The thing that frightens me about MS owning VirtualPC is that I (...) don't use VirtualPC to run Windows. I use it to run Linux (several different distros), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD on my Mac.
here is the list of distros i was running on my Macs without any emulations:
NetBSD
Suse
Linux/PPC
YDL
Gentoo
The winner is of course Gentoo after all, but thatis not the point. The point is that you can install and run several BSD and Linux dostros on your Mac without any emulation. Directly. Fast. Clean. With no problems.
C'mon folks, x86 means more than just Windows!
C'mon, Linux and BSD run on much more platforms than just x86!
The point is not to look for benefits of information presentation. I agree, 1 byte (= 8 combinations) can be encoded either by 8 binary-stated wires or by 8 states of the single wire.
The point is that after the density of wires will come closer to its limits, then the amount of states per wire can increase the informational density, making devices more compact. It will not come without a price: you'll have to have more precise "readers" that can read more states (levels?) per wire. I think it will certainly useful to increase the density of memory devices.
Today the race is directed to increase amount of wires: 16-, 32-, 64-bit architectures, what's next? Tomorrow they may split the density between amount of wires and amount of levels. However, I am wondering, what can we expcet in a really far future? Infinite amount of wires or infinite amount of levels? Or both?
Inifinit amount of wires with infinite amount of levels means just an electromagnetic field, IMHO. So, the dynamic and the shape of the field means the computation. Wow! That's something cool! Wait a minute, it's not new.
I remember reading a hardprinted article 20 years ago (back in Russia) about a generalization of neural networks. In that article the author is taking a typical math model of a neural network and makes neural elements extremely small (infinitely), while amount of them extremely big (also infinitely), while keeping analog signal (means no fixed levels, or infinite amount of levels) between them. The result of such generalization after several transformations was just a system of equations of Maxwell, desribing the most general electromagnetic field. It means that the whole electromagnetic field of the Universe is the most ultimate neural-network simulator with all (and also ultimate!) self-learning capabilities. I wonder, what would take to include there other fields as well?
Conclusion: the ultimate comuputer (and equally same way the ultimate brain) is the Universe itself. Hmm... Sounds like a super-mega-Matrix again - the Universe that is the program that interprete itself... Enough for today - I need a rest or I'll start to interprete myself recursively:)
I am still choosing gnome over kde on my G4 and G3 machines, both running gentoo linux/PPC... Oh, I got it! You'll get g5 which is power enough to run OSX fast enough, right? But why to switch to OSX when you can still run your beloved Linux/PPC even on G5? Or other any known problems to run Linux on G5?
Assuming you don't like the grand-parent's English, he might be from Europe (not UK), Africa (not South one), Asia (not Hink Kong), or Latin America. And in average Indians know English better than in any other regions I have already mentioned above.
BTW, the guy might just have typed wrong: "is" instead of "it".
Solving the problem would be to break the laws of thermodynamics and develop a chip that gets cooler as a function of time.
Such a chip would be a problem by itself: you would have to heat it up to keep working in the proper temperature interval.
The ideal solution of the problem would to create the chip that doesn't change the temparature at all. In theory. Practically we need a chip that would keep its temperature in the proper interval. In more practical words, it would create a heat with a speed not more than it can distribute the heat outside "naturally", without any special devices. Thinking even more practically, such slow heating chip must still work with a computational speed fast enough to make the chip usable in devices demandable by the market.
I can give three examples of companies that have already solved the problem: VIA with Transmeta (TabletPC's CPUs) and Motorolla (embedded CPUs).
i have yet to try postfix for any meaningful length of time, but courier (www.courier-mta.org) has given me a wonderful experience.
After I've finally decided to migrate from sendmail, courier-mta was my first choice to try. The software is nice for the first moment, but after you try anything non-default you discover a poor decumentation and a very unfriendly author. After I've found in maillists that qmail and courier-mta's authors have a very similra character, I've abandoned courier-mta, moved to Postfix and it's almost a year I use it in various installation having no problem to extend it in any direction I need: very flexible and very wise architecture, very good documentation and no any serious/security bugs so far.
How about a class action forcing Microsoft to print on EVERY Microsoft product box and CD with a big-big red-color font:
"Attention! This Product Was Not Designed With Security In Mind! The Usage Of This Product May Infect Your Computer, Hurt Someone, Shutdown The Business Of A Whole Company And Even Slow Down The Whole National Economy!"
In a same way as it is required in civilized countries to have on tobacco products.
Nothing can be done until US education will be improved. Those goverment workers are so stupid. All they do is checking the patent application papers are ok: signatures and so on. As for the text of the patent itself... well, I doubt they can even read, b/c a reading skill require a thinking skill and that is exactly what they lack of.
Hold on. If there is no such a device yet, then how is it possible they've got a patent from the first place? I thought it's impossible to patent a dream, no?
I think it's a right moment to go for a class action.
Microsoft finally must return all license fee back to owners of all infected computers. The must be written in a way that it is not possible to be infected. Period. If OS is written differently, than the OS vendor must return money back to customers - Microsoft did not earn that money.
Another punishment would be good if all Microsoft products being sold in their cartoon boxes would have half of the box's (and CD's as well) face busy by yellow-red color warning: "The usage of this product may lose all your data, hurt other people, bring you to the jail and even fail all our national economy!". Exactly in a same way as many goverments forced tobaco manufacturers to print on cigaret packs. I think that many people will think twice before buying such boxes. Unless they are physically addicted to Microsoft products...
Hey, the original poster (prostoalex) perhaps has missed all market news since the time of Microsoft/Corel deal. He doesn't know (yet) that the market is down and so on. Leave the guy alone.
BTW, in addition to the Microsoft bashing, can we do a little Sun bashing, too? Sun is also funding SCO via the "SCO Source" program, and Sun even got cheap options ($1.83 per share) on SCOX stock in exchange for doing so.
Excelent point!
Personally, I can see the Sun's involvement even deeper. I think that Microsoft is getting ready to buy BOTH Sun and SCO. Well, Microsoft doesn't need really SCO, only Unix rights - all SCO stuff will be on the street same aquisition day. But Sun, "the dot in every com"... That would be a really heavy mortar to attack both IBM and Apple by Microsoft, having them buy Sun. No need to mention it would worth to by Sun just to kill Java and clean the damanged road for C#/.Net
Although, the real game can be much more complicated. Who knows, are there any plans of HP of being involved? The company has own Unix (even two of them: HP and DEC), which is in danger by Linux expansion. Can it be just a conspiracy from Sun (and HP?) to support SCO anti-Linux attack to protect the Unix market? And what Steve Jobs is thinking, who is enimy of Nill Gates (I guess) because of MacOS vs Windows, but who is the enimy of Linus as well because of MacOS vs Linux?
What they don't want you to know is that our damn goverment KNEW about 911 on August 20th. THe Israil (sp?) Massad warned our governemt about a terrorist threat and of massive amounts of terrorists (about 200 I belive) comming into this country. There was even an article about it in the Jeruselum Post's website not long after 911. (Any of our Israli brothers want to confirm this?)
I remember several Rusian articale THAT August (2001) saying that Russian special intelligence forces sent to FBI a report about upcoming threat of a major torrorist attack on the territory of US> The report was based information they have got in Chechnya from arabic rebels (vakhabits) cought in the battle. Right after 9/11 Russian intelligence experts said in the interview "why has our report been ignored? It's not Cold War anymore. We should work together. Instead ALL our reports we send to FBI are ignored." I remember those interviews, but in many archives those articles are already cleaned up: Mr Putin is a very good organizator.
The trueth is that many people in US govt as well some US corporations had made already big political and financial benefits on things that wouldn't ahppaned if not 9/11. High oil prices? Texas oil companies appreciate it. Al Quaeda in Afganistan? It's perfect time to make money by weapon and war suppliment corps. Hi-tech stocks hit the bottom? Perfect time to buy them all, we'll sell them later. Not enough money made on Afganistan? Let's go to Iraq as Dick Cheney's companies need more contracts.
... Already the worm has caused an estimated $50 million of damage in the United States alone...
... It briefly brought freight and computer traffic in Washington, D.C. to a halt...
... grounded Air Canada...
... slowed down computer systems at many major companies such as advanced technology firm Lockheed Martin...
... 1 out of 17 e-mails...
... Internet service provider AOL (part of the AOL Time Warner group which includes CNN) says it scanned 40.5 million e-mails and found the virus in more than half. SoBig accounted for 98 percent of all viruses found. The e-mail-borne worm arrives with various subject...
I wonder how much more damage will it bring to any major national economy, like US one, untill a goverment will bring Microsoft to the court for the class action?
Let's face it. In many countries half of the cigaret pack face is busy by the warning about a potential death from the smoking. Where is such a warning on the face of every Microsoft product box warning that the use of any Microsoft products may bring the whole economy down?
I hope North Americans will get some robots too. That can give them more time to educate their children. What a shame. Both American and Canadian nations are least educated I've ever seen. Just 0.02 of my Euro.
With this administration it's not about "easier" it's about "the only way".
BTW, I've lost any sympaties to Arnold Terminator once I've learned he is a republican. While all holliwood are republicans, the brainwashing will always win against a speech freedom.
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That reminds me WHS in Windoes. But the history shows that script programmers on Windows prefer Python and Tcl without WHS.
Blue Label is a nice, albeit slow,
Do you mean that blue Label is slower than Bochs?
here is the list of distros i was running on my Macs without any emulations:
- NetBSD
- Suse
- Linux/PPC
- YDL
- Gentoo
The winner is of course Gentoo after all, but thatis not the point. The point is that you can install and run several BSD and Linux dostros on your Mac without any emulation. Directly. Fast. Clean. With no problems.C'mon folks, x86 means more than just Windows!
C'mon, Linux and BSD run on much more platforms than just x86!
- install Bochs on your Mac;
- install Linux in that Bochs;
- install Wine in that Linux;
- compare the speed with direct Windows in bochs;
- ...
- no profit! just kidding
:)
Well, actual benefit of Wine in Bochs would be that you don't need actual distro of Windows. Or do you?What CPU and memory does it require? Can it work on G3?
On a serious note, is it GPM sensitive?
The point is that after the density of wires will come closer to its limits, then the amount of states per wire can increase the informational density, making devices more compact. It will not come without a price: you'll have to have more precise "readers" that can read more states (levels?) per wire. I think it will certainly useful to increase the density of memory devices.
Today the race is directed to increase amount of wires: 16-, 32-, 64-bit architectures, what's next? Tomorrow they may split the density between amount of wires and amount of levels. However, I am wondering, what can we expcet in a really far future? Infinite amount of wires or infinite amount of levels? Or both?
Inifinit amount of wires with infinite amount of levels means just an electromagnetic field, IMHO. So, the dynamic and the shape of the field means the computation. Wow! That's something cool! Wait a minute, it's not new.
I remember reading a hardprinted article 20 years ago (back in Russia) about a generalization of neural networks. In that article the author is taking a typical math model of a neural network and makes neural elements extremely small (infinitely), while amount of them extremely big (also infinitely), while keeping analog signal (means no fixed levels, or infinite amount of levels) between them. The result of such generalization after several transformations was just a system of equations of Maxwell, desribing the most general electromagnetic field. It means that the whole electromagnetic field of the Universe is the most ultimate neural-network simulator with all (and also ultimate!) self-learning capabilities. I wonder, what would take to include there other fields as well?
Conclusion: the ultimate comuputer (and equally same way the ultimate brain) is the Universe itself. Hmm... Sounds like a super-mega-Matrix again - the Universe that is the program that interprete itself... Enough for today - I need a rest or I'll start to interprete myself recursively :)
I am still choosing gnome over kde on my G4 and G3 machines, both running gentoo linux/PPC ... Oh, I got it! You'll get g5 which is power enough to run OSX fast enough, right? But why to switch to OSX when you can still run your beloved Linux/PPC even on G5? Or other any known problems to run Linux on G5?
Assuming you don't like the grand-parent's English, he might be from Europe (not UK), Africa (not South one), Asia (not Hink Kong), or Latin America. And in average Indians know English better than in any other regions I have already mentioned above.
BTW, the guy might just have typed wrong: "is" instead of "it".
Such a chip would be a problem by itself: you would have to heat it up to keep working in the proper temperature interval.
The ideal solution of the problem would to create the chip that doesn't change the temparature at all. In theory. Practically we need a chip that would keep its temperature in the proper interval. In more practical words, it would create a heat with a speed not more than it can distribute the heat outside "naturally", without any special devices. Thinking even more practically, such slow heating chip must still work with a computational speed fast enough to make the chip usable in devices demandable by the market.
I can give three examples of companies that have already solved the problem: VIA with Transmeta (TabletPC's CPUs) and Motorolla (embedded CPUs).
After I've finally decided to migrate from sendmail, courier-mta was my first choice to try. The software is nice for the first moment, but after you try anything non-default you discover a poor decumentation and a very unfriendly author. After I've found in maillists that qmail and courier-mta's authors have a very similra character, I've abandoned courier-mta, moved to Postfix and it's almost a year I use it in various installation having no problem to extend it in any direction I need: very flexible and very wise architecture, very good documentation and no any serious/security bugs so far.
"Attention! This Product Was Not Designed With Security In Mind! The Usage Of This Product May Infect Your Computer, Hurt Someone, Shutdown The Business Of A Whole Company And Even Slow Down The Whole National Economy!"
In a same way as it is required in civilized countries to have on tobacco products.
Nothing can be done until US education will be improved. Those goverment workers are so stupid. All they do is checking the patent application papers are ok: signatures and so on. As for the text of the patent itself... well, I doubt they can even read, b/c a reading skill require a thinking skill and that is exactly what they lack of.
Hold on. If there is no such a device yet, then how is it possible they've got a patent from the first place? I thought it's impossible to patent a dream, no?
What's the formal definition of famous?
Microsoft finally must return all license fee back to owners of all infected computers. The must be written in a way that it is not possible to be infected. Period. If OS is written differently, than the OS vendor must return money back to customers - Microsoft did not earn that money.
Another punishment would be good if all Microsoft products being sold in their cartoon boxes would have half of the box's (and CD's as well) face busy by yellow-red color warning: "The usage of this product may lose all your data, hurt other people, bring you to the jail and even fail all our national economy!". Exactly in a same way as many goverments forced tobaco manufacturers to print on cigaret packs. I think that many people will think twice before buying such boxes. Unless they are physically addicted to Microsoft products...
Hey, the original poster (prostoalex) perhaps has missed all market news since the time of Microsoft/Corel deal. He doesn't know (yet) that the market is down and so on. Leave the guy alone.
Excelent point!
Personally, I can see the Sun's involvement even deeper. I think that Microsoft is getting ready to buy BOTH Sun and SCO. Well, Microsoft doesn't need really SCO, only Unix rights - all SCO stuff will be on the street same aquisition day. But Sun, "the dot in every com" ... That would be a really heavy mortar to attack both IBM and Apple by Microsoft, having them buy Sun. No need to mention it would worth to by Sun just to kill Java and clean the damanged road for C#/.Net
Although, the real game can be much more complicated. Who knows, are there any plans of HP of being involved? The company has own Unix (even two of them: HP and DEC), which is in danger by Linux expansion. Can it be just a conspiracy from Sun (and HP?) to support SCO anti-Linux attack to protect the Unix market? And what Steve Jobs is thinking, who is enimy of Nill Gates (I guess) because of MacOS vs Windows, but who is the enimy of Linus as well because of MacOS vs Linux?
Big games, big secrets...
I remember several Rusian articale THAT August (2001) saying that Russian special intelligence forces sent to FBI a report about upcoming threat of a major torrorist attack on the territory of US> The report was based information they have got in Chechnya from arabic rebels (vakhabits) cought in the battle. Right after 9/11 Russian intelligence experts said in the interview "why has our report been ignored? It's not Cold War anymore. We should work together. Instead ALL our reports we send to FBI are ignored." I remember those interviews, but in many archives those articles are already cleaned up: Mr Putin is a very good organizator.
The trueth is that many people in US govt as well some US corporations had made already big political and financial benefits on things that wouldn't ahppaned if not 9/11. High oil prices? Texas oil companies appreciate it. Al Quaeda in Afganistan? It's perfect time to make money by weapon and war suppliment corps. Hi-tech stocks hit the bottom? Perfect time to buy them all, we'll sell them later. Not enough money made on Afganistan? Let's go to Iraq as Dick Cheney's companies need more contracts.
I wonder how much more damage will it bring to any major national economy, like US one, untill a goverment will bring Microsoft to the court for the class action?
Let's face it. In many countries half of the cigaret pack face is busy by the warning about a potential death from the smoking. Where is such a warning on the face of every Microsoft product box warning that the use of any Microsoft products may bring the whole economy down?
I hope North Americans will get some robots too. That can give them more time to educate their children. What a shame. Both American and Canadian nations are least educated I've ever seen. Just 0.02 of my Euro.
Wrong. Unless you use Linux/x86. Linux users of non-x86 platforms are not welcome:
And as you can see the source code is not available.Not so fast:
It's just x86 version. Where are Linux/PPC, Linux/SPARC and all other Linux versions?And, by the way, where is the source code of *.so?
I cannot belive, but Google cannot answer! Wow! Finally we've managed to /. Google! Who's next?
BTW, I've lost any sympaties to Arnold Terminator once I've learned he is a republican. While all holliwood are republicans, the brainwashing will always win against a speech freedom.