I, for one, give a round of applause to penguin putnam, they did the right thing. It sounds like the shitty things that happened to Katie Jones was the result of the author, not the publisher, and it's good that a publisher has the balls to stand up and do the right thing... especially when it's gonna cost them money.
The idea that life is unique to our planet is pretty far out there. Agreed that Earth has a lot of special properties, the first being that it's a solid body somewhat near to the sun. But to think that the alomily of a life-sparking planet is unique to earth out of the unfathomible number of solar systems out there is a far stretch.
As to when and if we'll make contact with a life form outside of our planet is a different topic, and I don't know enough about the topic to even venture a guess... but I for one say that just the sheer number of solar systems out there is enough to convince me that there is life out there.
Just a question: Is transparent PNGs part of any version of the W3C HTML specs? If it's not then I think it's not "shame on microsoft"... rather it's more "please can you add this feature"
This post doesn't even deserve to be on slashdot.. Any introductionary class in electrical engineering that involves a lab will do this... This is like the equivelent of making a poatato clock.... It's not especially cool.. The only intresting part may be the use of a computer to output the opamp singal, but we've seen this thousands of times, and there is plenty of commercially avaible (and I'm sure some GPL'ed) software to take in the signal. Then again if you have any type of profeciency in building circuits and such you probably have an oscilliscope laying around.
this has been done over and over again though:
http://www.picotech.com/applications/ecg.html h ttp://www.ntu.edu.sg/terp/eee-project.htm http:// www.ee.upenn.edu/rca/software/Labview/Cardi acvi/cardiacvi.html blah blah, do your own search on google.
Palm is deciding on how to copenstate m130 owners.. also they give a technical explaination of how the screen works... all avalible at the PalmInfoCenter.com
the topic isn't about if the color is a big issue, the topic is about palm's responce to a bad situation.. rather then come clean they continue to decieve their customers... I would forgive them for an honest mistake, but then when the found out about it, they continued to be deceptive by using spin to discredit the severity of the mistake.
We were talking about the number of colous that the user thought they would get and then what they did get... when you say you get 65536 and then you get 4096 that is 93% less colors you would get.... if you threw your palm out the window to spite the company, that is 100% less colors... you math is just a little backwards.
I'm sorry, it might have been worded wrong.... The debate I was reffering to was the debate over whether the palm screen was 12 or 16 bit... no one seemed willing to crack open their palm to do testing on the screen so many users loaded color pallets as jpgs etc so that the human eye could detect weather it was truely a 12 or 16 bit screen... Even though the pictures showed that it was definitly not a 16-bit screen most of the PIC forum users refused to believe it... only two or 3 people stuck to their guns and said that Palm's website was lying... a wired magazine writer stumbled upon the forum, and ultimately got palm to admit their mistake (if you can call their spin an admission).
Apparently this debate has been going on a long time... Palm info center has a good article about it... And the PIC forum where the debate first broke.
Since the Fedral government may now put a 'tap' on internet connectivity without a warrent, ISPs are required to let feds put taps on the ISP's system. As member of a co-op would you be contacted if the feds put a tap on the ISP? Who gets to know when the feds come in?
Obviously you need to monitor your users for bandwidth consumption... What type of information do you store about your user's bandwidth behaviour? Is it more then what the fedral government requires you store about your users? Do the members of the co-op mind being watched, or do they consider it a downside to Co-Op'ed ISPs?
I mean they were sold by $1 million... I wonder what the other $99 million are doing... prolly looking for new jobs ever since that dick head $1 million sold them all.
IMHO I think they could have sold more units by offering it to the windows market.
I'm all for costomer loyality... and I'm sure mac users appericated it being a 'mac product'... but in the cell phone market it's a war... I don't have a mac box, and I wouldn't buy one to use a PDA/Cell phone... In the fight for customers a company needs to accomidate.
Apple recently has proved their masterism of the UI in portible devices with the iPod.
Now many people have tried making PDA/Cell combinations, but few have stood out among the crowd (who know's how Nokia's new phone will play out).
Apple is a company that if everything went right and they developed a good product then they might have a real shot at being that de facto Cell/PDA combo that people are looking for.
A few things they'll need to do to succeed. Don't make the iPod mistake, make this thing Win compatible... Open up to the open source comunity, this is the perfect product for the open source community to have a crack at. Think hard about "can this product make it if it doesn't use the Palm OS?".... If you use the Palm OS how much does that take away from your ablity to develope a UI.... Could it be a Apple front end on a PALM OS?...
Hey I know what every geek needs, multiplayer PDA games that we do via cell phone... that would be a hell of an improvement on IR pong.
I have no doubts about the research that goes into the calculation of words that were in spam, since pretty much everyone gets simular types of spam and it's not difficult to collect spam marketed to many demographics.
What I do wonder about is his collection of non-spam. I agree that this approach is very good, but I think a hash of non-spam needs to be collected by an end user or for a specific demographic.
For instance in his article he said that the word madam almost never appears in his non-spam mails. Well he isn't a woman. It is a quite common business practice to send e-mails with the greeting madam. Also the vocabulary used in a personal e-mail enviorment would be drasticly diffent then in a business enviorment.
Say your an AOL teeny-booper... the chances that another teen is sending you an e-mail with red text (fl0000 was one of the key words that was 99% chance of spam) are much greater then a business e-mail envoirment (which actually I use bright read sometimes when in-line replying to e-mails at the office).
So like I said before. I really think the hash of 'good' e-mails has to come from a end-user or at the very least from a demographic...
To say that users upgrade only because they have problems with an operating system is myopic. If that were the case then we would all be using dos still. The reason users upgrade is for features, be it word processors or operating systems. And in MS case, many users upgrade for the 'razzle dazzle of it'. To say MS's strategy is to perposely distribute an operating system that doesn't install on a significant number of it's users machines is just plain stupid.
Hey, I'm all for Linux, and if you don't like MS then fine... but when I heard bitchy stories about how MS makes products that don't work to catch users on the upgrade it's just anoying.
It happens, OSes can be buggy, and they are hard to write. Just look how many kernal patches there are floating out there for the linux distros.
Trust me, if MS had a product that installed successfully the first time for every user that installed it they would flaunt it (and rightful so) in all of their competitors faces.
Bottom line: WindowsXP is an easy to install OS that most likely has a higher success rate of installing on first attempt then any other OS out there (and much higher success rate then most linux distros I've installed)...
You guys are missing the big point... Freedom of speech, this is hardly a troll post (like what we get from the CLIT)... This is a well thought out and good post, just because you don't agree with it doesn't make it flamebait./. at one time was about unpopular opinions, now it's about Troll-Bashing... If you don't love X, and you think MS can make a product that runs your company's LAN then you don't have a say on slash. It's boring, it's old, and it's killing slashdot. If your goal is to prove to the world that linux is the operating system to use, and that open source software is the greatest thing since sliced bread then you are going to need an audience to preech too, but if you call them all fucktards then I don't know who is going to listen, and it will be nothing but a blow to the/. community.
If it is Italy's policy that police are allowed to access a computer and remove files they feel are inapropiate then I'm all for it... Not that I like the idea of police having that kind of control. But this may set some international president for non-crimilization of computer "hacking" from contries that have no laws against it, and could possibly end the US attempts to extridite people who have committed no crime in their own country.
It's one of those prices you pay for free data... if you don't like it then maybe it's time to rethink free data.
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I, for one, give a round of applause to penguin putnam, they did the right thing. It sounds like the shitty things that happened to Katie Jones was the result of the author, not the publisher, and it's good that a publisher has the balls to stand up and do the right thing... especially when it's gonna cost them money.
The idea that life is unique to our planet is pretty far out there. Agreed that Earth has a lot of special properties, the first being that it's a solid body somewhat near to the sun. But to think that the alomily of a life-sparking planet is unique to earth out of the unfathomible number of solar systems out there is a far stretch.
As to when and if we'll make contact with a life form outside of our planet is a different topic, and I don't know enough about the topic to even venture a guess... but I for one say that just the sheer number of solar systems out there is enough to convince me that there is life out there.
What are Rice students still doing in school? Isn't it summer? Strange, very very strange.
Just a question: Is transparent PNGs part of any version of the W3C HTML specs? If it's not then I think it's not "shame on microsoft"... rather it's more "please can you add this feature"
This post doesn't even deserve to be on slashdot.. Any introductionary class in electrical engineering that involves a lab will do this... This is like the equivelent of making a poatato clock.... It's not especially cool.. The only intresting part may be the use of a computer to output the opamp singal, but we've seen this thousands of times, and there is plenty of commercially avaible (and I'm sure some GPL'ed) software to take in the signal. Then again if you have any type of profeciency in building circuits and such you probably have an oscilliscope laying around.
h ttp://www.ntu.edu.sg/terp/eee-project.htm/ www.ee.upenn.edu/rca/software/Labview/Cardi acvi/cardiacvi.html
this has been done over and over again though:
http://www.picotech.com/applications/ecg.html
http:/
blah blah, do your own search on google.
Palm is deciding on how to copenstate m130 owners.. also they give a technical explaination of how the screen works... all avalible at the PalmInfoCenter.com
your rite... my bad dawg.
Jesus, it feels like I'm in 8th grade all over again...
the topic isn't about if the color is a big issue, the topic is about palm's responce to a bad situation.. rather then come clean they continue to decieve their customers... I would forgive them for an honest mistake, but then when the found out about it, they continued to be deceptive by using spin to discredit the severity of the mistake.
We were talking about the number of colous that the user thought they would get and then what they did get... when you say you get 65536 and then you get 4096 that is 93% less colors you would get.... if you threw your palm out the window to spite the company, that is 100% less colors... you math is just a little backwards.
I'm sorry, it might have been worded wrong.... The debate I was reffering to was the debate over whether the palm screen was 12 or 16 bit... no one seemed willing to crack open their palm to do testing on the screen so many users loaded color pallets as jpgs etc so that the human eye could detect weather it was truely a 12 or 16 bit screen... Even though the pictures showed that it was definitly not a 16-bit screen most of the PIC forum users refused to believe it... only two or 3 people stuck to their guns and said that Palm's website was lying... a wired magazine writer stumbled upon the forum, and ultimately got palm to admit their mistake (if you can call their spin an admission).
Apparently this debate has been going on a long time... Palm info center has a good article about it... And the PIC forum where the debate first broke.
Since the Fedral government may now put a 'tap' on internet connectivity without a warrent, ISPs are required to let feds put taps on the ISP's system. As member of a co-op would you be contacted if the feds put a tap on the ISP? Who gets to know when the feds come in?
Obviously you need to monitor your users for bandwidth consumption... What type of information do you store about your user's bandwidth behaviour? Is it more then what the fedral government requires you store about your users? Do the members of the co-op mind being watched, or do they consider it a downside to Co-Op'ed ISPs?
I mean they were sold by $1 million... I wonder what the other $99 million are doing... prolly looking for new jobs ever since that dick head $1 million sold them all.
A mistake from Apples POV.
IMHO I think they could have sold more units by offering it to the windows market.
I'm all for costomer loyality... and I'm sure mac users appericated it being a 'mac product'... but in the cell phone market it's a war... I don't have a mac box, and I wouldn't buy one to use a PDA/Cell phone... In the fight for customers a company needs to accomidate.
Cheers,
Jon
Apple recently has proved their masterism of the UI in portible devices with the iPod.
Now many people have tried making PDA/Cell combinations, but few have stood out among the crowd (who know's how Nokia's new phone will play out).
Apple is a company that if everything went right and they developed a good product then they might have a real shot at being that de facto Cell/PDA combo that people are looking for.
A few things they'll need to do to succeed. Don't make the iPod mistake, make this thing Win compatible... Open up to the open source comunity, this is the perfect product for the open source community to have a crack at. Think hard about "can this product make it if it doesn't use the Palm OS?".... If you use the Palm OS how much does that take away from your ablity to develope a UI.... Could it be a Apple front end on a PALM OS?...
Hey I know what every geek needs, multiplayer PDA games that we do via cell phone... that would be a hell of an improvement on IR pong.
What about order confimations from online merchants and other automated information that you *DO* want that would not reply to a validation e-mail.
Would spammers start writing software that did respond and autovalidate? I don't see how this will work.
I have no doubts about the research that goes into the calculation of words that were in spam, since pretty much everyone gets simular types of spam and it's not difficult to collect spam marketed to many demographics.
What I do wonder about is his collection of non-spam. I agree that this approach is very good, but I think a hash of non-spam needs to be collected by an end user or for a specific demographic.
For instance in his article he said that the word madam almost never appears in his non-spam mails. Well he isn't a woman. It is a quite common business practice to send e-mails with the greeting madam. Also the vocabulary used in a personal e-mail enviorment would be drasticly diffent then in a business enviorment.
Say your an AOL teeny-booper... the chances that another teen is sending you an e-mail with red text (fl0000 was one of the key words that was 99% chance of spam) are much greater then a business e-mail envoirment (which actually I use bright read sometimes when in-line replying to e-mails at the office).
So like I said before. I really think the hash of 'good' e-mails has to come from a end-user or at the very least from a demographic...
To say that users upgrade only because they have problems with an operating system is myopic. If that were the case then we would all be using dos still. The reason users upgrade is for features, be it word processors or operating systems. And in MS case, many users upgrade for the 'razzle dazzle of it'. To say MS's strategy is to perposely distribute an operating system that doesn't install on a significant number of it's users machines is just plain stupid.
Hey, I'm all for Linux, and if you don't like MS then fine... but when I heard bitchy stories about how MS makes products that don't work to catch users on the upgrade it's just anoying.
It happens, OSes can be buggy, and they are hard to write. Just look how many kernal patches there are floating out there for the linux distros.
Trust me, if MS had a product that installed successfully the first time for every user that installed it they would flaunt it (and rightful so) in all of their competitors faces.
Bottom line: WindowsXP is an easy to install OS that most likely has a higher success rate of installing on first attempt then any other OS out there (and much higher success rate then most linux distros I've installed)...
You guys are missing the big point... Freedom of speech, this is hardly a troll post (like what we get from the CLIT)... This is a well thought out and good post, just because you don't agree with it doesn't make it flamebait. /. at one time was about unpopular opinions, now it's about Troll-Bashing... If you don't love X, and you think MS can make a product that runs your company's LAN then you don't have a say on slash. It's boring, it's old, and it's killing slashdot. If your goal is to prove to the world that linux is the operating system to use, and that open source software is the greatest thing since sliced bread then you are going to need an audience to preech too, but if you call them all fucktards then I don't know who is going to listen, and it will be nothing but a blow to the /. community.
but it's art, not math... I think it's a good practice, but I wouldn't try to take anything away from Escher but publishing it.
I wonder what the slashdot community would be saying if Linux supported USB 2.0 a full year before MS...
It surely wouldn't be as casual as the "we are the second most powerfull" comment made in the writeup.
If it is Italy's policy that police are allowed to access a computer and remove files they feel are inapropiate then I'm all for it... Not that I like the idea of police having that kind of control. But this may set some international president for non-crimilization of computer "hacking" from contries that have no laws against it, and could possibly end the US attempts to extridite people who have committed no crime in their own country.
It's one of those prices you pay for free data... if you don't like it then maybe it's time to rethink free data.
Security through Obscurity.... How many times does it have to be proven that this doesn't work?
> How does it feel to be slashdotted?
Much the same as it would feel for you, except different.
Wow, I'm seeing where the artificial part is coming in.