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  1. So many BSD... on FreeBSD 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Seems all major BSD has a new version...

  2. Sounds like BitTorrent on Introducing 802.11s - Wireless Mesh Networking · · Score: 1

    It's really similar. By the fact that all the users helps out the network, it just sounds like BitTorrent to me.

  3. Common Lisp? on Slate is Bootstrapped · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is it bootstraped? I think it may be bootstraped by smalltalk or something similar (like Self), but it use Lisp...... quite different language.

  4. Macromedia? on PHP5: Could PHP Soon Be Owned by Sun? · · Score: 1

    On November 4th, 2003, Zend announced a strategic partnership with Sun. This deal also included advisors from Borland, Macromedia, MySQL and others. The purported purpose of this deal was to make PHP part of Sun's web server and bring it to the corporate world of development that previously had been dominated by ASP and ColdFusion.
    ColdFusion, is a product of Macromedia. Is that the deal hiring advisors from Macromedia, or advisor itself is Macromedia?

  5. Re:Artificial living organism on Using AI for Spam Filtering (w/ Source Code) · · Score: 1

    I would say the this classification is useless for span filters. Since the spam itself is made by human, so the pattern of the message is quite sure human-like. Also the use of ANN stated in the article is actually used in ALL spam filters. Although other filters don't call it neurons, they use things like "rules" or "tokens". So, it is not a new thing of that area. Filters like SpamBayes uses scoring method, which gives scores to every message to judge them as ham or spam. It already like ANN, that ANN produces a final 0 or 1. Those "old" filters also have training ability and some of them automates it by using the past ham and spam base.

    My final conclusion is, this article is talking about old stuff.

  6. Re:Bayesian filtering on Using AI for Spam Filtering (w/ Source Code) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Mozilla uses Bayesian filtering.

  7. Re:Problems with this on 200mbps DSL On Its Way? · · Score: 1

    Then, every time you get a apartment, you would be even more careful the you have been doing. Simply finding the landmark like C/O is not enough, maybe a satellite receiver would be even more usable.

  8. Sorry I find a mistake on Non-English Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    In the article, it said Chinese is using a kind of characters called kanji -- which is not true. Don't try to clone what Japanese called Chinese characters.

  9. Re:Reg Free Link on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 1

    That's good. Google is a partner.

  10. That's good idea on FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each Other? · · Score: 1

    Just like how Microsoft worked out C# -- copying Java from the core, Mozilla can steal the idea as Microsoft did.

    I don't see there is something stopping Mozilla to do so. By the way Mozilla should also improve the ease of use of the engine at least as portable as possible and can be embeded into another software through simple api.

  11. Microsoft - luckily I NEVER used Hotmail on Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services For Hotmail · · Score: 1

    I got a Hotmail account, but the only e-mails there is the promotional letters from MSN network of ads talking about its exclusive 30MB mailbox costing $X per month.

    Finally today, I know why MSN needs to sale that kind of services, because MS does have a white list to fill your mailbox up.

  12. Re:Is is really useful? on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 1

    Not really. For a computer with even 256MB ram, it is impossible to run 3 java apps(because there is no ram left). If no rams left, how would they be run fast?

  13. Is is really useful? on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 1

    Although it sounds like a good idea, JAVA is not the ideal tool to build the app for that purpose. As other guys said, java is abs('slow'). C is the best choice (except if you code in machine code). I know that java should be the most portable language, but the awful speed is a heavy downside. Anyway I think if you want to make a good film, you should find Pixar, Dreamworks or Disney -- because they have a render farm.
    By the way, are you requiring openGL or something like that to speed up the raytrace?

  14. Re:A few points to consider: on Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net · · Score: 1

    NoNo. M$ didn't do a free offer. Actually if you want to use that WiX, you first have to buy Visual Studio.net 2003.
    Yes, only 2003 could do. After a look into the source code, it is acutally C# things. It sounds only a promotion of M$ products. Moreover the stats of the project is 0%, no activity in CVS after the first update in CVS. What does that indicate?

  15. Re:Implementations matter on McNealy Answers: No Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    Refering the thing you said about the relationship of NeWS and X11, I want to add some points (AND GOING TO GET A SCORE OF 5).

    I need to say that I was not a person watching X11 taking over NeWS just because I was 1 year old at that time. But here, I think the situation is different. The comparsion you made are close-source NeWS and open-source X11.

    But now we have two to compare, one is java, source-opened, and one is C#, source-closed. You actually can download the source of Java, but you wouldn't be able to get a part of C#'s code legally.

    In another point of view, to the comparsion you made, NeWS and X11 are application level programs. Now we have, Java, as a programming language. You would not make a self-maintained python out there, right? Even a programming language is open-sourced, it should only lay on a standardized level, but not a open level. Take a look at C and C++. They are so open, but nobody is likely to change any parts of the code of the compiler of them.

    Despite of that, we could have Java opened. We have the language structure opened, so GCJ is possible just as jikes from IBM. You would have them working with your current java applications, but you wouldn't if the standard is expanding. If the stardard is opened, the undesirable effect would scare all developers because of incomplatiable versions of different implentations of Java standards (or other things). So the result of opening the standard of Java to something like Python is different, we trust Python Fondation as a leader of Python standard, but IBM would not trust Sun as a leader of Java technology. IBM wants to be the leader just as Microsoft likely wanted to be. We see that happening, like Eclipse and Websphere, are now not compatible to the implentation made by java (Javabean). So if java is open-sourced, java would burst by this way.

    Also, Java is not likely to be standardized like C and C++. IT is expanding by Sun and Sun's JCP, which is a board for expanding. Although the final desidion is made by Sun, but it is the same for making a change in Python language.

    OK, should you find that there is a/are mistake(s) in my reply, please answer it as soon as possible.

    Thank you.

  16. Question which everyone here concerns about on Ask Mike Godwin About Internet Law · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you think that software patents, like those talked in slashdot, are very hard to get rid of?
    Especially to open-source developers?

  17. Micosoft's best technology of Word(TM?) on MPAA Puts Words in Mouth of CA Attorney General · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think the most suitable term for describing the innovation by Microsoft Word is meta-data. It symbolizes the real freedom to non-word users like me, and fight against secrets that the public should know. From the case of SCO-Microsoft, to the case of P2P-sharing, this technology opens another world of computer usage of Microsoft Word. Who's benefit from it? Of course are the public.

    From another point of view, the usage of meta-data is serious, which means that if you don't want your words logged by anything, you should use plain text editor.