If there are enough papers in this thing it will detect false hits. One should also consider that some papers will have a right and a wrong answer, leading to more similarity than those which are opinion only. History springs to mind.
I just got a gigabit switch in a rather unique case. It's called a cardboard box! When is this case mod nonsense going to stop? I would think that Slashdot would be the last place where people embrace the sizzle and not the steak. Who cares what it looks like, what's under the damn hood?
It occurs to me that things of this nature will always get pushed into use as long as we, the tech folks, continue to draw a distinction between ourselves and "Joe Sixpack". We're all under one header to the big corps, and that's "cash machine". Cash machines unite! Quit paying for stuff we don't want and don't need.
Actually, I take exception to that. I saw the original 3 in the theaters once per. I have seen them since perhaps twice. I saw Episode one in the theater once and that was quite enough for me thanks. I am anxiously awaiting the collecter's DVD of the Star Wars xmas special and that Ewok movie however. I think that this flick might just replace Star Wars as the must see even if it sux series. One can only hope.
First off, I am little troubled by the implications of the question "And how is the Internet supposed to draw people together when the same old language barrier still exists?" This question seems to suggest that the internet is supposed to draw people together. The internet in my understanding isn't a philosophical project with an underlying message, it's a data conduit. I imagine the Chinese will find it quite useful for transmitting data. The unity thing may be a nice side effect, but I don't think the global infrastructure is having cash dumped into it at this rate for a sense of community.
As for the "truly on the internet thing", I'm not sure what that means to you, but if I get your drift you are having a philosophical issue with content filtering. In that case, I am not convinced that AOL users are truly on the internet either, or for that matter students, library users, or the customers of many ISP's. Is one truly on the internet if they are blocked at port 80 to prevent webservers, or if a University blocks Napster, or a company blocks XP terminal services? Australians have content filtering as well, in my understanding. In fact, Americans are restricted legally from viewing content that is acceptable in Scandinavian countries.
I am not sure if the Chinese charectar system provides more or less data density per byte than my alphabet, but that could be a factor in the future concerning linguistic conventions. If it's more efficient to transmit the concept "my dog has fleas" in Chinese charecters than in this alphabet, no worries. If the byte count is significantly higher in Chinese then English might become their standard.
I have read on Slashdot before that the Chinese are big fans of open source in principle if not in practice. I would think a billion Linux users would be a boon to the internet.
I suppose in my opinion the long and the short of it is this. If you are connected to the internet, send your data through it. Welcome. What that data is and the political ideology behind it is is none of my concern. There are a ton of webpages out there right now that I can't read and it doesn't diminish my enjoyment and use of the resource.
I can only hope that somewjere in Clifornia right now George Lucas is saying "Holy Shit! I am gonna have to do some serious re-writing on Star Wars, because this Darth Vader in love shit on that trailer ain't gonna cut it" And I don't care how damn many Boba Fetts they add.
Wait a minute;
Are you suggesting that nothing that is good should be mentioned here? It was great. So I suppose that from now on only negative reviews should be posted. Ok, lemme review your post.
U R DUM.
Thank you for your time.
I'm not going to discuss if this is possible so much as is it practical. Let's say it can be done. The next question is would you really want to do it. At the end of this process you are left with 20 gigs of mp3's per 400 CDs. The cost of the HD is minimal, but now you have a 400 CD archive that takes up space and an expensive card and changer that's collecting dust. Next week you buy 4 more CD's and then what? Wait until you have 400 to repeat the process? If the changer can connect to the computer, play the music with the CD player. I can't see needing 350+ hours of mp3's for anything other than a LONG road trip. Of course if the question is really "My buddy Larry is gonna loan me his whole CD collection for a week", then buy the changer at WalMart and return it when you're done. Just an observation.
WHY do you want a video cell phone? Not driving badly enough already? Would your life really be enriched by watching your buddy at the grocery store while you talk to him?
You lose your IP address for one. Most of the IP's were rented by @home. In many cases you also lose your bandwidth beyond the gateway, @home leased the circuits. That's no the same for all markets, hope it works out for you.
They already started. This began the day before it was announced. I wonder if this will hold up against it's first constitutional challenge? I doubt it.
Now we get to listen to his twit buddy too. This keeps getting better and better. Next we get Katz's Mom reviewing films. I can't wait.
In 1985, when Mr. Matrix was in his first film, Jet Li already had at least 6 years of film under his belt. This was a 2 second research effort, Katz, check at least one fact per article in the future please.
Is the Matrix the only movie you ever liked? How the hell is this film derivative of the Matrix? Did you actually watch it, or did you leave right afrter the credits, like you did with Jurassic park 3?
If you like Kung Fu movies, you'll like this flick. End of story. If you only liked the Matrix, skip it.
Tell me Katz, are you gonna pan Matrix 2 because it's a rip off of the Matrix?
Mr. Katz, there is a resource availible on the "internet", which I'm sure you think is somehow a Matrix rip off, called the internet movie database. It can be found at http://www.imdb.com . You can use this to check dates, bodies of work, or actors that appear in movies. I suggest you check this in the future prior to making these embarassing gaffes in your "reviews". Thanks.
PS- If you had ever seen any movies prior to the Matrix, particularly in the Kung Fu genre, you would see how derivative it was on Hong Kong kung fu flicks. Using the aforementioned imdb you can see that many of the key people responsible for the "look and feel" of the Matrix cut thier teeth on Kung Fu flicks. So which is the rip off?
Is it really the responsibility of the photographer community at large to save bad pictures on the off chance that someone might want them in 30 years? If the photo is not good, delete it, or save everything on 50 cent cdroms for all posterity (as I do). I would think it's easier to put 1000 pics on one cdrom than save 1000 negatives and/or prints. This is a non issue. Of course this is what this woman wrote her thesis on, so it's important to her, I guess. I still think it's a non-issue.
The Advanced Operating Systems Group, a branch of the Lab for Computer Science at MIT, has begun planning for a public release of their formerly unknown operating system known as Cesium.
Currently at version 4.2 (version 1.0 was finished in 1993), Cesium's architecture and abilities are enough to make even the most jaded computer enthusiast start frothing at the mouth. As an assistant to one of the lab's directors, I was invited to a private presentation given last week to some MIT staff members as part of the planning process for its eventual public release. I was given permission to write this sneak preview.
The primary goal of Cesium's creators was to fully abandon the "historic principles" that have shaped most contemporary operating systems. Concepts like "desktop", "folders", "files", etc., have all been thrown out the window. The results, while unusual when compared against the de facto standard of Microsoft Windows, are nevertheless fascinating and potentially very useful.
Cesium comprises five main parts, or "Overmodules". These overmodules are made up of semi-independent modules, which can be replaced or updated at will in order to add, remove or modify system functionality.
The Platform overmodule is the only platform-specific part of Cesium. It serves as a virtual machine, allowing the OS to run almost identically on a variety of platforms. The AOSG Lab has a distributed Cesium system made up of a seemingly random batch of Mac and PC machines, and Cesium has also been successfully tested on some handheld devices.
The Storage overmodule is one of the more unique ideas behind Cesium. Instead of using a traditional filesystem, all data is stored in an object-oriented database (OODBMS) that is written through the Platform overmodule directly to a hard drive. This allows for queries and operations that would not normally be possible within a traditional filesystem. In addition, it eliminates the concepts of files and folders, opting instead for child-parent relationships between any data stores.
The Program overmodule serves as interpreter, compiler, and API for Cesium software. After translating code into an intermediate language called "Cilantro" (which is cached for future use), it passes the code to the Platform overmodule, which then executes it. Cesium currently supports C, C++, Java, Perl, Fortran, Lisp, COBOL, and numerous smaller languages.
The Presentation overmodule works with the Platform overmodule to give programs access to a powerful and platform-independent visual interface that can present the output of programs as anything from terminal text to a 3-dimensional Hollywood-style GUI called "Tripwire" (which does shadows, transparencies, textures and light rendering better than most video game engines) depending on what the user chooses to see and what the hardware can handle.
Finally, the Security overmodule handles access issues, providing administrators with user maintenance and permissions functionality that rivals anything offered by mainstream operating systems.
The most interesting parts of Cesium, however, are often the little things. For example, all human-readable text is assumed to be HTML or XML, instead of Notepad-style plain text, and formatting can be customized with cascading style sheets. The default text editor that comes with Cesium, therefore, handles such things as bold, italics, tables, graphics, colors, etc., without trouble.
Another interesting little tidbit is that Cesium was intended to be well documented from the very start. Error messages are dynamically generated and context sensitive, meaning that almost any error comes with a plain English description of exactly what happened, how it probably happened, and how to fix it.
Cesium is due to be released by the end of the year for free, bundled with approximately 200 software applications including HTTP, FTP, NNTP and SMTP servers; a fully functional office application suite; graphics and audio software; and four video games including CesiumQuake.
For further information, stay tuned to The MIT Laboratory for Computer Science website.
This article has been read 1584 times.
Nope. Intelligent people like to excersise thier minds, frequently in non-traditional ways, like playing with Legos or making sweet love to your Mom. How long are we supposed to think of only the bombings, exactly. I assume you have quit your job, given nine pints of blood and enlisted, right? We have to get back to our lives or the country will grind to a halt. When it comes time to do something about the attacks, then we'll do it.
Slashdot Mirror
If there are enough papers in this thing it will detect false hits. One should also consider that some papers will have a right and a wrong answer, leading to more similarity than those which are opinion only. History springs to mind.
I just got a gigabit switch in a rather unique case. It's called a cardboard box!
When is this case mod nonsense going to stop? I would think that Slashdot would be the last place where people embrace the sizzle and not the steak. Who cares what it looks like, what's under the damn hood?
They have that, it's called a motorcycle.
It occurs to me that things of this nature will always get pushed into use as long as we, the tech folks, continue to draw a distinction between ourselves and "Joe Sixpack". We're all under one header to the big corps, and that's "cash machine". Cash machines unite! Quit paying for stuff we don't want and don't need.
Actually, I take exception to that. I saw the original 3 in the theaters once per. I have seen them since perhaps twice. I saw Episode one in the theater once and that was quite enough for me thanks. I am anxiously awaiting the collecter's DVD of the Star Wars xmas special and that Ewok movie however. I think that this flick might just replace Star Wars as the must see even if it sux series. One can only hope.
A master of spelling would be a good start. Seven in six sentences. ( I am mostly just busting your balls, I can't spell misspell correctly)
First off, I am little troubled by the implications of the question "And how is the Internet supposed to draw people together when the same old language barrier still exists?" This question seems to suggest that the internet is supposed to draw people together. The internet in my understanding isn't a philosophical project with an underlying message, it's a data conduit. I imagine the Chinese will find it quite useful for transmitting data. The unity thing may be a nice side effect, but I don't think the global infrastructure is having cash dumped into it at this rate for a sense of community.
As for the "truly on the internet thing", I'm not sure what that means to you, but if I get your drift you are having a philosophical issue with content filtering. In that case, I am not convinced that AOL users are truly on the internet either, or for that matter students, library users, or the customers of many ISP's. Is one truly on the internet if they are blocked at port 80 to prevent webservers, or if a University blocks Napster, or a company blocks XP terminal services? Australians have content filtering as well, in my understanding. In fact, Americans are restricted legally from viewing content that is acceptable in Scandinavian countries.
I am not sure if the Chinese charectar system provides more or less data density per byte than my alphabet, but that could be a factor in the future concerning linguistic conventions. If it's more efficient to transmit the concept "my dog has fleas" in Chinese charecters than in this alphabet, no worries. If the byte count is significantly higher in Chinese then English might become their standard.
I have read on Slashdot before that the Chinese are big fans of open source in principle if not in practice. I would think a billion Linux users would be a boon to the internet.
I suppose in my opinion the long and the short of it is this. If you are connected to the internet, send your data through it. Welcome. What that data is and the political ideology behind it is is none of my concern. There are a ton of webpages out there right now that I can't read and it doesn't diminish my enjoyment and use of the resource.
I can only hope that somewjere in Clifornia right now George Lucas is saying "Holy Shit! I am gonna have to do some serious re-writing on Star Wars, because this Darth Vader in love shit on that trailer ain't gonna cut it" And I don't care how damn many Boba Fetts they add.
Wait a minute;
Are you suggesting that nothing that is good should be mentioned here? It was great. So I suppose that from now on only negative reviews should be posted. Ok, lemme review your post.
U R DUM.
Thank you for your time.
Man, what?
I guess this was a slow news day.
Actually it is what you are doing when you loose an arrow. It's synonymous with releasing.
It's 127.0.0.1 and I bet you can't hack me.
I'm not going to discuss if this is possible so much as is it practical. Let's say it can be done. The next question is would you really want to do it. At the end of this process you are left with 20 gigs of mp3's per 400 CDs. The cost of the HD is minimal, but now you have a 400 CD archive that takes up space and an expensive card and changer that's collecting dust. Next week you buy 4 more CD's and then what? Wait until you have 400 to repeat the process? If the changer can connect to the computer, play the music with the CD player. I can't see needing 350+ hours of mp3's for anything other than a LONG road trip. Of course if the question is really "My buddy Larry is gonna loan me his whole CD collection for a week", then buy the changer at WalMart and return it when you're done. Just an observation.
WHY do you want a video cell phone? Not driving badly enough already? Would your life really be enriched by watching your buddy at the grocery store while you talk to him?
You lose your IP address for one. Most of the IP's were rented by @home. In many cases you also lose your bandwidth beyond the gateway, @home leased the circuits. That's no the same for all markets, hope it works out for you.
They already started. This began the day before it was announced. I wonder if this will hold up against it's first constitutional challenge? I doubt it.
Now we get to listen to his twit buddy too. This keeps getting better and better. Next we get Katz's Mom reviewing films. I can't wait.
In 1985, when Mr. Matrix was in his first film, Jet Li already had at least 6 years of film under his belt. This was a 2 second research effort, Katz, check at least one fact per article in the future please.
Is the Matrix the only movie you ever liked? How the hell is this film derivative of the Matrix? Did you actually watch it, or did you leave right afrter the credits, like you did with Jurassic park 3?
If you like Kung Fu movies, you'll like this flick. End of story. If you only liked the Matrix, skip it.
Tell me Katz, are you gonna pan Matrix 2 because it's a rip off of the Matrix?
Mr. Katz, there is a resource availible on the "internet", which I'm sure you think is somehow a Matrix rip off, called the internet movie database. It can be found at http://www.imdb.com . You can use this to check dates, bodies of work, or actors that appear in movies. I suggest you check this in the future prior to making these embarassing gaffes in your "reviews". Thanks.
PS- If you had ever seen any movies prior to the Matrix, particularly in the Kung Fu genre, you would see how derivative it was on Hong Kong kung fu flicks. Using the aforementioned imdb you can see that many of the key people responsible for the "look and feel" of the Matrix cut thier teeth on Kung Fu flicks. So which is the rip off?
Is it really the responsibility of the photographer community at large to save bad pictures on the off chance that someone might want them in 30 years? If the photo is not good, delete it, or save everything on 50 cent cdroms for all posterity (as I do). I would think it's easier to put 1000 pics on one cdrom than save 1000 negatives and/or prints. This is a non issue. Of course this is what this woman wrote her thesis on, so it's important to her, I guess. I still think it's a non-issue.
The Advanced Operating Systems Group, a branch of the Lab for Computer Science at MIT, has begun planning for a public release of their formerly unknown operating system known as Cesium.
Currently at version 4.2 (version 1.0 was finished in 1993), Cesium's architecture and abilities are enough to make even the most jaded computer enthusiast start frothing at the mouth. As an assistant to one of the lab's directors, I was invited to a private presentation given last week to some MIT staff members as part of the planning process for its eventual public release. I was given permission to write this sneak preview.
The primary goal of Cesium's creators was to fully abandon the "historic principles" that have shaped most contemporary operating systems. Concepts like "desktop", "folders", "files", etc., have all been thrown out the window. The results, while unusual when compared against the de facto standard of Microsoft Windows, are nevertheless fascinating and potentially very useful.
Cesium comprises five main parts, or "Overmodules". These overmodules are made up of semi-independent modules, which can be replaced or updated at will in order to add, remove or modify system functionality.
The Platform overmodule is the only platform-specific part of Cesium. It serves as a virtual machine, allowing the OS to run almost identically on a variety of platforms. The AOSG Lab has a distributed Cesium system made up of a seemingly random batch of Mac and PC machines, and Cesium has also been successfully tested on some handheld devices.
The Storage overmodule is one of the more unique ideas behind Cesium. Instead of using a traditional filesystem, all data is stored in an object-oriented database (OODBMS) that is written through the Platform overmodule directly to a hard drive. This allows for queries and operations that would not normally be possible within a traditional filesystem. In addition, it eliminates the concepts of files and folders, opting instead for child-parent relationships between any data stores.
The Program overmodule serves as interpreter, compiler, and API for Cesium software. After translating code into an intermediate language called "Cilantro" (which is cached for future use), it passes the code to the Platform overmodule, which then executes it. Cesium currently supports C, C++, Java, Perl, Fortran, Lisp, COBOL, and numerous smaller languages.
The Presentation overmodule works with the Platform overmodule to give programs access to a powerful and platform-independent visual interface that can present the output of programs as anything from terminal text to a 3-dimensional Hollywood-style GUI called "Tripwire" (which does shadows, transparencies, textures and light rendering better than most video game engines) depending on what the user chooses to see and what the hardware can handle.
Finally, the Security overmodule handles access issues, providing administrators with user maintenance and permissions functionality that rivals anything offered by mainstream operating systems.
The most interesting parts of Cesium, however, are often the little things. For example, all human-readable text is assumed to be HTML or XML, instead of Notepad-style plain text, and formatting can be customized with cascading style sheets. The default text editor that comes with Cesium, therefore, handles such things as bold, italics, tables, graphics, colors, etc., without trouble.
Another interesting little tidbit is that Cesium was intended to be well documented from the very start. Error messages are dynamically generated and context sensitive, meaning that almost any error comes with a plain English description of exactly what happened, how it probably happened, and how to fix it.
Cesium is due to be released by the end of the year for free, bundled with approximately 200 software applications including HTTP, FTP, NNTP and SMTP servers; a fully functional office application suite; graphics and audio software; and four video games including CesiumQuake.
For further information, stay tuned to The MIT Laboratory for Computer Science website.
This article has been read 1584 times.
I notice that you prefer to post anonymously. You are now not anonymous on a legislative level. Cheers! The feds are reading your email right now.
I have a solution. Don't go to MSN anymore. I'd rather not give them the ad revenue anyway.
So then why exactly did you read this one?
Isn't that called a return address?
Nope. Intelligent people like to excersise thier minds, frequently in non-traditional ways, like playing with Legos or making sweet love to your Mom.
How long are we supposed to think of only the bombings, exactly. I assume you have quit your job, given nine pints of blood and enlisted, right?
We have to get back to our lives or the country will grind to a halt.
When it comes time to do something about the attacks, then we'll do it.