I agree, I seriously doubt in 30 years my computer will be the desktop box on my desk it is today. Nielson comments on the physical change from 30 years ago to today in his article but says nothing about how he predicticts it might change 30 years from now. Who knows, perhaps our "displays" will be direct nueral implants into the optical nerve. WOuldnt that be cool:-).
-Aaron
In thirty years? The line's already become blurry. Is my cell phone a computer? My programmable microwave? The digital parking meters outside my window. Those of us here on slashdot would say instantly yes, that they are a limited computers for specific tasks or at least contain limiting computing power because we know, at least to some extent how they work. But the common consumer would probably say no. So tell me, will it really take 30 years? I think itll probably be far sooner. As I said, the line is already blurred, how soon before it fades altogther? I give it 10 years before the line is too blurry to be able to tell what is a computer and what isnt.
--Aaron
(soapbox)
I agree my joke was awful, however, I do find this an interesting comment on how modding on slashdot sometimes operates: i.e. some ppl thought my admittedly bad joke was funny, they modded it up. then Da Fokka posted his entirely true comment. ppl felt bad about laughing at a stupid and pointlessly offtopic joke and modded my post down. I'm not complaining, as I've said already, it was an awful joke, but I do find it an interesting commentary on how the modding system sometimes works
(/soapbox)
--Aaron
I agree. The problem with government spending on space exploration/commercial usage is its funding is fickle and politically charged. Unfortunately many governments for quite a while could not accept that they simply were not as well equipt as the private sector for this type of work, they were looking at sheer amounts of money available and not at the innovation that comes with having to do more with less.
now dont get me wrong, NASA has done a fine job, often doing their best work under fiscal stress (see comment above about innovation). But extraterrestrial exploration on a large scale has to come from the private sector. With this private spaceport designated as such, more companies in the private sector will be able to more easily enter the arena. As the parent said, this is a start. Lets hope it ends as well.
--Aaron
question is, did he write it five times as fast as normal....
ah well, now to go and RTFA to find out. A question though, if I drink a ton of coffee first and read an article written 5 times as fast as usual 5 times as fast as usual, does it mean the article is 25 times shorter than normal?
If Dragon Runner performs well, the Pentagon conceivably would be interested in buying hundreds of the robots....he thinks applications in civilian law enforcement and firefighting might eventually outnumber those in the military.
Minority report anybody? I have the mental image of hundreds of these things crawling around my apartment building looking for criminals and interrupting ppl in the midst of.... ah.... personal business.... Oh god, what have they done.....:-P
Def1: Troll: A mischievous hump-backed cave-dwelling dwarf OR To sing in a rich, rolling voice OR To fish with a baited line trailing behind a boat OR someone who comes in a chatroom specifically to disrupt it AND a prime ingredient for Troll-blood wine and Troll-house cookies
Def2: Troll:A supernatural creature of Scandinavian folklore, variously portrayed as a friendly or mischievous dwarf or as a giant, that lives in caves, in the hills, or under bridges.OR To sing in a rich, rolling voice OR To fish with a baited line trailing behind a boat OR someone who comes in a chatroom specifically to disrupt
it AND a prime ingredient for Troll-blood wine and Troll-house cookies -------------------- Got em off a winmx chat room and IRC respectively. Cheers! ~Aaron
"Every compaq machine I have ever used and/or owned was crap except my laptop (Presario 1692) which was passable
While these days I hate compaq/HP as a company I have to say this, they used to make the most durable laptops ever. My armada 1750, which I'm planning to replace soon with a powerbook, is remarkable in its durability. The amount of punishment that machine has been through is astounding. with 2 batteries in it it gets 5-6 hrs of bat life and while I've made some modifications to it (bigger disk for one) most of the machine is original. Its sad to see compaq crash and burn the way it has, maybe they should go back to making armadas just my 2 cents, feel free to mod this down. --Aaron
Resume needs to be in.doc format that can be read by MS Word
...that openoffice.org can write and read *.doc files perfectly fine...
I've been slowly moving over to linux on my desktop on my various machines for a couple years now. My main desktop dual boots gentoo and win2k, my laptop dual boots suse 9.0 and win2k and my secondary machines are all dual bootable or entirely linux of various ilks. My servers have been running freeBSD(I know, not linux) and suse respectively for a while now.
I've found that while migrating on the desktop takes some time because one needs to find open source packages that closely mirror what you did with closed source, the open source programs are usually better (I'm not going to get into a rant on benefits of open source here, it would be preaching to choir). If you want to migrate to linux I would suggest finding opensource packages for windows such as open office (openoffice.org), gaim (gaim.sourceforge.net) and mozilla (mozilla.org) using them for a while and then switching to linux
as for games, many work perfectly fine under winex (transgaming.com) and some of the better new games are out for linux (such as UT2004). so you should be in good shape. go ahead and give tux another try, he might surprise you. --Aaron
if it gets the people using kazaa off of our network, I see no problem with it. More bandwidth for the rest of us.
Problem with that is it might infringe on legitimate traffic as well. For example, not all P2P sharing is of copyrighted music and files. This seems to filter though, seeking only copyright material as opposed to stopping P2P traffic. In this case it all depends on the implentation. As a sys admin I applaud the better security this promises (better trojan and virus policing etc). However this type of system can be abuse easily and I hope the universities will see this and act with caution.
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I agree, I seriously doubt in 30 years my computer will be the desktop box on my desk it is today. Nielson comments on the physical change from 30 years ago to today in his article but says nothing about how he predicticts it might change 30 years from now. Who knows, perhaps our "displays" will be direct nueral implants into the optical nerve. WOuldnt that be cool :-).
-Aaron
In thirty years? The line's already become blurry. Is my cell phone a computer? My programmable microwave? The digital parking meters outside my window. Those of us here on slashdot would say instantly yes, that they are a limited computers for specific tasks or at least contain limiting computing power because we know, at least to some extent how they work. But the common consumer would probably say no. So tell me, will it really take 30 years? I think itll probably be far sooner. As I said, the line is already blurred, how soon before it fades altogther? I give it 10 years before the line is too blurry to be able to tell what is a computer and what isnt. --Aaron
Wasnt there a law in congress about banning filming in vans, aimed at the porn industry or something? anyone know what I'm talking about?
(soapbox) I agree my joke was awful, however, I do find this an interesting comment on how modding on slashdot sometimes operates: i.e. some ppl thought my admittedly bad joke was funny, they modded it up. then Da Fokka posted his entirely true comment. ppl felt bad about laughing at a stupid and pointlessly offtopic joke and modded my post down. I'm not complaining, as I've said already, it was an awful joke, but I do find it an interesting commentary on how the modding system sometimes works (/soapbox) --Aaron
In soviet russia [insert witty comment here]!
I agree. The problem with government spending on space exploration/commercial usage is its funding is fickle and politically charged. Unfortunately many governments for quite a while could not accept that they simply were not as well equipt as the private sector for this type of work, they were looking at sheer amounts of money available and not at the innovation that comes with having to do more with less. now dont get me wrong, NASA has done a fine job, often doing their best work under fiscal stress (see comment above about innovation). But extraterrestrial exploration on a large scale has to come from the private sector. With this private spaceport designated as such, more companies in the private sector will be able to more easily enter the arena. As the parent said, this is a start. Lets hope it ends as well. --Aaron
yay, another caffeine drink I can be addicted to.....
Sleeping regularly (same time every day) for 8 hours. I wish
question is, did he write it five times as fast as normal.... ah well, now to go and RTFA to find out. A question though, if I drink a ton of coffee first and read an article written 5 times as fast as usual 5 times as fast as usual, does it mean the article is 25 times shorter than normal?
If Dragon Runner performs well, the Pentagon conceivably would be interested in buying hundreds of the robots. ...he thinks applications in civilian law enforcement and firefighting might eventually outnumber those in the military.
:-P
Minority report anybody? I have the mental image of hundreds of these things crawling around my apartment building looking for criminals and interrupting ppl in the midst of.... ah.... personal business.... Oh god, what have they done.....
Def1:
Troll: A mischievous hump-backed cave-dwelling dwarf OR To sing in a rich,
rolling voice OR To fish with a baited line trailing behind a boat OR someone who comes in a chatroom
specifically to disrupt it AND a prime ingredient for Troll-blood wine and Troll-house cookies
Def2:
Troll:A supernatural creature of Scandinavian folklore, variously portrayed as a friendly or mischievous dwarf or as a giant, that lives in caves, in the hills, or under bridges.OR To sing in a rich, rolling voice OR To fish with a baited line trailing behind a boat OR someone who comes in a chatroom specifically to disrupt
it AND a prime ingredient for Troll-blood wine
and Troll-house cookies
--------------------
Got em off a winmx chat room and IRC respectively.
Cheers!
~Aaron
"Every compaq machine I have ever used and/or owned was crap except my laptop (Presario 1692) which was passable
While these days I hate compaq/HP as a company I have to say this, they used to make the most durable laptops ever. My armada 1750, which I'm planning to replace soon with a powerbook, is remarkable in its durability. The amount of punishment that machine has been through is astounding. with 2 batteries in it it gets 5-6 hrs of bat life and while I've made some modifications to it (bigger disk for one) most of the machine is original. Its sad to see compaq crash and burn the way it has, maybe they should go back to making armadas
just my 2 cents, feel free to mod this down.
--Aaron
Resume needs to be in .doc format that can be read by MS Word
...that openoffice.org can write and read *.doc files perfectly fine...
I've been slowly moving over to linux on my desktop on my various machines for a couple years now. My main desktop dual boots gentoo and win2k, my laptop dual boots suse 9.0 and win2k and my secondary machines are all dual bootable or entirely linux of various ilks. My servers have been running freeBSD(I know, not linux) and suse respectively for a while now.
I've found that while migrating on the desktop takes some time because one needs to find open source packages that closely mirror what you did with closed source, the open source programs are usually better (I'm not going to get into a rant on benefits of open source here, it would be preaching to choir). If you want to migrate to linux I would suggest finding opensource packages for windows such as open office (openoffice.org), gaim (gaim.sourceforge.net) and mozilla (mozilla.org) using them for a while and then switching to linux
as for games, many work perfectly fine under winex (transgaming.com) and some of the better new games are out for linux (such as UT2004). so you should be in good shape. go ahead and give tux another try, he might surprise you.
--Aaron
"just an idea,."
:-P
patent it and you're one towards your goal
if it gets the people using kazaa off of our network, I see no problem with it. More bandwidth for the rest of us.
Problem with that is it might infringe on legitimate traffic as well. For example, not all P2P sharing is of copyrighted music and files. This seems to filter though, seeking only copyright material as opposed to stopping P2P traffic.
In this case it all depends on the implentation. As a sys admin I applaud the better security this promises (better trojan and virus policing etc). However this type of system can be abuse easily and I hope the universities will see this and act with caution.