RightSaidFred99: sorry, but are you actually pro-MS? Here on/.? Or are you just being 'all American'? C'mon man, that ship has sailed. Embrace this new global village thingy we are having.
Of course, most probably I'm just feeding the trolls atm...
I don't get this. Does that mean that in the whole city of Detroit there are only 449 jobs available? I mean, for a city with 900,000+ people, that's extremely little.
Yes, I mean sl and not ls. Oh, and make sure you direct it to the correct terminal (pts3 in this case). The target will be forced to logout, or log you out... *evil grin*
Here in The Netherlands Windows is used for train arrivals/departures information and even in casinos.
Quite annoying to encounter a BSOD when you're in a hurry to catch a train or when you happen to have a lot of money to waste on gambling;)
Oh yeah, buses use Windows to display the upcoming 5 stops with a timestamp. Unfortunately, these terminals are down 50% of the time: if the displays are still working after all the violent shaking of a busride, you'll find Windows hanging on some missing DLL or something (disk failure?).
Jup. I wrote a virtual keyboard implementation in JavaScript for the Roundcube webmail client, although this can easily be used for other applications.
I actually drive for a living, and someone asked me to move this van the other day. I had no idea where to start, because I've never driven an automatic. I don't suppose it'd take much to learn, but currently I'm as clueless in an automatic as an automatic driver is in a manual.
I have driven a automatic once (I usually only drive manual) and learned one thing the hard way: always keep your left foot on the ground. It's very easy to get confused and use your left foot (normally only used for the clutch) to hit the brake pedal (which is extra width in an automatic) causing you to put way to much pressure on it and smashing your head on the steering wheel. Which is not a nice feeling, I can tell you that.
But it feels a bit strange to only use your right foot when driving, so it takes a little bit of practice. But apart from that: it's quite easy to drive an automatic.
You should blame the editor instead: the submitter submitted his story probably before the article you refer to was posted and it's always to the editors to fix this kind of things.
I hate it the Slashdot editors don't even care to read their own frontpage!
I bet they will need support... and therefore, they will buy OO (oops, StarOffice) from Sun rather than instructing their employees to download it from the net. Therefore, they will just exchange one company for the other.
Good for Sun, good for OpenOffice... bad for Paris Hilton =)
And I bet they have an entire IT staff more than willing to support OpenOffice. Third party support may be necessary for smaller businesses, the French government has enough geeks on their payroll. Good luck France!
Interview with Dr. Bradley Edwards October 14, 2005 on 1:28 pm | In Uncategorized | Seattle, A Hotbed For Space Elevator Development?
KC: My jaw dropped when I went to my nearest Starbucks, saw your artwork on the wall, and realized that you lived in Seattle. How long have you been here? It doesn't exactly seem to be a hotbed for space elevator work...
BE: I did my work for NIAC (NASA Institute For Advanced Concepts) here in 2000, and then moved back in June. I was working with people everywhere; most of the collaboration was virtual, and many folks I didn't meet until the end. I don't think I met Eric Westling until after we published our book (The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System). A few people I'm currently working with I still haven't met. I don't work with people just because they're local, I have to find people I think are the best. It depends on what I'm working on. It's an effort that can be largely broken up into sections. "Here is the anchor station, go do it." Actually, it's great that I don't have to have everyone in the same room because it's just not possible.
I tried to look up your biography on the Internet, and couldn't track down some of the organizations you've worked in. Some of them are probably from the early Internet days...
We've been trying to get various projects started. A few were a few false starts, or in some cases just testing the waters. HighLift Systems was a Seattle-based company, and was one of those false starts. I closed it down. I'm not affiliated with LiftPort. I have worked with LiftPort's founder Michael Laine a bit at HighLift in Seattle before we parted ways. [Not on the best of terms; juicy but unsubstantiated gossip about LiftPort removed, Meow!! -ed] NASA Versus Private Industry
Did you see Michael Griffin's interview in USA Today last week?
No, but I know the general gist. It's not a surprise. In my mind the Space Shuttle and Space Station are not valuable efforts. It's not what NASA should be doing. NASA is using technology from commercial enterprises, or very old technology from the 70's to try and do space exploration. If they are going to be a real premier space agency, they need to be pushing it.
They should be doing stuff which looks to us like science fiction...
It shouldn't be science fiction, but they should be pushing the boundaries and doing work that inspires. That's what Apollo was. The technology for Apollo existed before the program started; they took that knowledge and pushed it to its limits, and it literally inspired the world.
I wasn't around then, but it seems like peoplecared what NASA did back then. NASA has their Moon and Mars pictures up on their website, but I don't know if anyone cares. If you squint as you look, you'd think it was 1930.
It is history; it's old news. And since then, they've done very little.
It seems like there was a long-standing debate between rockets and the Space Shuttle. From where you sit, that's like choosing between Nicki and Paris Hilton.
Even high up in NASA management, they won't officially say it - but they have said it directly to me - that nothing substantial in space can be done with rockets. A federal program with lots of money can take some people up there, but it won't be able to commercialize space. We've been going at it for thirty-five years now, and we've put up telecommunications systems and GPS. If there's a buck to be made and a product to be built, it'll get done. With current technology, I think we've developed space commercially as far as we can. We need something dramatically different--a brand new market, a brand new technology.
Economists should get that. How did trains and highways change America?
Private enterprise is starting to get it. NASA hasn't shown much interest on the space elevator, but there are a number of private entities that have.
But we just laughed at a bunch of them: HighLift, LiftPort. Do any of them have billions of dollars?
And your problem is that you're a pathetic whiner. Get over this little cracker/hacker thingy and grow up. Are you really upset by the fact that all the big media use the H word for a criminal?!
People have to submit the stories for/. to post them. Why didn't you submit it when you saw it 12 hours ago?
Maybe he did. The fact is that it takes *way too long* before a submission gets accepted or rejected by the editors. Probably too much in the queue and too little time on the editor's hands. I'm glad they try to catch up a little lately by just hitting the 'Accept submission' button before looking if the article is a dup and so on...
Could we please try to restore the word "hacker" a more positive meaning on mainstream media?
*sigh* Could we just once please stop this endless discussion?
What does it matter what a hacker and a cracker is? As if a programmer gets more attention once the media start to call him a hacker and call the phishers crackers. Also: definitions can change, you know that?
No, Orwell was talking about where life could lead to if things would continue like they were in 1948. In 1948 there was no real big brother, but there was the big government. Orwell thought that by 1984 there would be a real big brother and all the other things like microphones.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot does it again.
RightSaidFred99: sorry, but are you actually pro-MS? Here on /.? Or are you just being 'all American'? C'mon man, that ship has sailed. Embrace this new global village thingy we are having.
Of course, most probably I'm just feeding the trolls atm...
I don't get this. Does that mean that in the whole city of Detroit there are only 449 jobs available? I mean, for a city with 900,000+ people, that's extremely little.
Back in 2003 I saw this article on NU.nl, a very populair and trustworthy online news outlet in The Netherlands: http://www.nu.nl/internet/174435/half-life-verfilmd.html
You'll have to run it through Babelfish though, as it is written in Dutch.
Someone needs his morning coffee ;)
The rights for making a feature-length of Half-Life (1) were sold back in 2003.
while [ true ] /dev/pts/3
do
sl >
done
Yes, I mean sl and not ls. Oh, and make sure you direct it to the correct terminal (pts3 in this case). The target will be forced to logout, or log you out... *evil grin*
Here in The Netherlands Windows is used for train arrivals/departures information and even in casinos. Quite annoying to encounter a BSOD when you're in a hurry to catch a train or when you happen to have a lot of money to waste on gambling ;)
Oh yeah, buses use Windows to display the upcoming 5 stops with a timestamp. Unfortunately, these terminals are down 50% of the time: if the displays are still working after all the violent shaking of a busride, you'll find Windows hanging on some missing DLL or something (disk failure?).
Jup. I wrote a virtual keyboard implementation in JavaScript for the Roundcube webmail client, although this can easily be used for other applications.
Take a look here: http://www.syn-ack.org/code/jsvk/jsvk.html
Here's the code: http://www.syn-ack.org/code/jsvk/jsvk.js
(Automatics creep forward slightly when you don't touch any pedals at all, while a manual will either sit still or roll with gravity.)
Not entirely correct: a manual will most likely shut down in a most uncomfortable way: 'speeding' forward, about 8 inches.
I actually drive for a living, and someone asked me to move this van the other day. I had no idea where to start, because I've never driven an automatic. I don't suppose it'd take much to learn, but currently I'm as clueless in an automatic as an automatic driver is in a manual.
I have driven a automatic once (I usually only drive manual) and learned one thing the hard way: always keep your left foot on the ground. It's very easy to get confused and use your left foot (normally only used for the clutch) to hit the brake pedal (which is extra width in an automatic) causing you to put way to much pressure on it and smashing your head on the steering wheel. Which is not a nice feeling, I can tell you that. But it feels a bit strange to only use your right foot when driving, so it takes a little bit of practice. But apart from that: it's quite easy to drive an automatic.
Forgive me my ignorance, but what is the bad thing about riding the clutch?
Don't be too anal about some things in life and take them for granted. Perhaps not everyone is as gifted as you are in pronouncing foreign names?
You should blame the editor instead: the submitter submitted his story probably before the article you refer to was posted and it's always to the editors to fix this kind of things.
I hate it the Slashdot editors don't even care to read their own frontpage!
Simple question but I'm curious: do you read Slashdot?
I bet they will need support... and therefore, they will buy OO (oops, StarOffice) from Sun rather than instructing their employees to download it from the net. Therefore, they will just exchange one company for the other. Good for Sun, good for OpenOffice... bad for Paris Hilton =)
And I bet they have an entire IT staff more than willing to support OpenOffice. Third party support may be necessary for smaller businesses, the French government has enough geeks on their payroll. Good luck France!
Interview with Dr. Bradley Edwards
October 14, 2005 on 1:28 pm | In Uncategorized |
Seattle, A Hotbed For Space Elevator Development?
KC: My jaw dropped when I went to my nearest Starbucks, saw your artwork on the wall, and realized that you lived in Seattle. How long have you been here? It doesn't exactly seem to be a hotbed for space elevator work...
BE: I did my work for NIAC (NASA Institute For Advanced Concepts) here in 2000, and then moved back in June. I was working with people everywhere; most of the collaboration was virtual, and many folks I didn't meet until the end. I don't think I met Eric Westling until after we published our book (The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System). A few people I'm currently working with I still haven't met. I don't work with people just because they're local, I have to find people I think are the best. It depends on what I'm working on. It's an effort that can be largely broken up into sections. "Here is the anchor station, go do it." Actually, it's great that I don't have to have everyone in the same room because it's just not possible.
I tried to look up your biography on the Internet, and couldn't track down some of the organizations you've worked in. Some of them are probably from the early Internet days...
We've been trying to get various projects started. A few were a few false starts, or in some cases just testing the waters. HighLift Systems was a Seattle-based company, and was one of those false starts. I closed it down. I'm not affiliated with LiftPort. I have worked with LiftPort's founder Michael Laine a bit at HighLift in Seattle before we parted ways. [Not on the best of terms; juicy but unsubstantiated gossip about LiftPort removed, Meow!! -ed]
NASA Versus Private Industry
Did you see Michael Griffin's interview in USA Today last week?
No, but I know the general gist. It's not a surprise. In my mind the Space Shuttle and Space Station are not valuable efforts. It's not what NASA should be doing. NASA is using technology from commercial enterprises, or very old technology from the 70's to try and do space exploration. If they are going to be a real premier space agency, they need to be pushing it.
They should be doing stuff which looks to us like science fiction...
It shouldn't be science fiction, but they should be pushing the boundaries and doing work that inspires. That's what Apollo was. The technology for Apollo existed before the program started; they took that knowledge and pushed it to its limits, and it literally inspired the world.
I wasn't around then, but it seems like peoplecared what NASA did back then. NASA has their Moon and Mars pictures up on their website, but I don't know if anyone cares. If you squint as you look, you'd think it was 1930.
It is history; it's old news. And since then, they've done very little.
It seems like there was a long-standing debate between rockets and the Space Shuttle. From where you sit, that's like choosing between Nicki and Paris Hilton.
Even high up in NASA management, they won't officially say it - but they have said it directly to me - that nothing substantial in space can be done with rockets. A federal program with lots of money can take some people up there, but it won't be able to commercialize space. We've been going at it for thirty-five years now, and we've put up telecommunications systems and GPS. If there's a buck to be made and a product to be built, it'll get done. With current technology, I think we've developed space commercially as far as we can. We need something dramatically different--a brand new market, a brand new technology.
Economists should get that. How did trains and highways change America?
Private enterprise is starting to get it. NASA hasn't shown much interest on the space elevator, but there are a number of private entities that have.
But we just laughed at a bunch of them: HighLift, LiftPort. Do any of them have billions of dollars?
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And your problem is that you're a pathetic whiner. Get over this little cracker/hacker thingy and grow up. Are you really upset by the fact that all the big media use the H word for a criminal?!
People have to submit the stories for /. to post them. Why didn't you submit it when you saw it 12 hours ago?
Maybe he did. The fact is that it takes *way too long* before a submission gets accepted or rejected by the editors. Probably too much in the queue and too little time on the editor's hands. I'm glad they try to catch up a little lately by just hitting the 'Accept submission' button before looking if the article is a dup and so on...
How about going back into the past in passive mode? So it's not like you can walk around there, all you'll experience is yourself, back in time.
Yeah, it's a funny headline. I was a little twisted too about whether to consider 'Maps' a verb or a noun and the same for 'Hack'.
Could we please try to restore the word "hacker" a more positive meaning on mainstream media?
*sigh* Could we just once please stop this endless discussion?
What does it matter what a hacker and a cracker is? As if a programmer gets more attention once the media start to call him a hacker and call the phishers crackers. Also: definitions can change, you know that?
No, Orwell was talking about where life could lead to if things would continue like they were in 1948. In 1948 there was no real big brother, but there was the big government. Orwell thought that by 1984 there would be a real big brother and all the other things like microphones.
Orwell was right! He was only 21 years ahead of his time.
At the bottom of the page is a counter. It went up from about 1100 to 1200 in a few seconds. Click refresh and watch it jump!
Yeah, that will help him. All Slashdotters double the effect, NOW!