Microsoft has released the source to their operating systems for quite some time. This is hardly news. Now, if they released *all* of the source, that would be a bit more impressive. Article doesn't state what was released.
The fact that Microsoft has some whoopbang encryption helper is no big deal either. It's all bullshit when you can build your own audio driver and capture everything to an (unencrypted).wav file. Aside from the corporate fluff, there's really nothing in that article anyway.
I believe all of the mecha in the Battletech genre were controlled partially with a Neurohelmet (mostly for balance). A much more fun scenario, especially when you consider that most neurohelmets were explained to give the unauthorized user a massive shock and brain trauma
I would tend to agree. I'm slightly concerned about a fabric armband with loose wires coming from it and the possibilities of what could happen to that system. Someone accidentally kick a wire or something comes loose? Scary.
I'll bet it gets quite painful holding your arm outright and steady.
GNU-GPL code, on the other hand, is a different issue. Being a complete asshole, RMS will probably track you down and cut your penis off if you include GPL'ed code in a closed-source project. I think the only way out of this unpleasant situation would be to make the GPL'ed portions of code available separately, with source available.
Maybe now it becomes clear that RMS is a hypocrite... He professes the greatness and necessity of free software, and then he proceeds to restrict it with his own license.
The original poster seemed to think that it was proper to allow your code to be freely used... I don't agree - the GPL is the better option.
I just don't understand why some would think that software should be released BSD so that others can freely use it in their programs -- programs which will not be free in any way.
I don't get it. I've used MySQL with many, many different versions over the past two years. I'm no DBA, and I never spend time tweaking its performance -- basically I always just set it and forget it.
...and in all that time, I've never had a crash or corrupted table. What gives? Am I that lucky?
Gnome and KDE are all about creating a framework so that applications can be rapidly developed. The user doesn't benefit (well, not directly) - the programmers do. There wouldn't be nearly as many X applications as there are now if it wasn't for these rich widget sets that have been developed. Reinventing the wheel is much, much worse than having to put up with a little bloat.
EVAS is all about speed, and again, that's another benefit to the programmer who is then able to write more of a whizbang WM and not have it run slowly. And of course, Enlightenment, well, maybe you do have a point 8)
In an artistic sense, when movies are converted to video, a good bit of cropping of the picture has to be done to make it fit the aspect ratio of regular TV. HDTV reduces that cropping somewhat.
Well, yeah it's a minor point, but sometimes the complete feeling of a scene can be changed when the scene has to be cropped.
I'm pretty close to installing VMWare and running Linux in it so I can run a Jabber server and develop my own client. But, who am I kidding? I don't have time for that!
That doesn't even seem the slightest bit trollish to you? You'd need the equivalent IQ of a pile of bricks to undergo installation of VMWare just to run a jabber server before even checking what platforms it will run on. I don't believe this poster is that dumb.
The server, to my knowledge, only runs on Linux, and still has some bugs
Using a "to my knowledge" disclaimer doesn't remove any liability in making sure that your statements are correct. Jabber will run on any unixlike operating system - I believe jabber.org is running on OpenBSD, and I personally link to a server running on Solaris 2.6.
And yes, I'm sure it still has some bugs. Everything has bugs. Did you want to further clarify your statement? Perhaps tell me that my jabber server is unstable?
I had not read the abstract when I made the post. I can't say I fully understand the "95% Confidence level" stated in the abstract or the "Odds Ratio", etc... it just seems to me that 118 people is too small of a test group to make me put down my cell phone.
I'll agree I shouldn't have made that post, perhaps I'm a little too skeptical of the media.
MOBILE phones have been linked to human cancer in a scientific study for the first time. The research suggests there is a threefold increase in eye cancers among people who regularly use the devices
Ok, so the first statistic is that cell phone users are three times as likely to have eye cancer.
he had examined 118 people with uveal melanoma and obtained details about their use of digital mobile phones. This was compared with a control group of 475 people
So my question is, exactly how many of those 118 people used cell phones? 100? 50? 20? 10?
118 people is a very puny test group. The fact that they don't reveal the amount of cell phone use amongst those people shows that something is being hidden here. Also, why didn't the researcher seek a more quantitative value for how much these individuals used their cell phones - certainly the information is held by the cell phone companies (and could be retrieved with permission).
Add on the fact that we don't know what type of cell phones these people used (of those 118 people that we don't know how many used cell phones), whether these individuals wore glasses, we don't know any ages, how he picked his control group, the ethnic diversity of the 188 people.... the list goes on and on.
I'm really starting to hate the media. What is it with these "journalists" that they think we don't want to know any details? What is it with these researchers that they think they can produce a study with 118 people?!
I don't think anybody would suggest latching old parts of Mir onto the ISS or otherwise use Mir pieces in that manner. But, you gotta think that there's a lot of things that you take for granted on earth that the ISS could really use - things like a simple toolkit or such. Figure at about 5 pounds something even that small would cost many tons of thousands to launch into space. With a little machine work, miscellaneous pieces of metal from Mir could be used to patch up broken rods or such on the ISS. Possibilities are pretty endless, because you can never predict when something from mir might be highly useful for the ISS.
But what does 2^3021377 - 1 mean to an alien species?
It's the largest prime number that the human race has discovered -- it demonstrates our level of math sophistication. This is a motif later repeated when we show that the 112th element is the last one we've discovered (our level of sophistication in physics), a number of mathematical constants, and also in the final page where we ask what the largest prime THEY have discovered is.
I think it's an excellent benchmark of our level of technology. A simple concept yet difficult to solve, much like a chess game -- if they were able to send back the rules to a "perfect game" (where the first to move in chess always wins) it would then demonstrate that their level of technology is greater than ours (I might suggest that we'll be able to compute the "perfect game" in the next 100 years at our current rate of advancement in computers).
So, with this information, if the alien species were to send a signal back, they would at least have a rule of thumb as to our ability to decode the message.
So I might ask the question of you: how would YOU demonstrate our level of math knowledge? Could you do it any better than the ~15 characters that they used?
the only times I've even come close to using any of this training are a few incidents where I stepped in to stop violence being directed against others.
Then what was the point of all that training? (ha ha):)
I think you've stumbled upon a great advancement in space probe technology!
Imagine an interstellar space probe able to convert sugars into electrical power. The probe would contain with it a carton of Twinkees with which to use for power when it reaches its destination. Impossible, you say? No! With a shelf life of 100 years, the Twinkees would still be fresh by the time it reached the target star system!
IBM, SUN, MS, Oracle... the story is a little different for them. Linux chases the new hardware coming out whereas the "big boys" know what they want to build next.
I've seen Linux ported to iPaq handhelds and even some models of Cisco routers. Knowing how PC-esqe this hardware is, I don't think it'll be long before we see a similar porting effort.
fsck should be fairly irrelevant with a journaled file system (Veritas) and the memory check really doesn't take that long either. The problem is with all of the hardware checks that the BIOS performs; on an E4500, expect it to take over 20 minutes to reach single user mode from a power up. It's just a culmination of all the rediculous things like spending 15 seconds to wait on each ethernet port that has no network cable inserted.
Watching a SUN server boot is very similar to watching paint dry.
I'm sure it can be done, but you're going over the rating on the 15A wall plug.
The A1000 is rated at 7A, IIRC, and the E4500 is rated at 12A. If you managed to get a second E4500 and a 21" monitor on 15A (7 + 12 + 12 + monitor > 31A), it's certainly not a wise solution.
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Microsoft has released the source to their operating systems for quite some time. This is hardly news. Now, if they released *all* of the source, that would be a bit more impressive. Article doesn't state what was released.
The fact that Microsoft has some whoopbang encryption helper is no big deal either. It's all bullshit when you can build your own audio driver and capture everything to an (unencrypted) .wav file. Aside from the corporate fluff, there's really nothing in that article anyway.
I believe all of the mecha in the Battletech genre were controlled partially with a Neurohelmet (mostly for balance). A much more fun scenario, especially when you consider that most neurohelmets were explained to give the unauthorized user a massive shock and brain trauma
I'll bet it gets quite painful holding your arm outright and steady.
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GNU-GPL code, on the other hand, is a different issue. Being a complete asshole, RMS will probably track you down and cut your penis off if you include GPL'ed code in a closed-source project. I think the only way out of this unpleasant situation would be to make the GPL'ed portions of code available separately, with source available.
Maybe now it becomes clear that RMS is a hypocrite... He professes the greatness and necessity of free software, and then he proceeds to restrict it with his own license.
The original poster seemed to think that it was proper to allow your code to be freely used... I don't agree - the GPL is the better option.I just don't understand why some would think that software should be released BSD so that others can freely use it in their programs -- programs which will not be free in any way.
Couldn't resist replying to this post - the truncation of the subject line (when adding the 'Re:') has an interesting effect :)
You just don't get it, man.
Gnome and KDE are all about creating a framework so that applications can be rapidly developed. The user doesn't benefit (well, not directly) - the programmers do. There wouldn't be nearly as many X applications as there are now if it wasn't for these rich widget sets that have been developed. Reinventing the wheel is much, much worse than having to put up with a little bloat.
EVAS is all about speed, and again, that's another benefit to the programmer who is then able to write more of a whizbang WM and not have it run slowly. And of course, Enlightenment, well, maybe you do have a point 8)
Well, yeah it's a minor point, but sometimes the complete feeling of a scene can be changed when the scene has to be cropped.
- I'm pretty close to installing VMWare and running Linux in it so I can run a Jabber server and develop my own client. But, who am I kidding? I don't have time for that!
That doesn't even seem the slightest bit trollish to you? You'd need the equivalent IQ of a pile of bricks to undergo installation of VMWare just to run a jabber server before even checking what platforms it will run on. I don't believe this poster is that dumb.- OK, How is it an outlook killer if it isn't competing on the same platform?
Well, for one it would let me get rid of the WinNT machine (used only for email) sitting next to my Linux box at work.- The server, to my knowledge, only runs on Linux, and still has some bugs
Using a "to my knowledge" disclaimer doesn't remove any liability in making sure that your statements are correct. Jabber will run on any unixlike operating system - I believe jabber.org is running on OpenBSD, and I personally link to a server running on Solaris 2.6.And yes, I'm sure it still has some bugs. Everything has bugs. Did you want to further clarify your statement? Perhaps tell me that my jabber server is unstable?
I'll agree I shouldn't have made that post, perhaps I'm a little too skeptical of the media.
There is no longer a Morse Code requirement to be granted an amateur license. Now what?
- MOBILE phones have been linked to human cancer in a scientific study for the first time. The research suggests there is a threefold increase in eye cancers among people who regularly use the devices
Ok, so the first statistic is that cell phone users are three times as likely to have eye cancer.-
he had examined 118 people with uveal melanoma and obtained details about their use of digital mobile phones. This was compared with a control group of 475 people
So my question is, exactly how many of those 118 people used cell phones? 100? 50? 20? 10?118 people is a very puny test group. The fact that they don't reveal the amount of cell phone use amongst those people shows that something is being hidden here. Also, why didn't the researcher seek a more quantitative value for how much these individuals used their cell phones - certainly the information is held by the cell phone companies (and could be retrieved with permission).
Add on the fact that we don't know what type of cell phones these people used (of those 118 people that we don't know how many used cell phones), whether these individuals wore glasses, we don't know any ages, how he picked his control group, the ethnic diversity of the 188 people.... the list goes on and on.
I'm really starting to hate the media. What is it with these "journalists" that they think we don't want to know any details? What is it with these researchers that they think they can produce a study with 118 people?!
I don't think anybody would suggest latching old parts of Mir onto the ISS or otherwise use Mir pieces in that manner. But, you gotta think that there's a lot of things that you take for granted on earth that the ISS could really use - things like a simple toolkit or such. Figure at about 5 pounds something even that small would cost many tons of thousands to launch into space. With a little machine work, miscellaneous pieces of metal from Mir could be used to patch up broken rods or such on the ISS. Possibilities are pretty endless, because you can never predict when something from mir might be highly useful for the ISS.
It's the largest prime number that the human race has discovered -- it demonstrates our level of math sophistication. This is a motif later repeated when we show that the 112th element is the last one we've discovered (our level of sophistication in physics), a number of mathematical constants, and also in the final page where we ask what the largest prime THEY have discovered is.
I think it's an excellent benchmark of our level of technology. A simple concept yet difficult to solve, much like a chess game -- if they were able to send back the rules to a "perfect game" (where the first to move in chess always wins) it would then demonstrate that their level of technology is greater than ours (I might suggest that we'll be able to compute the "perfect game" in the next 100 years at our current rate of advancement in computers).
So, with this information, if the alien species were to send a signal back, they would at least have a rule of thumb as to our ability to decode the message.
So I might ask the question of you: how would YOU demonstrate our level of math knowledge? Could you do it any better than the ~15 characters that they used?
- the only times I've even come close to using any of this training are a few incidents where I stepped in to stop violence being directed against others.
Then what was the point of all that training? (ha ha)Imagine an interstellar space probe able to convert sugars into electrical power. The probe would contain with it a carton of Twinkees with which to use for power when it reaches its destination. Impossible, you say? No! With a shelf life of 100 years, the Twinkees would still be fresh by the time it reached the target star system!
IBM, SUN, MS, Oracle... the story is a little different for them. Linux chases the new hardware coming out whereas the "big boys" know what they want to build next.
I've seen Linux ported to iPaq handhelds and even some models of Cisco routers. Knowing how PC-esqe this hardware is, I don't think it'll be long before we see a similar porting effort.
That is what your beef is about? What the hell is a "webbrowser server" anyway?
Watching a SUN server boot is very similar to watching paint dry.
The A1000 is rated at 7A, IIRC, and the E4500 is rated at 12A. If you managed to get a second E4500 and a 21" monitor on 15A (7 + 12 + 12 + monitor > 31A), it's certainly not a wise solution.