One good reason to buy a PS2 + Linux kit is
to do architecture or compiler
research on floating-point SIMD units, that may
require measurements on real hardware.
If the goal is to make a table comparing
the four popular floating-point SIMD
sidecards (SSE2, 3DNow!, Altivec, and Emotion
Engine), the PS2 + Linux kit is the cheapest
way to get the fourth column of the table.
Rare is the symphony orchestra, ballet, or
opera company that survives without a
deliberatively distorted marketplace; the
performance buildings are usually publically
subsidized, and in many countries there are
ongoing operational subsidies as well.
So yes, goverments subsidize the arts,
sometimes even from sales taxes on concerts
by the Brittney Spears and N'Sync:-).
Since DoD sites tend to use Powerpoint a lot,
maybe StarOffice.ppt file reading will get
better... it can handle the simple bullet
slides fine now, but the animated slides get
pretty messed up in my experience.
I've always thought universities were the perfect
certificate authority for their graduates; you
would get the service as part of joining the
alumni association, along with the bad magazine
and the alumni email address. Grads are already
using them as an authority every time they
request a transcript, and certifying someone
completed a degree is a pretty strong claim of
identity, more strong than Verisign has to offer.
The idea can be extended to handle people who
don't go to college too -- there are enough
organizations in this world, from churches to
unions to professional organizations to AARP to
AAA, most of whom collect money from their members
while providing various value-adds. Certs could
just be another thing along with the discount
health insurance.
The dollars involved in MLB might be large
enough to help make SSM multicast mainstream in
the USA public internet -- which would be
a positive development for everyone, not just
baseball fans.
The right most people who are posting think
exists -- the right for any citizen to use IP
created in a university in the U.S. via a
government-sponsored project -- does not exist.
The Baye-Dole Act gives non-profits
the right to exclusively license this IP to
anyone they wish.
I think this happens by creating music that can
only exist on the 'net. For example, algorithmic
music which dynamically checks the local weather
or your company's stock price, and changes the
audio to fit. Or music that involves humans and
agents interacting over the Internet, using the
latencies between participants as an
integral part of the performance.
Look as Les Paul -- both the electric guitar and
the multitrack tape recorder (his two big
inventions) had this level of impact on music.
I think the Internet has at least one or two
tricks up its sleeve that will have the same
level of impact on making music differently.
A few years ago, I remember Yahoo would target
UCB's CS subdomains the week before they came
on campus to interview. So, in limited contexts,
they've done this for a long time.
See
this web page to read about Mike Mozer's
adaptive house. He actually lives in it, and
large subsystems in the house are under neural
network control.
I remember when there was no web -- only usenet,
mail, ftp, finger, and telnet. And even though
many of the DNS names ended with.com, it was
a decidedly uncommercial experience. It's OK if
we go back to that point -- everything I get
via the web that isn't (a) a public service by
a.gov,.org, or.edu or (b) profitable to the
provider (www.southwest.com, for example) I'm
quite happy to let die. And I don't think I'm
alone in this sentiment...
Kary Mullis won a Nobel Prize for a non-trivial
accomplishment (PCR, a common molecular
biology technique) and worked 40-50 hour weeks
at a biotech company during the entire project.
And its interesting to note that in the case of
PCR, it was a problem domain that was pounded
by many 70-hour-weekers without success.
Pick a top-twenty CS school, and you'll find at
least one or two faculty who took a leave of
absence, started a company which left them
independently wealthy, and came back and returned
to teaching classes, managing students, and
writing research grants. If CS academia was
broken, these rich folks would retire or
become serial entrepeneurs or become fellows at
bigcompany labs, instead of returning to the
labs and classrooms.
Confusing training with a good interface
on
Grokking The Gimp
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· Score: 2
Your artist friends think Photoshop is
intuitive because they learned how to
use it in art school! Any commercial art
school worth its tuition teaches
its students how to use the industry
standard commercial tools.
If you put a
programmer in front of the tool and he
can't use it, that's a deep sign the UI
has problems -- programmers give the
machine every benefit of the doubt.
If this strict interpetation of fidicuary
responsiblity was correct, then Cisco management
should be in prison for abiding by open
IETF protocols instead of embracing and
extending them into a proprietary control of
the Internet (which was easily in their grasp
to do over the last decade).
Cisco didn't go that route, for some linear
combination of realizing growing the pie bigger
was better than owning the whole pie, and the
avoidance of inevitable anti-trust. Such nuanced
decisions are part and parcel of managing a
corporation -- as would AOL Time Warner supporting
open access. In neither case would a "fidicuary
responsibility" lawsuit arise.
I maintain a MPEG 4 Structured Audio decoder,
sfront, that supports real-time low latency
work -- MIDI and audio input and audio output,
suitable for performance work (and people use
it on stage today, under Linux).
Using the techniques
described on linux-audio-dev, and using a machine
pruned of some badly-behaving daemons, can make
Linux work well for low-latency audio today, for
some apps. Note that my app doesn't write or
read to disk -- a lot of the
remaining problem areas are for apps like hard
disk recorders which need disk-I/O.
Today, you buy a new non-PC-based UNIX _workstation_ (not server), instead of buying a PC and running BSD or Linux, for one of four reasons:
Commercial third-party software that only runs on one platform.
Your company is a big fish, and Carly or Scott or Lou personally made your CEO/CIO a deal (s)he couldn't refuse. Big discounts on hardware or service contracts, ect.
Corporate or institutional inertia -- some custom in-house app no one wants to port, fanatical Solaris sysadmins, ect.
Your workstation needs to be binary-compatible with your servers.
All good reasons, none relevant to switching to Apple. If Apple gets a significant share of UNIX workstation desktops, its going to be stealing them from Linux and FreeBSD.
Check out: http://aim.aol.com/openim/ to read the RFC AOL submitted to the IETF working group. The RFC link is on the bottom of the page. Also check in on the working group mailing list archive here and see other proposals that were submitted today, the deadline day for proposals that will be used to judge whether the wg wakes up from its current sleep mode.
Slashdot Mirror
See this
EE Times story for the technical details
behind the announcement -- Intel does an
about-face on SOI.
Developers working on software that runs
both on Linux and Mac OS X can test their
application on both machines with a simple
reboot.
The NSA probably has a complete Usenet archive;
there may also be independently-kept archives
at other agencies.
One good reason to buy a PS2 + Linux kit is to do architecture or compiler research on floating-point SIMD units, that may require measurements on real hardware. If the goal is to make a table comparing the four popular floating-point SIMD sidecards (SSE2, 3DNow!, Altivec, and Emotion Engine), the PS2 + Linux kit is the cheapest way to get the fourth column of the table.
This technology could renew interest in speed reading ...
Rare is the symphony orchestra, ballet, or opera company that survives without a deliberatively distorted marketplace; the performance buildings are usually publically subsidized, and in many countries there are ongoing operational subsidies as well.
So yes, goverments subsidize the arts, sometimes even from sales taxes on concerts by the Brittney Spears and N'Sync :-).
Read it on Yahoo without registration here.
Also read it on Yahoo (without registering) here.
A ghost of aviation
She was swallowed by the sky
Or by the sea
Like me
She had a dream to fly
--joni mitchell, amelia, from hejira
Since DoD sites tend to use Powerpoint a lot, maybe StarOffice .ppt file reading will get
better ... it can handle the simple bullet
slides fine now, but the animated slides get
pretty messed up in my experience.
I've always thought universities were the perfect certificate authority for their graduates; you would get the service as part of joining the alumni association, along with the bad magazine and the alumni email address. Grads are already using them as an authority every time they request a transcript, and certifying someone completed a degree is a pretty strong claim of identity, more strong than Verisign has to offer.
The idea can be extended to handle people who don't go to college too -- there are enough organizations in this world, from churches to unions to professional organizations to AARP to AAA, most of whom collect money from their members while providing various value-adds. Certs could just be another thing along with the discount health insurance.
The dollars involved in MLB might be large enough to help make SSM multicast mainstream in the USA public internet -- which would be a positive development for everyone, not just baseball fans.
The right most people who are posting think exists -- the right for any citizen to use IP created in a university in the U.S. via a government-sponsored project -- does not exist. The Baye-Dole Act gives non-profits the right to exclusively license this IP to anyone they wish.
Look as Les Paul -- both the electric guitar and the multitrack tape recorder (his two big inventions) had this level of impact on music. I think the Internet has at least one or two tricks up its sleeve that will have the same level of impact on making music differently.
A few years ago, I remember Yahoo would target UCB's CS subdomains the week before they came on campus to interview. So, in limited contexts, they've done this for a long time.
See this web page to read about Mike Mozer's adaptive house. He actually lives in it, and large subsystems in the house are under neural network control.
I remember when there was no web -- only usenet, mail, ftp, finger, and telnet. And even though many of the DNS names ended with .com, it was
a decidedly uncommercial experience. It's OK if
we go back to that point -- everything I get
via the web that isn't (a) a public service by
a .gov, .org, or .edu or (b) profitable to the
provider (www.southwest.com, for example) I'm
quite happy to let die. And I don't think I'm
alone in this sentiment ...
This IETF I-D includes a novel hack (see part 3) using https.
Kary Mullis won a Nobel Prize for a non-trivial accomplishment (PCR, a common molecular biology technique) and worked 40-50 hour weeks at a biotech company during the entire project. And its interesting to note that in the case of PCR, it was a problem domain that was pounded by many 70-hour-weekers without success.
Pick a top-twenty CS school, and you'll find at least one or two faculty who took a leave of absence, started a company which left them independently wealthy, and came back and returned to teaching classes, managing students, and writing research grants. If CS academia was broken, these rich folks would retire or become serial entrepeneurs or become fellows at bigcompany labs, instead of returning to the labs and classrooms.
Your artist friends think Photoshop is intuitive because they learned how to use it in art school! Any commercial art school worth its tuition teaches its students how to use the industry standard commercial tools.
If you put a programmer in front of the tool and he can't use it, that's a deep sign the UI has problems -- programmers give the machine every benefit of the doubt.
If this strict interpetation of fidicuary responsiblity was correct, then Cisco management should be in prison for abiding by open IETF protocols instead of embracing and extending them into a proprietary control of the Internet (which was easily in their grasp to do over the last decade).
Cisco didn't go that route, for some linear combination of realizing growing the pie bigger was better than owning the whole pie, and the avoidance of inevitable anti-trust. Such nuanced decisions are part and parcel of managing a corporation -- as would AOL Time Warner supporting open access. In neither case would a "fidicuary responsibility" lawsuit arise.
I maintain a MPEG 4 Structured Audio decoder, sfront, that supports real-time low latency work -- MIDI and audio input and audio output, suitable for performance work (and people use it on stage today, under Linux).
Using the techniques described on linux-audio-dev, and using a machine pruned of some badly-behaving daemons, can make Linux work well for low-latency audio today, for some apps. Note that my app doesn't write or read to disk -- a lot of the remaining problem areas are for apps like hard disk recorders which need disk-I/O.
All good reasons, none relevant to switching to Apple. If Apple gets a significant share of UNIX workstation desktops, its going to be stealing them from Linux and FreeBSD.
Check out: http://aim.aol.com/openim/ to read the RFC AOL submitted to the IETF working group. The RFC link is on the bottom of the page. Also check in on the working group mailing list archive here and see other proposals that were submitted today, the deadline day for proposals that will be used to judge whether the wg wakes up from its current sleep mode.