Re:Mozilla is the BEST browser!
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Mozilla 0.9.5
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· Score: 2, Interesting
... pre caching of entire websites...
Indeed a horrible thing, but it might be usefull if implemented in LARGE caching proxy-network with a LOT of users. This way browsing would be faster on average while the traffic doesn't necessarily have to increase; if browsing using a caching proxy is noticeable faster, more people will use it. This way the load will be kept from the webservers itself and will be moved to the caching proxies.
A higher pitched sound will always be shorter than the original sound by the same factor the pitch has gone op. How would you explain the shorter sound? Let's imagine you're right and the pitch rises by 10% because. The sound will also be 10% shorter. So at t=0 I start playing a sample that plays 100 seconds. It takes a little time for the sound to go throug the helium, so let's say the sound `starts playing' outside the helium at t=1. The length of the sample is 10% shorter outside of the helium. So it stops playing @ t=1+90=91. But the interesting part is....the sound would stop playing @ t=100 inside the helium. The helium has in fact made up those 9 seconds all by it self?:)
Obviously you're wrong. The sound may travel faster within the helium, but the waves will arrive in exact the same pattern as they were produced. No speedup.
No they won't; imagine what the sound would look like in a sound editor. Now to lower te pitch, what do you do? Stretch the sound so the same amount of data will take a longer time to play and will have a lower pitch (if that's not logical to you, imagine a vinyl player at at pitch too low). Now imagine the same effect if it was caused by helium. The sound would take longer to play. Imagine that! You could store sound by sending it through a helium baloon:) Or even better! Record a song at a few times the pitch so it only takes a few seconds to play but sounds like shit. Now play it through a high-frequency player and send the noise through a sufficiently large enough helium baloon. On the other end the song will come out just as you recorded it but:) INCREDIBLE!
So...sorry but helium won't change the pitch. What it may change is the speed of the sound within the baloon; it's probably different from the speed of sound in earths atmosphere.
But maybe the sides of your helmet helped air form a sort of bubble in front of your face; the air can't flow at maximum speed around your head when parts of a fairly thick helmet are blocking it's way. And besides that, on your bike you will need a lot less oxygen than the people driving the bikes from the story.
But then still, I think a breathing mask is a bit of an overkill indeed.
Re:He still uses only his legs ...
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Biking @ 80 MPH
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He patented that recently!? I've seen disabled people drive bikes with a front drive years ago. This technique has also been available on lying-bikes (what's the word?!) for years. Except it's usually either front or back drive... So in Germany one can get a patent by combining the front drive bike with the rear drive bike. *G* I think the German patenting office must have employees with IQ's just as low as their american counterparts.
The idea is nice though...but to be able to patent it is really wrong in my opinion.
...and I don't see how 50 km/h is a real accomplishment. That's not too fast for a bike.
According to this [slashdot.org] article, the GPL-problem has been resolved and according to this comment to that article this means the patent in question can now be used in all free software freely.
But stil...there's nothing wrong with fanatism as long as you don't force your fanatism on other people. But indeed they're a bit weird. For example: " The Free Software Foundation follows the rule that we cannot install any proprietary program on our computers except temporarily for the specific purpose of writing a free replacement for that very program. Aside from that, we feel there is no possible excuse for installing a proprietary program."
The driver is not a part of the standard kernel but has been developed by Madge Networks. The source-code and it's license requires you to supply any changes to the source-code to Madge Networks. Madge has only tested the drivers on kernel 2.0.36-2.2.12.
So not being a part of the standard kernel and not having a large user-base seems to be the problem here.
My little useless addition: @ 0.9.3 I decided to try Mozilla again and I've been using it since (on my debian-unstable x86-box). I've tried a new nightly about every day and have just tried 0.9.4. I do NOT find them very stable. Especially 0.9.4 which has crashed over 10 times the last 6 hours (according to the Quality Feedback Agent). I've not been able to determine what was wrong, but it seems to crash randomly. Anyway. It's starting to become a real neat browser now and I will keep using it even though it crashes more than once every hour.
OTOH; research for AIDS vaccines costs vast amounts of money. If such a vaccine cannot be patented, a company will most certainly think twice before starting research on that because it will be very hard to earn back the money invested in the research if other companies can create the vaccine much cheaper because they didn't invest in research. Consequence: a lot less corporate money will be spent on AIDS-research.
...The Christmas Tree Exec was not self spreading however...
Isn't the main difference between virusses and worms that worms are self spreading and virusses are not? Following your description of The Christmas Tree Exec, I'd say it's a virus.
Since we're talking to newbies here: you can check wether your hardware is supported using the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. Once you've chosen a distribution, also check your hardware with their lists since boot-floppies and installers may not support everything the kernel supports.
Many definitions exist. I cite the 4 most common from "Artificial Intelligence - A modern approach" (by Stuart Russen & Peter Norvig):
Thinking like humans
Acting like humans
Thinking rationally
Acting rationally
The Turing test is only about acting humanly. So your statement about eLiza not being AI is only partially correct since there's no clear definition of AI. In my opinion the most `usefull' definition of AI should not have anything to do with acting humanly; acting humanly is only one sort of intelligence which is by no means the best. I think eLiza can be considered AI since it thinks rationally. And that's what it's all about; acting humanly is rather useless...if it only were for our emotions which can mess up the rational part really easy.
To be more precise: one is allowed to posess and produce cannabis for personal use. This means that in the Netherlands posessing more than 5 grams of cannabis is considered a crime. Less than that is allowed through the "condonement strategy" which makes it effectively legal. Considering the production of cannabis: only a few (or one..don't remember) plants are allowed and growing-installations (lights&fans) are usually not allowed. I don't exactly know what the limit is.
Coffeeshops need a permit to posess more than 5 grams. They're allowed to have something like less than a kilo. Again: don't know the exact numbers.
Consequently coffeeshops are allowed to sell weed, but the amounts they need to produce or import cannot in any possible way be produced or imported legally. So now we have the weird situation of coffeeshops which are allowed to posess a lot of weed don't have a way to buy or produce the shit legally.
By the way: if I'm correct, Belgium has about the same strategy now. Consequently about all visitors of the Rock-Werchter festival 2 weeks ago were smoking pot while a few years ago the cops even searched through the artists places for weed.
True, but Bill saying "whaaah nobody needs more than 640K" is probably the main reason the architecture remained as popular as it did and still is the most popular architecture. So in a way Bill can be blamed for this.
Both galaxies have lot of void space. Only here and there an object can be found so there's not much chance for real collisions. Off course gravite will pull all objects closer to another but because of their speed, I doubt many will actually collide. Can anybody give an estimate of how many objects will actually collide and what this means for live on earth?
What actually would even be more interesting, is if there'd be a possibility to set the loglevel during compile time (so you don't get very large kernels) or on the commandline (for maximum flexibility) so one can choose between levels like DEBUG, INFO, WARNING and ERROR or something like that. Then everybody would be happy.
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... pre caching of entire websites ...
Indeed a horrible thing, but it might be usefull if implemented in LARGE caching proxy-network with a LOT of users. This way browsing would be faster on average while the traffic doesn't necessarily have to increase; if browsing using a caching proxy is noticeable faster, more people will use it. This way the load will be kept from the webservers itself and will be moved to the caching proxies.
I pee in the shower as well. It saves time.
A higher pitched sound will always be shorter than the original sound by the same factor the pitch has gone op. How would you explain the shorter sound? Let's imagine you're right and the pitch rises by 10% because. The sound will also be 10% shorter. So at t=0 I start playing a sample that plays 100 seconds. It takes a little time for the sound to go throug the helium, so let's say the sound `starts playing' outside the helium at t=1. The length of the sample is 10% shorter outside of the helium. So it stops playing @ t=1+90=91. But the interesting part is....the sound would stop playing @ t=100 inside the helium. The helium has in fact made up those 9 seconds all by it self?:)
Obviously you're wrong. The sound may travel faster within the helium, but the waves will arrive in exact the same pattern as they were produced. No speedup.
No they won't; imagine what the sound would look like in a sound editor. Now to lower te pitch, what do you do? Stretch the sound so the same amount of data will take a longer time to play and will have a lower pitch (if that's not logical to you, imagine a vinyl player at at pitch too low). Now imagine the same effect if it was caused by helium. The sound would take longer to play. Imagine that! You could store sound by sending it through a helium baloon:) Or even better! Record a song at a few times the pitch so it only takes a few seconds to play but sounds like shit. Now play it through a high-frequency player and send the noise through a sufficiently large enough helium baloon. On the other end the song will come out just as you recorded it but:) INCREDIBLE!
So...sorry but helium won't change the pitch. What it may change is the speed of the sound within the baloon; it's probably different from the speed of sound in earths atmosphere.
But then still, I think a breathing mask is a bit of an overkill indeed.
The idea is nice though...but to be able to patent it is really wrong in my opinion.
...and I don't see how 50 km/h is a real accomplishment. That's not too fast for a bike.
-:- SignOff cdraus (Excess Flood)
This is not about encryption; it's about permissions. Something completely different.
I do.
According to this [slashdot.org] article, the GPL-problem has been resolved and according to this comment to that article this means the patent in question can now be used in all free software freely.
But stil...there's nothing wrong with fanatism as long as you don't force your fanatism on other people. But indeed they're a bit weird. For example: " The Free Software Foundation follows the rule that we cannot install any proprietary program on our computers except temporarily for the specific purpose of writing a free replacement for that very program. Aside from that, we feel there is no possible excuse for installing a proprietary program."
The driver is not a part of the standard kernel but has been developed by Madge Networks. The source-code and it's license requires you to supply any changes to the source-code to Madge Networks. Madge has only tested the drivers on kernel 2.0.36-2.2.12.
So not being a part of the standard kernel and not having a large user-base seems to be the problem here.
Looks like it...I will try to build it myself. Thank you for your advice.
My little useless addition: @ 0.9.3 I decided to try Mozilla again and I've been using it since (on my debian-unstable x86-box). I've tried a new nightly about every day and have just tried 0.9.4. I do NOT find them very stable. Especially 0.9.4 which has crashed over 10 times the last 6 hours (according to the Quality Feedback Agent). I've not been able to determine what was wrong, but it seems to crash randomly. Anyway. It's starting to become a real neat browser now and I will keep using it even though it crashes more than once every hour.
OTOH; research for AIDS vaccines costs vast amounts of money. If such a vaccine cannot be patented, a company will most certainly think twice before starting research on that because it will be very hard to earn back the money invested in the research if other companies can create the vaccine much cheaper because they didn't invest in research. Consequence: a lot less corporate money will be spent on AIDS-research.
Isn't the main difference between virusses and worms that worms are self spreading and virusses are not? Following your description of The Christmas Tree Exec, I'd say it's a virus.
Since we're talking to newbies here: you can check wether your hardware is supported using the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. Once you've chosen a distribution, also check your hardware with their lists since boot-floppies and installers may not support everything the kernel supports.
I don't think a firewall is good enough a reason not to care about the security of the backend network.
- Thinking like humans
- Acting like humans
- Thinking rationally
- Acting rationally
The Turing test is only about acting humanly. So your statement about eLiza not being AI is only partially correct since there's no clear definition of AI. In my opinion the most `usefull' definition of AI should not have anything to do with acting humanly; acting humanly is only one sort of intelligence which is by no means the best. I think eLiza can be considered AI since it thinks rationally. And that's what it's all about; acting humanly is rather useless...if it only were for our emotions which can mess up the rational part really easy.Coffeeshops need a permit to posess more than 5 grams. They're allowed to have something like less than a kilo. Again: don't know the exact numbers.
Consequently coffeeshops are allowed to sell weed, but the amounts they need to produce or import cannot in any possible way be produced or imported legally. So now we have the weird situation of coffeeshops which are allowed to posess a lot of weed don't have a way to buy or produce the shit legally.
By the way: if I'm correct, Belgium has about the same strategy now. Consequently about all visitors of the Rock-Werchter festival 2 weeks ago were smoking pot while a few years ago the cops even searched through the artists places for weed.
True, but Bill saying "whaaah nobody needs more than 640K" is probably the main reason the architecture remained as popular as it did and still is the most popular architecture. So in a way Bill can be blamed for this.
Just blame the police; it was the gravitational force between their car and yours that made you go that fast when they were trying to pull you over.
Both galaxies have lot of void space. Only here and there an object can be found so there's not much chance for real collisions. Off course gravite will pull all objects closer to another but because of their speed, I doubt many will actually collide. Can anybody give an estimate of how many objects will actually collide and what this means for live on earth?
What actually would even be more interesting, is if there'd be a possibility to set the loglevel during compile time (so you don't get very large kernels) or on the commandline (for maximum flexibility) so one can choose between levels like DEBUG, INFO, WARNING and ERROR or something like that. Then everybody would be happy.
Please define us.