Relax, it isn't against the law to have names for numbers that don't fit the engineering pattern on your calculator.
Lot's of people I know still use the term "dozen" (10^1.0791812) and a few even say "Baker's dozen" for 10^1.1139434. Score is in daily use for 10^1.30103, while 10^2.158362492 is pretty gross.
You do have to watch out for tricks like 10^2 is a hundredweight in the US but in the UK you need 10^2.049218023 (because of the barrel).
One thing that's worth mentioning: it's actually quite difficult to produce an accurate history of computing because so much research is done by the military and so much of that is still under various "30-year rules" or their equivilent. The shortness of computing's history works against the historian since 30 years is a huge proportion of the field's total lifetime, unlike other fields such as physics.
Breast might be the only "sexual" word on a porn site, but I doubt it. The meta tags will contain plenty of words which are very unlikely to appear on a non-porn site (cunt and cumshot spring to mind), so filtering on the "strong" words should drop the vast majority of sites you're worried about.
Remember that the sites want to be found by search engines, so think about what they are going to put into their text to get indexed and act accordingly.
Filtering based on "breast" is not going to lose any porn sites that filtering stronger language left behind.
AI am sick of hearing about how Gnome/KDE is going to save Linux/Unix from obscurity/stagnation.
Is it really true that to get shared graphical object code we also have to get crap desktops, applications that duplicate (badly) the functionality of plain-X based or Windows applications, huge downloads, and interminable pundits with over-developed messiah complexes.
LISTEN UP: Linux needs a decent, small, modern file manager (at least as good as the old neodesk for the Atari) and that's it as far as OS-level improvements. Shut up about your tedious Windows-clones. Get some apps out.
We have WindowMaker, so there's no point in churning out huge, bloated, slow, memory hogs like KDE/Gnome.
dotNET objects will live in the dotNET universe, which will be small, slow and propriety. M$'s market share of script kiddies and mugs will make that universe big but they have no (genuine) interest in making it open. Look hard at what they have said and you'll see that dotNET and C-hashed are going to be Windows-only for all real-world applications.
I did write a whole section about the IE example but I've deleted it. If you think that's a way to get good software then you're too far gone for anything I can say to change your mind.
Finally, to answer your question about the ways in which Windows is better than Unix (Linux in my case):
Everyone knows how to do very,very basic operations in it. By basic I mean that using the file manager is beyond most Windows users. Entering URLs into IE is beyond many (its frightning how many people find our website by typing the URL into Altavista).
It has lots of apps.
For me, that's the whole list. Obviously - I wouldn't be using Linux if it wasn't better for me than Windows. My opinion is that anyone who uses Gnome or KDE should be using Windows; it is almost certainly better for what they want to do.
I used to hate Unix, until I started using Windows. I certainly agree that *nix sucks, but it sucks less than anything else on the market at the moment.
I know I'm going to regret getting into this but...
You having no information is not the same as the string having no information. I may not have the key to a locked room but that doesn't mean it must be empty.
Also, in the string 010101010101 any given bit has a 50/50 chance of being 0 or 1 but it ain't random.
The final string is not random; it has information which can be extracted, so it can't be random.
I just know some smart-ass mathematician is going to come up with some definition of random that allows this. Mostly because they don't get invited to the good parties.
I can even sell any of the above; they're fair use.
This is where your argument falls down. AFAIK there is no legal definition of Fair Use which allows selling without written permission of the copyright owner. In fact, even giving the photographic examples you cite away is beyond fair use if it is plain (to a "reasonable person" under British law) that the inclusion of the item is the selling point (so you could probably sell a picture of yourself with the movie poster in the background if it's obviouse that you are the selling point [which you might be; you never know]).
What is fair use is making a copy and doing whatever you like with it or the original that does not involve other people getting their own copy or equivilent (eg a viewing of a movie).
If YOU want to watch a movie you've paid for, it has never previously been the case that you could be restricted in how you (and only you) went about it.
...grow them back to strength, and send them up again. Maybe next time we'll only lose 99%.
Well, it's worth a try but I suspect it's like firing a shotgun at a wall covered in postage stamps and suggesting that the ones that have no holes afterwards are resistant to lead. Given how radiation works at the scale of single-celled creatures, I reckon the.1% that survived were just lucky (lucky the trip didn't last longer).
Very, very well documented is not, alas, the same as accurately documented. I've wasted many a week trying to find why a bit of code failed in Assembler, only to discover that the API description is wrong. Strangely, the same API calls would work fine under VC++, almost as if the MS programmers (who wrote VC itself) had access to better documentation than that published by MS Press.
I don't think there is anything stopping MS from releasing MS Linux, assuming it contained the Kernel.
Small or not, this is a stupid case. No one in their right mind would think the Apple machine was a Cobalt Cube. Apple is not stomping on anyone here (I'm not saying they never do). More than one car company can make a hatchback or a coupe without each sueing the others.
Finally, I would say that not only is the machine obviously not a cube, it is obviously an Apple machine. The fact that it's not iMac-shaped does not prevent it being Apple-styled.
Perhaps innovation grew as communications (ie literacy and books in the fist instances) grew, so people heard about ideas and could "stand on the shoulders of giants" as Newton said. If so, then over-strong IP rights,it could be argued, will result in a return to the middle ages where each person has to start from stratch instead of improving on the work of those whoe came before.
The problem for your drug companies is that other people improving on their product will put them out of business unless the other guy has to spend huge amounts of money too.
And, of course, the question then arises as to whether the reason the drug giants have to spend so much is partly caused by the very IP system they support?
If not, and even if it is only partly true, where would the money come from to pay for medical research? Well, where does the money come from to do military research? From governments, and therefore from taxation. Name one arms company that makes most of its money from private sales.
Which would you prefer your tax to go to: medical research to help all mankind (in an non-IP world), or bombs?
It'll never be that black and white, but I don't think you would have to lose your job if medicine was opened up to everyone.
There is not much to know about why script kiddies do what they do. They do it because they are kiddies, ie they are immature and still stuck in that pre-adult stage of taking pleasure in destruction of things not their own. It's the same thing that causes people to snap saplings in the park or spray-paint a newly painted wall: they get a kick from the thought that they've ruined someone else's work.
The bottom line is that they are incapable of producing their own works of art/skill/technical ability and their jealosy of those who can is sublimated into a childish "well I think that sucks, anyway" reaction, which develops into a hatred of anyone who can do it, from which the pleasure of un-doing other's work derives.
I speak from memory; I can remember these feelings from adolesence and they do still creep up from time to time. Adults control these feelings, children act on them.
I'm sure if you cast your own mind back and are honest with yourself you'll see there isn't any great need for papers on this - it's just (young) human nature.
Mixing and matching would have been an improvement. Any attempt, even a little one, to inject some unpredictability into the story would have been welcome. As it stood I think "Titanic" was the most boring movie I've ever seen. Even Waterworld was (very) slightly more interesting.
The movie wasn't intended to be a historically acurate account of the sinking, nor was it marketed as such.
It was, in fact, pushed as the most historically accurate account by Cameron in interviews. He got quite angry in one interview when the issure of the stern breaking off came up. Also, if I made a film called "Bill Clinton" I think there would be an expectation that I was a least attempting to portray a version of reality.
As for the love story: that was a failure too. Unless you're 10 years old and haven't seen the same story line 100 times.
My grandfather worked on the Titanic. The look of the ship was indeed accurate but over here they got into a lot of trouble with the characterisations of the "historical" characters and did have to pay compensation to at least one family for the things they showed.
The passenger situation (a la third class) was exagerated and the manner of sinking was based on one (particularly spectacular) version which contradicted all other eye-witness accounts. The captain's character is dubious at best (I think that's more important than his position) and owes more to the White Star's pass-the-buck account than to accounts by people who actually knew him.
For the last damn time DeCSS is not needed for copying DVDs, in fact it's a stupid way of copying DVDs. The MPAA is a CARTEL which is trying to force people to only buy their goods. Last time I looked Cartels were illegal (at least in the UK and I assume in the US).
Imagine GM were able to prevent you buying tyres for your car unless they were made by one of their subsiduary companies. Insane, right? But obviously you'd say that anyone else making types were some sort of 'tyre cracker' hell bent on driving cars without paying GM their well deserved cash. Why should we have to only have "approved" players any more than only approved tyres? It makes no sense unless you are on the side of the criminals (the MPAA).
This is not an "entire DVD crack thing" except in your head.
C++ is an entirely different language than C, though there are C++ interpreters written in C.
I am under the impression that C++ was actually written on top of C originaly. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it. It all seems so long ago now...
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I was trying to make the point that the medium alone will not always save a duff movie, although it does sometimes. Blaming the flop of TAE on 2D animation is like saying that the Ford Edsel just needed a better advertising campaign. It's ignoring the flaw in the actual product.
The fact that Titanic (for example) succeeded dispite having no plot or historical accuracy or a lead actor (they made do with Leo) leads some studio sheep to assume that these things have nothing to do with the ability of a film to do well. So, when such a film fails they tend to look for other reasons. Such as the style of animation.
On a separate note, I wonder if Casablanca would be a flop in Europe. Briefly counting the UK as Europe, I think it could actually do quite well here and I'm sure it would do well in France.
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'2D sucks, 3DCGI is the way to go'?"
I'm sure many studios said 'Black and white sucks, colour is the way to go' but Highlander II is still a pile of crap and Casablanca is still a masterpiece.
A good story well done will (normally) do well regardless of technical issues/methods.
No, there are lots of things LaTeX makes hard that are easy in plain (or raw) TeX. Go look at comp.text.tex and count the number of requests for help with LaTeX that have one line solutions in TeX but require in-depth LaTeX hacking skills to solve in LaTeX.
Remember that a lot of TeX's macros and primitives are over-written by LaTeX ones, so not everything in TeX is easily reached from LaTeX.
LaTeX handles text flow around objects better than TeX and it handles fonts in a different way. Font handling in TeX is hard and in LaTeX it's sloppy. I admit there are days I'd rather have sloppy.
You don't need (and I don't want) a word processor for either of those reasons. I use a text editor (any text editor) and TeX and I can tell you I get better results than anyone with a wordprocessor.
If everyone in the team uses the same programs (kind of a basic idea, I think) then everyone can read the docs.
The only reason I need a word processor is to read MS Word docs produced by people who would be happy with the output from a crayon if it had the word "Microsoft" on the side. I've actually seen business letters sent out in Comic Sans!
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Lot's of people I know still use the term "dozen" (10^1.0791812) and a few even say "Baker's dozen" for 10^1.1139434. Score is in daily use for 10^1.30103, while 10^2.158362492 is pretty gross.
You do have to watch out for tricks like 10^2 is a hundredweight in the US but in the UK you need 10^2.049218023 (because of the barrel).
PI, of course is notoriously irrational.
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Gee, maybe that's the point of the story.
But if you can't think to change default passwords after installing SQL server, you shouldn't be using it anyway.
You've never re-installed a server in a hurry or late at night, then? Everyone needs reminding sometimes.
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Remember that the sites want to be found by search engines, so think about what they are going to put into their text to get indexed and act accordingly.
Filtering based on "breast" is not going to lose any porn sites that filtering stronger language left behind.
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Is it really true that to get shared graphical object code we also have to get crap desktops, applications that duplicate (badly) the functionality of plain-X based or Windows applications, huge downloads, and interminable pundits with over-developed messiah complexes.
LISTEN UP: Linux needs a decent, small, modern file manager (at least as good as the old neodesk for the Atari) and that's it as far as OS-level improvements. Shut up about your tedious Windows-clones. Get some apps out.
We have WindowMaker, so there's no point in churning out huge, bloated, slow, memory hogs like KDE/Gnome.
I'm very annoyed now, so I'm going to lie down.
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I did write a whole section about the IE example but I've deleted it. If you think that's a way to get good software then you're too far gone for anything I can say to change your mind.
Finally, to answer your question about the ways in which Windows is better than Unix (Linux in my case):
For me, that's the whole list. Obviously - I wouldn't be using Linux if it wasn't better for me than Windows. My opinion is that anyone who uses Gnome or KDE should be using Windows; it is almost certainly better for what they want to do.
I used to hate Unix, until I started using Windows. I certainly agree that *nix sucks, but it sucks less than anything else on the market at the moment.
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You having no information is not the same as the string having no information. I may not have the key to a locked room but that doesn't mean it must be empty.
Also, in the string 010101010101 any given bit has a 50/50 chance of being 0 or 1 but it ain't random.
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I just know some smart-ass mathematician is going to come up with some definition of random that allows this. Mostly because they don't get invited to the good parties.
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This is where your argument falls down. AFAIK there is no legal definition of Fair Use which allows selling without written permission of the copyright owner. In fact, even giving the photographic examples you cite away is beyond fair use if it is plain (to a "reasonable person" under British law) that the inclusion of the item is the selling point (so you could probably sell a picture of yourself with the movie poster in the background if it's obviouse that you are the selling point [which you might be; you never know]).
What is fair use is making a copy and doing whatever you like with it or the original that does not involve other people getting their own copy or equivilent (eg a viewing of a movie).
If YOU want to watch a movie you've paid for, it has never previously been the case that you could be restricted in how you (and only you) went about it.
TWW
Well, it's worth a try but I suspect it's like firing a shotgun at a wall covered in postage stamps and suggesting that the ones that have no holes afterwards are resistant to lead. Given how radiation works at the scale of single-celled creatures, I reckon the .1% that survived were just lucky (lucky the trip didn't last longer).
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Pinky: I'd be a lot happier if we knew what the unexpected was before I paid for it. Narf!
Brain: Give me strength.
Small or not, this is a stupid case. No one in their right mind would think the Apple machine was a Cobalt Cube. Apple is not stomping on anyone here (I'm not saying they never do). More than one car company can make a hatchback or a coupe without each sueing the others.
Finally, I would say that not only is the machine obviously not a cube, it is obviously an Apple machine. The fact that it's not iMac-shaped does not prevent it being Apple-styled.
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The problem for your drug companies is that other people improving on their product will put them out of business unless the other guy has to spend huge amounts of money too.
And, of course, the question then arises as to whether the reason the drug giants have to spend so much is partly caused by the very IP system they support?
If not, and even if it is only partly true, where would the money come from to pay for medical research? Well, where does the money come from to do military research? From governments, and therefore from taxation. Name one arms company that makes most of its money from private sales.
Which would you prefer your tax to go to: medical research to help all mankind (in an non-IP world), or bombs?
It'll never be that black and white, but I don't think you would have to lose your job if medicine was opened up to everyone.
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The bottom line is that they are incapable of producing their own works of art/skill/technical ability and their jealosy of those who can is sublimated into a childish "well I think that sucks, anyway" reaction, which develops into a hatred of anyone who can do it, from which the pleasure of un-doing other's work derives.
I speak from memory; I can remember these feelings from adolesence and they do still creep up from time to time. Adults control these feelings, children act on them.
I'm sure if you cast your own mind back and are honest with yourself you'll see there isn't any great need for papers on this - it's just (young) human nature.
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It was, in fact, pushed as the most historically accurate account by Cameron in interviews. He got quite angry in one interview when the issure of the stern breaking off came up. Also, if I made a film called "Bill Clinton" I think there would be an expectation that I was a least attempting to portray a version of reality.
As for the love story: that was a failure too. Unless you're 10 years old and haven't seen the same story line 100 times.
TWW
The passenger situation (a la third class) was exagerated and the manner of sinking was based on one (particularly spectacular) version which contradicted all other eye-witness accounts. The captain's character is dubious at best (I think that's more important than his position) and owes more to the White Star's pass-the-buck account than to accounts by people who actually knew him.
TWW
For the last damn time DeCSS is not needed for copying DVDs, in fact it's a stupid way of copying DVDs. The MPAA is a CARTEL which is trying to force people to only buy their goods. Last time I looked Cartels were illegal (at least in the UK and I assume in the US).
Imagine GM were able to prevent you buying tyres for your car unless they were made by one of their subsiduary companies. Insane, right? But obviously you'd say that anyone else making types were some sort of 'tyre cracker' hell bent on driving cars without paying GM their well deserved cash. Why should we have to only have "approved" players any more than only approved tyres? It makes no sense unless you are on the side of the criminals (the MPAA).
This is not an "entire DVD crack thing" except in your head.
TWW
I am under the impression that C++ was actually written on top of C originaly. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it. It all seems so long ago now...
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The fact that Titanic (for example) succeeded dispite having no plot or historical accuracy or a lead actor (they made do with Leo) leads some studio sheep to assume that these things have nothing to do with the ability of a film to do well. So, when such a film fails they tend to look for other reasons. Such as the style of animation.
On a separate note, I wonder if Casablanca would be a flop in Europe. Briefly counting the UK as Europe, I think it could actually do quite well here and I'm sure it would do well in France.
TWW
I'm sure many studios said 'Black and white sucks, colour is the way to go' but Highlander II is still a pile of crap and Casablanca is still a masterpiece.
A good story well done will (normally) do well regardless of technical issues/methods.
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Remember that a lot of TeX's macros and primitives are over-written by LaTeX ones, so not everything in TeX is easily reached from LaTeX.
LaTeX handles text flow around objects better than TeX and it handles fonts in a different way. Font handling in TeX is hard and in LaTeX it's sloppy. I admit there are days I'd rather have sloppy.
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LaTeX is junk, though.
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If everyone in the team uses the same programs (kind of a basic idea, I think) then everyone can read the docs.
The only reason I need a word processor is to read MS Word docs produced by people who would be happy with the output from a crayon if it had the word "Microsoft" on the side. I've actually seen business letters sent out in Comic Sans!
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