That's all we need. How 'bout un-fucking the current UI usability problems with the Linux desktop before adding more superfluous shit on top of an already ridiculously complex system. At least they could use something that already exists.
Your right. However, innovative software can have a difference in how a company performs in a market, and the market is now global. The US (and countries that follow the US's lead) will find themselves at a disadvantage in terms of innovation or application of innovative ideas. If I cannot utilize a technology but my competitor can, then I am at a disadvantage in the marketplace. The reason I cannot use a technology or idea is irrelevant. Companies inside of the US run the risk of marginalizing themselves.
This just happened to me in one of Chicago's Redline train stations. I have an old ATM card that sometimes requires a sales person to enter my card number manually. Well, using one of these *new* ATM's looks like it totally confused the ATM and it gave me an "mu.exe" memory access exception.
Then, as the article stated, I was dropped into the Windows CE Shell. Was able to startup IE, etc.
Also, had this experience with some BP Amoco gas pumps. Except that I was getting JVM stack traces when trying to view online content while pumping gas. The world is ending...
This article addresses issues that deal with the every day computer user, not/. readers. Computers have nothing to do with lifestyles or religious beliefs for 99.9999% of individuals that use them. Raskin points out the deficiencies inherent in computing systems for the everyday non-/. user, not Igor the l33t hacker.
Man I thought this was over with! Talk about deja vu. I used to work for Ditto.com. I was one of the engineers responsible for the development of their web crawler and image processing architecture. One thing that I want everyone to be clear on is that Ditto.com's crawler observes all robots.txt files. So if this guy really did not want Ditto's crawler to download and redistribute his work all he would have to do is setup a robots.txt file.
Also, if I remember correctly, he actually knows about robots.txt (go figure) so he is not entirely ignorant. Plus, since we crawled his site and all of this has blownup, his site is seeing traffic like it never has.
When the crawler downloads a file it creates thumbnails and discards the original image. Reason being is that the courts determined that Ditto could store images of a certain size and display those images without violating copyright. The full size image that pops up within the pop-up window is actually just a link to the original authors site.
If we had stored the image at its original size we would eat up terabytes of disk space, hence another reason to only store thumbnails.
The whole premise behind Ditto's search engine was not as an "image" search engine. Mike Lyon's the founder of Ditto is dyslexic. He thought it would be valuable to have a search engine that allowed people with similar disabilities to "search visually". If people are using the engine to just for search for images they are not using it as it was truly intended to be used.
I am building a home MP3 player and I am using the LINUX kernel as the OS. I already have it finished. It allows you to rip CD's, play CD's, play MP3's on CD's, Use playlists, Encode CDDA files and raw PCM,WAV into MP3 format with enocding bitrates from 64 to 256. Also you can plug your RIO into it and either upload or download MP3's. There is a network card that allows you to connect to another machine to download MP3 files. I am using a 20x4 LCD display to run the whole thing. It will plug into any home stereo unit.
I have some other plans for this machine as well. Anyone interested in having one let me know.
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We'll just do what we did in the past, import scientists from another country like Germany. Werner Von Braun wasn't born in the Big Apple.
Except now it has to do with whose license is "bigger and badder." Jesus, is crap like this going to drag down the community AGAIN!
That's all we need. How 'bout un-fucking the current UI usability problems with the Linux desktop before adding more superfluous shit on top of an already ridiculously complex system. At least they could use something that already exists.
As a nod to one of the worst Fred Ward movies of all time:
This was the name of that lame ass *satellite thingy* in Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins. I, for one, was glad the adventure didn't continue.
Bad special effects, bad martial arts (Joel Grey, of Calypso Heat Wave fame, as a KungFu, oh my bad Shinanzu, master), and Wilford Brimley.
Not to worry, this thing is doomed by association.
Uh... Where is Lua?
Your right. However, innovative software can have a difference in how a company performs in a market, and the market is now global. The US (and countries that follow the US's lead) will find themselves at a disadvantage in terms of innovation or application of innovative ideas. If I cannot utilize a technology but my competitor can, then I am at a disadvantage in the marketplace. The reason I cannot use a technology or idea is irrelevant. Companies inside of the US run the risk of marginalizing themselves.
Look a little deeper...
This just happened to me in one of Chicago's Redline train stations. I have an old ATM card that sometimes requires a sales person to enter my card number manually. Well, using one of these *new* ATM's looks like it totally confused the ATM and it gave me an "mu.exe" memory access exception.
Then, as the article stated, I was dropped into the Windows CE Shell. Was able to startup IE, etc.
Also, had this experience with some BP Amoco gas pumps. Except that I was getting JVM stack traces when trying to view online content while pumping gas. The world is ending...
Reminds me of something from a Vernor Vinge novel.
This article addresses issues that deal with the every day computer user, not /. readers. Computers have nothing to do with lifestyles or religious beliefs for 99.9999% of individuals that use them. Raskin points out the deficiencies inherent in computing systems for the everyday non-/. user, not Igor the l33t hacker.
Man I thought this was over with! Talk about deja vu. I used to work for Ditto.com. I was one of the engineers responsible for the development of their web crawler and image processing architecture. One thing that I want everyone to be clear on is that Ditto.com's crawler observes all robots.txt files. So if this guy really did not want Ditto's crawler to download and redistribute his work all he would have to do is setup a robots.txt file.
Also, if I remember correctly, he actually knows about robots.txt (go figure) so he is not entirely ignorant. Plus, since we crawled his site and all of this has blownup, his site is seeing traffic like it never has.
When the crawler downloads a file it creates thumbnails and discards the original image. Reason being is that the courts determined that Ditto could store images of a certain size and display those images without violating copyright. The full size image that pops up within the pop-up window is actually just a link to the original authors site.
If we had stored the image at its original size we would eat up terabytes of disk space, hence another reason to only store thumbnails.
The whole premise behind Ditto's search engine was not as an "image" search engine. Mike Lyon's the founder of Ditto is dyslexic. He thought it would be valuable to have a search engine that allowed people with similar disabilities to "search visually". If people are using the engine to just for search for images they are not using it as it was truly intended to be used.
just thought I would throw in my two cents...
I am building a home MP3 player and I am using the LINUX kernel as the OS. I already have it finished. It allows you to rip CD's, play CD's, play MP3's on CD's, Use playlists, Encode CDDA files and raw PCM,WAV into MP3 format with enocding bitrates from 64 to 256. Also you can plug your RIO into it and either upload or download MP3's. There is a network card that allows you to connect to another machine to download MP3 files. I am using a 20x4 LCD display to run the whole thing. It will plug into any home stereo unit.
I have some other plans for this machine as well.
Anyone interested in having one let me know.
I plan on mass producing these very soon!
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