FTA: "Nina Reiser filed for divorce three months later, citing irreconcilable differences and saying their children "hardly know their father" because he was out of the country on business for most of the year, according to court records."
That's no reason to file for divorce - that's reason to stay even closer together.
If you make our over 6 billion people live in the state of Texas, you'll have roughly 100 square meters for every person...
and the rest of the world for everything else!
Incredible bullshit! How can this guy claim to "use his background in science and engineering, together with analytical tools, business skills and good old fashioned common", when his predictions are so strange to reality?!
I'm a computer scientist doing research in computer vision. The more I read about and do work in this field, the less faith I have in the possibility of "intelligent computers".
Although you can train a neural network to do a simple operation like recognize characters or some other isolated task, it is not "intelligence". It's mechanics. I mean its nothing but evaluating a polynomial with a special set of coefficients. Thats it! No "intelligence" there!
I've spoken with other, more experienced researchers and they say the same: methods can be improved quite a lot and new applications found, but nothing profound is to be expeted to change.
Also, remember what they said in the 60es: home robots and AI by 2000 - BS! The greatest achievement we have is the text editor and google. And those use *very* simple, conservative technology. No intelligence there.
Another thing: even if we can solve every computational problem we can think of, we still can't bring a computer to life! It will always remain a purely mechanical tool that dutifully performs the operations assigned to it without ever starting to change its own behaviour like Ian thinks. No computer is ever going to become "intelligent" and start writing computer programs on its own. I mean even if you make a computer the size of a galaxy, its still just a calculator - a very nice calculater, but just a calculator nevertheless...
Sorry folks, but that's how things are. Let's just hope that by 2015 we can get a decent wordprocessor. Its 2006 and we still don't even have that!
Its sad to see SGI in the state it is...
It seems innovators, the "product guys", have a danger of being overrun by companies with more agressive marketing. The technology lovers, the hackers, don't always make it in a world run by economics.
Yeah, not to mention that this is also redundant. Many users already have a firewall (F-secure etc.) that actively looks throught the content coming from the internet. This is a huge waste of computing power (about 50% speed loss with all that real-time scanning).
3rd party software (F-secure etc.) is usually used to hide the shortcomings of other software. Now Micro$oft is basically shipping a "hiding" unit for their own crappy software. To me, this is *really* bad pr. On theo ther hand, I don't use IE or Windoze, but another OS (any guesses anyone, hint in this sentence).
5) Came pretty much out of nowhere. Full release without known betas,
????
You know, I remember a time when every respectable software title came out at version 1.0 "without known betas". The next version was very often 2.0. Nice and simple - and the software worked unbelievably well.
This unprofessionalism of hacking togethers alphas, betas (several versions of beta:-o), RCs etc. is just not the kind of guarantee for good quality that you seem to imply.
-The ppl who RTFA ommit the 'F', because they know the real contents of the article-
I can tell you a good reason to go to the moon, mars or wherever the general public seems to think is fancy enough to bring back the good old days: keeping the nation quiet and content - distract the people from the real issues/problems.
That's right: no worries if its impossible to get a manned mission to mars, no worries even if we never do! In fact, it doesn't even matter if we dont' get to the moon again: as long as for the next couple of years people are distracted by all this hype and stay content.
We choose to go to Mars! We choose to go to Mars - not because its easy, not because its hard, but only to keep you happily glued to your TV set while we trash the constitution and take away your civil rights.
What I've found is that any relationship with a woman not belonging to your family will eroticize one way or another - sooner or later. The woman might actually have a desire for *that* kind of attention and will complain about harrasment only to fullfill her fantasy. All this is unspoken and unconscious and people tend to believe women are truthfull and so on...
I have a female co-worker and she has been harrassing me for quite some time. I've told her to stay away from me and she has learned slowly to do that. Once she complained that I don't treat her like the other co-workers. The truth is: I can't, because she reacts COMPLETELY differently to everything I do or say.
Quite frankly, I don't believe in men and women in the same workingplace. I think its a form of mental abuse to force people into that situation.
I await better times, where there is (among other things) no feminism
True. I WAS trying to bring up precisely the problem of COMMITTING (the quote from the article, hello?). So what I basically meant was that effectively the system ate Theo's work... or at least hindered it. Maybe I wan't entirey correct, but that's what the article seems to imply also.
For anyone intrested, the email chain is here. Everyone can make their own conclusions. And yes, I did read the entire chain, long ago.
I've been waiting for this to happen ever since I read how Theo De Raadt was treated in there and how he eventually left the group to work on his own branch. I think you can find an archive of his emails with the NetBSD dev team somewhere...
Now the problem is admitted: FTA:
Partly due to lack of people, and partly due
to a more corporate mentality, projects were often "locked". One person
would say they were working on a project, and everyone else would be
told to refer to them. Often these projects stagnated, or never
progressed at all. If they did, the motivators were often very slow.
As a result, many important projects have moved at a glacial pace, or
never materialized at all.
This is basically what drove Theo out (as far as I understand his great ideas were ignored by the boureaucratic system and he felt frustrated) and now the basic reason why NetBSD is dying.
But NetBSD still lives: in its decendants, like OpenBSD. So let us treat NetBSD with the same respect we would give to a dying grandfather:)
Pretty intresting website design. Kind of refreshing to see a page that can do without flash, gif animations, even images and still be... kind of stylish...
If hard work and training is the key, then your childhood home and other surroundings play a major part by allowing and motivating whatever you are doing. Also, parents can provide material for a child to build on so that learning new things is easier (chunking theory, from the article). This is a form of doing some of the work of learning on the child's behalf... and "success builds on success" (quote from the article)
Maybe "being born into experthood" is still effectively what happens in many cases, through being born into a family in which you are helped to grow in a healty way.
In other words, what counts, is that practices (good or bad) are transmitted from generation to generation.
Just another way to look at the same thing. Now I'm going back to work.
In other news, the food gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women making their own sandwitches and other types of food and actually eating it! Independent studies show that 10 out of 10 women do eat, meaning that females follow the same patterns of behavious as men.
The ability to use high-tech seems to be considered a measure of your human value - why? We're not supposed to be categorized into the technological aristocracy and the other people. Please, feminists, stop problematizing everything - you are just as valuable human beings even without winning (or entering) the competition for the longest time in fluorescence light or owning a WD Raptor or iPod.
As an afterthought, I fear the "Oxygen Network that is owned and operated by women" might be a bit biased in issues concerning women...
FTA:
"The certificate apparently was suspended in June when questions were raised about the validated module's interaction with outside software elements."
"NIST is not saying why the certificate was removed."
Sounds like an inside job to me
Replace God with a dinosaur logo?
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We're all human, I know that: scared of losing our security and smelling strange odors, trapped inside our comfort zones... and Firefox is a part of it. Now you are called to advertise firefox with the hope that it won't go away if you just try to get people convinced. But don't you see what you're doing?
Hey! Hackers, geeks and other nerds! You are being called to maintain and uphold status quo! Can't you see? Already the crippling force of fear is starting to affect the so young OSS ppl!
But what else can you expect when you've turned away from the source of creativity - the creator Himself.
So the red dinosaur has become an idol, another in the long line of replacements for God and Jesus His only begotten son - our salvation.
Good news of the kingdom of God has been replaced with "good news of firefox"
And the tower of babel is being built: the man-made structure of OSS code that you might think will save the world - only it won't...
It's still not too late. Awake thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead!
Right...
So what have the lebanonese been trying to sell with their katjuska firing and the recent capturing of IDF soldiers?
War? Nice product, and certain to release some tension - for some time.
War® from Lebanon inc, a subsidiary of islam inc.
Its always like that: opium for the masses - keep us dreaming and from causing trouble - and not feeling *so* bad about the war...
I mean we've all seen this: household robots, efficient energy production, flying cars, routine space-travel... where is all this?
- In our dreams only, put there by the ruling elite so that we could go on hoping and taking all this crap from their part for another day... and believing that *they* are really conserned with the well-being of the small individual.
Let's be real now, ok? There aren't going to be any "fully articulate prosthetic hands" - not in a hundred years.
one may question why one would spend $24.95 on a book which covers much of the same information as the bundled documentation.
Yeah, I've noticed this on most IT books. And I'm not one of those people "who want an ISBN". I don't think those people even read the books...
I wonder if there is a book called "Linux man pages explained - with complete printouts"...
This will really broaden the horizons for someone living in, say, Elbonia.
Also, they should start bundling foodstuffs with books and movies... the piece of steak that Robin Hood ate, the chocolate bar that was eaten in "hunt for Red October". That would really get you into the mood:)
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FTA: "Nina Reiser filed for divorce three months later, citing irreconcilable differences and saying their children "hardly know their father" because he was out of the country on business for most of the year, according to court records."
That's no reason to file for divorce - that's reason to stay even closer together.
ReiserFS - because wives should stay at home!
If you make our over 6 billion people live in the state of Texas, you'll have roughly 100 square meters for every person...
and the rest of the world for everything else!
Incredible bullshit! How can this guy claim to "use his background in science and engineering, together with analytical tools, business skills and good old fashioned common", when his predictions are so strange to reality?!
I'm a computer scientist doing research in computer vision. The more I read about and do work in this field, the less faith I have in the possibility of "intelligent computers".
Although you can train a neural network to do a simple operation like recognize characters or some other isolated task, it is not "intelligence". It's mechanics. I mean its nothing but evaluating a polynomial with a special set of coefficients. Thats it! No "intelligence" there!
I've spoken with other, more experienced researchers and they say the same: methods can be improved quite a lot and new applications found, but nothing profound is to be expeted to change.
Also, remember what they said in the 60es: home robots and AI by 2000 - BS! The greatest achievement we have is the text editor and google. And those use *very* simple, conservative technology. No intelligence there.
Another thing: even if we can solve every computational problem we can think of, we still can't bring a computer to life! It will always remain a purely mechanical tool that dutifully performs the operations assigned to it without ever starting to change its own behaviour like Ian thinks. No computer is ever going to become "intelligent" and start writing computer programs on its own. I mean even if you make a computer the size of a galaxy, its still just a calculator - a very nice calculater, but just a calculator nevertheless...
Sorry folks, but that's how things are. Let's just hope that by 2015 we can get a decent wordprocessor. Its 2006 and we still don't even have that!
sig?
Its sad to see SGI in the state it is...
It seems innovators, the "product guys", have a danger of being overrun by companies with more agressive marketing. The technology lovers, the hackers, don't always make it in a world run by economics.
3rd party software (F-secure etc.) is usually used to hide the shortcomings of other software. Now Micro$oft is basically shipping a "hiding" unit for their own crappy software. To me, this is *really* bad pr. On theo ther hand, I don't use IE or Windoze, but another OS (any guesses anyone, hint in this sentence).
????
You know, I remember a time when every respectable software title came out at version 1.0 "without known betas". The next version was very often 2.0. Nice and simple - and the software worked unbelievably well.
This unprofessionalism of hacking togethers alphas, betas (several versions of beta :-o), RCs etc. is just not the kind of guarantee for good quality that you seem to imply.
-The ppl who RTFA ommit the 'F', because they know the real contents of the article-
I can tell you a good reason to go to the moon, mars or wherever the general public seems to think is fancy enough to bring back the good old days: keeping the nation quiet and content - distract the people from the real issues/problems.
That's right: no worries if its impossible to get a manned mission to mars, no worries even if we never do! In fact, it doesn't even matter if we dont' get to the moon again: as long as for the next couple of years people are distracted by all this hype and stay content.
We choose to go to Mars! We choose to go to Mars - not because its easy, not because its hard, but only to keep you happily glued to your TV set while we trash the constitution and take away your civil rights.
What I've found is that any relationship with a woman not belonging to your family will eroticize one way or another - sooner or later. The woman might actually have a desire for *that* kind of attention and will complain about harrasment only to fullfill her fantasy. All this is unspoken and unconscious and people tend to believe women are truthfull and so on...
I have a female co-worker and she has been harrassing me for quite some time. I've told her to stay away from me and she has learned slowly to do that. Once she complained that I don't treat her like the other co-workers. The truth is: I can't, because she reacts COMPLETELY differently to everything I do or say.
Quite frankly, I don't believe in men and women in the same workingplace. I think its a form of mental abuse to force people into that situation.
I await better times, where there is (among other things) no feminism
Use Browzar - the choice of 30 year old men who live with their mothers.
My addition:
I mean, we wouldn't want to "override" anything, now would we? I mean we're not saying we can't do it - we just choose not to.
I think we need to pay close attention to what this company does :-o
For anyone intrested, the email chain is here. Everyone can make their own conclusions. And yes, I did read the entire chain, long ago.
I've been waiting for this to happen ever since I read how Theo De Raadt was treated in there and how he eventually left the group to work on his own branch. I think you can find an archive of his emails with the NetBSD dev team somewhere...
Now the problem is admitted: FTA:
This is basically what drove Theo out (as far as I understand his great ideas were ignored by the boureaucratic system and he felt frustrated) and now the basic reason why NetBSD is dying.
But NetBSD still lives: in its decendants, like OpenBSD. So let us treat NetBSD with the same respect we would give to a dying grandfather :)
m a baby. Get it? M a baby.. oh forget it.
Only thing is, he is not a she...
Pretty intresting website design. Kind of refreshing to see a page that can do without flash, gif animations, even images and still be... kind of stylish...
sig?
Does this involve code reuse by copy-pasting code from the previous Apollo missions' software? :-)
Why fix it if it ain't broke?
If hard work and training is the key, then your childhood home and other surroundings play a major part by allowing and motivating whatever you are doing. Also, parents can provide material for a child to build on so that learning new things is easier (chunking theory, from the article). This is a form of doing some of the work of learning on the child's behalf... and "success builds on success" (quote from the article)
Maybe "being born into experthood" is still effectively what happens in many cases, through being born into a family in which you are helped to grow in a healty way.
In other words, what counts, is that practices (good or bad) are transmitted from generation to generation.
Just another way to look at the same thing. Now I'm going back to work.
In other news, the food gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women making their own sandwitches and other types of food and actually eating it! Independent studies show that 10 out of 10 women do eat, meaning that females follow the same patterns of behavious as men.
The ability to use high-tech seems to be considered a measure of your human value - why? We're not supposed to be categorized into the technological aristocracy and the other people. Please, feminists, stop problematizing everything - you are just as valuable human beings even without winning (or entering) the competition for the longest time in fluorescence light or owning a WD Raptor or iPod.
As an afterthought, I fear the "Oxygen Network that is owned and operated by women" might be a bit biased in issues concerning women...
Is this like in "Blade Runner III"?
I'm sure the UN is concealing something here... lets all take Voight-Kampff tests right now!
FTA:
"The certificate apparently was suspended in June when questions were raised about the validated module's interaction with outside software elements."
"NIST is not saying why the certificate was removed."
Sounds like an inside job to me
We're all human, I know that: scared of losing our security and smelling strange odors, trapped inside our comfort zones... and Firefox is a part of it. Now you are called to advertise firefox with the hope that it won't go away if you just try to get people convinced. But don't you see what you're doing?
Hey! Hackers, geeks and other nerds! You are being called to maintain and uphold status quo!
Can't you see? Already the crippling force of fear is starting to affect the so young OSS ppl!
But what else can you expect when you've turned away from the source of creativity - the creator Himself.
So the red dinosaur has become an idol, another in the long line of replacements for God and Jesus His only begotten son - our salvation.
Good news of the kingdom of God has been replaced with "good news of firefox"
And the tower of babel is being built: the man-made structure of OSS code that you might think will save the world - only it won't...
It's still not too late. Awake thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead!
Right...
So what have the lebanonese been trying to sell with their katjuska firing and the recent capturing of IDF soldiers?
War? Nice product, and certain to release some tension - for some time.
War® from Lebanon inc, a subsidiary of islam inc.
Its always like that: opium for the masses - keep us dreaming and from causing trouble - and not feeling *so* bad about the war...
I mean we've all seen this: household robots, efficient energy production, flying cars, routine space-travel... where is all this?
- In our dreams only, put there by the ruling elite so that we could go on hoping and taking all this crap from their part for another day... and believing that *they* are really conserned with the well-being of the small individual.
Let's be real now, ok? There aren't going to be any "fully articulate prosthetic hands" - not in a hundred years.
Yeah, I've noticed this on most IT books. And I'm not one of those people "who want an ISBN". I don't think those people even read the books...
I wonder if there is a book called "Linux man pages explained - with complete printouts"...
This will really broaden the horizons for someone living in, say, Elbonia.
:)
Also, they should start bundling foodstuffs with books and movies... the piece of steak that Robin Hood ate, the chocolate bar that was eaten in "hunt for Red October". That would really get you into the mood
Well, I can't find anything to support this idea in my bible...
I don't think we're really going to space - in any big way.
Mod me as either funny OR insightfull