but from a user's point of view there's little difference.
I totally disagree.. And most likely you would to if you ever installed and administered Solaris.
Linux is totally beautiful when it comes to simplicity, the/dev directory is actually understandable just by looking at the names, whereas in Solaris you dont get crap without a manual or two.
Linux is a "unix clone" designed for PC's whereas Solaris is designed for large computers. Creating light or thin clients in linux, backed up by the huge support of hardware, and running solaris on the servers is perhaps what Sun has in mind, Solaris on the workstation is too clumsy _imho_.
As far as I know, Canada is also a part of the "Internet", and the article states that the whole of internet will be monitored. Wonder how they gonna persuade Irak and Iran to send such data to Bush though;-)
And.. it is going to be a huge amount of data... realtime monitoring of all peer2peer traffic etc.. Sounds like they need a big budget =)
We are not lazy, we are more creative. And since there are more rats than humans, the exploration (unlaziness) can be taken to newer levels.
Btw.. there are many places where humans cant go, but we are not lazy, we are not pleased with not going there. Instead we create new technology that allows us to go even further. How can that be a sin ?
btw.. i think your find out that lazy human scientists have decided to enslave an entire species of animal (the common sewer rat) is highly inaccurate. There are way too many rats out there;-)
This of course depends on the definition of mainstream..
1) Mainstream = "The biggest/largest/greatest".. then probably no
2) Mainstream = "Widely accepted and used amongst normal people" then yes.. this is today.
Look at companies like IBM and Dell.. would you call them mainstream ?.. most likely.. So if they offer PDAs/Servers/Workstations with Linux or any other OSS product on.. then it is mainstream already.
...they can make this work in bigger aeroplanes as well. Put a para on a 747 and i'll be really impressed, and perhaps even a bit more confident i will reach the ground safe:-)
Well... the new IBM machine BlueGene (II) or whatever its named is supposed to run linux.. and the new cluster used for nuclear simulations is also to run linux.. so it actually seems like a fairly common choice. And if they choose linux this early in the project, they can
1: Fine-tune Linux to fit the platform
2: Design the platform to utilize linux
So it sounds fair to me.. Consider installing some propriatory OS instead.. where they cannot play around, change kernel design, drivers, VM or whatever they fancy. Would not that be a greater drawback ?
My first consern...why all this stuff if it will play my DVD/SVCD/VCD/DivX/Mp3 ?. Sounds like serious overkill to me.
My second consern, somewhat related to the first, how much heat does this piece generate? If I for some reason really would benefint from having 2.5 Ghz and 512MB DDR to play my media files, would I also benefit from the sound I assume the box generates? It sure cant be that silent... and if it sounds like a "shuttle", i really _dont_ need one of these in my living room.
Back in 2000 i was given the opportunity to go to London, UK to help a growing swedish IT consultant business. My main task was to act as a Linux mentor , to help and introduce Linux to the MCSE sysadmin there. During my 6 weeks, I replaced their current "firewall" (nt4sp3 with winproxy) with a Slackware/ipchains based firewall. This allowed them to
1: Remove the proxy software on all the clients
2: Provide some level of security for the DMZ
The firewall was up'n'running for over a year after I left, and then replaced by a Solaris firewall with Checkpoint.
My point is that I managed to introduce the power of Unix into the NT environment and easilly replaced the NT "firewall", and everyone was happy, including the business guys in suits who pays the MS licence bills.
Begin with attacking simple services, such as web, ftp, fw services. This makes a basic understanding, even for the "civilians". When they feel comfortable with the Linux fileservers and firewalls, "Hey, that fileserver never goes down ?", you will have a lot easier to migrate the rest.
I think you are right. As far as i know, they only scrapped the server version, but will remain focused on the Longhorn Desktop version ( ie a new XP++ ?)
Guess that makes sense since the market has not yet adopted XP servers or in many cases eve not 2000. No point in releasing new server versions when noone has the time to migrate to the platforms.
OpenMosix is used for load balancing, allowing processess to migrate during runtime.. I wonder what happens if you are trying to "gib/frag" someone and the server process migrates to another node..;-)
It seems to me it would make more sense to use only the mentioned queue-system to position the games evenly.
Mac users have. Connectix Virtual PC works fine. I can run both windows and linux, boot from cd's or virtual floppys directly through MacOS X layers. It does take a lot of ram though.. 512MB was not sufficient to run OSX and Win2k at the same time, so I had to order another 512MB module.
Still, emulation is never the same, and i really miss the great multitasking in Linux. Darwin/MacOS X is not even close. Same with the rest of *BSD imho.
My dream machine would be a 2.4-kernel running on my PowerMac G4/800 with AQUA GUI and config tools.
Apple's latest CPU's run at 1.25 Ghz, which is more like 3 times slower than that P4. Still, 1.25 is without liquid nitrogen cooling.. so that's not really relevant either...
And the most interesting part is that Mac users (like myself, love my Titanium Powerbook) are very happy we have sufficiently powerful non-wintel CPU's which consumes only a small amount of energy. Imagine putting one of those P4 2.8 in a laptop...;-)
I fully agree on this point. Its hard to keep blaiming people for trying to stop illegal activities. The interesting thing with this method is that it can actually work, in contrast to the other stupid attempts like copyprotection and mp3 pay-sites. One of the few things that definitely keeps me going to the store buying a CD is the fact that its hard to get my hands on on the net, and after a few failed downloads its not worth the trouble.
Hm.. the big issue is not really from whom the genome came from, but the fact that they used only one human to claim their complete sequence dataset. More serious attempts to map the human genome requires a lot more thorough examination, repeats, multiple sequencings etc.
The stakeholders should not complain about from whom the genome came form, but instead that the data generated is uncertain. I mean.. a scientific experiment with only one source, which was until now even not known to the public (or stakeholders).
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You bought their software (Windows XP) and you accepted their EULA. I dont think you have much money to collect from Microsoft, sorry.
Besides, if you try and overwrite your free space by dd'ing from/dev/zero, won't the outfile top out at 2 gigs on ext2?
No, it wont. Unlexx you are writing the zero's to a file which is already larger than 2 gigs. If you write on the device (/dev/hda1 etc) you are not accessing a file or a filesystem, therefor no limitation.
Besides, the 2 GB limitation is not valid any more, unless you use an old kernel. I made a 2.5 GB ascii file last night, and it worked fine:-)
For those who (inexplicably, through brainwashing or other) don't believe that evolution happens, computers (and their software) provide an unequaled example of evolution in progress
Indeed. For those familiar with Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming, this should already be familiar.. but to enlighten the rest:-)
When talking about AI you have to make a differentiation between the "body" and the "brain". In a computer simlulation you can say that the simulation environment is the body and the "genome" (phenotype) is the brain. Intelligence does not lie in either, but in the cooperation between them. Rather simple.. how much is your brain worth without eyes, arms, legs, nerves etc ? And the other way around.. what to do with your body if you cannot process the data.
So, back to the reflection on the comment above, most people tend to say that humans evolve through the brain, while it is more true to say that the brain and the body coevolve. The same goes for computers, both software and hardware coevolves, keeps getting better and matching each other.
The interesting part here is that if we can understand the body (not that hard, just molecular biology and stuff), then we have one of two keys to human intelligence. That is why biology and computer interaction is so interesting, if we can simulate biology (body) on a computer (body), then we have an increased ability to learn about the brain. A few months ago, an Israeli company successfully performed calculations on human cells. This is the reversed way, using biology as the "body" and computer algorithms as the "brain". Very interesting results, and very promising. This generation or the next should have a fairly good chance of screwing up this planet totally:-)
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Perhaps you are missing the actual problem ? I dislike MS products not because they are so hard to patch, but because I _have to patch_ all the time.
Security holes are not supposed to exist at all. Making a licence that allows MS to upgrade their own buggy products without telling customers is.. better than not, but not good.
They should create bugfree software from the beginning instead:-)
I have to agree that OO programming is in itself an important contribution to computer science. It is, as the article says, supporting more stable, robust code which can be reused (modularized).
What i DO find interesting though... is that they (ACM) gives the price to such an old theory. I would instead prefer if ACM would have selected some _new_ issue, that could be highlighted and given a few moments in the spotlight.
Really, what is the use with giving the price to something which is already a standard ?
I dont say they dont deserve the price, OO is great. What I do say is that the price itself could do much more good if it were given to some theory which has yet to make great impact if given the time and resources to do so. It feels like giving the "Astronaut of the year Award" to Neil Armstrong for his lunartrip:-)
Cant ACM, with all its resources and people, try to be a bit more innovative ?
Im a bit curious, does anyone know what that "other propiatory" stuff he is talking about, but cannot reveal any further, is ? It sounds to me that we could be talking Lindows, but I dont know that much about Lindows to know how it "emulates/wraps" Win32 API.
Any other ideas ?
You dont trust anything unless you are given exact proof of it ? That seems to be a bit naive imho.
There are thousands of projects going on around the world dealing with new issues raised by biotechnology, and growing organs from stemcells are just one. Why do you have such a hard time believing this ? Do you really think that cell division is such a hard thing to do ? Gene manipulation.. you dont believe that either ? (oh.. wait, the crop's are already finding their way to your local food store)
Human organs have already been grown in external hosts before, for example in pigs. (The pigs were treated with large doses of antibiotics though). This is not really such a complex task, because nature does all the tricky parts by herself. All we have to do is to give nature a push in the right direction.
We can clone animals (and yes... humans), why shouldnt we be able to clone organs ? Stem Cells are designed to do exactly what they are claiming in this article, to reproduce any type of cell.
But indeed, you are correct, they dont have any proof yet, or atleast, they choose not to show then to the world, since it is obviously not ready just yet. The implications of these findings go far beyond medicine, they will shake foundations. Producing facts right now may very well be suicide for the companies, since government, pushed by an uneducated mob, could close them down, deeming their research unethical and ban it.
Only time will tell, but i dont think i live in a dreamworld.
We all have to start somewhere. If the Macintosh can provide a good solid ground for rapid (cheap) game development, as well as a good platform for the gamers to play, then why not ?
The machines does look a lot better than most common PC's, they have nice keyboards and mice etc. And MacOS X is a *nix, which does bring things to its edge, since all slashdotters loves *nix:-)
If there were as many good games available for the Macintosh as for the PC, i'd definitly concider getting myself a Mac next time. I think its worth those 50 % extra money to get rid of windows once and for all anyways =)
Most cell knows when it is going to die. Our skincells for example are programmed to die after about 7 weeks, in this way, the skin does refresh itself and you have a nice healthy skin.
So.. if you clone a cell that is already say 3 weeks old, all clones from that cell will start of at the age of 3 weeks, having only 4 weeks left to live until "terminated".
This is what happened to Dolly, the cloned Sheep. Dolly's cells started of with the same biological clock as her "mother" (herself ?;), so she is "ageing" very fast to catch up with herself.
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I totally disagree.. And most likely you would to if you ever installed and administered Solaris.
Linux is totally beautiful when it comes to simplicity, the
Linux is a "unix clone" designed for PC's whereas Solaris is designed for large computers. Creating light or thin clients in linux, backed up by the huge support of hardware, and running solaris on the servers is perhaps what Sun has in mind, Solaris on the workstation is too clumsy _imho_.
And.. it is going to be a huge amount of data... realtime monitoring of all peer2peer traffic etc.. Sounds like they need a big budget =)
We are not lazy, we are more creative. And since there are more rats than humans, the exploration (unlaziness) can be taken to newer levels.
;-)
Btw.. there are many places where humans cant go, but we are not lazy, we are not pleased with not going there. Instead we create new technology that allows us to go even further. How can that be a sin ?
btw.. i think your find out that lazy human scientists have decided to enslave an entire species of animal (the common sewer rat) is highly inaccurate. There are way too many rats out there
If you think you're better off alone, then start your own.
1) Mainstream = "The biggest/largest/greatest".. then probably no
2) Mainstream = "Widely accepted and used amongst normal people" then yes.. this is today.
Look at companies like IBM and Dell.. would you call them mainstream ?.. most likely.. So if they offer PDAs/Servers/Workstations with Linux or any other OSS product on.. then it is mainstream already.
...they can make this work in bigger aeroplanes as well. Put a para on a 747 and i'll be really impressed, and perhaps even a bit more confident i will reach the ground safe :-)
1: Fine-tune Linux to fit the platform
2: Design the platform to utilize linux
So it sounds fair to me.. Consider installing some propriatory OS instead.. where they cannot play around, change kernel design, drivers, VM or whatever they fancy. Would not that be a greater drawback ?
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My first consern...why all this stuff if it will play my DVD/SVCD/VCD/DivX/Mp3 ?. Sounds like serious overkill to me.
My second consern, somewhat related to the first, how much heat does this piece generate? If I for some reason really would benefint from having 2.5 Ghz and 512MB DDR to play my media files, would I also benefit from the sound I assume the box generates? It sure cant be that silent... and if it sounds like a "shuttle", i really _dont_ need one of these in my living room.
No, thats not the idea. The corps want you to spend more money on your broadband, not download less.
So, you can download both redhat and pr0n, but you will be priced a bit higher. Now how much is that RedHat iso worth to you ?
Back in 2000 i was given the opportunity to go to London, UK to help a growing swedish IT consultant business. My main task was to act as a Linux mentor , to help and introduce Linux to the MCSE sysadmin there. During my 6 weeks, I replaced their current "firewall" (nt4sp3 with winproxy) with a Slackware/ipchains based firewall. This allowed them to
1: Remove the proxy software on all the clients
2: Provide some level of security for the DMZ
The firewall was up'n'running for over a year after I left, and then replaced by a Solaris firewall with Checkpoint.
My point is that I managed to introduce the power of Unix into the NT environment and easilly replaced the NT "firewall", and everyone was happy, including the business guys in suits who pays the MS licence bills.
Begin with attacking simple services, such as web, ftp, fw services. This makes a basic understanding, even for the "civilians". When they feel comfortable with the Linux fileservers and firewalls, "Hey, that fileserver never goes down ?", you will have a lot easier to migrate the rest.
I think you are right. As far as i know, they only scrapped the server version, but will remain focused on the Longhorn Desktop version ( ie a new XP++ ?)
Guess that makes sense since the market has not yet adopted XP servers or in many cases eve not 2000. No point in releasing new server versions when noone has the time to migrate to the platforms.
OpenMosix is used for load balancing, allowing processess to migrate during runtime.. I wonder what happens if you are trying to "gib/frag" someone and the server process migrates to another node .. ;-)
It seems to me it would make more sense to use only the mentioned queue-system to position the games evenly.
Mac users have. Connectix Virtual PC works fine. I can run both windows and linux, boot from cd's or virtual floppys directly through MacOS X layers. It does take a lot of ram though.. 512MB was not sufficient to run OSX and Win2k at the same time, so I had to order another 512MB module.
Still, emulation is never the same, and i really miss the great multitasking in Linux. Darwin/MacOS X is not even close. Same with the rest of *BSD imho.
My dream machine would be a 2.4-kernel running on my PowerMac G4/800 with AQUA GUI and config tools.
Apple's latest CPU's run at 1.25 Ghz, which is more like 3 times slower than that P4. Still, 1.25 is without liquid nitrogen cooling.. so that's not really relevant either...
;-)
And the most interesting part is that Mac users (like myself, love my Titanium Powerbook) are very happy we have sufficiently powerful non-wintel CPU's which consumes only a small amount of energy. Imagine putting one of those P4 2.8 in a laptop...
I fully agree on this point. Its hard to keep blaiming people for trying to stop illegal activities. The interesting thing with this method is that it can actually work, in contrast to the other stupid attempts like copyprotection and mp3 pay-sites. One of the few things that definitely keeps me going to the store buying a CD is the fact that its hard to get my hands on on the net, and after a few failed downloads its not worth the trouble.
Hm.. the big issue is not really from whom the genome came from, but the fact that they used only one human to claim their complete sequence dataset. More serious attempts to map the human genome requires a lot more thorough examination, repeats, multiple sequencings etc.
The stakeholders should not complain about from whom the genome came form, but instead that the data generated is uncertain. I mean.. a scientific experiment with only one source, which was until now even not known to the public (or stakeholders).
You bought their software (Windows XP) and you accepted their EULA. I dont think you have much money to collect from Microsoft, sorry.
my 2 cents
Besides, if you try and overwrite your free space by dd'ing from /dev/zero, won't the outfile top out at 2 gigs on ext2?
:-)
No, it wont. Unlexx you are writing the zero's to a file which is already larger than 2 gigs. If you write on the device (/dev/hda1 etc) you are not accessing a file or a filesystem, therefor no limitation.
Besides, the 2 GB limitation is not valid any more, unless you use an old kernel. I made a 2.5 GB ascii file last night, and it worked fine
For those who (inexplicably, through brainwashing or other) don't believe that evolution happens, computers (and their software) provide an unequaled example of evolution in progress
:-)
:-)
Indeed. For those familiar with Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming, this should already be familiar.. but to enlighten the rest
When talking about AI you have to make a differentiation between the "body" and the "brain". In a computer simlulation you can say that the simulation environment is the body and the "genome" (phenotype) is the brain. Intelligence does not lie in either, but in the cooperation between them. Rather simple.. how much is your brain worth without eyes, arms, legs, nerves etc ? And the other way around.. what to do with your body if you cannot process the data.
So, back to the reflection on the comment above, most people tend to say that humans evolve through the brain, while it is more true to say that the brain and the body coevolve. The same goes for computers, both software and hardware coevolves, keeps getting better and matching each other.
The interesting part here is that if we can understand the body (not that hard, just molecular biology and stuff), then we have one of two keys to human intelligence. That is why biology and computer interaction is so interesting, if we can simulate biology (body) on a computer (body), then we have an increased ability to learn about the brain. A few months ago, an Israeli company successfully performed calculations on human cells. This is the reversed way, using biology as the "body" and computer algorithms as the "brain". Very interesting results, and very promising. This generation or the next should have a fairly good chance of screwing up this planet totally
Perhaps you are missing the actual problem ? I dislike MS products not because they are so hard to patch, but because I _have to patch_ all the time.
:-)
Security holes are not supposed to exist at all. Making a licence that allows MS to upgrade their own buggy products without telling customers is.. better than not, but not good.
They should create bugfree software from the beginning instead
I have to agree that OO programming is in itself an important contribution to computer science. It is, as the article says, supporting more stable, robust code which can be reused (modularized).
:-)
What i DO find interesting though... is that they (ACM) gives the price to such an old theory. I would instead prefer if ACM would have selected some _new_ issue, that could be highlighted and given a few moments in the spotlight.
Really, what is the use with giving the price to something which is already a standard ?
I dont say they dont deserve the price, OO is great. What I do say is that the price itself could do much more good if it were given to some theory which has yet to make great impact if given the time and resources to do so. It feels like giving the "Astronaut of the year Award" to Neil Armstrong for his lunartrip
Cant ACM, with all its resources and people, try to be a bit more innovative ?
Im a bit curious, does anyone know what that "other propiatory" stuff he is talking about, but cannot reveal any further, is ? It sounds to me that we could be talking Lindows, but I dont know that much about Lindows to know how it "emulates/wraps" Win32 API.
Any other ideas ?
You dont trust anything unless you are given exact proof of it ? That seems to be a bit naive imho.
There are thousands of projects going on around the world dealing with new issues raised by biotechnology, and growing organs from stemcells are just one. Why do you have such a hard time believing this ? Do you really think that cell division is such a hard thing to do ? Gene manipulation.. you dont believe that either ? (oh.. wait, the crop's are already finding their way to your local food store)
Human organs have already been grown in external hosts before, for example in pigs. (The pigs were treated with large doses of antibiotics though). This is not really such a complex task, because nature does all the tricky parts by herself. All we have to do is to give nature a push in the right direction.
We can clone animals (and yes... humans), why shouldnt we be able to clone organs ? Stem Cells are designed to do exactly what they are claiming in this article, to reproduce any type of cell.
But indeed, you are correct, they dont have any proof yet, or atleast, they choose not to show then to the world, since it is obviously not ready just yet.
The implications of these findings go far beyond medicine, they will shake foundations. Producing facts right now may very well be suicide for the companies, since government, pushed by an uneducated mob, could close them down, deeming their research unethical and ban it.
Only time will tell, but i dont think i live in a dreamworld.
We all have to start somewhere. If the Macintosh can provide a good solid ground for rapid (cheap) game development, as well as a good platform for the gamers to play, then why not ? :-)
The machines does look a lot better than most common PC's, they have nice keyboards and mice etc. And MacOS X is a *nix, which does bring things to its edge, since all slashdotters loves *nix
If there were as many good games available for the Macintosh as for the PC, i'd definitly concider getting myself a Mac next time. I think its worth those 50 % extra money to get rid of windows once and for all anyways =)
Most cell knows when it is going to die. Our skincells for example are programmed to die after about 7 weeks, in this way, the skin does refresh itself and you have a nice healthy skin. ;), so she is "ageing" very fast to catch up with herself.
So.. if you clone a cell that is already say 3 weeks old, all clones from that cell will start of at the age of 3 weeks, having only 4 weeks left to live until "terminated".
This is what happened to Dolly, the cloned Sheep. Dolly's cells started of with the same biological clock as her "mother" (herself ?