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Please dont... Slashdot is a great place for bouncing around headlines of 'news for nerds' and for associated discussion (though that part is slowly falling to pieces), but as far as 'reporting' you suck more than Commodore's marketing department.
Anyone one who has even the remotest connection with any conventional news media should be discusted at the stuff that you guys come up with - I would be very supprised if the combined tallents of the slashdot crew could pass an Introduction To Responsible News Gathering and Production.
Please dont even bother trying to pass off as reporters, or as news generators. You have a great medium - the editorial remarks included in your main page will take away from any content you may produce and any illconceeved content you may produce will take away from ligitimate focus of this site.
If you want to hire an/experienced/ reporter to do this kind of stuff please do - but the drivle youve so far demonstrated you produce is crap. There is more to news production that you have yet grasped.
Where did it say that they were using PC technology? Intel processors do not necessaraly mean a PC archetecture.
And having mutiple processors hooked up together dosent necessaraly mean SMP or any other kind of// processing you can think of. Given that it was ABC news, 'three linked computers' could mean anything.. It could be some kind of single computer with mutiprocessors (intel had supercomputers with hundreds of 8088's working together, after all) but this is a very specialized piece of hardware. The desiginers know that system FOO will peek at X cycles, BAR at Y, etc. FOO and BAZ use processor A, BAR and FRED use processor B, and C is held in reserve.
And they might only be 'linked' in the most basic sence - if the aiming system has its own computer (distinct from the others) they it would only have to communicate with the data aquisition computers with "stop collecting" and "start collecting"
The important thing right now is to get as many developers as possible building the source. If you're a developer and you're just downloading the binaries and maybe sending in the odd bug report, you're kind of wasting your talent don't you think?
Just compiling and seeing if its working, that is at least compiling clean, isn't helpful tinderbox takes care of that automaticly.
But yes, on any release, be it a kernel or a new redhat or mozilla/. should have a 48hour embargo on publishing it, unless they get permision from the maintainers of course.
Any 5gl would be a good thing. Visual Basic, Fox Pro and the like are all valuable tools. And a good IDE would be nice (actualy Ill settle for something that dose syntax highlighting etc. for php).
But the SOHO market is a big one.. Novell is to this day fighting (not very well IMNSHO) the immage of Netware 3.x and its administratiblity.. NW 4.x and 5 are far easier to administrator than NT, but yet MS continues wins in the non fortune 500 market.
Novell is failing because they have a marketing department slightly less competent than that of Commodore's, not because they dont have the tools. So far, linux dosent quite have the tools, but it has the brand recognition... In the long run it will be a bad thing to have linux in the hands of 'normal people' before it is ready.. Thell get frustrated and leave, never to return (like all those people who once had NW3.x boxes and diddnt upgrade once they got win95 file and print shares).
All reactors suck, and the Ukranians just happened to suck the most. Actualy there operators suck the most, but the design of the reacrot shold have prevented diaster.
The only reactors that come close to not sucking are CANDU rectors, the only 'brand' to be both deployed internationaly (hehe, sory about selling those to India) and without significant incedent.
Uncle Sam clearly wants to be the World's Policeman.
Prehaps, but if so your confusing policeman with swat team. UN peacekeepers are the worlds police (however ineffective they are at times), the USofA, as a country has no rights to dictate anything untill they, at a minimum, start paying there UN dues, or have some troops start wearing blue berets for a while.
The linux (and mac) version(s) will not be on the win9x disk, and they wont be on shelves at the same time. The debate rages, but id has a good reason for doing it this way (separate disk, and a delay on the non win9x versions).
Assumably in a month or so when the linux and mac versions will go gold, thell have a month or so or more work done on them.
Incedently, you will beable to download the linux (and mac(?)) bins for the full version whenever it hits the shelves, but if you want to help id convince the gamming world to pay attention to !win9x crowd then hold off on buying the game until the linux version is out.
Its been mastered and sent off to be distributerd.
I would assume that the saying comes from recording studios making masters of records, but gold dosent seem like a paticulary good metal to use. Its both expensive and soft.
But then agian, some CDR's loog gold, but if one actualy goes to the effort of making a physcial master then one would cough up the money for a good CDR which are the same colour as real CD's.
As you say, there tablets, which by definition is a exacting pointing device. These replace mice, which are relative. Pick up your mouse and move it to another place on your desk. The pointer will jiggle when you put it back down, but it wont flt accrossd the screen like it would do with a puck/pointer and tablet.
These look like they conbine the advantages of a pen/tablet (ease of use, ergonomic wise anyway) and a mouse (price, and relitivity (which in some cases is a good thing (though I cant think of any right now (actualy I can, fps games)))).
Simple solution, get someone who has the linux version to send over the linux executables, and copy the maps over from the CD.
Actualy something that us realy strange (and compleatly off topic) is that with Half-Life, I need neither the CD in my server, nor in my client when running multiplayer. I suppose I do have to register with the WON though...
The NSA dosent have any secret facilities off in never-never land.. There HQ is at Ft. Mead, Marryland, and thats where they have acers of Crays. This is by no means a secret.
It is doubtful that they would, at any time in there past, have found a computer especialy good since they can get at its insides... with there budget they always ordered customizations on there computers, and the/bought/ there mainframes, something that nobody dose/did (every one else from banks on down leases em).
For god sakes, there recruting EE's to desigin computers from the chip up, and they have on site fabs.
At least have a credable story... Its clear to me that your friend was at Area-51.
The version you had for your XT wasent the origional version. The purpose of this was to recreate the origional SPACEWAR as accuratly as possible.
The other week I saw on TV a experement to see if it was possible (with the aviable technology of the day) for the stones for stonehedeg to be moved from the quary site to there destination. (and two separate groups, doing it differently did it)
Of course we wouldnt move big rocks the same way now, and the purpose of this was not to make a new and cool spacewar - it was to do it exactly as it had been done back then. And the did, and its cool.
As for java, the language is cool. The VM stuff is equaly cool, though less refined. It will, in time, prove to be one of the most significant computer things of all time.
There is a significant error in your logic.. Everyone tries to do that, thats the way the game is played. Its only bad if your a monopoly.
Being a monopoly is ok.
(trying to) Doing anti-competitive things is ok.
Doing both is a no-no.
Its entirly acceptable to give things away for free, or significantly below the going rate provided your not a monopoly, both philosophicly and legaly.
Security, be it computer or otherwise is realy all about proving that you are who you say you are, and that can be done in of three ways:
Things you have.
Things you know.
Things you are.
Computer security, up untill quite recently, is centered around things you know - usernames, passwords, PIN's and the like. A truely secure system is going to combine at least two of the above - band machines require something you know (your pin) and something you have (your card). Getting beyone security in some buildings may require something you have (a photo id card) and something you are (your face). If the picture, you face, and the coloured stripes on the ID match, your in.
There are a number of hardware biometric solutions aviable, from finger print scanners, to face recoginition. The problem is, in this case, how you can integrate this with a http server, and for that I dont know:O
All (most) of these systems interate nicely with Novell NDS, and the Netscape http server that comes with Netware 4 (and above) integrates http security nicely with NDS (if user FOO is NDS authentacated to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx then he is also http authentacated as well...), this is true of netscape sever running on netware anyway, I dont know if it would work quite thateasily with, say, NDS on Soloris (or Caldara) and apache. A quick search of CPAN dosent turn up any NDS modules (but you can get perl for netware) but NDS can be accesed through LDAP for which there are dozens of perl mod for (and things like php can access that nativly (apache too??)).. Actualty perl from developer.novell.com has native support for NDS access.
hehe... Of on a bit of a Novell/NDS rant there, but it may be the solution, biometric products (which you want for security) support it, and you might be able to get away with some kind of open-source solution (which Im assuming is important to you, being a./ reader). Its quite possible that since your in a hospital, you have netware anyway, and keeping a single user tree is always a good idea.
Exactly, now that they have taken the step of making themselves responsible, they are. If they had mad the distinction that they are just/carriers/ of information, then they would be all clear. But now they are taking steps to show that they are/publishers/ of information, and in the long run this is a bad idea.
Would you sue a university if one of there students were making harssing phone calls from there doorm room? I dont think so.
Because the movie companies want to reuse the expensive film stock.
Also, I suppose, they have to get the movies by forgin censors/ratings people, which may require re-editing the flick. This would mean that they cant reuse the stock though...
Incedently, movies sometimes are not "done" until realy, realy, close to the premier date. Star Wars was in post production 72 hours before it was in theates. It takes a long time to copy film.
Strangly enough, I have found that music and nerdlyness/geekeness are related. At the university that I went to, they diddnt have a music degree program, but anyone could do a fine arts minor... There was a concert band and a brass enesmble, and both were abour 75% either CSers or Eng'rs.
This is because CS and Engineering are/art/ - that is creation. Scientists - discovers - dont have to be creative at all, and I would expect them not to understand creative things.
And, of coure, there is a difference beteween ignoreing social graces because you have concsiouly decided that they are unimportant, and ignoring them because you dont understand them.
On a related note, after 70minutes of being posted there were near 200 comments. Cool.
I have resonably good karma, and proably haver moderation abilities 80% of the time.
I have never moderated a AC's posting up however, and the reason is simple, if you dont attach your name (or some kind of a persona) to you messages you may as well not have writen them.
Find me a newspaper that has letters to the editor from anonymous people. Cant be dont. One of the local papers has a weekly phone pool, and to be dirrectly quoted you need to leave you name and town.
I do have my thereshold set at -1 to check for abuses, and i have found them. I am also forced to wade through dozens of AC postings that arent worth the electrons there stored on.
If you have something to say, say it, and attach you name to it.
Exactly... I has to be atleast as easy to configure modules as the tcl config for the linux kernel.
But preferably it should be like *cough* MS Office, a collection of seperate executables that work together (somewhat) seamlessely. Or prehaps what Office tries to do. No paper clip though:)
I can do the former, but most people cant.. And putting it in all one binary makes it so you have to download a huge thing. All seperate things that know how to play with each other is what they should be aming for.. DDE/OLE/Cobra type stuff..
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Prehaps the /. effect will influence the maintainer to move it over to a +r dir...
I dont think I ever actualy won :P
Please dont ... Slashdot is a great place for bouncing around headlines of 'news for nerds' and for associated discussion (though that part is slowly falling to pieces), but as far as 'reporting' you suck more than Commodore's marketing department.
Anyone one who has even the remotest connection with any conventional news media should be discusted at the stuff that you guys come up with - I would be very supprised if the combined tallents of the slashdot crew could pass an Introduction To Responsible News Gathering and Production.
Please dont even bother trying to pass off as reporters, or as news generators. You have a great medium - the editorial remarks included in your main page will take away from any content you may produce and any illconceeved content you may produce will take away from ligitimate focus of this site.
If you want to hire an /experienced/ reporter to do this kind of stuff please do - but the drivle youve so far demonstrated you produce is crap. There is more to news production that you have yet grasped.
And having mutiple processors hooked up together dosent necessaraly mean SMP or any other kind of // processing you can think of. Given that it was ABC news, 'three linked computers' could mean anything.. It could be some kind of single computer with mutiprocessors (intel had supercomputers with hundreds of 8088's working together, after all) but this is a very specialized piece of hardware. The desiginers know that system FOO will peek at X cycles, BAR at Y, etc. FOO and BAZ use processor A, BAR and FRED use processor B, and C is held in reserve.
And they might only be 'linked' in the most basic sence - if the aiming system has its own computer (distinct from the others) they it would only have to communicate with the data aquisition computers with "stop collecting" and "start collecting"
Just compiling and seeing if its working, that is at least compiling clean, isn't helpful tinderbox takes care of that automaticly.
But yes, on any release, be it a kernel or a new redhat or mozilla /. should have a 48hour embargo on publishing it, unless they get permision from the maintainers of course.
Its one thing for someones departmental server that happenes to have httpd running be /.ed.. But something like macaddict? Now thats fucked up.
It would be interesting to see if we can get some logs from them in about this time, since there proably a big volume site anyway.
Of course they coud just be running there site off a 5200 or something :)
Any 5gl would be a good thing. Visual Basic, Fox Pro and the like are all valuable tools. And a good IDE would be nice (actualy Ill settle for something that dose syntax highlighting etc. for php).
But the SOHO market is a big one.. Novell is to this day fighting (not very well IMNSHO) the immage of Netware 3.x and its administratiblity.. NW 4.x and 5 are far easier to administrator than NT, but yet MS continues wins in the non fortune 500 market.
Novell is failing because they have a marketing department slightly less competent than that of Commodore's, not because they dont have the tools. So far, linux dosent quite have the tools, but it has the brand recognition... In the long run it will be a bad thing to have linux in the hands of 'normal people' before it is ready.. Thell get frustrated and leave, never to return (like all those people who once had NW3.x boxes and diddnt upgrade once they got win95 file and print shares).
The only reactors that come close to not sucking are CANDU rectors, the only 'brand' to be both deployed internationaly (hehe, sory about selling those to India) and without significant incedent.
Prehaps, but if so your confusing policeman with swat team. UN peacekeepers are the worlds police (however ineffective they are at times), the USofA, as a country has no rights to dictate anything untill they, at a minimum, start paying there UN dues, or have some troops start wearing blue berets for a while.
The linux (and mac) version(s) will not be on the win9x disk, and they wont be on shelves at the same time. The debate rages, but id has a good reason for doing it this way (separate disk, and a delay on the non win9x versions).
Assumably in a month or so when the linux and mac versions will go gold, thell have a month or so or more work done on them.
Incedently, you will beable to download the linux (and mac(?)) bins for the full version whenever it hits the shelves, but if you want to help id convince the gamming world to pay attention to !win9x crowd then hold off on buying the game until the linux version is out.
I would assume that the saying comes from recording studios making masters of records, but gold dosent seem like a paticulary good metal to use. Its both expensive and soft.
But then agian, some CDR's loog gold, but if one actualy goes to the effort of making a physcial master then one would cough up the money for a good CDR which are the same colour as real CD's.
As you say, there tablets, which by definition is a exacting pointing device. These replace mice, which are relative. Pick up your mouse and move it to another place on your desk. The pointer will jiggle when you put it back down, but it wont flt accrossd the screen like it would do with a puck/pointer and tablet.
These look like they conbine the advantages of a pen/tablet (ease of use, ergonomic wise anyway) and a mouse (price, and relitivity (which in some cases is a good thing (though I cant think of any right now (actualy I can, fps games)))).
Actualy something that us realy strange (and compleatly off topic) is that with Half-Life, I need neither the CD in my server, nor in my client when running multiplayer. I suppose I do have to register with the WON though...
It is doubtful that they would, at any time in there past, have found a computer especialy good since they can get at its insides... with there budget they always ordered customizations on there computers, and the /bought/ there mainframes, something that nobody dose/did (every one else from banks on down leases em).
For god sakes, there recruting EE's to desigin computers from the chip up, and they have on site fabs.
At least have a credable story... Its clear to me that your friend was at Area-51.
The other week I saw on TV a experement to see if it was possible (with the aviable technology of the day) for the stones for stonehedeg to be moved from the quary site to there destination. (and two separate groups, doing it differently did it)
Of course we wouldnt move big rocks the same way now, and the purpose of this was not to make a new and cool spacewar - it was to do it exactly as it had been done back then. And the did, and its cool.
As for java, the language is cool. The VM stuff is equaly cool, though less refined. It will, in time, prove to be one of the most significant computer things of all time.
Being a monopoly is ok.
(trying to) Doing anti-competitive things is ok.
Doing both is a no-no.
Its entirly acceptable to give things away for free, or significantly below the going rate provided your not a monopoly, both philosophicly and legaly.
Things you have.
Things you know.
Things you are.
Computer security, up untill quite recently, is centered around things you know - usernames, passwords, PIN's and the like. A truely secure system is going to combine at least two of the above - band machines require something you know (your pin) and something you have (your card). Getting beyone security in some buildings may require something you have (a photo id card) and something you are (your face). If the picture, you face, and the coloured stripes on the ID match, your in.
There are a number of hardware biometric solutions aviable, from finger print scanners, to face recoginition. The problem is, in this case, how you can integrate this with a http server, and for that I dont know :O
All (most) of these systems interate nicely with Novell NDS, and the Netscape http server that comes with Netware 4 (and above) integrates http security nicely with NDS (if user FOO is NDS authentacated to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx then he is also http authentacated as well...), this is true of netscape sever running on netware anyway, I dont know if it would work quite thateasily with, say, NDS on Soloris (or Caldara) and apache. A quick search of CPAN dosent turn up any NDS modules (but you can get perl for netware) but NDS can be accesed through LDAP for which there are dozens of perl mod for (and things like php can access that nativly (apache too??)).. Actualty perl from developer.novell.com has native support for NDS access.
hehe... Of on a bit of a Novell/NDS rant there, but it may be the solution, biometric products (which you want for security) support it, and you might be able to get away with some kind of open-source solution (which Im assuming is important to you, being a ./ reader). Its quite possible that since your in a hospital, you have netware anyway, and keeping a single user tree is always a good idea.
Exactly, now that they have taken the step of making themselves responsible, they are. If they had mad the distinction that they are just /carriers/ of information, then they would be all clear. But now they are taking steps to show that they are /publishers/ of information, and in the long run this is a bad idea.
Would you sue a university if one of there students were making harssing phone calls from there doorm room? I dont think so.
Also, I suppose, they have to get the movies by forgin censors/ratings people, which may require re-editing the flick. This would mean that they cant reuse the stock though...
Incedently, movies sometimes are not "done" until realy, realy, close to the premier date. Star Wars was in post production 72 hours before it was in theates. It takes a long time to copy film.
The digital engeneering work will require exactly the same skill set (routing power raround the die will be different).
As for the people working in the fabs, they proably dont make a whole hell of a lot relitivly.
And what about Rhode Island: isnt that the commonwelth of tabaco growers or something?
A document might be classified as "public" or "sensitive" or "top secret" or "top secret: magic" or "top secret: presedential eyes only"
Everything is classified. To which classification something is is what is significant.
My point being, you have know idea what your talking about, so we shouldnt beleive you about security procedures.
Strangly enough, I have found that music and nerdlyness/geekeness are related. At the university that I went to, they diddnt have a music degree program, but anyone could do a fine arts minor... There was a concert band and a brass enesmble, and both were abour 75% either CSers or Eng'rs.
This is because CS and Engineering are /art/ - that is creation. Scientists - discovers - dont have to be creative at all, and I would expect them not to understand creative things.
And, of coure, there is a difference beteween ignoreing social graces because you have concsiouly decided that they are unimportant, and ignoring them because you dont understand them.
On a related note, after 70minutes of being posted there were near 200 comments. Cool.
I have never moderated a AC's posting up however, and the reason is simple, if you dont attach your name (or some kind of a persona) to you messages you may as well not have writen them.
Find me a newspaper that has letters to the editor from anonymous people. Cant be dont. One of the local papers has a weekly phone pool, and to be dirrectly quoted you need to leave you name and town.
I do have my thereshold set at -1 to check for abuses, and i have found them. I am also forced to wade through dozens of AC postings that arent worth the electrons there stored on.
If you have something to say, say it, and attach you name to it.
But preferably it should be like *cough* MS Office, a collection of seperate executables that work together (somewhat) seamlessely. Or prehaps what Office tries to do. No paper clip though :)
I can do the former, but most people cant.. And putting it in all one binary makes it so you have to download a huge thing. All seperate things that know how to play with each other is what they should be aming for.. DDE/OLE/Cobra type stuff..