The way people are trying to fix all our woes is by treating the SYMPTOM, i.e. making energy costs lower and searching for alternative energy resources.
The SOLUTION however is to simply use less. If we thought more and were less lazy, oil etc. wouldn't be a problem.
It's had more security bugs in this past year than IE and probably Opera combined.
Note: I still USE Firefox on all my machines but it's because I don't mind wasting time patching it every few weeks when another vulnerability comes out.
Don't get me wrong, I love the features of Firefox but from a security standpoint I realize I'm taking a risk by using it.
Most broadband users download content that's valued more than what they pay each month.
3 seasons of DVD in DivX format via BitTorrent has a cash value of over $100 and most people pay $25-40 per month for the access, so that's $60+ profit!:)
A SanDisk 4GB Memory Stick Pro Edition is $243 on the consumer market, meaning its cost in a business to business transaction for such purposes could be as low as $100 or $150, and they could still mark it up $50 to $100.
All that, plus lighter and much longer battery life considering reading/writing to RAM is so inexpensive from a power standpoint versus doing the same to hard disk with all those moving parts.
If you're going to use a battery-slurping technology like hard disk with all those moving parts, you should at least offer more than what modern RAM technology can store (i.e. the 1,2,4 GB range) on the disc since it wouldn't require any more size or power resources to go from 4GB HDD to 10 or 20GB.
You'd get a lot more for your money and could actually store all your portable data, such as a decent song collection in mp3/ogg/wma as well as some videos of TV shows perhaps and some photos.
The creators call Celestia a "free space simulation" that lets you explore the Universe in 3D.
It runs on all platforms including my favourite, Linux.
"Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects."
While you Europeans kill yourselves with tobacco and every other drug under the sun, at least some of us Americans still have morals.
While you Europeans bash our country incessantly, why not take an economics class or two and realize that your method of artificially trying to create jobs just doesn't work.
Making 40 hour a week full-timers work 30 hours a week so that others can work is not sound economics.
Oh, and the birth rate in Europe is much less than the 1-1 ratio needed to simply maintain the current population.
So, while we in the US will prevail fine, expect to see much of Europe continue to disappear over the next 100 years and be replaced by the stream of poor uneducated immigrants that are currently wrecking havoc in the UK and other places.
And not to toot my own horn, but many of us are capable of leading balanced well-rounded lives.
Poltically involved, intelligent, athletic, caring, family people, many friends, do charity, etc. I do all of that stuff and know others who do as well.
But you would be correct if you said most choose the blue pill of sloth/laziness/greed/non-caring.
In college I was looking through shared files/directories of a computer science professor because he had code snippets from lab and problem sets etc. shared for us to access.
Unfortunately I was able to get into a directory that students should not have and suddenly I saw files that looked like solutions to the current programming project.
I didn't look but I think 80% of other students would have.
I phoned him immediately at his home number, and he was annoyed at the dinnertime call and I think wondering how/why I found it, but was glad in the end because he could appropriately "chmod 600" the directory instead of "666" or "777" like it was set.
My whole point is that security holes and such can often just be human error and not the actual software.
This nothing new; don't take it out on Blackboard.
Having web sites for each class using Blackboard(tm) or WebCT(tm) which are now one and the same thanks to this merger means that students are always able to check out their course website multiple times a day while they're procrasting by browsing websites such as this one (Slashdot) or Fark.
I have used this software for 5 courses online and it was great for getting the most recent problem sets and scanned in PDFs etc.
It's just so much easier to have professors use a simple web form to post things rather than worry about building an entirely different course web page for each class they teach.
Also, it's hush-hush in academia, but professors just aren't good with computers aside from those with MS.
Look, we are and I'll admit that. I'm not afraid to criticize myself and other developers:
- Me and other coders are often eager to jump right into projects instead of designing them thoroughly (using RUP for example) - Other coders and I often get bored after I figure out the hard part and say the rest is trivial
It's more of a work ethic. Also, my friends in the gaming industry (Electronic Arts(tm) for example) work 60-80 hour weeks, so it's understandable that they seek out shortcuts.
Let's agree to work a little harder and/or smarter and not skimp on design! USE RATIONAL!
Slashdot Mirror
Every time I see your username in the comment section it's next to a modded-up post "thanking" whatever the article is about.
A Firefox article is posted, and within 15 minutes there's you with a "Thanks, Firefox developers!" comment.
Google announces a new feature of their Print service and immediately it's "Thanks Google!!" in a comment of yours that shoots straight up to 4 or 5.
I guess what I'm saying is... shut up.
The SYMPTOM here is high energy prices.
The way people are trying to fix all our woes is by treating the SYMPTOM, i.e. making energy costs lower and searching for alternative energy resources.
The SOLUTION however is to simply use less. If we thought more and were less lazy, oil etc. wouldn't be a problem.
It's had more security bugs in this past year than IE and probably Opera combined.
Note: I still USE Firefox on all my machines but it's because I don't mind wasting time patching it every few weeks when another vulnerability comes out.
Don't get me wrong, I love the features of Firefox but from a security standpoint I realize I'm taking a risk by using it.
Tell us how much this Slashdot link submitted by "Mark Brunell, News Editor of TechTarget" to "TechTarget" costs.
VOTE!
Most broadband users download content that's valued more than what they pay each month.
:)
3 seasons of DVD in DivX format via BitTorrent has a cash value of over $100 and most people pay $25-40 per month for the access, so that's $60+ profit!
And it rocks here in America (no, really, no complaints!).
Rob Malda harasses my eyes everytime I read a same-day dupe and fourteen grammar/spelling errors in a three sentence story summary.
The thee-ess-ess thtyling for thith knitting article should be pink not green!
Bram Cohen, congratulations on your accomplisments.
May you continue to live a productive and happy life and continue offering innovative and hopefully open source software.
Let this serve as encouragement to all of us: with desire, dedication, brains, a computer, and Internet access, anything is achievable.
Do what you do best; for most of us this is coding!
A SanDisk 4GB Memory Stick Pro Edition is $243 on the consumer market, meaning its cost in a business to business transaction for such purposes could be as low as $100 or $150, and they could still mark it up $50 to $100.
All that, plus lighter and much longer battery life considering reading/writing to RAM is so inexpensive from a power standpoint versus doing the same to hard disk with all those moving parts.
If you're going to use a battery-slurping technology like hard disk with all those moving parts, you should at least offer more than what modern RAM technology can store (i.e. the 1,2,4 GB range) on the disc since it wouldn't require any more size or power resources to go from 4GB HDD to 10 or 20GB.
You'd get a lot more for your money and could actually store all your portable data, such as a decent song collection in mp3/ogg/wma as well as some videos of TV shows perhaps and some photos.
Why not use RAM technology in a light compact portable stick?
here
Had to do it
Those of us true uber-geeks have IPv6, where localhost is ::1.
So ha!
I browse while at work and would appreciate if I didn't have to view cursing and potty-talk on a web site for science/engineering professionals.
The creators call Celestia a "free space simulation" that lets you explore the Universe in 3D.
It runs on all platforms including my favourite, Linux.
"Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects."
I suggest a right-click of mouse and then Save As in the browser to save the above-linked images.
The files are huge and may be Slashdotted soon as well.
I can just tell.
While you Europeans kill yourselves with tobacco and every other drug under the sun, at least some of us Americans still have morals.
While you Europeans bash our country incessantly, why not take an economics class or two and realize that your method of artificially trying to create jobs just doesn't work.
Making 40 hour a week full-timers work 30 hours a week so that others can work is not sound economics.
Oh, and the birth rate in Europe is much less than the 1-1 ratio needed to simply maintain the current population.
So, while we in the US will prevail fine, expect to see much of Europe continue to disappear over the next 100 years and be replaced by the stream of poor uneducated immigrants that are currently wrecking havoc in the UK and other places.
I'm living proof of it.
And not to toot my own horn, but many of us are capable of leading balanced well-rounded lives.
Poltically involved, intelligent, athletic, caring, family people, many friends, do charity, etc. I do all of that stuff and know others who do as well.
But you would be correct if you said most choose the blue pill of sloth/laziness/greed/non-caring.
Sure, we're smart. But we're also frequently:
- Lazy
- Get bored easily
- Poor at communicating
- Often unattractive physically
- Overvalue intelligence and therefore often judgemental of others
I am confident and can admit these flaws and I personally share some of them.
Just don't get arrogant thinking you are the perfect human because you probably are not.
By "OS" I mean simply file/directory permissions.
In college I was looking through shared files/directories of a computer science professor because he had code snippets from lab and problem sets etc. shared for us to access.
Unfortunately I was able to get into a directory that students should not have and suddenly I saw files that looked like solutions to the current programming project.
I didn't look but I think 80% of other students would have.
I phoned him immediately at his home number, and he was annoyed at the dinnertime call and I think wondering how/why I found it, but was glad in the end because he could appropriately "chmod 600" the directory instead of "666" or "777" like it was set.
My whole point is that security holes and such can often just be human error and not the actual software.
This nothing new; don't take it out on Blackboard.
Look at the 80 character line lengths in the parent post and thus the premature line breaks.
You obviously copy+pasted this post from somewhere, which isn't cool to do unless you properly attribute it.
Having web sites for each class using Blackboard(tm) or WebCT(tm) which are now one and the same thanks to this merger means that students are always able to check out their course website multiple times a day while they're procrasting by browsing websites such as this one (Slashdot) or Fark.
I have used this software for 5 courses online and it was great for getting the most recent problem sets and scanned in PDFs etc.
It's just so much easier to have professors use a simple web form to post things rather than worry about building an entirely different course web page for each class they teach.
Also, it's hush-hush in academia, but professors just aren't good with computers aside from those with MS.
Look, we are and I'll admit that. I'm not afraid to criticize myself and other developers:
- Me and other coders are often eager to jump right into projects instead of designing them thoroughly (using RUP for example)
- Other coders and I often get bored after I figure out the hard part and say the rest is trivial
It's more of a work ethic. Also, my friends in the gaming industry (Electronic Arts(tm) for example) work 60-80 hour weeks, so it's understandable that they seek out shortcuts.
Let's agree to work a little harder and/or smarter and not skimp on design! USE RATIONAL!