Once you have a few years on you, you'll see that a constant barrage of eye candy does nothing to improve productivity any more than a constant barrage of new programming languages or 'development methods'. Just new ways of doing the same thing, except things that were working just fine are now broken. The fact that you have to working hardware every two years to display a 1.5ft^2 bitmap is proof enough.
This is technology looking for an application, vs an application looking for technology. It's not called "progress", it's call "churn". Progress would be a demonstration of how the technology solved a definable problem. "I can see the windows better" is not definable. Hell, it isn't even sensible, since few monitors have more that 1.5ft^2 for displayable area. How the hell do you 'lose' windows in that small a space? To much eye candy maybe?
Now, pull up your diaper and go out outside into the real world for a while. You've been drooling over 'shiny things' on the computer to long today.
PS. I enjoy eye-candy as much as the next guy, but I don't confuse it with 'progress'. My real beef is with developers who confuse 'pretty' with 'productive', make the eye candy an essential part of the application, and provide no way of turning it off.
OK. This isn't a hack worthy of a/. article, and the all black canvas isn't 'art' worthy of being hung in a museum either. Both are aptly described as 'lame'.
The former soldered a few wires into a set of headphones that most people would be embarassed to wear in public unless they were using a chainsaw to cut down trees. He didn't even have to design an impedance matching circuit.
The latter is just boring. Something to be expeceted from the lazy kid in a high school class as he tries to throw together a 4-week assignment on the final night.
I agree. This is a hack. Just a very un-notable one.
I agree. Since I personally have looked to Google as my own personal card catalogue for the past 5yrs or so, I get very upset that these morons are breaking it. Let's put the best Slashdot minds together and offer Google suggestions on how to improve the results we get. Most of the suggestions will probably be implemented already, or worthless, but to get at diamonds you have to turn a lot of dirt.
I'll go first:
- ignore all but the first three or four meta-tags, with the reasoning that someone selling computers won't also be selling the blue pills
- ignore/downgrade sites that link to more than three or four different subject matters, same reasoning as above. If the site isn't targetted, then it is very unlikely that the link is.
-DDoS anyone appearing in the top 10 for a search on SEO
In 2004 though, you knew who you were voting for, and still, you wanted more of it.
Or maybe we rejected what the competition was offering? Maybe a large portion of the election wasn't about foreign policy, which would possibly have some minor impact on people such as yourself, but was indeed about DOMESTIC policy, which would have a major impact on people such as myself. Did you ever think, that just maybe, the Americans in those territories fondly referred to as 'flyover territory' by the annointed elites, have tired of being told they are obtuse and uneducated by a group of leaders they find repulsive and degenerate? Did you ever stop to consider that they may reject being told by outsiders that their values are twisted?
If you and John Kerry are so damn smart, why would you make over half a country hate you so? How could someone as dumb as 'Dubya' beat someone as intelligent as Kerry? Someone as intelligent as Kerry should surely be able to coerce such an uneducated flock as the unwashed masses of the United States.
Or maybe Kerry, like yourself, is just educated far beyond his intelligence. I'm willing to let the evidence speak for itself.
and rest assured that you will have another chance to unseat the dastardly Republicans in a couple of years
Do you have some secret evidence that leads you to believe that this will make a difference of any sort?
It my experience that both of the major parties are quite willing to constantly eat away at our rights, privileges and freedoms. One only screams at the other when it can gain political points.
My prediction: If Linux in business applications get useful enough, then we will see that various "flavors" mean nothing -- businesses will have one or a few guys making the "desktop load" and that is the image everyone will be using. Forget about "flavor" problems -- each business will make their own anyway -- as if we don't already do that with Windows to begin with?
Very good, erroneus! Somebody get him/her a banana!
Cisco has (hold onto your hat) CISCO LINUX!!
You can use a different distro if you like, but to get 'official' tech support you have to use the Cisco internel distribution. Cisco has everything set up to work in Cisco, and you can kickstart it to load across the network. It comes up knowing where all the resources are in the company.
You have seen the future, erroneus, as this will be the pattern for large companies in the future. There are just to many competitive advantages for this paradigm to be ignored, not least of which is to modify the file system a little to foil virii.
We are spread too thin and we are too tolerant of do-your-own-thing-ism.
I elect you to go around and slap all the neo-distributor around to stop them from these evil practices during their spare time. How dare they touch open source code and call it a hobby. They should all fall in line and do exactly what YOU say instead.
He's contending that the Unices failed because of fragmentation. Bull.
The Unices failed because low-end servers started at $10K while the same Wintel box that was on the adminstrators desk could do the same job for $1K. The company could have the same system throughout the enterprise.
Unless you signed a contract when you bought the software, they lost many of them when the store accepted funds from your credit card.
Yes, that's right, children. EULA, click-throughs, little pieces of paper stuck inside a box, any other cutesy little mechanism they try to use to force you to read some verbage before using the program...they are all utter bullshit. The contract was executed when you handed over the money, and follows standard law without a written contract. Anything they have to say afterward is spitting in the wind.
The biggest problem with this whole idea is Micrcosoft's broken development strategy. It is a culture thing, and will see its way into any Linux hardware abstraction layer they try to develop. What I'm talking about is best explained with the video driver saga on NT.
Windows NT, by most accounts, was a solid OS design, partitioning and securing different parts of the system from on another. But it was fast enough to beat the competition on every benchmark, so Microsoft made the fatal decision to move the video driver into the protected kernel space. Thereby, damaging the OS stability.
They would expect to do the same to Linux. Play games and take shortcuts with the system stability, so that a fault in one system would bring the whole computer down. If they ever did try such a monstrosity, I think most user would totally reject such flotsam.
2) Linux vendors report every hair out of place. It doesn't matter if the flaw causes a D to look like an O on the third day of the Summer Solstice, but only if that day matches the 4th digit of PI, and only if the computer has calculated the cure for cancer at exactly 15 milliseconds after the user's orgasm.
You may not have heard, but this problem has been returned to the user as a "will not fix". The workaround is for you to push your keyboard back a little so that the computer doesn't know when you do it. This also aids in keeping your keyboard clean.
Yes, but that 2.6 year increase represents something on the order of a 20% increase in SS outlays. You would draw for 12.7 years, now you'ldd draw for 15.3...if you're average.
Maybe some of these 'so-called musicians' have tired of ratty hotels and washing dishes to support their desire to play music? Why does what is played for the public have to be the limit to what they play. Can it be that you're a little jealous because they've found a gig to support their avocation that makes them rich, and you haven't? And what's so wrong with being a "money grubbing attention whore", as long as you're being paid handsomely for it? Where is the honor in turning down fame and fortune for the sake of turning down fame and fortune?
From Britain I look at the sticker and think, OK, have your sticker with the message written on it, just so long as those who don't think the same can put the following on bibles:
The Bible is a story, not a collection of facts, regarding the origin of living things. The material was written by many people over hundreds of years in many different languages. The material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
Somehow, I don't think the Creationist lobby will go for that though...
The problem is, I pay (through my taxes) for the textbook. You didn't send me a single penny to help pay for my Bible. Now you can put any sticker you want on YOUR Bible, just as I should have a say in what goes on the books I help pay for.
That said, the a sticker is a little silly. A court case surrounding it is a circus.
Granted, the power wire is added weight, but something has to provide power. The wire would possibly be lighter than enough fuel or solar panels to move the mass up that far.
I didn't propose any sort of switching station.
Picture you will one of those racks that you use to see in offices for holding hand stamps. A ring of C clamps with the throats all facing outward.
The center shaft is the 'train' and provides the power. The cargo cars would look like big cigars, or maybe the space shuttles external fuel tank, and are just glorified crates. Two 'trains' meet somewhere/anywhere on the ribbon, exchange cars, and head back in the other direction.
Carrying one vehicle at a time will be nightmare. The thing will have to be built to support multiple transports or it will be consigned to a corner or history as a strange oddity.
That is the simple answer, but also the incorrect one. Jets fly through temperatures this cold daily. The standard adiabatic rate for temperature is 3.8degrees per 1000ft. That is at 30Kft (a typical commercial flight altitude), the temperature is 120degrees lower than it is on the ground.
Icing conditions only occur within a fairly narrow temperature range, with both a minimum and maximum temp. The H20 has to be liquid when it hits the wing, else it won't stick. After you go below the minimun, you're hitting snow or hail, each of which has it's own set of problems.
Airliners fly through icing conditions all the time in order to keep the Christmas flight schedule going. Icing is a major problem for scheduled flights, but not insurmountable, and there are multiple techniques to combat it. The US Air Force even has special built airplanes for flying in severly cold weather that fly winter missions to the artic on a regular basis (Soviet monitoring stations).
I'm also one that this is a castle in the sky idea that has little practical purpose. The real drive to create a space elevator ("Tower of Babel"), will only come when they find gold/oil/diamonds in easily reached asteroids. But that's beside the point. Why let reason and logic block a good technical discussion?
I believe the answer to the two problems you propose can alleviate one another. The solution is to create several "switch" stations along the ribbon. The ribbon trains will be circular and carry cars around it's perimeter in a spoke fashion. Every other spoke position being empty.
Now, half the trains are moving up, half moving down. When they meet, say at every 1000km, the cars from the bottom train are transferred to the top one(hence, every other slot being empty), and vice-versa. Two high tension wires run within the cable. The down travelling train runs a regenerative brake that feeds into the wires. The upbound train runs the generator in reverse to power the upward leg. Further energy can be supplied from solar cells/lasers/rockets/fuel cells...
1)switch times would happen VERY quickly, since all the cars are switched in parallel.
2) current in the wire can be minimized by adding more cars. More cars == generators closer to consumers
3) traffic can be increased by adding more cars, though increased switching times will make it a diminishing return system
4) cable shear forces are minimized. Objects going up are accelerated one way. Objects going down are accelerated the other way. Putting the two closer means they exchange the energy through a short piece of the ribbon, vs exchanging it with the top and bottom.
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How about you grow the fuck up.
Once you have a few years on you, you'll see that a constant barrage of eye candy does nothing to improve productivity any more than a constant barrage of new programming languages or 'development methods'. Just new ways of doing the same thing, except things that were working just fine are now broken. The fact that you have to working hardware every two years to display a 1.5ft^2 bitmap is proof enough.
This is technology looking for an application, vs an application looking for technology. It's not called "progress", it's call "churn". Progress would be a demonstration of how the technology solved a definable problem. "I can see the windows better" is not definable. Hell, it isn't even sensible, since few monitors have more that 1.5ft^2 for displayable area. How the hell do you 'lose' windows in that small a space? To much eye candy maybe?
Now, pull up your diaper and go out outside into the real world for a while. You've been drooling over 'shiny things' on the computer to long today.
PS. I enjoy eye-candy as much as the next guy, but I don't confuse it with 'progress'. My real beef is with developers who confuse 'pretty' with 'productive', make the eye candy an essential part of the application, and provide no way of turning it off.
OK. This isn't a hack worthy of a /. article, and the all black canvas isn't 'art' worthy of being hung in a museum either. Both are aptly described as 'lame'.
The former soldered a few wires into a set of headphones that most people would be embarassed to wear in public unless they were using a chainsaw to cut down trees. He didn't even have to design an impedance matching circuit.
The latter is just boring. Something to be expeceted from the lazy kid in a high school class as he tries to throw together a 4-week assignment on the final night.
I agree. This is a hack. Just a very un-notable one.
I agree. Since I personally have looked to Google as my own personal card catalogue for the past 5yrs or so, I get very upset that these morons are breaking it. Let's put the best Slashdot minds together and offer Google suggestions on how to improve the results we get. Most of the suggestions will probably be implemented already, or worthless, but to get at diamonds you have to turn a lot of dirt.
I'll go first:
- ignore all but the first three or four meta-tags, with the reasoning that someone selling computers won't also be selling the blue pills
- ignore/downgrade sites that link to more than three or four different subject matters, same reasoning as above. If the site isn't targetted, then it is very unlikely that the link is.
-DDoS anyone appearing in the top 10 for a search on SEO
In 2004 though, you knew who you were voting for, and still, you wanted more of it.
Or maybe we rejected what the competition was offering? Maybe a large portion of the election wasn't about foreign policy, which would possibly have some minor impact on people such as yourself, but was indeed about DOMESTIC policy, which would have a major impact on people such as myself. Did you ever think, that just maybe, the Americans in those territories fondly referred to as 'flyover territory' by the annointed elites, have tired of being told they are obtuse and uneducated by a group of leaders they find repulsive and degenerate? Did you ever stop to consider that they may reject being told by outsiders that their values are twisted?
If you and John Kerry are so damn smart, why would you make over half a country hate you so? How could someone as dumb as 'Dubya' beat someone as intelligent as Kerry? Someone as intelligent as Kerry should surely be able to coerce such an uneducated flock as the unwashed masses of the United States.
Or maybe Kerry, like yourself, is just educated far beyond his intelligence. I'm willing to let the evidence speak for itself.
and rest assured that you will have another chance to unseat the dastardly Republicans in a couple of years
Do you have some secret evidence that leads you to believe that this will make a difference of any sort?
It my experience that both of the major parties are quite willing to constantly eat away at our rights, privileges and freedoms. One only screams at the other when it can gain political points.
I'm always trying to get a piece and some quiet. But damn if she don't always on talking afterward.
My CorelDraw v3.0 won't work on WinXP.
I now run it on Fedora Core3 under WINE.
My prediction: If Linux in business applications get useful enough, then we will see that various "flavors" mean nothing -- businesses will have one or a few guys making the "desktop load" and that is the image everyone will be using. Forget about "flavor" problems -- each business will make their own anyway -- as if we don't already do that with Windows to begin with?
Very good, erroneus! Somebody get him/her a banana!
Cisco has (hold onto your hat) CISCO LINUX!!
You can use a different distro if you like, but to get 'official' tech support you have to use the Cisco internel distribution. Cisco has everything set up to work in Cisco, and you can kickstart it to load across the network. It comes up knowing where all the resources are in the company.
You have seen the future, erroneus, as this will be the pattern for large companies in the future. There are just to many competitive advantages for this paradigm to be ignored, not least of which is to modify the file system a little to foil virii.
We are spread too thin and we are too tolerant of do-your-own-thing-ism.
I elect you to go around and slap all the neo-distributor around to stop them from these evil practices during their spare time. How dare they touch open source code and call it a hobby. They should all fall in line and do exactly what YOU say instead.
No. He doesn't.
He's contending that the Unices failed because of fragmentation. Bull.
The Unices failed because low-end servers started at $10K while the same Wintel box that was on the adminstrators desk could do the same job for $1K. The company could have the same system throughout the enterprise.
Linux will win out for the same reason.
Firstly, because military problems attract money. Privates bitch to Sergeants, ...
Uhm, not quite. The real mechanism is...
Privates DIE, newspapers and parents of dead privates bitch to Congress, who has the people's money.
Same end result, of course.
What happened to Microsoft's IP rights?
Unless you signed a contract when you bought the software, they lost many of them when the store accepted funds from your credit card.
Yes, that's right, children. EULA, click-throughs, little pieces of paper stuck inside a box, any other cutesy little mechanism they try to use to force you to read some verbage before using the program...they are all utter bullshit. The contract was executed when you handed over the money, and follows standard law without a written contract. Anything they have to say afterward is spitting in the wind.
The biggest problem with this whole idea is Micrcosoft's broken development strategy. It is a culture thing, and will see its way into any Linux hardware abstraction layer they try to develop. What I'm talking about is best explained with the video driver saga on NT.
Windows NT, by most accounts, was a solid OS design, partitioning and securing different parts of the system from on another. But it was fast enough to beat the competition on every benchmark, so Microsoft made the fatal decision to move the video driver into the protected kernel space. Thereby, damaging the OS stability.
They would expect to do the same to Linux. Play games and take shortcuts with the system stability, so that a fault in one system would bring the whole computer down. If they ever did try such a monstrosity, I think most user would totally reject such flotsam.
2) Linux vendors report every hair out of place. It doesn't matter if the flaw causes a D to look like an O on the third day of the Summer Solstice, but only if that day matches the 4th digit of PI, and only if the computer has calculated the cure for cancer at exactly 15 milliseconds after the user's orgasm.
You may not have heard, but this problem has been returned to the user as a "will not fix". The workaround is for you to push your keyboard back a little so that the computer doesn't know when you do it. This also aids in keeping your keyboard clean.
Or you can use the test to hypothesize that when the shit hits the fan, everyone's a dumbass.
My life experience would verify this hypothesis.
And you forgot the number one drawback.
Engineers who know the shit is coming, spend half the day reading Slashdot and then claiming that it's to much work to get done on time.
Not that I've ever done that, mind you.
It's also the way to correctly torque bolts. Tighten till it breaks, then back off 1/2 turn.
Yes, but that 2.6 year increase represents something on the order of a 20% increase in SS outlays. You would draw for 12.7 years, now you'ldd draw for 15.3...if you're average.
Yeah! What makes you think my God died just because he was nailed to a tree?
Maybe some of these 'so-called musicians' have tired of ratty hotels and washing dishes to support their desire to play music? Why does what is played for the public have to be the limit to what they play. Can it be that you're a little jealous because they've found a gig to support their avocation that makes them rich, and you haven't? And what's so wrong with being a "money grubbing attention whore", as long as you're being paid handsomely for it? Where is the honor in turning down fame and fortune for the sake of turning down fame and fortune?
No, but...
Comercially successful == (rent + food)
From Britain I look at the sticker and think, OK, have your sticker with the message written on it, just so long as those who don't think the same can put the following on bibles:
The Bible is a story, not a collection of facts, regarding the origin of living things. The material was written by many people over hundreds of years in many different languages. The material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
Somehow, I don't think the Creationist lobby will go for that though...
The problem is, I pay (through my taxes) for the textbook. You didn't send me a single penny to help pay for my Bible. Now you can put any sticker you want on YOUR Bible, just as I should have a say in what goes on the books I help pay for.
That said, the a sticker is a little silly. A court case surrounding it is a circus.
Granted, the power wire is added weight, but something has to provide power. The wire would possibly be lighter than enough fuel or solar panels to move the mass up that far.
I didn't propose any sort of switching station.
Picture you will one of those racks that you use to see in offices for holding hand stamps. A ring of C clamps with the throats all facing outward.
The center shaft is the 'train' and provides the power. The cargo cars would look like big cigars, or maybe the space shuttles external fuel tank, and are just glorified crates. Two 'trains' meet somewhere/anywhere on the ribbon, exchange cars, and head back in the other direction.
Carrying one vehicle at a time will be nightmare. The thing will have to be built to support multiple transports or it will be consigned to a corner or history as a strange oddity.
That is the simple answer, but also the incorrect one.
Jets fly through temperatures this cold daily. The standard adiabatic rate for temperature is 3.8degrees per 1000ft. That is at 30Kft (a typical commercial flight altitude), the temperature is 120degrees lower than it is on the ground.
Icing conditions only occur within a fairly narrow temperature range, with both a minimum and maximum temp. The H20 has to be liquid when it hits the wing, else it won't stick. After you go below the minimun, you're hitting snow or hail, each of which has it's own set of problems.
Airliners fly through icing conditions all the time in order to keep the Christmas flight schedule going. Icing is a major problem for scheduled flights, but not insurmountable, and there are multiple techniques to combat it. The US Air Force even has special built airplanes for flying in severly cold weather that fly winter missions to the artic on a regular basis (Soviet monitoring stations).
I'm also one that this is a castle in the sky idea that has little practical purpose. The real drive to create a space elevator ("Tower of Babel"), will only come when they find gold/oil/diamonds in easily reached asteroids. But that's beside the point. Why let reason and logic block a good technical discussion?
I believe the answer to the two problems you propose can alleviate one another. The solution is to create several "switch" stations along the ribbon. The ribbon trains will be circular and carry cars around it's perimeter in a spoke fashion. Every other spoke position being empty.
Now, half the trains are moving up, half moving down. When they meet, say at every 1000km, the cars from the bottom train are transferred to the top one(hence, every other slot being empty), and vice-versa. Two high tension wires run within the cable. The down travelling train runs a regenerative brake that feeds into the wires. The upbound train runs the generator in reverse to power the upward leg. Further energy can be supplied from solar cells/lasers/rockets/fuel cells...
1)switch times would happen VERY quickly, since all the cars are switched in parallel.
2) current in the wire can be minimized by adding more cars. More cars == generators closer to consumers
3) traffic can be increased by adding more cars, though increased switching times will make it a diminishing return system
4) cable shear forces are minimized. Objects going up are accelerated one way. Objects going down are accelerated the other way. Putting the two closer means they exchange the energy through a short piece of the ribbon, vs exchanging it with the top and bottom.