Public domain means "not copyrighted". Copyright is not permanent. The copyright on the Gutenberg Bible (if there ever was one) has long since expired. It has been public domain for centuries.
Any program that runs on an x86 system will run on a perfect simulation of an x86 system.
plex86 is a simulation of an x86 system, so why wouldn't "proprietary microsoft stuff" work? You think they left something out of the driver specs? Such a move would not be to their advantage because you'd have incomplete drivers. . .
Dunno about you, but I want to be able to burn MPEG2 files to CD-ROM, and you don't want to copy those puppies on a serial link.
Wiring? Ethernet is easier to wire?
I said options not ease didn't I? Ethernet is more flexible to wire. Serial cables are short, so your computer has to be in, or extremely close to your TV room. Whereas you can run Ethernet pretty well anywhere in the house, and access your TiVO from any computer on the LAN.
If anyone ever breaks RSA-4096 encryption, I will be very impressed. A little less if they used a quantum computer, but quantum computers themselves are impressive. . .
When was the last time you saw 700+ comments on a subject? It's pretty clear that Slashdot's audience (including Canucks like me) wants to talk about the election here.
In Canada, our constitution is contains a notwithstanding clause that allows Governments to violate the Bill of Rights if they invoke it. The "notwithstanding clause" is so unpopular that it's political suicide for a government to invoke it, so it's not nearly as dangerous as it sounds.
Our Governor General is technically the head of the government, but all [she|he] does is rubberstamp whatever bills the government votes for. It's unclear whether [she|he] actually has the power to NOT sign those bills into law.
I understand that when you Yankees vote, you actually vote for an electoral college, people who have promised to vote for candidate foo should they be elected. It seems pretty unlikely that one of these people would turn tail and vote for the wrong person.
And if you think about it, a popular vote that was in favour of Republicans could still result in a Congress that had only one republican seat, if the votes broke down just right.
Government is sloppy, sure, but don't worry about it too much.
(Or you'll never stop worrying)
The idea is really cool, but the transfer rate is slow. Dog slow. Which is the opposite of how it's supposed to work. It's supposed to be that an army of modem users can each send a separate piece of the file to a DSL user, (or the reverse, of course). The latest version is supposed to be much faster. It doesn't work on my Linux box.
Misnamed, but way cool
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This sucker is not a window manager. Not mainly.
This is the 3-D equivalent of X-Windows.
Like X-windows, it allows many programs to run using the same resource. Only, instead of that resource being a 2-D plane, it's a 3D volume.
Take a look at this screenshot. It looks to me like the desk and the screen are being generated by two separate programs, through 3dwm. And it's apparently network-transparent.
What's really new about this seems to be the display of several 3-d programs in the same space, not the notion of a three-dimensional desktop.
It says in the article that there was already a "public comment" period. People already raised the points that a non-flaming Slashdotter would make. Those comments were ignored.
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Public domain means "not copyrighted". Copyright is not permanent. The copyright on the Gutenberg Bible (if there ever was one) has long since expired. It has been public domain for centuries.
Most mainframes don't use x86, and so x86 virtualization is not an option for them.
Any program that runs on an x86 system will run on a perfect simulation of an x86 system.
plex86 is a simulation of an x86 system, so why wouldn't "proprietary microsoft stuff" work? You think they left something out of the driver specs? Such a move would not be to their advantage because you'd have incomplete drivers. . .
No, he's made it impossible for them to judge-shop. Presumably, he'll still try to render a just ruling in any future suits.
The domain doesn't have an o, but the URL is correct.
In other words, http://spindletop.com is a different site. . .
The right kind of mistake is the one where the root userid is renamed mathilda, but everything is secure. . .
Mame is not illegal. Downloading ROMs that you don't own is.
My Gravis Ultrasound PnP is red.
Actually, using a bolt cutter to break off a lock can be legal, too. If it's your lock, for example. Or if the lock's owner asked you to break it off.
Drawing the obvious parallels is left as an exercise to the reader.
Athlon is meaningless, according to the story Slashdot carried when they announced the name.
Instead of naming things in the Athlon line after rivers (like Intel does with its chips) they name them after breeds of horse.
It looks like chips in the Sledgehammer family will be named after hammers.
Nope, Emmett's gone.
Dunno about you, but I want to be able to burn MPEG2 files to CD-ROM, and you don't want to copy those puppies on a serial link.
Wiring? Ethernet is easier to wire?
I said options not ease didn't I? Ethernet is more flexible to wire. Serial cables are short, so your computer has to be in, or extremely close to your TV room. Whereas you can run Ethernet pretty well anywhere in the house, and access your TiVO from any computer on the LAN.
Ethernet does have advantages over serial connections, though.
Speed and wiring options come to mind.
The problem is that those who mistakenly voted for Buchannan weren't unsure what their ballot meant, they were wrong about what it meant.
If anyone ever breaks RSA-4096 encryption, I will be very impressed. A little less if they used a quantum computer, but quantum computers themselves are impressive. . .
When was the last time you saw 700+ comments on a subject? It's pretty clear that Slashdot's audience (including Canucks like me) wants to talk about the election here.
In Canada, our constitution is contains a notwithstanding clause that allows Governments to violate the Bill of Rights if they invoke it. The "notwithstanding clause" is so unpopular that it's political suicide for a government to invoke it, so it's not nearly as dangerous as it sounds.
Our Governor General is technically the head of the government, but all [she|he] does is rubberstamp whatever bills the government votes for. It's unclear whether [she|he] actually has the power to NOT sign those bills into law.
I understand that when you Yankees vote, you actually vote for an electoral college, people who have promised to vote for candidate foo should they be elected. It seems pretty unlikely that one of these people would turn tail and vote for the wrong person.
And if you think about it, a popular vote that was in favour of Republicans could still result in a Congress that had only one republican seat, if the votes broke down just right.
Government is sloppy, sure, but don't worry about it too much.
(Or you'll never stop worrying)
The idea is really cool, but the transfer rate is slow. Dog slow. Which is the opposite of how it's supposed to work. It's supposed to be that an army of modem users can each send a separate piece of the file to a DSL user, (or the reverse, of course). The latest version is supposed to be much faster. It doesn't work on my Linux box.
This sucker is not a window manager. Not mainly.
This is the 3-D equivalent of X-Windows.
Like X-windows, it allows many programs to run using the same resource. Only, instead of that resource being a 2-D plane, it's a 3D volume.
Take a look at this screenshot. It looks to me like the desk and the screen are being generated by two separate programs, through 3dwm. And it's apparently network-transparent.
What's really new about this seems to be the display of several 3-d programs in the same space, not the notion of a three-dimensional desktop.
In other words, if I want to smoke, and I'm not bothering anyone, why should I be taxed for it more than any other consumer good?
Because you're sitting next to me, and you're giving ME cancer.
Despite being an NDP supporter, I can assure you: the NDP will not get elected. They never have, and they may never at all.
"We offer our students space on several file servers"
Nuff said.
Thing is, it's not the data that gets optimized. It's the way it runs the code that gets optimized.
In the real world, executible code tends to stay the same (excepting viruses and self-modifying code), and its major bottlenecks don't change much.
It says in the article that there was already a "public comment" period. People already raised the points that a non-flaming Slashdotter would make. Those comments were ignored.