I think you've found the formula for the best discussion of technical and scientific issues on the web - editor selected stories and reader moderated comments.
Whenever I think of a story to post to slashdot, I try to anticipate how people are going to respond, but when a story is accepted, I am always amazed by the diversity of opinion and the startling insights I see generated. Slashdot is online brainstorming at its best with the benefit of tens of thousands of smart people looking at an idea and providing their unique points of view.
I think Vernor Vinge said it best in his dedication to Rainbows End. "To the Internet-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives -- Wikipedia, Google, eBay, and the others of their kind, now and in the future"
To that distinguished group, I would definitely add slashdot.
Best Regards and hopes for 10 more years of slashdot success.
It was already invented and went commercial six years ago. It was called "ThirdVoice." It was started in 1999. It lasted about a year, ran into a lot of opposition, got into some legal problems and shut down. Webmasters hated it.
Twenty-five years ago I was working for Collins Radio in Saudi Arabia as a microwave engineer helping install the country's first nation-wide communications system and was part of the team that installed relay systems across the Empty Quarter (Rub al-Khali) of Saudi Arabia.
Absolute desolation, totally uninhabited, hundreds of miles from the nearest city, no living creatures (plant or animal) in the part we crossed. Complete silence.
Yes, you can hear the blood flow in your veins through your neck.
At night, I would do out onto the desert floor and lay on my back and look up into the stars on a moonless night and it felt like you were floating in the center of the galaxy.
Actually there is a way to store the energy when a vehicle brakes into a flywheel and then use it to re-acelerate the vehicle after the stop. It's called a regenerative braking system.
No violation of conservation of energy. You are simply storing part of the energy that would have gone into heat and re-using it later.
You mean the man who wrote and produced the radio play that produced panic in 1938 - Orson Wells, not Herbert George Wells, the man who wrote the book in 1898 well before the advent of commercial radio.
Welles made an change in the way the play was produced: under his direction the play was written and performed so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that, presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect.
How about going back to the 1950's.
First mention I can find of the concept is in Robert A. Heinlein's "The Door into Summer" - an old sf novel built around a designer who lives in the 1970's who builds the first domestic robot - a robotic vacuum-cleaner called "Hired Girl".
Book was copyrighted in 1957.
Can anybody take it back any further?
Under certain circumstances the global time difference can work to your advantage. A few years ago our company developed software for a Ground Station in the Deep Space Network in Canberra, Australia. We split up the team during the test phase and sent our testers to Australia while the main development team stayed in the US.
At the end of the project, the project managers were surprised to discover that the test phase of the project had been completed in half the time that had been budgeted for it. They had actually picked up time during testing.
What happened is that with the 12 hour time difference, the test team in Australia was working all day and sending in their bug reports the last thing before they went home. Meanwhile, the development team in the US would arrive first thing in the morning and find the bug reports waiting for them. They would work on them all day and send a new build to Australia at the end of the day where it would be waiting for the test team first thing in their morning.
Granted, this was a special case, but it shows that it is possible to use geographically dispersed teams to your advantage. Details on the project are available here.
Slashdot Mirror
Congratulations on 10 years of slashdot.
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I think you've found the formula for the best discussion of technical and scientific issues on the web - editor selected stories and reader moderated comments.
Whenever I think of a story to post to slashdot, I try to anticipate how people are going to respond, but when a story is accepted, I am always amazed by the diversity of opinion and the startling insights I see generated. Slashdot is online brainstorming at its best with the benefit of tens of thousands of smart people looking at an idea and providing their unique points of view
I think Vernor Vinge said it best in his dedication to Rainbows End. "To the Internet-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives -- Wikipedia, Google, eBay, and the others of their kind, now and in the future"
To that distinguished group, I would definitely add slashdot.
Best Regards and hopes for 10 more years of slashdot success.
From 2003: Forty Percent of All Email is Spam
It was already invented and went commercial six years ago. It was called "ThirdVoice." It was started in 1999. It lasted about a year, ran into a lot of opposition, got into some legal problems and shut down. Webmasters hated it.
Twenty-five years ago I was working for Collins Radio in Saudi Arabia as a microwave engineer helping install the country's first nation-wide communications system and was part of the team that installed relay systems across the Empty Quarter (Rub al-Khali) of Saudi Arabia.
Absolute desolation, totally uninhabited, hundreds of miles from the nearest city, no living creatures (plant or animal) in the part we crossed. Complete silence.
Yes, you can hear the blood flow in your veins through your neck.
At night, I would do out onto the desert floor and lay on my back and look up into the stars on a moonless night and it felt like you were floating in the center of the galaxy.
here.
Actually there is a way to store the energy when a vehicle brakes into a flywheel and then use it to re-acelerate the vehicle after the stop. It's called a regenerative braking system.
No violation of conservation of energy. You are simply storing part of the energy that would have gone into heat and re-using it later.
Take a look at: Urenco Power Technologies - they've been doing this for years.
Yeah.
It's called hitting Crtl + Alt + Del and looking at the CPU usage.
You mean the man who wrote and produced the radio play that produced panic in 1938 - Orson Wells, not Herbert George Wells, the man who wrote the book in 1898 well before the advent of commercial radio.
Welles made an change in the way the play was produced: under his direction the play was written and performed so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that, presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect.
Read the story at War of the Worlds, Orson Welles.
34% of slashdot readers who went to the Eiffel site use Mozilla,
25% run Linux, and
7% have Realplayer installed
according to this.
How about going back to the 1950's. First mention I can find of the concept is in Robert A. Heinlein's "The Door into Summer" - an old sf novel built around a designer who lives in the 1970's who builds the first domestic robot - a robotic vacuum-cleaner called "Hired Girl". Book was copyrighted in 1957. Can anybody take it back any further?
Under certain circumstances the global time difference can work to your advantage. A few years ago our company developed software for a Ground Station in the Deep Space Network in Canberra, Australia. We split up the team during the test phase and sent our testers to Australia while the main development team stayed in the US.
At the end of the project, the project managers were surprised to discover that the test phase of the project had been completed in half the time that had been budgeted for it. They had actually picked up time during testing.
What happened is that with the 12 hour time difference, the test team in Australia was working all day and sending in their bug reports the last thing before they went home. Meanwhile, the development team in the US would arrive first thing in the morning and find the bug reports waiting for them. They would work on them all day and send a new build to Australia at the end of the day where it would be waiting for the test team first thing in their morning.
Granted, this was a special case, but it shows that it is possible to use geographically dispersed teams to your advantage. Details on the project are available here.