It's not just Deep Computing that didn't make the headlines, the media tends to ignore any science story. I think this is for two reasons:
1) Deep down, people want to turn on their news and say things like "Oh, how auful" and "What is this world coming to?" Stories that show the progress of mankind don't tend to evoke this kind of reaction.
2) Most of the general public, who uses thier home computers for Solitaire and deer hunting games, probably wouldn't understand the story or the implications of the story anyway. Aren't newspapers written at something like the 5th grade level?
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+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
I'm glad that by the end of the year we'll have true multihead support, without buying MetroX and two outdated Matrox cards. Well, I'm assuming XFree will be able to do multiheaded with any of its regularly supported cards.
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+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Hehe yah, crash it, crash it! It's always good to see NASA crash something that costs $63 million dollars. Maybe we'll see it in slow motion on "Real TV" someday. -NG
+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Keith Lowery, InfoSpinner's CTO, said the patent covers the process used in generating dynamic Web pages rather than a specific technology.
Isn't illegal to patent a process? Also, this notion is not new. If you strip away the word "Web", many mainframes, etc did this many years before InfoSlinger.
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+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
There was a small snippet of Vader's breathing at the very end of the credits. The people at the theater told us about it before the movie. Actually, a friend of mine has the soundtrack, and he said that the misic that played at the end of the credits is called "Anakin's Theme." At the end of the song, you hear it begin to represent the "Imperial March" music.
+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
That's okay, let Sony and the others follow the RIAA's lead. Someone will just come up with a "Open Source" player, and make more money off it than all of the SDMI players. -G
+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Is this the first time that/. has noticed the odd numbered development versions? It's not a new version, it's the starting place for the development varsions. -NG
+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Where would the internet be today if it wasn't for Vint Cerf (the co-father of the internet along with Al Gore), and Bolt, Baranec, and Neuman (I probably slaughtered the spelling of those names). I had dinner with a BBNNet guy the other night, and he said that BBN also made the frist router, and had it sitting on the shelf until someone came along to buy it. Not realizing what they had, they sold it. The people that it was sold to later formed Cisco. NG
+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Proves that Zawinski didn't kill Mozilla
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Mozilla M5 Released
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Shortly after I emailed the link to d/l M5 to some friends, one replied with a link to JWZ's resignation. I guess he thought that JWZ leaving meant the death of Mozilla. Tell me if I'm off-base, but here's how I replied: Losing Zawinski was a great punch in the stomach for Mozilla, but I think by no means is it dead. I think after Mozilla gets over this rocky stage, it will flourish. Here's why: 1. The code is just now becoming something presentable. Too much code done internally made it hard to follow in early releases. 2. People won't contribute until there is something there. I think that the nearer and nearer that Mozilla gets to their target, the more and more people will jump on board. The organization will probably explode when they release the final product, and the general public sees how good it is. 3. Milestone 5 was reached and released yesterday, without Zawinski. Life will go on.
I just thought I would also share my insight with all of you. Let me know your opinion, and thank you for your time. BTW, I am running M5 from my office on Windows NT, and it is pretty cool. -NG
+-- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you ever notice that when ST:TNG needed a plot device, they either used an Alien Probe, Q, or some sort of virus?
An alien probe was even responsible for making the captain think he was living out the rest of his life on an dying planet.
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Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
It's not just Deep Computing that didn't make the headlines, the media tends to ignore any science story. I think this is for two reasons:
1) Deep down, people want to turn on their news and say things like "Oh, how auful" and "What is this world coming to?" Stories that show the progress of mankind don't tend to evoke this kind of reaction.
2) Most of the general public, who uses thier home computers for Solitaire and deer hunting games, probably wouldn't understand the story or the implications of the story anyway. Aren't newspapers written at something like the 5th grade level?
-NG
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
I'm glad that by the end of the year we'll have true multihead support, without buying MetroX and two outdated Matrox cards. Well, I'm assuming XFree will be able to do multiheaded with any of its regularly supported cards.
-NG
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Hehe yah, crash it, crash it! It's always good to see NASA crash something that costs $63 million dollars. Maybe we'll see it in slow motion on "Real TV" someday. -NG
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Keith Lowery, InfoSpinner's CTO, said the patent covers the process used in generating dynamic Web pages rather than a specific technology.
Isn't illegal to patent a process? Also, this notion is not new. If you strip away the word "Web", many mainframes, etc did this many years before InfoSlinger.
-NG
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
There was a small snippet of Vader's breathing at the very end of the credits. The people at the theater told us about it before the movie. Actually, a friend of mine has the soundtrack, and he said that the misic that played at the end of the credits is called "Anakin's Theme." At the end of the song, you hear it begin to represent the "Imperial March" music.
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
That's okay, let Sony and the others follow the RIAA's lead. Someone will just come up with a "Open Source" player, and make more money off it than all of the SDMI players.
-G
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Is this the first time that /. has noticed the odd numbered development versions? It's not a new version, it's the starting place for the development varsions.
-NG
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Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Oh, and as for the 6 billion of you who emailed me to wish me birthday greetings, thanks, now stop!
/.ed. Kinda ironic. Anyone know if there is a mirror of Rob up?
I guess Rob got
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Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
I also wonder about the other applications of "beaming" power over ionized gas
Wireless electricity?
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+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Where would the internet be today if it wasn't for Vint Cerf (the co-father of the internet along with Al Gore), and Bolt, Baranec, and Neuman (I probably slaughtered the spelling of those names). I had dinner with a BBNNet guy the other night, and he said that BBN also made the frist router, and had it sitting on the shelf until someone came along to buy it. Not realizing what they had, they sold it. The people that it was sold to later formed Cisco. NG
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Shortly after I emailed the link to d/l M5 to some friends, one replied with a link to JWZ's resignation. I guess he thought that JWZ leaving meant the death of Mozilla. Tell me if I'm off-base, but here's how I replied:
Losing Zawinski was a great punch in the stomach for Mozilla, but I think by no means is it dead. I think after Mozilla gets over this rocky stage, it will flourish. Here's why:
1. The code is just now becoming something presentable. Too much code done internally made it hard to follow in early releases.
2. People won't contribute until there is something there. I think that the nearer and nearer that Mozilla gets to their target, the more and more people will jump on board. The organization will probably explode when they release the final product, and the general public sees how good it is.
3. Milestone 5 was reached and released yesterday, without Zawinski. Life will go on.
I just thought I would also share my insight with all of you. Let me know your opinion, and thank you for your time. BTW, I am running M5 from my office on Windows NT, and it is pretty cool.
-NG
+--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
Groping going on in the US government? Naaaah. Can't be. -NG
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Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare.