>> Would it work as a large TV monitor? The frame rate is up to 70/sec, so the question, again, is resolution.
This link mentions resolutions in the range 120-150 dpi, but AFAIR one of the first EInk demo screens had about 300 dpi resolution (as a laser printer)
I guess that the company name begins with "M" and ends with "icrosoft"? They don't want to admit openly that they use Linux so they stay "undisclosed".
Slashdot does regular surveys of the WEB servers in Victoria, Australia and other places, to determine where they need to be patched or otherwise repaired. The method (slashdotting) is simple and reliable and is also known as "brute force", DDOS and "who has more bandwith, you or we?".
>> But they're taking things a step further, because the work on gesture interfaces at CMU doesn't include physical touch
The physical touch is important. It is important for the person to receive a physical feedback from the controls so that he can "feel" them moving.
It is not coincidence that many people still prefer the old-style clicking keyboards that give a nice tactile feedback.
btw. How are they going to distinguish between control and spontaneous gestures? Maybe the system will be forbidden in the southern countries where the people naturally move their hands a lot when they speak?
>> Never mind Teraflops, we should have a measure of web server load called "Slashdots".
One Slashdot is too much for an average site.
I think most sites will be measured in mini- and micro-slashdots. The amateur sites could be somewhere in the pico-slashdot range.
A truly heavy-bandwith-distributed-load-balanced-admin-sch izofrenied site cound eventually make 1-2 Slashdots
As the small values are hard to evaluate (how do you distinguish between 1 and 5 pico-slashdots?) I beleave an alternative measurement could take place - Time-To-Slashdot (TTS for short) measured in seconds. It will be the average time that the site survives after a link to it is posted on the front page of Slashdot.
The Khumu island is the first island in the history of communications to be fully covered by WiFi, GSM, 3G and Bluetooth at the same time. The coverage exceeds 96% of the total area of the island. Both of the inhabitants of the island declare that they are planning to buy GSM phones and WiFi enabled laptops in the near future. Currently they are trying to get supplies of fresh watter, food and looking for someone to take them away from the goddamn island, but to no avail.
>> Despite their scaled-back features, these computers run on AMD Duron 1.0- or 1.1GHz processors, making them speedy enough for word processing, Internet access, working with digital pictures and playing some games.
I think 1GHz is MORE than good enough for word processing and internet browsing. I was doing the said activities on a 100 MHz machine back in the old days without much trouble. Otherwise the review is fair and notes that the machines are able to do what they are designed for.
>> Now we have Windows, which typically comes with no built-in programming language. What can be done to improve the situation?"
A Knoppix CD is all that it takes to get a running Linux system with a myriad of programming languages. Learning the languages and using them is a totally different story.
I think that the first that a kid should get is an entry book about general programming. The language should be something simple - Pascal for example - it teaches good structured way of programming. It should definitely not be C, especially not the the K&R C which I do not know HOW some people consider to be a learning language.
Later when the kid becomes eager to try writing a program, it should get access to a computer with a ready IDE of some kind - not a command line compiler with cryptic options.
I still remember the Turbo Pascal ver 1.0 that I was using as a kid, it was just SIMPLE. Write the program, compile and run it, all in the same place. The v3.0 was even better, just heaven to program in. The version 5.5 led me to the wonderful world of object-oriented programming and so on.
Later I had my first contact with C (TurboC) and I was surprised how could one such so unconsistent and cryptic language not even exist but also to be one of the most popular languages (the reason was Unix, as I learned later). At this time I was freely writing in 6502 and 8086 Assembler, Basic and Pascal, all of which I had learned first on paper and then tried on the PC with an IDE of some kind - mostly the Turbo series from Borland.
I lost one 80GB Maxtor IDE disk three weeks ago, it was JUST 3 monts old.
Hopefully the disk was not full with important information (it was a backup disk). Most of the info I recovered, but anyway a 3 months old disk just FAILS, no warning, no nothing - just one morning it makes a nice sound GRRRRR and the BIOS says HDD failure
There are several sucessful software companies in Russia, this and
this come to mind. The first one writes antivirus software, the second one office and OCR tools.
It is possible to develop competetive software and make money in Russia, even maybe a little bit easyer than in the west, because most software developers are quite happy with 500 USD per month (this is 6000 USD per year!). The software can be delivered electronically to the clients so the company has much smaller expenses than a similar US company.
Software do wears out, by falling back behind the capabilities of the hardware.
Win 3.11 is a nice piece of software for 386/25 MHz, but it is not suitable for Pentium 2 GHz, because it does not use the capabilities of the hardware. The people want to get the maximum for their money, so if the hardware allows something, the software should use it.
The car analogy is still valid - if I could still drive my grandather's Opel Kapiten, would I change it for a new Ford Mondeo? Of course! I want the climatronic, the airbags, the central door locking, the economic high power engine and so on. The car buyers also want the maximum bang for their bucks.
>> SBC Communication's claim of ownership for a common Web site formatting tool is based on a pair of patents, U.S. Patent No. 5,933,841, having a grant date of August 1999, and U.S. Patent No. 6,442,574, which issued three years later in 2002. Both patents cover a "structured document browser" having an invention date at least as early as May 1996, which is the filing date for both the original application that matured into the '841 patent and the continuation application that resulted in the '574 patent.
In related news:
>> February 1996
>> Netscape Releases Netscape Navigator 2.0
>> Netscape Communications recently released Netscape Navigator 2.0, a major new version of its popular client software for the Internet. This official release version runs under Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, and X Window System operating environments.
The Netscape Navigator 2.0 which allows the use of frames is released 3 months before the SBC-s applications are filed. The filing for the patent happens even 3 years later.
What are they thinking???
>> Based on my experience, I have a theory that the kinetic watch thing is an evil conspiracy. My wife bought me an expensive Citizen Eco-Drive watch. Ran great for a while, but eventually stopped. The guy from the store told me to put it under a lamp for the night to "recharge" WTF?
The Citizen Eco-drive uses solar power to work, it is not kinetic in any way. The name "kinetic" comes from "movement" (greek). Bay the way, a friend of mine also had a negative experiences with an Eco-drive watch. In other words, it stopped very often - it was working only under the lamp:-)
Seiko and some other (Festina) make kinetic watches that are rewinded or recharged (there are both) only from the movement of the hand. And they are extremely reliable from my experience - Seiko automatic 10 yrs and kinetic 1yr.
>> So far the Columbia Accident board has said that before resuming shuttle missions NASA must do a better job inspecting the leading edge of the spaceplanes' wings and ensure that the nation's spy satellites capture detailed images of the orbiter during each flight.
What are they going to do when they detect that the leading edge of the wing is damaged?
Repair in space is close to impossible, the ceramic plates are unique, so the shuttle could not have enough spares. Special glues are used to glue the plates. No other material could survive the heat. The shuttle has no escape capsule like the russian Soiuz. How are the people going to come back?
It would be lucky if the shuttle is somwhere near the ISS.
Not a troll, just wondering...
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Amen!
The standrard CRT monitor has a DPI in the range of 72-96 dpi, so 150+ dpi is quite high quality
>> Would it work as a large TV monitor? The frame rate is up to 70/sec, so the question, again, is resolution.
This link mentions resolutions in the range 120-150 dpi, but AFAIR one of the first EInk demo screens had about 300 dpi resolution (as a laser printer)
The server is already slashdotted, but the above print link still works
Here is an interesting description of the virus.
The virus obviously contains the following text:
I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible?
Stop making money and fix your software!!
And also as of August 16, 2003 the Lovesan will launch a DDoS attack on the Windowsupdate.com server.
Looks insteresting, to say the least
I guess that the company name begins with "M" and ends with "icrosoft"?
They don't want to admit openly that they use Linux so they stay "undisclosed".
Slashdot does regular surveys of the WEB servers in Victoria, Australia and other places, to determine where they need to be patched or otherwise repaired. The method (slashdotting) is simple and reliable and is also known as "brute force", DDOS and "who has more bandwith, you or we?".
>> Is it just my browser's bad interpretation of arabic letters, or do they actually use blink tags liberally at that www.uruklink.net front page?
I am not too good at arabic, but I suppose the blinking text on the front page says: "We are currently being slashdotted, please try again later!!!"
>> But they're taking things a step further, because the work on gesture interfaces at CMU doesn't include physical touch
The physical touch is important. It is important for the person to receive a physical feedback from the controls so that he can "feel" them moving.
It is not coincidence that many people still prefer the old-style clicking keyboards that give a nice tactile feedback.
btw. How are they going to distinguish between control and spontaneous gestures? Maybe the system will be forbidden in the southern countries where the people naturally move their hands a lot when they speak?
this looks interesting -- Maybe FP? Noooooooo
>> Never mind Teraflops, we should have a measure of web server load called "Slashdots".
h izofrenied site cound eventually make 1-2 Slashdots
One Slashdot is too much for an average site.
I think most sites will be measured in mini- and micro-slashdots. The amateur sites could be somewhere in the pico-slashdot range.
A truly heavy-bandwith-distributed-load-balanced-admin-sc
As the small values are hard to evaluate (how do you distinguish between 1 and 5 pico-slashdots?) I beleave an alternative measurement could take place - Time-To-Slashdot (TTS for short) measured in seconds. It will be the average time that the site survives after a link to it is posted on the front page of Slashdot.
- I know you are looking at me
In related news:
The Khumu island is the first island in the history of communications to be fully covered by WiFi, GSM, 3G and Bluetooth at the same time. The coverage exceeds 96% of the total area of the island.
Both of the inhabitants of the island declare that they are planning to buy GSM phones and WiFi enabled laptops in the near future. Currently they are trying to get supplies of fresh watter, food and looking for someone to take them away from the goddamn island, but to no avail.
>> Despite their scaled-back features, these computers run on AMD Duron 1.0- or 1.1GHz processors, making them speedy enough for word processing, Internet access, working with digital pictures and playing some games.
I think 1GHz is MORE than good enough for word processing and internet browsing. I was doing the said activities on a 100 MHz machine back in the old days without much trouble. Otherwise the review is fair and notes that the machines are able to do what they are designed for.
>> Now we have Windows, which typically comes with no built-in programming language. What can be done to improve the situation?"
A Knoppix CD is all that it takes to get a running Linux system with a myriad of programming languages. Learning the languages and using them is a totally different story.
I think that the first that a kid should get is an entry book about general programming. The language should be something simple - Pascal for example - it teaches good structured way of programming. It should definitely not be C, especially not the the K&R C which I do not know HOW some people consider to be a learning language.
Later when the kid becomes eager to try writing a program, it should get access to a computer with a ready IDE of some kind - not a command line compiler with cryptic options.
I still remember the Turbo Pascal ver 1.0 that I was using as a kid, it was just SIMPLE. Write the program, compile and run it, all in the same place. The v3.0 was even better, just heaven to program in. The version 5.5 led me to the wonderful world of object-oriented programming and so on.
Later I had my first contact with C (TurboC) and I was surprised how could one such so unconsistent and cryptic language not even exist but also to be one of the most popular languages (the reason was Unix, as I learned later). At this time I was freely writing in 6502 and 8086 Assembler, Basic and Pascal, all of which I had learned first on paper and then tried on the PC with an IDE of some kind - mostly the Turbo series from Borland.
I lost one 80GB Maxtor IDE disk three weeks ago, it was JUST 3 monts old.
Hopefully the disk was not full with important information (it was a backup disk). Most of the info I recovered, but anyway a 3 months old disk just FAILS, no warning, no nothing - just one morning it makes a nice sound GRRRRR and the BIOS says HDD failure
My next disk is going to be SCSI
>> It has its uses, how else would viruses, worms, and trojans be analyzed to figure out what they do and how they do it.
This is DMCA violation, dont you know it!
It is illegal to analyze how the virus works - it's called "theft of trade secrets"
There are several sucessful software companies in Russia, this and this come to mind. The first one writes antivirus software, the second one office and OCR tools.
It is possible to develop competetive software and make money in Russia, even maybe a little bit easyer than in the west, because most software developers are quite happy with 500 USD per month (this is 6000 USD per year!). The software can be delivered electronically to the clients so the company has much smaller expenses than a similar US company.
Its just funny ;-)
Nice thing, I would like to give it a try.
For the coolnes at least, it is something quite intriguing
1. Victim enters hospital for medical treatment
2. Tracking device is implanted "accidently"
3. Track victim
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
Who will be the first one to sell the tracking info database to an advertisement company?
Forget about cookies, the "body" will be tracked. With an accurate map it is easy to gain enormous information about the life of the person.
>> ... And software never wears out.
Software do wears out, by falling back behind the capabilities of the hardware.
Win 3.11 is a nice piece of software for 386/25 MHz, but it is not suitable for Pentium 2 GHz, because it does not use the capabilities of the hardware. The people want to get the maximum for their money, so if the hardware allows something, the software should use it.
The car analogy is still valid - if I could still drive my grandather's Opel Kapiten, would I change it for a new Ford Mondeo? Of course! I want the climatronic, the airbags, the central door locking, the economic high power engine and so on. The car buyers also want the maximum bang for their bucks.
>> SBC Communication's claim of ownership for a common Web site formatting tool is based on a pair of patents, U.S. Patent No. 5,933,841, having a grant date of August 1999, and U.S. Patent No. 6,442,574, which issued three years later in 2002. Both patents cover a "structured document browser" having an invention date at least as early as May 1996, which is the filing date for both the original application that matured into the '841 patent and the continuation application that resulted in the '574 patent.
In related news:
>> February 1996
>> Netscape Releases Netscape Navigator 2.0
>> Netscape Communications recently released Netscape Navigator 2.0, a major new version of its popular client software for the Internet. This official release version runs under Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, and X Window System operating environments.
The Netscape Navigator 2.0 which allows the use of frames is released 3 months before the SBC-s applications are filed. The filing for the patent happens even 3 years later.
What are they thinking???
>> Based on my experience, I have a theory that the kinetic watch thing is an evil conspiracy. My wife bought me an expensive Citizen Eco-Drive watch. Ran great for a while, but eventually stopped. The guy from the store told me to put it under a lamp for the night to "recharge" WTF?
:-)
The Citizen Eco-drive uses solar power to work, it is not kinetic in any way. The name "kinetic" comes from "movement" (greek). Bay the way, a friend of mine also had a negative experiences with an Eco-drive watch. In other words, it stopped very often - it was working only under the lamp
Seiko and some other (Festina) make kinetic watches that are rewinded or recharged (there are both) only from the movement of the hand. And they are extremely reliable from my experience - Seiko automatic 10 yrs and kinetic 1yr.
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 180 seconds exceeded in ../mindx/common.inc on line 85
Matrix overloaded...
>> So far the Columbia Accident board has said that before resuming shuttle missions NASA must do a better job inspecting the leading edge of the spaceplanes' wings and ensure that the nation's spy satellites capture detailed images of the orbiter during each flight.
What are they going to do when they detect that the leading edge of the wing is damaged?
Repair in space is close to impossible, the ceramic plates are unique, so the shuttle could not have enough spares. Special glues are used to glue the plates. No other material could survive the heat. The shuttle has no escape capsule like the russian Soiuz. How are the people going to come back?
It would be lucky if the shuttle is somwhere near the ISS.
Not a troll, just wondering...