Yeah, that would attach a brilliant stigma to the name 'Firefox'. You should definitely, definitely do that. There is no way that could possibly be a bad idea. I can't ever see you regretting that one.
On the contrary, a linear velocity of something that's spinning is the thing that's completely meaningless without also stating the radius at which the measurement is taken. It's undefined. An angular velocity is completely defined in this context.
As someone has already pointed out, the venerable RPM could have been used if radians/sec is too much for most people.
From TFA: "...have turbines that spin at 400 kilometres an hour..."
These guys are magic. Measuring an angular velocity in linear units.
Is it just me or is there something about journalists where, in technical articles, they have to put in gratuitous meaningless figures for no reason? Maybe it's to prove that they understand the subject.
Put out the specs. Kernel hackers can put out better (linux) drivers for things like network interfaces and ata controllers than confused, intellectual property paranoid, hardware companies ever can.
Why in god's name would the interface to a goddamn network interface be an industry secret anyway? Or for that matter an audio or IDE interface?
I think he was referring to the k6-2 versus the pentium II. Oh how we all remember the year that those two were battling it out. Of course the k6-2 couldn't really win clock for clock (or be saved by 3dnow) because it didn't have the pentium II's i686 instructions.
Not that I don't still love my old k6-2 350.
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I take it you're getting that by running top on linux. If so, that's a horrible way to measure memory usage. It includes in that number a LOT of things which are shared or just caches.
Mary: Well, he pooh-poohed the captain here and said that he'd never find the spy.
Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you?
Edmund: Well, perhaps a little.
Melchett: Well then, damn it all, how much more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court-martial offence!
Edmund: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial.
Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh -- he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment -- morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!
That article looks very suspicious. I'm amazed that it's written by someone 'credible' like wired. The whole thing reads like an advertisement. It doesn't say one bad word about it. How do you know that everyone who 'got' an iPod isn't a plant?
Anyone with an IQ above 60 must realise that this scheme is not sustainable in the larger scale (not that I even think it's sustainable on the smaller scale). But what's that you say? It doesn't matter as long as you're at the top of the scheme. These things rely on everyone thinking they're pretty near the top, and they're the ones getting the free iPods. And if every third slashdotter is into this as they seem to be, do you really think you're high enough on the scheme?
Whatever's going on, someone is getting scammed here. The return on investment doesn't add up. It's either the free iPod company, the advertising broker, the ultimate company doing the advertising, or the participating member of the public.
With any of these, the person in the chain getting scammed will soon wise up and 'plug the hole' before they let too many free iPods get taken out of their bank accounts. Unless it's the member of the public, in which case they'll continue being as gullible as ever and fall for the next scam.
Don't worry, they'll soon be a bit quieter when they never see their free xyz. And they won't.
But I see what you mean. To some extent it does seem like it's 1998/1999 all over again. I may be imagining it, but there were a few years in there where 'the internet population'* on average were pretty cynical and/or clued up about everything. They wouldn't get too gullibly excited about something. Which is a good thing.
But in the past 12 months or so, I've kept seeing things like:
Gmail. People getting really overexcited over a goddamn webmail account.
iTunes online music store.
Google's IPO and people talking about how 'this will change the world'.
People falling for the free iPod/tv/whatever scams.
People getting overexcited about friendster/orkut etc.
People generally being wide-eyed about things. Maybe the world's going to go through cycles. 3 years of gullibility, a crash, 3 years of cynicism, repeat.
Hey, I'm going to make a fortune by running the AllAdvantage bar!
* - Yeah I know, no such thing exists, just my experience/perception.
Ironically enough, you wouldn't have been able to spell megnetic with just the keys from your one keyboard, however you would have been able to spell magnetic.
For one, you can write your own client to work with the service(s).
But that also means the spammers can write their own clients to send out thousands of messages. Jabber becomes the new email. With proprietary messengers, the companies obfuscate things to make it difficult for anything other than the official client to connect, and of course the official client doesn't have the crazy spamming possibilities.
Don't get me wrong, I like jabber, no, I love jabber (use it all the time as my only IM protocol), I just haven't figured out what the answer to this one is yet. I still believe the answer is an open protocol. It's just leaving a question mark over my head right now.
Studios are not going to just open source and give out all their code. Even if they did, they'd be huge and confusing to the open source world and nobody would know how to use it. We'd have another Netscape/Gecko/Mozilla thing.
If you want to have open source 3d tools (which there are already), you've got to work from the other end. Creating your own. Taking on the studios at their own game. Growing up between their toes.
If you're a graphics nerd, don't sit around pining like this, start using/hacking on blender and yafray. They are already seriously good and getting better by the day. If they don't meet your requirements yet, start using them and they soon will with all the extra attention. Besides, half the "really cool" stuff done/needed by 'professional' 3d artists are implemented in custom scripted things. Blender's fully python scriptable. Has been for a long time.
This (or a very similar Apple patent) cropped up about a year or two ago. It was discussed then. Some people freaked out, some people used it as an opportunity to give Apple a blowjob, some people didn't care. I guess nothing changes.
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Some slashdotters razzed him for it.
This is decried as shameful
And no, even if this situation were as you said it, that's not a catch 22. Maybe you should read Catch 22.
Yeah, that would attach a brilliant stigma to the name 'Firefox'. You should definitely, definitely do that. There is no way that could possibly be a bad idea. I can't ever see you regretting that one.
On the contrary, a linear velocity of something that's spinning is the thing that's completely meaningless without also stating the radius at which the measurement is taken. It's undefined. An angular velocity is completely defined in this context.
As someone has already pointed out, the venerable RPM could have been used if radians/sec is too much for most people.
From TFA: "...have turbines that spin at 400 kilometres an hour..."
These guys are magic. Measuring an angular velocity in linear units.
Is it just me or is there something about journalists where, in technical articles, they have to put in gratuitous meaningless figures for no reason? Maybe it's to prove that they understand the subject.
Irrelevance be damned!
Drivers schmivers.
Put out the specs. Kernel hackers can put out better (linux) drivers for things like network interfaces and ata controllers than confused, intellectual property paranoid, hardware companies ever can.
Why in god's name would the interface to a goddamn network interface be an industry secret anyway? Or for that matter an audio or IDE interface?
I think he was referring to the k6-2 versus the pentium II. Oh how we all remember the year that those two were battling it out. Of course the k6-2 couldn't really win clock for clock (or be saved by 3dnow) because it didn't have the pentium II's i686 instructions.
Not that I don't still love my old k6-2 350.
I take it you're getting that by running top on linux. If so, that's a horrible way to measure memory usage. It includes in that number a LOT of things which are shared or just caches.
Kmail has also done this (vfolders) for over a year.
There was apparently a goof by the slashdot editors. I thought the same thing, but 2 minutes later the link to the second article appeared.
Obligatory Blackadder quote:
... by pooh-pooh!
Mary: Well, he pooh-poohed the captain here and said that he'd never find the spy.
Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you?
Edmund: Well, perhaps a little.
Melchett: Well then, damn it all, how much more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court-martial offence!
Edmund: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial.
Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh -- he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment -- morale totally destroyed
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That won't make any difference. The author would probably just filter out all mails without the subject line "Inca o roata".
Surely we just have to send a load of bogus reports to root@addlebrain.com and he'll have a fun time trying to find the genuine ones.
The GPL isn't a contract. It's a conditional copyright waiver. And that falls under copyright law, so it's copyright infringement.
How would that be any worse than playing a wav file?
That article looks very suspicious. I'm amazed that it's written by someone 'credible' like wired. The whole thing reads like an advertisement. It doesn't say one bad word about it. How do you know that everyone who 'got' an iPod isn't a plant?
Anyone with an IQ above 60 must realise that this scheme is not sustainable in the larger scale (not that I even think it's sustainable on the smaller scale). But what's that you say? It doesn't matter as long as you're at the top of the scheme. These things rely on everyone thinking they're pretty near the top, and they're the ones getting the free iPods. And if every third slashdotter is into this as they seem to be, do you really think you're high enough on the scheme?
Whatever's going on, someone is getting scammed here. The return on investment doesn't add up. It's either the free iPod company, the advertising broker, the ultimate company doing the advertising, or the participating member of the public.
With any of these, the person in the chain getting scammed will soon wise up and 'plug the hole' before they let too many free iPods get taken out of their bank accounts. Unless it's the member of the public, in which case they'll continue being as gullible as ever and fall for the next scam.
But I see what you mean. To some extent it does seem like it's 1998/1999 all over again. I may be imagining it, but there were a few years in there where 'the internet population'* on average were pretty cynical and/or clued up about everything. They wouldn't get too gullibly excited about something. Which is a good thing.
But in the past 12 months or so, I've kept seeing things like:
Gmail. People getting really overexcited over a goddamn webmail account.
iTunes online music store.
Google's IPO and people talking about how 'this will change the world'.
People falling for the free iPod/tv/whatever scams.
People getting overexcited about friendster/orkut etc.
People generally being wide-eyed about things. Maybe the world's going to go through cycles. 3 years of gullibility, a crash, 3 years of cynicism, repeat.
Hey, I'm going to make a fortune by running the AllAdvantage bar!
* - Yeah I know, no such thing exists, just my experience/perception.
Pervert.
'megnetic poetry'
Ironically enough, you wouldn't have been able to spell megnetic with just the keys from your one keyboard, however you would have been able to spell magnetic.
Hi. Lossless video is nothing new. It's called HuffYUV. Fully supported by ffmpeg.
For one, you can write your own client to work with the service(s).
But that also means the spammers can write their own clients to send out thousands of messages. Jabber becomes the new email. With proprietary messengers, the companies obfuscate things to make it difficult for anything other than the official client to connect, and of course the official client doesn't have the crazy spamming possibilities.
Don't get me wrong, I like jabber, no, I love jabber (use it all the time as my only IM protocol), I just haven't figured out what the answer to this one is yet. I still believe the answer is an open protocol. It's just leaving a question mark over my head right now.
Any answers?
Studios are not going to just open source and give out all their code. Even if they did, they'd be huge and confusing to the open source world and nobody would know how to use it. We'd have another Netscape/Gecko/Mozilla thing.
If you want to have open source 3d tools (which there are already), you've got to work from the other end. Creating your own. Taking on the studios at their own game. Growing up between their toes.
If you're a graphics nerd, don't sit around pining like this, start using/hacking on blender and yafray. They are already seriously good and getting better by the day. If they don't meet your requirements yet, start using them and they soon will with all the extra attention. Besides, half the "really cool" stuff done/needed by 'professional' 3d artists are implemented in custom scripted things. Blender's fully python scriptable. Has been for a long time.
You will not see that iPod.
Yes, but the difference is being able to predict one.
This (or a very similar Apple patent) cropped up about a year or two ago. It was discussed then. Some people freaked out, some people used it as an opportunity to give Apple a blowjob, some people didn't care. I guess nothing changes.
...me selling my pants for $100,000.
It doesn't matter, I can charge what I want because nobody's going to want to buy them anyway.