> SI has its own problem... How to pronounce "giga-".
Well, being a latin prefix latin pronounciation would be nice... And as an italian fellow let me say that latin pron. for "giga-" is something like
G- as the "g" in gym
I- as "ee" in eel
G- as the "g" in gum
A- as the "u" in us
Sorry for the headhache.. Try to gigure up how messi it is for us poor italians to sort up english pronunciation:)
Maybe thay're using 1% of the hard drive FOR THE APPLICATION, OS aside...
That would mean a gig or so of RH installation (not so uncommon) and the rest for the application.
If this is the case over-one-gig CF would be far more expensive than an HD, and I doubt that using motors, lasers, pumps and such theere would be a real nead for power-efficent CF instead of HD.
Don't forget, in addition, that you get 39-odd GIGS for logfiles, statistics, or even coredumps;) and that an over-one-gig CF is going to cost twice (or more) a very good 40G hd)...
The cost for single chip (I'm using the sam one to track handmade bowed instruments in liutaria.com project) is about $.1,00 if sold in quantity of 100+, $.0,70 iif sold in quantity of 1000+.
I expect that the proce for a gov. agency to buy them in stacks would be laughable...
The problem, though, is with infrascrtucture. Readers cost $100,00/$.300,00 and you have to set up (and administer) a fairly serious infrastructure for handling database of animals and so on...
But I really think that a $.10/year per owner license would solve it and is not a big deal if infrastructure is good enough and enough widespread to let you rescue your pet in case of loss...
Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at MIT's CSAIL, and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.
Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, (Harper San Francisco; Paperback: ISBN:006251587X, Abridged audio cassette abridged ISBN:0694521256) and various other languages. 1997.
Bio
A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim now holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential.
With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server in 1990.
Before coming to CERN, Tim worked with Image Computer Systems, of Ferndown, Dorset, England and before that as a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England.
Delays are common all around the world.
But I think that holding back to check a few more issues (when no deadline is fixed on stone) is a good attitude to be prised.
If more managers were keen to "hold back and take a fairly good look at it" instead of "rush for delivery" I'm sure the overall quality of work would benefit enormously.
My 2 cents;)
-- Grammar Zealotes: please spare a non-english writer
And, normally, this is the answer to any kind of critic to US.
I'm not asying Americans are hordes of savages. I'm talking about all "first world" people. You can check.
But it's true that violence episodes are far too widespread to be just "a little and isolated case". Not being able to guarantee safety to volunteers in a thousands square miles area is a little more tthan just "A few bad apples are the problem".
Please do not assume every one is lobing stones in US direction at every corner: I'm simply concerned about he "what if happens here? Will be more like Phuket or New Orleans?".
People killed, property destroyed, mass reverted at "Lord of the Flyes" level.
And people talking about WiMax and Ham radio.
We, spoiled people of the Old Continent (maybe too old) are much more concerned about the human regression of the citizens of New Orleans that with tech. Did you have a look at Phuket Tsunami?
MUCH MORE TRAGIC outcome, much more dead people and yet a cooperative environment, without people harassing others or pillaging the neighbourhood and without problems with the volunteers.
There must be something really scaring below the thin surface of the common US citizen (or maybe under every "first world" one), something deeply wrong with a lot of people, whose first instinct is to go arming themselves as it was not a catastrophe, but some kind of Apocalypse B Movie.
I've worked with refugees and indeed lend a helping hand in Pukhet zones, but have never ONCE seen the global and total madness generated by Katrina.
ANd I am more than a little scared, you know?
- Grammar Zealotes, please spare a non-english writer
Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner, authors of "The Bomb-itty of Errors," an award-winning, hip-hop Shakespearean play, have written "Nerds," which they call "a musical software satire." It is to be performed this week at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The musical explores the lives of Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs, a founder of Apple, from their teenage years to the present, and includes supporting characters like Apple's other founder, Steve Wozniak, and fictional female love interests.
The authors said they had invited Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs and Mr. Wozniak to an earlier production of the show at New York University. Only Mr. Wozniak responded, they said, but he did not attend. They said Mr. Wozniak told them that he would try to make it to the show this time. Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs declined to comment.
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> SI has its own problem... How to pronounce "giga-". Well, being a latin prefix latin pronounciation would be nice... And as an italian fellow let me say that latin pron. for "giga-" is something like G- as the "g" in gym I- as "ee" in eel G- as the "g" in gum A- as the "u" in us Sorry for the headhache.. Try to gigure up how messi it is for us poor italians to sort up english pronunciation :)
I, for one, welcome our new CSS overlords. (Ok, ok... That was the only one left to say... All the others were taken :)
It's just bad to to have to submit to this law... /. is the very bottm... :(
But having to read it on
This would be quite useful, I admit, but a simple f****** search for "color bubble" would have been enough.
Ok, being an Editor is surely a lot of stress. But WTF, that's a SIMPLE SEARCH!
I even sent a mail BEFORE publishing to the "in charge" editor about the dupe, with a link.
Maybe using a brain is behind their comprehension.... And "What a useful thing to signal to the editor"!
The Javascritp file to be included is urchin.js
So I think the answer is YES about the acquisition....
Maybe thay're using 1% of the hard drive FOR THE APPLICATION, OS aside... That would mean a gig or so of RH installation (not so uncommon) and the rest for the application. If this is the case over-one-gig CF would be far more expensive than an HD, and I doubt that using motors, lasers, pumps and such theere would be a real nead for power-efficent CF instead of HD. Don't forget, in addition, that you get 39-odd GIGS for logfiles, statistics, or even coredumps ;) and that an over-one-gig CF is going to cost twice (or more) a very good 40G hd)...
The cost for single chip (I'm using the sam one to track handmade bowed instruments in liutaria.com project) is about $.1,00 if sold in quantity of 100+, $.0,70 iif sold in quantity of 1000+. I expect that the proce for a gov. agency to buy them in stacks would be laughable...
The problem, though, is with infrascrtucture. Readers cost $100,00/$.300,00 and you have to set up (and administer) a fairly serious infrastructure for handling database of animals and so on...
But I really think that a $.10/year per owner license would solve it and is not a big deal if infrastructure is good enough and enough widespread to let you rescue your pet in case of loss...
My 2 cents.
M.
..a Google posting! ;)
Once again serving as the "missing bit in every /. editor" I'm proud to preseng (geeeeee!) something more about Matt.
;)
He is a very weird and amusing fella
Ars Technica has a good article. Another one on Macworld
;)
Ok, if you want in-depth perhaps you're in the wrong place, but if you happen to want it....
...on a Mouse?
How much time 'till they will setup a 72keys mouse that need a sub-mouse to be productive? What about a touch sensor and/or touch area, instead?
it's not the only faul of You! Know! Who!
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at MIT's CSAIL, and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.
Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, (Harper San Francisco; Paperback: ISBN:006251587X, Abridged audio cassette abridged ISBN:0694521256) and various other languages. 1997.
Bio
A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim now holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential.
With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server in 1990.
Before coming to CERN, Tim worked with Image Computer Systems, of Ferndown, Dorset, England and before that as a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England.
Email
timbl w3.org
Delays are common all around the world.
;)
But I think that holding back to check a few more issues (when no deadline is fixed on stone) is a good attitude to be prised.
If more managers were keen to "hold back and take a fairly good look at it" instead of "rush for delivery" I'm sure the overall quality of work would benefit enormously.
My 2 cents
--
Grammar Zealotes: please spare a non-english writer
And, normally, this is the answer to any kind of critic to US.
I'm not asying Americans are hordes of savages. I'm talking about all "first world" people. You can check.
But it's true that violence episodes are far too widespread to be just "a little and isolated case". Not being able to guarantee safety to volunteers in a thousands square miles area is a little more tthan just "A few bad apples are the problem".
Please do not assume every one is lobing stones in US direction at every corner: I'm simply concerned about he "what if happens here? Will be more like Phuket or New Orleans?".
People killed, property destroyed, mass reverted at "Lord of the Flyes" level. And people talking about WiMax and Ham radio.
We, spoiled people of the Old Continent (maybe too old) are much more concerned about the human regression of the citizens of New Orleans that with tech. Did you have a look at Phuket Tsunami?
MUCH MORE TRAGIC outcome, much more dead people and yet a cooperative environment, without people harassing others or pillaging the neighbourhood and without problems with the volunteers.
There must be something really scaring below the thin surface of the common US citizen (or maybe under every "first world" one), something deeply wrong with a lot of people, whose first instinct is to go arming themselves as it was not a catastrophe, but some kind of Apocalypse B Movie.
I've worked with refugees and indeed lend a helping hand in Pukhet zones, but have never ONCE seen the global and total madness generated by Katrina.
ANd I am more than a little scared, you know?
-
Grammar Zealotes, please spare a non-english writer
From a little better editor:
Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner, authors of "The Bomb-itty of Errors," an award-winning, hip-hop Shakespearean play, have written "Nerds," which they call "a musical software satire." It is to be performed this week at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The musical explores the lives of Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs, a founder of Apple, from their teenage years to the present, and includes supporting characters like Apple's other founder, Steve Wozniak, and fictional female love interests.
The authors said they had invited Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs and Mr. Wozniak to an earlier production of the show at New York University. Only Mr. Wozniak responded, they said, but he did not attend. They said Mr. Wozniak told them that he would try to make it to the show this time. Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs declined to comment.
Jane L. Levere
On NYTimes here.
Only if you use Firewire. With Usb it would take 30+ parsecs ;)