Your own linked source would seem to contradict your assertion that the UK is obliged to extradite. If that were the case, then why the use of the word "allows"? Why the ability of the three to appeal?
It depends to what level you wish to simulate it. If you only care about the motion of galactic clusters, then you only need to model them. There are lots, but I imagine that it's a tractable problem (given sufficient time, tech, etc)
If you want to model the motion of every subatomic particle, then you need to be able to store the position, mass, velocity, etc of every subatomic particle. There isn't enough matter in the universe to do that.
The only problem with fleeing to a less malware-ridden OS is that if enough people do that, the malware authors will target it, and you're back to square one.
Sure, it may be harder to remotely exploit the OS, but in my experience a very large proportion of Windows malware is either a trojan or piggy-backs on a legitimate install (like with Kazaa).
The only way to prevent that sort of crap is to educate the user, and fleeing the OS doesn't educate them at all.
Microsoft already has a better-than-XP-for-servers OS in house, and that's Win2000.
If you'd said Win2000 Server, I'd have agreed with you absolutely.
Let me repeat it for the hard of understanding here - XP is not a server OS. Yes, you can use it as such, but you'd be a fool. If you want to run a Windows server, use a Windows Server OS. 2003 if you care about continued bug fixes and support, 2000 otherwise.
But for the love of $deity, if you use a designed-for-desktop OS on a server, don't come whining to me when it doesn't work properly.
How is using gcc not a fair comparison? What other compiler are all your apps going to have been compiled with?
Maybe a big vendor like Oracle or Sybase will have invested in say the Intel compiler, but your average end user or developer most certainly won't have done so, and nor have any of the distros.
You could argue that if it's referenced then it's in use by the reference, but we're definitely arguing semantics there.
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So what? It most certainly is representative of the FOSS movement. It's built entirely using FOSS apps, it's (one of) the main repositories for FOSS projects, and as such is extremely high profile.
You don't just get to say "yeah, but that's not how you'd normally create a website!", because that's how it was *chosen* to be created.
a simple litmus test could be that the obscenity rules that apply to broadcasters
Whose? The US's? The UK's? Holland's? Iran's?
it's a win-win situation according to me... what am i not getting?
One of a number of things you're not getting is that not all websites are hosted in the US. Even if your government could force all porn sites our of.net,.org and.com (which is doubtful), it couldn't force them all into.xxx, because they don't have any way of controlling any of the geographical tlds.
XP has had it since the beginning, and there's been a Power Toy available for Win2k to provide it for a long, long time (since around about the time it was released, iirc).
Hell, XP's tab-completion even adds in/removes quotes as required, and works with tab-completing stuff like "C:\Program Files"\Ap properly. Of the many reasons to bitch about cmd, tab-completion and paths with spaces isn't one.
Well, said users in 1) are stupid and/or careless then, as the "web page" would quite clearly have an exe's icon.
Also, I consider myself to be something of a power-user, which is why on Win2k I install the power toy that gives you tab-completion (which thankfully is the default behaviour on XP).
Failing that, it's not that hard to use the 6char~1 form if you really, really have to.
Doesn't matter, he's right - it's the claims that define the patent, the abstract is just a summary. Same as for a paper - you read the abstract to see if it's worth your time reading the actual paper.
What if the guys who made marble madness had patented "Using an electronic input device to control a digital sphere through the visual representation of a three dimensional world"? I'm no patent lawyer, so I don't know how much sense that makes, but it reads about as basic and vague to me as most of the patent summaries I browse do.
The summaries are just that - summaries. It's the claims that are the "meat" of the patent, and that actually describe what the patent is laying claim to.
I'm typing this on an XP Pro box, and having just checked Firefox's memory usage in task manager, it's using 74meg.
Firefox is a complete hog, especially if you've had a few tabs open for a while (I've only been running it for about an hour though). I've seen FF's RAM usage go way over 100meg a good few times...
Have you noticed that the state-of-the-art as far as web pages and web applications are concerned has basically not changed for the last 5 years?
One word: gmail.
Oh, and google maps, of course.
To be honest, I think a lot of the reason why the state of the art hasn't changed in 5 years is because of the dot.com crash. That took almost all of the money out of the web site business for a long, long time, and happened about 5 years ago. That killed off a lot of investment, took a lot of talented (and not so talented) people out of the business, and made people very wary indeed about taking risks. Innovation pretty-much requires some risk taking; when you're the first to do something, or to do it a certain way, you don't know whether or not it'll work out. When you've just seen three of your competitors go out of business and your own fortunes are on the wane, you tend to stick to tried and trusted methods.
No, not all innovation is born within the corporate world - but web sites are generally pretty low on the list of priorities for FOSS projects, especially with sourceforge and freshmeat available to take care of that for you.
UT2k4 is a little over 6GB installed. I would expect UT2k7 to be significantly larger.
Swapping DVDs in the middle of a game isn't my idea of fun.
Besides which, I prefer not having to have the disc in the drive just to play a game (which is my main objection to copy prevention schemes that require the disc). I have a young kid, and so know just how fragile those little plastic discs really are...
If the application is really stellar, it might encourage use of non-Windows operating systems.
It would have to be a truly killer app to do that, and off the top of my head I can't think of any. Even apache httpd, one of the true OSS success stories, is available for Windows, and so not a compelling reason to switch on its own.
One shot of hard alcohol = one wineglass of wine = one bottle of beer = one FULL hour not driving.
It's a nice idea, and sounds good as a guide, *but*:
The way I pour/buy wine, one bottle gives you three glasses (250ml/glass). That means that three bottles of wine = nine full hours not driving.
Believe me, I've had three bottles of wine on an empty stomach; I was barely in a condition to stand the next morning, let alone drive.
In fact, it's perfectly possible to get drunk at night, feel fine in the morning and still be over the legal driving limit (at least in the UK, YMMV of course).
"as will be the new PDAs from Palm", I think. Don't take my word for it though, I'm an ex-physicist, not an English student (and a Windows user to boot;-) )
Do you have any links to back up that assertion that we're not allowed to mess with our hardware?
I vaguely remember something about a certain modchip being ruled illegal, but that will almost certainly have failed some sort of "substantial non-infrginging use" test.
(Btw, your website is down, at least as of 5pm Monday 30th)
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Your own linked source would seem to contradict your assertion that the UK is obliged to extradite. If that were the case, then why the use of the word "allows"? Why the ability of the three to appeal?
If the UK were obliged, there would be no appeal.
It depends to what level you wish to simulate it. If you only care about the motion of galactic clusters, then you only need to model them. There are lots, but I imagine that it's a tractable problem (given sufficient time, tech, etc)
If you want to model the motion of every subatomic particle, then you need to be able to store the position, mass, velocity, etc of every subatomic particle. There isn't enough matter in the universe to do that.
The only problem with fleeing to a less malware-ridden OS is that if enough people do that, the malware authors will target it, and you're back to square one.
Sure, it may be harder to remotely exploit the OS, but in my experience a very large proportion of Windows malware is either a trojan or piggy-backs on a legitimate install (like with Kazaa).
The only way to prevent that sort of crap is to educate the user, and fleeing the OS doesn't educate them at all.
Microsoft already has a better-than-XP-for-servers OS in house, and that's Win2000.
If you'd said Win2000 Server, I'd have agreed with you absolutely.
Let me repeat it for the hard of understanding here - XP is not a server OS. Yes, you can use it as such, but you'd be a fool. If you want to run a Windows server, use a Windows Server OS. 2003 if you care about continued bug fixes and support, 2000 otherwise.
But for the love of $deity, if you use a designed-for-desktop OS on a server, don't come whining to me when it doesn't work properly.
How is using gcc not a fair comparison? What other compiler are all your apps going to have been compiled with?
Maybe a big vendor like Oracle or Sybase will have invested in say the Intel compiler, but your average end user or developer most certainly won't have done so, and nor have any of the distros.
You could argue that if it's referenced then it's in use by the reference, but we're definitely arguing semantics there.
So what? It most certainly is representative of the FOSS movement. It's built entirely using FOSS apps, it's (one of) the main repositories for FOSS projects, and as such is extremely high profile.
You don't just get to say "yeah, but that's not how you'd normally create a website!", because that's how it was *chosen* to be created.
Well, I was told in my Chemistry lectures that a crystal is a single, large molecule.
a simple litmus test could be that the obscenity rules that apply to broadcasters
.net, .org and .com (which is doubtful), it couldn't force them all into .xxx, because they don't have any way of controlling any of the geographical tlds.
Whose? The US's? The UK's? Holland's? Iran's?
it's a win-win situation according to me... what am i not getting?
One of a number of things you're not getting is that not all websites are hosted in the US. Even if your government could force all porn sites our of
It is offtopic, it's arguably funny (humour is very subjective; I chuckled), but no way is it informative.
XP has had it since the beginning, and there's been a Power Toy available for Win2k to provide it for a long, long time (since around about the time it was released, iirc).
Hell, XP's tab-completion even adds in/removes quotes as required, and works with tab-completing stuff like "C:\Program Files"\Ap properly. Of the many reasons to bitch about cmd, tab-completion and paths with spaces isn't one.
Well, said users in 1) are stupid and/or careless then, as the "web page" would quite clearly have an exe's icon.
Also, I consider myself to be something of a power-user, which is why on Win2k I install the power toy that gives you tab-completion (which thankfully is the default behaviour on XP).
Failing that, it's not that hard to use the 6char~1 form if you really, really have to.
Doesn't matter, he's right - it's the claims that define the patent, the abstract is just a summary. Same as for a paper - you read the abstract to see if it's worth your time reading the actual paper.
What if the guys who made marble madness had patented "Using an electronic input device to control a digital sphere through the visual representation of a three dimensional world"? I'm no patent lawyer, so I don't know how much sense that makes, but it reads about as basic and vague to me as most of the patent summaries I browse do.
The summaries are just that - summaries. It's the claims that are the "meat" of the patent, and that actually describe what the patent is laying claim to.
He's not trashing America, he's not even trashing American companies, he's trashing *companies*.
But they don't spread. If you develop a resistant tumour, no-one is going to "catch" that resistance from you.
I'm typing this on an XP Pro box, and having just checked Firefox's memory usage in task manager, it's using 74meg.
Firefox is a complete hog, especially if you've had a few tabs open for a while (I've only been running it for about an hour though). I've seen FF's RAM usage go way over 100meg a good few times...
Have you noticed that the state-of-the-art as far as web pages and web applications are concerned has basically not changed for the last 5 years?
One word: gmail.
Oh, and google maps, of course.
To be honest, I think a lot of the reason why the state of the art hasn't changed in 5 years is because of the dot.com crash. That took almost all of the money out of the web site business for a long, long time, and happened about 5 years ago. That killed off a lot of investment, took a lot of talented (and not so talented) people out of the business, and made people very wary indeed about taking risks. Innovation pretty-much requires some risk taking; when you're the first to do something, or to do it a certain way, you don't know whether or not it'll work out. When you've just seen three of your competitors go out of business and your own fortunes are on the wane, you tend to stick to tried and trusted methods.
No, not all innovation is born within the corporate world - but web sites are generally pretty low on the list of priorities for FOSS projects, especially with sourceforge and freshmeat available to take care of that for you.
UT2k4 is a little over 6GB installed. I would expect UT2k7 to be significantly larger.
Swapping DVDs in the middle of a game isn't my idea of fun.
Besides which, I prefer not having to have the disc in the drive just to play a game (which is my main objection to copy prevention schemes that require the disc). I have a young kid, and so know just how fragile those little plastic discs really are...
If the application is really stellar, it might encourage use of non-Windows operating systems.
It would have to be a truly killer app to do that, and off the top of my head I can't think of any. Even apache httpd, one of the true OSS success stories, is available for Windows, and so not a compelling reason to switch on its own.
We need a -1, Godwin moderation...
Attention corporate masters! What employees want are OFFICES with DOORS THAT CLOSE and WINDOWS THAT OPEN.
And just in case you're not sure what we mean by that, we mean ones JUST LIKE YOURS, you bloody hypocrites.
One shot of hard alcohol = one wineglass of wine = one bottle of beer = one FULL hour not driving.
It's a nice idea, and sounds good as a guide, *but*:
The way I pour/buy wine, one bottle gives you three glasses (250ml/glass). That means that three bottles of wine = nine full hours not driving.
Believe me, I've had three bottles of wine on an empty stomach; I was barely in a condition to stand the next morning, let alone drive.
In fact, it's perfectly possible to get drunk at night, feel fine in the morning and still be over the legal driving limit (at least in the UK, YMMV of course).
and so will the new PDAs from Palm be (grammar?).
;-) )
"as will be the new PDAs from Palm", I think. Don't take my word for it though, I'm an ex-physicist, not an English student (and a Windows user to boot
Do you have any links to back up that assertion that we're not allowed to mess with our hardware?
I vaguely remember something about a certain modchip being ruled illegal, but that will almost certainly have failed some sort of "substantial non-infrginging use" test.
(Btw, your website is down, at least as of 5pm Monday 30th)