I have my own domain and I can create an unlimited number of throwaway addresses. If they behave, I keep it active. If it starts getting spam, I know which business I can't trust and I direct it to/dev/null/
For example, if I were to register with slashdot, I could just use slashdot@mydomain.com
I can keep it around for as short or as long as I want.
While this sounds great for a day or two when you really need it, this could be detrimental long term just to your muscles. When you sleep is when your body repairs itself. Your muscles will go to pot if you never sleep.
Don't misquote Moore's Law... It's talking about complexity (i.e., transistor density), not raw speed/power. So while it is faster, it doesn't have to be 128x faster. Also, you can only compare same cost, if something costs X and something else costs 2X, that does not mean that the latter is twice as fast.
The other thing to remember here is that Lotus Domino and the other IBM business offerings do run on Linux. So it is on an open platform. As much as I love Pine for e-mail, business users (especially management) is going to want something with more features. So while yes, you are using a proprietary solution, you're using one made by a company embracing open standards instead a proprietary solution on a proprietary platform produced by an almost exclusively proprietary company.
Moore's Law doesn't really hold here since each of the X360 and the PS3 use multiple processor cores. Moore's Law doesn't even state anything about power anyway. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors you can fit in an intergrated circuit will double every 18 months. If you want to use it to extrapolate power, you should see at least an 8x improvement (doubling 3 times in 5 years) and that's not counting any lag time that the prototype PS2 or XB1 chips had between freezing the stats and console release. Based on all of this, a 20-30x increase is not impossible.
There are some very valid points for a system like this such as the minimization and/or elimination of traffic jams in big cities. But this is the only place I could even see this as desirable in my eyes... I hope that we never reach the point where riding in an autonomous car is required. Some of us feel great joy in the ability to drive. I truly enjoy every bit of my morning commute. I will admit that it is in a city of only ~100k people so traffic isn't that terrible, but my and my manual transmission car (less computers and automatic thing happening) get along quite well. I enjoy driving everywhere except for traffic jams and long (5+ hour) streches on the interstate. As long as computer control and/or suggestion is optional and can be turned off, it's okay, but don't take away the joy of driving.
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The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers.
I don't want to sound like a jerk, but not all Slashdotters appreciate blatant endorsements of candidates on a front page story. Editors, please keep this kind of editorializing out of the article postings.
Maybe the Visual Editor isn't in release status? (I think it is, but I'm not sure.) But this definately isn't the only nor the first visual editor project. Check it out if you're interested in a RAD platform with graphical elements very similar to Visual Basic, etc. It uses Java and not BASIC, but I don't see that as a bad thing. Oh yeah... it's also open source.
The fear with Blu-Ray is that it is a Sony product, and Sony will do what it always does (Beta, MiniDisc, IMX) and require the purchase of Sony equipment and/or charge massive licensing fees to use the technology. There is much speculation that the reason Blu-Ray didn't come out four or five years ago -- when, according to rumor, it was technologically feasible to do so -- was because Sony didn't have the support of anyone else in the industry, and management knew that to bring a Sony-proprietary video media storage format to market that no one else supported was a lost cause from the beginning.
Don't rip on Sony too bad about their technologies. Do remember that Sony along with Phillips produced our beloved Compact Disc standard... You don't need a Sony CD player to play CDs...
I don't see any reason why this format would be a betamax failure. It seems pretty solid. But yeah, given Sony's record of unsuccessful and barely successful formats, this is probably right.
Betamax, minidisk, memory stick, atrac3. Arguably SACD as well.
Yeah. We all know how much of a terrible failure Sony's Compact Disc (CD) format was.
My was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome quite a few years ago with very similar symptoms described above. She recently started seeing a neurologist and it turns out she didn't have Tourette's at all! She was diagnosed with Neuropathy which is basically the overfiring of the nerves. The neurologist has her on Neurontin now which is a safe, non-addictive drug that can be taken in very large doses if neccessary (it usually isn't neccessary) and is completely safe! Check it out! ikeya
It wasn't for computer equipment but for audio equipment. It's all standard 19" equipment though. I bought my 19" rack rails at Musician's Friend and then built a plywood box around them to house the equipment. They are quite sturdy and should perform to what you need. In our rack, we had about 100-150 pounds of equipment in our 8U rack and it holds up great! Good luck!
Today it was announced that Duke Nukem Forever would be optimized to run on the new CS301 processor develpoed by a new firm called ClearSpeed Technology. It is said that with this newfound processing speed, Duke Nukem Forever will be the most realistic game ever realeased.
I traded out a palm m105 for a toshiba pocket pc - e335 - it is 300mhz, but the palm beat it hands down in most things - opening documents, opening the address book etc. The toshiba can barely play mp3s without skipping. I have to ask, why is the performance of most pocket pcs so cruddy?
I'll give you a hint. Starts with "win" and ends in "dows".
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I have my own domain and I can create an unlimited number of throwaway addresses. If they behave, I keep it active. If it starts getting spam, I know which business I can't trust and I direct it to /dev/null/
For example, if I were to register with slashdot, I could just use slashdot@mydomain.com
I can keep it around for as short or as long as I want.
While this sounds great for a day or two when you really need it, this could be detrimental long term just to your muscles. When you sleep is when your body repairs itself. Your muscles will go to pot if you never sleep.
Don't misquote Moore's Law...
It's talking about complexity (i.e., transistor density), not raw speed/power.
So while it is faster, it doesn't have to be 128x faster. Also, you can only compare same cost, if something costs X and something else costs 2X, that does not mean that the latter is twice as fast.
It does exist! I have it. :)M idi/Portable/Arrangers?sku=707430
It only shipped with one Keyboard Model though. The Yamaha EZ250i USB keyboard.
It emulates the MIDI ports, so not quite as good as a real MIDI keyboard, but at least you can play the game.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Keyboards/
The other thing to remember here is that Lotus Domino and the other IBM business offerings do run on Linux. So it is on an open platform. As much as I love Pine for e-mail, business users (especially management) is going to want something with more features. So while yes, you are using a proprietary solution, you're using one made by a company embracing open standards instead a proprietary solution on a proprietary platform produced by an almost exclusively proprietary company.
Remember that Norm Coleman also was trying to STOP the RIAA from filing all of the John Doe-style lawsuits and whatnot. He's one of the good guys.
Moore's Law doesn't really hold here since each of the X360 and the PS3 use multiple processor cores. Moore's Law doesn't even state anything about power anyway. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors you can fit in an intergrated circuit will double every 18 months.
If you want to use it to extrapolate power, you should see at least an 8x improvement (doubling 3 times in 5 years) and that's not counting any lag time that the prototype PS2 or XB1 chips had between freezing the stats and console release.
Based on all of this, a 20-30x increase is not impossible.
Offering Guinness at a bulk discount? Brilliant!!
There are some very valid points for a system like this such as the minimization and/or elimination of traffic jams in big cities. But this is the only place I could even see this as desirable in my eyes... I hope that we never reach the point where riding in an autonomous car is required. Some of us feel great joy in the ability to drive.
I truly enjoy every bit of my morning commute. I will admit that it is in a city of only ~100k people so traffic isn't that terrible, but my and my manual transmission car (less computers and automatic thing happening) get along quite well. I enjoy driving everywhere except for traffic jams and long (5+ hour) streches on the interstate. As long as computer control and/or suggestion is optional and can be turned off, it's okay, but don't take away the joy of driving.
Well, I didn't vote for him!
The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers.
I don't want to sound like a jerk, but not all Slashdotters appreciate blatant endorsements of candidates on a front page story. Editors, please keep this kind of editorializing out of the article postings.
Maybe the Visual Editor isn't in release status? (I think it is, but I'm not sure.) But this definately isn't the only nor the first visual editor project. Check it out if you're interested in a RAD platform with graphical elements very similar to Visual Basic, etc. It uses Java and not BASIC, but I don't see that as a bad thing.
Oh yeah... it's also open source.
The Eclipse Visual Editor Project
The fear with Blu-Ray is that it is a Sony product, and Sony will do what it always does (Beta, MiniDisc, IMX) and require the purchase of Sony equipment and/or charge massive licensing fees to use the technology. There is much speculation that the reason Blu-Ray didn't come out four or five years ago -- when, according to rumor, it was technologically feasible to do so -- was because Sony didn't have the support of anyone else in the industry, and management knew that to bring a Sony-proprietary video media storage format to market that no one else supported was a lost cause from the beginning.
Don't rip on Sony too bad about their technologies. Do remember that Sony along with Phillips produced our beloved Compact Disc standard... You don't need a Sony CD player to play CDs...
I don't see any reason why this format would be a betamax failure. It seems pretty solid. But yeah, given Sony's record of unsuccessful and barely successful formats, this is probably right.
Betamax, minidisk, memory stick, atrac3. Arguably SACD as well.
Yeah. We all know how much of a terrible failure Sony's Compact Disc (CD) format was.
As a side note, MMX.
AMD licensed MMX and then added on top of it...
This article provides background.
My was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome quite a few years ago with very similar symptoms described above. She recently started seeing a neurologist and it turns out she didn't have Tourette's at all! She was diagnosed with Neuropathy which is basically the overfiring of the nerves. The neurologist has her on Neurontin now which is a safe, non-addictive drug that can be taken in very large doses if neccessary (it usually isn't neccessary) and is completely safe! Check it out!
ikeya
But KDE users are (probably) already using GNU/Linux. ;)
It wasn't for computer equipment but for audio equipment. It's all standard 19" equipment though. I bought my 19" rack rails at Musician's Friend and then built a plywood box around them to house the equipment. They are quite sturdy and should perform to what you need. In our rack, we had about 100-150 pounds of equipment in our 8U rack and it holds up great! Good luck!
ikeya
"They could have owned Linux" was said in regards to the fact that Novell could have been a huge player and market leader in the Linux market.
ikeya
Perhaps this is the beginning of the end of the "beginning of the end of bluetooth" statements?
Today it was announced that Duke Nukem Forever would be optimized to run on the new CS301 processor develpoed by a new firm called ClearSpeed Technology. It is said that with this newfound processing speed, Duke Nukem Forever will be the most realistic game ever realeased.
Where's Darl McBride on the top 50? I'd say he's pretty influential right now. Look at him, he has the UNIX world groveling before him!
I've been drooling over this at ThinkGeek for months since I first saw this. Just can't justify $120.
Green Laser Pointer at ThinkGeek.com
"Whoa"
I traded out a palm m105 for a toshiba pocket pc - e335 - it is 300mhz, but the palm beat it hands down in most things - opening documents, opening the address book etc.
The toshiba can barely play mp3s without skipping. I have to ask, why is the performance of most pocket pcs so cruddy?
I'll give you a hint. Starts with "win" and ends in "dows".