*I agree*: maybe even a nicer set of widgets to choose from?!
--would that be a big performance problem? (i know perl is slooooow) --maybe a slashdot poll about it...(but I'm scared of a lot of "I use lynx to read/. anyways" weighing heavily)
I agree with you that many theories completely over-do it: and they are then called conspiracy theory.
*However* you have to be careful not to underestimate the influence of governments perpetual lies, helped by sheepish (or interested!) media. A lie, if told often enough, becomes the accepted truth.
"Thinking for yourself" is difficult when all you know is doctrine--how do I know I am not just repeating something I have been taught?
Can you tell me why on earth Kissinger got a nobel *peace* prize? This may seem unrelated, but it is quite clear that in this case, there were a lot of lies, practically a system of thought. Come on the guy is light-eons away from peace.
Something in the work of the crazy team that is currently in the white house is very scary, in that they seem to want to create hysteria, and endoctrination; and they seem to act in a concerted manner, with a world-view of their own (the "new american century", does that ring a bell to you?)
So is what I had said conspiracy theory? No, it is trying to state the facts: governments like to make things acceptable to public opinion, and to do that they will lie about actions, and motives of actions; the current US government lies a lot, with a particular weird scary edge.
Now to SARS: the justifiably scary thing about SARS is that it is very contagious, and it is airborne. The death rate is between 10 and 20%, and medical personnel is suffering a lot from it. Now if you saw how densely populated SE Asia is, you'd realise this is scary for governments, they have to do somthing about it. Yes, there is also hysteria, and they take tough measures, which I believe partly fuel this hysteria. But it isn't the same.
And the answer is...because it gives a wonderful excuse for any sort of action, and a convenient way of attacking those you don't like for economic, political or geostrategic reasons. Read the arab states, at the moment.
It gives an unquestionable moral high ground for what the likes of Noam Chomsky call *state terrorism* -i.e. direct wars and state sponsored terrorism. Look at Algeria, Colombia, Israel for recent examples of state sponsored terrorism, some with links to the US...
See this is Reagan's cold war all over again, a great way of shaping foreign policy to your convenience, and with a heavy hand.
And the best thing is that the public is buying it!
I knew we had fish genes in tomatoes, but now in silicon chips? What else could the codename possibly allude to? (wait...you know the movie right? for those of you who were too young, there's a classic 1988 movie "a fish called wanda")
Seriously, how are they coming up with those acronyms?
Ok, you can get back to posting intelligent comments, now;-p
I think in general there may be interesting research to be done in the area of mapping/visualization of complex data: for instance this project of mapping the internet.
Does this really help in general? Are there many cases where such visual maps would help understanding of complex data? Think for example, it may be interesting to produce such a map of everything2, which is a sort of hyperlinked online encyclopedia, to see where the clustering is.
In astrophysics, 3D maps of the universe have been produced for some time, and the human-eye understanding of large-scale structure was at first more direct than statistical analysis--for instance, people would see the famous filaments, but stats wouldn't.
A post above quoted the possible use in spotting "usefulness" of code contributions, by looking at their interdependencies for example.
As far as math packages go, matlab and mathematica are the most powerful; but they are very different. Mathematica is by far the best for pure maths work (the only one real mathematicians accept--it can be slow compared to others but it does real algebra), whereas matlab has more in terms of data analysis, visualisation etc. Maple is nice and easy to learn, but somewhat less specialised, and I see very nice thing being done in python, as remarked in earlier posts.
In particle physics, one useful data analysis package we have is root, which is basically a collection of C++ classes and a command-line c++ interpreter, very neat, very scaleable (works with our *huge* datasets)...
But on the whole I have found that we end up using a *lot* of different languages: --you write your large projects in C/C++, and that's what the particle physics community is trying to standardise on --interface with someone else's older code that's in fortran (a lot of it has not been ported yet.) --you script things in python and shell, so you can run all of it in a sequence --on a personal level, many people then use mathematica for the mathematical work (it's really unequalled when you want proper solutions.) --you also find quite a few people writing frontends in java these days...
he is looking to export the display of a windoze box. XWin32 does the contrary: it allows you to open apps running on a unix machine on your windows machine--another one of those is exceed, which can be used with the PuTTY ssh client for example.
The contrary is much trickier, and usually involves the use of windows terminal server, as outlined in posts above.
How the hell can you live with 0.98? It's unbearable to use...so slow...
You can: a.) buy any linux* magazine, whichever country you're in, which will have the latest moz. That's valid for most european countries, and possibly the US b.) get a patch from the company that makes your linux distro, that sometimes works c.) download it in an internet cafe, then burn it d.) download phoenix, it's less than half the size
But yes it's considered good practice to wait at least 1-2 weeks before upgrading stuff that's a pain to update, and a few months for server software.
Well ya know you can either go on cursing or upgrade...
"Mozilla 1.2.1 was released to correct a DHTML bug in Mozilla 1.2. The only difference between the two releases is the fix for this bug (Bug 182500). If you have already installed Mozilla 1.2, you should upgrade to Mozilla 1.2.1. "
This has got to be a pretty good week for linux and opensource products on portable devices!
It also goes a step further than motorola's annoucement earlier this week as here we have an opensource product in the middleware as well as the OS--and the middleware/interface makes a real difference in this type of device. Note that they will use a Montavista kernel, just as motorola:
"Included in the software stack are the IBM Power Manager and the MontaVista Linux kernel. These two components will work together to lower the voltage and frequency of the device when they sense there is low requirement for processing power."
I guess the palm market is becoming so saturated that differentiation from competitors is also crucial at this stage--this will allow them to offer different apps etc than palm/pocket PC.
Goodie goodie, IBM is back on the handheld market with some fun stuff--we as consumers might see some great new apps.
windows is much more convenient on the international side, ever since win2k.
I'll remind you that OSX doesn't speak arabic or hebrew, or any right to left languages; and apple doesn have any plans to include support!
They are citing lack of market demand, fair enough, whatever. But speaking from experience, windows internationationalisation, even in chinese & japanese, is better.
I read BBC news and Le Monde (the french newspaper) mostly every day.
BBC's international coverage, although exhaustive, is not very fair: it is pro-blair & pro-american, which is a pain.
I would criticise the BBC for being a little too close to the british government's stand on everything.
Take for example Irak: most labour MPs don't wan't a war there, but does that transpire clearly in the BBC's reporting?
Of course the bias not as blatant as CNN or other american news sources, and the coverage is very exhaustive (you can find a helluva lot of stuff on their website), but by european standards it's a bit mild--it's almost a legacy of BBC world service, trying to evangelise the british point of view abroad.
I seem to remember something being mentioned a few days ago about a new ogg-decoding program that didn't require floats, and so this could be the basis for hardware decoders (such as portable ones etc).
Notwithstanding the fact that q1 is probably not a good thing to do, I would really like to have some slashdot expert advice on q2, especially for windows: what's the best encoder for ogg for windows? (I use nero & cdex with lame for mp3s, does that do ogg?)
For linux, I would use oggenc, and for OSX I think you can just recompile any of the good linux ones (or get them from www.fink.org), but for windows?
Well here in europe it's rather common (just see the post a few posts below.)
I could cite BA, Austrian Airways, swissair or maybe some of the smaller companies like go-airways, easyjets, ryanair (which sucks)..--it's probably because laptops have CD players.
I remember some time ago (mayb e 2 years or something) there had been an instance of interference and that's what started it all.
Of course, being a geek & all that, you wouldn't really know that their diet is mainly constituted of seals, fish etc.
I mean they would eat dolphin, only it is probably quite rare: dolphins are bloody strong, I think all an orca (or group of orcas) could hope for is a young or elderly animal.
As to eating stuff that's lying on the bottom, I'm not sure at all.
My only zone is pressure....somehow it's much easier to "solve problems" when you have no other choice: a deadline in an unreasonably short time just does it.
I have done stuff in exams I would have no idea how to do normally!
ah well--if only it was different, if only I could finish the thing 2 weeks in advance and then better it in the remaining time...
It is actually not that easy to find free physics software.
For professional astronomy software, I recommend http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/
Some nice but steep stats software in the R project http://www.r-project.org/
And you can use Octave & gnuplot for basic maths. (admittedly not as good as mathematica,matlab or some other maths package.)
This URL http://www.seul.org/sci/seul-sci10.html has a review of linux & GPL packages that are useful to scientists.
It is also probably worth asking some of the software vendors if they would like to donate something, as really, you never know! (if the cause is good...)
obviously
1.) not opensource,so you can't customise as much
2.) expensive, limited hardware. (Yes, G4s are slow, and no-one knows how motorola's going to do...) --
Great guys,
You just go on justifying people because they're rich & famous. For you, it seems that rich&famous=smart&respetable. I'm not so sure.
Bush's links with oil companies are *obvious*, and his environmental record to date is awful.
I understand you americans need to like your leaders, but failing to criticise them, you are failing your most basic citizen's duties. And please, no talk about *realism*. You know changes can be made, and they have to be made.
I don't see why I should respect Moore's words like a sacred text--I respect his achievements (i.e. I like my PC) and possibly him as a person (for having achieved what he has: you see, I don't know him personally.)
But, as geeks, I don't expect you to know too much about the environment;-) --
Weired, this Mooore.
He donates half of his Intel shares ($5 Billion) to environmental & educational programs, and on the other hand he sat on Bush's environmental advisory committee and does not even criticise the guy...(and we all know what Bush has done to the environment, including getting rid of the Kyoto agreements and licking every oil company's arse.)
I suppose he's just confused.
Still, I kind of like the guy giving away 50% of his fortune (wouldn't see old $Bill doing that!) --
I don't think the guys at CNN really understood what they were talking about there!
The fluctuations in the CMBR, first discovered in the COBE experiment, are manly a clue to the small-scale anisotropy in the early universe, which led to de-coupling of mass & radiation (it has more implications also). They are *not* what *ignited* the Big Bang. That would more have to do with the initial *matter* content.
Similarly "Drawing of the theoretical Big Bang" is not very intelligent, since 1.) it looks like a hot galaxy 2.) until quite late (10^4 yrs) the big-bang is opaque, you cannot "see it" 3.) space was expanding, so you can't "zoom out" and watch it froma distance.
I'm not sure whether this is any use, but I'll post it anyhow. --
Slashdot Mirror
I like the developer's section (nice blue), and the "legal stuff" --brownish autumn theme.
But yeh default is ugly...which makes one wonder: why make it ugly when you can make it beautiful?
Another thing to take into consideration: change, for a news site you see every day, would be refreshing (e.g. seasonal, or whatever.)
*I agree*: maybe even a nicer set of widgets to choose from?!
/. anyways" weighing heavily)
--would that be a big performance problem? (i know perl is slooooow)
--maybe a slashdot poll about it...(but I'm scared of a lot of "I use lynx to read
how can we get this done?
Well that is a very subtle issue.
I agree with you that many theories completely over-do it: and they are then called conspiracy theory.
*However* you have to be careful not to underestimate the influence of governments perpetual lies, helped by sheepish (or interested!) media. A lie, if told often enough, becomes the accepted truth.
"Thinking for yourself" is difficult when all you know is doctrine--how do I know I am not just repeating something I have been taught?
Can you tell me why on earth Kissinger got a nobel *peace* prize? This may seem unrelated, but it is quite clear that in this case, there were a lot of lies, practically a system of thought. Come on the guy is light-eons away from peace.
Something in the work of the crazy team that is currently in the white house is very scary, in that they seem to want to create hysteria, and endoctrination; and they seem to act in a concerted manner, with a world-view of their own (the "new american century", does that ring a bell to you?)
So is what I had said conspiracy theory? No, it is trying to state the facts: governments like to make things acceptable to public opinion, and to do that they will lie about actions, and motives of actions; the current US government lies a lot, with a particular weird scary edge.
Now to SARS: the justifiably scary thing about SARS is that it is very contagious, and it is airborne. The death rate is between 10 and 20%, and medical personnel is suffering a lot from it. Now if you saw how densely populated SE Asia is, you'd realise this is scary for governments, they have to do somthing about it. Yes, there is also hysteria, and they take tough measures, which I believe partly fuel this hysteria. But it isn't the same.
'this post long enough?
Sorry for being boring.
My friend you have hit the spot *exactly*.
;-p
And the answer is...because it gives a wonderful excuse for any sort of action, and a convenient way of attacking those you don't like for economic, political or geostrategic reasons. Read the arab states, at the moment.
It gives an unquestionable moral high ground for what the likes of Noam Chomsky call *state terrorism* -i.e. direct wars and state sponsored terrorism. Look at Algeria, Colombia, Israel for recent examples of state sponsored terrorism, some with links to the US...
See this is Reagan's cold war all over again, a great way of shaping foreign policy to your convenience, and with a heavy hand.
And the best thing is that the public is buying it!
Thanks Canada for doing it right
Bluetooth + WiFi + GSM = "a fish?"
;-p
I knew we had fish genes in tomatoes, but now in silicon chips? What else could the codename possibly allude to? (wait...you know the movie right? for those of you who were too young, there's a classic 1988 movie "a fish called wanda")
Seriously, how are they coming up with those acronyms?
Ok, you can get back to posting intelligent comments, now
Yes, that is interesting indeed.
I think in general there may be interesting research to be done in the area of mapping/visualization of complex data: for instance this project of mapping the internet.
Does this really help in general? Are there many cases where such visual maps would help understanding of complex data?
Think for example, it may be interesting to produce such a map of everything2, which is a sort of hyperlinked online encyclopedia, to see where the clustering is.
In astrophysics, 3D maps of the universe have been produced for some time, and the human-eye understanding of large-scale structure was at first more direct than statistical analysis--for instance, people would see the famous filaments, but stats wouldn't.
A post above quoted the possible use in spotting "usefulness" of code contributions, by looking at their interdependencies for example.
Well,
It's not so simple.
As far as math packages go, matlab and mathematica are the most powerful; but they are very different.
Mathematica is by far the best for pure maths work (the only one real mathematicians accept--it can be slow compared to others but it does real algebra), whereas matlab has more in terms of data analysis, visualisation etc.
Maple is nice and easy to learn, but somewhat less specialised, and I see very nice thing being done in python, as remarked in earlier posts.
In particle physics, one useful data analysis package we have is root , which is basically a collection of C++ classes and a command-line c++ interpreter, very neat, very scaleable (works with our *huge* datasets)...
But on the whole I have found that we end up using a *lot* of different languages:
--you write your large projects in C/C++, and that's what the particle physics community is trying to standardise on
--interface with someone else's older code that's in fortran (a lot of it has not been ported yet.)
--you script things in python and shell, so you can run all of it in a sequence
--on a personal level, many people then use mathematica for the mathematical work (it's really unequalled when you want proper solutions.)
--you also find quite a few people writing frontends in java these days...
nope
he is looking to export the display of a windoze box. XWin32 does the contrary: it allows you to open apps running on a unix machine on your windows machine--another one of those is exceed, which can be used with the PuTTY ssh client for example.
The contrary is much trickier, and usually involves the use of windows terminal server, as outlined in posts above.
Well ok, I forgot about that possibility sorry.
How the hell can you live with 0.98? It's unbearable to use...so slow...
You can:
a.) buy any linux* magazine, whichever country you're in, which will have the latest moz. That's valid for most european countries, and possibly the US
b.) get a patch from the company that makes your linux distro, that sometimes works
c.) download it in an internet cafe, then burn it
d.) download phoenix, it's less than half the size
But yes it's considered good practice to wait at least 1-2 weeks before upgrading stuff that's a pain to update, and a few months for server software.
Well ya know you can either go on cursing or upgrade...
"Mozilla 1.2.1 was released to correct a DHTML bug in Mozilla 1.2. The only difference between the two releases is the fix for this bug (Bug 182500). If you have already installed Mozilla 1.2, you should upgrade to Mozilla 1.2.1. "
It also goes a step further than motorola's annoucement earlier this week as here we have an opensource product in the middleware as well as the OS--and the middleware/interface makes a real difference in this type of device. Note that they will use a Montavista kernel, just as motorola: I guess the palm market is becoming so saturated that differentiation from competitors is also crucial at this stage--this will allow them to offer different apps etc than palm/pocket PC.
Goodie goodie, IBM is back on the handheld market with some fun stuff--we as consumers might see some great new apps.
nonono,
windows is much more convenient on the international side, ever since win2k.
I'll remind you that OSX doesn't speak arabic or hebrew, or any right to left languages; and apple doesn have any plans to include support!
They are citing lack of market demand, fair enough, whatever. But speaking from experience, windows internationationalisation, even in chinese & japanese, is better.
I read BBC news and Le Monde (the french newspaper) mostly every day.
BBC's international coverage, although exhaustive, is not very fair: it is pro-blair & pro-american, which is a pain.
I would criticise the BBC for being a little too close to the british government's stand on everything.
Take for example Irak: most labour MPs don't wan't a war there, but does that transpire clearly in the BBC's reporting?
Of course the bias not as blatant as CNN or other american news sources, and the coverage is very exhaustive (you can find a helluva lot of stuff on their website), but by european standards it's a bit mild--it's almost a legacy of BBC world service, trying to evangelise the british point of view abroad.
I think the answer to q3 in "none at the moment".
I seem to remember something being mentioned a few days ago about a new ogg-decoding program that didn't require floats, and so this could be the basis for hardware decoders (such as portable ones etc).
Notwithstanding the fact that q1 is probably not a good thing to do, I would really like to have some slashdot expert advice on q2, especially for windows: what's the best encoder for ogg for windows? (I use nero & cdex with lame for mp3s, does that do ogg?)
For linux, I would use oggenc, and for OSX I think you can just recompile any of the good linux ones (or get them from www.fink.org), but for windows?
Thanks in advance for your answers
lol f
Well here in europe it's rather common (just see the post a few posts below.)
I could cite BA, Austrian Airways, swissair or maybe some of the smaller companies like go-airways, easyjets, ryanair (which sucks)..--it's probably because laptops have CD players.
I remember some time ago (mayb e 2 years or something) there had been an instance of interference and that's what started it all.
Most airlines (in europe) don't allow laptop use anyways, and that's been a while.
;-)
At first it was only during takeoff and landing, but now it's throughout the whole flight--and that's before UWB of course.
It's annoying, but it makes sense--maybe they should think about shielding things a little better
That's right.
/.ed, there's a silly permissions problem.
The "non-UK" version of the BBC has been down for a few hours, it's definitely not ben
And, as you say, the "UK" version works fine.
ermm...orcas don't usually eat dolphins.
Of course, being a geek & all that, you wouldn't really know that their diet is mainly constituted of seals, fish etc.
I mean they would eat dolphin, only it is probably quite rare: dolphins are bloody strong, I think all an orca (or group of orcas) could hope for is a young or elderly animal.
As to eating stuff that's lying on the bottom, I'm not sure at all.
Ah well, speculation,
My only zone is pressure....somehow it's much easier to "solve problems" when you have no other choice: a deadline in an unreasonably short time just does it.
I have done stuff in exams I would have no idea how to do normally!
ah well--if only it was different, if only I could finish the thing 2 weeks in advance and then better it in the remaining time...
f
It is actually not that easy to find free physics software.
For professional astronomy software, I recommend http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/
Some nice but steep stats software in the R project http://www.r-project.org/
And you can use Octave & gnuplot for basic maths. (admittedly not as good as mathematica,matlab or some other maths package.)
This URL http://www.seul.org/sci/seul-sci10.html has a review of linux & GPL packages that are useful to scientists.
It is also probably worth asking some of the software vendors if they would like to donate something, as really, you never know! (if the cause is good...)
Good luck!
fz
obviously
1.) not opensource,so you can't customise as much
2.) expensive, limited hardware. (Yes, G4s are slow, and no-one knows how motorola's going to do...)
--
Oh my god the spelling in the initial article--
it's its being it's again...
heaven almighty, what do you learn at school you people?!
--
Great guys, ;-)
You just go on justifying people because they're rich & famous. For you, it seems that rich&famous=smart&respetable.
I'm not so sure.
Bush's links with oil companies are *obvious*, and his environmental record to date is awful.
I understand you americans need to like your leaders, but failing to criticise them, you are failing your most basic citizen's duties.
And please, no talk about *realism*. You know changes can be made, and they have to be made.
I don't see why I should respect Moore's words like a sacred text--I respect his achievements (i.e. I like my PC) and possibly him as a person (for having achieved what he has: you see, I don't know him personally.)
But, as geeks, I don't expect you to know too much about the environment
--
Weired, this Mooore.
He donates half of his Intel shares ($5 Billion) to environmental & educational programs, and on the other hand he sat on Bush's environmental advisory committee and does not even criticise the guy...(and we all know what Bush has done to the environment, including getting rid of the Kyoto agreements and licking every oil company's arse.)
I suppose he's just confused.
Still, I kind of like the guy giving away 50% of his fortune (wouldn't see old $Bill doing that!)
--
I don't think the guys at CNN really understood what they were talking about there!
The fluctuations in the CMBR, first discovered in the COBE experiment, are manly a clue to the small-scale anisotropy in the early universe, which led to de-coupling of mass & radiation (it has more implications also). They are *not* what *ignited* the Big Bang. That would more have to do with the initial *matter* content.
Similarly "Drawing of the theoretical Big Bang" is not very intelligent, since 1.) it looks like a hot galaxy 2.) until quite late (10^4 yrs) the big-bang is opaque, you cannot "see it" 3.) space was expanding, so you can't "zoom out" and watch it froma distance.
I'm not sure whether this is any use, but I'll post it anyhow.
--