I was impressed by the build quality of their new T91MT touch-screen tablet, and it was definitely an all-around improvement on the older version of that model (the T91, which came with Windows XP and didn't have multitouch). I just wish they offered a handheld touch-screen computer in a screen size slightly larger than 8.9 inches. If they could release this one with a touch screen that swiveled around to lay down flat on top of the keyboard, that'd be perfect! We need such devices to deploy our software product on, and Gibabyte makes a 10-inch one, but even with the nearly full-sized keyboard, it was nowhere near as compelling a user experience as the ASUS.
How fun to see South Texas College of Law in the news! I used to check my email in the library there when I recently worked in downtown Houston, because the multinational financial firm that laid me off had locked down access to Gmail and Facebook and Evite and all other sugar and spice in the online world. Nothing like those mid-afternoon breaks of walking a block to the school and getting a cappuccino out of their coffee machine and staring out the nice big windows of their library!
After a quick download from http://www.drjava.org/ you can start using the super lightweight IDE that I frequently turn to, partly because you can evaluate Java statements on-the-fly with the interpreter behind its handy Interactions Pane. You can interact with code in a compiled class or just start interacting with any lines of code you type immediately. It's really easy to get some code going without the bulk of something like Eclipse (which I generally use for all larger projects). I may be a bit biased since Dr. Java was created by folks from Rice University, my alma mater, but I genuinely find it more useful than other lightweight IDEs specifically because of the Interactions Pane. It's been around for nearly a decade and the latest release was earlier this month!
I'm surprised nobody poked fun at the author's Nigerian connections! He is in fact a son of the recent president of Nigeria, and one of my friends used to live with him at a military secondary school (Air Force). I've read some of his blog posts ever since a fellow Rice student told me Dare was an intern on his team at Microsoft (some half a dozen years ago, I think), and he has always struck me as someone who has wanted to make his mark by working hard on his own rather than by harnessing his privileged past.
I submitted the story just before leaving work on Friday and forgot to check it until today. Looks like Zonk edited my really long submission, and because of that little web OS quote from the article, we ended up hearing an excess number of repeated comments about how this stuff can't replace an OS (and even some silly guy talking about me or the article writer dropping out of computer science). Let the record show that I do not think they're trying to completely replace all OS functionality, and I really don't think anyone else mentioned in these stories thinks that either. I believe it's more of a handy abstraction to discuss it in those terms rather than a technically precise description.
In the part of my submission that was edited out, I was trying to ask if any developers out there have actually used Facebook's API or if anyone knows more about what can be done with Parakey. The rush to denounce this stuff and the fact that the story was posted late on a Friday night (in the U.S.) probably reduced the chances of finding out any useful information from people who would actually have something to share from their own experience. I'm really curious about what they can do because I'm hopeful for continuing abstractions in application development.
That would seem to be a very likely possibility, but it seems that you and others on here are missing one more important detail. The BBC's report says that the researchers found the ants with modified legs had no trouble returning to their home if they made BOTH the outward AND the homeward journeys with modified legs. This implies that modifying their legs might not be disorienting them too much after all. Instead, it reinforces the hypothesis that something else is involved, namely the counting of their steps. Here's the BBC's coverage of the same story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5128604. stm
An intelligent user of email considers whether sending an email is appropriate for the communication at hand. That's the way it is with so many tools--they're often misused, but that doesn't mean they don't still have their proper place.
I thought I would wait until my upper 20s to "make sure" my eyes were stable or whatever (I'm 25), but I had a conversation with my eye doctor recently, and he knows all the guys who do LASIK here in Houston. He wears eyeglasses, and he asked me, "Why do you think none of us have LASIK done?" He then gave me a very good and lengthy explanation of how too little time has passed to know what percentage of people who have the surgery done will experience a degradation later on (we really haven't even seen 2 decades pass since the more primitive form of the surgery became mainstream).
Sure I have some nearsightedness, but why should I want to start etching away at 2 healthy lenses without knowing how they might end up 20 years from now?
It was a dark and stormy night for the enemies of Linux...their last great hope dashed, they moaned about the dearth of weapons at their disposal. Even though Microsoft tries to hire creative people, they realized too late that this criteria had not been applied to the hiring of their legal department, and SCO had never even heard of creativity, so they decided that maybe learning more about creativity would be the best next step. But someone pointed out that this would be counter to their ultra-secret missional mantra, so that was nixed right off the bat. Any other suggestions?
He's not the first story I've heard of of someone who had HIV suddenly not having it anymore. Maybe something about his body is different enough that it could have "cured itself," but maybe something else cured him. God, anyone? Oh, pardon me...forgot this was Slashdot. Wouldn't want to ruffle anyone's delicate feathers now, would we?
Around 1990 or 1991, the show 60 Minutes aired a program in which they visited some of these scammers in Nigeria and caught whole conversations with them on a video camera in the reporter's eyeglasses. The story detailed how for years in the 80s a lot of American businessmen were being duped by letters asking for a $10,000 advance in order to obtain large contracts. Since then, it has only gotten easier for any would-be 419 scammers, and still there is little effort being done to address the root of the problem. Moreover, Microsoft's best efforts will probably end up being like band-aids that annoyingly don't stick very well. It would be far better to try to educate Americans and Europeans about the risk of going along with such enticements, and it would be even better to try to address the reasons why this problem is so prolific in Nigeria. It has affected so many people in the US that the Secret Service has long had a website dedicated to it:
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml/
Short and sweet: with so many distributions of BSD to choose from, and so many of them good to excellent, which BSD delivers the best balance of stability, high-level support options, security, rapid updates, and ease of administration? If an admin wants to standardize on one Linux distribution and have the best of all worlds on everything from file-and-print servers to database boxes, what, in the experience of the Slashdot pros, is that Holy Grail of BSDs- - the one that does it all while also making upper management feel warm and fuzzy?
I've never used BSD, but I knew some scary guys who were really into it, so I figure it must be good. How about we just get all the best stuff from every distro and use it with BSD?
I also have a friend from college who graduated a couple of years ago, worked for Hotmail in California, and just moved to work on GMail a couple of weeks ago. She said her NDA wouldn't let her talk about the interview process. Anyway, they're making good on their attempts to hire from their top competitor...
Actually, you don't even have to get religious or care about animals to object to this. Let's just care about humans, shall we? Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov threatened a future with forced euthanasia to keep the population down...that was half a century ago, and ever since, some philosophers have been debating whether legalizing abortion was just a step towards increased euthanasia, among other things. The common denominator is that when you start playing with boundaries, it is hard to tell what repercussions will occur down the road, but the riskiest ones involve the loss of human rights we currently take for granted. You say you have rights because you're a full-fledged natural human? Depending on what happens with this research, that may no longer be good enough one day. Sure, sure, you can object, cry, rant and rave, but the same experimental freedom you rally behind now could haunt you or your grandchildren.
We should keep in mind that he was asked to be provocative, whatever that means. The fact is, no matter how you try to talk about this, you'll likely be very provocative to somebody even if you try not to be. It seems like he didn't really say women are not capable, but we weren't there so we can't know that for sure. Perhaps he should have explained his comments a bit better, though I'm not sure it would have helped. The biologist who walked out can't disagree with the fact that there are some clear physical differences (like different levels of various hormones for each sex) that could affect other noticeable differences (personality and thus interests).
I have no doubt that there are some folks on here who are really hardcore about playing with BSD to the point that they are more intimately involved with their distro than anything else...I believe that I am probably capable of the same thing, but for various reasons, that's just not in line with my interests...and therefore it's not as likely that I'd be able to compete with those folks. So a similar hypothesis could be tested to see if perhaps women who are demonstrably capable of juggling advanced math as well as men just don't enjoy it as much (on average) as a corresponding sample of men. In other words, maybe the average woman doesn't like those topics as much as the average guy (but of course it would be hard to study this).
He saw each film in the original trilogy 1200+ times...so 300 full 24-hour days of his life have been spent watching just those films? Throw in the new films and any other related stuff, and we easily have over a full year of his life...
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I was impressed by the build quality of their new T91MT touch-screen tablet, and it was definitely an all-around improvement on the older version of that model (the T91, which came with Windows XP and didn't have multitouch). I just wish they offered a handheld touch-screen computer in a screen size slightly larger than 8.9 inches. If they could release this one with a touch screen that swiveled around to lay down flat on top of the keyboard, that'd be perfect! We need such devices to deploy our software product on, and Gibabyte makes a 10-inch one, but even with the nearly full-sized keyboard, it was nowhere near as compelling a user experience as the ASUS.
How fun to see South Texas College of Law in the news! I used to check my email in the library there when I recently worked in downtown Houston, because the multinational financial firm that laid me off had locked down access to Gmail and Facebook and Evite and all other sugar and spice in the online world. Nothing like those mid-afternoon breaks of walking a block to the school and getting a cappuccino out of their coffee machine and staring out the nice big windows of their library!
After a quick download from http://www.drjava.org/ you can start using the super lightweight IDE that I frequently turn to, partly because you can evaluate Java statements on-the-fly with the interpreter behind its handy Interactions Pane. You can interact with code in a compiled class or just start interacting with any lines of code you type immediately. It's really easy to get some code going without the bulk of something like Eclipse (which I generally use for all larger projects). I may be a bit biased since Dr. Java was created by folks from Rice University, my alma mater, but I genuinely find it more useful than other lightweight IDEs specifically because of the Interactions Pane. It's been around for nearly a decade and the latest release was earlier this month!
I'm surprised nobody poked fun at the author's Nigerian connections! He is in fact a son of the recent president of Nigeria, and one of my friends used to live with him at a military secondary school (Air Force). I've read some of his blog posts ever since a fellow Rice student told me Dare was an intern on his team at Microsoft (some half a dozen years ago, I think), and he has always struck me as someone who has wanted to make his mark by working hard on his own rather than by harnessing his privileged past.
I submitted the story just before leaving work on Friday and forgot to check it until today. Looks like Zonk edited my really long submission, and because of that little web OS quote from the article, we ended up hearing an excess number of repeated comments about how this stuff can't replace an OS (and even some silly guy talking about me or the article writer dropping out of computer science). Let the record show that I do not think they're trying to completely replace all OS functionality, and I really don't think anyone else mentioned in these stories thinks that either. I believe it's more of a handy abstraction to discuss it in those terms rather than a technically precise description.
In the part of my submission that was edited out, I was trying to ask if any developers out there have actually used Facebook's API or if anyone knows more about what can be done with Parakey. The rush to denounce this stuff and the fact that the story was posted late on a Friday night (in the U.S.) probably reduced the chances of finding out any useful information from people who would actually have something to share from their own experience. I'm really curious about what they can do because I'm hopeful for continuing abstractions in application development.
That would seem to be a very likely possibility, but it seems that you and others on here are missing one more important detail. The BBC's report says that the researchers found the ants with modified legs had no trouble returning to their home if they made BOTH the outward AND the homeward journeys with modified legs. This implies that modifying their legs might not be disorienting them too much after all. Instead, it reinforces the hypothesis that something else is involved, namely the counting of their steps. Here's the BBC's coverage of the same story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5128604. stm
An intelligent user of email considers whether sending an email is appropriate for the communication at hand. That's the way it is with so many tools--they're often misused, but that doesn't mean they don't still have their proper place.
I thought I would wait until my upper 20s to "make sure" my eyes were stable or whatever (I'm 25), but I had a conversation with my eye doctor recently, and he knows all the guys who do LASIK here in Houston. He wears eyeglasses, and he asked me, "Why do you think none of us have LASIK done?" He then gave me a very good and lengthy explanation of how too little time has passed to know what percentage of people who have the surgery done will experience a degradation later on (we really haven't even seen 2 decades pass since the more primitive form of the surgery became mainstream).
Sure I have some nearsightedness, but why should I want to start etching away at 2 healthy lenses without knowing how they might end up 20 years from now?
It was a dark and stormy night for the enemies of Linux...their last great hope dashed, they moaned about the dearth of weapons at their disposal. Even though Microsoft tries to hire creative people, they realized too late that this criteria had not been applied to the hiring of their legal department, and SCO had never even heard of creativity, so they decided that maybe learning more about creativity would be the best next step. But someone pointed out that this would be counter to their ultra-secret missional mantra, so that was nixed right off the bat. Any other suggestions?
He's not the first story I've heard of of someone who had HIV suddenly not having it anymore. Maybe something about his body is different enough that it could have "cured itself," but maybe something else cured him. God, anyone? Oh, pardon me...forgot this was Slashdot. Wouldn't want to ruffle anyone's delicate feathers now, would we?
Around 1990 or 1991, the show 60 Minutes aired a program in which they visited some of these scammers in Nigeria and caught whole conversations with them on a video camera in the reporter's eyeglasses. The story detailed how for years in the 80s a lot of American businessmen were being duped by letters asking for a $10,000 advance in order to obtain large contracts. Since then, it has only gotten easier for any would-be 419 scammers, and still there is little effort being done to address the root of the problem. Moreover, Microsoft's best efforts will probably end up being like band-aids that annoyingly don't stick very well. It would be far better to try to educate Americans and Europeans about the risk of going along with such enticements, and it would be even better to try to address the reasons why this problem is so prolific in Nigeria. It has affected so many people in the US that the Secret Service has long had a website dedicated to it: http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml/
Sun's Niagara is coming...
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http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title
Short and sweet: with so many distributions of BSD to choose from, and so many of them good to excellent, which BSD delivers the best balance of stability, high-level support options, security, rapid updates, and ease of administration? If an admin wants to standardize on one Linux distribution and have the best of all worlds on everything from file-and-print servers to database boxes, what, in the experience of the Slashdot pros, is that Holy Grail of BSDs- - the one that does it all while also making upper management feel warm and fuzzy?
I've never used BSD, but I knew some scary guys who were really into it, so I figure it must be good. How about we just get all the best stuff from every distro and use it with BSD?
I also have a friend from college who graduated a couple of years ago, worked for Hotmail in California, and just moved to work on GMail a couple of weeks ago. She said her NDA wouldn't let her talk about the interview process. Anyway, they're making good on their attempts to hire from their top competitor...
Actually, you don't even have to get religious or care about animals to object to this. Let's just care about humans, shall we? Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov threatened a future with forced euthanasia to keep the population down...that was half a century ago, and ever since, some philosophers have been debating whether legalizing abortion was just a step towards increased euthanasia, among other things. The common denominator is that when you start playing with boundaries, it is hard to tell what repercussions will occur down the road, but the riskiest ones involve the loss of human rights we currently take for granted. You say you have rights because you're a full-fledged natural human? Depending on what happens with this research, that may no longer be good enough one day. Sure, sure, you can object, cry, rant and rave, but the same experimental freedom you rally behind now could haunt you or your grandchildren.
We should keep in mind that he was asked to be provocative, whatever that means. The fact is, no matter how you try to talk about this, you'll likely be very provocative to somebody even if you try not to be. It seems like he didn't really say women are not capable, but we weren't there so we can't know that for sure. Perhaps he should have explained his comments a bit better, though I'm not sure it would have helped. The biologist who walked out can't disagree with the fact that there are some clear physical differences (like different levels of various hormones for each sex) that could affect other noticeable differences (personality and thus interests).
I have no doubt that there are some folks on here who are really hardcore about playing with BSD to the point that they are more intimately involved with their distro than anything else...I believe that I am probably capable of the same thing, but for various reasons, that's just not in line with my interests...and therefore it's not as likely that I'd be able to compete with those folks. So a similar hypothesis could be tested to see if perhaps women who are demonstrably capable of juggling advanced math as well as men just don't enjoy it as much (on average) as a corresponding sample of men. In other words, maybe the average woman doesn't like those topics as much as the average guy (but of course it would be hard to study this).
He saw each film in the original trilogy 1200+ times...so 300 full 24-hour days of his life have been spent watching just those films? Throw in the new films and any other related stuff, and we easily have over a full year of his life...