how many Open standards will Apple support? how much supporior hardware will Apple design? what is the true cost of supporting open source?
it's your own fat ass. you build your own PC, you save money initially, you save on initialy investment, but your ROI is not there, you have no return. Instead, you have a vendor controlled market, much like Apple's, except there is nothing open about it.
so you spend your time bitching and complaining and building your own OS, which ends up looking much like that of the vendor you so declare as hated.
irony at it's finest. Do I need to remind you that OS X runs on BSD? Is that not open source enough? I'm not saying you should switch, or that you can afford to. I'm just reminding you where computer speakers came from, where bundled Firewire and Ethernet came from, and where WiFi came from....or at least what made it cool and popular.
why are there no open-source Cisco certifications outthere? Why is nobody complaining about lack of Open Source IOS and Open sourced CCIE certification labs?
this guy just admited he's pirating music... what a lamer.
And at 32,000 songs it would take 4 months to listen to them all if you listened 24 / 7.
In my humble opinion, over time you stop listening to some songs and get rid of them, and some are favourites and you keep them. Then there's people who just keep everything just in case... maybe he's also one of those?
Or maybe he's a movie producer who needs access to lots of music quickly, in which case a 32,000 song limit seems low, but I doubt this one.
Slashdot has become this piece of shit site. Or let me rephrase that.
- first posts, yeah fun. - lots of people who don't read stories post about the stories - lame news articles like this one.
If you want some integrity, stop adding comments like this to your post. "Who really cares?". If nobody cares, why are you posting it?
No more. As of now, I'm not reading slashdot anymore regularly. I may visit it once in a while, if someone sends me a link, but I'm not reading it daily ever again. It's a waste of time really. I could be coding.
I know, a site dedicated to human-individual-projects would surely kick ass.
It's too bad slashdot community seems to have swelled with peopel who do nothing but put down those who actually do something with their time.
The guy was bothered by somethign, and did something about it. Then you read slashdot and read things like "he had too much time on his hands". Not necceserly, he might just not be spending his time wasting it on reruns of star wars, the most useless way to spend one's time.
Because maybe people will see the benefit of an OS that can run all the apps, wheter they are Linux, BeOS, MacOS, or similar and maybe these same people will know a bit about code, and will have time to spare to help out, thus giving this project a leapfrog start!
In that case, we'll all have...
one OS to rule us all and leave this proprietary code behind in the darkness.
Why do MOST OSes run only code written for them? Sure technically it makes sense, but as a user - I want to run an app, I don't care what OS it's written for.
That's the real benefit if a trulley OPEN system, IMHO...
finally GNU/Linux being used for a purpose other than games, uber-uptime contests and perl hacking monikers.
Congrats to RedHat! Education is a noble endevour.
Google is awesome, this is not an exploit
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This isn't really an exploit, it's human societal nature, not erally an exploit whatsoever.
If the whole world thinks Britney Spears sucks, than the world will reflect that. if the Net thinks she's a "donkey spinning retard" than that will be what Google gives you when you search for her.
Big deal. I wish some journalists and Slashdot wouldn't jump to conclusions. Google rules.
Easier it is to use the tools, the easier they get into the hands of the people who the tools are designed against.
Cryptography is now used by terrorists. If money was spent on educating the lowest common denominator, the sheer volume of sheep willing to follow someone who wants to be a dictator would be low enough to not allow for anything more than a small cult, not a whole nation or terrorist government.
The original test results were measured with specific measuring instruments. The computer may provide more accurate data, perhaps PERFECT data, which would seem invalid because it doesn't match the "recorded" data. As such, the test algorithms will be adjusted until they match the recorded data, thus providing imperfect data - inaccurate results - human error.
Just like a ruler can measure to the accuracy of a milimeter, it doesn't mean your table is 212.5cm exactly, it could be 212.503 you just won't know unless you get a better measuring tool. Little errors like that, especially in large compmlex numerical systems, add up to a large error.
Again, another reason to concentrate funding on educational systems rather than military ones. In fact, to concentrate these funds on OTHER countries educationl systems. The lowest common denominator will launch attacks, smart rational people see the flaw in war.
Perhaps there's something useful in this data, perhaps it'll save the world.
But that's a perhaps.
Had these supercomputers been use to aid in progress of something like a cure for a disease, or perhaps the money used to fund educational institutions that lack funding, there would be definite benefits, and not "perhaps" ones.
Another example of how technology isn't used to solve actual problems, but trivial ones.
Who is this Zarf? Why is Slashdot even interested?
This to me sounded like a total and complete idiot when it came to using computers. I found OSX's UI very intuitive, the first problem this human being encountered with the "Click here to make changes" lock icon, was very intuitive to me. It makes perfect sense. Like the way Red Carpet asks for admin password.
This human needs more hacking time before their info is ever again posted on slashdot.
Somehow I never really was for breaking up Microsoft in the first place. Afterall, people do have a choice wheter they keep windows or not. If you complain that "Windows crashes too much", logically you will ask yourself "Can I use something other than Windows" and thus end up looking for alternatives.
Whereas I see that a lot of people can't be bothered, slowly people will learn from their friends about the alternatives. Sadly GNU/Linux still does not stand up to "Windows" in many areas. A simple example. Go to a website and try to view one of many movie trailers. What software for GNU/Linux immediatly seeks out a plugin, downloads it, installs it, and plays the appropriate file with the appropriate codecs. Although this really has nothing to do directly with this topic, it's just one of the reasons why people "choose" Windows over GNU/Linux. Do you expect a source-newbie to install and compile OpenQuicktime? Or libraries that it depends on? That's what some people do with their computers, they are entertained by them.
Computers, if evolved beyond the ridicilous mouse-keyboard paradigm, can actually be extremely usefull, more so than today. Why should I care about libraries, dependencies, repetative-compiling tasks? Isn't the whole purpose of computers to do the repetative routine work so we can focus on the interesting/creative/challenging things? Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather not have to do repetative tasks, life's not long enough for constant kernel recompiling!!! New feature added to new kernel? Great, let it update itself by a clearly defined mechanism. Yeah it's utopia, what'd you expect?
Everybody in this world isn't all about progress, some are about couch-potating, some governments don't even allow women to have education (Afghanistan). Some don't care about WTC, some do. From all the complaints of Windows, how many choose to find a solution? Why is security being tightened up now? Because we're forced to? What happened to the "war against pollution"? Will that happen, too, only when we're forced to? Will we stop using Microsoft's products only when we are forced to? Only when a terrorist exploits some government-run Windows box and attacks the USA (or another country) that way?
Who cares, I felt like ranting publicly. Ignore me, if I'm wrong what I'm saying won't matter in the long run anyway.
It's interesting to see how people struggle to pay money only to sit in idleness and not be entertained (aka watch TV programming). I've had my cable turned off for about a year now, gotta say I have a lot more time for myself, not that my life ever revolved around a TV show, but I know some people's lives do.
There's nothing really remotly interesting on TV, and there hasn't been since the Internet came around, perhaps even a bit before during the BBS era. And the rare interesting things on TV, such as TLC, Discovery and perhaps some funny shows, most of this "real" information and discoveries can be read on the web a lot quicker, and without any useless information being fed to you. Just jump into IRC, you'll laugh more than any stupid 70's show (which is beyond lame). The Family Guy might be funny, but you can only watch premature comedy for a few hours before wondering about the intelect of others watching it.
TV, as it is now, a company-to-one medium, should go the way of the dodo birds, bring back the birds though:)
Why not design a peer to peer network for the sole purpose of exchanging zone files based on set factor?
A zone file is distributed into this "dns network" in a similar fashion the information flows through Freenet or Gnutella - perhaps even utilize Freenet for this. If a host recevies multiple copies of a zone, it would need a mechanism to verify which is the authentic version. Certanly many ways can be devised to do this. One way could be longevity. The longer a "zone" (file) has been in this network (transit) the more hosts will trust it. Naturally if someone registers www.slashdot.org before anyone else, this zone will have been in the system longer than anybody else's. Quite simple - zero squatting. Perhaps implement a rule whereby trademark owners in the "real world" have first claim on names within the cyber world (who would want to associate themselves with something stupid like marlboro.com or mcdonalds.com anyway, I'm sure we all have more important code to write). One more variable could be introduced with each zone sent and that is a host trust value.
Each host would have a trust value for itself (separate from it's zone). This would indicate how trustworthy that host is. The same principle would apply as to the zone - the longer the host is on the network, the longer it's trusted - hence the first node will be god.
This is a problem obviously, so a mechanism should be devised around it. Perhaps trustworthiness is decided in months as units, therefore MANY nodes could have a value of 1 to begin with. The nodes used initially would be terminated the moment the system goes online, therefore preventing the developers from being masters. This is a good thing in the long run as nobody should really have control.
I think I'm just ranting at this point so I'll stop, but there are ways to make DNS better.
One alternative to all of this could be to assign each domain name a unique number, and distribute these amongst all "servers" with some protocol - this is vague, but it's sorta the way various ASs know how to reach each other via BGP - same concept, different purpose.
If anyone thinks this is a good idea, feel FREE to use it, bash it to a pulp, fine tune the ideas, and write the RFCs, as I have no idea how to do so.
It still strikes me as kind of odd that we are working towards video games in Linux when we still haven't quite figured out how to do a proper or a unified UI. I mean, we're still in-fighting over which graphical toolkit is better, let alone which mode of IPC is better... In-fighting only leads to branching, when instead we should be working towards debarking this tree of development... grrrr...
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how many Open standards will Apple support?
how much supporior hardware will Apple design?
what is the true cost of supporting open source?
it's your own fat ass. you build your own PC, you save money initially, you save on initialy investment, but your ROI is not there, you have no return. Instead, you have a vendor controlled market, much like Apple's, except there is nothing open about it.
so you spend your time bitching and complaining and building your own OS, which ends up looking much like that of the vendor you so declare as hated.
irony at it's finest. Do I need to remind you that OS X runs on BSD? Is that not open source enough? I'm not saying you should switch, or that you can afford to. I'm just reminding you where computer speakers came from, where bundled Firewire and Ethernet came from, and where WiFi came from....or at least what made it cool and popular.
feel free to argue.
you could survive if some computer monitoring some nuclear power plant didn't turn on?
it's not elitist.
why are there no open-source Cisco certifications outthere? Why is nobody complaining about lack of Open Source IOS and Open sourced CCIE certification labs?
spam is not a technological problem,
much like any form of crime is not a mechanical problem.
Certainly you may restrain criminals by mechanical means, but you may not stop crime through such means.
Much the same way, you will not stop spam technologically.
Because much like crime, it is a social problem.
- bL
yeah that's the first thing I thought...
this guy just admited he's pirating music... what a lamer.
And at 32,000 songs it would take 4 months to listen to them all if you listened 24 / 7.
In my humble opinion, over time you stop listening to some songs and get rid of them, and some are favourites and you keep them. Then there's people who just keep everything just in case... maybe he's also one of those?
Or maybe he's a movie producer who needs access to lots of music quickly, in which case a 32,000 song limit seems low, but I doubt this one.
Slashdot has become this piece of shit site. Or let me rephrase that.
- first posts, yeah fun.
- lots of people who don't read stories post about the stories
- lame news articles like this one.
If you want some integrity, stop adding comments like this to your post. "Who really cares?". If nobody cares, why are you posting it?
No more. As of now, I'm not reading slashdot anymore regularly. I may visit it once in a while, if someone sends me a link, but I'm not reading it daily ever again. It's a waste of time really. I could be coding.
Where do you want to play today?
:)
Now how about some clone "Live" servers
definitely not a good point whatsoever.
Since this change comes with BRAND NEW systems once purchases.
People really need to start paying attention to what they read, this includes Slashdot authors.
Hmmm, another post about how Windows is lacking this and lacking that, and how it has this and has that.
Yet there's alot more that can be done for GNU/Linux itself which it doesn't have...
article was a waste of my time.
First we say world peace is a noble cause.
Then we build robots to fight each other.
Then robots run away from war, from the fight.
It seems peace is universally desired.
Right On
if what you describe happens so often every mid-Jan, then there's obviously some sort of regulatory issue being overlooked...
I know, a site dedicated to human-individual-projects would surely kick ass.
It's too bad slashdot community seems to have swelled with peopel who do nothing but put down those who actually do something with their time.
The guy was bothered by somethign, and did something about it. Then you read slashdot and read things like "he had too much time on his hands". Not necceserly, he might just not be spending his time wasting it on reruns of star wars, the most useless way to spend one's time.
Because maybe people will see the benefit of an OS that can run all the apps, wheter they are Linux, BeOS, MacOS, or similar and maybe these same people will know a bit about code, and will have time to spare to help out, thus giving this project a leapfrog start!
In that case, we'll all have...
one OS to rule us all and leave this proprietary code behind in the darkness.
Why do MOST OSes run only code written for them? Sure technically it makes sense, but as a user - I want to run an app, I don't care what OS it's written for.
That's the real benefit if a trulley OPEN system, IMHO...
finally GNU/Linux being used for a purpose other than games, uber-uptime contests and perl hacking monikers.
Congrats to RedHat! Education is a noble endevour.
This isn't really an exploit, it's human societal nature, not erally an exploit whatsoever.
If the whole world thinks Britney Spears sucks, than the world will reflect that. if the Net thinks she's a "donkey spinning retard" than that will be what Google gives you when you search for her.
Big deal. I wish some journalists and Slashdot wouldn't jump to conclusions. Google rules.
Instead of fighting HUGE spammers, why not take smaller ones to court to set precedents. Then build up to larger and larger ones?
This is a great step in the correct direction.
Easier it is to use the tools, the easier they get into the hands of the people who the tools are designed against.
Cryptography is now used by terrorists. If money was spent on educating the lowest common denominator, the sheer volume of sheep willing to follow someone who wants to be a dictator would be low enough to not allow for anything more than a small cult, not a whole nation or terrorist government.
except for the human oversight.
The original test results were measured with specific measuring instruments. The computer may provide more accurate data, perhaps PERFECT data, which would seem invalid because it doesn't match the "recorded" data. As such, the test algorithms will be adjusted until they match the recorded data, thus providing imperfect data - inaccurate results - human error.
Just like a ruler can measure to the accuracy of a milimeter, it doesn't mean your table is 212.5cm exactly, it could be 212.503 you just won't know unless you get a better measuring tool. Little errors like that, especially in large compmlex numerical systems, add up to a large error.
Again, another reason to concentrate funding on educational systems rather than military ones. In fact, to concentrate these funds on OTHER countries educationl systems. The lowest common denominator will launch attacks, smart rational people see the flaw in war.
Perhaps there's something useful in this data, perhaps it'll save the world.
But that's a perhaps.
Had these supercomputers been use to aid in progress of something like a cure for a disease, or perhaps the money used to fund educational institutions that lack funding, there would be definite benefits, and not "perhaps" ones.
Another example of how technology isn't used to solve actual problems, but trivial ones.
Who is this Zarf? Why is Slashdot even interested?
This to me sounded like a total and complete idiot when it came to using computers. I found OSX's UI very intuitive, the first problem this human being encountered with the "Click here to make changes" lock icon, was very intuitive to me. It makes perfect sense. Like the way Red Carpet asks for admin password.
This human needs more hacking time before their info is ever again posted on slashdot.
Stupid Slashdot! Go Apple!
Whereas I see that a lot of people can't be bothered, slowly people will learn from their friends about the alternatives. Sadly GNU/Linux still does not stand up to "Windows" in many areas. A simple example. Go to a website and try to view one of many movie trailers. What software for GNU/Linux immediatly seeks out a plugin, downloads it, installs it, and plays the appropriate file with the appropriate codecs. Although this really has nothing to do directly with this topic, it's just one of the reasons why people "choose" Windows over GNU/Linux. Do you expect a source-newbie to install and compile OpenQuicktime? Or libraries that it depends on? That's what some people do with their computers, they are entertained by them.
Computers, if evolved beyond the ridicilous mouse-keyboard paradigm, can actually be extremely usefull, more so than today. Why should I care about libraries, dependencies, repetative-compiling tasks? Isn't the whole purpose of computers to do the repetative routine work so we can focus on the interesting/creative/challenging things? Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather not have to do repetative tasks, life's not long enough for constant kernel recompiling!!! New feature added to new kernel? Great, let it update itself by a clearly defined mechanism. Yeah it's utopia, what'd you expect?
Everybody in this world isn't all about progress, some are about couch-potating, some governments don't even allow women to have education (Afghanistan). Some don't care about WTC, some do. From all the complaints of Windows, how many choose to find a solution? Why is security being tightened up now? Because we're forced to? What happened to the "war against pollution"? Will that happen, too, only when we're forced to? Will we stop using Microsoft's products only when we are forced to? Only when a terrorist exploits some government-run Windows box and attacks the USA (or another country) that way?
Who cares, I felt like ranting publicly. Ignore me, if I'm wrong what I'm saying won't matter in the long run anyway.
There's nothing really remotly interesting on TV, and there hasn't been since the Internet came around, perhaps even a bit before during the BBS era. And the rare interesting things on TV, such as TLC, Discovery and perhaps some funny shows, most of this "real" information and discoveries can be read on the web a lot quicker, and without any useless information being fed to you. Just jump into IRC, you'll laugh more than any stupid 70's show (which is beyond lame). The Family Guy might be funny, but you can only watch premature comedy for a few hours before wondering about the intelect of others watching it.
TV, as it is now, a company-to-one medium, should go the way of the dodo birds, bring back the birds though :)
A zone file is distributed into this "dns network" in a similar fashion the information flows through Freenet or Gnutella - perhaps even utilize Freenet for this. If a host recevies multiple copies of a zone, it would need a mechanism to verify which is the authentic version. Certanly many ways can be devised to do this. One way could be longevity. The longer a "zone" (file) has been in this network (transit) the more hosts will trust it. Naturally if someone registers www.slashdot.org before anyone else, this zone will have been in the system longer than anybody else's. Quite simple - zero squatting. Perhaps implement a rule whereby trademark owners in the "real world" have first claim on names within the cyber world (who would want to associate themselves with something stupid like marlboro.com or mcdonalds.com anyway, I'm sure we all have more important code to write). One more variable could be introduced with each zone sent and that is a host trust value.
Each host would have a trust value for itself (separate from it's zone). This would indicate how trustworthy that host is. The same principle would apply as to the zone - the longer the host is on the network, the longer it's trusted - hence the first node will be god.
This is a problem obviously, so a mechanism should be devised around it. Perhaps trustworthiness is decided in months as units, therefore MANY nodes could have a value of 1 to begin with. The nodes used initially would be terminated the moment the system goes online, therefore preventing the developers from being masters. This is a good thing in the long run as nobody should really have control.
I think I'm just ranting at this point so I'll stop, but there are ways to make DNS better.
One alternative to all of this could be to assign each domain name a unique number, and distribute these amongst all "servers" with some protocol - this is vague, but it's sorta the way various ASs know how to reach each other via BGP - same concept, different purpose.
If anyone thinks this is a good idea, feel FREE to use it, bash it to a pulp, fine tune the ideas, and write the RFCs, as I have no idea how to do so.
Just my suggestions,
Bojan
It still strikes me as kind of odd that we are working towards video games in Linux when we still haven't quite figured out how to do a proper or a unified UI. I mean, we're still in-fighting over which graphical toolkit is better, let alone which mode of IPC is better... In-fighting only leads to branching, when instead we should be working towards debarking this tree of development... grrrr...