Yes. All of this is true. But you miss one big thing. No one, as far as we know, has ever put nuclear weapons in space. This would be bad, occasionally these things crash. If weapons are put in space, this is the next step.
Yeah, OK. I see the point. But this thing is going to be at least $20K, if it actually comes out. But, think that in about a year when it comes out $20K should buy you 8-10 dual P4 or Athlons with 512MB each. These would presumably also be much easier to handle. Also, you can get software to actually render renderman files. I dunno, I can't help thinking that the GSCube may be a bit of a white elephant. But it would be cool for rides and stuff, then again - with WireGL around and graphics rendering farms based on VRJuggler is this even worth it ?
Why use GSCube's for rendering ? Why will they be better than a cluster of PCs ? Just off hand I would have thought that the limited memory and
odd architecture of the PS2 would have made things difficult.
One thing that is interesting about all this is the way MS has changed it's tune from 'Linux is a joke', you can't do things that way to 'we do things in a similar way'. It's a big deal. Open Source has already changed the way the world works.
Cool.
For you computer scientists out there, the military is doing something quite large and interesting.
The HLA, the high level architecture, is a system for integrating different simulation systems into one big networked simulator.
The problems are more severe than in the current large multiplayer games because you have to link people up fairly and be realistic and you have to link different systems together.
Does 3.0 fully comply with the standards for templates, I think it's the 99 C++ standard ?
I had a quick look but the information didn't jump out at me and perhaps someone here knows, but perhaps I'm just being optimistic.
I can't believe that some of the other companies are irrelevant. Irrelevant companies like Motorola, who could produce chips and chipsets, Gateway, who could bring this to market all over the place, Sun who can help develop Java apps for it, Excite@home, who could sell the box to its customers. Does anyone know who Nokia is not involved ?
Really, this could actually be quite interesting or am I just Indreaming ?
My father was a workers compensation lawyer for the Australian government and worked on RSI cases.
In about 90 or so they got all the medical evidence together and they could say one thing for sure, RSI is not pathalogical, i.e. there is no test that you can do that can show some sort of specific cell damage that corroborates the condition. So the Australian government was able to throw out most of the RSI cases. My dad used to say that it was easy with medical experts on RSI. The were neatly divided into 2 categories, those who 'believed' in RSI and those who didn't, you picked your doctor and got your opinion. Unfortunately the judges also knew this...
But this does not mean it does not exist. It may be something mental. New Scientist a year or so back had a really interesting thing about how it might be a mental problem from rapid activation of certain areas of the brain.
Anyway, my wrists hurt and I should get back to coding;-)
OK, this is a rant.
I've lived in four countries; Germany, US, Sweden and Australia, and I have to say this quite simply. American media is the worst. By far.
The reason is simple, the business of America is business, the research of America is business, the government of America is business and art in America is just business.
On the plus side, Americans are rich and pay is good, at least if you've got a degree and work hard and are a bit lucky. But, it means you have to watch over promoted shit from Hollywood, watch TV that is utterly crap, watch professional sports that are little more than long ads and, if you're silly enough to listen to the radio, listen to virtually uninterupted crap.
Honestly, Americans talk about choice but there is none. I live in a city of about 1.5 million and there is less choice in films here than there was in Australia in a city of 300,000. Try listening to Australian radio - triple J broadcasts on the internet. There is a radio station that plays good new music, rather than Britney spears. And as for TV. Well, cable here has less variety than Australian, Swedish or German free to air.
It's all money, and money produces crap entertainment in the long run. Just like American fast food, fatty, dull and tasteless after a while.
Actually, ESA wanted to use Northern Australia as a launch facility instead of French Guinea or whatever. But in it's infinite wisdom and world wiseness the Australian tax department wanted to tax everything that they would bring into the country.
But don't worry, although we pissed the Europeans off and instead of Australia being the major European launch facility we did invite the Brits to come and detonate nuclear weapons slightly upwind from Adelaide.....
Absolutely.
It would be really interesting to get the add companies data on the effectiveness of different forms of advertising, but unfortunately I have heard ( not checked ) that such data is difficult to get a hold of because each company has its own and it's all propritary.
Does anyone have any good references on this ?
As far as technology goes, a lot of computer technology was adopted before it was useful. In the early 80's when management started just dumping a PC on peoples desks computers were not useful, many people were given a PC, told to be more productive and just left.
Until people learnt to use them, which took years, and until the net came, some 15 years later, how useful were they ?
Even now there is a question as to how much these devices have improved productivity. There have been a number of articles in The Economist and a very good one in the current New Yorker about this.
As for wireless net access, the uses are, as you say, dubious, but one day they will become important. Personally I quite like SMS and am looking forward to the day when I have an integrated PDA, GPS and phone on me. But I accept that until the 3G networks come up it won't be useable.
I've been investigating the uses of 'web services' in my push technology portal that is java driven using a real web usable 3D service that give ebusiness and
B2B a really new start, using exciting thin client moron targetting buzzwords ( MTBs to the Silicon Valley elite, or 'press releases' to Microsoft ) I'll try and reinvent a old technology, the lying clueless business ( or con ) man, and bring it into the 21st century.
So, please give me your money.
Seriously though, is there a fasion / fad site that remembers all this crap i.e. new technology that is going to revolutionise the net and it's associated buzzwords, press releases and stuff.
I feel like an old man, I mean, who out there remembers 'PUSH' technology and how it was going to alter the web even ?
We should be trying to learn from past ( and current ) stupidity.
Let's assume that what is said in this report is correct. If so, then if someone founds a company that has an HR department that say, hires people regardless of age, for a reasonable wage, and says "Hey, you have this skillset, but you look reasonably bright, we will employ you for 4 months to see how you pan out". They should, in the medium term, if there are experienced, qualified, capable people out there, produce better software.
Why is this wrong ?
Slashdot Mirror
Are there people our there running Linux on laptops that are under 4 pounds ? What are your opinions on these ?
Wouldn't the main legal effect of nano-tech be really, really fine print ?
Yes. All of this is true. But you miss one big thing. No one, as far as we know, has ever put nuclear weapons in space. This would be bad, occasionally these things crash. If weapons are put in space, this is the next step.
Yeah, OK. I see the point. But this thing is going to be at least $20K, if it actually comes out. But, think that in about a year when it comes out $20K should buy you 8-10 dual P4 or Athlons with 512MB each. These would presumably also be much easier to handle. Also, you can get software to actually render renderman files. I dunno, I can't help thinking that the GSCube may be a bit of a white elephant. But it would be cool for rides and stuff, then again - with WireGL around and graphics rendering farms based on VRJuggler is this even worth it ?
Why use GSCube's for rendering ? Why will they be better than a cluster of PCs ? Just off hand I would have thought that the limited memory and
odd architecture of the PS2 would have made things difficult.
Soon Going Insolvent.
As owner of the German top level domain I have been wanting to get those KDE folks for quite some time.
One thing that is interesting about all this is the way MS has changed it's tune from 'Linux is a joke', you can't do things that way to 'we do things in a similar way'. It's a big deal. Open Source has already changed the way the world works.
Cool.
Does this mean all us /.ers will soon get paid to read Jon Katz ? If it's by the word for articles, we're all going to make a fortune !
For you computer scientists out there, the military is doing something quite large and interesting.
The HLA, the high level architecture, is a system for integrating different simulation systems into one big networked simulator.
The problems are more severe than in the current large multiplayer games because you have to link people up fairly and be realistic and you have to link different systems together.
I just scanned the awards, but did it specifiy US only, or is it just the usual US tunnel vision ?
Really though, in online journalism surely the rest of the world deserves some mention.
I thought that GCC didn't quite have the full spec on partial template specialisation. Is this the case ?
Does 3.0 fully comply with the standards for templates, I think it's the 99 C++ standard ?
I had a quick look but the information didn't jump out at me and perhaps someone here knows, but perhaps I'm just being optimistic.
I can't believe that some of the other companies are irrelevant. Irrelevant companies like Motorola, who could produce chips and chipsets, Gateway, who could bring this to market all over the place, Sun who can help develop Java apps for it, Excite@home, who could sell the box to its customers. Does anyone know who Nokia is not involved ?
Really, this could actually be quite interesting or am I just Indreaming ?
My father was a workers compensation lawyer for the Australian government and worked on RSI cases. ;-)
In about 90 or so they got all the medical evidence together and they could say one thing for sure, RSI is not pathalogical, i.e. there is no test that you can do that can show some sort of specific cell damage that corroborates the condition. So the Australian government was able to throw out most of the RSI cases. My dad used to say that it was easy with medical experts on RSI. The were neatly divided into 2 categories, those who 'believed' in RSI and those who didn't, you picked your doctor and got your opinion. Unfortunately the judges also knew this...
But this does not mean it does not exist. It may be something mental. New Scientist a year or so back had a really interesting thing about how it might be a mental problem from rapid activation of certain areas of the brain.
Anyway, my wrists hurt and I should get back to coding
OK, this is a rant.
I've lived in four countries; Germany, US, Sweden and Australia, and I have to say this quite simply. American media is the worst. By far.
The reason is simple, the business of America is business, the research of America is business, the government of America is business and art in America is just business.
On the plus side, Americans are rich and pay is good, at least if you've got a degree and work hard and are a bit lucky. But, it means you have to watch over promoted shit from Hollywood, watch TV that is utterly crap, watch professional sports that are little more than long ads and, if you're silly enough to listen to the radio, listen to virtually uninterupted crap.
Honestly, Americans talk about choice but there is none. I live in a city of about 1.5 million and there is less choice in films here than there was in Australia in a city of 300,000. Try listening to Australian radio - triple J broadcasts on the internet. There is a radio station that plays good new music, rather than Britney spears. And as for TV. Well, cable here has less variety than Australian, Swedish or German free to air.
It's all money, and money produces crap entertainment in the long run. Just like American fast food, fatty, dull and tasteless after a while.
Hi Simon,
Your game is cool, I meant to email you about
it.
Pete
Actually, ESA wanted to use Northern Australia as a launch facility instead of French Guinea or whatever. But in it's infinite wisdom and world wiseness the Australian tax department wanted to tax everything that they would bring into the country.
But don't worry, although we pissed the Europeans off and instead of Australia being the major European launch facility we did invite the Brits to come and detonate nuclear weapons slightly upwind from Adelaide.....
Wow, not the only one. I still have a bit that my uncle gave me.
Absolutely.
It would be really interesting to get the add companies data on the effectiveness of different forms of advertising, but unfortunately I have heard ( not checked ) that such data is difficult to get a hold of because each company has its own and it's all propritary. Does anyone have any good references on this ?
No, no ! This is the Kalvin scheme. 200 Kalvin is one Hobbes. Hey, it makes as much sense as Fahrenhiet ;-)
As far as technology goes, a lot of computer technology was adopted before it was useful. In the early 80's when management started just dumping a PC on peoples desks computers were not useful, many people were given a PC, told to be more productive and just left.
Until people learnt to use them, which took years, and until the net came, some 15 years later, how useful were they ?
Even now there is a question as to how much these devices have improved productivity. There have been a number of articles in The Economist and a very good one in the current New Yorker about this.
As for wireless net access, the uses are, as you say, dubious, but one day they will become important. Personally I quite like SMS and am looking forward to the day when I have an integrated PDA, GPS and phone on me. But I accept that until the 3G networks come up it won't be useable.
I've been investigating the uses of 'web services' in my push technology portal that is java driven using a real web usable 3D service that give ebusiness and B2B a really new start, using exciting thin client moron targetting buzzwords ( MTBs to the Silicon Valley elite, or 'press releases' to Microsoft ) I'll try and reinvent a old technology, the lying clueless business ( or con ) man, and bring it into the 21st century.
So, please give me your money.
Seriously though, is there a fasion / fad site that remembers all this crap i.e. new technology that is going to revolutionise the net and it's associated buzzwords, press releases and stuff.
I feel like an old man, I mean, who out there remembers 'PUSH' technology and how it was going to alter the web even ?
We should be trying to learn from past ( and current ) stupidity.
Let's assume that what is said in this report is correct. If so, then if someone founds a company that has an HR department that say, hires people regardless of age, for a reasonable wage, and says "Hey, you have this skillset, but you look reasonably bright, we will employ you for 4 months to see how you pan out". They should, in the medium term, if there are experienced, qualified, capable people out there, produce better software.
Why is this wrong ?
It should be called remote controlled wars...
It would be soooo much cooler if the machines were autonomous.