I never said anything about changing the CPU...I was replying to a comment that "...the last thing I want to do is recompile my CPU each time there is an upgrade". Recompiling is software, not hardware. And my reply was clearly talking about how Transmeta recompiles their source
I never said it was Open Source hardware. It's not.
Except for having to recompile the code, Transmeta is doing exactly that. You can upgrade your CPU. If they open their code-morphing software, they you could recompile your CPU (code). That would be cool.
[Personally, I think society is collapsing. There are just too many petty bullshit laws to ever enforce them all or even know your breaking many of them. I break a multitude of laws
everyday -- I drive faster than the posted speed limit; I run red lights; I change lanes within 50ft of an intersection; I pass people on the right...]
While I agree with your point, the examples you gave are actually just 'infractions'. They are illegal, but the punishment is very minor. I think they are actually a good thing, since without them people could run red lights (which is something I would not like to see happen). However, while the spirit of the laws is good, the letter is usually not. It's ok to run a red light if it's 4AM an there isn't a damn thing for miles; but it's not ok to run a red light at the peak of rush hour traffic. The only time cops usually enforce 'stupid' laws is when they're either bored (or trying to make quota) or using it as an excuse to stop you (and check you out).
However, there are plenty of truly moronic laws out there that should never be enforced, ever.
Sure, anything's possible. However, I doubt if it would be obvious (even to an EE) and may require extensive modification, e.g. if a microcontroller is used for the control. It's not easy to reverse-engineer hardware (I didn't say it's not possible, just not easy).
Of course, there are people out there with enough time and knowledge to do it and spread the info, but I doubt if an inexperienced or unmotivated person could do it.
From DVD demystified FAQ, "The problem is that CD-Rs (Orange Book Part II) are 'invisible' to DVD laser
wavelength because the dye used in CD-Rs doesn't reflect the beam."
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my experiance with USB shows me that they disconnect real easy... the only change is probably a deeper connection so little kids wont pull the controllers out..
although that may be a bad idea, because now they'll just pull the system down off the tv and damage the 8gb harddrive, oops:)
That's a major reason (IMHO) for making controllers easily removable! Many console games can detect controller removal and automatically pause the game.
Claiming it is Linux just by GNOME is highly erroneous.
Absolutely! In fact, according to the "about the production" section on the movie's website, Gnome is an entire operating system! Wow!
(See last sentence of second paragraph on this page) - "Miguel de Icaza from Mexico, originator of Gnome, another open source operating system." (emphasis mine)
you've done just about everything on a linux box at least once before... and committed it to memory.
That's the thing...I've done a whole lot, but what is the point of committing all the options of 'ls' to memory (for example)? I took a 'quiz' they offered, and it didn't impress me. Someone who really knows what they're doing, IMHO, doesn't memorize crap that they ask, they use the wonderful man pages, info pages, and documentation to figure it out, and for reference. A quick --help or man will refresh your memory, and is much better than trying to memorize everything.
That said, I also noticed that one of the questions on the 'quiz' was about Version 6 UNIX. This is a Linux and GNU test; what the fuck does Version 6 UNIX have to do with Linux or GNU?!? That was another thing that didn't impress me about these tests.
And finally, I read their 'Agreement'. Not exactly in the spirit of Free Software. You can't say anything bad about them, ever, or you lose your 'certification'. They can basically make you do anything, or else you lose your cert. Whatever.
Well, gee... I can't argue that... Man, and people wonder WHY there are limited intelligent posts on this site... Look dude, instead of Trolling for karma, why don't
you work on your social skills.
From your shockingly mature response to his very valid point, I take it that Chagrin was dead-on when he sized up you and your workplace. I sure wouldn't want to work for you. And please, don't pretend that you know what you're talking about, if you don't.
I'm not saying you don't know what you're talking about, but I'm certainly leaning in that direction...not knowing how to spell 'kernel' - that's with an 'e' not 'a' - is IMHO an indication that you don't know thing 1 about Linux. I might be wrong, but I think anyone who has compiled a kernel knows how to spell it. If you haven't compiled a kernel, you don't know what your talking about.
especially visas if I'm going to do an internship abroad.
Right, and like I said planning for an internship isn't the same as planning for work after graduation (although people do get hired at the place they interned at). The field is moving and changing so fast that a company may disappear, or a new one may appear, between now and graduation. Expectations change, so much in computer science changes so fast, that planning to do anything in 2.5 years is IMHO a waste of time; you're going to have to re-evaluate later anyway.
I have to have enough time to correct whatever deficiencies I might have due to a weak computer science curriculum
Don't worry, I learned more in my first 6 months of co-op work than in all 5 years of school. Do an internship if you're worried, you'll learn a lot.
Besides, I like doing long-range plans - it gives my life direction, and I don't get too lost. =)
It's good to plan, but in CS, things change real fast around you...;)
it is pathetic to actually think that there is a profound message in a certain genre of music - especially if its nonsense like punk
music.
Who are you to judge punk music? If you don't even like it, how can you possibly be qualified to judge it at all? You either have little or no exposure to it, or you listen extensively to music which you hate. You tell me which it is. Actually, don't tell me, I don't care.
but please elucidate how music profoundly affects how you live. I'd like to hear.
When the hell did I ever use the word 'profound'? You're the one who used that word. You need to get back in touch with this conversation, I don't think you're paying attention. Please review the posts before replying so you can remember what I have said.
However, if you didn't really mean 'profound', and just want to hear 'how music...affects how you live', then...you obviously are one of those easy-listening people who doesn't really like (or understand) music. And I should state also that I never said 'music affects how I live'. I said it affects my personality, and has given me insights (thought I'd summarize what I've said so you don't have to review).
Non-popular Music specifically is mostly angst ridden and personally boring.
Umm...I don't think we are talking about the same 'Non-popular music'. There's a lot of 'Non-popular music' out there...what I'm thinking of isn't 'angst ridden'...and how can you say all 'Non-popular music' is 'personally boring'? Whatever.
I'd rather listen to something like the latest
radiohead which really doesn't have a specific message - or classical music just for the enjoyment of listening to musical sound.
Ok...what was your point again?
My point was that while some people form their entire personality based on pop music, which is bad, taking some of your personality from music is not bad. And I'm not necessarily talking about the lyrics, there are other parts to music. You choose your music because it fits your personality. You can't tell me that music doesn't affect how you live at all...ok, I take that back, there are some people who only like 'easy listening' or other background music crap, and don't really like music at all...if you're one of those people, I understand now...
In Computer Science, 2.5 years is not 'pretty soon' - it's a long time!!! Think about the state of Comp Sci in mid-1998. A whole lot has changed since then, and more will change by March 2003. You need to wait until at least mid-2002 before planning anything, unless you are talking about doing internships or coops. That's unrelated to when you graduate (and an internship, while good for experience, will postpone your graduation date).
The pop culture people look happy, but they aren't. They need
music and icons to tell them who to be.
I don't like pop (at all), but I don't think learning from music is all bad. There are plenty of songs I can think of which have given me insights, unlike pop - which is only about teenage sex/love, money, or how tough it is to be a teenager.
This isn't "advanced technology" they are contributing for the
good of the world, it's messy legacy functionality they want to get into a publically
maintained software base so that they don't have to pay for software maintenance
for their legacy customers.
Hey now, that's not completely true. There may be some attempts to add legacy crap to the kernel, but the Linux community isn't going to accept crap into the source tree. A lot of the work we're doing is fixing bugs and adding features. Some features are accepted, others aren't. Some features have to be maintained in our own kernel tree, precisely because they support legacy crap, like you said. But those features never make it into the main kernel. I wish this attitude of 'IBM can't do anything good' would go away, it's not very helpful.
I do agree that some parts of IBM are exactly as you describe. IBM's a big company, and has a lot of different people with a lot of different perspectives and motivations.
IBM's knocking on Linux's door. Don't let the opportunity get shot down. IBM's a business, while Linux was NOT developed under a
business model. Find a bridge, and Linux will have the oportunity to join up with one of the biggest names in the computer industry.
No need to find a bridge, I can tell you, from what I've seen and heard, IBM is building a 10 lane highway. The connection is there and is not going away anytime soon.
Java is damn good at memory management - but even more suprising is JNI!
Maybe it's the specific JVM I'm using, but if I get sloppy in JNI the JVM crashes hard. That can be frustrating at first, since it'll crash at the drop of a hat, but after a while you realize it's good, since it keeps memory problems out. It even crashes when you exit a JNI method without free()ing all malloc()ed memory. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide much info on what happened. The bad part is forgetting to DeleteLocalRef()s - they can bloat up the JVM real fast.
Now, W is talking to Z, and since Z was presumably smart enough to supply a question it can answer, W will never know that its speaking to Z instead of X.
Not entirely true.
If you are using SSH to connect to a machine, the automated key exchange and authentication may be 'impossible' to do without being vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. However, once you've logged in, compare the/etc/ssh_host_key.pub to the ~/.ssh/known_hosts key you just got; if they're different, watch out! It would have to be a very smart sniffer program to realize 'cat/etc/ssh_host_key.pub' and all other variations should get the 'fake' key substituted in.
In a study of cultures, regions, and people who live exceptionally long, the only common factor found was starvation. The less you eat, the longer you live.
If only he had known the horrendous abuses most words in the english language (such as e-'commerce', e-'store', e-'toys', e-'bay') would later suffer as a result of adding that 'e' to the word 'mail'...
I think it is
very unlikely they will be able to do it cheaply, which is just as important as being able to do it at all. Otherwise, this technology will be of interest only to the military.
Don't forget that the military has played a significant role in almost all technology's birth to date. They have the (massive) funds to research fields without any saleable product in sight. The Internet (ARPANET), for example. Nuclear power. Rocket science. Jets. If they research superconducting enough, they may find a way (or help someone else find a way) to mass-produce it cheaply. In peacetime, really the only thing a military force is good for...!
I'm spending more of the time debugging and cleaning things up than I do when I'm first writing the code.
No offense, but if that's the case you're not doing it right. You need to do some design before you code, or at least do a prototype that you throw away. Coding straight out of the gate will only lead to endless nights of debugging massive piles of spaghetti code.
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You're not changing the CPU
I never said anything about changing the CPU...I was replying to a comment that "...the last thing I want to do is recompile my CPU each time there is an upgrade". Recompiling is software, not hardware. And my reply was clearly talking about how Transmeta recompiles their source
I never said it was Open Source hardware. It's not.
Would it really be that bad?
Except for having to recompile the code, Transmeta is doing exactly that. You can upgrade your CPU. If they open their code-morphing software, they you could recompile your CPU (code). That would be cool.
[Personally, I think society is collapsing. There are just too many petty bullshit laws to ever enforce them all or even know your breaking many of them. I break a multitude of laws everyday -- I drive faster than the posted speed limit; I run red lights; I change lanes within 50ft of an intersection; I pass people on the right...]
While I agree with your point, the examples you gave are actually just 'infractions'. They are illegal, but the punishment is very minor. I think they are actually a good thing, since without them people could run red lights (which is something I would not like to see happen). However, while the spirit of the laws is good, the letter is usually not. It's ok to run a red light if it's 4AM an there isn't a damn thing for miles; but it's not ok to run a red light at the peak of rush hour traffic. The only time cops usually enforce 'stupid' laws is when they're either bored (or trying to make quota) or using it as an excuse to stop you (and check you out).
However, there are plenty of truly moronic laws out there that should never be enforced, ever.
Sure, anything's possible. However, I doubt if it would be obvious (even to an EE) and may require extensive modification, e.g. if a microcontroller is used for the control. It's not easy to reverse-engineer hardware (I didn't say it's not possible, just not easy).
Of course, there are people out there with enough time and knowledge to do it and spread the info, but I doubt if an inexperienced or unmotivated person could do it.
I had to refresh the page when I saw the top headline...
I could have sworn I'd seen it before...
From DVD demystified FAQ, "The problem is that CD-Rs (Orange Book Part II) are 'invisible' to DVD laser wavelength because the dye used in CD-Rs doesn't reflect the beam."
See the section about DVD and CDR.
my experiance with USB shows me that they disconnect real easy... the only change is probably a deeper connection so little kids wont pull the controllers out.. although that may be a bad idea, because now they'll just pull the system down off the tv and damage the 8gb harddrive, oops :)
That's a major reason (IMHO) for making controllers easily removable! Many console games can detect controller removal and automatically pause the game.
Claiming it is Linux just by GNOME is highly erroneous.
Absolutely! In fact, according to the "about the production" section on the movie's website, Gnome is an entire operating system! Wow!
(See last sentence of second paragraph on this page) - "Miguel de Icaza from Mexico, originator of Gnome, another open source operating system." (emphasis mine)
you've done just about everything on a linux box at least once before... and committed it to memory.
That's the thing...I've done a whole lot, but what is the point of committing all the options of 'ls' to memory (for example)? I took a 'quiz' they offered, and it didn't impress me. Someone who really knows what they're doing, IMHO, doesn't memorize crap that they ask, they use the wonderful man pages, info pages, and documentation to figure it out, and for reference. A quick --help or man will refresh your memory, and is much better than trying to memorize everything.
That said, I also noticed that one of the questions on the 'quiz' was about Version 6 UNIX. This is a Linux and GNU test; what the fuck does Version 6 UNIX have to do with Linux or GNU?!? That was another thing that didn't impress me about these tests.
And finally, I read their 'Agreement'. Not exactly in the spirit of Free Software. You can't say anything bad about them, ever, or you lose your 'certification'. They can basically make you do anything, or else you lose your cert. Whatever.
Well, gee... I can't argue that... Man, and people wonder WHY there are limited intelligent posts on this site... Look dude, instead of Trolling for karma, why don't you work on your social skills.
From your shockingly mature response to his very valid point, I take it that Chagrin was dead-on when he sized up you and your workplace. I sure wouldn't want to work for you. And please, don't pretend that you know what you're talking about, if you don't.
I'm not saying you don't know what you're talking about, but I'm certainly leaning in that direction...not knowing how to spell 'kernel' - that's with an 'e' not 'a' - is IMHO an indication that you don't know thing 1 about Linux. I might be wrong, but I think anyone who has compiled a kernel knows how to spell it. If you haven't compiled a kernel, you don't know what your talking about.
especially visas if I'm going to do an internship abroad.
Right, and like I said planning for an internship isn't the same as planning for work after graduation (although people do get hired at the place they interned at). The field is moving and changing so fast that a company may disappear, or a new one may appear, between now and graduation. Expectations change, so much in computer science changes so fast, that planning to do anything in 2.5 years is IMHO a waste of time; you're going to have to re-evaluate later anyway.
I have to have enough time to correct whatever deficiencies I might have due to a weak computer science curriculum
Don't worry, I learned more in my first 6 months of co-op work than in all 5 years of school. Do an internship if you're worried, you'll learn a lot.
Besides, I like doing long-range plans - it gives my life direction, and I don't get too lost. =)
It's good to plan, but in CS, things change real fast around you...;)
Good luck!
it is pathetic to actually think that there is a profound message in a certain genre of music - especially if its nonsense like punk music.
Who are you to judge punk music? If you don't even like it, how can you possibly be qualified to judge it at all? You either have little or no exposure to it, or you listen extensively to music which you hate. You tell me which it is. Actually, don't tell me, I don't care.
but please elucidate how music profoundly affects how you live. I'd like to hear.
When the hell did I ever use the word 'profound'? You're the one who used that word. You need to get back in touch with this conversation, I don't think you're paying attention. Please review the posts before replying so you can remember what I have said.
However, if you didn't really mean 'profound', and just want to hear 'how music...affects how you live', then...you obviously are one of those easy-listening people who doesn't really like (or understand) music. And I should state also that I never said 'music affects how I live'. I said it affects my personality, and has given me insights (thought I'd summarize what I've said so you don't have to review).
Non-popular Music specifically is mostly angst ridden and personally boring.
Umm...I don't think we are talking about the same 'Non-popular music'. There's a lot of 'Non-popular music' out there...what I'm thinking of isn't 'angst ridden'...and how can you say all 'Non-popular music' is 'personally boring'? Whatever.
I'd rather listen to something like the latest radiohead which really doesn't have a specific message - or classical music just for the enjoyment of listening to musical sound.
Ok...what was your point again?
My point was that while some people form their entire personality based on pop music, which is bad, taking some of your personality from music is not bad. And I'm not necessarily talking about the lyrics, there are other parts to music. You choose your music because it fits your personality. You can't tell me that music doesn't affect how you live at all...ok, I take that back, there are some people who only like 'easy listening' or other background music crap, and don't really like music at all...if you're one of those people, I understand now...
since I'll be graduating pretty soon - March 2003
In Computer Science, 2.5 years is not 'pretty soon' - it's a long time!!! Think about the state of Comp Sci in mid-1998. A whole lot has changed since then, and more will change by March 2003. You need to wait until at least mid-2002 before planning anything, unless you are talking about doing internships or coops. That's unrelated to when you graduate (and an internship, while good for experience, will postpone your graduation date).
The pop culture people look happy, but they aren't. They need music and icons to tell them who to be.
I don't like pop (at all), but I don't think learning from music is all bad. There are plenty of songs I can think of which have given me insights, unlike pop - which is only about teenage sex/love, money, or how tough it is to be a teenager.
This isn't "advanced technology" they are contributing for the good of the world, it's messy legacy functionality they want to get into a publically maintained software base so that they don't have to pay for software maintenance for their legacy customers.
Hey now, that's not completely true. There may be some attempts to add legacy crap to the kernel, but the Linux community isn't going to accept crap into the source tree. A lot of the work we're doing is fixing bugs and adding features. Some features are accepted, others aren't. Some features have to be maintained in our own kernel tree, precisely because they support legacy crap, like you said. But those features never make it into the main kernel. I wish this attitude of 'IBM can't do anything good' would go away, it's not very helpful.
I do agree that some parts of IBM are exactly as you describe. IBM's a big company, and has a lot of different people with a lot of different perspectives and motivations.
But hey, judge the patch, not the person.
Disclaimer: I'm an IBMer.
IBM's knocking on Linux's door. Don't let the opportunity get shot down. IBM's a business, while Linux was NOT developed under a business model. Find a bridge, and Linux will have the oportunity to join up with one of the biggest names in the computer industry.
No need to find a bridge, I can tell you, from what I've seen and heard, IBM is building a 10 lane highway. The connection is there and is not going away anytime soon.
Java is damn good at memory management - but even more suprising is JNI!
Maybe it's the specific JVM I'm using, but if I get sloppy in JNI the JVM crashes hard. That can be frustrating at first, since it'll crash at the drop of a hat, but after a while you realize it's good, since it keeps memory problems out. It even crashes when you exit a JNI method without free()ing all malloc()ed memory. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide much info on what happened. The bad part is forgetting to DeleteLocalRef()s - they can bloat up the JVM real fast.
Now, W is talking to Z, and since Z was presumably smart enough to supply a question it can answer, W will never know that its speaking to Z instead of X.
/etc/ssh_host_key.pub to the ~/.ssh/known_hosts key you just got; if they're different, watch out! It would have to be a very smart sniffer program to realize 'cat /etc/ssh_host_key.pub' and all other variations should get the 'fake' key substituted in.
Not entirely true.
If you are using SSH to connect to a machine, the automated key exchange and authentication may be 'impossible' to do without being vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. However, once you've logged in, compare the
In a study of cultures, regions, and people who live exceptionally long, the only common factor found was starvation. The less you eat, the longer you live.
If only he had known the horrendous abuses most words in the english language (such as e-'commerce', e-'store', e-'toys', e-'bay') would later suffer as a result of adding that 'e' to the word 'mail'...
eDamn him!
I think it is very unlikely they will be able to do it cheaply, which is just as important as being able to do it at all. Otherwise, this technology will be of interest only to the military.
Don't forget that the military has played a significant role in almost all technology's birth to date. They have the (massive) funds to research fields without any saleable product in sight. The Internet (ARPANET), for example. Nuclear power. Rocket science. Jets. If they research superconducting enough, they may find a way (or help someone else find a way) to mass-produce it cheaply. In peacetime, really the only thing a military force is good for...!
I work in PSG, which loses more money every year than all other IBM groups combined.
I'll be suprised if IBM continues to sell desktops for much longer. Laptops are somewhat more profitable, though.
I'm spending more of the time debugging and cleaning things up than I do when I'm first writing the code.
No offense, but if that's the case you're not doing it right. You need to do some design before you code, or at least do a prototype that you throw away. Coding straight out of the gate will only lead to endless nights of debugging massive piles of spaghetti code.
If a thousand thousand slimy things cannot speak their own language, they're still wrong.
Language is defined by the people who speak it, not the scholars who profess to define it.