Linux will never replace mainframes. Nothing will.
I think you're right. I can't see any way that Linux will ever have anything to do with mainframes. Well, at least no more than three million sites will ever mention it.
Just keep in mind these are *STRONG* magnets. When you take it apart the magnets may smash into each other. This could send particles flying away in a direction that, according to Murphy, is where your eyes are. I know this by experience, lucky for me I wear glasses. And if some of your flesh is between the magnets, it's painful.
It's true that we don't know how the human brain works, yet, because we don't have all the needed tools to study it today. A caveman would never be able to understand the workings of a watch, you cannot study a watch stone tools. But each time a supercomputer beats a record we get a better tool to study the inner workings of the human brain.
from a business standpoint it's great* The only way I can see this taking off is if either the hardware or content is really cheap
*assuming you can get any kind of market penetration
The problem is that any DRM system intrinsically raises costs. I don't know why so many executives fail to notice this: physical goods have their own intrinsic copy-protection, yet they cannot be priced higher than the market will bear. Honda doesn't try to sell Civics for the price of Ferraris, even if no one can copy a Civic like you copy a song.
By spending more on copy-protection they are pricing their products further away from the optimum price.
software used to have a tangible monetary value before the internet, when distribution was costly and the major determinant of market spread was the company's investment in stamping CD's, packaging and delivery.
Even before CD-ROMs existed there was free software. In 1991, when I lived in LA, I sometimes went to a little shop in Venice Beach where I paid $6 for each 5 1/4" diskette with free software. Linux was in version 0.01 by then, I had never heard of it. But I got several of the GNU packages, running in DJGPP, a "DOS extender".
Funny thing, I remember once I was in a meeting with some high-level managers in my company. I had that store's brochure among my papers, and a vice-president saw it before the meeting started. He was curious, so I gave him that catalog. He spent the whole meeting browsing it, giving only some distracted generic answers when anyone spoke to him. So, you see, long before "free software" became popular among geeks, there were managers who became interested in it when they got informed.
no one is going to blank a page and replace it to the word "penis"
I suppose double agents are more mature than that. For me, the whole wiki concept clashes with the need to know concept. It makes no sense for an organization like the CIA to make every information they have available to anyone inside the organization.
If I were doing something like that, I would make sure to at least have every submission vetted by someone above the submitter in the hierarchy.
I didn't know there was a hard limit of 10 planets in a solar system
There's no hard limit as a number, but there has to be some limit, otherwise every dust particle that orbits the sun should be classified as a planet.
I think the current definition is pretty good. Although I feel some sympathy for Pluto, I feel it's not quite right to classify a small body whose orbit intersects the orbit of a gas giant as a planet.
The irony of it all is that Pluto would never have been considered a planet if it wasn't for some error in observations that led people to believe its perturbation of Neptune's orbit to be much greater than it really is.
I think you voice the fears of someone who is younger. As you get older, you get a better sense of who is sincere and who has something to hide and I would probably think the juror's judgement is ok. The human mind is a pretty darned good judge of character, if you listen to it.
Just to show you how faulty that judgement can be, I'm 51 years old. I have enough experience to know that very often those people who think themselves a "pretty darned good judge of character" aren't that good as they think.
Google, Wikipedia, and the internet in general are making us smarter. We no longer make so many decisions based on a generic gut feeling, we try to get some information first.
The internet is somewhat like an extended library, saying it makes us stupid is like saying books make us stupid.
The story is believable enough, but, let's let the DA PROVE it first.
IANAL, but in all the Perry Mason stories I read, the trial always start with proving Corpus Delicti which, as Perry Mason always explains, is not the body of the victim, but a proof that a crime was committed.
In this case, I wonder: wasn't Reiser committed wrongfully? Because if finding the body could turn the conviction from first degree to second degree murder it clearly means that first degree murder hasn't been proved beyond reasonable doubt. At least, "beyond reasonable doubt" doesn't seem like something that could be dispelled by examining a body that has been hidden for several years.
And what if, after examining the body, evidence is found that death could have had a natural cause, or be a suicide? With that reasonable doubt, would the conviction be reversed?
Finally, the juror mentioned in this article that made his decision based on the accused's eyes really scares me. What if I had been tried? Would a crazy schoolteacher send me to prison for life because he didn't like the look in my eyes? There's so much debate on lie detectors in general, experts cannot agree on which subtle body signals will tell if someone is lying or not. If trained police agents, people with vast experience in interrogation practices, using advanced equipment for evaluating stress, cannot tell for sure if someone is lying or not, how come a fifth-grade schoolteacher is able to tell just by a glance at the eyes?...
I'm not saying Reiser is either guilty or not. But that juror's statements make me hope I never stand trial, not under that system, unless there's at least one honest man in the jury to restrain the crazy old schoolteachers.
There's no need to cut fingers. In the Mythbusters episode they got the fingerprints from a CD case, photographed them using cyanoacrylate "super glue", and created a fake finger tip using a photosensitive printed circuit board.
About the face recognition, how would a life-size printed photograph of the person work?
Follow Mr. Jefferson's advice: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Nice words, but as always the problem is in the interpretation. GWB may say that it applies to the blood of American soldiers who died in Iraq to kill Saddam.
You don't want to cool with alcohol. The boiling point of most alcohols is between 60 and 80 degrees Celsius, as opposed to water's boiling point of 100 degrees Celsius.
Actually boiling removes much more heat than conduction. This is the principle used in heat pipes, where you want a low boiling temperature, because that will be the temperature in the hot side.
The president should represent the average person of the United States of America. Someone who compiles Linux is not your average person.
Unfortunately, what Harry Truman said is true: people with median skills and intelligence are more likely to be elected than geniuses. The median voter is afraid of geniuses.
However, this doesn't mean a person with average intelligence would make a better president than someone more intelligent. The ideal president would be intelligent, well informed, and have good advisors. After all, if the president isn't intelligent and well informed, how will he know which advice to follow?
Do you interpret this graph as showing Microsoft's impending doom?
I confess I don't know how to interpret a graph that omits the leading OS, which is XP. How many users are switching from XP to Vista? How many are buying computers with Vista only to "downgrade" to XP?
I think this graph is much more meaningful to the discussion.
Yes, I could see that. He's not red, because he's not a communist. And he's not yellow either, because he's no coward. He's not blue, because he's not sad. He's not green, because he seems to have experience. Yes, I think "maroon" could be a good word for describing him.
Those specs mean nothing to me. I still have a Casio FX-702p. Weight 190 grams, dimensions 17mm x 83mm x 168mm. Battery life: I'm not sure, about a few months with two CR2032 lithium batteries. Now for the downside: memory is 1680 bytes, 20 characters x one line alphanumeric display.
But it's still working, 27 years after I bought it, doing exactly what it was meant to do. Funny but there are times when you don't need an upgrade for your technical gear...
Slashdot Mirror
I think you're right. I can't see any way that Linux will ever have anything to do with mainframes. Well, at least no more than three million sites will ever mention it.
Of course, you can also just fucking google Zico, or Evert Taube, or Pajarito Buitrago, but it still wouldn't be "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters".
Just keep in mind these are *STRONG* magnets. When you take it apart the magnets may smash into each other. This could send particles flying away in a direction that, according to Murphy, is where your eyes are. I know this by experience, lucky for me I wear glasses. And if some of your flesh is between the magnets, it's painful.
It's funny that if you claim a mountain is impossible to climb they'll name it after you. But try going up that same mountain in ten minutes. Will they rename it after you? No way...
It's true that we don't know how the human brain works, yet, because we don't have all the needed tools to study it today. A caveman would never be able to understand the workings of a watch, you cannot study a watch stone tools. But each time a supercomputer beats a record we get a better tool to study the inner workings of the human brain.
The problem is that any DRM system intrinsically raises costs. I don't know why so many executives fail to notice this: physical goods have their own intrinsic copy-protection, yet they cannot be priced higher than the market will bear. Honda doesn't try to sell Civics for the price of Ferraris, even if no one can copy a Civic like you copy a song.
By spending more on copy-protection they are pricing their products further away from the optimum price.
I wish that people submitting stories and writing blurbs chose more carefully the words they use.
Even before CD-ROMs existed there was free software. In 1991, when I lived in LA, I sometimes went to a little shop in Venice Beach where I paid $6 for each 5 1/4" diskette with free software. Linux was in version 0.01 by then, I had never heard of it. But I got several of the GNU packages, running in DJGPP, a "DOS extender".
Funny thing, I remember once I was in a meeting with some high-level managers in my company. I had that store's brochure among my papers, and a vice-president saw it before the meeting started. He was curious, so I gave him that catalog. He spent the whole meeting browsing it, giving only some distracted generic answers when anyone spoke to him. So, you see, long before "free software" became popular among geeks, there were managers who became interested in it when they got informed.
I suppose double agents are more mature than that. For me, the whole wiki concept clashes with the need to know concept. It makes no sense for an organization like the CIA to make every information they have available to anyone inside the organization.
If I were doing something like that, I would make sure to at least have every submission vetted by someone above the submitter in the hierarchy.
There's no hard limit as a number, but there has to be some limit, otherwise every dust particle that orbits the sun should be classified as a planet.
I think the current definition is pretty good. Although I feel some sympathy for Pluto, I feel it's not quite right to classify a small body whose orbit intersects the orbit of a gas giant as a planet.
The irony of it all is that Pluto would never have been considered a planet if it wasn't for some error in observations that led people to believe its perturbation of Neptune's orbit to be much greater than it really is.
An American is a thousand times as likely to witness an one in a billion odds.
Just to show you how faulty that judgement can be, I'm 51 years old. I have enough experience to know that very often those people who think themselves a "pretty darned good judge of character" aren't that good as they think.
The internet is somewhat like an extended library, saying it makes us stupid is like saying books make us stupid.
IANAL, but in all the Perry Mason stories I read, the trial always start with proving Corpus Delicti which, as Perry Mason always explains, is not the body of the victim, but a proof that a crime was committed.
In this case, I wonder: wasn't Reiser committed wrongfully? Because if finding the body could turn the conviction from first degree to second degree murder it clearly means that first degree murder hasn't been proved beyond reasonable doubt. At least, "beyond reasonable doubt" doesn't seem like something that could be dispelled by examining a body that has been hidden for several years.
And what if, after examining the body, evidence is found that death could have had a natural cause, or be a suicide? With that reasonable doubt, would the conviction be reversed?
Finally, the juror mentioned in this article that made his decision based on the accused's eyes really scares me. What if I had been tried? Would a crazy schoolteacher send me to prison for life because he didn't like the look in my eyes? There's so much debate on lie detectors in general, experts cannot agree on which subtle body signals will tell if someone is lying or not. If trained police agents, people with vast experience in interrogation practices, using advanced equipment for evaluating stress, cannot tell for sure if someone is lying or not, how come a fifth-grade schoolteacher is able to tell just by a glance at the eyes?...
I'm not saying Reiser is either guilty or not. But that juror's statements make me hope I never stand trial, not under that system, unless there's at least one honest man in the jury to restrain the crazy old schoolteachers.
About the face recognition, how would a life-size printed photograph of the person work?
Nice words, but as always the problem is in the interpretation. GWB may say that it applies to the blood of American soldiers who died in Iraq to kill Saddam.
Actually boiling removes much more heat than conduction. This is the principle used in heat pipes, where you want a low boiling temperature, because that will be the temperature in the hot side.
I suppose it will run on a Linux Desktop, right? And the online edition will run from a secure Windows server...
Stuff that Matters -> Whut?
Unfortunately, what Harry Truman said is true: people with median skills and intelligence are more likely to be elected than geniuses. The median voter is afraid of geniuses.
However, this doesn't mean a person with average intelligence would make a better president than someone more intelligent. The ideal president would be intelligent, well informed, and have good advisors. After all, if the president isn't intelligent and well informed, how will he know which advice to follow?
Bullshit, the 8086 predates all those processors you mention.
Yes, but you have to think in Russian
Home of the complete goatse collection. Enjoy yourselves!
I confess I don't know how to interpret a graph that omits the leading OS, which is XP. How many users are switching from XP to Vista? How many are buying computers with Vista only to "downgrade" to XP?
I think this graph is much more meaningful to the discussion.
Yes, I could see that. He's not red, because he's not a communist. And he's not yellow either, because he's no coward. He's not blue, because he's not sad. He's not green, because he seems to have experience. Yes, I think "maroon" could be a good word for describing him.
But it's still working, 27 years after I bought it, doing exactly what it was meant to do. Funny but there are times when you don't need an upgrade for your technical gear...