One less problem with an obvious yet unaccomplished solution on the way.
This took a long time. I only hope it will prove profitable for Trolltech - that would show the way for other companies as well. Profitability is actually quite likely, due to more spread (Debian etc) with GPL and the fame of QT's ease of use (I haven't tried out doing user interfaces with anything else but HTML for years, so I really don't know myself).
Their user interfaces seem to get slower/more complicated to use by every generation they publish.
Instead of bringing out real solutions like handhelds with both GSM and TCP/IP CLI capability, they concentrate on corporate internet-remade-wannabe WAP.
It's not really just Nokia, it's the general short-sightedness of corporations still unable to get the clue from their own work-force geeks.
We're moving to information age not because of funny gadgets, but because of real, hard-to-use, hard-to-beat endlessly-programmable-information-processing-capa ble computers. Just miniaturizing PC to a practical, wearable companion doesn't seem to guarantee as much sales as moronic gadgets, only the latter gets implemented by the big players. The only good news in this situation is that small players still would have a chance.
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Vision: I want a necklace of batteries and PCMCIA cards wired to my earplugs and sights, that I can secure myself against hazardous SMS'es and other forthcoming hacks.
Any site that has advertisements most likely at some point links to some pages that link either to search engines or directly to illegal material. Whereas those themselves can be unintentional, and thus legal, my link above states that it is a link to DeCSS. Thus, my link is illegal.
Speaking for the Weak Assocation for Astronomical Phenomenas' Rights to Stomp Over Tiny Life Forms, I feel the need to clarify:
Would a sea of brain matter, filling a whole planet, count as "life", even if it were totally introverted, never communicating its thoughts to us in any way?
Would an astronomical phenomena, like chain reactions of exploding stars and matter condensing into new star systems, count as life, if it were self-sustaining, self-replicating and adjusting to its surroundings?
What scale, what view of life, and what structure must a thing be to be considered "life" or "intelligent"? Could we please accept some of our neighbors in this ecosphere as such?
Huge amount of computer based work is now done on Wintel instead of mainframes. Remember how much stability problems arised in windows due to the 16-bit compatibility? Ok, so it was not because of the bitness but the insecure memory model. Still, providing backwards compatibility to 32-bit software is going to happen with separate interfaces (what's the length of an 'int'?^). Have some more DLL Hell? I wouldn't mind Microsoft dropping the backward compatibility all together - heck, the world would probably choose to turn compatible with my OS - but somehow I imagine that won't happen:)
Most of us would probably finally like to trash 16-bit compatibility, wouldn't we? Keep the old processors for old games and recompile what is
worth it. Or just make it software-emulated and stop wasting die space. But there it remains, according to the PDF. It's just a tradition, not useful anymore.
I was considering whether I should upgrade from Celerons to PIII's at home, when it hit me: wait another year or so, and invest into a 64-bit system. Worth it? In schedule? Time will tell. If only Abit released plans of Hammered mobos:) And when will the Transmeta 64-bit-Intel-compatible firmware upgrade come out?-)
1. The article does not talk about computing by DNA, it's about using DNA to build smaller conventional electronical circuits. So the logic would not change.
2. As devices get smaller, required amount of electricity drops. Future pc's/appliances should be able to run on bare light/movement energy. "Cool."
3. Imagine tools for DNA design. Anyone could design their own special component/appliance and start a farm. Back to the nature!-)
It's more than one or two people who have come over in a bar and asked about the T-shirt. The story of Jon Johansen and the Big, Bad Consp^H^H^Hrporations entertains girls and boys alike.
And no, it does not fade when washed, it's pretty well done.
Deckard is well established (and, I think semi-retired) as a replicant hunter
In his mind and on the stage with the other officers, yes.
At any given moment, you cannot be sure whether your memories are real. At any time, you might have been put on your place and booted up with a fresh set of memories. At least in the film's Dickish mindset:)
He has no family. He has immense amounts of whisky-blurred momental memories, backed up by a huge bunch of fotoes, almost as a double-proof.
I hope I do not sound insisting, I count as one of those for whom the question is more important.
Is that I keep hearing the explanations that don't belong there while I'm watching the rough version. It's fading away, but will take another ten years or so before I can watch the real thing without the dummified version getting in the way with its safe explanations.
Then again, that I saw the "dummy" version so many times that I keep hearing the voice-overs, tells that I didn't consider it bad at that time:)
They are assumed to meet for the first time, yet he knows who hunts him.
This always bothered me most. Being so well done a movie, this could not be just a glitch, could it?
If he came with the others to the mother planet, then got caught and reprogrammed, it could be possible. But why would they reprogram him yet keep his old name? Because this is a movie, and saying the name is a message, not RL.
Funny how Blade Runner still fascinates. I think it and Alien easily beat Gladiator, although it wasn't bad either. It just didn't have such a warning as its message.
SSH Tatu Ylönen F-Secure Half of my friends work there (suckah's;)
It's not the end of the list but those are some cool things born here. As for cool geek stuff from Finland, you might want to check out Oulu as well - would 'IRC' ring a bell?
Whatever is said of Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen, also applies to Helsinki - except for difficulty of the local language, which you don't have to learn if you stay just one year or so, since everybody really talks some english, most people fluently.
Want more of an experience? Choose Reykjavik, Iceland. That's where I'm going to go one of these days.
For a software developer, the system environment is the UI.
How handily can you find stuff in your log files? I use grep and perl for that.
How often do you have to reboot an unstable system? I don't. (well, except for netscape)
Starting any services required in production in your sandbox without stability or resource exhaustion issues. Oracle, Apache...
Multiple desktops = almost unlimited number of windows, all neatly organized. This is/not/ the smallest reason. As well as the fact that you can configure your wm to respond in any way you want: kick windows behind each other, etc.
Imagine connecting a few icons with a wire to pipe stuff between them, then filling in parameters in a popup window for each of the icons. This would become a new icon, that you could drop data on in order to have it processed.
Programming for dummies could and should be that easy in order to free the end user to use the full power of computing.
Not everybody should learn programming; everybody should be able to start programming with smallest possible effort.
There is only one gigantic white hole, the Big Bang itself.
Without matter to feed it, it would be borne out of nowhere. Existence would be but a gigantic debt. That debt is being paid by black holes sucking matter out of space/time and right back into Big Bang. That's why they are so dense; they are the most true thing we'll ever meet.
Eventually, all matter will be either consumed by black holes or left out as warmth. There is no hope for Earth. Though it will be dead and gone long before. *gives the finger downward*
This way, Universe serves as the ultimate self-feeding heater.
Sorry, I had to:) Thanks for the discussion, it's a great read otherwise.
Some French spies blew up the Greenpeace flagship. Nowadays Greenpeace has something of a fleet and France took (IMHO) a publicity hit. I wonder whether they'd pull something like that again.
Any kind of accident is always possible with a single location. A distributed nation effort would have a better reliability, but it would be extremely difficult to form due to personal and ideological conflicts. A distributed alliance of micro-nations might be worth a thought, however.
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Thanks for your answer, it was nice to read. I got an email telling that the book takes the easiest way out. Blah.
Let's just suppose Havenco would succeed due to two factors: the big players would not be that interested in smashing a free speech group, and enthusiastic small business would choose to use this service to fund it.
Backup on territory defined to protect your data would be a nice selling point. However you still need to move your data over encrypted channel. In a perfect world you would not even trust the hardware owners, so send it precrypted. What would be cooler way to send the data over than a channel crypted with one-time pads (or encryption derived therefrom)?
Too bad it would cost, er, way too much to send the cd-r's over there... would it? I assume they have to shop for food on the mainland, don't they?
Stupid questions: Gravity?
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Obvious answer being, "read the book so you'll find out", what values this book quite perfectly is how does the writer keep stuff to the ground inside of a sphere?
- is "Dyson" something special about a sphere that I missed, or - is there something in real physics making this possible, or - has the ball been written to be rolling insanely fast, or - is this yet another "aliens built it" cheapo?
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Not to talk about Stanislaw Lem, the über-novelist of science fiction, the Emperor of Visions of Future, Poland's Pet^Hrsonified Wonder of the World. One can not truly claim being a science fiction fan before touching the cover of one of his holy books, Cyberias and Star Diaries being the brightest stars in that multiverse.
Cultural achievements do not one-way stream.
(Sorry about the mandatory Lem praisal, but it is mandatory.)
"will a total Java chip include other instruction sets?"
Quoth Sam&Max: "Does it include wanton destruction?" "We can only hope."
I certainly hope they will at some point be able to switch processor contexts quickly. Imagine a combination of Linux/x86 robustness with fast Java applications... and native perl!^)
Then again, embedded Java... mmm... And you can hardly talk about any kind of "small insider group" with Java. It is slowly making its way.
Slashdot Mirror
Grmbl... On e of these dayes I'll make a cron job to automatically wget all URLs from fresh /. articles.
One less problem with an obvious yet unaccomplished solution on the way.
This took a long time. I only hope it will prove profitable for Trolltech - that would show the way for other companies as well. Profitability is actually quite likely, due to more spread (Debian etc) with GPL and the fame of QT's ease of use (I haven't tried out doing user interfaces with anything else but HTML for years, so I really don't know myself).
It's amazing how unclued that company can remain.
It's not really just Nokia, it's the general short-sightedness of corporations still unable to get the clue from their own work-force geeks.
We're moving to information age not because of funny gadgets, but because of real, hard-to-use, hard-to-beat endlessly-programmable-information-processing-cap
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Vision:
I want a necklace of batteries and PCMCIA cards wired to my earplugs and sights, that I can secure myself against hazardous SMS'es and other forthcoming hacks.
This is an intentional link to DeCSS.
Any site that has advertisements most likely at some point links to some pages that link either to search engines or directly to illegal material. Whereas those themselves can be unintentional, and thus legal, my link above states that it is a link to DeCSS. Thus, my link is illegal.
Too bad we don't have DMCA in Finland.
Blah. Plain insanity.
Where can we get some?
Speaking for the Weak Assocation for Astronomical Phenomenas' Rights to Stomp Over Tiny Life Forms, I feel the need to clarify:
Would a sea of brain matter, filling a whole planet, count as "life", even if it were totally introverted, never communicating its thoughts to us in any way?
Would an astronomical phenomena, like chain reactions of exploding stars and matter condensing into new star systems, count as life, if it were self-sustaining, self-replicating and adjusting to its surroundings?
What scale, what view of life, and what structure must a thing be to be considered "life" or "intelligent"? Could we please accept some of our neighbors in this ecosphere as such?
1) Can anyone explain in common language exactly what the mentioned patents are about?
2) Can anyone (else) point to prior use of (any of) the patented methods, thus rendering [sic] them unenforcable?
3dfx has open source drivers, so in my view they're one of the "good guys", and would deserve this help if possible.
Search for kde2. Redistribute.
Leave the arguments and grab the funtions.
Huge amount of computer based work is now done on Wintel instead of mainframes. Remember how much stability problems arised in windows due to the 16-bit compatibility? Ok, so it was not because of the bitness but the insecure memory model. Still, providing backwards compatibility to 32-bit software is going to happen with separate interfaces (what's the length of an 'int'?^). Have some more DLL Hell? I wouldn't mind Microsoft dropping the backward compatibility all together - heck, the world would probably choose to turn compatible with my OS - but somehow I imagine that won't happen
Most of us would probably finally like to trash 16-bit compatibility, wouldn't we? Keep the old processors for old games and recompile what is
worth it. Or just make it software-emulated and stop wasting die space. But there it remains, according to the PDF. It's just a tradition, not useful anymore.
I was considering whether I should upgrade from Celerons to PIII's at home, when it hit me: wait another year or so, and invest into a 64-bit system. Worth it? In schedule? Time will tell. If only Abit released plans of Hammered mobos
1. The article does not talk about computing by DNA, it's about using DNA to build smaller conventional electronical circuits. So the logic would not change.
2. As devices get smaller, required amount of electricity drops. Future pc's/appliances should be able to run on bare light/movement energy. "Cool."
3. Imagine tools for DNA design. Anyone could design their own special component/appliance and start a farm. Back to the nature!-)
It's more than one or two people who have come over in a bar and asked about the T-shirt. The story of Jon Johansen and the Big, Bad Consp^H^H^Hrporations entertains girls and boys alike.
And no, it does not fade when washed, it's pretty well done.
Deckard is well established (and, I think semi-retired) as a replicant hunter
:)
In his mind and on the stage with the other officers, yes.
At any given moment, you cannot be sure whether your memories are real. At any time, you might have been put on your place and booted up with a fresh set of memories. At least in the film's Dickish mindset
He has no family. He has immense amounts of whisky-blurred momental memories, backed up by a huge bunch of fotoes, almost as a double-proof.
I hope I do not sound insisting, I count as one of those for whom the question is more important.
Is that I keep hearing the explanations that don't belong there while I'm watching the rough version. It's fading away, but will take another ten years or so before I can watch the real thing without the dummified version getting in the way with its safe explanations.
Then again, that I saw the "dummy" version so many times that I keep hearing the voice-overs, tells that I didn't consider it bad at that time
They are assumed to meet for the first time, yet he knows who hunts him.
This always bothered me most. Being so well done a movie, this could not be just a glitch, could it?
If he came with the others to the mother planet, then got caught and reprogrammed, it could be possible. But why would they reprogram him yet keep his old name? Because this is a movie, and saying the name is a message, not RL.
Funny how Blade Runner still fascinates. I think it and Alien easily beat Gladiator, although it wasn't bad either. It just didn't have such a warning as its message.
Both born here.
;)
SSH Tatu Ylönen
F-Secure Half of my friends work there (suckah's
It's not the end of the list but those are some cool things born here. As for cool geek stuff from Finland, you might want to check out Oulu as well - would 'IRC' ring a bell?
I could talk about University of Helsinki's CS dep. as well, but I won't. It seems that the Technical University would be a better place for studies.
Whatever is said of Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen, also applies to Helsinki - except for difficulty of the local language, which you don't have to learn if you stay just one year or so, since everybody really talks some english, most people fluently.
Want more of an experience? Choose Reykjavik, Iceland. That's where I'm going to go one of these days.
For a software developer, the system environment is the UI.
How handily can you find stuff in your log files?
I use grep and perl for that.
How often do you have to reboot an unstable system?
I don't. (well, except for netscape)
Starting any services required in production in your sandbox without stability or resource exhaustion issues. Oracle, Apache...
Multiple desktops = almost unlimited number of windows, all neatly organized. This is
Imagine connecting a few icons with a wire to pipe stuff between them, then filling in parameters in a popup window for each of the icons. This would become a new icon, that you could drop data on in order to have it processed.
Programming for dummies could and should be that easy in order to free the end user to use the full power of computing.
Not everybody should learn programming; everybody should be able to start programming with smallest possible effort.
This stuff into KParts/Bonobo?
Here. Though not by merging.
FP
There is only one gigantic white hole, the Big Bang itself.
Without matter to feed it, it would be borne out of nowhere. Existence would be but a gigantic debt. That debt is being paid by black holes sucking matter out of space/time and right back into Big Bang. That's why they are so dense; they are the most true thing we'll ever meet.
Eventually, all matter will be either consumed by black holes or left out as warmth. There is no hope for Earth. Though it will be dead and gone long before. *gives the finger downward*
This way, Universe serves as the ultimate self-feeding heater.
Sorry, I had to
Some French spies blew up the Greenpeace flagship. Nowadays Greenpeace has something of a fleet and France took (IMHO) a publicity hit. I wonder whether they'd pull something like that again.
Any kind of accident is always possible with a single location. A distributed nation effort would have a better reliability, but it would be extremely difficult to form due to personal and ideological conflicts. A distributed alliance of micro-nations might be worth a thought, however.
Thanks for your answer, it was nice to read. I got an email telling that the book takes the easiest way out. Blah.
Let's just suppose Havenco would succeed due to two factors: the big players would not be that interested in smashing a free speech group, and enthusiastic small business would choose to use this service to fund it.
Backup on territory defined to protect your data would be a nice selling point. However you still need to move your data over encrypted channel. In a perfect world you would not even trust the hardware owners, so send it precrypted. What would be cooler way to send the data over than a channel crypted with one-time pads (or encryption derived therefrom)?
Too bad it would cost, er, way too much to send the cd-r's over there... would it? I assume they have to shop for food on the mainland, don't they?
Obvious answer being, "read the book so you'll find out", what values this book quite perfectly is how does the writer keep stuff to the ground inside of a sphere?
- is "Dyson" something special about a sphere that I missed, or
- is there something in real physics making this possible, or
- has the ball been written to be rolling insanely fast, or
- is this yet another "aliens built it" cheapo?
Not to talk about Stanislaw Lem, the über-novelist of science fiction, the Emperor of Visions of Future, Poland's Pet^Hrsonified Wonder of the World. One can not truly claim being a science fiction fan before touching the cover of one of his holy books, Cyberias and Star Diaries being the brightest stars in that multiverse.
Cultural achievements do not one-way stream.
(Sorry about the mandatory Lem praisal, but it is mandatory.)
"will a total Java chip include other instruction sets?"
Quoth Sam&Max:
"Does it include wanton destruction?"
"We can only hope."
I certainly hope they will at some point be able to switch processor contexts quickly. Imagine a combination of Linux/x86 robustness with fast Java applications... and native perl!^)
Then again, embedded Java... mmm... And you can hardly talk about any kind of "small insider group" with Java. It is slowly making its way.