The price has gone down quite a bit, this from january:
If You've Been Waiting For Real 3D Displays To Become Affordable, Your Wait Is Over!
Good news! We've just introduced a new 15" 3D LCD display at only $1699! As a comparison, our previous 15" display was $8649. Our new 2015XLS 3D LCD Display is perfect for computer gamers, home computer users, internet 3D fans, electronic retailing and many other applications. Finally, here's real 3D - images literally jump off the screen and hang in space - without requiring glasses or cumbersome headgear. And not only do you get real 3D. The 2015XLS is a full-featured 2D flat panel display as well. It's like getting two displays in one! Add the $300 video option and you have three displays in one!
And we've also introduced a new 18" display at just $6999! That's nearly $5000 less than our previous 18" 3D Display. Our new 2018XLQ is the ideal display for scientific visualization, R&D, design and engineering work - anywhere you need a big, high resolution 3D Display that doesn't require you to wear glasses or headgear. Need video? NTSC and PAL input capability is built-in on this model.
Want real 3D? It's finally available at an affordable price. Only from Dimension Technologies Inc., the world leader in autostereoscopic 3D LCD Displays. Visit our web site now (www.dti3d.com) and get all the details.
The point was that different camps can get together and fight the common front. Only problem is that the document has mainly people who were on the same front anyway (the people Perens has contact with, I expect).
From some commentary or other, recently; Python is compatable with the GPL except for one point, that it specifies that it is covered by the law of the State of Virginia, this protects it from UCITA or something. GPL people don't like the localisation this implies , I can't remember why.
Often I wonder how much a company has prepared for a disaster, via way of anything imaginable, hurricanes, fires, break-ins, etc.
Not at all, in a lot of cases companies don't even plan for problems they know they will have. A friend works at a major estate agent here in the UK, when recently they announced large branch closures. Firstly they announced these to the TV stations before their own employees, with a couple of weeks notice before closure. Secondly they failed to come up with any plan regarding what to do with the properties where they managed shorthold renting on behalf of others. Customers were left frantically phoning branches trying to find out this information for days before a decision was actually made.
If multi-billion pound companies can't prepare for obvious short term definite eventualities how can we expect them to have plans for remote eventualities.
Another problem is who reports these things. At a previous (Fortune 50)employer 50+ programmers were left for almost an entire day without power because no-one had the initiative to call in the problem, I (the summer student) eventually sorted out the problem (I have the unfortunate curse of feeling responsible for fixing other's mistakes).
On the subject of breakins, the same company managed to let theives get away with 60+ Sun Workstations and a room-sized MAINFRAME, with full security on watch at the time. How?, I dont know!
As far as I can tell, gross incompetence of companies as wholes is rife.
In Athens people were conscripted into voting. In Tom Holt's 'The Walled Orchard', he says that "Democracy is Compulsary". If you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time you ended up voting. This was done with the use of a large rope dipped in red paint which was used to shepard everyone in the square into 'parliment' building. It was not nessesary for everyone to vote, just a reasonable cross section.
The lack of education on subjects is normally overcome with the debating process, where people's points contain information incrementally creating understanding.
Why not have representatives but give a percentage of the vote to the people. What I mean is where the representatives vote, let a portion of that vote be decided directly by citizens. Initially it would have to be a small percentage or none at all, but at least it would be evident if there is large grass roots opposition to a winning position. If nothing else, a useful tool for goverments who spend millions collecting data to find out what exactly people DO want.
The only way that can normally happen in my country is a referendum. Governments don't do that unless they have a good chance of winning because if they lose, they lose power as well.
In the more affluent european nations a massive majority of people have internet access (even if it's through public libraries). It would be possible for people to contribute directly towards the decision making process.
If an Internet based system was implemented, it would have to be open-source of course, especially with the recent IIS incident...
Voxol
Who only just got around to seeing Antitrust
This is why we need a democracy. Not that sh*tty excuse involving elected representatives. I mean full-blown, everybody votes, democracy. As was done in Athens.
If you think about it Slashdot is a lot like Ancient Greece. The powerful say their opinions loudly up front. Then everybody argues about it in the audience the same points being made many times over by different people, drowning out any differing opinions. They come to no consensus whatsoever and then they go ahead with what the powerful guy at the front said, 'cos they were too busy talking to hear the points others made.
Funny thing abou the uk is cost of living varys immensly between the north and the south.
A survey a while back found that you could sell an average 4 bed semi-detached house in the home-counties and then buy 20 equivalent houses in the north. Of course, wages change as well, but not THAT much.
Back when they were trying to ban porn from the internet (I think that one has been safely won), I read an article in '.NET' magazine here in the UK. It said that although the major emphasis was on the web the real place to clean up was USENET.
Napster is really bad for downloading whole albums. It can take weeks to find all the tracks when they are not on a single machine. You are also limited to CDs you can find a track tisting for.
The RIAA should be supporting Napster over the web based alternatives. Take a look on some of the mp3 d/l websites. There are full albums up for immediate download at rates the max out my half meg cable connection. These websites have releases sometimes months in advance and are directly stopping CD sales on those titles. Where Napster encourages CD sales the web harms them.
The RIAA has forced Napster to an unusable state and in doing so made a much more damaging medium the choice of many.
The LDP should (if it hasn't already) provide a standard location (or a variable to specify the location) for a 'Start Menu'-type directory.
I'm sick of editing rc files all the damn time.
You could have a bunch of shell script in there that invoke the program. In addition to the program you could have additional information in there like a name for the program and locations for icons, etc. These would reside in shell comments (after #).
Course the great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
We have Computer programs that mark our coursework and its now routine to check all programs for plagarism.
We don't tend to get expelled though. Cheating is so common they wouldn't have any students left after the first year. Instead you lose the marks, People soon stop doing it.
But does success for Linux have to come at the price of ripping down Microsoft? No, it doesn't. We don't need to attack them just because they're there. When we do, we are just making their case for them.
Personally I use Linux, Solaris and Windows ME together in one big happy development environment (read 'family').
I can't remember who said it (might have been Sun Tzu), but some tactician said that when fighting your opponent always leave them a way out. Dont' box them in because if you force them to fight like trapped dogs, they will. It must be shown that Microsoft has a place in a future where Linux is the standard desktop platform.
I read somewhere quite a while back, that Windows (the 95 family) is a loss leader. It could be in Microsoft's best interests to let Linux win. There's the sales pitch that needs to be thrown at Big-Bill. Read the Halloween docs and they mention that Microsoft was working on an open source project to port DCOM to Linux. This would indicate that they don't have religious convictions against open source itself (why is it that the word 'Linux' is normally followed by either 'freak' or 'zealot'?).
Perhaps their actions this week are symptoms that Linux has them backed in a corner. Linux will win because they cannot compete with open source. The Slashdot community continuously shows it will not settle for anything less than complete capitulation by Microsoft. Microsoft is boxed in a corner, especially as if they show too much weakness they could be sucked down with the dot.com garbage on the stock market.
I really believe that Microsoft has a place, even after Linux wins and I hope they can see this too.
Slashdot Mirror
I claim this land-afa-spain!
The price has gone down quite a bit, this from january:
If You've Been Waiting For Real 3D Displays To Become Affordable, Your Wait Is Over!
Good news! We've just introduced a new 15" 3D LCD display at only $1699! As a comparison, our previous 15" display was $8649. Our new 2015XLS 3D LCD Display is perfect for computer gamers, home computer users, internet 3D fans, electronic retailing and many other applications. Finally, here's real 3D - images literally jump off the screen and hang in space - without requiring glasses or cumbersome headgear. And not only do you get real 3D. The 2015XLS is a full-featured 2D flat panel display as well. It's like getting two displays in one! Add the $300 video option and you have three displays in one!
And we've also introduced a new 18" display at just $6999! That's nearly $5000 less than our previous 18" 3D Display. Our new 2018XLQ is the ideal display for scientific visualization, R&D, design and engineering work - anywhere you need a big, high resolution 3D Display that doesn't require you to wear glasses or headgear. Need video? NTSC and PAL input capability is built-in on this model.
Want real 3D? It's finally available at an affordable price. Only from Dimension Technologies Inc., the world leader in autostereoscopic 3D LCD Displays. Visit our web site now (www.dti3d.com) and get all the details.
Real 3D: it's what you've been waiting for.
The common enemy is now war itself.
(optimist)
They're trying to find something else to blow up.
(pecimist)
nooooooooooo, this is about open source.
The point was that different camps can get together and fight the common front. Only problem is that the document has mainly people who were on the same front anyway (the people Perens has contact with, I expect).
From some commentary or other, recently; Python is compatable with the GPL except for one point, that it specifies that it is covered by the law of the State of Virginia, this protects it from UCITA or something. GPL people don't like the localisation this implies , I can't remember why.
Frankly I hadn't heard of you till this recent Microsoft thing.
Thanks for doing what I couldn't see any of the other people on that list doing (taking the initiative).
The (for all I know unintentional) B5 reference aside;
So why does NATO still exist?
I've used my floppy drive, maybe three times in the last 3 years and every time it was unnessesary.
Ever since bootable CDs and ZIP discs I haven't seen much of a use for them.
I believe you were able to buy an external drive if you were a 'die-hard' disc-drive user.
This does seem to have a stronger case in the UK.
The UK has no HDTV and wont for a long time. DVB is the Dogs bollocks and this thing seems to do Tivo's job, mp3s and umpteen other things.
Tivo is expensive for what you get. From what I understand the time shifting gear in this baby will be opensource too. Advert skipping here I come...
Those griping about the celery; Seeing as this is an open standard I can see competition ( or Nokia themselves) releasing faster, higher spec boxes.
Often I wonder how much a company has prepared for a disaster, via way of anything imaginable, hurricanes, fires, break-ins, etc.
Not at all, in a lot of cases companies don't even plan for problems they know they will have. A friend works at a major estate agent here in the UK, when recently they announced large branch closures. Firstly they announced these to the TV stations before their own employees, with a couple of weeks notice before closure. Secondly they failed to come up with any plan regarding what to do with the properties where they managed shorthold renting on behalf of others. Customers were left frantically phoning branches trying to find out this information for days before a decision was actually made.
If multi-billion pound companies can't prepare for obvious short term definite eventualities how can we expect them to have plans for remote eventualities.
Another problem is who reports these things. At a previous (Fortune 50)employer 50+ programmers were left for almost an entire day without power because no-one had the initiative to call in the problem, I (the summer student) eventually sorted out the problem (I have the unfortunate curse of feeling responsible for fixing other's mistakes).
On the subject of breakins, the same company managed to let theives get away with 60+ Sun Workstations and a room-sized MAINFRAME, with full security on watch at the time. How?, I dont know! As far as I can tell, gross incompetence of companies as wholes is rife.
...here's another:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3098.html
In Athens people were conscripted into voting. In Tom Holt's 'The Walled Orchard', he says that "Democracy is Compulsary". If you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time you ended up voting. This was done with the use of a large rope dipped in red paint which was used to shepard everyone in the square into 'parliment' building. It was not nessesary for everyone to vote, just a reasonable cross section.
The lack of education on subjects is normally overcome with the debating process, where people's points contain information incrementally creating understanding.
Why not have representatives but give a percentage of the vote to the people. What I mean is where the representatives vote, let a portion of that vote be decided directly by citizens. Initially it would have to be a small percentage or none at all, but at least it would be evident if there is large grass roots opposition to a winning position. If nothing else, a useful tool for goverments who spend millions collecting data to find out what exactly people DO want.
The only way that can normally happen in my country is a referendum. Governments don't do that unless they have a good chance of winning because if they lose, they lose power as well.
In the more affluent european nations a massive majority of people have internet access (even if it's through public libraries). It would be possible for people to contribute directly towards the decision making process.
If an Internet based system was implemented, it would have to be open-source of course, especially with the recent IIS incident...
Voxol
Who only just got around to seeing Antitrust
yeah I go to festivals and stuff.
This is why we need a democracy. Not that sh*tty excuse involving elected representatives. I mean full-blown, everybody votes, democracy. As was done in Athens.
If you think about it Slashdot is a lot like Ancient Greece. The powerful say their opinions loudly up front. Then everybody argues about it in the audience the same points being made many times over by different people, drowning out any differing opinions. They come to no consensus whatsoever and then they go ahead with what the powerful guy at the front said, 'cos they were too busy talking to hear the points others made.
Funny thing abou the uk is cost of living varys immensly between the north and the south.
A survey a while back found that you could sell an average 4 bed semi-detached house in the home-counties and then buy 20 equivalent houses in the north. Of course, wages change as well, but not THAT much.
You really can't get good quality warm beer without really looking these days.
Personally I drink belgian or dutch lager depending on the amount of cash in the old sky rocket.
So THATS why theres all these kiwis walking around the place.
;)
You guys are colonising us!
Back when they were trying to ban porn from the internet (I think that one has been safely won), I read an article in '.NET' magazine here in the UK. It said that although the major emphasis was on the web the real place to clean up was USENET.
Napster is really bad for downloading whole albums. It can take weeks to find all the tracks when they are not on a single machine. You are also limited to CDs you can find a track tisting for.
The RIAA should be supporting Napster over the web based alternatives. Take a look on some of the mp3 d/l websites. There are full albums up for immediate download at rates the max out my half meg cable connection. These websites have releases sometimes months in advance and are directly stopping CD sales on those titles. Where Napster encourages CD sales the web harms them.
The RIAA has forced Napster to an unusable state and in doing so made a much more damaging medium the choice of many.
The LDP should (if it hasn't already) provide a standard location (or a variable to specify the location) for a 'Start Menu'-type directory.
I'm sick of editing rc files all the damn time.
You could have a bunch of shell script in there that invoke the program. In addition to the program you could have additional information in there like a name for the program and locations for icons, etc. These would reside in shell comments (after #).
Course the great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
Geez, "Ender's Game", or what?
We've had this for years.
We have Computer programs that mark our coursework and its now routine to check all programs for plagarism.
We don't tend to get expelled though. Cheating is so common they wouldn't have any students left after the first year. Instead you lose the marks, People soon stop doing it.
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/CourseMaster/
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ceilidh/
Well Im sorry to field this issue, but the fileings do seem to be in order.
In the current situation, I think some hard discussions are in order.
I'd take that as a pretty big hint that they want to settle out of court.
Personally I use Linux, Solaris and Windows ME together in one big happy development environment (read 'family').
I can't remember who said it (might have been Sun Tzu), but some tactician said that when fighting your opponent always leave them a way out. Dont' box them in because if you force them to fight like trapped dogs, they will. It must be shown that Microsoft has a place in a future where Linux is the standard desktop platform.
I read somewhere quite a while back, that Windows (the 95 family) is a loss leader. It could be in Microsoft's best interests to let Linux win. There's the sales pitch that needs to be thrown at Big-Bill. Read the Halloween docs and they mention that Microsoft was working on an open source project to port DCOM to Linux. This would indicate that they don't have religious convictions against open source itself (why is it that the word 'Linux' is normally followed by either 'freak' or 'zealot'?).
Perhaps their actions this week are symptoms that Linux has them backed in a corner. Linux will win because they cannot compete with open source. The Slashdot community continuously shows it will not settle for anything less than complete capitulation by Microsoft. Microsoft is boxed in a corner, especially as if they show too much weakness they could be sucked down with the dot.com garbage on the stock market.
I really believe that Microsoft has a place, even after Linux wins and I hope they can see this too.
been done,2 57 &mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/28/017