Were this a vote, I'd vote for Amber - between red and green, as someone suggested at slashdot.org.
Babble
Not just to rhyme with Hubble, terrificly off-topic, but merely since in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, you put a Babel Fish in your ear in order to understand interplanetary languages, which is your microphone's duty. "Babel" or just "Bab", however, wouldn't sound as neat nor have a secondary pun. It's still short enough to stick in your ear, if you will:)
What would be the load for that box as a router on, say, a 10Mbit connection? Would it be even remotely possible to use it for both purposes at the same time?
I'm planning to build an appliance for logging in home at door, to hear the mail headers, start MP3's, whatever's in your.homerc. What the heck, it has to boot up a real PC anyway for the speech synthesis / storage. Just forget the combination.
Neat:) I guess if the method of outputting the data for the VHS reader head isn't patented by yourself, it is by someone else? Or are you just using a tape loop and a secondary head for writing inside the cassette
The API documentation listed its functionary in C. Natural, but I'm going to make a command-line interface out of it - or one in Perl.
I think I'll discourage my clients (eh, friends; who would I be fooling?^) of using.fi -domains even more now. That system just is not up to automatization.
Were I that 13 yearish pale kid nowadays, I would not see the light of my future in computer science easing our lives, but rather in the chance to modify matter to be more serving and intelligent (doorsteps that would move out of the way before you hit your toes, anyclumsy?)
Nanotech will not fulfill its promises in short term (eh, a hundred years?) without being able to copy most of the work already done in the nature. By modifuing already working solutions (DNA, cells, virii) we'll be able to code matter instead of just calculators. But now I am stating the obvious.
If development turns out "well", our views of what is dead matter and what is life might have changed a lot after a chunk of time. On the other hand, some of the citizenry might be unrecognizable as humen in our current view: Internetworking lumps of neurons remotely controlling biologically grown fullereen limbs, to name a vision. Buy a hand? Viral warfare on the other might be scarier than the ole' A-bomb.
In sense of the above, I view the donation as a good thing. Clark let it be understood that he had discussed targeting with the university, and actually changed the focus based on that discussion. What would be an appropriately dim focus for funding? Even the state tax part of funding universities is, at least here in Finland, based on a complex network of "results" such as the amount of doctorates (yuck). Same goes, methinks, for any free lunch.
Kudos for Clark. And for the US-Russia co-effort as well. Best news for quite a while; I stand effectively surprised that there is a level of biotechnology such as DNA scanning that is already becoming mass-producable.
Now if you'd take a WAD file editor source and modify it to read the directory structure of the BO host, generate a map of it with different directories as separare rooms filled with the files as pickable items, scan the processes' open file descriptors to see in which rooms each should be located at, and sell it in cDc style as "System Manager for Dummies":D
Will somebody make gray goo intentionally? Because it is a tough challenge, they'd need a lot of time and/or a lot of money. Possible in principle, but hard to do without being detected, assuming the intelligence community remains clueful.
Extremely lot like nukes, ain't it? Expensive, challenging, dangerous. The intelligence^H^H^Hengineering community cluefulness -> 0 when it comes to possibilities. It is here to build them; others are here to qualify/use them.
Me, an evil commie in the snows near Siberia, wants to make a nanobot that will greygoo only Northern America. Echelon, come and reveal me so that NANA gets founded.
self { require lots_of_O; # like in H2O or O2:) self->copy(); }
It would be a point in time about now, that Linux advocates should just admit that Linux already is one of the available solutions for the question "what should I run my services/applications on?" - to even "what infrastructure should my embedded devices' software be based upon?"
Everything that has been accepted has to face some resistance and down-playing. It should go ignored. Instead, a wise (market) leader will concentrate on serving its domain (nation/market) as well as it can, so that eventually it will be the best domain there is. You don't need to conquer people who come to you willing to participate.
Concentrate on how to serve the users better, not on the marginal commentary, except as a source of constructive criticism, when there is such.
You're absolutely right in that the havoc would be unsustainable. Then again, this effect could be explicitly asked for as many of the recent changes in the language are. Might be too complex though, being part of the parser?
Concatenation is not easy to revamp; I wouldn't vote for white space distinction! The concatenation character would likely have to be changed (+? No, there's no distinction between numeric and string scalars) - ouch. As for forcing the usage of parentheses in function calls, I'm all for it.
A feature req is certainly off topic, but I'd still like to mention it here.
Does it feel awkward to you to write every fscking structure reference in the perl ->{} format? Wouldn't it be nice to do structured variable embedding as s/\$([\w\.]+)/${$1}/gs ? A syntax hook for such would be nice:)
TMP(TMP(P)) = P2tmp, which is faster and cheaper than TMP(P)
Thus, Pntmp approaches indefinitely immediate execution speed for zero price, likely being indistinguishable from perfection for very large values of n.
Most critical battles of propaganda war have already been won, haven't they (the turnout has sure been fast-paced this year)? Now some efforts have to be focused to getting all the big corporations to really work together in open source spirit, but it's likely FSF will do a lot of the preachery:)
Do you have a vision of how to maximize the prize - would it be a neat idea for the next decade to talk about other relevant areas of sharing (non-computer IP issues, global poverty), or should the open source movement not be used as an example for a more general gift-culture based alternative society?
I noticed your LARP resume on your home page. It's a continuous debate at least here in Finland whether LARP is only entertainment or if one can actually develop social or other skills through it. What is your experience and general opinion?
BTW, you're welcome to contact me if you ever happen to visit Finland and would like to get an invitation to some game that suits your interests.
before long we will be able to communicate by thoughts. (Optimism, but that is a necessity!)
I would like to see that openly available, not monopolised by one firm. (High morale, open sourcing)
Jacking in is what we will be looking into at Reading in the next experiment. - This implies some kind of interaction between neural activity and digital machinery, now doesn't it? That certainly is the bottleneck in subtle mind control of our environments.
wireless networking +
openly programmable logic +
sense/neural connectivity,
all implanted
= quite cyborgic way of being
Now where can I get my construction kit, please?
It'll be interesting to live in the cyberage, seeing so surprisingly many of the visions of cyberpunk emerge. The future seems grand, even if only for dirt-rich westerners at first (global equalization, anyone?).
I'm partly with you, partly with Linus there. Eventually the Unix model of small programs for special purposes joined together for all needs will reach appliances too.
One should be able to combine those in appropriate ways to get what you want, from mobile to wall-planted. Once those devices recognize each other and communicate, funny possibilities should emerge.
In otherwise unsurpriseful "Future of Information Society" chat last wednesday quoth Mr. Torvalds: "I can not talk about what we do at Transmeta" as an answer to a lady who informed the audience that since 1950's the US government or like body has been implanting microchips in people in order to be able to read their thoughts and feelings.
Just had to ask. I use bc in a separate Xterm (Eterm actually, taking a look at rxvt one of these days). Mouse on calculator window, type in what you need, see all your past calculcations in the terminal window, cut&paste all you need (say, to cat | lpr), move back.
Wield the power of the command line:)
I can't help but think both are true. On one hand, application release fever should be slowing down once all necessary components are available (as components, me thinks). On the other hand, fixes, updates and new components will always be required. One day applications/appliances will become smart enough to fetch their own updates, and linkage between users needs and components required will become automatized (open problems there; think of a 'howto' command alike 'man' that acts as 'apt-get' - and a CPAN-like repository for all software components).
I understand the standard way of handling security problems at, say, international bugtraq lists, is to publish source for a test program that exploits said problem. So an important method of security development would be illegal in Finland.
Isn't this exactly the same point as with efficient encryption? If you prohibit it, only criminals will use it, leaving everyone else more vulnerable. Hey, software is not totally alike guns.
I do like the look of base.com and its sw-patents section. It's just that rather than linking to a statement at oracle.com, having the text on their own site does not count as proof on its origin.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's what I sent (yes, it's too late here ;)
:)
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Were this a vote, I'd vote for Amber - between red and green, as someone suggested at slashdot.org.
Babble
Not just to rhyme with Hubble, terrificly off-topic, but merely since in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, you put a Babel Fish in your ear in order to understand interplanetary languages, which is your microphone's duty. "Babel" or just "Bab", however, wouldn't sound as neat nor have a secondary pun. It's still short enough to stick in your ear, if you will
What would be the load for that box as a router on, say, a 10Mbit connection? Would it be even remotely possible to use it for both purposes at the same time?
I'm planning to build an appliance for logging in home at door, to hear the mail headers, start MP3's, whatever's in your
Neat :) I guess if the method of outputting the data for the VHS reader head isn't patented by yourself, it is by someone else? Or are you just using a tape loop and a secondary head for writing inside the cassette
The API documentation listed its functionary in C. Natural, but I'm going to make a command-line interface out of it - or one in Perl.
.fi -domains even more now. That system just is not up to automatization.
I think I'll discourage my clients (eh, friends; who would I be fooling?^) of using
Were I that 13 yearish pale kid nowadays, I would not see the light of my future in computer science easing our lives, but rather in the chance to modify matter to be more serving and intelligent (doorsteps that would move out of the way before you hit your toes, anyclumsy?)
Nanotech will not fulfill its promises in short term (eh, a hundred years?) without being able to copy most of the work already done in the nature. By modifuing already working solutions (DNA, cells, virii) we'll be able to code matter instead of just calculators. But now I am stating the obvious.
If development turns out "well", our views of what is dead matter and what is life might have changed a lot after a chunk of time. On the other hand, some of the citizenry might be unrecognizable as humen in our current view: Internetworking lumps of neurons remotely controlling biologically grown fullereen limbs, to name a vision. Buy a hand? Viral warfare on the other might be scarier than the ole' A-bomb.
In sense of the above, I view the donation as a good thing. Clark let it be understood that he had discussed targeting with the university, and actually changed the focus based on that discussion. What would be an appropriately dim focus for funding? Even the state tax part of funding universities is, at least here in Finland, based on a complex network of "results" such as the amount of doctorates (yuck). Same goes, methinks, for any free lunch.
Kudos for Clark. And for the US-Russia co-effort as well. Best news for quite a while; I stand effectively surprised that there is a level of biotechnology such as DNA scanning that is already becoming mass-producable.
(BTW, I just saw Fly 2 on TV last night
Now if you'd take a WAD file editor source and modify it to read the directory structure of the BO host, generate a map of it with different directories as separare rooms filled with the files as pickable items, scan the processes' open file descriptors to see in which rooms each should be located at, and sell it in cDc style as "System Manager for Dummies"
Will somebody make gray goo intentionally? Because it is a tough challenge, they'd need a lot of time and/or a lot of money. Possible in principle, but hard to do without being detected, assuming the intelligence community remains clueful.
:)
Extremely lot like nukes, ain't it? Expensive, challenging, dangerous. The intelligence^H^H^Hengineering community cluefulness -> 0 when it comes to possibilities. It is here to build them; others are here to qualify/use them.
Me, an evil commie in the snows near Siberia, wants to make a nanobot that will greygoo only Northern America. Echelon, come and reveal me so that NANA gets founded.
self {
require lots_of_O; # like in H2O or O2
self->copy();
}
quantum technology is
totally diffrent, works on diffrent principals and will make nanotechnoligy obselete.
s/diffrent/different
Oh, what the heck, I'll tell my friends not to buy computers just yet
As the saying goes: Show us the processor.
In the meanwhile, I'll consider nanoprocessing "sufficient".
Chinese is a much more mature language set possibly with the largest user base of all. It also comes with a very rich character set :)
:)
:)
:P)
Li18nux is a way of free development to route around the problem of language restrictions of the computers and net (we need a joint word for these).
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Kiina on paljon aikuisempi kieliperhe jonka käyttäjäkunta on mahdollisesti maailman laajin. Ja jolla on hyvin monipuolinen merkkivalikoima
Li18nux on vapaan kehityksen tapa kiertää tietokoneiden ja verkon (joille tarvitsemme yhteisen termin) kielirajoittuneisuus.
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Kinesisk är en mycket mera vuxen språkfamilj och har kanske mest talare i hela världet. Och det har flera bokstäver än något annat språk
Li18nux presenterar fria programmerings kunskap att svara problemet av spräktvungande i datorer och nätverket (vi behöver ett enkelt ord för båda).
(Förlåt! Jag var tvungen
It would be a point in time about now, that Linux advocates should just admit that Linux already is one of the available solutions for the question "what should I run my services/applications on?" - to even "what infrastructure should my embedded devices' software be based upon?"
Everything that has been accepted has to face some resistance and down-playing. It should go ignored. Instead, a wise (market) leader will concentrate on serving its domain (nation/market) as well as it can, so that eventually it will be the best domain there is. You don't need to conquer people who come to you willing to participate.
Concentrate on how to serve the users better, not on the marginal commentary, except as a source of constructive criticism, when there is such.
Oh my god, the pictures are great.
Ever thought there's no real difference between software advocacy, street gangs or networked marketing fandom? Be very afraid
You're absolutely right in that the havoc would be unsustainable. Then again, this effect could be explicitly asked for as many of the recent changes in the language are. Might be too complex though, being part of the parser?
Concatenation is not easy to revamp; I wouldn't vote for white space distinction! The concatenation character would likely have to be changed (+? No, there's no distinction between numeric and string scalars) - ouch. As for forcing the usage of parentheses in function calls, I'm all for it.
Withdrawn, I think.
A feature req is certainly off topic, but I'd still like to mention it here.
:)
Does it feel awkward to you to write every fscking structure reference in the perl ->{} format? Wouldn't it be nice to do structured variable embedding as s/\$([\w\.]+)/${$1}/gs ? A syntax hook for such would be nice
P = A Processor
TMP = TransMeta Processor
TMP(P) = Ptmp, which is faster and cheaper than P
TMP is a P, thus
TMP(TMP(P)) = P2tmp, which is faster and cheaper than TMP(P)
Thus, P ntmp approaches indefinitely immediate execution speed for zero price, likely being indistinguishable from perfection for very large values of n.
Most critical battles of propaganda war have already been won, haven't they (the turnout has sure been fast-paced this year)? Now some efforts have to be focused to getting all the big corporations to really work together in open source spirit, but it's likely FSF will do a lot of the preachery :)
Do you have a vision of how to maximize the prize - would it be a neat idea for the next decade to talk about other relevant areas of sharing (non-computer IP issues, global poverty), or should the open source movement not be used as an example for a more general gift-culture based alternative society?
I noticed your LARP resume on your home page. It's a continuous debate at least here in Finland whether LARP is only entertainment or if one can actually develop social or other skills through it. What is your experience and general opinion?
BTW, you're welcome to contact me if you ever happen to visit Finland and would like to get an invitation to some game that suits your interests.
Finnish Live Action Role Players' Association
(Optimism, but that is a necessity!)
(High morale, open sourcing)
Jacking in is what we will be looking into at Reading in the next experiment. - This implies some kind of interaction between neural activity and digital machinery, now doesn't it? That certainly is the bottleneck in subtle mind control of our environments.
Now where can I get my construction kit, please?
It'll be interesting to live in the cyberage, seeing so surprisingly many of the visions of cyberpunk emerge. The future seems grand, even if only for dirt-rich westerners at first (global equalization, anyone?).
I'm partly with you, partly with Linus there. Eventually the Unix model of small programs for special purposes joined together for all needs will reach appliances too.
We'll have separate units for
One should be able to combine those in appropriate ways to get what you want, from mobile to wall-planted. Once those devices recognize each other and communicate, funny possibilities should emerge.
In otherwise unsurpriseful "Future of Information Society" chat last wednesday quoth Mr. Torvalds:
"I can not talk about what we do at Transmeta" as an answer to a lady who informed the audience that since 1950's the US government or like body has been implanting microchips in people in order to be able to read their thoughts and feelings.
Thus, your revelation is wrong.
Just had to ask. I use bc in a separate Xterm (Eterm actually, taking a look at rxvt one of these days). Mouse on calculator window, type in what you need, see all your past calculcations in the terminal window, cut&paste all you need (say, to cat | lpr), move back.
Wield the power of the command line
I can't help but think both are true. On one hand, application release fever should be slowing down once all necessary components are available (as components, me thinks). On the other hand, fixes, updates and new components will always be required. One day applications/appliances will become smart enough to fetch their own updates, and linkage between users needs and components required will become automatized (open problems there; think of a 'howto' command alike 'man' that acts as 'apt-get' - and a CPAN-like repository for all software components).
I understand the standard way of handling security problems at, say, international bugtraq lists, is to publish source for a test program that exploits said problem. So an important method of security development would be illegal in Finland.
Isn't this exactly the same point as with efficient encryption? If you prohibit it, only criminals will use it, leaving everyone else more vulnerable. Hey, software is not totally alike guns.
Gotta contact someone at the govt.
Before you read me wrong, consider this:
I do like the look of base.com and its sw-patents section. It's just that rather than linking to a statement at oracle.com, having the text on their own site does not count as proof on its origin.
Far as I can see, base.com can not talk by the mouth of Oracle, can it?
I hope this gets noted by the company in question and that they'll clarify their attitude toward this statement.
Stay calm... It might even turn out to be true. But don't praise the company just yet.
A quick ripoff, wrong font and everything:
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http://kato.iki.fi/kato/free-monopolize
The site has limits on international traffic,
so if you like it, post a(n US) mirror.
A subject line having two words equally readable as verbs or nouns - sorry, the Voices told me to do it!-)