there will always be hierarchy
hardware, kernel/OS, software (lib. / prog) , UI, user
do the characteristics of the OS affect the user-
ideally they shouldnt, in any imaginable real world of course
these layers will never be completely abstractable and independant
doh. somebody obviously made a error putting up these pages as the have forgotten to include the really big news from 2005, that emacs now supports images
when you have to "go through a dozen different smaller tasks before I can achieve my goal" you should *really* think about learning what pipes are. I'm afraid this is entirely typical of so many recent articles referenced to on slashdot; people writing about a *nix based systems obviously dont know *nix
I know this is preaching to the converted, but anyway, here goes:
I think you're wrong wrt desktop use.
I'm sat here using R6 on my laptop, in favour and instead of linux. Having spent 3 yrs trying, various linux dists (from debian ubuntu to slack), I got fed up with:
a. dependany hell.
b. instability.
For me these factors outweigh everything else, and I suspect that most users are the same.
On these criteria freebsd has, quite simply, got linux beat hands down. 1000%
Why is the first response of slashdotters to this sort of story: how can we make it harder, i.e., how can we make our system harder to crack if The Law comes down on me ?
Possible answers
1-I'm afraid they will find my p0rn.
2-I like the nerdy challenge of making my box as hard to crack as possible, for the same reason I like console text mode doom. Im a geek, sorry
3-I'm afraid they will wrongly persecute me. The NSA have got it in for me. Its not paranoia when they really are after you. There are hidden cameras watching me right now.
4-I am a terrorist:-o
More interestingly, isn't it about time somebody here gave apple a hard time about the mini-mac. This is not a flame. I like some of the things they do. But, the mini-mac is a non-story tech-wise. So, its white and fairly small. So what ?
A more interesting story is how how has apple managed to convince even most of the/. crowd about the mini-mac ?. Their marketing isn't that good. What is it ?
the 'organisms' are essentially solving an optimisation problem (minimising a cost function) within the state space of the genome
John Holland (of genetic algorithm fame) showed somewhere back in 1970's that the 'sexual' part of reproduction - wherein 'cross-over' of genes occurs - allows the reproduction process to very effectively search large combinatorial state spaces
this is the advantage of _sexual_ reproduction over _asexual_
blah, blah. See http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/holland.GAInt ro.htm
you might like to try the custom (shrunk) X servers that come with damnsmalllinux
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
With damnsmall I find an ancient PII/64MB machine easily out-performs a PIV2GHz/256MB ! for browsing
It comes with links2-hacked and Dillo.
You can try it out easily as it runs from CD, a-la Knoppix (It is infact based on a knoppix hack)
For _real_ speed fun on a modern machine with >256MB ram, you can load the *whole* OS and APPs into RAM with the boot option dsl -toram at the linux boot prompt
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there will always be hierarchy
hardware, kernel/OS, software (lib. / prog) , UI, user
do the characteristics of the OS affect the user-
ideally they shouldnt, in any imaginable real world of course
these layers will never be completely abstractable and independant
so,..one potato carefully placed in the exhaust of one delivery van in shanghai and the whole evil empire comes tumbling down..
except discontinuous functions.
my fav math quote : "statistics is not a branch of mathematics". (from Press et al. Numerical recipes in fortran)...
irony
lol.
And my attention-span is soo long that I hit [pg down] three times when scanning this review.
Don't ya just wish books had [pg down] buttons...
doh. somebody obviously made a error putting up these pages as the have forgotten to include the really big news from 2005, that emacs now supports images
when you have to "go through a dozen different smaller tasks before I can achieve my goal" you should *really* think about learning what pipes are .
I'm afraid this is entirely typical of so many recent articles referenced to on slashdot; people writing about a *nix based systems obviously dont know *nix
I know this is preaching to the converted, but anyway, here goes:
I think you're wrong wrt desktop use.
I'm sat here using R6 on my laptop, in favour and instead of linux. Having spent 3 yrs trying, various linux dists (from debian ubuntu to slack), I got fed up with:
a. dependany hell.
b. instability.
For me these factors outweigh everything else, and I suspect that most users are the same.
On these criteria freebsd has, quite simply, got linux beat hands down. 1000%
Why is the first response of slashdotters to this sort of story: how can we make it harder, i.e., how can we make our system harder to crack if The Law comes down on me ? :-o
Possible answers
1-I'm afraid they will find my p0rn.
2-I like the nerdy challenge of making my box as hard to crack as possible, for the same reason I like console text mode doom. Im a geek, sorry
3-I'm afraid they will wrongly persecute me. The NSA have got it in for me. Its not paranoia when they really are after you. There are hidden cameras watching me right now.
4-I am a terrorist
this is like an arguement over who gave birth to quasimodo.
yes, but how have they convinced the emperor to wear his new cloths ?
there is *nothing* of note in a mini-mac, but somehow they have convinced people there is. This is quite a feat!
device convergence;
media PC + t.v. (=mini-mac)
mobile phone + pda
..etc. dull
More interestingly, isn't it about time somebody here gave apple a hard time about the mini-mac. This is not a flame. I like some of the things they do. But, the mini-mac is a non-story tech-wise. So, its white and fairly small. So what ?
A more interesting story is how how has apple managed to convince even most of the /. crowd about the mini-mac ?. Their marketing isn't that good. What is it ?
there is an infinity of primes
something known since antiquity
for a series of primes p1, p2, p3 ...pn, the next prime (p(n+1)) can always be found : (p1 * p2 * p3 ..Pn)+1
the 'organisms' are essentially solving an optimisation problem (minimising a cost function) within the state space of the genome
John Holland (of genetic algorithm fame) showed somewhere back in 1970's that the 'sexual' part of reproduction - wherein 'cross-over' of genes occurs - allows the reproduction process to very effectively search large combinatorial state spaces
this is the advantage of _sexual_ reproduction over _asexual_
blah, blah. See http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/holland.GAInt ro.htm
yes, and this *can be* UMT
Iff the life 'board' is of infinite size
which is, of course, the same thing as requiring infinite storage ...
in order to implement an UMT storage has to have the potential to ->infinity.
obviously !? its rather difficult to build infinite storage in a finite universe ;-P
Interpolation from the data used _might_ be considered valid from a statistical perspective
Of course, "statistics is not a branch of mathematics" (Press et al, Numerical Recipes in Fortran, 1996)
to use this sort of approach for _extrapolation_ is rediculous
you might like to try the custom (shrunk) X servers that come with damnsmalllinux
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
With damnsmall I find an ancient PII/64MB machine easily out-performs a PIV2GHz/256MB ! for browsing
It comes with links2-hacked and Dillo.
You can try it out easily as it runs from CD, a-la Knoppix (It is infact based on a knoppix hack)
For _real_ speed fun on a modern machine with >256MB ram, you can load the *whole* OS and APPs into RAM with the boot option dsl -toram at the linux boot prompt
Try that for your performance charts !
just as _super_fast_ as links
but gui (X) with tables and graphics
links2 -g rocks, see http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/l inks/
of course, if you want speed and gui
you will already be using dillo
www.dillo.org
you'd be daft to use anything else for default reading of HTML files from your ROX-filer