blast dust downward and you'll get dust to kick up like throwing sand at sand. then have it caught in your typhoon and blast some backwards to move forward too.
how about using the dust on the moon as rocket fuel? imagine this... blast dust downward underneath the rover, and kick up more dust. use the dust you kick-up as more rocket fuel.
doesn't the feeling of being alive, self awareness, have an oddity of being explained when people think it comes from a brain? Atoms and electrons are seperate entities joined by forces that together in a brain make for chemical circuitry that would have to have a particular way of combining the elements of what the brain makes of senses like taste, smell, touch, taste, feel, and thought though processing of information together in any way that can conform to a single point of interpration for the sake of how we feel alive. If it were anything it would have to be either many atoms and electrons seperated but in conforming design of being nearby would make for the gathering of the information processed for senses to take a form factor that can be said to be them together making you feel alive. How odd if atoms and electrons are always seperate for this to ever happen anyways, because it can't be an imaginary princle of a working machine for example, the logic is too spread, it has to come together somehow, because there's nothing that can be made of it's way towards processing in the chemical brain that would make sense to the feeling of being alive, and senses are conforming to a complex information processing route for the sake of inperpretation. So... anything in the brain you think that can make you feel alive, or is it all over? if it was all over then wouldn't there be no sense in any chemical machine operation that makes in a general sense the feeling of being alive and sense interpretation, or even routing of processed information towards one centering where atoms and electrons are disjoined anyways? well, except for nucelar forces. Self awareness must be a singleton because you feel alive at once, with all senses feeling together interpreted. That's the problem with a brain making for self awareness I believe, the feeling of being alive.
A single feeling of being alive, the togetherness of all senses, already prepared for interpretation. This must happen, and not in a brain... atoms and electrons are seperated, there's nowhere for this information to go where you can say there's any conforming nature to the idea of how they come together where they mash together and are 'felt' somehow for the sake of being alive.
so maybe the feeling of being alive is from the joining forces between atoms and electrons somehow taking on a shape where chemcially processed information take on a pattern?
What if it were possible for every atom to actually be a computer? and the nuclear forces bonding atoms could actually exchange information, they would network together wouldn't they? it's not far fetched to think atoms can actually be a natural computer when you think that space is something other than empty, and atoms were some kind of entrapment.
magnetism and gravity together make no sense, nuclear forces make no sense, they are just there somehow. What if the fabric of space was actually something where a natural vibration always occurs? and the idea of gravity instead of being space bending was a draw through a vibrational pattern such as what could be modulated by an atom or many spinning together, and electrons were coming together by a waveform in the vibration for the sake of travel in space? this makes sense when you think AM radio for example has a sound carrier with a frequency. And every known force may be a seperate dialect of a waveform for example.
Relativity makes sense still when the strength or tightness of the waveform traveling through the vibrational backing of space makes for atoms to spin faster or slower, and for an atoms traveled ride through the vibration to go faster or slower.
So here's how I think the universe works:
space is receptive and carrying of a passive waveform. Magnetism takes on the shape of a particular type of waveform as does gravity.
Atoms are a mobile entrapment for a vibration that resonates inside.
a computer naturally evoles in every atom by having an internal resonance of this vibration trapped and able to evolve informa
The scheduler in 2.6 is still having some problems with interactive programs; XMMS skips frequently when switching desktops or running a CPU intensive program in the background. Ingo Molnar put together a patch which seems to fix this nicely, I highly recommend patching the kernel before using it if you're running linux on the desktop. the patch is available at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/O(1)-scheduler/sche d-2.6.0-test1-G6
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I've already signed him up for every catalog in the first 6 pages of google search results for "free catalog".. anyone wanna pick it up from here ?
I've written a proxy server (see my.sig) which can use NTLM (and Basic) authentication when forwarding through another proxy; it also has some advanced filtering features that you won't find in any other proxy out there (i.e. regexp substitution on webpage body and http headers, regexp substition on request url (useful for bypassing click-through ads, download mirror selection, etc.), caching to memory and disk (uses same refresh logic as squid), URL commands to perform various actions on a webpage (i.e. prefixing a URL with "diff.." will show a DIFF-style output of the changes made by the regexp substitution on the webpage, and individual filtering features can be bypassed), files can be processed by any external program (i.e. you can use a perl script to remove animated.gif's), and much more:) </shameless plug>
Not only is this beneficial for large computers, but also on smaller SMP systems with hyperthreading. On CPU's with hyperthreading, it's often faster for a process to reside on the same CPU but not necessary the same 'virtual' CPU when accessing memory. And alot of 8way+ systems are NUMA whether or not they are advertised as such.
Or, better yet.. you can use the filtering proxy server I wrote (get it here, or just look at my.sig) which can not only block banners; but can also rewrite webpage content using regular expressions, block certain mime-types, redirect requests using regexp's (i.e. advertisement click-thru's), forward through proxies that use NTLM or Basic authentication, accept gzip encoded content and recompress files on the fly, and can even use any external program (perl script, etc) to parse website content.
Actually, google uses some kind of flash memory to store all their data; the initial cost is much more, but the savings of not having to replace drives constantly pays off in the end.. this was brought up in an intervew a while back (sorry, can't find URL). And seeing as how their entire archive is refreshed every few days, it's not all that important that the data storage be reliable after a power failure or whatever.
If this doesn't affect XP, why can't Microsoft just issue a patch that installs the Windows XP components which aren't vulnerable? And also... why the hell isn't XP vulnerable? maybe they knew about this for a long time...
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This page contains a complete list of every new feature that has gone into 2.5, and other features waiting to be integrated and their status:
Having an entire coutry filter content is ridiculous.. don't they realise how futile this is against anyone with even the most basic understanding of computers and network? It doesn't take a genious to setup an ssh tunnel to a proxy outside of china, or to do any other number of things that could circumvent the filters. Oh well... that's alot of money down the drain for nothing.
In a park around my house in the summer time... they have this french fry vending machine which cooks your fries on the spot... can you imagine eating fries made by some greasy machine which has been sitting out in the open for days ? disgusting!
There's some really great ones in there, including Linus announcing Linux, Microsoft soliciting for new 'wizards', a thread about the chernobyl accident, and so on.
For anyone who has an hour and a half to spare...
AMD (along with a few people from SuSE) made a great presentation on the X86-64 technology at the Linux kernel summit in Ottawa a little while back; the MP3 and OGG files are available at the sourceforge kernel foundry.
ALICE is nothing more than a bunch of preprogrammed responses to common statements and questions, what the hell is the big deal about that? Anyone with enough time on their hands could create something simular. What I would like to see is an AI program which can actually follow conversation and make responses relevent to the topic of discussion, even if the statement didn't directly reference it.
Microsoft's presence at the linuxworld show will be about their offerings for embedded devices, and how they compare to Linux; a statement made my a Microsoft rep. can be found at linuxdevices.com.
This reminds me of a story in the book "The Mind's I" which discussed a hypothetical situation where you put the 'contents' of a person's brain (in the given example, einsteins) into a book and manually process each nerve impulse, and if the person who's brain was stored in this book would experience consciousness (albeit on a much slower scale). There's loads of stories which raise many philosophical questions, from AI to Cloning... you'll never think the same again:) (it was written by the same author as 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid, or just GED)
I think the most interesting part of this is that now other stores selling computers will have to find ways
of competing with these insanely low priced computers, and I think the first thing they'll do is throw
out Windows. Although alot of people will disagree, I think ESR had a
good point when he said that
microsoft would be doomed when the cost of PC hardware dropped below that of Windows, and we're almost at
that point already.
According to the ZDnet article, the additional charge for renting a cable modem is $10; you're still getting a discount if you own your own cable modem (albeit a very small one).
For those who don't have time to follow every
kernel release, there's a page someone put together to follow all the big changes going into the 2.5 developement series here
Slashdot Mirror
i mean to say better...
blast dust downward and you'll get dust to kick up like throwing sand at sand. then have it caught in your typhoon and blast some backwards to move forward too.
A moon dust rover :)
how about using the dust on the moon as rocket fuel? imagine this... blast dust downward underneath the rover, and kick up more dust. use the dust you kick-up as more rocket fuel.
doesn't the feeling of being alive, self awareness, have an oddity of being explained when people think it comes from a brain? Atoms and electrons are seperate entities joined by forces that together in a brain make for chemical circuitry that would have to have a particular way of combining the elements of what the brain makes of senses like taste, smell, touch, taste, feel, and thought though processing of information together in any way that can conform to a single point of interpration for the sake of how we feel alive. If it were anything it would have to be either many atoms and electrons seperated but in conforming design of being nearby would make for the gathering of the information processed for senses to take a form factor that can be said to be them together making you feel alive. How odd if atoms and electrons are always seperate for this to ever happen anyways, because it can't be an imaginary princle of a working machine for example, the logic is too spread, it has to come together somehow, because there's nothing that can be made of it's way towards processing in the chemical brain that would make sense to the feeling of being alive, and senses are conforming to a complex information processing route for the sake of inperpretation. So... anything in the brain you think that can make you feel alive, or is it all over? if it was all over then wouldn't there be no sense in any chemical machine operation that makes in a general sense the feeling of being alive and sense interpretation, or even routing of processed information towards one centering where atoms and electrons are disjoined anyways? well, except for nucelar forces. Self awareness must be a singleton because you feel alive at once, with all senses feeling together interpreted. That's the problem with a brain making for self awareness I believe, the feeling of being alive.
A single feeling of being alive, the togetherness of all senses, already prepared for interpretation. This must happen, and not in a brain... atoms and electrons are seperated, there's nowhere for this information to go where you can say there's any conforming nature to the idea of how they come together where they mash together and are 'felt' somehow for the sake of being alive.
so maybe the feeling of being alive is from the joining forces between atoms and electrons somehow taking on a shape where chemcially processed information take on a pattern?
What if it were possible for every atom to actually be a computer? and the nuclear forces bonding atoms could actually exchange information, they would network together wouldn't they? it's not far fetched to think atoms can actually be a natural computer when you think that space is something other than empty, and atoms were some kind of entrapment.
magnetism and gravity together make no sense, nuclear forces make no sense, they are just there somehow. What if the fabric of space was actually something where a natural vibration always occurs? and the idea of gravity instead of being space bending was a draw through a vibrational pattern such as what could be modulated by an atom or many spinning together, and electrons were coming together by a waveform in the vibration for the sake of travel in space? this makes sense when you think AM radio for example has a sound carrier with a frequency. And every known force may be a seperate dialect of a waveform for example.
Relativity makes sense still when the strength or tightness of the waveform traveling through the vibrational backing of space makes for atoms to spin faster or slower, and for an atoms traveled ride through the vibration to go faster or slower.
So here's how I think the universe works:
space is receptive and carrying of a passive waveform. Magnetism takes on the shape of a particular type of waveform as does gravity.
Atoms are a mobile entrapment for a vibration that resonates inside.
a computer naturally evoles in every atom by having an internal resonance of this vibration trapped and able to evolve informa
The scheduler in 2.6 is still having some problems with interactive programs; XMMS skips frequently when switching desktops or running a CPU intensive program in the background. Ingo Molnar put together a patch which seems to fix this nicely, I highly recommend patching the kernel before using it if you're running linux on the desktop. the patch is available at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/O(1)-scheduler/sche d-2.6.0-test1-G6
I've already signed him up for every catalog in the first 6 pages of google search results for "free catalog" .. anyone wanna pick it up from here ?
I've written a proxy server (see my .sig) which can use NTLM (and Basic) authentication when forwarding through another proxy; it also has some advanced filtering features that you won't find in any other proxy out there (i.e. regexp substitution on webpage body and http headers, regexp substition on request url (useful for bypassing click-through ads, download mirror selection, etc.), caching to memory and disk (uses same refresh logic as squid), URL commands to perform various actions on a webpage (i.e. prefixing a URL with "diff.." will show a DIFF-style output of the changes made by the regexp substitution on the webpage, and individual filtering features can be bypassed), files can be processed by any external program (i.e. you can use a perl script to remove animated .gif's), and much more :)
</shameless plug>
Not only is this beneficial for large computers, but also on smaller SMP systems with hyperthreading. On CPU's with hyperthreading,
it's often faster for a process to reside on the same CPU but not necessary the same 'virtual' CPU when accessing memory.
And alot of 8way+ systems are NUMA whether or not they are advertised as such.
According to the message posted, the utility used to reflash the BIOS runs in DOS, not Windows, and will work in FreeDOS
Or, better yet.. you can use the filtering proxy server I wrote (get it here, or just look at my .sig) which can not only block banners; but can also rewrite webpage content using regular expressions, block certain mime-types, redirect requests using regexp's (i.e. advertisement click-thru's), forward through proxies that use NTLM or Basic authentication, accept gzip encoded content and recompress files on the fly, and can even use any external program (perl script, etc) to parse website content.
Actually, google uses some kind of flash memory to store all their data; the initial cost is much more, but the savings of not having to replace drives constantly pays off in the end.. this was brought up in an intervew a while back (sorry, can't find URL). And seeing as how their entire archive is refreshed every few days, it's not all that important that the data storage be reliable after a power failure or whatever.
If this doesn't affect XP, why can't Microsoft just issue a patch that installs the Windows XP components which aren't vulnerable? And also... why the hell isn't XP vulnerable? maybe they knew about this for a long time...
This page contains a complete list of every new feature that has gone into 2.5, and other features waiting to be integrated and their status:
http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html
There was a followup message on the lkml from hp discussing how these numbers can improved even further, you can see it at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103 237327405644&w=2
Having an entire coutry filter content is ridiculous.. don't they realise how futile this is against anyone with even the most basic understanding of computers and network? It doesn't take a genious to setup an ssh tunnel to a proxy outside of china, or to do any other number of things that could circumvent the filters. Oh well... that's alot of money down the drain for nothing.
In a park around my house in the summer time... they have this french fry vending machine which cooks your fries on the spot... can you imagine eating fries made by some greasy machine which has been sitting out in the open for days ? disgusting!
For those with nothing better to do this afternoon... you can watch Sun's presentation via a webcast at 1pm EST here
This link is from Google's list of historically significant usenet posts; the complete list is atc e_20.html
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announ
There's some really great ones in there, including Linus announcing Linux, Microsoft soliciting for new 'wizards', a thread about the chernobyl accident, and so on.
For anyone who has an hour and a half to spare... AMD (along with a few people from SuSE) made a great presentation on the X86-64 technology at the Linux kernel summit in Ottawa a little while back; the MP3 and OGG files are available at the sourceforge kernel foundry.
ALICE is nothing more than a bunch of preprogrammed responses to common statements and questions, what the
hell is the big deal about that? Anyone with enough time on their hands could create something simular.
What I would like to see is an AI program which can actually follow conversation and make responses
relevent to the topic of discussion, even if the statement didn't directly reference it.
Microsoft's presence at the linuxworld show will be about their offerings for embedded devices, and how they compare to Linux; a statement made my a Microsoft rep. can be found at linuxdevices.com.
This reminds me of a story in the book "The Mind's I" which discussed a hypothetical situation ... you'll never think the same again :)
where you put the 'contents' of a person's brain (in the given example, einsteins) into a book
and manually process each nerve impulse, and if the person who's brain was stored in this book
would experience consciousness (albeit on a much slower scale). There's loads of stories
which raise many philosophical questions, from AI to Cloning
(it was written by the same author as 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid, or just GED)
I think the most interesting part of this is that now other stores selling computers will have to find ways of competing with these insanely low priced computers, and I think the first thing they'll do is throw out Windows. Although alot of people will disagree, I think ESR had a good point when he said that microsoft would be doomed when the cost of PC hardware dropped below that of Windows, and we're almost at that point already.
Oops, should of read the whole thing :)
According to the ZDnet article, the additional charge for renting a cable modem is $10; you're still getting a discount if you own your own cable modem (albeit a very small one).
For those who don't have time to follow every kernel release, there's a page someone put together to follow all the big changes going into the 2.5 developement series here