Actually, the nose of the bus *does* fall faster because the rear is still on the bridge. You see, when you remove the support from the front wheels, it is the center of gravity of the bus that starts to fall. The back of the bus still being supported, the front has to fall faster so that the center falls at the right speed.
Not true. First, Linus decides what isn't a derived work everytime he decides not to sue somebody. Linux is his creation, and only he has legal standing to sue. Congress could pass any law it wanted defining "derived works" and as long as Linus does nothing, no one else is allowed to sue anyone for infringement. Second, Linus can decide to sue, in which case the courts, not Congress, decides if his arguments have merit. Congress frequently passes laws that the courts promptly strike down; Slashdot readers frequently cheer when this happens.
Except that in this case the shim is much smaller, probably about the size of your average home router kernel. ESX lite supposedly doesn't have a console because of this, and it should be pretty easy to see what, if any, of the bootloader sticks around.
Go read this article (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08 /09/171248) from last week and note that Dell apparently will be booting a version of ESX from BIOS. If ESX can be booted with an alternate bootloader, it must not be that closely tied to RedHat.
At my big company, we use Connected DataProtector, and I hate it. Once a day, it runs a backup of my laptop and everything on my machine comes to a grinding halt for five to ten minutes. Oh, and it doesn't back up files in use (you know, like MSDE files under development), so a lot of stuff doesn't get backed up anyway. At *my* big company, we also use Connected DataProtector, and I love it. I set the schedule to back up automatically on week-days between 12:30 and 1:00, when I'm at lunch and won't notice any slowdown. If for some reason I miss a backup for five days in a row (say, if I'm working at a client site with stiff SOX or HIPAA enforcement), it will nag me as soon as I connect to the Internet over anything faster than a modem. And finally, it asks me for permission before the backup begins, allowing the option to either wait 30 minutes or cancel for the day.
I was intrigued to see EMC on the list of certified vendors because, although several of their products run Linux, I wasn't aware of any that fit the definition of general purpose computers. Could they be expanding their product line? Alas, it turns out that Oracle's Linux is only able to talk to EMC's gear, not run on it.
As of five minutes ago, I don't want your stupid goggles, I want freaking DVD-frequency contact lens that can be worn 24x7. In a few hours, there are going to be jokers wandering the streets with these things blinding random victims, and I want to be protected, damn it.
On a more serious note (yes, the above is intended to be modded "funny"), could a contact lens work? If it blocks the light via absorption, then you've just moved the hot-spot from the retina to the cornea. Still, I guess that corneal transplants are more practical than retinal.
Hey, how about changing case 1 from "atime (now() - mtime_ctime)/2"? This would cause the calulated atime to roughly track the actual atime, at least for the first relatime_interval seconds of the file life.
Unfortunately, past experience has shown that the devs will not "fix the bugs and provide the software again", instead they are more likely to flame anyone who mentions the article and then run into a corner and pout.
First off, there are no such things as "stalagtites". There are only stalactites (which hang tight from the ceiling) and stalagmites (which stand mightily on the ground); from your description I presume that you mean the latter. However, both are formed by dripping water, so perhaps you mean the tufa towers of Mono Lake. But those formed underwater and were only exposed when Los Angeles started diverting water from nearby rivers and the lake's water level fell. But no matter what you mean, these projects will only effect a very thin layer of the upper-most magma. You might as well worry about an oil spill effects the ocean's currents.
Shattering rock is how the process words. Water has a hard time passing through solid rock, so the mining process initially injects cold water to form microscopic cracks in the rock for the water to flow through. In the Swiss project, the earthquakes occurred because they were injecting water into a fault, in effect lubricating things enough that the two sides of the fault line could side easier. This may be a show stopper for that project. In North America, we will probably want to avoid drilling along the Pacific Coast or anywhere near the Reelfoot Rift.
Lastly, Earth's magnetosphere is produced by its core, not the magma. And if "sucking the heat out" could cause volcanoes to "dry up", I think that most people would consider that an additional benefit, not a disadvantage.
The best way to stop spam is to kill it at its source, in this case the RSS feed itself. One method might be direct moderation of the RSS feeds that slashdot imports, or you could give feeds a karma rating that's derived from the moderation of its story submissions. Either way, a story's initial color should be derived from its feed's rating, so that items from CNet, Bruce Schneir's blog and Penny Arcade might all start out yellow or orange, while stories from less reputable sources would start out as indigo or even black. I wonder if you could move to an entirely RSS-driven submission system? The current submission process could be replaced by requiring user-submitted stories to start as a journal posting, maybe with a special author-added tag.
The additional issues of creating new lightweight but strong shapes and structures, with the ability to come apart and transform from one stage to another at just the right time means developing a rapid-fire Rube Goldberg-like contraption.
Obviously, we need some Decepticons for the initial trials. They can transform rapidly, and no one will be too upset if we lose a few while testing.
I've been coding for 35 years. The only code that I've written was written by (surprise, surprise) me. The code that I've read has been written by hundreds, if not thousands, of people, who out-number me considerably. But wait, you say, you were talking about reading about writing code. However, much of the code that I read is at on-line sites like Perlmonks and O'Reily and even MSDN, where each bit of code is accompanied by detailed explanations of why it was written the way that it was. If that's not reading about writing code, then I don't know what is.
Do you know what "open" means? Compaq merely copied what IBM had opened. Out in the garage, I've still got the manual for my IBM PC-XT, which included a complete listing of the BIOS. It was as open as anything RMS could have hoped for at the time. Nothing except ownership of an EPROM programmer kept you from making your own version for private use. The only restriction was that you couldn't re-publish your work since IBM had a copyright on the code that they wouldn't share. Compaq apparently did a clean-room re-implementation of the BIOS because IBM left them alone; other manufacturers of clones simply copied the IBM BIOS and IBM came donw on them like a ton of bricks.
Open Firmware (also, OpenBoot) is a hardware-independent firmware (computer software which loads the operating system), developed by Mitch Bradley at Sun Microsystems, and used in post-NuBus PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh computers, Sun Microsystems SPARC based workstations and servers, IBM POWER systems, Pegasos systems, and the laptop designed by OLPC among others. It is available under a BSD license. The proposed Power Architecture Platform Reference will also be Open Firmware based. On those computers, Open Firmware fulfills the same tasks as BIOS does on PC computers.
It is accessed, by users, by a Forth-based shell interface. Forth is a powerful high-level language. For example, it is possible to program Open Firmware to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.
So, can you run your vast collection of bash scripts? Probably not. But Forth is a pretty cool language that's fun to play with.
Hell, when I went to UMR, we didn't bother with any of that percentage stuff. There were 27 female students, period. And none of them were interested in dating their classmates. (OK, a few were, but they weren't dating their male classmates.)
Most claims made about space elevators can be seen at the Wikipedia article, which includes detailed info about building one from steel and why it is impractical (but not impossible). I'll conceed that it's barely possible that the entire article is a plant by LiftPort, however there are a lot of links to other companies that are doing independent research. Of particular interest is Gizmonic Inc., who seem to have adopted space elevators as a corporate hobby, doing lots of spare time R&D and provided lots of calculators so you can check the math yourself. Hans Morovec wrote a research paper in 1978 investigating the feasibility of using Kelvar. Not related to your question but also interesting, Tethers Unlimited, Inc., aren't working on space elevators but are working on lots of related technology.
First, institute a "labor replacement" tax on robots; make it some small percentage of minimum wage. Use the income from this tax to create a program to allow the poor to buy stock in various companies, especially those that are robotic-related. In a short time, this will eliminate the lower class, as they become wealthy enough to live ives of leisure. All in all, this would stand a very real chance of replicating the success of the food stamp programs of the sixties and seventies.
One of the more frequent points of criticism about vertical farming is the need to use manual havesters due to the difficulty of using combines indoors. It was a particularly stupid argument, since the suggested crops were ones that didn't use combines for harvesting. The need for manual harvesting is more real, since you don't want pickers moving in and out of the environment all the time. Something like these robots, however, would be an ideal solution. They look not only small but easily adaptable for multiple types of fruits.
How does this affect Ryan McFadyen?
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To refresh your memory, think back to the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case. Sophomore Ryan McFadyen, a member of the team and an attendee of the party, sent an email that parodied a bit from the book American Psycho, which is (or at least was) required reading in one of Duke's English Lit classes. The police got their hands on the email and threatened to release it to the press if he didn't admit to witnessing the alledged rape. To his credit, McFayden refused; he was subseqently villified by the press and suspended by the university.
It seems to me that this ruling means that McFadyen now has an excellent chance to pursueing a case against the prosecuter's office.
Didn't MS say someting about the security issues of hardware virtualization? Hello? Haven't they hard of Blue Pill? Can someone explain how an EULA can keep malware from attacking a system? (And yes, I know that Blue Pill isn't a real threat... today.)
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Actually, the nose of the bus *does* fall faster because the rear is still on the bridge. You see, when you remove the support from the front wheels, it is the center of gravity of the bus that starts to fall. The back of the bus still being supported, the front has to fall faster so that the center falls at the right speed.
Not true. First, Linus decides what isn't a derived work everytime he decides not to sue somebody. Linux is his creation, and only he has legal standing to sue. Congress could pass any law it wanted defining "derived works" and as long as Linus does nothing, no one else is allowed to sue anyone for infringement. Second, Linus can decide to sue, in which case the courts, not Congress, decides if his arguments have merit. Congress frequently passes laws that the courts promptly strike down; Slashdot readers frequently cheer when this happens.
Except that in this case the shim is much smaller, probably about the size of your average home router kernel. ESX lite supposedly doesn't have a console because of this, and it should be pretty easy to see what, if any, of the bootloader sticks around.
Go read this article (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08 /09/171248) from last week and note that Dell apparently will be booting a version of ESX from BIOS. If ESX can be booted with an alternate bootloader, it must not be that closely tied to RedHat.
Oh yeah, I answered this two years ago: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156736&cid=131 39296
I was intrigued to see EMC on the list of certified vendors because, although several of their products run Linux, I wasn't aware of any that fit the definition of general purpose computers. Could they be expanding their product line? Alas, it turns out that Oracle's Linux is only able to talk to EMC's gear, not run on it.
As of five minutes ago, I don't want your stupid goggles, I want freaking DVD-frequency contact lens that can be worn 24x7. In a few hours, there are going to be jokers wandering the streets with these things blinding random victims, and I want to be protected, damn it. On a more serious note (yes, the above is intended to be modded "funny"), could a contact lens work? If it blocks the light via absorption, then you've just moved the hot-spot from the retina to the cornea. Still, I guess that corneal transplants are more practical than retinal.
Hey, how about changing case 1 from "atime (now() - mtime_ctime)/2"? This would cause the calulated atime to roughly track the actual atime, at least for the first relatime_interval seconds of the file life.
Try telling that to J. K. Rowling!
I don't know, I think that Deloreans would definitely need an exemption from that law.
Columns, asshole!?
Unfortunately, past experience has shown that the devs will not "fix the bugs and provide the software again", instead they are more likely to flame anyone who mentions the article and then run into a corner and pout.
First off, there are no such things as "stalagtites". There are only stalactites (which hang tight from the ceiling) and stalagmites (which stand mightily on the ground); from your description I presume that you mean the latter. However, both are formed by dripping water, so perhaps you mean the tufa towers of Mono Lake. But those formed underwater and were only exposed when Los Angeles started diverting water from nearby rivers and the lake's water level fell. But no matter what you mean, these projects will only effect a very thin layer of the upper-most magma. You might as well worry about an oil spill effects the ocean's currents.
Shattering rock is how the process words. Water has a hard time passing through solid rock, so the mining process initially injects cold water to form microscopic cracks in the rock for the water to flow through. In the Swiss project, the earthquakes occurred because they were injecting water into a fault, in effect lubricating things enough that the two sides of the fault line could side easier. This may be a show stopper for that project. In North America, we will probably want to avoid drilling along the Pacific Coast or anywhere near the Reelfoot Rift.
Lastly, Earth's magnetosphere is produced by its core, not the magma. And if "sucking the heat out" could cause volcanoes to "dry up", I think that most people would consider that an additional benefit, not a disadvantage.
The best way to stop spam is to kill it at its source, in this case the RSS feed itself. One method might be direct moderation of the RSS feeds that slashdot imports, or you could give feeds a karma rating that's derived from the moderation of its story submissions. Either way, a story's initial color should be derived from its feed's rating, so that items from CNet, Bruce Schneir's blog and Penny Arcade might all start out yellow or orange, while stories from less reputable sources would start out as indigo or even black. I wonder if you could move to an entirely RSS-driven submission system? The current submission process could be replaced by requiring user-submitted stories to start as a journal posting, maybe with a special author-added tag.
I've been coding for 35 years. The only code that I've written was written by (surprise, surprise) me. The code that I've read has been written by hundreds, if not thousands, of people, who out-number me considerably. But wait, you say, you were talking about reading about writing code. However, much of the code that I read is at on-line sites like Perlmonks and O'Reily and even MSDN, where each bit of code is accompanied by detailed explanations of why it was written the way that it was. If that's not reading about writing code, then I don't know what is.
Do you know what "open" means? Compaq merely copied what IBM had opened. Out in the garage, I've still got the manual for my IBM PC-XT, which included a complete listing of the BIOS. It was as open as anything RMS could have hoped for at the time. Nothing except ownership of an EPROM programmer kept you from making your own version for private use. The only restriction was that you couldn't re-publish your work since IBM had a copyright on the code that they wouldn't share. Compaq apparently did a clean-room re-implementation of the BIOS because IBM left them alone; other manufacturers of clones simply copied the IBM BIOS and IBM came donw on them like a ton of bricks.
Hell, when I went to UMR, we didn't bother with any of that percentage stuff. There were 27 female students, period. And none of them were interested in dating their classmates. (OK, a few were, but they weren't dating their male classmates.)
Most claims made about space elevators can be seen at the Wikipedia article, which includes detailed info about building one from steel and why it is impractical (but not impossible). I'll conceed that it's barely possible that the entire article is a plant by LiftPort, however there are a lot of links to other companies that are doing independent research. Of particular interest is Gizmonic Inc., who seem to have adopted space elevators as a corporate hobby, doing lots of spare time R&D and provided lots of calculators so you can check the math yourself. Hans Morovec wrote a research paper in 1978 investigating the feasibility of using Kelvar. Not related to your question but also interesting, Tethers Unlimited, Inc., aren't working on space elevators but are working on lots of related technology.
First, institute a "labor replacement" tax on robots; make it some small percentage of minimum wage. Use the income from this tax to create a program to allow the poor to buy stock in various companies, especially those that are robotic-related. In a short time, this will eliminate the lower class, as they become wealthy enough to live ives of leisure. All in all, this would stand a very real chance of replicating the success of the food stamp programs of the sixties and seventies.
One of the more frequent points of criticism about vertical farming is the need to use manual havesters due to the difficulty of using combines indoors. It was a particularly stupid argument, since the suggested crops were ones that didn't use combines for harvesting. The need for manual harvesting is more real, since you don't want pickers moving in and out of the environment all the time. Something like these robots, however, would be an ideal solution. They look not only small but easily adaptable for multiple types of fruits.
To refresh your memory, think back to the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case. Sophomore Ryan McFadyen, a member of the team and an attendee of the party, sent an email that parodied a bit from the book American Psycho, which is (or at least was) required reading in one of Duke's English Lit classes. The police got their hands on the email and threatened to release it to the press if he didn't admit to witnessing the alledged rape. To his credit, McFayden refused; he was subseqently villified by the press and suspended by the university.
It seems to me that this ruling means that McFadyen now has an excellent chance to pursueing a case against the prosecuter's office.
... only criminals will have virtualization.
Didn't MS say someting about the security issues of hardware virtualization? Hello? Haven't they hard of Blue Pill? Can someone explain how an EULA can keep malware from attacking a system? (And yes, I know that Blue Pill isn't a real threat... today.)