As others have already mentioned, no software is going to actually organize your books for you - that takes actual moving of physical books around in the real world. But LibraryThing is the hottest thing going right now for keeping track of your books. It has all the latest Web 2.0 buzzwords.
As for MySQL, you're thinking on entirely the wrong level of abstraction. Talking about MySQL is like saying "So, I want to build an airplane. I'm thinking of using aluminum."
Actually, every last cell phone currently sold in the US has GPS. The vast majority of them don't let the user (easily) access location data, though, and for good reason - they're not true always-on GPS devices.
The phones use Assisted GPS, which require communication with and resources of the nearest tower. Essentially, the way AGPS works is that when the phone wants to know its location (typically because E911 has requested it), it asks the tower for help. The tower - which has a real GPS with a good fix and ephemeris data - tells the phone which satellites to listen for, and asks the phone to reply to the tower with what it's hearing, timestamped with the phone's received time information. The tower then takes the set of pseudorandom streams that the phone has relayed and the tower computes a location solution.
It's a very clever way of (a) offloading most of the work to the tower, thus making it much cheaper to build GPS into all phones, and (b) making it possible for GPS fixes to be obtained in very minimal conditions - even inside buildings - because another receiver, one that does have a full view of the sky, and ephemeris data, is giving assistance.
You're wrong, sorry. Disk is cheap - very, very, very cheap - , whereas the complex programming that would allow for this sort of thing to occur seamlessly (even while different users perform different operations on those emails) would be very expensive in terms of programmer time, bugs, and processing complexity.
The point is that such patches have been submitted, by dozens of people - people who are very talented, and who have a great deal of experience running and modifying Slash.
Slashdot is not interested in applying these patches, because dupes mean more angry posts, and angry posts mean more pageloads, and more pageloads mean more ads served.
I wonder if this software is a descendant of that developed at TransactPlus, a message-queueing-services company that JP Morgan invested in heavily. (I'm a former NOC employee.)
January 25, 1999: Two days ago I was: OD -11.75, -1.5 OS -12.00, -1.5
Yesterday I had lasik at TLC Manhattan with Dr. Fox... Today I'm around 20/30 or so, and 20/20 if I douse my eyes with eye drops... the vision is there, just not the crispness. (I still have some surface irritation, so that's clouding things a bit.) But... I can see! Two days ago, I literally could not make out distinct objects beyond about 18 inches, today I walked around Manhattan without glasses and could see street signs from blocks away... This is way more than I expected... I had been expecting at least a week or so to go by before I felt comfortable driving, and while due to the post-op glare I'm not going to try night driving yet, I'm certainly fine to drive during the day. (Two days ago, sitting in the car without glasses I couldn't see the steering wheel, much less the road.)
February 9, 1999: My screen is back to 1024x768 and normal fonts, though it's a bit blurry still. Significant ghosting at night -- night driving is not pleasant on unfamiliar roads as signs are unreadable until 2-3 seconds away at 55mph. Eye chart test says I'm 20/40 left, 20/80 right -- but that fluctuates every day. I am using Bion Tears every hour, and everything clears up quite a bit for a few minutes after putting those in. My Dr says that the surface of my cornea is extremely dry and not smooth and that is causing the blurriness. I'd have to say he's right, considering I can see nearly 20/20 for a few minutes after using eye drops. He says that as long as I keep using the drops for a few more weeks, the roughness will go away. My flaps were completely invisible by 1-week postop, with no wrinkles.
June 26, 1999: Post-surgery: OD plano, -0.50 OS plano, -1.00
Post-correction (same MD, 30 June 1999): OD plano, 0 OS plano, 0
I've had serious problems with healing due to dry eye and my vision has been consistently cloudy. My co-manage eye doctor says my eyes are gunked up with sloughed-off epithelial cells. Dry-eye is made worse by my eyelids not closing all the way at night.
Although my eyes are technically zero sph/cyl, I get about 20/40 OD and 20/80 OS on the Snellen. Problems with photophobia since the June correction -- I need to wear sunglasses outside even in very overcast weather.
At no time since the original procedure in January has my vision been better than 20/40 for more than a day or two.
The dry-eye is treated with lots of drops (celluvisc) during the day, and Refresh PM at night with eyes taped shut. I've had significant improvement in the past week or so since I've started taping my eyes shut at night, but still no better than 20/40 or so.
My night vision is worse than 20/100.
December 28, 2000: I wear glasses again. Thin ones, granted, and I don't always have to wear them -- in fact, sometimes I forget to put them on, and don't realize so until hours later...... but wasn't the point of LASIK to not have to wear glasses?
I think the technology still has a ways to go before it's ready for primetime.
I still have NO night vision. I need at least a 25-watt bulb to navigate.
April 2001: If I could go back in time and undo my LASIK, I would.
I (and most people I know) are exactly the opposite. The phone is used for short, trivial discussions - where we're meeting for dinner, what's going on this evening, that sort of thing. Email is for longer, more serious discussion, as it allows eloquence and thoughtful composition.
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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned LibraryThing yet.
As others have already mentioned, no software is going to actually organize your books for you - that takes actual moving of physical books around in the real world. But LibraryThing is the hottest thing going right now for keeping track of your books. It has all the latest Web 2.0 buzzwords.
As for MySQL, you're thinking on entirely the wrong level of abstraction. Talking about MySQL is like saying "So, I want to build an airplane. I'm thinking of using aluminum."
How many times can you fly just under just below the radar without getting caught? That's what I want to know.
I read your post about 5 times in horror before I noticed the word "by" after "killed".
You don't even need an emulator! http://www.droidquest.com/
Actually, every last cell phone currently sold in the US has GPS. The vast majority of them don't let the user (easily) access location data, though, and for good reason - they're not true always-on GPS devices.
The phones use Assisted GPS, which require communication with and resources of the nearest tower. Essentially, the way AGPS works is that when the phone wants to know its location (typically because E911 has requested it), it asks the tower for help. The tower - which has a real GPS with a good fix and ephemeris data - tells the phone which satellites to listen for, and asks the phone to reply to the tower with what it's hearing, timestamped with the phone's received time information. The tower then takes the set of pseudorandom streams that the phone has relayed and the tower computes a location solution.
It's a very clever way of (a) offloading most of the work to the tower, thus making it much cheaper to build GPS into all phones, and (b) making it possible for GPS fixes to be obtained in very minimal conditions - even inside buildings - because another receiver, one that does have a full view of the sky, and ephemeris data, is giving assistance.
Thank you, Lazlo.
True. And there are, indeed, email systems that do this - I believe Lotus Notes does, for instance.
Gmail, however, isn't one of them - at least, not according to one of the programmers who works on it.
You're wrong, sorry. Disk is cheap - very, very, very cheap - , whereas the complex programming that would allow for this sort of thing to occur seamlessly (even while different users perform different operations on those emails) would be very expensive in terms of programmer time, bugs, and processing complexity.
Also, I asked a gmail developer.
You just totally made my day.
Puzzling, though not unheard of - I've seen a few machines here and there where XP just doesn't recognize the drive as a writer.
... though really, I can't think of anyone who doesn't use this functionality.
You could look at this site under "8. problems".
official MS article describing the capability
Funny, my copy of XP, and everyone else's I've ever encountered, has this built in to the OS. Try again.
That's ridiculous. Under that kind of logic, I'm free as a bird to commit murder - that is, until the folks at the precinct come and arrest me.
Yes, but only about a few percent or so of even slashdot readers use adblock. (I do.)
So that has no effect on their desire to serve ads.
No one sues gun companies because their guns were used in a shooting?
What planet have you been living on? This has happened many times.
The point is that such patches have been submitted, by dozens of people - people who are very talented, and who have a great deal of experience running and modifying Slash.
Slashdot is not interested in applying these patches, because dupes mean more angry posts, and angry posts mean more pageloads, and more pageloads mean more ads served.
Yeah, but mine's cooler :)
Of course, if number 42 speaks up, I'll have to acknowledge defeat.
5 digit ID?
*cough*.
I wonder if this software is a descendant of that developed at TransactPlus, a message-queueing-services company that JP Morgan invested in heavily. (I'm a former NOC employee.)
But all that was back in 5th grade, presumably. Now that you're fifteen, you're far too mature for such antics.
Hug Life, email me, would you? dmd at 3e dot org. I do fMRI at UPenn, and would love to talk to another /.-reading fmri person.
Brilliant!
- dmd, #404
My experience:
... I can see! Two days ago, I literally could not make out distinct objects beyond about 18 inches, today I walked around Manhattan without glasses and could see street signs from blocks away...
... but wasn't the point of LASIK to not have to wear glasses?
Here's my LASIK journal.
January 25, 1999:
Two days ago I was:
OD -11.75, -1.5
OS -12.00, -1.5
Yesterday I had lasik at TLC Manhattan with Dr. Fox...
Today I'm around 20/30 or so, and 20/20 if I douse my eyes with eye drops... the vision is there, just not the crispness. (I still have some surface irritation, so that's clouding things a bit.)
But
This is way more than I expected... I had been expecting at least a week or so to go by before I felt comfortable driving, and while due to the post-op glare I'm not going to try night driving yet, I'm certainly fine to drive during the day. (Two days ago, sitting in the car without glasses I couldn't see the steering wheel, much less the road.)
February 9, 1999:
My screen is back to 1024x768 and normal fonts, though it's a bit blurry still. Significant ghosting at night -- night driving is not pleasant on unfamiliar roads as signs are unreadable until 2-3 seconds away at 55mph.
Eye chart test says I'm 20/40 left, 20/80 right -- but that fluctuates every day. I am using Bion Tears every hour, and everything clears up quite a bit for a few minutes after putting those in. My Dr says that the surface of my cornea is extremely dry and not smooth and that is causing the blurriness. I'd have to say he's right, considering I can see nearly 20/20 for a few minutes after using eye drops. He says that as long as I keep using the drops for a few more weeks, the roughness will go away. My flaps were completely invisible by 1-week postop, with no wrinkles.
June 26, 1999:
Post-surgery:
OD plano, -0.50
OS plano, -1.00
Post-correction (same MD, 30 June 1999):
OD plano, 0
OS plano, 0
I've had serious problems with healing due to dry eye and my vision has been consistently cloudy. My co-manage eye doctor says my eyes are gunked up with sloughed-off epithelial cells. Dry-eye is made worse by my eyelids not closing all the way at night.
Although my eyes are technically zero sph/cyl, I get about 20/40 OD and 20/80 OS on the Snellen. Problems with photophobia since the June correction -- I need to wear sunglasses outside even in very overcast weather.
At no time since the original procedure in January has my vision been better than 20/40 for more than a day or two.
The dry-eye is treated with lots of drops (celluvisc) during the day, and Refresh PM at night with eyes taped shut. I've had significant improvement in the past week or so since I've started taping my eyes shut at night, but still no better than 20/40 or so.
My night vision is worse than 20/100.
December 28, 2000:
I wear glasses again. Thin ones, granted, and I don't always have to wear them -- in fact, sometimes I forget to put them on, and don't realize so until hours later...
I think the technology still has a ways to go before it's ready for primetime.
I still have NO night vision. I need at least a 25-watt bulb to navigate.
April 2001:
If I could go back in time and undo my LASIK, I would.
June 2002:
No change in my opinion.
March 2004:
Still no change in my opinion.
I (and most people I know) are exactly the opposite. The phone is used for short, trivial discussions - where we're meeting for dinner, what's going on this evening, that sort of thing. Email is for longer, more serious discussion, as it allows eloquence and thoughtful composition.
Evil Scientist: My clone army will soon be complete!
Secret Agent: Not so fast, Doctor Ditto!
more expensive phones than ever
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? In the 1970s it cost half a dollar a minute or more to call from New York to San Francisco.
Now it costs two or three cents a minute.