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According to this the pronunciation is the former.

1) What is QNX?

QNX pronounced like "queue nicks" is a commercial operating system that runs on intel processors, mainly the 386, 486, and Pentium, and their clones, such as MD, Nat Semiconductor, Cyrix, and SGS Thompson.

The simple answer is that QNX is a realtime, microkernel, preemptive, prioritized, message passing, network distributed, multitasking, multiuser, fault tolerant operating system. This is a "true" microkernel, with the largest QNX kernel to date being less than 10K.

The QNX/Neutrino microkernel is about 32K, but can run standalone, something the QNX4 microkernel cannot. The QNX/Neutrino microkernel + process manager is about 64K, which is half the size of the QNX4 microkernel + process manager, and it does more.

Well then, I think we can safely say that this individual is not exactly a "conventional" thinker. In my limited experience with such matters I would say he seems to have the hallmarks of schizophrenic thinking. But one way or the other, this is pretty damn far from scientific research. I wish articles like this would actually get read before they're posted.

Well then, I think we can safely say that this individual is not exactly a "conventional" thinker. In my limited experience with such matters I would say he seems to have the hallmarks of schizophrenic thinking. But one way or the other, this is pretty damn far from scientific research. I wish articles like this would actually get read before they're posted.

Well then, I think we can safely say that this individual is not exactly a "conventional" thinker. In my limited experience with such matters I would say he seems to have the hallmarks of schizophrenic thinking. But one way or the other, this is pretty damn far from scientific research. I wish articles like this would actually get read before they're posted.

No. The RIAA still would legally hold the copyrights to the music.

No. Some idiot posting an idiot layman's rant on slashdot does not make said idiot's hearing loss hypothesis true. (He also purports to be the "teachmaster" of the "first cyberage-religion". I think this alludes somewhat to his credibility.) The "researcher" himself admitted to rarely listening to lossily-encoded music, so why should his hearing problems be attributed to it? Especially when we have a sample size of several hundred thousand (slashdot itself) who are likely to listen regularly to lossily-encoded music, but have no signifigant hearing problems when looked at in aggregate.

Recap:

1. Copyrights do not disappear because of the ubiquity of piracy.
2. Being posted on slashdot does not make a hypothesis true, or even credible.
3. The parent comment is not particularly insightful. Please mod it back down accordingly.

You might also want to check out this guy's homepage.

Be very careful about where your medical advice is coming from - a lot of people want to be doctors, but not so many are willing to go through medical school and an internship.

And I though hippies were an extinct species...

I read the German original, it is written in academic language and perfect grammar. I don't think it's a hoax, just wild speculation that happens to lead to wrong conclusions.

Uh, has anyone explored the *rest* of his site?

This is interesting:

"CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler (teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!)"

And

"I am a cyberage-child - born in the year of Pong"

As a matter of fact, his main page is dedicated to Logologie:

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/e_in dex.html

Hmmmm:

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/picts1.html

This is the real nail in the coffin, however: http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/Logologi.faq

Uh, has anyone explored the *rest* of his site?

This is interesting:

"CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler (teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!)"

And

"I am a cyberage-child - born in the year of Pong"

As a matter of fact, his main page is dedicated to Logologie:

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/e_in dex.html

Hmmmm:

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/picts1.html

This is the real nail in the coffin, however: http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/Logologi.faq

Uh, has anyone explored the *rest* of his site?

This is interesting:

"CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler (teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!)"

And

"I am a cyberage-child - born in the year of Pong"

As a matter of fact, his main page is dedicated to Logologie:

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/e_in dex.html

Hmmmm:

http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/picts1.html

This is the real nail in the coffin, however: http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/Logologi.faq

Welcome to LOGOLOGY, the first religion of the cyber-age!

Logology is a modern religion of reason.

It is free of demonization[???] and has many similarities to Buddhism. Among its core ideals are the proscription of brutality and senseless destruction of the brain. Its main aim is the preservation[?] and advancement[?] of mankind through instruction in independent holistic thought.

RATIOKRATEN [no idea what this means]

A party in planning for:

• ecology,
• alternative science,
• holistic santitation,
• fairer globalization

There's an English FAQ at http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/Logologi.faq.

I dunno, judge for yourself. IMHOYHBT.

Welcome to LOGOLOGY, the first religion of the cyber-age!

Logology is a modern religion of reason.

It is free of demonization[???] and has many similarities to Buddhism. Among its core ideals are the proscription of brutality and senseless destruction of the brain. Its main aim is the preservation[?] and advancement[?] of mankind through instruction in independent holistic thought.

RATIOKRATEN [no idea what this means]

A party in planning for:

• ecology,
• alternative science,
• holistic santitation,
• fairer globalization

There's an English FAQ at http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logo logie/Logologi.faq.

I dunno, judge for yourself. IMHOYHBT.

The danger of this exploitation of human perception flaws is that especially by lossy audio data compression sound portions get destroyed those, although the brain would not pass them to the conscious awareness, are likely necessary for the human hearing's own perpetual calibration.

Also indicative of crap: the author's warning about the damaging properties of the color pink!

Despite the weight which a slashdot reference seems to give the article, make no mistake: this is a pseudo-science web page written by an "interesting" net personality. As a self-proclaimed cyber-yogi he is full of "interesting" ideas about videogames and religion.

In other words: read, enjoy, discuss. But caveat lector - reader beware.

Despite the weight which a slashdot reference seems to give the article, make no mistake: this is a pseudo-science web page written by an "interesting" net personality. As a self-proclaimed cyber-yogi he is full of "interesting" ideas about videogames and religion.

In other words: read, enjoy, discuss. But caveat lector - reader beware.

Or is this a strange article. Mabe it would be good to check the source of an article before putting it on the main page. This is the author's home page.

From the author's web page:

Warning: Pink can be dangerous for health! about the stress generating, sick making and learn- hindering effect of long exposure to pink in the viewfield

I sure am glad someone is finally focusing on these severe health risks! Where are the Surgeon General's warnings about the risks inherent in MP3s and the color Pink? Why isn't CNN covering this?

I mean, it's obvious that pink must be bad for you -- just look at the grammar in the abstract. The author is obviously a severe sufferer of pinkitis, poor man.

Now have a look at this page of his. He appears to think that looking at the colour pink can be dangerous too. How did this stuff manage to get posted? In the pink article he claims to be a "researcher of neuronomy(science about the improvement of the usage of brain and nervous system)". Neuronomy? That's gotta be bogus. Anyone?

...there could be another reason why he has tinnitus.

I find it amusing that he says: 'I am interested in "zoner" games, i.e. certain monotonous high speed skill games those are capable to create alterated states of mind.' - but remember, don't listen to mp3s cos they'll make you go deaf :)

Tim

PS. No, I'm not saying video games affect your hearing - just that it's about as likely as lossy audio codecs being the problem.

I'm sorry to spoil the fun for everyone here, but running a web server on an iPaq isn't really that cool. After all, it has several megabytes of memory and the CPU cycles are measured in hundreds of MHz. The fact that it is wireless isn't new either.

A few months ago, a web server running on a Lego Mindstorm was presented. The Mindstorms has a CPU that runs at 16 MHz and has 32 kilobytes of memory. It communicates using a wireless infrared connection. The details can be found here if anyone should be interested.

Honestly, I don't see why this is front page material. I programmed Lego Mindstorms in C using legOS in one of my intro to engineering classes. The difference was that instead of the sole requirement of "being really cool," ours actually had to perform a specific task; i.e., autonomously maneuver through a 10x10 ft maze while keeping accurate track of distance and perform various tasks. We were graded on our ability to complete the task, and the amount of time required to complete the task, not solely "was it cool or not," although that was a part of it. Oh yeah, and the code. =)

The big headache was that you had to compensate for the shitty quality control in the Lego components whose tolerances are so absurdly wide that it's just ridiculous. Also, you have to work within the restrictions of a certain number Lego parts, with little to no modification. It's more of a challenge than "see how many legos and custom sensors you can buy/make."

My point is, however, that if everyone who has worked with Mindstorms submitted their stories and pictures to Slashdot, we'd need a dedicated section called http://diaries-of-college-students-who-worked-with -mindstorms.slashdot.org. We'd also have 25 stories a day posted to that section. Nothing new here that is worth seeing.

A TCP/IP enabled RCX? Now that's cool!

Always learn. Learn from the existing literature, C++ books and magazines and Web articles. They help you avoid reinventing well-known wheels. Learn different languages. They embody different ways of thinking. Learn different tools. They teach different ways of approaching problems. Most language zealots I've encountered think that their favorite language is the be-all and end-all, simply because they know few or no other languages. Know the various tools you have available to you, and you can do a much better job of selecting the right tools--plural, not singular--that will help you get your job done today.

<My C++ flame deleted.> What's the point? Use what you like but leave me to make my own choice. (I do have a C++ project so I know enough to know I don't like it!)

Why?!? This is oddly reminicent of the legOS web server for your Lego® Mindstorms kit. I mean, I guess it's cool, but what have you proved? You can write a TCP/IP stack for some processor on some platform? Yeah, we all _know_ that can be done, but, why waste your time doing something useless? It's not like someone is going to throw out their NT or Linux server and replace with a GameBoy Advance or Lego brick anytime soon.. er... ever! There is simply no use for this in the world. There, it had to be said.

I'll have to agree with the guy recommending ArgoUML. I've tried it and it's pretty zippy on my 400MHz, 96MB machine, despite the Java.

I'll also have to point you to KUML, which is for KDE2. It should run even faster, but is not as full featured.