The only reason that Uranium was used was because of the potential for producing weapons-grade isotopes as a by-product. Thorium reactors do not allow for that. The Indians are on the right track here. Pardon the pun but more power to them!
I have a bridged network of three wrt54g's out in the country. One of which connected to the internet cable moden. There are regular power outages in the area. My network covers 18 acres and I've never had to do anything but turn it on in the spring. I'd like to replace it but I'm not getting the sense of reliability with Cicso's E4200 (dd-wrt loses it's config on power up). Does this WNDR3700 boot up flawlessly every time?
Firstly, they are going to incorporate the api's to run android apps. That solves the ecosystem problem. That said, they need to split the company into hardware and software vendors.
The hardware company should focus on:
1. Outperforming in every aspect against other phones - They have the high-end market. They need to own it. I know so many sr. execs who don't what they are doing and their kids get them to move to an iPhone.
2. Provide phones with two (2) sim cards. Many corporate users and travellers want a second line on their phones. The Chinese and Indians already have such a product, why is RIM not leading in this?
3. Focus on a hands-free standard with the automobile car stereo manufacturers. Bluetooth should be easy as pie and mandatory in every vehicle.
4. Make the GPS as good as or better than Garmin. Right now, the GPS is dog-slow and almost useless.
5. More and better drop tests and waterproofing.
6. Equivalent functionality between the phone and the playbook. In other words, no tethering. Either the phone or the playbook should be able to be the full communications device.
The software company needs to prioritize:
1. Social networking. RIM should have the best social netwroking phone on the market. Period.
2. Voice recognition - either drop it or make it work.
3. Create a feedback loop with their customers. Right now, you don't get any sense as a customer that you can have any input and/or feature requests.
4. A decent music player.
5. A decent file catagorization system.
6. Better document reading/editing (more formats)
7. An apps ecosystem that works (including the Android apps)
8. Biometric security
Oracle does things for one reason and one reason alone: to win by controlling the market. Beat the competition at all costs. That is the driving force of Larry Ellison and the mantra behind the company. Don't ever dream or wish with these guys - they don't operate that way. Example: Oracle will keep MySQL so long as it leads to sales of one sort or another. The same with all the other open source code that it controls. If it's too much hassle and shows no returns, goodbye.
Fairpoint is not doing this for any reason other than the fact that farmers in Vermont are in dire straights and will rent themselves and their horses out more cheaply than ATV's and Ditch Witches (A horizontal boring machine). It's a sad commentary on how a once proud tradition has been reduced to taking a hand-out from a company steadfastly refuses to put a penny into its operational equipment.
At a company that I worked for, one user had a laptop with 64 Meg of Ram and Windows 2000 on it. The problem was that it was so slow that he simply couldn't use the machine. It was costing the company a fortune in man-hours while he waited for the software to load and run.
I was asked what could be done about the problem. I took the laptop out to a back room and, on the way, I tripped. The machine went flying and the display broke. Fortunately, no one seemed to mind my clumsiness and the user got a new machine. His productivity increased ten-fold.
Google will support the new distro and announces that it's changing the world's calendaring system so that a year is divided into 36 weeks with five World Holidays:
New Year's, Americas Day, Africa Day, Europe Day and Asia Day.
The months will no longer includ April because it's not funny.
Any scene with some chick balling her eyes out because we have been hood-winked into feeling sorry for her plight based on some stupid thing that she has done or some terrible injustice that has befallen her. Viz: All movies with Julia Roberts.
Greetings people of earth. We, the peoples of the Peptoid cluster connected to your 'inter net', deduced your simplistic language structure and deciphered your premier news stream - Slashdot.
We have just learned that you cannot procreate in space.
There is much rejoicing here.
This is NOT a story. So many comments are being modded 'Troll' when they are completely justified here. So, a guy puts an iPod in an old mac box and moves around.
There's a) virtually NO creativity
b) it's NOT interesting
c) there are so many, much more worthwhile stories out there (like the net reduction in our freedoms in the past decade).
To date, I grade this the worst story ever on Slashdot
Firstly, it's great to see Microsoft writing anything that's open (and, yes, I know they have in the past).
Secondly, when it comes to standards (non) compliance and forcing others to use languages, their choice of method of attack leaves them incredibly open to ridicule. Yes, it's a war. Yes, the goal is internet dominance. No, they don't stand a chance. The fight will be on the droid/smartphone front, not on the desktop.
Problem: Planet's population exploding past 6 Billion with no end in sight. Solution: in 2nd and 1st world countries, give males internet porn and sperm-killing laptops. Work to further development of cheap laptops and internet connectivity for 3rd world. Solve the world's #1 problem.
The Linux desktop is dead because of one thing and one thing alone: mind share. With virtually $0.00 of marketing effort, the only way Linux could become the prevailing desktop is by going viral. It never did. Plain and simple. The public have to be sold. That's what they're accustomed to and that's what works. They don't 'buy' anything if they aren't told they need it.
Virtually all the issues raised are, quite simply, because Microsoft programs its software to purposely not adhere to an open standard. Were it to do so, interoperability would not be an issue. The support questions would, mostly, go away.
There is an awful lot of work needed on Linux drivers of all types. I love the idea that you are eager to help. From what I have read on the web, this is an area where a) you can get a lot of information and b) your skills will grow very quickly.
To get help and/or ideas, get connected with your local LUG (Linux User Group). They can give you all kinds of help and encouragement.
Best of luck and thanks - I wish every grad would give a little of their time like you wish to - Linux would be, hands-down, the standard operating system.
To understand this issue, you have to understand the CBC. Make no mistake, the CBC is NOT about freedom or doing 'what's right' etc. etc. even though it is mostly funded by taxpayer's dollars.
The CBC is run by, for and of ACTRA union members. Interfere with their turf and you're in for a fight, buster! Go up against the CBC literati and you're doomed to crash back down in flames. Push against their pampered, plush lifestyles and you're pushing against the power of Canada's #1 media outlet.
In short, this issue will hardly see the light of day but, if it should get a moment of attention, it will be marginalized and set aside to rot on the newsroom floor.
Apart from that, I have no opinion. Good luck all you creative people!
I have been a huge fan and advocate of this software for a long time: presenting it to companies, school boards and groups to let them know just how ridiculous it is to spend money on a product where they use, at best, 5% of the features available.
That said, my energy to support OpenOffice/OfficeLibre it is running out. What I'm seeing is that there is really very little financial support for it (as compared to MS Office, for example) and even less for marketing it. The result is that it does some things extremely well (ODF, importing) and others very badly (BASE). This is not because the people behind it do not care - much the opposite - I've submitted bugs and there have been very positive experiences. The bottom line is that there are just simply not enough brains working on the code because no one is paying them to do it.
If OfficeLibre is to succeed it needs the following:
a) A weathly foundation and/or solid source of revenue to keep it going
b) A professional marketing plan to make it the default choice in Western Schools where it can get mind-share. (Why are disadvantaged kids being taxed to use Microsoft?)
c) A results-driven steering committee so that goals and objectives are established and prioritized based on USER-driven wishes.
d) A program to get it rolled out on the Web too - LibreDocs??
e) Make working on it part of every computer science corriculum.
The landscape is changing so rapidly out there that, if this is not done soon, I don't see it surviving two years.
Since the advent of the internet, the amount of dog-fucking on the job has gone through the roof. Let's not kid ourselves, we ALL do it. Any of you who disagrees is not only lying to us but lying to yourselves. I love the internet. I love using it as much as I can. If my employer was paying me to play on it, I'd be a millionaire. The thing that I like about this German law is that it means that Germany will become less and less productive. This will mean that the rest of us who actually work will all end up with more opportunity as Germany's production slides and product quality deteriorates. So, the bottom line is that I whole-heartedly support the German government's decision to let the workforce dog-fuck. The rest of the world wins!
When a product sucks so badly that you have to give it away to your own employees, you're starting off on the wrong foot. Just watch - now, there will articles about M$ employees getting shit for having BlackBerries or iPhones. Richard Nixon said it best: "The way I got elected was to know my opponent's track record better than my own." This is true of any product - and this product is doomed to failure.
Slashdot Mirror
The only reason that Uranium was used was because of the potential for producing weapons-grade isotopes as a by-product. Thorium reactors do not allow for that. The Indians are on the right track here. Pardon the pun but more power to them!
I have a bridged network of three wrt54g's out in the country. One of which connected to the internet cable moden. There are regular power outages in the area. My network covers 18 acres and I've never had to do anything but turn it on in the spring. I'd like to replace it but I'm not getting the sense of reliability with Cicso's E4200 (dd-wrt loses it's config on power up). Does this WNDR3700 boot up flawlessly every time?
Firstly, they are going to incorporate the api's to run android apps. That solves the ecosystem problem. That said, they need to split the company into hardware and software vendors. The hardware company should focus on: 1. Outperforming in every aspect against other phones - They have the high-end market. They need to own it. I know so many sr. execs who don't what they are doing and their kids get them to move to an iPhone. 2. Provide phones with two (2) sim cards. Many corporate users and travellers want a second line on their phones. The Chinese and Indians already have such a product, why is RIM not leading in this? 3. Focus on a hands-free standard with the automobile car stereo manufacturers. Bluetooth should be easy as pie and mandatory in every vehicle. 4. Make the GPS as good as or better than Garmin. Right now, the GPS is dog-slow and almost useless. 5. More and better drop tests and waterproofing. 6. Equivalent functionality between the phone and the playbook. In other words, no tethering. Either the phone or the playbook should be able to be the full communications device. The software company needs to prioritize: 1. Social networking. RIM should have the best social netwroking phone on the market. Period. 2. Voice recognition - either drop it or make it work. 3. Create a feedback loop with their customers. Right now, you don't get any sense as a customer that you can have any input and/or feature requests. 4. A decent music player. 5. A decent file catagorization system. 6. Better document reading/editing (more formats) 7. An apps ecosystem that works (including the Android apps) 8. Biometric security
Oracle does things for one reason and one reason alone: to win by controlling the market. Beat the competition at all costs. That is the driving force of Larry Ellison and the mantra behind the company. Don't ever dream or wish with these guys - they don't operate that way. Example: Oracle will keep MySQL so long as it leads to sales of one sort or another. The same with all the other open source code that it controls. If it's too much hassle and shows no returns, goodbye.
Fairpoint is not doing this for any reason other than the fact that farmers in Vermont are in dire straights and will rent themselves and their horses out more cheaply than ATV's and Ditch Witches (A horizontal boring machine). It's a sad commentary on how a once proud tradition has been reduced to taking a hand-out from a company steadfastly refuses to put a penny into its operational equipment.
I think he means gender. Identifying sex is much, much harder. Are two people who are hugging having sex?
At a company that I worked for, one user had a laptop with 64 Meg of Ram and Windows 2000 on it. The problem was that it was so slow that he simply couldn't use the machine. It was costing the company a fortune in man-hours while he waited for the software to load and run. I was asked what could be done about the problem. I took the laptop out to a back room and, on the way, I tripped. The machine went flying and the display broke. Fortunately, no one seemed to mind my clumsiness and the user got a new machine. His productivity increased ten-fold.
Google will support the new distro and announces that it's changing the world's calendaring system so that a year is divided into 36 weeks with five World Holidays: New Year's, Americas Day, Africa Day, Europe Day and Asia Day. The months will no longer includ April because it's not funny.
Any scene with some chick balling her eyes out because we have been hood-winked into feeling sorry for her plight based on some stupid thing that she has done or some terrible injustice that has befallen her. Viz: All movies with Julia Roberts.
...and I has been over-took by yous's bad grammar!
Greetings people of earth. We, the peoples of the Peptoid cluster connected to your 'inter net', deduced your simplistic language structure and deciphered your premier news stream - Slashdot. We have just learned that you cannot procreate in space. There is much rejoicing here.
This is NOT a story. So many comments are being modded 'Troll' when they are completely justified here. So, a guy puts an iPod in an old mac box and moves around. There's a) virtually NO creativity b) it's NOT interesting c) there are so many, much more worthwhile stories out there (like the net reduction in our freedoms in the past decade). To date, I grade this the worst story ever on Slashdot
Firstly, it's great to see Microsoft writing anything that's open (and, yes, I know they have in the past). Secondly, when it comes to standards (non) compliance and forcing others to use languages, their choice of method of attack leaves them incredibly open to ridicule. Yes, it's a war. Yes, the goal is internet dominance. No, they don't stand a chance. The fight will be on the droid/smartphone front, not on the desktop.
Excuse me, but haven't you read your EULA??!!
..to crash the test?!!
Now you know why technology is great!
The Linux desktop is dead because of one thing and one thing alone: mind share. With virtually $0.00 of marketing effort, the only way Linux could become the prevailing desktop is by going viral. It never did. Plain and simple. The public have to be sold. That's what they're accustomed to and that's what works. They don't 'buy' anything if they aren't told they need it.
Wiki link
Virtually all the issues raised are, quite simply, because Microsoft programs its software to purposely not adhere to an open standard. Were it to do so, interoperability would not be an issue. The support questions would, mostly, go away.
There is an awful lot of work needed on Linux drivers of all types. I love the idea that you are eager to help. From what I have read on the web, this is an area where a) you can get a lot of information and b) your skills will grow very quickly.
To get help and/or ideas, get connected with your local LUG (Linux User Group). They can give you all kinds of help and encouragement.
Best of luck and thanks - I wish every grad would give a little of their time like you wish to - Linux would be, hands-down, the standard operating system.
The CBC is run by, for and of ACTRA union members. Interfere with their turf and you're in for a fight, buster! Go up against the CBC literati and you're doomed to crash back down in flames. Push against their pampered, plush lifestyles and you're pushing against the power of Canada's #1 media outlet.
In short, this issue will hardly see the light of day but, if it should get a moment of attention, it will be marginalized and set aside to rot on the newsroom floor.
Apart from that, I have no opinion. Good luck all you creative people!
GM had jet cars in the 50's: 50's Jet Car
Chrysler had one in the 60's: 60's Jet Car
...and Ford had the Mustang 429 Super Cobra Jet!
The only big difference between those cars and this Jag seems to be mileage - but, what would you expect 40-50 years later?
That said, my energy to support OpenOffice/OfficeLibre it is running out. What I'm seeing is that there is really very little financial support for it (as compared to MS Office, for example) and even less for marketing it. The result is that it does some things extremely well (ODF, importing) and others very badly (BASE). This is not because the people behind it do not care - much the opposite - I've submitted bugs and there have been very positive experiences. The bottom line is that there are just simply not enough brains working on the code because no one is paying them to do it.
If OfficeLibre is to succeed it needs the following:
a) A weathly foundation and/or solid source of revenue to keep it going
b) A professional marketing plan to make it the default choice in Western Schools where it can get mind-share. (Why are disadvantaged kids being taxed to use Microsoft?)
c) A results-driven steering committee so that goals and objectives are established and prioritized based on USER-driven wishes.
d) A program to get it rolled out on the Web too - LibreDocs??
e) Make working on it part of every computer science corriculum.
The landscape is changing so rapidly out there that, if this is not done soon, I don't see it surviving two years.
Since the advent of the internet, the amount of dog-fucking on the job has gone through the roof. Let's not kid ourselves, we ALL do it. Any of you who disagrees is not only lying to us but lying to yourselves. I love the internet. I love using it as much as I can. If my employer was paying me to play on it, I'd be a millionaire. The thing that I like about this German law is that it means that Germany will become less and less productive. This will mean that the rest of us who actually work will all end up with more opportunity as Germany's production slides and product quality deteriorates. So, the bottom line is that I whole-heartedly support the German government's decision to let the workforce dog-fuck. The rest of the world wins!
When a product sucks so badly that you have to give it away to your own employees, you're starting off on the wrong foot. Just watch - now, there will articles about M$ employees getting shit for having BlackBerries or iPhones. Richard Nixon said it best: "The way I got elected was to know my opponent's track record better than my own." This is true of any product - and this product is doomed to failure.