Only the express betas are free. And only for the time being. The FAQ says they havent determined the price yet, but said it'd be low. Besides, Linux still has many many other advantages then a free compiler which you can get quite a few of for windows already, including a few from Borland which mkes pretty good quality products. Regards, Steve
Isn't Canada just America's Northern Territory? Or did I miss something;) I hope you see that I'm kidding:) Regards, Steve P.S. Yes I'm a patriotic American, but I do love Toronto, damn near the nicest city in the world.
Thats a joke right?:) I use Debian Stable, unstable, and fedora. Debian stable is a rock, Fedora is perfect for the desktop, I ran debian unstable for many months but then the package maintaners kept adding fluky packages that broke my system and then they fixed them the next day with new packages, but by then it was too late for me heh. Fedora is nice, I have not a complaint with it, but then again we all have different needs. My one major "thing" with debain though is that it is so bent on being completely free, yet Fedora is far more free is the GNU sense. I jsut always found that interesting/wierd/ironic Regards, Steve
A quantum computer is completely different. The only thing in common in the binary number system. In a classical computer you have bits, either a 1 or a 0. In quantum computers you have qubits which can be a 1 or a 0 or actaully both values at the same time! This can manifest tself in amazing ways. You can try every solution to a problem instantaneously because instead of having to count throught all of the possible inputs, i.e. going from 0 to 255 with 8 classical bits, in a quantum computer 8 qubits actualy are the values of 0 through 255 all at the same time. The answer is then decomposed or observed forcing the quantum state into a final and complete solution. Some quick info for those who have no idea what qunatum anything is... an observation is essentially defined as any force that forces a quantum state to be amplified into a definitive state. Quantum entanglement occurs when two paritcles intereact for a short period of time (i.e. two photons crossing) and then go off on their own, they can travel to oppisite sides of the universe and whatever happens to one, instantaneously happens to the other. Literally, no moment of time occurs between the change, its quite amazing. If you polarize one photon, the other will instantly be affected. Also if particles A & B are entangled and C & D are entangled then if B entangles with D then A automatically becomes entangled with C. This allows for some truly amazing things. One final note, although quantum entanglement was first observed with laser light(photons), it has since been reproduced with much larger particles including ruby atoms and even bucky balls (google it if you dont know what one is) Regards, Steve
Don't speak until you've used it. I've used nearly every distro including slack, debian, and fedora. Fedora is the only one that "just works" and works really well. It doesn't hide things from the user but its simple enough for newbies. I like slack, but Debian and Fedora IMHO are slightly better. Fedora has been my distro of choice since its first release. I can just give it to friends and they can use it, I can use it as a secure server, or anything I pretty much want. Debian does have some advantages, which is why I run it on most servers. And slack has its place, as does every distro, but the only thing that I see slack has that the others don't is the history. It is a great distro, but hardly the best, or the only one worth using. Oh, and the best community support I've seen has come from the Fedora community, ask a question in a debian or slack irc channel and you'll get nothing but trolled and told how stupid you are, even for fairly advanced questions(at least thats been the majority of my experiences), where as fedora always has someone willing to help. Regards, Steve
IIRC... a company that has revenue based on ads can typically lose about 1000 to 5000 and sometimes even as many as 10,000 costumers, if one of those customers stays and pays. Of course this all depends on the subscription rate but if thats true then AOL probably has nothing to worry about. Regards, Steve
They are updating this rapidly, I was searching with it using their search interface, reloaded to search again and did this about 3 times. By the thrid time a whole new interface was up. It took a total of about 30 seconds. It may have been a coincidence and just good timing. Regardless, their idea is horrible, you type the name of the search engine and then what you want to search and then it just fowards you to that search engine with your search. First of all, people will just go right to their favorite search engine, second of all they shouldn't make you type the search engine, there should be check boxes underneath with all the various engines supported and you just check one (and possilby multiple ones) and then search. This idea is kinda like the meta search days except its implemented horribly and still limits you to one engine in the end. Nothing innovative here, they just put an interface to muliple engines. I'm surprised this is taking 24 hours. The site could have been coded easily in under 30 minutes, the logo was simple and probably took 5-10 minutes. This is destined to fail despite the publicity. It is also very slow, noone would go to a site to have to wait for it to load only to type "google Mike Davis" and have it then forward you to google, which responds right away even on the worst of days. This is ridiculous and I see no adverts or any form of revenue. There is no new tech here for them to license so they essentially have no form of revenue. Oh and their great plugin is for Mozilla/Firebird/Sherlock, not any browser (or your favorite browser) as they lead you to believe. This is also their entire plugin:
Replace then [ and ] with greater than and less than signs. Many thigns are wrong with this. 1) Mozilla/Firefox already have built in search functionality far superior to this. 2) Most people use IE regardless of how bad it sucks, this plugin already neglects 90-95% of the market. 3) They say Firebird which any geek knows has had a name change for months because of a conflict with the relational database project. Firebird the browser is now firefox. This either implies that these guys are morons and dont follow tech, or that they started this project months ago and this whole doing it all in 24 hours is a scam. Regardless, this whole thing is a pile of junk and I think they just did this to get some quick cash from investors, claim they tried to be profitable, and then go buy themselves some new beach front houses. Regards, Steve
I use Fedora Core 2 on a 233mhz machine with 32 mb of ram. It works perfect and very fast, esp with the the 2.6 kernel. I use a full fledged desktop (Gnome) and do everything you'd typically do with it. I don't know where they got these numbers from, but its totally not true. Regards, Steve
Your still missing something... population. If a country has 2 people in it and they both are well educated then its 100%. If the U.S. pops out 5 million people of equal intelligence , it is only a small percent, but much greater in reality. And as far as literacy goes in America, its a whole different ball game here. Everyone is an immigrant and that can really distort any comparison you make to any other country. Regardless, intelligence is not additive, if you have 2 people that are equally smart, making them work together does not double their total intelligence, the intelligence level remains the same. There are just too many things to take into account that mess up the accuracy of these ratings. The US isn't trying to have the most intelligent people in the world, our whole purpose is to just be a free land that will take your tired, hungry, oppressed, poor,etc.. It just happens that many people are also very well educated, its just that a large portion of our population has no interest in such things, and why should they if they don't want to? The nations of the world aren't in a pissing match to see who can produce the smartest people, well at least the US isn't, despite what others may make of it. Regards, Steve
In an enterprise situation, doing things the non-Red Hat way is a very scary world. You need that support so that when its 3:00 am in the morning and all the sudden something stops working, you can call someone. I know alot of us here are very technically inclined, but its nice to know you have someone to call, and IMO Red Hat's support is near the best I've seen, along with Symantec and Veritas. A real company can't have the insecurities with something like Debian and no support. Granted Debian stable is rock solid, I run it at home, there is no formal commercial support (at least not that I know of). Red Hat actively supports their stuff, helps you out, listens to you, and makes sure things "just work". And they also release Fedora which goes through a painstaking process to ensure that there are no legal issues at all with it. Both their commercial and community offerings are excellent. On a side note: I've never had to deal with Novell for Suse support, but I have for other things and I wasn't too impressed. I've checked out Suse, and its nice, but not the "end-all-be-all" that some make it out to be. Personally, I'd recommend Mandrake over Suse for newbies, and Red Hat for any one with experience. Suse apparently pleases alot of people, its just not for me. Regards, Steve
Um... no. Go pick up a book and read on time travel. Its very possible and could be done today, we have the knowledge, not the means. What you said is like saying your car keeps moving foward in the X direction so you can never put it in reverse. I'd recommend reading "Time Travel in Einsteins Universe" to start with. It was written by a brilliant professor at Princeton. I'm not sure how much you know about such things, but here are two quick notes for you: a) The closer you re traveling at the speed of light, the slower time moves, this has been proven and b) iirc if you could take Jupiter's mass and crush it into a hollow sphere 8 feet in diameter( might be radius) and you sat in the sphere, the rest of the world would age significantly faster then you ( time would actually be moving much slower for you). Regards, Steve
Well if people didn't complain about them storing your email for life, then this probably wouldn't have been an issue with Google. My understanding is that they have triple redundancy, so unless Google burned down or some other catastrophic event, a server crash wouldn't make them lose your mail. -Steve
Every virus software I've ever used, about 7 different products, phoned home. Either when updates are being downloaded or when a virus is removed. Every AV program keeps logs, and sends them away back home. Read your license next time you install it, you apparently give them permission to do this. Then out of these numbers they use some simple statistics to figure out the totals.
Simple... I send you a key to use in some symmetric encryption algorithm which will then be used to encrypt the message. If we detect that the key has been seen, then we know something is up and can either send another key or go shoot whoever is listening in on us. Either way, we know someone knows, before any data or information is sent, therefore that data or information won't be sent until we know that a key was transmitted securely. The thing that most people seem to miss here, at least as I understand it, is that QN (quantum networking) only works on a point to point basis, once you bring in nodes and routers and whatnot, then its just as susceptible to man in the middle attacks as any other algorithms, and thats what we are trying to avoid. So as far as I know, and please someone correct me if i'm wrong, this is no different then connecting two computers with ethernet cable, except now we can detect if someone else has split the cable and is listening. This will not be the end-all-be-all which most people jsut don't get. If the data needs to be sent to another node on the network and it isn't a direct connection, but must pass through some other entity first, then its only slightly more secure then today's methods. For point to point connections though, it is unbreakable, but how feasible is it to have every computer connected directly to everyother computer? Regards, Steve P.S. One example of a point-to-point connection is the White House to the Pentagon which has been known to have a quantum encrypted line running underground for nearly 5 years.
The same reason that you can have integer values for x^2+y^2=z^2 but put those values to any higher integer power and you'll never find any integers >1 that fit the equation. In regards to the particular story at hand, primes become less common as infinity gets larger, therefore it makes sense that there are an infinite number of primes, but not twin primes, the twin prime conjecture thus makes sense from either viewpoint until someone proves or disproves it. Regards, Steve
Because when your dealing with billions of email, your insignificant problems are statistically void. Same thing with their searches, you and your high-school could get everyone to email each other the exact same word day after day for a year and I still doubt it would make an impact. Numbers as large as the ones google are dealing with are hard to comprhend in the mind. In a worse case scenario, they just cross reference the keywords from the email to searches or web pages, if there are a million fan sites for Linus and people are emailing each other about him then its okay, if there are people talking about me, but else where there isn't much out on the web about me, then I'm probably not important. For instance, that Tocqueville guy has alot of attention right now, he also has many sites linked to his name. If people were discussing him in email then he'd pop up. Regards, Steve
Then jump onto freebsd. I personally think that the day linux really goes corporate that the hobbyist hackers will move onto Hurd. Maybe thats just wishful thinking:)
Regards, Steve
Actually, it only caused a problem when Windows was on a seperate drive. If Windows was one the same drive but different partition then its fine. The problem occurs because Windows, as usual, didn't follow the standard for the partion indexes(not sure if thats the right word), Fedora saw a screwed up index and fixed it. All the sudden windows is broke because your computer was fixed. Kinda like, w3c compliant HTML will render fine under Firefox, but IE may sometimes screw it up. Regards, Steve
Re:Beware the French.....
on
Shrek 2 How-To
·
· Score: 1
You obviously haven't seen pixar's short films or trailers. The stuff on this site is horrible, I have no idea what the parent psoter was thinking. Regards, Steve
I tip my hat to you guys. Shrek2 was amazing. Really the best movie I've seen in a while, both in graphics and story line. The graphics were absolutely amazing. Thanks. Regards, Steve
That algorithm is fairly obvious. Similar algorithms are used all the time in computer science. I even wrote one about 3 years ago, without ever being told anything about such algorithms. If you think about the problem at hand, the solution makes sense. I could have easily made a commercial product using something similar with no knowledge of Xerox's patent. Now if Xerox's source code was stolen and copied, that would be one issue, but simply using an idea and then making it yourself with your own source code, there should be nothing wrong with that. I didn't RTFA but the my understanding is that they didn't steal the source code. Ideas shouldn't be patentable. Regards, Steve
Slashdot Mirror
I win with "the". No results, I took a screenshot for memories heh.
Regards,
Steve
At least they got something right!
Regards,
Steve
Only the express betas are free. And only for the time being. The FAQ says they havent determined the price yet, but said it'd be low. Besides, Linux still has many many other advantages then a free compiler which you can get quite a few of for windows already, including a few from Borland which mkes pretty good quality products.
Regards,
Steve
Isn't Canada just America's Northern Territory? Or did I miss something ;) I hope you see that I'm kidding:)
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Yes I'm a patriotic American, but I do love Toronto, damn near the nicest city in the world.
Thats a joke right? :) I use Debian Stable, unstable, and fedora. Debian stable is a rock, Fedora is perfect for the desktop, I ran debian unstable for many months but then the package maintaners kept adding fluky packages that broke my system and then they fixed them the next day with new packages, but by then it was too late for me heh. Fedora is nice, I have not a complaint with it, but then again we all have different needs. My one major "thing" with debain though is that it is so bent on being completely free, yet Fedora is far more free is the GNU sense. I jsut always found that interesting/wierd/ironic
Regards,
Steve
A quantum computer is completely different. The only thing in common in the binary number system. In a classical computer you have bits, either a 1 or a 0. In quantum computers you have qubits which can be a 1 or a 0 or actaully both values at the same time! This can manifest tself in amazing ways. You can try every solution to a problem instantaneously because instead of having to count throught all of the possible inputs, i.e. going from 0 to 255 with 8 classical bits, in a quantum computer 8 qubits actualy are the values of 0 through 255 all at the same time. The answer is then decomposed or observed forcing the quantum state into a final and complete solution. Some quick info for those who have no idea what qunatum anything is... an observation is essentially defined as any force that forces a quantum state to be amplified into a definitive state. Quantum entanglement occurs when two paritcles intereact for a short period of time (i.e. two photons crossing) and then go off on their own, they can travel to oppisite sides of the universe and whatever happens to one, instantaneously happens to the other. Literally, no moment of time occurs between the change, its quite amazing. If you polarize one photon, the other will instantly be affected. Also if particles A & B are entangled and C & D are entangled then if B entangles with D then A automatically becomes entangled with C. This allows for some truly amazing things. One final note, although quantum entanglement was first observed with laser light(photons), it has since been reproduced with much larger particles including ruby atoms and even bucky balls (google it if you dont know what one is)
Regards,
Steve
Don't speak until you've used it. I've used nearly every distro including slack, debian, and fedora. Fedora is the only one that "just works" and works really well. It doesn't hide things from the user but its simple enough for newbies. I like slack, but Debian and Fedora IMHO are slightly better. Fedora has been my distro of choice since its first release. I can just give it to friends and they can use it, I can use it as a secure server, or anything I pretty much want. Debian does have some advantages, which is why I run it on most servers. And slack has its place, as does every distro, but the only thing that I see slack has that the others don't is the history. It is a great distro, but hardly the best, or the only one worth using. Oh, and the best community support I've seen has come from the Fedora community, ask a question in a debian or slack irc channel and you'll get nothing but trolled and told how stupid you are, even for fairly advanced questions(at least thats been the majority of my experiences), where as fedora always has someone willing to help.
Regards,
Steve
IIRC... a company that has revenue based on ads can typically lose about 1000 to 5000 and sometimes even as many as 10,000 costumers, if one of those customers stays and pays. Of course this all depends on the subscription rate but if thats true then AOL probably has nothing to worry about.
Regards,
Steve
They are updating this rapidly, I was searching with it using their search interface, reloaded to search again and did this about 3 times. By the thrid time a whole new interface was up. It took a total of about 30 seconds. It may have been a coincidence and just good timing. Regardless, their idea is horrible, you type the name of the search engine and then what you want to search and then it just fowards you to that search engine with your search. First of all, people will just go right to their favorite search engine, second of all they shouldn't make you type the search engine, there should be check boxes underneath with all the various engines supported and you just check one (and possilby multiple ones) and then search. This idea is kinda like the meta search days except its implemented horribly and still limits you to one engine in the end. Nothing innovative here, they just put an interface to muliple engines. I'm surprised this is taking 24 hours. The site could have been coded easily in under 30 minutes, the logo was simple and probably took 5-10 minutes. This is destined to fail despite the publicity. It is also very slow, noone would go to a site to have to wait for it to load only to type "google Mike Davis" and have it then forward you to google, which responds right away even on the worst of days. This is ridiculous and I see no adverts or any form of revenue. There is no new tech here for them to license so they essentially have no form of revenue. Oh and their great plugin is for Mozilla/Firebird/Sherlock, not any browser (or your favorite browser) as they lead you to believe. This is also their entire plugin:
[search name="Dozomo" description="Dozomo Search" method="GET" action="http://dozomo.24hdc.com/search" update="http://dozomo.24hdc.com/dozomo.src" updateCheckDays=1 queryEncoding="utf-8" queryCharset="utf-8" ] [input name="query" user] [/search]
Replace then [ and ] with greater than and less than signs. Many thigns are wrong with this. 1) Mozilla/Firefox already have built in search functionality far superior to this. 2) Most people use IE regardless of how bad it sucks, this plugin already neglects 90-95% of the market. 3) They say Firebird which any geek knows has had a name change for months because of a conflict with the relational database project. Firebird the browser is now firefox. This either implies that these guys are morons and dont follow tech, or that they started this project months ago and this whole doing it all in 24 hours is a scam. Regardless, this whole thing is a pile of junk and I think they just did this to get some quick cash from investors, claim they tried to be profitable, and then go buy themselves some new beach front houses.
Regards,
Steve
I use Fedora Core 2 on a 233mhz machine with 32 mb of ram. It works perfect and very fast, esp with the the 2.6 kernel. I use a full fledged desktop (Gnome) and do everything you'd typically do with it. I don't know where they got these numbers from, but its totally not true.
Regards,
Steve
Your still missing something... population. If a country has 2 people in it and they both are well educated then its 100%. If the U.S. pops out 5 million people of equal intelligence , it is only a small percent, but much greater in reality. And as far as literacy goes in America, its a whole different ball game here. Everyone is an immigrant and that can really distort any comparison you make to any other country. Regardless, intelligence is not additive, if you have 2 people that are equally smart, making them work together does not double their total intelligence, the intelligence level remains the same. There are just too many things to take into account that mess up the accuracy of these ratings. The US isn't trying to have the most intelligent people in the world, our whole purpose is to just be a free land that will take your tired, hungry, oppressed, poor,etc.. It just happens that many people are also very well educated, its just that a large portion of our population has no interest in such things, and why should they if they don't want to? The nations of the world aren't in a pissing match to see who can produce the smartest people, well at least the US isn't, despite what others may make of it.
Regards,
Steve
In an enterprise situation, doing things the non-Red Hat way is a very scary world. You need that support so that when its 3:00 am in the morning and all the sudden something stops working, you can call someone. I know alot of us here are very technically inclined, but its nice to know you have someone to call, and IMO Red Hat's support is near the best I've seen, along with Symantec and Veritas. A real company can't have the insecurities with something like Debian and no support. Granted Debian stable is rock solid, I run it at home, there is no formal commercial support (at least not that I know of). Red Hat actively supports their stuff, helps you out, listens to you, and makes sure things "just work". And they also release Fedora which goes through a painstaking process to ensure that there are no legal issues at all with it. Both their commercial and community offerings are excellent. On a side note: I've never had to deal with Novell for Suse support, but I have for other things and I wasn't too impressed. I've checked out Suse, and its nice, but not the "end-all-be-all" that some make it out to be. Personally, I'd recommend Mandrake over Suse for newbies, and Red Hat for any one with experience. Suse apparently pleases alot of people, its just not for me.
Regards,
Steve
Um... no. Go pick up a book and read on time travel. Its very possible and could be done today, we have the knowledge, not the means. What you said is like saying your car keeps moving foward in the X direction so you can never put it in reverse. I'd recommend reading "Time Travel in Einsteins Universe" to start with. It was written by a brilliant professor at Princeton. I'm not sure how much you know about such things, but here are two quick notes for you: a) The closer you re traveling at the speed of light, the slower time moves, this has been proven and b) iirc if you could take Jupiter's mass and crush it into a hollow sphere 8 feet in diameter( might be radius) and you sat in the sphere, the rest of the world would age significantly faster then you ( time would actually be moving much slower for you).
Regards,
Steve
Well if people didn't complain about them storing your email for life, then this probably wouldn't have been an issue with Google. My understanding is that they have triple redundancy, so unless Google burned down or some other catastrophic event, a server crash wouldn't make them lose your mail.
-Steve
Every virus software I've ever used, about 7 different products, phoned home. Either when updates are being downloaded or when a virus is removed. Every AV program keeps logs, and sends them away back home. Read your license next time you install it, you apparently give them permission to do this. Then out of these numbers they use some simple statistics to figure out the totals.
Simple... I send you a key to use in some symmetric encryption algorithm which will then be used to encrypt the message. If we detect that the key has been seen, then we know something is up and can either send another key or go shoot whoever is listening in on us. Either way, we know someone knows, before any data or information is sent, therefore that data or information won't be sent until we know that a key was transmitted securely. The thing that most people seem to miss here, at least as I understand it, is that QN (quantum networking) only works on a point to point basis, once you bring in nodes and routers and whatnot, then its just as susceptible to man in the middle attacks as any other algorithms, and thats what we are trying to avoid. So as far as I know, and please someone correct me if i'm wrong, this is no different then connecting two computers with ethernet cable, except now we can detect if someone else has split the cable and is listening. This will not be the end-all-be-all which most people jsut don't get. If the data needs to be sent to another node on the network and it isn't a direct connection, but must pass through some other entity first, then its only slightly more secure then today's methods. For point to point connections though, it is unbreakable, but how feasible is it to have every computer connected directly to everyother computer?
Regards,
Steve
P.S. One example of a point-to-point connection is the White House to the Pentagon which has been known to have a quantum encrypted line running underground for nearly 5 years.
The same reason that you can have integer values for x^2+y^2=z^2 but put those values to any higher integer power and you'll never find any integers >1 that fit the equation. In regards to the particular story at hand, primes become less common as infinity gets larger, therefore it makes sense that there are an infinite number of primes, but not twin primes, the twin prime conjecture thus makes sense from either viewpoint until someone proves or disproves it.
Regards,
Steve
Because when your dealing with billions of email, your insignificant problems are statistically void. Same thing with their searches, you and your high-school could get everyone to email each other the exact same word day after day for a year and I still doubt it would make an impact. Numbers as large as the ones google are dealing with are hard to comprhend in the mind. In a worse case scenario, they just cross reference the keywords from the email to searches or web pages, if there are a million fan sites for Linus and people are emailing each other about him then its okay, if there are people talking about me, but else where there isn't much out on the web about me, then I'm probably not important. For instance, that Tocqueville guy has alot of attention right now, he also has many sites linked to his name. If people were discussing him in email then he'd pop up.
Regards,
Steve
Google ,the world's leading search engine, disagrees with you :)
Regards,
Steve
Then jump onto freebsd. I personally think that the day linux really goes corporate that the hobbyist hackers will move onto Hurd. Maybe thats just wishful thinking:)
Regards,
Steve
Not to my knowledge. At least it shouldn't.
Actually, it only caused a problem when Windows was on a seperate drive. If Windows was one the same drive but different partition then its fine. The problem occurs because Windows, as usual, didn't follow the standard for the partion indexes(not sure if thats the right word), Fedora saw a screwed up index and fixed it. All the sudden windows is broke because your computer was fixed. Kinda like, w3c compliant HTML will render fine under Firefox, but IE may sometimes screw it up.
Regards,
Steve
You obviously haven't seen pixar's short films or trailers. The stuff on this site is horrible, I have no idea what the parent psoter was thinking.
Regards,
Steve
I tip my hat to you guys. Shrek2 was amazing. Really the best movie I've seen in a while, both in graphics and story line. The graphics were absolutely amazing. Thanks.
Regards,
Steve
That algorithm is fairly obvious. Similar algorithms are used all the time in computer science. I even wrote one about 3 years ago, without ever being told anything about such algorithms. If you think about the problem at hand, the solution makes sense. I could have easily made a commercial product using something similar with no knowledge of Xerox's patent. Now if Xerox's source code was stolen and copied, that would be one issue, but simply using an idea and then making it yourself with your own source code, there should be nothing wrong with that. I didn't RTFA but the my understanding is that they didn't steal the source code. Ideas shouldn't be patentable.
Regards,
Steve