"Now suppose he agrees to the GPL, and distributes the software in compliance with the GPL. Can the FSF then sue the user for copyright violations? It seems that your line of reasoning will imply that the FSF can, because there has been no binding agreement between the provider of the software and the user. So the user has no real legal protection but distributes the software merely at the grace of the FSF. So it seems that your interpretation of this is unworkable."
The FSF wouldn't sue, it's not their copyright. The copyright holder could sue. How they could sue someone who abided by their license is beyond me. I don't follow your reasoning.
To be honest I didn't get the humor in your original post. I'm only saying that because maybe others feel the same and that's why it was moderated. It probably shouldn't have been moderated in my opinion because it was harmless.
It seems like many moderators have become a little overzealous in their protection of the slashdot signal from the slashdot noise. I can understand this, because last time I moderated I ended up spending nearly all my points on waste of space posts.
I don't really think it's fair to blame all this on the change in ownership at slashdot. I think it's more of a natural response and evolution of slashdot. One question I have is that if the change in ownership at slashdot does really change it for the worst in the long run, will it be because of rob and hemos running the site differently or purely because of people's perceptions?
That would be an excellent tactic to convince the public that steps need to be taken to stop the "infiltration" of porn at the library. They wouldn't miss a beat noticing the fact that the filter wouldn't prevent this.
It's nice to see the campaign web pages taking a cue from the best porn pages with the pop up windows. George w Bush's popup takes you straight to a secure server for your $$$.
The Memory bandwidth you are quoting is for the graphics subsystem. Not the main memory. Main memory has a bandwidth of 3.2 GB per second, just like the Willamette.
The 48 gigabytes of bandwidth does sound impressive but it is listed as "DRAM bus bandwidth" for the graphics. It isn't clear (on the list of specs) if this is part of the 32 megs of rdram or dedicated graphics memory.
From 3dfx's website the Voodoo3, the Voodoo3 3500 has a peak bandwidth of just under 3 GB per second.
The benchmarks I've seen agree with what you are saying. Don't forget that AMD is integrating 256K of L2 cache similar to the coppermine. If all goes well then AMD should be able to recapture the speed crown until Williamette comes.
It's really great to see AMD doing well, but people get a little carried away rooting for the underdog. I am an AMD fan, but what I really want to see is AMD and Intel both competing hard. Both with good size market shares. Each keeping the other honest and forcing technical innovation.
What would be the motivation for all of the graphics card companies to produce cards that worked with this encryption? If it were legislated, that would truly suck. Other than that, why would a company produce a card that supported encryption, and more importantly, why whould _all_ companies produce cards that supported the encryption?
I was just browsing good ol' slashdot. I clicked on a _read_the_rest_of_this_comment_ link and I got a different comment than the one I had been reading. I looked around a little, comparing the old version of this page in my browser with the newer version. The following posts seem to have been eaten. They do not even show up on the author's user info page. I apologize for not knowing html well enough to make this look a little better.
Re:Woo Hoo! (Score:1) by Luyseyal (swaters_AT_amicus_DOT_com) on Thursday February 17, @07:11PM EST (#74) (User Info) LWN has some really good information on 2.3.46. can we say devfs??!! can we say new RAID??!! http://lwn.net/2000/0217/kernel.phtml
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Nerds don't run Windows (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17, @07:13PM EST (#75)
Only lusers run Windows; therefore, it is not "News for Nerds."
Re:No bias here at/. (Score:1) by Zurk (zurk@SPAMSUCKSgeocities.com) on Thursday February 17, @07:14PM EST (#76) (User Info)
oh bullshit. if you dont like it dont read here dimwit. yes, a kernel change is interesting for some of us if it has been a slow day. windows 2000 is the most anticipated OS for who ? i dont even use the current release.
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4.) posted by mrsam
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=mr sam
Thank you for your support. (Score:1) by mrsam (sam@email-scan.webcircle.com) on Thursday February 17, @07:14PM EST (#77) (User Info) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799/ etrouble/
Please post all the usual "Why Are You Announcing Kernel Revisions In Slashdot?" flames in this thread.
I had a memorable error in Windows 98 SE yesterday.
First I had that win 3.1 style dialog box: Save your work, blah blah...click on ignore or close. I forget which one I chose. Shortly after that another dialog box pops up (win98 style) and tells me:
Cannot load Explorer.exe. You must reinstall Windows 98.
except that this abuse of power was so simple a ten year old could have done it. This guy brought a lot of attention to the problem. That will ensure that it is taken seriously, before someone with more sinister intentions has a chance to exploit it.
452x340 would be one half the area of 640x480. Not a real video mode tho. I think we can designate half video mode to mean half in one dimension, one quarter the area.
I think you can still say linux has some sort of superiority here. If the performance is similar on both machines, ignoring which one is using a more advanced driver then it really doesn't matter. You get more advanced drivers with NT, they crash the system more often. You have hardware problems with the machine, NT suffers stability problems. Linux doesn't. It's not scientific. It's not conclusive. But it is something.
The situation you present with drivers also raises another potential benefit for linux. Potential for performance increases in the future by having more advanced drivers. Of course if linux suffers the same stability problems as NT with the "better" drivers then it isn't worth anything.
If you have two samples of a 100 Hz _sine_ wave close enough together (both samples are in the same period) then you can construct it perfectly. That is what I was trying to say. Those two samples hold the key to that sine wave. They contain enough "information" to fully recreate the sine wave.
This is the real world. I'm not particularly knowledgable in signal theory. I have spent some time reading rec.audio.high-end. There were some extroardinarily technical arguments having to do with filtering and cd audio playback and problems with the current CD standard. I'm not arguing that CD audio playback is perfect. It isn't. I'm sure there are harmonics created by the digital to audio conversion.
However, if you take a 60 Hz sine wave and sample it at 120 Hz. Then play it back, you won't get a 60 Hz triangle wave. The mathematics behind the digital to audio conversion is more complex than that. You will get a sine wave.
If I took some graph paper, and plotted two points on it. I could only draw one sine wave that would go through those two points in less than one cycle. Is a CD player going to recreate this perfectly, no. I've heard arguments for 24 bit 96 kHz audio. They are signal theory arguments. Unfortunately I don't know them.
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"Now suppose he agrees to the GPL, and distributes the software in compliance with the GPL. Can the FSF then sue the user for copyright violations? It seems that your line of reasoning will imply that the FSF can, because there has been no binding agreement between the provider of the software and the user. So the user has no real legal protection but distributes the software merely at the grace of the FSF. So it seems that your interpretation of this is unworkable."
The FSF wouldn't sue, it's not their copyright. The copyright holder could sue. How they could sue someone who abided by their license is beyond me. I don't follow your reasoning.
"the rotary engine was not buried, it just sucked."
mazda rx-7:
mass produced
decent gas mileage
good power
reasonably priced
my friend has a rx7 that is 12 years old, seems pretty reliable.
why do rotary engines suck?
To be honest I didn't get the humor in your original post. I'm only saying that because maybe others feel the same and that's why it was moderated. It probably shouldn't have been moderated in my opinion because it was harmless.
It seems like many moderators have become a little overzealous in their protection of the slashdot signal from the slashdot noise. I can understand this, because last time I moderated I ended up spending nearly all my points on waste of space posts.
I don't really think it's fair to blame all this on the change in ownership at slashdot. I think it's more of a natural response and evolution of slashdot. One question I have is that if the change in ownership at slashdot does really change it for the worst in the long run, will it be because of rob and hemos running the site differently or purely because of people's perceptions?
Please moderate the aforementioned 'request for request for troll moderation' because Johann made a good point.
That would be an excellent tactic to convince the public that steps need to be taken to stop the "infiltration" of porn at the library. They wouldn't miss a beat noticing the fact that the filter wouldn't prevent this.
How would anyone find your page?
1) x moderates post down
2) y moderates post back up
3) x posts to story, erasing moderation
does this work?
Ouch. I really hope that web sites that don't allow access with all browsers are just a growing pain and not an indication of the future.
It's nice to see the campaign web pages taking a cue from the best porn pages with the pop up windows. George w Bush's popup takes you straight to a secure server for your $$$.
The Memory bandwidth you are quoting is for the graphics subsystem. Not the main memory. Main memory has a bandwidth of 3.2 GB per second, just like the Willamette.
The 48 gigabytes of bandwidth does sound impressive but it is listed as "DRAM bus bandwidth" for the graphics. It isn't clear (on the list of specs) if this is part of the 32 megs of rdram or dedicated graphics memory.
From 3dfx's website the Voodoo3, the Voodoo3 3500 has a peak bandwidth of just under 3 GB per second.
The benchmarks I've seen agree with what you are saying. Don't forget that AMD is integrating 256K of L2 cache similar to the coppermine. If all goes well then AMD should be able to recapture the speed crown until Williamette comes.
It's really great to see AMD doing well, but people get a little carried away rooting for the underdog. I am an AMD fan, but what I really want to see is AMD and Intel both competing hard. Both with good size market shares. Each keeping the other honest and forcing technical innovation.
what a waste of a moderation point.
What would be the motivation for all of the graphics card companies to produce cards that worked with this encryption? If it were legislated, that would truly suck. Other than that, why would a company produce a card that supported encryption, and more importantly, why whould _all_ companies produce cards that supported the encryption?
I was just browsing good ol' slashdot. I clicked on a _read_the_rest_of_this_comment_ link and I got a different comment than the one I had been reading. I looked around a little, comparing the old version of this page in my browser with the newer version. The following posts seem to have been eaten. They do not even show up on the author's user info page. I apologize for not knowing html well enough to make this look a little better.
u yseyal
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1.) posted by Luyseyal
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=L
Re:Woo Hoo! (Score:1)
by Luyseyal (swaters_AT_amicus_DOT_com) on Thursday February 17, @07:11PM EST (#74)
(User Info)
LWN has some really good information on 2.3.46. can we say devfs??!! can we say new RAID??!! http://lwn.net/2000/0217/kernel.phtml
-l
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Nerds don't run Windows (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17, @07:13PM EST (#75)
Only lusers run Windows; therefore, it is not "News for Nerds."
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3.) posted by Zurk
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=Z
Re:No bias here at
by Zurk (zurk@SPAMSUCKSgeocities.com) on Thursday February 17, @07:14PM EST (#76)
(User Info)
oh bullshit. if you dont like it dont read here dimwit. yes, a kernel change is interesting for some of us if it has been a slow day. windows 2000 is the most anticipated OS for who ? i dont even use the current release.
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4.) posted by mrsam
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=m
Thank you for your support. (Score:1)
by mrsam (sam@email-scan.webcircle.com) on Thursday February 17, @07:14PM EST (#77)
(User Info) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799
Please post all the usual "Why Are You Announcing Kernel Revisions In Slashdot?" flames in this thread.
Thank you very much.
It wasn't an user error. It was Windows being flaky. Thanks for contributing, and even moreso by being specific.
I had a memorable error in Windows 98 SE yesterday.
First I had that win 3.1 style dialog box: Save your work, blah blah...click on ignore or close. I forget which one I chose. Shortly after that another dialog box pops up (win98 style) and tells me:
Cannot load Explorer.exe. You must reinstall Windows 98.
Do have any information/thoughts on how the Joshua is going to be priced relative to Celerons?
It's great to have an option to upgrade for socket 370 owners, but competing against Celerons seems like a pretty tough way to go. Celeries are cheap.
Are you part of the problem or the solution?
Reasonable and intelligent people can disagree about what is "best" and how "things should be."
When you disagreed, you tried to ruin things for everyone else. Interesting tactic.
except that this abuse of power was so simple a ten year old could have done it. This guy brought a lot of attention to the problem. That will ensure that it is taken seriously, before someone with more sinister intentions has a chance to exploit it.
452x340 would be one half the area of 640x480. Not a real video mode tho. I think we can designate half video mode to mean half in one dimension, one quarter the area.
I think you can still say linux has some sort of superiority here. If the performance is similar on both machines, ignoring which one is using a more advanced driver then it really doesn't matter. You get more advanced drivers with NT, they crash the system more often. You have hardware problems with the machine, NT suffers stability problems. Linux doesn't. It's not scientific. It's not conclusive. But it is something.
The situation you present with drivers also raises another potential benefit for linux. Potential for performance increases in the future by having more advanced drivers. Of course if linux suffers the same stability problems as NT with the "better" drivers then it isn't worth anything.
That and the whole concept of men not being justified in taking the life of other men. But then, that's just my opinion.
In the article they specifically state that the probability of a wrong match are as follows:
6 loci: 1 in 37 million
10 loci: 1 in one billion
The FBI tests 13 loci. There is the potential for one in billions chance. It just depends on the testing methodology.
How many people will be playing serious online matches cramped over a notebook? 35 fps is playable for casual play.
If you have two samples of a 100 Hz _sine_ wave close enough together (both samples are in the same period) then you can construct it perfectly. That is what I was trying to say. Those two samples hold the key to that sine wave. They contain enough "information" to fully recreate the sine wave.
This is the real world. I'm not particularly knowledgable in signal theory. I have spent some time reading rec.audio.high-end. There were some extroardinarily technical arguments having to do with filtering and cd audio playback and problems with the current CD standard. I'm not arguing that CD audio playback is perfect. It isn't. I'm sure there are harmonics created by the digital to audio conversion.
However, if you take a 60 Hz sine wave and sample it at 120 Hz. Then play it back, you won't get a 60 Hz triangle wave. The mathematics behind the digital to audio conversion is more complex than that. You will get a sine wave.
If I took some graph paper, and plotted two points on it. I could only draw one sine wave that would go through those two points in less than one cycle. Is a CD player going to recreate this perfectly, no. I've heard arguments for 24 bit 96 kHz audio. They are signal theory arguments. Unfortunately I don't know them.