To be a little pendantic, "OpenStep" is merely the OS specification developed by Sun and NeXT which NeXT implemented in NeXTSTEP 4, which they consequently branded "OPENSTEP" in 1994.
OPENSTEP (NeXTSTEP 4) had 68k (not PPC), x86, and Sparc ports. NeXTSTEP 3.2 had additionally supported PA-RISC (an HP RISC endeavor).
Here's the website for the event. It looks kinda pathetic, with a lame 007 theme. There definitely is a dirge of anything at all of substance on that page. It all seems so sad.
Duke is paying for the project with strategic planning funds that it has set aside for one-time innovative technology purposes. The total cost of the project is expected to reach $500,000, which includes hiring an academic computing specialist for the project, grant funding for faculty, associated research costs and the purchase of the iPods, which Apple is providing to Duke at a discount.
You're probably close with your estimate of $330k, but a cool half mil doesn't seem like all that much for the whole kaboodle. I don't see much of my tuition getting spent like this; namely in a way that tangibly benefits students.
Summary: the primary business line of the New York Times company is selling ads. Internet companies such as eBay are cutting into that ad business. And that's why the New York Times has been trash-talking Google and eBay lately.
Not sure your conclusion follows necessarily from your premises. It's fun to imagine there is a NYT editor sending out memos reminding his writers to stick to the anti-Ebay line, but a scenario like that doesn't seem very plausible.
You're saying there's a general bias among the NYT's writing staff against vague competitors of their employer, and this bias is present in their writing. I can't buy that. I don't see the interests of the writers intersecting with those of the owners in this case.
Just being an argumentative piss-ant. The article is nonetheless lame.
The point Stallman is trying to make here is one about questionable invasions of privacy which are not justified by the security needs under the circumstances.
Surely RMS understands it makes investigators' jobs easier in the case of a crime, but he thinks there is something greater at stake here, namely personal privacy.
It's important to note, however, that going from lossy compression -> uncompressed audio -> back to lossy compression results in compounded loss. Do this n times and you'll end up with something far from the quality of the original stream.
As in many of the recent articles concerning China and the internet, there is a lot to be worried about, but there is often a slight glimmer of hope. While the Chinese gov't may be communist and have all the anti-freedom baggage that goes along with it, they aren't stupid; they see the enormous economic opportunity that the internet brings. As this article mentioned, it is those invovled in economic policy that are inclined to side with more open policies regarding the internet.
For whatever reason, I have a certain amount of faith (what an ugly word *that* can be) that in the coming years it will be those economic ministries that will win over the security-oriented ones and institute more open policies. Chinese officials are hungry for power and money - public opinion isn't terribly important to them for obvious reasons. Bringing the benefits of the "internet economy" is inherently in their best interests, and they know it, but they want to keep the Chinese people miserable and ignorant; that's the problem.
1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare the two senses of computer geek.
The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950). (The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly "annoying misfit" without the connotation of intelligence).
An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its variant form `knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this bears all the hallmarks of a bogus folk etymology.
Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some actually wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.
computer geek n.
1. One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black vs. white-on-black usage of `nigger'. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called `turbo nerd', `turbo geek'. See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie. 2. Some self-described computer geeks use this term in a positive sense and protest sense 1 (this seems to have been a post-1990 development). For one such argument, see http://samsara.circus.com/~omni/geek.html. See also geek code.
Heh, the startup I work for is looking at office space in a building adjacent to e-trade's in Palo Alto. It'd be convenient to walk over there during an outage of some sort and ask, "Can I log in from here? I really gotta make a trade...please? No? Damn."
For those of you interested in some related reading, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story entitled "Reason," in which robots assist in the operation of one of these microwave stations. It's an interesting foray into issues of logic, thought, and theology - among others.
I would also recommend A.C. Clarke's "The Star," another short story in which Clarke explores faith and other theological issues. A good read, that. Provides a slightly different perspective of christianity.
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the same recourse left to the large media companies: litigation.
Better story at the New York Times. There's also http://print.google.com and the odd http://www.google.com/print/
To be a little pendantic, "OpenStep" is merely the OS specification developed by Sun and NeXT which NeXT implemented in NeXTSTEP 4, which they consequently branded "OPENSTEP" in 1994.
OPENSTEP (NeXTSTEP 4) had 68k (not PPC), x86, and Sparc ports. NeXTSTEP 3.2 had additionally supported PA-RISC (an HP RISC endeavor).
OpenStep
Wow, I'm retarded. That was last year. This year's is just as substance-free.
Here's the website for the event. It looks kinda pathetic, with a lame 007 theme. There definitely is a dirge of anything at all of substance on that page. It all seems so sad.
Tim
I recently started playing around with Jena, a Java API for writing Semantic Web applications. W3C's Resource Desciption Framework (RDF) page has RDF specs, a means for storing semantic information.
Incidentally, Paul Ford is a regular writer on these sorts of topics. He has a collection of writings on the web and semantics.
Tim
You're probably close with your estimate of $330k, but a cool half mil doesn't seem like all that much for the whole kaboodle. I don't see much of my tuition getting spent like this; namely in a way that tangibly benefits students.
You're saying there's a general bias among the NYT's writing staff against vague competitors of their employer, and this bias is present in their writing. I can't buy that. I don't see the interests of the writers intersecting with those of the owners in this case. Just being an argumentative piss-ant. The article is nonetheless lame.
The point Stallman is trying to make here is one about questionable invasions of privacy which are not justified by the security needs under the circumstances.
Surely RMS understands it makes investigators' jobs easier in the case of a crime, but he thinks there is something greater at stake here, namely personal privacy.
tim
It's important to note, however, that going from lossy compression -> uncompressed audio -> back to lossy compression results in compounded loss. Do this n times and you'll end up with something far from the quality of the original stream.
As in many of the recent articles concerning China and the internet, there is a lot to be worried about, but there is often a slight glimmer of hope. While the Chinese gov't may be communist and have all the anti-freedom baggage that goes along with it, they aren't stupid; they see the enormous economic opportunity that the internet brings. As this article mentioned, it is those invovled in economic policy that are inclined to side with more open policies regarding the internet.
For whatever reason, I have a certain amount of faith (what an ugly word *that* can be) that in the coming years it will be those economic ministries that will win over the security-oriented ones and institute more open policies. Chinese officials are hungry for power and money - public opinion isn't terribly important to them for obvious reasons. Bringing the benefits of the "internet economy" is inherently in their best interests, and they know it, but they want to keep the Chinese people miserable and ignorant; that's the problem.
nerd n.
1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and
few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied
(in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really
important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly
status games. Compare the two senses of computer geek.
The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to show them, I'll
sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a
Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950).
(The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed
its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass culture
in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly
"annoying misfit" without the connotation of intelligence).
An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its variant form
`knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this bears all the hallmarks of a
bogus folk etymology.
Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some actually
wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find not only
buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.
computer geek n.
1. One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest
negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced
monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders
without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black vs. white-on-black
usage of `nigger'. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless
individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called `turbo nerd', `turbo geek'.
See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie,
spod, weenie. 2. Some self-described computer geeks use this term in a positive
sense and protest sense 1 (this seems to have been a post-1990 development). For
one such argument, see http://samsara.circus.com/~omni/geek.html. See also geek
code.
Perhaps it's time to update your kernel; USB support in 2.2.10 is much more complete than in previous versions.
A great resource for linuxppc on the b&w G3 is here: http://inficad.com/~rshaw
Heh, the startup I work for is looking at office space in a building adjacent to e-trade's in Palo Alto. It'd be convenient to walk over there during an outage of some sort and ask, "Can I log in from here? I really gotta make a trade...please? No? Damn."
For those of you interested in some related reading, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story entitled "Reason," in which robots assist in the operation of one of these microwave stations. It's an interesting foray into issues of logic, thought, and theology - among others.
I would also recommend A.C. Clarke's "The Star," another short story in which Clarke explores faith and other theological issues. A good read, that. Provides a slightly different perspective of christianity.
There exists an Asimov short story entitled "Reason," it's a quick read and I would recommend it.
-dixon
Unfortunately the elephant has already been used for "MCSE: The Electives in a Nutshell," and perhaps other MCSE books. Too bad; I like elephants.
dix