There are a bunch of 3D caves around now. These use HUGE data sets to display 3D info by surrounding you with screens and wearing stereo flicker glasses (so you can get full colour 3D)
Video conferencing is cool, but sitting in a room that makes it look like you're sitting in the same room as the person you're having a conference with is unreal.
And if that doesn't work, just make 'em play Cave-Quake on the now present cave!
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Exactly. It's not about whether or not Ferrari can build a better lap-top than ACER or Dell or Apple or whoever, but rather cross branding, and individualization. The linux community is a great environment for individualization of technology, so the extension of this concept into hardware seems like an appropriate/. story to me!
I'd love to see one of those Toughbooks with a "Jeep" brand on it. I'd think 2ce about getting one because I drive a jeep.
If it's just about function, then why would people ever buy cheques that have a sailboat on them, or different kind of anything? The choice of having a Ferrari laptop will hopefully only be the beginning. Notice things like mini-iPods being offered in several colours, cell phone covers etc, design is important, and people are buying.
If you just want to have someradio, why not just add an FM tuner to it, seems like bluetooth to interface with another device (i.e. cell phone) is a really expensive and difficult way to do this....
Also, if you wanted to do that you could just listen to the internet radio on your cell phone.
Why do people always look for the most difficult solution?
It's highly unlikely that these delegates will be discussing which technologies to support and whatnot. It seems much more likely that they'll be considering means of legislating abuse of the system , how technology impacts national/international laws, and what to do when these laws are breached.
I think that's an admirable thing, and it's time for some international co-operation regarding persuing SPAMers, Hackers, and other individuals that would use the lack of international legislation to perpetrate their nastiness.
I hope you've all read yesterdays post about security breaches. The author found linkages between no less than 4 countries hosting servers in order to send out SPAM.
I've got a few bad words for it.
First of all its interface is terrible, and extremely hard to customize. For instance you can't really just write an HTML page and upload it and hope it will work (except in special circumstances)
I've never seen a photo-album plug in, and I expect one would be terriblely difficult.
Simple scripting is difficult. I wanted to add a simple Python script to a zope site, and there was almost no way to do it.
Basically, without a GREAT deal of learning curve, zope is only good for small businesses that want to have some of their emplyee's document what they're researching online.
However, this is based only on one users perspective, I'm sure lots of you are much better at it, but it's certainly not intuitive or easy or something that I would want my mother trying to figure out (and she's got her Masters Degree in CS)
The server line only is so successful because of the branding of the desktop line. If they drop one, they'll lose the other.
Not to mention that it's Almost to the point that corps will be willing to pay for it! That's great, drop the OS just as it's about to become functional!
I thought that professors were supposed to be at a school to teach.
You thought wrong.
It all depends on the school. This is especially true of research oriented schools where a fair portion of a professors salary is paid out by that professors research grant(s). If you want to go to a school to get taught, go to a technical college/trade school. If you want to go to learn, go to a university.
Are you stupid or something?
Please. Have a bit of intelligence. I said it has a bias. If you don't think so, then read some news from other sources. Yes, the CS Monitor is a propoganda machine. If you don't think so, you've probably got some religious issues yourself.
In the same way that news papers owned by Americans tend to have an American bias (as that's who their readers are) and by French have a french Bias, and Canadians... etc. The Christian Science Monitor is distinctly Christian, and most certainly has a Heavy Christian bias to it.
All media is biased, all reporters are as well, and so are all readers. It just so happens that the grain of salt you have to read the CSM with is about the size of a pony.
I'm sure the MPAA is coming over right now... obviously 2TB is a significant effort whose only purpose is to circumvent size limitations, and thus the DMCA!
Projecting Slashdot onto the wall and spending time with my Family reading slashdot
Ask them if they can figure out what the acronyms mean! Ask grandma if she knows who Jack Velenti is, and if so, did they ever have an affair? (seriously, I think if we all do this we may dig up some dirt) Fun for the whole family!
And don't forget to check out Think Geek to see what you didn't get for X-Mas!
It wasn't so long ago that there was an article posted here that showed that violent crime is going up because we have better ambulance service now.
ERT's and Doctors are saving so many people that murders are going down, and those people who would have been murderers are now just charged with "violent" crimes (shooting someone and not killing them)
Perhaps because most people have a better understanding of the underlying technology than you have.
Throwing out "big words" like DSLAM doesn't make you smart, knowing how it all works might.
Once you're on the public commodity internet, the connection is roughly the same (depending on what your ISP is shelling out for, or if they maintain their own backbone etc.) However, the critical part, and the part that limits most peoples speed, is what we call the last mile This is the connection FROM your ISP TO you. Which is essentially what an ISP, be they cable or DSL, is in business doing. So that part (which is where most "slowness" occurs) is better if it's YOUR last mile, and not a shared last mile.
You might think of it like a road that leads to your house from the freeway. If you have the only property on that road, then you can probably drive at the speed-limit whenever you like, this is like DSL. If you are on Cable, even if your road is an extra lane than your private road, you'll generally go slower if there are more houses on the road and the correlating increase in traffic. On cable it's in the companies best interest to build as few roads as possible, and thus the customers (who seem to think that their road is better because it has an extra lane) actually end up going SLOWER.
Furthermore, when I have a private road, I can be pretty sure that any traffic I don't recognize is unwanted traffic, and since it's MY road, I can recognize anything I don't recognize as potentially dangerous traffic. While on the public road that leads to many houses, you can't be sure if the next packet is for someone else, or is malicious, and you can't be sure who is watching YOUR traffic.
Once you're on the freeway (IE. Public Internet) then all bets are off, and the ISP cannot really mandate/dictate your speed in any reasonable fashion.
Why do people get the notion that they can make blanket statements about topics they obviously don't understand?
My current Science Patent is pending at the US Patent office. I've outlined the "Technique of researching, evaluating and publishing" Where in a participant (which I call Scientist) will seek to find a problem, then think about or find a solution. This patent also covers the cases where there is an a priori solution, and the Scientist attempts to find a problem
If you wish to license this technology, please contact me.
Except for the ease of deployment DSL is simply a more stable, scalable and secure solution to broadband. I for one don't want to be on the same network segment as hundreds of other subscribers.
Cable is winning in the states because it was more readily deployed. Poor solutions often are. It came to my neighborhood about 6 months before DSL was offered, and most of my neighbors signed up. Now they each complain that when it's busy (when they're on) it's slow, getting to top speed only when the log on in the early morning or late night.
Except that the article isn't really about Adverts
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It's about how morals are not scalable, and how running a company based on the case by case analysis of right vs. wrong becomes very difficult when you are bound by variuos legislative and political bodies that may not have very moral laws, lobby groups that most certainly are not moral, and users that don't want to be f'd with.
So: With all due respect - READ THE FUCKING ARTILE
As much as we'd all like to not judge a book by its cover, it's virtually the only recommendation that people have to go by when buying something. This isn't necessarily true of all cases, but for most fiction and hobby style books, is all that matters.
I worked in a bookstore for years before my current life, and spent some of that time interacting with publishers and reps. Any-time you run across an author you don't know, you trust 2 things, the rep (who has a vested interest in making you purchase the books) and the cover. Why not judge books by their covers? It's way easier than reading the entire thing!
If 1% of the source were to have the magic, then if that part is hidden, basically all you have left is gui and i/o. So What's the Point of releasing it? Furthermore, this guy somehow thinks that removing the #define is an effective barrier to piracy? I think I heard of something called a symbol table at some point.... maybe that would help black-beard? This guy is just trying to stir up shit so that he can make a mark. The only customers that would be dumb enough to hire him, are the same ones that would believe his inane ramblings. Good luck Mr. Connell, if you ever have a good idea, feel free to share it.
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Microsoft can't buy UNIX as it would be a breach of their anti-trust settlement and an obvious move into a MORE monopolistic position
There are a bunch of 3D caves around now. These use HUGE data sets to display 3D info by surrounding you with screens and wearing stereo flicker glasses (so you can get full colour 3D)
Video conferencing is cool, but sitting in a room that makes it look like you're sitting in the same room as the person you're having a conference with is unreal.
And if that doesn't work, just make 'em play Cave-Quake on the now present cave!
Exactly. It's not about whether or not Ferrari can build a better lap-top than ACER or Dell or Apple or whoever, but rather cross branding, and individualization. The linux community is a great environment for individualization of technology, so the extension of this concept into hardware seems like an appropriate /. story to me!
I'd love to see one of those Toughbooks with a "Jeep" brand on it. I'd think 2ce about getting one because I drive a jeep.
If it's just about function, then why would people ever buy cheques that have a sailboat on them, or different kind of anything? The choice of having a Ferrari laptop will hopefully only be the beginning. Notice things like mini-iPods being offered in several colours, cell phone covers etc, design is important, and people are buying.
I bet they end up owing IBM so much money that IBM can buy them for a song.
If you just want to have someradio, why not just add an FM tuner to it, seems like bluetooth to interface with another device (i.e. cell phone) is a really expensive and difficult way to do this....
Also, if you wanted to do that you could just listen to the internet radio on your cell phone.
Why do people always look for the most difficult solution?
It's highly unlikely that these delegates will be discussing which technologies to support and whatnot. It seems much more likely that they'll be considering means of legislating abuse of the system , how technology impacts national/international laws, and what to do when these laws are breached.
I think that's an admirable thing, and it's time for some international co-operation regarding persuing SPAMers, Hackers, and other individuals that would use the lack of international legislation to perpetrate their nastiness.
I hope you've all read yesterdays post about security breaches. The author found linkages between no less than 4 countries hosting servers in order to send out SPAM.
I've got a few bad words for it. First of all its interface is terrible, and extremely hard to customize. For instance you can't really just write an HTML page and upload it and hope it will work (except in special circumstances) I've never seen a photo-album plug in, and I expect one would be terriblely difficult. Simple scripting is difficult. I wanted to add a simple Python script to a zope site, and there was almost no way to do it. Basically, without a GREAT deal of learning curve, zope is only good for small businesses that want to have some of their emplyee's document what they're researching online. However, this is based only on one users perspective, I'm sure lots of you are much better at it, but it's certainly not intuitive or easy or something that I would want my mother trying to figure out (and she's got her Masters Degree in CS)
The server line only is so successful because of the branding of the desktop line. If they drop one, they'll lose the other. Not to mention that it's Almost to the point that corps will be willing to pay for it! That's great, drop the OS just as it's about to become functional!
I thought that professors were supposed to be at a school to teach.
You thought wrong.
It all depends on the school. This is especially true of research oriented schools where a fair portion of a professors salary is paid out by that professors research grant(s). If you want to go to a school to get taught, go to a technical college/trade school. If you want to go to learn, go to a university.
Are you stupid or something?
Please. Have a bit of intelligence.
I said it has a bias. If you don't think so, then read some news from other sources. Yes, the CS Monitor is a propoganda machine. If you don't think so, you've probably got some religious issues yourself.
Did you read the article that was this story is about? Obviously you need to look up bias in the dictionary.
All media is biased, all reporters are as well, and so are all readers. It just so happens that the grain of salt you have to read the CSM with is about the size of a pony.
I'm sure the MPAA is coming over right now... obviously 2TB is a significant effort whose only purpose is to circumvent size limitations, and thus the DMCA!
The best supported actress!
So this means you could fit exactly 1 whole empty OO.o file on a 2600 cartridge.... Great!
What's the big deal? Adam did this in like... a day or something!
Projecting Slashdot onto the wall and spending time with my Family reading slashdot
Ask them if they can figure out what the acronyms mean!
Ask grandma if she knows who Jack Velenti is, and if so, did they ever have an affair? (seriously, I think if we all do this we may dig up some dirt)
Fun for the whole family!
And don't forget to check out Think Geek to see what you didn't get for X-Mas!
It wasn't so long ago that there was an article posted here that showed that violent crime is going up because we have better ambulance service now.
ERT's and Doctors are saving so many people that murders are going down, and those people who would have been murderers are now just charged with "violent" crimes (shooting someone and not killing them)
Perhaps because most people have a better understanding of the underlying technology than you have.
Throwing out "big words" like DSLAM doesn't make you smart, knowing how it all works might.
Once you're on the public commodity internet, the connection is roughly the same (depending on what your ISP is shelling out for, or if they maintain their own backbone etc.) However, the critical part, and the part that limits most peoples speed, is what we call the last mile This is the connection FROM your ISP TO you. Which is essentially what an ISP, be they cable or DSL, is in business doing. So that part (which is where most "slowness" occurs) is better if it's YOUR last mile, and not a shared last mile.
You might think of it like a road that leads to your house from the freeway. If you have the only property on that road, then you can probably drive at the speed-limit whenever you like, this is like DSL. If you are on Cable, even if your road is an extra lane than your private road, you'll generally go slower if there are more houses on the road and the correlating increase in traffic. On cable it's in the companies best interest to build as few roads as possible, and thus the customers (who seem to think that their road is better because it has an extra lane) actually end up going SLOWER.
Furthermore, when I have a private road, I can be pretty sure that any traffic I don't recognize is unwanted traffic, and since it's MY road, I can recognize anything I don't recognize as potentially dangerous traffic. While on the public road that leads to many houses, you can't be sure if the next packet is for someone else, or is malicious, and you can't be sure who is watching YOUR traffic.
Once you're on the freeway (IE. Public Internet) then all bets are off, and the ISP cannot really mandate/dictate your speed in any reasonable fashion.
Why do people get the notion that they can make blanket statements about topics they obviously don't understand?
My current Science Patent is pending at the US Patent office. I've outlined the "Technique of researching, evaluating and publishing" Where in a participant (which I call Scientist) will seek to find a problem, then think about or find a solution. This patent also covers the cases where there is an a priori solution, and the Scientist attempts to find a problem
If you wish to license this technology, please contact me.
I just looked up "nathdot + 'kicks cats'" and came up with a pile of pages... You cat kicker you!
Except for the ease of deployment DSL is simply a more stable, scalable and secure solution to broadband. I for one don't want to be on the same network segment as hundreds of other subscribers.
Cable is winning in the states because it was more readily deployed. Poor solutions often are. It came to my neighborhood about 6 months before DSL was offered, and most of my neighbors signed up. Now they each complain that when it's busy (when they're on) it's slow, getting to top speed only when the log on in the early morning or late night.
It's about how morals are not scalable, and how running a company based on the case by case analysis of right vs. wrong becomes very difficult when you are bound by variuos legislative and political bodies that may not have very moral laws, lobby groups that most certainly are not moral, and users that don't want to be f'd with.
So: With all due respect - READ THE FUCKING ARTILE
even tho it's quite long!
Unmanipulated book buying is a myth.
As much as we'd all like to not judge a book by its cover, it's virtually the only recommendation that people have to go by when buying something. This isn't necessarily true of all cases, but for most fiction and hobby style books, is all that matters.
I worked in a bookstore for years before my current life, and spent some of that time interacting with publishers and reps. Any-time you run across an author you don't know, you trust 2 things, the rep (who has a vested interest in making you purchase the books) and the cover.
Why not judge books by their covers? It's way easier than reading the entire thing!
If 1% of the source were to have the magic, then if that part is hidden, basically all you have left is gui and i/o. So What's the Point of releasing it?
Furthermore, this guy somehow thinks that removing the #define is an effective barrier to piracy? I think I heard of something called a symbol table at some point.... maybe that would help black-beard?
This guy is just trying to stir up shit so that he can make a mark. The only customers that would be dumb enough to hire him, are the same ones that would believe his inane ramblings.
Good luck Mr. Connell, if you ever have a good idea, feel free to share it.