GPS in general was known for quite longer. Here "commercialized" is opposed to "for military use". Digital cameras were known longer than 25 years (but they weren't nearly as useful (and as cheap) as nowadays) so they can't make it to the list. Consumer level cameras practically removed most of inconveniences in making amateur photos. Cost of media, cost and time of development, inability to see what you've just taken, recycle media space, remove unwanted photos... They are vastly more comfortable than analog cameras. HDTV: GOAT. If you have a spaceship that runs at 0.6 c , it doesn't take a genius to imagine one that runs at 1.2 c. Actually it takes strictly an idiot to imagine one. There are some bad technological limitations, some very difficult to overcome nonlinearities that make "plain" doubling something a real pain in the neck. Why 30" LCD costs more than 2x (or even 4x for 4x bigger surface) than 15" one? Because it requires two times thinner data lines, and while "standard" ones are somewhere near the edge of "signal loss", the new, thinner ones are way beyond the border and they need to be reengineered and designed in completely new way. There's a lot of limitations similar to "light speed", some can be pushed forward, some may be overcome by paralell processing, some just strike and stop you in place for years. I'm no expert in TV manufacturing, but I know there are many hurdles to overcome to make some device to perform 2x better in all domains.
AdAware detects well over 50% adware out there. Microsoft beats them by at least twice the amount... how is it possible?
"The suspect files are known spyware from a known spyware companies:" SPY._ff_mz (firefox.exe) SPY._mz_mz (mozilla.exe) SPY._gn_gmp (gimp.exe)
"The following software is extreme security risk spyware:" SPY._uv_vnc (vncserver.exe) SPY._pt_pt (putty.exe)
"The following image files on your harddrive contain dangerous spyware:" SPY._ko_lnx (vmlinuz in knoppix.iso) SPY._gn_bsh (bash in knoppix.iso) .... and so on...
1. Vector drawing (Corel Draw functionality, Xfig nowhere near there) 2. CAD with 3D (AutoCAD vs 2D QCAD) 3. Flash editor. 4. A lot of games... 5. Specialised niche software. (camera, sensors, motion control, CAM, accounting, banking, navigation and all such stuff where you buy a very special device and it comes with a CD with Windows software...)
...at least in Poland. Our IRS bastards decided to "calculate the value of Free Software as equal to commercial versions" so if you install free Open Office on free Linux, they want you to pay as much tax for increasing the value of equipment as if you purchased WinXP Pro and MS Office. With one exception. They are helpless if you actually -paid- for the software. You show them a bill from your newspapers stand where you purchased latest issue of "Linux Plus" gazette for equivalent of 2 euro and got 2 CDs with it, with, say, latest Mandrake release and OpenOffice. You register the 2 euro as your expenses, increase the value of the computer set by 2 euro, pay corresponding tax and give IRS a finger.
AFAIR, hydrogen is a fraction of percent (something like 0.01%?) of air. It constantly gets emitted through deionization of sea water, electrolysis of rain water and many other processes. It's a natural compound of the atmosphere and it's quite harmless in small amounts. In larger amounts it burns rapidly, creating water and very little is needed to ignite it.
1. Bombardier Embryo (the cool 1-wheel Segway - expected release 2015) 2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ("not earlier than end of 2005") 3. New release of stable Debian branch. (I don't think any date was given) 4. GNU/HURD. Nuff said. 5. TESA-ROM (1TB storage on a roll of duct tape.) 6. "the new Amiga" 7. Moon Base (the schedule was 2005: Orbital station, 2010: Moon base, 2025: Mars base) 8. Peace in Kosovo...? 9. Working DRM (luckily...) 10. Linux ready for Desktop.;)
...and that's it. I know how to write a SCADA app. But I never even seen one in a production environment. Do I know SCADA? Yes and no. I know the funny trigger-oriented programming language with odd GUI for input/output. But I really doubt that if I wrote something in it to control some real system, it wouldn't blow up. Same with IRIX. I spent a few days with root privledges, looking around and messing with the system, I've read through the manual, I managed to fix some standard problems, created accounts for friends... but could I set up a secure and reliable IRIX system? I don't think so.
THAT website? Gimp didn't exist when I was making it:P It comes in handy with stuff like the one on the left: http://www.snowcovered.it/gallery_pics/gues t/s_yot efx_metal_relief.html
So you're full of shit and now your boss (if he carred to know) knows it. As does the whole world...
I didn't write anything I haven't tried even briefly... or anything I couldn't learn really fast if I really needed to.
I am starting to believe the stuff about people getting fired over a forrum posting... let me guess you just graduated and you hold no advanced degrees or even have planns for one.
A degree.
You use M$ about 99% of the time, you have taken a jab at linux but it seems too complex for you and you have no clue what the whole open source *thing* is about.
Wrong. Writing this from Linux. At work I must use M$ stuff because the said system runs on it, but I've installed Linux on a spare box just so I could do serious stuff if someone needs it from me. Besides that, Cygwin was the first move on the M$ box.
You also don't know much about programing despite the fact that you took courses in school. (oh yeah so did everybody else). Jack of all trades and master of none in that. Pity. Rather decent at C and reasonable at Perl, and knowing -just a bit- of any other language out there, from Prolog to Befunge. Most of them thanks to my own interest, not to the school.
Oh yeah and job that you landed was a bottom of the chain one and that's why you were expected to only have the ability to learn fast.
Not the top of the chain, but neither the bottom. Now I know my ways, the conditions are good, the salary reasonable, I learned all I was supposed to learn and I found I enjoy the new area of work, plus now I'm starting some work I was actually fully qualified in the first place - I'm preparing the switch of the whole company accounting system to Open Source. Linux servers, Freedos clients.
Not the case with google and also if you were to apply with google you are the kind of person that won't get hired because the people there went to college too and know that you are full of shit. So spare me the details and hope that your boss didn't find out who you are.
My boss is a bit too busy person to read Slashdot:) And yes, I wouldn't get hired at Google. I know my limits and my abilities, I know I'm not an ace, that with IQ of 140 I can't equal those with IQ of 160, and that I would certainly fail such an interview.
And one more thing. Was all my prior education useless? Did I only need the ability to learn? No. One of entries in the CV was CAD. Two semesters. Enough to learn the basic ideas and enough to forget most of the program specifics before the studies ended. But just enough to understand and triple the speed of learning of the CAD module bundled with the software I was to learn. Not just recalling the old conceptions but also not getting the wrong with this software AutoCAD habits.
Do they teach GIMP at your university? Gimp came quite in handy. As well as Blender3D.
"do no evil" vs "nonprofit"?
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My current boss got so enthusiastic while reading my CV that he completely forgot to ask any questions that would check whether it's true or not:) Luckily my work doesn't involve deep knowledge IRIX, SunOS, VNC, embedded Linux or SCADA systems, otherwise I'd be in trouble:) He just wanted someone who learns fast...
"We bought that new device and it's quite sophisticated and with very specialized software, and we need someone to learn how to use it. Can you do this?" "Is the documentation available?" "Yes." "I can do this." "Great, you're hired."
...since the copyright fee is deducted with price of the computers, this should make copying copyrighted data from P2P legal? After all I paid 12EUR for it. One-time fee for clearance to download any amount of copyrighted data, sounds fine to me.
Want me to dig up the "Beagle 2 lost" and "NASA Rovers working" stories? All that rambling about NASA superiority over ESA, "US - Europe 2:0" and such? Maybe if they were a common effort, they would unite the world, but it seems with Beagle 2 demise they only made the conflict deeper. No, of course they are great devices, great succes, and scientifically priceless and all that. It's just that they didn't help a thing on the social level.
The movie section says "grab some popcorn and select one of the movies to the left to start the show". I'd rather say "select one of the movies to the left, then drive to the mall to buy some popcorn, and when you're back, it will start".
Dear Sirs. We managed to slashdot NASA. Congratulations.
So far Linux was claimed to be the "Open Source Flagship Product", and was gaining a reasonable share of interest, but was way too far from people's interest. Too many hobbles to jump at it, at once, too "nerdy" and too far, and not -quite- ready for desktop. But people who accepted Linux, learned to value Open Source solutions and were going away from Microsoft. Now Firefox is on the lead, gaining popularity faster than any other open source release before. And its "open source propaganda" is what Microsoft really fears. People see "No popups? No banners? No spam, no hooks attached, no spyware? And all for free? How?" and they will try to find out, and learn about Open Source movement. Effect? Instead of upgrading from XP to Longhorn, they will upgrade from XP to Mandrake.
Microsoft tries to maintain its dominance by "security through obscurity" - "there are no other operating systems", "there is no Open Source", "Linux doesn't exist". They try not to mention alternatives, keep people's interest away. No support for "foreign" filesystems and not even a mention of their existence. Only Fat32 and NTFS exist. There's no other browsers. The Internet is the blue "e" icon, it says so! What are these partition types? Most apparently unformatted! Firefox removes the wall, lets people see there are alternatives and they ARE better. Obscurity vanishes. Most gladly MS would ignore existence of FF at all - never mentioning it, so nobody hears the name, so nobody ever thinks of it... or of any other alternative.
It was quite easy to put -unique- ID in each CPU. What a problem is it to include a "brand plaque" read-only data that provides permanent info like recommended/default speed, safe temperature ranges, "warranty void" bit, brand name, manufacture date and all such stuff, readable i.e. with a signed application downloadable from intel.com, so the customers could check what they have?
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GPS in general was known for quite longer. Here "commercialized" is opposed to "for military use".
Digital cameras were known longer than 25 years (but they weren't nearly as useful (and as cheap) as nowadays) so they can't make it to the list. Consumer level cameras practically removed most of inconveniences in making amateur photos. Cost of media, cost and time of development, inability to see what you've just taken, recycle media space, remove unwanted photos... They are vastly more comfortable than analog cameras.
HDTV: GOAT. If you have a spaceship that runs at 0.6 c , it doesn't take a genius to imagine one that runs at 1.2 c. Actually it takes strictly an idiot to imagine one.
There are some bad technological limitations, some very difficult to overcome nonlinearities that make "plain" doubling something a real pain in the neck. Why 30" LCD costs more than 2x (or even 4x for 4x bigger surface) than 15" one? Because it requires two times thinner data lines, and while "standard" ones are somewhere near the edge of "signal loss", the new, thinner ones are way beyond the border and they need to be reengineered and designed in completely new way. There's a lot of limitations similar to "light speed", some can be pushed forward, some may be overcome by paralell processing, some just strike and stop you in place for years. I'm no expert in TV manufacturing, but I know there are many hurdles to overcome to make some device to perform 2x better in all domains.
Anything feeling like running faster than usually?
AdAware detects well over 50% adware out there. Microsoft beats them by at least twice the amount... how is it possible?
"The suspect files are known spyware from a known spyware companies:"
SPY._ff_mz (firefox.exe)
SPY._mz_mz (mozilla.exe)
SPY._gn_gmp (gimp.exe)
"The following software is extreme security risk spyware:"
SPY._uv_vnc (vncserver.exe)
SPY._pt_pt (putty.exe)
"The following image files on your harddrive contain dangerous spyware:"
SPY._ko_lnx (vmlinuz in knoppix.iso)
SPY._gn_bsh (bash in knoppix.iso)
.... and so on...
Still missing...
1. Vector drawing (Corel Draw functionality, Xfig nowhere near there)
2. CAD with 3D (AutoCAD vs 2D QCAD)
3. Flash editor.
4. A lot of games...
5. Specialised niche software. (camera, sensors, motion control, CAM, accounting, banking, navigation and all such stuff where you buy a very special device and it comes with a CD with Windows software...)
...at least in Poland.
Our IRS bastards decided to "calculate the value of Free Software as equal to commercial versions" so if you install free Open Office on free Linux, they want you to pay as much tax for increasing the value of equipment as if you purchased WinXP Pro and MS Office.
With one exception. They are helpless if you actually -paid- for the software. You show them a bill from your newspapers stand where you purchased latest issue of "Linux Plus" gazette for equivalent of 2 euro and got 2 CDs with it, with, say, latest Mandrake release and OpenOffice. You register the 2 euro as your expenses, increase the value of the computer set by 2 euro, pay corresponding tax and give IRS a finger.
AFAIR, hydrogen is a fraction of percent (something like 0.01%?) of air. It constantly gets emitted through deionization of sea water, electrolysis of rain water and many other processes. It's a natural compound of the atmosphere and it's quite harmless in small amounts. In larger amounts it burns rapidly, creating water and very little is needed to ignite it.
...and know where to send the helicopter to extract the truck from the traffic jam before the concrete gets hard. :)
1. Bombardier Embryo (the cool 1-wheel Segway - expected release 2015) ;)
2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ("not earlier than end of 2005")
3. New release of stable Debian branch. (I don't think any date was given)
4. GNU/HURD. Nuff said.
5. TESA-ROM (1TB storage on a roll of duct tape.)
6. "the new Amiga"
7. Moon Base (the schedule was 2005: Orbital station, 2010: Moon base, 2025: Mars base)
8. Peace in Kosovo...?
9. Working DRM (luckily...)
10. Linux ready for Desktop.
...and that's it. I know how to write a SCADA app. But I never even seen one in a production environment. Do I know SCADA? Yes and no. I know the funny trigger-oriented programming language with odd GUI for input/output. But I really doubt that if I wrote something in it to control some real system, it wouldn't blow up.
Same with IRIX. I spent a few days with root privledges, looking around and messing with the system, I've read through the manual, I managed to fix some standard problems, created accounts for friends... but could I set up a secure and reliable IRIX system? I don't think so.
THAT website? :Ps t/s_yot efx_metal_relief.html
Gimp didn't exist when I was making it
It comes in handy with stuff like the one on the left:
http://www.snowcovered.it/gallery_pics/gue
So you're full of shit and now your boss (if he carred to know) knows it. As does the whole world...
... let me guess you just graduated and you hold no advanced degrees or even have planns for one.
:) And yes, I wouldn't get hired at Google. I know my limits and my abilities, I know I'm not an ace, that with IQ of 140 I can't equal those with IQ of 160, and that I would certainly fail such an interview.
I didn't write anything I haven't tried even briefly... or anything I couldn't learn really fast if I really needed to.
I am starting to believe the stuff about people getting fired over a forrum posting
A degree.
You use M$ about 99% of the time, you have taken a jab at linux but it seems too complex for you and you have no clue what the whole open source *thing* is about.
Wrong. Writing this from Linux. At work I must use M$ stuff because the said system runs on it, but I've installed Linux on a spare box just so I could do serious stuff if someone needs it from me. Besides that, Cygwin was the first move on the M$ box.
You also don't know much about programing despite the fact that you took courses in school. (oh yeah so did everybody else).
Jack of all trades and master of none in that. Pity. Rather decent at C and reasonable at Perl, and knowing -just a bit- of any other language out there, from Prolog to Befunge. Most of them thanks to my own interest, not to the school.
Oh yeah and job that you landed was a bottom of the chain one and that's why you were expected to only have the ability to learn fast.
Not the top of the chain, but neither the bottom. Now I know my ways, the conditions are good, the salary reasonable, I learned all I was supposed to learn and I found I enjoy the new area of work, plus now I'm starting some work I was actually fully qualified in the first place - I'm preparing the switch of the whole company accounting system to Open Source. Linux servers, Freedos clients.
Not the case with google and also if you were to apply with google you are the kind of person that won't get hired because the people there went to college too and know that you are full of shit. So spare me the details and hope that your boss didn't find out who you are.
My boss is a bit too busy person to read Slashdot
And one more thing. Was all my prior education useless? Did I only need the ability to learn? No. One of entries in the CV was CAD. Two semesters. Enough to learn the basic ideas and enough to forget most of the program specifics before the studies ended. But just enough to understand and triple the speed of learning of the CAD module bundled with the software I was to learn. Not just recalling the old conceptions but also not getting the wrong with this software AutoCAD habits.
Do they teach GIMP at your university? Gimp came quite in handy. As well as Blender3D.
Yes, I know Google tries to remain to be the Good Guys.
But sometimes things get suspicious.
Like GMail and POP3. You see, 1GB webmail with text ads based on contents of email, all fine and clear. But a non-crippling POP3 that lets you avoid the ads?
Where's the catch?
My current boss got so enthusiastic while reading my CV that he completely forgot to ask any questions that would check whether it's true or not :) Luckily my work doesn't involve deep knowledge IRIX, SunOS, VNC, embedded Linux or SCADA systems, otherwise I'd be in trouble :) He just wanted someone who learns fast...
"We bought that new device and it's quite sophisticated and with very specialized software, and we need someone to learn how to use it. Can you do this?"
"Is the documentation available?"
"Yes."
"I can do this."
"Great, you're hired."
(yes, I could.)
...who thought they are going to release a clone of Q3A on the new HL2 engine "Source"?
...since the copyright fee is deducted with price of the computers, this should make copying copyrighted data from P2P legal? After all I paid 12EUR for it. One-time fee for clearance to download any amount of copyrighted data, sounds fine to me.
There were some rumors on developing a technique of implanting stem cells or something like this to regrow missing teeth. Any news/details about that?
Yes. that's the right answer, you moron -1 offtopic moderator.
Want me to dig up the "Beagle 2 lost" and "NASA Rovers working" stories? All that rambling about NASA superiority over ESA, "US - Europe 2:0" and such? Maybe if they were a common effort, they would unite the world, but it seems with Beagle 2 demise they only made the conflict deeper.
No, of course they are great devices, great succes, and scientifically priceless and all that. It's just that they didn't help a thing on the social level.
The movie section says "grab some popcorn and select one of the movies to the left to start the show". I'd rather say "select one of the movies to the left, then drive to the mall to buy some popcorn, and when you're back, it will start".
Dear Sirs. We managed to slashdot NASA. Congratulations.
Why do the muslim in the US do, bowing -east- while praying, when Mecca is straight down under?
...how many working worms/viruses affecting Mozilla/Firefox have been written already?
How many for MSIE?
What's the ratio?
So far Linux was claimed to be the "Open Source Flagship Product", and was gaining a reasonable share of interest, but was way too far from people's interest. Too many hobbles to jump at it, at once, too "nerdy" and too far, and not -quite- ready for desktop. But people who accepted Linux, learned to value Open Source solutions and were going away from Microsoft.
Now Firefox is on the lead, gaining popularity faster than any other open source release before. And its "open source propaganda" is what Microsoft really fears. People see "No popups? No banners? No spam, no hooks attached, no spyware? And all for free? How?" and they will try to find out, and learn about Open Source movement. Effect? Instead of upgrading from XP to Longhorn, they will upgrade from XP to Mandrake.
Microsoft tries to maintain its dominance by "security through obscurity" - "there are no other operating systems", "there is no Open Source", "Linux doesn't exist". They try not to mention alternatives, keep people's interest away. No support for "foreign" filesystems and not even a mention of their existence. Only Fat32 and NTFS exist. There's no other browsers. The Internet is the blue "e" icon, it says so! What are these partition types? Most apparently unformatted!
Firefox removes the wall, lets people see there are alternatives and they ARE better. Obscurity vanishes. Most gladly MS would ignore existence of FF at all - never mentioning it, so nobody hears the name, so nobody ever thinks of it... or of any other alternative.
It was quite easy to put -unique- ID in each CPU. What a problem is it to include a "brand plaque" read-only data that provides permanent info like recommended/default speed, safe temperature ranges, "warranty void" bit, brand name, manufacture date and all such stuff, readable i.e. with a signed application downloadable from intel.com, so the customers could check what they have?
the same can be done with a cheap red laser pointer instead of $700 green laser.
...to spend your $699 than purchasing a Linux license from SCO.