They're copying it and the only problems they may face are equal to when they'd be copying cola from CocaCola; as long as they don't call it CocaCola and don't use patented things in it, they're fine. So they may run into problems with software patents, product names etc. but not for just implementing a windows api.
NAT cripples TCP/IP-functionality and was only invented to work around the lack of IP-addresses. It is not meant as a security-measurement and does not really add much security over a decent firewall. There's nothing wrong with this approach though it happens to be less safe when there is not decent firewall (which should be there).
Since the switch slashdot has become much slower on my surfnet.nl link; ping-times are up a lot and the site takes a lot longer to load...it's like ISDN here while I have a 100mbit connection...
Real life example: an application is developed for 120K, hosting requires 5 servers instead of 1. So what does the hosting cost? 1) SLA: 250/mnt 2) server: 200/mnt 3) Colocation: 140/mnt 4) Administration: 100/mnt/server. That's 690/mnt for 1 server, 2450/mnt for 5. That's 29K/year which is not even that expensive for enterprise-level applications. That's easily enough money to optimize the application enough to make it to run on 1 server (in this case). That's 29K which you get back within a little over a year.
From my box @ surfnet.nl the "old" slashdot is 16 hops away and has avg. ping-times of 92ms. The "new" slashdot is 14 hops away and has avg. ping-times of 156ms. So its latency is over 50% higher (OMFG:D) but it's 2 possible points of failure closer:) Ofcourse this will totally depend on which network you're on as you can see from another reply.
Offcourse it'll be different without a real body, but that doesn't imply it's impossible; I think people with damaged spinal-cords (what's the english word for that?) have proven that already. I think some of the sensory and movement-logic may indeed not be in the brain, but that shouldn't be a problem as those can be emulated as well. It's just a matter of time:) A long time:P
Why would it just create a new consciousness? What is consciousness more than some electrical signals running through a certain configuration of brain-cells (and influenced by chemicals from the blood). What's in there that cannot theoretically be copied, stored or emulated?
In order to support multiple users in the way you described (tried that and found out the hard way that only one keyboard can be used:() you'd also want sound integrated.
Perhaps that's good, although I'd like to see an option where you can choose to apply the feature to all links leading to HTML pages. This combined with a customizable maximum bandwidth restriction for the prefetching would be nice.
And that, my friend, would be the end of the Internet. How many of the links on a website do you generally click? On slashdot, I think, it would at most be something like 5%. Let's say 5% of the users would enable this feature. Now their browsers start pre-fetching. Since they normally only click at most 5% of the links, preloading all would multiply their bandwith-usage by 20 times. So. Our 5% of the users uses 20 times as much bandwidth as they would without preloading. So the average bandwidth-usage for web-browsing would about double and that's with only 5% of the users having this feature enabled. Bye bye Internet. There's a reason this really simple to implement feature isn't there yet.
But.... combined with a reasonably large distributed network of caching proxy-servers, pre-fetching might be worth a try.
Is this true? Could you/someone explain to me what would prevent me from building a huge strong ring around the event horizon and lowering a probe from that ring through the event horizon? The ring could be stabilized by the gravity of the black hole itself and a counter-weight on the side oppossite to the probe. Would the force on the probe be so strong that no force is strong enough to pull it back? Or is it theoretically impossible to build a probe strong enough to withstand the gravity?
Indeed. But there's one thing I can predict; use of laser-guns will typically be when the tanks are more than half-full; there has to be enough fuel left to get back to the base and fighting will usually not be near the base. Or at least to get back to a safe zone where tank-planes can come. For all exceptions there are still conventional guns.
The SR-71 runs on JP-7. JP-7 is a more viscous fuel with a low vapor pressure and a very high flashpoint. So high, in fact, that the SR-71 can't start its own engines. To light the fires on a Blackbird takes a chemical ignition system, where the ground crew squirts a measure of tetraethylborane into the engines. TEB is actually hypergolic with JP-7, and the resultant explosion starts the engines.
So sparks won't be the problem. Missiles will be, but the SR-71 won't be hit by missiles on a regular basis:)
I would actually consider all other platforms the named desktop environments and office suites run on to be competition of the Linux-platform and therefore it's kernel. Solaris, *BSD etc are all serious competitors. It's tests in which those platforms are compared that really keep innovation going. This is not about man-hours, this is about trying to be the best (so this whole ego isn't such a bad thing after all; it's what keeps all free software development going) and the best is always going to be better when a few groups are competing to be it than when there would be a single group working on it.
I think the arguments you name are irrelevant; the reason Word documents don't look perfectly is not lack of man-hours, it is the lack of a standard. And about Quake; I don't really know, but it's got nothing to do with Linux; if Quake were mainly targeted at the Linux platform it would probably perform better.
But anyway; I think you're right about the ego-problem, but regarding competition I think you're basicly wrong; competition is what keeps it all going, we just shouldn't have too many teams in the running and those teams indeed need strong leaders which are accepted by their members. But what we need most are commonly accepted standards for a lot more things than we have now to improve interoperability. Especially on the desktop.
(DISCLAIMER: my THC-entrenched brain made this all up)
What interests me is that Apple hasn't said anything about this matter so far. These rumours must have their impact on Apple's sales; if I'd run a Mac-based shop and have plans to upgrade my systems, I would wait until I'm certain about the future; if they're really making the move I may postpone the upgrade. Apple must know this and must know about the rumours. Now there are 3 possibilities: 1. They're thinking about the possibility of making the move but don't know yet. In this case they will probably not say anything about this matter because it increases uncertainty. 2.They're not thinking about a move at all. They would most certainly let their customers know this to take away any uncertainty. 3.They're indeed planning to move. They don't want to make this known too soon since it will most certainly make buyers wait until the new systems are on the market.
So. We haven't heard anything from Apple yet so we're probably dealing with case 1. or case 3. here.:)
Certainly it is not intended to make the installation process objectively easier or more flexible - nothing about a GUI is inherently necessary for this.
The GUI is the first impression users get of a distribution. Many of them are used to work with familiar elements like windows, textboxes, buttons etc. and will find the lack of those rather annoying or even difficult to work with. A GUI may not be inherently necessary for making the installation process objectively easier. But for users that are mostyly familiar with GUI's, a GUI is simply the easiest to work with. And almost always a GUI does a much better job at presenting information in an understandable way simple because everybody is familiar with the elements that are used to present it; dropdownlists, radiobuttons blabla.
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They're copying it and the only problems they may face are equal to when they'd be copying cola from CocaCola; as long as they don't call it CocaCola and don't use patented things in it, they're fine. So they may run into problems with software patents, product names etc. but not for just implementing a windows api.
NAT cripples TCP/IP-functionality and was only invented to work around the lack of IP-addresses. It is not meant as a security-measurement and does not really add much security over a decent firewall. There's nothing wrong with this approach though it happens to be less safe when there is not decent firewall (which should be there).
Since the switch slashdot has become much slower on my surfnet.nl link; ping-times are up a lot and the site takes a lot longer to load...it's like ISDN here while I have a 100mbit connection...
Real life example: an application is developed for 120K, hosting requires 5 servers instead of 1. So what does the hosting cost? 1) SLA: 250/mnt 2) server: 200/mnt 3) Colocation: 140/mnt 4) Administration: 100/mnt/server. That's 690/mnt for 1 server, 2450/mnt for 5. That's 29K/year which is not even that expensive for enterprise-level applications. That's easily enough money to optimize the application enough to make it to run on 1 server (in this case). That's 29K which you get back within a little over a year.
From my box @ surfnet.nl the "old" slashdot is 16 hops away and has avg. ping-times of 92ms. The "new" slashdot is 14 hops away and has avg. ping-times of 156ms. So its latency is over 50% higher (OMFG:D) but it's 2 possible points of failure closer:) Ofcourse this will totally depend on which network you're on as you can see from another reply.
Find some DOS, type in the following: copy con myprog.com[enter][alt-205][alt-24][ctrl+z]myprog[e nter] and you will know:)
Disclaimer: no dos here.
Offcourse it'll be different without a real body, but that doesn't imply it's impossible; I think people with damaged spinal-cords (what's the english word for that?) have proven that already. I think some of the sensory and movement-logic may indeed not be in the brain, but that shouldn't be a problem as those can be emulated as well. It's just a matter of time:) A long time:P
Offcourse you'd have to kill the old one and be asleep when the copy is made; then it'd really be like waking up in a new body.
Why would it just create a new consciousness? What is consciousness more than some electrical signals running through a certain configuration of brain-cells (and influenced by chemicals from the blood). What's in there that cannot theoretically be copied, stored or emulated?
In order to support multiple users in the way you described (tried that and found out the hard way that only one keyboard can be used:() you'd also want sound integrated.
Then the next question has to be: Are there any serious non-MS solutions?:)
What kind of mail server do you use?
And that, my friend, would be the end of the Internet. How many of the links on a website do you generally click? On slashdot, I think, it would at most be something like 5%. Let's say 5% of the users would enable this feature. Now their browsers start pre-fetching. Since they normally only click at most 5% of the links, preloading all would multiply their bandwith-usage by 20 times. So. Our 5% of the users uses 20 times as much bandwidth as they would without preloading. So the average bandwidth-usage for web-browsing would about double and that's with only 5% of the users having this feature enabled. Bye bye Internet. There's a reason this really simple to implement feature isn't there yet.
But.... combined with a reasonably large distributed network of caching proxy-servers, pre-fetching might be worth a try.
Is this true? Could you/someone explain to me what would prevent me from building a huge strong ring around the event horizon and lowering a probe from that ring through the event horizon? The ring could be stabilized by the gravity of the black hole itself and a counter-weight on the side oppossite to the probe. Would the force on the probe be so strong that no force is strong enough to pull it back? Or is it theoretically impossible to build a probe strong enough to withstand the gravity?
Can someone please explain to me what laws where used to stop Lik Sang?
But I still can't watch accelerated video over TV-out on my Matrox g450... licensing issues if I recall correctly.
mplayer. Binary distribution and integration into desktop environments needs to catch up a bit, but we're about there.
Indeed. But there's one thing I can predict; use of laser-guns will typically be when the tanks are more than half-full; there has to be enough fuel left to get back to the base and fighting will usually not be near the base. Or at least to get back to a safe zone where tank-planes can come. For all exceptions there are still conventional guns.
The SR-71 runs on JP-7. JP-7 is a more viscous fuel with a low vapor pressure and a very high flashpoint. So high, in fact, that the SR-71 can't start its own engines. To light the fires on a Blackbird takes a chemical ignition system, where the ground crew squirts a measure of tetraethylborane into the engines. TEB is actually hypergolic with JP-7, and the resultant explosion starts the engines.
So sparks won't be the problem. Missiles will be, but the SR-71 won't be hit by missiles on a regular basis:)
I think the arguments you name are irrelevant; the reason Word documents don't look perfectly is not lack of man-hours, it is the lack of a standard. And about Quake; I don't really know, but it's got nothing to do with Linux; if Quake were mainly targeted at the Linux platform it would probably perform better.
But anyway; I think you're right about the ego-problem, but regarding competition I think you're basicly wrong; competition is what keeps it all going, we just shouldn't have too many teams in the running and those teams indeed need strong leaders which are accepted by their members. But what we need most are commonly accepted standards for a lot more things than we have now to improve interoperability. Especially on the desktop.
What interests me is that Apple hasn't said anything about this matter so far. These rumours must have their impact on Apple's sales; if I'd run a Mac-based shop and have plans to upgrade my systems, I would wait until I'm certain about the future; if they're really making the move I may postpone the upgrade. Apple must know this and must know about the rumours. Now there are 3 possibilities:
1. They're thinking about the possibility of making the move but don't know yet. In this case they will probably not say anything about this matter because it increases uncertainty.
2.They're not thinking about a move at all. They would most certainly let their customers know this to take away any uncertainty.
3.They're indeed planning to move. They don't want to make this known too soon since it will most certainly make buyers wait until the new systems are on the market.
So. We haven't heard anything from Apple yet so we're probably dealing with case 1. or case 3. here. :)
Um that netblock belongs to Sonic.net and looking at their rdns, they appear to be ADSL-addresses.
The GUI is the first impression users get of a distribution. Many of them are used to work with familiar elements like windows, textboxes, buttons etc. and will find the lack of those rather annoying or even difficult to work with. A GUI may not be inherently necessary for making the installation process objectively easier. But for users that are mostyly familiar with GUI's, a GUI is simply the easiest to work with. And almost always a GUI does a much better job at presenting information in an understandable way simple because everybody is familiar with the elements that are used to present it; dropdownlists, radiobuttons blabla.
He didn't say the Ogg was to be created from the CD, but from the original.
You still have power poles? Where do you live?