I heard somebody say that some large plasma monitors cannot be used for TV since you would notice a flicker from changing images. Is there any truth to this?
Actually I'd say that Microsoft most acted like a monopoly back in the late 1980's up until around 1991 or so. This was when they stuck us with DOS 3 and didn't do anything for like 6 years with the competition driving innovation and change.
Back then the Apple/Mac was a realistic alternative. This means M$ was not a monopoly. Moreover, we were stuck with DOS 3 from 1984 til 1987. DOS4 was released in 1988 DOS 5.0 in 1991 and DOS 6 in 1993.
Which, BTW, is the secret to Microsoft's success... admitting failures and trying to correct them
In fact, for the first ten years of its life, when it had no clear monopoly in the OS market (Apple was still a force to be reckoned with) that was one of the main ingredients of M$ success.
This is in contrast to the cannonical/. interpretation: "it's all due to profits derived from monopolies". My guess is that the majority of/.ers didn't start paying attention to product wars until the nineties and by that time M$ had fully moved into monopoly mode (I'm guessing here that the *average*/. reader is under 30 years old).
Robots designed to aid or accompany humans or serve humans as opposed to carrying out "industrial" tasks where the operator and the people the robot interact with can be assumed to be trained in operating it will need to be able to handle a substantial part of normal human surroundings and interact with them.
I've heard that before. Sure enough, they will roughly need to have the footprint of a human, and some mechanism to negotiate steps. But once they are in solid ground it would be better, without a doubt, for the robot to use wheels and at least three of them.
As the all adage goes... we have better, more fun ways of making humanoids.
There is science on one hand, and there is publicity on the other. A humanoid robot is mostly about PR not science. In real life useful robots are crawling creatures that can go where we humans can't. Inside an oil pipeline, or to the nuclear reactor core, or to Mars, even if they can't run or do a pirouette.
Making a derivative work of a software program IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
Using your "accident" definition of viral, then AIDS is not a viral disease, as it almost always transmitted by deliberately ignoring safe sex/needle sharing advise.
The whole point is that when people use the "viral" term to refer to the GPL is not to imply that it cannot be avoided, or that it might accidentally creep up through an SQL bug into your server.
What they mean is that if your code contacts GPL code and it's made public then transmission ensues. This is not an accident of the GPL, but a design feature by RMS. He has said as much. He intends for ALL software to eventually become free (gratis and freedom).
We have seen the consequences recently, when Linus pointed out that linux device drivers are GPL'ed!!
This is yet another example of how deranged the Bush-haters are.
Do the words "large federal budget fiscal deficit" and "assault on constitutionally protected individual freedoms" still have any meaning to the radical right?
But one of my teachers used only Powerpoint slides, all year long; he couldn't make himself clearer, and those presentations were excellent.
Over my lifetime I've seen academic presentations move from the blackboard to slides to powerpoint/keynote. The average presentation in the field (a) has no bell and whistles (default background, no special transition effects) and (b) is much more comprehensible than the average blackboard/slide presentation of a few years back.
Powerpoint forces the speaker to deconstruct the message to its basic elements, and present them to the audience as a scaffolding upon which the speaker builds the entire presentation. A very good speaker doesn't need this scaffolding, but lets face it, most of us are average speakers.
By saying that the SCO holding is a hedge, they're saying that they are invested/investing pretty heavily in the other side and just trying to protect themselves in the event that something crazy happens and SCO wins.
Exactly, this is likely an investment by the top five holders of IBM and Red Hat stock (a group that has Barclays, State Street, Fidelity and Vanguard in common) with total holdings on those companies northwards of $28 billion dollars. For them, taking out $50M insurance is a sensible move, after all $50 million is 0.17% of $28 billion.
given that a signficant fraction of the population (including a disquietingly large number of American children) are malnourished.
Actually we are making great progress on that regard:
The number of severely malnourished people has dropped from 1970 to today. In 1970, 1.7 billion people were struggling to survive on under 2100 calories a day. Today, that number has been cut to 411 million. The total percentage of the Earth's population that is underfed has dropped to 20 per cent from 35 per cent over the same decades.
Look, every time we seemed to have "definitive" proof of our unique position (say, the sun does look like it goes around the earth) it turns out we missed some other important detail.
If we keep on making a mistake, we would be well advised to be extra careful before going that path once more.
I gotta say, you sure sound pretty religious about your science.
You are totally confused, grass hopper.
As a scientist there is nothing odd about requiring an extra degree of certainty in an area where we have had historically a bad track record on our theories.
In medicine, for example, our bad track record on interpretation of results lead to the strict double blind protocol for drug testing. There is nothing religious about this.
Actually, while there is tons of evidence in favour of this one, we should be a lot more leery about accepting it, given our historical record with any idea that places us in a privileged position.
For example our self-perception of our role in the universe has progressed from the center of creation to center of the universe down to center of the solar system -> well, ok at least most advanced animal -> a monkey that thinks down to a monkey that talks.
The big bang in its most accepted form places us in a unique universe that didn't exist before, which brings us back to the problems mentioned before. However if we could reconcile the big bang with non-uniqueness (say finite size universe, or multiple universes or...) then I'll buy it.
A while back as an exercise for a logic class, we went over the "AIDS is not caused by HIV" controversy.
To be fair, at the time it the controversy first arose the case was far from closed and many of the objections brought up by the anti-HIV community were valid e.g. why haven't we seen any nurses fall sick from accidental exposure. Of course, since then nurses _have_ fell ill to accidental exposure to HIV. In all, sometime in the early 90's we had gathered enough evidence to fairly conclude that HIV causes AIDS.
The only remaining gap, at the time I followed this, was the possibility that a small number of chronic syphilis cases might possibly currently be misconstrued as AIDS.
Cook's theory isn't really "abiogenic", BTW. The only abiogenic "fossil fuel" under his theory would be plain methane. Rather, he believes that methane left over from planet formation is steadily separating out, and somewhere in the mantle (around 10-30 kilometers subsurface) a bacterial ecosystem based on sulfides and methane is forming it into complex hydrocarbons. Given that we already know of sulfide-based, high-temperature ecosystems in the deep ocean thermal vents, it's really not much a stretch anymore.
This hypothesis is more plausible than the "dinosaur bones and plant material" broth that was the accepted standard. About 15 years ago I spent time tracking down scientific evidence for the plant mulch hypothesis and came to conclude it was scant at best.
At the same time, the prevalence and quantities of oil suggest an organic process in action which while it might benefit from the presence of organic materials is far more complex than simple "apply tons of pressure, simmer for a million years, and serve warm" model. Since then the discovery of bacteria in fairly hostile palces have only increased the likelihood of the alternative explanation, while not support has been found for the original one, AFAIK. Say, a geological find of a half done stew of leaves, dinosaur bones and crude oil, which would go a long way towards proving the fossil origin theory.
If you know a.b.c.0/24 routes to a specific edge router, then you can assume the rest of the subnets route there as well.
This is not at all the case any more. Read up on fragmentation of the IP space.
If you don't like the way I do things, feel free to do it yourself or submit code to the project.
Look what you are doing is a "good thing" and you should carry on with your efforts. However you should qualify more carefully your statement of what the map really is of. Not the entire internet, but simply those "class C" subnets (if that still means anything) and the route used to reach them.
Btw, how many mapping nodes do you have and are all of them located in the same place?
Lastly, I might well take you up on the code thing and send something your way at a later date. I've mapped the network before...
The Internet has over 200 million hosts, hence it follows that a map of the network must have, roughly 200 million links. They have only 50 million links, so that is not a map of the network.
Furthermore, unless they collect this information from a wide variety of locations, all they obtain is their local routing map, not a map of the network. Currently their web site is down, so we cannot determine if they used many mapping nodes, or just a single node.
In fact, macademia nuts are generally poisonous to humans as well. Every so often a mutated macademia tree produces non-poisonous nuts and those are the ones we groom and harvest from. (I'm not making this up).
According to the related article, it includes a complete rewrite of the TCP/IP stack. Conventional wisdom has it that all TCP/IP stacks out there borrowed heavily from the BSD code.
Will Fire Engine then be the first non-BSD TCP/IP stack?
I'm virtually certain that you meant semiconductor.
Yup. Brain typo.
I'm also virtually certain that IBM has press-releases concerning nanotube-based transistors, which I'm actually certain has nothing to do with design rules and designing fabs. This smells like nothing more than a paper release,
Slow down, cowboy! I'm not saying it is true. My point is that IF 65 nm mass-produced chips for 2005 are at all possible, then by this time this technology has to be well past the speculative stage and well into the minor details of the fab facility, given the lead times required in the semiconductor industry...
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I heard somebody say that some large plasma monitors cannot be used for TV since you would notice a flicker from changing images. Is there any truth to this?
Actually I'd say that Microsoft most acted like a monopoly back in the late 1980's up until around 1991 or so. This was when they stuck us with DOS 3 and didn't do anything for like 6 years with the competition driving innovation and change.
Back then the Apple/Mac was a realistic alternative. This means M$ was not a monopoly. Moreover, we were stuck with DOS 3 from 1984 til 1987. DOS4 was released in 1988 DOS 5.0 in 1991 and DOS 6 in 1993.
Which, BTW, is the secret to Microsoft's success... admitting failures and trying to correct them
/. interpretation: "it's all due to profits derived from monopolies". My guess is that the majority of /.ers didn't start paying attention to product wars until the nineties and by that time M$ had fully moved into monopoly mode (I'm guessing here that the *average* /. reader is under 30 years old).
In fact, for the first ten years of its life, when it had no clear monopoly in the OS market (Apple was still a force to be reckoned with) that was one of the main ingredients of M$ success.
This is in contrast to the cannonical
unix% isotd
33 year old program "Oldest Supported Software?" ---Slashdot front page story
isotd = idiotic statement of the day
Robots designed to aid or accompany humans or serve humans as opposed to carrying out "industrial" tasks where the operator and the people the robot interact with can be assumed to be trained in operating it will need to be able to handle a substantial part of normal human surroundings and interact with them.
I've heard that before. Sure enough, they will roughly need to have the footprint of a human, and some mechanism to negotiate steps. But once they are in solid ground it would be better, without a doubt, for the robot to use wheels and at least three of them.
I'll insist, a running robot is mostly about PR.
As the all adage goes... we have better, more fun ways of making humanoids.
There is science on one hand, and there is publicity on the other. A humanoid robot is mostly about PR not science. In real life useful robots are crawling creatures that can go where we humans can't. Inside an oil pipeline, or to the nuclear reactor core, or to Mars, even if they can't run or do a pirouette.
You mean like taking GPL code and copy-paste into the closed source???
Nope. I mean something as simple as using the code specific APIs as it is the case with linux device drivers.
You can easily examine the carrier of the GPL virus to see if it is infected, and not fuck it or shoot up with it.
So if we were to place a scarlet letter on HIV infected people that would make AIDS not viral?
Making a derivative work of a software program IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
Using your "accident" definition of viral, then AIDS is not a viral disease, as it almost always transmitted by deliberately ignoring safe sex/needle sharing advise.
The whole point is that when people use the "viral" term to refer to the GPL is not to imply that it cannot be avoided, or that it might accidentally creep up through an SQL bug into your server.
What they mean is that if your code contacts GPL code and it's made public then transmission ensues. This is not an accident of the GPL, but a design feature by RMS. He has said as much. He intends for ALL software to eventually become free (gratis and freedom).
We have seen the consequences recently, when Linus pointed out that linux device drivers are GPL'ed!!
If that ain't viral I don't know what is.
This is yet another example of how deranged the Bush-haters are.
Do the words "large federal budget fiscal deficit" and "assault on constitutionally protected individual freedoms" still have any meaning to the radical right?
I still remember the times when they did.
Which idiot moderated that comment up? Smart people are bored to tears by dumb people. The PP presentation is fully optional.
But one of my teachers used only Powerpoint slides, all year long; he couldn't make himself clearer, and those presentations were excellent.
Over my lifetime I've seen academic presentations move from the blackboard to slides to powerpoint/keynote. The average presentation in the field (a) has no bell and whistles (default background, no special transition effects) and (b) is much more comprehensible than the average blackboard/slide presentation of a few years back.
Powerpoint forces the speaker to deconstruct the message to its basic elements, and present them to the audience as a scaffolding upon which the speaker builds the entire presentation. A very good speaker doesn't need this scaffolding, but lets face it, most of us are average speakers.
By saying that the SCO holding is a hedge, they're saying that they are invested/investing pretty heavily in the other side and just trying to protect themselves in the event that something crazy happens and SCO wins.
Exactly, this is likely an investment by the top five holders of IBM and Red Hat stock (a group that has Barclays, State Street, Fidelity and Vanguard in common) with total holdings on those companies northwards of $28 billion dollars. For them, taking out $50M insurance is a sensible move, after all $50 million is 0.17% of $28 billion.
Actually we are making great progress on that regard:
Look, every time we seemed to have "definitive" proof of our unique position (say, the sun does look like it goes around the earth) it turns out we missed some other important detail.
If we keep on making a mistake, we would be well advised to be extra careful before going that path once more.
I gotta say, you sure sound pretty religious about your science.
You are totally confused, grass hopper.
As a scientist there is nothing odd about requiring an extra degree of certainty in an area where we have had historically a bad track record on our theories.
In medicine, for example, our bad track record on interpretation of results lead to the strict double blind protocol for drug testing. There is nothing religious about this.
There Was No Big Bang
...) then I'll buy it.
Clocks in at 3 cuckoos, as you might expect.
Actually, while there is tons of evidence in favour of this one, we should be a lot more leery about accepting it, given our historical record with any idea that places us in a privileged position.
For example our self-perception of our role in the universe has progressed from the center of creation to center of the universe down to center of the solar system -> well, ok at least most advanced animal -> a monkey that thinks down to a monkey that talks.
The big bang in its most accepted form places us in a unique universe that didn't exist before, which brings us back to the problems mentioned before. However if we could reconcile the big bang with non-uniqueness (say finite size universe, or multiple universes or
A while back as an exercise for a logic class, we went over the "AIDS is not caused by HIV" controversy.
To be fair, at the time it the controversy first arose the case was far from closed and many of the objections brought up by the anti-HIV community were valid e.g. why haven't we seen any nurses fall sick from accidental exposure. Of course, since then nurses _have_ fell ill to accidental exposure to HIV. In all, sometime in the early 90's we had gathered enough evidence to fairly conclude that HIV causes AIDS.
The only remaining gap, at the time I followed this, was the possibility that a small number of chronic syphilis cases might possibly currently be misconstrued as AIDS.
Oh yeah? But what has he won lately?
Cook's theory isn't really "abiogenic", BTW. The only abiogenic "fossil fuel" under his theory would be plain methane. Rather, he believes that methane left over from planet formation is steadily separating out, and somewhere in the mantle (around 10-30 kilometers subsurface) a bacterial ecosystem based on sulfides and methane is forming it into complex hydrocarbons. Given that we already know of sulfide-based, high-temperature ecosystems in the deep ocean thermal vents, it's really not much a stretch anymore.
This hypothesis is more plausible than the "dinosaur bones and plant material" broth that was the accepted standard. About 15 years ago I spent time tracking down scientific evidence for the plant mulch hypothesis and came to conclude it was scant at best.
At the same time, the prevalence and quantities of oil suggest an organic process in action which while it might benefit from the presence of organic materials is far more complex than simple "apply tons of pressure, simmer for a million years, and serve warm" model. Since then the discovery of bacteria in fairly hostile palces have only increased the likelihood of the alternative explanation, while not support has been found for the original one, AFAIK. Say, a geological find of a half done stew of leaves, dinosaur bones and crude oil, which would go a long way towards proving the fossil origin theory.
If you know a.b.c.0/24 routes to a specific edge router, then you can assume the rest of the subnets route there as well.
This is not at all the case any more. Read up on fragmentation of the IP space.
If you don't like the way I do things, feel free to do it yourself or submit code to the project.
Look what you are doing is a "good thing" and you should carry on with your efforts. However you should qualify more carefully your statement of what the map really is of. Not the entire internet, but simply those "class C" subnets (if that still means anything) and the route used to reach them.
Btw, how many mapping nodes do you have and are all of them located in the same place?
Lastly, I might well take you up on the code thing and send something your way at a later date. I've mapped the network before...
if you know where every single class C is located
If you know where the class C nets are, then I'm really impressed, as there is no longer such thing.
Ever heard of CIDR?
The Internet has over 200 million hosts, hence it follows that a map of the network must have, roughly 200 million links. They have only 50 million links, so that is not a map of the network.
Furthermore, unless they collect this information from a wide variety of locations, all they obtain is their local routing map, not a map of the network. Currently their web site is down, so we cannot determine if they used many mapping nodes, or just a single node.
and macadamia nuts.
In fact, macademia nuts are generally poisonous to humans as well. Every so often a mutated macademia tree produces non-poisonous nuts and those are the ones we groom and harvest from. (I'm not making this up).
According to the related article, it includes a complete rewrite of the TCP/IP stack. Conventional wisdom has it that all TCP/IP stacks out there borrowed heavily from the BSD code.
Will Fire Engine then be the first non-BSD TCP/IP stack?
I'm virtually certain that you meant semiconductor.
Yup. Brain typo.
I'm also virtually certain that IBM has press-releases concerning nanotube-based transistors, which I'm actually certain has nothing to do with design rules and designing fabs. This smells like nothing more than a paper release,
Slow down, cowboy! I'm not saying it is true. My point is that IF 65 nm mass-produced chips for 2005 are at all possible, then by this time this technology has to be well past the speculative stage and well into the minor details of the fab facility, given the lead times required in the semiconductor industry...