Well on Unix by default selecting text and then pasting to a blank spot in the browser window
cause that URL to load. This behavior has been around since at least Netscape 3. By default it may open a new window, but it is easy to change it to open a new tab.
In Windows, middle-mouse button clicking can be set to paste in Firefox, though I think you may have manually copy the text to the clipboard (with Ctrl-C) first.
The politicians know that the vast majority of people voting are senior citizens.
There aren't enough senior citizens for them to make up the vast majority of voters in the US. Sure, a larger percentage senior citizens vote than other age groups, but that doesn't make them the vast majority of voters.
The polls in most states are open at least 12 hours, and if that still doesn't work for you could get an absentee ballot.
It is not bad down to 20 below with, with moderate winds. Even at 20 below, I have to unzip my outer coat after a couple of miles. The day after a big storm I skip riding, but other than that the weather doesn't keep me off the bike.
There are experimenters. The guys who ran the simulation were experimenters.
There are theoreticians. Einstein was a theoretician.
These days there are really more than two kinds of physicists. To your list I would add two types that fit in between experimentalists and theorists: observationalists and simulationists.
Observationalist observe nature.
Observationalists are like experimentalist, but the nature of their work precludes controlled experiments. They make observation of the natural world - the Earth, the Sun, planets, or stars - but they don't always have the luxury of observing the same phenomenon in the same conditions repeatedly.
Simulationist run computer simulations of natural phenomenon and interpret their results. The techniques necessary to do this are quite different from those that are needed to do pure theory.
Of course their is some overlap in these categories, with many physicists doing at least some work that would fit into more than one category. Other people might divide things into more than four categories, but I would say that it is pretty clear that all of the physics being done these days does not fit into either experiment or theory anymore.
The main type violator of the GPL that is being discussed is emmbedded applications makers. The usual GPL violation in this case is that they don't make source available. So the "use" that they are not allowed to do is to distribute Linux (or other GPL software) in their embedded products.
But yes, both I and the article were sloppy on this point.
I don't want to waste much time defending the article, though, because it seems to me that Sarbanes-Oxley violation is at best a tangent to the issue of GPL violation.
The synopsis above is misleading. Its is GPL violators, not simply GPL users who are at risk. From the article:
"Linux is a powerful operating system," says Jay Michaelson, an author of the study and Wasabi Systems' General Counsel. "But if companies violate the license, the consequences can be more severe than they think. If companies are violating the GPL, they don't have the right to use that software. And if they don't have the right to use the software, they're violating federal law if they claim that they do."
I am drifting even further off topic, but I am going to dump this here anyway.
Some people have suggested a Meta-Slashdot section. I think that's overkill, but I think that you should at least collect a list of these meta-discussions. Nothing fancy would be needed, just a page with a list of old meta-discussions and links to them. Maybe tie it to the FAQ. You could replace the currently out of date:
"A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?"
with something like
"Are there any discussions about how Slashdot works?
"Yes, here are a few:..."
This would give us some place else to send people who bring up the same tired off-topic discussions again and again.
If you have any interest, I'd dig up some of the old Meta-articles and send a diff, though the real problem would be keeping on top of it and adding new ones.
The reviewer says "the extra proton in helium means the ideal fusion temperature for He3-D mixtures is over four times as large....That makes the traditional approaches to fusion reactors, creating very hot and dense plasmas, essentially impractical for He3 fusion."
Has the current consensus really ruled out tokamaks for D-He3 fusion? My understanding is that though it is obviously more difficult, that the benefits of this reaction might make it worth it. Anyone have any decent recent references?
Windchill isn't a problem when biking if you dress properly. I have biked when it 20 below Farenheit with a windchill of 40 below an I still was sweating by the time I got to work.
Snow and ice on the road can make things more interesting, but if you slow down a bit it is not really a problem.
During the summer, you will sweat but that is a good thing as long as you can take a shower at work.
I agree that groups such as Gibson are odd, but since they claim that they
are still Catholic (or maybe more Catholic than Roman Catholic), it not clear that they should be called protestant. It is similar to how some fundamentalists groups try to claim Catholics (or even Mormons) are not Christian. Just saying it does not make it so.
Yes, fundamentalist protestants will ignore the pope.
Right-wing Catholics may listen, though, and there many of them who side with the ID folks. A famous example of a pro-ID Catholic is Rick (I wish my name didn't have another meaning) Santorum, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania who has added pro-ID wording to legislation.
Of course, there is no proof that this will do any good. In particular, the extreme right-wing Catholics of the Mel Gibson variety, like many fundamentalist protestants, have already given up on the pope.
In science distinction between "theory" and "law" has nothing to do with whether it can be disproved or not. A "law" discusses a rather specific phenomenom (like Newton's Law of Gravitation or Kepler's Second Law), while a "theory" discusses a broader set of topics (General Relativity or Evolution). Both "theories" and "laws" and can be altered and falsified as more data becomes available. See this discussion for more details.
Manual transmissions are inherently more expensive than automatic transmissions.
What do you mean by this? Do you mean that they are more difficult to build, so they should cost more. I don't think that's the case - manual transmissions are simpler mechanically.
Do you mean car companies usually charge more for them? For every car I have ever looked at buying that had manual transmission as an option, the manual transmission was cheaper than the automatic. I don't pretend to have made an exhaustive study.
In general, the BSD license is much more appealing to commercial endeavors. The BSD TCI/IP stack should be a sufficient example.
BSD may be a more enticing license for commercial endeavors to borrow code from, which is what is shown by your example of BSD TCP/IP stack. I think that the GPL is more enticing for commercial endeavors to put there own software under. Commercial endeavors get to retain more control over their software and to prevent leeching. IBM and Sun's current free software licenses, while not copylefts, are closer to the GPL than to the BSDL.
I would guess that there is much more software with commercial roots that has been released under the GPL than the BSDL. Some examples are QT, and Mozilla.
Try gnumeric. It is much better the the OO spreadsheet. Depending on which Excel features you need, gnumeric may not meet your needs but it is likely much closer than OO's spreadsheet.
You don't usually get normal sound waves in space. Ion acoustic waves do form, though. Plasma is the dominant form of matter outside the atmosphere, and ion acoustic waves are a vibrational mode in the plasma, as opposed the the more direct collisions of neutral matter. (Though those collisions are also really electromagnetic in nature.)
The waves described in this article are a different sort - ion cylotron waves.
Remember long ago when they appeared here first, and the other rags copied the/. stories the next day?
No, I don't remember that, because that time never really existed. Some stories still make it big first on slashdot (usually about an obscure web site or mailing list flame war), but slashdot has always grabbed more stories from mainstream news sites than it has sent to them.
Slashdot Mirror
In Windows, middle-mouse button clicking can be set to paste in Firefox, though I think you may have manually copy the text to the clipboard (with Ctrl-C) first.
Maybe it is a regional thing. I have never seen "trawl" in print around here. I think that slashdot may be the only place where I have seen "trawl".
How about simply "exploded." From context it is obvious that it is a figure of speech, so the a qualifier like "figuratively" isn't really needed.
There aren't enough senior citizens for them to make up the vast majority of voters in the US. Sure, a larger percentage senior citizens vote than other age groups, but that doesn't make them the vast majority of voters.
The polls in most states are open at least 12 hours, and if that still doesn't work for you could get an absentee ballot.
It is not bad down to 20 below with, with moderate winds. Even at 20 below, I have to unzip my outer coat after a couple of miles. The day after a big storm I skip riding, but other than that the weather doesn't keep me off the bike.
Observationalist observe nature. Observationalists are like experimentalist, but the nature of their work precludes controlled experiments. They make observation of the natural world - the Earth, the Sun, planets, or stars - but they don't always have the luxury of observing the same phenomenon in the same conditions repeatedly.
Simulationist run computer simulations of natural phenomenon and interpret their results. The techniques necessary to do this are quite different from those that are needed to do pure theory.
Of course their is some overlap in these categories, with many physicists doing at least some work that would fit into more than one category. Other people might divide things into more than four categories, but I would say that it is pretty clear that all of the physics being done these days does not fit into either experiment or theory anymore.
But yes, both I and the article were sloppy on this point.
I don't want to waste much time defending the article, though, because it seems to me that Sarbanes-Oxley violation is at best a tangent to the issue of GPL violation.
"A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?"
with something like
"Are there any discussions about how Slashdot works?
"Yes, here are a few: ..."
This would give us some place else to send people who bring up the same tired off-topic discussions again and again.
If you have any interest, I'd dig up some of the old Meta-articles and send a diff, though the real problem would be keeping on top of it and adding new ones.
Has the current consensus really ruled out tokamaks for D-He3 fusion? My understanding is that though it is obviously more difficult, that the benefits of this reaction might make it worth it. Anyone have any decent recent references?
Snow and ice on the road can make things more interesting, but if you slow down a bit it is not really a problem.
During the summer, you will sweat but that is a good thing as long as you can take a shower at work.
I am not sure that it is even true. GHWB wasn't much of an extrovert, if he was one at all.
You should take a look at Galleon (not to be confused with Galeon). It includes videocasting support.
I agree that groups such as Gibson are odd, but since they claim that they are still Catholic (or maybe more Catholic than Roman Catholic), it not clear that they should be called protestant. It is similar to how some fundamentalists groups try to claim Catholics (or even Mormons) are not Christian. Just saying it does not make it so.
Right-wing Catholics may listen, though, and there many of them who side with the ID folks. A famous example of a pro-ID Catholic is Rick (I wish my name didn't have another meaning) Santorum, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania who has added pro-ID wording to legislation.
Of course, there is no proof that this will do any good. In particular, the extreme right-wing Catholics of the Mel Gibson variety, like many fundamentalist protestants, have already given up on the pope.
In science distinction between "theory" and "law" has nothing to do with whether it can be disproved or not. A "law" discusses a rather specific phenomenom (like Newton's Law of Gravitation or Kepler's Second Law), while a "theory" discusses a broader set of topics (General Relativity or Evolution). Both "theories" and "laws" and can be altered and falsified as more data becomes available. See this discussion for more details.
Do you mean car companies usually charge more for them? For every car I have ever looked at buying that had manual transmission as an option, the manual transmission was cheaper than the automatic. I don't pretend to have made an exhaustive study.
I would guess that there is much more software with commercial roots that has been released under the GPL than the BSDL. Some examples are QT, and Mozilla.
Try gnumeric. It is much better the the OO spreadsheet. Depending on which Excel features you need, gnumeric may not meet your needs but it is likely much closer than OO's spreadsheet.
You don't usually get normal sound waves in space. Ion acoustic waves do form, though. Plasma is the dominant form of matter outside the atmosphere, and ion acoustic waves are a vibrational mode in the plasma, as opposed the the more direct collisions of neutral matter. (Though those collisions are also really electromagnetic in nature.) The waves described in this article are a different sort - ion cylotron waves.