I think with personal wireless storage, the basic concept of laptops and handheld devices might change.
You have your personal server, and then you buy a storage-less computing device to go with it, or something like that. That's the direction I think the article writer was going with this.
Its surprising what you can find out there if you look. Just last month, I was pointed to an installer+binary for running Serious Sam: The First Encounter under Linux. Plays like a dream.
You know, I've heard that in Federal Prisons, pedophiles are the lowest of the low, and they get "special" treatment from the other inmates. I wonder if spammers are in the same boat?
one minor quibble. License does not give ownership. Back in the early ages of computer history, someone came up with the idea of software "licensing." It wasn't illegal to HAVE software without a license, it was just illegal to USE it. "This software belongs to us, and we give you permission to use it with these restrictions..."
I think currently, the legal meaning of license has changed, and (IANAL) it is illegal to HAVE software without a license, use notwithstanding.
That's why you do a "capture the flag" kind of wargame with your own soldiers on both sides, and you stack the game against one team or the other each time.
Oh yeah, and send one of both of them in blind (no prior knowledge of the situation, or terrain).
Let the "battle-hardened" officers set up the conditions, and make the soldiers simulate on that. Pit them against real people.
IIRC, in Ender's Game, as they got closer to ground zero for sending Ender in, they did just that: started putting the other team in several minutes before ender's team, tried stacking the odds against his team, took his well-trained team away and made them his opponents, etc.
My vague impression of France's position on war is "avoid it at all costs, at any costs to whomever."
Not to dis the french - they've had a rather bitter history. Having Napoleon (who encouraged the french proletariat to take some power from the nobles) forcibly taken from them by an alliance of European nations seemed to have broken their spirit.
The persian gulf war ended in a cease-fire, with cease-fire terms imposed on Iraq. Some of the terms imposed a no-fly zone that Iraq never respect, a prohibition of weapons of mass destruction, including missiles with long-range capability, which they were found to possess about a month ago, and several other terms, some I believe involved the Kurds.
It didn't solve a lot because UN only treats symptoms, not diseases.
Well, if you want to care for individual pride and dignity, then the Iraqi people need to be liberated. Not that I think its our place to do it, but then... whose is it? The UN is a diplomatic organization... when diplomacy fails, they have little power. At the university I attend, there are some Iraqi students, now nationalized. They were quite surprised at Americans. We're not the animals the government makes us out to be, slaughtering arab babies, and the like. They wish peace for their old country yes, but they wish freedom for it even more. And none of those students are Kurds. If the "native" Iraqis think they have it bad, the Kurds have it worse.
I think there are two issues at play: 1) The Iraqis deserve freedom, but no external force has the right to give it to them.
2) The US would be the first target in Hussein's struggle for national superiority. They have been acquiring weapons of mass destruction (Turkey has at least once intercepted weapons grade plutonium trying to make it into Iraq), and that's nothing to sneeze at.
What about a 10-year cease-fire? You know, the one that delineated the no-fly zone that has been violated AT LEAST once a month, when it wasn't daily, by a defiant Iraq? The same one that was supposed to take weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of Iraq's leaders? That ban on weapons of mass destruction included delivery vehicles (not motor vehicles, but missiles and the like) with a certain range. Iraq vehemently denied having anything... weapons inspectors have been through Iraq many times throughout the years... funny how just a few months ago, we find some missiles that are in violation of the cease-fire. "Oh... you mean THOSE weapons of mass destruction... ha ha ha. We'll get rid of them right away. No, no. No need for you to get rid of them... we'll bulldoze them ourselves."
Iraq may be a mouse of a country, but its a mouse with rabies looking to bite.
Incidentally... many countries see little difference between life sentences and the death sentence. In either case, the goal is no longer to rehabilitate the person, but to protect society from that person.
In some ways, programming isn't much different from manual labor. You have your grunt programming jobs that you could train an ape to do, and your specialized jobs that not only take training, but education to do. I'd like to see an underwater basket-weaver trained to develop circuit design software, or develop drivers for data-acquisition hardware, or any number of things. Most programming projects have room for grunt programmers to do routine tasks. But it takes software engineers and REAL computer scientists to make the core of most applications.
Granted, you can train math majors to program, and take over some jobs that computer scientists do. You could train physicists to take over some jobs that computer engineers do. You could train electrical engineers quite easily to take over a good number of the programming jobs that are done. But you still could never develop software like PSPICE, Mathematica, Adobe Photoshop, or any very useful piece of software without a large number of people who actually KNOW what they're doing, rather than mucking their way through it.
Actually, Bush is a hard core anti-spammer. He's collaborating with Microsoft to eliminate competing asian spam. That's what trusted computing is all about - if its not a serialized, microsoft-monitored computer, it can't transmit anything on the internet.
my impression of the program is that its intended to be somewhat voluntary, and act by peer pressure... I don't think it just sits there and logs websites silently and forwards them to your boss, your wife, the CIA, the Illuminati, etc.
some people view porn as an addiction like alcohol or smoking. They WANT to stop, but they don't have the self control. Think of it as an AA for porn. No one's asking you to participate, so let them do their thing.
And about the decision personal or religious not to look at porn... a lot of people's wives arent' too fond of their husbands looking at the stuff.
nuh uh. Not politics. DRM is an industry lobby-child. What industries? Media industries. Yeah... MPAA and the RIAA controlling media content on our PCs. The biggest step is getting DRM legally mandated. With that done, anything they do after that is just a small step. A simple thing. No... I think scarier than having government control our digital content is the media industry.
Well, the question involved is whether IBM has been insinuating UNIX (SCO owned, apparently) IP into the Linux kernel. And apparently their claims are that Linux could not POSSIBLY have advanced as fast or as far as it has without stealing UNIX IP, it MUST be stealing UNIX IP. Linus knows better than just about everyone else WHAT goes into the kernel, if not necessarily where it comes from. Since you can be pretty sure IBM isn't talking, Linus is the best source for evaluating with the community is capable of.
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What I was trying to say is more or less what someone in the article such much better than I - That each of the two patches is around an 80% solution, and the two together are a 95% solution. I think it was AA that said that.
Actually, Linus's patch doesn't improve things any better than the scheduler patch it is Linus's patch combined with the scheduler patch that make it such a huge improvement. Again... its the COMBO patch that's arousing so much excitement.
if entanglement propagates at the speed of light, then you don't need to consider surface distance, but the true shortest distance (if this takes in to account space curvature, then who knows), but if it propagates instantaneously, forget the speed of light!
Who knows if entanglement can ever be used for permanent data transmission links, but I don't think that possibility has been discounted yet.
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I think with personal wireless storage, the basic concept of laptops and handheld devices might change.
You have your personal server, and then you buy a storage-less computing device to go with it, or something like that. That's the direction I think the article writer was going with this.
Last I checked, there wasn't a "brain" port of Apache, nor do they come equipped with wifi or bluetooth (yet).
Its surprising what you can find out there if you look. Just last month, I was pointed to an installer+binary for running Serious Sam: The First Encounter under Linux. Plays like a dream.
That's not a truth *I'D* want to see. Underwear check with no underwear? Nope. Don't want to know.
You know, I've heard that in Federal Prisons, pedophiles are the lowest of the low, and they get "special" treatment from the other inmates. I wonder if spammers are in the same boat?
Microsoft Exec to the Board on Apple's move:
"We've analyzed their attack sir, and there is a threat."
"Abandon? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!"
one minor quibble. License does not give ownership.
Back in the early ages of computer history, someone came up with the idea of software "licensing." It wasn't illegal to HAVE software without a license, it was just illegal to USE it. "This software belongs to us, and we give you permission to use it with these restrictions..."
I think currently, the legal meaning of license has changed, and (IANAL) it is illegal to HAVE software without a license, use notwithstanding.
That's why you do a "capture the flag" kind of wargame with your own soldiers on both sides, and you stack the game against one team or the other each time.
Oh yeah, and send one of both of them in blind (no prior knowledge of the situation, or terrain).
Let the "battle-hardened" officers set up the conditions, and make the soldiers simulate on that. Pit them against real people.
IIRC, in Ender's Game, as they got closer to ground zero for sending Ender in, they did just that: started putting the other team in several minutes before ender's team, tried stacking the odds against his team, took his well-trained team away and made them his opponents, etc.
My vague impression of France's position on war is "avoid it at all costs, at any costs to whomever."
Not to dis the french - they've had a rather bitter history. Having Napoleon (who encouraged the french proletariat to take some power from the nobles) forcibly taken from them by an alliance of European nations seemed to have broken their spirit.
The persian gulf war ended in a cease-fire, with cease-fire terms imposed on Iraq. Some of the terms imposed a no-fly zone that Iraq never respect, a prohibition of weapons of mass destruction, including missiles with long-range capability, which they were found to possess about a month ago, and several other terms, some I believe involved the Kurds.
It didn't solve a lot because UN only treats symptoms, not diseases.
Well, if you want to care for individual pride and dignity, then the Iraqi people need to be liberated. Not that I think its our place to do it, but then... whose is it? The UN is a diplomatic organization... when diplomacy fails, they have little power. At the university I attend, there are some Iraqi students, now nationalized. They were quite surprised at Americans. We're not the animals the government makes us out to be, slaughtering arab babies, and the like. They wish peace for their old country yes, but they wish freedom for it even more. And none of those students are Kurds. If the "native" Iraqis think they have it bad, the Kurds have it worse.
I think there are two issues at play:
1) The Iraqis deserve freedom, but no external force has the right to give it to them.
2) The US would be the first target in Hussein's struggle for national superiority. They have been acquiring weapons of mass destruction (Turkey has at least once intercepted weapons grade plutonium trying to make it into Iraq), and that's nothing to sneeze at.
From an AP article:
"I doubt we will see an attack based on this," Cooper said. "It's pretty unlikely any such exploit attempt will get legs."
Russ Cooper is a security expert for TruSecure Corp., based in Herndon, Va.
There seems to be some disagreement on the exploitability of this.
What about a 10-year cease-fire? You know, the one that delineated the no-fly zone that has been violated AT LEAST once a month, when it wasn't daily, by a defiant Iraq? The same one that was supposed to take weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of Iraq's leaders? That ban on weapons of mass destruction included delivery vehicles (not motor vehicles, but missiles and the like) with a certain range. Iraq vehemently denied having anything... weapons inspectors have been through Iraq many times throughout the years... funny how just a few months ago, we find some missiles that are in violation of the cease-fire. "Oh... you mean THOSE weapons of mass destruction... ha ha ha. We'll get rid of them right away. No, no. No need for you to get rid of them... we'll bulldoze them ourselves."
Iraq may be a mouse of a country, but its a mouse with rabies looking to bite.
Incidentally... many countries see little difference between life sentences and the death sentence. In either case, the goal is no longer to rehabilitate the person, but to protect society from that person.
Some previous posts (no, I didn't rtfa) seem to indicate that foreign keys have been added with the addition of InnoDB to the codebase.
In some ways, programming isn't much different from manual labor. You have your grunt programming jobs that you could train an ape to do, and your specialized jobs that not only take training, but education to do. I'd like to see an underwater basket-weaver trained to develop circuit design software, or develop drivers for data-acquisition hardware, or any number of things. Most programming projects have room for grunt programmers to do routine tasks. But it takes software engineers and REAL computer scientists to make the core of most applications.
Granted, you can train math majors to program, and take over some jobs that computer scientists do. You could train physicists to take over some jobs that computer engineers do. You could train electrical engineers quite easily to take over a good number of the programming jobs that are done. But you still could never develop software like PSPICE, Mathematica, Adobe Photoshop, or any very useful piece of software without a large number of people who actually KNOW what they're doing, rather than mucking their way through it.
Actually, Bush is a hard core anti-spammer. He's collaborating with Microsoft to eliminate competing asian spam. That's what trusted computing is all about - if its not a serialized, microsoft-monitored computer, it can't transmit anything on the internet.
my impression of the program is that its intended to be somewhat voluntary, and act by peer pressure... I don't think it just sits there and logs websites silently and forwards them to your boss, your wife, the CIA, the Illuminati, etc.
some people view porn as an addiction like alcohol or smoking. They WANT to stop, but they don't have the self control. Think of it as an AA for porn. No one's asking you to participate, so let them do their thing.
And about the decision personal or religious not to look at porn... a lot of people's wives arent' too fond of their husbands looking at the stuff.
nuh uh. Not politics. DRM is an industry lobby-child. What industries? Media industries. Yeah... MPAA and the RIAA controlling media content on our PCs. The biggest step is getting DRM legally mandated. With that done, anything they do after that is just a small step. A simple thing. No... I think scarier than having government control our digital content is the media industry.
Well, the question involved is whether IBM has been insinuating UNIX (SCO owned, apparently) IP into the Linux kernel. And apparently their claims are that Linux could not POSSIBLY have advanced as fast or as far as it has without stealing UNIX IP, it MUST be stealing UNIX IP. Linus knows better than just about everyone else WHAT goes into the kernel, if not necessarily where it comes from. Since you can be pretty sure IBM isn't talking, Linus is the best source for evaluating with the community is capable of.
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EXACTLY. Finally... someone who understands what I'm trying to say!
What I was trying to say is more or less what someone in the article such much better than I - That each of the two patches is around an 80% solution, and the two together are a 95% solution. I think it was AA that said that.
Actually, Linus's patch doesn't improve things any better than the scheduler patch it is Linus's patch combined with the scheduler patch that make it such a huge improvement. Again... its the COMBO patch that's arousing so much excitement.
In my words "Entanglement rocks"
if entanglement propagates at the speed of light, then you don't need to consider surface distance, but the true shortest distance (if this takes in to account space curvature, then who knows), but if it propagates instantaneously, forget the speed of light!
Who knows if entanglement can ever be used for permanent data transmission links, but I don't think that possibility has been discounted yet.