Back when I was a youngin' we solved this kind of problems by a 'Trial of Arse-kicking'. Many ah wee lil laddie been a-kick in the arse for talking badly of meself.
I find that these kind of things are part of a natural cycle. First, there is the prototypes, with little features at all. Then, there is the gizmo stage where all the companies put bells and whistles out, and people hack together completely unrelated items to be used with a given peice of hardware (this is where cameras are today). The third stage, is simplification, in which complicated features are hidden or removed, which is the stage PCs are in right now (*cough* netappliances *cough* emachines).
64 bit time holding will turn over at roughly the end of time, eh? Maybe we can use this to forcast the coming apocalypse, or the day when Windows doesn't bite anymore...perhaps we could even calculate the amount of time it will take me to get enough karma to moderate...
IBM killed it for the reason that it was too expensive to develop, they were the only ppl to support it, and Linux was more cross compatible. However, i wouldn't be suprised if they created their own linux distro instead, that would be packaged with their stuff. Somehow I don't think IBM will put up with having to use 'other people's operating systems'.
Hmm... I doubt this is true. Transmeta simply doesn't have the market share that AMD would luck for in a partner, and anyway, it's transmeta's independance that gets it it's following anyway (absolutely no ill meaning towards transmeta).
We set up encrypted voting systems, issue everyone an id and let them vote. But we tell them if they cheat, we will send Eminem to their house to beat them up!
The obvious solution is of course, communism. Kruschev said he would bury us! It's true! The cuban are invading this christmas! Save the children and move to Sealand!
The problems with useing this kind of thing as memory on a fairly low scale device (i.e. not supercomputer) is that a) they are very fragile, and b) they require tremendous amounts of cooling for the parts to remain suspended. If you tried this kind of system in a computer without a liquid gas cooler or some similar device, it would cease to function.
Don't get me wrong, I beleive in evolution. But don't you think god is smart enough to scatter some old bones around? Please, it's not like the most powerful being in the universe would have a hard time fooled a bunch of 2600s, ACs, and trolls, who spend their whole day talking about petrified portmans, hot grits, and how much slashdot sucks.
DIE RIAA DIE DIE-- Just kidding.
If this isn't stricken from the books, it could be the end of the RIAA. Think about it. Artists get angry at the law, go to companies that aren't memebers of the RIAA, to protest the law. Smaller companies are more likely to give the rights to the artist. While it's a long shot, it could happen.
"We will be putting Carnivore up for review by a selected University, which ever on is most owned within two weeks, then we will throw away their report, and make up our own. Any questions?"
Yes, but how many people are going to sit through an explaination of how the bit analogy only works if the DNA is of a certain type, in the presensce of certain enzyme, in certain heat and pressure etc... What I said was a generality, thus true in most cases.
I saw an update on CNN. What they have done is take strands of DNA, bend then back on themselves (like a clothespin), then use a partial complementary strand and an enzyme to close the 'pin'. They can then use a different enzyme to open it. This discovery is the rough equivalent (in computer terms) to get the first few registars of the first processor to fire up.
Jon Katz is once again, 20 years late on a story. Most top 10 colleges receive funding directly from the military, and most have corporate sponsors. In fact, back in the 60's, the Roswell 'weather ballon' was actually a military/privately funding attempt to detect russian nukes.
If you think about it, both silicon computers and DNA record data in the same manner, binary. Computers use 0s and 1s, where as DNA uses 4 acids that can only be combined in two possibilities per 'space'. For this reason, DNA computing is very sutable for problems involving calculating a path between two points, if certain routes can only be chosen from certain starting places. I think I read an article in an old wired where they used it to solve a complex traveling salesman problem (go through all cities, but never repeat a city, you can only get to certain cities from certain other cities).The acids would align if you could travel from one city to another,thus creating one step solution. ex.
*LA**Atlanta
GT-CA*CT-AG*
***TG-TC****
**Phoenix***
It prolly won't show well, but that's just html for you.
He's absolutely right. What the RIAA has been doing is like a Pimp telling a Dealer that he's evil. The RIAA has consistantly driven up prices, then they got upset about when people don't want to pay it anymore. It's ridiculas.
Ah ha, spammer son, you have discovered the dark arts of ad-fu(AAAHHH, blockstackers plug)? I will merely dispatch my procmail ninjas to deal with your insolence!
From a legal standpoint, there is nothing wrong with this. Microsoft makes an agreement with a company to liscense a copy of Windows 2k along with another piece of software. However, regardless of if this is legal or not, it is likely to hinder Microsoft in court. Personally, I say, you deal with the devil, you're going to get burned.
The truth is, sony considered linux w/ the ps and ps/2, but in both cases the OS proved too bulky (the ps was a 33mhz mips-like chip), so what are the chances that we will see a phone or Organizer with enough processing power to run a user friendly version of linux? The only way I can see this happening is if they go for a merge between a palm type device and a cell phone, but that would probably result in a rather bulky machine.
Ok, but how many times has the main stream media done similar things. Slashdot does a much better job, IMHO, than say NBC (even on a smaller resource base) at reporting correct information. Larger media groups tend to be owned, if you know what I mean.
The media always does this kind of stuff. They take whatever out of context that they can, so that ppl will take the time to look at their service, so they can sell more ads. Journalists shouldn't report rumors, just verified facts (Btw, I think slashdot has been very good about sticking to that point. They tend to reject stories that are just unfounded rumors).
From what I can remember about lawsuits involving CD-R, casette tapes, and VCRs, the law is that if their is any legal use for a product, it shouldn't be taken from the public. That is why CD-Rs, VCRs, casette tapes, bongs and guns are still availible for sale. For the same reason, Napster's service is legal. Morality should not be part of a country's policy, and is a whole other, more deeply involved field.
I think I'll register 2000 hotmail accounts, and sign them up for all the spam they can get, and see how much m$ likes their precious w2k. I think it's a good thing they use FreeBSD and Linux. Either they will learn something from it, or they will keep eating the competition, one or the other.
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Back when I was a youngin' we solved this kind of problems by a 'Trial of Arse-kicking'. Many ah wee lil laddie been a-kick in the arse for talking badly of meself.
I find that these kind of things are part of a natural cycle. First, there is the prototypes, with little features at all. Then, there is the gizmo stage where all the companies put bells and whistles out, and people hack together completely unrelated items to be used with a given peice of hardware (this is where cameras are today). The third stage, is simplification, in which complicated features are hidden or removed, which is the stage PCs are in right now (*cough* netappliances *cough* emachines).
64 bit time holding will turn over at roughly the end of time, eh? Maybe we can use this to forcast the coming apocalypse, or the day when Windows doesn't bite anymore...perhaps we could even calculate the amount of time it will take me to get enough karma to moderate...
IBM killed it for the reason that it was too expensive to develop, they were the only ppl to support it, and Linux was more cross compatible. However, i wouldn't be suprised if they created their own linux distro instead, that would be packaged with their stuff. Somehow I don't think IBM will put up with having to use 'other people's operating systems'.
Hmm... I doubt this is true. Transmeta simply doesn't have the market share that AMD would luck for in a partner, and anyway, it's transmeta's independance that gets it it's following anyway (absolutely no ill meaning towards transmeta).
No, dude, you don't understand. We'll just load windows up on them and they'll never be able to pick up suitable speed to rampage.
We set up encrypted voting systems, issue everyone an id and let them vote. But we tell them if they cheat, we will send Eminem to their house to beat them up!
The obvious solution is of course, communism. Kruschev said he would bury us! It's true! The cuban are invading this christmas! Save the children and move to Sealand!
It's more likely M$ is leaking addresses. I've hasd similar problems, with a non-dictionary address that wasn't registered for anything.
The problems with useing this kind of thing as memory on a fairly low scale device (i.e. not supercomputer) is that a) they are very fragile, and b) they require tremendous amounts of cooling for the parts to remain suspended. If you tried this kind of system in a computer without a liquid gas cooler or some similar device, it would cease to function.
Don't get me wrong, I beleive in evolution. But don't you think god is smart enough to scatter some old bones around? Please, it's not like the most powerful being in the universe would have a hard time fooled a bunch of 2600s, ACs, and trolls, who spend their whole day talking about petrified portmans, hot grits, and how much slashdot sucks.
DIE RIAA DIE DIE-- Just kidding. If this isn't stricken from the books, it could be the end of the RIAA. Think about it. Artists get angry at the law, go to companies that aren't memebers of the RIAA, to protest the law. Smaller companies are more likely to give the rights to the artist. While it's a long shot, it could happen.
"We will be putting Carnivore up for review by a selected University, which ever on is most owned within two weeks, then we will throw away their report, and make up our own. Any questions?"
Yes, but how many people are going to sit through an explaination of how the bit analogy only works if the DNA is of a certain type, in the presensce of certain enzyme, in certain heat and pressure etc... What I said was a generality, thus true in most cases.
I saw an update on CNN. What they have done is take strands of DNA, bend then back on themselves (like a clothespin), then use a partial complementary strand and an enzyme to close the 'pin'. They can then use a different enzyme to open it. This discovery is the rough equivalent (in computer terms) to get the first few registars of the first processor to fire up.
Jon Katz is once again, 20 years late on a story. Most top 10 colleges receive funding directly from the military, and most have corporate sponsors. In fact, back in the 60's, the Roswell 'weather ballon' was actually a military/privately funding attempt to detect russian nukes.
If you think about it, both silicon computers and DNA record data in the same manner, binary. Computers use 0s and 1s, where as DNA uses 4 acids that can only be combined in two possibilities per 'space'. For this reason, DNA computing is very sutable for problems involving calculating a path between two points, if certain routes can only be chosen from certain starting places. I think I read an article in an old wired where they used it to solve a complex traveling salesman problem (go through all cities, but never repeat a city, you can only get to certain cities from certain other cities).The acids would align if you could travel from one city to another,thus creating one step solution. ex.
*LA**Atlanta
GT-CA*CT-AG*
***TG-TC****
**Phoenix***
It prolly won't show well, but that's just html for you.
He's absolutely right. What the RIAA has been doing is like a Pimp telling a Dealer that he's evil. The RIAA has consistantly driven up prices, then they got upset about when people don't want to pay it anymore. It's ridiculas.
Ah ha, spammer son, you have discovered the dark arts of ad-fu(AAAHHH, blockstackers plug)? I will merely dispatch my procmail ninjas to deal with your insolence!
all german SAMBA users should refer to the software as S*MBA.
From a legal standpoint, there is nothing wrong with this. Microsoft makes an agreement with a company to liscense a copy of Windows 2k along with another piece of software. However, regardless of if this is legal or not, it is likely to hinder Microsoft in court. Personally, I say, you deal with the devil, you're going to get burned.
The truth is, sony considered linux w/ the ps and ps/2, but in both cases the OS proved too bulky (the ps was a 33mhz mips-like chip), so what are the chances that we will see a phone or Organizer with enough processing power to run a user friendly version of linux? The only way I can see this happening is if they go for a merge between a palm type device and a cell phone, but that would probably result in a rather bulky machine.
Ok, but how many times has the main stream media done similar things. Slashdot does a much better job, IMHO, than say NBC (even on a smaller resource base) at reporting correct information. Larger media groups tend to be owned, if you know what I mean.
The media always does this kind of stuff. They take whatever out of context that they can, so that ppl will take the time to look at their service, so they can sell more ads. Journalists shouldn't report rumors, just verified facts (Btw, I think slashdot has been very good about sticking to that point. They tend to reject stories that are just unfounded rumors).
From what I can remember about lawsuits involving CD-R, casette tapes, and VCRs, the law is that if their is any legal use for a product, it shouldn't be taken from the public. That is why CD-Rs, VCRs, casette tapes, bongs and guns are still availible for sale. For the same reason, Napster's service is legal. Morality should not be part of a country's policy, and is a whole other, more deeply involved field.
I think I'll register 2000 hotmail accounts, and sign them up for all the spam they can get, and see how much m$ likes their precious w2k. I think it's a good thing they use FreeBSD and Linux. Either they will learn something from it, or they will keep eating the competition, one or the other.