Are you saying mathematics is linguistic?? Because all the models are purely mathematical. And, I personally would not call a mathematical model linguistic.
The models become linguistic when you try to explain them to some one who has not studied quantum mechanics for 10 years.
While I am not completely familiar with the original debacle I think you have it backwards.
RMS must have said. KDE cannot be GPL because KDE was linked to QT. And, the QT license was not compatible with having a GPL product linked to it. Therefore, KDE could not be considered GPL.
Which I think is what MS is really saying. They are saying our license is not compatible with most Open Source Licenses, so if you try to distibute your Open Source software made with our SDK it won't really be Open Source. Which I would guess has been a pretty true statement for quite a while. The difference here is they are saying explicitly, and adding a lot of BS FUD about viral licenses, etc...
Bingo. Which is the basis for lawsuits against Albertson's, Rite Aid, and a couple other retailers. People titled as managers, and being paid salaries are suing for overtime because they ended up working 60-70 hours weeks, generally doing things like checkout, shelving merchandise, etc more than 75% of the time. Which are not "management" type duties.
Don't worry, it isn't that much better in my area of Southern California. In the last two years Verizon(ex-GTE) hasn't done a damned thing to improve there DSL service. So, at 16000ft I still can't get DSL from them. Then, ATT bought TCI, then sold the my local cable to Adelphia, and they haven't done a damned thing to get cable internet access going in the last year.
About the only company trying to get broadband to everyone is Earthlink. Now that they offer DSL, Cable, Sattelite, and Wireless, you have to figure they can offer high speed internet to just about anyone.
Large black holes evaporate too. It is just that at the size of a star the amount of energy being radiated (evaporated?) is less than the cosmic background radiation. Therefore, all large black holes have a net influx of mass/energy.
I don't know about anyone else, but the reason I use free software is the freedom, not the price. Do corporations care about freedom? Of course they do!
Exactly! My company is making a painful transition from an publishing package that has proprietary file formats to XML because the company that makes oru original publishing software is dropping support. If we had been using a package without a proprietary file format, transition to different software would be a lot less painful, and we would not have had to worry about how to support old doucmentation. Since the new tool could read it.
What must be stressed is reliability, stability, security and above all, PORTABILITY. Most OSS solutions, especially those for web-based projects are not as platform dependent as are those of our closed-source colleagues.
Right.
And, add vendor independence. If F500 companies are concerned with the best, then having the flexibility to choose the best support, and switch support service without switching software. That should hold some value to a F500 company.
IANAL. But, I think some actual damages would be involved since they are using a piece of software in a manner they were not licensed to use. And, since the VirtuaDub author could have licensed the code to Vidomi under some other license that included money he should get paid actual damages as well.
Actually dynamic linking to GPL code does make the linking program based on that code. There is no grey area when is come to the GPL. Linking in pretty much any form is a violation fo the GPL. Consider this...
Let's say I take some GPL software break it down into various components, compile those as dynamically linked libraries, then write my own proprietary application that links to those libraries I created from GPL code. This has to be a GPL violation otherwise there is no GPL. It is possible that a court might decide this, but I would not consider that a good thing.
Secondly, the existence of the LGPL implies that dynamic linking is a violation of the GPL, otherwise why would the LGPL exist.
Dastardly
29. Ariel busses that hold 200 people for 100 mile commutes to work
While he was slightly off. This is more of a hit than it appears. Replace 200 miles with 350 miles.
Then, consider how many 737s fly between SFO/Oakland/San Jose and LAX/Burbank/Long Beach/John Wayne/Oantario every day. I don't he was off, but not by as much as it would appear.
This means that astronomers, from light years away, could tell if a planet had liquid water, oxygen, nitrogen, methane, sulfur, whatever. It is, however, highly unlikely that such a telescope could see lights at night. For one thing, it's not a given that any species would even NEED light
While they couldn't see light from some alien species. By determining what chemicals make up the atmosphere, and possibly even what proportions those elements are in scientists might be able to determine whether life is present. This is because the atmosphere of a planet with life is dynamically stable. Meaning that if all life disappeared instantly the atmosphere's composition would not stay the same.
For example the oxygen in our atmosphere without life would disappear by reacting with elements in the earth's crust, if life were not constantly replenshing the oxygen supply. So, a dynamically stable atmospheric composition would indicate the possibility of life.
Here is the question I have never seen anyone answer...
A fission bomb such as the ones dropped in World War II have a yield of a few 10s of kilotons of TNT with a few 10s of kilograms of fuel. Or, about 1 kilogram of fuel per kiloton of yield. Or, about 500,000lbs of chemical reactant per kilogram of nuclear reactant. Which leads to my quetion which no anti-nuclear environmentalist has ever answered.
Given a choice would you rather deal with a thousand pounds of nuclear waste, or 5,000,000,000lbs of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, etc. etc. from fossil fuel plants?
I disagree i would feel much safer with them burried in holes kilometers under the ocean floor and covered in ocean sediment. Even when the barrels release their contents they will only soak not much more than 10m in a sphere into the surrounding clay. If you don't drop anything shallower than 1000m there is pretty much no chance of contamination. And, evetually it all end up in the mantle. I read an article about this proposal in Scientific American a few years ago. It was a very well thought out plan that was summarily dismissed in favor of the site in Nevada.
or burying them a few miles deep under the ocean floor, with the holes plugged with clay (which water doesn't flow through readily).
This is the one we should be doing. Deep sea ocean drilling is well understood. The plan I saw in a Scientific American a while back was that you drill a hole about 3-4km into the ocean floor. Then every 10m or so drop a barrel of waste down the hole, and cover it with the clay/sediment you previously drilled out up to about 1km. Assuming 50 gallon drums with the density of water that would be 300 drums of 400lbs each or 120,000lbs of waste. The additional point here is that you do this near a subduction zone, so in a few thousand years the waste ends up in the mantle.
Seems like a more permanent solution than indefinite land based storage.
I think you misread the article. The majority of adults preferred the purple dress regardless of whether it was on the white or the black doll. If the adults had been acting towards political correctness the results would have been skewed towards preferring the black doll regardless of the dress. Now since we don't have the raw data, we don't know if 13 out of 15 adults liked the black doll with the purple dress and 8 out of 15 liked the black doll without the purple dress. which would show up to the the child as 20 out of 30 for purple dress and 10 out of 30 for no purple dress. While atthe same time showing 21 out of 30 liked the black doll and 9 liked the white doll. Which would show a bias towards the black doll irrespective of the dress color. Which woudl then support your political correctness hypothesis.
On the other hand she could have had 10 out of 15 in favor of black doll purple dress and 10 out of 15 for white doll purple dress. In which case you get 20 for purple dress. And, 15 for black doll and 15 for white doll. This would support an adult preference for the purple dress regardless of doll color.
Either way is valid data. The child's conclusions may be arguable depending on the exact data, but I am still impressed with the 8 year old's data and conclusions. (It probably helped that dad has a PHd in Physics and could help her stay true to the scientific method.)
Dastardly
Intel needs lots of power for the hardware. Fab machinery and test equipment power usage is measured in kilowatts. Turning off the lights barely puts a dent in their total power usage.
Environmental regulations are not the big problem. No new power plants have been built in California for 10 years. Their are a couple reasons for this.
1) BIG REASON for 5 years before no one really wanted to because deregulation was in the air. Then after deregulation plants started getting approval, but not quite fast enough to get built by now. Some of these should start coming online in 2002.
2) NIMBY. And, definitely not just by environmentalists or residents. Cisco just killed a Calpine natural gas plant near Silicon Valley, this plant was supported by the Sierra Club.
Oh and don't forget the $5 billion a piece that PG&E and Southern California Edison paid to their parent comanies since deregulation. And, the parent companies then disbursed to stock holders.
Actually, in Coyote Valley right in Silicon Valley the Sierra Club approves of a power plant being built their. The opposition to the power plant was by one of the biggest power users in the state.
The utilities which are now complaining about being bankrupt.
Who spent the most money lobbying for this exact deregulation law?
The same utilities that are now complaining of going backrupt.
Who has been charging every all Californians a 10% surcharge on their electrical bill to bail them out of unprofitabel assets?
The same utilities that are about to go bankrupt.
Who has been buying power on the open market for the last 5 years before this crisis, at reduced cost, yet not only continued getting the same rate from customers, but got 10% more due to the above?
The same utilities that are going bankrupt.
Screw them and their investors. Let them go bankrupt, go undr court supervision. Have all of there investors lose their shirts. It is only fair play since htey have been screwing every Californian for the last 5 years. Who knows maybe onoe of those silicon valley companies that doesn't give a damn about anything, but keeping the power on at any cost will buy the utility in order to keep their own power on.
How many small to medium businesses are going to go under because of this whole power issue? How many jobs will be lost?
And, remember this is exaclty how the utilities wnated it, so they shoudl have to pay for it.
It is worse in the US. At least in France they use plutonium in breeder reactors. In the US, plutonium is defined as waste. The majority of the material destined for burial in Nevada is plutonium. Seems liek a waste of perfectly good fuel to me.
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm... What???
Are you saying mathematics is linguistic?? Because all the models are purely mathematical. And, I personally would not call a mathematical model linguistic.
The models become linguistic when you try to explain them to some one who has not studied quantum mechanics for 10 years.
While I am not completely familiar with the original debacle I think you have it backwards.
RMS must have said. KDE cannot be GPL because KDE was linked to QT. And, the QT license was not compatible with having a GPL product linked to it. Therefore, KDE could not be considered GPL.
Which I think is what MS is really saying. They are saying our license is not compatible with most Open Source Licenses, so if you try to distibute your Open Source software made with our SDK it won't really be Open Source. Which I would guess has been a pretty true statement for quite a while. The difference here is they are saying explicitly, and adding a lot of BS FUD about viral licenses, etc...
Bingo. Which is the basis for lawsuits against Albertson's, Rite Aid, and a couple other retailers. People titled as managers, and being paid salaries are suing for overtime because they ended up working 60-70 hours weeks, generally doing things like checkout, shelving merchandise, etc more than 75% of the time. Which are not "management" type duties.
Don't worry, it isn't that much better in my area of Southern California. In the last two years Verizon(ex-GTE) hasn't done a damned thing to improve there DSL service. So, at 16000ft I still can't get DSL from them. Then, ATT bought TCI, then sold the my local cable to Adelphia, and they haven't done a damned thing to get cable internet access going in the last year.
About the only company trying to get broadband to everyone is Earthlink. Now that they offer DSL, Cable, Sattelite, and Wireless, you have to figure they can offer high speed internet to just about anyone.
Dastardly
Large black holes evaporate too. It is just that at the size of a star the amount of energy being radiated (evaporated?) is less than the cosmic background radiation. Therefore, all large black holes have a net influx of mass/energy.
Dastardly
Exactly! My company is making a painful transition from an publishing package that has proprietary file formats to XML because the company that makes oru original publishing software is dropping support. If we had been using a package without a proprietary file format, transition to different software would be a lot less painful, and we would not have had to worry about how to support old doucmentation. Since the new tool could read it.
Right.
And, add vendor independence. If F500 companies are concerned with the best, then having the flexibility to choose the best support, and switch support service without switching software. That should hold some value to a F500 company.
IANAL. But, I think some actual damages would be involved since they are using a piece of software in a manner they were not licensed to use. And, since the VirtuaDub author could have licensed the code to Vidomi under some other license that included money he should get paid actual damages as well.
Actually dynamic linking to GPL code does make the linking program based on that code. There is no grey area when is come to the GPL. Linking in pretty much any form is a violation fo the GPL. Consider this... Let's say I take some GPL software break it down into various components, compile those as dynamically linked libraries, then write my own proprietary application that links to those libraries I created from GPL code. This has to be a GPL violation otherwise there is no GPL. It is possible that a court might decide this, but I would not consider that a good thing. Secondly, the existence of the LGPL implies that dynamic linking is a violation of the GPL, otherwise why would the LGPL exist. Dastardly
29. Ariel busses that hold 200 people for 100 mile commutes to work
While he was slightly off. This is more of a hit than it appears. Replace 200 miles with 350 miles.
Then, consider how many 737s fly between SFO/Oakland/San Jose and LAX/Burbank/Long Beach/John Wayne/Oantario every day. I don't he was off, but not by as much as it would appear.
This means that astronomers, from light years away, could tell if a planet had liquid water, oxygen, nitrogen, methane, sulfur, whatever. It is, however, highly unlikely that such a telescope could see lights at night. For one thing, it's not a given that any species would even NEED light
While they couldn't see light from some alien species. By determining what chemicals make up the atmosphere, and possibly even what proportions those elements are in scientists might be able to determine whether life is present. This is because the atmosphere of a planet with life is dynamically stable. Meaning that if all life disappeared instantly the atmosphere's composition would not stay the same.
For example the oxygen in our atmosphere without life would disappear by reacting with elements in the earth's crust, if life were not constantly replenshing the oxygen supply. So, a dynamically stable atmospheric composition would indicate the possibility of life.
Dastardly
Here is the question I have never seen anyone answer...
A fission bomb such as the ones dropped in World War II have a yield of a few 10s of kilotons of TNT with a few 10s of kilograms of fuel. Or, about 1 kilogram of fuel per kiloton of yield. Or, about 500,000lbs of chemical reactant per kilogram of nuclear reactant. Which leads to my quetion which no anti-nuclear environmentalist has ever answered.
Given a choice would you rather deal with a thousand pounds of nuclear waste, or 5,000,000,000lbs of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, etc. etc. from fossil fuel plants?
Dastardly
I disagree i would feel much safer with them burried in holes kilometers under the ocean floor and covered in ocean sediment. Even when the barrels release their contents they will only soak not much more than 10m in a sphere into the surrounding clay. If you don't drop anything shallower than 1000m there is pretty much no chance of contamination. And, evetually it all end up in the mantle. I read an article about this proposal in Scientific American a few years ago. It was a very well thought out plan that was summarily dismissed in favor of the site in Nevada.
or burying them a few miles deep under the ocean floor, with the holes plugged with clay (which water doesn't flow through readily).
This is the one we should be doing. Deep sea ocean drilling is well understood. The plan I saw in a Scientific American a while back was that you drill a hole about 3-4km into the ocean floor. Then every 10m or so drop a barrel of waste down the hole, and cover it with the clay/sediment you previously drilled out up to about 1km. Assuming 50 gallon drums with the density of water that would be 300 drums of 400lbs each or 120,000lbs of waste. The additional point here is that you do this near a subduction zone, so in a few thousand years the waste ends up in the mantle.
Seems like a more permanent solution than indefinite land based storage.
See: http://www.neverwinternights.com/
Pretty much describes how they will handle different areas and "cheating".
I think you misread the article. The majority of adults preferred the purple dress regardless of whether it was on the white or the black doll. If the adults had been acting towards political correctness the results would have been skewed towards preferring the black doll regardless of the dress. Now since we don't have the raw data, we don't know if 13 out of 15 adults liked the black doll with the purple dress and 8 out of 15 liked the black doll without the purple dress. which would show up to the the child as 20 out of 30 for purple dress and 10 out of 30 for no purple dress. While atthe same time showing 21 out of 30 liked the black doll and 9 liked the white doll. Which would show a bias towards the black doll irrespective of the dress color. Which woudl then support your political correctness hypothesis. On the other hand she could have had 10 out of 15 in favor of black doll purple dress and 10 out of 15 for white doll purple dress. In which case you get 20 for purple dress. And, 15 for black doll and 15 for white doll. This would support an adult preference for the purple dress regardless of doll color. Either way is valid data. The child's conclusions may be arguable depending on the exact data, but I am still impressed with the 8 year old's data and conclusions. (It probably helped that dad has a PHd in Physics and could help her stay true to the scientific method.) Dastardly
An old prank played on CalTech was when Harvey Mudd students stole their Cannon. But, that is ancient history these days.
You may know more about RSA than I do, but isn't the RSA algorithm NP? Or, is just O(x^)?
See:
Energy Smart $39.95 at home depot.
Or, if you need a new refrigerator.
Sun Frost refrigerators
Dastardly
Intel needs lots of power for the hardware. Fab machinery and test equipment power usage is measured in kilowatts. Turning off the lights barely puts a dent in their total power usage.
Environmental regulations are not the big problem. No new power plants have been built in California for 10 years. Their are a couple reasons for this.
1) BIG REASON for 5 years before no one really wanted to because deregulation was in the air. Then after deregulation plants started getting approval, but not quite fast enough to get built by now. Some of these should start coming online in 2002.
2) NIMBY. And, definitely not just by environmentalists or residents. Cisco just killed a Calpine natural gas plant near Silicon Valley, this plant was supported by the Sierra Club.
Dastardly
Oh and don't forget the $5 billion a piece that PG&E and Southern California Edison paid to their parent comanies since deregulation. And, the parent companies then disbursed to stock holders.
Actually, in Coyote Valley right in Silicon Valley the Sierra Club approves of a power plant being built their. The opposition to the power plant was by one of the biggest power users in the state.
Want to guess???
Cisco.
Dastardly.
Of course, guess who wanted it this way?
The utilities which are now complaining about being bankrupt.
Who spent the most money lobbying for this exact deregulation law?
The same utilities that are now complaining of going backrupt.
Who has been charging every all Californians a 10% surcharge on their electrical bill to bail them out of unprofitabel assets?
The same utilities that are about to go bankrupt.
Who has been buying power on the open market for the last 5 years before this crisis, at reduced cost, yet not only continued getting the same rate from customers, but got 10% more due to the above?
The same utilities that are going bankrupt.
Screw them and their investors. Let them go bankrupt, go undr court supervision. Have all of there investors lose their shirts. It is only fair play since htey have been screwing every Californian for the last 5 years. Who knows maybe onoe of those silicon valley companies that doesn't give a damn about anything, but keeping the power on at any cost will buy the utility in order to keep their own power on.
How many small to medium businesses are going to go under because of this whole power issue? How many jobs will be lost?
And, remember this is exaclty how the utilities wnated it, so they shoudl have to pay for it.
Dastardly
It is worse in the US. At least in France they use plutonium in breeder reactors. In the US, plutonium is defined as waste. The majority of the material destined for burial in Nevada is plutonium. Seems liek a waste of perfectly good fuel to me.
Dastardly