What do you think will be officially released first:
Longhorn or Sarge?
Of course, Sarge as it is is already relatively stable and bug free (I had an uptime of 35 days before rebooting to use a new kernel); while I bet that Longhorn will have lots of problems for at least the first six months.
This article is a rehash of basic neuronal theory (known for at least a 100 years ago), and slightly less basic information on Long Term Potentiation (which has been known about since the early 70s, although they have been discovering more in recent years); followed by some guesses at how the calcium influx triggers genetic change, because "genetics" is the trendy branch of Biology that is familiar from the cover of Time.
What we don't know is where and how Long Term memories are stored. We know that they are formed through synaptic input in the limbic system. Presumably, they are then passed to somewhere in the cortex. Why? How? Where? That is what we don't know.
BTW, it is quite easy to do your own experiments on LTP. Although they can be a bit dangerous.
I guess what it means is those of us of the RADICALLY XTREME generation.net don't pay attention to details...after all, we are too busy changing the world with Blogging and Flash Mobs!
They are aiming particularly to tap the younger video-game generation.
Is this some marketing term for the young kidz who like totally radical xtreme eye popping special fx at the touch of a button?!?!?!
Are "video games" the mark of the young generation? Are these a target group for downloading movies? Right now, the generation that "grew up" with video games would be anyone 35 and under. So is the main feature of everyone under 35 that they like video games?
At a certain point, we will spend more time reading about anti-Spam measures than we will be reading about Spam.
Since there is a Slashdot article about Spam every day, and I usually spend about 5-10 minutes deleting spam, we might have already reached this point.
I am a pretty hardcore Wesnoth player (I've beaten TRoW and HttT! Which probably doesn't mean much to many of you.) I've been playing TBS for ten+ years, and Wesnoth is one of the most involving and challenging games for people who like strategic concepts. (Its also a nice if somewhat cliched RPG).
But Wesnoth is not what the average Windows or console gamer is looking for. Because for the most part, "games" are not "games" in the sense of a ruleset and concept to be mastered. Most games are not even tasks at hand eye coordination. Most "games" are interactive adventures with small aspects of both rulesets and hand-eye coordination, but mostly depending on graphics and sound to make the player feel immersed. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but for people who are looking for games that immerse them in a world, playing a game like Wesnoth, which is based around mastering a ruleset, and mostly projecting the world with your imagination, is going to be a disappointment.
The problem with most games is that they aren't actually games in the true sense. They are more a form of entertainment. Most people play them for the bright graphics and sound, and the immersion of the game world. Which many people, including myself, love. However, as a Wesnoth developer said "Great graphics make a movie. Great sound makes an album. Great gameplay makes a game."
As much as I love the Final Fantasy series, for example, I don't consider them "games" in the truest sense. They are wonderfully immersive stories, but that doesn't make them a game. The problem is, people are starting to really expect that out of their games. And even though Free Software developers could program a game with a much better engine, meaning it has a more challenging basic set of rules, then a Final Fantasy game; I don't think we can realistically expect free software developers to program the video and sound that people have come to expect. If you take the single opening movie from Final Fantasy VII, (a game that, at 8 years old, is ancient), I don't know how it could be put together without a lot of money.
So I think the basic place for Free Games right now is games for people who love gaming. My favorite game right now, of any type, is Wesnoth , a turn based strategy game released under the GPL. The graphics and the sound are fair, but the game play is truly engaging.
I recently got a new computer, and hadn't yet put Setiathome on it. So, I went to apt-get it, and while the file downloaded, it is hanging in installation. Did a whole bunch of people read this article, run to get setiathome, and slashdot alien.ssl.berekely.edu
As a preliminary finding that may or may not give us a clue as to what the internet system was running, Netcraft reports that www.comair.com is running Apache on HP-UX. So don't assume that the internal system was Windows just yet. Then again, don't assume that it wasn't.
Intel (for example) has its headquarters in Portland, Oregon where I live. I've been walking around Portland today, and I seem to not have noticed any bullet trains. Also, there are still these coin operated pay phones. The traffic lights don't even tell you how much longer you have to cross the street. 7-11s don't have doors that slide automatically. Not even half of people have broadband! And if I was to take a bus ride for 200 miles, I wouldn't get my own easy chair and television set, for ten dollars. Also, Portland doesn't have the tallest skyscraper in the world.
Taiwan is perhaps not the most developed economy in the world, but it is hardly a "developing" economy. In some things, they are behind us, in some things they are about the same, and in some things, they are way ahead. Their croissants are certainly good and cheap.
If you ever go to Taiwan, you will understand the significance of this very well.
In Taiwan, 7-Eleven is not just incredibly common, they are also important, being like a fourth branch of government. There is usually one, sometimes two, 7-Elevens on every block. Even in Tainan, a far more rural city, there would literally be 7-Elevens two or three minutes apart. And along with selling food, software and cell phones, 7-Eleven is where people go to pay their bills, as well as being part of the National Retail Lottery.
I will skip the snide comments saying "Use Linux" (although it is a great solution) imagining that you don't have the authority or resources to migrate 2000 systems.
The best tool is education. Whatever anti-spyware devices you put on there will be obsolete within a week, but knowledgble users will stay aware for a long time.
Of course, trying to educate that many users will be dificult, even assuming that the education sticks, but no solution is perfect. However, about 20 minutes explaining how the internet works and what an executable file is, etc. will have some very measurable results.
Canadians have no civil rights as citizens. Canadians are chattel owned by an old crazy woman in England. When you are nothing but human chattel, you can be herded around however your owners see fit.
I wasn't the first one who misread the headline, and thought the Russians were making fun of our Mars mission.
Which really, they have a right to do. I mean, what is a year or so in a tiny capsule, with only a little bit of food stuck in the cold dark depths of space? How is that different from living in a utilitarian concrete 50s era apartment in Archangelsk?
Releasing this may be a sign that Microsoft is moving more into the field of consumer electronics, and may be paying less attention to trying to release "serious" computer software.
Last time I checked, we are still 18 months away from the release of the next Microsoft operating system, and Microsoft still has not answered any of the serious questions about security or stability.
However, Microsoft is very good at one thing: designing things that are simple and attractive for consumers to use. If they can't make "scientific" operating systems, they can at least make pretty home electronics. It might be a fitting thing for them to do.
It should be noted that, while the graphics are newer, most of the ideas behind Final Fantasy date to cosmological dating to the Shang or early Zhou dynasties.
Go, as some barbarians call it, supposedly dates to the Xia, so it is older by a few hundred years. The reasons people pretend to like it are somewhat complicated, but mostly have to do with an unfounded admiration for the minimalism and nilhism present in Japanese culture, which mirrior the nilhism of Western metaphysical thinking.
The thing is that "open source" can mean many things. Probably the main reason that Linux (the flagship of open source) is secure is just because normal users don't have system control. This is something it inherited from Unix, but isn't specific to its code development process.
My distribution of Linux, Debian is stable because it is not a company, and it doesn't have to release new product too often to make marketting happy. Because there is no profit motive, Debian can take the time to release stable packages. If Debian was not using open source, this was still be the case.
So, it isn't specific to open source, but many open source projects have other features that make them more secure.
I'm biased, but I think everyone at Free Geek has done a very good job at bringing Linux and Free Software to the masses, at least those of the masses living in the Portland area.
Like most big lawsuits, especially between the government and a big country, this will probably go through dozens of twists and turns, and motions and objections and requests for odd evidence, and it will probably end up out of court or perhaps just be dropped.
However, since this is getting covered very widely, on Y! news, for example, it will at least people start asking questions about why people want electronic voting, and how secure it really is.
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What do you think will be officially released first:
Longhorn or Sarge?
Of course, Sarge as it is is already relatively stable and bug free (I had an uptime of 35 days before rebooting to use a new kernel); while I bet that Longhorn will have lots of problems for at least the first six months.
This article is a rehash of basic neuronal theory (known for at least a 100 years ago), and slightly less basic information on Long Term Potentiation (which has been known about since the early 70s, although they have been discovering more in recent years); followed by some guesses at how the calcium influx triggers genetic change, because "genetics" is the trendy branch of Biology that is familiar from the cover of Time.
What we don't know is where and how Long Term memories are stored. We know that they are formed through synaptic input in the limbic system. Presumably, they are then passed to somewhere in the cortex. Why? How? Where? That is what we don't know.
BTW, it is quite easy to do your own experiments on LTP. Although they can be a bit dangerous.
I guess what it means is those of us of the RADICALLY XTREME generation.net don't pay attention to details...after all, we are too busy changing the world with Blogging and Flash Mobs!
They are aiming particularly to tap the younger video-game generation.
Is this some marketing term for the young kidz who like totally radical xtreme eye popping special fx at the touch of a button?!?!?!
Are "video games" the mark of the young generation? Are these a target group for downloading movies? Right now, the generation that "grew up" with video games would be anyone 35 and under. So is the main feature of everyone under 35 that they like video games?
What does any of this mean?
At a certain point, we will spend more time reading about anti-Spam measures than we will be reading about Spam.
Since there is a Slashdot article about Spam every day, and I usually spend about 5-10 minutes deleting spam, we might have already reached this point.
I am a pretty hardcore Wesnoth player (I've beaten TRoW and HttT! Which probably doesn't mean much to many of you.) I've been playing TBS for ten+ years, and Wesnoth is one of the most involving and challenging games for people who like strategic concepts. (Its also a nice if somewhat cliched RPG).
But Wesnoth is not what the average Windows or console gamer is looking for. Because for the most part, "games" are not "games" in the sense of a ruleset and concept to be mastered. Most games are not even tasks at hand eye coordination. Most "games" are interactive adventures with small aspects of both rulesets and hand-eye coordination, but mostly depending on graphics and sound to make the player feel immersed. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but for people who are looking for games that immerse them in a world, playing a game like Wesnoth, which is based around mastering a ruleset, and mostly projecting the world with your imagination, is going to be a disappointment.
Seconded.
I hope this is one word that we refuse to have foisted on us.
I mean, no one I know says "blog" besides print journalists commenting on those crazy kids with their kooky intarweb.
"Three Fantastic Men, and one Fantastic Woman"?
Sounds like it would be awesome, if you are into "adult" films.
The problem with most games is that they aren't actually games in the true sense. They are more a form of entertainment. Most people play them for the bright graphics and sound, and the immersion of the game world. Which many people, including myself, love. However, as a Wesnoth developer said "Great graphics make a movie. Great sound makes an album. Great gameplay makes a game."
As much as I love the Final Fantasy series, for example, I don't consider them "games" in the truest sense. They are wonderfully immersive stories, but that doesn't make them a game. The problem is, people are starting to really expect that out of their games. And even though Free Software developers could program a game with a much better engine, meaning it has a more challenging basic set of rules, then a Final Fantasy game; I don't think we can realistically expect free software developers to program the video and sound that people have come to expect. If you take the single opening movie from Final Fantasy VII, (a game that, at 8 years old, is ancient), I don't know how it could be put together without a lot of money.
So I think the basic place for Free Games right now is games for people who love gaming. My favorite game right now, of any type, is Wesnoth , a turn based strategy game released under the GPL. The graphics and the sound are fair, but the game play is truly engaging.
Thats news to me!
Look through your old yearbooks. I am not in there.
Besides, like, metaphorically.
We never went to high school together.
That was college, briefly.
But I am here. I have a static ip, you should ping it.
I recently got a new computer, and hadn't yet put Setiathome on it.
So, I went to apt-get it, and while the file downloaded, it is hanging in installation.
Did a whole bunch of people read this article, run to get setiathome, and slashdot alien.ssl.berekely.edu
?
As a preliminary finding that may or may not give us a clue as to what the internet system was running, Netcraft reports that www.comair.com is running Apache on HP-UX.
So don't assume that the internal system was Windows just yet. Then again, don't assume that it wasn't.
The biggest problem I experienced was the flickering of the graphics when the screen became overcrowded.
I think that this would not be solved by this hack, because that has to do with maximum bits per scanline, rather than clock speed...
apt-get dist-upgrade, I believe you mean.
Intel (for example) has its headquarters in Portland, Oregon where I live. I've been walking around Portland today, and I seem to not have noticed any bullet trains. Also, there are still these coin operated pay phones. The traffic lights don't even tell you how much longer you have to cross the street. 7-11s don't have doors that slide automatically. Not even half of people have broadband! And if I was to take a bus ride for 200 miles, I wouldn't get my own easy chair and television set, for ten dollars. Also, Portland doesn't have the tallest skyscraper in the world.
Taiwan is perhaps not the most developed economy in the world, but it is hardly a "developing" economy. In some things, they are behind us, in some things they are about the same, and in some things, they are way ahead. Their croissants are certainly good and cheap.
If you ever go to Taiwan, you will understand the significance of this very well.
In Taiwan, 7-Eleven is not just incredibly common, they are also important, being like a fourth branch of government. There is usually one, sometimes two, 7-Elevens on every block. Even in Tainan, a far more rural city, there would literally be 7-Elevens two or three minutes apart. And along with selling food, software and cell phones, 7-Eleven is where people go to pay their bills, as well as being part of the National Retail Lottery.
I will skip the snide comments saying "Use Linux" (although it is a great solution) imagining that you don't have the authority or resources to migrate 2000 systems.
The best tool is education. Whatever anti-spyware devices you put on there will be obsolete within a week, but knowledgble users will stay aware for a long time.
Of course, trying to educate that many users will be dificult, even assuming that the education sticks, but no solution is perfect. However, about 20 minutes explaining how the internet works and what an executable file is, etc. will have some very measurable results.
Canadians have no civil rights as citizens. Canadians are chattel owned by an old crazy woman in England. When you are nothing but human chattel, you can be herded around however your owners see fit.
I wasn't the first one who misread the headline, and thought the Russians were making fun of our Mars mission.
Which really, they have a right to do. I mean, what is a year or so in a tiny capsule, with only a little bit of food stuck in the cold dark depths of space? How is that different from living in a utilitarian concrete 50s era apartment in Archangelsk?
Releasing this may be a sign that Microsoft is moving more into the field of consumer electronics, and may be paying less attention to trying to release "serious" computer software.
Last time I checked, we are still 18 months away from the release of the next Microsoft operating system, and Microsoft still has not answered any of the serious questions about security or stability.
However, Microsoft is very good at one thing: designing things that are simple and attractive for consumers to use. If they can't make "scientific" operating systems, they can at least make pretty home electronics. It might be a fitting thing for them to do.
Or maybe this is only a blip on the radar screen?
It should be noted that, while the graphics are newer, most of the ideas behind Final Fantasy date to cosmological dating to the Shang or early Zhou dynasties.
Go, as some barbarians call it, supposedly dates to the Xia, so it is older by a few hundred years. The reasons people pretend to like it are somewhat complicated, but mostly have to do with an unfounded admiration for the minimalism and nilhism present in Japanese culture, which mirrior the nilhism of Western metaphysical thinking.
The thing is that "open source" can mean many things. Probably the main reason that Linux (the flagship of open source) is secure is just because normal users don't have system control. This is something it inherited from Unix, but isn't specific to its code development process.
My distribution of Linux, Debian is stable because it is not a company, and it doesn't have to release new product too often to make marketting happy. Because there is no profit motive, Debian can take the time to release stable packages. If Debian was not using open source, this was still be the case.
So, it isn't specific to open source, but many open source projects have other features that make them more secure.
I'm biased, but I think everyone at Free Geek has done a very good job at bringing Linux and Free Software to the masses, at least those of the masses living in the Portland area.
Like most big lawsuits, especially between the government and a big country, this will probably go through dozens of twists and turns, and motions and objections and requests for odd evidence, and it will probably end up out of court or perhaps just be dropped.
However, since this is getting covered very widely, on Y! news, for example, it will at least people start asking questions about why people want electronic voting, and how secure it really is.