Eventhough now it's unimportant to Linux users, it's a milestone! You have already seen how fast Linux grow. Imagine that 5 years from now, Linux will go on par with Windows in gaming. Later on, I expect that game developers will seriously consider Linux as a potential platform for their market.
Yeah, the instruction costs $10. It doesn't tell you the equipments you have to buy.
For me, constructing 100 inch or even more display is "easy". Just buy a projector (that costs $4000) and then project it to a screen or wall. Simple. The farther the distance, the bigger is the resulting image. You can then adjust the focus. Voila. Fragging big time!:-)
Here's Win 2K EULA excerpt about transfer of license:
Transfer to Third Party. Initial user of the Product may make a one-time transfer of the Product to another end user. The transfer has to include all component parts, media, printed materials, this EULA, and if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity. The transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user receiving the Product must agree to all the EULA terms.
Now, Microsoft may condemn people on the auction site as the seller cannot assert the buyer agreement to the EULA. Then, M$ can say the seller cannot assert that the buyer will not resell the software. All in all, this EULA does NOT rigorously govern on how the software may be resaled. Thus, M$ can bend this to their significance.
What kind of "service activation" in mentioned there?
$399 with service activation
$549 without service
Phone activation on which company? Am I missed something here? Thanks
KDE Teams Does Try to Squeeze RAM Usage
on
Five Years of KDE
·
· Score: 1
Please read this article. They said that the effort will save around 450K each app and possible more.
KDE teams certainly wanted to squeeze the RAM usage. There IS an effort to do that. Big RAM usage is inevitable for GUI apps, IMHO. Moreover, KDE apps are designed to interoperate -- that's
an obvious need for another chunk of RAM.
If you'd like to use as minimum RAM as possible, don't use GUI stuff -- just the bare command line, load only necessary modules. If necessary, you can recompile the kernel and the modules, apps, daemon you use using highly optimized switch of the GCC.
KDE has got all the basics down, and now they have to resist adding too much more crap.
I think KDE team is doing their good job. What do you mean by "adding more crap"? Do you mean adding more apps into the window manager? Well, you can always only download kde-base and other necessary ones if you don't like KOffice, KDevelop, and other stuffs...
Meanwhile, I like the idea to integrating their office suite with KDE. That way, you can get consistencies in user interface so that Windoze users don't get too much shock on migration.
Moreover, they're getting better every release. More stable, speedier, and more usable to users. Five years to develop this brilliant stuff is just unbelievably short. Not even Microsoft can build their lousy Win3.1 to another lousy Win2K, that took them more than 5 years...
It won't be complete if I don't include The Language List. Not only this page contains resources for those esoteric ones, but also other "saner" languages too.
For those of you who want to create programming languages, make sure you read the underlying principles. If you know all these stuffs, your programming language will not be just a toy!
Is this post a flamebait? Sparking envy to those who live in an area where bandwidth is tight? In Indonesia, 28.8K is a very good connection. 56.6K is a bliss. ISDN is owned only by corporations.
Please people... You can boast your new super duper whizbang 10E100 bits network or whatsnot, but don't taunt anyone... It can cut real deep at times... OK? Thanks for your understanding...
I think if HP cannot feed them anymore, its best to hand them over to somebody else that could ensure their welfare, eventhough handing them to Intel. Remember, we're in an economic downturn, so don't blame 'em for this... Slandering them just doesn't help... The only unfair part was:
What raised some eyebrows is that the workers weren't given the choice of applying for other jobs at HP.
Something's fishy here. Now, people would assume that this is one of the things they're up to after the merger... This could damage their reputation, apparently...
I would like to see the comparative growth on the bandwith of 3rd world countries. I think it was static and most of the growth are enjoyed by more developed countries. Unfortunately the exec summary doesn't reveal all these stuffs so that the whole world may see how huge is the gap between them...
Here is the lab of Jet propulsion labs that does the robot thingie. This is the software to test the robustness of the robots. NASA has learnt from several failures apparently.
"It will definitely be a premium price product and it will attract buyers who are willing to pay for these premium attributes of small, light, clean and quiet."
Ballard won't reveal the price or initial production volume of the Nexa fuel cell, which will provide power as long as it is supplied fuel.
I guess we'd have to pay both arms and both legs for this....
Meanwhile the WinXP is already released in late Aug (from the announcement, at least) and go into the market by the end of October. Is it to late to settle at Nov 2? By the time, M$ has gotten a fresh new cash from the sales. Correct me if I'm wrong. I hope DoJ is aware of this...
Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 18:30 JST
TOKYO -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday it will introduce a new DVD video system Dec. 1 with a built-in hard disk drive able to record a maximum 52 hours of video. The DMR-HS1 can edit and store recorded TV broadcasts and images from digital video cameras, said Matsushita, best known for its Panasonic brand products.
The recorder will sell for 200,000 yen. (Kyodo News)
Now my question: Recording 52 hours of what quality of video? A DVD quality video or what? I hope that this is not a result of marketing mumbo jumbo...
Don't forget that, as the LA Times article points out, these people do not yearn for worldly goods so the lure of (comparitive) luxury and posessions is of no value.
No, not luxury, but life decency. Just to make them have a decent life, eat good, work good, pray good -- is enough. Nobody would ever deny that they would need that.
You are right that it is very hard to defend those. This is particularly because this strategy is very prone to scapegoating. Taleban may plunder their own people in US guarded territories and blame US that they are actually blackmailing these people. Thus, because of this, Taleban can mobilize others to jihad the US.
One strategy to prevent this is to really start a very small territory, and then try to slowly grow with the help of these people. Don't do immorals, but honor their lifestyle and values. These people will tell you the truth if you are with them.
The problem is if these people you defend do NOT cooperate. Then, you are essentially losing the war already.
If the people do at US's side, then, US has strategically won the war. This can be achieved by cooperating with the deposed former Afghan leaders. They may direct their people.
Rather than to have an aerial bombing, do this. This is a very very good strategy. First of all, Taliban only control 95% of the area. US can cooperate with the remaining 5% and show them that US is their hero. Protect them and treat them good. Build mosque and school. Show your sympathy. Treat their wounds and relive their cities. Preferably near the border.
This will definitely make them shocked and have a mixed feeling. Thus, Laden's fatwah on fighting US will be utterly dissed. Other moslem will see the good deeds US has done and thus won't go jihad.
More over, copy their way. Don't build bases. Rather, stay at people's houses. Treat them good. Build underground meeting places to assemble the attack.
Direct confrontation will draw more enemy and will not succeed. I recall one of the ancient Chinese great strategist, Sima Yi, also have this strategy. They teach people how to plant crops and make them happy. Because of that, the top strategist at that time, Zhuge Liang, lost his patience!
This will quicken other territories to surrender too! If you do treat them good, you will earn top-notch spies from them. Remember that Asian values moral more and can easily get "indebted" by someone's grace. Use this fact!
To me, I have fun in teaching students about programming. Teasing them with tricky questions and see their faces as you unravel the answers. It's really funny, you can see jaw drops from some and you can feel superior too.:-)
Or, you can apply for webmasters/admin in campuses. Consulting befuddled students and meanwhile having some nostalgia on how you did the same when you were at their age.:-)
You can expect that working in educational setting is stable, without being worried to get fired. That's only if you have Master's/Ph.D's degree. The salary is a bit lower, but if you want a stable life, this is definitely worth a try.
I just don't know why in last quarter's report Red Hat loss $400,000 (as I recalled) and says break even because the loss is less than 1c. Now they say loss $100,000 and then loss 2c per share. How's the math?
Then, FYI, this $100,000 loss doesn't include one-time charges and/or costs which would total the loss to $55.3 million. Is there any "accounting tricks" applied to spiff up the reports or what?
SourceForge has nice projects: Open Business or Enigma for J2EE business software. It is still far from finish, but at least you can help to make it happen.
It's not that Microsoft's ease of use is the point nor any "single" platform to foster -- because Linux is actually heading to the right way and soon will become the "de facto" standard platform.
I think Govt will embrace Linux and foster it rather than windows. We already read plenty of news (army, navy, etc) adapt to the open source software.
I think Govt would only help Microsoft if they could install a backdoor for each version of Windows. Remember, IANAL, this is just a speculation. Due to the closed-sourceness and security by obscurity, this is a very good plan. By doing this, our "benevolent" "big brother" is allowed to peek into virtually every single windows computer in the planet -- on behalf of "justice".
Meanwhile putting a backdoor in Linux would be flamed by the whole world and somebody would release a "patch" to remove it out. Thus, make it once again "vulnerable to the terrorist". Such patch, will be supposedly declared as illegal. Even worse, due to this nature, Govt may limit the use of open source software! (My speculation).
Hollywood doesn't support Linux is untrue, I suppose. Not because of the thriving "illegal" DVD decoder in Linux, but mainly because Linux is cost effective and many modelling software has been ported to Linux.
This is just my 2c, don't take it at face value.
I'm Sorry But I don't Get It
on
XML in a Nutshell
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
How the XML is constructed is just like the usual context-free language. Any context-free grammar language (C/C++, Java, Pascal, etc) can easily be parsed by any functional language, such as Scheme, LISP, ML, or OCAML. Because context-free language is based on recursive grammar, it is pretty direct to translate it into the functional language. Manipulating and constructing the AST are also very easy.
Mapping 1:1 from XML to functional language representation is highly exaggerated. In ML, for example, one would have to build the table data structure -- eventhough this thing can be easily made. There are still some idiosyncrasies that you have to handle too, albeit is not as intricate as the one in imperative languages like Java or C/C++.
Mapping to AST itself does NOT yield the full usable extent of XML. XML itself is used to describe tuples of data. How you can flatten the AST tree out to records/structs/classes that is directly usable to the subsequent program? It's not that easy either in functional language. Moreover, the post product of records is highly suitable to imperative language rather than the functional language's.
XML is not going to replace HTML and that's great because XML is better suited to data than display.
Well, I think XML is a generalization of HTML because of the repetition of HTML extension. The W3C committee designed it so that the future extension wouldn't be as painful. However, this XML thingie creates an unprecendented hit so that everything can be encoded in that form, albeit not efficiently sometimes. Because of this, XML is then used to represent database, and so on.
Eventhough keychain will let you login to various hosts without passwords, I still prefer typing my password manually each time I log into those hosts. The main reason is that if there is a chance that somebody could access one of my accounts, he/she could easily log into my other accounts. At least typing each could provide some barrier.
Moreover, I could devise a "safer" plan by logging into one of the least important hosts using ssh, and then re-login to the real one that I'm going to work with. I dunno whether this provides a technically safer method, but I do feel a lot safer.
Java accommodates design flaws a little bit better not by being object-oriented, but by relying so heavily on dynamic binding.
FYI, dynamic binding is a crucial element in OO programming. Programmers wouldn't have been able to downcast if you don't have this. It is indeed that this creates a lot of slowdown, but researcher has done flow analysis research to eliminate many of this.
Concerning the design: Yes, you're right. Nobody starts with a "perfect" design. We will extend it, twist it and twirl it until it comes into a huge mess when we have to scrap the whole thing and rethink it.
But, design flaws can be minimized. It doesn't depend on programming methodologies, but rather to a design methodologies -- which is pretty much debated by now. Using models (e.g. UML models) to depict a huge project maybe worthwhile because we can get a quick overview of what we are upto. Most of the times we can locate the design mistakes pretty quickly.
Design flaws can also be minimized by documenting specification (which is pretty much a "meta-programming" approach). Sadly, nobody wants to do this. If you can get this done, there are a lot of tools (albeit still in research) that can automatically check your program whether it conforms to the spec or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Eventhough now it's unimportant to Linux users, it's a milestone! You have already seen how fast Linux grow. Imagine that 5 years from now, Linux will go on par with Windows in gaming. Later on, I expect that game developers will seriously consider Linux as a potential platform for their market.
Yeah, the instruction costs $10. It doesn't tell you the equipments you have to buy.
For me, constructing 100 inch or even more display is "easy". Just buy a projector (that costs $4000) and then project it to a screen or wall. Simple. The farther the distance, the bigger is the resulting image. You can then adjust the focus. Voila. Fragging big time! :-)
Here's Win 2K EULA excerpt about transfer of license:
Transfer to Third Party. Initial user of the Product may make a one-time transfer of the Product to another end user. The transfer has to include all component parts, media, printed materials, this EULA, and if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity. The transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user receiving the Product must agree to all the EULA terms.
Now, Microsoft may condemn people on the auction site as the seller cannot assert the buyer agreement to the EULA. Then, M$ can say the seller cannot assert that the buyer will not resell the software. All in all, this EULA does NOT rigorously govern on how the software may be resaled. Thus, M$ can bend this to their significance.
IANAL, but be careful on this issue.
What kind of "service activation" in mentioned there?
$399 with service activation
$549 without service
Phone activation on which company? Am I missed something here? Thanks
Please read this article. They said that the effort will save around 450K each app and possible more.
KDE teams certainly wanted to squeeze the RAM usage. There IS an effort to do that. Big RAM usage is inevitable for GUI apps, IMHO. Moreover, KDE apps are designed to interoperate -- that's an obvious need for another chunk of RAM.
If you'd like to use as minimum RAM as possible, don't use GUI stuff -- just the bare command line, load only necessary modules. If necessary, you can recompile the kernel and the modules, apps, daemon you use using highly optimized switch of the GCC.
KDE has got all the basics down, and now they have to resist adding too much more crap.
I think KDE team is doing their good job. What do you mean by "adding more crap"? Do you mean adding more apps into the window manager? Well, you can always only download kde-base and other necessary ones if you don't like KOffice, KDevelop, and other stuffs...
Meanwhile, I like the idea to integrating their office suite with KDE. That way, you can get consistencies in user interface so that Windoze users don't get too much shock on migration.
Moreover, they're getting better every release. More stable, speedier, and more usable to users. Five years to develop this brilliant stuff is just unbelievably short. Not even Microsoft can build their lousy Win3.1 to another lousy Win2K, that took them more than 5 years...
It won't be complete if I don't include The Language List. Not only this page contains resources for those esoteric ones, but also other "saner" languages too.
For those of you who want to create programming languages, make sure you read the underlying principles. If you know all these stuffs, your programming language will not be just a toy!
Everything slower than 10 Mbps is just a toy!
Is this post a flamebait? Sparking envy to those who live in an area where bandwidth is tight? In Indonesia, 28.8K is a very good connection. 56.6K is a bliss. ISDN is owned only by corporations.
Please people... You can boast your new super duper whizbang 10E100 bits network or whatsnot, but don't taunt anyone... It can cut real deep at times... OK? Thanks for your understanding...
I think if HP cannot feed them anymore, its best to hand them over to somebody else that could ensure their welfare, eventhough handing them to Intel. Remember, we're in an economic downturn, so don't blame 'em for this... Slandering them just doesn't help... The only unfair part was:
What raised some eyebrows is that the workers weren't given the choice of applying for other jobs at HP.
Something's fishy here. Now, people would assume that this is one of the things they're up to after the merger... This could damage their reputation, apparently...
I would like to see the comparative growth on the bandwith of 3rd world countries. I think it was static and most of the growth are enjoyed by more developed countries. Unfortunately the exec summary doesn't reveal all these stuffs so that the whole world may see how huge is the gap between them...
Here is the link of the actual Mars mission along with the status and risks. And check out all the robotics projects behind the scene. Cool...
Here is the lab of Jet propulsion labs that does the robot thingie. This is the software to test the robustness of the robots. NASA has learnt from several failures apparently.
A picture of martian rock with some explanations, if you're interested. Along with some interesting rock with bug patterns!
"It will definitely be a premium price product and it will attract buyers who are willing to pay for these premium attributes of small, light, clean and quiet."
Ballard won't reveal the price or initial production volume of the Nexa fuel cell, which will provide power as long as it is supplied fuel.
I guess we'd have to pay both arms and both legs for this....
Meanwhile the WinXP is already released in late Aug (from the announcement, at least) and go into the market by the end of October. Is it to late to settle at Nov 2? By the time, M$ has gotten a fresh new cash from the sales. Correct me if I'm wrong. I hope DoJ is aware of this...
Meanwhile, there is another article here.
Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 18:30 JST TOKYO -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday it will introduce a new DVD video system Dec. 1 with a built-in hard disk drive able to record a maximum 52 hours of video. The DMR-HS1 can edit and store recorded TV broadcasts and images from digital video cameras, said Matsushita, best known for its Panasonic brand products.
The recorder will sell for 200,000 yen. (Kyodo News)
Now my question: Recording 52 hours of what quality of video? A DVD quality video or what? I hope that this is not a result of marketing mumbo jumbo...
Don't forget that, as the LA Times article points out, these people do not yearn for worldly goods so the lure of (comparitive) luxury and posessions is of no value.
No, not luxury, but life decency. Just to make them have a decent life, eat good, work good, pray good -- is enough. Nobody would ever deny that they would need that.
You are right that it is very hard to defend those. This is particularly because this strategy is very prone to scapegoating. Taleban may plunder their own people in US guarded territories and blame US that they are actually blackmailing these people. Thus, because of this, Taleban can mobilize others to jihad the US.
One strategy to prevent this is to really start a very small territory, and then try to slowly grow with the help of these people. Don't do immorals, but honor their lifestyle and values. These people will tell you the truth if you are with them.
The problem is if these people you defend do NOT cooperate. Then, you are essentially losing the war already.
If the people do at US's side, then, US has strategically won the war. This can be achieved by cooperating with the deposed former Afghan leaders. They may direct their people.
Rather than to have an aerial bombing, do this. This is a very very good strategy. First of all, Taliban only control 95% of the area. US can cooperate with the remaining 5% and show them that US is their hero. Protect them and treat them good. Build mosque and school. Show your sympathy. Treat their wounds and relive their cities. Preferably near the border.
This will definitely make them shocked and have a mixed feeling. Thus, Laden's fatwah on fighting US will be utterly dissed. Other moslem will see the good deeds US has done and thus won't go jihad.
More over, copy their way. Don't build bases. Rather, stay at people's houses. Treat them good. Build underground meeting places to assemble the attack.
Direct confrontation will draw more enemy and will not succeed. I recall one of the ancient Chinese great strategist, Sima Yi, also have this strategy. They teach people how to plant crops and make them happy. Because of that, the top strategist at that time, Zhuge Liang, lost his patience!
This will quicken other territories to surrender too! If you do treat them good, you will earn top-notch spies from them. Remember that Asian values moral more and can easily get "indebted" by someone's grace. Use this fact!
To me, I have fun in teaching students about programming. Teasing them with tricky questions and see their faces as you unravel the answers. It's really funny, you can see jaw drops from some and you can feel superior too. :-)
Or, you can apply for webmasters/admin in campuses. Consulting befuddled students and meanwhile having some nostalgia on how you did the same when you were at their age. :-)
You can expect that working in educational setting is stable, without being worried to get fired. That's only if you have Master's/Ph.D's degree. The salary is a bit lower, but if you want a stable life, this is definitely worth a try.
I just don't know why in last quarter's report Red Hat loss $400,000 (as I recalled) and says break even because the loss is less than 1c. Now they say loss $100,000 and then loss 2c per share. How's the math?
Then, FYI, this $100,000 loss doesn't include one-time charges and/or costs which would total the loss to $55.3 million. Is there any "accounting tricks" applied to spiff up the reports or what?
Your answer is appreciated. Thanks.
SourceForge has nice projects: Open Business or Enigma for J2EE business software. It is still far from finish, but at least you can help to make it happen.
It's not that Microsoft's ease of use is the point nor any "single" platform to foster -- because Linux is actually heading to the right way and soon will become the "de facto" standard platform.
I think Govt will embrace Linux and foster it rather than windows. We already read plenty of news (army, navy, etc) adapt to the open source software.
I think Govt would only help Microsoft if they could install a backdoor for each version of Windows. Remember, IANAL, this is just a speculation. Due to the closed-sourceness and security by obscurity, this is a very good plan. By doing this, our "benevolent" "big brother" is allowed to peek into virtually every single windows computer in the planet -- on behalf of "justice".
Meanwhile putting a backdoor in Linux would be flamed by the whole world and somebody would release a "patch" to remove it out. Thus, make it once again "vulnerable to the terrorist". Such patch, will be supposedly declared as illegal. Even worse, due to this nature, Govt may limit the use of open source software! (My speculation).
Hollywood doesn't support Linux is untrue, I suppose. Not because of the thriving "illegal" DVD decoder in Linux, but mainly because Linux is cost effective and many modelling software has been ported to Linux.
This is just my 2c, don't take it at face value.
How the XML is constructed is just like the usual context-free language. Any context-free grammar language (C/C++, Java, Pascal, etc) can easily be parsed by any functional language, such as Scheme, LISP, ML, or OCAML. Because context-free language is based on recursive grammar, it is pretty direct to translate it into the functional language. Manipulating and constructing the AST are also very easy.
Mapping 1:1 from XML to functional language representation is highly exaggerated. In ML, for example, one would have to build the table data structure -- eventhough this thing can be easily made. There are still some idiosyncrasies that you have to handle too, albeit is not as intricate as the one in imperative languages like Java or C/C++.
Mapping to AST itself does NOT yield the full usable extent of XML. XML itself is used to describe tuples of data. How you can flatten the AST tree out to records/structs/classes that is directly usable to the subsequent program? It's not that easy either in functional language. Moreover, the post product of records is highly suitable to imperative language rather than the functional language's.
XML is not going to replace HTML and that's great because XML is better suited to data than display.
Well, I think XML is a generalization of HTML because of the repetition of HTML extension. The W3C committee designed it so that the future extension wouldn't be as painful. However, this XML thingie creates an unprecendented hit so that everything can be encoded in that form, albeit not efficiently sometimes. Because of this, XML is then used to represent database, and so on.
Just my 2c.
Eventhough keychain will let you login to various hosts without passwords, I still prefer typing my password manually each time I log into those hosts. The main reason is that if there is a chance that somebody could access one of my accounts, he/she could easily log into my other accounts. At least typing each could provide some barrier.
Moreover, I could devise a "safer" plan by logging into one of the least important hosts using ssh, and then re-login to the real one that I'm going to work with. I dunno whether this provides a technically safer method, but I do feel a lot safer.
Java accommodates design flaws a little bit better not by being object-oriented, but by relying so heavily on dynamic binding.
FYI, dynamic binding is a crucial element in OO programming. Programmers wouldn't have been able to downcast if you don't have this. It is indeed that this creates a lot of slowdown, but researcher has done flow analysis research to eliminate many of this.
Concerning the design: Yes, you're right. Nobody starts with a "perfect" design. We will extend it, twist it and twirl it until it comes into a huge mess when we have to scrap the whole thing and rethink it.
But, design flaws can be minimized. It doesn't depend on programming methodologies, but rather to a design methodologies -- which is pretty much debated by now. Using models (e.g. UML models) to depict a huge project maybe worthwhile because we can get a quick overview of what we are upto. Most of the times we can locate the design mistakes pretty quickly.
Design flaws can also be minimized by documenting specification (which is pretty much a "meta-programming" approach). Sadly, nobody wants to do this. If you can get this done, there are a lot of tools (albeit still in research) that can automatically check your program whether it conforms to the spec or not.