Personally, it is the simplicity that I like about Python, and what makes it suitable for
newbies. There should be only one way of doing a simple operation. IMHO it makes more sense for
a newbie to evaluate x+1 and assign the result to x, than to have loads of specialized
operators.
Anyway, great to see the release - I've been using 2.0rc1 for a while now. I want my Shrubbery
2.0, Nih!
The Coulomb, although is energy/potential, is really the electric charge. Current is the
flow of charge: 1 A = 1 C / s.
kWh is a unit of energy: 1 kWh = 1000 * 1 J/s * 3600 s = 3.6 MJ. You probably knew this
but messed it up in the post:)
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I fancy becoming a writer as well. One of the strange things about writing is that often I
write a number of sentences without conscious thinking, then stop to see what the heck
I'd been doing. I wouldn't think I could do that with dictation.
On a different topic, remember Ken Olsen of Digital, when he could not imagine anyone
wanting a computer at home. Probably even Joe A. User will get his Kyber wearable some day,
even if there isn't a real need for it. Look at the tons of things people want nowadays
which they didn't need before clever marketing came along, e.g. the Finnish with their
mobile phones.
Thirdly, apart from the obvious problem with batteries (this won't really be solved any time
soon: like harddisk, RAM or whatever, you'll always need more of it:), IMHO the important
question is 'net connection. WLANs just don't seem too promising at the moment, apart from
small-range (home/office etc) use.
I've been testing Opera on Linux since the first alpha. Back in the winblows hell I thought
Opera was the best browser I could dream of. I might actually pay for it in case it ends up
as gr8 as the winblows version. Which it doesn't seem to be doing. This 'beta' is still
alpha quality. Back on win3.1 I used a beta for a loooong time, as it was really stable and
didn't whine about registration:).
IMHO they should fix the known bugs before going beta. Now, people are having too much
trouble figuring out whether to report the bugs. Looks like we get to do the 'gamma testing'
in the actual release. Which is the problem we all know: never trust an x.0.
Erm, most known stars, including our Sun, do orbit around the nuclei of galaxies. Also
galaxies form revolving clusters, and so on.
The idea at the end of MIB is more like that our universe is contained within one of the
elementary particles of a 'higher' universe. And since we cannot (so far) probe inside
electrons and quarks, there may well be *tiny* universes inside them. This 'encapsulation'
might go on indefinitely in both directions.
I've been waiting this for buddhaknowshowlong. The alphas were the only browsers I found
that rendered css properly. But the d/l site seems to be down,/.ed or something. Mirror,
anyone?
Yup. In fact, year == 'annus' which is why 'millennium' has two n's. OTOH there also exists
the word 'millenium' but, as you might guess, it means 1000*'anus'. So: fuck millenium.
OK, I agree with your point. But IHMO a more sensible reason is here:
Microsoft pushed forward the idea of a PC, i.e. getting a computer into everyone's home. I
don't think people would have thought (then around 1980) getting a full Unix for everyone.
Although their OS may be crap, M$ is responsible for us having the hardware in the first
place. Only then could a much larger number of bright young people start hacking.
Remember, Linus started his most famous creation because he wanted a better OS for the 386
PCs (that were there because of M$).
It's like the relation to the GNU project. When the Linux kernel was stable enough, the
utilities to make a complete Unix didn't emerge out of thin air. In the same way, the
hardware was already there. Except that M$ hadn't done much 'innovations' with the hardware
(probably not even with software:).
But as you said, jdgeorge, this is about evolution. We had to have the crap OS before the
decent one. Maybe some day we'll be able to dump x86 in the same way..
You can't be serious. There are winmodems and linmodems, and then there are real modems. No one in their right mind should have made any OS-specific hardware in the first place.
The case with winmodems is a bit like that with non-standard file formats like Winword.doc. They sell you a cheaper modem, which will use up some processor power and only works with special drivers. No respect for the standards.
On the other hand, IMHO USB is a Good Thing because it may become a new standard in place of numerous interfaces like serial, parallel, ps/2 &c.
The article was all about impurity particles inside keyboards. Now, what really interests me is the stuff on the keys. A thorough chemical analysis of that stuff would reveal much of the personal hygiene of the user, i.e. if they wash their hands after wanking for petrified chicks.
I agree on the idea of freedom to remember, with data storage being simply a memory aid.
However, that only works when you've seen the data yourself. It does not justify open
sourcing programs, unless the code has been distributed already.
Otherwise, the idea sounds fair: if there's someone with perfect memory, it's only fair for
others to be allowed to use these memory aids for free. But what if this world of ours isn't
completely fair?;-)
Higgs bosons are responsible for particles having mass. The inertia of an accelerating particle (supposedly) stems from its interaction with the Higgs field. Imagine if we could control that interaction.
Oh well.. I'm getting tired of work so I'll just render myself massless and get home immediately.
For predator transparency, you'd also need an array of cameras and complex control algorithms to allow others see through you. Maybe they'll come up with polymer CCDs as well..;}
Prof. Richard Friend of Cambridge Univ. Physics Dept. has done research on LEPs since about 1990. In his lecture I went to last year he mentioned co-operation with big companies, especially ink-jet printer manufacturers for cheap & fast production, but I forgot whether Philips was one of them. It would be interesting to know if all the different LEP projects around share a common basis (Prof. Friend?:) or if they're completely separate.
.. the rest of the/. publicity comes from the incident that Transmeta had a hard time getting the chip to run LoseDoze's mixed 16/32-bit code, though it had worked with x86 unices well.
Hence, it is irrelevant what Crusoe does in practice, with the 'code morphing,' optimizations and stuff. Maybe/. is not about technology at all. And what was Col. 2.2.17 news for anyway?
Slashdot Mirror
The universe exists because I've been hacking all night with a friend and as I did cd /home I walked past King's College and it was raining.
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Anyway, great to see the release - I've been using 2.0rc1 for a while now. I want my Shrubbery 2.0, Nih!
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On a different topic, remember Ken Olsen of Digital, when he could not imagine anyone wanting a computer at home. Probably even Joe A. User will get his Kyber wearable some day, even if there isn't a real need for it. Look at the tons of things people want nowadays which they didn't need before clever marketing came along, e.g. the Finnish with their mobile phones.
Thirdly, apart from the obvious problem with batteries (this won't really be solved any time soon: like harddisk, RAM or whatever, you'll always need more of it:), IMHO the important question is 'net connection. WLANs just don't seem too promising at the moment, apart from small-range (home/office etc) use.
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No pr0n, just the chip.
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IMHO they should fix the known bugs before going beta. Now, people are having too much trouble figuring out whether to report the bugs. Looks like we get to do the 'gamma testing' in the actual release. Which is the problem we all know: never trust an x.0.
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The idea at the end of MIB is more like that our universe is contained within one of the elementary particles of a 'higher' universe. And since we cannot (so far) probe inside electrons and quarks, there may well be *tiny* universes inside them. This 'encapsulation' might go on indefinitely in both directions.
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Come on. It's is a beta. Those people have to eat, too.
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I've been waiting this for buddhaknowshowlong. The alphas were the only browsers I found that rendered css properly. But the d/l site seems to be down, /.ed or something. Mirror,
anyone?
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Sounds a lot like Boa.
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Yup. In fact, year == 'annus' which is why 'millennium' has two n's. OTOH there also exists the word 'millenium' but, as you might guess, it means 1000*'anus'. So: fuck millenium.
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Microsoft pushed forward the idea of a PC, i.e. getting a computer into everyone's home. I don't think people would have thought (then around 1980) getting a full Unix for everyone. Although their OS may be crap, M$ is responsible for us having the hardware in the first place. Only then could a much larger number of bright young people start hacking. Remember, Linus started his most famous creation because he wanted a better OS for the 386 PCs (that were there because of M$).
It's like the relation to the GNU project. When the Linux kernel was stable enough, the utilities to make a complete Unix didn't emerge out of thin air. In the same way, the hardware was already there. Except that M$ hadn't done much 'innovations' with the hardware (probably not even with software:).
But as you said, jdgeorge, this is about evolution. We had to have the crap OS before the decent one. Maybe some day we'll be able to dump x86 in the same way..
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You can't be serious. There are winmodems and linmodems, and then there are real modems. No one in their right mind should have made any OS-specific hardware in the first place.
The case with winmodems is a bit like that with non-standard file formats like Winword.doc. They sell you a cheaper modem, which will use up some processor power and only works with special drivers. No respect for the standards.
On the other hand, IMHO USB is a Good Thing because it may become a new standard in place of numerous interfaces like serial, parallel, ps/2 &c.
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(any sufficiently advanced choice of year for a big science project is indistinguishable from those in Clarke's books. 8-)
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The article was all about impurity particles inside keyboards. Now, what really interests me is the stuff on the keys. A thorough chemical analysis of that stuff would reveal much of the personal hygiene of the user, i.e. if they wash their hands after wanking for petrified chicks.
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$ \nabla \times \mathrm{hair} \gg \mathbf{0} $ ?
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IPv6 has been around since 2.2.x though I can't remember which x..
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Lucky I didn't buy any Crap Coupled Device just now ;}
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Otherwise, the idea sounds fair: if there's someone with perfect memory, it's only fair for others to be allowed to use these memory aids for free. But what if this world of ours isn't completely fair? ;-)
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Higgs bosons are responsible for particles having mass. The inertia of an accelerating particle (supposedly) stems from its interaction with the Higgs field. Imagine if we could control that interaction.
Oh well.. I'm getting tired of work so I'll just render myself massless and get home immediately.
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For predator transparency, you'd also need an array of cameras and complex control algorithms to allow others see through you. Maybe they'll come up with polymer CCDs as well.. ;}
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Prof. Richard Friend of Cambridge Univ. Physics Dept. has done research on LEPs since about 1990. In his lecture I went to last year he mentioned co-operation with big companies, especially ink-jet printer manufacturers for cheap & fast production, but I forgot whether Philips was one of them. It would be interesting to know if all the different LEP projects around share a common basis (Prof. Friend? :) or if they're completely separate.
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Hence, it is irrelevant what Crusoe does in practice, with the 'code morphing,' optimizations and stuff. Maybe /. is not about technology at all. And what was Col. 2.2.17 news for anyway?
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