Well, they probably put it in the post office to capture back the customers they lost when their email went down from receiving too many files "to have your advice." They want to get a chance to recapture their customers when they head off to the post office to send their mail that way instead.
Hey, editors! If your users are all off topic, is it they who are really off topic, or are you? At the very least you ought to give them some place to be on topic, if you want them to discuss it somewhere else. Otherwise we might all think that disucssion is not something you favor.
Remember code red and nimda? Both had patches released by Microsoft before they were out in the wild; all people had to do was install them.
Imagine that instead of being too lazy or dumb to keep up to date with patches, the admins just didn't know what a patch is, or how to apply one. I've seen several security patches from Linux vendors this month, and I don't keep up to date because I don't administer anything other than my home PC. This thing better have automatic download and install of patches.
Not to mention the idea of someone who has never seen your network deciding what the firewall should look like...
Well, actually, the combination of hydrogen and oxygen to form dihydrogen monoxide often occurs at high temperatures, producing a vaporous form of dihydrogen monoxide. This reaction is used to good effect in applications such as liquid fuel rockets.
I wouldn't want to be near that, even without all the other dangerous effects of dihydrogen monoxide.
I hear it's the universal solvent; I wonder if I can get high from sniffing it?
As Richard Stallman has been saying all along, the OS is GNU, and the kernel it runs on, be it HURD, Linux, or now NetBSD, is just that: the kernel. Of course, Richard is now chorling at the thought of further showing the irrelevance of Linux, but if people call it the Debian Operating System (DOS???) instead of GNU, he'll quickly change his tune and go back to righteous indignation.
This discussion isn't posted on the front page, and it's modslapped to kingdom come. The only way to find it is if you are looking for it, or if someone sticks it in your face. Based on the number of times I've seen it in peoples sigs, that's happening left, right and center.
Fact is, this is an issue that a LOT of people here care about.
And the editors don't want the discussion to happen. Take it to a hidden sid where only five people can find it, they say. Well, people care, and this is the forum they find.
The continued downward moderation by editors is a grudge match against the users of this site. The fact that it is repeated so often on this single post (that is now irrelevant and doesn't affect at all people who don't care), and that so many of the most respected members of the community are involved, means that it is a fight against the users.
This is despicable. I am afraid that I am going to feel a part of this community until it ends, but I hope that many other members will take this opportunity to go elsewhere. The disrepespect shown by the editors is tremendous.
Re:Editor: I'll take a 3-point karma hit too
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KaZaa Suspends Downloads
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I'll do the same. I'm with you, as it were.
Censorship isn't hypocritical by itself, but in this forum where the editors appear to be so pro-free speech and pro-free expression it is really bad.
Fact is, this still looks like a hobby site run by a small group of people who do whatever the feel like. The editors are now employees, and prominent representatives of our community, both the Slashdot community, and the Free and Open software communities at large. Their actions are consistently embarassing the community and making it look stupid and immature.
Further, I will not post about this to some hidden forum that most of our community can not find. Keep it in the open, and force some action to be taken!
While they never say it explicitly, the J in JHDL is for Java. Read the papers on their website and you will see! Probably either legal issues with Sun or the obvious embarassment of mentioning Java in hardware design circles prevents it.
The difficulty is that Java is a serial language for designing software to execute on a serial processor. HDL's target devices that are inherently parallel, and have the extra complexity and difficulty that comes with that. There is currently *no* compiler that can get good performance out of serial HDL's. It's a different programming paradigm; you might as well ask for LISP that looks and feels like C. Even if you match the syntax, you still have to change paradigms to get any useful work done.
The area this targets (I believe) is unified design, where hardware and software (such as it is) for embedded devices is specified in the same language. They want to go for reconfigurable computing, you know, the one where you can perform parallel 1-bit additions twenty thousand times faster than a P4. Thing is, targetting hardware, which is inherently parallel, you need a language that supports that parallelism. J[ava]HDL just won't work, period.
It's a buzzword for computing methods that you don't notice. While it isn't really valid for computers that you are supposed to interact with as a computer (but it may be for an Internet terminal or word processing machine that is based on a computer), Apple is definitely not going this direction. In fact, the standard ugly beige box PC is closer. It is something that you can hide under your desk. If the keyboard and mouse are out it is an extension of your desktop workspace, and if they aren't, it's a plain black box. Of course it could be better. At the low level, it could be a lot better; parts aren't interchangeable enough. And the monitor is still an ugly sore when not in use. It should hide itself, or at least blend into the background when not in use.
That's the fault of the new imac. It's a display piece. Guess what; I don't want to show that in my house. It fits into an Ikea display, but nowhere else. It's just a slightly less ugly, almost-beige near-box on my desk, with a monitor obviously protruding. Frankly, it's a step backward. At least my PC fits under my desk and out of sight.
Perhaps Apple wants to maintain a constant and intrusive presence in your house; it builds the brand to have it sticking out all the time. For consumers, the opposite direction is better, and the Windows PC fits that a lot better.
That's the thing. Most people will eventually have a computer ubiquitously embedded in their consumer electronics, and have no box sitting there for them to turn on and send out email or visit websites. If they do have such a box in their house, it will be put there by someone else, they won't see it, and the definitely won't turn it on or off.
The focus on computers that look cool or have everything in one form factor is a dead end. Most people don't want to look at a computer; that's too intrusive. If they can use it without thinking about it, that's good. They will be happy when "Windows" is just another channel on their TV.
I didn't read the article, but...
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The Drone War
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I can imagine the Drone War. On one side, Jon Katz, Slashdot Resident Gasbag droning on about corporate mega-opoly in the post-Columbine era, and in the other side, George Lucas, and his plethora of new Star Wars movies to bore you to death. But just like any other war, no matter who wins, we all lose.
That really impresses me. I mean, they could shrink the die size, or use SOI, or even borrow a cue from the Alpha and use SMT. But no, they went way beyond all the rumours and used XP Technology. I wonder if they had to license it from Microsoft?
I have an infinite amplifier; I can sell it to you now. It has infinite gain, and infinite input impedence. Unfortunately, it has to rely on real power supplies, since I do not have an ideal power supply. Funny thing is, it always outputs the rail voltage.
probably because he never was a Mac person
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Dave Barry Does Windows
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Any longtime Mac person would see an immediate and dramatic improvement in stability upon switching to Windows. The Macintosh bore a legacy even stronger than Windows for a long time. Having cast it aside, there is hope, but there is also hope for the foe, as Microsoft has cast aside its legacy. Still, in these times of new beginnings, I can't help but hope that there is room for another newcomer, fair Linux, to cast a pall over all the rest.
The orcs were black. Or at least some of them were. There were also some blue ones. But anyway, there were blacks in the film; the orcs. So you can hardly say it is racist.
I know why I love Linux!!! Because I can watch porn AVI in just one click, and I need two clicks in windows! Therefore windows gets in the way of my porn and I can not stand that. I just hope that Linux does not have to remove this innovative feature because of the Amazon.com patent on single clicks.
Of course you know why they are doing this. Sony has an almost complete monopoly on the console market (almost, but not quite, to the same level as Microsoft's Windows monopoly). They are now facing their biggest threat since the N64 (which failed to gain wide appeal; consider it the Macintosh of consoles). Of course they are pressuring their publishers to release early and release often just about now. As a moral point, anyone who believes that competition is a good thing and a monopoly is a bad thing should skip Playstation 2 titles, no matter how good, and get a Gamecube or XBOX instead.
Should be eLindows; after all, with two different letters there is no chance for confusion. If that isn't different enough they can append.com (or better yet,.tv) to the end.
"I'm running eLindows.tv on my computer; it's great! I can run Mikrosoft Office XB, Itneret Exploder, and, uhmm, all those Linux programs I run too!"
This goes hand in hand with a lot of the work planned for 2.5 to make it scale to larger systems. Linus feels that the current architecture is just about ideal for SMP's of any size, but there are really two obstacles to Linux working on big iron and competing against solutions from IBM, Sun and others. The first is scalability to NUMA machines. This issue is being addressed by the kernel development team. The second is support for the reliability features that the really high end hardware provides. That's the work described here. Together they will make Linux the winning combination even on the very high end!
Using Linux on file servers and web servers is almost always a clear win for schools. Most computers in schools aren't file servers or web servers; they are desktops for students to complete assignments and do research.
Unfortunately, Free desktop environments like GNOME and KDE are much more resource intensive than Windows. For schools with middle aged hardware, running these environments is not an option. In this case, there is a clear cost win for Windows.
Luckily, it will all change with Windows XP (or should that be Windows PX for PentiumX required).
Leave their keys in their cars, I mean. Is it stupid? Maybe, but so long as they don't get stolen (hint: after twenty odd years of this, they haven't) then you can say that in their situation it works.
Really, this parallels the whole trust on the Internet thing. I don't leave mail relays open anymore, I don't run ftp or telnet services; hell, I don't even let my computer respond to ping or finger.
Microsoft should have fixed their default settings problem a couple years ago. I wouldn't blame them for having it like that, though. Most Linux distributions come somewhat secure out of the box now, but a year ago most didn't.
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I once worked on a site with a 25 year old database that was much larger.
The ancient magnetic storage took up several warehouses. Beat that, for biggest database ever!
Well, they probably put it in the post office to capture back the customers they lost when their email went down from receiving too many files "to have your advice." They want to get a chance to recapture their customers when they head off to the post office to send their mail that way instead.
This whole thing is quite the shame.
Hey, editors! If your users are all off topic, is it they who are really off topic, or are you? At the very least you ought to give them some place to be on topic, if you want them to discuss it somewhere else. Otherwise we might all think that disucssion is not something you favor.
I have to agree with you completely.
Remember code red and nimda? Both had patches released by Microsoft before they were out in the wild; all people had to do was install them.
Imagine that instead of being too lazy or dumb to keep up to date with patches, the admins just didn't know what a patch is, or how to apply one. I've seen several security patches from Linux vendors this month, and I don't keep up to date because I don't administer anything other than my home PC. This thing better have automatic download and install of patches.
Not to mention the idea of someone who has never seen your network deciding what the firewall should look like...
Well, actually, the combination of hydrogen and oxygen to form dihydrogen monoxide often occurs at high temperatures, producing a vaporous form of dihydrogen monoxide. This reaction is used to good effect in applications such as liquid fuel rockets.
I wouldn't want to be near that, even without all the other dangerous effects of dihydrogen monoxide.
I hear it's the universal solvent; I wonder if I can get high from sniffing it?
As Richard Stallman has been saying all along, the OS is GNU, and the kernel it runs on, be it HURD, Linux, or now NetBSD, is just that: the kernel. Of course, Richard is now chorling at the thought of further showing the irrelevance of Linux, but if people call it the Debian Operating System (DOS???) instead of GNU, he'll quickly change his tune and go back to righteous indignation.
This discussion isn't posted on the front page, and it's modslapped to kingdom come. The only way to find it is if you are looking for it, or if someone sticks it in your face. Based on the number of times I've seen it in peoples sigs, that's happening left, right and center.
Fact is, this is an issue that a LOT of people here care about.
And the editors don't want the discussion to happen. Take it to a hidden sid where only five people can find it, they say. Well, people care, and this is the forum they find.
The continued downward moderation by editors is a grudge match against the users of this site. The fact that it is repeated so often on this single post (that is now irrelevant and doesn't affect at all people who don't care), and that so many of the most respected members of the community are involved, means that it is a fight against the users.
This is despicable. I am afraid that I am going to feel a part of this community until it ends, but I hope that many other members will take this opportunity to go elsewhere. The disrepespect shown by the editors is tremendous.
I'll do the same. I'm with you, as it were.
Censorship isn't hypocritical by itself, but in this forum where the editors appear to be so pro-free speech and pro-free expression it is really bad.
Fact is, this still looks like a hobby site run by a small group of people who do whatever the feel like. The editors are now employees, and prominent representatives of our community, both the Slashdot community, and the Free and Open software communities at large. Their actions are consistently embarassing the community and making it look stupid and immature.
Further, I will not post about this to some hidden forum that most of our community can not find. Keep it in the open, and force some action to be taken!
While they never say it explicitly, the J in JHDL is for Java. Read the papers on their website and you will see! Probably either legal issues with Sun or the obvious embarassment of mentioning Java in hardware design circles prevents it.
The difficulty is that Java is a serial language for designing software to execute on a serial processor. HDL's target devices that are inherently parallel, and have the extra complexity and difficulty that comes with that. There is currently *no* compiler that can get good performance out of serial HDL's. It's a different programming paradigm; you might as well ask for LISP that looks and feels like C. Even if you match the syntax, you still have to change paradigms to get any useful work done.
The area this targets (I believe) is unified design, where hardware and software (such as it is) for embedded devices is specified in the same language. They want to go for reconfigurable computing, you know, the one where you can perform parallel 1-bit additions twenty thousand times faster than a P4. Thing is, targetting hardware, which is inherently parallel, you need a language that supports that parallelism. J[ava]HDL just won't work, period.
It's a buzzword for computing methods that you don't notice. While it isn't really valid for computers that you are supposed to interact with as a computer (but it may be for an Internet terminal or word processing machine that is based on a computer), Apple is definitely not going this direction. In fact, the standard ugly beige box PC is closer. It is something that you can hide under your desk. If the keyboard and mouse are out it is an extension of your desktop workspace, and if they aren't, it's a plain black box. Of course it could be better. At the low level, it could be a lot better; parts aren't interchangeable enough. And the monitor is still an ugly sore when not in use. It should hide itself, or at least blend into the background when not in use.
That's the fault of the new imac. It's a display piece. Guess what; I don't want to show that in my house. It fits into an Ikea display, but nowhere else. It's just a slightly less ugly, almost-beige near-box on my desk, with a monitor obviously protruding. Frankly, it's a step backward. At least my PC fits under my desk and out of sight.
Perhaps Apple wants to maintain a constant and intrusive presence in your house; it builds the brand to have it sticking out all the time. For consumers, the opposite direction is better, and the Windows PC fits that a lot better.
That's the thing. Most people will eventually have a computer ubiquitously embedded in their consumer electronics, and have no box sitting there for them to turn on and send out email or visit websites. If they do have such a box in their house, it will be put there by someone else, they won't see it, and the definitely won't turn it on or off.
The focus on computers that look cool or have everything in one form factor is a dead end. Most people don't want to look at a computer; that's too intrusive. If they can use it without thinking about it, that's good. They will be happy when "Windows" is just another channel on their TV.
I can imagine the Drone War. On one side, Jon Katz, Slashdot Resident Gasbag droning on about corporate mega-opoly in the post-Columbine era, and in the other side, George Lucas, and his plethora of new Star Wars movies to bore you to death. But just like any other war, no matter who wins, we all lose.
That really impresses me. I mean, they could shrink the die size, or use SOI, or even borrow a cue from the Alpha and use SMT. But no, they went way beyond all the rumours and used XP Technology. I wonder if they had to license it from Microsoft?
I have an infinite amplifier; I can sell it to you now. It has infinite gain, and infinite input impedence. Unfortunately, it has to rely on real power supplies, since I do not have an ideal power supply. Funny thing is, it always outputs the rail voltage.
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Any longtime Mac person would see an immediate and dramatic improvement in stability upon switching to Windows. The Macintosh bore a legacy even stronger than Windows for a long time. Having cast it aside, there is hope, but there is also hope for the foe, as Microsoft has cast aside its legacy. Still, in these times of new beginnings, I can't help but hope that there is room for another newcomer, fair Linux, to cast a pall over all the rest.
The orcs were black. Or at least some of them were. There were also some blue ones. But anyway, there were blacks in the film; the orcs. So you can hardly say it is racist.
I know why I love Linux!!! Because I can watch porn AVI in just one click, and I need two clicks in windows! Therefore windows gets in the way of my porn and I can not stand that. I just hope that Linux does not have to remove this innovative feature because of the Amazon.com patent on single clicks.
I know I've always wanted a camera on my phone that the police could activate remotely to spy on me, just in case it gets stolen.
Wait a minute, no I haven't.
Of course you know why they are doing this. Sony has an almost complete monopoly on the console market (almost, but not quite, to the same level as Microsoft's Windows monopoly). They are now facing their biggest threat since the N64 (which failed to gain wide appeal; consider it the Macintosh of consoles). Of course they are pressuring their publishers to release early and release often just about now. As a moral point, anyone who believes that competition is a good thing and a monopoly is a bad thing should skip Playstation 2 titles, no matter how good, and get a Gamecube or XBOX instead.
Should be eLindows; after all, with two different letters there is no chance for confusion. If that isn't different enough they can append .com (or better yet, .tv) to the end.
"I'm running eLindows.tv on my computer; it's great! I can run Mikrosoft Office XB, Itneret Exploder, and, uhmm, all those Linux programs I run too!"
This goes hand in hand with a lot of the work planned for 2.5 to make it scale to larger systems. Linus feels that the current architecture is just about ideal for SMP's of any size, but there are really two obstacles to Linux working on big iron and competing against solutions from IBM, Sun and others. The first is scalability to NUMA machines. This issue is being addressed by the kernel development team. The second is support for the reliability features that the really high end hardware provides. That's the work described here. Together they will make Linux the winning combination even on the very high end!
Using Linux on file servers and web servers is almost always a clear win for schools. Most computers in schools aren't file servers or web servers; they are desktops for students to complete assignments and do research.
Unfortunately, Free desktop environments like GNOME and KDE are much more resource intensive than Windows. For schools with middle aged hardware, running these environments is not an option. In this case, there is a clear cost win for Windows.
Luckily, it will all change with Windows XP (or should that be Windows PX for PentiumX required).
Leave their keys in their cars, I mean. Is it stupid? Maybe, but so long as they don't get stolen (hint: after twenty odd years of this, they haven't) then you can say that in their situation it works.
Really, this parallels the whole trust on the Internet thing. I don't leave mail relays open anymore, I don't run ftp or telnet services; hell, I don't even let my computer respond to ping or finger.
Microsoft should have fixed their default settings problem a couple years ago. I wouldn't blame them for having it like that, though. Most Linux distributions come somewhat secure out of the box now, but a year ago most didn't.
Nope, delivery is extra. Do you think finding someone to sign for it will be a problem?