>this sentence may be imposed on someone who "knowingly or recklessly causes or attempts to cause serious bodily injury from conduct in violation of" trafficking counterfeit goods or services.
Obvious... take a server and put in a cell. Problem solved. Except, erm, to make it a website you'd have to connect it to the internet. Cheap hosting out of a Thai prison, why not?
That'll give the CS students and PhD's some more incentive to come up with real anonymous file sharing. Where's the synthesis between Emule/Kad, BitTorrent and Tor, packaged in innocuous HTTP?
>Translation: "If we can get all the other operating systems to follow our lead, we can claim some sort of patent infringment on 'em."
Probably more like "If we can get all the other operating systems to follow our lead, they'll suck as much as we do, so we can keep up making sucky software, claiming it's the latest and greatest, and sell it for boatloads of money."
>Hell, they should make them appear so often people completely ignore their content and just blindly click "OK" or "Allow". Yeah, that's the ticket...
Preferably popping up from a background program and grabbing the focus, so if you're typing in another window and hit Return, you select OK. This just happened to me with Outlook's Autoarchive prompt.
Can they please force the mouse cursor over the OK button too?
That way, they can always say "It's not our fault. The user allowed it." and the user can claim that (s)he didn't even notice. Problem solved.
Sounds like a perfectly valid business model to me. I'm sure Sun and HP do the same.
Now, why can't Microsoft do that?
1. Hook up customers on a cheaply solution based on Linux and MySQL. 2. As customer's data and number of clients grow they will start experiencing scalability problems. 3. Propose much more scalable, reliable, dependable (and much more expensive) solution on Windows. 4. Profit!:-)
>So, it seems to be competing in the iPhone space. Except it isn't a phone.
How hard will it be for Intel to integrate a GSM or WiMax transceiver and an antenna, assuming it has a speaker and microphone already? Maybe it's a good idea to demonstrate usability as a PDA first and put in the phone later. The other way around often hasn't worked well.
TFA says it's going to have dual core CPUs at 600-800 MHz. Sounds good enough to me, and with modern processes those CPUs should use very little power.
What's next? If I tell you to turn off the sound, will you up the volume to maximum and play a recording of "SHUTTING SOUND OFF NOW!" in a really whiny voice? It'll crank up the volume and say "An application is trying to mute the audio output, Cancel or Allow?"
Neuroscientific theory indicates that we will not be able to build truly brainlike computers until we have gone beyond serial, John-Neumann-bottleneck computers That's just a matter of performance. If your von Neumann machine is fast enough it can simulate an artificial neural network just fine.
On the other hand, if you go away from a "computer" architecture and do the ANN in analog circuitry, you might be able to build a "brain" that's waaay faster than gray matter. Whatever happened to Intel's ANN with EPROM cells for the weights? I haven't heard anything like that in a long time. Now that we have multi-gigabit Flash memories, maybe we can build giganeuron ANNs.
Coincidentally, Fermilab stands to gain most from delays at Cern. Its researchers also operate a rival but less powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron. Cue the conspiracy theories...:)
It isn't official yet, but Compiz and Beryl are merging. For the last few weeks I have been following the mailing list discussions on this topic. A lot of the work has been started. It is sort of unofficially announced, so I feel now is as good a time as any to comment. First some back story:
The war between Compiz and Beryl has been entertaining if counterproductive. Originally I planned to interview Quinn (Beryl's unofficial leader) about the Beryl project. That turned into an interview with the team that never really got anywhere. I dropped the ball. My feelings at the time were typical of those in the community. Beryl seemed to be this fantastic project that saved Compiz from being boring and a slave to Novell. They launched a beautiful website. It was exciting to see the frequency of their releases. At the time, I decided to check out Compiz to see what it was up to. It was surprising. Their forums were very helpful and positive. The more I read, the more I realized that I had made a mistake. There was more to the story than I was aware.
The communities were getting along a lot worse than I had realized. People in the Beryl camp dismissed David Reveman (creator of Compiz and XGL among other things) as a bad coder. Compiz dismissed Beryl as hacky code. Personal attacks flew around. Through decisions made with (hopefully) good intentions, like the insistence that Beryl code be GPL (thus unable to move upstream to the MIT licensed Compiz core) or the desire on some Beryl developers part to rip apart the Compiz core and " improve" it, it looked as if the teams were hopelessly split.
Meanwhile, Beryl continued to grow. Resentment grew in the Compiz community. One estimate was that Beryl used 95% Compiz code while taking all the credit. YouTube filled up with tons of spinning transparent cubes and burning windows. Any Digg story mentioning Beryl received a lot of Diggs. Flamewars in comment sections broke out regularly. Things reached a low point when a frustrated Compiz community member hacked the Beryl site.
This state of affairs was a shame. Something that was finally getting the general public excited about Linux, the 3D desktop, was wasting time with duplication of effort and fighting. There were concerns about the long term viability of Beryl. The perception in the community overall was, Compiz = old and stale, Beryl = fresh and exciting. This despite the feeling in the Compiz community that the "real work" was being done by David Reveman and Compiz, and there were exciting things with Compiz core (like input redirection, etc...) on the horizon.
It was a pleasant surprise to see talks of a merge start to show up on the mailing lists. This article by Kristian Hogsberg seemed to kick it off. The talks so far have been bumpy. There are fights about whether to rename the communities. There are heated discussions about what the merger means and where things should go from here. Old wounds have been reopened. There are complaints about the egos of the developers in the forums. At one point, reading a twenty-four page forum discussion, I wondered if the merge was a good idea after all. Little by little things seem to be working out, though. Quinn mentioned in one forum post that the fork was a mistake and regrettable. It takes a big person to make an admission like that.
I have to hand it to both communities. This is a brave and bold step. Not many of us can check our egos, put hurt feelings aside and move forward. The road ahead won't be easy, but the benefit to the Linux community will be immense. Energy won't be wasted on fights and duplication of effort. Confusion over what to use will be eliminated. Hopefully more effort can be spent by the distributions on getting the combined product packaged properly (How many times can I install a distro and the 3d desktop only to have no window borders in KDE?). The discussions I read are passionate. It looks like the project will be a meritocracy,
of oversized, power-hungry laptops to run bloated OS's.
If the OLPC turns out to be a useful tool at $200, it could significantly hurt Quanta's OEM customers.
This is pure politics, though. If Quanta can churn out millions of OLPCs at under $100 cost and sell them at $200, they should be drooling all over the place and not worry about the other OEMs too much. But I'm sure they already feel the pressure from Dell & co.
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>The optimization was great fun, my favorite part. You could make programs scream if you paid attention.
How can you be so cruel to the poor poor programs? Sadist.
>this sentence may be imposed on someone who "knowingly or recklessly causes or attempts to cause serious bodily injury from conduct in violation of" trafficking counterfeit goods or services.
As in, psychological harm to a Sony executive?
>Yet murderers and rapist get out in less than 5-10. WTF is wrong with our society.
They aren't hurting any big corporations.
If they keep buying flawed operating systems.
>How can a website go to jail?
Obvious... take a server and put in a cell. Problem solved.
Except, erm, to make it a website you'd have to connect it to the internet. Cheap hosting out of a Thai prison, why not?
>Has anybody examined the bits to see if any of the 1's were stuck through the middle of any of the 0's?
That's called a superposition, or qubit. Uh oh, there's trouble brewing for quantum computing.
And let's make sure we send all those FPS players to the electric chair! And all GTA etc players to jail. That'll keep our computers clean.
That'll give the CS students and PhD's some more incentive to come up with real anonymous file sharing.
Where's the synthesis between Emule/Kad, BitTorrent and Tor, packaged in innocuous HTTP?
>Translation: "If we can get all the other operating systems to follow our lead, we can claim some sort of patent infringment on 'em."
Probably more like "If we can get all the other operating systems to follow our lead, they'll suck as much as we do, so we can keep up making sucky software, claiming it's the latest and greatest, and sell it for boatloads of money."
>Hell, they should make them appear so often people completely ignore their content and just blindly click "OK" or "Allow". Yeah, that's the ticket...
Preferably popping up from a background program and grabbing the focus, so if you're typing in another window and hit Return, you select OK. This just happened to me with Outlook's Autoarchive prompt.
Can they please force the mouse cursor over the OK button too?
That way, they can always say "It's not our fault. The user allowed it." and the user can claim that (s)he didn't even notice. Problem solved.
Sounds like a perfectly valid business model to me. I'm sure Sun and HP do the same.
:-)
Now, why can't Microsoft do that?
1. Hook up customers on a cheaply solution based on Linux and MySQL.
2. As customer's data and number of clients grow they will start experiencing scalability problems.
3. Propose much more scalable, reliable, dependable (and much more expensive) solution on Windows.
4. Profit!
>So, it seems to be competing in the iPhone space. Except it isn't a phone.
How hard will it be for Intel to integrate a GSM or WiMax transceiver and an antenna, assuming it has a speaker and microphone already?
Maybe it's a good idea to demonstrate usability as a PDA first and put in the phone later. The other way around often hasn't worked well.
>If it doesn't have the horsepower
TFA says it's going to have dual core CPUs at 600-800 MHz. Sounds good enough to me, and with modern processes those CPUs should use very little power.
>I still get the shakes when I see a paper clip. Also for some reason the name "Bob" makes my hair stand up on end.
Go sue MS for psychological trauma.
On the other hand, if you go away from a "computer" architecture and do the ANN in analog circuitry, you might be able to build a "brain" that's waaay faster than gray matter. Whatever happened to Intel's ANN with EPROM cells for the weights? I haven't heard anything like that in a long time. Now that we have multi-gigabit Flash memories, maybe we can build giganeuron ANNs.
I got through after a number of retries...
Editorial: Compiz and Beryl Merger
It isn't official yet, but Compiz and Beryl are merging. For the last few weeks I have been following the mailing list discussions on this topic. A lot of the work has been started. It is sort of unofficially announced, so I feel now is as good a time as any to comment. First some back story:
The war between Compiz and Beryl has been entertaining if counterproductive. Originally I planned to interview Quinn (Beryl's unofficial leader) about the Beryl project. That turned into an interview with the team that never really got anywhere. I dropped the ball. My feelings at the time were typical of those in the community. Beryl seemed to be this fantastic project that saved Compiz from being boring and a slave to Novell. They launched a beautiful website. It was exciting to see the frequency of their releases. At the time, I decided to check out Compiz to see what it was up to. It was surprising. Their forums were very helpful and positive. The more I read, the more I realized that I had made a mistake. There was more to the story than I was aware.
The communities were getting along a lot worse than I had realized. People in the Beryl camp dismissed David Reveman (creator of Compiz and XGL among other things) as a bad coder. Compiz dismissed Beryl as hacky code. Personal attacks flew around. Through decisions made with (hopefully) good intentions, like the insistence that Beryl code be GPL (thus unable to move upstream to the MIT licensed Compiz core) or the desire on some Beryl developers part to rip apart the Compiz core and " improve" it, it looked as if the teams were hopelessly split.
Meanwhile, Beryl continued to grow. Resentment grew in the Compiz community. One estimate was that Beryl used 95% Compiz code while taking all the credit. YouTube filled up with tons of spinning transparent cubes and burning windows. Any Digg story mentioning Beryl received a lot of Diggs. Flamewars in comment sections broke out regularly. Things reached a low point when a frustrated Compiz community member hacked the Beryl site.
This state of affairs was a shame. Something that was finally getting the general public excited about Linux, the 3D desktop, was wasting time with duplication of effort and fighting. There were concerns about the long term viability of Beryl. The perception in the community overall was, Compiz = old and stale, Beryl = fresh and exciting. This despite the feeling in the Compiz community that the "real work" was being done by David Reveman and Compiz, and there were exciting things with Compiz core (like input redirection, etc...) on the horizon.
It was a pleasant surprise to see talks of a merge start to show up on the mailing lists. This article by Kristian Hogsberg seemed to kick it off. The talks so far have been bumpy. There are fights about whether to rename the communities. There are heated discussions about what the merger means and where things should go from here. Old wounds have been reopened. There are complaints about the egos of the developers in the forums. At one point, reading a twenty-four page forum discussion, I wondered if the merge was a good idea after all. Little by little things seem to be working out, though. Quinn mentioned in one forum post that the fork was a mistake and regrettable. It takes a big person to make an admission like that.
I have to hand it to both communities. This is a brave and bold step. Not many of us can check our egos, put hurt feelings aside and move forward. The road ahead won't be easy, but the benefit to the Linux community will be immense. Energy won't be wasted on fights and duplication of effort. Confusion over what to use will be eliminated. Hopefully more effort can be spent by the distributions on getting the combined product packaged properly (How many times can I install a distro and the 3d desktop only to have no window borders in KDE?). The discussions I read are passionate. It looks like the project will be a meritocracy,
>'Lua' means 'moon' in Portuguese and is pronounced LOO-ah.
I guess all the Americans here didn't get it.
>Country-level TLDs are significant. For example, I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page.
But why is that? Shouldn't toyota.com get you to their corporate international page, and toyota.us to the US page?
of oversized, power-hungry laptops to run bloated OS's.
If the OLPC turns out to be a useful tool at $200, it could significantly hurt Quanta's OEM customers.
This is pure politics, though. If Quanta can churn out millions of OLPCs at under $100 cost and sell them at $200, they should be drooling all over the place and not worry about the other OEMs too much. But I'm sure they already feel the pressure from Dell & co.
but has anyone set it free yet by running Linux on it?
That was my first thought of course.
Answer here. Not much progress yet though.
>Who cares what 'your country' is doing
If you've been brainwashed by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance daily for years, you will.
There are so many people who say "I love my country" that it's no longer funny.
Why do you even use "soul" and "research" in the same context? They have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Virgins giving birth happen all the time.
Did nobody tell you to be careful when, uh, fooling around?