IT seems it is Google's own fault for not finding a better revenue model.
And you, Sir, are a damn fool. Can you suggest a better business model for Google? Any donkey can say "It's their fault for not finding a better revenue model".
Honestly, I think 15 year olds are familiar enough with sexual material. I know I knew enough about sex long before I was 15. I would agree that a 10 year old might not be able to handle the information that a rape presents (and I'm not even sure about that - some of the classics I read at that age had enough disturbing material), but a 15 year old does not have to be shielded from it - in fact, it might be good to know about such things as you grow up. Kids always know more than what we expect them to know, and even though it is hard to imagine it, they are capable of handling a lot of information.
"So a single lone mother who objects to an elementary age child reading a book describing, lets say, a gratutiously descriptive account of a rape, would be wrong and inappropriate?"
If your 'elementary age kid' can read 'To Kill a Mockingbird', you should be proud of his ability. I was still reading picture books with 25pt fonts at that age.
"Looks shiny enough to be on a museum display along with other succesful Microsoft products."
I am not a Microsoft fanboy, but whether the Mouse is good or bad is a subjective matter. What is the basis for comparing it with Microsoft Bob? Stories like this (along with the other trollish story about Gmail posted earlier today- once again with no data or story to back it up) is making Slashdot a tech tabloid. Editors, please use your discretion more carefully while approving stories.
If you want to use your gps trakpoints and display them over satellite maps, the best source for maps (in the US) is Microsoft Terraserver which hosts USGS maps. Extracting the maps is another thing. However, there are some really cool tools to do that:
1. USAPhotoMaps. [FREE]This is a very simple interface which can download topology maps (the usual atlas maps), as well as black-and-white satellite imagery (down to 1 m), and color aerial maps (down to 0.25m for select cities.). It can also plot your gps trackpoints on the aerial photos/maps provided the output is in the form of garmin.gpx files, or some other formats. (Thankfully it is very easy to write a tiny program to convert your lat-long to these ASCII formats). Cons: cannot plot more than one trackpoint on the map.
2. Quakemap. [Free initially, $9.99 to register]All the above features, plus the ability to plot as many trackpoints as you want plus a much more advanced interface plus the ability to track your gps receiver in real time over a satellite map (provided your receiver gives its output as NMEA). For 10 bucks, you get the ability to store the image files offline so that you can take this on a trip and see your vehicle tracked on cool aerial photos.
There are other tools that can download terraserver maps, but none that has the ease of the above two. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
There is an equivalent tool that does the same on OSX, but I can't recall the name.
Is there any tool that can download aerial photos for free for the rest of the world?
"Sooner or later you are going to get one that might have been bought from a legitimate company in the US, but was actually coded by easily bribable coders in the third world"
I wish you wouldn't speak of the "third world" in such a derisive way.
Anyone notice that the iPod mini is about the same size as a cellphone.. and if it can store 4Gb of music and smaller hard drives available/round the corner, there's no reason why we won't have a phone that can stores gigs of music. (and remember, the phone circuitry +RF is not really *that* space consuming.)
One possible reason is that Apple would have to pay license fees to Real Networks to be able to play real media. Right now the iPod does not play any proprietary formats apart from Apple's own. The trouble with licensing any proprietary format is that Apple would find it hard to dump the format later if Real decides to up the licencing fees, or if Real decides to change the licensing terms - Once you have users with real media on the iPods, it would be tough to bring out an iPod which does not play those files. IMHO, a sensible strategy from apple - do not bother with proprietary formats at all. (Unless they are your own, of course). For the rest, it plays AAC, MP3 and plenty of open formats.
Is anyone concerned that stupid laws like this will just make innovation happen outside the US.. while the corporation line their pockets all the good stuff will be designed and made somewhere else.
Yeah, for a politician it's just an acceptable liability
What next? in 5 years maybe I'll be able to google my name and see a private mail of mine saying "hey look at that d!rty picture of the secretary on my picasa account! (don't tell anyone about this, hey...)" with a nice link to my private picasa pic? Thanks but no thanks.
Anyone notice how the new Google Groups munges email addresses and message-ids with random amounts of underscores and letter deletions on a per-post basis? This does nothing to deter spam harvesters
How does this not deter spam harvesters? I think it's a great idea.
You *DO* realize, don't you, that Ayn Rand was one of the most agressive proponents of shark-like capitalism?
I wouldn't describe it in those terms though. Anyway the capitalist philosophy that Ayn Rand promoted didn't involve screwing people. The idea of greatest good for onself was not at the expense of others.
Why do we try to criminalize every act? Are we trying to create a nation of criminals?
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . ..We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
This is for those who have been saying that Slashdot being 'anti-microsoft and pro-linux' should not accept microsoft ads.
1. Slashdot is not officially anti-microsoft. There are thousands of readers of/. and they have varying opinions. Maybe some are pro-linux and anti-microsoft, but some others are just the opposite and many others have no strong opinions about either.
Just my tuppenies. 2. (considering that these are news websites) Saying that we should not accept ads from those whom we see in the opposing side, is like being part of a dictatorship. These are not propaganda websites, these are there to disseminate information. The tendency to blare one's own opinion while drowning out the other's opinion is not in the spirit of democratic speech. (Yes, these principles should be applied everywhere in life)
haha, well, the "upset" was not about the EVMs. The elections are being called an "upset" because the ruling party was upset in an unforseen way. They lost the elections when everyone thought they would win. Nothing to do with EVMs.
Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but Michael Crichton's Timeline was based on time travel using the concept of parallel universes. Crichton neatly details an experiment to show the principle of entanglement. (sad that the movie did not deal with the science at all) Read the book for some nice fun with this concept.
If you had bothered to read the FAQs on Gmail instead of being anal and cribbing here, you would have noticed that Gmail allows a total email size of 10 MB.
The reason? they don't want you to use it as your personal hard drive on the web. If you want a hard drive, use one of the hard drive websites. This is perfectly understandable since they must have done their calculations on how much space a person would really use, and that would be based on emails and regular attachments, not file backups.
Slashdot Mirror
and suddenly the perpetrator's bandwidth costs skyrocket and (maybe) the site goes down!
And the perpetuator's bandwidth is fed by Blogger which is fed by Google which does not even feel a tiny ripple caused by Slashdot.
IT seems it is Google's own fault for not finding a better revenue model.
And you, Sir, are a damn fool. Can you suggest a better business model for Google? Any donkey can say "It's their fault for not finding a better revenue model".
Honestly, I think 15 year olds are familiar enough with sexual material. I know I knew enough about sex long before I was 15. I would agree that a 10 year old might not be able to handle the information that a rape presents (and I'm not even sure about that - some of the classics I read at that age had enough disturbing material), but a 15 year old does not have to be shielded from it - in fact, it might be good to know about such things as you grow up. Kids always know more than what we expect them to know, and even though it is hard to imagine it, they are capable of handling a lot of information.
"So a single lone mother who objects to an elementary age child reading a book describing, lets say, a gratutiously descriptive account of a rape, would be wrong and inappropriate?"
If your 'elementary age kid' can read 'To Kill a Mockingbird', you should be proud of his ability. I was still reading picture books with 25pt fonts at that age.
"Looks shiny enough to be on a museum display along with other succesful Microsoft products."
I am not a Microsoft fanboy, but whether the Mouse is good or bad is a subjective matter. What is the basis for comparing it with Microsoft Bob? Stories like this (along with the other trollish story about Gmail posted earlier today- once again with no data or story to back it up) is making Slashdot a tech tabloid. Editors, please use your discretion more carefully while approving stories.
That's because AOL is not available in India - there is no particular reason for someone to download just the messenger.
developers of p2p file sharing software cannot be held liable for any copyright infringement
Until the INDUCE act comes along.
If you want to use your gps trakpoints and display them over satellite maps, the best source for maps (in the US) is Microsoft Terraserver which hosts USGS maps. Extracting the maps is another thing. However, there are some really cool tools to do that:
.gpx files, or some other formats. (Thankfully it is very easy to write a tiny program to convert your lat-long to these ASCII formats).
1. USAPhotoMaps. [FREE]This is a very simple interface which can download topology maps (the usual atlas maps), as well as black-and-white satellite imagery (down to 1 m), and color aerial maps (down to 0.25m for select cities.). It can also plot your gps trackpoints on the aerial photos/maps provided the output is in the form of garmin
Cons: cannot plot more than one trackpoint on the map.
2. Quakemap. [Free initially, $9.99 to register]All the above features, plus the ability to plot as many trackpoints as you want plus a much more advanced interface plus the ability to track your gps receiver in real time over a satellite map (provided your receiver gives its output as NMEA). For 10 bucks, you get the ability to store the image files offline so that you can take this on a trip and see your vehicle tracked on cool aerial photos.
There are other tools that can download terraserver maps, but none that has the ease of the above two. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
There is an equivalent tool that does the same on OSX, but I can't recall the name.
Is there any tool that can download aerial photos for free for the rest of the world?
"Sooner or later you are going to get one that might have been bought from a legitimate company in the US, but was actually coded by easily bribable coders in the third world"
I wish you wouldn't speak of the "third world" in such a derisive way.
Anyone notice that the iPod mini is about the same size as a cellphone.. and if it can store 4Gb of music and smaller hard drives available/round the corner, there's no reason why we won't have a phone that can stores gigs of music. (and remember, the phone circuitry +RF is not really *that* space consuming.)
One possible reason is that Apple would have to pay license fees to Real Networks to be able to play real media. Right now the iPod does not play any proprietary formats apart from Apple's own. The trouble with licensing any proprietary format is that Apple would find it hard to dump the format later if Real decides to up the licencing fees, or if Real decides to change the licensing terms - Once you have users with real media on the iPods, it would be tough to bring out an iPod which does not play those files. IMHO, a sensible strategy from apple - do not bother with proprietary formats at all. (Unless they are your own, of course). For the rest, it plays AAC, MP3 and plenty of open formats.
You have 500 close friends? What the heck are you doing on Slashdot?
Is anyone concerned that stupid laws like this will just make innovation happen outside the US.. while the corporation line their pockets all the good stuff will be designed and made somewhere else.
Yeah, for a politician it's just an acceptable liability
What next? in 5 years maybe I'll be able to google my name and see a private mail of mine saying "hey look at that d!rty picture of the secretary on my picasa account! (don't tell anyone about this, hey...)" with a nice link to my private picasa pic? Thanks but no thanks.
Google does not let others search your email.
Anyone notice how the new Google Groups munges email addresses and message-ids with random amounts of underscores and letter deletions on a per-post basis? This does nothing to deter spam harvesters
How does this not deter spam harvesters? I think it's a great idea.
and you forgot to include stdio.h:-)
#include
int main()
{
printf("Hello World\n");
return 0;
}
You *DO* realize, don't you, that Ayn Rand was one of the most agressive proponents of shark-like capitalism?
I wouldn't describe it in those terms though. Anyway the capitalist philosophy that Ayn Rand promoted didn't involve screwing people. The idea of greatest good for onself was not at the expense of others.
Why do we try to criminalize every act? Are we trying to create a nation of criminals?
.We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . .
Atlas Shrugged
This is for those who have been saying that Slashdot being 'anti-microsoft and pro-linux' should not accept microsoft ads.
/. and they have varying opinions. Maybe some are pro-linux and anti-microsoft, but some others are just the opposite and many others have no strong opinions about either.
1. Slashdot is not officially anti-microsoft. There are thousands of readers of
Just my tuppenies.
2. (considering that these are news websites) Saying that we should not accept ads from those whom we see in the opposing side, is like being part of a dictatorship. These are not propaganda websites, these are there to disseminate information. The tendency to blare one's own opinion while drowning out the other's opinion is not in the spirit of democratic speech. (Yes, these principles should be applied everywhere in life)
And this is how to split the name to understand it:
1. Variable spreading factor
2. Orthogonal frequency (division multiplexing)
3. Code division (multiplexing)
Makes a lot of sense to any communications guy when it is named so descriptively (as in, it is informative, not just plain funky)
Okay, I just read the article. Pretty stupid question I asked (about NX and NOP). Don't even bother to reply.
can someone please explain why NX is important (and how it is differnt from NOP), and why it was not there earlier? Thanks
haha, well, the "upset" was not about the EVMs. The elections are being called an "upset" because the ruling party was upset in an unforseen way. They lost the elections when everyone thought they would win. Nothing to do with EVMs.
is neatly explained in this stanford page.
Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but Michael Crichton's Timeline was based on time travel using the concept of parallel universes. Crichton neatly details an experiment to show the principle of entanglement. (sad that the movie did not deal with the science at all) Read the book for some nice fun with this concept.
If you had bothered to read the FAQs on Gmail instead of being anal and cribbing here, you would have noticed that Gmail allows a total email size of 10 MB.
The reason? they don't want you to use it as your personal hard drive on the web. If you want a hard drive, use one of the hard drive websites. This is perfectly understandable since they must have done their calculations on how much space a person would really use, and that would be based on emails and regular attachments, not file backups.