Ok, so some jerk has taken a name that really shouldn't be his. This would be a non-problem if nobody cared. I'm just not sure that being a *.com, *.org or a *.net really means much anymore./. is under a publicly traded company (andover.net), is that necessarily the right place for a *.org? (see nobody really cares...) I think Openssh is just fine as a.com and I don't think it to be a big deal. Why not be openssh.net? That seems appropriate, too. If you are really doing great stuff for a.org domain name, people will know, whether or not it is a.org or a.com
Amazing to see how far the tech world has come to be in a position to take over everything. Perhaps it also shows how overvalued the tech stocks are. If Ebay does get sotherby's it be kind of cool, if they could take the snooty auctions and bring it to more of a down to earth audience (like us).... -- Moondog
I'm not sure where these patents are going. It almost seems too risky to call companies on silly patents like "one click shopping" or affiliate programs. (Although I think affiliate programs, if they do, in fact, have a patent on it, is more protectable than one click shopping). When they call on shaky ground because their IP may not be protectable, they are just testing the gov't to finally get softwarre patents done correctly. Which will really screw them.
Wow, 15,000 RPM's. Putting that through my trusty calculator, thats 250 R per second. Pretty soon these things are going to be going so fast they'll injure someone if they get loose and fly out. Just think about the damage one of those things could cause inside your computer.:)
I'm happy to see that Red Hat is out there getting support for better linux ports. They're starting to sound a little like a lobbiest group. Of course, with M$ having very competitive products of the Real* products, this makes good business sense, too. We've seen some of this before with OS/2. I wonder if this time M$ will get competitive products out on the linux? They'll need to if they want to stay competitive.
I use one of the high res SGI flat panels (1600x1024, I think) and I love it, except for one problem, OS support. Believe it or not, the dpi is so high and the screen is so bright, that it gives me eyestrain very easily. Even with the largest fonts on Winbloze, they are still much smaller (but very clear!) than on my crappy 15" 1024x768 monitor at home. I wonder when we are going to see a decent solution to this problem. Not just fonts but true scalability! Window borders, icons, etc would all be the same dimensions relative to the monitor size. It is what is needed next, I wonder how long till we get it?
When I was at UW Madison (I'm an alum), I used to love reading the Onion while waiting for classes on (I think) Tuesday mornings. That was by far the best thing delivered on any campus I've ever been. My faves headlines were:
1. Jesus takes on the NBA with his ascention dunk. (picture Jesus with is mouth hanging open like michael jordan just about to slam a ball over a bunch of other players).
2. Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin's governer) changes name to the Sexecutioner. (Picture of tommy thompson's head -he's very boyish- on top of the body of a some buff S+M leather dude).
Forgotten famous individuals are very common. Sometimes they really aren't that famous or that important on a global sense. There aren't very many REALLY special or known people, but there are an incredible amount of people who are sort of famous. Is anyone going to remember scientists such as Murray Gell Mann (coined the term "quark"), Stan Pruisner (nobel for discovering the prion) or David Ho (Time's Man of the Year a few years ago -- Aids research)? Although sad, I really don't think so.
I think that like media, the digital age is going to enhance our understanding of present day figures in the future. Just like we will watch a TV show from today that has been digitalized 20 years from now identically, we will have better access to documents and academic insights on important people of our era.
Although many Gnome/KDE fans I'm sure are not happy with this, I think this is a godsend. I find that (IMO) programmers (like myself) sometimes have a hard time separating the details of the project from the product. There are always little quirks that the user must understand, that really have nothing to do with the end product and only through backs from engineering. Apple has, IMO, done an excellent job of separating the engineering from thier desktop. An example of some terms that I've always felt turns off non-computer types is Object Oriented, development libraries, or multi-tasking. Does a user really need to know what these are and what they do, of course not. They just need to understand the benefits that they bring, not the details of what they do!
How good are these new SGI compilers? I use SGI compilers on Origin and Onyx2's and am curious to see if any of the quality enhancements of those proprietary compilers will push its way into the Itanium compilers....
The whitespace issue debated previously is a big one. Python, IMO, is a worse language because of the whitespace inflexibility. I have problems going from emacs to vi, for example.
Other problems with python? I don't like that there isn't any c-like short cuts to getting things done like the incrementor ++, or += or -=, etc. I would also like to see a more elegant way to import modules than having to set a python path.
Don't get me wrong, I use Python all the time. My website was built using it, I just think it could be turned into the new "Uber" language with out much work.
Hey, wake up! Incomputable doesn't make it insolvable. This book and this post about NP-complete-ness and other things may be true, but there are serious difficulties when applied to the real world.
Computer scientists (like this one) I suspect, often believe that problems can't be solved if they are totally intractable. Now in real-life, though, we have a thing called approximation. As a computational biologist, I almost always make many approximations that when applied to the correct answer - work well, and rather quickly!
Your reply was insulting and condescending to the original poster. As a computer scientist solving real problems I think you should read a little about solving problems in real life, not just in silico.
Sadly, Adolf Hitler is without much question, IMO, the true man of the century. WWII has altered our lives in profound ways. Beyond the deaths of millions and the rewriting of European borders. He also has affected how America deals with threats, ie Hussien, Vietnam, Korea, all directly affected by wartime interaction with axis powers. I think Albert Einstein is the Scientific personality of the century, but not the "man of the century".... -- Moondog
OS/2's windows support was a great hack. I know, I know they had access to the windows source. Even still, Program Manager on the OS/2 desktop was an achievement. They even made it seemless by having the mouse icons change from OS/2's to Windows when the mouse went over a windows window! OS/2 Warp could run a windows app, a dos app, or an OS/2 app from the command line.
They had true virtual dos emulation with a config.sys and everything for these apps. Even better than NT's support now, IMO. I remember programming under OS/2, causing a segfault in the unprotected memory space of windows and getting the register dump that meant reboot for windows users everywhere. I just ctrl-esc, killed the process and started it again! Ahh, Those were the days.... -- Moondog
Perhaps someone can explain why 2.4 Gbps is such a feat here. As has been pointed out many times before many networks are faster. So why is this considered the fastest? How does this differ from, say, the Gigabit ethernet I have on my machine?
I don't take posts off of my board, even when they are off topic. But, I think that a company has the right to remove (editing, of course, is different) any post. This is called moderation and has been done on USENET for years. The fact that they remove the post after the fact makes no difference.
Also, yahoo isn't the only company out there. If you don't like Yahoo's practices use another online forum provider, or better yet, make your own.
I'm not a big fan of Perl, I actually use python most. Although Python is far from perfect I find that it is much easier to read and debug than Perl. It is also more powerful, IMO, in terms of graphics support and the ability to write large applications easily. My site eParka.com is written entirely in Python with only a bit of javascript....
There must be something more to this. If you brought a case forward, would you settle for 25,000$ when your lawyer gets 147 Mil? No way. If you were Toshiba and a bug arose that hasn't yet had a complaint, would you give out 1 or 2 billion dollars? No. Either the world is still feeling the affects of the pentium bug, or somebody's not saying something.
Maybe I'm ignorant, or naive, but i actually support non-competes. Non-competing clauses are signed by both parties. They know what they are getting into before they sign, if they sign and have a problem with that, its their fault. Also, I think that in the volatile world of the internet, non-compete clauses can prevent internet only companies from being totally hosed by someone with inside info.
We rant about patents alot. I think that non-competes are have much more benign "patent-like" effects. I would rather sign a non-compete clause for a short period than have to leave a company with patents barring me from doing anything...
How are they going to deal with Pepsi, if pepsi doesn't decide to use the same prices? Pepsi and Coke vending machines are often right next to each other. It will be bad new, indeed, if Pepsi also decides to price this way.
But what occurs when someone or a company buys a domain name for some other reason? A burden of proof that a person intended to sell it to a company is almost impossible, unless that person actually tries to get the company to buy it. Or what about if a company offers to buy a domain name that is held by someone for some other reason, like similar last names or something. I think this is a very tough law to fight and will end up having worse implications for the little guy than the company.
Being a scientist in the medical industry, I inclined to offer up a bit of skepticism. I'm always concerned about research of this nature, because it is so hard to weed out all the variables in these experiments. For example were subjects getting better because they were eating potatoes and barley, or do people who eat potatoes and barley eat more nutritiously (which has been shown to maintain good mental health)? What other possible explanations are out there that could account for this when the numbers seem to imply such a thing. It isn't hard to do. Are potatoes the cause of the effect?
This URL seems to have a good intro on patent issues, government involvement and Venter and Incyte issues. Venter is in the for front here because he often makes controversial claims. But Incyte and Leroy Hood are both big players as well. The URL:
Craig Venter, head of Celera, has been making claims that he can sequence the genome faster and cheaper than anyone, has a lot of support. To think that he wouldn't be able to defend that support is crazy.
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Ok, so some jerk has taken a name that really shouldn't be his. This would be a non-problem if nobody cared. I'm just not sure that being a *.com, *.org or a *.net really means much anymore. /. is under a publicly traded company (andover.net), is that necessarily the right place for a *.org? (see nobody really cares...) I think Openssh is just fine as a .com and I don't think it to be a big deal. Why not be openssh.net? That seems appropriate, too. If you are really doing great stuff for a .org domain name, people will know, whether or not it is a .org or a .com
-- Moondog
Amazing to see how far the tech world has come to be in a position to take over everything. Perhaps it also shows how overvalued the tech stocks are. If Ebay does get sotherby's it be kind of cool, if they could take the snooty auctions and bring it to more of a down to earth audience (like us)....
-- Moondog
I'm not sure where these patents are going. It almost seems too risky to call companies on silly patents like "one click shopping" or affiliate programs. (Although I think affiliate programs, if they do, in fact, have a patent on it, is more protectable than one click shopping). When they call on shaky ground because their IP may not be protectable, they are just testing the gov't to finally get softwarre patents done correctly. Which will really screw them.
-- Moondog
Wow, 15,000 RPM's. Putting that through my trusty calculator, thats 250 R per second. Pretty soon these things are going to be going so fast they'll injure someone if they get loose and fly out. Just think about the damage one of those things could cause inside your computer. :)
-- Moondog
I'm happy to see that Red Hat is out there getting support for better linux ports. They're starting to sound a little like a lobbiest group. Of course, with M$ having very competitive products of the Real* products, this makes good business sense, too. We've seen some of this before with OS/2. I wonder if this time M$ will get competitive products out on the linux? They'll need to if they want to stay competitive.
-- Moondog
I use one of the high res SGI flat panels (1600x1024, I think) and I love it, except for one problem, OS support. Believe it or not, the dpi is so high and the screen is so bright, that it gives me eyestrain very easily. Even with the largest fonts on Winbloze, they are still much smaller (but very clear!) than on my crappy 15" 1024x768 monitor at home. I wonder when we are going to see a decent solution to this problem. Not just fonts but true scalability! Window borders, icons, etc would all be the same dimensions relative to the monitor size. It is what is needed next, I wonder how long till we get it?
-- Moondog
When I was at UW Madison (I'm an alum), I used to love reading the Onion while waiting for classes on (I think) Tuesday mornings. That was by far the best thing delivered on any campus I've ever been. My faves headlines were:
1. Jesus takes on the NBA with his ascention dunk. (picture Jesus with is mouth hanging open like michael jordan just about to slam a ball over a bunch of other players).
2. Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin's governer) changes name to the Sexecutioner. (Picture of tommy thompson's head -he's very boyish- on top of the body of a some buff S+M leather dude).
3. Pope admits "God ain't said sh*t to me".
4. Pure silk to spew from Cindy Crawford's ass.
5. Oh and it goes on....
-- Moondog
Forgotten famous individuals are very common. Sometimes they really aren't that famous or that important on a global sense. There aren't very many REALLY special or known people, but there are an incredible amount of people who are sort of famous. Is anyone going to remember scientists such as Murray Gell Mann (coined the term "quark"), Stan Pruisner (nobel for discovering the prion) or David Ho (Time's Man of the Year a few years ago -- Aids research)? Although sad, I really don't think so.
I think that like media, the digital age is going to enhance our understanding of present day figures in the future. Just like we will watch a TV show from today that has been digitalized 20 years from now identically, we will have better access to documents and academic insights on important people of our era.
-- Moondog
Although many Gnome/KDE fans I'm sure are not happy with this, I think this is a godsend. I find that (IMO) programmers (like myself) sometimes have a hard time separating the details of the project from the product. There are always little quirks that the user must understand, that really have nothing to do with the end product and only through backs from engineering. Apple has, IMO, done an excellent job of separating the engineering from thier desktop. An example of some terms that I've always felt turns off non-computer types is Object Oriented, development libraries, or multi-tasking. Does a user really need to know what these are and what they do, of course not. They just need to understand the benefits that they bring, not the details of what they do!
-- Moondog
How good are these new SGI compilers? I use SGI compilers on Origin and Onyx2's and am curious to see if any of the quality enhancements of those proprietary compilers will push its way into the Itanium compilers....
-- Moondog
The whitespace issue debated previously is a big one. Python, IMO, is a worse language because of the whitespace inflexibility. I have problems going from emacs to vi, for example.
Other problems with python? I don't like that there isn't any c-like short cuts to getting things done like the incrementor ++, or += or -=, etc. I would also like to see a more elegant way to import modules than having to set a python path.
Don't get me wrong, I use Python all the time. My website was built using it, I just think it could be turned into the new "Uber" language with out much work.
-- Moondog
Hey, wake up! Incomputable doesn't make it insolvable. This book and this post about NP-complete-ness and other things may be true, but there are serious difficulties when applied to the real world.
Computer scientists (like this one) I suspect, often believe that problems can't be solved if they are totally intractable. Now in real-life, though, we have a thing called approximation. As a computational biologist, I almost always make many approximations that when applied to the correct answer - work well, and rather quickly!
Your reply was insulting and condescending to the original poster. As a computer scientist solving real problems I think you should read a little about solving problems in real life, not just in silico.
Sadly, Adolf Hitler is without much question, IMO, the true man of the century. WWII has altered our lives in profound ways. Beyond the deaths of millions and the rewriting of European borders. He also has affected how America deals with threats, ie Hussien, Vietnam, Korea, all directly affected by wartime interaction with axis powers. I think Albert Einstein is the Scientific personality of the century, but not the "man of the century"....
-- Moondog
OS/2's windows support was a great hack. I know, I know they had access to the windows source. Even still, Program Manager on the OS/2 desktop was an achievement. They even made it seemless by having the mouse icons change from OS/2's to Windows when the mouse went over a windows window! OS/2 Warp could run a windows app, a dos app, or an OS/2 app from the command line.
They had true virtual dos emulation with a config.sys and everything for these apps. Even better than NT's support now, IMO. I remember programming under OS/2, causing a segfault in the unprotected memory space of windows and getting the register dump that meant reboot for windows users everywhere. I just ctrl-esc, killed the process and started it again! Ahh, Those were the days....
-- Moondog
Perhaps someone can explain why 2.4 Gbps is such a feat here. As has been pointed out many times before many networks are faster. So why is this considered the fastest? How does this differ from, say, the Gigabit ethernet I have on my machine?
-- Moondog
I don't take posts off of my board, even when they are off topic. But, I think that a company has the right to remove (editing, of course, is different) any post. This is called moderation and has been done on USENET for years. The fact that they remove the post after the fact makes no difference.
Also, yahoo isn't the only company out there. If you don't like Yahoo's practices use another online forum provider, or better yet, make your own.
-- Moondog
I'm not a big fan of Perl, I actually use python most. Although Python is far from perfect I find that it is much easier to read and debug than Perl. It is also more powerful, IMO, in terms of graphics support and the ability to write large applications easily. My site eParka.com is written entirely in Python with only a bit of javascript....
-- Moondog
There must be something more to this. If you brought a case forward, would you settle for 25,000$ when your lawyer gets 147 Mil? No way. If you were Toshiba and a bug arose that hasn't yet had a complaint, would you give out 1 or 2 billion dollars? No. Either the world is still feeling the affects of the pentium bug, or somebody's not saying something.
-- Moondog
Maybe I'm ignorant, or naive, but i actually support non-competes. Non-competing clauses are signed by both parties. They know what they are getting into before they sign, if they sign and have a problem with that, its their fault. Also, I think that in the volatile world of the internet, non-compete clauses can prevent internet only companies from being totally hosed by someone with inside info.
We rant about patents alot. I think that non-competes are have much more benign "patent-like" effects. I would rather sign a non-compete clause for a short period than have to leave a company with patents barring me from doing anything...
-- Moondog
How are they going to deal with Pepsi, if pepsi doesn't decide to use the same prices? Pepsi and Coke vending machines are often right next to each other. It will be bad new, indeed, if Pepsi also decides to price this way.
-- Moondog
But what occurs when someone or a company buys a domain name for some other reason? A burden of proof that a person intended to sell it to a company is almost impossible, unless that person actually tries to get the company to buy it. Or what about if a company offers to buy a domain name that is held by someone for some other reason, like similar last names or something. I think this is a very tough law to fight and will end up having worse implications for the little guy than the company.
-- Moondog
Being a scientist in the medical industry, I inclined to offer up a bit of skepticism. I'm always concerned about research of this nature, because it is so hard to weed out all the variables in these experiments. For example were subjects getting better because they were eating potatoes and barley, or do people who eat potatoes and barley eat more nutritiously (which has been shown to maintain good mental health)? What other possible explanations are out there that could account for this when the numbers seem to imply such a thing. It isn't hard to do. Are potatoes the cause of the effect?
-- Moondog
If you were the only distribution around, how would you change your goals/policies toward development?
How do you feel that a technical OS like Linux can compete with the ease of use of MacOS or windows?
-- Moondog
This URL seems to have a good intro on patent issues, government involvement and Venter and Incyte issues. Venter is in the for front here because he often makes controversial claims. But Incyte and Leroy Hood are both big players as well. The URL:
http://www.funding-first.org/com ment/12/comm2.html
-- Moondog
Craig Venter, head of Celera, has been making claims that he can sequence the genome faster and cheaper than anyone, has a lot of support. To think that he wouldn't be able to defend that support is crazy.
-- Moondog