This has to be the stupidest thing on earth. What a stupid reason to lose so much time, money and effort. What a waste. I guess space-teme curving dark matter is not the culprit here. Just a lack of grey matter.
US and Britain should be apologizing to the world for American/English units. What the heck is a cord or a farthing or a slug or a hand or a yard?? Really ridiculous.
I think some of the reason why there are fewer women in general in the community, is because they are not interested in the payoff of being in the community. Open Source still definitely has a hierarchical order. The value function has just shifted from money to ability. A rich hacker is no better than a poor hacker. Those in the community with the best ability are the most revered. It may very well be that the payoff a women would get from having a group of males respect her is a lot less than a male would percieve. And thus a female is less willing to participate because the reward is not as great for her.
By the board I see today, it looks like Kasparov is already dead in the water. He has a pawn and queen, while black has a queen, and two pawns very near the end of the board. Are the rules different...can't black just turn a pawn into another queen or previously captured piece?
After the sweeping statements made in the first three quarters of this article I really expected a detailed, logical, and elaborate explanation. Instead I get none, but the paltry "Sun can do anything Linux can do better".
There are obviously monumental reasons people choose Linux and wouldn't choose Solaris even if it were free:
1) Open Source. Solaris is a great OS, but even IF it were free, it could not expect to match Linux in several important areas. One of the greatest attributes of Open Source software is peer-review. A constant incremental development and revision, always striving for something better. Even if Solaris were "better" now, and released free, Linux, due to its Open Source nature is accelerating rapidly and would in no doubt eclipse it. The open development model also allows for tighter security auditing. Since so many people work on Linux, drivers for the newest whizbang device are usually written very fast.
2) Support. Since no one own Linux, no one company is responsible. Support is available from many places, and is not limited to one company. Many major companies are jumping on the bandwagon and are supporting Linux in some way, either through tech supp, or documentation, or publishing software, etc.
3) Choice. If you want it on Linux you can get it. Linux, due to its development model, is a virtual bazaar (pardon the pun) of hardware and software. Linux supports common, and many uncommon hardware devices. Since it is posix compliant, Linux also support the wealth of pre-existing Unix software, as well as the monumental amount of software that has been developed for it since its inception. Anything you want you can have, or failing that, make yourself and give back to the community.
Freeing solaris would have about the same effect of freeing windows (not to be inflammatory), I think. So it's free...just means you have to pay less to use it.
I confess...I once was subscribed to the HH digest, coincidentally during the period when everybody was flaming Jericho, led by Meinal herself. At the time it was made out that Jericho was some evil rotten person. I'm glad I dumped HH before I got brainwashed.
27,000 mph is pretty trivial compared to the speed of light...I wouldn't expect anything too weird would happen at that speed (27,000 ~ 12 km/s compared to c ~ 300 km/s, about %4 of speed of light).
Some people are talking about dark matter as being the culprit, although dark matter is very elusive and we have no proof of it.
Einstein described how gravity, caused by mass, can warp spacetime, like ripples in a pond. But what about these "ripples"? Could not space-time itself not be infinitely fluid, but instead have a "viscosity"? For instance...take a planet and throw it accross space-time. What you would expect is that it leaves a trail of warped space-time. For how long does this trail exist? Could we perhaps just be stumbling into the wake of residual gravitation? Could space-time be "wrinkled" and we are just stumbling into the wrinkles? Have any claims or hypotheses been made about the "viscosity" (my term) of space-time? Am I just a nut?
What I see is somebody who doesn't know what he is doing and hasn't taken the time to even consult references whining in the public press when he has difficulties installing Linux.
Look...we are supposed to know how our car works, how to replace a tire, how to open the hood, what liquids to put in and filters to replace. How difficult is it to make yourself aware of the few components of your computer (um, monitor, hard drive(s), memory, video card, sound card...5 items). You just paid >$1000 for it right? Maybe you should know what is in it? And maybe you should read the manual that comes with it? I'm amazed at the number of people who are totally dumbstruck and desperate for help, which have never even taken 15 minutes to read the intro in their computer manual.
But I am not denying those people exist. It simply can't be the fault of the computer, or the hardware, or the software, that the user does not take a minimal amount of effort to make themselves familiar with something they just purchased. This "journalist" has been very irresponsible, in my opinion, by airing his gripes originating from ignorance and carelessness, to people who might be scared away because of it.
Well I hate to sound inflammatory but has this guy even attempted in install another OS, like, say, his beloved Windows? Does he even know what a "MO-DEM" is? Man, how does he expect to install ANY operating system if he has NO CLUE what hardware he has??? As if this was Linux's fault, like it should omnisciently know what hardware it is on before it is installed.
Looks like this could be the master processor in a multiprocessor system in which processors can run heterogenous instruction sets...ideal for asynchronous multiprocessing. Whatever it is, it sounds cool.
I'm glad MPEG4 is finally being implemented. I've been waiting for somebody to do something with it. Now if only a good AAC codec would come out, we could drop MP3 (it has a lot of backwards-compatibility cruft) for the better technology.
Um, how is being dictated reality by an artificial intelligence better than being overwhelmed with information and choices? Really what this seems to be suggesting, in a scary Matrix-like tone, is that we need to build some technology which is the intermediary between us and reality (reality being even more technology). I can stand intelligent agents, and expert systems, digesting, refining and suggesting things for me, but I don't want to be purposefully deluded.
Um...despite a long-standing prejudice of "modern" physicians against such things as chiropractice, chiropractice is and has been accepted as valid by the medical sector for quite a while.
Isn't it amazing how doctors are miraculously synthesizing chemicals which are naturally found in all sorts of places in nature and used by all sorts of cultures? Isn't it amazing how the focus is being shifted from incident-repair to lifestyle? "Natural" therapies have worked for a very long time now...the medical sector is only now wising up. Only now that modern medicine can understand HOW some of these things work, is it actually accepting that they do.
If your body was an engine, "modern" medicine would basically be tearing out broken parts and putting in new ones, using duct tape to fix holes here and their, whereas "natural" practices would attempt to keep the engine in shape in the first place. It's the difference between maintanence and repair.
Disclaimer: There are many quacks of many kinds, including "faith" and "psychic" healers, people selling panacea potions, and medical doctors either through ignorance or greed prescribing the wrong treatment...none of these are valid.
Well, my father got carpal tunnel a while ago. He's a winston-smoking, 10k running, eat-death-for-breakfast kind of guy. He cured it with stress balls and a hand grip exercises, with no surgery. I don't think surgery is always required.
Waitasec. If nobody is perfect and God requires perfection to get into heaven, basically you only have a random chance of getting in (God's "grace")...um, what's the incentive for not being sinful in the first place?
OMIGOD Hex is just a way of representing numbers...wait, does this mean NUMBERS themselves are evil! How insidious! Binary, Octal and Decimal must also be evil for hanging with Hex.
The only thing I like being printed are manuals, which I can easily flip through or bookmark without losing screen real estate or time, and whatever misc. stuff I need to use away from the computer (novels, etc.).
Nowadays I'm more prone to visiting http://www.m-w.com than actually finding and taking out my dictionary.
Long-term use materials though are definately better on paper (you can't be bombarded by electrons forever...).
This is supposedly for security of online transactions. I can't see how some trusted party could invade your privacy by simply knowing a unique id. It's just used for encryption while data is on the wire right? If you don't already trust the company, you aren't going to be running the software or transacting with them in the first place.
I still don't get what the big deal is about these unique numbers. First of all, you, as a user, would have to AGREE to physically run the software that is accessing this stuff. This is no different than handling unknown binaries. I don't see how, short of running custom software on the client side, any malicious party could obtain your number. If you're running their software then you have either tacitly acknowledged the authenticity, or it's your fault for being stupid and running code of unknown origin right? I envision a plug-in which perhaps is authenticated itself by a certificate, which a site may require you to download. You download it, and then any time you want to purchase something from that site, the plugin runs and uses your unique hardware key. You still are AWARE of what's going on. You still have to acknowledge the execution of the software.
It's not like any punk can use a daemon dialer and magically obtain your number right?
Like painting our battleships neon pink with zebra stripes (!!) to "psyche-out" the enemy (whuh??).
Or shooting bats with incindiary chemicals attached to them to the Japanese islands, hoping they would set fire to all the wood houses.
The scary thing is, some of our best modern weapons originated from wwii german technology (i have no doubt that we won by an absolute fluke, and that if hitler hadn't invaded russia we'd all be living in a very different world). Jet engine, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, some pretty damn mean tanks, the Z3, the/first/ general-purpose digital computer.
Trivia from PBS: Both Japanes kamikazes and Nazi stormtroopers were loaded up on methamphetimine.
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This has to be the stupidest thing on earth. What a stupid reason to lose so much time, money and effort. What a waste. I guess space-teme curving dark matter is not the culprit here. Just a lack of grey matter.
US and Britain should be apologizing to the world for American/English units. What the heck is a cord or a farthing or a slug or a hand or a yard?? Really ridiculous.
I think some of the reason why there are fewer women in general in the community, is because they are not interested in the payoff of being in the community. Open Source still definitely has a hierarchical order. The value function has just shifted from money to ability. A rich hacker is no better than a poor hacker. Those in the community with the best ability are the most revered. It may very well be that the payoff a women would get from having a group of males respect her is a lot less than a male would percieve. And thus a female is less willing to participate because the reward is not as great for her.
By the board I see today, it looks like Kasparov is already dead in the water. He has a pawn and queen, while black has a queen, and two pawns very near the end of the board. Are the rules different...can't black just turn a pawn into another queen or previously captured piece?
After the sweeping statements made in the first three quarters of this article I really expected a detailed, logical, and elaborate explanation. Instead I get none, but the paltry "Sun can do anything Linux can do better".
There are obviously monumental reasons people choose Linux and wouldn't choose Solaris even if it were free:
1) Open Source. Solaris is a great OS, but even IF it were free, it could not expect to match Linux in several important areas. One of the greatest attributes of Open Source software is peer-review. A constant incremental development and revision, always striving for something better. Even if Solaris were "better" now, and released free, Linux, due to its Open Source nature is accelerating rapidly and would in no doubt eclipse it. The open development model also allows for tighter security auditing. Since so many people work on Linux, drivers for the newest whizbang device are usually written very fast.
2) Support. Since no one own Linux, no one company is responsible. Support is available from many places, and is not limited to one company. Many major companies are jumping on the bandwagon and are supporting Linux in some way, either through tech supp, or documentation, or publishing software, etc.
3) Choice. If you want it on Linux you can get it. Linux, due to its development model, is a virtual bazaar (pardon the pun) of hardware and software. Linux supports common, and many uncommon hardware devices. Since it is posix compliant, Linux also support the wealth of pre-existing Unix software, as well as the monumental amount of software that has been developed for it since its inception. Anything you want you can have, or failing that, make yourself and give back to the community.
Freeing solaris would have about the same effect of freeing windows (not to be inflammatory), I think. So it's free...just means you have to pay less to use it.
Good to see somebody in the media who is rather cluefull and is getting the story straight.
I confess...I once was subscribed to the HH digest, coincidentally during the period when everybody was flaming Jericho, led by Meinal herself. At the time it was made out that Jericho was some evil rotten person. I'm glad I dumped HH before I got brainwashed.
27,000 mph is pretty trivial compared to the speed of light...I wouldn't expect anything too weird would happen at that speed (27,000 ~ 12 km/s compared to c ~ 300 km/s, about %4 of speed of light).
Some people are talking about dark matter as being the culprit, although dark matter is very elusive and we have no proof of it.
Einstein described how gravity, caused by mass, can warp spacetime, like ripples in a pond. But what about these "ripples"? Could not space-time itself not be infinitely fluid, but instead have a "viscosity"? For instance...take a planet and throw it accross space-time. What you would expect is that it leaves a trail of warped space-time. For how long does this trail exist? Could we perhaps just be stumbling into the wake of residual gravitation? Could space-time be "wrinkled" and we are just stumbling into the wrinkles? Have any claims or hypotheses been made about the "viscosity" (my term) of space-time? Am I just a nut?
What I see is somebody who doesn't know what he is doing and hasn't taken the time to even consult references whining in the public press when he has difficulties installing Linux.
Look...we are supposed to know how our car works, how to replace a tire, how to open the hood, what liquids to put in and filters to replace. How difficult is it to make yourself aware of the few components of your computer (um, monitor, hard drive(s), memory, video card, sound card...5 items). You just paid >$1000 for it right? Maybe you should know what is in it? And maybe you should read the manual that comes with it? I'm amazed at the number of people who are totally dumbstruck and desperate for help, which have never even taken 15 minutes to read the intro in their computer manual.
But I am not denying those people exist. It simply can't be the fault of the computer, or the hardware, or the software, that the user does not take a minimal amount of effort to make themselves familiar with something they just purchased. This "journalist" has been very irresponsible, in my opinion, by airing his gripes originating from ignorance and carelessness, to people who might be scared away because of it.
Well I hate to sound inflammatory but has this guy even attempted in install another OS, like, say, his beloved Windows? Does he even know what a "MO-DEM" is? Man, how does he expect to install ANY operating system if he has NO CLUE what hardware he has??? As if this was Linux's fault, like it should omnisciently know what hardware it is on before it is installed.
Looks like this could be the master processor in a multiprocessor system in which processors can run heterogenous instruction sets...ideal for asynchronous multiprocessing. Whatever it is, it sounds cool.
I'm glad MPEG4 is finally being implemented. I've been waiting for somebody to do something with it. Now if only a good AAC codec would come out, we could drop MP3 (it has a lot of backwards-compatibility cruft) for the better technology.
Um, how is being dictated reality by an artificial intelligence better than being overwhelmed with information and choices? Really what this seems to be suggesting, in a scary Matrix-like tone, is that we need to build some technology which is the intermediary between us and reality (reality being even more technology). I can stand intelligent agents, and expert systems, digesting, refining and suggesting things for me, but I don't want to be purposefully deluded.
Um...despite a long-standing prejudice of "modern" physicians against such things as chiropractice, chiropractice is and has been accepted as valid by the medical sector for quite a while.
Isn't it amazing how doctors are miraculously synthesizing chemicals which are naturally found in all sorts of places in nature and used by all sorts of cultures? Isn't it amazing how the focus is being shifted from incident-repair to lifestyle? "Natural" therapies have worked for a very long time now...the medical sector is only now wising up. Only now that modern medicine can understand HOW some of these things work, is it actually accepting that they do.
If your body was an engine, "modern" medicine would basically be tearing out broken parts and putting in new ones, using duct tape to fix holes here and their, whereas "natural" practices would attempt to keep the engine in shape in the first place. It's the difference between maintanence and repair.
Disclaimer: There are many quacks of many kinds, including "faith" and "psychic" healers, people selling panacea potions, and medical doctors either through ignorance or greed prescribing the wrong treatment...none of these are valid.
Well, my father got carpal tunnel a while ago. He's a winston-smoking, 10k running, eat-death-for-breakfast kind of guy. He cured it with stress balls and a hand grip exercises, with no surgery. I don't think surgery is always required.
Waitasec. If nobody is perfect and God requires perfection to get into heaven, basically you only have a random chance of getting in (God's "grace")...um, what's the incentive for not being sinful in the first place?
OMIGOD Hex is just a way of representing numbers...wait, does this mean NUMBERS themselves are evil! How insidious! Binary, Octal and Decimal must also be evil for hanging with Hex.
You mean Jesux 2000 right?
The only thing I like being printed are manuals, which I can easily flip through or bookmark without losing screen real estate or time, and whatever misc. stuff I need to use away from the computer (novels, etc.).
Nowadays I'm more prone to visiting http://www.m-w.com than actually finding and taking out my dictionary.
Long-term use materials though are definately better on paper (you can't be bombarded by electrons forever...).
This is supposedly for security of online transactions. I can't see how some trusted party could invade your privacy by simply knowing a unique id. It's just used for encryption while data is on the wire right? If you don't already trust the company, you aren't going to be running the software or transacting with them in the first place.
I still don't get what the big deal is about these unique numbers. First of all, you, as a user, would have to AGREE to physically run the software that is accessing this stuff. This is no different than handling unknown binaries. I don't see how, short of running custom software on the client side, any malicious party could obtain your number. If you're running their software then you have either tacitly acknowledged the authenticity, or it's your fault for being stupid and running code of unknown origin right? I envision a plug-in which perhaps is authenticated itself by a certificate, which a site may require you to download. You download it, and then any time you want to purchase something from that site, the plugin runs and uses your unique hardware key. You still are AWARE of what's going on. You still have to acknowledge the execution of the software.
It's not like any punk can use a daemon dialer and magically obtain your number right?
We should not fear the future. I reassert to the worried that everything will be ok.
Yeah...the mob was making too much money so big brother decided it should take over. At least mob money went back into the community...heh
Yes we did some silly things during WWII.
/first/ general-purpose digital computer.
Like painting our battleships neon pink with zebra stripes (!!) to "psyche-out" the enemy (whuh??).
Or shooting bats with incindiary chemicals attached to them to the Japanese islands, hoping they would set fire to all the wood houses.
The scary thing is, some of our best modern weapons originated from wwii german technology (i have no doubt that we won by an absolute fluke, and that if hitler hadn't invaded russia we'd all be living in a very different world). Jet engine, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, some pretty damn mean tanks, the Z3, the
Trivia from PBS: Both Japanes kamikazes and Nazi stormtroopers were loaded up on methamphetimine.