There are lots of applications that can be imagined. "We joke about making electrical devices that you can throw against a wall: instead of breaking they would bounce back at you", says Chen. "But we have no idea if that is possible."
Maximum points for humour. Now for my rant:
This creates serious privacy issues. One day the US government will make it law for every US citizen to wear clothes made out of these bendy wires, working as sensors. This way the government can monitor your every action.
This is part of the vicious circle that makes rich richer and poor poorer.
It maybe that Money != Power
But money can buy you power, awful lot of it. And then it maybe that Power != Money
But power can earn you an awful lot of money. It is as simple as that.
It is not only that: the US government is willing to jail a guy for swapping an MP3, and denting the profits of a record company by, say, US$2. But the guy who stole US$7 trillion from his own employees and shareholders goes scott free.
I don't know how one can even consider US government a democracy, when it is definitely not the wish of the people that is being carried out. Money speaks: loud and clear.
The saddest part is, there's really no difference between the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to carrying out the wishes of their big corporate bosses.
And the US is the leader of the free world. And you are not safe even if you are in Australia. Right.... time for me to move to the new planet
I think transmeta is loved by geek community just because of Linus Torvalds connection.
Their first chip Crusoe, although saving power, underperformed badly. And the Efficeon doesn't look fast compared to its rivals. The Efficeon TM 8000 can do 1.1GHz consuming 7W. Intel's Pentium M does 1.7GHz for the same power consumption.
I don't think there's anything particularly cool about this news. It is the same as the discovery of the new planet. There are better ones already out there.
I agree with most of the earlier posters that what is lacking today is good programming techniques. You won't need a fault tolerant shells if you programs are bullet proof. What often happens is these fault tolerant shells become an excuse to write shoddy programs.
I have never used, and will never use this bytecode languages running on VMs. I won't the minimum distance between my program and the machine instructions. Currently, C is the best language for this purpose.
Unfortunately, a lot of CS courses are teaching people the importance of "managed code" and "strong typing" etc. I say to hell with that. If I feel like messing up with memory at AF345F12:BA231DCE then I shell do so. I don't want to hide behind "type safety". I know what I am doing.
I have no faith in these OO language crap either. The real world maybe OO, but once your code is compiled, it is going to run us a sequence of statements: i.e., like an imperative language. Not to say that people have not tried to build processors which had OO machine code, but none of them caught on. I work mainly with the Intel architecture. It's not natively OO.
"It may be the beginning of a profession. It's being driven not by your computer, but your home network in the house and the increasing complexity -- it's creating a need for this."
When I used to work as a Computer Support at an office, I used run around all day doing this. Sure, I didn't make house calls, but that in itself doesn't make this a new profession. I was just called the "IT Support Guy", not a "Digiticain".
I really hated my job when I was doing IT support. I met these lusers who wanted do weird things with their computers, and then exepected me to support them. Often, I had to stay in the office till 8:00pm.
Thank god now I have a job as a full time developer. I would never want go back to the days of being a "digitician", even if I got paid US$100/her.
Depending on how you define a PLANET, our sun has 8,9,1 million, 1 billion, or possibly 1 trillion planets orbiting it. Now if this 10th planet was at least as big as our moon, then I think we have cause for celebration. But the sad fact of the matter is, it is not. It is just lump of rock orbiting earth.
As for the name, Sedna is Andes in reverse. It's almost as if April 1st is a daily ritual in the media circles.
Don't be surprised at the price tag. Most of it will go towards the cast. It is not going to be easy to find Hobbits, Elves, Wizards and Dwarves these day.
It's more like the new kabbalah. With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, Google, the most popular Internet search engine, "has a near-religious quality in the minds of many users,"
This is so untrue. Almost any computer savvy individual knows that google results are not very reliable. Google is just an online popularity contest. And it doesn't go very deep into the website structure. If you believe in google as your messiah, then you do really need to get your head checked.
As for the story about Left Handed Guitars, all I can say is it took google more than one month to include my site in their searches. So unless the guy did the search after one month, he would probably not have found them.
Google is not at all what it is hyped upto be. It has its uses, but it ain't the oracle my friend.
I neither use Hotmail nor messenger. I have my own webmail service, and I use ICQ through trillian because it supports encryption.
That said, both these services have millions of users. And from what I hear from these users, both services go down pretty frequently, messenger especially so.
Apparently things have gotten worse since MSN 6 came into being. I have seen MSN 6, and it has the words
"lame ass" written all over it.
If what I hear is true, it takes 2 minutes to login to MSN 6. Quite a lot of your IMs are bounced back.
The notation used for traditional music in my country, Sri Lanka, is one of the most primitive notations I have ever seen.
My friend Jim claims that the notation system used in Europe is far too restrictive. The same way a person's thought processes are controlled by the language, music is also partially constricted by the notation system used.
Jim claims that the traditional music in Sri Lanka has far greater diversity than its western counterpart. Thus a simple music notation system, in his opinion at least, is far better than a complex rigorous one.
The reviews look good, except that the software that comes with it doesn't look all that great... of course this may not be a problem because there has already been significant effort in getting linux to run on it and most features are working.
Can't people just STOP trying to run Linux on everything?
10. Your neighbours respect you
9. Women talk to you, so as to get to know the Robot better.
8. Doubles the number of friends you have in the world.
7. It can be programmed to make slashdot first posts
6. It will protect you when you get a job in India 5. It can be programmed to seek and spank spammers.
4. It will take you home when you are too drunk to walk.
3. It has two friends in Mars 2. It does your homework
1. It will become the next governor of California
Yep, I totally agree with you. The word nanno makes it a quite sassy, but if it is no stronger than, say NYLON, then, the technology is pretty useless.
You don't need cutlery made of gold to enjoy your food. You don't need clothes made of nanotubes to look cool. Althouth I am sure all the geeks would want to have a nanotube baseball cap.
This is yet another classic issue of content ownership. Viacom "owns" the content, which in this case is the channels.
Dish Network does nothing but distribute the contents. They are sort of the middlemen. Usually, in capitalism, the middlemen make a lot of money for little value addition.
However, in this case, the middlemen is getting squeezed from both sides. So what should Dish Network have done? Well they have 2 options
Stick to their guns. Viacom HAS to find a way to distribute its content
Passed the additional cost to the consumer. The consumer hasn't got much in the way of competition to chose from
The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the more successful of Nasa projects. One could argue that it didn't have a very auspicious start, but the very fact the engineers managed to rectify those inital errors bears testimony to NASA's true potential.
Meanwhile, the Shuttle programme is a MASSIVE disaster. It has cost the lives of 14 people. It has lead NASA to waste Billions. (This is not exaggeration, each flight costs US$500m)
So what programme does NASA scrap?
Hubble of course
The population of China could be 1.2B, but when you compare the amount of literature written in Chinese langauge(s) to that written in English, Chinese comes in a very poor second place.
(Read more here)
The point is, there is no point in having a search engine each for every Chinese citizen unless there's enough content to for them to search. I think this is a classic case of cart before the horse.
I think the real solution will be to come up with a single global language.
Advertising, especially of the unsolicited type, has completely swamped cyber space
(read here for more infor).
Is it going to happen to outer space soon too?
I believe so. There's nothing to preven rogue states that have capabilities to send rockets to space (there are many of them) from blasting into space space-spam.
The light from our cities have completely blotted out the stars. So as far as astronomers are concerned, this scheme doesn't make a big difference. I presume this space-spam will probably be targetting cities anyway.
As for people in the cities, a night in the open could once again be a night under star light, even if the stars are man made, and they spell out pr0n sites.
Slashdot Mirror
Too bad Godwin's Law doesn't apply to /. Otherwise we could be having some decent discussions here.
Maximum points for humour. Now for my rant:
This creates serious privacy issues. One day the US government will make it law for every US citizen to wear clothes made out of these bendy wires, working as sensors. This way the government can monitor your every action.
It maybe that Money != Power
But money can buy you power, awful lot of it. And then it maybe that Power != Money
But power can earn you an awful lot of money. It is as simple as that.
It is not only that: the US government is willing to jail a guy for swapping an MP3, and denting the profits of a record company by, say, US$2. But the guy who stole US$7 trillion from his own employees and shareholders goes scott free.
I don't know how one can even consider US government a democracy, when it is definitely not the wish of the people that is being carried out. Money speaks: loud and clear.
The saddest part is, there's really no difference between the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to carrying out the wishes of their big corporate bosses.
And the US is the leader of the free world. And you are not safe even if you are in Australia. Right.... time for me to move to the new planet
Their first chip Crusoe, although saving power, underperformed badly. And the Efficeon doesn't look fast compared to its rivals. The Efficeon TM 8000 can do 1.1GHz consuming 7W. Intel's Pentium M does 1.7GHz for the same power consumption.
I don't think there's anything particularly cool about this news. It is the same as the discovery of the new planet. There are better ones already out there.
I agree with most of the earlier posters that what is lacking today is good programming techniques. You won't need a fault tolerant shells if you programs are bullet proof. What often happens is these fault tolerant shells become an excuse to write shoddy programs.
I have never used, and will never use this bytecode languages running on VMs. I won't the minimum distance between my program and the machine instructions. Currently, C is the best language for this purpose.
Unfortunately, a lot of CS courses are teaching people the importance of "managed code" and "strong typing" etc. I say to hell with that. If I feel like messing up with memory at AF345F12:BA231DCE then I shell do so. I don't want to hide behind "type safety". I know what I am doing.
I have no faith in these OO language crap either. The real world maybe OO, but once your code is compiled, it is going to run us a sequence of statements: i.e., like an imperative language. Not to say that people have not tried to build processors which had OO machine code, but none of them caught on. I work mainly with the Intel architecture. It's not natively OO.
Long live C
And the planet is much bigger than expected too
Jump the shark site has info about hundreds and hundreds of TV shows, and the point at which they started going south.
When I used to work as a Computer Support at an office, I used run around all day doing this. Sure, I didn't make house calls, but that in itself doesn't make this a new profession. I was just called the "IT Support Guy", not a "Digiticain".
I really hated my job when I was doing IT support. I met these lusers who wanted do weird things with their computers, and then exepected me to support them. Often, I had to stay in the office till 8:00pm.
Thank god now I have a job as a full time developer. I would never want go back to the days of being a "digitician", even if I got paid US$100/her.
Too bad LOTR doesn't have any trolls. They could find plenty of them at .\
That's how the headline should've read. Once all the initial Euphoria dies down, you will find that this is just Media Sensationalism all over again.
(It could be also an Alexander Lavrynov conspiracy. But that's another story)
Depending on how you define a PLANET, our sun has 8,9,1 million, 1 billion, or possibly 1 trillion planets orbiting it. Now if this 10th planet was at least as big as our moon, then I think we have cause for celebration. But the sad fact of the matter is, it is not. It is just lump of rock orbiting earth.
As for the name, Sedna is Andes in reverse. It's almost as if April 1st is a daily ritual in the media circles.
Don't be surprised at the price tag. Most of it will go towards the cast. It is not going to be easy to find Hobbits, Elves, Wizards and Dwarves these day.
This is so untrue. Almost any computer savvy individual knows that google results are not very reliable. Google is just an online popularity contest. And it doesn't go very deep into the website structure. If you believe in google as your messiah, then you do really need to get your head checked.
As for the story about Left Handed Guitars, all I can say is it took google more than one month to include my site in their searches. So unless the guy did the search after one month, he would probably not have found them.
Google is not at all what it is hyped upto be. It has its uses, but it ain't the oracle my friend.
It is a crime to eat chewinggum in Singapore. Does that mean Singapore can extradite and incarcerate every American who eats chewinggum in US soil?
That said, both these services have millions of users. And from what I hear from these users, both services go down pretty frequently, messenger especially so.
Apparently things have gotten worse since MSN 6 came into being. I have seen MSN 6, and it has the words "lame ass" written all over it.
If what I hear is true, it takes 2 minutes to login to MSN 6. Quite a lot of your IMs are bounced back.
Jim claims that the traditional music in Sri Lanka has far greater diversity than its western counterpart. Thus a simple music notation system, in his opinion at least, is far better than a complex rigorous one.
Can't people just STOP trying to run Linux on everything?
10. Your neighbours respect you
9. Women talk to you, so as to get to know the Robot better.
8. Doubles the number of friends you have in the world.
7. It can be programmed to make slashdot first posts
6. It will protect you when you get a job in India
5. It can be programmed to seek and spank spammers.
4. It will take you home when you are too drunk to walk.
3. It has two friends in Mars
2. It does your homework
1. It will become the next governor of California
Internet 2?
You don't need cutlery made of gold to enjoy your food. You don't need clothes made of nanotubes to look cool. Althouth I am sure all the geeks would want to have a nanotube baseball cap.
Dish Network does nothing but distribute the contents. They are sort of the middlemen. Usually, in capitalism, the middlemen make a lot of money for little value addition.
However, in this case, the middlemen is getting squeezed from both sides. So what should Dish Network have done? Well they have 2 options
I am suprised that Dish Network did neither
Jobless Jim Renounces Linx
You need a way to get m&m into space, but the shuttle is not the way!
The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the more successful of Nasa projects. One could argue that it didn't have a very auspicious start, but the very fact the engineers managed to rectify those inital errors bears testimony to NASA's true potential.
Meanwhile, the Shuttle programme is a MASSIVE disaster. It has cost the lives of 14 people. It has lead NASA to waste Billions. (This is not exaggeration, each flight costs US$500m)
So what programme does NASA scrap?
Hubble of course
The point is, there is no point in having a search engine each for every Chinese citizen unless there's enough content to for them to search. I think this is a classic case of cart before the horse.
I think the real solution will be to come up with a single global language.
I believe so. There's nothing to preven rogue states that have capabilities to send rockets to space (there are many of them) from blasting into space space-spam.
The light from our cities have completely blotted out the stars. So as far as astronomers are concerned, this scheme doesn't make a big difference. I presume this space-spam will probably be targetting cities anyway.
As for people in the cities, a night in the open could once again be a night under star light, even if the stars are man made, and they spell out pr0n sites.