If they are doing chats there, I guess that means they've really made the big time. Next he'll be on Larry King Live. But seriously, I hope that this fame is used to push linux as an OS and not red hat as a distro. But I think we all know what will happen.
The applications of VRML I've seen tend to be a bit weak on content. I'm not really sure if it is a problem inherent with VRML or simply the development of VRML applications. I think it is great to have a 3D interface standard that can easily plug into, say OpenGL, but I'm not sure this has the features to really move the field. How is this solution going to change this perception? Can it?
How much carbon is on these outer giants, anyway? I was under the impression there wasn't much, I mean it isn't high concentrations of methane, is it? With the speeds that these would be forming, they would probably be very "dirty" or unpure. Also, These high pressures are occuring when methane is still a gas? I dunno.... -- Moondog
I can't believe that this is the only use for this technology. Can this hit planes, too? Why not? And if not, why can't missles just get similar technology as planes (chaff, evasive maneuvers (sp?), etc) to avoid them?
I gotta say this is pretty cool technology, but I'm not sure that it is really going to be that effective. Remember it only takes one nuclear weapon to ruin your whole day, so if 30 are coming your way, they better be pretty effective.
You know, today there is almost no pr on why not to crack into machines. There are a lot of kids out there that just surf the n.g.'s and find ways to get into trouble, not realizing the trouble they may get into. I think that this sort of stuff is going to be even more important in the future.
I dont know, though. Although simplifying things is almost always a good thing, I'm concerned that this is just going to complicate an already complicated field. I am assuming it is completely backward compatable, is it?
What I don't know is, how widely supported is this? Has an companies with linux or unix distro's jumped on the bandwagon? I guess maybe we should take a wait and see approach.
Being of the frugal sort, I'm not really excited about the designer computer trend. They tend to be more expensive and more proprietary. Expensive because the stylish cases cost more to make and they sell less of them, and proprietary because they like to do things like include motherboards and monitors in the same case, making them often difficult to upgrade, etc.
It has been mentioned many times before that metric is commonly used by scientists and engineers. What the article doesn't say is what the exact problem was. It hints at a distance computational type error, which seems kind of stupid. But if it were an error like a metric vs english nuts and bolts that would be a common one.
Some areas of engineering use predominantly english even though it may seem silly to us.
So they want to continue pushing SCO on the x86 market. Kinda funny that on some level they are actually competing with themselves, by pushing SCO in one hand and linux on the other.
As to alpha, I will be very surpised if it leaves anytime soon. The new chips are very fast and (last time I checked) still going to be faster than the initial offering of IA-64.
1) Distortion. Magnifiers such as these tend to distort the field of view significantly. Its a little like what you see in a magnifying glass, at the edges. The center looks good and in focus, but the edges stretch away. Fixing this, in my opionion, would be very expensive and require multiple lens and would have a narrow field of view.
2) Chromatic aberration: Any solution of the above, would have to be very high quality or you would get a prism effect on regions of multiple colors, like white. Notice how bright lights seem prismed in binoculars (especially cheap ones).
I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm just saying that if it does, they are probably fixing a lot of technological optics problems inherent in many situations.
Just a couple of comments. Personally, I think this has a bit of the problems that many writings by talented but inexperienced writers often have. I'm not an expert, but hear are a couple of points that I think hurt the flow:
1) There seems to be a trend in this for broad over-generalization and labeling. Things in life never fit into tidy little packages, and writing should reflect that. In the second section of chapter 1, for example, the author claims that the state of programming as a whole is horrendous.
I just can't agree with that belief. The book also labels people and idea's in a manner which is inconsistant with reality.
2) Secondly, I feel that the author has a pretentious, arrogant tone that makes me question the foundation from which the author is working. A bit of modesty, in my opionion, never hurts writing.
I quite forgot about the NextStep. I've got an old Next Cube right next to me (use it as a print server). Those were good at configuring.... -- Moondog
You know, this is kind of interesting....
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The fact that he installed Caldera 1.3 raises an issue, I hadn't really thought of before. As linux gets more mature there are lots and lots of old versions and distributions lying around that are going to make it difficult for newbies, such as this journalist, to figure out how to get started. Does fragmentation of distributions really improve the OS?
-- Moondog
Maybe we should sit back and think....
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I really think there is a message here that many of us aren't really getting. It seems to me that if linux is going to go mainstream, linux is going to have to streamline the installation/administration process. I know unix has a long history and so on, but isn't it possible to build utilities that non-technical users might be able to access without having to even understand what a shell is?
My mother actually had Carpal Tunnel (she's a flutist, actually), and she ameliorated it with a brace that kept here wrist in the same position. As has been said before surgery is really a last resort. Make sure you see a CTS expert, so you can know all your treatment options.
If they (the psych community) starts labeling it a condition or syndrome, I'm not going to be very happy. Remember what happened to the homosexual community when they started becoming more main stream, there were those (and still are) that feel they can "cure" it. Why can't we just get along (pun intended) and realize there are not hard lines only broad grey ones.
How on earth could this be cheaper and better than a bunch of windows machines all connected together? Sun NC's aren't necessarily more difficult to maintain, but the fact that people are more familiar with M$ products that I just can envision this being cost effective. Computers cost money to maintain and that is money most schools don't have.
Although I believe that power point and other so called "productivity apps" are useful. I don't think without a doubt that the biggest need for linux to exceed in more than just a technical market is ease of use and administration. I've worked NT/95/3.1 lans and the majority of users are NOT technically savvy at all. I mean, jeez, we have to teach them pull down menus, etc. Macs are easy, just point and click and no shell. Linux must be able to improve how much the general population can use it.
But at the same time, given the speed of the internet and a cab ride, do you think that any one will get more than 3-4 pages on any ride? What would be cool is if they put browsers on busses, so we could surf on hour long bus rides.....
I know a number linux users at M$. Granted, all of them are in research and are CS grad students. But they all have linux on their desks and use it as their primary OS. They have communicated to me that this is not all that uncommon.
If people start using implants (highly unlikely, IMO), imagine the possibilities of problems that would be likely to occur. We'd go from having network security to "implant security" so information going to and from the implant would be secure. We'd also have a whole new world of privacy issues. When can data be extracted or stored on the implant (assuming it can do that)?
You know enforcing this law is nearly impossible, unless they track you down as unleashing the virus. (I can't think of many instances where authors of viruses have been prosecuted--Its just to passive of an attack, you have to find the first infection).
It isn't prosecutable because any prosecuter would have to argue that they were in fact, writing a virus, and not something else. Very challenging indeed. All that reproduces is not a virus.
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If they are doing chats there, I guess that means they've really made the big time. Next he'll be on Larry King Live. But seriously, I hope that this fame is used to push linux as an OS and not red hat as a distro. But I think we all know what will happen.
-- Moondog
The applications of VRML I've seen tend to be a bit weak on content. I'm not really sure if it is a problem inherent with VRML or simply the development of VRML applications. I think it is great to have a 3D interface standard that can easily plug into, say OpenGL, but I'm not sure this has the features to really move the field. How is this solution going to change this perception? Can it?
-- Moondog
How much carbon is on these outer giants, anyway? I was under the impression there wasn't much, I mean it isn't high concentrations of methane, is it? With the speeds that these would be forming, they would probably be very "dirty" or unpure. Also, These high pressures are occuring when methane is still a gas? I dunno....
-- Moondog
I can't believe that this is the only use for this technology. Can this hit planes, too? Why not? And if not, why can't missles just get similar technology as planes (chaff, evasive maneuvers (sp?), etc) to avoid them?
I gotta say this is pretty cool technology, but I'm not sure that it is really going to be that effective. Remember it only takes one nuclear weapon to ruin your whole day, so if 30 are coming your way, they better be pretty effective.
-- Moondog
You know, today there is almost no pr on why not to crack into machines. There are a lot of kids out there that just surf the n.g.'s and find ways to get into trouble, not realizing the trouble they may get into. I think that this sort of stuff is going to be even more important in the future.
-- Moondog
I dont know, though. Although simplifying things is almost always a good thing, I'm concerned that this is just going to complicate an already complicated field. I am assuming it is completely backward compatable, is it?
What I don't know is, how widely supported is this? Has an companies with linux or unix distro's jumped on the bandwagon? I guess maybe we should take a wait and see approach.
-- Moondog
Being of the frugal sort, I'm not really excited about the designer computer trend. They tend to be more expensive and more proprietary. Expensive because the stylish cases cost more to make and they sell less of them, and proprietary because they like to do things like include motherboards and monitors in the same case, making them often difficult to upgrade, etc.
-- Moondog
It has been mentioned many times before that metric is commonly used by scientists and engineers. What the article doesn't say is what the exact problem was. It hints at a distance computational type error, which seems kind of stupid. But if it were an error like a metric vs english nuts and bolts that would be a common one.
Some areas of engineering use predominantly english even though it may seem silly to us.
-- Moondog
So they want to continue pushing SCO on the x86 market. Kinda funny that on some level they are actually competing with themselves, by pushing SCO in one hand and linux on the other.
As to alpha, I will be very surpised if it leaves anytime soon. The new chips are very fast and (last time I checked) still going to be faster than the initial offering of IA-64.
-- Moondog
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-- Moondog
Two reasons it may not work:
1) Distortion. Magnifiers such as these tend to distort the field of view significantly. Its a little like what you see in a magnifying glass, at the edges. The center looks good and in focus, but the edges stretch away. Fixing this, in my opionion, would be very expensive and require multiple lens and would have a narrow field of view.
2) Chromatic aberration: Any solution of the above, would have to be very high quality or you would get a prism effect on regions of multiple colors, like white. Notice how bright lights seem prismed in binoculars (especially cheap ones).
I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm just saying that if it does, they are probably fixing a lot of technological optics problems inherent in many situations.
-- Moondog
Just a couple of comments. Personally, I think this has a bit of the problems that many writings by talented but inexperienced writers often have. I'm not an expert, but hear are a couple of points that I think hurt the flow:
1) There seems to be a trend in this for broad over-generalization and labeling. Things in life never fit into tidy little packages, and writing should reflect that. In the second section of chapter 1, for example, the author claims that the state of programming as a whole is horrendous.
I just can't agree with that belief. The book also labels people and idea's in a manner which is inconsistant with reality.
2) Secondly, I feel that the author has a pretentious, arrogant tone that makes me question the foundation from which the author is working. A bit of modesty, in my opionion, never hurts writing.
-- Moondog
I quite forgot about the NextStep. I've got an old Next Cube right next to me (use it as a print server). Those were good at configuring....
-- Moondog
The fact that he installed Caldera 1.3 raises an issue, I hadn't really thought of before. As linux gets more mature there are lots and lots of old versions and distributions lying around that are going to make it difficult for newbies, such as this journalist, to figure out how to get started. Does fragmentation of distributions really improve the OS?
-- Moondog
I really think there is a message here that many of us aren't really getting. It seems to me that if linux is going to go mainstream, linux is going to have to streamline the installation/administration process. I know unix has a long history and so on, but isn't it possible to build utilities that non-technical users might be able to access without having to even understand what a shell is?
-- Moondog
My mother actually had Carpal Tunnel (she's a flutist, actually), and she ameliorated it with a brace that kept here wrist in the same position. As has been said before surgery is really a last resort. Make sure you see a CTS expert, so you can know all your treatment options.
-- Moondog
They've got one hand in their pockets and another in the coffers. I don't think we should like it when we give out conflicts of interest to companies.
-- Moondog
If they (the psych community) starts labeling it a condition or syndrome, I'm not going to be very happy. Remember what happened to the homosexual community when they started becoming more main stream, there were those (and still are) that feel they can "cure" it. Why can't we just get along (pun intended) and realize there are not hard lines only broad grey ones.
-- Moondog
How on earth could this be cheaper and better than a bunch of windows machines all connected together? Sun NC's aren't necessarily more difficult to maintain, but the fact that people are more familiar with M$ products that I just can envision this being cost effective. Computers cost money to maintain and that is money most schools don't have.
-- Moondog
Although I believe that power point and other so called "productivity apps" are useful. I don't think without a doubt that the biggest need for linux to exceed in more than just a technical market is ease of use and administration. I've worked NT/95/3.1 lans and the majority of users are NOT technically savvy at all. I mean, jeez, we have to teach them pull down menus, etc. Macs are easy, just point and click and no shell. Linux must be able to improve how much the general population can use it.
-- Moondog
But at the same time, given the speed of the internet and a cab ride, do you think that any one will get more than 3-4 pages on any ride? What would be cool is if they put browsers on busses, so we could surf on hour long bus rides.....
-- Moondog
I know a number linux users at M$. Granted, all of them are in research and are CS grad students. But they all have linux on their desks and use it as their primary OS. They have communicated to me that this is not all that uncommon.
-- Moondog
If people start using implants (highly unlikely, IMO), imagine the possibilities of problems that would be likely to occur. We'd go from having network security to "implant security" so information going to and from the implant would be secure. We'd also have a whole new world of privacy issues. When can data be extracted or stored on the implant (assuming it can do that)?
Hmmm....
-- Moondog
You know enforcing this law is nearly impossible, unless they track you down as unleashing the virus. (I can't think of many instances where authors of viruses have been prosecuted--Its just to passive of an attack, you have to find the first infection).
It isn't prosecutable because any prosecuter would have to argue that they were in fact, writing a virus, and not something else. Very challenging indeed. All that reproduces is not a virus.
-- Moondog
Aint-It-Cool-News has some comments on G.C. Scott.
-- Moondog