I just viewed a Shoshkele on Linux with Netscape 4.75. Of course my success might have something to do with Codeweaver's Crossover Plug-In which I installed several weeks ago.
I've just confirmed success on Konqueror as well. Mozilla m.96 did _not_ work.
"Once we successfully address the issue of our senior notes, ZiLOG will be well positioned to compete during this difficult period and to take full advantage of the eventual economic recovery," Thorburn said.
They filed chapter 11 for strategic reasons, not because they'd gone totally bust.
In response to Cliff's comment I've had good success with Codeweavers Cross-Over plugin on Navigator and Konqueror. It works in Mozilla, ie, it doesn't crash, but the video is screwed up.
But ghost crab was mostly asking for an editor, not a plug-in. Let me add Authorware to the list of needed editors.
Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer
Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other," he recalls now. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar."Read more...
The great thing about the history of the Internet is the cluelessness of many of the participants. Tomlinson really didn't have any idea of the significance of his hack. He was too busy getting two computers to talk to each other to go into any futurist fantasies.
The real and interesting history of email happened in the '80s with BITnet for academic-types and then of course the huge commercial success of compuserve. Even then it wasn't until the blooming of the WWW in the '90s that email came into the consciousness of the general public.
The result greatly strengthens the argument that a large fraction of the 'normal' Dark Matter in and around our Galaxy exists in the form of MACHOs and that this Dark Matter is not as dark as previously believed!
Does anyone else have the feeling we are just playing peek-a-boo.
"Hey, its dark in here. Where did everyone go?" "Ummm, move your hands!?" "Oh, there they are. That was really weird!"
If lecturing to 20-30 students is your vision of education then you're right, laptops don't belong in the classroom.
But, if you are asking students to gather information and work together to analyze it and synthesize a creative response to it, then laptops can play an important role. Even email could play an important role.
My wife had a run in with the sysadmin at her school when she gave an assignment which required the use of email. He said, "But we have banned email during academic hours." She said, "But this is academic email!" She won after the sysadmin went to the principal to get her disciplined.
Can't remember what it was called, but a local junior college used a classroom management package for its Novell network. It actually served a much broader purpose than just monitoring. It allowed the teacher to take control of the mouse, or the entire desktop, or to share a specific window with the student. As a result the teacher could help students anywhere in the classroom without leaving their own desk.
The point of this device would be to arm the population in surveilling and recording acts of unconventional warfare.
Now, if you turn the entire population into anonymous snoops and peeping Toms, it's a nation of snitches, which is very destabilizing. I'm not suggesting that.
This is the civilian militia Minuteman version of surveillance.
How does Bruce distinguish this from a lynch mob or posse of surveillance?
I read through those paragraphs several times, and I really can't figure out how Bruce gets around the destabilization problem that he himself points out. Somehow the fact that these are really sophisticated, cool devices is supposed to make them immune to mis-use.
I find it ironic that the anti-establishment, anti-government intervention nerds of the valley keep forgetting that they are chowing down on public money. I think its a stretch to classify Cisco's history as criminal; more of a case of biting the hand that fed you.
Of course its us, its all about us. Reading off a computer screen is a chore. We trade off the comfort of curling up on the couch, leaning back on a Lazy-Boy, or steaming in the tub. I grab a magazine on my way to the bathroom, read a chapter or two of a novel before falling asleep at night and read the morning news while eating toast and eggs in the morning.
By contrast, when I'm online I am sitting at my desk, hands on keyboard, or keyboard/mouse, and I have to be constantly scrolling/paging, clicking, scanning for links. Frankly its not relaxing and the results are usually far less interesting than a good magazine article with better resolution/professional graphics and highly detailed photographs.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not a Luddite. I spend several hours a day on the web. It's just that I don't use it for casual entertainment or recreation. It is just plain boring compared to well-crafted print media.
This may be the number one problem facing the Net. If I start a restaurant in Denver, I don't have to compete with those in San Francisco or New York. On the web, everything is one click away. If a site isn't the best in its niche (or one of the top few depending on the size of the niche), it faces obscurity.
The ease of publishing on the web is really deceptive. The marketing of web content is really no easier, possibly harder than for print media. We don't have the equivalent of the magazine rack in the grocery store or news stand.
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I was wondering about the learning curve, like I'm trying to keep my balance, and Segway is trying to keep my balance and we get into a violent feedback loop. Then I read Grove was rolling slowly along when Doerr ambled over and pushed him in the chest. When the Segway kept him from losing his balance, Grove emitted a distinctly un-Grove-like giggle.
Now I'm wondering if we can apply the technology to bicycles, windsurfers, skates, etc. Now that would be awesome: In-line skates that act like Segway.
[off-topic] Hey I thought slashdotter were up-to-date. The creationists lost badly in last year's elections, so evolution is back in the syllabus. Actually it was never out, it was a local option and most schools continued to teach evolution.
[back on topic] What a wonderful exchange of ideas! Linus has me convinced. OS/free software is about chaos (as in math). It's about an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of keyboards. Sure if you've got a small team and a tight time-frame you'll need to have tight control over the project. But linux is great because of the chaotic (as in math) processes which produce it.
From the article: The hope is that human organs could be grown in other species and later transplanted into humans.
However, some said the decision opens the door to the risk of creating mixed-species organs, or possibly even creatures.
The article is about the publication of guidelines on research into human cloning. While allowing the cloning of aggregate embryos, the Wednesday announcement bars all other embryo cloning, citing insufficient debate about the ramifications of such cloning.
The research hasn't even begun yet. Maybe its possible to grow aggregate embryos, maybe its not. Maybe it will result in mixed-species, maybe not.
Well, I'm currently staring at a 19", IBM fixed frequency monitor, and it often seems too small. On the other hand it was cheap $50 and works, even if it does take up half the space on my desk.
I've been watching the LCD panels with interest, but I'm not willing/able to pay much of a premium price for one.
Good. I hadn't heard about this. Unfortunately there is no date on the article, so I'm not sure it reflects the latest thinking. The concern about teosinte has been widely circulated in the anti-GM community, so there are political ramification if this is true.
"This judge apparently believes that the fact that hundreds of scientists are currently afraid to publish their work and that scientific conferences are relocating overseas isn't a problem," noted Robin Gross, EFF Intellectual Property Attorney.
The real issue here is the definition of moot. In the case of Felten, it is a moot point. He won the battle to publish his findings. Perhaps the EFF hadn't defined their case broadly enough to include the hundreds of scientists who are currently stifled by similar threats. Since I'm not privy to the briefs, thats pure speculation. But remember, judges don't act out of conscience or their own belief system, but rather based on their perceptions of the law and the merits of the case as presented by the lawyers. The judge may well see merit in the case that the lawyers didn't adequately present, but they may not act on that!
It seems prima facie that EFF and Felten have an important case. Lets hope they can cross all their Ts and dot all their Is during the appeal process.
One of the saddest things about this story, is that the genetic purity of Teosinte, the proto-maize, is being threatened. Modern corn relies on modern ag techniques, but teosinte manages to survive just fine in the wild. To survive in the wild takes much more genetic diversity and resistance to all types of pests and competition. Don't want to lose them goood genes.
It seems like the article posts are getting more misleading all the time. The article clearly states that a bit of debris, maybe a 1 foot cable, interfered with the docking of an unmanned supply ship.
So we're not immediately facing the prospect of watching athletes bred especially for their performance Genetic therapy is not about inheritance or breeding. Geneticists are increasingly seeing every physiological process as genetic. The therapy works by introducing certain genetic material into a living organism. Even a small amount this material can "cure" diseases caused by the lack of certain enzymes due to defective genes. This article seems to imply that even those without defective genes can benefit from the additional genetic material.
So far, this is undetectable. Where does this idea come from? Its not in the article. I doubt that its true.
And some sports scientists believe that work must start now on developing a test to catch them out. Okay, okay! Developing a test that can be used quickly on a large number of athletes shouldn't be too difficult. Certainly those working on the therapy would have a test to determine whether it's effective.
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I just viewed a Shoshkele on Linux with Netscape 4.75. Of course my success might have something to do with Codeweaver's Crossover Plug-In which I installed several weeks ago.
I've just confirmed success on Konqueror as well. Mozilla m.96 did _not_ work.
"Once we successfully address the issue of our senior notes, ZiLOG will be well positioned to compete during this difficult period and to take full advantage of the eventual economic recovery," Thorburn said.
They filed chapter 11 for strategic reasons, not because they'd gone totally bust.
In response to Cliff's comment I've had good success with Codeweavers Cross-Over plugin on Navigator and Konqueror. It works in Mozilla, ie, it doesn't crash, but the video is screwed up.
But ghost crab was mostly asking for an editor, not a plug-in. Let me add Authorware to the list of needed editors.
Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer
Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other," he recalls now. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar." Read more...
The great thing about the history of the Internet is the cluelessness of many of the participants. Tomlinson really didn't have any idea of the significance of his hack. He was too busy getting two computers to talk to each other to go into any futurist fantasies.
The real and interesting history of email happened in the '80s with BITnet for academic-types and then of course the huge commercial success of compuserve. Even then it wasn't until the blooming of the WWW in the '90s that email came into the consciousness of the general public.
The result greatly strengthens the argument that a large fraction of the 'normal' Dark Matter in and around our Galaxy exists in the form of MACHOs and that this Dark Matter is not as dark as previously believed!
Does anyone else have the feeling we are just playing peek-a-boo.
"Hey, its dark in here. Where did everyone go?"
"Ummm, move your hands!?"
"Oh, there they are. That was really weird!"
You've just got to love cosmology...
The problem was, however, what to do about students screwing off during class
Bore students enough with lectures, et al, and they'll find ways to screw off. Or they'll just tune out.
Give them an authentic learning task and they'll engage!
(I've been a classroom teacher since '94 and wish I could always take my own advice...)
If lecturing to 20-30 students is your vision of education then you're right, laptops don't belong in the classroom.
But, if you are asking students to gather information and work together to analyze it and synthesize a creative response to it, then laptops can play an important role. Even email could play an important role.
My wife had a run in with the sysadmin at her school when she gave an assignment which required the use of email. He said, "But we have banned email during academic hours." She said, "But this is academic email!" She won after the sysadmin went to the principal to get her disciplined.
Can't remember what it was called, but a local junior college used a classroom management package for its Novell network. It actually served a much broader purpose than just monitoring. It allowed the teacher to take control of the mouse, or the entire desktop, or to share a specific window with the student. As a result the teacher could help students anywhere in the classroom without leaving their own desk.
Actually I was thinking more about McCarthyism were political fortunes were made by false accusations.
The point of this device would be to arm the population in surveilling and recording acts of unconventional warfare.
Now, if you turn the entire population into anonymous snoops and peeping Toms, it's a nation of snitches, which is very destabilizing. I'm not suggesting that.
This is the civilian militia Minuteman version of surveillance.
How does Bruce distinguish this from a lynch mob or posse of surveillance?
I read through those paragraphs several times, and I really can't figure out how Bruce gets around the destabilization problem that he himself points out. Somehow the fact that these are really sophisticated, cool devices is supposed to make them immune to mis-use.
I find it ironic that the anti-establishment, anti-government intervention nerds of the valley keep forgetting that they are chowing down on public money. I think its a stretch to classify Cisco's history as criminal; more of a case of biting the hand that fed you.
So grab the source code and start compiling.
Of course its us, its all about us. Reading off a computer screen is a chore. We trade off the comfort of curling up on the couch, leaning back on a Lazy-Boy, or steaming in the tub. I grab a magazine on my way to the bathroom, read a chapter or two of a novel before falling asleep at night and read the morning news while eating toast and eggs in the morning.
By contrast, when I'm online I am sitting at my desk, hands on keyboard, or keyboard/mouse, and I have to be constantly scrolling/paging, clicking, scanning for links. Frankly its not relaxing and the results are usually far less interesting than a good magazine article with better resolution/professional graphics and highly detailed photographs.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not a Luddite. I spend several hours a day on the web. It's just that I don't use it for casual entertainment or recreation. It is just plain boring compared to well-crafted print media.
This may be the number one problem facing the Net. If I start a restaurant in Denver, I don't have to compete with those in San Francisco or New York. On the web, everything is one click away. If a site isn't the best in its niche (or one of the top few depending on the size of the niche), it faces obscurity.
The ease of publishing on the web is really deceptive. The marketing of web content is really no easier, possibly harder than for print media. We don't have the equivalent of the magazine rack in the grocery store or news stand.
I was wondering about the learning curve, like I'm trying to keep my balance, and Segway is trying to keep my balance and we get into a violent feedback loop. Then I read Grove was rolling slowly along when Doerr ambled over and pushed him in the chest. When the Segway kept him from losing his balance, Grove emitted a distinctly un-Grove-like giggle.
Now I'm wondering if we can apply the technology to bicycles, windsurfers, skates, etc. Now that would be awesome: In-line skates that act like Segway.
[off-topic] Hey I thought slashdotter were up-to-date. The creationists lost badly in last year's elections, so evolution is back in the syllabus. Actually it was never out, it was a local option and most schools continued to teach evolution.
[back on topic] What a wonderful exchange of ideas! Linus has me convinced. OS/free software is about chaos (as in math). It's about an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of keyboards. Sure if you've got a small team and a tight time-frame you'll need to have tight control over the project. But linux is great because of the chaotic (as in math) processes which produce it.
Here is the English version of the same newspaper article.
From the article:
The hope is that human organs could be grown in other species and later transplanted into humans.
However, some said the decision opens the door to the risk of creating mixed-species organs, or possibly even creatures.
The article is about the publication of guidelines on research into human cloning. While allowing the cloning of aggregate embryos, the Wednesday announcement bars all other embryo cloning, citing insufficient debate about the ramifications of such cloning.
The research hasn't even begun yet. Maybe its possible to grow aggregate embryos, maybe its not. Maybe it will result in mixed-species, maybe not.
Well, I'm currently staring at a 19", IBM fixed frequency monitor, and it often seems too small. On the other hand it was cheap $50 and works, even if it does take up half the space on my desk.
I've been watching the LCD panels with interest, but I'm not willing/able to pay much of a premium price for one.
Good. I hadn't heard about this. Unfortunately there is no date on the article, so I'm not sure it reflects the latest thinking. The concern about teosinte has been widely circulated in the anti-GM community, so there are political ramification if this is true.
"This judge apparently believes that the fact that hundreds of scientists are currently afraid to publish their work and that scientific conferences are relocating overseas isn't a problem," noted Robin Gross, EFF Intellectual Property Attorney.
The real issue here is the definition of moot. In the case of Felten, it is a moot point. He won the battle to publish his findings. Perhaps the EFF hadn't defined their case broadly enough to include the hundreds of scientists who are currently stifled by similar threats. Since I'm not privy to the briefs, thats pure speculation. But remember, judges don't act out of conscience or their own belief system, but rather based on their perceptions of the law and the merits of the case as presented by the lawyers. The judge may well see merit in the case that the lawyers didn't adequately present, but they may not act on that!
It seems prima facie that EFF and Felten have an important case. Lets hope they can cross all their Ts and dot all their Is during the appeal process.
One of the saddest things about this story, is that the genetic purity of Teosinte, the proto-maize, is being threatened. Modern corn relies on modern ag techniques, but teosinte manages to survive just fine in the wild. To survive in the wild takes much more genetic diversity and resistance to all types of pests and competition. Don't want to lose them goood genes.
It seems like the article posts are getting more misleading all the time. The article clearly states that a bit of debris, maybe a 1 foot cable, interfered with the docking of an unmanned supply ship.
Nobody broke nothin' 'cause nothin's broke!
So we're not immediately facing the prospect of watching athletes bred especially for their performance
Genetic therapy is not about inheritance or breeding. Geneticists are increasingly seeing every physiological process as genetic. The therapy works by introducing certain genetic material into a living organism. Even a small amount this material can "cure" diseases caused by the lack of certain enzymes due to defective genes. This article seems to imply that even those without defective genes can benefit from the additional genetic material.
So far, this is undetectable.
Where does this idea come from? Its not in the article. I doubt that its true.
And some sports scientists believe that work must start now on developing a test to catch them out.
Okay, okay! Developing a test that can be used quickly on a large number of athletes shouldn't be too difficult. Certainly those working on the therapy would have a test to determine whether it's effective.
One might expect McAfee to be working under a plausible deniability agreement. But I for one grant Ted Bridis undeniable plausibility!
"Peace, Love and Linux", hmmm...
And I assumed that their motto was still "THINK". Maybe they overlooked that this time!