You had better have two cases and a few tabs of that LSD you were comparing that device to because the lead-based solder in this stuff is going to leave you a withered human being as the lead stops the uptake of important nutrients in your digestive system. Oh yeah, and it will kill your brain cell too.
However...I might be willing to foot the bill for this. But only if the whole procedure and decay were video taped!
...simply moving the SlashDot comments database off-shore to it's own private island. Call it, "dotopia." Cannot imagine the cost of the high-speed leased-line it would require though...
But seriously, this is a really good oppertunity to see how good Andover.net's legal department is. If they choose to fight, most of the SlashDot readership will be happy and more secure about SlashDot being owned by a coporation. If they choose to comply, the opposite may happen. In any event, this is good an exciting news: and I am proud to be a witness.
One of the things that has worried me about this 2.4 freeze was a number of features that were added last minute (during the 2.3.99 series). One of these such features was a multilink implementation by Paul Mackerras.
I am particularly touched by Chris Pascoe's e-mail:
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:42:14 +1000 (EST)
From: Chris Pascoe To: linuxmp@listbot.com Subject: Ceasing Development
Greetings,
As of Linux 2.3.99-pre1, there is support for Multilink PPP in the kernel PPP driver 2.4.1. It's not my code, and doesn't appear to be Michael Bruck's either.
At first glance, it appears to resolve many minor issues that I know about, that were fixed in a release I was about to make (probably in a few days) of my code.
Thus I am ceasing support for my drivers as of this morning. I'm glad that some people have been able to use my code to their benefit as time has passed and thank those few people that have written and thanked me for my code which pulled them out of tricky situations or just plain worked for them.
Regards, Chris Pascoe
What disturbes me is that I wrote Paul, the present PPP driver maintainer for Linux, asking him if he would like help testing his new MLPPP code before 2.4 final and if he has a new PPP daemon capable of using his new driver. I, and Chris Pascoe are still waiting for the reply. This seams very counter-productive to the open-source model of development. The last time I mailed Chris he said that we was going to get one of his friends to go knocking on Paul's door at the college where he resides to see if he is still alive...
Anybody heard more on PPP? Anybody seen anymore recently added code during freeze time?
Technical superiority means little in the marketplace, and a huge dose of loud-mouthed platform bigotry will surely do Linux harm despite its merits.
However, both OS/2 and Betamax did not have overwhelming market and lay-person support at the time. Did you ever see an OS/2 VAR going public and setting first day gains records? Howabout article after article in major paper publications dedicated to the creator of Betamax? The primary difference between Linux and other technically superior failures is the amount momentum behind them.
Linux's enemy at this point is not all of the loud-mouth bigots; nearly any company would kill for that amount of hype. Remember that age old attage, "There is no such thing as bad publicity."
I really, really, would like MicroSoft Age of Empires II ported to Linux. But I would wager that there is a greater change of the WINE people getting DirectX implemented before that would happen.
Can you deny that MSAoE II is not a great game? I love it when MS Buys Great Gaming Companies (sic)!
One thing that I heard the wonderful-world of XML was supposed to allow was data on demand. A user clicks an XML/XSL defined element such as a button or piece of hypertext and the page updates without reloading.
This was the theory anyway...has anybody heard of such an implementation, or does anybody know if it is in a future spec?
One application (which is badly needed on the web, I think) is a dynamic collapsable tree. Imagine if you will a SlashDot comments page (not to hard, as you are looking at one!). Now, instead of getting a page-full of comments that take a healthy amount of time downloading (depending on your threshold settings): imagine clicking on a message to expand more comments in the thread which are fetched dynamically. You could resort, change moderation thresholds, and lots of other nifty dynamic operations without having the server do all the work.
This "pluggable" MP3 player for the Gameboy reminds me a whole lot of the Handspring "Springboard" MP3 player from Innogear. The MiniJam Player uses the same approach as this Gameboy product uses of inserting a module with a DSP, stero-out, and memory; and leaving the "host" hardware to do management functions.
I might actually buy the player from Innogear: I just love those buttons on the top (ala MiniDisc)! It is just too bad they had to go with a proprietary flash memory spec. Bummer.
I have been always curious to ask you if you ever drew any of the social dynamics of _Ender's Game_ from _Lord of the Flys_ by by William Golding? For me, your books have taught as much about human behaviour as any sociology or psychology book; at least within the context of the personalities presented in the plot.
I really do think it is too bad that Peter Brook (Who directed the original _Lord of the Flys_ movie) isn't around to direct this film.
-AP
P.S. Come to think of it, have you ever considered using the sociological behaviour patterns of the average SlashDot user as the premise for a book?:) Speaking of SlashDot, howabout a SlashDot interview!
If they included some pluggable module architechture, here a three examples that come to mind:
Various emulation modules that would allow you to run different architechtures on your x86, or run FreeVMWare on architechtures different than x86.
A trace module that would allow you to see direct interaction with every component in the system; useful for hardware and software developers.
A passthru module that would allow your VM direct acccess to a real piece of hardware. This would be handy when writing drivers for things; hose your host O/S? Reboot your VM!
Of course, you would be able to stack the trace module and the passthru module together for a bitchin' development environment!
This will be good for Linux, and open-source in general-- it will add the much needed element of focus! Now, if only we could get MLPPP on the "server-side..." -AP
In order from something like this to succeed, they would have to have a fresh supply of information which is needed (demanded) by the public at all times. Why, you ask?
Assigning a monetary unit to information is institutionalizing a fiat system to information-- just as how many cultures (like the American culture) have assigned fiat money to phsyical goods.
A fiat system is a currency the people commonly believe has value. They are not certificates for hard currency (such as the old gold-backed standard in american currency). In order for this monetary system to succeed, it has to be honored and there has to be something to buy.
In American culture and in physical terms this is food, clothing, water, shelter, etc. (and arguable a lot of other things, that wouldn't be considered needs by other cultures!). But what is a need on an information trading site? What specific information can be said to be needed all the time?
Certainly they may have some good ideas for sale on their site; but do they have anything that is essential, like, "the food of thoughts?" I can go up to the super-market and by bread to sustain myself, but what would they offer that has the same property of being a commodity?
One could easily have the login authenticated accross an artifically slow link creating very long login times. I think they should take this out of the contest.
Then again, this isn't scientific, and is good clean FUD, so sure, whatever!
I was listening to a program on National Public Radio about LASIC laser vision correction. The general consensus from the various doctors that were interviewed seamed to say, "it is a good, but expensive procedure with a low rate of failure: but this is your vision we are talking about so perhaps it is best to wait a few years to see if the technology improves and to see long term results from patients that have already undergone the LASIC procedure."
I remember how they told of one person with horrible vision, who couldn't drive a car even with glasses on. The procedure brought him to 20/60-- good enough to drive with glasses.
They also told of an execute who's wife bought him the surgery for his birthday. Something very goofy happened and now he has double vision in both eyes. "My life is ruined, I have lost my independance," he said.
I think it is proof enough in that last case that would make me wait a little while longer or find an experienced doctor to perform the surgery. I recall the program recommending you call the National Board of Optomitry (sorry, no URL) to get recommendations.
Oh, in reply to the parent of this thread:
"The procedure also isn't guaranteed to have you seeing 20/20... although between 20/20 and 20/40 is common. Some people (although uncommon) even get their vision corrected to better than normal.. as good as 20/10.
The doctors often under-correct to make it easier on your eyes when you age. If they were to correct your vision too far, you might need some heavy reading glasses when you get older!
Slashdot Mirror
Setting up a company on a remote island, even one that doesn't require a lot of on-site workers, was undoubtably difficult.
:)
What were the major challenges of setting up on the island? How many people, and what sort of equipment did it take? Is there more left to do?
What are some of your day-to-day facilities like (food, shelter, perhaps even recreation)?
What is your daily cash burn rate? Are there ways to cut it?
Are you making a profit now? If not, when do you plan to be able to?
Do you have a plan in case of a hostile take-over?
Where can I send my resume?
Interesting concept...I wish you luck!
-AP
Capitalism at its core requires growth, huh?
This approach may be good for the environment, huh?
Let me rebutt the article and Signal_11's post at the same time:
Let's open-source the chainsaw!
Good world-wide economic growth, bad environmental impact!
-AP
You had better have two cases and a few tabs of that LSD you were comparing that device to because the lead-based solder in this stuff is going to leave you a withered human being as the lead stops the uptake of important nutrients in your digestive system. Oh yeah, and it will kill your brain cell too.
However...I might be willing to foot the bill for this. But only if the whole procedure and decay were video taped!
-AP
Yes...but is your place called dotopia?
-AP
...simply moving the SlashDot comments database off-shore to it's own private island. Call it, "dotopia." Cannot imagine the cost of the high-speed leased-line it would require though...
But seriously, this is a really good oppertunity to see how good Andover.net's legal department is. If they choose to fight, most of the SlashDot readership will be happy and more secure about SlashDot being owned by a coporation. If they choose to comply, the opposite may happen. In any event, this is good an exciting news: and I am proud to be a witness.
Go get 'em!
-AP
...that the British Royal Family is more inbred than previously thought.
-AP
Suppose a person was going to start streaming mp3 data. Are there any Java clients that can play mp3 streams yet (with source??)?
Could a windows installation play an icecast or mp3 stream (MIME audio/mpeg) out-of-the-box in real time?
-AP
One of the things that has worried me about this 2.4 freeze was a number of features that were added last minute (during the 2.3.99 series). One of these such features was a multilink implementation by Paul Mackerras.
What was disturbing about this feature add is that several people had been working on other implementations of MLPPP for Linux for some time (including, but not limited to: The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) for Linux, Chris's Multilink PPP for Linux, and Babylon (by Spellcaster)).
I am particularly touched by Chris Pascoe's e-mail:
What disturbes me is that I wrote Paul, the present PPP driver maintainer for Linux, asking him if he would like help testing his new MLPPP code before 2.4 final and if he has a new PPP daemon capable of using his new driver. I, and Chris Pascoe are still waiting for the reply. This seams very counter-productive to the open-source model of development. The last time I mailed Chris he said that we was going to get one of his friends to go knocking on Paul's door at the college where he resides to see if he is still alive...
Anybody heard more on PPP?
Anybody seen anymore recently added code during freeze time?
-AP
However, both OS/2 and Betamax did not have overwhelming market and lay-person support at the time. Did you ever see an OS/2 VAR going public and setting first day gains records? Howabout article after article in major paper publications dedicated to the creator of Betamax? The primary difference between Linux and other technically superior failures is the amount momentum behind them.
Linux's enemy at this point is not all of the loud-mouth bigots; nearly any company would kill for that amount of hype. Remember that age old attage, "There is no such thing as bad publicity."
-AP
...to show you what this thing is really capable of!
http://ww w.spaceimaging.com/gallery/ioweek/archive/iow1122Enjoy!
-AP
I really, really, would like MicroSoft Age of Empires II ported to Linux. But I would wager that there is a greater change of the WINE people getting DirectX implemented before that would happen.
Can you deny that MSAoE II is not a great game? I love it when MS Buys Great Gaming Companies (sic)!
-AP
One thing that I heard the wonderful-world of XML was supposed to allow was data on demand. A user clicks an XML/XSL defined element such as a button or piece of hypertext and the page updates without reloading.
This was the theory anyway...has anybody heard of such an implementation, or does anybody know if it is in a future spec?
One application (which is badly needed on the web, I think) is a dynamic collapsable tree. Imagine if you will a SlashDot comments page (not to hard, as you are looking at one!). Now, instead of getting a page-full of comments that take a healthy amount of time downloading (depending on your threshold settings): imagine clicking on a message to expand more comments in the thread which are fetched dynamically. You could resort, change moderation thresholds, and lots of other nifty dynamic operations without having the server do all the work.
-AP
This "pluggable" MP3 player for the Gameboy reminds me a whole lot of the Handspring "Springboard" MP3 player from Innogear. The MiniJam Player uses the same approach as this Gameboy product uses of inserting a module with a DSP, stero-out, and memory; and leaving the "host" hardware to do management functions.
I might actually buy the player from Innogear: I just love those buttons on the top (ala MiniDisc)! It is just too bad they had to go with a proprietary flash memory spec. Bummer.
For the MiniJam spec in PDF, click here.
-AP
Orson,
I have been always curious to ask you if you ever drew any of the social dynamics of _Ender's Game_ from _Lord of the Flys_ by by William Golding? For me, your books have taught as much about human behaviour as any sociology or psychology book; at least within the context of the personalities presented in the plot.
I really do think it is too bad that Peter Brook (Who directed the original _Lord of the Flys_ movie) isn't around to direct this film.
-AP
P.S. Come to think of it, have you ever considered using the sociological behaviour patterns of the average SlashDot user as the premise for a book? :)
Speaking of SlashDot, howabout a SlashDot interview!
Write Malda and set that one up!
This gives whole new meaning to the phrase, "Gee your mom's a bitch."
-AP
If they included some pluggable module architechture, here a three examples that come to mind:
Of course, you would be able to stack the trace module and the passthru module together for a bitchin' development environment!
-AP
I need only to site two examples:
o The Last Action Hero
o Jingle All the Way
I rest my case...
Jordan.
No no no, you have it wrong,
There will not be a crusoe source arch branch, just a configuration branch in, "make config," that will read:
[ ] Use Crusoe Processor
|
|-[ ] Run Crusoe in x86 mode
|-[ ] Run Crusoe in ppc mode
|-[ ] Run Crusoe in sparc mode
:)
-AP
My favorite DSP company (and product-line) is Analog Devices. They are relatively cheap, fast, and well architected.
I am glad people have stayed away from buying these guys.
-AP
Now we we be able to add, "50x Too Many Users / Not Enough Licenses." To the wonderful, "404 Not Found," messages. Yeah Microsoft!
At least people could still install Apache!
-AP
This will be good for Linux, and open-source in general-- it will add the much needed element of focus! Now, if only we could get MLPPP on the "server-side..." -AP
In order from something like this to succeed, they would have to have a fresh supply of information which is needed (demanded) by the public at all times. Why, you ask?
Assigning a monetary unit to information is institutionalizing a fiat system to information-- just as how many cultures (like the American culture) have assigned fiat money to phsyical goods.
A fiat system is a currency the people commonly believe has value. They are not certificates for hard currency (such as the old gold-backed standard in american currency). In order for this monetary system to succeed, it has to be honored and there has to be something to buy.
In American culture and in physical terms this is food, clothing, water, shelter, etc. (and arguable a lot of other things, that wouldn't be considered needs by other cultures!). But what is a need on an information trading site? What specific information can be said to be needed all the time?
Certainly they may have some good ideas for sale on their site; but do they have anything that is essential, like, "the food of thoughts?" I can go up to the super-market and by bread to sustain myself, but what would they offer that has the same property of being a commodity?
-AP
One could easily have the login authenticated accross an artifically slow link creating very long login times. I think they should take this out of the contest.
Then again, this isn't scientific, and is good clean FUD, so sure, whatever!
-AP
I was listening to a program on National Public Radio about LASIC laser vision correction. The general consensus from the various doctors that were interviewed seamed to say, "it is a good, but expensive procedure with a low rate of failure: but this is your vision we are talking about so perhaps it is best to wait a few years to see if the technology improves and to see long term results from patients that have already undergone the LASIC procedure."
I remember how they told of one person with horrible vision, who couldn't drive a car even with glasses on. The procedure brought him to 20/60-- good enough to drive with glasses.
They also told of an execute who's wife bought him the surgery for his birthday. Something very goofy happened and now he has double vision in both eyes. "My life is ruined, I have lost my independance," he said.
I think it is proof enough in that last case that would make me wait a little while longer or find an experienced doctor to perform the surgery. I recall the program recommending you call the National Board of Optomitry (sorry, no URL) to get recommendations.
Oh, in reply to the parent of this thread:
The doctors often under-correct to make it easier on your eyes when you age. If they were to correct your vision too far, you might need some heavy reading glasses when you get older!
-AP
Then, what exactly is this link for?
Lycos seems to say, "We know about everything, we just won't tell you!"
-AP