Everybody is saying "teach your baby this way, not that way, expose the baby to this/ not that". Ah!
Truth is, babies are not waiting on us to learn their way around.
Keep this rule in mind:
the child is learning even when you are not teaching.
(Think for example at how they magically learn language, starting from a no-language situation.)
We walk around lost in thought, and hardly notice outside world; babies are like sponges, they hear everything, learn everything. Even when a 3 year old seems concentrated in a game, s/he hears people talking, (also from TV), and learns; and memorizes; and a week later expresses a thought that shows that s/he has made a new connection and thought on the subject.
If you use VCRs in your house, by the age of 4 s/he will master the VCRs; and if you use a computer, s/he will start using computers no matter what you decide. And forget about keeping control of the TV remote.
every time we talk of DRM, someone (rightly) notices that, in the past, each and any protection scheme was defeated;
(and indeed
C Doctorow of EFF claims that the failure of DRM is inevitable);
the common say is
"some clever hacker in a garage will find a way 'round it".
And then... Samsung... ?!? This is really funny!
LOL! ()
Of all the places and ways to defeat DRM... Samsung !?! (me is rolling and laughing)
hey everybody, stop for a moment and think (or, at least, google around) before you write. Nowhere does the original article, or the Flynn research team (AFAI could find), say that this enginge produces more energy than it receives.
(The original article says
"You should not be able to get more out of a system than you put into it and when someone claims to have invented something which does otherwise, skeptics are quick to challenge the validity of any claim that appears to violate conservation." and
"A Parallel Path motor uses magnets...this ability to manipulate the magnetic flux in the core of a motor is what provides the exponential increase in efficiency with Parallel Path technology.".
The phrasing of the above may be misleading, but it is not saying that "A Parallel Path motor generates more energy than it consumes".)
What the tecnology is about is that a "parallel path design" can help keep the magnetic flow around the rotoro, right where it is needed.
And what about the "over 100% of efficiency" statement?
I have a true clear-cut example for you. I have recently bought a new heat system for my house; when
I started browsing models, I came across the realm of
"caldaia a condensazione"
(english: see
condensing high efficiency boilers)) that claim to feature up to 106.5% efficency.
Here the brainded./er would say
"106.5% efficency? Perpetual motion! That must be b.s.".
The intelligent one says "106%" w.r.t. what ?. In Italy, it is
"106% w.r.t. the theoretical limit of a standard design of a boiler". So it is not b.s.
So, by comparison, I may assume that the "parallel path" design exceeds 100% of the theoretical efficiency of the "standard electrical engine design". And this is scientifically reasonable, and yet it does not mean that a "parallel path" design is a perpetual motion engine
I say: let them do. Truth is, piracy is illegal. Truth is, a lot of people use pirated sw ; even though Windows XP is harder to pirate (since you need an original code to download updates), still people pirate a lot of software (and music, and videos). But nowadays, there is also Open Source. What is stopping people from adopting OSS? The balance between the risk of use pirated sw, the cost of buying it, and the stress of learning to use different OSS sw. If (when) the former will become unfeasible (since pirated sw will be too dangerous, or it will not work), then OSS will become more attractive. When DRM/TCPA will take away freedom from the people, the people my realize the importance of freedom, and of free sw.
No it does not make sense. Any cellphone available today with enough memory (>=64MB) and CPU (>~= ARM200) to fake itself as a PC nowadays cost more than 250$. Even considering the hey-I-do-it-bulk-and-cheap-for-the-3rd-world factor, I cannot immagine it going down to 100$.
The faster a disk spins, the more disk surface is exposed to the magnetic field used to write to the drive, so the less storage you have.
You got it completely wrong here (and someone even modded this "5 informative"!!).
From actionfront.com:
To get more data on a track, the spacing between each bit in the down-track direction must decrease. The data density in this direction, also called the linear density, is measured in thousands of bits per inch (kbpi). Similarly, the track density across the disk is measured in thousands of tracks per inch (ktpi).
Areal density is the metric used to quantify the impressive growth in HDD data storage capacity. It is the product of bpi and tpi, which reflects the amount of user data that can be stored reliably in one square unit of area on the disk surface. It is now measured in gigabits per square inch (Gb/in2).
For decades, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of areal density was about 30%. With the introduction of MR (magneto-resistance) head technology around 1990-1991, the rate increased to 60%. When GMR (giant magnet-resistance) heads were introduced in the late 90's, the CAGR temporarily increased to over 100%, during which time there was an increase in the number of companies that exited the industry or merged. The pace of areal density growth is now slowing and should settle somewhere between the historical rates of 30 and 60%.
See also
Kryder's law:
Kryder's Law is essentially Moore's Law for storage. But the density of information on hard drives has been growing at an even faster rate, increasing by a factor of 1000 in 10.5 years, which corresponds to a doubling roughly every 13 months.
As you see, nowhere does it say "disk speed". Truth is, as area density increased, disk speed increased as well (from 5000 to 7500 to 10000). And at the same time, data transfer thru the disk head increased as well (math teaches that... if bits per inch increase, and rotation speed increase, then data transfer must increase as well).
this link on slipstreaming
is quite interesting; btw, did you note that all necessary operations are carried by command line interface, and that in all commands (such as in
"xpsp2.exe -x:c:\sp2 " )
the options are expressed as dashes, and not slashes ? Since when did
Windows people start working as Unix/Linux people everdyday do?
Why distro vendors are not collaborating on maintaining an HCL site is a mystery to me
I would like to buy a Linux-compatible wifi gadget for my notebook;
I have been searching the web for a while trying to match what I find in Italian shops
with what is supposedly supported in Linux, to no result: Linux compatibility is described
by chipset, whereas shops talk about vendors, and vendor's websites are poor on technical details.... so, yes, I completely agree with the original post, and with your post: buying WiFi stuff for linux is a PITA to say the least.
At the same time, I happen to be part of Debian, so I can answer that quoted part: time. I would love to start a huge project to list compatibility for every conceivable piece of hw around... but unfortunately my day is still 24h (notwithstanding any attempt of upgrading it to 26h) so I know that I will never have the time to do that. Anyway, here is my list of TODOs
catch up with overdue work
fix the remote on my Linux PVR (I hate soldering and it shows)
discuss with ftpmasters, solve problem, so that "mplayer" gets into Debian,
implement "debdiff" "debpatch" to create diffs of Debian packages (I did some work some time ago and it was very promising!)
start the most fantastic HCL of all inside Debian
and, do not forget (0) have some fun with family and friends.
So you have to wait in queue.
They want you to trust that the unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm.
Hey, what is that supposed to mean?
I suppose the above should be
They want you to trust their unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm. Since my first language Italian , (that comes from Latin, and is quite picky about sentences construction), it took me quite some time to understand;
I suppose that the above was not a problem for anglosaxon people, since nobody seemed to notice....
1) The robot is not radiation proof. you must put everything in scale. (Given enough radiation, you can even shatter a 1 inch thick glass pane). The radiation they were dealing with was capable of killing an human being in half a minute; the arms of the robot operated for an hour and a half; so it was "radiation proof" enough for that task.
"software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood."
Does this mean that if I get mad at it, Windows Vista will avoid crashing?
OK, so make the price of a new DVD drive as part of the deal. How many CD can you rip before your old CD drive breaks? Suppose you can rip 200 CDs; since a new DVD drive will cost 25$, this makes for an extra 12cent for CD. So: you give 50cent to your son/nephew Jay for each ripping, and add an extra 12cent for a new drive: it amounts to 62cent, and this is less than any company in the article sports. On the upside:
you do not risk your CD being lost/stolen/damaged while shipping,
you replace an old CD drive with a new DVD drive
and Jay has some money to go to the restaurant with a date.
Truth is, WingIDE is a very nice program, costs a reasonable fee (at least, for me), and was quite effective when hacking in a large Zope related python project. It is not just "writing" code that matters, folks: it is "debugging" that makes the difference! All the posts about Vim and Emacs were missing this very important fact.
WindIDE ships with special sw hack that will enable you to debug into a running Zope, stop it, inspect variables, even inside your own Python Scripts.
And, don't think that all non-Open-Source sw is out there to suck out your blood and soul: I originally bought the license for WindIDE 1, and they freely upgraded it to WingIDE 2; and they are very responsive at the support email.
> which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining
as a matter of fact, Emacs does fonts and such, and can even embed images in the text.... but it is not something that the user can mess around with (and if you ever saw a document written by a MSWord newbie, you know what "messing around with styles" means); styles are used for syntax highlighting or web browsing (try the latest AuxTeX for example). This is different concept than other w.p. and I happen to like it more.
PC = Microsoft Windows (confusing hw and sw, and disregarding any
other OS around)
Internet = Internet Explorer ("WWW? TCP/IP?" "no, thanks, I had anchovies at dinner")
email = Outlook ("you see, email travels through Internet..." "You sure email is Internet? in my PC, the email window is different...")
installing a program = running a program
and so on.
I hate it when I read/hear those misidentifications on the news
(come on, C|Net, you can do better than that);
and then today I read in./ a post
"survey of home personal computer (P.C.) users"
that actually means
"survey of Microsoft Windows users"?
It is so sad.
Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that this fact is true:
"Taipei 101 is triggering earthquakes".
Some posts immediatly labeled this fact
as a negative consequence; citing one line,
Often, there are unintended negative consequences to what we do no matter how good the planning is.
Actually, this is not the case.
Taipei lies on the western boundary of the Philippine Sea plate; as the plates move, they accumulate energy on the boundary.
Lin Cheng-horng wrote that Taipei 101 may be triggering many sismic events of magnitude 2.0 to 3.8. So this micro earthquakes are releasing energy. If Taipei 101 was not there, then this energy would accomulate to a point where a massive earthquake would occur. The more energy is released in small sismic events, the less will appear in a large earthquake (capable of destroying houses and killing people).
So, the aforementioned fact is a positive consequence.
hi Cowboy Neal, here is my advice to you.
You should add a small snippet of code and insert it into the publication process; this snippet of code extracts all URLs from the href's in the proposed posting, and searches all posting of last 18months to see if they appear somewhere: in that case, a HUGE RED warning will flash on the screen, asking the post writer (and/or the editor) to check that the proposed posting is not a duplicate.
For example, Nov 11, the posting
Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles
appears in./ and contains the URL
Then in Nov 23, when ScuttleMonkey proposes
The 11 Year Soap Bubble,
the script notices that that same URL
has already appeared in Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles
and warns , and we avoid seeing this dup post.
"You cannot mix hydrogen with diesel. Hydrogen is a gas."
That, in itself, is not a reasonable statement. By the same reasoning,
"You cannot mix CO2 with water. CO2 is a gas"... and so long for
carbonated water.
Slashdot Mirror
Everybody is saying "teach your baby this way, not that way, expose the baby to this/ not that". Ah!
Truth is, babies are not waiting on us to learn their way around.
Keep this rule in mind: the child is learning even when you are not teaching. (Think for example at how they magically learn language, starting from a no-language situation.)
We walk around lost in thought, and hardly notice outside world; babies are like sponges, they hear everything, learn everything. Even when a 3 year old seems concentrated in a game, s/he hears people talking, (also from TV), and learns; and memorizes; and a week later expresses a thought that shows that s/he has made a new connection and thought on the subject.
If you use VCRs in your house, by the age of 4 s/he will master the VCRs; and if you use a computer, s/he will start using computers no matter what you decide. And forget about keeping control of the TV remote.
every time we talk of DRM, someone (rightly) notices that, in the past, each and any protection scheme was defeated; (and indeed C Doctorow of EFF claims that the failure of DRM is inevitable); the common say is "some clever hacker in a garage will find a way 'round it".
And then... Samsung... ?!? This is really funny! LOL! ()
Of all the places and ways to defeat DRM... Samsung !?! (me is rolling and laughing)
hey everybody, stop for a moment and think (or, at least, google around) before you write. Nowhere does the original article, or the Flynn research team (AFAI could find), say that this enginge produces more energy than it receives.
(The original article says "You should not be able to get more out of a system than you put into it and when someone claims to have invented something which does otherwise, skeptics are quick to challenge the validity of any claim that appears to violate conservation." and "A Parallel Path motor uses magnets...this ability to manipulate the magnetic flux in the core of a motor is what provides the exponential increase in efficiency with Parallel Path technology.". The phrasing of the above may be misleading, but it is not saying that "A Parallel Path motor generates more energy than it consumes".)
What the tecnology is about is that a "parallel path design" can help keep the magnetic flow around the rotoro, right where it is needed.
And what about the "over 100% of efficiency" statement? ./er would say
"106.5% efficency? Perpetual motion! That must be b.s.".
I have a true clear-cut example for you. I have recently bought a new heat system for my house; when I started browsing models, I came across the realm of "caldaia a condensazione" (english: see condensing high efficiency boilers)) that claim to feature up to 106.5% efficency.
Here the brainded
The intelligent one says "106%" w.r.t. what ?. In Italy, it is "106% w.r.t. the theoretical limit of a standard design of a boiler". So it is not b.s.
So, by comparison, I may assume that the "parallel path" design exceeds 100% of the theoretical efficiency of the "standard electrical engine design". And this is scientifically reasonable, and yet it does not mean that a "parallel path" design is a perpetual motion engine
I say: let them do. Truth is, piracy is illegal. Truth is, a lot of people use pirated sw ; even though Windows XP is harder to pirate (since you need an original code to download updates), still people pirate a lot of software (and music, and videos). But nowadays, there is also Open Source. What is stopping people from adopting OSS? The balance between the risk of use pirated sw, the cost of buying it, and the stress of learning to use different OSS sw. If (when) the former will become unfeasible (since pirated sw will be too dangerous, or it will not work), then OSS will become more attractive.
When DRM/TCPA will take away freedom from the people, the people my realize the importance of freedom, and of free sw.
Once it was "homo homini lupus".
Today it is "antivirus antiviri virus".
So, what is the dominant species on the planet?
yes, all the robosapiens stuff looks so cool and serious... until you read 67 pre-programmed functions: pick-up, throw, kick, dance, kung-fu, fart, belch, rap and more; 3 demonstration modes. ; after that, it looks a bit childish
No it does not make sense. Any cellphone available today with enough memory (>=64MB) and CPU (>~= ARM200) to fake itself as a PC nowadays cost more than 250$. Even considering the hey-I-do-it-bulk-and-cheap-for-the-3rd-world factor, I cannot immagine it going down to 100$.
The faster a disk spins, the more disk surface is exposed to the magnetic field used to write to the drive, so the less storage you have.
You got it completely wrong here (and someone even modded this "5 informative"!!).
From actionfront.com: To get more data on a track, the spacing between each bit in the down-track direction must decrease. The data density in this direction, also called the linear density, is measured in thousands of bits per inch (kbpi). Similarly, the track density across the disk is measured in thousands of tracks per inch (ktpi). Areal density is the metric used to quantify the impressive growth in HDD data storage capacity. It is the product of bpi and tpi, which reflects the amount of user data that can be stored reliably in one square unit of area on the disk surface. It is now measured in gigabits per square inch (Gb/in2). For decades, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of areal density was about 30%. With the introduction of MR (magneto-resistance) head technology around 1990-1991, the rate increased to 60%. When GMR (giant magnet-resistance) heads were introduced in the late 90's, the CAGR temporarily increased to over 100%, during which time there was an increase in the number of companies that exited the industry or merged. The pace of areal density growth is now slowing and should settle somewhere between the historical rates of 30 and 60%.
See also Kryder's law: Kryder's Law is essentially Moore's Law for storage. But the density of information on hard drives has been growing at an even faster rate, increasing by a factor of 1000 in 10.5 years, which corresponds to a doubling roughly every 13 months.
As you see, nowhere does it say "disk speed". Truth is, as area density increased, disk speed increased as well (from 5000 to 7500 to 10000). And at the same time, data transfer thru the disk head increased as well (math teaches that... if bits per inch increase, and rotation speed increase, then data transfer must increase as well).
this link on slipstreaming is quite interesting; btw, did you note that all necessary operations are carried by command line interface, and that in all commands (such as in "xpsp2.exe -x:c:\sp2 " ) the options are expressed as dashes, and not slashes ? Since when did Windows people start working as Unix/Linux people everdyday do?
At the same time, I happen to be part of Debian, so I can answer that quoted part: time. I would love to start a huge project to list compatibility for every conceivable piece of hw around... but unfortunately my day is still 24h (notwithstanding any attempt of upgrading it to 26h) so I know that I will never have the time to do that.
Anyway, here is my list of TODOs
- catch up with overdue work
- fix the remote on my Linux PVR (I hate soldering and it shows)
- discuss with ftpmasters, solve problem, so that "mplayer" gets into Debian,
- implement "debdiff" "debpatch" to create diffs of Debian packages (I did some work some time ago and it was very promising!)
- start the most fantastic HCL of all inside Debian
and, do not forget (0) have some fun with family and friends.So you have to wait in queue.
hey , it is true! It took me only 50ms to detect this newspost as a dupe. Cool!
Just last week I bought an original copy of "The curse of Monkey Island" (©1997 Lucas Arts); I will call it MI3, short of "Monkey Island 3". :-(.
Then I tried Wine: I had to override its native DirectX (my MI3 contains original
DirectX5), and now MI3 works as a charm. (Nothing beats emulators for Hardware Archeology!).
:-) Does anyone of the /. crowd buy it in the 90's, and remember how much it costed?
System requirements: Windows95, DirectX 5, Pentium 90, 16MB RAM, 1.2MB HD free space. (Oh! The memories!).
I tried to install it in Windows XP, no way: it seems to install OK, but when I double click the icon, it never starts.
It took me 8 hours to find a way to install and run it in Linux. I happen to own Windows 95, so I tried Qemu : Win95 installs, but it refuses to switch to 256 color mode
I fished the box of Monkey Island out of a huge heap of old sw at my local mall, "all for 10euros". I wonder how many money I saved, waiting 9 years for it.
"EXT2/3? Get real. Who wants to install 3rd party drivers every time you plugin your USB device?"
:-)
What is the problem in installing some drivers? You just conveniently keep them in your USB device.
No... wait a second...
They want you to trust that the unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm.
Hey, what is that supposed to mean? I suppose the above should be
They want you to trust their unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm.
Since my first language Italian , (that comes from Latin, and is quite picky about sentences construction), it took me quite some time to understand; I suppose that the above was not a problem for anglosaxon people, since nobody seemed to notice....
hey, the article in this post looks soooo similar to the article in Friday's post "Radiation Robot Makes Troops Safer".
That is they problem with robots; you teach the trick once, and there they go repeating it forever!
1) The robot is not radiation proof.
you must put everything in scale. (Given enough radiation, you can even shatter a 1 inch thick glass pane). The radiation they were dealing with was capable of killing an human being in half a minute; the arms of the robot operated for an hour and a half; so it was "radiation proof" enough for that task.
"software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood."
Does this mean that if I get mad at it, Windows Vista will avoid crashing?
Truth is, WingIDE is a very nice program, costs a reasonable fee (at least, for me), and was quite effective when hacking in a large Zope related python project. It is not just "writing" code that matters, folks: it is "debugging" that makes the difference! All the posts about Vim and Emacs were missing this very important fact.
WindIDE ships with special sw hack that will enable you to debug into a running Zope, stop it, inspect variables, even inside your own Python Scripts. And, don't think that all non-Open-Source sw is out there to suck out your blood and soul: I originally bought the license for WindIDE 1, and they freely upgraded it to WingIDE 2; and they are very responsive at the support email.
> which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining
as a matter of fact, Emacs does fonts and such, and can even embed images in the text.... but it is not something that the user can mess around with (and if you ever saw a document written by a MSWord newbie, you know what "messing around with styles" means); styles are used for syntax highlighting or web browsing (try the latest AuxTeX for example). This is different concept than other w.p. and I happen to like it more.
- PC = Microsoft Windows (confusing hw and sw, and disregarding any
other OS around)
- Internet = Internet Explorer ("WWW? TCP/IP?" "no, thanks, I had anchovies at dinner")
- email = Outlook ("you see, email travels through Internet..." "You sure email is Internet? in my PC, the email window is different...")
- installing a program = running a program
and so on.I hate it when I read/hear those misidentifications on the news (come on, C|Net, you can do better than that); and then today I read in
Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that this fact is true: "Taipei 101 is triggering earthquakes".
Some posts immediatly labeled this fact as a negative consequence; citing one line, Often, there are unintended negative consequences to what we do no matter how good the planning is. Actually, this is not the case.
Taipei lies on the western boundary of the Philippine Sea plate; as the plates move, they accumulate energy on the boundary. Lin Cheng-horng wrote that Taipei 101 may be triggering many sismic events of magnitude 2.0 to 3.8. So this micro earthquakes are releasing energy. If Taipei 101 was not there, then this energy would accomulate to a point where a massive earthquake would occur. The more energy is released in small sismic events, the less will appear in a large earthquake (capable of destroying houses and killing people).
So, the aforementioned fact is a positive consequence.
But Intel has a special feature: The die of the 600 series Prescott processors takes up 135 square mm^2 making it the first 4-dimensional chip around.
You should add a small snippet of code and insert it into the publication process; this snippet of code extracts all URLs from the href's in the proposed posting, and searches all posting of last 18months to see if they appear somewhere: in that case, a HUGE RED warning will flash on the screen, asking the post writer (and/or the editor) to check that the proposed posting is not a duplicate.
For example, Nov 11, the posting Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles appears in
"You cannot mix hydrogen with diesel. Hydrogen is a gas."
That, in itself, is not a reasonable statement. By the same reasoning, "You cannot mix CO2 with water. CO2 is a gas"... and so long for carbonated water.