That means our galaxy is one big delicious forbidden dooooughnut.
Seriously who thought that something that exists in nature was the same as a euclidean mathematical construct? A point? I mean really. A point has NO dimention which would give your black hole INFINITE mass. My best guess is, that would give it sufficient grabbity pull the whole universe through to the scientifically documented "negaverse" and we could all hang with bizzaro superman.
How come Lucas didn't get punished for releasing it? Seems to me he should have been.
What do you mean 'product'? I thought it was some kind of memetic brain virus.
OK, dude, here's where you missed the boat:
Since necessity is the mother of invention, and
since you're clearly not happy with the current state of wine, and the Apps You Need(tm) aren't yet native, you have three choices:
a) stick w/your old platform(win) or dual boot
b) help code wine so that it runs the Apps You Need(tm) or c)help recode / code your own Apps that do whatever it is You Need(tm).
since A just sucks, and B and C take roughly the same amount of effort, where would you rather see it go? compatibility with legacy apps that will be replaced, or new, free/open source apps that then become the standard?
Ultimately, I REFUSE to buy a diamond for any reason ever. Simply put, you can never be 100% sure that your diamond came from a reputable source, or if it was harvested by a young african child hundreds of feet underground, whose arms were cut off that day because he didn't fetch enough. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
So I guess the fact that my girlfriend's friends will tease her should come before that, right? I probably don't love her enough if I think that the well being of impoverished children is more important than buying her a rock her friends will envy.
I'd sooner buy a $2000 ruby than a $100 diamond, so it obviously isn't that I'm cheap. But I guess I'm lucky, because I have the luxury of having a conscientious enlightened girlfriend who understands my point of view, rather than a shallow, petty woman who would rather just have a pretty rock.
Ultimately it's up to you, and you're the one who has to live with your decision. Since you've already presented all the evidence, if it's still even a question, she probably will only care about the rock.
what is far more frigtening than the nationalization of our id system (which is already pretty damn draconian, i've known several people who have been arrested because they were unable to prove who they were at the time), is the fact that there is already legislation in place currently that says that if states don't adopt biometric information into their driver's liscences by i believe 2006, they lose their federal highway money. sure wish i could remember a citation here, but IANAL.
if these guys got together with steinberg, and produced a distro that would run ported versions of cubase, reason, rebirth, rewire, and reaktor, and packaged with same, i would pay out the ear for it in a heartbeat.
frankly, if they could just get the midi implementation to work, i would be impressed.
hell, this and wineX would be reason enough to blast my windows installation entirely.
In the paragraph right after discussing how the global gnu/linux community is part of the commons, there's this little gem:
What unites these highly disparate commons--from natural resources to public domain to gift economies--is their legal and moral ownership by the American people.
hrmmm.. the american people eh? because i thought that it really belonged "morally and legally" to the whole of the earths populace.
locate a plastics firm or defence contractor that can encase your system and a network of cooling tubes (thru which we'll run 50ish degree ocean saltwater) and encase the whole deal in LUCITE.
not only will you have a nearly indestructable system, it will also look REALLY cool.
The only reason that some (a select few Sites) are IE only is that IE has the large market share.
No. there are other reasons. take MS developer support for one, and MS's penchant for adding "features" requested by every jackass web developer out there.
As NS/Mozilla pick up users, sites will once again have incentive to create nice standards compliant sites. Its already happening.
Really? because i thought that what was happening was that developers were playing catch-up with MS which is a losing battle, and that NS/moz/opera users were crying for their favorite sites to not depend on IE.
I bet you if we come back in 1 yr, 2 yrs, 3yrs and 5 yrs we will see.NET defacto standard, we will see a good amount of cross platform programming by people/companies who never thought of it before, and both Windows and Linux will be going strong.
Although i respect your optimisim, i can't say i share in it. once the public adopts an MS standard, MS "extends"(read 'breaks') it. ever try running old VB code with new VB runtime dll's?
There is nothing new here. Big companies rip people off. Next thing you know,/. will be posting links to Cnet articles claiming that the sky is up and the ground is down.
seriously, who is surprised that expensive software contracts have loopholes designed to screw the customer? it wasn't considered news when MS started doing it to their customers years ago.
missing my point.
look at the state of the linux browser, sure, they're good for the most part, and totally compliant with open standards. but the web works on closed ms standards. that's why they will never get the market share that IE has.
the same will happen with.NET, and if you don't believe me, just sit back and watch.
Everyone knows Miguel has become a Micro$oft shill.
But seriously, MS stands to gain a lot from MONO's efforts. They are not a "server os" company, and why should they be? would you rather have 100,000 clients, or millions?
People who use Unices on their backend will still be able to host.NET apps, but the apps will still only work with MS clients. This is exactly what they want.
The sound heard on the ground as a "sonic boom" is the sudden onset and release of pressure after the buildup by the shock wave or "peak overpressure." The change in pressure caused by sonic boom is only a few pounds per square foot -- about the same pressure change we experience on an elevator as it descends two or three floors -- in a much shorter time period. It is the magnitude of this peak overpressure that describes a sonic boom.
now, all this relies on air pressure! If our skydiver hits the speed of sound up where there isn't any air to speak of, then he's not going to experience much of a boom at all now, is he?
This is not to say nothing of the fact that the boom appears to occur behind the cause, from the pilot's, or in our case the intrepid colonel's perspective. (that is, he is moving away from the sound at the speed of sound.)
My favorite electronic artist for the past 10 years is a rather obscure chap, who's real name is Mike Paradinas. He records under the following names:
(mu)-ziq, (that's the greek letter mu)
Jake Slazenger,
Gary Mocheles,
I'm probably leaving some out. Some of his best work was done with Aphex Twin on their album aptly titled "Mike and Rich".
worth a listen if you are into esoteric stuff.
I've heard way too much talk about consumer applications of distributed computing lately. The trick is they are not really consumer apps at all, but merely a front. If you have a distributed network with an installed base of 10 Million machines, that's a lot of idle time you can sell off to other companies. And you can bet that that's exactly what Sony has in mind.
Think about it: the memory bandwidth on the PS2 is at least twice as fast as the FASTEST network connections available. That's nothing to say for the pitiful 2-3Mb cable pipe that is available to most people.
The graphics are what the developers want to see the improvement in. I don't think you are going to see any improvement in performance in this area brought about by distributed computing. If it's possible, I'm really curious as to how.
I recall about a year to two ago, when the 75GXP line was unveiled, reading a review of it and the 60 in one of the two linux mags i read(LM & LJ).
I'm at work right now and don't have a copy on hand, but I do recall the article saying that the drives were too expensive, and if you considered the average life span of a drive you would be better off both financially and reliability-wise buying two cheaper 30-giggers.
The reviewer had decided that just judging by the size of the drives, you were taking your data into your own hands on the GXP line. It turns out he (or she) was far more on the money than they ever knew.
...so quit hitting refresh waiting to see -3 flamebait.
To take a lesson from GPL projects...
on
Abusing the GPL?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Ever notice how you have to install Netscape for Galeon to work?
There's an ethical workaround here that gets everybody what they want quite simply.
Modularize the interface to the GPL code. GPL release this module: your company has just contributed to the community, and that is a good thing.
Release your product commercially, and "bundle" with the GPL module and all appropriate GPL documentation. Make sure that during the installation process the separation of liscence is clear.
Your company's proprietary code is Copyrightable, the GPL code stays GPL, Everyone is happy.
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What does MASSIVE do, aside from putting professional movie extras out of work? Just curious.
ehhh.. infinite DENSITY. sorry about that.
If you read the earlier post about the kernel patch, you would know that talking about the hole may be a violation of the DMCA!
That means our galaxy is one big delicious forbidden dooooughnut.
Seriously who thought that something that exists in nature was the same as a euclidean mathematical construct? A point? I mean really. A point has NO dimention which would give your black hole INFINITE mass. My best guess is, that would give it sufficient grabbity pull the whole universe through to the scientifically documented "negaverse" and we could all hang with bizzaro superman.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of... *DOH!*
How come Lucas didn't get punished for releasing it? Seems to me he should have been.
What do you mean 'product'? I thought it was some kind of memetic brain virus.
OK, dude, here's where you missed the boat:
Since necessity is the mother of invention, and since you're clearly not happy with the current state of wine, and the Apps You Need(tm) aren't yet native, you have three choices:
a) stick w/your old platform(win) or dual boot
b) help code wine so that it runs the Apps You Need(tm)
or
c)help recode / code your own Apps that do whatever it is You Need(tm).
since A just sucks, and B and C take roughly the same amount of effort, where would you rather see it go? compatibility with legacy apps that will be replaced, or new, free/open source apps that then become the standard?
Ok, I feel pretty strongly about this one.
Ultimately, I REFUSE to buy a diamond for any reason ever. Simply put, you can never be 100% sure that your diamond came from a reputable source, or if it was harvested by a young african child hundreds of feet underground, whose arms were cut off that day because he didn't fetch enough. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
So I guess the fact that my girlfriend's friends will tease her should come before that, right? I probably don't love her enough if I think that the well being of impoverished children is more important than buying her a rock her friends will envy.
I'd sooner buy a $2000 ruby than a $100 diamond, so it obviously isn't that I'm cheap. But I guess I'm lucky, because I have the luxury of having a conscientious enlightened girlfriend who understands my point of view, rather than a shallow, petty woman who would rather just have a pretty rock.
Ultimately it's up to you, and you're the one who has to live with your decision. Since you've already presented all the evidence, if it's still even a question, she probably will only care about the rock.
what is far more frigtening than the nationalization of our id system (which is already pretty damn draconian, i've known several people who have been arrested because they were unable to prove who they were at the time), is the fact that there is already legislation in place currently that says that if states don't adopt biometric information into their driver's liscences by i believe 2006, they lose their federal highway money. sure wish i could remember a citation here, but IANAL.
if these guys got together with steinberg, and produced a distro that would run ported versions of cubase, reason, rebirth, rewire, and reaktor, and packaged with same, i would pay out the ear for it in a heartbeat.
frankly, if they could just get the midi implementation to work, i would be impressed.
hell, this and wineX would be reason enough to blast my windows installation entirely.
In the paragraph right after discussing how the global gnu/linux community is part of the commons, there's this little gem:
What unites these highly disparate commons--from natural resources to public domain to gift economies--is their legal and moral ownership by the American people.
hrmmm.. the american people eh? because i thought that it really belonged "morally and legally" to the whole of the earths populace.
Us silly Americans.
locate a plastics firm or defence contractor that can encase your system and a network of cooling tubes (thru which we'll run 50ish degree ocean saltwater) and encase the whole deal in LUCITE.
not only will you have a nearly indestructable system, it will also look REALLY cool.
If ever the phrase "The blind leading the blind" applied, it sure applies here.
Is this the new Magic Latern distribution?
The only reason that some (a select few Sites) are IE only is that IE has the large market share.
.NET defacto standard, we will see a good amount of cross platform programming by people/companies who never thought of it before, and both Windows and Linux will be going strong.
Although i respect your optimisim, i can't say i share in it. once the public adopts an MS standard, MS "extends"(read 'breaks') it. ever try running old VB code with new VB runtime dll's?
No. there are other reasons. take MS developer support for one, and MS's penchant for adding "features" requested by every jackass web developer out there.
As NS/Mozilla pick up users, sites will once again have incentive to create nice standards compliant sites. Its already happening.
Really? because i thought that what was happening was that developers were playing catch-up with MS which is a losing battle, and that NS/moz/opera users were crying for their favorite sites to not depend on IE.
I bet you if we come back in 1 yr, 2 yrs, 3yrs and 5 yrs we will see
There is nothing new here. Big companies rip people off. Next thing you know, /. will be posting links to Cnet articles claiming that the sky is up and the ground is down.
seriously, who is surprised that expensive software contracts have loopholes designed to screw the customer? it wasn't considered news when MS started doing it to their customers years ago.
missing my point. look at the state of the linux browser, sure, they're good for the most part, and totally compliant with open standards. but the web works on closed ms standards. that's why they will never get the market share that IE has. the same will happen with .NET, and if you don't believe me, just sit back and watch.
Everyone knows Miguel has become a Micro$oft shill.
.NET apps, but the apps will still only work with MS clients. This is exactly what they want.
But seriously, MS stands to gain a lot from MONO's efforts. They are not a "server os" company, and why should they be? would you rather have 100,000 clients, or millions?
People who use Unices on their backend will still be able to host
The sound heard on the ground as a "sonic boom" is the sudden onset and release of pressure after the buildup by the shock wave or "peak overpressure." The change in pressure caused by sonic boom is only a few pounds per square foot -- about the same pressure change we experience on an elevator as it descends two or three floors -- in a much shorter time period. It is the magnitude of this peak overpressure that describes a sonic boom.
now, all this relies on air pressure! If our skydiver hits the speed of sound up where there isn't any air to speak of, then he's not going to experience much of a boom at all now, is he?
This is not to say nothing of the fact that the boom appears to occur behind the cause, from the pilot's, or in our case the intrepid colonel's perspective. (that is, he is moving away from the sound at the speed of sound.)
NO BOOM PEOPLE, GET IT?
My favorite electronic artist for the past 10 years is a rather obscure chap, who's real name is Mike Paradinas. He records under the following names:
(mu)-ziq, (that's the greek letter mu)
Jake Slazenger,
Gary Mocheles,
I'm probably leaving some out. Some of his best work was done with Aphex Twin on their album aptly titled "Mike and Rich".
worth a listen if you are into esoteric stuff.
"What happens with Liquidmetal, in essence, is that you can form parts sort of the way you form plastics,"
Yeah except for a little (500 deg. Farenheit) difference in the temperatures required.
Other than that, just about the same way.
... read on for an explanation of why the chinese always seem to get the cheap plastic useless gadgets before we do!
Seriously, people, a "good" story on slate? that'll be the day.
no no, you are confused. MCSEM stands for "Must Call Some Experienced Monkeys"
I've heard way too much talk about consumer applications of distributed computing lately. The trick is they are not really consumer apps at all, but merely a front. If you have a distributed network with an installed base of 10 Million machines, that's a lot of idle time you can sell off to other companies. And you can bet that that's exactly what Sony has in mind.
Think about it: the memory bandwidth on the PS2 is at least twice as fast as the FASTEST network connections available. That's nothing to say for the pitiful 2-3Mb cable pipe that is available to most people.
The graphics are what the developers want to see the improvement in. I don't think you are going to see any improvement in performance in this area brought about by distributed computing. If it's possible, I'm really curious as to how.
I recall about a year to two ago, when the 75GXP line was unveiled, reading a review of it and the 60 in one of the two linux mags i read(LM & LJ).
I'm at work right now and don't have a copy on hand, but I do recall the article saying that the drives were too expensive, and if you considered the average life span of a drive you would be better off both financially and reliability-wise buying two cheaper 30-giggers.
The reviewer had decided that just judging by the size of the drives, you were taking your data into your own hands on the GXP line. It turns out he (or she) was far more on the money than they ever knew.
...so quit hitting refresh waiting to see -3 flamebait.
Ever notice how you have to install Netscape for Galeon to work?
There's an ethical workaround here that gets everybody what they want quite simply.
Modularize the interface to the GPL code. GPL release this module: your company has just contributed to the community, and that is a good thing.
Release your product commercially, and "bundle" with the GPL module and all appropriate GPL documentation. Make sure that during the installation process the separation of liscence is clear.
Your company's proprietary code is Copyrightable, the GPL code stays GPL, Everyone is happy.