That's all fine and dandy and everything, but the scroll bar is still supposed to be hidden. You can still scroll via the PGUP and PGDOWN keys and the arrow keys. The bar, per the written code comments, is still supposed to be hidden. In that regard, the others fail.
It's just a darn shame they stole all that technology, eh?
Although Eckert disputes it at the end of the interview, the court found that:
"...John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry had constructed the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State College in the 1939 - 1942 period. He had also ruled that John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, who had for more than twenty-five years been feted, trumpeted, and honored as the co-inventors of the first electronic digital computer, were not entitled to the patent upon which that honor was based. Furthermore, Judge Larson had ruled that Mauchly had pirated Atanasoff's ideas, and for more than thirty years had palmed those ideas off on the world as the product of his own genius."
Full Q&A can be found here: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Trial.html
Court documents can be found here: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/court-papers/index.s html
Yay! Even more reasons to keep this guy around! It's a damn shame they want to deorbit Hubble. With this much invested into a telescope that STILL continues to function fine, why not just open it up for other uses rather than deorbit it?
Slashdot Subscribers (You know the people who actually pay for the great service they get) get to see newsposts before they're officially "up". You should keep better track of slashdot services.
Okay I just read the articles and as much as I'd like to understand it, most of it just seems way over my head. But from the minimal information I can understand, it seems that such a flaw shouldn't have been overlooked for this many years. Why did we just discover it now? Perhaps it will become more clear for me after next semester.
In the mean time, can someone possibly provide examples of any popular theories or situations that this discovery may have thrown off? I just want something more substance than "it changed a lot".
My box is not low end by any means. I'm running a Thoroughbred Athlon OC'd to 2.4GHZ with 1GB of PC3200 running a RAID-0 on two 120GB special edition drives. In my experience, Linux performance has been poor at best as far as it's GUI goes. When I boot back into windows, the GUI just flies. It's not a huge issue, but it's a pet peeve nonetheless.
I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting for something like this. As an avid Microsoft fan, one of my biggest beefs was the inferior performance of the Linux GUI and its components. Although I will learn the console eventually, I will still probably use the GUI as my cheif method of computing since I find it very fast and efficient. Maybee this will finally blur the line between OS's enough to get more people to switch over.
It's really great to see software companies finally respecting their loyal customers enough to "reward" them with a free game.
I've seen the opposite happen, where games are first freeware, then changed to a shareware or other license because they realized all the oodles of cash they could make off of it. I don't think that is a good practice and if more companies follow Rockstar's exmaple, they will have many more happy gamers that will gladly support their other products by purchasing them legitimately.
Stambler filed his suit in February 2001 in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington. RSA and VeriSign were not the only defendants; Stambler also sued Openwave Systems Inc., First Data Corp, Omnisky Corp., and later, Certicom Corp. Omnisky later went bankrupt, and the three other companies each settled with Stambler.
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Looks like some random "genius" decided he'd make a quick buck on old technology. I'm so sick of this behavior. Anyone remember the Pocket PC fiasco? The guy claimed that MS infringed on his "Pocket PC" which was just a casino style chip that you flip to make decisions. If you don't remember you can read more at http://news.com.com/2100-1023-805115.html?legacy=c net&tag=lthd
Short, basic moves should take only a few hours to parse, said Qiang Zhu, a research engineer at the vortical flow lab, and one of the FLEX3D programmers. Long, slow turns, however, may take several days.
"But the net effect should be a more realistic movement of the fish than what you see in a screensaver, for example," he said.
But FLEX3D will yield only numerical data for the flow fields and vortices created by each move. After that, it's up to the iQuarium investigators to bring their virtual fish tank to life.
"That part actually shouldn't be too difficult," said Aaron Sokoloski, a mechanical engineering student in the School of Engineering. Sokoloski said he will be using C++ and Microsoft's Direct3D graphics software to model the fish for iQuarium
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These students are paying top tution dollars and ahve access to some of the most powerful equipment available to what? That's right. Make a giant SCREEN SAVER that "looks pretty".
Proof that students have waaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands.
It's interesting to see that someone took the time to do this. I think that since Linux is very clean, streamlined code, it would much easier to make a 3D map of Linux than another OS such as Windows or Mac OS. Not that I wouldn't mind seeing something from the aforementioned OS's.
P.S. Does anyone else think that it would be nice to have such a map printed in high detail on a large black poster?
From the site: "Here, arrayed in all their splendor, lie over five thousand books of the Science Fiction and Fantasy persuasion."
It seems this side is dedicated to mostly, if not completely, Fiction books. A database that catalogs and reviews books regardless of the book's nature would be an excellent addition.
Futhermore, even though others may have attempted to do so before, this one may suceeed because if its similarity to the already established IMDB.
Slashdot Mirror
That's all fine and dandy and everything, but the scroll bar is still supposed to be hidden. You can still scroll via the PGUP and PGDOWN keys and the arrow keys. The bar, per the written code comments, is still supposed to be hidden. In that regard, the others fail.
It's just a darn shame they stole all that technology, eh? Although Eckert disputes it at the end of the interview, the court found that: "...John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry had constructed the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State College in the 1939 - 1942 period. He had also ruled that John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, who had for more than twenty-five years been feted, trumpeted, and honored as the co-inventors of the first electronic digital computer, were not entitled to the patent upon which that honor was based. Furthermore, Judge Larson had ruled that Mauchly had pirated Atanasoff's ideas, and for more than thirty years had palmed those ideas off on the world as the product of his own genius." Full Q&A can be found here: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Trial.html Court documents can be found here: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/court-papers/index.s html
Yay! Even more reasons to keep this guy around! It's a damn shame they want to deorbit Hubble. With this much invested into a telescope that STILL continues to function fine, why not just open it up for other uses rather than deorbit it?
Slashdot Subscribers (You know the people who actually pay for the great service they get) get to see newsposts before they're officially "up". You should keep better track of slashdot services.
In the mean time, can someone possibly provide examples of any popular theories or situations that this discovery may have thrown off? I just want something more substance than "it changed a lot".
My box is not low end by any means. I'm running a Thoroughbred Athlon OC'd to 2.4GHZ with 1GB of PC3200 running a RAID-0 on two 120GB special edition drives. In my experience, Linux performance has been poor at best as far as it's GUI goes. When I boot back into windows, the GUI just flies. It's not a huge issue, but it's a pet peeve nonetheless.
I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting for something like this. As an avid Microsoft fan, one of my biggest beefs was the inferior performance of the Linux GUI and its components. Although I will learn the console eventually, I will still probably use the GUI as my cheif method of computing since I find it very fast and efficient. Maybee this will finally blur the line between OS's enough to get more people to switch over.
I've seen the opposite happen, where games are first freeware, then changed to a shareware or other license because they realized all the oodles of cash they could make off of it. I don't think that is a good practice and if more companies follow Rockstar's exmaple, they will have many more happy gamers that will gladly support their other products by purchasing them legitimately.
Ahh...the memories.
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Stambler filed his suit in February 2001 in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington. RSA and VeriSign were not the only defendants; Stambler also sued Openwave Systems Inc., First Data Corp, Omnisky Corp., and later, Certicom Corp. Omnisky later went bankrupt, and the three other companies each settled with Stambler.
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Looks like some random "genius" decided he'd make a quick buck on old technology. I'm so sick of this behavior. Anyone remember the Pocket PC fiasco? The guy claimed that MS infringed on his "Pocket PC" which was just a casino style chip that you flip to make decisions. If you don't remember you can read more at http://news.com.com/2100-1023-805115.html?legacy=c net&tag=lthd
Short, basic moves should take only a few hours to parse, said Qiang Zhu, a research engineer at the vortical flow lab, and one of the FLEX3D programmers. Long, slow turns, however, may take several days.
"But the net effect should be a more realistic movement of the fish than what you see in a screensaver, for example," he said.
But FLEX3D will yield only numerical data for the flow fields and vortices created by each move. After that, it's up to the iQuarium investigators to bring their virtual fish tank to life.
"That part actually shouldn't be too difficult," said Aaron Sokoloski, a mechanical engineering student in the School of Engineering. Sokoloski said he will be using C++ and Microsoft's Direct3D graphics software to model the fish for iQuarium
--quote--
These students are paying top tution dollars and ahve access to some of the most powerful equipment available to what? That's right. Make a giant SCREEN SAVER that "looks pretty".
Proof that students have waaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands.
I'm going to go ahead and test my university's bandwidth by mirroring the movies at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~omikron/linux3d/
How is this related in any way, shape, or form to the original post?
It's interesting to see that someone took the time to do this. I think that since Linux is very clean, streamlined code, it would much easier to make a 3D map of Linux than another OS such as Windows or Mac OS. Not that I wouldn't mind seeing something from the aforementioned OS's. P.S. Does anyone else think that it would be nice to have such a map printed in high detail on a large black poster?
From the site: "Here, arrayed in all their splendor, lie over five thousand books of the Science Fiction and Fantasy persuasion." It seems this side is dedicated to mostly, if not completely, Fiction books. A database that catalogs and reviews books regardless of the book's nature would be an excellent addition. Futhermore, even though others may have attempted to do so before, this one may suceeed because if its similarity to the already established IMDB.
We really needed something like this. I'm looking forward to seeing this grow.