I think you'll find most of the problems with the big dig do not stem from any one dumb engineer, but the huge amount of contractors that are awarded contracts by the corrupt locat and state governments. No where in the world have I seen contruction contractors living so well as in Boston.
Gaim is open-source and has some features (automatic logging of conversations) that I have not been able to find elsewhere.
Trillian does have logging capabilities, they are in the preferences. I use Gaim myself, becuase Trillian is not available for my current platform--the feature set is almost identical however. Trillian does look alot better than (GTK) Gaim though. Then again, it is closed source.
Organised? It was put up on meetup.com, and people turned up. AFAIK, or anyone else knew, the host did not even show. It was not badly organised, it just wasn't organised at all.
It is true, some manufacture does currently occur at.25 micron. Obviously there is advantages to.13 micron such as, less heat production, smaller die size etc. and this is what the latest chip fabrication plants use.
The older fabs still use much larger processes, e.g..18 and.25 micron. I know that the P3's still being produced (pre Tualatin 733, 800 Mhz etc.) are on.18 micron processes, and I would guess that the K6-2's that AMD still produces are at least a.25 micron process, maybe larger.
IIRC, ~130 people RSVP'd for the Pitcher and Piano London/. meetup. It was the 2nd largest after Toronto when I checked. About 10 people showed up. =/ It was a great night though. Dave Green from NTK came along...and sold t-shirts. (I bashed you for selling t-shirts again! but at least I plugged NTK=)
I was hoping, but didn't realistically expect that ~130 people would turn up, but the people that did were great to talk to. We talked about lots of geeky things--as you would imagine. I met some people I had only read about before and really enjoyed myself. Plus there was, of course, lots of beer. I only regret having to leave around 11 to get my train home, when the party was moving to Pizza Express! (Dave's pathological addiction). All in all it was a great night, and I would like to do it again sometime.
For those not from Commonwealth countries, this is a cricketing term... Yes, that game Cricket, that Americans have heard of, but cannot fathom--it is not baseball.
LBW is a way you can get out. Basically its when you put your leg in the way of the stumps (aka wicket) to protect from a ball you could not hit. Debates have spanned years on whether this is an appropriate rule, and if it can ever be accurately ruled upon.
Funny thing is, I am Australian, been to an LBW (Linux Beer Hike), but never noticed the correlation to the cricketing LBW...weird.
As long as the picture has to be decoded before it is sent to the TV (via your SVHS/Scart/RF lead) we'll be able to record it. Admittedly not digitally
It would be just like saying "DVD's will not be copied" 5 years ago. We all know that isn't true.
Someone will always find a way around it, just as the MPAA will always find a way to stop it. This article shows that it is seemingly more difficult for the MPAA to put these procedures in place, that it is for people to circumvent them.
This is a Good Thing--it shows the government is protecting fair-use for the most part. Just as people will not stop circumventing stupid technologies that restric fair use (e.g. DeCSS), the MPAA will never stop their crusade either.
They have a flawed business model, and think we are all thieves, and while they continue to have enough money to buy senators (Fritz et al.), that image will prevail, and the leapfrogging will continue.
no-one has yet mention how MUCh it's going to cost me
Of course not. Nokia hasn't even implemented OpenGL/GPS/etc. yet, as far as we know. How can they give us a cost, if the product hasn't even been designed, never lone actually been produced yet.
To answer your question however, it will be quite expensive. Just like any new technology, until economies of scale have been achieved, and the early adopters have paid a premium, it will most likely be out of financial reach for the masses.
If the cost issue can be sorted, even if all we get is a basic ballpark figure, then I may grow to be very interested in this indeed
It seems you are interested already, you will have to wait for it to become affordable though. =)
The current problem will mobile phones/PDA's is the screensize--Even if they converge (someday) with a PDA, even 320x320 is still too small.
Even wearablesarestruggling to get 640x480, which is the smallest screen I would use for anything 3D.
On the upside, Nokia has a very good history of being innovative in the mobile market, more power to them. If they can get a usuable 3D device to market, I'd buy it.
This is not to say that I didn't enjoy playing Doom on a Nokia 9210
Is funny that everyone assumes corrupt people doing unsavory things are only prevelant in the US and the UK.
I think that is an incorrect assumption.
The majority of the slashdot readership is from the US (probably followed by the UK), this is why most of the stories relate to those two areas. This does not mean because country X is not usually mentioned when people do "unsavory things" that "everyone" assumes they do not happen. The majority of slashdotters would be less interested. =)
Corrupt assholes live everywhere.
I am from Australia (have lived in the UK, Hong Kong and now live in the US), and do agree with your point here, but your first assumption is false.
Maybe we should consider the consequences of a 3rd party using this function to their own advantage in their own software. Admitedly there would have to be a reason why we would install this 3rd Party's software.
Consider this. A new version of XMMS contains a call to the function that pops the ad up on the screen. XMMS now puts its own ad up, or replaces the default ad. Besides the issues of 'nice' apps using this in an 'appropriate' way, it could open up the door for potential advertising/spyware/spam like apps we are seeing on the Windows platforms at the moment.
Basically, implementing this is like providing an advertising library to anyone who wishes to use it. The advantage of open source is that it would be ridiculously easy to implement.
Best Buy advertising then refusing to sell the GF4 at the low price is actually quite old news. The arrest of the Indian American is actually new. We know Best Buy should honour the low price, but as any company would, they tried to get out of it. Steve @ Hypothermia (and HardOCP) has done alot of work, and indirectly (&directly) got many people their GF4's at the low price, Good Job!
If what has been reported is true about the Indian American being arrested for trying to get his GF4 at the low price. That is a whole new story. Reading up at Hypothermia and the HardOCP Forums it seems so. After some of my experiences at Best Buy, and all this nonsense over the GF4 they are definately on My List. This story about arresting a guy over what happened is just the icing on the cake.
What exactly happened still seems a bit unclear, and we should probably what for Best Buy's response, but it really doesn't surprise me that Best Buy acted this way. Their company cultrue seems to foster turning employees into assholes. IMHO, of course.
According to this is runs a 800x600 SVGA display, not a 640x480 one. Either way it just looks like a PDA with a headmount display, rather than a typical LCD.
Besides, until these things get to this size, and have decent current PC type specs, they'll never become mainstream anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =170129995323
You're correct, but I can see how someone might think *"QUANTAS" by starting with QUeensland.
Not really, it is an acronym.
Yeah. Typo corrections are funny.
I'm happy that AOL will be help *somewhat* accountable.
I think you'll find most of the problems with the big dig do not stem from any one dumb engineer, but the huge amount of contractors that are awarded contracts by the corrupt locat and state governments. No where in the world have I seen contruction contractors living so well as in Boston.
You don't actually need a make dep with the 2.5 kernels. So, we dont actually need no make depend!
Trillian does have logging capabilities, they are in the preferences. I use Gaim myself, becuase Trillian is not available for my current platform--the feature set is almost identical however. Trillian does look alot better than (GTK) Gaim though. Then again, it is closed source.
Windows.
Organised? It was put up on meetup.com, and people turned up. AFAIK, or anyone else knew, the host did not even show. It was not badly organised, it just wasn't organised at all.
There is a better date, every month. Next one is Thursday, August 22 @ 7:00PM. See website for more details.
It is true, some manufacture does currently occur at .25 micron. Obviously there is advantages to .13 micron such as, less heat production, smaller die size etc. and this is what the latest chip fabrication plants use.
The older fabs still use much larger processes, e.g. .18 and .25 micron. I know that the P3's still being produced (pre Tualatin 733, 800 Mhz etc.) are on .18 micron processes, and I would guess that the K6-2's that AMD still produces are at least a .25 micron process, maybe larger.
IIRC, ~130 people RSVP'd for the Pitcher and Piano London /. meetup. It was the 2nd largest after Toronto when I checked. About 10 people showed up. =/ It was a great night though. Dave Green from NTK came along...and sold t-shirts. (I bashed you for selling t-shirts again! but at least I plugged NTK=)
I was hoping, but didn't realistically expect that ~130 people would turn up, but the people that did were great to talk to. We talked about lots of geeky things--as you would imagine. I met some people I had only read about before and really enjoyed myself. Plus there was, of course, lots of beer. I only regret having to leave around 11 to get my train home, when the party was moving to Pizza Express! (Dave's pathological addiction). All in all it was a great night, and I would like to do it again sometime.
Pictures from all previous (and the next, when it is completed) are here.
LBW is a way you can get out. Basically its when you put your leg in the way of the stumps (aka wicket) to protect from a ball you could not hit. Debates have spanned years on whether this is an appropriate rule, and if it can ever be accurately ruled upon.
Funny thing is, I am Australian, been to an LBW (Linux Beer Hike), but never noticed the correlation to the cricketing LBW...weird.
For those that do not know... LART == Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. See e2 for more info.
It would be just like saying "DVD's will not be copied" 5 years ago. We all know that isn't true.
Someone will always find a way around it, just as the MPAA will always find a way to stop it. This article shows that it is seemingly more difficult for the MPAA to put these procedures in place, that it is for people to circumvent them.
This is a Good Thing--it shows the government is protecting fair-use for the most part. Just as people will not stop circumventing stupid technologies that restric fair use (e.g. DeCSS), the MPAA will never stop their crusade either.
They have a flawed business model, and think we are all thieves, and while they continue to have enough money to buy senators (Fritz et al.), that image will prevail, and the leapfrogging will continue.
Seems logical to me =)
Of course not. Nokia hasn't even implemented OpenGL/GPS/etc. yet, as far as we know. How can they give us a cost, if the product hasn't even been designed, never lone actually been produced yet.
To answer your question however, it will be quite expensive. Just like any new technology, until economies of scale have been achieved, and the early adopters have paid a premium, it will most likely be out of financial reach for the masses.
If the cost issue can be sorted, even if all we get is a basic ballpark figure, then I may grow to be very interested in this indeed
It seems you are interested already, you will have to wait for it to become affordable though. =)
Even wearables are struggling to get 640x480, which is the smallest screen I would use for anything 3D.
On the upside, Nokia has a very good history of being innovative in the mobile market, more power to them. If they can get a usuable 3D device to market, I'd buy it.
This is not to say that I didn't enjoy playing Doom on a Nokia 9210
I enjoyed Quake on my iPaq too =)
I think that is an incorrect assumption.
The majority of the slashdot readership is from the US (probably followed by the UK), this is why most of the stories relate to those two areas. This does not mean because country X is not usually mentioned when people do "unsavory things" that "everyone" assumes they do not happen. The majority of slashdotters would be less interested. =)
Corrupt assholes live everywhere.
I am from Australia (have lived in the UK, Hong Kong and now live in the US), and do agree with your point here, but your first assumption is false.
Pity though, Taco Hell was much better than the lame journal stuff he now writes.
Consider this. A new version of XMMS contains a call to the function that pops the ad up on the screen. XMMS now puts its own ad up, or replaces the default ad. Besides the issues of 'nice' apps using this in an 'appropriate' way, it could open up the door for potential advertising/spyware/spam like apps we are seeing on the Windows platforms at the moment.
Basically, implementing this is like providing an advertising library to anyone who wishes to use it. The advantage of open source is that it would be ridiculously easy to implement.
If what has been reported is true about the Indian American being arrested for trying to get his GF4 at the low price. That is a whole new story. Reading up at Hypothermia and the HardOCP Forums it seems so. After some of my experiences at Best Buy, and all this nonsense over the GF4 they are definately on My List. This story about arresting a guy over what happened is just the icing on the cake.
What exactly happened still seems a bit unclear, and we should probably what for Best Buy's response, but it really doesn't surprise me that Best Buy acted this way. Their company cultrue seems to foster turning employees into assholes. IMHO, of course.
Example: I am at BU ans getting 6ms ping times to internet2.edu, slashdot is 22ms.
Besides, until these things get to this size, and have decent current PC type specs, they'll never become mainstream anyway.