Water is an excellent heat sink, but any company would likely run into serious environmental backlash if they wanted to use a lake or river as their heat sink.
Oh, I dunno, Bethlehem Steel in Indiana (just off of Lake Michigan) did that for years. It was nice going through the outflow in a Hoby Cat... drag your feet through the warm water and enjoy. Good fishing there too.
1. You're not supposed to take the vaccine if you've already been exposed to HPV. That's why they only prescribe it to young girls - not older people. 2. There is a genetic component to the risk from HPV. 3. Yes, the HPV virus itself causes the cancer. It messes with apoptosis gene expression, causing the cells to proliferate without the normal cell death mechanism kicking in.
SLOW,Jeebus Tap Dancing Christ is this pile slow! Sure if you run it on a dual core with 4Gb of RAM it boots okay(still slow,just not as slow) but lets be honest here:It is an OPERATING SYSTEM. Anybody remember that word? It means it should give programs access to your hardware and get the f*ck out of the way. Nobody buys the OS to stare at the desktop. When a 3GHz with 2Gb of RAM is not enough horse to keep the OS from being slow,you know there is a problem.
Hmmm.... I've not noticed it being slow myself. Also, I'm confused. You call it slow, yet you're saying that it boots okay (still slow, just not as slow)... which makes me wonder... are you calling the boot time slow? Or the actual operation of it slow?
What Antivirus software are you using? Do you have Norton Ghost installed? Norton Ghost made my machine crawl. No idea what it was doing, but the moment I uninstalled it, all of the stalls and slowness went away.
We're actually using Maxwell-HEAVISIDE equations all over the world after Oliver Heaviside rewrote Maxwell's original equations from quaternion notation into a much simpler vector notation.. throwing out some interesting stuff along the way
What interesting stuff was thrown out? I once spent a weekend comparing both, and as far as I can tell they're directly equivalent.
(I was looking to see if there was a term thrown away by mistake... doesn't look like it)
That seems rather strange, conflicting and broken behavior.
Firstly, this limits you to text fields, as other windows may or may not have any concept of "selected".
Secondly, selecting the text field to paste the text into will surely cause a problem here?
The way the behavior works is this: Mouse click on window X -> Gives window X's top-level parent activation and then gives Window X focus.
Then, the middle-mouse button handler causes the paste operation.
However, the window getting focus also means that it now has a selection - even an empty one where the Caret is.
Maybe X windows has special case code for handling this in text fields... I can only see one way of doing this for Windows, and that's to handle the non-client Mouse-down button message, then scrape the contents of the window which currently has focus (by sending it a WM_COPY), then allow the non-client message to pass through, passing a WM_PASTE. But that'll overwrite your real clipboard, which is again busted behavior.
I guess the solution here is: deal with it. X-Windows is the only OS which supports this kind of behavior.
I must admit, I've been waiting for the same people who claim that closed-source software is a "horse and buggy" that needs to get with the times to step up and say the same about closed-border policies.
If Slashdot hopes to remain relevant in the longterm, it needs to make at least some effort to accurately portray the stories. Otherwise, it will eventually become the internet equivalent of tabloids, worth only the entertainment value of reading the stories+comments, and completely untrustworthy for actual facts.
What gets me is that 3 years ago, people found a direct link between HHV1 (Herpes Simplex 1 - the kind you get coldsores from), and Alzheimers; literally, the plaques are riddled with the virus.
Add into the mix the fact that new hi-res MRI devices show microbleeds all over the brain of most people, and that these break the blood/brain barrier in those areas, and it gives a very simple mechanism for the virus to get into the brain (even if it doesn't just travel up the neurons themselves).
Why are people focusing on the plaques and the tangles? We have a virus here that lives inside of neurons, which has been found and strongly correlated with the disease.
There are other classes of herpes virus which have similarly been implicated in brain cancer. This should be a big fat red X marks the spot. But most researchers are too specialized.
Piracy has meant theft of copyrighted materials for a VERY long time. Since 1790. I think 218 years or so is long enough for the definition to be valid.
From the 1828 edition of Webster's dictionary:
" PI'RACY, n. [L. piratica, from Gr. to attempt, to dare, to enterprise, whence L. periculum, experior; Eng. to fare.]
1. The act, practice or crime of robbing on the high seas; the taking of property from others by open violence and without authority, on the sea; a crime that answers to robbery on land.
Other acts than robbery on the high seas, are declared by statute to be piracy. See Act of Congress, April 30, 1790.
2. The robbing of another by taking his writings."
Similarly, "piracy is theft" is an attempt to define piracy as theft - to establish (or change) the meanings of both words. The same is true of the opposing claim that piracy is not theft. Eventually the argument will be settled, at which point the question will be invisible: piracy will be theft, or it will not.
Piracy has meant theft since 1790. I think 218 years or so is long enough for the definition to hold.
From the 1828 edition of Webster's dictionary:
" PI'RACY, n. [L. piratica, from Gr. to attempt, to dare, to enterprise, whence L. periculum, experior; Eng. to fare.]
1. The act, practice or crime of robbing on the high seas; the taking of property from others by open violence and without authority, on the sea; a crime that answers to robbery on land.
Other acts than robbery on the high seas, are declared by statute to be piracy. See Act of Congress, April 30, 1790.
2. The robbing of another by taking his writings."
I think you should look up 'quid-pro-quo' since I don't think it means what you think.
Read what he says again. When he wants quid-pro-quo, he licenses under LGPL. Which means, use it for whatever you want, but if you modify that code (rather than just building on top of it), please release your modifications.
You just want to take without giving back, and it pisses you off that there are legal means to stop you.
Not actually the case. Some of us want to give without any strings attached, and view the people who claim that giving their code away under GPL is some kind of wonderful boon to society as having an agenda that we don't agree with.
I sell my code, or I give it away no strings attached (well, apart from usually you have to let me know how it's being used because I'm happy when it is). No middle ground.
This is similar to the "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run". Extremely common during the period but amazingly buried today.
Nah, I'd say it's more similar to Mozilla coming out with Firefox, and Apple deciding to make Safari. Or Creative Labs coming out with the Nomad, and Apple deciding to make the IPod.
Making a similar product that competes isn't illegal - in fact, for the most part, it's good business (it's what capitalism is supposed to promote)... and the LZ-style algorithms are pretty obvious. Shit, I came up with the idea for something similar to them myself back when I was 16 years old. Unfortunately, the LZ algorithms are also pretty damn optimal.
I see it as something like this: Stac: Here! We have this disk compression product. MS: Holy shit.. that's selling like hot cakes. We'd better make one. What compression can we use? Well, this looks good. Stac: Haha! You picked the only logical way of doing it. Here, have a lawsuit. MS: Rats!
But I've been a lot more forgiving of this kind of thing since someone called me a plagiarist for writing a 12 line assembly language routine that handled interrupts on the Z80. That's 16 bytes. It was the same as someone else's. *sigh*.
" Waterworth patented a LZ77 variant (US Patent 4701745). This algorithm is generally referred to as as LZRW1, because Ross Williams reinvented it later and posted it on comp.compression on April 22, 1991. The same algorithm has later been patented by Gibson & Graybill (US Patent 5049881). The patent office failed to recognize that the same algorithm was patented twice, even though the wording used in the two patents is very similar.
The Waterworth patent is now owned by Stac, which won a lawsuit against Microsoft, concerning the compression feature of MS-DOS 6.0. Damages awarded were $120 million. (Microsoft and Stac later settled out of court.) "
From his resume: "Consulting to Microsoft: In 1993 Stac initiated a software patent lawsuit against Microsoft over the doublespace data compression feature of MS-DOS 6. As part of its defence, Microsoft retained me as an expert in text data compression. Tasks involved searching for prior art and evaluating patents. "
"Unfortunately, during this happy rollout, some patents popped out of the US patent system that cast a shadow over the LZRW series algorithms, and they became effectively unuseable in any practical application. If you want to use them in any product (whether free or commercial), you will have to do some in-depth patent homework and algorithm development/modification so as to avoid infringement. If you think that's easy, then you should be aware that Microsoft tried to use an LZ77/LZRW1/etc variant, specifically designed not to infringe existing patents, in its MS-DOS V6 operating system, and ended up having to pay Stac about $80m in the resulting patent lawsuit. For this reason, I would like to take this opportunity to state that the code provided in this web (and FTP site) is provided with the intention that it be used for educational and recreational use only. "
I have so many fundamental objections to this... but ignoring the technical reasons (ie. it shouldn't be a patent, period)...
I'm an engineer.
I'm also a writer (of fiction, no less).
I'm also an artist.
I communicate well with others.
I appreciate music. I have insight. I understand 3d forms.
If this is how you, Mr. Ozzie, run your org, you can expect me never to consider working there. Ever. Because frankly, the idea of being pigeonholed as a bit-pusher annoys the hell out of me.
You know what you get if you encourage your programmers to use the other side of their brains? Better, more well rounded, autonomous programmers who can get the job done better. The whole idea of segregating people into classes of "well, obviously, this guy is only fit to write code", and "well, obviously, this guy is only fit to be an artist" is frankly abhorrent to me.
Why not? I think it's perfectly reasonable when you sign up with a carrier to have a 1 year contract. After that most contracts go month to month, and you only get in trouble if you take advantage of their 'free' phone offers
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Sprint claimed I had a 2 year contract after I bought a phone full price, and then switched to Cingular.
Of course, they're not willing to document why they think I have a 2 year contract, and I'm not willing to pay them the $150 fee until they do.
So they sent it to collections. Yay! Down goes my credit rating, and they don't care.
The philosophical/social side of the equation looks like this: Intellectual Property = information.
Thus, if you want to control intellectual property, you need to be able to control the information exchanged between people. That is a very difficult thing to do, and will most likely give you a totalitarian society as a side effect.
I disagree. Intellectual Property = structured information.
I can tell you everything about the characters in a movie or a novel, where they are, and what's in the room, and what their backgrounds are, their psychological tendancies, etc, but that won't give you a thriller.
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But why don't they just use mil-spec grade chips? Aren't they already graded for -55 to +125C operation. They're usually radiation hardened too.
Water is an excellent heat sink, but any company would likely run into serious environmental backlash if they wanted to use a lake or river as their heat sink.
Oh, I dunno, Bethlehem Steel in Indiana (just off of Lake Michigan) did that for years. It was nice going through the outflow in a Hoby Cat... drag your feet through the warm water and enjoy. Good fishing there too.
It's a shame that HPV doesn't cause penis cancer, I bet even the ardent fundies would think twice before chopping their dick off to prove a point.
Actually, it does. And throat/oral cancer.
Please stop spreading misinformation.
1. You're not supposed to take the vaccine if you've already been exposed to HPV. That's why they only prescribe it to young girls - not older people.
2. There is a genetic component to the risk from HPV.
3. Yes, the HPV virus itself causes the cancer. It messes with apoptosis gene expression, causing the cells to proliferate without the normal cell death mechanism kicking in.
SLOW,Jeebus Tap Dancing Christ is this pile slow! Sure if you run it on a dual core with 4Gb of RAM it boots okay(still slow,just not as slow) but lets be honest here:It is an OPERATING SYSTEM. Anybody remember that word? It means it should give programs access to your hardware and get the f*ck out of the way. Nobody buys the OS to stare at the desktop. When a 3GHz with 2Gb of RAM is not enough horse to keep the OS from being slow,you know there is a problem.
Hmmm.... I've not noticed it being slow myself. Also, I'm confused. You call it slow, yet you're saying that it boots okay (still slow, just not as slow)... which makes me wonder... are you calling the boot time slow? Or the actual operation of it slow?
What Antivirus software are you using? Do you have Norton Ghost installed? Norton Ghost made my machine crawl. No idea what it was doing, but the moment I uninstalled it, all of the stalls and slowness went away.
We're actually using Maxwell-HEAVISIDE equations all over the world after Oliver Heaviside rewrote Maxwell's original equations from quaternion notation into a much simpler vector notation.. throwing out some interesting stuff along the way
What interesting stuff was thrown out? I once spent a weekend comparing both, and as far as I can tell they're directly equivalent.
(I was looking to see if there was a term thrown away by mistake ... doesn't look like it)
That seems rather strange, conflicting and broken behavior.
Firstly, this limits you to text fields, as other windows may or may not have any concept of "selected".
Secondly, selecting the text field to paste the text into will surely cause a problem here?
The way the behavior works is this:
Mouse click on window X -> Gives window X's top-level parent activation and then gives Window X focus.
Then, the middle-mouse button handler causes the paste operation.
However, the window getting focus also means that it now has a selection - even an empty one where the Caret is.
Maybe X windows has special case code for handling this in text fields... I can only see one way of doing this for Windows, and that's to handle the non-client Mouse-down button message, then scrape the contents of the window which currently has focus (by sending it a WM_COPY), then allow the non-client message to pass through, passing a WM_PASTE. But that'll overwrite your real clipboard, which is again busted behavior.
I guess the solution here is: deal with it. X-Windows is the only OS which supports this kind of behavior.
Install MS intellipoint.
Remap middle mouse button to Paste.
Enjoy.
I must admit, I've been waiting for the same people who claim that closed-source software is a "horse and buggy" that needs to get with the times to step up and say the same about closed-border policies.
Oh wait, it affects their wallets. Never mind :)
If Slashdot hopes to remain relevant in the longterm, it needs to make at least some effort to accurately portray the stories. Otherwise, it will eventually become the internet equivalent of tabloids, worth only the entertainment value of reading the stories+comments, and completely untrustworthy for actual facts.
Too late.
Of course, in the process, Firefox stole several features from IE (like the "Safety Bar" which pops up now and then).
Links:
HSV1 and Alzheimer's link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000512083302.htm and http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/cold-sore-virus-might-play-role-in-alzheimers-12283.html and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18300070
Oh, and scratch that 3 years... make it 8, at least.
What gets me is that 3 years ago, people found a direct link between HHV1 (Herpes Simplex 1 - the kind you get coldsores from), and Alzheimers; literally, the plaques are riddled with the virus.
Add into the mix the fact that new hi-res MRI devices show microbleeds all over the brain of most people, and that these break the blood/brain barrier in those areas, and it gives a very simple mechanism for the virus to get into the brain (even if it doesn't just travel up the neurons themselves).
Why are people focusing on the plaques and the tangles? We have a virus here that lives inside of neurons, which has been found and strongly correlated with the disease.
There are other classes of herpes virus which have similarly been implicated in brain cancer. This should be a big fat red X marks the spot. But most researchers are too specialized.
The TinEye image search engine should be up there - http://www.tineye.com/ - one of the most mindboggling things I've seen in a hell of a long time.
Grab yourself a copy of Ohanian (Physics, combined, 2nd edition)
After that, go to a Blackwell's, and sit in the physics section. Pick some books off the shelf, examine them, see what resonates. Rinse, repeat.
Piracy has meant theft of copyrighted materials for a VERY long time. Since 1790. I think 218 years or so is long enough for the definition to be valid.
From the 1828 edition of Webster's dictionary:
" PI'RACY, n. [L. piratica, from Gr. to attempt, to dare, to enterprise, whence L. periculum, experior; Eng. to fare.]
1. The act, practice or crime of robbing on the high seas; the taking of property from others by open violence and without authority, on the sea; a crime that answers to robbery on land.
Other acts than robbery on the high seas, are declared by statute to be piracy. See Act of Congress, April 30, 1790.
2. The robbing of another by taking his writings."
Similarly, "piracy is theft" is an attempt to define piracy as theft - to establish (or change) the meanings of both words. The same is true of the opposing claim that piracy is not theft. Eventually the argument will be settled, at which point the question will be invisible: piracy will be theft, or it will not.
Piracy has meant theft since 1790. I think 218 years or so is long enough for the definition to hold.
From the 1828 edition of Webster's dictionary:
" PI'RACY, n. [L. piratica, from Gr. to attempt, to dare, to enterprise, whence L. periculum, experior; Eng. to fare.]
1. The act, practice or crime of robbing on the high seas; the taking of property from others by open violence and without authority, on the sea; a crime that answers to robbery on land.
Other acts than robbery on the high seas, are declared by statute to be piracy. See Act of Congress, April 30, 1790.
2. The robbing of another by taking his writings."
I think you should look up 'quid-pro-quo' since I don't think it means what you think.
Read what he says again. When he wants quid-pro-quo, he licenses under LGPL. Which means, use it for whatever you want, but if you modify that code (rather than just building on top of it), please release your modifications.
You just want to take without giving back, and it pisses you off that there are legal means to stop you.
Not actually the case. Some of us want to give without any strings attached, and view the people who claim that giving their code away under GPL is some kind of wonderful boon to society as having an agenda that we don't agree with.
I sell my code, or I give it away no strings attached (well, apart from usually you have to let me know how it's being used because I'm happy when it is). No middle ground.
This is similar to the "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run". Extremely common during the period but amazingly buried today.
Nah, I'd say it's more similar to Mozilla coming out with Firefox, and Apple deciding to make Safari. Or Creative Labs coming out with the Nomad, and Apple deciding to make the IPod.
Making a similar product that competes isn't illegal - in fact, for the most part, it's good business (it's what capitalism is supposed to promote)... and the LZ-style algorithms are pretty obvious. Shit, I came up with the idea for something similar to them myself back when I was 16 years old. Unfortunately, the LZ algorithms are also pretty damn optimal.
I see it as something like this:
Stac: Here! We have this disk compression product.
MS: Holy shit.. that's selling like hot cakes. We'd better make one. What compression can we use? Well, this looks good.
Stac: Haha! You picked the only logical way of doing it. Here, have a lawsuit.
MS: Rats!
But I've been a lot more forgiving of this kind of thing since someone called me a plagiarist for writing a 12 line assembly language routine that handled interrupts on the Z80. That's 16 bytes. It was the same as someone else's. *sigh*.
No, they didn't.
Here's some words from an
expert in the field of compression and patents:
http://www.ross.net/compression/
" Waterworth patented a LZ77 variant (US Patent 4701745). This algorithm
is generally referred to as as LZRW1, because Ross Williams reinvented
it later and posted it on comp.compression on April 22, 1991. The same
algorithm has later been patented by Gibson & Graybill (US Patent
5049881). The patent office failed to recognize that the same algorithm
was patented twice, even though the wording used in the two patents is
very similar.
The Waterworth patent is now owned by Stac, which won a lawsuit against
Microsoft, concerning the compression feature of MS-DOS 6.0. Damages
awarded were $120 million. (Microsoft and Stac later settled out of
court.) "
From his resume: "Consulting to Microsoft: In 1993 Stac initiated a
software patent lawsuit against Microsoft over the doublespace data
compression feature of MS-DOS 6. As part of its defence, Microsoft
retained me as an expert in text data compression. Tasks involved
searching for prior art and evaluating patents. "
Most importantly, however:
http://www.ross.net/compression/introduction.html
"Unfortunately, during this happy rollout, some patents popped out of
the US patent system that cast a shadow over the LZRW series algorithms,
and they became effectively unuseable in any practical application. If
you want to use them in any product (whether free or commercial), you
will have to do some in-depth patent homework and algorithm
development/modification so as to avoid infringement. If you think
that's easy, then you should be aware that Microsoft tried to use an
LZ77/LZRW1/etc variant, specifically designed not to infringe existing
patents, in its MS-DOS V6 operating system, and ended up having to pay
Stac about $80m in the resulting patent lawsuit. For this reason, I
would like to take this opportunity to state that the code provided in
this web (and FTP site) is provided with the intention that it be used
for educational and recreational use only. "
I have so many fundamental objections to this... but ignoring the technical reasons (ie. it shouldn't be a patent, period)...
I'm an engineer.
I'm also a writer (of fiction, no less).
I'm also an artist.
I communicate well with others.
I appreciate music. I have insight. I understand 3d forms.
If this is how you, Mr. Ozzie, run your org, you can expect me never to consider working there. Ever. Because frankly, the idea of being pigeonholed as a bit-pusher annoys the hell out of me.
You know what you get if you encourage your programmers to use the other side of their brains? Better, more well rounded, autonomous programmers who can get the job done better. The whole idea of segregating people into classes of "well, obviously, this guy is only fit to write code", and "well, obviously, this guy is only fit to be an artist" is frankly abhorrent to me.
Why not? I think it's perfectly reasonable when you sign up with a carrier to have a 1 year contract. After that most contracts go month to month, and you only get in trouble if you take advantage of their 'free' phone offers
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Sprint claimed I had a 2 year contract after I bought a phone full price, and then switched to Cingular.
Of course, they're not willing to document why they think I have a 2 year contract, and I'm not willing to pay them the $150 fee until they do.
So they sent it to collections. Yay! Down goes my credit rating, and they don't care.
Within limits... After all, how do you sell something if it's not controlled?
The philosophical/social side of the equation looks like this: Intellectual Property = information.
Thus, if you want to control intellectual property, you need to be able to control the information exchanged between people. That is a very difficult thing to do, and will most likely give you a totalitarian society as a side effect.
I disagree. Intellectual Property = structured information.
I can tell you everything about the characters in a movie or a novel, where they are, and what's in the room, and what their backgrounds are, their psychological tendancies, etc, but that won't give you a thriller.