I took a look at a few of these pictures, (just the first two pages), and to be honest, I see a bunch of people smiling not doing anything. In fact I feel that for the bulk of the people in these pictures, Purdue is commiting defimation of chericter by labeling them rioters. The only thing there "guilty" of is not leaving the area when the police told them too. That is not rioting. I'm even pretty sure it's not illigal to stand in a public roadway or park.
The thing that really upsets me is that little quote, "We anticipate the images also will be of interest to parents and employers." That is awful. And I feel that it probably accounts to blackmail. It might as well say, "Students, if you join in a celebration, or wander outside to see whats going on, we'll blacklist you."
What is important to do now is for every single person who went to, or worked for Purdue, to send a polite e-mail to them, and tell them its despicable. Personally, I'm ashamed to have ever gone to Purdue.
Obligitory NASA plug
<rant>
Its just that simple. Sure NASA needs to move to the back to basics, lets keep it simple and cheap philosophy, but not to the extent of the last two missions. We spend way to much money on both the military and useless inquieries (star report anyone?). Shame our poloticians can't syphon off a few million here and there and give it to the agency that has given us so much. Other than the hope and unification that NASA has given some of us, their research has given bitrh to some of the most widely used compenets in computers and electronics today.
</rant>
Hu? How is reading PDF painfull? Does reading smooth anti aliased fonts hurt your eyes? Admitedly I havn't downloaded this file yet so maybe it has oddities that make it hard to read in PDF. However PDF is a great way to distribute documentation. Unlike HTML it is a standard standard. That is every PDF viewer read every PDF like every other PDF viewer. The same cannot be said about HTML. Just try reading a the same html formatted documentation in IE vs Netscape 4 vs Netscape 3 vs konkeror vs...well you get the idea.
PDF is a god-send of a documentation file format. Its cross platform (cpu/os), cross viewer (xpdf, acrobat 3, acrobat 4, etc), has scaleable fonts, anti aliasing, never has print problems, and EASY to make for even the most assinine of computer users.
There is only ONE dissadvantage of PDF's, and that is you need to edit the source document and re-distill to change them.
Keep HTML in web pages, I'll keep my PDFs for documentation, thank you very much:)
This really is the best graphics book I have looked through. I borrowed it from a former game programmer at work. Of course I still cant get him to lend me his "Graphic Gems" books. Apparently those are even MORE coveted. Still The Black Book should be on every game and graphics programmers bookshelf at all times! Personally I found this most useful when looking at it side by side with the Athalon optimization docs from AMD.
Now if only more of these great books would make their way to a free online format. Sure there are many great works of fiction to be downloaded from Project Gutenburg, but the number of actually reference books in the online domain is pitifully small. (Note I said BOOKS, not very long documentation.)
Nahh, MS has probably violated some REAL pattents and copywrites;) not just these little bull-shit pattents.
Bull-shit. Humm. I wonder if I can pattent the use of the word bull-shit in conjunction with a verb to signify lack of worth.... I'll make millons suing people for infrigning on my pattent!!
Does anyone else think its odd that he picked out the two most corperately run linux distros out there? Also there probably the least two respect distros out there. I personaly don't think any distro will (not even sure if they can) die. If he was talking about usership, he's dead wrong. I think Debian Slackware(my fave) and Mandrake probably could all win on their own, much less togeather.
He DID have alot of formal training in physics, unless you don't count a phD in physical chemistry.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/moore.h tm
Now what you have to understand with prediction formulas, is that they predict, they do not dictate. I do belive I said predicted.
Trust me I feel your pain, I hate it when people spouting off general rules as if they were gospel. I was just pointing out however, that big blue on a desktop seems right on target with the current trends.
Now this does sound incredibly interesting, but lets think about desktops (god forbid something usefull!) for a minute. Lets see.. Moore's law states processing power will double every 18 months. That means it should double roughly 1.8 times by 2004 right? 2^(1.8)= roughly 3.5. The fastest 32 bit desktop processor currently sold runs at 1.5 gigahertz.. so by the time the PS3 comes out top of the line destop should run at about 5.25 gigahertz.
To quote from ibm, (http://www.research.ibm.com/actc/RS_6000/Topic_Pa rallel.html)
"[the] P2SC design has reached its peak operating frequency at 160MHz" and (http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d. 3.3a.html) "this year Deep Blue will be running on a faster system - the latest version of the SP - which uses 30 P2SC or Power Two Super Chip processors"
Assuming pefect smp deep blue theirfore runs at 4.8 Ghz.
5.25 is greater than 4.8. 5.25 is projected by Moore's law for 2004, so this is no big shakes.
By 2004 we should see top of the line desktops just as powefull.
Net savvy users just don't use many portals. Right now the only thing that portals offer most users is e-mail. Chat rooms, news services and search engines? There are many better places than yahoo.com and the like, to get these things.
The real reason portal sites die, is that there useless. Everyone loves simple specific information and news pages, lets say a page on electric cars. However when a portal gobbles it up for their, "electric car", section, they break everything to make it fit into their own arcatexture, and in the end aliante their origonal audience by being overbearing, and often demanding a login to use.
The worst part is portals keep on gobbling up smaller services. Geocities used to have a pretty good free webhosting service, then yahoo gobbled it up. Hotmail was the defacto web based e-mail page. Untill MSN gobbled it up (and unsucsessfully tried to move it over to NT i might add). Now? Hotmail is crap. Yahoo's e-mail service, and even the home grown web-mail services many universities offer their students, beat it out hands down. Why did it happen? Because MSN demanded that hotmail fit into their own portal structure, and work with every little trinket and gadget built into their portal.
Lets face it, net savy users use very little to none of a portals services, because thats the only part of them that are ever good.
I'm right to think this is processer specific right? Linux ppc binaries will run on my netbsd ppc box. So there isn't any cpu emu going on.
I'm still waiting for an irix compatability, so I can run netscape on my netbsd decstation;)
One, buy & modify, or just build two (or more) cockpit simulator stations as used for flight and racing games. Put some GPL'd racing games and flight fighter games on there! Geeks love VR games!
Two, it needs to be within two blocks of where I live, just for convienice;)
For one simple reason. Lack of good voice controll software. We don't need "HAL" level voice recognition, however for this to be safe and effective, at least basic memo-taking, mapping and PIM software would have to be compatable with some voice activation system. That and a heads up display woudln't hurt, but would be dangerous most likely.
What? Humm. I'd love to know which icq clone your using for linux. Kicq, is pretty, trim and doesn't crash, but it lacks a few features like searching by icq#, and sending/receiving files. Nahh. I'd rather run the real Windows ICQ client in linux, than a linux icq clone in windows.
Thats just me though.
Even if it does end up sucking, we'll all watch it as long as its on the air. Myself (And I know this is heresy) I enjoyed voyager much more than ds9, but hell. I watched whichever one was on next. Its just how these things work.
I don't really buy the idea that HP will ditch wince. Not for the reasons that many people hare are mentioning. To be honest companies and most individuals don't care all that much what OS their handheld runs, and just use whatever software comes with it. That being said, it doesn't look like there are many proffitability plusses for changing to linux from ce for a company like HP. At most I'd expect them to offer a linux distro, but I kindof doubt they will release handhelds you can pick up at BestBuy preinstalled with linux. It sounds like there just trying to court the linux audience, and guage their reaction, without ever planning to really release a linux only pda. Even so, at least it means there should be a well supported distro for their handhelds in a year or two.
Isn't this what the DEC Multia was supposed to be?
Don't get me wrong, I like multias, in fact I want to get one still, and I'll probably want to get one of these sun boxes too. However the multias were a flop. Question is, how many other pc-priced unix workstations have fallen flat? This can't only be the second...
Hey, if it can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, isn't it warm enough for today's nut-case overclockers? Huge fans arn't enough for these guys, nor water pumps. Hell they sell off the shelf cpu refrigerators now days (sharky's and hardocp have articles on them). So whats the extream overclocker gonna do? Liquid N2 chill their processors....there really are people willing to do that I'm sure.;)
If you read the article thourraly, there working on making muscle cultures, real muscle grow out of abody, into the shape needed. The frog muscle is just a proof of concept from how I read it. This is the type of stuff sci fi writers have jabbered about for ages. Machines made of muscle, either bounded with electronics (can we say cyborg fish here? Yes.) or grown as a machine whole from scratch. Unfortunately we'll have cyborg meat-machines for a while probably before they can grow purely biological meat machines. Ahh well. Neat neat stuff.
Yea but finding a match is only the start...what will your computer do to dress up for its date?
Clean out all the dust, wrap the cables... tie things down, a few new stickers and put the case back on? What if its cords are a mess? Humm. My computer was never a pretty computer like a Mac is...its kindof plain...grey box, purple buttons. It will have to find an understanding box, or one without a cam to see it with....
A: It doesn't. Almost every..scratch that. Every decent OS out there, and even some of the not-so-decent ones support Java. So why not put hooks in your web-browser to use your OS's jvm? Of course you'd have to do a little security checking, so the applet coudln't create, rename, move or alter files, and coudln't call other programs. But other than that, isn't that the best way to get java into a browser? Not have it there at all.
It is one thing to hook up sensors to plants, and radio back signals of its condition.
Slightly more complicated to control a plants growth remotely (tiny electric shocks and mirrors to move the plant maybe? Constricting water flow, stuff like that)
But to alter a plants genetics? Ehh sorry, I just don't buy it. Besides, I don't really want to eat genetically altered corn, made by engineers. Why on earth would anyone eat plants that automatically alter their own genetics?
When it gets right down to it, the idea is silly and overblown. There are many other ways around the problem of monitoring plants, and resource production from plants. This is just an interesting waste of time.
That happend at my highschool before I was there too. Except a few of the guys were good mechanics, and were able to disasemble the bug, and reassemble it on the roof. My silly school had to get a crane to get it down:)
Lemmie see, go back about 10 years, with a notebook a ham radio and a packet modem. Connect to another packet modem station hooked up to the net, and use gopher...
you can go back more than 10 years with this one right? I mean thats the first time I saw that done, but it was old by then!
The worst part is that things like this are viewed as GOOD business practices by some corps now days.
Frightening.
OSX on intel sounds like fun, kindof like BeOS...
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And afaik it won't be any more a threat than BeOS.
I would and probably will buy OSX if it comes out for intel, and run it on another box, just like I did Be.
As long as Apple doesn't screw up like Be did, it will almost deffinately push out Be on the handfull of machines that use it, but probably won't push out any free unixen.
I bought Be way back in version 3. Bad network card support. Even the latest version won't work with supposedly supported cards. So as long as OSX can network right;) I'll buy it. Replace linux with it? Nahh. Never.
Actualy here's how the bulb's break (no pun intended) down.
Halogen, $30-$50 per bulb.
Halide, $200-$1000 per bulb.
The cost of projecting per hour actually is about the same, the Halide bulbs last roughly 10 times longer. So don't let expensive bulbs freak you out. Reall it should come down to weather or not you whish to move your projector around alot (lets say from your place to a friends place to your parents to a lan party), breaking a $200 bulb would suck. Breaking a $30 isn't that bad.
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I took a look at a few of these pictures, (just the first two pages), and to be honest, I see a bunch of people smiling not doing anything. In fact I feel that for the bulk of the people in these pictures, Purdue is commiting defimation of chericter by labeling them rioters. The only thing there "guilty" of is not leaving the area when the police told them too. That is not rioting. I'm even pretty sure it's not illigal to stand in a public roadway or park.
The thing that really upsets me is that little quote, "We anticipate the images also will be of interest to parents and employers." That is awful. And I feel that it probably accounts to blackmail. It might as well say, "Students, if you join in a celebration, or wander outside to see whats going on, we'll blacklist you."
What is important to do now is for every single person who went to, or worked for Purdue, to send a polite e-mail to them, and tell them its despicable. Personally, I'm ashamed to have ever gone to Purdue.
Obligitory NASA plug
<rant>
Its just that simple. Sure NASA needs to move to the back to basics, lets keep it simple and cheap philosophy, but not to the extent of the last two missions. We spend way to much money on both the military and useless inquieries (star report anyone?). Shame our poloticians can't syphon off a few million here and there and give it to the agency that has given us so much. Other than the hope and unification that NASA has given some of us, their research has given bitrh to some of the most widely used compenets in computers and electronics today.
</rant>
Hu? How is reading PDF painfull? Does reading smooth anti aliased fonts hurt your eyes? Admitedly I havn't downloaded this file yet so maybe it has oddities that make it hard to read in PDF. However PDF is a great way to distribute documentation. Unlike HTML it is a standard standard. That is every PDF viewer read every PDF like every other PDF viewer. The same cannot be said about HTML. Just try reading a the same html formatted documentation in IE vs Netscape 4 vs Netscape 3 vs konkeror vs ...well you get the idea.
:)
PDF is a god-send of a documentation file format. Its cross platform (cpu/os), cross viewer (xpdf, acrobat 3, acrobat 4, etc), has scaleable fonts, anti aliasing, never has print problems, and EASY to make for even the most assinine of computer users.
There is only ONE dissadvantage of PDF's, and that is you need to edit the source document and re-distill to change them.
Keep HTML in web pages, I'll keep my PDFs for documentation, thank you very much
This really is the best graphics book I have looked through. I borrowed it from a former game programmer at work. Of course I still cant get him to lend me his "Graphic Gems" books. Apparently those are even MORE coveted. Still The Black Book should be on every game and graphics programmers bookshelf at all times! Personally I found this most useful when looking at it side by side with the Athalon optimization docs from AMD.
Now if only more of these great books would make their way to a free online format. Sure there are many great works of fiction to be downloaded from Project Gutenburg, but the number of actually reference books in the online domain is pitifully small. (Note I said BOOKS, not very long documentation.)
Nahh, MS has probably violated some REAL pattents and copywrites ;) not just these little bull-shit pattents.
Bull-shit. Humm. I wonder if I can pattent the use of the word bull-shit in conjunction with a verb to signify lack of worth.... I'll make millons suing people for infrigning on my pattent!!
Does anyone else think its odd that he picked out the two most corperately run linux distros out there? Also there probably the least two respect distros out there. I personaly don't think any distro will (not even sure if they can) die. If he was talking about usership, he's dead wrong. I think Debian Slackware(my fave) and Mandrake probably could all win on their own, much less togeather.
He DID have alot of formal training in physics, unless you don't count a phD in physical chemistry.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/moore.
Now what you have to understand with prediction formulas, is that they predict, they do not dictate. I do belive I said predicted.
Trust me I feel your pain, I hate it when people spouting off general rules as if they were gospel. I was just pointing out however, that big blue on a desktop seems right on target with the current trends.
</defense>
Now this does sound incredibly interesting, but lets think about desktops (god forbid something usefull!) for a minute. Lets see.. Moore's law states processing power will double every 18 months. That means it should double roughly 1.8 times by 2004 right? 2^(1.8)= roughly 3.5. The fastest 32 bit desktop processor currently sold runs at 1.5 gigahertz.. so by the time the PS3 comes out top of the line destop should run at about 5.25 gigahertz.
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. 3.3a.html) "this year Deep Blue will be running on a faster system - the latest version of the SP - which uses 30 P2SC or Power Two Super Chip processors"
To quote from ibm, (http://www.research.ibm.com/actc/RS_6000/Topic_P
"[the] P2SC design has reached its peak operating frequency at 160MHz" and (http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d
Assuming pefect smp deep blue theirfore runs at 4.8 Ghz.
5.25 is greater than 4.8. 5.25 is projected by Moore's law for 2004, so this is no big shakes.
By 2004 we should see top of the line desktops just as powefull.
Net savvy users just don't use many portals. Right now the only thing that portals offer most users is e-mail. Chat rooms, news services and search engines? There are many better places than yahoo.com and the like, to get these things.
The real reason portal sites die, is that there useless. Everyone loves simple specific information and news pages, lets say a page on electric cars. However when a portal gobbles it up for their, "electric car", section, they break everything to make it fit into their own arcatexture, and in the end aliante their origonal audience by being overbearing, and often demanding a login to use.
The worst part is portals keep on gobbling up smaller services. Geocities used to have a pretty good free webhosting service, then yahoo gobbled it up. Hotmail was the defacto web based e-mail page. Untill MSN gobbled it up (and unsucsessfully tried to move it over to NT i might add). Now? Hotmail is crap. Yahoo's e-mail service, and even the home grown web-mail services many universities offer their students, beat it out hands down. Why did it happen? Because MSN demanded that hotmail fit into their own portal structure, and work with every little trinket and gadget built into their portal.
Lets face it, net savy users use very little to none of a portals services, because thats the only part of them that are ever good.
I'm right to think this is processer specific right? Linux ppc binaries will run on my netbsd ppc box. So there isn't any cpu emu going on. ;)
I'm still waiting for an irix compatability, so I can run netscape on my netbsd decstation
One, buy & modify, or just build two (or more) cockpit simulator stations as used for flight and racing games. Put some GPL'd racing games and flight fighter games on there! Geeks love VR games!
;)
Two, it needs to be within two blocks of where I live, just for convienice
For one simple reason. Lack of good voice controll software. We don't need "HAL" level voice recognition, however for this to be safe and effective, at least basic memo-taking, mapping and PIM software would have to be compatable with some voice activation system. That and a heads up display woudln't hurt, but would be dangerous most likely.
What? Humm. I'd love to know which icq clone your using for linux. Kicq, is pretty, trim and doesn't crash, but it lacks a few features like searching by icq#, and sending/receiving files. Nahh. I'd rather run the real Windows ICQ client in linux, than a linux icq clone in windows.
Thats just me though.
Even if it does end up sucking, we'll all watch it as long as its on the air. Myself (And I know this is heresy) I enjoyed voyager much more than ds9, but hell. I watched whichever one was on next. Its just how these things work.
I don't really buy the idea that HP will ditch wince. Not for the reasons that many people hare are mentioning. To be honest companies and most individuals don't care all that much what OS their handheld runs, and just use whatever software comes with it. That being said, it doesn't look like there are many proffitability plusses for changing to linux from ce for a company like HP. At most I'd expect them to offer a linux distro, but I kindof doubt they will release handhelds you can pick up at BestBuy preinstalled with linux. It sounds like there just trying to court the linux audience, and guage their reaction, without ever planning to really release a linux only pda. Even so, at least it means there should be a well supported distro for their handhelds in a year or two.
Isn't this what the DEC Multia was supposed to be?
Don't get me wrong, I like multias, in fact I want to get one still, and I'll probably want to get one of these sun boxes too. However the multias were a flop. Question is, how many other pc-priced unix workstations have fallen flat? This can't only be the second...
Hey, if it can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, isn't it warm enough for today's nut-case overclockers? Huge fans arn't enough for these guys, nor water pumps. Hell they sell off the shelf cpu refrigerators now days (sharky's and hardocp have articles on them). So whats the extream overclocker gonna do? Liquid N2 chill their processors....there really are people willing to do that I'm sure. ;)
If you read the article thourraly, there working on making muscle cultures, real muscle grow out of abody, into the shape needed. The frog muscle is just a proof of concept from how I read it. This is the type of stuff sci fi writers have jabbered about for ages. Machines made of muscle, either bounded with electronics (can we say cyborg fish here? Yes.) or grown as a machine whole from scratch. Unfortunately we'll have cyborg meat-machines for a while probably before they can grow purely biological meat machines. Ahh well. Neat neat stuff.
Yea but finding a match is only the start...what will your computer do to dress up for its date?
Clean out all the dust, wrap the cables... tie things down, a few new stickers and put the case back on? What if its cords are a mess? Humm. My computer was never a pretty computer like a Mac is...its kindof plain...grey box, purple buttons. It will have to find an understanding box, or one without a cam to see it with....
A: It doesn't. Almost every..scratch that. Every decent OS out there, and even some of the not-so-decent ones support Java. So why not put hooks in your web-browser to use your OS's jvm? Of course you'd have to do a little security checking, so the applet coudln't create, rename, move or alter files, and coudln't call other programs. But other than that, isn't that the best way to get java into a browser? Not have it there at all.
It is one thing to hook up sensors to plants, and radio back signals of its condition.
Slightly more complicated to control a plants growth remotely (tiny electric shocks and mirrors to move the plant maybe? Constricting water flow, stuff like that)
But to alter a plants genetics? Ehh sorry, I just don't buy it. Besides, I don't really want to eat genetically altered corn, made by engineers. Why on earth would anyone eat plants that automatically alter their own genetics?
When it gets right down to it, the idea is silly and overblown. There are many other ways around the problem of monitoring plants, and resource production from plants. This is just an interesting waste of time.
That happend at my highschool before I was there too. Except a few of the guys were good mechanics, and were able to disasemble the bug, and reassemble it on the roof. My silly school had to get a crane to get it down :)
Lemmie see, go back about 10 years, with a notebook a ham radio and a packet modem. Connect to another packet modem station hooked up to the net, and use gopher...
you can go back more than 10 years with this one right? I mean thats the first time I saw that done, but it was old by then!
The worst part is that things like this are viewed as GOOD business practices by some corps now days.
Frightening.
And afaik it won't be any more a threat than BeOS.
;) I'll buy it. Replace linux with it? Nahh. Never.
I would and probably will buy OSX if it comes out for intel, and run it on another box, just like I did Be.
As long as Apple doesn't screw up like Be did, it will almost deffinately push out Be on the handfull of machines that use it, but probably won't push out any free unixen.
I bought Be way back in version 3. Bad network card support. Even the latest version won't work with supposedly supported cards. So as long as OSX can network right
Just my two bits.
Actualy here's how the bulb's break (no pun intended) down.
Halogen, $30-$50 per bulb.
Halide, $200-$1000 per bulb.
The cost of projecting per hour actually is about the same, the Halide bulbs last roughly 10 times longer. So don't let expensive bulbs freak you out. Reall it should come down to weather or not you whish to move your projector around alot (lets say from your place to a friends place to your parents to a lan party), breaking a $200 bulb would suck. Breaking a $30 isn't that bad.