The origin of the name Linux - "line Unix", because it introduced the terminal concepts and the notion of command line. This allowed powerful commands like 'ls' and 'cd'. Prior to that Unix was all clicking on icons, and hence quite easy to use.
Many of you may have seen this, but Rob Pike has an interesting paper about systems research at
www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pd
Called
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant
Here is an excerpt:
Where's the Innovation ?
Microsoft, mostly. Exercise: Compare 1990 Microsoft
software with 2000.
If you claim that's not innovation, but copying, I reply that
Java is to C++ as Windows is to the Macintosh: an industrial response to an interesting but technically flawed piece of systems software.
If systems research was relevant, we'd see new operating
systems and new languages making inroads into the industry, the way we did in the '70s and '80s.
Instead, we see a thriving software industry that largely
ignores research, and a research community that writes papers rather than software.
maybe if phenomenon of people not reading the newuser articles should be taken as an indication that that of newuser articles is faulty. it always seemed to me that it that situation people really get off on yelling at the rookies and showing how smart they are because they know more etiquettte.
i don't see what this has to do with mathematics. the algorithms are all heuristic. my experience is that such things tend to not work outside a narrowly defined environment.
i think it is ashame that good engineering work in robotics gets ignored because it doesn't look to the public as sexy as this stuff. like rigid body contact - it's really hard to have a robot pick something up. now there is actual mathematics.
is International Electronic Machines -
www.iem.net
The Ultimate Rugged All-Digital Camera
From their page:
IEM's Rugged Camera is designed to acquire motion video in demanding applications where ordinary cameras just will not perform. Designed to operate underwater or above ground, IEM's Rugged Camera is the most versatile imaging solution on the market. Utilizing state of the art image processing algorithms, the camera is capable of providing high resolution images in all weather conditions where ordinary cameras cannot.
this book is an ok reference, but not on the actual algorithms. it is more about implementation, and is not too mathematical, which is why people like it.
i don't think people have confidence in the dunwoody paper. but perelman has a reputation for being careful and not making mistakes.
he has also clearly introduced a HUGE number of interesting new ideas to the subject.
actually, the thing about the work that is interesting is that it uses methods developed in differential geometry in the 80's and 90's to solve the problem. differential geometry is related to topology, but is not the same subject.
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The origin of the name Linux - "line Unix", because it introduced the terminal concepts and the notion of command line. This allowed powerful commands like 'ls' and 'cd'. Prior to that Unix was all clicking on icons, and hence quite easy to use.
they really are just unix.
if you had to speak in binary then you'd know a lot about software too...
www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pdf
Many of you may have seen this, but Rob Pike has an interesting paper about systems research at www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.pd Called Systems Software Research is Irrelevant Here is an excerpt: Where's the Innovation ? Microsoft, mostly. Exercise: Compare 1990 Microsoft software with 2000. If you claim that's not innovation, but copying, I reply that Java is to C++ as Windows is to the Macintosh: an industrial response to an interesting but technically flawed piece of systems software. If systems research was relevant, we'd see new operating systems and new languages making inroads into the industry, the way we did in the '70s and '80s. Instead, we see a thriving software industry that largely ignores research, and a research community that writes papers rather than software.
what's the big deal ? you can buy them at toys r us!!
some klingons !
TANG
how can slashdot claim to want less trolling and flamebait and then mod that at 5 funny ?
maybe if phenomenon of people not reading the newuser articles should be taken as an indication that that of newuser articles is faulty. it always seemed to me that it that situation people really get off on yelling at the rookies and showing how smart they are because they know more etiquettte.
i don't see what this has to do with mathematics. the algorithms are all heuristic. my experience is that such things tend to not work outside a narrowly defined environment. i think it is ashame that good engineering work in robotics gets ignored because it doesn't look to the public as sexy as this stuff. like rigid body contact - it's really hard to have a robot pick something up. now there is actual mathematics.
i like that it has a kernal, not a kernel. this could be a big advantage and it's a totally new concept.
that is handy - i suppose this is some sort of gnu compression technique, an alternative to LZW ? it must save lots of disk space, esp. on slashdot.
he's the beste!
is International Electronic Machines - www.iem.net The Ultimate Rugged All-Digital Camera From their page: IEM's Rugged Camera is designed to acquire motion video in demanding applications where ordinary cameras just will not perform. Designed to operate underwater or above ground, IEM's Rugged Camera is the most versatile imaging solution on the market. Utilizing state of the art image processing algorithms, the camera is capable of providing high resolution images in all weather conditions where ordinary cameras cannot.
this book is an ok reference, but not on the actual algorithms. it is more about implementation, and is not too mathematical, which is why people like it.
i gotta hand it to you, that was clever.
no it's really just the opposite. people treat "art" as this holy thing that isn't supposed to be something enjoyable.
agreed!
yes that is it - definitely crest! it was pretty lame as i recall.
i had a toothpaste comic once
and to describe liquid helium 3(?)
fermat's last theorem caused a lot of number theory to be invented. this is useful in crytography for example.
i don't think people have confidence in the dunwoody paper. but perelman has a reputation for being careful and not making mistakes. he has also clearly introduced a HUGE number of interesting new ideas to the subject.
actually, the thing about the work that is interesting is that it uses methods developed in differential geometry in the 80's and 90's to solve the problem. differential geometry is related to topology, but is not the same subject.