Instead of analyzing the memory state at the advent of a crash, has anyone worked on a functional kernel debugger for Linux? It would seem to me much more useful to see the memory state relative to the offending code.
Not that this has anything to do with coding Linux in Japan. I'm sure they can come up with some interesting new ideas, some new programming languages are spawning there (e.g. Ruby).
In a nutshell (or a pinecone): it doesn't seem that increasedw forest growth will "cancel" out increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
I don't think that's the point at all. An increase in the amount of foliage will definitely 'cancel out' increased carbon dioxide, but it doesn't seem that increased CO2 encourages foliage growth. Rather, the report suggests using other plant foods to encourage forest growth.
It's a little like expecting an increase in oxygen to result in healthier human beings. Those without other necessities like food and water won't see any increased benefit from better air.
Of course, feeding forests with chemical fertilizers can lead to its own set of problems.
It would probably make more sense to look to the real 'lungs of the earth', plankton and algae, and see if we can get those guys to work. They are much easier to cultivate than trees.
Many people claim that Fish carbs will give you 100mpg+ but that is just untrue
Sure, but while you're riding your hog you can stop in at any greasy spoon and have the owner give you a fillup. For the price, it's probably equivalent to getting 100mph.
Actually, the problem seems to be that we are consuming fossil fuels faster than they are being replenished. One day the supply will run out and leave oil users high and dry. What will be necessary is the development of alternative energy sources to gradually replace fossil fuels in all aspects of energy production. It's very expensive to do this currently, and for certain problem areas (cars) it's near-impossible to find an adequate alternative to oil.
This vegetable oil vehicle is not the answer as it requires massive energy expenditure to just get the oil to market.
Most likely, electric will become the vehicle fuel of the future, and some sort of clean power plant (probably nuclear) will be used to supply the electricity.
No, the patients really thought they were getting better. It's that doctors thought the patients got better because they thought the medications were what they thought.
Now it's clear that what the doctors thought turns out to not have been what they thought they thought.
Might the promise of code that you can "Write Once, Run Anywhere" soon become reality, now that there is an actual platform on which it can run (rather than piggybacking on other platforms via JVMs)?
Isn't the whole point of "Write Once, Run Anywhere" to eschew becoming locked into a single platform?
Gasoline powered cars outnumber diesel powered cars by a huge margin. I doubt that automobile manufacturers will be changing over to veggie power any time in the near or distant future.
How often do you find yourself transferring 20Gb of data? Seriously. I don't doubt that people transfer large chunks of data, but we are talking 30 CDs worth of data here.
This product is overkill for the niche it seeks to fill, if only because that niche doesn't exist at the capacities they are targetting.
Get this! With the right equipment, it's possible to read the contents of a person's monitor, right through a wall. Oh no!
"His keyboard usage pattern indicate that he types a few commands then stops. He then uses the mouse almost exclusively. Even there, though the mouse only moves intermittently. We can't make out what's on the screen, but it doesn't appear to be textual."
Perhaps in non-metropolitan areas high speed access is not available, but the primary use of these devices is not to share data with the world but with co-workers and colleagues. You can set up a LAN that transfers at much faster speeds that allowed by this new device.
At 20 Gigs, you are essentially toting around your entire hard drive (well, maybe yours *heh heh heh*). It isn't bootable, so there's no point in using it as a portable working environment. If you were really interested in sharing, a couple of wireless network cards and laptops would be much more versatile than lugging these Iomega disks around.
These are the sounds of the last gasps for life from this company. They create technologies that so quickly becomes outdated as a result of the huge improvements in standard data storage.
Zip? Dead. 100/200 Mbs just doesn't cut it now that you can transfer your data over the Net.
Jaz? Dead. 1/2 Gbs in a portable format? The primary places where this amount of data is being moved is within companies. In that space, it's a simple matter of sharing out a drive and transferring the 1/2 Gigs over the ethernet.
Clik? Dead. Done in my Smart Media and Compact Flash.
20 Gig portable storage? DOA. Wireless ethernet and larger hard drives already exist and can be adapted to any environment that Iomega can imagine for lower cost.
In the storage industry, you can't expect to build something once and rest on your laurels. The name of the game is evolution and Iomega has some serious genetic defects.
Too bad the GPL didn't look like this about 10 years ago
Too true. If it had, there wouldn't be any FSF to speak of today. And the Open Source Movement would be comprised of a very few idealistic nuts who wouldn't know a business plan if it sat them down and gave them an hour-long Powerpoint presentation complete with coffee and donuts.
Let me clarify. I do not disbelieve that the particle-wave duality exists. What I do not believe is that each particle-wave is existent in all of space simultaneously.
Photons fired one at a time eventually produce exactly the same interference patterns as light beams. The probability distribution of the arrival point of each photon in the two slit experiment is different to the sum of that from two individual slits.
What I said initially: The electron has some possibility of being anywhere until it is measured. That does not mean that the electron is everywhere.
Well, in fact, when an electron is measured, its localised. At time t after this localisation, the electron is everywhere, until it is localised again.
So, Schreudingers cat is infact in the state dead and alive, until it is measured, then the funeral or the party can be arranged.
No. The electron has some possibility of being anywhere until it is measured. That does not mean that the electron is everywhere. I may be in any number of places for all you know, but until you actually come by the office, you'll never know. I am not everywhere until you come by, I just have the possibility of being anywhere.
Same with the cat. The cat has a 50% chance of being alive. It is not dead and alive simultaneously. As time rolls on, the probability that the cat is dead increases until there is a 100% probability that the cat is dead.
but it's true. Binaries can't really be diff'd for similarity. You can say I stole your code, but I can say I just reverse-engineered your code without ever looking at the source. A few perl scripts later, and I've got a set of source files that don't look anything like the originals. Any similarities can be chalked up to similarities in the problem domain.
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Anyone wanna be the first Vice Chair??
;-)
Only if our financials are not too closely inspected.
Dancin Santa
Maybe if they sold Mandrake sock puppets. Then, even if the company went under, I could still make some off of them just on the nostalgia factor.
Dancin Santa
iin dayo
Literally it means "it's okay". But you were correct in your assumption that it is used to indicate anger or intolerance of someone else's opinion.
"I think he shouldn't have used that Japanese phrase."
"Shut up. iin dayo"
Japanese is full of little phrases where emphasis on certain words really changes the meaning or spirit of the phrase.
Dancin Santa
Urusai naa!..
Nihonjin ga kakanakatta kara iin dayo.
Odoroiteru Santa
Thanks, I'll check it out when it's not slashdotted.
Dancin Santa
Instead of analyzing the memory state at the advent of a crash, has anyone worked on a functional kernel debugger for Linux? It would seem to me much more useful to see the memory state relative to the offending code.
Not that this has anything to do with coding Linux in Japan. I'm sure they can come up with some interesting new ideas, some new programming languages are spawning there (e.g. Ruby).
Dancin Santa
In a nutshell (or a pinecone): it doesn't seem that increasedw forest growth will "cancel" out increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
I don't think that's the point at all. An increase in the amount of foliage will definitely 'cancel out' increased carbon dioxide, but it doesn't seem that increased CO2 encourages foliage growth. Rather, the report suggests using other plant foods to encourage forest growth.
It's a little like expecting an increase in oxygen to result in healthier human beings. Those without other necessities like food and water won't see any increased benefit from better air.
Of course, feeding forests with chemical fertilizers can lead to its own set of problems.
It would probably make more sense to look to the real 'lungs of the earth', plankton and algae, and see if we can get those guys to work. They are much easier to cultivate than trees.
Dancin Santa
Many people claim that Fish carbs will give you 100mpg+ but that is just untrue
Sure, but while you're riding your hog you can stop in at any greasy spoon and have the owner give you a fillup. For the price, it's probably equivalent to getting 100mph.
Dancin Santa
Actually, the problem seems to be that we are consuming fossil fuels faster than they are being replenished. One day the supply will run out and leave oil users high and dry. What will be necessary is the development of alternative energy sources to gradually replace fossil fuels in all aspects of energy production. It's very expensive to do this currently, and for certain problem areas (cars) it's near-impossible to find an adequate alternative to oil.
This vegetable oil vehicle is not the answer as it requires massive energy expenditure to just get the oil to market.
Most likely, electric will become the vehicle fuel of the future, and some sort of clean power plant (probably nuclear) will be used to supply the electricity.
Dancin Santa
No, the patients really thought they were getting better. It's that doctors thought the patients got better because they thought the medications were what they thought.
Now it's clear that what the doctors thought turns out to not have been what they thought they thought.
Dancin Santa
Might the promise of code that you can "Write Once, Run Anywhere" soon become reality, now that there is an actual platform on which it can run (rather than piggybacking on other platforms via JVMs)?
Isn't the whole point of "Write Once, Run Anywhere" to eschew becoming locked into a single platform?
Dancin Santa
Gasoline powered cars outnumber diesel powered cars by a huge margin. I doubt that automobile manufacturers will be changing over to veggie power any time in the near or distant future.
Dancin Santa
Sounds like a good application of this technology in that case. What was he using before Iomega came out with the device?
Dancin Santa
How often do you find yourself transferring 20Gb of data? Seriously. I don't doubt that people transfer large chunks of data, but we are talking 30 CDs worth of data here.
This product is overkill for the niche it seeks to fill, if only because that niche doesn't exist at the capacities they are targetting.
Dancin Santa
Get this! With the right equipment, it's possible to read the contents of a person's monitor, right through a wall. Oh no!
"His keyboard usage pattern indicate that he types a few commands then stops. He then uses the mouse almost exclusively. Even there, though the mouse only moves intermittently. We can't make out what's on the screen, but it doesn't appear to be textual."
Dancin Santa
Yep. Remember those walking Godzilla toys that could shoot sparks out of its mouth? Step #26992.
Hell, Dancin Santa is step #43005.
Dancin Santa
Once the mobility has been worked out, the AI is the next logical step
How about you come up with an AI as intelligent as a squid before you start having nightmares of rampaging intelligent dinosaur robots.
Dancin Santa
Perhaps in non-metropolitan areas high speed access is not available, but the primary use of these devices is not to share data with the world but with co-workers and colleagues. You can set up a LAN that transfers at much faster speeds that allowed by this new device.
At 20 Gigs, you are essentially toting around your entire hard drive (well, maybe yours *heh heh heh*). It isn't bootable, so there's no point in using it as a portable working environment. If you were really interested in sharing, a couple of wireless network cards and laptops would be much more versatile than lugging these Iomega disks around.
Dancin Santa
These are the sounds of the last gasps for life from this company. They create technologies that so quickly becomes outdated as a result of the huge improvements in standard data storage.
Zip? Dead. 100/200 Mbs just doesn't cut it now that you can transfer your data over the Net.
Jaz? Dead. 1/2 Gbs in a portable format? The primary places where this amount of data is being moved is within companies. In that space, it's a simple matter of sharing out a drive and transferring the 1/2 Gigs over the ethernet.
Clik? Dead. Done in my Smart Media and Compact Flash.
20 Gig portable storage? DOA. Wireless ethernet and larger hard drives already exist and can be adapted to any environment that Iomega can imagine for lower cost.
In the storage industry, you can't expect to build something once and rest on your laurels. The name of the game is evolution and Iomega has some serious genetic defects.
Dancin Santa
Too bad the GPL didn't look like this about 10 years ago
Too true. If it had, there wouldn't be any FSF to speak of today. And the Open Source Movement would be comprised of a very few idealistic nuts who wouldn't know a business plan if it sat them down and gave them an hour-long Powerpoint presentation complete with coffee and donuts.
Kind of like now only on a much smaller scale.
Dancin Santa
Let me clarify. I do not disbelieve that the particle-wave duality exists. What I do not believe is that each particle-wave is existent in all of space simultaneously.
Dancin Santa
Photons fired one at a time eventually produce exactly the same interference patterns as light beams. The probability distribution of the arrival point of each photon in the two slit experiment is different to the sum of that from two individual slits.
What I said initially: The electron has some possibility of being anywhere until it is measured. That does not mean that the electron is everywhere.
These two statements are not contrary in any way.
Dancin Santa
how do you explain the two slit experiment?
Please. Did your school not offer physics?
Single photons do not produce interference patterns.
Statistics used to evaluate the behavior of large groups of particles cannot be used to determine the behavior of individual particles.
Dancin Santa
Well, in fact, when an electron is measured, its localised. At time t after this localisation, the electron is everywhere, until it is localised again. So, Schreudingers cat is infact in the state dead and alive, until it is measured, then the funeral or the party can be arranged.
No. The electron has some possibility of being anywhere until it is measured. That does not mean that the electron is everywhere. I may be in any number of places for all you know, but until you actually come by the office, you'll never know. I am not everywhere until you come by, I just have the possibility of being anywhere.
Same with the cat. The cat has a 50% chance of being alive. It is not dead and alive simultaneously. As time rolls on, the probability that the cat is dead increases until there is a 100% probability that the cat is dead.
Dancin Santa
but it's true. Binaries can't really be diff'd for similarity. You can say I stole your code, but I can say I just reverse-engineered your code without ever looking at the source. A few perl scripts later, and I've got a set of source files that don't look anything like the originals. Any similarities can be chalked up to similarities in the problem domain.
Dancin Santa