If they clone someone, and the clone lives only 10 years, that is 10 years of life that the person would never have been given had he NOT been cloned.
I would have no problem being cloned... and if my progeny dies an early death (hmmm "Debian Progeny" springs to mind), at least he would have helped advanced medical science in the meantime.
The release does mention that MCS could be compiled, but that the resultant executable immediately crashes. Close, but still more work is needed before this is really an exciting milestone.
Kudos to the Mono team for the work they've done so far, however.
I bought a Japanese PS/2 the moment they started selling -- and realized, I do not have the time or really the inclination to play games. So my PS/2 hasn't been turned on in almost a year. Rather than sell it 2nd hand or toss it away, I am getting the kit primarily so I can:
- enjoy 40 Gb of networked secondary storage - have "yet another box" working on SETI (hey, I'm a stats whore) - watch downloaded "Enterprise" eps on my TV (won't start playing that series in Japan for another year or two, if ever) - maybe see if MAME runs, or play the occasional FlightGear game, if/when I feel I have time for it
The extra networked storage is the big factor for me -- I already have 4 drives in my PC so it's not like I can cram in another one.:-D
Won't sell more than 10 or 20 thousand of them? Are you nutz? Sony Japan has consistently sold out of stock on several occasions the kits are damned near impossible to get. Fortunately, I got in on a preorder back in February and am expecting my kit to arrive on April 24th!
It will make a great secondary storage server and churn away on SETI while its archiving my files for me.:-D Plus with the SDL port, I might be able to play games like flightgear or watch movies on my 25" TV instead of my 17" LCD monitor.
Just guessing, but perhaps the Singapore admin(s) could not understand English and used Babelfish or some other translation software to translate it into Chinese; then wrote a reply in Chinese and translated it into German.
According to the press release, ``The graphics output requires a high-resolution computer display, with standard output set as XGA (1024 x 768 resolution); home televisions cannot be used as monitors."
This is the only thing that bugs me (well, aside from the fact that I live in Japan and this won't run on my Japanese PS/2, and the Japanese version of the kit is high near impossible to obtain). I don't really _need_ a monitor (I'd just ssh in from my main workstation) but I would really like to be able to, say, watch streaming video on my TV. (Example: Star Trek Enterprise won't be showing in Japan for like, another 2 years. I have been grabbing eps from the 'net and watching them on my crappy 17" LCD monitor, while my 24" TV sits there idle.)
Anybody know more about this? Surely the development of a driver to push video through the RCA video hookup wouldn't be too difficult?
Slightly OT: Kazaa locks out Linux clients...?
on
New File Sharing Networks
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
It seems Kazaa is locking out Linux clients from connecting to their network. I know the network was down due to their recent sale to another company, but now the Windows clients work (apparently), but the Linux client remains unlinked from their download pages, *AND* existing clients cannot connect.
Well, I wouldn't exactly call it "working fine". I use it too, but it segfaults a lot at startup, doesn't redraw the screen properly many times (I have only ever used it with 'screen'; perhaps on a raw console it behaves better). Now this. If only they had opened up their code, a) we could fix the glarinb bugs, b) we could add cool features, and c) we could tell the courts to piss off.
Now, if kazaa is shut down completely, we will forever be stuck with this version. (Hopefully the "gift" project on sourceforge will mature soon.)
``Kernel code must be by and large perfect. A bug in the kernel could cause random crashes, data corruption, or even render the operating system inoperable. It is even possible for certain errant operations to cause permanent and irreparable damage to hardware, for example, by disabling the cooling fan and running the CPU full tilt.''
Back in the days of the TRS-80, those of us comfortable with playing around with BASIC, Tiny Pascal, and Z80 assembly used to try to comfort friends who were just learning to program and were a little more than scared at breaking the computer with, ``Don't worry, you can make whatever mistakes you want; it's not like anything you do is going to break the hardware''.:-)
Corona doesn't work worth beans with a browse like Lynx, whereas imdb.com works perfectly. (And it isn't hard to write a little script to go through a list of pirated AVI^H^H^H^H^H^Hmust see reminders and calling the search function from the command line and dumping the results to a file for later perusal.;-)
But yeah, blinking led's would be far cooler.;-) I wonder how long it would take to get quick at telling the time at a glance? The digits are not grouped in 4 bits (which would have made it easier but subject to overflow). 4, 5, 5.
Er, I don't know where you heard that, but I was using Ximian Gnome with Red Hat 7.1, and upgraded to 7.2 (which installs its own version of Gnome), and then reinstalled Ximian Gnome overtop of that.
Zero problems (except for the red-carpet problem I described in an earlier post).
If you're having problems connecting...
on
Evolution 1.0 Released
·
· Score: 3, Informative
...it's not necessarily a busy mirror problem. I think it's real-carpet that's dying. I've had massive problems with it just hanging (and having to do kill -9's as root to get rid of it). I'm not the only one who has experienced this problem either; I've talked to others on IRC who have also had problems. The trick seems to be to remove everything out of/var/cache/redcarpet and then running it again.
By the way, I just connected and it seems there is an "Urgent Update" for red-carpet, which brings it up to version 1.1.4-ximian.8. (Sorry, I can't tell you what my previous version was, 'cuz I already upgraded.:p But it was a Red Hat 7.2 system upgraded to the latest Helix Gnome only about a month and a bit ago).
Gnome is looking hella good these days. I'm sure Evolution is just as good, but I have no reason to give up Pine anytime soon.;-)
Re:Miss Emily Littella reports...
on
This is IT?
·
· Score: 2
In Japanese, "Kamen" means mask/disguise. Sounds like this Dean Kamen guy is trying to pull a mask over investors' eyes.;-)
According to this Boston Herald article, a likely reason for this particular date is that today was the sentencing date set for one of Bin Laden's cronies, which was to be held in the federal court building not too far from the WTC buildings.
(The link is fairly slow but the entire article is worth reading.)
Just a small nit-pick, but it's "kamikaze", not "kamakazi". The word kamikaze (meaning "divine wind") is comprised of two kanji characters, kami (meaning god or divine), and kaze (meaning wind). Tell a Japanese person that these terrorist attacks were "kamikaze" attacks and watch how pissed off they get.:-)
Sending a comet careening toward somebody else's planet is not a very good way to make friends.;-)
Re:Why not a translating assembler?
on
MenuetOS Debuts
·
· Score: 1
What? I'm interested in generic assembly at assembly-like speeds, not Java code at visual basic-like speeds.
Why not a translating assembler?
on
MenuetOS Debuts
·
· Score: 2
Rather than write assembly code targetting for platform X, what do people think of taking a more portable approach and writing a translating assembler which uses basic assembly instructions (jump, load, mul, add, comp, etc.) but translates them into actual platform assembly code which can be turned into native machine code for all supported platforms? Where an instruction (say, 'div') isn't supported by a platform's microcode, it can be implemented using several simpler instructions.
An approach like that should keep things at a low level allowing slim code and fast execution times, but not lock the end product onto a single platform.
Does an assembly product like this already exist? I tried searching freshmeat, but gave up after browsing through several pages of disassemblers, regular assemblers, etc.
To: jason@battlebots.com, webmaster@battlebots.com, postmaster@battlebots.com, munson@BATTLEBOTS.COM, comments@battlebots.com, hostmaster@M-L.NET, heather.mayer@lw.com
Battlebots:
I read with considerable DISGUST and ANGER about your legal hassling of the owner of the battlebots.org. This site has been in existence YEARS before your stupid TV show was ever dreamed up and filed as a trademark.
When Mr. Lyon pointed this little factoid out to you, you nonetheless
decided to continue this harrassment against him, and suggested that, "[we] will reimburse you for the expense you incurred in registering the
name". Wow, how gracious and generous you people are! The only equitable solution here is to either tell your legal representatives to back the hell off, or to offer Mr. Lyon a considerable fair price to purchase his domain name from him. Either way, you deserve Mr. Lyon an apology for this harrassment.
You people should be incredibly ashamed of yourselves for acting like
this. You are completely, utterly worthless scum-shells of human beings.
--- end ---
(By the way, this posting triggered the Lameness filter for reason: "Junk character post", and I had to do a lot of editing to get it accepted. Things have gotten a little out of hand with Slash 2.2)
Spammers are scum. When I used to be an active anti-spammer (gave it up a few years back as it got to be too much of a time suck -- kind of like SlashDot is now.;-) ) I had to deal with mail bombs, death threats, revenge spam, etc. Very interesting times.
The ones who are really pissing me off now are the mobile phone spammers. I live in Japan and have to pay 300 yen (about $3.00 US) every month for the "privilege" of e-mail. Before registering my mail alias (I used a word which is NOT in common use in Japan:p) my e-mail address was numeric (ie. my phone number). After getting dozens of spam messages delivered there (no stretch to send e-mails from 090-0000-0000 to 090-9999-9999, right?), I got sick of it and registered my alias. I hadn't even started USING the address and I'm already getting about 5 spams a day to it (what, did NTT Docomo sell my damned address or something?) The damned phone WAS set to ring whenever I got an incoming mail, but I got tired of being woken up at 3:00am when some damned deai advertisement arrived, so I had to disable THAT too.
Not only do I pay 300 yen a month, but I have to pay per packet, so everytime one of these SCUMBAGS sends me spam, it's an actual yen or two increase in my monthly bill -- per message. It doesn't take long to add up.
So to the previous person who said, "Just calm down and hit 'delete'", there are many, many reasons to disagree with you.
Slashdot Mirror
If they clone someone, and the clone lives only 10 years, that is 10 years of life that the person would never have been given had he NOT been cloned.
... and if my progeny dies an early death (hmmm "Debian Progeny" springs to mind), at least he would have helped advanced medical science in the meantime.
I would have no problem being cloned
The release does mention that MCS could be compiled, but that the resultant executable immediately crashes. Close, but still more work is needed before this is really an exciting milestone.
Kudos to the Mono team for the work they've done so far, however.
I bought a Japanese PS/2 the moment they started selling -- and realized, I do not have the time or really the inclination to play games. So my PS/2 hasn't been turned on in almost a year. Rather than sell it 2nd hand or toss it away, I am getting the kit primarily so I can:
:-D
- enjoy 40 Gb of networked secondary storage
- have "yet another box" working on SETI (hey, I'm a stats whore)
- watch downloaded "Enterprise" eps on my TV (won't start playing that series in Japan for another year or two, if ever)
- maybe see if MAME runs, or play the occasional FlightGear game, if/when I feel I have time for it
The extra networked storage is the big factor for me -- I already have 4 drives in my PC so it's not like I can cram in another one.
Won't sell more than 10 or 20 thousand of them? Are you nutz? Sony Japan has consistently sold out of stock on several occasions the kits are damned near impossible to get. Fortunately, I got in on a preorder back in February and am expecting my kit to arrive on April 24th!
:-D Plus with the SDL port, I might be able to play games like flightgear or watch movies on my 25" TV instead of my 17" LCD monitor.
It will make a great secondary storage server and churn away on SETI while its archiving my files for me.
Just guessing, but perhaps the Singapore admin(s) could not understand English and used Babelfish or some other translation software to translate it into Chinese; then wrote a reply in Chinese and translated it into German.
According to the press release, ``The graphics output requires a high-resolution computer display, with standard output set as XGA (1024 x 768 resolution); home televisions cannot be used as monitors."
This is the only thing that bugs me (well, aside from the fact that I live in Japan and this won't run on my Japanese PS/2, and the Japanese version of the kit is high near impossible to obtain). I don't really _need_ a monitor (I'd just ssh in from my main workstation) but I would really like to be able to, say, watch streaming video on my TV. (Example: Star Trek Enterprise won't be showing in Japan for like, another 2 years. I have been grabbing eps from the 'net and watching them on my crappy 17" LCD monitor, while my 24" TV sits there idle.)
Anybody know more about this? Surely the development of a driver to push video through the RCA video hookup wouldn't be too difficult?
It seems Kazaa is locking out Linux clients from connecting to their network. I know the network was down due to their recent sale to another company, but now the Windows clients work (apparently), but the Linux client remains unlinked from their download pages, *AND* existing clients cannot connect.
Oh well. The gift project (http://gift.sourceforge.net/) appears to be coming along nicely, so screw Kazaa. :p
Shit happens. Work around it.
Well, I wouldn't exactly call it "working fine". I use it too, but it segfaults a lot at startup, doesn't redraw the screen properly many times (I have only ever used it with 'screen'; perhaps on a raw console it behaves better). Now this. If only they had opened up their code, a) we could fix the glarinb bugs, b) we could add cool features, and c) we could tell the courts to piss off.
Now, if kazaa is shut down completely, we will forever be stuck with this version. (Hopefully the "gift" project on sourceforge will mature soon.)
I particularly liked this quote:
:-)
``Kernel code must be by and large perfect. A bug in the kernel could cause random crashes, data corruption, or even render the operating system inoperable. It is even possible for certain errant operations to cause permanent and irreparable damage to hardware, for example, by disabling the cooling fan and running the CPU full tilt.''
Back in the days of the TRS-80, those of us comfortable with playing around with BASIC, Tiny Pascal, and Z80 assembly used to try to comfort friends who were just learning to program and were a little more than scared at breaking the computer with, ``Don't worry, you can make whatever mistakes you want; it's not like anything you do is going to break the hardware''.
Corona doesn't work worth beans with a browse like Lynx, whereas imdb.com works perfectly. (And it isn't hard to write a little script to go through a list of pirated AVI^H^H^H^H^H^Hmust see reminders and calling the search function from the command line and dumping the results to a file for later perusal. ;-)
But yeah, blinking led's would be far cooler. ;-) I wonder how long it would take to get quick at telling the time at a glance? The digits are not grouped in 4 bits (which would have made it easier but subject to overflow). 4, 5, 5.
Er, I don't know where you heard that, but I was using Ximian Gnome with Red Hat 7.1, and upgraded to 7.2 (which installs its own version of Gnome), and then reinstalled Ximian Gnome overtop of that.
Zero problems (except for the red-carpet problem I described in an earlier post).
...it's not necessarily a busy mirror problem. I think it's real-carpet that's dying. I've had massive problems with it just hanging (and having to do kill -9's as root to get rid of it). I'm not the only one who has experienced this problem either; I've talked to others on IRC who have also had problems. The trick seems to be to remove everything out of /var/cache/redcarpet and then running it again.
:p But it was a Red Hat 7.2 system upgraded to the latest Helix Gnome only about a month and a bit ago).
;-)
By the way, I just connected and it seems there is an "Urgent Update" for red-carpet, which brings it up to version 1.1.4-ximian.8. (Sorry, I can't tell you what my previous version was, 'cuz I already upgraded.
Gnome is looking hella good these days. I'm sure Evolution is just as good, but I have no reason to give up Pine anytime soon.
In Japanese, "Kamen" means mask/disguise. Sounds like this Dean Kamen guy is trying to pull a mask over investors' eyes. ;-)
Anybody know if you can get to a shell? I'm always looking for another device to run SETI on (hey, I'm a stats whore). ;-)
I've known for a long time that Perl is a funny language. After all, its creator, "Larry Wall", definitely has a sense of humour.
The proof of this, of course, is right here, and here.
According to this Boston Herald article, a likely reason for this particular date is that today was the sentencing date set for one of Bin Laden's cronies, which was to be held in the federal court building not too far from the WTC buildings.
(The link is fairly slow but the entire article is worth reading.)
Just a small nit-pick, but it's "kamikaze", not "kamakazi". The word kamikaze (meaning "divine wind") is comprised of two kanji characters, kami (meaning god or divine), and kaze (meaning wind). Tell a Japanese person that these terrorist attacks were "kamikaze" attacks and watch how pissed off they get. :-)
Interesting, but fortunately Nostradamus made a number of predictions which turned out to be incorrect.
Sending a comet careening toward somebody else's planet is not a very good way to make friends. ;-)
What? I'm interested in generic assembly at assembly-like speeds, not Java code at visual basic-like speeds.
Rather than write assembly code targetting for platform X, what do people think of taking a more portable approach and writing a translating assembler which uses basic assembly instructions (jump, load, mul, add, comp, etc.) but translates them into actual platform assembly code which can be turned into native machine code for all supported platforms? Where an instruction (say, 'div') isn't supported by a platform's microcode, it can be implemented using several simpler instructions.
An approach like that should keep things at a low level allowing slim code and fast execution times, but not lock the end product onto a single platform.
Does an assembly product like this already exist? I tried searching freshmeat, but gave up after browsing through several pages of disassemblers, regular assemblers, etc.
To: jason@battlebots.com, webmaster@battlebots.com, postmaster@battlebots.com, munson@BATTLEBOTS.COM, comments@battlebots.com, hostmaster@M-L.NET, heather.mayer@lw.com
Battlebots:
I read with considerable DISGUST and ANGER about your legal hassling of the owner of the battlebots.org. This site has been in existence YEARS before your stupid TV show was ever dreamed up and filed as a trademark.
When Mr. Lyon pointed this little factoid out to you, you nonetheless
decided to continue this harrassment against him, and suggested that, "[we] will reimburse you for the expense you incurred in registering the
name". Wow, how gracious and generous you people are! The only equitable solution here is to either tell your legal representatives to back the hell off, or to offer Mr. Lyon a considerable fair price to purchase his domain name from him. Either way, you deserve Mr. Lyon an apology for this harrassment.
You people should be incredibly ashamed of yourselves for acting like
this. You are completely, utterly worthless scum-shells of human beings.
--- end ---
(By the way, this posting triggered the Lameness filter for reason: "Junk character post", and I had to do a lot of editing to get it accepted. Things have gotten a little out of hand with Slash 2.2)
Spammers are scum. When I used to be an active anti-spammer (gave it up a few years back as it got to be too much of a time suck -- kind of like SlashDot is now. ;-) ) I had to deal with mail bombs, death threats, revenge spam, etc. Very interesting times.
:p) my e-mail address was numeric (ie. my phone number). After getting dozens of spam messages delivered there (no stretch to send e-mails from 090-0000-0000 to 090-9999-9999, right?), I got sick of it and registered my alias. I hadn't even started USING the address and I'm already getting about 5 spams a day to it (what, did NTT Docomo sell my damned address or something?) The damned phone WAS set to ring whenever I got an incoming mail, but I got tired of being woken up at 3:00am when some damned deai advertisement arrived, so I had to disable THAT too.
The ones who are really pissing me off now are the mobile phone spammers. I live in Japan and have to pay 300 yen (about $3.00 US) every month for the "privilege" of e-mail. Before registering my mail alias (I used a word which is NOT in common use in Japan
Not only do I pay 300 yen a month, but I have to pay per packet, so everytime one of these SCUMBAGS sends me spam, it's an actual yen or two increase in my monthly bill -- per message. It doesn't take long to add up.
So to the previous person who said, "Just calm down and hit 'delete'", there are many, many reasons to disagree with you.