I strongly believe in having multiple personal devices, having the simplest and easiest device for each purpose. Thus, I'm against the digital covergence that everyone is talking about. Sure, your cell phone can take pictures, play MP3s, record GPS logs, send faxes, and brew coffee, but I'm pretty certain it still sucks at all. Furthermore, if one component fails, you have to replace the whole thing. iPods don't pretend to be anything else, and they do a fantastic job at their one purpose, and that's why they're so successful.
I work on the RHex project at CMU, so I had the movie sitting around on my computer. The ARL website is pretty dogged down, so James had to pull the website and the original 60 MB video, replacing it with a smaller 14 MB version.
If you want the full version movie, go here for the torrent file.
When RMS started out fighting for free software, he had a dream that one day, we would have a whole operating system based on this idea, and on the GNU Public License. They had already worked to make other free software, which ran on UNIX machines, but no kernel. (Things like emacs, compilers, X server, window managers). His eventual dream was for the HURD kernel, which would be the foundation for the GNU/HURD operating system. However, development went slowly, and when in 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel, it was quickly paired up with the already available GNU tools to create a complete operating system. Thus, Linux became the kernel used to make the operating system that HURD was meant for. If you go and read the HURD webpage, and gnu.org (Note correct link: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.ht ml ), then you will notice that they talk about the key advantages to HURD, being that it's object oriented (always a plus for easy modification, though often means drop in speed) and several other things that industry techies have critized the linux kernel for not having. Honestly, for Linus and his cohorts to do something drastic to the linux kernel ("Hey, let's modify it so it does...") it would be a project that would take years to develop.
However, I have never tried HURD myself, probably will never even do so unless their development kicks into action quickly like Linux has so they can survive, so I cannot verify anything. All that I know is probably just what I've read in the various FAQ's and on/.
I'm not sure what the currect status of it is, but I remember hearing something about a perl compiler that the perl team has been working on. Often, there are many advantages to interpreted languages, like allowing very dynamic changes at runtime, but a perl compiler would allow static perl scripts to run directly as compiled code, and not need to be interpreted, something which could speed up a lot of cgi sites which constantly use the same perl scripts over and over (hmm.../.)
This would give developers the quickness that perl offers, and the runtime speed that compiled languages offer.
Last weekend, I was on hold trying to get some information on the status of my visor, ordered 9/28. I talked to a very nice CSR, but she spent an hour on the phone trying to find my order. Apparently, they have like 10 different databases, just they haven't merged them yet So, to try to find my order she would have to search through each one with my name, etc, and was unsuccessful for like the 5 or 6 different times she did it with me on the phone. So, it was the case of the missing order, which I've heard other people have.
Apparently, the CSR company is up in Canada, and have a slew of temp's who keep screwing things up for them, messing with the databases, etc. Just seems like they weren't ready for this, and are under a lot of stress.
Anyways, back to my situation, she eventually found it and left a message on my voice mail a day later; who knows where it disappeared to. But hopefully I'll have my blue visor dlx in just about 2 weeks.
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I strongly believe in having multiple personal devices, having the simplest and easiest device for each purpose. Thus, I'm against the digital covergence that everyone is talking about. Sure, your cell phone can take pictures, play MP3s, record GPS logs, send faxes, and brew coffee, but I'm pretty certain it still sucks at all. Furthermore, if one component fails, you have to replace the whole thing. iPods don't pretend to be anything else, and they do a fantastic job at their one purpose, and that's why they're so successful.
If you want the full version movie, go here for the torrent file.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gch/Aqua.mpg.torrent
When RMS started out fighting for free software, he had a dream that one day, we would have a whole operating system based on this idea, and on the GNU Public License. They had already worked to make other free software, which ran on UNIX machines, but no kernel. (Things like emacs, compilers, X server, window managers). His eventual dream was for the HURD kernel, which would be the foundation for the GNU/HURD operating system. However, development went slowly, and when in 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel, it was quickly paired up with the already available GNU tools to create a complete operating system. Thus, Linux became the kernel used to make the operating system that HURD was meant for. If you go and read the HURD webpage, and gnu.org (Note correct link: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.ht ml ), then you will notice that they talk about the key advantages to HURD, being that it's object oriented (always a plus for easy modification, though often means drop in speed) and several other things that industry techies have critized the linux kernel for not having. Honestly, for Linus and his cohorts to do something drastic to the linux kernel ("Hey, let's modify it so it does ...") it would be a project that would take years to develop.
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However, I have never tried HURD myself, probably will never even do so unless their development kicks into action quickly like Linux has so they can survive, so I cannot verify anything. All that I know is probably just what I've read in the various FAQ's and on
I'm not sure what the currect status of it is, but I remember hearing something about a perl compiler that the perl team has been working on. Often, there are many advantages to interpreted languages, like allowing very dynamic changes at runtime, but a perl compiler would allow static perl scripts to run directly as compiled code, and not need to be interpreted, something which could speed up a lot of cgi sites which constantly use the same perl scripts over and over (hmm... /.)
This would give developers the quickness that perl offers, and the runtime speed that compiled languages offer.
Correct if I'm wrong about perlcc please.
The cradles only come in the graphite and ice colors. You get an ice cradle if you ordered a "cute"tech visor, ice, blue ...
Last weekend, I was on hold trying to get some information on the status of my visor, ordered 9/28. I talked to a very nice CSR, but she spent an hour on the phone trying to find my order. Apparently, they have like 10 different databases, just they haven't merged them yet So, to try to find my order she would have to search through each one with my name, etc, and was unsuccessful for like the 5 or 6 different times she did it with me on the phone. So, it was the case of the missing order, which I've heard other people have.
Apparently, the CSR company is up in Canada, and have a slew of temp's who keep screwing things up for them, messing with the databases, etc. Just seems like they weren't ready for this, and are under a lot of stress.
Anyways, back to my situation, she eventually found it and left a message on my voice mail a day later; who knows where it disappeared to. But hopefully I'll have my blue visor dlx in just about 2 weeks.