DEC Micro PDP 11/23?
Cool! That's the one twice as big as a nowadays desktop PC and making the sound of a vacuumcleaner if turned on? Are your running unix on it or RT11?
I own one too, hope it still works. If so I'd like to try getting it to work with an antique unix system, perhaps people have any suggestions how to get started...
I only hope that Alan is wrong about the Death of Reason In The U.S. I hope, but not much. See, on the one hand, people are always saying, "oh, man things are so screwed up."
Isn't this negative view on life the reason for our constant search for improvement? One can look at the consumption of forest and oil as a way to improvement our lifes (at a cost, which I'm not sure I'm willing to pay...)
Search however leads to questions which in turn lead to uncertainty and...
We don't like uncertainty--so we gravitate back to the last comfortable solution we had, and in this way we elevate belief to the status of fact.
But hey, thank God not all people are afraid of uncertainty... Did I say God?
Just like the actual users the QA folks should be heavily involved in the actual development cycles. Extreme programming states that every development cycles starts with a functional design and the development of tests for each deliverable. Having these available means that QA is able to keep track of the quality of the deliverables very well.
IMHO if QA cannot keep track of the big picture they fail as QA, because that is just an important part of their job. On the other hand perhaps extreme programming should involve relatively more QA people than 'regular' development methods.
When going to the movies or renting a movie I always create a copy using a very sofisticated on a biological base containing very obscure and obfuscated encoding mechanisms, which I can and do use to provide friends with information on subjects such as if the movie was good or whether it was crap and what it was all about.
All of it does sound so illegal, they might even be able to drag me into court for doing so...
It's just a matter of a few years and they will force you to forget what you've seen when leaving a theatre...
I'm very sorry, besides the header is a little misleading I don't see anything innovative or interesting in this project... Back in '87 I had a teacher who used an Acorn and some homebrewn
hardware to measure the speed of moving objects and other 'scientific' stuff and then draw graphs of the data gathered.
What does this fussball table that a pinball machine doesn't? IMHO it is just a rather primitive two person pinball game. Oh yes, it reads smartcards, very impressive.
Anyway I can image it must have been fun to built it. And... NYU now can measure how much time their students spend on playing fussball.
As the author of the article states languages as Java and C++
contain a lot of functionality which has no additional
use to the problems to be solved. I can imagine however some functional languages do.
Object oriented languages do come with a lot of overhead eg. memory
management and exception handling, where a language as Fortran is optimized for and has proven its power when it comes to complex calculations.
As we all know should select the right language for the right job. Last year I've been
working on an application which performs complicated flow calculations and presents
the results through a web frontend. The easiest and (IMHO best) solution was to use three languages: Java, C and Fortran.
Frontend Java (servlet), sending requests to a deamon (running on an another machine).
Deamon C, receives requests, calls a Fortran function (which it was linked to) and returns the result.
Calculations Fortran, for calculation precision and because the calculation libraries existed and were certified.
Ah, I forgot to mention it uses SQL to gather data from Oracle.
Seemed a reasonable solution to me. Offcourse I could have used Perl, assembler and Lisp too and Prolog to solve queries, or Word97 macro's combined with Occam (which is very good at parallel computing) or whatever.
Sometimes discussions about Java start to look like discussions about religion. Bad. Scares the hell out of me.
It seems that this software can be used to copy or extract secured data. Which might or could be a little somewhat illegal. But hey, you can use a computer to crack software... So I guess they should lock me up because I own a computer.
There is something I do not understand: if a vast majority of the public believes it is OK to copy software or electronic content, how can it be there exist laws to prohibit copying? I mean most of us live in democratic countries, don't we?
Isn't the US the country where you can legally purchase a gun but where killing people is illigal?
I mean that's actually somehow (not totally) the same. You have got a tool, you use a tool...
You confuse me...
You forgot to mention s*x!
However, I'm not sure yet which takes more damage during the act, my genitals or my ears...
Anyway, as I understand the article, only half of my hearing capabilities will be damaged if my girlfriend screams MP3 encoded, because my ears have been calibrated using analog screaming (the vintage stuff).
The difference with a phone or a letter is the billboard or library functionality the internet provides. You can publish any information public to the entire world... Phonecalls end and a letters arrive, but some information on the internet will stay...
Anyway, I think scanning all accessible information - especcialy if we are talking about emails and chat sessions - would be a major violation of privacy laws.
Second, what does this mean for sites or forms of communication which are restricted to certain users/members? I mean if one is a member, by payment, by job or whatever other means of a site or mailinglist providing religious, pr0n0graphic, research or even terrorsit information what right do they have to scan these 'private areas'. I mean, hey, the CIA, FBI nor ATF have anything to do with the amount of beer I keep in my java & web enabled refrigidator...
And at last I cannot image how anyone would accomplish such a task. I mean to monitor the all work being published would - I guess - take one 'spy' on each six or so people publishing. Perhaps the US government just wants their own people to turn each other in... Something similar to the system used in eastern Germany while it still was a communist country...
Perhaps publishing under DMCA would... No, fuck that.
How are they going to realize this? I mean the FTP service should have access to a lot of critical files of the system. I mean it should be able to access/etc,/var, some directory containing binaries, etc., etc...
Am I stupid or something? Why don't they turn on ssh, rsh, rpc or telnet?
Or do they mean we all can access some/pub by FTP? That would be cool: mget *
Do people or companies still believe in advertising on internet? I cannot image bigger banners will do ANY good, both to the public and the advertisers. I mean: giel: BIGGER BANNERS TO ME IS THE SAME AS SHOUTING IN A CHATBOX! In other words: bad habit.
So in the end who is the one to suffer from all boycots? Yes, the Artist...
Anyway in the current copyright laws copying is defined like stealing. In my opinion it is these laws that should change. An example:
If a say 'Moo!' and ten people listen to me, does that differ from when I say 'Moo!' and a billion people happen to listen? Yes, a lot more people are listening. No, the effort involved for me is the same. Are the words arriving in their ears copies of what I said? I guess they are not. So?
However if we were not talking about words but about songs recorded digitally the whole scenario changes because of copyright laws. Well in my thoughts it's in the nature of digital data and the way computers process it that its being copied.
SU researchers probably will have to clone stem cells of human embryos, which is something different (in my opinion) than cloning human embryos.
Still an interesting question remains. If they will clone stem cells, will that be a next step to the cloning of human beings? Usually having a technique means it will be used...
Huh? It seems I must have missed something important...
As far as I knew the TCP/IP architecture was designed to provide a very failsafe and reliable network which should be able to keep running if half of it would be blasted away by a nuclear attack.
But it isn't? Damn... Hey, let's not tell it to the American government!
Personally I don't like the idea of big companies providing nationwide WiFi access. In the Netherlands there are a number of local initiatives working on WiFi access in a number of cities, and I'd hate to see the hard work of these people being spoiled by big telco's or ISP's...
The question more or less is can one prevent them from doing so?
My guess is yes...
The frequencies on which Wi-Fi networking is based are free to the public, right?
So anyone can use them, right?
It appears to me that the frequencies used for WiFi are near those of microwaves (2.??GHz), so my guess is perhaps one could 'nuke' such a network with a slightly modified microwave...
Copyright on an idea is called a patent, for as far as I know...
In Holland ABN AMRO "de Bank" (ie. the Bank), copyrighted the italic printing of the article "de". I'm afraid it is possible to copyright quite a lot and even rather strange stuff.
Publishing price or sales information IMHO cannot be be a violation of the DMCA, it could however
violate certain privacy rules...
Besides of having doubts Will being the man for the job, I am quite afraid they will even spoil the original story. I mean that happens in a lot of (American) movies...
Imagine the movie ending with a happy robot-man, robot-wife, two robot-kids (girl & boy), living in a big robot-house, surrounded by nice robot-flowers and a nive big and shiny robot-car... and a Will Smith song...
IMHO using Struts (and web applications in general) you cannot build true MVC based applications.
The MVC model defines more communication options and knowledge between objects that Struts is able to provide. MVC is event driven, a Struts application is driven by actions (post or get).
The Structs framework, as I understand it, in general works like this:
- A http request is sent to some dispatch.
This dispatch converts the request into an 'action'.
- The action is executed and returns a new request, either for a JSP or some other Template to be rendered or a new action.
Using MVC a view contains components that have corresponding controllers. The view is usually a predefined API to a collection of widgets (like AWT, Swing, etc.). The controller is built of events bound to the widgets.
Struts calls the jsp's the view, the actions the controller and the back-end or business logic you define the model.
However MVC allows the model to interact with the view, and there is no way you can be sure you will be able to do so with a web page, because HTTP only supports polling and not pushing if you want to keep things browser independant.
Well that's why I would not dare to say Struts implements MVC for web applications, but I must admit it provides a very nice framework.
"Einstein said that he thought in images and even muscular sensations," says John Stachel, a physicist and the founding editor of the Papers Project. "The hardest part for him was to translate his findings back into language that others could understand."
Sounds like the good man was addicted to drugs. And yes, I can image it is really hard to translate an LSD trip into language others can understand. However a real artist will be able to do so.
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DEC Micro PDP 11/23?
Cool! That's the one twice as big as a nowadays desktop PC and making the sound of a vacuumcleaner if turned on? Are your running unix on it or RT11?
I own one too, hope it still works. If so I'd like to try getting it to work with an antique unix system, perhaps people have any suggestions how to get started...
Isn't this negative view on life the reason for our constant search for improvement? One can look at the consumption of forest and oil as a way to improvement our lifes (at a cost, which I'm not sure I'm willing to pay...)
Search however leads to questions which in turn lead to uncertainty and...
But hey, thank God not all people are afraid of uncertainty... Did I say God?
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int
main(void) {
fork();
main();
}
/* It should be written like this: simple, accurate and destructive. */
Just like the actual users the QA folks should be heavily involved in the actual development cycles. Extreme programming states that every development cycles starts with a functional design and the development of tests for each deliverable. Having these available means that QA is able to keep track of the quality of the deliverables very well.
IMHO if QA cannot keep track of the big picture they fail as QA, because that is just an important part of their job. On the other hand perhaps extreme programming should involve relatively more QA people than 'regular' development methods.
When going to the movies or renting a movie I always create a copy using a very sofisticated on a biological base containing very obscure and obfuscated encoding mechanisms, which I can and do use to provide friends with information on subjects such as if the movie was good or whether it was crap and what it was all about.
All of it does sound so illegal, they might even be able to drag me into court for doing so...
It's just a matter of a few years and they will force you to forget what you've seen when leaving a theatre...
I'm very sorry, besides the header is a little misleading I don't see anything innovative or interesting in this project... Back in '87 I had a teacher who used an Acorn and some homebrewn hardware to measure the speed of moving objects and other 'scientific' stuff and then draw graphs of the data gathered.
What does this fussball table that a pinball machine doesn't? IMHO it is just a rather primitive two person pinball game. Oh yes, it reads smartcards, very impressive.
Anyway I can image it must have been fun to built it. And... NYU now can measure how much time their students spend on playing fussball.
As the author of the article states languages as Java and C++ contain a lot of functionality which has no additional use to the problems to be solved. I can imagine however some functional languages do.
Object oriented languages do come with a lot of overhead eg. memory management and exception handling, where a language as Fortran is optimized for and has proven its power when it comes to complex calculations.
As we all know should select the right language for the right job. Last year I've been working on an application which performs complicated flow calculations and presents the results through a web frontend. The easiest and (IMHO best) solution was to use three languages: Java, C and Fortran.
- Frontend Java (servlet), sending requests to a deamon (running on an another machine).
- Deamon C, receives requests, calls a Fortran function (which it was linked to) and returns the result.
- Calculations Fortran, for calculation precision and because the calculation libraries existed and were certified.
Ah, I forgot to mention it uses SQL to gather data from Oracle.Seemed a reasonable solution to me. Offcourse I could have used Perl, assembler and Lisp too and Prolog to solve queries, or Word97 macro's combined with Occam (which is very good at parallel computing) or whatever.
Sometimes discussions about Java start to look like discussions about religion. Bad. Scares the hell out of me.
It sure does.
It seems that this software can be used to copy or extract secured data. Which might or could be a little somewhat illegal. But hey, you can use a computer to crack software... So I guess they should lock me up because I own a computer.
There is something I do not understand: if a vast majority of the public believes it is OK to copy software or electronic content, how can it be there exist laws to prohibit copying? I mean most of us live in democratic countries, don't we?
Isn't the US the country where you can legally purchase a gun but where killing people is illigal? I mean that's actually somehow (not totally) the same. You have got a tool, you use a tool...
You confuse me...
You forgot to mention s*x!
However, I'm not sure yet which takes more damage during the act, my genitals or my ears...
Anyway, as I understand the article, only half of my hearing capabilities will be damaged if my girlfriend screams MP3 encoded, because my ears have been calibrated using analog screaming (the vintage stuff).
I think I can live with it either way...
The difference with a phone or a letter is the billboard or library functionality the internet provides. You can publish any information public to the entire world... Phonecalls end and a letters arrive, but some information on the internet will stay...
Anyway, I think scanning all accessible information - especcialy if we are talking about emails and chat sessions - would be a major violation of privacy laws.
Second, what does this mean for sites or forms of communication which are restricted to certain users/members? I mean if one is a member, by payment, by job or whatever other means of a site or mailinglist providing religious, pr0n0graphic, research or even terrorsit information what right do they have to scan these 'private areas'. I mean, hey, the CIA, FBI nor ATF have anything to do with the amount of beer I keep in my java & web enabled refrigidator...
And at last I cannot image how anyone would accomplish such a task. I mean to monitor the all work being published would - I guess - take one 'spy' on each six or so people publishing. Perhaps the US government just wants their own people to turn each other in... Something similar to the system used in eastern Germany while it still was a communist country...
Perhaps publishing under DMCA would... No, fuck that.
How are they going to realize this? I mean the FTP service should have access to a lot of critical files of the system. I mean it should be able to access /etc, /var, some directory containing binaries, etc., etc...
Am I stupid or something? Why don't they turn on ssh, rsh, rpc or telnet?
Or do they mean we all can access some /pub by FTP? That would be cool: mget *
Hmmm. Anyway... ping -l 65510 chip.nasa.gov ?
Do people or companies still believe in advertising on internet? I cannot image bigger banners will do ANY good, both to the public and the advertisers. I mean: giel: BIGGER BANNERS TO ME IS THE SAME AS SHOUTING IN A CHATBOX! In other words: bad habit.
So in the end who is the one to suffer from all boycots? Yes, the Artist...
Anyway in the current copyright laws copying is defined like stealing. In my opinion it is these laws that should change. An example:
If a say 'Moo!' and ten people listen to me, does that differ from when I say 'Moo!' and a billion people happen to listen? Yes, a lot more people are listening. No, the effort involved for me is the same. Are the words arriving in their ears copies of what I said? I guess they are not. So?
However if we were not talking about words but about songs recorded digitally the whole scenario changes because of copyright laws. Well in my thoughts it's in the nature of digital data and the way computers process it that its being copied.
Cool! I imagine what a motercyclist will look like during or after an accident, I guess like this: the (good old) Michelin-guy.
SU researchers probably will have to clone stem cells of human embryos, which is something different (in my opinion) than cloning human embryos.
Still an interesting question remains. If they will clone stem cells, will that be a next step to the cloning of human beings? Usually having a technique means it will be used...
Huh? It seems I must have missed something important...
As far as I knew the TCP/IP architecture was designed to provide a very failsafe and reliable network which should be able to keep running if half of it would be blasted away by a nuclear attack.
But it isn't? Damn... Hey, let's not tell it to the American government!
Personally I don't like the idea of big companies providing nationwide WiFi access. In the Netherlands there are a number of local initiatives working on WiFi access in a number of cities, and I'd hate to see the hard work of these people being spoiled by big telco's or ISP's...
The question more or less is can one prevent them from doing so?
My guess is yes...
The frequencies on which Wi-Fi networking is based are free to the public, right? So anyone can use them, right? It appears to me that the frequencies used for WiFi are near those of microwaves (2.??GHz), so my guess is perhaps one could 'nuke' such a network with a slightly modified microwave...
Before the bombardement there was no water on Mars, so the O2 factory was of no use.
The aliens must have built it after the bombardment!
Copyright on an idea is called a patent, for as far as I know...
In Holland ABN AMRO "de Bank" (ie. the Bank), copyrighted the italic printing of the article "de". I'm afraid it is possible to copyright quite a lot and even rather strange stuff.
Publishing price or sales information IMHO cannot be be a violation of the DMCA, it could however violate certain privacy rules...
Besides of having doubts Will being the man for the job, I am quite afraid they will even spoil the original story. I mean that happens in a lot of (American) movies...
Imagine the movie ending with a happy robot-man, robot-wife, two robot-kids (girl & boy), living in a big robot-house, surrounded by nice robot-flowers and a nive big and shiny robot-car... and a Will Smith song...
OUCH.
IMHO using Struts (and web applications in general) you cannot build true MVC based applications.
The MVC model defines more communication options and knowledge between objects that Struts is able to provide. MVC is event driven, a Struts application is driven by actions (post or get).
The Structs framework, as I understand it, in general works like this:
- A http request is sent to some dispatch. This dispatch converts the request into an 'action'.
- The action is executed and returns a new request, either for a JSP or some other Template to be rendered or a new action.
Using MVC a view contains components that have corresponding controllers. The view is usually a predefined API to a collection of widgets (like AWT, Swing, etc.). The controller is built of events bound to the widgets.
Struts calls the jsp's the view, the actions the controller and the back-end or business logic you define the model.
However MVC allows the model to interact with the view, and there is no way you can be sure you will be able to do so with a web page, because HTTP only supports polling and not pushing if you want to keep things browser independant.
Well that's why I would not dare to say Struts implements MVC for web applications, but I must admit it provides a very nice framework.
"Einstein said that he thought in images and even muscular sensations," says John Stachel, a physicist and the founding editor of the Papers Project. "The hardest part for him was to translate his findings back into language that others could understand."
Sounds like the good man was addicted to drugs. And yes, I can image it is really hard to translate an LSD trip into language others can understand. However a real artist will be able to do so.
Tracking the behaviour of 1.5 million people. And all these people are aware they are being tracked? And they did agree?
I can't believe it...
PS. Watch out! You computer has an IP address...
Perhaps you should try to become famous, posting on slashdot might be a nice start...