I think just the opposite. If Linux implemented say a thread scheduler or something and was found to infringe upon a patent that was [in theory] unknown to the implementer than the idea can't possibly be that novel and original if another person can make the same conclusions.
Also it will show how absurd [in particular] MSFT patents are. I can't find it right now but I'm sure I found one for MS taskscheduler [re: cron jobs] and another for "making multimedia projects" [re: virtual dub] and there are plenty more.
I think for every really legit patent MSFT does have [and there are a few] there are 100s to 1000s of totally bogus patents that aren't original, non-obvious or useful.
The average citizen really doesn't know much about linux, knows less about FOSS and could give a rats ass for IP law w.r.t. software [movie/music is another story]. If cases made some news it might help shed some light on how stupidity and greed have turned the patent office from a defensive weapon to a tactical offensive weapon.
via box would have cost ~400-500$ CDN or so. I actually had to buy a case and hard disk for it [around 200$]. Put Gentoo on it [yes, took a few days to build everything...] and it works like a charm.
As for DDR... well I said I don't like sitting for long periods of time... doesn't mean I'm fit. Though I suppose if I had a DDR machine I would get in shape quickly. Got keep my "arcade style" high. My micro is decent enough that I can let it slide.
Free. I got it from a friend. He got it from a Via representative he met at OLS. See the question you should have asked is "how much do you use it?"
The answer is "about as often as I watch movies anyways". I don't like sitting still watching a tv for long periods of time without getting up and moving around.
Mostly for me the selling point was I got to write the shell and perl scripts that make up the apache hosted interface [it has a point and click web based interface to mplayer I wrote]...;-)
| | | | w | a[#] entertainment l[#] cabinet l[#] that/o/ |[#] is | |/\ bigger / \ | \ | | \ | me via box |
In case you can't tell that's a via box against the wall behind an entertainment unit and that's me like 12 feet away. From that distance you can only hear the box when the tv is off. If the tv is off I don't care if it makes noise.
via box has tv+audio out which means I can use it for videos [e.g. rentals I ripped] as well as audio [e.g. shoutcast]. The picture is great and the sound is good enough for the purposes.
Fastest time to find the char-2 differential profile of a random bijective 4x4 look up table. No gimmicky tricks there just pure nlogn work in your head;-)
From what others have posted and I've read on the net the 13th root is a trick to a large part. The leading digits are a strong indicator of the value of the root, etc, etc, etc.
Or something with more practical implications... fastest time to perform an inverse cosine transform [type used in MPEG video] of an 8x8 matrix in your head.;-) Nothing like decoding JPEGs with only your mind.
Unless there is some really trivial algorithm for finding 13th roots I totally call bullshit. If it takes him four seconds to memorize a 22 digit number how can he manipulate and find a 13th root for a 100 digit number in just over twice that amount of time?
There has to be a trick to it aside from "thinking really fast"
Ah vague generalities. You know who else are efficient? Migrant under-age children sweat shops. I know I want to live my life like them! Joy!
The best way to ensure your group is productive is to make sure they know their place, their job and their deadlines. People are smart and generally [at least I do] get less productive the more they are micromanaged.
Oh yeah, and don't let marketting shoot their mouths off before you actually sit down to figure out the timeline of a project because "next week" is never soon enough for a market-droid.
BTW, you bash USA for Iraq in your sig. How's the ivory coast this time of year?
I may come from the great white north but at least I'm not a hypocrite. My country doesn't start wars and I'm damn proud of it.
Um but the amd64 can run 32-bit code [and 16-bit code] in full speed without "emulation layers" like the ia64 does. Sure the amd64 does more than an 8086 does but it still does what an 8086 does [and more].
Hell, everytime you boot an amd64 into winxp you're basically starting up a glorified 32-bit cpu with zero 64-bit extensions.
The biggest reason for AMD64 [or x86-64 whatever] is not the 64-bit registers [which is nice] but the **EXTRA** registers. The x86-32 has a pathetic amount of registers available which makes the RISC core really suck bad.
Most of the speed-boost applications will get is simply from not having to use as much stack for variables.
Can't speak to those cases specifically but often a car recall is due to a DESIGN flaw not an implementation flaw. Like the ford crown vics that would have the doors lock up and the car catch fire in low speed rear end collisions...
If the overall cell design was flawed you'd have a point. Just because some batteries aren't being created properly doesn't mean that cell itself is flawed.
Arrg I hate that argument. "why do I pay for schools? I don't have kids".
First, you probably went to public school yourself.
Second, education is right [in most countries] and not a privilege. Therefore as a citizen it's your duty to support the cause. Otherwise, fight to make education not a right.
Would you really like to live in a world where education wasn't available to all? Perhaps you should be more upset at how the money is poorly spent [e.g. 100M dollar contract to add a couple of out-dated networked labs? sure why not!]
But that's my point. If OSS was so flawed as MSFT is trying to maintain than *BSD would equally be flawed.
The fact that they don't pick on OSS universally and focus merely on Linux is a strong indication they just want to pick on Linux and are looking for any excuse todo it.
I dunno about you but I never got shit to run with Winex on my P4. When they first reported War3 working in it I gave it a whirl. My results were that the installer wouldn't even work. Also gentoo won't emerge Wine on non-32bit platforms as a multilib gcc is not enough.
as the other poster put it "not to rag on vietnam vets" but that was 30 years ago. Hell before I was even born. Not that I think they don't deserve help just that at this point in the game they probably didn't want the help.
Though I have yet to see a dude in a wheelchair who was actually from a war and not just handicapped either from birth or another accident.
In Canada at least I don't share many thoughts with the homeless street bums. Shelters exist where you can get a shower, shave and food. There is no reason to be a disgusting totally unemployable slob on the streets other than you're too lazy to actually clean yourself...
Of course you have to be sober to stay at most shelters.... but no wait society forced those drugs into the guys arm. Yah....
That's just retarded. Individual cars pollute WAY more than buses do. Let's see bus gets like what 10 maybe 20 MPG. Your humvee gets about 7. The bus holds 55 people the humvee holds only you [loner status enabled].
Yeah, tax public transportation. That's smart.
Why not just rip out your lungs in advance and say "no more oxygene for me!"
Public highways like schools are a socialist institute for a reason. They're too expensive for any one person to pay for.
I'm all for taxing gas [which they already do]. That's a good way to get people to use more efficient cars, carpool, etc.
However, if you are taxed base on how far you drive you just punish people who can't afford to live near their work [for instance]. Which is specially important in California where housing is expensive.
This is just another example of double-dipping. Either make gas tax higher or don't implement this new mileage tax.
WHO you are is not "private" information while you are in public is ALL i was saying.
I'm not saying that schools should also keep ALL of your private info with it.
Holy crap motherfucker learn to differentiate concepts here.
When you are in a public place your identity isn't private, at best it's obscure.
I mean ever use a credit card? Leave your wallet open for a second? Make a call and say "this is XYZ calling?" etc?
I'd expect things like your bank account numbers, SSN, etc to be not publicly disclosed by a RFID student ID system. Those are private information that the school doesn't really need to know.
"Being in PUBLIC does not waive your rights as a human being."
You're in public. You have no right to privacy in terms of where you are, who you are, etc while your at skule.
Sure you still have a right to keep things like your medical records, things at home, etc private.
All the RFID tag should have is an encrypted student number which fed back to a server [which holds the AES key for instance] can then decrypt and compare.
Anyone who reads the RFID tag otherwise won't get your student number or name.
I'd say a school staffer has a right to know who you are for shear safety reasons.
You have to actually drop out of school though. If you are enrolled in classes you are expected to be actually in the class. In Ontario [where I'm from at least] once you hit 18 you're safety is your own responsibility.
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I think just the opposite. If Linux implemented say a thread scheduler or something and was found to infringe upon a patent that was [in theory] unknown to the implementer than the idea can't possibly be that novel and original if another person can make the same conclusions.
Also it will show how absurd [in particular] MSFT patents are. I can't find it right now but I'm sure I found one for MS taskscheduler [re: cron jobs] and another for "making multimedia projects" [re: virtual dub] and there are plenty more.
I think for every really legit patent MSFT does have [and there are a few] there are 100s to 1000s of totally bogus patents that aren't original, non-obvious or useful.
The average citizen really doesn't know much about linux, knows less about FOSS and could give a rats ass for IP law w.r.t. software [movie/music is another story]. If cases made some news it might help shed some light on how stupidity and greed have turned the patent office from a defensive weapon to a tactical offensive weapon.
Tom
via box would have cost ~400-500$ CDN or so. I actually had to buy a case and hard disk for it [around 200$]. Put Gentoo on it [yes, took a few days to build everything...] and it works like a charm.
As for DDR... well I said I don't like sitting for long periods of time... doesn't mean I'm fit. Though I suppose if I had a DDR machine I would get in shape quickly. Got keep my "arcade style" high. My micro is decent enough that I can let it slide.
Tom
Free. I got it from a friend. He got it from a Via representative he met at OLS. See the question you should have asked is "how much do you use it?"
... ;-)
The answer is "about as often as I watch movies anyways". I don't like sitting still watching a tv for long periods of time without getting up and moving around.
Mostly for me the selling point was I got to write the shell and perl scripts that make up the apache hosted interface [it has a point and click web based interface to mplayer I wrote]
Tom
Here's an idea for ya.
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In case you can't tell that's a via box against the wall behind an entertainment unit and that's me like 12 feet away. From that distance you can only hear the box when the tv is off. If the tv is off I don't care if it makes noise.
via box has tv+audio out which means I can use it for videos [e.g. rentals I ripped] as well as audio [e.g. shoutcast]. The picture is great and the sound is good enough for the purposes.
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Tom
That involves some memory...
;-)
;-) Nothing like decoding JPEGs with only your mind.
Fastest time to find the char-2 differential profile of a random bijective 4x4 look up table. No gimmicky tricks there just pure nlogn work in your head
From what others have posted and I've read on the net the 13th root is a trick to a large part. The leading digits are a strong indicator of the value of the root, etc, etc, etc.
Or something with more practical implications... fastest time to perform an inverse cosine transform [type used in MPEG video] of an 8x8 matrix in your head.
Tom
Unless there is some really trivial algorithm for finding 13th roots I totally call bullshit. If it takes him four seconds to memorize a 22 digit number how can he manipulate and find a 13th root for a 100 digit number in just over twice that amount of time?
There has to be a trick to it aside from "thinking really fast"
Tom
What?
Canada invaded Iraq? Holy shit I must be getting my news from the wrong source.
Great White North == Canada... it's in the north, it's big and usually snow covered.
That's like mistaking the "island" for Germany or something. Christ almighty people watch some movies already and learn some culture!
Tom
Ah vague generalities. You know who else are efficient? Migrant under-age children sweat shops. I know I want to live my life like them! Joy!
The best way to ensure your group is productive is to make sure they know their place, their job and their deadlines. People are smart and generally [at least I do] get less productive the more they are micromanaged.
Oh yeah, and don't let marketting shoot their mouths off before you actually sit down to figure out the timeline of a project because "next week" is never soon enough for a market-droid.
BTW, you bash USA for Iraq in your sig. How's the ivory coast this time of year?
I may come from the great white north but at least I'm not a hypocrite. My country doesn't start wars and I'm damn proud of it.
Tom
Um but the amd64 can run 32-bit code [and 16-bit code] in full speed without "emulation layers" like the ia64 does. Sure the amd64 does more than an 8086 does but it still does what an 8086 does [and more].
Hell, everytime you boot an amd64 into winxp you're basically starting up a glorified 32-bit cpu with zero 64-bit extensions.
Tom
The biggest reason for AMD64 [or x86-64 whatever] is not the 64-bit registers [which is nice] but the **EXTRA** registers. The x86-32 has a pathetic amount of registers available which makes the RISC core really suck bad.
Most of the speed-boost applications will get is simply from not having to use as much stack for variables.
Tom
Can't speak to those cases specifically but often a car recall is due to a DESIGN flaw not an implementation flaw. Like the ford crown vics that would have the doors lock up and the car catch fire in low speed rear end collisions...
If the overall cell design was flawed you'd have a point. Just because some batteries aren't being created properly doesn't mean that cell itself is flawed.
Arrg I hate that argument. "why do I pay for schools? I don't have kids".
First, you probably went to public school yourself.
Second, education is right [in most countries] and not a privilege. Therefore as a citizen it's your duty to support the cause. Otherwise, fight to make education not a right.
Would you really like to live in a world where education wasn't available to all? Perhaps you should be more upset at how the money is poorly spent [e.g. 100M dollar contract to add a couple of out-dated networked labs? sure why not!]
Tom
But that's my point. If OSS was so flawed as MSFT is trying to maintain than *BSD would equally be flawed.
The fact that they don't pick on OSS universally and focus merely on Linux is a strong indication they just want to pick on Linux and are looking for any excuse todo it.
Tom
A representative of MSFT was talking *smack* about Linux? Who would have thunk it.
Here's food for thought. If MSFT was truly against *open source* and not their biggest threat [re: linux] they would be bashing *BSD as well.
Tom
I use gentoo. They probably added a patch to the ebuild to fix this ;-)
/me dodges as distro-wars erupts ;-)
My setup basically involves me doing my own kernel builds [from vanilla kernel releases].
Maybe you should upgrade to a better distro?
Tom
nvidia what?
I ran 2.4 and 2.6 on my P4 [which I sold...] with the nvidia drivers with little trouble. In fact my only problem was the 4kb stack issue.
I'm running 2.6 on my amd64 and the nvidia drivers work fine here [for 64 and 32 bit programs].
Maybe your distro sucks and isn't up to date?
Tom
I dunno about you but I never got shit to run with Winex on my P4. When they first reported War3 working in it I gave it a whirl. My results were that the installer wouldn't even work. Also gentoo won't emerge Wine on non-32bit platforms as a multilib gcc is not enough.
Tom
1. I have to buy winex and halflife 2? Fuck that.
2. I run x86_64 linux. winex isn't much of an option.
3. I'd rather a native OpenGL port if I'm going to pay CashMoney.
Tom
as the other poster put it "not to rag on vietnam vets" but that was 30 years ago. Hell before I was even born. Not that I think they don't deserve help just that at this point in the game they probably didn't want the help.
Though I have yet to see a dude in a wheelchair who was actually from a war and not just handicapped either from birth or another accident.
In Canada at least I don't share many thoughts with the homeless street bums. Shelters exist where you can get a shower, shave and food. There is no reason to be a disgusting totally unemployable slob on the streets other than you're too lazy to actually clean yourself...
Of course you have to be sober to stay at most shelters.... but no wait society forced those drugs into the guys arm. Yah....
Tom
Not everyone lives in your fantasy world where they can just quit, move, learn to cycle 40 miles because some random change.
You want to save the environment? Prop up public transportation. Random taxation only punishes those who can't afford it the most.
Tom
That's just retarded. Individual cars pollute WAY more than buses do. Let's see bus gets like what 10 maybe 20 MPG. Your humvee gets about 7. The bus holds 55 people the humvee holds only you [loner status enabled].
Yeah, tax public transportation. That's smart.
Why not just rip out your lungs in advance and say "no more oxygene for me!"
Tom
Public highways like schools are a socialist institute for a reason. They're too expensive for any one person to pay for.
I'm all for taxing gas [which they already do]. That's a good way to get people to use more efficient cars, carpool, etc.
However, if you are taxed base on how far you drive you just punish people who can't afford to live near their work [for instance]. Which is specially important in California where housing is expensive.
This is just another example of double-dipping. Either make gas tax higher or don't implement this new mileage tax.
Tom
ok, shut the fuck up already.
WHO you are is not "private" information while you are in public is ALL i was saying.
I'm not saying that schools should also keep ALL of your private info with it.
Holy crap motherfucker learn to differentiate concepts here.
When you are in a public place your identity isn't private, at best it's obscure.
I mean ever use a credit card? Leave your wallet open for a second? Make a call and say "this is XYZ calling?" etc?
I'd expect things like your bank account numbers, SSN, etc to be not publicly disclosed by a RFID student ID system. Those are private information that the school doesn't really need to know.
Tom
"Being in PUBLIC does not waive your rights as a human being."
You're in public. You have no right to privacy in terms of where you are, who you are, etc while your at skule.
Sure you still have a right to keep things like your medical records, things at home, etc private.
All the RFID tag should have is an encrypted student number which fed back to a server [which holds the AES key for instance] can then decrypt and compare.
Anyone who reads the RFID tag otherwise won't get your student number or name.
I'd say a school staffer has a right to know who you are for shear safety reasons.
Tom
You have to actually drop out of school though. If you are enrolled in classes you are expected to be actually in the class. In Ontario [where I'm from at least] once you hit 18 you're safety is your own responsibility.
Tom