. . "It's really not an operating system until it's multi platform and is separated from the hardware enough (not written close to the machine) to allow porting to other machines." I think this is an applicable parameter when judging weather an operating system is really matured enough to become an OS.
What's interesting is, by this standard, microsoft has yet to make an operating system.
Like packets zipping through routers, personalized air travel will need to be efficient, safe, autonomous and affordable to deploy on a large scale. Nobody wants to be the first "dropped packet" in such an air traffic control system. I think that the first step to deploying such a system is to do it first in 2D (on the road with roads and bridges) and then in 3D in the air. As it exists right now, the existing commercial air traffic control is out of date and they should practice there first to work out the kinks.
There's enough (in the words of George Carlin) 'assholes and idiots' on the road and I, for one, would not be happy facing a rush hour of newbie pilots playing Q3 Arena on their HUD as I try to fly into work.
From the article at SHMN:"The WebTV team is also working on a more advanced chip that holds 9 million transistors -- roughly equivalent to Intel's Pentium 3 chip. The Solo2 has 2.2 million transistors."
Re:"Her ass size is even bigger than signal11's karma
Now I know that her ass is certinly, how ca I say, ample, but comparing it to the size of sig11s karma is just over the top. If it were true, Ms. Lopez would have an ass large enough to be given electoral votes in the upcoming election. (I say this knowing full well that people would actually have to live in the famed ass of Ms. Lopez to get electoral votes, but I'll glaze over that detail for a weak, very weak attempt at humor).
Re:Oh, no. She sucks.
Yea, I know.
What changed my mind?
From the cell: Jennifer Lopez sitting in her undies in front of her I Mac taking a slow hit of a fat doob.
..I just saw "The Cell" this weekend and it's really a fantasticly horrific (in a good way) movie. If Trent Reznor (NIN) was to direct 'silence of the lambs' and had John Karmack at his side to create every freaky effect his disturbed heart desired, this movie would be the outcome.
On another note, I'de like to nominate the star of 'The Cell', Jenifer Lopez, as the new/. grrl.
Smell-seeing arrays have many potential uses, such as in the food and beverage industry to detect the presence of flavorings, additives or spoilage; in the perfume industry to identify counterfeit products; at customs checkpoints to detect banned plant materials, fruits and vegetables; and in the chemical workplace to detect and monitor poisons or toxins.
...and at the Gore 2000 headquarters to smell the bullshit?
Leave it to the US 'gubment to use a term like broom to refer to a spaced station based, highly focused beem of energy with enough power to send sputnic to a firey death at the end of a decaying orbit.
This from the same people who call the shipyard in Groton, CT that makes the stelthy nuclear powered submarines that carry dozens of intercontinental balistic missiles that can rain down multiple independant warheads on nearly any city in the world with less than 1 hours notice . ..the electric boat division.
Most people in this 21st century, are educated enough about trying to invest in a.com and look for "infrastructure" companies instead. Sun and Cisco are 2 prime examples of companies that have done very well when investors follow this path. Investing in a company that has something truley of value and, services the hell out of they're customers is more likely to return very handsomly in the long term (in internet years, long term = 1 year).
Transmeta has the right tech (high powered yet *low* powered chips in the handheld market). Transmeta has the right patents (code morphing, long run) but what remains to be seen is weather they can do that last very important thing. Service the hell out of their customers.
Can the fab line scale? Will the patents be challenged? How will they respond to Intel dumping dragonballs into the market?
These are all questions that remain to be answered. For me, I have to say, if they're smart enough to hire Linus, they're smart enough for me.
Star Wars Episode 2: The Rise of Jar Jar Binks.
Synopsis:
From the producers of "Cyder House Rules" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", this feel good romantic comedy tracks the trials and tribulations of the young Jar Jar in a tender coming of age story. Winona Rider and jar jar spend fall in new york frolicing in the autum leaves and finding the kind of deep, passionate love that most aliens can only dream of.
Nooooooooo!
Here's what we're up against, folks.
From Judge Kaplan's ruling. Defendants, on the other hand, are adherents of a movement that believes that information should be available without charge to anyone clever enough to break into the computer systems or data storage media in which it is located.
Now we all know that reverse engineering, by itself, does not have any malice, so where does the judge get the above stated belief?
From 2600: At last Kevin is free! and,
associating the secret service with the natzi SS I'll defend 2600 and their right to free speach to the last but, would it hurt to tone down the rhetoric a bit? If you get hit by lightning, you have a right to complain. If you, time after time, try to attract that lightning, you can't bitch when it strikes.For whom would you have more pitty?
1) A golfer gets caught in the rain with a club in his hand.
2) someone who waits for the rain before standing on the highest ground with 9 irons in both hands. All I'm saying is 2600 could still provide the same content without all the wannbee hacker noise that attract snap judgments like the one made by the judge in this case. WANTED
The ideal defendant: A middle aged soccer mom/hacker who used DeCSS to show her 6 year old daughter the Teletubbies DVD on daddies linux box. Then, "It's all about the children".
The lawyer representing their clients did not make their case well enough to overcome the misstaken assumtion that reverse engineering has malicious intent. This statement is evidenced by the following statements made by the judge in the case:
(my emphysis added) Defendants, on the other hand, are adherents of amovement that believes that information should be available without charge to anyone clever enough to break into the computer systems or data storage media in which it is located. Less radically, they have raised a legitimate concern about the possible impact on traditional fair use of access control measures in the digital era.
Cutting out the media middle man.
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A politician sends a team to my town to collect demographics and schmooz the owners of the local media outlets. They pick a subject that polls well in the area with the people *and*, (this is the real key) a topic that has a lot of money surrounding it. (IE:"down with healthcare" is bad because there's nobody with enough money to pay the politician to shut up but, "down with managed healthcare" is good because there are companies with enough money to shut the politician up).
The people get all worked up in a tizzy and "demand leadership on the issue".
Then the soft bigotry of the 30 second spot begins. In "old media" such as newspapers, it's commonplace for the papers to announce to all their readers who they support in an election. This allows the reader to regard the content they read with a better understanding of the papers point of view and 'take it with a grain of salt'. There is little such disclosure on the part of the local and national television media.
When the politicians team comes to town and wants to buy up every other 30 second advertisement on "CBS Action 4" in the first week of november (the last week of the election) the sales manager makes a decision that effects his or her viewers without disclosing the why and for how much. Are you watching wall to wall Quayle 2000 adds because:
1) The local station was on the verge of chapter 11 and this sale saved the station?
2) Nobody else offered to buy the spots and without this sale, they would have been filled with PSAs?
3) Quayles apposeing candidate offered twice as much money to run her adds in those same spots but, the station sales manager is banging that hot chick who works for the quale media team?
4) The station owner plays golf with a lawyer who made a mint off of quayle?
5) Everybody at the station just likes that quayle guy?
In the process, the media makes millions off of campane financing (ever notice how television reports of campane finance reform talks about how they raise their money and never on how they spend it?) to show you adds you don't want to see and to further suppress voter turnout in the country.
So there you sit, getting "educated on the issues" by anoying adds in the middle of The Simpsons. So somebody brought up the idea that the same 'media team' comes to town and gives the money directly to the people casting the votes? If it means cutting out the media middle man, I'm all for it.
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I think this is an applicable parameter when judging weather an operating system is really matured enough to become an OS.
What's interesting is, by this standard, microsoft has yet to make an operating system.
Like packets zipping through routers, personalized air travel will need to be efficient, safe, autonomous and affordable to deploy on a large scale. Nobody wants to be the first "dropped packet" in such an air traffic control system. I think that the first step to deploying such a system is to do it first in 2D (on the road with roads and bridges) and then in 3D in the air. As it exists right now, the existing commercial air traffic control is out of date and they should practice there first to work out the kinks.
There's enough (in the words of George Carlin) 'assholes and idiots' on the road and I, for one, would not be happy facing a rush hour of newbie pilots playing Q3 Arena on their HUD as I try to fly into work.
From the article at SHMN:"The WebTV team is also working on a more advanced chip that holds 9 million transistors -- roughly equivalent to Intel's Pentium 3 chip. The Solo2 has 2.2 million transistors."
A:Nope. Tried that.
Q:Can we out market Palm?
A:Nope. Tried that.
Q:Can we lock in users on the apps level?
A:Nope. Tried that.
Q:Can we lock in users on the OS level?
A:Nope Tried that.
Q:Can we lock in users on the hardware level?
A:I guess so. We have nothing to loose.
Q:How about giving the customer a better product?
A:Blank stare . . . [laughter]
The web browser is part of the Operating System.
It's true. Microsoft said so.
Now I know that her ass is certinly, how ca I say, ample, but comparing it to the size of sig11s karma is just over the top. If it were true, Ms. Lopez would have an ass large enough to be given electoral votes in the upcoming election.
(I say this knowing full well that people would actually have to live in the famed ass of Ms. Lopez to get electoral votes, but I'll glaze over that detail for a weak, very weak attempt at humor).
Re:Oh, no. She sucks. Yea, I know.
What changed my mind?
From the cell: Jennifer Lopez sitting in her undies in front of her I Mac taking a slow hit of a fat doob.
Andy Ricter.
Paul Shaefer.
Ed McMann.
4 out of 5 sidekicks surveyed prefer pico. ;)
On another note, I'de like to nominate the star of 'The Cell', Jenifer Lopez, as the new /. grrl.
Thank you for pointing this out.
Correction: StrongARM is the Intel owned product I was thinking of.
seems affective. :)
but we all know it's to protect us from those pissed off martians who keep getting probes bounced off their pointey little heads.
I'll take obscure movie refferances for 100, Alex.
This from the same people who call the shipyard in Groton, CT that makes the stelthy nuclear powered submarines that carry dozens of intercontinental balistic missiles that can rain down multiple independant warheads on nearly any city in the world with less than 1 hours notice . . .the electric boat division.
You should give him credit. ;)
Transmeta has the right tech (high powered yet *low* powered chips in the handheld market). Transmeta has the right patents (code morphing, long run) but what remains to be seen is weather they can do that last very important thing. Service the hell out of their customers.
Can the fab line scale? Will the patents be challenged? How will they respond to Intel dumping dragonballs into the market?
These are all questions that remain to be answered. For me, I have to say, if they're smart enough to hire Linus, they're smart enough for me.
http://dail ynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000817/tc/multimedia_hacker _dc_1.html
Star Wars Episode 2: The Rise of Jar Jar Binks.
Synopsis: From the producers of "Cyder House Rules" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", this feel good romantic comedy tracks the trials and tribulations of the young Jar Jar in a tender coming of age story. Winona Rider and jar jar spend fall in new york frolicing in the autum leaves and finding the kind of deep, passionate love that most aliens can only dream of.
Nooooooooo!
Now we all know that reverse engineering, by itself, does not have any malice, so where does the judge get the above stated belief?
From 2600:
At last Kevin is free! and, associating the secret service with the natzi SS
I'll defend 2600 and their right to free speach to the last but, would it hurt to tone down the rhetoric a bit? If you get hit by lightning, you have a right to complain. If you, time after time, try to attract that lightning, you can't bitch when it strikes.For whom would you have more pitty?
1) A golfer gets caught in the rain with a club in his hand.
2) someone who waits for the rain before standing on the highest ground with 9 irons in both hands.
All I'm saying is 2600 could still provide the same content without all the wannbee hacker noise that attract snap judgments like the one made by the judge in this case.
WANTED The ideal defendant:
A middle aged soccer mom/hacker who used DeCSS to show her 6 year old daughter the Teletubbies DVD on daddies linux box. Then, "It's all about the children".
(my emphysis added)
Defendants, on the other hand, are adherents of a movement that believes that information should be available without charge to anyone clever enough to break into the computer systems or data storage media in which it is located. Less radically, they have raised a legitimate concern about the possible impact on traditional fair use of access control measures in the digital era.
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The people get all worked up in a tizzy and "demand leadership on the issue".
Then the soft bigotry of the 30 second spot begins. In "old media" such as newspapers, it's commonplace for the papers to announce to all their readers who they support in an election. This allows the reader to regard the content they read with a better understanding of the papers point of view and 'take it with a grain of salt'. There is little such disclosure on the part of the local and national television media.
When the politicians team comes to town and wants to buy up every other 30 second advertisement on "CBS Action 4" in the first week of november (the last week of the election) the sales manager makes a decision that effects his or her viewers without disclosing the why and for how much. Are you watching wall to wall Quayle 2000 adds because:
1) The local station was on the verge of chapter 11 and this sale saved the station?
2) Nobody else offered to buy the spots and without this sale, they would have been filled with PSAs?
3) Quayles apposeing candidate offered twice as much money to run her adds in those same spots but, the station sales manager is banging that hot chick who works for the quale media team?
4) The station owner plays golf with a lawyer who made a mint off of quayle?
5) Everybody at the station just likes that quayle guy?
In the process, the media makes millions off of campane financing (ever notice how television reports of campane finance reform talks about how they raise their money and never on how they spend it?) to show you adds you don't want to see and to further suppress voter turnout in the country.
So there you sit, getting "educated on the issues" by anoying adds in the middle of The Simpsons. So somebody brought up the idea that the same 'media team' comes to town and gives the money directly to the people casting the votes? If it means cutting out the media middle man, I'm all for it.