I seem to remember a digital camera mentioned on slashdot a few months ago that saved to minidisks and had a built in ethernet card, complete with cat5 connector and web server. I would think that would be the first net-ready one, unless they just mean the other way around...
The University of Nebraska really does do research, and interesting stuff at that! All this time I have been going here I thought we were just a front for the football team...
I'm taking a Numerical Analysis class this semester, and one day my professor came in with an example of a program he had written to solve some horrible problem. He put it up on the overhead, and most of the class gasped at the screen full of diamonds, arrows, overscores, and circles. After class I asked him what it was he had shown us, and he proudly said "Oh, that was APL. It's probably slower that most programming languages you could find today, but it makes really small programs..." Ever since then I and a few other students bring that up when we want to bring to mind strange funkiness...
Ah, yes, good point. I was writing that from a "vendor fork" perspective, not a "make things better" perspective. However, having it all in one tree still seems to make some sense: It will all be the same kernel, but if I compile for my pentium I won't have to include stuff for alphas, handhelds, or supercomputers. I guess I'm torn between my like for little things and my like for universality. Oh, well...
...that most people would be smart enough not to fork the kernel. Even if they did, they would have to release the code and anything good would eventually make it back into the main tree anyway, so why not just put it there in the first place? Although, I guess that might a problem with a monolithic kernel: all changes have to go through one person basically, and that can take some time...
...that after all these years of color blindness it may just be the whole population who is color blind. Now nobody can complain to me for not matching things up correctly!
You know, I'm just waiting for flash memory to do some drastic price dropping so it can be used as long term storage. It seems to me it would make a lot more sense: flash memory would be faster, less prone to mechanical failure, and a lot smaller. Of course, right now it is _way_ too expensive for really large scale use, but I look forward to the day when hard drives leave us...
(of course, I don't think they should leave us completely, but instead should be replaced on day-to-day use in many applications)
I guess this is one time being somewhat color-blind makes things easier: I don't really care what the colors are as long as they look fine to me. Whether or not they look fine to somebody who can see them all normally is a completely different matter.:)
Dude, what is the point of running off onto some little-read, seldom-posted-to section of Slashdot just to get a first post? That seems about as bad as camping in Quake. Go out to the big stories, the ones that get hundreds of posts, and go for the first post there!:)
One thing I rarely see mentioned is the need for battery recycling. Those little things are full of lead, mercury, various acids, and all kinds of other nasty stuff (depending on the flavor of battery). Battery rechargers are a good way to keep them out of the environment, but remembering not to just throw them away is the best thing in the end. There are normally places in most cities (I think, at least here in the US) to take dead batteries. Use them!
You know, it would be really nice if Slashdot authors read Slashdot sometimes too. It gets a little annoying sometimes to read the same thing over and over...
Of course, since Slashdot is a nice free way for me to waste my time I won't actually go out and yell from the mountain tops "Slashdot is horrible", it is just at times like this I feel like I should find a new news source...
Dude, I'm still getting along rather well with a pentium 200 I got almost 4 years ago. If a Celery 700 is a low end computer, then I really must be in the stone age...
I am going to guess that in both of the second cases you mentioned, the user will be able to help themselves more than the company could. Anybody who can gather together all of the stuff needed to run their own Linux setup can probably figure out if they are running something incompatable with Product X. In the same way, if you went to the effort of compiling your own 2.4 kernel and X setup, you should know what is going on. Of course, that isn't 100% guarenteed, but it seems reasonable to me...
Oops, you're correct. I shouldn't have equated the open source idea coupled with a penguin to linux specifically. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen all three together before that ad. Perhaps somebody should give the idea of a penguin mascot to Linus so he can make the ad pertain to his baby...
Also, it was rather foolish of me to think they would sell both NT and 9x as desktop OSes. Nobody has ever seen NT on anything but a server; what was I thinking?
You know, I've seen more Windows forks than Linux forks. So far, I only know of one official Linux kernel. However, I know of a few (NT and 95/98 for starters, maybe CE and such too) Windows kernels. I would think people should be more afraid of Windows suddenly changing on them and making things incompatable...
Maybe I'm an odd one out here, but I think those things look pretty cool. It looks quite rugged, complete with a big thick handle to whip it around with. That looks to me like an improvement to the very flimsy-seeming vaios I have seen before. The only thing that looks bad to me is that it appears to have a shiny coating that would probably scratch and dull very easily. However, I guess that is the price you pay for fashion...
Abstract:
A method of adding cost, anguish, and value-added goodness to a computer user's purchase. In its simplest from, this action will be carried out through use of an optical bit-source medium (hereafter refered to as CD-ROM) and a magnetic bit-source-sink medium (hereafter refered to as HARD DRIVE), the previous of which will copy binary digits (hereafter refered to as BITS) to the latter, thereby creating a dynamic representation (hereafter refered to as COPY) of the bits on the cd-rom. In a more in-depth usage of this technology, the cd-rom may be replaced by an electron-motion-wire device (hereafter refered to as NETWORK) or other electronic medium. This innovative process will take place before a computer is sold to a user, and will many times be done without their control. This process will be irreversible, and the user may not recieve a refund if they refues to use the installed software.
Dude, I have the same telemarketing problem sometimes. The only problem is... I live in a dorm. My only choice of long distance carrier is my university. But they still call sometimes, wondering if I want this or that long distance service, telling me all about how good theirs is in comparisson to what I am currently using. When I tell them I don't even use a long distance service (why bother when I can email people?:) ), they sound confused and tell be about how good their is some more. When they ask if I want to switch and I tell them I am a college student living in a dorm, they get the picture and hang up. Then half the time I hear my neighbor's phone number ring...
If we can reverse engineer stuff legally (take that, cuecat!), then can we reverse engineer One Click Shopping too? It seems like a pretty simple idea, and coming up with a clean room implementation wouldn't be that hard...
Slashdot Mirror
If only it had 3 mouse buttons!
Just what other kinds of buttons might a mouse have?
I seem to remember a digital camera mentioned on slashdot a few months ago that saved to minidisks and had a built in ethernet card, complete with cat5 connector and web server. I would think that would be the first net-ready one, unless they just mean the other way around...
The University of Nebraska really does do research, and interesting stuff at that! All this time I have been going here I thought we were just a front for the football team...
:)
I guess I can feel proud now.
I'm taking a Numerical Analysis class this semester, and one day my professor came in with an example of a program he had written to solve some horrible problem. He put it up on the overhead, and most of the class gasped at the screen full of diamonds, arrows, overscores, and circles. After class I asked him what it was he had shown us, and he proudly said "Oh, that was APL. It's probably slower that most programming languages you could find today, but it makes really small programs..." Ever since then I and a few other students bring that up when we want to bring to mind strange funkiness...
Ah, yes, good point. I was writing that from a "vendor fork" perspective, not a "make things better" perspective. However, having it all in one tree still seems to make some sense: It will all be the same kernel, but if I compile for my pentium I won't have to include stuff for alphas, handhelds, or supercomputers. I guess I'm torn between my like for little things and my like for universality. Oh, well...
...that most people would be smart enough not to fork the kernel. Even if they did, they would have to release the code and anything good would eventually make it back into the main tree anyway, so why not just put it there in the first place? Although, I guess that might a problem with a monolithic kernel: all changes have to go through one person basically, and that can take some time...
...that after all these years of color blindness it may just be the whole population who is color blind. Now nobody can complain to me for not matching things up correctly!
You know, I'm just waiting for flash memory to do some drastic price dropping so it can be used as long term storage. It seems to me it would make a lot more sense: flash memory would be faster, less prone to mechanical failure, and a lot smaller. Of course, right now it is _way_ too expensive for really large scale use, but I look forward to the day when hard drives leave us...
(of course, I don't think they should leave us completely, but instead should be replaced on day-to-day use in many applications)
I guess this is one time being somewhat color-blind makes things easier: I don't really care what the colors are as long as they look fine to me. Whether or not they look fine to somebody who can see them all normally is a completely different matter. :)
Dude, what is the point of running off onto some little-read, seldom-posted-to section of Slashdot just to get a first post? That seems about as bad as camping in Quake. Go out to the big stories, the ones that get hundreds of posts, and go for the first post there! :)
One thing I rarely see mentioned is the need for battery recycling. Those little things are full of lead, mercury, various acids, and all kinds of other nasty stuff (depending on the flavor of battery). Battery rechargers are a good way to keep them out of the environment, but remembering not to just throw them away is the best thing in the end. There are normally places in most cities (I think, at least here in the US) to take dead batteries. Use them!
You know, it would be really nice if Slashdot authors read Slashdot sometimes too. It gets a little annoying sometimes to read the same thing over and over...
Of course, since Slashdot is a nice free way for me to waste my time I won't actually go out and yell from the mountain tops "Slashdot is horrible", it is just at times like this I feel like I should find a new news source...
It doesn't seem to render Slashdot correctly. I wonder which is at fault, Slashdot or Amaya... Hmmm.... :)
Dude! 155 weeks to make, 10 minutes to slashdot. Sometimes I feel bad following links posted here...
I wonder how long now until we see the source to Windows selling on Ebay...
"The source to a popular operating system - this is a real fixer-upper! Kind of worked last time I used it, buy as-is. Will pay shipping. No reserve!"
Dude, I'm still getting along rather well with a pentium 200 I got almost 4 years ago. If a Celery 700 is a low end computer, then I really must be in the stone age...
I am going to guess that in both of the second cases you mentioned, the user will be able to help themselves more than the company could. Anybody who can gather together all of the stuff needed to run their own Linux setup can probably figure out if they are running something incompatable with Product X. In the same way, if you went to the effort of compiling your own 2.4 kernel and X setup, you should know what is going on. Of course, that isn't 100% guarenteed, but it seems reasonable to me...
Oops, you're correct. I shouldn't have equated the open source idea coupled with a penguin to linux specifically. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen all three together before that ad. Perhaps somebody should give the idea of a penguin mascot to Linus so he can make the ad pertain to his baby...
Also, it was rather foolish of me to think they would sell both NT and 9x as desktop OSes. Nobody has ever seen NT on anything but a server; what was I thinking?
You know, I've seen more Windows forks than Linux forks. So far, I only know of one official Linux kernel. However, I know of a few (NT and 95/98 for starters, maybe CE and such too) Windows kernels. I would think people should be more afraid of Windows suddenly changing on them and making things incompatable...
Maybe I'm an odd one out here, but I think those things look pretty cool. It looks quite rugged, complete with a big thick handle to whip it around with. That looks to me like an improvement to the very flimsy-seeming vaios I have seen before. The only thing that looks bad to me is that it appears to have a shiny coating that would probably scratch and dull very easily. However, I guess that is the price you pay for fashion...
Abstract:
A method of adding cost, anguish, and value-added goodness to a computer user's purchase. In its simplest from, this action will be carried out through use of an optical bit-source medium (hereafter refered to as CD-ROM) and a magnetic bit-source-sink medium (hereafter refered to as HARD DRIVE), the previous of which will copy binary digits (hereafter refered to as BITS) to the latter, thereby creating a dynamic representation (hereafter refered to as COPY) of the bits on the cd-rom. In a more in-depth usage of this technology, the cd-rom may be replaced by an electron-motion-wire device (hereafter refered to as NETWORK) or other electronic medium. This innovative process will take place before a computer is sold to a user, and will many times be done without their control. This process will be irreversible, and the user may not recieve a refund if they refues to use the installed software.
See also: Micros~1
Uhh... I'm not sure I would want to be using a laser to write to a zip disk... :)
I had seen the levitating frog video before, but I want to see the levitating sumo wrestler! Where's video of that?
Dude, I have the same telemarketing problem sometimes. The only problem is... I live in a dorm. My only choice of long distance carrier is my university. But they still call sometimes, wondering if I want this or that long distance service, telling me all about how good theirs is in comparisson to what I am currently using. When I tell them I don't even use a long distance service (why bother when I can email people? :) ), they sound confused and tell be about how good their is some more. When they ask if I want to switch and I tell them I am a college student living in a dorm, they get the picture and hang up. Then half the time I hear my neighbor's phone number ring...
If we can reverse engineer stuff legally (take that, cuecat!), then can we reverse engineer One Click Shopping too? It seems like a pretty simple idea, and coming up with a clean room implementation wouldn't be that hard...