Stripping HTML, besides being trivial, is a solved problem. For example, to have the Wikipedia Slashdot article read to you with all the HTML stripped out (requires lynx and festival, easily available from most distro repositories),
lynx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot -dump -nolist | festival --tts
[A]lthough they have nearly identical DNA, environmental conditions both inside the womb and throughout their lives influence the switching on and off of various genes.
I only know this because I lost a bet over it once.
Your computer and the software running on it is deterministic, so we can't be truly random there. What we can do is provide truly random data as input to our determistic software, allowing the software's output to have useful random properties. As a sibling said, you can get random inputs from outside the computer such as key timings, etc.
Unless your program only crunches a lot of numbers during its entire runtime (for example the ImageMagick tools) your program will spend most of its time waiting on some kind of I/O. This encompasses pretty much all software you will find on a normal desktop computer. Perl and C both spend the same amount of time waiting on I/O operations. It comes down to spinning disks or waiting on the slow, clumsy fingers of users.
On the other hand, Perl is faster when it comes to development time. The Perl programmer will write the same program as the C programmer, but in a fraction of the time. If we are generating fractals or something, the C programmer's version will me smaller and run much faster, but, in the same amount of development time, the Perl programmer can write his program and be out to dinner and a movie. Or trolling Slashdot or whatever.
If you really want to convince yourself, break out your favorite programming language. Implement and run a simulation a few thousand times and look at the results. If you pay attention while you write it, you may notice that the variable that holds the initial selection will have no bearing on the result, so the actual simulation may not even be necessary.
You don't see CCTV in Star Trek (in "the future"), just biological sensors and such: "Computer, where is Mr. LaForge?" "10-forward.". I always wondered why they didn't, though, as it would be handy when there is some kind of intrusion.
No part of this paragraph is true. The OSI had existed for two months when this summit convened. The term Open Source was concieved in a meeting at VA Linux Systems by Christine Petersen.
How the heck would you know, Mr. know-it-all? What, where you at the VA Linux Systems meeting or something? Next you're gonna say you personally know Christine Petersen. Or even RMS.
(I am kidding. I know who Bruce Perens is, mostly thanks to seeing this a few years ago.)
The constitution does not guarantee you protection if you're associated with enemies of my country.
Actually, it does. Especially if you are a citizen. You know, stuff like due process and all. Since this is/., a Star Trek quote seems appropriate.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged.
- Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie
The serial killer wants to stay out and kill and doesn't want to go to jail. The public doesn't want the serial killer not in jail out killing people. That's two parties with conflicting ideas on what shouls happen based on personal gain, just like I had stated.
What I find most interesting about the argument over laws putting serial killers in jail is how it boils down to two groups justifying why their greed is more meaningful and important.
Downloaders are just as in the wrong as uploaders are.
Or maybe breaking the law has nothing to do with right and wrong. Copyright, in its current form, is a corrupt and unjust law that actually causes the opposite of its original purpose as defined by the constitution. No one should feel any qualms about breaking it.
Actually, the OpenBSD guys believed the original NTP implementation to be a security risk and thus created their own: see Using OpenNTPD and this post by the OpenNTPD maintainer.
E.g., ok, you put an order for, say, uranium from that far far colony. How do you know that you'll even still need it by the time you get it? How do you know that the price will still be OK?
Let's say we know that the colony will be needing lots of uranium: say its going to be using nuclear fission for power and that's not going to change inside of 100 years. I think for some far-off space colony that wouldn't be an unreasonable assumption.
Now, for some reason, you want to sell them uranium, and for some reason they need a lot of it because they use an enormous amount of energy (an American colony I guess). Pipeline the process! You send shipments periodically, such as every month. After the initial ~35 years, they will be getting shipments every month. They can pay whatever the value of the uranium is at the time of arrival (assume they need it so badly that they always buy and pay). Of course, if information is also limited to the speed of light, that payment won't be available for 10 more years (would it collect interest?). Could transfer money, rather than trading goods, like that?
I just imagine that any kind of interstellar, long-distance communication or trade would have to be pipelined in some manner: good bandwidth, but the lag so bad that it makes Comcast look good.
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They didn't come back with any beautiful, belly-buttonless genies, did they?
Actually, not quite.
[A]lthough they have nearly identical DNA, environmental conditions both inside the womb and throughout their lives influence the switching on and off of various genes.I only know this because I lost a bet over it once.
Your computer and the software running on it is deterministic, so we can't be truly random there. What we can do is provide truly random data as input to our determistic software, allowing the software's output to have useful random properties. As a sibling said, you can get random inputs from outside the computer such as key timings, etc.
I don't remember him wording it quite that way, though. :-P
Unless your program only crunches a lot of numbers during its entire runtime (for example the ImageMagick tools) your program will spend most of its time waiting on some kind of I/O. This encompasses pretty much all software you will find on a normal desktop computer. Perl and C both spend the same amount of time waiting on I/O operations. It comes down to spinning disks or waiting on the slow, clumsy fingers of users.
On the other hand, Perl is faster when it comes to development time. The Perl programmer will write the same program as the C programmer, but in a fraction of the time. If we are generating fractals or something, the C programmer's version will me smaller and run much faster, but, in the same amount of development time, the Perl programmer can write his program and be out to dinner and a movie. Or trolling Slashdot or whatever.
Just to point out a misunderstanding here, the articles on Wikipedia are copyrighted by those who write and edit them.
If you really want to convince yourself, break out your favorite programming language. Implement and run a simulation a few thousand times and look at the results. If you pay attention while you write it, you may notice that the variable that holds the initial selection will have no bearing on the result, so the actual simulation may not even be necessary.
You don't see CCTV in Star Trek (in "the future"), just biological sensors and such: "Computer, where is Mr. LaForge?" "10-forward.". I always wondered why they didn't, though, as it would be handy when there is some kind of intrusion.
You keep using those words. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Good advice: I enjoy my sense of smell every day. Oh wait ...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I guess a whole sentence explaining that I was joking is still too subtle. Do mods even finish reading posts before moderating?
How the heck would you know, Mr. know-it-all? What, where you at the VA Linux Systems meeting or something? Next you're gonna say you personally know Christine Petersen. Or even RMS.
(I am kidding. I know who Bruce Perens is, mostly thanks to seeing this a few years ago.)
Actually, it does. Especially if you are a citizen. You know, stuff like due process and all. Since this is /., a Star Trek quote seems appropriate.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged.- Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie
So you are saying outside of the Internet it's normal for the president to be fleeing from sniper fire?
The serial killer wants to stay out and kill and doesn't want to go to jail. The public doesn't want the serial killer not in jail out killing people. That's two parties with conflicting ideas on what shouls happen based on personal gain, just like I had stated.
I see mods don't look at the parent post. I should have quoted it I guess.
What I find most interesting about the argument over laws putting serial killers in jail is how it boils down to two groups justifying why their greed is more meaningful and important.
Pizza Hut won't even deliver to my apartment, let alone low Earth orbit.
Or maybe breaking the law has nothing to do with right and wrong. Copyright, in its current form, is a corrupt and unjust law that actually causes the opposite of its original purpose as defined by the constitution. No one should feel any qualms about breaking it.
Actually, the OpenBSD guys believed the original NTP implementation to be a security risk and thus created their own: see Using OpenNTPD and this post by the OpenNTPD maintainer.
Let's say we know that the colony will be needing lots of uranium: say its going to be using nuclear fission for power and that's not going to change inside of 100 years. I think for some far-off space colony that wouldn't be an unreasonable assumption.
Now, for some reason, you want to sell them uranium, and for some reason they need a lot of it because they use an enormous amount of energy (an American colony I guess). Pipeline the process! You send shipments periodically, such as every month. After the initial ~35 years, they will be getting shipments every month. They can pay whatever the value of the uranium is at the time of arrival (assume they need it so badly that they always buy and pay). Of course, if information is also limited to the speed of light, that payment won't be available for 10 more years (would it collect interest?). Could transfer money, rather than trading goods, like that?
I just imagine that any kind of interstellar, long-distance communication or trade would have to be pipelined in some manner: good bandwidth, but the lag so bad that it makes Comcast look good.
Copyright infringement in P2P is in the user's interest. Protecting copyleft works is in the user's interest. I don't see any contradiction here.
Besides, as is said so many times: there many different people that post here with a diverse range of views.
You must not be aware of it, but just about every video on YouTube is copyrighted.