We don't need people like him. Look at what happened to Byte. Look at Dan Gilmour, at least he's trying to ride the wave and get with it.
Funny thing, I've been using linux since SLS, I use it every day, I stay in tune with what's going on within the Linux world (or at least I like to think so) and I had no idea what Linuxworld was or who maureen o'gara is until this thing blew up. From what I gather, she's just a tool like Dvorak who still doesn't "Get" the 21st century and the changes in media. There is a huge difference between the readers of some little linux web magazine and the community at large. It sounds and looks to me like they can't distinguish the difference because they are so clearly not part of the greater community; they get flamed by some vocal folks and think that reflects the way things are.
I'll also throw this salvo out there. I like groklaw, I like what
it's doing and trying to do. I also think PJ needs to reveal some
things about herself, if you want to be a cultural and media figure
you have to deal with it. If you want to be an anonymous person, then
I'd suggest not running a big popular web site and trying to get in
the middle of it all. I don't think what happened is right but PJ
needs to build her credibility, I can't consider it news or bias free
if I don't know who the messenger is. The whole thing sucks but I've
been toning down my reading of groklaw simply because I don't know who
is behind it. She should consider this an important lesson, release the information the way you want it released and maintain and control your privacy or have someone dig it up and lose control of it. There are plenty of "celebrities" that can manage that and keep their privacy.
There are compilers that are amazing these days.
IBM's xlC comes to mind. In this century, focus on easier to read and maintain. Typically a compiler will be able to optimize far more than your average developer. One some of the newer chips, I think compilers are able to do better than just about all humans can.
Yes that was my question exactly, is this smallish number percentage increase in the atmosphere and the small amount of the sun's energy that it is catching global warming?
If nothing else, it frames just how much energy the sun gives in the first place.
So as I understand it, what we have been calling human caused global warming is the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution.
This says that that increase has been from about 260ppm to 370ppm now; which is noticable and believable to me. So what I want to know is are we talking about those 370ppm molecules reflecting radiant energy back towards the surface of the earth?
By my math, that's 0.000259 % of the atmosphere doing that and now we've got 0.00036% of the atmosphere doing that. that 0.0001% more radiant energy is the concern? Which causes more water to vaporize which is more powerful greenhouse gas, yadda yadda yadda. But is that the core of the issue? We're getting 0.0001% more heat reflected back at us from the atmosphere? How much more energy does the sun send to us when there are big solar flares?
Well besides the obvious that this could cause crashes, I can't imagine why people are putting effort in to beaming planes and pilots unless they are either too stupid to be out free with society or they are really trying to cuase a plane to crash.
I believe it was Executive Decision by Tom Clancy where they had a covert team that were causing planes to crash by shining lasers into the pilots eyes on landing. Fictional or not, this is dangerous. Anyone have a legitmate reason to do this? I could see thinking it would be fun to try for about a minute, it's like dropping cinder blocks on to a high way, trying to hit a windshield.
Know what I did for my grandfolks? We got them an imac a while back. We upgraded it and got OS X on it. It's not a lightning fast machine but it's a killer email and casual browsing machine. Put Thunderbird and enigmail on it and then made them a pgp key sans passphrase (yeah, yeah yeah, I know)
They sign all messages by default and then via enigmail we set up some rules and they always encrypt to me and the parts of the family that have been converted. They didn't even know they were doing it at first.
It's not perfect security, there are some issues but it's a start. If you wanted spam to go away, I've said this hundreds of times, start signing your email.
The RSS component is pretty sweet. It just presents them like email or usenet. I find myself liking that more than the magic folders style rss in browsers but they might just be me.
Let me start by saying that I'm not a technical expert. Although this might be a handicap it could very well be a positive in looking at the issue of Sun versus Linux in the server business from a decision maker's point of view.
Until today, the discussion around Linux pushed by Red Hat and recently by Novell after it took over Suse has been around the risks and opportunitites of the open source model versus the costs and slow adaptation of the proprietary model.
Opponents of open source software always argued that due to its nature there is a risk that version control, compatibility, future development and support is not guaranteed and could leave companies who use it at some point with a free but outdated system that is difficult to maintain.
Companies like Red Hat and Novell and on occasion other big players have tried to take away these arguments by committing to the open source model and vowed to make it work. Despite their efforts and some success, there still is a lot of skepticism within corporate IT departments and as a result Linux is not taking the market by storm.
With the decision by Sun to give away their latest version of their software, Solaris 10 for free all of these concerns have evaporated in one blow in favor of the now open source and compatible Solaris 10 supported by Sun.
Looking at the advantage of going the Sun route versus the Linux route it is hard to see why any IT executive would chose to switch to Linux.
- The Solaris software is of proven quality and at least equal or better then Linux and the open source model will assure that it stays up there.
- By making it work with competing hardware platforms, there is no reason anymore to switch software to facilitate lower hardware costs.
- Sun with Solaris has already a large installed base and by becoming free and open source there is no reason for existing Solaris users to switch to Linux.
- Sun has a proven reputation in terms of quality of support. This should be at least as good or better then that of the Linux supporters.
- Because Sun by default is the only designated party managing the open source software, there will be no risk of a version bonanza with multiple incompatible versions.
Again as a non technical person, the decision for me would be simple, I would go with Solaris unless I was already using Linux; Why take risks when I can choose a proven, high quality solution at comparable costs?
As a result Linux will probably not grow much beyond its current market share of about 10 % leaving Red Hat and especially Novell with a big problem
Of course I might very well be overlooking something here, if so, please let me and other readers know by posting your opinion in a reaction (see below).
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("musi-cal.mojam.com:80")
>>> conn.request("POST", "/cgi-bin/query", params, headers)
>>> response = conn.getresponse()
>>> print response.status, response.reason
200 OK
>>> data = response.read()
>>> conn.close()
How do you know that you don't have a cause/correlation problem? Unabomber went to Montana because he was a nut (I don't know is an anarchist a super conservative?) it wasn't because he grew up there that he was a nut.
Maybe people develop their political awarness by their upbringing and more liberal people tend to mov to the cities.
How much of the motherboard price do you think goes to the BIOS?
There is some very serious financial hooks. It starts at the lowend in the embedded market, a BIOS can cost $20 a unit in lower volumes (think like 20k units)
I have no idea what the big boys pay for BIOS code, I imagine they drop a couple million dollars a year and sign some kind of unlimited usage license. I don't know though, it takes a long time to rebuild one from scratch, it's not easy to do that. I wouldn't be surprised if 5% of every motherboard price was BIOS on the high side.
It's not a really positive sign. It could also be a little on the over engineering side. I don't know that the need the water cooler, it could just be that they feel more comfortable with it.
I live in Boulder Colorado, the elevation at my home is 6500ft above sea level and the 2.8Ghz Dell Pentium IV I bought a couple months back is near the ambient temperature threshold as speced by Intel. If I run it in a non-AC house this July I'll probably be over the limit just because of the elevation and the heat around here. Intel references about 100 degrees F at the vent but that goes down a fair bit since the air here is more thin and can't disapate heat as well as the dense sea level air; I'm assuming the Dell builds close to the reference spec. So say it's 98 outside, no AC in the house but it's at maybe 80 degrees and then my dell tower is enclosed under my desk.
It's not the CUPS part of the printer support that's difficult. You see Apple uses postscript to render their GUI, it translates directly into what the printer draws. It's real deal WYSIWYG. CUPS is used as a transport mechanism and a down sampling mechanism for non-postscript or non-PDF printers (PDF is just Postscript v3 anyways) If you're doing real deal production, NeXT and Apple blow BeOS away.
Next, i10n. Again, BeOS is empty handed. I'm talking double byte, Arabic, Hebrew... As of version 4 they had nothing, I'm not sure if they cobbled something together but whatever it was, it was cobbeled, like the networking stack.
Color matching. This is a media OS? What do they do about color matching? Oh that's right, it doesn't print...
As for the ease or producing apps, BeOS does have a nice looking class framework but if it was so easy, then where were all of the apps? You know? There is a definite chicken and egg problem, nobody develops for systems with no users but still. Be should have stepped that up or something.
That's all stuff that matters. There was no comparison or choice for Apple. NeXT had that stuff already. My fear with BeOS and OS/2 both is that we'll forget the critical lessons learned from them. BeOS died because it was too much sizzle and not enough steak; I'm talking about the real deal, not booting in 20 seconds, how the hell we're you going to sell it to the Chinese? Or Israel? Lot's of buzz but they didn't deliver all of the goods. That and burning your base never helps, leaving PPC hanging, leaving hardware hanging, leaving metrowerks customers hanging; it's all business but when people put good money in to your product you bend over to keep them happy, Be through their base out. A flashy and quick GUI is nice but you need some meat behind it all, some apps; at the very least a real browser.
I think the pentium fdiv bug was revealed by some cat who was trying to prove that the series of of 1 / the gap between double primes converged. It might be the same guy.
You know microsoft's real problems? a) their core compentency is building mice and b) they think a big computer is a pentium in a tower case.
You guys are all wrong, MS is just going to start calling a dual or quad CPU pentium a "super computer." Not a bad idea, long horn (a type of cow...) is going to need a super computer to run on, have you seen any of the specs and requirements?
That's international politics. That's just how it works. I think
that one of the second or third heads of the NSA put an end to that at
one point, because "gentlemen don't look in to the dirty laundry of
their friends" or for some such reason and we paid dearly for it. Now
it's back to the normal, everybody spies on everybody else and for
good reasons. How on Earth do you trust your allies? What's to stop,
say, Germany, from undermining the US and supporting al Qaeda, for
example? Who would know? They could just lie to us about it. More
importantly, intelligence is about information, information is
currency and power. MI6 may feel differently about a piece of
information and not tell their allies but it may be important. What's
that old French saying? Gold is influence but information is power.
While I'm on the mic, let me reiterate my position on this. If you
want to break echelon, screw quantum cryptography, it's impractical.
Start PGP or GPG encrypting all of your email. Thunderbird and
Mozilla both work with enigmail, Evolution supports GPG. NUmerous
other clients do as well. At the very least start signing everything
and get your key in to the keyservers: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu is a
good one. It's a sign to some of us that you accept PGP/GPG encrypted
email. Shit just find a couple friends and start religiously
encrypting your email conversations.
If half the email traffic out there was encrypted, that alone would
pretty much stop echelon.
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Be was a lot better at touting things than they were at actually building them.
Solaris is a good platform, but I don't know anything that it's the best at.
Funny thing, I've been using linux since SLS, I use it every day, I stay in tune with what's going on within the Linux world (or at least I like to think so) and I had no idea what Linuxworld was or who maureen o'gara is until this thing blew up. From what I gather, she's just a tool like Dvorak who still doesn't "Get" the 21st century and the changes in media. There is a huge difference between the readers of some little linux web magazine and the community at large. It sounds and looks to me like they can't distinguish the difference because they are so clearly not part of the greater community; they get flamed by some vocal folks and think that reflects the way things are.
I'll also throw this salvo out there. I like groklaw, I like what it's doing and trying to do. I also think PJ needs to reveal some things about herself, if you want to be a cultural and media figure you have to deal with it. If you want to be an anonymous person, then I'd suggest not running a big popular web site and trying to get in the middle of it all. I don't think what happened is right but PJ needs to build her credibility, I can't consider it news or bias free if I don't know who the messenger is. The whole thing sucks but I've been toning down my reading of groklaw simply because I don't know who is behind it. She should consider this an important lesson, release the information the way you want it released and maintain and control your privacy or have someone dig it up and lose control of it. There are plenty of "celebrities" that can manage that and keep their privacy.
There are compilers that are amazing these days. IBM's xlC comes to mind. In this century, focus on easier to read and maintain. Typically a compiler will be able to optimize far more than your average developer. One some of the newer chips, I think compilers are able to do better than just about all humans can.
Which ever vendor makes it the most worth my while, their book will be my selection.
If nothing else, it frames just how much energy the sun gives in the first place.
So as I understand it, what we have been calling human caused global warming is the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. This says that that increase has been from about 260ppm to 370ppm now; which is noticable and believable to me. So what I want to know is are we talking about those 370ppm molecules reflecting radiant energy back towards the surface of the earth?
By my math, that's 0.000259 % of the atmosphere doing that and now we've got 0.00036% of the atmosphere doing that. that 0.0001% more radiant energy is the concern? Which causes more water to vaporize which is more powerful greenhouse gas, yadda yadda yadda. But is that the core of the issue? We're getting 0.0001% more heat reflected back at us from the atmosphere? How much more energy does the sun send to us when there are big solar flares?
They've just done too much.
I believe it was Executive Decision by Tom Clancy where they had a covert team that were causing planes to crash by shining lasers into the pilots eyes on landing. Fictional or not, this is dangerous. Anyone have a legitmate reason to do this? I could see thinking it would be fun to try for about a minute, it's like dropping cinder blocks on to a high way, trying to hit a windshield.
They sign all messages by default and then via enigmail we set up some rules and they always encrypt to me and the parts of the family that have been converted. They didn't even know they were doing it at first.
It's not perfect security, there are some issues but it's a start. If you wanted spam to go away, I've said this hundreds of times, start signing your email.
The RSS component is pretty sweet. It just presents them like email or usenet. I find myself liking that more than the magic folders style rss in browsers but they might just be me.
Until today, the discussion around Linux pushed by Red Hat and recently by Novell after it took over Suse has been around the risks and opportunitites of the open source model versus the costs and slow adaptation of the proprietary model.
Opponents of open source software always argued that due to its nature there is a risk that version control, compatibility, future development and support is not guaranteed and could leave companies who use it at some point with a free but outdated system that is difficult to maintain.
Companies like Red Hat and Novell and on occasion other big players have tried to take away these arguments by committing to the open source model and vowed to make it work. Despite their efforts and some success, there still is a lot of skepticism within corporate IT departments and as a result Linux is not taking the market by storm.
With the decision by Sun to give away their latest version of their software, Solaris 10 for free all of these concerns have evaporated in one blow in favor of the now open source and compatible Solaris 10 supported by Sun.
Looking at the advantage of going the Sun route versus the Linux route it is hard to see why any IT executive would chose to switch to Linux.
- The Solaris software is of proven quality and at least equal or better then Linux and the open source model will assure that it stays up there.
- By making it work with competing hardware platforms, there is no reason anymore to switch software to facilitate lower hardware costs.
- Sun with Solaris has already a large installed base and by becoming free and open source there is no reason for existing Solaris users to switch to Linux.
- Sun has a proven reputation in terms of quality of support. This should be at least as good or better then that of the Linux supporters.
- Because Sun by default is the only designated party managing the open source software, there will be no risk of a version bonanza with multiple incompatible versions.
Again as a non technical person, the decision for me would be simple, I would go with Solaris unless I was already using Linux; Why take risks when I can choose a proven, high quality solution at comparable costs?
As a result Linux will probably not grow much beyond its current market share of about 10 % leaving Red Hat and especially Novell with a big problem
Of course I might very well be overlooking something here, if so, please let me and other readers know by posting your opinion in a reaction (see below).
Plus there is a, what? 2%? chance that any given shuttle flight is going to end catastrophically. How reliable are the deltas?
I'm no theif you fat jackass!
Amen. and Mark Mitchell who does tons on GCC.
And a-a-p... The coolest make replacement. a-a-p.
Maybe people develop their political awarness by their upbringing and more liberal people tend to mov to the cities.
There is some very serious financial hooks. It starts at the lowend in the embedded market, a BIOS can cost $20 a unit in lower volumes (think like 20k units)
I have no idea what the big boys pay for BIOS code, I imagine they drop a couple million dollars a year and sign some kind of unlimited usage license. I don't know though, it takes a long time to rebuild one from scratch, it's not easy to do that. I wouldn't be surprised if 5% of every motherboard price was BIOS on the high side.
By John Derbyshire... It's a great read and covers it in detail.
It's not a really positive sign. It could also be a little on the over engineering side. I don't know that the need the water cooler, it could just be that they feel more comfortable with it.
I live in Boulder Colorado, the elevation at my home is 6500ft above sea level and the 2.8Ghz Dell Pentium IV I bought a couple months back is near the ambient temperature threshold as speced by Intel. If I run it in a non-AC house this July I'll probably be over the limit just because of the elevation and the heat around here. Intel references about 100 degrees F at the vent but that goes down a fair bit since the air here is more thin and can't disapate heat as well as the dense sea level air; I'm assuming the Dell builds close to the reference spec. So say it's 98 outside, no AC in the house but it's at maybe 80 degrees and then my dell tower is enclosed under my desk.
No GNAT support either. Not yet at least.
Next, i10n. Again, BeOS is empty handed. I'm talking double byte, Arabic, Hebrew... As of version 4 they had nothing, I'm not sure if they cobbled something together but whatever it was, it was cobbeled, like the networking stack.
Color matching. This is a media OS? What do they do about color matching? Oh that's right, it doesn't print...
As for the ease or producing apps, BeOS does have a nice looking class framework but if it was so easy, then where were all of the apps? You know? There is a definite chicken and egg problem, nobody develops for systems with no users but still. Be should have stepped that up or something.
That's all stuff that matters. There was no comparison or choice for Apple. NeXT had that stuff already. My fear with BeOS and OS/2 both is that we'll forget the critical lessons learned from them. BeOS died because it was too much sizzle and not enough steak; I'm talking about the real deal, not booting in 20 seconds, how the hell we're you going to sell it to the Chinese? Or Israel? Lot's of buzz but they didn't deliver all of the goods. That and burning your base never helps, leaving PPC hanging, leaving hardware hanging, leaving metrowerks customers hanging; it's all business but when people put good money in to your product you bend over to keep them happy, Be through their base out. A flashy and quick GUI is nice but you need some meat behind it all, some apps; at the very least a real browser.
Just a little dorky computer math nerd trivia.
You guys are all wrong, MS is just going to start calling a dual or quad CPU pentium a "super computer." Not a bad idea, long horn (a type of cow...) is going to need a super computer to run on, have you seen any of the specs and requirements?
While I'm on the mic, let me reiterate my position on this. If you want to break echelon, screw quantum cryptography, it's impractical. Start PGP or GPG encrypting all of your email. Thunderbird and Mozilla both work with enigmail, Evolution supports GPG. NUmerous other clients do as well. At the very least start signing everything and get your key in to the keyservers: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu is a good one. It's a sign to some of us that you accept PGP/GPG encrypted email. Shit just find a couple friends and start religiously encrypting your email conversations.
If half the email traffic out there was encrypted, that alone would pretty much stop echelon.