Seriously, no one like shopping at grocery stores. Shopping for cloths yes, but groceries you must be kidding. You can get pizza delivered in most cities and towns. We should be able to get our groceries delivered as well. Delivered within 20 minutes of ordering, just like pizza's. It is almost impossible to do grocery shopping over the phone, but is is possible to do it on the internet. While you are shopping on the internet it can even offer helpful suggestions: recipes (as well as links to the ingredients), list of what you bought last time, etc..
>And that is the problem. The smart people get out of it and thus there is no justice. People bitch and bitch about juries doing dumb things, and then when they get called? They will do ANYTHING to get out of it rather than do a better job.
If they didn't get out of it people will think they are not smart because they were not able to get out of it.
We have an employee who was unable to get out of jury duty. That employee must not be smart, because smart people get out of jury duty. Why did we hire this person if s/he is not smart?
Your own statement promotes the idea that only stupid people do jury duty, so what do you expect?
I always thought it would be interesting to have hard copy of books. Say like a hard copy of the entire math section for when I am not near a computer. All proceeds from the book could go back to wikipedia's operation costs.
>But they screwed that up by switching from a sane HTML table format to a flash-based site and I haven't been able to find a decent replacement.
It isn't flash, it is AJAX. Yeah the old way was better. You can't even go back anymore and see which episode you missed yesterday to find out when that episode might be on again. Also since it is AJAX most of the channels aren't even loaded till you try to scroll down, so you can't do a simple browser search to auto-scroll down to the channel you are interested in.
If this paper is right, then can't people make money by shorting spammed stock? If you see a stock spam, short the stock then two days latter get rid of it. Instead of buying stock from spam stock email, short it.
>Is there some kind of geeky use of a laser I'm missing out on?
You can measure things -- inferometer. You can use it to communicate (miles away if the laser is good enough) - wireless point to point network You can use them to make patterns for integrated circuits
And when we tell them we have the same issues we can combine our resources to solve both our problems.
Now after 500 years, the amount of time it took to communicate that back and forth, they were destroyed by their problems and we have to look else where.
>...It's like living near chernobyl--I'm going to get infected! I wish the judges would get a clue and just throw everything out...." > >Point 1: Radiation isn't infectious.
What if the radiation is destroying his bone marrow reducing his white blood cell count, then he gets infected? He didn't say he was going to get infected by the radiation.
No kidding it is getting stupid. A while back I went into radio shack to buy parts for making a IR reciever. The Radio Shack sales guy asked "What are you making, a bomb?". So yeah, buy something that isn't a cell phone, and people will look at you like you are making a bomb to kill people. Why else would you be modivated to learn these things called chemistry or electronics, the only reasons must be you have a score to settle so you learned about this stuff to get your revenge!
So it seems, like always people are affraid of what they don't understand.
What is the answer? Educate others about chemistry and electronics or other sciences, would probably work, except people are not interested.
Even if the virtual boy was profitable for nintendo it was a bummer for everyone that bought one. Even though it was pretty cool, paying over $150 for a virtual boy to only have mainly the initial release titles kinda stinks. You expect when buying a console to usually have many new games in the coming years.
Hope that they do know the market well. Hopfully not just like how 3fx knew their market well by not supporting 32 bit 3d acceleration, and how nintendo knew their market well in the past with the virtual boy.
The virual boy was pretty darn cool though and I owned the latest 3dfx cards there just wasn't enough me's apparently.
It sounds like you probably wont have a problem, it is pretty fun actually and applicable to computer programing. There is always MIT video lectures if you lost track of something during class.
All this time I wondered if I'd see anything about the University of Kansas on slashdot. Maybe some cool engineering project they've done or something, but we get this.
"You can't save here" is a valid argument. However usualy the only place were you can't pause it is during cut a scene or something (which usualy don't last any more than a minute), if he is actually moving and stuff and playing he should be able to pause it. Some games you can pause during a cutscene as well.
However that being said, you wouldn't want to say quit for the night by pausing it, for that you must save, what if the power goes out, someone sees it is on and hits the power button, or someone wants to play a different game on it? Often it will take longer to go back to a point were you can save than complete the scenario you are doing and save after that.
RPG's are natorius for having say 30 minutes of play between save points. However other games seem to be having the option to save whenever you want so it really depends on the game being played.
He also might just be saying that because I kinda sucks to have to quit in the middle of something no matter what game it is.
What we need is drop in shared library replacements for kde/qt and gnome/gtk.
For example, I like kde, I think its open file dialog is much more robust, I think all of it works more the way I want it to. There are some great programs that use gnome/gtk though. I should be able to do a drop in shared library wrapper replacement with the gnome/gtk libraries which actually call the kde/qt function calls. So then the actual gnome/gtk program which uses shared libraries thinks it is calling a gnome function call, in reality that function call is calling the kde/qt function.
While we are at it we could do the same thing the other way around for people that like the gnome/gtk stuff.
>The idea that playing a board game with others, going out somewhere, or even curling up with a book would be a more productive use of that time simply isn't enough to outweigh the desire to stay glued to the television.
I don't know why curling up with a book is deemed more productive? Whenever I read books I feel like I'm wasting my time. Unless you are reading some technical manual or a textbook, it is a read for entertainment. This entertainment from reading a book is usualy the same "escape" one gets when playing a video game or watching a movie. In all cases you arn't really doing anything so how is this more productive? Don't get me wrong, I think reading a novel is more productive than just sitting there looking at a wall. Be honest, its the same, it's just people complain about change that there are new forms(video games, movies) of entertainment and the old ones(books) are being less used. (I remember back in the day when we had movies and video games for entertainment now you kids got holodecks so there is nothing left to imagine yourselves "What is the world coming to".)
They claim ~40 watts per terrabyte. That is pretty darn low, if you are going to try to come up with your own solution with off the shelf parts it'll be hard to match that. If they can't pay for 40 watts per terrabyte for a petabyte maybe they should reconsider that they need the petabyte for now.
Lets say $0.07 per kW/hr, Then the 50kW as you said would be: 50*24*31*$0.07 = $2,604/month
So it isn't super cheap, guess that is why you don't hear about everyday people buying petabyte of storage. I think if you try to save more on electricity (liking coming up with some other device besides hard drives) you will end up paying a huge amount in whatever makes you save that electricity beyond the electricity costs.
What might be interesting is if you can have your keyboard switch modes.
I could put the keyboard in math notation and automatically the keys on the keyboard display math symbols in a standardised pattern (like QWERTY is for letters but for math). Other modes could be added later.
On slashdot a few months back there was a keyboard in which the labels on the keys are dynamic. I think that is going in the interesting direction.
It reminds me of maybe how the computers in Star Trek Next Gen might behave. Where the terminal/key layout is specific to what you are doing (Engineering, medical, etc).
Basically instead of having a stupid windows dialogs where you click on stuff, you can use the keyboard designed to do your task.
It also amazes me seeing asian languages being typed in a computer.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, no one like shopping at grocery stores. Shopping for cloths yes, but groceries you must be kidding. You can get pizza delivered in most cities and towns. We should be able to get our groceries delivered as well. Delivered within 20 minutes of ordering, just like pizza's. It is almost impossible to do grocery shopping over the phone, but is is possible to do it on the internet. While you are shopping on the internet it can even offer helpful suggestions: recipes (as well as links to the ingredients), list of what you bought last time, etc..
Central Limit Theorem?
>And that is the problem. The smart people get out of it and thus there is no justice. People bitch and bitch about juries doing dumb things, and then when they get called? They will do ANYTHING to get out of it rather than do a better job.
If they didn't get out of it people will think they are not smart because they were not able to get out of it.
We have an employee who was unable to get out of jury duty. That employee must not be smart, because smart people get out of jury duty. Why did we hire this person if s/he is not smart?
Your own statement promotes the idea that only stupid people do jury duty, so what do you expect?
I always thought it would be interesting to have hard copy of books. Say like a hard copy of the entire math section for when I am not near a computer. All proceeds from the book could go back to wikipedia's operation costs.
>But they screwed that up by switching from a sane HTML table format to a flash-based site and I haven't been able to find a decent replacement.
It isn't flash, it is AJAX. Yeah the old way was better. You can't even go back anymore and see which episode you missed yesterday to find out when that episode might be on again. Also since it is AJAX most of the channels aren't even loaded till you try to scroll down, so you can't do a simple browser search to auto-scroll down to the channel you are interested in.
If this paper is right, then can't people make money by shorting spammed stock? If you see a stock spam, short the stock then two days latter get rid of it. Instead of buying stock from spam stock email, short it.
>Just thought I'd spin it in the right direction ;-)
Slashdot is a no spin zone, you are suppose to flip instead of spin here.
>Is there some kind of geeky use of a laser I'm missing out on?
You can measure things -- inferometer.
You can use it to communicate (miles away if the laser is good enough) - wireless point to point network
You can use them to make patterns for integrated circuits
Use Sliced bread with some poisonous butter and give it to someone to eat.
Use silly putty to steal someones fingerprint to later frame them for a crime.
Use Shoe polish to vandalize someone's car windows.
Use the *nix account and exploit a local vulnerability and take over the machine and send spam.
Don't get me started on Artificial flowers.
And when we tell them we have the same issues we can combine our resources to solve both our problems.
Now after 500 years, the amount of time it took to communicate that back and forth, they were destroyed by their problems and we have to look else where.
This is a fun game someone continue the story.
>...It's like living near chernobyl--I'm going to get infected! I wish the judges would get a clue and just throw everything out...."
>
>Point 1: Radiation isn't infectious.
What if the radiation is destroying his bone marrow reducing his white blood cell count, then he gets infected? He didn't say he was going to get infected by the radiation.
No kidding it is getting stupid. A while back I went into radio shack to buy parts for making a IR reciever. The Radio Shack sales guy asked "What are you making, a bomb?". So yeah, buy something that isn't a cell phone, and people will look at you like you are making a bomb to kill people. Why else would you be modivated to learn these things called chemistry or electronics, the only reasons must be you have a score to settle so you learned about this stuff to get your revenge!
So it seems, like always people are affraid of what they don't understand.
What is the answer? Educate others about chemistry and electronics or other sciences, would probably work, except people are not interested.
Even if the virtual boy was profitable for nintendo it was a bummer for everyone that bought one. Even though it was pretty cool, paying over $150 for a virtual boy to only have mainly the initial release titles kinda stinks. You expect when buying a console to usually have many new games in the coming years.
Hope that they do know the market well. Hopfully not just like how 3fx knew their market well by not supporting 32 bit 3d acceleration, and how nintendo knew their market well in the past with the virtual boy.
The virual boy was pretty darn cool though and I owned the latest 3dfx cards there just wasn't enough me's apparently.
It sounds like you probably wont have a problem, it is pretty fun actually and applicable to computer programing. There is always MIT video lectures if you lost track of something during class.
MIT OpenCourseWare Video Leactures
If installing stuff is a pain for you to do, your using the wrong distro.
All this time I wondered if I'd see anything about the University of Kansas on slashdot. Maybe some cool engineering project they've done or something, but we get this.
"You can't save here" is a valid argument. However usualy the only place were you can't pause it is during cut a scene or something (which usualy don't last any more than a minute), if he is actually moving and stuff and playing he should be able to pause it. Some games you can pause during a cutscene as well.
However that being said, you wouldn't want to say quit for the night by pausing it, for that you must save, what if the power goes out, someone sees it is on and hits the power button, or someone wants to play a different game on it? Often it will take longer to go back to a point were you can save than complete the scenario you are doing and save after that.
RPG's are natorius for having say 30 minutes of play between save points. However other games seem to be having the option to save whenever you want so it really depends on the game being played.
He also might just be saying that because I kinda sucks to have to quit in the middle of something no matter what game it is.
What we need is drop in shared library replacements for kde/qt and gnome/gtk.
For example, I like kde, I think its open file dialog is much more robust, I think all of it works more the way I want it to. There are some great programs that use gnome/gtk though. I should be able to do a drop in shared library wrapper replacement with the gnome/gtk libraries which actually call the kde/qt function calls. So then the actual gnome/gtk program which uses shared libraries thinks it is calling a gnome function call, in reality that function call is calling the kde/qt function.
While we are at it we could do the same thing the other way around for people that like the gnome/gtk stuff.
1/300th the speed of light is 2,235,388.76 miles/hour not roughly 18 miles per hour.
>The idea that playing a board game with others, going out somewhere, or even curling up with a book would be a more productive use of that time simply isn't enough to outweigh the desire to stay glued to the television.
I don't know why curling up with a book is deemed more productive? Whenever I read books I feel like I'm wasting my time. Unless you are reading some technical manual or a textbook, it is a read for entertainment. This entertainment from reading a book is usualy the same "escape" one gets when playing a video game or watching a movie. In all cases you arn't really doing anything so how is this more productive? Don't get me wrong, I think reading a novel is more productive than just sitting there looking at a wall. Be honest, its the same, it's just people complain about change that there are new forms(video games, movies) of entertainment and the old ones(books) are being less used. (I remember back in the day when we had movies and video games for entertainment now you kids got holodecks so there is nothing left to imagine yourselves "What is the world coming to".)
They claim ~40 watts per terrabyte. That is pretty darn low, if you are going to try to come up with your own solution with off the shelf parts it'll be hard to match that. If they can't pay for 40 watts per terrabyte for a petabyte maybe they should reconsider that they need the petabyte for now.
Lets say $0.07 per kW/hr,
Then the 50kW as you said would be:
50*24*31*$0.07 = $2,604/month
So it isn't super cheap, guess that is why you don't hear about everyday people buying petabyte of storage. I think if you try to save more on electricity (liking coming up with some other device besides hard drives) you will end up paying a huge amount in whatever makes you save that electricity beyond the electricity costs.
archive.org made a petabox
http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
There is now a company that seems to make the same design:
http://www.capricorn-tech.com/products.html
I don't know what FS they use, but apprently it is redudent.
If it wasn't for gravity there wouldn't be a orbit, I don't think he glossed over anything.
What might be interesting is if you can have your keyboard switch modes.
I could put the keyboard in math notation and automatically the keys on the keyboard display math symbols in a standardised pattern (like QWERTY is for letters but for math). Other modes could be added later.
On slashdot a few months back there was a keyboard in which the labels on the keys are dynamic. I think that is going in the interesting direction.
It reminds me of maybe how the computers in Star Trek Next Gen might behave. Where the terminal/key layout is specific to what you are doing (Engineering, medical, etc).
Basically instead of having a stupid windows dialogs where you click on stuff, you can use the keyboard designed to do your task.
It also amazes me seeing asian languages being typed in a computer.