Funny you should mention hopping over the side. My parents tell me that's exactly what I did. I'd bounce in my crib, until I could get over the side, and then land on my sleeping parents.
At least I couldn't get farther than their bed without waking them up.
They're moving so fast, that I think they pile on more bugs than the rate they fix them at. Its generally pretty good, but still, a slightly slower schedule wouldn't impare them much. There really hasn't been that much new software since FC2 was released. Why not patch FC2, and wait for more stable builds of the next Gnome, like 2.8.2 or something, and KDE 3.3.1. It doesn't seems like Gnome 2.8 is that far along, and will be shipping as RC instead of finalized and tested. And if they do finalize 2.8, will is just be a bug-fix with like 1 new feature?
Gnome is NOT a windowmanager. Its a desktop environment. If all you want is a window manager, use IceWM, Blackbox, ION, or(heck, why not) rat poison. I would've suggested Enlightenment, but that is growing beyond a windowmanager if I understand thngs correctly.
That's the speed that you could definitely feel the lift on my old Mercury Grand Marquis('82 I think). The car was really heavy, but it started to feel much lighter and bounced around more at that speed. I think the oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme took about 95 before you could definitely feel it.
Now that doesn't mean you need a spoiler, and one might not help much at that speed, but I'm saying you could tell the car was developing some lift.
Wrong! PC gaming isn't dying! Have you seen counterstrike? Biggest online PC game out there. Biggest tournaments. How many people out there have won thousands of dollars on console games?
Graphics don't make a game, but they make a good one better. And with Doom 3 and half-life 2, PC games will get a huge boost in graphics and environment soon.
They may be diverging. Strategy games and 1st Person shooters are best on PC. As are flight sims. The only games that I think are completely better on consoles are fighers like Tekkan, and Dance Dance Revolution(but I have yet to check out pyDance for Linux). Otherwise PC's are equal or better I think.
Whether or not they have a warranty, when was the last time someone benefitted from this warranty? It does not matter if there is a warranty if MS won't do anything about is, and suing them for service isn't easy.
People used to complain about warranties and service on linux, and holding people responsible for when it breaks. But does anybody really hold MS responsible for when windows breaks? Has anybody ever gotten any money out of them when it did break?
First of all is their patches. They sure as hell aren't 100%. So one day your favorite program might work, and the next day it might not. All wihtout you doing anything. This is why businesses take a while to evaluate patches.
Secondly, what if there is an exploitable bug(and there will be at least one). Every windows machine out there might be downloading viruses instead of updates. If someone were to reverse engineer the network interface, and hack a couple DNS servers, they could have all those users downloading whatever they wanted, even illegal things, or viruses, hacks, anything.
Plus there's the privacy issues. I konw that right now windowsupdate could send MS anything anyway, but if we all expect it to update any time it wants, we have no controls at all on our system, MS could send an update to lock you out of your own system if they suspect you of something, or just for the hell of it.
While I don't expect this to actually go through, its important to be wary of just how abusive such a system could be.
P.S. I, for one, welcome our new windowsupdate.microsoft.com masters.
I would say "good", point any gun at Microsoft, but then I though of the same gun being pointed at a company I would support.
So now I would say, "good" point the anti-monopoly gun at any monopoly, especially MS, but also the RIAA, because that's what anti-trust laws were all about.
The capitalist idea should do that, but it doesn't. What if there is no choice. What if there was only 1 car company, and they owned all the roads? What would you do, becaus even if you built your own car, you still couldn't use the roads. That's how Microsoft's lock-in with Windows and Office works. All documents in office format, that all other businesses use, and Office only runs on windows. The capitalist system works fine when there is competition, and at least somewhat fair competition. When 1 company controls the market, that's not capitalism, it might as well be the government like in communism.
Thankfully that is changing slowly, but 3 years ago it was almost that bad.
The clock rate is far from the only, or most important factor. Look at Itanium, it a a huge space heater, and runs relatively slowly(Mhz, but good performance). Then look at the Transmeta Crusoe, similar clock speed, way less heat.
My point is that some processors are very efficient in energy/processing power, and others aren't, and Mhz doesn't have nearly as much to do with it as architecture.
SGI was the one that was really good at making sexy systems. Indigo, O2, and all the rest were really cool systems in their day. They looked good and could do graphics that nothing else could.
Wow! What a great interview. Sometimes you get basically yes/no answers, but I'm really, really impressed with this one. I never really looked much into filesystems, but boy, this was interesting. I would say hurray for SuSe and Mandrake who use ReiserFS. Moreso for Mandrake because they are completely OSS.
It really seems like ReiserFS is going places. I wonder is there much going on in the developement of the other filysystems? (JFS, XFS, Ext3fs?). I haven't heard any long term plans from any other filesystem guys, but maybe its worth looking into. I'd be curious of other [filesystem] people are actually developing long term, or just fixing stuff.
I definitely agree with his point about long term research. You just can't do something in a couple weeks or even months. The really great achievements are usually done over a period of years, and as we (humans) learn more and more, the great discoveries will take longer and longer. While it does make sense for buisinesses to want short term research, the government should do things long term, as should the larger companies. I'm especially impressed with IBM, because you sometimes hear of fun stuff(writing IBM in atoms) that is definitely long term being done there, which is cool.
I work there too this summer as does my brother. I'd bet you're in Guggenheim. We should have lunch some time.
I think there will be great crossover between the two fields. In many unforseen ways.
DNA computing will probably be a ways off, because prepairing it seems to take so long that its barely worth tring today, but some day it may be useful. We would need a much faster and more automatic way of using DNA than we do now.
However, cyborgs, implants, and using whole cells connected to chips may be here sooner. For example I've heard of using cells connected to chips as detectors, for things like chemical weapons.
On the reverse side there will be biological techiniques used in computing. Just look at artificail neural nets, and genetic algorithms. The neural nets people may give up on, but I've heard good things about genetic algorithms.
I completely agree. If they using a proprietary installer, they have defeated part of the point of doing OSS. I would rather support Red Hat, despite their KDE, because they at least use real OSS where it is most important. (KDE is OSS, so they are free so choose that, and I'm free to compile my own(KDE) the way I want it, but I can't fix SuSe's installer if that doesn't work for me because it isn't Free.) Even Red Hat's expensive Advanced series makes more sense than SuSe to me, because they are still making a good free distro as a base.
I would still choose SuSe over Lindows because at least they seem to contribute back, while it seems that Lindows is just a leech.
I'd have to go with Mandrake, Red Hat and Debian though on the Free grounds. And I really like Mandrake 9.1, which seems just about perfect for me so far(as perfect as a distro can be today). I really hope Mandrake finds a solid business plan and survives.
Sure there's been some great stuff, but the WWW has affected my life more than any physics since the Manhatten project I think. Although I would gladly be proven wrong.
Plus everyone reading/. will know what WWW is, but some people are clueless about physics and don't care, so this is an easy way to show them some of the magnitude of CERN's importace and accomplishment.
Well, some people don't like "Lord of the Rings" because it isn't faithful in "gheist" of the book. I personally think its a fine movie anyway. So with I, Robot, even if they don't get everything exactly like the book, it could still be a worthy movie.
I kinda tend to cringe with Will Smith doing this, but I say give him a chance, this could be his best performance ever(theoretically;p), and I really loved Dark City, so I expect Alex Proyas' contribution to I Robot can't be bad.
On the other, Alex Proyas wrote and directed Dark City, so he might not be as good with this movie. The story certainly has potential, and Proyas could make it an excellent Sci Fi movie, whether its totally faithful to the book, or just "based" on it.
I guess I just remain hopeful, until I see the first trailer, and then I 'm either excited or I won't bother watching it. My biggest gripe with hollywood is bad writing today. So if this starts off with a good story, and has a good director, hopefully no one else will be able to ruin it.
BTW wouldn't it be cool if Darren Aronofsky(Pi) and Chris Nolan ( Memento) made a movie together?
This has hit 3,500 computers! That's nothing, Nimda probably hit that many within a 20 mile radius of me.
This worm might not do much damage. Nimda and Code Red shut down entire networks, this one only hit webservers. Its like comparing a firecracker to an atomic bomb. Yes it is significant because its a Linux worm, but consider how much damage its really done, probably not very much. This may be just a warning sign, but it also might be as big as they come for Linux, which is great news.
Are you kidding? Do you know just how much the earth's atmosphere distorts light? The moon has virtually no atmosphere so it would be much better.
But, you may have temperature problems and big problems repairing it. So the overall advantage may not be worth it, but the atmosphere thing would be a big help I suspect, but IANAA.
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Funny you should mention hopping over the side.
My parents tell me that's exactly what I did. I'd bounce in my crib, until I could get over the side, and then land on my sleeping parents.
At least I couldn't get farther than their bed without waking them up.
Actually I do think its linux. I live in Rochester and know some of the IBMers.
I wonder if they let normal people see this thing? I'll ask.
They're moving so fast, that I think they pile on more bugs than the rate they fix them at. Its generally pretty good, but still, a slightly slower schedule wouldn't impare them much. There really hasn't been that much new software since FC2 was released. Why not patch FC2, and wait for more stable builds of the next Gnome, like 2.8.2 or something, and KDE 3.3.1. It doesn't seems like Gnome 2.8 is that far along, and will be shipping as RC instead of finalized and tested. And if they do finalize 2.8, will is just be a bug-fix with like 1 new feature?
this seems like its a pretty big deal. Good thinking by the author, he should be complimented, then put away.
how long will it take for everyone to switch to firefox? I sure hope its happening.
Some of my friends that raved about Python, now really like Ruby; do you have an opinion about this?
Also how did you get started with Ruby? Its something that I think I really like to learn
Gnome is NOT a windowmanager. Its a desktop environment. If all you want is a window manager, use IceWM, Blackbox, ION, or(heck, why not) rat poison. I would've suggested Enlightenment, but that is growing beyond a windowmanager if I understand thngs correctly.
Use a Delorean!
Then it will be a time machine too!
That's the speed that you could definitely feel the lift on my old Mercury Grand Marquis('82 I think). The car was really heavy, but it started to feel much lighter and bounced around more at that speed.
I think the oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme took about 95 before you could definitely feel it.
Now that doesn't mean you need a spoiler, and one might not help much at that speed, but I'm saying you could tell the car was developing some lift.
Agreed,
Agreed,
Agreed,
Wrong! PC gaming isn't dying! Have you seen counterstrike? Biggest online PC game out there. Biggest tournaments. How many people out there have won thousands of dollars on console games?
Graphics don't make a game, but they make a good one better. And with Doom 3 and half-life 2, PC games will get a huge boost in graphics and environment soon.
They may be diverging. Strategy games and 1st Person shooters are best on PC. As are flight sims. The only games that I think are completely better on consoles are fighers like Tekkan, and Dance Dance Revolution(but I have yet to check out pyDance for Linux). Otherwise PC's are equal or better I think.
Whether or not they have a warranty, when was the last time someone benefitted from this warranty? It does not matter if there is a warranty if MS won't do anything about is, and suing them for service isn't easy.
People used to complain about warranties and service on linux, and holding people responsible for when it breaks. But does anybody really hold MS responsible for when windows breaks? Has anybody ever gotten any money out of them when it did break?
This is a bad idea on soooo many levels
First of all is their patches. They sure as hell aren't 100%. So one day your favorite program might work, and the next day it might not. All wihtout you doing anything. This is why businesses take a while to evaluate patches.
Secondly, what if there is an exploitable bug(and there will be at least one). Every windows machine out there might be downloading viruses instead of updates. If someone were to reverse engineer the network interface, and hack a couple DNS servers, they could have all those users downloading whatever they wanted, even illegal things, or viruses, hacks, anything.
Plus there's the privacy issues. I konw that right now windowsupdate could send MS anything anyway, but if we all expect it to update any time it wants, we have no controls at all on our system, MS could send an update to lock you out of your own system if they suspect you of something, or just for the hell of it.
While I don't expect this to actually go through, its important to be wary of just how abusive such a system could be.
P.S. I, for one, welcome our new windowsupdate.microsoft.com masters.
I would say "good", point any gun at Microsoft, but then I though of the same gun being pointed at a company I would support.
So now I would say, "good" point the anti-monopoly gun at any monopoly, especially MS, but also the RIAA, because that's what anti-trust laws were all about.
The capitalist idea should do that, but it doesn't. What if there is no choice. What if there was only 1 car company, and they owned all the roads? What would you do, becaus even if you built your own car, you still couldn't use the roads. That's how Microsoft's lock-in with Windows and Office works. All documents in office format, that all other businesses use, and Office only runs on windows. The capitalist system works fine when there is competition, and at least somewhat fair competition. When 1 company controls the market, that's not capitalism, it might as well be the government like in communism.
Thankfully that is changing slowly, but 3 years ago it was almost that bad.
The clock rate is far from the only, or most important factor. Look at Itanium, it a a huge space heater, and runs relatively slowly(Mhz, but good performance). Then look at the Transmeta Crusoe, similar clock speed, way less heat.
My point is that some processors are very efficient in energy/processing power, and others aren't, and Mhz doesn't have nearly as much to do with it as architecture.
True,true, marketing is thier strength.
SGI was the one that was really good at making sexy systems. Indigo, O2, and all the rest were really cool systems in their day. They looked good and could do graphics that nothing else could.
Wow! What a great interview. Sometimes you get basically yes/no answers, but I'm really, really impressed with this one. I never really looked much into filesystems, but boy, this was interesting. I would say hurray for SuSe and Mandrake who use ReiserFS. Moreso for Mandrake because they are completely OSS.
It really seems like ReiserFS is going places. I wonder is there much going on in the developement of the other filysystems? (JFS, XFS, Ext3fs?). I haven't heard any long term plans from any other filesystem guys, but maybe its worth looking into. I'd be curious of other [filesystem] people are actually developing long term, or just fixing stuff.
I definitely agree with his point about long term research. You just can't do something in a couple weeks or even months. The really great achievements are usually done over a period of years, and as we (humans) learn more and more, the great discoveries will take longer and longer. While it does make sense for buisinesses to want short term research, the government should do things long term, as should the larger companies. I'm especially impressed with IBM, because you sometimes hear of fun stuff(writing IBM in atoms) that is definitely long term being done there, which is cool.
Again kudos to Hans for this great interview.
I work there too this summer as does my brother. I'd bet you're in Guggenheim. We should have lunch some time.
I think there will be great crossover between the two fields. In many unforseen ways.
DNA computing will probably be a ways off, because prepairing it seems to take so long that its barely worth tring today, but some day it may be useful. We would need a much faster and more automatic way of using DNA than we do now.
However, cyborgs, implants, and using whole cells connected to chips may be here sooner. For example I've heard of using cells connected to chips as detectors, for things like chemical weapons.
On the reverse side there will be biological techiniques used in computing. Just look at artificail neural nets, and genetic algorithms. The neural nets people may give up on, but I've heard good things about genetic algorithms.
I completely agree. If they using a proprietary installer, they have defeated part of the point of doing OSS. I would rather support Red Hat, despite their KDE, because they at least use real OSS where it is most important. (KDE is OSS, so they are free so choose that, and I'm free to compile my own(KDE) the way I want it, but I can't fix SuSe's installer if that doesn't work for me because it isn't Free.) Even Red Hat's expensive Advanced series makes more sense than SuSe to me, because they are still making a good free distro as a base.
I would still choose SuSe over Lindows because at least they seem to contribute back, while it seems that Lindows is just a leech.
I'd have to go with Mandrake, Red Hat and Debian though on the Free grounds. And I really like Mandrake 9.1, which seems just about perfect for me so far(as perfect as a distro can be today). I really hope Mandrake finds a solid business plan and survives.
So, maybe I can get one of the simulation jobs to replace the wind tunnels
FP!
Does is seem that they have been more powerfull since the breakup to anyone else?
Monopolies are always a bad idea
Sure there's been some great stuff, but the WWW has affected my life more than any physics since the Manhatten project I think. Although I would gladly be proven wrong.
/. will know what WWW is, but some people are clueless about physics and don't care, so this is an easy way to show them some of the magnitude of CERN's importace and accomplishment.
Plus everyone reading
Well, some people don't like "Lord of the Rings" because it isn't faithful in "gheist" of the book. I personally think its a fine movie anyway. So with I, Robot, even if they don't get everything exactly like the book, it could still be a worthy movie.
;p), and I really loved Dark City, so I expect Alex Proyas' contribution to I Robot can't be bad.
I kinda tend to cringe with Will Smith doing this, but I say give him a chance, this could be his best performance ever(theoretically
On the other, Alex Proyas wrote and directed Dark City, so he might not be as good with this movie. The story certainly has potential, and Proyas could make it an excellent Sci Fi movie, whether its totally faithful to the book, or just "based" on it.
I guess I just remain hopeful, until I see the first trailer, and then I 'm either excited or I won't bother watching it. My biggest gripe with hollywood is bad writing today. So if this starts off with a good story, and has a good director, hopefully no one else will be able to ruin it.
BTW wouldn't it be cool if Darren Aronofsky(Pi) and Chris Nolan ( Memento) made a movie together?
Blizzard has never made an FPS as far as I know. THis will be a good test for them.
This has hit 3,500 computers! That's nothing, Nimda probably hit that many within a 20 mile radius of me.
This worm might not do much damage. Nimda and Code Red shut down entire networks, this one only hit webservers. Its like comparing a firecracker to an atomic bomb. Yes it is significant because its a Linux worm, but consider how much damage its really done, probably not very much. This may be just a warning sign, but it also might be as big as they come for Linux, which is great news.
Are you kidding? Do you know just how much the earth's atmosphere distorts light? The moon has virtually no atmosphere so it would be much better.
But, you may have temperature problems and big problems repairing it. So the overall advantage may not be worth it, but the atmosphere thing would be a big help I suspect, but IANAA.