Right- I guess it just looks really weird and non-intuitive when it's not in x.x.x format- (the algorithmic parsing of version numbers is admittedly not something I actually do, but I'm sure there are *some* who do this)
I'd have to go dig up my old OLD FreeBSD CDs, but I would swear that way back, they had releases such as 2.0.5 and 2.2.2 etc.
Since there's no consistency in the "software world" as a whole, perhaps 4.9.0 and 4.10.0 would be more appropriate release names. (just on a visual basis)
I know that there's a lot of projects now doing it- but damn. Maybe I'm just old school, but reading 4.10 as different from 4.1, and also as *greater* than 4.7 just fucks with my logical mind.
It also breaks automated comparison tools- it's kinda non-trivial to make a program that understands that 4.100 is greater than 4.1, and that 4.100 is greater than 4.70, but that 4.100 is less than 4.7000 Why bother with this nonsense when it flys in the face of the earliest of floating-point mathematics?
What are the positive arguments towards this scheme? Are there any? Please enlighten me... I'll take 4.95 anyday...
anyway, AC is right- you've got a mile-long multi-hundred element narrow text scroll on the left, with pseudonav and some banner ads on the right f'ing brilliant
Uhm- surely you must know something about the concept of isolation:)
It's not that difficult to build the silent terminal (no fans at all) and have it netboot back to the hard drives living out site of the booth-
That's really the easiest way to achieve total silence in an audio setting.
(obviously, you can't use cutting-edge stuff for the silent terminal- CPU choices are limited to the Vias and Transmetas of the world, and no GeForce 6800s either:) )
At *any* time, any releaser of GPLed code can go back and say that the GPL'ed release was "unauthorized", and as such nobody had/has any rights to do *anything* with that code...?
> Not if some of the source is based on a license that doesn't permit use of the GPL. If they accidentally included some proprietary or closed source to which they didn't have full rights, then their release of the software under GPL would be illegal.
IANAL, but is that actually true?
If so, that sounds like a *very* easy way to "revoke" something that in hindsight you wish you hadn't released under the GPL...
"Whoops, our initial GPL release of XYZ V1.0 had someone elses protected code in it, so we didn't have the rights to release it under the GPL. That means that the community-developed version of XYZ V5.5 is illegal. Oh by the way you can buy our commercial version of XYZ right here:"
Humor me if you will- (you seem knowledgable- and I'm a fairly intelligient guy but I can't seem to figure this out)
Just imagine a simple dowel with 2 donut magnets on it, the top one opposed so it "floats". Because of the magnetic properties, aren't those magnets constantly exerting a force upon each other?
I mean, the repelling force really does just "come from nowhere" Repelling magnets forced together will exert a constant force upon whatever is forcing them together.
Does a "permanent magnet" actually ever lose its magnetic properties? I would assume so, but maybe not...
So...? Magnets, solely because of their properties, are able to exert forces upon each other. Is it really that much of a stretch to believe that with some sophiticated alignment of forces, and some sophisticated triggering of electromagnets to sweep through a cycle, that you couldn't create some "motor" that was basically powered by the permanent magnets?
I can't believe I'm even contemplating a "free energy" device, but I can't quite figure out exactly what's wrong with it...
My conservation-of-energy mind would say that the "permanent" magnets really aren't permanent, and they will lose their magnetism... but... ???
> Although NSA is technically prohibited from performing incercepts on U.S. citizens, they do not shy away from operating against non-citizens here in the U.S.
Yeah- I'm basically with ya- this doesn't bother me. I love how a lot of the/. crowd seems to liken the Internet to a "big free open highway" at some times, but then at other times they behave like nobody should ever be able to look at the highway and see what is travelling on it...
In case you don't remember, the processor family is known for its extremely low power consumption and blazingly high computing speeds.
Well, since this is the Efficeon's debut I can't see how *it* was being referred to here as the "processor family"- I can only assumme that "Transmeta and their codemorphing CPUs" was what was trying to be conveyed.
And with that, I again take exception to any mantion of alleged "blazingly fast computing speeds"
The Fujitsu P-Series laptops can do it- I have the standard battery, and the modular battery (i could upgrade even more to a double-cap main battery) and I can get ~5 hours with full brightness and wireless on-
Transmeta is going to have to show me a *lot* before I ever buy anything with one of their chips in it again. My Fujitsu 2040 runs at 867mhz, but it "feels" like a P3-500. Windows + WMP9 on it are basically unusable, as is Mozilla. The only way I can use it is with FreeBSD + Opera7:)
emerge --usepkg does not magically download a precompiled package specific to your USE flags...
it looks for a *local* precompiled package- eg: if you're installing 20 new identical machines, it doesn't make sense to compile 20 times- instead, you compile on one, and then generate packages from it, and then install all the others using --usepkg
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and there's nothing black magic about it :)
and global megacorps have certainly been doing it for a *long* time...
GoogleAlert:
:p
"Automatic daily Google search, results by email"?
Hahaha sounds like a big waste of a PhD to me- "Look, I connected these 2 APIs with a perl script!"
Some guy hooks an antenna to an access point, and uses a battery instead of an AC adapter?
Come on guys...
Right- I guess it just looks really weird and non-intuitive when it's not in x.x.x format-
(the algorithmic parsing of version numbers is admittedly not something I actually do, but I'm sure there are *some* who do this)
I'd have to go dig up my old OLD FreeBSD CDs, but I would swear that way back, they had releases such as 2.0.5 and 2.2.2 etc.
Since there's no consistency in the "software world" as a whole, perhaps 4.9.0 and 4.10.0 would be more appropriate release names.
(just on a visual basis)
No, it's been the same install procedure for... damn... almost 10 years?
:)
There's no need to change it- it's simple, straightforward, and once you've done it a few times you can almost do it blindfolded.
Does this irk anyone else as much as it does me?
I know that there's a lot of projects now doing it- but damn.
Maybe I'm just old school, but reading 4.10 as different from 4.1, and also as *greater* than 4.7 just fucks with my logical mind.
It also breaks automated comparison tools- it's kinda non-trivial to make a program that understands that 4.100 is greater than 4.1, and that 4.100 is greater than 4.70, but that 4.100 is less than 4.7000
Why bother with this nonsense when it flys in the face of the earliest of floating-point mathematics?
What are the positive arguments towards this scheme?
Are there any?
Please enlighten me... I'll take 4.95 anyday...
Just FYI- I and a lot of people I know have picked up the NTSC director's cut on ebay :)
Moral outrage?
Have you seen "Ichi The Killer"?
Fry's sells that for fucks sake!
i love that this is modded "flamebait"...
anyway, AC is right- you've got a mile-long multi-hundred element narrow text scroll on the left, with pseudonav and some banner ads on the right
f'ing brilliant
i've seen better html at the tinfoil hat sites
Uhm- surely you must know something about the concept of isolation :)
:) )
It's not that difficult to build the silent terminal (no fans at all) and have it netboot back to the hard drives living out site of the booth-
That's really the easiest way to achieve total silence in an audio setting.
(obviously, you can't use cutting-edge stuff for the silent terminal- CPU choices are limited to the Vias and Transmetas of the world, and no GeForce 6800s either
"outside/before the universe"
:P
Hahah- and just above people were speaking about Godel
*nothing* can be "outside the universe" because "the universe" means "everything"
Lie like hell on your resume-
:)
Or start waiting tables
CRS?
I wondered where all of those keys in my glovebox came from...
At *any* time, any releaser of GPLed code can go back and say that the GPL'ed release was "unauthorized", and as such nobody had/has any rights to do *anything* with that code...?
Sounds like you've got *no* rights to me...
> Not if some of the source is based on a license that doesn't permit use of the GPL. If they accidentally included some proprietary or closed source to which they didn't have full rights, then their release of the software under GPL would be illegal.
IANAL, but is that actually true?
If so, that sounds like a *very* easy way to "revoke" something that in hindsight you wish you hadn't released under the GPL...
"Whoops, our initial GPL release of XYZ V1.0 had someone elses protected code in it, so we didn't have the rights to release it under the GPL. That means that the community-developed version of XYZ V5.5 is illegal. Oh by the way you can buy our commercial version of XYZ right here:"
Yeah... nevermind- temporary retard-moment there :D
Humor me if you will-
(you seem knowledgable- and I'm a fairly intelligient guy but I can't seem to figure this out)
Just imagine a simple dowel with 2 donut magnets on it, the top one opposed so it "floats".
Because of the magnetic properties, aren't those magnets constantly exerting a force upon each other?
I mean, the repelling force really does just "come from nowhere" Repelling magnets forced together will exert a constant force upon whatever is forcing them together.
Does a "permanent magnet" actually ever lose its magnetic properties?
I would assume so, but maybe not...
So...?
Magnets, solely because of their properties, are able to exert forces upon each other.
Is it really that much of a stretch to believe that with some sophiticated alignment of forces, and some sophisticated triggering of electromagnets to sweep through a cycle, that you couldn't create some "motor" that was basically powered by the permanent magnets?
I can't believe I'm even contemplating a "free energy" device, but I can't quite figure out exactly what's wrong with it...
My conservation-of-energy mind would say that the "permanent" magnets really aren't permanent, and they will lose their magnetism... but... ???
> Although NSA is technically prohibited from performing incercepts on U.S. citizens, they do not shy away from operating against non-citizens here in the U.S.
...
Is that a bad thing?
Wow- modded as flamebait...
:p
/. crowd seems to liken the Internet to a "big free open highway" at some times, but then at other times they behave like nobody should ever be able to look at the highway and see what is travelling on it...
That's what you get!
Yeah- I'm basically with ya- this doesn't bother me.
I love how a lot of the
Take your shoes off Kal, we're at Grandma's
RTFH-
In case you don't remember, the processor family is known for its extremely low power consumption and blazingly high computing speeds.
Well, since this is the Efficeon's debut I can't see how *it* was being referred to here as the "processor family"- I can only assumme that "Transmeta and their codemorphing CPUs" was what was trying to be conveyed.
And with that, I again take exception to any mantion of alleged "blazingly fast computing speeds"
The Fujitsu P-Series laptops can do it-
I have the standard battery, and the modular battery (i could upgrade even more to a double-cap main battery) and I can get ~5 hours with full brightness and wireless on-
You don't actually use a Crusoe do you...
The VLIW works great for point problems- things like rc5 cracking etc, where its just some small loops of code- but in normal use, it *is* a dog.
What you end up with is this curious machine that can playback DVDs and high bitrate Divx/XVid/whatever, but Mozilla browsers are unusably slow on.
Transmeta is going to have to show me a *lot* before I ever buy anything with one of their chips in it again. :)
My Fujitsu 2040 runs at 867mhz, but it "feels" like a P3-500.
Windows + WMP9 on it are basically unusable, as is Mozilla.
The only way I can use it is with FreeBSD + Opera7
Do you actually use Gentoo?
emerge --usepkg does not magically download a precompiled package specific to your USE flags...
it looks for a *local* precompiled package-
eg: if you're installing 20 new identical machines, it doesn't make sense to compile 20 times-
instead, you compile on one, and then generate packages from it, and then install all the others using --usepkg
Awwww cmon, that's not flamebait, its funny :)