You see, I actually know what the next big thing is going to be, I even submitted an article about it. But those dang/. editors rejected my submission! And so it remains an obscure, but decidedly great, technological advance.
At least my efforts will give something for the grandkids to post about...
Slashdotted into the ground as soon as someone here figures out where it is now.
What the heck kinda question is that? All we do here is discuss the edge -- day in, day out. Have you not been paying attention? Read the stinking articles yourself.
If that were true, then Slashdot would be dead by now - killed off by the brute force attacks of frist potsers, rabid flamers, off-topic lamers and immeasureable quantities of unqualified stupidity.
The 'OK' link in the above post is busted. I tried the 'Sure' one too - it doesn't seem to work either. What time is it? Wait, maybe if I click 'Yes' -- nope. Crap, how am I gonna know if the pizza guy is late?
Jeepers, always such high quality thinking going on at Valentine's! And just about any other arbitrarily important date, I suppose. Here's an interesting article from the Guardian about the science that gets press on this day of love.
Some related items: there are rumblings of possible alternatives and here is a paper presented by the Centre for Democracy and Technology to the Shanghai conference yesterday, which outlines a few suggestions as to how things might be improved.
Here's some more coverage at Salon. Dig M$'s reaction:
"Real is using open source theatrics to try to change the perception among the developer community that they are hard to work with and too restrictive in their licensing terms," said Michael Aldridge, lead product manager of Microsoft's Windows Digital Media
You may want to check out GLterm, I've used it on my iBook under OS 10.1.5 and it provides a much richer set of features than Apple's Terminal.app.
GLterm is a replacement for the Terminal application which ships with MacOS X. It's made to be faster, and to support more common terminal features. It supports full ANSI colors, all vt102 protocol, all DEC function keys, and a selection of useful xterm sequences.
"I was driving home from the hardware store yesterday when I heard a report on NPR about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. It concluded with a discussion of the Semantic Web, with the interviewee making claims that the Semantic Web would run into sizable issues with Incompleteness."
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They have a copy at the local library here. I like to take it out once in a while, usually scooping the book(SciAm edition) with it. Definitely worth the walk down to the library, whereas the java applet sure ain't nothing to wait for.
I always liked the Eames' film. I find it comforting, while some people I know have found it to be a bit unerving(I think for them it's a bit like a feeling of vertigo). For people who have never given much thought to these ideas it's maybe like getting thrown into the deep end. I remember going through the book version with a friend and she insisted on going one step at a time. She needed enough time to digest the information and let it sink in. So we started at the middle and worked or way to either end one page getting turned each day. It was a very nice contemplative experience.
Personally, I find it provides a much needed reality check; it enhances my sense of place and perspective. And I can sure use that somedays.
Wow - finally I'm starting to grasp the importance of having that 20Megs of Java stuff tacked on to my web browser. For tomorrow, I suggest someone write an article about a cool flash animation they stumbled across while they were otherwise wasting their time.
80 years ago(1922) cars were available to your average Joe. And there is a reason for this, and it is not because rich people bought enough expensive toys and "pull[ed] the prices down to a level reachable by the rest of us."
The reason is Henry Ford had a dream of mass producing cars that would be reasonably priced, easy to operate and reliable. He achieved his dream in 1908 with the legendary Model T, an automobile that revolutionized personal transportation in America. It's impact quickly spread worldwide, with the adoption of assembly line construction methods pioneered by Ford. Ford also paid his workers a decent wage and developed the dealer-franchise networks, things that were needed to pave the way for mass consumption(a necessary but not always present corollary to mass production.)
By 1912 there were 7,000 Ford dealers across the country. By 1915 1 million Ford cars had been produced. Eighty years ago cars were hardly the "rich man's toy."
And what space transportation needs to overcome are the very things that the Model T conquered: ease of use, reliability and affordable cost. We don't need rich space tourists - we need a Twenty-First Century Henry Ford!
"We can hope that like previous expensive luxuries, e.g. jet travel and ocean cruises, the wealthy will pull the prices down to a level reachable by the rest of us."
This statement shows a very flawed grasp of real world economies.
I'd like to buy the nicest house in town, but the price just keeps going up, year after year. Many millions of people would like to eat regularly and have an adequate supply of drinking water. For years, rich people have been enjoying fine dining and knocking back Perriers to little or no avail.
The idea that the wealthy are out there spending their little hearts out to bring prices down for the rest of us - sheeesh, it makes me all warm and tingly inside
According to the new/. story duplication policy, this story will be reposted by a different editor in a couple of hours. Hopefully they'll fix the spelling error in the dupe. Nice pics BTW.
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You see, I actually know what the next big thing is going to be, I even submitted an article about it. But those dang /. editors rejected my submission! And so it remains an obscure, but decidedly great, technological advance.
At least my efforts will give something for the grandkids to post about...
Slashdotted into the ground as soon as someone here figures out where it is now.
What the heck kinda question is that? All we do here is discuss the edge -- day in, day out. Have you not been paying attention? Read the stinking articles yourself.
But I don't necessarily tell the truth either.
If that were true, then Slashdot would be dead by now - killed off by the brute force attacks of frist potsers, rabid flamers, off-topic lamers and immeasureable quantities of unqualified stupidity.
We even won't mention the speling and graammar.
Definately.
Did somebody say worms?
More? Are you nuts? The place is crawling with killer XUL apps already! Sheesh, give a guy some room to breath already.
Maybe they could give Hell on Earth a couple of seats.
Was how they disabled the comments. But that did not stop the Sporkinator!
The 'OK' link in the above post is busted. I tried the 'Sure' one too - it doesn't seem to work either. What time is it? Wait, maybe if I click 'Yes' -- nope. Crap, how am I gonna know if the pizza guy is late?
Jeepers, always such high quality thinking going on at Valentine's! And just about any other arbitrarily important date, I suppose. Here's an interesting article from the Guardian about the science that gets press on this day of love.
I enjoyed reading about this event last week. Thanks to Micheal Radwin's blog
and hey, thanks for the tips!
Some related items: there are rumblings of possible alternatives and here is a paper presented by the Centre for Democracy and Technology to the Shanghai conference yesterday, which outlines a few suggestions as to how things might be improved.
Is this some sort of reference to this?
Well, isn't this just a bit circular?
Here's some more coverage at Salon. Dig M$'s reaction:
You may want to check out GLterm, I've used it on my iBook under OS 10.1.5 and it provides a much richer set of features than Apple's Terminal.app.
Right you are. And any editor worth his salt might have noticed that this news is several weeks old. The article is dated (09/09/02 06:04 p.m. EST)
This was part of Paul Otellini's keynote at the Intel Developer Forum. Just the boys in the lab showing that they can overclock with the best of them.
Yes, yes. Tell me more.
They have a copy at the local library here. I like to take it out once in a while, usually scooping the book(SciAm edition) with it. Definitely worth the walk down to the library, whereas the java applet sure ain't nothing to wait for.
I always liked the Eames' film. I find it comforting, while some people I know have found it to be a bit unerving(I think for them it's a bit like a feeling of vertigo). For people who have never given much thought to these ideas it's maybe like getting thrown into the deep end. I remember going through the book version with a friend and she insisted on going one step at a time. She needed enough time to digest the information and let it sink in. So we started at the middle and worked or way to either end one page getting turned each day. It was a very nice contemplative experience.
Personally, I find it provides a much needed reality check; it enhances my sense of place and perspective. And I can sure use that somedays.
Wow - finally I'm starting to grasp the importance of having that 20Megs of Java stuff tacked on to my web browser. For tomorrow, I suggest someone write an article about a cool flash animation they stumbled across while they were otherwise wasting their time.
80 years ago(1922) cars were available to your average Joe. And there is a reason for this, and it is not because rich people bought enough expensive toys and "pull[ed] the prices down to a level reachable by the rest of us."
The reason is Henry Ford had a dream of mass producing cars that would be reasonably priced, easy to operate and reliable. He achieved his dream in 1908 with the legendary Model T, an automobile that revolutionized personal transportation in America. It's impact quickly spread worldwide, with the adoption of assembly line construction methods pioneered by Ford. Ford also paid his workers a decent wage and developed the dealer-franchise networks, things that were needed to pave the way for mass consumption(a necessary but not always present corollary to mass production.)
By 1912 there were 7,000 Ford dealers across the country. By 1915 1 million Ford cars had been produced. Eighty years ago cars were hardly the "rich man's toy."
And what space transportation needs to overcome are the very things that the Model T conquered: ease of use, reliability and affordable cost. We don't need rich space tourists - we need a Twenty-First Century Henry Ford!
This statement shows a very flawed grasp of real world economies.
I'd like to buy the nicest house in town, but the price just keeps going up, year after year. Many millions of people would like to eat regularly and have an adequate supply of drinking water. For years, rich people have been enjoying fine dining and knocking back Perriers to little or no avail.
The idea that the wealthy are out there spending their little hearts out to bring prices down for the rest of us - sheeesh, it makes me all warm and tingly inside
According to the new /. story duplication policy, this story will be reposted by a different editor in a couple of hours. Hopefully they'll fix the spelling error in the dupe. Nice pics BTW.
Google Hacked by Dilbert!. They've upped their attacks to daily!
There are definately a lot of spelling mistakes on the net. Nice to see slashdotters doing their bit.