The Automated Home of the Future will not be complete until my toaster runs linux! Now if you'll excuse me, my oven just BSOD'd and incinerated my cassarole... stupid driver conflicts.. I knew I shouldn't have installed ActiveLights 2003.
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"They have too many operating systems on too many different platforms for it to be cost- effective for them," said Technology Business Research analyst Lindy Lesperance.
I love this guy. He must work for Microsoft. Since when was having "too many" choices a problem? We have linux, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, solaris, tru64, sunOS, AIX, HP-UX, etc. All of them have niche markets. For example, netbsd is an excellent platform to build a firewall or intranet server on (good security), whereas linux makes an excellent server for a small-office setting (linux/samba - can't be beat). This analyst definately needs to get out more... he probably thinks NT and MSOffice are the only two products on the planet...
How about tuition less than the GNP of a small country each semester?
Decent computers. Sorry, but that DX2/66 in the corner isn't going to do me much good if I need to make a fluid dynamics model. Now, if you had a hundred of them in a beowulf.. that would be better!
Wire up the dorms. And the surrounding community.:) Suprisingly, many colleges still haven't connected their students to a high-speed internet connection.
Nice big board in the computer room showing the latest slashdot articles. Use an overhead projector.:)
Forget putting the whole class online - how about just the class notes? Maybe even previous tests, or upcoming "things to study"? That would be uber-helpful.
Instructor's e-mail address. A few instructors don't/won't have/give e-mail addresses. It's also helpful for geeks like me who are too shy to call an instructor on the phone.
Boring instructors. Yes, we actually need more of them.
How about getting public transportation involved - like having routes that include drop-offs/pickups at colleges. Anything to help cut costs.
How odd. This man seems more concerned about the issues he championed than himself. He seemed determined not to promote himself. That's a very rare quality in today's world, and it shows through vividly in this interview.
Yes, young linux just turned 8. The b-day party went like so: "I want more features! mine! mine! Gimme gimme gimme!":) So go and give young linux a present - patch up a few bugs in the source.
That's a common misconception. Simply going into the computer industry will not make you a million bucks and have you be the envy of your peers.
Sure, some people get paid a nice sum - but not everybody. I'd even say - not the majority. I suspect that most slashdotters are in the same situation I am - slaving away in 60-80 hour work weeks fixing [y2k/server problem/failed router/late programming project]. Vacation is a joke, and so's your chances for getting one. While it may look nice to be getting paid $22 an hour.. after you break down the number of hours you really work... that figure drops down alot. And in silicon valley anyway, the cost of living is dramatically higher than in other parts of the country, further eating into your wallet (or so I've heard from people that live there).
TANSTAAFL. It's a motto to live by. There's no free and easy money in this industry, or any other. You gotta work for it. And maybe, just maybe, you might actually luck out and make some real money doing it.
The main difference between *BSD and Linux essentially boils down to philosophy. It's that simple. Boil away all the other stuff, and that's what you have at it's core.
Stop the holy wars now - you can't argue which philosophy is better than another - only which implimentation is better.
So? Sounds to me like this neural net decided to seperate things out based on context.. somewhat similar to how we parse out sentences when we don't know what a word means.
Well, this isn't going to replace conventional CPUs. So that's kind of a bummer. But I can think of a few uses for it. Having such a large array of processors would enable you to attack much more of a problem at once than a conventional processor. I'm sure the crypto guys will have a field day with that.
Ironically, I can think of only one use for a chip like this right now - traffic controllers. The very same reason the original 8086 was developed by intel.
How many complaints have I read in the past that Linux gets ignored by hardware manufacturers who only care about compatibility with Windows?
True. But unlike the windows world, there is no central body to create de facto standards. This is why it is important right now to enforce some level of standards on hardware/certification. If we don't, we may wind up with far worse things than plug'n'pray, or microsoft beta releases.
And hey, if it will run Red Hat, it will probably run any decent version of Linux.
True again. But redhat puts it's files in non-standard funky locations. For example, if you need to run a daemon at startup.. do you put it in/etc/rc.d/rc.local, or/etc/rc.d/init.d/mydaemon ? There are some subtle, yet profound differences, between distributions. Standardizing on just one condemns us all to that standard.
So stop whining and complaining and visualize a world in which hardware manufacturers care more about Linux compatibility than Windows compatibility.
Oh brave new world.... I'd rather have hardware that works, than hardware that's "certified" and flaky. Aren't one of the hallmarks of linux quality, not quantity?
If it's possible to build something to produce neutrinos on a mass-scale and release them under controlled circumstances.. we could communicate unidirectionally to any location on the planet - imagine how fast the internet would be if every computer had a 100mb connection to any point on the globe. Amongst other uses....
Sonar - interesting idea. Me and a friend of mine have been toying with various methods of "mapping" an area to determine where the bot is, and other such things. Our idea was to use an infrared "beacon" to determine distance from it, or to start at a known point and work from there based on touch sensors. Obviously sonar has definate advantages over both. I'd be interested in seeing the circuit diagrams and interface for this sonar device.. it sounds intruiguing.
Any ideas how to interface this with an RCX? It seems incredibly difficult - you would need a specialized i/o port to process that amount of data. Anyway, I'd like to hear from you guys...
I disagree - the community is not "falling into a trap". Linux development will go on just fine without redhat certifying a thinkpad as compatible or not. Nothing IBM or Redhat could do would slow down or in any way hamper the development of linux drivers/kernel. If redhat decides to stick to it's guns and not certify non-compliant products, then IBM might release some tech specs (or even better - source for a driver), it might actually speed up development! Even if redhat certifies it, it'll mean nothing - zero gain, zero loss.
If Redhat were to declare the IBM thinkpad compatible while it still has outstanding problems (modem!), Redhat would be running it's own trademark through the mud. Redhat "compatible" won't stand for anything if anyone can get a certification that say their product is compatible - anything could be!
This is why we need a vendor-neutral group like the LSB to certify systems as being not just "redhat compatible", but linux compatible. I want to buy a product and have it work flawlessly under debian, redhat, mandrake, suse - all of them. Right from peg 1. I'm willing to pay alittle extra to make sure that the product I buy will work (right out of the box) with linux. I am not willing to pay even a penny more because redhat stuck a label on a product and sent it on it's merry way without any quality standards.
Goodie. Finally I can get transparent xterms with KDE. Hey.. admit it everybody.. that's the main reason alot of us haven't switched - KDE is butt-ugly (read: it looks like another well-known OS). Atleast gnome is nice and configurable. I say we merge the two projects - KDE's cleaned up backend and toolkit with gnome's beautiful looks.
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Hmmmm... moon advertising. I wonder what it would say... "If you lived here, you'd be nowhere near home by now!"
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Yeah.. just wonderful. I s'pose my fridge will have been taken over by the pop'n fresh man too. We won't even discuss what happened to the toilet...
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The Automated Home of the Future will not be complete until my toaster runs linux! Now if you'll excuse me, my oven just BSOD'd and incinerated my cassarole... stupid driver conflicts.. I knew I shouldn't have installed ActiveLights 2003.
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Why do I get the distinct feeling the entry from the machine will be 'First post!'....
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Washington, DC: Talk with Al Gore, inventor of the Internet.
Minneapolis, MN: Speak with Gov. Jesse Ventura, wrestler-turned-idiot-politician about Minnesota's new edukation initiative - "Just Say No To Wires".
Redmond, WA: Interview with Bill Gates on the benefits of using ActiveSex, a new protocol designed to limit sexual desires online.
Austin, TX: We'll be going door to door, and toe to toe with Dell Corporation on integrating Vchip technology into the next generation of computers.
Silicon Valley, CA: An exclusive interview with Steve Jobs - we'll ask him about the iSex, a new product he plans on marketing to make online sex easier than ever.
We hope you'll join us in our fight to help secure the internet against the tyranny of sex, and promote freedom and dignity for all.
- FUD.
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I love this guy. He must work for Microsoft. Since when was having "too many" choices a problem? We have linux, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, solaris, tru64, sunOS, AIX, HP-UX, etc. All of them have niche markets. For example, netbsd is an excellent platform to build a firewall or intranet server on (good security), whereas linux makes an excellent server for a small-office setting (linux/samba - can't be beat). This analyst definately needs to get out more... he probably thinks NT and MSOffice are the only two products on the planet...
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How about tuition less than the GNP of a small country each semester?
Decent computers. Sorry, but that DX2/66 in the corner isn't going to do me much good if I need to make a fluid dynamics model. Now, if you had a hundred of them in a beowulf.. that would be better!
Wire up the dorms. And the surrounding community. :) Suprisingly, many colleges still haven't connected their students to a high-speed internet connection.
Nice big board in the computer room showing the latest slashdot articles. Use an overhead projector. :)
Forget putting the whole class online - how about just the class notes? Maybe even previous tests, or upcoming "things to study"? That would be uber-helpful.
Instructor's e-mail address. A few instructors don't/won't have/give e-mail addresses. It's also helpful for geeks like me who are too shy to call an instructor on the phone.
Boring instructors. Yes, we actually need more of them.
How about getting public transportation involved - like having routes that include drop-offs/pickups at colleges. Anything to help cut costs.
Girls!! We need more geek grrrls.
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How odd. This man seems more concerned about the issues he championed than himself. He seemed determined not to promote himself. That's a very rare quality in today's world, and it shows through vividly in this interview.
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Yes, young linux just turned 8. The b-day party went like so: "I want more features! mine! mine! Gimme gimme gimme!" :) So go and give young linux a present - patch up a few bugs in the source.
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Sure, some people get paid a nice sum - but not everybody. I'd even say - not the majority. I suspect that most slashdotters are in the same situation I am - slaving away in 60-80 hour work weeks fixing [y2k/server problem/failed router/late programming project]. Vacation is a joke, and so's your chances for getting one. While it may look nice to be getting paid $22 an hour.. after you break down the number of hours you really work... that figure drops down alot. And in silicon valley anyway, the cost of living is dramatically higher than in other parts of the country, further eating into your wallet (or so I've heard from people that live there).
TANSTAAFL. It's a motto to live by. There's no free and easy money in this industry, or any other. You gotta work for it. And maybe, just maybe, you might actually luck out and make some real money doing it.
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Stop the holy wars now - you can't argue which philosophy is better than another - only which implimentation is better.
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Wait a minute.. something's fishy here. A group of linux users has lawyers? Oh my... I can see the rift in space-time forming already.
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So? Sounds to me like this neural net decided to seperate things out based on context.. somewhat similar to how we parse out sentences when we don't know what a word means.
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Ironically, I can think of only one use for a chip like this right now - traffic controllers. The very same reason the original 8086 was developed by intel.
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I can see it now... "To boldly code where no man has debugged before..."
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They already distributed a press release. It was a page of paper that said "This press release is not yet here."
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'Flowers for Algeron' to be exact, although I may have messed up the spelling.
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Dr. Strauss sayz I should rite down evrything that happens too me from now on....
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True. But unlike the windows world, there is no central body to create de facto standards. This is why it is important right now to enforce some level of standards on hardware/certification. If we don't, we may wind up with far worse things than plug'n'pray, or microsoft beta releases.
And hey, if it will run Red Hat, it will probably run any decent version of Linux.
True again. But redhat puts it's files in non-standard funky locations. For example, if you need to run a daemon at startup.. do you put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or /etc/rc.d/init.d/mydaemon ? There are some subtle, yet profound differences, between distributions. Standardizing on just one condemns us all to that standard.
So stop whining and complaining and visualize a world in which hardware manufacturers care more about Linux compatibility than Windows compatibility.
Oh brave new world.... I'd rather have hardware that works, than hardware that's "certified" and flaky. Aren't one of the hallmarks of linux quality, not quantity?
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Any ideas how to interface this with an RCX? It seems incredibly difficult - you would need a specialized i/o port to process that amount of data. Anyway, I'd like to hear from you guys...
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Why this post got moderated up is beyond me...
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I'd like to see a show in the midwest. The closest thing we've had to a conference is rootshell and 2600 meetings.
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This is why we need a vendor-neutral group like the LSB to certify systems as being not just "redhat compatible", but linux compatible. I want to buy a product and have it work flawlessly under debian, redhat, mandrake, suse - all of them. Right from peg 1. I'm willing to pay alittle extra to make sure that the product I buy will work (right out of the box) with linux. I am not willing to pay even a penny more because redhat stuck a label on a product and sent it on it's merry way without any quality standards.
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ah, wishful thinking... alas...
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