If you look at GCC's MAINTAINERS file you will see that SCO's Kean Johnston is the OS port maintainer for SCO's platforms. If you search through gcc-patches, you will see that he still is actively contributing, using his @sco.com address. So they seem to allow this to happen.
... then SCO would have made zero bucks. Time to invest, folks!
Seriously, this announcement means nothing. Even if this fortune 500 company were one which has several thousand copies of Linux deployed, SCO could still have handed over the license for like 50$, gratefully driving home the publicity.
Suppose it's her computer on this photo. We can then deduce: 1. she doesn't listen to real music on it - look at those speakers 2. she has an O'Reilly book within reach 3. she knows how to touch-type on a fancy keyboard 4. she uses windows (can anybody say for sure which browser it is 5. whe owns a penguin, but not as a part of her endorsement of Linux, but rather as part of a bigger collection of fluffy animals 6. she doesn't wear pants, but 7. her company's co-founder is her husband, or what is that on her right hand?
Well in order to solve Zeno's paradox etc. the classical way, you have to suppose the validity and applicability of calculus, especially the summing of inifite series. At the same time, calculus is ensured by its application to physics. There's no way (except philosphy) around this interdependency.
This guy seems to have found a way around the use of the infinitely small quantities calculus deals with. So his approach might be valuable in giving a different approach to the mathematics behind physics, and therefore yielding a new perspective on physics. The article doesn't say that he's getting different results, only the means of getting there is different.
So this might well provide physics with a new set of tools to solve problems, just as Newton's and Leibniz' introduction of infinitesimal calculus did.
Disclaimer: I'm a physicist and I was always wondering why nobody had ever suggested a mathematical approach to physics different from the usual calculus. So I'm kinda sympathetic with this.
This works because the tones in Chinese are not absolute (otherwise you would already have problems with differently pitched voices), but instead it actually works like this (in Mandarin, other non-standard dialects have more complex schemes): Every syllable starts at some pitch A and ends at a pitch B, monotonously increasing or decreasing the pitch along the way. Only the intervall between A nd B counts.
IIRC the four tones of Mandarin are: 1. B = A 2. B = A + 1 semitone 3. B = A + 2 semitones 4. B = A - 1 semitone
So if you were to express a sentiment by changing the pitch of your voice you would change both A and B by the same amount, and you would therefore have no problem keeping your words comprehensible, because you would get A -> A' = A + shift B -> B' = B + shift = A + some semitones + shift and thus: B'-A' = B-A
Everytime I read this kind of statements where the term "intellectual property" is used to cover almost everything, I wish more people would have read and understood this.
To quote the core of that page: "Since these laws [copyright, patents, trademarks etc.] are so different, the term ``intellectual property'' is an invitation to simplistic thinking. It leads people to focus on the meager common aspect of these disparate laws, which is that they establish monopolies that can be bought and sold, and ignore their substance--the different restrictions they place on the public and the different consequences that result. At that broad level, you can't even see the specific public policy issues raised by copyright law, or the different issues raised by patent law, or any of the others. Thus, any opinion about ``intellectual property'' is almost surely foolish."
One would use the verb 'envoyer', so no 'courriel' in that sentence. It's a very specific feature of English that almost any noun can be verbed, as you did.
A word of explanation for those who don't speak French: courriel is a contraction of "courrier électronique" (which means electronic mail) and as such I think it's far from ugly.
"Mail" (pronounciation: mell) and "e-mail" (p: ee-mell) were already widely adopted in France some time ago, so it'll sure be interesting to see how fast courriel catches up. I have no doubt it will, given that French education always stresses the superiority of a 'clean' language (and yes I know what I'm talking about, I went to university there).
If you look at the campaign ads in Munich these days you might actually get the idea that politicians got what RMS was talking about all the time: there is a slogan "Mehr Linux Mehr Freiheit" -- "More Linux More Freedom" (see here)
So seemingly some of our politicians understood that there are reasons beyond price tags to switch to Linux.
OK. But there was no sample. It was a replayed bass line. Now, if they had made up a bassline of their own, and someone found a song which played the same six notes, could they sue as well?
BTW do you mean a major part of the sampling song or of the sampled song? Eg, if you sample some half-second odd noise which has no place in the original recording, and build a song around it, should you have to pay?
This is not true. From here : The Z1 is today considered to be the first freely programmable computer of the world. It was completed in 1938 and financed completely from private funds.
Also, look at this overview of his Plankalkül programming language, one of the first (if not the first) high-level prgramming languages.
For a more complete comparison of the architecture of Zuse's computers with von Neumann computers, click here.
No-one was ever sent to a gulag for opposing the government, hell we didn't even have gulags in the first place!
How about the americans of japanese origin interned during WWII only because they had the wrong origins (one could also say "color", as germans and italians weren't interned, or at least not as systematically)?
Fourier's development of the Fourier transformation is a bad example for a mathematical technique developed without immediate applications in mind, as he developed it specifically to solve the heat equation (by transforming this differential equation to an equivalent, but much more easily solved, algebraic equation). Of course he didn't know of modern applications, but he was well aware that they are a powerful tool of general value when dealing with linear differential equations.
A better example would have been Gauß' investigation of the inner properties of surfaces, which led to Riemannian geometry, which in turn led to general relativity and the modern formulation of analytical mechanics (and to differential topology, the field of meathematics to which Poincaré's conjecture belongs).
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If you look at GCC's MAINTAINERS file you will see that SCO's Kean Johnston is the OS port maintainer for SCO's platforms. If you search through gcc-patches, you will see that he still is actively contributing, using his @sco.com address. So they seem to allow this to happen.
... then SCO would have made zero bucks. Time to invest, folks!
Seriously, this announcement means nothing. Even if this fortune 500 company were one which has several thousand copies of Linux deployed, SCO could still have handed over the license for like 50$, gratefully driving home the publicity.
Suppose it's her computer on this photo. We can then deduce:
1. she doesn't listen to real music on it - look at those speakers
2. she has an O'Reilly book within reach
3. she knows how to touch-type on a fancy keyboard
4. she uses windows (can anybody say for sure which browser it is
5. whe owns a penguin, but not as a part of her endorsement of Linux, but rather as part of a bigger collection of fluffy animals
6. she doesn't wear pants, but
7. her company's co-founder is her husband, or what is that on her right hand?
How about hybrid gorilla/human or chimp/human?
Foto here.
Two words: tabbed browsing.
SCO's stocks have almost recovered, though. See here.
It's sad so many people are buying into this kind of crap.
Well in order to solve Zeno's paradox etc. the classical way, you have to suppose the validity and applicability of calculus, especially the summing of inifite series. At the same time, calculus is ensured by its application to physics. There's no way (except philosphy) around this interdependency.
This guy seems to have found a way around the use of the infinitely small quantities calculus deals with. So his approach might be valuable in giving a different approach to the mathematics behind physics, and therefore yielding a new perspective on physics. The article doesn't say that he's getting different results, only the means of getting there is different.
So this might well provide physics with a new set of tools to solve problems, just as Newton's and Leibniz' introduction of infinitesimal calculus did.
Disclaimer: I'm a physicist and I was always wondering why nobody had ever suggested a mathematical approach to physics different from the usual calculus. So I'm kinda sympathetic with this.
I think a lot of companies think along the lines of "If we give away our old games for free, why would anyone buy our new games?"
Given the level of innovation in recent games, I think this might be a valid concern for most game publishers.
This works because the tones in Chinese are not absolute (otherwise you would already have problems with differently pitched voices), but instead it actually works like this (in Mandarin, other non-standard dialects have more complex schemes):
Every syllable starts at some pitch A and ends at a pitch B, monotonously increasing or decreasing the pitch along the way. Only the intervall between A nd B counts.
IIRC the four tones of Mandarin are:
1. B = A
2. B = A + 1 semitone
3. B = A + 2 semitones
4. B = A - 1 semitone
So if you were to express a sentiment by changing the pitch of your voice you would change both A and B by the same amount, and you would therefore have no problem keeping your words comprehensible, because you would get
A -> A' = A + shift
B -> B' = B + shift = A + some semitones + shift
and thus: B'-A' = B-A
Finally there's a reason to outlaw insider trading!
So if you want to scroll down just to read line by line, then go back up, you have to fly your cursor back up to the top of the screen.
This lead to the innovation of the mouse wheel. Why cure a problem in software if you can sell hardware?
This timeline is official, because even Darl McBride (he who understands UNIX' history) endorses it, look at the fifth entry here.
Everytime I read this kind of statements where the term "intellectual property" is used to cover almost everything, I wish more people would have read and understood this.
To quote the core of that page:
"Since these laws [copyright, patents, trademarks etc.] are so different, the term ``intellectual property'' is an invitation to simplistic thinking. It leads people to focus on the meager common aspect of these disparate laws, which is that they establish monopolies that can be bought and sold, and ignore their substance--the different restrictions they place on the public and the different consequences that result. At that broad level, you can't even see the specific public policy issues raised by copyright law, or the different issues raised by patent law, or any of the others. Thus, any opinion about ``intellectual property'' is almost surely foolish."
One would use the verb 'envoyer', so no 'courriel' in that sentence. It's a very specific feature of English that almost any noun can be verbed, as you did.
A word of explanation for those who don't speak French: courriel is a contraction of "courrier électronique" (which means electronic mail) and as such I think it's far from ugly.
"Mail" (pronounciation: mell) and "e-mail" (p: ee-mell) were already widely adopted in France some time ago, so it'll sure be interesting to see how fast courriel catches up. I have no doubt it will, given that French education always stresses the superiority of a 'clean' language (and yes I know what I'm talking about, I went to university there).
ME TOO, ME TOO!!!!1!!!!!!11!
And don't tell me using something from AOL doesn't influence you. Oh, why do you say it's too late for that joke now?
If you look at the campaign ads in Munich these days you might actually get the idea that politicians got what RMS was talking about all the time: there is a slogan "Mehr Linux Mehr Freiheit" -- "More Linux More Freedom" (see here)
So seemingly some of our politicians understood that there are reasons beyond price tags to switch to Linux.
On cygwin all file operations have to go through cygwin.dll, and this tends to slow things down a lot. Maybe you should blame cygwin instead.
So the DMCA now outlaws microwaves as a circumvention device.
I'm wondering why www.adequacy.org went down _now_? Maybe somehow someone found out about your top secret protection scheme?
OK. But there was no sample. It was a replayed bass line. Now, if they had made up a bassline of their own, and someone found a song which played the same six notes, could they sue as well?
BTW do you mean a major part of the sampling song or of the sampled song? Eg, if you sample some half-second odd noise which has no place in the original recording, and build a song around it, should you have to pay?
This is not true. From here : The Z1 is today considered to be the first freely programmable computer of the world. It was completed in 1938 and financed completely from private funds.
Also, look at this overview of his Plankalkül programming language, one of the first (if not the first) high-level prgramming languages.
For a more complete comparison of the architecture of Zuse's computers with von Neumann computers, click here.
No-one was ever sent to a gulag for opposing the government, hell we didn't even have gulags in the first place!
How about the americans of japanese origin interned during WWII only because they had the wrong origins (one could also say "color", as germans and italians weren't interned, or at least not as systematically)?
Fourier's development of the Fourier transformation is a bad example for a mathematical technique developed without immediate applications in mind, as he developed it specifically to solve the heat equation (by transforming this differential equation to an equivalent, but much more easily solved, algebraic equation). Of course he didn't know of modern applications, but he was well aware that they are a powerful tool of general value when dealing with linear differential equations.
A better example would have been Gauß' investigation of the inner properties of surfaces, which led to Riemannian geometry, which in turn led to general relativity and the modern formulation of analytical mechanics (and to differential topology, the field of meathematics to which Poincaré's conjecture belongs).
You forgot to give your source.