what about the whole "work as a group" part of it? IMO, that's the more important part to open-source... so people can learn from and improve on other people's work.
I know it feels good to say that we who watch/. are the 3l33t
I never have, and never will make that claim...
it is possible to explain most of the concepts of open source to just about anyone.
i'm not talking about computer-illiterate... i'm talking about the people with a basic knowledge of computers and how they work. the people that encrypt their emails because they think it will hide what they're sending from a network admisitrator...
I see some use for this... like a mailbot or something, but then again stuff like this has been done before. the ony good thing about this is that it's on a segway.
I imagine a robot on a segway can move alot faster than a robot on treads or wheels, and is probably alot more maneuverable at higher speeds... i see a robot moving around cubicles or something to deliver a memo at the speed of a person running.
but like i said before, there's already practical solutions for this and none of them have caught on very well... if the price is low enough, maybe it will catch on, but for now, I think it's the price of acquiring and maintaining them that keeps them down in popularity...
This has spurred a hot legal debate raising an interesting question: which is more important, tourist dollars or the truth?
from the way I see it, this is all about finding out the truth... tourist $ just happens to follow in it's path, but I still think the main point is to find out which side is right...
but you have to look at most computer users... most people don't know about programming and think an open-source program means that somebody will come in and hack their computer...
try explaining the good side of open-source programs to people who have never written a program in their life... you'll see what I mean...
I can't see much revenue comming from ordinary computer users who would see this as a 'hacker's' network or something. where they should direct themselves is towards the programming communities and (mostly) businesses...
so reloading the camera is practically imposible and not worth it (you'd have to do it complete darkness)
actually, it is impossible to reload new film because the cases are designed to break when you take the film out... there's no real way to open them without breaking them... and if you want to replace film, get a better camera... you can really afford $40 for a cheap film camera...
about the jacket idea: it's a good idea to put a windbreaker inside that jacket and work inside there too... it's just redundancy stuff, but yeah, that's how you would manuall unload film into a light-tight developing case...
just in case you were wondering, i've taken photography classes and work in a 1-hour photo place (Ritz camera, actually)
And this differs from the US approach in what fashion?
that's simple: we didn't call it an incremental step. we knew it was a huge jump and we went for it because of the cold war.
i know it's not a big deal to get to the moon anymore, and that it's very possible for the chinese to do so, but I think an incremental step would be to try to get some kind of mannable space station in space, at least for a few weeks...
i didn't say they were acceptable, but the likely cause for this... having multiple independantly written programs to count would be a good solution, but this solution shouldn't have been needed... the programmers should have tested their program before releasing it.
Remember, JFK announced the US's intention to go to the moon and back just a few years after the first American was launched into space.
the only reason he did that was to prove to the world that we were better than the russians
Space exploration is all about small steps of steady progress and giant leaps of vision.
I know that, but small steps of steady progress doesn't mean entering the 'space race' and going straight for the moon... I'm sure they could do it, but what I'm saying is that it doesn't seem very incremental to me, as in from an earth orbit to a lunar landing.
Kulic writes "It looks like China is serious about their space program, and is taking an incremental approach."
can somebody tell me how this is incremental? here were the steps listed in order:
1)orbiting the Moon
2)docking spacecraft with one another in lunar orbit
3)and returning moon rock samples to Earth.
they just got into space and they already want to tackle the moon? and they have more than one spacecraft to dock in lunar orbit?
IMO, that's like me saying i'm going to create an operating system, gain 80% of the market, and run gates out of the OS business... but it's all going to happen in increments...
Why oh why is this so difficult? Press a button, tally a vote
when you have to press a button 5k times, it gets kinda tedious... that's why they wrote a program to do it electronically, except somebody missed what probably was a really small error, like counting votes more than once or not initializing a value to 0... any programmer knows this could easily be a common mistake.
that's what name brand batteries are designed to do... you don't need to do that for them...
batteries like duracell have a battery life that lasts as long as it can, but drops off suddenly. they don't last as long, but they don't harm sensitive electronics.
I just need to get 9.5 million dollars within 9 days... lemme go check between the cusions on the couch...
but really... is there even any broadcasting equipment on it? I can probably buy a piece of space junk for alot less and it will have the same functionality... unless your a small business and think it makes you sound cool to say you have a satellite in space...
i don't know much about processors, but is it possible to send all the unused electricity to a capacitor somewhere nearby on the motherboard, and then draw some of the power for something else (a smaller chip?) from that capacitor?
what I'm thinking is that the CPU does billions of calculations/second, but some other chips don't run as fast and don't need as much power, so they can take what's left over from the CPU and other chips and use some outside energy.
is that possible? like i said, I don't know much about electrical engineering, so I don't even know if it's practical to map a ground pin to a capacitor...
If you think about it, it's almost like hackers vs. networkers... there will never be a time when the 'good' side wins completely, because the hacker/spammer will always find a better way. the 'good' side is always a step behind the 'bad' side because the spammer/hacker tells them where they have to go...
what I'm trying to say is that there will never be a perfect way to stop spam, and it will always be there... the only thing we can do is create better filtering software. the whole blacklisting idea already has huge vulnerabilities... and the lists can't evolve fast enough. whitelisting has a problem when your a company that needs an email address out there, like tech support... people won't like having to call a number to send an email... why not just call the number in the first place?!
I think the only real way to go about it is to get better filtering software and enter into an eternal war between spammers and anti-spam software.
Perhaps businesses are, but permanent landmarks like lakes, rivers, cemeteries, etc are from digitized tax maps
digitized tax maps? what are you talking about?
I know this because my GPS database includes long-forgotten West Virginia roads
what does that prove? first, we're talking about mapquest, not your "GPS database", and second, all that it proves is that somebody may not have driven the roads near you recently...
Hopefully they'll collect enough data off the flares to correct the model,
hopefully this is part of a correct model, and not the beginning of the end of the sun's life. I'm not saying it will happen in weeks or years or even millenia, but the sun will start to die out soon (actually, it's constantly dying from when it's born), and hopefully this doesn't signal a change in it's rate of death...
I can see it now... kids 20 years from now will get tired of throwing water baloons at cars, so they'll just shut them down from an overpass over a highway... sounds like fun, doesn't it?
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open source != free... you can definately charge for open-source.
what about the whole "work as a group" part of it? IMO, that's the more important part to open-source... so people can learn from and improve on other people's work.
I should be more specific there... i was talking about somebody who has the police working with a network admin to check the emails...
I never have, and never will make that claim...
it is possible to explain most of the concepts of open source to just about anyone.
i'm not talking about computer-illiterate... i'm talking about the people with a basic knowledge of computers and how they work. the people that encrypt their emails because they think it will hide what they're sending from a network admisitrator...
I imagine a robot on a segway can move alot faster than a robot on treads or wheels, and is probably alot more maneuverable at higher speeds... i see a robot moving around cubicles or something to deliver a memo at the speed of a person running.
but like i said before, there's already practical solutions for this and none of them have caught on very well... if the price is low enough, maybe it will catch on, but for now, I think it's the price of acquiring and maintaining them that keeps them down in popularity...
from the way I see it, this is all about finding out the truth... tourist $ just happens to follow in it's path, but I still think the main point is to find out which side is right...
try explaining the good side of open-source programs to people who have never written a program in their life... you'll see what I mean...
I can't see much revenue comming from ordinary computer users who would see this as a 'hacker's' network or something. where they should direct themselves is towards the programming communities and (mostly) businesses...
actually, it is impossible to reload new film because the cases are designed to break when you take the film out... there's no real way to open them without breaking them... and if you want to replace film, get a better camera... you can really afford $40 for a cheap film camera...
about the jacket idea: it's a good idea to put a windbreaker inside that jacket and work inside there too... it's just redundancy stuff, but yeah, that's how you would manuall unload film into a light-tight developing case...
just in case you were wondering, i've taken photography classes and work in a 1-hour photo place (Ritz camera, actually)
i work at a Ritz camera... these things are so stupid and are definately not worth it... just go for film disposable... i always saw this as a toy...
that's simple: we didn't call it an incremental step. we knew it was a huge jump and we went for it because of the cold war.
i know it's not a big deal to get to the moon anymore, and that it's very possible for the chinese to do so, but I think an incremental step would be to try to get some kind of mannable space station in space, at least for a few weeks...
i didn't say they were acceptable, but the likely cause for this... having multiple independantly written programs to count would be a good solution, but this solution shouldn't have been needed... the programmers should have tested their program before releasing it.
the only reason he did that was to prove to the world that we were better than the russians
Space exploration is all about small steps of steady progress and giant leaps of vision.
I know that, but small steps of steady progress doesn't mean entering the 'space race' and going straight for the moon... I'm sure they could do it, but what I'm saying is that it doesn't seem very incremental to me, as in from an earth orbit to a lunar landing.
can somebody tell me how this is incremental? here were the steps listed in order: 1)orbiting the Moon 2)docking spacecraft with one another in lunar orbit 3)and returning moon rock samples to Earth. they just got into space and they already want to tackle the moon? and they have more than one spacecraft to dock in lunar orbit? IMO, that's like me saying i'm going to create an operating system, gain 80% of the market, and run gates out of the OS business... but it's all going to happen in increments...
what they should have done was create test data (about 19,000 fake semi-random votes) and run it through to check for errors...
it's those damn hackers... they hacked the piloting program and flew it right out of their super-secret hangar... damn them...
batteries like duracell have a battery life that lasts as long as it can, but drops off suddenly. they don't last as long, but they don't harm sensitive electronics.
but really... is there even any broadcasting equipment on it? I can probably buy a piece of space junk for alot less and it will have the same functionality... unless your a small business and think it makes you sound cool to say you have a satellite in space...
what I'm thinking is that the CPU does billions of calculations/second, but some other chips don't run as fast and don't need as much power, so they can take what's left over from the CPU and other chips and use some outside energy.
is that possible? like i said, I don't know much about electrical engineering, so I don't even know if it's practical to map a ground pin to a capacitor...
but then again I didn't think they could screw up the Matrix series either...
what I'm trying to say is that there will never be a perfect way to stop spam, and it will always be there... the only thing we can do is create better filtering software. the whole blacklisting idea already has huge vulnerabilities... and the lists can't evolve fast enough. whitelisting has a problem when your a company that needs an email address out there, like tech support... people won't like having to call a number to send an email... why not just call the number in the first place?!
I think the only real way to go about it is to get better filtering software and enter into an eternal war between spammers and anti-spam software.
if you read Prey, you might actually be scared of nanotechnology... I was for a little while...
digitized tax maps? what are you talking about?
I know this because my GPS database includes long-forgotten West Virginia roads
what does that prove? first, we're talking about mapquest, not your "GPS database", and second, all that it proves is that somebody may not have driven the roads near you recently...
Hopefully they'll collect enough data off the flares to correct the model,
hopefully this is part of a correct model, and not the beginning of the end of the sun's life. I'm not saying it will happen in weeks or years or even millenia, but the sun will start to die out soon (actually, it's constantly dying from when it's born), and hopefully this doesn't signal a change in it's rate of death...
I can see it now... kids 20 years from now will get tired of throwing water baloons at cars, so they'll just shut them down from an overpass over a highway... sounds like fun, doesn't it?