The same problem is had by those who fiddle with their GPS while driving, or even the entertainment system. Must we introduce specific legislation for each device?
There's been a lot on the news lately on people being distracted by navigation systems while driving. As these things can see if you're moving or not, they could be made in such a way that they don't accept input while driving. Anyway, if people were really honest to themselves, they would see that they're not driving as good while using their other hand for other operations while they're driving, being it putting on lipstick, phoning, or typing on a notebook (one guy in holland had built a clamp for his notebook behind his steering wheel!)
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When I was in highschool in 1995 or something, I once visited the CS department, and they had these cool sun pc's running mosaic, and you could surf the internet via a starting page that was a central directory of everything, you would start from a central site and then go down via country/organization/etc. I guess this was x.500. Apparently, google et al. came in before it really got to become a usable standard.
offtopic p.s.: no thanks to "crystal reports | business objects" for locking up my pc with their flash advertisement while I was typing this. I actually even couldn't figure out what they were trying to sell me.
Indeed, for word processing this doesn't make the slightest sense. I can imagine this for certain specialized and/or database-based applications that have to be run centrally.
I worked in a small office for a while, they had an underpowered dsl connection and had put cytrix client on their standard pc's, so we had to use the word processor on some server in another part of town and were not able to use any of the local resources. Of course, this was amazingly slow and very bad for productivity as a whole.
If you use thin clients and central applications, smart idea, but use it on a local server with a quick connection.
yeah it works this way, when you're on the german autobahn, you see all the up-class audi (those are the most macho drivers nowadays), volkswagen, bmw, mercedes people passing you at 100 mph no matter what the weather is (ice, snow, or the most dangerous: heavy rainfall). Due to traction control, abs, eps, etc, they feel pretty safe and having their vehicle under control. But at the moment that a layer of ice, or a layer of water, gets inbetween the traction of the wheels with the street, it's all up to frictionless physics, and no intelligent steering system will be able to beat the laws of physics.
Actually there is nothing shallow about liking a woman's physique. Most girls I know like it when you are clear in this. And they are not very into men that are all-politically correct about it. Besides, you should hear women talking about other women's looks, that's much worse than the omments most male could think of:)
Flash is developed to be slow as hell on everything. Actually people that use flash for their websites should be sued because they eat the time (=money) away of people that have better things to do than to look at fancy moving menus, "loading..." status meters, etc. etc. for half a minute when they just quickly want to check something on the interweb. What good is a 20 mbit dsl connection and a 3 Ghz processor, when the website interface is deliberately slowed down???
Friend of mine bought the R42 (? the basic celeron model) several months ago. It was impossible to burn cd's with it (even just plain data to cd), the standard IBM program to do this just gave some random errors, after turning the cd into toast. Had to spend half a day downloading alternative burning programs, ended up changing a.dll by one I found on the internet. Even nicer is that no backup cd with programs came in the package, so I have to hope that the backup I made after this is a working one. It's such a shame, I liked the idea of having a solid, robust, nothing-fancy notebook that you can rely on.
I have another theory: He didn't have to spend years and years practicing the opening melody of "nothing else matters" in complete isolation, so he actually has lots of time left, for example to build a wireless controller into his air guitar, or to hang around with lots of sexy chicks.
You seem to be talking in the "they" form there, while here you switched to the "we" form. It's not bad to plug something you're proud of as long as you're honest about it and warning everyone that you're doing it (as in "disclaimer: I work on this"). However, if you plug something without showing your involvement in it, it's just plain spamming, and most people will tell you to screw yourself when they've found out, even when you're actually offering something good. Just warning you here.
ok, well, one request to add this answer to your FAQ, people want to know that this service is viable (has a long-term plan) and that they won't be bothered with lots of spam/advertizements at some point.
other feature requests are in your feedback inbox...;)
but couldn't it be a disadvantage as well? The hosts file is pretty easy to clean up, you just need a file editor, but as soon as someone has found out how to change this "hidden setting" pointing to the microsoft servers, it will be pretty hard to repair it again. I think in the end, this non-solution will backfire on microsoft.
Ah, and while we're at it, I'm looking for an event calender for a small group of people. Currently we're using yahoo groups, but it's calender has troubles with repeating events, randomly it sends or does not send the e-mails for these events, which is pretty disturbing.
use w3m;) Ah, but you're right, something is terribly wrong. Also I have lots of trouble with inline wmv videos, they end up looking like a dia show, if they start at all, but at least quicktime works pretty fluent. The worst, however, are the movies on the google video service, which idiot came with the idea to use flash to show video content??? Maybe I should download their video player.
I also thought that it was not possible, except for very rare exceptions, so I looked it up:
The main policy of germany is to avoid letting people have two citizenships, but there are indeed exceptions, as you can read in the link below, and the links therein:
There's a lot of interesting stuff there, for example if you move from a country TO germany you can keep the two citizenships when the original country does not allow you to let go of their citizenship: marocco, algeria, tunesia, syria, iran (one Bundesland does not allow 2 citizenships of you're from Iran, I guess that must be Bayern;) ) In the case of this guy however, if you move to another country and accept their citizenship you can request a 'Beibehaltungsgenehmigung' (ah, german bureaucratic words), where you have to show that you have and will keep considerable ties to Germany.
So, several things could be the matter, one is that the journalist just assumed he has two citizenships, but in reality doesn't. The second is that he actually has two citizenships, but that the organization committee doesn't accept his team because it's from a non-european university (this would make sense). Three, he actually would be able to apply, but the committee are a bunch of chauvinist pigs that want one of the european teams they are most related to win, and know that they won't stand a chance against this guy;)
In any case, most of the european scientific community isn't a very "open" one, it's hard to get into a top-position, you'll have to make friends in the right positions, etc. And I guess sebsatian thrun has seen reconfirmed the reason that he left europe in the first place.
Disclaimer: I'm a european starting a scientific career in europe, or maybe not;)
Indeed, their huge text "subscribe to read the answer" is a bit misleading, but I have found reasonable useful stuff in there for free after I found it the answer is actually there at the bottom to read for free. I guess I would just sod them just like the GP if they didn't show the answer, and would just move on to someplace useful. But what I think is the main plan is to remove the free answers at the moment that they have enough momentum to survive un paying subscribers. If that will ever happen of course.
yeah, but even then, maybe even parker brothers might start doing that. It's just harder to implement this ARM (Analog Rights Management).
Personal possession of goods that are part of a company's Intellectual Property is so 20th century, who does that nowadays? Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I get the impression that "buying" is seen more and more as "buying a restricted license" instead of "buying" mean to "obtain complete possession over the bought goods, and allowing you to do what you want with it".
sounds like my story, man. I ran a unisys(!) pentium 133, 96 mb ram, running openbsd and windowmaker gui as my main pc until 2002. Worked like a charm, and no fan on either the cpu or the graphicscard, so pretty silent (except for the old noisy HDs) The only reason I had to start looking for a new pc was because internet browsing became impossible with the load of Flash content, that would block my whole pc. As a matter of fact, flash moves my cpu usage up to 100% on my new pc also.
I read the wikipedia entrie you mentioned, but couldn't find out what the trick was there. Why exactly does it slow down under heating/speed up under cooling? Is this due to standard semidconductor behaviour?
And, apart from stopping it from overheating, I wonder how advantageous this is, when you are multitasking and running an intensive program next to a lighter one, all comes to a halt due to the intensive calculation->heating->slowing down feedback.
Ah, glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem. Every now and then some flash ads come up that seem to hover over a certain part of your screen (under firefox at least), no matter where you scroll. Amazingly irritating, and not very nice to present these ads to the flash-hating firefox-loving slashdot crowd:)
it's obvious, but it's also a bad thing to happen. A search engine should be non-biasable, any other way, as long as it biases certain 'web-designs', this bias will be abused by SEO companies. This is bad, because the actual user (the person who searches on google and might click on the relevant ads) will end up with loads of shitty search results. In the end, google will notice this when other search engines found a way to use smarter algorithms and prevent SEO in general and the abuse of it in particular. Still a far way from that, though.
If any of you have read this group test and came away disappointed that we compared every monitor except the one you're seriously considering ie Dell, then please do make your voices heard. Show the execs at Dell that you want to see bit-tech given the chance to review their displays. Head over to our Article Discussion forum and make some noise!
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There's been a lot on the news lately on people being distracted by navigation systems while driving. As these things can see if you're moving or not, they could be made in such a way that they don't accept input while driving. Anyway, if people were really honest to themselves, they would see that they're not driving as good while using their other hand for other operations while they're driving, being it putting on lipstick, phoning, or typing on a notebook (one guy in holland had built a clamp for his notebook behind his steering wheel!)
So you're right, a law for using a specific device while driving is as useless as a law against licking someone's toes on a beach :)
offtopic p.s.: no thanks to "crystal reports | business objects" for locking up my pc with their flash advertisement while I was typing this. I actually even couldn't figure out what they were trying to sell me.
Indeed, for word processing this doesn't make the slightest sense. I can imagine this for certain specialized and/or database-based applications that have to be run centrally. I worked in a small office for a while, they had an underpowered dsl connection and had put cytrix client on their standard pc's, so we had to use the word processor on some server in another part of town and were not able to use any of the local resources. Of course, this was amazingly slow and very bad for productivity as a whole. If you use thin clients and central applications, smart idea, but use it on a local server with a quick connection.
yeah it works this way, when you're on the german autobahn, you see all the up-class audi (those are the most macho drivers nowadays), volkswagen, bmw, mercedes people passing you at 100 mph no matter what the weather is (ice, snow, or the most dangerous: heavy rainfall). Due to traction control, abs, eps, etc, they feel pretty safe and having their vehicle under control. But at the moment that a layer of ice, or a layer of water, gets inbetween the traction of the wheels with the street, it's all up to frictionless physics, and no intelligent steering system will be able to beat the laws of physics.
Actually there is nothing shallow about liking a woman's physique. Most girls I know like it when you are clear in this. And they are not very into men that are all-politically correct about it. Besides, you should hear women talking about other women's looks, that's much worse than the omments most male could think of :)
Flash is developed to be slow as hell on everything. Actually people that use flash for their websites should be sued because they eat the time (=money) away of people that have better things to do than to look at fancy moving menus, "loading..." status meters, etc. etc. for half a minute when they just quickly want to check something on the interweb. What good is a 20 mbit dsl connection and a 3 Ghz processor, when the website interface is deliberately slowed down???
Friend of mine bought the R42 (? the basic celeron model) several months ago. It was impossible to burn cd's with it (even just plain data to cd), the standard IBM program to do this just gave some random errors, after turning the cd into toast. Had to spend half a day downloading alternative burning programs, ended up changing a .dll by one I found on the internet. Even nicer is that no backup cd with programs came in the package, so I have to hope that the backup I made after this is a working one. It's such a shame, I liked the idea of having a solid, robust, nothing-fancy notebook that you can rely on.
I have another theory: He didn't have to spend years and years practicing the opening melody of "nothing else matters" in complete isolation, so he actually has lots of time left, for example to build a wireless controller into his air guitar, or to hang around with lots of sexy chicks.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182944&cid=151 25569
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182944&cid=151 25461
You seem to be talking in the "they" form there, while here you switched to the "we" form. It's not bad to plug something you're proud of as long as you're honest about it and warning everyone that you're doing it (as in "disclaimer: I work on this"). However, if you plug something without showing your involvement in it, it's just plain spamming, and most people will tell you to screw yourself when they've found out, even when you're actually offering something good. Just warning you here.
other feature requests are in your feedback inbox... ;)
but couldn't it be a disadvantage as well? The hosts file is pretty easy to clean up, you just need a file editor, but as soon as someone has found out how to change this "hidden setting" pointing to the microsoft servers, it will be pretty hard to repair it again. I think in the end, this non-solution will backfire on microsoft.
ok, this one looks pretty nice, seems to do what I want without overdoing it. Does it cost money? If not, how do you plan to generate revenue :)
Ah, and while we're at it, I'm looking for an event calender for a small group of people. Currently we're using yahoo groups, but it's calender has troubles with repeating events, randomly it sends or does not send the e-mails for these events, which is pretty disturbing.
use w3m ;) Ah, but you're right, something is terribly wrong. Also I have lots of trouble with inline wmv videos, they end up looking like a dia show, if they start at all, but at least quicktime works pretty fluent. The worst, however, are the movies on the google video service, which idiot came with the idea to use flash to show video content??? Maybe I should download their video player.
http://www.migration-online.de/publikation._cGlkPT IzJmlkPTQyNDU_.html
There's a lot of interesting stuff there, for example if you move from a country TO germany you can keep the two citizenships when the original country does not allow you to let go of their citizenship: marocco, algeria, tunesia, syria, iran (one Bundesland does not allow 2 citizenships of you're from Iran, I guess that must be Bayern ;) ) In the case of this guy however, if you move to another country and accept their citizenship you can request a 'Beibehaltungsgenehmigung' (ah, german bureaucratic words), where you have to show that you have and will keep considerable ties to Germany.
So, several things could be the matter, one is that the journalist just assumed he has two citizenships, but in reality doesn't. The second is that he actually has two citizenships, but that the organization committee doesn't accept his team because it's from a non-european university (this would make sense). Three, he actually would be able to apply, but the committee are a bunch of chauvinist pigs that want one of the european teams they are most related to win, and know that they won't stand a chance against this guy ;)
In any case, most of the european scientific community isn't a very "open" one, it's hard to get into a top-position, you'll have to make friends in the right positions, etc. And I guess sebsatian thrun has seen reconfirmed the reason that he left europe in the first place.
Disclaimer: I'm a european starting a scientific career in europe, or maybe not ;)
Indeed, their huge text "subscribe to read the answer" is a bit misleading, but I have found reasonable useful stuff in there for free after I found it the answer is actually there at the bottom to read for free. I guess I would just sod them just like the GP if they didn't show the answer, and would just move on to someplace useful. But what I think is the main plan is to remove the free answers at the moment that they have enough momentum to survive un paying subscribers. If that will ever happen of course.
I'm pretty ok with the "dupe" tag warning you before you start reading the post, and people that already read it can skip it.
But then again, I didn't pay for my subscription ;)
Personal possession of goods that are part of a company's Intellectual Property is so 20th century, who does that nowadays? Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I get the impression that "buying" is seen more and more as "buying a restricted license" instead of "buying" mean to "obtain complete possession over the bought goods, and allowing you to do what you want with it".
sounds like my story, man. I ran a unisys(!) pentium 133, 96 mb ram, running openbsd and windowmaker gui as my main pc until 2002. Worked like a charm, and no fan on either the cpu or the graphicscard, so pretty silent (except for the old noisy HDs) The only reason I had to start looking for a new pc was because internet browsing became impossible with the load of Flash content, that would block my whole pc. As a matter of fact, flash moves my cpu usage up to 100% on my new pc also.
And, apart from stopping it from overheating, I wonder how advantageous this is, when you are multitasking and running an intensive program next to a lighter one, all comes to a halt due to the intensive calculation->heating->slowing down feedback.
Ah, glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem. Every now and then some flash ads come up that seem to hover over a certain part of your screen (under firefox at least), no matter where you scroll. Amazingly irritating, and not very nice to present these ads to the flash-hating firefox-loving slashdot crowd :)
it's obvious, but it's also a bad thing to happen. A search engine should be non-biasable, any other way, as long as it biases certain 'web-designs', this bias will be abused by SEO companies. This is bad, because the actual user (the person who searches on google and might click on the relevant ads) will end up with loads of shitty search results. In the end, google will notice this when other search engines found a way to use smarter algorithms and prevent SEO in general and the abuse of it in particular. Still a far way from that, though.
Unicorns are not human animal hybrids. I guess you mean centaurs!
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/03/30/20_inc h_widescreen_monitors/7.html
If any of you have read this group test and came away disappointed that we compared every monitor except the one you're seriously considering ie Dell, then please do make your voices heard. Show the execs at Dell that you want to see bit-tech given the chance to review their displays. Head over to our Article Discussion forum and make some noise!
"no databases for linux as powerfull as MS Access"! there is an MS Access for linux now? ;) If so, are Ballmer's kids allowed to use it or not?