So why don't they fix the cvs-to-svn tool? The gcc guys did just that before switching from CVS to SVN. Once you're out of the land of CVS' RCS-inherited braindeadness, it's easy to switch the VC tool.
Well the previous answer wasn't completely accurate. There are a few parts of gcc that are included in your compiled binary, e.g. the startup code that is run before calling main() and the C++ library. They are licensed under the (L)GPL, but with an exception that allows you to use and distribute them any way you please in the result of a compilation. To make this clear: gcc puts no restrictions on the binaries it compiles.
An example was given upthread: medical devices where it is imperative for liability reasons that an exact version of the software be used couldn't use GPL3 code if the restriction of the tivoization clause to User's Products weren't there. That aside, it's much harder to fsck over a company compared to a user, so tivoization is much more likely to affect the freedom of users.
I'm fairly surprised people get so upset at the tivoization clauses -- anybody who understands what the FSF is about must have understood that Tivo was exploiting a license loophole to use software (C) FSF in a way that was not in accordance with what the FSF is about. I'm surprised that anybody wouldn't be upset by this.
Hitler wasn't elected. Hitler was appointed chancellor by president Hindenburg (who in fact was elected by the people).
Also Hitler's party, the NSDAP, didn't win a parlamentary majority. They had to enter into a coalition. Only after they essentially outlawed the opposition did the NSDAP on their own hold the majority.
How can it be that storing visited pages takes so much memory that it only makes sense with more than 1GB of RAM? That sounds like the real bloat to me. A transferred page is usually 1MB (much less in most cases). An efficient way of storing the rendered version should not be 3 orders of magnitude bigger, which seems to be the real problem here.
You have the right to take a break from work in order to vote. There must be something wrong in your country if people are afraid to use this opportunity.
Abortion? Not a major governmental issue.
Seperation of Church and State? Not a major governmental issue.
"Universal Medicine"? The U.S. government spends more per capita on public health and health care than any country in the world. Indeed a major issue. For what I know, Americans spend more on medicine per capita than all European countries, but not the government by itself. Do you have a link?
Invading other countries? Um, we invaded Iraq with big help from England, as well as troops from Denmark, Holland, Poland, Romania, etc. And the Europeans and Canadians have pretty much been fighting the war in Afganistan for us. That is, of course, ignoring things like the war in Chechnia, or the recent conflict in the Balkans, etc. And what the hell do you think the French Foriegn Legion is doing all the time in Africa and South America? They're not invading other countries.
For all we know, America would have gone into Iraq by themselves, and none of the countries you mentioned would have gone there had it not been for the US.
Freedom of Speech? Insulting a religion is a crime in most European countries... Most European countries have far more speech regulations than the U.S.. Not an issue of government.
Insulting someone by means of attacking his religion is a crime in large parts of Europe, that's quite different from insulting a religion. It's a mean way of attacking someone, so it gets stiffer punishment than a secular insult. As for speech restrictions, there are a few select restrictions, but freedom of the expression of opinions is guaranteed everywhere in Europe. We don't have constitutional protections for advertisements, though.
Education? The U.S. is in the top 5 spenders per capita when it comes to education... and things like "School Choice" which are considered right-wing conspiracies in the U.S. are common place in Europe. As are good public schools which are considered left-wing by Americans (and necessary by Europeans).
No, in many of the most meaningful ways, Europeans would be considered far-right compared to the U.S... This just shows how stupid the left-right dichotomy is.
I find if my slides are too broad, my extemporaneous speech tends to wander, so I try to put the sufficient detail in them, and stick to them. Uh oh! Why would you make an extemporaneous speech? You take all this time to put together the slides, but you can't think about what you're going to say beforehand? That sounds like a very bad practice, after all, if the spoken word isn't important, why talk at all?
It's a perfect example of using X11's clipboard logic, and it's not possible to do something similar with Windows' clipboard logic. Hence the X11 logic is superior. I'm rarely replacing text by other text from the clipboard, so that argument doesn't do it for me. Anyway, text should be edited in a text editor using a keyboard, and they offer much better functionality for this than could be offered in a point & click interface anyway:-)
You can also middle-click in the area where the page is displayed, so you can escape the confusion. If your hands are not glued to the moused, the fastest way to close a tab is Ctrl-W.
1. Select the link in some program 2. Alt-Tab to Firefox 3. Select the link currently in the location bar (in order to replace it) 4. You just lost because the second selection replaced the first. There's no need to paste the address into the location bar -- just middle-click somewhere in a browser tab, and it will load the page. If you hold down Ctrl while you paste, it will open a new tab. IMO this is a perfect example how X11's clipboard logic is way superior to the logic on Macs and Windows.
On Windows I have two additional steps: 1'. Ctrl-C to copy the selected text into the clipboard 3. either Ctrl-L into the location bar or Ctrl-T open a new tab 3'. Ctrl-V the address into the location bar
That is the point about straightest building. They're accelerating electrons, so bremsstrahlung (= energy loss due to curves, grows very fast with decreasing particle mass, decreases slowly with the radius of curvature) is a real problem. In order to eliminate bremsstrahlung, the SLAC building doesn't follow the earth's curvature, but instead is straight in the same sense that a lightbeam is straigh.
I once calculated the amount of energy the LEP (CERN's old huge accelerator, a 20km approx. circle) lost due to bremsstrahlung. IIRC it amounted to one 100W lightbulb every 10cm or 20MW of enrergy loss, simply due to the curvature.
Currently a new huge linear accelerator is being discussed inside the scientific community. They want to use supraconducting magnets, which in terms requires large reservoirs of cooling liquids. Since liquids are subject to gravitation it may be that they will build it following the earth's curvature in order to keep the cooling circuits simpler. These issues haven't been decided yet.
Understandably, one wants the bunches to be small. Wouldn't this mechanism tear the bunches apart, and give them much higher temperature (i.e. spread out energy distribution)?
Unfortunately, I'm using the three-pin grounded connector because of the longer cable and less space taken up in the plug. In fact, the problem doesn't seem to appear with the two-pin connector, which is quite surprising but also confirmed in the thread I linke to.
My Macbook has the same problem: whenever it pulls in a lot of current, I get an electrical shock when touching the head of one of the screws. I'm not alone with this problem, there are several threads on the Mac support forums about this, e.g. this one. Of course there's no official statement from Apple:-(
If you are going to
completely ignore the EULA, why are you not just pirating it in the first place? Unauthorized copying is forbidden by copyright law. OTOH I'm not aware of laws that make EULAs binding.
If this is of benefit to the search engine operators, then it should be simple enough for the search engine operators to follow or not follow external links from wikipedia, with or without NOFOLLOW. Wikipedia has a high enough profile that search engines already treat it differently from Average John's Incredibly Boring Blog, and they will know if it is of benefit for them to follow those links, without wikipedia putting some policy in place.
Some activities might even be viewed positively by some people and negatively by others.
This is precisely the reason why it would be important that they made a clear statement on which activities they see as positive / negative.
I have tried and failed to burn an.iso image with the reduced version of Roxio that is distributed with Dell PCs in Germany. Only looking it up in google made me achieve this goal. Before that, my sister's boyfriend had tried to burn an.iso on the same computer and finally ended up setting up a network, pulling the.iso over to his PC, and burning it there. We are both computer-savvy. It just so happened that the program's documentation was unusable, and the.iso burning function was buried in the most unlogical place.
Yes, there are programs where burning.isos is easy, but unlike all Linux distributions, they don't come for free with your Windows PC.
He could have laid off both if you had told him that he doesn't need people holding both ends to get the triangle right -- the lengths of the sides determine the angles. The most efficient procedure would thus be: attach cord to a stake; measure desired length in one direction; attach measured length cord to another stake; measure two more cords to the two other lengths of the triangle; attach each one to a stake, it doesn't matter which; hold them tight, find the spot where they meet; voila, you've constructed a right-angled triangle with the desired sides. The fourth corner can be determined the same way again. Nowhere do you need a second person helping you.
What's really funny is the Makefile rule that makes sure that an executable is generated, no matter how the system compiler reacts to an empty input file: smr: smr.c @${RM} -rf smr ${CP} smr.c smr ${CHMOD} +x smr
This is not true. Germans tend to understand the difference between what a movie character says and what a real person says. Even if not true, it's still a funny anecdote.
We have driving school over here in Europe where you learn what these signs mean. Actually, you already learn it in elementary school, but you're only required to know this for your driving license. Once you know the street signs, the information carries really fast and unambiguous. As for the questions you asked: This means "you have priority at the next crossing" This is the generic "Attention!" sign. These are distance markers indicating a railroad crossing at 150m, 100m and 50m respectively, if I recall the numbers correctly. The othertwo you pointed two are right next to railway crossings, I don't know why there are different ones.
Even though I'm not from Sweden I have no problem getting the basic or even the exact meaning of all these signs, see the benefits of standardizing road signs?
Slashdot Mirror
So why don't they fix the cvs-to-svn tool? The gcc guys did just that before switching from CVS to SVN. Once you're out of the land of CVS' RCS-inherited braindeadness, it's easy to switch the VC tool.
Well the previous answer wasn't completely accurate. There are a few parts of gcc that are included in your compiled binary, e.g. the startup code that is run before calling main() and the C++ library. They are licensed under the (L)GPL, but with an exception that allows you to use and distribute them any way you please in the result of a compilation. To make this clear: gcc puts no restrictions on the binaries it compiles.
An example was given upthread: medical devices where it is imperative for liability reasons that an exact version of the software be used couldn't use GPL3 code if the restriction of the tivoization clause to User's Products weren't there. That aside, it's much harder to fsck over a company compared to a user, so tivoization is much more likely to affect the freedom of users.
I'm fairly surprised people get so upset at the tivoization clauses -- anybody who understands what the FSF is about must have understood that Tivo was exploiting a license loophole to use software (C) FSF in a way that was not in accordance with what the FSF is about. I'm surprised that anybody wouldn't be upset by this.
Hitler wasn't elected. Hitler was appointed chancellor by president Hindenburg (who in fact was elected by the people).
Also Hitler's party, the NSDAP, didn't win a parlamentary majority. They had to enter into a coalition. Only after they essentially outlawed the opposition did the NSDAP on their own hold the majority.
Just clearing up the facts.
How can it be that storing visited pages takes so much memory that it only makes sense with more than 1GB of RAM? That sounds like the real bloat to me. A transferred page is usually 1MB (much less in most cases). An efficient way of storing the rendered version should not be 3 orders of magnitude bigger, which seems to be the real problem here.
You have the right to take a break from work in order to vote. There must be something wrong in your country if people are afraid to use this opportunity.
For all we know, America would have gone into Iraq by themselves, and none of the countries you mentioned would have gone there had it not been for the US. Freedom of Speech? Insulting a religion is a crime in most European countries... Most European countries have far more speech regulations than the U.S.. Not an issue of government.
Insulting someone by means of attacking his religion is a crime in large parts of Europe, that's quite different from insulting a religion. It's a mean way of attacking someone, so it gets stiffer punishment than a secular insult. As for speech restrictions, there are a few select restrictions, but freedom of the expression of opinions is guaranteed everywhere in Europe. We don't have constitutional protections for advertisements, though. Education? The U.S. is in the top 5 spenders per capita when it comes to education... and things like "School Choice" which are considered right-wing conspiracies in the U.S. are common place in Europe. As are good public schools which are considered left-wing by Americans (and necessary by Europeans). No, in many of the most meaningful ways, Europeans would be considered far-right compared to the U.S... This just shows how stupid the left-right dichotomy is.
It's a perfect example of using X11's clipboard logic, and it's not possible to do something similar with Windows' clipboard logic. Hence the X11 logic is superior. I'm rarely replacing text by other text from the clipboard, so that argument doesn't do it for me. Anyway, text should be edited in a text editor using a keyboard, and they offer much better functionality for this than could be offered in a point & click interface anyway :-)
You can also middle-click in the area where the page is displayed, so you can escape the confusion. If your hands are not glued to the moused, the fastest way to close a tab is Ctrl-W.
2. Alt-Tab to Firefox
3. Select the link currently in the location bar (in order to replace it)
4. You just lost because the second selection replaced the first. There's no need to paste the address into the location bar -- just middle-click somewhere in a browser tab, and it will load the page. If you hold down Ctrl while you paste, it will open a new tab. IMO this is a perfect example how X11's clipboard logic is way superior to the logic on Macs and Windows.
On Windows I have two additional steps:
1'. Ctrl-C to copy the selected text into the clipboard
3. either Ctrl-L into the location bar or Ctrl-T open a new tab
3'. Ctrl-V the address into the location bar
I should have made this clear: the bremsstrahlung losses of the LEP were due to the 20km circle of the accelerator, not the earth radius.
That is the point about straightest building. They're accelerating electrons, so bremsstrahlung (= energy loss due to curves, grows very fast with decreasing particle mass, decreases slowly with the radius of curvature) is a real problem. In order to eliminate bremsstrahlung, the SLAC building doesn't follow the earth's curvature, but instead is straight in the same sense that a lightbeam is straigh.
I once calculated the amount of energy the LEP (CERN's old huge accelerator, a 20km approx. circle) lost due to bremsstrahlung. IIRC it amounted to one 100W lightbulb every 10cm or 20MW of enrergy loss, simply due to the curvature.
Currently a new huge linear accelerator is being discussed inside the scientific community. They want to use supraconducting magnets, which in terms requires large reservoirs of cooling liquids. Since liquids are subject to gravitation it may be that they will build it following the earth's curvature in order to keep the cooling circuits simpler. These issues haven't been decided yet.
Understandably, one wants the bunches to be small. Wouldn't this mechanism tear the bunches apart, and give them much higher temperature (i.e. spread out energy distribution)?
Unfortunately, I'm using the three-pin grounded connector because of the longer cable and less space taken up in the plug. In fact, the problem doesn't seem to appear with the two-pin connector, which is quite surprising but also confirmed in the thread I linke to.
My Macbook has the same problem: whenever it pulls in a lot of current, I get an electrical shock when touching the head of one of the screws. I'm not alone with this problem, there are several threads on the Mac support forums about this, e.g. this one. Of course there's no official statement from Apple :-(
completely ignore the EULA, why are you not just pirating it in the first place? Unauthorized copying is forbidden by copyright law. OTOH I'm not aware of laws that make EULAs binding.
If this is of benefit to the search engine operators, then it should be simple enough for the search engine operators to follow or not follow external links from wikipedia, with or without NOFOLLOW. Wikipedia has a high enough profile that search engines already treat it differently from Average John's Incredibly Boring Blog, and they will know if it is of benefit for them to follow those links, without wikipedia putting some policy in place.
Some activities might even be viewed positively by some people and negatively by others.
This is precisely the reason why it would be important that they made a clear statement on which activities they see as positive / negative.
I have tried and failed to burn an .iso image with the reduced version of Roxio that is distributed with Dell PCs in Germany. Only looking it up in google made me achieve this goal. Before that, my sister's boyfriend had tried to burn an .iso on the same computer and finally ended up setting up a network, pulling the .iso over to his PC, and burning it there. We are both computer-savvy. It just so happened that the program's documentation was unusable, and the .iso burning function was buried in the most unlogical place.
.isos is easy, but unlike all Linux distributions, they don't come for free with your Windows PC.
Yes, there are programs where burning
He forgot about the best browser -- which is not free software: Opera.
He could have laid off both if you had told him that he doesn't need people holding both ends to get the triangle right -- the lengths of the sides determine the angles. The most efficient procedure would thus be: attach cord to a stake; measure desired length in one direction; attach measured length cord to another stake; measure two more cords to the two other lengths of the triangle; attach each one to a stake, it doesn't matter which; hold them tight, find the spot where they meet; voila, you've constructed a right-angled triangle with the desired sides. The fourth corner can be determined the same way again. Nowhere do you need a second person helping you.
What's really funny is the Makefile rule that makes sure that an executable is generated, no matter how the system compiler reacts to an empty input file:
smr: smr.c
@${RM} -rf smr
${CP} smr.c smr
${CHMOD} +x smr
This is not true. Germans tend to understand the difference between what a movie character says and what a real person says. Even if not true, it's still a funny anecdote.
We have driving school over here in Europe where you learn what these signs mean. Actually, you already learn it in elementary school, but you're only required to know this for your driving license. Once you know the street signs, the information carries really fast and unambiguous.
As for the questions you asked:
This means "you have priority at the next crossing"
This is the generic "Attention!" sign.
These are distance markers indicating a railroad crossing at 150m, 100m and 50m respectively, if I recall the numbers correctly.
The other two you pointed two are right next to railway crossings, I don't know why there are different ones.
Even though I'm not from Sweden I have no problem getting the basic or even the exact meaning of all these signs, see the benefits of standardizing road signs?