I remember someone saying the same general thing to me when I bought my first 80Mb hard drive. You could practically install every piece of software ever written for a PC on that one drive! Why would you ever need anything bigger.
They were wrong.
Think of it like this...
The jump from IPv4 to IPv6 address space (ignoring private address ranges etc.) is a multiplication by 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336.
So your story would go:
You have a 10MB hard drive, say, and it's starting to feel a bit undersized.
So you buy a 792,281,625,142,643,375,935-petabyte drive.
On half of the hardware currently shipping out there it is a sure way to fry your card. It may not be fried immediately. It may take months or even a year or two for it to die, but die it will and it will die prematurely. That has been actually been the case for 5+ years now.
I didn't think NVidia needed Debian's help withthat...;)
So what job then requires an OS that is "pure and advanced with pure Free and Open goals in mind" ?
'Making a derived OS' springs to mind. It'd be nice to be clear on licensing, redistribution rights etc.
I'm not sure if the binary firmware blobs in the kernel have any different redistribution restrictions, though...
And some people need to do jobs which require Windows software that doesn't run under Wine.
So? That doesn't mean that a totally free OS is impossible. It just means that some people will still need proprietary OS's.
Let the rest of us have our fun, hmm?
Not providing a commercial service to WL, zealous prosecution, and subjecting JA to particular kinds of rendition also do not break the law. Whether a law has been broken by an action has little to do with whether the action is morally valid.
... but does have a lot to do with whether you can be successfully prosecuted for it.
It was never that serious. It is a sad thing to see the Bees go, but others will take their place. Birds, bumble bees, and many other insects / animals carry out pollination already. Bees were the main pollinators but if they go something else will rise up and take its place in the food chain.
Something else will take their place in the food chain, sure - but it's very likely to be something that doesn't help pollinate flowers. Most things don't.
E) And make no mistake, there's next to nothing you can name that smartphones do today that needs a super high-end CPU. Yes, I'm sorry to say you're paying hundreds of dollars on high end hardware solely to compensate for software bloat. MP3s worked just fine on Intel 386s. H.264 is the big one, but an integrated DSP can handle most of that heavy lifting.
My 200MHz, 32MB RAM smartphone feels slower than the 4.77MHz, 640KB IBM XT I used as a teenager.
I know clock-speed isn't the only measure of cpu speed, but seriously?
I used to compile C code on that old thing, and it didn't feel too slow. Even just using the calculator or notes applet on my phone feels slow.
Huh? Why would the doctor be keeping the Tardis in check?
Does that phrase mean something different where the submitter comes from?
To me it means to hold something back, to thwart something, to foil its dastardly schemes.
So you don't mind Google deciding what you see in search results, based on what it decides is a "good" or "bad" website based on a set of secret arbitrary rules? Sound a bit big brother-ish to you?
No, I don't mind.
That's the service I use them for.
I'm not willing to look at all the websites myself to make my own judgement, and Google have given me enough good results in the past that I'm inclined to believe them. If that changes, I may stop using their service. Simple.
The auto-search-for-something-else behaviour seems like something I would hate... but at least for me, every single time it's happened has been because I had typed the wrong thing.
I'm pretty happy with it.
Mind you, I'm not saying the "did you mean to search for FOO?" is always right - only the "we're so sure that you actually meant FOO that we just went ahead and did it anyway" version.
This is a mental trick that allows human brains to use its hardware-accelerated social simulation circuits rather than the general-purpose abstract thought circuits to predict how a system will behave.
Thank you sir, that GPU analogy appeals to me and I will be appropriating it and using it forthwith!:D
Analogies want to be free!
I believe you're misunderstanding the direction they're taking this.
It sounds like you think Google is hiding bad reviews in their search results.
The way I read the summary (of course, not TFA:P) is that they now detect bad reviews, not to hide them, but so that if they contain links to a company's website then that company does not get a high page score for having lots of bad reviews and thus lots of links.
Google are backing up the individuals who write bad reviews, not the companies who are on the receiving end.
I don't see how the "customers who pay for advertising" come into it at all.
Light Amplification by Ztimulated Emission of Radiation, huh?
Your link is to a disambiguation page, which directs you to the real laser page if you're actually after lasers. That's hardly saying it's 'a perfectly valid substitute'.
It's a paid version of Visual Studio that is needed. The plugin refuses to install if you only have the free VS Express.
While the end result is the same, I'll just clarify for anyone who doesn't know:
the plugin refuses to install on VS Express because the Express license does not allow it, not because QT/Nokia do not want people using QT with VS Express.
Strange that a judge has to decide the merits of a case based on the length of their queue.
I think it's not so much "the length of their queue" as "how much of their queue is made up of the same type of lawsuits from the same known copyright troll".
Note that he's not throwing the case out just because they have trolled before; that would be blatantly unfair.
He's just asking them to convince him that this case is not a troll case.
I think an easier test of intelligence is to point at something. A dog will look where you're pointing. A cat just looks at your finger...
I didn't realise that. I've tried with both cats and dogs, and I've never got either to look where I'm pointing.
Maybe there's something wrong with my finger...
Damn, my 486 running Slackware couldn't decode mp3s in real time. Maybe I should have been using Debian?
I used to pre-decode songs to wav and I'd still have to make them mono, because my HD couldn't do 2-channel 44KHz 16bit in real-time either.
Ah, those were the days...
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You sure did! :D
I forget what 8 was for.
Damn, I haven't listened to the Femmes for years!
Now I've got that stuck in my head. <grin>
I remember someone saying the same general thing to me when I bought my first 80Mb hard drive. You could practically install every piece of software ever written for a PC on that one drive! Why would you ever need anything bigger.
They were wrong.
Think of it like this...
The jump from IPv4 to IPv6 address space (ignoring private address ranges etc.) is a multiplication by 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336.
So your story would go:
You have a 10MB hard drive, say, and it's starting to feel a bit undersized.
So you buy a 792,281,625,142,643,375,935-petabyte drive.
See the difference?
Is this more of a "Free as in speech" rather than "Free as in beer" change?
Yes.
On half of the hardware currently shipping out there it is a sure way to fry your card. It may not be fried immediately. It may take months or even a year or two for it to die, but die it will and it will die prematurely. That has been actually been the case for 5+ years now.
I didn't think NVidia needed Debian's help with that... ;)
So what job then requires an OS that is "pure and advanced with pure Free and Open goals in mind" ?
'Making a derived OS' springs to mind. It'd be nice to be clear on licensing, redistribution rights etc.
I'm not sure if the binary firmware blobs in the kernel have any different redistribution restrictions, though...
And some people need to do jobs which require Windows software that doesn't run under Wine.
So? That doesn't mean that a totally free OS is impossible. It just means that some people will still need proprietary OS's.
Let the rest of us have our fun, hmm?
"then they aren't breaking the law"
Not providing a commercial service to WL, zealous prosecution, and subjecting JA to particular kinds of rendition also do not break the law.
Whether a law has been broken by an action has little to do with whether the action is morally valid.
... but does have a lot to do with whether you can be successfully prosecuted for it.
It was never that serious. It is a sad thing to see the Bees go, but others will take their place. Birds, bumble bees, and many other insects / animals carry out pollination already. Bees were the main pollinators but if they go something else will rise up and take its place in the food chain.
Something else will take their place in the food chain, sure - but it's very likely to be something that doesn't help pollinate flowers. Most things don't.
E) And make no mistake, there's next to nothing you can name that smartphones do today that needs a super high-end CPU. Yes, I'm sorry to say you're paying hundreds of dollars on high end hardware solely to compensate for software bloat. MP3s worked just fine on Intel 386s. H.264 is the big one, but an integrated DSP can handle most of that heavy lifting.
My 200MHz, 32MB RAM smartphone feels slower than the 4.77MHz, 640KB IBM XT I used as a teenager.
I know clock-speed isn't the only measure of cpu speed, but seriously?
I used to compile C code on that old thing, and it didn't feel too slow. Even just using the calculator or notes applet on my phone feels slow.
I type with one hand.
Too much information right there.
His boyfriend won't let him have the other hand back for a couple of minutes.
Who, Darth Vader?
defeating Daleks and keeping the Tardis in check
Huh? Why would the doctor be keeping the Tardis in check?
Does that phrase mean something different where the submitter comes from?
To me it means to hold something back, to thwart something, to foil its dastardly schemes.
This was apparently published in 1994.
I don't think they had lmgtfy back then.
Lunch money? For whom?
For a business.
Sig: http: //www. chao ticking doms .com
Who is Chao, and why are they ticking doms?
My point being, ambiguous terms need context to specify what they're talking about.
The headline has no context until you read the article.
(Yes, I do know what your sig really says and yes, I do know that my misinterpretation is a bit of a stretch.)
So you don't mind Google deciding what you see in search results, based on what it decides is a "good" or "bad" website based on a set of secret arbitrary rules? Sound a bit big brother-ish to you?
No, I don't mind.
That's the service I use them for.
I'm not willing to look at all the websites myself to make my own judgement, and Google have given me enough good results in the past that I'm inclined to believe them. If that changes, I may stop using their service. Simple.
The auto-search-for-something-else behaviour seems like something I would hate... but at least for me, every single time it's happened has been because I had typed the wrong thing.
I'm pretty happy with it.
Mind you, I'm not saying the "did you mean to search for FOO?" is always right - only the "we're so sure that you actually meant FOO that we just went ahead and did it anyway" version.
This is a mental trick that allows human brains to use its hardware-accelerated social simulation circuits rather than the general-purpose abstract thought circuits to predict how a system will behave.
Thank you sir, that GPU analogy appeals to me and I will be appropriating it and using it forthwith! :D
Analogies want to be free!
I believe you're misunderstanding the direction they're taking this. :P) is that they now detect bad reviews, not to hide them, but so that if they contain links to a company's website then that company does not get a high page score for having lots of bad reviews and thus lots of links.
It sounds like you think Google is hiding bad reviews in their search results.
The way I read the summary (of course, not TFA
Google are backing up the individuals who write bad reviews, not the companies who are on the receiving end.
I don't see how the "customers who pay for advertising" come into it at all.
Tell that to wikipedia, which finds it to be a perfectly valid substitute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazer
Light Amplification by Ztimulated Emission of Radiation, huh?
Your link is to a disambiguation page, which directs you to the real laser page if you're actually after lasers. That's hardly saying it's 'a perfectly valid substitute'.
For extra fun, here's another disambiguation page. :D
Without more details. it's hard to judge
So why are you judging?
Announcer already has more details. Let them judge.
It's a paid version of Visual Studio that is needed. The plugin refuses to install if you only have the free VS Express.
While the end result is the same, I'll just clarify for anyone who doesn't know:
the plugin refuses to install on VS Express because the Express license does not allow it, not because QT/Nokia do not want people using QT with VS Express.
Strange that a judge has to decide the merits of a case based on the length of their queue.
I think it's not so much "the length of their queue" as "how much of their queue is made up of the same type of lawsuits from the same known copyright troll".
Note that he's not throwing the case out just because they have trolled before; that would be blatantly unfair.
He's just asking them to convince him that this case is not a troll case.
I think an easier test of intelligence is to point at something. A dog will look where you're pointing. A cat just looks at your finger...
I didn't realise that. I've tried with both cats and dogs, and I've never got either to look where I'm pointing.
Maybe there's something wrong with my finger...
Damn, my 486 running Slackware couldn't decode mp3s in real time. Maybe I should have been using Debian?
I used to pre-decode songs to wav and I'd still have to make them mono, because my HD couldn't do 2-channel 44KHz 16bit in real-time either.
Ah, those were the days...