The China Standard Software Co., a consortium of government-funded companies, selected Sun as its preferred technology partner to deploy Linux-based desktops. The deal is part of China's deliberate policy to diversify away from Microsoft.
Hopefully there's more to it than just diversification. Don't get me wrong, heterogeneous computing is a wonderful thing, but I'd also hate to see governments, corporations, or anyone else making decisions based on computing philosophy instead of technical need and justification. (Some might argue that the first is the second, of course.)
The article doesn't mention other reasons why the Chinese government felt Linux was ready to deploy Linux on desktops, why the available software such as StarOffice was adequate, or why Sun was chosen as the "preferred technology partner." I'm very interested to know exactly what it is about the overall computing infrastructure of the Chinese government that made it choose all of the above. What technical differences exist between their situation and, say, that of the U.S.?
their attorneys successfully argued that trojan programs found on their computers were to blame. In all three cases, no one has suggested that the verdicts were anything other than correct. Who exactly were the attorneys arguing to? A jury/judge with little to no specific technical education regarding the matter? People perhaps ill-equipped to know what is and is not possible with viruses or trojans?
To be assured of a fair decision, the decision-makers in these cases must be people that both display no bias, as is already requisite, and have some understanding of what an unknown third party can and cannot do with someone's computer. If that narrows down the jury selection, so be it. In cases where the question of guilt can be so finely tuned to just a few technical bits, such perceptive ability is absolutely essential, lest computer criminals walk free.
...I hope they'll have taken a cue from what's been going on around them and adopt some of the features necessary to maintain a substantial presence in the marketplace.
I have heard Nintendo previously called the "Apple" of console gaming--that is, an entity that can eke out a continued niche market existence for as long as they please. The analogy isn't perfect; after all, one need not justify one's taste in games, so unless one is composed of an exceptionally weak or impressionable mind, there isn't a lot of pressure for incumbents to switch from the Cube.
However, technology will eventually take its toll. Online gaming is exploding, has already exploded. DVDs and DVD-like formats are the established standard. Third-party support has grown amazingly and is now vital for console survival. Top-end video and audio capability are no longer luxuries, but expected. Even Sony has realized the advantages of hard drives, media players, etc.
Should Nintendo wish to continue, their array of insane geniuses will need to begin to practice just a little conformity.
But the mayors of Fort Sumner and Silver City say they won't let the bodies buried in their towns be disturbed, and that sets the stage for a legal showdown in December when New Mexico District Court Judge Jim Foy is to consider the matter.
Mayor Lopez: Draw. Sheriff Graves: No! (Lopez pauses) Graves: I thought we could settle this like men! Lopez: You thought wrong, dude. *BLAM*
(Back to the Future ref for those of you in the sad sad dark.)
Remember projects/experiments, rather than just news? Yeah, Popular Mechanics used to have them too, ones relating to mechanics.
But not anymore. Technology has shot so far ahead that what already surrounds is far more impressive than anything we can quickly whip up from readily available materials. The classic science projects have fallen by the wayside.
Church said the new system makes democracy more accessible by removing such barriers to voting as limited mobility or even poor weather.
I'll give him that. The one barrier it doesn't remove, however, is the economic one that provides Internet access to some but far from all. Millions of poor households receive monthly telecom discounts on just their phone lines--how/why could they shell out for even dialup service? Low-income citizens still constitute an enormous chunk of the non-voting population, which is big enough in itself.
At the time, we weren't even in high school yet, let alone had jobs to buy consoles with.
I think you misinterpreted my comment; I wasn't referring to our age group (whatever that may be) specifically. Video game consoles were well-established as a form of entertainment by the time the ones I mentioned were rolled out, and the public still didn't take to them. Why? They were fatally flawed in areas other than technology -- price, game availability, development model, etc. Essentially, they go to show that the public won't just snap up a console, and keep buying it, just because it's different.
"This is probably the geekiest of the geekiest," admitted conference organizer Dave Ross. "I tell my co-workers about this and they laugh, but this actually helped me land my job."
"Well, Mr. Ross, we've seen from your resume that you've done quite a bit of Java, C++, Perl, Python, and even C#..." "I have, yes." "There are some additional, special qualities we're looking for..." "I did used to program BASIC on my C64 back in the day." "Welcome to the company, Mr. Ross."
Why do they need a 1x1 pixel tracking bug to maintain a Do-Not-Call list? Aren't the telephone numbers of the participants sufficient? What reason directly related to the administration of this list is there for this? If the answers to these questions were obvious, the Register (to give them the benefit of the doubt) wouldn't be asking them.
Well, one of the criterias is that the discovery has benefitted the mankind.
As I pointed out in another post, Bloch and Purcell developed NMR spectroscopy for chemical compounds back in '46, and were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics only six years later. Seriously, how difficult is it to see that the same power of scanning applied to the human body would be beneficial?
Monday's prize honors pioneering work done in the 1970s that laid the groundwork for making MRI a useful method, the assembly said.
Heck, the first whole-body MRI scanner was finished in 1977 -- and the Nobel Prize is being awarded just now? What am I missing on how long it takes for the committee to conclude that something has been revolutionary? I realize that Nobel Prizes must be awarded in hindsight, and that belated high-stature recognition is of course better than none at all, but the time gap still seems a little excessive to me.
Slashdot Mirror
What Might UserLinux Look Like?
Well, if the link's any indication, UserLink will look very rectangular. And white. Did I mention white?
And who's Bruce Peren? Nice to see a new name bursting onto the Linux scene!
The China Standard Software Co., a consortium of government-funded companies, selected Sun as its preferred technology partner to deploy Linux-based desktops. The deal is part of China's deliberate policy to diversify away from Microsoft.
Hopefully there's more to it than just diversification. Don't get me wrong, heterogeneous computing is a wonderful thing, but I'd also hate to see governments, corporations, or anyone else making decisions based on computing philosophy instead of technical need and justification. (Some might argue that the first is the second, of course.)
The article doesn't mention other reasons why the Chinese government felt Linux was ready to deploy Linux on desktops, why the available software such as StarOffice was adequate, or why Sun was chosen as the "preferred technology partner." I'm very interested to know exactly what it is about the overall computing infrastructure of the Chinese government that made it choose all of the above. What technical differences exist between their situation and, say, that of the U.S.?
(Perhaps I can get them talking to each other! :-o ).
And have them hatch some ultimate spamming scheme in one of the most unholy unions to ever occur?
Yeek, no thanks.
The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer.
Cluster a billion TI-85s together and then we'll see who's collecting dust.
The top priorities -- fusion, and a massive supercomputer.
Whatever. I'm still waiting on the flying cars.
their attorneys successfully argued that trojan programs found on their computers were to blame. In all three cases, no one has suggested that the verdicts were anything other than correct.
Who exactly were the attorneys arguing to? A jury/judge with little to no specific technical education regarding the matter? People perhaps ill-equipped to know what is and is not possible with viruses or trojans?
To be assured of a fair decision, the decision-makers in these cases must be people that both display no bias, as is already requisite, and have some understanding of what an unknown third party can and cannot do with someone's computer. If that narrows down the jury selection, so be it. In cases where the question of guilt can be so finely tuned to just a few technical bits, such perceptive ability is absolutely essential, lest computer criminals walk free.
...I hope they'll have taken a cue from what's been going on around them and adopt some of the features necessary to maintain a substantial presence in the marketplace.
I have heard Nintendo previously called the "Apple" of console gaming--that is, an entity that can eke out a continued niche market existence for as long as they please. The analogy isn't perfect; after all, one need not justify one's taste in games, so unless one is composed of an exceptionally weak or impressionable mind, there isn't a lot of pressure for incumbents to switch from the Cube.
However, technology will eventually take its toll. Online gaming is exploding, has already exploded. DVDs and DVD-like formats are the established standard. Third-party support has grown amazingly and is now vital for console survival. Top-end video and audio capability are no longer luxuries, but expected. Even Sony has realized the advantages of hard drives, media players, etc.
Should Nintendo wish to continue, their array of insane geniuses will need to begin to practice just a little conformity.
But the mayors of Fort Sumner and Silver City say they won't let the bodies buried in their towns be disturbed, and that sets the stage for a legal showdown in December when New Mexico District Court Judge Jim Foy is to consider the matter.
Mayor Lopez: Draw.
Sheriff Graves: No!
(Lopez pauses)
Graves: I thought we could settle this like men!
Lopez: You thought wrong, dude.
*BLAM*
(Back to the Future ref for those of you in the sad sad dark.)
Remember projects/experiments, rather than just news? Yeah, Popular Mechanics used to have them too, ones relating to mechanics.
But not anymore. Technology has shot so far ahead that what already surrounds is far more impressive than anything we can quickly whip up from readily available materials. The classic science projects have fallen by the wayside.
Church said the new system makes democracy more accessible by removing such barriers to voting as limited mobility or even poor weather.
I'll give him that. The one barrier it doesn't remove, however, is the economic one that provides Internet access to some but far from all. Millions of poor households receive monthly telecom discounts on just their phone lines--how/why could they shell out for even dialup service? Low-income citizens still constitute an enormous chunk of the non-voting population, which is big enough in itself.
Testing radiation suits.
Testing bio-suits.
Testing beekeeper suits.
Testing smoked glass for eclipse-viewing safety.
Testing new flavors of Coke/Pepsi.
"Mua ha ha."
Exactly what tax bracket do you think I'm in, sir? :)
At the time, we weren't even in high school yet, let alone had jobs to buy consoles with.
I think you misinterpreted my comment; I wasn't referring to our age group (whatever that may be) specifically. Video game consoles were well-established as a form of entertainment by the time the ones I mentioned were rolled out, and the public still didn't take to them. Why? They were fatally flawed in areas other than technology -- price, game availability, development model, etc. Essentially, they go to show that the public won't just snap up a console, and keep buying it, just because it's different.
"See, you people say you have enough consoles, and a powerful PC, but whenever a new console comes out, you people always buy it."
We didn't buy the 3D0, TurboGrafx-16, or Jaguar, did we?
Just wait till Christmas rolls around and you have to buy presents for all its relatives.
all types of domestic robots (vacuum cleaning, lawn-mowing, window cleaning and other types)
Excellent gloss-over of "other types." It's okay, we know what you were thinking.
Will be thinking about slashdot this way in 20 years?
I for one will not be getting nostalgically misty-eyed about first posts, Anonymous Cowards, or Score:-1, Trolls.
"This is probably the geekiest of the geekiest," admitted conference organizer Dave Ross. "I tell my co-workers about this and they laugh, but this actually helped me land my job."
"Well, Mr. Ross, we've seen from your resume that you've done quite a bit of Java, C++, Perl, Python, and even C#..."
"I have, yes."
"There are some additional, special qualities we're looking for..."
"I did used to program BASIC on my C64 back in the day."
"Welcome to the company, Mr. Ross."
Why do they need a 1x1 pixel tracking bug to maintain a Do-Not-Call list? Aren't the telephone numbers of the participants sufficient? What reason directly related to the administration of this list is there for this? If the answers to these questions were obvious, the Register (to give them the benefit of the doubt) wouldn't be asking them.
Well, one of the criterias is that the discovery has benefitted the mankind.
As I pointed out in another post, Bloch and Purcell developed NMR spectroscopy for chemical compounds back in '46, and were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics only six years later. Seriously, how difficult is it to see that the same power of scanning applied to the human body would be beneficial?
Nuclear magnetic resonance didn't seem a good technology to make into a scanning system.
I doubt that was it. Edward Purcell and Felix Bloch pioneered NMR spectroscopy back in 1946 -- and they won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952.
Monday's prize honors pioneering work done in the 1970s that laid the groundwork for making MRI a useful method, the assembly said.
Heck, the first whole-body MRI scanner was finished in 1977 -- and the Nobel Prize is being awarded just now? What am I missing on how long it takes for the committee to conclude that something has been revolutionary? I realize that Nobel Prizes must be awarded in hindsight, and that belated high-stature recognition is of course better than none at all, but the time gap still seems a little excessive to me.
Not wanting to kill anybody, we wait until the last two guys wander up to the candle truck.
I prefer not to even click on that one, and just speculate.
Big Red Candle Truck
back up the candle truck
The hardware store was forced to borrow a Colonial Candle truck
Not wanting to kill anybody, we wait until
the last two guys wander up to the candle truck.
scented candle truck accessories
yankee candle truck part