In which context do you consider it a minor bug, if the XFree tries to scale it's font any size you determine? Memory-hog bugs are never minor (just see Microsoft Windows for reference;)) - I mean this can also be an indicator of some even more serious mis-think on checks that are done to Xfree fonts before trying to display them. I would not be surprised if in 2 weeks there was an article on securityfocus stating "displaying 'gimme root' in supersize fonts in Xfree environment provides the intruder with remote root exploit."
Hehehe:) well, maybe you have to just submit your piece of code for the challenge to get the chance.
btw, thanks for the comment, I changed the phrasing of the rules now. Glad I did it before you submitted your entry:)
802.11xx are doomed anyway, as long as the frequencies can be used without regulation. Yes, wlan shrinks cells automatically and delivers less when there is more users and traffic, and yes, you can "just" add network elements. However, when it really becomes a success story, it is doomed. WLAN with it's uncontrolled frequencies just will not work in very tightly populated areas if a significant percent of people begins to use them. And we don't even need any assisted interference to achieve the congestion.
...rejected:) Now, as this is not off-topic in this case , could some Slashdot "official" explain why there is no feedback system on the rejected submitted stories. I myself have have only used relatively little time, to submit 21 stories (all rejected), probably using around 210 minutes of my time for nothing.
It would not feel like waste, if there was even a quick one-line note why the story was rejected. With the no-feedback-at-all system currently in use, you have atleast succesfully made the statement to me, that I have no reason to try and submit anything anymore, as it is total "Lotto" and I have no idea how I should enhance the submissions to not just waste my time. In my case it is not a big loss for you:) but I quess some others have made this decision as well.
Paper and pen help you visualize what you are doing, a calculator which draws everything for you, just makes you think you did it. No-one needs these to learn mathematics, atleast not before doing their master's thesis in a university.
...and in no time at all, we will see all these japanese nerds having fun with gint custom made rail guns utilizing the train track and it's magnetic field.
Excellent way of putting it, anyone originating from a "foreign" country must clearly be about the same as a terrorist. Therefore, US should define everyone not born there as a terrorist and lock the doors.
I had the same strategy as a kid when I foolishly yelled something at a group of bigger guys and tried to lock myself inside a little junk food store. It did not work very well. Then again, if I had not yelled at those guys at all, maybe...
> scandisk and defrag on a Linux OS device? dont they mean fsck?
...now I got it! This must be an evil Micro$oft plan: create non-working devices based on Linux, resulting in bad publicity for linux based embeddees and a steady peek in sales of Windows embedded.
Hey, it was supposed to be a joke - but don't ponder on the idea for too long, or you will start seeing green men and corporate conspiracy in here too.
Good platform for opensource project
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Terapin Mine Review
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· Score: 3, Interesting
As the review states:
"its inconsistent performance coupled with its hulkish dimensions make it seem quite undesirable to those of us who can only afford to invest in a technology once."
They have the things needed stuffed in there, but did not have the budget to get it work, maybe it could work as opensource?
AFAIK, this kind of solution only works (well) when the area in which it is used is profiled, because of multi-path fading, and other mysteries of radio technogolies:)
Similar technology, based on for example WLAN, is good for inside tracking, in clearly designed buildings. Because of it's relatively cheap cost of implementation (cheap devices available of the shelf), we might see this in near future in many applications.
Another interesting application would be building of "open" wlan tracking project, in which thousands of "nodes" in a city for example would be utilized to provide tracking within entire city. A system like this, with some sense in design, could be created in a manner which provides "zoom-like" tracking, focus could be tightened based on reports by a mass of nodes.
Is not actually a bad idea at all. w3c in it's all brightness does not provide a comprehensive statement on "what to do" and "why" for those new to these things. An organisation responsible for standardizing such a large matter always hides everything behind a jungle of technical details.
An organisation that sums this up, cannot harm anyone - atleast as it does not start pushing only the will of a selected vendor.
I see multimedia when a computer is used to present multiple medias(text, graphics, video, animation or sound) in one presentation integrated (seamlessly).
An audio editor do not exactly fall in this category in my mind.
*gruntle* dear metamoderator, please indicate how my reply was offtopic and how you are not just embarrassed about US CDMA voyages and resulting mobile periphery. Anyway, the only good reason to track geese, is to know where to go and shoot them.
I live in Finland, and it is possible to get spammed with about any content you can imagine. During year 2001, 1.2 billion sms messages were sent in Finland. With Finland's 5.2 million citizens, that means 230 messages per person during last year. And that includes infants, and those who are over 65 years old (there is 760 000 of them, 15.6%).
So for us, the mobile messaging is not a buzzword anymore. It is the default. And in addition to this wireless notification aspect, this was an article, that I would have thought to see on WWF's site and not Slashdot:)
>there has never been a.1-.5. the first point release was.6 which Netscape 6 was based on. Fruity troll.
who cares, whether it was 0.1, or 0.6. I built the thing for myself before 0.6, but that does not matter. Anyway, the experience I and probably many others got during the years remains the same. It is my pure feeling on Mozilla, I don't like that I have to have that opinion, but that's exacly how I see it at the moment.
> When they start spamming cell phones will you say that they make our rates lower?
When they start spamming cell phones, I will sue them. Commercials are part of the TV program. With mobile phones, you pay just for what you use. In TVs you, or the provider, cannot currently in most areas decide or see what you use, neither is there a good billing scheme for the current TV.
This is the current situation, which will change, in let's say 5 years from now, so that majority of TV users have devices based on technology which allows similar billing structure to mobile phones. Then, I will sue also the TV companies if they splash anything I did not order on my screen. For now I won't because it would be ridiculous.
A bit harsh way of putting it, but you are correct.
What has happened during last 4 years then?
Mozilla 0.1 is relased - HOORAY! it is here!! look!! - all of us run and install it immediately, in the beginning only a minority of people were even able to get it running. Then we realise it cannot be used for anything.
Mozilla 0.2 is released, same thing happens, years and 0.1s pass by and every damn time we hear little feet running to fetch it to get disappointed.... 0.9... 1.0.
Little feet start running to fetch it, but then they realize, it will probably just crash. Maybe in reality, it would actually work, but too many years and too many disappointments are too much for any Joe Average, who tried it. All that is left, is Linux, as the clever (im)poster said:)
AOL might be the rescue, otherwise, the project is doomed. It's sad, as so many people have participated in the work. I hope they atleast had some fun while doing it. Mozilla is good for those who like it, would a politician say.
> With cable, it can be done. With digital TV it can be done
Paying only for selected content in a way that everyone, or even majority of people don't face a too high technical barrier to use it? Yes, it can be done, but I believe it will take many years before it makes any sense for the majority of people living in developed countries. It does not happen overnight. For now, I still believe commercials are a necessity.
And yes, there already exist setups in which you only pay for what you watch, but this is not what TV is about for majority of people living in today's world. It is reality only for slashdotters, and others who are not afraid to start using new things.
Why on earth do you think you are paying $42 (or even $ zero) for your entertainment instead of $84? Because the entertainment companies thought that it is easier to get the money from advertisers than you. If everyone decides to skip the commercials, then the audience ends up paying everything. When the audience ends up paying everything, there will be less audience that wants to pay for everything, and when there is less audience to pay for everything, the cost will be higher, and as result there will be even less audience that wants to pay for everything, and as result the cost per individual will be higher, and there is even more who decide to not pay for everything, and as result...
Did you get the point yet? Even though commercials suck, their existance is a natural result.
Summary:
In this paper the authors illustrate how two authoritarian regimes, China and Cuba, are maintaining control over the Internet's political impact through different combinations of reactive and proactive strategies. These cases illustrate that, contrary to assumptions, different types of authoritarian regimes may be able to control and profit from the Internet. Examining the experiences of these two countries may help to shed light on other authoritarian regimes' strategies for Internet development, as well as help to develop generalizable conclusions about the impact of the Internet on authoritarian rule.
Here is an article on hydrogen fuel cells and safety, including results of BMW's simulated collisions:
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Many real-life tests have demonstrated the safety of pressurized hydrogen storage. Simulated 55 mph crash tests left the car totaled, but the hydrogen tank intact. To prove the safety of its hydrogen vehicles, BMW tested its hydrogen tanks in a series of accident simulations that included collision, fire and tank ruptures. In all cases, the hydrogen cars fared as well as conventional gasoline vehicles. And hydrogen-fueled cars are designed to preclude the possibility of leaked hydrogen collecting within the vehicle.
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Slashdot Mirror
Next in the same series: using cell locations to guide missiles to achieve more casualties. The high-tech way of saying "shut-up!".
In which context do you consider it a minor bug, if the XFree tries to scale it's font any size you determine? Memory-hog bugs are never minor (just see Microsoft Windows for reference ;)) - I mean this can also be an indicator of some even more serious mis-think on checks that are done to Xfree fonts before trying to display them. I would not be surprised if in 2 weeks there was an article on securityfocus stating "displaying 'gimme root' in supersize fonts in Xfree environment provides the intruder with remote root exploit."
Hehehe :) well, maybe you have to just submit your piece of code for the challenge to get the chance. :)
btw, thanks for the comment, I changed the phrasing of the rules now. Glad I did it before you submitted your entry
802.11xx are doomed anyway, as long as the frequencies can be used without regulation. Yes, wlan shrinks cells automatically and delivers less when there is more users and traffic, and yes, you can "just" add network elements. However, when it really becomes a success story, it is doomed. WLAN with it's uncontrolled frequencies just will not work in very tightly populated areas if a significant percent of people begins to use them. And we don't even need any assisted interference to achieve the congestion.
...rejected :) Now, as this is not off-topic in this case , could some Slashdot "official" explain why there is no feedback system on the rejected submitted stories. I myself have have only used relatively little time, to submit 21 stories (all rejected), probably using around 210 minutes of my time for nothing.
:) but I quess some others have made this decision as well.
It would not feel like waste, if there was even a quick one-line note why the story was rejected. With the no-feedback-at-all system currently in use, you have atleast succesfully made the statement to me, that I have no reason to try and submit anything anymore, as it is total "Lotto" and I have no idea how I should enhance the submissions to not just waste my time. In my case it is not a big loss for you
Paper and pen help you visualize what you are doing, a calculator which draws everything for you, just makes you think you did it. No-one needs these to learn mathematics, atleast not before doing their master's thesis in a university.
...and in no time at all, we will see all these japanese nerds having fun with gint custom made rail guns utilizing the train track and it's magnetic field.
> Most trolls don't reveal themselves to be trolls. So what're you... some retarded troller?
Most of your friends at kindergarten jumped into the well - so did you?
> Try to not be so thin skinned, m-kay? :)
;))
Heh, I just saw good weather for fishing
> foreign countries/terrorist groups
Excellent way of putting it, anyone originating from a "foreign" country must clearly be about the same as a terrorist. Therefore, US should define everyone not born there as a terrorist and lock the doors.
I had the same strategy as a kid when I foolishly yelled something at a group of bigger guys and tried to lock myself inside a little junk food store. It did not work very well. Then again, if I had not yelled at those guys at all, maybe...
> scandisk and defrag on a Linux OS device? dont they mean fsck?
...now I got it! This must be an evil Micro$oft plan: create non-working devices based on Linux, resulting in bad publicity for linux based embeddees and a steady peek in sales of Windows embedded.
Hey, it was supposed to be a joke - but don't ponder on the idea for too long, or you will start seeing green men and corporate conspiracy in here too.
As the review states:
"its inconsistent performance coupled with its hulkish dimensions make it seem quite undesirable to those of us who can only afford to invest in a technology once."
They have the things needed stuffed in there, but did not have the budget to get it work, maybe it could work as opensource?
AFAIK, this kind of solution only works (well) when the area in which it is used is profiled, because of multi-path fading, and other mysteries of radio technogolies :)
Similar technology, based on for example WLAN, is good for inside tracking, in clearly designed buildings. Because of it's relatively cheap cost of implementation (cheap devices available of the shelf), we might see this in near future in many applications.
Another interesting application would be building of "open" wlan tracking project, in which thousands of "nodes" in a city for example would be utilized to provide tracking within entire city. A system like this, with some sense in design, could be created in a manner which provides "zoom-like" tracking, focus could be tightened based on reports by a mass of nodes.
Is not actually a bad idea at all. w3c in it's all brightness does not provide a comprehensive statement on "what to do" and "why" for those new to these things. An organisation responsible for standardizing such a large matter always hides everything behind a jungle of technical details.
An organisation that sums this up, cannot harm anyone - atleast as it does not start pushing only the will of a selected vendor.
I see multimedia when a computer is used to present multiple medias(text, graphics, video, animation or sound) in one presentation integrated (seamlessly).
An audio editor do not exactly fall in this category in my mind.
*gruntle* dear metamoderator, please indicate how my reply was offtopic and how you are not just embarrassed about US CDMA voyages and resulting mobile periphery. Anyway, the only good reason to track geese, is to know where to go and shoot them.
I live in Finland, and it is possible to get spammed with about any content you can imagine. During year 2001, 1.2 billion sms messages were sent in Finland. With Finland's 5.2 million citizens, that means 230 messages per person during last year. And that includes infants, and those who are over 65 years old (there is 760 000 of them, 15.6%). :)
So for us, the mobile messaging is not a buzzword anymore. It is the default. And in addition to this wireless notification aspect, this was an article, that I would have thought to see on WWF's site and not Slashdot
>there has never been a .1-.5. the first point release was .6 which Netscape 6 was based on. Fruity troll.
who cares, whether it was 0.1, or 0.6. I built the thing for myself before 0.6, but that does not matter. Anyway, the experience I and probably many others got during the years remains the same. It is my pure feeling on Mozilla, I don't like that I have to have that opinion, but that's exacly how I see it at the moment.
> When they start spamming cell phones will you say that they make our rates lower?
When they start spamming cell phones, I will sue them. Commercials are part of the TV program. With mobile phones, you pay just for what you use. In TVs you, or the provider, cannot currently in most areas decide or see what you use, neither is there a good billing scheme for the current TV.
This is the current situation, which will change, in let's say 5 years from now, so that majority of TV users have devices based on technology which allows similar billing structure to mobile phones. Then, I will sue also the TV companies if they splash anything I did not order on my screen. For now I won't because it would be ridiculous.
A bit harsh way of putting it, but you are correct.
:)
What has happened during last 4 years then?
Mozilla 0.1 is relased - HOORAY! it is here!! look!! - all of us run and install it immediately, in the beginning only a minority of people were even able to get it running. Then we realise it cannot be used for anything.
Mozilla 0.2 is released, same thing happens, years and 0.1s pass by and every damn time we hear little feet running to fetch it to get disappointed.... 0.9... 1.0.
Little feet start running to fetch it, but then they realize, it will probably just crash. Maybe in reality, it would actually work, but too many years and too many disappointments are too much for any Joe Average, who tried it. All that is left, is Linux, as the clever (im)poster said
AOL might be the rescue, otherwise, the project is doomed. It's sad, as so many people have participated in the work. I hope they atleast had some fun while doing it. Mozilla is good for those who like it, would a politician say.
> With cable, it can be done. With digital TV it can be done
Paying only for selected content in a way that everyone, or even majority of people don't face a too high technical barrier to use it? Yes, it can be done, but I believe it will take many years before it makes any sense for the majority of people living in developed countries. It does not happen overnight. For now, I still believe commercials are a necessity.
And yes, there already exist setups in which you only pay for what you watch, but this is not what TV is about for majority of people living in today's world. It is reality only for slashdotters, and others who are not afraid to start using new things.
Why on earth do you think you are paying $42 (or even $ zero) for your entertainment instead of $84? Because the entertainment companies thought that it is easier to get the money from advertisers than you. If everyone decides to skip the commercials, then the audience ends up paying everything. When the audience ends up paying everything, there will be less audience that wants to pay for everything, and when there is less audience to pay for everything, the cost will be higher, and as result there will be even less audience that wants to pay for everything, and as result the cost per individual will be higher, and there is even more who decide to not pay for everything, and as result...
Did you get the point yet? Even though commercials suck, their existance is a natural result.
Summary:
In this paper the authors illustrate how two authoritarian regimes, China and Cuba, are maintaining control over the Internet's political impact through different combinations of reactive and proactive strategies. These cases illustrate that, contrary to assumptions, different types of authoritarian regimes may be able to control and profit from the Internet. Examining the experiences of these two countries may help to shed light on other authoritarian regimes' strategies for Internet development, as well as help to develop generalizable conclusions about the impact of the Internet on authoritarian rule.
The whole document is here
Here is an article on hydrogen fuel cells and safety, including results of BMW's simulated collisions:
<clip>
Many real-life tests have demonstrated the safety of pressurized hydrogen storage. Simulated 55 mph crash tests left the car totaled, but the hydrogen tank intact. To prove the safety of its hydrogen vehicles, BMW tested its hydrogen tanks in a series of accident simulations that included collision, fire and tank ruptures. In all cases, the hydrogen cars fared as well as conventional gasoline vehicles. And hydrogen-fueled cars are designed to preclude the possibility of leaked hydrogen collecting within the vehicle.
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> I don't see SETI [berkeley.edu] and RC5-56 [distributed.net] and similar projects very interesting anymore
:)
Ahem, I meant RC5-64 ofcourse. I quess I am stuck in a time continuum