Hehehe... As I was reading your reply, the Slashdot Quote at the bottom of the page was this:
This is the theory that Jack built. This is the flaw that lay in the theory that Jack built. This is the palpable verbal haze that hid the flaw that lay in...
Not that I'm against this whole fantasy happening, but it amazes me how Slashdotters decry Microsoft's use of FUD, then spread it themselves with broad strokes.
There ought to be a moderation category of FUD, which isn't quite the same as Flamebait. Of course, this is just my opinion...
As Wikipedia grows, so grows the opportunity for misinformation to creep in. With a relatively small work, there is a lot of public scrutiny on each piece. What happens when the database becomes huge? What group would care for the integrity of the information?
It's a British company. If you're concerned about the American GDP, spend a dollar on aluminum foil and paper. It will affect the American GDP dramatically more than spending $25 for a product from the U.K.
Actually, I'm interested to know. I tried to do some research into RTGs a few weeks ago, but the information available on them seems to be a bit spotty (at least as far as Google is concerned). Oh, there was a bunch of reading to do, but what data there were seemed to be spread out all over the place and not necessarily relatable to each other.
The things I'm interested in are:
* Power output (kw)
* Mass (kg)
* Lifetime (years)
* Overall size
* Levels of radiation they give off (i.e. can they be used around humans? How much shielding is req'd?)
If you happen to know any of this, or have a link that consolodates the info, please share.
One other advantage to this scenario is that NASA only pays for the successful results, not the failures. In the unfortunate event that a returning cargo-laden lander drills into the center of a city, NASA doesn't have to bear the cost of the cleanup. In a simpler scenario, they don't have to pay for all the failed attempts at figuring out what sort of fuel combination to use, a la John Carmack and company, though I continue to be hopeful for their success either in the X-Prize competition or out of it.
1) This is C code, not pseudocode.
1) There are 31 qbits, not 32.
3) Why the right shift by 30 bits on the rand()? You're AND-ing this with 0x01 anyway, so the final outcome will either be 0 or 1. Quite perplexing.
1) He said it was pseudocode.
2) Where's number two? (I fear all the answers to this one)
I work for an electric utility and, with the current state of web-based scheduling of electricity in the U.S. (a mandatory requirement by regulatory agencies), loss of proper traffic routing on the Internet can have difficult-to-overcome effects.
Right. They have to have them so they know what the outlaws have, and so that just in case the outlaws use them, the government can identify what it is that's turning them into grey goo.
You can download people now? Dang, this technology thing is getting complex. Why, back in my day, all you could download was programs. And we didn't have no broadband, we used modems. And they were slow. 1200 baud. Betcha don't even know what a "baud" is, do you boy? And this "save to hard disk" business? Modernist luxury! We used floppies, and we were happy about it. They were 140K on a side, and you had to hack them to make 'em two sided. If you had two floppy drives, you were cool. And RAM! Don't get me started...
I have to disagree with you that OpenOffice's quality lead is small. Sure, the word processor makes good documents, and the spreadsheet does good calculations, etc. But the place that Microsoft has the lead, with no catching them in sight, is in integration, specifically where things like VBA are concerned. Now, a lot of people decry VBA as a poor attempt at technology, but I've seen some fairly incredible applications developed in the framework of Excel.
Now, as far as the price lead, there's no doubt that OO and the rest of it's Open Source bretheren have an unbeatable price lead. And most organizations would get by just fine with the featureset of OO or KOffice. Some organizations require more "extreme" features, but they are few and far between. Still, the selling point to corporations for Microsoft Office is not only an established product that they've been using for years, but that the individual components interact at a fundamental level.
Now, about your assertation that MySQL is better than SQL Server, I can't really comment about the current state of either project, but no, I wasn't confusing SQL Server with Oracle at all. For MySQL, the last I heard, it didn't have features like table partitioning, replication, or a few of the other features that classify a database as Enterprise class. That said, I wouldn't recommend running any Enterprise-class organization on anything other than Oracle because of the reliance that software vendors have on that platform.
Since I've recently adopted Evolution as my e-mail client, I'm hoping that it gets better than it is. It seems to have promise, though I've been considering checking out the combination of KMail and Kontact.
Contrary to the way my post might sound, I'm all in favor of wide adoption of Linux and other Open Source tools, both on the corporate desktop and in the home environment. I'm comfortably using SUSE 9.1 on my home computer, and am reasonably happy with its capabilities. The things I miss, and may try to get working with Crossover Office, are Visio (no, Kivo is not a viable alternative), Photoshop (though the GIMP 2.0 looks like it might be plenty good enough for what I need) and, to a lesser extent, Illustrator (Inkscape looks like it might suffice).
Oh, I don't mind using the keyboard (e.g. the shell) at all. I'm fairly comfortable there, actually. The rub with SUSE is that they have this "KDE Integration for SUSE" package that puts all the glue in for their apps like YaST, etc. Updating your system to the latest version of KDE isn't as easy as
rpm -i kde3.2.rpm
That little trick pretty much wrecks your system. I tried several approaches and, in the end, decided to wait (two months) for SUSE 9.1 to come out. I was happy with the decision. Now I have a stable system that I'm happy with, and, as I said, by the time it's time to upgrade again, I'll have a lot better feel for the details of what I'm trying to accomplish. That, and I'll probably wait for SUSE to be ready with a new KDE integration package.
Dunno what Rhino is, but I just discovered Inkscape. Oh, it's not Illustrator, for sure, but it's got promise.
I just wish Adobe would port their software to Linux so I don't have to wait for the current crop of open source tools to catch up. They've got a huge lead (Adobe), unlike the rapidly shrinking lead that Microsoft has with their toolset (Office, etc.).
Oh, yes, mod me down. I've dared to imply that the dreaded "M$" has some sort of quality lead over the likes of OpenOffice.org, MySQL or Evolution. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
You know, I just purchased and installed SUSE 9.1 Pro on my laptop (ThinkPad 1.6G Celeron, etc, etc) and can honestly tell you that I don't want for anything as far as functionality or ease of use goes. I used to have SUSE 9.0 Personal on there, and it was somewhat troublesome, inasmuch as I couldn't figure out how to upgrade it to KDE 3.2, kernel 2.6, and all the other things I wanted to do to it. I found that sanity was kept by using what was in the package. Now, with a few of the issues worked out, as well as a wealth of included packages, there's nothing that I really need or want (so far) that isn't on the disk set. I'm hoping that by the time I do want something new (KDE 3.3, kernel 2.8, etc.) it will be obvious to me how to go about updating things.
Having said all that, I don't want to give the impression that most packages are hard to update. Application updates are a breeze, it's just the "deeper" stuff that gives me fits. It's probably just me, though...
I run Linux to avoid viruses, keep from having to reboot all the time, have some control over my computer without having to figure out what to click on, and have a choice on my interface. Actually, the last thing is what really keeps me; I like being able to choose KDE over GNOME, or just using the shell. And, for that matter, once I've chosen a GUI, I like to be able to configure it the way I want to. Heck, if I want it to look like a Mac, I can have that, too, or some hybrid.
The biggest thing, though, is the openness. I don't read C code well enough to be able to delve into the bowells of the kernel or the GUI, or even modestly complex applications and have a chance of knowing what's going on. But there are people who can, and I know where to look to find out what they think. There's a certain safety that I feel when I run Linux that I don't feel when I run Windows. It's public safety, and it's maintained by the neighborhood watch.
Try O'Reilly's "Running Linux." I bought the second edition (used) about a year ago and sat down to read it from the front (something I never do with technical books). I got distracted with life about Chapter 4, but can say for sure that it explains things using clear language without "talking down" to the reader. Now that my house is almost completely Windows free (only my wife's laptop left), I'll be upgrading my Running Linux to 4th edition soon.
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This is the theory that Jack built. This is the flaw that lay in the theory that Jack built. This is the palpable verbal haze that hid the flaw that lay in...
Not that I'm against this whole fantasy happening, but it amazes me how Slashdotters decry Microsoft's use of FUD, then spread it themselves with broad strokes.
There ought to be a moderation category of FUD, which isn't quite the same as Flamebait. Of course, this is just my opinion...
As Wikipedia grows, so grows the opportunity for misinformation to creep in. With a relatively small work, there is a lot of public scrutiny on each piece. What happens when the database becomes huge? What group would care for the integrity of the information?
It's a British company. If you're concerned about the American GDP, spend a dollar on aluminum foil and paper. It will affect the American GDP dramatically more than spending $25 for a product from the U.K.
Actually, I'm interested to know. I tried to do some research into RTGs a few weeks ago, but the information available on them seems to be a bit spotty (at least as far as Google is concerned). Oh, there was a bunch of reading to do, but what data there were seemed to be spread out all over the place and not necessarily relatable to each other.
The things I'm interested in are:
* Power output (kw)
* Mass (kg)
* Lifetime (years)
* Overall size
* Levels of radiation they give off (i.e. can they be used around humans? How much shielding is req'd?)
If you happen to know any of this, or have a link that consolodates the info, please share.
thx
No kidding. I could barely sit through the original theatrical release without having a theatrical release of my own.
The article said two projects. The other one is probably MS-Bob.
Although, depending on the system in question, "flash drive" could be okay...
Okay, so I didn't RTFA. Does the patent specify digital data? AFAIK, the nervous system is analog, as are all those fat-testing scales and things.
One other advantage to this scenario is that NASA only pays for the successful results, not the failures. In the unfortunate event that a returning cargo-laden lander drills into the center of a city, NASA doesn't have to bear the cost of the cleanup. In a simpler scenario, they don't have to pay for all the failed attempts at figuring out what sort of fuel combination to use, a la John Carmack and company, though I continue to be hopeful for their success either in the X-Prize competition or out of it.
1) There are 31 qbits, not 32.
3) Why the right shift by 30 bits on the rand()? You're AND-ing this with 0x01 anyway, so the final outcome will either be 0 or 1. Quite perplexing.
1) He said it was pseudocode.
2) Where's number two? (I fear all the answers to this one)
I work for an electric utility and, with the current state of web-based scheduling of electricity in the U.S. (a mandatory requirement by regulatory agencies), loss of proper traffic routing on the Internet can have difficult-to-overcome effects.
WooHoo!!!
Right. They have to have them so they know what the outlaws have, and so that just in case the outlaws use them, the government can identify what it is that's turning them into grey goo.
You can download people now? Dang, this technology thing is getting complex. Why, back in my day, all you could download was programs. And we didn't have no broadband, we used modems. And they were slow. 1200 baud. Betcha don't even know what a "baud" is, do you boy? And this "save to hard disk" business? Modernist luxury! We used floppies, and we were happy about it. They were 140K on a side, and you had to hack them to make 'em two sided. If you had two floppy drives, you were cool. And RAM! Don't get me started...
Yeah, a Post Office in the city with a huge truck that makes regular runs to the city dump. :^)
I have to disagree with you that OpenOffice's quality lead is small. Sure, the word processor makes good documents, and the spreadsheet does good calculations, etc. But the place that Microsoft has the lead, with no catching them in sight, is in integration, specifically where things like VBA are concerned. Now, a lot of people decry VBA as a poor attempt at technology, but I've seen some fairly incredible applications developed in the framework of Excel.
Now, as far as the price lead, there's no doubt that OO and the rest of it's Open Source bretheren have an unbeatable price lead. And most organizations would get by just fine with the featureset of OO or KOffice. Some organizations require more "extreme" features, but they are few and far between. Still, the selling point to corporations for Microsoft Office is not only an established product that they've been using for years, but that the individual components interact at a fundamental level.
Now, about your assertation that MySQL is better than SQL Server, I can't really comment about the current state of either project, but no, I wasn't confusing SQL Server with Oracle at all. For MySQL, the last I heard, it didn't have features like table partitioning, replication, or a few of the other features that classify a database as Enterprise class. That said, I wouldn't recommend running any Enterprise-class organization on anything other than Oracle because of the reliance that software vendors have on that platform.
Since I've recently adopted Evolution as my e-mail client, I'm hoping that it gets better than it is. It seems to have promise, though I've been considering checking out the combination of KMail and Kontact.
Contrary to the way my post might sound, I'm all in favor of wide adoption of Linux and other Open Source tools, both on the corporate desktop and in the home environment. I'm comfortably using SUSE 9.1 on my home computer, and am reasonably happy with its capabilities. The things I miss, and may try to get working with Crossover Office, are Visio (no, Kivo is not a viable alternative), Photoshop (though the GIMP 2.0 looks like it might be plenty good enough for what I need) and, to a lesser extent, Illustrator (Inkscape looks like it might suffice).
Yeah, well I don't do that either. :^)
Let me get this straight...
.zip file to Windows box.
1. Read story on Slashdot.
2. Download
3. Unzip file.
4. Execute unknown code.
5. ????
6. Pray.
Is that about it?
I just wish Adobe would port their software to Linux so I don't have to wait for the current crop of open source tools to catch up. They've got a huge lead (Adobe), unlike the rapidly shrinking lead that Microsoft has with their toolset (Office, etc.).
Oh, yes, mod me down. I've dared to imply that the dreaded "M$" has some sort of quality lead over the likes of OpenOffice.org, MySQL or Evolution. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
You know, I just purchased and installed SUSE 9.1 Pro on my laptop (ThinkPad 1.6G Celeron, etc, etc) and can honestly tell you that I don't want for anything as far as functionality or ease of use goes. I used to have SUSE 9.0 Personal on there, and it was somewhat troublesome, inasmuch as I couldn't figure out how to upgrade it to KDE 3.2, kernel 2.6, and all the other things I wanted to do to it. I found that sanity was kept by using what was in the package. Now, with a few of the issues worked out, as well as a wealth of included packages, there's nothing that I really need or want (so far) that isn't on the disk set. I'm hoping that by the time I do want something new (KDE 3.3, kernel 2.8, etc.) it will be obvious to me how to go about updating things.
Having said all that, I don't want to give the impression that most packages are hard to update. Application updates are a breeze, it's just the "deeper" stuff that gives me fits. It's probably just me, though...
I run Linux to avoid viruses, keep from having to reboot all the time, have some control over my computer without having to figure out what to click on, and have a choice on my interface. Actually, the last thing is what really keeps me; I like being able to choose KDE over GNOME, or just using the shell. And, for that matter, once I've chosen a GUI, I like to be able to configure it the way I want to. Heck, if I want it to look like a Mac, I can have that, too, or some hybrid.
The biggest thing, though, is the openness. I don't read C code well enough to be able to delve into the bowells of the kernel or the GUI, or even modestly complex applications and have a chance of knowing what's going on. But there are people who can, and I know where to look to find out what they think. There's a certain safety that I feel when I run Linux that I don't feel when I run Windows. It's public safety, and it's maintained by the neighborhood watch.
Due to their sheer simplicity, those are far neater (nerdier, and therefore slashdotty) than the high-tech shots the original post links to.
Thanks.
Try O'Reilly's "Running Linux." I bought the second edition (used) about a year ago and sat down to read it from the front (something I never do with technical books). I got distracted with life about Chapter 4, but can say for sure that it explains things using clear language without "talking down" to the reader. Now that my house is almost completely Windows free (only my wife's laptop left), I'll be upgrading my Running Linux to 4th edition soon.