Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm soooo glad to have someone reliable and unbiased like Wikipedia to do my thinking for me.
The sad fact of science is that scientific knowledge comes in waves and only advances past a certain point when the main proponent of a previous world model is dead.
Shame on you, the electric universe guys who flame (and mod down here) everyone who does not agree with you. Shame on you wikipedians for being unable to keep your own bias out of wikipedia.
I was inclined to be sympathetic to the electric universe guys just on general principles (magnetism is a huge effect), but no more, thank you. Anyone who has to make an argument by silencing opposition (or apparent opposition) just does not have a leg to stand on, in my opinion.
Oh my god. I've offended both sides. Better moderate me into oblivion so no one else can hear since you can't delete this post.
Another example of questions that work well is "What does mean?"
The search engines have always been good at playing Jeopardy. Typing the exact text of error messages tends to always lead to "What caused this?" and "How do I fix this?".
Simply typing the first four letters, "chic", I see the first suggestion is "Chicago Tribune". A simple TAB and RETURN, I'm on the Google page with the first link or so my link to the Tribune (with the added bonus of Google's breakout of sublinks).) Your mileage may vary (Google's ranking system may vary the order and options that appear in the drop-down over time), but I find it an amazingly effective research tool (suggestion, not the Trib). I find this unlikely in the extreme. When most people start typing at google and reach "chic", Chicago is not exactly what they're looking for. (Or Hot Chicago pizza for that matter).
maybe the galactic operator is using Windows, and Ctrl-C will just copy our universe. That could mean the end of the universe if the operator is using Unix.
From their numbers, XP + W2000 were 83.8% in January, 77.9% in November, 5.9% loss. Vista was 0.6% in January, 6.3% in November. 5.7% gain. Hmm, coincidence? They don't give any absolute numbers, so there's no way to tell from the page what that translates into total hits.
The nice thing about statistics is that with a little creativity you can have them mean just about anything you want.
Why use constants if they want it to be the standard. That just doesnt make sense. Actually, it makes a whole lot of sense. Consider the history of the DES. When it was first being proposed, the NSA suggested some changes to the internal constants used. It wasn't until over a decdade later that it was discovered that the particular choice of constants made DES resistant against a certain block cipher cracking technique (the Wiki page is at least accurate on this account - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard) that was widely unknown at the time the standard was made.
Some of the suspicions about hidden weaknesses in the S-boxes were allayed in 1990, with the independent discovery and open publication by Eli Biham and Adi Shamir of differential cryptanalysis, a general method for breaking block ciphers. The S-boxes of DES were much more resistant to the attack than if they had been chosen at random, strongly suggesting that IBM knew about the technique back in the 1970s. This was indeed the case -- in 1994, Don Coppersmith published the original design criteria for the S-boxes. According to Steven Levy, IBM Watson researchers discovered differential cryptanalytic attacks in 1974 and were asked by the NSA to keep the technique secret.
Why is there no -1 Horrific Mental Image mod available? Somebody usually posts a link to the goatse guy every article. Won't that do? You must be new here.
if you're working with a 2 MB dataset on a processor with a 1 MB cache, then you move to 2 processors with 1 MB caches, you can see more than a 2x speedup because now all of the work can be done in cache. And you can also see a huge slowdown if the cache pressure is too high. Drepper's paper, which I linked above has examples of both.
Try reading this: http://lwn.net/Articles/259710/ (What every programmer should know about memory, Ulrich Drepper). There's a link there to the article broken down into HTML pages if you don't want to look at the PDF.
There's no "emotion" in this equation: no license = evidence upon which case is based is inadmissible = no case. I think I see where you're headed. If the "evidence" they are using is either illegally obtained, or legally obtained from dubious "experts" as we've seen you prove, then their cases are all weak at best. Sooner or later they have to be hit hard for flooding the court system with frivolous lawsuits.
The sad fact is, just about all need for a "desktop" computer can now be replaced by an Internet appliance and a game console. Yes. Software developers have always been a minority.:( Heh, I'm old enough to remember when only the hard core Ada developers got local disks with their Sun 3s, the rest of us were diskless.
Perhaps you can expect "desktop" computers to move increasingly to places in the world without (reliable or any) internet access, which is where I will be for the foreseeable future.
one day you log in and the goatse lovers have changed the app - either in a small way or in a significant way. Google is guilty of this with Gmail. The "new" Gmail interface is horrible. At least they still allow you to use the half-way decent version, but you have to keep clicking on "older version" constantly.
They have it figured out though. I attempted to navigate through their maze of twisty web pages all alike to get to a complaint area and got lost. Good going Google!
I've always hated what I've seen of the Microsoft interface - "You are in a twisty maze of GUI menus, all alike". Google and Microsoft are converging rather than diverging. Maybe Microsoft should just buy Google.
Replacing Microsoft with Google will ultimately mean nothing. Perhaps, but it's just not in the same league. You can say no to Google by just not visiting them. You can only say no to Microsoft (if you're buying a PC class machine in the US) after you've paid them for a license.
Proprietary closed-up code and vendor lock-in is bad no matter whose name you attach it to. True, true. As is typical in discussions of technology like this, it was all hashed out on the Cypherpunks mailing list years ago. Ross Anderson has the right idea - the Eternity Service. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/eternity/eternity.html and someone who was going about implementing one http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1997/05/msg00835.html
Yeah, or make a level for a FPS, and distribute that. "Download our Quake level here", for example. What are you going to do in an FPS besides kill things? So what would be the theme of such a game?
I still prefer any Microsoft O/S over Apple ones, for the same reason you like linux. You're a Microsoft developer who thinks that people should be allowed to buy computers with whatever OS they wish on them? A *lot* of hostility towards Microsoft would vanish if that were the case world wide.
And yes, I am a Linux sys admin. At any given time I probably have more Linux boxes running than Windows boxes. I hope your employers are not reading this. Not even Microsoft is claiming that a Vista is an appropriate server system. If issues remain after "being discussed to death" they are still apropos, are they not?
Or maybe I'm misreading what you wrote. In that case, pass the crack pipe brother Linux user and let me share some of the joy of the Microsoft Vista experience.
Or maybe you're just new to slashdot, there's no dead horse that we can't still keep pounding on.
Seriously people, get an opinion for yourself. Try using vista. Nice bit of astroturfing. Don't worry. The fact that you can't walk into a random computer store in the United States, still the world's largest economy for better or for worse, and buy anything other than a computer with a Microsoft O/S on it, Vista or whatever, will ensure that it will eventually become the market leader. Rejoice and be happy.
I insist on a system that I can fix myself when there's a problem and can never be end-of-life'd on me. That issue was so important to me that I donated many, many hours of my life to Open Source software so I could have a system like Linux now.
Why can't I be allowed to walk into a store and buy a notebook computer with Linux installed on it? Oh wait, I live in the Philippines and I can do that. Never mind.
No, actually the vision of a GUI came from Doug Engelbart. Engelbart was the inventor of the mouse and his name is on the first mouse patent. I stand corrected. Thank you.
In the Wiki page you linked, this stands out:
He never received any royalties for his mouse invention, partly because his patent expired in 1987, before the personal computer revolution made the mouse an indispensable input device, and also because subsequent mice used different mechanisms that did not infringe upon the original patent. I may be in a minority because of my age, but I'm sure I'm not the only one here using only mouse based computers starting since before 1987 (though they were Suns and Unix boxes).
If anyone ever deserved royalties for an invention in recent times, the inventor of the mouse ought to have been one, but I digress and it puts a new light on:
During an interview, he [Engelbert] says "SRI patented the mouse, but they really had no idea of its value. Some years later it was learned that they had licensed it to Apple for something like $40,000." Sigh. He deserved a lot more than that.
Thanks for the info.
That Vista finally has multiple virtual desktops? Not natively, but there are many (open source) programs which add the capability. I guess that means no.
So no, for most of those, Vista hasn't 'added' them, because they've been there all along. May I recommend Google? It's a whole lot easier to use an O/S that lets me do all that in a few keystrokes without an internet connection. I expect computers and software to cater to me, not vice versa.
Thanks for the search engine suggestion!11!!1! I've never heard of that one before, I'll have to give it a try as it looks uber cool!!!1!!!!!111! Since you did me a favor, I'll give you a link back http://www.peacefaq.com/stockholm.html
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Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm soooo glad to have someone reliable and unbiased like Wikipedia to do my thinking for me.
The sad fact of science is that scientific knowledge comes in waves and only advances past a certain point when the main proponent of a previous world model is dead.
Shame on you, the electric universe guys who flame (and mod down here) everyone who does not agree with you. Shame on you wikipedians for being unable to keep your own bias out of wikipedia.
I was inclined to be sympathetic to the electric universe guys just on general principles (magnetism is a huge effect), but no more, thank you. Anyone who has to make an argument by silencing opposition (or apparent opposition) just does not have a leg to stand on, in my opinion.
Oh my god. I've offended both sides. Better moderate me into oblivion so no one else can hear since you can't delete this post.
Another example of questions that work well is "What does mean?"
The search engines have always been good at playing Jeopardy. Typing the exact text of error messages tends to always lead to "What caused this?" and "How do I fix this?".
From their numbers, XP + W2000 were 83.8% in January, 77.9% in November, 5.9% loss. Vista was 0.6% in January, 6.3% in November. 5.7% gain. Hmm, coincidence? They don't give any absolute numbers, so there's no way to tell from the page what that translates into total hits.
The nice thing about statistics is that with a little creativity you can have them mean just about anything you want.
Try reading this: http://lwn.net/Articles/259710/ (What every programmer should know about memory, Ulrich Drepper). There's a link there to the article broken down into HTML pages if you don't want to look at the PDF.
Hope that helps.
Nope. e ** (pi * i) is -1. I'm not sure what pi ** (e * i) is.
- Your friendly neighborhood pedantic, but not all-knowing math Nazi
Perhaps you can expect "desktop" computers to move increasingly to places in the world without (reliable or any) internet access, which is where I will be for the foreseeable future.
They have it figured out though. I attempted to navigate through their maze of twisty web pages all alike to get to a complaint area and got lost. Good going Google!
I've always hated what I've seen of the Microsoft interface - "You are in a twisty maze of GUI menus, all alike". Google and Microsoft are converging rather than diverging. Maybe Microsoft should just buy Google.
and someone who was going about implementing one
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1997/05/msg00835.html
An "encyclopedic" web site that explains what the Sword of a Thousand Truths is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Love,_Not_Warcraft could use a little hard mathematics for balance, in my opinion.
I wish you would post more
What genre is Hello Kitty's Island Adventure?
8) Ever.
9) Seriously, not ever. I'd suspect you of being Twitter, but you think and spell too well.
Or maybe I'm misreading what you wrote. In that case, pass the crack pipe brother Linux user and let me share some of the joy of the Microsoft Vista experience.
Or maybe you're just new to slashdot, there's no dead horse that we can't still keep pounding on.
I insist on a system that I can fix myself when there's a problem and can never be end-of-life'd on me. That issue was so important to me that I donated many, many hours of my life to Open Source software so I could have a system like Linux now.
Why can't I be allowed to walk into a store and buy a notebook computer with Linux installed on it? Oh wait, I live in the Philippines and I can do that. Never mind.
I found this http://www-sul.stanford.edu/siliconbase/wip/control.html link if anyone else is interested in the True History of the mouse.
In the Wiki page you linked, this stands out: He never received any royalties for his mouse invention, partly because his patent expired in 1987, before the personal computer revolution made the mouse an indispensable input device, and also because subsequent mice used different mechanisms that did not infringe upon the original patent. I may be in a minority because of my age, but I'm sure I'm not the only one here using only mouse based computers starting since before 1987 (though they were Suns and Unix boxes).
If anyone ever deserved royalties for an invention in recent times, the inventor of the mouse ought to have been one, but I digress and it puts a new light on: During an interview, he [Engelbert] says "SRI patented the mouse, but they really had no idea of its value. Some years later it was learned that they had licensed it to Apple for something like $40,000." Sigh. He deserved a lot more than that.
Thanks for the search engine suggestion!11!!1! I've never heard of that one before, I'll have to give it a try as it looks uber cool!!!1!!!!!111! Since you did me a favor, I'll give you a link back http://www.peacefaq.com/stockholm.html