That was _last_ season. This season we'll be monitoring CO2 levels from space. Also planned are mapping cow farts via Google maps mashups and planned for season three: a Google maps/Zillow mashup showing the exact number of humans on the African sub-continent who could have survived for more than a month on the energy wasted through the carbon footprint of every house in America. That's right. Search for your house in Zillow and be instantly notified of how many people died so you could watch the superbowlcrapgame in comfort and style. Additional efforts by season 2 sponsor AT&T will allow you to track high CO2 outputters via GPS in their phones. Season 3 sponsors AT&T and General Dynamics plan to bring you HCO European edition via UAV. That's right, each week we'll allow one Republican Evangelical to get "up close and personal" with one of Europe's most prolific CO2 outputters via UAV. The fun never ends.
Thanks to the FTC, EPA, and several other federal agencies, there will be no tax credits, carbon credits, alternative energies, or in fact any plan to reduce CO2 outputs. We just want you to see what you could have done to help the world. It's a feel better move, change you can relax with.
--- This message brought to you by ExxonNonMobile, "fuel for a greener tomorrow" ---
What actually happened is that the aliens hiding behind the moon realized we'd notice their trail of hothouse gases from terraforming equipment on the moon, and have disabled the rocket to ensure the satellite does not do its job.
Firefox taught the quick brown fox to jump, thus inventing typing tutorials Firefox comes to your aid, not 'in a CD case' Firefox rules! 32 to be exact Explorers are crusty old men in the wilderness.
Try: 1054 A.D. which is when man observed the birth of the Crab Nebula
One thing I'm curious about. Does this mean that we admit freely that extra-solar events affect the climate of this planet? Anyone have a slide rule handy and some star charts or galactic weather maps? Can we calculate probable effect on current climate conditions from extra-solar events?
I'm keeping a copy of this and some other beauties. Anytime anyone wants to know why I think they should switch to Linux of OSX, I just show them the emails. Even Bill G is tired of Windows and how it works, why shouldn't joe the pc user be?
The Nobel Prize awards would mean more if they were not given out until there was someone of worth to award it to. Instead they are given out regularly, as if the world continuously produces people worthy of the awards. The more often they give them out, the more it is like being one of the 40 million high school queens at the prom each year. Now, if there were only one prom Queen for all the high schools in the USA each year... now that would be special.
The women in my house have a tradition for Oscars (and award shows in general) They like to open a bottle of wine (each) and sit back and giggle at the movie industry players. That alone is enough to put me off watching any of it. I didn't watch so finding out that Ledger won, and slumdog won... well I figure that I missed out on nothing. period.
When there are items in such award shows that actually have something to do with 'news for nerds' then I'll watch. Since there was no news for nerds in the awards show I'd not expect to see it covered here. Please. We all know how to get to Digg or Reddit. FFS, we're nerds, we know where that kind of shit news can be found.
It's what I'm looking for. Personally, I'd be happy with something slightly bigger than most smartphones are now given that it supports bluetooth and wired earbuds for phone use. I'd like more USB support and a cradle that allows me to plug a keyboard into it as well as perhaps software that allows an X window on my desktop to be what is on the Android. Not quite a laptop, but just below that level of functionality. To be truly useful, I'd like to be able to plug a keyboard into it that is sized for my fingers like normal keyboards are. Some level of high integration to the desktop so that the work I do on the go is merely a mini version of what I do on the desktop. Drive-by and auto-sync. I don't want to have to spend time doing sync functions.
I'm waiting. My old SKII is getting old. I'm holding out hoping that Android or something will come along and make everything else seem pointless. I don't want just another smart phone that is locked into someone's services.
I agree that this has been their past mode of operations, but in view of the rising popularity of F/OSS I don't think it is going to get them anything but a splendidly memorable bad day on the stock exchange. How many bad products do they have to try to launch before investors begin asking "WTF were you thinking?"
Now don't confuse this with MS bashing. It's not. I'm not talking about how much better other things are compared to MS, this is only about MS. I genuinely don't see how they are going to pull this off; not just the browser thing, but keeping the company going as it has been. I think they got too large to make the sudden right turn that the Internet put out there. Buying innovation as they have done in the past is not so helpful now as too many innovations are happening in F/OSS rather than in MS-centric environments. Thinking of going without MS products in your project is often no longer a thought. I mean that many people don't even consider MS products for some projects. This is a pretty big problem and it will get bigger. I think that MS will have to do some impressive innovation internally to get back on track.
F/OSS development needs competition to spur it on. A balancing act that gets more precarious every week.
Grammar problems aside, TFA blurb is difficult to read and talks about MS offering a web browser that is an OS Kernel.... that is secure... and backward compatible!
I can only conclude that this website has been hacked, and this is a huge joke. Seriously, this sounds like MS PR machine trying to pour salt directly in the wounds of the boardmembers, or this was written by a person suffering delirium after being hit in the head by a flying chair. Well, perhaps it's just MS Marketing department trying reverse psychology?
In any case, it's rather surreal to read those words.
I'm off to check that there are no foreign substances in my coffee.
I get the feeling that they are soon to learn about what is called The Streisand Effect - You know, it's where you fuck up on the Internet and the entire fucking Internet takes a moment to let you know about it.... lol
I think the most feasible method is to create a huge 'roomba' - A couple of small vehicles that can be put into orbit near the debris field, spread out a large net and _slowly_ move to scoop all the debris up before moving to a position that brings the whole kit down into the middle of the pacific or similar. It won't have to be as complex as the Mars Rovers, nor incredibly large. You should be able to get the whole thing into orbit in one launch. Basically a huge net with controllable motors on it. A back up vehicle that waits till the net is done, and scoops up any bits not captured in the net, before dropping itself in the ocean as well. Not much need of recovery for the vehicles, nor the satellite bits. Just dump the entirety of it all in the ocean THEN the fricking sharks with lasers on their heads can have at it.
Well, though you might not have thought such a thing was necessary or useful per se' I'm here to tell you that a laser based in orbit than can be used to vaporize such debris is a laser worth having. Oh well
Verilog and HDL et al are very different, though there are scripting setups that look/feel similar... ugh, switching between things like C, Perl, javascript, shell, JAL (PIC mcu), NQC (Lego), Python, HTML, and so on, then go home and try to learn VHDL.... you'll find me in a fetal position in the corner of my home office, under a foldup table, whimpering and praying for sudden savant skills. The shallow smears of blood on the backspace key and gibberish on the screen will be the only clues as to how I got that way.... then I wake up, TYGHN imprinted backwards on my forehead. Grab a coffee and wonder why I thought I could learn VHDL in 6 weeks.
I do, but am not always in the shell, so the background/theme remind me vividly. Some years ago, I removed a directory tree from the wrong Solaris system, and have modified the command prompt ever since. I do not yet know the command line for everything that I do know in the GUI. Between Solaris, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, Puppy, DSL, Vista, and now NetBSD it is difficult to keep everything in my head all the time. Just the 'find' command is enough to fill your brainbox for an afternoon, never mind grep, fgrep, egrep etc. Services? Network commands? my head asplodes... Add shell scripts, PERL and soon Python, HTML, other scripting, C, javascript, and on and on... can't keep it all in my head so I use the GUI more than I should. Background differences have saved me making a bad mistake often enough. Imagine servers with names like absdb1 and absdm1 and absms1 all in the same group. It can be confusing. BTW I despise the fuck that names those servers... gah!
I would have named them along the lines of Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Jimmy, GTO, Ferrari etc. but nobody asked me.. noooooo
I've got 6 Ubuntu systems at home, I have to change the themes or I can't remember what system I'm on all the time. Yes, there are other ways, but I find changing the theme/background etc. makes it easiest to remember which system I'm dealing with. I do this at work too. Using a custom background is most useful, though I vary themes by general function of the system.
I hope you know that you just gained karma points by passing up the opportunity for a goatse link. I have to say that I've been rather impressed by some of the ARM processors that are out there. Some tweaked for multimedia apps, others for motion control etc. I've not done detailed comparison between the TI Omap and ARM, but I have an ARM-7 proto board I've yet to play with. May hack an older phone for the Omap complete with screen for a small robot. Thanks for the links
That's awesome. I worked with a company once whose lifeblood was a single redundant PDP-11... yikes.
I've got a hand full of Motorola MVME systems in the garage that I'm either going to eBay or play with... I can't decide what to do with them really. Guess I need to get one up and running. Only have AUI network cards for them, so could be awkward. I've been called a bit weird at times too... sigh
Yay open-source! The code isnâ(TM)t exactly polished, but in the interest of promoting weird retro computer architectures, Iâ(TM)ve provided the python library I wrote for it and the verilog code for the Processing Elements. Wire together as many as youâ(TM)d like! Use it to catalog all of your WhiteSnake and Duran Duran tapes!
How the hell did he know about my music collection?
This is pretty cool. 32 core non-von computing architecture on an FPGA. This is more or less the ARM process... license the IP and put it in an ASIC, except this is free. I've often wondered what might be done with the millions of 30xx series FPGAs that are out there in the world. I could lay my hands on probably 40-50 free. If there were some way to do something like this with them, that would be awesome. I like hobby robotics so it's tempting even though they would not be very power efficient. Still, that's a lot of potential processing for free. Now I'm going to have to look for free/open source code for them.
Yes, and a mirrored RAID-5 stack would fit inside a pack of cigarettes. A 3.5 inch bay with a little drawer that pulls out with 16 slots in it for these devices.
I wish we'd just get on with using crystals so when the aliens come we'll be able to use their technology. Of course, the down side to using the new alien technology would be all the ads for 250 DVD sized ZIP drives, and cheap home video recording equipment from X10.
I think that is where the law will fail actually. Private networks are private. Keeping the logs for government inspection amounts to search without warrant, despite the time differential, or as a result of it. The search is to determine what and who was doing which on the Internet through my router. There is no warrant for said search. This law would require me to provide the answer to that question without the warrant.
Currently, If I have logs, and there is a warrant, I can see them wanting me to provide any logs that I might have. Forcing me to provide logs for 2 years is unreasonable search. Do we have to have computer logs for our vehicles for the last two years? Asking for my Internet where-abouts for the previous two years amounts to the same thing: where have you been on the Internet? Oh, but your honor, this man goes to pr0n sites "ALL THE TIME" so you can easily understand this child pr0no6r4phy didn't just get on his computer by accident.
In the past 17 months, your honor, the defendant has downloaded 43GB of data using BitTorrent. We do not show the actual identity of the files but everyone knows that BT is used to pirate music and videos.
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That was _last_ season. This season we'll be monitoring CO2 levels from space. Also planned are mapping cow farts via Google maps mashups and planned for season three: a Google maps/Zillow mashup showing the exact number of humans on the African sub-continent who could have survived for more than a month on the energy wasted through the carbon footprint of every house in America. That's right. Search for your house in Zillow and be instantly notified of how many people died so you could watch the superbowlcrapgame in comfort and style. Additional efforts by season 2 sponsor AT&T will allow you to track high CO2 outputters via GPS in their phones. Season 3 sponsors AT&T and General Dynamics plan to bring you HCO European edition via UAV. That's right, each week we'll allow one Republican Evangelical to get "up close and personal" with one of Europe's most prolific CO2 outputters via UAV. The fun never ends.
Thanks to the FTC, EPA, and several other federal agencies, there will be no tax credits, carbon credits, alternative energies, or in fact any plan to reduce CO2 outputs. We just want you to see what you could have done to help the world. It's a feel better move, change you can relax with.
---
This message brought to you by ExxonNonMobile, "fuel for a greener tomorrow"
---
What actually happened is that the aliens hiding behind the moon realized we'd notice their trail of hothouse gases from terraforming equipment on the moon, and have disabled the rocket to ensure the satellite does not do its job.
Damn, should be rule 34... I need to preview more, and THIS should help make the news
hmmm this dropped out
Chuck Norris is a badass
Firefox taught the quick brown fox to jump, thus inventing typing tutorials
Firefox comes to your aid, not 'in a CD case'
Firefox rules! 32 to be exact Explorers are crusty old men in the wilderness.
How about this:
Bill Nigh kicks Chuck Norris' ass before breakfast
Now, just start one about FireFox
Firefox is so badass that it doesn't care what OS it runs over .....
Firefox invented the Internet
Firefox killed the blue screen of death
your turn
Try: 1054 A.D. which is when man observed the birth of the Crab Nebula
One thing I'm curious about. Does this mean that we admit freely that extra-solar events affect the climate of this planet? Anyone have a slide rule handy and some star charts or galactic weather maps? Can we calculate probable effect on current climate conditions from extra-solar events?
What you say is true, no matter what you suggest they switch to. I most often get into the conversation because I verbally trash MS products. ooops
I'm keeping a copy of this and some other beauties. Anytime anyone wants to know why I think they should switch to Linux of OSX, I just show them the emails. Even Bill G is tired of Windows and how it works, why shouldn't joe the pc user be?
The Nobel Prize awards would mean more if they were not given out until there was someone of worth to award it to. Instead they are given out regularly, as if the world continuously produces people worthy of the awards. The more often they give them out, the more it is like being one of the 40 million high school queens at the prom each year. Now, if there were only one prom Queen for all the high schools in the USA each year... now that would be special.
The women in my house have a tradition for Oscars (and award shows in general) They like to open a bottle of wine (each) and sit back and giggle at the movie industry players. That alone is enough to put me off watching any of it. I didn't watch so finding out that Ledger won, and slumdog won... well I figure that I missed out on nothing. period.
When there are items in such award shows that actually have something to do with 'news for nerds' then I'll watch. Since there was no news for nerds in the awards show I'd not expect to see it covered here. Please. We all know how to get to Digg or Reddit. FFS, we're nerds, we know where that kind of shit news can be found.
It's what I'm looking for. Personally, I'd be happy with something slightly bigger than most smartphones are now given that it supports bluetooth and wired earbuds for phone use. I'd like more USB support and a cradle that allows me to plug a keyboard into it as well as perhaps software that allows an X window on my desktop to be what is on the Android. Not quite a laptop, but just below that level of functionality. To be truly useful, I'd like to be able to plug a keyboard into it that is sized for my fingers like normal keyboards are. Some level of high integration to the desktop so that the work I do on the go is merely a mini version of what I do on the desktop. Drive-by and auto-sync. I don't want to have to spend time doing sync functions.
I'm waiting. My old SKII is getting old. I'm holding out hoping that Android or something will come along and make everything else seem pointless. I don't want just another smart phone that is locked into someone's services.
I agree that this has been their past mode of operations, but in view of the rising popularity of F/OSS I don't think it is going to get them anything but a splendidly memorable bad day on the stock exchange. How many bad products do they have to try to launch before investors begin asking "WTF were you thinking?"
Now don't confuse this with MS bashing. It's not. I'm not talking about how much better other things are compared to MS, this is only about MS. I genuinely don't see how they are going to pull this off; not just the browser thing, but keeping the company going as it has been. I think they got too large to make the sudden right turn that the Internet put out there. Buying innovation as they have done in the past is not so helpful now as too many innovations are happening in F/OSS rather than in MS-centric environments. Thinking of going without MS products in your project is often no longer a thought. I mean that many people don't even consider MS products for some projects. This is a pretty big problem and it will get bigger. I think that MS will have to do some impressive innovation internally to get back on track.
F/OSS development needs competition to spur it on. A balancing act that gets more precarious every week.
Grammar problems aside, TFA blurb is difficult to read and talks about MS offering a web browser that is an OS Kernel.... that is secure... and backward compatible!
I can only conclude that this website has been hacked, and this is a huge joke. Seriously, this sounds like MS PR machine trying to pour salt directly in the wounds of the boardmembers, or this was written by a person suffering delirium after being hit in the head by a flying chair. Well, perhaps it's just MS Marketing department trying reverse psychology?
In any case, it's rather surreal to read those words.
I'm off to check that there are no foreign substances in my coffee.
I get the feeling that they are soon to learn about what is called The Streisand Effect - You know, it's where you fuck up on the Internet and the entire fucking Internet takes a moment to let you know about it.... lol
I think the most feasible method is to create a huge 'roomba' - A couple of small vehicles that can be put into orbit near the debris field, spread out a large net and _slowly_ move to scoop all the debris up before moving to a position that brings the whole kit down into the middle of the pacific or similar. It won't have to be as complex as the Mars Rovers, nor incredibly large. You should be able to get the whole thing into orbit in one launch. Basically a huge net with controllable motors on it. A back up vehicle that waits till the net is done, and scoops up any bits not captured in the net, before dropping itself in the ocean as well. Not much need of recovery for the vehicles, nor the satellite bits. Just dump the entirety of it all in the ocean THEN the fricking sharks with lasers on their heads can have at it.
Well, though you might not have thought such a thing was necessary or useful per se' I'm here to tell you that a laser based in orbit than can be used to vaporize such debris is a laser worth having. Oh well
Verilog and HDL et al are very different, though there are scripting setups that look/feel similar... ugh, switching between things like C, Perl, javascript, shell, JAL (PIC mcu), NQC (Lego), Python, HTML, and so on, then go home and try to learn VHDL.... you'll find me in a fetal position in the corner of my home office, under a foldup table, whimpering and praying for sudden savant skills. The shallow smears of blood on the backspace key and gibberish on the screen will be the only clues as to how I got that way.... then I wake up, TYGHN imprinted backwards on my forehead. Grab a coffee and wonder why I thought I could learn VHDL in 6 weeks.
I do, but am not always in the shell, so the background/theme remind me vividly. Some years ago, I removed a directory tree from the wrong Solaris system, and have modified the command prompt ever since. I do not yet know the command line for everything that I do know in the GUI. Between Solaris, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, Puppy, DSL, Vista, and now NetBSD it is difficult to keep everything in my head all the time. Just the 'find' command is enough to fill your brainbox for an afternoon, never mind grep, fgrep, egrep etc. Services? Network commands? my head asplodes... Add shell scripts, PERL and soon Python, HTML, other scripting, C, javascript, and on and on... can't keep it all in my head so I use the GUI more than I should. Background differences have saved me making a bad mistake often enough. Imagine servers with names like absdb1 and absdm1 and absms1 all in the same group. It can be confusing. BTW I despise the fuck that names those servers... gah!
I would have named them along the lines of Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Jimmy, GTO, Ferrari etc. but nobody asked me.. noooooo
When they find the RNC/Bush Administration emails... meh, maybe I'll try to keep logs. NOT
I've got 6 Ubuntu systems at home, I have to change the themes or I can't remember what system I'm on all the time. Yes, there are other ways, but I find changing the theme/background etc. makes it easiest to remember which system I'm dealing with. I do this at work too. Using a custom background is most useful, though I vary themes by general function of the system.
I hope you know that you just gained karma points by passing up the opportunity for a goatse link. I have to say that I've been rather impressed by some of the ARM processors that are out there. Some tweaked for multimedia apps, others for motion control etc. I've not done detailed comparison between the TI Omap and ARM, but I have an ARM-7 proto board I've yet to play with. May hack an older phone for the Omap complete with screen for a small robot. Thanks for the links
That's awesome. I worked with a company once whose lifeblood was a single redundant PDP-11... yikes.
I've got a hand full of Motorola MVME systems in the garage that I'm either going to eBay or play with... I can't decide what to do with them really. Guess I need to get one up and running. Only have AUI network cards for them, so could be awkward. I've been called a bit weird at times too... sigh
oops, typo... and, if you're interested, check out this
FTFA:
What if I want to build my own?
Yay open-source! The code isnâ(TM)t exactly polished, but in the interest of promoting weird retro computer architectures, Iâ(TM)ve provided the python library I wrote for it and the verilog code for the Processing Elements. Wire together as many as youâ(TM)d like! Use it to catalog all of your WhiteSnake and Duran Duran tapes!
How the hell did he know about my music collection?
This is pretty cool. 32 core non-von computing architecture on an FPGA. This is more or less the ARM process... license the IP and put it in an ASIC, except this is free. I've often wondered what might be done with the millions of 30xx series FPGAs that are out there in the world. I could lay my hands on probably 40-50 free. If there were some way to do something like this with them, that would be awesome. I like hobby robotics so it's tempting even though they would not be very power efficient. Still, that's a lot of potential processing for free. Now I'm going to have to look for free/open source code for them.
Yes, and a mirrored RAID-5 stack would fit inside a pack of cigarettes. A 3.5 inch bay with a little drawer that pulls out with 16 slots in it for these devices.
I wish we'd just get on with using crystals so when the aliens come we'll be able to use their technology. Of course, the down side to using the new alien technology would be all the ads for 250 DVD sized ZIP drives, and cheap home video recording equipment from X10.
I think that is where the law will fail actually. Private networks are private. Keeping the logs for government inspection amounts to search without warrant, despite the time differential, or as a result of it. The search is to determine what and who was doing which on the Internet through my router. There is no warrant for said search. This law would require me to provide the answer to that question without the warrant.
Currently, If I have logs, and there is a warrant, I can see them wanting me to provide any logs that I might have. Forcing me to provide logs for 2 years is unreasonable search. Do we have to have computer logs for our vehicles for the last two years? Asking for my Internet where-abouts for the previous two years amounts to the same thing: where have you been on the Internet? Oh, but your honor, this man goes to pr0n sites "ALL THE TIME" so you can easily understand this child pr0no6r4phy didn't just get on his computer by accident.
In the past 17 months, your honor, the defendant has downloaded 43GB of data using BitTorrent. We do not show the actual identity of the files but everyone knows that BT is used to pirate music and videos.
Yeah, IANAL but I won't be keeping logs.