Ok, so let's say I'm a big ass software company that has started to roll out Linux. I've got a couple hundred patents to protect my IP (without which I could not sustain my business). Now the New GPL comes along and tells me I can't use Linux, Apache, Tomcat, etc.
What am I going to do?
That's right ladies and gentlemen, run to Microsoft or another non-GPL vendor. I'm sure Bill would be happy to have me back.
Seriously. What if Microsoft added a clause to their licensing that says you can't run it on a network with any other operating systems?
Nope, I was serious. I don't know why I got modded Funny. I think Google certainly has the talent and the opportunity to turn the industry on it's head with a totally from-the-ground-up OS. http://os.google.com (not active yet, but some day it will be, trust you me)
Some cool features GoS will have:
- chipset emulation built in the kernel (run windows/linux/solaris software "natively")
- search capability integrated in the file system
- distributed processing support (yes, a beowulf cluster) -- have 3 GoS boxes on your home network, have two of them as slaves for offloading work
The list could go on for quite a bit. Despite the probability of me getting modded down by the Linux zealots, current O/S technology is *at least* ten years old (and probably closer to 30). There's been considerable advancement in hardware (pipelining, multi-core, GPUs), but other than p2p technology, what kind of **new** software have we seen since the first web browsers came out in, what, '94?
Ok, I'll get off my soap box, but if anyone from Google reads/., you should definately get crackin' on GoS. I'm going to stick with WfW 3.11 until I see it.
I use SpamAssassin (server) and SpamPal (client). They're both quite accurate and I'm very happy with them.
However, I've had unacceptably high false-positive rates. Saying that you only get one spam a day is fine--I can deal with that. Are you sure that no legitimate e-mail is being tagged though? I have the subject lines prefixed with [SPAM] and so I just go through and look for anything that looks like it might not be spam. This process takes about 10 minutes a day, which is 10 minutes more than I would care to spend.
I give the anti-spam developers credit for their hard work, but I believe that the best solution would not be filter-based, for mere fact that if 1 spam gets through a day, and the volume of spam increases 100x in the next 2 years, then you're back up to ~100 spams a day. It's a temporary solution to a permanent problem.
A superior uncle would have convinced her of the advantages of XMPP server-to-server support. Talk would have spread like wildfire through the cafeterias of American high-schools and Google would have already had to bow to the pressure.;)
I've put up a mirror of the image. Seems that either ezboard doesn't really have much bandwidth, or the image is hosted on somebody's Nintendo-modded PC.
I remember reading somewhere about ideas on "very fast" transport in space. One of them was a ship with a big hydrogen collector that fuses the atoms into helium, which produces thrust. I want to say they estimated the number of hydrogen atoms in space at around 1 per cubic centimeter, or 1 per cubic meter (not sure which), but they said that even that would eventually produce enough drag to have the ship reach a maximum velocity around 0.60c.
Around 1:30 PM, Thursday, August 23, 2005, hundreds of movie theaters became so packed with people that they had to virtually shut down. Commonly known as the "slashdot effect", this led to hordes of angry movie-goers returning to their mothers' basements with thoughts of Battlestar Galactica re-runs.
Stangely, only three women were seen among the crowd.
Atom is an export format, right? So is rss. They're a little different. So someone at the Googleplex needs to write blog2rss.py and they can get rid of blog2atom.py.
Or does Atom have something to do with the way the data is stored internally? And I think Google did pretty well with Blogger-- it's like saying, "Google chose wrong when they bought Blogger, because Blogger used a different stylesheet on their home page than Google does."
I don't mean to doubt you, but are are sure about this? I *thought* I had a good grasp on this kind of thing, and my brain does doesn't want to accept that that shadow would move at 2c.
{LIGHT}...{object}.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.{wall}
(ignore the . and,-- stupid/. formatting...)
where the distance from the light to the object is 1 meter, and from the object to the wall is 1 light-year.
At t=0, the light is behind the object, the shadow "hits" perpindicularly on the wall (yes, I know, but you know what I mean). The light then moves north at c.
At t=1, the light has moved one light-second.
The shadow would now be 2.8e24 meters down the wall (similar triangles...).
But that won't happen for a year. In the mean time, the shadow will remain in the same place until the photons arrive.
So at t=[1 year], the shadow...
oh crap. Ok, now I see it. Makes sense now.
For anyone else with the same problem as me, I'll continue. At t=[1 year], the shadow has quickly bounced down 2.8e24 meters. At t=[1 year + 1 second], the shadow will be down 5.6e24 meters. From there, you can say that the shadow moved the difference (2.8e24 meters) in 1 second, which puts is far faster than light.
I bow to your superior grasp of light and shadows.;)
True, but from an observer's point of view, you can't really tell, right? If you were taking a video of that and had the camera set on 'negative', it would be impossible to tell.
Actually, I don't think that's technically correct. I may be wrong, but if you did this in a very dusty (big) room, you'd see sort of a wave of light (like on a rope if you pull up on one end and see a wave travel down the rope) going down towards the far wall.
Have an object and a spotlight. Rotate the spotlight around the object (always pointed at it) and after a certain distance, the shadow will be moving very fast. But not faster than light. After that point, you'd be seeing the shadow that was cast in the past. Spin the spotlight around fast enough and then shut it off, and the shadow will still be going for a time.
Sorry this isn't scientific, I could add some c's, M's, and what-have-you, but you get the point.
Can anyone comment on whether this is correct? It seems so to me, but that doesn't mean much.
Oh lord. I'm usually part of the grammar police myself. I guess I could say that I was imitating Mauricio by using "your" instead of "you're" on purpose. In fact, that's what I'm going to go with.
I'm trying to track down the paper, but not having much luck. It looks like you're going to be looking for a paper: Mullin, R., Nemeth, E. and Weidenhofer, N., "Will Public Key Crypto Systems Live up to Their Expectations? HEP Implementation of the Discrete Log Codebreaker", Proc. of the 1984 Intl Conf on Parallel Processing, Aug. 21-24, 1984, pp. 193-196.
This information from Evi Nemeth's bio page. Evi appears to have an e-mail address (on the same page)--you could try contacting her directly.
So without RTFA, I'm imagining a new shrinking process (like from that old movie where they shrink the ship and get injected into the guy) where they shrink crocodiles down to roughly the size of the HIV virus and it simple eats it.
Truly brilliant, if you ask me. How do they kill the crocodiles once they're done with the HIV? Maybe inject some mini scorpions? I don't know, who are the natural predators of crocodiles?
I wonder what kind of crazy space-diseases he's picked up, but has also developed antibodies for. When he comes back to Earth, he'll destroy us all! We'll be turning to piles of salt or rapidly aging...
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, so let's say I'm a big ass software company that has started to roll out Linux. I've got a couple hundred patents to protect my IP (without which I could not sustain my business). Now the New GPL comes along and tells me I can't use Linux, Apache, Tomcat, etc.
What am I going to do?
That's right ladies and gentlemen, run to Microsoft or another non-GPL vendor. I'm sure Bill would be happy to have me back.
Seriously. What if Microsoft added a clause to their licensing that says you can't run it on a network with any other operating systems?
Amen, my brother!
I agree. I always liked Winzip, but now Winzip+Winrar+native windows compression makes 2 more than I need.
.tar.gz files) as well.
.arj (sorry, no .arc support for you people who fell asleep in 1987 and just woke up)
Windows needs to support gzip (those darn pesky
Now, I use 7zip, which does just about everything including
Krispy Kreme is offering residents whose homes were destroyed a chance to win a free dozen donuts.
Similarly, Pizza Hut is offering a Buy-1-Get-1-Free offer for anyone who lives in New Orleans (good until tomorrow morning).
Nope, I was serious. I don't know why I got modded Funny. I think Google certainly has the talent and the opportunity to turn the industry on it's head with a totally from-the-ground-up OS.
/., you should definately get crackin' on GoS. I'm going to stick with WfW 3.11 until I see it.
http://os.google.com (not active yet, but some day it will be, trust you me)
Some cool features GoS will have:
- chipset emulation built in the kernel (run windows/linux/solaris software "natively")
- search capability integrated in the file system
- distributed processing support (yes, a beowulf cluster) -- have 3 GoS boxes on your home network, have two of them as slaves for offloading work
The list could go on for quite a bit. Despite the probability of me getting modded down by the Linux zealots, current O/S technology is *at least* ten years old (and probably closer to 30). There's been considerable advancement in hardware (pipelining, multi-core, GPUs), but other than p2p technology, what kind of **new** software have we seen since the first web browsers came out in, what, '94?
Ok, I'll get off my soap box, but if anyone from Google reads
I'm going to hold off until GoogleOS comes out.
I use SpamAssassin (server) and SpamPal (client). They're both quite accurate and I'm very happy with them.
However, I've had unacceptably high false-positive rates. Saying that you only get one spam a day is fine--I can deal with that. Are you sure that no legitimate e-mail is being tagged though? I have the subject lines prefixed with [SPAM] and so I just go through and look for anything that looks like it might not be spam. This process takes about 10 minutes a day, which is 10 minutes more than I would care to spend.
I give the anti-spam developers credit for their hard work, but I believe that the best solution would not be filter-based, for mere fact that if 1 spam gets through a day, and the volume of spam increases 100x in the next 2 years, then you're back up to ~100 spams a day. It's a temporary solution to a permanent problem.
Just my $0.02.
Wasn't there a scene in Kings Quest (or maybe one of the SQ or PQ games) that the character got drunk and couldn't walk straight?
/. consciousness.
Prior art?
Sorry, didn't RTFA, but I wanted to keep Sierra games within the collective
A superior uncle would have convinced her of the advantages of XMPP server-to-server support. Talk would have spread like wildfire through the cafeterias of American high-schools and Google would have already had to bow to the pressure. ;)
I've put up a mirror of the image. Seems that either ezboard doesn't really have much bandwidth, or the image is hosted on somebody's Nintendo-modded PC.
teaser image
Correct.
I remember reading somewhere about ideas on "very fast" transport in space. One of them was a ship with a big hydrogen collector that fuses the atoms into helium, which produces thrust. I want to say they estimated the number of hydrogen atoms in space at around 1 per cubic centimeter, or 1 per cubic meter (not sure which), but they said that even that would eventually produce enough drag to have the ship reach a maximum velocity around 0.60c.
"Last time I quoted myself, I got crap from everyone for it. I don't see why you should be able to do it now."
-Scovetta
Please mod parent up. She's a girl. We want to be really, really nice to her so she'll stick around.
Around 1:30 PM, Thursday, August 23, 2005, hundreds of movie theaters became so packed with people that they had to virtually shut down. Commonly known as the "slashdot effect", this led to hordes of angry movie-goers returning to their mothers' basements with thoughts of Battlestar Galactica re-runs.
Stangely, only three women were seen among the crowd.
Except that no-body holds the patent on cocaine so its illegal.
Your tin-foil hat is showing again.
And your argument is silly. Do employers demand employees to stop smoking? Or eat right? Or exercise? They can encourage it, but demand? No way.
You won't be seeing employers putting these capsules in the kitchen next to the coffee any time soon.
Atom is an export format, right? So is rss. They're a little different. So someone at the Googleplex needs to write blog2rss.py and they can get rid of blog2atom.py.
Or does Atom have something to do with the way the data is stored internally? And I think Google did pretty well with Blogger-- it's like saying, "Google chose wrong when they bought Blogger, because Blogger used a different stylesheet on their home page than Google does."
where the distance from the light to the object is 1 meter, and from the object to the wall is 1 light-year.
At t=0, the light is behind the object, the shadow "hits" perpindicularly on the wall (yes, I know, but you know what I mean).
The light then moves north at c.
At t=1, the light has moved one light-second.
The shadow would now be 2.8e24 meters down the wall (similar triangles...).
But that won't happen for a year. In the mean time, the shadow will remain in the same place until the photons arrive.
So at t=[1 year], the shadow
oh crap. Ok, now I see it. Makes sense now.
For anyone else with the same problem as me, I'll continue. At t=[1 year], the shadow has quickly bounced down 2.8e24 meters. At t=[1 year + 1 second], the shadow will be down 5.6e24 meters. From there, you can say that the shadow moved the difference (2.8e24 meters) in 1 second, which puts is far faster than light.
I bow to your superior grasp of light and shadows.
"All your indexable information are belong to us"
-Larry
True, but from an observer's point of view, you can't really tell, right? If you were taking a video of that and had the camera set on 'negative', it would be impossible to tell.
Actually, I don't think that's technically correct. I may be wrong, but if you did this in a very dusty (big) room, you'd see sort of a wave of light (like on a rope if you pull up on one end and see a wave travel down the rope) going down towards the far wall.
Have an object and a spotlight. Rotate the spotlight around the object (always pointed at it) and after a certain distance, the shadow will be moving very fast. But not faster than light. After that point, you'd be seeing the shadow that was cast in the past. Spin the spotlight around fast enough and then shut it off, and the shadow will still be going for a time.
Sorry this isn't scientific, I could add some c's, M's, and what-have-you, but you get the point.
Can anyone comment on whether this is correct? It seems so to me, but that doesn't mean much.
Oh lord. I'm usually part of the grammar police myself. I guess I could say that I was imitating Mauricio by using "your" instead of "you're" on purpose. In fact, that's what I'm going to go with.
Your fired.
-Mauricio
I'm trying to track down the paper, but not having much luck. It looks like you're going to be looking for a paper:
Mullin, R., Nemeth, E. and Weidenhofer, N., "Will Public Key Crypto Systems Live up to Their Expectations? HEP Implementation of the Discrete Log Codebreaker", Proc. of the 1984 Intl Conf on Parallel Processing, Aug. 21-24, 1984, pp. 193-196.
This information from Evi Nemeth's bio page. Evi appears to have an e-mail address (on the same page)--you could try contacting her directly.
So without RTFA, I'm imagining a new shrinking process (like from that old movie where they shrink the ship and get injected into the guy) where they shrink crocodiles down to roughly the size of the HIV virus and it simple eats it.
Truly brilliant, if you ask me. How do they kill the crocodiles once they're done with the HIV? Maybe inject some mini scorpions? I don't know, who are the natural predators of crocodiles?
I wonder what kind of crazy space-diseases he's picked up, but has also developed antibodies for. When he comes back to Earth, he'll destroy us all! We'll be turning to piles of salt or rapidly aging...