You luserish stupid!
That command will, on a Linux system, only erase every file/directory in the root beginning wiuth a character ASCIIbeticaly prior to 'p'. After doing so, it will get stuck into an endless loop in/proc. The reason thereof is left as an exercise for the reader.
Next time you try to educate users, please write commands that at least _terminates_, that is, either returns or core-dumps.
Altering the phase of the electron in an atom equals exciting the electron. And from what I remember from school physics, excited electrons tend to "fall back" into place (revert to it's previous waveform) after some time, sending out the extra energy as light.
This means that a memory made up of electrons is a dynamic RAM, and must be re-updated all the time.
Since altering the wave == exciting electrons, it takes energy. And the more improbable states you want (higher shells in the old atom-model), the more energy you have to inject. Thus, the number of states are not infinite, but restricted by the amount of energy available/feasable.
If I remember correctly, someone posted an article some weaks ago, calculating the theoretical limits of a computer of a certain weight and size. From what I can see, this aproach to storing information does not break this theoretical limit at all...
Your, and a lot of others argument, and the argument of the writer of the original article, is based on the asumption that intelectual property exists, and is the same as property. If you accept that, you are clearly right.
The problem is: Do we define information as a property, and do we define the right to control the information you have created,once it has left your head, as a basic human right? The problem is not easy: The UN human rights list does not include any such right, neither does the US constitution, as far as I know...
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From an information-theory point of view, it is clear that they where not violating the copyright. They didn't duplicate/spread the data to anyone who hadn't paid the owner of the data for it. But, from a laywer-point-of-view, they clearly copied data from CDs they bought, over the network to owners of other CDs (_copies_ of the same CD, but that doesn't matter)... So they'l burn, 'cause the music-industry is _music_ industry, not information-industry, and the laywers are laywers, not computer-scientists. We just have to face it: Today's worl'd is not ready for the information age. We have 99%++ of the population, who have absolutely no grasp about imnformation theory... Today's world is ready for Corporate Republic.
Except if what you are to do in schedule is debugging:)
I don't want to debug/maintain someone else's perl-code.
Does quick-and-durty mean anything to you?
The online moderation [of/.] is just a good example of democracy: The majority decides what is right and wrong, and the abnormal is ceased. _But_, the difference between this and old, non-online democracy, is that the online-one doesn't _prevent_ anyone froms eeing what is deemed as non-conforming, it just tells people it is non-conformant, while the old one _removes_ peoples ability to read what is deemed as bad.
If you are right (and you might be) that people will _choose_ not to see what is non-conformant, humanity is doomed, and there is absolutely nothing we can, and perheaps should, do.
The way to prevent the last concern, which is preventable, is to provide free access att libraries and such places. But that won't help the third world. But what difference will it make from how it is today, for those living there?
The world sucks, and will continue to do so, neither more, nor less. I am sorry, but that's the fact. Some part of it may get a bit better, but the whole thingy will continue to be as bad as it is...
Because in this case, we didn't complain. If we had came to their tech-support crying "I broke my reader while hacking Cue:Cat! Please help me!", that would have been another thing. But now they want to put a lock on the microwave to inhibit me from opening it an radiation-poisoning myself!
I am sad this happened in the EU. I was blue-eyed and thought that such things "only happen in the US". OK, the court havn't approuved it yet so it is yet just a stupid company atempting to frighten people. Perheaps we should try to get a law tthat forbids companies to frighten people?
The attitude you seems to have is exactly the one that makes KDE not a good solution, even though it is free, if the KDE developers have it. But I suppose they have a bit saner attitudes than your.
Free software is not to be free to provide you with gratis software, but to allow us, that is, the programmers, to hack on what we want. We don't actually care about how much you are to spend on it, just about our ability to put the features we like into it.
Note, the above paragraph IS ranting. It is trolling. But it is important - the users-only people are not the only people that counts.
As a Gtk-programmer, I am happy that Qt is GPLed, since that means that we now have two good desktops, and a hell lot of good aps, which can be linked with each other, benefit from each other and minimize recreation of the same code over and over again.
I whish you all KDE developers good luck and that you will have a fun time using GNOME-program-code in your aps and having code from your apps used by GNOME-hackers!
When I read the article, I came to think: To what use? What would you use such a computer for? And then: To simulate a universe, or merely, to be one. During the time of the existence of the micro-black-hole-computer, nothing is input, nothing is output. Everything is input at its creation, and output at its destruction. This would be a self-contined micro-universe, with one goal: To calculate something.
At the time we create such a computer, we would be creating a universe. And our universe would then not matter any more.
Consider that our universe may be a black-hole. Maybe it is one created by someone, or someones.
Creating such a computer would be the goal of our existence, and the end of it (It would not matter anymore). Maybe history is just a long chain of such creations, inside each other?
The above text is definitely religion. But I couldn't stand writing it - the perspectives and thoughts from the article where so huge:)
This could actually be good: It filters out things the parent doesn't want to see their children see, while letting the children see what they want to see (Children learn much faster than adults). Thus, keeping everyone happy...
Children have allways been protected from the reality and dangers of this world - and see what type of adults that created!!!!
Tsss.... Norway is not an opressive country. From what I know, their government have even oficcially said it is sorry for the original traitment of him... He won't be extradicted. But he better not plan a tripp to the US any time soon... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
The absence of parens is not a cause of the RPN, but of the unexistence of operator priority. Order does matter. Consider the following, both without operator priority (calculated from the left to the right):
2 + 3 * 4 == 20
2 3 4 + * == 20
The problem is these damn operator priorities. And they even make the syntax of programming languages more complex. Operator priorities are from hell! --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
This whole article is a troll. The ucsim (can't make a micro-sign, sorry) have been out for about half a yer, at least. And from what I remember, there have even been a/.-article covering it. And no, this post is not a troll. It is just a statement of facts. As any troll poster would write... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
In the past, kings had advisors. Why in hell doesn't the people ruling today's companies, who know nothing about thech, hire some good techie people, who are to just advise them on techie-questions? Techie people may not have a grasp about economics, but they sure know more than all CFOs on the planet together on technical things. As the CFOs know more about finance than all of us hackers do together. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
This semembers me of the book "The O-Zone": There are tax-payers ("owners"), which have privileeges and are paying to the state, and there are normal people, who don't and who only works, and there are "foreigners" who live in the suburbs... Everyone (not foreigners, but they may be hunted) is recorded. Everything is recorded. Oh, and if you don't pay your tax (As an owner), you becom an ordinary person...
This scares me, especialy since the country of the book is the US...
Anyway, you really should read this book. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Edit those routines at the spot! You can not survive in such an environment for long. So, for your own health, make certain you quit/get fired soon!
I have been working in an environment where there where no clear specs from the customer and where there where more or less no docs on the libs the customer wanted me to use. And I honestly don't want others to have the same nightmare (By the way, my coworkers where the best team you can ever get on this planet, so the job wasn't all that bad). --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Anyway, we CAN notify that the earth is orbiting the sun, not vise-versa. And a Jojo-sitizen could easily notise he's livinging on a moving jojo:)
Motion is arbitrary, sine motion is relative. However, that goes only for _linear_ motion. Motion without acceleration/retardation.
Acceleration has the same effect on mass as has gravity. It is, in contrary to mere motion, significant, that is, the refference points are NOT arbitrary.
And orbiting is equal to acceleration (Directed at the center of the orbit).
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
How could they take my napster away?
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- How could they take my napster away? - Because you had not implemented it distributed enought.
May the "real world" with companies and greed never win. But they will, they certainly will... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
This should be a high-priority issue of the EU, if it is not allready. The EU politicians are pretty interrested of being non-dependent of the US. someone should take a talk with them, and they might put some large amount of money in his pocket to fix non-us-dependent-inter-country/-continent connections. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
To be honest, I really don't think most/.ers know what kinda expense it take to make an album (or a movie or software or anything that can be put in a downloadable form thus must be free).
Honestly, I think most of the/.:ers know exactly how much it takes to create software. By their own experience. Some of them knows how much it takes to create music, or even movies, too. And from my own experience (I am a programmer@mandrakesoft), the most it takes is time. The hardware is pretty cheap. I program whetever or not I get paid to do it. But I likes to get paid for doing it. I think that is a pretty common view of the things. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
UNIX sucks, but not for the reason he stated, but for the opposite. UNIX was quite good a design from the beginning. Everything is a file. Then people begun to put things like vfs in filebrowsers (Midnight Commander and ftps anyone?), and made various "speed enhancements", like non-file network devicec (eth0 is not/dev/eth0. It is eth0!). Both of that sucks. Because it does not fit in the model. Another thing that sucks is that there is no defined user-level interface for implementing filesystems. And users can not be given ability to mount _any_ filesystem _anywhere_ on the system (as long as they do it without suid). That sucks. Miguel de Icaza sucks beacuse he wants to solve it in The Wrong Way. Look at Gmc. He just wants another Windows. Windows sucks. Macintoch sucks. Ever existing OS sucks for something. We have learned a lot since the 80s, but we are still using concepts developed back then. And even new systems, like BeOS are quite the same. The only better concept in use is the PalmOS, which has orthogonal persistance. But that's all. yes, this is a troll. From Trolltech. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
OK, I'm not that good ath physics, but isn't e=mc^2, that is, mass is energy. And charge (Or more precisely, difference in charge) is energy too. So it should be pretty easy to compare them. Or where is my error?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
I think at least half of this discussion will contain arguments about having a widget-set directly on top of the hardware. You don't want that. X is what makes us UNICS. It is network transparent. It is an abstraction layer that does not impose any look or feel. You can run Gtk or Qt or Xaw or Motif, or whatever widgetset suits you. Or build your program on bare Xlib. Yes, X may need to go awayt, but not to favor Gtk or Qt on framebuffer, but to favor another network transparent windowing system (not widget set) that features transparency, antialiased fonts and non-horizontal text. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
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I sent SDMI a mail explaining my concerns immediately after the prev. /.-article. Please, all of you, consider doing the same!
You luserish stupid! /proc. The reason thereof is left as an exercise for the reader.
That command will, on a Linux system, only erase every file/directory in the root beginning wiuth a character ASCIIbeticaly prior to 'p'. After doing so, it will get stuck into an endless loop in
Next time you try to educate users, please write commands that at least _terminates_, that is, either returns or core-dumps.
Altering the phase of the electron in an atom equals exciting the electron. And from what I remember from school physics, excited electrons tend to "fall back" into place (revert to it's previous waveform) after some time, sending out the extra energy as light.
This means that a memory made up of electrons is a dynamic RAM, and must be re-updated all the time.
Since altering the wave == exciting electrons, it takes energy. And the more improbable states you want (higher shells in the old atom-model), the more energy you have to inject. Thus, the number of states are not infinite, but restricted by the amount of energy available/feasable.
If I remember correctly, someone posted an article some weaks ago, calculating the theoretical limits of a computer of a certain weight and size. From what I can see, this aproach to storing information does not break this theoretical limit at all...
Your, and a lot of others argument, and the argument of the writer of the original article, is based on the asumption that intelectual property exists, and is the same as property. If you accept that, you are clearly right.
The problem is: Do we define information as a property, and do we define the right to control the information you have created,once it has left your head, as a basic human right? The problem is not easy: The UN human rights list does not include any such right, neither does the US constitution, as far as I know...
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This message was created while listening to totally RIAA-free music distributed by its author in mp3-format.
From an information-theory point of view, it is clear that they where not violating the copyright. They didn't duplicate/spread the data to anyone who hadn't paid the owner of the data for it. But, from a laywer-point-of-view, they clearly copied data from CDs they bought, over the network to owners of other CDs (_copies_ of the same CD, but that doesn't matter)... So they'l burn, 'cause the music-industry is _music_ industry, not information-industry, and the laywers are laywers, not computer-scientists. We just have to face it: Today's worl'd is not ready for the information age. We have 99%++ of the population, who have absolutely no grasp about imnformation theory... Today's world is ready for Corporate Republic.
Except if what you are to do in schedule is debugging :)
I don't want to debug/maintain someone else's perl-code.
Does quick-and-durty mean anything to you?
The online moderation [of /.] is just a good example of democracy: The majority decides what is right and wrong, and the abnormal is ceased. _But_, the difference between this and old, non-online democracy, is that the online-one doesn't _prevent_ anyone froms eeing what is deemed as non-conforming, it just tells people it is non-conformant, while the old one _removes_ peoples ability to read what is deemed as bad.
If you are right (and you might be) that people will _choose_ not to see what is non-conformant, humanity is doomed, and there is absolutely nothing we can, and perheaps should, do.
The way to prevent the last concern, which is preventable, is to provide free access att libraries and such places. But that won't help the third world. But what difference will it make from how it is today, for those living there?
The world sucks, and will continue to do so, neither more, nor less. I am sorry, but that's the fact. Some part of it may get a bit better, but the whole thingy will continue to be as bad as it is...
Because in this case, we didn't complain. If we had came to their tech-support crying "I broke my reader while hacking Cue:Cat! Please help me!", that would have been another thing. But now they want to put a lock on the microwave to inhibit me from opening it an radiation-poisoning myself!
I am sad this happened in the EU. I was blue-eyed and thought that such things "only happen in the US". OK, the court havn't approuved it yet so it is yet just a stupid company atempting to frighten people. Perheaps we should try to get a law tthat forbids companies to frighten people?
The attitude you seems to have is exactly the one that makes KDE not a good solution, even though it is free, if the KDE developers have it. But I suppose they have a bit saner attitudes than your.
Free software is not to be free to provide you with gratis software, but to allow us, that is, the programmers, to hack on what we want. We don't actually care about how much you are to spend on it, just about our ability to put the features we like into it.
Note, the above paragraph IS ranting. It is trolling. But it is important - the users-only people are not the only people that counts.
As a Gtk-programmer, I am happy that Qt is GPLed, since that means that we now have two good desktops, and a hell lot of good aps, which can be linked with each other, benefit from each other and minimize recreation of the same code over and over again.
I whish you all KDE developers good luck and that you will have a fun time using GNOME-program-code in your aps and having code from your apps used by GNOME-hackers!
When I read the article, I came to think: To what use? What would you use such a computer for? And then: To simulate a universe, or merely, to be one. During the time of the existence of the micro-black-hole-computer, nothing is input, nothing is output. Everything is input at its creation, and output at its destruction. This would be a self-contined micro-universe, with one goal: To calculate something.
:)
At the time we create such a computer, we would be creating a universe. And our universe would then not matter any more.
Consider that our universe may be a black-hole. Maybe it is one created by someone, or someones.
Creating such a computer would be the goal of our existence, and the end of it (It would not matter anymore). Maybe history is just a long chain of such creations, inside each other?
The above text is definitely religion. But I couldn't stand writing it - the perspectives and thoughts from the article where so huge
This could actually be good: It filters out things the parent doesn't want to see their children see, while letting the children see what they want to see (Children learn much faster than adults). Thus, keeping everyone happy...
Children have allways been protected from the reality and dangers of this world - and see what type of adults that created!!!!
Tsss.... Norway is not an opressive country. From what I know, their government have even oficcially said it is sorry for the original traitment of him... He won't be extradicted. But he better not plan a tripp to the US any time soon...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
The absence of parens is not a cause of the RPN, but of the unexistence of operator priority. Order does matter. Consider the following, both without operator priority (calculated from the left to the right):
2 + 3 * 4 == 20
2 3 4 + * == 20
The problem is these damn operator priorities. And they even make the syntax of programming languages more complex. Operator priorities are from hell!
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
This whole article is a troll. The ucsim (can't make a micro-sign, sorry) have been out for about half a yer, at least. And from what I remember, there have even been a /.-article covering it. And no, this post is not a troll. It is just a statement of facts. As any troll poster would write...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
In the past, kings had advisors. Why in hell doesn't the people ruling today's companies, who know nothing about thech, hire some good techie people, who are to just advise them on techie-questions? Techie people may not have a grasp about economics, but they sure know more than all CFOs on the planet together on technical things. As the CFOs know more about finance than all of us hackers do together.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
On Linux, it is easy to document such a thing, too. Or at least preserve history:
emacs httpd.conf
cvs ci -m "Fixed the problem with the foo.bar.com virtual server." httpd.conf
How do you do that in Windows???
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
This semembers me of the book "The O-Zone": There are tax-payers ("owners"), which have privileeges and are paying to the state, and there are normal people, who don't and who only works, and there are "foreigners" who live in the suburbs... Everyone (not foreigners, but they may be hunted) is recorded. Everything is recorded. Oh, and if you don't pay your tax (As an owner), you becom an ordinary person...
This scares me, especialy since the country of the book is the US...
Anyway, you really should read this book.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Edit those routines at the spot! You can not survive in such an environment for long. So, for your own health, make certain you quit/get fired soon!
I have been working in an environment where there where no clear specs from the customer and where there where more or less no docs on the libs the customer wanted me to use. And I honestly don't want others to have the same nightmare (By the way, my coworkers where the best team you can ever get on this planet, so the job wasn't all that bad).
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
You are all a bounch af lazy trained monkeys :)
:)
Anyway, we CAN notify that the earth is orbiting the sun, not vise-versa. And a Jojo-sitizen could easily notise he's livinging on a moving jojo
Motion is arbitrary, sine motion is relative. However, that goes only for _linear_ motion. Motion without acceleration/retardation.
Acceleration has the same effect on mass as has gravity. It is, in contrary to mere motion, significant, that is, the refference points are NOT arbitrary.
And orbiting is equal to acceleration (Directed at the center of the orbit).
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
- How could they take my napster away?
- Because you had not implemented it distributed enought.
May the "real world" with companies and greed never win. But they will, they certainly will...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
This should be a high-priority issue of the EU, if it is not allready. The EU politicians are pretty interrested of being non-dependent of the US. someone should take a talk with them, and they might put some large amount of money in his pocket to fix non-us-dependent-inter-country/-continent connections.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
And from my own experience (I am a programmer@mandrakesoft), the most it takes is time. The hardware is pretty cheap. I program whetever or not I get paid to do it. But I likes to get paid for doing it. I think that is a pretty common view of the things.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
UNIX sucks, but not for the reason he stated, but for the opposite. UNIX was quite good a design from the beginning. Everything is a file. Then people begun to put things like vfs in filebrowsers (Midnight Commander and ftps anyone?), and made various "speed enhancements", like non-file network devicec (eth0 is not /dev/eth0. It is eth0!). Both of that sucks. Because it does not fit in the model. Another thing that sucks is that there is no defined user-level interface for implementing filesystems. And users can not be given ability to mount _any_ filesystem _anywhere_ on the system (as long as they do it without suid). That sucks. Miguel de Icaza sucks beacuse he wants to solve it in The Wrong Way. Look at Gmc. He just wants another Windows. Windows sucks. Macintoch sucks. Ever existing OS sucks for something. We have learned a lot since the 80s, but we are still using concepts developed back then. And even new systems, like BeOS are quite the same. The only better concept in use is the PalmOS, which has orthogonal persistance. But that's all. yes, this is a troll. From Trolltech.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
OK, I'm not that good ath physics, but isn't e=mc^2, that is, mass is energy. And charge (Or more precisely, difference in charge) is energy too. So it should be pretty easy to compare them. Or where is my error?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
I think at least half of this discussion will contain arguments about having a widget-set directly on top of the hardware. You don't want that. X is what makes us UNICS. It is network transparent. It is an abstraction layer that does not impose any look or feel. You can run Gtk or Qt or Xaw or Motif, or whatever widgetset suits you. Or build your program on bare Xlib. Yes, X may need to go awayt, but not to favor Gtk or Qt on framebuffer, but to favor another network transparent windowing system (not widget set) that features transparency, antialiased fonts and non-horizontal text.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.