As much as I hate doing it, I sit down at Word and Excel in campus computer labs every time I have to write lab reports. OO.O could almost do the job, but not quite. The two biggest missing features (in my opinion) are the user-definable error bars and the clunky formula editor.
The error bars, in particular, have been a common gripe for 3 years. I find it absolutely amazing that no one has fixed it. OO.O is USELESS to science people without them.
You joke, but I was doing some spreadsheet work yesterday and I found the Microsoft help system surprisingly useful. When you know what you're doing, yes, clippy is irritating. However, I have found it to be quite useful when I needed it.
The United States was formed in order to create a government for the people, not against them. Our people are honorable citizens, not potential terrorist suspects. This trend toward an Orwellian society goes against all American values.
Not really. The US separated from England mostly for economic reasons hidden under the guise of "liberty!", "representation!", etc. If you look at the make up of most of the founding fathers, most of them were wealthy coastal elites: merchants and lawyers. The rich run this country, always have and always will.
The Constitution effectively shifted power away from the States, which were more or less beholden to the people, to the Federal government, where the only direct say the people had was in the House of Representatives. The Senate and the entire executive and judicial branches were not elected by the people.
If you'd like to know more about the conflict between "East" and "West" in revolutionary America, I'd recommend reading about the North Carolina Regulator Rebellion and Shay's Rebellion, which had a large hand in creating a shift in attitudes that would pave the way to the Constitution. The founders were not egalitarian gods as they are often thought to be, they were just as human as we are. The original ideals of the revolution fell flat on their face before the war was even over.
I better stop now lest this turn into a 20 page paper. The way revolutionary history is taught in high school genearlly contains a lot of misleading oversimplifications, but I think it's worth the time investment required to gain a better understanding of it.
You're completely correct. You should be modded up and not the parent. Unfortunately, you probably won't because slashdotters don't seem to want to hear about how they, too, are just as prone to partisan groupthink as the rest of the unwashed masses. Their superior knowledge enables them to operate on a plane of thought completely above everyone else, apparantly.
Nope, sorry, this is the only one I know of. But as someone else suggested, you might try looking around http://xxx.lanl.gov/. They may have something there. Good luck!
Freenet is a large-scale peer-to-peer network which pools the power of member computers around the world to create a massive virtual information store open to anyone to freely publish or view information of all kinds. Freenet is:
* Highly survivable: All internal processes are completely anonymized and decentralized across the global network, making it virtually impossible for an attacker to destroy information or take control of the system.
* Private: Freenet makes it extremely difficult for anyone to spy on the information that you are viewing, publishing, or storing.
* Secure: Information stored in Freenet is protected by strong cryptography against malicious tampering or counterfeiting.
* Efficient: Freenet dynamically replicates and relocates information in response to demand to provide efficient service and minimal bandwidth usage regardless of load. Significantly, Freenet generally requires log(n) time to retrieve a piece of information in a network of size n.
"A UN inspection group found that well over 95% of the food and medical supplies were reaching Iraqi civilians directly. They reported it as one of the most effective humanitarian projects in history."
Please, if you could, tell me where you read this. Before I go changing my personal viewpoints, I'd like to be certain that the information is accurate. Thanks.
How should I go about explaining the danger of such a law to my friends and family, most of whom are law abiding, Windows-using, non-geeks? How would a law like this affect them?
I am not into graphics programming in any way, shape, or form, but the Khronos Group recently released the specs for OpenML 1.0. Khronos hopes to "promote the creation and deployment of rich media through the creation of open standard APIs to enable the authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms & devices." It has support from ATI, nVidia, SGI, Intel, Sun, and others. Implemenations of OpenML 1.0 are expected to appear this year on a variety of systems (Solaris, Windows, Linux, IRIX, etc.).
I've been really impressed with recent versions of TuxRacer. I'm not a big console gamer (I just play whatever my friends happen to have), but a lot of those snowboarding games for N64 and Playstation can be quite fun...
TuxRacer seems to have a lot of the hard work done already. One would only need to change a few skins and implement a trick system to have themselves a neat little snowboarding game. I'm sure this would take some work, but it's far easier than starting from scratch.
Why are they using a Celeron 366? Yes, I'm aware of the "or better" clause, but still, why are they using 2.5 year old technology? If they want to make it cheap, what's wrong with a low-end Duron?
While I don't doubt Nokia's intentions for using Linux (low development cost, etc.), I can't help but be concerned by the fact that there has not been a single widely-succesful Linux-based product to date. With all the half-baked, consoles/devices/software products brandishing "Linux!" as a way of gaining attention, I'm afraid the reputation of our beloved OS will suffer in the eyes of the general public. Obviously, the Eazel announcement isn't helping things either. People may begin to associate Linux with "failure" or "low quality". I don't think anyone wants that.
Realisticly, games should just be an afterthought for the MediaTerminal, and perhaps that's the reason for the Celeron 366. Anyone who thinks this thing has a chance of drawing people away from the XBox should really set their crack pipe aside for a minute or two. C'mon, remember Indreama? The game support for Linux, let alone a just-announced console is not sufficient to build a profitable product around. If, however, MT could play.mp3s(.oggs), surf the web, do some word processing and office apps, chat, play DVDs, etc for ~$300, it might make Nokia some money. Even still, MT is promising "simplicity", and when you start adding all those things, the overall picture becomes more complicated. Most open source projects are a work in progress. Are they just gonna draw the line somewhere? Are they going to be running a "Nokia Update" program? What happens when Joe Sixpack mistakenly overwrites a critical system file? When people buy a console, that want it to "just work right" all the time and not deal with crashes, updates, bug reports, etc.
Perhaps the people at Nokia are envisioning something different that what I can forsee, but it seems to me that it's gonna be tough sell for the average user.
I'd be interested to hear what exactly it was that got him suspended. The fact that the administration is being tight-lipped about the details suggests they're trying to cover their asses. Regardless, it's a shame to hear something like this...
What's wrong with Freenet? Wouldn't it be smarter to assist an ongoing anonymous, decentralized p2p network (which sounds substantially more advanced than Peekabooty) rather than spawn off another one?
--Greg
Slashdot Mirror
As much as I hate doing it, I sit down at Word and Excel in campus computer labs every time I have to write lab reports. OO.O could almost do the job, but not quite. The two biggest missing features (in my opinion) are the user-definable error bars and the clunky formula editor.
The error bars, in particular, have been a common gripe for 3 years. I find it absolutely amazing that no one has fixed it. OO.O is USELESS to science people without them.
You joke, but I was doing some spreadsheet work yesterday and I found the Microsoft help system surprisingly useful. When you know what you're doing, yes, clippy is irritating. However, I have found it to be quite useful when I needed it.
--G
Not really. The US separated from England mostly for economic reasons hidden under the guise of "liberty!", "representation!", etc. If you look at the make up of most of the founding fathers, most of them were wealthy coastal elites: merchants and lawyers. The rich run this country, always have and always will.
The Constitution effectively shifted power away from the States, which were more or less beholden to the people, to the Federal government, where the only direct say the people had was in the House of Representatives. The Senate and the entire executive and judicial branches were not elected by the people.
If you'd like to know more about the conflict between "East" and "West" in revolutionary America, I'd recommend reading about the North Carolina Regulator Rebellion and Shay's Rebellion, which had a large hand in creating a shift in attitudes that would pave the way to the Constitution. The founders were not egalitarian gods as they are often thought to be, they were just as human as we are. The original ideals of the revolution fell flat on their face before the war was even over.
I better stop now lest this turn into a 20 page paper. The way revolutionary history is taught in high school genearlly contains a lot of misleading oversimplifications, but I think it's worth the time investment required to gain a better understanding of it.
I'd like to announce to the Slashdot community that I've patented the process of respiration.
In the future, each time you breathe, I will be collecting a small royalty from every one of you.
Thank you.
Nope, sorry, this is the only one I know of. But as someone else suggested, you might try looking around http://xxx.lanl.gov/. They may have something there. Good luck!
--GFish4
My brother found this for me not too long ago. The math involved can get rather intense, but I think it 's worth pointing out:
An Introduction to to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists - Available in PDF, PostScript, and others.
If you do a google search, you probably can find it elsewhere, also.
--GFish4
Yes. It says so here in the third question from the bottom:d ocuments102.html
http://www.licensing.philips.com/information/mtr/
From the "What is freenet?" page:
----
Freenet is a large-scale peer-to-peer network which pools the power of member computers around the world to create a massive virtual information store open to anyone to freely publish or view information of all kinds. Freenet is:
* Highly survivable: All internal processes are completely anonymized and decentralized across the global network, making it virtually impossible for an attacker to destroy information or take control of the system.
* Private: Freenet makes it extremely difficult for anyone to spy on the information that you are viewing, publishing, or storing.
* Secure: Information stored in Freenet is protected by strong cryptography against malicious tampering or counterfeiting.
* Efficient: Freenet dynamically replicates and relocates information in response to demand to provide efficient service and minimal bandwidth usage regardless of load. Significantly, Freenet generally requires log(n) time to retrieve a piece of information in a network of size n.
---
Project info here.
Donate money here.
--Greg
"A UN inspection group found that well over 95% of the food and medical supplies were reaching Iraqi civilians directly. They reported it as one of the most effective humanitarian projects in history."
Please, if you could, tell me where you read this. Before I go changing my personal viewpoints, I'd like to be certain that the information is accurate. Thanks.
--Greg
How should I go about explaining the danger of such a law to my friends and family, most of whom are law abiding, Windows-using, non-geeks? How would a law like this affect them?
--Greg
I am not into graphics programming in any way, shape, or form, but the Khronos Group recently released the specs for OpenML 1.0. Khronos hopes to "promote the creation and deployment of rich media through the creation of open standard APIs to enable the authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms & devices." It has support from ATI, nVidia, SGI, Intel, Sun, and others. Implemenations of OpenML 1.0 are expected to appear this year on a variety of systems (Solaris, Windows, Linux, IRIX, etc.).
--Greg
I've been really impressed with recent versions of TuxRacer. I'm not a big console gamer (I just play whatever my friends happen to have), but a lot of those snowboarding games for N64 and Playstation can be quite fun...
TuxRacer seems to have a lot of the hard work done already. One would only need to change a few skins and implement a trick system to have themselves a neat little snowboarding game. I'm sure this would take some work, but it's far easier than starting from scratch.
Just an idea...
--Greg
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
--Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
Why are they using a Celeron 366? Yes, I'm aware of the "or better" clause, but still, why are they using 2.5 year old technology? If they want to make it cheap, what's wrong with a low-end Duron?
.mp3s(.oggs), surf the web, do some word processing and office apps, chat, play DVDs, etc for ~$300, it might make Nokia some money. Even still, MT is promising "simplicity", and when you start adding all those things, the overall picture becomes more complicated. Most open source projects are a work in progress. Are they just gonna draw the line somewhere? Are they going to be running a "Nokia Update" program? What happens when Joe Sixpack mistakenly overwrites a critical system file? When people buy a console, that want it to "just work right" all the time and not deal with crashes, updates, bug reports, etc.
While I don't doubt Nokia's intentions for using Linux (low development cost, etc.), I can't help but be concerned by the fact that there has not been a single widely-succesful Linux-based product to date. With all the half-baked, consoles/devices/software products brandishing "Linux!" as a way of gaining attention, I'm afraid the reputation of our beloved OS will suffer in the eyes of the general public. Obviously, the Eazel announcement isn't helping things either. People may begin to associate Linux with "failure" or "low quality". I don't think anyone wants that.
Realisticly, games should just be an afterthought for the MediaTerminal, and perhaps that's the reason for the Celeron 366. Anyone who thinks this thing has a chance of drawing people away from the XBox should really set their crack pipe aside for a minute or two. C'mon, remember Indreama? The game support for Linux, let alone a just-announced console is not sufficient to build a profitable product around. If, however, MT could play
Perhaps the people at Nokia are envisioning something different that what I can forsee, but it seems to me that it's gonna be tough sell for the average user.
--Greg
I'd be interested to hear what exactly it was that got him suspended. The fact that the administration is being tight-lipped about the details suggests they're trying to cover their asses. Regardless, it's a shame to hear something like this...
What's wrong with Freenet? Wouldn't it be smarter to assist an ongoing anonymous, decentralized p2p network (which sounds substantially more advanced than Peekabooty) rather than spawn off another one? --Greg