Given the recent trend of the Oxford dictionary of modern English to accurately describe the usage of words (whether they have only one letter or more). I suspect that could happen in the next edition. However I would like to see two dictionaries produced, the standard one, and the dictionary of contracted spelling. When reading typed communications, "u" meaning "you" is becoming very common, and a dictionary *should* describe the meaning, otherwise how do you know what the person was trying to say?
> They make a big deal of the fact that Copilot works through all firewalls and proxies
I'd like to see that. They'd have to have several proxies at well known addresses listening on all ports, tunnelling their protocol inside various standard protocols on each of those ports (so enough machines to make that possible). But that won't help when your firewall only lets your kids' computer connect to the BBC website, your local network, your local library, and their school.
I just found that the BBC has a regular radio program called "Front Row" which is delivered on demand via the internet, so this probably isn't trademarked for that use after all.
If you restart a D-BUS daemon, all the applications/daemons connected to it screw up, and distro's are moving more and more system functionality to use D-BUS. D-BUS's standard client library, and all D-BUS clients I know of do not cope with D-BUS restarting, and I have been told that will not change. Ubuntu used to just restart hal whenever dbus was restarted, now it tells you to reboot the whole computer when you install an updated version of dbus.
> "from the welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow dept"? More like welcome to unix of yesteryear. What's with the kid that always crosses the finish line last and somehow always gets perceived as the leader?
Just as Linux desktops, with the advent of the godawful dbus, are starting to require restarts with even minor updates.
Probably due to the computing power required to unpack before scanning, it really is quite slow. Does tar.gz work any better? It is expensive to even see what a gzipped tar contains so they probably won't do that.
"Perhaps if/when they extend it to track all vehicles as a matter of course,..."
What makes you think it doesn't. With the police shooting people "just in case they're criminals", why wouldn't the police record every movement of every person all the time.
> Duh, idle Pentium-M feature a 27W TDP while A64 are all well above 60W TDP...
Not to say that AMD64 are as low as Pentium-M, TDP is meaningless, it is the manufacturer's guide to system integrators what cooling to provide so that the CPU doesn't have to be throttled too much, but it does not say how much power the CPU uses. Turion64 ML CPUs have a TDP of 35W but measure (including chipsets - which is necessary to compare apples to apples) lower than Pentium M.
> you could write the debug message in a separate function or file, and then via aspect-oriented programming not include code to call it in every single function. Instead you'd define an aspect, or something, and have your debug message print whenever the situation that defines that aspect occurs.
> I am not a linux contributor, but I would think you'd kinda want to guard access to the kernel kinda closely. I mean, sure, anyone can fork it or grab a copy to putz around with, but contributing back into the kernel - that's gotta be just about as stable as a piece of code can be.
A stable binary driver API that doesn't mean putting the driver into the kernel is already there. It is called the syscall interface. If you have a stable module ABI as proposed (over and over again, about once a month for the past 10 years) the drivers actually *do* go into the kernel - and closed source drivers so if they are broken, they won't ever get fixed.
This is all a very, very bad idea for Linux stability. Crash and burn, baby, crash and BURN!
> what are you talking about? that is the exact opposite of what the paper says.
Oops, I remember reading the paper some time ago and deciding that it didn't apply to DPF, but I obviously can't accurately remember why... I'll read it again.
I don't think the paper passes the basic sanity test though, because the sun works and *it* isn't in thermo-dynamic equilibrium... Nor is the tokamak (it loses energy through neutrons). What the paper tries to say is that fusion cannot be used for useful energy production in any way.
"The Crackpot Index would award you "40 points for comparing yourself to Galileo, suggesting that a modern-day Inquisition is hard at work on your case, and so on." This is something to avoid if you wish to be taken seriously and not have people assume you're a crackpot."
However, Galileo would surely compare himself to himself, and be scored as a crackpot too, so that crackpot index isn't really a meaningful judge of character.
I beleive absolutely that evolution occurs as theorised by Charles Darwin. I think the debate should focus on whether all selection in the evolutionary process is by natural selection, intelligent selection or a combination of both. Also whether all mutations are by chance, the results of complex and generally unpredictable interactions, or intelligent action.
Humans have caused both intelligent mutation and intelligent selection, so we know that occurs. Also unpredictable mutations and selection following bayesian theory have been observed, so quite clearly both happen.
Evolution can happen both by the hand of God, and by the rules of nature has layed down by Him, scientists can attempt to divine these rules [if you'll pardon the pun] and creationists can preach that God made evolution happen and allows it to continue happening. I personally can't see where the argument lies.
""Transient nonequilibrium burning systems [are ruled out] which try to produce enough fusion power before the particle distributions equiligrate (eg. ICF, bombs, and pulsed beam methods).""
"That is bizzare. I'm really at a loss to explain such a statement, though, IANAP. Obviously fusion bombs work and DO produce far more energy than they consume and ICF is capable of doing the same or this would not be currently under construction. I can't understand what he may have meant by such a statement. weird."
That is exactly it, Todd Riser's thesis showed that anything like the tokamak could *not* be used for net energy gain, but the sentence says that the thesis says nothing about "ICF, bombs, and pulsed beam methods", and also the Dense Plasma Focus. That is funding tokamak research will *not* produce a fusion generator, but funding the other research just *might*.
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Given the recent trend of the Oxford dictionary of modern English to accurately describe the usage of words (whether they have only one letter or more). I suspect that could happen in the next edition. However I would like to see two dictionaries produced, the standard one, and the dictionary of contracted spelling. When reading typed communications, "u" meaning "you" is becoming very common, and a dictionary *should* describe the meaning, otherwise how do you know what the person was trying to say?
>But if you solve it now - using a computer or otherwise - the best you will get is a mention i a online newspaper article.
Unless you do it in polynomial time, in which case the men in black would like a word with you.
> They make a big deal of the fact that Copilot works through all firewalls and proxies
I'd like to see that. They'd have to have several proxies at well known addresses listening on all ports, tunnelling their protocol inside various standard protocols on each of those ports (so enough machines to make that possible). But that won't help when your firewall only lets your kids' computer connect to the BBC website, your local network, your local library, and their school.
This one is also curiously palindromic, with lines of reflectional symmetry at 45 degress and 135 degrees, and rotational symmetry.
I just found that the BBC has a regular radio program called "Front Row" which is delivered on demand via the internet, so this probably isn't trademarked for that use after all.
> The program, called Front Row, lets you listen to
I think NTL might have something to say about this name in the UK. Their pseudo-VoD system over cable is called Front Row.
If you restart a D-BUS daemon, all the applications/daemons connected to it screw up, and distro's are moving more and more system functionality to use D-BUS. D-BUS's standard client library, and all D-BUS clients I know of do not cope with D-BUS restarting, and I have been told that will not change. Ubuntu used to just restart hal whenever dbus was restarted, now it tells you to reboot the whole computer when you install an updated version of dbus.
> "from the welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow dept"? More like welcome to unix of yesteryear. What's with the kid that always crosses the finish line last and somehow always gets perceived as the leader?
Just as Linux desktops, with the advent of the godawful dbus, are starting to require restarts with even minor updates.
Google is just dropping the zipfiles altogether.
Probably due to the computing power required to unpack before scanning, it really is quite slow. Does tar.gz work any better? It is expensive to even see what a gzipped tar contains so they probably won't do that.
And InnoDB is very slow. You can have MySQL running fast with MyISAM, or with features (eg, ACID transactions) with InnoDB, but not both.
If you want both, go with PostgreSQL 8.1.
I see it! I see it! I see the "fnord". Oh no, they're everywhere!
"Perhaps if/when they extend it to track all vehicles as a matter of course, ..."
What makes you think it doesn't. With the police shooting people "just in case they're criminals", why wouldn't the police record every movement of every person all the time.
> Methinks thee art confusing rootkits with spyware.
"Thee" should be "Thou"
"Thee" is to "Thou" as "me" is to "I".
> Most companies will have you sign user agreements
"User agreements"? I thought it was called a contract of employment.
> Duh, idle Pentium-M feature a 27W TDP while A64 are all well above 60W TDP...
Not to say that AMD64 are as low as Pentium-M, TDP is meaningless, it is the manufacturer's guide to system integrators what cooling to provide so that the CPU doesn't have to be throttled too much, but it does not say how much power the CPU uses. Turion64 ML CPUs have a TDP of 35W but measure (including chipsets - which is necessary to compare apples to apples) lower than Pentium M.
> you could write the debug message in a separate function or file, and then via aspect-oriented programming not include code to call it in every single function. Instead you'd define an aspect, or something, and have your debug message print whenever the situation that defines that aspect occurs.
Is that like intercals "COME FROM" construct.
> Who's going to pay for the delivery bandwith then?
RT*F*A It's peer to peer, *we* pay for the delivery, then the advertisers pay for ??? AOL makes money for free.
I pay for a little bit of the delivery to me then, while I'm watching it, I pay for a little bit of the delivery to a few other people, etc.
> Well, that should be a safe choice, because no sane person would use 0x1234, therefore this key is still unused.
Damn, that's the code I have on my luggage. Remind me to change it.
Intelligent Climate Change
> And since what we truly need in this world are microgrids (encourage conservation of energy,
"Conservation of Energy... It's the LAW!"
> I am not a linux contributor, but I would think you'd kinda want to guard access to the kernel kinda closely. I mean, sure, anyone can fork it or grab a copy to putz around with, but contributing back into the kernel - that's gotta be just about as stable as a piece of code can be.
A stable binary driver API that doesn't mean putting the driver into the kernel is already there. It is called the syscall interface. If you have a stable module ABI as proposed (over and over again, about once a month for the past 10 years) the drivers actually *do* go into the kernel - and closed source drivers so if they are broken, they won't ever get fixed.
This is all a very, very bad idea for Linux stability. Crash and burn, baby, crash and BURN!
> what are you talking about? that is the exact opposite of what the paper says.
Oops, I remember reading the paper some time ago and deciding that it didn't apply to DPF, but I obviously can't accurately remember why... I'll read it again.
I don't think the paper passes the basic sanity test though, because the sun works and *it* isn't in thermo-dynamic equilibrium... Nor is the tokamak (it loses energy through neutrons). What the paper tries to say is that fusion cannot be used for useful energy production in any way.
"The Crackpot Index would award you "40 points for comparing yourself to Galileo, suggesting that a modern-day Inquisition is hard at work on your case, and so on." This is something to avoid if you wish to be taken seriously and not have people assume you're a crackpot."
However, Galileo would surely compare himself to himself, and be scored as a crackpot too, so that crackpot index isn't really a meaningful judge of character.
I beleive absolutely that evolution occurs as theorised by Charles Darwin. I think the debate should focus on whether all selection in the evolutionary process is by natural selection, intelligent selection or a combination of both. Also whether all mutations are by chance, the results of complex and generally unpredictable interactions, or intelligent action.
Humans have caused both intelligent mutation and intelligent selection, so we know that occurs. Also unpredictable mutations and selection following bayesian theory have been observed, so quite clearly both happen.
Evolution can happen both by the hand of God, and by the rules of nature has layed down by Him, scientists can attempt to divine these rules [if you'll pardon the pun] and creationists can preach that God made evolution happen and allows it to continue happening. I personally can't see where the argument lies.
""Transient nonequilibrium burning systems [are ruled out] which try to produce enough fusion power before the particle distributions equiligrate (eg. ICF, bombs, and pulsed beam methods).""
"That is bizzare. I'm really at a loss to explain such a statement, though, IANAP. Obviously fusion bombs work and DO produce far more energy than they consume and ICF is capable of doing the same or this would not be currently under construction. I can't understand what he may have meant by such a statement. weird."
That is exactly it, Todd Riser's thesis showed that anything like the tokamak could *not* be used for net energy gain, but the sentence says that the thesis says nothing about "ICF, bombs, and pulsed beam methods", and also the Dense Plasma Focus. That is funding tokamak research will *not* produce a fusion generator, but funding the other research just *might*.