I have tought it another day when I was having some trouble with the wifi networking at home (many concrete walls across the office and the TV room) that the AppleTV sometimes got its DHCP address (and worked OK) and sometimes at boot it could not get the address (but WPA supplicant WAS CONNECTED to the router) and if I ifconfig'd the last lease address, it started working again... why doesn't the DHCP server give a longer term and why doesn't the DHCP client just keep his last address at boot? I could look up the RFC's, but asking here is more fun...
is a generic A380 with a Crusoe 700MHz (at least 4x slower than the topic machine) with 384MB RAM (a little bit more than half) and 20GB HD (4x less) and it runs Kubuntu _and_ OOo Just Fine (TM) [yes, OOo startup time is a litlle annoying the first time you run it, but that's it]
If memory serves, it wasn't all that long ago (1970? 1971?) that 1.5GHz, 512MB, 80GB would have been the specs on a pretty high-end machine. I think -- better said, I _HOPE_ -- you are joking. But, as I didn't see a smiley --
In 1970, 1.5GHz, 512MB, 80GB would be an billion-dollar-expensive, multiple-building-sized computer.
Hell, in 1991, when I graduated, such a machine would/still/ be a supercomputer. The 1993 Cray Y-MP C90 916/16256 (16 processors) performed at 15 MFlops (the VIA C7 should be like 75 MFlops), had 1GB of RAM, and up to 32GB of solid state disks (battery-backed RAM banks), and it was closet-sized. It's not a testimony to Linux quality the fact that it runs snappy on such a machine, it's a testimony to XP/Vista's lagginess that they don't.
Here in Brasil Google is the best search engine. They have some good Brasilian engineers and their marketing/advertising department is pt_BR-aware, so they have good knowledge. The other search engine ("Cadê" == "where it is?") was bought by Yahoo! (That also does not really suck WRT websearch, but is no Google).
I didn't want to imply that my math was perfectly adapted to the world around id;-) And I do remember using the word "approximation" im my post. Now, my only pet peeves in your answer:
... DISCLAIMER: I was a software developer for a road engineering company for one and a half year.
But you're still not an engineer, obviously. If you were you'd know:...
The real-world is chaotic, both inherent in the systems found there, and in how we can measure them. They do not quite conform to the nice, precise graph on your screen, no matter how clever your math. It's extremely important, as an engineer dealing with physical systems at least, to know to model and then account for error. Actually, as I developed the software (and hardware) that engineers used to measure and calculate all the approximations of things -- yes, I didn't write administrative software, but engineering software (*) --, I am fully aware of that! That's why I said if you wanted to say "we can't measure appropriately instantaneous velocity", that is what you should have said, and not "there is no such thing as instantaneous velocity". They are actually different.
(*) specifically, and amongst other stuff, software and hardware to measure and tabulate pavement irregularities and optimize deployment of resources to fix them.
No, my friend, you are wrong. You see, Instantaneous velocity is the limit of the average velocity where the time of averaging tends to zero. In other words, the value of f'(t0), where the position x is x = f(t) at a given time t0. Or in other words, angle of the tangent of the curve x = f(t) in the given time t0.
Now, if your argument is that "a GPS device cannot give the measure of the instantaneous velocity because it does not sample fast enough to get a really good approximation of the curve x = f(t) and hence, the value of f'(t0)", then you could be right because 1Hz is not really a high sampling rate. But you could have said so;-)
The (analog) speedometer in most cars measure speed by measuring the RPMS of the gear box and multiplying by gear ratios and tire size: they normally do that with a continuous measuring (springs and coils), and what they measure is a good approximation of the instantaneous velocity of the vehicle. A good analog speedometer is somewhat reliable, especially if the scale is correct(*)
(*) their scale is not linear like you see in a normal car:
0.... 20.... 40.... 60.... 80.... 100
but exponential, so it should be like:
0 . 20.. 40.... 60........ 80.............. 100
and this is why they have a "sweet calibration spot" (normally near the top of the dial; have you already thought about why they make 1.2l-engine cars with 220 km/h marking in the speedometer [a speed they usually don't achieve even in freefall:-)] ?? ) -- in my GM Celta, the sweet spot is at 100 km/h [~60mph], so speeds lower than 100 km/h are usually reading HIGHER than real and speeds higher than 100km/h are usually reading LOWER than real. The speed limit in our highways is 110km/h.
DISCLAIMER: I was a software developer for a road engineering company for one and a half year.
I don't know how things are where you live, but down here, public employees in police or fiscalization jobs have public faith, that is, what they say is always truth except where proven false. Also, there are harder penalties for falsifying information given in public faith than for the (otherwise simple) perjury.
Well maybe you should go into the sodding stealing vs. copying argument - after all what the suck-holes in the entertainment industry are selling are copies of their product.
So even though there is no loss incurred by the cost of producing the legitimate copies intended for sale, you are impacting their ability to sell the copies they produce. Are you telling me that it should be forbidden NOT going to a theatre watch Mr.And.Mrs.Smith? Because when you don't go to the theatre, you are impacting their ability to sell tickets, you know? Now: I am not disputing or making any argument that it's right to download Mr.And.Mrs.Smith.Xvid.avi -- I agree illegitimately copying is Wrong -- but I am asking HOW does one person that would not go to the theatre nor buy the DVD but downloads the file is impacting their ability to sell the copies they produce??? That is the point of the OP: in no way. That is to say, maybe 10% of the people that download something ceases to buy one copy of some form, maybe even less.
Countless bad analogies? I think not, Maybe three, can you count that high?
One more bad analogy if you please - would it be acceptable for me to make copies of your Mom's wedding photos for me ad my mates because doing so would not cost you anything? Once again, stealing vs. copying. As I said, that was not the argument at all.
Wisdom of the crowds in matters of traffic usually ends up with a traffic jam. YES! But this means that you get the "wisdom of crowds" and go the other way;-)
That's exactly why we are looking for "birds eye view" solutions and this is one of the options: Collect information from cars, piece together the big picture, find better routes. I doubt that 2000 cars scattered over 25 cities will be enough though. That's 80 per city and how many of these will be driving at the same time? Double YES! I hope they are at least distributing the thing to cab drivers... I would give the 2000 units to a large proportion of cabbies in a not-so-large city (I think Belo Horizonte, where I live, has 10 thousand cabbies to 3 million inhabitants, so 2000 units would be a little bit less than enough, but at least you would have at least 800 of them on the streets at a given time (maybe 300-400 in movement).
And I don't mean it as an offense, this being/. and all;-)
According to TFA, the "Wisdom of Crowds" WRT Wikipedia is: "If I can't do better than this, I won't touch it". So, the very definition of the "Wisdom of Crowds" (and I agree with you that "Wisdom" is a very innapropriate term) is that "an active minority drives the inactive majority".
If you receive a salary: salary tax (up to 25% of your salary, approx) + social security (11%), paid directly from your employer to the government. If you buy anything (just not out of a street vendor): sales tax (up to 20% of the price you paid) If you pay anything using checks, credit and debit cards: financial movement tax (0.4% of the value moved)... when you buy anything with a check or a card, you are paying a total of 3-4% in the form of this tax, spread by the production chain. If you use any service: service tax (up to 10%) + revenue tax for the service provider (up to 20%).
The only "escapable" taxes in Brasil those days are the sales tax, if you are the salesperson, and make a lot of cash transactions and the import tax if: (a) you know the right customs officers to bribe; or (b) you bring things thru Paraguay or Bolivia; or (c) you pull a Cisco;-) Notice that our government uses the financial movement tax to "check" if you and your company is paying roughly the right amount, so you can be on their sight...
I worked with a Brazilian who's dad had a factory over there. He said nobody pays any tax of any form; that you have to be stupid to do so. Its the national sport. He claimed that you had to keep papers around for only 8 years, after that you where home free. In the small chance you get cough once in a while (his father did not in over 35 years) you deal out of court for small amounts compared to all those years you did not pay anything.
Like my speeding tickets! Really just a few cents for each time I exceeded the limit!
When I was in Los Angeles, some lawyer had an add on Radio: "IRS Problems? We always settle for dime on the dollar" basically saying, don't pay, if you get in trouble you will pay 10% of what the other stupid people pay in tax.
Comments from Brazilian slashdoters? I always wondered if this was for real. Completely NOT FOR REAL. Your friend was either pulling your leg or he did not know anything about his father's business. But I will explain: 0. nobody pays any tax: an exaggeration; while many people _do_ sonegate taxes, our Receita Federal (equiv to USofAn IRS) and Receitas Estaduais (state revenue services) are fairly efficient in separating people from their money. The fact is: the _richer_ you are, the _easier_ it is to sonegate. As another Brasilian tells you, maybe this was possible 35 years ago, but not nowadays. We also have a tax on moving money thru the banks, so the RF knows how much money you make, and their job is made easier. 1. keep papers for 8 years: there _are_ statutes of limitations for taxes, so this could be correct (but I think it is 15 years). 2. settle out of courts: is possible (like I suspect it is in other countries) if you are not commiting fraud, but just not paying the taxes. 3. speeding tickets: US$ 50 for going up to 120% the maximum speed, US$ 100 for going up to 150% the maximum speed, US$ 250 for going more than 150% the maximum speed... second and next tickets have the value doubled (not each time, just US$ 100, 200, 500...). For comparison, I was fined EUR 20 for a moving violation of speeding last time I went to Germany.
While/some/ customs officials in my country are notoriously corrupt (and many politicians),/most/ federal police officers (equivalent to USofAn FBI's special agents) are notoriously non-corrupt and fierce anti-corruption fighters./They/ were the ones that pursued Cisco's wrongdoings for two years.
You're making in incorrect assumption. It's EASIER to use a package manager. Most distros (and competent admins) seriously frown upon non-package-manager-installed software because of the problems this can introduce. Also, puTTY? Why? Just stick with the Linux/UNIX equivalents that puTTY was made to emulate. (That's right, puTTY was made for Windows users to get unix functionality, not vice versa.)
Please, tell me one thing that putty can do that ssh, telnet, and xterm can't. The point is moot, anyway, because putty, putty-tools (plink, pscp, psftp, puttygen) and pterm (putty terminal emulator) are in the Ubuntu repository, ie, if you like them better, you can still use them.
Where I live a Mac Mini is not really accessible, and an AppleTV was relatively cheap (EUR 300) last time I went to Europe. It's a nice machine, pretty, and silent... (my SKY+ decoder/DVR makes much more noise) and MythTV is better (IMHO) then the original firmware, even with hacks (nitoTV is a nice hack, thou). The 1080p HDMI output is nice, too, and matches my current TV set. So, for me, it was worth it.
IMHO: nobody has the right to sell me a gadget and tell me what to do with it after I bought it. It's my gadget now, and if I want to use it to do something illegal, be it mount "lasers" on sharks or take down the whole Cingular's West Coast network, is my problem and my responsability. And, for the record, I have a Mythbuntu-loaded AppleTV and a Rockbox-loaded iPod.
21,646 ton / 4,678,000 coins = 21,646,000 kg / 4,678,000 coins ~~ 4.627 kg / coin
(which would be a quite heavy penny IMHO)
I suspect each Canadian penny weights 4.627 _g_ per coin, so it would be 21.646 ton (21646 kg) per 4678000, ie, _ONE_ 40-tonner truck half-full of pennies.
And why should Google (or any other $SERVER) give you this expensive-to-gather information (phishing sites blacklist) for Free?? I think it's quite fair give some info about my mail, searches, and browsing history to Google in exchange for a great search engine and virtually unlimited e-mail space.
I, for one, hate it when my iPod crashes and spontaneously reboots while I'm totally in the groove. Never happened to me. Serious. And I use Rockbox, exclusively (lots of FLACs and OGGs here), so I expected it to crash from time to time...
Nothing else should be said. I loved this thing, but I wouldn't get _near_ a bike that makes 0-60 in less then a second without a reinforced helmet and heavily padded/armored clothes.
he Bishops exist as successors to the Apostles, although there are a lot more than 12 of them nowadays. Bishops are described in the New Testament, along with Priests, Deacons, and the Laity. Would you be so kind as to inform a fellow Catholic where in the New Testament are Bishops and Priests and Deacons and Laity described??
As far as the "all the rights" argument, it doesn't fly. Since you must make a choice between licenses, as soon as you choose the GPL, you give up the rights to BSD, so you have no BSD rights which must be passed on. Now, _that_ is a weak argument IMHO, but it could fly nonetheless. My opinion is still: before doing the choosing between BSD and GPL rights to excercise, you had BOTH. So, you are still obligated to pass both along. I know that if _I_ ever come to the position where I must exercise the choosing and those rights, I would explicitly pass both rights along because it was the desire of the original author of something that I derived my work from and that should be enough for me. Now, if _I_ am the sole author of something, I think _my_ will should prevail according to _my_ right of regulating how derivatives must be distributed. YMMV.
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I have tought it another day when I was having some trouble with the wifi networking at home (many concrete walls across the office and the TV room) that the AppleTV sometimes got its DHCP address (and worked OK) and sometimes at boot it could not get the address (but WPA supplicant WAS CONNECTED to the router) and if I ifconfig'd the last lease address, it started working again... why doesn't the DHCP server give a longer term and why doesn't the DHCP client just keep his last address at boot? I could look up the RFC's, but asking here is more fun...
why?
is a generic A380 with a Crusoe 700MHz (at least 4x slower than the topic machine) with 384MB RAM (a little bit more than half) and 20GB HD (4x less) and it runs Kubuntu _and_ OOo Just Fine (TM) [yes, OOo startup time is a litlle annoying the first time you run it, but that's it]
In 1970, 1.5GHz, 512MB, 80GB would be an billion-dollar-expensive, multiple-building-sized computer.
Hell, in 1991, when I graduated, such a machine would
Here in Brasil Google is the best search engine. They have some good Brasilian engineers and their marketing/advertising department is pt_BR-aware, so they have good knowledge. The other search engine ("Cadê" == "where it is?") was bought by Yahoo! (That also does not really suck WRT websearch, but is no Google).
...DISCLAIMER: I was a software developer for a road engineering company for one and a half year.
But you're still not an engineer, obviously. If you were you'd know:
The real-world is chaotic, both inherent in the systems found there, and in how we can measure them. They do not quite conform to the nice, precise graph on your screen, no matter how clever your math. It's extremely important, as an engineer dealing with physical systems at least, to know to model and then account for error. Actually, as I developed the software (and hardware) that engineers used to measure and calculate all the approximations of things -- yes, I didn't write administrative software, but engineering software (*) --, I am fully aware of that! That's why I said if you wanted to say "we can't measure appropriately instantaneous velocity", that is what you should have said, and not "there is no such thing as instantaneous velocity". They are actually different.
(*) specifically, and amongst other stuff, software and hardware to measure and tabulate pavement irregularities and optimize deployment of resources to fix them.
You see, Instantaneous velocity is the limit of the average velocity where the time of averaging tends to zero.
In other words, the value of f'(t0), where the position x is x = f(t) at a given time t0.
Or in other words, angle of the tangent of the curve x = f(t) in the given time t0.
Now, if your argument is that "a GPS device cannot give the measure of the instantaneous velocity because it does not sample fast enough to get a really good approximation of the curve x = f(t) and hence, the value of f'(t0)", then you could be right because 1Hz is not really a high sampling rate. But you could have said so
The (analog) speedometer in most cars measure speed by measuring the RPMS of the gear box and multiplying by gear ratios and tire size: they normally do that with a continuous measuring (springs and coils), and what they measure is a good approximation of the instantaneous velocity of the vehicle. A good analog speedometer is somewhat reliable, especially if the scale is correct(*)
(*) their scale is not linear like you see in a normal car: but exponential, so it should be like: and this is why they have a "sweet calibration spot" (normally near the top of the dial; have you already thought about why they make 1.2l-engine cars with 220 km/h marking in the speedometer [a speed they usually don't achieve even in freefall
DISCLAIMER: I was a software developer for a road engineering company for one and a half year.
I don't know how things are where you live, but down here, public employees in police or fiscalization jobs have public faith, that is, what they say is always truth except where proven false. Also, there are harder penalties for falsifying information given in public faith than for the (otherwise simple) perjury.
So even though there is no loss incurred by the cost of producing the legitimate copies intended for sale, you are impacting their ability to sell the copies they produce. Are you telling me that it should be forbidden NOT going to a theatre watch Mr.And.Mrs.Smith? Because when you don't go to the theatre, you are impacting their ability to sell tickets, you know? Now: I am not disputing or making any argument that it's right to download Mr.And.Mrs.Smith.Xvid.avi -- I agree illegitimately copying is Wrong -- but I am asking HOW does one person that would not go to the theatre nor buy the DVD but downloads the file is impacting their ability to sell the copies they produce??? That is the point of the OP: in no way. That is to say, maybe 10% of the people that download something ceases to buy one copy of some form, maybe even less. Countless bad analogies? I think not, Maybe three, can you count that high?
One more bad analogy if you please - would it be acceptable for me to make copies of your Mom's wedding photos for me ad my mates because doing so would not cost you anything? Once again, stealing vs. copying. As I said, that was not the argument at all.
And I don't mean it as an offense, this being /. and all ;-)
According to TFA, the "Wisdom of Crowds" WRT Wikipedia is: "If I can't do better than this, I won't touch it". So, the very definition of the "Wisdom of Crowds" (and I agree with you that "Wisdom" is a very innapropriate term) is that "an active minority drives the inactive majority".
If you receive a salary: salary tax (up to 25% of your salary, approx) + social security (11%), paid directly from your employer to the government.
;-) Notice that our government uses the financial movement tax to "check" if you and your company is paying roughly the right amount, so you can be on their sight...
If you buy anything (just not out of a street vendor): sales tax (up to 20% of the price you paid)
If you pay anything using checks, credit and debit cards: financial movement tax (0.4% of the value moved)... when you buy anything with a check or a card, you are paying a total of 3-4% in the form of this tax, spread by the production chain.
If you use any service: service tax (up to 10%) + revenue tax for the service provider (up to 20%).
The only "escapable" taxes in Brasil those days are the sales tax, if you are the salesperson, and make a lot of cash transactions and the import tax if: (a) you know the right customs officers to bribe; or (b) you bring things thru Paraguay or Bolivia; or (c) you pull a Cisco
He claimed that you had to keep papers around for only 8 years, after that you where home free. In the small chance you get cough once in a while (his father did not in over 35 years) you deal out of court for small amounts compared to all those years you did not pay anything.
Like my speeding tickets! Really just a few cents for each time I exceeded the limit!
When I was in Los Angeles, some lawyer had an add on Radio: "IRS Problems? We always settle for dime on the dollar" basically saying, don't pay, if you get in trouble you will pay 10% of what the other stupid people pay in tax.
Comments from Brazilian slashdoters? I always wondered if this was for real. Completely NOT FOR REAL. Your friend was either pulling your leg or he did not know anything about his father's business. But I will explain:
0. nobody pays any tax: an exaggeration; while many people _do_ sonegate taxes, our Receita Federal (equiv to USofAn IRS) and Receitas Estaduais (state revenue services) are fairly efficient in separating people from their money. The fact is: the _richer_ you are, the _easier_ it is to sonegate. As another Brasilian tells you, maybe this was possible 35 years ago, but not nowadays. We also have a tax on moving money thru the banks, so the RF knows how much money you make, and their job is made easier.
1. keep papers for 8 years: there _are_ statutes of limitations for taxes, so this could be correct (but I think it is 15 years).
2. settle out of courts: is possible (like I suspect it is in other countries) if you are not commiting fraud, but just not paying the taxes.
3. speeding tickets: US$ 50 for going up to 120% the maximum speed, US$ 100 for going up to 150% the maximum speed, US$ 250 for going more than 150% the maximum speed... second and next tickets have the value doubled (not each time, just US$ 100, 200, 500...). For comparison, I was fined EUR 20 for a moving violation of speeding last time I went to Germany.
While /some/ customs officials in my country are notoriously corrupt (and many politicians), /most/ federal police officers (equivalent to USofAn FBI's special agents) are notoriously non-corrupt and fierce anti-corruption fighters. /They/ were the ones that pursued Cisco's wrongdoings for two years.
Please, tell me one thing that putty can do that ssh, telnet, and xterm can't. The point is moot, anyway, because putty, putty-tools (plink, pscp, psftp, puttygen) and pterm (putty terminal emulator) are in the Ubuntu repository, ie, if you like them better, you can still use them.
Where I live a Mac Mini is not really accessible, and an AppleTV was relatively cheap (EUR 300) last time I went to Europe. It's a nice machine, pretty, and silent ... (my SKY+ decoder/DVR makes much more noise) and MythTV is better (IMHO) then the original firmware, even with hacks (nitoTV is a nice hack, thou). The 1080p HDMI output is nice, too, and matches my current TV set. So, for me, it was worth it.
IMHO: nobody has the right to sell me a gadget and tell me what to do with it after I bought it. It's my gadget now, and if I want to use it to do something illegal, be it mount "lasers" on sharks or take down the whole Cingular's West Coast network, is my problem and my responsability.
And, for the record, I have a Mythbuntu-loaded AppleTV and a Rockbox-loaded iPod.
Using the USofAn/English style decimal POINTS:
21,646 ton / 4,678,000 coins =
21,646,000 kg / 4,678,000 coins
~~ 4.627 kg / coin
(which would be a quite heavy penny IMHO)
I suspect each Canadian penny weights 4.627 _g_ per coin, so it would be
21.646 ton (21646 kg) per 4678000, ie, _ONE_ 40-tonner truck half-full of pennies.
You forgot that the term TiVOization was coined to fit the worse Evil(TM) TiVO has been doing... ;-)
Linky, linky, please???
And why should Google (or any other $SERVER) give you this expensive-to-gather information (phishing sites blacklist) for Free??
I think it's quite fair give some info about my mail, searches, and browsing history to Google in exchange for a great search engine and virtually unlimited e-mail space.
Nothing else should be said. I loved this thing, but I wouldn't get _near_ a bike that makes 0-60 in less then a second without a reinforced helmet and heavily padded/armored clothes.
I know that if _I_ ever come to the position where I must exercise the choosing and those rights, I would explicitly pass both rights along because it was the desire of the original author of something that I derived my work from and that should be enough for me. Now, if _I_ am the sole author of something, I think _my_ will should prevail according to _my_ right of regulating how derivatives must be distributed. YMMV.