I was waiting for the inevitable Treo 700 to come out to upgrade to from my 600, which is painfully slow and has a crappy camera. I've always been annoyed that they left graffiti out of them, but now to find that they're putting that windoze crap on it... Well, at least the 650 will drop in price now --- I can upgrade to that to hold me over until someone else comes out with something comparable.
This is just a bunch of geeks that got told, "No, your idea won't actually help anyone", so they went and complained to/.
There is a big difference between "your idea is useless" and "you can't do it regardless". The former is just opinion, the latter is a lack of freedom, something becoming way too common in this "land of the free".
Seems to me they'd want to stuff it back in rather than pull it out though... unless they're going to treat the hole as a "damaged tile" and try some of the filler goop to fill it...
Very interesting to read this article today, after just last night reading The Pain Gun, by Gregory Benford in the July/August issue of Analog Science Fiction, which uses exactly that type of weapon in it...
Granted, the majority of applications can't really benefit from it, but there are still a decent number of applications that can, and as long as there are all these idle cpus that have nothing better to do, why not put them to work on the problems that they can contribute to? Save the tightly coupled parallel processing systems to work on the problems that require them.
That was the point of posting the issues with them, though it's true, I probably could have phrased the lead in a little better...
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My algorithm is to search on pricegrabber for the product, and then pick the lowest priced vendor that has a 5 star rating. If the price difference is small, I'll prefer a vendor I've dealt with before.
Zipzoomfly has been a good vendor, though I've had about a 50% DOA rate on Hitachi 7K250 drives from them. They've been quite prompt and good about replacing them (if you call --- the web interface for returns is a black hole). Once I get working drives, they seem to stay working though.
That's what broke me free of Evercrack: I just don't have the time or inclination to live in a virtual world. As a result, I couldn't stay up with any of the people I knew playing it (who were practically living there), nor did my availability line up with them. That made it impractical to group play (other than joining up with random groups, which is very hit and miss and often I'd rather just do my own thing), and the game is impossible to advance in for single users (at least casual ones). I enjoy it, but after you reach a certain point, there was just nowhere to go.
I can hear the question now, "if you want to solo, why go online?" The fact is, the environment is nice for a number of reasons: learning by watching, ask people questions, sometimes people even give you things, sometimes you do feel sociable or find a good group, sometimes you do want to play with friends.
One of the things that surprised me about it was how much like myself I actually played. I'm much more outgoing in email and usenet than in real life, but when it comes to direct interaction with immediate feedback...all of a sudden it was as hard to meet people as it is in real life. Well, not quite, but as I think about it, there's a real difference between tossing something up in the air for all to see and those interested can respond to if they want versus directing something to a specific person and being unsure of their reaction.
I'm rather concerned that a Senior Programmer can't build a web page with properly working Paypal Donate button on it (it just links back to the page it's sitting on). Is this really Chip Salzenberg or some scam?
If you were moving the mouse as you were traversing the tree doing your search, it would do something like that --- that's basically what they're seeing the humans do: move the mouse towards what it seems to be with as much data as has been received so far, and that's what you'd be doing in a tree search as well. It would obviously have to be some sort of scoring decision tree...
What came to mind after I read the article was that their results looked like the behavior you'd expect from a standard tree search in a digital computer program, if you moved the mouse according to each branch decision...
Wired's been more about style rather than tech since the late 90s, but have they finally dropped science in favor of science fiction?"
Has it ever been anything but style? I'm not sure this even qualifies as science fiction, at least not good, plausible, science fiction. It is reminiscent of the 50's versions of the future though...and it seems that inventors still haven't learned to actually try using their inventions before showing them off...
Any responsible mail server allows users to white/blacklist, and in fact the mail servers I run at the three ISPs I run them on all have ways for the users to do just that.
Blocking forged mail is not useful? For once I truly *do* salute Microsoft. It's a minor nuisance for users who use multiple accounts, and you have to whitelist forwarders, but that's much less of a nuisance than all the phishing scams that depend on forged mail...
I think they really wimped out on the suit: the batsuit is a lot more than a bulletproof jacket and a helmet, and much of the technology is doable to some extent. While it may not be an "off the shelf" item as all the stuff they listed is, I'm sure anyone the wherewithall to do this sort of thing could get something a little more advanced than just a jacket...
What I want is something that filters out those f-ing lame "directories" that provide virtually no useful information at all, but seem to often end up at the top of the lists...
Quite. I first learned of it while working on a project with IBM in the fall of 1984 (linking mainframes to multibus systems). At the time, it was way better than anything else I'd run into before, but being only available in mainframes at the time, that week was the only exposure I ever really got to it (I was doing firmware in the interface card, and went to IBM for a week to help build a demo). FWIW, I really enjoyed working with the IBM engineer from Sweden, but since they hadn't connected to the net yet, we couldn't exchange email and keep in touch, so we've never talked since. Always wondered what he got up to, so if you're reading this Bjorn, Hi!;-)
I'm running almost a week behind on my Tivo right now. And in any case, on principle, I simply won't use anything that's going to be deleting stuff automatically. I want to watch stuff on *my* schedule, not anyone elses.
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I was waiting for the inevitable Treo 700 to come out to upgrade to from my 600, which is painfully slow and has a crappy camera. I've always been annoyed that they left graffiti out of them, but now to find that they're putting that windoze crap on it... Well, at least the 650 will drop in price now --- I can upgrade to that to hold me over until someone else comes out with something comparable.
Get a lot of people to regularly go through and do these normal things to train them out of this nonsense (i.e. make it too expensive to do).
There is a big difference between "your idea is useless" and "you can't do it regardless". The former is just opinion, the latter is a lack of freedom, something becoming way too common in this "land of the free".
So, the Wright brothers were right after all?
...people copying records onto cassette tapes for each other will be the death of the industry!
Seems to me they'd want to stuff it back in rather than pull it out though... unless they're going to treat the hole as a "damaged tile" and try some of the filler goop to fill it...
Very interesting to read this article today, after just last night reading The Pain Gun, by Gregory Benford in the July/August issue of Analog Science Fiction, which uses exactly that type of weapon in it...
To me, content that restricts what, when, how and where I can experience it is degraded, not premium, and I don't want it in the first place.
To me, Tatooine-like would be "that earthish desert planet", not "that gas giant with 3 suns"...
Granted, the majority of applications can't really benefit from it, but there are still a decent number of applications that can, and as long as there are all these idle cpus that have nothing better to do, why not put them to work on the problems that they can contribute to? Save the tightly coupled parallel processing systems to work on the problems that require them.
That was the point of posting the issues with them, though it's true, I probably could have phrased the lead in a little better...
My algorithm is to search on pricegrabber for the product, and then pick the lowest priced vendor that has a 5 star rating. If the price difference is small, I'll prefer a vendor I've dealt with before.
Zipzoomfly has been a good vendor, though I've had about a 50% DOA rate on Hitachi 7K250 drives from them. They've been quite prompt and good about replacing them (if you call --- the web interface for returns is a black hole). Once I get working drives, they seem to stay working though.
From the article: "However, with a good outlook for stocks in the second half, there are no plans to sell the shares in the near term."
So they're going to end up making money on the mistake and she gets fired for not being trained up on a new system...
That's what broke me free of Evercrack: I just don't have the time or inclination to live in a virtual world. As a result, I couldn't stay up with any of the people I knew playing it (who were practically living there), nor did my availability line up with them. That made it impractical to group play (other than joining up with random groups, which is very hit and miss and often I'd rather just do my own thing), and the game is impossible to advance in for single users (at least casual ones). I enjoy it, but after you reach a certain point, there was just nowhere to go.
I can hear the question now, "if you want to solo, why go online?" The fact is, the environment is nice for a number of reasons: learning by watching, ask people questions, sometimes people even give you things, sometimes you do feel sociable or find a good group, sometimes you do want to play with friends.
One of the things that surprised me about it was how much like myself I actually played. I'm much more outgoing in email and usenet than in real life, but when it comes to direct interaction with immediate feedback...all of a sudden it was as hard to meet people as it is in real life. Well, not quite, but as I think about it, there's a real difference between tossing something up in the air for all to see and those interested can respond to if they want versus directing something to a specific person and being unsure of their reaction.
I'm rather concerned that a Senior Programmer can't build a web page with properly working Paypal Donate button on it (it just links back to the page it's sitting on). Is this really Chip Salzenberg or some scam?
If you were moving the mouse as you were traversing the tree doing your search, it would do something like that --- that's basically what they're seeing the humans do: move the mouse towards what it seems to be with as much data as has been received so far, and that's what you'd be doing in a tree search as well. It would obviously have to be some sort of scoring decision tree...
What came to mind after I read the article was that their results looked like the behavior you'd expect from a standard tree search in a digital computer program, if you moved the mouse according to each branch decision...
Has it ever been anything but style? I'm not sure this even qualifies as science fiction, at least not good, plausible, science fiction. It is reminiscent of the 50's versions of the future though...and it seems that inventors still haven't learned to actually try using their inventions before showing them off...
Any responsible mail server allows users to white/blacklist, and in fact the mail servers I run at the three ISPs I run them on all have ways for the users to do just that.
All you have to do is whitelist the list servers --- not really that big a deal, even for me who's on a large number of them.
Blocking forged mail is not useful? For once I truly *do* salute Microsoft. It's a minor nuisance for users who use multiple accounts, and you have to whitelist forwarders, but that's much less of a nuisance than all the phishing scams that depend on forged mail...
I think they really wimped out on the suit: the batsuit is a lot more than a bulletproof jacket and a helmet, and much of the technology is doable to some extent. While it may not be an "off the shelf" item as all the stuff they listed is, I'm sure anyone the wherewithall to do this sort of thing could get something a little more advanced than just a jacket...
What I want is something that filters out those f-ing lame "directories" that provide virtually no useful information at all, but seem to often end up at the top of the lists...
Quite. I first learned of it while working on a project with IBM in the fall of 1984 (linking mainframes to multibus systems). At the time, it was way better than anything else I'd run into before, but being only available in mainframes at the time, that week was the only exposure I ever really got to it (I was doing firmware in the interface card, and went to IBM for a week to help build a demo). FWIW, I really enjoyed working with the IBM engineer from Sweden, but since they hadn't connected to the net yet, we couldn't exchange email and keep in touch, so we've never talked since. Always wondered what he got up to, so if you're reading this Bjorn, Hi! ;-)
I'm running almost a week behind on my Tivo right now. And in any case, on principle, I simply won't use anything that's going to be deleting stuff automatically. I want to watch stuff on *my* schedule, not anyone elses.