> This idea has been around for a while, originally, insofar as I know, called the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. It's neat to see it strongly confirmed in some capacity, though.
Or do they lack the word because they never felt any need for it?
> There was an interesting article in the Mercury News about how the Olympics has a different idea of countries than everywhere else. At the Olympics, Puerto Rico and Taiwan compete seperately.
Of course they compete separately! Did someone think Puerto Rico and Taiwan were the same country?
> The GPL is well written enough, it should stand up in court, even against SCO.
There's little doubt that it will. The "inherited contract" aspect that so many people find controversial in the GPL is conceptually identical to the traditional "covenant running with the land", which AFAIK still stands up in court even when people want to create minority-free neighborhoods.
A more interesting situation would be if anyone ever mounted a successful challenge against EULAs, which would surely cripple the GPL as well. And I don't see how the courts can possibly support EULAs on basic legal principles, so things might get interesting someday.
> Nope, you just got luck and posted before the glitch in the matrix or whatever it was that caused the article to go back The Mysterious Future which means posting is disabled, even if you're trying to relpy to a post that already exists. I know, I've been trying for at least 15 minutes.
FWIW, when I first clicked it I couldn't even read it.
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> I'm actually going to wait this one out.
I'm going to wait for Ewok vs. Wookie, so I can buy the whole set at once.
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> Here's to hoping this has something to do with Princess Leia in Jabba's Palace:)
I want the scene they cut from E6, the one before she came out of the Ewok's house wearing her pyjamas.
> Blah, when will Lucas get it, we want the origional damn films as shown in theaters, not his revisionist history with all the damn modern FX. Jeezus if South Park is making fun of you you know you are doing something wrong.
Due to word-wrapping in my browser I read that as -
not his revisionist history with all the damn modern FX Jeezus.
Sadly, I was wondering which scene he inserted Jesus into rather than marvelling that he would stoop to it.
OK, I see that Cedega = WineX 4.0. But what's the relation between WineX and WINE? Shouldn't there be some kind of license inheritance there? Is Cedega a non-free product derived from a free product?
And if it's not free, why is it so easy to download?
Or if it is free, why do they need to watermark it?
What gives? (Sorry; I haven't followed the whole WineX thing.)
> I'm of so many minds about this. Yes, we needed to know in order to fix this process. I'm glad no one tried to pass the buck. I'm disappointed that it took so long to figure this out. [...] We know know what caused the problem, and we can avoid it in the future.
Sadly, there is (and probably always will be) a lot of learn-from-accidents in the field of engineering. When a bridge falls down or an airplane falls out of the sky we investigate and update our standards accordingly (if the bean counters don't object too strenuously).
The various fields of engineering are far more sophisticated than the way IT is usually practiced, but even in mathematically disciplined fields we still have to learn a lot of stuff the hard way.
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> But theyre pretty good at fooling earnest anthropologists who only want confirmation of their pet theories
Supposedly a group of Pacific Islanders convinced visiting anthropologists that they didn't know what caused babies.
> This idea has been around for a while, originally, insofar as I know, called the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. It's neat to see it strongly confirmed in some capacity, though.
Or do they lack the word because they never felt any need for it?
> Or the trolls in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books
Finally, a
> No matter how you draw a map, where you place Kashmir is going to offend someone.
They should research a map projection that makes it disappear cleanly.
> There was an interesting article in the Mercury News about how the Olympics has a different idea of countries than everywhere else. At the Olympics, Puerto Rico and Taiwan compete seperately.
Of course they compete separately! Did someone think Puerto Rico and Taiwan were the same country?
> When physicists say 'teleportation', they are describing the transfer of key properties from one particle to another without a physical link.
So some morning when you wake up with a suddenly teeny weenie, you'll know you've been had by a physicist.
> The GPL is well written enough, it should stand up in court, even against SCO.
There's little doubt that it will. The "inherited contract" aspect that so many people find controversial in the GPL is conceptually identical to the traditional "covenant running with the land", which AFAIK still stands up in court even when people want to create minority-free neighborhoods.
A more interesting situation would be if anyone ever mounted a successful challenge against EULAs, which would surely cripple the GPL as well. And I don't see how the courts can possibly support EULAs on basic legal principles, so things might get interesting someday.
> The joke's on Newham. Let's hope they do another study in a few years and see how much they really saved.
I'm sure Microsoft will be happy to help with that one, too.
> Nope, you just got luck and posted before the glitch in the matrix or whatever it was that caused the article to go back The Mysterious Future which means posting is disabled, even if you're trying to relpy to a post that already exists. I know, I've been trying for at least 15 minutes.
FWIW, when I first clicked it I couldn't even read it.
> I'm actually going to wait this one out.
I'm going to wait for Ewok vs. Wookie, so I can buy the whole set at once.
> Here's to hoping this has something to do with Princess Leia in Jabba's Palace
I want the scene they cut from E6, the one before she came out of the Ewok's house wearing her pyjamas.
> If he does, I'm not buying them, period.
A real geek would hack his hardware to play the scene backward.
> Actually, I would like a super-UNenhanced version of the original three...
He's going to hold off on those until he has sold you a dozen other editions.
Sadly, I was wondering which scene he inserted Jesus into rather than marvelling that he would stoop to it.> Blah, when will Lucas get it, we want the origional damn films as shown in theaters, not his revisionist history with all the damn modern FX. Jeezus if South Park is making fun of you you know you are doing something wrong.
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Limit supply, and then have to lower your prices to sell it?
...I wasn't supposed to give s1ashdot my credit card number to read this story?
...made more sense.
...but bigger than Little Rock?
> Now, if it were possible to generate a message to collide with a given hash, that would be a big deal.
DeaR Valooed Customer,
Ple ase tipe yoUr credit card imformaTion into the_form beElow.
Tha nk s,
Customr Cervise
> If we could make BG and JV to shake hands, we could have them with just one bullet!
Yes, but for us non-violent types it would still take two pies.
Better to let them have a falling out, then get them when they kiss to make up.
> Is it just me or should that guy be embarrassed to admit that he took 10.5 hours to reinstall an OS and a security suite?
Embarrassed? If he was charging $45/hour he should be bragging about it.
> Geez... it takes 10 1/2 hours to install Linux these days? Have all distributions gone the way of Gentoo?
Hours??? You've obviously never tried it over a dialup connection!
OK, I see that Cedega = WineX 4.0. But what's the relation between WineX and WINE? Shouldn't there be some kind of license inheritance there? Is Cedega a non-free product derived from a free product?
And if it's not free, why is it so easy to download?
Or if it is free, why do they need to watermark it?
What gives? (Sorry; I haven't followed the whole WineX thing.)
> I'm of so many minds about this. Yes, we needed to know in order to fix this process. I'm glad no one tried to pass the buck. I'm disappointed that it took so long to figure this out. [...] We know know what caused the problem, and we can avoid it in the future.
Sadly, there is (and probably always will be) a lot of learn-from-accidents in the field of engineering. When a bridge falls down or an airplane falls out of the sky we investigate and update our standards accordingly (if the bean counters don't object too strenuously).
The various fields of engineering are far more sophisticated than the way IT is usually practiced, but even in mathematically disciplined fields we still have to learn a lot of stuff the hard way.
> steganography: the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination.
I thought steganography meant pictures of stegasaurs making little stegasarus.