If only someone would have alerted the sysadmins of the world about this RPC problem, back when it mattered, like in July, around the middle, like the 16th -- then maybe the robots wouldn't have taken over the world.
I am more excited to see LZW expire than GIF itself.
This is the king of the token based compression algorithms and although I am not sure how often Unisys has tried to enforce it, its nice to see it coming up as well.
Right now, the number of people who become inflicted with resistant staph is extemely, extremely low.
What this gives us is the chance to save those few people, and to slow down the progression of "resistant" staph at all, which is something to get excited about it.
I started to read and maybe I am jaded, but when I hear the dawning of the new "pure" culture of ideas and intangibles over material good, I just hear "blah".
I am a mortal, material being, and I don't see any kind of glorious end to materialism, to be replaced by a utopian "economy of ideas".
"Episode III is supposed to one of the darkest films in the series; the fall of the Republic, the death of the Jedi, and the rise of the Empire. I do not think Spielberg is capable of making such a dark movie"
So, you have never heard of Schindler's list then? Good lord.
Guy: "To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL. Specifically the rights regarding access to the source code. And while we are obligated to offer you the source code, for up to 3 years until we stop releasing this. To gain access to this site, you are obligated not to ask." GPL: "6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. YOU MAY NOT IMPOSE ANY FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON THE RECIPIENTS' EXERCISE OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED HEREIN."
I like this kind of distributed work better than plain old cracking keys, because this is real information that could actually end up in a product or just plain bettering our understanding of the universe.
I like SETI@home for the same reason. (Although, in the end it'll be either a strike-out or a home run).
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the coummunity demonstrating the weakness of small key encryption, but when we are done, what do we to show for it? I guess leverage against weak crypto-heads.
"Next World Order" is more like it. Everything evolves, changes. The attitudes, tastes, arts and even sciences of today evolved out of yesterday's World Order, and tomorrow's will be different from todays.
I am personally sick of everyone lumping change under the banner New World Order, as if the current "World Order" is uniquely special in the annuls of history.
Many associate any attempt to develop societal uniformity in any capacity as the Great Satan.
I have a hard time believing that there is NOTHING in this world greater for us to acchive or strive for than to have individuals who can do whatever they want.
Look at our environment, they way we fight each other and the way our society splits into disparate classes from the slum to the suburb, will these problems ever be solved without some freedom being lost in the sacrifice?
Oh, that's right - it's more important that no one EVER have to curtail their freedom one iota then to weed out the maladjusted, and downright evil in the world.
The nobility of the middle ages would be shocked to see our form of society now, yet all here would aggree that what we have is better.
The "better" world of 200 years from now may look different, and we would be just as shocked to be plopped down in the middle of it.
They have web site hosts who "cooperate" with them, and when you say give them your name for a service or product, they bacsially tell doubleclick what your cookie number is then they line that up with their direct marketing big database which in all probability has an entry for you already and viola, DoubleClick now knows what cookie goes with who.
Upon reflection, perhaps the "One True Language" concept is like insisting that their be one true discipline of science, usually Physics.
Chemists rely on physical principles to perform Chemistry, only their esoteric semantics and methods make it more efficient for solving the problems they deal with.
They aren't Physicists and neither are Engineers, Computer Programmers, or Butchers, although "physics" could describe the rules that govern their interaction with their subject matter.
The uber-language idea may be the same as trying to define all disciplines as inferior or "branches" of Physics, it is inefficient and ineffective to do so. There is too much knowledge and practical art to shove it all under one umbrella.
Having said that though, I agree with the Tim's endorsement of taking OOP further. Just because there is a place in this world for C, doesn't mean we should stop developing and refining new languages.
I guarantee that any college/state that wants to put "severe" caps on Internet usage like this is going to lose "customers" for their ersatz morality. (This is not even to mention that this requires notions of defining content as appropriate or non appropriate for ADULTS).
Most schools charge a lot more for out of state students, and Arizona is not doing them selves any favors by annihilating their chances at recruiting and keeping students from other states - students who can just as well go to any other out of state university.
I was impressed by it for the first two hours, until I realized how easy it would be for us to actually pull a hack like that.
Sounds like some one with a severe case of "Simple Matter of Programming" disease.
Yes, maybe it would be easy for them to pull off the transparency in menu's etc, but the Quartz foundation of OS X enables transparency, anti-aliasing, seamless import/ export of PDF, and real time manipulation of screen graphics ala the "genie effect" and the realtime resizing w/ aa of the dock elements etc.
IMHO, his statements about the ease of matching Aqua and Quartz's feature set are pretty heavy in light of, well... have you seen GNOME? It's GTK based over X windows... comparing this imaging model to Quartz is ludicrous.
I think that some of the normally on-chip logic is "emulated" in software. According to the article at Ars this includes the branch predictor, as well as the x86 decoder.
I think that, given that the chip hosts some of it's functionality in software, writing to the VLIW native set wouldn't improve things because it still needs to be massaged by the code morph software, ie the core can't run "everyday" software without going through code morph, ipso facto.
For instance, you go through all the trouble to compile for the VLIW ISA and then, given the nature of the chip, it can't even run your binary directly on the core anyhow, it has to go through the morpher to enjoy 100% of the advantages of the architechture.
At that point you might as well use the most (commercially) successful ISA ever, x86 which they have worked hard to optimize the code morpher for, anyhow.
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I think there was plenty of rational reasons for this story not to be posted in the first place.
1) There is only so much news worthy of fitting on/. so one must discern what is or is not news worthy. That's yer job, I think.
2) This news item sports such a weak argument, so much so in fact it that takes about a minute to see as so weak as to be irrelevent, as to not meet the standards of news worthy-ness.
You missed the point in your apology, most 'dotters are peeved because this is just a really weak story with a sensational claim/head line.
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If only someone would have alerted the sysadmins of the world about this RPC problem, back when it mattered, like in July, around the middle, like the 16th -- then maybe the robots wouldn't have taken over the world.
Whenever I read of SCO saying ANYTHING, I imagine Jim Carrey in one of his movies beating the crap out of himself.
They don't seem to realize that they are just digging a deeper and deeper PR hole with every ridiculous thing they say.
Still, the mental picture is kinda fun.
"as I realize 99% of us geeks already use it"
The only population that has 99% adopted Mozilla's e-mail client is Marc Andreesen's Mom.
I am more excited to see LZW expire than GIF itself.
This is the king of the token based compression algorithms and although I am not sure how often Unisys has tried to enforce it, its nice to see it coming up as well.
Somewhere in Hell there's a little SCO/Rambus room, where the people that enforce the GIF patent are tortured eternally.
Lol.
This article is 20 minutes old, I am suprised his home address, phone number, ssn, shoe size and EQ account info aren't already posted.
I agree with this principle.
At what % do we look around and say, its time for a new protocol with spam avoidance built in?
50, 60, 75?
Right now, the number of people who become inflicted with resistant staph is extemely, extremely low.
What this gives us is the chance to save those few people, and to slow down the progression of "resistant" staph at all, which is something to get excited about it.
I started to read and maybe I am jaded, but when I hear the dawning of the new "pure" culture of ideas and intangibles over material good, I just hear "blah".
I am a mortal, material being, and I don't see any kind of glorious end to materialism, to be replaced by a utopian "economy of ideas".
"Episode III is supposed to one of the darkest films in the series; the fall of the Republic, the death of the Jedi, and the rise of the Empire. I do not think Spielberg is capable of making such a dark movie"
So, you have never heard of Schindler's list then? Good lord.
I am not looking forward to the first time someone has an emergency in the Movie Theater and no one can call 911, that wont be so good.
Or maybe someone tries something with a gun?
"What you sacrifice reveals what you value, and you're a fool if you think the world will forgive you in the end."
The world will never EVER forgive Amazon for being a big book store on the net.
EVER.
We must never forget, any of us.
We must build a monument, a museum and a national library to keep further generations from making the same mistake.
The question is, can it be mass produced?
It doesn't matter if its faster or smaller or more efficient or God's gift to computerdom, if it can't deliver x Computers a week to CompUSA.
I read this news story and had about 10 simultaneous reactions...
This is cool, or no, it's gross, or no, its distrubing, or no, its a god send, or no, its the end of the world...
The big question is how does it taste?
Unfortunately, the giant projector screens are not color calibrated the same way at all.
:)
Then release a better video of in game footage for us to see.
Did you not think there would be a *smidge* of interest in the presentation?
Guy: "To download binaries or proceed into this site, you have to give up your rights under the GPL. Specifically the rights regarding access to the source code. And while we are obligated to offer you the source code, for up to 3 years until we stop releasing this. To gain access to this site, you are obligated not to ask." GPL: "6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. YOU MAY NOT IMPOSE ANY FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON THE RECIPIENTS' EXERCISE OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED HEREIN."
I like this kind of distributed work better than plain old cracking keys, because this is real information that could actually end up in a product or just plain bettering our understanding of the universe.
I like SETI@home for the same reason. (Although, in the end it'll be either a strike-out or a home run).
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the coummunity demonstrating the weakness of small key encryption, but when we are done, what do we to show for it? I guess leverage against weak crypto-heads.
I like this usefull science/math stuff better.
I am sick of hearing the phrase New World Order!
"Next World Order" is more like it. Everything evolves, changes. The attitudes, tastes, arts and even sciences of today evolved out of yesterday's World Order, and tomorrow's will be different from todays.
I am personally sick of everyone lumping change under the banner New World Order, as if the current "World Order" is uniquely special in the annuls of history.
Many associate any attempt to develop societal uniformity in any capacity as the Great Satan.
I have a hard time believing that there is NOTHING in this world greater for us to acchive or strive for than to have individuals who can do whatever they want.
Look at our environment, they way we fight each other and the way our society splits into disparate classes from the slum to the suburb, will these problems ever be solved without some freedom being lost in the sacrifice?
Oh, that's right - it's more important that no one EVER have to curtail their freedom one iota then to weed out the maladjusted, and downright evil in the world.
The nobility of the middle ages would be shocked to see our form of society now, yet all here would aggree that what we have is better.
The "better" world of 200 years from now may look different, and we would be just as shocked to be plopped down in the middle of it.
It's creepy and I don't think it's gonna stand.
Chemists rely on physical principles to perform Chemistry, only their esoteric semantics and methods make it more efficient for solving the problems they deal with.
They aren't Physicists and neither are Engineers, Computer Programmers, or Butchers, although "physics" could describe the rules that govern their interaction with their subject matter.
The uber-language idea may be the same as trying to define all disciplines as inferior or "branches" of Physics, it is inefficient and ineffective to do so. There is too much knowledge and practical art to shove it all under one umbrella.
Having said that though, I agree with the Tim's endorsement of taking OOP further. Just because there is a place in this world for C, doesn't mean we should stop developing and refining new languages.
Most schools charge a lot more for out of state students, and Arizona is not doing them selves any favors by annihilating their chances at recruiting and keeping students from other states - students who can just as well go to any other out of state university.
Sounds like some one with a severe case of "Simple Matter of Programming" disease.
Yes, maybe it would be easy for them to pull off the transparency in menu's etc, but the Quartz foundation of OS X enables transparency, anti-aliasing, seamless import/ export of PDF, and real time manipulation of screen graphics ala the "genie effect" and the realtime resizing w/ aa of the dock elements etc.
IMHO, his statements about the ease of matching Aqua and Quartz's feature set are pretty heavy in light of, well... have you seen GNOME? It's GTK based over X windows... comparing this imaging model to Quartz is ludicrous.
I think that, given that the chip hosts some of it's functionality in software, writing to the VLIW native set wouldn't improve things because it still needs to be massaged by the code morph software, ie the core can't run "everyday" software without going through code morph, ipso facto.
For instance, you go through all the trouble to compile for the VLIW ISA and then, given the nature of the chip, it can't even run your binary directly on the core anyhow, it has to go through the morpher to enjoy 100% of the advantages of the architechture.
At that point you might as well use the most (commercially) successful ISA ever, x86 which they have worked hard to optimize the code morpher for, anyhow.
I think there was plenty of rational reasons for this story not to be posted in the first place.
1) There is only so much news worthy of fitting on /. so one must discern what is or is not news worthy. That's yer job, I think.
2) This news item sports such a weak argument, so much so in fact it that takes about a minute to see as so weak as to be irrelevent, as to not meet the standards of news worthy-ness.
You missed the point in your apology, most 'dotters are peeved because this is just a really weak story with a sensational claim/head line.