IMHO, Microsoft is going to lose with Palladium big time. Consumers, even non-tech savy consumers, don't like crippled products. As soon as Joe User installs a new version of Media Player or what have you, and finds out he can't play his mp3 collection, that software is outta there. Bells and whistles notwithstanding.
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Good God! One of the most interesting threads on slashdot ever and my computer didn't wake me up for it!!!. Fix this rating system Taco!!!
Now what we need is a way to connect all these fabrics.
What would be cool is a way to arbitraily address a paticular quality of a device (display,sound, shape...) or data(temputare,video, audio...) by location rather than specific device.
Then our wearables could interact with our enviroment and other peoples wearables.
The trailer looks great. This seems like one of the more dareing ideas to come out of a big hollywood studio in a while (even if we all know there's a market).
Maybe this'll be really cool anime with a plot that's understandable.
This seems like kind of a dumb idea. $10 says I can deliver a thousand times the newtons an asteroid with a nuke.
Oh, and what's with the 'Canada's newspaper' quip? Canada has TWO newspapers.
from the end of the article:
"And here's the neat part. It won't become addictive. There won't be any serious side effects, like those caused by various medications that are now available."
It seems to me that it could addictive. Many addictions result from the body lowering production of naturally ocuring substances because it's being replaced with the addictive substance. Remove the substance and you go into withdrawl.
Who's to say that, over time, the brain wouldn't lose the ability to generate these patterns naturally?
People noted the simularity of music and brain waves a long time ago. I bet with hi-fi equipment we could pull out some very cool sounding stuff. - it would be interesting to transcribe brain waves of anger/sex/high states.
Assuming that the data was compiles from public records, it's unfortunate that the data is not freely available. In fact, they seem to be treating it like as an extremly sensitive collection.
Is data easier to use for evil if I can do a regexp on it??
Well, NetBSD was the first one I installed on it and it was alot faster than solaris (as a workstation at least). I'm not about to do any raytracing on the thing but for text editing it rocks. Do you think OpenBSD would be any faster??
A cheap commercial unix able to run on Intel based hardware offers many advantages to companies building/running ISP's, datafarms, etc. Suns historical advantage has been great performance on Sun hardware. I don't think Solaris is going to have the same appeal as linux does for most geeks because Sun is not going to have the resources to support older/obscure hardware. Sun will target Solaris as an 'enterprise solution'.
I'm writing this on a Sparcstation IPX. An amazingly well crafted and slick piece of hardware for its day (1992). The Sparcstation is running NetBSD, which is much faster than the Solaris 7 installed on it when I got it. (Linux support on 32-bit Sun hardware has incomplete support for the SCSI bus, leading to decreased performance.)
Still, Sun has delivered some great thing to us over time. There are a few large computer companies that I think we would have been better of without, but I don't think Sun is one of them. More options in the market means more opportunities for cross-fertilization.
www.aerovironment.com/area-aircraft/unmanned.html
from a/. post a few days ago. These are the same people who develop those super high alttitude solar planes w/NASA. A link on the page leads to a technical paper (w/interesting details) of the 'Black Widow' a 6-inch MAV seemingly much further along than the ones at U of Florida. (30 mph, 30 min flights) Cheap too. I want one.
I don't get it. XP 'compete' with linux??? Computers are tools people. XP plays the games I want to play. It's stable. It's a decent enviroment for my development. I'd never, ever, consider it for a server. That's what UNIX does well. It's not PC vs. Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux it's whatever does the job RIGHT NOW!!!! When Linux gets to the point when it's a slick as windows as a GUI, then maybe I'll migrate fully. Till then....
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IMHO, Microsoft is going to lose with Palladium big time. Consumers, even non-tech savy consumers, don't like crippled products. As soon as Joe User installs a new version of Media Player or what have you, and finds out he can't play his mp3 collection, that software is outta there. Bells and whistles notwithstanding.
Good God! One of the most interesting threads on slashdot ever and my computer didn't wake me up for it!!!. Fix this rating system Taco!!!
Awari is not like chess, and if you know what Awari is, you're probably going to know what chess is..
People!! ArchieBunker, who started this thead, actually provided a link to this mythical turntable. Just point, and click.
Now what we need is a way to connect all these fabrics.
What would be cool is a way to arbitraily address a paticular quality of a device (display,sound, shape...) or data(temputare,video, audio...) by location rather than specific device.
Then our wearables could interact with our enviroment and other peoples wearables.
The trailer looks great. This seems like one of the more dareing ideas to come out of a big hollywood studio in a while (even if we all know there's a market). Maybe this'll be really cool anime with a plot that's understandable.
This seems like kind of a dumb idea. $10 says I can deliver a thousand times the newtons an asteroid with a nuke. Oh, and what's with the 'Canada's newspaper' quip? Canada has TWO newspapers.
from the end of the article: "And here's the neat part. It won't become addictive. There won't be any serious side effects, like those caused by various medications that are now available." It seems to me that it could addictive. Many addictions result from the body lowering production of naturally ocuring substances because it's being replaced with the addictive substance. Remove the substance and you go into withdrawl. Who's to say that, over time, the brain wouldn't lose the ability to generate these patterns naturally? People noted the simularity of music and brain waves a long time ago. I bet with hi-fi equipment we could pull out some very cool sounding stuff. - it would be interesting to transcribe brain waves of anger/sex/high states.
Assuming that the data was compiles from public records, it's unfortunate that the data is not freely available. In fact, they seem to be treating it like as an extremly sensitive collection. Is data easier to use for evil if I can do a regexp on it??
Well, NetBSD was the first one I installed on it and it was alot faster than solaris (as a workstation at least). I'm not about to do any raytracing on the thing but for text editing it rocks. Do you think OpenBSD would be any faster??
I'm writing this on a Sparcstation IPX. An amazingly well crafted and slick piece of hardware for its day (1992). The Sparcstation is running NetBSD, which is much faster than the Solaris 7 installed on it when I got it. (Linux support on 32-bit Sun hardware has incomplete support for the SCSI bus, leading to decreased performance.) Still, Sun has delivered some great thing to us over time. There are a few large computer companies that I think we would have been better of without, but I don't think Sun is one of them. More options in the market means more opportunities for cross-fertilization.
As if trying to visualize the 4th dimension wasn't enough to give you a headache it comes with a 'cross-eyed' setting.
Ballon designs certainly have a longer range, but they're much easier to see.
The new X server (mac os x 1-inch rackmount) Comes w/ a gigabit ethernet card in the AGP slot. So when are we going to see all cards use AGP??
www.aerovironment.com/area-aircraft/unmanned.html from a /. post a few days ago. These are the same people who develop those super high alttitude solar planes w/NASA. A link on the page leads to a technical paper (w/interesting details) of the 'Black Widow' a 6-inch MAV seemingly much further along than the ones at U of Florida. (30 mph, 30 min flights) Cheap too. I want one.
I don't get it. XP 'compete' with linux??? Computers are tools people. XP plays the games I want to play. It's stable. It's a decent enviroment for my development. I'd never, ever, consider it for a server. That's what UNIX does well. It's not PC vs. Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux it's whatever does the job RIGHT NOW!!!! When Linux gets to the point when it's a slick as windows as a GUI, then maybe I'll migrate fully. Till then....