Yeh, well I can take a guess. If you recall a week ago maybe, there was a posting on micro sensors? These little devices need a secure boot up and they may need to boot up all at the same time for a variety of reasons.
So having one bios for all devices in the field makes that a simpler process. I'd bet good money they are using a bit of xml in the bios for synching purposes.
read the link they provided: http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/se bos/main.sh tml
Macromedia and Adobe would be doing the web developer community a great service by coming out with reliable solid versions of their software for Linux.
HTML and PHP scripting can be accomplished fine in Linux but many web developers can't do their jobs without being able to run Macromedia's software to author Flash.
Here! Here! I'm itching for a gui IDE for PHP and MySQL for linux. I've played with MM's product and said silently to myself...if only it was on linux...and OS!
the other two systems, to convert to linux I'd just need a CD w/ the files and someone to help me through configuration. For my main system, it'll be a while. I have alot of apps that I'm settled into, but very few that I'm locked into.
This is exactly the same for myself. I've recently 'made the switch' and spend a good deal of time on the linux side of my box but Linux does have a learning curve that is a bit daunting. The help on the web has been very impressive and patient (for the most part) with my newbie questions but I still struggle. Few colleges offer linux classes, and the few teachers who do teach linux tend to be... uh, technicians and not teachers. Oh well. Got to get back to my linux tutorials...
I was thinking the same thing. Knoppix is pretty darn cool. Roll your own _portable_ OS AND apps etc. Hook into your ftp server to access the stuff you need and you're good to go on any machine with a CD and an internet connection. Make it as small as possible. Why hasn't that happened yet?
I take my kitchen scraps and just turn it right into the soil. It's only me, so I only have to do it every two or three days. The soil, I think, will be ready for a 'real' veggie garden next spring. I live in a sandy soil area so, instead of using oil based fertilizers, I go green. It's a little slower but the difference is already showing.
but I can't say the same about quite a few.gov sites that I visit. dgd
bonus: it shows the Time of the news posting!
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that makes all the difference to me...other news sites... yeh, it's the news but doesn't tell me how NEW it is...definite coup for google designers. dgd
yeh, people on slashdot like mozilla...hell, it's where I found out about the 'bug', cked the mozilla site but not a ripple over there yet... slashdot beats the press...again
put a screen in front of your window point the projector at the front or back (depending on your space and angle availability) put in one and/or series of slides viola
+1 here for Twiki. The new plug-in architecture for TWiki is quite nice and gives users the option to create custom interfaces for controlling the way the data is handled and displayed.
There's even a whiteboard like draw program that could be used for ProtoUml designs. hth Dennis
Smart Cards in general are *not* bad, I use one at school and it speeds access to the information I need about my schedule/profs/etc.*
However, it's the collection and the dissemination of the data that worries me most...China can do it because it has a very weak representative body and a very strong executive body...you can almost say the same for 'most' democratic states today...
Austria for example is proposing the same thing to counter it's immigration problems, complete with Thumbprints. Austria is also 'forcing' it's citizens to use a smart card for insurance...In a pseudo socialist state this is understandable. The 'state' is paying for the insurance (via citizens' taxes) so controlling entry/exit for hospitals is important.
The question though is how long before these kinds of cards will be used for work permits (as in the case of immigrants in HK and Austria (not yet complete)) all over the world...
Futurama ref: scan the career chip and viola, you have a job...or permission to live in such and such community.
We're used to badges for entrance into companies. How long before we're using a badge (smartcard) to do anything that involves the state or it's infrastructure?
Dennis
Re:Contact your Senators_YRO bill builder
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To do what? Register your concerns with their office staff? I'm beginning to think that a/. type of interface might be a good choice for writing public bills to submit to congress and senate...you know the song from school house rocks...I'm just a Bill;) imagine a/. type of interface for moderating *feasibility *cost (how to finance law) *repercussions *forces *punishment (no punishment= no teeth in law) *specify agency for enforcement (no jaw for the teeth, see above)
This is about YRO, why not a bill builder for/.ers. They've all got so much to say, some of it even intelligent;)
Pioneer 6 was featured on the Star Date radio broadcast by the University of Texas McDonald Observatory on 16 December 2000 - the 35th anniversary of its launch. Pioneer 6 is the oldest NASA spacecraft extant. from story page
(the U.S. does not have military maps for 90% of the world.) this is bunk there are four levels of military maps the lowest is available openly 1:100000 the next layer 1:1000 is supposed to be opened but recent events will probably change that layers go 1:100 and 1:10 in terms of coverage accuracy The US has the world maps covered, as do the French, Russians, UK etc. most gov'ts sell and trade data (for a price) to most anyone with enough geld. dgd
Totally uncompressed video is FUCKING HUGE. Basically imagine the size of a bitmap the same resolution + bpp of the video, then multiply that size by 30*seconds of video (for 30 fps video, which is pretty standard I think).
Perhaps underestimating the power of future compression algorithms? just a thought dgd
China does not nor will ever have the creative energy necessary to solve the problems it already faces. Confucisism (sp?) is the largest mind manacle on the planet. No fear. Chinese trained in the West are another issue.
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Yeh, well I can take a guess. If you recall a week ago maybe, there was a posting on micro sensors? These little devices need a secure boot up and they may need to boot up all at the same time for a variety of reasons.
e bos/main.sh tml
So having one bios for all devices in the field makes that a simpler process. I'd bet good money they are using a bit of xml in the bios for synching purposes.
read the link they provided:
http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/s
Macromedia and Adobe would be doing the web developer community a great service by coming out with reliable solid versions of their software for Linux.
HTML and PHP scripting can be accomplished fine in Linux but many web developers can't do their jobs without being able to run Macromedia's software to author Flash.
Here! Here! I'm itching for a gui IDE for PHP and MySQL for linux. I've played with MM's product and said silently to myself...if only it was on linux...and OS!
the other two systems, to convert to linux I'd just need a CD w/ the files and someone to help me through configuration. For my main system, it'll be a while. I have alot of apps that I'm settled into, but very few that I'm locked into.
This is exactly the same for myself. I've recently 'made the switch' and spend a good deal of time on the linux side of my box but Linux does have a learning curve that is a bit daunting. The help on the web has been very impressive and patient (for the most part) with my newbie questions but I still struggle. Few colleges offer linux classes, and the few teachers who do teach linux tend to be... uh, technicians and not teachers. Oh well. Got to get back to my linux tutorials...
I was thinking the same thing. Knoppix is pretty darn cool. Roll your own _portable_ OS AND apps etc. Hook into your ftp server to access the stuff you need and you're good to go on any machine with a CD and an internet connection. Make it as small as possible. Why hasn't that happened yet?
I take my kitchen scraps and just turn it right into the soil. It's only me, so I only have to do it every two or three days. The soil, I think, will be ready for a 'real' veggie garden next spring. I live in a sandy soil area so, instead of using oil based fertilizers, I go green. It's a little slower but the difference is already showing.
but I can't say the same about quite a few .gov sites that I visit.
dgd
that makes all the difference to me...other news sites... yeh, it's the news but doesn't tell me how NEW it is...definite coup for google designers.
dgd
yeh, people on slashdot like mozilla...hell, it's where I found out about the 'bug', cked the mozilla site but not a ripple over there yet... slashdot beats the press...again
put a screen in front of your window
;)
point the projector at the front or back (depending on your space and angle availability)
put in one and/or series of slides
viola
Now if I only had a window to call my own
dgd
+1 here for Twiki. The new plug-in architecture for TWiki is quite nice and gives users the option to create custom interfaces for controlling the way the data is handled and displayed.
There's even a whiteboard like draw program that could be used for ProtoUml designs.
hth
Dennis
Smart Cards in general are *not* bad, I use one at school and it speeds access to the information I need about my schedule/profs/etc.*
However, it's the collection and the dissemination of the data that worries me most...China can do it because it has a very weak representative body and a very strong executive body...you can almost say the same for 'most' democratic states today...
Austria for example is proposing the same thing to counter it's immigration problems, complete with Thumbprints. Austria is also 'forcing' it's citizens to use a smart card for insurance...In a pseudo socialist state this is understandable. The 'state' is paying for the insurance (via citizens' taxes) so controlling entry/exit for hospitals is important.
The question though is how long before these kinds of cards will be used for work permits (as in the case of immigrants in HK and Austria (not yet complete)) all over the world...
Futurama ref: scan the career chip and viola, you have a job...or permission to live in such and such community.
We're used to badges for entrance into companies. How long before we're using a badge (smartcard) to do anything that involves the state or it's infrastructure?
Dennis
To do what? Register your concerns with their office staff? /. type of interface might be a good choice for writing public bills to submit to congress and senate...you know the song from school house rocks...I'm just a Bill ;) /. type of interface for moderating
/.ers. They've all got so much to say, some of it even intelligent ;)
I'm beginning to think that a
imagine a
*feasibility
*cost (how to finance law)
*repercussions
*forces
*punishment (no punishment= no teeth in law)
*specify agency for enforcement (no jaw for the teeth, see above)
This is about YRO, why not a bill builder for
Put it to use.
DGD
The greatest Chinese Navigator,Cheng Ho, rocked China's boat so much, they closed the ports...
dgd
Pioneer 6 was featured on the Star Date radio broadcast by the University of Texas McDonald Observatory on 16 December 2000 - the 35th anniversary of its launch. Pioneer 6 is the oldest NASA spacecraft extant.
from story page
as noted in previous /. articles the rules for public domain particularly regarding research and intelligence docs has been radically changed.
the rules have changed
Using openly available sources and trying to close the doors at the same time...
dgd
(the U.S. does not have military maps for 90% of the world.)
this is bunk
there are four levels of military maps the lowest is available openly 1:100000
the next layer 1:1000 is supposed to be opened but recent events will probably change that
layers go 1:100
and 1:10 in terms of coverage accuracy
The US has the world maps covered, as do the French, Russians, UK etc. most gov'ts sell and trade data (for a price) to most anyone with enough geld.
dgd
oddly enough, just yesterday, got spammed with a gif.virus from an email server in HK
my first, hopefully last
Totally uncompressed video is FUCKING HUGE. Basically imagine the size of a bitmap the same resolution + bpp of the video, then multiply that size by 30*seconds of video (for 30 fps video, which is pretty standard I think).
Perhaps underestimating the power of future compression algorithms?
just a thought
dgd
China does not nor will ever have the creative energy necessary to solve the problems it already faces. Confucisism (sp?) is the largest mind manacle on the planet. No fear. Chinese trained in the West are another issue.