My first reaction was the same as yours... But if you browse at the end of the page and hover your mouse on the maintainer name, you'll see that he has an Intel e-mail address.
So yes Intel is, kind of, supporting Linux driver for the Centrino chip as the pay the guy...
However, I don't beleive this is a priority for them. If it was so, they would have released something that is fully functional... What it seems to me is that they are paying one guy to do it and hope the OS community will jump in and help them out! I don't see any real corporate backing behind this project.
Was it microsoft that applied for a patent related to automated translation with IM? Maybe they can now sue the Navy and get event more licensing revenue!
No it will not... you sould have RTFA a bit more closely... They device motion sensor will be activated when the owner if 15 or more feet away from the device.
So it will go off only if someone move the laptop when the owner is not near.
They probably can't do it. They licensed the Sun JDK and they modified t and created a new VM implementation. They probably be able to open-source the VM implementation (it's very likely that there is no Sun code left in it) but they will not be able to open-source their implementaion of the class library because most of it is still Sun code.
It will get faster to an complete Open Source JDK if they can get Sun to agree to release the class libraries under an open source license.
Note that it would make sense for Sun to do it because they will have to spend less money on fixing an enhancing Java.
I heard on NPR a week or two ago, from an author who wrote about the 1918 pandemic, that in one instance a man boarded a trolley. Before the trolley got to the end of the line, the conductor and several passengers were dead.
How long was the journey in the trolley? I doubt it was long enought to cover the incubation period. So the people on the trolley were probably already sick and in an advance state of the infection.
If a virus has a short incubation period and is very virulent (you die quickly) the less likely it will affect a large proportion of people.
The more successfull virus are the one will long incubation period, take the virus that case AIDS for example.
When I yack on my cell via my bluetooth headset, I do have about 2 feet between my headset and my phone, but I also have miles that seperate my cell phone from the nearest transmission tower and many more miles separating the transmission tower from the cell company switches, then it have to go through other phone company switches and then some other countless miles of cable and maybe wireless connection before reaching it's destination.
When I use the USB headset with someone on the same network as me using Yahoo Voicechat (p2p connection on the same subnet) for example, I have more latency than when using my bluetooth headset to talk to someone miles away.
The article says that unpaired devices will automatically pair with hosts availlable in range. Here they compromise security with usablity.
The article also says that encryption will be at the application level. Application level means more software... so I'm pretty sure that most the WUSB device that may eventually come out will have no encryption capabilities.
Frankly, I doubt this WUSB thing will catch on... They have so many weaknesses by design.
The bluetooth people will just have to come out with an enhanced version that support higher speed to be much more appealing than WUSB.
I'm using my bluetooth headset to yack on my cell phone with absolutly no latency.
I can't say the samething for the USB1.1 heaset I have for my computer. I have at least 1/4 of a second latency when talking to someone with net2phone or any other telephony application (that include Cisco SoftPhone).
So basicaly, a wireless connection that is 10X slower than a wired connection give me more quality... Go figure!
This is nice... At last we have a standard IM protocol.
However, unless the major player in IM implements the protocol, this standard importance is not very high.
That would change if someone develop a killer app that make use of the protocol, but for IM the way it's done now, we need at least one of the major player to implement the protocol... At that is not likely in a near future.
Weird both my laptop and desktop (purchased last year for the laptop (Dell) and 2 years ago for the desktop (HP)) have firewire and USB1.1, no USB 2.0.
Actually it the area of a screen is related to the diagonal and the height/width ratio. So a 6" screen may or may not be the equivalent of 4 3" screens if it's height/width ration is not the same as the 3" screen.
The difference is that resolution of consumer camera is the output resolution... The actual number of pixel in the CCD is never specified.
The Spirit cam has 1 megapixel CCD. The fact that is take 3 shots for a full color picture effectuvely increase it's output resolution to 3 megapixels.
Second lunacy: only add $1B to NASA's budget. They will have to gut every other program to fund this return to the moon, and they appear to be eager to do so.
Third lunacy: nothing in this proposal has anything to do with making access to space cheaper.
I'm no fan of Bush, but this would actually force the Nasa to focus on something instead of spending money all over the place with no particular goals.
That's what made possible to send the first man on the moon!
Having less project mean less bureaucracy, less manager,... If they foxus on a single goal, they'll get somewhere.
BTW, Making space access cheaper has never been a goal of Nasa... I let that to the private sector. When profit matter, production cost drop!
I heard from very very very reliable sources that SCO has negociated an agreement with Adobe. The agreement stipulate that Adobe will include stealth technology to prevent people from copying Unix code using Photoshop!
The reason is simple, to make sure that your communication will get through, that it will not be censured.
Say your in prison and want to organize your evasion with some outsider. You know that ALL of your mail will be read by your guardians. So if you encrypt your message and send the cyphertext as is, your guardians will just keep it for themself and never let the mail go to the recipient.
However, if you hide the message in a letter that looks normal, then your pretty sure that your mail will not be censured and will reach it's recipient.
Slashdot Mirror
My first reaction was the same as yours... But if you browse at the end of the page and hover your mouse on the maintainer name, you'll see that he has an Intel e-mail address.
So yes Intel is, kind of, supporting Linux driver for the Centrino chip as the pay the guy...
However, I don't beleive this is a priority for them. If it was so, they would have released something that is fully functional... What it seems to me is that they are paying one guy to do it and hope the OS community will jump in and help them out! I don't see any real corporate backing behind this project.
Here I found the link to the slashdot story.
Was it microsoft that applied for a patent related to automated translation with IM? Maybe they can now sue the Navy and get event more licensing revenue!
No it will not... you sould have RTFA a bit more closely... They device motion sensor will be activated when the owner if 15 or more feet away from the device.
So it will go off only if someone move the laptop when the owner is not near.
They probably can't do it. They licensed the Sun JDK and they modified t and created a new VM implementation. They probably be able to open-source the VM implementation (it's very likely that there is no Sun code left in it) but they will not be able to open-source their implementaion of the class library because most of it is still Sun code.
It will get faster to an complete Open Source JDK if they can get Sun to agree to release the class libraries under an open source license.
Note that it would make sense for Sun to do it because they will have to spend less money on fixing an enhancing Java.
I heard on NPR a week or two ago, from an author who wrote about the 1918 pandemic, that in one instance a man boarded a trolley. Before the trolley got to the end of the line, the conductor and several passengers were dead.
How long was the journey in the trolley? I doubt it was long enought to cover the incubation period. So the people on the trolley were probably already sick and in an advance state of the infection.
If a virus has a short incubation period and is very virulent (you die quickly) the less likely it will affect a large proportion of people.
The more successfull virus are the one will long incubation period, take the virus that case AIDS for example.
Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands.
Just pay with cash and they'll never know it was you!
When I yack on my cell via my bluetooth headset, I do have about 2 feet between my headset and my phone, but I also have miles that seperate my cell phone from the nearest transmission tower and many more miles separating the transmission tower from the cell company switches, then it have to go through other phone company switches and then some other countless miles of cable and maybe wireless connection before reaching it's destination.
When I use the USB headset with someone on the same network as me using Yahoo Voicechat (p2p connection on the same subnet) for example, I have more latency than when using my bluetooth headset to talk to someone miles away.
The article says that unpaired devices will automatically pair with hosts availlable in range. Here they compromise security with usablity.
The article also says that encryption will be at the application level. Application level means more software... so I'm pretty sure that most the WUSB device that may eventually come out will have no encryption capabilities.
Frankly, I doubt this WUSB thing will catch on... They have so many weaknesses by design.
The bluetooth people will just have to come out with an enhanced version that support higher speed to be much more appealing than WUSB.
I don't know what is or who is crap here.
I'm using my bluetooth headset to yack on my cell phone with absolutly no latency.
I can't say the samething for the USB1.1 heaset I have for my computer. I have at least 1/4 of a second latency when talking to someone with net2phone or any other telephony application (that include Cisco SoftPhone).
So basicaly, a wireless connection that is 10X slower than a wired connection give me more quality... Go figure!
But it surely cost a lot more that a 40G hard drive.
it's true... I had the opportunity to keep keep my spirit up for so long that I have memory flashes all the time.
This is nice... At last we have a standard IM protocol.
However, unless the major player in IM implements the protocol, this standard importance is not very high.
That would change if someone develop a killer app that make use of the protocol, but for IM the way it's done now, we need at least one of the major player to implement the protocol... At that is not likely in a near future.
That's true...
;-)
Actually, a used N64 hit (MarioKart64 for example) sell for a higher price than most shrinkwrap XBox titles (even classic ones like Halo).
It tells a lot on the popularity of the XBox and it games
When your healty... they are called laptop...
When you have a cold... they are called labtop.
That's funny, but wait until some geek gets his habd on the LG Internet refrigerator.... He sure will port linux on it!
stability != availability
Weird both my laptop and desktop (purchased last year for the laptop (Dell) and 2 years ago for the desktop (HP)) have firewire and USB1.1, no USB 2.0.
Just look at external harddrives specifications for model that support both USB2.0 and Firewire.
In all cases (were they specify actual transfer rate instead), firewire rate are always higher than USB2.0.
See this one for example.
Actually it the area of a screen is related to the diagonal and the height/width ratio. So a 6" screen may or may not be the equivalent of 4 3" screens if it's height/width ration is not the same as the 3" screen.
The difference is that resolution of consumer camera is the output resolution... The actual number of pixel in the CCD is never specified.
The Spirit cam has 1 megapixel CCD. The fact that is take 3 shots for a full color picture effectuvely increase it's output resolution to 3 megapixels.
Second lunacy: only add $1B to NASA's budget. They will have to gut every other program to fund this return to the moon, and they appear to be eager to do so.
Third lunacy: nothing in this proposal has anything to do with making access to space cheaper.
I'm no fan of Bush, but this would actually force the Nasa to focus on something instead of spending money all over the place with no particular goals.
That's what made possible to send the first man on the moon!
Having less project mean less bureaucracy, less manager,
BTW, Making space access cheaper has never been a goal of Nasa... I let that to the private sector. When profit matter, production cost drop!
Not at all!
I heard from very very very reliable sources that SCO has negociated an agreement with Adobe. The agreement stipulate that Adobe will include stealth technology to prevent people from copying Unix code using Photoshop!
Unfortunately, Minimum requirements for memory is 128M and they recommend 256M.
Maybe it's time to upgrade to a new system... You can buy a laptop on eBay under 300$.
The reason is simple, to make sure that your communication will get through, that it will not be censured.
Say your in prison and want to organize your evasion with some outsider. You know that ALL of your mail will be read by your guardians. So if you encrypt your message and send the cyphertext as is, your guardians will just keep it for themself and never let the mail go to the recipient.
However, if you hide the message in a letter that looks normal, then your pretty sure that your mail will not be censured and will reach it's recipient.