I followed the link to the site about/. tampering. Have a look at the first two shcreenshots: the thresholds are different. The second screenshot has threshold is 0. The first screenshot has a threshold of 1. The post on the secont screenshot has a rating of -1 and shows up only because it's from the registered user vfiewing the page (you allways gat to see your own posts, no matter how much they suck).
I know I'm a bit late to be read a lot.... but here's a link to something interesting:
Someone with sufficient understanding of economics has done the math and calculated the effect of patents in different scenarios:
Industries where innovation comes largely independent of each other, like medicine and
industries where inovation builds upon prior art.
Interestingly, it can be shown, that in the latter scenario (software!), patents harm not only the public, but even the paent-holder. A very interesting read (at least for the economics-geeks out there...).
Here's the link.
It's not so much about what Darl said but the fact that SCO lost its license to distribute GPL'ed Linux code when they tried to collect fees for Linux.
Collecting Fees (except for physical distribution) is prohibited under the GPL, thus SCO lost its license to distribute the GPL'ed code they where trying to charge for. IBM submitted lots of code to Linux under the GPL. Thus, SCO distributed IBM's code without a license.
BTW, a possible defense for SCO might be to say that tex only tried to collect fees for *their* code, not IBM's and that each little bit of Linux has to be viewed independently.
What's it good for? It's the next step to miniaturize the laptop, notebookn, sub-notebook...
Each step gives yoiu more mobility with less capability for a given prize. Already, many descisions in that area are trade-off's like "will the 12" PowerBook suffice? It IS easier to carry around..." These toys will just be the next extreme in the continuum somewhere between desktop and mobile phone.
"...Especially don't run programs via dual-boot, which tempts you to stay and use all those other wonderful programs like Outlook..."
If running linux and windows in parallel tempts you to stay on windows and not use linux, then by all means - use windows.
You should use the OS you like best. If the parrallel installation does not tempt you to use more linux then either there's (still) something wrong with linux on the desktop or windows is in fact (still) the better desktop OS - at least for you. And you're who should matter to you.
At work, my machine routinely uses 1.5GB of memory. It has 2GB installed. The part of the filesystem that gets most of the heavy workload holds about 400MB.
When I didn't use an application for a while, it got swapped out. Now I switched to XP (have to use Windows there, sorry) and disabled the swapfile. Guess what - I'm happier now.
Why?
My physical RAM can hold all my apps AND the part of the filesystem (cached) that gets heavy workload. Now I can switch to Mozilla while it's deploying stuff and not wait around a minute for the app to come up. And no, I didn't notice longer waits for the ressource-hungry jobs.
Honestly, I can work almost as fast on my iBook G3-600 as on my P4-2.4. But I'm even faster than that on PowerBook.
So for me, the surplus in CPU-speed on the P4 outweighs the usability-advantages of OS X on a CPU that's one generation behind and 1/4 the clocking. It's by far not enough to outweigh the advantage of OS X on a comparably advanced CPU with half the clock-speed.
Now, did that help? Propably not. All you can do is compare for yourself.
It's been done before. In Germany. It was called "schneller Brueter". It never went operational.
The rationale was that it would be vatsly more efficient. In practice, those "balls" were harder to control than the normal rods. In testruns they would jam as they were processed in the facility.
So it's neither the first time this is being built, nor is it the answer to all energy-questions in the world.
When there's around 100 million votes for president, that's a lot of minimum wage hours right there!
Ah, but in the US, do they really all show up to vote? For a national election??
Furthermore, isn't it a good American tradition to reduce the number of voters by e.g. not including substantial parts of the poor, mostly black population in the lists of registered voters?
you say that we should look at claims 11-20. Claim 11 is referenced by 12 to 16 and it describes Cookies. Claim 17 describes server-side-cookies. I didn't bother to read the rest but since claim 11 describes cookies and claims 12-16 refer to 11, maybe we should ignore 1 to 16 and only look at 17 to 20? Or maybe just at 20?
Or maybe it's time software-patents and how they're being granted should be reconsidered.
Many who were around when the Web was born will remember how it used to be when Webpages had content, not Flas-Animations and blinking banners.
To all those who think the end of plugins is nigh and that the web will die I can only say this: 1) There will still be plugins 2) If plugins were to disappear, the web would be a lot faster *and* safer. Substance might win over style again. Content would become distingushable from design once mor.
I'd love it - and believe me, many of you out there would learn to love it, too. But alas - it will not happen. We'll conmtinue to brouws through blinking webpages only to realase after half a minute of broadband-download for the stylish look and feel, that there's nothing behind the pompous facade.
In the advisory on securityfocus, it says that the affected versions are "Portable OpenSSH versions 3.7p1 and 3.7.1p1" - so it seems that since it's not using the latest, hottest implementation, OS X is not affected.
In Germany, SCO has been court-orderd not to claim that Linux violates their IP until they start giving proof of this. This licensing could be seen aqs such a claim and therefore, this license might acually *cost* them 250.000 Euros (if I remember the amount correctly) over here.
HTTP is OK, but try downloading that file from the command line. Even Windows has a command-line ftp-client.
Also, FTP has the useful "mget"-command to download multiple files. Try that with HTTP.
Finally, many FTP-clients can download whole directory-trees. I have yet to see this for HTTP, too.
Synopsis: If you have a specific problem, use a specific tool. The generic tool will be able to do everything - badly. A set of specific tools will serve you well in all situations.
More stuff like this is needed to teach non-slashdot.readers what running insecure software *really* means. Maybe it'll stop a few of them from browsing with machines that catch every worm or virus there is, just to help in the next DDoS-storm...
the author starts from a perspective where animated film (not necessarily anime) is inherently inferior to live-action because it has less visual depth and detail. what he disregards is, that as with any book, a good story only has to provide the necessary elements and hooks for your imagination to kick in and fill in the details.
The best images come from the viewer's inmagination. I wonder what books he reads if he has to be spoon-fed every detail.
A good example is the movie "Pink Floyd - The Wall". It has both, good live-action and stunning animation. But the animation is far more intense than the live-action here.
How did this link make it to/.? The "review" of anime isn't even starting on good premises for a decent review of animated film. In short: he doesn't get it.
We have a show on german TV called "Space Night" on "Bayern3" where they show the earth filmed from shuttles, old videos from NASA etc. Sometimes, they also have weird scientific stuff.
At least two years ago, there was a report about a scientist (I think) from former USSR who claimed that a fast-rotating superconductor will reduce the gravitational effect of anything "above" it when electricity flows through it. They measured the weight of a 2cent-coin before and while using the superconducter, and the weight actually fell by approx. 2 percent.
However, the guys who build the thing didn't have a theoretical explanation at the time, and it was presented as "wierd but interesting, let's see what becomes of this".
The TV-show is the same that featured a report about tunneling light through massive objects (blocks of lead) at speeds faster than "c", the speed of light in vacuum. Let's see when we hear more from that...
For which reason all mathematic proofs should start with something like "given that the following assumptions are true" or "based on the following axioms...".
I guess calling it a mathematical proof includes this, though.
Slashdot Mirror
It still fails the test - but you get the address-bar and see where you are.
I followed the link to the site about /. tampering. Have a look at the first two shcreenshots: the thresholds are different. The second screenshot has threshold is 0. The first screenshot has a threshold of 1. The post on the secont screenshot has a rating of -1 and shows up only because it's from the registered user vfiewing the page (you allways gat to see your own posts, no matter how much they suck).
Quit complaining, take down the site.
Sorry, that market is getting cowded, too, with processors that deliver more punch per dollar and more punch per kilowatt.
Take a look at Apple, the G4 and what little money you have to spend on that to make it to the top 10 of supercomputers.
Someone with sufficient understanding of economics has done the math and calculated the effect of patents in different scenarios:
Industries where innovation comes largely independent of each other, like medicine and
industries where inovation builds upon prior art.
Interestingly, it can be shown, that in the latter scenario (software!), patents harm not only the public, but even the paent-holder. A very interesting read (at least for the economics-geeks out there...). Here's the link.
SO what would you call the 13th mailclient? MailD, DMail, LetterSend, MailSend, SendMail, ShipMail, MassMail, LetterHead are all used up, what next?
Also, these are very easy to distinguish, right?
You didn't read the article, right?
It's not so much about what Darl said but the fact that SCO lost its license to distribute GPL'ed Linux code when they tried to collect fees for Linux.
Collecting Fees (except for physical distribution) is prohibited under the GPL, thus SCO lost its license to distribute the GPL'ed code they where trying to charge for. IBM submitted lots of code to Linux under the GPL. Thus, SCO distributed IBM's code without a license.
BTW, a possible defense for SCO might be to say that tex only tried to collect fees for *their* code, not IBM's and that each little bit of Linux has to be viewed independently.
What's it good for? It's the next step to miniaturize the laptop, notebookn, sub-notebook...
Each step gives yoiu more mobility with less capability for a given prize. Already, many descisions in that area are trade-off's like "will the 12" PowerBook suffice? It IS easier to carry around..." These toys will just be the next extreme in the continuum somewhere between desktop and mobile phone.
If running linux and windows in parallel tempts you to stay on windows and not use linux, then by all means - use windows.
You should use the OS you like best. If the parrallel installation does not tempt you to use more linux then either there's (still) something wrong with linux on the desktop or windows is in fact (still) the better desktop OS - at least for you. And you're who should matter to you.
Stick to windows.
At work, my machine routinely uses 1.5GB of memory. It has 2GB installed. The part of the filesystem that gets most of the heavy workload holds about 400MB.
When I didn't use an application for a while, it got swapped out. Now I switched to XP (have to use Windows there, sorry) and disabled the swapfile. Guess what - I'm happier now.
Why?
My physical RAM can hold all my apps AND the part of the filesystem (cached) that gets heavy workload. Now I can switch to Mozilla while it's deploying stuff and not wait around a minute for the app to come up.
And no, I didn't notice longer waits for the ressource-hungry jobs.
Let's compare. Doing what I usually do (listening to music, ripping, burning, editing ID3-tags; Surfing; Office), I have 3 computers to do this:
iBook G3 600MHz
PowerBook G4 1.25GHz
Pentium4 2.4 GHz (with 2GB of RAM!)
Honestly, I can work almost as fast on my iBook G3-600 as on my P4-2.4. But I'm even faster than that on PowerBook.
So for me, the surplus in CPU-speed on the P4 outweighs the usability-advantages of OS X on a CPU that's one generation behind and 1/4 the clocking. It's by far not enough to outweigh the advantage of OS X on a comparably advanced CPU with half the clock-speed.
Now, did that help? Propably not. All you can do is compare for yourself.
It's been done before. In Germany. It was called "schneller Brueter". It never went operational.
The rationale was that it would be vatsly more efficient. In practice, those "balls" were harder to control than the normal rods. In testruns they would jam as they were processed in the facility.
So it's neither the first time this is being built, nor is it the answer to all energy-questions in the world.
Ah, but in the US, do they really all show up to vote? For a national election??
Furthermore, isn't it a good American tradition to reduce the number of voters by e.g. not including substantial parts of the poor, mostly black population in the lists of registered voters?
Personally I like the bit about vote-counting in France. Sounds a lot more advanced (read: secure) than the US way of doing it.
I use the finedr's built-in FTP-support for up- una download from a friend's windoze-pc regularly.
you say that we should look at claims 11-20. Claim 11 is referenced by 12 to 16 and it describes Cookies.
Claim 17 describes server-side-cookies.
I didn't bother to read the rest but since claim 11 describes cookies and claims 12-16 refer to 11, maybe we should ignore 1 to 16 and only look at 17 to 20? Or maybe just at 20?
Or maybe it's time software-patents and how they're being granted should be reconsidered.
Many who were around when the Web was born will remember how it used to be when Webpages had content, not Flas-Animations and blinking banners.
To all those who think the end of plugins is nigh and that the web will die I can only say this:
1) There will still be plugins
2) If plugins were to disappear, the web would be a lot faster *and* safer. Substance might win over style again. Content would become distingushable from design once mor.
I'd love it - and believe me, many of you out there would learn to love it, too. But alas - it will not happen. We'll conmtinue to brouws through blinking webpages only to realase after half a minute of broadband-download for the stylish look and feel, that there's nothing behind the pompous facade.
Things could be different.
Where can we get scanners to test if the godds we buy carry RFID-Tags and how much do they cost?
Or will the tags only respond if triggered with the right code?
OpenSSH_3.4p1+CAN-2003-0693, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090609f
In the advisory on securityfocus, it says that the affected versions are "Portable OpenSSH versions 3.7p1 and 3.7.1p1" - so it seems that since it's not using the latest, hottest implementation, OS X is not affected.
Of course, I'm only guessing here...
In Germany, SCO has been court-orderd not to claim that Linux violates their IP until they start giving proof of this. This licensing could be seen aqs such a claim and therefore, this license might acually *cost* them 250.000 Euros (if I remember the amount correctly) over here.
Financially, I'd calll this an unwise maneuver...
HTTP is OK, but try downloading that file from the command line. Even Windows has a command-line ftp-client.
Also, FTP has the useful "mget"-command to download multiple files. Try that with HTTP.
Finally, many FTP-clients can download whole directory-trees. I have yet to see this for HTTP, too.
Synopsis: If you have a specific problem, use a specific tool. The generic tool will be able to do everything - badly. A set of specific tools will serve you well in all situations.
More stuff like this is needed to teach non-slashdot.readers what running insecure software *really* means. Maybe it'll stop a few of them from browsing with machines that catch every worm or virus there is, just to help in the next DDoS-storm...
The best images come from the viewer's inmagination. I wonder what books he reads if he has to be spoon-fed every detail.
A good example is the movie "Pink Floyd - The Wall". It has both, good live-action and stunning animation. But the animation is far more intense than the live-action here.
How did this link make it to /.? The "review" of anime isn't even starting on good premises for a decent review of animated film. In short: he doesn't get it.
At least two years ago, there was a report about a scientist (I think) from former USSR who claimed that a fast-rotating superconductor will reduce the gravitational effect of anything "above" it when electricity flows through it. They measured the weight of a 2cent-coin before and while using the superconducter, and the weight actually fell by approx. 2 percent.
However, the guys who build the thing didn't have a theoretical explanation at the time, and it was presented as "wierd but interesting, let's see what becomes of this".
The TV-show is the same that featured a report about tunneling light through massive objects (blocks of lead) at speeds faster than "c", the speed of light in vacuum. Let's see when we hear more from that...
Cheers,
Frank
Always nice to see how division by zero can be masked ;-)
I guess calling it a mathematical proof includes this, though.