Being originally from Russia, I can only say that
"Russia is Finished" is an unusually accurate and
insightful article. The comments in the response
you linked to are quite weird: their first point
is that US played a role in the rise of corruption
in Russia. To an extent that is true but don't forget
that Russian corruption has its roots in the 1970s
when party bosses took bribes to get anything done.
If the names Gdlyan and Ivanov don't mean anything
to you then you don't know modern Russian history
at all, otherwise you know what I am talking about.
As for anti-Orthodox views, well most Russians
are agnostic. Very few religious people exist, most
pretend since it is fashionable. Grebentschikov,
a famous Russian singer-songwriter has summed it
up in two lines: "brigady lomyatsa v tserkov', svyatomy mesto kabak", i.e "mobs are storming
the church, while a saint now belongs in a pub".
To claim that you would affect most Russians by
saying whatever about Christianity is quite
ridiculous.
Why? Say I want to have DSP code run in real
time. User defines what the code does in some
built in shell, compiler generates code behind
the scene, dumps it to DSP then executes. For
my purposes compile delay is not important.
I guess I see no firm line between a scripting
shell and an IDE.
The point of complex software development is to reuse
code as much as possible, so you need standalone
chunks of code that need to communicate with each other.
Corba (e.g. Gnome's Bonobo) or quick and dirty hack
like Kparts is all about code modularity and code
reuse. You can't just go with Xlib, gcc and glibc.
At least not for apps with millions of lines of code.
And beyond object models, you need to standardize
on things like drag and drop implementation. Once
you do all that you've got desktop environment and
so yes you have to tie your app to the desktop.
Why is this comment rated "funny". The guy is
proposing using GCC as a a just-in-time compiler.
I was thinking of doing just that for an embedded
app where you need users to script but you also
need real-time code. OK, so maybe not with GCC,
but the idea is valid and serious.
-Mozilla is getting there on GUI speed. Certainly
my Windows install at work is as fast as NS 4.75.
-If you like Galeon, use it. Aphrodite may also be
what you want.
-Multizilla is the project for you. Join and
contribute. It's currently at alpha stage.
-Opera doesn't do as much, so it will be smaller.
-Agreed wholeheartedly.
Well, Mozilla has more code in it than Linux kernel.
It was not only written from scratch but it was
held up by Nutscrape releasing code that Mozilla had
to give up bit by bit because it was so ugly.
It has gotten to a usable and quite competitive
state since 0.9.1.
I personally am more disappointed that they are
now rushing Mozilla out the door to 1.0 status.
A recent mozillazine article by Gervase Markham
proposed to not imporve stability or speed from
current levels, just to ensure standards
compliance and call it 1.0 release. That's what I
think is wrong with Mozilla. They should take
their time, freeze features and then release a
perfect (i.e. fully bug-free and speed optimized)
browser when it is ready.
When I worked as an intern in a rather big
corp which shall remain nameless all
passwords for all computer were "welcome".
The sysadmins claimed it made their jobs
easier because they didn't have to remember
passwords for all the machines.
No, the important thing that I get from this is that one can even hope to trust IDC numbers only if they are their paying customer. Publically released data need not be accurate or accurately quoted. Publically released data doesn't come with methodology and is thus untrustable. Basically,
this "interview" could have been summarized in
just a few words: "pay me and I'll tell you".
I respect IDC's attitude, but I wonder why/.
bothered with questions.
Also, there is a red building across from
That's Rentertainment on Green street.
At least one floor in that building is
entirely occupied by IP management people.
I imagine the professor who asked the
question will be directed to talk to those folks.
They are quite nice people. They even can
translate legalese into plain English, though
you have to ask every time.
I believe they are on 6th floor though my memory
is a bit hazy. I don't remember the name of the
building. It's something like the Swanson building.
That's for students who need smallish legal
advice. That office was my starting point.
They redirected me to ombudsman's office because
they weren't qualified or authorized or both
to interpret/clarify University policies.
The ombuds office is right next door on the
fourth floor. Those guys clued me in as to who
to talk to. For real legal advice the union
office is a joke.
I have had to deal with UIUC IP legal people
though not regarding software. Go ask them
yourself. Second floor of Henry Administration
Building: U of I legal counsel office.
Andromeda: typical Roddenbery tripe
on
Andromeda
·
· Score: 2
As you might have guessed, I'm not a fan of
Star Trek. Largely this has to do with
cartoonish Sci-Fi. I hate all these masked
actors pretend to be aliens... with two legs...
and two hands... speaking english. I also
dislike Roddenbery's humanist message:
nothing wrong with the message except it
constantly smells of moralizing.
That said, I watched Final Conflict for a while.
The first season was strong because aliens were
kept to a minimum and looked like an excuse to
explore human drama. As well, they had hints
dropped of mysteries and villainous nature of
aliens. There were no good guys and bad guys,
it was all in question. Then they started to
featire aliens more, answered a few key questions,
killed off the most talented cast members
replacing them with people who have no concept
of acting and now the show is unwatchable.
I did watch Andromeda a bit mostly because ny
local station runs the episodes at 2am when I come
home from work. The show displays complete lack
of imagination. Suffice it to say that one alien
species is an overgrown bug and you can see the
plastic costume on a human actor. Character
interaction is mostly a moralizing tripe. In fact
the only characters that look human are the
Nietzcheans. They hold grudges, conflict with
each other and are generally bastards enough.
Tyr is probably the best acted character too.
I guess Dylan Hunt in a totally Nietzchean world
would make for a good show about why Roddenbery's
ideals don't work. But alas, the script makes
Mr. Hunt into a sort of a hero, rather than a
lunatic that he is.
I would be even shallow enough to watch the show
if some hot booty was on display. Unfortunately
the cast is lacking in that department too.
What would be really neat is to have the compiler
autogenerate a test suite for your app. Say you
are a coder and you just made this nifty app Foo.
Your compiler figures out what interfaces you need
from shared libraries, then builds a test suite
to find these interfaces. On user machine, the test
suite would automatically launch on install, query
all installed dlls for required interfaces, figure
out if these interface lead to expected implementation
(kinda like OS fingerprinting), then install your
app against stuff that will work. If some interfaces
were missing, then tell the user which versions of
libraries are preferred for the stuff to work.
The search bot could even be smart and try to
consolidate interfaces, i.e. find and use libraries
which would have the most interfaces, so as to reduce
memory footprint. It amazes me that computers can
do complicated logic yet much of the install
process requires the user to implement their logic
by hand.
Lead is a strong coupling superconductor
meaning phonons have more effect on transport.
No, for best sound quality, use niobium 99.9999%
purity. Don't forget to properly anneal your wire,
to get it as close to single crystal as possible,
I personally can hear every grain boundary.
BTW, liquid helium is found at around 4 K. Getting
it to be near 2 K requires pumping on it, which is
a bad idea if you are trying to keep vibrations
down. And as for what real men use, well real men
cool with liquid He^3, not He^4. It costs more
but the temperatures are well worth it. A dilution
fridge system can get you into milliKelvin range.
From the age of about 7, I was paranoid about
privacy. So I never kept a diary, I had hiding
places for many things and I watched my parents
very carefully to make sure they weren't
trying to keep tabs on me. If your kids trust
you, they will be very shocked and disappointed
when they find out that you betrayed their trust.
Oh, and I'd appreciate if you kept it ciilized,
leave flaming to the real retards out here.
IMHO, there is NO ethical way to monitor
another human being. Privacy in my world
comes ahead of security or well-being.
Would you read you child's mail, or
diary? Of course not, that would be a
gross violation of their privacy. Why then
do you feel in the right to read their other
communications with the world?
Now, if they come to you asking for money to
meet that nice guy they met in a chat room,
THEN it is your responsibility to step in and
explain right from wrong. And incidentally, aside
from them actually wanting to meet someone from
the net in person, there ain't much wrong they
can do on the net (assuming they don't know your
credit card number).
I'm 26. I am grateful to my parents for
not ever snooping on what I was doing when I was
growing up.
No, my point was to develop something that
would translate the OS and all other binaries
as a whole. Think of ALL your binaries as one
system. Now binary cross-compile. And yes,
you'd have to identify BIOS calls and do something
equivalent on another system. The reason why I
chose Windows as an example was because it is a
huge mess of cross-dependent code and judging
by its stability, not all the code is cosher.
If your binary-cross-compiler can handle Windows
it can be presumed to be good.
The comment that this is not suitable for
hand-optimized loops in DSPs plainly
means that this is an emulator.
What would be cool instead is if someone
made a binary cross-compiler so it would go
through you harddisk's binaries and convert
them from, say, x86 to PPC so that you could
take your hard drive, take it from an x86
system, put it on a Mac and have Windows
boot natively (modulo ROM issues on Macs).
All without access to Windows source code.
Well, my take on this is that Unix finally has
alternatives to MS tools. Used to be you could
have your choice of vi or emacs. And GUI meant
Motif. And you needed to learn X quirks. And...
Now there are IDEs which hide a lot of complexity
from you, so MS bashing is no longer needed to hide the lack of good RAD tools.
RAD tools, Office suites, desktop environments,
visual config tools and others are growing up
on UNIX/Linux so expect less MS bashing and more
of: why use proprietary stuff when free stuff is
better.
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/mozmail-5-23-log.h tml
seems to suggest there is an effort from within
Mozilla to do multiple sigs. However I found no
further references. I did look at the crypto FAQ
before posting, but with statements like:
"We know of at least two efforts which may produce
PGP support for Mozilla"
it was neither specific nor helpful.
I have recently looked for multiple or even
singular PGP signatures support and couldn't
find any. Do you know if anything is in the
pipe (maybe already done)?
Writing this from 0.9.1
With the -turbo option it is all that I want
in a browser. Well, a few glitches but no
showstoppers.
My main grief is with the theming. Both themes
have screwed up alignment of buttons and
drop-down list on the toolbar. Modern theme has
the drop-down list looking horrible (it's border
is misaligned with the list itself) while the
classic theme has the GO button lower than the rest. This is Win95 box at work. YMMV.
Oh, and clicking the icon brings up two windows:
one for the startup page and one with about:blank
location. I think I saw somewhere that this was
fixed in the nightlies though.
But the kicker is the superfast rendering. IE
doesn't hold a candle. Wow.
The article says it "can divide its screen to run
16 DVDs (digital versatile discs) simultaneously
in 720 by 480 pixel mode." The number 16 can only
mean a 4x4 or 2x8 partitioning, with the latter
being a rather ridiculous aspect ratio. Therefore,
The display is around 2880x1920. So I'd guess
they refer to around five million pixels. This is
further reinforced by the fact that the article
is down on 2 megapixel displays while portraying
10 megapixels ones as many years into the future.
I am not a financial/banking person. I was wondering
for a while what an underwriter does. Why can't
you go public by selling your shares e.g. at a kiosk
at an airport? You sound like you could answer
that question.
Slashdot Mirror
Being originally from Russia, I can only say that
"Russia is Finished" is an unusually accurate and
insightful article. The comments in the response
you linked to are quite weird: their first point
is that US played a role in the rise of corruption
in Russia. To an extent that is true but don't forget
that Russian corruption has its roots in the 1970s
when party bosses took bribes to get anything done.
If the names Gdlyan and Ivanov don't mean anything
to you then you don't know modern Russian history
at all, otherwise you know what I am talking about.
As for anti-Orthodox views, well most Russians
are agnostic. Very few religious people exist, most
pretend since it is fashionable. Grebentschikov,
a famous Russian singer-songwriter has summed it
up in two lines: "brigady lomyatsa v tserkov', svyatomy mesto kabak", i.e "mobs are storming
the church, while a saint now belongs in a pub".
To claim that you would affect most Russians by
saying whatever about Christianity is quite
ridiculous.
Why? Say I want to have DSP code run in real
time. User defines what the code does in some
built in shell, compiler generates code behind
the scene, dumps it to DSP then executes. For
my purposes compile delay is not important.
I guess I see no firm line between a scripting
shell and an IDE.
The point of complex software development is to reuse
code as much as possible, so you need standalone
chunks of code that need to communicate with each other.
Corba (e.g. Gnome's Bonobo) or quick and dirty hack
like Kparts is all about code modularity and code
reuse. You can't just go with Xlib, gcc and glibc.
At least not for apps with millions of lines of code.
And beyond object models, you need to standardize
on things like drag and drop implementation. Once
you do all that you've got desktop environment and
so yes you have to tie your app to the desktop.
Why is this comment rated "funny". The guy is
proposing using GCC as a a just-in-time compiler.
I was thinking of doing just that for an embedded
app where you need users to script but you also
need real-time code. OK, so maybe not with GCC,
but the idea is valid and serious.
-Mozilla is getting there on GUI speed. Certainly
my Windows install at work is as fast as NS 4.75.
-If you like Galeon, use it. Aphrodite may also be
what you want.
-Multizilla is the project for you. Join and
contribute. It's currently at alpha stage.
-Opera doesn't do as much, so it will be smaller.
-Agreed wholeheartedly.
Well, Mozilla has more code in it than Linux kernel.
It was not only written from scratch but it was
held up by Nutscrape releasing code that Mozilla had
to give up bit by bit because it was so ugly.
It has gotten to a usable and quite competitive
state since 0.9.1.
I personally am more disappointed that they are
now rushing Mozilla out the door to 1.0 status.
A recent mozillazine article by Gervase Markham
proposed to not imporve stability or speed from
current levels, just to ensure standards
compliance and call it 1.0 release. That's what I
think is wrong with Mozilla. They should take
their time, freeze features and then release a
perfect (i.e. fully bug-free and speed optimized)
browser when it is ready.
When I worked as an intern in a rather big
corp which shall remain nameless all
passwords for all computer were "welcome".
The sysadmins claimed it made their jobs
easier because they didn't have to remember
passwords for all the machines.
No, the important thing that I get from this is that one can even hope to trust IDC numbers only if they are their paying customer. Publically released data need not be accurate or accurately quoted. Publically released data doesn't come with methodology and is thus untrustable. Basically, /.
this "interview" could have been summarized in
just a few words: "pay me and I'll tell you".
I respect IDC's attitude, but I wonder why
bothered with questions.
Sorry, it's the
Swanlund Administration Building
601 E. John, Champaign, IL 61820
on John and Sixth.
Also, there is a red building across from
That's Rentertainment on Green street.
At least one floor in that building is
entirely occupied by IP management people.
I imagine the professor who asked the
question will be directed to talk to those folks.
They are quite nice people. They even can
translate legalese into plain English, though
you have to ask every time.
I believe they are on 6th floor though my memory
is a bit hazy. I don't remember the name of the
building. It's something like the Swanson building.
That's for students who need smallish legal
advice. That office was my starting point.
They redirected me to ombudsman's office because
they weren't qualified or authorized or both
to interpret/clarify University policies.
The ombuds office is right next door on the
fourth floor. Those guys clued me in as to who
to talk to. For real legal advice the union
office is a joke.
I have had to deal with UIUC IP legal people
though not regarding software. Go ask them
yourself. Second floor of Henry Administration
Building: U of I legal counsel office.
As you might have guessed, I'm not a fan of ... with two legs ...
... speaking english. I also
Star Trek. Largely this has to do with
cartoonish Sci-Fi. I hate all these masked
actors pretend to be aliens
and two hands
dislike Roddenbery's humanist message:
nothing wrong with the message except it
constantly smells of moralizing.
That said, I watched Final Conflict for a while.
The first season was strong because aliens were
kept to a minimum and looked like an excuse to
explore human drama. As well, they had hints
dropped of mysteries and villainous nature of
aliens. There were no good guys and bad guys,
it was all in question. Then they started to
featire aliens more, answered a few key questions,
killed off the most talented cast members
replacing them with people who have no concept
of acting and now the show is unwatchable.
I did watch Andromeda a bit mostly because ny
local station runs the episodes at 2am when I come
home from work. The show displays complete lack
of imagination. Suffice it to say that one alien
species is an overgrown bug and you can see the
plastic costume on a human actor. Character
interaction is mostly a moralizing tripe. In fact
the only characters that look human are the
Nietzcheans. They hold grudges, conflict with
each other and are generally bastards enough.
Tyr is probably the best acted character too.
I guess Dylan Hunt in a totally Nietzchean world
would make for a good show about why Roddenbery's
ideals don't work. But alas, the script makes
Mr. Hunt into a sort of a hero, rather than a
lunatic that he is.
I would be even shallow enough to watch the show
if some hot booty was on display. Unfortunately
the cast is lacking in that department too.
What would be really neat is to have the compiler
autogenerate a test suite for your app. Say you
are a coder and you just made this nifty app Foo.
Your compiler figures out what interfaces you need
from shared libraries, then builds a test suite
to find these interfaces. On user machine, the test
suite would automatically launch on install, query
all installed dlls for required interfaces, figure
out if these interface lead to expected implementation
(kinda like OS fingerprinting), then install your
app against stuff that will work. If some interfaces
were missing, then tell the user which versions of
libraries are preferred for the stuff to work.
The search bot could even be smart and try to
consolidate interfaces, i.e. find and use libraries
which would have the most interfaces, so as to reduce
memory footprint. It amazes me that computers can
do complicated logic yet much of the install
process requires the user to implement their logic
by hand.
Lead is a strong coupling superconductor
meaning phonons have more effect on transport.
No, for best sound quality, use niobium 99.9999%
purity. Don't forget to properly anneal your wire,
to get it as close to single crystal as possible,
I personally can hear every grain boundary.
BTW, liquid helium is found at around 4 K. Getting
it to be near 2 K requires pumping on it, which is
a bad idea if you are trying to keep vibrations
down. And as for what real men use, well real men
cool with liquid He^3, not He^4. It costs more
but the temperatures are well worth it. A dilution
fridge system can get you into milliKelvin range.
From the age of about 7, I was paranoid about
privacy. So I never kept a diary, I had hiding
places for many things and I watched my parents
very carefully to make sure they weren't
trying to keep tabs on me. If your kids trust
you, they will be very shocked and disappointed
when they find out that you betrayed their trust.
Oh, and I'd appreciate if you kept it ciilized,
leave flaming to the real retards out here.
IMHO, there is NO ethical way to monitor
another human being. Privacy in my world
comes ahead of security or well-being.
Would you read you child's mail, or
diary? Of course not, that would be a
gross violation of their privacy. Why then
do you feel in the right to read their other
communications with the world?
Now, if they come to you asking for money to
meet that nice guy they met in a chat room,
THEN it is your responsibility to step in and
explain right from wrong. And incidentally, aside
from them actually wanting to meet someone from
the net in person, there ain't much wrong they
can do on the net (assuming they don't know your
credit card number).
I'm 26. I am grateful to my parents for
not ever snooping on what I was doing when I was
growing up.
No, my point was to develop something that
would translate the OS and all other binaries
as a whole. Think of ALL your binaries as one
system. Now binary cross-compile. And yes,
you'd have to identify BIOS calls and do something
equivalent on another system. The reason why I
chose Windows as an example was because it is a
huge mess of cross-dependent code and judging
by its stability, not all the code is cosher.
If your binary-cross-compiler can handle Windows
it can be presumed to be good.
The comment that this is not suitable for
hand-optimized loops in DSPs plainly
means that this is an emulator.
What would be cool instead is if someone
made a binary cross-compiler so it would go
through you harddisk's binaries and convert
them from, say, x86 to PPC so that you could
take your hard drive, take it from an x86
system, put it on a Mac and have Windows
boot natively (modulo ROM issues on Macs).
All without access to Windows source code.
Well, my take on this is that Unix finally has
alternatives to MS tools. Used to be you could
have your choice of vi or emacs. And GUI meant
Motif. And you needed to learn X quirks. And...
Now there are IDEs which hide a lot of complexity
from you, so MS bashing is no longer needed to hide the lack of good RAD tools.
RAD tools, Office suites, desktop environments,
visual config tools and others are growing up
on UNIX/Linux so expect less MS bashing and more
of: why use proprietary stuff when free stuff is
better.
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/mozmail-5-23-log.h tml
seems to suggest there is an effort from within
Mozilla to do multiple sigs. However I found no
further references. I did look at the crypto FAQ
before posting, but with statements like:
"We know of at least two efforts which may produce
PGP support for Mozilla"
it was neither specific nor helpful.
I have recently looked for multiple or even
singular PGP signatures support and couldn't
find any. Do you know if anything is in the
pipe (maybe already done)?
Writing this from 0.9.1
With the -turbo option it is all that I want
in a browser. Well, a few glitches but no
showstoppers.
My main grief is with the theming. Both themes
have screwed up alignment of buttons and
drop-down list on the toolbar. Modern theme has
the drop-down list looking horrible (it's border
is misaligned with the list itself) while the
classic theme has the GO button lower than the rest. This is Win95 box at work. YMMV.
Oh, and clicking the icon brings up two windows:
one for the startup page and one with about:blank
location. I think I saw somewhere that this was
fixed in the nightlies though.
But the kicker is the superfast rendering. IE
doesn't hold a candle. Wow.
The article says it "can divide its screen to run
16 DVDs (digital versatile discs) simultaneously
in 720 by 480 pixel mode." The number 16 can only
mean a 4x4 or 2x8 partitioning, with the latter
being a rather ridiculous aspect ratio. Therefore,
The display is around 2880x1920. So I'd guess
they refer to around five million pixels. This is
further reinforced by the fact that the article
is down on 2 megapixel displays while portraying
10 megapixels ones as many years into the future.
I am not a financial/banking person. I was wondering
for a while what an underwriter does. Why can't
you go public by selling your shares e.g. at a kiosk
at an airport? You sound like you could answer
that question.