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Sci-Fi Tech Coming to a Reality Near You (Technology)
By thelizman
Sun Jul 20th, 2003 at 04:15:30 AM EST
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"Where are the flying cars we were promised?" Avery
Brooks is quite excited, and not in a good way. In a commercial for IBM,
he rails about how disappointed society is because all the great technological
advances we were promised a few decades ago still aren't here. No flying cars,
no space travel, no giant domed cities, no anti-gravity belts, no warp drive
...aside from the remote control, mankind has not made a significant advance
in technology in the last 50 years. The next 50 years promises to be different.
In this article, I will examine disruptive technologies that will likely impact
us in the next half century, some of which we've been waiting for impatiently,
others we've barely conceived of yet.
Full Story (263 comments, 6794 words in story)
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.Net Oddities (Technology)
By e8johan
Sat Jul 12th, 2003 at 03:40:27 PM EST
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.Net has been hyped by Microsoft. From the propaganda it seems as if .Net
is a bit like the solution to all problems. After a company policy decision I
was forced into the .Net world. This article describes what I have found -
bad design, strange solutions and bad documentation.
Full Story (124 comments, 3737 words in story)
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Copy-controlled CDs: Is the end in sight? (Technology)
By uazu
Fri Jul 11th, 2003 at 02:46:46 AM EST
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Copy-controlled CDs have become the bane of many music-lovers'
lives, especially in continental Europe. They deny fair use and cause
playback problems on a wide range of common devices. A class action
lawsuit has temporarily held back the flood in the US, and an active
campaign in the UK has had some effect there, but still record
companies continue to push forward with their plans for universal use
of these formats. However, there is a weak point in their plans --
the losing battle that the copy-controlled format designers face
trying to keep their discs one step ahead of computer CD-ROM
drives.
Jim Peters of the UK Campaign for Digital Rights assesses the
situation.
Full Story (243 comments, 1357 words in story)
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Introduction to Airborne Radar (Technology)
By StormShadow
Fri Jul 4th, 2003 at 10:08:41 AM EST
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This article will be the first in several that will discuss airborne radar technology. Most of the material will be applicable to all types of radar but for our purposes I will concentrate on airborne radar systems. Given the limitations of HTML and my desire to explain the concepts to individuals who may not have a physics or engineering background (i.e. reach the widest possible audience), I will attempt as much as possible to avoid the use of any but the most trivial equations. I already have in mind what future articles will discuss but I would be open to suggests or requests.
These articles will discuss the technical aspects of radars but I may, if there is interest, discuss the history of radar. One obvious question is why does anyone want to know how radar functions? Curiousity would be enough for me but, if this is not enough, consider how widespread and important is the use of radar technology in modern society. It is used by the cop on the corner who catches you speeding to the proposed Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program currently being researched.
Full Story (81 comments, 1518 words in story)
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What's wrong with C++ templates? (Technology)
By jacob
Tue May 27th, 2003 at 11:47:08 AM EST
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If you've read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its
sequels, you probably remember the Vogons, the incredibly ugly,
disgusting, and bad-tempered aliens charged with destroying Earth to
clear the path for an intergalactic highway. The Vogons' brains, it
turns out, were "originally a badly deformed, misplaced and dyspeptic
liver" -- and that explains their demeanor. In this article, I'll
explain why I think C++ has a badly deformed, misplaced and dyspeptic
liver of its own: its template system.
Full Story (323 comments, 4735 words in story)
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The Unix tree rethought: an introduction to GoboLinux (Technology)
By LodeRunner
Fri May 9th, 2003 at 03:51:41 PM EST
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Lately, there has been lots of discussion on the current state of Linux
as a desktop system, and articles pop up here and
there, occasionally with very good ideas. However, none
have surprised me more than this
one. It was all very hyphothetical, but had pretty radical ideas on
how the author thought the Linux directory tree should be reorganized. This was
clearly the most polemical part of the article, and raised many
discussions whether something like this could actually be implemented.
And that's the reason for my surprise: we had this implemented for over
an year. GoboLinux is a Linux
distribution based on an alternative directory tree, which has evolved
from a custom LFS
installation to a distro that's used and maintained by a small group of
people today. It was interesting to see that there are a lot of people
interested in ideas similar to ours. So, maybe it's time for us to come
out of the shadows.
Full Story (291 comments, 2086 words in story)
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