And more to the point, if he did give a substantive answer to the more 'political' questions (like.NET, the name business and so on) he'd find himself being misquoted, quoted out of context and embroiled in half a dozen flamewars. Sometimes life is just too short...
You know I had a very strong sense of deja-vu here. Strangely enough, there was a comment on www.mandrakeforum.com with almost identical wording, except that poster had tried to install Mandrake 8.1. The I got curious and turned up a post to comp.os.linux.misc (here at Google) by purporting to be by one John Thompson with identical wording. So either you are trolling multiple places or you are plagerising someone else's trolling effort.
On the other hand we then get the very worst combination of open and closed source... its open for crackers to figure out how to break in and closed for hackers to plug the holes. Given that MS is highly unlikey to go open source, I for one am hoping the source doesn't leak this time.
Without having read the original nature paper (being at home and not in the lab) - I wonder what the operating temperature of this transistor is ? It sounds remarkably like a single electron type device, and generally they have to be operated at a few mK (like -273.14 Centigrade), so you get a very, very small computer with several hundred kg of fridge attached...
Even ignoring the Desktop Database, if it worked how you say, it may not be a separate database of filetypes, but it is still a database - just that it is the entire filesystem. I think it unlikely that a scan of an entire filesystem tree is going to be faster than a registry type system (NB. not that I'm advocating a Win32 style binary registry file - isn't my idea of a robust system !).
I fail to see how it helps since you replace one three letter 'type of file' descriptor to be looked up in a database with two four letter ones which also have to be looked up in some form of database. Storing mime types explicitly might be marginally more useful, but in any case you'd have to change all user-space apps to understand the extra features of the filesystem. Good featuritis for filesystems is at best transparent to existing user-land apps and at worst optional.
On a related note, would there be any sense in providing the filename extension->application mapping via a virtual filespace ? I know that both KDE and GNOME must do this, but a kernel level solution that allows you to 'open' an entry for each file/mime type and get paths to applications that can handle the file might be neat. (Not that I'm volunteering to code it:-) )
However, the Earth's rotation is not quite constant - every so often they have to add in a leap second. I'm not quite sure how they'd adjust the orbit of the tower to compensate, but it seems to me that the base station would be subject to some awfully large lateral forces.
This is not good timing for NASA really. They were told to do missions faster, cheaper and better and so far it looks like they've got two out of three:-). Problem is it looks like Congress is keen to chop some budget and so they go for the stuff without political backing - i.e the faster, cheaper projects...
Bit of a bummer for all those PhD students who were expecting to do their thesis work on the back of it though.
That's true, but AFAIK, libel law only applies to comments made about individuals
Erm, not true I think. Remember the McLibel case ? A well known fast food company sued a couple of environmental protesters over comments made in a leaflet they were handing out outside one of the companies outlets... I think it was one of the longest running and most expensive libel cases in the UK. The substantive point is however correct - I certainly would treat most stories in the UK press with a fair degree of scepticism and wouldn't trust the libel laws to ensure the truth.
However, being a cuprate-oxide it is a bummer of a material to work with. Until someone figures out a reliable fabrication and processing technology then high-tc superconducting computers are just nice things to try and get grant money with. But then since I only work with metals superconducting below 1K I would say that...
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And more to the point, if he did give a substantive answer to the more 'political' questions (like .NET, the name business and so on) he'd find himself being misquoted, quoted out of context and embroiled in half a dozen flamewars. Sometimes life is just too short...
You know I had a very strong sense of deja-vu here. Strangely enough, there was a comment on www.mandrakeforum.com with almost identical wording, except that poster had tried to install Mandrake 8.1. The I got curious and turned up a post to comp.os.linux.misc (here at Google) by purporting to be by one John Thompson with identical wording. So either you are trolling multiple places or you are plagerising someone else's trolling effort.
On the other hand we then get the very worst combination of open and closed source... its open for crackers to figure out how to break in and closed for hackers to plug the holes. Given that MS is highly unlikey to go open source, I for one am hoping the source doesn't leak this time.
Without having read the original nature paper (being at home and not in the lab) - I wonder what the operating temperature of this transistor is ? It sounds remarkably like a single electron type device, and generally they have to be operated at a few mK (like -273.14 Centigrade), so you get a very, very small computer with several hundred kg of fridge attached...
Even ignoring the Desktop Database, if it worked how you say, it may not be a separate database of filetypes, but it is still a database - just that it is the entire filesystem. I think it unlikely that a scan of an entire filesystem tree is going to be faster than a registry type system (NB. not that I'm advocating a Win32 style binary registry file - isn't my idea of a robust system !).
Erm, this is exactly what the Mac does.
:-) )
I fail to see how it helps since you replace one three letter 'type of file' descriptor to be looked up in a database with two four letter ones which also have to be looked up in some form of database. Storing mime types explicitly might be marginally more useful, but in any case you'd have to change all user-space apps to understand the extra features of the filesystem. Good featuritis for filesystems is at best transparent to existing user-land apps and at worst optional.
On a related note, would there be any sense in providing the filename extension->application mapping via a virtual filespace ? I know that both KDE and GNOME must do this, but a kernel level solution that allows you to 'open' an entry for each file/mime type and get paths to applications that can handle the file might be neat. (Not that I'm volunteering to code it
However, the Earth's rotation is not quite constant - every so often they have to add in a leap second. I'm not quite sure how they'd adjust the orbit of the tower to compensate, but it seems to me that the base station would be subject to some awfully large lateral forces.
This is not good timing for NASA really. They were told to do missions faster, cheaper and better and so far it looks like they've got two out of three :-). Problem is it looks like Congress is keen to chop some budget and so they go for the stuff without political backing - i.e the faster, cheaper projects...
Bit of a bummer for all those PhD students who were expecting to do their thesis work on the back of it though.
That's true, but AFAIK, libel law only applies to comments made about individuals
Erm, not true I think. Remember the McLibel case ? A well known fast food company sued a couple of environmental protesters over comments made in a leaflet they were handing out outside one of the companies outlets... I think it was one of the longest running and most expensive libel cases in the UK. The substantive point is however correct - I certainly would treat most stories in the UK press with a fair degree of scepticism and wouldn't trust the libel laws to ensure the truth.
However, being a cuprate-oxide it is a bummer of a material to work with. Until someone figures out a reliable fabrication and processing technology then high-tc superconducting computers are just nice things to try and get grant money with. But then since I only work with metals superconducting below 1K I would say that...