This sounds like rather cruel and I might add, crude, experimentation.
How so, crude? 177 microsensors on the brain does not seem so to me. How would you conduct this experiment differently?
Most of the comments on this thread have reflected little if any care about the animals involved in this "research". Do the cats voluntarily keep their eyes open? Or are they forced? When they finish with the images, do they just trash 'em, or what?
The cats, being anesthetized at the time, probably do not voluntarily do much of anything. This experiment seems to be a first step toward artificial eyes (among many other things), and that's worth a lot more to me than what happens to cute fuzzy little Subject H-43. Research is necessary for progress. Animals suffer and die that we can prosper and thrive. It's hard but true.
The QWERTY layout was designed to put letters that are often adjacent in English words under opposite hands (or something remarkably like that; I am not a typewriter historian). This was necessary to prevent the jamming that happens when you type two adjacent characters on a manual typewriter: the little arms try to go on near-congruent paths to the same point, failing miserably, causing you to get typewriter ink on your nice cuffs when you unstick them. This had the effect of allowing much faster typing without jamming, and much faster typing period because so many common words and syllables were now typed with alternating hands.
Mr Dvorak's own studies found his layout to be a great improvement over QWERTY. I don't buy it, myself - it seems to me that the QWERTY layout is near optimal for English, people are used to it, it's not a bad deal. I'm sticking with it.
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I did that too. I learned a whole lot about unix, X, and vi, really really fast.
HOWTOs? Luxury.
Tell that to journalists today and they won't believe you.
There is something very satisfying about this. This is an excellent, textbook quality example of how to make one's point on the net. That the issue is important is just gravy.
Warmest Congratulations to the parties responsible.
Why would anyone attach any merit to this writer's opinion on UNIX systems? He's the same co-author who edited the "UNIX Sucks" book that came out a couple of years ago.
That would be because he's reasonably competent and informed? If we are speaking of the same book, it was not a simple 'unix sux' piece - significant thought went into it. I remember his by-line in NeXT Magazine a few years back. Simson Garfinkel is not a Linux-hating dweeb. He is an experienced UNIX user and administrator who prefers BSD, for a variety of reasons.
Now that I wrote this, I think I've been trolled. Oh well. Submitting anyway.
This is the exact argument that RISC advocates used to declare CISC dead. Yet the Pentium has done a remarkable job keeping up with the performance of much cleaner architectures like the PowerPC. The point is that there are all kinds of ways to get performance improvements, and clock speed, VLIW, RISC, AltiVec, MMX, etc.. are all just some of the ways. It's all just going to keep getting faster....
Agreed. It's just that clock speed isn't where the interesting breakthroughs in performance are coming from today.
Alternatively, it could be that clock speed goes up, we're all used to it, we expect it. Like compound interest, it's beneficial, but in any given small period, it's like watching paint dry.
Many several of the Mac rumors sites have mentioned future SMP-on-a-chip G4s and G5s. That would interest me much more than more Mhz.
We've seen PCs go from 4 Mhz to 600 - going up to 1000 Mhz seems like a mere incremental upgrade. The real news about the G4 is the AltiVec unit. The real news about IA-64 is VLIW. (be gentle if I've got that wrong; I don't follow Intel rumors like I ought). I assert that quantitative changes in clock speed are not where the action is right now, and all the interesting performance improvements come with qualitative changes in the way data is moved and operated on.
Whether it concerns a new case of Markengrabbing, or whether Boldt wants to concern unselfishly like a Austrian Linux trademark owner , remains for the time being in the dark.
I read Markengrabbing as something like domain squatting, as one of the meanings of Mark is, auf English, 'brand'. I think markgrabbing would make a better english word for the practice, also.
How "new"? We use Citrix MetaFrame / TS pretty extensively around here, and it has some... issues. Nothing too bad, but I can't imagine it being so good that someone would post in it's defense.
Here are some of my proposed Windows Terminal Server / Citrix slogans. (none of which are as cool as 'X Window - You'll Envy the Dead'):
Terminal Server - Easier to install and configure than X!
TS - Mostly compatible with most common applications!
TS - Fewer patches released means fewer to install than regular NT!
TS - Do you need to spend another pile of money this year for internal political reasons?
Please note that it's not all that bad, and it is better and easier to manage than a whole mess of desktops - but it's not in any way wonderful.
My favorite domain name conflict was / is frys.com, which was taken by someone claiming to be "Frenchy Fry's Frozen Foods", leaving Fry's Electronics squatting on fryselectronics.com.
Does anyone else think it would be useful to make downward moderation more expensive than upward moderation? Most of the malicious moderation horror stories are related to downgrading good material rather than rewarding crap.
A 'download vCard for this user' button on User Info would be tres nifty also (again only if optional). Finding your long-lost brother-in-law's contact info would never be a primary function of the Slashdot directory, but if it saves a trip to the Hell that is Sixdegrees it's worth doing.
the hype that Handspring propagated through their self imposed silence.
I invite everyone to notice the hype I am generating about my ground-breaking new secret project through my self-imposed silence. I have said nothing about it for years. If I keep quiet for a few more the world will beat a path to my door. I guess I just can't feel that Visor has generated any hype - Amiga, now that's hype.
English is a non-inflected Indo-European language... the key to the punchline is the word "late", meaning dead. the humor comes from the thought of someone actually exploding after seeing one too many lame sites. Hope this helped.
It's similar to the logic that allows you to buy surplus small arms (since they can be used for non-military purposes), but not surplus artillery pieces
IIRC, you can own artillery pieces in the USA provided you have a Class 3 permit. There's all kinds of Class 3's, though - for artillery you would need a 'collector' type permit and possibly a 'destructive device' type permit. There's probably also a 'destructive device' tax stamp for each shell, and your local authorities would have to sign off on everything as well. It's not that it's completely forbidden, just a beaurocratic nightmare and several thousand dollars that nobody is willing to pay for a conversation piece. You are perfectly correct that the Government doesn't sell it's surplus artillery like it sells it's old M1 rifles.
A Harrier jet probably falls under the same restrictions. It's a fighter in active use,
Miller v. US (1934) - basically the government can restrict the ownership of any non-military weapons (like sawed-off shotguns), but because (almost) every American is a member of militia, they have to have access to weapons comparable to any other military organization (like machine guns, which were legal at the time). Calling an aircraft a militia weapon is stretching it a bit, I admit. Just about every gun control act passed in the US since the Miller decision has violated it.
Now the php site is completely unavailable, and I guarantee you most of the people going there because of the slashdot story don't use php and are just going because they say it here.
I for one have been waiting with bated breath for this release, and I am pleased as anything to have it announced on my favorite site. I do not wish to wade through freshmeat looking for things like this - I trust/. to give me the highlights, and this certainly qualifies.
This is the domain of freshmeat and linuxapps, not slashdot.
The Win32 PHP crowd would disagree - while it may be a linux app, it is by no means exclusively a linux app.
... which would be so much cooler. You know, like the Seeker from Dune. If the Army Air Corps was still in charge of space exploration you know they'd do it.
Interesting--the quote you used says nothing about "by hand."
Ahh. I think you missed a comma in my comment - I said "What, does he mean by hand?" as opposed to "What does he mean, by hand?". I was less than clear and I apologize.
I think he's just once again trying to note how little use it will be for users to recompile their OS.
On Linux boxen, I check Freshmeat, download, and make. On my WinNT box, I check MSDN for the latest advisories, gotchas, patches, and updates. Six of one, half dozen of the other. I don't consider it of little use - it's the basic method of installing updates.
And it is a tricky thing if you aren't used to it, y'know.
Bob Metcalfe (metcalfe@idg.net) is one of very few people who've ever successfully recompiled an operating system. But not recently, not Linux, not Windows, nor his trusty Macintosh. Neither has he performed brain surgery on himself.
What, does he mean by hand? I have compiled Linux a couple dozen times over the last 3 years - but I used 'make'.
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How so, crude? 177 microsensors on the brain does not seem so to me. How would you conduct this experiment differently?
The cats, being anesthetized at the time, probably do not voluntarily do much of anything. This experiment seems to be a first step toward artificial eyes (among many other things), and that's worth a lot more to me than what happens to cute fuzzy little Subject H-43. Research is necessary for progress. Animals suffer and die that we can prosper and thrive. It's hard but true.
The QWERTY layout was designed to put letters that are often adjacent in English words under opposite hands (or something remarkably like that; I am not a typewriter historian). This was necessary to prevent the jamming that happens when you type two adjacent characters on a manual typewriter: the little arms try to go on near-congruent paths to the same point, failing miserably, causing you to get typewriter ink on your nice cuffs when you unstick them. This had the effect of allowing much faster typing without jamming, and much faster typing period because so many common words and syllables were now typed with alternating hands.
Mr Dvorak's own studies found his layout to be a great improvement over QWERTY. I don't buy it, myself - it seems to me that the QWERTY layout is near optimal for English, people are used to it, it's not a bad deal. I'm sticking with it.
I did that too. I learned a whole lot about unix, X, and vi, really really fast.
HOWTOs? Luxury.
Tell that to journalists today and they won't believe you.
There is something very satisfying about this. This is an excellent, textbook quality example of how to make one's point on the net. That the issue is important is just gravy.
Warmest Congratulations to the parties responsible.
That would be because he's reasonably competent and informed? If we are speaking of the same book, it was not a simple 'unix sux' piece - significant thought went into it. I remember his by-line in NeXT Magazine a few years back. Simson Garfinkel is not a Linux-hating dweeb. He is an experienced UNIX user and administrator who prefers BSD, for a variety of reasons.
Now that I wrote this, I think I've been trolled. Oh well. Submitting anyway.
Agreed. It's just that clock speed isn't where the interesting breakthroughs in performance are coming from today.
Alternatively, it could be that clock speed goes up, we're all used to it, we expect it. Like compound interest, it's beneficial, but in any given small period, it's like watching paint dry.
Many several of the Mac rumors sites have mentioned future SMP-on-a-chip G4s and G5s. That would interest me much more than more Mhz.
We've seen PCs go from 4 Mhz to 600 - going up to 1000 Mhz seems like a mere incremental upgrade. The real news about the G4 is the AltiVec unit. The real news about IA-64 is VLIW. (be gentle if I've got that wrong; I don't follow Intel rumors like I ought). I assert that quantitative changes in clock speed are not where the action is right now, and all the interesting performance improvements come with qualitative changes in the way data is moved and operated on.
I read Markengrabbing as something like domain squatting, as one of the meanings of Mark is, auf English, 'brand'. I think markgrabbing would make a better english word for the practice, also.
How "new"? We use Citrix MetaFrame / TS pretty extensively around here, and it has some ... issues. Nothing too bad, but I can't imagine it being so good that someone would post in it's defense.
Here are some of my proposed Windows Terminal Server / Citrix slogans. (none of which are as cool as 'X Window - You'll Envy the Dead'):
Please note that it's not all that bad, and it is better and easier to manage than a whole mess of desktops - but it's not in any way wonderful.
My favorite domain name conflict was / is frys.com, which was taken by someone claiming to be "Frenchy Fry's Frozen Foods", leaving Fry's Electronics squatting on fryselectronics.com.
Does anyone else think it would be useful to make downward moderation more expensive than upward moderation? Most of the malicious moderation horror stories are related to downgrading good material rather than rewarding crap.
If it can be disabled I am all for it.
A 'download vCard for this user' button on User Info would be tres nifty also (again only if optional). Finding your long-lost brother-in-law's contact info would never be a primary function of the Slashdot directory, but if it saves a trip to the Hell that is Sixdegrees it's worth doing.
English is a non-inflected Indo-European language... the key to the punchline is the word "late", meaning dead. the humor comes from the thought of someone actually exploding after seeing one too many lame sites. Hope this helped.
... which would be so much cooler. You know, like the Seeker from Dune. If the Army Air Corps was still in charge of space exploration you know they'd do it.
Oh well. sigh.
What, does he mean by hand ? I have compiled Linux a couple dozen times over the last 3 years - but I used 'make'.