on their pages. Nothing else is needed to ensure their pages will continue working in the new IE. If they can't be bothered to do that then I don't care if their pages break...
Modern operating systems (Vista, MacOS X, Linux?) use vector graphics, which means that you can never have a too high resolution, as everything can be scaled to fit.
There is a disjoint partition, since you can count every article which is not linked to as an element in the disjoint partition. A list of article which is not linked to is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LonelyPages
In the US at least your wrong and the GP is correct. Go read the Constitution. It doesn't say or imply anywhere about "reward and protect technological innovators".
Yes; In fact what the US constitution says is:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
I had some fun with that when I accidentally introduced it while developing, and the webserver suddenly kept serving up blank pages.
PHP catches almost all other kinds of user errors, and shows a nice error message, but when I reported this one they referred me to the manual and marked the bug report BOGUS. I still maintain that the interpreter crashing is not expected behaviour.
How do we know no mistake was made when creating the reference image?
You don't
I remember an article by the Apple guy who made ACID2 work on Safari (I think this was the first browser to make it work). One of the steps to get it working was to fix a bug in the test, when he couldn't make the reference result fit with what the test HTML said.
IMO the US needs to switch to some form of proportional representation, which would make it possible for new parties to establish themselves.
Right now a party needs a plurality in a district to get a representative, which sets the bar for entry very high. With proportional representation a party with 5% national support spread out over the whole nation would still be represented.
No one in their right mind would ever measure units on binary hardware in powers of ten.
The fact that on a low level computers are based on base 2 should have no consequence for the end-user. It should be a detail abstracted away by the operating system, like the fact that your CPU has N pipelines.
The fact that deep down the computer operates using base 2 has no relevance for the end user when he is using it to store a 4.7GB DVD movie.
Our whole system of measurements use base 10. No one in their right mind would use some hybrid base 2 system for showing enduser computer storage capacity, as we do today...
To the average person, the distinction between base-2 and base-10 is meaningless, yes. That doesn't mean, however, that they aren't being cheated. Their interface with the computer, when they examine a file, will tell them how large it is using base-2 units. Disk space requirements on the back of software packages are written in base-2 units. Everything they see is in base-2 units, so this is how they estimate their requirements of disk size. And then they find out that the disk is being sold using different units.
The base two thing is a low-level technical detail. It has no relevance to consumers.
The fact that some operating systems choose to let that low-level detail show to the consumers is because of poor operating system design, not because of any logic reason. And it is not the fault of the hard drive makers, who just use the SI units.
The base two thing is a low-level technical detail. It has no relevance to consumers.
The fact that some operating systems choose to let that low-level detail show to the consumers is because of poor operating system design, not because of any logic reason.
Yes, a database would have been nice, but I don't know enough about all kinds of hardware to determine which fields should be in the database.
The Mediawiki site was dead easy to get going, and didn't require me to know what fields were relevant for all kinds of hardware, so that was what I did:).
Not really, a device driver database client with a "does this work?" query that updates a database automatically is what is needed. See Ubuntu and their Device Database that they are currently building for an example of a way to actually get this information.
Yes, Ubuntu's device database looks nice, but a free-form wiki is also nice due to its flexibility.
Asking people to fill out a wiki is way too much work, and doomed to be inaccurate. Most people will go, edit one thing, then never visit it again. The core members that 'clean' up the wiki won't have access to their hardware, and will never be able to evaluate their claim.
But then the very next person who comes along will try to use incorrect information, (hopefully) discover that it is deficient, and (hopefully) correct it in the wiki.
I won't bother submitting this driver to the free driver project because it's kind of useless without the $3000 piece of hardware it works with (and that's not counting the crates full of minicomputer hardware needed for testing). I need mine and I don't picture these folks buying their own no matter how much they care.
I seem to recall that one of the main kernel developers said they accept any drivers, and had a driver in the kernel with only a single known user. So it seems to me that they would accept your driver, since you seem to have many users.
If you get your driver in the kernel then I assume the developers who change the interfaces would update your code automatically.
Sure, some people were wasting their time doing that stuff, but it is an encyclopedia, for crying out loud. Disabling access to the site from the ministry because a handful few were obsessed about spending time on it during work? Definitely over the top.
To be fair, almost all Wikipedia content is available in non-editable form in various places. For example at answers.com (for the English edition at least). Blocking Wikipedia would ensure that people don't use time on editing.
There is plenty of uranium, especially if you include extraction from sea water (which is probably economical since the price of uran is a very small part of the cost of running a nuclear plant.)
Besides, reprocessing spent fuel (which is not currently done in the US) increases the energy output of a given amount of uranium 60 times. In addition, reprocessing removes (burns) various troublesome byproducts which would otherwise require long-tem storage.
I think the biggest worry I have now... which may actually be moot- is who ends up with SCO's assets and IP?
Is that really a problem anymore? The judge has already ruled that Novell owns the copyrights, and Novell has already waived any liabilities Linux may have. Such a waiver does not seem retractible to me.
If somebody bought SCO's rights then they would first have to get that judgment overturned. And then there is the little detail that it turned out that SCO's claims of Unix code in Linux turned out to be a bunch of lies, with the "millions of lines of code" never materializing. It seems unlikely that somebody else would try bringing another trial using the same lies.
And I don't see what connection there is between the quality of the consumer laws and the tax bracket. You could have the same laws, while retaining your current tax rate, if you just were better at electing your politicians.
The Danish government did however recently create a "antiterror law" saying that ISPs must retain a database of all connections made by their customers, and be able to match the connections to computers. Unpleasantly Orwellian:(. This database is then available to the police with a subpoena from a judge (better than the US where a subpoena seems currently to not be required, but still). Try doing something equivalent that people could understand, such as requiring book and newspaper sellers to keep a list of all people they sell their books/newspapers to, and I think (hope) there would be an uproar.
I think Denmark has also been helping USA in the Echelon program.
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on their pages. Nothing else is needed to ensure their pages will continue working in the new IE. If they can't be bothered to do that then I don't care if their pages break...
Modern operating systems (Vista, MacOS X, Linux?) use vector graphics, which means that you can never have a too high resolution, as everything can be scaled to fit.
Meanwhile, discoveries of "Earth-sized" planets remain rare "
:). The smallest known exoplanet is Gliese 876 d, with a mass of a least 5.88 times Earth's.
Try "non-existent"
There is a disjoint partition, since you can count every article which is not linked to as an element in the disjoint partition. A list of article which is not linked to is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LonelyPages
"Sorry we committed perjury be sending a false DMCA takedown notice, please don't sue us"?
And in any case, they live by selling bandwidth. If the need for bandwidth increases explosively they should be happy as they can sell more.
But for some reason they insist on casting a bonanza in demand for their primary product as a problem for them.
In the US at least your wrong and the GP is correct. Go read the Constitution. It doesn't say or imply anywhere about "reward and protect technological innovators".
Yes; In fact what the US constitution says is:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
test.php
<?php
function f() {f();}
f();
?>
t@t ~> php test.php
zsh: segmentation fault php test.php
I had some fun with that when I accidentally introduced it while developing, and the webserver suddenly kept serving up blank pages.
PHP catches almost all other kinds of user errors, and shows a nice error message, but when I reported this one they referred me to the manual and marked the bug report BOGUS. I still maintain that the interpreter crashing is not expected behaviour.
How do we know no mistake was made when creating the reference image?
You don't
I remember an article by the Apple guy who made ACID2 work on Safari (I think this was the first browser to make it work). One of the steps to get it working was to fix a bug in the test, when he couldn't make the reference result fit with what the test HTML said.
IMO the US needs to switch to some form of proportional representation, which would make it possible for new parties to establish themselves.
Right now a party needs a plurality in a district to get a representative, which sets the bar for entry very high. With proportional representation a party with 5% national support spread out over the whole nation would still be represented.
No one in their right mind would ever measure units on binary hardware in powers of ten.
The fact that on a low level computers are based on base 2 should have no consequence for the end-user. It should be a detail abstracted away by the operating system, like the fact that your CPU has N pipelines.
The fact that deep down the computer operates using base 2 has no relevance for the end user when he is using it to store a 4.7GB DVD movie.
Our whole system of measurements use base 10. No one in their right mind would use some hybrid base 2 system for showing enduser computer storage capacity, as we do today...
To the average person, the distinction between base-2 and base-10 is meaningless, yes. That doesn't mean, however, that they aren't being cheated. Their interface with the computer, when they examine a file, will tell them how large it is using base-2 units. Disk space requirements on the back of software packages are written in base-2 units. Everything they see is in base-2 units, so this is how they estimate their requirements of disk size. And then they find out that the disk is being sold using different units.
The base two thing is a low-level technical detail. It has no relevance to consumers.
The fact that some operating systems choose to let that low-level detail show to the consumers is because of poor operating system design, not because of any logic reason. And it is not the fault of the hard drive makers, who just use the SI units.
The base two thing is a low-level technical detail. It has no relevance to consumers.
The fact that some operating systems choose to let that low-level detail show to the consumers is because of poor operating system design, not because of any logic reason.
rdiff-backup, which uses the rsync algorithm, does. Works very well too :).
Yes, a database would have been nice, but I don't know enough about all kinds of hardware to determine which fields should be in the database.
:).
The Mediawiki site was dead easy to get going, and didn't require me to know what fields were relevant for all kinds of hardware, so that was what I did
Not really, a device driver database client with a "does this work?" query that updates a database automatically is what is needed. See Ubuntu and their Device Database that they are currently building for an example of a way to actually get this information.
Yes, Ubuntu's device database looks nice, but a free-form wiki is also nice due to its flexibility.
Asking people to fill out a wiki is way too much work, and doomed to be inaccurate. Most people will go, edit one thing, then never visit it again. The core members that 'clean' up the wiki won't have access to their hardware, and will never be able to evaluate their claim.
But then the very next person who comes along will try to use incorrect information, (hopefully) discover that it is deficient, and (hopefully) correct it in the wiki.
IMO a wiki in the style of Wikipedia would work well for this, with everybody contributing they knowledge.
*shameless plug* I happen to have created such a wiki, though it isn't yet as active as I would like: http://www.hardware-wiki.com/
I won't bother submitting this driver to the free driver project because it's kind of useless without the $3000 piece of hardware it works with (and that's not counting the crates full of minicomputer hardware needed for testing). I need mine and I don't picture these folks buying their own no matter how much they care.
I seem to recall that one of the main kernel developers said they accept any drivers, and had a driver in the kernel with only a single known user. So it seems to me that they would accept your driver, since you seem to have many users.
If you get your driver in the kernel then I assume the developers who change the interfaces would update your code automatically.
Sometimes the brute force solution is the smart (and therefore nerdy) solution.
In this case, recognizing that you can just brute force it was the nerdy part, I guess.
How about... simply arresting the criminals?
I have the feeling that the police in general just don't care about online crime. Much of it can't be that hard to track down.
Say the spam in my inbox selling pirated copies of MS office. If you can transfer the money to them then you can find them.
Sure, some people were wasting their time doing that stuff, but it is an encyclopedia, for crying out loud. Disabling access to the site from the ministry because a handful few were obsessed about spending time on it during work? Definitely over the top.
To be fair, almost all Wikipedia content is available in non-editable form in various places. For example at answers.com (for the English edition at least). Blocking Wikipedia would ensure that people don't use time on editing.
There is plenty of uranium, especially if you include extraction from sea water (which is probably economical since the price of uran is a very small part of the cost of running a nuclear plant.)
Besides, reprocessing spent fuel (which is not currently done in the US) increases the energy output of a given amount of uranium 60 times . In addition, reprocessing removes (burns) various troublesome byproducts which would otherwise require long-tem storage.
I think the biggest worry I have now... which may actually be moot- is who ends up with SCO's assets and IP?
Is that really a problem anymore? The judge has already ruled that Novell owns the copyrights, and Novell has already waived any liabilities Linux may have. Such a waiver does not seem retractible to me.
If somebody bought SCO's rights then they would first have to get that judgment overturned. And then there is the little detail that it turned out that SCO's claims of Unix code in Linux turned out to be a bunch of lies, with the "millions of lines of code" never materializing. It seems unlikely that somebody else would try bringing another trial using the same lies.
Nice out of context quoting.
And I don't see what connection there is between the quality of the consumer laws and the tax bracket. You could have the same laws, while retaining your current tax rate, if you just were better at electing your politicians.
The Danish government did however recently create a "antiterror law" saying that ISPs must retain a database of all connections made by their customers, and be able to match the connections to computers. Unpleasantly Orwellian :(. This database is then available to the police with a subpoena from a judge (better than the US where a subpoena seems currently to not be required, but still). Try doing something equivalent that people could understand, such as requiring book and newspaper sellers to keep a list of all people they sell their books/newspapers to, and I think (hope) there would be an uproar.
I think Denmark has also been helping USA in the Echelon program.
Perhaps Sweden is better in that regard?