I'm not a native French speaker and I'm not a native English speaker, either:) I messed up when editing the first phrase from the French's passive to the active, the original way didn't work out in English. Hope my English's not too "broken" apart from those two leftover words. Oh well, that's what I got for not previewing.
The TGI of Paris has sentenced Mandrake, the French editor of the Linux distribution of the same name has been to pay 70000 to the American companies Hearst Holdings and King Fearture Syndicate, owners of the brand "Mandrake le magicien" (Mandrake, the Wizard), and editors of the comic by the same name. The latter had brought this to court in France for "detournement de marque" (detouring of mark). The court also interdicted the French the further use of their name and demands Mandrake to hand their names and domains to the two American companies -- verdict which could be a deadly blow to the French company whose business resides solely on the distribution on their distribution "Mandrake"
For the moment, Mandrake has called to the appeals court, thus suspending the judgement, and thus maintaining their brand and their domains.
Let us remember [I love French expressions] that a preceding judgement concerning the logo had been in favor of the American companies. The French already had to review (modify) their copy.
As for Classical Greek, it may have escaped your notice that it has developed into modern Greek. I guess a different typeface might well fix it (capitals only and the sigma is different.)Actually, the Omega (not the Sigma) is usually written differently. Classical texts have been written in minuscles for several centuries, so you'd also need them for ancient Greek. And you'd need even more than in modern Greek: where modern Greek's demotiki has one accent, ancient Greek (and the church's ye-olde form katharewousa) has three accents plus two spirits plus the iota subscriptum plus most combinations of the former three.
So they make all these claims about superconductivity when they have pairs of atoms? Doesn't that seem stupid? How would you carry charge (i.e. electricity) with these neutral particles? So how would you build a superconductor with these thingies?
It also comes no surprise that the Cooper pair's attractive force is stronger than in the electron-electron case -- there is no repulsive Coulomb force between atoms.
It sure sounds like someone made up a sensationalist story around some interesting, but not sensational, research.
Note: I could only read the abstract of the Phys Rev Letters article, not the article itself. Maybe they're talking about ions. But neither the article/. linked to, nor the abstract talk about charged particles.
If one has a spin of +1/2 and the other has a spin of -1/2 then the composite "particle" will have a total spin of 0 This part is bogus, spin addition is more complicated than that. Whether you get a spin 0, 1/2 or 1 composite particle depends on the proper superposition of pair states. You can get an integer spin particle by combining two half-integer spin particles.
WRT the article, I don't see why they talk about having created a new state of matter. This is wrong, a claim only made up to attract attention. Superfluid Helium II is a Bose-Einstein-condensate of Helium 3, which has a half-integer spin -- exactly the same thing. There is one interesting difference, though: they managed to pick fairly heavy atoms, Potassium is much heavier than Helium.
In fact, www.sco.com is the first hit if you search for "bastards". (actually, only four out of five times I tried, looks like it depends on the specific subset of google's index).
Did anybody else notice how Linus never uses the term "intellectual property"? Everytime it appears in the interview it is in square brackets, meaning the editor replaced such coneceptually hard words as "source code" by "intellectual property". Darl OTOH employs this stupid term several times throughout his interview. Maybe he and the editors should try to understand this.
Who was in office when the DMCA was signed? Bill Clinton. Umm, what party was he a member of again? I think the relevant question is "Who held the majority in congress at that time?" (Disclaimer: I don't know the answer)
When I took a glance at the world beyond my tinfoil hat, I made the following observation: Saddam basically sits in an earthhole not moving, waiting to be captured. Now he gets captured and fills all the news when the Gilmore comission reports on the effect post-9-11-paranoia had on the constitutional rights. Bad coincidence?
As long as they don't use both long and short filenames in their implementation, they won't violate those patents. At least that's what the abstracts make me believe. See my other post, where I put the abstracts.
It's not like they provide very much information, but here are the patent abstracts, plus links to the full patents. They sure don't seem interesting, and they all seem to deal with the coexistence of long and short filenames. All of this wouldn't be patentable in Europe.
United States Patent 5,579,517 Reynolds , et al. November 26, 1996 Common name space for long and short filenames
Abstract
An operating system provides a common name space for both long filenames and short filenames. In this common namespace, a long filename and a short filename are provided for each file. Each file has a short filename directory entry and may have at least one long filename directory entry associated with it. The number of long filename directory entries that are associated with a file depends on the number of characters in the long filename of the file. The long filename directory entries are configured to minimize compatibility problems with existing installed program bases.
United States Patent 5,745,902 Miller , et al. April 28, 1998 Method and system for accessing a file using file names having different file name formats
Abstract
A multiple file name referencing system stores multiple file names in a file. These multiple file names include an operating system formatted file name and an application formatted file name. When an operating system formatted file name is created or renamed, the multiple file name referencing system automatically generates an application formatted file name having a potentially different format from, but preserving the extension of, the operating system formatted name. The multiple file name referencing system similarly generates an operating system formatted name upon creation or renaming of an application formatted name. A B-tree is provided which contains an operating system entry for the operating system formatted name and an application entry for the application formatted name, each entry containing the address of the same file to which both names refer. The multiple file name referencing system converts the operating system formatted file name to the application formatted file name by accessing the B-tree with reference to the operating system entry, and vice versa. As a result, either file name can be used to directly reference the file without requiring additional file name translation.
United States Patent 5,758,352 Reynolds , et al. May 26, 1998 Common name space for long and short filenames
Abstract
An operating system provides a common name space for both long filenames and short filenames. In this common namespace, a long filename and a short filename are provided for each file. Each file has a short filename directory entry and may have at least one long filename directory entry associated with it. The number of long filename directory entries that are associated with a file depends on the number of characters in the long filename of the file. The long filename directory entries are configured to minimize compatibility problems with existing installed program bases.
Thanks for explaining to the unenlightened. Don't you think that was a point the OP tried to make?
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[They have to prove] that SCO is still working on support for), they have to prove that the source code they bought from Novell constitutes a primary portion of the value of SuSE Linux! Why else would I have to pay $699? In SCO's twisted universe this makes perfect sense.
Thanks for the information, but how far along is the NTFS write support? Last time I looked it didn't seem like writing would become safe anytime soon.
Mozilla... because it's a better web browser and e-mail client Linux... because it's a better firewall, server and router (i.e. GNU/LAMP is a better yaddayadda) cygwin... because it's a better CLI environment OpenOffice... because it's better (exchangeable data formats, no clippy)
I also think that Free software is better for humanity as a whole, but I'm not dogmatic about it.
I still use Windows on the desktop, because I didn't yet have time to move everything over to Linux (f*ck NTFS, otherwise I wouldn't have to), and because Soulseek works much better under Windows.
The terrorists would stand up, shooting all the passengers in the first place. If they're distributed well enough across the airplane that could happen much faster than anybody else could pull a gun. And I don't think you'd have a lot of people sitting in the airplane wearing kevlar underwear and helmets.
In Switzerland everyone who was in the army has an assault rifle in his house. But they may not use it, and they don't walk out in the street with it. If you want to rob a bank in Switzerland you wouldn't have to expect somebody standing in the counterroom with a loaded rifle, and still few people rob banks there. So it's certainly not the guns that prevent the crimes.
BTW, Switzerland has a higher murder rate per capita than neighboring countries (much less than the US, though), and those rifles become murder weapons, so one might choose Switzerland as an example of the opposite argument.
Were you trying to make a pro-gun statement? You said [p]eople with guns kill people. If that's the case, why let anybody have a gun? Did you choose a bad formulation, or is this a meaningless saying?
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I'm not a native French speaker and I'm not a native English speaker, either :) I messed up when editing the first phrase from the French's passive to the active, the original way didn't work out in English. Hope my English's not too "broken" apart from those two leftover words. Oh well, that's what I got for not previewing.
I have five minutes right now, so here ya go:
Mandrake has to cahge its name
The TGI of Paris has sentenced Mandrake, the French editor of the Linux distribution of the same name has been to pay 70000 to the American companies Hearst Holdings and King Fearture Syndicate, owners of the brand "Mandrake le magicien" (Mandrake, the Wizard), and editors of the comic by the same name. The latter had brought this to court in France for "detournement de marque" (detouring of mark). The court also interdicted the French the further use of their name and demands Mandrake to hand their names and domains to the two American companies -- verdict which could be a deadly blow to the French company whose business resides solely on the distribution on their distribution "Mandrake"
For the moment, Mandrake has called to the appeals court, thus suspending the judgement, and thus maintaining their brand and their domains.
Let us remember [I love French expressions] that a preceding judgement concerning the logo had been in favor of the American companies. The French already had to review (modify) their copy.
As for Classical Greek, it may have escaped your notice that it has developed into modern Greek. I guess a different typeface might well fix it (capitals only and the sigma is different.)Actually, the Omega (not the Sigma) is usually written differently. Classical texts have been written in minuscles for several centuries, so you'd also need them for ancient Greek. And you'd need even more than in modern Greek: where modern Greek's demotiki has one accent, ancient Greek (and the church's ye-olde form katharewousa) has three accents plus two spirits plus the iota subscriptum plus most combinations of the former three.
So they make all these claims about superconductivity when they have pairs of atoms? Doesn't that seem stupid? How would you carry charge (i.e. electricity) with these neutral particles? So how would you build a superconductor with these thingies?
/. linked to, nor the abstract talk about charged particles.
It also comes no surprise that the Cooper pair's attractive force is stronger than in the electron-electron case -- there is no repulsive Coulomb force between atoms.
It sure sounds like someone made up a sensationalist story around some interesting, but not sensational, research.
Note: I could only read the abstract of the Phys Rev Letters article, not the article itself. Maybe they're talking about ions. But neither the article
If one has a spin of +1/2 and the other has a spin of -1/2 then the composite "particle" will have a total spin of 0
This part is bogus, spin addition is more complicated than that. Whether you get a spin 0, 1/2 or 1 composite particle depends on the proper superposition of pair states. You can get an integer spin particle by combining two half-integer spin particles.
WRT the article, I don't see why they talk about having created a new state of matter. This is wrong, a claim only made up to attract attention. Superfluid Helium II is a Bose-Einstein-condensate of Helium 3, which has a half-integer spin -- exactly the same thing. There is one interesting difference, though: they managed to pick fairly heavy atoms, Potassium is much heavier than Helium.
Disclaimer: I'm a graduate student in physics.
In fact, www.sco.com is the first hit if you search for "bastards". (actually, only four out of five times I tried, looks like it depends on the specific subset of google's index).
Did anybody else notice how Linus never uses the term "intellectual property"? Everytime it appears in the interview it is in square brackets, meaning the editor replaced such coneceptually hard words as "source code" by "intellectual property". Darl OTOH employs this stupid term several times throughout his interview. Maybe he and the editors should try to understand this.
Who was in office when the DMCA was signed? Bill Clinton. Umm, what party was he a member of again?
I think the relevant question is "Who held the majority in congress at that time?" (Disclaimer: I don't know the answer)
When I took a glance at the world beyond my tinfoil hat, I made the following observation: Saddam basically sits in an earthhole not moving, waiting to be captured. Now he gets captured and fills all the news when the Gilmore comission reports on the effect post-9-11-paranoia had on the constitutional rights. Bad coincidence?
As long as they don't use both long and short filenames in their implementation, they won't violate those patents. At least that's what the abstracts make me believe. See my other post, where I put the abstracts.
It's not like they provide very much information, but here are the patent abstracts, plus links to the full patents. They sure don't seem interesting, and they all seem to deal with the coexistence of long and short filenames. All of this wouldn't be patentable in Europe.
United States Patent 5,579,517
Reynolds , et al. November 26, 1996
Common name space for long and short filenames
Abstract
An operating system provides a common name space for both long filenames and short filenames. In this common namespace, a long filename and a short filename are provided for each file. Each file has a short filename directory entry and may have at least one long filename directory entry associated with it. The number of long filename directory entries that are associated with a file depends on the number of characters in the long filename of the file. The long filename directory entries are configured to minimize compatibility problems with existing installed program bases.
United States Patent 5,745,902
Miller , et al. April 28, 1998
Method and system for accessing a file using file names having different file name formats
Abstract
A multiple file name referencing system stores multiple file names in a file. These multiple file names include an operating system formatted file name and an application formatted file name. When an operating system formatted file name is created or renamed, the multiple file name referencing system automatically generates an application formatted file name having a potentially different format from, but preserving the extension of, the operating system formatted name. The multiple file name referencing system similarly generates an operating system formatted name upon creation or renaming of an application formatted name. A B-tree is provided which contains an operating system entry for the operating system formatted name and an application entry for the application formatted name, each entry containing the address of the same file to which both names refer. The multiple file name referencing system converts the operating system formatted file name to the application formatted file name by accessing the B-tree with reference to the operating system entry, and vice versa. As a result, either file name can be used to directly reference the file without requiring additional file name translation.
United States Patent 5,758,352
Reynolds , et al. May 26, 1998
Common name space for long and short filenames
Abstract
An operating system provides a common name space for both long filenames and short filenames. In this common namespace, a long filename and a short filename are provided for each file. Each file has a short filename directory entry and may have at least one long filename directory entry associated with it. The number of long filename directory entries that are associated with a file depends on the number of characters in the long filename of the file. The long filename directory entries are configured to minimize compatibility problems with existing installed program bases.
United States Patent 6,286,013
Just think he's talking about source code and distributed authorship like in most GPL'ed projects, and you'll see his point.
walmart that runs Solaris 8 with MS IIS 5
Couldn't that be the result of port forwarding? Solaris frirewall, windows server? Seems much more likely.
Thanks for explaining to the unenlightened. Don't you think that was a point the OP tried to make?
[They have to prove] that SCO is still working on support for), they have to prove that the source code they bought from Novell constitutes a primary portion of the value of SuSE Linux!
Why else would I have to pay $699? In SCO's twisted universe this makes perfect sense.
Now try the link
No, because the computer will both keep evaluating today's match, and play another opening tomorrow. Apart from that the colors will be reversed ;-)
Thanks for the information, but how far along is the NTFS write support? Last time I looked it didn't seem like writing would become safe anytime soon.
Mozilla ... because it's a better web browser and e-mail client ... because it's a better firewall, server and router (i.e. GNU/LAMP is a better yaddayadda) ... because it's a better CLI environment ... because it's better (exchangeable data formats, no clippy)
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I also think that Free software is better for humanity as a whole, but I'm not dogmatic about it.
I still use Windows on the desktop, because I didn't yet have time to move everything over to Linux (f*ck NTFS, otherwise I wouldn't have to), and because Soulseek works much better under Windows.
Different people choose different licenses for different reason under different circumstances for similar projects.
The terrorists would stand up, shooting all the passengers in the first place. If they're distributed well enough across the airplane that could happen much faster than anybody else could pull a gun. And I don't think you'd have a lot of people sitting in the airplane wearing kevlar underwear and helmets.
In Switzerland everyone who was in the army has an assault rifle in his house. But they may not use it, and they don't walk out in the street with it. If you want to rob a bank in Switzerland you wouldn't have to expect somebody standing in the counterroom with a loaded rifle, and still few people rob banks there. So it's certainly not the guns that prevent the crimes.
BTW, Switzerland has a higher murder rate per capita than neighboring countries (much less than the US, though), and those rifles become murder weapons, so one might choose Switzerland as an example of the opposite argument.
Were you trying to make a pro-gun statement? You said [p]eople with guns kill people. If that's the case, why let anybody have a gun? Did you choose a bad formulation, or is this a meaningless saying?
So what's your public key? Or how am I meant to verify your signature?
With the ability to instantly factor every large prime
Your knowledge in cryptography comes from Bill Gates' The Road Ahead?