This is interesting to hear! I thought development had really kind of died out after Miguel started with the GNOME thingie, guess I was wrong (ofcourse I only implemented some recursive copy / move / delete functions which have probably long been rewritten).
Awesome though that there's apparently still people out there that actively use it, god, it's been SO long!
Just curious if Slashdot would host a discussion on Network Solution's decision to block the domain http://fitnathemovie.com/ on which a Dutch politician intends to host a film about the Koran and Islam.
and mod me down if you want to if this is the wrong way to go about it. I just think that with Network Solutions' involvement this becomes kind of a border crossing freedom of speech issue.
True. This is a major problem IMO. Once upon a time I had hoped that I could run VM's *and* have full 3D support, both in a Windows VM and a Linux VM.
Turns out that 3D accelerated is not an option right now, but Xen was at that time working on something that could (given the right hardware, which at the time was only high end IBM mobo's) isolate PCI cards completely.
That way, you could have two graphics boards in your system, and when Xen starts up it could assign one graphics board to, for example, a Windows VM which could then run 3D accelerated drivers with it's native drivers.
I agree with most of the people on here saying the whole Web 2.0 is just more buzz, hype, fizz. It's like somebody is trying to add some mentos to the Diet Web 1.0:)
However, and there's the 'but', Let's not forget how 'the web' (to me at least) was always kind of 'Internet 2.0'. There was archie, Veronica, USEnet, ftp, IRC, etc. etc. Who needed something that did all that sort of functionality but then in one big, fat, resource hog 'browser'. At some point there was so much 'web' or HTTP traffic that my internet link started to see really slow, nearly making some interactive sessions to remote sites impossible.
But business and PHB's responded to the hype by making the network faster, MUCH faster. A hype generates activity, activity generates results. So that's one (debatable, I know) reason why the Web 2.0 babbles arent all bad.
The other, far more important reason why Web 2.0 is defendable is because it creates the possibility to creates fat clients within the browser. Now there's some auto search thingies, some realtime edit stuff and what have you that's always posted as 'examples' of Web 2.0. Bogus:) But the XmlHTTPObject is the start IMO of ways to better utilize the browser for client purposes.
Imagine how much energy you'd have to inject into those blocks if they're not positioned right.
But once you position them right, they slide right in.
Perhaps the way the molecules bump into each other is influenced in a similar way and they don't need to be smashed into each other at incredibly high temperatures.
I know that over here in Holland there's indeed a law for this. If something is published in the ether, everyone able to receive it is allowed to do so. --
Ehr, 'Holland, the country' ? Coz I live there and I'm quite certain that's not the case. If you have a TV antenna here and you're receiving TV signals, you will be asked to pay 'kijk en luistergeld'.
Does anyone think that we should do a harder, slower, more expensive and less reliable way so that more people have jobs? --
No matter how hard it is for me, being a technology freak myself, I think I am going to have to answer this affirmatively.
Technologists, mea culpa, always have the urge to make 'things' more efficient. 'Efficiency' in the traditional meaning however could be translated, roughly, as 'Try real hard to use as many resources that we CANNOT miss (oil, energy, materials in some cases) to do as much work as possible so resources that we have PLENTY of (people) can be replaced'.
This definition is something that's grown in, but it is not neccesarily the proper definition. I believe that efficiency should include the term 'meaningfully' somewhere. Somehow, we should seek an equilibrium that's not focussed only on automating things at the expense of other things. The SUM of the results should be positive.
Don't forget that having a job, no matter how trivial such a job might be, could give somebody lesser than yourself a very good feeling about himself, being able to support his family, his children. If obsoleting one computer could create 10 such trivial jobs, feed 10 families, increase the wellfare and feelgood factor of 10 or more income earners because they don't have to depend on social services, oil products that get put into that computer's manufacturing get saved, energy bills do not have to be paid, hmmmmmmm, I don't know man.... Perhaps I'd say that computer deserves being obsoleted, no matter how efficient it was.
I'm aware that this is a recursive issue; the worker's employer would no longer be as competitive, couldn't price his articles as low, would eventually go under, the electricity company wouldn't need to employ so many people, the oil business as a whole would suffer etc. etc.
Give the definition some thought though. I think it can be done somehow. We technologists and scientists COULD lead the way into a more sensible society.
It's called NFS. Perfect consistency, concurrent writes, file locking, etc. But ooooh, it's for SCSI block devices! Why anybody would want those is a whole different question. Ofcourse, being stuck with expensive obsoleted fibre channel switches in the near future is as good a reason as any.
Kerry's wife can give every American a $1000 out of HER own pocket according to the re-evaluated capital estimate of the Heinz concern. Seems her net worth is close to a billion dollar.
The Cato institute for REAL research? Haha, I'll be damned before I'll believe that right wing think tank.
No, personally I prefer to read Greg Palast's work. This is what Moore has based most of his opinion on anyways. Like Greg says, Michael is just a funny guy in a monkey suit that draws people's attention to alternative news because it is not POSSIBLE any longer to report objective news in the US.
BTW, Greg Palast works for the BBC and covered the whole voting scam even before Gore conceded. He covered the whole Venezuela scam. He's an awesome investigative reporter without the pranks Michael Moore uses to get Americans out of their comfort zone.
Honestly, I don't think Moore is really an extremist. In fact, that would make most of the people who gave his movie at the Cannes filmfestival a standing ovation for 10 minutes or more 'extremists'.
Perhaps he would be considered 'extremist' by most Americans that believe the Bush team hype, now *that* is extremist.
Ofcourse this is not a pipe dream. It takes a lot of creative talent to make a succesfull game. I won't say it's easy or less remarkable to make a 3D engine, but it's applying mathematics and clever programming.
Still, the creative game developper would be incredibly helped by the industrious, skilled 3D engine coder.
Gimme a box with Debian and.debs for all JVM, javac, all Java classes easy database connectivity, servlets out of the box that I can apt-get distupgrade and it'll still work.
I'll sign for that. JavaSux, but it would suck a WHOLE LOT less if I wouldn't have to run around for a fragmented JVM implementation, what to choose, blackdown?, sun?, ibm? every time I want to update my Linux system.
Interesting for sure. I looked at their site and have a couple of issues with it though. First, they describe NaOH as being available abundantly as a waste product.
I'm not sure if this is the case. NaOH is USED frequently in the industry because of it's strong alkaline properties. It's subject to Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as illustrated in the Industry Overview Of Construction. I'm not familiar with it's exact purpose in the industry, perhaps somebody can enlighten me, but I'm not quite so sure that it'd be a waste product in it's pure form, it'll very likely be diluted.
Second, what happens to the dilution in the waste when the NaH is being created?
Third, they plan to 'heat' the NaOH in order to turn it into solid NaH. How would they heat it? Heating costs energy. Is this possibly a similar scam as to use corn based ethanol to power engines? (everybody knows ofcourse that corn needs an abundance of nitrate rich fertilizer, which in turn requires a lot of energy, eg. oil, to create).
I do however like the NaH + H2O and tank idea as a means to safely transport H2. Down the line, the 'waste' product of this (ie. NaOH dissolved in water) could be used as non-diluted transmission medium for creating new NaOH as the previous poster said.
It's not bullshit reports like this, it's a large group of people lacking full comprehension of what they're actually reading. This is commonly called 'Functional Illiteracy' and it's what 23% of Americans suffer from in some extent, so don't feel bad. It's also hard to understand this fully since they've already done significant work to dumb it down and that (to the more intelligent people) makes it look fluffy, I guess.
I had the pleasure to hear one of the scientists responsible for this report explain what in his words was called the 'ecological footprint'; I guess the version we just read has already been dumbed down.
The ecological footprint is defined as the sum of the earth surface that a human apropriates or, simpler 'uses', in order to live. This includes for everybody a piece of ocean where fish live, a piece of forest where trees breathe out oxygen (AND breathe in co2), a piece of land to grow vegetables, a piece of land to graze cows etc. etc. etc.
So saying the ecological or 'human' footprint is 83% of the planet does not mean we have pushed away all forests, oceans, etc. It means that that's what we NEED at the current consumption rates. You can imagine that this is a daunting task to determine this ecological footprint. It means mapping what we HAVE, an incredibly, monstrously difficult task. This scientist freely acknowledged that. But they've gone OUT OF THEIR WAY to get as accurate a number as they possibly can. The full report contains much much more detailed information and I'm sure if you can get a copy you'd be rather stunned by the detail in there. Try if you can find a copy, I heard the guy talking about it for about an hour and was thoroughly impressed with the scientific backing of this report.
There's really no need to jam GPS. Europe has it's own equivalent of the FAA. It's simple to just give a preferential treatment to equipment that uses it's own GPS-like system.
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If I get a large enough number of votes, I'll send this to Google.
Curious what people think about Google's actions. Vote on: Don't be evil.
Let's roll.
This is interesting to hear! I thought development had really kind of died out after Miguel started with the GNOME thingie, guess I was wrong (ofcourse I only implemented some recursive copy / move / delete functions which have probably long been rewritten).
Awesome though that there's apparently still people out there that actively use it, god, it's been SO long!
Just curious if Slashdot would host a discussion on Network Solution's decision to block the domain http://fitnathemovie.com/ on which a Dutch politician intends to host a film about the Koran and Islam.
Check out http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu.nl%2Fnews%2F1493296%2F52%2FProvider_haalt_fitnathemovie.com_offline.html&langpair=nl%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
and mod me down if you want to if this is the wrong way to go about it. I just think that with Network Solutions' involvement this becomes kind of a border crossing freedom of speech issue.
The first Fab Lab giving people the technology to create technology. Not very original Mr Gershenfeld! I can do science me!
"The cleaned garbage cans are then placed on a clean garbage conveyor 56 from where they pass through a microwave station 58."
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20020023860.html
The patent does not state why the microwave action though, it could be for disinfectant purposes?
True. This is a major problem IMO. Once upon a time I had hoped that I could run VM's *and* have full 3D support, both in a Windows VM and a Linux VM.
:)
Turns out that 3D accelerated is not an option right now, but Xen was at that time working on something that could (given the right hardware, which at the time was only high end IBM mobo's) isolate PCI cards completely.
That way, you could have two graphics boards in your system, and when Xen starts up it could assign one graphics board to, for example, a Windows VM which could then run 3D accelerated drivers with it's native drivers.
I wouldn't quite give up on Xen yet
I agree with most of the people on here saying the whole Web 2.0 is just more buzz, hype, fizz. It's like somebody is trying to add some mentos to the Diet Web 1.0 :)
:) But the XmlHTTPObject is the start IMO of ways to better utilize the browser for client purposes.
However, and there's the 'but', Let's not forget how 'the web' (to me at least) was always kind of 'Internet 2.0'. There was archie, Veronica, USEnet, ftp, IRC, etc. etc. Who needed something that did all that sort of functionality but then in one big, fat, resource hog 'browser'. At some point there was so much 'web' or HTTP traffic that my internet link started to see really slow, nearly making some interactive sessions to remote sites impossible.
But business and PHB's responded to the hype by making the network faster, MUCH faster. A hype generates activity, activity generates results. So that's one (debatable, I know) reason why the Web 2.0 babbles arent all bad.
The other, far more important reason why Web 2.0 is defendable is because it creates the possibility to creates fat clients within the browser. Now there's some auto search thingies, some realtime edit stuff and what have you that's always posted as 'examples' of Web 2.0. Bogus
So Intel will reinvent Internet2 then?
Imagine how much energy you'd have to inject into those blocks if they're not positioned right.
But once you position them right, they slide right in.
Perhaps the way the molecules bump into each other is influenced in a similar way and they don't need to be smashed into each other at incredibly high temperatures.
I know that over here in Holland there's indeed a law for this. If something is published in the ether, everyone able to receive it is allowed to do so.
--
Ehr, 'Holland, the country' ? Coz I live there and I'm quite certain that's not the case. If you have a TV antenna here and you're receiving TV signals, you will be asked to pay 'kijk en luistergeld'.
Does anyone think that we should do a harder, slower, more expensive and less reliable way so that more people have jobs?
--
No matter how hard it is for me, being a technology freak myself, I think I am going to have to answer this affirmatively.
Technologists, mea culpa, always have the urge to make 'things' more efficient. 'Efficiency' in the traditional meaning however could be translated, roughly, as 'Try real hard to use as many resources that we CANNOT miss (oil, energy, materials in some cases) to do as much work as possible so resources that we have PLENTY of (people) can be replaced'.
This definition is something that's grown in, but it is not neccesarily the proper definition. I believe that efficiency should include the term 'meaningfully' somewhere. Somehow, we should seek an equilibrium that's not focussed only on automating things at the expense of other things. The SUM of the results should be positive.
Don't forget that having a job, no matter how trivial such a job might be, could give somebody lesser than yourself a very good feeling about himself, being able to support his family, his children. If obsoleting one computer could create 10 such trivial jobs, feed 10 families, increase the wellfare and feelgood factor of 10 or more income earners because they don't have to depend on social services, oil products that get put into that computer's manufacturing get saved, energy bills do not have to be paid, hmmmmmmm, I don't know man.... Perhaps I'd say that computer deserves being obsoleted, no matter how efficient it was.
I'm aware that this is a recursive issue; the worker's employer would no longer be as competitive, couldn't price his articles as low, would eventually go under, the electricity company wouldn't need to employ so many people, the oil business as a whole would suffer etc. etc.
Give the definition some thought though. I think it can be done somehow. We technologists and scientists COULD lead the way into a more sensible society.
It's called NFS. Perfect consistency, concurrent writes, file locking, etc. But ooooh, it's for SCSI block devices! Why anybody would want those is a whole different question. Ofcourse, being stuck with expensive obsoleted fibre channel switches in the near future is as good a reason as any.
Kerry's wife can give every American a $1000 out of HER own pocket according to the re-evaluated capital estimate of the Heinz concern. Seems her net worth is close to a billion dollar.
The Cato institute for REAL research? Haha, I'll be damned before I'll believe that right wing think tank.
No, personally I prefer to read Greg Palast's work. This is what Moore has based most of his opinion on anyways. Like Greg says, Michael is just a funny guy in a monkey suit that draws people's attention to alternative news because it is not POSSIBLE any longer to report objective news in the US.
BTW, Greg Palast works for the BBC and covered the whole voting scam even before Gore conceded. He covered the whole Venezuela scam. He's an awesome investigative reporter without the pranks Michael Moore uses to get Americans out of their comfort zone.
Honestly, I don't think Moore is really an extremist. In fact, that would make most of the people who gave his movie at the Cannes filmfestival a standing ovation for 10 minutes or more 'extremists'.
Perhaps he would be considered 'extremist' by most Americans that believe the Bush team hype, now *that* is extremist.
Ofcourse this is not a pipe dream. It takes a lot of creative talent to make a succesfull game. I won't say it's easy or less remarkable to make a 3D engine, but it's applying mathematics and clever programming.
Still, the creative game developper would be incredibly helped by the industrious, skilled 3D engine coder.
Gimme a box with Debian and .debs for all JVM, javac, all Java classes easy database connectivity, servlets out of the box that I can apt-get distupgrade and it'll still work.
I'll sign for that. JavaSux, but it would suck a WHOLE LOT less if I wouldn't have to run around for a fragmented JVM implementation, what to choose, blackdown?, sun?, ibm? every time I want to update my Linux system.
Everybody knows Sun is hurting. A buyout would be good for both companies...
I'm not sure if this is the case. NaOH is USED frequently in the industry because of it's strong alkaline properties. It's subject to Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as illustrated in the Industry Overview Of Construction. I'm not familiar with it's exact purpose in the industry, perhaps somebody can enlighten me, but I'm not quite so sure that it'd be a waste product in it's pure form, it'll very likely be diluted.
Second, what happens to the dilution in the waste when the NaH is being created?
Third, they plan to 'heat' the NaOH in order to turn it into solid NaH. How would they heat it? Heating costs energy. Is this possibly a similar scam as to use corn based ethanol to power engines? (everybody knows ofcourse that corn needs an abundance of nitrate rich fertilizer, which in turn requires a lot of energy, eg. oil, to create).
I do however like the NaH + H2O and tank idea as a means to safely transport H2. Down the line, the 'waste' product of this (ie. NaOH dissolved in water) could be used as non-diluted transmission medium for creating new NaOH as the previous poster said.
But it still didn't work.
Actually the comment about self reproducing robots in this review is incorrect. Please check out:
3 238.stm
Robot learns to reproduce
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/90
It's not bullshit reports like this, it's a large group of people lacking full comprehension of what they're actually reading. This is commonly called 'Functional Illiteracy' and it's what 23% of Americans suffer from in some extent, so don't feel bad. It's also hard to understand this fully since they've already done significant work to dumb it down and that (to the more intelligent people) makes it look fluffy, I guess.
I had the pleasure to hear one of the scientists responsible for this report explain what in his words was called the 'ecological footprint'; I guess the version we just read has already been dumbed down.
The ecological footprint is defined as the sum of the earth surface that a human apropriates or, simpler 'uses', in order to live. This includes for everybody a piece of ocean where fish live, a piece of forest where trees breathe out oxygen (AND breathe in co2), a piece of land to grow vegetables, a piece of land to graze cows etc. etc. etc.
So saying the ecological or 'human' footprint is 83% of the planet does not mean we have pushed away all forests, oceans, etc. It means that that's what we NEED at the current consumption rates. You can imagine that this is a daunting task to determine this ecological footprint. It means mapping what we HAVE, an incredibly, monstrously difficult task. This scientist freely acknowledged that. But they've gone OUT OF THEIR WAY to get as accurate a number as they possibly can. The full report contains much much more detailed information and I'm sure if you can get a copy you'd be rather stunned by the detail in there. Try if you can find a copy, I heard the guy talking about it for about an hour and was thoroughly impressed with the scientific backing of this report.
There's really no need to jam GPS. Europe has it's own equivalent of the FAA. It's simple to just give a preferential treatment to equipment that uses it's own GPS-like system.