We have 3 netbooks in the house, mostly for doing homework, knocking out email, and throwing into a backpack. The linux netbooks we have are great for doing text-based work, but not so good for watching movies or playing games...pretty much the kind of device you want for a family of ADHD procrastinators. [Sh!t...I need to get back to work]
Hauling fuel will certainly hurt performance, but I can see this working nicely as tethered roving device, like a hovering robot with a cable that runs back to the power source. Could be really useful for navigating dangerous areas (i.e. mine fields, frozen ponds) and making lightweight extractions (someone sitting on the hood of a car, stranded by a flood).
Still, sooner or later our energy sources will have to get smaller, lighter, and more plentiful if we plan to survive as a species and make a device like this truly feasible.
Good luck finding a target slightly smaller, that the fish have been chewing on.
HA! The fish can't get to him on land. A recent taxi driver I talked with assures me that he is still alive and well and playing CoD to keep his skilz up-to-date. He just wasn't sure where.
I'm not longer writing code myself, but I'm constantly amazed at how utterly horrible the code being written by my successors appears and works. Where is the craftsmanship and pride in writing clean, fast code today?
Having the code would make it possible for systematic checks to occur (say, a bar code not matching the medical procedure listed in the patient's file.)
Huge taxonomies always seem to make a lot of sense to the people who make the reports or design the "systematic checks" you mention. In real life, however, the workers are pressed for time and will take the path of least resistance. If that means selecting the first instance of "finger" that appears on the list, then so be it. One can hope medical professionals wouldn't be that way, but I suspect some aren't as respectful of your database values as your reports might require. The almost universal reliance on Sharpies is a great example of a user interface problem being corrected by users instead of programmers.
Come on Slashdot, be reasonable. Maybe these topics don't represent what would be found in a traditional CS curriculum for college, but they sound like the very subjects that a pre-CS course at the high school level would be wise to teach.
Exactly. Many computer classes in middle and high school are mostly fluff...at best review for kids who have been using a computer since birth.
I've taught my partially homeschooled kids (10 and 13) how to use the common OSs and basic tools (OSX, Ubuntu, Google Apps, Open Office), how to create and manage content (docs, spreadsheets, graphs, simple web pages, blogs, wiki), navigating and managing their drives (so I don't have to help them find their crap after they've created it), and how to be pretty much self-sufficient on their machines (installing apps, patching, upgrading distros, connecting to printers, etc.). When they get to be 14 or 15, I'll start them on databases, writing queries, and maybe writing a few scripts. At that point they'll be on their own to decide what they want to do with computers. My goal is not to make them CS majors, but to give them enough information to decide if they want to be a CS major...and the skills necessary to use a computer as a tool.
I just had you kicked off my program and told the management I never wanted that HIGHLY capable, VERY strong technical person on my team again because his attitude was so bad it was negatively impacting the entire project.
I question how good your guy was.
I generally find that the more social the programmer/analyst/QA/support tech/manager/monkey the better they perform. The standoffish ones are either unwilling to put forth the effort required to do a good job or are in over their heads and afraid of being discovered. In either case, they cannot be depended on in a crisis.
Recycling raw materials has been common practice in manufacturing for decades. And if you can't reuse that material in-house, then you do what you must to get the best price/lowest cost to get it the hell off site. My guess is that they get a better return on pre-shredded metal and get the assurance that some red-neck isn't going to take a truck load of their 'specially manufactured' drives, write "Samsung" on them with a Sharpie, and then try to sell them at the Charleston Market for $5 each.
Annexing Toronto would probably ruin it. The US has a preclearance facility at the airport so you don't have to go through customs when you land. I assume this allows for more service to po-dunk airports in the US, where there is no one to check your passport when you arrive.
In fact, airlines really need more regulation to stop the race to the bottom, as they really have zero interest in customer service these days.
Regulation might help, but making high-speed rail a viable option for distances under 400 miles (or 3 hours) would really put the pressure on airlines. The Delta Shuttle between DCA and LGA, which competes head-to-head with Acela, seems much nicer more reliable than other flights where there are no other travel options. I still take Acela because it takes roughly the same amount of time, I can park about 100 ft from the gate, the rare delays are generally measured in minutes, I don't have to take my shoes off, and can bring a gallon of milk with me if I choose. Unfortunately, the Acela is only useful for traveling the Northeast corridor.
When it comes to travel, what we need today are faster ways to:
-- get to the airport
-- get through security
-- get the plane in the air on time, and
-- get through customs (when applicable)
Last week I spent more in traffic driving to the airport 20 miles away than I did flying to my destination. Coming back, I spend 2x as much time going through US customs in Toronto and security as I spent in the air.
But if the plant had continued running would there have been power to run the cooling system?
Hadn't thought of it in those terms, but an interesting question. I've been assuming that the plant's power-producing capabilities were impacted by the quake and/or tsunami, but I googled it and couldn't find anything in the timeline that says that the base system was busted, just that the reactors were taken down and the backup systems failed (juice from other plants and the local backup generators). But then I'm a slow reader and it's late.
The plant operators seem to have followed procedure by shutting the plant down right after the quake, but I wonder if things would have turned out better if they had not done that.
Well, INANE, but I'm pretty sure we'd be looking at a different outcome if the control rods hadn't been inserted during the quake...a much worse one.
I am not interested in Unity (total piece of shit software--pardon my bluntness). It shouldn't have been proposed and absolutely it's seems a violation to consider it.
Even my 9 and 12 year-old Ubunutu fangirl daughters hate Unity! If little girls with puppy and monkey desktops don't like Unity, then who does?
1) an unintentional auto-complete disaster
2) disgruntled employee
3) Hacked twitter account used to launder code in to public domain
4) A diversion: A secondary easily revoked key, not the master, being used to take the piss out of efforts to to find the real master....???
what is your guess?
5) Based on yesterday's story, this could be an attempt to increase litigation-related revenues at Sony by including everyone in the "Twittersphere". From the FS:
"...the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page."
The only games they've done this to so far are downloadable games.
If Capcom starts doing it to disc-based games, call me. Until then, I'll continue to enjoy their Ace Attorney series of games.
Oh wait, those are on a hand-held anyway, and aren't likely to have this sort of limitation.
Sorry, my bad. TFA failed to mention that the DRM scheme only applied to downloaded games and that you wouldn't be talking about PS3 games in a post about DRM on the PS3. I would like to retract my comment about the coaster and replace it with the following:
Even great games suck if they stop working. But then, you'll always have a stylish $59.95 Capcom brand drink coaster for the coffee table...they can't take that away from you.
As a voter who normally leans Democrat...I'm not sure if I can support this. I think it perverts the process.
And I'm sure the Republicans appreciate your very honorable support by not perverting the process that they have so fervently sodomized for the last decade.
Meanwhile, they will continue their tactics of using verbal slight of hand to convince the ill-informed masses that you are a liberal, Muslim, God-hating, baby killer who wants to take away their guns and their access to medical care.
I don't support the plan to prop up Palin either, but the days of reasoned debate are behind us. It's a strategy game now.
My guess is that bank of america merely has the inside scoup and wikileaks is about to be declared official terrorists.
or they (BoA, US Govt., et. al) are trying to financially suffocate WikiLeaks. The problem is that, in theory at least, there is no single entity they can call WikiLeaks. This information may as well be distributed via torrents, botnets, or hand addressed postcards. The real "evil" in this so called terror-plot is that the data was compromised by insiders. Julian is just a reporter with questionable integrity.
I work in the capitol of the wealthiest country on earth...and presumed by some to be the biggest terrorist target...and my biggest fear is that the freaking 30 year old train I have to ride to work will break down and strand me for hours. So please take your fancy x-ray machines and trade them in for new a few Chinese-made bullet trains to pull my sorry ass in to work so I don't get fired and contribute to America's more pressing worry of rising unemployment.
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We have 3 netbooks in the house, mostly for doing homework, knocking out email, and throwing into a backpack. The linux netbooks we have are great for doing text-based work, but not so good for watching movies or playing games...pretty much the kind of device you want for a family of ADHD procrastinators. [Sh!t...I need to get back to work]
Hauling fuel will certainly hurt performance, but I can see this working nicely as tethered roving device, like a hovering robot with a cable that runs back to the power source. Could be really useful for navigating dangerous areas (i.e. mine fields, frozen ponds) and making lightweight extractions (someone sitting on the hood of a car, stranded by a flood).
Still, sooner or later our energy sources will have to get smaller, lighter, and more plentiful if we plan to survive as a species and make a device like this truly feasible.
Good luck finding a target slightly smaller, that the fish have been chewing on.
HA! The fish can't get to him on land. A recent taxi driver I talked with assures me that he is still alive and well and playing CoD to keep his skilz up-to-date. He just wasn't sure where.
I'm not longer writing code myself, but I'm constantly amazed at how utterly horrible the code being written by my successors appears and works. Where is the craftsmanship and pride in writing clean, fast code today?
Having the code would make it possible for systematic checks to occur (say, a bar code not matching the medical procedure listed in the patient's file.)
Huge taxonomies always seem to make a lot of sense to the people who make the reports or design the "systematic checks" you mention. In real life, however, the workers are pressed for time and will take the path of least resistance. If that means selecting the first instance of "finger" that appears on the list, then so be it. One can hope medical professionals wouldn't be that way, but I suspect some aren't as respectful of your database values as your reports might require. The almost universal reliance on Sharpies is a great example of a user interface problem being corrected by users instead of programmers.
Come on Slashdot, be reasonable. Maybe these topics don't represent what would be found in a traditional CS curriculum for college, but they sound like the very subjects that a pre-CS course at the high school level would be wise to teach.
Exactly. Many computer classes in middle and high school are mostly fluff...at best review for kids who have been using a computer since birth.
I've taught my partially homeschooled kids (10 and 13) how to use the common OSs and basic tools (OSX, Ubuntu, Google Apps, Open Office), how to create and manage content (docs, spreadsheets, graphs, simple web pages, blogs, wiki), navigating and managing their drives (so I don't have to help them find their crap after they've created it), and how to be pretty much self-sufficient on their machines (installing apps, patching, upgrading distros, connecting to printers, etc.). When they get to be 14 or 15, I'll start them on databases, writing queries, and maybe writing a few scripts. At that point they'll be on their own to decide what they want to do with computers. My goal is not to make them CS majors, but to give them enough information to decide if they want to be a CS major...and the skills necessary to use a computer as a tool.
It runs on EM radiation from your panel.
Actually, since it runs Ubuntu it can also harness the power of Unity.
I just had you kicked off my program and told the management I never wanted that HIGHLY capable, VERY strong technical person on my team again because his attitude was so bad it was negatively impacting the entire project.
I question how good your guy was. I generally find that the more social the programmer/analyst/QA/support tech/manager/monkey the better they perform. The standoffish ones are either unwilling to put forth the effort required to do a good job or are in over their heads and afraid of being discovered. In either case, they cannot be depended on in a crisis.
If the datacenter is really where the video shows it to be (I have doubts), then it would be about 1/2 a mile from steel and metal recycling facility.
Recycling raw materials has been common practice in manufacturing for decades. And if you can't reuse that material in-house, then you do what you must to get the best price/lowest cost to get it the hell off site. My guess is that they get a better return on pre-shredded metal and get the assurance that some red-neck isn't going to take a truck load of their 'specially manufactured' drives, write "Samsung" on them with a Sharpie, and then try to sell them at the Charleston Market for $5 each.
Annexing Toronto would probably ruin it. The US has a preclearance facility at the airport so you don't have to go through customs when you land. I assume this allows for more service to po-dunk airports in the US, where there is no one to check your passport when you arrive.
In fact, airlines really need more regulation to stop the race to the bottom, as they really have zero interest in customer service these days.
Regulation might help, but making high-speed rail a viable option for distances under 400 miles (or 3 hours) would really put the pressure on airlines. The Delta Shuttle between DCA and LGA, which competes head-to-head with Acela, seems much nicer more reliable than other flights where there are no other travel options. I still take Acela because it takes roughly the same amount of time, I can park about 100 ft from the gate, the rare delays are generally measured in minutes, I don't have to take my shoes off, and can bring a gallon of milk with me if I choose. Unfortunately, the Acela is only useful for traveling the Northeast corridor.
Last week I spent more in traffic driving to the airport 20 miles away than I did flying to my destination. Coming back, I spend 2x as much time going through US customs in Toronto and security as I spent in the air.
This will be handy when tweaking images at the pixel level or navigating a huge document that's been zoomed out to 25%.
If there was EVER a reason to favour posting as an anonymous coward, it was this :)
Sir, this is /., "news for nerds", and as such, the assumption is that all registered users are balding and/or have reduced testosterone output.
But if the plant had continued running would there have been power to run the cooling system?
Hadn't thought of it in those terms, but an interesting question. I've been assuming that the plant's power-producing capabilities were impacted by the quake and/or tsunami, but I googled it and couldn't find anything in the timeline that says that the base system was busted, just that the reactors were taken down and the backup systems failed (juice from other plants and the local backup generators). But then I'm a slow reader and it's late.
The plant operators seem to have followed procedure by shutting the plant down right after the quake, but I wonder if things would have turned out better if they had not done that.
Well, INANE, but I'm pretty sure we'd be looking at a different outcome if the control rods hadn't been inserted during the quake...a much worse one.
I am not interested in Unity (total piece of shit software--pardon my bluntness). It shouldn't have been proposed and absolutely it's seems a violation to consider it.
Even my 9 and 12 year-old Ubunutu fangirl daughters hate Unity! If little girls with puppy and monkey desktops don't like Unity, then who does?
Can we get this to apply to Farmville? : )
And experts-exchange?
1) an unintentional auto-complete disaster 2) disgruntled employee 3) Hacked twitter account used to launder code in to public domain 4) A diversion: A secondary easily revoked key, not the master, being used to take the piss out of efforts to to find the real master ....???
what is your guess?
5) Based on yesterday's story, this could be an attempt to increase litigation-related revenues at Sony by including everyone in the "Twittersphere". From the FS:
"...the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page."
The only games they've done this to so far are downloadable games. If Capcom starts doing it to disc-based games, call me. Until then, I'll continue to enjoy their Ace Attorney series of games. Oh wait, those are on a hand-held anyway, and aren't likely to have this sort of limitation.
Sorry, my bad. TFA failed to mention that the DRM scheme only applied to downloaded games and that you wouldn't be talking about PS3 games in a post about DRM on the PS3. I would like to retract my comment about the coaster and replace it with the following:
I see. And how does that make you feel?
Even great games suck if they stop working. But then, you'll always have a stylish $59.95 Capcom brand drink coaster for the coffee table...they can't take that away from you.
There is a reason my Television is not connected to the internet, even though it could be connected to it.
So why buy the TV?
As a voter who normally leans Democrat...I'm not sure if I can support this. I think it perverts the process.
And I'm sure the Republicans appreciate your very honorable support by not perverting the process that they have so fervently sodomized for the last decade.
Meanwhile, they will continue their tactics of using verbal slight of hand to convince the ill-informed masses that you are a liberal, Muslim, God-hating, baby killer who wants to take away their guns and their access to medical care.
I don't support the plan to prop up Palin either, but the days of reasoned debate are behind us. It's a strategy game now.
or they (BoA, US Govt., et. al) are trying to financially suffocate WikiLeaks. The problem is that, in theory at least, there is no single entity they can call WikiLeaks. This information may as well be distributed via torrents, botnets, or hand addressed postcards. The real "evil" in this so called terror-plot is that the data was compromised by insiders. Julian is just a reporter with questionable integrity.
I work in the capitol of the wealthiest country on earth...and presumed by some to be the biggest terrorist target...and my biggest fear is that the freaking 30 year old train I have to ride to work will break down and strand me for hours. So please take your fancy x-ray machines and trade them in for new a few Chinese-made bullet trains to pull my sorry ass in to work so I don't get fired and contribute to America's more pressing worry of rising unemployment.