I remember hearing about some companies that had very open buildings. Each employee would have a computer on a rolling cabnet. They could move it around to wherever it suited them. This allowed people to group depending on what projects they were doing, and then re-group for the next one. It seem innovative to me. Sun could modify their 'dumb' setup a little and make it more efficent. Example: Bob from accounting needs a simple computer to do spreadsheets, etc. Brenda from Marketing needs something with more graphics capabilities for banner ads. So issue each employee at sun equipment comparable to their job. The mobile workstation Idea makes sense because of project grouping, but also prevents those office disagreements from getting to bad (move across the building).
Novell generally tends to be bloated and somewhat difficult to use. Its a good solution if you dont need something to heavy. What about a concentric ring scheme built on Unix? I forget who makes it, but it is out there, and very very secure.
1. cost of course 2. It's NEW and INNOVATIVE, its the next high tech thing, and even better, its actually in wide use. (Give Examples, e.g. school mobile laptop labs, other companies, etc) 3. It is stable (Give WOWing statistics on range, etc.) 4. Its secure (128 bit encryption) 5. It is mobile (people can bring their laptops to meetings and be networked) 6. No exhorbiant costs every time the cubicles are re-configured.
These are the main points I would hit on, if I needed to make a sell to my boss, or company. Good Luck. And remember, play to their mentality, and what they like (e.g. Dilbert)
Although the above post is a troll, it exemplifies the problem with false positives and negatives. If someone starts reading, they might belive out of hand that it is real, until the last 2 paragraphs The recognition required to notice that this article is false involved a mere 5 % (approx) of the article. That is the same issue being faced by the developers of the technology humans have similar faces. How does one draw on the 5% that is different?
I find it fascinating how a discussion about water dissolved (yeah...I know) into a discussion of China's politics. While yes, there is the opportunity for a patent lawsuit, this development has nothing to do with china's politics. Now that I related this to the discussion, lemme go (sort of) off topic.
China's government is split. There is the 'old guard' the socialists that lead the behemoth of a beauracracy. Then there are the capitalist/government socialist corporations that the economy, or at least the export economy , is built on. China will soon change drastically, IMHO, but it will be good for the country.
China is developing a lot of 'new' technology. While the polymer based slow-release water might be a patent infringment, they are jumping ahead in many ways. They are trying to reach the moon 10 years from now. Give them a little credit for taking a bloated government, no 'yro' section in the media, and excess poverty, and making the best of it.
Now, how should we go about assigning IPs? that seems to be the current derived question.
With IPv6 and its' release, we can restructure entirely. and IP is a tag that defines your computer to the net. I am thinking aloud here. I see two options, first, IPs are chosen by the user in the same way domain names are. Second, IPs are divided into ranges and assigned. universities get 65.xxx.xxx.xxx- 70.xxx.xxx.xxx, etc. I realise that I know very little about the process, perhaps an ask slashdot discussion is in order?
The First idea: prevent people from registering multiple IPs somehow. ideas? Assigned like email adresses, they would be first come first serve. but numbers don't really matter, so why not just let people at them?
Does Jade have any industrial/commercial uses? Or is it purely a jewler's material? As for making windows out of jade, school bus sized chunks won't have the tensle strength if sliced thin, and there will be a huge amount of viens and impurities. Otherwise +1 funny.
Sure, we might LOVE our interactive devices, but they might get taken away. sells good basic road maps of almost all countries. Try as they also have detailed maps of various world places.
Take your GPS coordinates and simple match them to a map. practice in the US first, it might be a good idea. Also, realise that hardware fails, and there isn't an iPaq vendor Slovakia. GPS is also interupted by mountains, extremely bad weather, ect. Travel with caution. Good Luck.
well, much like the record companies, doubleclick has a slightly flawed buisness model. Collecting personal information to advertise is flawed. Most people don't like their personal information to be spread about, they like the semblance of control. If enough people opt out of doubleclick's program, they go bankrupt. Won't happen though
Opt-Out cookies and the rest of that BS won't help my Grandmother who just doesn't know the technology. We should be trying to protect the people who (by choice or not) are ignorant.
sure, fire the employees, hire contractors. Lets look at the definition of a contract: basically hired to do a specific job for a specific amount of time. Implying that the contractor will move on. I have always thought that hiring full time employees is better, Full time employees, if they stick around, know the company, the technology, and their jobs. So contractors may be 'cheaper', but there are all of those intangable costs and benefits. Even if the full time employees are over-worked sometimes and bored stiff sometimes, they still will be more loyal then contracters will. and loyalty=stability. Stability= more venture capital, etc, etc, etc.
Can they just sort of pass this in the US congress? Or perhaps if enough states pass bills like this, the ISPs will be locked into following these laws....Now, I wonder.....how hard would it be for a bunch of people in an area to start their own ISP with a T1 line and modems to make it easy. Are there co-op ISPs out there? Perhaps I should start one...
I am assuming by 'one word DOS' that he ment instead the acronym, Denial of Service. That would cause the uplink to be overloaded. Has someone infected your network with a worm??
Using Poser, I found natural body movements fairly hard to create. the main difficulties I can see in getting facial expressions correct are simple: They have to be 'real'. Because everyone's face is different, the most accurate way to do faces is to'sample' a real face. Purely computer generated faces are not hard. The hard things are the TRANSITIONS between the expressions. These are extremely hard. Just ask the disney artists who did snow white. Moving from story-board to story-board is the hardest part. Computers have done a lot to help the transition problem. But sampling a real face is the best way to get things accurate so far.
Now, the MPAA is the Motion Picture Artists association? It seems as if it is all encompassing....Now perhaps we should start to encourage cinemetographers and studios to revoke Their membership. Then It would begin to lack power. All it takes is one big company to start it, then others will follow. Bah! oh well, it will never happen.
Now, the way I see it, its a direct violation of my privacy rights to have someone poking through my viewing habits. Its like someone going through my mail. It just shouldn't happen. Theoretical course of events: They begin tracking viewing habits. The "Uncaring Public" goes along. The rest of us either disable the tracking mechanism, or we dump the device entirely. Sonic Blue loses buisness, and the MPAA still can't tell what we, the 'worst offenders' are doing. Lose lose situation for MPAA and Sonic Blue.
Personally, verizon pisses me off. Bad tech support, overpriced DSL, etc.
The only good thing, is that they allow me (unlike cable companies) to connect multiple computers through one modem using my own router at no extra cost.
Its obvious this AC is full of bullshit. and besides, this has to do with 2D animation exactly how? In nuclear research the visuals are not nearly as important as the raw numbers, which do need to be calculated in realtime. Just cause you can toss around jargon doesn't mean you know anything. 2D animation: you could invest the time to hand-draw it, label it 'high art' and sell it for the cube of what it would otherwise sell for.
Well, TV content is cool. For any educational programming on TV, it is priceless. For WWF, it is funny, and lame. Developing online content has always been a problem for some of the companies that I am familiar with, because TV audiences are ADD or ADHD almost always. Also, no one wants to miss the actual show. TV content should be combined with TiVO or something similar.As for content tutorials, human psychology comes into play as much as everything else.
Ouch. I would be curious to see a detailed structual analysis. IF anyone has ever been to Moffet Field in California, those are big, similar hangars for blimps though. What caused the collapse specifically? I am curious
well, C60 is a molecule. C4 is a mix of RDX and a clay-likee compound. RDX is Rapid Detonating Explosive or Hexahydro-Trinitro-Triazine or Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (CAS Number 121-82-4) depending on whome you ask. It is a versital and interesting explosive, and actually has some carbon in it, but is not related to C60. As for blowing up a geodesic dome, the mix of pentagons and hexagons could be weakened most by blowing up the hexagons, as those are the structually important parts (each being surrounded by 6 pentagons) so you get structual damage to 7 parts.
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I remember hearing about some companies that had very open buildings. Each employee would have a computer on a rolling cabnet. They could move it around to wherever it suited them. This allowed people to group depending on what projects they were doing, and then re-group for the next one. It seem innovative to me. Sun could modify their 'dumb' setup a little and make it more efficent. Example: Bob from accounting needs a simple computer to do spreadsheets, etc. Brenda from Marketing needs something with more graphics capabilities for banner ads. So issue each employee at sun equipment comparable to their job. The mobile workstation Idea makes sense because of project grouping, but also prevents those office disagreements from getting to bad (move across the building).
Novell generally tends to be bloated and somewhat difficult to use. Its a good solution if you dont need something to heavy. What about a concentric ring scheme built on Unix? I forget who makes it, but it is out there, and very very secure.
1. cost of course
2. It's NEW and INNOVATIVE, its the next high tech thing, and even better, its actually in wide use. (Give Examples, e.g. school mobile laptop labs, other companies, etc)
3. It is stable (Give WOWing statistics on range, etc.)
4. Its secure (128 bit encryption)
5. It is mobile (people can bring their laptops to meetings and be networked)
6. No exhorbiant costs every time the cubicles are re-configured.
These are the main points I would hit on, if I needed to make a sell to my boss, or company. Good Luck. And remember, play to their mentality, and what they like (e.g. Dilbert)
yes, the technology is useless, and can be made so. A skilled makeup artist can definitly fool the computers.
Jaime's Penis? jaime Gumb? as in Silence of the Lambs?
Although the above post is a troll, it exemplifies the problem with false positives and negatives. If someone starts reading, they might belive out of hand that it is real, until the last 2 paragraphs
The recognition required to notice that this article is false involved a mere 5 % (approx) of the article. That is the same issue being faced by the developers of the technology humans have similar faces. How does one draw on the 5% that is different?
Uhm...volume doesn't have anything to do with bandwidth.........
I find it fascinating how a discussion about water dissolved (yeah...I know) into a discussion of China's politics. While yes, there is the opportunity for a patent lawsuit, this development has nothing to do with china's politics. Now that I related this to the discussion, lemme go (sort of) off topic.
China's government is split. There is the 'old guard' the socialists that lead the behemoth of a beauracracy. Then there are the capitalist/government socialist corporations that the economy, or at least the export economy , is built on. China will soon change drastically, IMHO, but it will be good for the country.
China is developing a lot of 'new' technology. While the polymer based slow-release water might be a patent infringment, they are jumping ahead in many ways. They are trying to reach the moon 10 years from now. Give them a little credit for taking a bloated government, no 'yro' section in the media, and excess poverty, and making the best of it.
we all have assumede ICANN will die. Granted.
Now, how should we go about assigning IPs? that seems to be the current derived question.
With IPv6 and its' release, we can restructure entirely. and IP is a tag that defines your computer to the net. I am thinking aloud here. I see two options, first, IPs are chosen by the user in the same way domain names are. Second, IPs are divided into ranges and assigned. universities get 65.xxx.xxx.xxx- 70.xxx.xxx.xxx, etc. I realise that I know very little about the process, perhaps an ask slashdot discussion is in order?
The First idea: prevent people from registering multiple IPs somehow. ideas? Assigned like email adresses, they would be first come first serve. but numbers don't really matter, so why not just let people at them?
Does Jade have any industrial/commercial uses? Or is it purely a jewler's material? As for making windows out of jade, school bus sized chunks won't have the tensle strength if sliced thin, and there will be a huge amount of viens and impurities. Otherwise +1 funny.
Sure, we might LOVE our interactive devices, but they might get taken away. sells good basic road maps of almost all countries. Try as they also have detailed maps of various world places.
Take your GPS coordinates and simple match them to a map. practice in the US first, it might be a good idea. Also, realise that hardware fails, and there isn't an iPaq vendor Slovakia. GPS is also interupted by mountains, extremely bad weather, ect. Travel with caution. Good Luck.
well, much like the record companies, doubleclick has a slightly flawed buisness model. Collecting personal information to advertise is flawed. Most people don't like their personal information to be spread about, they like the semblance of control. If enough people opt out of doubleclick's program, they go bankrupt. Won't happen though
Opt-Out cookies and the rest of that BS won't help my Grandmother who just doesn't know the technology. We should be trying to protect the people who (by choice or not) are ignorant.
sure, fire the employees, hire contractors. Lets look at the definition of a contract: basically hired to do a specific job for a specific amount of time. Implying that the contractor will move on. I have always thought that hiring full time employees is better, Full time employees, if they stick around, know the company, the technology, and their jobs. So contractors may be 'cheaper', but there are all of those intangable costs and benefits. Even if the full time employees are over-worked sometimes and bored stiff sometimes, they still will be more loyal then contracters will. and loyalty=stability. Stability= more venture capital, etc, etc, etc.
Can they just sort of pass this in the US congress? Or perhaps if enough states pass bills like this, the ISPs will be locked into following these laws....Now, I wonder.....how hard would it be for a bunch of people in an area to start their own ISP with a T1 line and modems to make it easy. Are there co-op ISPs out there? Perhaps I should start one...
I am assuming by 'one word DOS' that he ment instead the acronym, Denial of Service. That would cause the uplink to be overloaded. Has someone infected your network with a worm??
I remember the aussis doing a study about this a year ago. Anyone know/remember anything?
Using Poser, I found natural body movements fairly hard to create. the main difficulties I can see in getting facial expressions correct are simple: They have to be 'real'. Because everyone's face is different, the most accurate way to do faces is to'sample' a real face. Purely computer generated faces are not hard. The hard things are the TRANSITIONS between the expressions. These are extremely hard. Just ask the disney artists who did snow white. Moving from story-board to story-board is the hardest part. Computers have done a lot to help the transition problem. But sampling a real face is the best way to get things accurate so far.
Now, the MPAA is the Motion Picture Artists association? It seems as if it is all encompassing....Now perhaps we should start to encourage cinemetographers and studios to revoke Their membership. Then It would begin to lack power. All it takes is one big company to start it, then others will follow. Bah! oh well, it will never happen.
Now, the way I see it, its a direct violation of my privacy rights to have someone poking through my viewing habits. Its like someone going through my mail. It just shouldn't happen. Theoretical course of events: They begin tracking viewing habits. The "Uncaring Public" goes along. The rest of us either disable the tracking mechanism, or we dump the device entirely. Sonic Blue loses buisness, and the MPAA still can't tell what we, the 'worst offenders' are doing. Lose lose situation for MPAA and Sonic Blue.
It is a matter of principle. I never give real information. It also benifits my long-standing desire for multiple personalities.
Personally, verizon pisses me off. Bad tech support, overpriced DSL, etc.
The only good thing, is that they allow me (unlike cable companies) to connect multiple computers through one modem using my own router at no extra cost.
Its obvious this AC is full of bullshit. and besides, this has to do with 2D animation exactly how? In nuclear research the visuals are not nearly as important as the raw numbers, which do need to be calculated in realtime.
Just cause you can toss around jargon doesn't mean you know anything.
2D animation: you could invest the time to hand-draw it, label it 'high art' and sell it for the cube of what it would otherwise sell for.
Hey, at least they aren't as bad as Real, and its' software.
Well, TV content is cool. For any educational programming on TV, it is priceless. For WWF, it is funny, and lame. Developing online content has always been a problem for some of the companies that I am familiar with, because TV audiences are ADD or ADHD almost always. Also, no one wants to miss the actual show. TV content should be combined with TiVO or something similar.As for content tutorials, human psychology comes into play as much as everything else.
Ouch. I would be curious to see a detailed structual analysis. IF anyone has ever been to Moffet Field in California, those are big, similar hangars for blimps though. What caused the collapse specifically? I am curious
well, C60 is a molecule. C4 is a mix of RDX and a clay-likee compound. RDX is Rapid Detonating Explosive or Hexahydro-Trinitro-Triazine or Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (CAS Number 121-82-4) depending on whome you ask. It is a versital and interesting explosive, and actually has some carbon in it, but is not related to C60. As for blowing up a geodesic dome, the mix of pentagons and hexagons could be weakened most by blowing up the hexagons, as those are the structually important parts (each being surrounded by 6 pentagons) so you get structual damage to 7 parts.
Yo, the link doesn't work. I would be curious to see your decalingual program, can you fix it? deca=ten??