Infinitely large and infinity are the same thing. There is no number infinity. Infinity can be infinitely larger than infinity.
For example, how many positive integers are there? Let's say there are A. A is obviously infinite. Now how many rationals are there? An infinite number, right? Yes. In fact, it happens to be A (you can algorithmicly assign an integer to each rational).
However, what about real numbers. Again it's infinite. But this time, it's NOT A. It's much more than A (A^2 is it?).
So my point is, infinity isn't a number; it doesn't have a value. Infinity is a shorthand way of writing "limit as var->infinity".
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Yes. I have a GCT, and don't even let the thing mount the CF read/write. I get the system bootstrapped off of the CF and then get everything I need off of NFS. Much safer:)
If you want swap, swap to NFS is feasable though (and if you have gigabit, the link can outpace the remote disk anyway). I've never tried it because I have 256M of RAM in the thing (and it only runs a local xserver; everything else runs on the server).
I have 1G of RAM, and no swap. Works great, even with eclipse, maple, firefox, and other stuff open at once. Having 10 things open at once doesn't degrade performance under Linux. That's a feature reserved for Windows...
Infinity doesn't exist. It's a placeholder involving limits.
Anyway, you are wrong. Try looking up L'Hopital's theorem. Things that look like "0 * infinity" can be equal to nice things like e or 324.87. Isn't math fun?
Example:
lim e^(-x) * e^(x) = 1 x->infinity
Even though [lim e^(-x)] as x->infinity = 0 and [lim e^x] as x-> infinity = infinity, and 0 * infinity looks like it would be 0, it just isn't the case.
(Proof: before evaluating the limits, do the division. The problem degenerates into [lim 1] as x->infinity, the x doesn't even affect anything anymore.)
This is exactly the problem with proprietary software. You're at their mercy if you want to use the software. You use what platforms they tell you to, and you'll like it. Don't want to pay $1337 for the version 1.0.0.0.1 upgrade? Too bad; you don't have a choice.
Free Software carries that name because you have the Freedom to choose what you want to do with the software. Run it where you want, add features, get work done comfortably. And hey, if you break it, you get to keep both pieces:)
Google should just say that it's illegal to use their service in California. Eventually enough angry Californians will complain, and the law will go away.
But what's the point of a law? Nobody is forcing you to use gmail. If you're worried about privacy, don't use gmail. Use Hotmail, Yahoo!, Hushmail,.Mac, your ISP, your own server, etc, etc. It's called a free market...
> "Mr Weenie -- despite all the ideology about the "Unix Philosophy", Unix desktop apps have never worked that way. Can you meaningfully use OpenOffice with pipes and cron? No."
Wrong. You can pipe in word documents and get a PDF (or something else) out. So yes, OO.org fits into the Unix philosophy. It also fits into the "big app that does lots" philosophy. Amazing how something can be in two groups, eh.
People don't look for those things. They look for numerical "bullet points" to compare, even if they're meaningless *. Sound quality is hard to understand and quantify, and therefore hard to market. Look at all the people with their bass being clipped because they have their "bass boost" on and their subwoofer turned up to 11. People don't know what a good thing is:)
* "Things like 'includes ShitBox version 31.37!! Much better than iTunes 3.0 because it has a higher number!'"
I think the first problem you need to solve is to get rid of that guy holding a gun to your head making you use email. You mean nobody's forcing you to use email?
Oh.
I think you need to get a grip on reality. Spammers are just people looking to make money. Yes their tactics are slimey, but I'd rather get a pornographic email than be murdered or raped! Please keep things in perspective.
Also, I think by banning SPAM we're heading down the slippery slope. How is banning SPAM any different than banning VoIP (see earlier article). How is it different from criticizing politicians? Why don't we just live in a nice brainwashed society...
I want to SPAM to go away. Unfortunately, I'd rather have a Free internet, so I'm willing to accept SPAM as the cost of freedom. There's always someone that wants to abuse a Freedom (think hate-speech); that's part of life.
So would you like a nice regulated, 'clean', turn-it-on-and-suck-down-our-content internet, or a Free one where you can do what you want?
We have a system, however, that allows these laws to be challenged and struk down. The Patriot Act isn't going to be around much longer; there are too many people against it now. Someone will be tried under it (see the recent ACLU cases...), and the judge will say something like "wtf? this is a law!?!! how did THAT happen?" and it will go away.
That doesn't happen in China. The United States has a pretty good criminal justice system (I say criminal justice system because the civil justice system is complete crap.
A:"Hi there. I'm suing you." B:"For what?" A:"I don't like you, and I have some spare cash" B:*runs out of money* A:*doesn't win lawsuit, but annoying person is no longer around, case ends*)
Had you heard of USB before the iMac? What about firewire?
But you are right.. the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, it was the first mega-successful MP3 player. (And that's not to say that the Nomad and Archos aren't good products.)
There weren't really and HD-based MP3 players before the iPod. So the "Mac Zealots" are pretty close to the truth anyway. But BTW, I didn't see any zealots saying anything about this. You are putting words in their collective mouth.
Anyway, I think it's great that microsoft wants to sell me $200 hard drives for $50 in a nice shinny box. Me buying a new mini hard drive == M$ losing $150. What a deal:)
Yup, you get what you pay for. Dell makes some cheap laptops, but they have this tendency to fall apart in about a week. That doesn't happen with powerbooks.
And as for their music player, it's rediculous. They make you pay extra for "enhanced" (i.e. non-crippled) software, and I'm sure the hardware isn't as good as Apple's. Apple, unfortunately (for their sales department), always adds features that are hard to market. For instance, read any review of MP3 players and you'll find that Apple's sound output hardware (DA converters, amp, etc.) is the best. But you can't really market that.
Oh well. The people who want a good music player will buy the Apple and the people who want a new toy will buy the M$ box. That's the way things have always been, and I don't see how it affects me if M$ makes a $50 music box. Whatever:P Apple has earned my loyalty by making a great product; Microsoft's business practices (and OS) make me want to blow up their headquarters on a daily basis. I'm sure others agree with me:)
The US is often criticized on slashdot for creating oppressive laws (and, at times, rightfully so). However, the regulation that we have here is NOTHING like the regulation under the New Earth Government^W^W^W European Union. There, people proudly donate 90% of their income to the government, and accept whatever rules are imposed on them. They have done this since the beginning of Western society, so they see no need to stop now. Thankfully, the US courts do not put up with this bullshit. I'm confident that the PATRIOT Act, the DMCA, etc, etc. will be struck down by courts. However, I don't see that heppening in Italy. I think that many lives will be ruined by some silly UberMegaMediaCorporation's need to control the government. Oh well, not my problem.
Also, I love the part about publishing the offender's name in the "national" newspaper. Seems like Italy has resorted to the practices of a third world country.
You Europeans give us Americans a lot of shit, but at least we don't have to go to jail and be publicly hummiliated for sending our friends some music.
I think GUI builders lead to poorly-designed interfaces, myself. I'm writing a rather large app in java right now, and I haven't designed any of the forms. I come up with an idea for how the form should work, then I add widgets to JPanels (to group them) and add those to layouts (and can repeat). The end result is a layout that looks good when the dialog comes up and continues to look good when the user resizes it. Plus, I didn't have to deal with some other programmer's naming conventions, or autogenerated code that gets munged every time I compile, etc. If you haven't done UIs by hand, you should consider it.
Okay, so we can't copy the unencrypted video. Why don't we record the encrypted video and run it through the decoder whenever we want an unencrypted copy?
Man in the middle attack. Once only for computers:)
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On the receving end, I think the phrase "MAIN SCREEN TURN OFF" would be appropriate...
Infinitely large and infinity are the same thing. There is no number infinity. Infinity can be infinitely larger than infinity.
For example, how many positive integers are there? Let's say there are A. A is obviously infinite. Now how many rationals are there? An infinite number, right? Yes. In fact, it happens to be A (you can algorithmicly assign an integer to each rational).
However, what about real numbers. Again it's infinite. But this time, it's NOT A. It's much more than A (A^2 is it?).
So my point is, infinity isn't a number; it doesn't have a value. Infinity is a shorthand way of writing
"limit as var->infinity".
Yes. I have a GCT, and don't even let the thing mount the CF read/write. I get the system bootstrapped off of the CF and then get everything I need off of NFS. Much safer :)
If you want swap, swap to NFS is feasable though (and if you have gigabit, the link can outpace the remote disk anyway). I've never tried it because I have 256M of RAM in the thing (and it only runs a local xserver; everything else runs on the server).
I have 1G of RAM, and no swap. Works great, even with eclipse, maple, firefox, and other stuff open at once. Having 10 things open at once doesn't degrade performance under Linux. That's a feature reserved for Windows...
> Advocating Hotmail for privacy?
Nope, I'm not advocating. I'm just pointing out that gmail isn't the only online mail service. Hell, it doesn't even exist yet!
Infinity doesn't exist. It's a placeholder involving limits.
Anyway, you are wrong. Try looking up L'Hopital's theorem. Things that look like "0 * infinity" can be equal to nice things like e or 324.87. Isn't math fun?
Example:
lim e^(-x) * e^(x) = 1
x->infinity
Even though [lim e^(-x)] as x->infinity = 0 and [lim e^x] as x-> infinity = infinity, and 0 * infinity looks like it would be 0, it just isn't the case.
(Proof: before evaluating the limits, do the division. The problem degenerates into [lim 1] as x->infinity, the x doesn't even affect anything anymore.)
You don't have to pick just one, though. Haven't you ever tried to find the taylor polynomial expansion of your girlfriend!?!?!
:)
The next time you're in bed with her, preform a Laplace (Petzval) transform on her! Fucking in L-space is fun!
Okay. This post clarifies why I will never have children
This is exactly the problem with proprietary software. You're at their mercy if you want to use the software. You use what platforms they tell you to, and you'll like it. Don't want to pay $1337 for the version 1.0.0.0.1 upgrade? Too bad; you don't have a choice.
:)
Free Software carries that name because you have the Freedom to choose what you want to do with the software. Run it where you want, add features, get work done comfortably. And hey, if you break it, you get to keep both pieces
> Why should I be tarred with the epithet "loony" merely because I have a pet halibut?
Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol?
Google should just say that it's illegal to use their service in California. Eventually enough angry Californians will complain, and the law will go away.
.Mac, your ISP, your own server, etc, etc. It's called a free market...
But what's the point of a law? Nobody is forcing you to use gmail. If you're worried about privacy, don't use gmail. Use Hotmail, Yahoo!, Hushmail,
> It's the difference between Adobe Acrobat & Acrobat Reader/Adobe Reader.
Hence ps2pdf. Which is about 34 times better than Adobe Distiller or whatever it's called. And it's free!
> "Mr Weenie -- despite all the ideology about the "Unix Philosophy", Unix desktop apps have never worked that way. Can you meaningfully use OpenOffice with pipes and cron? No."
Wrong. You can pipe in word documents and get a PDF (or something else) out. So yes, OO.org fits into the Unix philosophy. It also fits into the "big app that does lots" philosophy. Amazing how something can be in two groups, eh.
And why would we want it? Because Windows people use it?
The future is SVG + ECMAScript. And that's an open format. Let's keep the closed, proprietary shiny objects away from Linux, eh?
True, it usually takes apple two iterations to make a `perfect' product. Case in point, your powerbook (and the sound quality issue of the iPod mini).
Nobody's perfect. But there's no reason to buy Apple products if they're no good, even if you like to support Apple (like I do).
If your mind wants something to sound better than something else, it will. Hence $7000 speaker wire. Caveat emptor...
People don't look for those things. They look for numerical "bullet points" to compare, even if they're meaningless *. Sound quality is hard to understand and quantify, and therefore hard to market. Look at all the people with their bass being clipped because they have their "bass boost" on and their subwoofer turned up to 11. People don't know what a good thing is :)
* "Things like 'includes ShitBox version 31.37!! Much better than iTunes 3.0 because it has a higher number!'"
I think the first problem you need to solve is to get rid of that guy holding a gun to your head making you use email. You mean nobody's forcing you to use email?
Oh.
I think you need to get a grip on reality. Spammers are just people looking to make money. Yes their tactics are slimey, but I'd rather get a pornographic email than be murdered or raped! Please keep things in perspective.
Also, I think by banning SPAM we're heading down the slippery slope. How is banning SPAM any different than banning VoIP (see earlier article). How is it different from criticizing politicians? Why don't we just live in a nice brainwashed society...
I want to SPAM to go away. Unfortunately, I'd rather have a Free internet, so I'm willing to accept SPAM as the cost of freedom. There's always someone that wants to abuse a Freedom (think hate-speech); that's part of life.
So would you like a nice regulated, 'clean', turn-it-on-and-suck-down-our-content internet, or a Free one where you can do what you want?
We have a system, however, that allows these laws to be challenged and struk down. The Patriot Act isn't going to be around much longer; there are too many people against it now. Someone will be tried under it (see the recent ACLU cases...), and the judge will say something like "wtf? this is a law!?!! how did THAT happen?" and it will go away.
That doesn't happen in China. The United States has a pretty good criminal justice system (I say criminal justice system because the civil justice system is complete crap.
A:"Hi there. I'm suing you."
B:"For what?"
A:"I don't like you, and I have some spare cash"
B:*runs out of money*
A:*doesn't win lawsuit, but annoying person is no longer around, case ends*)
Had you heard of USB before the iMac? What about firewire?
But you are right.. the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, it was the first mega-successful MP3 player. (And that's not to say that the Nomad and Archos aren't good products.)
There weren't really and HD-based MP3 players before the iPod. So the "Mac Zealots" are pretty close to the truth anyway. But BTW, I didn't see any zealots saying anything about this. You are putting words in their collective mouth.
:)
Anyway, I think it's great that microsoft wants to sell me $200 hard drives for $50 in a nice shinny box. Me buying a new mini hard drive == M$ losing $150. What a deal
Yup, you get what you pay for. Dell makes some cheap laptops, but they have this tendency to fall apart in about a week. That doesn't happen with powerbooks.
:P Apple has earned my loyalty by making a great product; Microsoft's business practices (and OS) make me want to blow up their headquarters on a daily basis. I'm sure others agree with me :)
And as for their music player, it's rediculous. They make you pay extra for "enhanced" (i.e. non-crippled) software, and I'm sure the hardware isn't as good as Apple's. Apple, unfortunately (for their sales department), always adds features that are hard to market. For instance, read any review of MP3 players and you'll find that Apple's sound output hardware (DA converters, amp, etc.) is the best. But you can't really market that.
Oh well. The people who want a good music player will buy the Apple and the people who want a new toy will buy the M$ box. That's the way things have always been, and I don't see how it affects me if M$ makes a $50 music box. Whatever
The US is often criticized on slashdot for creating oppressive laws (and, at times, rightfully so). However, the regulation that we have here is NOTHING like the regulation under the New Earth Government^W^W^W European Union. There, people proudly donate 90% of their income to the government, and accept whatever rules are imposed on them. They have done this since the beginning of Western society, so they see no need to stop now. Thankfully, the US courts do not put up with this bullshit. I'm confident that the PATRIOT Act, the DMCA, etc, etc. will be struck down by courts. However, I don't see that heppening in Italy. I think that many lives will be ruined by some silly UberMegaMediaCorporation's need to control the government. Oh well, not my problem.
Also, I love the part about publishing the offender's name in the "national" newspaper. Seems like Italy has resorted to the practices of a third world country.
You Europeans give us Americans a lot of shit, but at least we don't have to go to jail and be publicly hummiliated for sending our friends some music.
That's because you use Windows, and Windows' implementation is broken. For those of us using a real operating system, we have no such problems.
I think GUI builders lead to poorly-designed interfaces, myself. I'm writing a rather large app in java right now, and I haven't designed any of the forms. I come up with an idea for how the form should work, then I add widgets to JPanels (to group them) and add those to layouts (and can repeat). The end result is a layout that looks good when the dialog comes up and continues to look good when the user resizes it. Plus, I didn't have to deal with some other programmer's naming conventions, or autogenerated code that gets munged every time I compile, etc. If you haven't done UIs by hand, you should consider it.
Okay, so we can't copy the unencrypted video. Why don't we record the encrypted video and run it through the decoder whenever we want an unencrypted copy?
:)
Man in the middle attack. Once only for computers