Well, I use DII COE on a Sun box running Solaris, but if you really want the *nix experience on a (much cheaper) PC, what's stopping you? Very few of our PC's are DII compliant, we can do whatever we want with them as long as our development machines, where everything gets sent to when we finish development, is. We've got quite a few linux boxes around here, but I'm happy with my Workstation. It may be expensive, but if it's there, use it!:-)
PS, there have been rumors about moving some government systems to Linux. Mostly it seems to be coming from army/marine sectors, but its a start. All you need is a few Admirals/Generals who like linux and suddenly it becomes a high priority.
Well, I've got family ('kin') up in wva, and I even have a mountaineers t-shirt. It's nice to see something besides coal mines going up there. Maybe now I'll have a reason to go to the next family reunion.
YaY
Actually, ( is open parenthesis, [ is open bracket, and { is open brace (or 'that squggly little bracket thingey,' as a friend calls it:-)
It'll probably be awhile before something as abstract as coding can be easily done with voice recognition software. Until then, just invest in those wrist pads and a trackball... works for me...
Now this is cool:-)
How about doing it with Mindstorms, and actually have the train fully operational? Forget the bullet train, I'd rather take a ride on the Lego Express!!!!
Well, as a (probably never to be signed) amatuer musician, I can only agree with you there. I love music, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than playing for a living.
Some say that napster helps the struggling artists, but that's a total crock. It's just as easy to promote your music through any other chat room-type place, and there are music-oriented ones out there.
While I'd love for everyone to be able to hear my music and enjoy it, you can't live off that. If it were a perfect world I'd be honored that people would want to hear my stuff, but until then I think everyone should be compensated for their work.
Feed the starving musicians...
Ok, it's been a boring day, so I read the while article... It almost made me want to go back to work.
How can you call this news? Maybe my eyes started to glaze, but I didn't see a single thing in there that hasn't already shown up here a dozen or so times. I guess someone just wanted another napster fix. (Affecting the future of democracy??? Are you saying all pirates are democrats?)
Well, I'd better get back to work, as much as I'd love to count the fp's, I'm more in the modd for news
I certainly didn't see this coming!
Sometimes I thing our generation will be know for it's (premature) IPO's.
Of course, I'm very interested in their processor (I considered designing a simple VLIW processor as a senior project a few years back, in fact), but it just seems like we're being flooded by these things every day...
well, good luck to em anyway:-)
I've even seen full posters for that one.
(IIRC it wasn't really a hoax, but an attempt at misinformation that someone didn't realize. A local comic shop here used to have bumper stickers for it, of all things...)
As for episode II, I really doubt that'd be the title. After all, that's what I predicted a while ago, and we all know that GL doesn't do what we expect with any of the SW stuff...
Well, fine. People shouldn't profit from other's work. That's what copyrights are for, contrary to what "people in charge" will tell you. Copying anything for your own use should never be illegal, it's when you try to take credit for it and/or profit from something that's not yours that it gets 'bad'
I'm not a big fan of bootlegging/piracy/information liberation/whatever you want to call it, but I do think that the corporations are taking things too far. Of course, that's true with just about anyone. Give 'em an inch and they'll want the whole world.
Well, better luck next time....
Well, I don't remember 100%, but I'm pretty sure it depends on the configuration of the reciever. While it would be possible to spoof the message, the intended recipient would know something was up if he didn't get the message. (As they would if the message didn't need a specific destination. Either way, if they don't get the message than something's wrong, and they can act on it)
Actually, with quantum mechanics there won't be much of a need for cryptography. I forget the details (we brushed over this in one of those upper-level physics classes that nobody really understands), but it's possible to send quantum information in such a way that any attempts at intercepting would destroy the message. (Something about the transmission being dependant on having only one destination, just thinking about it again is making my brain hurt...)
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Well, they weren't mindstorms (I forget what it actually was), but we used computer controlled legos in an engineering class at school one years. Very cool stuff, our project was a 'vehicle' that could navigate a maze with no user input. (Ours was a tank with a pretty cool worm drive, that thing could drive over anything, pretty impressive for something you can fit in a shoebox...)
I've been meaning to check out the mindstorms, I grew up on legos, so this is obviously the perfect toy:-)
Kinda reminds me of the (Penguin Computing?) ad with a giant penguin about to crush Redmond WA...:-)
"Good evening Mr. Gates, I'll be your server today"
Guess it could really happen....
Yeah, I know, but it just seems kinda sad that we need competion to getthings done. One of my best college term papers was about the advancements in technology made during WWII. Things have gotten much better lately, but even still most of our greatest achievement, even the computres we use today, came about through one person wanting to kill another. Kinda says something about the human race, doesen't it?
OK, I understand the trip will be faster then, but it kinda defeats the purpose waiting 14 years, doesn't it? If we sent someone now, he'd be there a lot sooner than 2014. The only way we're evey going to get off the planet is if we just start sending people out there (and leaving them there...)
Theoretically we could have colonized the moon by now. We have the technology, but since we can't guarentee that it's bee 100% safe, it's not going to happen. I'll go....
Explained? If you want that go to a news site. This is a place where people post "First Post" at #27, train penis birds to sit on garbage and live out some convulted fantasy involving natalie portman and hot grits. (I don't want to know any more about that one...) Probably the best thing to come out of/. (except for one or two good replies to each article), is the humor factor.
The slashdot effect is a nice way to kill off web site, as well, but I don't think that gets classified as 'good'.....
enjoy
Actually, that has come up before, and while I'm not an official spokesperson for/. by far, the problem would be keeping the/. version consistant with the original if they update theirs.
Also, if people visited the cached site, it would mess up their tracking statistics that the advertising guys use for the banner ads. (Oh no....),br>
Actually I think that's pretty funny.
I've been running a dual booted windows/linux machine for several years now, and it's always been Linux that's only compatible with a handfull of programs. Maybe the tables have finally turned... >;-)
'Of course, that's just my opionion, I could be wrong'
Interesting interview. (At least it broke the monotony here at work) I've never used Freenet myself before, and only dabbled a bit in things like napster and windows file sharing, but it does make sense as the further extension of the internet.
Definaetly a lot less biased than most interview you read (though they are by nature biased to some extent), it's at least worth a read
Is someone trying to trick the FBI into releasing the source for Carnivore?
If so, how do they know it's written in Perl? I thought they were using VB....
Of course we all know that it's boud to be obfuscated enough to win......
Well, I wouldn't really call anything developed by the FBI "art", but even if you could, how can they prove it if they won't release any info about it?
(btw, I hope no one's taking me seriously here)
Well, I agree with you there, my point was that anything we do to the record companies is not going to occur in a vaccum. While I'd like to see the companies get smacked down, we've got to consider what this would do to the employees, the artists, and the everyday people who buy music. These people will all be affected, probably more so than the 'suits.' If they get fined for price-fixing, I doubt the consumers will see the cost of CD's go up to cover this (though wouldn't that be ironic?), but it's entirely possible that a lot of jobs could vanish overnight. The artists themselves will surely find it much harder to profit while under the thumb of the Big Bad Record Companies...
Unless you break the company completely, I really doubt that the guys on top will really notice much of a difference at all. Even though they're the most culpable of all
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Well, I use DII COE on a Sun box running Solaris, but if you really want the *nix experience on a (much cheaper) PC, what's stopping you? Very few of our PC's are DII compliant, we can do whatever we want with them as long as our development machines, where everything gets sent to when we finish development, is. We've got quite a few linux boxes around here, but I'm happy with my Workstation. It may be expensive, but if it's there, use it! :-)
PS, there have been rumors about moving some government systems to Linux. Mostly it seems to be coming from army/marine sectors, but its a start. All you need is a few Admirals/Generals who like linux and suddenly it becomes a high priority.
Well, I've got family ('kin') up in wva, and I even have a mountaineers t-shirt. It's nice to see something besides coal mines going up there. Maybe now I'll have a reason to go to the next family reunion.
YaY
Actually, ( is open parenthesis, [ is open bracket, and { is open brace (or 'that squggly little bracket thingey,' as a friend calls it :-)
It'll probably be awhile before something as abstract as coding can be easily done with voice recognition software. Until then, just invest in those wrist pads and a trackball... works for me...
Be carefull what you say....
You did mention star wars, so it might show up as a rumor tomorow.
(Title for EII - The Congo Empire?)
Now this is cool :-)
How about doing it with Mindstorms, and actually have the train fully operational? Forget the bullet train, I'd rather take a ride on the Lego Express!!!!
Well, as a (probably never to be signed) amatuer musician, I can only agree with you there. I love music, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than playing for a living.
Some say that napster helps the struggling artists, but that's a total crock. It's just as easy to promote your music through any other chat room-type place, and there are music-oriented ones out there.
While I'd love for everyone to be able to hear my music and enjoy it, you can't live off that. If it were a perfect world I'd be honored that people would want to hear my stuff, but until then I think everyone should be compensated for their work.
Feed the starving musicians...
Ok, it's been a boring day, so I read the while article... It almost made me want to go back to work.
How can you call this news? Maybe my eyes started to glaze, but I didn't see a single thing in there that hasn't already shown up here a dozen or so times. I guess someone just wanted another napster fix. (Affecting the future of democracy??? Are you saying all pirates are democrats?)
Well, I'd better get back to work, as much as I'd love to count the fp's, I'm more in the modd for news
I certainly didn't see this coming! Sometimes I thing our generation will be know for it's (premature) IPO's. :-)
Of course, I'm very interested in their processor (I considered designing a simple VLIW processor as a senior project a few years back, in fact), but it just seems like we're being flooded by these things every day...
well, good luck to em anyway
I've even seen full posters for that one. (IIRC it wasn't really a hoax, but an attempt at misinformation that someone didn't realize. A local comic shop here used to have bumper stickers for it, of all things...)
As for episode II, I really doubt that'd be the title. After all, that's what I predicted a while ago, and we all know that GL doesn't do what we expect with any of the SW stuff...
Well, fine. People shouldn't profit from other's work. That's what copyrights are for, contrary to what "people in charge" will tell you. Copying anything for your own use should never be illegal, it's when you try to take credit for it and/or profit from something that's not yours that it gets 'bad'
I'm not a big fan of bootlegging/piracy/information liberation/whatever you want to call it, but I do think that the corporations are taking things too far. Of course, that's true with just about anyone. Give 'em an inch and they'll want the whole world.
Well, better luck next time....
Well, I don't remember 100%, but I'm pretty sure it depends on the configuration of the reciever. While it would be possible to spoof the message, the intended recipient would know something was up if he didn't get the message. (As they would if the message didn't need a specific destination. Either way, if they don't get the message than something's wrong, and they can act on it)
Actually, with quantum mechanics there won't be much of a need for cryptography. I forget the details (we brushed over this in one of those upper-level physics classes that nobody really understands), but it's possible to send quantum information in such a way that any attempts at intercepting would destroy the message. (Something about the transmission being dependant on having only one destination, just thinking about it again is making my brain hurt...)
Well, they weren't mindstorms (I forget what it actually was), but we used computer controlled legos in an engineering class at school one years. Very cool stuff, our project was a 'vehicle' that could navigate a maze with no user input. (Ours was a tank with a pretty cool worm drive, that thing could drive over anything, pretty impressive for something you can fit in a shoebox...) :-)
I've been meaning to check out the mindstorms, I grew up on legos, so this is obviously the perfect toy
Kinda reminds me of the (Penguin Computing?) ad with a giant penguin about to crush Redmond WA...:-)
"Good evening Mr. Gates, I'll be your server today"
Guess it could really happen....
Yeah, I know, but it just seems kinda sad that we need competion to getthings done. One of my best college term papers was about the advancements in technology made during WWII. Things have gotten much better lately, but even still most of our greatest achievement, even the computres we use today, came about through one person wanting to kill another. Kinda says something about the human race, doesen't it?
OK, I understand the trip will be faster then, but it kinda defeats the purpose waiting 14 years, doesn't it? If we sent someone now, he'd be there a lot sooner than 2014. The only way we're evey going to get off the planet is if we just start sending people out there (and leaving them there...)
Theoretically we could have colonized the moon by now. We have the technology, but since we can't guarentee that it's bee 100% safe, it's not going to happen. I'll go....
Explained? If you want that go to a news site. This is a place where people post "First Post" at #27, train penis birds to sit on garbage and live out some convulted fantasy involving natalie portman and hot grits. (I don't want to know any more about that one...) Probably the best thing to come out of /. (except for one or two good replies to each article), is the humor factor.
The slashdot effect is a nice way to kill off web site, as well, but I don't think that gets classified as 'good'.....
enjoy
Actually, that has come up before, and while I'm not an official spokesperson for /. by far, the problem would be keeping the /. version consistant with the original if they update theirs. ,br>
Also, if people visited the cached site, it would mess up their tracking statistics that the advertising guys use for the banner ads. (Oh no....)
Actually I think that's pretty funny.
I've been running a dual booted windows/linux machine for several years now, and it's always been Linux that's only compatible with a handfull of programs. Maybe the tables have finally turned... >;-)
'Of course, that's just my opionion, I could be wrong'
Interesting interview. (At least it broke the monotony here at work) I've never used Freenet myself before, and only dabbled a bit in things like napster and windows file sharing, but it does make sense as the further extension of the internet.
Definaetly a lot less biased than most interview you read (though they are by nature biased to some extent), it's at least worth a read
You mean one faux karma point to anyone with a Perl interpretor?
Is someone trying to trick the FBI into releasing the source for Carnivore?
If so, how do they know it's written in Perl? I thought they were using VB....
Of course we all know that it's boud to be obfuscated enough to win......
Well, I wouldn't really call anything developed by the FBI "art", but even if you could, how can they prove it if they won't release any info about it?
(btw, I hope no one's taking me seriously here)
And which Corporation is going to fund this research? Maybe they'll get daring and try to patent carnivore so that the FBI can't use it...
Well, I agree with you there, my point was that anything we do to the record companies is not going to occur in a vaccum. While I'd like to see the companies get smacked down, we've got to consider what this would do to the employees, the artists, and the everyday people who buy music. These people will all be affected, probably more so than the 'suits.' If they get fined for price-fixing, I doubt the consumers will see the cost of CD's go up to cover this (though wouldn't that be ironic?), but it's entirely possible that a lot of jobs could vanish overnight. The artists themselves will surely find it much harder to profit while under the thumb of the Big Bad Record Companies...
Unless you break the company completely, I really doubt that the guys on top will really notice much of a difference at all. Even though they're the most culpable of all