Why does it not surprise me that JonKatz cannot act like a normal human being during a catastrophic event such as the WTC/Pentagon attacks.
You feel the need to analyze these events in terms of politics, of technology. Don't analyze. Don't act like a reporter. But you go ahead and do it anyway. You disgust me, and I'm sure many others.
If you had simply said, "A terrible tragedy has happened - give blood, pray, or have a moment of silence for the dead and injured." But, in your zeal as a reporter, you analyze. Shame on you.
Possibly. But that would require re-regulation of emissions from tractor trailers, industrial equipment, etc. And there are cleaner diesel fuels than the norm used by industry - biodiesel being one of them. And diesel fuel in the future will have further restrictions on sulfate emissions - the trucking industry has been crying loud and long about that.
I've been working on a project at Georgia Tech called FutureTruck, which is sponsored by the Department of Energy and some major automobile manufacturers. If you're interested, the website is here. GT is one of 15 schools from around the US and Canada that were tasked with taking a GM Suburban, a rather poor MPG performer but popular in today's market, and making it cleaner, more efficient, and (if possible) even more consumer-attractive.
Just a couple things I've noticed over the past 2 years of this project:
1. Fuel cell vehicles are still a ways off. The hydrogen containers are bulky and heavy, and a system still costs around $1 million.
2. Diesel/biodiesel looks promising but a few problems remain - more polluting than normal gasoline, different performance issues, and such. However, they are more efficient overall. Paired with an electric motor, diesel engines could turn out to be cleaner and more effective than gasoline-only vehicles.
3. Electric-only vehicles are very limited in range and scope. Batteries are still heavy, even the 'new' kinds of batteries like Lithium-Ion. Combined with the need for a charging/recharging infrastructure, and the (at least) American desire for power, the electric-only vehicle will likely be relegated to shuttle cars on a set path.
4. Hybrids, like diesel-electric or gasoline-electric, seem to be the wave of the near future. I believe all the schools participating in FutureTruck are using a hybrid system of some sort. The Honda Insight is a good example of a production car that is a hybrid vehicle. It can reach about 70 MPG after a bit of driver training/getting-used-to. There are an array of configurations and methodologies for hybrid systems that I won't get into here, due to space considerations. But I believe, and so do a lot of other schools and even car manufacturers, that hybrids will pave the way in the near future. Beyond that... maybe they'll have fusion power worked out by then.;)
I hope this helps some of you out with what's going on in the alternative fuels/powertrain area. I am by no means an authority on this subject, so visit the Department of Energy, the Argonne National Laboratories, and the Society for Automotive Engineers websites for much more detailed information. Those websites are here, here, and here respectively.
Publicizing such idiocy is the only defense we have against such accusations, save the 'filthy rich, vocal supporters" that was already mentioned. Such supporters are curiously absent, yet IBM, RedHat, Sun etc.. still have their finger in the Open Source pie.
Submit this story ("OSS is pirating, illegal, blah blah blah") and the "CNN is posting DeCSS as well" to every news site you can. Don't worry if you think somebody else has already informed the news site.. Send them another email stating the same thing. Be Polite! Nothing is gained from ranting and raving at the folks who will be publicizing (hopefully) the idiocy of the MPAA and DVD CCA. If ABCNews or MSNBC get 300 emails urging them to do the research and post the story about this wild hypocrisy... it isn't a guarantee, but it's much stronger than a single voice.
your DMA, IRQ, and memory ranges are probably incorrectly configured. Try booting from the boot disk and checking the settings via the Preferences/Devices menu. Booting from the boot disk should remove any vestiges of Windows and its grasp on your hardware.
Funny how a bunch of fools can use their freedom of speech to harm a cause. After reading the interview on LinuxWorld, I am beginning to think that the open source movement may just have just shot itself in the foot, then stuffed said foot in its collective mouth.
There have been articles on Slashdot about the increasing use of Slashdot for mainstream articles, looks at the open source movement, etc. Apparently that has yet to sink in. Believe it or not, someone actually reads your posts, and when you say "fuck the law", that can (and has) been used against you.
I think the DVD case (among others) will be very important for the future of the Internet. It will decide reverse-engineering, home use, encryption, the reach of major companies (with major lobbying power), and the rights of consumers. And I would like to see strong encryption, the freedom to reverse-engineer, etc. But, this will only come if we play it smart. Support your cause without turning into 9 year old potty mouths. Don't give the opposition ammo.
heh.. I overclock my celeron. I enjoy the work and risk that it takes. I just don't like the brutes who try and force their way of thinking upon everyone else.
Gee, open-source the world... what a concept. That sound OH-SO-SIMILAR to the world domination of some unspoken-but-in-big-legal-trouble company....
Thank you sir... your last section is oh-so-true. I have been flamed before for saying that open-source is not the greatest thing since sliced bread. As you said, Linux is great at networking, and BeOS at desktop multimedia. That was exactly my point. Just because Linux has done phenominally well as an open-source OS does not mean Windows or MacOS or Sun or QNX or BeOS will do as well.
To open-source advocates everywhere: Free your minds. To be truly computer advocates is to accept everything good that happens in the computer industry, not nay-say everything that isn't how you want it. A breath of fresh air IS required every now and then.
Oh yes... Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Why don't you try and change that to : Open Source. Open Minds. Open Horizons. Slashdot.
Saw this extremely appropriate tagline from an AC, and I think it needs to be shown again.
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Ring a bell? Open your minds, get off the open source kick, and welcome anything that makes our lives better. Linux IS NOT the end-all OS. BeOS isn't either. So quit trying to make Linux (and open source software) out to be God's electronic gift from heaven.
Be will not go Open Source, because there is no need to. All you linux fanatics want is to take what you deem is rightfully yours and leave the husk. GROW UP! You don't make money giving away your recipe for lemondade but set-up a stand nonetheless. Or better yet, charge to help people set-up their own lemonade stands. Be is still afloat, and is in an entirely different realm from Linux. You don't see any companies call BeOne trying to cheat investors out of millions of dollars, do you.
it is definitely not a JonKatz review. This book does have religion in it. But it does not try and preach it to the reader; it is merely there to give a background to the story. The religion that is followed through the book is a religion based on the works of an engineer! The larger Church is not, but even then it is not a religious spiel. I loved this book. It was recommended to me by a teacher in high school, and it was worth it. Don't view this book in terms of the religion in it, view it as a view of the future from a Cold War perspective. A second Dark Ages, where *scholars* worked to preserve knowledge until another civilization arose to use and understand it.
Linus has done nothing than further develop an existing model. Yes, he has done a good job, and thousands upon thousands of people have helped out or used Linux.
1) Learn how to spell.
2) Linux is not the end-all of OS's.
3) If you ever were to call an OS a hack, look at Win98. You complain that it crashes all the time. Did you ever think that it is a miracle that it runs at all? Props to the Micro$oft engineers for constructing the Frankenstein of operating systems, and making it run.
BeOS is closed source, thus outside companies usually have to do some work in order to get a product running. Linux is open source, and why spend money developing when a world full of programmers can do it for free? Just release the source, and take the credit when the product is finished. Meanwhile, open source advocates have their egos massaged, while regular users wait forever for the product to come to them. Open source has its merits, but its times like this when its faults are revealed.
I see this as a good thing, but just for historical sake a paragraph stating where it was developed *could* be left in the *BSDs. Nice to know where you came from.
it seems as though "mainstream" journalists are more obliged to read Slashdot as a matter of user interest rather than feel like it has any true value.
I read Slashdot for the fun of it. Sometimes the news is funny, sometimes serious, sometimes even untrue, but the way in which it is presented is the draw. Also, being run by people who *know* what they're talking about is a big plus. Big sites like ABCNews or ZD may cover more topics, but their writers/editors are rather in the dark about some things.
As for the remark about biased news, name me a newspaper in the US whose editors aren't pro-Republican or pro-Democrat or pro-whatever. Biases exist everywhere. You can count on ABCNews having a slightly more favorable stance for Disney than MSNBC or Yahoo. They'll deny it, but its there; who wants to lose their job because of a flippant comment? Slashdot (i believe) was at first a Linux news site. Naturally, there's going to be a bias against Microsoft. Does that mean the news is any less true? No. Will the way of reporting it be different? Perhaps. But when *you* run the site, *you* get to choose how the information is conveyed.
to end this rant, I think that mainstream journalists need to wake up to the way people are getting their information today. Slashdot attracts viewers because of its individuality and the way news is presented. It may not take over the world, but it is a force to be viewed with respect, not with disgust.
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ISS (or fill in the blank with your favorite Internet Security company) said they "cracked" the encryption.
Yay!
But what wasn't mentioned was that the only way that they can find if BO2K is on the computer... is when it's on the computer. They can only find the "encrypted" stream when the connection to the victim computer is already in progress.
So... they'll sell you their services to fix BO2K.. but only if you've already got it. There is no pre-emptive fix.
as much as I love Star Wars, I remember fondly the afternoons when I came home from school to watch the reruns of the original Star Trek episodes. Bones, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, and of course Kirk, they were the true pioneers. Special effects now take the place of plot in nearly every visual production, but they had little to go on in the wizardy department. And so Star Trek was born. And now part of it has died. They better be releasing the entire collection of original Star Trek episodes, they're worth viewing over and over again.
I would most definitely like to know if NBC does the show, and would you please post it or email me or something so that we can tell if this will go down.
I have the feeling that Katz, although a superb writer in any account ( except for some misspelling errors.. got to fix that, Jon) belongs more in Salon or another Webzine. I see Slashdot as more of an information and geek site, not a philosophical discussion site. So, as I choose not to ban Katz from my view, I still find his articles interesting and worth the read, but just a tad too much off the Slashdot norm.
write a hardware review once in a while, Jon, and I think your popularity will improve.
slashdot has been changing, and will continue to change.... I think Rob has been doing everything in his power to keep the news fresh, varied, and occasionally very damn funny.
Katz has his place.... I for one would think he would be more at home @ LinuxWorld or someother Linux-oriented webzine. They seem to revel in bashing MS more than anyone else.
Slashdot is my homepage, and for good reason. It has all the news that's fit to print and then some. It has a nice mix of linux, hardware, software, open source, and everything else. Sometimes MS-rants are more obvious, at other times its the Star Wars info. Live and learn, use the spanking-new customizable Slashdot feature.. (should we call it CustomDot?)
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Why does it not surprise me that JonKatz cannot act like a normal human being during a catastrophic event such as the WTC/Pentagon attacks.
You feel the need to analyze these events in terms of politics, of technology. Don't analyze. Don't act like a reporter. But you go ahead and do it anyway. You disgust me, and I'm sure many others.
If you had simply said, "A terrible tragedy has happened - give blood, pray, or have a moment of silence for the dead and injured." But, in your zeal as a reporter, you analyze. Shame on you.
Sorry. I know how to, but it was 3 am when I made my reply so my thought processes were a little random.
Possibly. But that would require re-regulation of emissions from tractor trailers, industrial equipment, etc. And there are cleaner diesel fuels than the norm used by industry - biodiesel being one of them. And diesel fuel in the future will have further restrictions on sulfate emissions - the trucking industry has been crying loud and long about that.
Hope this helps a bit.
I've been working on a project at Georgia Tech called FutureTruck, which is sponsored by the Department of Energy and some major automobile manufacturers. If you're interested, the website is here. GT is one of 15 schools from around the US and Canada that were tasked with taking a GM Suburban, a rather poor MPG performer but popular in today's market, and making it cleaner, more efficient, and (if possible) even more consumer-attractive.
;)
Just a couple things I've noticed over the past 2 years of this project:
1. Fuel cell vehicles are still a ways off. The hydrogen containers are bulky and heavy, and a system still costs around $1 million.
2. Diesel/biodiesel looks promising but a few problems remain - more polluting than normal gasoline, different performance issues, and such. However, they are more efficient overall. Paired with an electric motor, diesel engines could turn out to be cleaner and more effective than gasoline-only vehicles.
3. Electric-only vehicles are very limited in range and scope. Batteries are still heavy, even the 'new' kinds of batteries like Lithium-Ion. Combined with the need for a charging/recharging infrastructure, and the (at least) American desire for power, the electric-only vehicle will likely be relegated to shuttle cars on a set path.
4. Hybrids, like diesel-electric or gasoline-electric, seem to be the wave of the near future. I believe all the schools participating in FutureTruck are using a hybrid system of some sort. The Honda Insight is a good example of a production car that is a hybrid vehicle. It can reach about 70 MPG after a bit of driver training/getting-used-to. There are an array of configurations and methodologies for hybrid systems that I won't get into here, due to space considerations. But I believe, and so do a lot of other schools and even car manufacturers, that hybrids will pave the way in the near future. Beyond that... maybe they'll have fusion power worked out by then.
I hope this helps some of you out with what's going on in the alternative fuels/powertrain area. I am by no means an authority on this subject, so visit the Department of Energy, the Argonne National Laboratories, and the Society for Automotive Engineers websites for much more detailed information. Those websites are here, here, and here respectively.
BeOS's filesystem uses an extension of MIME to differentiate file types. Very nicely done.
Submit this story ("OSS is pirating, illegal, blah blah blah") and the "CNN is posting DeCSS as well" to every news site you can. Don't worry if you think somebody else has already informed the news site.. Send them another email stating the same thing. Be Polite! Nothing is gained from ranting and raving at the folks who will be publicizing (hopefully) the idiocy of the MPAA and DVD CCA. If ABCNews or MSNBC get 300 emails urging them to do the research and post the story about this wild hypocrisy... it isn't a guarantee, but it's much stronger than a single voice.
your DMA, IRQ, and memory ranges are probably incorrectly configured. Try booting from the boot disk and checking the settings via the Preferences/Devices menu. Booting from the boot disk should remove any vestiges of Windows and its grasp on your hardware.
There have been articles on Slashdot about the increasing use of Slashdot for mainstream articles, looks at the open source movement, etc. Apparently that has yet to sink in. Believe it or not, someone actually reads your posts, and when you say "fuck the law", that can (and has) been used against you.
I think the DVD case (among others) will be very important for the future of the Internet. It will decide reverse-engineering, home use, encryption, the reach of major companies (with major lobbying power), and the rights of consumers. And I would like to see strong encryption, the freedom to reverse-engineer, etc. But, this will only come if we play it smart. Support your cause without turning into 9 year old potty mouths. Don't give the opposition ammo.
heh.. I overclock my celeron. I enjoy the work and risk that it takes. I just don't like the brutes who try and force their way of thinking upon everyone else.
Gee, open-source the world... what a concept. That sound OH-SO-SIMILAR to the world domination of some unspoken-but-in-big-legal-trouble company....
Thank you sir... your last section is oh-so-true. I have been flamed before for saying that open-source is not the greatest thing since sliced bread. As you said, Linux is great at networking, and BeOS at desktop multimedia. That was exactly my point. Just because Linux has done phenominally well as an open-source OS does not mean Windows or MacOS or Sun or QNX or BeOS will do as well.
To open-source advocates everywhere: Free your minds. To be truly computer advocates is to accept everything good that happens in the computer industry, not nay-say everything that isn't how you want it. A breath of fresh air IS required every now and then.
Oh yes...
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Why don't you try and change that to :
Open Source. Open Minds. Open Horizons. Slashdot.
Wouldn't that be a much nicer slogan?
Saw this extremely appropriate tagline from an AC, and I think it needs to be shown again.
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Ring a bell? Open your minds, get off the open source kick, and welcome anything that makes our lives better. Linux IS NOT the end-all OS. BeOS isn't either. So quit trying to make Linux (and open source software) out to be God's electronic gift from heaven.
Be will not go Open Source, because there is no need to. All you linux fanatics want is to take what you deem is rightfully yours and leave the husk. GROW UP! You don't make money giving away your recipe for lemondade but set-up a stand nonetheless. Or better yet, charge to help people set-up their own lemonade stands. Be is still afloat, and is in an entirely different realm from Linux. You don't see any companies call BeOne trying to cheat investors out of millions of dollars, do you.
it is definitely not a JonKatz review.
This book does have religion in it. But it does not try and preach it to the reader; it is merely there to give a background to the story.
The religion that is followed through the book is a religion based on the works of an engineer! The larger Church is not, but even then it is not a religious spiel.
I loved this book. It was recommended to me by a teacher in high school, and it was worth it. Don't view this book in terms of the religion in it, view it as a view of the future from a Cold War perspective. A second Dark Ages, where *scholars* worked to preserve knowledge until another civilization arose to use and understand it.
absolutely not.
Linus has done nothing than further develop an existing model. Yes, he has done a good job, and thousands upon thousands of people have helped out or used Linux.
1) Learn how to spell.
2) Linux is not the end-all of OS's.
3) If you ever were to call an OS a hack, look at Win98. You complain that it crashes all the time. Did you ever think that it is a miracle that it runs at all? Props to the Micro$oft engineers for constructing the Frankenstein of operating systems, and making it run.
BeOS is closed source, thus outside companies usually have to do some work in order to get a product running. Linux is open source, and why spend money developing when a world full of programmers can do it for free? Just release the source, and take the credit when the product is finished. Meanwhile, open source advocates have their egos massaged, while regular users wait forever for the product to come to them. Open source has its merits, but its times like this when its faults are revealed.
rpi.edu? correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't that Renslaer(sp?) Polytechnic Institute? You should be able to get a local Unix guru to help you out.
I see this as a good thing, but just for historical sake a paragraph stating where it was developed *could* be left in the *BSDs. Nice to know where you came from.
I read Slashdot for the fun of it. Sometimes the news is funny, sometimes serious, sometimes even untrue, but the way in which it is presented is the draw. Also, being run by people who *know* what they're talking about is a big plus. Big sites like ABCNews or ZD may cover more topics, but their writers/editors are rather in the dark about some things.
As for the remark about biased news, name me a newspaper in the US whose editors aren't pro-Republican or pro-Democrat or pro-whatever. Biases exist everywhere. You can count on ABCNews having a slightly more favorable stance for Disney than MSNBC or Yahoo. They'll deny it, but its there; who wants to lose their job because of a flippant comment? Slashdot (i believe) was at first a Linux news site. Naturally, there's going to be a bias against Microsoft. Does that mean the news is any less true? No. Will the way of reporting it be different? Perhaps. But when *you* run the site, *you* get to choose how the information is conveyed.
to end this rant, I think that mainstream journalists need to wake up to the way people are getting their information today. Slashdot attracts viewers because of its individuality and the way news is presented. It may not take over the world, but it is a force to be viewed with respect, not with disgust.
ISS (or fill in the blank with your favorite Internet Security company) said they "cracked" the encryption.
Yay!
But what wasn't mentioned was that the only way that they can find if BO2K is on the computer...
is when it's on the computer. They can only find the "encrypted" stream when the connection to the victim computer is already in progress.
So... they'll sell you their services to fix BO2K.. but only if you've already got it. There is no pre-emptive fix.
as much as I love Star Wars, I remember fondly the afternoons when I came home from school to watch the reruns of the original Star Trek episodes. Bones, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, and of course Kirk, they were the true pioneers. Special effects now take the place of plot in nearly every visual production, but they had little to go on in the wizardy department. And so Star Trek was born. And now part of it has died. They better be releasing the entire collection of original Star Trek episodes, they're worth viewing over and over again.
I would most definitely like to know if NBC does the show, and would you please post it or email me or something so that we can tell if this will go down.
I have the feeling that Katz, although a superb writer in any account ( except for some misspelling errors.. got to fix that, Jon) belongs more in Salon or another Webzine. I see Slashdot as more of an information and geek site, not a philosophical discussion site. So, as I choose not to ban Katz from my view, I still find his articles interesting and worth the read, but just a tad too much off the Slashdot norm.
write a hardware review once in a while, Jon, and I think your popularity will improve.
slashdot has been changing, and will continue to change.... I think Rob has been doing everything in his power to keep the news fresh, varied, and occasionally very damn funny.
Katz has his place.... I for one would think he would be more at home @ LinuxWorld or someother Linux-oriented webzine. They seem to revel in bashing MS more than anyone else.
Slashdot is my homepage, and for good reason. It has all the news that's fit to print and then some. It has a nice mix of linux, hardware, software, open source, and everything else. Sometimes MS-rants are more obvious, at other times its the Star Wars info. Live and learn, use the spanking-new customizable Slashdot feature.. (should we call it CustomDot?)
can't we all just get along?
I never got mine. It's been 4 months.
what's the 800 # again? i want to recall them.
i saw linux... but what's this about windows based software? title downloading? phooey...