Will kids in the states also be eligible for these? Think WV, Kentucky, or any poor state in central US. Or is it limited to just 3rd world countries like Mexico, Africa, etc
Allan pointed out that Java-based applications are not vulnerable to this exploit because the language has a built-in mechanism for deallocating memory.
I can see this as fodder for the argument that it's safer to run software in sandbox like Java's VM.
Nope read what he wrote. Didnt notice is was CmdrTaco though, so sorry. Guess as an editorial it's interesting and sums up a lot of feelings people here have. Just when looking for a news post it seemed out of place. There are to many "I hate X software" rants and seemed odd that the very application being told about suggests installing it.
I am in a nice sized LUG. Would guess over 200 people if not a lot more. Yet I admit I never go to meetings. The mailing lists is really where all of the action is. Need an answer quick? Email the list, rather than wait till the once a month meeting. Also a lot of us tech types are stereotypically introverted, so we dont need to attend a meeting and are more likely to participate via an online method (mailing list, irc, etc).
Now that it's all over I feel very sad that there might never be another author in my lifetime who can create characters that fit together so well.
I felt the same way when Douglas Adams died... then came Mrs. Rowling. I was looking at an interview with her recently and it looks like this wont be the last book she has written. (last HP, but not her last book). She's tinkering with the idea of using a Pen name and starting on another type non HP book.
Glad to see photovoltaics doing well, while this is a welcome advancement. I'd personally love to see more juice per square CM of solar cells. So instead of painting my house with cells just to power my TV, I'd rather have a dense 1 foot square solar cell powerful enough to power my TV and computer.
It's real, they used a common tactic that's also used in Chess egtb's. You start with a couple pieces at the very end, permutate till all are solved, add a piece and keep doing that backwards till you get at root position.
What I find more interesting is that it took 18 years to do this, on around 50 computers. That has to be the longest simulation or computation I've ever heard of. Wonder how much it cost, just in terms of the power bill to get this dataset.
While I can't argue with solid data. I really find it hard to believe that there isn't a single line of perfect play for either side. Granted I can see many draws, but not 100% draw in every single perfect line of play.
While I dont see this as a fountain of youth. This research could be very useful for long distant space travel. Especially as we are pondering going to Mars. I wonder how well this could be coupled with cryogenics.
He states now it's not a big problem, (guessing because it's summer and not as many students there). Then expecting it to be a BIG problem once students arrive. So to me this says that the iPhones using their service aren't students at all. If this is the case, buckle down the AP settings so they're not open or easily accessible via iPhone and require students to anti up their MAC addresses to connect to the wireless network.
I thought one of the reasons MS was dominating the Office realm was because of legacy.doc formats. Even in college I dished out for a student copy of Word just because some classes required it (OO wasn't out yet).
If MS wants to keep that going having a completely open spec format kinda limits their "keep buying Word, or you wont be compatible" argument.
There has to be another reason but it eludes me.
Perhaps DMA is turned off or one of your drives is fried. I'd run a HD diagnostic test as it seems the system is freezing while it's waiting for read/write attempts to error out.
Crosby argues that the ABI policy guarantees you can take a VM out of the freezer ten years from now and still be sure it will run on whatever version of Xen is current then.
Wonder how this is done? This sounds like it would hinder the efficiency Xen. Besides who know's what architectures will be around in 10 years. I'm guessing it's not going to be a hypervisor anymore like VMWare, but more like VirtualPC which emulations the targeted architecture (perhaps both).
Without this I seriously doubt I'll be able to take a Xen x86 system image and put it on a "PPC 2017" system, or whatever processors will be popular then; without some form of emulation.
Seems Xen + based system (Gnu/linux) is GPL, the Xen API is under a BSD-like license so closed source companies can use it. Then they have a management package that's closed.
Their reasoning, which makes sense to me, is that they are afraid their hard work will be lost if Redhat or other commercial vendors can just include it in their distro and make sales based on it. Makes sense to me.
I agree with your statement. That's why I said I think what OLPC is doing a great job at what it was designed to do. We should be trying to feed children before giving them a laptop when they can't even afford electricity to power it. But your suggestion is also very true.
We need to have both systems. One that can help people, then charities like OLPC to help them break out of their social bubble and hopefully better their position in life.
Where I think welfare failed is because it did promote income without labor. What we need is welfare to act as a safety net for people during bad times, but not as a catch all for life. We should have bundled training and some kind of way to help people better themselves so they wont *need* to be on welfare. That's where OLPC kicks in it seems. If gives children and opportunity go break that barrier.
Is there an ETA till something like this will be in consumers hands? And I dont mean $10k for business only, but being able to buy something for home use.
I already have some uses for it and would love to develop for such a system.
That has to be the best writeup I've ever seen considering the topic. It's definitely helped my view of the world and will make a nice reference next time this kind of topic comes about.
Guest I just never saw it from that angle before, and I agree.
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Will kids in the states also be eligible for these? Think WV, Kentucky, or any poor state in central US. Or is it limited to just 3rd world countries like Mexico, Africa, etc
I can see this as fodder for the argument that it's safer to run software in sandbox like Java's VM.
Nope read what he wrote. Didnt notice is was CmdrTaco though, so sorry. Guess as an editorial it's interesting and sums up a lot of feelings people here have. Just when looking for a news post it seemed out of place. There are to many "I hate X software" rants and seemed odd that the very application being told about suggests installing it.
Will have to reread this, but it doesnt come off as news but a rant. And no I wont install the toolbar.
I am in a nice sized LUG. Would guess over 200 people if not a lot more. Yet I admit I never go to meetings. The mailing lists is really where all of the action is. Need an answer quick? Email the list, rather than wait till the once a month meeting. Also a lot of us tech types are stereotypically introverted, so we dont need to attend a meeting and are more likely to participate via an online method (mailing list, irc, etc).
I felt the same way when Douglas Adams died... then came Mrs. Rowling. I was looking at an interview with her recently and it looks like this wont be the last book she has written. (last HP, but not her last book). She's tinkering with the idea of using a Pen name and starting on another type non HP book.
No because of the 15 second delay, it'll be bleeped before it goes on the air.
Glad to see photovoltaics doing well, while this is a welcome advancement. I'd personally love to see more juice per square CM of solar cells. So instead of painting my house with cells just to power my TV, I'd rather have a dense 1 foot square solar cell powerful enough to power my TV and computer.
What I find more interesting is that it took 18 years to do this, on around 50 computers. That has to be the longest simulation or computation I've ever heard of. Wonder how much it cost, just in terms of the power bill to get this dataset.
While I can't argue with solid data. I really find it hard to believe that there isn't a single line of perfect play for either side. Granted I can see many draws, but not 100% draw in every single perfect line of play.
It's called Fischer Random Chess (FRC) because Bobby Fischer created the rules. Though it was later renamed Chess960..
This is pretty nifty news. Now we just need to start cracking at the 7men egtb, now that the 6men tables are done.
Nope, I remember the Snorks, Smurfs, Grape Ape, Transformers, Mask, Charlie Brown, NES, and Christmas trees. :)
*shakes head*
While I dont see this as a fountain of youth. This research could be very useful for long distant space travel. Especially as we are pondering going to Mars. I wonder how well this could be coupled with cryogenics.
He states now it's not a big problem, (guessing because it's summer and not as many students there). Then expecting it to be a BIG problem once students arrive. So to me this says that the iPhones using their service aren't students at all. If this is the case, buckle down the AP settings so they're not open or easily accessible via iPhone and require students to anti up their MAC addresses to connect to the wireless network.
Uhm, it's kinda already done with Project Gutenburg and Librivox. How is this different?
If MS wants to keep that going having a completely open spec format kinda limits their "keep buying Word, or you wont be compatible" argument. There has to be another reason but it eludes me.
Perhaps DMA is turned off or one of your drives is fried. I'd run a HD diagnostic test as it seems the system is freezing while it's waiting for read/write attempts to error out.
Now when people break into my car they wont be after my stereo, but my fuel tank. :)
Wonder how this is done? This sounds like it would hinder the efficiency Xen. Besides who know's what architectures will be around in 10 years. I'm guessing it's not going to be a hypervisor anymore like VMWare, but more like VirtualPC which emulations the targeted architecture (perhaps both).
Without this I seriously doubt I'll be able to take a Xen x86 system image and put it on a "PPC 2017" system, or whatever processors will be popular then; without some form of emulation.
Their reasoning, which makes sense to me, is that they are afraid their hard work will be lost if Redhat or other commercial vendors can just include it in their distro and make sales based on it. Makes sense to me.
We need to have both systems. One that can help people, then charities like OLPC to help them break out of their social bubble and hopefully better their position in life.
Where I think welfare failed is because it did promote income without labor. What we need is welfare to act as a safety net for people during bad times, but not as a catch all for life. We should have bundled training and some kind of way to help people better themselves so they wont *need* to be on welfare. That's where OLPC kicks in it seems. If gives children and opportunity go break that barrier.
I already have some uses for it and would love to develop for such a system.
Guest I just never saw it from that angle before, and I agree.