Say you have 10 buckets, and you can put as much water as you want in each.
How do you fill these buckets in such a way that one can empty any subset of these buckets into a pool and you can determine by the amount of water in the pool precisely which buckets were emptied.
The answer is just the principle of binary numbers...1 gallon in bucket 1, 2 gallons in bucket 2, 4 gallons in bucket 3, 8 gallons in bucket 4, etc.
In that salon interview Hank Barry quotes his "crazy brilliant" computer science friend (David Weekly) from Stanford that argues Napster will be obsolete in a bit because of Gnutella or Freenet. David's right. Napster's never gonna get all these monkey's off it's back now that the trend has begun and it's gonna crash and burn under the threat of all these lawsuits while Gnutella zooms forward. I've seen over 20Terrabytes already on Gnutella. And it's growing like mad with many new 3rd party clients being released. The situation reminds me of FreeBSD essentially losing out to Linux at that critical time in the early nineties simply because FreeBSD was shrouded under the threat of all those lawsuits with AT&T over Unix code. Gnutella is the future and there's no company to sue! And with dynamic IP's and ISP's that don't release what IP every user has used at any certain time it's gonna be (virtually) impossible to chase down or prosecute someone getting their kiddie porn. I can see the government scuttling to try and control all these things but it's too late. The net has taken off and is not going to be stopped. Long live free information!
the sad thing is all three links (to Yahoo!, ZDNet, and CNN) consist of the exact same damn story VERBATIM...all three reputable news sources just copied and pasted the same little blurb from some other original source..probably AP News... stupid.
This is actually old news..it was Kuru5hin for quite a while I had the chance to look it over before the page got/.'ed to hell. It seems as if it's essentially one guy that's done most of the coding and he's written all of from the ground up sharing no code with anyone else. The GUI is in fact completely independent of X-Windows and while he does admit that his scheduler sucks overall it's pretty cool for a small-time alternative OS that the geeks can run to call themselves "reet". The hardware support is pretty strong as well...there are a lot of informative responses over at kuro5hin on http://www.kuro5hin.org/...this is pretty cool and that third partition on my harddrive was being begged to get filled by something....
i can remember when i first got interested in computers as a child i had no idea of breadth of vision of how much there was to learn and i felt i could learn "all i needed to know" in only a short time...yet i've never even come close to reaching my goal..it's true that it seems the more i learn about computers the more i realize i want to learn...the amount that i want to someday know only seems to grow exponentially with my wisdom! i learned python, then i wanted to learn perl.... i used Linux, then i wanted to use FreeBSD... ad infinitum...
This appears to be another sad case of Christianity infringing on Scientific and Social advancement. We are on the brink of something truly great, and God has to step in. An example of the sad state of the Church knowledge would be this: the Catholic Church in 1992 issued a statement saying that Galileo was right, the Earth does in fact revolve around the Sun. It is unfortunate that so many people cannot accept scientific advancement. They accuse the scientists of "Playing God" by creating life. Well, what about saving life? When doctors cure an otherwise fatal disease, have they Played God? When a cure will finally be discovered for HIV or AIDS, will religion step in and deny treatment to the masses? When a woman has produced seven children (averaging a cost today of $500,000 over their life (that's $3,500,000)) is she allowed to use birth control, or does her religion say that it is a sin to save her own life in hopes of making more to populate an already overcrowded planet? Religion is dangerous to science, and science is only good for humanity. If Science is the good guy, and Religion is the bad guy, why to we raise praises to an Evil and Corrupt organization? What are some things that religion has done?
Impeded progress of Science in general.
Denied the proof of glaring evidence.
Slowed the course of Science hundreds of years.
Instilled Fear and Hostility in the masses.
Why must these horrendous people keep on stagnating the progress of humanity? Why don't they just accept that what Science and Medicine does is research and developement? Why must they refuse to see the irrefutable proof of what Man has accomplished? In our hour of glory, we are struck down as dumb beasts to grovel at the feet of "the God that is love."
remember the book "diamond age?" by neal stephenson? the punk kid had those bought implants which stimulated his muscles and made him stronger? there's no mention of that here but it must be a consideration...once available freely this could be perhaps the most effective path to better health one could ever imagine..obese people could use them to increase their metabolism and lose weight...others could just use them to get buff! what an idea! i love it...reminds me of the scenes in "The Matrix" as well where they rebuilt his atrophied muscles...
as a student i felt the worst attempt so far at purging our rights by the right-wing republican congress was the bill enstated earlier this summer that proposed we display the ten commandments in all the public schools! Whatever happened to freedom of speech? The congressman argued that if the ten commandments had been displayed in Colorado the Columbine Shootings would've never taken place! Amazing how they seem to think religion can cause peace when it seems to me, according to that last european history class of mine, religion has caused more genocide and warfare than anything in history...
seems like amiga is in the press alot...even though from what i understand they aren't much more than a washed-up company....weird...i guess CmdrTaco likes to cover them
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Here's a link to support his claim that doctors now think it might be better to only eat every *other* day.
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notice how the rats that fasted and gorged on the other days were even more healthy than those that were kept on a daily diet-control program.
Say you have 10 buckets, and you can put as much water as you want in each.
How do you fill these buckets in such a way that one can empty any subset of these buckets into a pool and you can determine by the amount of water in the pool precisely which buckets were emptied.
The answer is just the principle of binary numbers...1 gallon in bucket 1, 2 gallons in bucket 2, 4 gallons in bucket 3, 8 gallons in bucket 4, etc.
In that salon interview Hank Barry quotes his "crazy brilliant" computer science friend (David Weekly) from Stanford that argues Napster will be obsolete in a bit because of Gnutella or Freenet. David's right. Napster's never gonna get all these monkey's off it's back now that the trend has begun and it's gonna crash and burn under the threat of all these lawsuits while Gnutella zooms forward. I've seen over 20Terrabytes already on Gnutella. And it's growing like mad with many new 3rd party clients being released.
The situation reminds me of FreeBSD essentially losing out to Linux at that critical time in the early nineties simply because FreeBSD was shrouded under the threat of all those lawsuits with AT&T over Unix code.
Gnutella is the future and there's no company to sue! And with dynamic IP's and ISP's that don't release what IP every user has used at any certain time it's gonna be (virtually) impossible to chase down or prosecute someone getting their kiddie porn.
I can see the government scuttling to try and control all these things but it's too late. The net has taken off and is not going to be stopped.
Long live free information!
the sad thing is all three links (to Yahoo!, ZDNet, and CNN) consist of the exact same damn story VERBATIM...all three reputable news sources just copied and pasted the same little blurb from some other original source..probably AP News...
stupid.
This is actually old news..it was Kuru5hin for quite a while I had the chance to look it over before the page got /.'ed to hell. It seems as if it's essentially one guy that's done most of the coding and he's written all of from the ground up sharing no code with anyone else. The GUI is in fact completely independent of X-Windows and while he does admit that his scheduler sucks overall it's pretty cool for a small-time alternative OS that the geeks can run to call themselves "reet". The hardware support is pretty strong as well...there are a lot of informative responses over at kuro5hin on http://www.kuro5hin.org/ ...this is pretty cool and that third partition on my harddrive was being begged to get filled by something....
i can remember when i first got interested in computers as a child i had no idea of breadth of vision of how much there was to learn and i felt i could learn "all i needed to know" in only a short time...yet i've never even come close to reaching my goal..it's true that it seems the more i learn about computers the more i realize i want to learn...the amount that i want to someday know only seems to grow exponentially with my wisdom!
i learned python, then i wanted to learn perl....
i used Linux, then i wanted to use FreeBSD...
ad infinitum...
- Impeded progress of Science in general.
- Denied the proof of glaring evidence.
- Slowed the course of Science hundreds of years.
- Instilled Fear and Hostility in the masses.
Why must these horrendous people keep on stagnating the progress of humanity? Why don't they just accept that what Science and Medicine does is research and developement? Why must they refuse to see the irrefutable proof of what Man has accomplished? In our hour of glory, we are struck down as dumb beasts to grovel at the feet of "the God that is love."remember the book "diamond age?" by neal stephenson? the punk kid had those bought implants which stimulated his muscles and made him stronger? there's no mention of that here but it must be a consideration...once available freely this could be perhaps the most effective path to better health one could ever imagine..obese people could use them to increase their metabolism and lose weight...others could just use them to get buff! what an idea! i love it...reminds me of the scenes in "The Matrix" as well where they rebuilt his atrophied muscles...
as a student i felt the worst attempt so far at purging our rights by the right-wing republican congress was the bill enstated earlier this summer that proposed we display the ten commandments in all the public schools! Whatever happened to freedom of speech? The congressman argued that if the ten commandments had been displayed in Colorado the Columbine Shootings would've never taken place! Amazing how they seem to think religion can cause peace when it seems to me, according to that last european history class of mine, religion has caused more genocide and warfare than anything in history...
can someone give me a link to the first story that this guy made..it says this is the second in a series but i don't see any way to find the first...
seems like amiga is in the press alot...even though from what i understand they aren't much more than a washed-up company....weird...i guess CmdrTaco likes to cover them
this site is horrible...might as well take this link down at this rate...