The French money is new since this other post, but no great changes have happened with this project has changed since then. Hardware support includes a number of phones at this time, but none that I have or would prefer to buy and it seems some popular phones are out of reach.
Not at all. Both of the "last election" Democrats you point at, Biden and Feinstien, are long term fossils that have far outlived their usefulness. Feinstien got reelected because she is a Democrat and people forgot about the V-chip fiasco, never having really noticed it in the first place.
Sure, or you could. The code is open and the software makes it easy to put all that stuff where ever is best. The only problem is agreeing on where is a location, what format is best and so on. There are a number of variations available if you poke around.
GNUstep is a GUI based on a toolkit and basic set of system services implemented using Objective-C. Because of the elegance of Objective-C, the design of the toolkit, and the architecture of the services, the experience of use is enhanced for ordinary usage and high level development and points in between. GNUstep emerged from the OPENSTEP standard.
Much of Mac OS X Cocoa was derived from NeXTSTEP, so there is the possibility of some level of compatibility with Mac OS X. In some ways GNUstep might be considered superior because of simplicity resulting in the lack of integration with Carbon which was done on Mac OS X for partial compatibility with previous Mac OS versions.
Sometimes being a part of office culture can open opportunities for conflict, and teleworkers may have the best longevity because they are spared the indignities of office noise and too much closeness.
It used to be easy to get TV listings from Yahoo. They just changed it so that you need to be signed into an account to get them.
The TV listings were the last reason I had to go use Yahoo, which is sad in a way as I used to be a big fan of almost everything they did before they went all corporate.
Maximizing throughput is just one aspect of productivity that computers are involved with. There is now enough information and research available on almost any topic, even highly specialized ones, that storing, managing, and searching records is becoming increasingly critical.
One strong example of this is the human genome which we now understand in great detail, indeed just enough detail to begin the long process of coming to understand how all that genetic information actually works. If this were a simple matter of examining genes as quickly as possible then we might already be done, but the complexity of the system is such that even with great progress research into phenomena like human development and disease can be expected to take decades and occupy many of the finest minds. Productivity in this context is most strongly related to being able to retain and bring together key elements of information.
The speed with which work is done is possibly the least interesting aspect since science repeatedly shows us that expanding relevant knowledge does not depend on how aggressively one explores wrong answers.
Dominate media search and distribution in order to stamp ads on everything and get rich using click fraud? These people are the new Microsoft, and their desire to good makes them even more dangerous than Scientology.
People always compete with each other individually and in teams. What the global open source movement does is expand opportunity. Lowering barriers to entry is key to being able to quickly and effectively set up teams large and skilled enough to take on genuinely challenging objectives. There is a vast supply of business opportunities even if one restricts possible domains arbitrarily, for example to focus on humanitarian crises.
This is a case where slicing the pie differently causes it to grow, thereby stretching that analogy to its limits.
That is false. Chernobyl was a graphite core reactor, and that is what made it dangerous and caused that failure mode. Nuclear reactors that have an inherent tendency to explode and burn in a manner that cannot be controlled have only been deployed on a large scale in formerly Soviet states. Other forms of liquid cooled reactor found in other countries such as in North America and Europe could potentially exhibit the China Syndrome, but experience has proven that harder than commonly believed to actually bring about. Modern reactors being proposed have been engineered to avoid all of the known major failure modes. It is important to keep in mind that nuclear power is science, not magic, and as such has at least the potential to be fully understood and tamed.
After the failed attempt of the illegal alien crowd to shut down the USA by telling immigrants to march on one day (they don't differentiate between illegal and legal),...
This is garbage and as such damages any argument you might try to make regarding the subject being discussed (spam). The goal of the Day Without Immigrants protest was to call attention to both the plight and the influence of immigrants. Apparently you are uptight about being part of a system that explicitly relies on undocumented immigrant labor? Perhaps a bright future awaits you in the agricultural or travel industries? There was no attempt to shut down the US, and during the protests it was common to see expressions of patriotism including displays of the flag and replicas of the Statue of Liberty.
Absolutely everyone differentiates between illegal and legal. That is the whole point. In order to become a legal immigrant there should be a process. The existing process typically takes in excess of ten years simply to review an application, never mind actually approving one and letting someone in. Many of these people who wait for ten years or typically more may do quite a bit of productive work in the interim. While the rules for entrance get endless argument Americans show they want immigrants by hiring them and endorsing the products that are associated with them by forking over money.
Perhaps you might be able to kick start your empathy if you moved away from the focus on illegality and thought more about the criteria involved. If someone is willing to work hard and has skills that are valued, does a waiting period of at least ten years make sense as an initial barrier before other barriers are introduced? Hint: There would be fewer undocumented workers if the process for documenting them functioned at all, even functioned as designed, better yet functioned by more common criteria.
The basis of this story has to do with web site users not being able to come to terms with a fairly simple flagging system that can be worked around by logging into a free account. There are similar problems with the craigslist site references to staff actions when user flags get content yanked. Web sites should clearly explain why content is posted, rated, or pulled, but like most other web content features this is a business opportunity that the market may or may not demand or value. Only time will tell, and trying to force the issue isn't likely to work.
That sounds like a kind of Silicon Valley syndrome. All of these things you say about cool stuff and the brightest minds have been true of the old Apple that nearly died, of Silicon Graphics which has finally died, of Sun which is floundering, and the list goes on. Data General anyone? WANG? On top of that they are now victims of their own success. Having acheived so much they are now in the position of being essentialy monopolistic thug capitalists. Other search engines and portals and ad services are not keeping up, so even without intention they become the New Microsoft. Google is a very strong company indeed, but in that market strength can ironically be a huge weakness and even the very strongest tend to last only so long before the entire market changes.
Portably XM radio with record: Portable XM radio is common, recording is not a difficult extension and could be improvised, but might be better done with a desktop running timed recorder software. Eh.
Low Sulfur diesel car incrementally improved over those that have been available for decades marketed to the $35k-$65k range which only has significant volume because of the global credit/assets bubble. Eh.
Powerful pruners have a little chainsaw in them, but existing tools are better for doing pruning according to accepted standards. Specifically, when cutting branches large enough for this tool to be useful, they tend to break away and rip open the cut in an ugly way. The proper time proven method for avoiding this is to start with preparation cuts in specific places in order to control how the branch falls away once it begins to loose strength. This tool is poorly suited for making these kinds of controlled standard cuts. Eh.
Car parks itself for $55k-$77k. Again, apart from the current credit/asset bubble most people will not be driving in these cars, and the technology is just an incremental improvement of what has been around for decades. Eh.
Sliding crescent wrench may not be a superior tool to existing crescent wrenches or vice grips. Eh.
WiFi Skype phones incrementally improve what used to require a mini-laptop. Eh.
Furnace and generator combo is marginally more efficient for large outlay in up front costs and space for installation. Eh.
Big TV with internet linkage. This is another linkage concept like TVs with VCRs in them or phones with answering machines. As long as the costs are minimal it does not really matter, so why tout it, and if the costs are significant then it is a bummer because it is harder to fix, upgrade, or swap out the different components which are now physically linked just because they are intended to be used together. Eh.
Smart LEGO Robots are an incremental improvement over the last smart LEGO robots. Eh.
Sawstop prevents some of the more horrific accidents possible with table saws by using straightforward technology that was demonstrated long ago but is only being released now because of the greedy machinations of the lawyer-inventor guy. Eh.
All of this is just incremental stuff, hardly any real improvement, and much at price levels that ordinary people should be smart enough to realize they simply cannot afford. If you want some real innovation try making something trusted work as it is needed, or even better yet try to do without all the latest gizmos. This could be the most important innovation of all since Affluenza is an empty experience and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has assured us that the future strength of nations globally is strongly related to their saving habits. Real innovation and empowerment, or the curse of some junk that will weight down your budget without providing genuine utility. The choice is yours.
The article makes only a few points, all of them long held as valid. Summarized very briefly, sampling is used to correct for spacial anomalies, categories are revealed with Potts algorithm, and potential is revealed with field theory.
What is interesting is that the writer of the article appears unaware of the large body of previous work similar to this. Also interesting is the Slashdot obsession with quick judgement over a thorough read. It seems that both the writer and the Slashdot audience reveal our culture of modernity to be limited not as much by the capacities of our Engineers and Scientists but rather by those of our Librarians and Professors.
Mac OS products from Apple require payment for major updates made available at vendor convenience which may include bugs requiring workarounds, performance downgrades, and changes to the user experience that may not be desired.
Linux OS products supplied by the community at large require payment only for professional extensions or support and can be tuned to avoid using versions with bugs that require workarounds, to avoid performance downgrades, and to enable the user experience to be customized for both convenience and consistency.
The increasingly strong popularity and large installed user counts of the most recent Linux distributions is evidence of a growing and competitive market with many kinds of customers. Also notable with recent Linux distributions is the amount of attention given to toolkits, integration, and style elements, all of which are well outside the kernel and kernel extensions that the article claims is at the core of all Linux development.
Your remarks about greenspace as a tool to manipulate shows some pretty extreme land use ignorance. The USGS have studied this and found that the remaining open space is an extremely small fraction of available land that would be quickly swamped by traditional development at great cost to the environment and little benefit to housing at low densities. Much of what looks like useless undeveloped land to you is actually critical functioning watershed subject to frequent landslides. There is no conspiracy, the problem of providing acceptable and affordable housing in constrained circumstances with high growth is actually one of the more difficult unsolved issues of our day.
Software Configuration Management, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance all involve significant amounts of mathematics, and many in the working in such positions have math degrees.
Tiger brought us the joy of Dashboard, a useless performance lowering scheme, Spotlight, a subsystem that updates itself over the net without consulting the user, and Automator which is a great idea with a clumsy and disk filling implementation. Is it safe to assume that with the Leper release things will get even worse? More crap no one really needs that gets in the way, less control, installs that keep getting bigger--much bigger... Ubuntu here I come!
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You are too quick to minimize the impact of the introduction of VisiCalc. At the time there was very little serious business software apart from word processing and some basic accounting stuff for accounts payable and receivable that was oriented toward larger businesses. VisiCalc enabled many common calculations and accounting processes to be handled on small personal computers for the first time. This had a dramatic impact on the market for computers and the perception of computers at that time.
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The French money is new since this other post, but no great changes have happened with this project has changed since then. Hardware support includes a number of phones at this time, but none that I have or would prefer to buy and it seems some popular phones are out of reach.
Not at all. Both of the "last election" Democrats you point at, Biden and Feinstien, are long term fossils that have far outlived their usefulness. Feinstien got reelected because she is a Democrat and people forgot about the V-chip fiasco, never having really noticed it in the first place.
Sure, or you could. The code is open and the software makes it easy to put all that stuff where ever is best. The only problem is agreeing on where is a location, what format is best and so on. There are a number of variations available if you poke around.
GNUstep is a GUI based on a toolkit and basic set of system services implemented using Objective-C. Because of the elegance of Objective-C, the design of the toolkit, and the architecture of the services, the experience of use is enhanced for ordinary usage and high level development and points in between. GNUstep emerged from the OPENSTEP standard.
Much of Mac OS X Cocoa was derived from NeXTSTEP, so there is the possibility of some level of compatibility with Mac OS X. In some ways GNUstep might be considered superior because of simplicity resulting in the lack of integration with Carbon which was done on Mac OS X for partial compatibility with previous Mac OS versions.
Sometimes being a part of office culture can open opportunities for conflict, and teleworkers may have the best longevity because they are spared the indignities of office noise and too much closeness.
It used to be easy to get TV listings from Yahoo. They just changed it so that you need to be signed into an account to get them.
The TV listings were the last reason I had to go use Yahoo, which is sad in a way as I used to be a big fan of almost everything they did before they went all corporate.
Don't save that spreadsheet. Retailers typically anticipate brisk sales around the holidays. What actually happens is not always the same.
Maximizing throughput is just one aspect of productivity that computers are involved with. There is now enough information and research available on almost any topic, even highly specialized ones, that storing, managing, and searching records is becoming increasingly critical.
One strong example of this is the human genome which we now understand in great detail, indeed just enough detail to begin the long process of coming to understand how all that genetic information actually works. If this were a simple matter of examining genes as quickly as possible then we might already be done, but the complexity of the system is such that even with great progress research into phenomena like human development and disease can be expected to take decades and occupy many of the finest minds. Productivity in this context is most strongly related to being able to retain and bring together key elements of information.
The speed with which work is done is possibly the least interesting aspect since science repeatedly shows us that expanding relevant knowledge does not depend on how aggressively one explores wrong answers.
Dominate media search and distribution in order to stamp ads on everything and get rich using click fraud? These people are the new Microsoft, and their desire to good makes them even more dangerous than Scientology.
People always compete with each other individually and in teams. What the global open source movement does is expand opportunity. Lowering barriers to entry is key to being able to quickly and effectively set up teams large and skilled enough to take on genuinely challenging objectives. There is a vast supply of business opportunities even if one restricts possible domains arbitrarily, for example to focus on humanitarian crises.
This is a case where slicing the pie differently causes it to grow, thereby stretching that analogy to its limits.
"every power plant is a potential Chernobyl"
That is false. Chernobyl was a graphite core reactor, and that is what made it dangerous and caused that failure mode. Nuclear reactors that have an inherent tendency to explode and burn in a manner that cannot be controlled have only been deployed on a large scale in formerly Soviet states. Other forms of liquid cooled reactor found in other countries such as in North America and Europe could potentially exhibit the China Syndrome, but experience has proven that harder than commonly believed to actually bring about. Modern reactors being proposed have been engineered to avoid all of the known major failure modes. It is important to keep in mind that nuclear power is science, not magic, and as such has at least the potential to be fully understood and tamed.
After the failed attempt of the illegal alien crowd to shut down the USA by telling immigrants to march on one day (they don't differentiate between illegal and legal), ...
This is garbage and as such damages any argument you might try to make regarding the subject being discussed (spam). The goal of the Day Without Immigrants protest was to call attention to both the plight and the influence of immigrants. Apparently you are uptight about being part of a system that explicitly relies on undocumented immigrant labor? Perhaps a bright future awaits you in the agricultural or travel industries? There was no attempt to shut down the US, and during the protests it was common to see expressions of patriotism including displays of the flag and replicas of the Statue of Liberty.
Absolutely everyone differentiates between illegal and legal. That is the whole point. In order to become a legal immigrant there should be a process. The existing process typically takes in excess of ten years simply to review an application, never mind actually approving one and letting someone in. Many of these people who wait for ten years or typically more may do quite a bit of productive work in the interim. While the rules for entrance get endless argument Americans show they want immigrants by hiring them and endorsing the products that are associated with them by forking over money.
Perhaps you might be able to kick start your empathy if you moved away from the focus on illegality and thought more about the criteria involved. If someone is willing to work hard and has skills that are valued, does a waiting period of at least ten years make sense as an initial barrier before other barriers are introduced? Hint: There would be fewer undocumented workers if the process for documenting them functioned at all, even functioned as designed, better yet functioned by more common criteria.
How about porn.murder.ie?
The basis of this story has to do with web site users not being able to come to terms with a fairly simple flagging system that can be worked around by logging into a free account. There are similar problems with the craigslist site references to staff actions when user flags get content yanked. Web sites should clearly explain why content is posted, rated, or pulled, but like most other web content features this is a business opportunity that the market may or may not demand or value. Only time will tell, and trying to force the issue isn't likely to work.
That sounds like a kind of Silicon Valley syndrome. All of these things you say about cool stuff and the brightest minds have been true of the old Apple that nearly died, of Silicon Graphics which has finally died, of Sun which is floundering, and the list goes on. Data General anyone? WANG? On top of that they are now victims of their own success. Having acheived so much they are now in the position of being essentialy monopolistic thug capitalists. Other search engines and portals and ad services are not keeping up, so even without intention they become the New Microsoft. Google is a very strong company indeed, but in that market strength can ironically be a huge weakness and even the very strongest tend to last only so long before the entire market changes.
All of this is just incremental stuff, hardly any real improvement, and much at price levels that ordinary people should be smart enough to realize they simply cannot afford. If you want some real innovation try making something trusted work as it is needed, or even better yet try to do without all the latest gizmos. This could be the most important innovation of all since Affluenza is an empty experience and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has assured us that the future strength of nations globally is strongly related to their saving habits. Real innovation and empowerment, or the curse of some junk that will weight down your budget without providing genuine utility. The choice is yours.
Scientists should have to read the Necronomicon before they start tampering with this kind of stuff.
The article makes only a few points, all of them long held as valid. Summarized very briefly, sampling is used to correct for spacial anomalies, categories are revealed with Potts algorithm, and potential is revealed with field theory. What is interesting is that the writer of the article appears unaware of the large body of previous work similar to this. Also interesting is the Slashdot obsession with quick judgement over a thorough read. It seems that both the writer and the Slashdot audience reveal our culture of modernity to be limited not as much by the capacities of our Engineers and Scientists but rather by those of our Librarians and Professors.
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Mac OS products from Apple require payment for major updates made available at vendor convenience which may include bugs requiring workarounds, performance downgrades, and changes to the user experience that may not be desired.
Linux OS products supplied by the community at large require payment only for professional extensions or support and can be tuned to avoid using versions with bugs that require workarounds, to avoid performance downgrades, and to enable the user experience to be customized for both convenience and consistency.
The increasingly strong popularity and large installed user counts of the most recent Linux distributions is evidence of a growing and competitive market with many kinds of customers. Also notable with recent Linux distributions is the amount of attention given to toolkits, integration, and style elements, all of which are well outside the kernel and kernel extensions that the article claims is at the core of all Linux development.
Your remarks about greenspace as a tool to manipulate shows some pretty extreme land use ignorance. The USGS have studied this and found that the remaining open space is an extremely small fraction of available land that would be quickly swamped by traditional development at great cost to the environment and little benefit to housing at low densities. Much of what looks like useless undeveloped land to you is actually critical functioning watershed subject to frequent landslides. There is no conspiracy, the problem of providing acceptable and affordable housing in constrained circumstances with high growth is actually one of the more difficult unsolved issues of our day.
Software Configuration Management, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance all involve significant amounts of mathematics, and many in the working in such positions have math degrees.
Tiger brought us the joy of Dashboard, a useless performance lowering scheme, Spotlight, a subsystem that updates itself over the net without consulting the user, and Automator which is a great idea with a clumsy and disk filling implementation. Is it safe to assume that with the Leper release things will get even worse? More crap no one really needs that gets in the way, less control, installs that keep getting bigger--much bigger ... Ubuntu here I come!
You are too quick to minimize the impact of the introduction of VisiCalc. At the time there was very little serious business software apart from word processing and some basic accounting stuff for accounts payable and receivable that was oriented toward larger businesses. VisiCalc enabled many common calculations and accounting processes to be handled on small personal computers for the first time. This had a dramatic impact on the market for computers and the perception of computers at that time.