... 'what the hell would you want a display on your razor for?'...
I bought a Braun 7570 with an LCD screen the other day; as you guessed it shows the power remaining + maintenance status. No closeness of shave control though (as far as I know!).
> It would be interesting to see how annoying it would be to have a browser start scrolling automatically as soon as a page was loaded, or if it would be of use...
Tip for IE users (and yes, the marjority of Slashdot readers do use IE:-) ) -
Click the middle button on your mouse, and an odd looking cursor should appear. Now mouse up/down to control the scrolling speed.
It's quite neat, but I can't say I use it very often.
Tsk. Haven't you heard? We're all using ISO 4217 nowadays.
Seriously though, the article makes no mention of where Stealth Computers are based, so that $995 could (with varying degrees of credulity) have been Australian, Canadian or Tuvalu Dollars.
Don't have a link to hand, but I remember reading in a magazine that experiments on chimps in the 60s showed that you can expect to survive for up to two minutes in a vacuum, of which you'll be conscious for about 20-30 seconds.
Freezing is not a major problem since there's no conduction/convection of heat away from you; only radiation, which is inefficient.
50 years ago, one could simply telephone the butcher, baker or grocer and he'd send a boy round on a bike the same afternoon...
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> Maybe someone could explain to us newbies how this affects the operation of the Internet.
Ok.
Here's the usual (much simplified) explanation for how DNS (that is, maping hostnames to IP addresses) works:
Let's assume we want to connect to www.slashdot.org. We need to know it's IP address in order to do this.
What we do is:
1) Ask one of the 13 root servers which server handles.org domains.
2) Ask that server which server handles the slashdot.org domain.
3)Ask that server which server handles the www.slashdot.org zone.
However, this begs the question:
"Where do the root servers get their info. from?"
Well, as of yesterday they're getting it from 192.58.128.30.
To some extent, 192.58.128.30 is now the most important address on the internet since it is the highest authority for the rather important business of looking up addresses.
> Did any of the astronauts who went to the moon come down with cancer?
Given that the moon has no magnetic field and that a spacesuit is necessarily of pretty low density and thickness, I've never quite understood how it was safe for astronauts to walk around on the lunar surface for extended periods of time - surely the radiation from a solar flare or similar could have amounted to a near lethal dose?
> Does anyone know of a console-land type of setup, a "getty"-ish app, perhaps, that would let me log in, start a task (say a big compile), detach, and then reattach later to 'check up on it'?
Er, Ctrl-Z to detach, 'jobs' to find it again and fg [job] to reattach?
Sorry, I should clarify what I meant. I'm aware that email agents/clients exist that can do classification based on programatic rules defined by the user.
What I want is something that can do this statistically (possibly Bayesian) by looking at the existing contents of my email folders; i.e. *without* the need to set up an inevitably somewhat fragile set of rules.
Sorry, I should clarify what I meant. I'm aware that email agents/clients exist that can do classification based on programatic rules.
What I want is something that can do this statistically by looking at the existing contents of my email folders; i.e. without the need to set up an inevitably somewhat fragile set of rules.
> A friend of mine and I once considered writing a language editor which guaranteed that at any time, the program displayed in the editor window was syntactically correct.
Actually, the BASIC interpretor/editor of my 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1983 vintage) already has this capability, so that's not too new, either...
Seriously though, that feature could also be a pain in the ass. When writing a complicated function, I'll often start with some bare-bones code that isn't correct (refers to functions that don't exist yet etc) and then flesh it out. I'm sure I'm not alone.
> Is there something "built in" to these filtering techniques that can be used by spammers to effectively circumvent them?
Yes and no.
To defeat a bayesian filter, the spammer needs to make his email contain similar words, and combinations of words, to your genuine email, while at the same time making sure that the words used are different to those in known spam.
So saying 'click here to make $$$' won't work any more, since most of your regular emails don't contain the word combinations 'click here' and 'make $$$', whereas known spam emails will.
However, we're already beginning to see spammers making their emails less obviously spam.
For example, the spammer may use an email along the lines of:
"How's things?
Have you seen yet?
Don't forget to mail me those documents.
Regards, A Spammer"
Even a bayesian filter will struggle to distinguish that from:
Sure, spam is a big problem, but right now only 10-20% of my emails are spam, and most are easily identifiable by subject.
On the other hand, I get hundreds of emails every few days covering a range of topics, which need to be manually sorted into folders.
What I'd like to see, and I suspect I'm not alone here, is similar software that can sort email into any number of categories, not just spam and non-spam.
For example, if I have an email folder called 'fishing', containg emails from fishing buddies, then next time I get an email containg references to 'casting', 'trout' and 'it was *this* long', it should be sorted into that folder automatically.
I'd be curious to know if there's any existing software to do this, and if not, I'd be tempted to have a go at knocking something up to do this.
One tricky bit would be how to integrate it with the email client. I'd imagine that users wouldn't want to switch away from Outlook/Mozilla/Mutt/Whatever merely for this feature, so it would have to be client-agnostic.
I'm thinking that implementing a simple IMAP server would be the easiest option since this allows for server-side folder management. It would then be case of maintaining word counts (Bayesian or otherwise) for each folder, and classifying mail accordingly.
> Please, people. Don't do what the parent post suggests. The cashier didn't write the policy, and they would certainly rather not bother getting prints. Have some consideration for somebody other than yourself-- employees are people, too, they just happen to wear a uniform.
I'm sorry, but that's plain wrong. They don't have to wear a uniform. They don't have to work there. If they can't deal with complaints, they can quit. No-one in the first world starves to death if they don't work.
While I agree it's hard on the employees in the short-term, eventually the employer will get the message. For one thing, continually replacing staff is expensive.
<rubs fingers together>
Hear that? It's the world's smallest violin playing just for the cashiers...
> int i = 23 as in his example would, if I understood correctly, make a construct like i++ impossible.
If you think of i++ as short hand for i = i + 1, then you'll see that it would work fine.
After executing i++, i would be a reference to a new Integer object whose value is 1 greater than before.
This is no different to doing s = s + "foo" where s is an instance of the String class (which is immutable).
However, you couldn't do (mylist.get(5))++ since this would not change the object reference inside the list. That said, I don't think that's a mistake any programmer is likely to make.
> UntiL ATi makes their own *nix drivers, im stickin to Nvidia.
In ATI's defense, unlike nVidia (who are strictly proprietary), ATI do make the chipset details available so anyone can write open source drivers for whatever esteoric OS they happen to be using - there's more OSs than just Windows and Linux, you know!
Of course, it would be nice if ATI released both specs and drivers, but IMHO, it is better in the long term for open source OSs if the specs are released.
Slashdot Mirror
One minor suggestion - perhaps you should add a more prominent disclaimer somewhere on the site?
Seriously though, that's what the .invalid tld is reserved for - e.g. bob@this.address.is.invalid.
...
Similarly, example.com is reserved for use in documentation etc and will never be allocated.
Personally I feel sorry for the owners of test.com and foo.com
> It would be interesting to see how annoying it would be to have a browser start scrolling automatically as soon as a page was loaded, or if it would be of use...
:-) ) -
Tip for IE users (and yes, the marjority of Slashdot readers do use IE
Click the middle button on your mouse, and an odd looking cursor should appear. Now mouse up/down to control the scrolling speed.
It's quite neat, but I can't say I use it very often.
Tsk. Haven't you heard? We're all using ISO 4217 nowadays.
Seriously though, the article makes no mention of where Stealth Computers are based, so that $995 could (with varying degrees of credulity) have been Australian, Canadian or Tuvalu Dollars.
Don't have a link to hand, but I remember reading in a magazine that experiments on chimps in the 60s showed that you can expect to survive for up to two minutes in a vacuum, of which you'll be conscious for about 20-30 seconds.
Freezing is not a major problem since there's no conduction/convection of heat away from you; only radiation, which is inefficient.
True, but not every concept is easily represented as an object.
The 'Concept Programming vs. Objects' page explains how concept programming relates to OOP.
50 years ago, one could simply telephone the butcher, baker or grocer and he'd send a boy round on a bike the same afternoon...
> Maybe someone could explain to us newbies how this affects the operation of the Internet.
.org domains.
Ok.
Here's the usual (much simplified) explanation for how DNS (that is, maping hostnames to IP addresses) works:
Let's assume we want to connect to www.slashdot.org. We need to know it's IP address in order to do this.
What we do is:
1) Ask one of the 13 root servers which server handles
2) Ask that server which server handles the slashdot.org domain.
3)Ask that server which server handles the www.slashdot.org zone.
However, this begs the question:
"Where do the root servers get their info. from?"
Well, as of yesterday they're getting it from 192.58.128.30.
To some extent, 192.58.128.30 is now the most important address on the internet since it is the highest authority for the rather important business of looking up addresses.
> Did any of the astronauts who went to the moon come down with cancer?
Given that the moon has no magnetic field and that a spacesuit is necessarily of pretty low density and thickness, I've never quite understood how it was safe for astronauts to walk around on the lunar surface for extended periods of time - surely the radiation from a solar flare or similar could have amounted to a near lethal dose?
> And how many theatres in your area have a setup caable of handling 70mm films any more?
...
Taking area to mean within 15 miles, then the answer is at least seven:
BFI London IMAX
National Film Theatre
Odeon, Leicester Square
Curzon Mayfair
Empire, Leicester Square
Warner Bros West End
Odeon, West End
Admittedly not everyone is lucky enough to live in London, England though
> a pull down screen, 119" HD should be in the $150 range
...
Yeah, but it's still not quite the same as a 70mm print of 2001 on a 60ft screen
> Does anyone know of a console-land type of setup, a "getty"-ish app, perhaps, that would let me log in, start a task (say a big compile), detach, and then reattach later to 'check up on it'?
Er, Ctrl-Z to detach, 'jobs' to find it again and fg [job] to reattach?
Should work under most *nix shells.
> Not being able to get into the BIOS or updating the BIOS has nothing to do with the OS installed.
That used to be the case, but many modern BIOSs now have more integration with the OS than previously.
In this example, the IBM Thinkpad BIOS is confusing the BSD disk partition with a special partition used for waking from hibernation.
> But what the FSCK are we gonna do with a 100 million pixel camera (around 2010ish???)
OK. Suppose I want to print a poster that's 8ft by 6ft with a dpi of 120.
Doesn't sound too unreasonable, does it?
Well, that will need 8x12x120 x 6x12x120 = 99,532,800 pixels.
Sorry, I should clarify what I meant. I'm aware that email agents/clients exist that can do classification based on programatic rules defined by the user.
What I want is something that can do this statistically (possibly Bayesian) by looking at the existing contents of my email folders; i.e. *without* the need to set up an inevitably somewhat fragile set of rules.
Sorry, I should clarify what I meant. I'm aware that email agents/clients exist that can do classification based on programatic rules.
What I want is something that can do this statistically by looking at the existing contents of my email folders; i.e. without the need to set up an inevitably somewhat fragile set of rules.
> A friend of mine and I once considered writing a language editor which guaranteed that at any time, the program displayed in the editor window was syntactically correct.
Actually, the BASIC interpretor/editor of my 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1983 vintage) already has this capability, so that's not too new, either ...
Seriously though, that feature could also be a pain in the ass. When writing a complicated function, I'll often start with some bare-bones code that isn't correct (refers to functions that don't exist yet etc) and then flesh it out. I'm sure I'm not alone.
Oh, and "Bayesian" is pronounced "BAY - ZEE - UHNN".
> Is there something "built in" to these filtering techniques that can be used by spammers to effectively circumvent them?
Yes and no.
To defeat a bayesian filter, the spammer needs to make his email contain similar words, and combinations of words, to your genuine email, while at the same time making sure that the words used are different to those in known spam.
So saying 'click here to make $$$' won't work any more, since most of your regular emails don't contain the word combinations 'click here' and 'make $$$', whereas known spam emails will.
However, we're already beginning to see spammers making their emails less obviously spam.
For example, the spammer may use an email along the lines of:
"How's things?
Have you seen yet?
Don't forget to mail me those documents.
Regards,
A Spammer"
Even a bayesian filter will struggle to distinguish that from:
"Have you seen the story on slashdot yet?
Don't forget those reports.
Regards,
Your Boss"
Sure, spam is a big problem, but right now only 10-20% of my emails are spam, and most are easily identifiable by subject.
On the other hand, I get hundreds of emails every few days covering a range of topics, which need to be manually sorted into folders.
What I'd like to see, and I suspect I'm not alone here, is similar software that can sort email into any number of categories, not just spam and non-spam.
For example, if I have an email folder called 'fishing', containg emails from fishing buddies, then next time I get an email containg references to 'casting', 'trout' and 'it was *this* long', it should be sorted into that folder automatically.
I'd be curious to know if there's any existing software to do this, and if not, I'd be tempted to have a go at knocking something up to do this.
One tricky bit would be how to integrate it with the email client. I'd imagine that users wouldn't want to switch away from Outlook/Mozilla/Mutt/Whatever merely for this feature, so it would have to be client-agnostic.
I'm thinking that implementing a simple IMAP server would be the easiest option since this allows for server-side folder management. It would then be case of maintaining word counts (Bayesian or otherwise) for each folder, and classifying mail accordingly.
Anyone else had any thoughts along these lines?
I'm sorry, but that's plain wrong. They don't have to wear a uniform. They don't have to work there. If they can't deal with complaints, they can quit. No-one in the first world starves to death if they don't work.
While I agree it's hard on the employees in the short-term, eventually the employer will get the message. For one thing, continually replacing staff is expensive.
<rubs fingers together>
Hear that? It's the world's smallest violin playing just for the cashiers...
And yeah, I've worked minimum wage before.
> int i = 23 as in his example would, if I understood correctly, make a construct like i++ impossible.
If you think of i++ as short hand for i = i + 1, then you'll see that it would work fine.
After executing i++, i would be a reference to a new Integer object whose value is 1 greater than before.
This is no different to doing s = s + "foo" where s is an instance of the String class (which is immutable).
However, you couldn't do (mylist.get(5))++ since this would not change the object reference inside the list. That said, I don't think that's a mistake any programmer is likely to make.
> You save time, as you don't have to use notepad for configuring your server!
...
Notepad! Shurely shome mistake? All web admins use vi, everyone knows that
> UntiL ATi makes their own *nix drivers, im stickin to Nvidia.
In ATI's defense, unlike nVidia (who are strictly proprietary), ATI do make the chipset details available so anyone can write open source drivers for whatever esteoric OS they happen to be using - there's more OSs than just Windows and Linux, you know!
Of course, it would be nice if ATI released both specs and drivers, but IMHO, it is better in the long term for open source OSs if the specs are released.