My understanding is that the memory of the brain is rather high latency by computer standards. However, it is associative, which makes up for that depending on the situation.
Personally, I want my computer's memory to be more reliable than mine.
www.xfree.com also exists, but it should really be xxxfree.com, so don't go there looking for software. Perhaps that web site is the main reason for keeping the 86? As long as people use the 86, they won't bump into smut by simply confusing com and org.
It's nice to see XFree86 moving along. It shows the strength of the open source model--just because the copyright holder has virtually abandoned the software, development continues.
True, The Open Group recently announced some political reorganization of X, but as far as I'm aware, they haven't hired any engineers to work on it. (The old X project team left last summer.)
Disclosure: I used to work for The Open Group, until last summer when they shut down operations in Cambridge, MA.
I just had to give up my cable modem after a year (we moved), but it was a wonderful experience.
MediaOne in Cambridge, MA provides modern 2-way cable modem service. The speed was sometimes faster than the real connection at work, and never seemed to get overloaded, despite the shared bandwidth. They limited upstream to 300K, with downstream over 1Mbps. The IP numbers are assigned by DHCP, but only changed every few months. The connection was extremely stable--it only went down twice.
The best part was the price. $40/month (since I also had cable TV from them), and I was able to eliminate my old ISP and second phone line, so it saved me money.
They didn't let you run commercial servers, but they didn't seem to mind personal stuff unless the traffic started ringing alarms. (That was never an issue for me.), and you had to run IP Masquerade if you had in internal network.
For residentail customers, you can't beat cable modems.
Yes, there was a paper at ASPLOS last fall talking about doing binary translation, presented by some HP folks. If done right, binary translation is almost as good as native code, and saves silicon space for more useful purposes (e.g., cache).
In the USA, honorary degrees are handed out for silly reasons. Colleges that don't offer real Ph.D.s will still give out honorary Ph.D.s. Graduation speakers almost always are given an honorary degree. They really are pretty meaningless.
I've heard that in Europe that this isn't the case. In some cases, honorary degrees are considered more prestigius than earned degrees. Hence, this could be a really big deal for Linus.
Someone from Europe care to confirm or correct this understanding?
Pre-patch for devel kernels? WTF?
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I thought the whole point of pre-patches was to test out patches for the next version to make sure it is stable. With a development kernel, it's not supposed to be stable, so what's the point of a pre-patch? Shouldn't it just be 2.3.1? So what if there's a new version every other day? That worked just fine for 1.3.x.
Here's my page that discusses the full potential of a Linux entertainment system. Not just a digital VCR, but everything from an MP3 player to a web TV to a game console.
To make use of the larger area of larger drives, they have to spin more slowly when reading the outside of the disk. Also, the manufacturing tollerances are probably tighter.
I'm not a hardware engineer; would someone who knows the technology better care to comment?
(BTW, they still make 5.25" drives--we use them in some of our storage products at EMC.)
I remember when some friends had a copy of The Empire Strikes Back (on Beta, no less) that appeared to be from a camcorder from a drive-in movie theater. That may have been before the word camcorder had even been coined!
It wasn't terrible. I mean, what do you expect from video tape, anyway? It's not even as good as broadcast TV! The only really bad part was when they apparently switched tapes (or had to hide the camera for a minute).
Yeah, the site is really a Y2K for people who react emotionally and are easily sucked into panic when things are hyped.
I've finally realized what Y2K hysteria is all about. It's about superstition. It's not considered intelligent to be superstitious in this modern era of science, but the numerological implications of moving on to the last year of the millennium (or the first year of the third millennium, if you're a victim of the true millennium bug) is overwhelming people who are even slightly inclined to be superstitious. The Y2K bug gives these people a technologically-acceptable way of labeling their superstition.
Well, my quota came in at about 3000. Unfortunately, I can't tell for sure, because I can't check all my old postings to see their scores (the user profile page only lists the last 20), and I can't tell which ones were moderated to that score, and which started at a higher score (I was defaulting to 2 for a while).
My understanding is that Lucas wants to make people think about the big questions regarding spiritual reality, such as, "Is there a God," or even, "Is there anything beyond the physical universe?"
That's very different from saying that the movie will have a Christian emphasis.
And I remember when Christains were complaining that the Force was analogous to witchcraft. If it's not one side, it's the other...
If I'm reading this correctly, they used Linux for the plotting, but may have used another computer for controling the robot--I'm guessing that that was done with Windows and the software included with Mindstorms.
I've seen several people seem to be confused here thinking that the merger of egcs and gcc means having a Pentium-optimized gcc as the standard C compiler. This is not the case. As of yesterday, there were a number of compilers out there:
gcc-2.7.2.x: Required for Linux 2.0.x kernel builds due to bugs in the kernel code, and possibly more stable for some 2.2.x kernels, though it is less clear whether that is due to the kernel or the other compilers. Though it includes various front ends, generally it is only used for C anymore.
gcc-2.8.x: A major upgrade to gcc; the "standard" gcc. Like always, includes C, C++, and other front ends.
egcs-1.1.2: The actively-developed gcc spinoff. This is generally regarded as being superior for C++ and every bit as good for C as gcc-2.8. For most people, this is a total replacement for gcc-2.8.
pgcc-1.1.x: This is an egcs spinoff, with active development on various compiler optimizations, particularly emphasising Pentium-specific improvements. Because optimization is about as deep into the arcane black arts of compilers as you can get, it is not surprising that pgcc is believed to be less stable than egcs. However, some of the more solid optimizations have been integrated into egcs. Think of it as the "Really Experimental EGCS."
So the upshot of all this is that we can scratch gcc-2.8 from the above list soon. My guess is that the FSF will release a new gcc-2.8 identical to the latest egcs, and egcs will either continue development separately from gcc (with occasional releases of gcc based on the egcs updates), or that egcs will simply be renamed gcc.
We will still need 2.7.2.x for anyone keeping up with 2.0.x kernels. We still might want pgcc for optimizing x86 code. We still want egcs/gcc for compiling things when we don't trust pgcc.
Proposal 1 (require MS to open all APIs) has already been rejected by capatalist pundits as being more of an advantage to Microsoft's competitors rather than helping consumers.
Uhm, the whole purpose of the anti-trust trial is to help competitors who have been harmed by unfair business practices, not to help consumers. Hence, forcing opening of the APIs would be a perfectly logical thing to include.
Forcing hardware vendors to open specs in order to be Microsoft-certified has nothing to do with Microsoft, unless Microsoft has been pressuring companies not to release specs (one charge I haven't heard yet).
Restricting use of patents is a preemptive measure, as I haven't seen Microsoft abusing patents yet.
I agree, if all his articles are as clueless as this one, I'll block him too. I'll start paying attention to his stuff in the future and see if it is more interesting.
I just don't have time for people who don't get the difference between censorship and filtering. Is it censorship when I don't subscribe to some newsgroup? How is it different if I put an individual author (or subject) in my killfile?
He sounds like he's upset that people don't want to spend their time reading his articles.
Like all too many parents these days, they refuse to admit that it could just be that their child was less than perfect. They can't believe that their child can be responsible for something evil.
Hence, they look for someone to blame. Upon believing that someone else is responsible, it seems only natural to sue, hoping to gain aproval for their delusion from the courts.
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My understanding is that the memory of the brain is rather high latency by computer standards. However, it is associative, which makes up for that depending on the situation.
Personally, I want my computer's memory to be more reliable than mine.
www.xfree.com also exists, but it should really be xxxfree.com, so don't go there looking for software. Perhaps that web site is the main reason for keeping the 86? As long as people use the 86, they won't bump into smut by simply confusing com and org.
They may not have changed the name to just XFree yet, but they're set up xfree.org as an alias, so they're ready to do so if they so choose.
It's nice to see XFree86 moving along. It shows the strength of the open source model--just because the copyright holder has virtually abandoned the software, development continues.
True, The Open Group recently announced some political reorganization of X, but as far as I'm aware, they haven't hired any engineers to work on it. (The old X project team left last summer.)
Disclosure: I used to work for The Open Group, until last summer when they shut down operations in Cambridge, MA.
I just had to give up my cable modem after a year (we moved), but it was a wonderful experience.
MediaOne in Cambridge, MA provides modern 2-way cable modem service. The speed was sometimes faster than the real connection at work, and never
seemed to get overloaded, despite the shared bandwidth. They limited upstream to 300K, with downstream over 1Mbps. The IP numbers are assigned by DHCP, but only changed every few months. The connection was extremely stable--it only went down twice.
The best part was the price. $40/month (since I also had cable TV from them), and I was able to eliminate my old ISP and second phone line, so it saved me money.
They didn't let you run commercial servers, but they didn't seem to mind personal stuff unless the traffic started ringing alarms. (That was never an issue for me.), and you had to run IP Masquerade if you had in internal network.
For residentail customers, you can't beat cable modems.
Yes, there was a paper at ASPLOS last fall talking about doing binary translation, presented by some HP folks. If done right, binary translation is almost as good as native code, and saves silicon space for more useful purposes (e.g., cache).
In the USA, honorary degrees are handed out for silly reasons. Colleges that don't offer real Ph.D.s will still give out honorary Ph.D.s. Graduation speakers almost always are given an honorary degree. They really are pretty meaningless.
I've heard that in Europe that this isn't the case. In some cases, honorary degrees are considered more prestigius than earned degrees. Hence, this could be a really big deal for Linus.
Someone from Europe care to confirm or correct this understanding?
I thought the whole point of pre-patches was to test out patches for the next version to make sure it is stable. With a development kernel, it's not supposed to be stable, so what's the point of a pre-patch? Shouldn't it just be 2.3.1? So what if there's a new version every other day? That worked just fine for 1.3.x.
Here's my page that discusses the full potential of a Linux entertainment system. Not just a digital VCR, but everything from an MP3 player to a web TV to a game console.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~crow/media.html
To make use of the larger area of larger drives, they have to spin more slowly when reading the outside of the disk. Also, the manufacturing tollerances are probably tighter.
I'm not a hardware engineer; would someone who knows the technology better care to comment?
(BTW, they still make 5.25" drives--we use them in some of our storage products at EMC.)
So how hard would it be to us the Video For Linux support to create a digital VCR with Linux?
Some of the slashboxes are having problems, too, though this is unrelated to the overload today.
:)
x86.org/Intel Secrets hasn't updated in a week.
MacOSRumors is missing.
I remember when some friends had a copy of The Empire Strikes Back (on Beta, no less) that appeared to be from a camcorder from a drive-in movie theater. That may have been before the word camcorder had even been coined!
It wasn't terrible. I mean, what do you expect from video tape, anyway? It's not even as good as broadcast TV! The only really bad part was when they apparently switched tapes (or had to hide the camera for a minute).
So how much space does that require?
What format is prevelant for movie downloads?
With 100Mbps LANs, you could download it faster than you could watch it, even with DVD quality.
I just saw an AP story on this. Intel will not have dial-up services, but will provide servers for use by ISPs and other companies.
Yeah, the site is really a Y2K for people who react emotionally and are easily sucked into panic when things are hyped.
I've finally realized what Y2K hysteria is all about. It's about superstition. It's not considered intelligent to be superstitious in this modern era of science, but the numerological implications of moving on to the last year of the millennium (or the first year of the third millennium, if you're a victim of the true millennium bug) is overwhelming people who are even slightly inclined to be superstitious. The Y2K bug gives these people a technologically-acceptable way of labeling their superstition.
My co-ed fraternity had a discussion of this site on its mailing list. This is, to put it politely, a stereotype-friendly web site.
I'm looking forward to seeing "Y2K for transexuals," "Y2K for infants," and especially "Y2K for iguanas."
Come on now, it's almost within 8 months. There has to be some way of hyping this that hasn't been done yet.
Well, my quota came in at about 3000. Unfortunately, I can't tell for sure, because I can't check all my old postings to see their scores (the user profile page only lists the last 20), and I can't tell which ones were moderated to that score, and which started at a higher score (I was defaulting to 2 for a while).
Oh well.
This could be a very long thread...
My understanding is that Lucas wants to make people think about the big questions regarding spiritual reality, such as, "Is there a God," or even, "Is there anything beyond the physical universe?"
That's very different from saying that the movie will have a Christian emphasis.
And I remember when Christains were complaining that the Force was analogous to witchcraft. If it's not one side, it's the other...
So can I use Mindstorms with Linux?
If I'm reading this correctly, they used Linux for the plotting, but may have used another computer for controling the robot--I'm guessing that that was done with Windows and the software included with Mindstorms.
I've seen several people seem to be confused here thinking that the merger of egcs and gcc means having a Pentium-optimized gcc as the standard C compiler. This is not the case. As of yesterday, there were a number of compilers out there:
gcc-2.7.2.x: Required for Linux 2.0.x kernel builds due to bugs in the kernel code, and possibly more stable for some 2.2.x kernels, though it is less clear whether that is due to the kernel or the other compilers. Though it includes various front ends, generally it is only used for C anymore.
gcc-2.8.x: A major upgrade to gcc; the "standard" gcc. Like always, includes C, C++, and other front ends.
egcs-1.1.2: The actively-developed gcc spinoff. This is generally regarded as being superior for C++ and every bit as good for C as gcc-2.8. For most people, this is a total replacement for gcc-2.8.
pgcc-1.1.x: This is an egcs spinoff, with active development on various compiler optimizations, particularly emphasising Pentium-specific improvements. Because optimization is about as deep into the arcane black arts of compilers as you can get, it is not surprising that pgcc is believed to be less stable than egcs. However, some of the more solid optimizations have been integrated into egcs. Think of it as the "Really Experimental EGCS."
So the upshot of all this is that we can scratch gcc-2.8 from the above list soon. My guess is that the FSF will release a new gcc-2.8 identical to the latest egcs, and egcs will either continue development separately from gcc (with occasional releases of gcc based on the egcs updates), or that egcs will simply be renamed gcc.
We will still need 2.7.2.x for anyone keeping up with 2.0.x kernels. We still might want pgcc for optimizing x86 code. We still want egcs/gcc for compiling things when we don't trust pgcc.
Uhm, the whole purpose of the anti-trust trial is to help competitors who have been harmed by unfair business practices, not to help consumers. Hence, forcing opening of the APIs would be a perfectly logical thing to include.
Forcing hardware vendors to open specs in order to be Microsoft-certified has nothing to do with Microsoft, unless Microsoft has been pressuring companies not to release specs (one charge I haven't heard yet).
Restricting use of patents is a preemptive measure, as I haven't seen Microsoft abusing patents yet.
I agree, if all his articles are as clueless as this one, I'll block him too. I'll start paying attention to his stuff in the future and see if it is more interesting.
I just don't have time for people who don't get the difference between censorship and filtering. Is it censorship when I don't subscribe to some newsgroup? How is it different if I put an individual author (or subject) in my killfile?
He sounds like he's upset that people don't want to spend their time reading his articles.
So they're changing the name from Silicon Graphics, Inc. to SGI. From now on, the initials officially don't mean anything.
Big deal.
Like all too many parents these days, they refuse to admit that it could just be that their child was less than perfect. They can't believe that their child can be responsible for something evil.
Hence, they look for someone to blame. Upon believing that someone else is responsible, it seems only natural to sue, hoping to gain aproval for their delusion from the courts.