NP means that a solution to a problem can be checked in polynomial time, making it possible to bruteforce the solution. NP complete means that there is no deterministic algorithm to find such solution in polynomial time. Factoring numbers is approximately O(n^0.5) divides; simply divide the number n that you want to factor by all primes less than or equal to sqrt(n).
Ever try a 2.2.x kernel module in 2.4? Or for that matter, a 2.2.13 kernel module in 2.2.14?
Many binary kernel modules<cough>Lucent Win Modem</cough> support only the kernel that comes with a specific version of Red Hat Linux because a loadable kernel module has to be compiled against each kernel build it will be used with, and the kernel with the largest potential audience is the latest Red Hat.
It will only drive up the traffic on the OpenNap network. Otherwise, it will have little effect because there are Free clients and servers for all relevant platforms.
Yes you can. A "monopoly" can be in a field smaller than an "industry." For example, Microsoft Corp. holds a monopoly not on "computer software" but on "desktop OS for x86 boxen."
The important piece of this domain is that a dedicated parody TLD will remove any legitimacy from parody targets' to claims that a parody site could be mistaken for the business site and thus be an infringement on their trademarks.
But the guinness-beer-sucks owner was a typosquatter.
Not with the muscular distrophy problems and deformed embryos, etc.
Those are effects of lack of g, not of lack of planet Earth. For those who haven't taken high school physics, g is a constant acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2 or thereabouts, which is felt by the human body as "down." It's easily to simulate g in space; simply rotate a cylindrical structure (ringworld, ds9, etc). This takes away most of the MD and [birth difference] problems.
ReiserFS is the way to go for large drives or for any data really. I hate to fsck.
Using ReiserFS just to avoid fscking up your filesystem when the power goes out? Once the new Tux2 phase tree patch to ext2 makes it into the kernel, ext2fs will be "atomic" to the point where the need to fsck with your partitions is dramatically reduced.
is an attempt by Intel to get some leverage over Transmeta (or anyone else) incase they want to simulate the instructions in software.
Transmeta's Code Morphing technology is designed to emulate CISC architectures. Itanium is a VLIW (explicitly scheduled RISC) machine.
I'm sure Intel would love to get their hands on some of Transmeta's patents.
Transmeta's most obvious patent that I can see is a "commit/rollback" structure for registers. However, prior art for this dates all the way back to the Z80 processor, which had two parallel sets of registers.
A television can draw 240 scanlines per frame (60 fps) or 480 scanlines per frame (30 fps) due to interlacing; odd scanlines are drawn in odd frames and vice versa. If you render the odd scanlines while the even scanlines are being displayed (as Squaresoft's PS1 games Tobal No.1 and Ehrgeiz do), you get pseudo-512x480 at a 512x240 fillrate.
[Super Smash Bros. 2]? I see a box with Mario jumping in front of clouds.bmp, holding Pikachu (instead of a beet) by the tail. I also see licenses for some of Disney's, Capcom's, Sega's, and Hudson Soft's characters. (Read More...)
Actually, using anything with straight LZW compression, like PKZIP, is a bad idea.
The.zip and.tgz formats use Deflate (LZSS + Huffman), not LZW. If the.zip format used LZW (it did in PKZIP's early years), then Unisys would be all over the Info-ZIP project.
Now, to "LZ-type algorithms are a bad idea on floppies because errors are not recoverable": I'll give you that one.
besides why are you paying for dial-up access anyways?
This is off-topic, but paying for dial-up access is the only way I can even get dial-up access. All the services you mentioned use proprietary dialers that are only available for Microsoft(R) brand Windows(R) brand operating systems and do not work on Wine.
According to the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ, XFree86 4 "may not work at all on Windows 9x/Me due to 16-bit code in the win 9x GDI.... If you are using Windows 95 or 98, break out your debugger and start working around the 16-bit code in GDI32.dll and kernel32.dll." Upgrading all users to NT is not an option; they might as well install Debian anyway.
I was really just wondering if the Qt free version for Unix could be compiled using the Cygwin tools. If so, you could run Qt based apps in Windows as long as you use an X server on the windows box.
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OP could have just been saying "dmoz is better than Yahoo!'s directory."
--Bouillabaisse: It's all the rage among trolls! Here's a recipe
Actually, it isn't "Microsoft Beer" but Windows 99(TM) Beer. Read the article from St. Petersburg Times and the Slashdot discussion.
it has been estimated that as many as 10 million 'boomers' may go blind due to AMD.
So how many will go blind due to Intel?
NP means that a solution to a problem can be checked in polynomial time, making it possible to bruteforce the solution. NP complete means that there is no deterministic algorithm to find such solution in polynomial time. Factoring numbers is approximately O(n^0.5) divides; simply divide the number n that you want to factor by all primes less than or equal to sqrt(n).
Linux has loadable kernel modules now
Ever try a 2.2.x kernel module in 2.4? Or for that matter, a 2.2.13 kernel module in 2.2.14?
Many binary kernel modules<cough>Lucent Win Modem</cough> support only the kernel that comes with a specific version of Red Hat Linux because a loadable kernel module has to be compiled against each kernel build it will be used with, and the kernel with the largest potential audience is the latest Red Hat.
Wonder if this will affect opennap and the like.
It will only drive up the traffic on the OpenNap network. Otherwise, it will have little effect because there are Free clients and servers for all relevant platforms.
Can't have more than one monopoly in an industry.
Yes you can. A "monopoly" can be in a field smaller than an "industry." For example, Microsoft Corp. holds a monopoly not on "computer software" but on "desktop OS for x86 boxen."
OpenNIC proudly lists .parody as one of its approved TLDs. Once you add a Tier 2 OpenNIC nameserver to your DNS configuration (in /etc/resolv.conf on Linux), you can access the .parody registration page.
Not with the muscular distrophy problems and deformed embryos, etc.
Those are effects of lack of g, not of lack of planet Earth. For those who haven't taken high school physics, g is a constant acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2 or thereabouts, which is felt by the human body as "down." It's easily to simulate g in space; simply rotate a cylindrical structure (ringworld, ds9, etc). This takes away most of the MD and [birth difference] problems.
The distribution was already on about 90% of the mirrors before Slashdot ran the story.
ReiserFS is the way to go for large drives or for any data really. I hate to fsck.
Using ReiserFS just to avoid fscking up your filesystem when the power goes out? Once the new Tux2 phase tree patch to ext2 makes it into the kernel, ext2fs will be "atomic" to the point where the need to fsck with your partitions is dramatically reduced.
is an attempt by Intel to get some leverage over Transmeta (or anyone else) incase they want to simulate the instructions in software.
Transmeta's Code Morphing technology is designed to emulate CISC architectures. Itanium is a VLIW (explicitly scheduled RISC) machine.
I'm sure Intel would love to get their hands on some of Transmeta's patents.
Transmeta's most obvious patent that I can see is a "commit/rollback" structure for registers. However, prior art for this dates all the way back to the Z80 processor, which had two parallel sets of registers.
A television can draw 240 scanlines per frame (60 fps) or 480 scanlines per frame (30 fps) due to interlacing; odd scanlines are drawn in odd frames and vice versa. If you render the odd scanlines while the even scanlines are being displayed (as Squaresoft's PS1 games Tobal No.1 and Ehrgeiz do), you get pseudo-512x480 at a 512x240 fillrate.
CD-ROM drives with the MULTI-READ designation can read stamped CD, CD-R, and CD-RW.
As far as I know USB is proprietary and closed
Wrong. USB is patented, but the license is Free (license us your patents, and we'll license you ours).
so it's unlikely that USB drivers will ever be included with the standard kernel.
So why are they in 2.4?
Since Dreamcast was based on WinCE
The Sega Dreamcast console has several available operating systems. Wince is mostly used for PC ports; other games use a Sega OS.
[Super Smash Bros. 2]? I see a box with Mario jumping in front of clouds.bmp, holding Pikachu (instead of a beet) by the tail. I also see licenses for some of Disney's, Capcom's, Sega's, and Hudson Soft's characters. (Read More...)
Actually, using anything with straight LZW compression, like PKZIP, is a bad idea.
The .zip and .tgz formats use Deflate (LZSS + Huffman), not LZW. If the .zip format used LZW (it did in PKZIP's early years), then Unisys would be all over the Info-ZIP project.
Now, to "LZ-type algorithms are a bad idea on floppies because errors are not recoverable": I'll give you that one.
besides why are you paying for dial-up access anyways?
This is off-topic, but paying for dial-up access is the only way I can even get dial-up access. All the services you mentioned use proprietary dialers that are only available for Microsoft(R) brand Windows(R) brand operating systems and do not work on Wine.
Since small towns discovered the outside world. Since AOL became the only ISP with a local number.
Is this an illegal way of pushing their own company, or is this just an inconvenience that 6.0 users will have to put up with?
AOL users who are not 18 or older may not make TCP/IP connections from other browsers; they must use the AOL browser and look at AOL.com's banner ads.
In some small towns, America Online is the only ISP with a local modem.
You wrote:And they would have to make a long-distance call at 10 cents per minute just to get Internet access.
or you can use the one that already works...
According to the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ, XFree86 4 "may not work at all on Windows 9x/Me due to 16-bit code in the win 9x GDI. ... If you are using Windows 95 or 98, break out your debugger and start working around the 16-bit code in GDI32.dll and kernel32.dll." Upgrading all users to NT is not an option; they might as well install Debian anyway.
I was really just wondering if the Qt free version for Unix could be compiled using the Cygwin tools. If so, you could run Qt based apps in Windows as long as you use an X server on the windows box.
Here's your shareware X11 server. However, there is no free X server on Win32...