Can you imagine how much more dull F1 racing would become with electronic drivers aids if this was one of them?
There's hardly much overtaking now. Think what it will be like at Silverstone going into the first corner. All the cars will start braking at exactly the same point.
Of course, starting an F1 race in which all cars got the same qualification time will be interesting.
Beware - most CART cars use UK-sourced electronics and chassis.
Remember the maxim "security through obscurity"? Ignorance is rarely a valid defence mechanism. Just like a long incubation period, it prevents the rapid spread of knowledge, but it does not eliminate it.
As has been mentioned here in other reasoned posts, such mutations do occur in nature. Although greater education in genetics allows more scope for "genetic terrorists" it also allows more scope for discoveries that will mitigate against them. The same is true of all advanced knowlege.
By the same token, we cannot close the box on high explosives, fissile materials, vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP stack, electromagnetic induction, or a myriad other important tools that can be used for unethical ends.
The only significant drawback to choosing an Apple Powerbook G3 (series 3, Lombard, bronze, whatever) as my next Linux laptop is the delivery wait that I'm currently enduring. I waited long enough to see that LinuxPPC was running on it, and then ordered one (the 400MHz model). I then thought better of a big download and ordered a LinuxPPC CD. The Linux CD arrived long ago, the laptop has yet to arrive.
I'm not too concerned about the lack of a three button mouse. I think that the Linux environment I'll be using is configurable enough to make up for that. Pasting text is one of the few things I'd need to adapt to. Can't say I use the right and middle buttons on this Thinkpad 770 for much more. I might as well be pressing a keyboard modifier for my speed with any other operation.
I am perhaps fortunate in that I don't have an investment in architecture-dependant binary software on Linux. Since I don't plan to run either office-typical suites or big relational databases on my laptop, there's no problem there. I'm happy to see that there's both an x86 and PPC Linux version of Xing's MP3 encoder, so I'll be able to build up my MP3 library as I use LinuxPPC, using modern, licensed codecs.
Hardware-wise, the G3 Powerbook kit is ahead of the game WRT most x86 laptops. Anything that comes close is at least as expensive. The real plus is that when it comes to running mainstream proprietry applications, the MacOS is a pleasure to use, and Windows is a chore. If, like me, your use for a "toy OS" is to run media-creation software rather than play games, the MacOS and hence PowerPC is a better place to be.
Finally, it's *way* cooler to be running a hacked-togther LinuxPPC on a G3 'book than a stock RedHat on a Thinkpad.
Perl won't win unless somebody does something very elegant using it, and I'd be surprised if a more elegant solution did not come from a team using something more appropriate. Style counts in this contest. However, as last year proves, if performance and experience of the task are significant factors, functional languages aren't guaranteed a win either.
BTW, why use an "Anonymous Coward" post and then include your URL? I took a quick look, and you've got a very nice web site. Anybody interested in computational mathematics should have a gander.
How often is it there? The behaviour seems to be that it is available for a couple of minutes then not available for a long time. I considered that it might be backing off host addresses that it considered were attacking it. I've since proved to myself that this is not the case. It seems to be backing off the service for any address after a certain amount of activity. That's hardly a viable Internet configuration. Of course, it could just be broken. Lets hope they fix it before Microsoft spread more FUD about Linux.
Dangerous ground naming Vint Cerf. Without the vision of Bush, Licklider and Baran, he may never have been in the later frame alongside Kahn or indeed Crocker. Ah well, that's the media circus for you. I reckon that it was Paul Baran's work demonstrating the strategic importance that made the greatest impact, drawing together all those (and many, many more) fine computer scientists under defense contracts. See: http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3420/
That would be Gavrilo Princip. There's a bio at: http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/bio/p/pr incip.html
Of course, Princip was just a pawn in the hands of the true mastermind, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic: http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/bio/d/dr agutin.html
It seems that their legacy lives on, as old tensions create new wars and problems in the area.
While a great choice for political expression, I'd like to think that ultimately, leaving "the cradle of Earth", the flurry of spin-off technology associated with the space race, and the power projection offered by missiles adds up to a good deal more. I'll keep von Braun as my vote, but I'd have to say that at least Dimitrijevic belongs up there too.
It's a shame that most of the people on the list simply represent the most memorable names hyped by the (predominately TV) media in the last decade. While I don't disagree that most of these people are important in one way or another, can they fairly be described as having been the people who most influenced the course of history in the last 100 years?
For what it's worth, I didn't use tactical voting - my nomination went to the former German rocket scientist Werner Von Braun, whose contribution to scientific advancement throughout the world has precipitated more change than can be reasonably recorded in even a single volume book, let alone a simple sound-bite.
The industry analyst who thought that putting focus one more than one distribution was bad for the market came by this strange view by considering Linux as a brand. Since Linux does not represent a single commercial force, it patently doesn't deserve such a comparison. It would also be a mistake to believe that if you took all the market share of commercial Linux distributions together that it would represent a smaller share than if the various distributions were to unify. Simply, if Linux gains commonplace desktop acceptance, it will be because it has been made both easy enough and useful for the typical computer user. If that comes from one distribution or a dozen, the growth will be pretty similar. Furthermore, there will always be room for many niche distributions. None of this weakens Linux, it strengthens it.
Since IBM woke up to the Internet, it's been recruiting the sort of people who run Linux at home, who write it. There's a lot of Linux talent in IBM today, and it's no surprise that the journos are getting a whiff of marketed Linux systems. After all, within IBM, there's already plenty of support (and therefore patentable code that runs on Linux).
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Can you imagine how much more dull F1 racing would become with electronic drivers aids if this was one of them?
There's hardly much overtaking now. Think what it will be like at Silverstone going into the first corner. All the cars will start braking at exactly the same point.
Of course, starting an F1 race in which all cars got the same qualification time will be interesting.
Beware - most CART cars use UK-sourced electronics and chassis.
Remember the maxim "security through obscurity"? Ignorance is rarely a valid defence mechanism. Just like a long incubation period, it prevents the rapid spread of knowledge, but it does not eliminate it.
As has been mentioned here in other reasoned posts, such mutations do occur in nature. Although greater education in genetics allows more scope for "genetic terrorists" it also allows more scope for discoveries that will mitigate against them. The same is true of all advanced knowlege.
By the same token, we cannot close the box on high explosives, fissile materials, vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP stack, electromagnetic induction, or a myriad other important tools that can be used for unethical ends.
Be disgusted, read: about Ken Saro Wiwa and Shell's recent record
The only significant drawback to choosing an Apple Powerbook G3 (series 3, Lombard, bronze, whatever) as my next Linux laptop is the delivery wait that I'm currently enduring. I waited long enough to see that LinuxPPC was running on it, and then ordered one (the 400MHz model). I then thought better of a big download and ordered a LinuxPPC CD. The Linux CD arrived long ago, the laptop has yet to arrive.
I'm not too concerned about the lack of a three button mouse. I think that the Linux environment I'll be using is configurable enough to make up for that. Pasting text is one of the few things I'd need to adapt to. Can't say I use the right and middle buttons on this Thinkpad 770 for much more. I might as well be pressing a keyboard modifier for my speed with any other operation.
I am perhaps fortunate in that I don't have an investment in architecture-dependant binary software on Linux. Since I don't plan to run either office-typical suites or big relational databases on my laptop, there's no problem there. I'm happy to see that there's both an x86 and PPC Linux version of Xing's MP3 encoder, so I'll be able to build up my MP3 library as I use LinuxPPC, using modern, licensed codecs.
Hardware-wise, the G3 Powerbook kit is ahead of the game WRT most x86 laptops. Anything that comes close is at least as expensive. The real plus is that when it comes to running mainstream proprietry applications, the MacOS is a pleasure to use, and Windows is a chore. If, like me, your use for a "toy OS" is to run media-creation software rather than play games, the MacOS and hence PowerPC is a better place to be.
Finally, it's *way* cooler to be running a hacked-togther LinuxPPC on a G3 'book than a stock RedHat on a Thinkpad.
Perl won't win unless somebody does something very elegant using it, and I'd be surprised if a more elegant solution did not come from a team using something more appropriate. Style counts in this contest. However, as last year proves, if performance and experience of the task are significant factors, functional languages aren't guaranteed a win either.
BTW, why use an "Anonymous Coward" post and then include your URL? I took a quick look, and you've got a very nice web site. Anybody interested in computational mathematics should have a gander.
It's hard to believe that they made a voice-over show less interesting than Beavis and Butthead, but they did. Good riddance.
How often is it there? The behaviour seems to be that it is available for a couple of minutes then not available for a long time. I considered that it might be backing off host addresses that it considered were attacking it. I've since proved to myself that this is not the case. It seems to be backing off the service for any address after a certain amount of activity. That's hardly a viable Internet configuration. Of course, it could just be broken. Lets hope they fix it before Microsoft spread more FUD about Linux.
Dangerous ground naming Vint Cerf. Without the vision of Bush, Licklider and Baran, he may never have been in the later frame alongside Kahn or indeed Crocker. Ah well, that's the media circus for you. I reckon that it was Paul Baran's work demonstrating the strategic importance that made the greatest impact, drawing together all those (and many, many more) fine computer scientists under defense contracts. See: http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3420/
That would be Gavrilo Princip. There's a bio at: http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/bio/p/pr incip.html
r agutin.html
Of course, Princip was just a pawn in the hands of the true mastermind, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic: http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/bio/d/d
It seems that their legacy lives on, as old tensions create new wars and problems in the area.
While a great choice for political expression, I'd like to think that ultimately, leaving "the cradle of Earth", the flurry of spin-off technology associated with the space race, and the power projection offered by missiles adds up to a good deal more. I'll keep von Braun as my vote, but I'd have to say that at least Dimitrijevic belongs up there too.
It's a shame that most of the people on the list simply represent the most memorable names hyped by the (predominately TV) media in the last decade. While I don't disagree that most of these people are important in one way or another, can they fairly be described as having been the people who most influenced the course of history in the last 100 years?
For what it's worth, I didn't use tactical voting - my nomination went to the former German rocket scientist Werner Von Braun, whose contribution to scientific advancement throughout the world has precipitated more change than can be reasonably recorded in even a single volume book, let alone a simple sound-bite.
The industry analyst who thought that putting focus one more than one distribution was bad for the market came by this strange view by considering Linux as a brand. Since Linux does not represent a single commercial force, it patently doesn't deserve such a comparison. It would also be a mistake to believe that if you took all the market share of commercial Linux distributions together that it would represent a smaller share than if the various distributions were to unify. Simply, if Linux gains commonplace desktop acceptance, it will be because it has been made both easy enough and useful for the typical computer user. If that comes from one distribution or a dozen, the growth will be pretty similar.
Furthermore, there will always be room for many niche distributions. None of this weakens Linux, it strengthens it.
Since IBM woke up to the Internet, it's been recruiting the sort of people who run Linux at home, who write it. There's a lot of Linux talent in IBM today, and it's no surprise that the journos are getting a whiff of marketed Linux systems. After all, within IBM, there's already plenty of support (and therefore patentable code that runs on Linux).