Re:This disease is blown way out of proportion.
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SARS and the Internet
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Yeah, sure, the flu kills lot more people.
Why? It's everywhere, so more people catch it. SARS isn't, yet, but if it's belittled, it just may be.
SARS fatality rates may not be any worse than those of the influenza, but even if it's only equal, that's bad enough, if it's not caught in time, in few years we may have TWO flu-like unstoppaple diseases that BOTH kill 40000 people a year. Not to mention those economic losses. I don't think that's anything to be looking forward to, little bit of blowing out of proportion is helluva lot better than your irresponsible pooh-poohing.
That's true, but they ARE under obligation to include written note telling about the said CD-R's, and those CD-R's must be sent to ANYONE who asks, not only those people who received the binary.
"Fuzziness" might be true, if Linux were pure GPL, but it's not. Linux kernel has an extra clause from Linus, maybe you should read it instead of spreading FUD. Glibc is LGPL so it does not have any viralness towards linked code either.
You're probably a troll anyway, but here you go, the relevant portion, no need to hunt kernel sources:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
Not that it's forcing any views even in normal form, no need to accept, you're perfectly welcome to not use that free code if you don't want to accept the terms. Or you might negotiate with the author for separate licence in exchange to money, for example - oh, you mean you don't want to pay, only steal someone elses work but still close and charge for your own modified version? Tough luck.
People copyright algorithms all the time. MP3, the original PKZIP, GIF, all patent encumbered algorithms.
So where are the examples of people copyrighting algorithms? ANY example at all?
Sure, they can be patented as those you mentioned point out, but patenting is not the same thing as copyright, not even near.
Re:Eliminate one problem; another will appear!
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Hi-Tech Weed-Killer
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Well, easily transmittable software update with some new image regognition stuff will certainly be easier to do than deal with chemical immunities weeds tend to develop to herbicides.
Though from the article it seems this thing still is still vulnerable to that too, if bit less, as it only sprays liquids, wonder why couldn't they make it so that it tries to mechanically destroy the plants.
Well, from that short description, it doesn't sound THAT similar to Crusade.
Just about only common things seem to be "limited time to find salvation" and powerful weapon that leaves the ship disabled (and Excaliburs is nowhere near powerful enough to destroy a planet), and neither was probably original even in 1974.
Dunno where Tom takes his numbers, or whether or not there is something fishy about his methods, I prefer Anandtech for reviews.
XP 3000+ review would indicate that in most of the things it indeed does lose to P4 3.0 (though the differences are rather small), but XP2800+ beats P4 2.66 in 15 tests out of 22. And price/power becomes even more clear on slower speeds, 2100+ outperforms 2.2GHz P4 and is about $60 cheaper. "Bang for the buck" argument stands.
"Even at 1.4GHz"? 1.4G Thunderbird is still one of the hottest AMD chips out there, newer cores run quite a lot cooler. XP 2800+ and faster may catch it, but that's about it..
It's quite the other way around, AMD saved meaningful, well-defined scientific concept from being transformed into meaningless performance marketing crap (which it never could tell, and never wont).
Good pads work just as well as any thermal compound, the only real problem with 'em is that they are one-use only. And I'm quite certain AMD Boxed heatsinks only ship with one pre-applied pad.
But if we are talking about the review mentioned in the article that most people are critizing, where they had to change the motherboard as well, then AMD is a mighty good update route.
I've got KT7 as well. It even blew the caps, but I _still_ think it's a good board. Before the problems with capacitors started, it was rock solid, and, now, afterwards when the first broken cap has been replaced with dirt cheap regular cap that's NOT anywhere good enough to be on a MB, it's again been rock solid.
And those capacitors aren't Abit's fault, it's not like they make the things, subcontractor blew it and delivered faulty parts to dozens and dozens of different electronics manufacturers.
I'm thinking about updating to XP now, and Abit NF7-S looks like a best candidate for MB. Anyone got anything negative about it?
I was talking about the inherently STUPID "fixing potholes will cause energy efficiency of cars to decrease" -part.
If moving over a meter of cracked road requires 10 kN energy to overcome and half of that is converted to vibrations that this technology can recover let's say, 50% of (total of 7500 N spent), versus scenario where traversing same amount of good road would take only 5 kN, then it's blazingly obvious that fixing the roads will INCREASE energy efficiency of cars with or without vibration recovery tech.
Example overly simplified and units totally invented but it should get the point across.
Yeah, there's an electric counterpart, Seiko's Kinetic line for example are Quartz watches without mainspring and yet, like their name implies, powered by kinetic energy.
Spinning weight turns some kind of microgenerator that loads capacitor (or maybe a battery in some models), and I'd assume it can be done whichever way it's turning, unlike those old devices.
Energy harnessed will ALWAYS be lesser than energy required to make the thing vibrate in the first place.
Potholes and cracks do not, by merely existing, make a car vibrate, vibrations come from a fact that the car must spend energy to overdo them, and as neither mechanism is 100% efficient, energy gathered from vibrations is lesser than energy lost in them, smooth road is always more energy efficient with or without vibration harnessing mechanisms in cars.
Anyway, has there really been any serious work done in completely artificial genes? Is it possible now or in future?
Most tampering I've seen done to day is transgenics from species to another, and while complete gene pool of all animals on Earth is quite a friggin' much bigger than that of just one, it probably doesn't allow even near every possible attribute encodable in DNA/RNA.
We'd still be living on the flat Earth created in seven days some four thousand years before, that the whole other universe is circling, if we'd listened to them few hundred years ago.
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Yeah, sure, the flu kills lot more people.
Why? It's everywhere, so more people catch it. SARS isn't, yet, but if it's belittled, it just may be.
SARS fatality rates may not be any worse than those of the influenza, but even if it's only equal, that's bad enough, if it's not caught in time, in few years we may have TWO flu-like unstoppaple diseases that BOTH kill 40000 people a year. Not to mention those economic losses. I don't think that's anything to be looking forward to, little bit of blowing out of proportion is helluva lot better than your irresponsible pooh-poohing.
That's true, but they ARE under obligation to include written note telling about the said CD-R's, and those CD-R's must be sent to ANYONE who asks, not only those people who received the binary.
You're probably a troll anyway, but here you go, the relevant portion, no need to hunt kernel sources:
Not that it's forcing any views even in normal form, no need to accept, you're perfectly welcome to not use that free code if you don't want to accept the terms. Or you might negotiate with the author for separate licence in exchange to money, for example - oh, you mean you don't want to pay, only steal someone elses work but still close and charge for your own modified version? Tough luck.
People copyright algorithms all the time. MP3, the original PKZIP, GIF, all patent encumbered algorithms.
So where are the examples of people copyrighting algorithms? ANY example at all?
Sure, they can be patented as those you mentioned point out, but patenting is not the same thing as copyright, not even near.
Well, easily transmittable software update with some new image regognition stuff will certainly be easier to do than deal with chemical immunities weeds tend to develop to herbicides.
Though from the article it seems this thing still is still vulnerable to that too, if bit less, as it only sprays liquids, wonder why couldn't they make it so that it tries to mechanically destroy the plants.
Well, from that short description, it doesn't sound THAT similar to Crusade.
Just about only common things seem to be "limited time to find salvation" and powerful weapon that leaves the ship disabled (and Excaliburs is nowhere near powerful enough to destroy a planet), and neither was probably original even in 1974.
They are all carbon copies of each other, with the possible exception of DS9.
Well yeah, and that exception is only because it's carbon copy of B5 with all the good stuff missing.
Dunno where Tom takes his numbers, or whether or not there is something fishy about his methods, I prefer Anandtech for reviews.
XP 3000+ review would indicate that in most of the things it indeed does lose to P4 3.0 (though the differences are rather small), but XP2800+ beats P4 2.66 in 15 tests out of 22. And price/power becomes even more clear on slower speeds, 2100+ outperforms 2.2GHz P4 and is about $60 cheaper. "Bang for the buck" argument stands.
"Even at 1.4GHz"? 1.4G Thunderbird is still one of the hottest AMD chips out there, newer cores run quite a lot cooler. XP 2800+ and faster may catch it, but that's about it..
It's quite the other way around, AMD saved meaningful, well-defined scientific concept from being transformed into meaningless performance marketing crap (which it never could tell, and never wont).
Good pads work just as well as any thermal compound, the only real problem with 'em is that they are one-use only. And I'm quite certain AMD Boxed heatsinks only ship with one pre-applied pad.
Yep, ethyl alcohol is just another name for ethanol. Booze, that is.
Both are, but of these two, Itanium is CLEARLY more "unproven" technology than Opteron is.
Sometimes, sure.
But if we are talking about the review mentioned in the article that most people are critizing, where they had to change the motherboard as well, then AMD is a mighty good update route.
I've got KT7 as well. It even blew the caps, but I _still_ think it's a good board. Before the problems with capacitors started, it was rock solid, and, now, afterwards when the first broken cap has been replaced with dirt cheap regular cap that's NOT anywhere good enough to be on a MB, it's again been rock solid.
And those capacitors aren't Abit's fault, it's not like they make the things, subcontractor blew it and delivered faulty parts to dozens and dozens of different electronics manufacturers.
I'm thinking about updating to XP now, and Abit NF7-S looks like a best candidate for MB. Anyone got anything negative about it?
Doh. I know all that.
I was talking about the inherently STUPID "fixing potholes will cause energy efficiency of cars to decrease" -part.
If moving over a meter of cracked road requires 10 kN energy to overcome and half of that is converted to vibrations that this technology can recover let's say, 50% of (total of 7500 N spent), versus scenario where traversing same amount of good road would take only 5 kN, then it's blazingly obvious that fixing the roads will INCREASE energy efficiency of cars with or without vibration recovery tech.
Example overly simplified and units totally invented but it should get the point across.
Yeah, there's an electric counterpart, Seiko's Kinetic line for example are Quartz watches without mainspring and yet, like their name implies, powered by kinetic energy.
Spinning weight turns some kind of microgenerator that loads capacitor (or maybe a battery in some models), and I'd assume it can be done whichever way it's turning, unlike those old devices.
Read the parent post again.
Energy harnessed will ALWAYS be lesser than energy required to make the thing vibrate in the first place.
Potholes and cracks do not, by merely existing, make a car vibrate, vibrations come from a fact that the car must spend energy to overdo them, and as neither mechanism is 100% efficient, energy gathered from vibrations is lesser than energy lost in them, smooth road is always more energy efficient with or without vibration harnessing mechanisms in cars.
Yeah, makes everybody very convinced that kinetic energy watches are an evil conspiracy if your solar powered Eco-Drive doesn't work.
Maybe NOW that "put it under a lamp" rings some bells? Solar power == light, and all that, you know?
Historians seem to think that Jesus was quite a real person.
Sure, I don't think he wasn't son of non-existing God, but he existed.
Might be, but it IS strange.
True.
Anyway, has there really been any serious work done in completely artificial genes? Is it possible now or in future?
Most tampering I've seen done to day is transgenics from species to another, and while complete gene pool of all animals on Earth is quite a friggin' much bigger than that of just one, it probably doesn't allow even near every possible attribute encodable in DNA/RNA.
It's an option. Local system can handle the mouse pointer if that's wanted.
And can you blame them?
ROX has UI-logic very different from just about every other GUI on the planet. It takes some time to get used to it.
Screw (fundamentally) religious.
We'd still be living on the flat Earth created in seven days some four thousand years before, that the whole other universe is circling, if we'd listened to them few hundred years ago.