The name RAM doesn't say anything about speed, only the fact that you can access stored information randomly. As a counter example, think of tape drives. Tape drives cannot access data stored on them(memory) randomly. They have to access the entire tape leading up to the data sequentially. Also, normal CD's aren't random access because you can't randomly write to them. DVD-RAM's however can randomly flick the read and write heads to any place on the disk and do their thing.
Don't forget the "We aren't here to free slaves" comment Qui-Gon makes. The fact that the Jedi were more interested in saving the queen that the planet also bothered me.
The problem with saying a law is "basically unenforceable" is that it only is that way when you apply is to the public en masse. It's kind of like anti-homosexuality laws in various countries, if you are quiet about it noone will know and you don't get carted of to jail. If you are an important person like a politician however, there probably going to be someone interested in extorting you or taking you out of power. Think about President Clinton and Alan Turing. They both got their lives destroyed or nearly so by sex scandals.(Alan Turning committed suicide when he was charged to some British anit-homosexuality law)
Personally I don't think it's a big issue, Linux is still a bit low on applications for sound. Since 4Front make sound drivers for Linux it is in their best interest to have lots of audio applications of high quality. Anyway, it's a GPL'ed application, if they try to make it proprietary someone can always fork the code and produce a ALSA friendly version.
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What if intel decides to not open the specifications for drivers to part of their hardware? Almost as bad, what if they have an extended delay before releasing them. Think how long the i740 chipset was on the market before there was X server support for it. The unexpandable, unswappable nature of these machines makes their owners extremely vunerable to those kind of tactics. Take a look at the PC9x standards Microsoft and Intel jointly develop, these standards not only include getting rid of the ISA bus, PS2 mouse and KB, printer and serial ports, they also include the gradual movement of "specialty" processors' features like sound, 3d, video capture on to the main processor. In essence, they want to make all devices "win-"devices. Like win-modems and win-printers these win-devices would _of_course_ require a large amount of code to be present in the drivers to handle everything that would normally be in the hardware. This code is hard to write and often the algorhythms are patented. Just look at the explanations as to why Linux doesn't support win-modems and probably never will.
I also absolutly hated all but one of the designs they came up with. I liked the one that had a very small base with the LCD attached, it looked like it would make a decent X terminal for my girlfriend so we can play freeciv without that damn windoze X server.(this is all assuming that I would be _able_ to use it with X) If you want something for your stereo I would suggest getting a FIC Oasis, it's a motherboard/case/MediaGX combo that is very small and black spray paint goes on it's case pretty well. I helped a friend make one, he uses it as a mp3 player for his stereo.
My computer is a big ol' beige fulltower with all of the PCI and ISA slots filled
What happens when these things eventually pass a Turing test for dogs? What will the humain society have to say about rebooting your ABIO?
Eventually, even if it doesn't end up in a human form, somebody is going to build a near-human level intelligence robot. If it can pass or come close to passing the Turing test, we can't very well subject it to ownership or forced labor. Most industrial societies have protection against abuse of animals and the mentally handicapped, so to be consistant we would have to protect those robots in the same way.
The article mentions a 8MB "memory stick" used to store new commands for the thing. Mabey this along with a PC attachment to program it is the development kit you mentioned. It doesn't make it any clearer how much you can program them though.
What you can do once you own a linux distrubution:
1. write programs in any language you want. 2. play games 3. host a server 4. randomly explore other people's programs. 5. use the GIMP 6. choose between GNOME and KDE 7. word process 8. on and on and on
What you can do once you own a copy of windows:
1. write in wordpad 2. write in notepad 3. play minesweeper or freecell 4. pay for(or crack) other software
I think that it's the lack of anything to do in Windows that is making kids into script kiddies instead of real hackers. Most people under 18 don't own their own computer, it's more often than not the family computer that mom and dod don't want "that linux thing" installed on.
I remember when I started using linux in '95 I had to use a combination of a SCSI-zip drive, Yggdrasil PnP CD-rom, 300 megs of HD DOS couldn't access(850MB - a ooold IDE comtrooler), and a boot floppy to load linux. That was really a pain; I was running X off of a 2x CD-ROM. This was all because I wasn't allowed to remove win3.1 off of the damned thing.
So I think we should pity the script kiddies, they need a mature operating system so they can grow up.
My school uses an NT network(and VAXen blegh!). It's finals time right now and the file server is being hit at a moderately high rate. It's crashed exactly every other day. At any other time of the year it seems to be relatively stable, only when people actually use it does NT have problems.
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The name RAM doesn't say anything about speed, only the fact that you can access stored information randomly. As a counter example, think of tape drives. Tape drives cannot access data stored on them(memory) randomly. They have to access the entire tape leading up to the data sequentially. Also, normal CD's aren't random access because you can't randomly write to them. DVD-RAM's however can randomly flick the read and write heads to any place on the disk and do their thing.
Don't forget the "We aren't here to free slaves" comment Qui-Gon makes. The fact that the Jedi were more interested in saving the queen that the planet also bothered me.
The problem with saying a law is "basically unenforceable" is that it only is that way when you apply is to the public en masse. It's kind of like anti-homosexuality laws in various countries, if you are quiet about it noone will know and you don't get carted of to jail. If you are an important person like a politician however, there probably going to be someone interested in extorting you or taking you out of power. Think about President Clinton and Alan Turing. They both got their lives destroyed or nearly so by sex scandals.(Alan Turning committed suicide when he was charged to some British anit-homosexuality law)
Personally I don't think it's a big issue, Linux is still a bit low on applications for sound. Since 4Front make sound drivers for Linux it is in their best interest to have lots of audio applications of high quality. Anyway, it's a GPL'ed application, if they try to make it proprietary someone can always fork the code and produce a ALSA friendly version.
What if intel decides to not open the specifications for drivers to part of their hardware? Almost as bad, what if they have an extended delay before releasing them. Think how long the i740 chipset was on the market before there was X server support for it. The unexpandable, unswappable nature of these machines makes their owners extremely vunerable to those kind of tactics.
Take a look at the PC9x standards Microsoft and Intel jointly develop, these standards not only include getting rid of the ISA bus, PS2 mouse and KB, printer and serial ports, they also include the gradual movement of "specialty" processors' features like sound, 3d, video capture on to the main processor. In essence, they want to make all devices "win-"devices. Like win-modems and win-printers these win-devices would _of_course_ require a large amount of code to be present in the drivers to handle everything that would normally be in the hardware. This code is hard to write and often the algorhythms are patented. Just look at the explanations as to why Linux doesn't support win-modems and probably never will.
I also absolutly hated all but one of the designs they came up with. I liked the one that had a very small base with the LCD attached, it looked like it would make a decent X terminal for my girlfriend so we can play freeciv without that damn windoze X server.(this is all assuming that I would be _able_ to use it with X)
If you want something for your stereo I would suggest getting a FIC Oasis, it's a motherboard/case/MediaGX combo that is very small and black spray paint goes on it's case pretty well. I helped a friend make one, he uses it as a mp3 player for his stereo.
My computer is a big ol' beige fulltower with all of the PCI and ISA slots filled
Same reactions to the smae stimuli. Like the same degree of learning behavior, social patternes, etc...
What happens when these things eventually pass a Turing test for dogs? What will the humain society have to say about rebooting your ABIO?
Eventually, even if it doesn't end up in a human form, somebody is going to build a near-human level intelligence robot. If it can pass or come close to passing the Turing test, we can't very well subject it to ownership or forced labor. Most industrial societies have protection against abuse of animals and the mentally handicapped, so to be consistant we would have to protect those robots in the same way.
Just a thought....
The article mentions a 8MB "memory stick" used to store new commands for the thing. Mabey this along with a PC attachment to program it is the development kit you mentioned. It doesn't make it any clearer how much you can program them though.
BWT I think the "Digirati" idea is cool, but what is the singular for that?
What you can do once you own a linux distrubution:
1. write programs in any language you want.
2. play games
3. host a server
4. randomly explore other people's programs.
5. use the GIMP
6. choose between GNOME and KDE
7. word process
8. on and on and on
What you can do once you own a copy of windows:
1. write in wordpad
2. write in notepad
3. play minesweeper or freecell
4. pay for(or crack) other software
I think that it's the lack of anything to do in Windows that is making kids into script kiddies instead of real hackers. Most people under 18 don't own their own computer, it's more often than not the family computer that mom and dod don't want "that linux thing" installed on.
I remember when I started using linux in '95 I had to use a combination of a SCSI-zip drive, Yggdrasil PnP CD-rom, 300 megs of HD DOS couldn't access(850MB - a ooold IDE comtrooler), and a boot floppy to load linux. That was really a pain; I was running X off of a 2x CD-ROM. This was all because I wasn't allowed to remove win3.1 off of the damned thing.
So I think we should pity the script kiddies, they need a mature operating system so they can grow up.
Oh, and it has SP4 installed on it.
My school uses an NT network(and VAXen blegh!). It's finals time right now and the file server is being hit at a moderately high rate. It's crashed exactly every other day. At any other time of the year it seems to be relatively stable, only when people actually use it does NT have problems.