1. Fire entire development team
2. Develop good, stable word processor that supports open formats for Linux
3. Port abovementioned to MacOS
4. Market effectively
5. No need for ???, just profit!
Seriously, I always liked Corel products. I used CorelDraw 3 and 4 (I think, could have been 4 and 5) for quite a while. Yes, they were buggy as heck, but they were nice programs otherwise. When they ported CorelDraw to Linux I was extatic... for about an hour or so. Then it crashed. And crashed. You get the picture.
I just wish they would hire someone that understands something about software development. Yes, it's great to have a new version of your software to sell every 9 months or so, but if people stop using it, the porfitability suffers a tad.
I've got mixed feelings about this whole thing. On the other hand I hope they pull it off just to see another major player enter the Linux field properly, but on the gripping hand I believe their abysmal stability will kill this off fast and effectively. All the best to everyone on the team if anyone happens to read this. Please tell your boss the public wants stable software
Hmm. Would you say it was legal, then, to buy a game console from another country with a different region code in it? And if yes, what would you play with it, if not games with the same different region code than your own?
I don't know about you guys there on the wrong side of the ocean, but in here you can import other region stuff for your own use as much as you like. In fact there's a store that sells other region coded DVDs 15 minutes away from here so either that's legal, too, or they're bending the law a little. They've been around quite a while, though.
Like I said, though, you may be right about your laws. IANAL and IDAAAL (I definitely ain't an American lawyer if you must know)
That's a silly thing to say. I'm writing this reply on a Linux machine (Gentoo if you must know) using a Mozilla browser. All the programs installed on this
'puter are free. None raised the price of my comp by a cent. Yes, someone has paid for the time and effort to make the software (either with money or with blood and/or sweat) but for me they were completely free.
Yes, I'm sure that in the case of a baseball field they do stuff for a hefty profit and not out of the kindness of their hearts, but that doesn't mean there aren't people who genuinely, truly give out stuff for free, too. See, even though, say, RIAA is a greedy, bloodsucking organization there still can be other organizations that aren't. If you don't believe stuff can be free, I'm sure you paid for your web browser, right? I didn't pay for mine and it's still legal. Weird, huh?
First off, IANAN (I am not a ninja, even though ninjas are sweet) but I know a bit about self defense. Not much, but a tad.
On your average karate or whatnot basic 101 course they teach you a technique or two to be used against someone with a knife. My advice is: don't. Really. Don't. Just hand over your wallet and get over with it. Hopefully you'll lose only your money.
Do the following: take a red marker. Wear something that doesn't bother you if it gets messed up. Have a buddy attack you with the marker, pretending it's a knife. Try to beat him without getting stained by the ink. A knife is bad, m-kay? A slash wound can potentially bleed you to death and a puncture wound will most probably hurt like hell or maybe even kill you very quick. Internal organs such as lungs, liver, spleen or the heart don't like punctures very much.
I'm sorry, but in my opinion the best thing to do if a mugging occurs to you is to give your money and hope that's enough. No-one will help you (at least in most cases) and fighting against opponents that have very little to lose and may carry concealed (or non-concealed) weapons and who outnumber you is A Bad Idea(TM). You can buy a new IPod, but you can't buy extra lives for 25 cents in this game.
A fuel cell is a pollution-free and highly efficient power source and it is expected to be used for automobiles and in households, although its greater cost than that of traditional power sources limits its applications at present.
This refers to using the cell, not getting the power in it I'm sure. I think making alcohol takes more power than you get burning it, does the same apply to burning in a fuel cell? Or did I accidentally smoke the wrong stuff again?
Another thing I didn't get is the expected lifetime of the cell. IOW how many times can you expect to charge the sucker before the same happens to it as did to all of my cellphone batteries. If you are expected to get as much as 40 hours from a cell (which, stripping the marketing hype and suchlike, translates to roughly 20 hours, maybe) does it mean you get 95% of that after the second charge? Or after the 100th charge? Or what? Sorry for being ignorant. If you know, please enlighten me.
I sure hope they get PDAs to the point, where your battery lasts a week again (as it did in my original Palm Pilot) and hopefully it can be done in a somewhat environmentally friendly way, too. Is this the way? You tell me, please (pretty please)
You might as well ask why politicians who don't necessarily have any knowledge of the matter at hand are allowed to make economical or social decisions.
The only difference is that the Patent Office probably isn't bribed as often and with as big sums as your average lobbying politician.
Face it, this is the way the system works - same wordplay as with Micro$oft Works - and unless it gets changed by the people, it stays the same. Democracy means you need to vote and make your opinion known. Sorta like in church: speak now or forever hold your peace.
To get back to the Patent Office a tad more, though: They really, REALLY should consult outside specialists. Probably the savings in unnecessary and silly lawsuits would more than make up for their salaries. This ofcourse just my 2 (Euro)cents
You mean sorta like once it was called 'IBM PC' ? No? Ok, maybe the way it used to be called a 'hoover' instead of a vacuum cleaner? You CAN lose that kind of name recognition. It just gives you quite an edge on the competition. Remember the days when everyone was using Netscape?
If you make bad decisions and your competition makes better ones, you'll end up losing someday. Look what happened in the war Intel vs AMD. Ofcourse you'll have quite a lead on the competition if you can spend, say, $10 BILLION making your product but nevertheless. If you keep making crap and the competition keeps on making a better product for a competitive price, you'll lose eventually. If you got heaps of money and a big propaganda machine like a certain Redmond company, that will probably be later, but at some point people will have had enough of buying crap for a high price when they don't really have to.
Getting back to the google-stuff for a while, I remember a time when altavista was the only search engine anyone wanted to use or at least pretty damn close.
I agree. This would indeed be preferable and VERY much more beneficial to mankind.
However, the discussion is about NASA and they can't very well justify a high budget by saying they'll be doing a project in Africa to make the desert livable etc. Because if they did, it wouldn't be a NASA project at all. And since Africa is not in the US... Ofcourse they do have quite a bit of desert in the US, too, last I checked. And they could start doing it there. But it still wouldn't be a NASA project and it still wouldn't get NASA a justification to get more of the taxpayers' money. And that, I believe, is what this whole thing is about.
Maybe I'm just cynical.
Just out of curiosity....
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did anyone manage to find any statistics anywhere about the average fuel consumption on that trip? It's probably not quite the first issue on most peoples' minds but it'd be interesting to know anyway.
You might as well ask why it is that every time there's an article about NASA doing this or ESA doing that, we get the same people complaining that those funds could be used to something much more beneficial. Or maybe you could even ask why just about every new post gets an immediate GNAA-response or three.
Incidentally, the TV has a very positive feature that Slashdot, too, has. If you don't like what you see, you can just not see it anymore with one click of a button. Pretty neat, huh?
This thing is JUST like the Nokia Communicator
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Think about it. It's WAY too big to be a wristwatch (Comminicator is too big to be a phone, IMHO) and it probably costs quite a pretty penny, too. Probably in a similar fashion there'll be that small group of people who will want one and who think they just couldn't live without one.... and then they smash it against a sharp corner or something;)
Seriously, PDA screens are fragile things and wrists constantly bumb into stuff. I don't think there would be any way for someone to convince me to buy one of these, not after I've had a look at the Palm graveyard (Here's a link)
Hmm. So what you're saying is you're less likely to run out of laptop-juice during a holiday or that your PDA consumes the battery faster than your laptop or what? If running out of batteries is your main concern, I suggest a notebook and a pencil. To be on the sure side, bring a few pencils so you always have at least one that's sharp.
Seriously, I think all PDAs these days use a flash kinda memory that doesn't go blank if you run out of juice. And you DO have the option of bringing along a charger for the PDA. (Yes, I know, you can have the charger for the laptop with you, too. But the question seemed to do with PDAs and not having to wait a minute for the damned thing to boot up)
Just welcome your new [NO CARRIER] overlord and get over it. It's not like your whole world suddenly collapses if someone gets modded up for a joke you don't like, is it?
Not likely to happen before there'll be advances in battery technology or else they'll be VERY short slideshows. Then again, given most holiday pics it's probably all for the best.
If you have a look at their careers-section, you see this:
We are constantly looking for talent in optical and electrical design.
The requirements for Optical Engineers:
- university degree in physics with good grades
- experience with Matlab and optical design software
- proven ability to learn fast
- minimum 3 years of work experience
The requirements for Electrical Engineers:
- university degree in Electrical Eng. with good grades
- experience in electronics design and preferably embedded software
- proven ability to learn fast
- minimum 3 years of work experience
We offer competitive remuneration package and possibility to ownership in the company. Our nice office in downtown Oulu provides a cosy and innovative working environment. We also have a small office in Encinitas, CA, USA. Please send your application with current CV to careers@upstream.fi.
Judging by this they are now in the stage of looking for the people that will actually make the product happen but maybe I'm just a doubting Thomas
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Sure. I'll try anything. Is their version of CorelDraw any good? =)
1. Fire entire development team
2. Develop good, stable word processor that supports open formats for Linux
3. Port abovementioned to MacOS
4. Market effectively
5. No need for ???, just profit!
Seriously, I always liked Corel products. I used CorelDraw 3 and 4 (I think, could have been 4 and 5) for quite a while. Yes, they were buggy as heck, but they were nice programs otherwise. When they ported CorelDraw to Linux I was extatic... for about an hour or so. Then it crashed. And crashed. You get the picture.
I just wish they would hire someone that understands something about software development. Yes, it's great to have a new version of your software to sell every 9 months or so, but if people stop using it, the porfitability suffers a tad.
I've got mixed feelings about this whole thing. On the other hand I hope they pull it off just to see another major player enter the Linux field properly, but on the gripping hand I believe their abysmal stability will kill this off fast and effectively. All the best to everyone on the team if anyone happens to read this. Please tell your boss the public wants stable software
This is getting way off topic but if puppets are unnecessary props, why are there such things as, say, Realdolls?
What, in Britain? Don't be daft, nobody enjoys it there ;)
I may not be the first and/or only one to think of this, but this seems to be a proven formula:
1. Post article on Slashdot on April 1st
2. ???
3. Profit!
Hmm. Would you say it was legal, then, to buy a game console from another country with a different region code in it? And if yes, what would you play with it, if not games with the same different region code than your own?
I don't know about you guys there on the wrong side of the ocean, but in here you can import other region stuff for your own use as much as you like. In fact there's a store that sells other region coded DVDs 15 minutes away from here so either that's legal, too, or they're bending the law a little. They've been around quite a while, though.
Like I said, though, you may be right about your laws. IANAL and IDAAAL (I definitely ain't an American lawyer if you must know)
That's a silly thing to say. I'm writing this reply on a Linux machine (Gentoo if you must know) using a Mozilla browser. All the programs installed on this 'puter are free. None raised the price of my comp by a cent. Yes, someone has paid for the time and effort to make the software (either with money or with blood and/or sweat) but for me they were completely free.
Yes, I'm sure that in the case of a baseball field they do stuff for a hefty profit and not out of the kindness of their hearts, but that doesn't mean there aren't people who genuinely, truly give out stuff for free, too. See, even though, say, RIAA is a greedy, bloodsucking organization there still can be other organizations that aren't. If you don't believe stuff can be free, I'm sure you paid for your web browser, right? I didn't pay for mine and it's still legal. Weird, huh?
First off, IANAN (I am not a ninja, even though ninjas are sweet) but I know a bit about self defense. Not much, but a tad.
On your average karate or whatnot basic 101 course they teach you a technique or two to be used against someone with a knife. My advice is: don't. Really. Don't. Just hand over your wallet and get over with it. Hopefully you'll lose only your money.
Do the following: take a red marker. Wear something that doesn't bother you if it gets messed up. Have a buddy attack you with the marker, pretending it's a knife. Try to beat him without getting stained by the ink. A knife is bad, m-kay? A slash wound can potentially bleed you to death and a puncture wound will most probably hurt like hell or maybe even kill you very quick. Internal organs such as lungs, liver, spleen or the heart don't like punctures very much.
I'm sorry, but in my opinion the best thing to do if a mugging occurs to you is to give your money and hope that's enough. No-one will help you (at least in most cases) and fighting against opponents that have very little to lose and may carry concealed (or non-concealed) weapons and who outnumber you is A Bad Idea(TM). You can buy a new IPod, but you can't buy extra lives for 25 cents in this game.
What, something like 'friends don't let friends bootstrap?'
I guess it's your sig that made me think about that. But the point is valid I think. You don't HAVE to install it from a package if you don't want to.
Right. Erm. I feel a little sheepish now. Oh well. All's well that ends well. I'm a little wiser and the cells seem... well, a lot more gay ;) Thanks!
- A fuel cell is a pollution-free and highly efficient power source and it is expected to be used for automobiles and in households, although its greater cost than that of traditional power sources limits its applications at present.
This refers to using the cell, not getting the power in it I'm sure. I think making alcohol takes more power than you get burning it, does the same apply to burning in a fuel cell? Or did I accidentally smoke the wrong stuff again?Another thing I didn't get is the expected lifetime of the cell. IOW how many times can you expect to charge the sucker before the same happens to it as did to all of my cellphone batteries. If you are expected to get as much as 40 hours from a cell (which, stripping the marketing hype and suchlike, translates to roughly 20 hours, maybe) does it mean you get 95% of that after the second charge? Or after the 100th charge? Or what? Sorry for being ignorant. If you know, please enlighten me.
I sure hope they get PDAs to the point, where your battery lasts a week again (as it did in my original Palm Pilot) and hopefully it can be done in a somewhat environmentally friendly way, too. Is this the way? You tell me, please (pretty please)
You might as well ask why politicians who don't necessarily have any knowledge of the matter at hand are allowed to make economical or social decisions.
The only difference is that the Patent Office probably isn't bribed as often and with as big sums as your average lobbying politician.
Face it, this is the way the system works - same wordplay as with Micro$oft Works - and unless it gets changed by the people, it stays the same. Democracy means you need to vote and make your opinion known. Sorta like in church: speak now or forever hold your peace.
To get back to the Patent Office a tad more, though: They really, REALLY should consult outside specialists. Probably the savings in unnecessary and silly lawsuits would more than make up for their salaries. This ofcourse just my 2 (Euro)cents
You mean sorta like once it was called 'IBM PC' ? No? Ok, maybe the way it used to be called a 'hoover' instead of a vacuum cleaner? You CAN lose that kind of name recognition. It just gives you quite an edge on the competition. Remember the days when everyone was using Netscape?
If you make bad decisions and your competition makes better ones, you'll end up losing someday. Look what happened in the war Intel vs AMD. Ofcourse you'll have quite a lead on the competition if you can spend, say, $10 BILLION making your product but nevertheless. If you keep making crap and the competition keeps on making a better product for a competitive price, you'll lose eventually. If you got heaps of money and a big propaganda machine like a certain Redmond company, that will probably be later, but at some point people will have had enough of buying crap for a high price when they don't really have to.
Getting back to the google-stuff for a while, I remember a time when altavista was the only search engine anyone wanted to use or at least pretty damn close.
Imagine a NUDE Dubya pop-up ;)
I agree. This would indeed be preferable and VERY much more beneficial to mankind.
However, the discussion is about NASA and they can't very well justify a high budget by saying they'll be doing a project in Africa to make the desert livable etc. Because if they did, it wouldn't be a NASA project at all. And since Africa is not in the US... Ofcourse they do have quite a bit of desert in the US, too, last I checked. And they could start doing it there. But it still wouldn't be a NASA project and it still wouldn't get NASA a justification to get more of the taxpayers' money. And that, I believe, is what this whole thing is about.
Maybe I'm just cynical.
did anyone manage to find any statistics anywhere about the average fuel consumption on that trip? It's probably not quite the first issue on most peoples' minds but it'd be interesting to know anyway.
You might as well ask why it is that every time there's an article about NASA doing this or ESA doing that, we get the same people complaining that those funds could be used to something much more beneficial. Or maybe you could even ask why just about every new post gets an immediate GNAA-response or three.
Incidentally, the TV has a very positive feature that Slashdot, too, has. If you don't like what you see, you can just not see it anymore with one click of a button. Pretty neat, huh?
Think about it. It's WAY too big to be a wristwatch (Comminicator is too big to be a phone, IMHO) and it probably costs quite a pretty penny, too. Probably in a similar fashion there'll be that small group of people who will want one and who think they just couldn't live without one.... and then they smash it against a sharp corner or something ;)
Seriously, PDA screens are fragile things and wrists constantly bumb into stuff. I don't think there would be any way for someone to convince me to buy one of these, not after I've had a look at the Palm graveyard (Here's a link)
Hmm. So what you're saying is you're less likely to run out of laptop-juice during a holiday or that your PDA consumes the battery faster than your laptop or what? If running out of batteries is your main concern, I suggest a notebook and a pencil. To be on the sure side, bring a few pencils so you always have at least one that's sharp.
Seriously, I think all PDAs these days use a flash kinda memory that doesn't go blank if you run out of juice. And you DO have the option of bringing along a charger for the PDA. (Yes, I know, you can have the charger for the laptop with you, too. But the question seemed to do with PDAs and not having to wait a minute for the damned thing to boot up)
Just welcome your new [NO CARRIER] overlord and get over it. It's not like your whole world suddenly collapses if someone gets modded up for a joke you don't like, is it?
Agreed. That's why there should be Slashdot via carrier pigeons, dammit!
...except that it has a $499 pricetag and only works on a Mac. Other than that, it's just what he's looking for.
Not likely to happen before there'll be advances in battery technology or else they'll be VERY short slideshows. Then again, given most holiday pics it's probably all for the best.
If you have a look at their careers-section, you see this:
We are constantly looking for talent in optical and electrical design.
The requirements for Optical Engineers:
- university degree in physics with good grades
- experience with Matlab and optical design software
- proven ability to learn fast
- minimum 3 years of work experience
The requirements for Electrical Engineers:
- university degree in Electrical Eng. with good grades
- experience in electronics design and preferably embedded software
- proven ability to learn fast
- minimum 3 years of work experience
We offer competitive remuneration package and possibility to ownership in the company. Our nice office in downtown Oulu provides a cosy and innovative working environment. We also have a small office in Encinitas, CA, USA. Please send your application with current CV to careers@upstream.fi.
Judging by this they are now in the stage of looking for the people that will actually make the product happen but maybe I'm just a doubting Thomas
Wow. Talk about saving money on iPod batteries ;)