Remember in their Windows marketing, when confronted with egregious bugs, security holes, and feature deficiencies, MS would always promise that the *next* version would be everything we could possibly imagine. They did this for version after version of inferior product. When I read "Microsoft responded to these assertions stating that they've already taken steps to answer these concerns" I get deja vu. Sorry, MS, after causing the OOXML problem in the first place your credibility in claiming to be "taking steps" comes across more as duplicity than as a solution, or even as a genuine concern that a solution be found.
Paul's campaign makes government waste and inefficiency look like something people want to sign up to support. His campaign spent more money on less results than any I've ever heard of. I guess polling, focus groups, and that kind of information gathering is too centralized for the Paul spirit.
I guess a benefit of the campaign is that it proved that non-results can come from unfocused distributed efforts, with as much waste as misguided centralized ones. But even that benefit vanishes if we don't learn the lesson.
CS students should learn low-level concepts: registers (assembly language, the parts of a CPU) as well has higher-level more abstract software engineering practices. Java is a great language for the abstract stuff (at least a stepping-stone to Ruby:) but give me C and assembler for the low-level stuff. CS students should be well exposed to both. Mere programmers can learn one or the other.
One reason the kite is better than a masted sail is that it doesn't force the deck into a tilt when the wind is from the side, or push the nose down when the wind is from the back. The kites will change the preferred route to get the optimal benefit from prevailing winds so there's plenty of technology in the routing software alone.
Two technologies -- tying together several dispersed wind farms, and high-altitude wind -- have the potential to enable wind to address the variability of output that otherwise makes it unsuitable as a base-load source of power.
But doesn't the fact that *I* received the message equally indicate that it's *not* spam? I don't understand. Jane getting the message indicates that it's spam, me getting it indicates that it's not.
When such bullcrap roadblocks are set up in front of something that can only help the Nigerian commoner, I suspect that OLPC has too much integrity, and too low a budget, to bribe some government dipwad. (Hey, I expressed my anger without cussing! The old church-lady substitution technique keeps me cuss-free on a technicality.) The things the children also need, which the gov't minister mentions in the BBC article ("facilities" meaning bathrooms I guess, furniture, school uniforms) are all things that Nigeria can supply on its own but the OLPC computers will take actual oil-money hard currency. If I understand Nigeria, the real money, which can be spent on luxuries, is already spoken for by the ruling class. When a program pops up that will actually divert some of that money toward helping the country, the logical gymnastics performed to defeat it are sadly impressive.
The keyboard, which only shows up in portrait alignment, is just the width of the phone -- too small. Turning the phone sideways doesn't redisplay the keyboard to use the whole length of the phone. A landscape keyboard would have 3 times the area and reduce typos considerably.
And I gotta laugh at the one-bit minds here, on or off, not sure if they like Wal-Mart or not. Maybe with another decade of maturity they'll have, say, 2 bits, so they can rate Wal-Mart on a ReallyLike/KindaLike/KindaDislike/ReallyDislike scale. Oh the nuance! "Life is too complicated, I'm gonna go play WoW."
A power consumption meter is essential to monitor the ghost loads of stuff around the house. The makers of the KillAWatt meter have a new model out so the old ones are just $16. Check out what your TV and DVD player are up to -- they waste just as much power as a monitor. When I found out how much, I put them on a power strip so I could switch them off -- *really* off -- easily when I go out of town.
I'd like to upgrade my floppyfw-based Linux firewall with one of these mobos to save power, but following the post's links I was unable to see if the Everex/FIC mobo supports booting from USB. Anybody know? This is a great solution for firewalls -- several times more CPU than needed for cable-modem speeds, and who cares about the graphics?
Anybody know of other good firewall-usage mobos (low-power, low-cost) that boot from USB?
Mel & Baker a good crypto book
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Intro to Encryption
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Cryptography Decrypted by H. X. Mel and Doris Baker is a good intro to crypto. I found it entertaining and the topics went from elementary to, uh, more than I cared to know. The appendices explaining the mathematics of crypto were interesting as well.
This article just bugs me. "We've standardized on MS Office." What if Linux gets onto the desktop, but people are locked into the MS upgrades nightmare because they don't see the point of open data formats? I mean, they've already *proven* they don't see the point, by standardizing on applications instead of open data formats.
a company came out with the Foot Mouse in 1985. I worked for a company writing DOS drivers for it. It was a Foot Joystick, really, a 3" mushroom that you shoved around with your foot. Trouble was it was spring-loaded with very strong springs so you had to use too much leg muscle -- OK if standing, no good if sitting. Maybe it was a prototype. It never went anywhere in the market.
Sure, we can't count on the warm fuzzies from our employers. No loss. Build your own support network of old friends and inexpensive pasttimes. Work less. Enjoy life!
The workplace never should have been "home" in the first place. More accurately, if we can get our souls fulfilled there, fine; but if not, just look somewhere else. There's plenty going on in this life beyond work and technology.
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Build your own wind turbine, put solar on your camping trailer, etc.
http://otherpower.com/
Remember in their Windows marketing, when confronted with egregious bugs, security holes, and feature deficiencies, MS would always promise that the *next* version would be everything we could possibly imagine. They did this for version after version of inferior product. When I read "Microsoft responded to these assertions stating that they've already taken steps to answer these concerns" I get deja vu. Sorry, MS, after causing the OOXML problem in the first place your credibility in claiming to be "taking steps" comes across more as duplicity than as a solution, or even as a genuine concern that a solution be found.
Paul's campaign makes government waste and inefficiency look like something people want to sign up to support. His campaign spent more money on less results than any I've ever heard of. I guess polling, focus groups, and that kind of information gathering is too centralized for the Paul spirit.
I guess a benefit of the campaign is that it proved that non-results can come from unfocused distributed efforts, with as much waste as misguided centralized ones. But even that benefit vanishes if we don't learn the lesson.
I'll pay an extra $5 for an LED flashlight in my phone. If I get video projection for free, cool.
CS students should learn low-level concepts: registers (assembly language, the parts of a CPU) as well has higher-level more abstract software engineering practices. Java is a great language for the abstract stuff (at least a stepping-stone to Ruby :) but give me C and assembler for the low-level stuff. CS students should be well exposed to both. Mere programmers can learn one or the other.
One reason the kite is better than a masted sail is that it doesn't force the deck into a tilt when the wind is from the side, or push the nose down when the wind is from the back. The kites will change the preferred route to get the optimal benefit from prevailing winds so there's plenty of technology in the routing software alone.
Two technologies -- tying together several dispersed wind farms, and high-altitude wind -- have the potential to enable wind to address the variability of output that otherwise makes it unsuitable as a base-load source of power.
But doesn't the fact that *I* received the message equally indicate that it's *not* spam? I don't understand. Jane getting the message indicates that it's spam, me getting it indicates that it's not.
When such bullcrap roadblocks are set up in front of something that can only help the Nigerian commoner, I suspect that OLPC has too much integrity, and too low a budget, to bribe some government dipwad. (Hey, I expressed my anger without cussing! The old church-lady substitution technique keeps me cuss-free on a technicality.) The things the children also need, which the gov't minister mentions in the BBC article ("facilities" meaning bathrooms I guess, furniture, school uniforms) are all things that Nigeria can supply on its own but the OLPC computers will take actual oil-money hard currency. If I understand Nigeria, the real money, which can be spent on luxuries, is already spoken for by the ruling class. When a program pops up that will actually divert some of that money toward helping the country, the logical gymnastics performed to defeat it are sadly impressive.
Oh gee, these critical binaries have big problems and the vendor is walking away.
How come I didn't think that might happen in 1995 when I bought the binaries? Looks like "free as in freedom" matters sometimes.
The keyboard, which only shows up in portrait alignment, is just the width of the phone -- too small. Turning the phone sideways doesn't redisplay the keyboard to use the whole length of the phone. A landscape keyboard would have 3 times the area and reduce typos considerably.
and you're just now noticing.
And I gotta laugh at the one-bit minds here, on or off, not sure if they like Wal-Mart or not. Maybe with another decade of maturity they'll have, say, 2 bits, so they can rate Wal-Mart on a ReallyLike/KindaLike/KindaDislike/ReallyDislike scale. Oh the nuance! "Life is too complicated, I'm gonna go play WoW."
A power consumption meter is essential to monitor the ghost loads of stuff around the house. The makers of the KillAWatt meter have a new model out so the old ones are just $16. Check out what your TV and DVD player are up to -- they waste just as much power as a monitor. When I found out how much, I put them on a power strip so I could switch them off -- *really* off -- easily when I go out of town.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001
I'd like to upgrade my floppyfw-based Linux firewall with one of these mobos to save power, but following the post's links I was unable to see if the Everex/FIC mobo supports booting from USB. Anybody know? This is a great solution for firewalls -- several times more CPU than needed for cable-modem speeds, and who cares about the graphics?
Anybody know of other good firewall-usage mobos (low-power, low-cost) that boot from USB?
User (looking entirely like an idiot):
"An OS that can't copy files? Yeah right! Whattay think I am, some kind of idiot?"
Just store it in Word format.
Please mod parent up -- good points by AC.
Cryptography Decrypted by H. X. Mel and Doris Baker is a good intro to crypto. I found it entertaining and the topics went from elementary to, uh, more than I cared to know. The appendices explaining the mathematics of crypto were interesting as well.
This article just bugs me. "We've standardized on MS Office." What if Linux gets onto the desktop, but people are locked into the MS upgrades nightmare because they don't see the point of open data formats? I mean, they've already *proven* they don't see the point, by standardizing on applications instead of open data formats.
Yikes.
a company came out with the Foot Mouse in 1985. I worked for a company writing DOS drivers for it. It was a Foot Joystick, really, a 3" mushroom that you shoved around with your foot. Trouble was it was spring-loaded with very strong springs so you had to use too much leg muscle -- OK if standing, no good if sitting. Maybe it was a prototype. It never went anywhere in the market.
Gotta be groupies all over the world trying to figure out how to get their own Net account...
Who'da thunk it, all this multi-user stuff is good technology for the home.
And MS was telling us just a few years ago that we didn't even want multitasking...
Ya gotta wonder about how they decide a given
NT box is a "workstation". I submit that any
computer with NT on it can't be a workstation.
Sure, we can't count on the warm fuzzies from
our employers. No loss. Build your own support network of old friends and inexpensive pasttimes. Work less. Enjoy life!
The workplace never should have been "home" in the first place. More accurately, if we can get our souls fulfilled there, fine; but if not, just look somewhere else. There's plenty going on in this life beyond work and technology.