But it is just so much more fun to try to find the "real Springfield"! http://www.compuglobalhypermega.net/ has a rather good take on the quest. And I am rather envious of that guy's domain name...
So he's a little off-base and slightly backward. We are a bunch of "early adopters". This guy seems to be a "late-adopter". Ok. So what. He is looking into the research and earnestly trying to make the right choice. I respect that.
So we can all disagree with him, and that's fine. But insulting the man for erring on the cautious side and being sure of the research... In my book, that's a cheap shot.
A few years later, he gave me a 486 and showed me an
animation program and
the atomic gorrillas / atomic bananas game (which was in QBasic). I got curious and looked at the source code. I saw numbers. I changed numbers. Cool stuff happened.
Today,
I earn cash on the side with graphic design.
I am working toward my pilot's licence.
I deal with stress by composing classical music.
My interest in computer animation has lead me to work for the US Air Force doing CG visualizations
And oh yeah - during the day, I make videogames.
My point is this - whatever tech you show your kids - choose wisely. The particular things you choose may really make a big difference.
I've got no idea what the heck y'all are talking about with all that megawatts balony, but I sure as heck know that shipping containers have corrugated sides, and that must increase their surface area considerably.
Sorry to make you look dumb (a simple oversight, I'm sure), but it says "(In thousands)" at the top of that report - which, of course, makes all your "millions" into "billions".
For a lawyer, Thompson seems to have missed that one little maxim: "any press is good press."
Judging from the quantity of very predictable "press" he has got right here at slashdot, maybe he is counting on that one little maxim. "Bad" press can help people out, if they use it right. I'm thinking, oh... say.. Kevin Mitnick?
Pander to lazyness? That doesn't pander to lazyness - that means I have to get up and walk to use my phone!
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yet have no problem taking their advertising dollars
I don't think Microsoft would spend so much advertising money on slashdot if it weren't doing some "good." It must be an effective use of their money. They must be getting some return on investment. Could it be (heresy of herisies!) that in spite of all the vocal and popular MS criticism, most slashdotters purchase microsoft products? I mean - we must be clicking on the little MS Visual Studio.NET ad by the thousands. And what percentage of us has really not bought MS products?? We must be both their worst enemy and their best friend.
"10 megabits per second" is the speed mentioned in connection with cell phones (which, I would imagine, would be the medium for a lot of emergency communication).
Use of this satellite will begin in about 2015, supporting a "maximum speed of 10 megabits per second" with cell phones. Right now there are about 82 million mobile phone subscribers in Japan (source pdf), 40% (and growing) of which are using 3G technology (source). 3G service is moving into the 3Mbit/s range right now.
Similar trends can be seen in the broadband internet market, with normal (non-fiber) broadband speeds of 40mbps becomming common.
At this rate, the down-to-earth infrastructure in Japan will have left this satellite in the dust long before 2015. About the only thing it will be good for is emergency communication in remote areas.
I have taken the liberty of checking out the author of this story. It seems that this "Anonymous Coward" fellow has very long a history of all sorts of trolls, offtopics and soforth. He is quite obviously trying to incite a flaming distro war. Pay him no mind.
(btw - just to set the record straight: you can have your redhat and suse. Everybody knows Linspire is the most hardcore distro out there...)
My CS department let me borrow a completely silent computer for a semester. It really was a marvel. The cooling system used no fans - only heat sinks. I did a lot of programming on it, and would often shut down my other box and do my programming in complete silence.
Of course, the 8085 processor and only having 256 bytes of RAM kinda sucked...
I understand that you do a lot of comparative analysis of Windows and Linux, and then communitate with the Windows development teams, in hopes of improving Microsoft's product.
Can you give any specific examples of changes that have been made on the Windows side as a result of your work?
I have run into this problem a couple of times with walmart (and I am not even a good photographer).
Solution 1 - For every location or event that I shoot, I purposefully take a few very poorly framed shots. Then I upload a few crappy shots along with the ones I want, and the clerk just prints them - end of story.
Solution 2 - place your your initials (very small) down in the corner of all your images (this looks pretty cool anyway), then print yourself out a quick "business card" with the initials, and your name. Then they will certainly tell you to screw off, but then you show them the card, and they probably call their manager, and you complain loudly, and you demand your pics for free, etc, and the manager finally says "just print them" and the clerk remembers you forever, and lets you print whatever you want, or face your wrath.
(extra points: write a script to do your initials in a batch)
(double extra points: send me a copy of said script)
A cheap LCD can be better than even a high-end CRT in many cases.
I had always been in favor of CRT monitors, having come from a graphics background. However, my dual monitor setup now consists of a 19" Sony Trinitron CRT (~$700 new in '98) beside a cheap LCD the same size (~$250 new last month). After coding for hours, I find myself dragging whatever my primary task window is (dreamweaver, a linux console session, etc) to the LCD. Lately I haven't bothered to put much other than a web browser on my CRT. The CRT is in fine condition, too.
The new LCD monitor puts poor Old Faithful to shame when it comes to productivity tasks. It is simply crisper, brighter and less straining to look at.
The only downside is in matching colors to print. Normal color quality for viewing is great.
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That pic looks really scary. I mean headcrab scary. "Gordon, Get out of there!"
But it is just so much more fun to try to find the "real Springfield"! http://www.compuglobalhypermega.net/ has a rather good take on the quest.
And I am rather envious of that guy's domain name...
So we can all disagree with him, and that's fine. But insulting the man for erring on the cautious side and being sure of the research... In my book, that's a cheap shot.
- Deluxe Paint II
- Chuck Yaegar Flight sim, and
- Some music composition program
A few years later, he gave me a 486 and showed me anToday,
My point is this - whatever tech you show your kids - choose wisely. The particular things you choose may really make a big difference.
I've got no idea what the heck y'all are talking about with all that megawatts balony, but I sure as heck know that shipping containers have corrugated sides, and that must increase their surface area considerably.
Sorry to make you look dumb (a simple oversight, I'm sure), but it says "(In thousands)" at the top of that report - which, of course, makes all your "millions" into "billions".
By the way - the PDF (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/NR/Downloads/finan cialreports/2004FinancialStmts.pdf) in the parent post is interesting and it loads pretty quickly.
Then logically, either Darl or the Pope is not a person! (In this case, I highly suspect that Darl McBride is the guilty party)
For a lawyer, Thompson seems to have missed that one little maxim: "any press is good press."
Judging from the quantity of very predictable "press" he has got right here at slashdot, maybe he is counting on that one little maxim. "Bad" press can help people out, if they use it right. I'm thinking, oh... say.. Kevin Mitnick?
Pander to lazyness? That doesn't pander to lazyness - that means I have to get up and walk to use my phone!
I don't think Microsoft would spend so much advertising money on slashdot if it weren't doing some "good." It must be an effective use of their money. They must be getting some return on investment. Could it be (heresy of herisies!) that in spite of all the vocal and popular MS criticism, most slashdotters purchase microsoft products? I mean - we must be clicking on the little MS Visual Studio .NET ad by the thousands. And what percentage of us has really not bought MS products?? We must be both their worst enemy and their best friend.
I'm sure that was just a typo
"10 megabits per second" is the speed mentioned in connection with cell phones (which, I would imagine, would be the medium for a lot of emergency communication).
Use of this satellite will begin in about 2015, supporting a "maximum speed of 10 megabits per second" with cell phones. Right now there are about 82 million mobile phone subscribers in Japan (source pdf), 40% (and growing) of which are using 3G technology (source). 3G service is moving into the 3Mbit/s range right now.
Similar trends can be seen in the broadband internet market, with normal (non-fiber) broadband speeds of 40mbps becomming common.
At this rate, the down-to-earth infrastructure in Japan will have left this satellite in the dust long before 2015. About the only thing it will be good for is emergency communication in remote areas.
I have taken the liberty of checking out the author of this story. It seems that this "Anonymous Coward" fellow has very long a history of all sorts of trolls, offtopics and soforth. He is quite obviously trying to incite a flaming distro war. Pay him no mind.
(btw - just to set the record straight: you can have your redhat and suse. Everybody knows Linspire is the most hardcore distro out there...)
My CS department let me borrow a completely silent computer for a semester. It really was a marvel. The cooling system used no fans - only heat sinks. I did a lot of programming on it, and would often shut down my other box and do my programming in complete silence.
Of course, the 8085 processor and only having 256 bytes of RAM kinda sucked...
Laugh all you want... My tinfoil hat just plain looks cool, OK?? You all are doomed anyway. <mutters> i'm choosing to believe the first story...
Mr. Hilf,
I understand that you do a lot of comparative analysis of Windows and Linux, and then communitate with the Windows development teams, in hopes of improving Microsoft's product.
Can you give any specific examples of changes that have been made on the Windows side as a result of your work?
-stare_at_the_sunSolution 1 - For every location or event that I shoot, I purposefully take a few very poorly framed shots. Then I upload a few crappy shots along with the ones I want, and the clerk just prints them - end of story.
Solution 2 - place your your initials (very small) down in the corner of all your images (this looks pretty cool anyway), then print yourself out a quick "business card" with the initials, and your name. Then they will certainly tell you to screw off, but then you show them the card, and they probably call their manager, and you complain loudly, and you demand your pics for free, etc, and the manager finally says "just print them" and the clerk remembers you forever, and lets you print whatever you want, or face your wrath.
(extra points: write a script to do your initials in a batch)(double extra points: send me a copy of said script)
A cheap LCD can be better than even a high-end CRT in many cases.
I had always been in favor of CRT monitors, having come from a graphics background. However, my dual monitor setup now consists of a 19" Sony Trinitron CRT (~$700 new in '98) beside a cheap LCD the same size (~$250 new last month). After coding for hours, I find myself dragging whatever my primary task window is (dreamweaver, a linux console session, etc) to the LCD. Lately I haven't bothered to put much other than a web browser on my CRT. The CRT is in fine condition, too.
The new LCD monitor puts poor Old Faithful to shame when it comes to productivity tasks. It is simply crisper, brighter and less straining to look at.
The only downside is in matching colors to print. Normal color quality for viewing is great.