Quote from this article: They [M$ researchers] also conclude that the gradual spread of CD and DVD burners will help thwart any attempts to control what the public can do with the music they buy.
Will this club (as in clumsy weapon) called "DMCA" extend offshore? If not, then why doesn't some enterprising entrepreneur (as opposed to the unenterprising ones) setup a copy of 'FatWallet' somewhere where the DMCA don't shine?
Who the heck modded this up? "Uranium cash" indeed! Where do you put your wallet: in the front pocket or the back pocket? Imagine a pile of uranium sitting where your wallet currently is. And now imagine getting cancer from the radiation in those areas.
Uranium isn't the only radioactive material on this planet.
Now, for ANY 1:1 threading system, I can't just create x * 10^5 threads because the overhead would be colossal
If you read the article, it shows benchmarks done by the NPTL folks which shows a 2x improvement in thread start/stop timings over NGPT (which itself is a 2x improvement over POLT (plain old Linux threads)).
Microsoft has more lawyers than the hairs on Eolas' CEO's head.
Microsoft has argued in the past that "Internet Explorer" was a generic term and hence can't be trademarked, while at the same time arguing that "Windows" is not generic and hence can be trademarked.
Don't expect Microsoft to roll over and play dead. They'll just file a 1000 lawsuits in a 100 different jurisdictions against Eolas, and eventually bankrupt them.
About as cool as a 20 year old Sun optical mouse;)
Oh, I have to tell this story.
Some guys at work took a Sun to a trade-show. As luck would have it, they forgot to pack the mousepad that goes with one of those mice. It was a Saturday; they were in a far-away city, and none of the stores carried that pad. The demo was to start the next day, and we couldn't send them a mousepad that quickly.
So what did they do? What all good engineers do: they improvised. They took mirror (bought at a local store) the size of the mousepad, and took some filament tape (used for packaging). They put the tape horizontally on half the mirror; vertically on the other half. To move the mouse, you would scan it on the 'horizontal' half till you got to the right row, and the 'vertical' half to get to the right column. Since the demo wasn't really _that_ mouse-intensive, it worked like a charm!
Goes down in my book as one of the coolest hacks under crunch. I know, its off-topic, but the site is slashdotted and we need some idle conversation here..:-)
and places like India instead of combating absolute illiteracy and hunger, run out to make PDAs.
"Knownsense" is buysy spouting nonsense. This stale old mantra of "don't do anything else, but work on illiteracy/poverty first" is getting pretty tiresome.
Indians know how to combat illiteracy. There are states in India (Kerala) where the literacy rate is 100% (or as close to that as you can get). In other words, the literacy rate of Kerala is higher than Kansas. Checkout this article to read more.
The problem here is that of suburban kids who have barely seen the world trying to "fix" it. Before you suggest any "fixes", spend a few years in a "poor" part of the world and see what the real issues are, and not what CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS tell you they are.
As far as the PDAs in India are concerned, don't you that the designers (i.e. Indians), who are much closer to the targetted consumers than you are, may (just may) have a better idea of the needs of the villagers over there?
In a project that's open in its true form, where people from all over the world work on the same project without restrictions, there isn't 1 king with more than 1 agenda.
However, in this case, there is: Linus.
"Open" means that you are allowed full access to take it and do whatever you want with it. Your definition of "open" is from some alternate universe that most of us are not familiar with.
The people pushing the patch are more than welcome to take a kernel tree, patch it and distribute it. The end users are more than welcome to run that particular version of the kernel. This is true openness. If Linus were to be forced to take every patch that comes along (as you suggest), then where's his freedom?
What if the shell had a very glossy finish (like a mirror or something). Would the laser still have the same impact (no pun intended)? I'm just curious.
It is interesting to see some of the replies from people about software they did not pay a dime to get, and yet expect full support (no, I'm not talking the person who asked the question).
Compare your experiences with the following:
We bought a couple of ICP-Vortex RAID controllers (expensive puppies). When we got the controllers, we found a problem: trying to get into their "BIOS" (ICPCON, by hitting ^G) would make the system lockup. Secondly, it required a floppy to upgrade the firmware; we wanted to see if there's a way around it.
We called Intel (who owns Vortex). The operator says: "fork over $25 before I transfer you to a live person; else go to this URL".
Not wanting to part with the $25 so soon, we went to the URL. Vortex wasn't even mentioned anywhere. Finally, a colleague sent email to icp-support@intel.com. Waited for a few days, and he got a canned reply ("No").
But what about the ICPCON question?, he asked. Waited for 1 whole week, and got another canned email, with the wrong answer.
He has sent email to Intel again. The saga continues.
The moral of the story: just because its "free", please don't expect better support than you get for software that you paid money for! At least be realistic.
Yes, it would be cool. But a flyby at the current scale would be ugly.
Whips out a used envelope for "back-of-the-envelope" calculations
Lessee... He takes a picture every 500 feet. Thats 10.5 pictures per mile. A movie plays at about 30 frames/sec. If each picture is a frame in the flyby, you're looking at a speed of 3 miles/second, or about Mach 14.57 (it is at sea level).
I've yet to see a house full of Linux "hardcore" geeks even warm up to a Microshaft presentation. And I've lived in the "geek world" for many many years.
Just so you know: I have seen the Tablet PC; and most of the people (techies) who were with me were thoroughly unimpressed. I don't know what "Linux crowd" you hang out with, but check their foreheads for butterflies....
The viewer requires registration. If a site requires registration to give out its "free" product, then I don't consider it 'free' anymore. Anyone have any other viewers for MrSID?
You're right. The signature at the bottom of the DMCA is:
(signed)All American Citizens
In a democracy, you are responsible for the actions of those you elect.
There is still time. Your elected representatives will pay attention to you, the American voters, only for the next 3 weeks or so. Mobilize if you can; otherwise suffer 2 more years of the same but please don't complain!.
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Quote from this article: They [M$ researchers] also conclude that the gradual spread of CD and DVD burners will help thwart any attempts to control what the public can do with the music they buy.
Will this club (as in clumsy weapon) called "DMCA" extend offshore? If not, then why doesn't some enterprising entrepreneur (as opposed to the unenterprising ones) setup a copy of 'FatWallet' somewhere where the DMCA don't shine?
Why, Rot26, of course!
Similarly, in the US, the top 5% own 95% of the wealth. Same is probably true for most countries (except the truly socialist/communist ones).
essentially they have a monopoly on the other lower castes
The richest dude in India, Azim Premji, is a moslem. What was that about castes again?
Of course, since you don't agree with him, you must be without principles.
Jeez... its a Java app. Sure, the compiled package may be 210KB, but the JVM that it needs to run will put any X server to shame.
Uranium isn't the only radioactive material on this planet.
I propose that a link to this site be included in every story that appears on /.
If you read the article, it shows benchmarks done by the NPTL folks which shows a 2x improvement in thread start/stop timings over NGPT (which itself is a 2x improvement over POLT (plain old Linux threads)).
Read more about NPTL here (PDF file).
Microsoft has argued in the past that "Internet Explorer" was a generic term and hence can't be trademarked, while at the same time arguing that "Windows" is not generic and hence can be trademarked.
Don't expect Microsoft to roll over and play dead. They'll just file a 1000 lawsuits in a 100 different jurisdictions against Eolas, and eventually bankrupt them.
Since the site is slashdotted, here's an alternative article on the topic. Note the date: Dec 2000!
I guess this isn't _that_ new of a hack.
Oh, I have to tell this story. Some guys at work took a Sun to a trade-show. As luck would have it, they forgot to pack the mousepad that goes with one of those mice. It was a Saturday; they were in a far-away city, and none of the stores carried that pad. The demo was to start the next day, and we couldn't send them a mousepad that quickly.
So what did they do? What all good engineers do: they improvised. They took mirror (bought at a local store) the size of the mousepad, and took some filament tape (used for packaging). They put the tape horizontally on half the mirror; vertically on the other half. To move the mouse, you would scan it on the 'horizontal' half till you got to the right row, and the 'vertical' half to get to the right column. Since the demo wasn't really _that_ mouse-intensive, it worked like a charm!
Goes down in my book as one of the coolest hacks under crunch. I know, its off-topic, but the site is slashdotted and we need some idle conversation here.. :-)
I think we just pushed his webserver down the stairs.
"Knownsense" is buysy spouting nonsense. This stale old mantra of "don't do anything else, but work on illiteracy/poverty first" is getting pretty tiresome.
Indians know how to combat illiteracy. There are states in India (Kerala) where the literacy rate is 100% (or as close to that as you can get). In other words, the literacy rate of Kerala is higher than Kansas. Checkout this article to read more.
The problem here is that of suburban kids who have barely seen the world trying to "fix" it. Before you suggest any "fixes", spend a few years in a "poor" part of the world and see what the real issues are, and not what CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS tell you they are.
As far as the PDAs in India are concerned, don't you that the designers (i.e. Indians), who are much closer to the targetted consumers than you are, may (just may) have a better idea of the needs of the villagers over there?
However, in this case, there is: Linus.
"Open" means that you are allowed full access to take it and do whatever you want with it. Your definition of "open" is from some alternate universe that most of us are not familiar with.
The people pushing the patch are more than welcome to take a kernel tree, patch it and distribute it. The end users are more than welcome to run that particular version of the kernel. This is true openness. If Linus were to be forced to take every patch that comes along (as you suggest), then where's his freedom?
What if the shell had a very glossy finish (like a mirror or something). Would the laser still have the same impact (no pun intended)? I'm just curious.
Any server-side solutions (MTA==qmail, MDA==procmail) using this (Naive-Bayesian) technique out there?
But what about the bandwidth issues? Will the PCI bus handle 16 video streams flowing through it (e.g. a movie, as the wall in the article shows) ?
Compare your experiences with the following:
We bought a couple of ICP-Vortex RAID controllers (expensive puppies). When we got the controllers, we found a problem: trying to get into their "BIOS" (ICPCON, by hitting ^G) would make the system lockup. Secondly, it required a floppy to upgrade the firmware; we wanted to see if there's a way around it.
We called Intel (who owns Vortex). The operator says: "fork over $25 before I transfer you to a live person; else go to this URL".
Not wanting to part with the $25 so soon, we went to the URL. Vortex wasn't even mentioned anywhere. Finally, a colleague sent email to icp-support@intel.com. Waited for a few days, and he got a canned reply ("No").
But what about the ICPCON question?, he asked. Waited for 1 whole week, and got another canned email, with the wrong answer.
He has sent email to Intel again. The saga continues.
The moral of the story: just because its "free", please don't expect better support than you get for software that you paid money for! At least be realistic.
Whips out a used envelope for "back-of-the-envelope" calculations
Lessee... He takes a picture every 500 feet. Thats 10.5 pictures per mile. A movie plays at about 30 frames/sec. If each picture is a frame in the flyby, you're looking at a speed of 3 miles/second, or about Mach 14.57 (it is at sea level).
Conclusion: the flyby will pretty much be a blur.
Not to be anal so early in the morning, but thats Gandhi.
I've yet to see a house full of Linux "hardcore" geeks even warm up to a Microshaft presentation. And I've lived in the "geek world" for many many years.
Just so you know: I have seen the Tablet PC; and most of the people (techies) who were with me were thoroughly unimpressed. I don't know what "Linux crowd" you hang out with, but check their foreheads for butterflies....
The viewer requires registration. If a site requires registration to give out its "free" product, then I don't consider it 'free' anymore. Anyone have any other viewers for MrSID?
You're right. The signature at the bottom of the DMCA is:
(signed) All American Citizens
In a democracy, you are responsible for the actions of those you elect.
There is still time. Your elected representatives will pay attention to you, the American voters, only for the next 3 weeks or so. Mobilize if you can; otherwise suffer 2 more years of the same but please don't complain!.