Setting up a server with low (i.e. no wage at all actually) salaried temporary work placement dude: $3000 (hardware 2000, 1000 for OS)
Training staff to use Outlook for all their email: $3000
Watching productivity drop as everyone clamours for old UNIX based sendmail system "at least it worked" while viruses make network quarantine inevitable : Priceless !!!
For once, a troll that is telling the truth. This is a really interesting article, but difficult to comment on without being a bit of a real hacker.
And therefore, this means that with the average Slashdot crowd... the signal to noise ratio is bad.
The contribution to making the stock Linux kernel a venerable firewall is all thanks to Rusty Russell, and his work in other areas is very interesting. Kudos to him, he really puts his money where his mouth is. Very good read.
(Blatantly stolen from link on the right of the article)
A system with one or more individual atoms at rest and strongly coupled to a single mode of the electromagnetic field is ideal for testing fundamental concepts of quantum computing and quantum information processing (see Physics World 1998 March). Indeed, Scott Parkins, now at the University of Auckland, and collaborators at the JILA Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and Caltech first proposed this system as a highly efficient quantum interface in 1993. Using the strong coupling of an atom to a single photon, it should be possible to map a quantum bit at rest from an atomic medium onto a propagating light field, and vice versa. In other words, this scheme could allow quantum information to be sent from one place to another. The first experimental results in this direction were obtained very recently by Markus Hennrich and co-workers at the MPQ. Moreover, two atoms in the cavity should make it possible to realize a "controlled NOT gate", the elementary building block of a quantum computer.
But it does answer the question I was asking myself...
unless every word you plan to ever use is in the dictionary
That's pretty funny, actually... apart from Proper Names (like you said) which at least some of are available in the predictive algorithm, everything else is OK, unless you are trying to abbreviate. And as Anon Coward said, it's a simple switch between modes in every phone I've seen.
What are these mobile designers on? Acid, probably, if they suddenly develop a random love of small things, maybe to them it looks "massive"?
Now, I love the T1 predictive typing thing. As long as you can spell more or less accurately then you can get very fast on that, and you still only need the letter keys. However, having seen proof from many people I tell about it who never switch it on because they don't "get it" or get frustrated... maybe it's not the way forward. Also, ppl cnt wrt abbrvs in thr texts w dicts...
I also liked the look of that system where letters sort of scrolled in front of you and you picked the one you wanted, automatically likely choices for the next letter were bigger and so on. Wasn't particularly intuitive though, even less so than T1 dictionary stuff.
But now, tiny keys, and not in the QWERTY pattern either? How is this helping? And you have to press multiple keys to get numbers, once the basis of all telephone dialling circuit I/O?
Just another gimmick. There's a proverb from some oriental culture that says 'there are those that will try to sell the same thing with an extra spurious (useless) addition on the merits of the spurious addition, and win the marketing war'
Some remote access software like VNC won't always let you see some system dialogs (any that don't show up as a button in the taskbar, basically) so maybe they don't even notice!
Sorry to miss the sarcasm. You have to hand cars mass marketing to Henry Ford though, he pioneered consumerism for high value goods by mass producting his cars and arranging credit with the purchase. Indeed when that bubble burst, we had the great depression...
Democracy was invented by the ancient greeks and "founded" in Europe in modern times, before the US was colonized. And women didn't get equal treatment before the law as early as in European countries either. Let's not even go into black and native indian rights (although there are worse offenders there, of course).
I'm happy being poor (indeed, I'm not even poor, except relative to Bill Gates and most lawyers) and I don't think I'm really whining. I'm not jealous of those who make money by deceit, obscene hourly charges, and by putting down the man on the street.
I'm not chasing the money dragon, but I think those that do are obscene. Pretty much all of them.
And don't think those Indian developers to whom you refer are making big bucks. They're living at a lower standard than even me, a "whiny developer".
... like more time, thought and money went into getting a car street legalised than my poor little principles can handle. Add to that getting a law passed specifically for it, and really you're showing just how enough money can get you almost anything in the US.
Cool cars maybe, but this is obscene. Nobody gets anything out of this except a few rich kids fans of 80s porsches, and indeed the cars aren't really anything like what they were before (as classics) because the turbos, ignition system, and fuel injectors are all completely changed in the process.
Another case where the lawyers make more money than the rest of us.
While I take your point, there is a lot of development money being spent on TV broadcasts of open educational content to local schools all over the developing world. Allowing extra tailored learning materials to be distributed just country wide in a place like Morocco (a better example, because Ethiopia really is behind in most economic indicators) is not possible with terrestrial transmitters, and so they could use (and in a pilot scheme are using) satellite airtime to transmit their own content from the capital city, based on the individual nation's national curriculum.
However, the infrastructure, including TVs, classrooms, etc... is not always there, so you do have a point. Better building the schools first:) but where they do exist, you can leverage satellite technologies.
Do not forget that most development contracts go to US suppliers. So USAID give a load of money to a project, but most of it goes back to US companies for their satellite time, TVs, cameras, lighting, mixing desks... whereas building projects cannot always pass muster with the guidelines that budgets should be granted, where possible, to US based companies. Maybe that policy isn't so wrong, because just giving money to local companies often results in graft and lack of accountability.
The article gives a number of good reasons, mostly to do with security and communications, but not one of this "top ten" gives any reason why we should send men into space, even less than having the most expensive hotel in the world, except that it's always all-expenses paid by you, the taxpayer.
I don't think many people think that near space and upper atmosphere research is a waste, nor the observation of distant stars and galaxies for their obvious scientific use in comparing our environment with others, and understanding our origins. NASA is an important precursor to a lot of the work, and defence technology often spaws useful commercial tech - satellite TV, GPS, international telecoms, weather stations...
If you made this a top ten of reasons to send men into space, you'd have a harder time justifying it, but the debate would be more interesting. Especially since current Reuters news asks that very question today, with mixed conclusions. An allusion in general to space left us with this interesting quote, which ties in with what I said about military tech:
O'Keefe acknowledged NASA lacks the sense of urgent mission that prevailed in its Cold War years
17.5% sales tax is what happens when political parties consistently tell their electors that they will be able to bring down income tax and still pay for more public services. Hence, they increase passive taxation like VAT (Value Added Tax, I ask you, what a misnomer). The problem of course is that all consumers suffer from VAT whereas those who would actually benefit the most from income tax rises are the least well off.
The US has consistently struggled to stop government interventionism, but has been unable to avoid it since Franklin D Roosevelt. Europe has always leant a bit more to the left (normal, since being a leftie is morally reprehensible for most Americans). VAT is something that is gradually being harmonised throughout the EU, so expect UK VAT to rise, I think the target is around the 18-19% mark for most Euro states eventually.
To come back on topic: CDs, DVDs, and many other items are more expensive in the UK often just because of VAT, but also import costs and taxes come in too: region 1 DVDs will certainly be expensive as will a number of other products because import (or export) taxes are high. Especially, it seems, on clothing, where a lot of US stores will not ship to the UK or elsewhere in Europe because import procedures and taxes make everything prohibitively expensive for selling to web customers. My cousin often says "whoah you can get Levis online so cheap" or whatever, but really there's no getting around purchasing from the local retailer, unless you fly to the US east coast to buy, in which case you aren't exactly saving money are you.
It's not a mobile phone, you have to be in a freakin' swimming pool to use it. Go look at the article and the pictures, forgive me my wandering mind perhaps, but go look.
As usual, my final comment in a post leaves the first part (reasonably relevant) to be ignored.
...is for talking to some real hot babe (hot because of her voice, not her body), or playing recordings of really mellowing music. Most people I'd end up talking to on the phone would defeat the whole object of forgetting my surroundings.
Now, some device like this to chill with a possibility of a soundtrack with erotic noises and some chick with breathing apparatus going at me... I shudder to think where this is all coming from. Maybe it's because it's Friday afternoon.
Slashdot Mirror
And therefore, this means that with the average Slashdot crowd... the signal to noise ratio is bad.
The contribution to making the stock Linux kernel a venerable firewall is all thanks to Rusty Russell, and his work in other areas is very interesting. Kudos to him, he really puts his money where his mouth is. Very good read.
& a e l i g ; doesn't get rendered by Slashcode, sorry. You know what I mean.
It's actually in the spelling, as Csium, I expect.
(Blatantly stolen from link on the right of the article)
But it does answer the question I was asking myself...
Try a gas lighter wand : more efficient, and can also be used to light log-fires!
That's pretty funny, actually... apart from Proper Names (like you said) which at least some of are available in the predictive algorithm, everything else is OK, unless you are trying to abbreviate. And as Anon Coward said, it's a simple switch between modes in every phone I've seen.
Now, I love the T1 predictive typing thing. As long as you can spell more or less accurately then you can get very fast on that, and you still only need the letter keys. However, having seen proof from many people I tell about it who never switch it on because they don't "get it" or get frustrated... maybe it's not the way forward. Also, ppl cnt wrt abbrvs in thr texts w dicts...
I also liked the look of that system where letters sort of scrolled in front of you and you picked the one you wanted, automatically likely choices for the next letter were bigger and so on. Wasn't particularly intuitive though, even less so than T1 dictionary stuff.
But now, tiny keys, and not in the QWERTY pattern either? How is this helping? And you have to press multiple keys to get numbers, once the basis of all telephone dialling circuit I/O?
Just another gimmick. There's a proverb from some oriental culture that says 'there are those that will try to sell the same thing with an extra spurious (useless) addition on the merits of the spurious addition, and win the marketing war'
Rough translation, obviously.
Where did you get your dictionary from?
If a word can be spelt wrong, it definitely will be on Slashdot!
Some remote access software like VNC won't always let you see some system dialogs (any that don't show up as a button in the taskbar, basically) so maybe they don't even notice!
The two stories do not seem to be the same people.
Sorry to miss the sarcasm. You have to hand cars mass marketing to Henry Ford though, he pioneered consumerism for high value goods by mass producting his cars and arranging credit with the purchase. Indeed when that bubble burst, we had the great depression...
Democracy was invented by the ancient greeks and "founded" in Europe in modern times, before the US was colonized. And women didn't get equal treatment before the law as early as in European countries either. Let's not even go into black and native indian rights (although there are worse offenders there, of course).
I'm not chasing the money dragon, but I think those that do are obscene. Pretty much all of them.
And don't think those Indian developers to whom you refer are making big bucks. They're living at a lower standard than even me, a "whiny developer".
Cool cars maybe, but this is obscene. Nobody gets anything out of this except a few rich kids fans of 80s porsches, and indeed the cars aren't really anything like what they were before (as classics) because the turbos, ignition system, and fuel injectors are all completely changed in the process.
Another case where the lawyers make more money than the rest of us.
However, the infrastructure, including TVs, classrooms, etc... is not always there, so you do have a point. Better building the schools first :) but where they do exist, you can leverage satellite technologies.
Do not forget that most development contracts go to US suppliers. So USAID give a load of money to a project, but most of it goes back to US companies for their satellite time, TVs, cameras, lighting, mixing desks... whereas building projects cannot always pass muster with the guidelines that budgets should be granted, where possible, to US based companies. Maybe that policy isn't so wrong, because just giving money to local companies often results in graft and lack of accountability.
I don't think many people think that near space and upper atmosphere research is a waste, nor the observation of distant stars and galaxies for their obvious scientific use in comparing our environment with others, and understanding our origins. NASA is an important precursor to a lot of the work, and defence technology often spaws useful commercial tech - satellite TV, GPS, international telecoms, weather stations...
If you made this a top ten of reasons to send men into space, you'd have a harder time justifying it, but the debate would be more interesting. Especially since current Reuters news asks that very question today, with mixed conclusions. An allusion in general to space left us with this interesting quote, which ties in with what I said about military tech:
The US has consistently struggled to stop government interventionism, but has been unable to avoid it since Franklin D Roosevelt. Europe has always leant a bit more to the left (normal, since being a leftie is morally reprehensible for most Americans). VAT is something that is gradually being harmonised throughout the EU, so expect UK VAT to rise, I think the target is around the 18-19% mark for most Euro states eventually.
To come back on topic: CDs, DVDs, and many other items are more expensive in the UK often just because of VAT, but also import costs and taxes come in too: region 1 DVDs will certainly be expensive as will a number of other products because import (or export) taxes are high. Especially, it seems, on clothing, where a lot of US stores will not ship to the UK or elsewhere in Europe because import procedures and taxes make everything prohibitively expensive for selling to web customers. My cousin often says "whoah you can get Levis online so cheap" or whatever, but really there's no getting around purchasing from the local retailer, unless you fly to the US east coast to buy, in which case you aren't exactly saving money are you.
As usual, my final comment in a post leaves the first part (reasonably relevant) to be ignored.
Now, some device like this to chill with a possibility of a soundtrack with erotic noises and some chick with breathing apparatus going at me ... I shudder to think where this is all coming from. Maybe it's because it's Friday afternoon.
Oh, and the prompt is
Distro name / kernel version / witticism
Login:
Duh. Should have followed the links. Clearly it's a standard photo on some public domain CD or something, there are loads like him.
It's not Mr IKISSYOU II (geek version) is it?