I've been useing OS X for a year, coming from a UNIX background. I've been bitten several times by assumptions about how things should be, but nothing _too_ bad.
In the time that I've been useing it, OS X has been getting more unixy, and I think it will continue to be so.
Research In motion is a fantasic company. (disclaimer: Canadian.). The concept of companies being 'great' came from the U.S., but there's not a lot of that going on now (in Canada or the U.S..)
We need a new golden age of geeks. Linux and open source aren't enough. We need to have more impact on the society around us, and that can only come through political activity.
Your vote counts. Your voice can be heard. You just need to speak up.
The slow operation of the gates -- some required seconds to settle -- underscores the fact that the work was part of a research project.
Ok. I could build an AND gate out of teenage girls and cell phones that would settle within an order of magnitude of this. (yes I'm trying to be funny, but the statement is true).
It's an interesting project, but that's a long way to go....
Yes I have. And that's exactly my point. I understand XML as a product of thinking "OK. We've got the storage, we've got the computing power, let's stop storing our data in binary and make it readable by humans.". If XML is unreadable, even without knowing what program wrote it, it fails to live up to it's promise.
The most important question, besides if the MS Word XML format will be well-documented enough,...
WTF!? XML shouldn't need to be documented. The whole point is to create a human readable file that is parseble by computer. If MS Word delivers an XML file that I can't figure out, it's not XML.
The first generation doesn't look that impressive, as shown by the selling points given by the author. Thinner cables, up to a meter long?? Ok, sounds nice, but not worth paying extra for, for my needs. Serial ATA wil debut at 150 mb/s, not really an improvment at all.
The author then goes on to note that the 'roadmap' calls for the 2006 version to run at 600mb/s, which fits nicely with my roadmap to world domination in 2005....Ummmm, yeah, we'll see.
Although looking at the list of upcoming products and the manufactures making them, I don't doubt we'll all be useing this in a few years.
The sad thing is, panip has already had success doing this. Many victims settled out of court, as they couldn't take the financial risk. Of course, if they don't settle, panip mysteriously stops bothering them. This is blackmail, pure and simple.
In the last story on these guy (last week), it mentioned that amazon 'had no comment' on the ongoing lawsuits.
If I was in charge of an e-biz, and had a bit of cash in the kitty, you can be sure that it'd be going to the panip defendants war chest. This threatens every company in the world. Panip has decided that they are going to patent every piece of obvious technology left on the floor, and try to leverage themselves towards a big payday.
I thinks they're talking about linking together several (5-20?) large computers over fat pipes, rather than many small ones. Although seeing that all of Canada's reasearch computing power is less than that of the University of Southern Florida, that might not mean much.
Yeah. OOP is a fake, and that's why we're useing it every day.
I don't get your post. I agree AI will not first be achieved as a web-service, but that doesn't make the technology invalid. The parent wasn't saying anything about AI.
i generly find rms's writing a bit, uhhhh, well, you know. But he always has something interesting to say. This article is dead on. Unfortunately, he's preaching to the converted.
Genetically-modified animals can be created simply by washing sperm, swishing it in a centrifuge with an additional gene, and using the altered sperm for artificial insemination, say Italian researchers
Hmmmm. Sounds pretty simple to me. In the article they say the key is to remove all the interferon-1 from the surface of the sperm, and that they had a 57% success rate. Of course, there's always the problem of getting the gene to insert in the first place.
Guys, Galieo had a look at this one, once. Thinks about it. Objects of different masses accelerate at the same rate in a uniform gravitational field. The duct-tape anology is perfectly correct also.
It's not much of a collection right now, but the quality level is high. Especially good is 'How to Think Like a Computer Scientist', a good introduction to programming that lives up to the title. It covers several languages.
Three weeks after puchasing 'Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Ed.', I found some time to dig into it. A few pages into it, I was suprised to discover the sentence; 'The authors have chosen to make this book freely available under the GNU Free Documentation License'.
Well, I kinda with I had my $40, but I was glad in the end to have paid for it. Kudos to O'Reilly, Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet for doing it, like I need another reason to like O'Reilly. I hope examples like these will encourage others to do the same, after all, free software can be close to useless without documentation.
You have stumbled on one part of the core culture of/. Info about 'free-as-in-beer' is available in the faq. See also; 'free-as-in-speech', 'imagine a bewoulf cluster of these', 'FP! w00t!!', etc.
Debian has a 'social contract' and an ethos that is a mirror of linux itself. Sometimes I think that means it'll never get a wickedly polished install, because hackers know how to install it and don't want to spend time on something trivial.
But then I look at the package install system, and hope springs anew.
Regardless, my Debian install is a linux-mips, root on nfs, SGI Indy, installed via netboot. Obviously not something the 'average user' is going to be doing. But the fact that I was able to do it with only a few hickups in the install impressed the hell out of me.
Hmmmmm. On my G4 top shows the window manager taking 15 meg registered pages and 81megs virtual, which we all know don't count.
I also havn't noticed the 'massive speed hits' you mention. Even when viewing a DVD with 3 layers of semi-transparent windows displaying AA text over it. Huh. Doesn't seem to be choking.
I would also argue that useing OpenGL to render to screen is a good option. Most video cards today have a lot of proccessing power devoted to 3D rendering, and pure 2D isn't much of a priority. Don't expect anyone to bring out 128 bit floating point color anytime soon in a 2D incarnation.
Well, judging from your nick, you're a BeOS fan. I don't know tons about BeOS, but I hear that they know multimedia. Os X looks pretty damn good to me, though.
OS X uses a many layered aproach to getting graphics on screen. Without going into too many details, there's Quartz2D, PDF, OpenGL, AGL, etc.
Sadly, none of these have anything to do with X windows. You can install OroborOSX (great software) on OS X, which gives you an x client and server, but you still can't acces Mac apps from another X-box.
I love Mac OS X, and a native X windows on it is my fondest wish for the thing. But I don't see Apple doing that any time soon.
Yes. The extension covers changing bpp. Infact, it's the same problem.
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I didn't include Palestine because I was sure it would cause alot of OT postings. As it did.... Oh well...
But you're right, and I don't see your post as a troll, as you seemed to get my point. My point was that in many places you're going to get people unhappy about the political overtones of a name, even if you don't recognize it as political. Hawaii is a very good example. There IS an independance movement in Hawaii, even if you never hear about it.
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In the time that I've been useing it, OS X has been getting more unixy, and I think it will continue to be so.
Get the powerbook. OS X will make you very happy.
IMHO, X + fink + OroborOSX is the best enviorment imaginable. Yes it's expensive, no it's not quite Unix, but wow!
We need a new golden age of geeks. Linux and open source aren't enough. We need to have more impact on the society around us, and that can only come through political activity.
Your vote counts. Your voice can be heard. You just need to speak up.
It's an interesting project, but that's a long way to go....
Mod Parent up. Some of us might knopw what an NP problen is, but this guy laid down the hard facts.
Yes I have. And that's exactly my point. I understand XML as a product of thinking "OK. We've got the storage, we've got the computing power, let's stop storing our data in binary and make it readable by humans.". If XML is unreadable, even without knowing what program wrote it, it fails to live up to it's promise.
WTF!? XML shouldn't need to be documented. The whole point is to create a human readable file that is parseble by computer. If MS Word delivers an XML file that I can't figure out, it's not XML.
What!?!?!?!?! Thats crazy. Oh, and btw, I have a nive Vax for sale, $20 + shipping. Obviously a great deal for the likes of you.
The author then goes on to note that the 'roadmap' calls for the 2006 version to run at 600mb/s, which fits nicely with my roadmap to world domination in 2005. ...Ummmm, yeah, we'll see.
Although looking at the list of upcoming products and the manufactures making them, I don't doubt we'll all be useing this in a few years.
The sad thing is, panip has already had success doing this. Many victims settled out of court, as they couldn't take the financial risk. Of course, if they don't settle, panip mysteriously stops bothering them. This is blackmail, pure and simple.
If I was in charge of an e-biz, and had a bit of cash in the kitty, you can be sure that it'd be going to the panip defendants war chest. This threatens every company in the world. Panip has decided that they are going to patent every piece of obvious technology left on the floor, and try to leverage themselves towards a big payday.
You'ld think there'd be a law or something.....
I don't get your post. I agree AI will not first be achieved as a web-service, but that doesn't make the technology invalid. The parent wasn't saying anything about AI.
i generly find rms's writing a bit, uhhhh, well, you know. But he always has something interesting to say. This article is dead on. Unfortunately, he's preaching to the converted.
Guys, Galieo had a look at this one, once. Thinks about it. Objects of different masses accelerate at the same rate in a uniform gravitational field. The duct-tape anology is perfectly correct also.
If I got my GPS working on Mars, and then had it knocked out by a gamma-ray, I'd be pissed. :-)
It's not much of a collection right now, but the quality level is high. Especially good is 'How to Think Like a Computer Scientist', a good introduction to programming that lives up to the title. It covers several languages.
Well, I kinda with I had my $40, but I was glad in the end to have paid for it. Kudos to O'Reilly, Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet for doing it, like I need another reason to like O'Reilly. I hope examples like these will encourage others to do the same, after all, free software can be close to useless without documentation.
You have stumbled on one part of the core culture of /. Info about 'free-as-in-beer' is available in the faq. See also; 'free-as-in-speech', 'imagine a bewoulf cluster of these', 'FP! w00t!!', etc.
But then I look at the package install system, and hope springs anew.
Regardless, my Debian install is a linux-mips, root on nfs, SGI Indy, installed via netboot. Obviously not something the 'average user' is going to be doing. But the fact that I was able to do it with only a few hickups in the install impressed the hell out of me.
I also havn't noticed the 'massive speed hits' you mention. Even when viewing a DVD with 3 layers of semi-transparent windows displaying AA text over it. Huh. Doesn't seem to be choking.
I would also argue that useing OpenGL to render to screen is a good option. Most video cards today have a lot of proccessing power devoted to 3D rendering, and pure 2D isn't much of a priority. Don't expect anyone to bring out 128 bit floating point color anytime soon in a 2D incarnation.
Well, judging from your nick, you're a BeOS fan. I don't know tons about BeOS, but I hear that they know multimedia. Os X looks pretty damn good to me, though.
Sadly, none of these have anything to do with X windows. You can install OroborOSX (great software) on OS X, which gives you an x client and server, but you still can't acces Mac apps from another X-box.
I love Mac OS X, and a native X windows on it is my fondest wish for the thing. But I don't see Apple doing that any time soon.
Yes. The extension covers changing bpp. Infact, it's the same problem.
But you're right, and I don't see your post as a troll, as you seemed to get my point. My point was that in many places you're going to get people unhappy about the political overtones of a name, even if you don't recognize it as political. Hawaii is a very good example. There IS an independance movement in Hawaii, even if you never hear about it.