The game tree is Too Big. Mmmm, say 10 possibilities per move, 40 moves per player in the game is a tree of size
10^80
Ouch.
For all we know, it might be that white or black can always win with perfect play (although most people guess perfect play on both sides will produce a draw, but we don't know, even though there clearly is an answer).
Looks a lot like Boeing's unmanned fighter prototype, the X-45 which is going to have missiles in an internal bay, I think (pop it open briefly to fire).
A patch (likely) still qualifies as a derivative work, even if none of the original source is included, and thus could only be distributed under the GPL.
Binary device drivers are a special case; these are arguably GPL violations, but LT has stated they're ok as long as they only use 'public' interfaces. Lots of discussion about this on LKML if you're interested.
Err, I don't think you can release a patch for GPL software (ie, Linux) under a non-GPL license.
You might include a disclaimer that the patch may be illegal in your nation, but I don't think the license itself can actually prohibit distribution to particular persons.
Or maybe there's no wisespread use 'cause there aren't that many trees?
Remember, folks, we use a lot of oil. Alcohol and tree sap and cooking oil are all well and good, but trimming oil usage by 3% may not be worth the trouble.
Well, then, clearly, the answer to global warming is to grow huge amounts of sugarcane, harvest it, and bury it in a giant pit while continuing to burn all the oil we want.
You have an S2000? Haven't seen one of those antiques in years.:) It probably has about the same horsepower as a nice new dual-pentium box - sic transit gloria moorea. Or something.
Well, you couldn't rebuild that official port without MS's secret X-Box key; to my mind, that makes it part of the source code, and thus distribution without it should be prohibited for GPLed software.
So I think you'ld have to have a non-GPL bootloader for this to work.
It would be really cool if debian could use a P2P network for apt. Take some load off the poor (VA?) sites hosting debian.org, and have a distributed backup if they ever go away...
Would be slower, but still fast enough for most stuff, and the whole P2P-space seems more debiany to me.
the inside of the lava will cool much faster than the outside because it's in contact with water (212 degrees)
Well, the key questions here have to do with how well lava conducts heat internally, and its specific heat.
Vaporizing all that water will absorb a great deal of heat from the interior of the lava ball; if it doesn't transmit well the interior will stay relatively cool. It's heat absorbtion that's key, not insulation: I'd bet $50 that if you wrapped the chicken in a dozen layers of dry aluminum foil instead of wet leaves it would be burned to a crisp.
You know, I used to think this. Certainly, the TA engine is *much* more impressive and capable than the SC one. (I wonder how much it would cost to acquire and open-source the code??)
However, the unit balance in SC is very clever and makes for a more interesting game, IMO, because the units in SC are so specialized. The ways in which they're specialized aren't very obvious at first, which is annoying.
Drag is proportinal to surface area (size^2) and to velocity squared, and mass is proportinal to volume (size^3). Terminal velocity is the speed where weight equals drag.
So to a first approximation, terminal velocity is proportinal to sqrt(length). Small objects fall slowly. Quadruple size to double terminal velocity.
Now, when you start losing size based on some function of speed it gets tricky, but if a meteor melts down to a small rock a few thousand feet up it won't be going fast enough to do much before it hits the ground. The interesting question is how it could get so small when it should have slowed down before then (just momentum??).
To many, especially in the business world, it's a big selling point to say that you'll be around in five or ten years.
Yeah, this is huge. Corporate customers want a dominant vendor with just enough competition to keep them honest. If the corporate market takes off - and I think it's beginning to - RH will get 60% of it. That could be nice steady support contracts worth a few hundred million dollars a year within a couple of years.
At that point the whole market could tip - RH will have enough cash, not to hire as many developers as MS, but to hire as many as it's really worth having anyway. A couple years of that and they could flood the world with GPLed applications.
The tricky bit will be RH deciding which OS projects that compete with commercial vendors that run on RH they will back...
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The game tree is Too Big. Mmmm, say 10 possibilities per move, 40 moves per player in the game is a tree of size
10^80
Ouch.
For all we know, it might be that white or black can always win with perfect play (although most people guess perfect play on both sides will produce a draw, but we don't know, even though there clearly is an answer).
Looks a lot like Boeing's unmanned fighter prototype, the X-45 which is going to have missiles in an internal bay, I think (pop it open briefly to fire).
Remember, that was a stock photo.
Now that low-end drives are dirt-cheap pieces of junk (even more than before, that is), RAID becomes imperative.
Software mirroring (or RAID-5 or whatever) is just about a no-brainer on anything but the cheapest desktop now.
Incorrect.
A patch (likely) still qualifies as a derivative work, even if none of the original source is included, and thus could only be distributed under the GPL.
Binary device drivers are a special case; these are arguably GPL violations, but LT has stated they're ok as long as they only use 'public' interfaces. Lots of discussion about this on LKML if you're interested.
Err, I don't think you can release a patch for GPL software (ie, Linux) under a non-GPL license.
You might include a disclaimer that the patch may be illegal in your nation, but I don't think the license itself can actually prohibit distribution to particular persons.
Record from DVD?? Does it ignore Macrovision, or preserve it on outputs of Macrovision-recorded-stuff, or what?
Heh. Very clever. But there really isn't enough recyclable oil for this solution to work on a massive scale, is there?
And, in fact, the use of methanol in the US has been supported heavily by ADM, the agricultural/distribution sorta-near-monopoly.
Or maybe there's no wisespread use 'cause there aren't that many trees?
Remember, folks, we use a lot of oil. Alcohol and tree sap and cooking oil are all well and good, but trimming oil usage by 3% may not be worth the trouble.
Well, then, clearly, the answer to global warming is to grow huge amounts of sugarcane, harvest it, and bury it in a giant pit while continuing to burn all the oil we want.
Um...
You have an S2000? Haven't seen one of those antiques in years. :) It probably has about the same horsepower as a nice new dual-pentium box - sic transit gloria moorea. Or something.
Maybe. But it's hard to see how they can be worse than the 'maintainance' costs of rebuilding the whole damn rocket every time you launch one.
Yeah, yeah, the shuttle is reusable, but disposable rockets are actually cheaper than that engineering nightmare, from what I read...
Well, you couldn't rebuild that official port without MS's secret X-Box key; to my mind, that makes it part of the source code, and thus distribution without it should be prohibited for GPLed software.
So I think you'ld have to have a non-GPL bootloader for this to work.
Otherwise it migh tbe ok.
No, it's probably just intended to get her Silicon Valley constituancy to stop flaming her about supporting the DMCA.
She doesn't really expect to push it, or for it to pass. The real question will be if she does anything with this in the next session.
The President can't actually propose laws, although it's easy enough for him to find a congresscritter to forward one from him.
1/2 of both houses is required to pass the law; 2/3 is required to override a presidential veto.
And amending the constitution requires approval by 2/3 of the Senate and 2/3 of the State legislatures (IIRC), and is next-to-impossible.
It would be really cool if debian could use a P2P network for apt. Take some load off the poor (VA?) sites hosting debian.org, and have a distributed backup if they ever go away...
Would be slower, but still fast enough for most stuff, and the whole P2P-space seems more debiany to me.
What that don't tell you is that the computer system is just a big MySQL database and a slightly modified verison of SpamAssassin...
At which point did these fine European nations drop out of "The West".
:)/2
Sometime in the 60's, give or take a decade, as best I can figure.
Ok, let me say this nice and slow so that all the raving super-greens can get it:
Energy consumption is not inherently unethical. Pollution and destruction of non-renewable resources, in some cases, yes.
What we need is not low-energy-cars; what we need is cheap, clean power!
Now, you're right about one thing; this whole nonsense about electric cars being 'clean'. WTF do people think the electricty comes from? Elves?
No, no, no:
"In film you will find four basic story lines. Man versus man, man versus nature, nature versus nature, and dog versus vampire."
- Steven Spielberg
the inside of the lava will cool much faster than the outside because it's in contact with water (212 degrees)
Well, the key questions here have to do with how well lava conducts heat internally, and its specific heat.
Vaporizing all that water will absorb a great deal of heat from the interior of the lava ball; if it doesn't transmit well the interior will stay relatively cool. It's heat absorbtion that's key, not insulation: I'd bet $50 that if you wrapped the chicken in a dozen layers of dry aluminum foil instead of wet leaves it would be burned to a crisp.
You know, I used to think this. Certainly, the TA engine is *much* more impressive and capable than the SC one. (I wonder how much it would cost to acquire and open-source the code??)
However, the unit balance in SC is very clever and makes for a more interesting game, IMO, because the units in SC are so specialized. The ways in which they're specialized aren't very obvious at first, which is annoying.
Drag is proportinal to surface area (size^2) and to velocity squared, and mass is proportinal to volume (size^3). Terminal velocity is the speed where weight equals drag.
So to a first approximation, terminal velocity is proportinal to sqrt(length). Small objects fall slowly. Quadruple size to double terminal velocity.
Now, when you start losing size based on some function of speed it gets tricky, but if a meteor melts down to a small rock a few thousand feet up it won't be going fast enough to do much before it hits the ground. The interesting question is how it could get so small when it should have slowed down before then (just momentum??).
To many, especially in the business world, it's a big selling point to say that you'll be around in five or ten years.
Yeah, this is huge. Corporate customers want a dominant vendor with just enough competition to keep them honest. If the corporate market takes off - and I think it's beginning to - RH will get 60% of it. That could be nice steady support contracts worth a few hundred million dollars a year within a couple of years.
At that point the whole market could tip - RH will have enough cash, not to hire as many developers as MS, but to hire as many as it's really worth having anyway. A couple years of that and they could flood the world with GPLed applications.
The tricky bit will be RH deciding which OS projects that compete with commercial vendors that run on RH they will back...