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You're wrong.
I work w/college kids at my church. The vast majority of them are getting good, solid degrees in engineering, CS, math etc.
It is idiotic to give security clearance to foreigners. They should not have access to these jobs and the 'need' to give more visas to people from outside the US is one created by companies in search of cheap labor.
Anyone who wants to work on homeland security should do so - in their homeland.
I'm not against immigration, and if someone becomes a citizen and resident- more power to them. But otherwise- hands off the sensitive info.
If you think that being able to catch things that have been thrown to you in zero g is useless, you are mistaken.
An awareness of this issue will be important to training astronauts to work in space.
The idea that physical fitness and mental aptitude are exlusive is the refuge of those unbalanced individuals who would rather claim they are too busy being 'smart' than get off their butt and do something about it.
What is interesting is that the universe scoffs at this idea and rewards those who are mentally AND physically fit.
Oh- and this article is about physics among other things. I would suggest stepping away from the monitor and heading outside as soon as possible.
This doesn't seem like that cool of a thing as far as technology goes. I mean- you certainly don't need a dvd to do this.
Just record your thoughts watching a movie and have someone kick off the audio when the video tape gets to the start of the film. I know that dvd makes it a little easier to sync up audio and video- but it certainly isn't necessary.
In fact- if you want to go w/all tape, record your commentary on a couple audio cassettes (remember to warn the viewer to pause the VCR before they have to switch tapes.) Now even the most technologically underpriveleged can enjoy custom commentary.
Maybe I'll have friends over an we will do a live 'improv' movie commentary party!
Oh yeah, we've been doing that for years already. But it will be cooler now that it is official.
I have been using SO for about a year now. I've been running the 6.0 beta since it became available on my SUSE box and on my NT box.
I do a lot of volunteer work and whenever it comes time to shoot documents to different folks- some have office, some have works, some don't know.
I'd tell people - "Get Star Office. It is a free office suite from Sun Microsystems."
95% of them wouldn't even consider it. I think they were afraid of something free.
If I can tell them "Yeah- you can go buy it for a 10th of what you would pay for office" I think they will be more apt to go for it.
As a side note. I've never been able to get ADABAS to work on my NT box. And my attempts have just been out of curiousity as just reading the docs tells me that it cannot come even remotely come close to Access.
I cannot tell you how many small companies I work with that use Access. I work with a collection agency that has up to 100 people working of a single access database.
The price of Access looks small when you compare it to a real database. I'm not advocating this- but it is reality.
Sponsoring the operation is a company called Tumbleweed. And we have a statement from Martyn Richards, vice president at the company: "We are proud to potentially be part of history in the making as for the first time ever, one human will be truly able to say to the other, 'I know how you feel!"
This is hype.
You cannot KNOW how someone else feels unless you become them.
You could know what it feels like to have implants that do something to you that approximates what happened to them- but feelings are completely subjective. So how it "feels" to you will be unique to you alone.
I hope these tumbleweed folks aren't putting too much of their future into this. It might not be too bright.
"But wait, where there's a sponsor, there's a commercial opportunity. Tumbleweed, a specialist in secure communications, is providing the technology "vital to ensure the safe transmission of our nervous system signals via the internet," Captain Cyborg says"
They say they want to send "feelings" over the web.
I can't wait until they start sending out emotional spam. I haven't really bought into any of the "enlarge your penis" emails. But if they carry with them a great sense of inadequacy...
This could be really cool. It's not going to slow down the earth. It does not work off the tide. And hey, they are trying something different in an attempt to make the world a better place.
The thing that has just been pummelled into my brain lately is that every attempt at something mentioned on/. is overwhelmingly met w/"old news", or "bad side effects", or "will never work".
Come on. Aren't many of the cherished 'ideals' around here- to try different things? To be free to learn? To build on what has come before?
It wasn't that long ago that cyberpunk stories talked about this kind of equipment and it was for the most part fantasy.
There are some serious hurdles to clear and I think that it is a mistake to think that this kind of innovation should take place at the same pace as improvements in other areas of tech.
Processor speeds and storage seem to move so rapidly but that is because there is little true innovation. It is more of a refinement process.
I think that as the serious roadblocks are cleared this technology will move forward on the same type of curve.
I think the important thing to remember is that they are shooting for something really usable in 5 years.
I would think this a bit optimistic if it weren't for how rapidly they have gotten this far.
All the posts about shortcomings miss the point. They know about those shortcoming but they may have many of them fixed in a much shorter timespan than anyone would have imagined even a few years ago.
Just to throw out a different spin on this, as everyone seems just to happy to jump on the bandwagon.
There is a good chance that he is acting out because he has realised that he is screwed. He has probably talked to his lawyers and realised that no one is really going to be able to help him.
People have posted "he'll get his day in court", but he probably already realises that on that day they will just go through the motions of convicting him.
What is much more interesting about this article than the blow by blow history of the track ball is how much it says about the Canadian psyche.
They have a real complex about trying to be as good as their neighbor to the south. I've heard a few Canadians that live in the U.S. complain about it and well, this article really shows it.
"The British and American navies seemed impressed, but not enough to buy into the project. So it was shelved."
And better yet,
"It was a truly Canadian choice. Had they been building the device in the United States, bowling balls wouldn't have been an option"
There are a lot of nice things about Canada and I've never understood this obsession w/trying to keep up w/the U.S.
It made this article a lot more interesting though.
It is really all about time and money. Both have already been posted seperately but these 2 measurements are the clincher.
Sometimes really good code is just not worth it.
Sometimes code is not worth it period. (There are better ways to solve the problem than a custom process)
If you don't make enough money to pay for the time- you won't be in business long. (At least as long as your software engineers are willing to live off their own credit cards and pick up company expenses.)
Creating more laws is not going to solve anything. Putting more people in court will not benefit anyone but the lawyers.
Why does everyone think that the government is the best tool to fix every problem-- when it is so obvious that they have done a pretty poor job to this point?
(And the legal system is the government so that is what you suggest)
As always buyer beware (especially when you are paying nothing).
Many good points- but please- NO more laws. We have way too many already.
That's really a great idea. I would think that there may be some limitations when space is considered (I am thinking more of the corporate application and you wont always have more than a cube's worth of room to back up)
Not as cool as the toys mentioned, but I would think much more cost effective.
Why I didn't think of it, I don't know- too much of an "in the box" thinker I guess.
FOX has a rep for being to the right and this tends to back up that perception.
Many here will love the article because they agree with the conclusion that the law is a bad one but overall the article has little to do with copy right protection.
The author is merely reflecting on poliitical ramifications for the Republicans and Democrats. In the process we see that Washington no longer worries about right vs. wrong- but rather solely on what will bring in votes and or money. Here the democrats have a bit of a pickle because they may have to choose rather than have both.
I remain confident that the American people will be screwed regardless-- while the parties fight over their little kingdoms.
Oh my- you are right. This is gonna be bad. We will sit and just wish the virus would hit now.
And the second week - guest appearance by Shannon Doherty and Bill Cosby.
-- On a side note-- my original post is flame bait? To who? The 18 year olds that have been in love w/Luke since they were 12? I was so excited to have been modded up to 2 and then I get tagged as flamebait for knocking a post apocalyptic Beveryly Hills 90210?
I was pretty stoked reading the description so I flipped on over to the show's site.
Oh my word! Any excitement/interest I had died the moment I say Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner on the poster.
I predict the show will be short lived for very good reasons. No one wants to see Ricky Schroder on NYPD Blue, No one wants to see Doogie Howser all grown up-- and no one will want to see these 2 take a stab at being 'grown up'
Matt Liotta has been a software architect for several start-ups in San Francisco and Atlanta. He is now an independent consultant and speaker at industry conferences.
He did some quick programming for some failed startups and realized that the money was in being a consultant and talking about software rather than creating it.
Anyone surprised he does not know what he is talking about?
What makes ebooks cool is that anyone can produce them and they are easy to make available to anyone, anywhere. They have none of the front end cost associated with printed books.
I've wanted to write some stuff and "publish" it myself. E-book format is a great way to do it. I certainly can't afford any other way.
If any of it ever became popular enough that a lot of people wanted it- the smart thing would be to immediately get a contract and get it printed as a real book.
E-books have great possibilities as facilitators of freeing up information but not as a replacement of 'real' books.
If someone does successfully bump off microsoft- that will create a vacuum to be filled by some other corporate giant.
There is a small handful of men in this country, sitting on the boards of one another's corporations- buying off the politicians and creating their own rules to play by.
This has been the case since long before I was born and I do not expect to see it change. I cannot imagine why it would.
There is a free market but it exists for a very few.
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You're wrong.
I work w/college kids at my church. The vast majority of them are getting good, solid degrees in engineering, CS, math etc.
It is idiotic to give security clearance to foreigners. They should not have access to these jobs and the 'need' to give more visas to people from outside the US is one created by companies in search of cheap labor.
Anyone who wants to work on homeland security should do so - in their homeland.
I'm not against immigration, and if someone becomes a citizen and resident- more power to them. But otherwise- hands off the sensitive info.
.
If you think that being able to catch things that have been thrown to you in zero g is useless, you are mistaken.
An awareness of this issue will be important to training astronauts to work in space.
The idea that physical fitness and mental aptitude are exlusive is the refuge of those unbalanced individuals who would rather claim they are too busy being 'smart' than get off their butt and do something about it.
What is interesting is that the universe scoffs at this idea and rewards those who are mentally AND physically fit.
Oh- and this article is about physics among other things. I would suggest stepping away from the monitor and heading outside as soon as possible.
.
It was pretty good.
This doesn't seem like that cool of a thing as far as technology goes. I mean- you certainly don't need a dvd to do this.
Just record your thoughts watching a movie and have someone kick off the audio when the video tape gets to the start of the film. I know that dvd makes it a little easier to sync up audio and video- but it certainly isn't necessary.
In fact- if you want to go w/all tape, record your commentary on a couple audio cassettes (remember to warn the viewer to pause the VCR before they have to switch tapes.) Now even the most technologically underpriveleged can enjoy custom commentary.
Maybe I'll have friends over an we will do a live 'improv' movie commentary party!
Oh yeah, we've been doing that for years already. But it will be cooler now that it is official.
.
I have been using SO for about a year now. I've been running the 6.0 beta since it became available on my SUSE box and on my NT box.
I do a lot of volunteer work and whenever it comes time to shoot documents to different folks- some have office, some have works, some don't know.
I'd tell people - "Get Star Office. It is a free office suite from Sun Microsystems."
95% of them wouldn't even consider it. I think they were afraid of something free.
If I can tell them "Yeah- you can go buy it for a 10th of what you would pay for office" I think they will be more apt to go for it.
As a side note. I've never been able to get ADABAS to work on my NT box. And my attempts have just been out of curiousity as just reading the docs tells me that it cannot come even remotely come close to Access.
I cannot tell you how many small companies I work with that use Access. I work with a collection agency that has up to 100 people working of a single access database.
The price of Access looks small when you compare it to a real database. I'm not advocating this- but it is reality.
.
In the register they say:
Sponsoring the operation is a company called Tumbleweed. And we have a statement from Martyn Richards, vice president at the company: "We are proud to potentially be part of history in the making as for the first time ever, one human will be truly able to say to the other, 'I know how you feel!"
This is hype.
You cannot KNOW how someone else feels unless you become them.
You could know what it feels like to have implants that do something to you that approximates what happened to them- but feelings are completely subjective. So how it "feels" to you will be unique to you alone.
I hope these tumbleweed folks aren't putting too much of their future into this. It might not be too bright.
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From the register article:
"But wait, where there's a sponsor, there's a commercial opportunity. Tumbleweed, a specialist in secure communications, is providing the technology "vital to ensure the safe transmission of our nervous system signals via the internet," Captain Cyborg says"
They say they want to send "feelings" over the web.
I can't wait until they start sending out emotional spam. I haven't really bought into any of the "enlarge your penis" emails. But if they carry with them a great sense of inadequacy...
who knows?
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His claim that a 2 hr operation proves this is not a publicity stunt does not carry a lot of weight w/me.
The girls at most any local strip club have been through more surgery than that- and it has nothing to do w/noble intentions.
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Good For The Truckers- Bad For the Homeless.
I worked in a grocery store and there was a vent down at the bottom of our dock. Hot air came out of it so a homeless guy started sleeping down there.
One night a truck backed down in to make a delivery while he slept....
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This could be really cool. It's not going to slow down the earth. It does not work off the tide. And hey, they are trying something different in an attempt to make the world a better place.
/. is overwhelmingly met w/"old news", or "bad side effects", or "will never work".
The thing that has just been pummelled into my brain lately is that every attempt at something mentioned on
Come on. Aren't many of the cherished 'ideals' around here- to try different things? To be free to learn? To build on what has come before?
Man - the negativity really wears at times.
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I am curious as to why you "hate to say it".
Do you think that this will bring problems down the road?
Do you just feel like the Government should not be involved?
I would think that if there are things that government can do well (a short list in my opinion), then we should be glad to see them do it.
I hope you explain further as you have piqued my curiosity.
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That's only 10 years.
It wasn't that long ago that cyberpunk stories talked about this kind of equipment and it was for the most part fantasy.
There are some serious hurdles to clear and I think that it is a mistake to think that this kind of innovation should take place at the same pace as improvements in other areas of tech.
Processor speeds and storage seem to move so rapidly but that is because there is little true innovation. It is more of a refinement process.
I think that as the serious roadblocks are cleared this technology will move forward on the same type of curve.
.
I think the important thing to remember is that they are shooting for something really usable in 5 years.
I would think this a bit optimistic if it weren't for how rapidly they have gotten this far.
All the posts about shortcomings miss the point. They know about those shortcoming but they may have many of them fixed in a much shorter timespan than anyone would have imagined even a few years ago.
The potential is astounding.
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So they will be affordable in my lifetime.
This is just too cool. All the Asimov I read growing up and to be honest I never thought I would personally own a robot.
Sure I wont be able to afford one of these. But I can remember when my dad couldn't afford a digital watch or calculator.
The expensive, limited units today. The cheap, multifunctional units tomorrow.
This is cool!
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Just to throw out a different spin on this, as everyone seems just to happy to jump on the bandwagon.
There is a good chance that he is acting out because he has realised that he is screwed. He has probably talked to his lawyers and realised that no one is really going to be able to help him.
People have posted "he'll get his day in court", but he probably already realises that on that day they will just go through the motions of convicting him.
caged animals can act funny.
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What is much more interesting about this article than the blow by blow history of the track ball is how much it says about the Canadian psyche.
They have a real complex about trying to be as good as their neighbor to the south. I've heard a few Canadians that live in the U.S. complain about it and well, this article really shows it.
"The British and American navies seemed impressed, but not enough to buy into the project. So it was shelved."
And better yet,
"It was a truly Canadian choice. Had they been building the device in the United States, bowling balls wouldn't have been an option"
There are a lot of nice things about Canada and I've never understood this obsession w/trying to keep up w/the U.S.
It made this article a lot more interesting though.
.
It is really all about time and money. Both have already been posted seperately but these 2 measurements are the clincher.
Sometimes really good code is just not worth it.
Sometimes code is not worth it period. (There are better ways to solve the problem than a custom process)
If you don't make enough money to pay for the time- you won't be in business long. (At least as long as your software engineers are willing to live off their own credit cards and pick up company expenses.)
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I could not agree with you more.
Creating more laws is not going to solve anything. Putting more people in court will not benefit anyone but the lawyers.
Why does everyone think that the government is the best tool to fix every problem-- when it is so obvious that they have done a pretty poor job to this point?
(And the legal system is the government so that is what you suggest)
As always buyer beware (especially when you are paying nothing).
Many good points- but please- NO more laws. We have way too many already.
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That's really a great idea. I would think that there may be some limitations when space is considered (I am thinking more of the corporate application and you wont always have more than a cube's worth of room to back up)
Not as cool as the toys mentioned, but I would think much more cost effective.
Why I didn't think of it, I don't know- too much of an "in the box" thinker I guess.
thanks for the post.
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FOX has a rep for being to the right and this tends to back up that perception.
Many here will love the article because they agree with the conclusion that the law is a bad one but overall the article has little to do with copy right protection.
The author is merely reflecting on poliitical ramifications for the Republicans and Democrats. In the process we see that Washington no longer worries about right vs. wrong- but rather solely on what will bring in votes and or money. Here the democrats have a bit of a pickle because they may have to choose rather than have both.
I remain confident that the American people will be screwed regardless-- while the parties fight over their little kingdoms.
.
Oh my- you are right. This is gonna be bad. We will sit and just wish the virus would hit now.
And the second week - guest appearance by Shannon Doherty and Bill Cosby.
-- On a side note-- my original post is flame bait? To who? The 18 year olds that have been in love w/Luke since they were 12? I was so excited to have been modded up to 2 and then I get tagged as flamebait for knocking a post apocalyptic Beveryly Hills 90210?
Very sad.
.
I was pretty stoked reading the description so I flipped on over to the show's site.
Oh my word! Any excitement/interest I had died the moment I say Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner on the poster.
I predict the show will be short lived for very good reasons. No one wants to see Ricky Schroder on NYPD Blue, No one wants to see Doogie Howser all grown up-- and no one will want to see these 2 take a stab at being 'grown up'
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From the article:
Matt Liotta has been a software architect for several start-ups in San Francisco and Atlanta. He is now an independent consultant and speaker at industry conferences.
He did some quick programming for some failed startups and realized that the money was in being a consultant and talking about software rather than creating it.
Anyone surprised he does not know what he is talking about?
.
What makes ebooks cool is that anyone can produce them and they are easy to make available to anyone, anywhere. They have none of the front end cost associated with printed books.
I've wanted to write some stuff and "publish" it myself. E-book format is a great way to do it. I certainly can't afford any other way.
If any of it ever became popular enough that a lot of people wanted it- the smart thing would be to immediately get a contract and get it printed as a real book.
E-books have great possibilities as facilitators of freeing up information but not as a replacement of 'real' books.
.
The networks will continue to generate revenue through advertising by ramping up product placement within the shows.
It already takes place to a large extent (watch the 'entertainment' shows- they are infomercials for the entertainment industry)
This type of advertising is much more subtle and probably more effective anyway.
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I could not agree with you more.
If someone does successfully bump off microsoft- that will create a vacuum to be filled by some other corporate giant.
There is a small handful of men in this country, sitting on the boards of one another's corporations- buying off the politicians and creating their own rules to play by.
This has been the case since long before I was born and I do not expect to see it change. I cannot imagine why it would.
There is a free market but it exists for a very few.
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