Well, how would zero-g affect the hardware in a computer? I'm sure it'd have at least some effect on drive spin times. If they kept the main hardware in a vaccum room, then heat would also be a totally different issue. It'd sure be a bitch to use a mouse; gotta keep a grip on it at all times....
Anyone know? I dunno, I've always been more of a software kinda guy (no pun intended =P), but I've taken enoough hardware classes to build a computer from scratch.
Sonds like a better use for my spare cycles than Seti-At-Home. (I'd rather not make contact with an asteroid than make contact with aliens who obviously don't want to talk to us... =p
Well, if we build a better hi-res telescope to look for asteroids, how much of the sky would it be able to cover? Even if we put it out in space, it's still take forever to scan the entire sky. (Maybe if we had a few hundred of these super-scopes...)
(BTW, any chance we can get a link to a non-acrobat version of this report? That viewer is just a pain sometimes...)
How long before we see actual computer-based events? (Saw on Foxtrox the comic strip a few days ago, the school has a cyber-sports team... )
A 'sport' has to be played in 4 continents before it will be in the olympics, which we now have, so why not? After all, they play ping-pong!:-)
Well, since I don't work for Sun I can't confirm anything, but the article said that they were distributing binaries without the source. Apparently they modified the drivers to work on Sun's platform, complied them, and distributed the modified version withoutsource. Unless I misread the article, that sounds bad to me.
I'll be the first to agree that what Sun did was wrong, but that doesn't make it illegal. It's been a long time (i.e. forever) since legality and morality were one in the same; Sun just happened to find a loophole to exploit.
Obviously this needs to be corrected, but that doesn't change the fact that Sun was well within their rights to do this. They violated the spirit, rahter than the letter of the law.
What they should do is GPL their whole product, distribute their source and all. That ought to solve it, right?:-)
So, how long until we can expect OSX on the x86 platform? (OSX86...)
Seriously, though, that would be a step in the right direction IMO. I'm a linux supporter myself, but saying it's the best OS out there is pretty naive. After all, stability and functionality, while critical, are not everything. Support is still a key factor, and while apps are (slowly) going to linux, Windows still has the most useful application.
Apple, however, has a nice compromise. It's still behind windows in applications, but not by as much, and it's much more stable. (Of course, I've still managed to crash G4's on occasion)
All that's kept me prom focusing more on apple products is the fact that the hardware is for the most part much more expensive, and AFAIK that's the only place you can run (modern version, anyway) MacOS.
Fingers crossed...
Amen... If I tried to make those people live the way I did in colege, they'd revolt! I mean, they want to eat every day, they always get tired, and coffee has such a horrible energy/bladder ratio...
What they need is a college student career track, for a sim who's a lot less demanding. (Of course, their salary would be negligable)
Well, I agree that centralized power must be decreased, which is why I suggested socialism along with true Decomcracy. (Not the Representative Decomcracy which must "Decomcratic" nations actually hold.)
As for corruption/bribery, which happens to be one of the major ties between big business and big government, that makes perfect sense. I don't agree 100% about the freedom of speech part, as one of the key properties about the US constitution is that any part of it may be changed through vote. Now Congress should be changing the constitution before they pass laws opposing it, but I've never considered polititions the brightest people around. (And besides, I'm all for anything that'll shut up those campaigners... j/k)
So has Google passed it's half-life? That graph looks pretty exponential to me. Fortunately I've got a doog enough connection that I don't mind digging a bit through bs links, but it's still a pain. Hopefully either google will straighten up, or someone will write a better engine, and let darwin decide things. (Anyone care to rise to the occasion?)
So, they get a $4million donation, a definate plus for the Open (as in my fly) source community, and yet the thrust of the post here is about a name change?
Maybe I should change my name, I could use 15 minutes of fame.
Amen, I was running both for a while myself, until the Windows bios died on me. I was able to start up in dos mode and get most of my stuff out, but the linux partition was hosed. Naturally, I made the only sane choice and purged windows from my system. I lost everything I had saved on my linux partition, but at least it's stable now!
Of course, about 2 hours after reformatting my computer, I found out that it's possible just to reformat the bios (doh!), and I could have saved ALL of my data. Oh well.
Well, is it any wonder that Corporations want more power for themselves? When you get any group of people together, the first thing they want to do (well, the second...) is take over the world.
Of course, as corporations (at least by US law) are in many ways considered a person, it just seems appropriate, in a twisted kinda way.
Are you perhaps suggestiong that we ditch capitalism, which is what gives these companies their power in the first place? Any stuctured economical/governmental system is destined for tyranny, it's only a matter of how long individual's good-nature can hold it off. Even with a pure democracy, something only possible in a very small or very interconnected society, combined with a socialistic economy, the only truley equalistic combination, would still not give us a perfect world. Once you get more than 2 or three people together, it becomes exponentially more and more difficult for tham all to be happy.
Basically our only choice is to try and maximize individual contentment, no small task there. Without a major upheaval of power, we've basically only got two choices: Government and Economy. The two are so intertwined that there's hardly a differency anymore, of course.
Well, there's always Chaos
Well, we wouldn't want anyone else finding out all the secrets of...uh... well, Russion Space technology. (heh)
If some foriegn dictator wants to learn about cosmonaut training, he's going to have to suffer through watching the show on TV.
If it weren't for TV, I guess the world's "intelectually challenged" would have to learn to read. Scary thought.
My guess it that by 'second quarter of 2000', they meant the millenium... i.e., sometime between 2250 and 2500. (+- a year to take into account nitpicking on when the millenium actually starts)
Until then, I'm more than happy with a dual-boot machine at home, with windows for games & stuff, and linux for development.
Well, she probably didn't see it at all. With this, you could make a ring that you'd need a microscope to see. (Of course, it'd be even more expensive than the old kind)
I was thinking more along the lines of a replacement for Kevlar vests... Just how bulletproof is this???
Actually, I'd rather read a real book than an electronic version. Until they come up with something that I can read while relaxing on the couch or on vacation I'll still be sticking to the originals. Now a palm-style handheld would be nice, maybe in a few years they can come up with something practical and convenient. Till then I'll just rick the paper cuts...
Don't feel bad... I think Katz is the one who's lost it. I've never seen anyone so dependant on buzzwords and stereotypes. (And the annoying part is that he seems to latch onto the ones with the least truth behind them. Can he really be this clueless????)
Well, all I can say is that I've been looking forward to a paradigm shift that would broaden the bounds of publishing and further innovate out geek world. It'll probably happen before JK says something with substance in one of his articles...
It probably got moved to one of the different sections. A lot of stories wind up there and not on the front page, maybe they're supposed to show up on the front page for a little bit before getting sent there.
As for it being offtopic, where else would you put up a post if you can't find the article?:-) I doub't they'd submit a story for it under "Ask Slashdot", and we all know how long it takes to get a reply to a non-life-threatening email, considering the volume that the "guys in charge" probably get...
OMG, we'ge got a sane poster here. Somebody strap him in and start the shcok treatment!
But seriously, we've heard arguments blaming everything from video games to sesame street, everythinig except the parents. Maybe I'm part of a dying breed, but I've always put more stock into what my parents taught me than what I learned from 'Mortal K-mart'.... Kombat, I mean.
Hopefully one day parent in our 'post-columbine' society will learn that they've got to start taking responsibilty for themselves, and their children.
Well, IMO there's nothing wrong with web pages being laid out the same way. The point of a web page is to convey information, not to come up with a flashy interface. Personally I get pretty fed up with having to study a page just to figure out where they put things, and would love it if more web sites had a consistant format.
Now that doesn't mean I totally agree with this guy. Until it becomes common for sites to follow certain layout standards, the very least he could (and probably should) do is give credit to where he got his source. Creating a similar layout and just copying the source and changing a few words are two completely different things. I didn't think to look, but I wouldn't be suprised if you checked out the page source and saw comments from the original linux.com site.
Oh, trust me, it'll hurt... I was running on an UltraSparc 60 totally clean machine. It only took
about an hour before I had managed to slow it to a crawl. (Burning 100% of both CPUs, it took probably 5 minutes to get a terminal open to kill off some of the processes.)
Next I'll see if I can get it to run in single-user mode:-) Who needs gui's anyway???
Sorry to hear you have to work with HP:-) We've just managed to get rid of those cursed things.
We've been using DIICOE 4.2 here, and while it is a lot prettier, the big advantage is that we've sucessfully run it without CDE. (Sighs of relief)
Most of our apps for it are being written in java, which is fine for some of our heavier workstations, but I'd sure like to get something more stripped down for some of our stuff that'll be going in the field.
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Well, how would zero-g affect the hardware in a computer? I'm sure it'd have at least some effect on drive spin times. If they kept the main hardware in a vaccum room, then heat would also be a totally different issue. It'd sure be a bitch to use a mouse; gotta keep a grip on it at all times....
Anyone know? I dunno, I've always been more of a software kinda guy (no pun intended =P), but I've taken enoough hardware classes to build a computer from scratch.
Sonds like a better use for my spare cycles than Seti-At-Home. (I'd rather not make contact with an asteroid than make contact with aliens who obviously don't want to talk to us... =p
Well, if we build a better hi-res telescope to look for asteroids, how much of the sky would it be able to cover? Even if we put it out in space, it's still take forever to scan the entire sky. (Maybe if we had a few hundred of these super-scopes...)
(BTW, any chance we can get a link to a non-acrobat version of this report? That viewer is just a pain sometimes...)
And what would happen with computer players? Imagine what would happen if a computer won a gold medal in the olympics.....
How long before we see actual computer-based events? (Saw on Foxtrox the comic strip a few days ago, the school has a cyber-sports team... ) :-)
A 'sport' has to be played in 4 continents before it will be in the olympics, which we now have, so why not? After all, they play ping-pong!
Well, since I don't work for Sun I can't confirm anything, but the article said that they were distributing binaries without the source. Apparently they modified the drivers to work on Sun's platform, complied them, and distributed the modified version withoutsource. Unless I misread the article, that sounds bad to me.
I'll be the first to agree that what Sun did was wrong, but that doesn't make it illegal. It's been a long time (i.e. forever) since legality and morality were one in the same; Sun just happened to find a loophole to exploit. :-)
Obviously this needs to be corrected, but that doesn't change the fact that Sun was well within their rights to do this. They violated the spirit, rahter than the letter of the law.
What they should do is GPL their whole product, distribute their source and all. That ought to solve it, right?
So, how long until we can expect OSX on the x86 platform? (OSX86...)
Seriously, though, that would be a step in the right direction IMO. I'm a linux supporter myself, but saying it's the best OS out there is pretty naive. After all, stability and functionality, while critical, are not everything. Support is still a key factor, and while apps are (slowly) going to linux, Windows still has the most useful application.
Apple, however, has a nice compromise. It's still behind windows in applications, but not by as much, and it's much more stable. (Of course, I've still managed to crash G4's on occasion)
All that's kept me prom focusing more on apple products is the fact that the hardware is for the most part much more expensive, and AFAIK that's the only place you can run (modern version, anyway) MacOS.
Fingers crossed...
Amen... If I tried to make those people live the way I did in colege, they'd revolt! I mean, they want to eat every day, they always get tired, and coffee has such a horrible energy/bladder ratio...
What they need is a college student career track, for a sim who's a lot less demanding. (Of course, their salary would be negligable)
Well, anyone who's read their sci-fi classics (2010), should already know there's water on Europa. :-)
Well, I agree that centralized power must be decreased, which is why I suggested socialism along with true Decomcracy. (Not the Representative Decomcracy which must "Decomcratic" nations actually hold.)
As for corruption/bribery, which happens to be one of the major ties between big business and big government, that makes perfect sense. I don't agree 100% about the freedom of speech part, as one of the key properties about the US constitution is that any part of it may be changed through vote. Now Congress should be changing the constitution before they pass laws opposing it, but I've never considered polititions the brightest people around. (And besides, I'm all for anything that'll shut up those campaigners... j/k)
So has Google passed it's half-life? That graph looks pretty exponential to me. Fortunately I've got a doog enough connection that I don't mind digging a bit through bs links, but it's still a pain. Hopefully either google will straighten up, or someone will write a better engine, and let darwin decide things. (Anyone care to rise to the occasion?)
So, they get a $4million donation, a definate plus for the Open (as in my fly) source community, and yet the thrust of the post here is about a name change?
Maybe I should change my name, I could use 15 minutes of fame.
Amen, I was running both for a while myself, until the Windows bios died on me. I was able to start up in dos mode and get most of my stuff out, but the linux partition was hosed. Naturally, I made the only sane choice and purged windows from my system. I lost everything I had saved on my linux partition, but at least it's stable now!
Of course, about 2 hours after reformatting my computer, I found out that it's possible just to reformat the bios (doh!), and I could have saved ALL of my data. Oh well.
Well, is it any wonder that Corporations want more power for themselves? When you get any group of people together, the first thing they want to do (well, the second...) is take over the world.
Of course, as corporations (at least by US law) are in many ways considered a person, it just seems appropriate, in a twisted kinda way.
Are you perhaps suggestiong that we ditch capitalism, which is what gives these companies their power in the first place? Any stuctured economical/governmental system is destined for tyranny, it's only a matter of how long individual's good-nature can hold it off. Even with a pure democracy, something only possible in a very small or very interconnected society, combined with a socialistic economy, the only truley equalistic combination, would still not give us a perfect world. Once you get more than 2 or three people together, it becomes exponentially more and more difficult for tham all to be happy.
Basically our only choice is to try and maximize individual contentment, no small task there. Without a major upheaval of power, we've basically only got two choices: Government and Economy. The two are so intertwined that there's hardly a differency anymore, of course.
Well, there's always Chaos
Well, we wouldn't want anyone else finding out all the secrets of ...uh... well, Russion Space technology. (heh)
If some foriegn dictator wants to learn about cosmonaut training, he's going to have to suffer through watching the show on TV.
If it weren't for TV, I guess the world's "intelectually challenged" would have to learn to read. Scary thought.
My guess it that by 'second quarter of 2000', they meant the millenium... i.e., sometime between 2250 and 2500. (+- a year to take into account nitpicking on when the millenium actually starts)
Until then, I'm more than happy with a dual-boot machine at home, with windows for games & stuff, and linux for development.
Well, she probably didn't see it at all. With this, you could make a ring that you'd need a microscope to see. (Of course, it'd be even more expensive than the old kind)
I was thinking more along the lines of a replacement for Kevlar vests... Just how bulletproof is this???
Actually, I'd rather read a real book than an electronic version. Until they come up with something that I can read while relaxing on the couch or on vacation I'll still be sticking to the originals. Now a palm-style handheld would be nice, maybe in a few years they can come up with something practical and convenient. Till then I'll just rick the paper cuts...
Don't feel bad... I think Katz is the one who's lost it. I've never seen anyone so dependant on buzzwords and stereotypes. (And the annoying part is that he seems to latch onto the ones with the least truth behind them. Can he really be this clueless????)
Well, all I can say is that I've been looking forward to a paradigm shift that would broaden the bounds of publishing and further innovate out geek world. It'll probably happen before JK says something with substance in one of his articles...
It probably got moved to one of the different sections. A lot of stories wind up there and not on the front page, maybe they're supposed to show up on the front page for a little bit before getting sent there. :-) I doub't they'd submit a story for it under "Ask Slashdot", and we all know how long it takes to get a reply to a non-life-threatening email, considering the volume that the "guys in charge" probably get...
As for it being offtopic, where else would you put up a post if you can't find the article?
OMG, we'ge got a sane poster here. Somebody strap him in and start the shcok treatment!
But seriously, we've heard arguments blaming everything from video games to sesame street, everythinig except the parents. Maybe I'm part of a dying breed, but I've always put more stock into what my parents taught me than what I learned from 'Mortal K-mart'.... Kombat, I mean.
Hopefully one day parent in our 'post-columbine' society will learn that they've got to start taking responsibilty for themselves, and their children.
Well, IMO there's nothing wrong with web pages being laid out the same way. The point of a web page is to convey information, not to come up with a flashy interface. Personally I get pretty fed up with having to study a page just to figure out where they put things, and would love it if more web sites had a consistant format.
Now that doesn't mean I totally agree with this guy. Until it becomes common for sites to follow certain layout standards, the very least he could (and probably should) do is give credit to where he got his source. Creating a similar layout and just copying the source and changing a few words are two completely different things. I didn't think to look, but I wouldn't be suprised if you checked out the page source and saw comments from the original linux.com site.
Oh, trust me, it'll hurt... I was running on an UltraSparc 60 totally clean machine. It only took about an hour before I had managed to slow it to a crawl. (Burning 100% of both CPUs, it took probably 5 minutes to get a terminal open to kill off some of the processes.) :-) Who needs gui's anyway???
Next I'll see if I can get it to run in single-user mode
Sorry to hear you have to work with HP :-) We've just managed to get rid of those cursed things.
We've been using DIICOE 4.2 here, and while it is a lot prettier, the big advantage is that we've sucessfully run it without CDE. (Sighs of relief)
Most of our apps for it are being written in java, which is fine for some of our heavier workstations, but I'd sure like to get something more stripped down for some of our stuff that'll be going in the field.