With sunglasses costing an arm and a leg nowwadays (silly designer frames) it is interesting to note that techno-fashion will probably bring prices down. You can manuf. You can buy a latest mobile for less than the price of some stupid frames right now.
HUD's - don't get your hopes up, you need micro projection for this, but it is coming with new displays. The reason? Hold you finger 3 cm in front of your eye and focus on your print... can't.
You need to have a focussing projection, and any reflective surface will diffuse the light.
I think a fiber optic channel carrying the signal into the arm of the glasses, then lensing it into a convex mirror, which shines it onto your retina would be nice...
I think techno-fashion should stay out of designers hands, the same way as I laugh when I see someone with that ferrari digicam...
In 2 years, what is he going to do with it? It will be a joke antique. Buy a real ferrari now, and in 2 years, you can still pick up chicks with it.
Also, you crazy astrologers, if LS is supposed to be slowing down (or has, or will have would have been in the future, have been...) depending on your point of view.... does this make you nice round 500MLY figure anyless accurate or reliable.
Also, what are the chances of it being square on 500MLY!! not a tilde in sight!
To find the frequency, don't you have to wait for at least half the frequency to know it? How can they accurately extrapolate a length of 500MLY from about 1LY of data (if indeed they took that length of reading).
I mean, how accurate could they measure this? what about if it was a really really high frequency weak signal that was bent by a star?
How do accoustics travel in space? Can you measure the volume and frequency of sound in a room by measuring one molecule of matter that the waves are passing through? Yes, I think you can, but, if this is just a vibing molecule having a hippy time... these 'accoustics' are really not travelling through matter are they, so are they accoustic? (I cannot be bothered to lookup our meaning of the greek word accou (I hear, well actually 'accou?' means can you hear me))
I am confuzzled. I can imagine radiation waves (energy) being measured in this way, but then it comes down to, how can they be sure what they measured?
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum." "Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he." He pushed his hands into the pockets of his dressing gown and looked knowledgeably into the distance. "What?" said Ford. "Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then, exactly, then?"
From Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
You might think that these old findings would be completely irrelevant to today's user interface designers. If so, you'd be wrong.
I was assuming since we had evolved so much in the last years, and had greatly increased capacity for memory, 3 legs, 6 hands, and 11 eyes, that human computer interaction would have changed significantly....
Human factors haven't changed since adam. Get used to it.
Respect to Jakob Nielson [guru dude] and his position to bring usability to the limelight. I also congratulate apple and kde and gnome for having prevelant sections of thier websites detailing standards and usability guides.
Usability needs refining when a new mental model (searching, blogging, data structures) come into place. usually through technology being adapated by people, and it is basically keeping up with what people expect from a site. (and this is usually based on defacto standards)
But anyway, his retrospective columns are usually worth a read, this one is no different.
Some points are a bit 'semantically contrived' like:
Even this invalidated guideline continues to contain a core of truth: it's good for users to know where they are and what they can do on each screen.
talking about 'screen identifiers', this could be a bread crumb trail, an 'inside this section' it changes based on the shape and profile of you data/site and the target medium.
I browse/. in lynx mode. It is ironic that a useit.com article should be published on/., perhaps this is proof that ed's (or dev's!) do not read the articles!!:-)
Just playing./. fares quite well usability wise... just a few misplaced links, and some, "I have to click here to get to here, if I am here" kind of reverse navigation. its all good.
Perhaps these are the solution to fat/too many finger problems associated with the nut job ideas of 'nanotech' which is a stupid word to describe programmable chemistry.
I cannot see how a conveyor belt would work, but each individual 'engine' would merely be a iterated series of controlled reactions, designed to create the right mix, which get filtered into 'clean' factories, and then each one gets processed.
Being able to combine super atoms in clever ways, or using superatoms to combine other products, could create complex super-super-molecules of super-atoms, that act like 'intelligent' (programmable) proteins, that react to the chemical mix you submerge them in, and go about changing it.
From nano to macro...this I cannot fathom...
But more cool type reactions, and crazed meglomaniac alchemists destroying the world, that is about 3 years away:-)
[OT too: you should read "Stark" and "This Other Eden" by Ben Elton. Then you'd REALLY worry...]
This other eden was superb, I haven't read stark. Marketting the end of the world is not as worrying as having your steak and kidneys sewn back on, and flirting with the nurse who is doing it (WTF was that about?) the ending was crazy good.
I might have a look at Stark. Wow, it was ages since I read TOE, I might re-read it! (do I dig in the attic, and inhale lots of dust, shortening my life for my paperback, or download a txt version and live with the OCR errors?)
IBM's robocode is the same deal. IBM has a great tutorial introduction, teaching Java through the application of these interfaces.
I am of course happy to see more of such programs, and with the MIT name behind it, perhaps it will inspire some perl hackers to get involved in *duck* a *duck* real *duck* programming *duck, ouch* language....:-)
I love the way these robot challenges express the ideas of OO so well! I am entering my 32.6mb robot which has enhanced path finding, fuzzy logic, target identification, runs its own internal byte code sniffers, and a few JNI calls to terminate any other java processes. It is a sith robot of course! *vroom ksssszzzwwww pow pow*.
I just gotta check the rule book before I submit...:-)
hahaha, agreed, I think there needs to be a hall of fame/shame for installs.
As much as I hate windows day to day, I can download ANY program (even malware! oh joy!) and double click, next next next. if it is shit, I just uninstall...
I have never had a problem with this! Are wise/nullsoft installer available for linux? I can do a make/conf/install thingy, but last time I did that, the persons computer (SuSe 9.1) had a default install, without the dev stuff....
hello....
I am sure a one click 'export' feature to.exe install to appname_version would be simple...
I like all my libs in one place, all the app should be under one folder. I am adamant about this!
I realise the usefulness of ~/.files (one installed app, many users having thier own settings?) well I don't need that, I can live with.files though. But the rest of the app settings should be in one place.
And register with an uninstall option. I have no idea how to remove some apps (unless they are installed via a package manager?)
I think I am just too newbie in installing things.
Their dual license model is great, but I think they cloud a little the GPL licensing and commercial licensing:
If you distribute MySQL Software within your organization, you should purchase a commercial license.
GPL is not at all restrictive!! They mention this as being restrictive, basically they represent GPL as a less viable option for many companies than it really is.
Anyway, kudos for being a corporattion willing to tag itself GPL (even if otherwise it would have meant marketshare death):-)
If calif. fund this research, and a calif. company reaps rewards, and calif. based researchers get ace new jobs, and bring more brain power into calif. and more taxes get paid, then calif. can be the leading producer of stem cell based cosmetics, which, to be frank, will come about.
Just a glance at reasoning for another model. Private investment in this area will lead to patents. If a state would fund it open source, then there would be no benefit for that state. (in terms of reaping back revenue to the fullest extent, through jobs etc)
Other companies in cheaper states would benefit.
Viola. Here we see a clear example where countries, states, people, neighbourhoods, all compete for a bigger piece of the pie.
Of course, many things are gov funded. Space, until recently.
THe rest of this message is OT (more like RT)
[OT: Seeing a news report on 'cold' pollution and 'warm' pollution (particle versus CO2) and tsunamis and freak weather all this winter (el nino, other new patterns) and amazon and virgin galactic investing into new privitised space makes me think some people at the top know something we don't!
The day after tomorrow is starting to be a more scarey and real film.]
I have been waiting for some kind of similar announcement, something that will have some impact in nanotech thinking circles. Although this area of nanotech is completely hyped and misrepresented by every company involved in it.
The goal is to use these clusters as building blocks to tailor the design and formation of materials with selected properties.
They have basically coated aluminium atoms with iodine atoms, and produced a molecule that acts like a huge iodine atom, but with hybrid properties.
In the future 'chemical computing' (not computational chemistry) can be achieved and allowing us to build primitive components of a mass production system (basically a highly iterative and controlled series of reactions, building larger and larger blocks, that progress down a conveyer belt).
Anyway, it sounds good, and I cannot wait until the real application of this becomes app'nt (breaking the current nm barrier in CPU tech so we can hit 10ghz at consumer level).
Does linux have inherent flaws that kill its 3d performance? I thought that the gl libs were great, and gl performance card for card was equiv. or better on linux?
If this is the case, why would two acronyms, FPS or RTS, fair any differet on linux?
The point is, linux just needs games made for it. Image a new console, with no game support. You see.
Doom3 has a native linux support (Apparently, I played the demo, it was dire... I hope some TC change my mind - I really wish HL2 had been linuxized) how many peple bought and ran the linux version?
For me, the whole issue of 'add remove programs' has been the pain in linux, which is why I think you see all these distros. Come on, download 700mb again and again so that games, mythTV, dvd playability, office suites, all run as advertised?:-) I think the average slackware/debian comes with all these games don't they???
What is your best install experience, and worst install experience on linux?
A huff transform will give you entropy +1 compression. Not suitable for larger data sets (dictionary based compression is even better for this). 7z compression (or is it z7?) will give you a neat storage format.
Lets talk about where this verbose talk of verbosity is stemming from:
apple orange pineapple
this is a data set. Noone knows what it is. Here it is again with some pseudo xml style tags I am listing vegetables here this is a list of vegetables vegetables are listed on thier own without any children pr parent tags, there can be one or more of them, this is version 1 of the document here now follows a vegetable tomato that was a vegetable here now follows a vegetable leek that was a vegetable here now follows a vegetable potato that was a vegetable here now follows a vegetable haddock that was a vegetable
as you can see, this is (albeit slightly weird looking) list of items called 'vegetables'.
The beauty of XML is two fold, the description of the document format (DTD and schemas) and the abilty to verify a document is valid, for any specified format.
XML is a human readable file specification language, and file format, all in one, written in itself!
A binary format of XML would be nice, you can make it yourself though. veg:http://slashdot.org/veg.xml v:tomato v:fru itcake v:lemongrass v:cat
this is a minimal way to represent the same xml like structure, in a less verbose way.
This is undeniable complexity, a binary format is just like a way of saying introduce a standard loosless compression format for XML, without changing what XML is.
I say anything that gets the W3C stamp of 'this is official' gets my vote. After all, 1 bad standard is better than 11 good proprietary solutions in a world of millions of interconnected systems.
"We recommend that you NOT leave the GCM running on a Windows laptop unattended. We have found that some Pentium laptops have difficulty dissipating heat and may shutdown (hibernate) without warning causing the climate model to crash. This does not appear to harm the laptop, but can corrupt GCM output files."
You heard it here first, laptop heat can cause infertility and crash the planet!
On the point of 'big plasma' you could say that any fixed resolution looks bad when scaled too high, but since LCD uses contiguous blocks of LCD, whereas plasma still uses a similar cell structure to CRT phosphor deposits... LCD should win.
is LCD the 'best choice' right now?
I am thinking of CRT, because I chose CRT for my monitor over a cheaper LCD (and now I have to take it back because of red gun issues). I was at first happy, then some gamut issues were annoying me.
Now the size and bulk of it makes me want a nicer LCD, even for programming and web development.
There is an offer for a 42" plasma and 30" LCD locally for around 3000EURO - which seems unbelievable.
Must resist urge, oh and it will be running MythTV through an RF connection to my PC. hell yeah!
The moderation of this lovely innnocent comment is funny!
It is true, but it is another reason to hate the French! And the 'we are still the most xyz in the world' that is a forgivable French trait!
No I love French people, and on the subject of a 35/60 hour week (mine ranges from 50-60 most weeks) I agree:
When you have a little too much pressure, you try and over stretch yourself, I found that for 3-4 weeks you get very productive 50,55 hour weeks, but then you have to put in a 60 to cover the same, then you drastically go down hill, and work 60 hours, but make so many mistakes - I re-wrote 3 days of code after a 60 hour week, then took the rest of the week off!
It isn't just physical limitations, but working a 60 hour week can put pressure on your OOW life. You spend less time without your partner, you see your friends less.
Over working can have serious problems, and in computing, you never clock up overtime.
Now, only in one job in computing was I confident in placing all these extra 20 hours a week as higher paid consultancy type hours [they had a scale]. The fact was, as fast as I was breaking down tasks and delegating work, there was more work to delegate.
So there you go! With my developer hat on, for some reason I work these stupid hours, and do not even consider the application of overtime to my work. It comes with the job...
[factor in about 30-40 minutes on slashdot / comics.com / extra-work email at a minimum a day and it looks better]
The other rooms however, need more decorative lighting, and thus unsuited to the industrialised look of the flouros.
But I leave all my lights off most of the time anyway.
Good point about RF interference as I am looking for a best solution for a wireless remote for my PC, for myth and for xmame, going through one wall. I am buying an RF set to connect my TV out PC card to my TV, and xmame on a 12" B&W portable here I come!
OK, so it will be a 42 plasma maybe. or 32 lcd. Or 32 crt.
Surely some machines will have to run on 13 different languages (some must be more like dialects right?) at the same time... so switching between 13 languages, what kind of performance hit will that take?
Also, documents encode the language on them, so changing between documents and editing should work for 13 languages, similar or different (english, hindi, korean)
Come to think of it, except for the linux part, seems like a news article for linguists!
I think it is a good thing, how many languages is windows supporting?
How many will they support in t+20 minutes?
In Korea, Linux In 13 Indian Languages Is Only For Old People.
Slashdot Mirror
With sunglasses costing an arm and a leg nowwadays (silly designer frames) it is interesting to note that techno-fashion will probably bring prices down. You can manuf. You can buy a latest mobile for less than the price of some stupid frames right now.
HUD's - don't get your hopes up, you need micro projection for this, but it is coming with new displays. The reason? Hold you finger 3 cm in front of your eye and focus on your print... can't.
You need to have a focussing projection, and any reflective surface will diffuse the light.
I think a fiber optic channel carrying the signal into the arm of the glasses, then lensing it into a convex mirror, which shines it onto your retina would be nice...
I think techno-fashion should stay out of designers hands, the same way as I laugh when I see someone with that ferrari digicam...
In 2 years, what is he going to do with it? It will be a joke antique. Buy a real ferrari now, and in 2 years, you can still pick up chicks with it.
Also, you crazy astrologers, if LS is supposed to be slowing down (or has, or will have would have been in the future, have been...) depending on your point of view.... does this make you nice round 500MLY figure anyless accurate or reliable.
Also, what are the chances of it being square on 500MLY!! not a tilde in sight!
~500MLY ± 1GLY (+/-)
wavelengths of 500 million light-years
To find the frequency, don't you have to wait for at least half the frequency to know it? How can they accurately extrapolate a length of 500MLY from about 1LY of data (if indeed they took that length of reading).
I mean, how accurate could they measure this? what about if it was a really really high frequency weak signal that was bent by a star?
How do accoustics travel in space? Can you measure the volume and frequency of sound in a room by measuring one molecule of matter that the waves are passing through? Yes, I think you can, but, if this is just a vibing molecule having a hippy time... these 'accoustics' are really not travelling through matter are they, so are they accoustic? (I cannot be bothered to lookup our meaning of the greek word accou (I hear, well actually 'accou?' means can you hear me))
I am confuzzled. I can imagine radiation waves (energy) being measured in this way, but then it comes down to, how can they be sure what they measured?
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum."
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he." He pushed his hands into the pockets of his dressing gown and looked knowledgeably into the distance.
"What?" said Ford.
"Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then, exactly, then?"
From Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
*wipes away tear*
I think some people were quite upset that the word nanotech was hijacked by infant technologies trying to gain venture capitalist funding.
:-)
Anyone knows, if you haven't got at least one cool buzzword in your pitch, you can't afford a ferrari afterwards.
Yes I also read the article on 'DNA' being used in chips, I think it was on some geeky nerd news site... *thinks*
You might think that these old findings would be completely irrelevant to today's user interface designers. If so, you'd be wrong.
/. in lynx mode. It is ironic that a useit.com article should be published on /., perhaps this is proof that ed's (or dev's!) do not read the articles!! :-)
/. fares quite well usability wise... just a few misplaced links, and some, "I have to click here to get to here, if I am here" kind of reverse navigation. its all good.
I was assuming since we had evolved so much in the last years, and had greatly increased capacity for memory, 3 legs, 6 hands, and 11 eyes, that human computer interaction would have changed significantly....
Human factors haven't changed since adam. Get used to it.
Respect to Jakob Nielson [guru dude] and his position to bring usability to the limelight. I also congratulate apple and kde and gnome for having prevelant sections of thier websites detailing standards and usability guides.
Usability needs refining when a new mental model (searching, blogging, data structures) come into place. usually through technology being adapated by people, and it is basically keeping up with what people expect from a site. (and this is usually based on defacto standards)
But anyway, his retrospective columns are usually worth a read, this one is no different.
Some points are a bit 'semantically contrived' like:
Even this invalidated guideline continues to contain a core of truth: it's good for users to know where they are and what they can do on each screen.
talking about 'screen identifiers', this could be a bread crumb trail, an 'inside this section' it changes based on the shape and profile of you data/site and the target medium.
I browse
Just playing.
My journal entry here contains a nice little article on why Moore can show his law into his pipe and smoke it.
:-) I like to think so.
Also, Smoking Gnu in Going Postal... is this GNU??
Perhaps these are the solution to fat/too many finger problems associated with the nut job ideas of 'nanotech' which is a stupid word to describe programmable chemistry.
.this I cannot fathom...
:-)
I cannot see how a conveyor belt would work, but each individual 'engine' would merely be a iterated series of controlled reactions, designed to create the right mix, which get filtered into 'clean' factories, and then each one gets processed.
Being able to combine super atoms in clever ways, or using superatoms to combine other products, could create complex super-super-molecules of super-atoms, that act like 'intelligent' (programmable) proteins, that react to the chemical mix you submerge them in, and go about changing it.
From nano to macro..
But more cool type reactions, and crazed meglomaniac alchemists destroying the world, that is about 3 years away
[OT too: you should read "Stark" and "This Other Eden" by Ben Elton. Then you'd REALLY worry...]
This other eden was superb, I haven't read stark. Marketting the end of the world is not as worrying as having your steak and kidneys sewn back on, and flirting with the nurse who is doing it (WTF was that about?) the ending was crazy good.
I might have a look at Stark. Wow, it was ages since I read TOE, I might re-read it! (do I dig in the attic, and inhale lots of dust, shortening my life for my paperback, or download a txt version and live with the OCR errors?)
IBM's robocode is the same deal. IBM has a great tutorial introduction, teaching Java through the application of these interfaces.
:-)
:-)
I am of course happy to see more of such programs, and with the MIT name behind it, perhaps it will inspire some perl hackers to get involved in *duck* a *duck* real *duck* programming *duck, ouch* language....
I love the way these robot challenges express the ideas of OO so well! I am entering my 32.6mb robot which has enhanced path finding, fuzzy logic, target identification, runs its own internal byte code sniffers, and a few JNI calls to terminate any other java processes. It is a sith robot of course! *vroom ksssszzzwwww pow pow*.
I just gotta check the rule book before I submit...
hahaha, agreed, I think there needs to be a hall of fame/shame for installs.
.exe install to appname_version would be simple...
.files though. But the rest of the app settings should be in one place.
As much as I hate windows day to day, I can download ANY program (even malware! oh joy!) and double click, next next next. if it is shit, I just uninstall...
I have never had a problem with this! Are wise/nullsoft installer available for linux? I can do a make/conf/install thingy, but last time I did that, the persons computer (SuSe 9.1) had a default install, without the dev stuff....
hello....
I am sure a one click 'export' feature to
I like all my libs in one place, all the app should be under one folder. I am adamant about this!
I realise the usefulness of ~/.files (one installed app, many users having thier own settings?) well I don't need that, I can live with
And register with an uninstall option. I have no idea how to remove some apps (unless they are installed via a package manager?)
I think I am just too newbie in installing things.
Their dual license model is great, but I think they cloud a little the GPL licensing and commercial licensing:
:-)
If you distribute MySQL Software within your organization, you should purchase a commercial license.
GPL is not at all restrictive!! They mention this as being restrictive, basically they represent GPL as a less viable option for many companies than it really is.
Anyway, kudos for being a corporattion willing to tag itself GPL (even if otherwise it would have meant marketshare death)
If calif. fund this research, and a calif. company reaps rewards, and calif. based researchers get ace new jobs, and bring more brain power into calif. and more taxes get paid, then calif. can be the leading producer of stem cell based cosmetics, which, to be frank, will come about.
Just a glance at reasoning for another model. Private investment in this area will lead to patents. If a state would fund it open source, then there would be no benefit for that state. (in terms of reaping back revenue to the fullest extent, through jobs etc)
Other companies in cheaper states would benefit.
Viola. Here we see a clear example where countries, states, people, neighbourhoods, all compete for a bigger piece of the pie.
Of course, many things are gov funded. Space, until recently.
THe rest of this message is OT (more like RT)
[OT: Seeing a news report on 'cold' pollution and 'warm' pollution (particle versus CO2) and tsunamis and freak weather all this winter (el nino, other new patterns) and amazon and virgin galactic investing into new privitised space makes me think some people at the top know something we don't!
The day after tomorrow is starting to be a more scarey and real film.]
I have been waiting for some kind of similar announcement, something that will have some impact in nanotech thinking circles. Although this area of nanotech is completely hyped and misrepresented by every company involved in it.
The goal is to use these clusters as building blocks to tailor the design and formation of materials with selected properties.
They have basically coated aluminium atoms with iodine atoms, and produced a molecule that acts like a huge iodine atom, but with hybrid properties.
In the future 'chemical computing' (not computational chemistry) can be achieved and allowing us to build primitive components of a mass production system (basically a highly iterative and controlled series of reactions, building larger and larger blocks, that progress down a conveyer belt).
Anyway, it sounds good, and I cannot wait until the real application of this becomes app'nt (breaking the current nm barrier in CPU tech so we can hit 10ghz at consumer level).
Does linux have inherent flaws that kill its 3d performance? I thought that the gl libs were great, and gl performance card for card was equiv. or better on linux?
:-) I think the average slackware/debian comes with all these games don't they???
If this is the case, why would two acronyms, FPS or RTS, fair any differet on linux?
The point is, linux just needs games made for it. Image a new console, with no game support. You see.
Doom3 has a native linux support (Apparently, I played the demo, it was dire... I hope some TC change my mind - I really wish HL2 had been linuxized) how many peple bought and ran the linux version?
For me, the whole issue of 'add remove programs' has been the pain in linux, which is why I think you see all these distros. Come on, download 700mb again and again so that games, mythTV, dvd playability, office suites, all run as advertised?
What is your best install experience, and worst install experience on linux?
Yeah, but what did they say the A stood for huh?
If only he knew! Sweaty monkey man.
A huff transform will give you entropy +1 compression. Not suitable for larger data sets (dictionary based compression is even better for this). 7z compression (or is it z7?) will give you a neat storage format.
u itcake
Lets talk about where this verbose talk of verbosity is stemming from:
apple
orange
pineapple
this is a data set. Noone knows what it is.
Here it is again with some pseudo xml style tags
I am listing vegetables here
this is a list of vegetables
vegetables are listed on thier own without any children pr parent tags, there can be one or more of them, this is version 1 of the document
here now follows a vegetable
tomato
that was a vegetable
here now follows a vegetable
leek
that was a vegetable
here now follows a vegetable
potato
that was a vegetable
here now follows a vegetable
haddock
that was a vegetable
as you can see, this is (albeit slightly weird looking) list of items called 'vegetables'.
The beauty of XML is two fold, the description of the document format (DTD and schemas) and the abilty to verify a document is valid, for any specified format.
XML is a human readable file specification language, and file format, all in one, written in itself!
A binary format of XML would be nice, you can make it yourself though.
veg:http://slashdot.org/veg.xml
v:tomato
v:fr
v:lemongrass
v:cat
this is a minimal way to represent the same xml like structure, in a less verbose way.
This is undeniable complexity, a binary format is just like a way of saying introduce a standard loosless compression format for XML, without changing what XML is.
I say anything that gets the W3C stamp of 'this is official' gets my vote. After all, 1 bad standard is better than 11 good proprietary solutions in a world of millions of interconnected systems.
"We recommend that you NOT leave the GCM running on a Windows laptop unattended. We have found that some Pentium laptops have difficulty dissipating heat and may shutdown (hibernate) without warning causing the climate model to crash. This does not appear to harm the laptop, but can corrupt GCM output files."
You heard it here first, laptop heat can cause infertility and crash the planet!
On the point of 'big plasma' you could say that any fixed resolution looks bad when scaled too high, but since LCD uses contiguous blocks of LCD, whereas plasma still uses a similar cell structure to CRT phosphor deposits... LCD should win.
is LCD the 'best choice' right now?
I am thinking of CRT, because I chose CRT for my monitor over a cheaper LCD (and now I have to take it back because of red gun issues). I was at first happy, then some gamut issues were annoying me.
Now the size and bulk of it makes me want a nicer LCD, even for programming and web development.
There is an offer for a 42" plasma and 30" LCD locally for around 3000EURO - which seems unbelievable.
Must resist urge, oh and it will be running MythTV through an RF connection to my PC. hell yeah!
Original, Sour Cream & Onion, Sweet Mesquite BBQ, Cheezums, Pizzalicious, Spicy Cajun, Salt and Vinegar, Cheese & Onion or Ranch-Rageous?
The moderation of this lovely innnocent comment is funny!
It is true, but it is another reason to hate the French! And the 'we are still the most xyz in the world' that is a forgivable French trait!
No I love French people, and on the subject of a 35/60 hour week (mine ranges from 50-60 most weeks) I agree:
When you have a little too much pressure, you try and over stretch yourself, I found that for 3-4 weeks you get very productive 50,55 hour weeks, but then you have to put in a 60 to cover the same, then you drastically go down hill, and work 60 hours, but make so many mistakes - I re-wrote 3 days of code after a 60 hour week, then took the rest of the week off!
It isn't just physical limitations, but working a 60 hour week can put pressure on your OOW life. You spend less time without your partner, you see your friends less.
Over working can have serious problems, and in computing, you never clock up overtime.
Now, only in one job in computing was I confident in placing all these extra 20 hours a week as higher paid consultancy type hours [they had a scale]. The fact was, as fast as I was breaking down tasks and delegating work, there was more work to delegate.
So there you go! With my developer hat on, for some reason I work these stupid hours, and do not even consider the application of overtime to my work. It comes with the job...
[factor in about 30-40 minutes on slashdot / comics.com / extra-work email at a minimum a day and it looks better]
Rimmer: "Broadcast on all frequencies and all known languages, including Welsh." - Red Dwarf
Never gets tired.
My Entire Bedroom is fitted with them.
The other rooms however, need more decorative lighting, and thus unsuited to the industrialised look of the flouros.
But I leave all my lights off most of the time anyway.
Good point about RF interference as I am looking for a best solution for a wireless remote for my PC, for myth and for xmame, going through one wall. I am buying an RF set to connect my TV out PC card to my TV, and xmame on a 12" B&W portable here I come!
OK, so it will be a 42 plasma maybe. or 32 lcd. Or 32 crt.
Which one?
[geek awe]
Dude, please tell me you are accessing slashdot through a RF connection, using some antenna made out of bean tins and dust-bin lids.
Awesome...
[/geek awe]
Surely some machines will have to run on 13 different languages (some must be more like dialects right?) at the same time... so switching between 13 languages, what kind of performance hit will that take?
Also, documents encode the language on them, so changing between documents and editing should work for 13 languages, similar or different (english, hindi, korean)
Come to think of it, except for the linux part, seems like a news article for linguists!
I think it is a good thing, how many languages is windows supporting?
How many will they support in t+20 minutes?
In Korea, Linux In 13 Indian Languages Is Only For Old People.
I don't have the strenght anymore