The titel is "Viruses"
Anybody understands that as the plural of "virus"
Why would you use "viriis" and "virii"?
The first is some kinf of double plusral with a typo, and a second one a (correct) plural but still with a typo.
In Latin any word ending in -us has the plural in -i.
So "one virus" and "two viri". Just one 'i' at the end (except for words that have an i before the 'us' ending of course, the rule still applies resulting in 'ii').
You used two 'i's while there is no 'i' just before the 'us' in "virus". Thats the typo.
Then the double plural: I accept/understand viri as plural. secondly I forget the double 'i' typo.
That still leaves "viris"; so that is a Latin plural (i) + an English plural (s): a double plural.
Since Latin is a so called "dead" language, whose spelling was fixed centuries ago (literally) this is bad, really bad.
OK, Now forget all of the above, I don't give a f* about spelling in any language:-)
Wanna see ME (including latest updates) crash?
Just come to see my fathers PC. I'll crash it in under five minutes, without opening any obscure program: Scanning an image is enough.
(Did'nt Billy had the same problem on some demo?)
Currently he scans on a stand alone win95, copies to a zip, and continues his work on his PC...
Re:Does anybody remember the early days of Linux?
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Linux has never been created to make profit of it.
All these firms creating bluetooth 'compatible' (according to their claims) equipment are doing it to gain profit. As a consumer, when you buy something it MUST work. (Where I live that is even a law, making Windows illegal I presume:-)
Nobody ever bought Linux, only distribution media (and maybe some service). So Linix had (and still has) the right to _not_ "work" right away.
In the process of creating Linux there never were "specs". It was simply created brick by brick. Some of those bricks (or modules or whatever you like to call them) were created by volunteers to _implement_ some (specified) standards. But still it never was sold saying "Linux applies to these and those standards" (even when it actually did (and does) most of the time).
For bluetooth there _is_ a standard. And if you want to make a bluetooth device it shoold apply to this standard. If not you can't call it bluetooth. The "effects" noticed at CeBit clearly show that not all of the devices are according to the specs. (Unless those specs really allow that some devices can not interoperate:-) I gues that interoperability was the main goal (I never read the standard of course)
If an instrument is more sensitive, doesn't that mean that it can better detect things with LOWER energy?
It is harder to see a dim light than a bright light. You need a better, more sensitive detector (Hubble) to see a _dim_ light than to see a bright light (naked eye).
What am I missing? Maybe the high energy ones pass to fast to have the TIME to detect them? Then the dector is not more _sensitive_, but only _faster_.
I guess the bottom line is they can detect _more_ particles.
By now _everybody_ knows that the left nostril of the "face" is formed by _missing data_ in the picture.
Fill that black spot with some shades of red maching the rest and you'll see no face anymore, just a boring landscape.
Didn't have time to search for a link to the "face"
A (very) loyal reader of/. might know that when you talk about cellular phone's you are talking to me directly. (I do realize it is not really you that is talking about cell phones but the article. Nevertheless "you" is easier to write, forgive me:-)
That same reader might also recognise the following answer (you're not the first American to complain about cellular phones in north america.)
Answer:
Your country (I suppose you are in the US) is simply to damn big and to scarsely populated to have decent cellular coverage!. In Europe and certainly in the Far East GSM (and other) technologies are booming. Simply becouse there IS coverage everywhere you need it and id doesn't cost THAT much (even abroad)
Technology doesn't have the same impact everywhere (as in: on evey place on earth).
Where I live farmers are complaining that there fields are too wet. In Ethiopia they don't have that proplem and therefore don't need drainage "technology" (in this case a gutter is technology:-)
About fridges. Last year I bought my first (what we call here an) "American" refridgerator. For me the ice despencer is really innovative! Since I had never seen it before. Again geographical location determines the innovative character of.. err... an innovation.
_My_ fingers are a part of a thing called my "hand". The result is that when I type I can't move just one finger without moving the others. Therefore your patent does not apply to me and I _can_ type this response.
PS: yes, you've guessed it right I type "with two fingers":-)
I shop without clicks. ZERO click shopping. (Unless there is a pebbel stuck in the wheel of my cart, then it is "tenthousand clicks" shopping:-)
Enough nonsence.
What about NMR scanners (medical)? This baby saved my girlfriends life!
Some thoughts about extremely slow innovation: I believe American scolars still learn emperial measurement systems (first). Didn't some rather large space agency loose an expensive sattellite recently because of that?;-)
And for those that like making fun of Europeans more: In Europe they're creating a new currency. They had a really BIG opportunity ("previewable innovation" to use a contradictio in terminis that clearly expresses what I mean) to get rid of cents once and for all (counting in integers is easier for humans and computers) but NO, NO. They had to make the nominal (1€) so enormously large!
I can not find _any_ innovation that wasn't incremental if you search long enough. (including the wheel, combustable and steem engine,...)
.Net is indeed business oriented but I think it will affect home users also...
They have already forced "live update" and stuff like that on home Windows users (noticed I didn't say "on us"?:-) That was/is also a service that is _very_ useful for businesses that need frequent updates and have broadband Internet connections.
Today Excel for the home user is exactly the same as Excel for the business user. Will they suddenly start to develop the same things twice? Guess what part will get the most development...
M$ might just have found the next step (after live update) against software piracy.
Live update and.Net are two completely different things of course but the implications for the home users are the same: If you don't have cheep broadband Internet access you're fsckd.
Indeed! I mentioned "insecure" and "not needed" but "unavailable" does indeed also compromises the use of "Web [ONLY] Services" like.Net
If I look a bit further, we'll end up with PDA's that will have (need!) much more storage capacity then our desktop computers since they have to store complete programs and the desktops won't. Unless wireless broadband Internet becomes available (read affordable) for eveyone everywhere. And with 'eveywhere' I also mean the -6 floor of the underground parking garage (and other similar places where I can currently use my not-Internet-connected-laptop without problem).
I know what thin clients are. I even know what multi tier systems look like. Heck, I'm developping for them right now:-)
But I haven't folowed the.Net hype (is it a hype yet?) Apparentky from your post I haven't missed much (since it's M$ specific). Thx for letting me know.
I'm probably one of the people that "missed a few years" regarding.Net
But from the beginning of the talks around.Net and other distributed systems (client server or multi tier over Internet), one big question never was answered: What about all those systems that aren't connectoed to the Internet????
There are lots of systems that are not connected to the Internet for safety reasons or simply becouse there is no need to. If everybody (read M$ and Linux) start working on these Internet-needing-programs, who will make programs for all those other systems?
When I say systems not connectod to the Internet I do not only mean nuclear powerplants but also my mothers recepie computer. (generalise yourself please:-)
I think there still is a very big market for product that come in a box of the shelf (including the "105-functions-from-which-I-only-use-5") that won't need Internet simply to work.
If I missed something (see first line of post) that nullyfies my objections please inform me!
I am currently 23; my first real working day was September first 1999.
Right now I'm working (or better I _should be_ working instead of reading slashdot:-) on specifications for the largest cell phone (GSM) operator in Belgium (Proximus). Not just a little program but some really core stuff: the management of their entire network (Radio and fixed lines).
I go from meeting to meeting. Most of them are with people twice my age and all heaving a higher degree than I have.
There have been people asking why the "coffee-boy" wasn't leaving the room and "where the hell that consultant was".
But if someone (usually the department manager (see reason 2 below)) explains "that this 'coffee-boy' is in fact the consultant" all meetings start off very well and professionally. This project I'm working on has been lingering for months and that's maybe why I easily get credit (I've become their last resort). But than I prove by my knowledge and work that I don't need their credit.
Some reasons why I think I have had no "age problems"
1) The company I work for has already delivered some very good consultants to Proximus. Thus when my boss says to Proximus "This is the guy you need for that job" they believe him. Having such 'letters of credibility' is a good thing.
2) Within Proximus my manager will forward this credibility to anyone who might need it.
3) I always show great interest in the work of anyone I meet and try to respond to their questions as fast as possible: working a bit harder makes it a lot easier to "prove yourself". 'Letters of credibility' alone are not enough. Let's be clear about that!
4) I thought I could give many more reasons but apparently I can not *surprised myself*
Conclusion: It is not _always_ a problem to be young but it doesn't make things easier.
lett's settle for a meltown instaid of a fire. No air no fire remember...
and what about all those electrical components that have some sort of gas inside (diodes...)
Or wouldn't LCDs start to boil? (Just my imagination going wild again.)
BTW there was an articel a while ago on/. on space computers: apart from air you also need gravity to have convection => fans rule un ISS!
If you've got the money for it: sure!
There was an article about (filthy rich) geek houses on/. a few weeks (months?) ago. There was fiber all over.
And where I live (Belgium) any company can buy/lease an optical connection at various telco's. I guess that they will sell it to a private person also (if you got the money of course:-)
One example: http://www.kpnbelgium.be
Or more direct
SDH leased lines
They have no licence in Belgium!!!!!
There is KPN Orange, Mobistar and Proximus.
So how are they going to target Belgian customers? With pirate antenna's? Only when they are in Holland or Germany?:-)
I always thought that KPN Orange (Belgium) and KPN Mobile had not much to do with each other sine Orange (Pan-European) is a competitor for KPN Mobile (The Nethertlands++) on the Dutch market.
And wasn't KPN Orange (Belgium) bought by France Télécom or something? And didn't France Télécom already own Mobistar???
Geez this market is confusing! If I missed a major merger or something else please inform me of it: As far as I know Neither DoCoMo nor TIM nor KPN Mobile have anything on the Belgian market. I like to know when I'm wrong/out of date!
BTW: My guess why mobile phones in the U.S.A. will never be as popular as in Europe: The country is too big. Chances for nation wide coverage are VERY small. once again, in Belgium there are 3 networks with nation-wide coverage (Well 98% due to landscape constrictions and so forth...) That's how there can be more than 5 million mobile phones for only 10 million inhabitants (including babies and elderly...) There are people here shutting off there POTS-line and buy (another) GSM instead. (Cable and ADSL Internet are also common here:-)
...Have been used for years over here. The counting is done by _unpaid_ sitizens. If you are elected (by the government) to go counting and/or sit in an election bureau, not showing up is a severe crime punished by inprisonment. Election fraude is avoided thrue the fact that every party (and there are more than 2 big ones over here) can send controllers to the counting offices.
There are 10 million inhabitants here. From the age of 18 you _MUST_ vote (not voting is punishable by inprisonment!) So I guess that makes about 5 million votes (I have no idea really) Counting the votes takes one evening/night.
Plain and simple.
Oh BTW since a few years thare are some communities using voting computers to replace the paper and pencil. Those things seem to work fine and the result is instantanious after the closing of the polling station (really!)
I'm also european AND I never heard of them either...
On the other hand, Napster (or MP3 in general, since there are more ways to distribute them) made me discover "new" (as in "unknown to me") artists and music styles (recommended by other people) AND I've bought some CDs as a concequence. So "the record companies" earned money from Napster trough me:-)
NO LANGUAGE PROBLEM AT ALL!
When you don't want/can learn French in time just come to Belgium. Most high level companies use English as the standard language for documents and meetings. In france you won't be able to keep serious: the accent is awfully comic.
Belgium has an even better taste in food: French quality (even better) combined with German quantity (very useful for Americans!)
BTW: Brussels (belgiums Capital) is less than 2h drive from Paris...
One place you can get a job is Steria
Slashdot Mirror
The titel is "Viruses"
:-)
Anybody understands that as the plural of "virus"
Why would you use "viriis" and "virii"?
The first is some kinf of double plusral with a typo, and a second one a (correct) plural but still with a typo.
In Latin any word ending in -us has the plural in -i.
So "one virus" and "two viri". Just one 'i' at the end (except for words that have an i before the 'us' ending of course, the rule still applies resulting in 'ii').
You used two 'i's while there is no 'i' just before the 'us' in "virus". Thats the typo.
Then the double plural: I accept/understand viri as plural. secondly I forget the double 'i' typo.
That still leaves "viris"; so that is a Latin plural (i) + an English plural (s): a double plural.
Since Latin is a so called "dead" language, whose spelling was fixed centuries ago (literally) this is bad, really bad. OK, Now forget all of the above, I don't give a f* about spelling in any language
Wanna see ME (including latest updates) crash? Just come to see my fathers PC. I'll crash it in under five minutes, without opening any obscure program: Scanning an image is enough. (Did'nt Billy had the same problem on some demo?) Currently he scans on a stand alone win95, copies to a zip, and continues his work on his PC...
Linux has never been created to make profit of it. All these firms creating bluetooth 'compatible' (according to their claims) equipment are doing it to gain profit. As a consumer, when you buy something it MUST work. (Where I live that is even a law, making Windows illegal I presume :-)
:-) I gues that interoperability was the main goal (I never read the standard of course)
Nobody ever bought Linux, only distribution media (and maybe some service). So Linix had (and still has) the right to _not_ "work" right away.
In the process of creating Linux there never were "specs". It was simply created brick by brick. Some of those bricks (or modules or whatever you like to call them) were created by volunteers to _implement_ some (specified) standards. But still it never was sold saying "Linux applies to these and those standards" (even when it actually did (and does) most of the time).
For bluetooth there _is_ a standard. And if you want to make a bluetooth device it shoold apply to this standard. If not you can't call it bluetooth. The "effects" noticed at CeBit clearly show that not all of the devices are according to the specs. (Unless those specs really allow that some devices can not interoperate
If an instrument is more sensitive, doesn't that mean that it can better detect things with LOWER energy?
It is harder to see a dim light than a bright light. You need a better, more sensitive detector (Hubble) to see a _dim_ light than to see a bright light (naked eye).
What am I missing? Maybe the high energy ones pass to fast to have the TIME to detect them? Then the dector is not more _sensitive_, but only _faster_.
I guess the bottom line is they can detect _more_ particles.
By now _everybody_ knows that the left nostril of the "face" is formed by _missing data_ in the picture. Fill that black spot with some shades of red maching the rest and you'll see no face anymore, just a boring landscape. Didn't have time to search for a link to the "face"
I wonder, isn't Mars simply to CLOSE for hubble? Can you take a picture of earth using Hubble? I've got to start searching some databases...
A (very) loyal reader of /. might know that when you talk about cellular phone's you are talking to me directly. (I do realize it is not really you that is talking about cell phones but the article. Nevertheless "you" is easier to write, forgive me :-)
That same reader might also recognise the following answer (you're not the first American to complain about cellular phones in north america.)
:-)
Answer:
Your country (I suppose you are in the US) is simply to damn big and to scarsely populated to have decent cellular coverage!. In Europe and certainly in the Far East GSM (and other) technologies are booming. Simply becouse there IS coverage everywhere you need it and id doesn't cost THAT much (even abroad)
Technology doesn't have the same impact everywhere (as in: on evey place on earth).
Where I live farmers are complaining that there fields are too wet. In Ethiopia they don't have that proplem and therefore don't need drainage "technology" (in this case a gutter is technology
About fridges. Last year I bought my first (what we call here an) "American" refridgerator. For me the ice despencer is really innovative! Since I had never seen it before. Again geographical location determines the innovative character of.. err... an innovation.
_My_ fingers are a part of a thing called my "hand". The result is that when I type I can't move just one finger without moving the others. Therefore your patent does not apply to me and I _can_ type this response.
:-)
PS: yes, you've guessed it right I type "with two fingers"
I shop without clicks. ZERO click shopping. (Unless there is a pebbel stuck in the wheel of my cart, then it is "tenthousand clicks" shopping :-)
;-)
...)
Enough nonsence.
What about NMR scanners (medical)? This baby saved my girlfriends life!
Some thoughts about extremely slow innovation: I believe American scolars still learn emperial measurement systems (first). Didn't some rather large space agency loose an expensive sattellite recently because of that?
And for those that like making fun of Europeans more: In Europe they're creating a new currency. They had a really BIG opportunity ("previewable innovation" to use a contradictio in terminis that clearly expresses what I mean) to get rid of cents once and for all (counting in integers is easier for humans and computers) but NO, NO. They had to make the nominal (1€) so enormously large!
I can not find _any_ innovation that wasn't incremental if you search long enough. (including the wheel, combustable and steem engine,
As you all noticed I don't like to spell sheck.
They have already forced "live update" and stuff like that on home Windows users (noticed I didn't say "on us"? :-) That was/is also a service that is _very_ useful for businesses that need frequent updates and have broadband Internet connections.
Today Excel for the home user is exactly the same as Excel for the business user. Will they suddenly start to develop the same things twice? Guess what part will get the most development...
M$ might just have found the next step (after live update) against software piracy.
Live update and .Net are two completely different things of course but the implications for the home users are the same: If you don't have cheep broadband Internet access you're fsckd.
Don't worry I did not see your post as an attac at all and understood it clearly: M$ is again serving old wine in new glasses. :-)
If I look a bit further, we'll end up with PDA's that will have (need!) much more storage capacity then our desktop computers since they have to store complete programs and the desktops won't. Unless wireless broadband Internet becomes available (read affordable) for eveyone everywhere. And with 'eveywhere' I also mean the -6 floor of the underground parking garage (and other similar places where I can currently use my not-Internet-connected-laptop without problem).
PS I've got to do something about that sig...
But I haven't folowed the .Net hype (is it a hype yet?) Apparentky from your post I haven't missed much (since it's M$ specific). Thx for letting me know.
Noticed googles pdf results? great huh?
But from the beginning of the talks around .Net and other distributed systems (client server or multi tier over Internet), one big question never was answered: What about all those systems that aren't connectoed to the Internet????
There are lots of systems that are not connected to the Internet for safety reasons or simply becouse there is no need to. If everybody (read M$ and Linux) start working on these Internet-needing-programs, who will make programs for all those other systems?
When I say systems not connectod to the Internet I do not only mean nuclear powerplants but also my mothers recepie computer. (generalise yourself please :-)
I think there still is a very big market for product that come in a box of the shelf (including the "105-functions-from-which-I-only-use-5") that won't need Internet simply to work.
If I missed something (see first line of post) that nullyfies my objections please inform me!
I am currently 23; my first real working day was September first 1999. Right now I'm working (or better I _should be_ working instead of reading slashdot :-) on specifications for the largest cell phone (GSM) operator in Belgium (Proximus). Not just a little program but some really core stuff: the management of their entire network (Radio and fixed lines).
I go from meeting to meeting. Most of them are with people twice my age and all heaving a higher degree than I have.
There have been people asking why the "coffee-boy" wasn't leaving the room and "where the hell that consultant was".
But if someone (usually the department manager (see reason 2 below)) explains "that this 'coffee-boy' is in fact the consultant" all meetings start off very well and professionally. This project I'm working on has been lingering for months and that's maybe why I easily get credit (I've become their last resort). But than I prove by my knowledge and work that I don't need their credit.
Some reasons why I think I have had no "age problems"
1) The company I work for has already delivered some very good consultants to Proximus. Thus when my boss says to Proximus "This is the guy you need for that job" they believe him. Having such 'letters of credibility' is a good thing.
2) Within Proximus my manager will forward this credibility to anyone who might need it.
3) I always show great interest in the work of anyone I meet and try to respond to their questions as fast as possible: working a bit harder makes it a lot easier to "prove yourself". 'Letters of credibility' alone are not enough. Let's be clear about that!
4) I thought I could give many more reasons but apparently I can not *surprised myself*
Conclusion: It is not _always_ a problem to be young but it doesn't make things easier.
lett's settle for a meltown instaid of a fire. No air no fire remember... and what about all those electrical components that have some sort of gas inside (diodes...) Or wouldn't LCDs start to boil? (Just my imagination going wild again.) BTW there was an articel a while ago on /. on space computers: apart from air you also need gravity to have convection => fans rule un ISS!
If you've got the money for it: sure! There was an article about (filthy rich) geek houses on /. a few weeks (months?) ago. There was fiber all over.
And where I live (Belgium) any company can buy/lease an optical connection at various telco's. I guess that they will sell it to a private person also (if you got the money of course :-)
One example: http://www.kpnbelgium.be
Or more direct
SDH leased lines
finally nanothech for real!!
They have no licence in Belgium!!!!! There is KPN Orange, Mobistar and Proximus. So how are they going to target Belgian customers? With pirate antenna's? Only when they are in Holland or Germany? :-)
I always thought that KPN Orange (Belgium) and KPN Mobile had not much to do with each other sine Orange (Pan-European) is a competitor for KPN Mobile (The Nethertlands++) on the Dutch market.
And wasn't KPN Orange (Belgium) bought by France Télécom or something? And didn't France Télécom already own Mobistar???
Geez this market is confusing! If I missed a major merger or something else please inform me of it: As far as I know Neither DoCoMo nor TIM nor KPN Mobile have anything on the Belgian market. I like to know when I'm wrong/out of date!
BTW: My guess why mobile phones in the U.S.A. will never be as popular as in Europe: The country is too big. Chances for nation wide coverage are VERY small. once again, in Belgium there are 3 networks with nation-wide coverage (Well 98% due to landscape constrictions and so forth...) That's how there can be more than 5 million mobile phones for only 10 million inhabitants (including babies and elderly...) There are people here shutting off there POTS-line and buy (another) GSM instead. (Cable and ADSL Internet are also common here :-)
...Have been used for years over here. The counting is done by _unpaid_ sitizens. If you are elected (by the government) to go counting and/or sit in an election bureau, not showing up is a severe crime punished by inprisonment. Election fraude is avoided thrue the fact that every party (and there are more than 2 big ones over here) can send controllers to the counting offices. There are 10 million inhabitants here. From the age of 18 you _MUST_ vote (not voting is punishable by inprisonment!) So I guess that makes about 5 million votes (I have no idea really) Counting the votes takes one evening/night. Plain and simple. Oh BTW since a few years thare are some communities using voting computers to replace the paper and pencil. Those things seem to work fine and the result is instantanious after the closing of the polling station (really!)
I'm also european AND I never heard of them either... On the other hand, Napster (or MP3 in general, since there are more ways to distribute them) made me discover "new" (as in "unknown to me") artists and music styles (recommended by other people) AND I've bought some CDs as a concequence. So "the record companies" earned money from Napster trough me :-)
Count me in on the island thing. Just make sure the wheather is fine, there is electricity, a huge Backbone passing by, ...
NO LANGUAGE PROBLEM AT ALL! When you don't want/can learn French in time just come to Belgium. Most high level companies use English as the standard language for documents and meetings. In france you won't be able to keep serious: the accent is awfully comic. Belgium has an even better taste in food: French quality (even better) combined with German quantity (very useful for Americans!) BTW: Brussels (belgiums Capital) is less than 2h drive from Paris... One place you can get a job is Steria