Have any benchmark tests been tried on Linux PPC vs. MacOS on the same machine? For example, one could write a stress testing program in c, compile it for both OS'es and draw what conclusions you will from the results. But then the results could be skewed by the effectiveness of the respective compiler in producing efficient machine code. I'm definitely not an OS expert, so I don't know for sure...
here's a few examples (some I disagree with personally, but I feel they should be protected, regardless):
1. personal recreational drug use--this is illegal in the US despite the fact that used inside the home it doesn't bother the general public.
2. Community zoning laws--who is it hurting for you to paint your house whatever color you want?
3. bigamy, where all parties know and are agreeable--why is it the government's duty to pose moral restrictions on these people? It's more than taxes...
I think the problem is that in a democracy (or whatever the US has) the people who want personal freedoms have to demand personal freedoms or the people who demand otherwise will make the rules. The above examples are old and there are probably thousands of similar laws designed to decrease personal freedom in the US and the new avenues technology provides are just a new method toward decreased personal freedom.
The Catholic Church has been pretending this stuff doesn't happen for a long time. Sinead O'Connor may not have totally thought out her actions when she ripped that picture of the pope but she still takes shit for it now when all she wanted was some kind of acknowledgement that their may be a problem.
If the Catholic Church can't get their morality straight, then why trust them with something as serious as your internet service?
I just got cable modem service with Cablevision and had no trouble at all--with no? configuration. As I recall, I just plugged everything in and had yast search for the ethernet card and it worked no problem. I think that Suse might be easier to configure than other distro's though...
The WIZ also has a concurrent offer--which I got--$330 for all the hardware (cable modem, ethernet, coax...) and it played nice with Suse 7.0. It also comes with coupons for a full year of service. The deal mentioned above is bullshit. You are locked into a two year deal, whereas I can use the coupons anytime (useful for a potential apartment hopper, like me)...
What you are saying about the paper exchange may very well be true, but things may be changing:
http://www.mathmlconference.org/Talks/karleen/
suggests that the patent office uses Mathematica at some point to convert mathematical notation into MathML. And particularly that this in being done for web-based systems:
"...distinct benefits for end users of the patents
database, particularly those interested in web-based review of patent data."
So it seems that allowing people to view the contents of the database is in the works; probably transmissions to and from the patent office will eventually be web-enabled at some point.
At a company I used to work for, a senior developer had just quit, and was giving "brain dump" talks to any who would listen. I honestly didn't attend these sessions intending to be inspired. But I was inspired. Not by any dynamic speaking quality, but by his sheer depth of knowledge of the stuff he had coded and his insights on programming in general. This speaker just had great subject matter, was enthused and knew what he was talking about. I would bet that there are a lot of people around like this, you've just got to find them. And I think listening to people like this is interesting and could be inspirational. Sure the group should have seperate activities, but a healthy balance of activities and speakers would be preferable in my opinion.
Eric's work in college was tremendous, we seem to agree on that. After college, though, if he wanted to continue improving the site he needed to make money. He found a place in Wolfram that would pay him to continue his work and leave him largely autonomous and unrestricted. You think he could have done this as well part-time as hobby? No way! He didn't sell out and he wasn't greedy, he found a means to mold his work and not starve. I guarantee he isn't getting rich off this endeveour and calling him greedy is just wrong.
The bounder approach sounds like an idea that might not have been very well thought out. The area that is intended to be researched is likely a large circle, spotted with points that are researched (ala the monte carlo method).
As already pointed out, crater and other hazards would send these robots to never-never land, so the area that is researched never covers areas beyond the hazards.
Wouldn't it make more sense to disperse several smaller shrapnel "robots" with a missle shot upward, with a controlled explosion above the surface sending the robots over a truer detailing of the circle in question.
The robots could be small, with no moving parts, just a hell of a cushioning system. Some other method would need to be devised for exploring cracks in the surface etc, and details would have to be worked out for this too...
You seem to start off saying that crap 20 years ago is crap today. Sure, I'll buy that. But then you go onto say that things that were great years ago (Bob Dylan, Dig Dug, Frogger) would be crap today. This is wrong; they would not be crap... they wouldn't be groudbreaking either, but greatness and groundbreaking are hardly the same thing.
Plenty of people not from the sixties have discovered and enjoyed Bob Dylan well after his prime. I, for one, didn't start playing Galaga, my all-time favorite game, until I discovered standing next to a Mortal Combat II machine.
I argue that several classic games are just as great as the ones made today. They were developed with the tools they had at hand. Because tools were primative is no reason to say a game wasn't great.
Slow relative to what? Gallagher said "That's enough to accelerate a 200 kg spacecraft from a dead stop to 80 km/s (180,000 mph) in only 3 months. The mean distance to the sun of Pluto is 5,913,520,000 km, so by the time this buggy hit the edge of the solar system, it would be going hella fast, relative to what I think is slow.
Employer's cooperating is an extremely bad thing. I would say that all programmers are not necessarilly skilled labor. People can be taught to program or perform certain types of tasks very well with very little prior knowledge. I'm not talking about software developers here, more like ordinary programmers and sys admins. As these people become less and less valuable, cooperating employers will be able to pay less and less. Will the time for tech workers to unionize come soon?
In most cases these days, companies place banner ads because they expect placing these ads will increase their sales. When they purchase the ad they have figure in mind that they'd like to hit for increased sales. If that number isn't hit, something is wrong, and the strategy needs to be re-evaluated.
If you are placing a banner ad for the purpose of marketing, that is a different story. Marketing efforts are very difficult to gauge for quality because the results are abstact in the short run, and hopefully lead to sales in the long run. In this case, I could see the service being useful.
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Have any benchmark tests been tried on Linux PPC vs. MacOS on the same machine? For example, one could write a stress testing program in c, compile it for both OS'es and draw what conclusions you will from the results. But then the results could be skewed by the effectiveness of the respective compiler in producing efficient machine code. I'm definitely not an OS expert, so I don't know for sure...
here's a few examples (some I disagree with personally, but I feel they should be protected, regardless):
1. personal recreational drug use--this is illegal in the US despite the fact that used inside the home it doesn't bother the general public.
2. Community zoning laws--who is it hurting for you to paint your house whatever color you want?
3. bigamy, where all parties know and are agreeable--why is it the government's duty to pose moral restrictions on these people? It's more than taxes...
I think the problem is that in a democracy (or whatever the US has) the people who want personal freedoms have to demand personal freedoms or the people who demand otherwise will make the rules. The above examples are old and there are probably thousands of similar laws designed to decrease personal freedom in the US and the new avenues technology provides are just a new method toward decreased personal freedom.
stories talking about their pedophile priests:
http://www.thelinkup.com/stats.html
The Catholic Church has been pretending this stuff doesn't happen for a long time. Sinead O'Connor may not have totally thought out her actions when she ripped that picture of the pope but she still takes shit for it now when all she wanted was some kind of acknowledgement that their may be a problem.
If the Catholic Church can't get their morality straight, then why trust them with something as serious as your internet service?
I just got cable modem service with Cablevision and had no trouble at all--with no? configuration. As I recall, I just plugged everything in and had yast search for the ethernet card and it worked no problem. I think that Suse might be easier to configure than other distro's though...
The WIZ also has a concurrent offer--which I got--$330 for all the hardware (cable modem, ethernet, coax...) and it played nice with Suse 7.0. It also comes with coupons for a full year of service. The deal mentioned above is bullshit. You are locked into a two year deal, whereas I can use the coupons anytime (useful for a potential apartment hopper, like me)...
What you are saying about the paper exchange may very well be true, but things may be changing:
http://www.mathmlconference.org/Talks/karleen/
suggests that the patent office uses Mathematica at some point to convert mathematical notation into MathML. And particularly that this in being done for web-based systems:
"...distinct benefits for end users of the patents
database, particularly those interested in web-based review of patent data."
So it seems that allowing people to view the contents of the database is in the works; probably transmissions to and from the patent office will eventually be web-enabled at some point.
At a company I used to work for, a senior developer had just quit, and was giving "brain dump" talks to any who would listen. I honestly didn't attend these sessions intending to be inspired. But I was inspired. Not by any dynamic speaking quality, but by his sheer depth of knowledge of the stuff he had coded and his insights on programming in general. This speaker just had great subject matter, was enthused and knew what he was talking about. I would bet that there are a lot of people around like this, you've just got to find them. And I think listening to people like this is interesting and could be inspirational. Sure the group should have seperate activities, but a healthy balance of activities and speakers would be preferable in my opinion.
okay, I'm behind the times, but this review is much more funny:
http://seanbaby.com/nes/w20-1.htm
Eric's work in college was tremendous, we seem to agree on that. After college, though, if he wanted to continue improving the site he needed to make money. He found a place in Wolfram that would pay him to continue his work and leave him largely autonomous and unrestricted. You think he could have done this as well part-time as hobby? No way! He didn't sell out and he wasn't greedy, he found a means to mold his work and not starve. I guarantee he isn't getting rich off this endeveour and calling him greedy is just wrong.
The bounder approach sounds like an idea that might not have been very well thought out. The area that is intended to be researched is likely a large circle, spotted with points that are researched (ala the monte carlo method).
As already pointed out, crater and other hazards would send these robots to never-never land, so the area that is researched never covers areas beyond the hazards.
Wouldn't it make more sense to disperse several smaller shrapnel "robots" with a missle shot upward, with a controlled explosion above the surface sending the robots over a truer detailing of the circle in question.
The robots could be small, with no moving parts, just a hell of a cushioning system. Some other method would need to be devised for exploring cracks in the surface etc, and details would have to be worked out for this too...
You seem to start off saying that crap 20 years ago is crap today. Sure, I'll buy that. But then you go onto say that things that were great years ago (Bob Dylan, Dig Dug, Frogger) would be crap today. This is wrong; they would not be crap... they wouldn't be groudbreaking either, but greatness and groundbreaking are hardly the same thing.
Plenty of people not from the sixties have discovered and enjoyed Bob Dylan well after his prime. I, for one, didn't start playing Galaga, my all-time favorite game, until I discovered standing next to a Mortal Combat II machine.
I argue that several classic games are just as great as the ones made today. They were developed with the tools they had at hand. Because tools were primative is no reason to say a game wasn't great.
Slow relative to what? Gallagher said "That's enough to accelerate a 200 kg spacecraft from a dead stop to 80 km/s (180,000 mph) in only 3 months. The mean distance to the sun of Pluto is 5,913,520,000 km, so by the time this buggy hit the edge of the solar system, it would be going hella fast, relative to what I think is slow.
Employer's cooperating is an extremely bad thing. I would say that all programmers are not necessarilly skilled labor. People can be taught to program or perform certain types of tasks very well with very little prior knowledge. I'm not talking about software developers here, more like ordinary programmers and sys admins. As these people become less and less valuable, cooperating employers will be able to pay less and less. Will the time for tech workers to unionize come soon?
In most cases these days, companies place banner ads because they expect placing these ads will increase their sales. When they purchase the ad they have figure in mind that they'd like to hit for increased sales. If that number isn't hit, something is wrong, and the strategy needs to be re-evaluated. If you are placing a banner ad for the purpose of marketing, that is a different story. Marketing efforts are very difficult to gauge for quality because the results are abstact in the short run, and hopefully lead to sales in the long run. In this case, I could see the service being useful.