Universe doesn't have age because doesn't have beginning and end. Universe is the physical manifestation of eternity. This whole Big Bang theory is completely false. See http://www.sensibleuniverse.com/
Who cares about Kindle, device that has been made by greedy corporation to extort money. I have ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC with Vista and the touch-sensitive screen, 1400x1050 screen resolution, pen, screen rotation, full colour, support for all possible document formats (not same "fake" PDF support as has been announced for Kindle). Certainly there is a need for a specific document-centric computers but we will have to wait little bit more until we get hardware that betetr support all document formats, has a colour screen and is more expandable.
There was never any big bang and there is no such thing as dark matter. All this is to support "big-bang gang". Univers is eternal, finite and unbounded.
Limitation is in Aristotelian logic that is basis of all computers. Your PC is the same as ENIAC. More MHz/GHz doesn't make them "smarter". Gotthard Guenther has made an article 50 years ago that still holds today: http://www.vordenker.de/gunther_web/mechbrain.htm . To create Consciousness completely new non-Aristotelian logic is required.
There are two questions: First, can computer have Consciousness, and answer is maybe yes, some kind of Consciousness, very limited in scope, but definitively not based on the computer that operate on existing logic. What have been accomplished so far is barely simulation of very limited Consciousness. Second question, can computer have Self-Consciousness and definitive answer is NO! We human are only beings that have Self-Consciousness. Of course, Ray Kurzweil uses very limited mechanical definition of the humans.
Bing bang theory is the equivalent of the theory that is saying that earth is flat and that earth or sun is the center of the Universe. At the beginning is the wrong assumption that time is liner and unidirectional. Alexander Franklin Mayer thinks this is not true and I full agree. Some very exciting stuff can be found here: http://www.afmayer.net/. Basically Universe is eternal, doesn't have beginning nor have end as a whole because time has no beginning or end. Universe is finite but unbounded.
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Driving Plan 9
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Plan 9 installs and runs without any problem with Plan 9 GUI under under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 running on Windows XP SP2. I have created virtual machine with 128MB of RAM. It boots directly from the latest Plan 9 ISO image. I haven't tested with Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 but I guess result would be the same. Both virtualization software can be now downloaded for free.
Chris and Hugh are evolving the work very intensively but it looks like nobody in the industry is listening (there is very strong alliance between application and hardware vendors whose interest is to maintain the current state to be able to sell more obsolete or retrograde stuff). The Web sites that database pioneers are maintaining are pretty much alive and updated on the weekly basis. Check these Web sites: www.dbdebunk.com , www.thethirdmanifesto.com or books like classic 8th edition of "An Introduction to Database Systems", "Temporal Data and Relational Model" and upcoming book about database fundamentals from O'Reilly.
Ask Chris Date and Hugh Darwen about ...
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.. future of Database Technology. Actually you don't need to ask them. Just go to any bookstore and buy one of their books and you will quickly learn that relational doesn't mean SQL. Relational databases are about two-valued predicate logic and set theory and there is not more solid then this to be used as a basis for storing and manipulating information. Future databases will be truly relational truth systems with the support for user defined types and temporal data at the logical level and the much better implementation at the physical level. Jim Gray is authority in area of transaction processing but not in area where databases and database languages in general.
I had in mind Multics ring architecture where most restricted subsystems run in rings 6 and up. This means that for example Web browser can be moved into ring 7 and the system will be automatically protected from malicious and hostile outside environment. It seems to me that Multics architecture can be more easily adapted to existing two-ring architecture of Windows and UNIX (kernel and user mode) without breaking millions of existing applications.
How Coyotos compares with Multics? Multics was most secured OS ever created with his multi-ring security architecture and security supported directly in HW.
All Windows software was written for Win32 subsystem not for NT kernel. NT kernel is what hosts various subsystems including Win32, which is most important.
Model T210 with 2048x1536 resolution was even better fir for the market. I don't know really why IBM has canceled this model because nicely fills gap between L200P and T221.
Greed, lies from anti-virus software vendors, lies from ISP, Slashdot hatred,...
Again, nobody wants to point to out that it's not the virus that is transmitted in the e-mail It is an executable file, which gets transmitted in the email using any intermediate SMTP server to any e-mail client. I have received over 300 these fake messages with exe attachments since the Friday evening. My local ISP (Sympatico.ca) is telling me that they don't have possibility to block messages with executable attachments.
I agree, the Phone and PDA should be the same and I am planning to merge my old Palm m100 with the Palm OS compatible cell phone. Palm still lags behind in integrating PDA and phone and latest Palm Tungsten W lacks flip cover with the earphone. Luckily, Treo 270 exists and it is an excellent PDA/phone.
If you want to be able to recognize what is the truth and what are lies (more lies) with Sun's J2EE and Microsoft.NET proprietary frameworks (however, they have and will have place in computing) study Standard C++ with the STL. Just reading Bjarne Stroustrup's interviews you will avoid shortsightedness and you will learn much more about computing then reading anything else.
I have installed Windows NT 3.51 Server on one Digital Prioris PC with 16MB of RAM and 420MB hard disk in January 1996. After using MS-DOS, various flavor of UNIX, VAX/VMS, Univac Exec-8 on University I have been really excited to have robust, industrial strength OS on PC with fully integrated GUI. What a moment this was to be greeted with the message "Please press Ctrl-Alt-Del to log on". Windows NT had always what Linux will never have: consistency, uniformity, clean architecture, etc.
Re:Not true! What about IL-2, LO-MAC, ...
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More on 64-bit Gaming
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Yes, the memory is the number one factor requiring 64-bits support a.s.a.p. 32-bit Windows XP kernel has 2GB available for user processes where 64-bit Windows XP kernel ported to Itanium provides 7152GB for each user process (don't ask me why this number) from the over 17 billion GB of total available address space. This should be adequate for some tome in the future.:-)
Not true! What about IL-2, LO-MAC, ...
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Motherboard in my IBM NetVista computer (1.6GHz, 512MB) just died yesterday after playing new IL-2 Sturmovik FB for couple hours. I am sure, with currently fastest available 32-bit computers you will experience some kind of slowness if you, let say, increase resolution or fly aircraft over complex terrain or with many AI objects in the scene. Therefore, biggest limitation of 32-bit computing has come to desktop due to very sophisticated games and simulations. Intel is downplaying desktop 64-bit computing because the only solution they have requires complete rewrite of all applications, which very few can afford. AMD has great chance with Opteron to take the lead and shake Intel Empire.
Very usual ignorance as far "Windows" is concerned, here on Slashdot. There are real companies and real businesses running ultra-reliable system with "five nines" on Data Center Edition Windows 2000. This version of "Windows" has been build from the same code base but is tailored for different purpose and is available only through hardware manufacturer. Unisys ES7000 is example of hardware offering five-nines reliability.
Another point is that people are primary using Software and when Windows NT support stopped for Alpha processor architecture this truly marked the end for Alpha platform.
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Universe doesn't have age because doesn't have beginning and end. Universe is the physical manifestation of eternity. This whole Big Bang theory is completely false. See http://www.sensibleuniverse.com/
Who cares about Kindle, device that has been made by greedy corporation to extort money. I have ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC with Vista and the touch-sensitive screen, 1400x1050 screen resolution, pen, screen rotation, full colour, support for all possible document formats (not same "fake" PDF support as has been announced for Kindle). Certainly there is a need for a specific document-centric computers but we will have to wait little bit more until we get hardware that betetr support all document formats, has a colour screen and is more expandable.
There was never any big bang and there is no such thing as dark matter. All this is to support "big-bang gang". Univers is eternal, finite and unbounded.
Limitation is in Aristotelian logic that is basis of all computers. Your PC is the same as ENIAC. More MHz/GHz doesn't make them "smarter". Gotthard Guenther has made an article 50 years ago that still holds today: http://www.vordenker.de/gunther_web/mechbrain.htm . To create Consciousness completely new non-Aristotelian logic is required.
There are two questions: First, can computer have Consciousness, and answer is maybe yes, some kind of Consciousness, very limited in scope, but definitively not based on the computer that operate on existing logic. What have been accomplished so far is barely simulation of very limited Consciousness. Second question, can computer have Self-Consciousness and definitive answer is NO! We human are only beings that have Self-Consciousness. Of course, Ray Kurzweil uses very limited mechanical definition of the humans.
This is total nonsense. See Alexander Franlkin Mayer's web site at http://www.afmayer.net/
Bing bang theory is the equivalent of the theory that is saying that earth is flat and that earth or sun is the center of the Universe. At the beginning is the wrong assumption that time is liner and unidirectional. Alexander Franklin Mayer thinks this is not true and I full agree. Some very exciting stuff can be found here: http://www.afmayer.net/. Basically Universe is eternal, doesn't have beginning nor have end as a whole because time has no beginning or end. Universe is finite but unbounded.
Plan 9 installs and runs without any problem with Plan 9 GUI under under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 running on Windows XP SP2. I have created virtual machine with 128MB of RAM. It boots directly from the latest Plan 9 ISO image. I haven't tested with Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 but I guess result would be the same. Both virtualization software can be now downloaded for free.
Chris and Hugh are evolving the work very intensively but it looks like nobody in the industry is listening (there is very strong alliance between application and hardware vendors whose interest is to maintain the current state to be able to sell more obsolete or retrograde stuff). The Web sites that database pioneers are maintaining are pretty much alive and updated on the weekly basis. Check these Web sites: www.dbdebunk.com , www.thethirdmanifesto.com or books like classic 8th edition of "An Introduction to Database Systems", "Temporal Data and Relational Model" and upcoming book about database fundamentals from O'Reilly.
.. future of Database Technology. Actually you don't need to ask them. Just go to any bookstore and buy one of their books and you will quickly learn that relational doesn't mean SQL. Relational databases are about two-valued predicate logic and set theory and there is not more solid then this to be used as a basis for storing and manipulating information. Future databases will be truly relational truth systems with the support for user defined types and temporal data at the logical level and the much better implementation at the physical level. Jim Gray is authority in area of transaction processing but not in area where databases and database languages in general.
I had in mind Multics ring architecture where most restricted subsystems run in rings 6 and up. This means that for example Web browser can be moved into ring 7 and the system will be automatically protected from malicious and hostile outside environment. It seems to me that Multics architecture can be more easily adapted to existing two-ring architecture of Windows and UNIX (kernel and user mode) without breaking millions of existing applications.
How Coyotos compares with Multics? Multics was most secured OS ever created with his multi-ring security architecture and security supported directly in HW.
All Windows software was written for Win32 subsystem not for NT kernel. NT kernel is what hosts various subsystems including Win32, which is most important.
Model T210 with 2048x1536 resolution was even better fir for the market. I don't know really why IBM has canceled this model because nicely fills gap between L200P and T221.
They are the same. ViewSonic is basically selling OEM version with his own logo. Everything else is the same.
Atlantis, The Lost Empire is the best DVD I have in my small collection.
Greed, lies from anti-virus software vendors, lies from ISP, Slashdot hatred, ...
Again, nobody wants to point to out that it's not the virus that is transmitted in the e-mail It is an executable file, which gets transmitted in the email using any intermediate SMTP server to any e-mail client. I have received over 300 these fake messages with exe attachments since the Friday evening. My local ISP (Sympatico.ca) is telling me that they don't have possibility to block messages with executable attachments.
Great! I want more articles about Google setup!
I agree, the Phone and PDA should be the same and I am planning to merge my old Palm m100 with the Palm OS compatible cell phone. Palm still lags behind in integrating PDA and phone and latest Palm Tungsten W lacks flip cover with the earphone. Luckily, Treo 270 exists and it is an excellent PDA/phone.
If you want to be able to recognize what is the truth and what are lies (more lies) with Sun's J2EE and Microsoft .NET proprietary frameworks (however, they have and will have place in computing) study Standard C++ with the STL. Just reading Bjarne Stroustrup's interviews you will avoid shortsightedness and you will learn much more about computing then reading anything else.
I have installed Windows NT 3.51 Server on one Digital Prioris PC with 16MB of RAM and 420MB hard disk in January 1996. After using MS-DOS, various flavor of UNIX, VAX/VMS, Univac Exec-8 on University I have been really excited to have robust, industrial strength OS on PC with fully integrated GUI. What a moment this was to be greeted with the message "Please press Ctrl-Alt-Del to log on". Windows NT had always what Linux will never have: consistency, uniformity, clean architecture, etc.
Yes, the memory is the number one factor requiring 64-bits support a.s.a.p. 32-bit Windows XP kernel has 2GB available for user processes where 64-bit Windows XP kernel ported to Itanium provides 7152GB for each user process (don't ask me why this number) from the over 17 billion GB of total available address space. This should be adequate for some tome in the future. :-)
Motherboard in my IBM NetVista computer (1.6GHz, 512MB) just died yesterday after playing new IL-2 Sturmovik FB for couple hours. I am sure, with currently fastest available 32-bit computers you will experience some kind of slowness if you, let say, increase resolution or fly aircraft over complex terrain or with many AI objects in the scene. Therefore, biggest limitation of 32-bit computing has come to desktop due to very sophisticated games and simulations. Intel is downplaying desktop 64-bit computing because the only solution they have requires complete rewrite of all applications, which very few can afford. AMD has great chance with Opteron to take the lead and shake Intel Empire.
Windows NT/2000 scheduler works at the thread granularity and not at the process granularity.
A thread's priority can change dynamically in Windows NT/2000!
And Windows NT/2000 uses in total 32 priority levels (16 real-time, 15 variable levels and 1 system level).
Please check facts first before bashing Windows NT/2000.
Very usual ignorance as far "Windows" is concerned, here on Slashdot. There are real companies and real businesses running ultra-reliable system with "five nines" on Data Center Edition Windows 2000. This version of "Windows" has been build from the same code base but is tailored for different purpose and is available only through hardware manufacturer. Unisys ES7000 is example of hardware offering five-nines reliability. Another point is that people are primary using Software and when Windows NT support stopped for Alpha processor architecture this truly marked the end for Alpha platform.