ASG is a relatively uncharted field of Artificial Intelligence, with possibly unprecedented value with respect to Rapid Application Development and Software Verification procedures. It has industrial as well as theoretical value.
Perhaps attending the AAAI conference in July/August in Austin Texas would also be of help in providing some insight to what field would be most suited to your desires.
I agree completely; this is the root of the problem with Linux right now. Fortunately, there seems to be hope and even the possibility that Linux will grow out of its infancy, as iterate into something much more beautiful than what we can possibly have now. Some might say, "possibly have in the Microsoft paradigm", and they might be right, I couldn't say, but I do know that the potential for Linux is great enough to make something good.
The issue of user interface is a good one, but and that is where Linux lacks. But only so much potential exists on the front end; it is on the back end, on the interoperability that Linux can excel, through networks and wireless and all the gadgets that speak a common language.
I believe that many people are interested in other solutions, such as Apache (in particular)
If I was to answer this question, I would say "Hmm, poster, do you know shit from shinola? Are you aware that a great many Linux orientated products run under NT. Apache for instance, Perl too."
Too many corporate people have assumed using MS means sticking ones head up the ass.
I believe the issue is that one cannot transparently change solutions from MS to anyone else. There are propietary features of the MS software, often documented and distributed to a select few large and well paying companies, that improve the quality of software that relies on these features.
The issue is not that Apache runs under NT, that is well known. What is not known is how one transports multimillion line ASP applications that rely on IIS/4 and NT 4 and IE 4 and SQL 7 to Apache and/or Linux and/or Mozilla and/or MySQL (or Postgres). One cannot selectively port application components, but must rather redesign the application and application framework from scratch, at best having a "prototype" to go by from the existing application.
Now, I suggest you reevaluate your criteria for "shit from shinola" knowledge, as you are not providing anything useful to this discussion or this community or this world with comments like that. It is not as much that their head is up their ass so much as their priorities are not in evaluating non-sensible solutions. It just doesn't make sense to switch to "alternative" solutions if the framework for transparent solutions are not there, and I would very much like to know if SCO has any intention of providing such a framework.
Microsoft is notorious for locking people into a platform and tying in products that further lock them in. For example, Windows NT and IIS and SQL Server 7.0 and Internet Explorer. These things work great together, and intermingle with non-Microsoft products quite poorly. Thus, for many big businesses, it is often considered wise to travel down that path, the Microsoft Solution, with exclusively MS software, after initial investments of software, licensing, and training have been made.
I believe that many people are interested in other solutions, such as Apache (in particular) and Linux (in particular) and open source (in general), but because of precedent choices they are tied into MS products. What take does SCO have on the viability of providing "alternatives" to these tie-ins as a market for your products? What market does SCO plan to target; which do you think is most important, from SCO's business perspective and intentions: an upgrade path for legacy software (ie. MS), or new products to be marketed separately?
If it were me, I'd be making FFI all over again. As a consumer, I personally prefer FFI over all the others, and would much, MUCH prefer to be able to go back and play that game with its excellent plot and subtle nuances, as opposed to these new-fangled gizmos with all the 3d effects and that.
Despite the advances in technology, I have enjoyed no game more than the original FFI. If any FF game were to be ported to Linux, I wish, I really wish, it would be FFI. (Well, there are always ROMs...) Cheers!
According to CNET News, one of the settlement requests was that Microsoft be compelled to generate MS Office for Linux. Now this, this I didn't see coming.
I cannot help but think that, at some point along the way, Microsoft Windows crashed on the wrong person at the wrong time, and this is their punishment. Now that the bottom's come out, we will watch the stocks tumble, I imagine. It all just seems so preordained...
But it does go to show how capitalism works.. Sometimes mistakes happen and lots of effort gets wasted. But things aren't kept artifically alive beyond their time. It shows that the market works.
It's difficult to conjecture that capitalism works from this particular instance. It lends argument that stupidity cannot continue indefinitely, but that is true of any system.
Life is perpetual change, regardless of your economic system.;-)
Actually, it is *almost* more practical to back up to CD's and CD-RW's than to tapes. It is, of course, circumstantial, but high-volume CD-R purchases do have a very low overhead cost, they are fast to read/write, but aren't particularly big.
Actually, glass has been described as a "liquid", as it tends to "flow" over millenia. I can't confirm where I heard this, but yes, my guess would be that the glass in a HD platter would "droop" over time (lots of it) unless sufficiently reinforced.
My guess would be that it is sufficiently reinforced, probably a plexiglass of some sort, but I honestly couldn't say for sure. But over the period of time in which such structural failure would happen it is likely that you could back up the 75 GB on a disk the size of a pin head.
Quite the contrary. i^(-i) is real. To quote Benjamin Peirce (Harvard Professor):
"Gentlement, this is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical, we can't understand it, and we haven't the slightest idea what the equation means, but we may be sure that it means something very important."
And most things do seem to be after Euler. Some Gaussian. A whole wack of Cauchy (a touch of Dirichlet), some Euclidean, a splash of Newton, a touch of Taylor, and a jiggle of Riemann and Leibnitz.
Mix together, and *poof*, one set of irrefutable truths.
Re:pi = 3*log(640320)/sqrt(163)
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Both e and Pi are not just irrational, but transendental, meaning they are not the product of algebraic systems, which was extremely difficult to prove. We shan't forget i either, the imaginary number, so aptly named (sarcasm).
The interesting thing relating them would be:
i^(-i) = e^(Pi/2)
Yep. That's just bizarre. Nonetheless pretty much irrefutable in the complex number system.
(anyone else notice how the sup tag doesn't work?)
No, the world's not such a nice place, but this is not what I pay my taxes for. This is THEFT. Industrial Espionage. There is no pretty word for it. And it is NOT the job of the American (or any other) Government.
It is in the nation's best interests to make sure that foreign money goes into buying American dollars, particularly of the billion dollar range. Said protection of national interests includes industrial espionage. Consider it something like the NSA paying for itself, indirectly. Look at incentives here.
There is normative and positive; the normative here is that this exists and it cannot be any other way in this system. Positively it would be different, but that's an impossibility right now. Incentives are not in making the most people happy.
I concur, this movie was insulting and in a fair world the people who created it would never be hired again in the entertainment industry because they partook in a mockery of science fiction and a fraud of a production.
It's as if the people who made it wanted to make their little mint, with no intent to tell a story, portray a theme, express a thought. Nope, it would appear to be all about money. And the person who made this movie, although perhaps upset at its apparent failure as a motion picture, will still rake in the money for it. Until the reviews come out.
This sort of thing reflects on the problems that accompany having a *few* people with the money to make movies who make movies to make money, versus the ideal situation where people with a story to tell get to tell a story, like it was with books. (Not to say that books are always good! Ha!) The problem is in the barrier to entry. Many people have great ideas about movies, like a traffic cop's "Star Trek", which was an idea that inspired, well, a culture.
Mission to Mars won't be inspiring many cultures. It has no theme, a thin plot, dull witted characters, insulting science fiction, among various other complaints that you don't need to be reading. This movie, like so many others, irks me with its existence in spite of the lack of competence existing in making it.
Did anyone else notice how Jupiter lacked moons?... of course some of you did...
If you would like to know a *real* or at least compentent (and in my humble opinion excellent) rendition of a possible mission to mars, read Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars Trilogy.
There really is no way to completely prevent wear and tear when using your wrists abusively and excessively, particularly if you have smaller wrists with a narrow carpal tunnel.
The problem that arises is inflamation of the nerve within your carpal tunnel. The surgical solution is to cut the carpal tunnel open such that the nerves can rub around without as much friction and pressure. This does not always help.
The most effective way to help prevent carpal tunnel is to build up the forearms. For example, taking a rope and tying it to a stick at one end and a weight (light) at another serves as a great tool for exercising the forearms. You twirl the stick with your hands on either side of the rope, such that the rope wraps around the stick in the middle, and the weight lifts off the ground. Then going in the reverse "twist" you put the weight back down to the ground. This strengthens the muscles around the carpal tunnel and makes the rubbing less prone to inflamation.
Other highly-wrist oriented exercies may help, but high-impact sports like squash and raquetball actually tend to irritate more than help (although they do help, but inflamation of the carpal tunnel nerve for any reason tends to leave it inflamed for a while). However, Judo (Budo, depending on where you hail from) is an excellent way to strengthen your wrists without high-impact (unlike contact martial arts, such as Ju Jutsu or Tae Kwon-Do) and is less tedious than a stick + rope + weight approach.
Carpal tunnel syndrome affects millions of people, the result of which is lost work and frustrated workers. Surgery is an option, but proper exercise can help prevent the problem in the first place.
I concur. (I know, it's troll and you don't need to read this, but this is like my vote... heh heh) I've also noticed this of late. Not too long ago, stories with 100 messages had a couple of +5 ratings. Now, it takes a story of 300+ messages to get +5 ratings. This is odd.
Valenti speaks of "instinct" in the dark, that he is completely unaware of the direction this is all taking. In essence, he is admitting that he does not know what is going on or the effects of his actions, that he does not know what is going to happen, and at the same time is involved in legal cases that he pointedly does not understand the "logic" behind.
This man has done some great things, perhaps, but in this particular circumstance he appears not only over his head, to be making ill-informed decisions that will affect you and I. Is there a "right" answer about DVD and copy protection? Not really; both side appear guilty of instinctive responses, but one is constructive (DeCSS), the other destructive (Injunctions). Judge it as you will. I seem him, Jack Valenti, bureaucrat, full of non-answers and faithful illusions.
This is on par with technological trends. In particular, note that when CD-ROM first came out, hard drives were around 300MB, and that was huge, and CD's had a whopping 640MB.
Now, hard drives are pushing past 40GB. A read-only media of 140GB is not particularly far fetched. But remember, when CD-ROM came out it was excessively expensive.
Perhaps DVD's were fast to catch on partially because they are an interim technology, and don't reflect any new-great-and-improved technology. A new tech like the 140GB disc might go through harsher momentum gaining, like CD-ROM did when it was first introduced. Hope for the best. Expect the worst.
There are also infinitely more copies of Windows 2000 available this year than there were last year. Relatively, this is good news, but its significance isn't really clear to me.
Particularly when a company like GM can buy one copy of Red Hat and distribute it to thousands of computers.
And, examining Windows NT sales, I can't help but point out the fact that all the money going to NT doesn't really give you anything extra. I mean, copies of Linux have to be outstripping NT in terms of distribution, but the transfer of money isn't so mind-boggling. So using "Linux will save you a fortune, as opposed to NT", seems to be written between the lines in this article...
Actually, according to the CEO of Nortel Networks, if I recall correctly, up until late 1998, the majority of buyouts were Canadian companies buying American ones.
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ASG is a relatively uncharted field of Artificial Intelligence, with possibly unprecedented value with respect to Rapid Application Development and Software Verification procedures. It has industrial as well as theoretical value.
Perhaps attending the AAAI conference in July/August in Austin Texas would also be of help in providing some insight to what field would be most suited to your desires.
Cheers!
Brian
The issue of user interface is a good one, but and that is where Linux lacks. But only so much potential exists on the front end; it is on the back end, on the interoperability that Linux can excel, through networks and wireless and all the gadgets that speak a common language.
The issue is not that Apache runs under NT, that is well known. What is not known is how one transports multimillion line ASP applications that rely on IIS/4 and NT 4 and IE 4 and SQL 7 to Apache and/or Linux and/or Mozilla and/or MySQL (or Postgres). One cannot selectively port application components, but must rather redesign the application and application framework from scratch, at best having a "prototype" to go by from the existing application.
Now, I suggest you reevaluate your criteria for "shit from shinola" knowledge, as you are not providing anything useful to this discussion or this community or this world with comments like that. It is not as much that their head is up their ass so much as their priorities are not in evaluating non-sensible solutions. It just doesn't make sense to switch to "alternative" solutions if the framework for transparent solutions are not there, and I would very much like to know if SCO has any intention of providing such a framework.
I believe that many people are interested in other solutions, such as Apache (in particular) and Linux (in particular) and open source (in general), but because of precedent choices they are tied into MS products. What take does SCO have on the viability of providing "alternatives" to these tie-ins as a market for your products? What market does SCO plan to target; which do you think is most important, from SCO's business perspective and intentions: an upgrade path for legacy software (ie. MS), or new products to be marketed separately?
Despite the advances in technology, I have enjoyed no game more than the original FFI. If any FF game were to be ported to Linux, I wish, I really wish, it would be FFI. (Well, there are always ROMs...) Cheers!
I cannot help but think that, at some point along the way, Microsoft Windows crashed on the wrong person at the wrong time, and this is their punishment. Now that the bottom's come out, we will watch the stocks tumble, I imagine. It all just seems so preordained ...
Life is perpetual change, regardless of your economic system. ;-)
Actually, it is *almost* more practical to back up to CD's and CD-RW's than to tapes. It is, of course, circumstantial, but high-volume CD-R purchases do have a very low overhead cost, they are fast to read/write, but aren't particularly big.
My guess would be that it is sufficiently reinforced, probably a plexiglass of some sort, but I honestly couldn't say for sure. But over the period of time in which such structural failure would happen it is likely that you could back up the 75 GB on a disk the size of a pin head.
Quite the contrary. i^(-i) is real. To quote Benjamin Peirce (Harvard Professor):
And most things do seem to be after Euler. Some Gaussian. A whole wack of Cauchy (a touch of Dirichlet), some Euclidean, a splash of Newton, a touch of Taylor, and a jiggle of Riemann and Leibnitz.
Mix together, and *poof*, one set of irrefutable truths.
pi = -2*i*ln(i) by definition.
The interesting thing relating them would be:
Yep. That's just bizarre. Nonetheless pretty much irrefutable in the complex number system.
(anyone else notice how the sup tag doesn't work?)
It's as if the people who made it wanted to make their little mint, with no intent to tell a story, portray a theme, express a thought. Nope, it would appear to be all about money. And the person who made this movie, although perhaps upset at its apparent failure as a motion picture, will still rake in the money for it. Until the reviews come out.
This sort of thing reflects on the problems that accompany having a *few* people with the money to make movies who make movies to make money, versus the ideal situation where people with a story to tell get to tell a story, like it was with books. (Not to say that books are always good! Ha!) The problem is in the barrier to entry. Many people have great ideas about movies, like a traffic cop's "Star Trek", which was an idea that inspired, well, a culture.
Mission to Mars won't be inspiring many cultures. It has no theme, a thin plot, dull witted characters, insulting science fiction, among various other complaints that you don't need to be reading. This movie, like so many others, irks me with its existence in spite of the lack of competence existing in making it.
Did anyone else notice how Jupiter lacked moons? ... of course some of you did ...
If you would like to know a *real* or at least compentent (and in my humble opinion excellent) rendition of a possible mission to mars, read Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars Trilogy.
The problem that arises is inflamation of the nerve within your carpal tunnel. The surgical solution is to cut the carpal tunnel open such that the nerves can rub around without as much friction and pressure. This does not always help.
The most effective way to help prevent carpal tunnel is to build up the forearms. For example, taking a rope and tying it to a stick at one end and a weight (light) at another serves as a great tool for exercising the forearms. You twirl the stick with your hands on either side of the rope, such that the rope wraps around the stick in the middle, and the weight lifts off the ground. Then going in the reverse "twist" you put the weight back down to the ground. This strengthens the muscles around the carpal tunnel and makes the rubbing less prone to inflamation.
Other highly-wrist oriented exercies may help, but high-impact sports like squash and raquetball actually tend to irritate more than help (although they do help, but inflamation of the carpal tunnel nerve for any reason tends to leave it inflamed for a while). However, Judo (Budo, depending on where you hail from) is an excellent way to strengthen your wrists without high-impact (unlike contact martial arts, such as Ju Jutsu or Tae Kwon-Do) and is less tedious than a stick + rope + weight approach.
Carpal tunnel syndrome affects millions of people, the result of which is lost work and frustrated workers. Surgery is an option, but proper exercise can help prevent the problem in the first place.
Hope that helps.
I concur. (I know, it's troll and you don't need to read this, but this is like my vote ... heh heh) I've also noticed this of late. Not too long ago, stories with 100 messages had a couple of +5 ratings. Now, it takes a story of 300+ messages to get +5 ratings. This is odd.
This man has done some great things, perhaps, but in this particular circumstance he appears not only over his head, to be making ill-informed decisions that will affect you and I. Is there a "right" answer about DVD and copy protection? Not really; both side appear guilty of instinctive responses, but one is constructive (DeCSS), the other destructive (Injunctions). Judge it as you will. I seem him, Jack Valenti, bureaucrat, full of non-answers and faithful illusions.
Now, hard drives are pushing past 40GB. A read-only media of 140GB is not particularly far fetched. But remember, when CD-ROM came out it was excessively expensive.
Perhaps DVD's were fast to catch on partially because they are an interim technology, and don't reflect any new-great-and-improved technology. A new tech like the 140GB disc might go through harsher momentum gaining, like CD-ROM did when it was first introduced. Hope for the best. Expect the worst.
140 GB translates into
...
28 movies (~5 gb each)
28,672 mp3's (~5 mb each)
2,446,677 jpegs (~60k each)
That's an aweful lot of nudie
Sun does stand for Standard UNix, after all ...
Particularly when a company like GM can buy one copy of Red Hat and distribute it to thousands of computers.
And, examining Windows NT sales, I can't help but point out the fact that all the money going to NT doesn't really give you anything extra. I mean, copies of Linux have to be outstripping NT in terms of distribution, but the transfer of money isn't so mind-boggling. So using "Linux will save you a fortune, as opposed to NT", seems to be written between the lines in this article ...
2,200x1100 pixels in antialiasing.
Smoooth like silk.
- Captain Picard
- Debian
- Darth
- Atriedes
- Clinton
- Homer
- Ford Prefect
- Natalie
- Mozilla
- Enrique
Please take this under advisement . . .Actually, according to the CEO of Nortel Networks, if I recall correctly, up until late 1998, the majority of buyouts were Canadian companies buying American ones.