I'm not trying to be a troll here, but it is interesting that the Slashdot crowd has such a pro IP rights opinion based on their general tone towards the music, movie, and software industry.
I saw that too, its mentioned pretty far down in the article that this story links to. It would be a lot nicer if they didn't make that little typo, I was worried about how they were going to fit all that in on a tiny sliver of bandwidth.
At major events in Israel, they already use unmanned blimps to monitor it from a distance. If they can keep it out of commericial airspace, it shouldn't be a problem.
Or some browsers allow you set keywords, such as when I do type slashdot, it takes me here, "home" takes me to my homepage, and "router" takes me to the config page on my router.
The biggest problem I see with this idea is no one would know what a single word on a advertisment would mean. Right now if I saw something on a sign somewheres that said "arbitraryphrase", I wouldn't think to go online to look it up. The.com/.net/.org tells people it is a website and to go to. As an advertising agency, I would be wary of not using the tld on an address, especially for online businesses.
But/.ers don't go around reading those. The article if you take a look at it was written (or at least posted) on the register on Thursday of last week, so you can't blame/. for it.
Did that article just somehow say that modding is a sign of the world coming to an end? Seriously, whatever controlled substance those people at Oreilly are on is a thousand times worse than what those kids at my school do.
I hope you are just trying to be funny. Animal testing of cosmetics is wrong, but if you are going to test medicines. Scientists can not just test something on humans without any knowlege of what it might do to multicelluar living organisms in general, or even better yet, animals that have some resemblance to us such as mammals.
Would you rather they try testing it on 100 humans with spinal injuries? If the experiment goes wrong and 90 out of 100 test subjects get cancer for example, would you rather have that test subject be human or rat?
I'll start with saying that it is good to see scientific progress, but is it possible to do this with adult / cord stem cells too?
Second, everyone says that Bush is against stem cell research. He is only against federal funding to embryonic stem cell research. That doesn't mean he wants to ban it, well he does, but that is besides the point. All he ever did was say the Government can't support it.
Third, other than this, I have yet to see an example of Embryonic stem cell research actually working and adult stem cells don't work, or where Embryonic stem cells actually work at all. If adult stem cells show more promise, and don't involve the taking of a human life (the reason this is all contriversial in the first place), why not use them.
About the "how can we support a president who is against scientific progress" issue. It isn't that the pro-life people are anti-scientific progress, it is that they don't beleive science should be working against the betterment of humanity. At least they don't think killing for progress is right.
Like all other game consoles that failed, they didn't have enough brand-name games. They had quite a few overpriced shareware games, and some ports of older PC games like Doom 2 and spyhunter, and a few interesting original games.
The PDA itself was a really good design. I liked the one I saw in CompUSA and I was seriously considering getting one just as a PDA. It had a large ammount of RAM, dual SD slots (one SDIO), bluetooth, a display that matched the high end PalmOne PDAs like the T3.
It is a shame the company went under. Maybe they wouldn't have if I actually bought them instead of obsessivly checking their website.
And you wonder why their population is going down...
(No, I don't know what the population growth of japan is.)
Honestly, that is where this will probably lead. No one really would care about making something that realistic with fluttering eyes, etc. if it was only going to be used as for example, a service robot.
What is this organize you speak of? I am unfamilar with the term.
Honestly, cable ties are hard to remove if you need to move stuff around. Someone must sell these little velco "cable-ties" that APC gives away with some of their gear. I have a bunch and they work really well. They are basically a strip of velco with the hooks on one side and the loops on the other. You can probably make your own.
Of course I just finished reading Prey by Michael Crichton. It was a decent book about nano-tech robots being able to reproduce themselves. Its a scary thing to read a doomsday book and have the first article on/. about progress in the field that caused it.
Other than that, the movie isn't all that spectacular. It basically has the ability to find the bricks and move them into place to put together another robot. Maybe I was hoping for more.
"Leet words possibly indicating illegal activity:
"warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software available for download.
"h4x": Read as "hacks," or what a computer hacker does.
"sploitz" (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by hackers.
"pwn": A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term that means to dominate. This could also be spelled "0\/\/n3d" or "pwn3d," among other variations. Online video game bullies or "griefers" often use this term."
I have never heard of sploitz, but its pretty obvious that M$ was trying to plug anti-piracy in the comment on part about Warez. Interesting that they didn't mention the term "p0rn". Any parents looking to learn leet should find guides from stuff like the Jargon File (http://jargon.watson-net.com/section.asp?f=cracke rs.html), not learn from Microsoft.
Why don't you make these comments to the site instead of here. Or at least in both places. I don't think the Copyright Office is going to come here to read the comments.
Come on,/. should be a little faster about posting NEWS. What ever happened to NEWS for nerds.
And I am planning on getting one as soon as the budget allows. All the cheap stuff that came out at Mac world looks cool, and its all cheap, but lots of little numbers added up make one big number.
I've been playing with it since I first read this article. I am taking a course on drafting, so its not too hard to figure out how to use for me, but it still is complex software. It was very easy to install if you just follow the instructions on the site. After I followed them and added the installation to my $PATH it worked fine. The tutorial on the new site is good too.
WildCard for dummies? Do you mean grep for Dummies?
I think/. readers are a bit above the For Dummies series, they aren't the greatest books to learn a computer language from, the best way is tutorials from the internet. A good one is http://www.hetland.org/python/instant-hacking.php for python. Get them a book about the history of computers or some thing about theory on encryption.
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I'm not trying to be a troll here, but it is interesting that the Slashdot crowd has such a pro IP rights opinion based on their general tone towards the music, movie, and software industry.
I saw that too, its mentioned pretty far down in the article that this story links to. It would be a lot nicer if they didn't make that little typo, I was worried about how they were going to fit all that in on a tiny sliver of bandwidth.
At major events in Israel, they already use unmanned blimps to monitor it from a distance. If they can keep it out of commericial airspace, it shouldn't be a problem.
Or some browsers allow you set keywords, such as when I do type slashdot, it takes me here, "home" takes me to my homepage, and "router" takes me to the config page on my router. The biggest problem I see with this idea is no one would know what a single word on a advertisment would mean. Right now if I saw something on a sign somewheres that said "arbitraryphrase", I wouldn't think to go online to look it up. The .com/.net/.org tells people it is a website and to go to. As an advertising agency, I would be wary of not using the tld on an address, especially for online businesses.
But /.ers don't go around reading those. The article if you take a look at it was written (or at least posted) on the register on Thursday of last week, so you can't blame /. for it.
Did that article just somehow say that modding is a sign of the world coming to an end? Seriously, whatever controlled substance those people at Oreilly are on is a thousand times worse than what those kids at my school do.
Oh well, back to email then...
I hope you are just trying to be funny. Animal testing of cosmetics is wrong, but if you are going to test medicines. Scientists can not just test something on humans without any knowlege of what it might do to multicelluar living organisms in general, or even better yet, animals that have some resemblance to us such as mammals. Would you rather they try testing it on 100 humans with spinal injuries? If the experiment goes wrong and 90 out of 100 test subjects get cancer for example, would you rather have that test subject be human or rat?
I'll start with saying that it is good to see scientific progress, but is it possible to do this with adult / cord stem cells too? Second, everyone says that Bush is against stem cell research. He is only against federal funding to embryonic stem cell research. That doesn't mean he wants to ban it, well he does, but that is besides the point. All he ever did was say the Government can't support it. Third, other than this, I have yet to see an example of Embryonic stem cell research actually working and adult stem cells don't work, or where Embryonic stem cells actually work at all. If adult stem cells show more promise, and don't involve the taking of a human life (the reason this is all contriversial in the first place), why not use them. About the "how can we support a president who is against scientific progress" issue. It isn't that the pro-life people are anti-scientific progress, it is that they don't beleive science should be working against the betterment of humanity. At least they don't think killing for progress is right.
Like all other game consoles that failed, they didn't have enough brand-name games. They had quite a few overpriced shareware games, and some ports of older PC games like Doom 2 and spyhunter, and a few interesting original games. The PDA itself was a really good design. I liked the one I saw in CompUSA and I was seriously considering getting one just as a PDA. It had a large ammount of RAM, dual SD slots (one SDIO), bluetooth, a display that matched the high end PalmOne PDAs like the T3. It is a shame the company went under. Maybe they wouldn't have if I actually bought them instead of obsessivly checking their website.
And you wonder why their population is going down...
(No, I don't know what the population growth of japan is.)
Honestly, that is where this will probably lead. No one really would care about making something that realistic with fluttering eyes, etc. if it was only going to be used as for example, a service robot.
What is this organize you speak of? I am unfamilar with the term. Honestly, cable ties are hard to remove if you need to move stuff around. Someone must sell these little velco "cable-ties" that APC gives away with some of their gear. I have a bunch and they work really well. They are basically a strip of velco with the hooks on one side and the loops on the other. You can probably make your own.
Of course I just finished reading Prey by Michael Crichton. It was a decent book about nano-tech robots being able to reproduce themselves. Its a scary thing to read a doomsday book and have the first article on /. about progress in the field that caused it.
Other than that, the movie isn't all that spectacular. It basically has the ability to find the bricks and move them into place to put together another robot. Maybe I was hoping for more.
"Leet words possibly indicating illegal activity: "warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software available for download. "h4x": Read as "hacks," or what a computer hacker does. "sploitz" (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by hackers. "pwn": A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term that means to dominate. This could also be spelled "0\/\/n3d" or "pwn3d," among other variations. Online video game bullies or "griefers" often use this term." I have never heard of sploitz, but its pretty obvious that M$ was trying to plug anti-piracy in the comment on part about Warez. Interesting that they didn't mention the term "p0rn". Any parents looking to learn leet should find guides from stuff like the Jargon File (http://jargon.watson-net.com/section.asp?f=cracke rs.html), not learn from Microsoft.
Why don't you make these comments to the site instead of here. Or at least in both places. I don't think the Copyright Office is going to come here to read the comments.
Come on, /. should be a little faster about posting NEWS. What ever happened to NEWS for nerds.
And I am planning on getting one as soon as the budget allows. All the cheap stuff that came out at Mac world looks cool, and its all cheap, but lots of little numbers added up make one big number.
I've been playing with it since I first read this article. I am taking a course on drafting, so its not too hard to figure out how to use for me, but it still is complex software. It was very easy to install if you just follow the instructions on the site. After I followed them and added the installation to my $PATH it worked fine. The tutorial on the new site is good too.
WildCard for dummies? Do you mean grep for Dummies? I think /. readers are a bit above the For Dummies series, they aren't the greatest books to learn a computer language from, the best way is tutorials from the internet. A good one is http://www.hetland.org/python/instant-hacking.php for python. Get them a book about the history of computers or some thing about theory on encryption.
Why would you want to scratch your ipod? My iPod has enough scratches as it is... Oh you meant that kind of scratching...
...that would predict how you move the mouse before hand to make up for the lag.