At about a third of the way along the cable - 36,000km from Earth - objects take a year to complete a full orbit.
Uh oh...
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There are plenty of crucial positions left in Linux development. Only the shift is now moving away from the kernel and services, and toward real business applications.
I think you're confusing your definition of "Linux" with "Unix".
The farther away from the kernel you get, the less Linux-specific your program is. That's why you mentioned the kernel and low-level networking programs.
Say I write one of your suggested projects, which you say is to fill the gap in the Linux application field and which you say will make me a Linux developer. What happens when somebody takes my source code, compiles it on a FreeBSD workstation and runs my little application? Oops! Does that mean I'm a FreeBSD developer now?
Development on top of free operating systems shouldn't be done from such a narrow viewpoint. When it comes to computing professionals who like to be able to run a computer without running to the Micros~1 Store for an operating system first, you could say that "we're all in the same boat".
I had an experience last semester at my high school where a sliderule really was a paleo-geek artifact. While replacing a row of old lockers, the janitors at our school (HHSS, Ontario) found an old slide rule underneath! It had slid under a locker sometime in the last fifty years or so. Our OAC calculus teacher (OAC is Grade 13, for you crazy Yankees) acquired the rule from the janitors who found it and brought it in to class. Everyone oohed and aahed over it, and the next day one of my friends brought in his dad's old slide rule with a sheet of instructions. I learned how to operate the excavated slide rule and did a whole class with it.
The law only applies to Washington consumers and people sending e-mail from Washington. E-mail stored on a server in Washington would qualify as e-mail "routed through" Washington, a situation that is explicitly explained in the document. Read it:
"Id. at 174. In contrast to the New York statute, which could reach all
content posted on the Internet and therefore subject individuals to
liability based on unintended access, the Act reaches only those deceptive
UCE messages directed to a Washington resident or initiated from a computer
located in Washington; in other words, the Act does not impose liability
for messages that are merely routed through Washington or that are read by
a Washington resident who was not the actual addressee."
"The elements of Red Hat Linux 7.1 work together to deliver the most powerful, automated open source operating system for fast-growing enterprise and Internet infrastructure users."
"`With the scalability enhancements in the new 2.4 kernel, Red Hat is delivering the most robust version of Linux to date,' said Dick Sullivan"
The hubris and exaggeration in the press release is excusable, since a look at Red Hat's profile will demonstrate that their stock just recently hit its lowest point since IPO, at around five dollars per share.
Actually, the Bible implies differently. See http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v20/mj_v20i24.ht ml under "Pi" for a (confusing) explanation. Basically it means that one of the words was used with a curious misspelling, and since in Hebrew, letters are numbers as well, a formula for pi to four decimal places results.
The aim is to make a complete free 3D package with POV-Ray which could compete with commercial softwares (like 3D Studio)
That's Philippe's concept of the goal (he runs the labdev site). Personally, my desire is to have a good, free cross-platform modeller for POV-Ray, period. If it can somehow compete with a commercial package, all the better! It'll mean added variety in the market and should push everybody to do better.
Now, with the open-sourcing thing, let me point out that Denis Olivier released the source to the old DOS Povlab (POVLAB, whatever). That was version 4.0something. The new cross-platform Povlab is a rewrite in C++ from mostly scratch, and is called version 5.
> First of all, I really don't know the difference between all this opensource/gpl/whatever stuff.
Who really knows or cares? I personally prefer the bugroff license. To prove it, I'm going to shut up now and go code something.
Don't forget the POVLAB development effort, which is beginning to pick up the pace. POVLAB has been around for years as a modeller for POV-Ray, and is just now being rewritten in C++ and made cross-platform with wxWindows.
Is anyone else more than a little disturbed by the "four foot door" on the "golf ball building" described in the article?
Not really, no.
You've got this large, relatively futuristic building with gyrating triangles, and a door not big enough to fit most humans.
I think "most humans" would have no trouble ducking down a little to enter this building.
Perfect Dark grey theory, anyone?
HAHAHA no.
A plausible theory is that this ball serves the exact same purpose as the most of the special decorations on the entire site, which is to reduce interference, in this case to the Big Dish inside. Like the article says, the triangles of varying size can help to reduce interference caused by repeated patterns.
But I see your line of thinking! Maybe the door isn't four feet high because they didn't want to disrupt the damping triangles too much. Maybe it's four feet high because the NSA holds parties for extraterrestrials on top of a giant satellite dish. And they have these parties at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade too, because there are big golf balls there too, according to the article. Or maybe they're too stupid to operate this perfectly normal satellite dish by themselves, and they have to get aliens to do it for them! Yeah, that sounds about right.
This planned feature list is not 'news', but that's not my point. I last checked up on the latest version of xanim months ago because I was trying to find something that would play mpegs properly, and thought that a new version might be able to do so. The answer was no, but I did find this feature list, which does not appear to have changed much since I saw it then. This project appears to be quite sluggish.
Once the new swiss-army-knife-xanim actually gets released, then let us know.
Don't believe it? Try going into a linux channel on IRC and asking a 'newbie' question...If you're lucky, you'll just get kicked. Usually you'll be insulted and then kick banned...
I don't see this behaviour much (not on Undernet, anyway). 'Newbie' questions are usually answered quickly, if somebody has the knowledge and desire to reply to them. 'Stupid' questions are quite different. 'Stupid' questions are asked by people who have no degree of clue whatsoever. I stopped being amazed at the cluelessness of these people long ago, and started collecting some of this species of question (mostly stupid, some trolls, some just funny) instead. You can see this at the Undernet #linux Hall of Lame.
On the other hand, some of you will sympathize with the plight of these helpless beginners, some of whom are obviously just uninformed. Don't forget that bans are temporary.
I know for sure that 2.4.0-test9 supports these microcode updates at boottime (there's an option now in the kernel configuration to do stuff with this). The thing is, microcode updates are erased each time you reboot. See http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode.html" (I think that's the URL).
Hellooooo crackhead moderators!
Did anybody actually *read* this before they moderated it up (+1, Interesting)?
If you had, you might have noticed that it's pure crap!
Sometimes I think that I could score karma just by using HTML in my posts!
Hey, if I use links, bold, italics, *and* unordered lists, I could be the next Signal 11!
Ever heard of hobbiton.org?
They are a big provider of free Unix shells to those who have a need. And they've been shut down a few times (without cause) by fickle DSL providers who apparently hired their workers at gas stations.
Read the sordid story at http://hobbit on.org/ displayfile.cgi?title=News&file=/info/news. Some interesting tidbits on how they were treated by different DSL ISPs are provided.
Gnome Foundation: a Foundation is set up at the edge of the galaxy to combat the years of anarchy predicted to rise as a result of the collapse of the Microsoft Empire
Gnome Foundation & Empire: the Foundation battles the dying remnants of the once-great Microsoft Empire
Second Gnome Foundation: in the Gnome Foundation's hour of need, a second Gnome Foundation is revealed, at the other end of the galaxy.
`First I've heard of it,' said Merrell, `why's it got to be auctioned?' Mr. NSI shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again. `What do you mean, why's it got to be auctioned?' he said. `It's a domain name. You've got to sell domain names.'
It would be interesting to apply the evolutionary theories behind Core Wars and many other artificial life programs to RPS programs. The way these work is that some basic "starter" programs written in a synthetic language are pitted against each other virtually. The losers from this round are eliminated, and the gaps are filled with mutated copies of the survivor programs. Continue this ad nauseum, and you get some pretty good programs. Of course, it would take quite a few rounds to end up with a program with some really good AI, but this would be an interesting project.
Slashdot Mirror
Would you mind sharing the IP or complete block message, so that it can be fixed?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/20/155625 3
Because every day, thousands of people see how badly you do your job.
Yeah, it would be awesome to have the counterweight crashing down on top of Antarctica.
Idiot.
At about a third of the way along the cable - 36,000km from Earth - objects take a year to complete a full orbit.
Uh oh...
There are plenty of crucial positions left in Linux development. Only the shift is now moving away from the kernel and services, and toward real business applications.
I think you're confusing your definition of "Linux" with "Unix".
The farther away from the kernel you get, the less Linux-specific your program is. That's why you mentioned the kernel and low-level networking programs.
Say I write one of your suggested projects, which you say is to fill the gap in the Linux application field and which you say will make me a Linux developer. What happens when somebody takes my source code, compiles it on a FreeBSD workstation and runs my little application? Oops! Does that mean I'm a FreeBSD developer now?
Development on top of free operating systems shouldn't be done from such a narrow viewpoint. When it comes to computing professionals who like to be able to run a computer without running to the Micros~1 Store for an operating system first, you could say that "we're all in the same boat".
I had an experience last semester at my high school where a sliderule really was a paleo-geek artifact. While replacing a row of old lockers, the janitors at our school (HHSS, Ontario) found an old slide rule underneath! It had slid under a locker sometime in the last fifty years or so. Our OAC calculus teacher (OAC is Grade 13, for you crazy Yankees) acquired the rule from the janitors who found it and brought it in to class. Everyone oohed and aahed over it, and the next day one of my friends brought in his dad's old slide rule with a sheet of instructions. I learned how to operate the excavated slide rule and did a whole class with it.
The law only applies to Washington consumers and people sending e-mail from Washington. E-mail stored on a server in Washington would qualify as e-mail "routed through" Washington, a situation that is explicitly explained in the document. Read it:
"Id. at 174. In contrast to the New York statute, which could reach all content posted on the Internet and therefore subject individuals to liability based on unintended access, the Act reaches only those deceptive UCE messages directed to a Washington resident or initiated from a computer located in Washington; in other words, the Act does not impose liability for messages that are merely routed through Washington or that are read by a Washington resident who was not the actual addressee."
This is why I often do poorly on physics tests.
Low Earth Orbit: 320 000 to 800 000 meters
Speed of electromagnetic radiation: 299792458 meters/second
Ping times: 0.002 to 0.005 milliseconds (2-way)
Add another x milliseconds for turnaround, double that number for a worst-case scenario and you still have some pretty good ping times.
The hubris and exaggeration in the press release is excusable, since a look at Red Hat's profile will demonstrate that their stock just recently hit its lowest point since IPO, at around five dollars per share.
Actually, the Bible implies differently. See http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v20/mj_v20i24.ht ml under "Pi" for a (confusing) explanation. Basically it means that one of the words was used with a curious misspelling, and since in Hebrew, letters are numbers as well, a formula for pi to four decimal places results.
Don't moderate this post; it's just a reply.
The aim is to make a complete free 3D package with POV-Ray which could compete with commercial softwares (like 3D Studio)
That's Philippe's concept of the goal (he runs the labdev site). Personally, my desire is to have a good, free cross-platform modeller for POV-Ray, period. If it can somehow compete with a commercial package, all the better! It'll mean added variety in the market and should push everybody to do better.
Now, with the open-sourcing thing, let me point out that Denis Olivier released the source to the old DOS Povlab (POVLAB, whatever). That was version 4.0something. The new cross-platform Povlab is a rewrite in C++ from mostly scratch, and is called version 5.
> First of all, I really don't know the difference between all this opensource/gpl/whatever stuff.
Who really knows or cares? I personally prefer the bugroff license. To prove it, I'm going to shut up now and go code something.
Don't forget the POVLAB development effort, which is beginning to pick up the pace. POVLAB has been around for years as a modeller for POV-Ray, and is just now being rewritten in C++ and made cross-platform with wxWindows.
See the POVLAB development site for details and to find out if you would like to help.
Is anyone else more than a little disturbed by the "four foot door" on the "golf ball building" described in the article?
Not really, no.
You've got this large, relatively futuristic building with gyrating triangles, and a door not big enough to fit most humans.
I think "most humans" would have no trouble ducking down a little to enter this building.
Perfect Dark grey theory, anyone?
HAHAHA no.
A plausible theory is that this ball serves the exact same purpose as the most of the special decorations on the entire site, which is to reduce interference, in this case to the Big Dish inside. Like the article says, the triangles of varying size can help to reduce interference caused by repeated patterns.
But I see your line of thinking! Maybe the door isn't four feet high because they didn't want to disrupt the damping triangles too much. Maybe it's four feet high because the NSA holds parties for extraterrestrials on top of a giant satellite dish. And they have these parties at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade too, because there are big golf balls there too, according to the article. Or maybe they're too stupid to operate this perfectly normal satellite dish by themselves, and they have to get aliens to do it for them! Yeah, that sounds about right.
Wait, this is Slashdot. Carry on.
This planned feature list is not 'news', but that's not my point. I last checked up on the latest version of xanim months ago because I was trying to find something that would play mpegs properly, and thought that a new version might be able to do so. The answer was no, but I did find this feature list, which does not appear to have changed much since I saw it then. This project appears to be quite sluggish.
Once the new swiss-army-knife-xanim actually gets released, then let us know.
Don't believe it? Try going into a linux channel on IRC and asking a 'newbie' question...If you're lucky, you'll just get kicked. Usually you'll be insulted and then kick banned...
I don't see this behaviour much (not on Undernet, anyway). 'Newbie' questions are usually answered quickly, if somebody has the knowledge and desire to reply to them. 'Stupid' questions are quite different. 'Stupid' questions are asked by people who have no degree of clue whatsoever. I stopped being amazed at the cluelessness of these people long ago, and started collecting some of this species of question (mostly stupid, some trolls, some just funny) instead. You can see this at the Undernet #linux Hall of Lame.
On the other hand, some of you will sympathize with the plight of these helpless beginners, some of whom are obviously just uninformed. Don't forget that bans are temporary.
I know for sure that 2.4.0-test9 supports these microcode updates at boottime (there's an option now in the kernel configuration to do stuff with this). The thing is, microcode updates are erased each time you reboot. See http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode.html" (I think that's the URL).
Hellooooo crackhead moderators!
Did anybody actually *read* this before they moderated it up (+1, Interesting)?
If you had, you might have noticed that it's pure crap!
Sometimes I think that I could score karma just by using HTML in my posts!
Hey, if I use links, bold, italics, *and* unordered lists, I could be the next Signal 11!
Ever heard of hobbiton.org?
They are a big provider of free Unix shells to those who have a need. And they've been shut down a few times (without cause) by fickle DSL providers who apparently hired their workers at gas stations.
Read the sordid story at http://hobbit on.org/ displayfile.cgi?title=News&file=/info/news. Some interesting tidbits on how they were treated by different DSL ISPs are provided.
Gnome Foundation: a Foundation is set up at the edge of the galaxy to combat the years of anarchy predicted to rise as a result of the collapse of the Microsoft Empire
Gnome Foundation & Empire: the Foundation battles the dying remnants of the once-great Microsoft Empire
Second Gnome Foundation: in the Gnome Foundation's hour of need, a second Gnome Foundation is revealed, at the other end of the galaxy.
I thought that most newspapers sell papers at cost, and that the real revenue comes from the ads.
`First I've heard of it,' said Merrell, `why's it got to be auctioned?' Mr. NSI shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again. `What do you mean, why's it got to be auctioned?' he said. `It's a domain name. You've got to sell domain names.'
It would be interesting to apply the evolutionary theories behind Core Wars and many other artificial life programs to RPS programs. The way these work is that some basic "starter" programs written in a synthetic language are pitted against each other virtually. The losers from this round are eliminated, and the gaps are filled with mutated copies of the survivor programs. Continue this ad nauseum, and you get some pretty good programs. Of course, it would take quite a few rounds to end up with a program with some really good AI, but this would be an interesting project.
If you're wondering why he posts at -1, read his web site, or at least his user history.