You're absolutly correct. Sort of. Correct me if I am wrong, but doese'nt WINE give emulate a windows environment and allow the execution of many win32 apps? Also, many newbs and kids still in grade school have a shot at starting out on the alterternatives like OpenOffice or the KOffice suite if they are activly developed and contributed to by companies like Corel.
Becuase it can be integrated with most other programming languages including Perl, Fortran, C, C++, VB ect. This feature should not make it an overpowering choice for Universities, but becuase Waterloo probably does not care much about the academic rather then business value of a language and they could brobably use the money, they will.
Because you have not coded in either, you are forgetting one important point that blows your argument out of the water.
C# is essentially Java with some added features and controlled by MS. Any respectible professor will not give a $shit what the business viability of a product or language is, they want to choose a languages that will teach thier students the fundamentals of programming. Either Java or C# will do, but M$ is offering them money to choose C#. You are correct that C and objective C are outdated and obsolete as a first language, but C# should not be choosen becuase it can be easily integrated with VBScript. That might be a reason it is not choosen.
If P2P networks is the method that 90% of the music traded (illegaly) uses, than shutting them down would effectivly wipe out sharing for non-motivated individuals. BTW, shutting down KaZaA and grokster would not be difficult, they would just sue the $hit out of them, like they did with napster.
Of course, where there is a will there is a way, and many motivated individuals could find alternate means to distribute music and such. As they say on/., information wants to be free.
Rest assured that the com link between the shuttle and mission control already exists. The cost of the webcam and the infrastructure required to stream it is a drop in the bucket, no a molecule in the bucket of the vast expences that the shuttle already racks up.
The Quest Project already provided an early version of journals (blogs) as well as interactive chats and web casts with NASA crew and astronauts. It was primarily aimed at the K-12 audience though.
It will. Unless the frame rate is extremely low, an event of this popularity will quickly consume a 100Mb/sec line. This was the max Ames Research Center (NASA) could host a couple of years ago, but they are probably going with a 3rd party provider. Let's hope they have lots of high bandwith mirrors load balanced and sprikled accross the country. This is the inherernt problem with a popular live event comensing at one specific moment and using at least 20Kb/sec per viewer. I am not saying it won't go off without a hitch, but when I interned at Ames, every event we hosted saturated the 100Mbit/sec line we had that went straight to an OC21 backbone pipe.
I am an athiest as well for many similar reasons. I used to wonder how anyone who questioned anything could ever believe in the traditional Catholic or Christian view of God. Now and especially after reading this article, it apears to me that one does not have to believe in thier God to believe in the teachings of the bible as a collection of stories passed on from generation to generation that help us mortal humans make sence of a world we cannot ultimatley control.
So if control is in the hands of the laws of Physics (as the question posed), God, Buhdda, the Dali Lamma or who/what/ever, it does not really matter as long as you know that you are not it. It is feasibly scientific to believe that Perl is God! I mean it is what is conrolling SlashCode after all.
Is every single wireless or handheld product released, submitted and posted as a story on/. I read/. to hear about the latest and greatest products too, but there seems to be some bias in the handheld and wireless markets. Is Taco getting some kickbacks from the wireless consortium or is this really the fastest growning industry sector right now?
Finally the youngest child stepped forward. "Well dad", he says, "What I want in the whole world is a Mickey Mouse outfit."
So the father buys him SCO Group.
Surprisingly, that troll was not to far from the truth of the origin of the original SCO (Santa Cruz Operation). The company was started 10 miles from where I am sitting right now, by a young buck who decided that he wanted the source to AT&T Bell Lab's little operating system so that he could start his own company around re-packaging the SysV code. His extreemly wealthy father wrote a check and SCO was born.
It boils down to SCO's OpenServer product being more profitable in the enterprise server market than Caldera's Linux distro.
As a Santa Cruz resident and friend of current Caldera^H^H^H^H SCO Group employees, I can say that SCO OpenServer is fine product. We were disapointed when we first learned that Caldera Was aquiring SCO but not planning much integration or cooperation between the two products.
I am glad to hear that OpenServer is being re-released into the wild.
The only annoying thing about the free version is that it stops a netscape messanger mail window from being opened. Even when the user clicks on the mail icon to request the window it gets blocked. I understand the non-free version allows for finer control of what gets blocked, but I have not downloaded it yet.
Tell me about it. I have noticed major news sites like cnn.com and abcnews.com adding pop-up adds to initial page loads in the last 2-3 months. With this recent adoption of the medium by major sites, I don't see the use of this annoying method of advertising slowing down anytime soon.
The only thing we can do is advocate the usage of pop-up blockers and send a message to these advertisers that the public refuses to be annoyed. Now all we need is a pop-up blocker that sends an email to the webmaster of the site everytime a pop-up is blocked;)
I wonder how this will compete with tablet PC's? It seems as though the deciding factors will be the input interfaces, and docking capability.
IMHO, a lightweight small version of your desktop computer that you could take anywhere and dock on your desktop when you are done would a truly usefull device. I would highly simplify the lives of those who must work in more than one chair and desk on a daily basis.
I am sure there will be some practical, easy to administer method of restricting the MAC addresses that access your 80211 connection. 80211 security protocols are getting better (after the first embarassing flops). Besides if nothing else works, install a Palladium "Fritz" chip on your box and restrict your bandwith that way;)
> Ask the countrymen of those ware torn areas if the US needs any new military weapons that will enable them to dominate over any other country in the world.
...still betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what war's about. <snip>
As Patton said - war's not about dying for your country, it's about making some other son of a bitch die for his. </snip>
True. I aplogize, my gf is a socialist and has been filling my head with all sorts of bleeding-heart liberal BS latley. She is from a country (Korea) that has just recently rebuilt itself after a conflict between two superpowers that was not directly welcomed by any Koreans themselves. She henseforth has a perspective re: war that is very pacific and does not take into account the harsh reality that many have to face.
In the game of war, alot of bad stuff is going to go down, but I guess you just have to hope it's the other guy that gets the worst of it.
> Sounds cool to me, but do we really have a problem with US soldiers life loss when we go in to fight a country?
I dunno. Ask a soldier.
It was a rhetorical question. I don't have to ask a foot soldier to know that in the last 3 or 4 major conflicts/peace keeping missions we have been on, the loss of U.S. Life has been minimal at worst. In the Gulf war alone, there were more lives lost to friendly fire than there were to enemy fire! Technology has already allowed us to move past the days of soldiers getting thier limbs blown off in the jungle and into a new era where our military is essentially invincable.
Ask the countrymen of those ware torn areas if the US needs any new military weapons that will enable them to dominate over any other country in the world.
Wired printed an article on this groups work and autonomous battle robots in general about 5 months ago.
Sounds cool to me, but do we really have a problem with US soldiers life loss when we go in to fight a country? I guess the little suckers could go where men could not and do things that men would not...
True. The./ employees probably did not have much else in ther submit box to throw up at this time of night. This site is seriously lame and laking in any cool geek content that./ is so famous for. wtf?
I'm a, pretty sure the Army has munitions far more sophisticated than a bunch of camera capacitors strung together in parrallel today. I don't think anyone has even concieved of what they will have in 20 years. The military has always required the most cutting edge technology to develop weapons. This is not cutting edge.
wierd how this comment was up before the first posts. Maybe Taco is warning sites before they are linked. Too many people with smoking Celerons linked to./ probably complained and forced some policy through.
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You're absolutly correct. Sort of. Correct me if I am wrong, but doese'nt WINE give emulate a windows environment and allow the execution of many win32 apps? Also, many newbs and kids still in grade school have a shot at starting out on the alterternatives like OpenOffice or the KOffice suite if they are activly developed and contributed to by companies like Corel.
Inovate, Don't Imitate.
Becuase it can be integrated with most other programming languages including Perl, Fortran, C, C++, VB ect. This feature should not make it an overpowering choice for Universities, but becuase Waterloo probably does not care much about the academic rather then business value of a language and they could brobably use the money, they will.
Because you have not coded in either, you are forgetting one important point that blows your argument out of the water.
C# is essentially Java with some added features and controlled by MS. Any respectible professor will not give a $shit what the business viability of a product or language is, they want to choose a languages that will teach thier students the fundamentals of programming. Either Java or C# will do, but M$ is offering them money to choose C#. You are correct that C and objective C are outdated and obsolete as a first language, but C# should not be choosen becuase it can be easily integrated with VBScript. That might be a reason it is not choosen.
If P2P networks is the method that 90% of the music traded (illegaly) uses, than shutting them down would effectivly wipe out sharing for non-motivated individuals. BTW, shutting down KaZaA and grokster would not be difficult, they would just sue the $hit out of them, like they did with napster.
/., information wants to be free.
Of course, where there is a will there is a way, and many motivated individuals could find alternate means to distribute music and such. As they say on
... and thier, um stuff, get's traded more heavily than the copywritten music on KaZaA.
The cam has a very slim profile an compared to the enourmous circumference of the tank it is strapped to, it won't make much difference
Rest assured that the com link between the shuttle and mission control already exists. The cost of the webcam and the infrastructure required to stream it is a drop in the bucket, no a molecule in the bucket of the vast expences that the shuttle already racks up.
The Quest Project already provided an early version of journals (blogs) as well as interactive chats and web casts with NASA crew and astronauts. It was primarily aimed at the K-12 audience though.
It will. Unless the frame rate is extremely low, an event of this popularity will quickly consume a 100Mb/sec line. This was the max Ames Research Center (NASA) could host a couple of years ago, but they are probably going with a 3rd party provider. Let's hope they have lots of high bandwith mirrors load balanced and sprikled accross the country. This is the inherernt problem with a popular live event comensing at one specific moment and using at least 20Kb/sec per viewer. I am not saying it won't go off without a hitch, but when I interned at Ames, every event we hosted saturated the 100Mbit/sec line we had that went straight to an OC21 backbone pipe.
I am an athiest as well for many similar reasons. I used to wonder how anyone who questioned anything could ever believe in the traditional Catholic or Christian view of God. Now and especially after reading this article, it apears to me that one does not have to believe in thier God to believe in the teachings of the bible as a collection of stories passed on from generation to generation that help us mortal humans make sence of a world we cannot ultimatley control.
So if control is in the hands of the laws of Physics (as the question posed), God, Buhdda, the Dali Lamma or who/what/ever, it does not really matter as long as you know that you are not it. It is feasibly scientific to believe that Perl is God! I mean it is what is conrolling SlashCode after all.
Is every single wireless or handheld product released, submitted and posted as a story on /. I read /. to hear about the latest and greatest products too, but there seems to be some bias in the handheld and wireless markets. Is Taco getting some kickbacks from the wireless consortium or is this really the fastest growning industry sector right now?
Finally the youngest child stepped forward. "Well dad", he says, "What I want in the whole world is a Mickey Mouse outfit."
So the father buys him SCO Group.
Surprisingly, that troll was not to far from the truth of the origin of the original SCO (Santa Cruz Operation). The company was started 10 miles from where I am sitting right now, by a young buck who decided that he wanted the source to AT&T Bell Lab's little operating system so that he could start his own company around re-packaging the SysV code. His extreemly wealthy father wrote a check and SCO was born.
It boils down to SCO's OpenServer product being more profitable in the enterprise server market than Caldera's Linux distro.
As a Santa Cruz resident and friend of current Caldera^H^H^H^H SCO Group employees, I can say that SCO OpenServer is fine product. We were disapointed when we first learned that Caldera Was aquiring SCO but not planning much integration or cooperation between the two products.
I am glad to hear that OpenServer is being re-released into the wild.
The only annoying thing about the free version is that it stops a netscape messanger mail window from being opened. Even when the user clicks on the mail icon to request the window it gets blocked. I understand the non-free version allows for finer control of what gets blocked, but I have not downloaded it yet.
Tell me about it. I have noticed major news sites like cnn.com and abcnews.com adding pop-up adds to initial page loads in the last 2-3 months. With this recent adoption of the medium by major sites, I don't see the use of this annoying method of advertising slowing down anytime soon.
;)
The only thing we can do is advocate the usage of pop-up blockers and send a message to these advertisers that the public refuses to be annoyed. Now all we need is a pop-up blocker that sends an email to the webmaster of the site everytime a pop-up is blocked
Here is a link to the google cache of the page. Enjoy!
I wonder how this will compete with tablet PC's? It seems as though the deciding factors will be the input interfaces, and docking capability.
IMHO, a lightweight small version of your desktop computer that you could take anywhere and dock on your desktop when you are done would a truly usefull device. I would highly simplify the lives of those who must work in more than one chair and desk on a daily basis.
I am sure there will be some practical, easy to administer method of restricting the MAC addresses that access your 80211 connection. 80211 security protocols are getting better (after the first embarassing flops). Besides if nothing else works, install a Palladium "Fritz" chip on your box and restrict your bandwith that way ;)
> Ask the countrymen of those ware torn areas if the US needs any new military weapons that will enable them to dominate over any other country in the world.
<snip>
As Patton said - war's not about dying for your country, it's about making some other son of a bitch die for his.
</snip>
True. I aplogize, my gf is a socialist and has been filling my head with all sorts of bleeding-heart liberal BS latley. She is from a country (Korea) that has just recently rebuilt itself after a conflict between two superpowers that was not directly welcomed by any Koreans themselves. She henseforth has a perspective re: war that is very pacific and does not take into account the harsh reality that many have to face.
In the game of war, alot of bad stuff is going to go down, but I guess you just have to hope it's the other guy that gets the worst of it.
> Sounds cool to me, but do we really have a problem with US soldiers life loss when we go in to fight a country?
I dunno. Ask a soldier.
It was a rhetorical question. I don't have to ask a foot soldier to know that in the last 3 or 4 major conflicts/peace keeping missions we have been on, the loss of U.S. Life has been minimal at worst. In the Gulf war alone, there were more lives lost to friendly fire than there were to enemy fire! Technology has already allowed us to move past the days of soldiers getting thier limbs blown off in the jungle and into a new era where our military is essentially invincable.
Ask the countrymen of those ware torn areas if the US needs any new military weapons that will enable them to dominate over any other country in the world.
Sounds cool to me, but do we really have a problem with US soldiers life loss when we go in to fight a country? I guess the little suckers could go where men could not and do things that men would not...
True. The ./ employees probably did not have much else in ther submit box to throw up at this time of night. This site is seriously lame and laking in any cool geek content that ./ is so famous for. wtf?
To fend of Karma Whores and slow down Karma Racing probably.
Ohh I hope I get +1 funny for this.....
I'm a, pretty sure the Army has munitions far more sophisticated than a bunch of camera capacitors strung together in parrallel today. I don't think anyone has even concieved of what they will have in 20 years. The military has always required the most cutting edge technology to develop weapons. This is not cutting edge.
wierd how this comment was up before the first posts. Maybe Taco is warning sites before they are linked. Too many people with smoking Celerons linked to ./ probably complained and forced some policy through.