I know what you mean and I do take peer review seriously. The fact that this document was written by John Walker is enough for me to believe that there is truth in this. In any case, here is the Science article about it.
You should also read about the Oh My God particle (it's real and not a joke). This proton particle travels almost as fast as light. After traveling one light year, the particle would be only 0.15 femtoseconds--46 nanometres--behind a photon that left at the same time.
(For using-a-mouse videos, I would suggest also Roblimo's book Point and Click Linux.)
OK OK.. listen. I'm going to sound like a troll, but this is A JOKE. None of it is really true.
The difference between a Windows "using the mouse" instruction video and a Linux "using the mouse" instruction video is:
Windows:
Plug the mouse in
Clicking twice means a double-click. It is different from a single click.
Right clicking means clicking the right mouse button which brings up properties in context
Linux:
Plug the mouse in
If you believe in God, say a quick prayer for the next things you're gonna do
Edit/etc/X11/XF86Config and fill in all the appropriate sections. The 60 page manpage reference is an ideal reference.
Edit/etc/sysconfig/gpm (if you are using Fedora Core or/etc/someother/file if you're using Debian, or/etc/someotherother/other file if you're using Gentoo, or....) and blah blah blah blah blah blah..
Fractal image compression is generally useless for high-quality output. It's useful for low-bitrate applications. You can read about this in the Mark Nelson book.
The main reason fractal image compression was not picked up is the same reason algorithms such as IDEA are not very popular --- software patents. IIRC The company which holds the patents for fractal image compression made it clear that it was ready to defend its IP back in the 90s.
You can read about software patents too in the Mark Nelson book (the ones which apply to data compression).
Even the IJG JPEG software (not the standard) which we use today so commonly avoids arithmetic coding and uses baseline huffman compression for compressing the quantized output.
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This has been available for a long time with open access to the design from Sun as the picoJava CPU core. It was not an economically viable CPU and I think this's one of the reasons why Sun released it.
TThe Apache License fights patents with patents, whereas from the parent poster, I assume that they are using copyright to fight patents.
The Apache License says that you can't use any patents (if they exist) which the Apache source code uses, if you sue them on patent infringement. You can still use the software if no patents are used.
Actually you could argue that trusting a method is worse than not trusting it at all. Trusting a unknown key for example, for the sake of security, and sending out private encrypted data protected by it is worse than not trusting the key at all.
Personally, I think carrying your own laptop around is a far better approach (for what the author is trying to achieve) as you don't have to trust others' computers which may contain software to thwart the security of devices such as this USB key by reading all data off it.
You could find flaws with what I've said too---good security is not easy.
It seems like it runs Linux as they are claiming that it will use the Global File System for clustered FS operations.. unless their Global File System is different.
Interestingly enough, the browser section of the Windows vulnerabilities lists everyone's favorite browser Internet Explorer with 15 flaws and Mozilla with only 7.
Don't think I'm trolling but this is like saying the USA has 27,000 nuclear weapons whereas Russia has only 13,000.
What would worry me more is the distribution of MySQL under a commercial license using 3rd party code which is owned by the Free Software Foundation. Untar the source code (mysql-4.0.x.tar.gz) and look in the pstack/ directory.
Granted they distribute it under the GPL license too, but it does not give them the right to distribute 3rd party GPL code under a GPL incompatible license.
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I actually ran Eclipse using JikesRVM a few months ago. You're wrong on that point.
I know what you mean and I do take peer review seriously. The fact that this document was written by John Walker is enough for me to believe that there is truth in this. In any case, here is the Science article about it.
You should also read about the Oh My God particle (it's real and not a joke). This proton particle travels almost as fast as light. After traveling one light year, the particle would be only 0.15 femtoseconds--46 nanometres--behind a photon that left at the same time.
What's pushing PostgreSQL to keep innovating? The competition obviously. Oracle.
(For using-a-mouse videos, I would suggest also Roblimo's book Point and Click Linux.)
OK OK.. listen. I'm going to sound like a troll, but this is A JOKE. None of it is really true.
The difference between a Windows "using the mouse" instruction video and a Linux "using the mouse" instruction video is:
Windows:
Linux:
nmg196:
Fractal image compression is generally useless for high-quality output. It's useful for low-bitrate applications. You can read about this in the Mark Nelson book.
The main reason fractal image compression was not picked up is the same reason algorithms such as IDEA are not very popular --- software patents. IIRC The company which holds the patents for fractal image compression made it clear that it was ready to defend its IP back in the 90s.
You can read about software patents too in the Mark Nelson book (the ones which apply to data compression).
Even the IJG JPEG software (not the standard) which we use today so commonly avoids arithmetic coding and uses baseline huffman compression for compressing the quantized output.
This has been available for a long time with open access to the design from Sun as the picoJava CPU core. It was not an economically viable CPU and I think this's one of the reasons why Sun released it.
Porcupines discovered this way before these researchers did.
TThe Apache License fights patents with patents, whereas from the parent poster, I assume that they are using copyright to fight patents.
The Apache License says that you can't use any patents (if they exist) which the Apache source code uses, if you sue them on patent infringement. You can still use the software if no patents are used.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they lose.
Its always amusing when people classify plants they dont like as weeds...
Plants they don't like?
Some beautiful equations of mathematical physics
Actually you could argue that trusting a method is worse than not trusting it at all. Trusting a unknown key for example, for the sake of security, and sending out private encrypted data protected by it is worse than not trusting the key at all.
Personally, I think carrying your own laptop around is a far better approach (for what the author is trying to achieve) as you don't have to trust others' computers which may contain software to thwart the security of devices such as this USB key by reading all data off it.
You could find flaws with what I've said too---good security is not easy.
In reply to my own post..
The Cray SX-6 System runs the UNIX-based SUPER-UX operating system.
Sorry about that. Maybe they ported GFS.. dunno.
It seems like it runs Linux as they are claiming that it will use the Global File System for clustered FS operations.. unless their Global File System is different.
Companies have a buy button already which make men buy faster and without much thought:
Women.
Company claims 80% of the speed of your PC
Interestingly enough, the browser section of the Windows vulnerabilities lists everyone's favorite browser Internet Explorer with 15 flaws and Mozilla with only 7.
Don't think I'm trolling but this is like saying the USA has 27,000 nuclear weapons whereas Russia has only 13,000.
I, for one, welcome our new virtual machine overlord.
Dude you know you are not supposed to say these things in the story itself.
In Soviet Russia, the Itanium terminates HP.
So what are plants which commit Sepukku after listening to the backstreet boys called?
You forget DVD Jon has not retired yet unlike an MPAA official.
What would worry me more is the distribution of MySQL under a commercial license using 3rd party code which is owned by the Free Software Foundation. Untar the source code (mysql-4.0.x.tar.gz) and look in the pstack/ directory.
Granted they distribute it under the GPL license too, but it does not give them the right to distribute 3rd party GPL code under a GPL incompatible license.
Ok here is a live one.
This campaign is not so much against IE, but for the use of safer and more user-friendly browsers.
So it's against IE.