thanks for the info. seems to me that the last time that I looked into rss, it was set up for summaries only. musta changed in the last 5 years. thanks again.
Look, I can already buy a color dvd player for under $70 usd, retail. It must cost about $35-40 to make. It must have a prosesor and power supply. To make it into a "laptop" computer, All you would need to add would be a keyboard and mouse, and a usb connection for internet, printer, etc. And that is just another funtion that could be integrated on a chip. Get my drift here?
The reason that the dvd player is so cheap now (they were over $500 when they first came out) is because the up-front engineering done to produce the i.c. has been financially realized, and now they just churn em out. The same could be done with a laptop type solution on a chip.
I am of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the major hardware developpers to make prices low. Instead, they add features and capability to keep prices high. If I can get a 3 GHz P5 laptop for $600 now, how much would a 100 MHz P1 cost? Problem is, you can't get those anymore.
Who uses e-mail anymore? RSS is what matters. Don't e-mail anyone, let them subscribe to your RSS feed or feeds.
Not. Who uses RSS when I have Google News that I have customized for my interests.
From its beginning I have always criticized RSS for only including a short blurb and a link. I would rather have the whole article in an RSS feed. I dont, and so I dont.
before the tech bubble burst, I was an instructor (adjunct) at a local college, teaching CS. After the bubble burst, my classes dried up, and were cut. Students did not want to learn CS.
HELLO? IS ANYONE LISTENING?
The reason that we do not have enough home-grown IT TECHIES is simply because the jobs dried up and salaries are so low. Relatively.
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE.
More jobs and higher salaries. Then more students will go into CS. The workforce grows.
Joe Cotton
"Programmers can't be expected to catch every single flub, but consider the evidence collected by Rohit Dhamankar...
WTF? "flub"? Not in my book. It seems that there is a difference of opinion on a few ideas. First - what is a programmer? And also - what is a flub? Do programmers catch flubs or, alternatively, do flubs catch programmers?
Here I am, sitting in my cube, pole in hand. "Whatcha doin, Joe?" "I'm goin' flubbin' today." "Catch any?" "No, but you shudda seen the one that got away."
...is to encourage creation of new things, in literature and so on. It is not, necessarilly to make the creator rich. For example, the original copyright was issued to printers, so that they could print the Bible and be assured of some profit after all the labor was invested (with hand printing presses).
IMHO, the powers that be should try to BALANCE the so-called rights of the IP creator with the good of the public. The creator of the IP do not have inalienable rights. The creator has rights (that are granted by the powers that be), because it is in the best intrest of the public. The bottom line is that all such rights (copyright and patent) are granted because it is in the general public interest to do so. If a certain copyright or patent would not benefit the public, then it should not be granted.
Probabilistically too late to be modded up, but a word, in the morse code sense, is the word "PARIS". That is, five letter words, with a space. When you say that you are sending or copying 13 words per minute, that is a very definite speed, not obscure at all. PARIS is just the right combination of dits and dahs to fall into the average, statistically speaking.
guarding the planes. To hell with the people on the ground. Why do you think that security is set up in the MIDDLE of the airport? What if a bad guy wanted to kill people in the terminal? Wide open. That is why in Israel, the security is at the front gate., not the flight gate.
"but I could see FM radio being obsolete 100 years from now...
What the hey? I am still using spark gap and CW Morse Code. No, once a technology is in place, it rarely is completely eliminated. Some people still ride horses, ride bicycles, hike, etc, even though they have cars. I use CW even though I have SSB and digital modes available (and a lot of people do also). By the way, FM is already obsolete. Right now that is.
Something that has not been said yet in this thread (and a few days late) is that COBOL is designed and controled. "The initial specifications for COBOL were presented in a report of the executive committee of CODASYL committee in April of 1960..." HERE COBOL Language features and syntax is designed for the purposes that Business needs and wants.
1. Works Well, Efficient
2. Easy to use
And so on. Architecture, modern design, OO, and so on are not really in the mix. The reason that COBOL has remained stable for so long is because it is in the interest of Business. The programmers do not have to re-learn a new language every two years. The OS does not require massive upgrades (think XP, Vista) every 4 or 5 years. Stability saves money.
Thinking about free power...
I'm sure that all you slashdotters have built, at one time or another, a crystal radio. The idea is that all the power used to drive the earphone comes from the air, for free (ultimately, from the radio station transmitter).
I built one, using my outdoor shortwave wire antenna, and a good ground. The 50kw station was over 5 km away, but I still gathered enough power to drive a loudspeaker, and that would be minimum 100 mw, or.1 watt.
I have considered, what if I lived really close to a 50 kw am transmitter. With a vertical tuned antenna, a good ground, and diode bridge, I bet I could draw 100 watts, enough to light up a bulb.
That's free. For me at least. It would reduce the effective radiated power of the transmitter by an equal amount.
Slashdot Mirror
mod parent up. I was going to say the same. It pays to read thru.
thanks for the info. seems to me that the last time that I looked into rss, it was set up for summaries only. musta changed in the last 5 years. thanks again.
The reason that the dvd player is so cheap now (they were over $500 when they first came out) is because the up-front engineering done to produce the i.c. has been financially realized, and now they just churn em out. The same could be done with a laptop type solution on a chip.
I am of the opinion that it is not in the interests of the major hardware developpers to make prices low. Instead, they add features and capability to keep prices high. If I can get a 3 GHz P5 laptop for $600 now, how much would a 100 MHz P1 cost? Problem is, you can't get those anymore.
Not. Who uses RSS when I have Google News that I have customized for my interests.
From its beginning I have always criticized RSS for only including a short blurb and a link. I would rather have the whole article in an RSS feed. I dont, and so I dont.
Hello, World.
but it looks like msn gets to see the links. however, does msn use links as a rating value? i thinks not. thanks,,,,
What would happen to Google's ranking of the site that I support, if I put a link to http://coastguardaux.us/ every time I sent a reply to slashdot ?
I don't expect no points for responding to a three day old conversation. But, what the hay.
before the tech bubble burst, I was an instructor (adjunct) at a local college, teaching CS. After the bubble burst, my classes dried up, and were cut. Students did not want to learn CS. HELLO? IS ANYONE LISTENING? The reason that we do not have enough home-grown IT TECHIES is simply because the jobs dried up and salaries are so low. Relatively. THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. More jobs and higher salaries. Then more students will go into CS. The workforce grows. Joe Cotton
WTF? "flub"? Not in my book. It seems that there is a difference of opinion on a few ideas. First - what is a programmer? And also - what is a flub? Do programmers catch flubs or, alternatively, do flubs catch programmers?
Here I am, sitting in my cube, pole in hand. "Whatcha doin, Joe?" "I'm goin' flubbin' today." "Catch any?" "No, but you shudda seen the one that got away."
RUBBER TIRES NEVER BREAK
No, but the "right" to print the Bible was granted by the government. see this
...is to encourage creation of new things, in literature and so on. It is not, necessarilly to make the creator rich. For example, the original copyright was issued to printers, so that they could print the Bible and be assured of some profit after all the labor was invested (with hand printing presses).
IMHO, the powers that be should try to BALANCE the so-called rights of the IP creator with the good of the public. The creator of the IP do not have inalienable rights. The creator has rights (that are granted by the powers that be), because it is in the best intrest of the public. The bottom line is that all such rights (copyright and patent) are granted because it is in the general public interest to do so. If a certain copyright or patent would not benefit the public, then it should not be granted.
Rubber Tires Never Break
RUBBER TIRES NEVER BREAK
million to one that I get to see a slashdot article that hasnt had any comments yet.....Like winning the lottery
guarding the planes. To hell with the people on the ground. Why do you think that security is set up in the MIDDLE of the airport? What if a bad guy wanted to kill people in the terminal? Wide open. That is why in Israel, the security is at the front gate., not the flight gate.
By population:
Engineering is done by one third of one percent.
Science is done by one tenth of one percent.
Everyone else is either watching TV or making entries in Slashdot.
What the hey? I am still using spark gap and CW Morse Code. No, once a technology is in place, it rarely is completely eliminated. Some people still ride horses, ride bicycles, hike, etc, even though they have cars. I use CW even though I have SSB and digital modes available (and a lot of people do also). By the way, FM is already obsolete. Right now that is.
Something that has not been said yet in this thread (and a few days late) is that COBOL is designed and controled. "The initial specifications for COBOL were presented in a report of the executive committee of CODASYL committee in April of 1960..." HERE COBOL Language features and syntax is designed for the purposes that Business needs and wants.
1. Works Well, Efficient
2. Easy to use
And so on. Architecture, modern design, OO, and so on are not really in the mix. The reason that COBOL has remained stable for so long is because it is in the interest of Business. The programmers do not have to re-learn a new language every two years. The OS does not require massive upgrades (think XP, Vista) every 4 or 5 years. Stability saves money.
Because the SILICON is much cheaper there, silly.
Don't cook tonight, call Pookie Delight. (Sandy Becker, 1965)
GOING TO THE MOON IS "PORK". It is pork for Houston, Greenbelt, Canaveral, etc.
YAGOO
I built one, using my outdoor shortwave wire antenna, and a good ground. The 50kw station was over 5 km away, but I still gathered enough power to drive a loudspeaker, and that would be minimum 100 mw, or .1 watt.
I have considered, what if I lived really close to a 50 kw am transmitter. With a vertical tuned antenna, a good ground, and diode bridge, I bet I could draw 100 watts, enough to light up a bulb.
That's free. For me at least. It would reduce the effective radiated power of the transmitter by an equal amount.
Step back, step back from that sig....
Oh, forget it. mod down.
FM radio in my area (Baltimore) is fairly suckky. But how about a HD-Radio dongle?