I'm thinking we should be coating space shuttles with this stuff, under the first protective layer of course w/ a fluid cooling system to pull the heat away from the cool chip material on the surface straight to another set of cool chip stuff positioned near an exhaust manifold.
So many potential uses... personal cooling systems, body temp regulated of course (thinking of spinning the material into thread and having it woven into a jacket liner while static/kinetic energy or temp gradients powers it).
i'm glad that you think the XServe is so wonderful!
I would like to point out the opinion that many feel that the Athlon XP and P4 chips run much too hot to go into any rack mounted server at this time. Maybe soon they will improve upon this but for the moment you have to make do with P3's and cooler AMD chips.
Hmmm... except for the fact that Apple is now an Oracle partner (or is Oracle and Apple partner.. well it is 'partner') and Oracle is releasing Oracle 9i for OS X Server.
Doesn't mean you won't still be saving a bundle on licensing. Of course you could just go with the oh so free MySQL/Java and forget about your license hassles all together.
Oh yeah and since they've already invested in the highest priced component (the wave turbines) their initial startup costs for this are significantly less.
The thing is... once you spend the initial money on the system it is self sustaining w/ moderate maintenance... far cheaper than drilling distributing and refining gasoline. Plus it is self contained, ie no taxes or outside control forces, etc.
It doesn't matter how inefficient it is if the source of the all the energy is free (minus startup costs).
"Re:GnuSTEP and Carbon (Score:2) by Eugenia Loli (eloli@hotmail.com) on Monday May 13, @09:27PM
Yes, weird, isn't it? I mean, I loaded Slashdot just before I go to bed tonight...
Well, it seems I won't be going to bed soon. A pretty intensive earthquake happened just 75 Khm away from our place, 5 minutes after the story went live. Preliminary reports say that it was 5.2 Richter..."
Were you the first internet posting of this? i read your post in the previous forum. Seems like it had 'just' happened. I was curious and went to try and find info but there wasn't any record until at least 10 minutes later.
Just curious. Funny if you happened to be the first.
Try sticking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in to your CD drive and see what happens... that is a very good analogy to what is happening to the iMacs.
CPCDs are not CDs and don't support CD standards. If they did they would work fine in the standards compliant iMacs. They also won't work in many car cd players and several PC brands as well.
Mac's are standards compliant. When you publish standards and expect everyone to comply with them to promote industry and then go and allow CPCD's which don't have any standards as yet and are not even CDs, tehn you are going to have problems.
What would you think if this was your car it was affecting and it caused your CD player to burn out and set your car on fire? Bad design from the stereo and car manufaturers, when they have all worked just fine until now?
It didn't go braindead it simply went into a loop.
This tech is pimarily focused on Video conferencing and tech/customer support. Imagine going to an online store and being greeted by a 'live' salesperson who can answer your questions in person.
Obviously there is room to abuse as in any tech. As long as the features are turned off by default and always, always give you the choice of whether to use them or not, I don't see any problems.
In the meanwhile if you don't like flash, pick a browser and plugin set that you can live with.
IE isn't the only one out there. Mozilla works very well for me.
This is related to the IP involved and the fact that the two owners of the Trademark Compact Disk are Phillips and (some company i can't recall at the moment, maybe Sony).
If the owners of the TM don't want to license it to the Copyright Protected Disk manufacturers then their products can't be called CDs.
how about lauching a satellite that 'paints' the spot with a laser... then if anyone comes near it projects a sound wave that becomes audible over the site only and puts the fear of god in them...
The client gets exclusive rights to the software for two years at which point the software becomes open source. This would manifest in the form of a clause in the contract stating such.
This would give the client room to breathe against competitors or enemies seeking to compromise their software, gain from their expense, etc. while still allowing for the continuation of the code in the open community. If the code is interesting enough to still be viable in two years then it will persist.
This is very similar to having someone license technology but instead of losing their rights to the tech they merely have to share with everyone else, though not any additional modifications they have made to the code in the meanwhile.
This would also mean that the code would have to be put into escrow in order to meet the requirements of the contract for both parties and as an insurance measure for both parties.' Escrow 'meaning that a 3rd party would have a copy of the original code and would release it into open source according to the contract despite any intentions of the two parties otherwise.
Seems like a lot of effort but if you think your code is important enough to the community at large then this would be worthwhile because of the checks and balances it imposes. The client would of course pay for everything.
The best part about 3D interfaces is the ability to make vast leaps from one place to another without the need to memorize your environment. (ala CLI).
Think in terms of the real world where you can inspect your intended target from a distance and decide what the best route is to get there. That can't happen in 2D w/o alot of cumbersome reference (ala CLI).
3D allows for XYZ movement and perspective enabling 4D decisions.
If you knew that you had a setup workspace to your left and a differently setup workspace to your right and again one above you and below and 10 units in front and back and then could alternate the forementioned space with any one of the points mentioned... spatial division in 3D, would you not be more productive than having to dig repeatedly in to a hole/plane?
"Shneiderman is best known for inventing a form of hyperlinked text called "Hyperties" in the 1980s, a forerunner of the World Wide "There's no reason to think he isn't right now about how timeboxes, dynamic query sliders and similar graphical interfaces will one day let us discover startling truths --...."
I think he' right about graphical sliders and giving weight to search criteria... imagine putting in keywords and then weighting them with a slider from 0 - 100 and getting instant feedback on how your manipulations affected the search. Very 'analog' in some ways...
Amazing, wish I'd thought of it myself. I'm willing to bet it will be implemented soon, just because it has been talked about now.
I can, for arguements sake, buy the book in print format to distribute according to Fair Use and:
A. Hand transcribe it.
B. Go to Kinko's and copy it page for page.
C. Buy an OCR scanner and again copy it page for page.
or
D. Use the Elcomsoft software and distribute it much the same as the above examples...
What is the difference? None. I'm merely using technology to enhance my performance.
As long as I am distributing according to Fair Use I haven't broken any laws... or have I? the DMCA would have it to be that I have, somehow.
Prosecute people for breaking a law, not for creating something that 'COULD' break the law.
What ever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty' or the 'right to bear arms' or 'freedom of speech' or any of our constitutional rights that specifically were created to keep citizens from being persecuted for the potential of committing crimes.
We are all potentially committing crimes just by being alive.
You make a great point about the voting process... black americans faced this point precisely when given the right to vote but then 'gagged' when attempting to exercise it.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm thinking we should be coating space shuttles with this stuff, under the first protective layer of course w/ a fluid cooling system to pull the heat away from the cool chip material on the surface straight to another set of cool chip stuff positioned near an exhaust manifold.
So many potential uses... personal cooling systems, body temp regulated of course (thinking of spinning the material into thread and having it woven into a jacket liner while static/kinetic energy or temp gradients powers it).
i'm glad that you think the XServe is so wonderful!
I would like to point out the opinion that many feel that the Athlon XP and P4 chips run much too hot to go into any rack mounted server at this time. Maybe soon they will improve upon this but for the moment you have to make do with P3's and cooler AMD chips.
Hmmm... except for the fact that Apple is now an Oracle partner (or is Oracle and Apple partner.. well it is 'partner') and Oracle is releasing Oracle 9i for OS X Server.
Doesn't mean you won't still be saving a bundle on licensing. Of course you could just go with the oh so free MySQL/Java and forget about your license hassles all together.
You have described the reasons why Apple has partnered with HP's OpenView team. Openview provides many if not all of the services you described.
Just for SAG I'll say you're dating yourself gentleman.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Oh yeah and since they've already invested in the highest priced component (the wave turbines) their initial startup costs for this are significantly less.
The thing is... once you spend the initial money on the system it is self sustaining w/ moderate maintenance... far cheaper than drilling distributing and refining gasoline. Plus it is self contained, ie no taxes or outside control forces, etc.
It doesn't matter how inefficient it is if the source of the all the energy is free (minus startup costs).
Does something stink in here? That was bad... but made me laugh anyways. ;-D
"Re:GnuSTEP and Carbon (Score:2)
;-p
by Eugenia Loli (eloli@hotmail.com) on Monday May 13, @09:27PM
Yes, weird, isn't it? I mean, I loaded Slashdot just before I go to bed tonight...
Well, it seems I won't be going to bed soon. A pretty intensive earthquake happened just 75 Khm away from our place, 5 minutes after the story went live. Preliminary reports say that it was 5.2 Richter..."
for the record...
Were you the first internet posting of this? i read your post in the previous forum. Seems like it had 'just' happened. I was curious and went to try and find info but there wasn't any record until at least 10 minutes later.
Just curious. Funny if you happened to be the first.
Try sticking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in to your CD drive and see what happens... that is a very good analogy to what is happening to the iMacs.
CPCDs are not CDs and don't support CD standards. If they did they would work fine in the standards compliant iMacs. They also won't work in many car cd players and several PC brands as well.
This is the fault of the CPCD makers not Apple.
Mac's are standards compliant. When you publish standards and expect everyone to comply with them to promote industry and then go and allow CPCD's which don't have any standards as yet and are not even CDs, tehn you are going to have problems.
What would you think if this was your car it was affecting and it caused your CD player to burn out and set your car on fire? Bad design from the stereo and car manufaturers, when they have all worked just fine until now?
It didn't go braindead it simply went into a loop.
This tech is pimarily focused on Video conferencing and tech/customer support. Imagine going to an online store and being greeted by a 'live' salesperson who can answer your questions in person.
Obviously there is room to abuse as in any tech. As long as the features are turned off by default and always, always give you the choice of whether to use them or not, I don't see any problems.
In the meanwhile if you don't like flash, pick a browser and plugin set that you can live with.
IE isn't the only one out there. Mozilla works very well for me.
This is related to the IP involved and the fact that the two owners of the Trademark Compact Disk are Phillips and (some company i can't recall at the moment, maybe Sony).
If the owners of the TM don't want to license it to the Copyright Protected Disk manufacturers then their products can't be called CDs.
That's what I know about it.
Thanks for the tip on http pipelining... I selected it in the preferences and WOW!!!! what a huge difference it makes on /.
Don't know about general use but it seems to do what you said, if not more (probably a psychological thing though but it seems to fly).
BTW I'm running the OS X binary. With the pipelining enabled Mozilla now give Chimera a run for it's money on fastest browser experience on OS X.
Thanks!!
What about futuristic 'hackers' who want to 'exploit' the waste for evil purposes... such as using it to kill off all living creatures on the planet?
You are assuming that the only people who will stumble across the site are ignorant of it's contents/uses.
Security through obscurity never never works for long.
how about lauching a satellite that 'paints' the spot with a laser... then if anyone comes near it projects a sound wave that becomes audible over the site only and puts the fear of god in them...
Compromise.
The client gets exclusive rights to the software for two years at which point the software becomes open source. This would manifest in the form of a clause in the contract stating such.
This would give the client room to breathe against competitors or enemies seeking to compromise their software, gain from their expense, etc. while still allowing for the continuation of the code in the open community. If the code is interesting enough to still be viable in two years then it will persist.
This is very similar to having someone license technology but instead of losing their rights to the tech they merely have to share with everyone else, though not any additional modifications they have made to the code in the meanwhile.
This would also mean that the code would have to be put into escrow in order to meet the requirements of the contract for both parties and as an insurance measure for both parties.' Escrow 'meaning that a 3rd party would have a copy of the original code and would release it into open source according to the contract despite any intentions of the two parties otherwise.
Seems like a lot of effort but if you think your code is important enough to the community at large then this would be worthwhile because of the checks and balances it imposes. The client would of course pay for everything.
He's not talking about the Consumers using the internet more, he's talking about businesses using it more to track their consumers.
Internet Usage doesn't mean browsing it means businesses using it for economic profit.
If we all copyright our personal information and any derivative thereof we will be safe from this 'privacy' legislation.
Use the DMCA against business.
If anyone is listening this late in the forum and would be interested in setting up a web portal for posting copyrighted personal info...
I wonder how that would work? If you publicly post your info and in a copyright format, can a business use it without your permission?
The best part about 3D interfaces is the ability to make vast leaps from one place to another without the need to memorize your environment. (ala CLI).
Think in terms of the real world where you can inspect your intended target from a distance and decide what the best route is to get there. That can't happen in 2D w/o alot of cumbersome reference (ala CLI).
3D allows for XYZ movement and perspective enabling 4D decisions.
If you knew that you had a setup workspace to your left and a differently setup workspace to your right and again one above you and below and 10 units in front and back and then could alternate the forementioned space with any one of the points mentioned... spatial division in 3D, would you not be more productive than having to dig repeatedly in to a hole/plane?
Get a Mac and try 3dOSX a 3D file browser using OpenGL (which will soon be completely hardware accellerated).
Also move to that crazy invention 'movies' for pr0n. No more endless directories and audio to boot..
"Shneiderman is best known for inventing a form of hyperlinked text called "Hyperties" in the 1980s, a forerunner of the World Wide "There's no reason to think he isn't right now about how timeboxes, dynamic query sliders and similar graphical interfaces will one day let us discover startling truths -- ...."
I think he' right about graphical sliders and giving weight to search criteria... imagine putting in keywords and then weighting them with a slider from 0 - 100 and getting instant feedback on how your manipulations affected the search. Very 'analog' in some ways...
Amazing, wish I'd thought of it myself. I'm willing to bet it will be implemented soon, just because it has been talked about now.
any thoughts?
This is the best analogy so far...
I can, for arguements sake, buy the book in print format to distribute according to Fair Use and:
A. Hand transcribe it.
B. Go to Kinko's and copy it page for page.
C. Buy an OCR scanner and again copy it page for page.
or
D. Use the Elcomsoft software and distribute it much the same as the above examples...
What is the difference? None. I'm merely using technology to enhance my performance.
As long as I am distributing according to Fair Use I haven't broken any laws... or have I? the DMCA would have it to be that I have, somehow.
Prosecute people for breaking a law, not for creating something that 'COULD' break the law.
What ever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty' or the 'right to bear arms' or 'freedom of speech' or any of our constitutional rights that specifically were created to keep citizens from being persecuted for the potential of committing crimes.
We are all potentially committing crimes just by being alive.
You make a great point about the voting process... black americans faced this point precisely when given the right to vote but then 'gagged' when attempting to exercise it.