I found the HOWTO to be the most useful.... You can install onto an UltraATA drive, it's just a pain in the ass:) Mandrake 7 didn't work for me, but RH 6.1 did.
How about the fact that your post and the other post that pointed this out have both been marked redundant, which, while not inaccurate, defeats the entire purpose of having a redundant rating.
int main(int argc, char **argv){ printf("I exist"); return 0; }
If you believe that we're just chunks of carbon, there's nothing to prevent a computer from emulating us exactly, from an outsider's point of view. You might think there's a difference, but that's probably a conditioned response to farther our genes (like the idea that we have free will) If there's nothing "special" about the human brain (like a soul), and a complete human exists completely within the bounds of our physical universe, there's nothing stopping us from copying one's intelligence.
(Of course, it's always worth mentioning that we could go the other way - first using nanotech to completely redesign ourselves into super-intelligent cybergods, then analysing our own new brains and replicating them to create completely new, fully artificial intelligent beings.)
I don't see how we can make ourselves into cybergods, at least in terms of intelligence, without having a much fuller understanding of our brains than we do now.
Another issue is that unless we copy the brain exactly, it's impossible, or at least extremely difficult, to make a machine emulate the brain until we know what the brain does and how it does it. However, your approach implies that we know everything about the neuron, and that the neuron is the only thing that matters in the nervous system. Hormonal levels and the extracellular fluid also play a role.
It seems to me the most expedient way to make a brain is to either do a "black box" copy, e.g see how we behave and write a program to copy that, or a full "white box" copy, see how the brain works to the necessary level of detail and then write an implementation from there.
Poor fools. Windows is already at version 2000. Just more proof that this "Open Sores" crap will never make it in the real world. Come and use a real OS with a real version number sometime.
If you can't program you have no business using a pre-release kernel!
I'd have to disagree with this. Programming isn't really required for the pre- series if you're willing to accept failure:) However, a good knowledge of the hardware in your box, and a basic knowledge of lilo are required. Here's an LDP HOWTO on this. Their stuff is usually pretty good
I don't believe ReiserFS is included (and neither are ext3 and jfs?), and if it was, as an AC pointed out below, it would be pretty hard to take a screenshot, a benchmark or a time to reboot comparison would be more accurate.
How stable is the current devel tree? 2.3.41 was fine for me... but later kernels either failed to compile or crashed on boot. Are we going to see a long pre- cycle, or is it relatively debugged already?
Yeah, those morons at HelixCode shouldn't promote their stuff until they have at least a workable preview.... And those idiots at Eazel shouldn't hype their product until they have at least an infrastructure and some solid code in CVS... Oh, and those stupid GNOME coders shouldn't even mention their product until they have a 1.0 release ready. WTF are they thinking?? Wait....
You, or some other AC responded to speculation on the type of life on an extra-solar (right word?) planet by calling the poster a "fucking retard", and further citing the fact that we can't physically travel to Mars yet. The last time I checked, the quest for knowledge was the goal of science, and voicing one's opinion about an on-topic issue rationally was a sign of intelligence. And you just generalized the entire slashdot community into a group of narrow-minded linux users, when there are many posters here who are neither.
Carbon can form more bonds (4 instead of 2, because it has 4 electrons on its second energy level, compared to 6 for oxygen), and it can probably form the backbone of more/more diverse complex molecules because of that.
Ok... I'm geting kinda sick of ACs whining about "karma whores" etc. etc. etc. Why do you care? Are you jealous of their karma? If you are, you should start logging in instead of sitting there and complaining. If you think it lowers the quality of posts on slashdot, you should either login and start meta-moderating, or get lucky and use some moderator points. Either way, whining about it will only make slashdot worse. And yes, I'm kinda being hypocritical, whining about a whiner, so this will be my last post on the topic.
The reason the MPAA shouldn't be worried yet is because the current line of devices seem roughly analogous to tape decks. What they should really be worried about is when recordable DVDs, larger hard drives, and more bandwidth make computerized swapping of DVDs possible, which would be analogous to the current MP3 situation.
How come windows has so many more users? Hmm... Which has the bigger installed base... Windows 9x or NT? Win9x? Oh, it must be superior, right? Inertia, e.g people upgrading without looking at the alternatives, price, and app availability play much bigger roles.
I think that SUSE Linux (which is commercially controled and enhanced) combined with KDE (also commercially powered) will eventually win out over Windows and the lame hacker version of Linux.
Your commercially controlled linux wouldn't be anywhere without "lame hacker" versions of the linux kernel, XFree86, and the GNU project, which make up at least 90% of the code in SuSE, or any distro.
I remember the GNUlix guy... It seems to me that he, and others of his time actually had a point, or more accurately could form more than one sentence;) Back in that day, men were real men, women were real women, trolls were real trolls, and small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri.
You know, there are african-americans on slashdot who go about their business, commenting insightfully on discussions, and trying to help the free flow of information we have here by not using inflammatory racial slurs. I suggest you try to be more like them.
Search engines are still the best way to get mp3s IMO.
I'd tend to disagree. oth.net for example is 95% ratio sites, bad directories, full servers, missing files, etc. etc. etc. Tools like Napster, which make finding mp3s easer should really scare the RIAA. In other words, I love that kind of software;)
Out of fear of communism, the government has supported so many atrocious regimes.
What were the alternatives to those atrocious regimes? If the US was fighting against Communism, they were trying to prevent more Chinas and Cubas from appearing, neither of which are shining examples either.
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I found the HOWTO to be the most useful.... You can install onto an UltraATA drive, it's just a pain in the ass :) Mandrake 7 didn't work for me, but RH 6.1 did.
How about the fact that your post and the other post that pointed this out have both been marked redundant, which, while not inaccurate, defeats the entire purpose of having a redundant rating.
int main(int argc, char **argv){
printf("I exist");
return 0;
}
If you believe that we're just chunks of carbon, there's nothing to prevent a computer from emulating us exactly, from an outsider's point of view. You might think there's a difference, but that's probably a conditioned response to farther our genes (like the idea that we have free will) If there's nothing "special" about the human brain (like a soul), and a complete human exists completely within the bounds of our physical universe, there's nothing stopping us from copying one's intelligence.
(Of course, it's always worth mentioning that we could go the other way - first using nanotech to completely redesign ourselves into super-intelligent cybergods, then analysing our own new brains and replicating them to create completely new, fully artificial intelligent beings.)
I don't see how we can make ourselves into cybergods, at least in terms of intelligence, without having a much fuller understanding of our brains than we do now.
Another issue is that unless we copy the brain exactly, it's impossible, or at least extremely difficult, to make a machine emulate the brain until we know what the brain does and how it does it. However, your approach implies that we know everything about the neuron, and that the neuron is the only thing that matters in the nervous system. Hormonal levels and the extracellular fluid also play a role.
It seems to me the most expedient way to make a brain is to either do a "black box" copy, e.g see how we behave and write a program to copy that, or a full "white box" copy, see how the brain works to the necessary level of detail and then write an implementation from there.
Poor fools. Windows is already at version 2000. Just more proof that this "Open Sores" crap will never make it in the real world. Come and use a real OS with a real version number sometime.
If you can't program you have no business using a pre-release kernel!
:) However, a good knowledge of the hardware in your box, and a basic knowledge of lilo are required. Here's an LDP HOWTO on this. Their stuff is usually pretty good
I'd have to disagree with this. Programming isn't really required for the pre- series if you're willing to accept failure
The FAQ is here. Check out subscribe info here.
I don't believe ReiserFS is included (and neither are ext3 and jfs?), and if it was, as an AC pointed out below, it would be pretty hard to take a screenshot, a benchmark or a time to reboot comparison would be more accurate.
Devfs is in, but still experimental IIRC.
How stable is the current devel tree? 2.3.41 was fine for me... but later kernels either failed to compile or crashed on boot. Are we going to see a long pre- cycle, or is it relatively debugged already?
Yeah, those morons at HelixCode shouldn't promote their stuff until they have at least a workable preview....
And those idiots at Eazel shouldn't hype their product until they have at least an infrastructure and some solid code in CVS...
Oh, and those stupid GNOME coders shouldn't even mention their product until they have a 1.0 release ready. WTF are they thinking?? Wait....
Who do you think was responsible for the 65,000+ bugs in Win2K, fools??? And now you've blown his cover!!!
Harvey
Just for the record, I'm writing this on a PIII-750, so they do exist. Dell takes a while to ship them, but oh well.
Harvey
You, or some other AC responded to speculation on the type of life on an extra-solar (right word?) planet by calling the poster a "fucking retard", and further citing the fact that we can't physically travel to Mars yet. The last time I checked, the quest for knowledge was the goal of science, and voicing one's opinion about an on-topic issue rationally was a sign of intelligence. And you just generalized the entire slashdot community into a group of narrow-minded linux users, when there are many posters here who are neither.
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Harvey
Carbon can form more bonds (4 instead of 2, because it has 4 electrons on its second energy level, compared to 6 for oxygen), and it can probably form the backbone of more/more diverse complex molecules because of that.
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Harvey
Ok... I'm geting kinda sick of ACs whining about "karma whores" etc. etc. etc. Why do you care? Are you jealous of their karma? If you are, you should start logging in instead of sitting there and complaining. If you think it lowers the quality of posts on slashdot, you should either login and start meta-moderating, or get lucky and use some moderator points. Either way, whining about it will only make slashdot worse. And yes, I'm kinda being hypocritical, whining about a whiner, so this will be my last post on the topic.
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Harvey
I was alluding to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker trilogy
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Harvey
Two words for you AC: The Crusades.
Any time we dehumanize other people, something like the Crusades is bound to happen
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Harvey, who probably just fell for a joke
The reason the MPAA shouldn't be worried yet is because the current line of devices seem roughly analogous to tape decks. What they should really be worried about is when recordable DVDs, larger hard drives, and more bandwidth make computerized swapping of DVDs possible, which would be analogous to the current MP3 situation.
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Harvey
How come windows has so many more users?
Hmm... Which has the bigger installed base... Windows 9x or NT? Win9x? Oh, it must be superior, right?
Inertia, e.g people upgrading without looking at the alternatives, price, and app availability play much bigger roles.
I think that SUSE Linux (which is commercially controled and enhanced) combined with KDE (also commercially powered) will eventually win out over
Windows and the lame hacker version of Linux.
Your commercially controlled linux wouldn't be anywhere without "lame hacker" versions of the linux kernel, XFree86, and the GNU project, which make up at least 90% of the code in SuSE, or any distro.
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Harvey
I remember the GNUlix guy... It seems to me that he, and others of his time actually had a point, or more accurately could form more than one sentence ;) Back in that day, men were real men, women were real women, trolls were real trolls, and small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri.
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Harvey
You know, there are african-americans on slashdot who go about their business, commenting insightfully on discussions, and trying to help the free flow of information we have here by not using inflammatory racial slurs. I suggest you try to be more like them.
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Harvey
Search engines are still the best way to get mp3s IMO.
;)
I'd tend to disagree. oth.net for example is 95% ratio sites, bad directories, full servers, missing files, etc. etc. etc. Tools like Napster, which make finding mp3s easer should really scare the RIAA. In other words, I love that kind of software
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Harvey
> (Red Hat/Linux)
This ought to be a great test of Linux's/Apache's capabilities... Transmeta's servers are going to be under an incredible load 1/19/00
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Harvey
Out of fear of communism, the government has supported so many atrocious regimes.
What were the alternatives to those atrocious regimes? If the US was fighting against Communism, they were trying to prevent more Chinas and Cubas from appearing, neither of which are shining examples either.
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Harvey