Herbertsmithite...[r]esearchers say it could become the silicon of the quantum computing era.
The new technology center, in the San Francisco Bay Area, formerly known as Silicon Valley has been rechristened "Herbertsmithite Valley". Stars are flocking to get the new Herbertsmithite Breast Implants (Quantum Boobies).
One of the biggest poison personalities, that I ever met, on an OSS project was Reece Sellin when he was ramrodding the Freedows project.
Granted, it was his idea and his uKernal, but Lord, talk about a case of the messenger killing the message. His penchant for flame wars, well he was a kid at the time, and his elasticity quotient as a 0 is what killed the project.
Good idea.
Lousy leadership.
Dead project.
Note, even ReactOS is woefully on track to be the Duke Nukem of the OS world.
I wish they would stop lumping some guy at home who burns a game from his buddy to play on his machine in with some guy in china who produces and sells tens of thousands of copies of a game.
Right, when loaning the game wouldn't have worked?
Let's call them:
Big Evil Chinese Pirates - Pirates tons of games at $5 a shot, that the second class of pirate won't even spring for.
Little Cheap Skate Piddle Pirates - Extends the logic that, if I can make a back up copy as fair use, then I should be allowed to make back up copies and give them to my friends, cause it doesn't hurt that big company cause my friend would have never bought the game in the first place, and maybe even put the image up on a P2P and let untold thousands of my unknown friends use it, cause lord knows, they are all to cheap to even by a $5 pirated Chinese copy.
Orion would not have ultimately launched from Earth. SF (or Sci-Fi) writers in the 50's and 60's had nukular (sorry, just had to) rockets launching from Earth. Orion missions would have launched, conventionally from Earth to orbit (ferry), crew would have tansferred to the Orion vehicle and then nuke launch from space.
Overly ideal treaties, laws, bans, etc. are just bad.
While banning the militarization of space is a nice idea, it would be nearly as difficult to implement as the demilitarization of our oceans.
Existing treaties that are overly idealistic have had the bad side effect of limiting or halting the development of other projects (as mentioned before: Orion).
I say, militarize, it will happen, then defend. If the U.S. and Russia were to be the only ones to abide by a non-militarization of space, eventually, the other players, India, China, and Japan, will gain the supremecy in space and eventually on the ground. Space war will be the new air war.
There is lot that is not illegal. But, the paper's ethics must be called into question. Aside from threats to national security made in a blog, or confession to a felony in a blog, I'm hard pressed to see why outing someone who has chosen to write pseudonymously would be considered ethical.
Further, any blogger (any internet user, and in particular any Slashdot user) should know that online anonymity is impossible. The best take their real names and run with it. The worst stand behind a glass wall and wonder how people figure out who they really are.
Without the ability to publish, blog, speak anonymously, many of the world's tyrannical governments would not have been challenged, taken down, or seceded from. We, the U.S., did it to King George III and much of the public was influenced to support the effort, in part, through the publishing of anonymous, or pseudonymous tracts.
Yes, there are those who tried to uncover the writers, publishers, and distributors. But, in the end, whose interests do they serve?
I will put this forward, a newspaper that denies another's freedom to speak politically under a cloak of anonymity, should lose its right to exist. In other words, they protect the rights of others so their right is protected.
Installing software and configuring a machine are administrative tasks
Bullsh!t. And you know it.
The user wants to put a CD in and install it. While he may log in as an administrator to do it, he is still a USER, and as far as the USER experience goes, this is a user task. Linux geeks forget that users need to be able to do administrative tasks. On their home computer, they do not have an IT department to push down changes.
For Linux to gain a hold on the desktop, the user experience must be as simple as MAC and Windows (not to mention commercial software availability). And, commercial software manufacturers won't begin to supply their packages, beyond the limited numbers now, until Linux is easy enough for their end-users.
On the note about commercial vendors, standardization, UI, drivers, and ease of use for end-users are high on the list of Linux Adoption Barriers.
Just try to discuss Linux from and ease of use, UI, user perspective and you will get a lot of Linux geeks telling you to tough it out, or, my fave "My grandmother uses linux and doesn't complain." (Your grandmother probably isn't installing apps and trying to make it more than a web browsing/email appliance.)
Unexpected, wild assed UI's are a problem in Linux and OSS in general.
Convoluted instructions, HowTo, etc. telling the user to dig into the guts of a conf and set oddly named, poorly documented settings.
Did I mention geek developed UI's?
Odd assed error messages that don't tell you why something failed to run or install, but it dumps everything a geek would want to know about it, onto the screen.
UI's that were developed by some pseudo-genius who THINKS he has a better grasp of the user experience.
No, you are not allowed to talk about these things, because you will be tagged as a heretic in the religiOS wars.
As a.NET and SharePoint developer, one of the biggest selling points for SharePoint is that integrates with Office, has a fairly easy to use web interface, and allows the user to design their experience and manage their own pages.
Here is the design challenge for a FreePoint tool:
Option to use almost any SQL backend (MySQL,MS SQL,Oracle, etc.)
Can be set up to use almost any web server
Can be set up on any OS with web and SQL services
Integrates with MS Office (you cannot alienate a huge install base)
Integrates with OpenOffice
Has a robust OSS workflow engine
Can be extended with "web parts" (flakes, gadgets, whatever term you like)
Can be programmed against using Mono, PHP, various languages an frameworks
Biggy: Works with Active Directory (under Windows) or other such under other OS's.
And others
Something that takes SharePoint, kills its short-comings, while expanding its usefulness, and opening it up, will be a SharePoint-Killer and get more OSS adopted. (We just had a client switch off a planned OpenOffice deployment after finding out about SharePoint.)
Leave his religion out of it. I swear, how do you even know he's from Utah?
If he wants to wear a white shirt and tie (note to Geek Squad: You looked like missionaries when I saw you at the Seattle CTC last week.) and peddle his bike and give away free scriptures, that's his affair.
Where is the love, people? Why can't we all just get along? Let's not have a religious war.
(Why can't religeous fanatics be more like Buddhists? They don't blow up buildings, they just set themselves on fire.
As an admitted conservative with libertarian leanings:
They 'know' that cuts in any pet spending program cannot be made because we cannot 'afford to pay for the cuts'.
The fun is, if the program is up for a 10% increase, and it gets knocked to an 7% increase, its called a C U T.
Now, to the rest of it:
The sneaky language and the ability to get provisions in, and the human, lazy, congress critters no controlling their own bills, or reading them prior to voting for them is exactly why sweeping security bills are very bad for the U.S.
Also, the fact that many laws are never sunsetted, or have their sunsets extended indefinately, and laws that have no further purpose that are never repealed or removed is another problem. (Witness the Spanish-American War Tax that we, in the U.S. are finally getting a $20 refund on this year.)
I propose a "Year of Reduction" in which there are no spending increases, and no new laws, and Congress goes through the books removing old and bad laws, old and bad taxes, and reviews Constitutional Amendments that are no longer needed because we no longer have slavery, prohibition, and etc.
I lived in Fremont, CA when "Terminator II" was being filmed. For the Cyberdyne office building to be blown up...
I worked at Lam Research in Fremont. The building used was one of our assembly buildings for plasma etchers. We had a few pics of Ahnold up at the time.
God, you bring back bad memories. How dare you, sir!
And you guys said it wasn't renewable. See, that's why I like science. They are always finding new species. More oil. More oil. I'm going to go buy a Hummer.
even after taking a college electronics class for physics students
Sorry to say, but you took the wrong course. Waste of time if your goal was to figure out how an op-amp works. How ever, almost any book about solid-state electronics would have sufficed, the library is a wonderful place.
As a former USAF avionics specialist, electronics school in Biloxi was not my first foray into the field. I was lucky enough to live in Japan, near Tokyo, during my high school years and was able to visit the electronics mart in Akihabara. First kit was an AM/FM radio with 6 transistors!!! O.K., this was 1974. I built several other kits, and eventually built my first computer from a kit, an S-100 system that was basically an Altair (this was before Radio Shack and Apple hit the home market, and I don't know if the kit was available in the U.S.).
I do some of my own hacking from time to time, with microcontrollers like the ATMEL and some PIC stuff (knowing the instruction sets of several old chips is kind of cool), but I've moved on. (I'm married to a former QA from Zilog. The Z80 still rocks.)
The X in 1 kits are good, but pick up copy of "Nuts and Volts" magazine. There are similar microcontrol and digital kits that are specifically designed to get you into theory and will allow you to get into some cool areas of electronics that the Radio Shack and other X in 1 kits won't.
Slashdot Mirror
Schroedingers Pussy...cat.
The new technology center, in the San Francisco Bay Area, formerly known as Silicon Valley has been rechristened "Herbertsmithite Valley". Stars are flocking to get the new Herbertsmithite Breast Implants (Quantum Boobies).
Wait.
Nevermind, don't think it will fly.
List of nifty little phrases that have bitten their speakers in the ass:
Now Google brings us:
Let's just be less evil, now that we've been caught.
List of nifty little phrases that have bitten their speakers in the ass:
One of the biggest poison personalities, that I ever met, on an OSS project was Reece Sellin when he was ramrodding the Freedows project.
Granted, it was his idea and his uKernal, but Lord, talk about a case of the messenger killing the message. His penchant for flame wars, well he was a kid at the time, and his elasticity quotient as a 0 is what killed the project.
Good idea.
Lousy leadership.
Dead project.
Note, even ReactOS is woefully on track to be the Duke Nukem of the OS world.
Right, when loaning the game wouldn't have worked?
Let's call them:
Big Evil Chinese Pirates - Pirates tons of games at $5 a shot, that the second class of pirate won't even spring for.
Little Cheap Skate Piddle Pirates - Extends the logic that, if I can make a back up copy as fair use, then I should be allowed to make back up copies and give them to my friends, cause it doesn't hurt that big company cause my friend would have never bought the game in the first place, and maybe even put the image up on a P2P and let untold thousands of my unknown friends use it, cause lord knows, they are all to cheap to even by a $5 pirated Chinese copy.
Yeah, I see your logic.
Orion would not have ultimately launched from Earth. SF (or Sci-Fi) writers in the 50's and 60's had nukular (sorry, just had to) rockets launching from Earth. Orion missions would have launched, conventionally from Earth to orbit (ferry), crew would have tansferred to the Orion vehicle and then nuke launch from space.
Overly ideal treaties, laws, bans, etc. are just bad.
While banning the militarization of space is a nice idea, it would be nearly as difficult to implement as the demilitarization of our oceans.
Existing treaties that are overly idealistic have had the bad side effect of limiting or halting the development of other projects (as mentioned before: Orion).
I say, militarize, it will happen, then defend. If the U.S. and Russia were to be the only ones to abide by a non-militarization of space, eventually, the other players, India, China, and Japan, will gain the supremecy in space and eventually on the ground. Space war will be the new air war.
There is lot that is not illegal. But, the paper's ethics must be called into question. Aside from threats to national security made in a blog, or confession to a felony in a blog, I'm hard pressed to see why outing someone who has chosen to write pseudonymously would be considered ethical.
Without the ability to publish, blog, speak anonymously, many of the world's tyrannical governments would not have been challenged, taken down, or seceded from. We, the U.S., did it to King George III and much of the public was influenced to support the effort, in part, through the publishing of anonymous, or pseudonymous tracts.
Yes, there are those who tried to uncover the writers, publishers, and distributors. But, in the end, whose interests do they serve?
I will put this forward, a newspaper that denies another's freedom to speak politically under a cloak of anonymity, should lose its right to exist. In other words, they protect the rights of others so their right is protected.
Bullsh!t. And you know it.
The user wants to put a CD in and install it. While he may log in as an administrator to do it, he is still a USER, and as far as the USER experience goes, this is a user task. Linux geeks forget that users need to be able to do administrative tasks. On their home computer, they do not have an IT department to push down changes.
For Linux to gain a hold on the desktop, the user experience must be as simple as MAC and Windows (not to mention commercial software availability). And, commercial software manufacturers won't begin to supply their packages, beyond the limited numbers now, until Linux is easy enough for their end-users.
On the note about commercial vendors, standardization, UI, drivers, and ease of use for end-users are high on the list of Linux Adoption Barriers.
That's another thing. DRIVERS!. God, yes. Almost as bad that other thing I mentioned. You know? UI's.
God, I hate the new "ribbon" UI.
God, I love you. That is perfect. You are my new hero. I am soooo stealing that line.
Wait, are you male or female?
Nevermind, I still love you.
Just try to discuss Linux from and ease of use, UI, user perspective and you will get a lot of Linux geeks telling you to tough it out, or, my fave "My grandmother uses linux and doesn't complain." (Your grandmother probably isn't installing apps and trying to make it more than a web browsing/email appliance.)
Unexpected, wild assed UI's are a problem in Linux and OSS in general.
Convoluted instructions, HowTo, etc. telling the user to dig into the guts of a conf and set oddly named, poorly documented settings.
Did I mention geek developed UI's?
Odd assed error messages that don't tell you why something failed to run or install, but it dumps everything a geek would want to know about it, onto the screen.
UI's that were developed by some pseudo-genius who THINKS he has a better grasp of the user experience.
No, you are not allowed to talk about these things, because you will be tagged as a heretic in the religiOS wars.
Did I mention UI's?
Coined: FreePoint - The SharePoint Alternative
As a .NET and SharePoint developer, one of the biggest selling points for SharePoint is that integrates with Office, has a fairly easy to use web interface, and allows the user to design their experience and manage their own pages.
Here is the design challenge for a FreePoint tool:
Something that takes SharePoint, kills its short-comings, while expanding its usefulness, and opening it up, will be a SharePoint-Killer and get more OSS adopted. (We just had a client switch off a planned OpenOffice deployment after finding out about SharePoint.)
Thank you for your sense of humor.
Maybe I spent too much time in England. Weather wet, humor dry.
My brother is a huge moron. He's a lawyer, and the head moron of his group of morons.
I'm truly sorry you had to point that out to him.
Leave his religion out of it. I swear, how do you even know he's from Utah?
If he wants to wear a white shirt and tie (note to Geek Squad: You looked like missionaries when I saw you at the Seattle CTC last week.) and peddle his bike and give away free scriptures, that's his affair.
Where is the love, people? Why can't we all just get along? Let's not have a religious war.
(Why can't religeous fanatics be more like Buddhists? They don't blow up buildings, they just set themselves on fire.
Bzzt. Thank you for playing. Please, don't try again.
You were beaten mercilessly as a child when you got into "Yo Mamma" fights, right?
As an admitted conservative with libertarian leanings:
The fun is, if the program is up for a 10% increase, and it gets knocked to an 7% increase, its called a C U T .
Now, to the rest of it:
The sneaky language and the ability to get provisions in, and the human, lazy, congress critters no controlling their own bills, or reading them prior to voting for them is exactly why sweeping security bills are very bad for the U.S.
Also, the fact that many laws are never sunsetted, or have their sunsets extended indefinately, and laws that have no further purpose that are never repealed or removed is another problem. (Witness the Spanish-American War Tax that we, in the U.S. are finally getting a $20 refund on this year.)
I propose a "Year of Reduction" in which there are no spending increases, and no new laws, and Congress goes through the books removing old and bad laws, old and bad taxes, and reviews Constitutional Amendments that are no longer needed because we no longer have slavery, prohibition, and etc.
I worked at Lam Research in Fremont. The building used was one of our assembly buildings for plasma etchers. We had a few pics of Ahnold up at the time.
God, you bring back bad memories. How dare you, sir!
Did you give your resesarch assisatant the day off again?
Cool, a new source of oil!
And you guys said it wasn't renewable. See, that's why I like science. They are always finding new species. More oil. More oil. I'm going to go buy a Hummer.
Dino-Poop Power for the People.
Wait...Oh, I see the flaw. Nevermind.
From the summary, quoting the article:
Hell of a nice strawman. Nice job.
Sorry to say, but you took the wrong course. Waste of time if your goal was to figure out how an op-amp works. How ever, almost any book about solid-state electronics would have sufficed, the library is a wonderful place.
As a former USAF avionics specialist, electronics school in Biloxi was not my first foray into the field. I was lucky enough to live in Japan, near Tokyo, during my high school years and was able to visit the electronics mart in Akihabara. First kit was an AM/FM radio with 6 transistors!!! O.K., this was 1974. I built several other kits, and eventually built my first computer from a kit, an S-100 system that was basically an Altair (this was before Radio Shack and Apple hit the home market, and I don't know if the kit was available in the U.S.).
I do some of my own hacking from time to time, with microcontrollers like the ATMEL and some PIC stuff (knowing the instruction sets of several old chips is kind of cool), but I've moved on. (I'm married to a former QA from Zilog. The Z80 still rocks.)
The X in 1 kits are good, but pick up copy of "Nuts and Volts" magazine. There are similar microcontrol and digital kits that are specifically designed to get you into theory and will allow you to get into some cool areas of electronics that the Radio Shack and other X in 1 kits won't.