Why don't they incorporate this into an LCD in the soldier's combat goggles? Give each soldier a transmitter that sends encrypted coordinates, and a receiver that can use them to determine where fellow soldiers are located.
Get two microphones (or more), and triangulate the location that shots originated from. On the LCD are a bunch of green dots. Red dots would pop up for a few seconds where the shot location didn't match up with a fellow soldiers. Small green dots would indicate the position of friendlies that weren't firing, and larger green dots would indicate the position of shots that coincided with a friendly's position...
I'd take that over a little robot any day... Actually, forget the research. I'd rather the government just give me functional body armor that protects me from all of the small arms fire first...
Article 51. The exercise by citizens of the People's Republic of China of their freedoms and rights may not infringe upon the interests of the state, of society and of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens.
Here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, we recently had a law passed prohibiting the purchase of products containing pseudoephedrine without forking over personal information into a log book every time, and verifying that information with your government-issued identification.
I went down to the store yesterday with itchy eyes and a runny nose, looking to get some allergy medication. I went to the counter where the medications are locked up, and forked over my ID then signing the log book. I asked a lawyer friend about it later on: Are my medical issues supposed to be public record? After all, it is illegal for any government employee to ask what illness/disorder an individual with a handicapped parking permit suffers from.
My lawyer friend explained to me that the government here had passed laws similar to that quoted above. If it is in the city's best interest to keep a log book of all people who suffer allergies, then it's perfectly legal, despite the violation of my constitutional rights.
We need to make some big changes to the way the law works in this country. Since when is it okay to violate constitutional rights for the government's best interest?
Why not let OSS developers pick up a free version? You'd get quite a bit more acceptance of MS products, as well as more OS lock-in. If costs are forcing software developers to use free solutions that give more options for OS portability you're going to see more people moving away from your products.
If ASP, Visual Studio, MSSQL and IIS were free, I'd probably not have switched to linux, installed Apache, and learned PHP/mySQL and Python for my work. Now that I've done so, I can swear I'll never work with MS products ever again.
In high school I did some work with the Air Force Research Labs (they had some sort of student research program, which gave me access to loads of equipment and funding I would have gotten in no other way. We were working with aberration correction on optical equipment with holograms. A newspaper in the area sent a reporter to gather some information and write an article about what we were doing. We sat down with prepared diagrams, interesting samples and simple explainations as we gave notes to what seemed like a very intelligent reporter.
The next week we read the article, and the reporter had missed everything entirely. They made it seem as if we had been doing research into a brand new field which we had invented. It gave us a warm feeling inside, but was obviously wrong. Mainstream news today isn't concerned with giving us accuracy, but rather about stirring the public, and keeping them asking questions that only their sources can answer.
The only way to get accurate news in the science field we need to review the scientist's own, peer-reviewed papers. And even then, we need to be very skeptical until we see the research become popularly accurate.
All you need is for Balmer to say the following:
'I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill.'
And your company has the support of the largest base of geeks in the world.
Balmer should have been a little more careful who he yelled his threats at. Next time find somebody who's not happily moving to the company you're threatining!
I'd be happier with unix timestamps... Programming date/time dependent applications would be sooo much easier...
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Nothing's worse than when "Mansquito" or the jaws Myth Busters cuts to "Roseanne" or "The Nanny" or "Degrassi" or "Any Day Now" or "Grace Under Fire" for recording, and there's hell to pay if you change the channel back...
Since this software was being used on linux servers to protect windows users from viruses specific to MS software, hasn't MS just given the finger to the Windows users who so often unknowingly rely on programs like this to keep their computers safe?
What about placing a small colored box in the corner of each frame... If a frame's box differs in color from the surrounding frames, this would indicate the frame was on a different domain. That way the developers wouldn't have to worry about breaking the legitimate use of this technique.
Since we're already working on space weapons, we'll just blast away any advertisements as they come up... I'm waiting for the Space Wars that result when foreign countries get their LEO advertisements destroyed...
That'll be the first war teenage couples will find beneficial to their saturday night "star gazing."
I have a couple school clients, we've talked about about their top issues, and migrating to linux is the last thing on their mind.
When I see schools without the funding allowing teachers to make copies of their assignments to give to the students, Pepsi and Coke machines selling unhealthy junk to rake in the income necessary to buy the bleach for photography class and teacher bake sales to make sure there is enough for dry-erase markers and chalk, I think linux should be introduced.
Unfortunately, this is the state of affairs at many schools across the US. Something needs to be done.
You seem to think it is everyones duty to promote OSS
It's sad that people like yourself are in a position to counsel schools regarding their software choices. Start thinking for all of our sakes. Maybe you should realize that it might just be your duty to promote OSS and make a difference in the way our education system is run.
I figured I'd just try it once. Get what I needed, and get right out... But once I started I just couldn't stop... Maps, email services, news, shopping... And now movie times? What will I do?!
You state several times the lack of available software solutions for the linux platform forcing your school's decision to stick with Windows, and that is certainly an issue... And it will be for a LONG time if schools such as yours don't step up and find alternative solutions for these problems.
One suite of programs for math is required by the state.
Raise your voice. Make a complaint. What software suite is it, exactly? Make a large dent in the company's profits and they'll consider porting their software. Guaranteed.
That attitude makes me sick. Developers make software for the operating systems of the people who will buy it!
As far as desktop management goes... Although I'm not that familiar with zenworks, I do know that by simplifying your school's network you can do away with the need for many options that zenworks doesn't include in its linux product (if any).
Until then, we are stuck with Windows unless Wine makes more progress.
Give me a break. Reallocate funds saved on Windows licensing. Hire programmers to create solutions that are even better adapted than the ones you currently use.
I could be wrong about everything above, but I do know this: Change isn't always easy. But when this much money can be saved, it's worth it. Give those teachers a fat bonus, if anything:)
Although I'm no expert, I was drilled by my father (phd thermodynamics) on the importance of the human mind in proofs. He solved a problem in the late seventies (albeit that was some time ago), that computers were having issues with until about ten years ago.
A program is a program. A procedural method for determining whether or not. It loops continuously searching for truths until it finds one and continues on to the next search. A program merely demonstrates the programmer's knowledge of the problem. No program will take a perfect approach to solving a problem unless the programmer knows what that approach is.
Take for instance a very simple root calculation. We have a function, f(x) = x^2 - 4.
Have a computer determine the two roots of that one, and you end up with the same answer that you find on your own: x=+/- 2. A program can take a look at the format of the function and take a guess at what the solution will be, or it can just follow along all the values until it finds an f(x) = 0...
When we look at that, we realize the nature of the curve without needing to look at the format of the formula. It appears in our minds, and we can determine what the roots should be using a non-procedural method.
You may argue that we do use a procedural method to calculate the solution... Even if this solution was forced into my subconcious through years of school, we have to take a look at the problem and just imagine how the hell a computer is going to figure out the procedure for solving that...
Frankly, it's when we've been sitting in front of some data for a long while that we find the solutions to all problems. I believe strongly that this is because our mind starts to wonder, contemplating things that are seemingly irrelevant, pushing us toward processing a different method that will work. Our world's greatest ideas were always inspired by something other than the knowledge required to formulate that idea.
Hmm... I hope that little rant is suitably confusing:).
Sincerely,
James.
Well, if they go through with it, I'm taking a weekend trip down to TX sometime and grabbing all the info I can for later:).
I do like the insurance information being sent to a central branch, so they can determine whether or not I have insurance without asking me for the papers. I've lost that slip so many times, and it's really a pain to get the ticket reversed...
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Why don't they incorporate this into an LCD in the soldier's combat goggles? Give each soldier a transmitter that sends encrypted coordinates, and a receiver that can use them to determine where fellow soldiers are located.
Get two microphones (or more), and triangulate the location that shots originated from. On the LCD are a bunch of green dots. Red dots would pop up for a few seconds where the shot location didn't match up with a fellow soldiers. Small green dots would indicate the position of friendlies that weren't firing, and larger green dots would indicate the position of shots that coincided with a friendly's position...
I'd take that over a little robot any day... Actually, forget the research. I'd rather the government just give me functional body armor that protects me from all of the small arms fire first...
It's been done :)
http://kassemi.blogspot.com/#112620201948714629
Here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, we recently had a law passed prohibiting the purchase of products containing pseudoephedrine without forking over personal information into a log book every time, and verifying that information with your government-issued identification.
I went down to the store yesterday with itchy eyes and a runny nose, looking to get some allergy medication. I went to the counter where the medications are locked up, and forked over my ID then signing the log book. I asked a lawyer friend about it later on: Are my medical issues supposed to be public record? After all, it is illegal for any government employee to ask what illness/disorder an individual with a handicapped parking permit suffers from.
My lawyer friend explained to me that the government here had passed laws similar to that quoted above. If it is in the city's best interest to keep a log book of all people who suffer allergies, then it's perfectly legal, despite the violation of my constitutional rights.
We need to make some big changes to the way the law works in this country. Since when is it okay to violate constitutional rights for the government's best interest?
Why not let OSS developers pick up a free version? You'd get quite a bit more acceptance of MS products, as well as more OS lock-in. If costs are forcing software developers to use free solutions that give more options for OS portability you're going to see more people moving away from your products. If ASP, Visual Studio, MSSQL and IIS were free, I'd probably not have switched to linux, installed Apache, and learned PHP/mySQL and Python for my work. Now that I've done so, I can swear I'll never work with MS products ever again.
In high school I did some work with the Air Force Research Labs (they had some sort of student research program, which gave me access to loads of equipment and funding I would have gotten in no other way. We were working with aberration correction on optical equipment with holograms. A newspaper in the area sent a reporter to gather some information and write an article about what we were doing. We sat down with prepared diagrams, interesting samples and simple explainations as we gave notes to what seemed like a very intelligent reporter. The next week we read the article, and the reporter had missed everything entirely. They made it seem as if we had been doing research into a brand new field which we had invented. It gave us a warm feeling inside, but was obviously wrong. Mainstream news today isn't concerned with giving us accuracy, but rather about stirring the public, and keeping them asking questions that only their sources can answer. The only way to get accurate news in the science field we need to review the scientist's own, peer-reviewed papers. And even then, we need to be very skeptical until we see the research become popularly accurate.
All you need is for Balmer to say the following: 'I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill .'
And your company has the support of the largest base of geeks in the world.
Balmer should have been a little more careful who he yelled his threats at. Next time find somebody who's not happily moving to the company you're threatining!
I'd be happier with unix timestamps... Programming date/time dependent applications would be sooo much easier...
Nothing's worse than when "Mansquito" or the jaws Myth Busters cuts to "Roseanne" or "The Nanny" or "Degrassi" or "Any Day Now" or "Grace Under Fire" for recording, and there's hell to pay if you change the channel back...
Something a keyboard manufacturer could do though... a little LCD on my keyboard that could display things (with corresponding buttons) like:
1: open applications
2: Workspaces (with preview)
3: My weather, system monitor, battery, sound, system temp, and time applets. || gkrellm
4: xmms
I could save loads of screen space and wouldn't have to come up with hundreds of long keyboard shortcuts that I can never remember...
Since this software was being used on linux servers to protect windows users from viruses specific to MS software, hasn't MS just given the finger to the Windows users who so often unknowingly rely on programs like this to keep their computers safe?
You don't have to worry about too much of the pricey equipment when you are a master of sinanju :)
Looks like the company responsible for pushing the adware has already got some negative attention: http://www.marketingmetrixgroup.com/ (hacked)
What about placing a small colored box in the corner of each frame... If a frame's box differs in color from the surrounding frames, this would indicate the frame was on a different domain. That way the developers wouldn't have to worry about breaking the legitimate use of this technique.
Some terrorists are known to use IE and Windows :)
Since we're already working on space weapons, we'll just blast away any advertisements as they come up... I'm waiting for the Space Wars that result when foreign countries get their LEO advertisements destroyed...
That'll be the first war teenage couples will find beneficial to their saturday night "star gazing."
I have a couple school clients, we've talked about about their top issues, and migrating to linux is the last thing on their mind.
When I see schools without the funding allowing teachers to make copies of their assignments to give to the students, Pepsi and Coke machines selling unhealthy junk to rake in the income necessary to buy the bleach for photography class and teacher bake sales to make sure there is enough for dry-erase markers and chalk, I think linux should be introduced.
Unfortunately, this is the state of affairs at many schools across the US. Something needs to be done.
You seem to think it is everyones duty to promote OSS
It's sad that people like yourself are in a position to counsel schools regarding their software choices. Start thinking for all of our sakes. Maybe you should realize that it might just be your duty to promote OSS and make a difference in the way our education system is run.I figured I'd just try it once. Get what I needed, and get right out... But once I started I just couldn't stop... Maps, email services, news, shopping... And now movie times? What will I do?!
Hello, my name is James, and I'm a googleholic.
You state several times the lack of available software solutions for the linux platform forcing your school's decision to stick with Windows, and that is certainly an issue... And it will be for a LONG time if schools such as yours don't step up and find alternative solutions for these problems.
One suite of programs for math is required by the state.
Raise your voice. Make a complaint. What software suite is it, exactly? Make a large dent in the company's profits and they'll consider porting their software. Guaranteed.
That attitude makes me sick. Developers make software for the operating systems of the people who will buy it!
As far as desktop management goes... Although I'm not that familiar with zenworks, I do know that by simplifying your school's network you can do away with the need for many options that zenworks doesn't include in its linux product (if any).
Until then, we are stuck with Windows unless Wine makes more progress.
Give me a break. Reallocate funds saved on Windows licensing. Hire programmers to create solutions that are even better adapted than the ones you currently use.
I could be wrong about everything above, but I do know this: Change isn't always easy. But when this much money can be saved, it's worth it. Give those teachers a fat bonus, if anything :)
I'm curious to ask the guest of honor at the tonight's convention says about how successful this will be :)
Although I'm no expert, I was drilled by my father (phd thermodynamics) on the importance of the human mind in proofs. He solved a problem in the late seventies (albeit that was some time ago), that computers were having issues with until about ten years ago. A program is a program. A procedural method for determining whether or not. It loops continuously searching for truths until it finds one and continues on to the next search. A program merely demonstrates the programmer's knowledge of the problem. No program will take a perfect approach to solving a problem unless the programmer knows what that approach is. Take for instance a very simple root calculation. We have a function, f(x) = x^2 - 4. Have a computer determine the two roots of that one, and you end up with the same answer that you find on your own: x=+/- 2. A program can take a look at the format of the function and take a guess at what the solution will be, or it can just follow along all the values until it finds an f(x) = 0... When we look at that, we realize the nature of the curve without needing to look at the format of the formula. It appears in our minds, and we can determine what the roots should be using a non-procedural method. You may argue that we do use a procedural method to calculate the solution... Even if this solution was forced into my subconcious through years of school, we have to take a look at the problem and just imagine how the hell a computer is going to figure out the procedure for solving that... Frankly, it's when we've been sitting in front of some data for a long while that we find the solutions to all problems. I believe strongly that this is because our mind starts to wonder, contemplating things that are seemingly irrelevant, pushing us toward processing a different method that will work. Our world's greatest ideas were always inspired by something other than the knowledge required to formulate that idea. Hmm... I hope that little rant is suitably confusing :).
Sincerely,
James.
Well, if they go through with it, I'm taking a weekend trip down to TX sometime and grabbing all the info I can for later :).
I do like the insurance information being sent to a central branch, so they can determine whether or not I have insurance without asking me for the papers. I've lost that slip so many times, and it's really a pain to get the ticket reversed...