I actually RTFA: the video on that link is showing a prototype called the "i-Buddie" which is running on Intel Atom. That's not the same thing as the Alpha 680 which the bulk of the article is discussing. Mind you, I don't expect the Alpha to boot any faster, although it might, since it's not just a prototype like the "i-Buddie".
My question: is there a VGA output on the Alpha 680? If so, it would be a decent ultra-mobile device to use for slide-show presentations.
Also: where does the author get the $100 price point? There's no such info on the Skytone web site, or at least I didn't find any.
I installed it a week or two ago to give it whirl. It has a VERY minimalistic interface (not necessarily a bad thing), it loads REALLY fast on my old P4, but the browser tended to freeze often on some of the busy pages I visited (could be due to Flash, not sure).
Now mind you I haven't used Chrome, so I'm not sure if my observations would also be valid with Chrome. YMMV.
What don't you like about Thunderbird's search feature? It's reasonably fast, and I love the "subject or sender" default. I wish Mail.app had that option too.
Of course my mod points had to expire yesterday...
I checked out Postman on Wikipedia (hey I'm no better than the rest of society, I'm easily satisfied with digests!) after reading your post, and I have to agree 100%. Mind you, he wasn't the first to predict the "Society of the Spectacle". Guy Debord did that in the 60s, albeit in a much more cryptic way.
But it indeed seems that we have gone from an opium of the masses (TV nicely putting us in a passive coma state) to the crack-cocaine of the masses (i.e. the internet), where we need non-stop shots of our fix of LOLcat or one-liner IM from a friend during class.
I don't know, if all a journalist did was wait for press releases to come to him/her, there wouldn't be much facts and truth uncovered, would it? To me a journalist is someone who actively gathers facts and reports them (and that's a dying breed, maybe that's why our definition of journalism has shifted?). Of course gathering facts is not a neutral and unbiased process (it is natural to tend to look harder for evidence that confirms your own opinion).
The way I see it, the journalists are doing the initial part. The interpretation of the facts they gather can be not only something journalists can do, but domain specialists (such as statisticians in the case of this Slashdot story) and the public at large can also do, and now there's online space for sharing it (and debating it) to the world.
To me a journalist is someone who provides the raw data. In the "Web 2.0" world (pardon the buzzword), anybody can do the data mining and editorializing, and it's great to be able to read different interpretations of the same data by different people.
This is what happens in the sabermetrics world (i.e. baseball stats analysis). Some source provides the raw data, but people merrily discuss and disagree on its meaning on various blog sites. There is none of this confusing mix of data and biased interpretation that you get in most news reporting nowadays.
If a blog is commercially successful, it will be an incentive to the blogger to dig out more raw data, or rather get a journalist to find him some, as it's not necessarily the same skill.
I don't know, maybe if the Space Panel is deployed as some sort of Giant Mirror it can also cool off some uninhabited areas to contribute to global cooling.
I mean we are already exposed to all that solar energy, it's just that we aren't using it. With this proposal we would get closer to the source to harvest it more efficiently, and at the same time we could deflect it from areas where it's being wasted. The total energy received from the sun by the planet would be constant, or even negative, but here we would be making good use of some portion of it.
I don't know much about these things, but wouldn't it be possible to combine the Space Solar Power idea with the Large Mirror in Space idea to reduce global warming (or even initiate global cooling)? Or is this already been considered?
Here is a teacher, accusing a student and an Open Source software organization of breaking the law (and no doubt intimating as such to her class) and confiscating the student's property for no valid reason. I believe the teacher is guilty of criminal acts.
But is it theft if what she confiscated is freely available?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, let's not get aholicaholic now.
Is it the safer option though?
You are the bee's knees!
I actually RTFA: the video on that link is showing a prototype called the "i-Buddie" which is running on Intel Atom. That's not the same thing as the Alpha 680 which the bulk of the article is discussing. Mind you, I don't expect the Alpha to boot any faster, although it might, since it's not just a prototype like the "i-Buddie".
My question: is there a VGA output on the Alpha 680? If so, it would be a decent ultra-mobile device to use for slide-show presentations.
Also: where does the author get the $100 price point? There's no such info on the Skytone web site, or at least I didn't find any.
I installed it a week or two ago to give it whirl. It has a VERY minimalistic interface (not necessarily a bad thing), it loads REALLY fast on my old P4, but the browser tended to freeze often on some of the busy pages I visited (could be due to Flash, not sure).
Now mind you I haven't used Chrome, so I'm not sure if my observations would also be valid with Chrome. YMMV.
What don't you like about Thunderbird's search feature? It's reasonably fast, and I love the "subject or sender" default. I wish Mail.app had that option too.
Good! Between this and the Monty Python archives now on YouTube, we should have our fill of free comedy for years to come.
I used Shillington Labs to produce reviews for my company's products, and they were fantastic! I definitely recommend them!
Of course my mod points had to expire yesterday...
I checked out Postman on Wikipedia (hey I'm no better than the rest of society, I'm easily satisfied with digests!) after reading your post, and I have to agree 100%. Mind you, he wasn't the first to predict the "Society of the Spectacle". Guy Debord did that in the 60s, albeit in a much more cryptic way.
But it indeed seems that we have gone from an opium of the masses (TV nicely putting us in a passive coma state) to the crack-cocaine of the masses (i.e. the internet), where we need non-stop shots of our fix of LOLcat or one-liner IM from a friend during class.
I don't know, if all a journalist did was wait for press releases to come to him/her, there wouldn't be much facts and truth uncovered, would it? To me a journalist is someone who actively gathers facts and reports them (and that's a dying breed, maybe that's why our definition of journalism has shifted?). Of course gathering facts is not a neutral and unbiased process (it is natural to tend to look harder for evidence that confirms your own opinion).
The way I see it, the journalists are doing the initial part. The interpretation of the facts they gather can be not only something journalists can do, but domain specialists (such as statisticians in the case of this Slashdot story) and the public at large can also do, and now there's online space for sharing it (and debating it) to the world.
I ran your code and the output was 42.
To me a journalist is someone who provides the raw data. In the "Web 2.0" world (pardon the buzzword), anybody can do the data mining and editorializing, and it's great to be able to read different interpretations of the same data by different people.
This is what happens in the sabermetrics world (i.e. baseball stats analysis). Some source provides the raw data, but people merrily discuss and disagree on its meaning on various blog sites. There is none of this confusing mix of data and biased interpretation that you get in most news reporting nowadays.
If a blog is commercially successful, it will be an incentive to the blogger to dig out more raw data, or rather get a journalist to find him some, as it's not necessarily the same skill.
Maybe "MacPod"?
I don't know, maybe if the Space Panel is deployed as some sort of Giant Mirror it can also cool off some uninhabited areas to contribute to global cooling.
I mean we are already exposed to all that solar energy, it's just that we aren't using it. With this proposal we would get closer to the source to harvest it more efficiently, and at the same time we could deflect it from areas where it's being wasted. The total energy received from the sun by the planet would be constant, or even negative, but here we would be making good use of some portion of it.
I don't know much about these things, but wouldn't it be possible to combine the Space Solar Power idea with the Large Mirror in Space idea to reduce global warming (or even initiate global cooling)? Or is this already been considered?
That's a Joe Jackson song.
Here is a teacher, accusing a student and an Open Source software organization of breaking the law (and no doubt intimating as such to her class) and confiscating the student's property for no valid reason. I believe the teacher is guilty of criminal acts.
But is it theft if what she confiscated is freely available?
Very cool! Care to share the code please?
This is very cool! You probably get even better compression than by using polygons. Care to share the code?
Not sure about that... In France, stop signs say "stop". (In Quebec however, stop signs say "Arret", but that's a whole other can of worms...)
Well, you're still able to crank out a +5 Insightful on Slashdot, old man! ;)
So would you rather leave Afghanistan to the Taliban, who supported Al-Qaeda?
Start with Cell. Turn it into a Cell/Fish stage (or just add a Fish stage instead).
But that would be cell/fish!
Sorry, at least I tried...
Why is this modded funny? Have we become that cynical? Or did the mod miss the second half of the sentence?
But homogenic definitely.