I can understand why they would want the specification taken down, and the links to the specification taken down, but I am not certain that I understand how they can ask to have the instructions for extracting the specification from YOUR OWN system taken down. That's the main thing that makes no sense to me. I mean when you used to get anarchy.txts from BBS's (not that I did of course) they would all say "This is for information purposes only." I mean, I don't know, but I had always kinda thought that that was what/. was, you know, for information purposes?
But come to think about it, I can't say that I understand why Microsoft wouldn't RFC some of its procedures.... That's always kinda been standard practice for this sort of thing. The RFC system promotes, y'know, what's that word?... oh yea, Innovation. And I mean, isn't innovation what Microsoft is really all about?
I don't know how most people feel about computer books (and other books for that matter), but there is definately something very different about reading it in a book and on a computer screen. I, for one, seldom will look at a book and its included cd at the same time. that i believe is the answer to why print 40k lines of code. I like it when a book will present code examples and then go through them, I imagine that this is close to what the author and publisher thought.
In earlier comments, people have talked about the technology to bring "the guide" into existence being around now. Do you have any plans to develop a "Guide"?
I don't mean a WAP portal for h2g2.com, but an actual specialized item that justs gets h2g2 info, maybe with a gps signal. Something of that sort could be frighteningly useful. You know, something exactly like what you described in the book.
The reason that I said not a wap portal is that it seems that with the net in general there is just (warning: blindingly obvious observation coming, sheild your eyes) a LOT of stuff, and when developing a limited featureset device, it would be nice if some one would specialize one to specific content.
If you do decide to make a device of this sort, two more questions, can I help? and can i betatest?
also, on an aside, it would seem that all these electronic dating devices (like singles pagers) are sort of a terrestrial application of your "thumb." Do you see any other applications of that type of technology and thought, until we can hitchhike at least?
So far as the state of the digital goes, I'm not quite sure that I agree with you. I am a photographer and I work in the entertainment industry. There are decent digital cameras available, with all the control of "real" cameras and with most of the quality. The only drawback is the amount of money that they cost. For a decent still camera (kodak makes one based on the top of the line canon) you are looking at between 7 and 10 thousand dollars. And for a decent digital motion picture camera, well, you have to be George Lucas;-)...
But I definately think that it is concievable that in a few (10) years that we will start to see the disapearance of film and the appearance of high quality digital alternatives, for about the same price as their celluoid cousins. Personally, I can't wait!
But if you are looking for an awesome digital camera (still) definately check out the top of the line Kodak camera one built on the Ni kon F5 and one built on the Canon Eos 1N, also, polaroid makes a cool one, but my personal fave is the Leica Studio Digital camera. Ohhh, I want one:)
I dunno, i think that the coolest feature of this thing is going to be that it has other pda/pc functions. Its kinda like that wearable that ibm was making lotsa noise about a while ago. i wonder whatever happened to that. But it would be seriously nice to get a pda/computer/gameboy for 100 dollars. and hell, titanium cases rock!
2 things: The way that i intrepret different things that i've read on relativity (I'm a physics student).
All that it says is that as you approach the speed of light, your PERCEPTION of time slows down, eventually stopping at the speed of light.
Furthermore, the way I see it, ftl(faster than light) travel is dependant really on two things. 1. That gravity has a speed at which it propagates through spacetime, and 2. we can understand the method by which gravity works. But think about it though, if we were to travel at the speed of light, and then push just a little bit faster (even though, theoretically, our mass would be infinite, but let that go for the time being) we would be traveling at the same speed as our gravitational influence. Now, one of two things would happen here. Either the mach cone created would look damn cool, or, it would have disastarous consequences and kill everything behind it.
Now if gravity traveled at some speed faster than this, i don't see any reason why it would not be possible to travel ftl with respect to the rest frame. sure, we would still see the speed of light as c compared to us, but we would be able to get from one place to another because it would be massively foreshortened. but if the influence of gravity did travel ftl, then we could "let go" of gravity, kinda snap ourselves in a slingshot and kind of "surf" our own gravity wave. just a thought.
and second While tachyons are theoritical constructs that are not forbidden by relativity, they have not yet been observed and there are several physicists that are skeptical about their existence (thorne and others, last i heard). But if they were, boy would i ever want a TDMA Cellphone (tachyon division multiple access!).
and fyi for non-physicists, a tachyon is a theoretical massless particle that can travel faster than light. it is postulated because a lot of quantum uncertainties work alot better if they exist (i.e. schrodinger's cat).
I realize that this is not completely on-topic, but here goes. What would be the reality of writing a browser add-in, or in the case of an OSS browser like mozilla, a piece of the browser, that can translate the content on the current page?
That way it would take the work of translating and put it on the client end. The software could try to deduce the language from the URL and for images it could use the ALT tag to come up with a translation for the image or it might be possible to use a combination image processing/ocr algorithm to try to distill the text from the graphic on the button.
It would be great if the software could, like i said, guess on what the most likely language was and similarly allow the user to choose to turn the translation on or off and to what language.
I mean, the technology is there, as evidenced by babelfish, what would it take to turn it into a client side program to transparently translate webpages into the viewer's native tongue?
This way, not only would pages that have to budget to translate be available to everyone, but every page would be available to everyone, without the added step of going to babelfish (i realize that its not too much extra work to do that, but hey, people are lazy...).
what about the concerns in the orange book protocols about the integrity of data in memory. does the as/400 wipe clean the memory after it uses it or does it just free it, or is that os specific. also, is the data that flies around on the busses encrypted or no? that is, is the encrypted or the decrypted data in memory. does AS/400 allow for nonsecure (i.e. rlogin) connections? how fast is the hardware encryption, throughput, etc? and would it really be possible or reasonable to port linux to an IBM mainframe? If we could work out that kind of a solution for lower end/consumer use i would think that it would have hella applications...
Have there been any projects to build a completely secure OS? It would be interesting (i think) to build an OS from the ground up that made the a1 security level look like windows nt... It would need a chip to handle the cypher though. Think about it. If you had what would amount to a chipset that would do the encryption/decryption. things would only be decrypted when sent on the last leg. For example, all information in memory and in the filesystems would stay encrypted until the chipset sent them out over an authorized chanel (i.e. to the processor, the pts or the tty). Of course it would take a huge amount of processing power, but it would mean the ultimate in security. Can anyone point me to a book on OS development or help me build this monster?
just a thought. I don't think it's very feasible now, but maybe in a few years...
I can't believe it. All this time that we thought he was taking advantage of us geeks it was just a put on. I can't wait to get my hands on a dvd copy of that!!!!
Open source software has accomplished some wonderful things in the linux comminuty. We have better security, email readers, an open graphics api (gkt, etc...) and an open windows emulator (wine). These are all the types of applications that us geeks care about; that's probably why they get coded.
What do you think is necessary to get open source projects started on the kind of things that make suits start noticing (e.g. Office suites, Groupware, Contact Management, and a pretty, user friendly OS)?
And what do you think is necessary to get open source projects to start distributing their projects in a more user friendly manner?
Although we might enjoy tweaking a package to get it to work, it is not something that is likely to be done by a sysadmin on several hundred clients.
So, all in all, what do you think is necessary to get OSS ready for prime time?
I don't quite know quite which Baltimore County you are referring to, but Baltimore County, MD (and the surrounding areas) have quite a few excellent private schools that are neither military or religious. I went to one of them (I am currently a sophomore in college). Now I agree that things are different between the times that we went to school, but you must realize that the public school systems are far worse. I would not want to go to a public school in Baltimore County, Baltimore City, or even Anne Arundel County, if for no other reason than fear for my life. I just tend to have difficulty believing that metal detectors make for a positive educational experience. Furthermore, if we are going to start dealing with issues in education in the Baltimore Area, why don't we try building more schools and/or hiring more teachers? I really don't think that we should be worrying about giving everyone in the classroom a laptop if half of them aren't even close enough to hear the teacher. Perhaps there are districts somewhere where that would be a reasonable suggestion, but I don't see that here. At least not from a practical (read: economic) viewpoint. Also, I think that private and home schooling are excellent alternatives for those who have the means, I realize that that does not include everyone, but the education recieved is far better. But hey, I might be wrong, I have been before.
That is incredible. it seems like the situation with censorship in the UK is getting out of hand. but then again, we have our problems here too. like the -nakedness is free speech- case with the stipper ban... ah who know.
Patrick Stewart as Xavier! Oh. damn that is so going to rock! His best roll was Gurney Halleck. But this should be damn close. Effects look great even on something so small!
it definately has srm and arc, well it used to have an arc at least....if i were able to find like a bios update for the srm and the arc do you think that that would do it?
when i turn on my multia (bought it new, when it was new... oh well, i've done dumber things.) i get an error message in the SRM that says that the arc cant be loaded, any ideas on what to do?
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hear, hear. I say they go for it. That is, so long as they have support. Then they'd be nearly unstoppable!
But come to think about it, I can't say that I understand why Microsoft wouldn't RFC some of its procedures.... That's always kinda been standard practice for this sort of thing. The RFC system promotes, y'know, what's that word?... oh yea, Innovation. And I mean, isn't innovation what Microsoft is really all about?
I don't know how most people feel about computer books (and other books for that matter), but there is definately something very different about reading it in a book and on a computer screen. I, for one, seldom will look at a book and its included cd at the same time. that i believe is the answer to why print 40k lines of code. I like it when a book will present code examples and then go through them, I imagine that this is close to what the author and publisher thought.
I don't mean a WAP portal for h2g2.com, but an actual specialized item that justs gets h2g2 info, maybe with a gps signal. Something of that sort could be frighteningly useful. You know, something exactly like what you described in the book.
The reason that I said not a wap portal is that it seems that with the net in general there is just (warning: blindingly obvious observation coming, sheild your eyes) a LOT of stuff, and when developing a limited featureset device, it would be nice if some one would specialize one to specific content.
If you do decide to make a device of this sort, two more questions, can I help? and can i betatest?
also, on an aside, it would seem that all these electronic dating devices (like singles pagers) are sort of a terrestrial application of your "thumb." Do you see any other applications of that type of technology and thought, until we can hitchhike at least?
thanks
But I definately think that it is concievable that in a few (10) years that we will start to see the disapearance of film and the appearance of high quality digital alternatives, for about the same price as their celluoid cousins. Personally, I can't wait!
But if you are looking for an awesome digital camera (still) definately check out the top of the line Kodak camera one built on the Ni kon F5 and one built on the Canon Eos 1N, also, polaroid makes a cool one, but my personal fave is the Leica Studio Digital camera. Ohhh, I want one :)
I dunno, i think that the coolest feature of this thing is going to be that it has other pda/pc functions. Its kinda like that wearable that ibm was making lotsa noise about a while ago. i wonder whatever happened to that. But it would be seriously nice to get a pda/computer/gameboy for 100 dollars. and hell, titanium cases rock!
The way that i intrepret different things that i've read on relativity (I'm a physics student).
All that it says is that as you approach the speed of light, your PERCEPTION of time slows down, eventually stopping at the speed of light.
Furthermore, the way I see it, ftl(faster than light) travel is dependant really on two things. 1. That gravity has a speed at which it propagates through spacetime, and 2. we can understand the method by which gravity works. But think about it though, if we were to travel at the speed of light, and then push just a little bit faster (even though, theoretically, our mass would be infinite, but let that go for the time being) we would be traveling at the same speed as our gravitational influence. Now, one of two things would happen here. Either the mach cone created would look damn cool, or, it would have disastarous consequences and kill everything behind it.
Now if gravity traveled at some speed faster than this, i don't see any reason why it would not be possible to travel ftl with respect to the rest frame. sure, we would still see the speed of light as c compared to us, but we would be able to get from one place to another because it would be massively foreshortened. but if the influence of gravity did travel ftl, then we could "let go" of gravity, kinda snap ourselves in a slingshot and kind of "surf" our own gravity wave. just a thought.
and second
While tachyons are theoritical constructs that are not forbidden by relativity, they have not yet been observed and there are several physicists that are skeptical about their existence (thorne and others, last i heard). But if they were, boy would i ever want a TDMA Cellphone (tachyon division multiple access!).
and fyi for non-physicists, a tachyon is a theoretical massless particle that can travel faster than light. it is postulated because a lot of quantum uncertainties work alot better if they exist (i.e. schrodinger's cat).
That way it would take the work of translating and put it on the client end. The software could try to deduce the language from the URL and for images it could use the ALT tag to come up with a translation for the image or it might be possible to use a combination image processing/ocr algorithm to try to distill the text from the graphic on the button.
It would be great if the software could, like i said, guess on what the most likely language was and similarly allow the user to choose to turn the translation on or off and to what language.
I mean, the technology is there, as evidenced by babelfish, what would it take to turn it into a client side program to transparently translate webpages into the viewer's native tongue?
This way, not only would pages that have to budget to translate be available to everyone, but every page would be available to everyone, without the added step of going to babelfish (i realize that its not too much extra work to do that, but hey, people are lazy...).
what about the concerns in the orange book protocols about the integrity of data in memory. does the as/400 wipe clean the memory after it uses it or does it just free it, or is that os specific. also, is the data that flies around on the busses encrypted or no? that is, is the encrypted or the decrypted data in memory. does AS/400 allow for nonsecure (i.e. rlogin) connections? how fast is the hardware encryption, throughput, etc? and would it really be possible or reasonable to port linux to an IBM mainframe? If we could work out that kind of a solution for lower end/consumer use i would think that it would have hella applications...
just a thought. I don't think it's very feasible now, but maybe in a few years...
I can't believe it. All this time that we thought he was taking advantage of us geeks it was just a put on. I can't wait to get my hands on a dvd copy of that!!!!
What do you think is necessary to get open source projects started on the kind of things that make suits start noticing (e.g. Office suites, Groupware, Contact Management, and a pretty, user friendly OS)?
And what do you think is necessary to get open source projects to start distributing their projects in a more user friendly manner?
Although we might enjoy tweaking a package to get it to work, it is not something that is likely to be done by a sysadmin on several hundred clients.
So, all in all, what do you think is necessary to get OSS ready for prime time?
I don't quite know quite which Baltimore County you are referring to, but Baltimore County, MD (and the surrounding areas) have quite a few excellent private schools that are neither military or religious. I went to one of them (I am currently a sophomore in college). Now I agree that things are different between the times that we went to school, but you must realize that the public school systems are far worse. I would not want to go to a public school in Baltimore County, Baltimore City, or even Anne Arundel County, if for no other reason than fear for my life. I just tend to have difficulty believing that metal detectors make for a positive educational experience. Furthermore, if we are going to start dealing with issues in education in the Baltimore Area, why don't we try building more schools and/or hiring more teachers? I really don't think that we should be worrying about giving everyone in the classroom a laptop if half of them aren't even close enough to hear the teacher. Perhaps there are districts somewhere where that would be a reasonable suggestion, but I don't see that here. At least not from a practical (read: economic) viewpoint. Also, I think that private and home schooling are excellent alternatives for those who have the means, I realize that that does not include everyone, but the education recieved is far better. But hey, I might be wrong, I have been before.
That is incredible. it seems like the situation with censorship in the UK is getting out of hand. but then again, we have our problems here too. like the -nakedness is free speech- case with the stipper ban... ah who know.
Patrick Stewart as Xavier! Oh. damn that is so going to rock! His best roll was Gurney Halleck. But this should be damn close. Effects look great even on something so small!
not to nit pick or anything, but Willy Sutton robbed banks "because that's where the money is," not Dillinger.
it definately has srm and arc, well it used to have an arc at least....if i were able to find like a bios update for the srm and the arc do you think that that would do it?
when i turn on my multia (bought it new, when it was new... oh well, i've done dumber things.) i get an error message in the SRM that says that the arc cant be loaded, any ideas on what to do?
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