Or we could do what they do in Windows land, which is bundle every dependent library with the program and install them if they aren't already there. This is easy in a world of shrink-wrapped CD installs (where you have space to burn), but is a good deal more cumbersome with downloaded applications.
urpmi (in Mandrake) already does exactly what you request from rpm. It resolves all the dependencies and will either download the RPMS from an online source or ask you to insert your installation CDs. Hopefully Redhat will snarf it into their next distro. (That would actually be quite appropriate given how much Mandrake has snarfed from RedHat. Both distros would benefit from some cross-pollenation.)
If you go look at the site, you'll see that there are forms for entering your Cease & Desist letters if you are the receiver or if you are the sender. I expected to see the receiver form, but was surprised to see the sender form. How many businesses can you think of who would want to advertise that they are trying to indimidate people with C&D letters? I would imagine most businesses would be rather annoyed, actually, to have their letters end up in this thing and come back later to be a PR headache.
Along that line of thinking: How long do you think it will be before C&D letters contain language specifying that you cannot publish them? (And even if you say that is not possible/legal/whatever, how many will try anyway?)
As a nation, we seemed to survive the breakup of New Kids on the Block fairly well. (You can be judge of whether the band members survived intact or not.)
That's probably the biggest problem. Making antimatter from particle accelerator beams is fantastically inefficient and low volume. I'm not aware of any other method of antimatter production.
Just as reminder to people reading this thread, you can use antimatter as an energy carrier (like a battery or fuel cell), but not as an energy source (like fossil fuels or solar power) since we have to make it. So anitmatter doesn't imply free energy for everyone, but perhaps means lots of energy available in one place.
(Note: I'm not implying the parent doesn't understand this already. I just wanted to head off a misconception before it started.)
I haven't gotten into the trading of TV shows, but I would be willing to pay for the ability to legally download select TV shows. I think an affordable service of this sort would do more to kill "TV piracy" than a zillion cease-and-desist letters backed by crazy laws.
I propose we just make a moderation called "Stupid" that will be more multipurpose. Otherwise, we'll really need additional moderations like "Incoherent", "Axe-grinding", "Talking out of posterior".
No, no, no. You skipped the part of his post about error correction. CDs were designed to carry digital data, but data that the designers knew could tolerate less than perfect retrieval. That won't fly with your kernel, but it's perfectly acceptable to require a CD to interpolate a sample every so often because the CD surface couldn't be read. Audio CD data has suck error correction, and the drives are not designed to be able to read the audio data bit-for-bit the same every time. It just wasn't a design requirement.
I wouldn't be too depressed. You're comparing real, in-your-hands technology with press-release, prototype technology that you won't even be able to purchase for a while. You've got at least another year before your camera is put to shame.:)
Have you gotten it to actually start playing the movie in Mozilla or Netscape on Linux? Even though I have Real Player installed (at least Spinner.com thinks so), I keep getting a message telling me that they can't detect Real Player.
I had the same problem when I used Netscape. I got it to work with Mozilla. It seemed like some sort of frame stupidity that Netscape didn't do correctly. Once you create your account, you can log in using Netscape.
So far the only problem has been the 6 zillion people hitting the site all at once.
Followup- The problem was either Netscape or it they fixed their end very quickly. I was able to create an account using Mozilla without too much difficulty.
Now I can login using Netscape (where I have RealPlayer configured) and see if this thing really works.:)
Is anyone else having trouble creating an account on the Movie88 site? I select a user name and password, and then get routed to their movie database without being logged in. When I try to log in, it tells me the password is wrong.
Has anyone been able to actually test this service?
While I have personally decided as a general rule not to purchase anything from an unsolicited email, so far I have not had anything appear in my box worth buying. It seems that the shady image of spam means that only the most desperate of businesses will use it. So far the only things being marketed to me are:
Porn
Herbal sex-enhancers
Herbal marijuana replacements
Viagra
Get out of debt now!
Cell phone service in Italy and Korea
Copy DVDs to CDs! (Sounds like someone trying to sell DeCSS+DivX)
Laser Printer Toner
Stock in suspicious-looking companies
With the exception of the cell phones and the toner, all the rest of these products look like stuff out of the back of the Weekly World News. Will I be seeing ads for Tide and Captain Crunch in my mailbox someday?
There are actually several papers in Physics Today (if you have access to old issues and want to do some reading) discussing interpretations of the Second Law, some of which note that the Second "Law" isn't a deterministic law. It simply notes that a system is most likely to evolve from a state of lower entropy to a state of higher entropy. When you have a lot of particles (like 6.02 * 10^23, let's say), this "most likely" becomes so close to "certain" that we just round it off in our speech. (Even Boltzmann noted this.)
The Second Law is really a statement about probabilities and how you count macrostates and microstates, and so doesn't have to be present in microscopic physical laws because it doesn't mean much there anyway.
Ack! The story summary is misleaded. An ideal Otto engine DOES NOT ACHIEVE the maximum efficiency possible for a heat engine (so improving it doesn't violate anything). A Carnot engine is the engine with max efficiency which you are thinking of. Exceeding the efficiency of a Carnot engine (which is still less than one) is equivalent to breaking the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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Cowboy Neal is the poll option you are supposed to select if this poll does not apply to you, or you don't care. :)
Well, I guess we've got sex, politics, and religion covered.
It is interesting how two industries that are always well-funded are the porn industry and the military. :)
urpmi (in Mandrake) already does exactly what you request from rpm. It resolves all the dependencies and will either download the RPMS from an online source or ask you to insert your installation CDs. Hopefully Redhat will snarf it into their next distro. (That would actually be quite appropriate given how much Mandrake has snarfed from RedHat. Both distros would benefit from some cross-pollenation.)
And for the spelling Nazis out there: "intimidate" is the correct spelling.
Along that line of thinking: How long do you think it will be before C&D letters contain language specifying that you cannot publish them? (And even if you say that is not possible/legal/whatever, how many will try anyway?)
As a nation, we seemed to survive the breakup of New Kids on the Block fairly well. (You can be judge of whether the band members survived intact or not.)
That's probably the biggest problem. Making antimatter from particle accelerator beams is fantastically inefficient and low volume. I'm not aware of any other method of antimatter production.
(Note: I'm not implying the parent doesn't understand this already. I just wanted to head off a misconception before it started.)
I haven't gotten into the trading of TV shows, but I would be willing to pay for the ability to legally download select TV shows. I think an affordable service of this sort would do more to kill "TV piracy" than a zillion cease-and-desist letters backed by crazy laws.
Yes, it's easier to rally sympathy for your cause if you portray yourself as the underdog. It's also good for the ego!
Heh. For a place where diversity of opinions is not welcome, I sure read a lot of different opinions. I don't even have to browse at -1. :)
I propose we just make a moderation called "Stupid" that will be more multipurpose. Otherwise, we'll really need additional moderations like "Incoherent", "Axe-grinding", "Talking out of posterior".
That'll be the day, when we can be in two places simultaneously and generate causal paradoxes for fun. :)
No, no, no. You skipped the part of his post about error correction. CDs were designed to carry digital data, but data that the designers knew could tolerate less than perfect retrieval. That won't fly with your kernel, but it's perfectly acceptable to require a CD to interpolate a sample every so often because the CD surface couldn't be read. Audio CD data has suck error correction, and the drives are not designed to be able to read the audio data bit-for-bit the same every time. It just wasn't a design requirement.
I wouldn't be too depressed. You're comparing real, in-your-hands technology with press-release, prototype technology that you won't even be able to purchase for a while. You've got at least another year before your camera is put to shame. :)
Have you gotten it to actually start playing the movie in Mozilla or Netscape on Linux? Even though I have Real Player installed (at least Spinner.com thinks so), I keep getting a message telling me that they can't detect Real Player.
So far the only problem has been the 6 zillion people hitting the site all at once.
Now I can login using Netscape (where I have RealPlayer configured) and see if this thing really works. :)
Has anyone been able to actually test this service?
Definitely Mel Gibson.
- Porn
- Herbal sex-enhancers
- Herbal marijuana replacements
- Viagra
- Get out of debt now!
- Cell phone service in Italy and Korea
- Copy DVDs to CDs! (Sounds like someone trying to sell DeCSS+DivX)
- Laser Printer Toner
- Stock in suspicious-looking companies
With the exception of the cell phones and the toner, all the rest of these products look like stuff out of the back of the Weekly World News. Will I be seeing ads for Tide and Captain Crunch in my mailbox someday?The Second Law is really a statement about probabilities and how you count macrostates and microstates, and so doesn't have to be present in microscopic physical laws because it doesn't mean much there anyway.
Ack! The story summary is misleaded. An ideal Otto engine DOES NOT ACHIEVE the maximum efficiency possible for a heat engine (so improving it doesn't violate anything). A Carnot engine is the engine with max efficiency which you are thinking of. Exceeding the efficiency of a Carnot engine (which is still less than one) is equivalent to breaking the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Perhaps, but I wish people would be less self-conscious about it. :)