On the recently developed UCSC Student Portal, I added an easter egg into the site search that automatically changed the search context to the "Jargon File" if someone typed "Jargon: " before thier search string. Pretty hard to find, but I mostly wanted there as a way for me (and other C.S. majors) to search the Jargon File without having to add it as an option in the drop down list and have the heads breathing down my neck for it.
I am glad someone else is finally raising this question. I think that users do become used to the done-for-you paradigm that Windows and GUI's have pushed on society. It trains people to turn off thier brains when they sit in front of a computer. That is a bad thing for the progress and evolution of computing in general. The easier and more idiot-proof developers are forced to make thier applications, the slower the general technology advances in general. That is not to say that some areas of computing do not advace at a rapid rate. They just don't involve wide bases of end users as a general rule.
As a web page developer for the past 5 years, I have gotten a little tired of catering to the ADD attitude that so many web surfers have. It is frustrating to have to dumb down an application just becuase more than 4 sentances cannot be written on it's usage.
God save the CLI and other clunky, complicated interfaces that force people to think about what they are doing before they do it. I would like to see the "monkey wanna bannana" user attitude fall to the wayside in another 10 years or so.
Maybe this will happen as technology advaces and becomes more necessary to live our daily lives. I think it will. Just think about how much more talented your average 15 yearold H4X0R than you when you were 15.
Why the hell does Linus want to give away his operating system? Becuase it benifits the greater good. The computing industry as a whole would benifit from knowing more about thier server clustering and network load balancing techniques. I am not asking for a guided tour, just a little snip about what makes them the bomb shitiz.
Seriously. This was a pretty technically light article considering how many secrets Google posseses that amazes the $hit out of everyone. The page ranking heuristics the network and clustering technology. This company is getting as tight lipped as M$ regarding thier really amazing stuff. Google just went down a couple of points in my book, but I guess they cannot even hint at what they are really doing in Palo Alto witout having some fsking search portal try to snag thier technology.
I think alot of the popularity in it's hay day was the geeky plots, sets and characters which are outdated by today's standards, but still very cool to even someone who did not watch the show in it's original run.
Maybe the producers are hoping that if they modernize all of the technology, it will appeal to a whole new generation of geeks which not get quite so much enjoyment out of PDP-11 and VAX vintage stuff.
Why can't we merely rely on the private sector to develop sound products? Why don't we fight for LESS government and LESS government intervention? How much control over your daily lives do you want the government to have?
Becuase alot of companies are too busy trying to be first to market and not really interested making secure bullet-proof products. This persons company is obviously trying to make WEP solutions safe in thier building and see FIPS certification as the most reliable means of ensuring that securtiy. I only wish M$ software had to undergo these sort of goverment tests!
The advantage with having the government certify your transport protocols is that you have _one_ central organization that has _one_ standard and not a mess of differing ways of transfering data just to get around patents and proprietary closed means.
Why the W3C or any other standards organization? Becuase open sensible standards make sence and benifit everyone who participates.
I think the oly thing we had to worry about when the last democrat was in office was phone sex not phone taps. I would think the Republicans would be more pre-disposed to taking advantage of this new amount of intelligence
I agree, unless you are discussing bomb plots or the location of Al'Queda operatives, the NSA's voice recognition software is not likley to red flag your call anyway.
On the other hand, I hope this post isn't red-flagged for containing the above keywords.
Yes, it is odd. The server was not replying when I went back to it. I had the whole thing in my clipboard becuase I was one of the fp's, and just felt like doing something to help everyone out. You should try that sometime (helping others), this would be alot better than posting a bunch of negative, flaming comments.
IN a world first, Melbourne scientists have successfully grown an organ from stem cells.
A team from Monash Medical School grew a functioning thymus, a small organ that is critical to the immune system. Human trials could begin within two years. Stem cells are the body's building blocks and have unlimited capacity to grow and replace all the cells within a particular tissue or organ.
"When I realised what we had finally done after 15 years of research, I went weak at the knees," Professor Richard Boyd said.
He said understanding the thymus, located near the heart, was the holy grail of immunology.
Professor Boyd believes the discovery will be an important part of a cure for many diseases of the immune system such as cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and diabetes. It should also help prevent rejection in people who have an organ transplant.
Professor Boyd referred to the thymus as the fountain of youth.
"Without a functioning immune system you get a disease called death,"he said.
"This organ, along with bone marrow, is the engine room of the immune system.
"It is the key to good health because without it, the body has no protection against any viruses."
Professor Boyd said despite its importance for immunity, the thymus went into hibernation naturally once humans reach puberty.
"This may be why many auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and cancers and infections increase in adults."
Professor Boyd said his team, led by Dr Jason Gill, was working on rebuilding the immune system by "rebooting" the thymus into action.
The Monash scientists put thymus stem cells into the kidney cavity of a mouse.
"To see the thymus grow, complete and working, was exciting," Professor Boyd said.
"We were looking at the missing link, that final piece of the jigsaw."
Professor Boyd said the mouse immune system was similar to a human's.
"The clinical trials indicate that the human thymus responds in the same way as a mouse, which is why we are confident this will translate very easily to humans," he said.
The thymus produces, educates and distributes special white cells called T lymphocytes (T-cells) which help to controlthe immune system and fight infection.
But T-cells are destroyed when cancer patients undergo chemotherapy and also by the AIDS virus. The cellsare also suppressed in people who have had organ transplants.
There has been limited success with thymus transplants, which are usually rejected by recipients. Stem cell therapy may offer a more reliable alternative.
Professor Boyd said he was confident the transition from animal to human clinical trials would be quick - "because it has to be".
He said the discovery fits "beautifully" with the global picture of Melbourne as a world leader in stem cell research.
"This really is a Melbourne story. It was created by Melbourne scientists and its international commercial capabilities are being explored by Norwood Abbey, a Melbourne-based biotechnology company that has exclusive rights to the science."
Professor Boyd said the international science journal Nature Immunology would publish details of the research today.
Bad things can happen to well prepared hikers as well. Everyone who goes this far away from civilization needs some way to get in touch with the rest of the world in an emergency. Maybe what is needed is some sort of lower frequencey band that national parks operate themselves. Cell phones equipped to operate on either band could then be used within the park.
If the number of cell towers were reduced and relied on proximity to other cell phones for a signal, would'nt that reduce the likleyhood of someone getting a connection in someplace like a national park or the Mojave Desert? People away from people need to talk to other people too!
There is _no_ cure for carpal tunnel outside of surgery. Any type of keyboard that effectivly reduces the risk to *developing* carpal tunnel is something to note.
As a side, this keyboard still sux and it is not work 10% of what they are asking for it
However, the tests carried out in the laboratory revealed that the horizontal keyboard was still better. 83% of testers reported that the traditional keyboard was more comfortable than the vertical one. That's strange, but true. Though the shape of the vertical keyboard is more convenient and really reduces the potential risk of injury, the typing performance drastically decreases.
I guess this is why it was not patented by Cornell before these shisters picked up on it. For $345, they better throw in a Ronco Food Dehydrator and a George Forman grill.
but what about having to keep your arms in the air, without being able to lay them on the desk or so to type (am i the only one that does this?)
You and the other people about to suffer for carpal tunnel will do that. Putting pressure on the bottom of your hands or wrists closes the (carpal) tunnel which has your finger tendens moving so furiously inside. This tendon friction coupled with the smaller diameter created by resting your hands is a huge cuase of carpal tunnel. If you want to be typing in 10 years, donn't do this!
I know that people tend to rest thier rists agains the desk, and this is a major source of carpal tunnel symptoms, but could the job be done with a mere 45 degree angle and maybe a hinge that allowed in to fold (to many degrees)? It seems as though gravity would take it's toll on your shoulders after keeping your hands in a vertical position 3 inches off the desk.
So why don't we just add 4 bits to the current chips and be done with it?
Um, becuase computers prefer things in powers of 2: 16,32,64... A 36 bit word 9*(2^2) just does not divide up into nibbles the same way a 64 bit word (2^6 || 2^4*2^2) does. For the purposes of memory mapping, division, multiplication ect, powers of 2 just make things alot easier.
but not to the HURD. Remember, OSX is supposed to send other Unix Boxes to/dev/null. Apple is still in the process of trying to boot-strap themselves into another period of growth. OSX is as much a commercial endevor as anything SUN (but not M$) is involved in. Maybe if they start making more money than Microsoft, they will start to help others like GNU out.
The Linux you know and love to be a Windoze killer is based on an OS design that is almost 30 years old. It has evolved through time into something that is much better than it was when it first crept out of Bell Labs, but that does not make it perfect. The HURD takes all the great parts of Linux/*Nix and adds in functionality that _nobody_ is currently offering. Just becuase Linux is great does not mean HURD cannot be 10 times better.
I agree. It is nice to see the *nix methodology re-thought with modern day software engineering techniques such as high modularity. It is also wonderful to see the unix tradition of complete user freedom and vast system customization options be taken to a new refined level with pluggable services and kernel modules. Linux is a nice final chapter in the long 30 year history of a kernel designed by true pioneers in the field, but it is nice to get some fresh insight and thought in OS design.
I knew there was some downside to impecable job security, generous benifits and a comfy chair. Now I better start watching out for posts on./ from the other billstr78.
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I also hope that this sort of synthesized virus does not become another "Africanized Bee".
On the recently developed UCSC Student Portal, I added an easter egg into the site search that automatically changed the search context to the "Jargon File" if someone typed "Jargon: " before thier search string. Pretty hard to find, but I mostly wanted there as a way for me (and other C.S. majors) to search the Jargon File without having to add it as an option in the drop down list and have the heads breathing down my neck for it.
As a web page developer for the past 5 years, I have gotten a little tired of catering to the ADD attitude that so many web surfers have. It is frustrating to have to dumb down an application just becuase more than 4 sentances cannot be written on it's usage.
God save the CLI and other clunky, complicated interfaces that force people to think about what they are doing before they do it. I would like to see the "monkey wanna bannana" user attitude fall to the wayside in another 10 years or so.
Maybe this will happen as technology advaces and becomes more necessary to live our daily lives. I think it will. Just think about how much more talented your average 15 yearold H4X0R than you when you were 15.
Why the hell does Linus want to give away his operating system? Becuase it benifits the greater good. The computing industry as a whole would benifit from knowing more about thier server clustering and network load balancing techniques. I am not asking for a guided tour, just a little snip about what makes them the bomb shitiz.
Seriously. This was a pretty technically light article considering how many secrets Google posseses that amazes the $hit out of everyone. The page ranking heuristics the network and clustering technology. This company is getting as tight lipped as M$ regarding thier really amazing stuff. Google just went down a couple of points in my book, but I guess they cannot even hint at what they are really doing in Palo Alto witout having some fsking search portal try to snag thier technology.
Maybe the producers are hoping that if they modernize all of the technology, it will appeal to a whole new generation of geeks which not get quite so much enjoyment out of PDP-11 and VAX vintage stuff.
Why can't we merely rely on the private sector to develop sound products? Why don't we fight for LESS government and LESS government intervention? How much control over your daily lives do you want the government to have?
Becuase alot of companies are too busy trying to be first to market and not really interested making secure bullet-proof products. This persons company is obviously trying to make WEP solutions safe in thier building and see FIPS certification as the most reliable means of ensuring that securtiy. I only wish M$ software had to undergo these sort of goverment tests!
The advantage with having the government certify your transport protocols is that you have _one_ central organization that has _one_ standard and not a mess of differing ways of transfering data just to get around patents and proprietary closed means.
Why the W3C or any other standards organization? Becuase open sensible standards make sence and benifit everyone who participates.
I think the oly thing we had to worry about when the last democrat was in office was phone sex not phone taps. I would think the Republicans would be more pre-disposed to taking advantage of this new amount of intelligence
I agree, unless you are discussing bomb plots or the location of Al'Queda operatives, the NSA's voice recognition software is not likley to red flag your call anyway.
On the other hand, I hope this post isn't red-flagged for containing the above keywords.
Yes, it is odd. The server was not replying when I went back to it. I had the whole thing in my clipboard becuase I was one of the fp's, and just felt like doing something to help everyone out. You should try that sometime (helping others), this would be alot better than posting a bunch of negative, flaming comments.
IN a world first, Melbourne scientists have successfully grown an organ from stem cells.
A team from Monash Medical School grew a functioning thymus, a small organ that is critical to the immune system. Human trials could begin within two years.
Stem cells are the body's building blocks and have unlimited capacity to grow and replace all the cells within a particular tissue or organ.
"When I realised what we had finally done after 15 years of research, I went weak at the knees," Professor Richard Boyd said.
He said understanding the thymus, located near the heart, was the holy grail of immunology.
Professor Boyd believes the discovery will be an important part of a cure for many diseases of the immune system such as cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and diabetes. It should also help prevent rejection in people who have an organ transplant.
Professor Boyd referred to the thymus as the fountain of youth.
"Without a functioning immune system you get a disease called death,"he said.
"This organ, along with bone marrow, is the engine room of the immune system.
"It is the key to good health because without it, the body has no protection against any viruses."
Professor Boyd said despite its importance for immunity, the thymus went into hibernation naturally once humans reach puberty.
"This may be why many auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and cancers and infections increase in adults."
Professor Boyd said his team, led by Dr Jason Gill, was working on rebuilding the immune system by "rebooting" the thymus into action.
The Monash scientists put thymus stem cells into the kidney cavity of a mouse.
"To see the thymus grow, complete and working, was exciting," Professor Boyd said.
"We were looking at the missing link, that final piece of the jigsaw."
Professor Boyd said the mouse immune system was similar to a human's.
"The clinical trials indicate that the human thymus responds in the same way as a mouse, which is why we are confident this will translate very easily to humans," he said.
The thymus produces, educates and distributes special white cells called T lymphocytes (T-cells) which help to controlthe immune system and fight infection.
But T-cells are destroyed when cancer patients undergo chemotherapy and also by the AIDS virus. The cellsare also suppressed in people who have had organ transplants.
There has been limited success with thymus transplants, which are usually rejected by recipients. Stem cell therapy may offer a more reliable alternative.
Professor Boyd said he was confident the transition from animal to human clinical trials would be quick - "because it has to be".
He said the discovery fits "beautifully" with the global picture of Melbourne as a world leader in stem cell research.
"This really is a Melbourne story. It was created by Melbourne scientists and its international commercial capabilities are being explored by Norwood Abbey, a Melbourne-based biotechnology company that has exclusive rights to the science."
Professor Boyd said the international science journal Nature Immunology would publish details of the research today.
This process is probably a lot quicker that cloning myself and waiting for my other self to grow old enough for it to become an organ doner.
Bad things can happen to well prepared hikers as well. Everyone who goes this far away from civilization needs some way to get in touch with the rest of the world in an emergency. Maybe what is needed is some sort of lower frequencey band that national parks operate themselves. Cell phones equipped to operate on either band could then be used within the park.
If the number of cell towers were reduced and relied on proximity to other cell phones for a signal, would'nt that reduce the likleyhood of someone getting a connection in someplace like a national park or the Mojave Desert? People away from people need to talk to other people too!
As a side, this keyboard still sux and it is not work 10% of what they are asking for it
However, the tests carried out in the laboratory revealed that the horizontal keyboard was still better. 83% of testers reported that the traditional keyboard was more comfortable than the vertical one. That's strange, but true. Though the shape of the vertical keyboard is more convenient and really reduces the potential risk of injury, the typing performance drastically decreases.
I guess this is why it was not patented by Cornell before these shisters picked up on it. For $345, they better throw in a Ronco Food Dehydrator and a George Forman grill.
You and the other people about to suffer for carpal tunnel will do that. Putting pressure on the bottom of your hands or wrists closes the (carpal) tunnel which has your finger tendens moving so furiously inside. This tendon friction coupled with the smaller diameter created by resting your hands is a huge cuase of carpal tunnel. If you want to be typing in 10 years, donn't do this!
I know that people tend to rest thier rists agains the desk, and this is a major source of carpal tunnel symptoms, but could the job be done with a mere 45 degree angle and maybe a hinge that allowed in to fold (to many degrees)? It seems as though gravity would take it's toll on your shoulders after keeping your hands in a vertical position 3 inches off the desk.
Um, becuase computers prefer things in powers of 2: 16,32,64... A 36 bit word 9*(2^2) just does not divide up into nibbles the same way a 64 bit word (2^6 || 2^4*2^2) does. For the purposes of memory mapping, division, multiplication ect, powers of 2 just make things alot easier.
but not to the HURD. Remember, OSX is supposed to send other Unix Boxes to /dev/null. Apple is still in the process of trying to boot-strap themselves into another period of growth. OSX is as much a commercial endevor as anything SUN (but not M$) is involved in. Maybe if they start making more money than Microsoft, they will start to help others like GNU out.
The Linux you know and love to be a Windoze killer is based on an OS design that is almost 30 years old. It has evolved through time into something that is much better than it was when it first crept out of Bell Labs, but that does not make it perfect. The HURD takes all the great parts of Linux/*Nix and adds in functionality that _nobody_ is currently offering. Just becuase Linux is great does not mean HURD cannot be 10 times better.
I agree. It is nice to see the *nix methodology re-thought with modern day software engineering techniques such as high modularity. It is also wonderful to see the unix tradition of complete user freedom and vast system customization options be taken to a new refined level with pluggable services and kernel modules. Linux is a nice final chapter in the long 30 year history of a kernel designed by true pioneers in the field, but it is nice to get some fresh insight and thought in OS design.
Has anybody hurd of any possible gold releases of the HURD and/or any existing Linux vendor support (RH, SuSe)?
I hope none of them are stupid enough to steal Gray Davis's identity. I don't think he, himslef wants to be the governor right now.
I knew there was some downside to impecable job security, generous benifits and a comfy chair. Now I better start watching out for posts on ./ from the other billstr78.