How could Linux be EASIER to install than RH5.2? Here are the steps I went through:
1) Boot up 2) Answer a couple basic questions (yes, I want to install...I speak English....this is a server...) 3) Use the EXTREMELY simple partition table editor to create a partition. 4) Let it work
Sure, there's not a lot of demand for newbie Linux distributions, but you can bet RedHat is kicking itself for not doing it first. Eventually, Linux will find its way to the consumer space, and Caldera will be ready, willing and able. Heck, there are already consumer-folk out there wondering about Linux.
Check out Cinescape Online for the latest information. The rumor posted is basically that movie theatres that always sell all (or most) of their tickets in advance will be able to apply for a special-case exemption from Lucasfilm. Call your theatre and ask them.
They used to work together when Sam worked for VA Research. Sam knew how he could do it better and he did. Penguin Computing (one of the Slashdot sponsors) is a result.
But you're right. Sam Ockman has been very mature in letting Mr. Dibona make an ass out of himself in public. Ockman has the kind of maturity and humility that is rare in this community, sort of like Linus Torvalds.
I run RedHat 5.2 and win98 on separate hard drives over here and so far linux has had no trouble reading the windoze drive. All I did was set it to mount with everytime linux boots and it works great. sees all the files and has no trouble manipulating them.
too bad it happened in AMERICA? i think that he should have been dropped in KOSOVO. damn, he's a stupid kid, who gives a shit, is there a difference if he is 22 or 12? he's gonna go postal anyways.
1. Do not let your children look at pornography if you think it will make them kill. 2. Do not take your children to movies if they think they will make them kill. 3. Do not buy your children computer games if you think they will make them kill. 4. Do not start up stupid lawsuits. 5. Pay attention to the RATINGS on the videos and video games. 6. Do not let your children have guns.
If you were to kill someone with a gun, would the person's family sue the gun company or the bullet company? It was the child's choice.
I tried to contact the author about perhaps releasing the source to Bleem. According to the #bleem irc channel, reaching him by email is impossible. I was told to wait on irc for him to come back, but I got bored and left...hopefully there's some easier way of contacting him.
They're probably laughing all the way to the bank. I bet the second the cameras leave they wipe off the false tears and break out the champaign. Well, at least the parents of the kids who were only wounded. But this raises an interesting point. If your wondering how to pay for college, just have one extra kid, get him to kill a few friends **insert gunshots, screams and cash-register noises** , and cash in on a settlement.
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Posted by The Apocalyptic Lawnmower:
Hi,
that subject isn't that new to me. Not that I participated in it, but at our dept. we have a long-running project on it:
CD-ROM MP3 player is already released. Yeah. Xeenon Mp3 Shuttle from Korea! I doubt if it is saled internationally.
However, You can install it only in your car and design's kinda dull. But IT REALLY WORKS! You can store all your mp3s in a CD!
Or altinatively, how 'bout this HDD-using MP3 player? It is not yet available. But it is just good. REFER www.mpman.com
Hey where did the experts come from
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Posted by tausq:
You'd be surprised at the backgrounds of some/. readers, but I do agree there seems to be a lot of speculation here....
But this has always been the debate, hasn't it? Should we "discontinue" science because some people are worried about the consequences? (cf Dolly, etc)
I recently read an article about Watson (of DNA fame) where he argued that this approach (of stopping science because we are nervous) is misguided, because we can't understand how to control the consequences until we understand how the technology works. It's going to be done eventually by someone, so why not figure it out now?
But that is the problem.....
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Posted by tausq:
Scientists have been looking for insecticides for many decades. With the passing of chemical pesticides like DTT, farmers are having little defense against pests. These new insect-repellent genes are the new "insecticides" for the future, if we learn to use them correctly. This means that we *don't* allow insects to adapt.
Of course it never works as planned, but that's how it should work in theory:-)
If we allow lawsuits for this kind of stuff, what's next? Movies and video games are not the only violent medium. How about books? Take crime and punishment- it involves a number of axe-murders. What if someone read this book and committed an axe-murder and the book was subsequently banned? Where does this end? It doesn't, until we live in a bland homogenized society where everyone kills each other out of frustration and inability to express themselves.
The parents of this kid need to grow up. Maybe they are so desperately sad from the pain that they can't think of anything better to do than hurt others. But judging from their obvious lack of parenting to this point, they are probably pretty immature.
Anyway I hope the legal system swats this shit down. Its a shame that so many companies will have to waste money on their defense.
What colour is the sky in your world?
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Posted by Gargamelo:
I'm not sure what kind of applications you are using, but I sure as hell am not going to be using my NT box with a TNT2 for real time visualization anytime soon. Even suggesting that such a sytem could be anywhere near as capable as my InfiniteReality2 system with 4 MIPS 10000 processors is cause for someone to be drawn and quartered. Until you have really used both systems, you really can't know the difference.
As for I/O bandwidth, the virtual reality cave that I work in is going to have more than a few problems with 4X AGP. Rendering and sending out four different channels of video 30 times a second is not a job for AGP.
A few other posters have gotten at some points I think are important, but there seem to be a couple others not yet addressed.
I would agree with the notion that schools come in different types; or most especially, that students come in different types. Probably more than just the two (good versus bad) that have been suggested. I would suggest at least three:
1) Schools (and students) that are devoted to sex, drugs and parties.
2) Schools (and students) that are diploma mills, and merely glorified technical training.
3) Schools (and students) that have a genuine interest in learning, thinking and understanding.
These are not discrete categories, but they *are* trends. The same schools, and the same students, can be more than one to different degrees.
The point of dividing it this way is obviously to emphasize the virtues of number 3. Learning--really learning and thinking--about art, history, philosophy, social sciences, nature and physical sciences, language, literature, and lots of other things that have little to do with programming and IT give a person a better life. That is the bottom line for me; it doesn't matter how nearly so much you get paid, or how good a programmer/designer you are.
Number 1 is not a terrible thing either, although I guess I would have found it so if not for the number 3 bit. Being mid-30's I feel positively old in this context, so I hope I can be avuncular in my advice here:-).
There are two things I would like to add, one of which others have written, more-or-less, the other that I really have not seen mentioned.
On the first thing, I really do think that knowing about literature, linguistics, philosphy, history, and other humanistic areas makes me do a much better job in IT than most people who have been narrowly technically focussed. Not just me, but whoever is broad in her knowledge. I probably cannot pound out code, or memorize APIs as fast as a lot of technical people... but I am a lot more likely to understand organizational dynamics, collaborative processes, the real uses of software systems, how to write documents people can read, the trends that are likely to happen in IT, and a lot of more "human" aspects of IT. Again, not just me, despite the first-person tone, but anyone with broad humanist learning. I do not think the best use if a college education is learning the specific technical skills you'll need for a job, and will change in a few years anyway. The best use is learning all the stuff you WILL NOT learn, if not in college/university.
The thing I have not seen pointed out in this thread is the shocking degree to which the possibility of obtaining a humanistic education has diminished HUGELY and RAPIDLY in the last decade. (That's the whole old-fart-at-34 thing). Increasingly, universities and colleges have turned themselves into "profit-centers" that operate as degree mills, and/or extensions of corporations to provide adequately trained monkeys to perform narrow technical tasks. Humanities faculties, funding, and enrollments have shrunk enormously... except in a very few very expensive colleges aimed at the very rich.
At the start of the 1980s, when I started college, all the "University of ----" schools in the US states mostly provided decent, broadly humanistic educations (at least for those who sought them out). By now, someone starting a college/university who doesn't have enormous family wealth to spend $30k a year, will have a hell of a lot harder time finding that sort of thing. It is sad and tragic... and I really do not know what the best option for someone turning 18 today would be. "Be born rich" is always good advice... but that turns out to be too late for most people. I guess the second best is "shop around for one of the few remaining good public universities."
Darn right! I loved the demo of Alpha Centauri, but the lack of a Linux port kept me from buying it. I mean, I'm not going to reboot into Windoze just to play a game! But if Firaxis does a Linux version of AC, they can count on getting my $50. Companies don't take Linux seriously enough, but games like CTP and Alpha Centauri will really do well and help get more and more commercial games for us.
...because I have a few modifications that I would like to make. I liked WHAT happened in this movie, but I didn't like WHY things happened. Here are my mods:
1. The AI is benevolent and wants to preserve the human species out of reverence (of their creators); they are putting humans in the Matrix as a gift so that we can live in a descent world before we destroyed it. They are trying to keep us from finding out about it so that we remain happy...kinda like "save the whales".
2. Morpheus accidentally discovered the truth and wants to recruit more people to share his misery.
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2. Morpheus' team is a group of people who want to exploit the programmibility of the Matrix to create better lives for themselves: fortune, fame, babes, etc.. However, someone always has to stand guard in the "real world"--so maybe they take turns.
3. Most people who discover "reality" want to get back into the Matrix (wouldn't you?).
4. More of the "deja vu" glitches happen, this is what clues people in on the situation; kind of like Jacob's Ladder when ever so often Jacob sees something really weird but can't ever catch it.
5. People wake up into the real world when they "die" in the Matrix...pretty much equivalent to hell.
-or-
5. People get reincarnated when they "die" in the Matrix.
6. The "agents" are programmed by humans in the "real world" who hack into the Matrix to cause trouble because, a. they are sadistic, b. they are bored., c. they are religous zealots. Maybe they are trying to destroy the Matrix, and Keanu is the hero to stop them.
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There are a lot of ways to make this a better movie.
The idea that the AI needs us for batteries is just totally ludicrous, because:
1. The law of conservation of energy: humans will not generate more energy than they consume in food/fuel.
2. The AI couldn't find some petroleum, nuclear fuel, or some other energy source? Oh sure but they could make billions of coccoons and flying metal squids!
--
Here is one of many problems with the Matrix itself:
1. The rules in the Matrix would be dynamic, not static. The AI could change them at will.
2. The agents would never get hurt.
3. The AI wouldn't even need agents, if they really wanted to kill someone, it would be easy: just drop a 16-ton weight on them (a la Monty Python), etc.
I heard recently that some people at CMU will be porting the Sphinx 2 speech recognition system (developed there) to Linux. Not sure about licensing though.
I have hacked together an IVR/answering machine that uses an ordinary modem (not Zyxel type voice modem) and a SoundBlaster type soundcard in Linux. This requires construction of a simple circuit ($5 in parts from Radio Shack) to interface the sound card to the phone line, and a bit of software. I have coded a fast fourier transform DTMF (touchtone) recognizer and I use an 'expect' script for the call flow. If there is sufficient interest I can make a web page with a circuit description and post the code.
For many people I'm afraid the resonant phrase that comes out of all this is "Gun Nut". Following the Wired story I looked at ESRs "Geeks with Guns" web pages. I don't know about the US, but from Australia, this sort of stuff reduces the credibility of its author to absolutely nil. Bad bad move guys. JT
Go on, and don't forget to dismiss UN as it keeps it's eyes closed when NATO violates internatioanal laws. We'd better pray Russian goverment can stop nationalists and communist getting power. They seems to be ready to push the "red button", despite most of the russians don't want to get into this war. Eh...cnn.com looks like official soviet newspaper in 80th with pure propaganda, wich shows only the one side in a 'desired manner', just trust me. Did u hear russian humanitarian aid for both serbs and albanians blocked by hungarians, despite official agreement, or civilians beeing killed by prohibited bombs with no choice of nationality. Both Miloshevic and NATO are wrong, but both don't wanna accept this due to the personal weakness. So why should we become offtopic and look at each other like fanatic idiots???
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Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
The only way to keep from having to re-partition is to have Linux come pre-installed--which is the only reason Win95 seems easier.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
How could Linux be EASIER to install than RH5.2? Here are the steps I went through:
1) Boot up
2) Answer a couple basic questions (yes, I want to install...I speak English....this is a server...)
3) Use the EXTREMELY simple partition table editor to create a partition.
4) Let it work
That's it. This is easier than Win95.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Sure, there's not a lot of demand for newbie Linux distributions, but you can bet RedHat is kicking itself for not doing it first. Eventually, Linux will find its way to the consumer space, and Caldera will be ready, willing and able. Heck, there are already consumer-folk out there wondering about Linux.
It's a gamble, but it's a very good one.
Posted by Danger Tenor:
Check out Cinescape Online for the latest information. The rumor posted is basically that movie theatres that always sell all (or most) of their tickets in advance will be able to apply for a special-case exemption from Lucasfilm. Call your theatre and ask them.
Posted by The ULTIMATE Crippler:
They used to work together when Sam worked for VA Research. Sam knew how he could do it better and he did. Penguin Computing (one of the Slashdot sponsors) is a result.
But you're right. Sam Ockman has been very mature in letting Mr. Dibona make an ass out of himself in public. Ockman has the kind of maturity and humility that is rare in this community, sort of like Linus Torvalds.
Posted by hurstdawg:
I run RedHat 5.2 and win98 on separate hard drives over here and so far linux has had no trouble reading the windoze drive. All I did was set it to mount with everytime linux boots and it works great. sees all the files and has no trouble manipulating them.
Posted by alcohol:
too bad it happened in AMERICA? i think that he should have been dropped in KOSOVO. damn, he's a stupid kid, who gives a shit, is there a difference if he is 22 or 12? he's gonna go postal anyways.
Posted by alcohol:
1. Do not let your children look at pornography if you think it will make them kill.
2. Do not take your children to movies if they think they will make them kill.
3. Do not buy your children computer games if you think they will make them kill.
4. Do not start up stupid lawsuits.
5. Pay attention to the RATINGS on the videos and video games.
6. Do not let your children have guns.
If you were to kill someone with a gun, would the person's family sue the gun company or the bullet company? It was the child's choice.
Posted by OGL:
I tried to contact the author about perhaps releasing the source to Bleem. According to the #bleem irc channel, reaching him by email is impossible. I was told to wait on irc for him to come back, but I got bored and left...hopefully there's some easier way of contacting him.
-W.W.
Posted by The ULTIMATE Crippler:
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Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
They're probably laughing all the way to the bank. I bet the second the cameras leave they wipe off the false tears and break out the champaign. Well, at least the parents of the kids who were only wounded. But this raises an interesting point. If your wondering how to pay for college, just have one extra kid, get him to kill a few friends **insert gunshots, screams and cash-register noises** , and cash in on a settlement.
Hi,
that subject isn't that new to me. Not that I participated in it, but at our dept. we have a long-running project on it:
http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/Research/Projects/IS FER/
Have fun,
the Apocalyptic Lawnmower
Posted by freakycreep:
CD-ROM MP3 player is already released.
Yeah. Xeenon Mp3 Shuttle from Korea!
I doubt if it is saled internationally.
However,
You can install it only in your car and design's kinda dull. But IT REALLY WORKS! You can store all your mp3s in a CD!
Or altinatively, how 'bout this HDD-using MP3 player? It is not yet available. But it is just good. REFER www.mpman.com
Posted by tausq:
/. readers, but I do agree there seems to be a lot of speculation here....
You'd be surprised at the backgrounds of some
But this has always been the debate, hasn't it? Should we "discontinue" science because some people are worried about the consequences? (cf Dolly, etc)
I recently read an article about Watson (of DNA fame) where he argued that this approach (of stopping science because we are nervous) is misguided, because we can't understand how to control the consequences until we understand how the technology works. It's going to be done eventually by someone, so why not figure it out now?
Posted by tausq:
:-)
Scientists have been looking for insecticides for many decades. With the passing of chemical pesticides like DTT, farmers are having little defense against pests. These new insect-repellent genes are the new "insecticides" for the future, if we learn to use them correctly. This means that we *don't* allow insects to adapt.
Of course it never works as planned, but that's how it should work in theory
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
If we allow lawsuits for this kind of stuff, what's next? Movies and video games are not the only violent medium. How about books? Take crime and punishment- it involves a number of axe-murders. What if someone read this book and committed an axe-murder and the book was subsequently banned? Where does this end? It doesn't, until we live in a bland homogenized society where everyone kills each other out of frustration and inability to express themselves.
The parents of this kid need to grow up. Maybe they are so desperately sad from the pain that they can't think of anything better to do than hurt others. But judging from their obvious lack of parenting to this point, they are probably pretty immature.
Anyway I hope the legal system swats this shit down. Its a shame that so many companies will have to waste money on their defense.
Posted by Gargamelo:
I'm not sure what kind of applications you are using, but I sure as hell am not going to be using my NT box with a TNT2 for real time visualization anytime soon. Even suggesting that such a sytem could be anywhere near as capable as my InfiniteReality2 system with 4 MIPS 10000 processors is cause for someone to be drawn and quartered. Until you have really used both systems, you really can't know the difference.
As for I/O bandwidth, the virtual reality cave that I work in is going to have more than a few problems with 4X AGP. Rendering and sending out four different channels of video 30 times a second is not a job for AGP.
Posted by Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters:
:-).
A few other posters have gotten at some points I think are important, but there seem to be a couple others not yet addressed.
I would agree with the notion that schools come in different types; or most especially, that students come in different types. Probably more than just the two (good versus bad) that have been suggested. I would suggest at least three:
1) Schools (and students) that are devoted to sex, drugs and parties.
2) Schools (and students) that are diploma mills, and merely glorified technical training.
3) Schools (and students) that have a genuine interest in learning, thinking and understanding.
These are not discrete categories, but they *are* trends. The same schools, and the same students, can be more than one to different degrees.
The point of dividing it this way is obviously to emphasize the virtues of number 3. Learning--really learning and thinking--about art, history, philosophy, social sciences, nature and physical sciences, language, literature, and lots of other things that have little to do with programming and IT give a person a better life. That is the bottom line for me; it doesn't matter how nearly so much you get paid, or how good a programmer/designer you are.
Number 1 is not a terrible thing either, although I guess I would have found it so if not for the number 3 bit. Being mid-30's I feel positively old in this context, so I hope I can be avuncular in my advice here
There are two things I would like to add, one of which others have written, more-or-less, the other that I really have not seen mentioned.
On the first thing, I really do think that knowing about literature, linguistics, philosphy, history, and other humanistic areas makes me do a much better job in IT than most people who have been narrowly technically focussed. Not just me, but whoever is broad in her knowledge. I probably cannot pound out code, or memorize APIs as fast as a lot of technical people... but I am a lot more likely to understand organizational dynamics, collaborative processes, the real uses of software systems, how to write documents people can read, the trends that are likely to happen in IT, and a lot of more "human" aspects of IT. Again, not just me, despite the first-person tone, but anyone with broad humanist learning. I do not think the best use if a college education is learning the specific technical skills you'll need for a job, and will change in a few years anyway. The best use is learning all the stuff you WILL NOT learn, if not in college/university.
The thing I have not seen pointed out in this thread is the shocking degree to which the possibility of obtaining a humanistic education has diminished HUGELY and RAPIDLY in the last decade. (That's the whole old-fart-at-34 thing). Increasingly, universities and colleges have turned themselves into "profit-centers" that operate as degree mills, and/or extensions of corporations to provide adequately trained monkeys to perform narrow technical tasks. Humanities faculties, funding, and enrollments have shrunk enormously... except in a very few very expensive colleges aimed at the very rich.
At the start of the 1980s, when I started college, all the "University of ----" schools in the US states mostly provided decent, broadly humanistic educations (at least for those who sought them out). By now, someone starting a college/university who doesn't have enormous family wealth to spend $30k a year, will have a hell of a lot harder time finding that sort of thing. It is sad and tragic... and I really do not know what the best option for someone turning 18 today would be. "Be born rich" is always good advice... but that turns out to be too late for most people. I guess the second best is "shop around for one of the few remaining good public universities."
Yours, Lulu...
Posted by joakal:
:-)
Darn right! I loved the demo of Alpha Centauri, but the lack of a Linux port kept me from buying it. I mean, I'm not going to reboot into Windoze just to play a game! But if Firaxis does a Linux version of AC, they can count on getting my $50. Companies don't take Linux seriously enough, but games like CTP and Alpha Centauri will really do well and help get more and more commercial games for us.
Long live Linux!
\___ I second that
Posted by Cromas:
...because I have a few modifications that I would like to make. I liked WHAT happened in this movie, but I didn't like WHY things happened. Here are my mods:
1. The AI is benevolent and wants to preserve
the human species out of reverence (of their creators); they are putting humans in the Matrix as a gift so that we can live in a descent world before we destroyed it. They are trying to keep us from finding out about it so that we remain happy...kinda like "save the whales".
2. Morpheus accidentally discovered the truth and wants to recruit more people to share his misery.
-or-
2. Morpheus' team is a group of people who want to exploit the programmibility of the Matrix to create better lives for themselves: fortune, fame, babes, etc.. However, someone always has to stand guard in the "real world"--so maybe they take turns.
3. Most people who discover "reality" want to get back into the Matrix (wouldn't you?).
4. More of the "deja vu" glitches happen, this is what clues people in on the situation; kind of like Jacob's Ladder when ever so often Jacob sees something really weird but can't ever catch it.
5. People wake up into the real world when they "die" in the Matrix...pretty much equivalent to hell.
-or-
5. People get reincarnated when they "die" in the Matrix.
6. The "agents" are programmed by humans in the "real world" who hack into the Matrix to cause trouble because, a. they are sadistic, b. they are bored., c. they are religous zealots. Maybe they are trying to destroy the Matrix, and Keanu is the hero to stop them.
--
There are a lot of ways to make this a better movie.
The idea that the AI needs us for batteries is just totally ludicrous, because:
1. The law of conservation of energy: humans will not generate more energy than they consume in food/fuel.
2. The AI couldn't find some petroleum, nuclear fuel, or some other energy source? Oh sure but they could make billions of coccoons and flying metal squids!
--
Here is one of many problems with the Matrix itself:
1. The rules in the Matrix would be dynamic, not static. The AI could change them at will.
2. The agents would never get hurt.
3. The AI wouldn't even need agents, if they
really wanted to kill someone, it would be easy: just drop a 16-ton weight on them (a la Monty Python), etc.
Enough said.
Posted by hersh:
I heard recently that some people at CMU will be porting the Sphinx 2 speech recognition system (developed there) to Linux. Not sure about licensing though.
Posted by RichDrewes:
I have hacked together an IVR/answering machine that uses an ordinary modem (not Zyxel type voice modem) and a SoundBlaster type soundcard in Linux. This requires construction of a simple circuit ($5 in parts from Radio Shack) to interface the sound card to the phone line, and a bit of software. I have coded a fast fourier transform DTMF (touchtone) recognizer and I use an 'expect' script for the call flow. If there is sufficient interest I can make a web page with a circuit description and post the code.
Posted by jtizard:
For many people I'm afraid the resonant phrase that comes out of all this is "Gun Nut". Following the Wired story I looked at ESRs "Geeks with Guns" web pages. I don't know about the US, but from Australia, this sort of stuff reduces the credibility of its author to absolutely nil.
Bad bad move guys.
JT
Posted by SkiFF:
Go on, and don't forget to dismiss UN as it keeps it's eyes closed when NATO violates internatioanal laws. We'd better pray Russian goverment can stop nationalists and communist getting power. They seems to be ready to push the "red button", despite most of the russians don't want to get into this war. Eh...cnn.com looks like official soviet newspaper in 80th with pure propaganda, wich shows only the one side in a 'desired manner', just trust me. Did u hear russian humanitarian aid for both serbs and albanians blocked by hungarians, despite official agreement, or civilians beeing killed by prohibited bombs with no choice of nationality. Both Miloshevic and NATO are wrong, but both don't wanna accept this due to the personal weakness. So why should we become offtopic and look at each other like fanatic idiots???
Posted by SkiFF:
Is this financial or space news or what? Don't worry, Mir will stay on orbit for at least 5 years.
Congritulations with the 38th anniversary of the first man in space, soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin