May or may not be true, but if it would nice if I could run as LUA under Windows without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. I'm not talking about 3rd party apps, I'm talking about explorer.exe. There are a lot of little quirks and workarounds you have to deal with, although it's not impossible. It's clear that even XP was not designed with this in mind. Longhorn should do a better job of it. How good remains to be seen.
That said, as an semi-experience Linux user, I still have no idea if I am really safe under Linux. Maybe that's because I have not put much effort into it.
Well, there is actually a Safar Center for Resuscitation Research in Pittsburgh. They have been doing Suspended Animation research for at least 10 years now, according to thier site, for the U.S. Navy. They have been using dogs as test subjects, but apparently only until recently have been unable to bring the animals back to life without some brain damage. Their goal is to make it 2 hours or more with causing brain damage. The intent is for severe trauma victims to be put into a state of suspended animation until they can be transported to a hospital for treatment, specifically battlefield injuries.
I'm an engineer and I have two daughters. The amount of estrogen in this household is hell. Even the bloody dog is female. Here's a study for you, men in otherwise all-female households have prematurely grey hair. Fact. Maybe I'll move out to the garage...
I remember seeing a Canadian Sea King crash in front of me at the air show in Schenectady, NY 10 or 12 years ago. There's video footage of it floating around somewhere on the internet. They were supposed to be just moving it prior to the show when they were showing off for the crowd. They lost oil pressure or something like that and were forced to autorotate. Hit the right side, main blades caught, spun around and broke in half. Not something you see every day.
With the "Rankings" list linked off the frontpage of Slashdot, many thousands will see the rankings list wondering what the heck this thing is about. They will then do the next logical thing and click on the top entry, or few entries, in the ranking list. Viola! Game Over. (and the experiment results questionable at best)
Oh come on...that is the weakest justification I ever heard. If someone is watching a pirated copy, why wouldn't they tell their friend to download the same copy, or pass it on themselves. This is plain illegal. It's theft of service, unless you are actually paying for cable and the Sci-Fi channel. No amount of bullshit justification will change that. Now, if the torrent versions include commercials, and the station airing it derives income solely from advertisements, it wouldn't matter how you watched it, as long as you didn't skip the commercials (in theory anyway, I know anyone with DVRs or whatnot does this anyway, myself included).
Of course, I don't believe illegal downloaded is necessarily killing TV, and probably never will. Most people don't know what the hell a "torrent" is.
I doubt this has to do with anything but liability concerns. The aviation industry has been the hardest hit by product liability. It's a miracle anyone is still in business.
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So the acceptance of this paper had nothing to do with the content. While this is a stupid policy, it means that the paper could have been anything. While I agree this conference appears to be utter bullshit, this is not news (unless of course you signed up for this circus, then you might want to get a refund)
600GHz, great. But how practical (read cheap) is it to make? We can make lot's of fast stuff, but until it's cheap fast stuff, it doesn't mean squat to Joe Schmoe. The same also applies, to some extent, to "high-end" applications. Some of the stuff that comes out of universities and what not are wildly inpractical. Of course, I can't read the bloody artical, so who knows.
From the WBEL website "Welcome Slashdot viewers. After the smoke settles, check the mailing list archives, etc. Just don't expect replies to mail until next week because I'm on my honeymoon right now."
Posting during his honeymoon...somehow I think he'll have more time on his hands in the future to work on WBEL...
According to the linked site, that only applies in South Korea. Acer tried this as well, but only in Australia. One manufacturer, can't remember who now, offered a zero dead pixel gaurantee, but charged extra for it. Alienware has a no dead pixel in the center of the screen policy, but they seem to have shitty quality elwewhere. Dell has a white paper saying something to the effect that the industry should strive for zero defects, but don't seem to explicitly define a policy (although with their accidental damage coverage, you could throw it out a window). There are three things that could happen here: 1) a better manufacturing process or LCD technology could be developed that eliminates the problem, 2) resolution could increase to the point where a single dead pixel is not noticeable (ain't there yet) or 3) manufacturers could wake up and realize that the reason your paying $3k for a laptop is that you expect some difference in bleepin quality compared to some sub-$1000 emachine notebook or whatever. In truth, it ain't the technology, it's the economics.
Dead pixels have been a problem for awhile now, at least since TFT LCD panels became the standard. You'll get the same bullshit party line from everyone..."It's a function of the manufacturing process...there are X million pixels, there will likely be a few defective pixels". There is even an ISO standard covering the topic. Various manufacturers have different policies on dead pixels. It all boils down to money though. Like any other electronic device, it is possible to produce defect free devices, it just costs more. By letting panels with defective pixels through, they save some cash and drive up their profits.
I have been through 3 or 4 laptops in recent years, all with dead pixels. All IBMs. I even went through the trouble of shipping new laptops back under their 30 day guarantee until I got a good one. That screen worked for a few months before it developed a different defect (pixels would fade from white to black over a period of several seconds, allowing you to actually read text that was no longer there). They replaced my panel with, you guessed it, a panel with defective pixels. In that case the onsite tech broke the laptop so badly it had to be shipped to an IBM repair facility where they held on to it for over a month and did not fix the bloody thing.
This is a general trend in all consumer electronics. Times get tough, so rather than showing a less than expected profit growth, they find ways to cut corners. Tech support was one avenue they tried. Dell learned the hard way that this was not the best of ideas. Quality is another way. This includes using "remanufactured" parts, using parts rejected by other vendors, etc. Companies have all been guilty of it in varying degrees. IBM has been one of the worst. When things get to bad, they sell it (their HD business, and now their PC business).
Regarding the oil in Iraq, there's more to it. First, there were billions of bucks in reconstruction cash. Of course, that would have come with the invasion of Iran or N. Korea as well. The oil from Iraq, not controlled by OPEC, is beginning to have an impact on the oil prices. Watch the price of crude when they take out a pipeline over there. I don't think there is a direct correlation between crude prices and prices at the pump. If crude drops radically, the petrol companies cry about refining capacity. Simple fact is both Iran and N. Korea were indisputably greater threats to us in the U.S. than Iraq ever was. Kim Jung Il (or however you spell it) is by many accounts a murderous thug, doing whatever it takes to stay in power. They have also become a center for drug trafficing, money laundering and other not-so-nice activities. However, the simple fact is invading Iran or N. Korea would be a major bloodbath. Iraq was easy pickins by comparison.
I'm no big fan of MS, but this is nothing more than good 'ol jump on the bandwagon MS bashing. This all comes from a letter from MS' XML guru explaining recent clarifications to the license to address concerns from MA. The exact quote is:
"We are acknowledging that end users who merely open and read government documents that are saved as Office XML files within software programs will not violate the license."
Here's the exact line from the license:
"By way of clarification of the foregoing, given the unique role of government institutions, end users will not violate this license by merely reading government documents that constitute files that comply with the Microsoft specifications for the Office Schemas, or by using (solely for the purpose of reading such files) any software that enables them to do so. The term "government documents" includes public records."
Does this statement preclude someone from using the file format for other purpose, such as say import/export from OpenOffice.org? Nope. It just gaurantees that open/reading government files will not violate the license.
Lucas' literary allusion here seems to have all of the subtlety of a high-speed halfbrick to the cranium
I must haved ducked... English geeks are the worst kind of geeks.
This schmuck also has a BS patent on a "modular computer user interface system" which appears to be nothing more than a numeric keypad that attaches to the computer. There's also portable telephone with simplified operation and Kid Phone
You ought to read the MIT mailing list post too. In there he claims that this little patch increases computer speed to. This is absolute "As seen on TV" bullshit fraud. I'm amazed that the editors posted such blatant crap, and even more amazed they left it up without even a comment.
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May or may not be true, but if it would nice if I could run as LUA under Windows without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. I'm not talking about 3rd party apps, I'm talking about explorer.exe. There are a lot of little quirks and workarounds you have to deal with, although it's not impossible. It's clear that even XP was not designed with this in mind. Longhorn should do a better job of it. How good remains to be seen. That said, as an semi-experience Linux user, I still have no idea if I am really safe under Linux. Maybe that's because I have not put much effort into it.
Well, there is actually a Safar Center for Resuscitation Research in Pittsburgh. They have been doing Suspended Animation research for at least 10 years now, according to thier site, for the U.S. Navy. They have been using dogs as test subjects, but apparently only until recently have been unable to bring the animals back to life without some brain damage. Their goal is to make it 2 hours or more with causing brain damage. The intent is for severe trauma victims to be put into a state of suspended animation until they can be transported to a hospital for treatment, specifically battlefield injuries.
I'm an engineer and I have two daughters. The amount of estrogen in this household is hell. Even the bloody dog is female. Here's a study for you, men in otherwise all-female households have prematurely grey hair. Fact. Maybe I'll move out to the garage...
I remember seeing a Canadian Sea King crash in front of me at the air show in Schenectady, NY 10 or 12 years ago. There's video footage of it floating around somewhere on the internet. They were supposed to be just moving it prior to the show when they were showing off for the crowd. They lost oil pressure or something like that and were forced to autorotate. Hit the right side, main blades caught, spun around and broke in half. Not something you see every day.
With the "Rankings" list linked off the frontpage of Slashdot, many thousands will see the rankings list wondering what the heck this thing is about. They will then do the next logical thing and click on the top entry, or few entries, in the ranking list. Viola! Game Over. (and the experiment results questionable at best)
...and lot's of air conditioning.
Oh come on...that is the weakest justification I ever heard. If someone is watching a pirated copy, why wouldn't they tell their friend to download the same copy, or pass it on themselves. This is plain illegal. It's theft of service, unless you are actually paying for cable and the Sci-Fi channel. No amount of bullshit justification will change that. Now, if the torrent versions include commercials, and the station airing it derives income solely from advertisements, it wouldn't matter how you watched it, as long as you didn't skip the commercials (in theory anyway, I know anyone with DVRs or whatnot does this anyway, myself included). Of course, I don't believe illegal downloaded is necessarily killing TV, and probably never will. Most people don't know what the hell a "torrent" is.
I doubt this has to do with anything but liability concerns. The aviation industry has been the hardest hit by product liability. It's a miracle anyone is still in business.
"My nuclear collider is bigger than yours!"
Acceptance decisions related to the submitted papers will be based on their respective content review and/or on the respective author's CV. Invited papers will not be reviewed and their acceptance decision will be based on the topic and the respective author's CV.
If the reviewers selected for reviewing a given paper do not make their respective reviews before the papers acceptance deadline, the selection committee may accept the paper as a non-reviewed paper.
If a paper does not meet the criteria for inclusion as reviewed paper, the selection committee may invite the author to present it as a non-reviewed paper.
So the acceptance of this paper had nothing to do with the content. While this is a stupid policy, it means that the paper could have been anything. While I agree this conference appears to be utter bullshit, this is not news (unless of course you signed up for this circus, then you might want to get a refund)
600GHz, great. But how practical (read cheap) is it to make? We can make lot's of fast stuff, but until it's cheap fast stuff, it doesn't mean squat to Joe Schmoe. The same also applies, to some extent, to "high-end" applications. Some of the stuff that comes out of universities and what not are wildly inpractical. Of course, I can't read the bloody artical, so who knows.
I would! I'm a transformer (the electrical kind, not the bloody shape-changing toy) nerd.
From the WBEL website "Welcome Slashdot viewers. After the smoke settles, check the mailing list archives, etc. Just don't expect replies to mail until next week because I'm on my honeymoon right now."
Posting during his honeymoon...somehow I think he'll have more time on his hands in the future to work on WBEL...
According to the linked site, that only applies in South Korea. Acer tried this as well, but only in Australia. One manufacturer, can't remember who now, offered a zero dead pixel gaurantee, but charged extra for it. Alienware has a no dead pixel in the center of the screen policy, but they seem to have shitty quality elwewhere. Dell has a white paper saying something to the effect that the industry should strive for zero defects, but don't seem to explicitly define a policy (although with their accidental damage coverage, you could throw it out a window). There are three things that could happen here: 1) a better manufacturing process or LCD technology could be developed that eliminates the problem, 2) resolution could increase to the point where a single dead pixel is not noticeable (ain't there yet) or 3) manufacturers could wake up and realize that the reason your paying $3k for a laptop is that you expect some difference in bleepin quality compared to some sub-$1000 emachine notebook or whatever. In truth, it ain't the technology, it's the economics.
Dead pixels have been a problem for awhile now, at least since TFT LCD panels became the standard. You'll get the same bullshit party line from everyone..."It's a function of the manufacturing process...there are X million pixels, there will likely be a few defective pixels". There is even an ISO standard covering the topic. Various manufacturers have different policies on dead pixels. It all boils down to money though. Like any other electronic device, it is possible to produce defect free devices, it just costs more. By letting panels with defective pixels through, they save some cash and drive up their profits.
I have been through 3 or 4 laptops in recent years, all with dead pixels. All IBMs. I even went through the trouble of shipping new laptops back under their 30 day guarantee until I got a good one. That screen worked for a few months before it developed a different defect (pixels would fade from white to black over a period of several seconds, allowing you to actually read text that was no longer there). They replaced my panel with, you guessed it, a panel with defective pixels. In that case the onsite tech broke the laptop so badly it had to be shipped to an IBM repair facility where they held on to it for over a month and did not fix the bloody thing.
This is a general trend in all consumer electronics. Times get tough, so rather than showing a less than expected profit growth, they find ways to cut corners. Tech support was one avenue they tried. Dell learned the hard way that this was not the best of ideas. Quality is another way. This includes using "remanufactured" parts, using parts rejected by other vendors, etc. Companies have all been guilty of it in varying degrees. IBM has been one of the worst. When things get to bad, they sell it (their HD business, and now their PC business).
This is nothing new...Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 includes this piece of crap as well.
Regarding the oil in Iraq, there's more to it. First, there were billions of bucks in reconstruction cash. Of course, that would have come with the invasion of Iran or N. Korea as well. The oil from Iraq, not controlled by OPEC, is beginning to have an impact on the oil prices. Watch the price of crude when they take out a pipeline over there. I don't think there is a direct correlation between crude prices and prices at the pump. If crude drops radically, the petrol companies cry about refining capacity. Simple fact is both Iran and N. Korea were indisputably greater threats to us in the U.S. than Iraq ever was. Kim Jung Il (or however you spell it) is by many accounts a murderous thug, doing whatever it takes to stay in power. They have also become a center for drug trafficing, money laundering and other not-so-nice activities. However, the simple fact is invading Iran or N. Korea would be a major bloodbath. Iraq was easy pickins by comparison.
Someone will be getting a knock on the door from our beloved Deparmtent of Homeland Security...
I'm no big fan of MS, but this is nothing more than good 'ol jump on the bandwagon MS bashing. This all comes from a letter from MS' XML guru explaining recent clarifications to the license to address concerns from MA. The exact quote is:
"We are acknowledging that end users who merely open and read government documents that are saved as Office XML files within software programs will not violate the license."
Here's the exact line from the license:
"By way of clarification of the foregoing, given the unique role of government institutions, end users will not violate this license by merely reading government documents that constitute files that comply with the Microsoft specifications for the Office Schemas, or by using (solely for the purpose of reading such files) any software that enables them to do so. The term "government documents" includes public records."
Does this statement preclude someone from using the file format for other purpose, such as say import/export from OpenOffice.org? Nope. It just gaurantees that open/reading government files will not violate the license.
Look before you leap...
Shit...and I made a typing error, too. OK, let me have it.
Lucas' literary allusion here seems to have all of the subtlety of a high-speed halfbrick to the cranium
I must haved ducked... English geeks are the worst kind of geeks.
This schmuck also has a BS patent on a "modular computer user interface system" which appears to be nothing more than a numeric keypad that attaches to the computer. There's also portable telephone with simplified operation and Kid Phone You ought to read the MIT mailing list post too. In there he claims that this little patch increases computer speed to. This is absolute "As seen on TV" bullshit fraud. I'm amazed that the editors posted such blatant crap, and even more amazed they left it up without even a comment.
He's related to Major Asshole (Spaceballs..."I'm surrounded by assholes!") Ahh....good flick. They don't write em like they used to.