If we can't find a bunch of movie stars to blow it up, maybe we can launch enough of them at it, at a high enough trajectory, that their impact can knock it back off course.
You're right to be angry about the teacher. The choice of license should have been up to you.
Why can't both licenses exist in the world simultaneously?
Personally I look at it like this:
The BSD license gives the code away for anyone to do with as they will, relying on the kindness of others to repay the gift in terms of giving code back to the community and not abusing it.
The GPL license is more greedy by demanding payment to use the code in other projects. The payment is that you have to put your code under the same license.
In truth the BSD license is the more 'free' in terms of the coder, and does reap benefits (as one person put it, Apple didn't base Darwin on GPLed code), but I wonder if the greedier way of the GPL is more benificial to allowing the code to propogate.
(I'm just trying to leave aside the idea of which is better for the user or which is better for the programmer and just looking at it in terms of which is more likely to provide more code back to the general 'pool', but personally I believe both licenses can co-exist and serve different purposes)
Okay, since they came out with it, I've seen the language called:
C-Sharp
C-Hash
B-Flat
D-Flat *
Any other good names?
*note(pun intended): For those not Music literate, I believe C-Sharp and D-Flat are two ways of writing the same note (I don't know why, maybe someone who has more of a musical background can enlighten us).
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Well, I think it is something you can recover from , depending on ones point of view.
I was on Cape Canaveral for the Challenger explosion. They have tours that you can take, and if a launch is schedualled, they take you out onto a peninsula across from the launch site and you can wait and watch. Well, I was on spring break from school (6th Grade) and he had taken me down to see the launch because he knew how much it ment to me. We were out in the cold every day, and then on the last day before I had to head back to New York to school, it took off.
I remember that they held us out there for at least 4 hours or so after the explosion and that the bus driver knew there was something wrong before the rest of us (he had seen lots of lift offs before).
I remember listening to the radio communication between the Challenger and ground control over some P.A. speakers they had set up out there.
I remember them anouncing that the orbiter had exploded and trying to figure out if they ment the actual space shuttle or something else.
Now, some 15 years later I remember how utterly exhausted I was at the end of it, and how much I watched the news and followed the story. I followed the inqueries and felt very happy when one of my heros (Richard Feynman) not only was apointed to the committee investigating the disaster, but actually solved the problem and wouldn't let them white-wash it (as I learned much later when I read more about it when I got older).
Its odd. After witnessing one of the major 'disasters' in U.S. Space history a lot of people seem to think I would be turned against space, or be afraid of it. The truth is, I would happily go into space if given the chance with barely a second thought, even knowing something could go wrong. I HAVE been afraid to go watch another shuttle launch live, but that has more to do with free time then the superstitious fear I had about it for a while when I was younger (as if my being there really had something to do with it:).
It took us far too long to get a permanent space station in orbit (and the shuttle delligated to the role it was envisioned for, a 'shuttle' to/from that sapce station). I hope space flight progresses enough that the average person can get into space within my lifetime. At 28 I figure I stand a decent chance if the space program follows the same sort of a pattern as the one aeroplanes followed (although it may still be close).
If not me, then my children should be able to go, if not "to the stars," then at least, "to the planets"
Okay... but who says the treatment will be availble in the Third world? (except to the rich and powerfull)
I'm not saying that this is how it SHOULD be, but how it probably will be. Heck, who says the treatment would be available to everyone in the First World? (except to the rich and powerful)
Unisys also said it has already developed an electronic voting system for Brazil and Costa Rica, and has partnered with the state of Minnesota to develop a voting system that posts results directly onto the World Wide Web.
Wow. A system that posts the results of the elections directly to the world wide web... guess we won't have as much of a problem with the web-site calling the state early:)
On a slightly more serious note, this is yet another example of why Jessie Ventura should be President (heck, Ronald Reagan was an actor who became goevernor and then president... the difference is?). He speaks his mind, listens to issues, and even makes informed choices. Heck, he's what politicians are SUPPOSED to be, not the drivvel we've ended up with.
Yes... its possible... and rather painfull to follow.
TO give you an idea, on the same ballot that I voted for president, I also voted for federal senate, state senate, local judges (one position had the same person 'running' in all available parties... makes you wonder why to even bother voting), and then off to the side on the bottom right were propositions such as wether the state should float bonds to be put toward transit (none of which apeared on the sample ballot posted so you could read about them beforehand).
It can be a bit overwhelming, especially since a lot of people vote on the way to work, wait in long lines and then rush to get to work.
I was watching the Daily Show (font of news that it is:)
and they had a segment. Apparently Huston has finally passed L.A. as the city with the worst air polution. Thank you George W.:)
Wasn't ment as a troll, I guess I just have a very different view of music I guess then you.
As far as the 'Why would anyone ever need more than 640k of ram?' quote I don't think its directly comparable.
In the case of memory, more memory ment that the programs could get more complex with higher memory requirements. My question was, assuming each CD holds about an hour of music (on average), carrying around 500 hours of music won't change the fact that there is still only 24 hours in a day (only so much you can actually listen to at once). Its like saying "I hate DVDs because they still only put one movie on a disk! I want to be able to carry around the complete run of 'Cheers' (chosen at random) in the memory of my computer so I can watch the episodes at random as my background wallpaper."
If you're using it as a big music juke-box I can understand the need for more storage/better compression (I guess), but I don't see what so hard about saying, 'I feel like X Y and Z today' and picking CDs (mp3 or otherwise) to take with you for that day.
I think this may be just a difference in viewpoint and we'll have to agree to disagree.
Um... I usually carry around a simple CD case with my laptop.
Untill now this has usually ment about 10 CDs.
Lately I've started converting my CDs into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-Rs. Okay... so now, instead of having 10 CDs, I have 2 Mp3-CDs and a few CDs that I haven't bothered converting yet.
assuming a decent filesize to song ratio, each Mp3 CD I've burned has had about 10 or 11 CDs on it. So, 50 of those would be about 500-550 CDs.
Why would anyone need that much music with them?
I figure if I progress through and replace carrying all my CDs with Mp3-CDs then I'll have about 100 to 110 CDs with me at a time. This is more music then I can listen to in a day, and you know what? If I like certain songs and hate others, I can always burn a 'Best of' CD.
if you MUST use cdr's, then the need for higher compression is even more urgent.
Why does anyone need to carry their whole library with them at any one time?
Speaking at an Internet conference hosted by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Steve Ballmer said that both Unix and Linux threaten Windows' stronghold in the marketplace, but that the latter is the bigger headache.
Funny... the first time I read this I thought it said stranglehold and wondered how MS dared to be so blatent... then I realized that was just how it sounded, not what they said.
Here's to hoping that Linux topples MS, but I don't want to see MS destroyed, I'd just love to keep them around in a niche market where we can all make fun of them... (and keep an eye on them).
I'll be surprised if they can come out with a practical application for this.
They're scientists... I'll be surprised if they CAN'T come up with a practical application for this. Heck... post-it notes were just a cool failure sitting around the lab. Someone will figure out how to build/market something using this tech. I guarentee THAT. How fast... thats another story.::smile::
On win32 it installed java and for the little I used it it seemed preaty stable, but I turned it off as soon as I remembered I had to dither with the settings:)
HP/UX is not a fringe operating system, Mozilla supporter.
It is from a Desktop user perspective.
I'd venture to say that Linux has a bigger space in the desktop/workstation market then HP-UX (although I'd bet most of those are develpment machines in people's homes vs. in the workplace).
Oh.. and I started using the nightly build from 7/5 as my main browser recently. A little wonkieness certainly, (sometimes downloading files bombs out with an odd message followed by the browser crashing soon after), but it seems to do much better than NS4.08 (which is now my secondary browser), and almost on par with IE5.0 (my tertiary browser... or was that part of my OS?::grin::)
YMMV but I think they should be ready for a release candidate real soon. The installer even let me pick to just install the browser which made me a very happy camper indeed:)
I'd not be surprised to find that M$ treats ALL of its employees in that manner.
Yeah... I'm waiting to see the defense on this...
MSLawyer: "Your honor, I am prepaired to show that Microsoft does not descriminate against Blacks. In fact Microsoft discriminates against all its low level employees equally. In FACT, we have recently been involved in a class action suit to this end, where it was proven that Microsoft treats its employees as scum. In view of these facts I move that the court immediately dissmiss these absurd charges."
Judge: "So your saying that because Microsoft treats all of its employees equally as garbage, there is no discrimination based on colour?"
MSLawyer: "Yes your honor."
Judge: "I am ready to render a summary judgement against the Defendent based on the grounds of Absurd Stupidity."
As it is, a friend of mine lives in a city that doesn't carry Fox Kids programming (for some reason 'Animated' automatically equals 'Kids' for some reason). I taped a bunch of stuff for her including "The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot" (based on the comic book of the same name). Unfortunately the series was cancelled after a six week run. Fortunately I've got it all on tape (I just need to move them all onto ONE tape::grin::).
As far as I know this series was deep sixed and I couldn't find it if I wanted to, so I'm glad I taped it (if only for the some of the lines, like the one I'm using as my SIG). The inability to do that sort of thing would infuriate me as a consumer, even though I rarely keep things I've recorded past about a week. I also found a tape filled with some of the most god-awful stuff from the 80's while cleaning out a drawer of old tapes ("Rubik the Amazing Cube" and "Teen Turbo" to name just a few... if you recognize the names then you know how bad they are::grin::).
"JACK VALENTI: Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. (indicates DMCA) Your friends up there on the Slashdot...are walking into a trap. As are your Rebel geeks! It was I who allowed the Slashdot to know about our new copy protected digital media. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best lawyers awaits them. Oh...I'm afraid the DMCA will be quite operational when your friends arrive."
ROFL
Please oh please would someone fly into the MPAA headquarters and destroy their main leagalise generator? Of course I suppose we'd first have to shut down their Corporate Shield being generated from the Lobby Group orbitting Capitol Hill.
I thought the main difference between Windows and Linux was that Windows forced people to accept a crippled system that hid everything from them. Its large market share helps maintain this. Linux on the other hand is suppose to free you from constraints (both intellectually and monetarily).
If some users want a Linux distro that is essentially Windows in a box, great. It will grow the Linux mindshare/marketshare (which is good because it portents more applications for them and for us), and chances are some of them will grow beyond the self imposed limitations of their choice as they comfortable with a new OS. I'm also sure there will always be distros that are aimed more for the more technical minded, because we don't want those 'limitations'. I use quotes deliberately because unlink windows, with linux you will most likely have a choice:
Like a distro, but don't want a kernel option? You claim to like the power of Linux, recompile the kernel.
Don't want a particular package? Uninstall it.
Want a different window manager? Install it.
Heck, how many of us hit the ESC key durring Win9x bootup to see all the messages go by even though 99% of the time we're not going to see anything? Its conditioning. Let them get used to Linux, booting straight to a GUI, and then they'll slowly get used to shell programming, or the script language of their favorite techies choice (we are after all the ones they usually turn to for help).
I agree, windows is good... provided you never plan to upgrade. I found it frustrating that machines that shipped with USB ports and Win95, became useless when Microsoft decreed that all new devices should only support USB under Win98 if they wanted the Windows compatible logo (can we say forced upgrade after all hyping they and the hardware manufacturers did about it?)
Didn't know the supreme court was so Net savy in 1970:)
Someone mod up the parent (#157)
I can just see this one sited in court after all, every knows that intent is only a piece of law... the most important piece is whats actually written =)
I wonder if it isn't a move by AMD to get the processor into a mobile platform ASAP.
Assuming that the Sledgehammer code can run (decently) on existing Transmeta chips, then they may beat Intel to market on the 'next generation 64-bit x86 successor', in a laptop version. This leaves AMD to concentrate on a desktop/server processor without worrying about mobile concerns (heat/power/size).
It would also give transmeta a shot in the arm since they would be in the position of offering something that no one else had (a laptop ready version of Sledgehammer).
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If we can't find a bunch of movie stars to blow it up, maybe we can launch enough of them at it, at a high enough trajectory, that their impact can knock it back off course.
Hmmm Celebrity Assisted Rail-Gun.... interesting possibilities.
You're right to be angry about the teacher. The choice of license should have been up to you.
Why can't both licenses exist in the world simultaneously?
Personally I look at it like this:
The BSD license gives the code away for anyone to do with as they will, relying on the kindness of others to repay the gift in terms of giving code back to the community and not abusing it.
The GPL license is more greedy by demanding payment to use the code in other projects. The payment is that you have to put your code under the same license.
In truth the BSD license is the more 'free' in terms of the coder, and does reap benefits (as one person put it, Apple didn't base Darwin on GPLed code), but I wonder if the greedier way of the GPL is more benificial to allowing the code to propogate.
(I'm just trying to leave aside the idea of which is better for the user or which is better for the programmer and just looking at it in terms of which is more likely to provide more code back to the general 'pool', but personally I believe both licenses can co-exist and serve different purposes)
Just take a look at Outlook.
They import lots of other people's mail formats... but try getting your mailbox OUT of exchange and into someone else's format.
Oooo... yet another reason to refer to it as Db.
Db could also be the notation for DeciBle (ie. the notation for noise... and not much else >:)
thanks for the explanation
Any other good names?
*note(pun intended): For those not Music literate, I believe C-Sharp and D-Flat are two ways of writing the same note (I don't know why, maybe someone who has more of a musical background can enlighten us).
Well, I think it is something you can recover from , depending on ones point of view.
:).
I was on Cape Canaveral for the Challenger explosion. They have tours that you can take, and if a launch is schedualled, they take you out onto a peninsula across from the launch site and you can wait and watch. Well, I was on spring break from school (6th Grade) and he had taken me down to see the launch because he knew how much it ment to me. We were out in the cold every day, and then on the last day before I had to head back to New York to school, it took off.
I remember that they held us out there for at least 4 hours or so after the explosion and that the bus driver knew there was something wrong before the rest of us (he had seen lots of lift offs before).
I remember listening to the radio communication between the Challenger and ground control over some P.A. speakers they had set up out there.
I remember them anouncing that the orbiter had exploded and trying to figure out if they ment the actual space shuttle or something else.
Now, some 15 years later I remember how utterly exhausted I was at the end of it, and how much I watched the news and followed the story. I followed the inqueries and felt very happy when one of my heros (Richard Feynman) not only was apointed to the committee investigating the disaster, but actually solved the problem and wouldn't let them white-wash it (as I learned much later when I read more about it when I got older).
Its odd. After witnessing one of the major 'disasters' in U.S. Space history a lot of people seem to think I would be turned against space, or be afraid of it. The truth is, I would happily go into space if given the chance with barely a second thought, even knowing something could go wrong. I HAVE been afraid to go watch another shuttle launch live, but that has more to do with free time then the superstitious fear I had about it for a while when I was younger (as if my being there really had something to do with it
It took us far too long to get a permanent space station in orbit (and the shuttle delligated to the role it was envisioned for, a 'shuttle' to/from that sapce station). I hope space flight progresses enough that the average person can get into space within my lifetime. At 28 I figure I stand a decent chance if the space program follows the same sort of a pattern as the one aeroplanes followed (although it may still be close).
If not me, then my children should be able to go, if not "to the stars," then at least, "to the planets"
Longevity!=Immortality
:)
Bah... I plan on living forever...
So far, So good
Okay... but who says the treatment will be availble in the Third world? (except to the rich and powerfull) I'm not saying that this is how it SHOULD be, but how it probably will be. Heck, who says the treatment would be available to everyone in the First World? (except to the rich and powerful)
I sort of abide by the policy that if he doesn't really want it, he might be the better choice :)
:)
I've seen what these guys that REALLY want it do.
Unisys also said it has already developed an electronic voting system for Brazil and Costa Rica, and has partnered with the state of Minnesota to develop a voting system that posts results directly onto the World Wide Web.
:)
Wow. A system that posts the results of the elections directly to the world wide web... guess we won't have as much of a problem with the web-site calling the state early
On a slightly more serious note, this is yet another example of why Jessie Ventura should be President (heck, Ronald Reagan was an actor who became goevernor and then president... the difference is?). He speaks his mind, listens to issues, and even makes informed choices. Heck, he's what politicians are SUPPOSED to be, not the drivvel we've ended up with.
Yes... its possible... and rather painfull to follow.
TO give you an idea, on the same ballot that I voted for president, I also voted for federal senate, state senate, local judges (one position had the same person 'running' in all available parties... makes you wonder why to even bother voting), and then off to the side on the bottom right were propositions such as wether the state should float bonds to be put toward transit (none of which apeared on the sample ballot posted so you could read about them beforehand).
It can be a bit overwhelming, especially since a lot of people vote on the way to work, wait in long lines and then rush to get to work.
Well, congrats... your air and water still suck.
:)
:)
I was watching the Daily Show (font of news that it is
and they had a segment. Apparently Huston has finally passed L.A. as the city with the worst air polution. Thank you George W.
Wasn't ment as a troll, I guess I just have a very different view of music I guess then you.
As far as the 'Why would anyone ever need more than 640k of ram?' quote I don't think its directly comparable.
In the case of memory, more memory ment that the programs could get more complex with higher memory requirements. My question was, assuming each CD holds about an hour of music (on average), carrying around 500 hours of music won't change the fact that there is still only 24 hours in a day (only so much you can actually listen to at once). Its like saying "I hate DVDs because they still only put one movie on a disk! I want to be able to carry around the complete run of 'Cheers' (chosen at random) in the memory of my computer so I can watch the episodes at random as my background wallpaper."
If you're using it as a big music juke-box I can understand the need for more storage/better compression (I guess), but I don't see what so hard about saying, 'I feel like X Y and Z today' and picking CDs (mp3 or otherwise) to take with you for that day.
I think this may be just a difference in viewpoint and we'll have to agree to disagree.
Um... I usually carry around a simple CD case with my laptop.
Untill now this has usually ment about 10 CDs.
Lately I've started converting my CDs into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-Rs. Okay... so now, instead of having 10 CDs, I have 2 Mp3-CDs and a few CDs that I haven't bothered converting yet.
assuming a decent filesize to song ratio, each Mp3 CD I've burned has had about 10 or 11 CDs on it. So, 50 of those would be about 500-550 CDs.
Why would anyone need that much music with them?
I figure if I progress through and replace carrying all my CDs with Mp3-CDs then I'll have about 100 to 110 CDs with me at a time. This is more music then I can listen to in a day, and you know what? If I like certain songs and hate others, I can always burn a 'Best of' CD.
if you MUST use cdr's, then the need for higher compression is even more urgent.
Why does anyone need to carry their whole library with them at any one time?
Speaking at an Internet conference hosted by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Steve Ballmer said that both Unix and Linux threaten Windows' stronghold in the marketplace, but that the latter is the bigger headache.
Funny... the first time I read this I thought it said stranglehold and wondered how MS dared to be so blatent... then I realized that was just how it sounded, not what they said.
Here's to hoping that Linux topples MS, but I don't want to see MS destroyed, I'd just love to keep them around in a niche market where we can all make fun of them... (and keep an eye on them).
I'll be surprised if they can come out with a practical application for this.
::smile::
They're scientists... I'll be surprised if they CAN'T come up with a practical application for this. Heck... post-it notes were just a cool failure sitting around the lab. Someone will figure out how to build/market something using this tech. I guarentee THAT. How fast... thats another story.
Actually, I am american... I've just gotten too used with the rest of the world :)
On win32 it installed java and for the little I used it it seemed preaty stable, but I turned it off as soon as I remembered I had to dither with the settings :)
(don't like java unless I ask for it)
(posting from the 5/1/01 nightly build)
HP/UX is not a fringe operating system, Mozilla supporter.
::grin::)
:)
It is from a Desktop user perspective.
I'd venture to say that Linux has a bigger space in the desktop/workstation market then HP-UX (although I'd bet most of those are develpment machines in people's homes vs. in the workplace).
Oh.. and I started using the nightly build from 7/5 as my main browser recently. A little wonkieness certainly, (sometimes downloading files bombs out with an odd message followed by the browser crashing soon after), but it seems to do much better than NS4.08 (which is now my secondary browser), and almost on par with IE5.0 (my tertiary browser... or was that part of my OS?
YMMV but I think they should be ready for a release candidate real soon. The installer even let me pick to just install the browser which made me a very happy camper indeed
I'd not be surprised to find that M$ treats ALL of its employees in that manner.
Yeah... I'm waiting to see the defense on this...
MSLawyer: "Your honor, I am prepaired to show that Microsoft does not descriminate against Blacks. In fact Microsoft discriminates against all its low level employees equally. In FACT, we have recently been involved in a class action suit to this end, where it was proven that Microsoft treats its employees as scum. In view of these facts I move that the court immediately dissmiss these absurd charges."
Judge: "So your saying that because Microsoft treats all of its employees equally as garbage, there is no discrimination based on colour?"
MSLawyer: "Yes your honor."
Judge: "I am ready to render a summary judgement against the Defendent based on the grounds of Absurd Stupidity."
True.. it is sad, very sad.
::grin::).
::grin::).
As it is, a friend of mine lives in a city that doesn't carry Fox Kids programming (for some reason 'Animated' automatically equals 'Kids' for some reason). I taped a bunch of stuff for her including "The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot" (based on the comic book of the same name). Unfortunately the series was cancelled after a six week run. Fortunately I've got it all on tape (I just need to move them all onto ONE tape
As far as I know this series was deep sixed and I couldn't find it if I wanted to, so I'm glad I taped it (if only for the some of the lines, like the one I'm using as my SIG). The inability to do that sort of thing would infuriate me as a consumer, even though I rarely keep things I've recorded past about a week. I also found a tape filled with some of the most god-awful stuff from the 80's while cleaning out a drawer of old tapes ("Rubik the Amazing Cube" and "Teen Turbo" to name just a few... if you recognize the names then you know how bad they are
"JACK VALENTI: Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. (indicates DMCA) Your friends up there on the Slashdot...are walking into a trap. As are your Rebel geeks! It was I who allowed the Slashdot to know about our new copy protected digital media. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best lawyers awaits them. Oh...I'm afraid the DMCA will be quite operational when your friends arrive."
ROFL
Please oh please would someone fly into the MPAA headquarters and destroy their main leagalise generator? Of course I suppose we'd first have to shut down their Corporate Shield being generated from the Lobby Group orbitting Capitol Hill.
I thought the main difference between Windows and Linux was that Windows forced people to accept a crippled system that hid everything from them. Its large market share helps maintain this. Linux on the other hand is suppose to free you from constraints (both intellectually and monetarily).
If some users want a Linux distro that is essentially Windows in a box, great. It will grow the Linux mindshare/marketshare (which is good because it portents more applications for them and for us), and chances are some of them will grow beyond the self imposed limitations of their choice as they comfortable with a new OS. I'm also sure there will always be distros that are aimed more for the more technical minded, because we don't want those 'limitations'. I use quotes deliberately because unlink windows, with linux you will most likely have a choice:
Like a distro, but don't want a kernel option? You claim to like the power of Linux, recompile the kernel.
Don't want a particular package? Uninstall it.
Want a different window manager? Install it.
Heck, how many of us hit the ESC key durring Win9x bootup to see all the messages go by even though 99% of the time we're not going to see anything? Its conditioning. Let them get used to Linux, booting straight to a GUI, and then they'll slowly get used to shell programming, or the script language of their favorite techies choice (we are after all the ones they usually turn to for help).
I agree, windows is good... provided you never plan to upgrade. I found it frustrating that machines that shipped with USB ports and Win95, became useless when Microsoft decreed that all new devices should only support USB under Win98 if they wanted the Windows compatible logo (can we say forced upgrade after all hyping they and the hardware manufacturers did about it?)
very interesting wording.
:)
Didn't know the supreme court was so Net savy in 1970
Someone mod up the parent (#157)
I can just see this one sited in court after all, every knows that intent is only a piece of law... the most important piece is whats actually written =)
I wonder if it isn't a move by AMD to get the processor into a mobile platform ASAP.
Assuming that the Sledgehammer code can run (decently) on existing Transmeta chips, then they may beat Intel to market on the 'next generation 64-bit x86 successor', in a laptop version. This leaves AMD to concentrate on a desktop/server processor without worrying about mobile concerns (heat/power/size).
It would also give transmeta a shot in the arm since they would be in the position of offering something that no one else had (a laptop ready version of Sledgehammer).