Funny how trillian has none of the features I want, and the interface is so "nice" that it takes 5 minutes to do anything, if you can do it at all. And then they try to convince you that it would be a good idea to pay money for that crap when the free alternatives are better?
No, it's not. Onion routing is about premix routing, with layered encryption for each step. Freenet is about adaptive "smart" routing to try to find the key you want; this requires less information hiding, so freenet uses only link-level encryption between successive nodes, and the encryption inherent in freenet keys themselves, to hide data.
Freenet theoretically has higher latency but higher bandwidth, and is suited only for fairly static data. Onion routing and things like it give lower latency and more dynamic interaction, but at the cost of higher overhead and higher trust requirements.
I had come up with a great new design for a memory card. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before I could get to a phone to tell anyone about it the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost forever.
Of course, if you're going to be all capitalist about it, then you can't argue with Open Source either. If a large enough number of people are willing to perform a service for zero pay, then zero is a fair price for that service. Of course, that's an oversimplification of OSS; an electrician performs a service, but he doesn't create a valuable commodity in doing so. I think that you will find that once things settle down, most OSS programming will be done, or at least started, under contract, and that the software will be released only for the "side benefits" of the license model, or because it's a derivative of already-OSS software.
Hrm, I have a question here, though, which could be relevant. Say I derive from a GPL'd piece of software, say, Linux, and I use the software in-house. I don't need to provide the source to the public under GPL, only to whomever I give/sell the product. But the very first clause of the GPL allows anyone with access to that source to redistribute it freely. Is there / could there be any practical and reasonable license that would allow me to say, that this company can either use it in-house, or release it to the public under GPL, but that only a certain person may actually make the release? Sell the source to the company under a non-GPL license which gives the licenseholder permission to re-release under GPL at his discretion? Do I make any sense here?:)
Overloaded has a tendency to be normal load. And, there are plenty of people who have noticed that you can sort of cram a little more dynamic range into tapes, because tapes distort and compress the signal when they're overloaded; digital just clips painfully when it's overloaded. Of course, CDs rule in the low end, so the "right" solution to take advantage of their range would be to master softer and listen louder. But, as more than a few other posters have pointed out, the practice today is instead to master louder, after putting the sound through a compressor, making it more like tape. Result: the sound is psychologically "louder", but lower-quality and more distorted, turning CDs into expensive tapes.:)
Raw 3D performance really has nothing to do with the kernel; if something in the kernel is acting as a bottleneck to 3D performance, it would show up in other places, too. That said, a suitable 3D test on a fast card might serve as a test of really fast IO. But so would 10GigE;)
Pretty close to what I was going to say, which is that 25.4 millimeters to the inch is pretty damn accurate. So the number if inches in a meter is about (1000/25.4) -- about 39.37, which is right to as near as I can usefully remember anyway.
Regardless, would you feel safer in a world where everyone has nukes, everyone knows the consequences, and everyone's afraid of them, or a world where only one or two organizations control the world's nuclear weapons, and everyone else is afraid of them? Because those are your only real choices. The result of a blanket ban on nuclear weapons (yes, USA, that means you too) would be that the only people with nukes would be terrorists, some of whom would fear no retaliation if they could get their point across.
Well... yes. Because if it's done "right" (not that I'm implying that it ever has been, so far), then the one is a lot like the other except that you can have the same file in multiple metadata-category "folders", and some good things (date, size, whatever) are provided without your having to do anything manually.
Sure, I put my photos into folders, but the problem with folders is that it's a single-inheritance sort of thing. I can put a picture taken at the park in a "Park" folder or a "Jun 2004" folder, but I can't put it in both unless I have a bunch of Park folders under different months, or a bunch of Jun 2004 folders under different categories.
If I had a really sweet file browser, though, I would drag the pictures into "Park" when I copied them off of my camera; the system would already know when they were taken. If I want to see the pictures from June, that's easy; if I only want to see pictures under Park, that's easy too. If I want to see pictures from the park in June, applying filters should be a dead-easy operation. Of course all this assumes that either you're running on a filesystem that handles large directories well, or that the application does clever things with hardlinks, but both of those are entirely possible today. Really, metadata is just awesomely more convenient than folders.
But (parting shot) spatial is just another attempt by GNOME to make it harder to actually get anything done.
But as-is, you don't need to have a _strong_ signal to swamp a wifi network, you just need a little bit -- enough to convince all of the other nodes on the network that they should wait for you to finish "sending" to avoid interfering.
Right. "All primes other than two are odd" really comes down to the rather elegant method of the Sieve of Eratosthenes, whereby if you find a number n that's prime, you eliminate all multiples of n as candidates for primality (obvious, but still elegant). It turns "X is prime if it has no factors other than 1 and X" (classical, but somewhat complicated) into "X * n is not prime if n != 1" (straightforward). And of course "is even" is just a fancy way of saying "is 2 * n for some n".
Not sure whether this is a typo in the book or the article that was recently on/. referencing the book, but if the article is correct, then Tanenbaum doesn't need to worry anyway, because it claimed that Linux copied from Minux;)
Honest question: Does OSX actually use the microkernel architecture, or does it use the sort of monolithic-on-top-of-microkernel setup I've seen before, which makes the microkernel just a convenience layer, but doesn't bring any of the most commonly touted advantages?
religion illuminates things that are by nature untestable, like morality, ethics, compassion, and love for our fellow man.
Actually this stuff has surprisingly little to do with religion. Ethics is the science of determining how humans can act to create value and good. Morals are the tools we use in acting ethically. Compassion is personal, but it's a part of being a functional human, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do wth religion.
Religion really isn't about heaven, or hell, or converting as many atheists as possible, or strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing up a cafe.
In fact, this is pretty much what religion is about. That and the exercise of power.
In fact my opinion is that the existence of God is an axiom. This fits because axioms are initial assumptions that cannot be tested
and without which all following would be meaningless. In order to claim God as an axiom you must be able to support a claim that you can't build a consistent logic upon the assumption of no God. I find rather the opposite; that in a universe with an active God, logic is meaningless. I understand what you're saying, but going "axiom" is an absolute cop-out.
This one series of strips (it was in The Dilbert Principle) where they have secret meetings to produce this secret policy document, which all of the employees are required to follow, but none of them are allowed to read.
PHB: "Just work on your project, and I'll tell you when you're doing something wrong."
Dilbert: "I'll just go back to what I was doing then."
PHB: "NO!!!!"
Of course, it turned out that PHB wasn't let in on the document either;)
As hard as Adams tries to be bizarre, he just can out-bizarre real life.
I can't seem to find the cite right now, but I know that there's a corollary somewhere which states that attempts to end a thread by making a Nazi reference or invoking Godwin invariably fail.:)
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Funny how trillian has none of the features I want, and the interface is so "nice" that it takes 5 minutes to do anything, if you can do it at all. And then they try to convince you that it would be a good idea to pay money for that crap when the free alternatives are better?
No, it's not. Onion routing is about premix routing, with layered encryption for each step. Freenet is about adaptive "smart" routing to try to find the key you want; this requires less information hiding, so freenet uses only link-level encryption between successive nodes, and the encryption inherent in freenet keys themselves, to hide data.
Freenet theoretically has higher latency but higher bandwidth, and is suited only for fairly static data. Onion routing and things like it give lower latency and more dynamic interaction, but at the cost of higher overhead and higher trust requirements.
I had come up with a great new design for a memory card. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before I could get to a phone to tell anyone about it the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost forever.
"Sues IBM: Extortion Salary?"
No, no, that belongs to Rational, not SCO!
Of course, if you're going to be all capitalist about it, then you can't argue with Open Source either. If a large enough number of people are willing to perform a service for zero pay, then zero is a fair price for that service. Of course, that's an oversimplification of OSS; an electrician performs a service, but he doesn't create a valuable commodity in doing so. I think that you will find that once things settle down, most OSS programming will be done, or at least started, under contract, and that the software will be released only for the "side benefits" of the license model, or because it's a derivative of already-OSS software.
:)
Hrm, I have a question here, though, which could be relevant. Say I derive from a GPL'd piece of software, say, Linux, and I use the software in-house. I don't need to provide the source to the public under GPL, only to whomever I give/sell the product. But the very first clause of the GPL allows anyone with access to that source to redistribute it freely. Is there / could there be any practical and reasonable license that would allow me to say, that this company can either use it in-house, or release it to the public under GPL, but that only a certain person may actually make the release? Sell the source to the company under a non-GPL license which gives the licenseholder permission to re-release under GPL at his discretion? Do I make any sense here?
Overloaded has a tendency to be normal load. And, there are plenty of people who have noticed that you can sort of cram a little more dynamic range into tapes, because tapes distort and compress the signal when they're overloaded; digital just clips painfully when it's overloaded. Of course, CDs rule in the low end, so the "right" solution to take advantage of their range would be to master softer and listen louder. But, as more than a few other posters have pointed out, the practice today is instead to master louder, after putting the sound through a compressor, making it more like tape. Result: the sound is psychologically "louder", but lower-quality and more distorted, turning CDs into expensive tapes. :)
So they're not disputing beetween tubes and transistors, are they?
Raw 3D performance really has nothing to do with the kernel; if something in the kernel is acting as a bottleneck to 3D performance, it would show up in other places, too. That said, a suitable 3D test on a fast card might serve as a test of really fast IO. But so would 10GigE ;)
I always sort of guessed that. Is it because octanes take more input energy to ignite, so the net heat out ends up being less?
In fact, further investigation reveals that the US standard inch is defined to be exactly 2.54cm. Who'da thunk it?
Pretty close to what I was going to say, which is that 25.4 millimeters to the inch is pretty damn accurate. So the number if inches in a meter is about (1000/25.4) -- about 39.37, which is right to as near as I can usefully remember anyway.
Minix! Minix, Minix, Minix! Minux? Minix!
Regardless, would you feel safer in a world where everyone has nukes, everyone knows the consequences, and everyone's afraid of them, or a world where only one or two organizations control the world's nuclear weapons, and everyone else is afraid of them? Because those are your only real choices. The result of a blanket ban on nuclear weapons (yes, USA, that means you too) would be that the only people with nukes would be terrorists, some of whom would fear no retaliation if they could get their point across.
Well... yes. Because if it's done "right" (not that I'm implying that it ever has been, so far), then the one is a lot like the other except that you can have the same file in multiple metadata-category "folders", and some good things (date, size, whatever) are provided without your having to do anything manually.
Sure, I put my photos into folders, but the problem with folders is that it's a single-inheritance sort of thing. I can put a picture taken at the park in a "Park" folder or a "Jun 2004" folder, but I can't put it in both unless I have a bunch of Park folders under different months, or a bunch of Jun 2004 folders under different categories.
If I had a really sweet file browser, though, I would drag the pictures into "Park" when I copied them off of my camera; the system would already know when they were taken. If I want to see the pictures from June, that's easy; if I only want to see pictures under Park, that's easy too. If I want to see pictures from the park in June, applying filters should be a dead-easy operation. Of course all this assumes that either you're running on a filesystem that handles large directories well, or that the application does clever things with hardlinks, but both of those are entirely possible today. Really, metadata is just awesomely more convenient than folders.
But (parting shot) spatial is just another attempt by GNOME to make it harder to actually get anything done.
Oh no! I'd hate to have the options _I_ want instead of the option someone else wanted.
But as-is, you don't need to have a _strong_ signal to swamp a wifi network, you just need a little bit -- enough to convince all of the other nodes on the network that they should wait for you to finish "sending" to avoid interfering.
Right. "All primes other than two are odd" really comes down to the rather elegant method of the Sieve of Eratosthenes, whereby if you find a number n that's prime, you eliminate all multiples of n as candidates for primality (obvious, but still elegant). It turns "X is prime if it has no factors other than 1 and X" (classical, but somewhat complicated) into "X * n is not prime if n != 1" (straightforward). And of course "is even" is just a fancy way of saying "is 2 * n for some n".
"Power corrupts, and absolute power is really pretty neat!"
Not sure whether this is a typo in the book or the article that was recently on /. referencing the book, but if the article is correct, then Tanenbaum doesn't need to worry anyway, because it claimed that Linux copied from Minux ;)
Honest question: Does OSX actually use the microkernel architecture, or does it use the sort of monolithic-on-top-of-microkernel setup I've seen before, which makes the microkernel just a convenience layer, but doesn't bring any of the most commonly touted advantages?
This one series of strips (it was in The Dilbert Principle) where they have secret meetings to produce this secret policy document, which all of the employees are required to follow, but none of them are allowed to read. PHB: "Just work on your project, and I'll tell you when you're doing something wrong." Dilbert: "I'll just go back to what I was doing then." PHB: "NO!!!!" Of course, it turned out that PHB wasn't let in on the document either ;)
As hard as Adams tries to be bizarre, he just can out-bizarre real life.
I can't seem to find the cite right now, but I know that there's a corollary somewhere which states that attempts to end a thread by making a Nazi reference or invoking Godwin invariably fail. :)
It doesn't come from emails, it goes through the INTERNET! Oh, maybe they meant "intarweb".