I understand that there needs to be ad revenue, and I never use adblockers. That said, I have developed a full blown case of banner ad blindness. If I am not the target market for light up keychains or any book that has "For Dummies" as part of the title, it would be useful to have some input on that. It might even boost your CPM or click through rates if the ads for say networking equipment went to those who's interest and dollars went to networking equipment companies. A dozen or so check boxes about the kinds of ads that may be more relevent to you in the account prefs would probably benefit everyone involved.
Clean simple text, super quick to download, everything works, all the time. Best kept secret on/. You only get to see the top 5 comments, but other than that it's the best mobile experience I've had.
If you really want to squeeze every last drop of juice from your clockwork oranges, give them a fat juicy bonus at the beginning of the year ( or quarter, whatever) and tell them that if they don't make their metrics there will be a "claw back". This is legal in the US if documented properly, and with people living so close to the financial edge in a lot of cases they will spend it long before they figure out they likely won't make their numbers. The company gets a boat load of overtime out of them for nothing...
Money that you have (or have spent and can't give back) and might loose is a significantly stronger motivator than some abstract maybe bonus structure, according to those who study carrot and sticking.
*Ahem* Drone control is already centralized. In Nevada and California. Many of them are fly_by_Sat affairs, and the folks that man the flight control centers can go home at the end of the day and play with their kids. I've seen some news footage of the nice set-ups at "mission control". Biggest issue this brings up is making the whole affair too much like a video game, and killing real people from a nice cozy office thousands of miles from the battle. That, and the fact that these operators aren't getting the benefits that in-the-air combat pilots are getting for flying in a combat zone. Even the Brits are piloting their drones from NV.
Being an RC aircraft guy myself, I hope the utility of having a steady stream of young RC pilots being interested in joining up for miitary service might off-set what this idiot has done in the eyes of the feds when it comes time to evaluate the new rules for RC aircraft.
I think you may have been eluding to a control center being the target of an attack. Not much to worry about there unless the baddies have ICBMs. Some nice info here:
" Lost civilizations, extraterrestrials, myths and monsters, missing persons, magic and witchcraft, unexplained phenomena. "In Search Of..." cameras are traveling the world, seeking out these great mysteries. This program was the result of the work of scientists, researchers and a group of highly-skilled technicians."
Many of these episodes were pure awesome for us kids that grew up just missing the first run of OST, but still getting to hear him wax poetic about alien visitors and way off the beaten path "science".
and the point of gaming is to escape the world of work... unless we begin to transition to a society in which regular user interfaces for work-style tasks are constructed with game-like interfaces and metaphors, but I dont' see that happening.
This is something I've been thinking about for a long time...
I'll look at something like PSDoom and realize that there's room for an intersection of real life task completion and gaming tech. There was a/. article a few days back about IT security and advanced visualization and I instantly thought of a Doom style shooter, where security threats (from logs, or real time status data) would pop up and you could shoot them using different weapons which would implement different security rules or policies depending on the threat information displayed as the avatar of the baddie on screen. The shotgun could throw up a fire wall rule that blocks a port, the plasma gun could put in a full deny rule for the remote host, the axe could implement a pre scripted server config change and restart the service if needed, etc. If you had a medium to high profile network there would be plenty to do in-game.
The point for an "adult" game is to keep it from being utterly mindless and/or adolescent, to provide intellectual stimulation by requiring the juxtaposition and analytical processing of facts and information, even if these are fictional and appear in the context of a game.
To that end, my vote goes to the best of the puzzle/adventure games (the good ones with "puzzles" the scale of the entire game stretchign across contexts, not the shitty ones which have tended to be truly horrible an mind-numbing) and the turn-based strategy games.
I think that that's a real problem too. My wife really got into sudoku when the craze swept through. To me those puzzles were about as interesting as filing paperwork. I find the micromanagement games (warcraft, the Sims, for some reason a little less so the Civilization type games) to give me pretty much the same feeling. It's a plodding chore. I guess I just see games as being a good way to blow off steam, so I'm more into arcade racers, 3D shooters and fast action puzzle games that I can hop into and out of in 15 minutes.
Start thinking outside the box - I clear-cut Amazonian rain forest biomass, and burn it directly over the panels for maximum effect. That way I've always got more space to lay down new panels!
Yes, Knoppix is a great swiss army knife Live CD, and Damn Small Linux and MEMtest86+ are probably must-haves, but I'd like to suggest one that I haven't seen here yet.
The Trinity Rescue CD. It's a nice (free as in beer) linux rescue CD that includes some interesting extras, like the ability to download fresh signature updates and run 4 different AV packages (it includes ClamAv, F-Prot, Grisoft AVG and BitDefender). It's got all the other standard rescue stuff for windows and linux, glued nicely together in both a (mostly) menu driven environment, or CLI. Get your fresh hot copy at http://trinityhome.org/
(I'm not affiliated with the project, just very pleased with what this group has been able to put together.)
Here's an example of a all too common disappiontment:...
He was just trying to update Evolution. Well, anyone else tried this on a "packaged" Linux distro? You need to rebuild it from source, plus about 15 dependencies including a newer releaes of glibc. It just doesn't work "out of the box". We need to establish a flexible but solid base system so that people can just write software that JUST WORKS for GNU/Linux. This idea of having to get a 3rd party package built for YOUR distro is just a waste of everyone's time.
I think this is the single largest problem keeping Linux out of the mainstream. The distros have sort of been playing the Highlander game, thinking that the last one left standing would become the standard, but that doesn't seem to be the way things are panning out. The top 3 (or 5.. ok maybe 20) distros need to get together on this if they want to see Linux reach it's full potential.
The FCC doctrine (pre Y2K) was summed up in what they referred to as Computer 2 and Computer 3. These documents described the telephone system as being a "Public Network" and dramatically limited what telephone companies could do with their networks when it came to transmitting data. The feds wanted to foster competition and increase the pace of technological expansion by making sure that Ma Bell didn't ace out all the other players in data communication by leveraging their monopoly status. They were afraid of things like the Bell companies owning all the computers that were allowed to be connected to their network (Don't laugh, they used to own all the phone handsets that were allowed to connect to their network, and you paid to rent them by the month, it was even a crime to wire in your own phone extension...)
Now much of this is being pulled up by the roots, and I think it's going to end badly for consumers. Not only are the regional phone companies carving up their own networks to offer new "digital living" services but they are talking about how to kill the peer to peer nature of the Internet all together. According to this article http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester their plan is to provide preferred transoprt of partner (paid) content while restricting and degrading the performance of other general Internet traffic to the customer. It also mentions their "management" of non-sanctioned traffic, like p2p and VoIP. This really is propelling us down the slippery slope of large corporations owning all possible information channels. I'd make a rough guess that 9 or 10 corporations already supply the broadband services to 80 to 90% of the population. If they get their way, and if the merger fever of the telecom and cable industries keeps up it's current rate, I think that this could shrink to 4 or 5 companies in the next 4 years. It's going to be a bumpy ride for those of us who enjoy the current freedoms of the Internet.
Maybe a different choice of distributions, with more enterprise centric goals would be a better fit. I know that Xandros has some really interesting centralized management tools for deployments that go in side-by-side with windows boxes. Check out their Xandros Desktop Management Server http://www.xandros.com/products/business/xdms/xdms _intro.html
It seems like they're really aimed at the market in question.
My Sharp RD-10 is about 2 years old (at the time it was high-end) and still plays everything I throw at it. I don't do really "serious" gaming on any platform, but when I see a new FPS or strategy game that I'd like to give a spin, I haven't really ever run into a problem. It's got a P4, 2.8 GHz desktop CPU, a GeForce 420 Go, 512 MB ram and on-board mini-pci wireless so really still not too bad by modern specs. While the battery life isn't anything to brag about, it has no problem doing what I need it to do on the gaming front.
There are 1,000's of US citizen's (sorry for being US-centric) going to foreign countries to adpot as there is a severe SHORTAGE of children that can be adopted.
There are thousands of US citizens going to foreign countries to adopt INFANTS and VERY YOUNG CHILDREN. There are 100,000+ adoptable children that have no permanaent family situation in institutions in the US. Please take a look here http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/FPinHTML/FocalPointSP01/pgF Psp01Human.shtml
If a child is of school age and has entered a state's child welfare system it's very unlikely that the child will ever be adopted by a family.
Please provide examples of companies who have done this?
Ummm, well, I'd say that the Linksys WRT54G is a good example of this. Many more of those little blue and black boxes have been sold since the firmware was opened up for 3rd party development. The Linksys hardware isn't spectacular, but the community that has built up around it is.
If you'd like a second example, I'd suggest that the Asterisk open source telephony platform has been pretty widely accepted, and has greatly benefited Digium, the company that sponsored it's development. Other hardware companies have benefited as well, but over all Digium believes it is doing better than if Asterisk didn't exist at all.
There are lots of other examples.
Those that support the GPL tend to believe "a rising tide lifts all boats" and that every business poeple are in doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
(2) RAM. Skip the RAM. Go with a couple Compact Flash sockets, plus the cheapest of those available. Sockets, $5.00. Cheap CF (16 Meg) $15 wholesale. The advantages here are multiple: You can swap programs and data with all kinds of devices (including other such computers), and the RAM is easily replacable with a standardized component.
Huh? That's not going to work very well, not well at all. First, you can't write to a flash memory device over and over without wearing out the CF card. Second, it would be terribly slow. Likely more than an order of magnitude slower (or even worse) than typical SDRAM memory.
All this about bringing back sets from the 80's makes so much sense... It's now that people who were recieving those sets, in their formative years, are looking to buy them for the next generation of kids (be it for their own, or friend's kids). It's sort of a "life cycle" for Lego, since we're really the last generation to remember the unadulterated mostly non-special piece sets. I wonder if this means that in 10 or 20 years the model/kit sets will come back again, because that's what the next "life cycle" of 20 - 30 yesar old consumers will remember as classic lego sets.
I've got the same version of the Rio600. I picked it up for about $35.00 Mostly for use while mowing the lawn. I decided to spring for the 32 mb "backpack", due to space and battery issues.
As far as I can tell there's no Linux software for it either. It has a number of drawbacks, but at least it can be picked up cheaply.
Let's give Jon some credit. I don't think this is meant to be a number theory p*ssing contest. I believe that since the number of people in the universe is ruled by a similar set of constraints as the total number of computers/disk drives in the universe (there has to be enough matter to create them all, maintain them all, etc) what's really at the heart of the discussion is the ratio of people to bandwidth/disk space/cpu power. So the way I see it as long as the technology/productivity curve out paces the population curve there will be an appearently infinite amount of space on the net. Not all that space will have equal value, that's another story.
Slashdot Mirror
Nobody wants death by dutch oven!
Or check out this old Slashdot story from 2002, didn't get traction then, but sounds a bit like what you want now:
https://m.slashdot.org/story/2...
I understand that there needs to be ad revenue, and I never use adblockers. That said, I have developed a full blown case of banner ad blindness. If I am not the target market for light up keychains or any book that has "For Dummies" as part of the title, it would be useful to have some input on that. It might even boost your CPM or click through rates if the ads for say networking equipment went to those who's interest and dollars went to networking equipment companies. A dozen or so check boxes about the kinds of ads that may be more relevent to you in the account prefs would probably benefit everyone involved.
Or do what I have done for YEARS on mobile, http://www.slashdot.org/palm
Clean simple text, super quick to download, everything works, all the time. Best kept secret on /. You only get to see the top 5 comments, but other than that it's the best mobile experience I've had.
This story seems to have dragged a bunch of 4s out of retirement. I'm impressed.
good to see you guys again! :P
I'm not dead yet! I feel...happy!
If you really want to squeeze every last drop of juice from your clockwork oranges, give them a fat juicy bonus at the beginning of the year ( or quarter, whatever) and tell them that if they don't make their metrics there will be a "claw back". This is legal in the US if documented properly, and with people living so close to the financial edge in a lot of cases they will spend it long before they figure out they likely won't make their numbers. The company gets a boat load of overtime out of them for nothing...
Money that you have (or have spent and can't give back) and might loose is a significantly stronger motivator than some abstract maybe bonus structure, according to those who study carrot and sticking.
I think it's awful but YMMV.
*Ahem*
Drone control is already centralized. In Nevada and California. Many of them are fly_by_Sat affairs, and the folks that man the flight control centers can go home at the end of the day and play with their kids. I've seen some news footage of the nice set-ups at "mission control". Biggest issue this brings up is making the whole affair too much like a video game, and killing real people from a nice cozy office thousands of miles from the battle. That, and the fact that these operators aren't getting the benefits that in-the-air combat pilots are getting for flying in a combat zone. Even the Brits are piloting their drones from NV.
Being an RC aircraft guy myself, I hope the utility of having a steady stream of young RC pilots being interested in joining up for miitary service might off-set what this idiot has done in the eyes of the feds when it comes time to evaluate the new rules for RC aircraft.
I think you may have been eluding to a control center being the target of an attack. Not much to worry about there unless the baddies have ICBMs. Some nice info here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4851765
Here is some video of pilots in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZP2AKEqEIU
And an article titled "Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force's Frantic Unmanned Reinvention" :
http://www.popsci.com/drones
He wrote and hosted the series "In Search Of..." from 1976-1982
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074007/
" Lost civilizations, extraterrestrials, myths and monsters, missing persons, magic and witchcraft, unexplained phenomena. "In Search Of..." cameras are traveling the world, seeking out these great mysteries. This program was the result of the work of scientists, researchers and a group of highly-skilled technicians."
Many of these episodes were pure awesome for us kids that grew up just missing the first run of OST, but still getting to hear him wax poetic about alien visitors and way off the beaten path "science".
How long till they're available to public, so I can put a frickin laser beam on it.
You think it won't come with a laser pre-installed?
If you want a pretty neat one right now, check out the Parrot Drone.
http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/
and the point of gaming is to escape the world of work... unless we begin to transition to a society in which regular user interfaces for work-style tasks are constructed with game-like interfaces and metaphors, but I dont' see that happening.
This is something I've been thinking about for a long time...
I'll look at something like PSDoom and realize that there's room for an intersection of real life task completion and gaming tech. There was a /. article a few days back about IT security and advanced visualization and I instantly thought of a Doom style shooter, where security threats (from logs, or real time status data) would pop up and you could shoot them using different weapons which would implement different security rules or policies depending on the threat information displayed as the avatar of the baddie on screen. The shotgun could throw up a fire wall rule that blocks a port, the plasma gun could put in a full deny rule for the remote host, the axe could implement a pre scripted server config change and restart the service if needed, etc. If you had a medium to high profile network there would be plenty to do in-game.
The point for an "adult" game is to keep it from being utterly mindless and/or adolescent, to provide intellectual stimulation by requiring the juxtaposition and analytical processing of facts and information, even if these are fictional and appear in the context of a game.
To that end, my vote goes to the best of the puzzle/adventure games (the good ones with "puzzles" the scale of the entire game stretchign across contexts, not the shitty ones which have tended to be truly horrible an mind-numbing) and the turn-based strategy games.
I think that that's a real problem too. My wife really got into sudoku when the craze swept through. To me those puzzles were about as interesting as filing paperwork. I find the micromanagement games (warcraft, the Sims, for some reason a little less so the Civilization type games) to give me pretty much the same feeling. It's a plodding chore. I guess I just see games as being a good way to blow off steam, so I'm more into arcade racers, 3D shooters and fast action puzzle games that I can hop into and out of in 15 minutes.
Start thinking outside the box - I clear-cut Amazonian rain forest biomass, and burn it directly over the panels for maximum effect. That way I've always got more space to lay down new panels!
Yes, Knoppix is a great swiss army knife Live CD, and Damn Small Linux and MEMtest86+ are probably must-haves, but I'd like to suggest one that I haven't seen here yet.
The Trinity Rescue CD. It's a nice (free as in beer) linux rescue CD that includes some interesting extras, like the ability to download fresh signature updates and run 4 different AV packages (it includes ClamAv, F-Prot, Grisoft AVG and BitDefender). It's got all the other standard rescue stuff for windows and linux, glued nicely together in both a (mostly) menu driven environment, or CLI.
Get your fresh hot copy at http://trinityhome.org/
(I'm not affiliated with the project, just very pleased with what this group has been able to put together.)
I think this is the single largest problem keeping Linux out of the mainstream. The distros have sort of been playing the Highlander game, thinking that the last one left standing would become the standard, but that doesn't seem to be the way things are panning out. The top 3 (or 5.. ok maybe 20) distros need to get together on this if they want to see Linux reach it's full potential.
OK, let's expand on this a bit...
The FCC doctrine (pre Y2K) was summed up in what they referred to as Computer 2 and Computer 3. These documents described the telephone system as being a "Public Network" and dramatically limited what telephone companies could do with their networks when it came to transmitting data. The feds wanted to foster competition and increase the pace of technological expansion by making sure that Ma Bell didn't ace out all the other players in data communication by leveraging their monopoly status. They were afraid of things like the Bell companies owning all the computers that were allowed to be connected to their network (Don't laugh, they used to own all the phone handsets that were allowed to connect to their network, and you paid to rent them by the month, it was even a crime to wire in your own phone extension...)
Now much of this is being pulled up by the roots, and I think it's going to end badly for consumers. Not only are the regional phone companies carving up their own networks to offer new "digital living" services but they are talking about how to kill the peer to peer nature of the Internet all together. According to this article http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester their plan is to provide preferred transoprt of partner (paid) content while restricting and degrading the performance of other general Internet traffic to the customer. It also mentions their "management" of non-sanctioned traffic, like p2p and VoIP. This really is propelling us down the slippery slope of large corporations owning all possible information channels. I'd make a rough guess that 9 or 10 corporations already supply the broadband services to 80 to 90% of the population. If they get their way, and if the merger fever of the telecom and cable industries keeps up it's current rate, I think that this could shrink to 4 or 5 companies in the next 4 years. It's going to be a bumpy ride for those of us who enjoy the current freedoms of the Internet.
Maybe a different choice of distributions, with more enterprise centric goals would be a better fit. I know that Xandros has some really interesting centralized management tools for deployments that go in side-by-side with windows boxes. Check out their Xandros Desktop Management Server http://www.xandros.com/products/business/xdms/xdms _intro.html
It seems like they're really aimed at the market in question.
I agree 100%.
My Sharp RD-10 is about 2 years old (at the time it was high-end) and still plays everything I throw at it. I don't do really "serious" gaming on any platform, but when I see a new FPS or strategy game that I'd like to give a spin, I haven't really ever run into a problem. It's got a P4, 2.8 GHz desktop CPU, a GeForce 420 Go, 512 MB ram and on-board mini-pci wireless so really still not too bad by modern specs. While the battery life isn't anything to brag about, it has no problem doing what I need it to do on the gaming front.
There are thousands of US citizens going to foreign countries to adopt INFANTS and VERY YOUNG CHILDREN. There are 100,000+ adoptable children that have no permanaent family situation in institutions in the US. Please take a look here http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/FPinHTML/FocalPointSP01/pg
If a child is of school age and has entered a state's child welfare system it's very unlikely that the child will ever be adopted by a family.
Ummm, well, I'd say that the Linksys WRT54G is a good example of this. Many more of those little blue and black boxes have been sold since the firmware was opened up for 3rd party development. The Linksys hardware isn't spectacular, but the community that has built up around it is.
If you'd like a second example, I'd suggest that the Asterisk open source telephony platform has been pretty widely accepted, and has greatly benefited Digium, the company that sponsored it's development. Other hardware companies have benefited as well, but over all Digium believes it is doing better than if Asterisk didn't exist at all.
There are lots of other examples.
Those that support the GPL tend to believe "a rising tide lifts all boats" and that every business poeple are in doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
No, he just needs to push his Enron sponsored energy policy.
All this about bringing back sets from the 80's makes so much sense... It's now that people who were recieving those sets, in their formative years, are looking to buy them for the next generation of kids (be it for their own, or friend's kids). It's sort of a "life cycle" for Lego, since we're really the last generation to remember the unadulterated mostly non-special piece sets. I wonder if this means that in 10 or 20 years the model/kit sets will come back again, because that's what the next "life cycle" of 20 - 30 yesar old consumers will remember as classic lego sets.
Hmmmm...
I wonder if this "feature request" was generated by the execs at Arthur Andersen or Enron???
I've got the same version of the Rio600. I picked it up for about $35.00
Mostly for use while mowing the lawn.
I decided to spring for the 32 mb "backpack", due to space and battery issues.
As far as I can tell there's no Linux software for it either. It has a number of drawbacks, but at least it can be picked up cheaply.
Let's give Jon some credit. I don't think this is meant to be a number theory p*ssing contest. I believe that since the number of people in the universe is ruled by a similar set of constraints as the total number of computers/disk drives in the universe (there has to be enough matter to create them all, maintain them all, etc) what's really at the heart of the discussion is the ratio of people to bandwidth/disk space/cpu power. So the way I see it as long as the technology/productivity curve out paces the population curve there will be an appearently infinite amount of space on the net. Not all that space will have equal value, that's another story.