If I remember my general relativity, to an observer at rest matter falling into a black hole will seem to take an infinite time to pass the event horizon.
It's the one who needs more time (the observer falling in the black hole) who will experience becoming a very curved and very thin pancake in a finite amount of time.
I suggest everyone interested to go read John Baez's GR Tutorial
I imagine that there's a bit of good old fashioned vapour in the 10x assertion.
Also, for a site with such traffic as/. the much finer granularity of Postgres locks could make a difference.
No: Information is Lamarckian
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Information does not evolve following Darwinian rules. It evolves following Lamarckian rules: when information reproduces (is passed on), it does so with all the "improvements" it has accreted during its stay in your head.
And information does have predators: good ideas become displaced by worse ideas which are better adapted to small minds (witness liberalism against communism and fascim in the 20th century:)
You produce a brilliant idea. . MY convienence would be to use it without regard to you. BUT I plan for the long range, so to encourage you to produce other ideas I agree to forgo this for a while and let you enjoy exlusively the proceeds of this idea for the next x years
Then (1) you make 16 tons of money off your idea, (2) you produce nothing ever again, (3) you use aforesaid 16 tons to warp the democratic process and get another 2x years and (4) make another 32 tons of money. You Repeat steps 1 through 4 ad libitum.
What would have been my convenience initially is left as an exercise for the reader.
After having demonstrated that Security through Obscurity doesn't work, I guess the MPAA is trying to demonstrate that Security through Terrorism does work.
This is an entirely understandable reaction. They are just trying to ensure that the next "tamper-proof" copy protection scheme remains tamper-free.
I don't know how many cells a wooly mammoth has, but I think you can do some pretty good statistical analysis if you have the computing resources, the money and the time necessary.
OTOH, maybe the resources necessary are a bit too much.
I guess that doesn't include the bilions of dollars it will cost to MS shareholders.
They should just make MS publish all interfaces, protocols and list prices. That would avoid all the hassle and emasculate the company much more effectively.
If you send mail to Majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch" in the body, you will automagically receive the latest patch, as soon as it is posted by the Linus.
If the patch is too big (> ~400k) you will receive a notification and the diffstat output.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to uudecode and then invoke/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel on the resulting file....
If you send mail to Majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch" in the body, you will automagically receive the latest patch, as soon as it is posted by the Linus.
If the patch is too big (> ~400k) you will receive a notification and the diffstat output.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to "patch -p1 -d/usr/src/linux"...
They have already started porting their suite of applications. I imagine also the backend. This is particularly important because last year it seemed that an "iron alliance" was in the making between SAP and Microsoft to push NT. I guess SAP is afraid of WIN2K.
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If I remember my general relativity, to an observer at rest matter falling into a black hole will seem to take an infinite time to pass the event horizon.
It's the one who needs more time (the observer falling in the black hole) who will experience becoming a very curved and very thin pancake in a finite amount of time.
I suggest everyone interested to go read John Baez's GR Tutorial
I imagine that there's a bit of good old fashioned vapour in the 10x assertion.
/. the much finer granularity of Postgres locks could make a difference.
Also, for a site with such traffic as
And information does have predators: good ideas become displaced by worse ideas which are better adapted to small minds (witness liberalism against communism and fascim in the 20th century :)
Then (1) you make 16 tons of money off your idea, (2) you produce nothing ever again, (3) you use aforesaid 16 tons to warp the democratic process and get another 2x years and (4) make another 32 tons of money. You Repeat steps 1 through 4 ad libitum.
What would have been my convenience initially is left as an exercise for the reader.
After having demonstrated that Security through
Obscurity doesn't work, I guess the MPAA is trying to demonstrate that Security through Terrorism does work.
This is an entirely understandable reaction. They are just trying to ensure that the next "tamper-proof" copy protection scheme remains tamper-free.
One incentive less to go see a movie.
I don't know how many cells a wooly mammoth has, but I think you can do some pretty good statistical analysis if you have the computing resources, the money and the time necessary.
OTOH, maybe the resources necessary are a bit too much.
The only gripe I have with google is that it's not always up to date. It seems a couple of month behind current events.
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:)
On the other hand, it's so good it's uncanny. If you search for "Linux", the first links it returns are:
Linux.org, Redhat, Debian.org, Linuxhq.com,
Try it on Altavista
I guess that doesn't include the bilions of dollars it will cost to MS shareholders.
They should just make MS publish all interfaces, protocols and list prices. That would avoid all the hassle and emasculate the company much more effectively.
If you send mail to Majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch" in the body, you will automagically receive the latest patch, as soon as it is posted by the Linus.
/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel on the resulting file ....
If the patch is too big (> ~400k) you will receive a notification and the diffstat output.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to uudecode and then invoke
If you send mail to Majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch" in the body, you will automagically receive the latest patch, as soon as it is posted by the Linus.
/usr/src/linux" ...
If the patch is too big (> ~400k) you will receive a notification and the diffstat output.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to "patch -p1 -d
I have just posted it to linux-kernel:
--- drivers/usb/usb.h.bak Wed Apr 28 21:59:45 1999
+++ drivers/usb/usb.h Wed Apr 28 22:08:08 1999
@@ -363,8 +363,8 @@
void usb_audio_interface(struct usb_interface_descriptor *, u8 *);
void usb_audio_endpoint(struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *, u8 *);
#else
-extern inline void usb_audio_interface(struct usb_interface_descriptor *, u8 *) {}
-extern inline void usb_audio_endpoint(struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *, u8 *) {}
+extern inline void usb_audio_interface(struct usb_interface_descriptor *interface, u8 *data) {}
+extern inline void usb_audio_endpoint(struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *interface, u8 *data) {}
#endif
#endif
They have already started porting their suite of applications. I imagine also the backend. This is particularly important because last year it seemed that an "iron alliance" was in the making between SAP and Microsoft to push NT. I guess SAP is afraid of WIN2K.