The original poster wasn't just talking about using the code "in bombs." The primary thing the Sandia people are doing with this code is simulating nuclear explosions. The code doesn't have to actually be in the bomb to have helped kill the people. It could be used on the supercomputer that ran the simulations that allowed the designing of the bomb.
Also, I worked in defense contracting for Lockheed for the Aegis defense system. Of course the guided missles (like Tomahawks) don't run anything even remotely similar to what we would call an "OS". There aren't different levels of apps running on top of each other, theres just dedicated circuitry hardware designed to do what the missle needs to do. Running something like linux or even QNX would be utterly assinine.
I'm currently working on a system to make my wearable PC location aware inside the building here at work by placing small IR transmitters around the place. The wearable senses the signal, looks at the modulation, and launches appropriate apps for the context (ie a notetaking app comes up when I walk into the conference room). With this, it could be much easier to implement, just replace a ballast in a light in the appropriate area instead of worrying about getting power to your IR transmitter. Cool.
Remember the Super GameBoy, that let you play gameboy games on your SNES? I've seen similar things advertised for the N64 (third party unlicensed type dealies), no clue how well they work. With how much Nintendo is hyping the connection of the GBA to the GameCube, I think it's quite likely there will be a CubeBoy or some such adapter that allows you to play your GBA games on your Cube.
You Have Been Trolled, people, the real CommanderTaco, the owner of slashdot, has user ID #1. An imposter account is inherantly mistrustworthy, and should certainly not be moderated up as informative when a known imposter claims to have information from an unnamed, unsubstantiated source
not really... the command line is just a program that runs on top of the kernel. It's not strictly neccesary; you can have a gui app running with no shells in sight. That said, the nice thing about using linux on a PDA is that you still have a commandline available if you want it. It's not dependant by any means, though.
Linux PDA builds are not CL-dependant at all. And none run a big bloated X either. Most run W or the embedded version of graphics toolkits, like QT. And those that do run X run something like Xfbdev, which weighs in at 600KB. There's also a linux version of graphitti called Xscribble which most find to be superior to graphitti.
Linux on PDA's is nothing like linux on the desktop. This is actually one confusion that makes me think maybe the whole GNU/Linux thing would be a good idea after all. Linux is just the kernel. Take away the bloat of most distributions, trim the kernel way down, and you have an graphical interface in a few hundred KB, but with the freedom to port most of your linux apps if you should have the desire. I know of at least one person who's using this flexibility to take advantage of the low power draw of an IPAQ to build a wearable computer. If the applications like PIM's were up to par with what's available for palm, linux would have the potential to be MUCH more useful on a PDA.
Exactly. I was not trying to be "irritating" at all, I was trying to make a point that the poster's assertion was flat-out wrong. There's a certain information bandwidth for any given device which can not be exceeded, and while the original poster was correct in saying that small displays can convey more information than one would expect, his calculator analogy was dead wrong. Like you said, it is the context which holds the information, not the display.
As an example, look at a regular 10 digit display calculator. In the hands of a mathmatician, it can convey MASSIVE ammounts of information in a meaningful way.
I'm curious exactly what massive amounts of information a mathematician is presenting here. I've worked pretty closely with a lot of mathematicians and from what I've seen most of what they do is in high-level symbolics. How do you express a theorem or a vector space or even an integral from calculus one on a 10-digit text display? While I agree that small displays can be very useful and if presented well can convey a lot of information, I believe you analogy of a mathematician using a calculator screen is flawed. Frankly, numbers tend to be of a lot less importance to mathematicians than theorems and symbologies.
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come now... as someone who was an all-star in little league, I can verify that baseball is indeed NOT a sport. It's an excercise in learning to nap for three hours while standing up (in the case of the players) or sitting on a hard uncomfortable bench (for the spectators (and some players too I suppose))
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AFAIK the main reason you need this kind of protection is if you are attempting to avoid voilating contracts, such as NDA's or similar things you might sign to look at the code. I know if my university required me to use the code to windows, I would sign absolutely nothing giving any rights up to microsoft
Voyager is more advanced than anything that NASA has produced lately.
Based on what criteria?
Well, there's that hologram doctor... and the hot babe with the retractible ass ticklers in her arms... and its micro-wormhole generating technology that lets it communicate far further distances than simple subspace...
No, actually, you should say "There's plenty of gravity but since the station is in freefall, the astronauts don't feel its effects, because the station is accelerating due to gravity just as much as everything on it is." Remember your science indeed.
That's because I'm not a programmer. I'm a physicist. Code is just a tool for me, to run simulations and test theorys. My main concern is the science. Code comes a distant second to that.
It always makes me laugh when I read one of these yahoo stories with glaring grammatical and/or spelling errors. Slashdot is one thing; it's a weblog that's SUPPOSED to be a buncha nerds arguing over crap and being opinionated. Yahoo (and Cnet, which is where the article actually came from), however, are attempting to be credible news sources.
Sentences like "Dell agreed to replace the memory was replaced free of charge." do not help the crediblity of Yahoo and Cnet.
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I am not a grammar nazi. It's quite likely that this post contains grammatical errors. I, however, am not claiming to be a news source. Your mileage may vary. Removing this screw may void your warranty. MSRP based on standard package. Power windows, air, and seats extra. #include
Perhaps some of the changes they made were coded ok but not documented well. I write code in-house all day, and documentation is something I usually add as an afterthought, once I actually figure out how to make the blasted thing work. I then go back and add comments describing what I did do, rather than revising old comments that stated what I intended to do, to reflect what REALLY happened
how is this offtopic? I specifically mention one of the internet freebies that now costs a significant amount. If I were any more on topic, I would be the article submitter. Moderators on crack today, I swear.
Its not like I HAVE to run the latest bleeding edge, I just choose to. I can quit any time, I swear.
apt-get dist-upgrade Honest. I am in complete control
apt-get dist-upgrade I can quit any time I want, man, I just do it for fun. It's recreational, man!
apt-get dist-upgrade
The problem I get alot with my DSL when I get the quick disconnect isn't with the actual DSL link. It's with the verizon PPPoE authentication. Sometimes it will lose this authentication after the link retrains, and I have to reconnect the PPPoE link. I've build a simple wget script to connect to my router (seperate from the modem, it's something I bought to do NAT connection sharing) and reconnect the PPPoE link. This is a major pain in the ass though, when my roommate gets a call or something. We've both taking to using our cells for most calls we make just to avoid dropping our connection. I really miss when I had SDSL on a seperate wire pair. It was slower, but didn't disconnect 2-3 times a day
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The original poster wasn't just talking about using the code "in bombs." The primary thing the Sandia people are doing with this code is simulating nuclear explosions. The code doesn't have to actually be in the bomb to have helped kill the people. It could be used on the supercomputer that ran the simulations that allowed the designing of the bomb.
Also, I worked in defense contracting for Lockheed for the Aegis defense system. Of course the guided missles (like Tomahawks) don't run anything even remotely similar to what we would call an "OS". There aren't different levels of apps running on top of each other, theres just dedicated circuitry hardware designed to do what the missle needs to do. Running something like linux or even QNX would be utterly assinine.
block javascript popups on page open and close.
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click on an image to examine it
Mozilla, browser for the next generation in pr0n... heh
I'm currently working on a system to make my wearable PC location aware inside the building here at work by placing small IR transmitters around the place. The wearable senses the signal, looks at the modulation, and launches appropriate apps for the context (ie a notetaking app comes up when I walk into the conference room). With this, it could be much easier to implement, just replace a ballast in a light in the appropriate area instead of worrying about getting power to your IR transmitter. Cool.
no, copylefted
Remember the Super GameBoy, that let you play gameboy games on your SNES? I've seen similar things advertised for the N64 (third party unlicensed type dealies), no clue how well they work. With how much Nintendo is hyping the connection of the GBA to the GameCube, I think it's quite likely there will be a CubeBoy or some such adapter that allows you to play your GBA games on your Cube.
You Have Been Trolled, people, the real CommanderTaco, the owner of slashdot, has user ID #1. An imposter account is inherantly mistrustworthy, and should certainly not be moderated up as informative when a known imposter claims to have information from an unnamed, unsubstantiated source
not really... the command line is just a program that runs on top of the kernel. It's not strictly neccesary; you can have a gui app running with no shells in sight. That said, the nice thing about using linux on a PDA is that you still have a commandline available if you want it. It's not dependant by any means, though.
Um, no.
Linux PDA builds are not CL-dependant at all. And none run a big bloated X either. Most run W or the embedded version of graphics toolkits, like QT. And those that do run X run something like Xfbdev, which weighs in at 600KB. There's also a linux version of graphitti called Xscribble which most find to be superior to graphitti.
Linux on PDA's is nothing like linux on the desktop. This is actually one confusion that makes me think maybe the whole GNU/Linux thing would be a good idea after all. Linux is just the kernel. Take away the bloat of most distributions, trim the kernel way down, and you have an graphical interface in a few hundred KB, but with the freedom to port most of your linux apps if you should have the desire. I know of at least one person who's using this flexibility to take advantage of the low power draw of an IPAQ to build a wearable computer. If the applications like PIM's were up to par with what's available for palm, linux would have the potential to be MUCH more useful on a PDA.
Exactly. I was not trying to be "irritating" at all, I was trying to make a point that the poster's assertion was flat-out wrong. There's a certain information bandwidth for any given device which can not be exceeded, and while the original poster was correct in saying that small displays can convey more information than one would expect, his calculator analogy was dead wrong. Like you said, it is the context which holds the information, not the display.
As an example, look at a regular 10 digit display calculator. In the hands of a mathmatician, it can convey MASSIVE ammounts of information in a meaningful way.
I'm curious exactly what massive amounts of information a mathematician is presenting here. I've worked pretty closely with a lot of mathematicians and from what I've seen most of what they do is in high-level symbolics. How do you express a theorem or a vector space or even an integral from calculus one on a 10-digit text display? While I agree that small displays can be very useful and if presented well can convey a lot of information, I believe you analogy of a mathematician using a calculator screen is flawed. Frankly, numbers tend to be of a lot less importance to mathematicians than theorems and symbologies.
come now... as someone who was an all-star in little league, I can verify that baseball is indeed NOT a sport. It's an excercise in learning to nap for three hours while standing up (in the case of the players) or sitting on a hard uncomfortable bench (for the spectators (and some players too I suppose))
AFAIK the main reason you need this kind of protection is if you are attempting to avoid voilating contracts, such as NDA's or similar things you might sign to look at the code. I know if my university required me to use the code to windows, I would sign absolutely nothing giving any rights up to microsoft
Well, there's that hologram doctor... and the hot babe with the retractible ass ticklers in her arms... and its micro-wormhole generating technology that lets it communicate far further distances than simple subspace...
No, actually, you should say "There's plenty of gravity but since the station is in freefall, the astronauts don't feel its effects, because the station is accelerating due to gravity just as much as everything on it is." Remember your science indeed.
Heh. I have a button on my gnome taskbar to do the same thing. My only major netscape lockups are the java applets at pr0n sites, tho
So it's time for RMS to start using "GNU/GNU/Linux".
Shouldn't that be GNUNU/Linux?
or GNUNUNU/linux
or for you mathematicians:
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GNU/Linux
That's because I'm not a programmer. I'm a physicist. Code is just a tool for me, to run simulations and test theorys. My main concern is the science. Code comes a distant second to that.
It always makes me laugh when I read one of these yahoo stories with glaring grammatical and/or spelling errors. Slashdot is one thing; it's a weblog that's SUPPOSED to be a buncha nerds arguing over crap and being opinionated. Yahoo (and Cnet, which is where the article actually came from), however, are attempting to be credible news sources.
Sentences like "Dell agreed to replace the memory was replaced free of charge." do not help the crediblity of Yahoo and Cnet.
Disclaimer:
I am not a grammar nazi. It's quite likely that this post contains grammatical errors. I, however, am not claiming to be a news source. Your mileage may vary. Removing this screw may void your warranty. MSRP based on standard package. Power windows, air, and seats extra. #include
Perhaps some of the changes they made were coded ok but not documented well. I write code in-house all day, and documentation is something I usually add as an afterthought, once I actually figure out how to make the blasted thing work. I then go back and add comments describing what I did do, rather than revising old comments that stated what I intended to do, to reflect what REALLY happened
ah good call...
I forget that because I have a cron script running an update for me every day.
how is this offtopic? I specifically mention one of the internet freebies that now costs a significant amount. If I were any more on topic, I would be the article submitter. Moderators on crack today, I swear.
Its not like I HAVE to run the latest bleeding edge, I just choose to. I can quit any time, I swear.
apt-get dist-upgrade
Honest. I am in complete control
apt-get dist-upgrade
I can quit any time I want, man, I just do it for fun. It's recreational, man!
apt-get dist-upgrade
that there's still plenty of free pr0n.
and I'm also glad I got in on x10.com's free firecracker kits which now go for 49.99
management is more than willing to work with us.
:)
You almost had me fooled up until that line...
C'mon, editors, April fools has been gone for nearly a month now... LET IT GO!
The problem I get alot with my DSL when I get the quick disconnect isn't with the actual DSL link. It's with the verizon PPPoE authentication. Sometimes it will lose this authentication after the link retrains, and I have to reconnect the PPPoE link. I've build a simple wget script to connect to my router (seperate from the modem, it's something I bought to do NAT connection sharing) and reconnect the PPPoE link. This is a major pain in the ass though, when my roommate gets a call or something. We've both taking to using our cells for most calls we make just to avoid dropping our connection. I really miss when I had SDSL on a seperate wire pair. It was slower, but didn't disconnect 2-3 times a day