That is worrying indeed and the very suggestion and had me worrying to check the registrar I used for my badtech.com site (looks safe thankfully). This is very scary however, if you acutualy make a success of a domain I guess they could just take it back when the lease expires and auction it to the highest bidder, nasty! This kind of thing won't work against trademark names but it could really hurt the smaller web publishers if it became common place. The registrar I used 'Name Secure reserves the right to revoke your domain name at any time, without notice' which is a little scary although I would guess they would need to supply justification, although this reinforces the need to read the small print.
I can't speak for anyone else but I value consistency in the interface above almost everything else, this can of course only be achieved with well-written style guides etc. One of my biggest gripes with windows recently has been the seemingly diverging application interfaces, many apps even go so far as to design pretty graphical controls which may look pretty but are eroding the intuitiveness that remains one of windows few good points. Projects like GNOME and KDE should pay careful attention to interface design trends and encourage consistency in the different applications.
I'm not all that sure if this would help, for any given embedded application the chances are much customization will need to be done including writing kernel code to drive any custom hardware included and to strip out everything that is not needed.
I found this to be really impressive, with bulk purchasing the potential cost of this type of circuit is very low. I'm really hoping that hack's like this will show the potential for cheap processors like the strongArm and open source software like Linux to be a serious contentedness for embedded applications where a little more beef is required.
I'm seriously considering having a crack at building one of these although I haven't done a whole lot of surface mount soldering, perhaps someone will start selling these babys.
I uploaded a couple of frames from tomorrows badtech cartoon to play around with, in reality of course it's not going to be all that useful but I can really see how this could be useful to amateur web designers who just want to make some thing more flashy. Needs a few more functionality though, and I need some broadband access before I can use it for any of my day to day tasks.
I am personaly starting to get concerned about the advent of skinning along with some of the other changes in UI design. A couple of years ago you could sit down at a windoze machine and use just about and applications main features without thinking. Now even microsoft break their own UI guidelines (Have you noticed the way the latest office bypasses MDI?). GUI's under Linux has been struggling with the lack of any decent rules for UI design (At least none anyone pays any attention to) and I feel that something should be done to create a more consistent interface.
Read this article I remembered a piece of email I received a week or two ago, these people do 25watt peltier units for £25uk or 4 for £89uk, 100 watts of cooling power on a coke or pepsi (lets not be colaist) is probably sufficient.
I shouldn't need to but I feel I have to ask. Does anyone really believe that he wasn't kicked out? I know a lot of the time it's a bit sugar coated (Board: We are about to fire you if you don't resign, CEO: erm, I resign) but you have to wake up and smell the ipo.
Yes I know we all hate linuxcare (and your little dog Sarrat too) but for one I think they did the right thing.
I've just had flick through some of the earlier posts and it'd obvious that this item is going to be full of 'nobody wants it', 'flogging a dead hours', 'enuf already' etc.. For the most part I agree, yet another startrek series is the last thing I want to see, and I would never go out of my way to watch it. The fact however remains that whilst viewing figures have declined since the height of next-gen but there are still a lot of people watching it.
So I ask the question who is actually watching it if everybody hates it?
Well, if your going to take that attitude: It's about time we point out that the net was tiny before the invention of the web (in the UK) and how about you refund us all those IPO billions that would never have existed if it were not for the web.
The so-called 'Internet revolution' that is supposed to be sweeping the world is going to be hard pressed to reach the small island state of Tuvalu now. Has this government sold out it's people by selling this domain or has there government pulled down a really cool score. After a quick search around the net I discovered the countries GDP is approximately US$10M, do the math, the US$1million basic yearly amount will either half the taxation of it's citizens or allow some serious infrastructure improvement. Here are some nice details about this little island state: LAND AREA: 26 SQ. KM. POPULATION: 9,500 (1994 EST.) GDP: US$10M (1990) GDP PER CAPITA: US$1,009 (1990) OFFICIAL CURRENCY: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
This is not really anything new to us in the UK, we pay VAT (value added tax or sales tax to you yanks) on most good bought from UK sites over the internet. As long as the US doesn't do anything silly like impose extra taxation for online transactions or attempt to tax goods or service that are leaving the US as exports then this is to be expected. Effectively all that has happened is a taxation 'holiday' to help things along has been in place, there is no special reason why the internet should remain tax exempt.
This brings up the whole issue of patenting and the Intellectual property ownership of part/all of the human genome. It is my understanding that parts of the human genome have been patented already, does this mean we no longer own ourselves?
If I were to be marry and have a child would I be violating their patent by using the patented parts of the human genome? Ok so you could argue that a natural process can't be patented and the patents are for secondary uses, but what about medical cloning. If experiments continue into therapeutic cloning for the production of stem cells and potentially organs would this non-natural process not be a patent violation.
If by chance God does turn up for his thousand-year reign could he not claim some kind of prior art? Ok so that's probably not an issue the patent courts are going to have to deal with in the near future but the fact that patents can be granted on existing genetic material does raise some interesting questions, by granting patent in this manner the patent office is dismissing the idea that the genetic makeup of us/animals/plants may have been designed and is thereby encroaching on an area of belief held dear to a lot of people.
I visited the office of these guys a couple of years back, they sell games like creatures as a side line and also do more general AI work, they believed that there research would lead them to the development of true human-like AI by 2010. I have no idea how far along they are though, anyone with additional information?
If thinkers like Roger Penrose are wrong and it is possible to create true artificial intelligence do you feel we as a species are ready to deal with the ethical and moral questions raised by the ability to create intelligence?
Does this strike anyone else as an attempt to get extra publicity by slipping the word linux wherever possible. Most of us can agree that the Amiga was a lovely machine in it's day, but a machine as this described will be no more Amiga than a PC with the badge changed. If there is any respect left isn't it about time we turned of the life support machine and let the platform rest in peace.
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The link to the company developing exploding cd's was interesting, but what we all really want to know is can AOL be convinced to put the thermite pyrotechnic coating on there giveaway cd's and can the detonator be attached easily to my letterbox?
Unfortunatly it's the same laws of physics that place a limit to communication as place the limits on travel. So in theory any system that allows for ftl coms would also provide the possibility of ftl travel (although travel may be impractical due to energy requirements where coms is workable.
Of course even if you managed to get ftl coms you have to deal with some nasty side effects from relativity such as negative time displacement.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the leap year rules are as follows, leap years occur when the year is divisible by 4, except when the year is divisible by 100 unless the year is divisible by 1000. I find it ironic that programmers have to implement one but not both exceptions to the basic rule in order to have a problem. Those programmers who just implemented the/4 basic rule can rest until 2100 before having problems.
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Not a problem if your me, I spent £100 on internet calls last month (and that was a drop from the last one)
That is worrying indeed and the very suggestion and had me worrying to check the registrar I used for my badtech.com site (looks safe thankfully). This is very scary however, if you acutualy make a success of a domain I guess they could just take it back when the lease expires and auction it to the highest bidder, nasty! This kind of thing won't work against trademark names but it could really hurt the smaller web publishers if it became common place. The registrar I used 'Name Secure reserves the right to revoke your domain name at any time, without notice' which is a little scary although I would guess they would need to supply justification, although this reinforces the need to read the small print.
I can't speak for anyone else but I value consistency in the interface above almost everything else, this can of course only be achieved with well-written style guides etc. One of my biggest gripes with windows recently has been the seemingly diverging application interfaces, many apps even go so far as to design pretty graphical controls which may look pretty but are eroding the intuitiveness that remains one of windows few good points. Projects like GNOME and KDE should pay careful attention to interface design trends and encourage consistency in the different applications.
If only if it means we may see a bastardization on detonate.net from the guy who did the matrix one, he only seems to work from DVD.
With it's cut down kernel and OS in silicon it probably boots into linux quicker than my PII.
I'm not all that sure if this would help, for any given embedded application the chances are much customization will need to be done including writing kernel code to drive any custom hardware included and to strip out everything that is not needed.
I found this to be really impressive, with bulk purchasing the potential cost of this type of circuit is very low. I'm really hoping that hack's like this will show the potential for cheap processors like the strongArm and open source software like Linux to be a serious contentedness for embedded applications where a little more beef is required.
I'm seriously considering having a crack at building one of these although I haven't done a whole lot of surface mount soldering, perhaps someone will start selling these babys.
"Amazon officials said they believe the suit has no merit."
I wonder if the same officials would say and were on the receiving end of one of amazons patents.
When we they be able to shrink me down in mini sub and inject me into the human body so I can do battle with evil villains who intend to cause damage?
I uploaded a couple of frames from tomorrows badtech cartoon to play around with, in reality of course it's not going to be all that useful but I can really see how this could be useful to amateur web designers who just want to make some thing more flashy. Needs a few more functionality though, and I need some broadband access before I can use it for any of my day to day tasks.
I am personaly starting to get concerned about the advent of skinning along with some of the other changes in UI design. A couple of years ago you could sit down at a windoze machine and use just about and applications main features without thinking. Now even microsoft break their own UI guidelines (Have you noticed the way the latest office bypasses MDI?). GUI's under Linux has been struggling with the lack of any decent rules for UI design (At least none anyone pays any attention to) and I feel that something should be done to create a more consistent interface.
Read this article I remembered a piece of email I received a week or two ago, these people do 25watt peltier units for £25uk or 4 for £89uk, 100 watts of cooling power on a coke or pepsi (lets not be colaist) is probably sufficient.
I shouldn't need to but I feel I have to ask. Does anyone really believe that he wasn't kicked out? I know a lot of the time it's a bit sugar coated (Board: We are about to fire you if you don't resign, CEO: erm, I resign) but you have to wake up and smell the ipo.
Yes I know we all hate linuxcare (and your little dog Sarrat too) but for one I think they did the right thing.
I've just had flick through some of the earlier posts and it'd obvious that this item is going to be full of 'nobody wants it', 'flogging a dead hours', 'enuf already' etc.. For the most part I agree, yet another startrek series is the last thing I want to see, and I would never go out of my way to watch it. The fact however remains that whilst viewing figures have declined since the height of next-gen but there are still a lot of people watching it.
So I ask the question who is actually watching it if everybody hates it?
Well, if your going to take that attitude: It's about time we point out that the net was tiny before the invention of the web (in the UK) and how about you refund us all those IPO billions that would never have existed if it were not for the web.
The so-called 'Internet revolution' that is supposed to be sweeping the world is going to be hard pressed to reach the small island state of Tuvalu now. Has this government sold out it's people by selling this domain or has there government pulled down a really cool score. After a quick search around the net I discovered the countries GDP is approximately US$10M, do the math, the US$1million basic yearly amount will either half the taxation of it's citizens or allow some serious infrastructure improvement. Here are some nice details about this little island state:
LAND AREA: 26 SQ. KM.
POPULATION: 9,500 (1994 EST.)
GDP: US$10M (1990)
GDP PER CAPITA: US$1,009 (1990)
OFFICIAL CURRENCY: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
For more details about Tuvalu click here.
Is this a good time to remind you how well that promise was kept?
This is not really anything new to us in the UK, we pay VAT (value added tax or sales tax to you yanks) on most good bought from UK sites over the internet. As long as the US doesn't do anything silly like impose extra taxation for online transactions or attempt to tax goods or service that are leaving the US as exports then this is to be expected. Effectively all that has happened is a taxation 'holiday' to help things along has been in place, there is no special reason why the internet should remain tax exempt.
This brings up the whole issue of patenting and the Intellectual property ownership of part/all of the human genome. It is my understanding that parts of the human genome have been patented already, does this mean we no longer own ourselves?
If I were to be marry and have a child would I be violating their patent by using the patented parts of the human genome? Ok so you could argue that a natural process can't be patented and the patents are for secondary uses, but what about medical cloning. If experiments continue into therapeutic cloning for the production of stem cells and potentially organs would this non-natural process not be a patent violation.
If by chance God does turn up for his thousand-year reign could he not claim some kind of prior art? Ok so that's probably not an issue the patent courts are going to have to deal with in the near future but the fact that patents can be granted on existing genetic material does raise some interesting questions, by granting patent in this manner the patent office is dismissing the idea that the genetic makeup of us/animals/plants may have been designed and is thereby encroaching on an area of belief held dear to a lot of people.
I visited the office of these guys a couple of years back, they sell games like creatures as a side line and also do more general AI work, they believed that there research would lead them to the development of true human-like AI by 2010. I have no idea how far along they are though, anyone with additional information?
If thinkers like Roger Penrose are wrong and it is possible to create true artificial intelligence do you feel we as a species are ready to deal with the ethical and moral questions raised by the ability to create intelligence?
Does this strike anyone else as an attempt to get extra publicity by slipping the word linux wherever possible. Most of us can agree that the Amiga was a lovely machine in it's day, but a machine as this described will be no more Amiga than a PC with the badge changed. If there is any respect left isn't it about time we turned of the life support machine and let the platform rest in peace.
The link to the company developing exploding cd's was interesting, but what we all really want to know is can AOL be convinced to put the thermite pyrotechnic coating on there giveaway cd's and can the detonator be attached easily to my letterbox?
Unfortunatly it's the same laws of physics that place a limit to communication as place the limits on travel. So in theory any system that allows for ftl coms would also provide the possibility of ftl travel (although travel may be impractical due to energy requirements where coms is workable.
Of course even if you managed to get ftl coms you have to deal with some nasty side effects from relativity such as negative time displacement.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the leap year rules are as follows, leap years occur when the year is divisible by 4, except when the year is divisible by 100 unless the year is divisible by 1000. I find it ironic that programmers have to implement one but not both exceptions to the basic rule in order to have a problem. Those programmers who just implemented the /4 basic rule can rest until 2100 before having problems.