I just got a Nokia 770 with a 4 inch 800x480 screen running Linux WiFi Bluetooth.
64MB internal Mem and upto 1Gig in the postage stamp size SMM (SSM?) memory modules.
$350 direct from Nokia
I love the form factor and with a cheep bluetooth phone then for less than $500 you have all this and more.
Install Skype but delete if from the startup list.
I use AdAware's TeaTimer app which forces the apps to ask permission to alter system
settings, so I just had to say no. Skype installs, but will only be grabbing resources
after I actually use it, and then only if I don't kill the app after I'm done.
Actually not using Skype at the moment, using Google Talk and Gizmo.
Learning to realy love my Nokia-770
I agree with the majority sentiment that there should be no real world punishment. Whether there is a virtual punishment or not is of little concern to me. If what he did was in the rules of the game, good for him. If the game had some fine print "spirit of fair play" or "mirrors most civil law" then his virtual punishment can be as extreme as they like. Still it doesn't matter to me one way or another.
What does matter me is the possibility to experiment with various economic rules and systems of law within these virtual worlds so as to gain insights into improving our real-economies, real-laws, and real-voting systems in the real-world. The emergence of a Ponzi scheme shows that this game's system of rules was under-defined, assuming you agree people should be prevented from setting up Ponzi (pyramid) schemes.
I'd like to suggest that the policy isn't all about protecting the old people from themselves, but the company from the old people. I'm approaching 50 and find I have far less patience for nonsense and am far more demanding of service. If a contract has "fine print" that clearly marks me as liable and I fall for it,
I will still go out of my way to make trouble for the company that uses such fine print to punish or swindle is customers. I take this as a huge red flag the company has unsavory business practices to start with and doesn't want to be dogged by 70+ retirees that have nothing better to do than chase them down and get redress. Keep in mind that the labor and forms of dealing with such a customer are probably a HUGE cost.
Not really funny, but for those who don't know --
About 8 yuan Chinese currancy (also known as RMB) is 1 dollar.
Most probably got that though from context (call me pendantic).
Also (though I don't remember the exchange rate) in Hong Kong, they
often refer to a Hong Kong Dollar as a "buck"
Did I mention my wife is a Chinese national?
My wife mentioned this news about 2 days ago. I was wondering when it would break in the West.
I'm not sure what to make of the possibility of "liquid-explosives" on a plane.
As many have pointed out it seem impractical, especially the binary agent type
liquid explosives.
If you rule out binary agent type bombs, then I suggest screening liquids becomes MUCH easier. If the liquid is composed mostly of water -- it is NOT an explosive. Rather than some expensive Mass-Spectral analysis type devices that the FAA might be considering for airports, how about a device that just verifies a liquid is mostly water? Might this be easier, cheaper, and subject to
lower false positives?
This might be possible done non-invasively with microwaves on non-metallic containers to see if there is an infra-red signature return. Pop in metal cans would still have to be opened or banned -- though passing sealed metal cylinders thourgh screening might not be good idea in the first place.
That would have been covered by the "without some vastly improved display sytstem" qualifier.
Though it isn't so much the display holding things back now, but the input interfaces.
Precise, cheap, unencumbering 3D entry that easily tracks all your hand, finger and arm motions, or reliable, speaker independent, speech recognition would bring about a new round of change.
Maybe it's just me, but the look of GUIs seemed to devolve from the initial Mac 1984 system 1 version, until about 1995. The look just got uglier and more cluttered, and color when it was introduced had no real aesthetic, this was probably due in part to display limitations. In 1995 both Mac and Windows finally arrive at reasonably attractive, colorful, and functional versions. KDE sets the bar a little higher in 1998 then stagnates, Mac catches up with X 10.5 and Windows should catch up with Vista.
Rail against GUIs if you must, but without some vastly improved display system they have converged a stable solution that will probably stay mostly unchanged much like QWERTY typewriters, not because there isn't anything better possible, but because they are good enough, and are what everyone knows.
HD is for BIG Screens and on them it looks great. Trust me as I have an HD setup with an 8 foot wide screen. Your picture shows two monitors with less than 600 pixels for each screen shown side by side in a 1400 wide jpg taken with a digital camera. There are so many loss steps on the way to showing the final image the mind boggles. To show the actual difference you would need to compare the image of a good 1920 x 1080 jpg vs a 720 x 480 jpg at full size -- the first to the HD, the other to the DVD. If you can't see the difference then you are blind.
I've never understood why people expect good quality when the view a film in the theater, then don't care if it looks like shit at home. Now granted DVD isn't shit, but VERY BIG SCREENS will be the rule in the very near future and they look best with a good HD feed.
Maybe I'm not the average Slashdotter, but I have had sex with lots of women (many of whom seemed liked aliens) and can't remember most of their names.
For now NASA and other Space Agencies would be far more concerned about keeping the Martian Environment free of Earthly contamination. Your experiment might inform in the short run, but make detecting native biota much harder in the long run.
Just determining the exact chemical composition of the soil and air is almost certainly more useful now and runs far less risk than what you propose.
Coming in the wake of this recent news about atmospheric hydrogen-peroxide possibly scouring Mars's surface of microbial life it looks like the odds of finding life easily on Mars are dwindling. Subsurface drilling still holds out hope.
Regardless of current life conditions I still hold out hope for past life fossil discoveries, multi-cellular past life. Several of the Mars rover pictures look to show fossils, but NASA is being very cautious in it assessments. Not sure what the ID camp or Creationists will make of bring back criniod like fossils from Mars estimated to be 1-2 billion years old. Actually I already pretty much do know, so consider the question rhetorical.
I rather enjoy Slashback as a compendium of previous story updates and wish it had a once daily appearance (it had been far less than this in the past).
Backslash posts however seem to be bloated rehashes of comments. If there were no comment moderations it would be useful, but we do, so it isn't.
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I just got a Nokia 770 with a 4 inch 800x480 screen running Linux WiFi Bluetooth. 64MB internal Mem and upto 1Gig in the postage stamp size SMM (SSM?) memory modules.
$350 direct from Nokia
I love the form factor and with a cheep bluetooth phone then for less than $500 you have all this and more.
Seriously I sounded this out in my head as 4954.HARASS on the first read.
Seems it would be a more apt name.
Install Skype but delete if from the startup list. I use AdAware's TeaTimer app which forces the apps to ask permission to alter system settings, so I just had to say no. Skype installs, but will only be grabbing resources after I actually use it, and then only if I don't kill the app after I'm done. Actually not using Skype at the moment, using Google Talk and Gizmo. Learning to realy love my Nokia-770
Huh? The best and worst links are to the same article.
Fear Me Lads!
I agree with the majority sentiment that there should be no real world punishment. Whether there is a virtual punishment or not is of little concern to me. If what he did was in the rules of the game, good for him. If the game had some fine print "spirit of fair play" or "mirrors most civil law" then his virtual punishment can be as extreme as they like. Still it doesn't matter to me one way or another.
What does matter me is the possibility to experiment with various economic rules and systems of law within these virtual worlds so as to gain insights into improving our real-economies, real-laws, and real-voting systems in the real-world. The emergence of a Ponzi scheme shows that this game's system of rules was under-defined, assuming you agree people should be prevented from setting up Ponzi (pyramid) schemes.
What you want is irrelivent, what you have choosen is at hand.
I'd like to suggest that the policy isn't all about protecting the old people from themselves, but the company from the old people. I'm approaching 50 and find I have far less patience for nonsense and am far more demanding of service. If a contract has "fine print" that clearly marks me as liable and I fall for it, I will still go out of my way to make trouble for the company that uses such fine print to punish or swindle is customers. I take this as a huge red flag the company has unsavory business practices to start with and doesn't want to be dogged by 70+ retirees that have nothing better to do than chase them down and get redress. Keep in mind that the labor and forms of dealing with such a customer are probably a HUGE cost.
Not really funny, but for those who don't know --
About 8 yuan Chinese currancy (also known as RMB) is 1 dollar.
Most probably got that though from context (call me pendantic).
Also (though I don't remember the exchange rate) in Hong Kong, they often refer to a Hong Kong Dollar as a "buck"
Did I mention my wife is a Chinese national?
My wife mentioned this news about 2 days ago. I was wondering when it would break in the West.
I'm not sure what to make of the possibility of "liquid-explosives" on a plane. As many have pointed out it seem impractical, especially the binary agent type liquid explosives.
If you rule out binary agent type bombs, then I suggest screening liquids becomes MUCH easier. If the liquid is composed mostly of water -- it is NOT an explosive. Rather than some expensive Mass-Spectral analysis type devices that the FAA might be considering for airports, how about a device that just verifies a liquid is mostly water? Might this be easier, cheaper, and subject to lower false positives?
This might be possible done non-invasively with microwaves on non-metallic containers to see if there is an infra-red signature return. Pop in metal cans would still have to be opened or banned -- though passing sealed metal cylinders thourgh screening might not be good idea in the first place.
which should I use, hmmmm...
Microsoft's Office Suite IS being attacked.
OpenOffice could, possibly, theorectically, be attacked.
That would have been covered by the "without some vastly improved display sytstem" qualifier.
Though it isn't so much the display holding things back now, but the input interfaces.
Precise, cheap, unencumbering 3D entry that easily tracks all your hand, finger and arm motions, or reliable, speaker independent, speech recognition would bring about a new round of change.
Maybe it's just me, but the look of GUIs seemed to devolve from the initial Mac 1984 system 1 version, until about 1995. The look just got uglier and more cluttered, and color when it was introduced had no real aesthetic, this was probably due in part to display limitations. In 1995 both Mac and Windows finally arrive at reasonably attractive, colorful, and functional versions. KDE sets the bar a little higher in 1998 then stagnates, Mac catches up with X 10.5 and Windows should catch up with Vista.
Rail against GUIs if you must, but without some vastly improved display system they have converged a stable solution that will probably stay mostly unchanged much like QWERTY typewriters, not because there isn't anything better possible, but because they are good enough, and are what everyone knows.
I wouldn't consider: over the top, campy, and hilariously non politically correct, to be strikes against a show.
HD is for BIG Screens and on them it looks great. Trust me as I have an HD setup with an 8 foot wide screen. Your picture shows two monitors with less than 600 pixels for each screen shown side by side in a 1400 wide jpg taken with a digital camera. There are so many loss steps on the way to showing the final image the mind boggles. To show the actual difference you would need to compare the image of a good 1920 x 1080 jpg vs a 720 x 480 jpg at full size -- the first to the HD, the other to the DVD. If you can't see the difference then you are blind.
I've never understood why people expect good quality when the view a film in the theater, then don't care if it looks like shit at home. Now granted DVD isn't shit, but VERY BIG SCREENS will be the rule in the very near future and they look best with a good HD feed.
Only the ones without legs
Maybe I'm not the average Slashdotter, but I have had sex with lots of women (many of whom seemed liked aliens) and can't remember most of their names.
the NSA is proposing the new NSA@home project. ;-)
I'm sure every Slashdot reader will be volunteering CPU cycles.
... no more than a Leopard can change his Turing Equations
For now NASA and other Space Agencies would be far more concerned about keeping the Martian Environment free of Earthly contamination. Your experiment might inform in the short run, but make detecting native biota much harder in the long run.
Just determining the exact chemical composition of the soil and air is almost certainly more useful now and runs far less risk than what you propose.
Coming in the wake of this recent news about atmospheric hydrogen-peroxide possibly scouring Mars's surface of microbial life it looks like the odds of finding life easily on Mars are dwindling. Subsurface drilling still holds out hope.
Regardless of current life conditions I still hold out hope for past life fossil discoveries, multi-cellular past life. Several of the Mars rover pictures look to show fossils, but NASA is being very cautious in it assessments. Not sure what the ID camp or Creationists will make of bring back criniod like fossils from Mars estimated to be 1-2 billion years old. Actually I already pretty much do know, so consider the question rhetorical.
Dude, losing your foundling skills must REALLY suck.
And this will save grocers money how?
Pay more for the stickers.
Throw out more fruit as people only choose the least ripe.
Lucky you, mine only seems to work in snow.
I rather enjoy Slashback as a compendium of previous story updates and wish it had a once daily appearance (it had been far less than this in the past).
Backslash posts however seem to be bloated rehashes of comments. If there were no comment moderations it would be useful, but we do, so it isn't.