Exactly. If you break a law you should expect to pay the price, even if you disagree with the law. Not agreeing with the DMCA doesn't make what he did legal. The fact is, he broke the law and was found guilty.
I agree with the parent. VLC blows Quicktime out of the water on OS X for casual viewing (pr0n, etc.) No messing with codecs, no slow load times, it just works. And works well.
I think it's pretty safe to say that anything involving a currently proprietary technology from MS will not be released as open source. Given the current battle (and one they're losing, according to many) Microsoft is engaged in with OSS, they're in no position to help Linux users out and give more people a reason to ditch their money-making OS.
I don't see how this could possibly hurt Linux or the OSS wordl; this will help Linux. One of the major problems with Linux is it's inability to work 100% properly with some proprietary technologies. This brings us one step closer.
I wonder what else you could do with a steam tunnels. Live in them maybe?:)
Makes me wonder what the diameter of the pipes is, and if they are actually tunnels.. hopefully they won't have to worry about steam-tunnel rats chewing through their fiber, heh.
The first command I ever ran on my Linux box was "rm -rf/", as root of course. This was on Slackware 2.0. I was taking the advice of some people on IRC, in #linux on EFnet, and supposedly that command was "the one" to run. What a mistake that was.
That was my first, and last Linux installation. Don't get me wrong, I've tried to install other flavors of Linux since then, multiple times. Never been successful though. Mandrake installer would always freeze, or something wouldn't go right with the distro of choice at the time. Funny how FreeBSD has installed every time with no problems, and is remarkably stable.
In the end, I bought a Mac. I'm suprised that hasn't been mentioned more, as many comments are discussing Windows vs Linux. Try a Mac running OS X. Awesome GUI, very powerful, and stable. What more would you want?
Win32 has some great games. I'll give you that. However, Duke3D is a classic. It sure as hell was better than Quake (IMHO), even though Quake had a true 3D engine and such. The personality of Duke is what makes it unique. The stuff he says, and the whole personality of the game are just simply kick ass. The hell with new games, Duke3D was probably one of the most fun games ever released, and I'd sure as hell love to have a Win32 port.
I've found classes to be very useful when bringing data out of a database. For example, if you have a table in your DB called "Users", you can simply create a PHP class called "User", do a "select * from Users where Userid=blah", and have your user object ready to go. Of course, PHP also has mysql_fetch_object and such now as well.
Very well said. MySQL is slower than crap if you attempt to do anything but simple selects. In Oracle or Postgres, one query can often replace two or more queries required in MySQL.
Although MySQL might have a huge market share, let us think about who uses it. Stating the obvious, most sites using MySQL now don't have the financial resources to purchase an Oracle license and wouldn't be using it in the first place. I'd say Postgres would be a much greater threat to Oracle, as it's quite clear that Postgres has a larger featureset than MySQL and is geared toward users who need those features.
HINT: Go read the comments on the previous article
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Re:Could you get a bit more arrogant please? (Score:5, Informative) by njj (133128) on Tuesday July 02, @12:05PM (#3808279) (http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~marem/) If you can't explain something in ordinary words to a layman, then you really don't understand it.
I'm about halfway through writing up my PhD thesis on some applications of homological algebra to knot theory and low-dimensional geometric topology (provisional title liber rerum dementiae, but it'll probably end up being called something more mathematically appropriate).
In principle, yes, I could explain the details of my research to a suitably motivated layman. But I suspect it would take rather a long time.
You see, and this really isn't meant to sound arrogant, supercilious, or dismissive, university-level mathematics is pretty damned difficult, and the details of most cutting-edge research really doesn't make sense until you've spent several years learning the background (the mindset, the language, the fundamental concepts).
My current area of research is essentially the applications of homological algebra to knot theory and low-dimensional geometric topology. To explain this to a non-mathematician, I'd first have to teach them a lot of background stuff (group theory, a bit of stuff about rings and modules, point set topology, basic algebraic topology (the fundamental group, (co)homology theory), some geometric topology (basic course in knot theory, some stuff about 3-manifolds), a bit of category theory, and some homological algebra (broad overview of the (co)homology theory of groups and algebras)).
It's taken me nearly nine years (3-year BA, 1-year MSc specialising in topology and knot theory, plus nearly five years doing a (part-time) PhD) to get to this point myself. If I were a bit cleverer (or didn't have a `proper' job as well) I might have been able to shave a couple of years off that.
My friend Steve has a physics degree. I managed, in ten minutes one evening, with much handwaving, to give him some idea of what my thesis is all about. It helped that he knew what a group was already though. But for me to explain it fully to him would probably necessitate him doing at least one mathematics degree first. And that's not really something I'd wish on one of my friends:)
Now this really isn't meant in an arrogant way, and I hope you won't read it like that, but Euclid was right: There is no royal road to geometry.
I can have a go at explaining the Riemann hypothesis, though. To fully understand what it's about and why it's so damned difficult you'll need to do an advanced course in complex analysis (which isn't my field either).
A complex number is a sort of two-dimensional number, which you can regard as a point in a plane (the `complex plane' or `argand diagram'). You add them together coordinate-wise, and you multiply them together in a weird manner which involves something which behaves like a `square root of -1' (engineers also like to think of it as a sort of 90-degree phase-shift operator, I'm told).
There's a particular function (`Riemann's zeta function') defined on the complex plane (it takes one complex number as input and returns one complex number). For some complex numbers (`the zeros of the function'), the value of this function is zero.
The `trivial' zeros occur at the points -2, -4, -6,... on the horizontal axis.
The `non-trivial' zeros (that is, all the other points for which zeta is zero) all seem to occur on the line parallel to the vertical axis that intersects the horizontal axis at +0.5. Indeed, nobody's ever found one which doesn't.
The Riemann Hypothesis is that *all* the non-trivial zeros lie on this line. It's known to be true for the first (large number which temporarily escapes me), but it turns out to be phenomenally difficult to prove that it's true in every case.
Now that's the basic idea, but it doesn't (and I can't - it's not my field) explain *why* it's so difficult that some of the greatest minds (Hardy, Littlewood, Ramanujan, etc) of the past 150 years have failed to prove it, and why the Clay institute are willing to pay a million dollars to someone who can.
- nicholas (we don't just sit around doing big sums, you know:)
I haven't updated my TiBook to 10.2.4 yet, because it works just fine the way it is. I read the changelogs for the update and determined it wouldn't be of much benefit to me, my system is in a perfect equilibrium with everything working at the moment... and I don't want anything changing that! Strategy: Read forums, let early adopters tell you what's new in the release and what it breaks. If yours ain't broke, don't fix it.
While this is cool news, it doesn't help us PPC users. Does anyone know if this technology will make it's way to the new IBM chips that Apple will (according to rumors) use?
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Exactly. If you break a law you should expect to pay the price, even if you disagree with the law. Not agreeing with the DMCA doesn't make what he did legal. The fact is, he broke the law and was found guilty.
I agree with the parent. VLC blows Quicktime out of the water on OS X for casual viewing (pr0n, etc.) No messing with codecs, no slow load times, it just works. And works well.
I think it's pretty safe to say that anything involving a currently proprietary technology from MS will not be released as open source. Given the current battle (and one they're losing, according to many) Microsoft is engaged in with OSS, they're in no position to help Linux users out and give more people a reason to ditch their money-making OS.
I don't see how this could possibly hurt Linux or the OSS wordl; this will help Linux. One of the major problems with Linux is it's inability to work 100% properly with some proprietary technologies. This brings us one step closer.
The script kiddies would love this.
... "Hahaha, sucker! T01l3+ p4per m4n 0wnZ j00!"
You enter an internet-enabled bathroom stall.
You take your dump, and reach for the toilet paper.
But there's none left!
Scrolling across the LCD
I wonder what else you could do with a steam tunnels. Live in them maybe? :)
Makes me wonder what the diameter of the pipes is, and if they are actually tunnels.. hopefully they won't have to worry about steam-tunnel rats chewing through their fiber, heh.
I had an experience similar to hers.
/", as root of course. This was on Slackware 2.0. I was taking the advice of some people on IRC, in #linux on EFnet, and supposedly that command was "the one" to run. What a mistake that was.
The first command I ever ran on my Linux box was "rm -rf
That was my first, and last Linux installation. Don't get me wrong, I've tried to install other flavors of Linux since then, multiple times. Never been successful though. Mandrake installer would always freeze, or something wouldn't go right with the distro of choice at the time. Funny how FreeBSD has installed every time with no problems, and is remarkably stable.
In the end, I bought a Mac. I'm suprised that hasn't been mentioned more, as many comments are discussing Windows vs Linux. Try a Mac running OS X. Awesome GUI, very powerful, and stable. What more would you want?
Win32 has some great games. I'll give you that. However, Duke3D is a classic. It sure as hell was better than Quake (IMHO), even though Quake had a true 3D engine and such. The personality of Duke is what makes it unique. The stuff he says, and the whole personality of the game are just simply kick ass. The hell with new games, Duke3D was probably one of the most fun games ever released, and I'd sure as hell love to have a Win32 port.
Supposedly a lot of the sound sampling code is written in x86 assembly, so ... it'd have to be rewritten in PPC assembly I assume.
"... but I'm all outta gum!"
"NO! the for loop starts at 1, not 0!"
"@$%!!!! Steve would roll in his grave!"
"Loudest fart wins..."
*everyone in the building dies*
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Linux: Telling M$ where to go since 1991.
FreeBSD: Hey, are you guys coming, or what?
... that Microsoft could find a way to take on Saddam Hussein. And win, of course.
Doesn't look like Safari will be much of an "issue" anymore. Hyatt says he's dropping support for tables in the next release... ;)
I've found classes to be very useful when bringing data out of a database. For example, if you have a table in your DB called "Users", you can simply create a PHP class called "User", do a "select * from Users where Userid=blah", and have your user object ready to go. Of course, PHP also has mysql_fetch_object and such now as well.
have we had a ton of PHP/MySQL book reviews lately?
Very well said. MySQL is slower than crap if you attempt to do anything but simple selects. In Oracle or Postgres, one query can often replace two or more queries required in MySQL.
Although MySQL might have a huge market share, let us think about who uses it. Stating the obvious, most sites using MySQL now don't have the financial resources to purchase an Oracle license and wouldn't be using it in the first place. I'd say Postgres would be a much greater threat to Oracle, as it's quite clear that Postgres has a larger featureset than MySQL and is geared toward users who need those features.
how big of a brick will Steve Jobs be shitting?
Re:Could you get a bit more arrogant please? (Score:5, Informative))
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... on the horizontal axis.
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by njj (133128) on Tuesday July 02, @12:05PM (#3808279)
(http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~marem/
If you can't explain something in ordinary words to a layman, then you really don't understand it.
I'm about halfway through writing up my PhD thesis on some applications of homological algebra to knot theory and low-dimensional geometric topology (provisional title liber rerum dementiae, but it'll probably end up being called something more mathematically appropriate).
In principle, yes, I could explain the details of my research to a suitably motivated layman. But I suspect it would take rather a long time.
You see, and this really isn't meant to sound arrogant, supercilious, or dismissive, university-level mathematics is pretty damned difficult, and the details of most cutting-edge research really doesn't make sense until you've spent several years learning the background (the mindset, the language, the fundamental concepts).
My current area of research is essentially the applications of homological algebra to knot theory and low-dimensional geometric topology. To explain this to a non-mathematician, I'd first have to teach them a lot of background stuff (group theory, a bit of stuff about rings and modules, point set topology, basic algebraic topology (the fundamental group, (co)homology theory), some geometric topology (basic course in knot theory, some stuff about 3-manifolds), a bit of category theory, and some homological algebra (broad overview of the (co)homology theory of groups and algebras)).
It's taken me nearly nine years (3-year BA, 1-year MSc specialising in topology and knot theory, plus nearly five years doing a (part-time) PhD) to get to this point myself. If I were a bit cleverer (or didn't have a `proper' job as well) I might have been able to shave a couple of years off that.
My friend Steve has a physics degree. I managed, in ten minutes one evening, with much handwaving, to give him some idea of what my thesis is all about. It helped that he knew what a group was already though. But for me to explain it fully to him would probably necessitate him doing at least one mathematics degree first. And that's not really something I'd wish on one of my friends
Now this really isn't meant in an arrogant way, and I hope you won't read it like that, but Euclid was right: There is no royal road to geometry.
I can have a go at explaining the Riemann hypothesis, though. To fully understand what it's about and why it's so damned difficult you'll need to do an advanced course in complex analysis (which isn't my field either).
A complex number is a sort of two-dimensional number, which you can regard as a point in a plane (the `complex plane' or `argand diagram'). You add them together coordinate-wise, and you multiply them together in a weird manner which involves something which behaves like a `square root of -1' (engineers also like to think of it as a sort of 90-degree phase-shift operator, I'm told).
There's a particular function (`Riemann's zeta function') defined on the complex plane (it takes one complex number as input and returns one complex number). For some complex numbers (`the zeros of the function'), the value of this function is zero.
The `trivial' zeros occur at the points -2, -4, -6,
The `non-trivial' zeros (that is, all the other points for which zeta is zero) all seem to occur on the line parallel to the vertical axis that intersects the horizontal axis at +0.5. Indeed, nobody's ever found one which doesn't.
The Riemann Hypothesis is that *all* the non-trivial zeros lie on this line. It's known to be true for the first (large number which temporarily escapes me), but it turns out to be phenomenally difficult to prove that it's true in every case.
Now that's the basic idea, but it doesn't (and I can't - it's not my field) explain *why* it's so difficult that some of the greatest minds (Hardy, Littlewood, Ramanujan, etc) of the past 150 years have failed to prove it, and why the Clay institute are willing to pay a million dollars to someone who can.
- nicholas (we don't just sit around doing big sums, you know
Finally, the mathematics we need to generate the 1.21 jigawatts to go ...
... that I really would go blind if I kept doing *that*.
I haven't updated my TiBook to 10.2.4 yet, because it works just fine the way it is. I read the changelogs for the update and determined it wouldn't be of much benefit to me, my system is in a perfect equilibrium with everything working at the moment ... and I don't want anything changing that! Strategy: Read forums, let early adopters tell you what's new in the release and what it breaks. If yours ain't broke, don't fix it.
Finally a chip that can generate the 1.21 gigawatts (pronounced jigawatts) needed to replace the flux capacitor!
perhaps Taco isn't getting his share of the Pink Taco. That might explain the dupes.
While this is cool news, it doesn't help us PPC users. Does anyone know if this technology will make it's way to the new IBM chips that Apple will (according to rumors) use?