The link provided is a Press Release. (capitolized in full Microsoft-style) A press release is a written piece of information developed to raise investor awareness of how much said company can kick ass. This kickassyness equates to a higher stock price for a few weeks. Also to note, PR does not equal a story, nor is it correct to credit Yahoo! for the story.
Is it just me, or has slashdot gone downhill over the last few months. It isn't even really that cool of news anymore.
I'm going to laugh at you! Scsi drives have more reportability for failures and have some "dead space" set aside for failure recovery in hardware. Also, the difference between the scsi and ide models are huge. In ide the cpu does more, in scsi the hardware does more. Oh well...
but if you're using a wide-area distributed computing network, it could make a *lot* of sense
What about WAN CPU process communication? Lets say I have 50 processers of equal strength on the net working collabratively that were dynamically grouped to do something for a few hours then deallocated for another project. Those hosts all agreed to be on a project of this type and so on and so forth. When is DCTI going to get away from "Hey, its the contest money" and "Hey, this global climate change stuff is neato! Lets let *the people who want to code it* code it and *actually get to use the network and cpu code thats allready done*. It's being done, without DCTI -- and without "day-to-day operations".
Do we really need to know the timeframe of this twice out of three paragraphs? In topic sentances no less.
Katz mentioned a few weeks ago about something like collabrative filtering. Perhaps there should be a small quicky 15-30 minute moderation before a story goes public. Take the values of those surveys, compare them to profiles of the people surveyed and be a matchmaker for readers that just want to see what should probally intrest them most.
In other words -- A true extention of instant feedback from readers before the (sometimes unknowledgable, sometimes really lame) news goes out.
The Silicon Valley movie confirmed that his so-called reality bubble is even more evident today than years ago. He puts worse a spin on things than Microsoft.
Dont get me wrong.. The stuff he has apple doing now is great! The iMac and artistic cases are taking some business sectors by storm where you would usually see PC/WinNT boxen.
Too bad Gil killed Newton.. Then we would have two good PDA devices. I wish it never died.
Killing the Clones was stupid too. Just as they get good marketshare Steve just goes off on his proprietary path. Oh well.
I fear that Steve Jobs is jelous that Bill gets all the great stuff, and now he gets to show off in a Time article influnced by his reality bubble. Too bad that second place in this world means the back seat.
I think this is a very neat idea. My worry is, who will patent the technology first and screw the world.
Amazon does it with ecommerce 1-click. Microsoft does it with style sheets. Hell, if its a good.. Interesting technology why not, lets take it and pantent it to death! Then we can charge everyone for it and make a zillion-and-one dollars. Perhaps I should send in my application today!
There needs to be limits on patents. Yes, I believe they do foster invention, but they also can stop community work on a really-good-thing.
Perhaps a community-patent-agency and a easy, low cost effort to setup patents that are held by some sort of group for the explicit reasoning of keeping some basic ideas *free* for us geeks and the rest of the world.
Really, it shouldn't have to come down to this tho. But someone will patent the implementation of this and we will all be screwed.
Ok, like I trust microsoft with billing information. I know someone who has personally had their credit card number mis-handled and charged three times by them. Also, I dont trust windows NT to handle this over-securly. This "passport" technology would be a good idea if someone like mastercard, or amex implemented it. IE: you have a public key for each retailer, encrypt your "passport" and send it to the retailer and they decrypt it with their private key and contact the "passport" site for more information on private lines. That would rock.
amex seems to be doing this with the "blue" card in some ways.
Sounds cool. But i want some real company about privacy that gets nastily audited for this, not microsoft.
Wow. Lets take TGPL source, change some stuff, release it as gpl and WOWIE! Any further changes after that cant be used as tgpl because gpl cant roll into tgpl. This is uselesss and thats what NPL is around for, companies who just want to rape us of our work and make money.
I think that Katz is valid on some of his points. What I see it as is the "Not enough time to evaulate it myself. Just throw the `good stuff' at me." Why is this a problem? Because... If you took everyones opinions from everywhere... every little news tidbit (with exception of those about dan quale when he was running for office) means something good to someone. Katz wants just whats good... whats good from his perspective is much different than mine however.
How do you filter for this kind of person then?
The only technology I have seen is collabrative filtering. It's been around forawhile. Remember grouplens usenet trial? remember firefly? There's movielens.umn.edu that does it too...
You have people rate items (news articles) as to a few different categories that would decide if I would like it or if Katz or someone else would like it better. (perhaps different questions depending on the topic/issue) People with similar ratings who really like some articles then can opt-in to only see those kinds of articles as the focus of a news page. Problem is, there might be some lag because you should have some user filtering first.:(
Upside is.. It saves some people time who don't want to deal with information overload.
Do you, or do you have ideas on having some sort of way to find reputable consultants to help any sort of business create a plan on intergrating opensource into their IT services? People who can talk tech, but know the legal and business sides of opensourceness.
I am worried that people will start going out there and saying "I can be a consultant for that!" like some people that are currently "NT consultants" because the money is there right now.
I would hate to call you a "stupid idiot" but the point is:
WE DONT CARE ABOUT 4GB OF RAM.
We care about our AudioPCI cards, out ultra tnt2 boards, the newest-and-greatest technology.
And.. we like the GNU license because we think it promotes people to add to the kernel, whereas the BSD license lets people take too much from the code and put it into EvilSoft coprate apps.
Um, hold on a second here. Hasn't many cases of internet filtering just ended up in courts and knocked down because it was shown there was more than just porn censorship going on. And since when was porn "wrong"? It's not an illegal business in the United States last time I checked. It is illegal for minors to view it, but under the current setup the viewers end up with it anyways. So filtering sucks anyhow.
Anyways, I dont want my government and my money mandating filtering. Even the HS I went to wasn't this bad.
Speaking of which, a pal back at work showed me a bit of a component library for VB. IMHO the concept was way cool. Now *nix is all about components laying around like legos in kids' rooms, but if we'd be able to provide a consistent visual interface for combining events, that would provide the end users with something useful
Your describing GNOME:). take a look at it sometime! theres the control stuff, and some people are programming a kind of control-panel-ish type thing for system stuff.
A project currently in development, Cosm (http://cosm.mithral.com/), is developing a multiplatform scheme to promote distributed computing in a big way. Eventually it will be a whole scheme for anyone to develop their own projects to run on their own computers, or perhaps if the cause is "noble" other people would want to run it on their computers.
Take a look at it. Its exciting stuff, and its just the beginning. Did I mention its also opensource? Join the development.
Scott Dier dieman!ringworld.org
What about Linux Mandrake? -- Your joking right?
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GNOME IMHO uses less resources than KDE and is more configurable than KDE. (read - toolkit skins, E skins, MDI control, etc) It also has better licensing than KDE (with the whole qt thing going on, and kind of finished. *no*flames*please*) KDE doesn't seem to manage pesudo-color half as well as gnome either.
GNOME for me please.
E + GNOME ? Noooooo.....
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Um, I run debian potato with the gnome staging area debs. Its stable. I have never crashed with pretty heavy usage. (1.0.8 Gnome and.15 E I believe.) Your claims are based on very un-tested ideas. GNOME is weird sometimes, but thats expected from its archetechure. It is more complex and flexible than anything else out there. As for the resorce argument -- I/know/ E with Clean Theam and gnome use/less/ memory than KDE and probally CDE. Go figure.
Holy hijinks people! Lighten up, get into the spirit of things and start the annual flogging of the slashdot/segfault/uf/bedope teams!
Naa, but really. This ties in with ESR's recent writing "Understand-my-job-please". We need to find a organised and calm way to discuss matters rather than "HOLY SH|T F#@&* MICROSOFT and INTEL IS TAKING DOWN MY HAPPY WEB SITES." Ok? Lighten up. Go pull a prank somewhere. Dont break the law. Lets all just get along.
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I do not see "details" in this article of Microsoft practices.
Slashdot people *need* to start reading your links. It's only fair that we see the real information
And I know your gonna moderate this down because why is that k1dd13 d1ss1ng the slashdot poeple theyresoooo cool.
Check out cosm, a open project for distributed computing. It is implementing much of what you are looking for.
The link provided is a Press Release. (capitolized in full Microsoft-style) A press release is a written piece of information developed to raise investor awareness of how much said company can kick ass. This kickassyness equates to a higher stock price for a few weeks. Also to note, PR does not equal a story, nor is it correct to credit Yahoo! for the story.
Is it just me, or has slashdot gone downhill over the last few months. It isn't even really that cool of news anymore.
HAH!
I'm going to laugh at you! Scsi drives have more reportability for failures and have some "dead space" set aside for failure recovery in hardware. Also, the difference between the scsi and ide models are huge. In ide the cpu does more, in scsi the hardware does more.
Oh well...
Jeez, Sun really like you guys out west. All we got at the umn CS&E open house were measly yellow yo-yo's with the sun logo. Oh well
but if you're using a wide-area distributed computing network, it could make a *lot* of sense
What about WAN CPU process communication? Lets say I have 50 processers of equal strength on the net working collabratively that were dynamically grouped to do something for a few hours then deallocated for another project. Those hosts all agreed to be on a project of this type and so on and so forth. When is DCTI going to get away from "Hey, its the contest money" and "Hey, this global climate change stuff is neato! Lets let *the people who want to code it* code it and *actually get to use the network and cpu code thats allready done*. It's being done, without DCTI -- and without "day-to-day operations".
It is called Cosm
Do we really need to know the timeframe of this twice out of three paragraphs? In topic sentances no less.
Katz mentioned a few weeks ago about something like collabrative filtering. Perhaps there should be a small quicky 15-30 minute moderation before a story goes public. Take the values of those surveys, compare them to profiles of the people surveyed and be a matchmaker for readers that just want to see what should probally intrest them most.
In other words -- A true extention of instant feedback from readers before the (sometimes unknowledgable, sometimes really lame) news goes out.
Oh yeah... Forgot
What ever Pixar does will be eclipsed by square when their first motion picture comes out.
Square can get rendered graphics movies into the general mainstream and not just kid stuff with their talents.
Just look at the FF8 movies. Even compared to the whole mini-movie that Pixar did of the chess dudes they are both very close.
Personally, I thought the chess dude was a tad too animated in facial expressions. Yet again, more kiddie stuff.
Um, From what I know Steve Jobs scares me.
The Silicon Valley movie confirmed that his so-called reality bubble is even more evident today than years ago. He puts worse a spin on things than Microsoft.
Dont get me wrong.. The stuff he has apple doing now is great! The iMac and artistic cases are taking some business sectors by storm where you would usually see PC/WinNT boxen.
Too bad Gil killed Newton.. Then we would have two good PDA devices. I wish it never died.
Killing the Clones was stupid too. Just as they get good marketshare Steve just goes off on his proprietary path. Oh well.
I fear that Steve Jobs is jelous that Bill gets all the great stuff, and now he gets to show off in a Time article influnced by his reality bubble. Too bad that second place in this world means the back seat.
I think this is a very neat idea. My worry is, who will patent the technology first and screw the world.
Amazon does it with ecommerce 1-click. Microsoft does it with style sheets. Hell, if its a good.. Interesting technology why not, lets take it and pantent it to death! Then we can charge everyone for it and make a zillion-and-one dollars. Perhaps I should send in my application today!
There needs to be limits on patents. Yes, I believe they do foster invention, but they also can stop community work on a really-good-thing.
Perhaps a community-patent-agency and a easy, low cost effort to setup patents that are held by some sort of group for the explicit reasoning of keeping some basic ideas *free* for us geeks and the rest of the world.
Really, it shouldn't have to come down to this tho. But someone will patent the implementation of this and we will all be screwed.
My $0.02
Ok, like I trust microsoft with billing information. I know someone who has personally had their credit card number mis-handled and charged three times by them. Also, I dont trust windows NT to handle this over-securly. This "passport" technology would be a good idea if someone like mastercard, or amex implemented it. IE: you have a public key for each retailer, encrypt your "passport" and send it to the retailer and they decrypt it with their private key and contact the "passport" site for more information on private lines. That would rock.
amex seems to be doing this with the "blue" card in some ways.
Sounds cool. But i want some real company about privacy that gets nastily audited for this, not microsoft.
Wow. Lets take TGPL source, change some stuff, release it as gpl and WOWIE! Any further changes after that cant be used as tgpl because gpl cant roll into tgpl. This is uselesss and thats what NPL is around for, companies who just want to rape us of our work and make money.
I think that Katz is valid on some of his points. What I see it as is the "Not enough time to evaulate it myself. Just throw the `good stuff' at me." Why is this a problem? Because... If you took everyones opinions from everywhere... every little news tidbit (with exception of those about dan quale when he was running for office) means something good to someone. Katz wants just whats good... whats good from his perspective is much different than mine however.
:(
How do you filter for this kind of person then?
The only technology I have seen is collabrative filtering. It's been around forawhile. Remember grouplens usenet trial? remember firefly? There's movielens.umn.edu that does it too...
You have people rate items (news articles) as to a few different categories that would decide if I would like it or if Katz or someone else would like it better. (perhaps different questions depending on the topic/issue) People with similar ratings who really like some articles then can opt-in to only see those kinds of articles as the focus of a news page. Problem is, there might be some lag because you should have some user filtering first.
Upside is.. It saves some people time who don't want to deal with information overload.
Scott Dier
Do you, or do you have ideas on having some sort of way to find reputable consultants to help any sort of business create a plan on intergrating opensource into their IT services? People who can talk tech, but know the legal and business sides of opensourceness.
I am worried that people will start going out there and saying "I can be a consultant for that!" like some people that are currently "NT consultants" because the money is there right now.
At the Univ. Of minnesota we get these 6 digit
numbers for our student number.
And 4 *other* codes depending on what function the
card is being used for. (auth for door entry,
library, logging into a lab, food)...
Plus theres a stripe to put cash on.
Wow.
And. if you opt for it. Callingcard/atm card in one too.
The GNU thing is certainly untrue.
And *when did I ever say bsd has no drivers*.
I would hate to call you a "stupid idiot" but the point is:
WE DONT CARE ABOUT 4GB OF RAM.
We care about our AudioPCI cards, out ultra tnt2 boards, the newest-and-greatest technology.
And.. we like the GNU license because we think it promotes people to add to the kernel, whereas the BSD license lets people take too much from the code and put it into EvilSoft coprate apps.
My $.02
Heh. how many hours 'till its in Incoming? :)
-Scott
Um, hold on a second here. Hasn't many cases of internet filtering just ended up in courts and knocked down because it was shown there was more than just porn censorship going on. And since when was porn "wrong"? It's not an illegal business in the United States last time I checked. It is illegal for minors to view it, but under the current setup the viewers end up with it anyways. So filtering sucks anyhow.
Anyways, I dont want my government and my money mandating filtering. Even the HS I went to wasn't this bad.
dieman
Speaking of which, a pal back at work showed me a bit of a component library for VB. IMHO the concept was way cool. Now *nix is all about components laying around like legos in kids' rooms, but if we'd be able to provide a consistent visual interface for combining events, that would provide the end users with something useful
Your describing GNOME :). take a look at it sometime! theres the control stuff, and some people are programming a kind of control-panel-ish type thing for system stuff.
A project currently in development, Cosm (http://cosm.mithral.com/), is developing a multiplatform scheme to promote distributed computing in a big way. Eventually it will be a whole scheme for anyone to develop their own projects to run on their own computers, or perhaps if the cause is "noble" other people would want to run it on their computers.
Take a look at it. Its exciting stuff, and its just the beginning. Did I mention its also opensource? Join the development.
Scott Dier
dieman!ringworld.org
GNOME IMHO uses less resources than KDE and is more configurable than KDE. (read - toolkit skins, E skins, MDI control, etc) It also has better licensing than KDE (with the whole qt thing going on, and kind of finished. *no*flames*please*) KDE doesn't seem to manage pesudo-color half as well as gnome either.
GNOME for me please.
Um, I run debian potato with the gnome staging area debs. Its stable. I have never crashed with pretty heavy usage. (1.0.8 Gnome and .15 E I believe.) Your claims are based on very un-tested ideas. GNOME is weird sometimes, but thats expected from its archetechure. It is more complex and flexible than anything else out there. As for the resorce argument -- I /know/ E with Clean Theam and gnome use /less/ memory than KDE and probally CDE. Go figure.
Yeah, but Bruce -- We want to see your opinions eaisly.
I like the idea also. It lets me be lame and admit that im lame, rather than having a few moderators feel it their duty to take me to a negative one.
Scott
Holy hijinks people! Lighten up, get into the spirit of things and start the annual flogging of the slashdot/segfault/uf/bedope teams!
Naa, but really. This ties in with ESR's recent writing "Understand-my-job-please". We need to find a organised and calm way to discuss matters rather than "HOLY SH|T F#@&* MICROSOFT and INTEL IS TAKING DOWN MY HAPPY WEB SITES." Ok? Lighten up. Go pull a prank somewhere. Dont break the law. Lets all just get along.