if you remember, there are several protocol droids in the SW movies that look exactly like threepio. In Empire Strikes Back, there is even a scene where he says "Oh look! Another protocol droid! How nice to see a familiar face." or something like that.
Notice, this alliance is for making a hardware platform, that can run many OS's. So they are keeping details about the hardware setup secret (for now at least). How would this be a violation of the GPL?
I go to a fairly devout Christian U., that has very aggressive censor ware against sex, porn, illegal activities, but that isn't the focus of my question. Unlike many schools, my U. did nothing to block Napster use, and I always found this a little surprising.
When we came back from X-Mas break, Napster was blocked. People moaned and groaned, but it turns out it wasn't even our school's call (though they might have had a say in it) Our school gets its access from a state-wide government-run ISP for educational institutions, and the ISP decided to block Napster, Gnutella, and probably others.
Rather than copyright issues, they cited bandwidth problems. Although, I miss my Napster, I find this hard to argue with. (Theoretically) the network is for educaitonal purposes, and my average dorm-connection speed has doubled since Napster was blocked. But this could easily become a slippery slope, what is to keep them from blocking things like FTP, or Real Audio, both of which I have used for research, but can present bandwidth problems.
How would you suggest balancing to need to reserve bandwidth for serious school-related purposes, and still provide a useful Internet service?
Too bad Napster.com is blocked out by my college's censorware. We can connect to napster servers and share music all we want, but can't view Napster.com's website. No MP3.com either.
Any mirrors?
This post contains both serious and tounge-in-cheek statements
The design of the phone seems wrong to me. If I were to try to talk into it, I could quite easily get my greasy face all over the screen.
I usually make a point not to get smudges and such all over my screen, but this would be even worse than a finger-print. I can imagine keeping a cloth in my case to wipe off my Visor after every call. The only solution would be to get stressed out by keeping the Visor from coming in contact with your head. I was assuming that the speaker would be on the back of the device, but of course, the built-in microphone is on the front.
Maybe they will start selling Handspring-brand astringent.
At my school, using CP is not mandatory. Standard IMAP clients still work. But it was implemented as a response to some problems we were having. To increase security, they implemented the policy that you can only log into the IMAP server from behind the campus firewall. CP is for off-campus students, and for during the summer.
By the way, CP's UI is terrible. As an example, the window size is permanently set at 640x480. You can't resize the window with windows browsers. If you resize it under Netscape under Linux, Netscape crashes.
Most people here avoid it like the plauge.
Any plant will cause erosion if you harvest it Erosion: annually, because it will leave bare soil for a significant amount of time.
To use it for fuel, you would have to harvest large amounts at a very low cost, which would mean stripping the leaves from the plant (or the plant from the ground)
Nutrient Depletion: "nutrients are brought to the surface of the soil", they are not repleted. If hemp takes nutrients from the soil, is harvested, then burned into your engine, and pumped out your exhaust pipe, there will be a net loss of soil nutrients.
As far as chemicals go, that is all relative, depending on the area where it is grown. Hemp may be better than some other plants, but if it is grown in large enough quantities to use as vehicle fuel, fertilizer will most likely be required.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is not such a thing as a truly renewable resource, and the use of biomass fuels has never seemed like a cure-all to me. We may get a constant input of energy from the sun, but entropy is still a very strong factor. Mass will try to move to areas of lower potential energy (soil eroding downhill and into the sea), chemicals will move to simpler states (complex carbon compounds in hemp will convert to simpler compounds when burned) The sun will provide energy to create more complex compounds, but while this happens, topsoil and phosphates will wash into the ocean at greater rates than ever.
Drawbacks: 1. LARGE areas of land needed to grow sufficient hemp and/or vegetables. Even more erosion, soil nutrient depletion, and runoff contaminated by fertilizers, pesticides, etc.
2. You can hide cannabis crops in hemp field. This is the U.S. govt's line, not mine. I'm not trying to get into an argument on drugs, etc., but that is the reason why hemp isn't grown in the U.S.
This is what scares me. Yes we will probabaly switch to some other, better energy source when the oil dries up. But then, what will we use for plastic. It seems to me that alternative energy sources are a lot more abundant that alternative plastic replacements.
or will it simply provide an incentive for web servers to be running Linux? Since he is a Redhat employee, I would assume at least one of the reasons is to add value to Redhat's lucrative server distibutions.
I read an interview with Lucas one time, and he said that he realized older people would hate Jar Jar, but everyone would like Jar Jar in the end. In that same interview he mentioned how bad guys like Maul, Fett, and Vader were alwasy people's favorite. I don't personally think he will be Fett, But, Think about a what a badd-assed dark jedi he could be. He's 9 fricken feet tall! With that slithering tounge, huge feet. His voice could easily turn menacing. I put Darth Vader's cape on my Jar Jar action figure to try it out. I gave it a red light saber and wiggled it at my Obi-Wan action figure. "Yousa die now!" It works!
A lot of exciting things are happening on the jabber front. As I type this, developers are finishing up a proposal to the ITEF to make Jabber a standard. You can check it out at core.jabber.org Also check out jabber.org (general site), jabber.com (for businesses), and jabbercentral.com (for end-users).
I like Mandrake because I think it has such a great implementation of every environment. The make sure to put apps in the start menu/root menu equivalent of every window manager and desktop, with plenty of themes, etc. for all. For some reason, gnome under mandrake seems more polished than Gnome to me. Guess I'll download it late tonight. Don't want to suck the bandwith from the rest of the people in my house just yet.:-)
All these years, I've read from these hardware sites saying "We can't discuss 3dfx's new hardware because we're under a Non-Disclosure Agreement." It sounded so cool, so mysterious.
Now, after reading the Kerberos specs, I'm finally under an NDA. Don't ask me about what I read. I can't tell you.
This is an interesting idea, but I would suggest changing the name. Companies can (and have) sued people for intentionally creating names that sound like (and can be confused with) their product. I think a non-Jeeves related name would be much more safer, and you wouldn't have to change it mid-stream if AskJeeves threatened you.
Right now I am using a computer at my school that passes traffic throgh proxy based filter called Webtrack (neé Smartfilter ). The software runs on the server rather than the client. I believe the blacklist is self-updating. BUT (and I think this is important) If I find a blacklisted site that I want to access (for legitimate reasons), I can fill out a form, and the Dean of Acad. Services will review it. So far I have successfully gotten Suck.com and theonion.com unblocked. I can understand the university's (and the library's) positions. The public does not need to be subsidizing anybody's porn habits. But I think it is important that final control of the blacklist resides on the local level (rather than with some far off company) and that users can have bad blocks removed. .
Right now I am using a computer at my school that passes traffic throgh proxy based filter called Webtrack (neé Smartfilter ). The software runs on the server rather than the client. I believe the blacklist is self-updating. BUT (and I think this is important) If I find a blacklisted site that I want to access (for legitimate reasons), I can fill out a form, and the Dean of Acad. Services will review it. So far I have successfully gotten Suck.com and theonion.com unblocked. I can understand the university's (and the library's) positions. The public does not need to be subsidizing anybody's porn habits. But I think it is important that final control of the blacklist resides on the local level (rather than with some far off company) and that users can have bad blocks removed.
The Transmeta webcast reminded me of something I read in U.S. News & World report a few weeks ago. It was in an article about IBM's Mark Dean.
Quote: Early in the next century, Dean hopes his new concoction, which he says is "in the idea and invention stage," will be ready for the public: a sleek tablet that is magazine-size, inexpensive, programmable, and voice-activated. He expects his unnamed dream pad, which will run on a 24-hour battery, to provide everything a PC does, including streaming audio and video, word processing, and spreadsheets. It will even have a port for old fogies who can't give up their keyboards. And it will wirelessly put the Internet and other information at your fingertips. End Quote.
Of course the article never mentions Transmeta, but I bet this web pad would be powered by Crusoe. Here's the link for the article.
Slashdot Mirror
if you remember, there are several protocol droids in the SW movies that look exactly like threepio. In Empire Strikes Back, there is even a scene where he says "Oh look! Another protocol droid! How nice to see a familiar face." or something like that.
Notice, this alliance is for making a hardware platform, that can run many OS's. So they are keeping details about the hardware setup secret (for now at least). How would this be a violation of the GPL?
I go to a fairly devout Christian U., that has very aggressive censor ware against sex, porn, illegal activities, but that isn't the focus of my question. Unlike many schools, my U. did nothing to block Napster use, and I always found this a little surprising.
When we came back from X-Mas break, Napster was blocked. People moaned and groaned, but it turns out it wasn't even our school's call (though they might have had a say in it) Our school gets its access from a state-wide government-run ISP for educational institutions, and the ISP decided to block Napster, Gnutella, and probably others.
Rather than copyright issues, they cited bandwidth problems. Although, I miss my Napster, I find this hard to argue with. (Theoretically) the network is for educaitonal purposes, and my average dorm-connection speed has doubled since Napster was blocked. But this could easily become a slippery slope, what is to keep them from blocking things like FTP, or Real Audio, both of which I have used for research, but can present bandwidth problems.
How would you suggest balancing to need to reserve bandwidth for serious school-related purposes, and still provide a useful Internet service?
Nematodes are not necessarily microscopic. Some are a couple inches long.
IMNSHO, the CGAP thing was pretty stupid. The bases in RNA are CGAU. Uracil rather than thymine.
Too bad Napster.com is blocked out by my college's censorware. We can connect to napster servers and share music all we want, but can't view Napster.com's website. No MP3.com either.
Any mirrors?
This post contains both serious and tounge-in-cheek statements
The design of the phone seems wrong to me. If I were to try to talk into it, I could quite easily get my greasy face all over the screen.
I usually make a point not to get smudges and such all over my screen, but this would be even worse than a finger-print. I can imagine keeping a cloth in my case to wipe off my Visor after every call. The only solution would be to get stressed out by keeping the Visor from coming in contact with your head. I was assuming that the speaker would be on the back of the device, but of course, the built-in microphone is on the front. Maybe they will start selling Handspring-brand astringent.
At my school, using CP is not mandatory. Standard IMAP clients still work. But it was implemented as a response to some problems we were having. To increase security, they implemented the policy that you can only log into the IMAP server from behind the campus firewall. CP is for off-campus students, and for during the summer. By the way, CP's UI is terrible. As an example, the window size is permanently set at 640x480. You can't resize the window with windows browsers. If you resize it under Netscape under Linux, Netscape crashes. Most people here avoid it like the plauge.
Here's a press release of Netzero.com announcing a Linux client for thier free ISP. Hopefully, this isn't vaporware.
Any plant will cause erosion if you harvest it
Erosion:
annually, because it will leave bare soil for a significant amount of time.
To use it for fuel, you would have to harvest large amounts at a very low cost, which would mean stripping the leaves from the plant (or the plant from the ground)
Nutrient Depletion:
"nutrients are brought to the surface of the soil", they are not repleted. If hemp takes nutrients from the soil, is harvested, then burned into your engine, and pumped out your exhaust pipe, there will be a net loss of soil nutrients.
As far as chemicals go, that is all relative, depending on the area where it is grown. Hemp may be better than some other plants, but if it is grown in large enough quantities to use as vehicle fuel, fertilizer will most likely be required.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is not such a thing as a truly renewable resource, and the use of biomass fuels has never seemed like a cure-all to me. We may get a constant input of energy from the sun, but entropy is still a very strong factor. Mass will try to move to areas of lower potential energy (soil eroding downhill and into the sea), chemicals will move to simpler states (complex carbon compounds in hemp will convert to simpler compounds when burned) The sun will provide energy to create more complex compounds, but while this happens, topsoil and phosphates will wash into the ocean at greater rates than ever.
Drawbacks:
1. LARGE areas of land needed to grow sufficient hemp and/or vegetables. Even more erosion, soil nutrient depletion, and runoff contaminated by fertilizers, pesticides, etc.
2. You can hide cannabis crops in hemp field.
This is the U.S. govt's line, not mine. I'm not trying to get into an argument on drugs, etc., but that is the reason why hemp isn't grown in the U.S.
This is what scares me. Yes we will probabaly switch to some other, better energy source when the oil dries up. But then, what will we use for plastic. It seems to me that alternative energy sources are a lot more abundant that alternative plastic replacements.
or will it simply provide an incentive for web servers to be running Linux?
Since he is a Redhat employee, I would assume at least one of the reasons is to add value to Redhat's lucrative server distibutions.
I read an interview with Lucas one time, and he said that he realized older people would hate Jar Jar, but everyone would like Jar Jar in the end. In that same interview he mentioned how bad guys like Maul, Fett, and Vader were alwasy people's favorite. I don't personally think he will be Fett,
But,
Think about a what a badd-assed dark jedi he could be. He's 9 fricken feet tall! With that slithering tounge, huge feet. His voice could easily turn menacing. I put Darth Vader's cape on my Jar Jar action figure to try it out. I gave it a red light saber and wiggled it at my Obi-Wan action figure.
"Yousa die now!"
It works!
A lot of exciting things are happening on the jabber front. As I type this, developers are finishing up a proposal to the ITEF to make Jabber a standard. You can check it out at core.jabber.org Also check out jabber.org (general site), jabber.com (for businesses), and jabbercentral.com (for end-users).
I like Mandrake because I think it has such a great implementation of every environment. The make sure to put apps in the start menu/root menu equivalent of every window manager and desktop, with plenty of themes, etc. for all. For some reason, gnome under mandrake seems more polished than Gnome to me. :-)
Guess I'll download it late tonight. Don't want to suck the bandwith from the rest of the people in my house just yet.
All these years, I've read from these hardware sites saying "We can't discuss 3dfx's new hardware because we're under a Non-Disclosure Agreement."
It sounded so cool, so mysterious.
Now, after reading the Kerberos specs, I'm finally under an NDA. Don't ask me about what I read. I can't tell you.
This is an interesting idea, but I would suggest changing the name. Companies can (and have) sued people for intentionally creating names that sound like (and can be confused with) their product. I think a non-Jeeves related name would be much more safer, and you wouldn't have to change it mid-stream if AskJeeves threatened you.
Right now I am using a computer at my school that passes traffic throgh proxy based filter called Webtrack (neé Smartfilter ). The software runs on the server rather than the client. I believe the blacklist is self-updating. BUT (and I think this is important) If I find a blacklisted site that I want to access (for legitimate reasons), I can fill out a form, and the Dean of Acad. Services will review it. So far I have successfully gotten Suck.com and theonion.com unblocked. I can understand the university's (and the library's) positions. The public does not need to be subsidizing anybody's porn habits. But I think it is important that final control of the blacklist resides on the local level (rather than with some far off company) and that users can have bad blocks removed. .
Right now I am using a computer at my school that passes traffic throgh proxy based filter called Webtrack (neé Smartfilter ). The software runs on the server rather than the client. I believe the blacklist is self-updating. BUT (and I think this is important) If I find a blacklisted site that I want to access (for legitimate reasons), I can fill out a form, and the Dean of Acad. Services will review it. So far I have successfully gotten Suck.com and theonion.com unblocked. I can understand the university's (and the library's) positions. The public does not need to be subsidizing anybody's porn habits. But I think it is important that final control of the blacklist resides on the local level (rather than with some far off company) and that users can have bad blocks removed.
Quote:
Early in the next century, Dean hopes his new concoction, which he says is "in the idea and invention stage," will be ready for the public: a sleek tablet that is magazine-size, inexpensive, programmable, and voice-activated. He expects his unnamed dream pad, which will run on a 24-hour battery, to provide everything a PC does, including streaming audio and video, word processing, and spreadsheets. It will even have a port for old fogies who can't give up their keyboards. And it will wirelessly put the Internet and other information at your fingertips.
End Quote.
Of course the article never mentions Transmeta, but I bet this web pad would be powered by Crusoe. Here's the link for the article.