Power Point 2003 has a feature now that allows you to pack a presentation and burn it directly into a CD (or copy it to a floppy, if it's small enough) so that you don't have to carry around your laptop with you to all places.
For instance, in my school classes were several people are giving a presentation/seminar on the same day occur quite often. It's always a pain to wait for people to carry down their laptops and plug them to the beamer, specially when it decides to stop working. This usually irritates professors, who see how class time goes down the drain, as well as bored students who want to get out of the place as quickly as possible. I 'm always quite amused to see the relief on their faces when I just plug my USB keyholder into the last person's laptop and start my presentation within 3 minutes. It makes everybody happy and I think it has had a minimal positive effect on my presentation grades as well;)
Here were I study in Germany we've got hotspots in almost every classroom and pretty much everybody has a laptop. This is because of the payment facilities given by the Uni (granted, they get sucky models and prices are not so cheap, but I won't get into this or I'll never end this post). Unfortunately few people really use their laptop in class for taking notes. Almost everybody else is using IM/surfing the net/watching movies (!!) during class. Regardless, using your laptop during a boring lecture is much better than falling asleep, IMHO.
Still, I'd be curious to know in which place on the list my university would end up.
Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?
Not any time soon because, at least where I live, the phone system is still on when power goes out. Think of how useful is that in case of an emergency.
What I say is that Microsoft should recognize the superiority of the Apple platform. They would probably earn a better reputation if they only developed software for the Mac. They'd probably make MORE moneyb if they developed software in an honest manner.
I wish I had a link, but I remember reading that NASA engineers would clean the memory of Opportunity before it started rolling in order to prevent it going through the same issues as Spirit.
Re:What about the Prime Directive?
on
Mice In Space
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Please RTFA. The experiment will simulate the gravity of Mars on an orbit around Earth. The article also says the mice will return alive to be studied, something which would be rather difficult if they were sent to Mars and back, since few (if any) survive.
Sounds like they've been reading Slashdot recently;) Now if they could only reduce the price of the bricks a little bit... Ok, maybe I'm asking too much.
Sorry dude, but I think you're a bit wrong here. Cases like this one don't become precedent till they reach the Supreme Court, which didn't happen. Some lawyer with enough nerve can start a new lawsuit against him on a similar basis and get a completely opposite verdict. True, it is more likely that a judge may consider the precedent previous acquital, but s/he would not be obliged to.
Precedent: maybe. Rock solid: far from it. Still, I wouldn't go to the U.S. if I were him.
Personally, I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age.
Unfortunatelly the data sample being studied is insufficient to give you an answer for two main reasons:
1. The data is more complete for the Atlantic Ocean. A big chunk of the Pacific Ocean is left out simply because the most interesting travel routes were concentrated on the South Pacific.
2. 100 years of weather records are insufficient to make accurate predictions of global climate patterns.
I, for once, would be grateful if/. editors and contributors refrained of making comments like these in the stories.
Even though it's not very nice to hear that from a computer manufacturer, it is no surprise that Dell won't give out advise on how to break somebody's EULA, even if it protects something as nasty as spyware. Endless lawsuits would loom in Dell's horizons if they chose to do so. The thing I'm a bit more concerned is the timing: if they were so concerned, why not to issue this statement before?
Isn't it amazing that a computer could compute in minutes what has taken humans thousands of years to solve? We're in a time in which the sheer calculating power of computers can predict stress and failure in complex structures (FEA), lift and drag of fluid flows (CFD), and even the way a polypeptide will fold into a protein.
I will be more amazed when a computer actually comes up with its own algorithms to solve those problems. As it stands now, a computer only crunchs numbers once it's given a very specific set of rules. Without an actual person to define the scope of the problem, design the algorith, and sometimes derive the maths needed for it, a computer is pretty much useless.
Computers are helpful, yes. Computers are panacea, no... at least not yet.
This may sound idealistic, but whether they choose to prolong the mission or not, NASA should definitely consider bringing back the Hubble. It has tought us so much about the universe, and it's such a great piece of History that it's worth to be displayed in a place like the Smithsonian.
FPGA logic is used to implement circuits
that track the state of Internet flows and search for regular expressions and fixed-strings that appear in the content of packets.
So apparently this hardware can only recognize patterns programmed beforehand (which makes a lot of sense). However, a problem would arise whenever an original piece of malware is released into the net. I mean, how do they plan to identify and program new strings into the machine before the systems behind it are infected? Worms tend to expand fairly quickly...
Just here. They have managed to pull some pretty funny cons on those people, but I personally don't like the way they finish them. Check out yourselves and judge. They even have a guy who supposedly works for the scammers telling his story (in pretty bad English, but oh well...)
This will not stop the irresponsible press to release 'breaking news' whenever an asteroid passes 1 billion km. away from Earth just to catch audience.
Slashdot Mirror
Power Point 2003 has a feature now that allows you to pack a presentation and burn it directly into a CD (or copy it to a floppy, if it's small enough) so that you don't have to carry around your laptop with you to all places.
For instance, in my school classes were several people are giving a presentation/seminar on the same day occur quite often. It's always a pain to wait for people to carry down their laptops and plug them to the beamer, specially when it decides to stop working. This usually irritates professors, who see how class time goes down the drain, as well as bored students who want to get out of the place as quickly as possible. I 'm always quite amused to see the relief on their faces when I just plug my USB keyholder into the last person's laptop and start my presentation within 3 minutes. It makes everybody happy and I think it has had a minimal positive effect on my presentation grades as well ;)
Quite handy if you ask me.
R.Here were I study in Germany we've got hotspots in almost every classroom and pretty much everybody has a laptop. This is because of the payment facilities given by the Uni (granted, they get sucky models and prices are not so cheap, but I won't get into this or I'll never end this post). Unfortunately few people really use their laptop in class for taking notes. Almost everybody else is using IM/surfing the net/watching movies (!!) during class. Regardless, using your laptop during a boring lecture is much better than falling asleep, IMHO.
Still, I'd be curious to know in which place on the list my university would end up.
R.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
R.Mod parent down. I've seen exactly this comment in some other discussion a few days back. Wish I had a link to that post.
I think this comment deserves to go into my blog...
Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?
Not any time soon because, at least where I live, the phone system is still on when power goes out. Think of how useful is that in case of an emergency.
R.Assholes, this is true. Why wouldn't you moderate my comment up. Oh, forget it, I'm pretty drunk right now.
Peace.
J.
What I say is that Microsoft should recognize the superiority of the Apple platform. They would probably earn a better reputation if they only developed software for the Mac. They'd probably make MORE moneyb if they developed software in an honest manner.
J.I wish I had a link, but I remember reading that NASA engineers would clean the memory of Opportunity before it started rolling in order to prevent it going through the same issues as Spirit.
He gave us Power Point!
R.
Sounds like they've been reading Slashdot recently ;) Now if they could only reduce the price of the bricks a little bit... Ok, maybe I'm asking too much.
Still, kudos to Lego.
R.[...]Now that he has rock solid precedent[...]
Sorry dude, but I think you're a bit wrong here. Cases like this one don't become precedent till they reach the Supreme Court, which didn't happen. Some lawyer with enough nerve can start a new lawsuit against him on a similar basis and get a completely opposite verdict. True, it is more likely that a judge may consider the precedent previous acquital, but s/he would not be obliged to.
Precedent: maybe. Rock solid: far from it. Still, I wouldn't go to the U.S. if I were him.
R.Would that make it the longest hole-in-one in History?
R.Personally, I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age.
Unfortunatelly the data sample being studied is insufficient to give you an answer for two main reasons:
1. The data is more complete for the Atlantic Ocean. A big chunk of the Pacific Ocean is left out simply because the most interesting travel routes were concentrated on the South Pacific.
2. 100 years of weather records are insufficient to make accurate predictions of global climate patterns.
I, for once, would be grateful if /. editors and contributors refrained of making comments like these in the stories.
R.S-E-X maybe? Oh, wait...
Even though it's not very nice to hear that from a computer manufacturer, it is no surprise that Dell won't give out advise on how to break somebody's EULA, even if it protects something as nasty as spyware. Endless lawsuits would loom in Dell's horizons if they chose to do so. The thing I'm a bit more concerned is the timing: if they were so concerned, why not to issue this statement before?
Anyway, my 0.02
R.Doesn't that take a hell of a lot of hard drive space?
R.We covered this some months ago but the Associated Press is just catching on.
And therefore, we have to repeat it... way to go.
R.
Isn't it amazing that a computer could compute in minutes what has taken humans thousands of years to solve? We're in a time in which the sheer calculating power of computers can predict stress and failure in complex structures (FEA), lift and drag of fluid flows (CFD), and even the way a polypeptide will fold into a protein.
I will be more amazed when a computer actually comes up with its own algorithms to solve those problems. As it stands now, a computer only crunchs numbers once it's given a very specific set of rules. Without an actual person to define the scope of the problem, design the algorith, and sometimes derive the maths needed for it, a computer is pretty much useless.
Computers are helpful, yes. Computers are panacea, no... at least not yet.
R.This may sound idealistic, but whether they choose to prolong the mission or not, NASA should definitely consider bringing back the Hubble. It has tought us so much about the universe, and it's such a great piece of History that it's worth to be displayed in a place like the Smithsonian.
R,Quoting from the abstract of the paper:
FPGA logic is used to implement circuits that track the state of Internet flows and search for regular expressions and fixed-strings that appear in the content of packets.
So apparently this hardware can only recognize patterns programmed beforehand (which makes a lot of sense). However, a problem would arise whenever an original piece of malware is released into the net. I mean, how do they plan to identify and program new strings into the machine before the systems behind it are infected? Worms tend to expand fairly quickly...
Further insight is always welcome.
R.Just here. They have managed to pull some pretty funny cons on those people, but I personally don't like the way they finish them. Check out yourselves and judge. They even have a guy who supposedly works for the scammers telling his story (in pretty bad English, but oh well...)
R.This will not stop the irresponsible press to release 'breaking news' whenever an asteroid passes 1 billion km. away from Earth just to catch audience.
R.
Microsoft claims that by removing Windows Media Player from Windows, it would be forced to ship a substandard version to European consumers.
Is it me or I'm the only one who thinks this is an oxymoron?
R.