30s or so after, I have their answer and now the links is refering to the true beef, here an extract:
(2000/04/31) -Trolltech announced today that it will license the upcoming free version of Qt/Unix 2.2 under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Developers will have the option of using the open-source version of Qt 2.2 under either the QPL (Q Public License) or GPL license, depending on their licensing requirements.
Many thanks to Trolltech.
Mmm, time to have a second look to Qt.
My e-mail to TrollTech.
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Your web site says in the front page "2000 Sep 04 Qt Free Edition goes GPL".
My first reaction was: congratulations, but when I click to the link it links to 1998 article which talks about the QPL being an OpenSource license ??
I am a quite puzzled by this, could it be an error ?, a bad link ? a web site defacement? I don't know.
What I find very funny is that (if its true), they are protecting their business model (selling Qt licenses) by going GPL and not LGPL! But it should please RMS because he is telling people to use GPL and not the LGPL!
I'm wondering, under what licence Gnome is ? GPL ? LGPL? a mix of both?
Will we see a flamewar between LGPL supporters and GPL supporters? (beside the obvious C/C++ holy war of course).
I'm reading the "consumer resource" article, they say that she "suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body".
IMHO 6% of the body is a lot more that a dime sized spot of 3rd degree burn, note that I'm not saying that you're wrong but your post and the article are not "compatible".
I think that the problem was really "how hot" a restaurant (here McD) could make its coffee..
I'm not sure about the first point, the only time I've read about the importance of the moon to life, it was in an Asimov science-fiction book:-)
I'm not sure if a huge moon is really needed to have life, it helps yes but is-it a requirement?
I don't know..
I agre with your points two and three but not about the "black death" and the "existence of very few briliant individuals".
Both factors may have accelerated the technological evolution, but they are not "mandatory".
It is quite common that different teams achieve identical discovery independentely nearly at the same time, and sometimes some discoveries are made, then lost and found again by other people..
I agree than x86 assembler is a joke, I've learn many RISC assembly language and some CISC (6809, 68000, VAX), they were all easy to learn but I've never managed to surpass my disgust of the 80x86 assembly language, barf.
> Plus, 90% of the instructions are completely
> useless, so ignore them, and you got
> a reduced instruction set computer right away.
Not really, a RISC has usually lots of register, an orthogonal instruction set, a load/store architecture..
The 80x86 ISA is quite far from these kind of ISA as evidenced by its shitty FP performances due in part to its braindamaged stack-like model for FP operations.
Still there is so much competition between x86 makers that its price/performance (in the high performance area) is quite impressive (especially for integer ops).
I'm wondering: if one day Intel managed to sell only EPIC processors, it will become an Intel-only game, not more competition from AMD and the like..
Well, you can have some semi-automatic system to avoid collision against some other 'copter.
Each 'copter would have some emitter (it would not be able to take off if the emitter is not functionning) and a computer system would not allow you to go too close to another 'copter.
The maintenance problem is much more dangerous IMHO, that is to say these thing must be treated like real helicopter (which spend half of their lifetime in maintenance) more than a car, because a failure is much more dangerous in a 'copter than in a car..
a) optic is only one of the technology which is racing to replace the classic Silicium, there is also nanotechnology, supra-conductivity, quantum computers.
Which technology will "win"? I don't know, there will be surely some mixing that is to say a computer which use both optical technology AND nanotechnology for example.
b) I don't understand what the "refreshing of cache means". Which cache? L1, L2 cache are usually in SRAM not in DRAM, so they are not refreshed the way DRAM memory needs to be, may be they are talking about HDD cache?
If they are talking about L1,L2 I don't understand how using magnetic memory will help!
You're right of course, you can't protest against something that you don't pay.
But Mozilla raised expectation so people are frustrated because of the long wait.
And then if a free OS wants the desktop domination, it needs to have a full featured browser, I for one don't use Linux regularly because Netscape isn't very good..
if you store the return adress on the stack BEFORE the buffer, then an overflow in the buffer would only corrupt the data and could not modify the return address, no?
It would require a change on the ABI, so it's unlikely that this modification happens anytimes soon of course.
It is so obvious that I must be mistaking, could someone tell me where I'm wrong, or is it the ABI change which makes it impossible??
those little dust have a LOT of kinetic energy, and the plasma is usually not very dense.
3 possibility: 1) the plasma is not hot nor dense, it won't stop a dust. 2) the plasma is hot, the "soft material" will have to be very isolating, otherwise you'll have to spend a lot of energy to keep you're plasma hot. 3) the plasma is dense: the "soft material" will have to be quite stiff to handle the pressure.
I think that some kind of "aerogel" would be better suited to protect satelites from dusts, even if it sounds less cool:-) Notes that this gel have to withstand intense variations of temperature, and a contineous exposure to energetic radiation so finding a suitable material wouldn't be easy.
This article talks about "cold plasma", how could a cold plasma protect space vehicle from microdebris ?
And a hot plasma needs a lot of energy to be generated continuously as you don't know when this dust is going to hit you...
As for fusion, I don't understand your point. If you are talking about the "tokamak" fusion, here they are using very hot plasma for creating fusion reaction, which generate fast particle which are used to heat a liquid for exemple. What are the use of cold plasma here ?
Is talking about hot plasma instead of cold plasma off-topic? I don't know.
Is the parent post should have been moderated to +5? Frankly, I don't think so, given its low quality..
Linux will truly have succeeded in the desktop world when the default install for beginners will be usable by my mother, that is to say when there will be enough easy-to-use apps with a coherent DEFAULT look-and-feel for the beginners, while still allowing advanced users to customise it all the way..
I don't understand why each time someone talk about uniform standard look-and-feel, slashdotters there is someone replying Linux is about choice, an the like..
Uh? Linux needs a uniform standard look-and-feel for the DEFAULT configuration, it wouldn't take away any freedom because it would still be changeable totally by advanced users..
There are differents level of "configurability" which are not incompatible IMHO: a) some change doable by beginners with a easy-to-use GUI (control center). b) more configurability by modifying configuration files by hand, using scripts, etc. c) the ultimate configurability: use the source, Luke!
Well, KDE 2.0 should be a step in the good direction..:-)
A) > Most importantly, the ALU's are > clocked at twice the core speed, so >you have your integer and FPU units running > at 3+ GHz.
1) ALU == Arithmetic and Logical Unit It does Integer math, so no the FPU isn't clock doubled. 2) Yes, the ALU are clock-doubled, but they are also "pipeline-doubled" in effect they use also twice as many pipeline-stage so they run in about the same time. It's great for some particular kind of code, but it's not the killer thing you made it.
The trace cache is insteresting though.
B) Do not forget that Intel is pushing for the expensive Rambus whereas AMD will surely use DDR SDRAM. Will Intel allow VIA to make DDR chipset for their P4? It's not sure, they would risk being sued by RAMBUS shareholders, I think..
I do agree with you but Einstein was a bad example.
E=mC^2 is part of the special relativity, but its greatest theory is the generalised relativity (which is less well-know by people because it is MUCH more harder to learn).
There isn't really a problem with the generalised relativity in its domain, but the real problem is that it doesn't mix well with the quantum theory..
So he spends the rest of his life, trying to build an unified theory, which nobody has been able to build yet..
PS: and you could say that its constant opposition to the quantum theory did help in fact to advance the quantum theory!
The article talks mostly about low energy consumption, there are no comparison of pollution...
The Peugeot 607 has an active filter to filter the exhaust particles, "self-cleaning" so you don't have to change it. Now the 607 is a new "luxury" car, so it remains to be seen if its promises will be fulfilled and if they can also add this filter to the low end cars.
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I think that Oxygen and nanotubes don't mix very well, and I'm not sure if the "nanotube paste" would age very well..
Uhm, could someone explain what it is to a mere mortal who is a bit lost within all these cripty acronyms.
DRM: Directory Resource Management?
AARP: Automatic something ?
Help!
30s or so after, I have their answer and now the links is refering to the true beef, here an extract:
(2000/04/31) -Trolltech announced today that it will license the upcoming free version of Qt/Unix 2.2 under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Developers will have the option of using the open-source version of Qt 2.2 under either the QPL (Q Public License) or GPL license, depending on their licensing requirements.
Many thanks to Trolltech.
Mmm, time to have a second look to Qt.
I've send the following e-mail to TrollTech:
:-)
>>>
Your web site says in the front page "2000 Sep 04 Qt Free Edition goes GPL".
My first reaction was: congratulations, but when I click to the link it links to 1998 article which talks about the QPL being an OpenSource license ??
I am a quite puzzled by this, could it be an error ?, a bad link ? a web site defacement? I don't know.
What I find very funny is that (if its true), they are protecting their business model (selling Qt licenses) by going GPL and not LGPL! But it should please RMS because he is telling people to use GPL and not the LGPL!
I'm wondering, under what licence Gnome is ? GPL ? LGPL? a mix of both?
Will we see a flamewar between LGPL supporters and GPL supporters? (beside the obvious C/C++ holy war of course).
We're indeed living in "interesting times"
I'm reading the "consumer resource" article, they say that she "suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body".
IMHO 6% of the body is a lot more that a dime sized spot of 3rd degree burn, note that I'm not saying that you're wrong but your post and the article are not "compatible".
I think that the problem was really "how hot" a restaurant (here McD) could make its coffee..
Have you seen the poll at the end?
"Should computers be allowed to create offspring?"
ROFL, what is less funny is that 30% replied no, but still I find this poll so stupid that it is really funny.
I'm not sure about the first point, the only time I've read about the importance of the moon to life, it was in an Asimov science-fiction book :-)
I'm not sure if a huge moon is really needed to have life, it helps yes but is-it a requirement?
I don't know..
I agre with your points two and three but not about the "black death" and the "existence of very few briliant individuals".
Both factors may have accelerated the technological evolution, but they are not "mandatory".
It is quite common that different teams achieve identical discovery independentely nearly at the same time, and sometimes some discoveries are made, then lost and found again by other people..
Does anyone have a pointer to the new ISA ?
:-(
:-)
All the articles linked until now are quite vague and non-technical..
Will they be as elegant as the Altivec ISA ?
Yes, I do think that some ISA are more elegant than others ARM ISA is quite nice and I like conditional operations
I agree than x86 assembler is a joke, I've learn many RISC assembly language and some CISC (6809, 68000, VAX), they were all easy to learn but I've never managed to surpass my disgust of the 80x86 assembly language, barf.
> Plus, 90% of the instructions are completely
> useless, so ignore them, and you got
> a reduced instruction set computer right away.
Not really, a RISC has usually lots of register, an orthogonal instruction set, a load/store architecture..
The 80x86 ISA is quite far from these kind of ISA as evidenced by its shitty FP performances due in part to its braindamaged stack-like model for FP operations.
Still there is so much competition between x86 makers that its price/performance (in the high performance area) is quite impressive (especially for integer ops).
I'm wondering: if one day Intel managed to sell only EPIC processors, it will become an Intel-only game, not more competition from AMD and the like..
Well, you can have some semi-automatic system to avoid collision against some other 'copter.
Each 'copter would have some emitter (it would not be able to take off if the emitter is not functionning) and a computer system would not allow you to go too close to another 'copter.
The maintenance problem is much more dangerous IMHO, that is to say these thing must be treated like real helicopter (which spend half of their lifetime in maintenance) more than a car, because a failure is much more dangerous in a 'copter than in a car..
Frankly, this article is really poor.
a) optic is only one of the technology which is racing to replace the classic Silicium, there is also nanotechnology, supra-conductivity, quantum computers.
Which technology will "win"? I don't know, there will be surely some mixing that is to say a computer which use both optical technology AND nanotechnology for example.
b) I don't understand what the "refreshing of cache means". Which cache? L1, L2 cache are usually in SRAM not in DRAM, so they are not refreshed the way DRAM memory needs to be, may be they are talking about HDD cache?
If they are talking about L1,L2 I don't understand how using magnetic memory will help!
In short, a low quality article IMHO.
You're right of course, you can't protest against something that you don't pay.
But Mozilla raised expectation so people are frustrated because of the long wait.
And then if a free OS wants the desktop domination, it needs to have a full featured browser, I for one don't use Linux regularly because Netscape isn't very good..
if you store the return adress on the stack BEFORE the buffer, then an overflow in the buffer would only corrupt the data and could not modify the return address, no?
It would require a change on the ABI, so it's unlikely that this modification happens anytimes soon of course.
It is so obvious that I must be mistaking, could someone tell me where I'm wrong, or is it the ABI change which makes it impossible??
THIS is really informative!
those little dust have a LOT of kinetic energy, and the plasma is usually not very dense.
:-)
3 possibility:
1) the plasma is not hot nor dense, it won't stop a dust.
2) the plasma is hot, the "soft material" will have to be very isolating, otherwise you'll have to spend a lot of energy to keep you're plasma hot.
3) the plasma is dense: the "soft material" will have to be quite stiff to handle the pressure.
I think that some kind of "aerogel" would be better suited to protect satelites from dusts, even if it sounds less cool
Notes that this gel have to withstand intense variations of temperature, and a contineous exposure to energetic radiation so finding a suitable material wouldn't be easy.
This article talks about "cold plasma", how could a cold plasma protect space vehicle from microdebris ?
And a hot plasma needs a lot of energy to be generated continuously as you don't know when this dust is going to hit you...
As for fusion, I don't understand your point. If you are talking about the "tokamak" fusion, here they are using very hot plasma for creating fusion reaction, which generate fast particle which are used to heat a liquid for exemple. What are the use of cold plasma here ?
Is talking about hot plasma instead of cold plasma off-topic? I don't know.
Is the parent post should have been moderated to +5?
Frankly, I don't think so, given its low quality..
Do not forget that the earth atmosphere has changed more than a little since the days before there was life on earth..
I think that's an obvious point which shouldn't be forgotten..
Linux will truly have succeeded in the desktop world when the default install for beginners will be usable by my mother, that is to say when there will be enough easy-to-use apps with a coherent DEFAULT look-and-feel for the beginners, while still allowing advanced users to customise it all the way..
:-)
I don't understand why each time someone talk about uniform standard look-and-feel, slashdotters there is someone replying Linux is about choice, an the like..
Uh? Linux needs a uniform standard look-and-feel for the DEFAULT configuration, it wouldn't take away any freedom because it would still be changeable totally by advanced users..
There are differents level of "configurability" which are not incompatible IMHO:
a) some change doable by beginners with a easy-to-use GUI (control center).
b) more configurability by modifying configuration files by hand, using scripts, etc.
c) the ultimate configurability: use the source, Luke!
Well, KDE 2.0 should be a step in the good direction..
A)
> Most importantly, the ALU's are
> clocked at twice the core speed, so >you have your integer and FPU units running
> at 3+ GHz.
1) ALU == Arithmetic and Logical Unit
It does Integer math, so no the FPU isn't clock doubled.
2) Yes, the ALU are clock-doubled, but they are also "pipeline-doubled" in effect they use also twice as many pipeline-stage so they run in about the same time.
It's great for some particular kind of code, but it's not the killer thing you made it.
The trace cache is insteresting though.
B) Do not forget that Intel is pushing for the expensive Rambus whereas AMD will surely use DDR SDRAM. Will Intel allow VIA to make DDR chipset for their P4?
It's not sure, they would risk being sued by RAMBUS shareholders, I think..
It's called AtheOS (I'm not sure how advanced it is however).
NT had too bear the backward compatibility burden, so why not directly clone a clean API?
PS: as an aside, I don't believe that for AMD half of the transistor is for backwards compatibility, have you looked at the cache size nowadays?
Because we had the same question on our coffee machine, and it took me about 1 hour to figure it out.
I'm not bragging at all, I'm just saying that I don't think that this riddle is hard.
I do agree with you but Einstein was a bad example.
E=mC^2 is part of the special relativity, but its greatest theory is the generalised relativity (which is less well-know by people because it is MUCH more harder to learn).
There isn't really a problem with the generalised relativity in its domain, but the real problem is that it doesn't mix well with the quantum theory..
So he spends the rest of his life, trying to build an unified theory, which nobody has been able to build yet..
PS: and you could say that its constant opposition to the quantum theory did help in fact to advance the quantum theory!
The article talks mostly about low energy consumption, there are no comparison of pollution...
The Peugeot 607 has an active filter to filter the exhaust particles, "self-cleaning" so you don't have to change it.
Now the 607 is a new "luxury" car, so it remains to be seen if its promises will be fulfilled and if they can also add this filter to the low end cars.
No, I've read it again and they are talking about the prototypes for both the number of pixel and the display size.
How do you get that number?
The pixel grid is 2560*2048 colored pixel.
The display size is 21 inches * 16.5 inches.
This make about 120 colored pixel per inch.
Are they speaking about 200 mono-colored (Red or Green or Blue) per inch or am I missing something?
Still these display must really be impressive to see, the sad point is that they won't become affordable anytime soon.. Bah!