Seriously guys, someone out there has to be arty enough to create GNUman, with all the powers and bodily odour of....... a GNU. He'd show kids how great it is to publish their work under the GPL, and to practice fair use, and to contribute to OS projects that make the world a better, fluffier (and cheaper) place to live in.
Heh, in most companies a sysadmin doesn't deal with people who really use their computers. Show me a computer built in the next 5 years and I'll max out the processor (as could most graphics people), whether it's rendering 3D content (which is kinda cheating 'cause the processor goes straight to 100% anyway), or trying to scrub through 1080p video in a video editor.
I think you're only halfway there, it's much worse than that and it goes against slashdot convention, which wouldn't be the first time MS have done that......
1. Build buggy OS full of security holes
2. Charge up to $500 for OS
3. Profit!!
4. Charge 50 dollars a year to fix said bugs
5. Profit again!!!!
Yup, sounds about right to me- it'd take a human observer about, ooh a tenth of a second to decide if there's bad visiblity in a pic or not. One other thing occurred to me as well about taking and transmitting the pics, and that's battery life; if the rover gets to the stage where it's batteries or solar cells are failing, then power becomes more critical than bandwidth, and the power saved from not transmitting useless pictures will help increase the useful life of the Rover. OK maybe the power used for picture transmission is much less than that used in moving around the surface (actaully if someone could tell us how much power the Rover uses to transmit it's pics back to Earth that'd be cool- I don't think there's an intermediary signal-boosting satellite in orbit on this mission, is there?:)
Oh? Heh cool, good to know my perception is shared (which is why we all come to/. no?;) ). I have only seen a few people (all businessmen) using P-series phones and they all love them. Most people who see my phone go 'huh, what a brick' then go oooOOOOoooh when I open it and start tapping out messages on the verty (my incredibly annoying made-up-just-now term for the virtual qwerty keyboard).
The few things that annoy me about the P910 are things like the fact that the 'save and return to inbox without sending' and the 'send' buttons are right beside each other, so you can sometimes send a draft message, or tap to send and end up back in the inbox. Also, the music player is a bit pants, though i don't use the phone for serious music playing. Those aren't fundamental flaws though, my only worry now is affording whatever comes along and is actually *better* than my P910:o|
I'd really like to see what Apple could do with a touchscreen phone interface though, I think it could be amazing.
Hang on, surely a single accidental submission to Spamcop doesn't make a significant difference to the overall picture. That would make it much too easy to do as you say, to accidentally block a valid sender, but to also maliciously blacklist an entire company's email with a few clicks. If the software isn't set up to ignore the few wild submission results from the overall spam data it gets, then it isn't worth having.
Um yea true- but I think everyone's missing a point- surely a one click/step/time-setup solution is the way that spam reporting *should* work. I mean, in Thunderbird if you hit the 'J' key the machine will mark it as junk and add that mail's data to the spam filter's aggregated data.
Surely any spam software shoudl work in roughly the same way?
I've been using the P910 for nearly two years and there is no other phone or device that I wold swap it for, apart from it's successors. Forget the teeny keyboard on the inside of the flip (though they market that one really hard), the ease of use factor comes from the touch-screen interface that you get when you open the display. There's a set of icons across the top for the main fucntions and a list of all the installed applcications. For messaging and email you can have the screen display a (stylus recommended) touchscreen QWERTY keyboard on for the fast composition of texts and notes. Actually I think the phone companies might love that one as it becomes easy to type a long, 3-part text instead of scrawling off 'OK C U L8R'. It also does handwriting recognition really well, though that's hard to do on trains and busses so I tend to ignore it
I used to keep my web design portfolio on the phone in the images folder until I got a PSP (damn I'm such a sony bitch). For business the phone will read Word files, PDFs and Excel spreadsheets, as well as browse normal web pages via GPRS (you might wanna turn off the images though, given GPRS prices.
There are a few quirks to the interface, but really I can't complain too much. Touchscreen is the way that all 'smartphones' need to go if they;re going to pack in that many features. Using an interface designed for communication and media stuff with a teeny joystick and 2 buttons is a pain in the ass and will always be crap (at least until apple release a phone with their iPod scrollwheel and everyone goes 'ooh wish I though of that').
The interface works really well as a straightforward phone when you have the phone closed, and you can customise the menu that appears when you use the phone in closed mode (for example, I put the sound recorder on the main menu for making quick dictaphone-style notes)
An RSS feed that contains audio downloads for the purpose of automatic and easy synchronisation to a digital audio player is a podcast.
People like the linked article don't know what they're talking about when they say that an ordainary download can be called a podcast. You could call it a threaded audio message board, but it wouldn't be a podcast.
One disadvantage to discussion boards that are audio based is that you can't search or index the information without some kind of speech-to-text recognition.
That said, what if you could search audio by speaking into a mic and having the search engine search for those sounds. An intersting case, humm.......
Heh a geeky friend and I always egg on the people doing the 'image inhancement' with shouts of 'go on, get the numberplate, you can do it, just use the enhance button!! and then cheering loudly when they get the cellphone number of someone the suspect is calling by 'enhancing' the image. You can only laugh at that stuff. The enhancer guy has become a trope of sorts.
I dont doubt your credentials, but I think that if a camera was fixed, and if the software has an impression of what the empty airport terminal looks like in varying lighting conditions, then a single blob that ran against that impression and that didn't move shouldn't be completely beyond software to analyse. Especially if the cameras were able to work in stereo (one in the NE corner, the other in the SW corner of a building - then an unmoving shape that doesn't look like an empty portion of the room would be more obvious.
Who are they gonna sue? You can put together a mythTV setup using an ordainary PC, a distro of linux and some video capture software. There's no-one to sue except the user, but surely that' never..... oh wait.
No, but someone released an app that let it run Windows, and some bathrobe wearers got pissy because they saw it as a threat to their way of dressing, but other bathrobe wearers saw it as an opportunity for non-bathrobe-wearers to make the switch to the 'robe.
In short, they're going to see that we went to a hell of a lot of trouble to dispose of something.
It's quite likely that any attempt to dispose of something this carefully may be interpreted as an attempt to hide something of value, and this is precisely why someone would try and dig on this spot.
I like the periodic table idea- maybe a picture of the Uranium atom with the correct number of electrons orbiing the nucleus would work just as well (although there would be 235/238/234) I think someone should spot the significance.
Also, what about storing tiny, tiny samples of the agents involved in the areas behind the stones so that any civilisation with a Geiger Counter (heh, or whoever counter) would get a hint of the radioactivity buried within.
Someone should hand these people some spare underwear and point out that every one of their homes is a potential terrorist target because of the useful mapping information given out by local.google.com!
A funny post, but you've got a serious point. How the fuck did this article get itself posted to/. in the first place. Is someone on crack?
This is the worst written drivel I've ever had the displeasure of reading through/............ hang on a minute i'm going to the toilet to take a dump. I'll be back in 10 minutes with a piece of paper that makes more sense than this shit. I'll make the front page no problem.
The main thing that they got wrong in that scene was the fact that he actually impressed an attactive young female with his hacking skills, rather than eliciting a blank stare, a yawn or a breakup.
I'm afraid Doom 3, Farcry and even Half Life 2 are no longer reliable benchmarks for whether a card can play new games or not. My 256MB Geforce FX5700 allows me to play Half Life 2 and Doom 3 at pretty much full qual. settings (apart from FSAA) and a good res., but it fails miserably on Oblivion and isn't even supported by Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter.
There are no such things as the top end games and low end games- just the new and the old, and the new games will always push the bracket further out, for better or worse. If you want to play new games, you'll need to have bought a 300 card in the last 2 years, basically.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously guys, someone out there has to be arty enough to create GNUman, with all the powers and bodily odour of....... a GNU. He'd show kids how great it is to publish their work under the GPL, and to practice fair use, and to contribute to OS projects that make the world a better, fluffier (and cheaper) place to live in.
Dude, don't joke! Maybe that was the Virus writer's intention all along!
Heh, in most companies a sysadmin doesn't deal with people who really use their computers. Show me a computer built in the next 5 years and I'll max out the processor (as could most graphics people), whether it's rendering 3D content (which is kinda cheating 'cause the processor goes straight to 100% anyway), or trying to scrub through 1080p video in a video editor.
I think you're only halfway there, it's much worse than that and it goes against slashdot convention, which wouldn't be the first time MS have done that ......
1. Build buggy OS full of security holes
2. Charge up to $500 for OS
3. Profit!!
4. Charge 50 dollars a year to fix said bugs
5. Profit again!!!!
*gets his lyrical hat on*
*has idea*
what do you get when you use a PC?
CTRL+ALT+DEL
and a scary blue screen
now you have lost
your precious ess-ay
and-we-all-know-who-to-blame!
BILLY AND STEVE BALLMER!
oompah loompah doopidy dee!...........
Yup, sounds about right to me- it'd take a human observer about, ooh a tenth of a second to decide if there's bad visiblity in a pic or not. One other thing occurred to me as well about taking and transmitting the pics, and that's battery life; if the rover gets to the stage where it's batteries or solar cells are failing, then power becomes more critical than bandwidth, and the power saved from not transmitting useless pictures will help increase the useful life of the Rover. OK maybe the power used for picture transmission is much less than that used in moving around the surface (actaully if someone could tell us how much power the Rover uses to transmit it's pics back to Earth that'd be cool- I don't think there's an intermediary signal-boosting satellite in orbit on this mission, is there? :)
Oh? Heh cool, good to know my perception is shared (which is why we all come to /. no? ;) ). I have only seen a few people (all businessmen) using P-series phones and they all love them. Most people who see my phone go 'huh, what a brick' then go oooOOOOoooh when I open it and start tapping out messages on the verty (my incredibly annoying made-up-just-now term for the virtual qwerty keyboard).
:o|
The few things that annoy me about the P910 are things like the fact that the 'save and return to inbox without sending' and the 'send' buttons are right beside each other, so you can sometimes send a draft message, or tap to send and end up back in the inbox. Also, the music player is a bit pants, though i don't use the phone for serious music playing. Those aren't fundamental flaws though, my only worry now is affording whatever comes along and is actually *better* than my P910
I'd really like to see what Apple could do with a touchscreen phone interface though, I think it could be amazing.
Hang on, surely a single accidental submission to Spamcop doesn't make a significant difference to the overall picture. That would make it much too easy to do as you say, to accidentally block a valid sender, but to also maliciously blacklist an entire company's email with a few clicks. If the software isn't set up to ignore the few wild submission results from the overall spam data it gets, then it isn't worth having.
Um yea true- but I think everyone's missing a point- surely a one click/step/time-setup solution is the way that spam reporting *should* work. I mean, in Thunderbird if you hit the 'J' key the machine will mark it as junk and add that mail's data to the spam filter's aggregated data.
Surely any spam software shoudl work in roughly the same way?
Three simple words : Sony Erriccson P910
Link
I've been using the P910 for nearly two years and there is no other phone or device that I wold swap it for, apart from it's successors. Forget the teeny keyboard on the inside of the flip (though they market that one really hard), the ease of use factor comes from the touch-screen interface that you get when you open the display. There's a set of icons across the top for the main fucntions and a list of all the installed applcications. For messaging and email you can have the screen display a (stylus recommended) touchscreen QWERTY keyboard on for the fast composition of texts and notes. Actually I think the phone companies might love that one as it becomes easy to type a long, 3-part text instead of scrawling off 'OK C U L8R'. It also does handwriting recognition really well, though that's hard to do on trains and busses so I tend to ignore it
I used to keep my web design portfolio on the phone in the images folder until I got a PSP (damn I'm such a sony bitch). For business the phone will read Word files, PDFs and Excel spreadsheets, as well as browse normal web pages via GPRS (you might wanna turn off the images though, given GPRS prices.
There are a few quirks to the interface, but really I can't complain too much. Touchscreen is the way that all 'smartphones' need to go if they;re going to pack in that many features. Using an interface designed for communication and media stuff with a teeny joystick and 2 buttons is a pain in the ass and will always be crap (at least until apple release a phone with their iPod scrollwheel and everyone goes 'ooh wish I though of that').
The interface works really well as a straightforward phone when you have the phone closed, and you can customise the menu that appears when you use the phone in closed mode (for example, I put the sound recorder on the main menu for making quick dictaphone-style notes)
mmmhm, I guess you're another one of these easily confused (read:ignorant) A/Cs who confuses global warming with the hole in the Ozone Layer.
The hole in the Ozone Layer != Global warming
[x] Deny
An mp3 on the internet is an audio download
An RSS feed that contains audio downloads for the purpose of automatic and easy synchronisation to a digital audio player is a podcast.
People like the linked article don't know what they're talking about when they say that an ordainary download can be called a podcast. You could call it a threaded audio message board, but it wouldn't be a podcast.
One disadvantage to discussion boards that are audio based is that you can't search or index the information without some kind of speech-to-text recognition.
That said, what if you could search audio by speaking into a mic and having the search engine search for those sounds. An intersting case, humm.......
Heh a geeky friend and I always egg on the people doing the 'image inhancement' with shouts of 'go on, get the numberplate, you can do it, just use the enhance button!! and then cheering loudly when they get the cellphone number of someone the suspect is calling by 'enhancing' the image. You can only laugh at that stuff. The enhancer guy has become a trope of sorts.
I dont doubt your credentials, but I think that if a camera was fixed, and if the software has an impression of what the empty airport terminal looks like in varying lighting conditions, then a single blob that ran against that impression and that didn't move shouldn't be completely beyond software to analyse. Especially if the cameras were able to work in stereo (one in the NE corner, the other in the SW corner of a building - then an unmoving shape that doesn't look like an empty portion of the room would be more obvious.
Who are they gonna sue? You can put together a mythTV setup using an ordainary PC, a distro of linux and some video capture software. There's no-one to sue except the user, but surely that' never..... oh wait.
No, but someone released an app that let it run Windows, and some bathrobe wearers got pissy because they saw it as a threat to their way of dressing, but other bathrobe wearers saw it as an opportunity for non-bathrobe-wearers to make the switch to the 'robe.
This is a pretty short article with only a bit of information - and it's vague info at that. What gives?
You must be new around here. You'll learn.
Words taken right out of my mouth 1....2....3.....4..... seconds ago
Hehe, goes to show how long it's been since I did my high school physics exams (7 years ago, to be exact). *feels embarrassed*
In short, they're going to see that we went to a hell of a lot of trouble to dispose of something.
It's quite likely that any attempt to dispose of something this carefully may be interpreted as an attempt to hide something of value, and this is precisely why someone would try and dig on this spot.
I like the periodic table idea- maybe a picture of the Uranium atom with the correct number of electrons orbiing the nucleus would work just as well (although there would be 235/238/234) I think someone should spot the significance.
Also, what about storing tiny, tiny samples of the agents involved in the areas behind the stones so that any civilisation with a Geiger Counter (heh, or whoever counter) would get a hint of the radioactivity buried within.
It's the bar at the bottom with the 'Start' bit that puts me right off :o(
Someone should hand these people some spare underwear and point out that every one of their homes is a potential terrorist target because of the useful mapping information given out by local.google.com!
OMFG!!1!! these paedos can see our HOUSES.
Whiney assed dumbshits, all of them.
A funny post, but you've got a serious point. How the fuck did this article get itself posted to /. in the first place. Is someone on crack?
/. ........... hang on a minute i'm going to the toilet to take a dump. I'll be back in 10 minutes with a piece of paper that makes more sense than this shit. I'll make the front page no problem.
This is the worst written drivel I've ever had the displeasure of reading through
The main thing that they got wrong in that scene was the fact that he actually impressed an attactive young female with his hacking skills, rather than eliciting a blank stare, a yawn or a breakup.
So unlike real life.
"capable of doing Doom3 at decent framerates"
I'm afraid Doom 3, Farcry and even Half Life 2 are no longer reliable benchmarks for whether a card can play new games or not. My 256MB Geforce FX5700 allows me to play Half Life 2 and Doom 3 at pretty much full qual. settings (apart from FSAA) and a good res., but it fails miserably on Oblivion and isn't even supported by Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter.
There are no such things as the top end games and low end games- just the new and the old, and the new games will always push the bracket further out, for better or worse. If you want to play new games, you'll need to have bought a 300 card in the last 2 years, basically.