If one of these buggers can kill 3 people.. I think that I'll be gifting these to some of the select upper managers that I have known through the years. This will be way better than the exploding dishwasher detergent I gifted last year.
The software can prevent a printout,, and can possibly log it *guessing here*..
But the company needs more than training, it needs the tools to cover it's backside from lawsuits.
All the policy preaching to the other corp doesnt mean jack compared to a solid audit log that is tough to tamper with.
yup, the usability suffers.. the flip side of audited work.
All things aside.. it works.. teach them about the ctrl-scroll.. and they will never have vision issues again.. Their solution is elegant, where magnifier is a weird turd of a program. The interface is straight-forward enough.. and the apps are really sweet.. it is worth the extra cash.
I am a linux nerd.. But for my parents, Mac is the way to go.
ok.. flipping the whole thing horizontally will do nothing... other than flip the while thing horizontally.
the left image must be moved to the right hand side (in it's current orientation).. this will help.. good luck
Ok... This one does make me a bit peeved...
The poster shows a bunch of stereo cards, that can obstensibly be shown in 3d on the Iphone.. a pretty cool idea
He adds a tutorial, also a nice touch..
But the Tutorial is for cross eyed viewing, probably the easiest way to view pair images..
However he has the images as straight view images, not crosseyed.. so the 3d effect is inverted.. which is ugly.
he could swap the sides, and it will work.. and on an Iphone the images are still small enough to pull a wall-eyed stereo view.. but it takes more skill to master, and image center to center has to be less than the distance between your eyes... otherwise you have to super-paralax.. or get your eyes to spread... it isnt something easy, I've tried.
Anyway the instructions are bad for the images he's showing..
OOP is a nasty nasty thing. People get all these messy ideas on how they will "objectify" their solution. Eventually passing all sorts of sibling objects around. Making sure that all this works is a horrible bughunt. Most of the time going old fashioned procedural functions is the way to go.
Sure there are exceptions.. The STL.. awesome use of templating and inheritance. However Nethack, which could go pervasive class oriented shows that a standard approach can handle an amazing level of detail.
now lisp is an eye opener. I wouldnt want to do a big program in it, I'm not that smart. But for some reasonable code it is elegant.
Python is the language I have the least issue with.. I'm not a java fan, it's too needy for my tastes. C lacks good string manipulation. Perl has some weird memory issues that crop up. Ruby is pretty damn stout.. I'm pretty happy with it.
ok, rant mode disabled... The whole point is use the tool that does the job simply with a good link in for future modifications.
This is pie in the sky time... But it needs to be done....
Hardware needs to have a "standard interface mode(SIM)" Where the hardware can perform minimum specified functionality regardless of who made it. So a Wireless card wouldnt need a driver to connect to an access point, but could add a driver to do channel bonding. A nic or audio card would be able to provide standard functionality with no drivers, but adding some special features like tcp offloading might require it, or dolby 5.1 decoding.
Then update the SIM every 5 years so OS's can just check for sim compliant devices and use the foolproof drivers. This isnt going to be as cool as having drivers that give full functionality, but it lets a system have a rock stable foundation. This is what I want on a computer in a Hospital that cant crash.. It's a first big step.. and The OS needs a bunch of work too... but fix the underpinings, and the rest gets easier.
ok, My first guess is that a Neanderthal is going to be a pretty hard to distinguish from human. I'm betting that it will seem much more "normal" than a homo-sapien with downs syndrome. There might be some vocal anomalies.
But a neanderthal wont be a looney, or stupid unless the process is broken. Neanderthals survived most of the ice age in Europe. As a humanoid that is a pain. Dumb tribes arent going to survive. My money would be that the Neanderthal will be as dumb, and impatient as an Eskimo.
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note: Anyone calling an Eskimo dumb or impatient needs to watch more national geographic.
At a callcenter, you log into the phone as your punchcard.. once you do, your expected to take calls in a professional manner. If your machine isnt up, it's not going happen, as you cant confirm the identity and service status of the caller.
luckily the machines were left on. However finding a machine wasnt done on the clock.
1. Pegboard... fantastic for horizontal mount holes.
2. Dowels--- that fit in the pegs..
3. magnets-- get a 25 or 50 pack of small magnets (consider a few with dowel sized holes).
4. mirrors-- minature... harvest a disco ball.
5. string--
6. DC motors.. the dinky cheap kind that come in cheap toys.
7. prisms.. small is fine.. get geometric shapes triangles-- squares.
8. cheap speakers.. harvest a junk clock radio or 8.
9. glue
10 small springs.
Anyway.. with the laser in hand you can do a bunch of stuff with this setup..
Laser-> mirror mounted on spring mounted on speaker will make a neat wall pattern.. then try without spring.
Make a magnet spring-- shock absorber by repelling magnets down a dowel..
Recombine laser light after splitting it with a prism.
Cover the dowels with slurpee straws. and make a pully system.
This rig is expandable, cheap, and involving enough that I'd play with it..
Because..drum roll.. Vim has a syntax file for your favorite language..
You can customize if for your coding style... especially for things that you make wiked mistakes on.. for example:
if (x=y){do some code;}
any c programmer will see the mistake pretty quick. but once it's in thousands of lines of code,, its a bear to find. with clown colors you set the color of the = to bright purple, and the parens to yellow. set == to orange.. so that your eye catches a painful clash when you type something stupid..
for the common typos that I make.. I set it to INVERSE... so retrun x; get fixed before get to the next line.
some of the common variable names I use get colorized so that I can recognize the specific variables...
So a common for loop that you code without blinking has a "color signature" that lets you know it's your normal. fantastic crutch..
I'm pretty sure that between the ages of 15 and 23 I put in a PHD amount of work into ascending in nethack. And no, it didnt happen.
I replayed the game in 05 a decade later... and cheated to do some "tourist gaming" even with a full wand of wishing, and optional dying, it took all night to ascend,, When I left the dungeon I was bloody surrounded with monsters. Even in the deep parts of nethack there are monsters conventions that make moving a total pain.
Still, a game where you can wield the iron ball on your ankle as a weapon rocks.
Ram is cheap.. dirt cheap. I want to use it by the bucket. I dont want my hard drive to do any reasonable seeking. I want windows to boot by just raw-loading the first 2 gigs of HD into memory then insta-booting.
30 seconds on a reasonable box.
I want my apps to run in a sandbox, where they cant break jack.. no matter how malicious they are. I want the box to be absurdly robust. And I want it to work as smooth as silk, no weird jerkyness, no pinwheel that keeps spinning for no apparent reason.. no slow response to the keyboard-- where 8 seconds go by without so much as the slightest feedback.
Get me a system that isnt a dog, and I'll pay for the 32gigs of ram. It will be money well spent.
15 + Driving permit.. requires 21+ driver in passenger seat..
16 + full license..
Ranchers can request hardship permits down to the age of 12.
hardship permits have time restrictions on them and I think they're only for one county (I've never had the hardship permit, but was envious in jr high).. though most counties in Wyoming are larger than the smallest states.
Memory.. it's cheap.. super duper cheap. 8gb ddr2 800 mhz at $110
There isnt a good reason to swap when memory can do a much nicer job. The next generation of chipset needs to abuse the cheap ram in wild ways.
I want a box that will take 128 gb, and will barely touch the hard drive. I dont want some DLL loading into memory.. I want ready and willing as soon as i need it. I want windows to load, and never need to re-read
First off... I hate threads... they are a locking nightmare once things get complicated,, finding a halting problem isnt worth the effort.
Really I'm an LAM-MPI freak.. let all the processes talk, gather data and not share memory. it skips the pthreads issue, but some would call the mpirun a thread-launcher.
Nope, mpi wont make parallel code a computer for the masses... I dont have ANY clue as to how to pull the CPU out of the equation.
However there are a BUNCH of ways that parallel code can be commoditized. Sure there are limits to what can be parallelized.. but most modern code is begging to be transformed. The OS's need some upgrading to do a slicker job, and I think that the CPU could add some parallel functionality.
Anyway "only way to solve the parallel programming crisis" seems pretty bunk to me.. of course after reading some of your links... you have some "ideal parallel" concept where in the real world "fake parallelism" is quite preferable...
A step in the right direction, but at $600 per 1000 I am gonna wait a bit longer before jumping on the SSD bandwagon.
By my reconning thats $0.60 per drive.. heck a few buddies and I could pitch in, and all go to raid heaven, with enough ssd's to spare to use as high tech nick-nacks..
First... check with a lawyer.. find out exactly what youre stepping in.
Then call,dont email, and find out what they want.. Ask open questions "what do you propose" vs "can I have 5000 to sell you your trademark name"
Ok, then add in those silly things that will reduce your hassle...
Have them reserve your email address and forward it at your choosing for 10 years. this will add hassle to their IT guys... they'll accept in a heartbeat
Storm
so what your saying is that we need to roll in tanks of liquid nitrogen, and open them to the correct settings. as co2 is both warmer and more dangerous..?
This is not recommended:
Due to the health risks associated with carbon dioxide exposure, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that average exposure for healthy adults during an eight-hour work day should not exceed 5,000 ppm (0.5%). The maximum safe level for infants, children, the elderly and individuals with cardio-pulmonary health issues is significantly less. For short-term (under ten minutes) exposure, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) limit is 30,000 ppm (3%). NIOSH also states that carbon dioxide concentrations exceeding 4% are immediately dangerous to life and health.
ok, this is a study on michtochondrial DNA.. So if a Neanderthal impregnated Sapiens it wouldn't show.
I went to a talk where a professor seems to have found evidence of a gene that "invaded" sapiens 6-60k years ago.. One of the genes known to tweak brain development. Anyway the gene managed to outcompete it's sapiens homologue (it's now 20 ish percent of the world population), not that anyone really knows what the advantage is..
And no, their IQ's are no different than the normal.
Really, honestly.. then listen to the commentary..
These people really designed a UI that becomes usable after some training.
Great take aways...:
1 Use the simplest method possible to control something.
2. Dont add buttons.. On My Imac there is a small remote 2 buttons, and an outside ring.. This is FAR more powerful than the 50+ button remote for Dad's TV+dvd player remote.
3. Dont Hide controls too deep.. look at vista.. changing an ip address Start->CP-> network ->Internet properties-> oh that meant browser properties SOB -> Manage network connections -> now either magically know to right click "wireless connection",, or notice the double arrows at the top for more options because it opens too small by default and choose "change the settings of this connection".-> then choose ipv4 -> properties -> set it to the correct value.
up until you get to the wireless connection right clicking is useless. right click on network, poof no properties.. right click on this computer-- nothing.
If you add in a spiffy trick for the users, embrace it.. to the bitter end. once users expect the right click to get them "under the hood" it's a cruel thing to yank that out from under them.
4. Dont make it too easy to do things people dont want to do all that often..
in explorer when your launching a program,, it's far too common that it's trying to rename the file.. and your waiting, and poof you hit space, blank the filename.. and hit esc hoping that the damn box will repopulate. This is where F2 or right-click are appropriate.
5. Dont ask for input.. you will end up with the car that Homer built, if your lucky. I'll admit it was pretty cool... but the idea stands... the customer will ask for features and spite the elegance of the interface.
Of course by using a diamond as beauty token, you've placed yourself as someone who also falls for psychologically manufactured concepts of beauty.
I'm sure it was to demonstrate the pervasiveness of the whole concept.
The anti-intellectual current is freaky, and really destructive. For all of the bluster of the 20 somethings, tattoos, piercings, the works; this generation is afraid to speak in class, out loud, where someone might be able to hear.. I'm not saying that the current 30 somethings were eager 10 years ago but it isn't the same.. I've seen teachers (college level) resort to collecting post-it's that have anonymous questions on them.. just so she could answer the confusing bits.
ok, mac's eye candy is nice.. really nice. But they have bigger advantages...
The video and wireless work once the OS is installed..
You dont have to chase down weird libraries to make a peice of software work. sure APT and Yum are admirable but it isnt in the same league.
Does netcfg support multiple nics?
Will they ever settle for a propper name for commands like "pump" or rather dhcpcd, i mean dhcpclient.. but asking for "man pump" or "apropos dhcpd" act like your some sorta idiot from another dimension.. Yea, pulling that BS makes me pretty bitter about the process.
Really.. fix the dumb stuff.. it needs to be done otherwise users are just hobby linuxers are staying that way. Yea there are issues.. but come on.. man pump WHAT bloody retarded reason is there to leave no trace of it's succesor???
not exactly.. they simply lost the "super duper next to nothing preferred OEM" discount.. which meant that installing BEoS on one line of laptops would increase all of their os costs $10-20 for all of their lines...
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If one of these buggers can kill 3 people.. I think that I'll be gifting these to some of the select upper managers that I have known through the years. This will be way better than the exploding dishwasher detergent I gifted last year.
yup, the usability suffers.. the flip side of audited work.
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ok.. flipping the whole thing horizontally will do nothing... other than flip the while thing horizontally. the left image must be moved to the right hand side (in it's current orientation).. this will help.. good luck
The poster shows a bunch of stereo cards, that can obstensibly be shown in 3d on the Iphone.. a pretty cool idea
He adds a tutorial, also a nice touch..
But the Tutorial is for cross eyed viewing, probably the easiest way to view pair images..
However he has the images as straight view images, not crosseyed.. so the 3d effect is inverted.. which is ugly. he could swap the sides, and it will work.. and on an Iphone the images are still small enough to pull a wall-eyed stereo view.. but it takes more skill to master, and image center to center has to be less than the distance between your eyes... otherwise you have to super-paralax.. or get your eyes to spread... it isnt something easy, I've tried.
Anyway the instructions are bad for the images he's showing..
Storm
Sure there are exceptions.. The STL.. awesome use of templating and inheritance. However Nethack, which could go pervasive class oriented shows that a standard approach can handle an amazing level of detail.
now lisp is an eye opener. I wouldnt want to do a big program in it, I'm not that smart. But for some reasonable code it is elegant.
Python is the language I have the least issue with.. I'm not a java fan, it's too needy for my tastes. C lacks good string manipulation. Perl has some weird memory issues that crop up. Ruby is pretty damn stout.. I'm pretty happy with it.
ok, rant mode disabled... The whole point is use the tool that does the job simply with a good link in for future modifications.
Storm
This is pie in the sky time... But it needs to be done....
Hardware needs to have a "standard interface mode(SIM)" Where the hardware can perform minimum specified functionality regardless of who made it. So a Wireless card wouldnt need a driver to connect to an access point, but could add a driver to do channel bonding. A nic or audio card would be able to provide standard functionality with no drivers, but adding some special features like tcp offloading might require it, or dolby 5.1 decoding.
Then update the SIM every 5 years so OS's can just check for sim compliant devices and use the foolproof drivers. This isnt going to be as cool as having drivers that give full functionality, but it lets a system have a rock stable foundation. This is what I want on a computer in a Hospital that cant crash.. It's a first big step.. and The OS needs a bunch of work too... but fix the underpinings, and the rest gets easier.
Storm
But a neanderthal wont be a looney, or stupid unless the process is broken. Neanderthals survived most of the ice age in Europe. As a humanoid that is a pain. Dumb tribes arent going to survive. My money would be that the Neanderthal will be as dumb, and impatient as an Eskimo.
Storm
note: Anyone calling an Eskimo dumb or impatient needs to watch more national geographic.
luckily the machines were left on. However finding a machine wasnt done on the clock.
still pretty lame IMHO
Storm
2. Dowels--- that fit in the pegs..
3. magnets-- get a 25 or 50 pack of small magnets (consider a few with dowel sized holes).
4. mirrors-- minature... harvest a disco ball.
5. string--
6. DC motors.. the dinky cheap kind that come in cheap toys.
7. prisms.. small is fine.. get geometric shapes triangles-- squares.
8. cheap speakers.. harvest a junk clock radio or 8.
9. glue
10 small springs.
Anyway.. with the laser in hand you can do a bunch of stuff with this setup.. Laser-> mirror mounted on spring mounted on speaker will make a neat wall pattern.. then try without spring.
Make a magnet spring-- shock absorber by repelling magnets down a dowel..
Recombine laser light after splitting it with a prism.
Cover the dowels with slurpee straws. and make a pully system.
This rig is expandable, cheap, and involving enough that I'd play with it..
Storm
Because..drum roll.. Vim has a syntax file for your favorite language..
You can customize if for your coding style... especially for things that you make wiked mistakes on..
for example:
if (x=y){do some code;}
any c programmer will see the mistake pretty quick.
but once it's in thousands of lines of code,, its a bear to find.
with clown colors you set the color of the = to bright purple, and the parens to yellow. set == to orange.. so that your eye catches a painful clash when you type something stupid..
for the common typos that I make.. I set it to INVERSE... so retrun x; get fixed before get to the next line.
some of the common variable names I use get colorized so that I can recognize the specific variables...
So a common for loop that you code without blinking has a "color signature" that lets you know it's your normal.
fantastic crutch..
Storm
I replayed the game in 05 a decade later... and cheated to do some "tourist gaming" even with a full wand of wishing, and optional dying, it took all night to ascend,, When I left the dungeon I was bloody surrounded with monsters. Even in the deep parts of nethack there are monsters conventions that make moving a total pain.
Still, a game where you can wield the iron ball on your ankle as a weapon rocks.
I want my apps to run in a sandbox, where they cant break jack.. no matter how malicious they are. I want the box to be absurdly robust. And I want it to work as smooth as silk, no weird jerkyness, no pinwheel that keeps spinning for no apparent reason.. no slow response to the keyboard-- where 8 seconds go by without so much as the slightest feedback.
Get me a system that isnt a dog, and I'll pay for the 32gigs of ram. It will be money well spent.
Storm
15 + Driving permit.. requires 21+ driver in passenger seat..
16 + full license..
Ranchers can request hardship permits down to the age of 12.
hardship permits have time restrictions on them and I think they're only for one county (I've never had the hardship permit, but was envious in jr high).. though most counties in Wyoming are larger than the smallest states.
There isnt a good reason to swap when memory can do a much nicer job. The next generation of chipset needs to abuse the cheap ram in wild ways. I want a box that will take 128 gb, and will barely touch the hard drive. I dont want some DLL loading into memory.. I want ready and willing as soon as i need it. I want windows to load, and never need to re-read
Storm
Really I'm an LAM-MPI freak.. let all the processes talk, gather data and not share memory. it skips the pthreads issue, but some would call the mpirun a thread-launcher.
Nope, mpi wont make parallel code a computer for the masses... I dont have ANY clue as to how to pull the CPU out of the equation.
However there are a BUNCH of ways that parallel code can be commoditized. Sure there are limits to what can be parallelized.. but most modern code is begging to be transformed. The OS's need some upgrading to do a slicker job, and I think that the CPU could add some parallel functionality.
Anyway "only way to solve the parallel programming crisis" seems pretty bunk to me.. of course after reading some of your links... you have some "ideal parallel" concept where in the real world "fake parallelism" is quite preferable...
Storm
sometimes sarcasm doesnt traverse the posts at full effect.
By my reconning thats $0.60 per drive.. heck a few buddies and I could pitch in, and all go to raid heaven, with enough ssd's to spare to use as high tech nick-nacks..
How damn low does it have to go for you?
Storm
First... check with a lawyer.. find out exactly what youre stepping in. Then call ,dont email, and find out what they want.. Ask open questions "what do you propose" vs "can I have 5000 to sell you your trademark name"
Ok, then add in those silly things that will reduce your hassle...
Have them reserve your email address and forward it at your choosing for 10 years. this will add hassle to their IT guys... they'll accept in a heartbeat
Storm
I went to a talk where a professor seems to have found evidence of a gene that "invaded" sapiens 6-60k years ago.. One of the genes known to tweak brain development. Anyway the gene managed to outcompete it's sapiens homologue (it's now 20 ish percent of the world population), not that anyone really knows what the advantage is..
And no, their IQ's are no different than the normal.
Storm
These people really designed a UI that becomes usable after some training. Great take aways...: 1 Use the simplest method possible to control something.
2. Dont add buttons.. On My Imac there is a small remote 2 buttons, and an outside ring.. This is FAR more powerful than the 50+ button remote for Dad's TV+dvd player remote.
3. Dont Hide controls too deep.. look at vista.. changing an ip address Start->CP-> network ->Internet properties-> oh that meant browser properties SOB -> Manage network connections -> now either magically know to right click "wireless connection",, or notice the double arrows at the top for more options because it opens too small by default and choose "change the settings of this connection".-> then choose ipv4 -> properties -> set it to the correct value.
up until you get to the wireless connection right clicking is useless. right click on network, poof no properties.. right click on this computer-- nothing.
If you add in a spiffy trick for the users, embrace it.. to the bitter end. once users expect the right click to get them "under the hood" it's a cruel thing to yank that out from under them.
4. Dont make it too easy to do things people dont want to do all that often..
in explorer when your launching a program,, it's far too common that it's trying to rename the file.. and your waiting, and poof you hit space, blank the filename.. and hit esc hoping that the damn box will repopulate. This is where F2 or right-click are appropriate.
5. Dont ask for input.. you will end up with the car that Homer built, if your lucky. I'll admit it was pretty cool... but the idea stands... the customer will ask for features and spite the elegance of the interface.
Storm
Of course by using a diamond as beauty token, you've placed yourself as someone who also falls for psychologically manufactured concepts of beauty.
I'm sure it was to demonstrate the pervasiveness of the whole concept.
The anti-intellectual current is freaky, and really destructive. For all of the bluster of the 20 somethings, tattoos, piercings, the works; this generation is afraid to speak in class, out loud, where someone might be able to hear.. I'm not saying that the current 30 somethings were eager 10 years ago but it isn't the same.. I've seen teachers (college level) resort to collecting post-it's that have anonymous questions on them.. just so she could answer the confusing bits.
Storm
The video and wireless work once the OS is installed..
You dont have to chase down weird libraries to make a peice of software work. sure APT and Yum are admirable but it isnt in the same league.
Does netcfg support multiple nics?
Will they ever settle for a propper name for commands like "pump" or rather dhcpcd, i mean dhcpclient.. but asking for "man pump" or "apropos dhcpd" act like your some sorta idiot from another dimension.. Yea, pulling that BS makes me pretty bitter about the process.
Really.. fix the dumb stuff.. it needs to be done otherwise users are just hobby linuxers are staying that way. Yea there are issues.. but come on.. man pump WHAT bloody retarded reason is there to leave no trace of it's succesor???
Storm
That is still a monster.
Storm