Sorry, the GPL doesn't require anyone to let you have their modifications to your GPL'ed code. They are only required to distribute source with their modified binaries.
Re:What I always wondered
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What I always wondered is why the OpenGL people don't promote a two-level standard; the low-level is OpenGL as it exists now, the second level of the standard would be optional. and consist of the kinds of things that Direct3D/Quickdraw3D would have offered, higher level things.
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't that what GLU is for?
I disagree. Perhaps I'm just unclear what you mean by "part of the language", but it seems clear to me that a pragmatic language must have a substantial standard library, or people won't use it.
Libraries as part of a language seem to be an interpreted language kind of thing, because it makes absolutely no sense to put them in a compiler.
You cut an arbitrary length of rope, say 500 feet, with a stake at each end. You knock one stake into the ground, and use the other to draw a circle around it. Align the rope so it points due north, and stake that point on the circle; that's your north corner. Find the opposing point on the circle by surveying where the two stakes line up; that's your south corner.
If I continue using rope as my compass and stakes as my pencils, I could locate the east and west corners. Then it's a simple matter to compare the 4 sides, and compare the 2 diagonals, to confirm we have constructed an accurate square. Then you cut your giant stone blocks to fit the square. It's not rocket science, and there's no reason to think it's beyond the capabilities of our Egyptian ancestors to get within a few inches using this technique. I just thought of it sitting here with two minutes' reflection, and I'm sure the Egyptians did something much smarter than that.
You don't need to go looking very far to see amazing accomplishments in the pyramids. The fact that the Great Pyramid was the tallest building until the Eiffel Tower is incredible enough. That, plus the fact that it was constructed from multi-ton rocks lifted hundreds of feet into the sky, makes your.1% error pale in comparison.
Each side is 722 feet long, so they only need to come within 7 feet to be accurate to within 1%. To consider that "amazing" is, I think, very condescending.
Today, even with modern equipment, we could not make that happen. Maybe we could place a block every 5 minutes or every 10 minutes, but I can't imagine we could do it under a minute continuously.
Well, with 20 times as much equipment, we could place a block every 15-30 seconds. Who says they placed one block at a time?
The network is supposed to just work. Imagine a grandma owning that router and having a 8 year old grandson wanting to play.
Just because you can use it, not everybody can.
Yebbut how does IP6 do any better here? You'll still want a firewall that blocks everything by default, so you'll still need to punch holes for each game.
I guess I didn't realize that "power-saving mode" meant "shutting down and doing nothing". I thought you just meant the more power-hungry operations would be postponed.
Regardless, there is no astronomical body that casts an appreciable shadow on Mars. (Do you remember the last transit of Venus? I didn't think so.) Even Mars' two moons are too small to make a dent in the sun. So your concept, while interesting, is still not useful in this particular case.
So, in the event that the thing drives itself under a tree, or a Martian holding an umbrella, it should shut down and sit there until the tree falls down or the Martian moves?
Yes, yes, that is exactly what I had in mind because I'm a total idiot.
Also, the code is ugly as hell. That seems to be the case for all the GNU code I have seen. (Thanks, RMS, for donating this stuff to the world, but man, it's ugly on the inside.)
Please don't get too creative with what text you put in your hyperlinks. It makes it hard to tell where the links go. Hint: look at the Related Links box, and if it's totally nonsensical, your links need work.
Let's look at the links in this article:
"skymap" points to the astrobio article
"most promising" points to the skymap
"project" points to a past slashdot article about SETI@home
"these" points to a description of the signals SETI@home looks for
Here's my suggestion:
"An
Astrobiology Magazine article today presents the
skymap
of where in the night sky to find the
most promising
SETI@Home signals, along with the research plan for the March
Stellar Countdown project that produced it. The
dedicated use of the Arecibo Telescope
to revisit the most promising spikes, pulses, and steady signals, focused on 166 star candidates. Those 166 were pruned from the five billion signals that have been found since 1999, depending on the signal's persistence, closeness to a known star, and frequency. The next step is particularly fascinating, if a signal appears to have increased since the first observation put that star on the checklist."
Sorry to vent on you. I have just seen so many incorrect "corrections" here and elsewhere lately, and yours was the straw that broke the camel's back I guess.
(BTW, you'd need to see two more sets of zeros to make the mistake you made.:-)
I came up with ~60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, which I have since dubbed 60 Hexillion. I have no idea what the real name is, but that seems logical based on the billion, trillion progression.
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Sorry, the GPL doesn't require anyone to let you have their modifications to your GPL'ed code. They are only required to distribute source with their modified binaries.
If I continue using rope as my compass and stakes as my pencils, I could locate the east and west corners. Then it's a simple matter to compare the 4 sides, and compare the 2 diagonals, to confirm we have constructed an accurate square. Then you cut your giant stone blocks to fit the square. It's not rocket science, and there's no reason to think it's beyond the capabilities of our Egyptian ancestors to get within a few inches using this technique. I just thought of it sitting here with two minutes' reflection, and I'm sure the Egyptians did something much smarter than that.
You don't need to go looking very far to see amazing accomplishments in the pyramids. The fact that the Great Pyramid was the tallest building until the Eiffel Tower is incredible enough. That, plus the fact that it was constructed from multi-ton rocks lifted hundreds of feet into the sky, makes your .1% error pale in comparison.
Each side is 722 feet long, so they only need to come within 7 feet to be accurate to within 1%. To consider that "amazing" is, I think, very condescending.
Ah, I see.
Uh, what are you talking about?
Regardless, there is no astronomical body that casts an appreciable shadow on Mars. (Do you remember the last transit of Venus? I didn't think so.) Even Mars' two moons are too small to make a dent in the sun. So your concept, while interesting, is still not useful in this particular case.
Ok you have a point, though I could probably write it in Perl and sidestep the whole issue. :-)
Uh, it could go into power-saving mode whenever the solar panels go dark.
I bet you one million dollars I can write a mail reader in less than 380KB sipped.
Also, the code is ugly as hell. That seems to be the case for all the GNU code I have seen. (Thanks, RMS, for donating this stuff to the world, but man, it's ugly on the inside.)
Let's look at the links in this article:
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"skymap" points to the astrobio article
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"most promising" points to the skymap
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"project" points to a past slashdot article about SETI@home
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"these" points to a description of the signals SETI@home looks for
Here's my suggestion:(BTW, you'd need to see two more sets of zeros to make the mistake you made. :-)
The number is 60e21, which is 60 sextillion, or 60 thousand trillion if you're British, but certainly not 60 octillion no matter where you live.
The link from the parent: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery/gravity/03 _07_GRACE.html
Looks like you need to try this one.