My current girlfriend and I live together... we met on "The Internet". A co-worker of mine met his wife "On the internet" (amazingly on the same online service that I met my girlfriend...tho 7 years apart)
I have met a total of about 5 people "From the net". Course one of them was scared of meeting me...(for the reasons of this story above) but things have always gone well.
Can't help you with story submissions. Gotta ask Taco about that one.
As for the Open Source thing, I know squat. As far as anybody knows, Microsoft is unwilling to let people see and play with their source code. But the state attorneys general and others have made noises about it, so I figured it would be fun to ask Gates himself. I wanted to follow-up with more general Open Source/Linux questions, but as I said...I got cut off.
Listen Is clinton a stupid mother fing sob yes. Dont blame the Us. Listen I know whats going on there and I don't like it. I want ground troops in there asap. Hell I will go if it means peace. I am ashamed to have clinton as president. He has no god damn balls he waits for support till he goes. We need ground troops in there now not later. If we dont do it now to many people will die. You cant say the US has not done any good for the world myman because we have. We try are best but it all gets fucked up when we have a president who would rather play golf then save people from a painful death. Sorry Im just pissed off right now that most people in the Us dont have the balls to speak up about ground troops. If we go now we can end it but if we wait tens of thousands of people will die.
Yes, if a book stinks, the review should say so, however, I've read my share of book reviews, and not once have I seen the reviewers go into a personal attack on the author...
If he can't write, say so... If he can't manage a company, say that too... But don't write a "review" of his book just so you can justify unleashing an onslaught of insults... It's not professional, and the only ppl you impress are the little 14 year old hacker wannabes who run linux to be 'l33t', and the anti-ms population of the net... (arguably the main demographic of visitors to this site...)
I've been out to AOL's HQ in Virginia. It reminded me of the typical Silicon Valley megacorp, just 3000 miles east. I know there's a knee jerk reaction to AOL as either un-cool or just too darn big. It might be both. But man, you have got to give them credit for knowing their customers, and giving them what they want. From the time I visited in January to today, they went from 15 million to 16 million registered users.
Microsoft wishes it knew its customers as well.
So you've got great technology from Sun and Netscape, and you combine it with some serious marketing know-how at AOL. Add 'em up, and what do you get? Hmmmm....
I agree almost 100% on your post. I think the US means well but without ground troops they are not going to stop this blood bath. It makes me sick just hearing about this killing. Why can't we all just get along. I think the US and all the other countrys need to keep in mind that our actions could stop or start the next ww and that to stop the killing ground troops need to come and inforce the peace. If it means 500 million a year to keep the peace in the area it is well worth it.
I think the former post has a point here. And besides, all the fuzz about Bill himself will not hurt him.
Furthermore my sympathy goes to the man who made DOS- the one form which Bill bought it- first he sees that Bill gets rich of it. second when he's over that issue he's the fun of the whole linux society, cause he would have made a junk OS. tragedy....
You point out that a biological neurons do not represent information as a binary stream because there is no clock. The *when* of the spike is the part that contains the information. This much makes perfect sense.
But then you imply that the important *when* inforamtion is ralative to the the previous action potential in that axion. Is this realy the case? Isn't this putting a serial processing spin on the behaviour of a network of neurons.
I was led to believe that a neuron with zero imput signal will fire at random, with a low probability. Imput signals from any of it's dendrites will have a variable (via LTP / LTD, positive or negative depending on ? (type of synapse???)) effect on its level of "excitation". If it is excited above a point (threshold), the probability of firing suddenly becomes very high. During the refactory period (immediately after firing) the neuron has a very low probability of firing, because it dosn't have the electrochemical resources to muster a charge.
By saying that the information is relative to the temporal displacment between spikes in an axion makes it sound like the signal is in one axion. Surely each neurons' input signal is distributed between all the axions feeding into the dendritic tree. Unique synaptic connections independantly "process" (ie apply "weights" or "connective strengths") each sub-signal as they are combined in the global activation level of the neuron. Only then are the spikes temporaraly relative.
Now that I have written all that, i realise i could have said it much simpler like: Signals in action potentials are only temporaraly relative after they have been processed by their excitary / inhibitory connection strengths at the synapse, rather than in the axion itself. Neural bandwidth is distributed between neurons just like the processing is. brains throb (at least mine does).
No matter what happens, Microsoft will never be beat! Even if the DOJ does come up with some insane idea of how to "break up" Microsoft, it won't make any difference. They control the market because they offer the best products, not because Gates is an evil, sneaky, (fill in your own derogatory terms). Regardless of their size, they will continue to dominate both their current markets and any new ones they decide to enter (satellite, telecom., etc.)!
C'mon folks, it's pretty basic - Microsoft is reorganizing themselves by "customer" as opposed to by "products" in order to make it more difficult to break up Microsoft into Baby Bills!!. I'm surprised more people haven't caught on to this transparent motive, even in a forum like Slashdot.
A word on reorgs. They're divvying themselves up along product lines, rather than the convoluted way the company was structured before. The profits still go to the same place, the same people are still in charge They're just hoping that by doing things this way, they'll be a little more nimble in the market place.
FYI...I was on the conference call. Asked Gates if he would be willing to adopt a different licensing standard for Windows, perhaps even an Open Source standard. I got about 15 seconds of uncomfortable silence, followed by: "I don't think it's appropriate to talk about any aspects of this settlement discussion right now." Got cut off before I could follow up.
Take it for what it's worth. No idea what to make of that. Anyone care to engage in rampant speculation?
Boy I wish people would read articles before opening their mouths, especially the people who submit the articles as well as the editorial staff at Slashdot.
This is just about a reorg. Not a big deal. Probably has nothing to do with DOJ either. This is not the formation of "Baby Bills". Microsoft is still one big ugly corporation.
Uhm... you've neglected something tho... part of life is having FUN. I enjoy poking fun at life's stupid little (or big) quirks. I think there's alot of other people out there that would agree.
I'm not necisarily condoning doing things like this in every little instance... but Doc did make many good points through the humor. It was also alot more enjoyable to read because of it.
I have Red Hat 5.0(not installed yet), and want to know the best way to upgrade to 5.2 with the latest kernel. Not to sound cheap, but I goofed and paid for 5.0 at a used bookstore, under the impression that it would not be difficult to upgrade. I a newbie to Linux. please email me at morrist@biperf.com
I was disappointed. The only time I laughed out loud was when I saw Spock. In a couple years when Matt stops writing and Conan O'Brien starts, it could be as funny as The Simpsons.
Anyway, I think the criticism has some merit. Your review spent lotsa 'graphs criticizing Gates the person, and not his book. (Just look at the introduction--it's mostly focused on Gates' media image.)
Myself, I stopped reading your review after so many graphs slamming Gates, and not his book.
----------------------------- Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
Is he supposed to revise his opinions on a subject simply to make them original for a different medium or forum? If he did, you'd surely complain that he couldn't make up his mind...
-YDeO "It's not down on any map; true places never are." --Melville
Anyway, did anyone see the Matt Groening head? It was right next to Fry and Bender when they were trying to hide as heads on the shelf. I bet in low motion there are a lot of neat heads. The opening scene of the Simpsons shows almost every character sitting on a lawn. It's just too fast to see."
Apu's head was there, on the left side of the wall. --- Donald Roeber
The first episode of FutureRama was interesting. I hope that the seris actually goes somewhere (unlike most fox shows which are total flops). Now if Fox would only kill Family Guy...
Here we go again with another round of Katz... Notice how he skitters away from taking ownership of his opinions by the repeated use of the word, "our."
Katz, I am not happy with your attempt to group us all together like a hippy commune. If you're going to state your opinion, take ownership for it. Isn't this the basics of journalism?
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Posted by Stephen "The Carp" Carpenter:
Its amazing hat people are so ignorant.
My current girlfriend and I live together...
we met on "The Internet". A co-worker of
mine met his wife "On the internet"
(amazingly on the same online service that
I met my girlfriend...tho 7 years
apart)
I have met a total of about 5 people "From the
net". Course one of them was scared of meeting
me...(for the reasons of this story above)
but things have always gone well.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Can't help you with story submissions. Gotta ask Taco about that one.
As for the Open Source thing, I know squat. As far as anybody knows, Microsoft is unwilling to let people see and play with their source code. But the state attorneys general and others have made noises about it, so I figured it would be fun to ask Gates himself. I wanted to follow-up with more general Open Source/Linux questions, but as I said...I got cut off.
Posted by Lassie:
Listen Is clinton a stupid mother fing sob yes. Dont blame the Us. Listen I know whats going on there and I don't like it. I want ground troops in there asap. Hell I will go if it means peace. I am ashamed to have clinton as president. He has no god damn balls he waits for support till he goes. We need ground troops in there now not later. If we dont do it now to many people will die. You cant say the US has not done any good for the world myman because we have. We try are best but it all gets fucked up when we have a president who would rather play golf then save people from a painful death. Sorry Im just pissed off right now that most people in the Us dont have the balls to speak up about ground troops. If we go now we can end it but if we wait tens of thousands of people will die.
Posted by _zOmbIE_:
Yes, if a book stinks, the review should say so, however, I've read my share of book reviews, and not once have I seen the reviewers go into a personal attack on the author...
If he can't write, say so... If he can't manage a company, say that too... But don't write a "review" of his book just so you can justify unleashing an onslaught of insults... It's not professional, and the only ppl you impress are the little 14 year old hacker wannabes who run linux to be 'l33t', and the anti-ms population of the net... (arguably the main demographic of visitors to this site...)
Posted by Mike@ABC:
I've been out to AOL's HQ in Virginia. It reminded me of the typical Silicon Valley megacorp, just 3000 miles east. I know there's a knee jerk reaction to AOL as either un-cool or just too darn big. It might be both. But man, you have got to give them credit for knowing their customers, and giving them what they want. From the time I visited in January to today, they went from 15 million to 16 million registered users.
Microsoft wishes it knew its customers as well.
So you've got great technology from Sun and Netscape, and you combine it with some serious marketing know-how at AOL. Add 'em up, and what do you get? Hmmmm....
Posted by TMouse:
probably reconsidering what they wrote in it..
"Terms of use will be posted shortly."
thats it.
Posted by speed1:
This just shows how MS programs with poor security can lead to a invasion of privacy.
We can see in this case hows its being used to track the autor of Mellisa...how long will it take so they can track down anyone else.
Posted by Lassie:
I agree almost 100% on your post. I think the US means well but without ground troops they are not going to stop this blood bath. It makes me sick just hearing about this killing. Why can't we all just get along. I think the US and all the other countrys need to keep in mind that our actions could stop or start the next ww and that to stop the killing ground troops need to come and inforce the peace. If it means 500 million a year to keep the peace in the area it is well worth it.
Posted by Siebe:
I think the former post has a point here.
And besides, all the fuzz about Bill himself will not hurt him.
Furthermore my sympathy goes to the man who made DOS- the one form which Bill bought it-
first he sees that Bill gets rich of it.
second when he's over that issue he's the fun of the whole linux society, cause he would have made a junk OS. tragedy....
Posted by rufus_dufus:
You point out that a biological neurons do not represent information as a binary stream because there is no clock. The *when* of the spike is the part that contains the information. This much makes perfect sense.
But then you imply that the important *when* inforamtion is ralative to the the previous action potential in that axion. Is this realy the case? Isn't this putting a serial processing spin on the behaviour of a network of neurons.
I was led to believe that a neuron with zero imput signal will fire at random, with a low probability. Imput signals from any of it's dendrites will have a variable (via LTP / LTD, positive or negative depending on ? (type of synapse???)) effect on its level of "excitation". If it is excited above a point (threshold), the probability of firing suddenly becomes very high. During the refactory period (immediately after firing) the neuron has a very low probability of firing, because it dosn't have the electrochemical resources to muster a charge.
By saying that the information is relative to the temporal displacment between spikes in an axion makes it sound like the signal is in one axion. Surely each neurons' input signal is distributed between all the axions feeding into the dendritic tree. Unique synaptic connections independantly "process" (ie apply "weights" or "connective strengths") each sub-signal as they are combined in the global activation level of the neuron. Only then are the spikes temporaraly relative.
Now that I have written all that, i realise i could have said it much simpler like: Signals in action potentials are only temporaraly relative after they have been processed by their excitary / inhibitory connection strengths at the synapse, rather than in the axion itself. Neural bandwidth is distributed between neurons just like the processing is. brains throb (at least mine does).
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Don't delete the old downloads! INSTALL them. And patch up to the next version if you need to.
You're wasting bandwidth.
Posted by !ErrorBookmarkNotDefined:
Besides that TCP vulnerability, that is.
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Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
Posted by $koal:
No matter what happens, Microsoft will never be beat! Even if the DOJ does come up with some insane idea of how to "break up" Microsoft, it won't make any difference. They control the market because they offer the best products, not because Gates is an evil, sneaky, (fill in your own derogatory terms). Regardless of their size, they will continue to dominate both their current markets and any new ones they decide to enter (satellite, telecom., etc.)!
Posted by lmalave:
C'mon folks, it's pretty basic - Microsoft is reorganizing themselves by "customer" as opposed to by "products" in order to make it more difficult to break up Microsoft into Baby Bills!!. I'm surprised more people haven't caught on to this transparent motive, even in a forum like Slashdot.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
A word on reorgs. They're divvying themselves up along product lines, rather than the convoluted way the company was structured before. The profits still go to the same place, the same people are still in charge They're just hoping that by doing things this way, they'll be a little more nimble in the market place.
FYI...I was on the conference call. Asked Gates if he would be willing to adopt a different licensing standard for Windows, perhaps even an Open Source standard. I got about 15 seconds of uncomfortable silence, followed by: "I don't think it's appropriate to talk about any aspects of this settlement discussion right now." Got cut off before I could follow up.
Take it for what it's worth. No idea what to make of that. Anyone care to engage in rampant speculation?
Posted by The ULTIMATE Crippler:
Boy I wish people would read articles before opening their mouths, especially the people who submit the articles as well as the editorial staff at Slashdot.
This is just about a reorg. Not a big deal. Probably has nothing to do with DOJ either. This is not the formation of "Baby Bills". Microsoft is still one big ugly corporation.
Posted by Art Pepper:
This article seems to clearly define the problem with various licensing agreements of late. There does seem to be a problem with them, n'es pas?
Of course, I am hopelessly uniformed in these matters.
Posted by JerTheNerd:
Uhm... you've neglected something tho... part of life is having FUN. I enjoy poking fun at life's stupid little (or big) quirks. I think there's alot of other people out there that would agree.
I'm not necisarily condoning doing things like this in every little instance... but Doc did make many good points through the humor. It was also alot more enjoyable to read because of it.
Posted by stickymn:
I have Red Hat 5.0(not installed yet), and want to know the best way to upgrade to 5.2 with the latest kernel. Not to sound cheap, but I goofed and paid for 5.0 at a used bookstore, under the impression that it would not be difficult to upgrade. I a newbie to Linux. please email me at morrist@biperf.com
Posted by Fleeno:
I was disappointed. The only time I laughed out loud was when I saw Spock. In a couple years when Matt stops writing and Conan O'Brien starts, it could be as funny as The Simpsons.
Posted by !ErrorBookmarkNotDefined:
Don't take the bait, Jon.
Anyway, I think the criticism has some merit.
Your review spent lotsa 'graphs criticizing
Gates the person, and not his book. (Just
look at the introduction--it's mostly focused
on Gates' media image.)
Myself, I stopped reading your review after
so many graphs slamming Gates, and not his book.
-----------------------------
Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
Posted by Ydeologi:
Is he supposed to revise his opinions on a subject simply to make them original for a different medium or forum? If he did, you'd surely complain that he couldn't make up his mind...
-YDeO
"It's not down on any map;
true places never are."
--Melville
Posted by DonR:
Anyway, did anyone see the Matt Groening head? It was right next to Fry and Bender when they were trying to hide as heads on the shelf. I bet in low motion there are a lot of neat heads. The opening scene of the Simpsons shows almost every character sitting on a lawn. It's just too fast to see."
Apu's head was there, on the left side of the wall.
---
Donald Roeber
Posted by Pushkin:
The first episode of FutureRama was interesting. I hope that the seris actually goes somewhere (unlike most fox shows which are total flops). Now if Fox would only kill Family Guy...
Posted by Stanks:
Here we go again with another round of Katz... Notice how he skitters away from taking ownership of his opinions by the repeated use of the word, "our."
Katz, I am not happy with your attempt to group us all together like a hippy commune. If you're going to state your opinion, take ownership for it. Isn't this the basics of journalism?