Just for your information, Mac OS X and other BSDs can mount anything over another directory without hiding its own content. For example, on Mac OS X you'd use the -o union mount option to merge two different filesystems.
Actually, they should include kio_fuse. It's a fuse module enabling the kernel to mount any KDE kio_slave. This combined with the fish:// or webdavs:// kio_slaves...
You can get 1 GB of webdav accessible space at GMX.net for free if you know enough German to get around the freemail signup.
I run a passive OS fingerprinter (p0f in fact) on one of my machines. The numbers have been skewed by legitimate use lately, but I'm still registering more than one thousand renegade connection attempts per day. That is, connections from Windows machines alone amount to about 1500 per day with about 500 being HTTP and almost everything else being random scanning. This is a single machine.
Every once in a while I get depressed over this and get drunk because I don't want to think of how many infested boxes there are.
This means you've probably not been listening to music for much longer than five years. So, um, yeah, my mommy paid for my music back then, too. Move on, nothing to see here.
Confirmed, Firefox renders it just fine though the page itself looks crappy all by itself with no help from Firefox needed whatsoever, especially the images.
That story seems to turn up completely changed every time...
1. You need to turn down every single job offer for one year first. 2. This still only means you get no unemployment benefits anymore. 3. You'd still get social welfare. 4. Forcing anyone to perform sexual services on someone else is still illegal despite what the tabloids say. 5. The easy way out is of course showing up dressed so they wouldn't want to employ you.
For example, we aren't allowed to hand out leaflets that say nobody died at Auschwitz. We are however free to believe so and tell friends, if we so choose. The strong laws against fascism in Germany are often viewed as an impediment to free speech by outsiders, but most fail to remember these laws were not originally and entirely devised by Germans.
Personally, I don't view incitement to crime being forbidden as a restriction of free speech. "I'll pay you $50 and a PS2 if you murder my mom" is illegal in most places. It's simply not a matter of free speech that you can't legally order or pay people to commit a crime for you. It is still legal to overhear someone saying something along these lines.
The one real exception to this is child pornography. We can't even own any. I don't think that's a bad thing because this allows for interrogation of consumers. If it weren't illegal for us to store child porn on our hard disks, police couldn't extract the source from a consumer. I'm for free speech, but free speech doesn't mean we're free to abuse children, too. The crime is not trading images anyway. It's making the original pictures that's being punished here.
And finally - ever used google image search? Its default setting filters out lots of junk, i.e., porn. I don't know about you guys but I'm usually not using google to search for porn. I'm also not usually looking for national socialist propaganda and neither for pictures of young children. This means, for me they're not censoring the results, they're enhancing them. They're also not removing them from the net, so it isn't censorship anyway.
...to demand music and information should be free, then pay someone else who wasn't even involved in the creative process behind something money to get it?
It's like paying the kid next door for stealing a car. The ultimate in moroncy.
Indeed, IsNot = != in many languages (look at the fully object oriented ones with no or almost no primitive types). But the patent apparently (according to the source) only covers BASIC type languages... so what, who's using BASIC anyway?;)
I actually remember bugging my dad to lay a "MIDI line" between my brother's room and mine, so we could play MIDI Maze on our STs;)
Mind you, you couldn't only play games over MIDI, there were also other networking tools, you could even mount shares on other Ataris over MIDI. Now isn't that cool, built-in LAN interfaces in a home computer in the mid-80ies! PCs got that 15 years later.
Nobody in Germany forces anyone to edit out blood. It's just that entertainment products which show too much blood, or violence, or sex, or politicians can't be advertised. It's the companies who edit out the blood voluntarily, since a product they aren't allowed to advertise (and which store owners couldn't put up on a shelf for the same reason) wouldn't sell very well. It is perfectly legal to buy the non-edited versions, though.
Plasma is nothing but lots of ions. So ion engines might as well be called plasma engines and vice versa. Plasma being superheated is only a by-product - you need huge energies to keep all them ions..uh... ions, i.e. to keep the electrons away from them.
The Xenon Ion Propulsion Engine on some probe you mentioned is something completely different: Thrust is created by accelerating the positive ions through a series of gridded electrodes at one end of the thrust chamber. The electrodes, known as an ion extraction assembly, create more than 3,000 tiny beams of thrust. The beams are prevented from being electrically attracted back to the thruster by an external electron-emitting device called a neutralizer. XIPS is more effective than some chemical engines that were used on sattelites and probes before, but it doesnt make anything go any faster.
Well nevermind, I guess SCO Linux will be some kind of SCO Unix re-built around a Linux kernel. If they get it to be as good as their Unix Linux will eventually replace it and maybe get some more of the big guys to use Linux... well see.
...certainly much of a competitor to Intel, has to be. How would you explain this otherwise... but wait! Not being able to run their Macs for two days wont hurt Harvard but the story being distributed all over the net certainly will hurt Intels image.
Well there wasnt much of the CS we know in the 1950es.
As for that FORTRAN thing, I guess that was mentioned because it was the *first* optimising compiler, ever, and it served as an example to every compiler that was made ever since. Talk about influence now...
Oh and of course do I love Binary Space Partioning. Thats the most important algorithm ever. (so what, DOOM is old, but its still fun and at least it has an atmosphere...)
The most popular Open Source licenses, the GPL first to be mentioned, sort of give away part of those IP rights. Everybodys allowed to refine GPLed source code and make own products based on it. This is not true with cars, however many authors choose not to insist on those rights because this exchange of ideas has been shown to greatly improve upon all available products.
Now if Microsoft were to make their APIs public it would be perfectly valid for them to retain all IP and copyrights. Sorta you were allowed to have a look at the code but not to do anything else with it.
But the problem Microsoft is facing now is that if their proprietary APIs become public, more and more rival products will appear that are in some way compatible to their API specifications, without interfering with any IP rights. Like, being able to run on the same gasoline and to interface with the same gas pumps. Tho it would be an issue if it were OK for those engineers, um, programmers whether they had happened to take a peek at the original code.
I myself would be forced to run Windows every now and then werent it for Wine, a legal built-from-scratch Windows API workalike that doesnt do much currently but already is able to run all of the Windows software I need.
Its no surprise that they got Linux to run on the Power4, its supposed to be PPC compatible after all. The Bogomips figure is prolly somewhat below what McKinley will show and above IA64 -- Below McKinley only because of the SMP-approach, bogomips are based on clock cycles of one single CPU so multiple CPUs wont do it any good.
Well, unless for the SCSI stuff, the log sure looks impressive. But both Bogomips and a boot log can hardly show the real advantages. The Power4 is optimised for SMP and has a huge memory bandwidth (10 GB/s). Its also not one single monolithic CPU but consists of two, smaller CPUs. Two CPUs will outperform one single, large one when it comes to doing many tasks at once and the Power4 has the additional benefit that data can be exchanged between the two CPUs at a fairly high speed without leaving the processor core. The Power4s speciality is highly bandwith-intensive multithreaded applications, which will make it THE CPU for servers and the like.
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Well CeBIT is from March 10 through March 16 so I speculate 3.8 will be available in two weeks?
Just for your information, Mac OS X and other BSDs can mount anything over another directory without hiding its own content. For example, on Mac OS X you'd use the -o union mount option to merge two different filesystems.
Actually, they should include kio_fuse. It's a fuse module enabling the kernel to mount any KDE kio_slave. This combined with the fish:// or webdavs:// kio_slaves...
You can get 1 GB of webdav accessible space at GMX.net for free if you know enough German to get around the freemail signup.
I run a passive OS fingerprinter (p0f in fact) on one of my machines. The numbers have been skewed by legitimate use lately, but I'm still registering more than one thousand renegade connection attempts per day. That is, connections from Windows machines alone amount to about 1500 per day with about 500 being HTTP and almost everything else being random scanning. This is a single machine.
Every once in a while I get depressed over this and get drunk because I don't want to think of how many infested boxes there are.
This means you've probably not been listening to music for much longer than five years. So, um, yeah, my mommy paid for my music back then, too. Move on, nothing to see here.
Confirmed, Firefox renders it just fine though the page itself looks crappy all by itself with no help from Firefox needed whatsoever, especially the images.
That story seems to turn up completely changed every time...
1. You need to turn down every single job offer for one year first.
2. This still only means you get no unemployment benefits anymore.
3. You'd still get social welfare.
4. Forcing anyone to perform sexual services on someone else is still illegal despite what the tabloids say.
5. The easy way out is of course showing up dressed so they wouldn't want to employ you.
...most "illegal content".
For example, we aren't allowed to hand out leaflets that say nobody died at Auschwitz. We are however free to believe so and tell friends, if we so choose. The strong laws against fascism in Germany are often viewed as an impediment to free speech by outsiders, but most fail to remember these laws were not originally and entirely devised by Germans.
Personally, I don't view incitement to crime being forbidden as a restriction of free speech. "I'll pay you $50 and a PS2 if you murder my mom" is illegal in most places. It's simply not a matter of free speech that you can't legally order or pay people to commit a crime for you. It is still legal to overhear someone saying something along these lines.
The one real exception to this is child pornography. We can't even own any. I don't think that's a bad thing because this allows for interrogation of consumers. If it weren't illegal for us to store child porn on our hard disks, police couldn't extract the source from a consumer. I'm for free speech, but free speech doesn't mean we're free to abuse children, too. The crime is not trading images anyway. It's making the original pictures that's being punished here.
And finally - ever used google image search? Its default setting filters out lots of junk, i.e., porn. I don't know about you guys but I'm usually not using google to search for porn. I'm also not usually looking for national socialist propaganda and neither for pictures of young children. This means, for me they're not censoring the results, they're enhancing them. They're also not removing them from the net, so it isn't censorship anyway.
I never got a driver's licence anyway, my eyes are kinda broken ;)
...to demand music and information should be free, then pay someone else who wasn't even involved in the creative process behind something money to get it?
It's like paying the kid next door for stealing a car. The ultimate in moroncy.
Indeed, IsNot = != in many languages (look at the fully object oriented ones with no or almost no primitive types). But the patent apparently (according to the source) only covers BASIC type languages... so what, who's using BASIC anyway? ;)
Anyone know what (Chinese deleted, won't show up - please see http://notabilis.org/arti/Technology_and_its_Merit s.html) means? I mean other than the meaning of its punycode representation?
...only you need to run it through kioexec, example: "kioexec cat http://slashdot.org/" or similar.
I actually remember bugging my dad to lay a "MIDI line" between my brother's room and mine, so we could play MIDI Maze on our STs ;)
Mind you, you couldn't only play games over MIDI, there were also other networking tools, you could even mount shares on other Ataris over MIDI. Now isn't that cool, built-in LAN interfaces in a home computer in the mid-80ies! PCs got that 15 years later.
Nobody in Germany forces anyone to edit out blood. It's just that entertainment products which show too much blood, or violence, or sex, or politicians can't be advertised. It's the companies who edit out the blood voluntarily, since a product they aren't allowed to advertise (and which store owners couldn't put up on a shelf for the same reason) wouldn't sell very well. It is perfectly legal to buy the non-edited versions, though.
The Xenon Ion Propulsion Engine on some probe you mentioned is something completely different:
Thrust is created by accelerating the positive ions through a series of gridded electrodes at one end of the thrust chamber. The electrodes, known as an ion extraction assembly, create more than 3,000 tiny beams of thrust. The beams are prevented from being electrically attracted back to the thruster by an external electron-emitting device called a neutralizer.
XIPS is more effective than some chemical engines that were used on sattelites and probes before, but it doesnt make anything go any faster.
Well nevermind, I guess SCO Linux will be some kind of SCO Unix re-built around a Linux kernel. If they get it to be as good as their Unix Linux will eventually replace it and maybe get some more of the big guys to use Linux... well see.
As for that FORTRAN thing, I guess that was mentioned because it was the *first* optimising compiler, ever, and it served as an example to every compiler that was made ever since. Talk about influence now...
Oh and of course do I love Binary Space Partioning. Thats the most important algorithm ever. (so what, DOOM is old, but its still fun and at least it has an atmosphere...)
Now if Microsoft were to make their APIs public it would be perfectly valid for them to retain all IP and copyrights. Sorta you were allowed to have a look at the code but not to do anything else with it.
But the problem Microsoft is facing now is that if their proprietary APIs become public, more and more rival products will appear that are in some way compatible to their API specifications, without interfering with any IP rights. Like, being able to run on the same gasoline and to interface with the same gas pumps. Tho it would be an issue if it were OK for those engineers, um, programmers whether they had happened to take a peek at the original code.
I myself would be forced to run Windows every now and then werent it for Wine, a legal built-from-scratch Windows API workalike that doesnt do much currently but already is able to run all of the Windows software I need.
No, POSIX is the standard. Both Linux and WinNT are -said to be- POSIX-compliant.