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 Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 06, @02:22AM EDTfrom the I-thought-they-were-called-macintosh dept. GFD writes "EETimes has a about disposable chip/display technology that would be so cheap that they could put displays on disposable consuer items like milk cartons. " ( Read More... | 4 of 4 comments )
Just as I suspected, this web site does not conform to the principles of Reason.
 Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 05, @11:20PM EDTfrom the I-got-a-D+-on-my-during-test dept. Chernicky writes "In 1950, Alan Turing , the father of computer science and (arguably) artificial intelligence, made a prediction about the year 2000. Turing said that in about fifty years, the answers of a computer would be indistinguishable from those of human beings, when asked questions by a human interrogator. With the year 2000 upon us, Dartmouth College is offering a $100,000 prize to the first programmer that can pass the Turing Test. The deadline for submissions is October 30, 1999. " ( Read More... | 63 of 66 comments )
Predictably, not a single mention of Turing's homosexuality, or of the way the oppression by his own government led to this brilliant man's depression and ultimate suicide.
Hey! This ass is EXIT-ONLY baby!
 Posted by Cliff on Tuesday October 05, @06:39PM EDTfrom the breaking-the-patent-wall? dept. petej asks: "Big companies with valuable patents usually don't put all their eggs in one basket. It's common practice to build a "patent fence" around the main patent, so that when the main one expires, the others preserve the company's hegemony on their technology. When the main RSA patent expires next year, will there be any other RSA patents that might cover and encumber PGP or OpenSSL? Will we really have a freely available SSL toolkit in OpenSSL, or will we still be forced to buy an RSA license because of some other patent?" ( Read More... | 51 of 55 comments )
Teletubby unencumber SSL/PGP! Teletubby unencumber SSL/PGP!
 Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 05, @05:47PM EDTfrom the behold-the-FUD dept. mikeraz told us about Microsoft's new page on Linux Myths. Designed to convince the seasoned business professional that Linux doesn't measure up to the hype. Some good points. Some not-so-good points. Care to comment? Update: 10/05 06:43 by CT: Mandrake has comments on his page. ( Read More... | 671 of 688 comments )
Myth #1: The only difference between a gay man and a bisexual is a "six-pack"
Myth #2: There is a hidden "please crash less" dialog box in Windows 98.
Myths #3,4,5: Man's reason is not fully competent to know the facts of reality. Reason, the conceptual faculty, is not the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason is not man's only means of acquiring knowledge
Myth #6: Math is not tough.
Myth #7: It's still just as good after 25 years of marriage and two kids.
FRANK!
I meant, that isn't a myth. Where are my darling children Cassidy and Cody? I want to give them a hug.
Myth #8: Babies are resilient against shake-induced failures. Myth #9: Our transference to the mother ship was premature.
Myth #10: The Matrix is not real.
 Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 05, @04:33PM EDTfrom the it's-the-baby-bells dept. Zulu_McDuffy wrote to us with an opinion piece by a Silicon Valley Congressman, Tom Campbell. He says that if "broad liability" was found in the anti-trust suit, the only logical thing to do would be breaking-up the corporation. What do you guys think? Is that the only solution? The alternative is regulation, which no one seems to be interested in doing. ( Read More... | 348 of 350 comments )
Hey sexy, what's your ID?
 Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 05, @04:01PM EDTfrom the and-with-new-flavours dept. Ivo writes "Apple just announced a new iMac. The base model starts at $999, and the $1499 model has built-in firewire and DVD. More at Apple's website " Three different models (no fan, better graphics and sub-woofer), and the commercials are online. ( Read More... | 311 of 320 comments )
Who gives a shit? Pull the plug already. Does MacOS even do virtual memory yet?
I hear their high-end machine replaces the shift keys with a sphincter-clench sensor.
My momma always told me to "think different."
 Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 05, @01:38PM EDTfrom the rolling-in-the-new dept. krp writes "Psion has lauched it's new Revo, a kind of cuter 5mx, but with better Internet/comms software and a free ISP specialising in content for handhelds called psion.net (see an article at Yahoo). Also Palm have released the Palm Vx, a Palm V with 8 meg memory and bundled with AvantGo. See a V series comparison and an article at Yahoo. Prices of older Palm models have dropped accordingly. " The Palm VII has also had a higher rollout, with the push on for more sales. ( Read More... | 56 of 61 comments )
I predict that the Psion Revo will put all of humanity on a giant spacefaring vessel. Then, it will slowly go insane, subjecting its captives to a series of humiliating "experiments", each more degrading than the last.
 Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 05, @12:41PM EDTfrom the and-now-for-something-completly-different dept. sumana writes "Today in history: On this day in 1969, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" made its debut on BBC Television. (according to the New York Times's online "Learning" section, free registration required, yada yada spam spam spam) " As Eric Idle says: "And to celebrate, we're doing nothing!" ( Read More... | 110 of 110 comments )
Monty Python films work for me, on MULTIPLE levels.
Hey, hi! Boo!
HOLY SWEET FUCKING JESUS!
Ha ha, sorry to "spook" you.
HELP MARY GOD JESUS GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!
Don't get your trouser snake in a knot. I'm just here to tell you something. I can't leave until my "issue" is "resolved". Didn't you see THE SIXTH SENSE?
Well, yes. The very boldness of the storytelling carried me right past the crucial hints and right through to the end of the film, where everything takes on an intriguing new dimension.
 Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 05, @12:30PM EDTfrom the crazy-scott-slashing-prices dept. madHomer writes "I just read that Sun is going to be selling some Ultra 5's for less then $2,000. They did not include specs in the press release. I am very curious what the "base" model is. They say they are not going after the home market, but the developer market. " ( Read More... | 161 of 164 comments )
If this Sun dude tries to fuck with my whores, I'm going to mess him up real bad.
I hear that, brother. You just don't fuck with a man's business.
Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 05, @10:46AM EDTfrom the explaining-it-all dept. O'Reilly's Running Linux is something of an established textbook on learning Linux from the beginning to getting deeper in the innards. The latest version is written by Lar Kaufman, Matt Welsh and Kalle Dalheimer. Click below to read the review of the newest edition of the book. ( Read More... | 4158 bytes in body | 73 of 74 comments )
I have read the book. It clearly lacks firm mathematical foundations. I recommend that the so-called Linux project be rewritten in pure lambda calculus. The design issues can be adequately dealt with by trivial category theoretic constructions.
 Posted by Nathaniel Branden on Tuesday October 05, @8:52AM EDTfrom the man-qua-man dept. Ayn Rand's book "The Fountainhead" is the cornerstone of modern computer science. Her tenets of Objectivism from the 1930's are a precursor to Gödel's Incompletness proofs as well as the invention of Turing machines. She laid the foundations for such ground-breaking ideas as "logical circuit" and "scripting languages for profitable web activities". Although a stark opponent of communism and the related Open Source and Free Software ideology, her ideas cannot be ignored by any system administrator. ( Read More... | 123832 bytes in body | 983 of 17984 comments ) |
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