Good point. Aside from mounds of scientific data, amazing high-res images of the universe are something the general public can certainly understand and appreciate.
Surely it's time for HURD to stop being vapourware and actually get something working.
The HURD is certainly far from "finished" but it is by no means vaporware. Nowadays development is happened under the Debian HURD project. It does boot, it has networking, it's got X11, it's got install disks (Linux based at this time). The last month has seen the first PPP support.
I had an idea a while ago regarding the old Infocom games.
What if you got a good narrator to record all the text from a game, and hooked up a speech-to-text engine for input. Then you could put it on a laptop, sit back in your favorite chair, put on some headphones, close your eyes and just imagine... completely and totally immersed in the story in your mind.
It wouldn't be too hard to do; the main impediment would be to get some decent voice talent to do the recordings. Otherwise, it should be doable entire with existing open source code.
(okay, there is one other problem - copyright. but maybe if this was done in an open source freely available way, they wouldn't mind...)
I was a bit confused when I followed the GameSpy link and the first thing I saw was a blurb about Iron Storm...
until I scrolled down a bit and found the actual Ion Storm item...
Bet the Iron Storm guys are getting a few more hits than they expected today...
Call me old fashioned, but I don't consider a 4 megabyte executable to be small...
In fact, I don't have a single executable on this system that's 4Mb.
Not all the credits panned it. Roger Ebert gave it 3 stars, in recognition that while the plot is mindless, it's got some great action sequences and cool set pieces.
This isn't a new role for IBM at all. IBM was contracted to make and assemble Atari Jaguars. As most/.er know, they fab Transmeta's chips too.
IBM one of the best fabribation capacities in the industry, so it should be no surprise they would built PS3's.
I dunno about you, but if I were a member of an indigenous people which had been decimated in the past couple of centuries by various effects of European contact, I'm not sure I'd want some Danish toy company commodifying my identity either.
You missed the point. It's ridiculous to think there could actually be a legal basis to such a suit.
In a way, it's rather sublime. It's intellectual property taken to the extreme. I almost wish this would happen, as it would provide a great example of what's wrong with IP laws.
Of course, I _almost_ wish it... with the way things have been going as of late, they might actually win...:P
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There is an article by Bjarne Stroustrup about the future of C++ where he goes overboard on this idea.
I do hope you realize...
B Stroustrup: Generalizing Overloading for C++2000. Overload, Issue 25. April 1, 1998
(If that isn't enough, there's another similar soundingarticle from 92:
B. Stavtrup: Overloading of C++ Whitespace. Journal of Object-Oriented Programming. April 1, 1992.)
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What about the difference in comparing scalars as strings ($a eq 'ham') or numbers ($a == 10)? You could argue numeric context already exists in Perl. This just defines it in a more rigorous way.
You didn't really show why cryonics will fail, just how you think they will really foul up property laws and such.
Incidently, there's a good book that relates to this, The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card. The powerful prolong their own lives by taking drugs to sleep for years between periods of normal life. The more powerful you are, the less often you are actually awake. Good read.
I always thought it would be cool if someone would create a funny-page service. You pay X cents per month or whatever, and they make you a customized web page that simple displays all of the comics you specify for thay day. Then I wouldn't have to load tons of megs worth of pages just to get my ozy and millie and penny arcade fix.
You can do this with a neat Perl program called NewsClipper. There's support for a ton of comics and it's really easy to use.
It's not just for comics, actually. It can grab headlines from tons of sites - news, weather, games, technology (/. included). It's a nice program.
Debian Woody (aka testing) does have support for 2.4 kernels, glibc 2.2 and XFree86 4.0.2.
It is correct that none of these are in Potato. However, there are unofficial packages for running 2.4 kernels and XFree86 4 in Potato, both provided by Debian developers.
We need more kernels:) Hell...there should be an effort to make a Debian GNU/NT:) (as bad as it would be designing around a non-DFSG kernel, it would be amusing as all hell;) )
Believe it or not there some people have seriously considering making a Debian Win32 distro. It does make some sense for people who have to use Windows for one reason or another, for the same reason there's CygWin.
Debian has considered making an additional distribution using a BSD kernel, but it was never an issue of replacing Linux with a BSD kernel as you imply.
Since 1998, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia have been the world's tallest building (not including tower structures like broardcast towers) - 1,483 feet vs 1,450.
Why is gcc so poorly optimized for 'exotic' architectures?
I think you overlook a more obvious answer. 'Exotic' architectures have less users, and therefore less developers who are knowledgable enough to contribute to gcc so that it optimizes better. It's commonly accepted that gcc is best on x86, which is unsurprising considering how widely used the platform is.
Considering expensiveness is certainly a factor in this too - after all, it was because x86 hardware was cheap and Minix expensive that Torvalds created Linux.
I never really thought it was that difficult. Yeah, there's the inertia of not wanting to drag your stuff down and have to set it up again later, but it's really not so much work as you might fear.
All you got is 1) monitor 2) cpu 3) large bag with everything else (keyboard mouse mousepad headphones cat5 power cords cdr blanks) (I normally use those huge bags they give you a Microcenter). You can normally carry that in 2 trips.
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Good point. Aside from mounds of scientific data, amazing high-res images of the universe are something the general public can certainly understand and appreciate.
Wow, what a great shot. The Space Telescope Science Institude has their own news item with some _nice_ hi-res versions.
Hats off to the Hubble project. This has certainly been one of the most successful and productive NASA projects of the last decade or so.
Surely it's time for HURD to stop being vapourware and actually get something working.
The HURD is certainly far from "finished" but it is by no means vaporware. Nowadays development is happened under the Debian HURD project. It does boot, it has networking, it's got X11, it's got install disks (Linux based at this time). The last month has seen the first PPP support.
At present there are over 1000 hurd-compiled packages - 25% of the Debian archive. (a full list of packages with statuses here (big page))
For more information, check the afore mentioned Debian HURD pages, Kernel Cousin Debian Hurd (mailing list summaries) and the HURD Documentation Project.
Now if only we could get a rewrite of Zork 1 in which you could kill the thief.
You can kill the thief. He's just really tough.
I had an idea a while ago regarding the old Infocom games.
What if you got a good narrator to record all the text from a game, and hooked up a speech-to-text engine for input. Then you could put it on a laptop, sit back in your favorite chair, put on some headphones, close your eyes and just imagine... completely and totally immersed in the story in your mind.
It wouldn't be too hard to do; the main impediment would be to get some decent voice talent to do the recordings. Otherwise, it should be doable entire with existing open source code.
(okay, there is one other problem - copyright. but maybe if this was done in an open source freely available way, they wouldn't mind...)
I was a bit confused when I followed the GameSpy link and the first thing I saw was a blurb about Iron Storm...
until I scrolled down a bit and found the actual Ion Storm item...
Bet the Iron Storm guys are getting a few more hits than they expected today...
Call me old fashioned, but I don't consider a 4 megabyte executable to be small... In fact, I don't have a single executable on this system that's 4Mb.
Not all the credits panned it. Roger Ebert gave it 3 stars, in recognition that while the plot is mindless, it's got some great action sequences and cool set pieces.
This isn't a new role for IBM at all. IBM was contracted to make and assemble Atari Jaguars. As most /.er know, they fab Transmeta's chips too.
IBM one of the best fabribation capacities in the industry, so it should be no surprise they would built PS3's.
Careful about Buddy - AOL already owns that... (sort of).
I dunno about you, but if I were a member of an indigenous people which had been decimated in the past couple of centuries by various effects of European contact, I'm not sure I'd want some Danish toy company commodifying my identity either.
:P
You missed the point. It's ridiculous to think there could actually be a legal basis to such a suit.
In a way, it's rather sublime. It's intellectual property taken to the extreme. I almost wish this would happen, as it would provide a great example of what's wrong with IP laws.
Of course, I _almost_ wish it... with the way things have been going as of late, they might actually win...
There is an article by Bjarne Stroustrup about the future of C++ where he goes overboard on this idea.
I do hope you realize...
B Stroustrup: Generalizing Overloading for C++2000. Overload, Issue 25. April 1, 1998
(If that isn't enough, there's another similar soundingarticle from 92:
B. Stavtrup: Overloading of C++ Whitespace. Journal of Object-Oriented Programming. April 1, 1992.)
What about the difference in comparing scalars as strings ($a eq 'ham') or numbers ($a == 10)? You could argue numeric context already exists in Perl. This just defines it in a more rigorous way.
You didn't really show why cryonics will fail, just how you think they will really foul up property laws and such.
Incidently, there's a good book that relates to this, The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card. The powerful prolong their own lives by taking drugs to sleep for years between periods of normal life. The more powerful you are, the less often you are actually awake. Good read.
I always thought it would be cool if someone would create a funny-page service. You pay X cents per month or whatever, and they make you a customized web page that simple displays all of the comics you specify for thay day. Then I wouldn't have to load tons of megs worth of pages just to get my ozy and millie and penny arcade fix.
You can do this with a neat Perl program called NewsClipper. There's support for a ton of comics and it's really easy to use.
It's not just for comics, actually. It can grab headlines from tons of sites - news, weather, games, technology (/. included). It's a nice program.
Is it me or is there one big mother of a middle man that can be cut out of the equation here?
Yeah, but think of the style points you would get...
It's there. Along with X 4.x which is incompatable with all but the most expensive newest cards.
That's funny, it works fine with my old Matrox Millennium and the Chips & Technology 65550 in my old Libretto...
Debian Woody (aka testing) does have support for 2.4 kernels, glibc 2.2 and XFree86 4.0.2.
It is correct that none of these are in Potato. However, there are unofficial packages for running 2.4 kernels and XFree86 4 in Potato, both provided by Debian developers.
We need more kernels :) Hell...there should be an effort to make a Debian GNU/NT :) (as bad as it would be designing around a non-DFSG kernel, it would be amusing as all hell ;) )
Believe it or not there some people have seriously considering making a Debian Win32 distro. It does make some sense for people who have to use Windows for one reason or another, for the same reason there's CygWin.
Debian considered using a BSD kernel also.
Debian has considered making an additional distribution using a BSD kernel, but it was never an issue of replacing Linux with a BSD kernel as you imply.
Since 1998, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia have been the world's tallest building (not including tower structures like broardcast towers) - 1,483 feet vs 1,450.
Ya really, Taco, haven't you seen Entrapment?
Why is gcc so poorly optimized for 'exotic' architectures?
I think you overlook a more obvious answer. 'Exotic' architectures have less users, and therefore less developers who are knowledgable enough to contribute to gcc so that it optimizes better. It's commonly accepted that gcc is best on x86, which is unsurprising considering how widely used the platform is.
Considering expensiveness is certainly a factor in this too - after all, it was because x86 hardware was cheap and Minix expensive that Torvalds created Linux.
Don't forget my fave, AnandTech. Lots of people like Tom's Hardware as well.
I never really thought it was that difficult. Yeah, there's the inertia of not wanting to drag your stuff down and have to set it up again later, but it's really not so much work as you might fear.
All you got is 1) monitor 2) cpu 3) large bag with everything else (keyboard mouse mousepad headphones cat5 power cords cdr blanks) (I normally use those huge bags they give you a Microcenter). You can normally carry that in 2 trips.
I'm sorry, I should have replied to the parent of your post. I assumed since you were asking him about it you were using Debian too.