Well, no one is going to reimplement something exactly when they want it for new things. That would be an emulator or a clone, not a fresh implementation. This applies moreso than usual in Unix, where the operating system definition is relatively flexible. The GNU vs. Linux terminology isn't as relevant here as you think either. Two months before Linux 0.01 was announced, Linus posted the following:
"Due to a project I'm working on (in minix), I'm interested in the posix standard definition."
That project WAS Linux, so he definitely had POSIX in mind in his implementation. No unix kernel is going to implement the entirety of POSIX, but no one would expect it to.
They implemented it for the sake of being able to claim compliance in case big clients had specified that, but it wasn't a real effort to comply in anything but name, and so it has been abandoned now:
If you knew anything about the history of NT, you'd know it has changed many things and still IS changing many things to make it more unix-like, so obviously they do need to learn from unix.
You seem to be joking, but I think that's a good point. My first thought on this was of how repeated meditation is known to improve brainwave patterns in a permanent way. Possibly, any big change in philosophy might too.
I installed ZoneAlarm on my parent's computer, and get calls or emails routinely asking if they should OK a particular program's desire to access the internet.
Your parents are much better about that than the average user. Most people would just figure they don't understand the question, and click on an answer randomly to make it go away before it gets any scarier.
No, it's not a coincidence, considering that nothing is coinciding. Linux is already more than usable, and windows is still being majorly re-thought. As for linux desktops not having "arrived" yet, that's a ridiculous concept that only lives on for people who still use GNOME.
No, linux is an implementation of Unix, not a reinvention of it. It's POSIX-compliant. Windows is still fumbling around with basic lessons which were learned by unix professionals years ago. Nothing different than you'd expect from an OS designed for home computers really.
As for monad/powershell... it's the same story. Instead of having the shell of your choice (bash,csh,zsh,python...) with the programming language of your choice (bash,perl,python,C++...) they're still trying to force a vision on people that will probably turn out to be fundamentally flawed in some way.
What you don't realise is that Microsoft's BASIC probably gave you access to none of the power of that computer. AmigaBASIC is a prime example of this: the computer was capable of most of what a PC can do NOW, but yet this was about two decades ago. AmigaBASIC, microsoft's implementation of BASIC for it though, was the same old junk, with no thought or insight that would make it possible for new programmers to actually discover that power. Just compare Microsoft's AmigaBASIC with the alternative implementations, like AMOS, and you'll see what Microsoft promises are worth. A fulfilled promise isn't a lot to talk about, when the promise is so average.
Would that include extinction of species with inadequate immune systems?
That depends on whether the weakest creature happens to have a monopoly stranglehold on the PC desktop market, and a prooven interest in manipulating the political system to keep it that way.
Actually, IMAP lets you access your email everywhere, WITH a proper mail client, or with a little systray applet (or mobile phone, or whatever) that checks for new mail. There's really no need for webmail at all, except to give advertising opportunities to ISPs as you read it.
When you do get to look (I haven't yet), be sure to look for signs of vendor lock-in. The only thing worse than an office suite like MS Office, which stores stuff in a proprietary format, would be a website doesn't really reveal the storage mechanisms at all.
Personally, I like my work to be mine, or to be free to give to anyone I want to donate that work to, regardless of what technology they can afford. It's my work, and I should be able to say what can be done with it.
Unless this thing lets me save my work in OpenDocument Format, I won't be touching it.
but has anyone thought of the payload size needed to implement an entire virtual machine?
Pretty big; around 130MB, if I recall (I may not; it's been a while). But don't worry,.NET comes right on your windows CD lately. Presumably it wouldn't take much to launch everything in a slightly modified version.
In all seriousness, I don't think a full virtual machine would have to be implemented. All along, viruses have worked by just patching what is required to setup a modified environment.
For those who prefer to get their news from industry-specific sources rather than general media, or for those who are boycotting the Microsoft-owned MSNBC, this space.com article might help.
I don't know; I don't see a lot of advanced technology in today's dentistry. They have instruments with finer precision, sure, and they have fillings that last longer, but essentially, they're just plugging holes for the most part, which has always been possible with a bit of tree resin. Essentially, dentistry is a major contrast to other medical professions, because it has made little progress towards prevention or CURES for decay, besides physical stuff like toothpaste and floss.
Lately, there was a slashdot story about changing the electrical properties of teeth so that plaque can't attach. In sci-fi, there are ideas like hermetically sealing teeth. I really think dentistry should be working much harder towards things like that.
Not into some of outlook's features...
The following outlook features have little traction in hte marketplace...
Also looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard...
We hope to see customers get interested in digital whiteboards soon...
Umm, you don't get it. The whole point of copyright is to ALLOW people to use other's work. Grow up, and read a book sometime. Then maybe you'll have the courage of your convictions and be able to talk without Anonymous Coward status.
A lot of political trouble can be stirred up over whose companies get to trade where. If countries can fight about bananas and other seemingly insignificant things, the US government won't be shy about making its point when it comes to their technology industry, the future dominance of the digital economy, etc. Sadly, the US government in this case, like many governments who listen to corporations, will be pawns working for the wrong side.
Yes, and with Unix, you simply have an $HOME variable, a way to hide files within it so they don't clutter things up, and a way to link files to other places. A much simpler, more elegant solution, with just a little forethought. Instead, windows took ages to even borrow this concept from Unix, and is still struggling to make apps use those user directories properly, and with how to manage the space etc. Fundamental design flaws, as I said.
Free has many meanings, some of which (namely, freedom) are more important than others. Moreover, when a no-cost trinket is being used to entice you into giving away your freedom, then it's really not free at all, in any sense of the word.
Yes, I'm aware there are probably many questions that need to be addressed in that documentary:) I hadn't thought of the pylon/poverty thing before though. Good point; thanks:)
Unfortunately, for all Google's talk of being Open-Source/Free Software friendly, they either don't get, or, more likely, don't WANT to get, the need for openness of data formats. Google Video puts videos "online", and makes them searchable. However, if you can't cut up that video and use it in your own videoblog or cable tv show or artistic video montage, then it's really not "available" to you or to the online culture to build on. It might as well be playing behind glass in a shop window, even if you do pay for it.
I remember watching a documentary years ago, from a UK channel (BBC 2?), about the statistics of suicides along major overhead cable routes. It seemed to make a case for depression etc. from those sources. I live beside a substation now though, and I feel pretty good, so I'm putting it down to coincidence.
I also remember hearing that some US schools had overhead cables moved underground around the schools though, and I think that was because of EM rather than kids climbing the pylons.
So... does anyone know if there's any valid concerns about overhead power EM?
Slashdot Mirror
Well, no one is going to reimplement something exactly when they want it for new things. That would be an emulator or a clone, not a fresh implementation. This applies moreso than usual in Unix, where the operating system definition is relatively flexible. The GNU vs. Linux terminology isn't as relevant here as you think either. Two months before Linux 0.01 was announced, Linus posted the following:
"Due to a project I'm working on (in minix), I'm interested in the posix standard definition."
That project WAS Linux, so he definitely had POSIX in mind in his implementation. No unix kernel is going to implement the entirety of POSIX, but no one would expect it to.
They implemented it for the sake of being able to claim compliance in case big clients had specified that, but it wasn't a real effort to comply in anything but name, and so it has been abandoned now:
; en-us;308259
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
If you knew anything about the history of NT, you'd know it has changed many things and still IS changing many things to make it more unix-like, so obviously they do need to learn from unix.
You seem to be joking, but I think that's a good point. My first thought on this was of how repeated meditation is known to improve brainwave patterns in a permanent way. Possibly, any big change in philosophy might too.
Your parents are much better about that than the average user. Most people would just figure they don't understand the question, and click on an answer randomly to make it go away before it gets any scarier.
No, it's not a coincidence, considering that nothing is coinciding. Linux is already more than usable, and windows is still being majorly re-thought. As for linux desktops not having "arrived" yet, that's a ridiculous concept that only lives on for people who still use GNOME.
No, linux is an implementation of Unix, not a reinvention of it. It's POSIX-compliant. Windows is still fumbling around with basic lessons which were learned by unix professionals years ago. Nothing different than you'd expect from an OS designed for home computers really.
As for monad/powershell... it's the same story. Instead of having the shell of your choice (bash,csh,zsh,python...) with the programming language of your choice (bash,perl,python,C++...) they're still trying to force a vision on people that will probably turn out to be fundamentally flawed in some way.
What you don't realise is that Microsoft's BASIC probably gave you access to none of the power of that computer. AmigaBASIC is a prime example of this: the computer was capable of most of what a PC can do NOW, but yet this was about two decades ago. AmigaBASIC, microsoft's implementation of BASIC for it though, was the same old junk, with no thought or insight that would make it possible for new programmers to actually discover that power. Just compare Microsoft's AmigaBASIC with the alternative implementations, like AMOS, and you'll see what Microsoft promises are worth. A fulfilled promise isn't a lot to talk about, when the promise is so average.
That depends on whether the weakest creature happens to have a monopoly stranglehold on the PC desktop market, and a prooven interest in manipulating the political system to keep it that way.
Actually, IMAP lets you access your email everywhere, WITH a proper mail client, or with a little systray applet (or mobile phone, or whatever) that checks for new mail. There's really no need for webmail at all, except to give advertising opportunities to ISPs as you read it.
When you do get to look (I haven't yet), be sure to look for signs of vendor lock-in. The only thing worse than an office suite like MS Office, which stores stuff in a proprietary format, would be a website doesn't really reveal the storage mechanisms at all.
Personally, I like my work to be mine, or to be free to give to anyone I want to donate that work to, regardless of what technology they can afford. It's my work, and I should be able to say what can be done with it.
Unless this thing lets me save my work in OpenDocument Format, I won't be touching it.
Pretty big; around 130MB, if I recall (I may not; it's been a while). But don't worry,
In all seriousness, I don't think a full virtual machine would have to be implemented. All along, viruses have worked by just patching what is required to setup a modified environment.
For those who prefer to get their news from industry-specific sources rather than general media, or for those who are boycotting the Microsoft-owned MSNBC, this space.com article might help.
r op.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060407_x37_d
I don't know; I don't see a lot of advanced technology in today's dentistry. They have instruments with finer precision, sure, and they have fillings that last longer, but essentially, they're just plugging holes for the most part, which has always been possible with a bit of tree resin. Essentially, dentistry is a major contrast to other medical professions, because it has made little progress towards prevention or CURES for decay, besides physical stuff like toothpaste and floss.
Lately, there was a slashdot story about changing the electrical properties of teeth so that plaque can't attach. In sci-fi, there are ideas like hermetically sealing teeth. I really think dentistry should be working much harder towards things like that.
Not into some of outlook's features... The following outlook features have little traction in hte marketplace... Also looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard... We hope to see customers get interested in digital whiteboards soon...
Why wouldn't they? It's an international site, not specific to one country, and the closest thing we have to a standard time format is GMT.
Kind of. Although, once that point is reached, they're technically no longer called lightsabres. I think you must be referring to a dildo
Umm, you don't get it. The whole point of copyright is to ALLOW people to use other's work. Grow up, and read a book sometime. Then maybe you'll have the courage of your convictions and be able to talk without Anonymous Coward status.
A lot of political trouble can be stirred up over whose companies get to trade where. If countries can fight about bananas and other seemingly insignificant things, the US government won't be shy about making its point when it comes to their technology industry, the future dominance of the digital economy, etc. Sadly, the US government in this case, like many governments who listen to corporations, will be pawns working for the wrong side.
You're referring to Unix, right?
Yes, and with Unix, you simply have an $HOME variable, a way to hide files within it so they don't clutter things up, and a way to link files to other places. A much simpler, more elegant solution, with just a little forethought. Instead, windows took ages to even borrow this concept from Unix, and is still struggling to make apps use those user directories properly, and with how to manage the space etc. Fundamental design flaws, as I said.
Free has many meanings, some of which (namely, freedom) are more important than others. Moreover, when a no-cost trinket is being used to entice you into giving away your freedom, then it's really not free at all, in any sense of the word.
Yes, I'm aware there are probably many questions that need to be addressed in that documentary :) I hadn't thought of the pylon/poverty thing before though. Good point; thanks :)
Unfortunately, for all Google's talk of being Open-Source/Free Software friendly, they either don't get, or, more likely, don't WANT to get, the need for openness of data formats. Google Video puts videos "online", and makes them searchable. However, if you can't cut up that video and use it in your own videoblog or cable tv show or artistic video montage, then it's really not "available" to you or to the online culture to build on. It might as well be playing behind glass in a shop window, even if you do pay for it.
I remember watching a documentary years ago, from a UK channel (BBC 2?), about the statistics of suicides along major overhead cable routes. It seemed to make a case for depression etc. from those sources. I live beside a substation now though, and I feel pretty good, so I'm putting it down to coincidence.
I also remember hearing that some US schools had overhead cables moved underground around the schools though, and I think that was because of EM rather than kids climbing the pylons.
So... does anyone know if there's any valid concerns about overhead power EM?