I have this caution for you. If you live in an apartment where there are people living below you, do not bother with DDR. It will make them mad and they will complain. This happened to me, but I just bought a house so I can play DDR again.
This is getting off topic, but for the benefit of those who haven't thought about it, here's my main point. The benefit of each additional Mile Per Gallon decreases in proportion to the Miles Per Gallon already achieved.
To put this in the form of an example, suppose I have a car that gets one mile per gallon. Somehow I manage to change that to two miles per gallon. I have now reduced my costs per mile by half. If I add an additional mile per gallon, I reduce my costs by an additional third. In mathematical terms, the fractional savings is 1/n where n is the MPG achieved. If I had a car that got 15mpg and traded it for one that got 30mpg, I save 50 percent. To save half again, I have to go to 60mpg. Et cetera.
Meanwhile, it becomes more and more difficult to achieve thos high mpgs. This is why there is a certain sweet spot where the tradeoffs in achieving high mpg exceed the cost benefits. In my opinion (and the market bears this out) that sweet spot is about 30mpg.
So aside from being, literally, vaporware (laugh here, serious point next.), how does this technology compete with phased array systems such as those by Vivato? I understand the value of phased arrays are that they can focus the output into an extremely narrow beam and send it to just the right place. I Am Not A Physicist, but it seems like solid state electronics are a *little* bit simpler than plasma to work with!
Funny, I think Mutant X and Andromeda suck. I am overjoyed to see them cancelled. Here's to that investment being funneled into new and exciting sci-fi series, not cheesy rehashes of old franchises.
It's not really a review, you know. More like a Press Release emphasising the books's merits, probably hoping to provoke some debate on the pros and cons of his main ideas. And the difference between this guy and the googlescammers is this guy didn't submit his story AC. I'd still like to see disclaimers on this kind of stuff.
I think the article should have disclosed that the submitter (johnnyb) is also the author of the book, Jonathan Bartlett. So rather than saying "A new book was just released", I would rather see something like "I wrote this new book." Here is johnnyb's website. http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
I have a Vicorinox WebPak 1.0. It's a great computer bag, but it has one problem. The laptop sleeve is situated toward the back of the pack (away from your back). This makes the center of gravity pretty far back. They have fixed this in the WebPak 2.0. I also find it difficult to fit some lunch containers in the bag for riding my bike to work. These bags come with a lifetime warranty where if you break it, you get it fixed or replaced without charge. After using this one for 8 months, I have to say it's a fine piece of luggage and worth the $200 I spent on it.
This is not an announcement of any new solar cells. It's a press release detailing an advanced research program that STMicroelectronics hopes will eventually lead to cheap solar cells. RTFA whover posted this.
Disclaimer: I work for HP, but this is my own opinion and rant, not HP's. IT wasn't approved by HP legal, wasn't run by any superiors, and should not be construed as anything but personal cheering for a company I am proud to work for.
There are a lot of great linux people working for HP, and I am proud to be a part of it. Here are some easily verifiable, public facts about HP.
HP looks for opportunities to give hardware to open-source projects. In fact, every time you download a kernel from kernel.org, you use hardware HP provided.
HP employs many Free software contributors, including some famous ones: Bdale Garbee, the former DPL, is HP's Linux CTO. Jeremy Allison of Samba, is employed by HP. HP is a major sponsor of OSDL which pays Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton to continue their unbiased work on the linux kernel. Look at http://opensource.hp.com/.
A company does not attract talent like this with ideals like these people have without having a commitment to the Free Software/Open Source community. So just because SCO is playing games, don't think that HP appreciates it. HP opviously thinks their claims are bunk or HP would not risk indemnification. HP hopes to *encourage* people beFUDdled by SCO to run linux and not worry about it. It's a brilliant move on HP's part. All in my personal opinion of course.
For linux sake, and all the people HP employs to do linux, including me, buy HP products running linux. Vote with your pocketbook.
Folks, this *is* the Sun we are talking about here, which is a very, shall we say, Sensation-oriented paper. So take it all with a grain of salt.
***But*** there are good reasons you should welcome this tech, if it should ever come to pass. One is, it's a step toward true metered insurance. If everything is recorded, we can dispense with this nonsense about traffic fines and just charge you a different insurance rate based on how safely you really drive. Good driving behavior could be rewarded, bad could be punished. Now if you are an unsafe driver, you won't like this because it you will have to change your driving habits. But good drivers everywhere will rejoice at the safer roads.
Once metered insurance is in place, we can have cars that drive themselves, with insurance based on how safe the car drives. We can't have them now due to liability issues and potential for greatly increased traffic.
With regards to GPL code being in SCO Unix, we need to presume them innocent until proven guilty. I know they are, as you said, a bunch of assholes for trying to destroy linux, but implying unprovable things does not help us maintain our moral high ground. Let's stick to the facts and stay rational everyone. Zeal doesn't win a court case, but perserverance, patience, and cold hard facts do.
Dude, there are papers published about Ext2fs which describe the data structures in exquisite detail. You don't need to look at the code to write an ext2fs clone. I have written proprietary utilities to access ext2fs data structures. I know what I am talking about.
In addition, there are various commercial tools that read and write ext2, such as Ext2fs Anywhere.
So in that case, you're full of crap. I don't know if I am really qualified to comment on the other case, but doesn't BSD have linux compatibility? And isn't BSD available under a much less restrictive license? They could just adapt that code.
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Did anyone else picture muggers stuck to this geek and unable to get away?
I have this caution for you. If you live in an apartment where there are people living below you, do not bother with DDR. It will make them mad and they will complain. This happened to me, but I just bought a house so I can play DDR again.
To put this in the form of an example, suppose I have a car that gets one mile per gallon. Somehow I manage to change that to two miles per gallon. I have now reduced my costs per mile by half. If I add an additional mile per gallon, I reduce my costs by an additional third. In mathematical terms, the fractional savings is 1/n where n is the MPG achieved. If I had a car that got 15mpg and traded it for one that got 30mpg, I save 50 percent. To save half again, I have to go to 60mpg. Et cetera.
Meanwhile, it becomes more and more difficult to achieve thos high mpgs. This is why there is a certain sweet spot where the tradeoffs in achieving high mpg exceed the cost benefits. In my opinion (and the market bears this out) that sweet spot is about 30mpg.
This is where I copy all the best jokes from the other article and get free mod points!
So aside from being, literally, vaporware (laugh here, serious point next.), how does this technology compete with phased array systems such as those by Vivato? I understand the value of phased arrays are that they can focus the output into an extremely narrow beam and send it to just the right place. I Am Not A Physicist, but it seems like solid state electronics are a *little* bit simpler than plasma to work with!
And safer.
Funny, I think Mutant X and Andromeda suck. I am overjoyed to see them cancelled. Here's to that investment being funneled into new and exciting sci-fi series, not cheesy rehashes of old franchises.
I'm a big LMB fan and I was disappointed in her Paladin of Souls book. She should have written me another Vorkosigan book instead :P
Oh and look, it made Slashdot (in the Developers section).
Martin Pool, the brains behind distcc, was interviewed by ZDNet yesterday. How timely.
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http://web.zdnet.com.au/builder/program/work/st
There is a slight error in the article body. "No Starch Press" is mispelled once as "No Start Press".
Mod parent up and down! Best troll I've seen in a long time.
Now I can have my own replica of Uncle Owen's moisture farm!
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Moisture farm:
http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/
Concept shot from article:
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~khoshnev/RP/RP-
If you do swap cards, you have to always pay with cash, or else they will figure out that you're using a card that isn't yours.
It's not really a review, you know. More like a Press Release emphasising the books's merits, probably hoping to provoke some debate on the pros and cons of his main ideas. And the difference between this guy and the googlescammers is this guy didn't submit his story AC. I'd still like to see disclaimers on this kind of stuff.
I think the article should have disclosed that the submitter (johnnyb) is also the author of the book, Jonathan Bartlett. So rather than saying "A new book was just released", I would rather see something like "I wrote this new book." Here is johnnyb's website. http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/509 6/1/
:)
As long as you're doing scientific work you wouldn't mind
It's already been designed, it already works with linux, and it's pretty neat. Right now you have to buy an Itanium machine to use it, though.
I have a Vicorinox WebPak 1.0. It's a great computer bag, but it has one problem. The laptop sleeve is situated toward the back of the pack (away from your back). This makes the center of gravity pretty far back. They have fixed this in the WebPak 2.0. I also find it difficult to fit some lunch containers in the bag for riding my bike to work. These bags come with a lifetime warranty where if you break it, you get it fixed or replaced without charge. After using this one for 8 months, I have to say it's a fine piece of luggage and worth the $200 I spent on it.
This is not an announcement of any new solar cells. It's a press release detailing an advanced research program that STMicroelectronics hopes will eventually lead to cheap solar cells. RTFA whover posted this.
Disclaimer: I work for HP, but this is my own opinion and rant, not HP's. IT wasn't approved by HP legal, wasn't run by any superiors, and should not be construed as anything but personal cheering for a company I am proud to work for.
There are a lot of great linux people working for HP, and I am proud to be a part of it. Here are some easily verifiable, public facts about HP.
HP looks for opportunities to give hardware to open-source projects. In fact, every time you download a kernel from kernel.org, you use hardware HP provided.
HP employs many Free software contributors, including some famous ones: Bdale Garbee, the former DPL, is HP's Linux CTO. Jeremy Allison of Samba, is employed by HP. HP is a major sponsor of OSDL which pays Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton to continue their unbiased work on the linux kernel. Look at http://opensource.hp.com/.
A company does not attract talent like this with ideals like these people have without having a commitment to the Free Software/Open Source community. So just because SCO is playing games, don't think that HP appreciates it. HP opviously thinks their claims are bunk or HP would not risk indemnification. HP hopes to *encourage* people beFUDdled by SCO to run linux and not worry about it. It's a brilliant move on HP's part. All in my personal opinion of course.
For linux sake, and all the people HP employs to do linux, including me, buy HP products running linux. Vote with your pocketbook.
Folks, this *is* the Sun we are talking about here, which is a very, shall we say, Sensation-oriented paper. So take it all with a grain of salt.
***But*** there are good reasons you should welcome this tech, if it should ever come to pass. One is, it's a step toward true metered insurance. If everything is recorded, we can dispense with this nonsense about traffic fines and just charge you a different insurance rate based on how safely you really drive. Good driving behavior could be rewarded, bad could be punished. Now if you are an unsafe driver, you won't like this because it you will have to change your driving habits. But good drivers everywhere will rejoice at the safer roads.
Once metered insurance is in place, we can have cars that drive themselves, with insurance based on how safe the car drives. We can't have them now due to liability issues and potential for greatly increased traffic.
With regards to GPL code being in SCO Unix, we need to presume them innocent until proven guilty. I know they are, as you said, a bunch of assholes for trying to destroy linux, but implying unprovable things does not help us maintain our moral high ground. Let's stick to the facts and stay rational everyone. Zeal doesn't win a court case, but perserverance, patience, and cold hard facts do.
With BSD code, you are free do do what you like with it. With GPL code, you are not. So how is the GPL more free? Please explain. Use a dictionary.
Dude, there are papers published about Ext2fs which describe the data structures in exquisite detail. You don't need to look at the code to write an ext2fs clone. I have written proprietary utilities to access ext2fs data structures. I know what I am talking about.
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http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/explore2fs/es2f
In addition, there are various commercial tools that read and write ext2, such as
Ext2fs Anywhere.
So in that case, you're full of crap. I don't know if I am really qualified to comment on the other case, but doesn't BSD have linux compatibility? And isn't BSD available under a much less restrictive license? They could just adapt that code.