Excuse me man, but I did not specifically include a link to my homepage to that special post, it is standard for me and others on slashdot in my profile.
I might have included a link to my bookmarks, but unfortunately the up-to-date version isn't online and I'd have to check the links. Sorry.
Actually the LGPL would be more appropriate, since it allows you to link with the plentiful java standard libraries.
An example like this I remember from old is the Borland pascal/C license, which also explicitely stated you could "link".
The GPL is pretty viral and can easily be understood as covering work that gets mixed with it. I guess one could show numerous examples where this isn't the case, but there is the danger of it.
E.g.: Just try to figure out what LGPL means for php code, which can be both code, library and program. It doesn't compute.
That's because you don't make your living off copying IP. Music, Movies, Games, Books, Etc.
Please. Please take the time to understand the issue from the point of view of the copiers. And please be mature enough to realize that not all copiers are rich spoiled capitalists.
If I copy something and people use it without compensating me for my hard work and leet skills, then that is wrong (assuming I am asking for something in return). Maybe it's not "stealing", but it is not fair and it is wrong.
Do you believe that anything that is not a solid object should not be freely copied whenever someone wants? Honestly? Have you really spent the time to think about what that would really mean?
While I think peer-to-peer is a cool idea for removing the bottleneck of a single server, it is somewhat awkward to send a part of a big file to a guy in canada, and then receive a part back in exchange from hongkong.
This creates a lot of traffic on the internet backbones. It would be smart if filesharing software included some evaluation of the network proximity of hosts requesting a download. Maybe that is integrated somewhere, but I didn't hear about it yet.
I guess this is a case of The prisoners problem/paradox. It also would be cool if providers would run filesharing servers at their hubs, it would reduce their inbound traffic. Guess they'll find it too risky though for legal reasons, you'd need at least one person check whether a file is a (halfway) legal download offer.
I think what you say is basically correct:
If you look out as far is possible, which should be either the point in time where the universal "balloon" expanded at the speed of light, or maybe so far that the Hubble constant times the distance is the speed of light, then you get to see the big bang.
Most of it is called the cosmic microwave background.
There are two reasons why there isn't as much of a paradox:
One is that spacetime might look like this: Space is 3D, but consider that it as 2D, then the universe would look like a balloon that gets inflated: every point on the balloon seems to be at the center of the explosion called big bang.
The second reason is that it gets harder to see the big bang itself, because Einsteins relativity theory predicts really big shifts in wavelength for stuff that moves away near the speed of light - so any electromagnetic waves and light from the big bang would be far below infrared and low in energy. And incrementally so as you get to look closer to the big bang.
This seems to be the classic case of a patent on something stupid. The guy to patent such a thing is often the first, since all others discarded the idea right away.
While such a patent has some merit because sometimes it turns out that the stupid stuff is not so stupid after all, this one basically patents two easy steps that are done in succession: finding broken links(easy) and replacing broken links(more difficult).
In my eyes if they had patented the details of a sophisticated solution to problem b) that would be OK, but I bet they made a broad patent, like patenting all ways to do step a) and all ways to do step b).
Consider that some web masters did the same process before, replacing broken link by hand, what exactly is new about the process itself in such a patent ?
My web server automatically replaces broken links with a different 404 page;-) go figure..
You can have multiple browsers, at least on Win98. (On linux I guess you would have to compile from source to change install location ?!)
I have kept old versions of browsers around for fun and testing, and FireFox asks whether to install into a different directory, even only when 0.9.3 is around to be updated.
It will make itself the default browser if you tell it though.
Mozilla settings were imported automatically. I'm not sure that all this applies to all mozillas, I just got Navigator, Communicator, and mozilla 1.3 there besides the newly upgraded FireFox 1.0PR, which also seems to work in slashdot unlike FF 0.9.x. Quite an exhibition.
I find Opera cool, but somehow the UI is so different - or maybe it is the ads that take up space. Maybe if opera had an add side bar instead of a banner, it would not feel so different.
So FireFox is the best, even though I already managed to kill 1.0 with a big table (bug submitted).
Why bother with sending the martionauts back ? I think you need at about 3 times the fuel to do that. Do stay on Mars, of course you really need to establish a working base on mars first.
By this I mean a fully robotical, remote-directed, but mostly autonomous complex that can extract building materials, water and air, and harvest organic substances e.g. soil and carbon (to produce food later). Mining chemicals and energy collectors would also be nice.
However, this requires a level of sophistication and organization similar to the Borg. So it is unlikely that this will happen before big advances in nanotechnology and assemblers(whatever scale) have been made.
We already have the basics of such technologies, like 3D-printers, but it is pretty costly and just think how much it will cost when it has to live up to outer space specifications.
So either it will be very long before Mars becomes an objective, or it might happen earlier but be only a short visit done in competition with, say, China.
Well assume they really only put two processors onto one chip.
That would not be that great, since you'd have to replace the entire CPU if one processor turns bad in or after production.
What would really interest me, does the dual processor already benefit from a shared cache ? Or is there enough benefit from a shared bus access management ?
Of course even if not it is a step into the multiprozessors-on-a-chip direction, but as long as there are less than say 8 prozessors are on it, I dunno whether there is enough pay-off already.
[foobar@localhost/usr/bin]#./eliza "rutine" Since when do you have this obsession with rutine ? [foobar@localhost/usr/bin]#./spellcheck -c "rutine" bad word "rutine" Nearest replacement: "routine" [foobar@localhost/usr/bin]#./man -psychic rutine You might mean "uptime" [foobar@localhost/usr/bin]#uptime
Perhaps I'm behind the times, but aren't gravitational force-carrying particles simply conjecture at this point in time?
I think so too, but if you consider vibrations and waves in a ten-dimensional space as that which makes up the universe, any "particle" is a concept that is optional.
As long as you can't decently manipulate and measure the particle, I guess it up to your feeling of aesthics which model you follow.
I personally believe in: God isn't rolling dice, God is playing billard. Peter Schaefer
So no attractive particles for me, if feasible, although you could make up one if it makes calculations easier:-)
Is it only me or does the slashdot article describe the project like something Microsoft would suggest ?
It sounds like you could easily shoot yourself in the foot using such a linux. I guess it is cool for LiveCDs and once we get persistent memory into the PC ? And for dongles ?
If there was Pushing gravity (also discussed before on/. ), or just a similar effect, all our calculations and measurements of gravity would be off a little.
I have no idea whether the effect would be so big though.
Some (Majorana?) even thought some kinds of matter were radiating "pushing gravity", but I'm really leaning dangerously far out of the window by guessing that this is the way that a black hole a the center of the galaxy causes the anomaly in galactic rotation curve that is observed (that anomaly suggests more (gravitational) pull, too.)
Please note that the arguments derived from thinking about Pushing gravity might apply even if gravity is not considered pushing by the physics used.
I like the ring of "Spam is a social problem, and it has to be solved through social mechanisms.", but some people also think that a sharp axe is a social solution to social problems.
And I don't see how exactly you would be banning UBE, without banning big valid email lists too. E.G. some emails sent by me automatically to people that subscribed were rejected by hotmails junk filter, because I used the wrong(straightforward) words. Most solutions banning spam, like yours, would also block email lists.
You ask for identificaton by keeping records - records can be faked and if we can avoid even more accounting on this planet I would feel better.
If a process like this keeps going, then in 2100 you'll get fined €20 for sending the word "sex" or "Nigerian" over the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
There is nothing better than a beowulf cluster of remote-controlled internet addicts with defective tinfoil hats to post to slashdot.
Well, Yellowstone park is supposed to blow up some time, unless someone helps to relieve the pressure under the hot baths.
FYI, among the patents violated is US patent 5443036, A way and method for excercising a buerocat by the use of a laser pointer.
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Community of
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Excuse me man, but I did not specifically include a link to my homepage to that special post, it is standard for me and others on slashdot in my profile.
I might have included a link to my bookmarks, but unfortunately the up-to-date version isn't online and I'd have to check the links. Sorry.
Troll ? What ? You must mean the /. article ..
Maybe I should submit my bookmarks too to slashdot for publications ?
I mean, I got 2000 bookmarks, mostly sorted, I'm sure one can find some nice gadgets there too.
Actually the LGPL would be more appropriate, since it allows you to link with the plentiful java standard libraries.
An example like this I remember from old is the Borland pascal/C license, which also explicitely stated you could "link".
The GPL is pretty viral and can easily be understood as covering work that gets mixed with it. I guess one could show numerous examples where this isn't the case, but there is the danger of it.
E.g.: Just try to figure out what LGPL means for php code, which can be both code, library and program. It doesn't compute.
That's because you don't make your living off copying IP. Music, Movies, Games, Books, Etc.
Please. Please take the time to understand the issue from the point of view of the copiers. And please be mature enough to realize that not all copiers are rich spoiled capitalists.
If I copy something and people use it without compensating me for my hard work and leet skills, then that is wrong (assuming I am asking for something in return). Maybe it's not "stealing", but it is not fair and it is wrong.
Do you believe that anything that is not a solid object should not be freely copied whenever someone wants? Honestly? Have you really spent the time to think about what that would really mean?
What do you do for a living?
THIS IS A serious PARODY
While I think peer-to-peer is a cool idea for removing the bottleneck of a single server, it is somewhat awkward to send a part of a big file to a guy in canada, and then receive a part back in exchange from hongkong.
This creates a lot of traffic on the internet backbones. It would be smart if filesharing software included some evaluation of the network proximity of hosts requesting a download. Maybe that is integrated somewhere, but I didn't hear about it yet.
I guess this is a case of The prisoners problem/paradox. It also would be cool if providers would run filesharing servers at their hubs, it would reduce their inbound traffic. Guess they'll find it too risky though for legal reasons, you'd need at least one person check whether a file is a (halfway) legal download offer.
I think what you say is basically correct:
If you look out as far is possible, which should be either the point in time where the universal "balloon" expanded at the speed of light, or maybe so far that the Hubble constant times the distance is the speed of light, then you get to see the big bang.
Most of it is called the cosmic microwave background.
There are two reasons why there isn't as much of a paradox:
One is that spacetime might look like this: Space is 3D, but consider that it as 2D, then the universe would look like a balloon that gets inflated: every point on the balloon seems to be at the center of the explosion called big bang.
The second reason is that it gets harder to see the big bang itself, because Einsteins relativity theory predicts really big shifts in wavelength for stuff that moves away near the speed of light - so any electromagnetic waves and light from the big bang would be far below infrared and low in energy. And incrementally so as you get to look closer to the big bang.
This seems to be the classic case of a patent on something stupid. The guy to patent such a thing is often the first, since all others discarded the idea right away.
;-) go figure ..
While such a patent has some merit because sometimes it turns out that the stupid stuff is not so stupid after all, this one basically patents two easy steps that are done in succession: finding broken links(easy) and replacing broken links(more difficult).
In my eyes if they had patented the details of a sophisticated solution to problem b) that would be OK, but I bet they made a broad patent, like patenting all ways to do step a) and all ways to do step b).
Consider that some web masters did the same process before, replacing broken link by hand, what exactly is new about the process itself in such a patent ?
My web server automatically replaces broken links with a different 404 page
You can have multiple browsers, at least on Win98.
(On linux I guess you would have to compile from source to change install location ?!)
I have kept old versions of browsers around for fun and testing, and FireFox asks whether to install into a different directory, even only when 0.9.3 is around to be updated.
It will make itself the default browser if you tell it though.
Mozilla settings were imported automatically. I'm not sure that all this applies to all mozillas, I just got Navigator, Communicator, and mozilla 1.3 there besides the newly upgraded FireFox 1.0PR, which also seems to work in slashdot unlike FF 0.9.x. Quite an exhibition.
I find Opera cool, but somehow the UI is so different - or maybe it is the ads that take up space. Maybe if opera had an add side bar instead of a banner, it would not feel so different.
So FireFox is the best, even though I already managed to kill 1.0 with a big table (bug submitted).
I think mars should really have a permanent base.
..
Why bother with sending the martionauts back ? I think you need at about 3 times the fuel to do that. Do stay on Mars, of course you really need to establish a working base on mars first.
By this I mean a fully robotical, remote-directed, but mostly autonomous complex that can extract building materials, water and air, and harvest organic substances e.g. soil and carbon (to produce food later). Mining chemicals and energy collectors would also be nice.
However, this requires a level of sophistication and organization similar to the Borg. So it is unlikely that this will happen before big advances in nanotechnology and assemblers(whatever scale) have been made.
We already have the basics of such technologies, like 3D-printers, but it is pretty costly and just think how much it will cost when it has to live up to outer space specifications.
So either it will be very long before Mars becomes an objective, or it might happen earlier but be only a short visit done in competition with, say, China.
All of the above might also make a nice RTS
Well assume they really only put two processors onto one chip.
That would not be that great, since you'd have to replace the entire CPU if one processor turns bad in or after production.
What would really interest me, does the dual processor already benefit from a shared cache ? Or is there enough benefit from a shared bus access management ?
Of course even if not it is a step into the multiprozessors-on-a-chip direction, but as long as there are less than say 8 prozessors are on it, I dunno whether there is enough pay-off already.
However, the next opportunity at g00gle is already open. Just visit Big Job Openings.
Thank you.
You're hired (tm)Peter Schaefer
[foobar@localhost /usr/bin]#./eliza "rutine" /usr/bin]#./spellcheck -c "rutine" /usr/bin]#./man -psychic rutine /usr/bin]#uptime
Since when do you have this obsession with rutine ?
[foobar@localhost
bad word "rutine"
Nearest replacement: "routine"
[foobar@localhost
You might mean "uptime"
[foobar@localhost
As long as you can't decently manipulate and measure the particle, I guess it up to your feeling of aesthics which model you follow.
I personally believe in: God isn't rolling dice, God is playing billard. Peter Schaefer
So no attractive particles for me, if feasible, although you could make up one if it makes calculations easier :-)
Is it only me or does the slashdot article describe the project like something Microsoft would suggest ?
It sounds like you could easily shoot yourself in the foot using such a linux. I guess it is cool for LiveCDs and once we get persistent memory into the PC ? And for dongles ?
I have no idea whether the effect would be so big though.
Some (Majorana?) even thought some kinds of matter were radiating "pushing gravity", but I'm really leaning dangerously far out of the window by guessing that this is the way that a black hole a the center of the galaxy causes the anomaly in galactic rotation curve that is observed (that anomaly suggests more (gravitational) pull, too.)
Please note that the arguments derived from thinking about Pushing gravity might apply even if gravity is not considered pushing by the physics used.
And I don't see how exactly you would be banning UBE, without banning big valid email lists too. E.G. some emails sent by me automatically to people that subscribed were rejected by hotmails junk filter, because I used the wrong(straightforward) words. Most solutions banning spam, like yours, would also block email lists.
You ask for identificaton by keeping records - records can be faked and if we can avoid even more accounting on this planet I would feel better.
If a process like this keeps going, then in 2100 you'll get fined €20 for sending the word "sex" or "Nigerian" over the internet.
How many M$ developers are needed to develop a big stick ?
120 = 6 teams of 20 to assess the competitors sticks
12 to design a revolutionary new stick
24 to browse old source code for old sticks that can be adapted into a big stick.
48 to query customers for stick features
12 to redesign the big stick
1 in India to carve the prototype
20 in quality assurance
100 to test the big sticks on
1 to go to Walmart and buy a baseball bat to show the patent office in the patent application for a big stick
60 key account managers to force all companies into OEM contracts to sell exclusivly the M$ stick.
12 to spread FUD about competitors sticks.
total so far: 410 M$ developers
Disclaimer: I buy M$ sticks, too.
Such an indexed WinFS could be the big stick of Microsoft against both Oracle and Google.
.. in anticipation. And hedge your stock bets.
You should shiver
This is not what X can do. Under X, the servers CPU runs the program, and your GPU helps with graphics.
Under Win98, all the remote OS does is to act as a fileserver. But both the local CPU and GPU work on the program.