Sounds great and all, but I still remember the 8 emails I got from them, all to the same mailing list (which has no business being exposed beyond its members). A company that's willing to spam to promote its cause is not one that I'd be willing to support.
That wasn't a news article. It was an interview. Notice how the reporter didn't get any opinions from major open source players. The entire text was either a quote or a paraphrase of Bob Muglia. Seems a bit one-sided if you ask me.
I'm not so sure. I've thought about this before, and really, what would be a situation where you'd use a regex to search for a document? Most searches are assembled by combining the right words (with boolean AND implied), not letter sequences.
Regex searches could also be slow. Think of how many documents Google has to sift through to look for keywords. Now think about backtracking in word matching. In addition, unless Google implemented some kind of safeguards, someone could use up massive processing time on Google servers.
Why is it that the police will arrest individuals, but corporations seem to need to be sued? If someone sent in a tip to the police that the RIAA were racketeering, nothing would happen, but if the same tip were applied to an individual or gang, there would be an investigation. These days, big businesses seem much more powerful because they can hide behind lawyers and deep pockets.
I disagree. I do not follow Linux kernel development closely, but as a Linux user, the release of 2.6 is very exciting. Reporting each test release helps build the suspense and gets me interested at looking at changelogs and whatnot to see what's going on.
As to minor releases, they often fix problems that are relevant to me. Since I do not regularly check kernel.org (it's the same most of the time), I appreciate the news.
The only problem I see with this is that it won't be able to recognize you by weight after it starts doing everything for you. Isn't this a self-defeating system?
This actually looks a lot like the recipe for Gak. The only difference is that Gak uses Borax, which, for all I know could be the same as sodium borate. Are Gak and silly putty perhaps the same except for the glue to sodium borate ratio?
Like the computer field itself, there are multiple kinds of computer clubs. You're describing the more concrete kind of club, dealing with software and the function of hardware.
However, there is also the more computer science type computer club where you could teach programming and computer theory. If you're interested in pursuing this type of club, I'd suggest you look into the American Computer Science League (ACSL). They run a total of 4 contests spread throughout the school year that consist of a prgramming assignment that you have 72 hours to complete and 5 computer theory questions (the topics are announced ahead of time). If your school does well, you can send your top 3 or 5 students to the national competition to compete.
Also, remember to include both sexes as club members (ie, don't be exclusive).
Instead of doing a brute-force crack of the private key, why not use an intelligent algorithm for cracking it? As I understand it, the other distributed.net projects used brute-force just to show that how much time a brute- force could take. If this project is really about discovering the key and not about seeing how long it takes to stumble upon it at random, then shouldn't they use a smart algorithm?
Instead of doing a brute-force crack of the private key, why not use an intelligent algorithm for cracking it? As I understand it, the other distributed.net projects used brute-force just to show that how much time a brute-force could take. If this project is really about discovering the key and not about seeing how long it takes to stumble upon it at random, then shouldn't they use a smart algorithm?
For many people this will be a very good technology, allowing them not to worry about their computer. You just plug it in and it will have all the latests software. You want a new game? Well no problem, you click a button and get charged at the end of the month.
Schools and other large institutions with many computers would most definately like this because upgrading all their computers is quite a tedious and time consuming process.
On the down side, not everyone wants this kind of autmation. There are many people, even those not using Linux or other free OSes, that want to have much finer control over what gets put on their box. For these people subscription ware might not be a viable option.
What happens to the bandwidth? What happens when every time a computer boots up it logs on and checks for updates to every single program it has installed? If subscription ware is put on millions of computers, people will definately be able to see a drop in the available bandwidth. For that matter, what about people who use this service but only have a 56k modem? Currently the update for a fresh install of halflife is 53 megs. If all your programs needed to be updated, it could take quite while on a slow connection.
The Z Master
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Sounds great and all, but I still remember the 8 emails I got from them, all to the same mailing list (which has no business being exposed beyond its members). A company that's willing to spam to promote its cause is not one that I'd be willing to support.
That wasn't a news article. It was an interview. Notice how the reporter didn't get any opinions from major open source players. The entire text was either a quote or a paraphrase of Bob Muglia. Seems a bit one-sided if you ask me.
I may be interested depending on your location (I also live in eastern PA) and the viability of transporting the thing (ie, what are its dimensions?).
How should I contact you? I don't really trust slashdot as a personal communcation medium.
I'm not so sure. I've thought about this before, and really, what would be a situation where you'd use a regex to search for a document? Most searches are assembled by combining the right words (with boolean AND implied), not letter sequences.
Regex searches could also be slow. Think of how many documents Google has to sift through to look for keywords. Now think about backtracking in word matching. In addition, unless Google implemented some kind of safeguards, someone could use up massive processing time on Google servers.
Why is it that the police will arrest individuals, but corporations seem to need to be sued? If someone sent in a tip to the police that the RIAA were racketeering, nothing would happen, but if the same tip were applied to an individual or gang, there would be an investigation. These days, big businesses seem much more powerful because they can hide behind lawyers and deep pockets.
I disagree. I do not follow Linux kernel development closely, but as a Linux user, the release of 2.6 is very exciting. Reporting each test release helps build the suspense and gets me interested at looking at changelogs and whatnot to see what's going on.
As to minor releases, they often fix problems that are relevant to me. Since I do not regularly check kernel.org (it's the same most of the time), I appreciate the news.
The only problem I see with this is that it won't be able to recognize you by weight after it starts doing everything for you. Isn't this a self-defeating system?
They're Nazi's! Just take a look at the bottom-center of this diagram.
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This actually looks a lot like the recipe for Gak. The only difference is that Gak uses Borax, which, for all I know could be the same as sodium borate. Are Gak and silly putty perhaps the same except for the glue to sodium borate ratio?
Like the computer field itself, there are multiple kinds of computer clubs. You're describing the more concrete kind of club, dealing with software and the function of hardware.
However, there is also the more computer science type computer club where you could teach programming and computer theory. If you're interested in pursuing this type of club, I'd suggest you look into the American Computer Science League (ACSL). They run a total of 4 contests spread throughout the school year that consist of a prgramming assignment that you have 72 hours to complete and 5 computer theory questions (the topics are announced ahead of time). If your school does well, you can send your top 3 or 5 students to the national competition to compete.
Also, remember to include both sexes as club members (ie, don't be exclusive).
Good luck with your club!
Instead of doing a brute-force crack of the private key, why not use an intelligent algorithm for cracking it? As I understand it, the other distributed.net projects used brute-force just to show that how much time a brute- force could take. If this project is really about discovering the key and not about seeing how long it takes to stumble upon it at random, then shouldn't they use a smart algorithm?
Instead of doing a brute-force crack of the private key, why not use an intelligent algorithm for cracking it? As I understand it, the other distributed.net projects used brute-force just to show that how much time a brute-force could take. If this project is really about discovering the key and not about seeing how long it takes to stumble upon it at random, then shouldn't they use a smart algorithm?
That should be Mandrake GNU/Linux 9.
The area the hand is located also looks like an eye socket, with the nose in the middle of the picture.
very freaky
For many people this will be a very good technology, allowing them not to worry about their computer. You just plug it in and it will have all the latests software. You want a new game? Well no problem, you click a button and get charged at the end of the month. Schools and other large institutions with many computers would most definately like this because upgrading all their computers is quite a tedious and time consuming process. On the down side, not everyone wants this kind of autmation. There are many people, even those not using Linux or other free OSes, that want to have much finer control over what gets put on their box. For these people subscription ware might not be a viable option. What happens to the bandwidth? What happens when every time a computer boots up it logs on and checks for updates to every single program it has installed? If subscription ware is put on millions of computers, people will definately be able to see a drop in the available bandwidth. For that matter, what about people who use this service but only have a 56k modem? Currently the update for a fresh install of halflife is 53 megs. If all your programs needed to be updated, it could take quite while on a slow connection. The Z Master
Yes... but the manipulation controls are SO hard to use