Anyone find it interesting that even though the lower jaw is totally missing, they have to make the skull almond shaped. It looks from the pictures that the back of the skull is extended but the front is rather normal. I do question the fact that these artifacts could be hidden by this girl and transported back with her. I can see the next Fox special now (or maybe a Spam and Infomercial) "Alien grave robbing for fun and profit".
After all the handling these skulls are supposed to have gone through over the last 70 years, I can't imagine there's been any contamination or biological contamination... DNA testing will probably show that O.J. is innocent in this case too.
Haven't you tried the Windows client under Wine yet? I'm sure we can hack it into submission during lunch. Then all you'd have left to complain about is porting LSX and I'm sure we can harass Willie on that one.
Since 40 bits isn't very secure in anybody's view already and the player key is hardcoded, is it really such a problem to brute-force the keys and decode the disc in any case? The only thing the lack of a Linux viewer did was provide motivation. You're still picking low hanging fruit from the tree. You mean to tell me there aren't DVD clones available from the cheap, mass-market electronics suppliers that don't use a different key from the DVD because they didn't buy into one back when the DVDs were getting their master headers calculated? Do they really think that people are going to update their hardware to a new DVD-2 standard just so the DVD-1 people can't play them? (and thus all the legally purchased players in use already?) The horse has left the barn... don't worry about the lock on the door.
What they would need is someone like Linus in a "master control" position to make sure that all the feature development that's relevant to the forked code gets moved over. It's no good if suddenly you need a feature from 6 months ago in a segment of code that's already mutated 3 more times. You also need someone like Alan Cox that can field cross-project patches into a pipeline for the master control person. The problem you'll run into quickly is two-fold. You dilute the quality of people working on the main thread/fork and you end up with competing personalities/styles between forks. Tread carefully.
You put one of these over into some piece of hardware and you want to head out with it... do you need to select what it is that you want to use from the chip? Does it have any automatic failover or does it choose the cheapest route available to your intended partner? Putting more choices into the hardware is fine but the common person isn't going to be able to make the proper selection when multiple/many are available. People only want the end result and a single button on the front that says "make it so" or "do what I mean".
Which distribution, other than your own, would you recommend to (a) a newbie user from the Windows world, and (b) an experienced corporate Unix user? Do you feel they need to be different recommendations?
The article ignores a lot of current issues and totally avoids what will happen to current economies with the ability to create articles of value cheaply.
All the music stations took the downward turn when they thought/decided people wanted them to produce 30 minute program segments... or maybe it was when they started to sell their overnight hours to infomercials.
I think it's fair to allow them to take a proect to maturity before releasing it to market. They aren't asking for collaberation so as long as they follow through with the open source once they get to market, I think it's perfectly acceptable for them to determine when they "open the kimono".
From what I've seen, it's far more useful in the applied engineering fields. I have a friend that's a process engineer. He got a significantly better position because he could sign off and stamp drawing for his projects/designs. I would expect ME and CE fields to be similar. EE might be as well. There's very little in CS that needs that type of regulatory sign-off. I also haven't seen a lot of demand for MCSE certification. I have heard it's important in the VB arena. I don't mind not being considered for those.
this may sound a bit strange but you need a dedicated and talented bunch of employees for the core group of a major project. As a VP of Software Development I found it frustrating to find good quality talent in the permanent market so we fell back on contractors. The other people felt that this was a test drive and that we should offer perm positions to the talented ones. To be honest, the people that tended to leave contracting and take a perm position tended to have lost the edge and want something "safe" or to coast. I found (and find personally) that the good people that are comfortable with contracting tend not to make good employees. I found that in myself as well and I'm back out there contracting and writing code again. I think that if you're going to get good permanent employees, you have to catch them before they find that contracting is so rewarding.
The other side of that coin is the fact that there's very little difference between a contract person and a perm person in terms of their leaving. The perm person might be a bit meeker since they haven't changed positions regularly. The same is true for the employee/contractor. If push comes to shove, you're probably on the street just as quickly when the money dries out.
It's long been felt that the first reasonable nanotech creations would be chains of molecules assembled in a biochem process. It looks like these guys have taken it to the step of differentiating the pieces to be able to create them. There's still the macroworld interconnect problem. Do a search on gray goo on any of the nanotech news servers.
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, check out the work done by Tom Knight at MIT also. I was at Symbolics with Tom in the mid-80s. He's an amazing person.
Barring nanotechnology and smart paper, I think this would be a great use of electric Ink's product along with some embedded surface mount technology for storage/conversion to display. Memory is getting cheap enough that storing a book on chip shouldn't bee a major issue.
I actually thought they had it pretty correct. The big, unstated problem they miss is what you just touched on, the splintering of the community into warring cost centers. Once Debian has it's own IPO and is going on it's way, don't you agree that there's going to be warring factions on why one distro's better than the other. Hell, it's all available for free, right...? The only thing left is the piracy debate and what's going on in the courts and then Linux will have made the bigtime!
But you do have a mass exodus from the industry. I work with several ex-game programmers, most pretty burnt out. The good news is that you've got far greater numbers of easily exploitable teenagers throwing themselves at the misshapened vision of what the industry is supposed to be.
It's expensive but you're in control of your own destiny. Many of the agencies offer insurance packages that are cheaper but then you're locked into that agency. I've used several agencies but mostly one in particular but I refuse to take their insurance and have to requalify after each contract. You should be making enough contracting here to cover the lost "benefits" from being perm. Best of luck with the baby.
It does work out well that you can "solar-sail" without the sail but there is the problem of being single direction. I thought I had read about a more advanced version of this that actually used a rail gun/linear accellerator configuration that would allow you to accellerate in either direction. Take a look over at the advanced propulsion section at JPL, the 30 year plan stuff, out beyond Future X and the stuff being done for Shuttle replacements. Keep in mind, you can't tack like a sailboat without air to provide perpendicular lift.
I've been contracting for 12 years since leaving my last employer and I found I was able to buy group insurance coverage by joining my local chamber of commerce as a small business owner. My CORBA payments were about $650/month and getting in on this group policy dropped them toabout $400/month. This is for married/family coverage. I believe the single coverage at the time was $189/month. The biggest thing is to calculate it into your rate when you quote. Listing it as $3/hour is a lot easier to take.
I went over to their website and poked around quite a bit and nowhere do they state the maximum discharge rate or the charging time. One of the nice things around NiCads is that they take a high charge rate and discharge rapidly. R/C Cars for example can pull 30amps out of a 9.6v pack since this type of drain will typically drain a 1700mah pack in 3-5 minutes, does that mean we could drain the 11000mah 160 in under 1/2 an hour in a typical application? Likewise, if recharge rates are high, it's better for regenerative braking and overnight charging for electric vehicles (where they only quote densities, not discharge rates as a goal)
yeah, I had forgotten about them. I did load it on my Linux box at home last night. Didn't seem to have the access right for my other machines (Macs) to proxy through it. It worked well. I like the modified version with the 1 pixel blank.gifs. I remember seeing a bit about it on Alan Cox's diary page a while back.
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Anyone find it interesting that even though the lower jaw is totally missing, they have to make the skull almond shaped. It looks from the pictures that the back of the skull is extended but the front is rather normal. I do question the fact that these artifacts could be hidden by this girl and transported back with her. I can see the next Fox special now (or maybe a Spam and Infomercial) "Alien grave robbing for fun and profit".
After all the handling these skulls are supposed to have gone through over the last 70 years, I can't imagine there's been any contamination or biological contamination... DNA testing will probably show that O.J. is innocent in this case too.
Haven't you tried the Windows client under Wine yet? I'm sure we can hack it into submission during lunch. Then all you'd have left to complain about is porting LSX and I'm sure we can harass Willie on that one.
(we both need a life, Kris 8^)
Since 40 bits isn't very secure in anybody's view already and the player key is hardcoded, is it really such a problem to brute-force the keys and decode the disc in any case? The only thing the lack of a Linux viewer did was provide motivation. You're still picking low hanging fruit from the tree. You mean to tell me there aren't DVD clones available from the cheap, mass-market electronics suppliers that don't use a different key from the DVD because they didn't buy into one back when the DVDs were getting their master headers calculated? Do they really think that people are going to update their hardware to a new DVD-2 standard just so the DVD-1 people can't play them? (and thus all the legally purchased players in use already?) The horse has left the barn... don't worry about the lock on the door.
(Hey, watch that innuendo...)
What they would need is someone like Linus in a "master control" position to make sure that all the feature development that's relevant to the forked code gets moved over. It's no good if suddenly you need a feature from 6 months ago in a segment of code that's already mutated 3 more times. You also need someone like Alan Cox that can field cross-project patches into a pipeline for the master control person. The problem you'll run into quickly is two-fold. You dilute the quality of people working on the main thread/fork and you end up with competing personalities/styles between forks. Tread carefully.
You put one of these over into some piece of hardware and you want to head out with it... do you need to select what it is that you want to use from the chip? Does it have any automatic failover or does it choose the cheapest route available to your intended partner? Putting more choices into the hardware is fine but the common person isn't going to be able to make the proper selection when multiple/many are available. People only want the end result and a single button on the front that says "make it so" or "do what I mean".
Which distribution, other than your own, would you recommend to (a) a newbie user from the Windows world, and (b) an experienced corporate Unix user? Do you feel they need to be different recommendations?
The article ignores a lot of current issues and totally avoids what will happen to current economies with the ability to create articles of value cheaply.
-HUP is just negotiations... Asking him to leave quietly.
All the music stations took the downward turn when they thought/decided people wanted them to produce 30 minute program segments... or maybe it was when they started to sell their overnight hours to infomercials.
I think it's fair to allow them to take a proect to maturity before releasing it to market. They aren't asking for collaberation so as long as they follow through with the open source once they get to market, I think it's perfectly acceptable for them to determine when they "open the kimono".
From what I've seen, it's far more useful in the applied engineering fields. I have a friend that's a process engineer. He got a significantly better position because he could sign off and stamp drawing for his projects/designs. I would expect ME and CE fields to be similar. EE might be as well. There's very little in CS that needs that type of regulatory sign-off. I also haven't seen a lot of demand for MCSE certification. I have heard it's important in the VB arena. I don't mind not being considered for those.
this may sound a bit strange but you need a dedicated and talented bunch of employees for the core group of a major project. As a VP of Software Development I found it frustrating to find good quality talent in the permanent market so we fell back on contractors. The other people felt that this was a test drive and that we should offer perm positions to the talented ones. To be honest, the people that tended to leave contracting and take a perm position tended to have lost the edge and want something "safe" or to coast. I found (and find personally) that the good people that are comfortable with contracting tend not to make good employees. I found that in myself as well and I'm back out there contracting and writing code again. I think that if you're going to get good permanent employees, you have to catch them before they find that contracting is so rewarding.
The other side of that coin is the fact that there's very little difference between a contract person and a perm person in terms of their leaving. The perm person might be a bit meeker since they haven't changed positions regularly. The same is true for the employee/contractor. If push comes to shove, you're probably on the street just as quickly when the money dries out.
And with this link, you're but a click away 8^)
http://visualroute.datametrics.com/It's long been felt that the first reasonable nanotech creations would be chains of molecules assembled in a biochem process. It looks like these guys have taken it to the step of differentiating the pieces to be able to create them. There's still the macroworld interconnect problem. Do a search on gray goo on any of the nanotech news servers.
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, check out the work done by Tom Knight at MIT also. I was at Symbolics with Tom in the mid-80s. He's an amazing person.
Maybe it should read, if you're offline more than 4 hours a day...
Barring nanotechnology and smart paper, I think this would be a great use of electric Ink's product along with some embedded surface mount technology for storage/conversion to display. Memory is getting cheap enough that storing a book on chip shouldn't bee a major issue.
Ok, bad example. Once ANOTHER Linux power/distro has an IPO and there are multiple groups of shareholders going after the same customer base...
I actually thought they had it pretty correct. The big, unstated problem they miss is what you just touched on, the splintering of the community into warring cost centers. Once Debian has it's own IPO and is going on it's way, don't you agree that there's going to be warring factions on why one distro's better than the other. Hell, it's all available for free, right...? The only thing left is the piracy debate and what's going on in the courts and then Linux will have made the bigtime!
But you do have a mass exodus from the industry. I work with several ex-game programmers, most pretty burnt out. The good news is that you've got far greater numbers of easily exploitable teenagers throwing themselves at the misshapened vision of what the industry is supposed to be.
It's expensive but you're in control of your own destiny. Many of the agencies offer insurance packages that are cheaper but then you're locked into that agency. I've used several agencies but mostly one in particular but I refuse to take their insurance and have to requalify after each contract. You should be making enough contracting here to cover the lost "benefits" from being perm. Best of luck with the baby.
Just what we need... Hello World that grows it's own control-C intercept.
I thought tax time was when Excel DID generate random code that thrived on numbers until the most robust got filed?
There's just too many one liners waiting in that article.
It does work out well that you can "solar-sail" without the sail but there is the problem of being single direction. I thought I had read about a more advanced version of this that actually used a rail gun/linear accellerator configuration that would allow you to accellerate in either direction. Take a look over at the advanced propulsion section at JPL, the 30 year plan stuff, out beyond Future X and the stuff being done for Shuttle replacements. Keep in mind, you can't tack like a sailboat without air to provide perpendicular lift.
I've been contracting for 12 years since leaving my last employer and I found I was able to buy group insurance coverage by joining my local chamber of commerce as a small business owner. My CORBA payments were about $650/month and getting in on this group policy dropped them toabout $400/month. This is for married/family coverage. I believe the single coverage at the time was $189/month. The biggest thing is to calculate it into your rate when you quote. Listing it as $3/hour is a lot easier to take.
One more datapoint.
I went over to their website and poked around quite a bit and nowhere do they state the maximum discharge rate or the charging time. One of the nice things around NiCads is that they take a high charge rate and discharge rapidly. R/C Cars for example can pull 30amps out of a 9.6v pack since this type of drain will typically drain a 1700mah pack in 3-5 minutes, does that mean we could drain the 11000mah 160 in under 1/2 an hour in a typical application? Likewise, if recharge rates are high, it's better for regenerative braking and overnight charging for electric vehicles (where they only quote densities, not discharge rates as a goal)
yeah, I had forgotten about them. I did load it on my Linux box at home last night. Didn't seem to have the access right for my other machines (Macs) to proxy through it. It worked well. I like the modified version with the 1 pixel blank .gifs. I remember seeing a bit about it on Alan Cox's diary page a while back.