Actually, Microsoft may have much more control over the world than the "rest of
us" likes, but the US government seemingly does.
That's why the antitrust has gone apparently nowhere, and the sane world keeps
replacing this MS-centric mess with something else, one by one. Have you had
the luck to work with BIOS code and the associated junk-repository even some
Linux code needs to work around? Many BIOS-es from few years old, but perfectly good working
motherboards hang with hard disks larger than 32GB, is this silliness?
Starting this replacement with the operating system seems to be the hardest, but
the most visible, and most effective for reorganizing these invisible power lines,
I for one welcome our... Oh, this effort to commoditize the computer industry as
it always was.
Since they assimilated Picard, and presumably all his knowledge about humans, Earth, and quite a few species... Getting Picard was a quite important goal exactly for this. Only then tell they people to escort them to sector 001, AFAIR.
(oh my, I just admitted watching TNG...)
Hopefully it's on-topic for talking about the Borg:)
IIS for Windows assigns all clients an ASP session cookie by default. I'm not even sure how you turn that off....
Laws should have to pass through some kind of expert panel first.
Excuse me, don't you have it backwards? If you don't know how to turn that off,
you are certainly not the right man to require all of us to accept all the cookies
fattening our cookies.txt/registry/whathaveyou.
I feel it's equally undesirable for all those sites to require cookies for apparently
no reason... No, checking the price of something should not require me storing what color
I'm seeing in the background. There are cases when cookies are useful, but just keeping
"session" information itself is not a valid one, IMHO. Even if you don't consider that
former article about public terminals, it's not obvious that storing cookie in a browser
has anything to do about what the browser's owner/current user want to keep, so in a way,
this law, while technically dumb, is good in the sense that it forces some to think over
what for are they "needing" those cookies.
I digress, but the cookie name is also very unfortunate... It's incredibly hard to translate
correctly outside the American culture (does it come from the Cookie Monster?), and in
some cases, not translating is much worse... If you say it aloud, Hungarians will think you
are talking about a small dick.. (esp. one of a small boy).
The proposed new messaging layer sounds really interesting and powerful. A
little like Mach or QNX, perhaps?
No (or perhaps yes), from the superficial look, it seems very similar to the AmigaOS exec.library's functions. No surprise here, given Matt's background as an arch-developer for Amiga:) See also DICE: Dillon's C Compiler... It's very weird to see the Amiga resurrected inside BSD..
I'm sure none of you would have a problem with [misusing GPL'd software], because you're not all about double standards, right?
Analogies, schmanalogies.. Well, many people use and develop GPL software, and many people pirate everything from Microsoft. Therefore many people have double standards, eh?
Not to be taken personally, but please be aware that not everyone else on slashdot is one man with a coherent worldview. There are many of us opposing even some ideas of our friends, you know..
Got to get that in a sig before this theme gets as tiring as Natalie Portman...:)
The weird thing is when some random guy compiles a lot of traditionally public domain data, he's almost threatened to not do it, but when a business compiles customer data, and can tell what is the last fart of mine composed of, every "patriot" is silent?
I hate this country... Oh wait, I'm a dumb foreign guy, phew..:)
A torrent is a static file from an actual, present file, you can't make a torrent from tomorrow's daily picture. You have to download a new.torrent dose for your daily dose.
But a better idea may be to use this k2b to push torrent files thus relieving those popular, and always down (DoSed, money/bandwidth-starved, or simply lamely administered) torrent distribution sites..
Every day... I keep wondering, why do we have to even *think* about SCO until
they come forward? The age old saying, "don't feed the trolls", comes to
mind...
But for a bit more informativeness, I don't hear about the few software releases that
have strong Caldera/SCO bonds, even as a new release, or a revived tool from way back then:
OpenSLP,
CSCOPE (gee,
cSCOpe, advogators will
kill me) and
something similar (not trivial) which eludes my mind just now...
Charity for me is something that you don't expect anything in return from...
Perhaps, traditionally, but we are here to revolutionarize everything, no?
But seriously, donating usually means to improve the society by helping someone do things you wanted, but never had all the resources for. Like, you can feed your neighbor, but who can feed *the* hungry?
Look, this is really a fairly abstract way of improving society, but it can, by enhancing communication, archiving speeches, obscure languages, etc. Sure, it seems you're donating to a company, but hopefully you can be damn sure when they did all allegedly tedious paper- and legwork, that all those money will be accountable; and I can imagine donating to worse causes... like some special Church...
(no idea what the story with WiFi and multicasting is)
Well, multicast indeed has nothing to do with QoS, except in
a negative sense. As I read 802.11* is a lockstep protocol, the
traffic between the host (end-point) and the access point
is acknowledging (fragments) of packets synchronously, so it can
quickly retransmit lost/errored parts of the transmission, at
least quicker than TCP/IP's error recovery, which is not quite
designed on arbitrarily lossy links.
Now compare what happens when you send to multiple hosts via multicast; you
cannot expect them to acknowledge every bit, if there's an error, all hope is
lost to recover the missing part if you don't send much *more* duplicated data
than you usually would need on a normal network. What's more, there could be
ranges on a wireless network which normally back down to 5.5/2/1 mbps (from the
normal 11 mbps), and if you'd just send 11 mbps to everyone, quite a few host
would simply miss it completely... What's more, I seem to remember that
multicast normally is limited to 2 mbps, the old standard bandwidth of 802.11..
That would be really not a great way to broadcast video... If you can do it, it's almost down to DSL speed, the old dream of the telcos to sell VoD over your phone line..:)
And as long as Moore's law keeps letting us up the MIPS per pixel rapidly,
we've still got headroom to design better codecs yet.
I agree, but it's a bit tiring to replace all PC's, all set-top boxes we don't
have yet, DVD players, sat tuners every other year... Except the 802.11b Prism card?
This consumer "centric" box selling is kinda let down; if Hollywood wouldn't
insist on everything encrypted, we would just have one video decoder box
with a standard input (firewire, ethernet(!) whatever), and if the standards
change, we don't throw out all those black devices on the HiFi set, but upgrade,
maybe sometimes really replace that single box that doesn't keep up with the
standards... And don't frighten me with a Microsoft box centric view again...
I want simple parts cooperating via simple protocols on ethernet just like
I can plug all my household devices to the power grid.
Hold on a sec.. Bryant Park?
"Bryant, huh?" "Lófaszt, nehogy már, te vagy a Brade.. Brade Runner!"
BTW, there's one more semi-Hungarian sentence there that noone seemed to hear,
check it: "Azonnal kövessen engem, bitte!"
But, obviously, those lowly pirates are obviously using it to copy movies in divx format (or whatever is in avi today..), it's equivalent to about eight time more DVD burners.. Don't ask about CD though, those are even more outrageous, they are using these to copy about ten times more (MP3 compression), to seven times larger media, with about twenty times the speed of a CD... That's equivalent to thousands of CD writers! The horror...
^G is ctrl-g, possibly ctrl-q,ctrl-g or ctrl-v,ctrl-g depending on your shell. It's really easy to "hear" a few ten ms differences between individual packets, and obviously you don't need a display to hear connections failing..
...use the electron's spin
(+half or -half) to store the same... information
Doesn't the Pauli Exclusion Principle limit this seriously? After all, in every atom (of a given element), each electron must have certain preoccupied states... The only way to convey information by using ions (i.e. less, or more electrons for the same atom); and keeping electrically imbalanced material is a bit more difficult...
I see only Linus daydreaming about keeping x86 (the well-known and optimized standard bytecode at Transmeta, remember?), so that the 64 bit extensions get more widespread,
thus "rest of us" can afford to get 64 bit architectures on this very same architecture we grown up with... On the other hand, it's a good goal:)
IMHO, the linked letter does not look really convincing... At the least it does not explain, why is it bad to ignore open source. Anyone reading this not knowing about open source would not care about "open source communities", nor about Red Hat.
How about reversing DMCA, shortening the span of software patents, reversing copyright lengthening, passing laws about *not* passing laws to enhance the *life* of businesses?
I always find it easier to write and/or think when I am expressing my thoughts out loud...
And there's always a bug int the code you just can't find by yourself, just with someone else looking at it too. Or... saying it aloud what your code is trying to do..:)
I also think they made a somehow disconnected conclusion. After all, speech may be inefficient, but it (and recordings of it) elevated us near civilization. Which, of course, is bound to happen any day now..
Is it that project management and programming skills are two incompatible skills for the human brain?
I can only tell my experiences (no! not from the management:). I'm not that a coder either, but I'm most productive, when I go into the famous "deep hack" mode, concentrating on a problem, and then I don't have any sense of time. That's one part. The second part is that it's quite difficult to get into this mode, so I'm not that productive at all..:)
It's a tough decision. Keep my sense of time, and don't code, or code, but without respect to deadlines:)
I'd not call it "abuse". It's simply that more pages (by real and virtual people) link to "real" scientology pages. After all, the COS is the source of information about scientology, don't you think? Telling this is the only job of google.
The same way, when you search for microsoft, you don't expect linux.org to come out at the top, and vice versa. In the COS case, the picture has more shades, obviously, but any serious research should be done not only on the first link.
You can help the opponents by linking Scientology to xenu.net this way on all the pages you maintain, after all.
Dave S. Miller (the Sparc guy) boosted a post on 42 seconds kernel compile, although the exact article is not available on web archives, at least two quotes are on
a 68k list, and a
Hungarian Linux list.
Remember, this was in 1996. Now, how much did we progress in the last five-six years?:)
Even 64-bit architecture won't last forever, but it will last for
quite a while since only servers and scientific stuff have run out of
32-bit space right now. In three or four years the industry will have
moved over to 64-bit architecture, and it looks like it will suffice
for more than a decade.
Pardon? I don't wan't to be another BG, but I think this time he's
over-cautious. Filling 2^64 bytes of memory, over a 66MHz/64 bit bus would
take about 132 billion (10^9) seconds. That's about 4100 years. There could
be some coding tricks which would be easier with more than 64 bits of address
spaces, but handling this much data is... difficult. Even if the situation
improves three magnitudes in the next ten years, it still years to initialize a
database this big in "memory" (fastest accessible storage). And even if the
addressable unit changes from bytes to 64 bit (or more) words, this makes the
need to go over 64 bits of addressing still useless...
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Actually, Microsoft may have much more control over the world than the "rest of us" likes, but the US government seemingly does.
That's why the antitrust has gone apparently nowhere, and the sane world keeps replacing this MS-centric mess with something else, one by one. Have you had the luck to work with BIOS code and the associated junk-repository even some Linux code needs to work around? Many BIOS-es from few years old, but perfectly good working motherboards hang with hard disks larger than 32GB, is this silliness?
Starting this replacement with the operating system seems to be the hardest, but the most visible, and most effective for reorganizing these invisible power lines, I for one welcome our... Oh, this effort to commoditize the computer industry as it always was.
In other "news".
Since they assimilated Picard, and presumably all his knowledge about humans, Earth, and quite a few species... Getting Picard was a quite important goal exactly for this. Only then tell they people to escort them to sector 001, AFAIR.
(oh my, I just admitted watching TNG...)
Hopefully it's on-topic for talking about the Borg :)
Analogies, schmanalogies.. Well, many people use and develop GPL software, and many people pirate everything from Microsoft. Therefore many people have double standards, eh?
Not to be taken personally, but please be aware that not everyone else on slashdot is one man with a coherent worldview. There are many of us opposing even some ideas of our friends, you know..
Got to get that in a sig before this theme gets as tiring as Natalie Portman... :)
The weird thing is when some random guy compiles a lot of traditionally public domain data, he's almost threatened to not do it, but when a business compiles customer data, and can tell what is the last fart of mine composed of, every "patriot" is silent? I hate this country... Oh wait, I'm a dumb foreign guy, phew.. :)
A torrent is a static file from an actual, present file, you can't make a torrent from tomorrow's daily picture. You have to download a new .torrent dose for your daily dose.
But a better idea may be to use this k2b to push torrent files thus relieving those popular, and always down (DoSed, money/bandwidth-starved, or simply lamely administered) torrent distribution sites..
Every day... I keep wondering, why do we have to even *think* about SCO until they come forward? The age old saying, "don't feed the trolls", comes to mind...
But for a bit more informativeness, I don't hear about the few software releases that have strong Caldera/SCO bonds, even as a new release, or a revived tool from way back then: OpenSLP, CSCOPE (gee, cSCOpe, advogators will kill me) and something similar (not trivial) which eludes my mind just now...
Truth is always stranger you can imagine.. GAZ
Perhaps, traditionally, but we are here to revolutionarize everything, no?
But seriously, donating usually means to improve the society by helping someone do things you wanted, but never had all the resources for. Like, you can feed your neighbor, but who can feed *the* hungry?
Look, this is really a fairly abstract way of improving society, but it can, by enhancing communication, archiving speeches, obscure languages, etc. Sure, it seems you're donating to a company, but hopefully you can be damn sure when they did all allegedly tedious paper- and legwork, that all those money will be accountable; and I can imagine donating to worse causes... like some special Church...
Well, multicast indeed has nothing to do with QoS, except in a negative sense. As I read 802.11* is a lockstep protocol, the traffic between the host (end-point) and the access point is acknowledging (fragments) of packets synchronously, so it can quickly retransmit lost/errored parts of the transmission, at least quicker than TCP/IP's error recovery, which is not quite designed on arbitrarily lossy links.
Now compare what happens when you send to multiple hosts via multicast; you cannot expect them to acknowledge every bit, if there's an error, all hope is lost to recover the missing part if you don't send much *more* duplicated data than you usually would need on a normal network. What's more, there could be ranges on a wireless network which normally back down to 5.5/2/1 mbps (from the normal 11 mbps), and if you'd just send 11 mbps to everyone, quite a few host would simply miss it completely... What's more, I seem to remember that multicast normally is limited to 2 mbps, the old standard bandwidth of 802.11.. That would be really not a great way to broadcast video... If you can do it, it's almost down to DSL speed, the old dream of the telcos to sell VoD over your phone line.. :)
I agree, but it's a bit tiring to replace all PC's, all set-top boxes we don't have yet, DVD players, sat tuners every other year... Except the 802.11b Prism card?
This consumer "centric" box selling is kinda let down; if Hollywood wouldn't insist on everything encrypted, we would just have one video decoder box with a standard input (firewire, ethernet(!) whatever), and if the standards change, we don't throw out all those black devices on the HiFi set, but upgrade, maybe sometimes really replace that single box that doesn't keep up with the standards... And don't frighten me with a Microsoft box centric view again... I want simple parts cooperating via simple protocols on ethernet just like I can plug all my household devices to the power grid.
Hold on a sec.. Bryant Park?
"Bryant, huh?"
"Lófaszt, nehogy már, te vagy a Brade.. Brade Runner!"
BTW, there's one more semi-Hungarian sentence there that noone seemed to hear, check it: "Azonnal kövessen engem, bitte!"
Perhaps, but ever tried something like this?
ping 192.168.60.254|sed 's/ttl/ttl^G/g'
^G is ctrl-g, possibly ctrl-q,ctrl-g or ctrl-v,ctrl-g depending on your shell. It's really easy to "hear" a few ten ms differences between individual packets, and obviously you don't need a display to hear connections failing..
Doesn't the Pauli Exclusion Principle limit this seriously? After all, in every atom (of a given element), each electron must have certain preoccupied states... The only way to convey information by using ions (i.e. less, or more electrons for the same atom); and keeping electrically imbalanced material is a bit more difficult...
I see only Linus daydreaming about keeping x86 (the well-known and optimized standard bytecode at Transmeta, remember?), so that the 64 bit extensions get more widespread, thus "rest of us" can afford to get 64 bit architectures on this very same architecture we grown up with... On the other hand, it's a good goal :)
How about reversing DMCA, shortening the span of software patents, reversing copyright lengthening, passing laws about *not* passing laws to enhance the *life* of businesses?
And there's always a bug int the code you just can't find by yourself, just with someone else looking at it too. Or... saying it aloud what your code is trying to do.. :)
I also think they made a somehow disconnected conclusion. After all, speech may be inefficient, but it (and recordings of it) elevated us near civilization. Which, of course, is bound to happen any day now..
Developer Preview 1 is quite soon, possibly in two weeks, but with 5.0 planned at the end of November... that's quite some time for good stuff.
I'm thus enlightened.
The same way, when you search for microsoft, you don't expect linux.org to come out at the top, and vice versa. In the COS case, the picture has more shades, obviously, but any serious research should be done not only on the first link. You can help the opponents by linking Scientology to xenu.net this way on all the pages you maintain, after all.
Remember, this was in 1996. Now, how much did we progress in the last five-six years? :)