CMU, though, is known as one of the best places at which to study CS. Mr. Gates just figures that he should get his grip on them like he did with Stanford and MIT's CS departments, by having his name in prominent places and getting students used to Windows. Whether this will work, is of course, up for debate, especially since they seem to keep pushing back the building of the Gates Centre. CMU seems inclined of late, though, to go with proprietary technology more than their own lately, much of which includes Microsoft products, despite that there has always been a resentment against Microsoft in the CS department. The point is, though, that Mr. Gates has identified places in the U.S. where he does think that CS is decent, and would like to get influence on them. And CMU does send a large percentage of its CS grads to Microsoft, for better or for worse (though I hear that their research group is not bad, but I hate their software). We will see. I am still somewhat glad that the $2x10^7 that he gave to us is not coming out of our tuition, though (the building costs 6x10^7 to build, and was going to be built regardless of whether he gave us the cash).
Yeah, I use Opera on my Solaris and FreeBSD machines, and Firefox on my Macs. Is there a nice extension or something, though, other than just using CSS to block ads like adblock for Firefox? I find that going back to my other machines after my mac laptop is rather annoying...
Seriously, this is interesting stuff. Of course, everytime we come up with a new security mechanism, computing power will overcome it. Fortunately, not everyone can do this sort of thing, and it takes time. But, as a mathematician, it is interesting to see both the methods used to crack this sort of thing, and, at least to me, more interestingly, the methods that are used to come up with new encryption systems. I cannot wait to see what will occur in several years, and even bigger prime numbers are known and usable...
I do not see any BSDs on that list... as far as I am concerned, if I cannot find hunt, cribbage, rogue, and wump in/usr/games as soon as I set up a system, it is not worth bothering with.
Um, actually, quite a few people (myself included) use it on servers (and I use it on my laptop as well), and most of us are quite happy about this, and get quite upset when people blow us off as if the only real F/OS OS to use is GNU/Linux. You might actually like a BSD if you try it...
I think that you answered this yourself; you may sell it, but those to whom you do sell it are entitled to the source as well. Linspire, however, has a good bit of proprietary stuff in it to which the source it not available (and it is not GPLed).
I showed my (now 7 year old) brother to Lego's website. It has a lot of games there, but many of them are of an educational type too. It is, howver, rather flash intensive, but my brother enjoys it.
They had a talk here at CMU by a Kernel hacker at Google... he was talking about how they were able to add code to the kernel to get an incredibly close view at exactly what was going on in the kernel so that they could pinpoint problems and bottlenecks - something that they could not do with a proprietary system. (The speaker, BTW, was Richard Sites, who also helped design the Alpha architecture).
My friend one night told me that he was playing Beneath a Steel Sky, and it seemed like it might be interesting, so I gave it a try. Well, I ended up getting four hours of sleep that night because I was addicted, and kept playing the next day while working until I finally beat it. I do applaud the work that these guys have done and how it works cross platform, considering that I started that night on Mac OS X and moved the savefiles and images over to my laptop with FreeBSD and finished playing in that. It is good stuff.
Among its primary selling points are new tools for searching and viewing the contents of a PC; communications features; and a lighter desktop appearance with transparent objects.
Why did they not just call it "Mac OS X" then? Vista... geesh.
Those are the kind of people, though, who I think do make the best actors - it is when you have seen it all and done a lot that you can better act in something which we may never see or experience - being an engineer on a star cruiser. But it is rare to find actors today *cough*Shatner*cough* who are upright and unassuming. Even though he has not been able to act in a while, he, and other actors like him, will be sorely missed.
Yeah. Stupid Sandstorm almost ran me over in the Morewood parking lot. It was pretty cool, though, almost getting run over by a high tech robotic military vehicle. Makes for a great story.
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Who targets professionals with a case like this?
Actually, that is targetted toward professional fire-fighters who want to be able to visualize where the fires are in very high detail.
I wonder if it counts toward any DX contests...
Here it is 33%. See my other post. In our case, though, it actually does help.
CMU, though, is known as one of the best places at which to study CS. Mr. Gates just figures that he should get his grip on them like he did with Stanford and MIT's CS departments, by having his name in prominent places and getting students used to Windows. Whether this will work, is of course, up for debate, especially since they seem to keep pushing back the building of the Gates Centre. CMU seems inclined of late, though, to go with proprietary technology more than their own lately, much of which includes Microsoft products, despite that there has always been a resentment against Microsoft in the CS department.
The point is, though, that Mr. Gates has identified places in the U.S. where he does think that CS is decent, and would like to get influence on them. And CMU does send a large percentage of its CS grads to Microsoft, for better or for worse (though I hear that their research group is not bad, but I hate their software). We will see. I am still somewhat glad that the $2x10^7 that he gave to us is not coming out of our tuition, though (the building costs 6x10^7 to build, and was going to be built regardless of whether he gave us the cash).
I play no games which do not fit on a 5.25" floppy.
Yeah, I use Opera on my Solaris and FreeBSD machines, and Firefox on my Macs. Is there a nice extension or something, though, other than just using CSS to block ads like adblock for Firefox? I find that going back to my other machines after my mac laptop is rather annoying...
But I just finished compiling 4.0...
Don't mess with Texas?
But what does he know about 2.7!!??
I hardly know 'er...
Seriously, this is interesting stuff. Of course, everytime we come up with a new security mechanism, computing power will overcome it. Fortunately, not everyone can do this sort of thing, and it takes time. But, as a mathematician, it is interesting to see both the methods used to crack this sort of thing, and, at least to me, more interestingly, the methods that are used to come up with new encryption systems. I cannot wait to see what will occur in several years, and even bigger prime numbers are known and usable...
Sorry, I am not a Jesuit geek; the "I am too" meant that I was a Registered Catholic too. But the Jesuits are awesome.
Amen. And I should point out that it was a Jesuit who came up with the Big Bang...
(I am too)
I do not see any BSDs on that list ... as far as I am concerned, if I cannot find hunt, cribbage, rogue, and wump in /usr/games as soon as I set up a system, it is not worth bothering with.
(I kid)
And wasn't DR DOS originally owned by Caldera...?
Which turned into...SCO!
We should plant a bunch of these near a city to absorb the pollution and so that we can cut them all down to build new developments! Fun!
Um, actually, quite a few people (myself included) use it on servers (and I use it on my laptop as well), and most of us are quite happy about this, and get quite upset when people blow us off as if the only real F/OS OS to use is GNU/Linux. You might actually like a BSD if you try it...
I think that you answered this yourself; you may sell it, but those to whom you do sell it are entitled to the source as well. Linspire, however, has a good bit of proprietary stuff in it to which the source it not available (and it is not GPLed).
I am taking a four year vacation to Pittsburgh, and am enjoying it quite a bit. Unfortunately, it costs $45000 a year...
Actually, it turns out that they are the same God, and all of those wars were mistakes. Sorry about that, folks.
I showed my (now 7 year old) brother to Lego's website. It has a lot of games there, but many of them are of an educational type too. It is, howver, rather flash intensive, but my brother enjoys it.
They had a talk here at CMU by a Kernel hacker at Google ... he was talking about how they were able to add code to the kernel to get an incredibly close view at exactly what was going on in the kernel so that they could pinpoint problems and bottlenecks - something that they could not do with a proprietary system. (The speaker, BTW, was Richard Sites, who also helped design the Alpha architecture).
My friend one night told me that he was playing Beneath a Steel Sky, and it seemed like it might be interesting, so I gave it a try. Well, I ended up getting four hours of sleep that night because I was addicted, and kept playing the next day while working until I finally beat it. I do applaud the work that these guys have done and how it works cross platform, considering that I started that night on Mac OS X and moved the savefiles and images over to my laptop with FreeBSD and finished playing in that. It is good stuff.
Among its primary selling points are new tools for searching and viewing the contents of a PC; communications features; and a lighter desktop appearance with transparent objects.
Why did they not just call it "Mac OS X" then? Vista... geesh.
Those are the kind of people, though, who I think do make the best actors - it is when you have seen it all and done a lot that you can better act in something which we may never see or experience - being an engineer on a star cruiser. But it is rare to find actors today *cough*Shatner*cough* who are upright and unassuming. Even though he has not been able to act in a while, he, and other actors like him, will be sorely missed.
Yeah. Stupid Sandstorm almost ran me over in the Morewood parking lot. It was pretty cool, though, almost getting run over by a high tech robotic military vehicle. Makes for a great story.