I have a single 24" 1920x1200 (widescreen) flanked by a pair of 20" 1600x1200s. At the time I bought them all, they added up to the same price as a 30" Apple Cinema. It was a tough choice.
I run my application on the left screen, my editor (two files side-by-side) on the main screen, and a bunch of misc windows on the right screen (watches, stack, documentation, etc). I like it.
I think I may have made the wrong choice though. This setup is so wide that turning my head from one screen to another has become a usability issue. The aspect ratio of the whole system doesn't match the aspect ratio of my eyes, and I think that's less than ideal.
So, the next time I upgrade my display I will probably opt for one huge screen rather than multiple merely-large screens.
That said, I'm not really complaining... I really like the setup I have. I've been using multiple monitors since that meant an 80x25 monochrome display on an ISA MDA card, and in general I think they're great. Debugging on a single monitor has always been an annoyance in the past. But from where I sit, the grass looks just a little greener on the Apple Cinema side.
Are people in third world countries more likely to endager their lives because their life expectancy is only half that of the first world?
It's difficult to establish a causal relationship, but my experience on the roads of third-world nations (admittedly limited to only two such nations) suggests that, yes, people in such places are far more likely to endanger their lives.
I used to live with a guy who grew up in India and moved the US after college. He once remarked that one of the most interesting differences between home and here was how much people here value life. So, yes, I do think there's something to this idea.
That said, I ain't never giving up snowboarding. Adding life to my years as just as important as adding years to my life.
Rather than the usual technique of flooding the target with bogus data, p2p apps are flooding the clients with useful data... it's not that people can't access the recording industry, it's just that P2P apps have altered the 'clients' so that they don't even want to. Or so RIAA wants you to think.
There might be other factors, of course. Monopolistic price-fixing, monotonous pop music, minimal marketing of non-pop music, and the generally weak economy, for example...
As soon as RFID starts producing profits, an RFID industry association will pay^H^H^H petition the FCC for a rule change. The new rules will make RFID the licensed (primary) user of the RFID frequencies, and unlicensed use of (read: interference with) that band will become a crime.
If they can't get a license to the existing band, RFID will switch to a new band.
Snowboard technology stabilized in the early 90s (vertically laminated wood cores, steel edges, radial sidecuts, cap or sidewall construction, etc, all basically like wide skis with tight sidecut radii). Then the progression in snowboard design seemed to reach a plateau - new gimmicks were introduced, and they sold boards, but didn't make much difference.
But in the last few years, a few shops have popped up that will make boards to order. Now you can pick your length, width, sidecut radius, and flex pattern (and how much do you weigh?), and get a board made to order, for not much more than a production board. The freeride and freestyle people haven't taken much advantage of this, but the carvers and racers totally have.
Donek - kind of expensive, but they have a dedicated following among carvers
Prior - also lurking beneath the brand-name logos of various professional racers
Coiler - inexpensive, perhaps because of the Canadian dollar, and they kick much ass
CustomCraft - only custom shop I know of that mostly builds freestyle and freeride boards
The technology of the boards themselves isn't revolutionary, the cool thing is the technology that lets these builders give you a high-quality made-to-order board at a totally reasonable cost.
I have no affiliation with any of the above companies, but I do have an alpine board from Coiler and an alpine/freeride hybrid from CustomCraft. Both have saved me the trouble of searching through piles of catalogs to find a board with the specs I want, and both have given me the confidence to push my envelope further, after 15 years of riding mass-produced boards.
If you want to play with the numbers before having a board built, I have a web-based calculator that you might get a kick out of.
Gotta run. There's a lot to be said about snowboard binding development too, maybe later.
An anonymous bureaucrat in Oregon has successfully trolled slashdot - from the editors on down - via CNN.
If there's a hall of fame for trolls, the curator must be furiously polishing a pedestal in eager anticipation of the arrival of said bureaucrat's marble bust.
The quality of discussion makes Slashdot look like a meeting of Nobel laureates, but you would be hard pressed to find such images or video elsewhere. (And that might not be a bad thing.)
One of the projects most suited to the group would be making some processors for missiles and I definately wouldnt be happy about that.
It's a given that missle technology is going to more forward over time.
That said, are you sure you'd rather it be some other country's missles that get better sooner? Taking this decision a step further, would you rather that some other country get firepower superior to that of your own?
Your message summarizes the ASRG mailing list quite nicely. Too nicely, actually. On ASRG, most responses aren't as polite as yours.
Because spammers own their own mail servers.
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Because spammers own their own mail servers, and configure them for maximum throughput. Or they use someone else's open relay. An open relay is basically a misconfigured mail server.
If "we" (the internet community, for lack of a better phrase) cannot stop idiots from putting open relays on the net, there's no way we're going to persuade every mail server admin to actually implement rate limiting.
FREMONT, CA - March 6 2003 - Slashdot, the world's largest nerd news network, announced a new distributed denial of service attack warning service for web site operators around the world.
"For years now we've noticed that web sites tend to go down in flames after we direct our hordes or readers to them," said founder CmdrTaco. "And since we're having a difficult time pulling in revenue, it only seemed natural to charge for advance notice of our DDoS attacks."
Web site operators worldwide are encouraged to sign up for advance notice of port-80 DDoS attacks. "If you see it coming," said co-founder Hemos, "at least you have a chance to take down your web site before your ISP prepares a gigantic bill for that web site you put up to show your friends what you've been doing with your Lego kits."
Slashdot is a subsidiary of OSDN is a subsidiary of VA Software Corporation.
I submitted a story about this to slashdot a few days ago, complete with a link to a site that summarized the issues and provided forms for sending well-worded comments to the FCC.
But I guess the slashdot editors would rather bitch about it in retrospect than do something about it beforehand.
1) You, as a taxpayer, pay to have tax software developed by a monopoly (the government). This is a recipie for bloated software and bloated organizations full of middle-managers.
2) You, as a consumer, pay the company of your choice to develop tax software in the way that best fits your needs. In this scenario, multiple companies compete for your money, which keeps them efficient and keeps their products evolving to meet the needs of the most people possible.
Or, just maybe... 3) A bunch of OSSers get together and write tax software and give it away for free. Wouldn't that be grand? Unfortunately, AIUI, tax software has to be certified, and certification costs money, so I'm not sure this will ever happen. (That is kinda stupid... it's the output that should be certified by the taxpayer (sign here...), not the software that should be certified by the government.)
Seems to me that the most interesting things in the article is the bit about R&D costs following Moore's Law and approaching global GDP (er, GGP?).
I don't care if Google doesn't want faster machines... That just means that Google's application doesn't need more speed, and isn't expected to get more demanding soon.
Other applications - gaming, for one - can make use of faster chips, and will make use of them as quicky as they become available. Are there any game developers and/or artists who aren't wishing they could use 10x more polygons, run collision detection routines 10x faster, do physics with 10x more realism?
So Google is going the way of the word processor - an application that no longer pushes the limits of present technology. It's stupid to extrapolate this into a proclamation that Moore's Law is finished.
But the R&D claim, now that's interesting. How much money is there in other (non-Google, non-word processing) applications? Enough to fund R&D to keep processor speed increasing? For how long? Will the GGP increase enough to support such applications to in turn support such R&D?
More interestingly, will a shift from semiconductor lithography to the next big thing (nanotech, optical computing, _________) allow processor speeds to keep increasing without pushing up R&D? I'm told that Moore's Law fits the data going back into the days of vacuum tubes, relays before that, and mechanical computing before that.
I strongly suspect that the news of Moore's Law's demise is greatly exaggerated.
My neighbor just told me that kids at the elementary school down the street are powering a digital clock (small computer?) with electricity generated by a potato.
Any new group wanting to be a trusted CA will face the liability issue -- if one of your customers sues you, even if you try to disclaim all liability up front, you will still face massive court fees. Even if you won in court, you would lose financially if not insured.
It's not your customer who will sue you, it's the random user who trusted your customer, got screwed, but wasn't able to track them down and sue them because the CA didn't verify the customer's identity sufficiently for the "screwee" to locate the site owner to serve process, issue subpoenas, and so on.
It's only a matter of time before Verisgn gets beat up that way, after which certs will get more expensive.
The way I see it, root CAs aren't telling you that you can trust the people whose certs they set up... they're just telling you that if you get screwed, you can find the site owner and set things straight, in court if necessary. That in itself should encourage the certified to behave in a more trustworth manner, but the bottom line is that CAs (theoretically) guarantee accountability.
If you're the sort of masochist who enjoys playing with procmail (whee!), check out my lightweight whitelist procmail project at SourceForge.
If you're not interested in procmail, check out TMDA or ASK (active spam killer), both of which are also at sourceforge.
Whitelists work really well. The Nigerian bank scammers are the only ones who actually read their return mail, so I see one of those every now and then, but that's it.
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I run my application on the left screen, my editor (two files side-by-side) on the main screen, and a bunch of misc windows on the right screen (watches, stack, documentation, etc). I like it.
I think I may have made the wrong choice though. This setup is so wide that turning my head from one screen to another has become a usability issue. The aspect ratio of the whole system doesn't match the aspect ratio of my eyes, and I think that's less than ideal.
So, the next time I upgrade my display I will probably opt for one huge screen rather than multiple merely-large screens.
That said, I'm not really complaining... I really like the setup I have. I've been using multiple monitors since that meant an 80x25 monochrome display on an ISA MDA card, and in general I think they're great. Debugging on a single monitor has always been an annoyance in the past. But from where I sit, the grass looks just a little greener on the Apple Cinema side.
It's difficult to establish a causal relationship, but my experience on the roads of third-world nations (admittedly limited to only two such nations) suggests that, yes, people in such places are far more likely to endanger their lives.
I used to live with a guy who grew up in India and moved the US after college. He once remarked that one of the most interesting differences between home and here was how much people here value life. So, yes, I do think there's something to this idea.
That said, I ain't never giving up snowboarding. Adding life to my years as just as important as adding years to my life.
There might be other factors, of course. Monopolistic price-fixing, monotonous pop music, minimal marketing of non-pop music, and the generally weak economy, for example...
If they can't get a license to the existing band, RFID will switch to a new band.
But in the last few years, a few shops have popped up that will make boards to order. Now you can pick your length, width, sidecut radius, and flex pattern (and how much do you weigh?), and get a board made to order, for not much more than a production board. The freeride and freestyle people haven't taken much advantage of this, but the carvers and racers totally have.
Donek - kind of expensive, but they have a dedicated following among carvers
Prior - also lurking beneath the brand-name logos of various professional racers
Coiler - inexpensive, perhaps because of the Canadian dollar, and they kick much ass
CustomCraft - only custom shop I know of that mostly builds freestyle and freeride boards
The technology of the boards themselves isn't revolutionary, the cool thing is the technology that lets these builders give you a high-quality made-to-order board at a totally reasonable cost.
I have no affiliation with any of the above companies, but I do have an alpine board from Coiler and an alpine/freeride hybrid from CustomCraft. Both have saved me the trouble of searching through piles of catalogs to find a board with the specs I want, and both have given me the confidence to push my envelope further, after 15 years of riding mass-produced boards.
If you want to play with the numbers before having a board built, I have a web-based calculator that you might get a kick out of.
Gotta run. There's a lot to be said about snowboard binding development too, maybe later.
There's one born every minute...
If there's a hall of fame for trolls, the curator must be furiously polishing a pedestal in eager anticipation of the arrival of said bureaucrat's marble bust.
Perhaps because that that is the very last thing these people actually want?
The quality of discussion makes Slashdot look like a meeting of Nobel laureates, but you would be hard pressed to find such images or video elsewhere. (And that might not be a bad thing.)
It's a given that missle technology is going to more forward over time.
That said, are you sure you'd rather it be some other country's missles that get better sooner? Taking this decision a step further, would you rather that some other country get firepower superior to that of your own?
[insert redneck joke here]
Your message summarizes the ASRG mailing list quite nicely. Too nicely, actually. On ASRG, most responses aren't as polite as yours.
If "we" (the internet community, for lack of a better phrase) cannot stop idiots from putting open relays on the net, there's no way we're going to persuade every mail server admin to actually implement rate limiting.
One way or another...
Oh yes, he will pay.
Web site operators worldwide are encouraged to sign up for advance notice of port-80 DDoS attacks. "If you see it coming," said co-founder Hemos, "at least you have a chance to take down your web site before your ISP prepares a gigantic bill for that web site you put up to show your friends what you've been doing with your Lego kits."
Slashdot is a subsidiary of OSDN is a subsidiary of VA Software Corporation.
But I guess the slashdot editors would rather bitch about it in retrospect than do something about it beforehand.
So I got my home phone disconnected.
My DSL is through Covad, and my cellphone works fine at home.
As a bonus, I never get cold calls anymore... far as I'm concerned, telemarketers are a thing of the past.
Seems to me that "end up as a mess" describes software efforts in general, no matter what drives them.
Maybe you missed the subject on the post I was replying to, particularly the part about the IRS. Here in the US, that's the tax collection authority.
AFAIK nobody in our government is distributing Mozilla or OpenOffice, nor is Microsoft developing tax software, much less monopolizing that market.
The conversation turned, try to keep up.
2) You, as a consumer, pay the company of your choice to develop tax software in the way that best fits your needs. In this scenario, multiple companies compete for your money, which keeps them efficient and keeps their products evolving to meet the needs of the most people possible.
Or, just maybe... 3) A bunch of OSSers get together and write tax software and give it away for free. Wouldn't that be grand? Unfortunately, AIUI, tax software has to be certified, and certification costs money, so I'm not sure this will ever happen. (That is kinda stupid... it's the output that should be certified by the taxpayer (sign here...), not the software that should be certified by the government.)
I don't care if Google doesn't want faster machines... That just means that Google's application doesn't need more speed, and isn't expected to get more demanding soon.
Other applications - gaming, for one - can make use of faster chips, and will make use of them as quicky as they become available. Are there any game developers and/or artists who aren't wishing they could use 10x more polygons, run collision detection routines 10x faster, do physics with 10x more realism?
So Google is going the way of the word processor - an application that no longer pushes the limits of present technology. It's stupid to extrapolate this into a proclamation that Moore's Law is finished.
But the R&D claim, now that's interesting. How much money is there in other (non-Google, non-word processing) applications? Enough to fund R&D to keep processor speed increasing? For how long? Will the GGP increase enough to support such applications to in turn support such R&D?
More interestingly, will a shift from semiconductor lithography to the next big thing (nanotech, optical computing, _________) allow processor speeds to keep increasing without pushing up R&D? I'm told that Moore's Law fits the data going back into the days of vacuum tubes, relays before that, and mechanical computing before that.
I strongly suspect that the news of Moore's Law's demise is greatly exaggerated.
My neighbor just told me that kids at the elementary school down the street are powering a digital clock (small computer?) with electricity generated by a potato.
Things will never be the same.
But I continue to *hope* Verisign takes a beating. :-)
It's not your customer who will sue you, it's the random user who trusted your customer, got screwed, but wasn't able to track them down and sue them because the CA didn't verify the customer's identity sufficiently for the "screwee" to locate the site owner to serve process, issue subpoenas, and so on.
It's only a matter of time before Verisgn gets beat up that way, after which certs will get more expensive.
The way I see it, root CAs aren't telling you that you can trust the people whose certs they set up... they're just telling you that if you get screwed, you can find the site owner and set things straight, in court if necessary. That in itself should encourage the certified to behave in a more trustworth manner, but the bottom line is that CAs (theoretically) guarantee accountability.
If you're not interested in procmail, check out TMDA or ASK (active spam killer), both of which are also at sourceforge.
Whitelists work really well. The Nigerian bank scammers are the only ones who actually read their return mail, so I see one of those every now and then, but that's it.