The same type of people who built our digital past..
here's a hint, it wasn't megacorp!
No offense, but have you ever heard of IBM? Or DEC? Or Intel? Or Texas Instruments?
Ummm I think his point is that the Universities the DOD (in the states) and various research organisations had far more to do with creating our modern computer/internet world than all the mega corps put together: and of course he's right.
I know thats hard for the corporate mind set to swallow, but it's true. Thats one of those things about the corporate world I find so funny, they always over estimate their place/contribution in the world, in short they seriously overrate themselves.
They have been far more parasites on the research world than contributers, still they have some use, if we can just end the present inbalance/corruption.
So, here comes Linux on the desktop at least here. Unfortunately, I have been less than impressed with the skill of the IT workforce here (at least one network admin I met didn't know what localhost referred to:P) but this is what you get without an affordable public education system...
It probably has as much to do with English not being their first language as anything, we English speakers don't realise just how biased towards our language and cultures the computer world is.
For instance fred@foo.bar.net we look at it @ is 'at' so fred at foo.bar.net, and that net it's short for network or internet, to a non native English speaker those hints are not necessarily there, my Brazilian friend didn't know that @ means 'at' till I used it in a sentence on him once, then he had to ask me what I meant. Same with localhost, to the English speaker we look at it and see the two English words 'local' and 'host' joined together, two massive hints, even before we get tech savvy. Programming languages are even worse, I don't know of one thats not heavily based on English except may be that
Brainfuck language which is as it's name say's:-D.
It would be kind of cool to try to make a more multicultural computing language, but at this time I don't even know where to start. (maybe a 1-1 mappings of the keywords for different human languages, and a veiwer/editor that autoconverts it for your prefered locale, hmmm).
I read that as goatsecx too... Sure sign of being on Slashdot too long.
Wonder how many moderators will mod the grandparent post down because they don't read carefully and think goatse.cx has started selling computers. Could you imagine, " - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by goatse.cx"? The animated page access icon?
yeah we've all seen to much of that guys rectum even those that never saw it:-D, saddly many of us saw it > 0,:'( yick ewwwwwww
In the larger sense it makes sense to ask "who does the unpleasant jobs, whatever they may be, there are bound to be some". As many reasons as there are people, I suppose. In the Federation we see many of these things done by star fleet folks.
In one epsisode of voyger they "transmited" the doctor back to fix his creator, anyway in that epsisode we find out that all the rest of the mark I EMH's have been given the job of cleaning plasma conduits or some such.
" One of the chief things that has made America great, after all, is that we are the only country in which enthnicity is not closely linked to nationhood. "
Only? What about Canada? What about Brazil? And I'm sure that others can provide better counter-examples.
Yeah Australia comes to mind, probably because I live here:-D, any one would think this guy was a politician, their normally the purveyors of this type of pseudo-patriotic lie.
I often wonder is their patriotism real that suspect, that they need to whore it about so much. Then I realise, of course anyone that in love with themselves has no room left for genuine love of country, or anything else.:-D
One of the chief things that has made America great, after all, is that we are the only country in which enthnicity is not closely linked to nationhood.
Has this guy never even studied other countries??, I sure the USA is a nice enough place, but really it is rather ethnocentric, I know for a fact that we in Australia are way ahead of the states in this department, as to which contry is the least ethnocentric, well I would need way more data to decide.
That whole y2k thing was pretty annoying. i could go on at great lengths, but didn't anyone else just set the date on their computer to a date in 2000(+) to see what would happen?
Oh there was a real problem all right, with a small subset of programs etc, but there was also a lot of shysters and a lot of hype and nonsense, and hardly any one would beleive us geeks when we tried to inject a little balance. Now of course they blame us for their hysteria:-D. humans...
By definition neural nets are distributed; that's the entire point. All data is stored in individual interconnected nodes ("neurons"). By asking me to "explain how neural nets relate to a network of distributed content," you're essentially asking me to define the term "neural net."
My original post said "neural net-style" - I'm not asking for an true neural net, just suggesting that a construct based on one would be ideal for the situation.
Umm I think you would find if you looked up "neural net" that a "neural net" is a mathematical construct and and the net in it's name has no connotation of "computer network" (as in lan, wan, Internet) in it.
Get a life : it's email, it won't kill you.
Just use a decent mailer, some antispam filter and update it.
Why would you just physically hurt somebody ?
"He" may spam you but there is justice, after all, so let it do its job and contact your representative to get this point on top of the next government deliberation list.
Hmmmm clearly your are humor challenged, I think it's you who needs to "Get a Life"
And don't even appear to defend Spammers, he who defends the "morally indefensible" is "morally indefensible"
The first molecular assembler can be built "by hand", just like the first robots were. We've already got the capability to shove around individual atoms (remember IBM spelling out "IBM" with Xenon atoms?), so it's at least theoretically possible (as long as we only need Xenon atoms to build it at least;) ).
I don't think that first molecular assembler will be truly general-purpose, but rather will be capable of building only a limited variety of molecules. I think we're going to have to build a hell of a lot of primitive assemblers "by hand" before we have enough basic tools to tackle more complicated assemblers, and that many iterations will be needed before general assembly can be tackled (it might not be possible).
Yeah we need to build the tools to build the tools, but at least there's some positive signs that maybe it can be done (yn).
I think we'll do it, but it'll be some what different to what we expect. I cannot prove any of that though, but neither can the anti-mob.
Goatse in Gigapixel is something I really don't want to see. Normal Goatse is bad enough.
You'd be able to see enough detail to give him a colonoscopy just from the image.
Hmmmm when you do the colonoscopy could you please plug that horrible cavity, with a brick, and then stomp it tight, that would teach that disgusting gross bastard.
Unfortunately, equilibrium will only be acheived when the average American is as well off as the average Calcutta street urchin... Average the salaries of 200 million Americans with the salaries of 1 billion Indians... that's what your "equilibrium" wage will be!
Funny but not quite true, and unfunnily part true. The equilibrium point would be some where in the middle however, so their standard of living/wages etc goes up [good], ours (the industrialised world, yep it's happening to us all not just the USA) go down [bad], this is why a sensible goverment would be (well not trying to stop it), but minimise the pain of the transition, yes the world is globalising, yes over the looooong run this is good, but if it's allowed to procceed too fast it can hurt a lot of people (already has), and there's no need. Just let it happen at a speed the we can sustain, and it's sort it's self out.
Journalism, thats the real truth, this is just another example of Journalism's continuous need for sensation, almost all journo's are just the worst sort of Trolls, BSD is dying, Unix is dying, Aunt Nelly cat is dying, linux ate my clock radio, I moderate the article -1 Troll.
"With Linux and all the open source innovations, you're not seeing the death of Microsoft, you're seeing Microsoft work harder to be a better company so that it can stay afloat."
The new program is called Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) and Jefferson will announce it at the World Economic Forum to be held in Davos, Switzerland next January.
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"The open source revolution in information technology has proven itself rock solid as one of the greatest innovations in the history of creativity. If you decentralise the group of tool creators and make sure people are bound to a public good ethos, it works and makes money for people," he said.
This is just what Mathematics has been doing for centuries, and it works the too.:-D
In this article by Mike Downing of Integrated Communications Design, Wind River's Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Curt Schacker, expresses his company's concerns about the viability of using GPL-based software (like Linux) in embedded applications. "More customers are telling us that they see interesting aspects to Linux . . . but we're seeing a growing problem due to the growing uncertainty of using GPL-based code in embedded development," says Wind Rivers's Schaker according to Downing.
What are the options for revising the GPL, if any?
Ah yes, so we should revise it so it's easier to steal, like BSD??, face it there is no problem with GPL unless you want to distribute your own mods without GPL'ing the source, as soon as a company says this, you know their intensions arn't honest. If they were truely going open source the GPL wouldn't bother them.
This is why for my money, GPL and LGPL are the only sane licences, I'd never use BSD or any of those gutless ones, if I give something, it's gunna stay given.
This is not the design methodology used in the *nix world.
Code reuse is code reuse, whether it is Windows, Unix, or any other OS/app. Modern programmers are taught to do code reuse, and saing "This is not the design methodology used in the *nix world" is plain stupid.
Hmmm who modded this troll up as Interesting, ok I'll pretend this is not a troll, and answer, what M$ has done with bimbo's and IE is not just code reuse, they have not just used some of the same libraries again, they have tightly coupled, them together, so that they cannot easily be separated, parts of windows code was put into the IE libraries, were it doesn't belong in order to legitamise their claim that the two are so called integrated, butchered would be a better term, this is why all of a sudden installing IE even without the "IE desktop", changed your system libraries. In addition inorder to further the same goals or out of shear incompetence, M$ have hooked the two together, via global variables and functions to the point where the one cannot exist with out the other. This is not code reuse this is bad design, and infact the oppersite of structured programming, which is the basis of real code reuse.
When gzip security hole was discovered, it hit hundreds of Unix applications, because they reused the code from this library. Is the "design methodology" any different?
The gzip bug demonstrated that it sometimes can even be worse on *nix, due to source code coping instead of shared libs, so that the bug had to be fixed in multiple places.
You really don't know the first thing about coding do you, when you use a library you do not cut and paste the code into your own, you use their functions and stuff, so all that had to happen with gzip was they fixed the library, then if another project was staticly linked to the library it would have had to be relinked to the new library, but as the majority of code is dynamically these days, most programs would only need you to update the dynamic library on your system, and whala, all programs using the library are fixed next time you run them.
just a hint: don't lambaste an other person for ignorance in an area you don't have a clue about, some of us make our living programming seeing you make unkind comments to someone else just for being right pisses us off.
Ahhh the sweet smell of failure due to fear ....
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I had this idea myself, and abandoned it because I realized just how much of a sense of security people get from having that little "lock" in the corner*. Though there are plenty of advantages to a strictly client-side security model, I still wonder how the unwashed ignorati surfing ecommerce sites who have had "MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENTERED AN ENCRYPTED PAGE" drilled into them will take to this sort of idea.
*also I am a poor coder
There's just nothing like it, I just love that you work out ahead of time why it is bound to fail, due to factors which you have know way of knowing are true, but you fear and paranoia say might be, so you quit before you start, thereby insuring failure.
Mate your not just a poor coder your, a gutless coder and a piss poor thinker. Mate I suffer from Major depression and anxiety Disorder, what some Americans call double depression, and I wouldn't let that piss poor set of excuses stop me doing anything. Mate your seriously in need of some basic guts, (I'm not meaning this as a troll, but really, if we all thought like that nothing would ever get done, as for how good a coder you are: team up with someone who is a good coder, especially if (s)he, is great a implimenting but needs a mate thats good has good idea's)
Drop prices, sell say 3 or 4 cds for $10.00, thats how I buy a lot of books, if I want to test drive new authors etc, go to the supermart, or shop that sell the end of run/failed stuff, at 3 or 4 for $10.00 I can be confident I buy at least one that I would have paid >= $10.00 for. The recording industry have priced themselves out of the game, and there too dumb to see it.
If the industry offered consumers the ability to simply return any music they did not like, consumers might return all of their music - even the music they did like - after having copied or consumed it. It would be as though restaurants offered money back guarantees you could exercise after having eaten your entire meal and you claimed you were dissatisfied.
hmmm... restaurants that had a return policy on food after eaten... hmmmm fully proccessed or partial... on second thoughts I don't want to know or see that!!
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heee heee heee ahhaaaa haaaaaa mummy look at the silly boys
For instance fred@foo.bar.net we look at it @ is 'at' so fred at foo.bar.net, and that net it's short for network or internet, to a non native English speaker those hints are not necessarily there, my Brazilian friend didn't know that @ means 'at' till I used it in a sentence on him once, then he had to ask me what I meant. Same with localhost, to the English speaker we look at it and see the two English words 'local' and 'host' joined together, two massive hints, even before we get tech savvy. Programming languages are even worse, I don't know of one thats not heavily based on English except may be that Brainfuck language which is as it's name say's :-D.
I often wonder is their patriotism real that suspect, that they need to whore it about so much. Then I realise, of course anyone that in love with themselves has no room left for genuine love of country, or anything else. :-D
A physics leacture that last for Days, Just think of all the paper planes :-D
Great Hope to be testing out a User linux install in the not to distant future
Yeah we need to build the tools to build the tools, but at least there's some positive signs that maybe it can be done (yn).
I think we'll do it, but it'll be some what different to what we expect. I cannot prove any of that though, but neither can the anti-mob.
Journalism, thats the real truth, this is just another example of Journalism's continuous need for sensation, almost all journo's are just the worst sort of Trolls, BSD is dying, Unix is dying, Aunt Nelly cat is dying, linux ate my clock radio, I moderate the article -1 Troll.
This is just what Mathematics has been doing for centuries, and it works the too. :-D
Special reporter chicken little reports the sky is falling. Film at 11 :-D.
Hmmm who modded this troll up as Interesting, ok I'll pretend this is not a troll, and answer, what M$ has done with bimbo's and IE is not just code reuse, they have not just used some of the same libraries again, they have tightly coupled, them together, so that they cannot easily be separated, parts of windows code was put into the IE libraries, were it doesn't belong in order to legitamise their claim that the two are so called integrated, butchered would be a better term, this is why all of a sudden installing IE even without the "IE desktop", changed your system libraries. In addition inorder to further the same goals or out of shear incompetence, M$ have hooked the two together, via global variables and functions to the point where the one cannot exist with out the other. This is not code reuse this is bad design, and infact the oppersite of structured programming, which is the basis of real code reuse.
You really don't know the first thing about coding do you, when you use a library you do not cut and paste the code into your own, you use their functions and stuff, so all that had to happen with gzip was they fixed the library, then if another project was staticly linked to the library it would have had to be relinked to the new library, but as the majority of code is dynamically these days, most programs would only need you to update the dynamic library on your system, and whala, all programs using the library are fixed next time you run them.
There's just nothing like it, I just love that you work out ahead of time why it is bound to fail, due to factors which you have know way of knowing are true, but you fear and paranoia say might be, so you quit before you start, thereby insuring failure.
Drop prices, sell say 3 or 4 cds for $10.00, thats how I buy a lot of books, if I want to test drive new authors etc, go to the supermart, or shop that sell the end of run/failed stuff, at 3 or 4 for $10.00 I can be confident I buy at least one that I would have paid >= $10.00 for. The recording industry have priced themselves out of the game, and there too dumb to see it.
hmmm ... restaurants that had a return policy on food after eaten ... hmmmm fully proccessed or partial ... on second thoughts I don't want to know or see that!!