They're interviewing one of the major voice guys later tonight. From the AIH www page:
As the Simpsons hit a milestone anniversary we talk to one of the voices behind the cast of characters; Harry Shearer, the voice of Mr. Burns, Smithers, Flanders and more than a dozen more
The interview is on the show As it Happens which happens at 6:30 EST here. Supposedly, archived shows go here, but obviously this link will not exist until after the live version.
FYI - if you want the changelog for 2.2.14, just look at the last 2.2.pre14 kernel changelogs. Linuxtoday has a copy here: http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=14481
It is a fairly long list of things. The S/390 port is there. Some nice-sounding bugfixes are there, so I'll probably recompile tonight. Also, supposedly it should now compile fine with gcc 2.95.
A scalable Linux cluster machine is the 44th fastest computer in the world. NT isn't on the list, but the list only goes to 500. Clearly, since you say WinNT is more scalable, the absence of WinNT from this list must be some form of conspiracy perpetuated by those darn Linux zealots.
Just imagine the performance if you installed NT 4.0 on all them nodes.
Well ideally yes, yes, trade is good. But pay a little more attention to what the protesters are unhappy about, rather than lumping them in with the opportunistic looters. I think the rioters are the same yokels who go bananas after a big sports victory.
The protesters raise unsettling questions about our economic power. We can and do trash faraway environments by proxy. Is it right to have children chained to machines in a textile factory? These people are supplying our demand. The normal response seems to be not my problem, but should it be?
In purely humane terms we should not abuse other nations, even if their governments are willing participants. In purely economic terms, it benefits us to have trading partners with stable, sustainable economic growth. The word sustainable is key because many developing nations go for the quick buck, only to have to need bailing out when the resource runs out.
Your cards analogy doesn't fit because it assumes a fallacy of equal supply. We westerners always hold more and better cards, so we ought to play fairly.
If it were truly junk, any mutation that discarded it should be advantageous since it would take less resources to replicate the mutated version than the "junky" version.
You are assuming that of course mutation is an efficient process, like a hedge trimmer going in and snipping and improving just what needs to be done.
What color is the inside of my linen closet painted? It doesn't matter, and it won't make a difference to the resale value of my house.
We're evolved machinery. Now that we can see the source code, we know that it's not very well written, and has lots of sections that ramble or go nowhere. It's natural to resist facts that challenge our species' well developed sense of being the pinnacle of design. Look at how people dumped on Darwin during and after his lifetime!
Instead, we should be impressed that we work so well, despite how we're written.
Not really worth it except in extreme circumstances. Certain noisy people would go ballistic, and make all sorts of negative statements about Hemos and Taco being censors and later it would boil down to a comparison with Hitler and a soon enough, a gun debate would ensue.
That being said, there have been comments that were taken down, like the horribly cruel things said when R. Stevens died (the worst of the filth seems to be permanently below threshold).
I personally like the update comments that accompany a story with new info. It works well enough, and avoids tons of people flaming Taco and Hemos for arbitrarily closing a discussion.
I think the original post was referring to one possible pronunciation of XFce being kind of mumblingly close to "X feces". Which XFce most certainly isn't.
I installed one called win95 on a lark. I was not amused when all the icons changed to little windows. I quickly changed back to the "default" theme, and deleted win95, but those darn little windows were still there. Instead of a K menu, it was still a windows thing.
The horror! My KDE desktop was infected by Win95 icons.
It took me an hour or more to find and delete the icons that were causing this. I needed to restart kde to really fix things though. [tip: examine the text files in the.tar.gz theme file.]
I didn't try the star trek theme, but a version of the moscow theme does this too.
Perhaps we can count on having a cygwin/mingw cross compiler as part of standard redhat linux install. I don't think I'd be the only person who would find this feature quite useful. Think of the amusing sales pitch:
Linux: the ideal development platform for your NT projects
While CPLANT is a clustered alpha linux machine, they makes pains to not call it a Beowulf. From the FAQ:
FAQ 2: Is it another Beowulf machine?
Not really. The Cplant project has some broader goals than traditional Beowulf systems. We are not trying to build a machine for a small number of users to run a small number of applications on a small number of machines. We are trying to build a production machine for hundreds of users to run all types of parallel applications on potentially thousands of nodes. We are essentially trying to build a commodity-based machine patterned after the design of the Intel TeraFLOPS machine.
The cat is out of the bag. It's doubtful that the secrets of CSS are going to be forgotten any time soon.
Since this poor fellow looks like he'll be on the hook for doing simple development work, maybe we need to rethink how we will do controversial development in the future, stuff like unwelcome reverse engineering. If publishing the results makes one personally open to lawsuits, this is bad.
How to avoid personal liability? Businesses have the corporation, which has the advantage that it gets sued, not the individuals in it. Perhaps a lawyer could comment on whether it makes sense to incorporate hacking groups to avoid personal liability for hacking done.
Matlab for Linux used to be ungodly expensive. They now sell the student version for US$99 and it has Windoze and Linux in the same box. This is only available in the USA and Canada though, and is one of two different student versions. See the student edition page at www.mathworks.com for more info.
Interesting, highly politicized examples. In 50 years, perhaps the debate over one or more will look quaint. Did you know that plate tectonics went through a similar period of vilification in the '60s? It's orthodox geology now, but then it was a nutty idea out of left field.
If you haven't read it, you would like "The structure of scientific revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn. Basically he points out that science is essentially an organized form of social behavior. The central dogma can be supplanted but only with great effort. Kuhn talks of "paradigms", and "normal science".
Don't forget that Normal science is pretty darn good! It gets stuff done. People who invoke Kuhn sometimes make the leap that "alternative" science is all equally valuable. It isn't.
Kuhn is pretty orthogonal to the traditional view of science, espoused best by Karl Popper: Theorize, Test, Revise, Repeat. (Okay - that's a simplification. "Write grant application" goes somewhere.)
Kuhn says that if enough evidence accretes to support [blank], a new generation of scientists may buy into it. Voila: paradigm shift. (this phrase was appropriates by pointy hair bosses a while back.)
One other issue: I would also like to point out that having a Nobel is a kind of "Be as nutty as you wish" prize. There are lots of examples (Crick, Pauling) of post-Nobel nuttiness.
They might have lots of publicists who'll sugarcoat this fundamentally creepy reality. And it has been a reality for a while now, both with human and plant genes. But what if the average Joe in the Street decides
Wow, this patent business is seriously out of whack -- some jerks patented the idea of genetic research related to my kidneys. Now nobody can research kidneys except them, even if they use the freely-available genes from the human genome project. That's unfair!
Here's what happens: The meme of Ridiculous Patents has entered the public sphere. A huge debate starts over what's fair to patent.
Desirable result: Political change might just happen. The patent system is reformed.
If it takes some greedy biological equivalent of UNISYS to force the public focus onto how the patent system sometimes works as a licence to extort, then this is a good thing. Because only then, will it get changed.
They can and do make color images from black and white ones. We got color pictures from Mars by compositing red, green and blue filters over a black and white imager. It just takes more effort.
I agree. This analogy may be way off, but think of Hitler. He (single-handedly?) convinced an enormous group of people that he knew who deserved to live and he knew what the world should be like and proceeded from there. And look what he did.
I don't particularly like Bill Gates but you do advocacy a bad name when you compare a dislikable businessman to an evil madman like Hitler. Bill Gates' megalomania never killed anybody. Hitler got his jollies killing millions of people, soldiers and civilians alike. Think about that. Seriously.
As a Linux advocate, I think this kind of comparison harms to the credibility of the cause. Would you trust the judgement of someone who confuses a mass murderer with a marketer of inferior products? Be aware that comparing to Hitler isn't particularly novel either. It's been done. By Godwin's law, invoking a comparison to Hitler means that you have run out of ideas and that you lose the argument immediately.
And it never was. In fact, Hollywood doesn't get anybody's profession right. They have certain favorites they do over an over, but really they're more about reinforcing our expectations of a genre than portraying real life. Doctors? Pick your stereotype, tired and edgy or preening and egotistical? Where are the golf addicts? Sorry -- not enough drama. Lawyers? Nothing like the ones I know. Policemen? No, buddy cop movies are not real life. Engineers? What engineers? I can't think of any movie (outside of star trek) that even features engineers. But architects! They're a dime a dozen.
The fact that Hollywood does a clueless job at portraying geek culture is nothing special. They do a terrible job of portraying any sort of reality at all. After all, they sell escapism. What geeks do is harder to explain not very visible. It's harder to show than what doctors, lawyers and policemen do... and to be honest, it's probably a good thing that Hollywood generally ignores computer geeks. Why? Because in all likelihood the alternative would be more of those "Evil hacker" stereotypes.
Cowpland and others sold a bunch of stock just before announcing worse-than-expected earnings. Then when the stock took a nosedive the shareholders were cheesed off. You aren't supposed to act on inside information like this. IANAL, but sale of stock by company officers is supposed to be more or less transparent, with advance notice.
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The interview is on the show As it Happens which happens at 6:30 EST here. Supposedly, archived shows go here, but obviously this link will not exist until after the live version.
FYI - if you want the changelog for 2.2.14, just look at the last 2.2.pre14 kernel changelogs. Linuxtoday has a copy here:
http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=14481
It is a fairly long list of things. The S/390 port is there. Some nice-sounding bugfixes are there, so I'll probably recompile tonight. Also, supposedly it should now compile fine with gcc 2.95.
.. I thought "Building Number Three" was some kind of cryptic reference to his working on 2.x versions of the Linux kernel.
This makes more sense now.
Linux scalability?
A scalable Linux cluster machine is the 44th fastest computer in the world. NT isn't on the list, but the list only goes to 500. Clearly, since you say WinNT is more scalable, the absence of WinNT from this list must be some form of conspiracy perpetuated by those darn Linux zealots.
Just imagine the performance if you installed NT 4.0 on all them nodes.
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This is my favourite Micorsoft advocacy page.
Prince Edward Island, aka "THE Island" also uses 902.
Well ideally yes, yes, trade is good. But pay a little more attention to what the protesters are unhappy about, rather than lumping them in with the opportunistic looters. I think the rioters are the same yokels who go bananas after a big sports victory.
The protesters raise unsettling questions about our economic power. We can and do trash faraway environments by proxy. Is it right to have children chained to machines in a textile factory? These people are supplying our demand. The normal response seems to be not my problem, but should it be?
In purely humane terms we should not abuse other nations, even if their governments are willing participants. In purely economic terms, it benefits us to have trading partners with stable, sustainable economic growth. The word sustainable is key because many developing nations go for the quick buck, only to have to need bailing out when the resource runs out.
Your cards analogy doesn't fit because it assumes a fallacy of equal supply. We westerners always hold more and better cards, so we ought to play fairly.
I don't know about this statement:
If it were truly junk, any mutation that discarded it should be advantageous since it would take less resources to replicate the mutated version than the "junky" version.
You are assuming that of course mutation is an efficient process, like a hedge trimmer going in and snipping and improving just what needs to be done.
What color is the inside of my linen closet painted? It doesn't matter, and it won't make a difference to the resale value of my house.
We're evolved machinery. Now that we can see the source code, we know that it's not very well written, and has lots of sections that ramble or go nowhere. It's natural to resist facts that challenge our species' well developed sense of being the pinnacle of design. Look at how people dumped on Darwin during and after his lifetime!
Instead, we should be impressed that we work so well, despite how we're written.
Not really worth it except in extreme circumstances. Certain noisy people would go ballistic, and make all sorts of negative statements about Hemos and Taco being censors and later it would boil down to a comparison with Hitler and a soon enough, a gun debate would ensue.
That being said, there have been comments that were taken down, like the horribly cruel things said when R. Stevens died (the worst of the filth seems to be permanently below threshold).
I personally like the update comments that accompany a story with new info. It works well enough, and avoids tons of people flaming Taco and Hemos for arbitrarily closing a discussion.
I think the original post was referring to one possible pronunciation of XFce being kind of mumblingly close to "X feces". Which XFce most certainly isn't.
Agreed!
.tar.gz theme file.]
I installed one called win95 on a lark. I was not amused when all the icons changed to little windows. I quickly changed back to the "default" theme, and deleted win95, but those darn little windows were still there. Instead of a K menu, it was still a windows thing.
The horror! My KDE desktop was infected by Win95 icons.
It took me an hour or more to find and delete the icons that were causing this. I needed to restart kde to really fix things though. [tip: examine the text files in the
I didn't try the star trek theme, but a version of the moscow theme does this too.
Perhaps we can count on having a cygwin/mingw cross compiler as part of standard redhat linux install. I don't think I'd be the only person who would find this feature quite useful. Think of the amusing sales pitch:
Linux: the ideal development platform for your NT projects
While CPLANT is a clustered alpha linux machine, they makes pains to not call it a Beowulf. From the FAQ:
FAQ 2: Is it another Beowulf machine?
Not really. The Cplant project has some broader goals than traditional Beowulf systems. We are not trying to build a machine for a small number of users to run a small number of applications on a small number of machines. We are trying to build a production machine for hundreds of users to run all types of parallel applications on potentially thousands of nodes. We are essentially trying to build a commodity-based machine patterned after the design of the Intel TeraFLOPS machine.
I think you are right, but a while ago, people started generalizing moore's law to talk about computer speed as well as memory density.
The cat is out of the bag. It's doubtful that the secrets of CSS are going to be forgotten any time soon.
Since this poor fellow looks like he'll be on the hook for doing simple development work, maybe we need to rethink how we will do controversial development in the future, stuff like unwelcome reverse engineering. If publishing the results makes one personally open to lawsuits, this is bad.
How to avoid personal liability? Businesses have the corporation, which has the advantage that it gets sued, not the individuals in it. Perhaps a lawyer could comment on whether it makes sense to incorporate hacking groups to avoid personal liability for hacking done.
Would this work?
Matlab for Linux used to be ungodly expensive. They now sell the student version for US$99 and it has Windoze and Linux in the same box. This is only available in the USA and Canada though, and is one of two different student versions. See the student edition page at www.mathworks.com for more info.
I think you're being a bit harsh. He never said he hated the rich, and Steve Forbes does avoid taxes. What does this mean anyway:
...no better than rascists who hate people cause of their nationality ... you DUMB CANUCK
Interesting, highly politicized examples. In 50 years, perhaps the debate over one or more will look quaint. Did you know that plate tectonics went through a similar period of vilification in the '60s? It's orthodox geology now, but then it was a nutty idea out of left field.
If you haven't read it, you would like "The structure of scientific revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn. Basically he points out that science is essentially an organized form of social behavior. The central dogma can be supplanted but only with great effort. Kuhn talks of "paradigms", and "normal science".
Don't forget that Normal science is pretty darn good! It gets stuff done. People who invoke Kuhn sometimes make the leap that "alternative" science is all equally valuable. It isn't.
Kuhn is pretty orthogonal to the traditional view of science, espoused best by Karl Popper: Theorize, Test, Revise, Repeat. (Okay - that's a simplification. "Write grant application" goes somewhere.)
Kuhn says that if enough evidence accretes to support [blank], a new generation of scientists may buy into it. Voila: paradigm shift. (this phrase was appropriates by pointy hair bosses a while back.)
One other issue: I would also like to point out that having a Nobel is a kind of "Be as nutty as you wish" prize. There are lots of examples (Crick, Pauling) of post-Nobel nuttiness.
Here's what happens: The meme of Ridiculous Patents has entered the public sphere. A huge debate starts over what's fair to patent.
Desirable result: Political change might just happen. The patent system is reformed.
If it takes some greedy biological equivalent of UNISYS to force the public focus onto how the patent system sometimes works as a licence to extort, then this is a good thing. Because only then, will it get changed.
They can and do make color images from black and white ones. We got color pictures from Mars by compositing red, green and blue filters over a black and white imager. It just takes more effort.
Try reading the pre series announcements. This is at linuxtoday:
2.2.13pre18 released
Odds are that the official release will be pretty close.
I agree. This analogy may be way off, but think of Hitler. He (single-handedly?) convinced an enormous group of people that he knew who deserved to live and he knew what the world should be like and proceeded from there. And look what he did.
I don't particularly like Bill Gates but you do advocacy a bad name when you compare a dislikable businessman to an evil madman like Hitler. Bill Gates' megalomania never killed anybody. Hitler got his jollies killing millions of people, soldiers and civilians alike. Think about that. Seriously.
As a Linux advocate, I think this kind of comparison harms to the credibility of the cause. Would you trust the judgement of someone who confuses a mass murderer with a marketer of inferior products? Be aware that comparing to Hitler isn't particularly novel either. It's been done. By Godwin's law, invoking a comparison to Hitler means that you have run out of ideas and that you lose the argument immediately.
And it never was. In fact, Hollywood doesn't get anybody's profession right. They have certain favorites they do over an over, but really they're more about reinforcing our expectations of a genre than portraying real life. Doctors? Pick your stereotype, tired and edgy or preening and egotistical? Where are the golf addicts? Sorry -- not enough drama. Lawyers? Nothing like the ones I know. Policemen? No, buddy cop movies are not real life. Engineers? What engineers? I can't think of any movie (outside of star trek) that even features engineers. But architects! They're a dime a dozen.
... and to be honest, it's probably a good thing that Hollywood generally ignores computer geeks. Why? Because in all likelihood the alternative would be more of those "Evil hacker" stereotypes.
The fact that Hollywood does a clueless job at portraying geek culture is nothing special. They do a terrible job of portraying any sort of reality at all. After all, they sell escapism. What geeks do is harder to explain not very visible. It's harder to show than what doctors, lawyers and policemen do
oops.
s/earnings/losses/g
Cowpland and others sold a bunch of stock just before announcing worse-than-expected earnings. Then when the stock took a nosedive the shareholders were cheesed off. You aren't supposed to act on inside information like this. IANAL, but sale of stock by company officers is supposed to be more or less transparent, with advance notice.
This means to get the same amount of accuracy, you're throwing decimals around. It's unnecessary.
Why does this argument apply against celsius and not against the imperial mile? Surely 100 kilometers allows more precision than 60 miles?