This would not be a limiting factor if the camera also has a flash storage, and would transfer images in the background, letting you shoot more images while it is transferring images. Ofcourse it will stop while it is full. But the camera should be available as soon as there is space for one image.
Its a cool idea but I thought that the since our eyes are in a horizontal direction the projectors should also be in a horizontal direction. Whereas this system is putting the projectors in vertical direction. I don't know how it will look with the vertical projector placing. The main price of this setting is anyway getting the two projectors.
I think the best idea would be to make bad patents extremely costly for the holder to contest. Best would be if it so costly that people can do bounty hunting on bad patents. Basically if a patent is brought to court then if the holder loses he/she/it must pay really hefty charges including court fees, fine depending on the time since the patent was filed to the time when it was challenged. Also fine must depend on the income of the holder in question. In addition a fine if the patent was done in bad faith like the Rambus patent. Make it so costly that a person or company will think many times before patenting anything. Of course there will have to be an exemption for the cases of prior art that is proved to have been unknown to the holder. In that case of course the holder did not know that it was invalid. Also for forcing the patents to have the smallest scope, make a patent invalid if it is invalidated on any single count. So that the holder must hold different patents for different points, and not club it together. If all this is done then Patent office need not do anything for approval of the patent, the applicant will make sure it is in good faith.
I think the best possible solution would be not to fight patents but to make it very difficult to hold bad patents. This can be done by making it very costly to lose the rights to a patent.
If a company holds a patent and say a person or a company thinks that it is a bad patent then they can sue the patent holding company. When the court case is decided then if the patent holding company wins the case then they get money for the case proceedings, but if they lose they have to pay in addition to the court proceedings a hefty amount depending on the amount of time the case took plus another amount depending on the income of the patent holding company. There should also be an extra fine when patents have been made in bad faith, like the Rambus patent.
This will enable people to do bounty hunting on bad patents. And it will be extremely dangerous for companies to acquire bad patents. Companies will make sure that they only claim patents which are defendable. I think patents are not bad Bad Patents are bad, and they should be made extremely expensive. If it is done this way Patent Office will not have to police things at all companies will police themselves. I am sure once it is done there will be a scramble by companies to throw away their bad patents, and world will be a better place.
Considering that the 8th drop fell in Nov. 2000 and the one before that dropped in 1988, we have only spent the first two years. I would expect that it would take at least 5 years before the next one drops. It will require more thant the students there to keep us entertained for that much time.
The thing is that if you have to boot you waste some time. For me one of the problems was the speed loss. I don't know why wine has to be slower when its supposed to emulate windows calls rather than each and every x86 instruction.
I think you must consider corruption whenever you think of handouts. I would think that making roads and communication network would be a great use for that money. But then those things will not be done till there is some political will. And political will is not there in India. I would say this use of money is as good as any. Its better than being hoarded by the politicians in Swiss Banks.
I think Switzerland should be taken to task for having such an opaque banking system. If banking system was opened up in Switzerland that will be the best thing that can happen to third world contries. Ofcourse polititians will then saving their money in some Arab countries, but I don't think there is that much faith in them. It will really break the back of large scale corruption.
But I don't think Swiss will ever be brought to task, every countries top leaders would have some kind of Swiss Accounts and would never think about this possibility.
I think he was the first to think about programming for the next generation, rather than the current one. Otherwise he would not have programmed for the EGA when EGA was not even in the market. That is what everybody does today. They wouldn't survive otherwise. But back then everybody was thinking of making games for the hardware people had now.
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I think this is the only thing that politicians will consider the prospect of losing an election. I think its good to fight the war on as many fronts as possible.
For people who think that linux will lose its coolness or its purity if it gets too popular. I want to tell them that they will lose linux if it doesn't get very popular, soon. Linux should get a market share of at least 20% before some form of DRM becomes mandatory by law, in US and Europe. DRM will kill Linux if it succeeds, and there is only one thing that can kill DRM and that is Linux.
The solution is that technical people should develop linux, and if they don't have anything really important then they should lobby to the government. And if the Elections are around the corner (like they are now) then get going against your local Senator if he/she was in favour of DRM/DMCA et.al. Local LUGs should be able to get this thing going collect as much information about the senator that you can and go after them. And if your senator is against this thing then also work in his/her favour.
Its important to delay DRM as long as possible, by any means possible.
I guess if you have a disorder of a type that will require you to eat lots of some nutrients. Then I guess you have to go that way. But Vegetarian food is in no way inferior to meat. I occasionally do have meat, like once a weak. The point is that in India we normally eat only vegetables. The so called non-vegetarians also have it only a couple of times in a week. Very rarely will you find anybody in India having meat daily. That doesn't mean that we are not healthy. Ofcourse we tend to have too much oil and spices also, but that is a different thing. People who do keep a good diet are pretty healthy.
Well its not the exponent that is changing its the speed of light. So the equation still remains E=mc^2. only c goes from 3*10^8m/s to 2.9999924384729*10^8m/s
"unless such impairment is necessary to impair= the trading of her copyrighted work"
Read the excerpt again. You could DoS the system only you have to prove that there was no other way to stop the trading. You can just say that you don't know any other way. But DoS you can.
" I'll give you the philosophy: Everything is just a document, whether it be music or video or e-mail or whatever. Each will have a name and a history, and every user will have his or her favorites. "
Finally The Big Bill got the basic concept, that everything must be a file. Next they will be raving about how they invented the everything is a file concept. Anybody remember how they invented the soft link concept in WinXP.
People who make such jokes don't understand the reason behind the existance of linux or other free software. They don't understand that it couldn't have existed without GPL or FSF or Stallman. Stallman sometimes goes beyond limits but still somebody who wrote GPL cannot be equated with Stalinism, or Communism.
GPL allows authors to control their software. It protects them from Leaches(TM). It even allows them to make money by dual licensing. It makes sure that no body will take over the stewardship of the project without performing much better than the originator. It protects against forks.
If you look at open softwares that are not GPL, you will find that they some have had many commercial forks, that never gave any acknowledgement to the original authors. The BSD license did have one article for acknowledging the regents, so it was done but others were as good as in public domain.
Would you want to create a software and then have somebody come in with a new feature which although is small but very useful and starts distributing it without proper attribution to you. Like the MySQL case. MySQL only survived because they were using GPL. If they were using BSD like License they would have had no recourse.
Linux wouldn't have been possible without the many utilities made by the FSF. Same applies to lot of other free software. As an aside I don't agree with FSF on renaming linux to GNU/linux. I think that GNU should associate only to Free Software. Linux distributions can have a lot of commercial software, so the name only applies accurately to Debian GNU/Linux.
I don't say that there is no use of other kinds of licenses. BSD License was useful for the BSD unix, but that was because there was no internet at the time and BSD wouldn't have succeeded or become popular without the support of unix vendors. Likewise a library needs a more relaxed license like the libGPL, and probably a system like MONO needs an even more relaxed license.
But IMNSHO, anybody calling GPL viral or otherwise bad names is a person who wants to be a leach and cannot do so due to the GPL, and hopes that people will not use it so that they can take over projects of other people and make some money or name. I would point at MicroSoft as a prime example. They dread GPL because they cannot misuse GPL software and they know they are being squeezed, slowly but surely, and there will be little space left for them when GPL is done expanding.
So you think that we are very unique. God made the universe for us mortals, because he was so bored he wanted somebody to pray to him (not knowing the gender (and would a gender apply) I should probably use it, but not to offend peoples sensibilities).
If earth was possible, then the exact conditions must be possible for another planet too. You cannot conjecture either way. It may be that we are alone in the world, it may be that there are hundreds or thousands of other cultures.
Maybe we are the only ones in our galaxy, but what about the millions of other galaxy. There are so many solar systems in the universe that there would be millions with the exact same conditions as earth. Whether they also have intelligent life at this particular time, is what is more difficult.
I am of the opinion that it could be possible that science would advance so much that a single person would be able to destroy the whole of earth and its civilization. Then it would take only a single crazy person, and we always have plenty of them. So we will not survive too long. It is also a conjecture. And it could happen that its true for all intelligent life. Then we would most probably be the only one in the whole universe. Because our predecessors may have already destroyed themselves. And we may not survive to meet the next ones.
Also if there are more than one and c the speed of light is non-negotiable, then we are still doomed to be alone in the universe. We cannot meet others.
I somehow think that it will be a big tragedy to have discovered everything and still not be able to leave our solar system and meet others.
Its a very difficult problem. Applications do over allocate because they don't know how much they would use. Kernel overcommits because it expects apps to over allocate. If kernel wouldn't over commit then you would require absurd amounts of Swap to run.
X11 is a special app, because if it dies the screen dies and you can't interact with the system although the system might be functioning fine. What happens in this case is that the X11 is killed promptly by the kernel, and does not get any time to restore the console. Kernel cannot and must not differentiate between processes.
In this case though the problem is more clear cut X11 must not allow absurdly large fonts. There should be a limit to the size of the memory it is allocating based on the system memory. So that it doesn't put itself into danger. It might be a difficult question in different settings but this case just requires a upper limit on font size, based on the display size and system memory.
It doesn't mean that you have to use it. I guess they wrote that because they didn't want support mails telling them they had this or that failures while installing. This set of options just forces rpm to install it whatever happens.
Not a good idea, they might get different kinds of mails like "you f***ed up our sistem."
Yes you must not use any software, because everything won't work with everything. Testing to see if a piece of software works in an environment takes time and money. If not enough people have the time, or the company doesn't have a business case for that particular environment, it won't be supported. Its not that they don't have the expertise. Its simple to test compatibility but it takes time and money.
It would be better if more distributions followed standards, but that will happen eventually. The reason why these companies are coming around to get under one standard is that there exists a standard the LSB, and they know if they don't get their act together nobody will be supporting them. So now with united linux there will be only one system to support for application developers and probably they will have a business case now to develop it.
Currently only two distributions get supported widely Redhat and Debian. Mandrake follows Redhat so is automatically compatible. Slackware doesn't care, it expects the user to be very knowledgable. So that leaves this motely crowd which have to get their act together if they don't want to lose out when Linux starts getting the apps. I believe lots of high end applications are (or will be real soon) getting ported. With high end I mean applications that are not used by normal people. The high end is were the real money is, and these people don't want to lose it out.
I believe United Linux will attract everything else. I would be happier if they had taken Debian as their base, but there is a reason why they are having a new base. Redhat is the leader and wouldn't want to come with them, so Redhat base is out of the question. They could go with debian but they probably won't want to throw away their old work which is based on redhat. So we have a third distribution.
I don't know about rest of your problems. But Athlon and NVIDIA don't go along very well. There has been a work around but no fix so far. Its not a problem with Mandrake you will have more problems with Redhat on this count. They do not include the NVIDIA driver also, and you will still have this problem.
The work around is to pass mem=nopentium to the kernel. This is what I am using.
Swarming a gnutella download is different than what BT does because, BT is site initiated. BT is used by the site putting up a download file. So that anybody with the appropriate plugin getting the file from the site, automatically gets the file from other site. Its not like searching for a file, and then you are given a site that enables the same Torrent effect.
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This would not be a limiting factor if the camera also has a flash storage, and would transfer images in the background, letting you shoot more images while it is transferring images. Ofcourse it will stop while it is full. But the camera should be available as soon as there is space for one image.
Its a cool idea but I thought that the since our eyes are in a horizontal direction the projectors should also be in a horizontal direction. Whereas this system is putting the projectors in vertical direction. I don't know how it will look with the vertical projector placing. The main price of this setting is anyway getting the two projectors.
I think the best idea would be to make bad patents extremely costly for the holder to contest. Best would be if it so costly that people can do bounty hunting on bad patents. Basically if a patent is brought to court then if the holder loses he/she/it must pay really hefty charges including court fees, fine depending on the time since the patent was filed to the time when it was challenged. Also fine must depend on the income of the holder in question. In addition a fine if the patent was done in bad faith like the Rambus patent. Make it so costly that a person or company will think many times before patenting anything. Of course there will have to be an exemption for the cases of prior art that is proved to have been unknown to the holder. In that case of course the holder did not know that it was invalid. Also for forcing the patents to have the smallest scope, make a patent invalid if it is invalidated on any single count. So that the holder must hold different patents for different points, and not club it together. If all this is done then Patent office need not do anything for approval of the patent, the applicant will make sure it is in good faith.
I think the best possible solution would be not to fight patents but to make it very difficult to hold bad patents. This can be done by making it very costly to lose the rights to a patent.
If a company holds a patent and say a person or a company thinks that it is a bad patent then they can sue the patent holding company. When the court case is decided then if the patent holding company wins the case then they get money for the case proceedings, but if they lose they have to pay in addition to the court proceedings a hefty amount depending on the amount of time the case took plus another amount depending on the income of the patent holding company. There should also be an extra fine when patents have been made in bad faith, like the Rambus patent.
This will enable people to do bounty hunting on bad patents. And it will be extremely dangerous for companies to acquire bad patents. Companies will make sure that they only claim patents which are defendable. I think patents are not bad Bad Patents are bad, and they should be made extremely expensive. If it is done this way Patent Office will not have to police things at all companies will police themselves. I am sure once it is done there will be a scramble by companies to throw away their bad patents, and world will be a better place.
Considering that the 8th drop fell in Nov. 2000 and the one before that dropped in 1988, we have only spent the first two years. I would expect that it would take at least 5 years before the next one drops. It will require more thant the students there to keep us entertained for that much time.
The thing is that if you have to boot you waste some
time. For me one of the problems was the speed loss.
I don't know why wine has to be slower when its
supposed to emulate windows calls rather than each
and every x86 instruction.
I think you must consider corruption whenever you think of handouts. I would think that making roads and communication network would be a great use for that money. But then those things will not be done till there is some political will. And political will is not there in India. I would say this use of money is as good as any. Its better than being hoarded by the politicians in Swiss Banks.
I think Switzerland should be taken to task for having such an opaque banking system. If banking system was opened up in Switzerland that will be the best thing that can happen to third world contries. Ofcourse polititians will then saving their money in some Arab countries, but I don't think there is that much faith in them. It will really break the back of large scale corruption.
But I don't think Swiss will ever be brought to task, every countries top leaders would have some kind of Swiss Accounts and would never think about this possibility.
I think he was the first to think about programming for the next generation, rather than the current one. Otherwise he would not have programmed for the EGA when EGA was not even in the market. That is what everybody does today. They wouldn't survive otherwise. But back then everybody was thinking of making games for the hardware people had now.
I think this is the only thing that politicians will consider the prospect of losing an election. I think its good to fight the war on as many fronts as possible.
For people who think that linux will lose its coolness or its purity if it gets too popular. I want to tell them that they will lose linux if it doesn't get very popular, soon. Linux should get a market share of at least 20% before some form of DRM becomes mandatory by law, in US and Europe. DRM will kill Linux if it succeeds, and there is only one thing that can kill DRM and that is Linux.
The solution is that technical people should develop linux, and if they don't have anything really important then they should lobby to the government. And if the Elections are around the corner (like they are now) then get going against your local Senator if he/she was in favour of DRM/DMCA et.al. Local LUGs should be able to get this thing going collect as much information about the senator that you can and go after them. And if your senator is against this thing then also work in his/her favour.
Its important to delay DRM as long as possible, by any means possible.
-anandsr
I guess if you have a disorder of a type that will require you to eat lots of some nutrients. Then I guess you have to go that way. But Vegetarian food is in no way inferior to meat. I occasionally do have meat, like once a weak. The point is that in India we normally eat only vegetables. The so called non-vegetarians also have it only a couple of times in a week. Very rarely will you find anybody in India having meat daily. That doesn't mean that we are not healthy. Ofcourse we tend to have too much oil and spices also, but that is a different thing. People who do keep a good diet are pretty healthy.
Well its not the exponent that is changing its the
speed of light. So the equation still remains E=mc^2.
only c goes from 3*10^8m/s to 2.9999924384729*10^8m/s
"unless such impairment is necessary to impair= the trading of her copyrighted work"
Read the excerpt again. You could DoS the system only
you have to prove that there was no other way to stop
the trading. You can just say that you don't know any
other way. But DoS you can.
-anand
Hurrah! I must get a faster internet connection,
It makes my measly pentiumII into a supercomputer.
Seriously, SETI is not that much of a bandwidth hog,
its much more a CPU hog.
" I'll give you the philosophy: Everything is
just a document, whether it be music or video or
e-mail or whatever. Each will have a name and a
history, and every user will have his or her
favorites. "
Finally The Big Bill got the basic concept, that
everything must be a file. Next they will be
raving about how they invented the everything
is a file concept. Anybody remember how they
invented the soft link concept in WinXP.
-anand
Think of it in another way. Are we celebrating
our dependence on Windows. That is what came to
my mind first reading Windependence.
We need a better name than windependependence.
-anand
People who make such jokes don't understand the
reason behind the existance of linux or other free
software. They don't understand that it couldn't
have existed without GPL or FSF or Stallman.
Stallman sometimes goes beyond limits but still
somebody who wrote GPL cannot be equated with
Stalinism, or Communism.
GPL allows authors to control their software. It
protects them from Leaches(TM). It even allows them
to make money by dual licensing. It makes sure that
no body will take over the stewardship of the
project without performing much better than the
originator. It protects against forks.
If you look at open softwares that are not GPL,
you will find that they some have had many
commercial forks, that never gave any
acknowledgement to the original authors. The BSD
license did have one article for acknowledging the
regents, so it was done but others were as good as
in public domain.
Would you want to create a software and then have
somebody come in with a new feature which although
is small but very useful and starts distributing
it without proper attribution to you. Like the
MySQL case. MySQL only survived because they were
using GPL. If they were using BSD like License
they would have had no recourse.
Linux wouldn't have been possible without the many
utilities made by the FSF. Same applies to lot of
other free software. As an aside I don't agree
with FSF on renaming linux to GNU/linux. I think
that GNU should associate only to Free Software.
Linux distributions can have a lot of commercial
software, so the name only applies accurately to
Debian GNU/Linux.
I don't say that there is no use of other kinds of
licenses. BSD License was useful for the BSD unix,
but that was because there was no internet at the
time and BSD wouldn't have succeeded or become
popular without the support of unix vendors.
Likewise a library needs a more relaxed license
like the libGPL, and probably a system like MONO
needs an even more relaxed license.
But IMNSHO, anybody calling GPL viral or otherwise
bad names is a person who wants to be a leach and
cannot do so due to the GPL, and hopes that people
will not use it so that they can take over projects
of other people and make some money or name. I
would point at MicroSoft as a prime example. They
dread GPL because they cannot misuse GPL software
and they know they are being squeezed, slowly but
surely, and there will be little space left for
them when GPL is done expanding.
-anand
So you think that we are very unique. God made the
universe for us mortals, because he was so bored he
wanted somebody to pray to him (not knowing the
gender (and would a gender apply) I should probably
use it, but not to offend peoples sensibilities).
If earth was possible, then the exact conditions must
be possible for another planet too. You cannot
conjecture either way. It may be that we are alone
in the world, it may be that there are hundreds or
thousands of other cultures.
Maybe we are the only ones in our galaxy, but what
about the millions of other galaxy. There are so
many solar systems in the universe that there
would be millions with the exact same conditions
as earth. Whether they also have intelligent life
at this particular time, is what is more difficult.
I am of the opinion that it could be possible that
science would advance so much that a single person
would be able to destroy the whole of earth and
its civilization. Then it would take only a single
crazy person, and we always have plenty of them.
So we will not survive too long. It is also a
conjecture. And it could happen that its true for
all intelligent life. Then we would most probably
be the only one in the whole universe. Because our
predecessors may have already destroyed themselves.
And we may not survive to meet the next ones.
Also if there are more than one and c the speed of
light is non-negotiable, then we are still doomed
to be alone in the universe. We cannot meet others.
I somehow think that it will be a big tragedy to
have discovered everything and still not be able
to leave our solar system and meet others.
-anand
Well not everybody has two PCs.
I know that there is also a sysreqkey, but not
everyone knows it, and it also may not work,
if not properly set.
-anand
Its a very difficult problem. Applications do over
allocate because they don't know how much they would
use. Kernel overcommits because it expects apps to
over allocate. If kernel wouldn't over commit then
you would require absurd amounts of Swap to run.
X11 is a special app, because if it dies the screen
dies and you can't interact with the system although the system might be functioning fine.
What happens in this case is that the X11 is
killed promptly by the kernel, and does not get
any time to restore the console. Kernel cannot
and must not differentiate between processes.
In this case though the problem is more clear cut
X11 must not allow absurdly large fonts. There
should be a limit to the size of the memory it is
allocating based on the system memory. So that
it doesn't put itself into danger. It might be a
difficult question in different settings but this
case just requires a upper limit on font size,
based on the display size and system memory.
-anand
It doesn't mean that you have to use it.
I guess they wrote that because they didn't want
support mails telling them they had this or that
failures while installing. This set of options just
forces rpm to install it whatever happens.
Not a good idea, they might get different kinds of
mails like "you f***ed up our sistem."
Yes you must not use any software, because everything
won't work with everything. Testing to see if a piece
of software works in an environment takes time and
money. If not enough people have the time, or the
company doesn't have a business case for that
particular environment, it won't be supported. Its
not that they don't have the expertise. Its simple
to test compatibility but it takes time and money.
It would be better if more distributions followed
standards, but that will happen eventually. The
reason why these companies are coming around to
get under one standard is that there exists a
standard the LSB, and they know if they don't get
their act together nobody will be supporting them.
So now with united linux there will be only one
system to support for application developers and
probably they will have a business case now to
develop it.
Currently only two distributions get
supported widely Redhat and Debian. Mandrake
follows Redhat so is automatically compatible.
Slackware doesn't care, it expects the user to be
very knowledgable. So that leaves this motely crowd
which have to get their act together if they don't
want to lose out when Linux starts getting the
apps. I believe lots of high end applications are
(or will be real soon) getting ported. With high
end I mean applications that are not used by normal
people. The high end is were the real money is, and
these people don't want to lose it out.
I believe United Linux will attract everything
else. I would be happier if they had taken Debian
as their base, but there is a reason why they are
having a new base. Redhat is the leader and
wouldn't want to come with them, so Redhat base
is out of the question. They could go with debian
but they probably won't want to throw away their
old work which is based on redhat. So we have a
third distribution.
-anand
Writing PNG support without stealing the code, ;-).
and getting it to WORK. That is simply amazing
I don't know about rest of your problems. But
Athlon and NVIDIA don't go along very well. There
has been a work around but no fix so far. Its not
a problem with Mandrake you will have more problems
with Redhat on this count. They do not include the
NVIDIA driver also, and you will still have this
problem.
The work around is to pass mem=nopentium to the
kernel. This is what I am using.
Swarming a gnutella download is different than
what BT does because, BT is site initiated.
BT is used by the site putting up a download file.
So that anybody with the appropriate plugin getting
the file from the site, automatically gets the file
from other site. Its not like searching for a file,
and then you are given a site that enables the same
Torrent effect.
This interview is as terse as the last one.
Good that he is the maintainer, he would not add
anything that is not required.