Middleclick to paste doesn't work on win32 (AFAIK, someone correct me if I'm wrong, and tell how to activate the damn thing, it's very useful), and most people who want autoscroll are probably on win32 anyway, so just make it default for windows version and maybe a pref for other OS'es.
cell-phone use (1.5 percent) The test have been done on this one the affect is the same as driving drunk.
Talk about generalizations. There's no such thing as any universal "affect of driving drunk". As some of us might have noticed, there are different levels of intoxication, and I don't think anyone is stupid enough to think it's one and same to drive after drinking a can of beer or after bottle of booze at the verge of passing out. Not to mention that affects of alcohol are rather varied from person to person.
So, where, exactly, on this damn diverse scale does the hypothetical cell-phone usage end? Why not just say that it impairs reaction time instead of babbling some stupid halftruths that have no real-life measurable value?
No. Well, maybe, if "live" parts don't fit and you risk someone touching them or it fits so badly that it easily changes to that kind of position.
But absence of shild ground does not, it's there only to protect current from getting into (metal)cover in case of fault, it does no good on device with plastic casing and no exposed conductive parts.
Nothing worse than the Iranians. Both sides used chemicals, but of course only Iraq is persecuted for it. Go figure.
Maybe they were all used in that war. Maybe they were destroyed by USAXIS-of-Evil bombings in the first gulf war. Maybe he destroyed them before there were any inspectors.
Might've. Though I don't understand what RS-232 "COM ports" have to do with videoediting anyway, it's not like anyone would try to output his digital video into new physical media trough one (which is what he seems to be implying), or ever would have. They've always been slow, by design...
As others have pointed out, those systems can be emulated rather easily...
They're also worst-case examples, in 1983 you may have had IBM XT, with bit of luck, some of those DOS-programs might still run on new state-of-the art windows machine. And some of the 70's UNIX-C programs would probably compile with little or no modifications on Linux boxes. I don't see C going anywhere and stopping someone from doing same 20 years from now, but who knows, future will tell.
Serial is close to dead already? Whoa.
Strange, then that it seems to be quite rapidly only approaching widespread usage.
Seriously, what do you think could be an alternative? Magictech? There are two ways to move bits in electrical wire, side by side or one after another, no way around it. Same limitation would apply to optical computer, as well as ANY computer that needs physical or otherwise separate conduits for moving signals.
Windows asks if you want to SKIP it (and threatens horrible things if you don't), RH asks if you want to do it.
You can rest assured that most people will do it on windows, and most don't on RH, because of those defaults and those (pointless, if it really does any useful with the journal) warnings.
Same goes for servers that aren't babysitted all the time, after a crash you want 'em up and running automagically ASAP, windows automatically starts that check if nobody is there to cancel it within ten seconds, I don't want to even imagine how long it would take on a fileserver with few terabytes worth of disk... based on experiences with mere 10Gt partition, probably somewhere around week or two.
So you managed to look at the most irrelevant portion, crack bad joke about it, then go back to thinking they are rockets. Way to go.
I said they are planes because they aren't rockets, cruise missiles use jet engines, quite the same turbofan variety you will find in any airplane. Why? They have to flow hundres, if not thousands of miles, they are probably one of the most fuel efficient flying machines ever made (not counting solar powered).
NTFS may be journaling but windoze sure as hell doesn't seem to use that journal anything useful.
Every time w2k crashes, it's forced to do full file system check that takes aeons at boot up
If I crash my RHL system with ext3, at least it understands it can quickly check the journal and see if anything was lost instead of manually fscking every damn bit on all those countless gigabytes.
I see this more like addition, or update (if it's done right, if it's NOT done right I see it as paperweight), than replacement.
Sure, it would come handy to automatically have your portable computing device wirelessly "hijack" vastly superior input and output capabilities of bigger computer whenever you're in position to use one, but I'm not convinced web server is good enough for GUI of such device.
And it would be neat for it to still have screen and input device of its own (they would be turned off for power saving most of the time), for use where there just are no desktop systems for borrowing, in such situation, this system is 100% useless.
Section 3, condition b seems very clear on this matter.
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
Where in that do you see that offer only applies to people you distributed to? It specifically says otherwise.
Maybe you've got a broken flash plugin (I'm not saying Mozilla shouldn't handle those graciously as well, but it's not quite as bad as crashing from mere, even faulty, html)
Sure, it's not valid HTML, but it still shouldn't crash the browser. Sure, it's not first, and most certainly not last, time a browser will crash from html, be it valid or not, but this one is just so small and so stupid that it has amusement value over most others.
This guy is going to make a cruise missile, not low-range surface-to-surface missile.
You're not going to find or build solid or liquid rocket booster that can fit into small airframe and get to anywhere near 160km range marked as objective.
There's a reason those million dollar Raytheon Tomahawks use turbofan engines for main propulsion and solid rocket boosters only to start.
Cruise missiles are NOT rocket powered. For example Tomahawk is powered by a turbofan engine, it's basically a small jet airplane. It does have small rocket, but that's only used to give enough airspeed for main propulsion system to kick in.
Even this DIY version used a pulse-jet (somewhere in middleground between "true" jet and rocket) instead of plain rocket.
Rocket fuel economy isn't anywhere near good enough for distances these babies must fly.
I was after just that, you may copyright a specific implementation (if it's big enough to count as "work"), but not the description or idea of algorithm itself.
And what comes to typing wrong words... well, won't we all do it all the time:)
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Middleclick to paste doesn't work on win32 (AFAIK, someone correct me if I'm wrong, and tell how to activate the damn thing, it's very useful), and most people who want autoscroll are probably on win32 anyway, so just make it default for windows version and maybe a pref for other OS'es.
cell-phone use (1.5 percent)
The test have been done on this one the affect is the same as driving drunk.
Talk about generalizations. There's no such thing as any universal "affect of driving drunk". As some of us might have noticed, there are different levels of intoxication, and I don't think anyone is stupid enough to think it's one and same to drive after drinking a can of beer or after bottle of booze at the verge of passing out. Not to mention that affects of alcohol are rather varied from person to person.
So, where, exactly, on this damn diverse scale does the hypothetical cell-phone usage end? Why not just say that it impairs reaction time instead of babbling some stupid halftruths that have no real-life measurable value?
No. Well, maybe, if "live" parts don't fit and you risk someone touching them or it fits so badly that it easily changes to that kind of position.
But absence of shild ground does not, it's there only to protect current from getting into (metal)cover in case of fault, it does no good on device with plastic casing and no exposed conductive parts.
Sure, printing on it will ruin the paper (even if it doesn't break, what good is it if you can't read the original e-text any more).
But why should it break when put trought "scanner" part of fax machine or photocopier?
Nothing worse than the Iranians. Both sides used chemicals, but of course only Iraq is persecuted for it. Go figure.
Maybe they were all used in that war. Maybe they were destroyed by USAXIS-of-Evil bombings in the first gulf war. Maybe he destroyed them before there were any inspectors.
Might've. Though I don't understand what RS-232 "COM ports" have to do with videoediting anyway, it's not like anyone would try to output his digital video into new physical media trough one (which is what he seems to be implying), or ever would have. They've always been slow, by design ...
As others have pointed out, those systems can be emulated rather easily...
They're also worst-case examples, in 1983 you may have had IBM XT, with bit of luck, some of those DOS-programs might still run on new state-of-the art windows machine. And some of the 70's UNIX-C programs would probably compile with little or no modifications on Linux boxes. I don't see C going anywhere and stopping someone from doing same 20 years from now, but who knows, future will tell.
Serial is close to dead already? Whoa.
Strange, then that it seems to be quite rapidly only approaching widespread usage.
Seriously, what do you think could be an alternative? Magictech? There are two ways to move bits in electrical wire, side by side or one after another, no way around it. Same limitation would apply to optical computer, as well as ANY computer that needs physical or otherwise separate conduits for moving signals.
s/don't/do/
Windows asks if you want to SKIP it (and threatens horrible things if you don't), RH asks if you want to do it.
You can rest assured that most people will do it on windows, and most don't on RH, because of those defaults and those (pointless, if it really does any useful with the journal) warnings.
Same goes for servers that aren't babysitted all the time, after a crash you want 'em up and running automagically ASAP, windows automatically starts that check if nobody is there to cancel it within ten seconds, I don't want to even imagine how long it would take on a fileserver with few terabytes worth of disk... based on experiences with mere 10Gt partition, probably somewhere around week or two.
So you managed to look at the most irrelevant portion, crack bad joke about it, then go back to thinking they are rockets. Way to go.
I said they are planes because they aren't rockets, cruise missiles use jet engines, quite the same turbofan variety you will find in any airplane. Why? They have to flow hundres, if not thousands of miles, they are probably one of the most fuel efficient flying machines ever made (not counting solar powered).
NTFS may be journaling but windoze sure as hell doesn't seem to use that journal anything useful.
Every time w2k crashes, it's forced to do full file system check that takes aeons at boot up
If I crash my RHL system with ext3, at least it understands it can quickly check the journal and see if anything was lost instead of manually fscking every damn bit on all those countless gigabytes.
I see this more like addition, or update (if it's done right, if it's NOT done right I see it as paperweight), than replacement.
Sure, it would come handy to automatically have your portable computing device wirelessly "hijack" vastly superior input and output capabilities of bigger computer whenever you're in position to use one, but I'm not convinced web server is good enough for GUI of such device.
And it would be neat for it to still have screen and input device of its own (they would be turned off for power saving most of the time), for use where there just are no desktop systems for borrowing, in such situation, this system is 100% useless.
... more like IPOcrazy
You've got very, ahem, original definition for word "stagnant" for sure.
If you think PC hardware has been stagnant for the past decade, it's time to get out of the barrel you've been growing in and look around
How about sitting back with some snacks and enjoy the show as IBM pounds those cocksuckers to red splat on the floor?
No need to be childish.
Section 3, condition b seems very clear on this matter.
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
Where in that do you see that offer only applies to people you distributed to? It specifically says otherwise.
It's not the "crash" keyword that causes it to crash, but any input where type is not defined.
Seems to work all OK on 1.3 on w2k pro.
Maybe you've got a broken flash plugin (I'm not saying Mozilla shouldn't handle those graciously as well, but it's not quite as bad as crashing from mere, even faulty, html)
Wrong.
Sure, it's not valid HTML, but it still shouldn't crash the browser. Sure, it's not first, and most certainly not last, time a browser will crash from html, be it valid or not, but this one is just so small and so stupid that it has amusement value over most others.
Nope. Doesn't crash anymore.
That one iss fixed in XP sp1 and W2K sp3.
This guy is going to make a cruise missile, not low-range surface-to-surface missile.
You're not going to find or build solid or liquid rocket booster that can fit into small airframe and get to anywhere near 160km range marked as objective.
There's a reason those million dollar Raytheon Tomahawks use turbofan engines for main propulsion and solid rocket boosters only to start.
Cruise missiles are NOT rocket powered. For example Tomahawk is powered by a turbofan engine, it's basically a small jet airplane. It does have small rocket, but that's only used to give enough airspeed for main propulsion system to kick in.
Even this DIY version used a pulse-jet (somewhere in middleground between "true" jet and rocket) instead of plain rocket.
Rocket fuel economy isn't anywhere near good enough for distances these babies must fly.
Cruise missiles basically ARE small unmanned planes.
Only with high-precision guidance system and payload.
Alright, thanks for clarification, then we agree.
:)
I was after just that, you may copyright a specific implementation (if it's big enough to count as "work"), but not the description or idea of algorithm itself.
And what comes to typing wrong words... well, won't we all do it all the time
Who's stopping you from using ammonia?
It's a freaking container with a spray-gun, go ahead and fill with whatever liquid you desire.