According to Article 3 of the Gnu Public Licence, the distributors can either: "Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code"
Or: "Accompany it with a written offer" for the source code at the cost of sending rhe souce code only
Or: "Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code"
Basically, under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), Article 3, as long as they offer the source code in the licence, in the readme file or in the program itself, they are complying with the GPL. I wonder if they're doing this, though.
On the subject of Banner ads, a successor to the banner and the popup is soon to come into the general workings of many sites which need money. A flash anim in a javascript layer will be placed in the page so that you cannot simply ignore the advertisement.
On the subject of both banner ads and AOL, I recently discovered that children as young as 4 can recognise a banner ad if told what one is, and never click on them. The only people now who click on banner ads are complete newbies and slight newbies who are tricked into thinking that the banner is a closeable/scrollable window or has active buttons of some kind. Sounds a lot like your average AOL user, doesn't it?
Although they are pretty cheap, HD's don't exactly grow on trees. Imaginge streaming "19.4Mbps stream of 8VSB is stored in raw format" to your HD! It'd fill up pretty quickly.
This article was sent by "the wouldn't-it-be-nice dept." but really, it would be more appropriate to be sent by "the now-that's-a-lotta-data dept."
The make any AI comparable to a human, you would have to give it the ability to learn and adapt and most importantly, deal with new situations with whatever it currently has, building up the processes required for ths new task from it's current knowledge of aanything similar.
Also, the ability and drive to improve itself will prove a nececity. Even after this, you would have to make a suitable body and train the new AI system in whatever field it is needed.
It will be quite a while before all those requirements are met, but I expect to have a robotic lab-assistant when i am an old man, so I sure hope they don't stop trying;)
What about the solid state crystalline "RAM" technology currently being developed? I put "RAM " in inverted commas because with this technology comes the overall abolishment of the need for ram.
Basically, wth solid state, non volitile memory(not called a hard disk), you won't need RAM.
IBM has crystal that "could" be used for such purpose. It reads a page of memory at a time 9 nanosecond access time. 1 gram or so in a sugar cube size block would allegagly, hold a few Terrabytes of data! Problem? It runs at liquid nitrogen temperatures. Jest a wee bit chilly....
I am not a physics professor but it sounds like giant frozen metallic superconductor crystals? MAin reason being, at temperatures that low, the access time would conduct that quickly.
Google has to be the BESTS Search engine around. I assumed they have always used the google web-spider which they talked about when the site first opened, but now that I see that they have not I wonder, "How did they do so well without it?"
I hope that Google's search engine will get a whole lot better and from my understanding of the web-spider, the database will be kept up-to-date with new links added every day, and with their cache on popular pages, this is going to dramatically improve google's effectiveness as a search engine. Only problem to deal with now is dead-links.
Usually ignorant people are good for a laugh, like the time a guy told someone at the church of scientology to ftp to IP 127.0.0.1 and the guy from the church of scientology took him to court, insisting that this was the other guy's compter with all their copyrighted scriptures on it. The judge literally laughed them out of the court ^_^
Like I said, ignorant people may be good for a laugh if they try to take you to court, but what happens when you come up against an ignorant judge? There is yet to be an intelligent judge who does not give in to s famous person saying "Give me back my net-name" to someone who has bought a domain name including the famous person's name.
I remember being utterly disgusted at the news of legislation being brought out against holding a domain name which is a word a company has a copyright or trademark on.
The new law's evident flaws allow people to exploit it in such a way as to steal a web-domain from someone. Aswell as this, people who buy domains of famous people's names etc. will always get away with it. I cannot remember the URL but there's a site which someone bought because a new company was coming out named this but when faced with court precedings, he researched the name of the company. He found out that there was a rare breed of chicken with the same name as the company and so he made a website about that type of chicken.
I was quite shocked to hear of a case whereby someone registered a domainname which was the name of a famous person and put a fan-site at it. The person who registered the domain name was forced to hand over the domain and the expesive hosting he'd paid for to the famous person. I just talked to a friend about this and they told e that there's still no website at the domain.
I think the next poll should be about abolishing the idiotic "CyberSquatting" laws.
In trying to prove that these dark spots near the springs could be the result of photosynthetic organisms, the next step would be undoubtably, to confirm that these are actually springs. If there is a possibility that these spings could possibly be small, weathered impact craters, these dark spots could be beads of very dark glass which are found at any impact crater, especially those impacting with sandy areas.
This has been seen on Earth and since Mars has an extremely thin/non existant atmosphere, object causing impact would not be vapourised upon entering the atmosphere, which happens on Earth. This would result in many more impacts, especially small yet high-speed impacts, the kind it is next to impossible to have on earth because small fast objects would burn up in Earth's atmosphere. This phenomena would be virtually impossible to find on earth so this may be the first instance of finding it, therefore, we have no basis for comparison.
What if these springs are simply small impact craters, and the dark spots, beads of dark glass left over from impacts?
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"Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code"
Or:
"Accompany it with a written offer" for the source code at the cost of sending rhe souce code only
Or:
"Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code"
Basically, under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), Article 3, as long as they offer the source code in the licence, in the readme file or in the program itself, they are complying with the GPL. I wonder if they're doing this, though.
On the subject of both banner ads and AOL, I recently discovered that children as young as 4 can recognise a banner ad if told what one is, and never click on them. The only people now who click on banner ads are complete newbies and slight newbies who are tricked into thinking that the banner is a closeable/scrollable window or has active buttons of some kind. Sounds a lot like your average AOL user, doesn't it?
This article was sent by "the wouldn't-it-be-nice dept." but really, it would be more appropriate to be sent by "the now-that's-a-lotta-data dept."
Also, the ability and drive to improve itself will prove a nececity. Even after this, you would have to make a suitable body and train the new AI system in whatever field it is needed. ;)
It will be quite a while before all those requirements are met, but I expect to have a robotic lab-assistant when i am an old man, so I sure hope they don't stop trying
I still don't see you explining why I am incorrect...
BTW, a physicicist told me I was ont he right track when i posted it to a newsgroup he was on... so, how far off am I oh mighty lord of knowledge?
Basically, wth solid state, non volitile memory(not called a hard disk), you won't need RAM.
IBM has crystal that "could" be used for such purpose. It reads a page of memory at a time 9 nanosecond access time. 1 gram or so in a sugar cube size block would allegagly, hold a few Terrabytes of data! Problem? It runs at liquid nitrogen temperatures. Jest a wee bit chilly....
I am not a physics professor but it sounds like giant frozen metallic superconductor crystals? MAin reason being, at temperatures that low, the access time would conduct that quickly.
Or am I just wrong?
Shadow Skill is quite good also. Any other animé film/series that anyone thinks is particularly good?
Just how "creative" is this system going to be? Is it going to be the intruiging kind of creative, or the exploitable kind of creative?
I hope that Google's search engine will get a whole lot better and from my understanding of the web-spider, the database will be kept up-to-date with new links added every day, and with their cache on popular pages, this is going to dramatically improve google's effectiveness as a search engine. Only problem to deal with now is dead-links.
Like I said, ignorant people may be good for a laugh if they try to take you to court, but what happens when you come up against an ignorant judge? There is yet to be an intelligent judge who does not give in to s famous person saying "Give me back my net-name" to someone who has bought a domain name including the famous person's name.
Sigh -_-;
The new law's evident flaws allow people to exploit it in such a way as to steal a web-domain from someone. Aswell as this, people who buy domains of famous people's names etc. will always get away with it. I cannot remember the URL but there's a site which someone bought because a new company was coming out named this but when faced with court precedings, he researched the name of the company. He found out that there was a rare breed of chicken with the same name as the company and so he made a website about that type of chicken.
I was quite shocked to hear of a case whereby someone registered a domainname which was the name of a famous person and put a fan-site at it. The person who registered the domain name was forced to hand over the domain and the expesive hosting he'd paid for to the famous person. I just talked to a friend about this and they told e that there's still no website at the domain.
I think the next poll should be about abolishing the idiotic "CyberSquatting" laws.
This has been seen on Earth and since Mars has an extremely thin/non existant atmosphere, object causing impact would not be vapourised upon entering the atmosphere, which happens on Earth. This would result in many more impacts, especially small yet high-speed impacts, the kind it is next to impossible to have on earth because small fast objects would burn up in Earth's atmosphere. This phenomena would be virtually impossible to find on earth so this may be the first instance of finding it, therefore, we have no basis for comparison.
What if these springs are simply small impact craters, and the dark spots, beads of dark glass left over from impacts?