Every time someone sends you a.doc formatted file, tell them you can't read it and to please send plain text or postscript.
There's really no need for any other formats for documents that are to be printed.
If you're a flaming radical who want's to tear down MS, script an automated message for every 'webmaster' who offers only.doc versions of documents. While you're at it you might do the same for that flash crap [-)
Heck, I saw a portable DVD player at the "Brand Smart" store for $29. Yep, it had a color screen! IIRC they were in the $1000+ range two years ago.
Now you won't know if the message, "Mr Sai, your order will ship as soon as you confirm your address", is a phishing expedition or someone elses double chin repair kit.
take 6 years and when finally live will end up snagging thousands of people in "glitches". One day you'll try to get on a, NO CAMERAS ALLOWED, train and you'll find the computer system has either lost all your information or mistakenly returned data for someone on the the FBI VAPORIZE ON SIGHT list.
It's a wonderful story and in no way demeaning to tigers, butter, trees, fine clothing, fritters, or people. My children loved it as a bedtime story, especially when I would say, " I won't eat you this time" in my best tiger voice.
Do you recall the name of your old geography teacher's grandmother?
"correctness" being at odds with much of the internet does not seem to keep Sambo down.
The Story of Little Black Sambo
BY HELLEN BANNERMAN
Is a dirivitive of tiger but almost no one knows it these days what with the virtual(this means in essence, not in fact) censorchip of the printed form of a tale regarding the heroic antics of one small South Indian boy in dealing with one rather threatening, "I won't eat you, this time", tiger.
So put on your fancy new suit and call it Butter.
You've even got a remaining few days of/. poll for exploitation.
I can buy a gallon of distilled water for 55 cents. Or use naturally distilled rainwater.
It's good for keeping a 100W source at 100C for about 24 hours and the best part is you can let the steam travel through an insulated pipe and out the window.
You could get fancy and slightly pressurize the system. This would let you use, say 110C, steam to run your own distillation. You want distilled water for the boiler so you don't have to keep cleaning a mess of tiny parts.
You might get even fancier if you live in a country where it is permitted and use alcohol as the coolant letting it distill more alcohol and all attached to a condensor outdoors. This way you get a useful product from the cooling process. Water and starch and sugar content scraps in. Motor fuel or booze out!
With the telephone you don't here my voice only a facsimile. It's a voice in essence but not in fact. A virtual voice. What you discern from these words is a representation of my thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. These thoughts are based on my perception of the world which while similar, is not the same as yours. The world of which I speak is enough like yours to be representative, but it is by no means the same.
These distinctions extend to the words you see on your screen.
Virtual: in essence, a representation, specifically NOT in fact. Reality: in fact.
One might say there are degrees of reality. If we are in the same room and agree that a flower is chartruse, there is a great deal of shared confidence that this is a fact. If I tell you I am looking at a chartruse flower by way of/. and you choose a color, odds are good that, if we have not both used the same defining standards, our colors will not be the same. They will be close but a lesser degree of reality. The further removed people are from each other, the less confidence there will be in the agreement of their realities. What else can this be but a reality in essence but not in fact. There are exceptions. Euclidean geometry is a pretty damn unambiguous.
I'm not proposing a theory. It's a philosophical point of view.
Money is possibly the oldest virtual reality. In essence it's time. in reality it's shells, pretty stones, gold, paper, or numbers in a computer. Avatars, credits, representations of cities that have never been built may be called virtual reality. Everything in this sort of reality is assembled by 'real people' at one level or another. Similarly the words on your screen, which you may be reading some time next week, have been assembled by me.
This is what I was alluding to when I made the original post. The experience on/. and the net in general is experience in a man made world. Quite different than chasing down a deer and consuming it's adrenaline laden heart.
It's a big mess-O-sensors spread over a wide area. Radio, seismic, atmospheric pressure, and "other".
With the big iron computer it will be possible to play around with all sorts of spatio-temporal signal processing. This has been done with optical telescopes to remove 'twinkles', SA-RADAR and SA-SONAR, and most intensively in oil exploration where 2-D arrays of seismic sensors coupled with 2-D arrays of seismic sources are used in oil exploration. The neat thing, just liek in oil exploration, is that the data from the different sensors can be looked at for correlations. air-pressure, seismic, and radio data all recorded around a significant geophysical event. Yes, I knwo this is 'fishing science', bu tit is fun...
In computer nerd with a hammer terms, virtual reality uses some stuff to stimulate the senses and a mathematical model of reality to create an artificial experience. Much like the telephone.
Dismissal of the unknown does not make it go away.
Speaking of red herrings, the topic is virtual reality, not virtual me.
I can't argue that/. is not reality to you.
virtual: existing in effect reality: existing in fact
virtual reality: a conundrum to drive any bot mad...
add to this the fact that reality is an agreed upon concept, dependent upon a rather thin veneer of civilized humans for it's very existance, in fact existing in effect, and things no longer seem so black and white.
The age of reason brought us reality. It's been with us a very short time relative to recorded history. It's not a reality accepted by all, or even the majority of humans on the planet. Of those who do accept it, precious few understand the difference between their models of reality and the elusive thing they are still trying to understand.
Look at it this way. There is already a lot of common genetic material, sheep-man. Yet, these "heavily modded" sheep are still far removed from man genetically.
Hell, when you get right down to it, it only takes a little bit of genetic snafu to turn a human into an animal. Spawn of human !=human in some cases. Might look human, but so do many apes, which have a lot more in common than said sheeps, sans any modding.
So, do you measure humanity by genetics, intelligence, social acceptability, rational thought, or require a declarative on the part of the human as a qualifier?
two legs four legs three legs, slug what does it matter in a biologically competitive world?
Next thing you know someone will accidently breed a sheep with a swastika pattern to it's wool and half the world will call for his head. Perhaps instead, fate will yield a crossed sheep and they'll make him a saint.
Cannibalism occurs when you replace your inadequate fur with that of a parted out animal.
As for nutrition derived via cannibalism, you might talk to the folks who are still all bent out of shape trying to agree on racial pigeonholing.
It's really quite the same dilemma, unless you subscribe to the one-drop school of thought. In this case, you'd be a cannibal or dead of starvation because AFAIK there is no living thing that does not have some tiny bit of genetic material in common with man...
How many read this and said, WOW, I can go a km instead of this lousy 125m range I've got now?
Visiting the parent referenced product description we learn that the statement,
"They claim 800% range improvement over 802.11g" is
UNTRUE!
What they claim is 800% coverage improvement over 802.11g.
The most gross correction comes if you note:
The volume, or coverage, in which the thing will operate may be 800% greater, but volume goes as a cube of length (distance, range, radius, depending on contextual semantics). So your 800% coverage improvement translates to a 200% range increase.
Add to this the myriad of devilish details which arise in any product comparison and the real world reange increase may be well less than times two.
Problem:
"volume of electronic waste showing up in landfills began ballooning."
EU solution:
Ban lead use in electronics.
Why not stop putting the lead in the landfills instead?
This helps with both the landfill volume shortage and 'envronmental lead' problems.
Possible incentives include:
1)An increasing $/(lead unit) deposit on problematic consumer items. Deposit is returned to the consumer when the old item is turned in at either the purchase point of the new item or at a recycling center. Interest pays for administering the program. What this does is provide a competitive advantage by affording manufacturers with products having a lower lead content to offer consumers a lower initial outlay of $ (lower deposit) It removes this silliness of zero tolerance because items that just can't do without a bit-O-Pb can still be manufactured. Let your estate turn in your pacemaker for the deposit! Better tell the family or a crooked funeral home ma pocket the deposit bux! 2)Industrial lead credits similar to the credits used for power
plant emmissions. 3)???Hey, I'm only on my 2nd cup of coffee!
On one page I see an advert for a 40GB IPOD that can hold 15000 tracks for only $399
On the adjacent page I see that these tracks only cost me $0.99/each
My math says that's $14,850 to fill the thing up.
I've only got a hundred or so albums and it would be nice to carry them around with me, but getting them into the IPOD or SONY HD3 or whatever and indexing, is a royal PIT@. Going out and finding all that music and buying it AGAIN at the 99 cent music store is also a PITW (pain in the wallet).
Why the hell can't I just take my CD or vinyl recording and easily stuff it into the portable player? Until this is 'fast and easy' the radio or listening at home is more attractive (granted there are some good stations in my two home towns).
Streaming the same packets to each IP wanting them gets to be a real mess real fast. The beauty of this system is that so long as a recipients have adequate upload bandwidth to accomodate the stream bandwidth plus some delta (bigger delta will mean lower latency as parallism will increase with fewer stes away from the source) than the 'broadcaster' only needs enough bandwidth to get the stream out to a few people in order to each millions and millions. Don't forget, radio and TeeVee delays of a few seconds or minutes are easily tolerable when the alternative is no program at all.
Imagine a 'fee free' version of this. Anyone could reach as many people as clear channel radio for the expenst of a megabit or two of outbound bandwidth!
If I had programming to deliver and felt it would interest a few hundred thousand people, the on etime $25K would be a drop in the bucket considering what I'd have to pay to reach these same people by traditional radio, TV, or buying enough bandwisth for 100k streams.
Think about it in radio terms. If I'm running a 128kbps MP3 stream and 100k people want it, I need 12.8gbps and the hardware to stuff it. Hell, a 45mpbs and $25K, one time, is a BARGAIN!!!
I predict we will see some serious challanges to big media corps from this and it won't take long. Just watch how fast the PORN guys snap this stuff up!.
Also, imagine running live feeds from public events. A laptop, this application, a WiFi connection, and there's no limit to the number of people who can join in to 'attend' the event.
It's a WIP
It's a deposition from plasma process and grows up and out. In order to run on say a 3" fab line you need 3" wafers. The WIP is growing the 'seeds' to the point that they are large enough to grow cylinders from. It's pretty slow but will speed up once they reach 3". Once you've gotten to 3", then the 'seeds' will be sliced off. After that, it's exponential scaling as each 3" dia becomes thick enough to cut off a new 'seed'. Most of this stuff will be going into 'black' projects for the first few years.
Slashdot Mirror
Every time someone sends you a .doc formatted file, tell them you can't read it and to please send plain text or postscript.
.doc versions of documents. While you're at it you might do the same for that flash crap [-)
There's really no need for any other formats for documents that are to be printed.
If you're a flaming radical who want's to tear down MS, script an automated message for every 'webmaster' who offers only
Heck, I saw a portable DVD player at the "Brand Smart" store for $29. Yep, it had a color screen!
IIRC they were in the $1000+ range two years ago.
Now you won't know if the message, "Mr Sai, your order will ship as soon as you confirm your address", is a phishing expedition or someone elses double chin repair kit.
take 6 years and when finally live will end up snagging thousands of people in "glitches". One day you'll try to get on a, NO CAMERAS ALLOWED, train and you'll find the computer system has either lost all your information or mistakenly returned data for someone on the the FBI VAPORIZE ON SIGHT list.
It's a wonderful story and in no way demeaning to tigers, butter, trees, fine clothing, fritters, or people. My children loved it as a bedtime story, especially when I would say, " I won't eat you this time" in my best tiger voice.
Do you recall the name of your old geography teacher's grandmother?
"correctness" being at odds with much of the internet does not seem to keep Sambo down.
The Story of Little Black Sambo
BY HELLEN BANNERMAN
Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle!
Is a dirivitive of tiger but almost no one knows it these days what with the virtual(this means in essence, not in fact) censorchip of the printed form of a tale regarding the heroic antics of one small South Indian boy in dealing with one rather threatening, "I won't eat you, this time", tiger.
So put on your fancy new suit and call it Butter. You've even got a remaining few days of /. poll for exploitation.
instead of these virtual things, they'd still crash. Trains do.
Why not a classic phase change cooling system?
I can buy a gallon of distilled water for 55 cents. Or use naturally distilled rainwater.
It's good for keeping a 100W source at 100C for about 24 hours and the best part is you can let the steam travel through an insulated pipe and out the window.
You could get fancy and slightly pressurize the system. This would let you use, say 110C, steam to run your own distillation. You want distilled water for the boiler so you don't have to keep cleaning a mess of tiny parts.
You might get even fancier if you live in a country where it is permitted and use alcohol as the coolant letting it distill more alcohol and all attached to a condensor outdoors. This way you get a useful product from the cooling process. Water and starch and sugar content scraps in. Motor fuel or booze out!
With the telephone you don't here my voice only a facsimile. It's a voice in essence but not in fact. A virtual voice. What you discern from these words is a representation of my thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. These thoughts are based on my perception of the world which while similar, is not the same as yours. The world of which I speak is enough like yours to be representative, but it is by no means the same.
/. and you choose a color, odds are good that, if we have not both used the same defining standards, our colors will not be the same. They will be close but a lesser degree of reality. The further removed people are from each other, the less confidence there will be in the agreement of their realities. What else can this be but a reality in essence but not in fact. There are exceptions. Euclidean geometry is a pretty damn unambiguous.
/. and the net in general is experience in a man made world. Quite different than chasing down a deer and consuming it's adrenaline laden heart.
These distinctions extend to the words you see on your screen.
Virtual: in essence, a representation, specifically NOT in fact.
Reality: in fact.
One might say there are degrees of reality. If we are in the same room and agree that a flower is chartruse, there is a great deal of shared confidence that this is a fact. If I tell you I am looking at a chartruse flower by way of
I'm not proposing a theory. It's a philosophical point of view.
Money is possibly the oldest virtual reality. In essence it's time. in reality it's shells, pretty stones, gold, paper, or numbers in a computer. Avatars, credits, representations of cities that have never been built may be called virtual reality. Everything in this sort of reality is assembled by 'real people' at one level or another. Similarly the words on your screen, which you may be reading some time next week, have been assembled by me.
This is what I was alluding to when I made the original post. The experience on
It's a big mess-O-sensors spread over a wide area.
Radio, seismic, atmospheric pressure, and "other".
With the big iron computer it will be possible to play around with all sorts of spatio-temporal signal processing. This has been done with optical telescopes to remove 'twinkles', SA-RADAR and SA-SONAR, and most intensively in oil exploration where 2-D arrays of seismic sensors coupled with 2-D arrays of seismic sources are used in oil exploration. The neat thing, just liek in oil exploration, is that the data from the different sensors can be looked at for correlations. air-pressure, seismic, and radio data all recorded around a significant geophysical event. Yes, I knwo this is 'fishing science', bu tit is fun...
In computer nerd with a hammer terms, virtual reality uses some stuff to stimulate the senses and a mathematical model of reality to create an artificial experience. Much like the telephone. Dismissal of the unknown does not make it go away.
Well they certainly didn't allow themselves much time for this task.
Speaking of red herrings, the topic is virtual reality, not virtual me.
/. is not reality to you.
I can't argue that
virtual: existing in effect
reality: existing in fact
virtual reality: a conundrum to drive any bot mad...
add to this the fact that reality is an agreed upon concept, dependent upon a rather thin veneer of civilized humans for it's very existance, in fact existing in effect, and things no longer seem so black and white.
The age of reason brought us reality. It's been with us a very short time relative to recorded history. It's not a reality accepted by all, or even the majority of humans on the planet. Of those who do accept it, precious few understand the difference between their models of reality and the elusive thing they are still trying to understand.
Look at it this way.
There is already a lot of common genetic material, sheep-man. Yet, these "heavily modded" sheep are still far removed from man genetically.
Hell, when you get right down to it, it only takes a little bit of genetic snafu to turn a human into an animal. Spawn of human !=human in some cases. Might look human, but so do many apes, which have a lot more in common than said sheeps, sans any modding.
So, do you measure humanity by genetics, intelligence, social acceptability, rational thought, or require a declarative on the part of the human as a qualifier?
two legs four legs three legs, slug
what does it matter in a biologically competitive world?
Next thing you know someone will accidently breed a sheep with a swastika pattern to it's wool and half the world will call for his head.
Perhaps instead, fate will yield a crossed sheep and they'll make him a saint.
Cannibalism occurs when you replace your inadequate fur with that of a parted out animal.
As for nutrition derived via cannibalism, you might talk to the folks who are still all bent out of shape trying to agree on racial pigeonholing.
It's really quite the same dilemma, unless you subscribe to the one-drop school of thought. In this case, you'd be a cannibal or dead of starvation because AFAIK there is no living thing that does not have some tiny bit of genetic material in common with man...
If you have to ask, you prove my point.
This whole on-line interaction is virtual reality.
Not the IP portion, but the wireless portion.
Frequencies?
Modulation scheme?
Link level protocol?
Handshake to establish connection?
Handoff between 'access points'?
I found a lot of stuff via google but nothing on the
wireless side of things. Unlike DOCSIS or CDMA which are pretty well explained.
improved diversity
"Anyone want to take a guess why 802.11n takes 3 antenna and 802.11g has two or one?"
How many read this and said, WOW, I can go a km instead of this lousy 125m range I've got now?
Visiting the parent referenced product description we learn that the statement, "They claim 800% range improvement over 802.11g" is
UNTRUE!
What they claim is 800% coverage improvement over 802.11g.
The most gross correction comes if you note:
The volume, or coverage, in which the thing will operate may be 800% greater, but volume goes as a cube of length (distance, range, radius, depending on contextual semantics). So your 800% coverage improvement translates to a 200% range increase.
Add to this the myriad of devilish details which arise in any product comparison and the real world reange increase may be well less than times two.
That's the lead ballon of zero tolerance.
Problem:
"volume of electronic waste showing up in landfills began ballooning."
EU solution:
Ban lead use in electronics.
Why not stop putting the lead in the landfills instead?
This helps with both the landfill volume shortage and 'envronmental lead' problems.
Possible incentives include:
1)An increasing $/(lead unit) deposit on problematic consumer items. Deposit is returned to the consumer when the old item is turned in at either the purchase point of the new item or at a recycling center. Interest pays for administering the program. What this does is provide a competitive advantage by affording manufacturers with products having a lower lead content to offer consumers a lower initial outlay of $ (lower deposit) It removes this silliness of zero tolerance because items that just can't do without a bit-O-Pb can still be manufactured. Let your estate turn in your pacemaker for the deposit! Better tell the family or a crooked funeral home ma pocket the deposit bux!
2)Industrial lead credits similar to the credits used for power plant emmissions.
3)???Hey, I'm only on my 2nd cup of coffee!
On one page I see an advert for a 40GB IPOD that can hold 15000 tracks for only $399
On the adjacent page I see that these tracks only cost me $0.99/each
My math says that's $14,850 to fill the thing up.
I've only got a hundred or so albums and it would be nice to carry them around with me, but getting them into the IPOD or SONY HD3 or whatever and indexing, is a royal PIT@. Going out and finding all that music and buying it AGAIN at the 99 cent music store is also a PITW (pain in the wallet).
Why the hell can't I just take my CD or vinyl recording and easily stuff it into the portable player? Until this is 'fast and easy' the radio or listening at home is more attractive (granted there are some good stations in my two home towns).
If you have the use for it.
Consider internet radio or TeeVee
Streaming the same packets to each IP wanting them gets to be a real mess real fast. The beauty of this system is that so long as a recipients have adequate upload bandwidth to accomodate the stream bandwidth plus some delta (bigger delta will mean lower latency as parallism will increase with fewer stes away from the source) than the 'broadcaster' only needs enough bandwidth to get the stream out to a few people in order to each millions and millions. Don't forget, radio and TeeVee delays of a few seconds or minutes are easily tolerable when the alternative is no program at all.
Imagine a 'fee free' version of this. Anyone could reach as many people as clear channel radio for the expenst of a megabit or two of outbound bandwidth!
If I had programming to deliver and felt it would interest a few hundred thousand people, the on etime $25K would be a drop in the bucket considering what I'd have to pay to reach these same people by traditional radio, TV, or buying enough bandwisth for 100k streams.
Think about it in radio terms. If I'm running a 128kbps MP3 stream and 100k people want it, I need 12.8gbps and the hardware to stuff it. Hell, a 45mpbs and $25K, one time, is a BARGAIN!!!
I predict we will see some serious challanges to big media corps from this and it won't take long. Just watch how fast the PORN guys snap this stuff up!.
Also, imagine running live feeds from public events. A laptop, this application, a WiFi connection, and there's no limit to the number of people who can join in to 'attend' the event.
It's a WIP
It's a deposition from plasma process and grows up and out.
In order to run on say a 3" fab line you need 3" wafers. The WIP is growing the 'seeds' to the point that they are large enough to grow cylinders from. It's pretty slow but will speed up once they reach 3". Once you've gotten to 3", then the 'seeds' will be sliced off. After that, it's exponential scaling as each 3" dia becomes thick enough to cut off a new 'seed'. Most of this stuff will be going into 'black' projects for the first few years.
Well now...
Transmeta has a self optimizing 'microcode' so no bitch there.
Novell-Suse
OR
Redhat
Inquiring investors want to know!