Hmm... how much longer can we go on dumping our junk in the oceans without seriously screwing up our ecosystems...
With junk like this, indefinitely. Think about the volume of the ocean. Then think about the size of this space station. Then think about what the space station will go through on re-entry. Then tell me there will be measurable harm to the ecosystem.
I'm not sure that it's really all that wise to be sending all kinds of junk all over Mars. Now instead of 1 little wheeled thing per mission we could have dozens of bouncing machines littering the planet.
That sounds like environmentalism taken quite a bit too far. That is almost as bad as the people who think we shouldn't colonize mars because "we'll just ruin it like we ruined earth". Nevermind that there's nothing on Mars to be ruined. No evidence of life, just thousands of acres of dust.
If bouncing "litter" helps us one little bit in exploring mars, I say go for it. Mars isn't doing us any good just sitting there, all pristine.
Messaging, a set of routines to help applications (processes) or parts of applications (threads) talk to each other;
Scheduler, to give the many applications (or parts of applications) some processing time to get work done;
Memory management, so that applications have an area in memory in which to run, protected from other applications' bugs that might affect them.
There are supporting elements on top of the kernel, such as drivers to help programmers talk to hardware, libraries to provide extra code functionality, and a set of commands (a shell) to enable users to tell applications or the OS what to do. But almost everything else outside the Unix kernel is considered a utility or something extra, not part of the core OS.
That makes Unix sound an awful lot like an OS to me. The author's main argument seems to be that since unix doesn't come with a standard GUI, it isn't an OS. This is so unbelievably wrong it isn't even funny.
Hopefully, whoever buys the Usenet archive will 1)Keep the service free, and 2)Hire some programmers.
Deja is the buggiest major site I've ever come across. If you've tried to use deja.com to read anything other than the most recent day or two worth of traffic, you probably know what I mean. Follow a link to a specific post, and there's a good chance you'll be directed to a totally different post. This state of affairs has held for at least the last year, maybe longer.
Knowing that deja is up for sale, it now makes sense that they haven't put a lot of effort into fixing bugs. But whoever buys the usenet archive is going to have some serious work to do.
Forward looking statements in this release
include the risk that AMD will be not successfully introduce a commercially available multiprocessing solution and that such
solution may not be accepted by the market.
Aibo, a 27-cm-tall (11 inch) dog-like robot that can go for walks, chase after a ball and wag its tail, went on sale in June 1999, priced at 250,000 yen ($2,290) in Japan and $2,500 in the United States.
I am heavily interested in robotics, and the field of personal robotics holds great promise. But $2500 for a glorified children's toy? I wonder what the new one will cost?
That said, to the extent that Aibo and its progeny increase public interest in personal robotics, they are a good thing. Back in the 80s, I figured that by now we'd be able to buy a useful household robot for $2500 or less. I can only hope that when the novelty value of robot pets wears off, people will still be interested in and will pursue household robotics.
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You're missing my whole point. Hillary Rosen said: An advancement in technology isn't wrong.
Napster is only a technology (an advancement in technology, at that). According to the RIAA's own spokesperson, the technology itself isn't wrong. And how could one argue otherwise? The only people breaking the law in the Napster situation, if anyone is breaking the law, are those users who trade copyrighted works. Not Napster itself. Napster does not TOUCH copyrighted works!
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An advancement in technology isn't wrong. Swapping CDs with your friends isn't wrong. What is wrong is profiting from others' hard work and knowingly stealing another individual's copyrighted works.
There is just no way people will pay that for an OS. If the price of Windows got jacked up that high, most people would just quit upgrading their OS. Obviously, if this scenario ever comes to pass, Linux, BeOS, and MacOS will be getting a hell of boost.
But it simply isn't going to happen. The reasoning in the report is less than stunning.
Besides, no Microsoft executive with an ounce of sense would consider charging a grand for Windows. Even a Microsoft exec is going to realize it just wouldn't sell. And since the only way a Microsoft OS division would survive is by selling lots of licenses, they would never make a pricing decision that would alienate 90% of their user base.
Honk Kong hasn't influenced China much, and China hasn't influenced Hong Kong much, at least not yet.
I don't think there is much chance of Hong Kong seriously affecting China as a whole for a LONG time. China is large geographically, and has a huge population, the greater part of which is rural. Hong Kong is relatively tiny, and it is ridiculous to think that Hong Kong will greatly influence China in the short term.
So far, China has largely left Hong Kong alone. This is mainly because China knows the world is watching and it doesn't want any more bad publicity. However, if it decided to, China could do pretty much whatever it wanted to with Hong Kong.
I think the analogy holds for the 32 processor 256 GB RAM Linux box as well.
Well, not really. With 32 processors, you aren't going to see much, if any, performance gain over a 1-2 processor box, if you are just doing things like playing Quake. And if you're only running, say, emacs, a couple of shells, and Netscape, you're definitely not going to see a performance gain. If anything, you'd see a performance decrease.
The only real use of a 32 CPU machine, is, obviously, an application that requires lots of processing. Scientists need machines like that; normal users don't, unless they are way to into distributed.net.
All the new plants scheduled to come online are still years away from being complete, and the energy crunch is worsening. Nobody is building any plants because the costs in a deregulated market
Do you not see the contradiction here?
In case you don't, I'll spell it out for you: In one sentence you say the "new plants" are years from completion, and in the next you say "nobody is building any new plants." As I recall, you are a college student living in Minnestota. Maybe not the best person to be commenting on power generation in California.
Okay, this is bad. This is very bad - if they are so worried about grid stability that they are trying to deploy technologies to get people off it, what they're saying is that it is only a matter of time before it destabilizes - unless something is done.
Who is "so worried"? We are talking about GE, a company that to my knowledge owns no power plants, building a device that lets you generate electricity without reliance on the power grid. Other companies have been doing this for decades in the form of solar cells, wind turbines, and so on.
There is nothing "bad" about this. All we're talking about here is a way of generating your own electricity that is presumably more cost effective than buying solar cells. This does not mean power companies are going to force you to buy these. It means that people who care about not having to rely on the power company will may buy them.
Copy protection never works. It just creates an opportunity for people who like to break copy protection.
Personally, I think it's an outrage that the government is mandating copy-protection. If a company wants copy-protection, they can put it in themselves. They shouldn't be forced by the government to include it.
I finally got the press release to load, and I guess it is not just Fujitsu, but several Japanese media companies involved. Moreover, we're only talking about MO disks. Still, the boycott advice holds. If you don't like this idea, don't use MO disks from this coalition. CDR(W)s work fine for my needs.
As long as there are manufacturers making drives without this "feature", why would anyone buy one that has it? It is adding complexity (and possibly cost) and does nothing except lessen the users ability to use his hardware as he sees fit.
As I see it, Fujitsu is the only manufacturer currently going this route. Just boycott Fujitsu. Problem: solved.
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With junk like this, indefinitely. Think about the volume of the ocean. Then think about the size of this space station. Then think about what the space station will go through on re-entry. Then tell me there will be measurable harm to the ecosystem.
Perhaps you could get some sort of sponsorship, though that's doubtful.
Your best bet would be to find someone who is already running a big site and is willing to host you for free; but that is easier said than done.
That sounds like environmentalism taken quite a bit too far. That is almost as bad as the people who think we shouldn't colonize mars because "we'll just ruin it like we ruined earth". Nevermind that there's nothing on Mars to be ruined. No evidence of life, just thousands of acres of dust.
If bouncing "litter" helps us one little bit in exploring mars, I say go for it. Mars isn't doing us any good just sitting there, all pristine.
Messaging, a set of routines to help applications (processes) or parts of applications (threads) talk to each other;
Scheduler, to give the many applications (or parts of applications) some processing time to get work done;
Memory management, so that applications have an area in memory in which to run, protected from other applications' bugs that might affect them.
There are supporting elements on top of the kernel, such as drivers to help programmers talk to hardware, libraries to provide extra code functionality, and a set of commands (a shell) to enable users to tell applications or the OS what to do. But almost everything else outside the Unix kernel is considered a utility or something extra, not part of the core OS.
That makes Unix sound an awful lot like an OS to me. The author's main argument seems to be that since unix doesn't come with a standard GUI, it isn't an OS. This is so unbelievably wrong it isn't even funny.
Deja is the buggiest major site I've ever come across. If you've tried to use deja.com to read anything other than the most recent day or two worth of traffic, you probably know what I mean. Follow a link to a specific post, and there's a good chance you'll be directed to a totally different post. This state of affairs has held for at least the last year, maybe longer.
Knowing that deja is up for sale, it now makes sense that they haven't put a lot of effort into fixing bugs. But whoever buys the usenet archive is going to have some serious work to do.
So, AMD still isn't making any gaurantees.
Aibo, a 27-cm-tall (11 inch) dog-like robot that can go for walks, chase after a ball and wag its tail, went on sale in June 1999, priced at 250,000 yen ($2,290) in Japan and $2,500 in the United States.
I am heavily interested in robotics, and the field of personal robotics holds great promise. But $2500 for a glorified children's toy? I wonder what the new one will cost?
That said, to the extent that Aibo and its progeny increase public interest in personal robotics, they are a good thing. Back in the 80s, I figured that by now we'd be able to buy a useful household robot for $2500 or less. I can only hope that when the novelty value of robot pets wears off, people will still be interested in and will pursue household robotics.
An advancement in technology isn't wrong.
Napster is only a technology (an advancement in technology, at that). According to the RIAA's own spokesperson, the technology itself isn't wrong. And how could one argue otherwise? The only people breaking the law in the Napster situation, if anyone is breaking the law, are those users who trade copyrighted works. Not Napster itself. Napster does not TOUCH copyrighted works!
So, when are you dropping the Napster lawsuit?
Three issues of scam.
Here are SCAM #1 and #3.
But it simply isn't going to happen. The reasoning in the report is less than stunning.
Besides, no Microsoft executive with an ounce of sense would consider charging a grand for Windows. Even a Microsoft exec is going to realize it just wouldn't sell. And since the only way a Microsoft OS division would survive is by selling lots of licenses, they would never make a pricing decision that would alienate 90% of their user base.
I don't think there is much chance of Hong Kong seriously affecting China as a whole for a LONG time. China is large geographically, and has a huge population, the greater part of which is rural. Hong Kong is relatively tiny, and it is ridiculous to think that Hong Kong will greatly influence China in the short term.
So far, China has largely left Hong Kong alone. This is mainly because China knows the world is watching and it doesn't want any more bad publicity. However, if it decided to, China could do pretty much whatever it wanted to with Hong Kong.
Well, not really. With 32 processors, you aren't going to see much, if any, performance gain over a 1-2 processor box, if you are just doing things like playing Quake. And if you're only running, say, emacs, a couple of shells, and Netscape, you're definitely not going to see a performance gain. If anything, you'd see a performance decrease.
The only real use of a 32 CPU machine, is, obviously, an application that requires lots of processing. Scientists need machines like that; normal users don't, unless they are way to into distributed.net.
Do you not see the contradiction here?
In case you don't, I'll spell it out for you: In one sentence you say the "new plants" are years from completion, and in the next you say "nobody is building any new plants." As I recall, you are a college student living in Minnestota. Maybe not the best person to be commenting on power generation in California.
Who is "so worried"? We are talking about GE, a company that to my knowledge owns no power plants, building a device that lets you generate electricity without reliance on the power grid. Other companies have been doing this for decades in the form of solar cells, wind turbines, and so on.
There is nothing "bad" about this. All we're talking about here is a way of generating your own electricity that is presumably more cost effective than buying solar cells. This does not mean power companies are going to force you to buy these. It means that people who care about not having to rely on the power company will may buy them.
Personally, I think it's an outrage that the government is mandating copy-protection. If a company wants copy-protection, they can put it in themselves. They shouldn't be forced by the government to include it.
I finally got the press release to load, and I guess it is not just Fujitsu, but several Japanese media companies involved. Moreover, we're only talking about MO disks. Still, the boycott advice holds. If you don't like this idea, don't use MO disks from this coalition. CDR(W)s work fine for my needs.
As I see it, Fujitsu is the only manufacturer currently going this route. Just boycott Fujitsu. Problem: solved.