Anyway, it's not just those who can't read who get screwed. Eric Weisstein is a very bright chap, and he's been and being buggered sideways with a fishfork by CRC Press.
Those who distribute think that the whole goddam system revolves around them, and as soon as anyone attempts to do without them, the call out the crack squad of bastard lawyers.
Bloody middle-men, adding nothing but lag and cost, if you ask me.
If you go to the Alpha Linux page ( http://www.alphalinux.org/ ) there's a list of vendors of systems and components in each country. If you're in the US, Germany or the UK there's a reasonable choice available, but elsewhere it's a bit thin.
Where do you get your supposedly up-moderation-worthy information from?
Debian do _not_ specify release dates in advance. It's ready when its ready, and not before. It annoys some, but it ensures the quality of the release.
Hmmm, actually, here's what Debian say:
"
As usual, no specific release goals are being set, nor will a release date be specified in advance. To put it simply, "Debian releases when it is time".
"
Exactly. I would also guess that there are probably a higher proportion of 'build your own machine from bits' Linux users than MS OS users. These of course do not register as even a PC sale. Making statistics based on PC and OS sales is truly futile.
> that you'd embed the absurdly long URL in an
> anchor tag (in the HREF attribute), where URLs > should be anyway...
What if I _want_ to see the URL, and I _want_ to be able to select it, or part of it, with the mouse, and paste it into a mail window?
(And no - don't try to double guess what browser I'm using, as I know that the 'copy link location' is a feature of some browsers, but certainly not all.)
There was an arms fair ('DSEI') in the UK yesterday. As one might guess, there were also protests outside this fair. There were, I have heard first hand, cheers yesterday as the reports came in:
"they too were not gloating at the deaths of thousands of individuals , they were cheering a
strike against the enemy."
The unity provided by
/the enemy of my enemy is my friend/
may be a desparate one, but that's because these situations involve desperate people.
Egyptians are celebrating in the streets too, and Egypt is probably one of the most USA-friendly nations in the Middle East.
The Americans cheered every blast in the Gulf war. Palestinians who are cheering are no different from those Americans who cheered back then. You cheer when you see your enemy hit.
And believe it or not, America _is_ viewed as an enemy by many (most, perhaps) in Palestine. That might be something to do with $2B donations of fighter aircraft to Israel, or it might be something to do with something else from the last 53 years.
Should I stick up a.jpg of a photo my sister took of a tear gas cannister which had "a present from the US" printed on it in English and Hebrew? If you can't see that America continually supporting an oppressive occupying regime makes them an enemy, then you are missing something.
Every country which has suffered directly or indirectly due to actions from the USA in the past will have _some_ people celebrating, I assure you.
As I said above, and it looks like it needs repeating, it's nothing more complicated than
/The enemy of my enemy is my friend/ .
Historically there's a trend towards life-taking attacks on the US leading to war, yes.
However, one death lead to 'the great war' (WW1 - 'great'??? sheesh).
Promise me one thing, in the USA, please:
For the whole world's sake don't counter-strike until you know exactly who's responsible, and only counter-strike exactly those people.
i.e. Don't blame all Arabs for the craziness of one radical faction.
THL
(Brit who's related to Arabs - Palestinians, in fact)
According to the BBC article, the size is 108 times that of the diameter of the sun, and the mass is 2 million times the mass.
108^3=1.25 million
=> the density is 8/5 that of our own sun.
Anyone else think these figures sound like they've been pulled out of someone's arse? Or am I just a cynic?
This is the first time I've had a chance to pop over to slashdot in about 3 months. I'm glad to see that it's still the same good old slashdot, with the same high quality of Katzes.
Assistant: I'm sorry sir, but do you have your "burn in store" membership card, or do you remember your membership number?
Cash Payer: Nope, sorry
Assistant: In that case I have to sell you the whole CD for full price, is that alright, sir?
Cash Payer: Nope. Bye.
If it was substantially cheaper (zero per-sale 'distribution' costs for a start, and no inlay cards etc.), then I'd sign up and they can stick any other data describing the transaction that they like in the CD, as long as it doesn't interfere with my ability to get the music off the disc using any device of my chosing whenever I want.
THL.
Get yourself a female partner, and after a few years a small lobe in your audio cortex will develop such that it kicks the speech centre into saying 'yup', or laughing, or making some bland response which matches what she's just said despite the fact that you really haven't got a clue what she actually has said. Every so often, while I'm intensely reading, my audio lobe will detect a joke, when in fact what's been said was tragic news, or something. Then I have to make excuses: "oh, you mean that's real - I thought you were describing some spoof" or whatever.
Hello dear:-)
THL.
I kind of disagree.
'Daemon multitasking'
e.g. Eating while coding
Heterogenous, yet trivial and productive.
'Cooperative multitasking'
e.g. Can't grok that bloody bug, need a break, let's go prepare the veg's for dinner.
Heterogenous, yet clears the mind, and productive.
'Preemptive multitasking'
e.g. Stop editing your release notes - we need you to look at something in the lab.
Homogenous, but really makes me lose my flow, and drops productivity.
However, that's just me. Others I'm sure have their own preferences.
THL
With Intel in flux (changing RAM architecture etc.) AMD probably do have the time to bring out SSE2 enabled CPUs that are better all-round than the P4, yes. However, AMD have got to get it right first time, and canät afford to release something as broken as the current P4.
I found the following (the 2nd link particularly) interesting.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/15736.ht ml
which points to
http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm
If they had any brains they'd have put an equally huge ammount in the other guy's back pocket too. Whta's known as a win-win situation.
I once saw a list of companies who had backed both sides, but forget if MS was on that list.
Anyone care to follow-up with some facts?
With reference to scaling up by 1600% I guess by "no noticable artifacts", you mean "bloody good guesswork". I don't see fractal comression as being without artefacts personally. They're just not the obvious rectangular artefacts that are found in cheap DCT schemes.
The problem with dumb scaling schemes is that they just say "I don't have the data", and don't even try to add the data that they don't have and give you something fuzzy. The data in this case being the aplitudes of frequencies above (half) the sampling frequency.
If you're conservative with your guesswork, even simple schemes (regions with high HF components are likely to have had some even higher frequency component, regions without aren't) often visually/appear/ better than none at all, even if they completely make up the details. With the 'fractal' based schemes they only base the guesses on real features found in the image, and thus are particularly believable.
You're a freekin genius... _IF_ they can make the process reversible. My vision is as follows:
Pr0n -->VanGogh-ise--> 'Art'
followed by
'Art' -->DeVanGogh-ise--> Pr0n
There's nothing wrong with having high art on your hard disk is there?
THL
--
On a side note, noone has ever answered me this - Why, 4 years ago, did the big 4 do everything they could to stomp on Haganuk's flat antenna technology. This flat antenna had a single lobe, pointing away from the head.
My main point is, however, that you're right - they'll patent it cos they sure as heck aren't going to sit back and watch someone else patent it.
Thank you. I was puting the journalling spects aside, as the two techniques are independent.
In a Journalling FS such as yours, the word 'close' as I used it can be wishy-washy, because there are two different data streams involved, the 'control' (journaling info), and the 'data' (file contents), which take different routes to the hard disk. One could define 'closure' to be the termination of the transaction sequence between the OS and the disk rather than the terminiation of the transaction sequence between the app and the OS.
Blimney, the cobwebs were building up.
I remeber the first version of Stacker that anyone said was stable was at the time of DOS 5.0, and it was _Stacker 2_, I think. Remembering that MS-DOS 4 was almost a non-event, that does probably put the _original_ stacker at DOS 3.3 times.
I stand corrected.
How much is it for a cheap cheap laptop (with CD drive, no floppy necessary) nowadays in the US? And for cheap cheap, I include end-of-line, and reconditioned (2nd hand).
That's probably the price level that we shoul dbe comparing this thing to.
Slashdot Mirror
"Working for MCA"...
Anyway, it's not just those who can't read who get screwed. Eric Weisstein is a very bright chap, and he's been and being buggered sideways with a fishfork by CRC Press.
Those who distribute think that the whole goddam system revolves around them, and as soon as anyone attempts to do without them, the call out the crack squad of bastard lawyers.
Bloody middle-men, adding nothing but lag and cost, if you ask me.
THL.
If you go to the Alpha Linux page ( http://www.alphalinux.org/ ) there's a list of vendors of systems and components in each country. If you're in the US, Germany or the UK there's a reasonable choice available, but elsewhere it's a bit thin.
THL.
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And what happens whem MS move to a pay-per-month scheme?
"
It'll be described as a feature which has been designed to enhance your computer.
THL.
Where do you get your supposedly up-moderation-worthy information from?
Debian do _not_ specify release dates in advance. It's ready when its ready, and not before. It annoys some, but it ensures the quality of the release.
Hmmm, actually, here's what Debian say:
"
As usual, no specific release goals are being set, nor will a release date be specified in advance. To put it simply, "Debian releases when it is time".
"
THL
Exactly. I would also guess that there are probably a higher proportion of 'build your own machine from bits' Linux users than MS OS users. These of course do not register as even a PC sale. Making statistics based on PC and OS sales is truly futile.
THL.
> that you'd embed the absurdly long URL in an
> anchor tag (in the HREF attribute), where URLs > should be anyway...
What if I _want_ to see the URL, and I _want_ to be able to select it, or part of it, with the mouse, and paste it into a mail window?
(And no - don't try to double guess what browser I'm using, as I know that the 'copy link location' is a feature of some browsers, but certainly not all.)
THL
There was an arms fair ('DSEI') in the UK yesterday. As one might guess, there were also protests outside this fair. There were, I have heard first hand, cheers yesterday as the reports came in:
"they too were not gloating at the deaths of thousands of individuals , they were cheering a
strike against the enemy."
That's in the UK.
THL
I can of course try to shed light on it.
/the enemy of my enemy is my friend/
.jpg of a photo my sister took of a tear gas cannister which had "a present from the US" printed on it in English and Hebrew? If you can't see that America continually supporting an oppressive occupying regime makes them an enemy, then you are missing something.
/The enemy of my enemy is my friend/ .
You see, America _isn't_ loved by everyone.
The unity provided by
may be a desparate one, but that's because these situations involve desperate people.
Egyptians are celebrating in the streets too, and Egypt is probably one of the most USA-friendly nations in the Middle East.
The Americans cheered every blast in the Gulf war. Palestinians who are cheering are no different from those Americans who cheered back then. You cheer when you see your enemy hit.
And believe it or not, America _is_ viewed as an enemy by many (most, perhaps) in Palestine. That might be something to do with $2B donations of fighter aircraft to Israel, or it might be something to do with something else from the last 53 years.
Should I stick up a
Every country which has suffered directly or indirectly due to actions from the USA in the past will have _some_ people celebrating, I assure you.
As I said above, and it looks like it needs repeating, it's nothing more complicated than
THL
Historically there's a trend towards life-taking attacks on the US leading to war, yes.
However, one death lead to 'the great war' (WW1 - 'great'??? sheesh).
Promise me one thing, in the USA, please:
For the whole world's sake don't counter-strike until you know exactly who's responsible, and only counter-strike exactly those people.
i.e. Don't blame all Arabs for the craziness of one radical faction.
THL
(Brit who's related to Arabs - Palestinians, in fact)
According to the BBC article, the size is 108 times that of the diameter of the sun, and the mass is 2 million times the mass.
108^3=1.25 million
=> the density is 8/5 that of our own sun.
Anyone else think these figures sound like they've been pulled out of someone's arse? Or am I just a cynic?
THL
You forget - it's a Katz article.
This is the first time I've had a chance to pop over to slashdot in about 3 months. I'm glad to see that it's still the same good old slashdot, with the same high quality of Katzes.
THL.
Assistant: I'm sorry sir, but do you have your "burn in store" membership card, or do you remember your membership number? Cash Payer: Nope, sorry Assistant: In that case I have to sell you the whole CD for full price, is that alright, sir? Cash Payer: Nope. Bye. If it was substantially cheaper (zero per-sale 'distribution' costs for a start, and no inlay cards etc.), then I'd sign up and they can stick any other data describing the transaction that they like in the CD, as long as it doesn't interfere with my ability to get the music off the disc using any device of my chosing whenever I want. THL.
Get yourself a female partner, and after a few years a small lobe in your audio cortex will develop such that it kicks the speech centre into saying 'yup', or laughing, or making some bland response which matches what she's just said despite the fact that you really haven't got a clue what she actually has said. Every so often, while I'm intensely reading, my audio lobe will detect a joke, when in fact what's been said was tragic news, or something. Then I have to make excuses: "oh, you mean that's real - I thought you were describing some spoof" or whatever. Hello dear :-)
THL.
I kind of disagree. 'Daemon multitasking' e.g. Eating while coding Heterogenous, yet trivial and productive. 'Cooperative multitasking' e.g. Can't grok that bloody bug, need a break, let's go prepare the veg's for dinner. Heterogenous, yet clears the mind, and productive. 'Preemptive multitasking' e.g. Stop editing your release notes - we need you to look at something in the lab. Homogenous, but really makes me lose my flow, and drops productivity. However, that's just me. Others I'm sure have their own preferences. THL
With Intel in flux (changing RAM architecture etc.) AMD probably do have the time to bring out SSE2 enabled CPUs that are better all-round than the P4, yes. However, AMD have got to get it right first time, and canät afford to release something as broken as the current P4.
t ml
I found the following (the 2nd link particularly) interesting.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/15736.h
which points to
http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm
THL.
--
If they had any brains they'd have put an equally huge ammount in the other guy's back pocket too. Whta's known as a win-win situation.
I once saw a list of companies who had backed both sides, but forget if MS was on that list.
Anyone care to follow-up with some facts?
THL.
--
bbc leader image
Jesus, that's tasteless.
THL.
(I mean 'leader' as in the story leader, not 'take me to your...')
--
With reference to scaling up by 1600% I guess by "no noticable artifacts", you mean "bloody good guesswork". I don't see fractal comression as being without artefacts personally. They're just not the obvious rectangular artefacts that are found in cheap DCT schemes.
/appear/ better than none at all, even if they completely make up the details. With the 'fractal' based schemes they only base the guesses on real features found in the image, and thus are particularly believable.
The problem with dumb scaling schemes is that they just say "I don't have the data", and don't even try to add the data that they don't have and give you something fuzzy. The data in this case being the aplitudes of frequencies above (half) the sampling frequency.
If you're conservative with your guesswork, even simple schemes (regions with high HF components are likely to have had some even higher frequency component, regions without aren't) often visually
THL.
--
I'd like to take your final point, and push it further.
Training Data:
'human face' -> 'full frontal nudity'
Then as 'test data' you feed it pictures of Clinton, Dubya, Gates, Linus, your little bro', yourself even.
Endless fun.
For someone like me that is.
THL
--
You're a freekin genius... _IF_ they can make the process reversible. My vision is as follows: Pr0n -->VanGogh-ise--> 'Art' followed by 'Art' -->DeVanGogh-ise--> Pr0n There's nothing wrong with having high art on your hard disk is there? THL
--
On a side note, noone has ever answered me this - Why, 4 years ago, did the big 4 do everything they could to stomp on Haganuk's flat antenna technology. This flat antenna had a single lobe, pointing away from the head.
My main point is, however, that you're right - they'll patent it cos they sure as heck aren't going to sit back and watch someone else patent it.
A very common use of patents.
THL
--
Gotos can be used to create cycles.
So DAGs cannot imply gotos. (acyclic, see)
Back to school sonny.
THL.
--
Thank you. I was puting the journalling spects aside, as the two techniques are independent.
In a Journalling FS such as yours, the word 'close' as I used it can be wishy-washy, because there are two different data streams involved, the 'control' (journaling info), and the 'data' (file contents), which take different routes to the hard disk. One could define 'closure' to be the termination of the transaction sequence between the OS and the disk rather than the terminiation of the transaction sequence between the app and the OS.
THL.
--
Blimney, the cobwebs were building up.
I remeber the first version of Stacker that anyone said was stable was at the time of DOS 5.0, and it was _Stacker 2_, I think. Remembering that MS-DOS 4 was almost a non-event, that does probably put the _original_ stacker at DOS 3.3 times.
I stand corrected.
Sorry,
THL.
--
You pay for size.
How much is it for a cheap cheap laptop (with CD drive, no floppy necessary) nowadays in the US? And for cheap cheap, I include end-of-line, and reconditioned (2nd hand).
That's probably the price level that we shoul dbe comparing this thing to.
THL.
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