Making the screen paper thin doesn't solve the rest of the problem : getting images on the screen. How is a magazine going to contain the power supply en processor needed to actually display something on the screen? More detail in the article would have been helpfull, now it just sounds like some scifi hype story.
Complaining is a national passtime in Britain. Everyone complains; it's expected of you. So these stats actually point out that IT wokers are happy, relative to the general population.
In case you are wondering what "Napster" is, it was the first big p2p sharing network, started in 1999.
In case you are wondering what p2p is, it's peer-to-peer, and refers to a network not relying on dedicated servers.
In case you are wondering when 1999 was, it's time to stop taking those drugs.
Slight OT, I know, but still mildly interesting: Every time I look at the Caldera logo, I'm reminded of an image of Mickey Mouse baloon as seen from the side, so you can only see half his head and one ear. I mean, take this image put it on a red baloon, and look at it from the side: result It's always been kinda ironic to me how it mirrors SCO's Mickey Mouse bussiness practices.
In some way it makes financial sense, by cutting bandwidth costs. They're mostly excluding people that can't vote for you anyway. On the other hand, they're excluding American voters overseas, maybe not such a smart thing. And it's bound to generate bad publicity. Maybe not such a bright idea as they originally thought.
Ubuntu, SchoolTool,Translate.org.za are some of the projects you support that seem to tackle the digital-divide head-on. Do you have any views or ideas on how to make Internet access cheaper so more people in developing countries can have access to it? More specific, any plans on convincing the South African government that not over-regulating the telecoms industry will be good for everyone?
So you're against it because the embryo would have become a human? That's axactly what happens when woman take the pill to stop getting pregnant. The pill prevents a fertalized embryo from attaching itself to the womb, and therefore it never becomes a baby. According to that argument birth control must also be illegal.
Why is it sick and wrong? Do you even know what is involved? Get the facts first before you just say something is wrong! We're talking about something that happens naturally in the case of identical twins, why is it sick when it's done in a lab? Next time, before you form an opinion about something you know nothing about, try and find out more about it so you can contribute constructively to the debate.
Your comment reflects the exact problem researchers are facing: People have an opinion about something they know little or nothing about. Just say the word "cloning", and suddenly everyone thinks of these Frankenstein monsters, or the good old "what if they clone Hitler?". Get to know the facts first:
The cloning of human embryos refers to taking an embryo and splitting it to make two. Because the embryo is full of stem cells (stem cells later become specific cells in your body, like bone cells, hair cells, whatever cells, but in the embryo they haven't decided yet, they can still become any kind), splitting it creates another embryo, and you can repeat the process to produce more than one clone of the original. This is the EXACT SAME PROCESS that happens IN NATURE when identical twins are conceived. A single embryo splits (by itself) and creates two genetically identical embryos, and they grow to become identical twins. So now reproductive physiologists do it in the lab, and suddenly it's wrong?
What, like Schumacher in F1, (it's like Indycarts only better) or Tiger Woods in Golf, or the Chicago Bulls in the Jordan era? They all have/had huge followings, just because they're so good, they've almost raised it to an art form.
Isn't it great to see people like Mark Shuttleworth (second space tourist, and the First African in Space) investing in these kinds of worthy programmes? Now if only someone can convince the SA government that cheap internet is VERY important to the economy. At the moment communication in South Africa is controlled by Telkom, a monopoly. They charge more than R800 (about US$120) per month for ADSL, and they cap your bandwidth to 3 gig a MONTH. There's a good reason for the so called "digital divide" in South Africa, it's the prohibitive cost. There's a great site highlighting the grievances against Telkom, called Hellkom.
You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it.
Fine, but be prepared to pay at least twice what you now pay for a lot of your consumer goods, including your PC, TV, clothes and most of what you can buy so cheaply at the mall or Wallmart. Why is it OK to outsource the manufacturing jobs so you can have cheap electronics, but when the job being outsourced is something you're trained / interested in, it's wrong?
we can get Timothy to post this as the daily dupe, and slashdot him again! Betcha his isp sends someone over to his house at 1:30 am to personally pull the plug.
At this time a comprehensive solution, in the form of software or
firmware upgrade, is not available for retrofit to existing
devices. Fundamentally, the issue is inherent in the protocol
implementation of IEEE 802.11 DSSS.
This could be a huge problem. Let's say you have a business where you have high sales volumes at certain times, with these times determined by unknown external factors (like a stock broker). If your network is down at those critical times, you loose business and money. Now all your competition needs to do is take out your network during one of these critical times, and all your customers will turn to them.
... to post the usual jokes, I've got to ask: What runs on these kind of machines? What OS do they use, and what kind of software? Can you buy software for supercomputers, or will the customer/new owner have to write all the software to run on it themselves? Anyone out there working on something similar have interesting facts about the software?
Mod parent up. Great idea. Another idea is to add some categories to the Mod interface, like -2 WRONG! for those times people post utter nonsense and get modded up +1 Interesting or Informative.
The lack of cheap internet access is holding back Africa in a big way. Take South Africa as example (because I'm from SA and can speak from experience). Only recently (about a year ago) did the telephone company Telkom (a monopoly, without any competition, because the government is taking YEARS just to award a second network operator license) start rolling out ADSL. They charge a ridiculous amount of money for it. Currently they charge the equivalent of about $130 per month for it, and remember, it's even higher than it sounds compared to average wages. On top of that they put a 3 gig monthly cap on international traffic! Phone calls are expensive, and you pay per minute even for local calls. Basically the government needs to realize that if we can get proper, cheap internet access, it WILL do the economy good. South Africa has many engineers and programmers educated at world class universities (also talking from experience, I'm currently working at a U.K. university that's regarded as pretty good, and the education I got in SA was of a very high standard compared to this), but to compete in the global market as an entrepreneur, you need to be able to communicate cheaply. If it wasn't for the law protecting Telkom, it would be sooooo easy to start a decent phone company and run them out of business. I get so frustrated thinking and talking about this, I could blow a fuse!
If someone in the Department of Communication reads this: Stop over regulating communications. Set it free and let it thrive, PLEASE.
From the article: At the time WordPerfect was easily the most popular proprietary application for GNU/Linux, and the hole that it left opened the door for many people to switch to OpenOffice, StarOffice, AbiWord, KWord, TextMaker and others
Why would I change back from a decent, FREE, application like OpenOffice to WordPerfect? If they're planning on selling it on the name, or because people remember WP, it's too late for that now. OpenOffice has taken over, and could soon be challenging MS Office in a big way.
This is a great example of the free market combined with the internet. I'm able to buy goods and services from wherever it suits me.
That's exactly the same argument that can be used for outsourcing IT jobs. You can't have it both ways people! You can't have your cheap consumer economy in the US, and still want your jobs protected. Why not complain about the poor music industry jobs that are being "outsourced" to Russia?
Eeeewww! Does anyone else squirm at the thought of lasers beaming directly into the retina?
It makes me squirm about as much as the thought of CNN beaming directly onto my retina. Laser, just like other light sources, can only damage your eyes if enough energy is transfered. Your retinas are made to have light beamed onto them directly, just not light above a cetain intensity.
Slashdot Mirror
You must mean your Inflatable SHEEP dolls.
Making the screen paper thin doesn't solve the rest of the problem : getting images on the screen. How is a magazine going to contain the power supply en processor needed to actually display something on the screen? More detail in the article would have been helpfull, now it just sounds like some scifi hype story.
Complaining is a national passtime in Britain. Everyone complains; it's expected of you. So these stats actually point out that IT wokers are happy, relative to the general population.
Dupe from 9 months ago! They even have the same CD "Vacation in Hawaii" pictured on both sites.
ooh, let me have a go:
In case you are wondering what "Napster" is, it was the first big p2p sharing network, started in 1999.
In case you are wondering what p2p is, it's peer-to-peer, and refers to a network not relying on dedicated servers.
In case you are wondering when 1999 was, it's time to stop taking those drugs.
Slight OT, I know, but still mildly interesting:
Every time I look at the Caldera logo, I'm reminded of an image of Mickey Mouse baloon as seen from the side, so you can only see half his head and one ear. I mean, take this image put it on a red baloon, and look at it from the side: result
It's always been kinda ironic to me how it mirrors SCO's Mickey Mouse bussiness practices.
In some way it makes financial sense, by cutting bandwidth costs. They're mostly excluding people that can't vote for you anyway. On the other hand, they're excluding American voters overseas, maybe not such a smart thing. And it's bound to generate bad publicity. Maybe not such a bright idea as they originally thought.
Ubuntu, SchoolTool,Translate.org.za are some of the projects you support that seem to tackle the digital-divide head-on. Do you have any views or ideas on how to make Internet access cheaper so more people in developing countries can have access to it? More specific, any plans on convincing the South African government that not over-regulating the telecoms industry will be good for everyone?
So you're against it because the embryo would have become a human? That's axactly what happens when woman take the pill to stop getting pregnant. The pill prevents a fertalized embryo from attaching itself to the womb, and therefore it never becomes a baby. According to that argument birth control must also be illegal.
Human cloning is simply sick and wrong.
Why is it sick and wrong? Do you even know what is involved? Get the facts first before you just say something is wrong! We're talking about something that happens naturally in the case of identical twins, why is it sick when it's done in a lab? Next time, before you form an opinion about something you know nothing about, try and find out more about it so you can contribute constructively to the debate.
Your comment reflects the exact problem researchers are facing: People have an opinion about something they know little or nothing about. Just say the word "cloning", and suddenly everyone thinks of these Frankenstein monsters, or the good old "what if they clone Hitler?". Get to know the facts first:
The cloning of human embryos refers to taking an embryo and splitting it to make two. Because the embryo is full of stem cells (stem cells later become specific cells in your body, like bone cells, hair cells, whatever cells, but in the embryo they haven't decided yet, they can still become any kind), splitting it creates another embryo, and you can repeat the process to produce more than one clone of the original. This is the EXACT SAME PROCESS that happens IN NATURE when identical twins are conceived. A single embryo splits (by itself) and creates two genetically identical embryos, and they grow to become identical twins. So now reproductive physiologists do it in the lab, and suddenly it's wrong?
What, like Schumacher in F1, (it's like Indycarts only better)
or Tiger Woods in Golf,
or the Chicago Bulls in the Jordan era?
They all have/had huge followings, just because they're so good, they've almost raised it to an art form.
Isn't it great to see people like Mark Shuttleworth (second space tourist, and the First African in Space) investing in these kinds of worthy programmes?
Now if only someone can convince the SA government that cheap internet is VERY important to the economy. At the moment communication in South Africa is controlled by Telkom, a monopoly. They charge more than R800 (about US$120) per month for ADSL, and they cap your bandwidth to 3 gig a MONTH. There's a good reason for the so called "digital divide" in South Africa, it's the prohibitive cost. There's a great site highlighting the grievances against Telkom, called Hellkom.
Johnny-come-lately
You've been watching too many of those BT ads featuring Jeremy Clarkson lately, mate!
You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it.
Fine, but be prepared to pay at least twice what you now pay for a lot of your consumer goods, including your PC, TV, clothes and most of what you can buy so cheaply at the mall or Wallmart. Why is it OK to outsource the manufacturing jobs so you can have cheap electronics, but when the job being outsourced is something you're trained / interested in, it's wrong?
we can get Timothy to post this as the daily dupe, and slashdot him again! Betcha his isp sends someone over to his house at 1:30 am to personally pull the plug.
This could be a huge problem. Let's say you have a business where you have high sales volumes at certain times, with these times determined by unknown external factors (like a stock broker). If your network is down at those critical times, you loose business and money. Now all your competition needs to do is take out your network during one of these critical times, and all your customers will turn to them.
... to post the usual jokes, I've got to ask: What runs on these kind of machines? What OS do they use, and what kind of software? Can you buy software for supercomputers, or will the customer/new owner have to write all the software to run on it themselves? Anyone out there working on something similar have interesting facts about the software?
Mod parent up. Great idea. Another idea is to add some categories to the Mod interface, like -2 WRONG! for those times people post utter nonsense and get modded up +1 Interesting or Informative.
The lack of cheap internet access is holding back Africa in a big way. Take South Africa as example (because I'm from SA and can speak from experience). Only recently (about a year ago) did the telephone company Telkom (a monopoly, without any competition, because the government is taking YEARS just to award a second network operator license) start rolling out ADSL. They charge a ridiculous amount of money for it. Currently they charge the equivalent of about $130 per month for it, and remember, it's even higher than it sounds compared to average wages. On top of that they put a 3 gig monthly cap on international traffic! Phone calls are expensive, and you pay per minute even for local calls. Basically the government needs to realize that if we can get proper, cheap internet access, it WILL do the economy good. South Africa has many engineers and programmers educated at world class universities (also talking from experience, I'm currently working at a U.K. university that's regarded as pretty good, and the education I got in SA was of a very high standard compared to this), but to compete in the global market as an entrepreneur, you need to be able to communicate cheaply. If it wasn't for the law protecting Telkom, it would be sooooo easy to start a decent phone company and run them out of business. I get so frustrated thinking and talking about this, I could blow a fuse!
If someone in the Department of Communication reads this: Stop over regulating communications. Set it free and let it thrive, PLEASE.
From the article:
At the time WordPerfect was easily the most popular proprietary application for GNU/Linux, and the hole that it left opened the door for many people to switch to OpenOffice, StarOffice, AbiWord, KWord, TextMaker and others
Why would I change back from a decent, FREE, application like OpenOffice to WordPerfect? If they're planning on selling it on the name, or because people remember WP, it's too late for that now. OpenOffice has taken over, and could soon be challenging MS Office in a big way.
This is a great example of the free market combined with the internet. I'm able to buy goods and services from wherever it suits me.
That's exactly the same argument that can be used for outsourcing IT jobs. You can't have it both ways people! You can't have your cheap consumer economy in the US, and still want your jobs protected. Why not complain about the poor music industry jobs that are being "outsourced" to Russia?
Eeeewww! Does anyone else squirm at the thought of lasers beaming directly into the retina?
It makes me squirm about as much as the thought of CNN beaming directly onto my retina. Laser, just like other light sources, can only damage your eyes if enough energy is transfered. Your retinas are made to have light beamed onto them directly, just not light above a cetain intensity.
oooh, oooh, me first, me first:
1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
2. In Soviet Russia, Gameboy ports you
3. ????
4. Profit!
Take all the rules and regulations of ITAR and the Patriot Act together, and it's illegal to just think of doing something like that.