The exact address is blacked out in these scans, but if you have your monitor calibrated properly, you can see the censored parts of page 3 shining through in page 2. Of course on uncalibrated monitors, which they presumably used to scan these documents, you only see white.
Another reason to calibrate your monitors before creating stuff that you publish:-)
One of the painful lessons JPL learned when they sent a prototype rover out to look for life was it missed a plant because the plant was just outside the rover's field of view.
Would you care to elaborate on that one? I've never heard of this story.
Could you tell me one thing, because I still don't understand this supersolid thing perfectly: If I had a cubic block of supersolid matter, and I would put it on a table... would it flow away or stay in cubic form?
I guess your example means that if somebody would blow a bit of air to one side of this cube, there would be "bubbles" forming that would move through, right? And if I would tap on one side, the shockwave of that tap would go through the whole cube like a little earthquake, right? Strange stuff indeed.
However, if you say that it would not stay in cubic form, then me as a layman would just say "well it might be solid for scientists, but for me it's liquid".
And slashdot is available through the Great Firewall? Strange... I mean, sometimes there are rather political issues discuessed here!
How do you live your daily internet live with this Great Firewall? You must be feeling like big brother is watching all your steps, right? No sex sites, I guess?:-) Do you weigh every word you write carefully? Or do you surf selectively and for special stuff, you use anonymizing proxy?
Well the question should be: Is there a community effort to provide the essentially same service for free combined with adding their basic certs to open source browsers like Moz and Konqueror?
Because certs don't have to cost money, and the opensource community would be able to pull this off, wouldn't it?
Actually, the problem is the lack of fine-control in most democracies. There are thousands of issues to decide, but as a voter, you can vote every 4 years and choose just one of 2 to 4 major parties.
The amount of choices translate very badly from the voter to the final decision.
And on the temporal part, a politician can tell A and the proceed doing B for 4 years without any possibility of intervention.
There are actually countries that have much more fine control (like Switzerland), but unfortunately most countries don't have.
I guess if the voters would be asked wheter they want more fine control, they said yes, but they don't have the control in the first place to make sure the question gets asked.
Actually, you can just search for "Hilton Paris" instead of "Paris Hilton" and the most relevant page comes up first.
And this is actually perfect, because you wouldn't search for "London Hyatt" neither, but rather for "Hyatt London". It's the more natural thing to type in the product followed by some restrictions, and I think most people automatically search the same way.
Bottom line: The example is already squewed and doesn't prove a point at all.
Maybe the cost incurred by carrying the controlled descent system around would be offset by savings in maintenance, the exotic materials required to build the vehicle, etc.
I'd think they made exactly this calculation and the current system came out on top. Just my guess, though.
A big part of the fun of movie entertainment is the surprise factor, that you don't know what is going to happen.
You seem like you want to compare the act of buying a movie ticket with the act of buying tennis shoes: You want to know everything beforehand. But with movies, this won't work.
Entertainment has been this way since Shakespeare: You pay first, you might be happy afterwards. The risk was always on the viewers side.
I suggest you relax a bit more. It's not like movies are very expensive, compared with the other things you pay at a night out (dinner, dance,...).
It's a great basic concept, but if you take a look at the bug list, you'll see that there are many many basic problems that haven't been fixed in 3 months or so.
I hope that the people behind irate get the right message: It's a nice idea, but it could need some more motivation in the bug fixing / optimization / expansions department.
Does anybody know if iTunes (or any of these other stores) now allow the official resale of songs to other parties? There was a story on slashdot a few months back about somebody trying this on eBay and getting stopped by the eBay TOS. Has this changed now?
Additionaly, am I right that as soon as Apple, Pressplay or any other venture goes bankrupt and I format my hd and reinstall the songs from a backup, I'm out of luck and can't play them ever again?
Good point. I'm asking myself right now "Can a open standard include DRM without completely jeapardizing DRM"? I don't think so. Formats including DRM always have to be closed. If they are open, anybody can recreate the App that accesses the content but leave away any restrictions.
So, in short, the initiative to create "a open eBook standard", which presumes some DRM, is already dead in its tracks.
I was lucky enough to get the text from here, already, so here it is:
Blinkenlights Reloaded
Die Matrix kehrt zuruck!
Vom 22.12. bis zum 04.01.2003 wird es ein kurzes Revival unserer Installation aus Berlin geben: Blinkenlights Reloaded. Uber die Weihnachtsfeiertage bespielen wir das noch in Sanierung befindliche Haus des Lehrers erneut und nach bekanntem Rezept. Eine neue Version vonBlinkenPaint erlaubt das Erstellen von Animationen und die Pong und die Loveletters konnen wieder uber das Telefon abgerufen werden.
Die Telefondienste stehen wieder unter der Rufnummer 0190-987654 bereit. Ein Anruf kostet EUR 1,24 pro Minute (sekundengenaue Abrechnung). Die Einnahmen fliessen als Spende an den CCC zur Deckung der Betriebskosten, damit Blinkenlights auch in Zukunft werbefrei bleibt.
Blinkenlights Reloaded setzt die Technologie ein, die wir fur die InstallationArcade im letzten Jahr in Paris entwickelt haben. Damit konnen wir auch mit Graustufen umgehen. Die neue Version 3 von BlinkenPaint unterstutzt dies genauso wie das von uns bevorzugte Format BML.
Wir laden Euch erneut dazu ein, das ihr uns Animationen schickt, die wir dann auf dem Haus zum Spielen bringen. Das geht so: [1] Erstellt die Filme mit BlinkenPaint, [2] speichert sie als Textdatei ab (BML) und [3] hangt dann diese Datei an eine Mail an und schickt Sie an movies@blinkenlights.de
Wenn der Film ein Blinkenlights Loveletter ist und Ihr einen Freischaltcode fur das Telefon erhalten wollt, um den Film jederzeit selbst aufrufen zu konnen, schickt den Film stattdessen an loveletters@blinkenlights.de.
Wir freuen uns, wieder die Gelegenheit zu haben, Blinkenlights zum Laufen zu bringen und hoffen, dass es auch (noch) nicht das letzte Mal war. Fur uns war die erste Installation ein grosser Spass und das soll er nun wieder werden (wer die Originalinstallation nicht kennt, kann sich ja nochmal einen Eindruck durch unser Video machen).
Ausserdem hoffen wir, dass uns die Einsendungen nicht uberfluten. Da wir alle wahrend der Leuchtzeit auch noch kraftig mit dem Chaos Communication Congress beschaftigt sind, kann auch mal was verloren gehen. Wir bitten um Nachsicht, werden uns aber bemuhen alle Anfragen zu bearbeiten.
You all speak german, so there is no need for me to translate it, right?:-)
Slashdot Mirror
The exact address is blacked out in these scans, but if you have your monitor calibrated properly, you can see the censored parts of page 3 shining through in page 2. Of course on uncalibrated monitors, which they presumably used to scan these documents, you only see white.
:-)
Another reason to calibrate your monitors before creating stuff that you publish
That's actually not the first keyboard to include a full pc. Wersi did this with the Abacus keyboard 3 years ago.
One of the painful lessons JPL learned when they sent a prototype rover out to look for life was it missed a plant because the plant was just outside the rover's field of view.
Would you care to elaborate on that one? I've never heard of this story.
That was a very simple explanation, thank you.
:-)
Could you tell me one thing, because I still don't understand this supersolid thing perfectly: If I had a cubic block of supersolid matter, and I would put it on a table... would it flow away or stay in cubic form?
I guess your example means that if somebody would blow a bit of air to one side of this cube, there would be "bubbles" forming that would move through, right? And if I would tap on one side, the shockwave of that tap would go through the whole cube like a little earthquake, right? Strange stuff indeed.
However, if you say that it would not stay in cubic form, then me as a layman would just say "well it might be solid for scientists, but for me it's liquid".
Hope you can reply on that one, thanks
Or buy 300 of them and save the internet on it :-)
Nice sig. I thought that with my ID, I would be able to answer it... but sadly, no... ;-)
I think both Maddox' idea and this newly introduced product
- are unable to turn in place
- have a footprint smaller than people's shoulders
which I think are critical to success. So: close, but no cigar.
And slashdot is available through the Great Firewall? Strange... I mean, sometimes there are rather political issues discuessed here!
:-) Do you weigh every word you write carefully? Or do you surf selectively and for special stuff, you use anonymizing proxy?
How do you live your daily internet live with this Great Firewall? You must be feeling like big brother is watching all your steps, right? No sex sites, I guess?
Just interesting in your ways on the internet.
Dial-up can be had for free :)
What do you mean with that? Do you have to pay phone costs for each minute or is it absolutely, completely free?
I guess you're looking for the cheapest available prices, right?
OK:
500kBit/s: 45 CHF, $36.79
1MBit/s: 60 CHF, $49.06
2MBit/s: 75 CHF, $61.32
Source, Currency conversion.
Well the question should be: Is there a community effort to provide the essentially same service for free combined with adding their basic certs to open source browsers like Moz and Konqueror?
Because certs don't have to cost money, and the opensource community would be able to pull this off, wouldn't it?
You're only right if the mini Ipod is marketed as "the low-cost alternative".
But I thinkt that it will be marked based on size. "Look, it's incredibly small! Isn't it cute? You need to get one!".
If Apple does it this way, they can ask $200 without any problems, even more considering that their next competitor asks $239 for just 1.5 gigs.
Actually, iTunes does indeed work together with many third party MP3 players. Here's a list.
Actually, the problem is the lack of fine-control in most democracies. There are thousands of issues to decide, but as a voter, you can vote every 4 years and choose just one of 2 to 4 major parties.
The amount of choices translate very badly from the voter to the final decision.
And on the temporal part, a politician can tell A and the proceed doing B for 4 years without any possibility of intervention.
There are actually countries that have much more fine control (like Switzerland), but unfortunately most countries don't have.
I guess if the voters would be asked wheter they want more fine control, they said yes, but they don't have the control in the first place to make sure the question gets asked.
Actually, you can just search for "Hilton Paris" instead of "Paris Hilton" and the most relevant page comes up first.
And this is actually perfect, because you wouldn't search for "London Hyatt" neither, but rather for "Hyatt London". It's the more natural thing to type in the product followed by some restrictions, and I think most people automatically search the same way.
Bottom line: The example is already squewed and doesn't prove a point at all.
I'd guess he was talking in pluralis majestatis :-)
Maybe the cost incurred by carrying the controlled descent system around would be offset by savings in maintenance, the exotic materials required to build the vehicle, etc. I'd think they made exactly this calculation and the current system came out on top. Just my guess, though.
A big part of the fun of movie entertainment is the surprise factor, that you don't know what is going to happen.
You seem like you want to compare the act of buying a movie ticket with the act of buying tennis shoes: You want to know everything beforehand. But with movies, this won't work.
Entertainment has been this way since Shakespeare: You pay first, you might be happy afterwards. The risk was always on the viewers side.
I suggest you relax a bit more. It's not like movies are very expensive, compared with the other things you pay at a night out (dinner, dance,...).
Have fun!
Lets be honest, the UI is not usable.
You cannot search songs,
Which is the premise of it. It suggests you songs. You don't have to search for them.
I think your other points are valid, but this one is not.
It's a great basic concept, but if you take a look at the bug list, you'll see that there are many many basic problems that haven't been fixed in 3 months or so. I hope that the people behind irate get the right message: It's a nice idea, but it could need some more motivation in the bug fixing / optimization / expansions department.
Does anybody know if iTunes (or any of these other stores) now allow the official resale of songs to other parties? There was a story on slashdot a few months back about somebody trying this on eBay and getting stopped by the eBay TOS. Has this changed now?
Additionaly, am I right that as soon as Apple, Pressplay or any other venture goes bankrupt and I format my hd and reinstall the songs from a backup, I'm out of luck and can't play them ever again?
Thanks for any clarifications!
Good point. I'm asking myself right now "Can a open standard include DRM without completely jeapardizing DRM"? I don't think so. Formats including DRM always have to be closed. If they are open, anybody can recreate the App that accesses the content but leave away any restrictions.
So, in short, the initiative to create "a open eBook standard", which presumes some DRM, is already dead in its tracks.
It's called ASCII.
I was lucky enough to get the text from here, already, so here it is:
:-)
Blinkenlights Reloaded
Die Matrix kehrt zuruck!
Vom 22.12. bis zum 04.01.2003 wird es ein kurzes Revival unserer Installation aus Berlin geben: Blinkenlights Reloaded. Uber die Weihnachtsfeiertage bespielen wir das noch in Sanierung befindliche Haus des Lehrers erneut und nach bekanntem Rezept. Eine neue Version vonBlinkenPaint erlaubt das Erstellen von Animationen und die Pong und die Loveletters konnen wieder uber das Telefon abgerufen werden.
Die Telefondienste stehen wieder unter der Rufnummer 0190-987654 bereit. Ein Anruf kostet EUR 1,24 pro Minute (sekundengenaue Abrechnung). Die Einnahmen fliessen als Spende an den CCC zur Deckung der Betriebskosten, damit Blinkenlights auch in Zukunft werbefrei bleibt.
Blinkenlights Reloaded setzt die Technologie ein, die wir fur die InstallationArcade im letzten Jahr in Paris entwickelt haben. Damit konnen wir auch mit Graustufen umgehen. Die neue Version 3 von BlinkenPaint unterstutzt dies genauso wie das von uns bevorzugte Format BML.
Wir laden Euch erneut dazu ein, das ihr uns Animationen schickt, die wir dann auf dem Haus zum Spielen bringen. Das geht so: [1] Erstellt die Filme mit BlinkenPaint, [2] speichert sie als Textdatei ab (BML) und [3] hangt dann diese Datei an eine Mail an und schickt Sie an
movies@blinkenlights.de
Wenn der Film ein Blinkenlights Loveletter ist und Ihr einen Freischaltcode fur das Telefon erhalten wollt, um den Film jederzeit selbst aufrufen zu konnen, schickt den Film stattdessen an loveletters@blinkenlights.de.
Wir freuen uns, wieder die Gelegenheit zu haben, Blinkenlights zum Laufen zu bringen und hoffen, dass es auch (noch) nicht das letzte Mal war. Fur uns war die erste Installation ein grosser Spass und das soll er nun wieder werden (wer die Originalinstallation nicht kennt, kann sich ja nochmal einen Eindruck durch unser Video machen).
Ausserdem hoffen wir, dass uns die Einsendungen nicht uberfluten. Da wir alle wahrend der Leuchtzeit auch noch kraftig mit dem Chaos Communication Congress beschaftigt sind, kann auch mal was verloren gehen. Wir bitten um Nachsicht, werden uns aber bemuhen alle Anfragen zu bearbeiten.
You all speak german, so there is no need for me to translate it, right?
Hm... nice study.
:-)
But if somebody manages to create a list of links where every of the 12 items can be bought in a classic webshop, now that would be something