"...what else is there..."
I want to network my stove/oven and microwave timers. No, I'm not really that interested in automating them. At least until I have Rosie the robot putting the food in for me I don't see the point of that. I want them to send me a message when they are done. That way I can go upstairs, outside, etc... and not worry about missing the buzzer. I'm picturing 4 buttons, each programmable with an email address. While the timer is going just press your button. It lights up to show it is selected and you will get an email when it is ready. If you press the wrong one by accident press it again and it deactivates. Set the address of your button to the email to sms gateway of your cellphone provider.
I guess I would give it a web interface for setting up the buttons. I'd keep that restricted to the LAN of course. It could track information about when it is used, how much it is used, what temperature, how much energy is used, etc... and display that on the web interface. Those features would more be 'just because it can' stuff though, it's the alerts I really want.
Someday this project will get to the top of my list... if new devices don't all come with a similar capability by then anyway...
Actually, Multimedia PCs (PCs with CD-ROM drives and sound cards) were pretty awesome in their time (the few years leading up to the internet). CD-ROM based encyclopedias like Encarta and Games with beautiful realistic environments like Myst did a lot to make the world see computers as the goto source of information and media as opposed to just glorified calculators. It did a lot to pave the way for the Internet. But... that was a short window and Gates certainly missed it when it ended!
From what I remember, everybody had smart house ideas like that back then. That he had the idea to mix it with the OS product he was already making money off of is kind of a no-brainer. I hardly see how it is innovative. He only needed to pick up a Rat Shack catalog and read a bit about X10 or read any number of Smart House of the future articles in Popular Science or many other magazines and think... hmmm, i should be getting in on this market with my software/operating system company. For that matter, anybody involved in computers who watched an episode of the Jetsons, way back when it was new even should have thought of this though they might not have been ready to implement it.
So no, this is not evidence of being an innovative hacker.
Sorry, I think $100 is too expensive to use for the kind of DIY stuff that the Raspberry Pi is aimed for. There's really no comparison. But.. if it had a VGA port...then maybe... When you think of having to saddle a $25 Raspberry Pi with a $50+ converter box then the $100 board starts to make sense. I'm guessing it doesn't have on though.
And for all the 'VGA is dead' people.. Sure, if you are building a new gaming machine VGA is dead. Maybe even if you are building a non-gaming main use computer. But why the h377 would you want to buy a brand new monitor for an embedded project, cheap low power server, or other kind of Raspberry Pi sort of thing? Ok, I can see wanting to avoid CRTs for the space they take up, weight, power use, etc... but there are tons of smaller, cheaper and/or older flat panels out there that are vga only or at best hdmi. I'm sorry but if you are pairing a $25 Raspberry Pi or a $100 Intel board with a display that is expensive enough to have DVI then there is something very off balance in your purchasing choices!
Personally I really really want something like a Raspberry Pi with VGA support so I can pair it with an old touch screen VGA panel that was given to me for free to use as a remote terminal to my main desktop and keep it on my workbench!
It's not the collision that's the worst part. It's when all that fuel ignites. If somebody flew a large passenger jet into those same apartments I bet the outcome would have been worse. But... how they plan to make the situation any better using missiles... over London...
First, an algorithm is simply a series of steps that accomplish a goal. That series of steps would have accomplished the same goal before it was ever patented. Nothing new was brought into the world just because somebody thought of the algorithm and then patented it. Also, in most cases lately somebody already DID think of it, they just didn't do it in a mobile device, or on the internet or blah blah blah
Second, for any goal, including your example there are probably only a finite number of possible algorithms to achieve the goal. This certainly can prevent others from doing the same. Even if there are many ways of doing something there is usually only one best way and occasional a few best ways.
As a consumer, when company X has the patent on the best algorithm to do A, company Y has the one for doing B and company Z for C then whose device do I buy? Either they are all overpriced due to money spent fighting in court, paying settlements and licensing fees or they all suck because each is only good at either A, B or C when what I want it for is D, the combination of A, B and C.
Yes and no... Almost all distributions are set up to discourage running as root. This certainly reduces the damage that any particular malware can do. Also... with all those Linux servers out there how can you say that Linux doesn't have enough market share? If you were a spammer would you prefer a botnet made up of mostly servers with fast pipes or home user PCs on DSL and Cable. I used to run my own email server some years back. I quit because most of my friend's ISPs started blocking incoming SMTP requests from anything in a cable modem ip range. Breaking into Linux machines rather than Windows would preferentially get the attacker a higher percentage of useful outgoing connections than Windows ever would. I would argue that the marketplace incentive of cracking Linux machines is already out there just as things are today. And yet.. we ALMOST never see that...
I am a married father. And I say if you let your kid go unvaccinated because your wife says so then you are just as horrible of apparent as she is. You are at fault if your child gets sick and you do not deserve your family. All one can hope for from this kind of stupidity is that if it is hereditary then maybe survival of the fittest will take care of it and eventually remove the morons from the gene pool. I love my wife but I would do anything it took to protect my daughter if she was hurting her.
Studying climate change gets money from politicians for building rockets. Now if only they could convince congress that Earthly climate change could be better studied from the surface of the moon or mars...
Years ago I had a single core chip with a damaged FPU. It took me forever to figure out the problem, my computer could only run Gentoo. Windows and Debian, both which it had ran previously gave me all sorts of weird errors I had never seen before. I had to keep using it because I was in college and didn't have money for another one so I just got used to Gentoo. Even in Gentoo anything which wasn't compiled from scratch was likely to crash in weird ways. (a clue) I finally diagnosed the problem a couple years later when a family member gave me a disk that boots up and runs all sorts of tests on the hardware. It turned out Gentoo worked because when software compiled it recognized the lack of an FPU and compiled in floating point emulation like it was dealing with an old 486sx chip.
So, anyway, if that can happen I would imagine damaging a single core of a multicore chip is quite possible.
I love it! Not so much to use myself but because I think people are morons for posting the things they do on the internet. If that creepy guy over there seems to be drooling at you as he glances to and from his phone it serves you right. Ha! Hilarious!
OMFG, It's here! In these comments! You have to read them all, start to finish but if you do and collect all the dots, really think about everything everyone has said you it's there! The Meaning of Life, the universe and Everything, starting with the exact true answer of where we came from! Us Slashdotters have it all figured out it's just that each of us only has a piece! Print this shit out, it's the new Bible!
I was taught (in a private school) that macroevolution couldn't even happen in the billions of years that scientists say the Earth has existed let alone the 6000 that about half of the school believed. I'm not arguing this is the case, only pointing out that they say this too.
That's the definition of those two terms which I was taught. (In a Christian, Creationist school btw)
But it seems like I often see articles linked to here and elsewhere that 'species' are discussed that are really minor variations and still quite capable of interbreeding. Are there two definitions of the word species?
If that were true then how would we get multiple species within a single environment? Granted, members of some species would end up colonizing other environments of the world, evolve and then migrate back. I suppose this kind of mixing coupled with climate change would give us multiple species but I doubt that a completely deterministic model of evolution could get us anything near the number and diversity of species that we have.
My understanding of that is that non-biological 'bubbles' that are very similar to cell membranes have been found. So have self-reproducing molecules much simpler than either DNA or RNA which act as a catalyst to the same reactions that create more of them similar to the mal-folded proteins which cause prion diseases.
One possible solution to your question is that some of the self-replicating molecules 'found' a good, well protected environment within some of those 'bubbles'. For some time they coexisted, kind of like hermit crabs and the items they find to use as shells. (Not to imply anything like the hermit crab in complexity.) Natural selection however made the molecules trend towards being better suited to 'find' and occupy the bubbles eventually leading to one which could cause it's bubble to divide and replace the missing material to form two.
Similarly others developed their ability to 'find' the bubbles, including by taking over already occupied ones. Thus, the cell and viri originate together and continue to swap genes back and forth even today.
Everything else would just be a very long time's worth of addons.
I don't know if this is how it happened or not. It's my interpretation of something I read and only about 75% understood, and that article was only speculation. It helped me to get past the question you just asked and see that there is at least one way it is possible.
Ok, The Slashdot article was posted today, the 2nd but TFA is from April 1st! Come on now, even if there was such a scale how would one use it? It would have to be in a vacuum, think what air molecules bumping into it would do. Not to mention any stray particles. Dust grains would be like dropping mountains on the thing! I know there are such a thing as clean rooms but that clean?
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"...what else is there..." I want to network my stove/oven and microwave timers. No, I'm not really that interested in automating them. At least until I have Rosie the robot putting the food in for me I don't see the point of that. I want them to send me a message when they are done. That way I can go upstairs, outside, etc... and not worry about missing the buzzer. I'm picturing 4 buttons, each programmable with an email address. While the timer is going just press your button. It lights up to show it is selected and you will get an email when it is ready. If you press the wrong one by accident press it again and it deactivates. Set the address of your button to the email to sms gateway of your cellphone provider.
I guess I would give it a web interface for setting up the buttons. I'd keep that restricted to the LAN of course. It could track information about when it is used, how much it is used, what temperature, how much energy is used, etc... and display that on the web interface. Those features would more be 'just because it can' stuff though, it's the alerts I really want.
Someday this project will get to the top of my list... if new devices don't all come with a similar capability by then anyway...
Actually, Multimedia PCs (PCs with CD-ROM drives and sound cards) were pretty awesome in their time (the few years leading up to the internet). CD-ROM based encyclopedias like Encarta and Games with beautiful realistic environments like Myst did a lot to make the world see computers as the goto source of information and media as opposed to just glorified calculators. It did a lot to pave the way for the Internet. But... that was a short window and Gates certainly missed it when it ended!
From what I remember, everybody had smart house ideas like that back then. That he had the idea to mix it with the OS product he was already making money off of is kind of a no-brainer. I hardly see how it is innovative. He only needed to pick up a Rat Shack catalog and read a bit about X10 or read any number of Smart House of the future articles in Popular Science or many other magazines and think... hmmm, i should be getting in on this market with my software/operating system company. For that matter, anybody involved in computers who watched an episode of the Jetsons, way back when it was new even should have thought of this though they might not have been ready to implement it.
So no, this is not evidence of being an innovative hacker.
Sorry, I think $100 is too expensive to use for the kind of DIY stuff that the Raspberry Pi is aimed for. There's really no comparison. But.. if it had a VGA port.. .then maybe... When you think of having to saddle a $25 Raspberry Pi with a $50+ converter box then the $100 board starts to make sense. I'm guessing it doesn't have on though.
And for all the 'VGA is dead' people.. Sure, if you are building a new gaming machine VGA is dead. Maybe even if you are building a non-gaming main use computer. But why the h377 would you want to buy a brand new monitor for an embedded project, cheap low power server, or other kind of Raspberry Pi sort of thing? Ok, I can see wanting to avoid CRTs for the space they take up, weight, power use, etc... but there are tons of smaller, cheaper and/or older flat panels out there that are vga only or at best hdmi. I'm sorry but if you are pairing a $25 Raspberry Pi or a $100 Intel board with a display that is expensive enough to have DVI then there is something very off balance in your purchasing choices!
Personally I really really want something like a Raspberry Pi with VGA support so I can pair it with an old touch screen VGA panel that was given to me for free to use as a remote terminal to my main desktop and keep it on my workbench!
It's not the collision that's the worst part. It's when all that fuel ignites. If somebody flew a large passenger jet into those same apartments I bet the outcome would have been worse. But... how they plan to make the situation any better using missiles... over London...
Probably because if they were then somebody would be asking why everyone isn't right-handed. It had to be one or the other!
First, an algorithm is simply a series of steps that accomplish a goal. That series of steps would have accomplished the same goal before it was ever patented. Nothing new was brought into the world just because somebody thought of the algorithm and then patented it. Also, in most cases lately somebody already DID think of it, they just didn't do it in a mobile device, or on the internet or blah blah blah
Second, for any goal, including your example there are probably only a finite number of possible algorithms to achieve the goal. This certainly can prevent others from doing the same. Even if there are many ways of doing something there is usually only one best way and occasional a few best ways.
As a consumer, when company X has the patent on the best algorithm to do A, company Y has the one for doing B and company Z for C then whose device do I buy? Either they are all overpriced due to money spent fighting in court, paying settlements and licensing fees or they all suck because each is only good at either A, B or C when what I want it for is D, the combination of A, B and C.
Yes and no... Almost all distributions are set up to discourage running as root. This certainly reduces the damage that any particular malware can do. Also... with all those Linux servers out there how can you say that Linux doesn't have enough market share? If you were a spammer would you prefer a botnet made up of mostly servers with fast pipes or home user PCs on DSL and Cable. I used to run my own email server some years back. I quit because most of my friend's ISPs started blocking incoming SMTP requests from anything in a cable modem ip range. Breaking into Linux machines rather than Windows would preferentially get the attacker a higher percentage of useful outgoing connections than Windows ever would. I would argue that the marketplace incentive of cracking Linux machines is already out there just as things are today. And yet.. we ALMOST never see that...
How do you know that the vaccine did this?
I am a married father. And I say if you let your kid go unvaccinated because your wife says so then you are just as horrible of apparent as she is. You are at fault if your child gets sick and you do not deserve your family. All one can hope for from this kind of stupidity is that if it is hereditary then maybe survival of the fittest will take care of it and eventually remove the morons from the gene pool. I love my wife but I would do anything it took to protect my daughter if she was hurting her.
Dumb 'peopel'? Hmm... Why don't you tell us?
Hindu priests?
Studying climate change gets money from politicians for building rockets. Now if only they could convince congress that Earthly climate change could be better studied from the surface of the moon or mars...
Years ago I had a single core chip with a damaged FPU. It took me forever to figure out the problem, my computer could only run Gentoo. Windows and Debian, both which it had ran previously gave me all sorts of weird errors I had never seen before. I had to keep using it because I was in college and didn't have money for another one so I just got used to Gentoo. Even in Gentoo anything which wasn't compiled from scratch was likely to crash in weird ways. (a clue) I finally diagnosed the problem a couple years later when a family member gave me a disk that boots up and runs all sorts of tests on the hardware. It turned out Gentoo worked because when software compiled it recognized the lack of an FPU and compiled in floating point emulation like it was dealing with an old 486sx chip.
So, anyway, if that can happen I would imagine damaging a single core of a multicore chip is quite possible.
I love it! Not so much to use myself but because I think people are morons for posting the things they do on the internet. If that creepy guy over there seems to be drooling at you as he glances to and from his phone it serves you right. Ha! Hilarious!
OMFG, It's here! In these comments! You have to read them all, start to finish but if you do and collect all the dots, really think about everything everyone has said you it's there! The Meaning of Life, the universe and Everything, starting with the exact true answer of where we came from! Us Slashdotters have it all figured out it's just that each of us only has a piece! Print this shit out, it's the new Bible!
I was taught (in a private school) that macroevolution couldn't even happen in the billions of years that scientists say the Earth has existed let alone the 6000 that about half of the school believed. I'm not arguing this is the case, only pointing out that they say this too.
That's the definition of those two terms which I was taught. (In a Christian, Creationist school btw)
But it seems like I often see articles linked to here and elsewhere that 'species' are discussed that are really minor variations and still quite capable of interbreeding. Are there two definitions of the word species?
Nope, it's not THAT bad. Although I suspect maybe in parts of the country... but I wouldn't know about that.
If that were true then how would we get multiple species within a single environment? Granted, members of some species would end up colonizing other environments of the world, evolve and then migrate back. I suppose this kind of mixing coupled with climate change would give us multiple species but I doubt that a completely deterministic model of evolution could get us anything near the number and diversity of species that we have.
By agents you mean noodley appendages right?
My understanding of that is that non-biological 'bubbles' that are very similar to cell membranes have been found. So have self-reproducing molecules much simpler than either DNA or RNA which act as a catalyst to the same reactions that create more of them similar to the mal-folded proteins which cause prion diseases.
One possible solution to your question is that some of the self-replicating molecules 'found' a good, well protected environment within some of those 'bubbles'. For some time they coexisted, kind of like hermit crabs and the items they find to use as shells. (Not to imply anything like the hermit crab in complexity.) Natural selection however made the molecules trend towards being better suited to 'find' and occupy the bubbles eventually leading to one which could cause it's bubble to divide and replace the missing material to form two.
Similarly others developed their ability to 'find' the bubbles, including by taking over already occupied ones. Thus, the cell and viri originate together and continue to swap genes back and forth even today.
Everything else would just be a very long time's worth of addons.
I don't know if this is how it happened or not. It's my interpretation of something I read and only about 75% understood, and that article was only speculation. It helped me to get past the question you just asked and see that there is at least one way it is possible.
You can't pass on what you don't have.
Ok, The Slashdot article was posted today, the 2nd but TFA is from April 1st! Come on now, even if there was such a scale how would one use it? It would have to be in a vacuum, think what air molecules bumping into it would do. Not to mention any stray particles. Dust grains would be like dropping mountains on the thing! I know there are such a thing as clean rooms but that clean?
"consider Iraq and Afghanistan conquered and turn them over to China as payment on loans" Wow, I love it!