Agreed, great series, although I think the writing became weaker as the series moved along. The first book (Hyperion) is significantly stronger than subsequent novels.
Another good series, where I think the writing does get better (or at least stays the same) is the Reality Dysfunction series by Peter F. Hamilton, which in my opinion is some of the best SF ever written.
Was this video supposed to be funny? It was just some old guy with a beard telling us how Linux is stable and easy to administer. Duh. This is non-news.
On the other hand, check out the latest Cringley column which talks about the bogus Israeli claim of the 12 ms 512 bit RSA crack. Also talks about how Jane's used/. input to re-write their article. And he says that that was a BAD idea. There's something to talk about.
I've installed Win98 a couple of times recently. Once at home for when I wiped the HD to install both 98 and FreeBSD and once here when I reformatted someones HD cuz Windows was just being idiotic.
You need a floppy drive with the CD-ROM drivers (FBSD incidentally installs flawlessly by booting straight from the CD-ROM) to install 98. Let's say you're one of those people who knows nothing about this. There is NOTHING written ANYWHERE in the Win98 documentation on how you would go about doing it. Basically if you don't know, and you want to re-install Windows, you're fucked.
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) is a crystalline structure at the macroscopic level. Saying 5 atoms of silicon dioxide makes no sense whatsoever, 5 molecules is what you're looking for.
Dead wrong. The resonant frequency of water is in the low GHz range. For some larger molecues (eg DNA), the resonant frequency gets much lower, I believe even down to high (100s) KHz. Other molecules are in the infra red region (below visible light), though I think that's the electron band gap stuff, not molecular resonance. In fact, I suspect you're confusing molecular resonance with something else (sub atomic resonance?). ------------------------------------------------ -- When you're talking about the resonant frequency of water, what you're really talking about is the vibrational excitation of the H-O bonds. Hate to break it to you, but these occur in the IR (infrared) portion of the spectrum. It makes little sense to talk about the resonance frequency of a single molecule...they do not vibrate like a bulk object, and in any event the frequency depends on the type of bond, not the type of molecule. Electron band gap stuff is applicable to bulk solid materials, not to single molecules. I have no idea what sub-atomic resonance is...how do you plan to induce resonance in the nucleus?
I guess this is a matter of personal taste, but I thought the Uplift series was some of the most awful SF I have ever read. Poor characterization, and often painful prose. I only read all of the first three books out of a sense of duty (i.e. I will read all the books in a trilogy if I start it). They were all three of them equally bad.
You want leading edge, original SF, with fleshed out characters and a kick-ass plot? Check out Peter F. Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction series. This guy is the best SF author I have read in a long time, simply amazing.
My mistake, I had never realized that Winamp was shareware and not OSS. That makes this whole deal somewhat less outrageous i think. I guess I'm as guilty as many other people fro not paying $10 for it's use.
Well this is pretty shocking news. I guess when someone waves big money in front of your nose it's pretty hard to concentrate on the ideals of OSS. Mind you I don't know if one can realistically blame anyone...they created the software, and they can do with it as they see fit. It's just sad mostly. I hope shoutcast/winamp remain free for at least personal use.
Why not go back to a 2.0.36 kernel then? A site like this can't really afford to have the kernel barf (well it CAN, but it's not ideal). I still think you should try FreeBSD Rob.:)
Assuming you've installed the source tree from your 3.1 distribution, a cvsup to 3.2 will not take long at all, since it only updates the things that were changed. I wouldn't expect it to take more than 30 mins on a 33.6 connection.
Yeah, I totally agree. I watched them all, and was very underwhelmed. The voice over totally ruined the otherwise beautiful cinematography. That Anakin one was particularly bad. I can't help but think that if you splice all of the footage from the trailers and commercials you can probably see about 25% of the movie.:)
I don't have the URL off hand, but it's from of his columns about 2 weeks back. He claims to have stumbled into a PS2 testing thing while in Japan, and was blown away. Says this will make PC's a joke (or something like that). Don't want to put words in his mouth...my memory ain't too good after couple weeks.;)
Doesn't it? Maybe that would an interesting little tv project. The videotaped lives of 6 geeks as they do their geek stuff. I think there would have to be girls though, otherwise the ratings wouldn't be so hot.
Watch geeks consume 3 day old pizza and Jolt while looking over their perl scripts. Marvel as they compete in the Who Can Arrange All the PCI Cards in Alphabetical Order. Cry tears of joy as they build the latest Linux kernel. Experience catharsis as they format their hard drives and install FreeBSD.;)
The problem with atomic scale systems is that you will run into quantum mechanical effects. While this may be desirable in quantum computing systems, it is NOT desirable in the classical regime.
You could fairly easily identify a *very* short sequence, say 4-10 base pairs by NMR spectroscopy. Longer sequences require far too much effort, and would likely have to rely on multi-dimensional NMR. The biochemical method of sequencing (using gel assays, etc.) is far superior and faster, which is why scientists use it.:)
Microscopy for sequencing is out of the question I think. Way too involved, expensive, and time consuming. The only way I can see that a DNA wire could be useful is if you could grow them in situ on some kind of support. DNA is a fairly fragile biomolecule and you can't deposit it in any way even resembling solid state techniques.
I use Netscape 4.5/128-bit on FreeBSD and I have not had any significant crash problems. Sometimes it bugs out on really funky Java crap, but 99% of the time it's quite stable. It does have memory use problems, it won't let go of ram sometimes (all the time?).
Like all writers, Katz needs an audience. As long as people respond to his editorials in either positive or negative terms (I suspect it really doesn't matter to him which it is), he will keep writing stuff.
Suppose, however, that Katz writes an article and less than 10 people post a reply. How long will he keep writing to such a limited audience? Read if you want, but do NOT reply.
To those saying that you can filter him out, yeah you can, but that's not the point. Filtering him out is a practical solution to a problem of principle, something which requires a principled solution. I don't think Katz should be writing here on principle, and whether I see his posts or not is not the issue.
...than the Windows NT/9x proponents you so despise. FreeBSD sucks and Linux is cool? Give me a break. Both of them are good OS's, and while Linux certainly has more users, sheer numbers alone do not indicate superiority. If they did, that would make Windows 9x superior to Linux.
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These people mangle chemistry. It's trans-crotic acid. Just like it's not a spectromotor but a spectrometer.
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Agreed, great series, although I think the writing became weaker as the series moved along. The first book (Hyperion) is significantly stronger than subsequent novels.
Another good series, where I think the writing does get better (or at least stays the same) is the Reality Dysfunction series by Peter F. Hamilton, which in my opinion is some of the best SF ever written.
Was this video supposed to be funny? It was just some old guy with a beard telling us how Linux is stable and easy to administer. Duh. This is non-news.
/. input to re-write their article. And he says that that was a BAD idea. There's something to talk about.
On the other hand, check out the latest Cringley column which talks about the bogus Israeli claim of the 12 ms 512 bit RSA crack. Also talks about how Jane's used
JB
I've installed Win98 a couple of times recently. Once at home for when I wiped the HD to install both 98 and FreeBSD and once here when I reformatted someones HD cuz Windows was just being idiotic.
You need a floppy drive with the CD-ROM drivers (FBSD incidentally installs flawlessly by booting straight from the CD-ROM) to install 98. Let's say you're one of those people who knows nothing about this. There is NOTHING written ANYWHERE in the Win98 documentation on how you would go about doing it. Basically if you don't know, and you want to re-install Windows, you're fucked.
JB
Silver oxide can easily be reduced back to metallic silver.
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) is a crystalline structure at the macroscopic level. Saying 5 atoms of silicon dioxide makes no sense whatsoever, 5 molecules is what you're looking for.
JB
Dead wrong. The resonant frequency of water is in the low GHz range. For some larger molecues (eg- --
DNA), the resonant frequency gets much lower, I believe even down to high (100s) KHz. Other molecules are in the infra red region (below visible light), though I think that's the electron band gap stuff, not molecular resonance. In fact, I suspect you're confusing molecular resonance with something else (sub atomic resonance?).
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When you're talking about the resonant frequency of water, what you're really talking about is the vibrational excitation of the H-O bonds. Hate to break it to you, but these occur in the IR (infrared) portion of the spectrum. It makes little sense to talk about the resonance frequency of a single molecule...they do not vibrate like a bulk object, and in any event the frequency depends on the type of bond, not the type of molecule. Electron band gap stuff is applicable to bulk solid materials, not to single molecules. I have no idea what sub-atomic resonance is...how do you plan to induce resonance in the nucleus?
-JB
I guess this is a matter of personal taste, but I thought the Uplift series was some of the most awful SF I have ever read. Poor characterization, and often painful prose. I only read all of the first three books out of a sense of duty (i.e. I will read all the books in a trilogy if I start it). They were all three of them equally bad.
You want leading edge, original SF, with fleshed out characters and a kick-ass plot? Check out Peter F. Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction series. This guy is the best SF author I have read in a long time, simply amazing.
My mistake, I had never realized that Winamp was shareware and not OSS. That makes this whole deal somewhat less outrageous i think. I guess I'm as guilty as many other people fro not paying $10 for it's use.
Well this is pretty shocking news. I guess when someone waves big money in front of your nose it's pretty hard to concentrate on the ideals of OSS. Mind you I don't know if one can realistically blame anyone...they created the software, and they can do with it as they see fit. It's just sad mostly. I hope shoutcast/winamp remain free for at least personal use.
Why not go back to a 2.0.36 kernel then? A site like this can't really afford to have the kernel barf (well it CAN, but it's not ideal). I still think you should try FreeBSD Rob. :)
JB
Assuming you've installed the source tree from your 3.1 distribution, a cvsup to 3.2 will not take long at all, since it only updates the things that were changed. I wouldn't expect it to take more than 30 mins on a 33.6 connection.
Yeah, I totally agree. I watched them all, and was very underwhelmed. The voice over totally ruined the otherwise beautiful cinematography. That Anakin one was particularly bad. I can't help but think that if you splice all of the footage from the trailers and commercials you can probably see about 25% of the movie. :)
We had this review not 2 weeks ago, didn't we?
I don't have the URL off hand, but it's from of his columns about 2 weeks back. He claims to have stumbled into a PS2 testing thing while in Japan, and was blown away. Says this will make PC's a joke (or something like that). Don't want to put words in his mouth...my memory ain't too good after couple weeks. ;)
Doesn't it? Maybe that would an interesting little tv project. The videotaped lives of 6 geeks as they do their geek stuff. I think there would have to be girls though, otherwise the ratings wouldn't be so hot.
;)
Watch geeks consume 3 day old pizza and Jolt while looking over their perl scripts. Marvel as they compete in the Who Can Arrange All the PCI Cards in Alphabetical Order. Cry tears of joy as they build the latest Linux kernel. Experience catharsis as they format their hard drives and install FreeBSD.
Anyway. Might be amusing.
You can tell that they didn't do any research whatsoever. I bet they just typed it up on MS Word and submitted the story. These guys are on crack.
I guess Beowulf and syslogd are just random collections of letters which don't mean anything.
The problem with atomic scale systems is that you will run into quantum mechanical effects. While this may be desirable in quantum computing systems, it is NOT desirable in the classical regime.
You could fairly easily identify a *very* short sequence, say 4-10 base pairs by NMR spectroscopy. Longer sequences require far too much effort, and would likely have to rely on multi-dimensional NMR. The biochemical method of sequencing (using gel assays, etc.) is far superior and faster, which is why scientists use it. :)
Microscopy for sequencing is out of the question I think. Way too involved, expensive, and time consuming. The only way I can see that a DNA wire could be useful is if you could grow them in situ on some kind of support. DNA is a fairly fragile biomolecule and you can't deposit it in any way even resembling solid state techniques.
I use Netscape 4.5/128-bit on FreeBSD and I have not had any significant crash problems. Sometimes it bugs out on really funky Java crap, but 99% of the time it's quite stable. It does have memory use problems, it won't let go of ram sometimes (all the time?).
;)
Maybe it's Linux that's not stable, hmm?
Like all writers, Katz needs an audience. As long as people respond to his editorials in either positive or negative terms (I suspect it really doesn't matter to him which it is), he will keep writing stuff.
Suppose, however, that Katz writes an article and less than 10 people post a reply. How long will he keep writing to such a limited audience? Read if you want, but do NOT reply.
To those saying that you can filter him out, yeah you can, but that's not the point. Filtering him out is a practical solution to a problem of principle, something which requires a principled solution. I don't think Katz should be writing here on principle, and whether I see his posts or not is not the issue.
Why use Linux? Just switch to FreeBSD...or at the very least give it a try.
JB
It's entertaining, which is more than you can say for a lot of things. And it never pretends to be anything more than it is.
The Rock says: Know your role.
...than the Windows NT/9x proponents you so despise. FreeBSD sucks and Linux is cool? Give me a break. Both of them are good OS's, and while Linux certainly has more users, sheer numbers alone do not indicate superiority. If they did, that would make Windows 9x superior to Linux.
JB
*This* is what editorials should be like, not the meandering, semi-amateurish prose we get from JK.
It's a pleasure to read something clearly laid out and thought out. Good job Kragen.
JB