greenwich and negatively west. The Prime meridian is indicated using a plus sign while the 180th meridian is preceded by a minus. Both longitude and latitude may be expressed in degrees and decimal degress, degrees, minutes and decimal minutes or degrees, minutes, seconds and decimal seconds. Number less than 10 must have a leading 0.
Optionally an altitude can be specified as a number of metres and decimal fractions thereof above or below the geodetic reference datum level.
Locations are entered by entering two or three numbers identifying the latitude, longitude and, optionally, altitude, each number preceded by either a plus or minus sign and with no spaces separting the numbers. The end of the locator is identified by a solidus (slash) giving a completed entry of the form +24.45-00.11+800.35/.
Usage (Market segment and penetration) Standard scientific notation for global positioning.
Further details available from: ISO or local national standards bodies
Assignment of ISO 6709 to TC211 (NB. By March 1998 this decision appears to have be rescinded!) OII Multimedia and Hypermedia Standards Activity Report, May 1997
other facts ITRF92 (International Terrestrial Reference Frame ) WGS84
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), whereas WGS84 was developed by the US Department of Defence over ten years ago
WGS84 system was developed it was based on the GRS80 ellipsoid, but computational techniques resulted in a small difference in the flattening. When used to express earth-centred Cartesian positions (X, Y, Z) as latitude, longitude and ellipsoidal height, these two ellipsoids result in a difference of less than 1 millimetre. WGS84 GRS80 Semi major axis (a) 6378137 m 6378137 m flattening (1/f) 298.257223563 298.257222101
from australian cartographic viewpoint new and improved coordinate system for Australia which is compatible with modern positioning techniques such as the Global Positioning System (GPS).
http://www.anzlic.org.au/icsm/gda/faq-f.htm
Q. Will zero degrees longitude still pass through Greenwich? A. Yes, zero degrees longitude will still pass through Greenwich because this is part of the definition of the coordinate system used by GDA.
Q. Will GDA be the same as the WGS84 coordinates used by GPS?
A. GDA and WGS84 are compatible at better than a metre. In fact in early 1994, the WGS84 system was modified to align it even more closely with the ITRF system on which GDA is based.
Q. Why is the ITRF92 used for GDA, instead of the WGS84? A.The International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) has been adopted in favour of WGS84 because it is more recent and is supported by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), whereas WGS84 was developed by the US Department of Defence over ten years ago. This decision was affirmed in early 1994, when WGS84 was modified to align it more closely with ITRF.
I challenge anyone out there to prove to me that employees are more productive with a PalmPilot than without one. Be honest. Are they accomplishing anything with it that they wouldn't with a notebook computer and daytimer?
There's a revolution in the medical world going on. Hospitals have so much timely medical information floating around that pda devices like the palm logged in to a wireless network allow medical staff to review, annotate and share data instantly.
there's medical website devoted for palm users (forget the url) but the above statement fails in this context. laptops are too big and clumsy, paper information drowns.
the good -/. crew can be $$$ rewarded for revolutionary tech-news site the bad - slashdot is now no longer non - accountable to suits, advertisers and phb's (pointy haired bosses) the ugly - damn is '/.' going to do a waynes world, TECH0 NEWS, HACKING TIME... EXCELLENT...DWWHHHOOOO DWHHOOO DWHOOOO (with crappy phb voice over) featuring cmdTaco and Hemos featuring stories on how uncle bill's os is saving the world?
"...drinking coffee could protect people from radioactivity, according to scientists in India..."
looks like they could be looking into ways to protect their population from fallout? with the trouble in the Kashmir highlands, the timed release of reports like this do nothing to ease the possibility of nuclear sabre rattling.
i'm a bit dubious after scanning a previous/. story today, breaking the computer bottleneck...but for arguments sake let suppose that the technology behind this *cough* breakthrough technology is mature enough to release to market...where's the production and distribution?
Look at the problems AMD has with getting 'ground breaking' chip technology to market. It's not just the technology but the production, distribution etc, that's dubious....I'm not so sure they could ever release version 1.0 technology at version n prices!
Top-of-the line computers currently sport chips with 600 megahertz of power. Timp said a chip with the smallest features possible would allow for computer processing of at least 10,000 MHz.
assuming doubling of power every 18months (1.5 yrs)....
not the case in.au, goto lsl where they have gpl'd copies of every flavour for as cheap as $AUS5...but then again it's in melbourne 'bout 2000Mls fm whre you are....cant see any reason that distributors have not set up shop?
it would be a sad day indeed...just because everyones making money why do you see the need to get in on the action?
Debian can then use the money to... who needs it? why not start a gui oss and set the standard for installers using free oss labour rather than buying into false economics?
It's good to see X10 doing something to build an established user base before Micros~1 kicks into gear and tries to dominate this industry
it's funny i was just reading about m$~oft's early attempts to get into multimedia set-top box's back in the early 90's (94 to be precise) last week. It was in an old wired article [2.09-Sep1994]. (wired's cool its all online even from back in '94). here's a summary of what the boss at http://www.microware.com (Microware President Ken Kaplan ) thought at the time...
I don't know what other people think, but I just don't think Microsoft's gonna be a player. I just think it's too late. We've been working on this for two, three years. We've got real product. By the time they figure out how to put Windows on a set-top box, we'll have a couple of million boxes out there and working.
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ohh and this one as well...
http://www.unrealty.net/vsmm99/
how could anyone really think vrml would take off given the large data sets it required (for anything useful) that is.... here's a company that's thinking in the right direction... http://www.perilith.com/projects/
I'm afraid while lot's of people where poring over the latest vrml specs (myself included) they might just have seen the flash out of the corner of their eyes of game companies creating realtime 3d game engines that are turning the game business ( and more traditional business ) on it's head.
this is a possible. I dont know if any slashdotters at the moment realise australian troops are in east timor enforcing the peace. This could be an indonesian 'crack' posing as a US IP.
given the current state of affairs this is a possibility.
- $35 for a single license
http://www.opera.com/alt_os.htmlbased on the new QT2.0 from Troll Tech
supporta any UNIX/Linux platform where there is real demand and Qt is available.
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Licht's "super-iron" is ferrate, an unusual form of iron combined with oxygen. It is usually unstable but he found that if it is kept very pure, it stays in a stable and usable form.
that should be ferrate, not ferrite!
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this is the link to the article
There's also the suggestion that the general press didn't give this story the airplay and column-space that it deserved because of some self-serving interests
i often wonder about this. If your old enough to remember the East-Timor invasion by Indonesia, you also might remember the lack of press coverage about it. Noam Chomsky ~ manufacturing consent (Noam Chomsky on Journalism By Peter Cronau January 1995) also made a nice about how journalism and power can serve against the truth...
Chomsky views the media as an ideological system serving the powerful elites in society. He explains how governments get away with lying, how academics and intellectuals manufacture consent to the actions of government, and how the media confine debate to the conservative middle ground.
Chomsky argues the Western media have neglected their questioning role, instead repeatedly giving primary access to intellectuals who defend the role of Western governments. He sees the media's role as producing consensus amongst the public towards the ruling elites in government and business.
"The [media's] current mission is to ensure that any thought of controlling their destiny must be driven from the minds of the rascal multitude," he has written in, Year 501: The Conquest Continues. And, in Deterring Democracy, he writes: "The goal is to eliminate public meddling in policy formation".
Probably Chomsky's most known book in this country is Manufacturing Consent: the political economy of the mass media, which he wrote in 1988 with Edward Herman, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Propaganda Model sketched out in this book describes the structures and influences that Chomsky believes produce systematic propaganda in the media.
"It traces the routes by which money and power are able to filter out the news fit to print, marginalise dissent, and allow government and dominant private interests to get their messages across to the public."
it's only an opinion, but it's interesting to note the context in which this article describes censorship.
j) aussies don't say "g'day"
please refrain from very broad generalisations.....I use the phrase every day....
here at slashdot you can read about it......
Now they're looking to be cheaper AND Faster. faster maybe...but AMD has a huge debt hole that they want to fill with the K7 pricing. For AMD to stay i business they have to milk the high end market margins (a'la intel). So you may not get cheap K7's straight off.
ahh i see we have an upper class twit. Here's a bit of tongue in cheek, the brit's have the worlds best cricket team.....
Prime Meridian
w &VdkVgwKey=%2Fextra4%2Fwww_echo%2Foii%2F en%2Fgis.html&QueryZip=prime+meridian%0D%0A ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32
ISO/IEC 6709:1983 Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations Characteristics/description Latitude is measured positively north of the equator and negatively south. Longitude is measured postively east of Greenwich and negatively west. The Prime meridian is indicated using a plus sign while the 180th meridian is preceded by a minus. Both longitude and latitude may be expressed in degrees and decimal degress, degrees, minutes and decimal minutes or degrees, minutes, seconds and decimal seconds. Number less than 10 must have a leading 0.
Optionally an altitude can be specified as a number of metres and decimal fractions thereof above or below the geodetic reference datum level.
Locations are entered by entering two or three numbers identifying the latitude, longitude and, optionally, altitude, each number preceded by either a plus or minus sign and with no spaces separting the numbers. The end of the locator is identified by a solidus (slash) giving a completed entry of the form +24.45-00.11+800.35/.
Usage (Market segment and penetration) Standard scientific notation for global positioning.
Further details available from: ISO or local national standards bodies
Assignment of ISO 6709 to TC211 (NB. By March 1998 this decision appears to have be rescinded!) OII Multimedia and Hypermedia Standards Activity Report, May 1997
http://www.echo.lu/search97cgi/s97_cgi?Action=Vie
other facts
ITRF92 (International Terrestrial Reference Frame ) WGS84
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), whereas WGS84 was developed by the US Department of Defence over ten years ago
WGS84 system was developed it was based on the GRS80 ellipsoid, but computational techniques resulted in a small difference in the flattening.
When used to express earth-centred Cartesian positions (X, Y, Z) as latitude, longitude and ellipsoidal height, these two ellipsoids result in a difference of less than 1 millimetre. WGS84 GRS80
Semi major axis (a) 6378137 m 6378137 m
flattening (1/f) 298.257223563 298.257222101
from australian cartographic viewpoint new and improved coordinate system for Australia which is compatible with modern positioning techniques such as the Global Positioning System (GPS).
http://www.anzlic.org.au/icsm/gda/faq-f.htm
Q. Will zero degrees longitude still pass through Greenwich?
A. Yes, zero degrees longitude will still pass through Greenwich because this is part of the definition of the coordinate system used by GDA.
Q. Will GDA be the same as the WGS84 coordinates used by GPS?
A. GDA and WGS84 are compatible at better than a metre. In fact in early 1994, the WGS84 system was modified to align it even more closely with the ITRF system on which GDA is based.
Q. Why is the ITRF92 used for GDA, instead of the WGS84?
A.The International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) has been adopted in favour of WGS84 because it is more recent and is supported by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), whereas WGS84 was developed by the US Department of Defence over ten years ago. This decision was affirmed in early 1994, when WGS84 was modified to align it more closely with ITRF.
I challenge anyone out there to prove to me that employees are more productive with a PalmPilot than without one. Be honest. Are they accomplishing anything with it that they wouldn't with a notebook computer and daytimer?
There's a revolution in the medical world going on. Hospitals have so much timely medical information floating around that pda devices like the palm logged in to a wireless network allow medical staff to review, annotate and share data instantly.
there's medical website devoted for palm users (forget the url) but the above statement fails in this context. laptops are too big and clumsy, paper information drowns.
Its actually a musical.
what is it with american films/tv with musicals, they stink...first drew carey, south park...
what about the groovy linux boxes ad... yeah...baby
what about on the title 'slashdot' and the sitename say slashdot.com?
the bad - slashdot is now no longer non - accountable to suits, advertisers and phb's (pointy haired bosses)
the ugly - damn is '/.' going to do a waynes world, TECH0 NEWS, HACKING TIME... EXCELLENT...DWWHHHOOOO DWHHOOO DWHOOOO (with crappy phb voice over) featuring cmdTaco and Hemos featuring stories on how uncle bill's os is saving the world?
"...drinking coffee could protect people from radioactivity, according to scientists in India..."
looks like they could be looking into ways to protect their population from fallout? with the trouble in the Kashmir highlands, the timed release of reports like this do nothing to ease the possibility of nuclear sabre rattling.
i'm a bit dubious after scanning a previous /. story today, breaking the computer bottleneck ...but for arguments sake let suppose that the technology behind this *cough* breakthrough technology is mature enough to release to market...where's the production and distribution?
Look at the problems AMD has with getting 'ground breaking' chip technology to market. It's not just the technology but the production, distribution etc, that's dubious....I'm not so sure they could ever release version 1.0 technology at version n prices!
Top-of-the line computers currently sport chips with 600 megahertz of power. Timp said a chip with the smallest features possible would allow for computer processing of at least 10,000 MHz.
....
assuming doubling of power every 18months (1.5 yrs)
1.5 yrs 1200Hz
3.0 yrs 2400Hz
4.5 yrs 4800Hz
6.0 yrs 9600Hz
7.5 yrs 19200Hz
time for chip 19200Mhz is 7.5yrs from this year?
not the case in .au, goto lsl where they have gpl'd copies of every flavour for as cheap as $AUS5...but then again it's in melbourne 'bout 2000Mls fm whre you are....cant see any reason that distributors have not set up shop?
can you run a bewoulf cluster, compile java and will it run it on my micro widget lego rx9000 risc chip...etc etc
it would be a sad day indeed...just because everyones making money why do you see the need to get in on the action?
Debian can then use the money to...
who needs it? why not start a gui oss and set the standard for installers using free oss labour rather than buying into false economics?
It's good to see X10 doing something to build an established user base before Micros~1 kicks into gear and tries to dominate this industry
it's funny i was just reading about m$~oft's early attempts to get into multimedia set-top box's back in the early 90's (94 to be precise) last week. It was in an old wired article [2.09-Sep1994]. (wired's cool its all online even from back in '94). here's a summary of what the boss at http://www.microware.com (Microware President Ken Kaplan ) thought at the time...
I don't know what other people think, but I just don't think Microsoft's gonna be a player. I just think it's too late. We've been working on this for two, three years. We've got real product. By the time they figure out how to put Windows on a set-top box, we'll have a couple of million boxes out there and working.
wonder if it still holds?