People for the Ethical Treatment of Organic Materials demand for an end to this barbaric electrocution of poor defenceless cute possibly furry glowing organic stuff!!
He can offer free hacking classes to the other inmates as a way to pass time and help educate the poor underprivileged islamic terrorists currently residing there so they can go on to live a more 'productive' life after their release.. unless the aliens get him first..;)
I am not a physicist so pardon my ignorance here but TFA says..."could help physicists to make a significant step towards the long-sought-after quantum theory of gravity"
What will/could reaching this quantum theory of gravity lead to? What problems does it solve?
Centos is a great distro.. using it on servers and desktop for a long time now. Recently installed 4.2 on a load of blade servers and now updating it which couldn't be simpler.. type 'yum update' and carry on with my day.
Its a very small tablet pc.. runs XP albeit modified for the platform and will run Vista too.
As they said you *could* run photoshop on it although I don't suppose there's much point.
Is it too big? Its smaller than my laptop which I got sick of lugging around long ago.. its bigger than my zaurus which I got bored with long ago.
Its not a cellphone.. I have a CELLPHONE for that task.. don't care how fancy cellphones get it will never replace a pc.. too small.. maybe good for a quick ssh session or IM now and then but not much more. I want something I can see without a microscope.
This Origami has a decent sized screen it has vga out so can be hooked up to a monitor, has usb ports so can have real keyboards, has high resolution, has surround sound, has two mics (must be useful for something!), has various controls around the screen, has bluetooth.. not sure about wifi but presume some version will have.. it can run pretty much any windows software.. and..
It has a HARD DRIVE.. 30 - 100+ Gigs hard drive - show me the cellphone that has that.
I run linux on all my PC's and servers but sometimes I could do with a win box also.. this would serve many needs.
Its cheap enough and useful enough to be worth it IMHO. Battery life could be better perhaps but its good enough.. I have found most places these days have electricity..;)
Tend to grow up and have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed.. economic realities soon put paid to such idealism. Not many wouldn't jump at the chance to have their open source project become part of a big corp. and take a fat payout (assuming thats part of the deal) so you can get a new car, provide for your family and generally live a better life..
Of course once you have made your fortune its easy to go back to idealism albeit no longer quite so young..;)
They seem to have missed most of the really good ones and 2006 has barely begun so a bit soon to be choosing the 'best of' (in fact TFA doesn't say anything about it being the '2006 best of') but anyway.. My nomination for one of the best of the current crop goes to..
It has a little ajax sprinkled around along with a few other web 2.0 "features" and overall (and perhaps even despite that) its a pretty useful site. Its rather cool IMHWeb2.O;)
As for those on that list I'd say bloglines is the killer app.. I couldn't get by without that these days.. so many rss feeds, so little time! The rest I could and in fact do live without.
While I think its cool and certainly support anything related to the xprize and rocket technology in general, I suspect most people will only watch this for the inherant 'disaster factor' which is presumably way higher than F1 or any other form of racing plus you wont have to sit through 127 boring laps before the sh*t hits the fan so its a sure thing as far as ratings.
Still I have no doubt people will be dying to have a go..;)
It was/is a cool product if not very useful and if I had the spare cash I would have bought one just for fun.. much more practical than having a real dog shitting all over the flat.
Is there anything else comparable? I want a robot dammit!!
Clearly the French will ensure fiscal success with their new advertsing models.. PPC (pay per cheese), CPM (cost per mollusk), CPA (cost per artery) and the cream of the crop.. CPV (cost per vin)
The European Space Agency seems to do alright despite more or less the same 'problems' - huge project(s), several governments involved, an area once dominated by the US/NASA, etc.
As for profit well thats a no-brainer - they can just stick google ads everywhere!;)
My 'solution' for the terminally lazy and/or cheap.. (like me)
The Server
PC with big disk running linux (or windows if you prefer)
Install Apache
symlink media directories to default apache home directory
Done.
The Player(s)
An old laptop is what I use but you could of course use any pc, maybe a mac mini or whatever takes your fancy.
On the laptop I use firefox with the mplayer plugin - I had to disable local caching in the plugin otherwise it was a bit choppy.
So to play any content from the 'media server' I just browse to it with firefox and click to play.. (and select full screen mode for vids of course) Dead easy and effective enough for my needs.
You could make an interface to the media with perl/php if apache directory listings are not flash enough for you..;)
Note this solution would work equally with windows or anything else that runs apache on the server and a browser with media player plugin on the viewer.. which narrows it down to everything out there I think.
Using a laptop for viewing in my case means I can send video output to a tv or projector easily since a tv-out is built in and 'just works'.
The above assumes you have a home network of some kind setup.. and make sure your firewall doesn't allow the world to access your webserver..;)
VC's will finally realise that web2.0 is all hype and hotair and not really a good way to make money so they will pull all their money out and invest in web3.0 coz a bloke in a pub told them it was a sure thing..
I'll stay one step ahead and start building my Web4.0 app now.
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Sorry.. I'll go back to my work now..
He can offer free hacking classes to the other inmates as a way to pass time and help educate the poor underprivileged islamic terrorists currently residing there so they can go on to live a more 'productive' life after their release.. unless the aliens get him first.. ;)
Long live the new MS AIBO XP (Origami edition, service pack 2)
Pfft.. lets see them try to run web2.0 on that..
No snort for those subversive /. types.. ;)
What will/could reaching this quantum theory of gravity lead to? What problems does it solve?
Works fine for me too with mplayer on centos4.
Centos is a great distro.. using it on servers and desktop for a long time now. Recently installed 4.2 on a load of blade servers and now updating it which couldn't be simpler.. type 'yum update' and carry on with my day.
Its a very small tablet pc.. runs XP albeit modified for the platform and will run Vista too.
As they said you *could* run photoshop on it although I don't suppose there's much point.
Is it too big? Its smaller than my laptop which I got sick of lugging around long ago.. its bigger than my zaurus which I got bored with long ago.
Its not a cellphone.. I have a CELLPHONE for that task.. don't care how fancy cellphones get it will never replace a pc.. too small.. maybe good for a quick ssh session or IM now and then but not much more. I want something I can see without a microscope.
This Origami has a decent sized screen it has vga out so can be hooked up to a monitor, has usb ports so can have real keyboards, has high resolution, has surround sound, has two mics (must be useful for something!), has various controls around the screen, has bluetooth.. not sure about wifi but presume some version will have.. it can run pretty much any windows software.. and..
It has a HARD DRIVE.. 30 - 100+ Gigs hard drive - show me the cellphone that has that.
I run linux on all my PC's and servers but sometimes I could do with a win box also.. this would serve many needs.
Its cheap enough and useful enough to be worth it IMHO. Battery life could be better perhaps but its good enough.. I have found most places these days have electricity.. ;)
Of course once you have made your fortune its easy to go back to idealism albeit no longer quite so young.. ;)
http://www.boardtracker.com
It has a little ajax sprinkled around along with a few other web 2.0 "features" and overall (and perhaps even despite that) its a pretty useful site. Its rather cool IMHWeb2.O ;)
As for those on that list I'd say bloglines is the killer app.. I couldn't get by without that these days.. so many rss feeds, so little time! The rest I could and in fact do live without.
Would you prefer he be called the Chief Executive Officer? VP Country Development perhaps? Chief Desert Nation Architect maybe? Mr President?
Lose over $300M then go IPO.. welcome to Bubble 2 point Oohhhhhh not again!! ;)
Still I have no doubt people will be dying to have a go.. ;)
Not sure which makes more sense though.
Is there anything else comparable? I want a robot dammit!!
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As for profit well thats a no-brainer - they can just stick google ads everywhere! ;)
The Server
PC with big disk running linux (or windows if you prefer)
Install Apache
symlink media directories to default apache home directory
Done.
The Player(s)
An old laptop is what I use but you could of course use any pc, maybe a mac mini or whatever takes your fancy.
On the laptop I use firefox with the mplayer plugin - I had to disable local caching in the plugin otherwise it was a bit choppy.
So to play any content from the 'media server' I just browse to it with firefox and click to play.. (and select full screen mode for vids of course) Dead easy and effective enough for my needs.
You could make an interface to the media with perl/php if apache directory listings are not flash enough for you.. ;)
Note this solution would work equally with windows or anything else that runs apache on the server and a browser with media player plugin on the viewer.. which narrows it down to everything out there I think.
Using a laptop for viewing in my case means I can send video output to a tv or projector easily since a tv-out is built in and 'just works'.
The above assumes you have a home network of some kind setup.. and make sure your firewall doesn't allow the world to access your webserver.. ;)
I'll stay one step ahead and start building my Web4.0 app now.
As long as he didn't outsource that contract to india.. ;)
http://birdflu.boardtracker.com/
Should be good for a bit of xmas shopping!
NSA case file #4653268137 ? ;)
I for one welcome our.. ahh sod it..
Or they could just have used a completely free version of redhat enterprise by Centos and several others..
Works nicely on my desktop.