In terms of not being able to see content, no, it's probably not a problem.
However, I don't like the thought that some portion of the money I spend on every DVD or player I purchase will go to Microsoft. It's the same old MS tax, only worse. If I don't want to buy windows it's pretty easy to find a vendor who won't preload it, but how do I avoid giving Bill Gates any of my money when I buy LOTR if the DVD has licensed MS code?
Check out dotGNU's virtual identities. They're very early in the process, still considering proposed solutions, but I'm willing to bet that what they eventually come up with will be both really open and better than either passport or liberty.
The IEEE spec has expired, I can't find any information about efforts towards r6rs, and not much seems to be happening on the SRFI front. On the other hand, there's an active Scheme community and dozens of implementions, and it seems more show up daily.
How do you reconcile these apparent contradictions, and where do you see Scheme going?
The article says that MS is looking to work with AOL on this. Oh, joy.
It also quotes MS as saying:
Microsoft said it would extend its Passport identification service to other Web site operators and companies by supporting Kerberos 5.0 -- another authentication service developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Of course, I'm sure we can all guess which version of Kerberos they'll be using...
My (admittedly limited) understanding is that one-time ciphers are only completely secure if the pad is truly random.
"Cryptonomicon" has a brief passage about cracking one-time ciphers where the pad was generated by picking ping-pong balls out of a hopper. This turned out not to be random enough because of the human tendency to pick out common letters more often...
I know anecdotal evidence is pretty worthless, but I've had an Espresso running for a couple of weeks continuously. It was only acting as a VPN gateway so there probably wasn't much disk activity, but it stayed up and running and it didn't have to be immersed in liquid nitrogen or anything.
Simon Peyton Jones is one of the Big Names in functional programming languages, and played a big role in the development of haskell a very cool language that I do recommend people check out.
Hearing that Microsoft is paying his bills and directing his research saddens me a great deal. Although I find it amusing that his paper on calling COM from Haskell and vice-versa is entitled "Calling hell from heaven, and heaven from hell."
Still, I imagine that if he weren't at MS the paper would be about CORBA or some other standard instead of COM, which would make it much more useful. Pity...
I'm also surprised that with guys like this on the payroll the best MS can come up with is a warmed-over Java with VB hooks.
However, what worries me is concepts like cartoons and movies of DW.
There's no need to worry, the cartoon adaption of Soul Music is absolutely brilliant. Terry himself has said as much, and attributes it to knowing when to step in and correct something, and when to get out of the way and trust the people he was working with.
I saw it at Worldcon, but if you have access to PAL equipment it is available for purchase from amazon.uk, and probably other less evil companies as well.
This is way offtopic, but I just wanted to mention that the "Meenie Eenie" reference comes from the brilliant radio drama "The Fourth Tower of Inverness." The fact that at least some of their staff are fans makes me want to give them my money even more.
The published portions of the Java spec include the language syntax, the entire VM (all opcodes, the class file format, etc), all the classes under the java. packages and the Java Native Interface. It's all covered in the Java series from Addison Wesley. Off hand, I can't think of any other info that would be needed to build a fully compatible Java 2 standard edition. Of course it would be extremely difficult in practice, but isn't this exactly what Kaffe and Japhar are doing?
Someone should start selling little tiny penguin keys or stickers
A company called Sandy Lion used to have a sticker line called "Playful Penguins" that were perfect. I've got one covering the Windows logo (AKA the "sigil of ultimate evil") on my Vaio. Unfortunately I can't find a web page for the company, but check your local Hallmark.
Alternately, there's always Badtz Maru for those with a Sanrio fetish...
If current theories are right there is also a chance, again infinitesimal, that this thing could trigger the metastable vacuum. The metastable vacuum is a theoretical region of space that has a lower ambient energy than a regular vacuum. No matter we know of could exist in a metastable vacuum, it would all just sort of evaporate.
Once created, the metastable vacuum would spread out at the speed of light, eventually deflating the entire Universe. Puts little piddly concerns like the Earth into perspective, huh?
Still, I'm not loosing any sleep. If there were any real chance of this happening, odds are it would have happened millennia ago. Personally, I can't wait until this thing starts producing data. Science rocks.
WinAmp and Shoutcast make sense for AOL, but I'm not sure what they plan to do with spinner, unless they want to turn it into an member-only pseudo radio station.
In any case, it's a pretty safe bet they'll restrict the playlists and make it more like any bland mainstream radio station. Too bad. Spinner's Gothic channel isn't bad, but I can't imagine 'family-friendly' AOL supporting music that half the US thinks causes children to kill each other.
First off, it's a microscopic bubble. He says that the walls can initially be only a few hundred Planck's lengths thick at the start
True, but if I'm reading this right the area inside the walls can be significantly larger. Region I in the diagram is a 'pocket which has a large inner metric diameter.' he also states in the abstract that his solution supports the 'transport of macroscopic objects.'
In the ever popular rubber sheet model, it seems he has a large inflated balloon where the lips comprise the warp bubble. Except that the space inside the bubble is also locally flat.
In other words, what he has is not just a warp drive, but also a TARDIS....
If it were me, I would only agree to participate under two conditions:
The NT installation be done off a commercial CD, in view of the linux experts. In other words, ensure that what is being tested is what is available to the general consumer, and not some custom NT kernel or IIS.
Demand that the tests include some measurement of uptimes. Maybe run all 13 tests for a couple of weeks and report how many times each server needed to be rebooted This way, even if by some miracle NT does come out ahead in performace, Linux will still have something to boast about.
Actually I do use Lynx probably 70% of the time, and probably always will. You are right, though, that I'd like to see Mozilla support the latest versions of HTML and CSS, as well as XML and XSL.
I don't want my web browser to have a built in IRC client. For that matter, I don't want it to have built in mail, news, MUD or Netrek clients either. I already have fine programs for all these things. What I want is a small, light, fast web browser, period.
I hope they're putting all this extra cruft in dynamic libraries, and setting up the config files so I can compile my own minimal version.
This is almost certainly nothing but a publicity move. And if it's anything more, it's a preemptive strike against the DOJ. But there is one other nightmare scenario, that falls right in sync with the "Embrace and Extend" approach:
I very much doubt any Linux hackers will want to touch NT's kernel. What they might want to do, however, is add support for the NT API into Linux. At least in theory, this would let you replace the NT kernel with the Linux kernel, and run NT and Linux apps at the same time.
And maybe then Microsoft completely drops the NT Kernel in favor of Linux's. This gets them a much faster and more stable kernel for free.
The next version of Windows is then advertised as fast and stable and, oh yes, runs Linux apps also. This would be a huge blow to RedHat and other commercial Linux vendors.
> Without mozzila, wich browser do we turn to? Mozzila was maybe the only one with it's code open.
There are other open source browsers in development, although as far as I can tell none are as far along as mozilla. Mnemonic seems to be the one that is moving the quickest. Their site also has a page listing some other alternatives, both available and developing.
Arguably it would be better to concentrate all efforts on a single best candidate, and no doubt JWZ was hoping Mozilla would be that candidate. It seems another key incredient of an OSS project's success is a single, concentrated development effort.
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My Libretto accepted Linux with no complaint (although during the install I had to jump through some hoops to get around the fact that there's no support for the weird PCMCIA floppy).
I have nothing but praise for the Libretto. Pity I bought it so long ago, or I'd be fighting for my refund on the fifteenth. Even more of a pity that Toshiba is burdening such good hardware with such a worthless OS (and that annoying little windows key, but that's another rant).
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In terms of not being able to see content, no, it's probably not a problem.
However, I don't like the thought that some portion of the money I spend on every DVD or player I purchase will go to Microsoft. It's the same old MS tax, only worse. If I don't want to buy windows it's pretty easy to find a vendor who won't preload it, but how do I avoid giving Bill Gates any of my money when I buy LOTR if the DVD has licensed MS code?
Check out dotGNU's virtual identities. They're very early in the process, still considering proposed solutions, but I'm willing to bet that what they eventually come up with will be both really open and better than either passport or liberty.
What are your thoughts about Haskell, OCaml, and teh state of functional programming in general?
The IEEE spec has expired, I can't find any information about efforts towards r6rs, and not much seems to be happening on the SRFI front. On the other hand, there's an active Scheme community and dozens of implementions, and it seems more show up daily.
How do you reconcile these apparent contradictions, and where do you see Scheme going?
The article says that MS is looking to work with AOL on this. Oh, joy.
It also quotes MS as saying: Of course, I'm sure we can all guess which version of Kerberos they'll be using...My (admittedly limited) understanding is that one-time ciphers are only completely secure if the pad is truly random.
"Cryptonomicon" has a brief passage about cracking one-time ciphers where the pad was generated by picking ping-pong balls out of a hopper. This turned out not to be random enough because of the human tendency to pick out common letters more often...
I know anecdotal evidence is pretty worthless, but I've had an Espresso running for a couple of weeks continuously. It was only acting as a VPN gateway so there probably wasn't much disk activity, but it stayed up and running and it didn't have to be immersed in liquid nitrogen or anything.
Simon Peyton Jones is one of the Big Names in functional programming languages, and played a big role in the development of haskell a very
cool language that I do recommend people check out.
Hearing that Microsoft is paying his bills and directing his research saddens me a great deal. Although I find it amusing that his paper on calling COM from Haskell and vice-versa is entitled "Calling hell from heaven, and heaven from hell."
Still, I imagine that if he weren't at MS the paper would be about CORBA or some other standard instead of COM, which would make it much more useful. Pity...
I'm also surprised that with guys like this on the payroll the best MS can come up with is a warmed-over Java with VB hooks.
I would tend to agree with you... but there was once a time I had thought "Netscape has too much market share to be supplanted by IE."
If MS makes it through the current suit unscathed, they will find a way to bundle C# with something fundamental, and lock Java out of it.
There's no need to worry, the cartoon adaption of Soul Music is absolutely brilliant. Terry himself has said as much, and attributes it to knowing when to step in and correct something, and when to get out of the way and trust the people he was working with.
I saw it at Worldcon, but if you have access to PAL equipment it is available for purchase from amazon.uk, and probably other less evil companies as well.
This is way offtopic, but I just wanted to mention that the "Meenie Eenie" reference comes from the brilliant radio drama "The Fourth Tower of Inverness." The fact that at least some of their staff are fans makes me want to give them my money even more.
See ZBS for more info.
The published portions of the Java spec include the language syntax, the entire VM (all opcodes, the class file format, etc), all the classes under the java. packages and the Java Native Interface. It's all covered in the Java series from Addison Wesley. Off hand, I can't think of any other info that would be needed to build a fully compatible Java 2 standard edition. Of course it would be extremely difficult in practice, but isn't this exactly what Kaffe and Japhar are doing?
A company called Sandy Lion used to have a sticker line called "Playful Penguins" that were perfect. I've got one covering the Windows logo (AKA the "sigil of ultimate evil") on my Vaio. Unfortunately I can't find a web page for the company, but check your local Hallmark.
Alternately, there's always Badtz Maru for those with a Sanrio fetish...
I particularly like this bit on 'Hygiene':
"floss every day": 80
"wear clean socks:" 87
"clean up the blood": 197
Once created, the metastable vacuum would spread out at the speed of light, eventually deflating the entire Universe. Puts little piddly concerns like the Earth into perspective, huh?
Still, I'm not loosing any sleep. If there were any real chance of this happening, odds are it would have happened millennia ago. Personally, I can't wait until this thing starts producing data. Science rocks.
In any case, it's a pretty safe bet they'll restrict the playlists and make it more like any bland mainstream radio station. Too bad. Spinner's Gothic channel isn't bad, but I can't imagine 'family-friendly' AOL supporting music that half the US thinks causes children to kill each other.
True, but if I'm reading this right the area inside the walls can be significantly larger. Region I in the diagram is a 'pocket which has a large inner metric diameter.' he also states in the abstract that his solution supports the 'transport of macroscopic objects.'
In the ever popular rubber sheet model, it seems he has a large inflated balloon where the lips comprise the warp bubble. Except that the space inside the bubble is also locally flat.
In other words, what he has is not just a warp drive, but also a TARDIS....
Actually I do use Lynx probably 70% of the time, and probably always will. You are right, though,
that I'd like to see Mozilla support the latest versions of HTML and CSS, as well as XML and XSL.
I hope they're putting all this extra cruft in dynamic libraries, and setting up the config files so I can compile my own minimal version.
I very much doubt any Linux hackers will want to touch NT's kernel. What they might want to do, however, is add support for the NT API into Linux. At least in theory, this would let you replace the NT kernel with the Linux kernel, and run NT and Linux apps at the same time.
And maybe then Microsoft completely drops the NT Kernel in favor of Linux's. This gets them a much faster and more stable kernel for free.
The next version of Windows is then advertised as fast and stable and, oh yes, runs Linux apps also. This would be a huge blow to RedHat and other commercial Linux vendors.
There are other open source browsers in development, although as far as I can tell none are as far along as mozilla. Mnemonic seems to be the one that is moving the quickest. Their site also has a page listing some other alternatives, both available and developing.
Arguably it would be better to concentrate all efforts on a single best candidate, and no doubt JWZ was hoping Mozilla would be that candidate. It seems another key incredient of an OSS project's success is a single, concentrated development effort.
I have nothing but praise for the Libretto. Pity I bought it so long ago, or I'd be fighting for my refund on the fifteenth. Even more of a pity that Toshiba is burdening such good hardware with such a worthless OS (and that annoying little windows key, but that's another rant).