It's used in the PR (physical reality, heh!) sense of changing bodies at whim. ... which is what it meant before - avatars are incarnations of gods in physical, eg. human, form. Gods are allowed to change their minds:)
That would seem to be a reason for either changing TCP or making a separate protocol WTCP. It would seem to be no reason for changing IP (which is what the original article seemed to be suggesting). Perhaps the simplest extension would be to have (if this not already the case) per-interface congestion control parameters. Is this the case in eg. Linux?
Just how is changing IP going to improve reliability? TCP gives you pretty good reliability. It works when the physical medium does, and not too saturated. What more can we expect?
Perhaps you might find Scheme.NET more interesting. It's Scheme. There is also dot-scheme. Scheme isn't a half-baked functional language. Of coure, it isn't a Haskell or ML, but it is pretty pure... (I'm just not quite sure what it is beyond "a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language").
That means that the demonstration Python on.Net implementation that the paper is about does not have those features... (i.e. will no support most Python programs).
For those who describe their systems as 'boxen', do you order multiple 'boxen' of corn flakes also?
There is a difference between the two cases which may be relevant: boxes of cornflakes is pretty much just a unit of quantity (like bottles of milk, pounds of butter etc.); whereas 'boxen' just means 'computers'. They are the objects themselves, not '3 boxen of computers'.
anyway... OT
more point(less) release 'news'.
You can tell that there is no news content by the fact that the top 20 comments are nothing to do with the release.
Perhaps a more general discussion of Linux 2.6 development might be interesting?
In answer to your question: it depends. In the case of current hardware, no. If the 'driver' were simply a trivial wrapper around the firmware, then I would consider that closed-source but in name.
BTW, LinuxBIOS does not do that much. See (PDF) The Linux BIOS, page 4: five steps: protected mode setup, DRAM setup, transition to C, mainboard fixup, kernel unzip and jump.
Thanks for that. I agree that it's clearly better to have a large chunk of the driver open-source (even if, as it seems, it did not come from the vendor). Does intel publish the interface to the firmware?
to answer my own question (partly):
"As the firmware is licensed under a restricted use license, it can not be
included within the kernel sources. To enable the IPW2100 you will need a
firmware image to load into the wireless NIC's processors."
From http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/README.ipw2100.
And look at the firmware license!
Is this a full driver or is the firmware a subtle way of making a closed-source driver?
(Honest question)
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To put it both ways: C has been going 30 years - it's gotta die some time! But C has been going 30 years - so it's gonna go forever. Fortran _is_ being used a lot less. I suspect C will decrease too. It is a big problem in the programmer: employer interface that recruitment agencies look for language 'skills' whereas programmers have programming skill. Some programmers are inflexible and won't learn new languages, but most will (and proportiately quickly to how good a programmer they are 'in general').
Sorry for the rant. I don't see Ruby dieing out - it has niche/cult appeal. C will eventually be reduced to a niche too.
'Run as' service, introduced in Windows 2000, does a fair few administrative task without having to log out and in. It's not a uniform as su or sudo (which work for _all_ command line admin tasks) but it's enough for Windows Update and application installation. (I don't use XP much but I'm pretty sure it's not been removed).
Pretty amazing stuff. The desertion so nearly complete. The suffering and loss of life. The fact that the evacuation was so late.
I found it strange that the tourists who went to the ghost town were disappointed that it was so quiet! I would have thought that was the point.
Great stuff! To be commended.
She did admit that radio-activity on the roads she travelled is still many times normal background. I hope her dad knows his safe doses well...
Quite right. http://www.science.utah.edu/ehleringer2.html and http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn/origins/life/carbon.htm say that the mass difference "12C is more weakly bonded and reacts more readily than 13C, because of its lighter mass" and that "[t]he plants have an enzyme that discriminates against rare carbon-13 isotopes".
So the change in relative mass of the nucleus versus the electrons changes the energy levels, since the heavier nucleus will be less effected by the electrons?
Is this not simply because MSN search system is worse than google's and that porn sites littering themselves with keywords trick MSN but not google?
It's a pretty old trick to put popular but spurious words on your page.
Or am I missing something?
Life does not preferentially select carbon-12. Carbon-12 and -13 are chemically indistinguishable. There is no way that a (bio-)chemical mechanism could distinguish between them.
If life did select -12, then radio-carbon dating would simply say that all dead things are exactly the same age.
RC dating works because when alive, an organism like a plant takes up carbon from the atmosphere which has c-12 and c-13 at a known ratio (approx.). This maintains the atmospheric ratio in the organism's body. When it dies, it ceases to take up from the atmosphere. Since the c-13 decays (known half-life) then the current ratio of c-12 to c-13 implies the time passed between death and now.
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Winchester's book is also known as "The Surgeon of Crawthorne" in the UK and early editions.
It's used in the PR (physical reality, heh!) sense of changing bodies at whim.
... which is what it meant before - avatars are incarnations of gods in physical, eg. human, form. Gods are allowed to change their minds :)
Regardless of your true intentions, I'm surprised that you havn't been modded troll of flamebait. (The speeling mistakes, the jingoism...)
Then again, the content of the post will strike a cord with Slashdot arrogance.
That would seem to be a reason for either changing TCP or making a separate protocol WTCP. It would seem to be no reason for changing IP (which is what the original article seemed to be suggesting).
Perhaps the simplest extension would be to have (if this not already the case) per-interface congestion control parameters. Is this the case in eg. Linux?
Just how is changing IP going to improve reliability? TCP gives you pretty good reliability. It works when the physical medium does, and not too saturated. What more can we expect?
Perhaps you might find Scheme.NET more interesting. It's Scheme. There is also dot-scheme. Scheme isn't a half-baked functional language. Of coure, it isn't a Haskell or ML, but it is pretty pure... (I'm just not quite sure what it is beyond "a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language").
That means that the demonstration Python on .Net implementation that the paper is about does not have those features... (i.e. will no support most Python programs).
For those who describe their systems as 'boxen', do you order multiple 'boxen' of corn flakes also?
There is a difference between the two cases which may be relevant: boxes of cornflakes is pretty much just a unit of quantity (like bottles of milk, pounds of butter etc.); whereas 'boxen' just means 'computers'. They are the objects themselves, not '3 boxen of computers'.
anyway... OT
more point(less) release 'news'. You can tell that there is no news content by the fact that the top 20 comments are nothing to do with the release. Perhaps a more general discussion of Linux 2.6 development might be interesting?
This explains how the GPL kernel can include non-free binaries which operate with free drivers.
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Thanks for info.
In answer to your question: it depends. In the case of current hardware, no. If the 'driver' were simply a trivial wrapper around the firmware, then I would consider that closed-source but in name.
BTW, LinuxBIOS does not do that much. See (PDF) The Linux BIOS, page 4: five steps: protected mode setup, DRAM setup, transition to C, mainboard fixup, kernel unzip and jump.
but when the loop becomes over a page long, grepping for 'i' becomes tedious.
perhaps it does come from the vendor
Thanks for that.
I agree that it's clearly better to have a large chunk of the driver open-source (even if, as it seems, it did not come from the vendor). Does intel publish the interface to the firmware?
to answer my own question (partly):
"As the firmware is licensed under a restricted use license, it can not be included within the kernel sources. To enable the IPW2100 you will need a firmware image to load into the wireless NIC's processors." From http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/README.ipw2100.
And look at the firmware license!
Is this a full driver or is the firmware a subtle way of making a closed-source driver?
(Honest question)
To put it both ways: C has been going 30 years - it's gotta die some time! But C has been going 30 years - so it's gonna go forever.
Fortran _is_ being used a lot less. I suspect C will decrease too. It is a big problem in the programmer: employer interface that recruitment agencies look for language 'skills' whereas programmers have programming skill. Some programmers are inflexible and won't learn new languages, but most will (and proportiately quickly to how good a programmer they are 'in general').
Sorry for the rant. I don't see Ruby dieing out - it has niche/cult appeal. C will eventually be reduced to a niche too.
'Run as' service, introduced in Windows 2000, does a fair few administrative task without having to log out and in. It's not a uniform as su or sudo (which work for _all_ command line admin tasks) but it's enough for Windows Update and application installation. (I don't use XP much but I'm pretty sure it's not been removed).
But yes the interface is ugly and annoying.
basically J.R.R. Tolkien Estate Limited own the copyright and the trademarks and allowed Jackson to make 3 films, no more. (perhaps Hobbit later).
Pretty amazing stuff. The desertion so nearly complete. The suffering and loss of life. The fact that the evacuation was so late.
I found it strange that the tourists who went to the ghost town were disappointed that it was so quiet! I would have thought that was the point.
Great stuff! To be commended.
She did admit that radio-activity on the roads she travelled is still many times normal background. I hope her dad knows his safe doses well...
Quite right. http://www.science.utah.edu/ehleringer2.html and http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn/origins/life/carbon.htm say that the mass difference "12C is more weakly bonded and reacts more readily than 13C, because of its lighter mass" and that "[t]he plants have an enzyme that discriminates against rare carbon-13 isotopes".
So the change in relative mass of the nucleus versus the electrons changes the energy levels, since the heavier nucleus will be less effected by the electrons?
Is this not simply because MSN search system is worse than google's and that porn sites littering themselves with keywords trick MSN but not google? It's a pretty old trick to put popular but spurious words on your page. Or am I missing something?
you might want to see Movitz a "Common Lisp OS development platform".
Life does not preferentially select carbon-12. Carbon-12 and -13 are chemically indistinguishable. There is no way that a (bio-)chemical mechanism could distinguish between them.
If life did select -12, then radio-carbon dating would simply say that all dead things are exactly the same age.
RC dating works because when alive, an organism like a plant takes up carbon from the atmosphere which has c-12 and c-13 at a known ratio (approx.). This maintains the atmospheric ratio in the organism's body. When it dies, it ceases to take up from the atmosphere. Since the c-13 decays (known half-life) then the current ratio of c-12 to c-13 implies the time passed between death and now.
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