We're coming up to the nine month anniversary of the blackout, so we'll see if there's a corresponding spike in birthrates. Of course, not from this crowd - this is Slashdot...
In the winter, all the rooms where I work are cold rooms. I live and work in Ottawa, Canada, one of the few places on the planet that has a two week festival celebrating Winter.
Fermi Labs announced the production of a new supersized sub-atomic particle, boxons. Boxons were created by smashing oxygen with bosons (another sub-atomic particle).
Examined through the most powerful microscope in the world, the boxon appears to be a cardboard box, with the words "Shroedinger's Cat" written on the side. Sadly, the box is empty.
...but if I had a say as the lawyer for the U.S., I would have demanded a harsher sentence. Whether or not this guy intended any harm, he still broke the law (as far as I know, blah blah blah), and should be punished.
The judge seemed to let him off the hook because he was unable to pay, and indeed, he'll be unable to pay for another three years or more. However, the judge could have sentenced him to work co-op terms (for the U.S. Government, reparing their security), or even deferred the payment plan until after graduation, but at LEAST get him to pay something, because he's GUILTY.
Then switch to the other 200 choices you have available.
150 km from Toronto can be the middle of nowhere. At the very least, I suspect that any other doctors in town are already full up, and the incompetent GP is taking patients because everyone else in town is staying away from her (because the townspeople know better).
The article glossed over the heart of the matter...
Most of it, however, was intended for export to England.
...except for that brief mention. The English were the ones that killed the Irish, because they demanded payment in food, even when the Irish could not pay.
To liken the conditions of the software industry to the Irish Potato(e) famine is ridiculous. To whom or what is the industry beholden to? If we cannot produce code will we starve to death? Is someone occupying our cities and towns, threatening our lives if our code fails to compile? I'm not Irish, (though I do like potatoes), but please think again before you make analogies such as these.
"But for home use?
Not going to happen in the us at least.
The legal ramifications and potential misuse will make it unlikely (as cool as it would be)"
I can easily acquire a tec-9 semi automatic machine gun [tripod.com] and bullets for it can be bought from Wal-mart, but somehow you think a laser that cuts through cheese will be banned from consumers?
And isnt that "someone-might-do-something-bad-with-it" argument the same one we frown upon which the RIAA/MPAA uses to outlaw threatening hardware?
I agree that we will never see a laser cheese slicer replacing my kitchen stainless steel/marble cheese slicer, but not for the knee-jerk arguments you give. Ignorant gun coments aside, and aside from the fact that you haven't read the article, the main reasons that it wont happen are:
- the laser itself is probably too big
- the current version is mounted on something like a scrolling device, which means it would probably take up about as much counter space as... well, as you've got.
- the laser they're talking about is pretty escoteric, which means expen$ive, hard to maintain, and probably expen$ive to run.
So the upshot is that it's a lab toy. If you've got the bucks, go ahead and get one yourself. Then again, it may be easier and cheaper slicing the cheese with that Tec-9 semi-auto machine gun...
Video card? Why on earth would you need a $70 video card for a storage server!
If the storage server is using windoze, then the sysadmin will be spending a lot more time on the console, hence the need for a good video card. Gotta protect the eyes!
"To this submitter, it looks more like a keyboardized computer than a computerized keyboard."
What it is, is a music workstation - it allows you to compose, arrange, and send to disc all your musical thoughts. Whether it's music or not...
The backend to a music workstation needs to have more guts to it these days, which is why they are letting you know what's under the hood in the OS department. My preference is to have a PC that you can trade out all the components for, including recording & mixing software and hardware. This piece of hardware here is neat, but it's too much like those cheesy Casio synthesizers. JMHO
Rational is supposed to have a module that incorporates XP into its Rational suite of tools (even into its RUP), but somehow I just don't see IBM/Rational/RUP and XP as bedmates.
The thing I found amazing was that people actually showed up to accept their award! Never mind getting a grant to do research on necro-homo-mallards, or sheep dragging - that takes chutzpah!
Beowulf jokes aside, I think the editors and other posters are missing the point here. The NSF is putting up $17M of a total of $40M, the rest to be made up from private industries (like Raytheon) and public institutions. That's like, I don't know, less than half.
With the private companies coming on, you can bet that there's more than just weather radar applications, though that's not a bad place to start. Still, you've got to wonder why Raytheon would pump $5M into it if there wasn't something in it for them...
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Thanks Slashdot for entertaining/edumacating me, and for introducing me to WWdn. Yeah, I figured out the parent post authour by style/content.
We're coming up to the nine month anniversary of the blackout, so we'll see if there's a corresponding spike in birthrates. Of course, not from this crowd - this is Slashdot...
I'm surprised that cheese wasn't somehow involved
In the winter, all the rooms where I work are cold rooms. I live and work in Ottawa, Canada, one of the few places on the planet that has a two week festival celebrating Winter.
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Fermi Labs announced the production of a new supersized sub-atomic particle, boxons. Boxons were created by smashing oxygen with bosons (another sub-atomic particle).
Examined through the most powerful microscope in the world, the boxon appears to be a cardboard box, with the words "Shroedinger's Cat" written on the side. Sadly, the box is empty.
I'm sure the Hadron Collider has access to the internet, for, you know, when it gets hungry and decides to order some pizza.
If it's not there in 30 femto-seconds, is it free?
...but if I had a say as the lawyer for the U.S., I would have demanded a harsher sentence. Whether or not this guy intended any harm, he still broke the law (as far as I know, blah blah blah), and should be punished.
The judge seemed to let him off the hook because he was unable to pay, and indeed, he'll be unable to pay for another three years or more. However, the judge could have sentenced him to work co-op terms (for the U.S. Government, reparing their security), or even deferred the payment plan until after graduation, but at LEAST get him to pay something, because he's GUILTY.
Who says Andy is a guy's name?
Then switch to the other 200 choices you have available.
150 km from Toronto can be the middle of nowhere. At the very least, I suspect that any other doctors in town are already full up, and the incompetent GP is taking patients because everyone else in town is staying away from her (because the townspeople know better).
As great as QNX is compared to VxWorks, it
A) Would never have been chosen as the OS of choice
B) Will never BE chosen to replace VxWorks
Why? It's a great company, but it's based in Ottawa (that's Canada for you Yankees), and NA$A Bucks do not flow over the border.
Nintendo had this, it was called the power pad [defunctgames.com]. It was a flop. What has changed in today's world that will make it successful?
The industry has changed, as well as the target demographic (30 year old males). Perhaps if you RTFA.
Sig Feil!
The article glossed over the heart of the matter...
...except for that brief mention. The English were the ones that killed the Irish, because they demanded payment in food, even when the Irish could not pay.
Most of it, however, was intended for export to England.
To liken the conditions of the software industry to the Irish Potato(e) famine is ridiculous. To whom or what is the industry beholden to? If we cannot produce code will we starve to death? Is someone occupying our cities and towns, threatening our lives if our code fails to compile? I'm not Irish, (though I do like potatoes), but please think again before you make analogies such as these.
Sig Hire!
You mentioned the Tec-9 as a semi-automatic machine gun, which several readers pointed out...wasn't.
"But for home use?
Not going to happen in the us at least.
The legal ramifications and potential misuse will make it unlikely (as cool as it would be)"
I can easily acquire a tec-9 semi automatic machine gun [tripod.com] and bullets for it can be bought from Wal-mart, but somehow you think a laser that cuts through cheese will be banned from consumers?
And isnt that "someone-might-do-something-bad-with-it" argument the same one we frown upon which the RIAA/MPAA uses to outlaw threatening hardware?
I agree that we will never see a laser cheese slicer replacing my kitchen stainless steel/marble cheese slicer, but not for the knee-jerk arguments you give. Ignorant gun coments aside, and aside from the fact that you haven't read the article, the main reasons that it wont happen are:
- the laser itself is probably too big - the current version is mounted on something like a scrolling device, which means it would probably take up about as much counter space as... well, as you've got.
- the laser they're talking about is pretty escoteric, which means expen$ive, hard to maintain, and probably expen$ive to run.
So the upshot is that it's a lab toy. If you've got the bucks, go ahead and get one yourself. Then again, it may be easier and cheaper slicing the cheese with that Tec-9 semi-auto machine gun...
Video card? Why on earth would you need a $70 video card for a storage server!
If the storage server is using windoze, then the sysadmin will be spending a lot more time on the console, hence the need for a good video card. Gotta protect the eyes!
"To this submitter, it looks more like a keyboardized computer than a computerized keyboard."
What it is, is a music workstation - it allows you to compose, arrange, and send to disc all your musical thoughts. Whether it's music or not...
The backend to a music workstation needs to have more guts to it these days, which is why they are letting you know what's under the hood in the OS department. My preference is to have a PC that you can trade out all the components for, including recording & mixing software and hardware. This piece of hardware here is neat, but it's too much like those cheesy Casio synthesizers. JMHO
I'm gonna watch Matrix 3 tomorrow. I'm going to pay plenty of euros for the experience. What should I expect?
You'll be plenty of euros poorer.
Rational is supposed to have a module that incorporates XP into its Rational suite of tools (even into its RUP), but somehow I just don't see IBM/Rational/RUP and XP as bedmates.
A billion PDAs beeping while I'm trying to listen to an orchestra. I hope they take the speakers out of these things.
If you would just, I don't know Read The F-ing Article, you might realize that they're sending TEXT.
A billion neurons firing in your skull, and not one coherent thought, while I'm trying to read slashdot. I hope they take the keyboard away from you.
Didn't I already see a post like this one on slashdot?
Didn't I see this article already posted on slashdot?
The thing I found amazing was that people actually showed up to accept their award! Never mind getting a grant to do research on necro-homo-mallards, or sheep dragging - that takes chutzpah!
This offers JUST what we've been waiting for, high quality pr0n, anytime, without the late return hassles.
...uhh, nevermind.
Beowulf jokes aside, I think the editors and other posters are missing the point here. The NSF is putting up $17M of a total of $40M, the rest to be made up from private industries (like Raytheon) and public institutions. That's like, I don't know, less than half.
With the private companies coming on, you can bet that there's more than just weather radar applications, though that's not a bad place to start. Still, you've got to wonder why Raytheon would pump $5M into it if there wasn't something in it for them...
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