One reason of why Kildall isn't Gates is this:
Found in the signature of DreddUK (255582):
"If A equals success, then the formua is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut" - A Einstein.
Clearly, Kildall didn't keep his mouth shut. Well, I guess he couldn't, he had to advertise. He also ended up with $120 million, which is more than many slashdotters who now feel with him got.
Another thing, consider that someone with a name like 'killed all' was in Gates position.. might make for some hateful jokes.. .
Echelon, among other stuff, is supposed to snoop on telecommunication networks.
For example, matching voice patterns, it will alert the CIA every time someone utters 'Ana raicha al quaeda' in arabic.
This has been known to cause too many alerts at a time when an earthquake caused a colera epidemic, which caused many arabs to go to the 'sit' (quaeda) frequently.
Echelon has been critizised in the far dull past to lack overlook and control of who enters keywords, so the public wouldn't know whether it has been used to do some really cool insider trading on the stock markets.
Usually, however, the keyword 'echelon' just evokes paranoia on the minds of european business top executives and serves to cover up human intelligence gathered or made up by the president himself at the dinner table. Or so I heard.
To put it in contrast, in 2000 George 'Dubya' Bush got 50,456,002 votes (source: Wikipedia ). Does that mean there are more [file-trading] criminals walking the streets than people who voted for the president?
Think about it - all these Big Brother shows where they lock up people for a year in a container really do simulate the social and psychological aspects of a mars mission.
I must admit that I don't know enough about all languages involved, but C like syntax is pretty widespread, so wouldn't some descendant of C that has decent string handling be best ?
I know nothing is optimal, but consider leaving out the complicated parts of C++, or even javascript and maybe php or Java, or really a subset of C++ with Classes that make the GUI stuff easy.
As I understand it from looking at the GPL and the Apache license debate, Novell may use GPL just fine, they just may not bill or obstruct someone who uses the patent in GPL'ed source.
This would either force competitors to crosslicense patents, or to release their software under the GPL.
Since the GPL seems to handle patents indirectly, it might under some circumstances be possible in theory for Novell to pull back their promise and use patents against free source, but then they would face a quagmire of licenses that get voided, and could be subject to a legal DDOS.
Wouldn't this just mean that most complex life could be classified as superorganisms under this thinking?
Yes, but I think superorganism simply means "an organism composed of several other (different) organisms".
So it is more than an organism. But because your body is made up of these bacteria as well, you should feel a healthy respect for them instead of feeling like an overlord.
Good thing that our brain doesn't rely on silicium yet but maybe it will one day. If you could connect dolphins and whales to slashdot, it'd be a superorganism too.
2. It is too slow. Add a separate database server.
3. Still to slow. Add several http web application servers.
4. Add synchronization talk between web application servers to make sure no two different servers talk to one customer.
5. Add synchronization talk between database servers to make sure they all use the same database.
6. Release to public.
7. Something doesn't work. Switch on debug output and logging to full level.
8. Watch as all servers talk to each other over the underdimensioned intranet connections: "Hey buddy, I feel so bad, so much load could you do this for me?" "I'm sorry I've got too much work myself, but here, have some debug output."
9. Watch the intrusion detection system randomly switch off nodes because they showed unnormal traffic patterns.
10. get mentioned on slashdot. There's no such thing as bad publicity!
Why not do the opposite, install a cell repeater station that fakes a call to every cell phone that is switched on, with the message (voice+SMS) "Please turn off your mobile phone. Seems you forgot to turn it off. Thank you."
As a movie operator, check now that all in the audience have turned their mobiles off( no ringing anymore).
As the audience, "ask politely" that people with mobiles on turn them off.
So people can still receive SMS and voice, but switch off the signal and switch on the vibration alert.
Well, I have been promised 20 Mio. from a wealthy billionaire to fight spam, but the sponsor wants to stay unnamed, so could you please help me in this business transaction - call me at NIGERIA-1414-14124
Well maybe it would be ok to use stem cells harvested(i.e. 7 of 8) if someone grown from the remaining stem cells (genetic twin) and alive gave permission to use them ?
IANAL, I meant to say using java in general is usually fine, unless you use tricky stuff like your own native (asm) functions, or exec'ute other commands on the system.
Like used in writing your own version/port of java or widgets.
Somehow I cannot imagine how you would "ground" a satellite.
I guess you could "ground" the satellite to its own chassis or a battery, but would that be a big enough electron sink? Satellites are made to be small.
I imagine it wouldn't work if the EMP was on the Earth right below it.
You have to create the antimatter first by splitting normal matter - this consumes lots of energy, more than you get by combining matter and antimatter again.
So unless you use my hereby patented method to setup a deal with the Quadlipulians(, who live in the antimatter universe,) and trade matter for antimatter, this is not a power plant, although it could act as a battery, if you figured out how to extract energy from X-rays.
Unfortunately someone has decided that, because it is so much hassle to keep track of patents and decide their validity (..), that you have don't have an unalienable right to something that you invented first (similar to copyright), but that you actually have to file a patent. And you have to file within one year.
As I understand it, you can also only counterattack a patent on the basis of prior art if you have revealed the invention to the public. Which sucks if you just kept it for yourself and then get sued for using your own invention.
However filing a "patent on the creation of overly broad and obvious patents" might be fun, especially watching the patent office give examples of "prior art". "No, you can't patent this, X already did patent something obvious"
Ranking people in order of preference gives a subset of possible voting options in condorcet.
However, I cannot imagine where a circular preference really makes sense - I know it come about e.g. if you rate a candidates on 3 topics, and every candidate beats another on two topics and loses in one.
Example, topics are A, B, C
Score A B C -Bush 6 4 1 -Rush 4 1 6 -Lush 1 6 4
Every candidate beats another here. Still, I feel people should get their preference straight and assign weights to topics.
After all, this is something for the Simpsons:
Better to have Bush than Rush. Well, then better to have Lush than Rush, well then better to have Bush than Lush, etc. etc.
I think the condorcet system simply allows circular preferences because the matrix of preferences is the tool used to compute the winner, and circular preferences emerge anyway, even with several voters where every single one votes in order of preference(just replace topic A,B,C with voters A,B,C).
I must say a voting system which does not even allow to determine a winner of the voting when there is only one persons voting(with circular preferences) doesn't seems to make sense in practice - I guess this would need to be hacked(fixed).
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The ideal solution for you then would be to ship the OS/cedega with the game, so you would simply boot Linux off a CD that came with the game.
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That has some drawbacks with upgrades and different hardware, but well, if you don't want to pay for an OS that runs games yourself
Another thing, consider that someone with a name like 'killed all' was in Gates position .. might make for some hateful jokes.. .
I'm sure the CIA still keeps archiving every email that Elvis keeps sending
Echelon, among other stuff, is supposed to snoop on telecommunication networks.
For example, matching voice patterns, it will alert the CIA every time someone utters 'Ana raicha al quaeda' in arabic.
This has been known to cause too many alerts at a time when an earthquake caused a colera epidemic, which caused many arabs to go to the 'sit' (quaeda) frequently.
Echelon has been critizised in the far dull past to lack overlook and control of who enters keywords, so the public wouldn't know whether it has been used to do some really cool insider trading on the stock markets.
Usually, however, the keyword 'echelon' just evokes paranoia on the minds of european business top executives and serves to cover up human intelligence gathered or made up by the president himself at the dinner table. Or so I heard.
She swam the Bering strait.
Although she trained a lot in cold water, the article also says she has a natural tendancy to enjoy cold water.
Think about it - all these Big Brother shows where they lock up people for a year in a container really do simulate the social and psychological aspects of a mars mission.
I must admit that I don't know enough about all languages involved, but C like syntax is pretty widespread, so wouldn't some descendant of C that has decent string handling be best ?
I know nothing is optimal, but consider leaving out the complicated parts of C++, or even javascript and maybe php or Java, or really a subset of C++ with Classes that make the GUI stuff easy.
As I understand it from looking at the GPL and the Apache license debate, Novell may use GPL just fine, they just may not bill or obstruct someone who uses the patent in GPL'ed source.
This would either force competitors to crosslicense patents, or to release their software under the GPL.
Since the GPL seems to handle patents indirectly, it might under some circumstances be possible in theory for Novell to pull back their promise and use patents against free source, but then they would face a quagmire of licenses that get voided, and could be subject to a legal DDOS.
So it is more than an organism. But because your body is made up of these bacteria as well, you should feel a healthy respect for them instead of feeling like an overlord.
Good thing that our brain doesn't rely on silicium yet but maybe it will one day. If you could connect dolphins and whales to slashdot, it'd be a superorganism too.
Yes, but Charles Babbage doesn't have the right initials - after all it is not called C.B.U.
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However, G.M. are Gregor Mendels initials.
So GM has been doing GM for years, see
No p(h)un intended, but
1. write ultra-scalable jsp application
2. It is too slow. Add a separate database server.
3. Still to slow. Add several http web application servers.
4. Add synchronization talk between web application servers to make sure no two different servers talk to one customer.
5. Add synchronization talk between database servers to make sure they all use the same database.
6. Release to public.
7. Something doesn't work. Switch on debug output and logging to full level.
8. Watch as all servers talk to each other over the underdimensioned intranet connections:
"Hey buddy, I feel so bad, so much load could you do this for me?"
"I'm sorry I've got too much work myself, but here, have some debug output."
9. Watch the intrusion detection system randomly switch off nodes because they showed unnormal traffic patterns.
10. get mentioned on slashdot. There's no such thing as bad publicity!
Why not do the opposite, install a cell repeater station that fakes a call to every cell phone that is switched on, with the message (voice+SMS) "Please turn off your mobile phone. Seems you forgot to turn it off. Thank you."
As a movie operator, check now that all in the audience have turned their mobiles off( no ringing anymore).
As the audience, "ask politely" that people with mobiles on turn them off.
So people can still receive SMS and voice, but switch off the signal and switch on the vibration alert.
Well, I have been promised 20 Mio. from a wealthy billionaire to fight spam, but the sponsor wants to stay unnamed, so could you please help me in this business transaction - call me at NIGERIA-1414-14124
Well maybe it would be ok to use stem cells harvested(i.e. 7 of 8) if someone grown from the remaining stem cells (genetic twin) and alive gave permission to use them ?
IANAL, I meant to say using java in general is usually fine, unless you use tricky stuff like your own native (asm) functions, or exec'ute other commands on the system.
Like used in writing your own version/port of java or widgets.
New dish served in african and asian restaurants!
No, you are not safe now from this patent just because Sun has paid for the java VM, if you write a program that uses similar techniques.
;-)
But you were never safe from software patents anyway. Feel better now ?
Somehow I cannot imagine how you would "ground" a satellite.
I guess you could "ground" the satellite to its own chassis or a battery, but would that be a big enough electron sink? Satellites are made to be small.
I imagine it wouldn't work if the EMP was on the Earth right below it.
You have to create the antimatter first by splitting normal matter - this consumes lots of energy, more than you get by combining matter and antimatter again.
So unless you use my hereby patented method to setup a deal with the Quadlipulians(, who live in the antimatter universe,) and trade matter for antimatter, this is not a power plant, although it could act as a battery, if you figured out how to extract energy from X-rays.
If you strap a cat to the bottom of the elephant, and a buttered toast to the upper side of the elephant ..
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Then we know that buttered toast always lands on the buttered side, while the cat lands always on its feet
So the elephant will never hit the ground, since there is no way it can land without breaking a natural law
So altitude doesn't matter - this is why there is no google unit conversion for it!
That link you gave is worth reading for the replies and link given by The_Reader_David.
Gives you the creeps. Never anger a farmer !
"When in panic, fear or doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
IMHO Iraq did stick to the rules given to them, if there is still something dangerous to be found, maybe the rules where bad.
I bet we would have heard by now if Iraq had had the wargear to actually use the pesticides as a warhead.
Suppose you had more choice and could vote every secretary separately into office.
Then still someone, probably the one handling the finances, would have the most power and the final say.
So I think that it is unavoidable to have at least one person with a little extra power, and the voting method has to name one.
Unfortunately someone has decided that, because it is so much hassle to keep track of patents and decide their validity (..), that you have don't have an unalienable right to something that you invented first (similar to copyright), but that you actually have to file a patent. And you have to file within one year.
As I understand it, you can also only counterattack a patent on the basis of prior art if you have revealed the invention to the public. Which sucks if you just kept it for yourself and then get sued for using your own invention.
However filing a "patent on the creation of overly broad and obvious patents" might be fun, especially watching the patent office give examples of "prior art". "No, you can't patent this, X already did patent something obvious"
However, I cannot imagine where a circular preference really makes sense - I know it come about e.g. if you rate a candidates on 3 topics, and every candidate beats another on two topics and loses in one.
Example, topics are A, B, C
Every candidate beats another here. Still, I feel people should get their preference straight and assign weights to topics.
After all, this is something for the Simpsons: Better to have Bush than Rush. Well, then better to have Lush than Rush, well then better to have Bush than Lush, etc. etc.
I think the condorcet system simply allows circular preferences because the matrix of preferences is the tool used to compute the winner, and circular preferences emerge anyway, even with several voters where every single one votes in order of preference(just replace topic A,B,C with voters A,B,C).I must say a voting system which does not even allow to determine a winner of the voting when there is only one persons voting(with circular preferences) doesn't seems to make sense in practice - I guess this would need to be hacked(fixed).