Does Google = God? Slashdot-25 minutes ago lgreco writes "In an op/ed for the NYT, Thomas Friedman wonders "Is Google God?" Interesting article that diseminates things mostly known to and hopefully well...
Is Google God ? CNN-2 hours ago By Thomas L. Friedman. Since 9/11 the world has felt increasingly fragmented. Reading the papers, one senses that many Americans...
Is Google God? New York Times-17 hours ago Since 9/11 the world has felt increasingly fragmented. Reading the papers, one senses that many Americans are emotionally withdrawing...
I just thought it was interesting that google is tracking slashdot articles in the same way as cnn and nyt.
Alanis Morissette sings a song titled "Ironic" on her album Jagged Little Pill. In this song she offers vignettes of situations where life is going well and then suddenly takes a turn for the worse. She exclaims, "Isn't it ironic...don't you think?" My answer: "No!" I have critically analyzed her lyrics and have found only 1 ironic episode therein. Ultimately I have discovered that she has no clue as to what irony really is.
That song always bothered me and I found this site really comforting that it bothered someone else enough to take the trouble to dissect it for everyone.
heh, it's their first day and every news outlet is carrying the story. This wasn't slashdotted, it CNN-Fox-MSNBC-dotted long before the story went up on/.
Seriously, they had to know they were going to get major traffic. I saw it on CNN as I was eating my cornflakes. I heard it on the radio as I was driving in. I had email from 4 people telling me about it when I walked in. 2 others have mentioned it in conversations. Everyone seems to know about it.
There must be pandemonium somewhere as they scramble to get back online.
except it generates an email that you have to then click a link within 72 hrs to verify. I suppose that could be scripted as well, but that would mean a _hell_ of a lot of email.
Yeah, so? They *had* a license. That license was under a contract with certain stipulations. Microsoft agreed to those conditions. They then chose to go ahead and do what they pleased anyway.
Sun took them to court and won. A judge said MS had to fix their implementation. Microsoft decided to take their ball home and quit (just have _no_ jvm).
MS can do this. There is no law that says they must support java in their product -- they just can't do it while violating agreements with the owner (Sun).
> Surely you'll still be able to get security fixes
Will you?
extended support for that operating system doesn't expire until the end of 2004. Extended support consists of paid support and continued security patches known as "hot fixes."
I read that as no more security patches after EOY 2004.
There's one machine in our group still running NT4. It's an old Digitial Prioris that was the group's first webserver. I think it's like a pentium < 200 or something. I've kept it around as a backup fileserver w/ cdburner for WAH people. I've never bothered to try to upgrade to 2000 because "it just works" as is and I'm not sure it would survive an upgrade.
The local sysadmin people know about and tolerate it, even though the rest of the windows servers are all w2k and they monitor things pretty close. The only reason they let this one slide is that they know I keep it up to date with fixes.
When security fixes are no longer available, I'm sure I will get pressured to do something (likely get another machine and take this one home - bet BSD would like it plenty).
In order to obtain the right to make and distribute products incorporating Sun's JAVATM Technology, and to mark such products with Sun's JAVA Compatible trademark, defendant Microsoft entered into two written agreements with Sun in March 1996. Pursuant to one agreement, defendant Microsoft promised to incorporate Sun's JAVATM Technology in certain products, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0, in a manner that fully conforms with and adheres to Sun's set of published specifications ("JAVA specifications") and "public" application programming interfaces ("JAVA APIs") for the JAVATM Technology.
Microsoft's prior agreements and promises notwithstanding, it has now unilaterally abrogated its obligations under both contracts by refusing to honor its express obligation to implement and adhere to Sun's most current set of JAVA specifications and JAVA APIs for the JAVATM Technology. Rather than comply with its contractual obligations, defendant Microsoft has instead embarked on a deliberate course of conduct in an attempt to fragment the standardized application programming environment established by the JAVATM Technology, to break the cross-platform compatibility of the JAVATM programming environment, and to incorporate the JAVATM Technology in a manner calculated to cause software developers to create programs that will operate only on platforms that use defendant Microsoft's Win32-based operating systems and no other systems platform or browser.
So yeah, Microsoft can and should produce their own JVM, so long as they adhere to the agreements under which they licensed the right to do so from Sun. Sun went to court to stop MS from distributing their version because it didn't meet the standards for compatibility that Sun had put forward in their contract. If they had just done this in the first place, no one would be crying about it now.
I especially liked the hatemail at the end. This was my favorite:
People that go to ivory league schools that live in trailers are a very low population, lets say 1% so since there are 99% of the people living in houses then you can clearly see that people that live in trailers are stupid, when compared to they're counter parts. Or put it this way, any finite number divided by infinity results in a number so small it does not exists. So any people that live in trailers that go to ivory league school you meet in passing are just figments of your imagination. Point is if you like Macintosh use it, if you don't then well don't use it.
Heh. That sure dispels this guy's critique of Apple's benchmarks, eh?
I must not tell lies... OW! I must not tell lies... OW! I must not tell lies... OW!
God she's a bitch.
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>Well seeing as I couldn't actually buy a CPU slower than a gigahertz when I last looked around
How 'bout it.
I was helping my sister out this weekend. She had a machine I had built for her a while ago using a PII-450 that she was using as a print server (she's a Mac user, but has a designjet and she wanted a server on her home network to run some remote proofing software).
Anyway, she had me come over because she "needed up upgrade" the machine. She was trying to install some new printing software that refused to install unless there was 512 Mb. Well the mb was maxed out at 394 Mb, so it was time to install a new board that would take more memory.
She needed it for work this week, otherwise I would have shopped around online for a replacement -- as it was, we drove over to the local computer store to shop for parts.
No shit -- the bottom-range processor they sold was a P4 2A. There was no way she needed a 2Ghz processor for this machine, but the only way to get her the 512Mb she needed right then and there was to plop down a few hundred for the board, memory and processor.
I'm really behind the times, it seems. My machines at home are all sub-1Gz processors -- I haven't upgraded anything since the last PIII-933 I put together to be able to play RTCW.
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This is for that guy in the CDW ads:...all I know about computers is that I get a better one than everyone else!
Mr. Anderson -- here's your new desktop machine. Great. What is it? It's a Dell. Well, I can see that. What I meant, what kind of thingy does it have. Oh, well... it's a P4 2Ghz with 512mb memory, a 120Gb drive, etc. Is that the best there is? Well, it's plenty for what you need (email, spreadsheet, netmeeting, etc). No, that's not what I asked. Are there better machines? Well, yes... I mean Intel just came out with a new P4 at 3.2Ghz, but.. Fine! Take this one back and bring me one of those! Huh? Wait... you don't underst NO, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. TAKE THIS ONE BACK AND GET ME ONE OF THE ONES WITH THE ONE YOU SAID!!
Gads. I just finished reading that article you linked:
Disney and its partner in CGI animation, Pixar, proudly presented their latest collaboration, kicking off the evening event with a rousing rendition of "You've Got a Friend in Me," sung by Robert Goulet, who was surrounded by crimson-clad dancing showgirls. The show-stopping routine culminated in a shower of fish-shaped confetti.
That would have ruined the evening for me and put me off watching Disney/Pixar films.;-)
I had the same experience. I saw AOTC DLP and was not impressed. I saw it again later at 2nd-run theater and the non-digital projection actually seemed better.
I went to see Nemo the first weekend it came out. I happened to get a DLP showing (didn't hunt for it like I did with AOTC) and it was really good (far better than star wars). I saw Nemo again the next weekend with another group, this time regular projection. I have to say the digital projection was sharper and had better color.
Now I want to go see it a 3rd time, back to DLP to see if it really was that much better, or if I'm imagining it.
"If source code is copied from protected Unix code," the SCO document adds, "there is no way for Linus Torvalds to identify that fact."
So, there's no way he could have known in advance if a contribution came from somewhere else? Sounds like they are pointing at the process as the problem, rather than setting Linus up to take the hit.
I'm picturing that moment of realization when the coyote's eyes pop open, the pupils shrink down to tiny dots and he holds up a little sign that says "help!" in tiny text the instant before the train mows him down.
Invariably, it is the roadrunner at the controls of the train as the cartoon fades out.
Slashdot Mirror
oops, left off the other observation:
/. last -- wonder what that means?
sorting by relevance gives an interesting result
CNN first, NYT next and
I just thought it was interesting that google is tracking slashdot articles in the same way as cnn and nyt.
There's a page that goes line by line through the lyrics and explains why they are not examples of irony:
The True Irony of Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette sings a song titled "Ironic" on her album Jagged Little Pill. In this song she offers vignettes of situations where life is going well and then suddenly takes a turn for the worse. She exclaims, "Isn't it ironic...don't you think?" My answer: "No!" I have critically analyzed her lyrics and have found only 1 ironic episode therein. Ultimately I have discovered that she has no clue as to what irony really is.
That song always bothered me and I found this site really comforting that it bothered someone else enough to take the trouble to dissect it for everyone.
oops, no
I spelled it wrong!
>Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
:-)
more like
Having a no smoking section in a restaurant is like having a no peeing section in a swimming pool.
I see now that it is back up and they have switched to a text-only version.
heh, it's their first day and every news outlet is carrying the story. This wasn't slashdotted, it CNN-Fox-MSNBC-dotted long before the story went up on /.
Seriously, they had to know they were going to get major traffic. I saw it on CNN as I was eating my cornflakes. I heard it on the radio as I was driving in. I had email from 4 people telling me about it when I walked in. 2 others have mentioned it in conversations. Everyone seems to know about it.
There must be pandemonium somewhere as they scramble to get back online.
except it generates an email that you have to then click a link within 72 hrs to verify. I suppose that could be scripted as well, but that would mean a _hell_ of a lot of email.
Nice idea, though.
Somehow I think that had a little more to do with it (being broadcast to millions nationwide) than being posted on
I noticed that the pages are
according to netcraft:
Yeah, so? They *had* a license. That license was under a contract with certain stipulations. Microsoft agreed to those conditions. They then chose to go ahead and do what they pleased anyway.
Sun took them to court and won. A judge said MS had to fix their implementation. Microsoft decided to take their ball home and quit (just have _no_ jvm).
MS can do this. There is no law that says they must support java in their product -- they just can't do it while violating agreements with the owner (Sun).
> Surely you'll still be able to get security fixes
Will you?
extended support for that operating system doesn't expire until the end of 2004. Extended support consists of paid support and continued security patches known as "hot fixes."
I read that as no more security patches after EOY 2004.
There's one machine in our group still running NT4. It's an old Digitial Prioris that was the group's first webserver. I think it's like a pentium < 200 or something. I've kept it around as a backup fileserver w/ cdburner for WAH people. I've never bothered to try to upgrade to 2000 because "it just works" as is and I'm not sure it would survive an upgrade.
The local sysadmin people know about and tolerate it, even though the rest of the windows servers are all w2k and they monitor things pretty close. The only reason they let this one slide is that they know I keep it up to date with fixes.
When security fixes are no longer available, I'm sure I will get pressured to do something (likely get another machine and take this one home - bet BSD would like it plenty).
>We can't (and shoudln't) prevent Microsoft from writing their own JVM
Well, Sun had something to say about it as Microsoft was violating their license with Sun, IIRC.
amemded complaint
In order to obtain the right to make and distribute products incorporating Sun's JAVATM Technology, and to mark such products with Sun's JAVA Compatible trademark, defendant Microsoft entered into two written agreements with Sun in March 1996. Pursuant to one agreement, defendant Microsoft promised to incorporate Sun's JAVATM Technology in certain products, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0, in a manner that fully conforms with and adheres to Sun's set of published specifications ("JAVA specifications") and "public" application programming interfaces ("JAVA APIs") for the JAVATM Technology.
Microsoft's prior agreements and promises notwithstanding, it has now unilaterally abrogated its obligations under both contracts by refusing to honor its express obligation to implement and adhere to Sun's most current set of JAVA specifications and JAVA APIs for the JAVATM Technology. Rather than comply with its contractual obligations, defendant Microsoft has instead embarked on a deliberate course of conduct in an attempt to fragment the standardized application programming environment established by the JAVATM Technology, to break the cross-platform compatibility of the JAVATM programming environment, and to incorporate the JAVATM Technology in a manner calculated to cause software developers to create programs that will operate only on platforms that use defendant Microsoft's Win32-based operating systems and no other systems platform or browser.
So yeah, Microsoft can and should produce their own JVM, so long as they adhere to the agreements under which they licensed the right to do so from Sun. Sun went to court to stop MS from distributing their version because it didn't meet the standards for compatibility that Sun had put forward in their contract. If they had just done this in the first place, no one would be crying about it now.
Someone please correct me if I've got this wrong.
lies
I heard this on the news this morning, then I saw CNN say the US is 'discounting' this report.
...or maybe not -- We'd have to check with Alanis on this one.
Anyway, thought it was funny/interesting that this comment is right under the banner ad which happened to be for Intel's compiler.
Targeting this? Compile with this!
Feh, I always just double the tax (as a base -- if the service was good I round up to the next buck and then add a couple more for good measure).
I suppose that wouldn't work everywhere, but tax here is 8% so doubling that on a meal puts me ~ 15% for starters.
I especially liked the hatemail at the end. This was my favorite:
People that go to ivory league schools that live in trailers are a very low population, lets say 1% so since there are 99% of the people living in houses then you can clearly see that people that live in trailers are stupid, when compared to they're counter parts. Or put it this way, any finite number divided by infinity results in a number so small it does not exists. So any people that live in trailers that go to ivory league school you meet in passing are just figments of your imagination. Point is if you like Macintosh use it, if you don't then well don't use it.
Heh. That sure dispels this guy's critique of Apple's benchmarks, eh?
I must not tell lies... OW!
I must not tell lies... OW!
I must not tell lies... OW!
God she's a bitch.
>Well seeing as I couldn't actually buy a CPU slower than a gigahertz when I last looked around
How 'bout it.
I was helping my sister out this weekend. She had a machine I had built for her a while ago using a PII-450 that she was using as a print server (she's a Mac user, but has a designjet and she wanted a server on her home network to run some remote proofing software).
Anyway, she had me come over because she "needed up upgrade" the machine. She was trying to install some new printing software that refused to install unless there was 512 Mb. Well the mb was maxed out at 394 Mb, so it was time to install a new board that would take more memory.
She needed it for work this week, otherwise I would have shopped around online for a replacement -- as it was, we drove over to the local computer store to shop for parts.
No shit -- the bottom-range processor they sold was a P4 2A. There was no way she needed a 2Ghz processor for this machine, but the only way to get her the 512Mb she needed right then and there was to plop down a few hundred for the board, memory and processor.
I'm really behind the times, it seems. My machines at home are all sub-1Gz processors -- I haven't upgraded anything since the last PIII-933 I put together to be able to play RTCW.
This is for that guy in the CDW ads: ...all I know about computers is that I get a better one than everyone else!
Mr. Anderson -- here's your new desktop machine.
Great. What is it?
It's a Dell.
Well, I can see that. What I meant, what kind of thingy does it have.
Oh, well... it's a P4 2Ghz with 512mb memory, a 120Gb drive, etc.
Is that the best there is?
Well, it's plenty for what you need (email, spreadsheet, netmeeting, etc).
No, that's not what I asked. Are there better machines?
Well, yes... I mean Intel just came out with a new P4 at 3.2Ghz, but..
Fine! Take this one back and bring me one of those!
Huh? Wait... you don't underst
NO, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. TAKE THIS ONE BACK AND GET ME ONE OF THE ONES WITH THE ONE YOU SAID!!
ok, ok... geez (I just work here)
>64 bit has very little to do with speed
C'mon -- any 3rd-grader can tell you that 64 is twice as much as 32!
Doesn't it follow then that a 64-bit processor is going to be at least twice as fast as any 32-bit one?
</tongue-in-cheek>
Gads. I just finished reading that article you linked:
;-)
Disney and its partner in CGI animation, Pixar, proudly presented their latest collaboration, kicking off the evening event with a rousing rendition of "You've Got a Friend in Me," sung by Robert Goulet, who was surrounded by crimson-clad dancing showgirls. The show-stopping routine culminated in a shower of fish-shaped confetti.
That would have ruined the evening for me and put me off watching Disney/Pixar films.
I had the same experience. I saw AOTC DLP and was not impressed. I saw it again later at 2nd-run theater and the non-digital projection actually seemed better.
I went to see Nemo the first weekend it came out. I happened to get a DLP showing (didn't hunt for it like I did with AOTC) and it was really good (far better than star wars). I saw Nemo again the next weekend with another group, this time regular projection. I have to say the digital projection was sharper and had better color.
Now I want to go see it a 3rd time, back to DLP to see if it really was that much better, or if I'm imagining it.
> Like Bono perhaps?
...or do you mean Cher?
Sonny is dead.
*ducks*
SCO themselves said it..
"If source code is copied from protected Unix code," the SCO document adds, "there is no way for Linus Torvalds to identify that fact."
So, there's no way he could have known in advance if a contribution came from somewhere else? Sounds like they are pointing at the process as the problem, rather than setting Linus up to take the hit.
Good mental image.
I'm picturing that moment of realization when the coyote's eyes pop open, the pupils shrink down to tiny dots and he holds up a little sign that says "help!" in tiny text the instant before the train mows him down.
Invariably, it is the roadrunner at the controls of the train as the cartoon fades out.
So, who is the roadrunner in this scenario?
coyote=McBride
train=IBM
roadrunner=?