as the software engineer behind the project, i'd be happy to answer any nerd-questions you might have. for example - the code was around 7000 lines of LSL.
The article states that the action was taken on the basis of a trademark. With a name like "Magic Cube" if the toy is anything at all like a Rubic's Cube then it almost certainly does infringe on the Rubic's Cube trademark.
so if trademark my nifty cardboard box as "Karl's box", i can stop others from calling their boxes "super box"? i can stop the usage of the word "box" for boxes?
10 years ago, our school was trying to decide whether or not to upgrade its bank of 2400 baud modems. the guy leading the student advisory board replied "no - spend it somewhere else. just how fast can one person read?"
Sun's Scott McNealy squashes idea of Java becoming open source [PC Pro] 13:07
Sun's CEO Scott McNealy has squashed hopes that its Java programming language could be made open source, and cast a shadow over Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz's statement yesterday that the Solaris operating system was to go the same way.
At a news conference during the public sector technology showcase FOSE 2004, McNealy said he couldn't understand how open sourcing Java would solve anything.
In February, Eric Raymond, President of the Open Source Initiative, published an open letter to Sun in which he called on Sun to make its Java platform Open Source, describing the company's Open Source strategy as 'spotty' and 'confused'. IBM also published an open letter to Sun with a similar plea.
At a UK conference in March, McNealy joked of such letters: 'They do get looked at. Sometimes with a chuckle.' His comments on demands to open source Java then echoed those he gave at FOSE. 'I don't know what problem that would solve apart from IBM's childhood envy,' he said.
Java is an object-oriented programming language designed to allow the same version of a program to run on multiple platforms without modification by using a Java runtime environment that sits between the Java program and the operating system. Java is the jewel in Sun's crown, as far as McNealy is concerned, because of its pervasiveness. 'There's not one other platform where you can write to it no matter whether it's a cell-phone or the Mars rover,' he said. On rivalries between Java and Microsoft's.Net he said: 'Mankind won, Microsoft lost.'
Sun maintains that open standards are more important and that it has to retain control over the direction of Java to prevent the creation of different implementations that may be incompatible - something Sun accuses Red Hat of having done with its version of the Linux-based operating system.
This doesn't bode well for the chances of open-sourcing Sun's Solaris operating system. While speaking at the SunNetwork confe
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rence in Shanghai, China, Schwartz commented: 'I don't want to say when that will happen... But make no mistake - we will open source Solaris.'
However, he said this would be done in the same way that Sun holds stewardship over the direction of Java, which will frustrate many in the open source community.
However, Sun is not entirely against an open source version of Java. It has indicated in the past that it might be possible to relinquish its stewardship position to a neutral governing body that would assure open-source implementations wouldn't 'fork'.
And Sun isn't the only company with the skills to create an open source version of Java. Sun's Chief Technology Evangelist, Simon Phipps, told us in a recent interview: 'Why has no-one else offered to create an Open Source version of Java? Maybe because it's on the 'too hard' list. Sun would support an Open Source version of Java, but it needs a lot of money and time to do so. You can't just flick a switch. Right now Sun has higher priorities in the form of Java 1.5.'
Despite the rhetoric, it doesn't look as if open source implementations of either Java or Solaris will be around any time soon.
well - i'm not suggesting we mutate the entire binary code. (although that would be truly interesting - if successful the virus could discover completely new and unannounced exploits.)
rather - just mutate important parameters. my understanding is that current worms use a variety of strategies for searching ip-addresses to attack (local network vs. world-wide) or which port-numbers to use for virus-virus communication. that sort of thing.
i apologize for being loose with the jargon. i tend to use terms people have already heard, so that the root ideas can be more easily digested by the masses.
it would have been nice, in your original post, if you had been more clear: "i'm harping on jargon" rather than "your idea is unsound."
when is someone going to put a genetic algorithm into their virus/worm?
something that mutates the worm's parameters (ports, timing delays, ip-search stratgy, etc.) so that the most virulent parameters are found by "natural selection"?
seems like an ideal application for genetic algorithms.
as a visual effects developer, i'd like to point out that there are some very nice (better?) effects that can be achieved with 2d effects. eye candy that would make you drool.
as a visual effects developer, i'd like to point out that there are some very nice (better?) effects that can be achieved with 2d effects. eye candy that would make you drool.
I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application.
yes, well, just wait until microsoft incorporates web seaching into their operating system. imagine if you could merely alt-click on any word to get an msn-search. etc, etc, etc.
BUT, you say, msn-searches are inferior.
gosh, we've never seen microsoft crush superior technology before, have we?
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slashdot - where dumb jokes are widly upvoted and genuinely pertinent information sits on the bottom.
as the software engineer behind the project, i'd be happy to answer any nerd-questions you might have. for example - the code was around 7000 lines of LSL.
more likely the company keeps paying for placement.
HELLO PEOPLE - WELCOME TO 2006. WHERE'S THE DAMN VIDEO?!
slowly?
The article states that the action was taken on the basis of a trademark. With a name like "Magic Cube" if the toy is anything at all like a Rubic's Cube then it almost certainly does infringe on the Rubic's Cube trademark.
so if trademark my nifty cardboard box as "Karl's box", i can stop others from calling their boxes "super box"? i can stop the usage of the word "box" for boxes?
K.
'But just how much data can a person consume?'
10 years ago, our school was trying to decide whether or not to upgrade its bank of 2400 baud modems. the guy leading the student advisory board replied "no - spend it somewhere else. just how fast can one person read?"
i really hate people like that.
K.
me too.
i'll never understand why people drive jaguars. my 70's chevy impala station wagon was way faster.
K.
i think the perl people are doing exactly this for perl6.
K.
Friday 4th June 2004
.Net he said: 'Mankind won, Microsoft lost.'
Sun's Scott McNealy squashes idea of Java becoming open source
[PC Pro] 13:07
Sun's CEO Scott McNealy has squashed hopes that its Java programming language could be made open source, and cast a shadow over Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz's statement yesterday that the Solaris operating system was to go the same way.
At a news conference during the public sector technology showcase FOSE 2004, McNealy said he couldn't understand how open sourcing Java would solve anything.
In February, Eric Raymond, President of the Open Source Initiative, published an open letter to Sun in which he called on Sun to make its Java platform Open Source, describing the company's Open Source strategy as 'spotty' and 'confused'. IBM also published an open letter to Sun with a similar plea.
At a UK conference in March, McNealy joked of such letters: 'They do get looked at. Sometimes with a chuckle.' His comments on demands to open source Java then echoed those he gave at FOSE. 'I don't know what problem that would solve apart from IBM's childhood envy,' he said.
Java is an object-oriented programming language designed to allow the same version of a program to run on multiple platforms without modification by using a Java runtime environment that sits between the Java program and the operating system. Java is the jewel in Sun's crown, as far as McNealy is concerned, because of its pervasiveness. 'There's not one other platform where you can write to it no matter whether it's a cell-phone or the Mars rover,' he said. On rivalries between Java and Microsoft's
Sun maintains that open standards are more important and that it has to retain control over the direction of Java to prevent the creation of different implementations that may be incompatible - something Sun accuses Red Hat of having done with its version of the Linux-based operating system.
This doesn't bode well for the chances of open-sourcing Sun's Solaris operating system. While speaking at the SunNetwork confe
ADVERTISEMENT
rence in Shanghai, China, Schwartz commented: 'I don't want to say when that will happen... But make no mistake - we will open source Solaris.'
However, he said this would be done in the same way that Sun holds stewardship over the direction of Java, which will frustrate many in the open source community.
However, Sun is not entirely against an open source version of Java. It has indicated in the past that it might be possible to relinquish its stewardship position to a neutral governing body that would assure open-source implementations wouldn't 'fork'.
And Sun isn't the only company with the skills to create an open source version of Java. Sun's Chief Technology Evangelist, Simon Phipps, told us in a recent interview: 'Why has no-one else offered to create an Open Source version of Java? Maybe because it's on the 'too hard' list. Sun would support an Open Source version of Java, but it needs a lot of money and time to do so. You can't just flick a switch. Right now Sun has higher priorities in the form of Java 1.5.'
Despite the rhetoric, it doesn't look as if open source implementations of either Java or Solaris will be around any time soon.
mod thread up, please.
well - i'm not suggesting we mutate the entire binary code. (although that would be truly interesting - if successful the virus could discover completely new and unannounced exploits.)
rather - just mutate important parameters. my understanding is that current worms use a variety of strategies for searching ip-addresses to attack (local network vs. world-wide) or which port-numbers to use for virus-virus communication. that sort of thing.
K.
i apologize for being loose with the jargon. i tend to use terms people have already heard, so that the root ideas can be more easily digested by the masses.
it would have been nice, in your original post, if you had been more clear: "i'm harping on jargon" rather than "your idea is unsound."
K.
gosh Flyboy - thanks for that lesson. if you ever take my course on genetic algorithms at washington university, i'll make sure to flunk you.
you know Flyboy, biological virus's don't have sex either, and yet they somehow manage to evolve.
K.
i'd like to know:
when is someone going to put a genetic algorithm into their virus/worm?
something that mutates the worm's parameters (ports, timing delays, ip-search stratgy, etc.) so that the most virulent parameters are found by "natural selection"?
seems like an ideal application for genetic algorithms.
K.
what your grandma needs is for her windows to burst into flames when she closes them.
K.
as a visual effects developer, i'd like to point out that there are some very nice (better?) effects that can be achieved with 2d effects. eye candy that would make you drool.
check out my burning dialog box movie.
K.
as a visual effects developer, i'd like to point out that there are some very nice (better?) effects that can be achieved with 2d effects. eye candy that would make you drool.
check out my burning dialog box movie.
K.
does anyone know where this exploit originated?
is it, perchance, related to the recent windows source code leak?
K.
I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application.
yes, well, just wait until microsoft incorporates web seaching into their operating system. imagine if you could merely alt-click on any word to get an msn-search. etc, etc, etc.
BUT, you say, msn-searches are inferior.
gosh, we've never seen microsoft crush superior technology before, have we?
it can find it's recharging station and recharge itself.
that, my friends, changes everything.
K.
i wondered about this - if i have an open wifi spot at my home - how can they prove i was the one trading files? K.
so how come there's no similar service in new york?