If you are liquid right now in this economy, you are king. There are so many investment opportunities out there right now it's crazy - everything is discounted.
Why does the "took 10 years to replace the VCR" argument keep coming up. Last time I checked, a DVD player could not play VHS tapes. That's why is took so long to replace the VCR. The new HD-DVD and BD-DVD players support the old DVD format, so what's the big deal?
"This is the OverLord Tank", "Extra Large". If you like the tank rush, play China. You are absolutely correct in saying that the key to winning is to tank rush. I find that the new Generals is just as imbalanced as the other titles in the series. It's sad to see really. The USA has great abilities, but requires fine-grained control which the hotkeys simply do not provide. I praise the efforts of the developpers (full 3d...) but as usual the game is awfully slow (AMD 2100+ GF4) on very good hardware (even in 640x480) and there are the usual server disconnects. At least they got rid of IPX:-)
There has been a lot of Linux buzz over at Ericsson for quite some time now. They are betting the shop that the underlying JAMBALA architecture will run on Linux Clusters. The lab that is working on this initiative is located in Montreal, Canada.
Folding@Home is what I do with my increased CPU power. Fine, we decoded the genome, now what? Protein folding and understanding proteins is the single most important thing for the advancement of medical research. Overall, I would rate it more important than getting crazy framerates in quake.
I agree with the statement about integrators being valuable. RedHat 7.2 includes support for the screen dimming functionality for the Sony VAIO line of portables stock. It was a nice surprise... I got scared when I did a google search on the subject and though I had to do it myself:-|`
... biological evolution as we know it is over. We are on the virge of reverse-engineering it's creation. We will reprogram it to suit our needs. Just like the transistor took over from the vacuum tube, improvement (evolution) doesn not stop, it just uses different materials goes in different directions.
Given enough time, open source adapts to fill the needs. Has anyone heard of the RedHat Database? It's based on the Postgres code, but with RedHat support and money behind it. I think they will give all the naysayers a good run for their money, and I wish them the best of luck!
This may be a little OT, but similar thoughts have crossed my mind many times. I live in Canada where the average outside temperature in the winter is about -5C. Yet, I still have a fridge and freezer that use electricity to make their own cold. This is ridiculous! There should be a central way to manage heat exchange in a house, much like we have a central way to manage electricity. Image that we needed a generator in every room! The savings could really add up over time, and not only monetary, but environmental as well.
I don't think that Katz's direction is necesarily wrong here. He goes off into la-la land with drones and all that, however I think he is on the right track. In much better words than mine I would like to illustrate my point with an excerpt from Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" [pp 15, ISBN 0-14-028202-5] (required geek reading BTW)
"... Homo sapiens neanderthalensis emerged about 100,000 years ago in Europe and the Middle East and then disappeared mysteriously about 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. [...] We're not entirely sure what happened to our Homo sapiens cousins, but they apparently got into conflict with our own immediate ancestors Homo sapiens sapiens, who emerged about 90,000 years ago. Several subspecies of humanoids initiated the creation of technology. The most clever and aggressive of these subscpecies was the only one to survive. This established a pattern that would repeat itself throughout human history, in that the technologically more advanced group ends up becoming dominant."
As this passage clearly demonstrates, we are simply following the convention that the more technologically advances faction will inevitable win in the long run. I don't think that one can make the argument that going up agaist the US military with a bunch of 30 year old munitions constitues a fair battle.
This is why I have a possitive sense that the technologically advanced world will eventually dominate the globe. There will definately be a cost to it, but contrary to Katz vision of warring drones it is not in the best interest of technologically advances peoples to waste resources of fighting each other in "virtual" wars.
I would have love to have been beside RMS to see him fall flat on his ass when he read the news... (he then quickly got up and his head spun completely around a couple of times and he started speaking in tongues...:-0 )
Anyone that has used name brand machines and clones knows that one of the big differences is in case design and quality - mainly when it comes to fans. The name brands usually have one big fan doing most of the cooling work. The advantages to this are that there is much less noise because bigger fans usually displace more air at slower rpm and have better life cycles. Another problem is power. A lot of amps are needed at 12v to power bigger fans, placing undue load on the power supply. At a certain point, my case had a collection of 12 fans (power supply, orb coolers (smp), drive bays, case, north bridge, vga). Whenever I turned it on, it sounded like a plane was taking off! The solution was the following. I took out all the fans except for the power supply fan. I purchased a metal 5"x5" 115v fan from my local electronics store, dremelled out an opening on the side of my case, and connected the fan power directly onto the switch on the ATX power supply (that way when I turn off the switch, it turns off the fan). The fan is actually what is used in on most rack enclosures. I faced it so it blows into the case directly onto the CPUs and north bridge. I changed the cpu orb coolers for larger fanless heat sinks. I can now barely hear the PC under my desk. It emits a very low humming because the large fan RPM is slower than smaller fans. It really moves a lot of air at 115v AC, enough that a stream can be felt from every crack and outlet in the case (even the floppy drive, but I'm sure that's not good for dust). Noise problem solved, cooling problems solved.
Vmware would be the ideal solution. Lock the host OS down to reduce your support costs, and then provide a default partition file to your developers, so that when they screw up their virtual machine, they just reload the file and continue hacking... Everybody is happy.
EMS is rolling out its new 2way broadband satellite internet using the new DVB-RCS open standard. I have had a chance to use this technology in the pre-release phase and was quite impressed. The latency is about.7 seconds because it uses geosynched satelites, and broadcasts in the Ka band, making it more sensitive to bad weather. It uses the standard 45cm dish size, so installation is quite easy. Overall, a good experience if you are not in range of other solutions (ADSL, Cable, RF,...)
The solution is being lauched in November, 2001.
It is being made available in North America and Europe. The company doing it is EMS with these products through an open standard called DBV-RCS
Incorporate (ie - board and president and legal status), not register, a company. Then, license your software to that company. Give it the rights to pursue distribution channels and/or resellers and/or sell your product directly. This way you have a legal entity between you the coder and your employer. Then have the said company negotiate a reseller deal with your current employer. Do this quickly before your employer thinks that you started coding _after_ you heard of their needs (some management types don't understand that it takes _time_ to code something:-) ). There is a distinct defference between you dealing with your employer directly, and you dealing with your employer on behalf of a legal entitly. Demonstate the benifits of having the product ready right now, instead of having them develop it internally. The biggest argument here I would guess in your favour is time to market of the product. If you can negotiate a nice sum for the software license and want to avoid a conflict of interest, the best thing would be to take a payed/unpayed vacation and finish the product on your own time.
This is not theoretical advise, it worked quite nicely for an friend. He looked like a champ, saved the company development time and expenses, was in house at the company to support it ( a big selling point from the company's clients... "We have the guy who wrote the software working in house to support it..." ). Of course it depends on the management in place, but the benifits are quite easy to see. Hope this helps.
Maybe you should read the the announcements that come with every kernel release before proclaiming that:
Don't just go out and grab 2.4.2...
From Linus's announcement:
The IDE driver bug that Russell found has, to my knowledge, never been shown to happen on anything but his ARM machine, but for all we know it could be quite bad even on x86. Similarly, the elevator bug could cause corruption, but probably has not actually bit people in practice. But both are definitely deadly...
I don't know about you, but I think this may be significant and worth the upgrade if you use IDE in your systems.
Slashdot Mirror
...and run.
If you are liquid right now in this economy, you are king. There are so many investment opportunities out there right now it's crazy - everything is discounted.
Why does the "took 10 years to replace the VCR" argument keep coming up. Last time I checked, a DVD player could not play VHS tapes. That's why is took so long to replace the VCR. The new HD-DVD and BD-DVD players support the old DVD format, so what's the big deal?
Whichever one is embedded into Windows XP.
HA! Red Swingline... Kills me every time! Thanks.
"This is the OverLord Tank", "Extra Large". If you like the tank rush, play China. You are absolutely correct in saying that the key to winning is to tank rush. I find that the new Generals is just as imbalanced as the other titles in the series. It's sad to see really. The USA has great abilities, but requires fine-grained control which the hotkeys simply do not provide. I praise the efforts of the developpers (full 3d...) but as usual the game is awfully slow (AMD 2100+ GF4) on very good hardware (even in 640x480) and there are the usual server disconnects. At least they got rid of IPX :-)
There has been a lot of Linux buzz over at Ericsson for quite some time now. They are betting the shop that the underlying JAMBALA architecture will run on Linux Clusters. The lab that is working on this initiative is located in Montreal, Canada.
Folding@Home is what I do with my increased CPU power. Fine, we decoded the genome, now what? Protein folding and understanding proteins is the single most important thing for the advancement of medical research. Overall, I would rate it more important than getting crazy framerates in quake.
I agree with the statement about integrators being valuable. RedHat 7.2 includes support for the screen dimming functionality for the Sony VAIO line of portables stock. It was a nice surprise... I got scared when I did a google search on the subject and though I had to do it myself :-|`
FYI, the font link
what? and I thought that the world's transportation problems have already been solved by the "Segway".
... and they're off!!!
Ray Kurzweil's "Age of Spiritual Machines"
... biological evolution as we know it is over. We are on the virge of reverse-engineering it's creation. We will reprogram it to suit our needs. Just like the transistor took over from the vacuum tube, improvement (evolution) doesn not stop, it just uses different materials goes in different directions.
Given enough time, open source adapts to fill the needs. Has anyone heard of the RedHat Database? It's based on the Postgres code, but with RedHat support and money behind it. I think they will give all the naysayers a good run for their money, and I wish them the best of luck!
This may be a little OT, but similar thoughts have crossed my mind many times. I live in Canada where the average outside temperature in the winter is about -5C. Yet, I still have a fridge and freezer that use electricity to make their own cold. This is ridiculous! There should be a central way to manage heat exchange in a house, much like we have a central way to manage electricity. Image that we needed a generator in every room! The savings could really add up over time, and not only monetary, but environmental as well.
T-O-S-S-E-R-S ... very clever indeed!
I don't think that Katz's direction is necesarily wrong here. He goes off into la-la land with drones and all that, however I think he is on the right track. In much better words than mine I would like to illustrate my point with an excerpt from Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" [pp 15, ISBN 0-14-028202-5] (required geek reading BTW)
"... Homo sapiens neanderthalensis emerged about 100,000 years ago in Europe and the Middle East and then disappeared mysteriously about 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. [...] We're not entirely sure what happened to our Homo sapiens cousins, but they apparently got into conflict with our own immediate ancestors Homo sapiens sapiens, who emerged about 90,000 years ago. Several subspecies of humanoids initiated the creation of technology. The most clever and aggressive of these subscpecies was the only one to survive. This established a pattern that would repeat itself throughout human history, in that the technologically more advanced group ends up becoming dominant."
As this passage clearly demonstrates, we are simply following the convention that the more technologically advances faction will inevitable win in the long run. I don't think that one can make the argument that going up agaist the US military with a bunch of 30 year old munitions constitues a fair battle.
This is why I have a possitive sense that the technologically advanced world will eventually dominate the globe. There will definately be a cost to it, but contrary to Katz vision of warring drones it is not in the best interest of technologically advances peoples to waste resources of fighting each other in "virtual" wars.
I would have love to have been beside RMS to see him fall flat on his ass when he read the news... (he then quickly got up and his head spun completely around a couple of times and he started speaking in tongues... :-0 )
... for every time that a story was duplicated on slashdot... the possibilities are endless.
Anyone that has used name brand machines and clones knows that one of the big differences is in case design and quality - mainly when it comes to fans. The name brands usually have one big fan doing most of the cooling work. The advantages to this are that there is much less noise because bigger fans usually displace more air at slower rpm and have better life cycles. Another problem is power. A lot of amps are needed at 12v to power bigger fans, placing undue load on the power supply. At a certain point, my case had a collection of 12 fans (power supply, orb coolers (smp), drive bays, case, north bridge, vga). Whenever I turned it on, it sounded like a plane was taking off! The solution was the following. I took out all the fans except for the power supply fan. I purchased a metal 5"x5" 115v fan from my local electronics store, dremelled out an opening on the side of my case, and connected the fan power directly onto the switch on the ATX power supply (that way when I turn off the switch, it turns off the fan). The fan is actually what is used in on most rack enclosures. I faced it so it blows into the case directly onto the CPUs and north bridge. I changed the cpu orb coolers for larger fanless heat sinks. I can now barely hear the PC under my desk. It emits a very low humming because the large fan RPM is slower than smaller fans. It really moves a lot of air at 115v AC, enough that a stream can be felt from every crack and outlet in the case (even the floppy drive, but I'm sure that's not good for dust). Noise problem solved, cooling problems solved.
Vmware would be the ideal solution. Lock the host OS down to reduce your support costs, and then provide a default partition file to your developers, so that when they screw up their virtual machine, they just reload the file and continue hacking... Everybody is happy.
EMS is rolling out its new 2way broadband satellite internet using the new DVB-RCS open standard. I have had a chance to use this technology in the pre-release phase and was quite impressed. The latency is about .7 seconds because it uses geosynched satelites, and broadcasts in the Ka band, making it more sensitive to bad weather. It uses the standard 45cm dish size, so installation is quite easy. Overall, a good experience if you are not in range of other solutions (ADSL, Cable, RF, ...)
The solution is being lauched in November, 2001. It is being made available in North America and Europe. The company doing it is EMS with these products through an open standard called DBV-RCS
Bitchin'... totally bitchin!
Pirst Fost!
Incorporate (ie - board and president and legal status), not register, a company. Then, license your software to that company. Give it the rights to pursue distribution channels and/or resellers and/or sell your product directly. This way you have a legal entity between you the coder and your employer. Then have the said company negotiate a reseller deal with your current employer. Do this quickly before your employer thinks that you started coding _after_ you heard of their needs (some management types don't understand that it takes _time_ to code something :-) ). There is a distinct defference between you dealing with your employer directly, and you dealing with your employer on behalf of a legal entitly. Demonstate the benifits of having the product ready right now, instead of having them develop it internally. The biggest argument here I would guess in your favour is time to market of the product. If you can negotiate a nice sum for the software license and want to avoid a conflict of interest, the best thing would be to take a payed/unpayed vacation and finish the product on your own time.
This is not theoretical advise, it worked quite nicely for an friend. He looked like a champ, saved the company development time and expenses, was in house at the company to support it ( a big selling point from the company's clients... "We have the guy who wrote the software working in house to support it..." ). Of course it depends on the management in place, but the benifits are quite easy to see. Hope this helps.
Maybe you should read the the announcements that come with every kernel release before proclaiming that:
Don't just go out and grab 2.4.2...
From Linus's announcement:
The IDE driver bug that Russell found has, to my knowledge, never been shown to happen on anything but his ARM machine, but for all we know it could be quite bad even on x86. Similarly, the elevator bug could cause corruption, but probably has not actually bit people in practice. But both are definitely deadly...
I don't know about you, but I think this may be significant and worth the upgrade if you use IDE in your systems.