So how many calories will kids burn with these machines?
If it is an aeorbic (sp?) exercise then there should not be any problem. It seems even the author of the article doesn't know the difference between fitness and "burning calories".
I wonder if the people mentioned in the article who don't like this new trend wish we could go back to dodge ball. Now that is physical education!
From the article:
The team of experts from Project-ARK will
spend the next few days studying the
behaviour of the spiders using electronic cameras.
Gosh kids, doesn't that sound fun? I was starting
to feel bad about trolling slashdot for far too
many hours. At least I'm not watching video tapes
of spiders.
Hour 1: Spiders build webs.
Hour 2-96: Spiders wait to eat anything that enters web including males who think they are going to get lucky.
The description in the article forgot one thing, printing. Until they someone figures out how to attach a printer to this thing it doesn't stand a chance. (Why people print stuff and then then edit the hard copy on the same desk that the computer sits is beyond me, but an awful lot of folks do.)
THere is also one other potential problem. AOL probably doesn't want to be associated with some of those awful, blood thirsty games that instigate all those teenagers to shoot up their schools. That just wouldn't go over well in middle America.
These are all short term problems. The current mentality is to treat software as a commodity. (oh god I'm starting to sound like RMS...)
Once the culture changes and people learn that it is okay to change the sourcecode each of the problems you bring up will be diminished. This is especially true as the OSS consulting industry begins to consolidate. In terms of that last bullet, as long as there are upgrades there will be a motivation to make changes and rethink the way things are being done.
At the moment I see one big short-term problem for linux. Until a journaling file system is in place I doubt that there will be a rush to adopt linux in many industries. When this comes out in a 2.6 kernel then it may be time to take notice.
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I just took a trip and drove across Nevada. I'm still not used to seeing slot machines in gas stations and now they want to put them on the web! Imagine all that noise in office's across the country.
I suppose the casino's are licking their chops at the chance of people across the country playing 21 through their servers or rolling virtual craps... Imagine the BSOD right after a "roll."
This is interesting and may be a great advance. The problem with chemical detection, however, is that it will only work with mines that are upstream in the ocean's currents.
Also, the article focuses mostly on detection of older mines but does not give any indication of how big the problem is. If the problem is significant then what would happen in a body of water (such as the Persian Gulf) where the levels might be high throughout? Not going there may not be a military option!
Seriously, occasionally magazines such as Sky and Telescope have articles or discussions on this issue and have comparison photo's. Many astronomical instruments are capable of examining a spectrum different from the human eye so there is always an issue of how to present these things especially to non-professionals.
From the article:
With a mixture of ingenuity and tenacity, the workers have transformed their
claim to $10 million in unpaid wages and refusal to accept forced resignations
into a national issue.
Getting royally screwed isn't just "business." Besides some people take pride when they help build something and are not simply willing to move on. Sometime standing up for principle is better than making money. Too bad that is something that doesn't count for much in America.
This is not a software issue. The article makes it sounds like the formulas that the publisher decided to use were not correct. People are implementing statistical methods that are not correct.
This is a serious issue and is something that ETS is trying to deal with. It is really difficult to appeal something when the disagreement centers on the analytical methods. The only reason they got ratted out is that Tennessee had good, hard data.
In the future it will be more and more difficult to keep tabs on this kind of thing. The only way to combat it is with open data, but that brings up a serious privacy issues.
Big business just has to sell it to big government, and then you get your ass shipped overseas. They're both bad. When Eisenhower was writing his speech in which he coined the phrase "Military-Industrial Complex" he originally wrote it as "Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex" but was talked out of that. (This comes from the world according to www.sftt.org,)
Even worse, the radio stations that are most likely to be in public spaces will receive a huge boost. This could create a race to produce the most innocuous stuff imagineable so that it could be used in public spaces without offending too many people. Because of the money involved this would then lead to a race to put even more advertising around us. We've already filled all visible spaces now we just need to fill in the audible parts of our life.
people still know they are being observed
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From the article:
...they may
write what they think will show them in a good light, they may
forget they switched stations to catch the news, they may try to
boost a favourite broadcaster when they haven't actually listened
to them.
People will know that they are being observed and can still do these same sorts of things. Seems like this will only give more accurate readings of bad observations.
What happens if you wear this into the bathroom. Will the system think that people are listening to Howard Stern?
Wow, changing a virus and letting it loose. Scary stuff. What I thought was interesting was this part:
The doctors decided to conduct the study after a
promising start in one patient, a 28-year-old
woman smoker with extensive patches in her mouth.
After two brief rounds of treatment, they
disappeared. But later they came back, this time as cancer.
Whoa, this is progress? I don't think I would like these guys to be my doctors!:-)
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who'd think that money was important?
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There is an article about this on zdnet. Also a quick search on campaign money and Tauzin turned up some interesting things as well. Check out the Washingont Post.
Also buried within this article is a discussion on how Tauzin and a couple of others are getting big money from the telephone industry.
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Humans are natural. Just because we make more noticeable changes to our environment than other animals doesn't mean we aren't nature.
I think this one should be filed under "understatement." I live near Lake Powell and not too far from Lake Mead, and it's hard not to try to imagine the beavers that would come close to building the Glen Canyon Damn or Hoover Damn. Maybe it isn't too wild if they would cut down all those big redwoods in California and drag them out here to Utah and Nevada?
Then again, concrete is made out of things we get in nature. Why not just pave everything? That way we wouldn't have to deal with all those pesky rocks and things.
2) Place compatible AOL XP bundle client installer on the machine
I wonder if they have considered the option to flood the entire free world with AOL cd's. The Coaster Producers Association wouldn't like it.
8) Get "Designed for Microsoft Windows" logo program exemption for AOL.
Microsoft pays the OEM significant rebates to have their software bundles
compliant with Microsoft specifications. The AOL client will likely not
meet Microsoft?s standards, resulting in OEM PC?s being out of compliance
with the logo program and jeopardizing the rebates.
So corp. A not only supports really scary policy of corp. B but wants to take advantage of it. This is the kind of stuff that makes it impossible to compete. Because of the kinds of margins the harware companies are dealing with and the kind of competition they face, they really have to go along with this stuff, or they are toast.
Better yet, imagine the proliferation of sites when you are able to download your favorite vibration. I wonder what the copyright forms for that will look like??? I just hope that it doesn't get to the point that Inga the Swedish cell phone queen and Vanessa the vibrator go to court over their intellectual property.
It is not uncommon to find Monarch butterflies in the UK that narrrowly missed their normal migration route to Mexico. Once in the air the prevailing winds can pull the craft across. If a butterfly can survive the shear forces then a model plane should have no troubles.
Had you read the article you would have noticed that the Foster chip is based on the OLD i860 chipset. I was a bit shocked to see that this thing was still around!
The i860 was put out almost ten years ago and was originally intended for accelerating graphics applications. (At least that was what I was told.:-) It was also used in the
Intel IPSC/3 (sometimes called the IPSC/860).
Talk about old school! This is the stuff used in the old Paragons and Delta machines!
Does anybody out there know the relationship to the i860 and the chipset discussed in the article???
Having the computer to document repairs and service would be nice. As for the medical stuff, I was a medic in the army. You might find this hard to believe, but they actually gave us some training on how to deal with trauma before being sent out in the field! Although, it would be nice to be able to record patient information on something other than those damn cards (which were usually smeared with mud and blood and your pen didn't work on them).
The medical reference stuff would only be useful for advanced stuff.
I'm just trying to imagine my infantry patient when I pull the computer out. "Hmmm, looks like you got appendicitis. Lemme pull that file up... Got it. That doesn't look too bad... Okay... I'm going in." (Maybe there's an open source medical series from Oreilly?)
On a serious note. Medics have to carry about 50 lbs more equipment than the infantry guys. (In the units I was in I also had to help carry the m60 ammo. Those bastards...) The thought of having to carry around any extra computer equipment and power sounds like a back breaker.
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If it is an aeorbic (sp?) exercise then there should not be any problem. It seems even the author of the article doesn't know the difference between fitness and "burning calories".
I wonder if the people mentioned in the article who don't like this new trend wish we could go back to dodge ball. Now that is physical education!
The team of experts from Project-ARK will spend the next few days studying the behaviour of the spiders using electronic cameras.
Gosh kids, doesn't that sound fun? I was starting to feel bad about trolling slashdot for far too many hours. At least I'm not watching video tapes of spiders.
Hour 1: Spiders build webs.
Hour 2-96: Spiders wait to eat anything that enters web including males who think they are going to get lucky.
Hey, wait a minute that sounds like my life!
THere is also one other potential problem. AOL probably doesn't want to be associated with some of those awful, blood thirsty games that instigate all those teenagers to shoot up their schools. That just wouldn't go over well in middle America.
Once the culture changes and people learn that it is okay to change the sourcecode each of the problems you bring up will be diminished. This is especially true as the OSS consulting industry begins to consolidate. In terms of that last bullet, as long as there are upgrades there will be a motivation to make changes and rethink the way things are being done.
At the moment I see one big short-term problem for linux. Until a journaling file system is in place I doubt that there will be a rush to adopt linux in many industries. When this comes out in a 2.6 kernel then it may be time to take notice.
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It is prohibited to copy, display, or reproduce this post in any way without the explicit permission of the author.
As long as there are multiple choice tests there will be lessons on gambling in school!
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I suppose the casino's are licking their chops at the chance of people across the country playing 21 through their servers or rolling virtual craps... Imagine the BSOD right after a "roll."
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Seriously, occasionally magazines such as Sky and Telescope have articles or discussions on this issue and have comparison photo's. Many astronomical instruments are capable of examining a spectrum different from the human eye so there is always an issue of how to present these things especially to non-professionals.
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With a mixture of ingenuity and tenacity, the workers have transformed their claim to $10 million in unpaid wages and refusal to accept forced resignations into a national issue.
Getting royally screwed isn't just "business." Besides some people take pride when they help build something and are not simply willing to move on. Sometime standing up for principle is better than making money. Too bad that is something that doesn't count for much in America.
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This is a serious issue and is something that ETS is trying to deal with. It is really difficult to appeal something when the disagreement centers on the analytical methods. The only reason they got ratted out is that Tennessee had good, hard data.
In the future it will be more and more difficult to keep tabs on this kind of thing. The only way to combat it is with open data, but that brings up a serious privacy issues.
It is the big picture that matters.
Even worse, the radio stations that are most likely to be in public spaces will receive a huge boost. This could create a race to produce the most innocuous stuff imagineable so that it could be used in public spaces without offending too many people. Because of the money involved this would then lead to a race to put even more advertising around us. We've already filled all visible spaces now we just need to fill in the audible parts of our life.
People will know that they are being observed and can still do these same sorts of things. Seems like this will only give more accurate readings of bad observations.
What happens if you wear this into the bathroom. Will the system think that people are listening to Howard Stern?
The doctors decided to conduct the study after a promising start in one patient, a 28-year-old woman smoker with extensive patches in her mouth. After two brief rounds of treatment, they disappeared. But later they came back, this time as cancer.
Whoa, this is progress? I don't think I would like these guys to be my doctors! :-)
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Also buried within this article is a discussion on how Tauzin and a couple of others are getting big money from the telephone industry.
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Perhaps they meant to add the phrase "in Redmond" at the end of each one?
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I think this one should be filed under "understatement." I live near Lake Powell and not too far from Lake Mead, and it's hard not to try to imagine the beavers that would come close to building the Glen Canyon Damn or Hoover Damn. Maybe it isn't too wild if they would cut down all those big redwoods in California and drag them out here to Utah and Nevada?
Then again, concrete is made out of things we get in nature. Why not just pave everything? That way we wouldn't have to deal with all those pesky rocks and things.
I don't know what I was thinking. Must've been anticipating the impending cold war between the US and China.
2) Place compatible AOL XP bundle client installer on the machine
I wonder if they have considered the option to flood the entire free world with AOL cd's. The Coaster Producers Association wouldn't like it.
8) Get "Designed for Microsoft Windows" logo program exemption for AOL. Microsoft pays the OEM significant rebates to have their software bundles compliant with Microsoft specifications. The AOL client will likely not meet Microsoft?s standards, resulting in OEM PC?s being out of compliance with the logo program and jeopardizing the rebates.
So corp. A not only supports really scary policy of corp. B but wants to take advantage of it. This is the kind of stuff that makes it impossible to compete. Because of the kinds of margins the harware companies are dealing with and the kind of competition they face, they really have to go along with this stuff, or they are toast.
How about free and open markets instead?
Better yet, imagine the proliferation of sites when you are able to download your favorite vibration. I wonder what the copyright forms for that will look like??? I just hope that it doesn't get to the point that Inga the Swedish cell phone queen and Vanessa the vibrator go to court over their intellectual property.
It is not uncommon to find Monarch butterflies in the UK that narrrowly missed their normal migration route to Mexico. Once in the air the prevailing winds can pull the craft across. If a butterfly can survive the shear forces then a model plane should have no troubles.
The i860 was put out almost ten years ago and was originally intended for accelerating graphics applications. (At least that was what I was told. :-) It was also used in the
Intel IPSC/3 (sometimes called the IPSC/860).
Talk about old school! This is the stuff used in the old Paragons and Delta machines!
Does anybody out there know the relationship to the i860 and the chipset discussed in the article???
Perhaps the correct conclusion is that they are drug dealers?
The medical reference stuff would only be useful for advanced stuff. I'm just trying to imagine my infantry patient when I pull the computer out. "Hmmm, looks like you got appendicitis. Lemme pull that file up... Got it. That doesn't look too bad... Okay... I'm going in." (Maybe there's an open source medical series from Oreilly?)
On a serious note. Medics have to carry about 50 lbs more equipment than the infantry guys. (In the units I was in I also had to help carry the m60 ammo. Those bastards...) The thought of having to carry around any extra computer equipment and power sounds like a back breaker.