Sun should be scared, yeah. Perhaps not so much of Apple though. Don't forget that IBM is fabbing and desinging these chips. Engineers aren't going to pay extra for shiney stuff (not that there's anything wrong with shiney stuff). IBM could put a workstation out that didn't add any of the frills you get with a Mac that engineers don't need and put either AIX or Linux on it AND it has the clount to get any specific apps the market demands ported to it. Besides that, (I _think_, I'd like to know if I'm wrong) they have more in-house software developers than Apple. Apple has to buy these chips from IBM, that extra cost gets tacked onto the final price, not for IBM. IBM could also release the newer chips in their own theorhetical PPC 970 workstations a bit before Apple, just delay a shipment a bit. Furthermore, everything (features, price, etc...) being equal, I think a lot of engineers would go for an IBM over an Apple, I can't really back that up with anything, but I do think it makes sense just looking at the different focuses (focii?) of the companies.
I apologize for any misspellings. Number one: I can't spell, number two: this keyboard needs replacing badly (damn b key works one out of six times), number three: I broke my dominant hand (not through masturbation! why does everyone ask me that?) and as I am discovering, my left hand can't do anything nearly as well as the right. One-handed typing sucks, I don't know how you porn mongers do it!
Repeat after me: the idea that you only use 10% of your brain is a myth. That's right, it's complete bullshit, utter crap. It makes me angry to hear it so often. It's odd really, this is not a case where there is a small group on the fringe claiming this is the fact, no one in the field (mine is computational/integrative neuroscience, which as you can see from just its name is full of buzz-words:P) has held this theory for as long as I've been in it (maye even ever but I don't know that). It's quite non-sensical really, 10% of what? Of the brain's potential? Do you really think we have a quantitative way of measuring that, or of "how much of it you're using even? Do you only count cognition or subconscious functions as well? Which method do you use to measure these and how do you differentiate between the cognitive and the non-cognitive? This pissed Stephen Gould (rest his soul) off enough that he penned an entire article about myths concerning evolution that opened by bitching about this stupid idea. Please, for the love of all that is scientific and good, STOP PROPAGATING THIS STUPID MYTH! At very least on slashdot, you're supposed to be a geek damn it, you ought to know better. *grumbles* 10%, I gotcher 10% right here bub.
You know, I just read a story charging IBM's CEO of running the company into the ground with mergers and acquisitions and deals done to drive the stock up. It was very convincing and a deal like this makes me wonder. Do you guys see this as a good move or one driven by a love of the stock market, and what about IBM's future? Somebody once said, "The service and consulting business is the last refuge of the damned." I can't help but wonder if that will prove to be true.
I do have my own gene sequencing mail order company. I work for Northwestern University in the Chicago campus in a molecular bio lab and let me tell ya, I still remember the first time I designed 20 sequences, sent off a long list of a's c's t's and g's online and got tubes of them back in five days. I felt like a god.
I've read in a bunch of places that the European Comission has all but decided to create their own version of the dreaded DMCA. If/when that goes through won't this have to be completely crippled?
Tru64 going is fine with me but it had some advanced features that Linux doesn't. As long as they're phasing it out they may as well GPL it and have some coders work on getting some of those features ported to Linux for inclusion into 2.5.xx, I mean HP actually looks like it wants to support Linux. Oh well, I doubt anything like that would ever happen.
When I first read about.NET and MS's philosophy with it (i.e. what hailstorm was supposed to be and what it's acceptance would accomplish) it terrified me. Now hailstorm is dead as we knew it and the threat it posed is (seemingly) gone. My question is: now that Hailstorm is not a factor, are there still any risks for the internet and software communities(both open and closed) assossiated with taking up the.NET framework (barring the fact that it _is_ MS we're talking about here, obviously they've screwed people before)? I think that the idea behind the framework of.NET and what it's effects on the way things are coded (from a purely programming point of view) could be very interesting and improve software; I am also very suspiscious of any big "ideas" coming out of MS. Any thoughts?
I'm not going to resort to a string of insults and profanity but if I hadn't been so shocked at what I'd just read I might have. Microsoft is an asshole of a corporate citizen but it doesn't have _shit_ on oil companies. You are entitled to your opinion but damn! The only damage Microsoft has done so far has been measureable in money and innovation in the tech field. I really despise some of their practices but they've never really hurt anything physically. I'm not an "environmentalist" per say, but I am very concerned about our environment. I am also a Neurologist, before I specialized in neuroscience I had to take a shitload of bio classes, some of them were envi/sci. Let me tell you something: oil companies _do not believe_ that the burning of oil, the stripping of land, oil spillage, the destruction of the habitats of organisms, or any other number of things they do when required, will _ever_ have any negative effects on the world or its species. At least that's their story and they're sticking to it. Believe me, all of those things have consequences; I don't want to get into an arguement about global warming, without even considering that all of those things will have severe negative effects on the environment. I don't believe that we should immediately make the use of oil outlawed but instead of trying to increase our supplies we ought to be trying to figure out a way to get off of it. That wouldn't be good for the wallets of the people running oil companies though, so they fight it with their money. I once read a quote from an oil company exec that said something along the lines of the endangered species protection act (not sure of its actual name) being irritating and that we should get rid of it. That is appalling to me as a scientist. Anyway the point is that while oil companies are not by default horrible, the people who run them currently have no respect for anything except their own wallets. As a reference to this, see: Enron. You may have noticed that name in the news as of late;)
I'm sure it's cool and everything, but when I am looking for file trading software anything that remotely reminds me of goats is out of the picture, if ya know what I mean.
They mention a lot of European (especially German) companies doing stuff like this in the article. Maybe their employees don't care quite as much as American ones would because we work many fewer hours per year and per day (this is on average of course) that Americans do. Just a thought from a German who _hasn't_ had his internet and email use limited.
We really don't completely understand what you're talking about. It is true that with most people if you cover one eye you lose depth perception. But it doesn't have to be that way. A friend of mine is legally blind in one eye, he shouldn't have any depth perception, most people with his particular condition don't. Many years back he switched to a new optomotrist (sp?). When he went in for preliminary testing with this guy he got his depth perception tested, they had never done this at his first optomotrist's office, they assumed he didn't have any. The boy has perfect depth perception; he's one of the best tennis players in state. No one knows why and no one can offer any explanation other than his ONE working eye can do depth perception _by itself_. So it's a bit more complicated than anyone really knows. As a neurologist all I can tell you is that it's just another one of the many mysteries the brain presents us.
You know Germany seems to be one of the technological world leaders. They just decided to phase out all nuclear power in favor of wind power by the year's end and it looks like they'll do it. The acceptance of digital signitures is a huge step in helping the internet reach its full potential for changing the way we live our lives. Germany is taking this first step. What I want to know is: who are the politicians making all of these progressive decisions and what affect are they having in the EU Parliament? Are other European countries following Germany's lead in these type of issues? I know that German business law strongly favors big business, are there any other laws or policy that a liberal would take issue with in Germany? What is the state of Linux use in Germany? I ask all this because I'm looking at an offer for a research position at the Max Planck Institute in Munich (I'm sorry _Munchen_:).
I disagree with the reason you dismiss what he said. It isn't _too_ paranoid to suggest that MS could run all the other current companies that do business in the computer industry into bankruptcy or make them unimportant. So yeah, author X could possibly kill all the other authors (no I don't really think it's going to happen). The reason it wouldn't matter if author X killed the other authors is because that would also be the day that new authors were born. Maybe not in the form of new companies but perhaps in the form of open source coders. I can't see _everyone_ taking a monopoly of that magnitude in stride. The day author MS kills all the other author Suns, IBMs, Intels, and so forth, could be open source's greatest day.
What Linux developement would look like five to ten years after this was implemented (if she chose Linux). With an entire country's populatioin using it by default the number of good developers we'd get from Belgium would be a great boon. Not to mention Linux would garner a lot of support from hardware and game companies that we lack right now. If this got through, and I've got to say I doubt it will, it could be the turning point in Linux developent on the desktop.
I think you mean "That seems to be little more than than excuse talk to me." Which is still a weak sentence but at least it gets the proper meaning across.
I can still remember really cool stories on the news from when I was a little kid, I'd like to look some of that stuff up. Survivor and Friends aren't the only thing on television. Believe it or not theres some really good stuff on something. A database that complete would be a great resource. You want to know about the mating habits of the Great Panda? I bet Discovery or some other network has done a story on that. The list of worthless TV that you've got is pretty impressive, not that I've seen any of it. If this stuff bores you than you shouldn't watch it. This would be a great tool for research and recreation, too bad it isn't at all feasible.
Ok, I've got well over three hundred channels, a friend of mine has over eight hundred, all of these are constantly putting out new content simultaneously. I cannot begin to imagine the resources that it would take to record this all and then storing it, say digitally, would be a storing all the data that _three_ atom smashers pump out (a shitload of information, and an exageration on my part). There's also the issue of intellectual property, they're gonna have to get more licenses than I want to even begin counting. This seems like an incredibly naieve (sp?) dream. PS first _real_ post. I had to say it I'm sorry.
Linux itself. Remember that article about it a few days ago? I don't want to get the link but something about how Linux is like a big "massively multiplayer game with lots of enthusiasts." Something like that anyway.
As I see it, for Linux use to grow significantly several requirements need to be met. First, office software for Linux has come a long way but it's still not as polished as MS Office, complete compatability with Office is also a must, this is IMHO the biggest factor holding Linux on the desktop back. Second, a simple, reliable, quick, and intuitive method of installing Linux on a computer that will work with any distro (tall order I know, but I think it's possible) has to get put together. Third, a database of _all_ the drivers for Linux has to get put together in a way that offers ease of use and simplicity for any user needs to get put together online. A driver search option in Linux needs to be able to id your hardware, search said database, and then install the drivers you need automatically (of course it could be turned off for advanced users). Fourth, documentation efforts need to be tripled (not down on the people who are doing it but they need more manpower, and no I don't have time) and error messages need to be instructive for the novice user. Fifth, an environment like KDE needs to become as full of features (all can be refused and gotten rid of of course) as XP is, close to that many anyway (bloat can be avoided by getting rid of whatever you don't want). If/when these things get done Linux will be ready for general acceptance, but it's a tall order for the community. *disclaimer* I am not a programmer or a hacker or even a CS student, I'm a biologist who likes computers.
I don't live in CA and couldn't get there anyway but why don't all the people who protested for him through a party in his honor before he goes home. Show him that not all Americans are jackasses and celebrate his freedom at the same time. Obviously he'd rather go home to his wife and kids but the party could easily be before he is allowed to leave California, it would at least lighten up the time before he gets to go home.
OH MY GOD, do you know anything about what being in jail is like? Have you seen the Shawshank (sp?) Redemption? I have my freedom, if I wanted to tomorrow, I could drop everything I'm doing and devote my life to doing almost anything I can imagine (bar "cirumventing copyright protection mechanisms" in a country where it's leagal I guess). When I look around I see my belongings and my living space, the ones that I chose and I arranged. I cannot believe you could possibly think that the situation most slashdotters are in is not that much better than imprisonment.
It seems to me that keeping Magic Lantern from working should be fairly easy for any terrorist who knows that much about it. He could have the computer that he writes and encrypts whatever it is he wants to send out disconnected from any network. Once the (let's say) email is written and encrypted he puts it on a disk goes over to another computer hooked up to the web and sends it off. Terrorist number two recieves it on one computer, puts it on a disk, loads it onto a disconnected computer, and decyphers the message using his key for the encryption scheme they used. This way, no computer that has the encryption on it (and thus the keystrokes) is hooked up to the internet and so can't get magic lantern. And if it somehow was infected, magic lantern would have no way of sending the info back to the FBI. Am I wrong? Shouldn't this work?
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Sun should be scared, yeah. Perhaps not so much of Apple though. Don't forget that IBM is fabbing and desinging these chips. Engineers aren't going to pay extra for shiney stuff (not that there's anything wrong with shiney stuff). IBM could put a workstation out that didn't add any of the frills you get with a Mac that engineers don't need and put either AIX or Linux on it AND it has the clount to get any specific apps the market demands ported to it. Besides that, (I _think_, I'd like to know if I'm wrong) they have more in-house software developers than Apple. Apple has to buy these chips from IBM, that extra cost gets tacked onto the final price, not for IBM. IBM could also release the newer chips in their own theorhetical PPC 970 workstations a bit before Apple, just delay a shipment a bit. Furthermore, everything (features, price, etc...) being equal, I think a lot of engineers would go for an IBM over an Apple, I can't really back that up with anything, but I do think it makes sense just looking at the different focuses (focii?) of the companies.
I apologize for any misspellings. Number one: I can't spell, number two: this keyboard needs replacing badly (damn b key works one out of six times), number three: I broke my dominant hand (not through masturbation! why does everyone ask me that?) and as I am discovering, my left hand can't do anything nearly as well as the right. One-handed typing sucks, I don't know how you porn mongers do it!
Repeat after me: the idea that you only use 10% of your brain is a myth. That's right, it's complete bullshit, utter crap. It makes me angry to hear it so often. It's odd really, this is not a case where there is a small group on the fringe claiming this is the fact, no one in the field (mine is computational/integrative neuroscience, which as you can see from just its name is full of buzz-words :P) has held this theory for as long as I've been in it (maye even ever but I don't know that). It's quite non-sensical really, 10% of what? Of the brain's potential? Do you really think we have a quantitative way of measuring that, or of "how much of it you're using even? Do you only count cognition or subconscious functions as well? Which method do you use to measure these and how do you differentiate between the cognitive and the non-cognitive? This pissed Stephen Gould (rest his soul) off enough that he penned an entire article about myths concerning evolution that opened by bitching about this stupid idea. Please, for the love of all that is scientific and good, STOP PROPAGATING THIS STUPID MYTH! At very least on slashdot, you're supposed to be a geek damn it, you ought to know better. *grumbles* 10%, I gotcher 10% right here bub.
You know, I just read a story charging IBM's CEO of running the company into the ground with mergers and acquisitions and deals done to drive the stock up. It was very convincing and a deal like this makes me wonder. Do you guys see this as a good move or one driven by a love of the stock market, and what about IBM's future? Somebody once said, "The service and consulting business is the last refuge of the damned." I can't help but wonder if that will prove to be true.
I do have my own gene sequencing mail order company. I work for Northwestern University in the Chicago campus in a molecular bio lab and let me tell ya, I still remember the first time I designed 20 sequences, sent off a long list of a's c's t's and g's online and got tubes of them back in five days. I felt like a god.
I've read in a bunch of places that the European Comission has all but decided to create their own version of the dreaded DMCA. If/when that goes through won't this have to be completely crippled?
Tru64 going is fine with me but it had some advanced features that Linux doesn't. As long as they're phasing it out they may as well GPL it and have some coders work on getting some of those features ported to Linux for inclusion into 2.5.xx, I mean HP actually looks like it wants to support Linux. Oh well, I doubt anything like that would ever happen.
When I first read about .NET and MS's philosophy with it (i.e. what hailstorm was supposed to be and what it's acceptance would accomplish) it terrified me. Now hailstorm is dead as we knew it and the threat it posed is (seemingly) gone. My question is: now that Hailstorm is not a factor, are there still any risks for the internet and software communities(both open and closed) assossiated with taking up the .NET framework (barring the fact that it _is_ MS we're talking about here, obviously they've screwed people before)? I think that the idea behind the framework of .NET and what it's effects on the way things are coded (from a purely programming point of view) could be very interesting and improve software; I am also very suspiscious of any big "ideas" coming out of MS. Any thoughts?
Dude, you admitted to working for M$ on /. and made no excuses for it! How do you walk with balls that big?
I'm not going to resort to a string of insults and profanity but if I hadn't been so shocked at what I'd just read I might have. Microsoft is an asshole of a corporate citizen but it doesn't have _shit_ on oil companies. You are entitled to your opinion but damn! The only damage Microsoft has done so far has been measureable in money and innovation in the tech field. I really despise some of their practices but they've never really hurt anything physically. I'm not an "environmentalist" per say, but I am very concerned about our environment. I am also a Neurologist, before I specialized in neuroscience I had to take a shitload of bio classes, some of them were envi/sci. Let me tell you something: oil companies _do not believe_ that the burning of oil, the stripping of land, oil spillage, the destruction of the habitats of organisms, or any other number of things they do when required, will _ever_ have any negative effects on the world or its species. At least that's their story and they're sticking to it. Believe me, all of those things have consequences; I don't want to get into an arguement about global warming, without even considering that all of those things will have severe negative effects on the environment. I don't believe that we should immediately make the use of oil outlawed but instead of trying to increase our supplies we ought to be trying to figure out a way to get off of it. That wouldn't be good for the wallets of the people running oil companies though, so they fight it with their money. I once read a quote from an oil company exec that said something along the lines of the endangered species protection act (not sure of its actual name) being irritating and that we should get rid of it. That is appalling to me as a scientist. Anyway the point is that while oil companies are not by default horrible, the people who run them currently have no respect for anything except their own wallets. As a reference to this, see: Enron. You may have noticed that name in the news as of late ;)
I'm sure it's cool and everything, but when I am looking for file trading software anything that remotely reminds me of goats is out of the picture, if ya know what I mean.
They mention a lot of European (especially German) companies doing stuff like this in the article. Maybe their employees don't care quite as much as American ones would because we work many fewer hours per year and per day (this is on average of course) that Americans do. Just a thought from a German who _hasn't_ had his internet and email use limited.
We really don't completely understand what you're talking about. It is true that with most people if you cover one eye you lose depth perception. But it doesn't have to be that way. A friend of mine is legally blind in one eye, he shouldn't have any depth perception, most people with his particular condition don't. Many years back he switched to a new optomotrist (sp?). When he went in for preliminary testing with this guy he got his depth perception tested, they had never done this at his first optomotrist's office, they assumed he didn't have any. The boy has perfect depth perception; he's one of the best tennis players in state. No one knows why and no one can offer any explanation other than his ONE working eye can do depth perception _by itself_. So it's a bit more complicated than anyone really knows. As a neurologist all I can tell you is that it's just another one of the many mysteries the brain presents us.
I'm sorry, looks like Belgium was first with the digital signiture being leagal. My mistake.
You know Germany seems to be one of the technological world leaders. They just decided to phase out all nuclear power in favor of wind power by the year's end and it looks like they'll do it. The acceptance of digital signitures is a huge step in helping the internet reach its full potential for changing the way we live our lives. Germany is taking this first step. What I want to know is: who are the politicians making all of these progressive decisions and what affect are they having in the EU Parliament? Are other European countries following Germany's lead in these type of issues? I know that German business law strongly favors big business, are there any other laws or policy that a liberal would take issue with in Germany? What is the state of Linux use in Germany? I ask all this because I'm looking at an offer for a research position at the Max Planck Institute in Munich (I'm sorry _Munchen_:).
I would just like to say that I love you. Because now I don't have to go and tell it like it is, and I hate having to type that much over trolls.
I disagree with the reason you dismiss what he said. It isn't _too_ paranoid to suggest that MS could run all the other current companies that do business in the computer industry into bankruptcy or make them unimportant. So yeah, author X could possibly kill all the other authors (no I don't really think it's going to happen). The reason it wouldn't matter if author X killed the other authors is because that would also be the day that new authors were born. Maybe not in the form of new companies but perhaps in the form of open source coders. I can't see _everyone_ taking a monopoly of that magnitude in stride. The day author MS kills all the other author Suns, IBMs, Intels, and so forth, could be open source's greatest day.
What Linux developement would look like five to ten years after this was implemented (if she chose Linux). With an entire country's populatioin using it by default the number of good developers we'd get from Belgium would be a great boon. Not to mention Linux would garner a lot of support from hardware and game companies that we lack right now. If this got through, and I've got to say I doubt it will, it could be the turning point in Linux developent on the desktop.
I think you mean "That seems to be little more than than excuse talk to me." Which is still a weak sentence but at least it gets the proper meaning across.
I can still remember really cool stories on the news from when I was a little kid, I'd like to look some of that stuff up. Survivor and Friends aren't the only thing on television. Believe it or not theres some really good stuff on something. A database that complete would be a great resource. You want to know about the mating habits of the Great Panda? I bet Discovery or some other network has done a story on that. The list of worthless TV that you've got is pretty impressive, not that I've seen any of it. If this stuff bores you than you shouldn't watch it. This would be a great tool for research and recreation, too bad it isn't at all feasible.
Ok, I've got well over three hundred channels, a friend of mine has over eight hundred, all of these are constantly putting out new content simultaneously. I cannot begin to imagine the resources that it would take to record this all and then storing it, say digitally, would be a storing all the data that _three_ atom smashers pump out (a shitload of information, and an exageration on my part). There's also the issue of intellectual property, they're gonna have to get more licenses than I want to even begin counting. This seems like an incredibly naieve (sp?) dream. PS first _real_ post. I had to say it I'm sorry.
Linux itself. Remember that article about it a few days ago? I don't want to get the link but something about how Linux is like a big "massively multiplayer game with lots of enthusiasts." Something like that anyway.
As I see it, for Linux use to grow significantly several requirements need to be met. First, office software for Linux has come a long way but it's still not as polished as MS Office, complete compatability with Office is also a must, this is IMHO the biggest factor holding Linux on the desktop back. Second, a simple, reliable, quick, and intuitive method of installing Linux on a computer that will work with any distro (tall order I know, but I think it's possible) has to get put together. Third, a database of _all_ the drivers for Linux has to get put together in a way that offers ease of use and simplicity for any user needs to get put together online. A driver search option in Linux needs to be able to id your hardware, search said database, and then install the drivers you need automatically (of course it could be turned off for advanced users). Fourth, documentation efforts need to be tripled (not down on the people who are doing it but they need more manpower, and no I don't have time) and error messages need to be instructive for the novice user. Fifth, an environment like KDE needs to become as full of features (all can be refused and gotten rid of of course) as XP is, close to that many anyway (bloat can be avoided by getting rid of whatever you don't want). If/when these things get done Linux will be ready for general acceptance, but it's a tall order for the community. *disclaimer* I am not a programmer or a hacker or even a CS student, I'm a biologist who likes computers.
I don't live in CA and couldn't get there anyway but why don't all the people who protested for him through a party in his honor before he goes home. Show him that not all Americans are jackasses and celebrate his freedom at the same time. Obviously he'd rather go home to his wife and kids but the party could easily be before he is allowed to leave California, it would at least lighten up the time before he gets to go home.
OH MY GOD, do you know anything about what being in jail is like? Have you seen the Shawshank (sp?) Redemption? I have my freedom, if I wanted to tomorrow, I could drop everything I'm doing and devote my life to doing almost anything I can imagine (bar "cirumventing copyright protection mechanisms" in a country where it's leagal I guess). When I look around I see my belongings and my living space, the ones that I chose and I arranged. I cannot believe you could possibly think that the situation most slashdotters are in is not that much better than imprisonment.
It seems to me that keeping Magic Lantern from working should be fairly easy for any terrorist who knows that much about it. He could have the computer that he writes and encrypts whatever it is he wants to send out disconnected from any network. Once the (let's say) email is written and encrypted he puts it on a disk goes over to another computer hooked up to the web and sends it off. Terrorist number two recieves it on one computer, puts it on a disk, loads it onto a disconnected computer, and decyphers the message using his key for the encryption scheme they used. This way, no computer that has the encryption on it (and thus the keystrokes) is hooked up to the internet and so can't get magic lantern. And if it somehow was infected, magic lantern would have no way of sending the info back to the FBI. Am I wrong? Shouldn't this work?