Maybe if it was payware, had 90% of the market, sent private personal information all over the internet without your consent and used a proprietary file format that no one else was permitted to use by law (and therefore compete) which was then adopted by the music industry [watch this space] it would be investigated by the powers that be in a similar manner.
Slashdot is so full of ranting idiots these days.:-)
Yeah! What was also cool was improvising suspension on cars with rubber bands and making gearboxes that went crunch when you changed gear with the motor running. Did you have any of the pneumatic stuff too?
WINE is an independently developed set of libraries and stuff that attempt to run Windows binaries on Linux and provide libraries to assist in the porting of Windows binaries to Linux. No wonder it's not as good (yet) and running a "proper" copy of windows inside what is essentially a PC emulator (or virtualiser).
They're not comparing apples with apples as usual.
Mind you, this is ZD net we're talking about...
Back in days of yore (before VB and Delphi, ANSI C was just being ratified and C++ was an interesting academic curiosity) there was an OOP development system/language called Actor and it was for Windows 3.0. This was back in about 88/89. It was written in FORTH. As is customary with old FORTH systems the core was hand-coded assembler. Then the rest was bootstrapped from there. On top of it all was the Actor compiler which generated FORTH threaded coded IIRC.
I just paid over $40 for the official Slackware 8.0 and I bought Quake 3, Descent 3 and Unreal Tournament. Having to pay my own bills, rent, maintain a car and stuff I don't have too much money to spend on games or time to play them. Loki does a great job porting the best games out there to Linux. Do you think that the likes of NVidia would have bothered to produce Linux/XFree drivers for their 3D cards if there weren't hundreds of thousands of Linux users who had games to play on that needed their hardware? Some of us haven't run Windows at home since 1997.
Poor Loki. I only wish I had more time and money to spend on their games.
There wasn't much at all in that article other than what had been said in the caption on/.
Does anyone know what their system does and how it differs from e.g. Beowulf and MOSIX (or GridWare for that matter)?
I don't suppose anyone will reply since I post at 0.
I've just registered and downloaded the Open Edition.
This is very good news. It shows that professional software companies think there may be a market on Linux for payware tools. This will help Linux to become better accepted and more mainstream.
I've coded in Turbo Pascal 7.0 in the past (a precursor of the Delphi language which is in Kylix) and it is/was a pretty nice medium between C-like features and C++-like features. The application framework was very good and a dawdle to write in.
My father has written a commercial application in Delphi and I've been trying for 5 years to get him to try Linux. Now that Kylix is here (and a free-beer version he can try to port his app to) he will be installing Linux, for the first time, on the laptop he'll be bying in the next week or to.
Isn't this just the positive outcome we're looking for?
Well done Borland. Now, if only you ported the Kylix compiler to use the gcc back end, it could generate code on anything in the known universe.....
By colliding particles at every-increasing energies we can split them into their contituent sub-particles. The sub-particls require lots of energy to be "dissociated" from their parent particles. As new particles are discovered, or their existence is confirmed, new theories are made as to whether they have smaller constituent particles. To see them, if they exist, requires more energy, ie faster collisions.... and so on.
By finding these sub-particles we can figure out how the particles in the "particle zoo" behave, why energy and matter appear as they do, and how the universe formed etc.
If the subject was approcahed from the angle that the copyright laws are there to protect the rights of the person who produced the work then I see no problem, especially if the discuss some of the various licenses under which data (eg pictures, sounds etc) and code (applications, games etc) are published. There would need to be a balance comparing some of the "closed" licenses that come with books, CD's, commercial software along with some of the Free licenses like GPL, BSD, free documentation etc. However I fear that the Free and Open licenses will get "missed out" on purpose. The UK is very backward in this respect.
"As we turn our ambitions towards longer space missions, we
can see that the issue of sex in space will become important, and that it is unreasonable and even
cruel to send men on long, protracted missions without romantic company"
Erm, I'm not gay, but I went for 3 1/2 years without sex. By the above reasoning, shoul out medical services provide sex for sale? This is not a troll, it is a serious question, so I'm not posting anonymously.
The stars don't collide as such, true, but the orbits of the stars around the galaxies obviously change significantly. More importantly, the gravitational shockwaves (visibile as spiral arms etc.) cause regions of the interstellar medium to collapse and begin star formation.
You could also imagine that as the orbits of stars are altered, so will the object orbiting them, so you might find that, eg the planets of a solar system like ours would be showered by comets and meteors.
It would be interesting to see if new "stable" multiple star systems would be formed. Would solar systems combine? If two stars came close, would they eject each others planets?
Sounds like a very interesting field of research.
:)
What's wrong with washing? What's so terrible about having a nice invigorating shower or lying relaxing in the bath for half an hour?
What's wrong with soap and deodorant, and why is washing your clothes such a problem?
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned...
Solar panels are still relatively inefficient. IIRC they only convert about 5-10% of the light hitting them to electricity.
Another way to reduce power bills would be to use solar power to "preheat" water by a few degrees and then heating it up conventionally to the required temperature.
If it's electricity you're after, a "solar furnace" might be better. You get a nice parabolic mirror and pass cold water across the focus. The focused light heats up the water and makes steam which can be used to drive a turbine, driving a generator. You can also use the heat directly to melt metals. (Sunlight is at a temperature of 6500K)
As a former Reactor Physics Engineer at a UK powerstation I get very irritated by the BBC's irresponsible anti-nuclear scaremongering.
Nowhere on the article are the actual doses quoted. People who cleaned up Chernobly are not or were not exposed to "low levels of radiation" or "low radation doses" by Western standards. They were fried.
In this country the legal annual dose limit is 30 mSv (30 millisieverts) with a much smaller percentage allowable internal dose. The actual dosage to the most exposed workers at the Sellafield reprocessing plant is in the 10-15 mSv range per year, lower than the 20+ mSv ailine cabine crew recieve.
I wish someone would post the actual doses here, whether external or internal, lifetime dose, dose rate, natural background etc.
The BBC loves to stir up the publics' fear of nuclear power and reinforces their ignorance with their own biased tabloid style journalism.
If you want to find out the facts about radiation doses, medical effects, and radiological protection, visit the NRPB website:
http://www.nrpb.gov.uk/
Sometimes products come with minimal (and superficial) documentation under some sort of patronising assumption that the consumer doesn't need to know or shouldn't know. That can cause all sorts of problems and probably increased phone traffic to tech support. Then there are always people who are too lazy to read the manual, or maybe it doesn't even occur to them that such a thing might be written down. Sometimes documentation is on a CD or the web, and if the customer doesn't even know how to get on the web or the concept of "documents and folders" (or files and directories when I were a lad) is unknown so they will just not be able to find what they need to know. Perhaps a radical new approach to prividing information to users is needed. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Some nuclear reactors (eg Magnox) are refuelled in a continuous progress (ie a few fuel elements a day) to created a nice "flat" radial neutron flux.
And yes, in Britain there are still some Magnoxes running. They are Bradwell (Essex), Sizewell A (Suffolk), Dungeness A (Kent), Oldbury (Gloucestershire), Calder Hall (Sellafield, Cumbria), Chapelcross (Dumfries, Scotland) and Wylfa (Anglesy, Wales).
Bradwell is to close next year.
Hinkley Point A (Somerset), Berkeley (Gloucestershire), Trawsfynydd (Wales) and Hunterston A (Ayrshire, Scotland) are all closed already.
When I was 8 my first computer was a ZX81. It had (and still has!!!!) a touch sensative keyboard, which although crap for touch-typing was ok for the single-entry keyword system its BASIC used, was silent and was effortless to use. It was a simple membrane arrangement of wires and platic connected in a row/column matrix to the Z-80's IO bus.
It also has a multi-tasking FORTH-83 ROM.
That's right, multi-tasking (real time) in 8K of RON and 16K of RAM (4K minimum)
I've been looking for these boards for a while. I remeber seeing them on/. a while back.
They sounded very interesting. I thought it might just have been a hoax like some other multi-processor bords featured on/.
Many years ago I remember that Microway used to do add-in boards for PC's for doing intensive stuff. They once made a Transputer board, and later on an i860 and then an i960 board with optimising compilers.
Just imagine if, instead of just a 3D accelerator card, you could also for $100 get a high-speed 64-bit risc on a board to accelerate your games etc. I bet they'd sell like hot-cakes in university physics departments and the like where people need to do a lot of FP.
Slashdot Mirror
Back in about 1986 the ESA sent a probe called Giotto through the coma of Halley's Comet which sent back live video.
Yes, and for the handbag music to go with it, we'll need an old 10MB winchester drive rattling away somewhere.
Maybe if it was payware, had 90% of the market, sent private personal information all over the internet without your consent and used a proprietary file format that no one else was permitted to use by law (and therefore compete) which was then adopted by the music industry [watch this space] it would be investigated by the powers that be in a similar manner. :-)
Slashdot is so full of ranting idiots these days.
Yeah! What was also cool was improvising suspension on cars with rubber bands and making gearboxes that went crunch when you changed gear with the motor running. Did you have any of the pneumatic stuff too?
WINE is an independently developed set of libraries and stuff that attempt to run Windows binaries on Linux and provide libraries to assist in the porting of Windows binaries to Linux. No wonder it's not as good (yet) and running a "proper" copy of windows inside what is essentially a PC emulator (or virtualiser).
They're not comparing apples with apples as usual.
Mind you, this is ZD net we're talking about...
Back in days of yore (before VB and Delphi, ANSI C was just being ratified and C++ was an interesting academic curiosity) there was an OOP development system/language called Actor and it was for Windows 3.0. This was back in about 88/89. It was written in FORTH. As is customary with old FORTH systems the core was hand-coded assembler. Then the rest was bootstrapped from there. On top of it all was the Actor compiler which generated FORTH threaded coded IIRC.
I just paid over $40 for the official Slackware 8.0 and I bought Quake 3, Descent 3 and Unreal Tournament. Having to pay my own bills, rent, maintain a car and stuff I don't have too much money to spend on games or time to play them. Loki does a great job porting the best games out there to Linux. Do you think that the likes of NVidia would have bothered to produce Linux/XFree drivers for their 3D cards if there weren't hundreds of thousands of Linux users who had games to play on that needed their hardware? Some of us haven't run Windows at home since 1997.
Poor Loki. I only wish I had more time and money to spend on their games.
There wasn't much at all in that article other than what had been said in the caption on /.
Does anyone know what their system does and how it differs from e.g. Beowulf and MOSIX (or GridWare for that matter)?
I don't suppose anyone will reply since I post at 0.
Dude, your sig has a syntax error.
Remove the semicolon before the 4*0
:-)
...make you turn Scottish?
Some of us were just born that way.
I've just registered and downloaded the Open Edition.
This is very good news. It shows that professional software companies think there may be a market on Linux for payware tools. This will help Linux to become better accepted and more mainstream.
I've coded in Turbo Pascal 7.0 in the past (a precursor of the Delphi language which is in Kylix) and it is/was a pretty nice medium between C-like features and C++-like features. The application framework was very good and a dawdle to write in.
My father has written a commercial application in Delphi and I've been trying for 5 years to get him to try Linux. Now that Kylix is here (and a free-beer version he can try to port his app to) he will be installing Linux, for the first time, on the laptop he'll be bying in the next week or to.
Isn't this just the positive outcome we're looking for?
Well done Borland. Now, if only you ported the Kylix compiler to use the gcc back end, it could generate code on anything in the known universe.....
By colliding particles at every-increasing energies we can split them into their contituent sub-particles. The sub-particls require lots of energy to be "dissociated" from their parent particles. As new particles are discovered, or their existence is confirmed, new theories are made as to whether they have smaller constituent particles. To see them, if they exist, requires more energy, ie faster collisions.... and so on.
By finding these sub-particles we can figure out how the particles in the "particle zoo" behave, why energy and matter appear as they do, and how the universe formed etc.
If the subject was approcahed from the angle that the copyright laws are there to protect the rights of the person who produced the work then I see no problem, especially if the discuss some of the various licenses under which data (eg pictures, sounds etc) and code (applications, games etc) are published. There would need to be a balance comparing some of the "closed" licenses that come with books, CD's, commercial software along with some of the Free licenses like GPL, BSD, free documentation etc. However I fear that the Free and Open licenses will get "missed out" on purpose. The UK is very backward in this respect.
"As we turn our ambitions towards longer space missions, we
can see that the issue of sex in space will become important, and that it is unreasonable and even
cruel to send men on long, protracted missions without romantic company"
Erm, I'm not gay, but I went for 3 1/2 years without sex. By the above reasoning, shoul out medical services provide sex for sale? This is not a troll, it is a serious question, so I'm not posting anonymously.
The stars don't collide as such, true, but the orbits of the stars around the galaxies obviously change significantly. More importantly, the gravitational shockwaves (visibile as spiral arms etc.) cause regions of the interstellar medium to collapse and begin star formation.
You could also imagine that as the orbits of stars are altered, so will the object orbiting them, so you might find that, eg the planets of a solar system like ours would be showered by comets and meteors.
It would be interesting to see if new "stable" multiple star systems would be formed. Would solar systems combine? If two stars came close, would they eject each others planets?
Sounds like a very interesting field of research.
:)
What's wrong with washing? What's so terrible about having a nice invigorating shower or lying relaxing in the bath for half an hour?
What's wrong with soap and deodorant, and why is washing your clothes such a problem?
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned...
Ctrl-Alt-[+|-] (on the numeric key pad) do the trick without having to shut the X server down :)
Solar panels are still relatively inefficient. IIRC they only convert about 5-10% of the light hitting them to electricity.
Another way to reduce power bills would be to use solar power to "preheat" water by a few degrees and then heating it up conventionally to the required temperature.
If it's electricity you're after, a "solar furnace" might be better. You get a nice parabolic mirror and pass cold water across the focus. The focused light heats up the water and makes steam which can be used to drive a turbine, driving a generator. You can also use the heat directly to melt metals. (Sunlight is at a temperature of 6500K)
As a former Reactor Physics Engineer at a UK powerstation I get very irritated by the BBC's irresponsible anti-nuclear scaremongering.
Nowhere on the article are the actual doses quoted. People who cleaned up Chernobly are not or were not exposed to "low levels of radiation" or "low radation doses" by Western standards. They were fried.
In this country the legal annual dose limit is 30 mSv (30 millisieverts) with a much smaller percentage allowable internal dose. The actual dosage to the most exposed workers at the Sellafield reprocessing plant is in the 10-15 mSv range per year, lower than the 20+ mSv ailine cabine crew recieve.
I wish someone would post the actual doses here, whether external or internal, lifetime dose, dose rate, natural background etc.
The BBC loves to stir up the publics' fear of nuclear power and reinforces their ignorance with their own biased tabloid style journalism.
If you want to find out the facts about radiation doses, medical effects, and radiological protection, visit the NRPB website:
http://www.nrpb.gov.uk/
Rant mode off.
Sometimes products come with minimal (and superficial) documentation under some sort of patronising assumption that the consumer doesn't need to know or shouldn't know. That can cause all sorts of problems and probably increased phone traffic to tech support. Then there are always people who are too lazy to read the manual, or maybe it doesn't even occur to them that such a thing might be written down. Sometimes documentation is on a CD or the web, and if the customer doesn't even know how to get on the web or the concept of "documents and folders" (or files and directories when I were a lad) is unknown so they will just not be able to find what they need to know. Perhaps a radical new approach to prividing information to users is needed. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Actually...
Some nuclear reactors (eg Magnox) are refuelled in a continuous progress (ie a few fuel elements a day) to created a nice "flat" radial neutron flux.
And yes, in Britain there are still some Magnoxes running. They are Bradwell (Essex), Sizewell A (Suffolk), Dungeness A (Kent), Oldbury (Gloucestershire), Calder Hall (Sellafield, Cumbria), Chapelcross (Dumfries, Scotland) and Wylfa (Anglesy, Wales).
Bradwell is to close next year.
Hinkley Point A (Somerset), Berkeley (Gloucestershire), Trawsfynydd (Wales) and Hunterston A (Ayrshire, Scotland) are all closed already.
Do I get Nerd Points for this?
When I was 8 my first computer was a ZX81. It had (and still has!!!!) a touch sensative keyboard, which although crap for touch-typing was ok for the single-entry keyword system its BASIC used, was silent and was effortless to use. It was a simple membrane arrangement of wires and platic connected in a row/column matrix to the Z-80's IO bus.
It also has a multi-tasking FORTH-83 ROM.
That's right, multi-tasking (real time) in 8K of RON and 16K of RAM (4K minimum)
What are you smoking?
/. a while back.
/.
I've been looking for these boards for a while. I remeber seeing them on
They sounded very interesting. I thought it might just have been a hoax like some other multi-processor bords featured on
Many years ago I remember that Microway used to do add-in boards for PC's for doing intensive stuff. They once made a Transputer board, and later on an i860 and then an i960 board with optimising compilers.
Just imagine if, instead of just a 3D accelerator card, you could also for $100 get a high-speed 64-bit risc on a board to accelerate your games etc. I bet they'd sell like hot-cakes in university physics departments and the like where people need to do a lot of FP.
How about 32 or 64 (or 128) optical fibres in parallel, just like electrical wires?
Out of interest, how much would 128MB of SRAM cost compared to 128MB of RDRAM or SDRAM?