... pop-ups on the web that actually display in front of you, circle around your head. Wouldn't it be the worst thing to see a pink gorilla lunge at you from your monitor with the "INTERACT WITH YOUR PC" embedded into your retina?:(
Why do most people asume that the living conditions on earth are the best model to compare other planets with? For all we know, the conditions here on Earth might be downright horrible for life to develop and we simply just got lucky. (Especially plausible if you think about the conditions we live in; instable tectonic plates, atmospheric disturbances, electro-atmospheric disturbances, oceanic disturbances, etcetera) But that'd going off-topic... There are simply so many things yet unknown and researchers are simply too eager to disregard a complicated subjects for various reasons I'm unfamiliar with...
Seriously, all products (used) to be aimed at a market. Since I live in a rather small and boring town, I might be wrong but isn't targetting a market essential for a product to get off the ground? Who are these people aiming for? Apparently no companies, who in their right mind would pay the (probably) insane ammount of money required for that when you can get an otherwise fine workstation for about 40% of the price and onboard graphics is the fastest way to scare away any potential gamers. Video and graphics editing people will still prefer the Mac for their job and because of horrible expandibility it won't be of any use in the CAD/CAM area either.
So what niche is JadeTec trying to fill here? Or are they going for the "I want to have something more espensive then the guy in the next cubicle/office" idea to sell their Micro-PC?
The topic of this article is highly misleading. One would think plants were capable of mining for metals like iron, copper or various mined good, while the real use is cleaning up the soil from any heavy-metal contamination, such as the arsenic example. A more practical use in the local neighbohrhood for this would be to clean the ground around older gas stations or clean the ground of heavy-metals where there used to be a steel mill.
Hmm, got a few good points there, though I feel like I should add that I don't hate logs with a passion, despite the general tone in my last comment. I don't like weblogs but I don't hate them either as they are just a hype that's dying out already. I can't say weblogs will be missed from my side, though there probably are a few good ones in existance. (Any weblog that never involved cats, shoes or an ex.)
But I have to disagree with you that slashdot is a group-weblog. Slashdot is more like a new-commentary system where a bunch of people can read and give their opinions about the latest event in several areas of interest that are considered "geeky". It'd be a true weblog if we'd have to read about Taco's last movie, his wife's pregnant cat and the latest news on the divorce settlement of his sister and be unable to comment.
My god, you are so right. I've read a few WEBLOGS casually (the word "blogs" sickens me for some reason, makes me think of mucus originating from the nasal cavity. I know a couple of weblogs online and I never read any of them religious, just peeking once every few months in the hope of seeing a suicide letter or something else that might be entertaining, but most of them simply contain the most insignificant crap imaginable.
I'm not going to complain too much about it, I'm not wasting my time looking at someone stroking his or her[*] ego or wasting money on hosting. If people insist on reading weblogs, they can go right ahead. But for the love of all that is holy, some people simply do NOT care at ALL. Trying to force your own weblog upon everyone in every imaginable way is not good publicity and it will eventually lead to one guy trying to DoS your hosting company by putting up a link on slashdot.
* = Remarkeably, the ratio out male/female webloggers is completely out of sync with the ratio of men/women, where there are FAR more women weblogging then one would expect. Curious.
At 07:00 this morning, a newly comissioned methanol based airliner made by the Boeing corporation crashed near London Heathrow airport due to what seems to be a fuel shortage. Rescue personel is currently attempting to find and rescue any survivors in the wreckage of the crashed plane.
The tragedy started at 22:00 in Ney York's LaGuardia airport where 850 individuals boarded the newly comissioned and experimental plane. The majority of the passengers was bound for a Open Source meeting in Hamburg, Germany. The first signs of trouble came about Ireland, when the reports of fuel loss came in. Initially, these were disregarded as anomalies due to the new fuel system. This simple human mistake proved to cost about 700 human lives later in London.
While the most likely cause is a spantanous depressurization of the fuel compartments or a large leak, authorities have found evidence pointing in a different direction. Here we have a recording of the passenger area voice recorder. Were now playing it back live to you:
Geek 1: I'm bored, how much longer does the flight last? Geek 2: Much longer, I wish we hadn't drained our fuel cells in the departure halls... Geek 3: Tell me about it. So, this is one of those new Boeings, right? Geek 2: Yeah, it is, it's based on a new kind of engine concept that works on methanol! It's really great stuff if you're into engineering... Geek 1: Methanol!? Geek 3: Brethren, I have just found a solution for our boredom! Tell me where the main fuel conduits are and get me a Dremel from the casemodders department!
*** Sound of several minutes of apparent use of tools ***
Geek 1: We did it! Everyone got their load of methane? Geek 2: First post at slashdot! Geek 3: Damn you, Stallma-... Hey, are we losing altit-
*** Static (or various moans and cries with a dark voice rambling "Liberate Tuteme Ex Infernus"(sp?) if you're in a marcabre mood.) ***
We are going to build the LFS system by using a previously installed Linux distribution such as Debian, SuSE, Slackware, Mandrake, RedHat, etc. We will use the existing Linux system as the development platform, because we need tools like a compiler, linker, text editor, and other development tools to build our system. Ordinarily, the required tools are available by default if we selected "development" as one of our installation options when we installed a Linux distribution.
Okay, so what do these people mean by "Linux From Scratch"? Installing another distro first to install "required tools" is in my view not installing from scratch. I was hoping to be able to install a very, VERY base HD based distro for my two antique 486s with just the standard stuff (GCC, shell, GNU utils and iptables) for use as a router/NAT gateway but that is quite far out of the question now. Huge disappointment from something with such a promissing name.
Mr. Yuri Gagarin outdid him by actually going into space first. Cheers. So who cares if its the same "John Carmack" idiot who managed to create a hype around Doom 3 which I still firmely believe to be a Daikatana sized flop when/is it is going to be released. What's next on slashdot? "John Carmack buys new car!" or something like "John Carmack expels methane from his anus!"
Ah well, if that's the biggest mistake I made, then sod it:) At least I did give you people credit for your own culture and all, far more then any regular dutch person is willing to admit;) (Maybe because I'm a tiny little bit Frysian as well...)
The "Elfstedentocht" (meaning "The 11 cities marathon") is a both competetive as well as non-competetive skating event done whenever possible in the Dutch province of Friesland or Frylân in it's own dialect. The Frysian people have allot of customs and habits that differentiate the Frysian culture from the dutch one, but one of the most notable things is the Elfstedentocht, a long (nearly 200km) skating marathon, charatarized by both the massive number of participants as well as the massive number of spectators.
The Elfstedentocht itself is divided in two main events, the time-trail of which most participants are professionals and the tour, of which most participants are amateurs. Both follow the same rules, where skaters are to collect stamps at designated and sometimes hidden checkpoints. Only when all stamps are collected and the skater finishes the Elfstedentocht in time, will it be considered as complete. In the end, there are no real prizes to be won except a small but coveted medal called an "Elfstedenkruisje". (Cross of the 11 cities) The only thing other then that is cult status for the winner of the time-trail.
Lately, this event is becoming more and more rare due to soft winters we experience here in the Netherlands, though when it does happen, it nearly equeals itself with the football/soccer World Cup events in popularity. Also, it's a different side of the Netherlands most people don't know about. If you can skate, if you know some dutch people and if you got quite some endurance, be sure to sign up for this. It is far less of a commercial event then most other sporting events and it's a refreshing break from the normal stereotype that enshrouds us Dutchies. (No, we do not wear clogs all day, we do not all live in windmills, we do not each have our own cannabis garden nor do we all walk around sticking our fingers in dykes or large mounds of earth bordering rivers. Thank you.)
Then again, if you're as stupid as to spill some extremely aggresive acid on your hand, (most acids commonly available aren't aggresive enough to radically change things) not actually clean it off, endure agonizing pain in the process of letting it disfigure your hand, manage to hold a mouse with your disfigured hand and then finally wonder why it doesn't work, one shouldn't be allowed to use a computer to start with.
This is actually good news, at least now we can hold another "Elfstedentocht" again here in the Netherlands. Then again, having -20 degrees celcius all year round might not be as fun as it seems, though it would rock for once to have said "Elfstedentocht" in July... ^_^
Then again, I was expecting global warming which would place my town right next to the sea. I already had a burger stall planned out to make money on the German tourists...:(
This is where I open a big chest, pull out my Dutch skeptism and give Mr. Stallman one Funny Look(tm) before asking "What's the big fucking deal?".
Dammit people, get your goddamn act straight. All this bickering and mud throwing in the open source community is giving Mr. Ballmer snug dreams of a future where the open source movement kills itself due to internal argueing and petty name-calling. (pun intended) Why doesn't everyone get over their damn pride and start to cooperate instead?
played the demo for a bit, graphics are nice, went back to the old favorite. i may eat my words by next month, but this ain't no counter-strike killer.
Of course it isn't, you can not kill that which is already dead.
I've been trying to get it through to my teachers that my spelling and grammar errors aren't much of a wrong thing, just a creative interpretation of the Dutch language and it's associated grammar. It never worked though and I still suck at Dutch as a language. *sob*
Very true, I've been using MS mice for quite a while now and amazingly, they still work perfectly. (especially amazing if you consider how I mistreat my hardware) Also, what was quite amusing is that the MS mouse was easier to install under Linux then under Windows:)
What linux or any other open source program really needs are open sourced drivers so that a standard install procedure will recognize ALL (known) hardware found and with open sourced drivers available for download of non-standard hardware. (And that excludes cheap crap like nvidia pulls which taints the linux kernel.)
Unfortunatly, such an objective is out of the hands of the open source developers/zealots and within the capabilities of multinationals who are too shortsighted to open source their drivers and/or hardware specs. Besides, the desktops currently available still lie overtop a CLI and if you ever want Linux to have success as a Desktop OS, you need to get rid of the CLI first. Make a clear difference between desktop and other distros. Eliminate the damned CLI from the desktop ones, bind the kernel to a GUI instead. Desktop users do not want the GUI as basis, they want the GUI.
I am dutch as well and I doubt the level of truth is Basje's claims. The dutch police largely consists of "Melkert banen", or goverment subsidized jobs for long-term unemployed people (read: mostly lazy bastards). This, combined with the fact the dutch police is largely corrupt (at least those that I know, personally.) makes me doubt that our police actually manages to crank out more phone taps then the US. Maybe the dutch version of the CIA, called the BVD, might be able to do something, but not on that scale.
Think about it, while YOU might be sharing the files, your Uni?College/Whatever the heck you people go to will be held responsible for anything caught on their network if any organization were to conduct a full sweep of the network and find hundreds of gigs worth of copyrighted materials. It only makes sense for them to discourage filesharing. They don't care if you got it on your comp, that's not their concern. The fact is they don't want it on their network using their servers, because at that point they end up screwed.
At least that's what I got when sysadmins from my college found out I was running an illegal version of Win2k Pro and hosting about 8 gigs of warez on the (rather small according to US standards) college network... User/Password protected NTFS shares on a supposedly Win98/ME only network (Don't ask.) stick out like a sore thumb apparently...
Slashdot Mirror
... pop-ups on the web that actually display in front of you, circle around your head. Wouldn't it be the worst thing to see a pink gorilla lunge at you from your monitor with the "INTERACT WITH YOUR PC" embedded into your retina? :(
Why do most people asume that the living conditions on earth are the best model to compare other planets with? For all we know, the conditions here on Earth might be downright horrible for life to develop and we simply just got lucky. (Especially plausible if you think about the conditions we live in; instable tectonic plates, atmospheric disturbances, electro-atmospheric disturbances, oceanic disturbances, etcetera) But that'd going off-topic... There are simply so many things yet unknown and researchers are simply too eager to disregard a complicated subjects for various reasons I'm unfamiliar with...
Seriously, all products (used) to be aimed at a market. Since I live in a rather small and boring town, I might be wrong but isn't targetting a market essential for a product to get off the ground? Who are these people aiming for? Apparently no companies, who in their right mind would pay the (probably) insane ammount of money required for that when you can get an otherwise fine workstation for about 40% of the price and onboard graphics is the fastest way to scare away any potential gamers. Video and graphics editing people will still prefer the Mac for their job and because of horrible expandibility it won't be of any use in the CAD/CAM area either.
So what niche is JadeTec trying to fill here? Or are they going for the "I want to have something more espensive then the guy in the next cubicle/office" idea to sell their Micro-PC?
The topic of this article is highly misleading. One would think plants were capable of mining for metals like iron, copper or various mined good, while the real use is cleaning up the soil from any heavy-metal contamination, such as the arsenic example. A more practical use in the local neighbohrhood for this would be to clean the ground around older gas stations or clean the ground of heavy-metals where there used to be a steel mill.
Hmm, got a few good points there, though I feel like I should add that I don't hate logs with a passion, despite the general tone in my last comment. I don't like weblogs but I don't hate them either as they are just a hype that's dying out already. I can't say weblogs will be missed from my side, though there probably are a few good ones in existance. (Any weblog that never involved cats, shoes or an ex.)
But I have to disagree with you that slashdot is a group-weblog. Slashdot is more like a new-commentary system where a bunch of people can read and give their opinions about the latest event in several areas of interest that are considered "geeky". It'd be a true weblog if we'd have to read about Taco's last movie, his wife's pregnant cat and the latest news on the divorce settlement of his sister and be unable to comment.
My god, you are so right. I've read a few WEBLOGS casually (the word "blogs" sickens me for some reason, makes me think of mucus originating from the nasal cavity. I know a couple of weblogs online and I never read any of them religious, just peeking once every few months in the hope of seeing a suicide letter or something else that might be entertaining, but most of them simply contain the most insignificant crap imaginable.
I'm not going to complain too much about it, I'm not wasting my time looking at someone stroking his or her[*] ego or wasting money on hosting. If people insist on reading weblogs, they can go right ahead. But for the love of all that is holy, some people simply do NOT care at ALL. Trying to force your own weblog upon everyone in every imaginable way is not good publicity and it will eventually lead to one guy trying to DoS your hosting company by putting up a link on slashdot.
* = Remarkeably, the ratio out male/female webloggers is completely out of sync with the ratio of men/women, where there are FAR more women weblogging then one would expect. Curious.
Geek 2
Geek 3
Geek 2
Geek 1
Geek 3
*** Sound of several minutes of apparent use of tools ***
Geek 1
Geek 2
Geek 3
*** Static (or various moans and cries with a dark voice rambling "Liberate Tuteme Ex Infernus"(sp?) if you're in a marcabre mood.) ***
From: LFS Book 4.0 - Chapter 1.1, Section 2
Okay, so what do these people mean by "Linux From Scratch"? Installing another distro first to install "required tools" is in my view not installing from scratch. I was hoping to be able to install a very, VERY base HD based distro for my two antique 486s with just the standard stuff (GCC, shell, GNU utils and iptables) for use as a router/NAT gateway but that is quite far out of the question now. Huge disappointment from something with such a promissing name.
As usual, the best games are only released on a console...
Dpends how creative the Marketing Dept is really. If they are GOOD, they can work miracles even with that.
Mr. Yuri Gagarin outdid him by actually going into space first. Cheers. So who cares if its the same "John Carmack" idiot who managed to create a hype around Doom 3 which I still firmely believe to be a Daikatana sized flop when /is it is going to be released. What's next on slashdot? "John Carmack buys new car!" or something like "John Carmack expels methane from his anus!"
Ah well, if that's the biggest mistake I made, then sod it :) At least I did give you people credit for your own culture and all, far more then any regular dutch person is willing to admit ;) (Maybe because I'm a tiny little bit Frysian as well...)
Frylân boppe!
The "Elfstedentocht" (meaning "The 11 cities marathon") is a both competetive as well as non-competetive skating event done whenever possible in the Dutch province of Friesland or Frylân in it's own dialect. The Frysian people have allot of customs and habits that differentiate the Frysian culture from the dutch one, but one of the most notable things is the Elfstedentocht, a long (nearly 200km) skating marathon, charatarized by both the massive number of participants as well as the massive number of spectators.
The Elfstedentocht itself is divided in two main events, the time-trail of which most participants are professionals and the tour, of which most participants are amateurs. Both follow the same rules, where skaters are to collect stamps at designated and sometimes hidden checkpoints. Only when all stamps are collected and the skater finishes the Elfstedentocht in time, will it be considered as complete. In the end, there are no real prizes to be won except a small but coveted medal called an "Elfstedenkruisje". (Cross of the 11 cities) The only thing other then that is cult status for the winner of the time-trail.
Lately, this event is becoming more and more rare due to soft winters we experience here in the Netherlands, though when it does happen, it nearly equeals itself with the football/soccer World Cup events in popularity. Also, it's a different side of the Netherlands most people don't know about. If you can skate, if you know some dutch people and if you got quite some endurance, be sure to sign up for this. It is far less of a commercial event then most other sporting events and it's a refreshing break from the normal stereotype that enshrouds us Dutchies. (No, we do not wear clogs all day, we do not all live in windmills, we do not each have our own cannabis garden nor do we all walk around sticking our fingers in dykes or large mounds of earth bordering rivers. Thank you.)
Then again, if you're as stupid as to spill some extremely aggresive acid on your hand, (most acids commonly available aren't aggresive enough to radically change things) not actually clean it off, endure agonizing pain in the process of letting it disfigure your hand, manage to hold a mouse with your disfigured hand and then finally wonder why it doesn't work, one shouldn't be allowed to use a computer to start with.
This is actually good news, at least now we can hold another "Elfstedentocht" again here in the Netherlands. Then again, having -20 degrees celcius all year round might not be as fun as it seems, though it would rock for once to have said "Elfstedentocht" in July... ^_^
Then again, I was expecting global warming which would place my town right next to the sea. I already had a burger stall planned out to make money on the German tourists... :(
This is where I open a big chest, pull out my Dutch skeptism and give Mr. Stallman one Funny Look(tm) before asking "What's the big fucking deal?".
Dammit people, get your goddamn act straight. All this bickering and mud throwing in the open source community is giving Mr. Ballmer snug dreams of a future where the open source movement kills itself due to internal argueing and petty name-calling. (pun intended) Why doesn't everyone get over their damn pride and start to cooperate instead?
...and getting told by your boss, with a smile, that you now work for Microsoft instead. *twitch*
played the demo for a bit, graphics are nice, went back to the old favorite. i may eat my words by next month, but this ain't no counter-strike killer.
Of course it isn't, you can not kill that which is already dead.
creative writing
I've been trying to get it through to my teachers that my spelling and grammar errors aren't much of a wrong thing, just a creative interpretation of the Dutch language and it's associated grammar. It never worked though and I still suck at Dutch as a language. *sob*
Very true, I've been using MS mice for quite a while now and amazingly, they still work perfectly. (especially amazing if you consider how I mistreat my hardware) Also, what was quite amusing is that the MS mouse was easier to install under Linux then under Windows :)
Antihydrogen has been made before, but only a handful of atoms at a time.
A handfull? Wouldn't that be like... Millions and millions of atoms? Or am I seeing things in the wrong perspective here?
If you can afford dual LCD screens then surely another PSU most be well withing your financial grasp...
What linux or any other open source program really needs are open sourced drivers so that a standard install procedure will recognize ALL (known) hardware found and with open sourced drivers available for download of non-standard hardware. (And that excludes cheap crap like nvidia pulls which taints the linux kernel.)
Unfortunatly, such an objective is out of the hands of the open source developers/zealots and within the capabilities of multinationals who are too shortsighted to open source their drivers and/or hardware specs. Besides, the desktops currently available still lie overtop a CLI and if you ever want Linux to have success as a Desktop OS, you need to get rid of the CLI first. Make a clear difference between desktop and other distros. Eliminate the damned CLI from the desktop ones, bind the kernel to a GUI instead. Desktop users do not want the GUI as basis, they want the GUI.
.I am dutch as well and I doubt the level of truth is Basje's claims. The dutch police largely consists of "Melkert banen", or goverment subsidized jobs for long-term unemployed people (read: mostly lazy bastards). This, combined with the fact the dutch police is largely corrupt (at least those that I know, personally.) makes me doubt that our police actually manages to crank out more phone taps then the US. Maybe the dutch version of the CIA, called the BVD, might be able to do something, but not on that scale.
Think about it, while YOU might be sharing the files, your Uni?College/Whatever the heck you people go to will be held responsible for anything caught on their network if any organization were to conduct a full sweep of the network and find hundreds of gigs worth of copyrighted materials. It only makes sense for them to discourage filesharing. They don't care if you got it on your comp, that's not their concern. The fact is they don't want it on their network using their servers, because at that point they end up screwed.
At least that's what I got when sysadmins from my college found out I was running an illegal version of Win2k Pro and hosting about 8 gigs of warez on the (rather small according to US standards) college network... User/Password protected NTFS shares on a supposedly Win98/ME only network (Don't ask.) stick out like a sore thumb apparently...