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Correction, a lot of new cars have *multiple* CAN busses. The engine management bus is SEPARATE from the interior controls bus, for obvious reasons. Come on, people, auto engineers aren't that stupid.
Why not WiFi instead? What I'd like to have is a desktop application allowing me to select the music on my hard drive. Anything I select automatically gets syncronized with the car whever it comes within range.
Yeah, it's the same (almost) everywhere. But becoming like everybody else must be Microsoft's biggest nightmare. Their profits and stock price are out of this world. If they become "just another company" stamping out mediocre paychecks for bored employees like most other places, then it's only a matter of time until their profits and stock price follow, and those have a long, LONG way to fall before reaching the status of a "normal" company.
Oh yeah, I do remeber SGI... they lost their shirts trying to sell very expensive, exotic hardware even after commodity hardware caught up and then surpassed their niche offerings.
But that was graphics hardware and this time it's CPUs, so I'm sure things will turn out just fine for them.
I'm lucky enough to work where I can have pretty much whatever setup I want. My office mate does have 3 monitors as you describe, and the center one is a 23" Apple display.
Howver, I prefer a single 21" LCD monitor. I think multiple virtual destkops are better than a huge number of pixels, mainly because you don't have to move your mouse over such long distances and turn your head. (Not that I'm too lazy to turn my head, but IMHO it's more comfortable to look straight ahead).
I also think *vertical* real estate is better than horizontal (widescreen) for coding. Yeah yeah, each function should easily fit on a page and all that, but a file is after all a linear thing, and having several columns creates discontinuities in the presentation which I don't like.
The big thing I'm waiting for is reflective (rather than transmissive) displays with very high resolution and contrast. DVI has been stalled way too long at 1600x1200 and we need standardized, well-supported next-gen DVI for higher resolutions.
The bottom line is while Cinelerra is Free software, it is not a simple cheap video editor, it is a broadcast video production suite intended to be used by people who are doing real work with machines built for the job.
What is your experience with Cinelerra? Mine is that I produced a short video to publicise some work I did, and Cinelerra was a nightmare. It was extremely difficult to find any combination of codecs that would actually work. It crashed all the time. The sound filters made noisy garbled sound. Mind you, I'm not even commenting on the UI at all, as I'm not picky about that... but the basic functionality was very poor.
This was maybe as much as 2 years ago, so let's hope things have improved.
When it comes to constitutionality, it doesn't matter IF we need it, it doesn't matter WHY we need it, and it doesn't matter if the MAJORITY thinks we need it. The federal government has certain enumerated powers, and the rest is left to the States and the people.
Ha, that's a good one. Look, for better or worse, the idea of limited federal powers died with the civil rights movement and the New Deal. I don't think you can make much of an argument simply by pointing out that today's federal govt. is not particularly constitutional, it's so obvious I can only conclude that nobody cares.
And you must be new to ebay if you think it isn't profit-oriented. They're greedy suckers.
The question isn't whether ebay will try to make a profit from Skype, but whether Skype will still be worth anything to users when ebay is done with it.
Digital cameras have created shot inflation in the wedding market. Folk advertise 300, 400 or 500 pictures in their wedding packages and the customers who don't know think that more is better.
How is more not better? If you're trying to photograph people I think taking a lot of shots is a good idea, because most will be crap.
There's already proof Apple should have waited. Look at the nano, it's got such tiny flash chips which are huge storage-wise. Wouldn't it have made sense to wait just a little while longer and put those in the ROKR?
RTA... the author's premise is that Apple could easily have made the ROKR a better device than it is, but chose not to for business reasons.
I think fresh water, food and a place to sleep are way more important. You'd better donate something more usefull
Another one of these comments.
Look, officials have been complaining since day 1 that a big part of the problem is communications:
As powerful winds uprooted trees, power lines snapped and flood waters poured into homes and businesses, members of the New Orleans Police Department and other emergency responders had little more to communicate with than hand-held radios and cell phones. And communication with outside agencies, officials say, was near impossible.
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The radio system "was the only thing working during the storm," Schneider said. But it didn't allow contact with local agencies, he said. The National Guard couldn't get in touch with New Orleans Police Department officers working the city streets.
The military has been aware of this issue for *decades*, that's why they invented the Internet, which allows all kinds of information to be exchanged using a standard set of protocols. That is the key to allowing different parties, that don't usually communicate, to rapidly and dynamically set up new data exchange pathways during an emergency.
Now can I rant for a minute? Every time slashdot reports a communications network is to be set up in a poor country or emergency, somebody complains that communications are superflous in such circumstances. That's insane! Ask yourself - why are cops, soldiers, and emergency responders such heavy users of communications technology? Don't they have better things to do than sit around chatting?
You don't recycle walking energy, you _drain_ extra walking energy, so it will be heavier to wealg, given the same total load. Have you ever ridden a bicycle with a dynamo-driven headlight? That's more or less the idea.
Or it might be more like regenerative braking - not energy for free, but putting energy to use that would otherwise be wasted.
The guy carrying the pack is already raising it by a small amount with every step (because it bobs as he walks). Thus he is doing work. If the weight is suspended, it won't bounce as much with each step, and some of the energy previously used to lift the pack will go into the batteries. At least hopefully that's how it works out.
Unfortunately, dismounted infantry have to carry around heavy backpacks most of the time, see for instance:
A typical operation lasts for five or six days in the field, requiring each man to bring 22 litres of water, ammunition and packs that can weigh up to 90 kilograms, along with an M-4 carbine and a 9mm sidearm. Other missions can go on for 10 days.
More and more, batteries only add to the problem... recycling some of the walking energy to reduce the need for batteries is a fantastic idea, getting it to actually work is even better.
Maybe next they can reduce the need to carry water by recycling urine!
Apparently the number of noncombatants killed during the occupation alone is about 25K. If we haven't hit 100K total, that would mean at least 1 civilian is killed for every 3 insurgents. But still this would not count those killed in Gulf War I.
All the slashdot comments so far focus in the dumb aspects of the evaluation. How about the product itself?
This is the first time an iPod has really impressed me. A 4 gig, flash-based player for $250 is quite good - and in addition this thing is TINY. Unlike the silly iPod Shuffle, this has a *nice* interface with a color screen.
I still wouldn't buy the Nano because I mostly need one for workouts, so I like to have a radio and stopwatch. Still, this is a neat little mp3 player. I think they're going to sell a LOT of these for Christmas.
Yeah, things were much better when the legal system was the torture and execution of anyone who looked at the leadership funny.
OK, not a troll here, just a question, for which I do not have the answer.
How does the number of Iraqis killed by Saddam stack up against the number of Iraqis killed by the US?
I realize there's a lot of subjectivity here, for instance under which column do we put all the deaths caused by the sanctions? But has somebody analyzed this question?
Since it's only a prototype and not a product, and since they still have most of the two years until product release left, I'm guessing Philips does not see it as ready for primetime.
I'm really excited about reflective (vs emissive, like color LCD) displays though. Computers just won't work well outside dimly lit offices until reflective displays are practical. Think about a large-screen TV with NO brightness issues; you want it brighter, just shine a lamp on it (like a painting).
It's very funny, until you realize the implications.
Signatures are a laughably stupid "security precaution" in the first place, that's why nobody looks at them, and you don't even need them to order online (including over the phone).
Does that surprise anybody? Considering the would-be theif has the signature right in front of their face? It's like a password challenge in which the prompt includes the password.
But so what? Cash never had ANY notion of "proving" who it belonged to, and it's been with us for a long, long time.
Oh gebus. Spare me How many years of offshoring scaremongering do I have to put up with? I remember it from the 80s.
And now all the people who had good manufacturing jobs up until the 80s have joined the ranks of the working poor, performing menial service jobs. The gap between rich and poor has widened, and poverty is on the rise.
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Correction, a lot of new cars have *multiple* CAN busses. The engine management bus is SEPARATE from the interior controls bus, for obvious reasons. Come on, people, auto engineers aren't that stupid.
Why not WiFi instead? What I'd like to have is a desktop application allowing me to select the music on my hard drive. Anything I select automatically gets syncronized with the car whever it comes within range.
Yeah, it's the same (almost) everywhere. But becoming like everybody else must be Microsoft's biggest nightmare. Their profits and stock price are out of this world. If they become "just another company" stamping out mediocre paychecks for bored employees like most other places, then it's only a matter of time until their profits and stock price follow, and those have a long, LONG way to fall before reaching the status of a "normal" company.
But that was graphics hardware and this time it's CPUs, so I'm sure things will turn out just fine for them.
Come to think of it my brother has (or had) a usb tuner and hated it. I wonder what the problem is.
Howver, I prefer a single 21" LCD monitor. I think multiple virtual destkops are better than a huge number of pixels, mainly because you don't have to move your mouse over such long distances and turn your head. (Not that I'm too lazy to turn my head, but IMHO it's more comfortable to look straight ahead).
I also think *vertical* real estate is better than horizontal (widescreen) for coding. Yeah yeah, each function should easily fit on a page and all that, but a file is after all a linear thing, and having several columns creates discontinuities in the presentation which I don't like.
The big thing I'm waiting for is reflective (rather than transmissive) displays with very high resolution and contrast. DVI has been stalled way too long at 1600x1200 and we need standardized, well-supported next-gen DVI for higher resolutions.
This was maybe as much as 2 years ago, so let's hope things have improved.
Yup!
The question isn't whether ebay will try to make a profit from Skype, but whether Skype will still be worth anything to users when ebay is done with it.
Does Apache really not run right on Windows? I find that hard to believe.
1) We might as well pollute because the earth does it naturally, undoing whatever we do.
2) We need reduce emissions more than we thought, because our emissions cause warming which increases the Earth's emissions, compounding our effect.
I think the point of your parent post (curiously moderated 'troll') was to argue for interpretation #2.
Look, officials have been complaining since day 1 that a big part of the problem is communications:
The military has been aware of this issue for *decades*, that's why they invented the Internet, which allows all kinds of information to be exchanged using a standard set of protocols. That is the key to allowing different parties, that don't usually communicate, to rapidly and dynamically set up new data exchange pathways during an emergency.Now can I rant for a minute? Every time slashdot reports a communications network is to be set up in a poor country or emergency, somebody complains that communications are superflous in such circumstances. That's insane! Ask yourself - why are cops, soldiers, and emergency responders such heavy users of communications technology? Don't they have better things to do than sit around chatting?
The guy carrying the pack is already raising it by a small amount with every step (because it bobs as he walks). Thus he is doing work. If the weight is suspended, it won't bounce as much with each step, and some of the energy previously used to lift the pack will go into the batteries. At least hopefully that's how it works out.
Maybe next they can reduce the need to carry water by recycling urine!
This is the first time an iPod has really impressed me. A 4 gig, flash-based player for $250 is quite good - and in addition this thing is TINY. Unlike the silly iPod Shuffle, this has a *nice* interface with a color screen.
I still wouldn't buy the Nano because I mostly need one for workouts, so I like to have a radio and stopwatch. Still, this is a neat little mp3 player. I think they're going to sell a LOT of these for Christmas.
How does the number of Iraqis killed by Saddam stack up against the number of Iraqis killed by the US?
I realize there's a lot of subjectivity here, for instance under which column do we put all the deaths caused by the sanctions? But has somebody analyzed this question?
I'm really excited about reflective (vs emissive, like color LCD) displays though. Computers just won't work well outside dimly lit offices until reflective displays are practical. Think about a large-screen TV with NO brightness issues; you want it brighter, just shine a lamp on it (like a painting).
Does that surprise anybody? Considering the would-be theif has the signature right in front of their face? It's like a password challenge in which the prompt includes the password.
But so what? Cash never had ANY notion of "proving" who it belonged to, and it's been with us for a long, long time.
So what is your point?