I agree -- if you are standing right in front of the vending machine why not touch it with some kid of plastic card. If you pay with cellphone the signal has to travel 10's of kilometers at least. What if the current cell is down? What if the vending machine's cell connection is down, etc. Just stupid. Like telneting in to your Linux box from the console!
Now maybe its useful if you aren't touching the vending machine. Like Internet shopping but then there are Internet payment methods (credit card, paypal, etc).
If this doesn't turn out to be practical as an energy source maybe it could be uses to measure water flow. It's solid state -- seems better than the stuff we have now.
How about those kid's puzzles where there is an image where many things are "wrong". Like the water from the tap is flowing up. These are easy to solve by people but very hard for machines.
Wow, I am amazed to read anyone on Slashdot uses Hotmail. Personally, I avoid Microsoft as much as possible. Since there are so many webmail services its easy to be Microsoft clean in this area.
Well then... they should upgrade to Windows2003 (Longhorn)!
Of course, I am kidding but in some ways it's true. Microsoft always promises the next release will work but it never quite does. The brilliant upgrade treadmill of mediocrity.
In the Terminator movies it was Skynet that woke up. What happened in reality is even scarier than fiction... the Terminator became the Govinator. Why did Calif vote out Davis, the previous gov? Because he botched electricity deregulation and ran up a huge debt! It's all connected, man.
In the view of Casazza and many other experts, the key error in the new rules was to view electricity as a commodity rather than as an essential service. Commodities can be shipped from point A through line B to point C, but power shifts affect the entire singlemachine system. As a result, increased longdistance trading of electric power would create dangerous levels of congestion on transmission lines where controllers did not expect them and could not deal with them.
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Thanks for the reply and the link.
I am pleased that the GIMP people are considering MDI!
I have watched non-expert users try GIMP and they are always baffled. They ask, where's the application? Answer: all those windows. They can't minimize or maximize the GIMP with one click. I know this is counter to the X way but it would be very helpful.
The link your page that shows that
Gnome can do MDI is interesting.
I agree the user interface is a mess.
Perhaps going what is called MDI (multiple document interface) in the Windows world would be a step in the direction.
It always kills me when people with interesting, fun jobs get money and awards. Like this and the Academy Awards. To qualify for these awards you first have to have a great job that you love. In that case do you really need more award.
Where's the award for the programmer who refactored 500K lines of hopeless spaghetti code left over by some idiot who hard no idea about structured programing?!
I prefer the idea of gstreamer... you define a graph to play your content. You can even describe the graph on the command line;-). mplayer uses Windows DLLs - yuck. Just one problem... when I tried gstreamer and mplayer last month (on RedHat 9) mplayer worked much better. For example, gstreamer claimed to play Quicktime but didn't. I know I was in trouble when gst-launch-ext (sp?) -- the script that plays files based on their extensions -- said.mov was invalid!
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This is so obvious is nuts.
The info should be on a free website.
Remember this is a punishment not an income stream.
Globe article
OK this .NET remoting doesn't use XML but what does it use? Some secret MSFT protocol?
Just stupid. Like telneting in to your Linux box from the console!
Now maybe its useful if you aren't touching the vending machine. Like Internet shopping but then there are Internet payment methods (credit card, paypal, etc).
If this doesn't turn out to be practical as an energy source maybe it could be uses to measure water flow. It's solid state -- seems better than the stuff we have now.
How about those kid's puzzles where there is an image where many things are "wrong". Like the water from the tap is flowing up. These are easy to solve by people but very hard for machines.
You are saying CAPTCHAs can be solved at low cost. But there is still a cost vs. nothing before. That's an improvement.
Wow, I am amazed to read anyone on Slashdot uses Hotmail. Personally, I avoid Microsoft as much as possible. Since there are so many webmail services its easy to be Microsoft clean in this area.
I use Mozilla for CIBC and that works.
Evan has documented lots of this: banks'n'browsers
Well then... they should upgrade to Windows2003 (Longhorn)!
Of course, I am kidding but in some ways it's true.
Microsoft always promises the next release will work but it never quite does. The brilliant upgrade treadmill of mediocrity.
This is cool but I like China's space program better...they are going to be doing manned exploration of S P A C E.
There's a new Slashdot trick.
Pose and interesting question (+5 interesting)
then answer it (+5 informative).
In the Terminator movies it was Skynet that woke up.
What happened in reality is even scarier than fiction... the Terminator became the Govinator.
Why did Calif vote out Davis, the previous gov?
Because he botched electricity deregulation and ran up a huge debt!
It's all connected, man.
Quoting...
In the view of Casazza and many other experts, the key error in the new rules was to view electricity as a commodity rather than as an essential service. Commodities can be shipped from point A through line B to point C, but power shifts affect the entire singlemachine system. As a result, increased longdistance trading of electric power would create dangerous levels of congestion on transmission lines where controllers did not expect them and could not deal with them.
What about O(1) switching.
This should make the desktop smooother.
Check out GnuWinII and The Open CD.
The link your page that shows that Gnome can do MDI is interesting.
I agree the user interface is a mess. Perhaps going what is called MDI (multiple document interface) in the Windows world would be a step in the direction.
We did this with X.25 packets in the 1980's.
It always kills me when people with interesting, fun jobs get money and awards. Like this and the Academy Awards. To qualify for these awards you first have to have a great job that you love. In that case do you really need more award.
Where's the award for the programmer who refactored 500K lines of hopeless spaghetti code left over by some idiot who hard no idea about structured programing?!
Maybe they have plans to let ISPs wildcard to Sitefinder for a kick back.
I prefer the idea of gstreamer ... ;-). ... when I tried gstreamer and mplayer last month (on RedHat 9) mplayer worked much better. For example, gstreamer claimed to play Quicktime but didn't. I know I was in trouble when gst-launch-ext (sp?) -- the script that plays files based on their extensions -- said .mov was invalid!
you define a graph to play your content. You can even describe the graph on the command line
mplayer uses Windows DLLs - yuck.
Just one problem
That article links this rant...
Page Rank dead!
I still find Google to be very very unspammed and accurate.
There's an emerging technology for ya!
Er, what's with SMB and ssh support in this
product? Does it proxy those protocols too?
I don't see any point in proxying ssh.