Good to see that some people in the industry (even from disney!?!) are actually trying to think along with the costumers instead of making their movie-watching lives miserable. Are you paying attention here, RIAA?
This would also be a very good opportunity to get rid of the irritating DVD release zones. I think these zones are ment to align the DVD releases in all countries with the movie releases, which are also shifted around the world (what's actually wrong with one world-wide release date?).
But what they actually do is just give you lots of trouble when anyone outside the US or Japan wants to order a DVD that's only available there (no matter how long ago it was released!), and then has to find a zone-free DVD-player, or heck their existing one, etc. Just stop with this crap, and you'll have a world-wide market for all your DVD's! Doesn't that sound nice?
Well, the board may be the same size, but what about the power consumption and heath production? Can you actually clock the P4 down in such a way that it will fit in a small form factor box with low-power psu?
Actually this is a good idea. Someone should set up a server with perl script that performs the submission to slashdot, but does a dupe-check first. And then it should go to the real slashdot server!
Well, I just don't have enough money left to buy cd's, even if I wanted to. I also don't download and just basically listen the things I already collected. I guess that since more basic things like housing and food aren't getting any cheaper while lately salaries are frozen for several years a lot of people will do it like this, and record companies will find a way to blame it on all the "pirating" people, instead of realizing that they, by asking too high prices and blocking the introduction of new artists (or just new cds from their own artists) are the main cause for falling sales.
According to TFA, they already made a simple demo that is a port of Irritating Stick. Just at least scroll through the paragraph titles in the article next time, ok;)
A shame that the movie doesn't show any actual games... But man, this thing is cool!
I was on the IGN website and saw the microsoft presentation described there as well, with new versions of all the boring games we already know:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/651/651046p2.html
What Nintendo is doing here is just opening a whole new set of games, and maybe just actually what giving what a gaming console promised us all the time: realistic interaction! It's not just about the picture quality, can't do much there anymore. Want to play tennis? Play it with your controller! Want to play golf? Ditto! And then of course some new funny stuff that the game designers there will come up with that I can't even imagine! I never before considered buying a console, but this one I will consider!
Actually, if there is a awy to do 3d controlling with this thing, I would like to see it ported to the pc, and use as a controller in designing stuff.
Your comment makes not much sense. For example: the region Bavaria in Germany has longest holiday time of whole germany, but still is the most thriving part. Maybe just increasing working time for employees is does not directly lead to economic success? You can count on your fingers that stressful working environments, and the absense of being able to take rest from work, will do a lot worse on total productivity, than you would get by giving a few days more off.
Actually this was one of the first things I thought of after seeing the nano in tight womans pants (not much guessing about what the actual first thought was;) )
In europe we have mobile phones with SIM cards that should be mounted in, always somewhere next to the battery. Now what happens is that, when carrying around in your poocket or a bag, the thing gets bend a bit every time, and the contacts between either the battery and the phone or the sim and the phone are bit more loosened than normal. This will lead to you phone loosing network, or just completely shutting of. I think the best solution might be to make these things actually bendable a bit (steel doesn't sound like a good material for this), so it will just bend along and nothing will break. A bit like a storm-proof skyscraper.
I have a samsung SGH M-100 which was maybe the first mp3 phone around. It has a whopping 32 or 64 MB of memory which was enough for a highly compressed led zeppeling album to keep you awake when commuting in the train.
Don't know if anything improved, but battery life was eaten by the mp3 player/headphone amplifier, although I could still make it through the day.
The problem is that when you see your battery runs low, you'd better stop listening to music if you also might want to use the phone that day.
In the end the MP3 function became obsolete, since my headphone broke and it had some very non-standard jack which would mean I had to get an original replacement headphone that would probably have cost as much as a new cellphone. Furthermore a big disadvantage was that all this memory when not in use for mp3s couldn't be used for saving text messages, the organizer-data, etc. Or if there would have been a usb interface to use it as a memory disk. I hope they do it better nowadays.
Ok so you didn't read the article, but you could have at least read this comment:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161804 &cid=13528371
They are going to lease it out, seems like a smart idea to me. Furthermore someone else already found out that the price is a misprint (duh!), and it is $100-120 million. I am not in the reactor business and wouldn't know if this is a nice deal or not;)
Actually I find this scanner question much more plausible than the last "ask slashdot" about setting up an e-mail service with 1 million accounts.
For buying a scanner, which is something you do once every 5 years or so, maybe even less, you really have to find out from someone who knows about this to get an idea what you are looking for.
The guy asking about the e-mail server on the other hand, is either a clueless person with a wrong job (with a job above his competencies), or a dweep who is just telling some plain lies to get a slashdot post. Actually I hope for the last one, as I would pity the company he works for if they really have their e-mail system depend on him.
Even though I am not left-handed, I have my mouse left-handed. This in general will give less stress on the right hand, and also allows you to use the mouse and pageup/pagedown simultaneously. I have a IBM rapidacces keyboard with special browser back and forward buttons next to the arrows (just linking to alt-left and alt-right I guess) and also those I use while having my hand on my mouse, I never realized this, but this is perfect for internet browsing.
And why did GP get modded 'Funny'? Damn man, this is serious business:)
Yup, I agree here. For X-windows copy-paste you only need a three-button mouse. The scroll-wheel makes a very lousy middle button, it just feels uncomfortable. For browsing websites you can skip the wheel and just use PageUp/PageDown.
Actually I thought logitech still made the simple corded 3-button mouse, I bought a new one about 3 years ago,but it really just dissapeared from their website... Maybe you'll have to wait for Das Maus now:)
Ok then, since you mention it should be replacing paper, wat about this:
- it needs batteries - you cannot put a staple through it - you can not rip it in half - you cannot use a yellow marker to stress certain parts - etc
This thing is only partially replacing paper of course, right now it's just a simple, but actually working, lightweight, flexible screen. How many of those have you seen before? This thing is the first working application of this kind, doesn't really replace anything existing, and therefore deserves some respect. Call me naive, but when I saw the picture of the ipod-shuffle sized device that can be stretched out to a psp-sized screen, I was pretty amazed.
You can put as much technology in mobile devices as you want, without a considerable screen size you just won't be able to use it properly. Think about the recent mobile phone from samsung that can read excel/word/pdf files, but with a screen size limited to the phone size you sure will have problems filling in your spreadsheet!;) I for one would prefer a mobile phone with a pixely screen like this any time over a crisp 4 million color display that has the size of a stamp.
You know, I started reading slashdot not too long ago, and I actually see that there are often user contributions are pretty good, and that a lot of the stupid memes aren't posted anymore, or are just downmodded very fast, really the user comments have made quite an improvement in the last years.
On the whole, I have the impression that a lot of the slashdot readers are competent, grown-up, people.
So apparently the modding system works good, the people visiting here are serious about nerdish stuff, but then why-oh-why do the editors manage to screw up with these dupes? There have been outcries for this for a long time, and nothing seems to be done. That even the notice system for subscribed users didn't got fixed (it apparently isn't working) is sad.
I would like to suggest an "ask slashdot" asking why they don't care about wasting the time and effort of the people coming here. Yes, it's their own decision to come here, so they could just not come, but isn't the purpose of slashdot to provide interested "nerds" with "stuff that matters"? If slashdot doesn't care for their viewers, then who do they care for?
Or else it should be an idea to ask if anyone knows promising alternatives to slashdot.
>the thinking is now to let it flood as much as possible into farmland and hence reduce the strain on dijks around more important inhabited lands.
This is not a new idea at all, we have been having "uiterwaarden" since centuries (clear picture here: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomerkade )
The only problem with it, is that this land that was ment to be flooded and only be used to grass cows on, got builded on, for which is was never ment (obviously).
But what is probably new is that whole regions of land are assigned to be flooded when necessary, I'm not sure what they'll do with the people that live there at the moment, though.
I quickly scanned TFP: He doesn't seem to imply anything about 50% of all papers being false, I would rather call this a bad case of scientific journalism on the side of New Scientist.
Furthermore, as an essay, it might or might not be peer reviewed, didn't go into that. The study itself is probably not as crappy as you might think after reading the New Scientist link, because, as parent makes clear, it provides a modeling approach to assess articles in this field.
Not that I understand a lot of all this, I am not a assembly/cpu architecture expert, but this seems to be the first post which actually mentions the technology about this processor. The rest of all comments here are just the usual mindless chit-chat-posts. Are there any more people that can give a more in-depth discussion on this processor, something I hoped to expect here on slashdot?
Low PhD salaries are common for almost the whole world, except probably the Netherlands;)
As a non-US scientist however, it becomes increasingly unfavorable to go to the US to do science, as they make it pretty difficult to get in to the country in the first place. All the "anti-terrorist" measurements inhibit a lot of scientists from moving to the US, as it takes very long to get a visum (even for a short visit to a scientific congress), if you get one at all.
When a lot of science in the US depends on foreign scientists (which it most probably does), this will certainly help in the decline of US's position in science.
This is modded as "funny", but it's actually real.A first case of drugdealing in south america with cash euro bills was recently reported in "Die Zeit", a german newspaper, and apparently also elsewhere:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2111504
I use it as a reference, and for that it serves me just fine. w3schools might not be loaden with examples of how to implement the code, but when starting from scratch I'd often just want to know the options available and what they do, rather than having to crawl my way through loads of examples and have to overthink what exactly other people wanted to do there.
The way you reason Zengarden might not be useful as well, as it is a collection of implementations without going into the markup details.
I would say that w3schools is helpful, it just depends on what you want.
Some taxi-driver found it, discovered that it had very sensitive information about some current open cases on it, and a lot of personal stuff that could make the prosecutor vulnerable for blackmail etc. when in the wrong hands.
These things just show that some state organisations (or the people working there) have really too little awareness of handling computer data the right way. Actually this year we had a case in the netherlands where some secret state report ended up in an upload filesharing folder of the person working on it, and thereby just could spread all over. I think people working at such positions really should be instructed on safe computing, especially at home or using laptops, the risks are pretty high that data can get stolen.
My thoughts exactly. They did something similar in Amsterdam to make the "open market" help "lowering" the prices. Currently it is very very hard to find a taxi that is reasonably modern, because a lot of people started in the taxi business with their 10-year old (polluting!) car, asking just the same price as before, or screwing you by taking huge detours.
The original taxi companies that existed under the stricter rules gave you at least some garantee that you would have a properly trained taxi driver, in a properly maintained taxi.
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This would also be a very good opportunity to get rid of the irritating DVD release zones. I think these zones are ment to align the DVD releases in all countries with the movie releases, which are also shifted around the world (what's actually wrong with one world-wide release date?).
But what they actually do is just give you lots of trouble when anyone outside the US or Japan wants to order a DVD that's only available there (no matter how long ago it was released!), and then has to find a zone-free DVD-player, or heck their existing one, etc.
Just stop with this crap, and you'll have a world-wide market for all your DVD's! Doesn't that sound nice?
Well, the board may be the same size, but what about the power consumption and heath production? Can you actually clock the P4 down in such a way that it will fit in a small form factor box with low-power psu?
Actually this is a good idea. Someone should set up a server with perl script that performs the submission to slashdot, but does a dupe-check first. And then it should go to the real slashdot server!
Well, I just don't have enough money left to buy cd's, even if I wanted to. I also don't download and just basically listen the things I already collected. I guess that since more basic things like housing and food aren't getting any cheaper while lately salaries are frozen for several years a lot of people will do it like this, and record companies will find a way to blame it on all the "pirating" people, instead of realizing that they, by asking too high prices and blocking the introduction of new artists (or just new cds from their own artists) are the main cause for falling sales.
According to TFA, they already made a simple demo that is a port of Irritating Stick. Just at least scroll through the paragraph titles in the article next time, ok ;)
A shame that the movie doesn't show any actual games... But man, this thing is cool!
I was on the IGN website and saw the microsoft presentation described there as well, with new versions of all the boring games we already know: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/651/651046p2.html
What Nintendo is doing here is just opening a whole new set of games, and maybe just actually what giving what a gaming console promised us all the time: realistic interaction! It's not just about the picture quality, can't do much there anymore. Want to play tennis? Play it with your controller! Want to play golf? Ditto! And then of course some new funny stuff that the game designers there will come up with that I can't even imagine! I never before considered buying a console, but this one I will consider!
Actually, if there is a awy to do 3d controlling with this thing, I would like to see it ported to the pc, and use as a controller in designing stuff.
French unions will strike over anything, really, don't mind that too much, it's part of the local folklore ;)
Your comment makes not much sense. For example: the region Bavaria in Germany has longest holiday time of whole germany, but still is the most thriving part. Maybe just increasing working time for employees is does not directly lead to economic success?
You can count on your fingers that stressful working environments, and the absense of being able to take rest from work, will do a lot worse on total productivity, than you would get by giving a few days more off.
In europe we have mobile phones with SIM cards that should be mounted in, always somewhere next to the battery. Now what happens is that, when carrying around in your poocket or a bag, the thing gets bend a bit every time, and the contacts between either the battery and the phone or the sim and the phone are bit more loosened than normal. This will lead to you phone loosing network, or just completely shutting of. I think the best solution might be to make these things actually bendable a bit (steel doesn't sound like a good material for this), so it will just bend along and nothing will break. A bit like a storm-proof skyscraper.
In the end the MP3 function became obsolete, since my headphone broke and it had some very non-standard jack which would mean I had to get an original replacement headphone that would probably have cost as much as a new cellphone. Furthermore a big disadvantage was that all this memory when not in use for mp3s couldn't be used for saving text messages, the organizer-data, etc. Or if there would have been a usb interface to use it as a memory disk. I hope they do it better nowadays.
Ok so you didn't read the article, but you could have at least read this comment:4 &cid=13528371
;)
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16180
They are going to lease it out, seems like a smart idea to me. Furthermore someone else already found out that the price is a misprint (duh!), and it is $100-120 million. I am not in the reactor business and wouldn't know if this is a nice deal or not
Actually I find this scanner question much more plausible than the last "ask slashdot" about setting up an e-mail service with 1 million accounts.
For buying a scanner, which is something you do once every 5 years or so, maybe even less, you really have to find out from someone who knows about this to get an idea what you are looking for.
The guy asking about the e-mail server on the other hand, is either a clueless person with a wrong job (with a job above his competencies), or a dweep who is just telling some plain lies to get a slashdot post. Actually I hope for the last one, as I would pity the company he works for if they really have their e-mail system depend on him.
Even though I am not left-handed, I have my mouse left-handed. This in general will give less stress on the right hand, and also allows you to use the mouse and pageup/pagedown simultaneously. I have a IBM rapidacces keyboard with special browser back and forward buttons next to the arrows (just linking to alt-left and alt-right I guess) and also those I use while having my hand on my mouse, I never realized this, but this is perfect for internet browsing. :)
And why did GP get modded 'Funny'? Damn man, this is serious business
Yup, I agree here. For X-windows copy-paste you only need a three-button mouse. The scroll-wheel makes a very lousy middle button, it just feels uncomfortable. For browsing websites you can skip the wheel and just use PageUp/PageDown. :)
Actually I thought logitech still made the simple corded 3-button mouse, I bought a new one about 3 years ago,but it really just dissapeared from their website... Maybe you'll have to wait for Das Maus now
Ok then, since you mention it should be replacing paper, wat about this:
;) I for one would prefer a mobile phone with a pixely screen like this any time over a crisp 4 million color display that has the size of a stamp.
- it needs batteries
- you cannot put a staple through it
- you can not rip it in half
- you cannot use a yellow marker to stress certain parts
- etc
This thing is only partially replacing paper of course, right now it's just a simple, but actually working, lightweight, flexible screen. How many of those have you seen before? This thing is the first working application of this kind, doesn't really replace anything existing, and therefore deserves some respect.
Call me naive, but when I saw the picture of the ipod-shuffle sized device that can be stretched out to a psp-sized screen, I was pretty amazed.
You can put as much technology in mobile devices as you want, without a considerable screen size you just won't be able to use it properly. Think about the recent mobile phone from samsung that can read excel/word/pdf files, but with a screen size limited to the phone size you sure will have problems filling in your spreadsheet!
So apparently the modding system works good, the people visiting here are serious about nerdish stuff, but then why-oh-why do the editors manage to screw up with these dupes? There have been outcries for this for a long time, and nothing seems to be done. That even the notice system for subscribed users didn't got fixed (it apparently isn't working) is sad.
I would like to suggest an "ask slashdot" asking why they don't care about wasting the time and effort of the people coming here. Yes, it's their own decision to come here, so they could just not come, but isn't the purpose of slashdot to provide interested "nerds" with "stuff that matters"? If slashdot doesn't care for their viewers, then who do they care for? Or else it should be an idea to ask if anyone knows promising alternatives to slashdot.
>the thinking is now to let it flood as much as possible into farmland and hence reduce the strain on dijks around more important inhabited lands. This is not a new idea at all, we have been having "uiterwaarden" since centuries (clear picture here: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomerkade ) The only problem with it, is that this land that was ment to be flooded and only be used to grass cows on, got builded on, for which is was never ment (obviously). But what is probably new is that whole regions of land are assigned to be flooded when necessary, I'm not sure what they'll do with the people that live there at the moment, though.
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request =slideshow&type=table&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.002 0124&id=4104this table seems to be the most interesting part of it all, showing what effort should be done to get a PPV (positive predictive value) above 50%. This is specifically aimed at clinical studies, BTW, people with anti-evolutionist feelings have nothing to see here ;)
Furthermore, as an essay, it might or might not be peer reviewed, didn't go into that. The study itself is probably not as crappy as you might think after reading the New Scientist link, because, as parent makes clear, it provides a modeling approach to assess articles in this field.
Not that I understand a lot of all this, I am not a assembly/cpu architecture expert, but this seems to be the first post which actually mentions the technology about this processor. The rest of all comments here are just the usual mindless chit-chat-posts. Are there any more people that can give a more in-depth discussion on this processor, something I hoped to expect here on slashdot?
As a non-US scientist however, it becomes increasingly unfavorable to go to the US to do science, as they make it pretty difficult to get in to the country in the first place. All the "anti-terrorist" measurements inhibit a lot of scientists from moving to the US, as it takes very long to get a visum (even for a short visit to a scientific congress), if you get one at all.
When a lot of science in the US depends on foreign scientists (which it most probably does), this will certainly help in the decline of US's position in science.
This is modded as "funny", but it's actually real.A first case of drugdealing in south america with cash euro bills was recently reported in "Die Zeit", a german newspaper, and apparently also elsewhere: http://slate.msn.com/id/2111504
I use it as a reference, and for that it serves me just fine. w3schools might not be loaden with examples of how to implement the code, but when starting from scratch I'd often just want to know the options available and what they do, rather than having to crawl my way through loads of examples and have to overthink what exactly other people wanted to do there. The way you reason Zengarden might not be useful as well, as it is a collection of implementations without going into the markup details. I would say that w3schools is helpful, it just depends on what you want.
would have modded you up if I had mod points ;)
Really, what happened folks?
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?su bchannel_id=19&story_id=13469&name=The+Dutch+news+ in+October+2004
see october 7th 2004
Some taxi-driver found it, discovered that it had very sensitive information about some current open cases on it, and a lot of personal stuff that could make the prosecutor vulnerable for blackmail etc. when in the wrong hands.
These things just show that some state organisations (or the people working there) have really too little awareness of handling computer data the right way. Actually this year we had a case in the netherlands where some secret state report ended up in an upload filesharing folder of the person working on it, and thereby just could spread all over. I think people working at such positions really should be instructed on safe computing, especially at home or using laptops, the risks are pretty high that data can get stolen.
My thoughts exactly. They did something similar in Amsterdam to make the "open market" help "lowering" the prices. Currently it is very very hard to find a taxi that is reasonably modern, because a lot of people started in the taxi business with their 10-year old (polluting!) car, asking just the same price as before, or screwing you by taking huge detours.
The original taxi companies that existed under the stricter rules gave you at least some garantee that you would have a properly trained taxi driver, in a properly maintained taxi.