Local governments are a lot more responsive to voters than the federal government, since the area represented is so much smaller. If they do a really bad job, the public will turn against it and stop it. As far as people, I don't see how anyone could have a problem with something some other city has decided they want. I don't know what the public their wants, but a trust them and their government to decide.
If SBC really thought this would fail due to inefficiency, they could just wait for it to do so. The reality is that examples from overseas show that this will be far cheaper than anything SBC would willingly provide (some town in Sweden gets 100Mb/sec for $20/mo, for instance).
Not to mention, if it is tax based, those of us that can afford $50/mo would help support those who cannot, just like with roads and everything else. Since we support public internet terminals at libraries the same way already, I don't see that much difference.
It all boils down to the equivalent of a bottled-water company suing to stop a municipal water treatment plant from being installed. I'm *so* sure the company is concerned with the citizens and not their bottom line.
Really, I didn't know Newton had a fourth law: "Objects in a new motion tend to return to a previous motion they are more used to".
You are right insofar as that the Earth will slow down again; But that's due to tidal drag, not because the post-earthquake is returning to "normal". There is no normal over a long period of time, since the Earth's rotation is constantly slowing (in the time of the dinosaurs it was ~23 hours per day).
It's not a pay raise since it comes out of your free time (fleep, time with family, etc). This is clearly unfair, thus I demand the work week be shortened to 39:59:59.999986.6!
On the other hand I don't recall Bungie suing open source projects for (1) writing a compatible game server (bnetd), and (2) making a feature equivalent game to WC2 that ran on modern platforms (Freecraft).
I really enjoyed WC2, just to have them piss on me later for wanting to play something similar on Linux (because it could load WC's artwork, clearly Freecraft was a *threat* to their then 8 year old game...)
Blizzard is no Bungie. Blizzard may have decent products, but this is far outstripped by their competetive sense to destroy all competitors by any means.
there should at least be an attempt made to acknowlege his concern, and look into the issue to see if it really is a problem.
And how is Linus supposed to be able to do this for every email he recieves? I have a very small open source project, and even then I can't reply to everyone; you get all sorts of requests, malformed questions, overly broad questions, people who are completely clueless, or who don't get to the point. It'd be great to look into every one, but there isn't time to do that if you get too many emails or have other work to do.
The reality is if the email wasn't to the point about why this is important, Linus has to treat it like the other load of junk he gets daily and ignore it. After that, why not email LKML instead of making a web page about it? It'll get fixed fast enough then...
So how did all the other students find out about the test? From what you say nobody should have gone to it, and everyone failed. Or perhaps it was that you skipped the class where they announced it, and didn't ask a friend or instructor what happened in class. Also, I'll bet that test wasn't worth 40% of the grade; It was likely a lot less and just happened to be what took you from passing to failing.
I have gotten burned on having to take tests I didn't hear about, and missed assignments I hadn't heard were due. However in all those cases where most people knew about something I didn't, it was my own damn fault.
Welcome to the real world: "How was I supposed to know about the board meeting; Can I make it up with the directors? Please?"
NT started its life as a microkernel, but is not based on its code in any way. Mach pioneered many of the design issues that every microkernel has to solve, so in that sense just about every OS with message passing borrows some ideas from it. In modern years NT has moved to a somewhat more monolithic design for performance reasons. Now it is more of a hybrid design than anything else.
NT was originally developed by many of the core VMS developers after they left DEC, thus its VMS-like flavor. It doesn't use any code from VMS, but was a chance for the developers to start over and build a next generation operating system. They also tried to work with IBM in doing so (whee culture clash). My only gripe is that they took that clean, portable system, and put the Win32 API on top of it.
Wikipedia has a nice entry that is consistent with everything I learned there as an intern a while back. After I left there were many rumors that NT took BSD's better performing TCP stack, but unless someone who knows ever tells the story, its still just a rumor. What is true though it that they use some acient utilities ported from BSD, such as the command-line ftp.
I just think NetBSD is underrated precisely where it is portable.... Why in the world isnt it THE OS for embedded systems?
There are plenty of proprietary BSD forks in the embedded world, and it might be "the" OS except that vendors have no motivation to work together. The Linux forces the openness that tend to make people group around one version.
BSD follows clean design and Linux follows hacker culture, but the hacker culture must be built on strong grounds...
Huh? You based your entire design assessment on how well an OS crosscompiles on one platform?
I've watched Linux development for quite a while now, and its really a lot less hacker culture than it was in the past. During the 2.3 series everything really changed as companies got involved and developers could make a living writing Linux. Nowadays, most of the top developers are paid for their work, companies are testing the heck out of Linux on all sorts of systems, and verification tools are even being applied to the codebase (Ex: Stanford checker, Linus's "sparse"). The only hacker element left that I can tell is the joint review/roasting that occurs whenever anyone posts a patch, but I think that's a good feature -- not a line of code goes in to Linux that isn't looked at by a few people at least. This is not to compare Linux's development in any way with NetBSD, whos developers I'm sure are good. However Linux is hardly what I'd call the product of hacking... at least not anymore.
One problem with challenge response is that Spammers not only send me spam, but send spam purportedly sent by me. I regularly get error messages about mail that could not be delivered. Now I'll get loads of challenge messages instead.
Of course if my MTA signed my messages with a random key, and the challenge message sent the key back, my MTA could filter out anything I didn't actually send. Unfortunately that requires coordination which the various email/spam task groups do not seem to be capable of.
The picture is Lindsay, not Bourne. See here for an earlier picture. I admit its a bit disturbing, but some CS people don't want to "waste" time shaving and getting their hair cut. I also need a haircut and a shave, but not nearly as bad as him. This picture has helped motivate me:)
Since at least the 1970s, the US system has been defined off of the metric system. A foot is exactly 0.3048 meters. Everyone wins, as normal people keep the values they are used to (to at least an accuracy they would never care about), and scientists get the exact values that they need.
It was supposed to be, but their initial estimate turned out to be wrong. They spent several years trying to prove it was right, only to find out the actual value was somewhat different. By then, many were already using the standard however, so they couldn't easily change it. In the end who cares, as long as we all agree;)
I read the paper, and while this needs to be looked at, I'm not all that impressed. They claim that "Counties which introduced electronic voting were more likely to see an increase of votes for Bush". Well, since this is a regression, which is measuring correlation, we can flip it around. Also, since people with higher income tend to be Republicans, since they don't want to pay higher taxes. Then we get: "Counties with an increase of median income were more likely to introduce electronic voting." It's not so suprising anymore; Counties with booming economies have the money to waste on electronic voting machines, and probably are generating Republicans due to increasing incomes. That's not to say this interpretation is the right one, compared to the paper's claim of probable voting irregularities. But the point remains that both are supported by the data, so it needs to be looked at more, with plenty of scientific scepticism all the way.
For one thing, I really think they should have included "change in median income". They find that the income doesn't predict a change in votes... well duh; Knowing the speed of a car isn't going to tell you if it is speeding up or slowing down. Also, they don't check their normal distribution assumptions on any of the data, and are predicting a non-linear dependent variable (change in %) using a linear model. I would really expect more from Berkeley scientists, but hopefully they will improve their work with continued feedback.
Of course, this could all be avoided using the 70 year old mechanical voting machines used in the northeast...
the RIAA/MPAA will have no means to tell what you are casually trading with your friends.
There's an easy RIAA solution to that, they'll just fight to make the whole program illegal. They can also get the companies running the chat servers (AOL, MSN, etc) to block Gaim, using boatloads of cash and potential lawsuits as a nice carrot and stick.
They can't be used to shoot humans, but guess what... They *can* be used to shoot bombs to detonate them, which is the whole point.
There have been police robots with shotguns for at least 5 years in the US; Get over it as it's nothing new. They are all teleoperated and don'd pick targets (or even aim) on their own.
I actually asked Hans a similar question at a talk he gave a while back, and he didn't really answer it, to my disappointment. My question was that "In nature the algorithm and computer were evolved together, so we'd expect them to be at a similar level of advancement. So, even if we get a computer as fast as a human, it might it not be nearly as smart since our programs do not use it efficiently enough?" In other words, Moore's law isn't helping us write better software (in some ways quite the contrary).
I'm a robotic software researcher, so this notion really affects me. IMO Software will lag well behind hardware, since it doesn't scale out nearly as well. Representation is of course a huge problem I won't even try to touch... But rest assured lots of people are working on all these things. Btw, It also doesn't help that CPU designs aren't even trying to make AI-style algorithms fast, but we can't blame manufacterers for that util there is demonstrable money to be made.
Yay we win! The site is down now; After 300 downloads it doesn't work anymore:) I was using the following to keep rough track of how many downloads I was doing:
for (( i=0; i100; i++ )) do { wget -O/dev/null www.fedora-redhat.com/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz } done
Slashdot Mirror
Local governments are a lot more responsive to voters than the federal government, since the area represented is so much smaller. If they do a really bad job, the public will turn against it and stop it. As far as people, I don't see how anyone could have a problem with something some other city has decided they want. I don't know what the public their wants, but a trust them and their government to decide.
If SBC really thought this would fail due to inefficiency, they could just wait for it to do so. The reality is that examples from overseas show that this will be far cheaper than anything SBC would willingly provide (some town in Sweden gets 100Mb/sec for $20/mo, for instance).
Not to mention, if it is tax based, those of us that can afford $50/mo would help support those who cannot, just like with roads and everything else. Since we support public internet terminals at libraries the same way already, I don't see that much difference.
It all boils down to the equivalent of a bottled-water company suing to stop a municipal water treatment plant from being installed. I'm *so* sure the company is concerned with the citizens and not their bottom line.
Really, I didn't know Newton had a fourth law: "Objects in a new motion tend to return to a previous motion they are more used to".
You are right insofar as that the Earth will slow down again; But that's due to tidal drag, not because the post-earthquake is returning to "normal". There is no normal over a long period of time, since the Earth's rotation is constantly slowing (in the time of the dinosaurs it was ~23 hours per day).
It's not a pay raise since it comes out of your free time (fleep, time with family, etc). This is clearly unfair, thus I demand the work week be shortened to 39:59:59.999986.6!
Don't forget Freecraft. Yes, they are bastards.
On the other hand I don't recall Bungie suing open source projects for (1) writing a compatible game server (bnetd), and (2) making a feature equivalent game to WC2 that ran on modern platforms (Freecraft).
I really enjoyed WC2, just to have them piss on me later for wanting to play something similar on Linux (because it could load WC's artwork, clearly Freecraft was a *threat* to their then 8 year old game...)
Blizzard is no Bungie. Blizzard may have decent products, but this is far outstripped by their competetive sense to destroy all competitors by any means.
there should at least be an attempt made to acknowlege his concern, and look into the issue to see if it really is a problem.
And how is Linus supposed to be able to do this for every email he recieves? I have a very small open source project, and even then I can't reply to everyone; you get all sorts of requests, malformed questions, overly broad questions, people who are completely clueless, or who don't get to the point. It'd be great to look into every one, but there isn't time to do that if you get too many emails or have other work to do.
The reality is if the email wasn't to the point about why this is important, Linus has to treat it like the other load of junk he gets daily and ignore it. After that, why not email LKML instead of making a web page about it? It'll get fixed fast enough then...
Something evil.
So how did all the other students find out about the test? From what you say nobody should have gone to it, and everyone failed. Or perhaps it was that you skipped the class where they announced it, and didn't ask a friend or instructor what happened in class. Also, I'll bet that test wasn't worth 40% of the grade; It was likely a lot less and just happened to be what took you from passing to failing.
I have gotten burned on having to take tests I didn't hear about, and missed assignments I hadn't heard were due. However in all those cases where most people knew about something I didn't, it was my own damn fault.
Welcome to the real world: "How was I supposed to know about the board meeting; Can I make it up with the directors? Please?"
NT started its life as a microkernel, but is not based on its code in any way. Mach pioneered many of the design issues that every microkernel has to solve, so in that sense just about every OS with message passing borrows some ideas from it. In modern years NT has moved to a somewhat more monolithic design for performance reasons. Now it is more of a hybrid design than anything else.
NT was originally developed by many of the core VMS developers after they left DEC, thus its VMS-like flavor. It doesn't use any code from VMS, but was a chance for the developers to start over and build a next generation operating system. They also tried to work with IBM in doing so (whee culture clash). My only gripe is that they took that clean, portable system, and put the Win32 API on top of it.
Wikipedia has a nice entry that is consistent with everything I learned there as an intern a while back. After I left there were many rumors that NT took BSD's better performing TCP stack, but unless someone who knows ever tells the story, its still just a rumor. What is true though it that they use some acient utilities ported from BSD, such as the command-line ftp.
Well, not really. I just have an arm and a broken CPU. When I asked the suppliers where it came from, they said "don't ask".
I just think NetBSD is underrated precisely where it is portable.... Why in the world isnt it THE OS for embedded systems?
There are plenty of proprietary BSD forks in the embedded world, and it might be "the" OS except that vendors have no motivation to work together. The Linux forces the openness that tend to make people group around one version.
BSD follows clean design and Linux follows hacker culture, but the hacker culture must be built on strong grounds...
Huh? You based your entire design assessment on how well an OS crosscompiles on one platform?
I've watched Linux development for quite a while now, and its really a lot less hacker culture than it was in the past. During the 2.3 series everything really changed as companies got involved and developers could make a living writing Linux. Nowadays, most of the top developers are paid for their work, companies are testing the heck out of Linux on all sorts of systems, and verification tools are even being applied to the codebase (Ex: Stanford checker, Linus's "sparse"). The only hacker element left that I can tell is the joint review/roasting that occurs whenever anyone posts a patch, but I think that's a good feature -- not a line of code goes in to Linux that isn't looked at by a few people at least. This is not to compare Linux's development in any way with NetBSD, whos developers I'm sure are good. However Linux is hardly what I'd call the product of hacking... at least not anymore.
I'm banking on "Thoughtpad". They can use it after the 5 years is up on using the Think brand, and it carries a convenient past tense.
Will miss not having a T1000 eventually...
One problem with challenge response is that Spammers not only send me spam, but send spam purportedly sent by me. I regularly get error messages about mail that could not be delivered. Now I'll get loads of challenge messages instead.
Of course if my MTA signed my messages with a random key, and the challenge message sent the key back, my MTA could filter out anything I didn't actually send. Unfortunately that requires coordination which the various email/spam task groups do not seem to be capable of.
The picture is Lindsay, not Bourne. See here for an earlier picture. I admit its a bit disturbing, but some CS people don't want to "waste" time shaving and getting their hair cut. I also need a haircut and a shave, but not nearly as bad as him. This picture has helped motivate me :)
Since at least the 1970s, the US system has been defined off of the metric system. A foot is exactly 0.3048 meters. Everyone wins, as normal people keep the values they are used to (to at least an accuracy they would never care about), and scientists get the exact values that they need.
It was supposed to be, but their initial estimate turned out to be wrong. They spent several years trying to prove it was right, only to find out the actual value was somewhat different. By then, many were already using the standard however, so they couldn't easily change it. In the end who cares, as long as we all agree ;)
I read the paper, and while this needs to be looked at, I'm not all that impressed. They claim that "Counties which introduced electronic voting were more likely to see an increase of votes for Bush". Well, since this is a regression, which is measuring correlation, we can flip it around. Also, since people with higher income tend to be Republicans, since they don't want to pay higher taxes. Then we get: "Counties with an increase of median income were more likely to introduce electronic voting." It's not so suprising anymore; Counties with booming economies have the money to waste on electronic voting machines, and probably are generating Republicans due to increasing incomes. That's not to say this interpretation is the right one, compared to the paper's claim of probable voting irregularities. But the point remains that both are supported by the data, so it needs to be looked at more, with plenty of scientific scepticism all the way.
For one thing, I really think they should have included "change in median income". They find that the income doesn't predict a change in votes... well duh; Knowing the speed of a car isn't going to tell you if it is speeding up or slowing down. Also, they don't check their normal distribution assumptions on any of the data, and are predicting a non-linear dependent variable (change in %) using a linear model. I would really expect more from Berkeley scientists, but hopefully they will improve their work with continued feedback.
Of course, this could all be avoided using the 70 year old mechanical voting machines used in the northeast...
the RIAA/MPAA will have no means to tell what you are casually trading with your friends.
There's an easy RIAA solution to that, they'll just fight to make the whole program illegal. They can also get the companies running the chat servers (AOL, MSN, etc) to block Gaim, using boatloads of cash and potential lawsuits as a nice carrot and stick.
No thanks, I'd rather keep Gaim as it is.
echo "1" > /dev/shotgun0
They can't be used to shoot humans, but guess what... They *can* be used to shoot bombs to detonate them, which is the whole point.
There have been police robots with shotguns for at least 5 years in the US; Get over it as it's nothing new. They are all teleoperated and don'd pick targets (or even aim) on their own.
I actually asked Hans a similar question at a talk he gave a while back, and he didn't really answer it, to my disappointment. My question was that "In nature the algorithm and computer were evolved together, so we'd expect them to be at a similar level of advancement. So, even if we get a computer as fast as a human, it might it not be nearly as smart since our programs do not use it efficiently enough?" In other words, Moore's law isn't helping us write better software (in some ways quite the contrary).
I'm a robotic software researcher, so this notion really affects me. IMO Software will lag well behind hardware, since it doesn't scale out nearly as well. Representation is of course a huge problem I won't even try to touch... But rest assured lots of people are working on all these things. Btw, It also doesn't help that CPU designs aren't even trying to make AI-style algorithms fast, but we can't blame manufacterers for that util there is demonstrable money to be made.
Yay we win! The site is down now; After 300 downloads it doesn't work anymore :) I was using the following to keep rough track of how many downloads I was doing:
/dev/null www.fedora-redhat.com/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz } done
for (( i=0; i100; i++ )) do { wget -O
Aha, so this trojan is vulnerable to a symlink attack using /tmp/mama! Stupid trojan writers can't write secure code...
By the way, you want to use "affected", not "effected", which is a mistake the site also makes.