No. Where is the evolutionary benefit in having good teeth ? Hardly anyone lives short from molar abscesses. Even with bad teeth, you can survive to pass on your DNA. So it is one of those features not "seen" by evolution. Like having freckles or big feet.
When I lived in the US, I repeatedly heard the same comment : "You Europeans, you are total perverts and therefore hot - but you all have bad teeth". Didn't know it already started then. Is it a coincidence I live in Austria ?
Of course this is a hype. A well-crafted hype by Google Marketing ( TM ). I currently work for a logistics company where two or three motivated students developed exactly that: a pair of glasses with which one can walk through a warehouse and pick orders, from info displayed before your eyes. The things also allow you to log in to our software, and to look up where exactly you are in the warehouse. No hype needed.
I work in a small R & D team set up as an internal joint venture between two daughter companies of the same group. Some time ago, the other daughter - i.e. the one I do not belong to - withdrew its commitment. We decided to carry on, on our own. What happens now is that our people go informally to engineers and stakeholders of the "other" daughter, and that work is being done as before - albeit without the formal blessing of management, almost in a subversive way. Do I like it better this way ? Sure, it feels like working, suddenly and again, in a combination of an open-source project and a start-up. Is it frustrating ? Yes, whenever I try to get some resources for a task longer than a few days. Overall, though, it's better.
Did anyone really expect a notoriously slow, incompetent and corrupt institution like the Indian government get such a project ready on schedule ??? I mean... the Easter Rabbit does not exist, either.
In principle, you are right. Yet - the German refurbisher might be talked into sponsoring the shipping, which is not going to cost in the hundreds of euros / dollars, either.
I am in good relations with a a German refurbisher. I can get a decent refurbished ( 4-core Xeon ) server, prolly a Fujitsu Siemens, for a very decent price, around € 300. In case you need a server to go with the lab's infrastructure, I'll finance one up to € 150. The other half will have to come from funding you find, or from Slashdotters. How's that ?
Binary ?? You kids and your newfangled contraptions. Back in my day, we only had 0's. If and when we wanted or needed a 1, a very rare case indeed, we put two infinities of 0's together to make a 1. As simple as that.
"War is the continuation of diplomacy with different means". Cyber attacks are either the continuation of war with different means, or the same. So yes, why not ?
But, this is European project (as per TFA). Plus half of EFTA (Switzerland and Norway). So, nothing of direct interest for 90+% of people on Earth/here.
Really ? If that statement holds, then a US-funded, US-initiated, US-executed Curiosity is nothing of direct interest for 90+% of people on Earth ( as the US currently only count 4,46 % of the world's population, and the EU + NO + CH close to 8% of the same BTW ).
we're heading into Kafka land: People investigated and/or locked up without charges, without evidence they can confront, without a chance of freedom....
I read Kafka quite a lot, and I can only agree with you. The US of America are slowly turning into a police state. What boggles my mind the most is that no one rises up, no one shouts, no one cries for a revolution. If this happened here, I would have been on the (digital) streets already for some time.
... I tend to think that is an important R & D intermediary result, somewhere between 5 and 6 when speaking in Technology Readiness Levels. Canon is not going to sell this "as is", methinks. But it is important proof to them that they are on the right way. Which is typically what you want from reaching TRL 5 or 6....
1) set up your laptop to show the Desktop on the large screen
1a) important screens ( code, compiler, text to read from screen ) on the large one, unimportant ones ( logs, system perf monitors, whatever ) on the laptop
2) use a real keyboard and mouse
3) you will work on the large, main screen, and watch occasionally to your right for logs, sys perfs etc.
Slashdot Mirror
I did read the article behind your link. Pretty astronomer :-))))
...gets an erection from.
No. Where is the evolutionary benefit in having good teeth ? Hardly anyone lives short from molar abscesses. Even with bad teeth, you can survive to pass on your DNA. So it is one of those features not "seen" by evolution. Like having freckles or big feet.
When I lived in the US, I repeatedly heard the same comment : "You Europeans, you are total perverts and therefore hot - but you all have bad teeth". Didn't know it already started then. Is it a coincidence I live in Austria ?
Of course this is a hype. A well-crafted hype by Google Marketing ( TM ). I currently work for a logistics company where two or three motivated students developed exactly that: a pair of glasses with which one can walk through a warehouse and pick orders, from info displayed before your eyes. The things also allow you to log in to our software, and to look up where exactly you are in the warehouse. No hype needed.
I work in a small R & D team set up as an internal joint venture between two daughter companies of the same group. Some time ago, the other daughter - i.e. the one I do not belong to - withdrew its commitment. We decided to carry on, on our own. What happens now is that our people go informally to engineers and stakeholders of the "other" daughter, and that work is being done as before - albeit without the formal blessing of management, almost in a subversive way. Do I like it better this way ? Sure, it feels like working, suddenly and again, in a combination of an open-source project and a start-up. Is it frustrating ? Yes, whenever I try to get some resources for a task longer than a few days. Overall, though, it's better.
It seems like Mars has just been waiting patiently for us to grow up and colonize her.
HIM puhleeze, puhleeze. Some respect for the linguistical testes of the former god of war. Puhleeze. Him.
Did anyone really expect a notoriously slow, incompetent and corrupt institution like the Indian government get such a project ready on schedule ??? I mean... the Easter Rabbit does not exist, either.
Really. Only over there is such an initiative even possible. Gosh.
In principle, you are right. Yet - the German refurbisher might be talked into sponsoring the shipping, which is not going to cost in the hundreds of euros / dollars, either.
I am in good relations with a a German refurbisher. I can get a decent refurbished ( 4-core Xeon ) server, prolly a Fujitsu Siemens, for a very decent price, around € 300. In case you need a server to go with the lab's infrastructure, I'll finance one up to € 150. The other half will have to come from funding you find, or from Slashdotters. How's that ?
Binary ?? You kids and your newfangled contraptions. Back in my day, we only had 0's. If and when we wanted or needed a 1, a very rare case indeed, we put two infinities of 0's together to make a 1. As simple as that.
"War is the continuation of diplomacy with different means". Cyber attacks are either the continuation of war with different means, or the same. So yes, why not ?
But, this is European project (as per TFA). Plus half of EFTA (Switzerland and Norway). So, nothing of direct interest for 90+% of people on Earth/here.
Really ? If that statement holds, then a US-funded, US-initiated, US-executed Curiosity is nothing of direct interest for 90+% of people on Earth ( as the US currently only count 4,46 % of the world's population, and the EU + NO + CH close to 8% of the same BTW ).
Could even be a damn good movie. BTW, similar toolage already exists
Sounds like the best motto or quip a Linux distro ever had.
...welcome our new tursiops truncatus overlords.
And sorry to read about your wife. Carry on, man !
There. All is said.
Wolfram.
After requirements creep and feature creep, we get "green creep". Now get off my lawn ! !
we're heading into Kafka land: People investigated and/or locked up without charges, without evidence they can confront, without a chance of freedom....
I read Kafka quite a lot, and I can only agree with you. The US of America are slowly turning into a police state. What boggles my mind the most is that no one rises up, no one shouts, no one cries for a revolution. If this happened here, I would have been on the (digital) streets already for some time.
One look at the package list says it all.
... I tend to think that is an important R & D intermediary result, somewhere between 5 and 6 when speaking in Technology Readiness Levels. Canon is not going to sell this "as is", methinks. But it is important proof to them that they are on the right way. Which is typically what you want from reaching TRL 5 or 6....
1a) important screens ( code, compiler, text to read from screen ) on the large one, unimportant ones ( logs, system perf monitors, whatever ) on the laptop
2) use a real keyboard and mouse
3) you will work on the large, main screen, and watch occasionally to your right for logs, sys perfs etc.