Furtherdown in the article it mentions very blithely that the technology powering it comes from none other than E-Ink which explains the quicker than expected turn around. It's Phillips branded and integrated but the tech that makes it work is E-Ink Corp's.
Check out their site to see the roadmap... we should be seeing much improved versions of this gadget very soon.
not increasingly stupid, just increasingly cocky.... We keep thinking, "It hasn't happened in 100 years, it won't happen again and anyways, since then we've put up 'safeguard' to prevent the same debacle that happened last time".
The question I keep coming up with is "Why do we still live in floodplains, tornado corridors and hurricane landing zones?"
The easiest one to recognize is the floodplains... everyone knows where they are and they don't really change that much. Why aren't we moving are habitations from such zones and simply leaving whatever necessary industrial and transportation infrastructures as pseudo temporary installations.
Specifically, why isn't New Orleans just one big hydroelectric plant and port? Nobody should live there except people who work in industries that can 'take advantage' of it's inherent environmental qualities.
We should be identifying and zoning such areas and developing them appropriately, not just letting them grow up completely unplanned and indefensible to natural disaster.
I understand that New Orleans specifically is a site of great historical and cultural significance... build a museum or make it into a tourist destination that can easily be shut down during an emergency, know one will know the difference (those that recently lived there, especially the poorest, could care less about the cultural significance anyways)...
SO it's not that we're stupid, just that we're arrogant and unwilling to do what is necessary to live in relative safety. We build homes on the edges of forest fire zones, flood plains, tectonic plates and active volcanoes (we aren't nearly as stubborn about that one anymore) and then expect them not to go off and destroy everything we've built.
Okay, depending on your definition, maybe we are collectively stoopid. I just wanted to clarify where our stupidity was most accute.
Sounds like a guy with an axe to grind... but hey his opinion is just as valid as the others, no irrefutable evidence either way as yet... I'm just saying he sounds like the conspiracy nuts I run into every once in a while who claim that everyone else, except the small news-lists they belong to, are in on the conspiracy or blindly following it.
Actually the Deathstar is an anit-/. effect... it kills a billion potential users in a single blast..../ effect is more like death from a billion papercuts..
if I could use my mod points you'd get some funny....
well, true as it is, I think setting the goal high could be a great learning experience for the lad if nothing else... and remember that there are a hell of a lot more resources for learning how to code well these days. Look at the O'Reilly series for instance, did they exist back when you were in school? Not that they are the end all of coding but better than standard issue textbooks I think.
The focus of the suggestion however was implied not explicit... which was to find something that already works, that is not yet commercial and that has well defined goals and a decent framework. This will help to leapfrog the guy past the obstacles of the blank page.. ie: "what is it, what does it do, where are some of the problem areas going to be" , etc.. so he can completely focus on execution of good code... not to mention the ability to take someone elses codebase and improve upon it, which as I'm sure you well know, is one of the typical tasks you end up with as a newbie in a CS oriented job.
Blog is Web Log... a log is a recording of daily or at least linear events... a site which is dedicated to such activities and presented in such a linear/date ordered manner... as opposed to a corporate site or a review site or whatever that is topically sorted and non-linear.
I'm sure people thought of other contractions but Blog was the one that stuck
Here's an idea... scour sourceforge for a project where the idea is great and the implementation is usable but the code and efficiency is really bad.. then rewrite it from the ground up with elegant code and at the end of it all... submit it for the rest of us to use.
FYI it doesn't have to be a web app either... lots of standalone applications out there too but of course if it can publish reports, logs and status to a web monitor app even better.
here in America we already do that... and I'm sure they do it in England as well... they are called Lobbies.
The problems come when the administrators of the Lobby fund decide that they know how to spend the money better than their contributors and/or they get corrupted by the system they are trying to change.
ie: one group of contributors starts giving more and becomes a major 'stockholder' in the lobby... the admins end up being influenced by this minority group over the wishes of the majority so they can 'overall' help more people with the added funds the minority group are contributing.
Best Idea. If all the library systems invested in 3 different competing products then at least one of them would become inexpensive enough... through economies of scale and the forementioned competition for the contracts to supply.
Then the rest of us could reap the rewards as well, with a new mature e-ink display available on the cheap for our own private libraries....
If it's a plugin just for viewing such promos, like movie trailers, etc. it could done in a way that doesn't allow for not seeding. Most idiots wouldn't know the difference and the source provider could set up mirrors to be default seeds for geo-regions, etc.
That's a link to a review of an O'Reilly book that will jump you in feet first.
Good response.. i agree, evangelism is one thing but zealotry has no place in solving problems. If it works it works but try to go standards anytime you can.
Hmmm a better analogy is that the Taxi driver tells you about an alternative hotel he knows and offers to take you there instead but doesn't force you to go there.
What you're describing is a phishing attack, not a google ad. If the google ad said "Click here to go to www.geico.com" but went to a competing insurance company, then you'd be correct.
Despite the limitations CSS is still the future of the web. It's not about beating table layouts though. It's about programmable attributes in a scalable system.
Think about using XML + XSLT + CSS to generate scalable presentation layers that meet the needs of multiple PLATFORMS using the same business logic and content layers.
Think about Accessibilty and the ability to define stylesheets for web browsers, text readers for the blind, PDF, printed versions, etc. without having to use multiple html layouts.
I find CSS to be quite robust as it is now and couldn't possibly design some of the web sites I've created recently without it. In fact I find myself wishing for a more robust CSS like stylesheet support model in my print programs, ie: InDesign, Illustrator, etc. so that I could transform content designs into multiple print layouts as easily as I do my web sites.
Sorry I couldn't flame you more but I felt it was more important to point out the positive side of CSS than tell you how ignorant you may or may not be on the subject.
Yeah, SGI changed their focus from visualtization workstations using highend processors to try to edge in to the commodity workstation market that Apple was excelling in and that Windows NT was starting to take over... this was in the middle 90s... to do this they adopted an x86 strategy to reduce their overhead.
Then they discovered that they couldn't compete in that market and practically disappeared from the market altogether. Since then they have reemerged as a, get this, visualization workstation company.
Seems to me they made a serious mistake going x86 and have yet to fully recover if they ever will. The accepted reason for this is that they adopted NT as their OS on x86 processors and became 'just another PC company', but one that couldn't make a profit cause they were using non-commodity parts. The only thing that differetiates them from Alienware is their business services department.
If Apple wants to become 'just another PC company' then they should definitely look into following SGI's 'busness plan'.
However, if Apple wants to become a more dominant player in the PC market they should learn from the mistakes of the SGIs out there, the successes of the Dells and the mediocrities of the Sony's and Toshibas. Don't try to adopt the system and buck the system at the same time, take advantage of supply chain savings and don't be another 'also ran' when it comes to innovation.
Some advice for SGI, learn from IBM. Stop selling hardware and focus on the service sector. Sub-contract someone else to build the hardware and develop the software while focusing on business integration and solutions services.
And have you seen anything from SGI lately?????? Who here has an awesome SGI box sitting under their desk at home, or in the office... you may have hit the nail on the head but you forgot to move your thumb out of the way. Apple shouldn't be doing anything like SGI if they want to remain a profitable company.
c) patch up the leaks and keep working, cause if they don't make a catch on this trip they'll be broke. If they make a catch they might be able to afford patch materials for the next trip AND have money to feed their families.
Should Google provide a form you can fill out that will tell them not to 'discover' your private information?
"Here's my address Google, whenever you see it displayed in a web page I want you to not show that page in a search results list, regardless of what else might be on that page... "
There really isn't anything else they could do, the content of a web page somewhere on the net isn't their responsibility...
If you want to do something like this you'll need to do the search yourself, using Google, and contact the owners of those pages and tell them to remove the info yourself.
or
Lobby for a law that prevents people from publishing 'public' data about 'private' citizens... good luck.
huh... there's a service by a company called MediKeeper that provides online access to your full medical history. Each time you go in for a checkup or have a procedure done or get a new prescription you can a) update the record yourself or b) give the doctor access to your account to update it for you (he/she can only add a new record).
Instead of needing a chip implant or a magnetic card or some other complicated means to access up to date medical history, you just keep a dog tag or wrist band with your account info and primary provider phone number (that person has account access).
Voila... worldwide coverage without the need for an expensive chip reader.
Well if you're a believer in physics or natural law as we understand it, then yes it has to start somewhere. Otherwise you're moving into the realm of metaphysics and ideology where science is just a convenient literary 'boot-strap' for your personal opinions and not based on any sort of empirical evidence at all.
Sound familiar? Yeah it's the technique that ignorant proponents of ID use in their arguments. Now I'm not saying that all ID proponents are ignorant... just the more vocal group.
Personally I don't understand what the conflict is between the two theories. Evolution seems like a pretty intelligent design to me, even if it is just a method and not a final end product. I see evolution as an iterative refining process that allows life to adapt to it's 'current' environment in the best possible way without interfering with the core functions required for survival.
I can't imagine a God who wouldn't have included such a capability for His creations.
(you can't use the word universe while also implying that there is more than one... it's anachronistic;-)
No time? No existence. Without a progression of energy from one state to the next it ceases to exist. There is no reference, context or continuity. No relationship with itself. Which is why again 'it' has to start somewhere.
The only concept we have for such a thing is a point. No beginning, no end, no inbetween... but a point still refers to something which means it is a reference compared to something else... which when you connect the two things referred to, creates a ray or line... which does have a beginning and end, at least to the observer. Without the second reference the original point is not a point at all, it is nothing and everything somewhere between existence and void.
So to sum up... for there to BE anything there must be more than a single point. Once there are two points then there is dimension. Once there is dimension, there is time... ie the corollary of the space between the two points (== time), hence the whole space/time thing. Finally, No time, No 'it', No points, No dimenstion, etc.
Are people still doing LSD? Haven't you figured out the lesson you're supposed to learn from that one yet?
Expand your mind and open your eyes to more than just the physical world.
Here's a thought... chaos theory, it's wonderful. Entropy as an equation. Constant change. Even chaos has a beginning though. It must start somewhere, hence the big-bang.... now an off-shoot of chaos theory is fractal geometry. In Fractal geometry there is a concept call the Strange Attractor. The Strange Attractor is what determines the 'shape' of the fractal. An intelligent person can define the strange attactor of a fractal and determine the general shape of a fractal set to the nth iteration, such as the Mandelbrot set or any of the other known sets of equations that are popular for their beauty. Think about that for a few minutes... chaos can be shaped by the equation, aka variable set, that originally seeded it into being and over many iterations it will take on a predetermined 'form' while still maintaining chaotic entropy ad infinitum.
Now that's what I like to think of when I cogitate on Intelligent Design.
SO you're saying that the Vatican has nothing to say on the matter?
I think older Europeans probably do care, specifically those who haven't taken up aetheism, which means it's a minority but still enough to make you incorrect.
Europeans haven't questioned anything in decades... they just go about their lives working on stuff the rest of the world started... sometimes with more effective results sometimes less effective but rarely do they do anything new or different anymore.
Why so stuck in a rut Europe? Is socialism really that satisfying? Don't you ever want to be first again? I mean first in something other than protesting change or jumping on the bandwagon..
Hmmm while I appreciate and agree with all you say here.... Christians can't be Christians if they don't believe that the words of the Bible were inspired by God or God via Jesus, and by inspired I mean he 'filled them with the words' type inspired.. not 'and they had a good idea' inspired.
So I'll rephrase your comment for accuracy....
"Christians should face the fact that Genesis was written by a bunch of God inspired sheep herders (and fisherman and carpenters and former tax collectors) who lived in a semi-arid region near an inland sea, who didn't have the terminology available to them to describe the Words of God in such a way that us modern science-cultured people could interpret as equitable with the Newtonian and non-Wholistic (aka western) beliefs we have come to agree upon."
Slashdot Mirror
Furtherdown in the article it mentions very blithely that the technology powering it comes from none other than E-Ink which explains the quicker than expected turn around. It's Phillips branded and integrated but the tech that makes it work is E-Ink Corp's.
Check out their site to see the roadmap... we should be seeing much improved versions of this gadget very soon.
not increasingly stupid, just increasingly cocky.... We keep thinking, "It hasn't happened in 100 years, it won't happen again and anyways, since then we've put up 'safeguard' to prevent the same debacle that happened last time".
The question I keep coming up with is "Why do we still live in floodplains, tornado corridors and hurricane landing zones?"
The easiest one to recognize is the floodplains... everyone knows where they are and they don't really change that much. Why aren't we moving are habitations from such zones and simply leaving whatever necessary industrial and transportation infrastructures as pseudo temporary installations.
Specifically, why isn't New Orleans just one big hydroelectric plant and port? Nobody should live there except people who work in industries that can 'take advantage' of it's inherent environmental qualities.
We should be identifying and zoning such areas and developing them appropriately, not just letting them grow up completely unplanned and indefensible to natural disaster.
I understand that New Orleans specifically is a site of great historical and cultural significance... build a museum or make it into a tourist destination that can easily be shut down during an emergency, know one will know the difference (those that recently lived there, especially the poorest, could care less about the cultural significance anyways)...
SO it's not that we're stupid, just that we're arrogant and unwilling to do what is necessary to live in relative safety. We build homes on the edges of forest fire zones, flood plains, tectonic plates and active volcanoes (we aren't nearly as stubborn about that one anymore) and then expect them not to go off and destroy everything we've built.
Okay, depending on your definition, maybe we are collectively stoopid. I just wanted to clarify where our stupidity was most accute.
Sounds like a guy with an axe to grind... but hey his opinion is just as valid as the others, no irrefutable evidence either way as yet... I'm just saying he sounds like the conspiracy nuts I run into every once in a while who claim that everyone else, except the small news-lists they belong to, are in on the conspiracy or blindly following it.
Actually the Deathstar is an anit-/. effect... it kills a billion potential users in a single blast... ./ effect is more like death from a billion papercuts..
if I could use my mod points you'd get some funny....
well, true as it is, I think setting the goal high could be a great learning experience for the lad if nothing else... and remember that there are a hell of a lot more resources for learning how to code well these days. Look at the O'Reilly series for instance, did they exist back when you were in school? Not that they are the end all of coding but better than standard issue textbooks I think.
The focus of the suggestion however was implied not explicit... which was to find something that already works, that is not yet commercial and that has well defined goals and a decent framework. This will help to leapfrog the guy past the obstacles of the blank page.. ie: "what is it, what does it do, where are some of the problem areas going to be" , etc.. so he can completely focus on execution of good code... not to mention the ability to take someone elses codebase and improve upon it, which as I'm sure you well know, is one of the typical tasks you end up with as a newbie in a CS oriented job.
Blog is Web Log... a log is a recording of daily or at least linear events... a site which is dedicated to such activities and presented in such a linear/date ordered manner... as opposed to a corporate site or a review site or whatever that is topically sorted and non-linear.
I'm sure people thought of other contractions but Blog was the one that stuck
Here's an idea... scour sourceforge for a project where the idea is great and the implementation is usable but the code and efficiency is really bad.. then rewrite it from the ground up with elegant code and at the end of it all... submit it for the rest of us to use.
FYI it doesn't have to be a web app either... lots of standalone applications out there too but of course if it can publish reports, logs and status to a web monitor app even better.
here in America we already do that... and I'm sure they do it in England as well... they are called Lobbies.
The problems come when the administrators of the Lobby fund decide that they know how to spend the money better than their contributors and/or they get corrupted by the system they are trying to change.
ie: one group of contributors starts giving more and becomes a major 'stockholder' in the lobby... the admins end up being influenced by this minority group over the wishes of the majority so they can 'overall' help more people with the added funds the minority group are contributing.
Best Idea. If all the library systems invested in 3 different competing products then at least one of them would become inexpensive enough... through economies of scale and the forementioned competition for the contracts to supply.
Then the rest of us could reap the rewards as well, with a new mature e-ink display available on the cheap for our own private libraries....
If it's a plugin just for viewing such promos, like movie trailers, etc. it could done in a way that doesn't allow for not seeding. Most idiots wouldn't know the difference and the source provider could set up mirrors to be default seeds for geo-regions, etc.
Is it just me or does it seem like EVERYONE re-watched The Matrix on TNT a few nights ago?
welcome our new Virtual Reality overlords, what with their ability to virtually enslave me while smelling the virtual stink of my virtual slavepin....
http://www.stylegala.com/store/0596003722/XSLT_Coo kbook.html
That's a link to a review of an O'Reilly book that will jump you in feet first.
Good response.. i agree, evangelism is one thing but zealotry has no place in solving problems. If it works it works but try to go standards anytime you can.
Hmmm a better analogy is that the Taxi driver tells you about an alternative hotel he knows and offers to take you there instead but doesn't force you to go there.
What you're describing is a phishing attack, not a google ad. If the google ad said "Click here to go to www.geico.com" but went to a competing insurance company, then you'd be correct.
Despite the limitations CSS is still the future of the web. It's not about beating table layouts though. It's about programmable attributes in a scalable system.
Think about using XML + XSLT + CSS to generate scalable presentation layers that meet the needs of multiple PLATFORMS using the same business logic and content layers.
Think about Accessibilty and the ability to define stylesheets for web browsers, text readers for the blind, PDF, printed versions, etc. without having to use multiple html layouts.
I find CSS to be quite robust as it is now and couldn't possibly design some of the web sites I've created recently without it. In fact I find myself wishing for a more robust CSS like stylesheet support model in my print programs, ie: InDesign, Illustrator, etc. so that I could transform content designs into multiple print layouts as easily as I do my web sites.
Sorry I couldn't flame you more but I felt it was more important to point out the positive side of CSS than tell you how ignorant you may or may not be on the subject.
Yeah, SGI changed their focus from visualtization workstations using highend processors to try to edge in to the commodity workstation market that Apple was excelling in and that Windows NT was starting to take over... this was in the middle 90s... to do this they adopted an x86 strategy to reduce their overhead.
Then they discovered that they couldn't compete in that market and practically disappeared from the market altogether. Since then they have reemerged as a, get this, visualization workstation company.
Seems to me they made a serious mistake going x86 and have yet to fully recover if they ever will. The accepted reason for this is that they adopted NT as their OS on x86 processors and became 'just another PC company', but one that couldn't make a profit cause they were using non-commodity parts. The only thing that differetiates them from Alienware is their business services department.
If Apple wants to become 'just another PC company' then they should definitely look into following SGI's 'busness plan'.
However, if Apple wants to become a more dominant player in the PC market they should learn from the mistakes of the SGIs out there, the successes of the Dells and the mediocrities of the Sony's and Toshibas. Don't try to adopt the system and buck the system at the same time, take advantage of supply chain savings and don't be another 'also ran' when it comes to innovation.
Some advice for SGI, learn from IBM. Stop selling hardware and focus on the service sector. Sub-contract someone else to build the hardware and develop the software while focusing on business integration and solutions services.
And have you seen anything from SGI lately?????? Who here has an awesome SGI box sitting under their desk at home, or in the office... you may have hit the nail on the head but you forgot to move your thumb out of the way. Apple shouldn't be doing anything like SGI if they want to remain a profitable company.
or
c) patch up the leaks and keep working, cause if they don't make a catch on this trip they'll be broke. If they make a catch they might be able to afford patch materials for the next trip AND have money to feed their families.
I believe that's the current method being used.
And how do you propose they do this? Opt-Out?
Should Google provide a form you can fill out that will tell them not to 'discover' your private information?
"Here's my address Google, whenever you see it displayed in a web page I want you to not show that page in a search results list, regardless of what else might be on that page... "
There really isn't anything else they could do, the content of a web page somewhere on the net isn't their responsibility...
If you want to do something like this you'll need to do the search yourself, using Google, and contact the owners of those pages and tell them to remove the info yourself.
or
Lobby for a law that prevents people from publishing 'public' data about 'private' citizens... good luck.
huh... there's a service by a company called MediKeeper that provides online access to your full medical history. Each time you go in for a checkup or have a procedure done or get a new prescription you can a) update the record yourself or b) give the doctor access to your account to update it for you (he/she can only add a new record).
Instead of needing a chip implant or a magnetic card or some other complicated means to access up to date medical history, you just keep a dog tag or wrist band with your account info and primary provider phone number (that person has account access).
Voila... worldwide coverage without the need for an expensive chip reader.
Well if you're a believer in physics or natural law as we understand it, then yes it has to start somewhere. Otherwise you're moving into the realm of metaphysics and ideology where science is just a convenient literary 'boot-strap' for your personal opinions and not based on any sort of empirical evidence at all.
;-)
Sound familiar? Yeah it's the technique that ignorant proponents of ID use in their arguments. Now I'm not saying that all ID proponents are ignorant... just the more vocal group.
Personally I don't understand what the conflict is between the two theories. Evolution seems like a pretty intelligent design to me, even if it is just a method and not a final end product. I see evolution as an iterative refining process that allows life to adapt to it's 'current' environment in the best possible way without interfering with the core functions required for survival.
I can't imagine a God who wouldn't have included such a capability for His creations.
(you can't use the word universe while also implying that there is more than one... it's anachronistic
No time? No existence. Without a progression of energy from one state to the next it ceases to exist. There is no reference, context or continuity. No relationship with itself. Which is why again 'it' has to start somewhere.
The only concept we have for such a thing is a point. No beginning, no end, no inbetween... but a point still refers to something which means it is a reference compared to something else... which when you connect the two things referred to, creates a ray or line... which does have a beginning and end, at least to the observer. Without the second reference the original point is not a point at all, it is nothing and everything somewhere between existence and void.
So to sum up... for there to BE anything there must be more than a single point. Once there are two points then there is dimension. Once there is dimension, there is time... ie the corollary of the space between the two points (== time), hence the whole space/time thing. Finally, No time, No 'it', No points, No dimenstion, etc.
Are people still doing LSD? Haven't you figured out the lesson you're supposed to learn from that one yet?
Expand your mind and open your eyes to more than just the physical world.
Here's a thought... chaos theory, it's wonderful. Entropy as an equation. Constant change. Even chaos has a beginning though. It must start somewhere, hence the big-bang.... now an off-shoot of chaos theory is fractal geometry. In Fractal geometry there is a concept call the Strange Attractor. The Strange Attractor is what determines the 'shape' of the fractal. An intelligent person can define the strange attactor of a fractal and determine the general shape of a fractal set to the nth iteration, such as the Mandelbrot set or any of the other known sets of equations that are popular for their beauty. Think about that for a few minutes... chaos can be shaped by the equation, aka variable set, that originally seeded it into being and over many iterations it will take on a predetermined 'form' while still maintaining chaotic entropy ad infinitum.
Now that's what I like to think of when I cogitate on Intelligent Design.
SO you're saying that the Vatican has nothing to say on the matter?
I think older Europeans probably do care, specifically those who haven't taken up aetheism, which means it's a minority but still enough to make you incorrect.
Europeans haven't questioned anything in decades... they just go about their lives working on stuff the rest of the world started... sometimes with more effective results sometimes less effective but rarely do they do anything new or different anymore.
Why so stuck in a rut Europe? Is socialism really that satisfying? Don't you ever want to be first again? I mean first in something other than protesting change or jumping on the bandwagon..
Hmmm while I appreciate and agree with all you say here.... Christians can't be Christians if they don't believe that the words of the Bible were inspired by God or God via Jesus, and by inspired I mean he 'filled them with the words' type inspired.. not 'and they had a good idea' inspired.
So I'll rephrase your comment for accuracy....
"Christians should face the fact that Genesis was written by a bunch of God inspired sheep herders (and fisherman and carpenters and former tax collectors) who lived in a semi-arid region near an inland sea, who didn't have the terminology available to them to describe the Words of God in such a way that us modern science-cultured people could interpret as equitable with the Newtonian and non-Wholistic (aka western) beliefs we have come to agree upon."
Whoops, sorry I was thinking of GO, which is a war strategy game... my mistake.