Since Unix was written at Bell Labs (note you said Unix, not BSD), I think that it would qualify as "real software engineers". I don't think it matters whether the software is commercial or OSS, it matters who is doing the coding. Donald Knuth would be a "real software engineer" by most standards and certainly won't be outcoded by many. But the same can be said for Alan Cox, who falls on the OSS side of the tracks.
I'm one of those runner types and I'd say the only thing that would have been a nice addition is a AM/FM receiver. At most gyms, TV station audio is piped to different FM freqs. I'll leave it to the Apple genius boys how to build that into this interface. Possibly voice alert to what frequency you are tuned too.
Actually, I saw an interview with her on PBS and she was very disturbed by the end product of "Cat in the Hat". Her response was that no other Dr. Seuss work will be turned into a live-action movie.
Actually, the distance involved matters not. Bandwidth is purely the time to put data on the line. Latency is the time it takes to get from A to B. So the bandwidth would be the same no matter how far they travelled or how fast they flew. A good simile is bandwidth is how many tapes you can load in your trunk per hour. Latency is how fast you can drive those tapes to your destination.
This seems to be misnamed if I understand the article correctly. It is more emotional AI, not ethical AI. If it was ethical, it would be deciding what is right and wrong, not trying to interpret human feelings. I really don't want Hal 2020 sitting in the jury stand when I go before the court and I don't think that is the intention here.
The really odd thing is that this not a computer term, but a physics term. It should read: "... a measurement of how many times a system, like a CPU clock signal, finishes a complete revolution every millionth of a second."
Guess again. Do a google search and note the colored boxes to the right and above the results. These are sponsored links or ads, whatever you want to call them. They only come up when they are somewhat relevant to your search, like the one below. I really don't have a problem with them if it pays for people to come up with technology like google. Remember, it is a business and businesses need to make money somehow. Better this than charging me $.10 per search.
The poster seems to imply that piracy is ok. I don't really understand this line of thinking. I personally believe in free (as in speech) software. But I don't agree that everyone should be forced to live by this belief. If a person or company chooses to sell their closed-source software, that is fine. I personally won't use it. But people that say "Hey that is wrong. You should open-source this." but then go ahead and use it anyway baffle me.If you want to influence a company's decisions, do it by boycotting their products not by stealing from them. It seems I'm in the minority (at least of the Slashdot crowd) in this case, so maybe other readers can educate me.
Of course, anyone that spends enough time in front of a computer (i.e. not showering, not shaving, eating things that create a large amount of flagulence (sp)) to be a "good" programmer is not usually a socialite. But then, since the majority of society suffer from "Pretty People" syndrome, it is not surprising.
If you are responsible for the content you need to have freedom to view the content. So you just break down the encryption. Most encryption currently works off of public key cryptography to transmit a one-time symmetric cryptography key. This is suceptible to the man in the middle attack (look on google if you don't know about it), which is trivial if you own 'the middle' like a university network.
I went to the University of Missouri - Columbia which suffered from severe bandwidth shortages due to file sharing. So they implemented some traffic fingerprinting technology (PacketHound) to keep the file swappers from eating all the bandwidth at prime time, then let them play during the middle of the night. I suppose similar technology could be used to totally disallow file sharing, as I think it has to be all or nothing. You cannot really watch each file traded and then check for copyrights.
We need to setup a Slashdot topic similar to 'Ask Slashdot' in order to submit patent ideas. Then allow some of Slashdot's users in the legal profession to apply for a bunch of patents that are a load of crap. No one else could file the patent and the holder would not enforce it...
Doesn't speak well for American engineering. Mostly European and Japanese makes it looks like. Maybe when GM gets their fuel-cell cars in production, America will look a little more updated. Or maybe the Ford Model U.
There were two major points being decided upon today by the FCC. The one people on Slashdot are crying and moaning about is for DSL only and has been outlined throughout the comments.
The second point the CLEC access to lines through UNE-P which is what the Bells really cared about. This decision went the way of the CLECs/state regulators in that the RBOCs must still share their voice network with non-facility based LECs at state mandated prices.
Note all of the RBOCs stock prices if you want to see which side won the war, no matter the decision of the DSL battle.
I'll preface this with the fact I work for SBC, though I'm just a Unix admin w/o much connection to the telecom part of the business per se (outside of my paycheck). My views are mine and have no relevance to the views of my employer.
How is this extortion of any kind? You have a business environment that is not conducive to profit, so a business does not invest in expanding to that environment. It happens in every industry on earth. There is a reason why you don't find Nordstrom's in my hometown of 7000 farmers.
Why does it matter what conditions cause the bad environment? In this case it is government regulations, it could just as easily had been market conditions or geographic limitations. Broadband internet access is not a vital service, so the Bells should not be required to provide it to anyone. Further more, DSL shouldn't be regulated because it is not a natural monopoly like POTS. How many ways can you get broadband today? Cable, satellite, 802.11x, power lines...
So why again should the telecom companies be forced to give the competition access to their infrastructure? If the competition wants to get into the broadband business so badly, let them either invest in another technology or lease lines from the RBOC at the price the market will bear.
Flame away with your hate and disdain for SBC and other telcos...
After watching CSI, the CBS drama, I was curious about DNA evidence. So I looked up info on identical twins and if they have identical DNA. They do, which surprised me since I know they don't have identical fingerprints. The difference is not in the genes, but in the physical realization of them: genotypes vs. phenotypes. So even if you have true genetic clones, you can and will have physical differences in the resultant person (or animal).
> essentially Silmarils, the communication and
> fortune-telling balls of Middle-Earth
Aren't these actually palantirs? I thought the Silmarils were the jewels worn in the crown of one of the fellows coming across the sea (Gil-galad or Thingol possibly). I've never read The Silmarillion, so I'm probably way off.
I think one of the largest problems with these ideas is they are based on true merit. From what I've seen in both the corporate and government world, that is not the deciding factor. Lobbying and WhoUknoW(tm) are the key factors. Having visible figures such as Mr. Perens, ESR, and Richard Stallman help a lot, but sometimes it hard to compete with the large lobbying budgets of corporate America.
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Since Unix was written at Bell Labs (note you said Unix, not BSD), I think that it would qualify as "real software engineers". I don't think it matters whether the software is commercial or OSS, it matters who is doing the coding. Donald Knuth would be a "real software engineer" by most standards and certainly won't be outcoded by many. But the same can be said for Alan Cox, who falls on the OSS side of the tracks.
I'm one of those runner types and I'd say the only thing that would have been a nice addition is a AM/FM receiver. At most gyms, TV station audio is piped to different FM freqs. I'll leave it to the Apple genius boys how to build that into this interface. Possibly voice alert to what frequency you are tuned too.
Because when countries do it is called an act of war, not terrorism.
HP KU-9963 USB keyboard
Actually, I saw an interview with her on PBS and she was very disturbed by the end product of "Cat in the Hat". Her response was that no other Dr. Seuss work will be turned into a live-action movie.
And a lowercase "m" means milli and a uppercase "M" means mega. Who wanted millibits again?
Actually, the distance involved matters not. Bandwidth is purely the time to put data on the line. Latency is the time it takes to get from A to B. So the bandwidth would be the same no matter how far they travelled or how fast they flew. A good simile is bandwidth is how many tapes you can load in your trunk per hour. Latency is how fast you can drive those tapes to your destination.
How long are people here in the US going to put up with this monkey business?
Until there is someplace better to live.
This seems to be misnamed if I understand the article correctly. It is more emotional AI, not ethical AI. If it was ethical, it would be deciding what is right and wrong, not trying to interpret human feelings. I really don't want Hal 2020 sitting in the jury stand when I go before the court and I don't think that is the intention here.
The really odd thing is that this not a computer term, but a physics term. It should read: "... a measurement of how many times a system, like a CPU clock signal, finishes a complete revolution every millionth of a second."
Guess again. Do a google search and note the colored boxes to the right and above the results. These are sponsored links or ads, whatever you want to call them. They only come up when they are somewhat relevant to your search, like the one below. I really don't have a problem with them if it pays for people to come up with technology like google. Remember, it is a business and businesses need to make money somehow. Better this than charging me $.10 per search.
Google search for 'abit motherboard'
The poster seems to imply that piracy is ok. I don't really understand this line of thinking. I personally believe in free (as in speech) software. But I don't agree that everyone should be forced to live by this belief. If a person or company chooses to sell their closed-source software, that is fine. I personally won't use it. But people that say "Hey that is wrong. You should open-source this." but then go ahead and use it anyway baffle me.If you want to influence a company's decisions, do it by boycotting their products not by stealing from them. It seems I'm in the minority (at least of the Slashdot crowd) in this case, so maybe other readers can educate me.
Of course, anyone that spends enough time in front of a computer (i.e. not showering, not shaving, eating things that create a large amount of flagulence (sp)) to be a "good" programmer is not usually a socialite. But then, since the majority of society suffer from "Pretty People" syndrome, it is not surprising.
Not really...
If you are responsible for the content you need to have freedom to view the content. So you just break down the encryption. Most encryption currently works off of public key cryptography to transmit a one-time symmetric cryptography key. This is suceptible to the man in the middle attack (look on google if you don't know about it), which is trivial if you own 'the middle' like a university network.
I went to the University of Missouri - Columbia which suffered from severe bandwidth shortages due to file sharing. So they implemented some traffic fingerprinting technology (PacketHound) to keep the file swappers from eating all the bandwidth at prime time, then let them play during the middle of the night. I suppose similar technology could be used to totally disallow file sharing, as I think it has to be all or nothing. You cannot really watch each file traded and then check for copyrights.
We need to setup a Slashdot topic similar to 'Ask Slashdot' in order to submit patent ideas. Then allow some of Slashdot's users in the legal profession to apply for a bunch of patents that are a load of crap. No one else could file the patent and the holder would not enforce it...
Doesn't speak well for American engineering. Mostly European and Japanese makes it looks like. Maybe when GM gets their fuel-cell cars in production, America will look a little more updated. Or maybe the Ford Model U.
- Verizon = NYNEX + Bell Atlantic + GTE*
- SBC = SW Bell + Pacific Bell + Ameritech
- BellSouth = BellSouth
- Qwest = USWest
*Note: GTE was not an RBOC, but was an ILEC (Incumbant Local Exchange Carrier)As for rice, I prefer Japanese white rice over basmati...
There were two major points being decided upon today by the FCC. The one people on Slashdot are crying and moaning about is for DSL only and has been outlined throughout the comments. The second point the CLEC access to lines through UNE-P which is what the Bells really cared about. This decision went the way of the CLECs/state regulators in that the RBOCs must still share their voice network with non-facility based LECs at state mandated prices. Note all of the RBOCs stock prices if you want to see which side won the war, no matter the decision of the DSL battle.
Actually there are four Baby Bells, SBC, Verizon, BellSouth, and Qwest.
I can already see the collusion of weblog editors.
"Okay, everyone write about polka dot socks tomorrow. And throw in something about drinking rotten milk. I bet we can start a new fad..."
I'll preface this with the fact I work for SBC, though I'm just a Unix admin w/o much connection to the telecom part of the business per se (outside of my paycheck). My views are mine and have no relevance to the views of my employer.
How is this extortion of any kind? You have a business environment that is not conducive to profit, so a business does not invest in expanding to that environment. It happens in every industry on earth. There is a reason why you don't find Nordstrom's in my hometown of 7000 farmers.
Why does it matter what conditions cause the bad environment? In this case it is government regulations, it could just as easily had been market conditions or geographic limitations. Broadband internet access is not a vital service, so the Bells should not be required to provide it to anyone. Further more, DSL shouldn't be regulated because it is not a natural monopoly like POTS. How many ways can you get broadband today? Cable, satellite, 802.11x, power lines...
So why again should the telecom companies be forced to give the competition access to their infrastructure? If the competition wants to get into the broadband business so badly, let them either invest in another technology or lease lines from the RBOC at the price the market will bear.
Flame away with your hate and disdain for SBC and other telcos...
After watching CSI, the CBS drama, I was curious about DNA evidence. So I looked up info on identical twins and if they have identical DNA. They do, which surprised me since I know they don't have identical fingerprints. The difference is not in the genes, but in the physical realization of them: genotypes vs. phenotypes. So even if you have true genetic clones, you can and will have physical differences in the resultant person (or animal).
> essentially Silmarils, the communication and > fortune-telling balls of Middle-Earth Aren't these actually palantirs? I thought the Silmarils were the jewels worn in the crown of one of the fellows coming across the sea (Gil-galad or Thingol possibly). I've never read The Silmarillion, so I'm probably way off.
I think one of the largest problems with these ideas is they are based on true merit. From what I've seen in both the corporate and government world, that is not the deciding factor. Lobbying and WhoUknoW(tm) are the key factors. Having visible figures such as Mr. Perens, ESR, and Richard Stallman help a lot, but sometimes it hard to compete with the large lobbying budgets of corporate America.