i submitted a story last week about IBM embedding strong cryptographic chips in their computers and it was rejected.
Just a theory, but it seems as though the flavor of stories change at different times of the week. Fridays tend to be more cooky, wacky, fun, pranks. Weekends are more of the softy stuff, like JonKatz movie reviews and amusement parks. Monday morning it's back to business with new breakthrough discoveries and lawsuit announcements. Of course, you've got to stick in the random noise of zeitgeists being brought to public attention, and political happenings.
In summary - you probably should have waited to post your IBM story on a monday morning.
Well, the death star was long ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Various pieces could have been flung on a trajectory taking it into the sun, or even into the Yucatan peninsula - killing off all the dinosaurs... but that's just another deranged theory.
Definitely, I grab the syndication feed every time I open a new web-browsing window. I don't spend the time reading every article, just the ones that interest me the most. I want to see when things change, and if there is something that is interesting to me. Otherwise, I find I'm wasting my time.
Do you read every book in the library every time you visit? (didn't think so)
One could easily make the argument that charging for headlines info would drive viewers away, instead of drawing them in.
That means that in a year or two things will be different. True, things could get worse... though I doubt it. We're suffering from deflated exuberance caused by a lot of VC being placed behind shoddy business plans, combined with the psychological impact of Shrubya's comments right around the election "We're going to have a recession", topped off with the effects of a major terrorism strike.
Most of the unfit companies have closed their doors, but some of the stronger ones have survived and have diversified their business plans to make them stronger. W has come around and said that we're having a recovery. Finally - we've routed the Taliban out of Afghanistan, and unless they've massively reorganized in another part of the world, I doubt that we'll see many more large terrorism strikes that catch us by surprise. We're on guard now.
The big uncertainties are whether or not W will decide to invade Iraq to finish the job his daddy didn't finish, and whether the rest of the world gets pissed at the US for it, on top of snubbing the Kyoto and ABM treaties.
Do I need to spell it out further? Right now there aren't many tech jobs out there. If you don't have a job you essentially have 2 more choices:
A) find another field
B) huddle in your bunker and refine your skills while waiting for the cycle to swing back up.
I don't know about you, but I love working with computers, and want to continue doing so. Do you think that Olympic athletes give up skiing just because they're no snow outside?
Very true, though I did use the word "port" instead of "recompile". I'm not an X hacker, but I would imagine that the APIs for XWindows and Aqua would have similar philosophies. I would assume both would have elements such as "Create_new_window", and "Build_new_menu", and "Get_mouse_click", etc.
I could see how the event handlers would be rather different, but once 1 or 2 apps are ported, then writing a developer's tutorial on how to port shouldn't be too far behind.
I'd volunteer to do this myself, but I don't know X nor Aqua, and my work would probably be redundant anyways.
the other aspect to consider is that Mac OS X is POSIX compliant. Many open source apps can be ported (see the other story posted today). I could see how AbiWord, or many other open source Office apps could kill the need for purchasing M$ products.
Now we need to get people to start saving as *.rtf instead of *.doc (which works just as well), and we'll have the keys to the kingdom.
There was a rather
fascinating program on PBS a few weeks ago entitled "Dot Con". The thesis
of the program alleges that investment analysts had an awful lot to gain
by offering "hot buy" advice on stocks that their employers had vested
interest in.
Ultimately, this led to consumers/investment speculators getting screwed,
and unripe companies being shipped off to IPO land for quick cash.
This site has much more detail, including interviews, stats, etc. -
including the program itself on quicktime:
Number one: I am deaf, it has NOTHING to do with my genes and I fully intend on procreating once I find a suitable life-partner to do so with.
Great! I wish you only the best.
Though deafness may not be genetic, hearing loss with age is. As our species progresses, as we step over the hurdles of nature, the the age of onset of hearing loss may well decrease to the beginning of life.
My deafness is a far cry from being related to genetics, and so might peoples sterility, blindness, stupidity, and ugliness.
If we steer around environmentally imposed sterility to allow everyone to have babies, we'll see evolution stop weeding genetic defects out, and we may discover that some sterility may have been caused by genetic mutation.
This has got to be a similar plight in the gay community. As more people feel comfortable to come out of the closet, (and not live the way society has historically told them to), they cease to be breeders. As homosexuality has been shown to be genetic in various studies, will this trait continue to be passed on if gay couples simply adopt? I guess the reason we're talking about this at all - the artificial womb may allow gay males to produce offspring. There was also research that came out recently stating that they can make any cell in the body from adult stem cells. With some gene twiddling, does this mean that sperm cells could be created from an adult female's stem cells?
I'm as serious as my proclamation - my orginal post was more sarcastic trying to get people's attention. It's more of a philosophy to be examined. Our society tends to not think that far ahead. After all, my mate is legally blind without glasses, and my eyes are getting fuzzier all the time. We plan on making little babies who may or may not share our less than wonderful sight.
This is actively working against evolution. I demand this stop immediately. Not only do we allow blind, deaf, ugly, and stupid people to pro-create, but now we're going to start allowing sterile people to procreate? Someday, we'll all end up stuck in the matrix feeding tubes, and it won't be imposed on us by some AI run amuck.... it will be done by our own choice.
For the record, I don't have anything against the aforementioned groups of people, I'm just saying that the proliferation of those traits in our gene pool is not necessarily desired. Not to be misconstrued - I firmly believe that we're all created equal, and should be given ample opportunities to pursue happiness in our own ways. I'll not persecute people based on how they were born, but do we necessarily want to become a people who can't function without the full dependence on technology?
Stephen Hawking claimed that ALS was the best thing that ever happened to his career, note that he didn't say that it was the best thing to ever happen to his life.
Re:IT'S 11/9 NOT 9/11 IT'S 11/9 NOT 9/11 IT's 11/9
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I don't know if something noteworthy happened on the ninth of November, but if your talking about the day when a bunch of Islamic terrorists crashed a couple of planes in NY it reads 11/9!
Flamebait, -1 (where's your moderator points when you need them)
We all have our own cultural interpretations. In Mexico, they celebrate "Cinco de Mayo". We don't correct it and tell them that it's "Mayo de Cinco"...
The attack happened in America, on primarily American people - where we use the month/day convention. The other reason that it's sometimes referred to as "nine-eleven" is the similarity it has with the emergency telephone number "9-1-1".
Perhaps the terrorists chose this day on purpose to strike fear into the hearts of Americans by using our own culture against us. Perhaps they wanted us to forever remember that day as the "day of emergency". They failed, for the heroism of the emergency personnel (who happen to respond when you dial 9-1-1) turned out to be the great shining light of the day.
In summary, I feel it fitting to refer back to one of this nation's most important events in history as "September 11th", or "nine-eleven", or even "nine-one-one".
If, or when someone invades Europe from another continent and smashes 2,000+ people - perhaps your press will report it as 2.000 people, and you can refer to that date in infamy as "day/month". But until that time, get used to us Americans using "month/day". It's our culture. We tried to jetison the English measurement system for metric, it didn't happen.
The TV broadcast corporations don't fully realize it yet, but the internet captures more adult eyeballs than TV. The internet is catching up in the teen sector as well. The *real* money is on internet where someone can instantly pay for something, as opposed to a passive information device such as the boob tube.
The real reasons that an internet broadcasting company hasn't bought the rights out from under NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN, etc. is the lack of a fat pipeline. If every house could easily afford a fat pipe like they can a TV cable, then the ground will be fertile for all types of innovations.
11 years ago Sports Illustrated predicted what watching sports would be like in 2001. They had some good ideas which are much closer these days. Some of the things they predicted came somewhat true with PIP (Picture-in-Picture) and the Tivo (your own instant replay), though the 27' (yes foot) flat screen dominating your living room seems more appropriate prognositcation for 2011.
Even the highlighted 1st down line, and the hockey-puck highlighting that failed could both be switched on or off depending on the user's interest. Some other predictions that sound appropriate for the fat pipe that I described above could be instant stats displays on the screen, trajectory extrapolations, etc.
As broadcasters try to pack user-configurable information into the picture, they'll find the existing analog transmissions inadequate, and will be forced to move online. This could push a whole new field for handheld interactive video screens for the audience (could you imagine the audience's average vote as an extra judge for figure skating, etc.)
The ubiquitious internet is coming, regardless of delays from competing standards, and failed dot-bomb speculations... it will take over... someday.
There are plenty of reasons to do this, the best reason would be to stop looking like an idiot. Professionalism not only involves mastering a clever plan, but also taking care of all the little details. Another reason why it's important to spell things correctly is to find proper search results, or grep matches.
There are plenty of other idiots out there, you don't need to enlarge their ranks:
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Number of visits: 310481 (Since 09-23-2000)
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Makes me think of Lex Luthor's escape from prison in Superman 2 when they had to leave Otis behind as his largeness started to climb on the rope ladder into the hot-air balloon.
You'd have to define what you mean by "nothing has changed in the System folder", since prefs, for example, can change all the time.
Preferences get written and re-written all the time. In fact, classic versions of Mac OS can be booted w/out anything in the Preferences folder. You drop a good point here, but this is a poor example. I see no reason for it not to work just fine, and would love to see Apple implement this.
And I don't just mean people answering phones (though that is a problem too) It also has to do with actually getting the product to the household. I know way too many people who would be hungry to pick up broadband services - if it only reached out to their place. The next level of dissatisfied customers has to do with technical incompetence, technicians who are dispatched who know less than the customer, and telephone answering droids who know even less.
If we heard raving reviews from everyone who had it, and everyone could get it - we'd be wired to the gills. It would be like having telephone service where it's an emergency if you lose your connection.
Currently, stores can employ several tricks to fool criminals - have several people come out at closing at the same time. Go to a different bank branch, wear backpacks, etc.
The difference here would be that someone could effectively sit in their car like a traffic cop, and watch where the large mass of money is going.
Slashdot Mirror
Now excuse me as I go rig my code so my boss will sign off on it before the deadline...
There is an entire movement that advocates Test Driven Programming. It's not such a bad idea, you just need enough tests.
i submitted a story last week about IBM embedding strong cryptographic chips in their computers and it was rejected.
Just a theory, but it seems as though the flavor of stories change at different times of the week. Fridays tend to be more cooky, wacky, fun, pranks. Weekends are more of the softy stuff, like JonKatz movie reviews and amusement parks. Monday morning it's back to business with new breakthrough discoveries and lawsuit announcements. Of course, you've got to stick in the random noise of zeitgeists being brought to public attention, and political happenings.
In summary - you probably should have waited to post your IBM story on a monday morning.
Or, paid Taco a subscription fee... :(
If sue-happy companies can follow their lead, and start trawling http://www.fuckedcompany.com/, it would be open season... on our freedom of speech.
Of course, you can't believe everthing you read on the internet.
On the other had, maybe Taco can drop the whole subscription idea, and start suing AC trolls who post nasty things about his fiancee to keep /. afloat.
Well, the death star was long ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Various pieces could have been flung on a trajectory taking it into the sun, or even into the Yucatan peninsula - killing off all the dinosaurs... but that's just another deranged theory.
Definitely, I grab the syndication feed every time I open a new web-browsing window. I don't spend the time reading every article, just the ones that interest me the most. I want to see when things change, and if there is something that is interesting to me. Otherwise, I find I'm wasting my time.
Do you read every book in the library every time you visit? (didn't think so)
One could easily make the argument that charging for headlines info would drive viewers away, instead of drawing them in.
umm, the economy is cyclical.
That means that in a year or two things will be different. True, things could get worse... though I doubt it. We're suffering from deflated exuberance caused by a lot of VC being placed behind shoddy business plans, combined with the psychological impact of Shrubya's comments right around the election "We're going to have a recession", topped off with the effects of a major terrorism strike.
Most of the unfit companies have closed their doors, but some of the stronger ones have survived and have diversified their business plans to make them stronger. W has come around and said that we're having a recovery. Finally - we've routed the Taliban out of Afghanistan, and unless they've massively reorganized in another part of the world, I doubt that we'll see many more large terrorism strikes that catch us by surprise. We're on guard now.
The big uncertainties are whether or not W will decide to invade Iraq to finish the job his daddy didn't finish, and whether the rest of the world gets pissed at the US for it, on top of snubbing the Kyoto and ABM treaties.
Do I need to spell it out further? Right now there aren't many tech jobs out there. If you don't have a job you essentially have 2 more choices:
I don't know about you, but I love working with computers, and want to continue doing so. Do you think that Olympic athletes give up skiing just because they're no snow outside?
Very true, though I did use the word "port" instead of "recompile". I'm not an X hacker, but I would imagine that the APIs for XWindows and Aqua would have similar philosophies. I would assume both would have elements such as "Create_new_window", and "Build_new_menu", and "Get_mouse_click", etc.
I could see how the event handlers would be rather different, but once 1 or 2 apps are ported, then writing a developer's tutorial on how to port shouldn't be too far behind.
I'd volunteer to do this myself, but I don't know X nor Aqua, and my work would probably be redundant anyways.
the other aspect to consider is that Mac OS X is POSIX compliant. Many open source apps can be ported (see the other story posted today). I could see how AbiWord, or many other open source Office apps could kill the need for purchasing M$ products.
Now we need to get people to start saving as *.rtf instead of *.doc (which works just as well), and we'll have the keys to the kingdom.
I have a map of the United States. It's full scale. It says on the side: "one inch equals one inch." Last Summer I folded it.
-- Steven Wright
thank you - that will do nicely.
Where do they publish this stuff, or is everyone just expected to learn about it through word of mouth?
Are we going to see some syndication here? I mean - like the /. XML file found on the main site?
I like to browse the headlines, and not go back and revisit every stinking discussion site I watch every single day.
Though Compaq Australia tried to announce something like this before.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/01/0158234.shtm l
There was a rather fascinating program on PBS a few weeks ago entitled "Dot Con". The thesis of the program alleges that investment analysts had an awful lot to gain by offering "hot buy" advice on stocks that their employers had vested interest in.
Ultimately, this led to consumers/investment speculators getting screwed, and unripe companies being shipped off to IPO land for quick cash.
This site has much more detail, including interviews, stats, etc. - including the program itself on quicktime:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotNumber one: I am deaf, it has NOTHING to do with my genes and I fully intend on procreating once I find a suitable life-partner to do so with.
Great! I wish you only the best.
Though deafness may not be genetic, hearing loss with age is. As our species progresses, as we step over the hurdles of nature, the the age of onset of hearing loss may well decrease to the beginning of life.
My deafness is a far cry from being related to genetics, and so might peoples sterility, blindness, stupidity, and ugliness.
If we steer around environmentally imposed sterility to allow everyone to have babies, we'll see evolution stop weeding genetic defects out, and we may discover that some sterility may have been caused by genetic mutation.
This has got to be a similar plight in the gay community. As more people feel comfortable to come out of the closet, (and not live the way society has historically told them to), they cease to be breeders. As homosexuality has been shown to be genetic in various studies, will this trait continue to be passed on if gay couples simply adopt? I guess the reason we're talking about this at all - the artificial womb may allow gay males to produce offspring. There was also research that came out recently stating that they can make any cell in the body from adult stem cells. With some gene twiddling, does this mean that sperm cells could be created from an adult female's stem cells?
I'm as serious as my proclamation - my orginal post was more sarcastic trying to get people's attention. It's more of a philosophy to be examined. Our society tends to not think that far ahead. After all, my mate is legally blind without glasses, and my eyes are getting fuzzier all the time. We plan on making little babies who may or may not share our less than wonderful sight.
Ironic how you find yourself a member of this group...
amuckThis is actively working against evolution. I demand this stop immediately. Not only do we allow blind, deaf, ugly, and stupid people to pro-create, but now we're going to start allowing sterile people to procreate? Someday, we'll all end up stuck in the matrix feeding tubes, and it won't be imposed on us by some AI run amuck.... it will be done by our own choice.
For the record, I don't have anything against the aforementioned groups of people, I'm just saying that the proliferation of those traits in our gene pool is not necessarily desired. Not to be misconstrued - I firmly believe that we're all created equal, and should be given ample opportunities to pursue happiness in our own ways. I'll not persecute people based on how they were born, but do we necessarily want to become a people who can't function without the full dependence on technology?
Stephen Hawking claimed that ALS was the best thing that ever happened to his career, note that he didn't say that it was the best thing to ever happen to his life.
I don't know if something noteworthy happened on the ninth of November, but if your talking about the day when a bunch of Islamic terrorists crashed a couple of planes in NY it reads 11/9!
Flamebait, -1 (where's your moderator points when you need them)
We all have our own cultural interpretations. In Mexico, they celebrate "Cinco de Mayo". We don't correct it and tell them that it's "Mayo de Cinco"...
The attack happened in America, on primarily American people - where we use the month/day convention. The other reason that it's sometimes referred to as "nine-eleven" is the similarity it has with the emergency telephone number "9-1-1".
Perhaps the terrorists chose this day on purpose to strike fear into the hearts of Americans by using our own culture against us. Perhaps they wanted us to forever remember that day as the "day of emergency". They failed, for the heroism of the emergency personnel (who happen to respond when you dial 9-1-1) turned out to be the great shining light of the day.
In summary, I feel it fitting to refer back to one of this nation's most important events in history as "September 11th", or "nine-eleven", or even "nine-one-one".
If, or when someone invades Europe from another continent and smashes 2,000+ people - perhaps your press will report it as 2.000 people, and you can refer to that date in infamy as "day/month". But until that time, get used to us Americans using "month/day". It's our culture. We tried to jetison the English measurement system for metric, it didn't happen.
Ah... but what if there is an eclipse, or even a meteorite blocking the sun... you want real-time hardware intelligence taking over that job.
The TV broadcast corporations don't fully realize it yet, but the internet captures more adult eyeballs than TV. The internet is catching up in the teen sector as well. The *real* money is on internet where someone can instantly pay for something, as opposed to a passive information device such as the boob tube.
The real reasons that an internet broadcasting company hasn't bought the rights out from under NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN, etc. is the lack of a fat pipeline. If every house could easily afford a fat pipe like they can a TV cable, then the ground will be fertile for all types of innovations.
11 years ago Sports Illustrated predicted what watching sports would be like in 2001. They had some good ideas which are much closer these days. Some of the things they predicted came somewhat true with PIP (Picture-in-Picture) and the Tivo (your own instant replay), though the 27' (yes foot) flat screen dominating your living room seems more appropriate prognositcation for 2011. Even the highlighted 1st down line, and the hockey-puck highlighting that failed could both be switched on or off depending on the user's interest. Some other predictions that sound appropriate for the fat pipe that I described above could be instant stats displays on the screen, trajectory extrapolations, etc.
As broadcasters try to pack user-configurable information into the picture, they'll find the existing analog transmissions inadequate, and will be forced to move online. This could push a whole new field for handheld interactive video screens for the audience (could you imagine the audience's average vote as an extra judge for figure skating, etc.)
The ubiquitious internet is coming, regardless of delays from competing standards, and failed dot-bomb speculations... it will take over... someday.
Dude, Hemos... learn to spell.
There are plenty of reasons to do this, the best reason would be to stop looking like an idiot. Professionalism not only involves mastering a clever plan, but also taking care of all the little details. Another reason why it's important to spell things correctly is to find proper search results, or grep matches.
There are plenty of other idiots out there, you don't need to enlarge their ranks:
linnux
Slahdot - Number of visits: 310481 (Since 09-23-2000)
slahsdot
Naspter
Mircosoft
Makes me think of Lex Luthor's escape from prison in Superman 2 when they had to leave Otis behind as his largeness started to climb on the rope ladder into the hot-air balloon.
You'd have to define what you mean by "nothing has changed in the System folder", since prefs, for example, can change all the time.
Preferences get written and re-written all the time. In fact, classic versions of Mac OS can be booted w/out anything in the Preferences folder. You drop a good point here, but this is a poor example. I see no reason for it not to work just fine, and would love to see Apple implement this.
Greetings programs! the 4 games were:
one of my favorite arcade games, ranks right up there with galaga. Unfortunately, I'm not terribly good once the tank ranks jump up to 5:1
End of Line
It's customer support dummy.
And I don't just mean people answering phones (though that is a problem too) It also has to do with actually getting the product to the household. I know way too many people who would be hungry to pick up broadband services - if it only reached out to their place. The next level of dissatisfied customers has to do with technical incompetence, technicians who are dispatched who know less than the customer, and telephone answering droids who know even less.
If we heard raving reviews from everyone who had it, and everyone could get it - we'd be wired to the gills. It would be like having telephone service where it's an emergency if you lose your connection.
Currently, stores can employ several tricks to fool criminals - have several people come out at closing at the same time. Go to a different bank branch, wear backpacks, etc.
The difference here would be that someone could effectively sit in their car like a traffic cop, and watch where the large mass of money is going.