So NBC will hold back their web coverage until they have shown the event on TV (time-lapsed)?
Welcome to the wired-world guys! There is plenty of competition out there on the web. If NBC's site doesn't have it, try Aunty, or any other TV station worldwide with a good sports web-site.
(As I write this, the pop-up window in the corner of my screen tells me that England are 19 for 2 off 13.4 overs, against the Windies 1st Innings total of 172 all out. Don'tcha' just love the net!)
HP say " now you'll have the power to teach math, not calculator
usage.". Speaking as someone who has taught maths to first year undergraduate students, graphical calulators are not a substitute for rigourous thinking and analysis. All you learn with a calculator is how to draw pretty pictures, which tend to lead to unjustified and incorrect conclusions about the underlying mathematics. If you do want to program and draw pretty pictures then use Matlab (I do). Then you'll know how to use a tool which has some worth out in the big wide world. If you want to understand mathematics properly, then learn some calculus and how to curve sketch rigouously.
Looks like it could be a nice toy though. I wonder if they will send me a sample?:-) Some kind of interface (serial, IR) would be nice...
To be fair, point #1 isn't valid for NT. Bollocks is it.
Scenario: Perl/CGI development.
Let's say I have coded an infinite loop in my script (not that I would actually do anything as daft as this:-). Under Apache I can log in as root and quickly kill the httpd process (10 seconds). In NT I have to log out, log in as Administrator, restart IIS, log back in as me, and restart my development environment (1+ minutes). No contest. And this is assuming that IIS is running on my development machine. No contest.
I will buy the solution and the rights to the solution...
Maths doesn't work like that (yet!). You might be able to patent a particular algorithm (gggrrrrr!). Say you have solved the traveling salesman problem. No one will believe you until you publish; when you do the cat is out of the bag with regard to all the other NP complete problems.
Right. The GDL is a specific ste of rules, but underneath it all there is is a copyrighted document. So things like fair use of excerpts still apply.
The lecturer with 115 students doesn't have to give out floppies - he/she can make them available on request. Better still he/she can put the source ("transparent copy") on a website (this is the 21st century you know!), that way everyone gets the benefit of the new comments.
If poor web design can be so clearly explained to the average educated user (e.g. myself), then why are there still so many badly designed websites around, many of these the result of huge expenditure? Will things get better or worse?
How well thought out is this survey? According to the questions, we can now get IIS and Microsoft SQL Server for Linux, and Basic is a major software development language. Oh well.
> And I would submit that a lot of the people who complain about him being long-winded and > rambling grew up in the age of 30 second sound bites and cover blurbs on pulp books being > more important than the actual CONTENT of the work.
No co-incidence that he was/is a Rolling Stone writer. They always seem to give their authors a lot more space and time to present a story properly. Katz's style is very RS, too.
> And I would submit that a lot of the people who complain about him being long-winded and > rambling grew up in the age of 30 second sound bites and cover blurbs on pulp books being > more important than the actual CONTENT of the work. No co-incidence that he was/is a Rolling Stone writer. They always seem to give their authors a lot more space and time to present a story properly. Katz's style is very RS, too.
Making Linux easy to install is not synonymous with making it insecure. Lots of Windows software installs itself with security settings that are plain stupid (e.g. Outlook Express running virus infected attachments). But just because this is true for one company's product and operating system doesn't mean that anything produced by, say, Corel will be result in the whole of Linux being "dumbed down". You will just get your same old, nice and secure, configurable Linux, with a nice set of easy to use configuration tools and easy to use installations. This doesn't stop you doing your thing - that's the whole point. In fact the more desktop Linux users Corel can help, the more likely you are going to be able to keep a job in the Linux server business (and the easier that job will be - do you want to do Win2k support?).
Assuming an organization can be a single GPL licensor or licensee:
In British law, at least, and I presume also in countries such as the US whose legal system derived from ours, a company is a legal "person" in its own right (and by implication so are other organisations such as the government, universities, charities). University researchers have no legal right to any profits on exploitations of their University work, unless (as is normal) there is a prior or standing arrangement to cover this.
Any employee of Secure Computing who thought they had a right, under the GPL, to a copy of the source of NSA/Linux would almost certainly be in breach of contract - it would be no different from them taking a binary or copies of internal documentation.
But the NSA get the source (and the freedom to use it). Public sector computer contracts are notorious for government departments getting locked into long-term use of outdated, expensive, proprietory technology. GPL'd software helps combat this, since it allows the department to switch suppliers of software and support. We should be thankful, as it will save us tax dollars (or £'s!) in the future.
I think the NSA has found a new way to crack anything up to 128-bit (maybe 512-bit for public-key encryption).
And your evidence for this is what, exactly?
The US government have realised that crypto is OUT THERE ALREADY (PGP etc.) and there is not a lot that they can do about it. Now the crypto/e-commerce companies want to make some money out of it, hence they put pressure on the government to change the rules. See also the comment about possible crypto rule changes in the EU - they don't want to exclude US companies from this market.
Anyone else worried by the fact that they ask for your POP3 password and sent it to their server?
I ran the English->Spanish translation on my homepage and, although I don't speak Spanish, it is quite clear that it sucked! Much development work to be done I think. A VERY good idea in principle though.
> Is this guy more interested in real cybernetics > research or becoming a media sensation.
As a graduate of Reading Uni, I can confirm that Warwick is an excellent self publicist. Not that that means his research is nessecarily BAD, but it doesn't give me great confidence. He is endlessly on Tommorow's World (BBC popular science program).
I have a lot more respect for science that is reported through peer reviewed journals than through the mass media.
What if the genetic changes in the GM Xmas trees happen to kill off a species which is beneficial to other trees? This could happen even as the result of small scale trials, hence there is no difference between research and mass sale in this case. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that this kind of effect has already been observed in the US? (I don't know the reference I'm afraid)
No. Or more precisely, a different kind of weight. That is acceptance by the senior academic hierarchy of the importance of your (possibly non-academic) achiements; as opposed to the recognition by your peers in your specialist subject of a level of knowledge of that field and of research in general that is signified by a normal PhD.
So the big-wigs at Stockholm think Linus is hot stuff, whereas the CS department there would in theory require him to submit a thesis if he wanted a PhD from them!
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(As I write this, the pop-up window in the corner of my screen tells me that England are 19 for 2 off 13.4 overs, against the Windies 1st Innings total of 172 all out. Don'tcha' just love the net!)
HP say " now you'll have the power to teach math, not calculator usage.". Speaking as someone who has taught maths to first year undergraduate students, graphical calulators are not a substitute for rigourous thinking and analysis. All you learn with a calculator is how to draw pretty pictures, which tend to lead to unjustified and incorrect conclusions about the underlying mathematics. If you do want to program and draw pretty pictures then use Matlab (I do). Then you'll know how to use a tool which has some worth out in the big wide world. If you want to understand mathematics properly, then learn some calculus and how to curve sketch rigouously.
Looks like it could be a nice toy though. I wonder if they will send me a sample? :-) Some kind of interface (serial, IR) would be nice ...
Scenario: Perl/CGI development.
Let's say I have coded an infinite loop in my script (not that I would actually do anything as daft as this :-). Under Apache I can log in as root and quickly kill the httpd process (10 seconds). In NT I have to log out, log in as Administrator, restart IIS, log back in as me, and restart my development environment (1+ minutes). No contest. And this is assuming that IIS is running on my development machine. No contest.
Maths doesn't work like that (yet!). You might be able to patent a particular algorithm (gggrrrrr!). Say you have solved the traveling salesman problem. No one will believe you until you publish; when you do the cat is out of the bag with regard to all the other NP complete problems.
Marketing.
No, it's not governed by the British. It used to be, now it is self governing and just happens to have the Queen as head of state (like Canada or Oz).
The lecturer with 115 students doesn't have to give out floppies - he/she can make them available on request. Better still he/she can put the source ("transparent copy") on a website (this is the 21st century you know!), that way everyone gets the benefit of the new comments.
If poor web design can be so clearly explained to the average educated user (e.g. myself), then why are there still so many badly designed websites around, many of these the result of huge expenditure? Will things get better or worse?
How well thought out is this survey? According to the questions, we can now get IIS and Microsoft SQL Server for Linux, and Basic is a major software development language. Oh well.
... an enourmous portable Beowulf cluster!
> And I would submit that a lot of the people who complain about him being long-winded and
> rambling grew up in the age of 30 second sound bites and cover blurbs on pulp books being
> more important than the actual CONTENT of the work.
No co-incidence that he was/is a Rolling Stone writer.
They always seem to give their authors a lot more space
and time to present a story properly. Katz's style is very RS, too.
> And I would submit that a lot of the people who complain about him being long-winded and > rambling grew up in the age of 30 second sound bites and cover blurbs on pulp books being > more important than the actual CONTENT of the work. No co-incidence that he was/is a Rolling Stone writer. They always seem to give their authors a lot more space and time to present a story properly. Katz's style is very RS, too.
Oh purleeeeeeeeze!
Making Linux easy to install is not synonymous with making it insecure. Lots of Windows software installs itself with security settings that are plain stupid (e.g. Outlook Express running virus infected attachments). But just because this is true for one company's product and operating system doesn't mean that anything produced by, say, Corel will be result in the whole of Linux being "dumbed down". You will just get your same old, nice and secure, configurable Linux, with a nice set of easy to use configuration tools and easy to use installations. This doesn't stop you doing your thing - that's the whole point. In fact the more desktop Linux users Corel can help, the more likely you are going to be able to keep a job in the Linux server business (and the easier that job will be - do you want to do Win2k support?).
In British law, at least, and I presume also in countries such as the US whose legal system derived from ours, a company is a legal "person" in its own right (and by implication so are other organisations such as the government, universities, charities). University researchers have no legal right to any profits on exploitations of their University work, unless (as is normal) there is a prior or standing arrangement to cover this.
Any employee of Secure Computing who thought they had a right, under the GPL, to a copy of the source of NSA/Linux would almost certainly be in breach of contract - it would be no different from them taking a binary or copies of internal documentation.
But the NSA get the source (and the freedom to use it). Public sector computer contracts are notorious for government departments getting locked into long-term use of outdated, expensive, proprietory technology. GPL'd software helps combat this, since it allows the department to switch suppliers of software and support. We should be thankful, as it will save us tax dollars (or £'s!) in the future.
And your evidence for this is what, exactly?
The US government have realised that crypto is OUT THERE ALREADY (PGP etc.) and there is not a lot that they can do about it. Now the crypto/e-commerce companies want to make some money out of it, hence they put pressure on the government to change the rules. See also the comment about possible crypto rule changes in the EU - they don't want to exclude US companies from this market.
Anyone else worried by the fact that they ask for your POP3 password and sent it to their server?
I ran the English->Spanish translation on my homepage and, although I don't speak Spanish, it is quite clear that it sucked! Much development work to be done I think. A VERY good idea in principle though.
> Is this guy more interested in real cybernetics
> research or becoming a media sensation.
As a graduate of Reading Uni, I can confirm that Warwick is an excellent self publicist. Not that that means his research is nessecarily BAD, but it doesn't give me great confidence. He is endlessly on Tommorow's World (BBC popular science program).
I have a lot more respect for science that is reported through peer reviewed journals than through the mass media.
Eating is NOT the only problem with GM crops.
What if the genetic changes in the GM Xmas trees happen to kill off a species which is beneficial to other trees? This could happen even as the result of small scale trials, hence there is no difference between research and mass sale in this case. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that this kind of effect has already been observed in the US? (I don't know the reference I'm afraid)
No. Or more precisely, a different kind of weight. That is acceptance by the senior academic hierarchy of the importance of your (possibly non-academic) achiements; as opposed to the recognition by your peers in your specialist subject of a level of knowledge of that field and of research in general that is signified by a normal PhD.
So the big-wigs at Stockholm think Linus is hot stuff, whereas the CS department there would in theory require him to submit a thesis if he wanted a PhD from them!