Ok, if we really want to harness wasted energy,
why not a device to capture the kinetic energy of my fingers while I'm typing? Most people can type so fast (as a matter of fact, look at the number of posts right after a news is posted on/.) that we can capture so much energy from the movement of the fingers.
Imagine, feed this energy back into my laptop, and I can use my laptop forever, without the need to recharge it and plug it in.
I'm counting the minutes before someone put a new GPL inference engine project on Sourceforge that is compatible with the cyc database.
Agent bots that scouge the net and fill up a GPL database with new rules.
A new Linux kernel configuration tool that will give the Optimal & Best (TM) configuration for my machine, and according to my usage pattern.
(ESR, are you reading this?)
A mozilla plugin that will prune out all the stupid posts on/. (Whoa, I hear Taco volunteer for this already....)
A mozilla plugin that will dissect Jon Katz's so-called "essai" and show him what's wrong with his arguments.
A new interface easy enough that even GWB can learn to use, and that will teach him about international policies
A database large enough that cyc will be able to explain what "passionate conservatism" really means (I guess this won't be feasible until we have at least something better than HAL)
2. Standardize where files go, a minimum file set in any standard install, and so forth.
You are right. We should put all files in one single directory, just like the system32 directory in Windows.
No, can't do that in a jar....
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You have to do the experiment in a balloon if you want to simulate the universe; since the universe is expanding, only balloon can be used in this kind of experiment.
I think "real CS" school should not spend time/effort teaching a specific language at all, but should focus on the fundamental of computer science (data structures, algorithms and analysis, computer architecture, networks,....).
I've interviewed candidates that came out of those schools which spend a great deal of time teaching specific languages (Java, JSP, Visual Basic,...),
and they don't even know what the hell is a linked list, or don't know how to traverse a binary tree. Sorry, you simply can't be a good designer/programmer if you don't even understand the building blocks of computer programming.
Java is a fine language, but if I were a professor, I'd rather have my students going through the pain of writing some data structures on their own using C, and going thru the pain of debugging it. That's how you learn how computers work, and that's how you learn to be a good programmer and a good debugger.
Regardless of whether you agree with his points or not, this is a nicely written essay: clear, concise, to the point, as always from RMS.
I just wish that all those lawyers and reporters can write on legal/societal issues as clearly as RMS does: in plain human language, that even geeks can understand.
Money and mission-critical data are two very different things.
If the bank screwed up the safe, or "my money" get robbed, the bank can just give other bills that are equivalent in value to what I've deposited.
You can replace my data, buddy. If the ASP screwed up my data, it's gone, and gone forever. Who will be able to make up my data again? It's not replaceable. It's not like the green-backs or some gold pieces, as long as they are equivalent in value, I will happily accept them.
I'am wondering what is going with cookie management in 0.9.1 now. I have been using 0.9 with Junkbuster on w2k for a while. JB is configured to allow only certain sites to have incoming and outgoing cookies. All other sites are blocked.
With 0.9.1 (nothing changed in JB config), all cookies from all web sites are accepted. what's going on here?
I have moz configured to accept all cookies, in 0.9 as well as in 0.9.1. But 0.9 was working fine.
What the fuck are you talking about? I used to work as a contractor at Bell Sygma, in Canada.
Bell Sygma is the software development branch of Bell Canada, developing tons of mission critical applications for the Bell Canada communication network, including some real-time and embedded systems.
Well, guess what, they all used GNU tools. OK, their workstations are HP and SUN. But their development tools are gcc/g++, make, CVS, gdb, awk, perl,... (complete your list here).
Plus some proprietary components that they could not find in the OSS world, like Rational Rose, ORBIX ORB, and some commercial OODBMS.
Yeah, anyone who wrote this kind of crap, obviously, knows only one language. If you have ever tried to learn another language that is not derived from latin or anglo-saxon, you wouldn't not write shit like this.
It may true that Unicode is enough for normal
web publishing, as well as normal newspaper publishing, which requires only around 5 thousand
chinese characters. But the chinese langugage has more than 60 thousand characters (a research from the 90's show that there are a little more than 65 thousand). So the 2-byte character in Unicode is just about enough to represent all chinese characters, if you take all possible combinations.
Personally, I think Unicode is not enough. What if I want to digitize the whole collection of the
Beijing library, which contains millions of texts from thousands of years? How am I going to represent all the characters with Unicode?
You may think that chinese orthography has a tradition of simplication and variants, but this only applies to modern use of certain characters. These simplications and variants can't replace the characters in ancient texts, or they will totally alter the meaning of the texts.
I think Unicode is developed by a for-profit corporation, which tends to oversimplify without doing thorough resarch into a specific culture before trying to encode the language.
I still think this trick to compute the day is way
too complicated. A math teach taught us a much simpler "formula" to compute that when I was 8.... now if I could recover that formula....
it's all about money, control, power, monopoly
and unethical business tactics.
It's about big fish swallowing up smaller
fishes.
The tactic looks familiar: you are successful,
we want to own you, we offer to buy you out
at a ridiculously small price (or better yet,
for free). If you resist, we will sue you.
Since you can't afford to protect yourself
and fight a good fight, you 'll give up.
And all is ours.
Alright, let's not exagerate or extrapolate or
assume anything here.
Ok, maybe BSD is inherently secure than Linux.
But the system is as secure as the administrator
can make it secure.
(Troll after this)
NT may not the most secure system in the world,
but if admin knows what he does, and be careful
about every service on the system, he/she can
make a pretty good secure system out of it too.
Besides, if you look at it, BSD is pretty fragmented too (not that I really care). Just look
at how many Unices (commercial or not) are
derived from BSD.
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Holy shit, are you telling me that we still have 8 more years of suffering to go?
Correction: Jule Verne's sci-fi literature didn't come out until after the revolution. Golden age, my ass!
Imagine, feed this energy back into my laptop, and I can use my laptop forever, without the need to recharge it and plug it in.
Please fill in your own wish list here.
That'll be all.
Now I even got competitors in this kind of things... should have more regulations!
You are right. We should put all files in one single directory, just like the system32 directory in Windows.
You have to do the experiment in a balloon if you want to simulate the universe; since the universe is expanding, only balloon can be used in this kind of experiment.
I've interviewed candidates that came out of those schools which spend a great deal of time teaching specific languages (Java, JSP, Visual Basic, ...),
and they don't even know what the hell is a linked list, or don't know how to traverse a binary tree. Sorry, you simply can't be a good designer/programmer if you don't even understand the building blocks of computer programming.
Java is a fine language, but if I were a professor, I'd rather have my students going through the pain of writing some data structures on their own using C, and going thru the pain of debugging it. That's how you learn how computers work, and that's how you learn to be a good programmer and a good debugger.
I just wish that all those lawyers and reporters can write on legal/societal issues as clearly as RMS does: in plain human language, that even geeks can understand.
Nice job, Master RMS!
If the bank screwed up the safe, or "my money" get robbed, the bank can just give other bills that are equivalent in value to what I've deposited.
You can replace my data, buddy. If the ASP screwed up my data, it's gone, and gone forever. Who will be able to make up my data again? It's not replaceable. It's not like the green-backs or some gold pieces, as long as they are equivalent in value, I will happily accept them.
No equivalent for my data!
With 0.9.1 (nothing changed in JB config), all cookies from all web sites are accepted. what's going on here?
I have moz configured to accept all cookies, in 0.9 as well as in 0.9.1. But 0.9 was working fine.
Anyone?
Well, guess what, they all used GNU tools. OK, their workstations are HP and SUN. But their development tools are gcc/g++, make, CVS, gdb, awk, perl, ... (complete your list here).
Plus some proprietary components that they could not find in the OSS world, like Rational Rose, ORBIX ORB, and some commercial OODBMS.
That was in the 96/97 time frame.
Personally, I think Unicode is not enough. What if I want to digitize the whole collection of the Beijing library, which contains millions of texts from thousands of years? How am I going to represent all the characters with Unicode?
You may think that chinese orthography has a tradition of simplication and variants, but this only applies to modern use of certain characters. These simplications and variants can't replace the characters in ancient texts, or they will totally alter the meaning of the texts.
I think Unicode is developed by a for-profit corporation, which tends to oversimplify without doing thorough resarch into a specific culture before trying to encode the language.
It's about big fish swallowing up smaller fishes.
The tactic looks familiar: you are successful, we want to own you, we offer to buy you out at a ridiculously small price (or better yet, for free). If you resist, we will sue you. Since you can't afford to protect yourself and fight a good fight, you 'll give up. And all is ours.
I don't want to know the taste of the recycled water....
Ok, maybe BSD is inherently secure than Linux. But the system is as secure as the administrator can make it secure.
(Troll after this)
NT may not the most secure system in the world, but if admin knows what he does, and be careful about every service on the system, he/she can make a pretty good secure system out of it too.
Besides, if you look at it, BSD is pretty fragmented too (not that I really care). Just look at how many Unices (commercial or not) are derived from BSD.
There are better ways to achieve that.