I mean, say I am working on a piece of code, based on GPL stuff. Say it's for internal use only within my office. I think we all agree that using it on my company's computers only is not distributing it. Now let's say I want to send a copy to Joe because I value Joe's input into UI design, so I send a binary to my pal Joe. AM I now obligated to give Joe source?
Not for now. But if he asks for it, you must give it to him without complaining.
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I see that most of people probably don't know that there are already Perl modules on CPAN [cpan.org] to search Google and even to use Google cache:
* WWW::Search::Google [cpan.org] by Jim Smyser [cpan.org]
* WWW::Cache::Google [cpan.org] by MIYAGAWA Tatsuhiko [cpan.org]
* Apache::No404Proxy::Google [cpan.org] by MIYAGAWA Tatsuhiko [cpan.org]
* WWW::Search::Scraper::Google [cpan.org] by Glenn Wood [cpan.org]
Yeah, but shouldn't those modules be re-written, or at least patched, every time Google decides to change the HTML format of the result page? I think that accessing the results using a standard API would be much better.
I live in Europe, and it actually depends on the country you are in. Here in Italy, most cell phones have pre-paid cards: you buy 25 Euros worth's of minutes, and use that to make calls, until they run out. For incoming calls, there's absolutely NO charge. Even more, some cell phone providers will "recharge" your account for every received call (which is a way to reduce the average bill with a more "sexy" slogan). The only occasion where I pay for incoming calls is when I am outside my country.
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That's not just an ex-programmer, that's an asshole. You can find them everywhere.
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However, if you belive in souls, then reducing the human mind to 1's and 0's is rediculous.
That's ok. I will simulate apes first, and simulate just a few million years of evolution, and voilà: human-level AI.
If you think that apes are already soul-like, we can start with a bacterium, and evolve from that. It just require a *little* more computing power.
Re:I work in AI, and...
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Who is the fool who moderated the parent post as "funny"??
It was actually one of the few post in this discussion to say some informative things, even if they are pretty straightforward if you know something in the field.
Yes several countries in Europe have this already. The problem is, if you don't check that box you ain't gonna get the service. So this remedy is not a right to privacy, but a right to inform you you don't have it.
Well, this is not correct. In at least one country (Italy), the law acts in a way that you have TWO separate agreements: one for the service, and one for spreading out your personal data. Both have the "no" option checked by default.
You have to check on the first "yes" to have the service activated, and nothing else. Checking the second "yes" will grant permission to the service provider to use your data for ads, statistics etc. Using your data without this specific agreement can cause big penalties for the companies.
Everything is explained on every form, and it's so common that everyone knows that they must check only the first answer.
Using the Angular size calculator (beware: Excel xls file), given a distance of 1.700 light-years, and an apparent width of about 6 x 4 arc-minutes, we have that the nebula is roughly 3 x 2 light-years across.
It doesn't sound much, but it's almost 30,000,000,000,000 kilometers tall, with a width of 20,000,000,000,000 kilometers. The 3rd dimension is not known, but probably on the same order of magnitude.
I doubt that you can see in your 60mm more than a vague hint of the nebula. It's usually a bitch to photograph with high contrast.
About the exposure time, I'm sure that it wasn't too long. The VLT is composed of 4 telescopes, each with a 8.2 meters mirror. Most likely, only one of them was used, but even in this case, a few minutes would be enough to saturate the CCD:-)
Katz mentions several times "ease of use and reliability" as a selling point for Bill Gates, as opposet to the "just cool" model for Macs.
I wonder, how can anyone think that windows is "easy to use" compared to MacOS? Or "more reliable"???? At least for the 3.11/95/98 series, which is what we are talking about.
The only thing I can see is the power of a good marketing deparment...
we already knew that the majority of stars are massive bright blue ones, because the universe isn't out of large clouds of hydrogen for massive stars to form yet.
Actually, the vast majority of stars are little and, with very low luminosity, all of them invisible to the naked eye. The 'mass function' (the relative percentage of stars of different mass) gives something like 100 little red stars for every blue monster. There are luminous red stars, but they are just blue monsters getting old.
As a side note, almost all the stars that you can see in the night are luminosity monsters, apart from a few ones ( Alpha centauri). Sirius is one of the weakest, because it's equivalent to "only" 8 suns. There are stars as luminous as 50,000 suns ( Deneb, Canopus)
Calculating the impact site will be much easier for any asteroid (which is coming in a more or less straight line from outer space), than for any object which follows a "controlled" descent in the atmosphere, where "controlled" means that the velocity is bound within a pre-stated minimum and maximum.
The actual path is very hard to predict for an object at the mercy of atmosphere. A big enough asteroid will not even notice.
but inpact mass and velocity would be reduced by the atmosphere, at least somewhat
Actually, for impacts of this size, the atmosphere has only a very minor effect. The asteroid would speed through the most dense part (the last 50 km) in a second or two. I would be surprised if this makes more than a 5-10% difference.
Now you have: a 300 m sphere rock at about 3 grams/cm3, which is about 42.000.000 tons. Speeds are in the 10-70 km/sec range, let's take 30km/s, or 30.000 m/s
The total energy is (1/2)* 4,2*10^12 (grams) * 30.000^2 (m/s)
or 1,2* 10^22 joules (!)
if a kiloton is 4*10^12 joules, we have that this asteroid impact has an energy of about 3*10^9 kilotons, or 3 MILLION MEGATONS, all of them released on a single point.
I hope that my calculations are not too way off...
I'll give you the point as to the 'orders of magnitude' question. I tend to use the astronomical definition, i.e. approx. 2.5 times, and not the 10 times definition. So sue me.
That's the astronomical definition of "magnitude", not "orders of magnitude".
[Yellow] is a subtractive primary, it has nothing to do with light. Yellow is red and green.
Actually, it has a lot to do with light. The yellow perception is caused by light with a specific wavelenght, which happens to be in the middle between red and green. Both red and green receptors are then stimulated, each one a bit less then with a full red or green light, and your brain compute the sum as a yellow color.
And Microsoft doesn't rule you? Well then, consider yourself to be within a very tiny majority. Try and find an ISP that will support any OS other than Windows. Try and find an ISP that will even answer a simple question like "what's my mail server address" if you happen to let it slip out that you're not running Windows, instead of the usual "We don't support that"...click.
I guess that I'm especially lucky, then. On the support pages of my ISP, there are configuration instructions for:
Slashdot Mirror
I mean, say I am working on a piece of code, based on GPL stuff. Say it's for internal use only within my office. I think we all agree that using it on my company's computers only is not distributing it. Now let's say I want to send a copy to Joe because I value Joe's input into UI design, so I send a binary to my pal Joe. AM I now obligated to give Joe source?
Not for now. But if he asks for it, you must give it to him without complaining.
I see that most of people probably don't know that there are already Perl modules on CPAN [cpan.org] to search Google and even to use Google cache:
* WWW::Search::Google [cpan.org] by Jim Smyser [cpan.org]
* WWW::Cache::Google [cpan.org] by MIYAGAWA Tatsuhiko [cpan.org]
* Apache::No404Proxy::Google [cpan.org] by MIYAGAWA Tatsuhiko [cpan.org]
* WWW::Search::Scraper::Google [cpan.org] by Glenn Wood [cpan.org]
Yeah, but shouldn't those modules be re-written, or at least patched, every time Google decides to change the HTML format of the result page?
I think that accessing the results using a standard API would be much better.
It goes against my better judgement to take issue with your statement, but my education in free market systems brings to light one question:
If people don't like Microsoft and their products, why are they in business?
Simple: informed consumers.
You say that you have an education in free market systems. So, you know that consumer choices are crucial for a good working system.
Now, how many of the ~600 million potential consumers (Western world) could be described as "informed" on computer matters?
with a 10,000mhz SCSI hdd...
Wow, I didn't know that HDs could spin so fast!
Yes, AFAIK only in english speaking countries they celebrate april fools.
Actually it's celebrated also in some European nations (Italy for example).
I live in Europe, and it actually depends on the country you are in. Here in Italy, most cell phones have pre-paid cards: you buy 25 Euros worth's of minutes, and use that to make calls, until they run out.
For incoming calls, there's absolutely NO charge. Even more, some cell phone providers will "recharge" your account for every received call (which is a way to reduce the average bill with a more "sexy" slogan).
The only occasion where I pay for incoming calls is when I am outside my country.
That's not just an ex-programmer, that's an asshole. You can find them everywhere.
However, if you belive in souls, then reducing the human mind to 1's and 0's is rediculous.
That's ok. I will simulate apes first, and simulate just a few million years of evolution, and voilà: human-level AI.
If you think that apes are already soul-like, we can start with a bacterium, and evolve from that. It just require a *little* more computing power.
Who is the fool who moderated the parent post as "funny"??
It was actually one of the few post in this discussion to say some informative things, even if they are pretty straightforward if you know something in the field.
Mod parent to +5! Where are my mod points when I need them?
Yes several countries in Europe have this already. The problem is, if you don't check that box you ain't gonna get the service. So this remedy is not a right to privacy, but a right to inform you you don't have it.
Well, this is not correct. In at least one country (Italy), the law acts in a way that you have TWO separate agreements: one for the service, and one for spreading out your personal data. Both have the "no" option checked by default.
You have to check on the first "yes" to have the service activated, and nothing else. Checking the second "yes" will grant permission to the service provider to use your data for ads, statistics etc. Using your data without this specific agreement can cause big penalties for the companies.
Everything is explained on every form, and it's so common that everyone knows that they must check only the first answer.
As far as I know, the biggest NVIDIA graphics card is the GeForce3. What's this model n.4?
It must be enormous, but how enormous? Anyone?
Using the Angular size calculator (beware: Excel xls file), given a distance of 1.700 light-years, and an apparent width of about 6 x 4 arc-minutes, we have that the nebula is roughly 3 x 2 light-years across.
It doesn't sound much, but it's almost 30,000,000,000,000 kilometers tall, with a width of 20,000,000,000,000 kilometers. The 3rd dimension is not known, but probably on the same order of magnitude.
I doubt that you can see in your 60mm more than a vague hint of the nebula. It's usually a bitch to photograph with high contrast.
:-)
About the exposure time, I'm sure that it wasn't too long. The VLT is composed of 4 telescopes, each with a 8.2 meters mirror. Most likely, only one of them was used, but even in this case, a few minutes would be enough to saturate the CCD
Katz mentions several times "ease of use and reliability" as a selling point for Bill Gates, as opposet to the "just cool" model for Macs.
I wonder, how can anyone think that windows is "easy to use" compared to MacOS? Or "more reliable"???? At least for the 3.11/95/98 series, which is what we are talking about.
The only thing I can see is the power of a good marketing deparment...
we already knew that the majority of stars are massive bright blue ones, because the universe isn't out of large clouds of hydrogen for massive stars to form yet.
Actually, the vast majority of stars are little and, with very low luminosity, all of them invisible to the naked eye. The 'mass function' (the relative percentage of stars of different mass) gives something like 100 little red stars for every blue monster. There are luminous red stars, but they are just blue monsters getting old.
As a side note, almost all the stars that you can see in the night are luminosity monsters, apart from a few ones ( Alpha centauri). Sirius is one of the weakest, because it's equivalent to "only" 8 suns. There are stars as luminous as 50,000 suns ( Deneb, Canopus)
Calculating the impact site will be much easier for any asteroid (which is coming in a more or less straight line from outer space), than for any object which follows a "controlled" descent in the atmosphere, where "controlled" means that the velocity is bound within a pre-stated minimum and maximum.
The actual path is very hard to predict for an object at the mercy of atmosphere. A big enough asteroid will not even notice.
but inpact mass and velocity would be reduced by the atmosphere, at least somewhat
Actually, for impacts of this size, the atmosphere has only a very minor effect. The asteroid would speed through the most dense part (the last 50 km) in a second or two. I would be surprised if this makes more than a 5-10% difference.
Actually, the formula is E = (1/2)*mv^2
Now you have: a 300 m sphere rock at about 3 grams/cm3, which is about 42.000.000 tons. Speeds are in the 10-70 km/sec range, let's take 30km/s, or 30.000 m/s
The total energy is (1/2)* 4,2*10^12 (grams) * 30.000^2 (m/s)
or 1,2* 10^22 joules (!)
if a kiloton is 4*10^12 joules, we have that this asteroid impact has an energy of about 3*10^9 kilotons, or 3 MILLION MEGATONS, all of them released on a single point.
I hope that my calculations are not too way off...
I'll give you the point as to the 'orders of magnitude' question. I tend to use the astronomical definition, i.e. approx. 2.5 times, and not the 10 times definition. So sue me.
:-)
That's the astronomical definition of "magnitude", not "orders of magnitude".
No need to sue. Just back to school
[Yellow] is a subtractive primary, it has nothing to do with light. Yellow is red and green.
Actually, it has a lot to do with light. The yellow perception is caused by light with a specific wavelenght, which happens to be in the middle between red and green. Both red and green receptors are then stimulated, each one a bit less then with a full red or green light, and your brain compute the sum as a yellow color.
And then watch in horror when you discover that your password turned out "Pass_Word"...
I guess that I'm especially lucky, then. On the support pages of my ISP, there are configuration instructions for:
That's funny, when I try to send replies to all my spam, it seems that 100% of the net is unreachable...