All respect to Andrew Tanenbaum, I'm not trying to troll. It's a sincere question.
He has said Minix was to be a teaching tool.
Now they want to turn it into a super reliable OS?
I don't think it's to make it into another production OS. Could it be in order to develop new OS concepts and ideas which can be spread out to the world?
"Software as a service" means that you think of a particular server as doing your computing for you. If that's what the server does, you must not use it! If you do your computing on someone else's server, you hand over control of your computing to whoever controls the server. It is like running binary-only software, only worse: it's even harder for you to patch the program that's running on someone else's server than it is to patch a binary copy of a program running on your own computer. Just like non-free software, "software as a service" is incompatible with your freedom.--RMS
So if I remotely log into a linux server running 100% GPL software, and use that software to crunch data, it's non-free and I must not use it, because the server is owned and controlled by someone else.
So now software isn't free by it's license, it's free only if it's got a free license and it's on your personal box.
Ironic, because I was introduced to free software on my universities mainframe (e.g. emacs, LaTeX) and now I find out that wasn't free at all because I didn't have the money to buy a computer that could run it locally.
You can't save the games. This is really important, because the damn things were HARD, and sometimes saving was part of the puzzle solving.
For example, Space Quest had a slot machine that you had to use to get money to buy a spaceship. But the odds were no better than a real slot machine (and it would KILL you), so the only way to get past it was to save every time you won, load the game every time you lost.
Sorry but that is fucking ridiculous. If you can't make a profit off a 180% return on your investment something is seriously flawed with the business model, and you need to figure out what you did wrong.
seeking someone who could 'think like the bad guy.' Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems.
Clearly written by a technologically illiterate PHB. Any good security person worth his/her salt can think like the bad guy and knows hackers tools. They also know the difference between what the term "hacker" really means and what the knucklehead who wrote this ad thinks it means.
It terrifies me that people keep trying to come up with USES for nuclear weapons. A few years ago we had some morons trying to push a "bunker buster" nuclear weapon that they would be using in conventional warfare. Now this shit?
An alternative is giving the giant middle finger to the RIAA and using ONLY independent music in your YouTube videos. Go creative commons, go attribution only, etc, and fully credit those artists so people can discover them and realize they can get good or better music without the RIAA
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I don't think we will see this in notebooks for a while. We need to wait and see what the real product looks like (Intel hasn't released any specs), but Google for Larrabee and 300W and you will see the scuttlebut is that this chip will draw very large amounts of power.
That RAM was all parity memory.What protection did parity memory provide, anyway? Not much, really. It would detect with 99.99...? % accuracy when a memory bit had flipped, but provided no answer as to which one. The result was that if parity failed, you'd see a generic "MEMORY FAILURE" message and the system would instantly lock up.
I saw this message perhaps three times - it didn't really help much.
Wow, that's answered a question I've had for years... the real reason why parity memory died out wasn't just that it was more expensive but that the error detection was not very useful.
On a side note, it reminds me of the time I tried to refurbish a surplus computer and upgrade it with spare parts. I called the manufacturers tech support 1800 line.
I asked the techie if it needed parity memory.
"Yes the memory needs to be added in pairs" was the reply.
As much as I am NOT a fan of the DMCA: This is 13% of their test. It's 1/8. For a test, I wouldn't consider it a small sample.
If you want to fight it, you and your layers need to come up with a good reason that you need to redistribute so large a percentage of a a test as "fair use."
No that is not correct. You buy a CD like you buy a book. You only need a "license" if the copyright holder has to give you a limited subset of his or her limited monopoly on copying/distribution. You buy the CD, you do not need any of the copying/distribution rights that are reserved to the copyright holder.
I don't know where this idea that music is "licensed" comes from. Sometimes I think the RIAA is spreading this to make us believe we don't really own the CD's we bought.
Lets think about how this would have affected the development of: the personal computer, the VCR, the tape deck, CD burners, torrent distribution, the xerox machine, the printing press...
What's really going on?
RIAA warfare against "piracy?"
or
The RIAA is attempting to buy legislation which would allow them to destroy technologies that allow independent artists to compete with them.
But I think the major cellphone providers do this on purpose.
How many of their users would WANT to be able to rack up more than $100 at a single time?
But they give them the opportunity to charge tens of thousands of dollars with one usage.
Logically, they should put a cap on one use, and have the user call and explicity request the cap be removed on a case by case basis, except for super huge millionaires, CEO's, ETC.
More like strawman and double strawman. Jen-Hsun Huang talks about GPUs. Intel is talking about chipsets.
You can plug an NVIDIA GPU card into an Intel motherboard (I did just that for the computer I am using).
I have no idea why Intel wouldn't want Nvidia to make chipsets for core i7. For some reason, even years after AMD bought ATI, the only Intel mainboards which support two linked graphics cards do so through Crossfire. So if Nvidia doesn't make chipsets to support core i7, Intel would be forcing the hardcore gamers to either (a) buy AMD's video chips to use Crossfire or (b) buy AMD's CPU's to use NVidia SLI.
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All respect to Andrew Tanenbaum, I'm not trying to troll. It's a sincere question.
He has said Minix was to be a teaching tool.
Now they want to turn it into a super reliable OS?
I don't think it's to make it into another production OS. Could it be in order to develop new OS concepts and ideas which can be spread out to the world?
So if I remotely log into a linux server running 100% GPL software, and use that software to crunch data, it's non-free and I must not use it, because the server is owned and controlled by someone else.
So now software isn't free by it's license, it's free only if it's got a free license and it's on your personal box.
Ironic, because I was introduced to free software on my universities mainframe (e.g. emacs, LaTeX) and now I find out that wasn't free at all because I didn't have the money to buy a computer that could run it locally.
I no longer have any hope for Great Britain.
The country that spawned the magna carta is on an irreversible spiral into a police state.
They will continue to erode the rights of people in the name of "terrorism" and "child pornography."
And the general populace seems happy to let it happen.
You can't save the games. This is really important, because the damn things were HARD, and sometimes saving was part of the puzzle solving.
For example, Space Quest had a slot machine that you had to use to get money to buy a spaceship. But the odds were no better than a real slot machine (and it would KILL you), so the only way to get past it was to save every time you won, load the game every time you lost.
Sorry but that is fucking ridiculous. If you can't make a profit off a 180% return on your investment something is seriously flawed with the business model, and you need to figure out what you did wrong.
Yes, it's definitely time to sue your customers.
Clearly written by a technologically illiterate PHB. Any good security person worth his/her salt can think like the bad guy and knows hackers tools. They also know the difference between what the term "hacker" really means and what the knucklehead who wrote this ad thinks it means.
It terrifies me that people keep trying to come up with USES for nuclear weapons. A few years ago we had some morons trying to push a "bunker buster" nuclear weapon that they would be using in conventional warfare. Now this shit?
An alternative is giving the giant middle finger to the RIAA and using ONLY independent music in your YouTube videos. Go creative commons, go attribution only, etc, and fully credit those artists so people can discover them and realize they can get good or better music without the RIAA
I don't think we will see this in notebooks for a while. We need to wait and see what the real product looks like (Intel hasn't released any specs), but Google for Larrabee and 300W and you will see the scuttlebut is that this chip will draw very large amounts of power.
That RAM was all parity memory.What protection did parity memory provide, anyway? Not much, really. It would detect with 99.99...? % accuracy when a memory bit had flipped, but provided no answer as to which one. The result was that if parity failed, you'd see a generic "MEMORY FAILURE" message and the system would instantly lock up.
I saw this message perhaps three times - it didn't really help much.
Wow, that's answered a question I've had for years... the real reason why parity memory died out wasn't just that it was more expensive but that the error detection was not very useful.
On a side note, it reminds me of the time I tried to refurbish a surplus computer and upgrade it with spare parts. I called the manufacturers tech support 1800 line.
I asked the techie if it needed parity memory.
"Yes the memory needs to be added in pairs" was the reply.
I didn't ask him anything else after that.
I want 4D CAPTCHAs, so even humans can't figure them out. Think... Hypercube... the CAPTCHA.
Nope... not hypercube... temporal.
You solve the 3d captcha now, yesterday, and next week.
If you want to fight it, you and your layers need to come up with a good reason that you need to redistribute so large a percentage of a a test as "fair use."
We should sue him for the hyper-cosmo-penultimate nerd reference.
Recluse bites are very nasty and I'd freaking squish one in an instant. Spiders I like though. I'll even rescue black widows.
The truth shall set you free!
Stream away!
Just don't cross the streams.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Umm and SCO Group. Don't forget SCO Group.
No that is not correct. You buy a CD like you buy a book. You only need a "license" if the copyright holder has to give you a limited subset of his or her limited monopoly on copying/distribution. You buy the CD, you do not need any of the copying/distribution rights that are reserved to the copyright holder.
I don't know where this idea that music is "licensed" comes from. Sometimes I think the RIAA is spreading this to make us believe we don't really own the CD's we bought.
I do what gets me money and power...
Not what I say.
Lets think about how this would have affected the development of: the personal computer, the VCR, the tape deck, CD burners, torrent distribution, the xerox machine, the printing press...
What's really going on?
RIAA warfare against "piracy?"
or
The RIAA is attempting to buy legislation which would allow them to destroy technologies that allow independent artists to compete with them.
But I think the major cellphone providers do this on purpose.
How many of their users would WANT to be able to rack up more than $100 at a single time?
But they give them the opportunity to charge tens of thousands of dollars with one usage.
Logically, they should put a cap on one use, and have the user call and explicity request the cap be removed on a case by case basis, except for super huge millionaires, CEO's, ETC.
You can plug an NVIDIA GPU card into an Intel motherboard (I did just that for the computer I am using).
I have no idea why Intel wouldn't want Nvidia to make chipsets for core i7. For some reason, even years after AMD bought ATI, the only Intel mainboards which support two linked graphics cards do so through Crossfire. So if Nvidia doesn't make chipsets to support core i7, Intel would be forcing the hardcore gamers to either (a) buy AMD's video chips to use Crossfire or (b) buy AMD's CPU's to use NVidia SLI.
Another "wardrobe malfunction."
In court, Gates also argued that multiple versions of Windows would essentially stifle competition by confusing consumers and putting developers "into a situation like the computer industry was before the PC came along." He said consumers would face a jarring experience due to multiple Windows versions customized by PC makers and uncertainty about the interface or whether applications would run on them.
So what changed, Bill?
If you turn off the blood, is it still called Blood Frontier?
Maybe it should be called "Blood-Lite?"