I meant more towards the smartphones with full QUERTY keyboards. I agree, trying to type out commands on the standard 10-digit pad would be next to impossible... no thanks.
Perhaps not, but on a smartphone it'd be easy to run a SSH client... I'd be willing to settle for that, at least for awhile. The only phone that I know does it right now is the Sidekick, which I have been told is a waste by many. Maybe a sendmail-equilivant too... I can imagine pretty good uses for that.
True, the prices are a bit high, however one of the nice features the e200 series has is a microSD slot to add more capacity to the player. Not entirely sure how large you can get that media in, nor how much it costs... but is a plus to have.
Actually the e200 series works fine on Linux and Windows 2000 (for me at least). My mom got an e250 for Mother's Day and I hooked it up to my Ubuntu box, copied MP3's straight over, no problems. I think for the MTP (media transfer protocol) mode used in Windows Media Player, you need XP. Otherwise the player comes up straight as a flash drive.
I'd have to say somewhere in between. They have found that it lays a great theoretical framework in which it could unify all the known forces within the universe. The major problem is that the mathematics involved are so extremely complex that we can only use it in extremely simplified form, which leaves us with a very basic understanding. One of the pioneers in the field is a man named Ed Witten, who is regarded by many to possibly be one of the smartest men alive. There were many problems with string theory originally, namely 5 different versions of them - Ed unified them all into one framework which he dubbed M-theory.
I just found that PBS has done a wonderful thing and provided The Elegant Universe online as streaming video. Check it out - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html and it will explain a lot of the details of the theory. Brian Greene has done an excellent job of explaining it all very well while abstracting away all the mathematical complexities, so non-scientific people can understand it without much difficulty.
Yeah, GUT is something they've been working on for awhile. The most promising candidate for unification is string theory. You might have been referring to the PBS NOVA special called The Elegant Universe, although I think it was a lot more recent than 10 years ago. Quite a good special - I'd recommend watching it if you havn't... might be able to find a torrent of the show, or Brian Greene's book is also an excellent read.
Cold is defined as the absence of heat. There is no such thing as measuring how "cold" something is - heat is the intrinsic property, cold is just a lack of it.
Same thing with light.
A lack of gravity does not imply anti-gravity. It just means that spacetime is flat in that particular region (and of course we know it's never truly flat, there's always some deviation). Anti-gravity would be akin to emitting gravitons with a "negative gravitational charge" - it's possible in theory and that's about it as far as we've discovered.
Interesting idea but incorrect. The only substance known (and this is entirely theoretical) to create anti-gravity (ie: warp spacetime upwards instead of down - pushing objects away from it) is something called exotic matter. This has never been discovered nor created in a laboratory IIRC but theory seems to predict it's existance.
I'd love to see Picasa ported to Linux... right now I'm stuck using VMPlayer w/ a W2k virtual machine. It works, but not very nicely. On the other hand, GUI performance on Windows is quite good, I have a feeling it wouldn't run quite as well under X at the moment.
As sorry as I am for all the victims of Katrina, I'm sure many Slashdotters are aware - there is a much larger at-risk area - namely Silicon Valley. San Jose and the like are practically right on the San Andreas fault IIRC. Once it finally ruptures, it'll be all over like nothing we've seen before.
The NSA/NCSC has created classifications for trusted-OS classifications, this is quite different from standard government security levels (classified, secret, top secret, etc) - You can learn more about them at CSU
These are only for the OS itself - any other hardware and software must be approved as well for true secure system. I'd recommend the submitter take a closer look into exactly how secure the system must be.
I agree with your comments but I think it's highly dependant upon how secure the system needs to be. Find it very unlikely it will be running a trusted OS(classification A, B, or C) since it will be doing CAD work - I'm not familiar with Solidworks or OrCAD but I'm willing to guess they run on Windows... which is far from a trusted OS environment as we all know. However to give MS credit, do recall a professor who was a former NSA employee stating that a version of Windows NT achieved a C2 trusted rating.
You're right, seperation does carry very little overhead compared to other methods of virtualization, however you still have the host OS kernel to deal with and interface through.
I believe the most efficient method would be to have the host OS run an exokernel, which is being researched at MIT. Basically, an exokernel allows processes to have complete control of the system, allowing them to finely tune their resource usage (among other things) to maximize performance. For example, a database server or file server could customize the file-caching parameters and memory usage for optimal usage.
Giving a virtualization process this kind of control would greatly improve things, and I think eventually if part of this virtualization back-end is placed into the kernel, we could achieve OS-level abstraction - one of the holy grails of modern CS.
I'd be inclined to agree - maybe I'm just uneducated on the topic, but what harmful side-effects can possibly come from wearing nanofiber pants? I can understand some of the concern for the nanotechnology used in testing drugs and such, but a pair of khakis??
I mean, come on people - we are decades away from Borg-type nanotechnology.
Again, another agreement. I avoid XP and later like the plague, 2k is their most stable OS yet. There are a few features in XP I'd like in 2k but overall they are more annoyances than anything else.
projectM is a Milkdrop clone which has ports for WinAmp, iTunes, and XMMS. It does a pretty good job replicating Milkdrop's functionality, been using it for awhile now on X... although there are many features it is lacking. It's great to hear Milkdrop is finally being open-sourced, let's hope projectM can work better as a result.
I recall that one as well. I was slightly shocked there were as many of us as there were. Interesting story too.
How does a gene "know" when to strengthen a synapse permanently and when to let a fleeting moment fade unrecorded?
But regardless, I thought we knew one of (if not the primary) factor involved - it's proportional to the strength of the emotion tied to the memory. Anyone?
Perhaps you're right - but one thing I did notice is on their website: "Polyphonic HMI has developed proprietary music analysis technologies capable of identifying music preferences of a user or the whole current recorded music market and intelligently selecting music to recommend to the user...".
Now the way I interpret that is - their software has the capability of identifying one particular user's preference for music, and then analyzing results from all other songs, suggesting ones that match.
If this is the case, my reaction is quite different from the rest of the crowd - I think this is marvelous! If people had the capacity to run such a search, it would help identify target bands/songs to listen to... I know I would love having time to sit around and play with the thing for a few days. Even if it's not entirely accurate, still giving a few good hits would prove to be most useful. Although TZ, I can completely relate as well as I don't think that many people find "Cluster One" one of their all-time favorite songs.
I say open source it! Dream on, I know, but it's a wonderful thought. Eventually one day we might have the ability for this on the desktop.
Oh and to all the people who's first reaction to complain and say "music's gonna suck now, etc"... all I have to say is: The problem isn't with the technology - it's the (mis)use of it that causes problems.
Overcharging like this is simple dishonesty and intimidation on the part of the authorities and serves to reduce my respect for them.
They lost my respect a long time ago. However, that being said, I can understand their concern with the issue. I do not find fault for that, but if this man was to serve out the full term, that would be entirely overkill.
Since the feds found (from what I read) no evidence whatsoever he was intently trying to cause harm or other terrorist-like actions, the term should be significantly reduced; little if any jail time.
I'm curious though, I wonder if this guy is what I saw the other night in the sky - the article claims he's from Parsippany, NJ; I live in the town directly north of there. Not sure if this is where he operated his "terrorist" plans from, I would assume so if he was with his daughter.
"There are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force. "You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth."
That's exactly the phrase that caught my eye.
I wonder - when will the geniuses we have elected to run this country finally realize that their proposed solution to the problem will never work? Or will they continue to live in the state of dementia they currently occupy?
Slashdot Mirror
I meant more towards the smartphones with full QUERTY keyboards. I agree, trying to type out commands on the standard 10-digit pad would be next to impossible... no thanks.
Perhaps not, but on a smartphone it'd be easy to run a SSH client... I'd be willing to settle for that, at least for awhile. The only phone that I know does it right now is the Sidekick, which I have been told is a waste by many. Maybe a sendmail-equilivant too... I can imagine pretty good uses for that.
Here's mine (at least the current one)... it ends up getting edited often enough:
/etc/apt/sources.list /tmp /tmp/sources.list | sed 's/^# deb/deb/' > /etc/apt/sources.list /tmp/sources.list
mv
cat
rm
apt-get update
apt-get --assume-yes install gawk gkrellm gkrellmwho2 gftp unrar-free
apt-get --assume-yes install libxine-extracodecs libdvdread3 xmms xmms-dev madman totem-xine-firefox-plugin
apt-get --assume-yes install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
apt-get --assume-yes install ssh samba
True, the prices are a bit high, however one of the nice features the e200 series has is a microSD slot to add more capacity to the player. Not entirely sure how large you can get that media in, nor how much it costs... but is a plus to have.
Actually the e200 series works fine on Linux and Windows 2000 (for me at least). My mom got an e250 for Mother's Day and I hooked it up to my Ubuntu box, copied MP3's straight over, no problems. I think for the MTP (media transfer protocol) mode used in Windows Media Player, you need XP. Otherwise the player comes up straight as a flash drive.
I'd have to say somewhere in between. They have found that it lays a great theoretical framework in which it could unify all the known forces within the universe. The major problem is that the mathematics involved are so extremely complex that we can only use it in extremely simplified form, which leaves us with a very basic understanding. One of the pioneers in the field is a man named Ed Witten, who is regarded by many to possibly be one of the smartest men alive. There were many problems with string theory originally, namely 5 different versions of them - Ed unified them all into one framework which he dubbed M-theory.
I just found that PBS has done a wonderful thing and provided The Elegant Universe online as streaming video. Check it out - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html and it will explain a lot of the details of the theory. Brian Greene has done an excellent job of explaining it all very well while abstracting away all the mathematical complexities, so non-scientific people can understand it without much difficulty.
Yeah, GUT is something they've been working on for awhile. The most promising candidate for unification is string theory. You might have been referring to the PBS NOVA special called The Elegant Universe, although I think it was a lot more recent than 10 years ago. Quite a good special - I'd recommend watching it if you havn't... might be able to find a torrent of the show, or Brian Greene's book is also an excellent read.
Exactly.
Cold is defined as the absence of heat. There is no such thing as measuring how "cold" something is - heat is the intrinsic property, cold is just a lack of it.
Same thing with light.
A lack of gravity does not imply anti-gravity. It just means that spacetime is flat in that particular region (and of course we know it's never truly flat, there's always some deviation). Anti-gravity would be akin to emitting gravitons with a "negative gravitational charge" - it's possible in theory and that's about it as far as we've discovered.
Interesting idea but incorrect. The only substance known (and this is entirely theoretical) to create anti-gravity (ie: warp spacetime upwards instead of down - pushing objects away from it) is something called exotic matter. This has never been discovered nor created in a laboratory IIRC but theory seems to predict it's existance.
I thought it was SOH-CAH-TOA?
I'd love to see Picasa ported to Linux... right now I'm stuck using VMPlayer w/ a W2k virtual machine. It works, but not very nicely. On the other hand, GUI performance on Windows is quite good, I have a feeling it wouldn't run quite as well under X at the moment.
As sorry as I am for all the victims of Katrina, I'm sure many Slashdotters are aware - there is a much larger at-risk area - namely Silicon Valley. San Jose and the like are practically right on the San Andreas fault IIRC. Once it finally ruptures, it'll be all over like nothing we've seen before.
The NSA/NCSC has created classifications for trusted-OS classifications, this is quite different from standard government security levels (classified, secret, top secret, etc) - You can learn more about them at CSU
These are only for the OS itself - any other hardware and software must be approved as well for true secure system. I'd recommend the submitter take a closer look into exactly how secure the system must be.
I agree with your comments but I think it's highly dependant upon how secure the system needs to be. Find it very unlikely it will be running a trusted OS(classification A, B, or C) since it will be doing CAD work - I'm not familiar with Solidworks or OrCAD but I'm willing to guess they run on Windows... which is far from a trusted OS environment as we all know. However to give MS credit, do recall a professor who was a former NSA employee stating that a version of Windows NT achieved a C2 trusted rating.
You're right, seperation does carry very little overhead compared to other methods of virtualization, however you still have the host OS kernel to deal with and interface through.
I believe the most efficient method would be to have the host OS run an exokernel, which is being researched at MIT. Basically, an exokernel allows processes to have complete control of the system, allowing them to finely tune their resource usage (among other things) to maximize performance. For example, a database server or file server could customize the file-caching parameters and memory usage for optimal usage.
Giving a virtualization process this kind of control would greatly improve things, and I think eventually if part of this virtualization back-end is placed into the kernel, we could achieve OS-level abstraction - one of the holy grails of modern CS.
I'd be inclined to agree - maybe I'm just uneducated on the topic, but what harmful side-effects can possibly come from wearing nanofiber pants? I can understand some of the concern for the nanotechnology used in testing drugs and such, but a pair of khakis??
I mean, come on people - we are decades away from Borg-type nanotechnology.
Again, another agreement. I avoid XP and later like the plague, 2k is their most stable OS yet. There are a few features in XP I'd like in 2k but overall they are more annoyances than anything else.
Milkdrop uses DirectX AFAIK, projectM uses OpenGL (written in C).
projectM is a Milkdrop clone which has ports for WinAmp, iTunes, and XMMS. It does a pretty good job replicating Milkdrop's functionality, been using it for awhile now on X... although there are many features it is lacking. It's great to hear Milkdrop is finally being open-sourced, let's hope projectM can work better as a result.
I think this is excellent. Even if they get nothing, I still think it's a step in the right direction. Let the people be aware of what's going on.
But regardless, I thought we knew one of (if not the primary) factor involved - it's proportional to the strength of the emotion tied to the memory. Anyone?
Perhaps you're right - but one thing I did notice is on their website: "Polyphonic HMI has developed proprietary music analysis technologies capable of identifying music preferences of a user or the whole current recorded music market and intelligently selecting music to recommend to the user...".
Now the way I interpret that is - their software has the capability of identifying one particular user's preference for music, and then analyzing results from all other songs, suggesting ones that match.
If this is the case, my reaction is quite different from the rest of the crowd - I think this is marvelous! If people had the capacity to run such a search, it would help identify target bands/songs to listen to... I know I would love having time to sit around and play with the thing for a few days. Even if it's not entirely accurate, still giving a few good hits would prove to be most useful. Although TZ, I can completely relate as well as I don't think that many people find "Cluster One" one of their all-time favorite songs.
I say open source it! Dream on, I know, but it's a wonderful thought. Eventually one day we might have the ability for this on the desktop.
Oh and to all the people who's first reaction to complain and say "music's gonna suck now, etc"... all I have to say is: The problem isn't with the technology - it's the (mis)use of it that causes problems.
Since the feds found (from what I read) no evidence whatsoever he was intently trying to cause harm or other terrorist-like actions, the term should be significantly reduced; little if any jail time.
I'm curious though, I wonder if this guy is what I saw the other night in the sky - the article claims he's from Parsippany, NJ; I live in the town directly north of there. Not sure if this is where he operated his "terrorist" plans from, I would assume so if he was with his daughter.
I wonder - when will the geniuses we have elected to run this country finally realize that their proposed solution to the problem will never work? Or will they continue to live in the state of dementia they currently occupy?