With a little tweaking on behalf of WinAmp, I was able to get a 66 able to play (without any kind of visualization) without skips. Playing off a burned CD was miserable cause it was a real old cdrom, but locally stored files played fine. Set it up as a player for my little sister...
One thing that has been mentioned locally that has a great deal of significance for myself is that the retinal display technology has some unforseen benefits, such as the ability to project images onto previously damaged retinas.
A member of the board of reagents came by in a tour group to preview the technology they were funding. The board member removed his glasses when it was his turn and looked into the display. Stunned, he became excited and starting asking quite a few questions and asking about how it was working, seeming quite excited. It turned out that he (in an accident much like my own) had been involved in an accident that had destroyed his retina, the surface upon which this technology projects it's images inside of the eye.
The retinal display, however, was able to bypass the previous organic damage and feed information almost directly to the optic nerve for perception. Result: He was now able to see in stereo, where he had spent the previous portion of his life with only the ability to see out of one eye.
Since then, the project has incorporated at least one member of the medical staff from the UW Physicians Network, as this has some exciting possible medical uses for the future.
I'm disturbed by the way it looks like this heads.
It is true that a bunch of people, whether you want to insult them or not, buy things like computers because they look pretty. I know a handful of people who want iMacs who have never really shown much of an interest in anything more complicated than a toaster.
But are computer manufacturers interested in these types of computers? You bet! Absolutely! Right now, in obedience to Moore's Law, technology moves fast enought to make hardware obsolete very quickly. But with these "toaster" style computers (just plug it in!) you will have to buy a whole new system on your next upgrade cycle instead of just another $100 bucks for some new component.
"Oh, but the computers will be cheaper, so people will be able to afford them more easily", I hear you say. Bunk and double bunk. You'll just end up buying a new system slightly less often than you would have bought the smaller component. Computer makers stand to make WAY more profits on these 'quickie'-style computers.
I'm all for cheaper, but this tends to remind me of the 'integrated hardware on the motherboard' discussion a while back.
I don't want to start some silly flamewar, but I must take offense on at least one point: Saying that "it's his fault he's been in jail for 4 years because he keeps asking for additional time for his defense" is like a bunch of witch prosecutors saying "It's her fault she died from the press, she refused to admit she was a witch". Come on, I'm sure he's not exactly _enjoying_ himself in jail. People are so ready to disqualify statements to the effect of "those in authority are commiting an injustice" and believe in "the real world" that they don't think about the situation. Why would he asking for additional time for his defense unless he needed to? (I'm sure the food in prison isn't THAT good!)...
As has been explained before, RedHat is completely incapable of exerting monopolistic control over the linux market, and is fact unable to survive without an army of loyal supporters and coders. Were they to become as unpopular as Microsoft, they would cease to be relevant. This is just divisiveness, and is therefore bad for everyone. Not every large or growing company which is the computer biz turn into Microsoft.
There are people out there (who prolly read this) who feel that any and all commercial software is evil. And I do agree with one of the posts up top, it is important to draw distinctions between proprietary and commercial software.
But the essential observation here is valid: in no future I see happening any time soon do we cease all commercial activity centered around software. Yes, I believe that the essential paradigm should shift away from software as a production and manufacturing industry and more towards a service based industry. Witness the primary method by which companies such as RedHat propose to make money: SERVICES. Companies like Microsoft however, want to sell you an object, something they 'created', something you can get from nowhere else and which you may not dissect or alter in any way.
Recently, I seem to recall someone posting something about how the open sourced projects from companies should be 'spin offs' of regular commercial activity, a way to give away code without losing revenue. You aren't giving out your "product", but releasing a service to the community. I find this to be both plausable and feasable with current reality of OSS and capitalism. They can and will depend upon each other...
$300 is about what it will cost me to upgrade my hardware, and I could never afford to spend that for any software program. Large businesses or corporations that use it could, and probably would though. They mention there might be a student discount on their FAQ sheet, perhaps there's still hope.
They could make the big money off the big guys, and just let us individuals 'bug test' it for a small fee, like $100 bucks or so.
I enjoyed the article last night, and I like the one today. There is no need to say that one hated the article from last night to like the one written above. I agree with the author, that business will do little to harm open source since they are incapable of doing so.
But there's no need for name calling or sarcastic nastiness ("YCHTT" or whatever it was) just because someone has a different take on the proceedings.
I'm glad the conference went reasonably well. Anyone have pictures?
In this unfortunate day and age, 12 second soundbytes and the occasional very-prepared interview are all we have left to see what the heads of our state are thinking. It's not that he should be crucified for mispronouncing router or misspelling "potato" or any other stupid vp-ism.
It's both the pompous state of mind and obvious maneuvering to get into a hot new topic that we as the american people should call him on. Commander Taco is right, we should be offended that he would look at it that way, that he would try to use for political gain something that in the real world, he had very little to do with. Most people believe that almost nothing any politician does is on his own anyway, and I think it's naieve (sp?) to think that he's truly commited to the internet, especially if shows a continuing ignorance about it.
I also submit his previous record on censorship, for which he very much in favor. Warning labels for "Parental Guidance" weren't done by an admitted right-wing conservative, but a closet conservative Democrat and his wife Tipper.
I'm totally serious, if you want to find something significant he has come up with (which is completely impossible, but let's say for the sake of argument its not), His good ol wife, Tipper, and he consolidated on a small committee and gave us the censorship stickers you see on records and cd's that warn parents of "evil things", as well as the ability to censor especially "bad" records by co-ercing the major labels. They also tightened the FCC's ability to censor things on the radio, NOT necessarily sex or profanity, but also things that they disagree with.
The worst mistake anyone in this country can make, especially anyone who values their free speech, is to put Al Gore into office.
It is true that the "hoi" is in fact the definite article in the greek phrase "hoi polloi" and therefore is translated as "the", but this is an example of what I mean in a way of common people controlling the language: "The hoi polloi" has indeed become a seperate phrase used sometimes by journalists and classicists to mean "the masses of common people", even though to be strictly true to the origional greek it is redundant. However, the article also contains the plural nature of the noun, as well as a mood marker.
The origional greek meaning is both complex and really interesting, and if you ever study greek, you'll come to like it.
This is a weird place to have this thread, but oh well....
You are right, that it impossible to police the fluid nature of a language, because who defines a language but the people who speak it? Eventually, all structuralists must conceed that the hoi polloi are truly in charge linguistically.
However, the people who would police what is allowed and is not are just as necessary in their own way, if we wish to make our language more rooted and static than fluid (excessive linguistic change is not necessarily a good thing).
As referenced in one of the replies above buried under a few layers, a company called naiam.com is making one available in time for christmas. Info can be found on this site .
... Could be expanded out to fit this model, easy. It's scary how well this describes TacoBell food, but for the veggie in the office, it's pretty much the Standard...
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With a little tweaking on behalf of WinAmp, I was able to get a 66 able to play (without any kind of visualization) without skips. Playing off a burned CD was miserable cause it was a real old cdrom, but locally stored files played fine. Set it up as a player for my little sister...
Cool, a story from my own home institution!
One thing that has been mentioned locally that has a great deal of significance for myself is that the retinal display technology has some unforseen benefits, such as the ability to project images onto previously damaged retinas.
A member of the board of reagents came by in a tour group to preview the technology they were funding. The board member removed his glasses when it was his turn and looked into the display. Stunned, he became excited and starting asking quite a few questions and asking about how it was working, seeming quite excited. It turned out that he (in an accident much like my own) had been involved in an accident that had destroyed his retina, the surface upon which this technology projects it's images inside of the eye.
The retinal display, however, was able to bypass the previous organic damage and feed information almost directly to the optic nerve for perception. Result: He was now able to see in stereo, where he had spent the previous portion of his life with only the ability to see out of one eye.
Since then, the project has incorporated at least one member of the medical staff from the UW Physicians Network, as this has some exciting possible medical uses for the future.
Exciting, no?
As stated on the docs page, this code is GPL'd.
Yay!
I'm disturbed by the way it looks like this heads.
It is true that a bunch of people, whether you want to insult them or not, buy things like computers because they look pretty. I know a handful of people who want iMacs who have never really shown much of an interest in anything more complicated than a toaster.
But are computer manufacturers interested in these types of computers? You bet! Absolutely! Right now, in obedience to Moore's Law, technology moves fast enought to make hardware obsolete very quickly. But with these "toaster" style computers (just plug it in!) you will have to buy a whole new system on your next upgrade cycle instead of just another $100 bucks for some new component.
"Oh, but the computers will be cheaper, so people will be able to afford them more easily", I hear you say. Bunk and double bunk. You'll just end up buying a new system slightly less often than you would have bought the smaller component. Computer makers stand to make WAY more profits on these 'quickie'-style computers.
I'm all for cheaper, but this tends to remind me of the 'integrated hardware on the motherboard' discussion a while back.
I don't want to start some silly flamewar, but I must take offense on at least one point: Saying that "it's his fault he's been in jail for 4 years because he keeps asking for additional time for his defense" is like a bunch of witch prosecutors saying "It's her fault she died from the press, she refused to admit she was a witch". Come on, I'm sure he's not exactly _enjoying_ himself in jail. People are so ready to disqualify statements to the effect of "those in authority are commiting an injustice" and believe in "the real world" that they don't think about the situation. Why would he asking for additional time for his defense unless he needed to? (I'm sure the food in prison isn't THAT good!)...
As has been explained before, RedHat is completely incapable of exerting monopolistic control over the linux market, and is fact unable to survive without an army of loyal supporters and coders. Were they to become as unpopular as Microsoft, they would cease to be relevant. This is just divisiveness, and is therefore bad for everyone. Not every large or growing company which is the computer biz turn into Microsoft.
There are people out there (who prolly read this) who feel that any and all commercial software is evil. And I do agree with one of the posts up top, it is important to draw distinctions between proprietary and commercial software.
But the essential observation here is valid: in no future I see happening any time soon do we cease all commercial activity centered around software. Yes, I believe that the essential paradigm should shift away from software as a production and manufacturing industry and more towards a service based industry. Witness the primary method by which companies such as RedHat propose to make money: SERVICES. Companies like Microsoft however, want to sell you an object, something they 'created', something you can get from nowhere else and which you may not dissect or alter in any way.
Recently, I seem to recall someone posting something about how the open sourced projects from companies should be 'spin offs' of regular commercial activity, a way to give away code without losing revenue. You aren't giving out your "product", but releasing a service to the community. I find this to be both plausable and feasable with current reality of OSS and capitalism. They can and will depend upon each other...
$300 is about what it will cost me to upgrade my hardware, and I could never afford to spend that for any software program. Large businesses or corporations that use it could, and probably would though. They mention there might be a student discount on their FAQ sheet, perhaps there's still hope.
They could make the big money off the big guys, and just let us individuals 'bug test' it for a small fee, like $100 bucks or so.
It'd certainly become far more widespread then...
Good essay!
I enjoyed the article last night, and I like the one today. There is no need to say that one hated the article from last night to like the one written above. I agree with the author, that business will do little to harm open source since they are incapable of doing so.
But there's no need for name calling or sarcastic nastiness ("YCHTT" or whatever it was) just because someone has a different take on the proceedings.
I'm glad the conference went reasonably well. Anyone have pictures?
In this unfortunate day and age, 12 second soundbytes and the occasional very-prepared interview are all we have left to see what the heads of our state are thinking. It's not that he should be crucified for mispronouncing router or misspelling "potato" or any other stupid vp-ism.
It's both the pompous state of mind and obvious maneuvering to get into a hot new topic that we as the american people should call him on. Commander Taco is right, we should be offended that he would look at it that way, that he would try to use for political gain something that in the real world, he had very little to do with. Most people believe that almost nothing any politician does is on his own anyway, and I think it's naieve (sp?) to think that he's truly commited to the internet, especially if shows a continuing ignorance about it.
I also submit his previous record on censorship, for which he very much in favor. Warning labels for "Parental Guidance" weren't done by an admitted right-wing conservative, but a closet conservative Democrat and his wife Tipper.
I'm totally serious, if you want to find something significant he has come up with (which is completely impossible, but let's say for the sake of argument its not), His good ol wife, Tipper, and he consolidated on a small committee and gave us the censorship stickers you see on records and cd's that warn parents of "evil things", as well as the ability to censor especially "bad" records by co-ercing the major labels. They also tightened the FCC's ability to censor things on the radio, NOT necessarily sex or profanity, but also things that they disagree with.
The worst mistake anyone in this country can make, especially anyone who values their free speech, is to put Al Gore into office.
Really, I mean it, why not?
It is true that the "hoi" is in fact the definite article in the greek phrase "hoi polloi" and therefore is translated as "the", but this is an example of what I mean in a way of common people controlling the language: "The hoi polloi" has indeed become a seperate phrase used sometimes by journalists and classicists to mean "the masses of common people", even though to be strictly true to the origional greek it is redundant. However, the article also contains the plural nature of the noun, as well as a mood marker.
The origional greek meaning is both complex and really interesting, and if you ever study greek, you'll come to like it.
This is a weird place to have this thread, but oh well....
Never heard the term.
You are right, that it impossible to police the fluid nature of a language, because who defines a language but the people who speak it? Eventually, all structuralists must conceed that the hoi polloi are truly in charge linguistically.
However, the people who would police what is allowed and is not are just as necessary in their own way, if we wish to make our language more rooted and static than fluid (excessive linguistic change is not necessarily a good thing).
As referenced in one of the replies above buried under a few layers, a company called naiam.com is making one available in time for christmas. Info can be found on this site .
... Could be expanded out to fit this model, easy. It's scary how well this describes TacoBell food, but for the veggie in the office, it's pretty much the Standard...