I do all my reading on 8 1/2 by 11 inch typing paper (that's 13 inches diagonal with reasonable margins) and 10pt text. If it were any lower resolution, I would have trouble reading it.
Linux is a vastly superior name than GIMP. The word GIMP could easily offend some. Linux is a made up word. I've installed GIMP on many a windows users machine as a free image editor, and depending on who it is I feel uncomfortable calling it by name. Sure, it's probably not the biggest reason for the lack of popularity, but I don't think it's insignificant. libcaca is another one. Cool library, but seriously, libcaca? And the Do Whatever the Fuck You Want License? The name has honestly made me less interested in the library, as lame and irrational as that is. I don't paint my walls dissonant colors; I don't want my apps with unsightly names.
So customers should depressingly assume the large corp. does not care about
the piddling wishes of lone peons? The squeaky wheel gets the grease. What's
the harm in asking?
I have an M-Audio Delta 66 for occasional recording but mostly just music playback. I've read about others having similar problems to mine. Seems like there may be some specific issues with this card. I haven't had time to look into it too much, so I just thought I'd throw this question out there. I know there are a million variables as other replies have hinted at...
But desktop users, or at least me, don't care about doing things "fast". I care about things feeling fast. I care about latency. So, do these patches help the audio on my computer not skip when I move a window? I've tried the premptive kernel patches in the past with no noticeable difference. How are these patches similar, different, or complimentary to Ingo Molnar's (whose patches are mentioned in the article). Thanks.
"What they have a problem with is Debian modifying FireFox fairly significantly, yet continuing to call the product 'FireFox'."...and so Debian is changing their name for it. I don't really see what all the hullaballoo is about. The linked article says Debian thinks Firefox isn't "open source enough". Um, no, they are simply complying with the trademark usage guidelines. I can see how misunderstandings could develop from that, but it seems simple enough when you think about it. What am I missing?
The articles did say he was cooperative with the police initially; perhaps
he wanted to understand the process of the investigation in order to better
assist the police locate his missing wife or to keep tabs on their progress.
That said, everything is speculation at this point. Certainly not a happy
situation for anyone.
I think Nintendo could have a modified Linux kernel for which they offer the source code to Wii owners to satisfy the GPL requirements. Atop that they could have any proprietary system without needing to release that code, just as various proprietary software packages run atop Linux. The only potential issue would be a binary-only video driver, though Linus' stance is that this is not a derivative work of the Linux kernel.
"If it does it in a way that's contrary to the author's intent, then copyright law prohibits it." In fact, that isn't at all how copyright works. The letter and intent of copyright law only grant the author partial control over a work. In the US at least, copyright grants the author exclusive license to certain forms of copying until the work enters the public domain where the author's intent is then irrelevant. For the duration of the copyright, not all copying is infringement. Not all copying is infringement. Is Google's copying infringement? The courts will decide; I personally think the law should not forbid Google's actions whether or not it currently does, which is unclear at best. Google and other search engines' caching of websites for the purposes of redirecting customers is not considered infringement for example.
Bah. Read this comment from the last Google Book Search Slashdot discussion. It boils down to the fact that not all copying is infringement. "For example, the courts have ruled that it is perfectly legal to copy every image you can find on the internet, and store those images, for the purpose of providing a thumbnail image of those images for profit. That is because what is being sold is meta-data about where you can find an image, not the images themselves. The courts have also ruled that making low quality copies of porn images and making them available is illegal, because the intent was for people to just look at the images and the effect upon the market was to deprive the copyright holders of business."
At least some publishers believe it increases sales, and it's certainly not a clear cut case of copyright infringement.
Off-topic semi-frothing rant, but am I the only one who finds old-fashioned
abbreviations such as Rings or Fellowship vastly more
readable than acronyms such as LOTR or LOTR:FOTR?
The concern for me is that while "I" teleported from point A to B, how do I know the guy in point B is "me" and the goo in point A is not me? For all anyone could ever know, I died and was replaced by a perfect replica of myself who has no way of knowing that he isn't me. Of course, this same question applies to each second of the day that ticks by. I feel a continuous "me", but is that really the case? Either way, I would have great fear, rational or not, about stepping into a teleportation device. Faith that an exact spin state by spin state "me" would form at point B would not convince me that the process was any different than creating two spin state by sping state "me"s and then bumping off the "me" at point A.
Define "food". Perhaps the King is using the wonderful cuisine (sic) to off his unfaithful subjects.
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Caller ID Watches
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· Score: 2, Interesting
On a related note... what's with voice mail and answering machines kicking in at four rings? I can't seem to set mine to six. If I'm, say, at home washing dishes in the kitchen when the phone rings, I am not quick enough to rinse and dry my hands and sprint to the next room, even a mere dozen feet or so, and get the phone in time. I remember a time before the ubiquitous answering machine. My mother told me to not give up and hang up until eight rings had passed when calling someone. Now with cell phones, there have been times where just digging it out of my pocket ran close to the ring limit. If things weren't so frantic perhaps a watch with caller ID would be less interesting.
What would really be nifty is a cell phone that could sense body heat and adjust its ring volume accordingly, getting louder if far removed from the body.
I apoligize if I misread your post, but please define "hoarding". Anyone
with any significant amount of money keeps it in investments or in a bank who
loans it out on the margin on their behalf; the money is not kept out of
circulation in a matress.
You seem to think "patentability" is a natural property of certain entities but not others. It is not. It is whatever the lawmakers and the society they represent says it is. This isn't math where one cannot dispute that 1 + 1 = 2. Arguing as if it were is simply a waste of time. Argue instead that software patents do not promote the progress of science and the useful arts, and argue that promotion of this progress, the only constitutionally given reason for patents, is in fact the only good reason for patents. If there exist logical loopholes in certain patents, and if these ever become a factor in real life, the law will need to change to account for them. The law will not suddenly say "oops, unforseen loophole, *poof*".
My favorite is those billboard trucks driving around. I know it takes energy to put up a static billboard, but something about driving around burning gas and increasing traffic just to wave a sign sickens me.
It was called Chex Quest. I had already moved to Linux at the time (late
90s?) and was somewhat frustrated at not being able to play it via Wine, so I
have no idea if it was any good; I have my doubts. It was more of a running
joke between my brother and I than something I seriously wanted to play. But
like other posters have mentioned there was a MicroMachines game for the NES,
not to mention movie, tv, and comic book hero games such as Bart Simpson,
Batman, Spiderman, Evil Dead Zelda 2 hack (scratch that one).
I prefer my social engineering to be done by the government because in principle at least the government represents me and my interests, whatever my financial involvement
And there's the rub. The government allows one to coerce another into paying for things he may not agree with. At least I can choose to stop using Google, and I can choose the charities to which I give money. I can hardly stop paying taxes.
Are you against all philanthropic organizations not government run?
A few questions: first, would you support a voting system that more
accurately measured a voter's wishes, say, Ranked Pairs Condorcet method, or
Approval Voting, and if not, why not? And second, do you accept the fact that
a single vote, the only vote directly controlled by a voter, cannot change the
outcome of any large election due to obvious reasons in cases other than a near
tie, and because of the inability to count votes to a reolution of one in a
near tie? Who is being irrational?
Just to clarify, transparent aluminum oxide or alumina, a ceramic, is often confused by the news as "transparent aluminum metal". Alumina is one of the hardest materials next to diamond. The polycrystalline mineral form of aluminum oxide is called corundum while both sapphire and ruby are transparent single crystal forms with various impurities giving color. Sapphire single crystals are grown commercially and sold as substrates for making gallium nitride LEDs, the blue ones, because a gallium nitride substrate is too costly. Presumably, watch makers also purchase this single crystal sapphire for use in watch faces.
I emailed the USPS about this very thing, the ads with no address on them.
They uselessly replied "You can write to each individual companys that are
sending you the items or you can remove your name from common mailing lists [by
writing to a few major mailing list mongers]". Well, gee, thanks, but there is
no obvious "individual company" to write to. I heard a rumour that you can
request that your postman not deliver these... I think I will try writing
REFUSED on the next one I get and see what happens. I'm always at work when
the postman comes so unfortunately I've never met him which makes me moderately
nervous about annoying him.
I know you're being funny, but your parent is correct even if the post left
out a bit: bare feet smell upon being removed from shoes. Feet that are
routinely bare do not smell for the same reason your hands do not smell. What
do you thing would happen to your hands if you wore the same mittens all day
every day? Hands typically don't get "athlete's foot" or any other fungal
infections, even though door knobs and money are shared by many different
hands. Even podiatrists who would sell you orthotics before telling you to go
barefoot to fix your feet recommend going barefoot as a cure to foot fungus.
Smelly things simply can't grow in the open air.
Now, I'm sure something like this exists, but I don't believe it exists for
MediaWiki, the wiki engine behind Wikipedia and numerous other wikis, and
certainly doesn't exist for a good many blogs or online discussion forums:
filter wiki edits, the diffs specifically, and forum posts through a bayesian
filter. If the text passes, allow it. If the text is spam, send it to a queue
for possible human override. Admins, and possibly a large enough number of
votes from other readers, can train the filter by marking posts as spam. Do
any forums or wikis have this? Even better, the web area of likely spams could
be available for public viewing and double-checking but marked with robots.txt
to exclude search engines.
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I disagree; it's very childish. Any adult should know it's "fewer than 25 reports", not "less".
I do all my reading on 8 1/2 by 11 inch typing paper (that's 13 inches diagonal with reasonable margins) and 10pt text. If it were any lower resolution, I would have trouble reading it.
Linux is a vastly superior name than GIMP. The word GIMP could easily offend some. Linux is a made up word. I've installed GIMP on many a windows users machine as a free image editor, and depending on who it is I feel uncomfortable calling it by name. Sure, it's probably not the biggest reason for the lack of popularity, but I don't think it's insignificant. libcaca is another one. Cool library, but seriously, libcaca? And the Do Whatever the Fuck You Want License? The name has honestly made me less interested in the library, as lame and irrational as that is. I don't paint my walls dissonant colors; I don't want my apps with unsightly names.
So customers should depressingly assume the large corp. does not care about the piddling wishes of lone peons? The squeaky wheel gets the grease. What's the harm in asking?
I have an M-Audio Delta 66 for occasional recording but mostly just music playback. I've read about others having similar problems to mine. Seems like there may be some specific issues with this card. I haven't had time to look into it too much, so I just thought I'd throw this question out there. I know there are a million variables as other replies have hinted at...
But desktop users, or at least me, don't care about doing things "fast". I care about things feeling fast. I care about latency. So, do these patches help the audio on my computer not skip when I move a window? I've tried the premptive kernel patches in the past with no noticeable difference. How are these patches similar, different, or complimentary to Ingo Molnar's (whose patches are mentioned in the article). Thanks.
"What they have a problem with is Debian modifying FireFox fairly significantly, yet continuing to call the product 'FireFox'." ...and so Debian is changing their name for it. I don't really see what all the hullaballoo is about. The linked article says Debian thinks Firefox isn't "open source enough". Um, no, they are simply complying with the trademark usage guidelines. I can see how misunderstandings could develop from that, but it seems simple enough when you think about it. What am I missing?
The articles did say he was cooperative with the police initially; perhaps he wanted to understand the process of the investigation in order to better assist the police locate his missing wife or to keep tabs on their progress. That said, everything is speculation at this point. Certainly not a happy situation for anyone.
I think Nintendo could have a modified Linux kernel for which they offer the source code to Wii owners to satisfy the GPL requirements. Atop that they could have any proprietary system without needing to release that code, just as various proprietary software packages run atop Linux. The only potential issue would be a binary-only video driver, though Linus' stance is that this is not a derivative work of the Linux kernel.
"If it does it in a way that's contrary to the author's intent, then copyright law prohibits it." In fact, that isn't at all how copyright works. The letter and intent of copyright law only grant the author partial control over a work. In the US at least, copyright grants the author exclusive license to certain forms of copying until the work enters the public domain where the author's intent is then irrelevant. For the duration of the copyright, not all copying is infringement. Not all copying is infringement. Is Google's copying infringement? The courts will decide; I personally think the law should not forbid Google's actions whether or not it currently does, which is unclear at best. Google and other search engines' caching of websites for the purposes of redirecting customers is not considered infringement for example.
Bah. Read this comment from the last Google Book Search Slashdot discussion. It boils down to the fact that not all copying is infringement. "For example, the courts have ruled that it is perfectly legal to copy every image you can find on the internet, and store those images, for the purpose of providing a thumbnail image of those images for profit. That is because what is being sold is meta-data about where you can find an image, not the images themselves. The courts have also ruled that making low quality copies of porn images and making them available is illegal, because the intent was for people to just look at the images and the effect upon the market was to deprive the copyright holders of business."
At least some publishers believe it increases sales, and it's certainly not a clear cut case of copyright infringement.
Off-topic semi-frothing rant, but am I the only one who finds old-fashioned abbreviations such as Rings or Fellowship vastly more readable than acronyms such as LOTR or LOTR:FOTR?
The concern for me is that while "I" teleported from point A to B, how do I know the guy in point B is "me" and the goo in point A is not me? For all anyone could ever know, I died and was replaced by a perfect replica of myself who has no way of knowing that he isn't me. Of course, this same question applies to each second of the day that ticks by. I feel a continuous "me", but is that really the case? Either way, I would have great fear, rational or not, about stepping into a teleportation device. Faith that an exact spin state by spin state "me" would form at point B would not convince me that the process was any different than creating two spin state by sping state "me"s and then bumping off the "me" at point A.
Define "food". Perhaps the King is using the wonderful cuisine (sic) to off his unfaithful subjects.
On a related note... what's with voice mail and answering machines kicking in at four rings? I can't seem to set mine to six. If I'm, say, at home washing dishes in the kitchen when the phone rings, I am not quick enough to rinse and dry my hands and sprint to the next room, even a mere dozen feet or so, and get the phone in time. I remember a time before the ubiquitous answering machine. My mother told me to not give up and hang up until eight rings had passed when calling someone. Now with cell phones, there have been times where just digging it out of my pocket ran close to the ring limit. If things weren't so frantic perhaps a watch with caller ID would be less interesting.
What would really be nifty is a cell phone that could sense body heat and adjust its ring volume accordingly, getting louder if far removed from the body.
I apoligize if I misread your post, but please define "hoarding". Anyone with any significant amount of money keeps it in investments or in a bank who loans it out on the margin on their behalf; the money is not kept out of circulation in a matress.
You seem to think "patentability" is a natural property of certain entities but not others. It is not. It is whatever the lawmakers and the society they represent says it is. This isn't math where one cannot dispute that 1 + 1 = 2. Arguing as if it were is simply a waste of time. Argue instead that software patents do not promote the progress of science and the useful arts, and argue that promotion of this progress, the only constitutionally given reason for patents, is in fact the only good reason for patents. If there exist logical loopholes in certain patents, and if these ever become a factor in real life, the law will need to change to account for them. The law will not suddenly say "oops, unforseen loophole, *poof*".
My favorite is those billboard trucks driving around. I know it takes energy to put up a static billboard, but something about driving around burning gas and increasing traffic just to wave a sign sickens me.
It was called Chex Quest. I had already moved to Linux at the time (late 90s?) and was somewhat frustrated at not being able to play it via Wine, so I have no idea if it was any good; I have my doubts. It was more of a running joke between my brother and I than something I seriously wanted to play. But like other posters have mentioned there was a MicroMachines game for the NES, not to mention movie, tv, and comic book hero games such as Bart Simpson, Batman, Spiderman, Evil Dead Zelda 2 hack (scratch that one).
And there's the rub. The government allows one to coerce another into paying for things he may not agree with. At least I can choose to stop using Google, and I can choose the charities to which I give money. I can hardly stop paying taxes.
Are you against all philanthropic organizations not government run?
A few questions: first, would you support a voting system that more accurately measured a voter's wishes, say, Ranked Pairs Condorcet method, or Approval Voting, and if not, why not? And second, do you accept the fact that a single vote, the only vote directly controlled by a voter, cannot change the outcome of any large election due to obvious reasons in cases other than a near tie, and because of the inability to count votes to a reolution of one in a near tie? Who is being irrational?
Just to clarify, transparent aluminum oxide or alumina, a ceramic, is often confused by the news as "transparent aluminum metal". Alumina is one of the hardest materials next to diamond. The polycrystalline mineral form of aluminum oxide is called corundum while both sapphire and ruby are transparent single crystal forms with various impurities giving color. Sapphire single crystals are grown commercially and sold as substrates for making gallium nitride LEDs, the blue ones, because a gallium nitride substrate is too costly. Presumably, watch makers also purchase this single crystal sapphire for use in watch faces.
I emailed the USPS about this very thing, the ads with no address on them. They uselessly replied "You can write to each individual companys that are sending you the items or you can remove your name from common mailing lists [by writing to a few major mailing list mongers]". Well, gee, thanks, but there is no obvious "individual company" to write to. I heard a rumour that you can request that your postman not deliver these... I think I will try writing REFUSED on the next one I get and see what happens. I'm always at work when the postman comes so unfortunately I've never met him which makes me moderately nervous about annoying him.
I know you're being funny, but your parent is correct even if the post left out a bit: bare feet smell upon being removed from shoes. Feet that are routinely bare do not smell for the same reason your hands do not smell. What do you thing would happen to your hands if you wore the same mittens all day every day? Hands typically don't get "athlete's foot" or any other fungal infections, even though door knobs and money are shared by many different hands. Even podiatrists who would sell you orthotics before telling you to go barefoot to fix your feet recommend going barefoot as a cure to foot fungus. Smelly things simply can't grow in the open air.
Now, I'm sure something like this exists, but I don't believe it exists for MediaWiki, the wiki engine behind Wikipedia and numerous other wikis, and certainly doesn't exist for a good many blogs or online discussion forums: filter wiki edits, the diffs specifically, and forum posts through a bayesian filter. If the text passes, allow it. If the text is spam, send it to a queue for possible human override. Admins, and possibly a large enough number of votes from other readers, can train the filter by marking posts as spam. Do any forums or wikis have this? Even better, the web area of likely spams could be available for public viewing and double-checking but marked with robots.txt to exclude search engines.