"Moore's law should apply" - well, it does to the post-processing of the images, but the big constraints are in the scanning technology, where fitting more logic gates onto the same amount of silicon just isn't going to help.
Actually, i's slightly more expensive for most people, because the alternatives to the wheat-based foods you cut out are more expensive. I still haven't decided whether this is economies of scale or blatent profiteering. Maybe it's a bit better in the States because you tend to put corn products in cheap food, whereas over here it tends to be wheat flour and maltodextrin in TV dinners.
It can also be bad for you, because there's a lot of nutrients in bread and cereal that you will no longer get by default, notably folic acid, several of the B complexes, vitamin E... and you really have to pay attention to eat enough pulses, greens, and fish to replace what you've lost.
So it CAN be good for you, but it's not a given - be careful. Me, I have no choice, but when I first stopped eating wheat my skin and hair got noticably worse until I figured out the right foods to use as replacements.
GEM/UXA/KMS/whatever stack is now GEM/UXA/KMS without the "whatever" - the other options have been dropped out of the code tree for the drivers 2.7.99 and onwards.
The kernel support for these now works properly in 2.6.30 for the first time, but that's only necessary, not sufficient!
At the time of writing the nightly(ish) version from xorg-edgers of the driver blows up on 3D apps, so I'm still on 2.7.1 with some ubuntu patches (that have been pushed upstream because they really did fix stuff). With RC8 of the kernel and xorg-1.6 or the edgers version 1.6.1.901.blahblahblah it's all been nicely stable on UXA for last few days and quite snappy in 2D. UXA is still half the speed of EXA for 3D, even simple stuff like ppracer. Maybe 2.7.99 will fix that soon.
You can run OpenOffice, and I pass files back and forth between that and MS Office all day, no problem. I might add that I seem to have to restart the latter rather more than the former.
I have also had several webcam conversations on this very machine here.
And you can play Windows games under Linux, never mind the Linux games.
If you're using 2.7.x Intel xorg drivers you NEED this kernel. Anyone struggling with weird freezes, font corruption, and various other troubles - turns out most of these problems weren't in the Intel drivers at all, but in the GEM and DRI code in the kernel. Mine's been rock solid since RC5 for stability, and RC8 finally fixed the problem with fonts under UXA.
It's interesting to a good number of people here, especially those with six-figure or shorter UIDs, for historical reasons. Pity the summary doesn't mention those reasons AT ALL.
Minix came Before Linux (yes, there is such an era) and the Minix and Gnu communities encouraged one another in the same way that Linux and FOSS cross-fertilise now.
The other is user security. And you cannot solve that problem with technology.
The circle you have to square here is that the user/admin should be allowed and able to run his software, but at the same time he must not run harmful software. Now, how do you plan to implement that? Either he can run arbitrary software, then you cannot identify security risks before it is too late. Or he cannot run software that is a potential security risk and he is no longer the master, owner and root of his own machine.
Interesting. For a long time I've been convinced there's a way to do principle of least access in a consistent and psychologically useful and friendly manner. There MUST be. Right?
For the uninformed here (ie me) what's the advantage of microkernels on multi-core processors? Does this also apply to SMP generally? Or is there a better way to do MP with microkernels in particular?
When we were sat under the shelter of the trees at the edge of the savanna, wondering whether to have cranberry or banana with that night's springbok roast...
Did we post to Facebook to see what the neighbours thought about it, and spend the next hour at the keyboard giving ourselves CTS and a crick in the neck? No.
Did we sit around wondering who's turn it was to roast the next batch of beans? No.
You see the problem with pretty much all modern habits? We're just not designed for them.
I was wondering about that too, and then I realised an American "cup of coffee" is sometimes more than an English pint* - which is at least three English cups of coffee. I'm guessing the 6-8 Finnish cups is the same thing; equivalent caffeine to the Americans here who are drinking "only" two.
I don't think of coffee as a cold-country drink at all, best coffees I've had have been in Spain, France, or California...
* At least, I think 24 US oz is more than a pint, but the pint and the ounce are both different sizes so can't be sure.
Some types of computation would work better, some would fall apart. So the analogy is exact; clockless computing is a great idea in -some- situations, just as clockless drumming is -sometimes- appropriate.
Live performance and studio production are miles apart in purpose and intent, so I'm not entirely sure what you lot are arguing about.
Maybe in the States. In the UK, you cannot write a contract against UK law. If I decide I signed the TOS under UK law, there's nothing Facebook can do about it. It WILL go to UK court and the LAW dictates the outcome.
Which is why I think it's a pity they chickened out; I was quite looking forward to the first hilarious court case where the entire TOS would be thrown out as an invalid contract.
"The probability of our discovering the Higgs is very good - 90% if it is in the high mass range. "And the chances are even higher - 96% - if its mass is around 170GeV (giga-electron volts)."
That's a BBC-friendly soundbite, but there is some deep where-are-we analysis behind it:
... which may, if improvements in their analysis work out, give them a two-thirds chance of seeing the Higgs at 2 sigma level over the entire expected mass range, or a 50/50 chance of seeing it at 3 sigma level over a large range, including a small range just above the 114Gev LEP limit.
In other words, they've sat down and worked through the what-ifs, and depending on how heavy the particle turns out to be, how likely they are to see it.
What an excellent article - but here are two examples not mentioned that I'd be interested in Slashdot's views on...
1. "Hybrid Interfaces" Surely Starship Titanic broke the mould here.
There seems to be plenty of web opinion that it broke the rules on obscurity of solution as well.:-) I got stuck on the puzzle where you have to suck, so to speak - but managed to figure the rest of it out, including the sauces which seems to be the other one people get stuck on.
TFA talks about "recent games," but Starship Titanic was out in 1998...
2. Clicky clicky Anyone else remember WIMP on the Arch? Given that it was on the Arch this must have been out way before Myst. There's no Wikipedia article, one might just appear this evening... but it's mentioned under Fourth Dimension's entry.
You're thinking of EISA - if you added a card to an EISA slot you had to go into the BIOS or the system management partition and tell it about the new card.
Don't think for one second I'm on the side of organised religion, but in line with your sig...
Well, no. An Anglican Archbishop calculated that as the age of the Earth back in the 1600's. Back when calculating such things was considered scholarship.
It was scholarship, and a lot of thought went into it. Unfortunately "GIGO" was not well understood at the time.
First, most Christians are NOT Anglicans, and could give a rat's hind leg what a 400 year old Anglican Archbishop said about anything.
Never thought of it like that, but you're right.
Second, these days, Anglicans don't believe him either. He's ancient history, and his ideas are considered, by most Christians, to be quaint.
Sub "geologists" for "Anglicans/Christians" and "Kelvin" for "his". Same sh!t, different peer group.
Thirdly, of the few Christians who believe him, most don't know he's an Anglican Archbishop, so they don't know to pooh-pooh him for that reason.
...and how many people shouting "4.5 billion" would know pitchblende from popcorn?
there are some sects of Christianity who espouse the Young Earth opinion. I've never talked to a member of one of those sects who actually believed it, though no doubt some few did
Slashdot Mirror
This story appeared on my Slashdot front page right next to the one about condom research. Are they by any chance related? I think we should be told.
"Moore's law should apply" - well, it does to the post-processing of the images, but the big constraints are in the scanning technology, where fitting more logic gates onto the same amount of silicon just isn't going to help.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/03/42583 - explains what the cheap and expensive aspects of the setup are...
"cheap and good for you"
Actually, i's slightly more expensive for most people, because the alternatives to the wheat-based foods you cut out are more expensive. I still haven't decided whether this is economies of scale or blatent profiteering. Maybe it's a bit better in the States because you tend to put corn products in cheap food, whereas over here it tends to be wheat flour and maltodextrin in TV dinners.
It can also be bad for you, because there's a lot of nutrients in bread and cereal that you will no longer get by default, notably folic acid, several of the B complexes, vitamin E... and you really have to pay attention to eat enough pulses, greens, and fish to replace what you've lost.
So it CAN be good for you, but it's not a given - be careful. Me, I have no choice, but when I first stopped eating wheat my skin and hair got noticably worse until I figured out the right foods to use as replacements.
GEM/UXA/KMS/whatever stack is now GEM/UXA/KMS without the "whatever" - the other options have been dropped out of the code tree for the drivers 2.7.99 and onwards.
The kernel support for these now works properly in 2.6.30 for the first time, but that's only necessary, not sufficient!
At the time of writing the nightly(ish) version from xorg-edgers of the driver blows up on 3D apps, so I'm still on 2.7.1 with some ubuntu patches (that have been pushed upstream because they really did fix stuff). With RC8 of the kernel and xorg-1.6 or the edgers version 1.6.1.901.blahblahblah it's all been nicely stable on UXA for last few days and quite snappy in 2D. UXA is still half the speed of EXA for 3D, even simple stuff like ppracer. Maybe 2.7.99 will fix that soon.
You can run OpenOffice, and I pass files back and forth between that and MS Office all day, no problem. I might add that I seem to have to restart the latter rather more than the former.
I have also had several webcam conversations on this very machine here.
And you can play Windows games under Linux, never mind the Linux games.
What's your point?
If you're using 2.7.x Intel xorg drivers you NEED this kernel. Anyone struggling with weird freezes, font corruption, and various other troubles - turns out most of these problems weren't in the Intel drivers at all, but in the GEM and DRI code in the kernel. Mine's been rock solid since RC5 for stability, and RC8 finally fixed the problem with fonts under UXA.
+1 Funny (but true)
Now I've downloaded the article on Mona Lisa, my phone is following me around the room...
It's interesting to a good number of people here, especially those with six-figure or shorter UIDs, for historical reasons. Pity the summary doesn't mention those reasons AT ALL.
Minix came Before Linux (yes, there is such an era) and the Minix and Gnu communities encouraged one another in the same way that Linux and FOSS cross-fertilise now.
The other is user security. And you cannot solve that problem with technology.
The circle you have to square here is that the user/admin should be allowed and able to run his software, but at the same time he must not run harmful software. Now, how do you plan to implement that? Either he can run arbitrary software, then you cannot identify security risks before it is too late. Or he cannot run software that is a potential security risk and he is no longer the master, owner and root of his own machine.
Interesting. For a long time I've been convinced there's a way to do principle of least access in a consistent and psychologically useful and friendly manner. There MUST be. Right?
What's Gates got to do with it? It was Cutler that made NT work.
For the uninformed here (ie me) what's the advantage of microkernels on multi-core processors? Does this also apply to SMP generally? Or is there a better way to do MP with microkernels in particular?
When we were sat under the shelter of the trees at the edge of the savanna, wondering whether to have cranberry or banana with that night's springbok roast...
Did we post to Facebook to see what the neighbours thought about it, and spend the next hour at the keyboard giving ourselves CTS and a crick in the neck? No.
Did we sit around wondering who's turn it was to roast the next batch of beans? No.
You see the problem with pretty much all modern habits? We're just not designed for them.
I assure you coffee is getting me through times of no money better than money has got me through times of no coffee....
I was wondering about that too, and then I realised an American "cup of coffee" is sometimes more than an English pint* - which is at least three English cups of coffee. I'm guessing the 6-8 Finnish cups is the same thing; equivalent caffeine to the Americans here who are drinking "only" two.
I don't think of coffee as a cold-country drink at all, best coffees I've had have been in Spain, France, or California...
* At least, I think 24 US oz is more than a pint, but the pint and the ounce are both different sizes so can't be sure.
Similar to a quench in superconductivity? Come to think of it there must be quite a number of similarities here.
I rely on an entropic gradient to function, you insensitive clod!
Some types of computation would work better, some would fall apart. So the analogy is exact; clockless computing is a great idea in -some- situations, just as clockless drumming is -sometimes- appropriate.
Live performance and studio production are miles apart in purpose and intent, so I'm not entirely sure what you lot are arguing about.
Maybe in the States. In the UK, you cannot write a contract against UK law. If I decide I signed the TOS under UK law, there's nothing Facebook can do about it. It WILL go to UK court and the LAW dictates the outcome.
Which is why I think it's a pity they chickened out; I was quite looking forward to the first hilarious court case where the entire TOS would be thrown out as an invalid contract.
From TFA:
"The probability of our discovering the Higgs is very good - 90% if it is in the high mass range.
"And the chances are even higher - 96% - if its mass is around 170GeV (giga-electron volts)."
That's a BBC-friendly soundbite, but there is some deep where-are-we analysis behind it:
... which may, if improvements in their analysis work out, give them a two-thirds chance of seeing the Higgs at 2 sigma level over the entire expected mass range, or a 50/50 chance of seeing it at 3 sigma level over a large range, including a small range just above the 114Gev LEP limit.
Not Even Wrong blog, Peter Woit
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=1612/
In other words, they've sat down and worked through the what-ifs, and depending on how heavy the particle turns out to be, how likely they are to see it.
What an excellent article - but here are two examples not mentioned that I'd be interested in Slashdot's views on...
1. "Hybrid Interfaces"
Surely Starship Titanic broke the mould here.
There seems to be plenty of web opinion that it broke the rules on obscurity of solution as well. :-) I got stuck on the puzzle where you have to suck, so to speak - but managed to figure the rest of it out, including the sauces which seems to be the other one people get stuck on.
TFA talks about "recent games," but Starship Titanic was out in 1998...
2. Clicky clicky
Anyone else remember WIMP on the Arch? Given that it was on the Arch this must have been out way before Myst. There's no Wikipedia article, one might just appear this evening... but it's mentioned under Fourth Dimension's entry.
1990 - a year before Myst started development.
You're thinking of EISA - if you added a card to an EISA slot you had to go into the BIOS or the system management partition and tell it about the new card.
Joe Sixpack is too busy on the stump to fix your poxy fridge!
Don't think for one second I'm on the side of organised religion, but in line with your sig...
Well, no. An Anglican Archbishop calculated that as the age of the Earth back in the 1600's. Back when calculating such things was considered scholarship.
It was scholarship, and a lot of thought went into it. Unfortunately "GIGO" was not well understood at the time.
First, most Christians are NOT Anglicans, and could give a rat's hind leg what a 400 year old Anglican Archbishop said about anything.
Never thought of it like that, but you're right.
Second, these days, Anglicans don't believe him either. He's ancient history, and his ideas are considered, by most Christians, to be quaint.
Sub "geologists" for "Anglicans/Christians" and "Kelvin" for "his". Same sh!t, different peer group.
Thirdly, of the few Christians who believe him, most don't know he's an Anglican Archbishop, so they don't know to pooh-pooh him for that reason.
...and how many people shouting "4.5 billion" would know pitchblende from popcorn?
there are some sects of Christianity who espouse the Young Earth opinion. I've never talked to a member of one of those sects who actually believed it, though no doubt some few did
They know not what they do...
Gotta love the disconnected logic that allows a person to pick and choose what parts of their "sacred text" they actually believe is true.
I don't see where string theory comes into it.