Eight years ago I broke my elbow, and now have two metal pins in there that the consultant proudly boasted cost 350UKP each, which, I worked out at the time, came to about $1000. The One Thousand Dollar Man sounds much better than The 700 Quid Bloke.
Doubtless there are slashdotters out there with more expensive hardware in them than me, and I imagine a prosthetic limb can be $10,000. But it was a nice round number for me.
And all done on the NHS (state health insurance scheme)
"If you are going to share quite a big amount of data over this server, the server itself should have enough storage since it keeps a copy of every file"
Where else did you think it was going to keep a copy?
I think its basically an MS Sharepoint-type document sharing solution, of which you will find umpteen other examples on freshmeat.net.
Several of them even claim to be 'Enterprise-class' or 'professional'. Now an article comparing all of these with 'iserver' and sharepoint would be worth frontpaging on slashdot..
I've seen screenshots that are a smaller resolution than the screen capture they represent! Some eejit has scaled the screenshot before uploading it. If a screenshot isnt 1:1 pixels on your screen as on the author's screen then you are going to lose something somewhere.
I once put up a screenshot of an app I wrote and told my colleague where to find it. He said the text wasn't readable. Huh? I re-uploaded it again. Still not readable. Eventually I taught him how to do a screen capture in Windows and mail me that so I could see what was going on. That was when I discovered Internet Explorer shrunk images to fit the browser window. At the time Mozilla didn't do that (you got scroll bars). Now I try to remember to wrap screenshots in a little HTML so that they show at the right size.
I kept a low profile on my 30th birthday. Just like I am going to for my impending 40th. Why do computer companies need to celebrate a decade when most people cringe and moan about being another decade older?
Its caused by "sodomized electrons" reverting to their primitive state and spilling out of power lines to crush people and buildings like "a ton of invisible lead soup."
If the site offers an mp3 CAPTCHA then it might be easy to write a bot that does voice recognition to return the CAPTCHA key. It would have to be spoken in a way that would subvert voice recognition.
Maybe the CAPTCHA would have to be a simple question,such as "What comes next: four, five, six?", with variants such as "What number is before twenty six?". With enough variations it should be possible to require AI to get right:)
Not sure who you are talking to, but I am a cyclist - I think its just harder to see motorists on their mobiles. Sometimes I think I've spotted a motorist with a mobile but they are scratching their ear. If I'd yelled at them I could have been road-raged. Plus it _is_ illegal to use a mobile in a car so I have recourse to the law if one hits me (or is I hit one!). If a deafened pedestrian walks out in front I think I dont have much of a case since stupidity seems to be a legally protected condition...
I'm sick of having near misses with innattentive pedestrians and cyclists with headphones on and staring into their mobiles[1]. These people aren't "connected to the world at large", they are disconnected from the real world around them. At some point my bike is going to make a connection with one of them as they step into the real world road without looking.
Baz
[1] yeah, I've seen cyclists pedalling and texting at the same time.
I'm sure boingboing used to be good, and really was a directory of wonderful things, but nowadays it just Cory talking in the third person ("Cory's New Podcast", "Cory's New SciFi Story With The Same Name As An Asimov Classic"), links to the editors' blogs (normally headed 'last week I blogged') which just look like lame efforts at self-advertising a blog entry that didnt get enough clicks to satisfy their ego, vaguely sexual stuff from Xeni, random in-joke memes (today: anagram maps), and DRM rantage recently directed at Sony.
My rules for happy boingboing reading:
* anything that starts 'Last week I blogged...' : skip immediately
* any article that extends to more than one screen : skip immediately
* anything by Xeni : check to see if its an interesting sexual perversion, otherwise skip
Now all I need to do is write something that filters their RSS by those rules...
Oh heck, they're pushing this piece of crack. Sure it'll hopefully stop the secretaries emailing 10M Word documents, but they'll be emailing "The Agenda is on the Sharepoint" messages. Great, I can read it with OpenOffice but now I CANT GET IT!!
Anyone know more about Sharepoint and knows of a free client?
The title may sound like some sort of LARP show but its not. They get entrepreneurs in front of four VCs each of which has a HUGE PILE OF CASH in front of them. The entrepreneur then explains their product or idea, and says something like "I want 50,000 UKP and you get 10% of my company".
Each VC, or 'Dragon', then says "You sweat too much, I'm out", or "I cant work with you, you're clearly a moron, I'm out", or if you are lucky one will say "I'll give you 25,000 for 15% of your company". Well, that's no good, unless you get all the money you ask for you get nothing. So maybe Dragon 4 will say "I'll give you the other 25k for another 15%". So now you've got your money but you've lost 30% of your company. If you want it.
Anyway, see if you can check out the show (on BBC2 in the UK). Anyone who dithers about figures or sales projections or plans is out on their arse immediately. Anyone who seems to have a clue tends to reject the VCs even if they do get an offer, thinking they can get better elsewhere....
Good idea: make a lot, and make lots of it, then put some in the freezer. Then you're economising on scale (buy bulk veggies and dead animals) and your freezer isnt sitting empty.
You know the anthropic universe principle? That the universe seems fine tuned for life? Well I have another theory that is that yes, the universe is fine-tuned for life, but its also fine-tuned so that life has a remote chance of making it off the planet and colonising the universe as seen in science fiction. The universe is in fact fine tuned just so that it can create sentient life that can consider its mortality, dream of conquering the cosmos, but then not being able to because fundamental physics just gets in the way...
I call this the misanthropic universe principle...
I discharged the cap in a disposable camera once using the nearest handy metal object, which was a swiss army knife blade. The edge needed a good sharpening afterwards, since it took two nicks out of it. If it can vaporize metal, just think what it does to flesh...
Web 2.0 is made of... 600 million unwanted opinions in realtime
Paul Moore Web 2.0 is made of... emergent blook juice
Ian Nisbet Web 2.0 is made entirely of pretentious self serving morons.
Max Irwin Web 2.0 is made of...Magic pixie dust (a.k.a . Tim O'Reilly's dandruff)
Jeramey Crawford
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Eight years ago I broke my elbow, and now have two metal pins in there that the consultant proudly boasted cost 350UKP each, which, I worked out at the time, came to about $1000. The One Thousand Dollar Man sounds much better than The 700 Quid Bloke.
Doubtless there are slashdotters out there with more expensive hardware in them than me, and I imagine a prosthetic limb can be $10,000. But it was a nice round number for me.
And all done on the NHS (state health insurance scheme)
B
Some fine stating-of-the-obvious in that article:
t §ion=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0
"If you are going to share quite a big amount of data over this server, the server itself should have enough storage since it keeps a copy of every file"
Where else did you think it was going to keep a copy?
I think its basically an MS Sharepoint-type document sharing solution, of which you will find umpteen other examples on freshmeat.net.
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=document+managemen
Several of them even claim to be 'Enterprise-class' or 'professional'. Now an article comparing all of these with 'iserver' and sharepoint would be worth frontpaging on slashdot..
Barry
If you used this to prevent automatic access to a porn site, would you be clicking on the kittens that are about to die?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_time_you_mastu
This contains all the japanese you need to know:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/japanese/74a3
I've seen screenshots that are a smaller resolution than the screen capture they represent! Some eejit has scaled the screenshot before uploading it. If a screenshot isnt 1:1 pixels on your screen as on the author's screen then you are going to lose something somewhere.
I once put up a screenshot of an app I wrote and told my colleague where to find it. He said the text wasn't readable. Huh? I re-uploaded it again. Still not readable. Eventually I taught him how to do a screen capture in Windows and mail me that so I could see what was going on. That was when I discovered Internet Explorer shrunk images to fit the browser window. At the time Mozilla didn't do that (you got scroll bars). Now I try to remember to wrap screenshots in a little HTML so that they show at the right size.
I kept a low profile on my 30th birthday. Just like I am going to for my impending 40th. Why do computer companies need to celebrate a decade when most people cringe and moan about being another decade older?
Its caused by "sodomized electrons" reverting to their primitive state and spilling out of power lines to crush people and buildings like "a ton of invisible lead soup."
m l
http://www.thehighhat.com/Static/002/brass_eye.ht
If the site offers an mp3 CAPTCHA then it might be easy to write a bot that does voice recognition to return the CAPTCHA key. It would have to be spoken in a way that would subvert voice recognition.
:)
Maybe the CAPTCHA would have to be a simple question,such as "What comes next: four, five, six?", with variants such as "What number is before twenty six?". With enough variations it should be possible to require AI to get right
Barry
Save the Calc file, then reload it, Calc says "This file has links to other files, update them?" or similar. Say 'yes'.
Its not automatic.
Not sure who you are talking to, but I am a cyclist - I think its just harder to see motorists on their mobiles. Sometimes I think I've spotted a motorist with a mobile but they are scratching their ear. If I'd yelled at them I could have been road-raged. Plus it _is_ illegal to use a mobile in a car so I have recourse to the law if one hits me (or is I hit one!). If a deafened pedestrian walks out in front I think I dont have much of a case since stupidity seems to be a legally protected condition...
I really need to put my airhorn on my new bike...
I'm sick of having near misses with innattentive pedestrians and cyclists with headphones on and staring into their mobiles[1]. These people aren't "connected to the world at large", they are disconnected from the real world around them. At some point my bike is going to make a connection with one of them as they step into the real world road without looking.
Baz
[1] yeah, I've seen cyclists pedalling and texting at the same time.
Yeah. Fan. Tastic.
I'm sure boingboing used to be good, and really was a directory of wonderful things, but nowadays it just Cory talking in the third person ("Cory's New Podcast", "Cory's New SciFi Story With The Same Name As An Asimov Classic"), links to the editors' blogs (normally headed 'last week I blogged') which just look like lame efforts at self-advertising a blog entry that didnt get enough clicks to satisfy their ego, vaguely sexual stuff from Xeni, random in-joke memes (today: anagram maps), and DRM rantage recently directed at Sony.
My rules for happy boingboing reading:
* anything that starts 'Last week I blogged...' : skip immediately
* any article that extends to more than one screen : skip immediately
* anything by Xeni : check to see if its an interesting sexual perversion, otherwise skip
Now all I need to do is write something that filters their RSS by those rules...
Can someone do a Web2.0 app with really bright saturated colours? Please!!
I'm so tempted to get one of these:
_ mode=Home&category=watch&swfname=watch
http://www.philosophersguild.com/index.lasso?page
particularly the Einsteinian relativity watch.
B
Oh heck, they're pushing this piece of crack. Sure it'll hopefully stop the secretaries emailing 10M Word documents, but they'll be emailing "The Agenda is on the Sharepoint" messages. Great, I can read it with OpenOffice but now I CANT GET IT!!
Anyone know more about Sharepoint and knows of a free client?
B
The title may sound like some sort of LARP show but its not. They get entrepreneurs in front of four VCs each of which has a HUGE PILE OF CASH in front of them. The entrepreneur then explains their product or idea, and says something like "I want 50,000 UKP and you get 10% of my company".
Each VC, or 'Dragon', then says "You sweat too much, I'm out", or "I cant work with you, you're clearly a moron, I'm out", or if you are lucky one will say "I'll give you 25,000 for 15% of your company". Well, that's no good, unless you get all the money you ask for you get nothing. So maybe Dragon 4 will say "I'll give you the other 25k for another 15%". So now you've got your money but you've lost 30% of your company. If you want it.
Anyway, see if you can check out the show (on BBC2 in the UK). Anyone who dithers about figures or sales projections or plans is out on their arse immediately. Anyone who seems to have a clue tends to reject the VCs even if they do get an offer, thinking they can get better elsewhere....
Barry
Good idea: make a lot, and make lots of it, then put some in the freezer. Then you're economising on scale (buy bulk veggies and dead animals) and your freezer isnt sitting empty.
Ys. Thy shld mk
thr wb pgs sml enuf
4 mobe usrs 2 rd!
LOL!
You mean like my wife spying on me?
Oh, you mean _american_.... Because we're all citizens of the USA now...
B
It's got to be better than having an Access file on a share :)
You know the anthropic universe principle? That the universe seems fine tuned for life? Well I have another theory that is that yes, the universe is fine-tuned for life, but its also fine-tuned so that life has a remote chance of making it off the planet and colonising the universe as seen in science fiction. The universe is in fact fine tuned just so that it can create sentient life that can consider its mortality, dream of conquering the cosmos, but then not being able to because fundamental physics just gets in the way...
I call this the misanthropic universe principle...
Or if you are in Japan and want a nice traditional cheap hostel-style room, then find a 'ryokan' somewhere.
First slashdot article I've seen for a while that has read like total gibberish. Anyone got a link to what half those terms mean?
Does anyone with a slashdot id under 5000 understand it?
I discharged the cap in a disposable camera once using the nearest handy metal object, which was a swiss army knife blade. The edge needed a good sharpening afterwards, since it took two nicks out of it. If it can vaporize metal, just think what it does to flesh...
Web 2.0 is made of ... 600 million unwanted opinions in realtime ... emergent blook juice ...Magic pixie dust (a.k.a . Tim O'Reilly's dandruff)
o int_naught_answers/
Paul Moore
Web 2.0 is made of
Ian Nisbet
Web 2.0 is made entirely of pretentious self serving morons.
Max Irwin
Web 2.0 is made of
Jeramey Crawford
- and a load of other things, see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/11/web_two_p