Yes, I agree. IT is more pervasive and it is more mature. It is becoming a commodity. Commodities are generally defined, regulated, and graded by standards. There are strict definitions for the size of shrimp you buy in bulk, or the quality/type of crude oil.
I assume that when nuts and bolts were first invented and used, different manufactures used different thread sizes and counts on their bolts. Different sizes and number of sides to their nuts. You had buy from the same manufacturer to ensure compatibility. Now we have standards, and life is better.
In the beginning every computer hardware company made it's own software and protocols. They had to. Now were are making standards and life is getting better.
"Affect" is used as a noun by scholars as a replacement for "affection". You see, "affection" sounds touchy-feelly and like pop-psychology. "Affect", on the other hand, is dry and intellectual.
Leo Buscaglia, for example, once tried to teach a class on the effects of love, but could only get it approved if he called the class "Affect as a Behavior Modifier".
Holy Cow! Have you got a dirty mind, Mr. Troll. Puss'n'Boots was NOT pleasuring himself. He was obviously grooming himself, the way ordinary cats do. It was part of the running gag in which the seemingly cool suave sophisticated Zorro like character gets embarrassed because he's really just an ordinary house cat. The hair-ball scene is another example.
Huh? When I do a DNS lookup for MX records, I get all (or at least several) of them in a single UDP packet. Why would a mail exchanger have to do more DNS lookups with nolisting?
In my experience notions "open" and "secure" (especially when referring to standards) tend to go together. It's the poorly thought through "super secret" protocols and encryption techniques that tend to have huge gaping horrendous security holes. The closed nature of these abominations only ensures that the holes aren't found until the technology is widespread enough to ensure that the exploitation of those holes causes maximal damage. I think that most of the world is coming around to this point of view.
Steve said that it's got an iPod connector on the bottom. I suspect that it will be compatible with most iPod accessories.
My biggest gripe about it is that I won't be able to control th thing "by feel". I usually keep my iPod in a pocket. I adjust volume and skip tracks without even looking at the device. Same with my cell phone. I dial by feel.
Ha! That was a Freudian slip if I ever saw one. We all know that Brazil still has cannibals...Don't try to deny it. You want us Americans to come down there so you can dip us in batter and fry us up for dinner. It's eating all those deep fried Americans is what made your fingers fat!
HTML provides the "oooh, pretties" before you even learn do any actual programming, and Javascript introduces you to loops/conditionals and even OOP if you want.
But is any of this as fun as seeing some pixels bounce around the screen based on your algorithm formula:
100 X_pos = X_pos + X_vel
110 Y_pos = Y_pos + Y_vel
120 REM Bounce off the wall?
130 if (X_pos == X_max) or (X_pos == X_min) then X_vel = X_vel * -1
140 if (Y_pos == Y_max) or (Y_pos == Y_min) then Y_vel = Y_vel * -1
150 Graph it...
160 GOTO 100
Then after you get tired of watching the bouncing ball, you add color, paddles, for pong, or a gun to shoot at your bouncing target. Easy access to this kind od instant gratification is what made me the geek I am today. Some how, I don't think tying a web page to a database would have been as exciting.
Yeah, BASIC sucked. and I quickly out grew it, but it was fun wjile it lasted! I've done a lot of interesting development work, but nothing has been as fun as writing my first graphical tic-tac-toe program in BASIC. (God, I'm old!)
This is a very lib/. community. If by "lib" you mean libertarian, then you are correct. Many here believe that the government should not be engaged in this kind of work (environmental research), but if they are going to do it, they'd better be honest and open about it. Most attacks on the Bush administration you'll find here are over civil-liberties issues. Perhaps it's because any geeks concider themselves part of a (socially) persecuted minority. And because learning is so important to geeks hey also believe in the free flow of knowlege and feel empathy with the down trodden. Attempts to stiffle the flow of information are looked down upon around here. We do tend to be open-source fanatics, which is all about sharing information and research.
Hey, while we're talking about bubble blogs, check out the dady of them all http://itulip.com/. They predicted the tech bubble and realestate bubble. Now they are calling for the dollar bubble to burst.
Sure, rainyday money is nice to have, but if you can afford to borrow for a car then most likely you could borrow the rainyday money instead.
Actually, you're wrong. Rainy Day ususlly means something like loosing your job, becoming very ill. It's a truism that it's easy to borrow money when you don't need it, but nobody wants to lend you money when you actually do need it.
Yup. Hydrogen Dioxide is highly unstable at standard temperature and pressure and therefore relatively harmless. Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is the truely deadly stuff, and it's got an extremely long half life. Check out dhmo.org
And Pope John Paul II espoused evolution. So what? Darwin was a Christian. So what? Where is the contradiction? Only Bible Literalists claim that evolution is incompatible with Christianity. Bible Literalists are a tiny percentage of Christians (They sometimes argue that they are the only TRUE Christians).
There is a storythat Darwin renounced evolution on his deathbed, but is not true. Lady Hope spread the story, but she was not present for his final illness. Darwin's daughter Henrietta, who was there, said Lady Hope lied.
You mean the archaeopteryx (150 million years old) was a vegitarian? Those are some weird teeth for a vegitarian. Proto-primates are only about 65 million years old (http://anthro.palomar.edu/earlyprimates/first_pri mates.htm).
When I was in a hotel, the maid came in with a big sack full of snakes. When I asked her what the snakes were for, she replied that she hates dusting, andsince snakes EAT dust, she lets them do the dusting for her.
When I'm out hunting mastodon, I don't care about variations in the color of their hides, but when my cave-woman wife is gathering roots and fruits, seeing slight variations in color means she sicks the ripeset stuff. A good sence of smell ensures that it's not over ripe.
After all... The way to a cave-man's heart is through his stomach.
Slashdot Poll question:
What color would you like to replace Cyan?
[] Near Infra-red
[] Far Ultra-violet
[] True Tan.
[] A more mauvey shade of pinky-russet
[] Cowboy Neal's underpants Sigh. Forgive me.
Yup, I think the author gets all the credit for the supidity of this article.
This so-called orbital convergence improves depth perception and allows monkeys and apes, including humans, to see in three dimensions.
Wow! Both depth perception AND 3-D vision?! What an unusual combination!
Another popular idea, called the "leaping hypothesis," argues that orbital convergence is not only important for 3D vision, but also for breaking through camouflage.
Someone please explain this sentence to me. Why is it calles the "leaping hopothesis" if it's about "breaking through camouflage"? And why would anyone want to break through camouflage? What does that mean?
Isbell says her theory can be tested. For example, scientists could look at whether primates can visually detect snakes more quickly or more reliably than other mammals. Scientists could also examine whether there are differences in the snake-detecting abilities of primates from around the world.
"You could see whether there is any difference between Malagasy lemurs, South American primates and the African and Asian primates," Isbell said.
Based on the above, I can only guess that malagasy lemurs live in an environment without snakes. I doubt whether that idea ever crossed the author's mind.
Don't ya just love sience reportinng from Fox News? I hear that their political reporting is just as good.
According to the Tesla Mortors "white paper" (grain of salt required) the "well-to-wheel" kilometers per mega-joule of various kinds of fuel breaks down thusly:
Here's the PDF URL: http://www.teslamotors.com/media/white_papers/Tesl a%20White%20Paper_2006_07_19.pdf (Yes, I purposly make all my Slashdot links unclickable)
Somewhere in the tesla motors' FAQ it mentioned active ventilation of the batteries. Keeping them cool will help prevent explosions, and help extend their life in other ways too. They claim that the betteries will last 100,000 miles.
Yes coal is dirty, but coal burned for electricity, transmitted over the grid and stored in lion batteries in still not as dirty as oil refined to gasoline, and burned in cars. Due to economies of scale, I suspect it is easier to ameliorate the emissions of a 100 coal power plants than a 100,000 cars.
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Seriously, I'm using Ubuntu on one of our servers, but really don't see any advantage over Debian.
Yes, I agree. IT is more pervasive and it is more mature. It is becoming a commodity. Commodities are generally defined, regulated, and graded by standards. There are strict definitions for the size of shrimp you buy in bulk, or the quality/type of crude oil. I assume that when nuts and bolts were first invented and used, different manufactures used different thread sizes and counts on their bolts. Different sizes and number of sides to their nuts. You had buy from the same manufacturer to ensure compatibility. Now we have standards, and life is better. In the beginning every computer hardware company made it's own software and protocols. They had to. Now were are making standards and life is getting better.
"Affect" is used as a noun by scholars as a replacement for "affection". You see, "affection" sounds touchy-feelly and like pop-psychology. "Affect", on the other hand, is dry and intellectual.
Leo Buscaglia, for example, once tried to teach a class on the effects of love, but could only get it approved if he called the class "Affect as a Behavior Modifier".
Aardman humor reminds me a lot of the older Muppet humor, but a with fewer explosions.
Holy Cow! Have you got a dirty mind, Mr. Troll. Puss'n'Boots was NOT pleasuring himself. He was obviously grooming himself, the way ordinary cats do. It was part of the running gag in which the seemingly cool suave sophisticated Zorro like character gets embarrassed because he's really just an ordinary house cat. The hair-ball scene is another example.
Huh? When I do a DNS lookup for MX records, I get all (or at least several) of them in a single UDP packet. Why would a mail exchanger have to do more DNS lookups with nolisting?
In my experience notions "open" and "secure" (especially when referring to standards) tend to go together. It's the poorly thought through "super secret" protocols and encryption techniques that tend to have huge gaping horrendous security holes. The closed nature of these abominations only ensures that the holes aren't found until the technology is widespread enough to ensure that the exploitation of those holes causes maximal damage.
I think that most of the world is coming around to this point of view.
Steve said that it's got an iPod connector on the bottom. I suspect that it will be compatible with most iPod accessories. My biggest gripe about it is that I won't be able to control th thing "by feel". I usually keep my iPod in a pocket. I adjust volume and skip tracks without even looking at the device. Same with my cell phone. I dial by feel.
Ha! That was a Freudian slip if I ever saw one. We all know that Brazil still has cannibals...Don't try to deny it. You want us Americans to come down there so you can dip us in batter and fry us up for dinner. It's eating all those deep fried Americans is what made your fingers fat!
But is any of this as fun as seeing some pixels bounce around the screen based on your algorithm formula:
100 X_pos = X_pos + X_vel
110 Y_pos = Y_pos + Y_vel
120 REM Bounce off the wall?
130 if (X_pos == X_max) or (X_pos == X_min) then X_vel = X_vel * -1
140 if (Y_pos == Y_max) or (Y_pos == Y_min) then Y_vel = Y_vel * -1
150 Graph it...
160 GOTO 100
Then after you get tired of watching the bouncing ball, you add color, paddles, for pong, or a gun to shoot at your bouncing target. Easy access to this kind od instant gratification is what made me the geek I am today. Some how, I don't think tying a web page to a database would have been as exciting.
Yeah, BASIC sucked. and I quickly out grew it, but it was fun wjile it lasted! I've done a lot of interesting development work, but nothing has been as fun as writing my first graphical tic-tac-toe program in BASIC. (God, I'm old!)
This is a very lib /. community.
If by "lib" you mean libertarian, then you are correct. Many here believe that the government should not be engaged in this kind of work (environmental research), but if they are going to do it, they'd better be honest and open about it. Most attacks on the Bush administration you'll find here are over civil-liberties issues. Perhaps it's because any geeks concider themselves part of a (socially) persecuted minority. And because learning is so important to geeks hey also believe in the free flow of knowlege and feel empathy with the down trodden.
Attempts to stiffle the flow of information are looked down upon around here. We do tend to be open-source fanatics, which is all about sharing information and research.
Hey, while we're talking about bubble blogs, check out the dady of them all http://itulip.com/. They predicted the tech bubble and realestate bubble. Now they are calling for the dollar bubble to burst.
Sure, rainyday money is nice to have, but if you can afford to borrow for a car then most likely you could borrow the rainyday money instead.
Actually, you're wrong. Rainy Day ususlly means something like loosing your job, becoming very ill.
It's a truism that it's easy to borrow money when you don't need it, but nobody wants to lend you money when you actually do need it.
Yup. Hydrogen Dioxide is highly unstable at standard temperature and pressure and therefore relatively harmless. Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is the truely deadly stuff, and it's got an extremely long half life. Check out dhmo.org
And Pope John Paul II espoused evolution. So what? Darwin was a Christian. So what? Where is the contradiction?
Only Bible Literalists claim that evolution is incompatible with Christianity. Bible Literalists are a tiny percentage of Christians (They sometimes argue that they are the only TRUE Christians).
There is a storythat Darwin renounced evolution on his deathbed, but is not true. Lady Hope spread the story, but she was not present for his final illness. Darwin's daughter Henrietta, who was there, said Lady Hope lied.
You mean the archaeopteryx (150 million years old) was a vegitarian? Those are some weird teeth for a vegitarian. Proto-primates are only about 65 million years old (http://anthro.palomar.edu/earlyprimates/first_pri mates.htm).
When I was in a hotel, the maid came in with a big sack full of snakes. When I asked her what the snakes were for, she replied that she hates dusting, andsince snakes EAT dust, she lets them do the dusting for her.
Hey, before discounting snakes all together, try walking a mile in their shoes....
Um, nevermind.
When I'm out hunting mastodon, I don't care about variations in the color of their hides, but when my cave-woman wife is gathering roots and fruits, seeing slight variations in color means she sicks the ripeset stuff. A good sence of smell ensures that it's not over ripe.
After all... The way to a cave-man's heart is through his stomach.
Slashdot Poll question:
What color would you like to replace Cyan?
[] Near Infra-red
[] Far Ultra-violet
[] True Tan.
[] A more mauvey shade of pinky-russet
[] Cowboy Neal's underpants
Sigh. Forgive me.
Yup, I think the author gets all the credit for the supidity of this article.
This so-called orbital convergence improves depth perception and allows monkeys and apes, including humans, to see in three dimensions.
Wow! Both depth perception AND 3-D vision?! What an unusual combination!
Another popular idea, called the "leaping hypothesis," argues that orbital convergence is not only important for 3D vision, but also for breaking through camouflage.
Someone please explain this sentence to me. Why is it calles the "leaping hopothesis" if it's about "breaking through camouflage"? And why would anyone want to break through camouflage? What does that mean?
Isbell says her theory can be tested. For example, scientists could look at whether primates can visually detect snakes more quickly or more reliably than other mammals. Scientists could also examine whether there are differences in the snake-detecting abilities of primates from around the world.
"You could see whether there is any difference between Malagasy lemurs, South American primates and the African and Asian primates," Isbell said.
Based on the above, I can only guess that malagasy lemurs live in an environment without snakes. I doubt whether that idea ever crossed the author's mind.
Don't ya just love sience reportinng from Fox News? I hear that their political reporting is just as good.
According to the Tesla Mortors "white paper" (grain of salt required) the "well-to-wheel" kilometers per mega-joule of various kinds of fuel breaks down thusly:
l a%20White%20Paper_2006_07_19.pdf
Natural gas: 0.32 km/MJ
Hydrogen Fuel cell: 0.35 km/MJ
Diesel Engine: 0.48 km/MJ
Gasoline Engine: 0.51 km/MJ
Hybrid (gas/electric): 0.64 km/MJ
Electric: 1.14 km/MJ
Here's the PDF URL: http://www.teslamotors.com/media/white_papers/Tes
(Yes, I purposly make all my Slashdot links unclickable)
Somewhere in the tesla motors' FAQ it mentioned active ventilation of the batteries. Keeping them cool will help prevent explosions, and help extend their life in other ways too. They claim that the betteries will last 100,000 miles.
Yes coal is dirty, but coal burned for electricity, transmitted over the grid and stored in lion batteries in still not as dirty as oil refined to gasoline, and burned in cars. Due to economies of scale, I suspect it is easier to ameliorate the emissions of a 100 coal power plants than a 100,000 cars.
This WAS true for a while because Apple got first shot at the new Intell chips. Now that anyone cant buy 'em, Apple's no longer the fastest.