Of course now that the "official publisher" can't produce nearly as many CDs as mere mortals can in our CD burners, "the CD is dead".
What he would say if he were honest is "the unique privilege of publishing CDs by official monopolizers of 'the right to copy' is dead".
CDs are dying, but only as a medium in which to store music. It will be quite some time before even nifty network transfers totally replace physical objects as a transfer medium for music. Because people like to get something we can hold, physically hand over, to mark the transaction of "turning someone on" to music.
Network distribution and distributed storage will eventually make the CD as quaint as a parchment scroll commemorative document like a diploma. By then, EMI and its monopolistic business model will be long gone.
Oh yeah, that's the OS I want to base my Internet and personal business on. A total meltdown bug that takes most of the huge OS team by surprise on the day it's supposed to be manufactured ("in stone"), after all the testing is supposed to be complete. But it doesn't surprise everyone, so it's been known to some on the team - but slipped past testing anyway. Which causes a delay of only two weeks, despite the testing necessary to be sure this bug 1: is gone; 2: doesn't break anything else when fixed; and 3: doesn't have others like it waiting to "surprise most people".
What kind of $MULTIBILLION corporation, whose steady stream of "upgraded" products are essential to global business and billions of personal lives, runs this way?
What's the problem with the magnetics? Can't a probe read a magnetic domain at an addressable distance from the probe? Through intervening matter, even if just air? Not the interfering "stereomagnetics" I proposed, just a single probe read/writing different layers in front of it, independently.
I thought of it as the size of a mini-CD case, including the disc stack and the rest of the HW to use it. I just have a different (larger) estimate of the thickness needed for my version's scanning/tunneling magnetic head. I'd love to be wrong, and fit a nickel-sized device with my power/speed/capactiy specs.
Well, only if the "stereo magnetic sensor" can work, without moving the heads.
I'm still waiting for HD makers to "invert" their tiny feature-size manufacturing from platter surfaces to read/write heads. Why not a top layer disc that is covered with sensors/probes the same scale as the data domains on the discs below them? Addressing the probe layer with/for data as a RAM page, with a "layer index" for the target disc layer on which the proble layer "focuses". Maybe a single layer at a time, with the probe scanning through the stack, read/writing as it passes. Or, if each probe layer cell can focus independently, one cell in a column per cycle. Throw "asynchronous clock" tech, and each probe cell could have its own cycle. The density and performance of such a device would put TBs on cm^3 at mW (or uW). And since the "discs" no longer rotate (saving latency, power, and mechanical wear/complexity), they can fill cubic volumes, instead of cylindrical ones, for (4-pi)r^2 extra storage volume.
I had expected all this kind of "volumetric" tech to be superceded by holographic optics. But that industry has been very slow. And photons are much bigger than we can make magnetic domains, so this stuff we're speculating about has better (imaginary, but plausible) specs.
That's his version. I'm not sure that scanning/tunneling magnetics are that accurate/precise in the "Z" axis. Or maybe they are, and we're looking at mm, not cm, and uW, not mW.
How about a stack of "foil" platters read by a single head outside the stack, that can "focus" its read-sensitive probe electromagnetically inside the stack? Maybe they wouldn't even need an airgap, just some intervening film to help "address" the different layers. Perhaps a pair of heads reading a "stereoscopic" view. Maybe that could read a whole track at once. Multiple heads around the radii could read simultaneous tracks.
This kind of tech has a lot of problems in signal/noise, permissivity/permeability, etc. But the benefit could be a drive the size of a mini-CD-single case, with dozens of microlayer platters and octets of read heads, offering terabytes for milliwatts.
"Effective government depends on accurate, honest and timely advice from scientists and engineers. Science demands an open, transparent process of review and access to the best scholars from around the nation and the world. Mistakes dangerous to the nation's welfare and security have been made when governments prevent scientists from presenting the best evidence and analysis. Americans should demand that all candidates support the following Bill of Rights [...]"
How much new SW has RedHat actually contributed to the community (not just support)? How much of that has been used in other distros?
We in the OSS community should benchmark Oracle's entry into the biz by measuring their contribution of code against how much money they earn on their distro. Their late entry is welcome, but does start "standing on the shoulders of giants", including RedHat's. The real contribution of a corporation getting all that "free" software to turn into a business is measured in their contribution of new code others can turn into a business, along with their cooperation in the mutual ecosystem.
What are Oracle's expected contributions to OSS Linux software? Anything other than just kernel tweaks that make Oracle RDBMS run better?
If most pages saying "peter king" do in fact link to a page about his "ethnic profiling", why shouldn't Google reflect that reality?
The reality is that Googling for ("peter king")does not return a link to an "ethnic profiling" article, at least not in the first set of results. Those results all point to King's own sites, Wikipedia articles about him, etc - all available to King (and his army of Congressional henchmen^Wstaff) to revise.
In fact, Tom Zeller Jr's NYTimes article first mentions Googling for ("John Kyl") (R-AZ). Whose highest-ranking results do not include the "alternative weekly" article the NYTimes seems to complain about.
Maybe Google "fixed" the results for these two powerful Republican Congressmembers, after news of the NYTimes article's "expose" of googlebombing reached them. That is a much more serious abuse of the Web by politically powerful censors. Call it "voluntary" by Google in this case, but of course Kyl and King are incumbents, who will be able to take revenge on Google, especially in telco and Network Neutrality votes, if Google "ignores" them, and they stay in a Congressional majority. Or even if they don't - all politics is like highschool homeroom politics, and revenge is the name of the game, especially if it actually costs someone an election.
And of course there's the entire dimension of the NYTimes' manipulation of the Web. Especially if they either influenced Google to censor its results, or if they just made up (or got wrong) the entire story, because King and Kyl's "Googlebomb" results aren't what the Times says they are. Or, most especially, if the Times both got Google to censor, and its story isn't even true.
What we are seeing in this story is not so much an expose of googlebombing as it is the backlash by the mass media (like the Times) and the creatures who inhabit it (like Congressmembers) which are now threatened by Web competitors like Google. And Google's model of "reality" which is much more interactive with the actions of the public than is either the mass media, or the Congress. Even if they're all manipulations, at least Google's are manipulated by the public, a level playing field (except for those conference calls with Google, Congressmembers and NYTimes writers).
I'm not asking how to manually pull the info that the new upgrade is available. I'm talking about how to have Ubuntu push the offer. That's exactly what I'm asking for.
This afternoon I ran apt-get update, and the Update Manager "warning light" in my Panel told me there were two updates available, a couple security upgrades to a couple of installed apps. Without Slashdot, I wouldn't know to run "update-manager -c". That's the hard part.
When will APT include a torrent client so we don't have to figure out whether the servers are clogged to decide whether to upgrade with apt-get or from a local torrent file?
I wish my (6.06) Ubuntu's Upgrade Manager app would offer to upgrade my entire OS to the next version now that one's available on the upgrade server. It seems to just offer upgrades to apps in the currently installed version of the distro.
I understand the difference, but it's mostly an artifact of Ubuntu's internal project release schedule. Most desktop users won't understand or care (rightly). And they probably won't know they can upgrade.
Which situation also means more users of old distro versions, who artificially increase the user base of that distro's fork versions of apps. If everyone who wanted to upgrade an app knew there was a new version included in a new distro version, all automated, many more people would probably upgrade whole distro versions. Which would mean less people requiring old fork version upgrades. So more developers could work on the newest versions, not fork version branches and backports.
While the Wikipedia entry counts China as the site of first domestication of pigs, recent mDNA research shows that multiple Eurasian sites first domesticated the pig. And that the European, not Asian, wild animal was the ancestor of today's pigs.
I'm still searching for the citation I read about a decade ago exploring an alleged simultaneous Korean/Peruvian first domestication of pigs, and (I more hazily recall) chickens. As I said, another story, or apparently stories.
China was certainly the source of quite a bit of innovation, and likely will be again now that feudalism's intellectual/industrial stagnation is probably behind it. But of course "China" is a single word meaning many things, many of which are mutually exclusive.
Wikipedia credits the 1230s Koreans with "the first iron printing press" and 1040s China with "the first moveable type". But after a thousand years, the first inventions might be long gone and forgotten, and their geographical origin with them. No DNA traces left, just culturcentric claims to invention. At least they didn't invent the "perpetual patent".
Yes, and like I said, that mass didn't just disappear. I speculated that the departing mass might have collided with the remaining stars (as it did with the debris from which we're taking the "fingerprints" of the event), and even dragged along the stars with its continuing gravity.
Others have speculated that the remaining stars' existing orbits around the now diffuse/moved gravitational center of the now-supernova flung them tangentially as the center of mass moved.
"It blew up" is a description referring more to mesoscale terrestrial explosions which are gravitationally insignificant - implying that the old anchor converted to a form playing no role in the gravitational distribution of the whole system. It's a lot more complex than that. A lot more complex than "a lack of gravitational pull". That pull wasn't lacking after the supernova, it was just pulling from different directions. That's different from the oversimplification in the story.
What a hilarious site. Just like the actual jihadists they copycat, they demand actions of righteousness from the "government" of Slashdot, and vow to bomb the people of Slashdot until the government starts caring. And like actual jihadists, they explode themselves in the process. And their leaders employ a system to send naive people to the targets they choose, while the leaders rest comfortably anonymous behind a superficial ideology.
Slashdot Mirror
"The knack of TaijiQuan is to throw yourself at the ground and miss (apologies to Douglas Adams)"
My taichi teachers say we should wait for the ground to come thru, and be elsewhere then.
Thanks for the concern, but with no flame responses and moderation looking like
Moderation +2
100% Insightful
I care even less than I usually do about reply flames (ie, less than zero).
Of course now that the "official publisher" can't produce nearly as many CDs as mere mortals can in our CD burners, "the CD is dead".
What he would say if he were honest is "the unique privilege of publishing CDs by official monopolizers of 'the right to copy' is dead".
CDs are dying, but only as a medium in which to store music. It will be quite some time before even nifty network transfers totally replace physical objects as a transfer medium for music. Because people like to get something we can hold, physically hand over, to mark the transaction of "turning someone on" to music.
Network distribution and distributed storage will eventually make the CD as quaint as a parchment scroll commemorative document like a diploma. By then, EMI and its monopolistic business model will be long gone.
Right. Good benchmark.
How is asking a legitimate question which you answered, precisely in context of the story and my point about Oracle, in any way a "troll"?
Oh yeah, that's the OS I want to base my Internet and personal business on. A total meltdown bug that takes most of the huge OS team by surprise on the day it's supposed to be manufactured ("in stone"), after all the testing is supposed to be complete. But it doesn't surprise everyone, so it's been known to some on the team - but slipped past testing anyway. Which causes a delay of only two weeks, despite the testing necessary to be sure this bug 1: is gone; 2: doesn't break anything else when fixed; and 3: doesn't have others like it waiting to "surprise most people".
What kind of $MULTIBILLION corporation, whose steady stream of "upgraded" products are essential to global business and billions of personal lives, runs this way?
Microsoft. When monopoly is all you need.
What's the problem with the magnetics? Can't a probe read a magnetic domain at an addressable distance from the probe? Through intervening matter, even if just air? Not the interfering "stereomagnetics" I proposed, just a single probe read/writing different layers in front of it, independently.
I thought of it as the size of a mini-CD case, including the disc stack and the rest of the HW to use it. I just have a different (larger) estimate of the thickness needed for my version's scanning/tunneling magnetic head. I'd love to be wrong, and fit a nickel-sized device with my power/speed/capactiy specs.
Well, only if the "stereo magnetic sensor" can work, without moving the heads.
I'm still waiting for HD makers to "invert" their tiny feature-size manufacturing from platter surfaces to read/write heads. Why not a top layer disc that is covered with sensors/probes the same scale as the data domains on the discs below them? Addressing the probe layer with/for data as a RAM page, with a "layer index" for the target disc layer on which the proble layer "focuses". Maybe a single layer at a time, with the probe scanning through the stack, read/writing as it passes. Or, if each probe layer cell can focus independently, one cell in a column per cycle. Throw "asynchronous clock" tech, and each probe cell could have its own cycle. The density and performance of such a device would put TBs on cm^3 at mW (or uW). And since the "discs" no longer rotate (saving latency, power, and mechanical wear/complexity), they can fill cubic volumes, instead of cylindrical ones, for (4-pi)r^2 extra storage volume.
I had expected all this kind of "volumetric" tech to be superceded by holographic optics. But that industry has been very slow. And photons are much bigger than we can make magnetic domains, so this stuff we're speculating about has better (imaginary, but plausible) specs.
That's his version. I'm not sure that scanning/tunneling magnetics are that accurate/precise in the "Z" axis. Or maybe they are, and we're looking at mm, not cm, and uW, not mW.
How about a stack of "foil" platters read by a single head outside the stack, that can "focus" its read-sensitive probe electromagnetically inside the stack? Maybe they wouldn't even need an airgap, just some intervening film to help "address" the different layers. Perhaps a pair of heads reading a "stereoscopic" view. Maybe that could read a whole track at once. Multiple heads around the radii could read simultaneous tracks.
This kind of tech has a lot of problems in signal/noise, permissivity/permeability, etc. But the benefit could be a drive the size of a mini-CD-single case, with dozens of microlayer platters and octets of read heads, offering terabytes for milliwatts.
They're a counterbalance to the "America for Religion" legion of "religious" political orgs - sort of a gnocracy, or maybe a "theocrat -> technocrat" transmogrifier. You can join, without any specific obligations, at http://www.sefora.org/ . You can "tell a friend", or contribute money to their operation.
How much new SW has RedHat actually contributed to the community (not just support)? How much of that has been used in other distros?
We in the OSS community should benchmark Oracle's entry into the biz by measuring their contribution of code against how much money they earn on their distro. Their late entry is welcome, but does start "standing on the shoulders of giants", including RedHat's. The real contribution of a corporation getting all that "free" software to turn into a business is measured in their contribution of new code others can turn into a business, along with their cooperation in the mutual ecosystem.
What are Oracle's expected contributions to OSS Linux software? Anything other than just kernel tweaks that make Oracle RDBMS run better?
If most pages saying "peter king" do in fact link to a page about his "ethnic profiling", why shouldn't Google reflect that reality?
The reality is that Googling for ("peter king") does not return a link to an "ethnic profiling" article, at least not in the first set of results. Those results all point to King's own sites, Wikipedia articles about him, etc - all available to King (and his army of Congressional henchmen^Wstaff) to revise.
In fact, Tom Zeller Jr's NYTimes article first mentions Googling for ("John Kyl") (R-AZ). Whose highest-ranking results do not include the "alternative weekly" article the NYTimes seems to complain about.
Maybe Google "fixed" the results for these two powerful Republican Congressmembers, after news of the NYTimes article's "expose" of googlebombing reached them. That is a much more serious abuse of the Web by politically powerful censors. Call it "voluntary" by Google in this case, but of course Kyl and King are incumbents, who will be able to take revenge on Google, especially in telco and Network Neutrality votes, if Google "ignores" them, and they stay in a Congressional majority. Or even if they don't - all politics is like highschool homeroom politics, and revenge is the name of the game, especially if it actually costs someone an election.
And of course there's the entire dimension of the NYTimes' manipulation of the Web. Especially if they either influenced Google to censor its results, or if they just made up (or got wrong) the entire story, because King and Kyl's "Googlebomb" results aren't what the Times says they are. Or, most especially, if the Times both got Google to censor, and its story isn't even true.
What we are seeing in this story is not so much an expose of googlebombing as it is the backlash by the mass media (like the Times) and the creatures who inhabit it (like Congressmembers) which are now threatened by Web competitors like Google. And Google's model of "reality" which is much more interactive with the actions of the public than is either the mass media, or the Congress. Even if they're all manipulations, at least Google's are manipulated by the public, a level playing field (except for those conference calls with Google, Congressmembers and NYTimes writers).
I'm not asking how to manually pull the info that the new upgrade is available. I'm talking about how to have Ubuntu push the offer. That's exactly what I'm asking for.
This afternoon I ran apt-get update, and the Update Manager "warning light" in my Panel told me there were two updates available, a couple security upgrades to a couple of installed apps. Without Slashdot, I wouldn't know to run "update-manager -c". That's the hard part.
Where's the release schedule for the next version, now that the EE schedule is history?
You know that a department's speed is limited not by its speed of a single operation, but by its latency in getting to any operation, right?
When will APT include a torrent client so we don't have to figure out whether the servers are clogged to decide whether to upgrade with apt-get or from a local torrent file?
I wish my (6.06) Ubuntu's Upgrade Manager app would offer to upgrade my entire OS to the next version now that one's available on the upgrade server. It seems to just offer upgrades to apps in the currently installed version of the distro.
I understand the difference, but it's mostly an artifact of Ubuntu's internal project release schedule. Most desktop users won't understand or care (rightly). And they probably won't know they can upgrade.
Which situation also means more users of old distro versions, who artificially increase the user base of that distro's fork versions of apps. If everyone who wanted to upgrade an app knew there was a new version included in a new distro version, all automated, many more people would probably upgrade whole distro versions. Which would mean less people requiring old fork version upgrades. So more developers could work on the newest versions, not fork version branches and backports.
Muhammad Ali, famous 20th Century American poet (and heavyweight boxing champion), asked for a poem on demand:
"Me - wheeee!"
Anonymous TrollMod Coward, strawmen don't compute.
I think I'm finally coming around to seeing the wisdom of past suggestions to change my .sig to
make install --not-war
GNU wins in the long run.
While the Wikipedia entry counts China as the site of first domestication of pigs, recent mDNA research shows that multiple Eurasian sites first domesticated the pig. And that the European, not Asian, wild animal was the ancestor of today's pigs.
I'm still searching for the citation I read about a decade ago exploring an alleged simultaneous Korean/Peruvian first domestication of pigs, and (I more hazily recall) chickens. As I said, another story, or apparently stories.
Other "marxists" had their own reports of agriculture origins.
China was certainly the source of quite a bit of innovation, and likely will be again now that feudalism's intellectual/industrial stagnation is probably behind it. But of course "China" is a single word meaning many things, many of which are mutually exclusive.
Wikipedia credits the 1230s Koreans with "the first iron printing press" and 1040s China with "the first moveable type". But after a thousand years, the first inventions might be long gone and forgotten, and their geographical origin with them. No DNA traces left, just culturcentric claims to invention. At least they didn't invent the "perpetual patent".
Finally, something for Max Headroom to beat in the ratings.
The creepiest part of this watershed is just how much today's political landscape resembles the one covered by "Network 23".
Yes, and like I said, that mass didn't just disappear. I speculated that the departing mass might have collided with the remaining stars (as it did with the debris from which we're taking the "fingerprints" of the event), and even dragged along the stars with its continuing gravity.
Others have speculated that the remaining stars' existing orbits around the now diffuse/moved gravitational center of the now-supernova flung them tangentially as the center of mass moved.
"It blew up" is a description referring more to mesoscale terrestrial explosions which are gravitationally insignificant - implying that the old anchor converted to a form playing no role in the gravitational distribution of the whole system. It's a lot more complex than that. A lot more complex than "a lack of gravitational pull". That pull wasn't lacking after the supernova, it was just pulling from different directions. That's different from the oversimplification in the story.
What a hilarious site. Just like the actual jihadists they copycat, they demand actions of righteousness from the "government" of Slashdot, and vow to bomb the people of Slashdot until the government starts caring. And like actual jihadists, they explode themselves in the process. And their leaders employ a system to send naive people to the targets they choose, while the leaders rest comfortably anonymous behind a superficial ideology.
We've found Osama.