Torvald's response came quickly and succinctly. "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970) - it's physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don't think you can call it a Mac any more;)" he said.
Probably something like...
"My name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux"
first of all, anyone who thinks he can accurately determine the makeout of a population with a reasonable level of confidence (99%+) without taking a large enough and diverse enough sample size is a fool.
secondly, none of this matters. hypothetically, let's assume that the statements made are true. what does that mean? does that justify statistical bigotry? no, of course not!
we have bigger issues to worry about than identifying people's strengths and weaknesses. if this research really picks up, i fear that we'll end up in a world like the one portrayed in GATTACA.
Just In Time for New Year's: A Proposal for a Better Calendar; No more "30 days hath September, April, June and November"
December 2004
Wouldn't it be convenient if your birthday, Christmas, and the Fourth of July--not to mention most other major holidays--all fell on the same day of the week, year after year? Wouldn't it make life--or at least planning--easier, for instance, to know that Dec. 17 would always fall on a Saturday or that January 1--New Year's Day--would always be celebrated on a Sunday? Richard Conn Henry, professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, thinks it would. He has designed--using computer programs and complex mathematical formulas--a new calendar that would make it happen.
Under Henry's plan, each new 12-month period is identical to the one that came before. Each month has either 30 or 31 days. January, for instance, would have 30 days, as would February, April, May, July, August, October, and November. March, June, September, and December would all have 31 days.
Henry, a physicist who also directs the Maryland Space Grant Consortium, says his new calendar would have "profound economic and practical benefits" if adopted worldwide. He is waging a Web-based campaign to make this happen by Jan. 1, 2006. Henry points out that this transition date is ideal, because New Year's Day 2006 falls on a Sunday on both the old and proposed calendars, facilitating a seamless transition.
"Just ask yourself how much time and effort are expended each year in redesigning the calendar of every single organization worldwide to accommodate the coming year's calendar, and it becomes obvious that my calendar would make life much simpler and would have noteworthy benefits economically, especially for businesses and other institutions," Henry said.
"With my plan, we can have a stable calendar that is absolutely identical from year to year and which allows the permanent, rational planning of annual activities, from school to work holidays."
Called the "Calendar-and-Time Plan" (C&T) because it also advocates the worldwide adoption of a 24-hour, universal time scale (more on that later), Henry's innovation promises to improve on what he sees as the "defects" of the dozen or so rival reform calendars that have been proffered by various individuals and institutions in the past 100 years.
"Calendar reform has always failed before, and for a simple reason: All major proposals involved breaking the seven-day cycle of the week, which has always been--and probably will always be--completely unacceptable to humankind because it goes against the Fourth Commandment of the Bible about keeping the Sabbath Day," Henry said. "C&T never breaks that biblical cycle."
What's more, the C&T calendar is "far more convenient" than is the current Gregorian calendar, which has been in place for more than 400 years--ever since Pope Gregory, in 1582, modified a calendar that was instituted by Julius Caesar in 46 BC.
To bring Caesar's calendar into sync with the seasons (one of the main reasons for reforming it), the pope and his scholars removed 11 days from the calendar during that October, so that Oct. 4 was followed immediately by Oct. 15. The need for that kind of adjustment derived from the same problem that makes designing an effective calendar a challenge today: the fact that there is an uneven number of days in an Earth year: 365.2422 days, to be exact.
Our current calendar tackles this challenge by instituting "leap years" every four years. Henry thinks he has found a better solution: drop leap year entirely and institute, instead, a one-week "mini-month" between June and July every five or six years. In honor of his personal hero, Sir Isaac Newton, Henry has dubbed this seven-day period "Newton." His computer calculation ensures that "Newton Week" brings the new calendar in sync with seasonal changes as the Earth circles the sun.
Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeroes are allowed.
WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM
Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality.
What's the next line?
1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a weak wireless connection. There are dull, lifeless gnomes strolling about. What dost thou do?
A) Wander aimlessly, bumping into obstacles until you are eaten by a grue.
B) Use the laptop as a digging device to tunnel to the next level.
C) Play MPoRPG until the battery dies along with your hopes.
D) Use the computer to map the nodes of the maze and discover an exit path.
E) Email your resume to Google, tell the lead gnome you quit and find yourself in a whole different world
What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?
On your first day at Google, you discover that your cubicle mate wrote the textbook you used as a primary resource in your first year of graduate school. Do you:
A) Fawn obsequiously and ask if you can have an autograph.
B) Sit perfectly still and use only soft keystrokes to avoid disturbing her concentration
C) Leave her daily offerings of granola and English toffee from the food bins.
D) Quote your favorite formula from the textbook and explain how it's now your mantra.
E) Show her how example 17b could have been solved with 34 fewer lines of code.
Which of the following expresses Google's over-arching philosophy?
A) "I'm feeling lucky"
B) "Don't be evil"
C) "Oh, I already fixed that"
D) "You should never be more than 50 feet from food"
E) All of the above
How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?
What colors would you choose?
This space is intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness.
On an infinite, two-dimensional, rectangular lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?
It's 2pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area. You're minutes from the Pacific Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world class cultural attractions. What do you do?
In your opinion, what is the most beautiful math equation ever derived?
Which of the following is NOT an actual interest group formed by Google employees?
A) Women's basketball
B) Buffy fans
C) Cricketeers
D) Nobel winners
E) Wine club
What will be the next great improvement in search technology?
What is the optimal size of a project team, above which additional members do not contribute productivity equivalent to the percentage increase in the staff size?
A) 1
B) 3
C) 5
D) 11
E) 24
Given a triangle ABC, how would you use only a compass and straight edge to find a point P such that triangles ABP, ACP, and BCP have equal perimeters? (Assume that ABC is constructed so that a solution does exist.)
Consider a function which, for a given whole number n, returns the number of ones required when writing out all numbers between 0 and n. For example, f(13) = 6. Notice that f(1) = 1. What is the next largest n such that f(n) = n?
What's the coolest hack you've ever written?
'Tis known in refined company, that choosing K things out of N can be done in ways as many as choosing N minus K from N: I pick K, you the remaining. Find though a cooler bijection, where you show a knack uncanny, of making your choises contain all K of mine. Oh, for pedantry: let K be no more than half N.
What number comes next in the sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66, ?
A) 96
B) 10 to the 100th power
C) Either of the above
D) None of the above
In 29 words or fewer, describe what you would strive to accomplish if you worked at Google Labs.
Not really true. I've had LIPAedge for 3-4 years. Granted, you don't have direct access (unit doesn't have an IP address) to the theromstat unit, but it can still be controlled through a web browser from anywhere.
the RIAA won't be able to sue the whole goddamn planet and maintain a lucrative business model. don't be apathetic! go out there! start your own filesharing service! direct action is really the only way. writing letters and posting insightful remarks will not change anything. i urge the folks at audiogalaxy to release all source-code (server and generic client) and one by one individuals can run the software on their servers. liability is channeled by starting mini-corporations (negligible fees and depending on state, lots of tax benefits) so the RIAA could at most take away your server (no criminal charges, only civil). start a cascade effect! take 'em down!
the 360 model modem has both USB and ethernet interfaces (connection w/crossover cable). the problem isn't with the hardware and line of sight crap - even with a shitty signal i still pull in at damn fast speeds. it runs over a proprietary packet control protocol that combines multiple requests into a single big request sent to the starband gateway. unfortunately, no drivers for this have been released for linux so you're stuck using windows. if you DON'T directly connect the starband modem to a windows machine you'll get really shitty speeds like others have been posting. using their proprietary software, however, speeds stuff up TREMENDOUSLY (6 KB/s without and unreliable - steady 300 KB/s with!)
Slashdot Mirror
Now I can.
RTFA...and scroll.
"Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits"
(Acrobat PDF file, 167 KB)
Author: Gordon E. Moore
Publication: Electronics, April 19, 1965
ftp://download.intel.com/research/silicon/moorespa per.pdf
about bloody time...
hurrah google!
now i can finally find me way to a dentist...
I wonder how he pronounced ";)"
;)" he said.
Torvald's response came quickly and succinctly. "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970) - it's physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don't think you can call it a Mac any more
Probably something like...
"My name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux"
Really? I don't think so...
first of all, anyone who thinks he can accurately determine the makeout of a population with a reasonable level of confidence (99%+) without taking a large enough and diverse enough sample size is a fool.
secondly, none of this matters. hypothetically, let's assume that the statements made are true. what does that mean? does that justify statistical bigotry? no, of course not!
we have bigger issues to worry about than identifying people's strengths and weaknesses. if this research really picks up, i fear that we'll end up in a world like the one portrayed in GATTACA.
A car that can wink, laugh, cry and get angry
sounds like you need what toyota may be implementing on future vehicles...
Just In Time for New Year's: A Proposal for a Better Calendar;
No more "30 days hath September, April, June and November"
December 2004
Wouldn't it be convenient if your birthday, Christmas, and the Fourth of July--not to mention most other major holidays--all fell on the same day of the week, year after year? Wouldn't it make life--or at least planning--easier, for instance, to know that Dec. 17 would always fall on a Saturday or that January 1--New Year's Day--would always be celebrated on a Sunday?
Richard Conn Henry, professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, thinks it would. He has designed--using computer programs and complex mathematical formulas--a new calendar that would make it happen.
Under Henry's plan, each new 12-month period is identical to the one that came before. Each month has either 30 or 31 days. January, for instance, would have 30 days, as would February, April, May, July, August, October, and November. March, June, September, and December would all have 31 days.
Henry, a physicist who also directs the Maryland Space Grant Consortium, says his new calendar would have "profound economic and practical benefits" if adopted worldwide. He is waging a Web-based campaign to make this happen by Jan. 1, 2006. Henry points out that this transition date is ideal, because New Year's Day 2006 falls on a Sunday on both the old and proposed calendars, facilitating a seamless transition.
"Just ask yourself how much time and effort are expended each year in redesigning the calendar of every single organization worldwide to accommodate the coming year's calendar, and it becomes obvious that my calendar would make life much simpler and would have noteworthy benefits economically, especially for businesses and other institutions," Henry said.
"With my plan, we can have a stable calendar that is absolutely identical from year to year and which allows the permanent, rational planning of annual activities, from school to work holidays."
Called the "Calendar-and-Time Plan" (C&T) because it also advocates the worldwide adoption of a 24-hour, universal time scale (more on that later), Henry's innovation promises to improve on what he sees as the "defects" of the dozen or so rival reform calendars that have been proffered by various individuals and institutions in the past 100 years.
"Calendar reform has always failed before, and for a simple reason: All major proposals involved breaking the seven-day cycle of the week, which has always been--and probably will always be--completely unacceptable to humankind because it goes against the Fourth Commandment of the Bible about keeping the Sabbath Day," Henry said. "C&T never breaks that biblical cycle."
What's more, the C&T calendar is "far more convenient" than is the current Gregorian calendar, which has been in place for more than 400 years--ever since Pope Gregory, in 1582, modified a calendar that was instituted by Julius Caesar in 46 BC.
To bring Caesar's calendar into sync with the seasons (one of the main reasons for reforming it), the pope and his scholars removed 11 days from the calendar during that October, so that Oct. 4 was followed immediately by Oct. 15. The need for that kind of adjustment derived from the same problem that makes designing an effective calendar a challenge today: the fact that there is an uneven number of days in an Earth year: 365.2422 days, to be exact.
Our current calendar tackles this challenge by instituting "leap years" every four years. Henry thinks he has found a better solution: drop leap year entirely and institute, instead, a one-week "mini-month" between June and July every five or six years. In honor of his personal hero, Sir Isaac Newton, Henry has dubbed this seven-day period "Newton." His computer calculation ensures that "Newton Week" brings the new calendar in sync with seasonal changes as the Earth circles the sun.
Newton Weeks would bring with them benefit
Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeroes are allowed.
WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM
Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality.
What's the next line?
1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a weak wireless connection. There are dull, lifeless gnomes strolling about. What dost thou do?
A) Wander aimlessly, bumping into obstacles until you are eaten by a grue.
B) Use the laptop as a digging device to tunnel to the next level.
C) Play MPoRPG until the battery dies along with your hopes.
D) Use the computer to map the nodes of the maze and discover an exit path.
E) Email your resume to Google, tell the lead gnome you quit and find yourself in a whole different world
What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?
On your first day at Google, you discover that your cubicle mate wrote the textbook you used as a primary resource in your first year of graduate school. Do you:
A) Fawn obsequiously and ask if you can have an autograph.
B) Sit perfectly still and use only soft keystrokes to avoid disturbing her concentration
C) Leave her daily offerings of granola and English toffee from the food bins.
D) Quote your favorite formula from the textbook and explain how it's now your mantra.
E) Show her how example 17b could have been solved with 34 fewer lines of code.
Which of the following expresses Google's over-arching philosophy?
A) "I'm feeling lucky"
B) "Don't be evil"
C) "Oh, I already fixed that"
D) "You should never be more than 50 feet from food"
E) All of the above
How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?
What colors would you choose?
This space is intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness.
On an infinite, two-dimensional, rectangular lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?
It's 2pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area. You're minutes from the Pacific Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world class cultural attractions. What do you do?
In your opinion, what is the most beautiful math equation ever derived?
Which of the following is NOT an actual interest group formed by Google employees?
A) Women's basketball
B) Buffy fans
C) Cricketeers
D) Nobel winners
E) Wine club
What will be the next great improvement in search technology?
What is the optimal size of a project team, above which additional members do not contribute productivity equivalent to the percentage increase in the staff size? A) 1 B) 3 C) 5 D) 11 E) 24
Given a triangle ABC, how would you use only a compass and straight edge to find a point P such that triangles ABP, ACP, and BCP have equal perimeters? (Assume that ABC is constructed so that a solution does exist.)
Consider a function which, for a given whole number n, returns the number of ones required when writing out all numbers between 0 and n. For example, f(13) = 6. Notice that f(1) = 1. What is the next largest n such that f(n) = n?
What's the coolest hack you've ever written?
'Tis known in refined company, that choosing K things out of N can be done in ways as many as choosing N minus K from N: I pick K, you the remaining. Find though a cooler bijection, where you show a knack uncanny, of making your choises contain all K of mine. Oh, for pedantry: let K be no more than half N.
What number comes next in the sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66, ?
A) 96
B) 10 to the 100th power
C) Either of the above
D) None of the above
In 29 words or fewer, describe what you would strive to accomplish if you worked at Google Labs.
Not really true. I've had LIPAedge for 3-4 years. Granted, you don't have direct access (unit doesn't have an IP address) to the theromstat unit, but it can still be controlled through a web browser from anywhere.
Sorry, with hyperlink... bugmenot.com
It's truly a gem. Check it out...
http://bugmenot.com
Don't slashdot them. I mean...oh...hmm...
'nuff said :-P
Scientific American Reviews 'Simputer' PDA
India Officially Launches Simputer
Simputer Runs Into Problems
Get Ready For The Simputer
Handhelds for the Blind?
Slashback: Brilliance, Delay, Simputer
Slashback: Space, Smallness, Pigeons
Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer: The Simputer
don't forget. the SX came out AFTER the DX.
-hajmola
this is insightful not funny. seriously, it will fix the problem. mod appropriately.
or click here
http://techaholic.net/adblocker.xpi
shit, and i just upgraded to ELF.
i would love to rate the submission as 'funny' - maybe we should start rating submissions.
the RIAA won't be able to sue the whole goddamn planet and maintain a lucrative business model. don't be apathetic! go out there! start your own filesharing service! direct action is really the only way. writing letters and posting insightful remarks will not change anything. i urge the folks at audiogalaxy to release all source-code (server and generic client) and one by one individuals can run the software on their servers. liability is channeled by starting mini-corporations (negligible fees and depending on state, lots of tax benefits) so the RIAA could at most take away your server (no criminal charges, only civil). start a cascade effect! take 'em down!
if you're talking about the "Matrix Revolutions" at the end of the trailer, i believe it was referring to the trilogy.
the 360 model modem has both USB and ethernet interfaces (connection w/crossover cable). the problem isn't with the hardware and line of sight crap - even with a shitty signal i still pull in at damn fast speeds. it runs over a proprietary packet control protocol that combines multiple requests into a single big request sent to the starband gateway. unfortunately, no drivers for this have been released for linux so you're stuck using windows. if you DON'T directly connect the starband modem to a windows machine you'll get really shitty speeds like others have been posting. using their proprietary software, however, speeds stuff up TREMENDOUSLY (6 KB/s without and unreliable - steady 300 KB/s with!)
because they're cheaper.
we'll all just pretend this never happenned when the next x-files movie comes out...