Actually he is correct. Polarising the hull plating should have no effect against an energy beam (as we are led to believe laser/phaser emissions are). It would also have no effect that I can think of against normal explosive charges or high-velocity projectiles. Additionally, I don't believe the armour mentioned in the article polarises anything; it electrifies an interior plate of armour.
Ok, we're getting very silly here, but since you can see phaser beams move and strike, it's pretty clear that they're a particle weapon of some kind, and quite possibly could be deflected by electromagnetic fields.
"You may not impose any further restriction on the recipents' exercise of the rights granted herein."
I read that as you can't distribute GPLed software if you are enforcing a patent you hold on it against that software - no patented RH Linux, patent licenses $50, are allowed. OTOH, if SGI (for a silly example) tried to enforce patents against Linux, RH or IBM could try to enforce theirs against SGI; and SGI would not be able to distribute Linux, or, probably, enforce their claim at all if they had previously distributed Linux using these features. Hm. This probably is true, actually, of SGI...?
The big hope here, clearly, is for Linux developers to go ahead and do the obvious, and if some poor fool tries to sue over his VM idea being used in Linux, then Tux's Uncle IBM will drop mention of the umpty-three bajillion silly IBM patents they're violating, and the whole thing will go away.
Bonus question: if I attempt to enforce a patent used in GPLed code, what happens? Do I lose my rights to use/distribute that GPL code? Is the copyright and GPL on that code unenforcable?
Soon, I will mount a Beowulf Cluster of these atop my observatory on the volcano in the park, and blackmail the city for one hundred billion dollars with my Death Ray!
I hear MacOS X is great and all, but am I the only one who hears "Jaguar" and thinks not "lithe jungle cat" but instead "pretty but unreliable British automobile"?
Re:To mikeee, re: "hiaku"
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Oops! Misspelled haiku. Pretend that it was satire. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Re:haiku leaves something...
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Slashdot geeks can't spell. And now they're writing hiaku? I'm afraid to look.
Yeah, but by doing this, are they risking their status as a common carrier?
When the RIAA comes and demands they cut off access to warez.org, they'll be in less of a position to say they can't/don't do content-based filtering. In for a penny, in for a pound; this may be shooting themselves in the foot.
Yeah. The problem is that the keys you'ld have to get to build VMpd aren't the software keys, they're the hardware keys. The software keys are what you'ld need to break into a partition on an unmodded palladium box.
This is essentially how an XBox works; having learned (now, finally) from the modchip fiasco, the plan for Palladium calls for embedding the key *inside* the CPU. It might be possible to steal this and then emulate pdCPU in software, but getting that key out will be tricky and no doubt illegal.
(Which means VMWare will never run palladium apps, btw...)
I've seen that thing, it's insanely huge. I believe they said it gets about 1 inch/gallon, and the top speed is like 2 mph, but...
Put some armor and artillery on top of that bad boy and you've got yourself an Ogre!
Re:You're wrong, do the math.
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Are you saying that there are only 1000 cities on the earth
No, that NYC is about 1/5000th of the world population. (10 million / 5 billion?). I already added commercial waste; sending waste water off planet is just silly, for the same power you can boil off the water...
Ok, so it's still over a million years before the effect is even measurable. I believe this is still less than tidal effects, and you're assuming we won't be doing much recycling 100k years from now.
Also note that you have to subtract any raw materials (asteroid mining, anyone?) brought down by beanstalk. If it really becomes a problem, you can just haul random crap down for the angular momentum.
And no one was able to buy or to sell, but that he had the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Personally, I always figured that was a reference to Verisign certificates, not UPC codes, but I could be wrong.;)
You're wrong, do the math.
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59,800,000,000,000 trillion tons into space to affect the aforementioned change. Again, a tremendous amount, right?
Well, yes, actually.
Consider this: New York city alone produces 13,000 tons of residential waste a DAY, and they've run out of places to put it (Again, Source [fathom.com])... It adds up REALLY quickly.
You're using your intuition, and it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
It doesn't add up. Assume everyone in the world produces as much trash as a New Yorker City resident, and that we double that for non-residental, and that we send all of the trash in the world into space.
That's 13K*(1/.002)*2= 13 million tons of trash a day. To achieve the slowdown you mention (.1 second/day) would take about 1.2*10^16 years. Tidal effects are slowing the earth much faster than that. More to the point, the sun will have blown up by then, making the rotation of the earth moot. Hell, I'm not sure all our protons won't have decayed by then - anybody know the numbers on that one?
Your show seems to have production values similar to other cooking shows, but I get the impression that the same, ah, practical approach you have to cooking was taken to production. ("Ok, this is just him and some camera guy in his home kitchen.")
How many people does it actually take to produce Good Eats, how much money is that, and who exactly owns and runs which parts of that operation?
Alan Cox's recent diary entries included a couple of brief trips to mysterious meetings in Japan, and Redhat's CTO was mentioned as attending at least one.
More to the point, this may well be illegal under the well-established blackmail laws.
Which are, in a way, kinda odd. If I know you're having an affair (or have a bug), it's legal for me to tell the world, or not. But I can't charge you for me not to tell, despite the fact that I have a right to tell or not. WTH?
It would be really neat if it could interlace multiple video streams into a higher-resolution single stream.
Use of such a technique to defeat no-copy flags left as an exercise.
I saw an article a few weeks ago about some DoD fooling about with tech that merged multiple cameras (at fixed locations) into a 3-D model that could be viewed from different angles in realtime. Anybody have a link to that one?
Of course, most of their machines will most likely be configured such that they can't use that full bandwidth over anything but a subnet anyhow, so this is kinda ridiculous...
I suspect the cooking skills of slashdot readers are very bi-modal; mostly the folks you describe, but an increasing percentage of the older readers have decided cooking is a Technical Skill and geeked out on it.
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Actually he is correct. Polarising the hull plating should have no effect against an energy beam (as we are led to believe laser/phaser emissions are). It would also have no effect that I can think of against normal explosive charges or high-velocity projectiles. Additionally, I don't believe the armour mentioned in the article polarises anything; it electrifies an interior plate of armour.
Ok, we're getting very silly here, but since you can see phaser beams move and strike, it's pretty clear that they're a particle weapon of some kind, and quite possibly could be deflected by electromagnetic fields.
Section 6 of GPL says:
"You may not impose any further restriction on the recipents' exercise of the rights granted herein."
I read that as you can't distribute GPLed software if you are enforcing a patent you hold on it against that software - no patented RH Linux, patent licenses $50, are allowed. OTOH, if SGI (for a silly example) tried to enforce patents against Linux, RH or IBM could try to enforce theirs against SGI; and SGI would not be
able to distribute Linux, or, probably, enforce their claim at all if they had previously distributed Linux using these features. Hm. This probably is true, actually, of SGI...?
The big hope here, clearly, is for Linux developers to go ahead and do the obvious, and if some poor fool tries to sue over his VM idea being used in Linux, then Tux's Uncle IBM will drop mention of the umpty-three bajillion silly IBM patents they're violating, and the whole thing will go away.
Bonus question: if I attempt to enforce a patent used in GPLed code, what happens? Do I lose my rights to use/distribute that GPL code? Is the copyright and GPL on that code unenforcable?
Soon, I will mount a Beowulf Cluster of these atop my observatory on the volcano in the park, and blackmail the city for one hundred billion dollars with my Death Ray!
Bwah-hah-hah!
Yeah, I even knew that, it's just not my first association.
I hear MacOS X is great and all, but am I the only one who hears "Jaguar" and thinks not "lithe jungle cat" but instead "pretty but unreliable British automobile"?
Oops! Misspelled haiku.
Pretend that it was satire.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Slashdot geeks can't spell.
And now they're writing hiaku?
I'm afraid to look.
Yeah, but by doing this, are they risking their status as a common carrier?
When the RIAA comes and demands they cut off access to warez.org, they'll be in less of a position to say they can't/don't do content-based filtering. In for a penny, in for a pound; this may be shooting themselves in the foot.
I think you have something here... we can use pop-up adds to mark the long-term nuclear waste respository!
Yeah. The problem is that the keys you'ld have to get to build VMpd aren't the software keys, they're the hardware keys. The software keys are what you'ld need to break into a partition on an unmodded palladium box.
This is essentially how an XBox works; having learned (now, finally) from the modchip fiasco, the plan for Palladium calls for embedding the key *inside* the CPU. It might be possible to steal this and then emulate pdCPU in software, but getting that key out will be tricky and no doubt illegal.
(Which means VMWare will never run palladium apps, btw...)
I've seen that thing, it's insanely huge. I believe they said it gets about 1 inch/gallon, and the top speed is like 2 mph, but...
Put some armor and artillery on top of that bad boy and you've got yourself an Ogre!
Are you saying that there are only 1000 cities on the earth
No, that NYC is about 1/5000th of the world population. (10 million / 5 billion?). I already added commercial waste; sending waste water off planet is just silly, for the same power you can boil off the water...
Ok, so it's still over a million years before the effect is even measurable. I believe this is still less than tidal effects, and you're assuming we won't be doing much recycling 100k years from now.
Also note that you have to subtract any raw materials (asteroid mining, anyone?) brought down by beanstalk. If it really becomes a problem, you can just haul random crap down for the angular momentum.
Singing beer vendor?
And no one was able to buy or to sell, but that he had the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
;)
Personally, I always figured that was a reference to Verisign certificates, not UPC codes, but I could be wrong.
59,800,000,000,000 trillion tons into space to affect the aforementioned change. Again, a tremendous amount, right?
Well, yes, actually.
Consider this: New York city alone produces 13,000 tons of residential waste a DAY, and they've run out of places to put it (Again, Source [fathom.com])... It adds up REALLY quickly.
You're using your intuition, and it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
It doesn't add up. Assume everyone in the world produces as much trash as a New Yorker City resident, and that we double that for non-residental, and that we send all of the trash in the world into space.
That's 13K*(1/.002)*2= 13 million tons of trash a day. To achieve the slowdown you mention (.1 second/day) would take about 1.2*10^16 years. Tidal effects are slowing the earth much faster than that. More to the point, the sun will have blown up by then, making the rotation of the earth moot. Hell, I'm not sure all our protons won't have decayed by then - anybody know the numbers on that one?
Not a food question, but I'm curious:
Your show seems to have production values similar to other cooking shows, but I get the impression that the same, ah, practical approach you have to cooking was taken to production. ("Ok, this is just him and some camera guy in his home kitchen.")
How many people does it actually take to produce Good Eats, how much money is that, and who exactly owns and runs which parts of that operation?
Alan Cox's recent diary entries included a couple of brief trips to mysterious meetings in Japan, and Redhat's CTO was mentioned as attending at least one.
(Just as long as we're speculating...)
More to the point, this may well be illegal under the well-established blackmail laws.
Which are, in a way, kinda odd. If I know you're having an affair (or have a bug), it's legal for me to tell the world, or not. But I can't charge you for me not to tell, despite the fact that I have a right to tell or not. WTH?
And of course, your company does full background checks on it's janitors, yes?
'Um... Jose, is it? I'll give you $500 if you plug this in under a desk up there...'
Well, all you need to do is run X over aalib and you can automate it with expect just fine... :)
It would be really neat if it could interlace multiple video streams into a higher-resolution single stream.
Use of such a technique to defeat no-copy flags left as an exercise.
I saw an article a few weeks ago about some DoD fooling about with tech that merged multiple cameras (at fixed locations) into a 3-D model that could be viewed from different angles in realtime. Anybody have a link to that one?
Just off that page they have a whitepaper on their server performance. Not surprisingly, they claim to beat WM by 125% on NT2K.
However, they also claim that RM/Redhat 7.3 beats WM/NT2K on the same hardware by 340%, *twice* as fast as WM/NT on the same hardware!
Of course, most of their machines will most likely be configured such that they can't use that full bandwidth over anything but a subnet anyhow, so this is kinda ridiculous...
I suspect the cooking skills of slashdot readers are very bi-modal; mostly the folks you describe, but an increasing percentage of the older readers have decided cooking is a Technical Skill and geeked out on it.
All bow down before my peanut-butter soup!