While the net was definitely important in creating those items (Sendmail is useless without the net; Networking is integral to X; comments were passed via the net; etc...), the majority of the source code passing was done via tapes. Most of these items were also done monolithically.
If these some of these items had been developed later in the net history, they very well might have received this prize. Linux was in the right place, and the right time to capitalize on the capabilities of the net that these prior works allowed. These other products have received their own awards. This particular award was not created for them, but for the works those items allow to be created.
I thought the black holes would just radiate until they no longer existed. Didn't Hawking or someone postulate that a bunch of mountain-mass black holes form at the beginning of the universe, but radiated away almost instantanneously?
What happens when negative mass anti-matter impacts positive mass matter? How ``close'' does a particle of matter and a particle of anti-matter have to get to anihilate each other? Do they have to get within each others wave fields, actually touch, etc...?
Before this law passed, the RIAA couldn't get any of this money. Now they think they deserve 6.5x what the 1995 law so generously gave them? What will they be satisfied with? Do they wish to become the only organization that can sell music to the public? Do they wish for a large share of every company that deals with music?
The RIAA is trying to become a horizontally and vertically integrated company that's the only game in town. They can't do this in the marketplace, so they're trying to do it in the courts. They can't do it with present law, so they're trying to legislate and get rulings on future law. Law which helps no one but themselves, and harms many.
The people flaming now might not be the ones who flamed before.
I think ``The Missing Link'' will be great. As long as Apple and the DarwinLinux folks make the effort to keep things software and (via emulation) binary compatible, the amount of differing Unices is good.
No, it's a totally different kind of (not necessarily worse or better) category, but still a category of which the best members of should receive recognition.
In his OpenSources chapter he discusses arranging the Linux kernel source for platform independence and writing to a ``sane'' architecture. This might not be unique (gcc and various others were before it), but it's definitely neat. I'm just a biochem student though, so have no way of judging cs-doctorate work.
This can be done the same way as hardware, as long as the SDMI playing sw has hooks that'll let a front-end call it. If it has no hooks the same can be done, just differently.
I understand what you're saying, but these images, and the other images and ideas they cross reference to, would also be a language that's been programmed into you.
My dreams tend to be alot in images, thhough words also play a part. Maybe it's just my obsessive compulsive behavior that causes me to repeat everything I write down or say in my head. I definitely think in non-word abstracts though, too, because sometimes I cannot figure out how to express what I mean.
The study was flawed and apache is slower. The two are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to make something appear worse that it actually is. They were also using Apache's slow performance to deride Linux, such is not good practice.
More accurately, the brain is a mess of differentiated chips. You can walk, chew, and talk at the same time. It's only when you want to focus you conscious attention on more than one thing at a time that it becomes difficult. It's possible to do this, we do it all the time, but it's can be very tiring when taken to extremes, and the amount our conscious mind is able to handle is small. Most people have only one os, the rest of the brain is add-on cards (what about multiple personalities? can they consciously completely focus on more than one thing at a time, or are they merely swapping os's on the fly?).
We have a hardware basic neural network, this can be augmented while we're growing up, and afterwords, by what we sense. Movies, commercials and the like are such small parts of our everyday input that it's not suprising they don't affect us a tremendous amount (usually, some movies do, when those movies call on different programmingg (flashbacks)).
Look at how well the mind can be programmed. We don't start out knowing our native language, but by the time we've learned it, we find it almost impossible to think without using it (unless we've learned another language very thoroughly). Look at concepts such as honor. It's not programmed into us, or if it is, not what kind of honor to follow.
We alread y can and do, it's called brain-washing, torture, etc.... The only way to program a computer is through it's inputs, and that's exactly how brain-washing is accomplished on humans, by fiddling around with our input senses.
Many current Linux users don't pay for software. In this future, as Linux reaches a broader market, this will no longer be the case. Companies can afford to pay for software. If Linux becomes the de facto standard Workstation, the companies will buy software to run on it.
Because as Linux use grows, so will the number of apps for it, and the number of people hacking at/on it. This can only help Linux seem to be a more viable alternative to NT.
Don't you own it Rob? Aren't you just giving it to them? They might own the distribution media (ie. Network Sol'ns whois server), but not the info itself (as you've given them the info not the rights to the info, they didn't create it).
Or if you did, you'd use it in a heterogenous system that is comprised of the SDMI-enabled util/hardware, an mp3-enabled util/hardware and a bridge between the two.
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That's what tapes, different show times, and the like are for. Will this even be shown international?
Thhanks for clearing that up. My knowledge of the early days of the net is pretty much limited to FAQ's and the like.
While the net was definitely important in creating those items (Sendmail is useless without the net; Networking is integral to X; comments were passed via the net; etc...), the majority of the source code passing was done via tapes. Most of these items were also done monolithically.
If these some of these items had been developed later in the net history, they very well might have received this prize. Linux was in the right place, and the right time to capitalize on the capabilities of the net that these prior works allowed. These other products have received their own awards. This particular award was not created for them, but for the works those items allow to be created.
Because sometimes you vote on initiatives.
I thought the black holes would just radiate until they no longer existed. Didn't Hawking or someone postulate that a bunch of mountain-mass black holes form at the beginning of the universe, but radiated away almost instantanneously?
What happens when negative mass anti-matter impacts positive mass matter? How ``close'' does a particle of matter and a particle of anti-matter have to get to anihilate each other? Do they have to get within each others wave fields, actually touch, etc...?
Before this law passed, the RIAA couldn't get any of this money. Now they think they deserve 6.5x what the 1995 law so generously gave them? What will they be satisfied with? Do they wish to become the only organization that can sell music to the public? Do they wish for a large share of every company that deals with music?
The RIAA is trying to become a horizontally and vertically integrated company that's the only game in town. They can't do this in the marketplace, so they're trying to do it in the courts. They can't do it with present law, so they're trying to legislate and get rulings on future law. Law which helps no one but themselves, and harms many.
The people flaming now might not be the ones who flamed before.
I think ``The Missing Link'' will be great. As long as Apple and the DarwinLinux folks make the effort to keep things software and (via emulation) binary compatible, the amount of differing Unices is good.
No, it's a totally different kind of (not necessarily worse or better) category, but still a category of which the best members of should receive recognition.
Is he getting the degree in CS? Is it just a generic math degree?
He organized a new development model (bazaar). Maybe this shouldn't go under cs, but it's worthy of some kind of honorary degree.
Honorary degrees do not involve the same kind of knowledge conventional degrees do, that's why they're called honorary.
In his OpenSources chapter he discusses arranging the Linux kernel source for platform independence and writing to a ``sane'' architecture. This might not be unique (gcc and various others were before it), but it's definitely neat. I'm just a biochem student though, so have no way of judging cs-doctorate work.
This can be done the same way as hardware, as long as the SDMI playing sw has hooks that'll let a front-end call it. If it has no hooks the same can be done, just differently.
I understand what you're saying, but these images, and the other images and ideas they cross reference to, would also be a language that's been programmed into you.
My dreams tend to be alot in images, thhough words also play a part. Maybe it's just my obsessive compulsive behavior that causes me to repeat everything I write down or say in my head. I definitely think in non-word abstracts though, too, because sometimes I cannot figure out how to express what I mean.
The study was flawed and apache is slower. The two are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to make something appear worse that it actually is. They were also using Apache's slow performance to deride Linux, such is not good practice.
More accurately, the brain is a mess of differentiated chips. You can walk, chew, and talk at the same time. It's only when you want to focus you conscious attention on more than one thing at a time that it becomes difficult. It's possible to do this, we do it all the time, but it's can be very tiring when taken to extremes, and the amount our conscious mind is able to handle is small. Most people have only one os, the rest of the brain is add-on cards (what about multiple personalities? can they consciously completely focus on more than one thing at a time, or are they merely swapping os's on the fly?).
We do. Different people use it for different things, that's all.
We have a hardware basic neural network, this can be augmented while we're growing up, and afterwords, by what we sense. Movies, commercials and the like are such small parts of our everyday input that it's not suprising they don't affect us a tremendous amount (usually, some movies do, when those movies call on different programmingg (flashbacks)).
Look at how well the mind can be programmed. We don't start out knowing our native language, but by the time we've learned it, we find it almost impossible to think without using it (unless we've learned another language very thoroughly). Look at concepts such as honor. It's not programmed into us, or if it is, not what kind of honor to follow.
We alread y can and do, it's called brain-washing, torture, etc.... The only way to program a computer is through it's inputs, and that's exactly how brain-washing is accomplished on humans, by fiddling around with our input senses.
Not quite as good as yuo had in mind in some respects, but allows you to ``remember'' things you never new. Check out the Remembrance Agent.
Many current Linux users don't pay for software. In this future, as Linux reaches a broader market, this will no longer be the case. Companies can afford to pay for software. If Linux becomes the de facto standard Workstation, the companies will buy software to run on it.
Because as Linux use grows, so will the number of apps for it, and the number of people hacking at/on it. This can only help Linux seem to be a more viable alternative to NT.
Don't you own it Rob? Aren't you just giving it to them? They might own the distribution media (ie. Network Sol'ns whois server), but not the info itself (as you've given them the info not the rights to the info, they didn't create it).
I've alreadyt thought of two potential ways of getting around this, and it's taken me less than ten minutes!
Or if you did, you'd use it in a heterogenous system that is comprised of the SDMI-enabled util/hardware, an mp3-enabled util/hardware and a bridge between the two.