Maybe this is a fake password. Only a few people know the real password, but "everyone" knows this one. Anyone foolish enough to try to use it would
immediately find themselves in a world of trouble.
One way to accomplish this would make the third dimension "small", occupied only by short words.
So instead of a 20x20x20 space, you'd only have a 20x20x4 space. Then you could print the four 20x20 layers next to each other on the same page.
This might make it too easy, but at least it won't require unusual spatial reasoning skills just to figure out the clues...
Post a link to slashdot when you're done -- I want to see it!
One thing that's not explained in the article is why they built this bridge so high in the first place. From the photo it looks like the bridge spans a fairly flat valley. Why not go down and then back up? I mean it's pretty cool and all that, but 310M euros is a lot of money to spend on coolness. Can someone in the know explain why it make sense to build the tallest bridge in the world over a valley in France?
It's always interesting to analyze predictions of the future (made in the past) and see how reality differs. There's usually some assumption that seemed to make sense at the time, but turned out to be wrong over time. Then look at our current predictions about the future and ask whether we're still making those assumptions, or whether we're making different, newer assumptions that will turn out to be equally wrong. Excellent reality check.
EIOffice 2004 looks so much like MS Office 2003 that you wouldn't have a hard time getting used to the graphic interface once you get started with it.
Does that mean that it sucks as much as MSoffice?
My main complaint with MSoffice is that the UI was apparently designed by lunatics. A free, open-source clone of MSoffice is a start, but it will still suck just to be backward compatible. Why doesn't someone put together an office suite that transcends this junky interface?
To their credit, it looks like they've improved on MSoffice in some details, but as long as their goal is still be look/feel compatible with MSoffice, it doesn't make me excited.
At least for me, the answer is no. My gaming
console is in the living room, and my workstation is in my den. It's not just two sets of functions, it's two distinct kinds of ergonomic setups. I like one setup for gaming another for typing, and I'm not going to clutter up my living room with more furniture just so I can use the TV as a PC.
I wonder who their target audience is. Maybe people who have so little money they can't afford two screens? (it's a hard market, with decent CRT monitors going for $70)
Bacteria live in all sorts of odd environments that would kill people. Not all organisms have the same weaknesses; many examples spring to mind. Sheep love eating poison ivy, which would make many people ill. People love eating chocolate, which is poison to dogs. I've heard that there are even people who can watch movies starring Madonna with no ill effects.
Yes, and so were the other hypotheses. And so will additional hypotheses in the future. Perhaps one of them will amass enough evidence to achieve consensus in the scientific community. A single publication in a minor journal (this is a bulletin, not a journal, and its focus is on geology, not paleontology) shouldn't be front page news. Even the authors concede that this there are things that their theory does not explain. Presumably they're working on refining their theory. That is the proper way to conduct science.
Look and feel are cheap. The question is whether it will work and sound as good. The principal attraction of the iPod is that it's intuitive and meshes well with iTunes. That's worth money to users.
I'm glad that iPod is getting some competition (it will make iPods better to) but I don't see that this is necessarily a death blow for them.
Just a few weeks ago, the theory surfaced that the asteroid impact was only a factor in the demise of the dinosaurs (the dust caused the earths temperature to drop just a few degrees for several years -- which is a big deal if you're a reptile, but not so much if you're a mammal). Now there's a new theory that says the dinosaurs were burned alive. Next week, there will be another theory.
Personally, I'd like for these theories to go through a bit more critical review before they're broadcast to the public. This smacks as sensationalism more than science.
Yes, it's Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Or was, rather -- the name of the company officially changed to BBN some time in the mid 90's. And, they're still around, doing just fine. Various parts of the company got sold off and died (i.e. Genuity) but the R&D heart of the company is still doing very, very cool stuff.
If they spent 500M on this, and they sell for
450T, and they have a 10% profit margin (unlikely, but it's a round number) then they'd need to sell +10,000 of these boxes to make a profit. Can we really use 10,000 of these things? That's a whole heck of a lot of throughput...
I was working at BBN when they built the worlds first gigabit router, circa 1990. At the time, they claimed that they could route the entire internet through one of their boxes. It's amazing how far we've come.
Oh, and yes, this whole story is redundant. We did this all yesterday.
Stuff like this would be nice to know...
I can see a cell tower out my window. It's less than a mile away. But when I'm at home, I get no f***ing signal! If I want to use my cell phone at home, I need to be sitting in a certain place in the living room, facing out the window that views the cell tower -- otherwise no signal. A few blocks away, the signal is clear and strong.
If I'd known this, I might have rented a different apartment...
Is there a reason for this kind of void? If I switch carriers, will that make any difference?
Yes, but you're planning ahead. Imagine that you walk out, across your fairly large property, and when you get to your hammock you decide that it really would be nicer to work down by the lake (or anywhere other than in the hammock). You have to hike back to the base station, decide where you want to be, aim the antenna in that direction, and then walk back again. Every time you change your location, you need to make another trip home. Since we're talking about a 4Km range, that could be a lot of walking. Not that it can't be done, just that it's not that useful.
Not only what do they feed on, but what do they "produce" (for lack of a more polite term)? There are some algae that produce dangerous toxins that could be a hassle to deal with. For example, how would we deal with 10,000 m^2 of the algae that cause red tide? (the article claims that the "left-over sludge remaining makes an ideal fertilizer", so maybe it's not toxic, but merely smelly, but this is something I'd want to know more about.
The antenna is directional so this kind of range isn't that helpful unless the two end points are stationary. Which is exactly the kind of thing I don't use wireless for...
I guess it's a neat hack if that's the only way to communicate with your friend 4Km away, and you only have one friend (or your one friend has a nice network connection to the rest of the world and is willing to share).
Or maybe I'm the only person who remembers F-troop.
Seriously, this is going to be a bit weird, because at that size, it's going to be quite visible all the way up, even in orbit.
Fact is, America hasn't been in a "fair fight" since Vietnam. Vietnam wasn't even technically a fair fight -- our force was clearly superior, but our tactics were not.
That's debatable -- we won the war according to the rules that we understood. It's just that the VC didn't surrender, even after we'd destroyed their country, much as the North Koreans never really surrendered either. We were fighting a war, and they were fighting a crusade. Surrender wasn't an option for them, but leaving was an option for us.
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NEVER, think that reading one or two books will make anyone an expert on anything, let alone on such a complex topic as programming. I personally never stop learning.
He didn't write "read", he wrote "mastered". There's a big difference. Since I haven't read the books, I can't comment on whether this is true, but in any case it's much different from what you're responding to.
It sounds like Wolfpack, Microsoft's clustering system for NT (circa 1997) is back. I guess Microsoft thinks we've forgotten about the last time they tried to get into this market. It didn't go well for them.
And I'm typing this on a 400MHz powerbook... which is just fine for everything I do on my laptop. I don't need something faster -- what I'd like is a laptop that gives me more time on battery. When am I going to get a laptop that will run all day without recharging? A 6W CPU is a start...
This cuts both ways -- if there are abiguities or arguments about the history, it could provide an opportunity for the lawyers to get involved again. It's the first rule for organizations in the public eye: never argue in public.
Not to mention that some GPL advocates I know are going to go ballistic at the idea of the UNIX community calmly and objectively discussing who owns what. I'm not sure that this is going to really help.
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In order to succeed in the market today, it has to run viruses. Is someone working on version of rugrat for this beast?
Maybe this is a fake password. Only a few people know the real password, but "everyone" knows this one. Anyone foolish enough to try to use it would immediately find themselves in a world of trouble.
This might make it too easy, but at least it won't require unusual spatial reasoning skills just to figure out the clues...
Post a link to slashdot when you're done -- I want to see it!
It's always interesting to analyze predictions of the future (made in the past) and see how reality differs. There's usually some assumption that seemed to make sense at the time, but turned out to be wrong over time. Then look at our current predictions about the future and ask whether we're still making those assumptions, or whether we're making different, newer assumptions that will turn out to be equally wrong. Excellent reality check.
Stop chasing Microsoft should be our mantra. Don't try to gain market share by being compatible with MS -- be better.
Does that mean that it sucks as much as MSoffice?
My main complaint with MSoffice is that the UI was apparently designed by lunatics. A free, open-source clone of MSoffice is a start, but it will still suck just to be backward compatible. Why doesn't someone put together an office suite that transcends this junky interface?
To their credit, it looks like they've improved on MSoffice in some details, but as long as their goal is still be look/feel compatible with MSoffice, it doesn't make me excited.
I wonder who their target audience is. Maybe people who have so little money they can't afford two screens? (it's a hard market, with decent CRT monitors going for $70)
Yes, and so were the other hypotheses. And so will additional hypotheses in the future. Perhaps one of them will amass enough evidence to achieve consensus in the scientific community. A single publication in a minor journal (this is a bulletin, not a journal, and its focus is on geology, not paleontology) shouldn't be front page news. Even the authors concede that this there are things that their theory does not explain. Presumably they're working on refining their theory. That is the proper way to conduct science.
Look and feel are cheap. The question is whether it will work and sound as good. The principal attraction of the iPod is that it's intuitive and meshes well with iTunes. That's worth money to users.
I'm glad that iPod is getting some competition (it will make iPods better to) but I don't see that this is necessarily a death blow for them.
Personally, I'd like for these theories to go through a bit more critical review before they're broadcast to the public. This smacks as sensationalism more than science.
I was working at BBN when they built the worlds first gigabit router, circa 1990. At the time, they claimed that they could route the entire internet through one of their boxes. It's amazing how far we've come.
Oh, and yes, this whole story is redundant. We did this all yesterday.
Stuff like this would be nice to know... I can see a cell tower out my window. It's less than a mile away. But when I'm at home, I get no f***ing signal! If I want to use my cell phone at home, I need to be sitting in a certain place in the living room, facing out the window that views the cell tower -- otherwise no signal. A few blocks away, the signal is clear and strong. If I'd known this, I might have rented a different apartment... Is there a reason for this kind of void? If I switch carriers, will that make any difference?
Yes, but you're planning ahead. Imagine that you walk out, across your fairly large property, and when you get to your hammock you decide that it really would be nicer to work down by the lake (or anywhere other than in the hammock). You have to hike back to the base station, decide where you want to be, aim the antenna in that direction, and then walk back again. Every time you change your location, you need to make another trip home. Since we're talking about a 4Km range, that could be a lot of walking. Not that it can't be done, just that it's not that useful.
Not only what do they feed on, but what do they "produce" (for lack of a more polite term)? There are some algae that produce dangerous toxins that could be a hassle to deal with. For example, how would we deal with 10,000 m^2 of the algae that cause red tide? (the article claims that the "left-over sludge remaining makes an ideal fertilizer", so maybe it's not toxic, but merely smelly, but this is something I'd want to know more about.
I guess it's a neat hack if that's the only way to communicate with your friend 4Km away, and you only have one friend (or your one friend has a nice network connection to the rest of the world and is willing to share).
Or maybe I'm the only person who remembers F-troop. Seriously, this is going to be a bit weird, because at that size, it's going to be quite visible all the way up, even in orbit.
... and I predict as rosy a future for it.
That's debatable -- we won the war according to the rules that we understood. It's just that the VC didn't surrender, even after we'd destroyed their country, much as the North Koreans never really surrendered either. We were fighting a war, and they were fighting a crusade. Surrender wasn't an option for them, but leaving was an option for us.
He didn't write "read", he wrote "mastered". There's a big difference. Since I haven't read the books, I can't comment on whether this is true, but in any case it's much different from what you're responding to.
It sounds like Wolfpack, Microsoft's clustering system for NT (circa 1997) is back. I guess Microsoft thinks we've forgotten about the last time they tried to get into this market. It didn't go well for them.
And I'm typing this on a 400MHz powerbook... which is just fine for everything I do on my laptop. I don't need something faster -- what I'd like is a laptop that gives me more time on battery. When am I going to get a laptop that will run all day without recharging? A 6W CPU is a start...
Not to mention that some GPL advocates I know are going to go ballistic at the idea of the UNIX community calmly and objectively discussing who owns what. I'm not sure that this is going to really help.