On the Fly djvu conversion? Makes images smaller without really hurting them that much.... What is it, something like 75% of the size of a comparable quality jpeg?... or was that pdf? I dunno.
I think that statement there is precisely the problem. There is a schedule, and if you don't meet it to the minute you'll be fired. This is why people are looking back into fantasy - there is no timetable there - nothing to keep you from stopping to smell the poppys. And stop to smell them some more. It took Frodo 17 years to get from Bilbo's 111st b-day party to Mordor. Hell, I did this much work today alone!
I used to think like everyone else did, that technology would help make my life better. Now I simply have bills I can barely pay. Technology isn't an end. It's a means, and people have forgotten that.
We've added so many years to life but absolutely no life to years. You may hear/read this over and over. It's true. What it means (for those of you who still don't get it) is that we may live years and years beyond what our forbears did but what use is it? What can anyone do with their lives if everything is done for them? Technology brought us here. Elves didn't.
Don't get me started on the useless junk. I'm almost at the point where I'm actually sick of anything more advanced than a pencil and an abacus !
Old sci-fi authors knew that technology was meant to take away the drudgery so that people could concentrate on living. They just forgot to warn us about drivers with cell phones and the IRS's database.
Yeah, but you can still get Pro/E and there is CNC software available, which was basically the point. There does need to be more variety with a little less cash involved. The others were available and wouldn't take too much to port to another Unix, like Linux.
Pro/E HAS a GNU/Linux version. There are several projects right now to build the kinds of systems you are talking about. Check out Music Man/Ernie Ball - they use Redhat with Pro/E. No joke, I'm in the industry, and I've met a person or two in the know. Catia has a Unix version, UG has a Unix version. I believe (but am not sure) that even SDRC's I-DEAS has a Unix version. Get a demo of Rhinoceros (Windows only, very sorry to say) and check out the IGES export flavors. There are somrthing like 50 of them, and they list both Windows and Unix subflavors for many of the apps it can emulate in export.
CAD/CAM is available, it's just incredibly expensive at times and is NOT Free Software.
You're right about CMM. There ain't nothin' that I know of available.
Even CNC machine control is covered, check out EMC (BDI for those not using the Linux real-time source patches) at www.linuxcnc.org. It's based off of NIST EMC (Enhanced Machine Controller), and can drive (I think) up to 7 independant axes of motion and lot's o' limit switches, with stepper or servo output. I recommend using some kind of amplifier if yer gonna drive one o' those humongous VMCs, of course.
There are a lot of people in this world who can't learn their ancestral languages. Not because they are essentially dead, but because in many countries where they were originally spoken there is considerable force from the government to kill them. Unless I am mistaken, the only 'country' in the British Isles where you have the right to be tried in the language your ancestors spoke is Wales.
I am of Scottish descent from people who immigrated to North Carolina in the early 1700s. My lineage can be traced back fully for 8 generations, and 8 only because no one in in Isles could be bothered to keep decent records before that time. My ancestors spoke Gàidhlig for probably a single generation. My ancestors before that were in the midst of having their culture destroyed by the English (na Sasunnaich, the Saxons).
I agree that a government does not have the right to force the people to use certain words over others and that languages are meant to evolve naturally, but the government also has NO right to try to kill them, either. This has happened with ALL of the 'modern' Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton. The French killed Breton outright and with extreme prejudice almost a thousand years ago, and a strictly French speaking government will kill English in Quebec.
The last truly native speaker of Manx died in 1974, thanks to the British government. Because of that we will probably never hear that language in its correct form again, and a large part of Manx culture is gone from the world.
Be thankful you are still allowed to learn Gaeilge. In other places you have to fight for it.
This will eventually happen in every bilingual country in the world, and, if anyone can't tell, I'm extremely touchy on this subject.
I've got the greatest idea - put an icon for OpenOffice.org workspace on the desktop and label 'Microsoft Office for Linux'. Yup, I think that'll do it;)
Now if only the animatrix movies would play. Only the first one does.
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If the kernel is signed internally, and the signature is part of the code, you have the right to the code which includes the signature.
If the kernel is signed after compilation, you do not have the right to the signature. You still have the right to the kernel code.
The key is whether the kernel code has been altered. If it has been, the alterations must be available if any part of that work is going to leave your door. If the code has not been altered, then the kernel is distributed as already available in source code form, and therefore the letter of the GPL is not violated.
Not really too hard to understand.
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This reply is all speculation. Move along, these aren't the droids you're looking for...
I still believe that Tilden's 'B.E.A.M.' robotics are a good start. Take a walkman, hook it up to a 74HCT240 all funny-like and turn it on. You get a machine more intelligent with better problem-solving skills that most salesmen I know. And all they do is move around until they can settle back into a stable rhythm!
Simple goals, simple mechanisms, simple results. Too bad we can't even eyeball the level of complexity we'll need.
Sometimes, I think that some researchers are neglecting the importance of convergent systems. The software-based neural simulations of a rat's olfactory bulb in 1990-1991 (I forget who did this) that can tell a rose from a carnation, and any flower from a dog, for example. This wasn't designed or programmed to do this, it was a neural network hooked up in a manner like a rat's olfactory bulb, that's all. It converged on its own answers, just like we do.
There was another (hardware) network built to simulate the auditory system of an owl. It could locate the source of a sound in 3D space.
These things aren't programmed to do what they do, they simply react and categorize their input.
Is that, or is that not what a neural network is good at? Since we're not much more than a hugely complicated network, is that or is that not what we do?
I'd like a long talk with one of those big names in the field face-to-face (Brooks is probably a good one). I have a couple of ideas, and I want to be told I'm an idiot and that everything I've had a thought about has already been tried the way I want to try it by someone in a real position to do so. Being told I'm an idiot on slashdot has no real effect or meaning.
When I'm terminally ill, it's my RIGHT to die when I feel like it. If you don't agree, don't die. Live your life in hell, and drag everyone you love around you along for the ride.
IANAL (linguist), but I think I both agree and disagree with what you're saying. I actually have a reason, even. That reason being that we can't see how our brains actually process things like phonemes, or even what's really all that important about them. This is, IMO, analogous to vision in that while we have neurons that fire in response to this or that shape or brightness or color in their visual field but are incredibly difficult to cause to fire artificially. There are also such variations to what we hear and smell. What we might think of as the building blocks of speech or language might not be the case at all. Phonemes are a good example. What might be a good experiment here may be to train a neural network to recognize a few different phonemes in speech and see what they come up with when certain phonemes are not present. Just an idea, but based on this I agree with a large part of your post.
Oh jeez. That explains the high moderation. They should have said 'Audio' server - woulda saved me embarassment!
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Ok.. I have to say that this, for some godawful reason, is probably the most intelligent post I've seen on this subject on/.. I've been a musician for 16 years, and one of the things I really kinda missed when I made the move to Linux was the lack of really good sound support.
IMO, If this is as good as others say it could be, and if it can provide kernel-level (maybe, with source patches) timecode and sound driver support, they'd really have something. I'd love to record/mix my own stuff on cheap hardware and wouldn't think twice to put on a second X server to do it.
Did you read even the website? Why is this moderated a 5, when you're talking about bad colormaps crashing X in a discussion about a sound server for it?
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I've used a lot of X apps that have crashed due to bad requests (especially those dealing with unsupported colourmaps), and it makes sense that someone would shore up the current state of the code and work on stability.
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Is this guy always so long-winded? I couldn't get half-way through it before my eyes began to bleed.
On the Fly djvu conversion? Makes images smaller without really hurting them that much.... What is it, something like 75% of the size of a comparable quality jpeg? ... or was that pdf? I dunno.
> There's no schedule to keep.
I think that statement there is precisely the problem. There is a schedule, and if you don't meet it to the minute you'll be fired. This is why people are looking back into fantasy - there is no timetable there - nothing to keep you from stopping to smell the poppys. And stop to smell them some more. It took Frodo 17 years to get from Bilbo's 111st b-day party to Mordor. Hell, I did this much work today alone!
I used to think like everyone else did, that technology would help make my life better. Now I simply have bills I can barely pay. Technology isn't an end. It's a means, and people have forgotten that.
We've added so many years to life but absolutely no life to years. You may hear/read this over and over. It's true. What it means (for those of you who still don't get it) is that we may live years and years beyond what our forbears did but what use is it? What can anyone do with their lives if everything is done for them? Technology brought us here. Elves didn't.
Don't get me started on the useless junk. I'm almost at the point where I'm actually sick of anything more advanced than a pencil and an abacus !
Old sci-fi authors knew that technology was meant to take away the drudgery so that people could concentrate on living. They just forgot to warn us about drivers with cell phones and the IRS's database.
Yeah, but you can still get Pro/E and there is CNC software available, which was basically the point. There does need to be more variety with a little less cash involved. The others were available and wouldn't take too much to port to another Unix, like Linux.
Pro/E HAS a GNU/Linux version. There are several projects right now to build the kinds of systems you are talking about. Check out Music Man/Ernie Ball - they use Redhat with Pro/E. No joke, I'm in the industry, and I've met a person or two in the know. Catia has a Unix version, UG has a Unix version. I believe (but am not sure) that even SDRC's I-DEAS has a Unix version. Get a demo of Rhinoceros (Windows only, very sorry to say) and check out the IGES export flavors. There are somrthing like 50 of them, and they list both Windows and Unix subflavors for many of the apps it can emulate in export.
CAD/CAM is available, it's just incredibly expensive at times and is NOT Free Software.
You're right about CMM. There ain't nothin' that I know of available.
Even CNC machine control is covered, check out EMC (BDI for those not using the Linux real-time source patches) at www.linuxcnc.org. It's based off of NIST EMC (Enhanced Machine Controller), and can drive (I think) up to 7 independant axes of motion and lot's o' limit switches, with stepper or servo output. I recommend using some kind of amplifier if yer gonna drive one o' those humongous VMCs, of course.
Mod +1, interesting and cool. Wish I could get full texts.
There are a lot of people in this world who can't learn their ancestral languages. Not because they are essentially dead, but because in many countries where they were originally spoken there is considerable force from the government to kill them. Unless I am mistaken, the only 'country' in the British Isles where you have the right to be tried in the language your ancestors spoke is Wales.
I am of Scottish descent from people who immigrated to North Carolina in the early 1700s. My lineage can be traced back fully for 8 generations, and 8 only because no one in in Isles could be bothered to keep decent records before that time. My ancestors spoke Gàidhlig for probably a single generation. My ancestors before that were in the midst of having their culture destroyed by the English (na Sasunnaich, the Saxons).
I agree that a government does not have the right to force the people to use certain words over others and that languages are meant to evolve naturally, but the government also has NO right to try to kill them, either. This has happened with ALL of the 'modern' Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton. The French killed Breton outright and with extreme prejudice almost a thousand years ago, and a strictly French speaking government will kill English in Quebec.
The last truly native speaker of Manx died in 1974, thanks to the British government. Because of that we will probably never hear that language in its correct form again, and a large part of Manx culture is gone from the world.
Be thankful you are still allowed to learn Gaeilge. In other places you have to fight for it.
This will eventually happen in every bilingual country in the world, and, if anyone can't tell, I'm extremely touchy on this subject.
That must be the reason their cars are better.
Heinlein, huh? Well, just goes to show that one cannot remember everything from high school. I was lucky I remembered it at all ;)
... it's called 'The Roads Must Roll'.
You'll find 100% agreement here. It's not the phone that's the problem, it's the ATTENTION!
I've got the greatest idea - put an icon for OpenOffice.org workspace on the desktop and label 'Microsoft Office for Linux'. Yup, I think that'll do it ;)
All this talk of AI everywhere and no one mentions that there is a place to talk about just this kind of stuff at intelligentlabs.com.
That Dell ad at the top of this page IS GOING TO SEND ME INTO EPILEPTIC FITS. I hope they don't mind when I sue.
Mplayer actually played it ;D
Now if only the animatrix movies would play. Only the first one does.
If the kernel is signed internally, and the signature is part of the code, you have the right to the code which includes the signature.
If the kernel is signed after compilation, you do not have the right to the signature. You still have the right to the kernel code.
The key is whether the kernel code has been altered. If it has been, the alterations must be available if any part of that work is going to leave your door. If the code has not been altered, then the kernel is distributed as already available in source code form, and therefore the letter of the GPL is not violated.
Not really too hard to understand.
This reply is all speculation. Move along, these aren't the droids you're looking for...
I still believe that Tilden's 'B.E.A.M.' robotics are a good start. Take a walkman, hook it up to a 74HCT240 all funny-like and turn it on. You get a machine more intelligent with better problem-solving skills that most salesmen I know. And all they do is move around until they can settle back into a stable rhythm!
Simple goals, simple mechanisms, simple results. Too bad we can't even eyeball the level of complexity we'll need.
Sometimes, I think that some researchers are neglecting the importance of convergent systems. The software-based neural simulations of a rat's olfactory bulb in 1990-1991 (I forget who did this) that can tell a rose from a carnation, and any flower from a dog, for example. This wasn't designed or programmed to do this, it was a neural network hooked up in a manner like a rat's olfactory bulb, that's all. It converged on its own answers, just like we do.
There was another (hardware) network built to simulate the auditory system of an owl. It could locate the source of a sound in 3D space.
These things aren't programmed to do what they do, they simply react and categorize their input.
Is that, or is that not what a neural network is good at? Since we're not much more than a hugely complicated network, is that or is that not what we do?
I'd like a long talk with one of those big names in the field face-to-face (Brooks is probably a good one). I have a couple of ideas, and I want to be told I'm an idiot and that everything I've had a thought about has already been tried the way I want to try it by someone in a real position to do so. Being told I'm an idiot on slashdot has no real effect or meaning.
When I'm terminally ill, it's my RIGHT to die when I feel like it. If you don't agree, don't die. Live your life in hell, and drag everyone you love around you along for the ride.
Good - I hope it passes. That way I'll know not to buy it before I shell out the cash.
IANAL (linguist), but I think I both agree and disagree with what you're saying. I actually have a reason, even. That reason being that we can't see how our brains actually process things like phonemes, or even what's really all that important about them. This is, IMO, analogous to vision in that while we have neurons that fire in response to this or that shape or brightness or color in their visual field but are incredibly difficult to cause to fire artificially. There are also such variations to what we hear and smell. What we might think of as the building blocks of speech or language might not be the case at all. Phonemes are a good example. What might be a good experiment here may be to train a neural network to recognize a few different phonemes in speech and see what they come up with when certain phonemes are not present. Just an idea, but based on this I agree with a large part of your post.
This is way better than IBMs.
Oh jeez. That explains the high moderation. They should have said 'Audio' server - woulda saved me embarassment!
Ok.. I have to say that this, for some godawful reason, is probably the most intelligent post I've seen on this subject on /.. I've been a musician for 16 years, and one of the things I really kinda missed when I made the move to Linux was the lack of really good sound support.
IMO, If this is as good as others say it could be, and if it can provide kernel-level (maybe, with source patches) timecode and sound driver support, they'd really have something. I'd love to record/mix my own stuff on cheap hardware and wouldn't think twice to put on a second X server to do it.
.. OpenAL, only network transparent?
Hmm.... Can an OpenAL scene be transmitted over a network like an OpenGL scene can (theoretically)?
Did you read even the website? Why is this moderated a 5, when you're talking about bad colormaps crashing X in a discussion about a sound server for it?
>>quoth you:
I've used a lot of X apps that have crashed due to bad requests (especially those dealing with unsupported colourmaps), and it makes sense that someone would shore up the current state of the code and work on stability.
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What?
Maybe it's dirty laundry, maybe not. It doesn't matter. The Linux kernel can always use someone of his talents.