Needless to say, as long as Linux distributions and desktop managers continue to proliferate, the average user's requirements will never be met. I say this as a *fact* not a *prescription*, so spare me the Linux-strength-in-diversity comments
Or little by little the linux descktop will become something that looks like say... OSX. And every one will be happy.
Yeah I think if they put enough effort into it the sun distribution could become something big.
They already have a good reputation. I would exepect their product to be stable and well designed. Plus they are direct competition to Microsft. (Sun + Java) = (Windows + C#.net).
Plus it has the advantage of being compatible with free software!
Its an ok computer but not much speed. I dunno why this is making Slashdot headlines. Two years ago I used to work on a dual 900 MHz Sun Blade. Now that was fast. Although You had to spend more then 10k to get one.
Please I don't understand clearly. I read the article and I see that SCO wants AIX code. Why is this required? Doesn't SCO have the code they claim copyright to? Should they just have to compare this code to the code in Linux?? Maybe also the Linux change log to see where the code comes from.
To find some infringment they should just need Linux's code and their own right??? Why can't they tell which part is infringing from that?
I agree with you. I bought a computer with almost the same hardware than you and I had a lot of trouble.
I have to say that it is not Debian's fault though. I tryed many distributions and most of them didn't work very well. (Red Hat, Debian, Knoppix even)
I suspect its because the hardware is new, and the new drivers are not included in these ditros.
I ended up trying Mandrake 9.2. And it worked whitout a flaw. This distro was release about a month ago and they aren't scared of including all the latest technology in it so it has all the new drivers. Of course because they use all the new packages you get a system that is a lot less stable, but it works.
I guess the lesson is that you can't run Linux on a brand new computer. Your hardware has to be at least a few months old before it is supported by distros.
And for the network card thing, there is 2 on our board (I have the exact same as you) but I can only get one of them to work in mandrake (the 3com). The other one doesn't work.
"16. Why does SCO require an NDA to be signed to view evidence of UNIX System IP in Linux?
Showing proof of UNIX System V IP in Linux requires SCO to disclose UNIX System source code. SCO is obligated to protect this source code, both to preserve its value to SCO and its shareholders, as well as to prevent devaluation of the source code that it has licensed (at considerable expense) to many customers. Thus SCO will not exhibit UNIX System source code to anyone except under protection of an NDA or a UNIX System source code license. The NDA only applies to the UNIX System source code; it doesn't restrict the disclosure of other materials and information presented in the IP discussion."
But the code is already available to anyone who wants to see it. The damage has been done. (if there is any) We are not asking to see their code, just to tell us what part of the already available code is infringing. How would that cause devaluation of their code???
Actually this is not a good method. The least significant bit of text is not less random than images. It is often even more random.
I have read a paper on this and they used the opposite method than what you propose. They assumed images have sections which are not very random. (most images contains some areas with uniform color) If the least significant byte of an image is very random compared to the other bytes it can indicate steganography.
Of course you have to ajust the thresholds to account fo the differecence in randomness due to the different image compression algorithms.
Also you get a lot of false positive if the image has been taken with a inexpensive digital cameras. These cameras will put some noise in the whole image which makes it look like there migh be a message in there.
anyways this technique can filter out a bunch of images (something like 50%) that you can be pretty sure contains no steganogrphy. But the other 50% I don't know how you would find out.
The task is very hard when the hidden text has been encripted prior to encoding in the image, so you can't look for patters inherent in text.
Ideally yes, but I think in the real world one cannot stay competitive without cutting corners. Its the nature of capitalism.
This sort of reasoning where people should be subjected to extreme ideal standards sort of annoy me. I see it everywhere: The work safety comity where I work, who threatens to call the police every time repairmen come in because apparently they don't meet the safety standards. The people who wants me to waste my time listing every software installed on my computer so that they can verify the exact number of licenses we must own. Also there is always the ethics comity, who will burry me in red tape when I want to send a simple survey to a group of people as part of my research. If I did all these people wanted I would barely ever be doing any useful work!
Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgghh
Ok sorry I had to vent.
For example, if I wanted to do vector calculations in Java, I'd make a vector class and overload operations for addition, cross product, dot product, etc. Then I'd have a really convenient way to do vector calculations. A C implementation would be messier, but might end up being more efficient.
I have to defend the editors here. Maybe there is not a privileged reading but this is not the point. The reading of the editors has been harmed by the deception they have been subjected to. The reading of the editors included the fact that they had acquired a trust in the authors of papers submitted to them. They did not need to verify every details of an article they didn't understand because the trust in the authors filled that void. If they knew some people were trying to deceive them, maybe they would have been doing reading based on the submitted article only and not on trust. Doing extensive research and reading every article they planned to publish would not have been practical and not necessary assuming the trust I mentioned.
I think Sokal made a point here but not a strong one. If he had anonymously warned the editors beforehand that a bogus article was coming and that they had to be watchful. They wouldn't have relied on trust to judge articles. If they still could not detect the bogus article then Sokal would have made a really strong point.
Trying to understand how language works is almost like trying to understand how we think. Some people have suggested that a lot of our thoughs are made of an internal dialog. Language is created in our brain by HUGE neural networks that cannot by accurately modeled by simple statistical models.
Now, if a language is grammatically correct and structually sound, it is a little bit easyer for a computer to analyse. This is almost never the case. People deform language while still conveying somewhat clear ideas. So the deformation is not a big drawback for us. But for a computer to analyse language that is not structurally perfect it is a lot harder.
Pinker also wrote "Words and Rules" a little later wich is a nice introduction to NLP for the general public.(He also wrote "How the Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate")
He really makes it more interesting than my NLP textbooks by inserting comic strips and other amusements with each different subjects.
I have to mention Pinker is a psychologist so there is not much explanation on the programming, machine learning, or statsitical.
Also if you are interested in the psychological side read Ray Jackendoff.
Comme on 10 cents/hour isn't enough for a Canadian to live on. Minimum salary is at lease 59 cents (17 cents US) in most provinces.
How can you buy good quality snow to build your Igloo when you are living on 10c?! How would you be able to affford a fence to protect your family from polar bears? HOW!?
You americans make me sick enslavering Canadians with your petifull salaries.
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Well the data structure that was sent was about 2MB before serialization. Now I don't know much about RPC but I asume it must send this data almost "as is", binary representation or whatever. On our fiber optic network it took about 2 seconds to send 2 MB of data.
Now I'm not sure exactly how XML SOAP made it slower. But I assume that it is mostly serializing and deserializing the 2MB data structure. Even if XML overhead trippled the size it would have taken only 6 seconds to send the 6 MB. There would still have been 32 seconds to acount for.
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I have to agree with that. Last year I did a work term in a department where they where converting their software to XML and SOAP. When I came in they asked me to learn XML and SOAP (c++'s gsoap and java soap). We were making and converting distributed applications. Usually with a user client made in java and a c++ server (for performance). After a few weeks into my work term I was still in the processes of working on one of these SOAP servers when finally one group finished converting one of our main product. When they went to test it they discovered it was too slow to use. When the user on the client side wanted to visualize the results of its database query it took 40 seconds to serialize sent thrue the network (fiber optic network, top of the line computers) deserialize and display the results. It took only 2 seconds with RPC.
They just didn't know how they could explain this to the users. They could not see that the users would understand that in the new and improved program that looks exactly the same as the old one, when they clicked the "visualize" button they had to wait 40 seconds.
Also XML is very cryptic. Has anyone tried to do XSLT? my god I had to do it once and it made a simple task very difficult.
They are many more efficient and intuitive way of visualizing data than XML. XML makes development time very long and costly for some tasks
I think that XML has its uses though. Like for making standard word processor documents, and things like that. But it shouldn't be used everywhere like some people seem to think.
Actually they are not just immoral they are illigal. I'm pretty sure that SCO has to try to resolve the problem by telling Linux developpers what to remove from linux before he can sue for intelletual property.(IP)
If IBM and linux users can prove SCO didn't try to help solve the problem SCO has no case.
This is one place where dear Darl put is foot in his mouth in the CRN interview:
"It's kind of hollow words that we are not showing code, because we have shown examples and if we keep showing it, they'll just take that out and say 'no harm no foul.' That doesn't solve the problem.
"
He explicitely say that he doesn't want to show the code because that would help solve the Infringement. That is very illigal. This is just basic IP law. I'm sure Boies will have to do some damage control on that statement. Not that they had a case anyways.
Disclamer: IANAL. but I did do a project on IP laws in an introduction to law course in college. Although it was for canadian law, I think american laws are very similar.
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Also Chernobyl didn't have the huge concrete walls we are used to see around nuclear reactors. I'm sure that would have helped.
I know, i'm also shivering
I think all keyboards are the same. I have never stumbled upon a keyboard that really made a any difference practical.
For esthetic considerations and cool factor you can always buy that glowing keybord on think geek.
If they can find a way to make this cheapely the aerogel window could revolutionyse insulation technology and save billions.
Needless to say, as long as Linux distributions and desktop managers continue to proliferate, the average user's requirements will never be met. I say this as a *fact* not a *prescription*, so spare me the Linux-strength-in-diversity comments
Or little by little the linux descktop will become something that looks like say... OSX. And every one will be happy.
Yeah I think if they put enough effort into it the sun distribution could become something big.
.net).
Plus it has the advantage of being compatible with free software!
They already have a good reputation. I would exepect their product to be stable and well designed. Plus they are direct competition to Microsft. (Sun + Java) = (Windows + C#
Its an ok computer but not much speed. I dunno why this is making Slashdot headlines. Two years ago I used to work on a dual 900 MHz Sun Blade. Now that was fast. Although You had to spend more then 10k to get one.
Doing Java devellopment with a old laptop 300 MHz 96MB RAM and no mouse. (just the little red thingy in the middle of the keyboard)
Beat that!
you are confusing debt with deficit
Please I don't understand clearly. I read the article and I see that SCO wants AIX code. Why is this required? Doesn't SCO have the code they claim copyright to? Should they just have to compare this code to the code in Linux?? Maybe also the Linux change log to see where the code comes from. To find some infringment they should just need Linux's code and their own right??? Why can't they tell which part is infringing from that?
I agree with you. I bought a computer with almost the same hardware than you and I had a lot of trouble.
I have to say that it is not Debian's fault though. I tryed many distributions and most of them didn't work very well. (Red Hat, Debian, Knoppix even)
I suspect its because the hardware is new, and the new drivers are not included in these ditros.
I ended up trying Mandrake 9.2. And it worked whitout a flaw. This distro was release about a month ago and they aren't scared of including all the latest technology in it so it has all the new drivers. Of course because they use all the new packages you get a system that is a lot less stable, but it works.
I guess the lesson is that you can't run Linux on a brand new computer. Your hardware has to be at least a few months old before it is supported by distros.
And for the network card thing, there is 2 on our board (I have the exact same as you) but I can only get one of them to work in mandrake (the 3com). The other one doesn't work.
I hope that helps a little.
"16. Why does SCO require an NDA to be signed to view evidence of UNIX System IP in Linux? Showing proof of UNIX System V IP in Linux requires SCO to disclose UNIX System source code. SCO is obligated to protect this source code, both to preserve its value to SCO and its shareholders, as well as to prevent devaluation of the source code that it has licensed (at considerable expense) to many customers. Thus SCO will not exhibit UNIX System source code to anyone except under protection of an NDA or a UNIX System source code license. The NDA only applies to the UNIX System source code; it doesn't restrict the disclosure of other materials and information presented in the IP discussion."
But the code is already available to anyone who wants to see it. The damage has been done. (if there is any) We are not asking to see their code, just to tell us what part of the already available code is infringing. How would that cause devaluation of their code???
Actually this is not a good method. The least significant bit of text is not less random than images. It is often even more random.
I have read a paper on this and they used the opposite method than what you propose. They assumed images have sections which are not very random. (most images contains some areas with uniform color) If the least significant byte of an image is very random compared to the other bytes it can indicate steganography.
Of course you have to ajust the thresholds to account fo the differecence in randomness due to the different image compression algorithms.
Also you get a lot of false positive if the image has been taken with a inexpensive digital cameras. These cameras will put some noise in the whole image which makes it look like there migh be a message in there.
anyways this technique can filter out a bunch of images (something like 50%) that you can be pretty sure contains no steganogrphy. But the other 50% I don't know how you would find out.
The task is very hard when the hidden text has been encripted prior to encoding in the image, so you can't look for patters inherent in text.
Ideally yes, but I think in the real world one cannot stay competitive without cutting corners. Its the nature of capitalism.
This sort of reasoning where people should be subjected to extreme ideal standards sort of annoy me. I see it everywhere: The work safety comity where I work, who threatens to call the police every time repairmen come in because apparently they don't meet the safety standards. The people who wants me to waste my time listing every software installed on my computer so that they can verify the exact number of licenses we must own. Also there is always the ethics comity, who will burry me in red tape when I want to send a simple survey to a group of people as part of my research. If I did all these people wanted I would barely ever be doing any useful work! Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgghh Ok sorry I had to vent.
For example, if I wanted to do vector calculations in Java, I'd make a vector class and overload operations for addition, cross product, dot product, etc. Then I'd have a really convenient way to do vector calculations. A C implementation would be messier, but might end up being more efficient.
Use C++ best of both worlds!!!
I have to defend the editors here. Maybe there is not a privileged reading but this is not the point. The reading of the editors has been harmed by the deception they have been subjected to. The reading of the editors included the fact that they had acquired a trust in the authors of papers submitted to them. They did not need to verify every details of an article they didn't understand because the trust in the authors filled that void. If they knew some people were trying to deceive them, maybe they would have been doing reading based on the submitted article only and not on trust. Doing extensive research and reading every article they planned to publish would not have been practical and not necessary assuming the trust I mentioned.
I think Sokal made a point here but not a strong one. If he had anonymously warned the editors beforehand that a bogus article was coming and that they had to be watchful. They wouldn't have relied on trust to judge articles. If they still could not detect the bogus article then Sokal would have made a really strong point.
Trying to understand how language works is almost like trying to understand how we think. Some people have suggested that a lot of our thoughs are made of an internal dialog. Language is created in our brain by HUGE neural networks that cannot by accurately modeled by simple statistical models. Now, if a language is grammatically correct and structually sound, it is a little bit easyer for a computer to analyse. This is almost never the case. People deform language while still conveying somewhat clear ideas. So the deformation is not a big drawback for us. But for a computer to analyse language that is not structurally perfect it is a lot harder.
Pinker also wrote "Words and Rules" a little later wich is a nice introduction to NLP for the general public.(He also wrote "How the Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate")
He really makes it more interesting than my NLP textbooks by inserting comic strips and other amusements with each different subjects.
I have to mention Pinker is a psychologist so there is not much explanation on the programming, machine learning, or statsitical.
Also if you are interested in the psychological side read Ray Jackendoff.
yes, if the browser supports it. (a lot of them do opera, galeon etc.)
This is not true. It is the responsability of the managment to know.
And even if your peon thery holds. IBM could use the exact same argument. We didn't know we put code in. It was just one of our peons.
Comme on 10 cents/hour isn't enough for a Canadian to live on. Minimum salary is at lease 59 cents (17 cents US) in most provinces.
How can you buy good quality snow to build your Igloo when you are living on 10c?! How would you be able to affford a fence to protect your family from polar bears? HOW!?
You americans make me sick enslavering Canadians with your petifull salaries.
Well the data structure that was sent was about 2MB before serialization. Now I don't know much about RPC but I asume it must send this data almost "as is", binary representation or whatever. On our fiber optic network it took about 2 seconds to send 2 MB of data.
Now I'm not sure exactly how XML SOAP made it slower. But I assume that it is mostly serializing and deserializing the 2MB data structure. Even if XML overhead trippled the size it would have taken only 6 seconds to send the 6 MB. There would still have been 32 seconds to acount for.
I have to agree with that. Last year I did a work term in a department where they where converting their software to XML and SOAP. When I came in they asked me to learn XML and SOAP (c++'s gsoap and java soap). We were making and converting distributed applications. Usually with a user client made in java and a c++ server (for performance). After a few weeks into my work term I was still in the processes of working on one of these SOAP servers when finally one group finished converting one of our main product. When they went to test it they discovered it was too slow to use. When the user on the client side wanted to visualize the results of its database query it took 40 seconds to serialize sent thrue the network (fiber optic network, top of the line computers) deserialize and display the results. It took only 2 seconds with RPC.
They just didn't know how they could explain this to the users. They could not see that the users would understand that in the new and improved program that looks exactly the same as the old one, when they clicked the "visualize" button they had to wait 40 seconds.
Also XML is very cryptic. Has anyone tried to do XSLT? my god I had to do it once and it made a simple task very difficult. They are many more efficient and intuitive way of visualizing data than XML. XML makes development time very long and costly for some tasks
I think that XML has its uses though. Like for making standard word processor documents, and things like that. But it shouldn't be used everywhere like some people seem to think.
Actually it is more likelly that it will be a problem with Bluetooth because it operate at the exact same frequency as the ovens (1.4 GHz)
These are immoral acts.
Actually they are not just immoral they are illigal. I'm pretty sure that SCO has to try to resolve the problem by telling Linux developpers what to remove from linux before he can sue for intelletual property.(IP)
If IBM and linux users can prove SCO didn't try to help solve the problem SCO has no case.
This is one place where dear Darl put is foot in his mouth in the CRN interview:
"It's kind of hollow words that we are not showing code, because we have shown examples and if we keep showing it, they'll just take that out and say 'no harm no foul.' That doesn't solve the problem. "
He explicitely say that he doesn't want to show the code because that would help solve the Infringement. That is very illigal. This is just basic IP law. I'm sure Boies will have to do some damage control on that statement. Not that they had a case anyways.
Disclamer: IANAL. but I did do a project on IP laws in an introduction to law course in college. Although it was for canadian law, I think american laws are very similar.