Think about it: By some freak chance, some amino acids started to procreate, thereby naturally increasing in number. The rest of the process that follows - evolution - is a rather logical continuation, and does not need a higher goal to happen.
This, life has no external purpose. Our lives only have the purposes we choose.
Presumably, as these structures continue to cause problems for some members of the species, while providing no advantages, evolutionary processes would eventually eliminate them.
At least for the wisdom teeth, this can actually be observed. The number of people who don't develop any or whose wisdom teeth are so small they don't penetrate the gumline is rising.
Was in the Spiegel magazine once, no online resource.
RTFA. The Cambrian Explosion is actually exlplained: The appearance of the eye made a whole new class of life forms possible. Thus, in a relatively short amount of time, a lot of new species developed - you could say the species count exploded.
Multicast is not suited for file replication. If clients join a multicast stream, they can only get what the server is spewing out now, not the history. Fine for live braodcasts, sucks for everything else. You can't say: "Dear server, give me that file." The server will broadcast the file, and you get whatever portion is currently broadcasted wehn you join.
Then, there's also the issue of bandwidth/error correction. Mutlicast is UDP, you can't go and say: "Sorry, server, I didn't get that last packet, send it again". Multicast is purely uni-directional in that way. Again, fine for broadcast, sucks for file download. Any error correction info would have to be distributed along with the stream, dramatically increasing bandwidth requirements. Also, if the server is broadcasting at a highe rate than the client can receive, packets are gonna get dropped, and the client looses.
To sum up: Multicast was never meant to do downloads, and it shows.
One could have assumed that it was based on Firefox 1.0.1, which has those vulnerabilities fixed. So actually, the notice that Netscape 8 is not up-to-date with Firefox is a valuable one in this case.
Could I sell my binaries for X dollars, sell my source for Y dollars (under the GPL of course)
Yes, you could, provided you own the copyright fully (or have permission from all copyright owners). Dual-Licensing is explicetly allowed by the GPL. However, be aware that you coldn't stop anybody who once acquired the sources from redistributing them under the GPL, or even distributing binaries built from their sources.
That said, companies like Trolltech do exactly that: You can either download a GPL version of Qt from them, or acquire a commercial license. Since Qt is a library, you can only use the GPL to make GPL'ed software on top of it. If you want to develop (and distribute) commercial software, you need to buy the commercial license. That's how they make money. This model obviously only works for libraries, though, not for applications.
then when I make a new version, sell an "upgrade" for people with current licensed versions of the source for Z dollars?
Use the GPL'ed version as kind of a teaser, you mean? Yes, given you own the copyright, you can do anything you want. Licensing one version under the GPL does not mean you have to license all version.
I suggest you read the GPL, it's not that hard to understand.
What's up with you people! It's so childish. Two more mature ways: 1) Either you think that porn is not good and then you at least try to avoid it. 2) Or you think that porn is totally ok and then you have balls to admit it publically and not be silly about it.
Seriously, one button or two, I couldn't care less.
But no scroll wheel? Hello? Anybody I know who has ever used it gets so used to this thing that not having one feels positively crippling. Heck, I'ld even accept a mouse that has no buttons and where I have to hit enter on the keyboard or something to click, but no scroll wheel? It's the single best HID-improvement since the invention of the mouse (you be the judge whether that is actually sad or not).
who else thought watching sports, and porn, were singularly human proclivities?
I really wonder... Have you never seen animals watching other animals at play? Or a dog jerking off? And in those Discovery Channel documentaries, did you never notice that other monkeys were watching monkeys fuck?
Really, I rather had the impression that the only thing humans do differently is to pay money for looking at pictures. And that may well just be because animals, as a general rule, don't know how to take pictures.
And if you say: Hah! But humans invented prostitution!, I say: In the animal kingdom, it is not uncommon for the male to bring a gift in some species.
These people take a different approach to convincing you, though: Instead of technobabble, they just post lots of "tests" and "reviews" and openly state that their description on how it works is guesswork.
For some reason the entire registrar business has taken on a seedy air, the reek of small time evil:). Verisign did much to contribute to that, but they at least know what they are doing from a technical point of view - some new company will likely be just as bad as Verisign and disrupt things as well.
You seem to be implying that the others don't know what they are doing from a technical point of view, and will necessarily be an evil company. But DENIC, for example, runs the.de-registry, which has almost twice as many domains as.net. And while they have their problems, they are not-for-profit, so are not that bound towards typical corporate greed decisions.
You have every right to do with your sourcecode as you please. GPL it, put it under the BSD license, or sell it to Microsoft. To paraphrase ESR (I think): I may not agree with your choice of license, but I will defend your freedom to choose it.
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Think about it: By some freak chance, some amino acids started to procreate, thereby naturally increasing in number. The rest of the process that follows - evolution - is a rather logical continuation, and does not need a higher goal to happen.
This, life has no external purpose. Our lives only have the purposes we choose.
Presumably, as these structures continue to cause problems for some members of the species, while providing no advantages, evolutionary processes would eventually eliminate them.
At least for the wisdom teeth, this can actually be observed. The number of people who don't develop any or whose wisdom teeth are so small they don't penetrate the gumline is rising. Was in the Spiegel magazine once, no online resource.
RTFA. The Cambrian Explosion is actually exlplained: The appearance of the eye made a whole new class of life forms possible. Thus, in a relatively short amount of time, a lot of new species developed - you could say the species count exploded.
Banananas
"Granny knew how to start spelling 'banana', she just didn't know when to stop" - Terry Pratchett.I don't believe that MS even kept the etc directory when they ported the BSD stack! That's lazy. For the record, the UNIX file is /etc/hosts.
The 'Insightful' moderation of parent really made it for me.
It's supposedly at 1.0 beta (actually version 0.8) [...] It may not be abandonware, but it's as close as it can be
Version 0.9 was released yesterday.
Two groups:
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1. Linux distributors (defined loosely): IBM, Novell, RedHat,
2. IT Security companies that actually make money by finding security bugs (e.g. Secunia)
Multicast is not suited for file replication. If clients join a multicast stream, they can only get what the server is spewing out now, not the history. Fine for live braodcasts, sucks for everything else. You can't say: "Dear server, give me that file." The server will broadcast the file, and you get whatever portion is currently broadcasted wehn you join.
Then, there's also the issue of bandwidth/error correction. Mutlicast is UDP, you can't go and say: "Sorry, server, I didn't get that last packet, send it again". Multicast is purely uni-directional in that way. Again, fine for broadcast, sucks for file download. Any error correction info would have to be distributed along with the stream, dramatically increasing bandwidth requirements. Also, if the server is broadcasting at a highe rate than the client can receive, packets are gonna get dropped, and the client looses.
To sum up: Multicast was never meant to do downloads, and it shows.
QTorrent is quite decent.
Doesn't xntpd adjust the system clock's drift to most closely match the real time? Wouldn't this completely kill the entire idea?
One could have assumed that it was based on Firefox 1.0.1, which has those vulnerabilities fixed. So actually, the notice that Netscape 8 is not up-to-date with Firefox is a valuable one in this case.
fwiw your command should be "rm -rf ~"
But wouldn't he be deleting himself in this case?
Somebody should patent viruses/worms. Then, everytime a new version of a worm is released, sue the pants off anybody in sight!
[...] saidMarkham "[...]Google was the default browser for Firefox before we even signed the deal."
Google default browser for Firefox? Freudian slip, I say...
Actually, only 51% of their revenue comes from sales, the rest is consulting/support.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
Could I sell my binaries for X dollars, sell my source for Y dollars (under the GPL of course)
Yes, you could, provided you own the copyright fully (or have permission from all copyright owners). Dual-Licensing is explicetly allowed by the GPL. However, be aware that you coldn't stop anybody who once acquired the sources from redistributing them under the GPL, or even distributing binaries built from their sources.
That said, companies like Trolltech do exactly that: You can either download a GPL version of Qt from them, or acquire a commercial license. Since Qt is a library, you can only use the GPL to make GPL'ed software on top of it. If you want to develop (and distribute) commercial software, you need to buy the commercial license. That's how they make money. This model obviously only works for libraries, though, not for applications.
then when I make a new version, sell an "upgrade" for people with current licensed versions of the source for Z dollars?
Use the GPL'ed version as kind of a teaser, you mean? Yes, given you own the copyright, you can do anything you want. Licensing one version under the GPL does not mean you have to license all version.
I suggest you read the GPL, it's not that hard to understand.
What's up with you people! It's so childish. Two more mature ways: 1) Either you think that porn is not good and then you at least try to avoid it. 2) Or you think that porn is totally ok and then you have balls to admit it publically and not be silly about it.
You must be new here (SCNR).
That question is what the entire article is about. I mean, at least skim TFA before talking out of your ass. And no, I'm not new here.
Seriously, one button or two, I couldn't care less.
But no scroll wheel? Hello? Anybody I know who has ever used it gets so used to this thing that not having one feels positively crippling. Heck, I'ld even accept a mouse that has no buttons and where I have to hit enter on the keyboard or something to click, but no scroll wheel? It's the single best HID-improvement since the invention of the mouse (you be the judge whether that is actually sad or not).
who else thought watching sports, and porn, were singularly human proclivities?
I really wonder... Have you never seen animals watching other animals at play? Or a dog jerking off? And in those Discovery Channel documentaries, did you never notice that other monkeys were watching monkeys fuck? Really, I rather had the impression that the only thing humans do differently is to pay money for looking at pictures. And that may well just be because animals, as a general rule, don't know how to take pictures. And if you say: Hah! But humans invented prostitution!, I say: In the animal kingdom, it is not uncommon for the male to bring a gift in some species.These people take a different approach to convincing you, though: Instead of technobabble, they just post lots of "tests" and "reviews" and openly state that their description on how it works is guesswork.
For some reason the entire registrar business has taken on a seedy air, the reek of small time evil :). Verisign did much to contribute to that, but they at least know what they are doing from a technical point of view - some new company will likely be just as bad as Verisign and disrupt things as well.
You seem to be implying that the others don't know what they are doing from a technical point of view, and will necessarily be an evil company. But DENIC, for example, runs the .de-registry, which has almost twice as many domains as .net. And while they have their problems, they are not-for-profit, so are not that bound towards typical corporate greed decisions.
You have every right to do with your sourcecode as you please. GPL it, put it under the BSD license, or sell it to Microsoft. To paraphrase ESR (I think): I may not agree with your choice of license, but I will defend your freedom to choose it.
I believe that brita filters are more advanced devices than charcoal filters.
I don't want to disappoint you, but brita filters are exactly that: Activated charcoal filters.