Bluetooth is dead, remember? It was proclaimed dead due to bad marketing. It can't really be dead though, think of all the wires it could save! Something that useful doesnt die just because it has a silly name like bluetooth.
Take it to the next level: The BonePhone.
in 'Hinterland' William Gibson describes an implant in your ear that acts as a wireless reciever. His implant is also wired into other sensory receptors (like for the 'pain switch'), but don't look for that anytime soon. I dont know too many people who would want to have a Sony Ericson implant in their inner ear (where would the pickup implant be, the jaw bone? a tooth?).
But I think many would not object to an unobtrusive device that could attach to the ear, as long as it didnt obstruct normal hearing.
I have never found PDAs to be that useful by themselves. Most mobile phone interfaces are limited and don't provide all the functionality a PDA does, merging the two makes perfect sense. Now only if it were as powerful as my ibook..
The next step is to defy the bounds of physics by making the smart phone small, but still have a large, clear display (holograms!). Or, I would be satisfied with a small built in screen and a connector for a regular sized high res monitor. Eventually a phone sized computer could replace all the functions and power of a laptop, but be that much smaller. Give it 3-5 years. Smart phones will have 2.5 ghz Transmeta chips.
A healthy lifestyle may one day replace synthetic drugs altogether.
Western medicine continues to look for new ways of solving problems with drugs, instead of targeting the sources of those problems. Well, I guess that will continue until it ceases being profitable.
I like the discovery channel sometimes, even the shows where comedic (questionable) naturalists run around in the jungle molesting every animal they can find. Remember the PBS shows where you got to observe animals without someone running around trying to catch them? Ok, those were pretty boring.
Educational TV just doesnt sell to the masses, and the masses are the ones watching all the TV out there.
I had to get off tomcat cause of the bugs. Last release was sooo buggy! I've used Tomcat for a long time, Resin is more predictable. When something does go wrong, the error messages are much more comprehensible. Jetty is decent too.
I doubt that anyone finds sitefinder.com useful. It reminds me of one of those 'top 1000' roms/crackz/pron sites that just lists links to 1000 other 'top 1000' roms/crackz/pron sites, and this goes on all day until you find that no sites are really available from these links, just an endless array of popup adds and more links to lists of links. If you are actually looking for something useful, like a Metal Slug rom, you will never find one this way. Sitefinder is a site Pimp, unlike a search engine, which is actually a useful tool. If you were looking for a hoe, would you go to a pimp? Of course not, you would search for a hoe on the street, like everyone else. I find this an accurate parallel to the sitefinder/search engine relationship. I'm sure pimps would like it if you went to them first, then they could be sure they were getting all their money. (kind of like verisign) Verisign should change the name to sitepimp.com
They charge $23 per month for dialup and some crappy TCL apps? For fucks sake. You'd think it was 1997. With all the "25000 hours Free AOL!" littering the gutters, you'd think everyone in the civilized world could get as much free dialup time as they can stand. Now they're whoring the Netscape name. Unabashed, shamless moneygrubbers.
1. Profit!!:)
2. Don't profit.:(
3. Call it Netscape!!
4. Profit again!!:)
Two 12 guage pump action shotguns side by side with the triggers wired together in my gym bag.
Does microsoft not believe in shorter dev cycles?
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I thought microsoft was working on being an XP shop (where XP==eXtreme Programming)
Can anyone confirm/deny that? I guess microsoft is hoping they know what the market will want in 2006, and that it wont be changing much in the next 3 years. Not that I ever plan on using windows again, or ever need to. I'm going to be a cowboy.
I saw a guy at White Sands working on a laser propulsion system for spacecraft. He had a high power laser and small funnel shaped discs. The discs are spun at high speed above the laser, which is pulsed to produce plasma beneath the spinning disc. (not sure what causes the plasma to form exactly) The plasma ignites and sends the disk flying. He didnt have the laser tracking the disks, nor did they have a means of keeping themselves spinning (I guess in a vacuum there would be little to stop them) The spinning may have been used just for stability, not sure.
He had to make sure there where no airplanes in the area while performing the test, the laser was designed to take out satellites from the ground.
Wouldnt it be fun to work at white sands.
I used to do all my music production on a dual head set up (matrox g400 with 2 21" CRT) until one of the monitors burned out. (what do you expect for $100?)
Working on one monitor sucks and setting the views up so that you can see everything at once is impossible. I think the way to go for a larger desktop is an Apple Cinema display, the biggest one you can get (if you can afford it). The aspect ratio is perfect, the view is like a wall and the screen itself is incredibly sharp, like looking at paper. I'll take 2 please. I don't find I need multiple monitors when coding, but I do tend to run out of visible real estate sometimes. A single 21" CRT feels very cramped after working on one of the big apple cinema displays.
I read last week on C-Net that an IE hole was to blame for the Half Life code leak. Had they required developers to use Mozilla, they might not have been hacked so easily. Here at my company, developers still using windows are scoffed at, and anyone found browsing the web with IE is taken to the broom closet for torture/interrogation.
I tend to develop apps using Mozilla for testing, which behaves pretty well, too bad most users are stuck with IE. The poor web developers here have to support IE and Mozilla, I like to make people test their stuff in Safari once in a while too. Mozilla has its flaws, but I find it to be 10+ times better than IE, which I find to be double plus ungood.
OS X on iBooks. This is the ideal platform for students at all levels. I used NT and other windows OSs throughout college and highschool, there was nothing I hated more than dealing with windows problems and waiting for sysadmins to fix them. Windows required a large,mostly dissatisfied staff of mcse boneheads to keep everything running and under control, even then it seemed like nothing ever worked and NT labs would be down for days. The Apple labs for graphic design students had maybe one person working in them, that was mostly so people didnt go around stealing RAM from the G3s. Cost of ownership for iBooks will probably be much lower than for windows/intel laptops, and apples tend to be useful for much longer.
anyone else thinking this game is slowly spiraling towards its doom? If I was a developer at Valve I would definately be pissed off. An probably more than a little burned out. Now some jackass using IE gets 1/3 of the source code stolen and the boss says we have to re-write it and delays the ship date again. That would suck. Hopefully the game will do well even after the delays. Too bad All of the source tree wasnt stolen. Then we could build it and start playing now! They should just release it now, add a patch in a few months to kill the cheats and call it a day. Thats what I would have done, but then, I'm just a lowly senior programmer. I'm not smart enough to make Business decisions..
See, even non open source developers can benefit from using Linux as a development platform. They can test their code on windows as well, but there would be no need to have people using Outlook, IE, Word or SourceSafe (eek.) or even have windows machines connected to the internet. Actually when I need to test some code on windows, I fire it up in Wine or Virtual PC..
I thought those spots were timing indicators telling the projectionist when to switch to the next reel, the first flash being a warning and the second flash being the time to switch over.
Yes, kyocera appears to make environmental conservation one of its main concerns. I think it really takes a founder with some kind of vision other than profit-profit-profit-profit to make a company successful without destroying the environment.
the overall cost of solar-generated electricity (amortized over the lifetime of the solar cell, typically 20 years) is around ten times higher than the cost of electricity generated by burning fossil fuels.
The author forgot to factor in the environmental costs of buring fossil fuels for 20 years.
I will no longer have to explain init.d and runlevels to noobs. I like init, once you understand how to use it, it kind of makes sense. It does look like a 2 decade old silly way of starting/stopping services, and I dont see how anyone could grok it without reading some man pages.
I was looking for CVS access. If its not being released until December, this leaked code could be way out of date. But it would be cool to take a look at the engine and stuff, no?
but actually recording all that audio is going to require owning/renting studio space. Laptops and desktops are great for editing and creating electronic music, but for music that requires audio recording of voices and instruments you will still need a bit of space and some good mics/pre-amps. As a producer I do everything on a g4 tower or g3 iBook these days, but I have not been dealing much with live vocals or instruments lately. I use Logic 6 on the iBook, probably the best editing/production environment available. I started out with cubase and moved on to Pro-tools later when I could afford it. Cubase was just crap in my opinion, many people use it anyway. Pro tools was much better, and has always been my favourite for audio editing and mastering. Logic has been the best all around, it was a bit buggy and had some usability issues in the 4.x releases, but by 6 all the problems I had were worked out. It is much more flexible when compared to Pro Tools. I still run Logic 4.7 on the Digi001 ProTools hardware on a G4, Logic 6 runs in OS X on my iBook. The iBook is a 733 g3, which is generally fast enough to start out, but after 10-12 audio/instrument tracks with plugins the processor is maxed out. This is no problem, Logic 6 allows you to 'freeze' tracks, essentially rendering them transparently, which frees up the CPU and memory for more tracks/plugins. This makes the laptop feasible as a production environement, even if it is a G3. My studio has definately shrunk in the last 2 years, the portablity is nice and I no longer own big old unreliable analog synths or big crappy, limited and expensive digital synths. All the synthesis is done in software, and the soft synths are pretty limitless and never break or go out of tune.
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Why would they give you a choice in the first place if they are just going to use IE anyway?
Engineer: There's this property here for 'browser', can't we just use that instead of hard coding IE everywhere?
Manager: Nope, wrong answer. Always hard code references to our applications! Giving the user a choice is bad. Your fired.
Bluetooth is dead, remember? It was proclaimed dead due to bad marketing. It can't really be dead though, think of all the wires it could save! Something that useful doesnt die just because it has a silly name like bluetooth.
Take it to the next level: The BonePhone. in 'Hinterland' William Gibson describes an implant in your ear that acts as a wireless reciever. His implant is also wired into other sensory receptors (like for the 'pain switch'), but don't look for that anytime soon. I dont know too many people who would want to have a Sony Ericson implant in their inner ear (where would the pickup implant be, the jaw bone? a tooth?). But I think many would not object to an unobtrusive device that could attach to the ear, as long as it didnt obstruct normal hearing.
I have never found PDAs to be that useful by themselves. Most mobile phone interfaces are limited and don't provide all the functionality a PDA does, merging the two makes perfect sense. Now only if it were as powerful as my ibook..
The next step is to defy the bounds of physics by making the smart phone small, but still have a large, clear display (holograms!). Or, I would be satisfied with a small built in screen and a connector for a regular sized high res monitor. Eventually a phone sized computer could replace all the functions and power of a laptop, but be that much smaller. Give it 3-5 years. Smart phones will have 2.5 ghz Transmeta chips.
A healthy lifestyle may one day replace synthetic drugs altogether.
Western medicine continues to look for new ways of solving problems with drugs, instead of targeting the sources of those problems. Well, I guess that will continue until it ceases being profitable.
I like the discovery channel sometimes, even the shows where comedic (questionable) naturalists run around in the jungle molesting every animal they can find. Remember the PBS shows where you got to observe animals without someone running around trying to catch them? Ok, those were pretty boring. Educational TV just doesnt sell to the masses, and the masses are the ones watching all the TV out there.
I had to get off tomcat cause of the bugs. Last release was sooo buggy! I've used Tomcat for a long time, Resin is more predictable. When something does go wrong, the error messages are much more comprehensible. Jetty is decent too.
I doubt that anyone finds sitefinder.com useful. It reminds me of one of those 'top 1000' roms/crackz/pron sites that just lists links to 1000 other 'top 1000' roms/crackz/pron sites, and this goes on all day until you find that no sites are really available from these links, just an endless array of popup adds and more links to lists of links. If you are actually looking for something useful, like a Metal Slug rom, you will never find one this way. Sitefinder is a site Pimp, unlike a search engine, which is actually a useful tool. If you were looking for a hoe, would you go to a pimp? Of course not, you would search for a hoe on the street, like everyone else. I find this an accurate parallel to the sitefinder/search engine relationship. I'm sure pimps would like it if you went to them first, then they could be sure they were getting all their money. (kind of like verisign) Verisign should change the name to sitepimp.com
They charge $23 per month for dialup and some crappy TCL apps? For fucks sake. You'd think it was 1997. With all the "25000 hours Free AOL!" littering the gutters, you'd think everyone in the civilized world could get as much free dialup time as they can stand. Now they're whoring the Netscape name. Unabashed, shamless moneygrubbers. :) :( :)
1. Profit!!
2. Don't profit.
3. Call it Netscape!!
4. Profit again!!
Two 12 guage pump action shotguns side by side with the triggers wired together in my gym bag.
I thought microsoft was working on being an XP shop (where XP==eXtreme Programming) Can anyone confirm/deny that? I guess microsoft is hoping they know what the market will want in 2006, and that it wont be changing much in the next 3 years. Not that I ever plan on using windows again, or ever need to. I'm going to be a cowboy.
'Splash Wave' was my favourite track. We named a track on my first 12" record after it.
Here is a picture of their incredibly sophisticated laser tracking device. Nice goggles. I'm assuming this is just a prototype...
I saw a guy at White Sands working on a laser propulsion system for spacecraft. He had a high power laser and small funnel shaped discs. The discs are spun at high speed above the laser, which is pulsed to produce plasma beneath the spinning disc. (not sure what causes the plasma to form exactly) The plasma ignites and sends the disk flying. He didnt have the laser tracking the disks, nor did they have a means of keeping themselves spinning (I guess in a vacuum there would be little to stop them) The spinning may have been used just for stability, not sure. He had to make sure there where no airplanes in the area while performing the test, the laser was designed to take out satellites from the ground. Wouldnt it be fun to work at white sands.
I used to do all my music production on a dual head set up (matrox g400 with 2 21" CRT) until one of the monitors burned out. (what do you expect for $100?) Working on one monitor sucks and setting the views up so that you can see everything at once is impossible. I think the way to go for a larger desktop is an Apple Cinema display, the biggest one you can get (if you can afford it). The aspect ratio is perfect, the view is like a wall and the screen itself is incredibly sharp, like looking at paper. I'll take 2 please. I don't find I need multiple monitors when coding, but I do tend to run out of visible real estate sometimes. A single 21" CRT feels very cramped after working on one of the big apple cinema displays.
I read last week on C-Net that an IE hole was to blame for the Half Life code leak. Had they required developers to use Mozilla, they might not have been hacked so easily. Here at my company, developers still using windows are scoffed at, and anyone found browsing the web with IE is taken to the broom closet for torture/interrogation. I tend to develop apps using Mozilla for testing, which behaves pretty well, too bad most users are stuck with IE. The poor web developers here have to support IE and Mozilla, I like to make people test their stuff in Safari once in a while too. Mozilla has its flaws, but I find it to be 10+ times better than IE, which I find to be double plus ungood.
As they were too busy chanting: 'IPO! IPO! IPO!..'
OS X on iBooks. This is the ideal platform for students at all levels. I used NT and other windows OSs throughout college and highschool, there was nothing I hated more than dealing with windows problems and waiting for sysadmins to fix them. Windows required a large,mostly dissatisfied staff of mcse boneheads to keep everything running and under control, even then it seemed like nothing ever worked and NT labs would be down for days. The Apple labs for graphic design students had maybe one person working in them, that was mostly so people didnt go around stealing RAM from the G3s. Cost of ownership for iBooks will probably be much lower than for windows/intel laptops, and apples tend to be useful for much longer.
anyone else thinking this game is slowly spiraling towards its doom? If I was a developer at Valve I would definately be pissed off. An probably more than a little burned out. Now some jackass using IE gets 1/3 of the source code stolen and the boss says we have to re-write it and delays the ship date again. That would suck. Hopefully the game will do well even after the delays. Too bad All of the source tree wasnt stolen. Then we could build it and start playing now! They should just release it now, add a patch in a few months to kill the cheats and call it a day. Thats what I would have done, but then, I'm just a lowly senior programmer. I'm not smart enough to make Business decisions..
See, even non open source developers can benefit from using Linux as a development platform. They can test their code on windows as well, but there would be no need to have people using Outlook, IE, Word or SourceSafe (eek.) or even have windows machines connected to the internet. Actually when I need to test some code on windows, I fire it up in Wine or Virtual PC..
I thought those spots were timing indicators telling the projectionist when to switch to the next reel, the first flash being a warning and the second flash being the time to switch over.
Yes, kyocera appears to make environmental conservation one of its main concerns. I think it really takes a founder with some kind of vision other than profit-profit-profit-profit to make a company successful without destroying the environment.
..ST has made [the commitment] to be a CO2-neutral company by 2010..
Nice. Why can't more companies make commitments like that?
the overall cost of solar-generated electricity (amortized over the lifetime of the solar cell, typically 20 years) is around ten times higher than the cost of electricity generated by burning fossil fuels.
The author forgot to factor in the environmental costs of buring fossil fuels for 20 years.
I will no longer have to explain init.d and runlevels to noobs. I like init, once you understand how to use it, it kind of makes sense. It does look like a 2 decade old silly way of starting/stopping services, and I dont see how anyone could grok it without reading some man pages.
I was looking for CVS access. If its not being released until December, this leaked code could be way out of date. But it would be cool to take a look at the engine and stuff, no?
but actually recording all that audio is going to require owning/renting studio space. Laptops and desktops are great for editing and creating electronic music, but for music that requires audio recording of voices and instruments you will still need a bit of space and some good mics/pre-amps. As a producer I do everything on a g4 tower or g3 iBook these days, but I have not been dealing much with live vocals or instruments lately. I use Logic 6 on the iBook, probably the best editing/production environment available. I started out with cubase and moved on to Pro-tools later when I could afford it. Cubase was just crap in my opinion, many people use it anyway. Pro tools was much better, and has always been my favourite for audio editing and mastering. Logic has been the best all around, it was a bit buggy and had some usability issues in the 4.x releases, but by 6 all the problems I had were worked out. It is much more flexible when compared to Pro Tools. I still run Logic 4.7 on the Digi001 ProTools hardware on a G4, Logic 6 runs in OS X on my iBook. The iBook is a 733 g3, which is generally fast enough to start out, but after 10-12 audio/instrument tracks with plugins the processor is maxed out. This is no problem, Logic 6 allows you to 'freeze' tracks, essentially rendering them transparently, which frees up the CPU and memory for more tracks/plugins. This makes the laptop feasible as a production environement, even if it is a G3. My studio has definately shrunk in the last 2 years, the portablity is nice and I no longer own big old unreliable analog synths or big crappy, limited and expensive digital synths. All the synthesis is done in software, and the soft synths are pretty limitless and never break or go out of tune.