Chuck Yeager was of course the legendary and first amongst the sky daredevils from the Edwards Air Force Base when he broke the sound barrier, but never got due credit for it after John Glenn and Co. received all the accolade for their space walks. And now William Yeager...
While reading their homepage, it struck me that their methodology is somewhat similar to what active networks do. So, does anybody see how active networks can be used for deploying P2P apps?
Most families have 2-3 PCs tops. Why on earth would they want to have a family license when they can actually obtain individual licenses (+discs) for a mere 10-20$ more. Am I missing something here?
because, as I see it, its not just the corporate sector that's primarily hooked onto the wireless network, but also the universities that thrive on it. So, even though a 5x speed increase may look promising, convincing entire hordes of the traditionally sluggish-to-growth universities to shift from IEEE 802.11b to 802.11a will take a while.
Honestly though, Kernel Traffic has been one of my favorite sites. The concept itself is quite innovative. It is indeed a tough job making sense out of the mad mad world of the LKML, and what's more? filter out the trash, the hate and give people the lowdown on kernel development.
Zack, I doff my hat to you...
for the long and short of the kernel
and for the cousins too.
Matthias knew KDE was a big thing...
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The announcement that Matthias made that seemed to have sparked off the KDE (and I knew only now that K stood for Kool!) gives the impression that Matthias was onto something big. He was cocksure of KDE's success, confident that it was going to be a big hit (though even Matthias mightn't have expected it to catch on like it has done). Well, thats something that's lacking in the Open Source World 5 years thence. The conviction, that what one is doing is big, and the faith in one's abilities. Guess, there are just too many bloated carcasses floating around with little support/management, and moreover no cohesive force that rallies coders around, whips up their passion into doing something new.
Way to go, Matthias. Now, if only that announcement could motivate me to getting round to completing my assignment in time..:(
There is a lot of cool work being done in using MEMS. Its got to do with the "pervasive computing" buzzword. Essentially, these guys are building sensor cubes of 1 cubic mm volume that can be deployed in diverse fields ranging from collecting meteorological data (say, throwing them into a tornado, a la Twister!), or for being used in huge farms where soil conditions can be studied in different portions of the farm. Incidentally, these cubes have a pretty catchy name too "Smart Dust", and are complete with photodetectors, transmitters and a solar cell to boot
Their work also deals with some of the important issues in deploying MEMS, like how would you be able to empower these minute thingies with networking capabilities? Could probably have minute radio transmitters built on to these things that transmit data periodically. Another important issue is optimal power management. Obviously these sensors can't last for a long time, so the power management features on them must be state-of-the-art. Unfortunately, no references to their work: all very hush-hush and privy to IEEE members.
There are certain issues in having people work in a group on an assignment.
1. First of all, as you rightly point out, how would you measure each one's capability? The issue isn't to find out who is actually pulling his weight around. That would be unfair to the others and also tough for the graders to figure out. The issue is to define problems in such a way that they can be divisible and each person can be assigned one segment that he can finish, and then when everyone is done, work in a group to co-ordinate the segments into building the whole. The problem with this is not all problems can be divisible into equal effort sub-problems.
2. There is also the issue of what teams one would form. Again, there tends to be unfairness in this. If given the freedom to form a team, the real good coders will group up, and beat the shit out of the weak coders in terms of how much they can do.
3. Thirdly, in one of the courses I am taking, the assignments were originally expected to be done in teams of three. But then, there were some off-campus students who were also taking the course, and they felt they would get a raw deal out of this. With more and more courses going online, I am not sure if teachers will look at teamwork as a viable alternative.
The release doesn't mention whether Skylarov will press for damages if acquitted, seeing as he is pitted against the US government. But I think, Keker must file a simultaneous petition to seek damages from Adobe. That should teach them to stop acting like idiots. One moment they are crying foul to mamma, then they see there's nothing in it for them, and then sheepishly wanting to opt out. Show them how the jungle law of the West works, Keker!
Its quite rare for the people at Microsoft Research to come up with insightful papers such as this. The authors do address a number of issues on what challenges next generation OSs have to face.
The authors however have conveniently omitted the question of whether the future OSs should be cross-compatible. Since so much fuss is being made about having a distributed OS across heterogeneous networks and heterogeneous machines, wouldn't it be worth an effort to also try incorporating some kind of support for other OSs. For instance, Millennium could implement support for ext2fs by itself to make Linux partitions visible either on the same machine, or across a network. The linux kernel team has already done its bit about compatibility with co-existing operating systems.
What is of need is to have some set of common services that all operating system developers, irrespective of what gods they worship, can pledge to provide.
I mean, just when the doctor manoeuvres the arm to remove the bladder, its hit a zillion times with some bizarre M$ concoction, and a warbled command is sent to the arm in Europe. I shudder to imagine the consequences.
If ever there could be a clear demonstration of the immense power of the television as a medium, this was it. What CNN and BBC effectively did was to invoke a sense of overwhelming shock and "unbounded" compassion for the distraught. Add to this the portrayal of emotion from the reporters. It gives the watcher a sense of communion. He feels he is part of that tragedy, however remote he may have been. This can never be duplicated on the Net, simply because, and pardon the cliche, the human angle doesn't exist.
The hard disks in these systems, can be filled up with a lot of useful data, kind of a mirror of some important medical information sites, or movie files demonstrating emergency steps. Additionally, the systems could come with a lot of empty slots where some standard medical instrumenting devices can be connected.
As an aside, probably fill 'em up with some therapeutic music:)
How could the ATC be so careless?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Its strange to note that while the bizarre movements of two flights were being monitored, it didn't strike as odd to the guys at the ATC. I mean, here's one plane that does a volte-face and heads towards Manhattan, while the ATC just silently watches by. Whats even more astonishing is that they had a whole 20 minutes before another of the planes was heading towards NYC. What on earth were they thinking?
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Chuck Yeager was of course the legendary and first amongst the sky daredevils from the Edwards Air Force Base when he broke the sound barrier, but never got due credit for it after John Glenn and Co. received all the accolade for their space walks. And now William Yeager...
While reading their homepage, it struck me that their methodology is somewhat similar to what active networks do. So, does anybody see how active networks can be used for deploying P2P apps?
Most families have 2-3 PCs tops. Why on earth would they want to have a family license when they can actually obtain individual licenses (+discs) for a mere 10-20$ more. Am I missing something here?
because, as I see it, its not just the corporate sector that's primarily hooked onto the wireless network, but also the universities that thrive on it. So, even though a 5x speed increase may look promising, convincing entire hordes of the traditionally sluggish-to-growth universities to shift from IEEE 802.11b to 802.11a will take a while.
this was all Taco wanted. The moolah. A long gestation period, but with the popularity that /. has, I'm sure it could be a money-spinner.
Here's the link:
Honestly though, Kernel Traffic has been one of my favorite sites. The concept itself is quite innovative. It is indeed a tough job making sense out of the mad mad world of the LKML, and what's more? filter out the trash, the hate and give people the lowdown on kernel development.
Zack, I doff my hat to you...
for the long and short of the kernel
and for the cousins too.
The announcement that Matthias made that seemed to have sparked off the KDE (and I knew only now that K stood for Kool!) gives the impression that Matthias was onto something big. He was cocksure of KDE's success, confident that it was going to be a big hit (though even Matthias mightn't have expected it to catch on like it has done). Well, thats something that's lacking in the Open Source World 5 years thence. The conviction, that what one is doing is big, and the faith in one's abilities. Guess, there are just too many bloated carcasses floating around with little support/management, and moreover no cohesive force that rallies coders around, whips up their passion into doing something new.
:(
Way to go, Matthias. Now, if only that announcement could motivate me to getting round to completing my assignment in time..
There is a lot of cool work being done in using MEMS. Its got to do with the "pervasive computing" buzzword. Essentially, these guys are building sensor cubes of 1 cubic mm volume that can be deployed in diverse fields ranging from collecting meteorological data (say, throwing them into a tornado, a la Twister!), or for being used in huge farms where soil conditions can be studied in different portions of the farm. Incidentally, these cubes have a pretty catchy name too "Smart Dust", and are complete with photodetectors, transmitters and a solar cell to boot
Their work also deals with some of the important issues in deploying MEMS, like how would you be able to empower these minute thingies with networking capabilities? Could probably have minute radio transmitters built on to these things that transmit data periodically. Another important issue is optimal power management. Obviously these sensors can't last for a long time, so the power management features on them must be state-of-the-art. Unfortunately, no references to their work: all very hush-hush and privy to IEEE members.
There are certain issues in having people work in a group on an assignment.
1. First of all, as you rightly point out, how would you measure each one's capability? The issue isn't to find out who is actually pulling his weight around. That would be unfair to the others and also tough for the graders to figure out. The issue is to define problems in such a way that they can be divisible and each person can be assigned one segment that he can finish, and then when everyone is done, work in a group to co-ordinate the segments into building the whole. The problem with this is not all problems can be divisible into equal effort sub-problems.
2. There is also the issue of what teams one would form. Again, there tends to be unfairness in this. If given the freedom to form a team, the real good coders will group up, and beat the shit out of the weak coders in terms of how much they can do.
3. Thirdly, in one of the courses I am taking, the assignments were originally expected to be done in teams of three. But then, there were some off-campus students who were also taking the course, and they felt they would get a raw deal out of this. With more and more courses going online, I am not sure if teachers will look at teamwork as a viable alternative.
The release doesn't mention whether Skylarov will press for damages if acquitted, seeing as he is pitted against the US government. But I think, Keker must file a simultaneous petition to seek damages from Adobe. That should teach them to stop acting like idiots. One moment they are crying foul to mamma, then they see there's nothing in it for them, and then sheepishly wanting to opt out. Show them how the jungle law of the West works, Keker!
Its quite rare for the people at Microsoft Research to come up with insightful papers such as this. The authors do address a number of issues on what challenges next generation OSs have to face.
The authors however have conveniently omitted the question of whether the future OSs should be cross-compatible. Since so much fuss is being made about having a distributed OS across heterogeneous networks and heterogeneous machines, wouldn't it be worth an effort to also try incorporating some kind of support for other OSs. For instance, Millennium could implement support for ext2fs by itself to make Linux partitions visible either on the same machine, or across a network. The linux kernel team has already done its bit about compatibility with co-existing operating systems.
What is of need is to have some set of common services that all operating system developers, irrespective of what gods they worship, can pledge to provide.
Is this too much to ask from the M$ guys?
then the possibilities are limitless.
Check out: http://www.fu-fme.com/
I mean, just when the doctor manoeuvres the arm to remove the bladder, its hit a zillion times with some bizarre M$ concoction, and a warbled command is sent to the arm in Europe. I shudder to imagine the consequences.
If ever there could be a clear demonstration of the immense power of the television as a medium, this was it. What CNN and BBC effectively did was to invoke a sense of overwhelming shock and "unbounded" compassion for the distraught. Add to this the portrayal of emotion from the reporters. It gives the watcher a sense of communion. He feels he is part of that tragedy, however remote he may have been. This can never be duplicated on the Net, simply because, and pardon the cliche, the human angle doesn't exist.
Lots of TV-cards and radio cards might help.
:)
The hard disks in these systems, can be filled up with a lot of useful data, kind of a mirror of some important medical information sites, or movie files demonstrating emergency steps. Additionally, the systems could come with a lot of empty slots where some standard medical instrumenting devices can be connected.
As an aside, probably fill 'em up with some therapeutic music
Its strange to note that while the bizarre movements of two flights were being monitored, it didn't strike as odd to the guys at the ATC. I mean, here's one plane that does a volte-face and heads towards Manhattan, while the ATC just silently watches by. Whats even more astonishing is that they had a whole 20 minutes before another of the planes was heading towards NYC. What on earth were they thinking?
That's easy. I can do that too. Type GOD on your Run Command dialog-bar in the StartUp menu.