These environmental sensors should have some wireless functionality, it looks rather tedious to collect them all the time, by the time you put them in the reader, you stop the datamining. It would be much nicer if you could just but the reader closeby and read out the data over bluetooth or something. And who needs something like that anyway? Weather fanatics?
Exactly, this was missing in CmdrTaco's story, submitting a link on slashdot to your own page (or some page you are related to) may, in this day and age, generate a lot of money! This makes that there's not only an honour, but also a financial factor to getting your link on slashdot. For a lot of posts, this is irrelevant as the site that's linked to is not aiming on generating money.
But in those cases where it's really clear (see ugly hexus.net websites with meak content and lots of ads) that the site is just there to generate traffic for PageRank, I see it as a duty to the editors to prevent their users in losing time (= money?) to look at a webpage that's just there to generate money for someone, without giving us back some informational content. It's just a webpage equivalent of spam.
I only wonder why this is not mentioned more in the threads here. For me, in any case, it's the main reason not to look on sites of these infamous posters. It's really not that I don't like them, but it's just a waste of time for the wrong cause.
Ah, so it makes sense, since you will at least hear both channels. But he specifically mentioned balance control. And, now that I think of it, I have headphones with balance control (I bought them because of the long cord that came with them):
it's the beyer dynamic DT 131 TV. Designed for watching tv with a corded phone. They apparently designed it for elderly people, not only because they show some old person on the picture of the box, but also because of the HUGE balance control box in the cord. I like the idea that they thought about partial deafness and sight/hand coordination for this group of users, but this big box and the 6 m cord make it a bit useless for use on the road.
There's no need to "burn" trees for printing books... Furthermore, paper is generally made from wood from sustainable forests, so no actual amount of trees is lost.
If you're really concerned about burning trees, you should rethink your beef eating habits. Burger, anyone?
But seriously, if you were running windows 98 now, viruses (viri?) won't even be able to run on it, I would guess you're pretty save. I wonder if something like that also won't happen to SP2, any new virus will be made to crack the latest hole in SP2, but what if you don't have SP2 in the first place?
Viruses are a matter of statistics, they will most likely be aimed at the most abundant holes. I really wonder if the old viruses that were aimed at pre-SP2 windows xp are still around, this part of the question of the main poster was not really answered here...
you mention the fact that the router is not very sophisticated (as you could expect for an all-in-one), already therefore it makes sense to buy separate storage and routing products, but isn't it also just plain stupid to have all the critical tasks as storage, routing, etc. in one single box?? If the thing gets compromised in one way or the other, you are screwed over the whole line!
Most of the protein folding studies really don't gain a lot on these huge systems, you would want to use about 32 processors per job maximum (unefficient load balancing / communication starts hindering scaling above that). It's nice to have the ability to do a lot of 32 proc. jobs at the same time without having to wait, but it will be inefficient to use all the processors at the same time for one job, so this max. teraflop-value isn't of much importance for protein folding studies in practice.
Most of the people doing protein folding studies nowadays could just suffice with access to a moderately big fast-interconnect opteron cluster, really doesn't have to be as huge as those top-500 systems.
I guess that there are a lot of areas (nuclear physics, ab-initio), where you can actually gain speed by adding processors and memory ad infinitum, for these people the huge scalability of these IBM machines will be very useful.
hmmm, but without a decent flash it still won't help you when you crash in the dark, I guess?
anyway, concerning GP's post, I recently bought a new LG phone without camera, pretty classy looking, and with nested phonebook and a decent calender function. While I was looking for this thing, there was a costumer asking the saleswoman for a phone 'just to call with' after which the saleswoman laughed a bit saying "don't we all" and continuing to try and sell them a phone with camera and lots of useless features. Just look around in every shop and don't ask the salespersons, and you'll find your no-nonsense phone.
tip of the day: to use the nested phonebook, your phone should be configured to save on the phone memory, not on the sim-card. sim-card entries only accept one name - one number input.
#2 might be a practical one: If it fails, they could always blame it on the intern! Wasn't there some young kid who got his MSCE some time ago, might be they hired him to make strategic decisions for the asian market;)
Additionally to that, asbestos is pretty inert so the macrophages will never actually succeed in destroying the asbestos pins, so there will be a very long duration of all the processes described above.
Those screenshots don't really look like a program to me. Are you sure it's not a powerpoint presentation or something? Maybe they merged WMP in powerpoint... Really what's so difficult in making a player with one big playlist and the usual start/stop/volume buttons? I use xmms on linux and an older winamp version for windows, default skin, it has just the things I need an I can make is at big/small as I want.
It only had one accident in these 100 years, due to some maintenance workers forgetting to remove their safety clamps. But still this is probably the most safe means of transportation ever.
The thing is probably that the visibility of color screens is more easily hindered by scratches, probably has to do something with how your eyes and brain can handle missing data (like recognizing a word when only part of it is shown). The problem is (according to my humble intuition) that on a monochrome screen this is far more easy than on a screen with different colors, because instead of just light/dark, it has to mangle all the different colors together to something understandable (and probably the pixel size is just smaller).
This is just something I thought about when comparing my 5 year old monochrome cellphone with my new color phone, both are in my pocket and the monochrome one has lots of scratches, but is still well-readable, and with the new one I already find the few scratches that are on it hindring.
Ok, so here is actually one post addressing one of the main points the sun guy seems to promote:
from TFA:
The threat to PCs is twofold. Not only are services moving to the network, Schwartz said, but PCs won't be the way people use those services--particularly in poorer areas of the world that have risen higher up Sun's corporate priority list. Instead, that access will come through mobile phones.
But I must be missing something here, how will they make this feasible for costs that lie within reach of the people living there? If I would surf the internet on my mobile here in Europe, I am able to get a 30 MB flatrate(!) at max, for about 50 euro per month, with additional costs per 128 kB in the range of 10 cent or something. Why are they expecting this to work in underdeveloped countries if it doesn't even work here??? Maybe they expect that there are so little big objects (flats) and people using it out there that they can use just one GPRS sender per town or something.
What he probably means is that people there have only a need for low-bandwith communication, simple text processor, mail, web etc. But that is true for most of the people here as well. I cannot share Sun's obsession with thin clients in people's homes, I once had to work on a pc that was downgraded to a thin client to connect via adsl with a server in another part of town, and this was way too slow, the problem is that everything on your screen have to be send over the adsl-line every time, no caching or anything. Please, thin clients can work very nicely in very fast networks, but as long as we still have dsl at home, let us just buy pcs that process locally.
The rest of what he says makes a point, the static applications for 90% of the users are more or less developed completely by now (who needs the new functions of office 12 above the ones in office 97?), there is a shift towards webbased applications, and probably most people will need not more than a low-power pc with a usb stick to save their data, I know I wouldn't mind owning nothing more than a mac mini;)
I'm not sure. Mine doesn't say anything about being region-free. so I can assume that it's locked. And aren't these things locked into pc dvd-drives as well, that you can switch about 5 times and then no more? I have a lot of foreign colleagues and some of them just won't play dvds on it since they don't want to change the region code for when they move back. It might be that this can be overruled by some registry-changing program but that is not my point. The point is that it just makes it bloody difficult to watch movies the legal way when you are interested in movies from all over the world or just move over the world around a lot.
Some of the other points mentioned here do make sense though, e.g. the pricing (but hey, they should invent region codes for music cds as well then! shit, shouldn't have said that. Or what about books? or medication? This all a lot cheaper in other countries, but still nothing prevents us from using it.), but probably the marketing costs are the main factor, distribution is probably still smaller and will be even smaller due to the digital techniques that stunt_penguin mentioned.
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think about flight sims! that would help alot not having to have go through the 300 page manual and reference to find the right key combinations.
yes indeed, glasses like that have been showing up for ages, never ever worked. VR is a thing that passed by I guess.
These environmental sensors should have some wireless functionality, it looks rather tedious to collect them all the time, by the time you put them in the reader, you stop the datamining. It would be much nicer if you could just but the reader closeby and read out the data over bluetooth or something. And who needs something like that anyway? Weather fanatics?
But in those cases where it's really clear (see ugly hexus.net websites with meak content and lots of ads) that the site is just there to generate traffic for PageRank, I see it as a duty to the editors to prevent their users in losing time (= money?) to look at a webpage that's just there to generate money for someone, without giving us back some informational content. It's just a webpage equivalent of spam.
I only wonder why this is not mentioned more in the threads here. For me, in any case, it's the main reason not to look on sites of these infamous posters. It's really not that I don't like them, but it's just a waste of time for the wrong cause.
it's the beyer dynamic DT 131 TV. Designed for watching tv with a corded phone. They apparently designed it for elderly people, not only because they show some old person on the picture of the box, but also because of the HUGE balance control box in the cord. I like the idea that they thought about partial deafness and sight/hand coordination for this group of users, but this big box and the 6 m cord make it a bit useless for use on the road.
Furthermore, paper is generally made from wood from sustainable forests, so no actual amount of trees is lost.
If you're really concerned about burning trees, you should rethink your beef eating habits. Burger, anyone?
That links to a stereo-to-mono adapter, doesn't sound like the right solution to me? Maybe there are earplugs with balance control in the cord?
Hmm, I pretty much liked the record scanning hack, but what about combining them, reading your phonograph records with an optical mouse! :)
The reaction is a bit more understandable when you've read the original question, which didn't have much of a serious tone either..
http://www.sri.com/about/timeline/mouse.html
streaming video of the '68 demonstration
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
Not since 1951 at least, I guess this is the movie quote you're referring to ;)
Viruses are a matter of statistics, they will most likely be aimed at the most abundant holes. I really wonder if the old viruses that were aimed at pre-SP2 windows xp are still around, this part of the question of the main poster was not really answered here...
you mention the fact that the router is not very sophisticated (as you could expect for an all-in-one), already therefore it makes sense to buy separate storage and routing products, but isn't it also just plain stupid to have all the critical tasks as storage, routing, etc. in one single box?? If the thing gets compromised in one way or the other, you are screwed over the whole line!
http://www.animus-web.demon.co.uk/maidens/ :)
(lots of short skirts in that series by the way, and fancy helmets too! just check the fashion section of above website)
hmm okay, but not really sure about the case, you might need a new case if the motherboard format switches.
Most of the people doing protein folding studies nowadays could just suffice with access to a moderately big fast-interconnect opteron cluster, really doesn't have to be as huge as those top-500 systems.
I guess that there are a lot of areas (nuclear physics, ab-initio), where you can actually gain speed by adding processors and memory ad infinitum, for these people the huge scalability of these IBM machines will be very useful.
hmmm, but without a decent flash it still won't help you when you crash in the dark, I guess? anyway, concerning GP's post, I recently bought a new LG phone without camera, pretty classy looking, and with nested phonebook and a decent calender function. While I was looking for this thing, there was a costumer asking the saleswoman for a phone 'just to call with' after which the saleswoman laughed a bit saying "don't we all" and continuing to try and sell them a phone with camera and lots of useless features. Just look around in every shop and don't ask the salespersons, and you'll find your no-nonsense phone. tip of the day: to use the nested phonebook, your phone should be configured to save on the phone memory, not on the sim-card. sim-card entries only accept one name - one number input.
#2 might be a practical one: If it fails, they could always blame it on the intern! Wasn't there some young kid who got his MSCE some time ago, might be they hired him to make strategic decisions for the asian market ;)
Additionally to that, asbestos is pretty inert so the macrophages will never actually succeed in destroying the asbestos pins, so there will be a very long duration of all the processes described above.
Those screenshots don't really look like a program to me. Are you sure it's not a powerpoint presentation or something? Maybe they merged WMP in powerpoint... Really what's so difficult in making a player with one big playlist and the usual start/stop/volume buttons? I use xmms on linux and an older winamp version for windows, default skin, it has just the things I need an I can make is at big/small as I want.
http://schwebebahn.com/gallery/index.asp
It only had one accident in these 100 years, due to some maintenance workers forgetting to remove their safety clamps. But still this is probably the most safe means of transportation ever.
The thing is probably that the visibility of color screens is more easily hindered by scratches, probably has to do something with how your eyes and brain can handle missing data (like recognizing a word when only part of it is shown). The problem is (according to my humble intuition) that on a monochrome screen this is far more easy than on a screen with different colors, because instead of just light/dark, it has to mangle all the different colors together to something understandable (and probably the pixel size is just smaller).
This is just something I thought about when comparing my 5 year old monochrome cellphone with my new color phone, both are in my pocket and the monochrome one has lots of scratches, but is still well-readable, and with the new one I already find the few scratches that are on it hindring.
You mean the russian-developed Kliper I guess? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliper (with european investments as well).
from TFA:
The threat to PCs is twofold. Not only are services moving to the network, Schwartz said, but PCs won't be the way people use those services--particularly in poorer areas of the world that have risen higher up Sun's corporate priority list. Instead, that access will come through mobile phones.
But I must be missing something here, how will they make this feasible for costs that lie within reach of the people living there? If I would surf the internet on my mobile here in Europe, I am able to get a 30 MB flatrate(!) at max, for about 50 euro per month, with additional costs per 128 kB in the range of 10 cent or something. Why are they expecting this to work in underdeveloped countries if it doesn't even work here??? Maybe they expect that there are so little big objects (flats) and people using it out there that they can use just one GPRS sender per town or something.
What he probably means is that people there have only a need for low-bandwith communication, simple text processor, mail, web etc. But that is true for most of the people here as well. I cannot share Sun's obsession with thin clients in people's homes, I once had to work on a pc that was downgraded to a thin client to connect via adsl with a server in another part of town, and this was way too slow, the problem is that everything on your screen have to be send over the adsl-line every time, no caching or anything. Please, thin clients can work very nicely in very fast networks, but as long as we still have dsl at home, let us just buy pcs that process locally.
The rest of what he says makes a point, the static applications for 90% of the users are more or less developed completely by now (who needs the new functions of office 12 above the ones in office 97?), there is a shift towards webbased applications, and probably most people will need not more than a low-power pc with a usb stick to save their data, I know I wouldn't mind owning nothing more than a mac mini ;)
Some of the other points mentioned here do make sense though, e.g. the pricing (but hey, they should invent region codes for music cds as well then! shit, shouldn't have said that. Or what about books? or medication? This all a lot cheaper in other countries, but still nothing prevents us from using it.), but probably the marketing costs are the main factor, distribution is probably still smaller and will be even smaller due to the digital techniques that stunt_penguin mentioned.