Over here we have devices called "clocks" and don't need web pages to tell us what the time is. And how is a web server supposed to *know* what time zone I'm in? This sort of thing should be done on the client side if at all.
Why on earth would servers have to know about everyone else's timezones? I don't see everyone here in the UK patching their servers because parts of the US have changed their timezone rules. If Azerbaijan changes their timezone rules, they don't start having problems because no-one in the US knows about it.
What's the point of creating new bills when there's already a standard? It's time to switch to the Euro. And with your currency in free-fall, you'd be better off too.
Of course, it would have saved a lot of trouble if you'd switched a few years ago, when the dollar and Euro were equally valuable.
"This would be like telling Xerox that their name can be used somewhere else."
Some day soon, human cloning will be possible. Unscrupulous companies will send round armies of cloned celebrities to try and sell you their products. People will call them xeroxes. Other companies will sell anti-xerox products that detect xeroxes as they come to your door (probably by consulting databases of known-cloned DNA) and hit them with hammers. Xerox will sue these companies, and lose, because no-one would confuse a celebrity-hammering device with a photocopier. This is how it should work, and the ruling is correct.
Spamhaus appear to have been expecting action against their domain name, as on 14 September they registered the domain spamhaus.org.uk, over which US courts have (one hopes) no jurisdiction at all.
The amount of swap space you need does not depend on the amount of real memory. It depends on what programs you want to run. You need enough virtual memory for all those programs. Then you want as much RAM as you can afford so that programs don't need to be paged out. More precisely, you want as much RAM as the working set of the programs - that is, the memory that is actively used.
Particularly absurd are claims that you need *at least* N times as much swap as RAM. If you size your total VM according to the programs you run, then you want RAM to be as big a proportion of that as possible. It would make more sense to demand at least 1/N as much RAM as swap!
(A minor point: in most current operating systems, swap is effectively in addition to RAM, so that RAM+swap must be as big as the programs you run, but in some older ones the RAM needs to be backed by swap, so that swap by itself must be that big.)
There is unlimited broadband, it's just expensive. From what I can deduce from comments by various ISPs, BT charges around 1 pound per month per GB of bandwidth. So Zen, for example, who charge 35 pounds for an ADSL Max service with a 50 GB/month limit are probably not making a huge profit - they're relying on many customers using less than the limit. They have a much more expensive unlimited "business" version.
ISPs can avoid BT's bandwidth charging by "unbundling" exchange lines: they put their own equipment in the exchange instead of going through BT's IP network. This would require a huge investment from the ISP to cover the whole country, so is more commonly available in big cities, especially London.
Despite not having a zero symbol and having different symbols for multiples of each power of ten, Roman numerals are much the same as our notation as far as arithmetic is concerned. When writing a sum, just leave a space when there are no digits for that power of ten. Then you can operate as if it were a positional notation with funny digits.
This is why, for example, 1999 is represented as MCMLXIX instead of MIM or IMM.
I'm very doubtful of the claim that the term "camera obscura" comes from an Arabic word "qamara", since it is a Latin phrase meaning "dark chamber", and the Latin word comes from the Greek "kamara".
It refers to the "complexity" of integrated circuits, not their speed. Complexity is taken to refer to the number of components, which corresponds to their size. Recently it has become more difficult to translate smaller components to greater speed, but that does not contradict Moore's law.
This is wrong. As observed from Earth, it would take over 1000 years to travel to somewhere 1000 light years away. But for passengers travelling close to the speed of light, distances in the direction of travel are relativistically contracted, so it would take much less time. Provided we don't mind all our friends being long-dead when we return, the speed of light is not a limit on reaching distant stars.
Finding the energy to accelerate to such speeds is another matter.
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Intentionally deceiving people isn't fraud, and isn't illegal. Deceiving someone to gain something from them would be fraud.
Over here we have devices called "clocks" and don't need web pages to tell us what the time is. And how is a web server supposed to *know* what time zone I'm in? This sort of thing should be done on the client side if at all.
Why on earth would servers have to know about everyone else's timezones? I don't see everyone here in the UK patching their servers because parts of the US have changed their timezone rules. If Azerbaijan changes their timezone rules, they don't start having problems because no-one in the US knows about it.
... is an adblock that follows the links, so it costs the advertisers money.
Surely if this "can be applied to the DRM that is in Vista", then there is prior art, and the patent is invalid?
"unfortunately, class envy is a very significant factor in the perception of the masses of poor and averagely well off."
What's unfortunate about it? It seems entirely appropriate to me.
What's the point of creating new bills when there's already a standard? It's time to switch to the Euro. And with your currency in free-fall, you'd be better off too.
Of course, it would have saved a lot of trouble if you'd switched a few years ago, when the dollar and Euro were equally valuable.
I see the Republicans have even paid people to post messages to Slashdot smearing the Democrats.
The fact that you don't agree with freedom of the press doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with the ranking.
Aspirin is generic in the UK too
"This would be like telling Xerox that their name can be used somewhere else."
Some day soon, human cloning will be possible. Unscrupulous companies will send round armies of cloned celebrities to try and sell you their products. People will call them xeroxes. Other companies will sell anti-xerox products that detect xeroxes as they come to your door (probably by consulting databases of known-cloned DNA) and hit them with hammers. Xerox will sue these companies, and lose, because no-one would confuse a celebrity-hammering device with a photocopier. This is how it should work, and the ruling is correct.
Spamhaus appear to have been expecting action against their domain name, as on 14 September they registered the domain spamhaus.org.uk, over which US courts have (one hopes) no jurisdiction at all.
The amount of swap space you need does not depend on the amount of real memory. It depends on what programs you want to run. You need enough virtual memory for all those programs. Then you want as much RAM as you can afford so that programs don't need to be paged out. More precisely, you want as much RAM as the working set of the programs - that is, the memory that is actively used.
Particularly absurd are claims that you need *at least* N times as much swap as RAM. If you size your total VM according to the programs you run, then you want RAM to be as big a proportion of that as possible. It would make more sense to demand at least 1/N as much RAM as swap!
(A minor point: in most current operating systems, swap is effectively in addition to RAM, so that RAM+swap must be as big as the programs you run, but in some older ones the RAM needs to be backed by swap, so that swap by itself must be that big.)
I bet it wasn't the FSF, since they're not interested in "open source".
Is making modified versions of other people's web pages and publishing them a copyright violation?
There is unlimited broadband, it's just expensive. From what I can deduce from comments by various ISPs, BT charges around 1 pound per month per GB of bandwidth. So Zen, for example, who charge 35 pounds for an
ADSL Max service with a 50 GB/month limit are probably not making a huge profit - they're relying on
many customers using less than the limit. They have a much more expensive unlimited "business" version.
ISPs can avoid BT's bandwidth charging by "unbundling" exchange lines: they put their own equipment in the exchange instead of going through BT's IP network. This would require a huge investment from the ISP to cover
the whole country, so is more commonly available in big cities, especially London.
You can find out whether any ISPs provide unbundled services in you area from http://www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php
Evidently readers of the referenced article are expected to be familiar with this acronym, but why is Slashdot assuming that its readers are?
"They send a signal only when a reader powers them with a squirt of electrons". Definitely not. Just some radio waves (think crystal set).
... because nobody's ever heard of them.
... because otherwise no-one would remember they exist. There's still a market for Beatles songs, but who cares what the record label is?
He's collaborating with those who try to suppress it.
Despite not having a zero symbol and having different symbols for multiples of each power of ten, Roman numerals are much the same as our notation as far as arithmetic is concerned. When writing a sum, just leave a space when there are no digits for that power of ten. Then you can operate as if it were a positional notation with funny digits.
This is why, for example, 1999 is represented as MCMLXIX instead of MIM or IMM.
I'm very doubtful of the claim that the term "camera obscura" comes from an Arabic word "qamara", since it is a Latin phrase meaning "dark chamber", and the Latin word comes from the Greek "kamara".
It refers to the "complexity" of integrated circuits, not their speed. Complexity is taken to refer to the number of components, which corresponds to their size. Recently it has become more difficult to translate smaller components to greater speed, but that does not contradict Moore's law.
This is wrong. As observed from Earth, it would take over 1000 years to travel to somewhere 1000 light years away. But for passengers travelling close to the speed of light, distances in the direction of travel are relativistically contracted, so it would take much less time. Provided we don't mind all our friends being long-dead when we return, the speed of light is not a limit on reaching distant stars.
Finding the energy to accelerate to such speeds is another matter.