...people who can sit outside a baseball stadium or concert from some vantage point and watch the game/performance for free are also commiting a felony.
That analogy holds right up to the point you send your first packet to their network. After that, you are no longer a passive spectator...you are playing in a completely different ballgame, with completely different rules.
So to keep up the analogy, because we here at Slashdot love analogies, the analogy holds right up to the point that you start tossing baseballs into the stadium, or joining in the concert by parading up and down the stage clapping your hands out of time.
Or to use an even more powerful analogy, that of the car analogy, it's like you're watching the cars drive by... that's ok. But as soon as you get on your skateboard and grab hold of one a la Back To The Future, you're toast.
All that means, really, is that it won't be Michael Tiemann who authors or participates in this inevitable breakthrough.
UML2 gets close, but it's still hella complicated. I think where the disconnect lies is that C++ allows you to do *everything*, sometimes in multiple ways. What you wanted is a paradigm where you can only do *some* things in *one* way, and *other* things, not at all.
The author tries to act like a newbie in the first couple pages. But by page 3, the words "driver", "Wine" (as in the emulator), "partition", and more start to appear. Newbie?!! Are you kidding me?
The author appears to me to be an excellent writer and tester. She has the ability to put on her newbie hat and robe, and then when she finds a problem, writes it up, then puts on her nerd hat and robe and finds the problem, to let you other nerds know to fix it so that she never has to take her newbie hat and robe off. And if she never has to take off her newbie hat and robe, then a *real* newbie won't have a problem.
I've never even seen a device with black and white e-paper in it, and now they smugly announce the colour version. Why aren't the B&W e-paper devices more popular?
I've actually been surprised by the pace of ePaper advance. Just in the past year or two, we've seen the introduction of readers based on 2-color ePaper, and now the 4096-color version is in labs. I would not be surprised to see a color ePaper reader on the shelves by May 2008, and several models by Jan 2009. The cost of a B&W reader will go down and the quality and featurism will go up as a result.
Then again, readers themselves aren't very ubiquitous in any case, regardless of whether they're ePaper or PDA based. I tend to think that the readers up until now have not approached the form-factor of a paperback with the resolution of a paperback and the memory of a thousand paperbacks. I do expect to see the correct form- and memory-factor by Dec 2007 -- we were close in Dec 2006 when I last looked -- but I expect problems with DRM and format. I think those problems will be solved also by May 2008, either by the industry, or by hax0rs.
I think a lot of these "e-paper" technologies kind of miss the whole point of paper, which is not that it happens to be flexible and reflective, or even in color, but that it's cheap enough and portable enough to bring with you literally anywhere.
On the contrary, I think ePaper exactly addresses the point of paper. Paper is a write-once technology. Consider ONE sheet of ePaper, coupled with a detachable memory consisting of a thousand books. (Aside: my SF library is about 3,000 books, so 1,000 books isn't very far-fetched. At that doesn't include all my technical books). I'd rather carry one device the size of a paperback book that can display all my books, than carry all my books.
In addition, the point of the book is not the paper it's printed on, but the words in it. If my book gets soaked or burned, it's gone. If my ePaper gets soaked or burned, or whatever, I just get another sheet, refresh the memory from backup, done.
I foresee ePaper being used everywhere, replacing displays on stoves, pictures on walls, airline departure monitors, and, of course, books and magazines.
If your company deals in IT spread all over the globe, then the company's IT workers are already telecommuting. They're just living in your office space 8 hours a day. NOW do the math!
Battlestar started off very well. It was fascinating. It was science fiction, emphasis on the science. Then apparently some network dickhead told the writers that they needed to, I don't know, attract more girls, or go more mainstream, or "be more like that Scrubs program". All of a sudden whole segments of the show turned from space opera to soap opera.
After that, I stopped watching. Call me too much of a male geek, but I don't watch SF for stories about relationships that take place in a futuristic setting.
We are talking about East Germany, not Nazi Germany. There could be dirt on people in their twenties in those files.
(BTW, reunification occurred in 1990).
Researcher 1: We've put together the first document!
Researcher 2: Hmm, it's about some kid named Hans, age 4.
Researcher 1: Wow, Hans ran an underground printing press urging... what does this say?
Researcher 2:...urging a more Western approach towards toilet training?
Researcher 1: And he demanded access to Barney.
Researcher 2: That would send anyone to the Gulag!
Researcher 1: Ha ha ha!
Researcher 2: Ha ha ha!
The NHTSA itself came out with a report about 15 years ago (I'd look it up, but I'm lazy -- I saved a paper copy from the magazine it was published in, so I don't know what the corresponding URL would be) that came to these conclusions:
1. Roads are set by local governements at a speed limit 10-20 mph below the engineered speed limit.
2. Cars are safer driving at the prevailing speed limit.
This was the NATIONAL highway traffic SAFETY adminstration. A goverment safety board. You go figure.
Traffic cops only issue speeding tickets. They don't bother making the roads safer...
I agree. One major purpose of speeding tickets is revenue for the police. The other major purpose is to attempt to reduce the average road speed in order to safely qualify for federal road funding.
Yes, overpopulation problems for a start as the death rate soars.
Nah, about the most you can expect from a ten-bicycle pileup is the merry sound of bicycle bells bouncing down the road. The laughter that generates alone on YouTube would more than pay for any adverse effect due to scrapes and bruises from cycling mishaps!
I wonder if we'll see a pattern of them getting into *more* accidents because they're constantly watching the gauge instead of the road.
Well, no. The key is to watch the MPG display about as often as you watch the speedometer. Eventually, within a few weeks, you will learn what behaviors drive your MPG up or down, and then you will not have to watch the MPG display very often. At least, that is my own personal experience.
I second this. I have a Yaris and a ScanGauge, and it works great. Watching the ScanGauge will teach you which habits increase your gas mileage, and which habits don't.
The sucky thing is that I learned that the only thing that will not kill your mileage is coasting slowly to a stop on any positive incline:(
It's like some kind of demented Turing test. You have two terminals. One is connected to an evil guy twirling his moustache. The other is connected to a profit-seeking corporate board. But you don't know which terminal is connected to whom! Can you tell, just by examining their actions, which is the evil moustache, and which is the corporate board?
I disagree. I like public roads and parks. And police (sometimes). There are just some things that everyone should pay for, because life is NOT fair, but SHOULD be fair.
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Yeah, but it's not like you're only allowed to present a given unknown word once. Present it many times, and use the word with the most hits.
--Rob
So to keep up the analogy, because we here at Slashdot love analogies, the analogy holds right up to the point that you start tossing baseballs into the stadium, or joining in the concert by parading up and down the stage clapping your hands out of time.
Or to use an even more powerful analogy, that of the car analogy, it's like you're watching the cars drive by... that's ok. But as soon as you get on your skateboard and grab hold of one a la Back To The Future, you're toast.
--Rob
What I'd like to see is the next Palm using XMen, which is these days owned by Marvel.
--Rob
UML2 gets close, but it's still hella complicated. I think where the disconnect lies is that C++ allows you to do *everything*, sometimes in multiple ways. What you wanted is a paradigm where you can only do *some* things in *one* way, and *other* things, not at all.
--Rob
The author appears to me to be an excellent writer and tester. She has the ability to put on her newbie hat and robe, and then when she finds a problem, writes it up, then puts on her nerd hat and robe and finds the problem, to let you other nerds know to fix it so that she never has to take her newbie hat and robe off. And if she never has to take off her newbie hat and robe, then a *real* newbie won't have a problem.
--Rob
The volumentric measurement of one bannana is approximately 17.8 cubic thoughts per misspelled fruit.
For one begal, it's 14.2 cubic thoughts per panhandler.
For comparison:
1 begal = 14.2 per panhandler.
1 bengal = 29.3 per loud meow.
1 beagle = 2.3 per dog's breath (1 dog's breath ~ 2.3 hog's heads)
--Rob
Oh, Slashdot. Must you always bash Microsoft?
--Rob
The bulletin board is the screen! :) Just FTP your notice to the bulletin board. No tacking required :)
--Rob
I've actually been surprised by the pace of ePaper advance. Just in the past year or two, we've seen the introduction of readers based on 2-color ePaper, and now the 4096-color version is in labs. I would not be surprised to see a color ePaper reader on the shelves by May 2008, and several models by Jan 2009. The cost of a B&W reader will go down and the quality and featurism will go up as a result.
Then again, readers themselves aren't very ubiquitous in any case, regardless of whether they're ePaper or PDA based. I tend to think that the readers up until now have not approached the form-factor of a paperback with the resolution of a paperback and the memory of a thousand paperbacks. I do expect to see the correct form- and memory-factor by Dec 2007 -- we were close in Dec 2006 when I last looked -- but I expect problems with DRM and format. I think those problems will be solved also by May 2008, either by the industry, or by hax0rs.
--Rob
The other day I tried folding my 300 page SF paperback in half. It didn't work. Useless paper!
--Rob
On the contrary, I think ePaper exactly addresses the point of paper. Paper is a write-once technology. Consider ONE sheet of ePaper, coupled with a detachable memory consisting of a thousand books. (Aside: my SF library is about 3,000 books, so 1,000 books isn't very far-fetched. At that doesn't include all my technical books). I'd rather carry one device the size of a paperback book that can display all my books, than carry all my books.
In addition, the point of the book is not the paper it's printed on, but the words in it. If my book gets soaked or burned, it's gone. If my ePaper gets soaked or burned, or whatever, I just get another sheet, refresh the memory from backup, done.
I foresee ePaper being used everywhere, replacing displays on stoves, pictures on walls, airline departure monitors, and, of course, books and magazines.
--Rob
Is "irreducible function" linked to the wiki article on irreducible functions? Oh wait, there isn't one. Remember, kids, Wikipedia Isn't Paper.
--Rob
If your company deals in IT spread all over the globe, then the company's IT workers are already telecommuting. They're just living in your office space 8 hours a day. NOW do the math!
--Rob
Battlestar started off very well. It was fascinating. It was science fiction, emphasis on the science. Then apparently some network dickhead told the writers that they needed to, I don't know, attract more girls, or go more mainstream, or "be more like that Scrubs program". All of a sudden whole segments of the show turned from space opera to soap opera.
After that, I stopped watching. Call me too much of a male geek, but I don't watch SF for stories about relationships that take place in a futuristic setting.
--Rob
(BTW, reunification occurred in 1990).
Researcher 1: We've put together the first document! ...urging a more Western approach towards toilet training?
Researcher 2: Hmm, it's about some kid named Hans, age 4.
Researcher 1: Wow, Hans ran an underground printing press urging... what does this say?
Researcher 2:
Researcher 1: And he demanded access to Barney.
Researcher 2: That would send anyone to the Gulag!
Researcher 1: Ha ha ha!
Researcher 2: Ha ha ha!
--Rob
The NHTSA itself came out with a report about 15 years ago (I'd look it up, but I'm lazy -- I saved a paper copy from the magazine it was published in, so I don't know what the corresponding URL would be) that came to these conclusions:
1. Roads are set by local governements at a speed limit 10-20 mph below the engineered speed limit.
2. Cars are safer driving at the prevailing speed limit.
This was the NATIONAL highway traffic SAFETY adminstration. A goverment safety board. You go figure.
--Rob
I agree. One major purpose of speeding tickets is revenue for the police. The other major purpose is to attempt to reduce the average road speed in order to safely qualify for federal road funding.
--Rob
Nah, about the most you can expect from a ten-bicycle pileup is the merry sound of bicycle bells bouncing down the road. The laughter that generates alone on YouTube would more than pay for any adverse effect due to scrapes and bruises from cycling mishaps!
--Rob
Well, no. The key is to watch the MPG display about as often as you watch the speedometer. Eventually, within a few weeks, you will learn what behaviors drive your MPG up or down, and then you will not have to watch the MPG display very often. At least, that is my own personal experience.
--Rob
I second this. I have a Yaris and a ScanGauge, and it works great. Watching the ScanGauge will teach you which habits increase your gas mileage, and which habits don't.
The sucky thing is that I learned that the only thing that will not kill your mileage is coasting slowly to a stop on any positive incline :(
--Rob
Zefrank, is that you?
--Rob
Grrr.... RESPECT MAH SECURITAH THEATAH!!1!
--Rob
It's like some kind of demented Turing test. You have two terminals. One is connected to an evil guy twirling his moustache. The other is connected to a profit-seeking corporate board. But you don't know which terminal is connected to whom! Can you tell, just by examining their actions, which is the evil moustache, and which is the corporate board?
Kthxbai,
--Rob
I disagree. I like public roads and parks. And police (sometimes). There are just some things that everyone should pay for, because life is NOT fair, but SHOULD be fair.
Kthxbai,
--Rob
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a well-trained patient!
Kthxbai,
--Rob