B-List Movie lovers, and major Sean Connery buffs know of this very special movie (the only time I've ever seen Connery in drag!).
In the future, as society and civilization collapses, a small group of scientists create special remainders of civilization, called Vortexes (note: Not vorticies; linguistic abuses fill this movie nicely, especially for the scientifically minded).
Now, here's the relevant part of all of this. When a person in a vortex dies, they are "regenerated" in what appears a strange means of cloning combined with neural pathway restoration (engrammatic mapping). All this is taken care of via the "Tabernacle" (an appropriately named device, but for the time of the film, religious terms usually were).
Since I don't want to ruin the movie for you (and niether did its creator(s) based on the beginning), I won't say much more. However, I'll only say this, "Immortality sucks the unholy big one!"
TiVo's kernel ain't usin' any of the stuff that could actually be unique* so far, as suggested by the armchair analysts.
They aided the ExtX file systems; they added to the embedded communities the necessary functional code and corrections elsewhere. Did anyone see them ask for a license from SCO? No.
If you ask, "Why," I'll ask, "Do you ever pay attention to anything I write!?" Also, I may severely bludgeon you.
*unique: read ahead isn't all that F*ing unique. Get any two people to implement their own versions without having seen any pre-existing version, and make a comparison! The more restricted the function, the more common the appearance. Additionally...read ahead is owned by...Berkley;oP
As pointed out by half a dozen others, the scent is produced by various monera. It is the same for feet, where Lycra socks are now becoming nearly ubiquitous. Perhaps a Lycra/. shirt could take care of 1/3 of the people that actually use 'leet' in public.
Picture a scene with Bob (COTSG): "Hey, Kids, Lycra R0XX0RZ!"
If you think the greatest issue here is the money given back to the shareholders or Bill Gates netting a large share, you are very narrow minded. If you bother to read between the lines, or specifically read the buyout line, you might come to realise that the biggest risk is not in where the money goes to or comes from, but how Microsoft is benefitting (and it's not some consumer muddle about freeing up $46 billion). If Microsoft exercises a buyout, they will reduce much of the requirement for oversight!
In case you missed it, that means that they will be able to pursue all sorts of "fun" strategies that would have undesirable long term affects. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if legal threatening developed greater strength and market strategy became more aggressive.
Of course, this could be a leak to inflate stock-value, but lord only knows why they would want to do that...unless an insider wanted to prevent the above.
I don't like this use of the word sentient. Sentience, by it's very nature, suggests a lot more than analysis of data. Sentience is often connected to a more spiritual concept.
I find it odd that no one would dare call an AI sentient, but have no problem using it for an office that behaves the way many services (TiVo) and websites (Abuzz) do: Assume your most probable intent or interest based on your past events.
What asshat decided to pick this word, anyhow? I pray it's not the new hype term.
In several countries, as mentioned in slashdot before, you are unable to use the words "Apple" or "MacIntosh" as commercial names unless you're agriculture. Where the F* does Apple get off? Where does the Open Group get off? Apparently "Unix" is totally and unconditionally owned by SCO! Hey, wait, check that out: One of the Open Group's primary sponsors is IBM!
Ok, simmerdonna people, this is a big fat duh; at least here in the US.
"Video lotteries" have almost ALWAYS been adjustable to a specific return value. This is true whether you're in tavern playing a "fruit machine" or in Ceasar's Palace playing Goliath. It was already proven, countless times in countless cases around the world, that this is perfectly acceptable practice (basically, as long as a person can actually win).
The average return is between 35-45%. During some periods (late winter, for example), the average drops between 20-30%. It's all carefully balanced and monitored by a number of comissions, from local to federal to international.
It's not about whether this crashes or whatever. The point was that they were trying to combine too many of the developing efforts, while content to stabilize the work as they went.
It wasn't just that there was a risk of some strange error if something wasn't done right. It wasn't just that development is occuring on multiple levels. It wasn't just trying to combine various areas to create a solid GNOME. ** It was doing all of these at once. There version of GNOME 2 was very stable by all appearances.
Explain that to VP whose previous experience was hardware deployment.
Ok, you, me and Bob all know GNOME's development rate (like much of FreeSoftware) tends to prevent much of it from becoming stable before it starts to become out of date for the latest and greatest software development.
In a way, that is what HP is referring to, but not in the direction you're going. HP's attempts to work within and without the community resulted in a split of direction. Work within the community resulted in more and more new work that needed to be done for work from without of the community. Basically, HP wanted to backport the progress more functionally, but was surprised to find GNOME developing much faster than they could clean-up, backport and re-test the work.
You see, HP didn't want a specific GNOME 2.n'.n; they wanted a GNOME 2.x functional system, as in, not any particular GNOME2, but a compatible GNOME2-based system.
With GNOME 2.0, plus corrective backwork for GNOME 1.4, plus forward work in GNOME 2.2, plus functional mapping of GNOME 3(ish) (really, "ish"), HP got over-loaded, burnt out and generally disgusted. It was like Linus trying to manage over 4 dozen patches a day--it just stopped being a functional model at some point.
Maybe HP needed a buffer; maybe they needed to focus on one direction; maybe they needed something completely different. Whatever they needed, they don't seem interested in looking into it any further.
Well, just my thoughts; maybe someone should ask BP if he has any insider information?
Yes, Paul thought it had a ring to it, too. It's been a sub-division of EMI since just before Revolver.
John and I, however, used a later song, and out of that (in dual non-pseudo-semi-indirecty-partnery-sub-divisionism ismism), we created Subafilms for our toonery attempts at an animaty-musi-movie.
Though, not specifically Intel, I noticed the focus running in the direction of specifically associated companies, and the entire lack of pointing out similar projects being done by their competitors.
In fact, it's the reason I came to read the comments: To see if anyone else felt that way.
Truely nifty stuff. I've never learned much about the weapons architecture for thermonucleogenics, and thought of this as enlightening. Other forms a fusion (the "desktop fusion" of however long ago that was and the "fusor" of a couple weeks ago) seem not to rely on the fission at all, something I like to refer to as "the increasing niftiness factor."
First off, one must remember that a single instance is far from sufficient to confirm anything, unless of course, you're not a scientist...
With that thought out of the way, I'd like to point to previous experimental data. I've found a previous publication some time ago by one Tom Van Flandern, called The Speed of Gravity - What the Experiments Say. You will probably find the bibliography just as interesting.
I would like to remind you that Karl Ove Hufthammer has been translating AbiWord into Nynorsk for some time.... Why doesn't someone point these things out much earlier!?
I don't know what some people smoke, but I want some. One month BEFORE successful nuclear testing, a five megaton explosion occurs...when only a one megaton explosion drops down the next year on Hiroshima? Are we NOT all here?
Let's go through the manifest of explosions, available at the PC website:
"Involved in the explosion was a total of approximately 5080 tons of ammunition and high explosives...MK7 Incendiary Bombs in #1 Hold, MK47 Depth Bombs (Torpex loaded) in #2 Hold, Tail Vanes in #3 Hold, MK4 Fragmentation Bombs in #4 Hold, and 40mm in #5 Hold."
I'm a very pro-conspiracy theory person (as some readers may know), and not even I could follow through on this!
I cannot find the information on the terrestrial information, as I originally learned of it in 1980's National Geographic, and only re-heard of it in the past couple years with a Nova episode.
Jun already had the money before Dom found out (you know, this modern electronic world and all). Dom did track him down and talked to him. As he explained in the letter to the lists, he doesn't fault the receiver, but PayPal and theif. Though, he also points out that he faults PayPal mostly for poor customer support, but I fault them for everything! Well, until next week when I clarify that point.
The name is the seller of the camera not the buyer; dom doesn't blame the seller as there is no way for him to know that the money was illicit. As to why dom left the dough in the account is lost on me.
I haven't one smoking clue what the author was smoking at the time; however, there is a MASSIVE difference between child pornography and historical items, not the least of which is the legality.
Yes, NAZIs are a politically structured hate group, but if you were a German at the time, you'd know it was a lot more than "Kill Zee Jews!" Pins and metals aren't made of human skin, nor did they have any words upon them that were. And I'm saying this AS a Jew! Even I keep stuff that is historically questionable, but none the less relevant (for example, DOS 3 LISP(I didn't say I used it)).
People should be very careful about making broad comparisons like that.
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B-List Movie lovers, and major Sean Connery buffs know of this very special movie (the only time I've ever seen Connery in drag!).
In the future, as society and civilization collapses, a small group of scientists create special remainders of civilization, called Vortexes (note: Not vorticies; linguistic abuses fill this movie nicely, especially for the scientifically minded).
Now, here's the relevant part of all of this. When a person in a vortex dies, they are "regenerated" in what appears a strange means of cloning combined with neural pathway restoration (engrammatic mapping). All this is taken care of via the "Tabernacle" (an appropriately named device, but for the time of the film, religious terms usually were).
Since I don't want to ruin the movie for you (and niether did its creator(s) based on the beginning), I won't say much more. However, I'll only say this, "Immortality sucks the unholy big one!"
-Plug
SMP? Nope!
;oP
NUMA? Nope!
JFS? Nope!
TiVo's kernel ain't usin' any of the stuff that could actually be unique* so far, as suggested by the armchair analysts.
They aided the ExtX file systems; they added to the embedded communities the necessary functional code and corrections elsewhere. Did anyone see them ask for a license from SCO? No.
If you ask, "Why," I'll ask, "Do you ever pay attention to anything I write!?" Also, I may severely bludgeon you.
*unique: read ahead isn't all that F*ing unique. Get any two people to implement their own versions without having seen any pre-existing version, and make a comparison! The more restricted the function, the more common the appearance. Additionally...read ahead is owned by...Berkley
As pointed out by half a dozen others, the scent is produced by various monera. It is the same for feet, where Lycra socks are now becoming nearly ubiquitous. Perhaps a Lycra /. shirt could take care of 1/3 of the people that actually use 'leet' in public.
Picture a scene with Bob (COTSG):
"Hey, Kids, Lycra R0XX0RZ!"
Yeah...that'll fix their li'l wagons....
If you think the greatest issue here is the money given back to the shareholders or Bill Gates netting a large share, you are very narrow minded. If you bother to read between the lines, or specifically read the buyout line, you might come to realise that the biggest risk is not in where the money goes to or comes from, but how Microsoft is benefitting (and it's not some consumer muddle about freeing up $46 billion). If Microsoft exercises a buyout, they will reduce much of the requirement for oversight!
In case you missed it, that means that they will be able to pursue all sorts of "fun" strategies that would have undesirable long term affects. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if legal threatening developed greater strength and market strategy became more aggressive.
Of course, this could be a leak to inflate stock-value, but lord only knows why they would want to do that...unless an insider wanted to prevent the above.
The silliest thoughts I have....
I don't like this use of the word sentient. Sentience, by it's very nature, suggests a lot more than analysis of data. Sentience is often connected to a more spiritual concept.
I find it odd that no one would dare call an AI sentient, but have no problem using it for an office that behaves the way many services (TiVo) and websites (Abuzz) do: Assume your most probable intent or interest based on your past events.
What asshat decided to pick this word, anyhow? I pray it's not the new hype term.
In several countries, as mentioned in slashdot before, you are unable to use the words "Apple" or "MacIntosh" as commercial names unless you're agriculture. Where the F* does Apple get off? Where does the Open Group get off? Apparently "Unix" is totally and unconditionally owned by SCO! Hey, wait, check that out: One of the Open Group's primary sponsors is IBM!
Round Robin Lawsuits--the way of the future!
Ok, simmerdonna people, this is a big fat duh; at least here in the US.
"Video lotteries" have almost ALWAYS been adjustable to a specific return value. This is true whether you're in tavern playing a "fruit machine" or in Ceasar's Palace playing Goliath. It was already proven, countless times in countless cases around the world, that this is perfectly acceptable practice (basically, as long as a person can actually win).
The average return is between 35-45%. During some periods (late winter, for example), the average drops between 20-30%. It's all carefully balanced and monitored by a number of comissions, from local to federal to international.
Thank you, and have nice day.
It's not about whether this crashes or whatever. The point was that they were trying to combine too many of the developing efforts, while content to stabilize the work as they went.
It wasn't just that there was a risk of some strange error if something wasn't done right. It wasn't just that development is occuring on multiple levels. It wasn't just trying to combine various areas to create a solid GNOME. ** It was doing all of these at once. There version of GNOME 2 was very stable by all appearances.
Explain that to VP whose previous experience was hardware deployment.
Ok, you, me and Bob all know GNOME's development rate (like much of FreeSoftware) tends to prevent much of it from becoming stable before it starts to become out of date for the latest and greatest software development.
In a way, that is what HP is referring to, but not in the direction you're going. HP's attempts to work within and without the community resulted in a split of direction. Work within the community resulted in more and more new work that needed to be done for work from without of the community. Basically, HP wanted to backport the progress more functionally, but was surprised to find GNOME developing much faster than they could clean-up, backport and re-test the work.
You see, HP didn't want a specific GNOME 2.n'.n; they wanted a GNOME 2.x functional system, as in, not any particular GNOME2, but a compatible GNOME2-based system.
With GNOME 2.0, plus corrective backwork for GNOME 1.4, plus forward work in GNOME 2.2, plus functional mapping of GNOME 3(ish) (really, "ish"), HP got over-loaded, burnt out and generally disgusted. It was like Linus trying to manage over 4 dozen patches a day--it just stopped being a functional model at some point.
Maybe HP needed a buffer; maybe they needed to focus on one direction; maybe they needed something completely different. Whatever they needed, they don't seem interested in looking into it any further.
Well, just my thoughts; maybe someone should ask BP if he has any insider information?
Yes, Paul thought it had a ring to it, too. It's been a sub-division of EMI since just before Revolver.
m ismism), we created Subafilms for our toonery attempts at an animaty-musi-movie.
John and I, however, used a later song, and out of that (in dual non-pseudo-semi-indirecty-partnery-sub-divisionis
--Ringo
Though, not specifically Intel, I noticed the focus running in the direction of specifically associated companies, and the entire lack of pointing out similar projects being done by their competitors.
In fact, it's the reason I came to read the comments: To see if anyone else felt that way.
Could be. I created the EZ Shell on top of FreeBSD. You might remember it's less ingenious versions used as pseudo-gui's, such as the dosshell. -Zen
PowerPC = RISC
You never heard of a legacy-based system? We're still coding for it.
EAZ, Apple developer since 1996
Truely nifty stuff. I've never learned much about the weapons architecture for thermonucleogenics, and thought of this as enlightening. Other forms a fusion (the "desktop fusion" of however long ago that was and the "fusor" of a couple weeks ago) seem not to rely on the fission at all, something I like to refer to as "the increasing niftiness factor."
First off, one must remember that a single instance is far from sufficient to confirm anything, unless of course, you're not a scientist...
With that thought out of the way, I'd like to point to previous experimental data. I've found a previous publication some time ago by one Tom Van Flandern, called The Speed of Gravity - What the Experiments Say. You will probably find the bibliography just as interesting.
The atomic bomb reference appears to have thrown you off.
?Gnumeric?
No Excel.
Gnumeric?
Ex...cel.
Gnu...meric.
Ex!
Gnu!
Cel!
Meric!
GNU!
uhm,
Meric!
I would like to remind you that Karl Ove Hufthammer has been translating AbiWord into Nynorsk for some time.... Why doesn't someone point these things out much earlier!?
Still, however:
5000 tons
500 decatons
50 hectatons
5 kilotons
I believe it's called a "brain fart."
NOT!
I don't know what some people smoke, but I want some. One month BEFORE successful nuclear testing, a five megaton explosion occurs...when only a one megaton explosion drops down the next year on Hiroshima? Are we NOT all here?
Let's go through the manifest of explosions, available at the PC website:
"Involved in the explosion was a total of approximately 5080 tons of ammunition and high explosives...MK7 Incendiary Bombs in #1 Hold, MK47 Depth Bombs (Torpex loaded) in #2 Hold, Tail Vanes in #3 Hold, MK4 Fragmentation Bombs in #4 Hold, and 40mm in #5 Hold."
I'm a very pro-conspiracy theory person (as some readers may know), and not even I could follow through on this!
We (the U.S.) learned this from the natural restoration at Bikini, which was well underway years before Chernobyl.
For more information about Bikini, visit here: http://www.bikiniatoll.com/home.html
I cannot find the information on the terrestrial information, as I originally learned of it in 1980's National Geographic, and only re-heard of it in the past couple years with a Nova episode.
Jun already had the money before Dom found out (you know, this modern electronic world and all). Dom did track him down and talked to him. As he explained in the letter to the lists, he doesn't fault the receiver, but PayPal and theif. Though, he also points out that he faults PayPal mostly for poor customer support, but I fault them for everything! Well, until next week when I clarify that point.
The name is the seller of the camera not the buyer; dom doesn't blame the seller as there is no way for him to know that the money was illicit. As to why dom left the dough in the account is lost on me.
This is nothing like blocking NAZI-era items!
I haven't one smoking clue what the author was smoking at the time; however, there is a MASSIVE difference between child pornography and historical items, not the least of which is the legality.
Yes, NAZIs are a politically structured hate group, but if you were a German at the time, you'd know it was a lot more than "Kill Zee Jews!" Pins and metals aren't made of human skin, nor did they have any words upon them that were. And I'm saying this AS a Jew! Even I keep stuff that is historically questionable, but none the less relevant (for example, DOS 3 LISP(I didn't say I used it)).
People should be very careful about making broad comparisons like that.