Belgium? That depends on whose history books you've been reading. I'd say the dispute over the southern Netherlands which led to the creation of Belgium was one with France, not with a state that didn't yet exist.
History is always written with an agenda. It's clear from the discussions about Russia vs. Georgia and the US vs. Iraq in the comments on this story that that's not going to change any time soon.
You're not the only one. Mod parent up. Sports competition does not lead to the improvement of the human condition, and nationalistic competition certainly doesn't. Now, if every nation would actually stop fighting for the duration as was the case in the original ancient games, there'd be some redeeming value, but obviously Russia and Georgia (or any other fighting group) haven't been paying attention.
And yes, there are models without Windoze keys. That would be requirement.
And models with integrated trackpoints! Whee.
And... wait for it... a Linux layout! With no Windows keys, and Ctrl where it's supposed to be (where Caps Lock is on a PC keyboard).
I still have an original loud clicker. Cost me £55 in 1999.
Get an Ask Slashdot article posted with your real name and e-mail address.
Get people to find your personal site via the domain name in your e-mail address.
Put a fat banner on that, redirecting the crowd from Slashdot to your blog. Warning #1: say you are an export C# programmer on your blog.
Put stuff about your company on your professional site.
Put a big job ad on the front page of your company, White Oak Technologies.
Post a bunch of stupid, tedious, entry-level jobs on your jobs page. Warning #2.
Put this on the bottom of the jobs page: "Applicants must be U.S. citizens and selected applicant will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information." Three strikes, you're out.
Limiting yourself to U.S. citizens excludes most decent programmers outside and inside the U.S. Excluding people who will pass a government security investigation excludes all the programmers who've done... interesting things. Excluding people who are willing to do U.S. government contracting work, well...;-)
You are exactly right. This is a marketing-style announcement. Its only purpose is to try to sway hardware vendor management into releasing specs because, look here, they're getting such a great deal. Free development. You'd have to be crazy not to do it!
In reality, that's already the way it was; release your specs, and a driver will be written. IF your hardware actually sells and enough people care.
We give our new guys a laptop and tell them to install it. If it's not running Debian smoothly by the next day, we fire them.
What they use for office, mail, web, chat - whatever, is their own business.
Agreed. At least Second Life has a MacOS X and a Linux client (alpha, but works peachy for me so far).
I guess this is their first demo version, to appease the investors, that will have to be rewritten from scratch once they manage to get their second run of VC capital. Writing the client in C# also means it's not portable to game consoles or non-x86 embedded devices that mostly run Linux, so they're on a dead end.
Do what I do whenever they stick a Windows-machine in my face. Get a second machine running Linux to do all the real work; and use the Windows-machine only for those programs for which there is no easy alternative.
I've had a machine to run only Outlook that way, and now I have one that's dedicated to compiling code that I edit and do version control with on my Linux laptop. The laptop runs Samba, and the compiler has to get the source over CIFS.
Give each of them one of the devices or programs to use early on in alpha-testing, and perhaps a list of tasks to accomplish.
Though I'm not a UI person, I appreciate the importance of user-centered design. I found myself advocating the very same thing in a project recently, but my comments were all brushed off as just not worth the effort, until the testing phase started. Then the list of confused calls for help on how to get the bloody thing to do what they wanted started, followed by endless lists of suggested improvements...
>> My wife's building a 4 petabyte array (starting with 600 terabyte by the end of this year) for real-time multiple-access high-speed video streaming on GPFS.
> Wow! WHERE did you FIND HER??
She found me. What can I say, she's a sucker for disk size.
My wife's building a 4 petabyte array (starting with 600 terabyte by the end of this year) for real-time multiple-access high-speed video streaming on GPFS. All GNU/Linux and commodity hardware. The switch fabric of the network is the hard bit. It's a bitch on fibre channel, but iSCSI should deliver higher performance at less than half the price. That's when you can get the hardware, and if you have the right Ethernet switch fabric again...
This solution would be similar to putting drugs in the drinking water to protect the entire population against a disease. It's costly and you might kill a bunch of people who suffer side effects. And, as one bright poster has already pointed out, as the value of spreading security patches by worms is in the continuous random network scanning to discover other vulnerable systems, you're creating the same problem in network load.
I propose that the ISPs install vulnerability and infection sniffers. When your system is connected, it gets probed. If you're vulnerable or infected, you are quarantined. Your Internet connection could be closed off, or all web access could be redirected to a page with information on the discovered problem and information on how to fix it. Access to patches (on the ISP's network; any type of access to the Internet - even DNS - could be exploited in clever ways) could still be allowed.
My system's been connected 24/7 to the Internet via a broadband link for 4.5 years now. I get attacked multiple times per minute. This annoys me slightly. I also get dozens of mails generated by mailworms every day. That really, really pisses me off. Somebody's got to do something.
There seems to be lots of confusion about this. It's a Motorola phone. In fact, it's an exact copy of my E398, only with "sound" now as an extra hard button instead of a soft button.
Which means:
Transflash card. It's really tiny, the size and thickness of my pinky nail
Tri-band
USB 2.0, and you get to choose between it exposing the flash card as a USB disk device, or a modem. Cable included
Stereo speakers. It's really cool to hold it just about 20-30cm from your face and hear pretty good stereo sound
Earphones
Bluetooth, and yes, you can copy MP3's that way too
Groovy multi-coloured lights on both sides of the phone
Speakerphone
Camera with a powerful led instead of a flash. Doubles as a flashlight
And the downsides
Sluggish user interface
Blurry 640x480 camera. Taking into account the previous point, when you press "capture," you get to wait 2 seconds for the snapshot to be taken
Buggy. Crashes on you, especially when the battery is low
Really bad mpeg-4 playback. The user interface stops responding when it's playing. Sound may crap out. It will only do a bitrate so low that the picture has severe compression artifacts
Limited functionality in BlueTooth. The only decent BlueTooth phone I've ever seen is a SonyEricsson
No voice recording (duh), but I'm under the impression that that's a hidden feature that you can enable with a hack
Of course, the specs of the ROKR may vary, and the MP3 navigation is beyond a doubt better than on the E398, but it won't be far off.
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Belgium? That depends on whose history books you've been reading. I'd say the dispute over the southern Netherlands which led to the creation of Belgium was one with France, not with a state that didn't yet exist. History is always written with an agenda. It's clear from the discussions about Russia vs. Georgia and the US vs. Iraq in the comments on this story that that's not going to change any time soon.
You're not the only one. Mod parent up. Sports competition does not lead to the improvement of the human condition, and nationalistic competition certainly doesn't. Now, if every nation would actually stop fighting for the duration as was the case in the original ancient games, there'd be some redeeming value, but obviously Russia and Georgia (or any other fighting group) haven't been paying attention.
Regards,
Joe Example
http://xkcd.com/440/
What a wimp. Real men shave with a blade while driving.
I guess that description would include GPS navigation devices and the car radio ?
And yes, there are models without Windoze keys. That would be requirement. And models with integrated trackpoints! Whee. And... wait for it... a Linux layout! With no Windows keys, and Ctrl where it's supposed to be (where Caps Lock is on a PC keyboard).
I still have an original loud clicker. Cost me £55 in 1999.
A few every hour? This weekend marks the second weekend in which I got several hundred bounces in a single night!
- Get an Ask Slashdot article posted with your real name and e-mail address.
- Get people to find your personal site via the domain name in your e-mail address.
- Put a fat banner on that, redirecting the crowd from Slashdot to your blog. Warning #1: say you are an export C# programmer on your blog.
- Put stuff about your company on your professional site.
- Put a big job ad on the front page of your company, White Oak Technologies.
- Post a bunch of stupid, tedious, entry-level jobs on your jobs page. Warning #2.
- Put this on the bottom of the jobs page: "Applicants must be U.S. citizens and selected applicant will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information." Three strikes, you're out.
Limiting yourself to U.S. citizens excludes most decent programmers outside and inside the U.S. Excluding people who will pass a government security investigation excludes all the programmers who've done... interesting things. Excluding people who are willing to do U.S. government contracting work, well...In other news, scientists claim that women are much better at multitasking than men...
Hmm? America making fuel from cellulite? What a good idea. There's certainly plenty of it.
In reality, that's already the way it was; release your specs, and a driver will be written. IF your hardware actually sells and enough people care.
We give our new guys a laptop and tell them to install it. If it's not running Debian smoothly by the next day, we fire them. What they use for office, mail, web, chat - whatever, is their own business.
I guess this is their first demo version, to appease the investors, that will have to be rewritten from scratch once they manage to get their second run of VC capital. Writing the client in C# also means it's not portable to game consoles or non-x86 embedded devices that mostly run Linux, so they're on a dead end.
I've had a machine to run only Outlook that way, and now I have one that's dedicated to compiling code that I edit and do version control with on my Linux laptop. The laptop runs Samba, and the compiler has to get the source over CIFS.
Though I'm not a UI person, I appreciate the importance of user-centered design. I found myself advocating the very same thing in a project recently, but my comments were all brushed off as just not worth the effort, until the testing phase started. Then the list of confused calls for help on how to get the bloody thing to do what they wanted started, followed by endless lists of suggested improvements...
> Wow! WHERE did you FIND HER??
She found me. What can I say, she's a sucker for disk size.
My wife's building a 4 petabyte array (starting with 600 terabyte by the end of this year) for real-time multiple-access high-speed video streaming on GPFS. All GNU/Linux and commodity hardware. The switch fabric of the network is the hard bit. It's a bitch on fibre channel, but iSCSI should deliver higher performance at less than half the price. That's when you can get the hardware, and if you have the right Ethernet switch fabric again...
Well, that's where the commercial value is for them, of course. Just how much do you want to drink and eat after half an hour of uninterrupted DDR?
Call Subway with that idea...
I propose that the ISPs install vulnerability and infection sniffers. When your system is connected, it gets probed. If you're vulnerable or infected, you are quarantined. Your Internet connection could be closed off, or all web access could be redirected to a page with information on the discovered problem and information on how to fix it. Access to patches (on the ISP's network; any type of access to the Internet - even DNS - could be exploited in clever ways) could still be allowed.
My system's been connected 24/7 to the Internet via a broadband link for 4.5 years now. I get attacked multiple times per minute. This annoys me slightly. I also get dozens of mails generated by mailworms every day. That really, really pisses me off. Somebody's got to do something.
Which means:
- Transflash card. It's really tiny, the size and thickness of my pinky nail
- Tri-band
- USB 2.0, and you get to choose between it exposing the flash card as a USB disk device, or a modem. Cable included
- Stereo speakers. It's really cool to hold it just about 20-30cm from your face and hear pretty good stereo sound
- Earphones
- Bluetooth, and yes, you can copy MP3's that way too
- Groovy multi-coloured lights on both sides of the phone
- Speakerphone
- Camera with a powerful led instead of a flash. Doubles as a flashlight
And the downsides- Sluggish user interface
- Blurry 640x480 camera. Taking into account the previous point, when you press "capture," you get to wait 2 seconds for the snapshot to be taken
- Buggy. Crashes on you, especially when the battery is low
- Really bad mpeg-4 playback. The user interface stops responding when it's playing. Sound may crap out. It will only do a bitrate so low that the picture has severe compression artifacts
- Limited functionality in BlueTooth. The only decent BlueTooth phone I've ever seen is a SonyEricsson
- No voice recording (duh), but I'm under the impression that that's a hidden feature that you can enable with a hack
Of course, the specs of the ROKR may vary, and the MP3 navigation is beyond a doubt better than on the E398, but it won't be far off.Well, isn't that what User Interface means? The computer Interfacing with the User to make him do things?