Doesn't the emission of entangled-quanta already violate thee speed of light? I believe this was tested in the Aspect Experiment.
Also, I just took a course in the philosophy of physics but the one thing I never understood was how anything going was than the seepd of light would ruin Einstein's theory? If another THING was found that was faster as light and had the same speed in all inertial frames wouldn't that be sufficient? You could have THING-cones (where volume(THING-cone) > volume(Light-cone)at any time T --by volume I mean the fourth-dimensional equivalent), and things that are currently space-like seperated could be reclassifed as THING-like(for things faster than light but slower than THING) or space-like seperated (faster than THING), and this could account for the Aspect results. It also wouldn't need to violate the rule of not travelling faster than the speed of light since it could be mass-less and then as it approach and crossed C it mass would still be zero as opposed to approaching infinity.
I'm afraid you argument may be flawed since how many people in Wales speak Welsh? Well enough to use a computer in Welsh? As a primary language so that they wouldn't perfer to use the regular English(CDN/US/UK/AU/insert flavour here) version? The point was about tapping into new markets. Translating into Welsh might get them access only to ($4 billion-- that is assuming 25% meet the mentioned criteria which I think is safely high--but I'm not in the UK so I could b wrong). Whereas a Hungarian version would probably open up around $11 billion. For example I'd rather use a Candian English OS (eg "colour" not "color") but I will use UK or US, but I will not use Korean or Welsh (since I know neither language).
I think the newsworthy aspect is that it took so long or that it just got upgraded and even then not completely.
After all, Hungary is that small or unknown a country (as opposed to Welsh and some other exotic Anglo-Saxon languages spoken my minorities that Microsoft has translated to).
Personally I'm really surprised. Simply translating software (this is fundamental on a desktop where people are less technical and less likely to know english -- AFAIK almost all hackers know english ESR states it va sa requirement) opens up the market you have access to dramatically and we all now Apple can use as much of it as possible.
Actually this might be the best strategy for developing market share, be the first OS ported to lets say Swahili or Cree (for give my ignorance of the extent fof the popularity of these languages). I realize that it is not feasible for all lanugages (economic and social factors both), but really there are a lot of minorities in Europe and this could be a strong selling point. Hhmmm...
windows uses a proprietary network file sharing protocol. apple uses nfs
if I recall SMB was developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM and I think it actually it standard. I'm sure just as with HTML MS has made MS specific extensions, but I do believe it was a standar. It was used in OS/2 among other things.
Hardware company has complete control over their hardware. Story and reactions at 11.
I think they meant that MAcs play nicer with Linux and other *nixes and that Macs are a lot friendlier in the OS department then windows... the do have an open source kernel and do ship with open source tools.
I use GraphCalc.I well I've enever used it under Linux, but I've used it under Windows and it works well. The interface is a little off, but so are most apps. It has a wonderful 3D graphing too undersurpassed by anything else I've seen. And unlike gnuplot, GraphCalc *is* under the GPL.
I just thought I put this out there as it's a good free that also works for Windows and I'm sure that they could use a few more developers.
Some universities share their clusters. The cluters are linked to other clusters at other universitiies. I'm guessing they are using the internet to link them together. More info here: http://www.sharcnet.ca/
First off I must say that while I'm not a mac fan (the only one I own is an aging PowerBook runningYellowDog) I've always admired Mac and wnated one since OSX came out. I think I'll wait till the G5 hits the PowerBook...but thats besides the point.
When I read the news I went to checkout what I could get as a minimum configuration... then I found that this clear plastic eMac standCOST $95 (you can find it when you select the eMac; price is from apple.ca). I'm sorry but thats WAY too much for a piece of plastic that should come with a monitor. I'm going to have to be very skeptical next time some MAcFan tells me Macs aren't over priced.
On the other hand it's nice to see the canadian prices being cheaper than it would be to go down to the states and exchange currency.
Maybe in a few weeks someone should have an interview with this guy and maybe it could even make it to the front page? That should get more exposure and if includes a line like we are already 75% of the way there then I'm sure that will help the donatations role in. I suspect that some people are worried about not making the minimum and just having their donation get lost there as opposed to some real important work getting done.
My bet: if the minimum gets met than at least two of the months will go too since it will
prove that this works.
Must countries always allow specialists to enter their country since their can never be enough brain surgeons, quantum physicists, bio-computational scientists so w/ a name like apachetoolbox i'm guessin' he has some marketable skills that could get her/him in.
First it would be $66K gross not net since this is taxable income.
Second Linus does not work for free either and I wonder how much he gets paid.
Third $66k is not that much. Teachers make that, and one of my professors pulls in a $104k. Upper management positions can easily pull that much in and a lot more. This may seem a lot for someone working minimum wage or as a receptionist, entry level web designer but that comparison is invalid. We are talking about a proven, experienced, relaible hacker. A fairer comparison would be comparing to surgeons lawyer and other specialist positions.
If you don;t like the deal don't donate and he'll take his time elsewhere at a great to not just FreeBSD but to the entire OSS community.
While it is never good to rely on "security through obscurity", it doesn't mean that it is useless.
For example, if after all the thorough testing the same number of bugs were left (hypothetically) in the software, they would be harder to find in the closed system where you wouldn't know where to starting looking as opposed to open source where you could scan the source until you came upon what looked like a vulnerability. The obscurity isn't harmful in itself and it provides an additional barrier. Maybe not a powerful, but every little bit helps. I'd feel a little nervous if I knew some terrorist (as a much over used example) could look over the source code (even if it had no holes!) for a nuclear weapon command centre or something of that sort.
I think the ultimate question should be whether the open nature of the open source development can lead to the less bugs - and thus greater security- than closed source development plus the small bonus of obscurity. I think the value of obscurity may have been undervalued in the past, it does have some value.
The problem with ever blocking cell-phone signals is that it will block emergency phone calls too, the kind that some people buy cell phones to recieve. If I'm in a theatre I want to be called if someone at home got stung by a bee and can't find an Epi-pen, or what about a hostage taking in a restaurant? And I don't think anyone else in the theatre/restaurant would mind my cell going off in such a case (just so that I could leave the room afterwards to carry the acutal conversation). In emergencies VoiceMail is NOT an option. The only place this might have any legitimate use is high security military type situations. In everyday life the only things that works is public shaming of assholes and the teaching of tact and courtesy (such as vibrate mode only).
This is the case with consoles too... except every console sale loses money which they make up on game sales/rentals. If you're gonna pirate it's better forthem for you *NOT* to buy an xbox. Thats why MS really doesn't want you running Linux on it... because that would increase the demand for Xboxes (lost profit) without raising the demand for games.
That and they have a thing against people thinking of Xboxes as computers.
I've thought about making a box dedicated to emulating Nintendo, Atari and other ROMS and leave it by the TV like a really console. But I didn't see any sign of a *nix port. Would this be possible? How about with the help of the WINE and/or transgaming people?
And AFAIK if they implement the Anti-Piracy stuff into their emulator then DCMA doesn't apply since they are curcumventing anything and people could always d/l the source and modify to needs later.
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Doesn't the emission of entangled-quanta already violate thee speed of light? I believe this was tested in the Aspect Experiment.
Also, I just took a course in the philosophy of physics but the one thing I never understood was how anything going was than the seepd of light would ruin Einstein's theory? If another THING was found that was faster as light and had the same speed in all inertial frames wouldn't that be sufficient? You could have THING-cones (where volume(THING-cone) > volume(Light-cone)at any time T --by volume I mean the fourth-dimensional equivalent), and things that are currently space-like seperated could be reclassifed as THING-like(for things faster than light but slower than THING) or space-like seperated (faster than THING), and this could account for the Aspect results. It also wouldn't need to violate the rule of not travelling faster than the speed of light since it could be mass-less and then as it approach and crossed C it mass would still be zero as opposed to approaching infinity.
IANAPhyisicist but IAALPhilosopher
does '.so' stand for shared object? I've been wondering that for a while.
And what does '.a' stand for?
"I rest my case" sounds like something that would follow the conclusion of an argument.
I'm afraid you argument may be flawed since how many people in Wales speak Welsh? Well enough to use a computer in Welsh? As a primary language so that they wouldn't perfer to use the regular English(CDN/US/UK/AU/insert flavour here) version? The point was about tapping into new markets. Translating into Welsh might get them access only to ($4 billion-- that is assuming 25% meet the mentioned criteria which I think is safely high--but I'm not in the UK so I could b wrong). Whereas a Hungarian version would probably open up around $11 billion. For example I'd rather use a Candian English OS (eg "colour" not "color") but I will use UK or US, but I will not use Korean or Welsh (since I know neither language).
I think the newsworthy aspect is that it took so long or that it just got upgraded and even then not completely.
After all, Hungary is that small or unknown a country (as opposed to Welsh and some other exotic Anglo-Saxon languages spoken my minorities that Microsoft has translated to).
Personally I'm really surprised. Simply translating software (this is fundamental on a desktop where people are less technical and less likely to know english -- AFAIK almost all hackers know english ESR states it va sa requirement) opens up the market you have access to dramatically and we all now Apple can use as much of it as possible.
Actually this might be the best strategy for developing market share, be the first OS ported to lets say Swahili or Cree (for give my ignorance of the extent fof the popularity of these languages). I realize that it is not feasible for all lanugages (economic and social factors both), but really there are a lot of minorities in Europe and this could be a strong selling point. Hhmmm...
the actual flex link is http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/manual/html_mono/ flex.html
windows uses a proprietary network file sharing protocol. apple uses nfs
if I recall SMB was developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM and I think it actually it standard. I'm sure just as with HTML MS has made MS specific extensions, but I do believe it was a standar. It was used in OS/2 among other things.
Hardware company has complete control over their hardware. Story and reactions at 11.
I think they meant that MAcs play nicer with Linux and other *nixes and that Macs are a lot friendlier in the OS department then windows... the do have an open source kernel and do ship with open source tools.
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And to think I was worried he wouldn't make it. Someone should suggest that as a story that PHK made it. I'm sure FreeBSD could use the PR.
I use GraphCalc.I well I've enever used it under Linux, but I've used it under Windows and it works well. The interface is a little off, but so are most apps. It has a wonderful 3D graphing too undersurpassed by anything else I've seen. And unlike gnuplot, GraphCalc *is* under the GPL.
I just thought I put this out there as it's a good free that also works for Windows and I'm sure that they could use a few more developers.
Some universities share their clusters. The cluters are linked to other clusters at other universitiies. I'm guessing they are using the internet to link them together. More info here: http://www.sharcnet.ca/
First off I must say that while I'm not a mac fan (the only one I own is an aging PowerBook runningYellowDog) I've always admired Mac and wnated one since OSX came out. I think I'll wait till the G5 hits the PowerBook...but thats besides the point.
When I read the news I went to checkout what I could get as a minimum configuration... then I found that this clear plastic eMac stand COST $95 (you can find it when you select the eMac; price is from apple.ca). I'm sorry but thats WAY too much for a piece of plastic that should come with a monitor. I'm going to have to be very skeptical next time some MAcFan tells me Macs aren't over priced.
On the other hand it's nice to see the canadian prices being cheaper than it would be to go down to the states and exchange currency.
Heh, I'm running Windows 95. I figure by now the hackers are just bored of hacking me.
Security through boredom, my new secret weapon take th^454&*%2^$^^^B
Maybe in a few weeks someone should have an interview with this guy and maybe it could even make it to the front page? That should get more exposure and if includes a line like we are already 75% of the way there then I'm sure that will help the donatations role in. I suspect that some people are worried about not making the minimum and just having their donation get lost there as opposed to some real important work getting done.
My bet: if the minimum gets met than at least two of the months will go too since it will prove that this works.
Must countries always allow specialists to enter their country since their can never be enough brain surgeons, quantum physicists, bio-computational scientists so w/ a name like apachetoolbox i'm guessin' he has some marketable skills that could get her/him in.
First it would be $66K gross not net since this is taxable income.
Second Linus does not work for free either and I wonder how much he gets paid.
Third $66k is not that much. Teachers make that, and one of my professors pulls in a $104k. Upper management positions can easily pull that much in and a lot more. This may seem a lot for someone working minimum wage or as a receptionist, entry level web designer but that comparison is invalid. We are talking about a proven, experienced, relaible hacker. A fairer comparison would be comparing to surgeons lawyer and other specialist positions.
If you don;t like the deal don't donate and he'll take his time elsewhere at a great to not just FreeBSD but to the entire OSS community.
While it is never good to rely on "security through obscurity", it doesn't mean that it is useless. For example, if after all the thorough testing the same number of bugs were left (hypothetically) in the software, they would be harder to find in the closed system where you wouldn't know where to starting looking as opposed to open source where you could scan the source until you came upon what looked like a vulnerability. The obscurity isn't harmful in itself and it provides an additional barrier. Maybe not a powerful, but every little bit helps. I'd feel a little nervous if I knew some terrorist (as a much over used example) could look over the source code (even if it had no holes!) for a nuclear weapon command centre or something of that sort. I think the ultimate question should be whether the open nature of the open source development can lead to the less bugs - and thus greater security- than closed source development plus the small bonus of obscurity. I think the value of obscurity may have been undervalued in the past, it does have some value.
Well the SPARC design is open, but I don't know if this applies to UltraSPARC too,
The dead badger doesn't crash... it's running Linux!
The problem is with companies being hesitant to provide open source drivers, will the cause only headaves for OSS users?
Maybe Sun is not the first but its a core part of their ideology. This link to OS News has a link and discussion about this.
The problem with ever blocking cell-phone signals is that it will block emergency phone calls too, the kind that some people buy cell phones to recieve. If I'm in a theatre I want to be called if someone at home got stung by a bee and can't find an Epi-pen, or what about a hostage taking in a restaurant? And I don't think anyone else in the theatre/restaurant would mind my cell going off in such a case (just so that I could leave the room afterwards to carry the acutal conversation). In emergencies VoiceMail is NOT an option. The only place this might have any legitimate use is high security military type situations. In everyday life the only things that works is public shaming of assholes and the teaching of tact and courtesy (such as vibrate mode only).
This is the case with consoles too... except every console sale loses money which they make up on game sales/rentals. If you're gonna pirate it's better forthem for you *NOT* to buy an xbox. Thats why MS really doesn't want you running Linux on it... because that would increase the demand for Xboxes (lost profit) without raising the demand for games. That and they have a thing against people thinking of Xboxes as computers.
I've thought about making a box dedicated to emulating Nintendo, Atari and other ROMS and leave it by the TV like a really console. But I didn't see any sign of a *nix port. Would this be possible? How about with the help of the WINE and/or transgaming people? And AFAIK if they implement the Anti-Piracy stuff into their emulator then DCMA doesn't apply since they are curcumventing anything and people could always d/l the source and modify to needs later.