Talking of water, could this be used to cure sea-sickness? I've travelled in ferries where the main passenger sections were enclosed by walls with no windows, and passengers became ill very easily. Could a video wall of LCD's displaying a scene moving in sychronisation with the motion of the ship be used to help remedy this?
Perl becomes so much more fun when you have tens of thousands of one-glyph variable names. Heck, there's probably some one-line-wonder OS written in Chinese, just waiting for us to find it.
Have a look at the APL programming language (APL = A Programming Language). And you need a keyboard marked out with the key symbols.
also i hate all the different software versions (SMI, EMI, etc) that comes preinstalled in cisco switches.
That's how Cisco got to where they are today. They kept bundling every single possible protocol into their boxes as fast as they could. Everything from TCP/IP to ATM to Berkeley trailer packets. If they couldn't get graduates straight out of university, they'd buy out their competitors and add their software.
I worked for a medium sized company that made routers/bridges/network probes back in the mid 90's. There was no way we could compete against the salaries or the constant stream of new and proprietary protocols.
Most of Sun's application software vendors (CAD/CAM/animation) were busy porting their applications over to multithreaded mode back in the mid 1990's.
Even if an application isn't multithreaded, the window system may very well be. And you can always have all those background processes (clock, TCP/IP, X-server) running on different CPU's, leaving at least one CPU free to run your application without swapping/scheduling out memory.
I don't know if the cumulative though oppositely-pulling gravitational pulls would cause any gravitational anomalies that would, say, speed up time. But I'd believe it in a sci-fi movie, no doubt.
The force exerted by the Sun is 5.9 millimetres/second per second, while the force exerted by the Moon is 0.033 millimetres/second per second. If the moon were shielding gravity from the Sun (absorbing gravitons or whatever) then the Earth's gravity (9800 millimetres/second per second) would increase slightly. Maybe this would be enough to change the oscillation of pendulum. If this were the case, then a similar effect should occur during night-time, when the Sun was at the opposite side of the Earth, and being shielded by the mantle and crust of the Earth, if not the core.
If you're Mom is concerned about property crime, then her neighbors are probably concerned too. Setting up a neighborhood watch scheme could help. The biggest deterrent is making sure that your home is securely locked and the surround area. Most police departments have crime protection officers. That would be the first place to ask for advice.
Actually, a quick Google search led me to Steve's DigiCams, in which Steve mentions that Seagate plans to start selling 5 GB CompactFlash II drives (just like the one pictured in the article) in the third quarter of 2004 at an expected price under $150.
Yes, but the component in question is the microdrive. It is the pricing difference between the MP3 player and the retailer store than has forced the guy to dismantle his MP3 player.
Undoubtably, you can buy economically priced CompactFlash cards,but it is also the transfer rates (3.2 Megabytes/second for CompactFlash, 80 Megabytes for Microdrives) that makes a big difference. A JPEG compressed home photograph isn't going to take more than a couple of seconds to save. For a professional photographer, waiting 10 seconds to save a 32 Megabyte image is going to be an eternity.
There was a guy in my class who bought a second-hand computer from the office of a fish-processing plant, and, you guessed it, the computer smelled exactly like a 100-year old tin of smoked sardines. The entire class shared this experience when he demonstrated his final-year project.
That's what I meant - I've a collection of old Sci-Fi books bought from second hand bookstores and jumblesales, which date from the mid-50's to the early 80's. There are infinitely many good stories which aren't based exclusively on these plot-lines. One or two plotlines may be there, but only to get the story started. I'd say that a series base on these short stories (like the Twilight Zone) would do much better than trying to rework existing series.
Ok.. maybe I'm missing something here.. Are these things sold with a mandatory music-download-service subscription or something like that, in order to subsidize the price of the hardware? Or what?
A quick google search reveals that a professional camera shop/mail order company sells a 4 GByte microdrive for $370-$500, while the MP3 player is expected to retail for $250. The difference is due to market pricing, as professional photographers are used to paying thousands for a professional camera, while the average consumer is used to paying hundreds for a portable digital product. The casing of the product hides the fact that both products used the same core component. Eventually the market will realize this and take action- perhaps choosing MP3 players with removable microdrives
Overall, I think SF has run out of ideas. It's great and all but considering SF is a product of the Industrial Revolution, it's almost out of date.
Sci-Fi has always been a way of asking "What if..." about a particular aspect of technology, and exploring the ways this would affect progress and society.
"Star trek" was "what if we could travel close to or more than the speed of light", and "what if we could teleport from point to point", then extending the culture clashes on Earth into space. "STNG" extended this to "What if machines could think at the same level as humans". "Deep Space Nine" explored the culture clash bit in greater detail."Minority Report" was "What if we could predict the near future". "Stargate" was "What if there were portals that could allow people to travel between planets".
Most of the common technology and culture plot lines have been heavily used:
Technology o Closer to the speed of light travel o Time travel o Teleportation o Cryogenic hibernation o Artificial Intelligence o Genetics
Culture o Conflict between civilisations o Parasitical aliens o Gobal destruction of civilisation
If a new and original SF series were to be created, it would have to avoid all of the above, and appeal to both sexes. In my family, the womenfolk are willing to watch Sci-Fi movies, but only if the following conditions are met: No funny costumes (pointy ears) or gore and the story must have a happy ending. "I sing the body electric" by Ray Bradbury is the best example. Humor is OK, but nothing camp. "Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell is a good example.
There are still good science fiction books out there being written I am sure
Maybe books are grabbing the attention of potential readers in the way they used to. I have a collection (three boxes) of Sci-fi short stories and novels from the 50's to late 80's. The most obvious aspect about these books is that they have incredibly detailed artwork on the front cover. Books based on movies more or less have the promotional advert as the cover.
Looking through the bookstores today, and the sci-fi books all seem to have an abstract pattern with no indication of what the characters or plot is about.
The problem comes if you need, say, version 4 for your new program, but you already have version 3 installed. You can't simply overwrite version 3, because then all the existing programs that depend on it will break.
The most common solution seems to be to download the source-code and recompile everything. Even worse is when you have version 4 installed, and the new program you want to install is based on version 3. But of course, everything else in your desktop is based on version 4.
At least Linux tells you why your application won't install, rather than giving you a blue screen of death when you've spent an entire afternoon working on a project and decide to print/save/transfer your data.
I'm surprised he didn't include some sample Matlab, Java applet or C code in his paper. It would be useful to have a demonstration that this really works.
And, of course, while they're grunting, they all recall that the reason that Tidwell isn't around to fix the problem is that his boss got sick and tired of his not documenting his procedures.:-)
And, of course, Tidwell is now working as a self-employed consultant earning over $100/hour.
If the residents office is managed anything like my local university, the staff will have no idea how the technology works, and will just seek the first solution that will the stop the complaints from rolling in.
Access to networks services is granted by pay-as-you phone cards. There are only so many terminal servers, and it's a lottery as to whether any computer will actually get a line or not. Unfortunately for the staff in the campus shop, it is their job to explain to the students (whose first language isn't English) as to why nothing is wrong with their card, but it is the lack of lines in use which is the problem, and that they should keep trying until they get a line.
The college has a perfect right to restrict the use of those devices on their property.
Look at the reason why they are banning the use of these devices. It is not because they are endangering the health and safety of other residents (which applies to hotplates, gas stoves or other thermal appliances). It is because of a design failure in the devices themselves. Users who wish to connect to the university wireless network, are unable to do so because their wireless system connects to the first device it detects. With the student dormitory area, there are over 100+ devices, but no bandwidth restrictions. The manufacturers failed to anticipate that there would ever be a situation where the density would exceed 100+ devices. From the article text: The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points.
The long-term solution would be for the university to petition the hardware vendors, the IEEE (who defined the protocols) and demand that they provide a method by which a remote host can specify which of 100+ wireless access points it should connect to, not simply through the "strongest signal". A simple regular expression with wildcards '*' and '?' should be sufficient combined with a simple naming convention implemented by the university would fix this.
Finally! The Scottish highlands are made habitable by squads of roving robots that feed off midgies. Just replace the smell of sewage with the smell of humans.
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With one of these LCD panels, a microdrive and a miniature web-cam or firewire camera (for higher resolution), you could probably do this.
Talking of water, could this be used to cure sea-sickness? I've travelled in ferries where the main passenger sections were enclosed by walls with no windows, and passengers became ill very easily. Could a video wall of LCD's displaying a scene moving in sychronisation with the motion of the ship be used to help remedy this?
By replying to this anonymous post, I am aiming along the "line of cite".
Perl becomes so much more fun when you have tens of thousands of one-glyph variable names. Heck, there's probably some one-line-wonder OS written in Chinese, just waiting for us to find it.
Have a look at the APL programming language (APL = A Programming Language). And you need a keyboard marked out with the key symbols.
Well that makes me feel much better:
"Yes, we have three known open vulnerabilities this month, but we're not going to tell you where or what they are".
also i hate all the different software versions (SMI, EMI, etc) that comes preinstalled in cisco switches.
That's how Cisco got to where they are today. They kept bundling every single possible protocol into their boxes as fast as they could. Everything from TCP/IP to ATM to Berkeley trailer packets. If they couldn't get graduates straight out of university, they'd buy out their competitors and add their software.
I worked for a medium sized company that made routers/bridges/network probes back in the mid 90's. There was no way we could compete against the salaries or the constant stream of new and proprietary protocols.
Most of Sun's application software vendors (CAD/CAM/animation) were busy porting their applications over to multithreaded mode back in the mid 1990's.
Even if an application isn't multithreaded, the window system may very well be. And you can always have all those background processes (clock, TCP/IP, X-server) running on different CPU's, leaving at least one CPU free to run your application without swapping/scheduling out memory.
I don't know if the cumulative though oppositely-pulling gravitational pulls would cause any gravitational anomalies that would, say, speed up time. But I'd believe it in a sci-fi movie, no doubt.
I posted a comment a good while back.
The force exerted by the Sun is 5.9 millimetres/second per second, while the force exerted by the Moon is 0.033 millimetres/second per second. If the moon were shielding gravity from the Sun (absorbing gravitons or whatever) then the Earth's gravity (9800 millimetres/second per second) would increase slightly. Maybe this would be enough to change the oscillation of pendulum. If this were the case, then a similar effect should occur during night-time, when the Sun was at the opposite side of the Earth, and being shielded by the mantle and crust of the Earth, if not the core.
And banning guns doesn't stop people from killing each other either. They use knives instead.
If you're Mom is concerned about property crime, then her neighbors are probably concerned too. Setting up a neighborhood watch scheme could help. The biggest deterrent is making sure that your home is securely locked and the surround area. Most police departments have crime protection officers. That would be the first place to ask for advice.
Actually, a quick Google search led me to Steve's DigiCams, in which Steve mentions that Seagate plans to start selling 5 GB CompactFlash II drives (just like the one pictured in the article) in the third quarter of 2004 at an expected price under $150.
Yes, but the component in question is the microdrive. It is the pricing difference between the MP3 player and the retailer store than has forced the guy to dismantle his MP3 player.
Undoubtably, you can buy economically priced CompactFlash cards,but it is also the transfer rates (3.2 Megabytes/second for CompactFlash, 80 Megabytes for Microdrives) that makes a big difference. A JPEG compressed home photograph isn't going to take more than a couple of seconds to save. For a professional photographer, waiting 10 seconds to save a 32 Megabyte image is going to be an eternity.
There was a guy in my class who bought a second-hand computer from the office of a fish-processing plant, and, you guessed it, the computer smelled exactly like a 100-year old tin of smoked sardines. The entire class shared this experience when he demonstrated his final-year project.
That's what I meant - I've a collection of old Sci-Fi books bought from second hand bookstores and jumblesales, which date from the mid-50's to the early 80's. There are infinitely many good stories which aren't based exclusively on these plot-lines. One or two plotlines may be there, but only to get the story started. I'd say that a series base on these short stories (like the Twilight Zone) would do much better than trying to rework existing series.
Ok.. maybe I'm missing something here.. Are these things sold with a mandatory music-download-service subscription or something like that, in order to subsidize the price of the hardware? Or what?
A quick google search reveals that a professional camera shop/mail order company sells a 4 GByte microdrive for $370-$500, while the MP3 player is expected to retail for $250. The difference is due to market pricing, as professional photographers are used to paying thousands for a professional camera, while the average consumer is used to paying hundreds for a portable digital product. The casing of the product hides the fact that both products used the same core component. Eventually the market will realize this and take action- perhaps choosing MP3 players with removable microdrives
This isn't any different from Amazon's price discrimination for books.
Overall, I think SF has run out of ideas. It's great and all but considering SF is a product of the Industrial Revolution, it's almost out of date.
..." about a particular aspect of technology, and exploring the ways this would affect progress and society.
Sci-Fi has always been a way of asking "What if
"Star trek" was "what if we could travel close to or more than the speed of light", and "what if we could teleport from point to point", then extending the culture clashes on Earth into space. "STNG" extended this to "What if machines could think at the same level as humans". "Deep Space Nine" explored the culture clash bit in greater detail."Minority Report" was "What if we could predict the near future". "Stargate" was "What if there were portals that could allow people to travel between planets".
Most of the common technology and culture plot lines have been heavily used:
Technology
o Closer to the speed of light travel
o Time travel
o Teleportation
o Cryogenic hibernation
o Artificial Intelligence
o Genetics
Culture
o Conflict between civilisations
o Parasitical aliens
o Gobal destruction of civilisation
If a new and original SF series were to be created, it would have to avoid all of the above, and appeal to both sexes. In my family, the womenfolk are willing to watch Sci-Fi movies, but only if the following conditions are met: No funny costumes (pointy ears) or gore and the story must have a happy ending. "I sing the body electric" by Ray Bradbury is the best example. Humor is OK, but nothing camp. "Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell is a good example.
There are still good science fiction books out there being written I am sure
Maybe books are grabbing the attention of potential readers in the way they used to. I have a collection (three boxes) of Sci-fi short stories and novels from the 50's to late 80's. The most obvious aspect about these books is that they have incredibly detailed artwork on the front cover. Books based on movies more or less have the promotional advert as the cover.
Looking through the bookstores today, and the sci-fi books all seem to have an abstract pattern with no indication of what the characters or plot is about.
They're not going to outsource our jobs without having to learn our culture first!
You can adjust the width of the margins using the HTML command.
<BODY TOPMARGIN=(integer) LEFTMARGIN=(integer) MARGINHEIGHT=(integer) MARGINWIDTH=(integer)>
That way, you'll never run out of space.
The problem comes if you need, say, version 4 for your new program, but you already have version 3 installed. You can't simply overwrite version 3, because then all the existing programs that depend on it will break.
The most common solution seems to be to download the source-code and recompile everything. Even worse is when you have version 4 installed, and the new program you want to install is based on version 3. But of course, everything else in your desktop is based on version 4.
At least Linux tells you why your application won't install, rather than giving you a blue screen of death when you've spent an entire afternoon working on a project and decide to print/save/transfer your data.
I'm surprised he didn't include some sample Matlab, Java applet or C code in his paper. It would be useful to have a demonstration that this really works.
And, of course, while they're grunting, they all recall that the reason that Tidwell isn't around to fix the problem is that his boss got sick and tired of his not documenting his procedures. :-)
And, of course, Tidwell is now working as a self-employed consultant earning over $100/hour.
If the residents office is managed anything like my local university, the staff will have no idea how the technology works, and will just seek the first solution that will the stop the complaints from rolling in.
Access to networks services is granted by pay-as-you phone cards. There are only so many terminal servers, and it's a lottery as to whether any computer will actually get a line or not. Unfortunately for the staff in the campus shop, it is their job to explain to the students (whose first language isn't English) as to why nothing is wrong with their card, but it is the lack of lines in use which is the problem, and that they should keep trying until they get a line.
The college has a perfect right to restrict the use of those devices on their property.
Look at the reason why they are banning the use of these devices. It is not because they are endangering the health and safety of other residents (which applies to hotplates, gas stoves or other thermal appliances). It is because of a design failure in the devices themselves. Users who wish to connect to the university wireless network, are unable to do so because their wireless system connects to the first device it detects. With the student dormitory area, there are over 100+ devices, but no bandwidth restrictions. The manufacturers failed to anticipate that there would ever be a situation where the density would exceed 100+ devices.
From the article text:
The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points.
The long-term solution would be for the university to petition the hardware vendors, the IEEE (who defined the protocols) and demand that they provide a method by which a remote host can specify which of 100+ wireless access points it should connect to, not simply through the "strongest signal". A simple regular expression with wildcards '*' and '?' should be sufficient combined with a simple naming convention implemented by the university would fix this.
Finally! The Scottish highlands are made habitable by squads of roving robots that feed off midgies. Just replace the smell of sewage with the smell of humans.
When I first heard that helicopter pilots were going to catch the probe, I imagined they would be flying in formation with a huge net.
And failing that, there would have been a large number of cardboard boxes or a large airbag in case they missed.