I would also like to know if you think that these fundings are military related. I mean do you think the US government is putting money in because most of these technologies could have military use ?
I think we use the term "homeland security" now:
I would also like to know if you think that these fundings are
homeland security related. I mean do you think the US government is putting money in because most of these technologies could have homeland security use?
I think of Debian as sort of an OEM distribution, like the Linus kernel, which gets various value adds before it is released in, for example, Red Hat. Similar with, eg, OpenOffice.org vs StarOffice.
Products like Lindows, Xandros, Progeny, Knoppix and Libranet are based on Debian, and are clearly trying to enhance "Linux usability" and include more uptodate revisions of packages. Further, Knoppix is a foundation for other products like Morphix.
So ".NET" hasn't even really hit the ground running yet, and already it's sucessor is being announced?
My impression is the OS will be updated to converge with.NET rather than having a.NET be layer above it. Kind of like IE I guess.
Larry
Re:Wireless still = Dangerous
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Last year at the WERN conference in Geneva I saw IBM demonstrate
something along these lines which instead used muon and tau
neutrinos to transmit data to their research facility in
Kuala Lumpur. Because of the weak interaction with baryonic
particles, they could use a line of sight path completely below
the surface of the earth, so very secure. Although the helical
magnets they used in the accelerator were relatively small, they
said this would have to be a solution only for fixed wireless
because of power requirements, at least until the ubiquity of
fuel cell powered devices, probably at least 5 years out.
As a developer I find the Solaris documentation at docs.sun.com is usually significantly better than the stuff that comes with Linux, and the manual pages are vastly better, including information about when and why you would use a function, alternatives, examples, and pointers to other documents.
To me documentation is a big part of any platform. I think that is one thing.NET has going for it too.
I think <10kUSD can get a used 7200 series router and channelized DS-3 (PA-MC-T3) card on eBay, not that I am recommending that approach, but it is a common configuration.
I never felt very comfortable about "run levels" myself, but from what I have seen, it seems pretty common that in practice there is effectively: off, single user, and default, which is the same as classic BSD/SunOS.
Having "SNN" and "KNN" symbolic links to../init.d is a big difference from monolithic rc.boot, rc.single, etc, scripts, but that is independent of run levels.
If there were waves created by the big bang, wouldn't they have moved away from the center much faster than the stuff that makes up our planet?
My impression is that at the moment of the "big bang" the universe was not a point-- it had some sort of volume-- there was a distance between two points inside it, and as it grew, that distance got bigger. Some light or gravity waves or whatever that was generated at the moment of the big bang has not yet gotten here from where it started-- it continues to arrive from places that were at increasingly greater distances from here at the moment of the big bang.
I work in california.us, where we have laws
about this kind of thing, for example:
2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either: (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or (2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer. (b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.
2871. No employer shall require a provision made void and unenforceable by Section 2870 as a condition of employment or continued employment. Nothing in this article shall be construed to forbid or restrict the right of an employer to provide in contracts of employment for disclosure, provided that any such disclosures be received in confidence, of all of the employee's inventions made solely or jointly with others during the term of his or her employment, a review process by the employer to determine such issues as may arise, and for full title to certain patents and inventions to be in the United States, as required by contracts between the employer and the United States or any of its agencies.
I do not find info files in practice to be amenable to either depth-first or breadth-first traversal. man pages force the author to present the information linearly, to think about presenting it that way instead of as a twisted hairball of nodes and links like the "Help" section of a Window$ application.
What I would want from XForms is that a web site does not
need to send a bunch of JavaScript crud along with a page
that has a form, or even worse that the user has to submit the
form back to the server just to find out that there were
simple errors that could have been detected on the client
if the form object inside the browser had enough knowledge
and intelligence to eliminate relatively simple mistakes.
XForms should make it much easier to just define what
the user needs to put in the form, and the browser will
take care of displaying it nicely and eliminating simple
mistakes. I do not think the idea is to provide a fundamental new feature; it is a way to make it so that something which is commonly needed can be easily provided without the need for a special programming toolkit.
looks like you need to read this
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp04223.html
I do not so much think that excessive use of synchronization must have a significant performance impact as that it will have a negative performance impact. Nevertheless I do disagree with that article to the extent it suggests that synchronization and object creation/destruction do not significantly affect application performance.
FYI, the article seems to be something like a company "basic C coding standards" rather than anything to do with what I understand as "best practices"; maybe a coding tips sheet for an introductory C programming class.
I think the author may be expressing, among other things, an idea like that it may be cleaner to implement an RPC style interaction model on top of a Document style interaction model than vice versa, to define a protocol in terms of message formats than in terms of an API,
to implement a blocking API on top of a non-blocking API than vice versa. Not a statement of fact so much as rejecting a choice between A or B in favor of thinking about what will be the best way to get A and B.
Something similar/related is A-A-P from Bram Moolenaar of vim. A 1.0 version was just released last week. It is a make+Python kind of thing. There was short article about it at osdir a few months ago.
I think it is safe to say nobody knows if Reiser4 will go into the stock 2.6 kernel, but I think the principals would like it to happen, and depending on how well the Reiser4 beta performs this summer, it should be possible, as long as it does not appear that adding the Reiser4 code would disrupt existing code.
"...developers who are migrating now from Visual Basic are moving to Java and C# in roughly equal numbers." What good is a few years head start and breathless hyperbole from the entire technology industry when Microsoft can simply create a new competitive product and quickly catch up?
That quote does not imply that C# is even starting to catch up with whatever lead Java has in developer base.
Java may well continue to be quite successful even though it has under-delivered...
I think Java has many flaws and weaknesses, but I also think it has more than delivered on its goal to be the successor to the platforms that preceeded it.
Filesystems like Coda and InterMezzo, network RAID applications
like ENBD/FR1 and DRBD, and filesystem synchronizers like Unison
provide some partial solutions for the need to have a distributed
filesystem with replication and disconnected operation. Do you
think Reiser4 or its successor will provide features which make
it easier to implement a robust usable distributed filesystem?
Re:I went to a "BOOM" conference at Cornell...
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I think we use the term "homeland security" now:
Definitely.
Larry
I think of Debian as sort of an OEM distribution, like the Linus kernel, which gets various value adds before it is released in, for example, Red Hat. Similar with, eg, OpenOffice.org vs StarOffice.
Products like Lindows, Xandros, Progeny, Knoppix and Libranet are based on Debian, and are clearly trying to enhance "Linux usability" and include more uptodate revisions of packages. Further, Knoppix is a foundation for other products like Morphix.
Larry
My impression is the OS will be updated to converge with .NET rather than having a .NET be layer above it. Kind of like IE I guess.
Larry
Last year at the WERN conference in Geneva I saw IBM demonstrate something along these lines which instead used muon and tau neutrinos to transmit data to their research facility in Kuala Lumpur. Because of the weak interaction with baryonic particles, they could use a line of sight path completely below the surface of the earth, so very secure. Although the helical magnets they used in the accelerator were relatively small, they said this would have to be a solution only for fixed wireless because of power requirements, at least until the ubiquity of fuel cell powered devices, probably at least 5 years out.
As a developer I find the Solaris documentation at docs.sun.com is usually significantly better than the stuff that comes with Linux, and the manual pages are vastly better, including information about when and why you would use a function, alternatives, examples, and pointers to other documents.
To me documentation is a big part of any platform. I think that is one thing .NET has going for it too.
Larry
I think <10kUSD can get a used 7200 series router and channelized DS-3 (PA-MC-T3) card on eBay, not that I am recommending that approach, but it is a common configuration.
Larry
I never felt very comfortable about "run levels" myself, but from what I have seen, it seems pretty common that in practice there is effectively: off, single user, and default, which is the same as classic BSD/SunOS.
Having "SNN" and "KNN" symbolic links to ../init.d is a big difference from monolithic rc.boot, rc.single, etc, scripts, but that is independent of run levels.
Larry
The date for the referenced article is 18 Sep 2003, less than two weeks ago.
Larry
My impression is that at the moment of the "big bang" the universe was not a point-- it had some sort of volume-- there was a distance between two points inside it, and as it grew, that distance got bigger. Some light or gravity waves or whatever that was generated at the moment of the big bang has not yet gotten here from where it started-- it continues to arrive from places that were at increasingly greater distances from here at the moment of the big bang.
Larry
I work in california.us, where we have laws about this kind of thing, for example:
Larry
I feel pretty good recommending gtypist for the tty, and tuxtype for the GUI.
I think the ability to have words come out as effortlessly via typing as via speaking is invaluable.
apt-get install tuxtype
apt-get install gtypist
Larry
Larry
I do not find info files in practice to be amenable to either depth-first or breadth-first traversal. man pages force the author to present the information linearly, to think about presenting it that way instead of as a twisted hairball of nodes and links like the "Help" section of a Window$ application.
Larry
I hate GNU "info" files, as well as anything to do with "texinfo" format. I don't want to talk about it because it will just get me all upset.
Larry
Also, this particular article is about "dark energy", which is considered different from "dark matter". Not that it matters.
Larry
What I would want from XForms is that a web site does not need to send a bunch of JavaScript crud along with a page that has a form, or even worse that the user has to submit the form back to the server just to find out that there were simple errors that could have been detected on the client if the form object inside the browser had enough knowledge and intelligence to eliminate relatively simple mistakes.
XForms should make it much easier to just define what the user needs to put in the form, and the browser will take care of displaying it nicely and eliminating simple mistakes. I do not think the idea is to provide a fundamental new feature; it is a way to make it so that something which is commonly needed can be easily provided without the need for a special programming toolkit.
Larry
I do not so much think that excessive use of synchronization must have a significant performance impact as that it will have a negative performance impact. Nevertheless I do disagree with that article to the extent it suggests that synchronization and object creation/destruction do not significantly affect application performance.
Larry
Larry
FYI, the article seems to be something like a company "basic C coding standards" rather than anything to do with what I understand as "best practices"; maybe a coding tips sheet for an introductory C programming class.
Larry
I think the author may be expressing, among other things, an idea like that it may be cleaner to implement an RPC style interaction model on top of a Document style interaction model than vice versa, to define a protocol in terms of message formats than in terms of an API, to implement a blocking API on top of a non-blocking API than vice versa. Not a statement of fact so much as rejecting a choice between A or B in favor of thinking about what will be the best way to get A and B.
Larry
Something similar/related is A-A-P from Bram Moolenaar of vim. A 1.0 version was just released last week. It is a make+Python kind of thing. There was short article about it at osdir a few months ago.
Larry
I think it is safe to say nobody knows if Reiser4 will go into the stock 2.6 kernel, but I think the principals would like it to happen, and depending on how well the Reiser4 beta performs this summer, it should be possible, as long as it does not appear that adding the Reiser4 code would disrupt existing code.
LarryThat quote does not imply that C# is even starting to catch up with whatever lead Java has in developer base.
I think Java has many flaws and weaknesses, but I also think it has more than delivered on its goal to be the successor to the platforms that preceeded it.
Larry
Filesystems like Coda and InterMezzo, network RAID applications like ENBD/FR1 and DRBD, and filesystem synchronizers like Unison provide some partial solutions for the need to have a distributed filesystem with replication and disconnected operation. Do you think Reiser4 or its successor will provide features which make it easier to implement a robust usable distributed filesystem?
Nematodes are intelligent?
Larry