Maybe you can explain to me what the hype is about Buffy/Angel? I just seem to not get it. I've tried to watch both of the shows, in reruns and such, and I can't help but shelve it down there with Charmed, Andromeda, Earth Final Conflict, etc. as crap-fantasy. Is there something I'm missing?
But how many MCSE-man-hours do you need to get Exchange working in the first place? Probably the same in $$ amounts to hack together an open groupware environment. Exchange is one of the poorest written popular microsoft products(close third after SourceSafe and Windows ME), and it's a constant headache and a capricious environment.
Who needs expensive VoIP when there is http://www.bigredwire.com . Sure, they don't have an unlimited plan, but at 4 cents a minute, you would have to talk for 900 minutes a month to break Vonage's $35 a month for unlimited plan.
I guess I'm too late, but something advocates from both sides tend to forget is that these things are largely a matter of taste. I personally, cannot use the iPod at all, because the way it naturally lays in my hand my thumb overreaches and I can't turn the wheel. It feels like a glass brick, and the LCD and control wheel are in the wrong place(they should switch them, LCD on the bottom, control wheel on the top).
However, there aren't really that many MP3 players that are a lot better. My Nomad IIc is the most comfortable to hold, but it's mere flash so it is 128MB. The Jukebox is a monstrosity. Anybody know of an ergonomic harddrive based mp3 player that doesn't feel like it is a brick and is made for people with real sized thumbs?
Didn't I read about this in Popular Science...
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I've read about solid Hydrogen/Oxygen storage for fuel cells and breathing respectively in Popular Science or somesuch magazine a long time ago(5-6 years?). That was however American researches. The fact that it makes news now, is probably because geeks think everything Japanese is cool. (Just joking). However, this is a damn cool technology and the ramifications are enormous. Fuel cells that run on hydrogen rods, anybody?
Atrocity of a movie? In my humble opinion, (and humble it is for I only read the first book), the movie, although not very true to the feel of the book, is certainly a masterpiece in its own right.
In all seriousness, human eyes can't focus that close. Does anybody know of a technology that would allow to display images on a contact lens with a focal point a few feet into the air in front of said contact lens? Something like an LCD hologram or something?
I'd be curious to know if that is possible at all.
Bicycles can't be on the sidewalks, why should segways be an exceptions. It's like a bicycle for lazy yuppies, and I'd pretty annoyed if one of those started whizzing near me on San Francisco streets and I'd have to dodge out of it's way. However, I would be equally annoyed to waste my weekend peeling the remains of a segway rider off my car's grill.
I guess people will have to learn courtesy.
These Europeans you speak off... are they some sort of fruit?
In all seriousness though, what kind of space program does europe have, sans Russia of course.
First, the people who design & write software aren't "IT" (information technology), they're "SE" (software engineering). ITs are the installers and configurizers, and they're certainly lower on the foodchain than a real SE. (At a technical institute I visited, there was a very formal hierarchy: students enrolled as Computer Engineering or EE, flunked 1st semester and switched to Computer Science or SE, and then became IT after flunking again).
Funny, at my university it's "Mathematics ---> Computer Science ----> Computer Engineering ----> MIS"
Maybe because you can actually get a BS in Mathematics or Computer Science without touching or seeing a computer, but not computer engineering or MIS.
Dead or not, BeOS was one of the best operating systems I have ever used. If only it had the software/hardware support. It booted faster than DOS(and I'm not kidding), heck, it booted faster than anything else I've ever seen. It had one of the best browsers I've ever seen(Netpositive) and it was very very slim. What they needed is a linux binary emulator and a well designed wine-like windows binary emulator for the software, and a bunch of HOWTOs on how to port BSD/Linux drivers.
I stopped using it because it didn't support my NIC, and when i sat down to port the driver from BSD i found myself lost in the lack of debugging documentation and gave up.
That IS my line of expertise.(Well computer science in general, but I know cryptography pretty well). And as far as I see from the short description, this is 2-developer-month project. I didn't apply for this grant because a) I didn't know of it's existence b) it's silly, if I need something like this I'll cook it up or hire someone to cook it up and publish the results, this does not justify half a mil.
Why would somebody need almost half a million dollars to develop a set of specifications and a system for encrypting individual database records? Can somebody clarify this? This makes no sense whatsoever to me. Sounds very simple.
1) Create a font that bit-encodes every character in a machine recognizable fashion. 2) Write a program/script that launches an e-book reader and scrolls down taking screenshots and running them from primitive OCR(not really character, since your font is just monospaced pixel encoding with no anti-aliasing, it should be very easy). 3) Decide if certain areas are noise, whitespace or pictures. Apply. 4) Generate LaTeX file, or PostScript.
Well, xDSL maximum theoretical speed is roughly 8Megabits down/6 up(i might be wrong). Everything else is capped on the DSLAM/Telco side. Your speed also deteriorates with distance unless the telco is willing to put some 2Wire line amps on their line(extending DSL upto 60,000 feet from the DSLAM which is most of the world).
I am going to get modded down for this, but the problem is not with RIAA/MPAA/BSA/Microsoft/GM/AOL/Enron or whatever monopoly is terrorizing you at the moment, but with the semi-Socialistic government of the US(and pretty much the rest of the world too) that fucks up everything and allows laws to get passed letting these companies screw you.
In my humble opinion a country should not need laws, but rather a principle (i.e. "Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness") for the US.
RIAA would be harmless if they tried to compete in real world capitalism as opposed to trying to legislate out of their ass.
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That's called childhood, they'll grow up. That is the plague of my generation, one-size-fits-all and if it doesn't - medicate.
Maybe you can explain to me what the hype is about Buffy/Angel? I just seem to not get it. I've tried to watch both of the shows, in reruns and such, and I can't help but shelve it down there with Charmed, Andromeda, Earth Final Conflict, etc. as crap-fantasy. Is there something I'm missing?
But how many MCSE-man-hours do you need to get Exchange working in the first place? Probably the same in $$ amounts to hack together an open groupware environment. Exchange is one of the poorest written popular microsoft products(close third after SourceSafe and Windows ME), and it's a constant headache and a capricious environment.
Who needs expensive VoIP when there is http://www.bigredwire.com . Sure, they don't have an unlimited plan, but at 4 cents a minute, you would have to talk for 900 minutes a month to break Vonage's $35 a month for unlimited plan.
We had two MS Exchange servers basically kill each other with two people exchanging "Out on vacation" messages. Not fun.
What, did you forget about "debug"? Man, kids these days. Go to Start->Run...->"debug". There, learn! :-)
I guess I'm too late, but something advocates from both sides tend to forget is that these things are largely a matter of taste. I personally, cannot use the iPod at all, because the way it naturally lays in my hand my thumb overreaches and I can't turn the wheel. It feels like a glass brick, and the LCD and control wheel are in the wrong place(they should switch them, LCD on the bottom, control wheel on the top).
However, there aren't really that many MP3 players that are a lot better. My Nomad IIc is the most comfortable to hold, but it's mere flash so it is 128MB. The Jukebox is a monstrosity. Anybody know of an ergonomic harddrive based mp3 player that doesn't feel like it is a brick and is made for people with real sized thumbs?
I've read about solid Hydrogen/Oxygen storage for fuel cells and breathing respectively in Popular Science or somesuch magazine a long time ago(5-6 years?). That was however American researches. The fact that it makes news now, is probably because geeks think everything Japanese is cool. (Just joking). However, this is a damn cool technology and the ramifications are enormous. Fuel cells that run on hydrogen rods, anybody?
Atrocity of a movie? In my humble opinion, (and humble it is for I only read the first book), the movie, although not very true to the feel of the book, is certainly a masterpiece in its own right.
Planetary exploration is all well, but disregarding the current economics of space mining, is there anything on the moon worth mining?
In all seriousness, human eyes can't focus that close. Does anybody know of a technology that would allow to display images on a contact lens with a focal point a few feet into the air in front of said contact lens? Something like an LCD hologram or something? I'd be curious to know if that is possible at all.
Bicycles can't be on the sidewalks, why should segways be an exceptions. It's like a bicycle for lazy yuppies, and I'd pretty annoyed if one of those started whizzing near me on San Francisco streets and I'd have to dodge out of it's way. However, I would be equally annoyed to waste my weekend peeling the remains of a segway rider off my car's grill. I guess people will have to learn courtesy.
These Europeans you speak off... are they some sort of fruit? In all seriousness though, what kind of space program does europe have, sans Russia of course.
Time to start our own Internet III! All we need is 1e8 miles of CAT5.
First, the people who design & write software aren't "IT" (information technology), they're "SE" (software engineering). ITs are the installers and configurizers, and they're certainly lower on the foodchain than a real SE. (At a technical institute I visited, there was a very formal hierarchy: students enrolled as Computer Engineering or EE, flunked 1st semester and switched to Computer Science or SE, and then became IT after flunking again).
Funny, at my university it's "Mathematics ---> Computer Science ----> Computer Engineering ----> MIS"
Maybe because you can actually get a BS in Mathematics or Computer Science without touching or seeing a computer, but not computer engineering or MIS.
Dead or not, BeOS was one of the best operating systems I have ever used. If only it had the software/hardware support. It booted faster than DOS(and I'm not kidding), heck, it booted faster than anything else I've ever seen. It had one of the best browsers I've ever seen(Netpositive) and it was very very slim. What they needed is a linux binary emulator and a well designed wine-like windows binary emulator for the software, and a bunch of HOWTOs on how to port BSD/Linux drivers.
I stopped using it because it didn't support my NIC, and when i sat down to port the driver from BSD i found myself lost in the lack of debugging documentation and gave up.
Sad. Just sad.
Just don't let it turn into another University of Phoenix...
That IS my line of expertise.(Well computer science in general, but I know cryptography pretty well). And as far as I see from the short description, this is 2-developer-month project. I didn't apply for this grant because a) I didn't know of it's existence b) it's silly, if I need something like this I'll cook it up or hire someone to cook it up and publish the results, this does not justify half a mil.
Why would somebody need almost half a million dollars to develop a set of specifications and a system for encrypting individual database records? Can somebody clarify this? This makes no sense whatsoever to me. Sounds very simple.
1) Create a font that bit-encodes every character in a machine recognizable fashion.
2) Write a program/script that launches an e-book reader and scrolls down taking screenshots and running them from primitive OCR(not really character, since your font is just monospaced pixel encoding with no anti-aliasing, it should be very easy).
3) Decide if certain areas are noise, whitespace or pictures. Apply.
4) Generate LaTeX file, or PostScript.
Oh dear, did I just violate DMCA?
Never seen pulp fiction have we?
but there are a lot of good programers (and many bad ones too I suppose) who are looking for work.
Really!? I don't know of any. In fact, I know of companies that looked for people and couldn't find them, right here in Silicon Valley
Maybe you mean high school graduates who know perl? Plenty of those around.
I am just curious, why in the world would they use a Pascal transpiler rather than compiling it directly and linking with other object files?
Well, xDSL maximum theoretical speed is roughly 8Megabits down/6 up(i might be wrong). Everything else is capped on the DSLAM/Telco side. Your speed also deteriorates with distance unless the telco is willing to put some 2Wire line amps on their line(extending DSL upto 60,000 feet from the DSLAM which is most of the world).
I am going to get modded down for this, but the problem is not with RIAA/MPAA/BSA/Microsoft/GM/AOL/Enron or whatever monopoly is terrorizing you at the moment, but with the semi-Socialistic government of the US(and pretty much the rest of the world too) that fucks up everything and allows laws to get passed letting these companies screw you.
In my humble opinion a country should not need laws, but rather a principle (i.e. "Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness") for the US.
RIAA would be harmless if they tried to compete in real world capitalism as opposed to trying to legislate out of their ass.