.. I would also guess that this chip may not be suitable for all laptop systems, but more probably the big power hungry versions that people tend to use more as transportable desktop systems rather than portables.
However this is the type of system I'd be interested in; being able to plug my laptop into someones office network and still kick ass at Quake is a Good Thing (TM)!
Anyone who knows a laptop with one of these babies should let me know...
..a lot of them said they were too embarrassed to ask for help at the polling station. People are there at the polling station to help out and if the voter doesn't take advantage of what is available that is their loss.
You didn't have to be that literate to understand the form, just punch the hole indicated by the d**n big arrow for your candidate. Both parties accepted the form layout before the election, so they should accept the result after the election. All elections have some spoiled votes, and it is only due to the closeness of the result that both parties are doing themselves no justice by squabbling over them.
As for getting the same number in two different counts forget it. Any two manual workers will disagree in small ways as to what constitutes a valid paper and what is a spoiled paper; no matter what system you use there will always be spoiled papers, sometimes done deliberately to indicate none of the above.
..there doesn't seem to be too much wrong with the electoral college system you have over there. The only degree of unfairness seems to be the 'all or nothing' allocation of votes that most of your states seem to implement. That said, when a state only has 3 or 4 votes, the method chosen is the only way of making them count. In the UK, you can get the majority of seats in Parliament with about 40% of the popular vote AND your man gets to be Prime Minister, meaning you have theoretically almost total power for the next 5 years.
OTOH, I think both candidates have caused a certain loss of dignity to America with this pulling and tearing over the corpse of the election. Maybe they should both agree to step down and allow someone else to try. Both candidates should wait till all the postal votes are in and agree to accept the result. For once Tricky Dicky Nixon was in the right in accepting the result even though there was clear evidence of some vote rigging. This problem is not even due to criminal influence, just a major cockup in form design.
The common opinion in the UK seems to be that if you can't see a damn big arrow pointing at the hole you should punch out then you are too daft to vote. Secondly both main parties accepted the format of the paper before the vote and therefore should accept that it wasn't quite perfect after the vote. In the UK, I believe that you have the ability to get a new ballot paper provided you return your spoiled one before you pop it in the box.
P.S can anyone provide a link to that joke Florida ballot paper that's doing the rounds ? I think it says it all...
BTW, as far as being poorly sighted goes I was -10.25/-9.75 till the wonders of LASIK had their effect, so I do understand about eyesight problems.
..I believe IP allocation is to a certain extent on a regional basis, so it shoulkd be possible to prove that at least you are on the right continent.
Similarly ISPs are allocated a pool of IP addresses, so when you connect it is highly probable you can be located down to country or even local level, unless you indulge in a little spoofing.
Actually Linux is not really that much more modular than other OSs, including Win2K.
You do see lots more 'Service Pack' type releases in keeping with the release early, release often philosophy. [Athough that doesn't seem to have happened with 2.4 (grin!)]
OTOH, and I don't normally speak to credit MS, you get patches/ upgrades to IE and various other components in the same way as you get patches to Linux programs. The only difference perhaps is that what is percieved to be the core operating system on Linux does not include the GUI.
When you say that people are running real systems with 2.4 development kernels, I would have to say that you would be borderline insane to run anything that you wanted to preserve on a development system. Whilst running the latest development version of Linux is fun, it is definitely not something you should keep important data on. Some (earlier) development kernels have been known to trash filesystems. I have in the past actually contributed to a few projects when I find the limited time to do so, but any development code is kept well away from the rest of my systems.
..the point about patents/copyright is to provide JUST enough incentive for people to get their ideas out in the open without keeping them as trade secrets. My point was that the incentive is currently far too great; even if it is a good idea 20 years is far too long.
I do not dispute that the originator of the idea should have a substantial lead to market in return for making his idea public, but that lead should not be so substantial that others cannot pick up the ball and run with it if they are able to improve on the idea. The primary stated purpose of patents is to encourage progress, not necessarily to line the developers pocket; patents accept that the latter is necessary to achieve the former, but IMO a 5 year lead would be more than adequate. Anyway if you only had a five year advantage you would have a much bigger incentive to get & corner the market fast! before anyone else could run with your idea.
As I said in my other post, I was using the term NT generically, and I just simply regard W2k as a new NT version, in the same way 2.4 is a new Linux version.
An across the board comparison, including other Unix varients AND Win2k would be interesting. Think we can leave Novell 3.11 out of the list though!
I have no problem with the existence of copyrights and patents, since it is obvious that they encourage innovation. However IIRC a copyright originally extended for about 14 years, which IMO is more than enough time for an author/ publisher to recoup his investment. Now copyright persists for about 70 years or so; this is wholly unreasonable.
Moving on to Patents, patents protect development of drugs where of the 20 year patent span, perhaps 10 of those is spent seeking approval and in tests. 20 years is probably about right here too, although I'd like to hear from someone in the pharmaceutical business for his opinion.
In the fields of machinery, computer development and especially in software, I have a feeling 20 years is way too long. Quite frankly if you can't recoup your investment in 5 years for a software patent, I'd expect your idea to be out of date anyway. I think a 5 year head start in software is more than enough. Similarly mechanical progress is much more rapid nowadays, and I suspect a 10 year patent would be plenty.
IMO, all the timespans I suggested would be adequate to encourage ideas, yet would also get those ideas out into the public domain, which was I believe one of the main stated ideas behind patents and copyright.
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If the project is so sh*tty, why wait till the project is over to resign ?
Once you realize the project is insanely impossible, you don't like working on it, and you won't get a feeling of fulfilment when it is complete, you should quit NOW.
If you wait till the end of the project when all your other collegues quit, they will surely be competing for the same type of jobs. Get a head start and quit NOW!
the author claims to make >$125K per year, and to have $60K in cash.
If that's the case, then why is he using a free website like Geocities for his stuff? Would paying ~$20 a month for webhosting really be that expensive for him? Seriously.
One rule for getting and staying rich is never to pay for anything if you don't have to! Seriously.
But for every Wiles, there are thousands of crackpots, and also a few intelligent types who made a very subtle mistake.
Even Wiles made a mistake the first time! I do not think it is wise to make a $10-1k bet, since often people like Wiles are working quietly in the background, and you never know what the true state of the art is. IIRC, Wiles made it his lifes work and it took him about 15 years of patient stalking to get to the answer; even then, he relied on progress made by other mathematicians on other problems which could be applied to Fermat.
From my recollection of Earths history, the climate has been through some pretty dramatic changes over the ages, and in general the age of the dinosaurs was warmer than it is now, so how come all this doom and gloom?
There is no denying that global warming will have some pretty catastrophic affects, and may cause famine disease hunger flooding etc. but I doubt it will go as far as Mr Hawking suggests.
Anyway, living in England, it would perhaps be nice to need Factor 50 suncream, instead of Gore-Tex, before venturing out the door!
Yes, but it can be argued that the work Colossus performed had a major impact on WW2 and certainly influenced the length of the war, and quite possibly decided the victor...
So whilst it can be said that Colossus did not have an input into the history of Computers, it certainly had a major input into real HISTORY.
I'm not sure about the impact of Collosus on later events, but whilst it may not have influenced computing, it is more than possible it heavily influenced British codebreaking development. If we hadn't got such a bad spying record with Blake, Philby etc, perhaps we gained ground in the field of codebreaking...
My 800MHz Athlon system has a 5.25" floppy drive "just in case"!
It's because:
a) I upgrade my systems rather than throw them out
b) I started with an old 486-33 system and this drive and the keyboard are the last remnant of it.
c) I write software for embedded systems and you'd be surprised how long some systems remain in operation.....
Linux is just a kernel but it sure as hell needs a user friendly front end to attract popular support, and this is where KDE/Gnome have helped. Other X Window desktop environments prior to these two quite frankly sucked big time, and hence no non-literate computer user would've touch Linux with a barge pole.
GNU/Linux really *is* a better description of the body of software that constitutes your average Linux Distro
As you pointed out yourself, there are lots of other apps that make up the average Linux application nowadays, and I am not going to recite the names of all 650 odd of them just to be precise; I'm going to continue to say Linux and leave it at that.
Just because I write an application in Visual Basic on a Windows machine doesn't mean I call it:
"Windows/VB/MYProgram"
I wasn't trying to disparage the work that people have put into the Free Software movement.
In fact, GNU was there first, and wrote more of the overall pie I'm not sure that GNU stuff does contribute more of the overall pie now that everyone is busy writing the filling, although I happily accept it has supplied a lot of the crust that holds everything else together:-). Anyway GNU wasn't there first, AT&T distributed Unix and toolkit under a fairly open & cheap licence. Like most things GNU evolved from that, even if the evolution step was a big leap forwards.
How can you possibly look down upon him? He is far more important to the Free Software community than you or I could ever be. He arguably *created* the movement. In taking him so lightly, you just look ridiculous.
Anyway, I wrote a faster implementation of DeCSS for the Linux DVD guys, but I don't want the player naming after me. Even if I had written more than a paltry 3-400 lines of code for it, the point of the Free software movement is anyone can use it in any way they see fit without deifying anyone in order to do so.
Anyway, your opinion was on topic and thought provoking, so quit being Anonymous and have the courage to send your next lot with a User name attached to it.
To use a famous phrase 'He would say that, wouldn't he'.
Having GNOME and KDE as competitors has been good for Linux (*NOT* GNU/Linux as RMS fatuously keeps saying), despite the flamewars that have consumed thousands of hours which would have been better spent in developing the desktops. The cross fertilisation of ideas and programs has meant that both desktops have benefited.
The benefits of programming in C++ (stricter interfaces) seem to have resulted in KDE being more stable, whilst OTOH the fact that more people understand C has meant that GNOME has perhaps come faster quicker.
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Thanks for the link - it was an interesting read.
.. I would also guess that this chip may not be suitable for all laptop systems, but more probably the big power hungry versions that people tend to use more as transportable desktop systems rather than portables.
However this is the type of system I'd be interested in; being able to plug my laptop into someones office network and still kick ass at Quake is a Good Thing (TM)!
Anyone who knows a laptop with one of these babies should let me know...
..a lot of them said they were too embarrassed to ask for help at the polling station. People are there at the polling station to help out and if the voter doesn't take advantage of what is available that is their loss.
You didn't have to be that literate to understand the form, just punch the hole indicated by the d**n big arrow for your candidate. Both parties accepted the form layout before the election, so they should accept the result after the election. All elections have some spoiled votes, and it is only due to the closeness of the result that both parties are doing themselves no justice by squabbling over them.
As for getting the same number in two different counts forget it. Any two manual workers will disagree in small ways as to what constitutes a valid paper and what is a spoiled paper; no matter what system you use there will always be spoiled papers, sometimes done deliberately to indicate none of the above.
..there doesn't seem to be too much wrong with the electoral college system you have over there. The only degree of unfairness seems to be the 'all or nothing' allocation of votes that most of your states seem to implement. That said, when a state only has 3 or 4 votes, the method chosen is the only way of making them count. In the UK, you can get the majority of seats in Parliament with about 40% of the popular vote AND your man gets to be Prime Minister, meaning you have theoretically almost total power for the next 5 years.
OTOH, I think both candidates have caused a certain loss of dignity to America with this pulling and tearing over the corpse of the election. Maybe they should both agree to step down and allow someone else to try. Both candidates should wait till all the postal votes are in and agree to accept the result. For once Tricky Dicky Nixon was in the right in accepting the result even though there was clear evidence of some vote rigging. This problem is not even due to criminal influence, just a major cockup in form design.
The common opinion in the UK seems to be that if you can't see a damn big arrow pointing at the hole you should punch out then you are too daft to vote. Secondly both main parties accepted the format of the paper before the vote and therefore should accept that it wasn't quite perfect after the vote. In the UK, I believe that you have the ability to get a new ballot paper provided you return your spoiled one before you pop it in the box.
P.S can anyone provide a link to that joke Florida ballot paper that's doing the rounds ? I think it says it all...
BTW, as far as being poorly sighted goes I was -10.25/-9.75 till the wonders of LASIK had their effect, so I do understand about eyesight problems.
Unless you happen to be on AOL?
I would suspect that AOL also suballocates its IP addresses, and probably gets its European IP addresses from the European pool.
I'll buy the hit about connecting long distance to your ISP though!
..I believe IP allocation is to a certain extent on a regional basis, so it shoulkd be possible to prove that at least you are on the right continent.
Similarly ISPs are allocated a pool of IP addresses, so when you connect it is highly probable you can be located down to country or even local level, unless you indulge in a little spoofing.
Actually Linux is not really that much more modular than other OSs, including Win2K.
You do see lots more 'Service Pack' type releases in keeping with the release early, release often philosophy. [Athough that doesn't seem to have happened with 2.4 (grin!)]
OTOH, and I don't normally speak to credit MS, you get patches/ upgrades to IE and various other components in the same way as you get patches to Linux programs. The only difference perhaps is that what is percieved to be the core operating system on Linux does not include the GUI.
When you say that people are running real systems with 2.4 development kernels, I would have to say that you would be borderline insane to run anything that you wanted to preserve on a development system. Whilst running the latest development version of Linux is fun, it is definitely not something you should keep important data on. Some (earlier) development kernels have been known to trash filesystems. I have in the past actually contributed to a few projects when I find the limited time to do so, but any development code is kept well away from the rest of my systems.
..the point about patents/copyright is to provide JUST enough incentive for people to get their ideas out in the open without keeping them as trade secrets. My point was that the incentive is currently far too great; even if it is a good idea 20 years is far too long.
I do not dispute that the originator of the idea should have a substantial lead to market in return for making his idea public, but that lead should not be so substantial that others cannot pick up the ball and run with it if they are able to improve on the idea. The primary stated purpose of patents is to encourage progress, not necessarily to line the developers pocket; patents accept that the latter is necessary to achieve the former, but IMO a 5 year lead would be more than adequate. Anyway if you only had a five year advantage you would have a much bigger incentive to get & corner the market fast! before anyone else could run with your idea.
As I said in my other post, I was using the term NT generically, and I just simply regard W2k as a new NT version, in the same way 2.4 is a new Linux version.
An across the board comparison, including other Unix varients AND Win2k would be interesting. Think we can leave Novell 3.11 out of the list though!
..as others had pointed out, I was using the term 'Windows NT' generically, not really caring whether you used NT3.51, NT4.0 or W2k.
I'm glad that a new stable version of Linux is about to hit the streets, and I'd like to see how it stacks up in networking comparisons against NT.
Maybe we can persuade MindCraft to do a rematch!
I have no problem with the existence of copyrights and patents, since it is obvious that they encourage innovation. However IIRC a copyright originally extended for about 14 years, which IMO is more than enough time for an author/ publisher to recoup his investment. Now copyright persists for about 70 years or so; this is wholly unreasonable.
Moving on to Patents, patents protect development of drugs where of the 20 year patent span, perhaps 10 of those is spent seeking approval and in tests. 20 years is probably about right here too, although I'd like to hear from someone in the pharmaceutical business for his opinion.
In the fields of machinery, computer development and especially in software, I have a feeling 20 years is way too long. Quite frankly if you can't recoup your investment in 5 years for a software patent, I'd expect your idea to be out of date anyway. I think a 5 year head start in software is more than enough. Similarly mechanical progress is much more rapid nowadays, and I suspect a 10 year patent would be plenty.
IMO, all the timespans I suggested would be adequate to encourage ideas, yet would also get those ideas out into the public domain, which was I believe one of the main stated ideas behind patents and copyright.
If the project is so sh*tty, why wait till the project is over to resign ?
Once you realize the project is insanely impossible, you don't like working on it, and you won't get a feeling of fulfilment when it is complete, you should quit NOW.
If you wait till the end of the project when all your other collegues quit, they will surely be competing for the same type of jobs. Get a head start and quit NOW!
I think this is going to make many people move to distributed file trading systems such as GnuTella.
After all, how many of us pay (directly) for search engine use ?
the author claims to make >$125K per year, and to have $60K in cash.
If that's the case, then why is he using a free website like Geocities for his stuff? Would paying ~$20 a month for webhosting really be that expensive for him? Seriously.
One rule for getting and staying rich is never to pay for anything if you don't have to! Seriously.
But for every Wiles, there are thousands of crackpots, and also a few intelligent types who made a very subtle mistake.
Even Wiles made a mistake the first time! I do not think it is wise to make a $10-1k bet, since often people like Wiles are working quietly in the background, and you never know what the true state of the art is. IIRC, Wiles made it his lifes work and it took him about 15 years of patient stalking to get to the answer; even then, he relied on progress made by other mathematicians on other problems which could be applied to Fermat.
From my recollection of Earths history, the climate has been through some pretty dramatic changes over the ages, and in general the age of the dinosaurs was warmer than it is now, so how come all this doom and gloom?
There is no denying that global warming will have some pretty catastrophic affects, and may cause famine disease hunger flooding etc. but I doubt it will go as far as Mr Hawking suggests.
Anyway, living in England, it would perhaps be nice to need Factor 50 suncream, instead of Gore-Tex, before venturing out the door!
Yes, but it can be argued that the work Colossus performed had a major impact on WW2 and certainly influenced the length of the war, and quite possibly decided the victor...
So whilst it can be said that Colossus did not have an input into the history of Computers, it certainly had a major input into real HISTORY.
I'm not sure about the impact of Collosus on later events, but whilst it may not have influenced computing, it is more than possible it heavily influenced British codebreaking development. If we hadn't got such a bad spying record with Blake, Philby etc, perhaps we gained ground in the field of codebreaking...
My 800MHz Athlon system has a 5.25" floppy drive "just in case"!
It's because:
a) I upgrade my systems rather than throw them out
b) I started with an old 486-33 system and this drive and the keyboard are the last remnant of it.
c) I write software for embedded systems and you'd be surprised how long some systems remain in operation.....
Linux is just a kernel but it sure as hell needs a user friendly front end to attract popular support, and this is where KDE/Gnome have helped. Other X Window desktop environments prior to these two quite frankly sucked big time, and hence no non-literate computer user would've touch Linux with a barge pole.
:-). Anyway GNU wasn't there first, AT&T distributed Unix and toolkit under a fairly open & cheap licence. Like most things GNU evolved from that, even if the evolution step was a big leap forwards.
GNU/Linux really *is* a better description of the body of software that constitutes your average Linux Distro
As you pointed out yourself, there are lots of other apps that make up the average Linux application nowadays, and I am not going to recite the names of all 650 odd of them just to be precise; I'm going to continue to say Linux and leave it at that.
Just because I write an application in Visual Basic on a Windows machine doesn't mean I call it:
"Windows/VB/MYProgram"
I wasn't trying to disparage the work that people have put into the Free Software movement.
In fact, GNU was there first, and wrote more of the overall pie
I'm not sure that GNU stuff does contribute more of the overall pie now that everyone is busy writing the filling, although I happily accept it has supplied a lot of the crust that holds everything else together
How can you possibly look down upon him? He is far more important to the Free Software community than you or I could ever be. He arguably *created* the movement. In taking him so lightly, you just look ridiculous.
Anyway, I wrote a faster implementation of DeCSS for the Linux DVD guys, but I don't want the player naming after me. Even if I had written more than a paltry 3-400 lines of code for it, the point of the Free software movement is anyone can use it in any way they see fit without deifying anyone in order to do so.
Anyway, your opinion was on topic and thought provoking, so quit being Anonymous and have the courage to send your next lot with a User name attached to it.
GNL GNU's Not Linux!
(Well I thought it was funny)
To use a famous phrase 'He would say that, wouldn't he'.
Having GNOME and KDE as competitors has been good for Linux (*NOT* GNU/Linux as RMS fatuously keeps saying), despite the flamewars that have consumed thousands of hours which would have been better spent in developing the desktops. The cross fertilisation of ideas and programs has meant that both desktops have benefited.
The benefits of programming in C++ (stricter interfaces) seem to have resulted in KDE being more stable, whilst OTOH the fact that more people understand C has meant that GNOME has perhaps come faster quicker.
const double MAX_POWER=500.0*ONE_MEGAWATT
const double NORMAL_POWER=500.0*ONE_MILLIWATT
if (flockOfBirdsDetected()) {
setLaserOutputPower( MAX_POWER);
wait(1);
collectCookedDinner();
setLaserOutputPower( NORMAL_POWER);
}
If, as a company, you make modifications to code or server setup, it should be documented.
If you have ISO9001 and are not doing the above, how the fsck did you manage to get and or stay accredited ??
Surely a trade implies a (two-way) exchange.
Getting music for no consideration is a one way exchange and thus not a trade.