look you insensitive clods, j2ee takes a special place of reviling and hatred in the heart of the true denziens of the linux underworld for a simple reason.
j2ee is lock in. its opting for a dark evil-you-know, its embracing a chosen path. once you start adding frameworks, your down the path of adding even more frameworks and theres no where to march but onwards.
in general, the best hope for the rebellion is on loosely coupled. in the context of the web, with the constant promise of agents and what not, loose coupling and late bindings are the only thing that make sense. static types are so 1988. the LAMP "architecture", by nature of being so apache-centric, is slightly less bound, even if the underlying code is single purpose hackery.
activegrid promises one of the integral elements of what is truly needed: a transactional grid system to fabric different apps. conventional databases are overly limited, what active grid is promising is a more persistent active-object oriented approach.
we need a coordination language which bridges the loosely-coupled/static type boundary. which bridges the language barrier.
codehaus has a couple Active[SubName] projects of interest. Some really amazing work at integrating and coallescing a real coordination language, but very java specific for the most part. i have a big fetish for ActiveSpaces and its SEDA approach. ultimately the java specific killed the prospects for me (performance suspicions), otherwise its very beautiful.
it amazes me just how short-sighted and short-reaching all these comments are. way for the poster to turn a very foresighted richly influenced piece of technology into a petty bickering flamewar. insensitive clod.
i live in dc, graduating may 2005 in computer engineering. i'm going to have start peeing into a cup soon. i can just see it coming. fine by me really so long as i can find a job.
i'm truly amazed how unqualified almost all of my classmates are. even the geeky 'nes are more the counter-strike variety than the LAMP/hacker breed. most kids in Operating Systems class clearly hadn't the faintest idea what a scheduler was.
>I also noticed that Google Scholar lists how many > times a paper is cited by other works. This seems > like an excellent use of PageRank technology.
CiteSeer lists how many times per year a paper is cited by other works. As a researcher, this shows you when this idea was a topic of interest, which is quite useful.
When you're looking for CS papers, there's truly nothing better than CiteSeer. Everything is so well cross referenced its rediculous. You can explore entire subject domains with ease.
> BTW, there is a Firefox extension that can > automatically sync to your Delicious bookmarks. Or > you can just take advantage of Delicious' RSS feeds
Score -1 for LAZY.
This little gem of a program is called Foxylicious and its website is here. Firefox users click here to install.
Dont be lame like this guy, provide USEFUL INFORMATION when you post.
efficient use of bandwidth is the heart of ham radio. i'd wager its a far more concrete goal than "computer software," even if it takes 10 years for the general public to catch up. bandwidth is finite, its up to us to make the best of it.
i wager that with 802.11b, cell phones and what not, things appear "good enough". we're in the age of marvels, why make cooler ones?
Ham radio still retains the distinction of being the ONLY source for learning about radio operations. I've endured Communications Systems classes, but truth be told, the only useful information available in the world about radio operations is in the ARRL books.
And you're defiantely right: ham's continue to grow this body of knowledge. but between the technology barrier and the availability of 802.11b, there's been shift away from this. i'd (rather safely) wager that the number of hams making their own gear has dramatically decreased.
Without question though, amateur radio continues to help inidicate & shift the future direction of radio, while providing almost all the guideposts of our past.
Generally, I've found that as soon as i'm writing "Time critical software," i've lost the battle (if not the war) already. Leave time critical to apache & three hundred object databases, unless time critical is really integral. Not because you cant write time critical software, but because time critical software takes too long to write well. Its a recepiet for death before release.
the one desperate hope i bear is that software will not go the way of ham radio. ham radio pioneered radio, but ultimately it was the corporations that had to advance the art. they were the only ones who could sink the required technology and capital into the field. (generall) ham radio has been relegated back to a enthusiast hobby as die hard development has faded off.
i'm not sure why i stick to this hope so badly, but i hope there's another way for software. fundamentally, software is all about building blocks, using the existing to build more. for this reason, its crucial that there be open-ness of software.
software at least stands a chance. it doesnt require adv. fabrication, expensive test equipment and doesnt cause anything other than your own computer to break.
and to all the hardcore ham people still out there, keep kickin baby! or something.
its going to be brought about by Brazil, India and Germany when they hire a couple guys to sit down and hack some software to deploy linux to their COUNTRY.
linux remains a very difficult thing to deploy. there are going to have to be better tools for centralized system management before linux can roll out and roll over microsoft. corporations arent the place to foot the development of these rollout-configurators, countries could concievably be. in the end, everyone will benefit.
i'd say when a country doesnt have much difficulty doing installing linux, microsoft is going to have a hard time justifying themselves. thats a long way to go though; we're talking automagic kerberos+ldap/w unified userdb for nfs, samba, ftp, web, shell and a powerful web admin system. good outward scalability. i mean, hell, dragonfly bsd might have a better chance than linux when you think of how far there is to go.;)
VASIMR's limited thrust capabilities are a large function of how much energy you can dump into the system. Once we're at a technological level where we can do D-D fision, the limiting factor is how big a battery or how big a reactor you're going to put on the space ship. This vastly oversimplifies the difficulties in plasma containment, but the key fact is that reaction mass remains relatively neglidgible.
The one great unfortunate circumstance is that you cant just mechanically chain a fusion reactor to a VASIMR system to jointly produce and manipulate a plasma: the fusion reaction will make your propellant radioactive. I'm not sure why, but I was once explained why this is the case even for D-D fusion. Otherwise it'd make an excellent all in one integrated ship power propulsion system, assuming you could work out the flow dynamics for the system (also non-trivial: linearly accelerating an active part of your fusion reactor out the back)
VASMIR seems like a far more generally useful form of space propulsion. The basic premise is the use of radio and magnetic fields to accelerate propellants. Its also inline with the general plan for societal advancement. It is rooted in many of the same technology we'd use to build Fusion reactors, relying upon superconductors, magnetofluid-dyanmics and plasmas. It was derived from plasma manipulation techniques discovered in fusion experiments.
Whereas a nuclear rocket will aid one given form of space travel: moving to mars and back, VASIMR systems are useful from launch to interplanetary, using extremely dynamic engines which consume virtually neglidgible reaction mass (aka fuel). They do, however, require a power source, which could well some nuclear variety, particularly for takeoff. VASIMR's fuel is hydrogen, which is a) readily available anywhere in the galaxy (including mars) and b) the most effective radiation shield we know.
This guy said one nuclear engine should cost about $1 Bil to produce. ITER is estimating $10 Billion for the first working Fusion power plant and will indirectly aid useful space travel more than a nuclear rocket. The ITER project aims to create a 500MW sustainable power plant. Compare this to JET, our current Tokamaka, which bursted at a world record 16MW. Yes, this is an apples to oranges comparison.
We need to stop dumping cash at quick easy bandaids to solve the next problem and begin evaluating our long term priorities as a society. We are wasting money on a hydrogen economy which will make coal plants burn the fuel our current cars would be burning anyways. We are wasting money building nuclear rockets. There is an energy crisis at hand and a environmental problem looming. We need reknewable resources. If we're going to be dumping billions in to space flight again, we might as well research two things which will go hand in hand.
Harness plasma. Make fusion go. Learn how to D-T react, and then get D-D reactions as fast as possible. Miniaturize.
Because IE7 was the biggest threat to microsoft. They nearly built open standards which would have let their users to everything as webapps. The only problem is they didnt have any lock-in.
Thats why IE7 team was stomped into the ground and we havent seen or heard a major release since Win2000.
Someone dig up some of those random facts i once had on this subject please? IE7 was a strong active dev team doing neat stuff. Then they were axed.
my article published concerning enhanced search and cross-referencing's ability to promote niche and over throw the media machine. In response to Wired's Niche article and details the social impacts of growing niche markets.
Bob Dole has been a repeat guest and they're all stellar shows. Stewart keeps it no-edge, friendly and informal, and Bob Dole provides a similar un-partisan jest, even when they're "talking politics" (sentance or three addressing some issue).
carlson did the politico dance. he picked a carrot and kept trying to wave it in the air. look at me!, he shouts.
ignore the carrots. it often gives the best results.
thats what frustrated me most about the debates; seeing even Kerry just pick carrot after carrot in the debates, never being bold enough to come forth and state a position. pick four statistics and to back up and repeat ad-nom. bush we expect nothing greater from, but I often found myself wishing Kerry would get off the stump, step down and take a real position.
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look you insensitive clods, j2ee takes a special place of reviling and hatred in the heart of the true denziens of the linux underworld for a simple reason.
:)
j2ee is lock in. its opting for a dark evil-you-know, its embracing a chosen path. once you start adding frameworks, your down the path of adding even more frameworks and theres no where to march but onwards.
in general, the best hope for the rebellion is on loosely coupled. in the context of the web, with the constant promise of agents and what not, loose coupling and late bindings are the only thing that make sense. static types are so 1988. the LAMP "architecture", by nature of being so apache-centric, is slightly less bound, even if the underlying code is single purpose hackery.
activegrid promises one of the integral elements of what is truly needed: a transactional grid system to fabric different apps. conventional databases are overly limited, what active grid is promising is a more persistent active-object oriented approach.
we need a coordination language which bridges the loosely-coupled/static type boundary. which bridges the language barrier.
codehaus has a couple Active[SubName] projects of interest. Some really amazing work at integrating and coallescing a real coordination language, but very java specific for the most part. i have a big fetish for ActiveSpaces and its SEDA approach. ultimately the java specific killed the prospects for me (performance suspicions), otherwise its very beautiful.
it amazes me just how short-sighted and short-reaching all these comments are. way for the poster to turn a very foresighted richly influenced piece of technology into a petty bickering flamewar. insensitive clod.
well, there goes my moderation...
as always,
myren
i live in dc, graduating may 2005 in computer engineering. i'm going to have start peeing into a cup soon. i can just see it coming. fine by me really so long as i can find a job.
i'm truly amazed how unqualified almost all of my classmates are. even the geeky 'nes are more the counter-strike variety than the LAMP/hacker breed. most kids in Operating Systems class clearly hadn't the faintest idea what a scheduler was.
Someone patent the Not IsNot enhancement to the IsNot feature
>I also noticed that Google Scholar lists how many
> times a paper is cited by other works. This seems
> like an excellent use of PageRank technology.
CiteSeer lists how many times per year a paper is cited by other works. As a researcher, this shows you when this idea was a topic of interest, which is quite useful.
When you're looking for CS papers, there's truly nothing better than CiteSeer. Everything is so well cross referenced its rediculous. You can explore entire subject domains with ease.
Because i want cyclic linking damnit!
ooc, is there anything besides del.icio.us for p2p bookmarking?
> BTW, there is a Firefox extension that can
> automatically sync to your Delicious bookmarks. Or
> you can just take advantage of Delicious' RSS feeds
Score -1 for LAZY.
This little gem of a program is called Foxylicious and its website is here. Firefox users click here to install.
Dont be lame like this guy, provide USEFUL INFORMATION when you post.
foxylicious lets you use your del.icio.us bookmarks in firefox natively.
bad-arse yo.
myren
THE OFFICIAL THREAD on Diy Projectors.
I still love mine.
i found there was nothing that said sexxy like a overhead projector hanging on its side from my dorm room's sprinkler.
efficient use of bandwidth is the heart of ham radio. i'd wager its a far more concrete goal than "computer software," even if it takes 10 years for the general public to catch up. bandwidth is finite, its up to us to make the best of it.
i wager that with 802.11b, cell phones and what not, things appear "good enough". we're in the age of marvels, why make cooler ones?
good breakdown of the restrictions.
Ham radio still retains the distinction of being the ONLY source for learning about radio operations. I've endured Communications Systems classes, but truth be told, the only useful information available in the world about radio operations is in the ARRL books.
And you're defiantely right: ham's continue to grow this body of knowledge. but between the technology barrier and the availability of 802.11b, there's been shift away from this. i'd (rather safely) wager that the number of hams making their own gear has dramatically decreased.
Without question though, amateur radio continues to help inidicate & shift the future direction of radio, while providing almost all the guideposts of our past.
Generally, I've found that as soon as i'm writing "Time critical software," i've lost the battle (if not the war) already. Leave time critical to apache & three hundred object databases, unless time critical is really integral. Not because you cant write time critical software, but because time critical software takes too long to write well. Its a recepiet for death before release.
the one desperate hope i bear is that software will not go the way of ham radio. ham radio pioneered radio, but ultimately it was the corporations that had to advance the art. they were the only ones who could sink the required technology and capital into the field. (generall) ham radio has been relegated back to a enthusiast hobby as die hard development has faded off.
i'm not sure why i stick to this hope so badly, but i hope there's another way for software. fundamentally, software is all about building blocks, using the existing to build more. for this reason, its crucial that there be open-ness of software.
software at least stands a chance. it doesnt require adv. fabrication, expensive test equipment and doesnt cause anything other than your own computer to break.
and to all the hardcore ham people still out there, keep kickin baby! or something.
Myren
has anyone found a website for the linux challenge?
i've gotten 10 dead links to places it may once have been, but still nothing for the challenge itself.
ps: pathetic.
if you havent mastered the keyboard and still have to use a mouse, you're moving way way too slow. thats like, pre-internet time yo.
its going to be brought about by Brazil, India and Germany when they hire a couple guys to sit down and hack some software to deploy linux to their COUNTRY.
/w unified userdb for nfs, samba, ftp, web, shell and a powerful web admin system. good outward scalability. i mean, hell, dragonfly bsd might have a better chance than linux when you think of how far there is to go. ;)
linux remains a very difficult thing to deploy. there are going to have to be better tools for centralized system management before linux can roll out and roll over microsoft. corporations arent the place to foot the development of these rollout-configurators, countries could concievably be. in the end, everyone will benefit.
i'd say when a country doesnt have much difficulty doing installing linux, microsoft is going to have a hard time justifying themselves. thats a long way to go though; we're talking automagic kerberos+ldap
Myren
VASIMR's limited thrust capabilities are a large function of how much energy you can dump into the system. Once we're at a technological level where we can do D-D fision, the limiting factor is how big a battery or how big a reactor you're going to put on the space ship. This vastly oversimplifies the difficulties in plasma containment, but the key fact is that reaction mass remains relatively neglidgible.
The one great unfortunate circumstance is that you cant just mechanically chain a fusion reactor to a VASIMR system to jointly produce and manipulate a plasma: the fusion reaction will make your propellant radioactive. I'm not sure why, but I was once explained why this is the case even for D-D fusion. Otherwise it'd make an excellent all in one integrated ship power propulsion system, assuming you could work out the flow dynamics for the system (also non-trivial: linearly accelerating an active part of your fusion reactor out the back)
Here's to 2040?
my mommy always told me i was a winner.
VASMIR seems like a far more generally useful form of space propulsion. The basic premise is the use of radio and magnetic fields to accelerate propellants. Its also inline with the general plan for societal advancement. It is rooted in many of the same technology we'd use to build Fusion reactors, relying upon superconductors, magnetofluid-dyanmics and plasmas. It was derived from plasma manipulation techniques discovered in fusion experiments.
Whereas a nuclear rocket will aid one given form of space travel: moving to mars and back, VASIMR systems are useful from launch to interplanetary, using extremely dynamic engines which consume virtually neglidgible reaction mass (aka fuel). They do, however, require a power source, which could well some nuclear variety, particularly for takeoff. VASIMR's fuel is hydrogen, which is a) readily available anywhere in the galaxy (including mars) and b) the most effective radiation shield we know.
This guy said one nuclear engine should cost about $1 Bil to produce. ITER is estimating $10 Billion for the first working Fusion power plant and will indirectly aid useful space travel more than a nuclear rocket. The ITER project aims to create a 500MW sustainable power plant. Compare this to JET, our current Tokamaka, which bursted at a world record 16MW. Yes, this is an apples to oranges comparison.
We need to stop dumping cash at quick easy bandaids to solve the next problem and begin evaluating our long term priorities as a society. We are wasting money on a hydrogen economy which will make coal plants burn the fuel our current cars would be burning anyways. We are wasting money building nuclear rockets. There is an energy crisis at hand and a environmental problem looming. We need reknewable resources. If we're going to be dumping billions in to space flight again, we might as well research two things which will go hand in hand.
Harness plasma. Make fusion go. Learn how to D-T react, and then get D-D reactions as fast as possible. Miniaturize.
Why hasnt IE been updated in so long?
Because IE7 was the biggest threat to microsoft. They nearly built open standards which would have let their users to everything as webapps. The only problem is they didnt have any lock-in.
Thats why IE7 team was stomped into the ground and we havent seen or heard a major release since Win2000.
Someone dig up some of those random facts i once had on this subject please? IE7 was a strong active dev team doing neat stuff. Then they were axed.
nothing suspicious about that at all. get yours here.
my article published concerning enhanced search and cross-referencing's ability to promote niche and over throw the media machine. In response to Wired's Niche article and details the social impacts of growing niche markets.
Bob Dole has been a repeat guest and they're all stellar shows. Stewart keeps it no-edge, friendly and informal, and Bob Dole provides a similar un-partisan jest, even when they're "talking politics" (sentance or three addressing some issue).
Damn I want an archive of the Daily show.
carlson did the politico dance. he picked a carrot and kept trying to wave it in the air. look at me!, he shouts.
ignore the carrots. it often gives the best results.
thats what frustrated me most about the debates; seeing even Kerry just pick carrot after carrot in the debates, never being bold enough to come forth and state a position. pick four statistics and to back up and repeat ad-nom. bush we expect nothing greater from, but I often found myself wishing Kerry would get off the stump, step down and take a real position.