Well, take e.g. all the matter in the universe. Put it in a measurable space. -> finite density.
Make the space smaller. -> finite, but larger density.
As the space available goes to zero, the density would go against infinity.
However, when the space has shrunk to point size, there is no space anymore. So the density wouldn't be infinite, but (some matter/zero space) undefined. So that's my 0.02 .
Actually, my bad conscience was over zero before I read that letter. I'm german, so I believe I understand it. Twenty minutes ago, I didn't think much about ripping&sharing music, because I didn't do it much; plus, I'm sitting in front of a big board full of original high-quality music CDs, probably enough for my next two lives. Now, having read this letter, I'm angry. Really angry. Wanting-to-go-out-and-hit-someone-angry.
Anyone an idea on how to actively _hurt_ the music industry?
Well, then why do you troll? What about Quake I, II, UT (all open source) and UT2003 and Quake 3 (Linux ABI layer) [has Q3 a Linux version]? Last time I checked, they were pretty graphics intensive. I guess this hasn't changed. But I'll gladly check again. They certainly exist, too.
Now I could, of course, start to list all those other (open source) programs out there, but I think this is already enough. Plus, I still gotta check if UT2003 is still as beautiful as five minutes ago.
Yeah thanks. I like Microsoft being able to remotely kill my countries facilities. Oh, and I love how they can also kill the computers of many äöüber-communist competing companies all over the fucking globe. Thank you, MS. Just one question: why would the People's Army refrain from using SQLserver?
Well, the german translation for "tank" would be "tank" (Nein!) or "Panzer", the exact translation for that long word would be "trench destruction armored force vehicle".
In the Bundeswehr something like "Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen" would probably become something like "SGVPKW".
I can safely assure you that _noone_ ever uses such words in Germany. They are understandable, but they would be incredibly bad style. In fact, every normal german text could probably translated word-by-word (except for the word order) and would be accepted as a perfectly ordinary text by native english speakers; the same goes for english->german translations.
What I like is that the Apple way (GUI-wise) is not an undocumented API which nobody can fully understand (like on Windows), but a nice implementation of OpenStep (sp). Granted, they've changed some file formats from NeXT, but they've always changed _from_ obfuscated binary to XML. That makes it easier to have cross-platform compatibility supplied by multiple vendors.
Now if only the main gcc branch would include the ObjectiveC++ patches...
Of course, actually being able to buy one of these things would be even better. Try the links on their dealer page; most shops don't even give projected availability dates for the boards.
Even Lynx fucking rocks if you have to use our universities SunStation4 with Netscape 4.7...
Half the pages simply crash this pathetic excuse for a browser, and using Opera is not possible (too large for the quota).
Furthermore, according to the FAQ:
"Any X application that restricts the display to 240x320 will directly run on the Simputer."
So you could even build your graphical player of choice on this thing. Of course, with only 24 Mb flash, this thing wouldn't be that much fun. With a 20 GB USB HD, OTOH...:-)
I'd add that you can also have hard links and symlinks in ext2fs, and various types of "link files" (.lnk,.pif) plus symlinks + "junctions" on ntfs. So this kind of design is accepted across the industry.
The study was not conducted by the "enlightened" lawmakers of France and Germany.
That set aside, you should try to remember who lighted the lawmakers of Germany: the (at that time) current occupying powers, namely Great Britain, France and the USA. I personally think our current laws in that respect are good, and who am I to argue with the US?
No, but perhaps we're talking about a guy who is a mentally unstable reject and thinks he'll be accepted for killing someone as bad as those "baby killers". Or whatever pro-abortionists are called by anti-abortionists.
It's not as if those laws had been passed only yesterday. The respective (german) law has been in place since around fifty years. That is, if they act according to 130 StGB. It says, basically, that whoever produces, offers or advertises "hate speech", which is defined as material "which incites to hate or violence against parts of the population or which violates their human dignity".
A later addition also bans material "which denies or plays down crimes committed during the reign of national socialism".
Anti-abortionist speech is not banned at all, but it could be that it also falls under this law if it calls for acts of violence against e.g. physicians.
At the german elections 2 weeks ago, we had all our statistics sponsored by them. Yeah, right.
"This election brought to you by Microsoft.NET"
Knowing what's written in their EULAs makes me hope that our next chancellor won't be "remote administrated" by billg...
It makes much sense to release the Linux version first: half of the current UT servers run Linux (and the DediServer version of UT). So a DediServer for UT2003 is needed anyway. The windows version already has an OpenGL renderer, the sound is handled by OpenAL, and Ryan C. Gordon does the SDL support (kudos). So there's no problem with releasing a Linux version.
A Mac version, OTOH, would additionally require support, which the Linux version explicitly doesn't have. That means that the Linux version has all the advantages of a hobby project, whereas the Mac Version has to be polished. Nevertheless, I think they'll have it ported to OSX in no time.
In net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:tcp_retransmit_timer in Linux 2.3.99pre6, there's a comment lines 590-604 saying: /* Increase the timeout each time we retransmit. Note that * we do not increase the rtt estimate. rto is initialized * from rtt, but increases here. Jacobson (SIGCOMM 88) suggests * that doubling rto each time is the least we can get away with. * In KA9Q, Karn uses this for the first few times, and then * goes to quadratic. netBSD doubles, but only goes up to *64, * and clamps at 1 to 64 sec afterwards. Note that 120 sec is * defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess * we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the * University of Mars. * * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once * implemented ftp to mars will work nicely. We will have to fix * the 120 second clamps though! */
Found on http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/lists/netdev/200005/msg000 34.html
The guy in the post proposes a 240 second clamp as upper limit, but I guess that wouldn't really help with this special problem...:-)
The Linux client works (better than the windows one on my PC), but it's not the latest version. That doesn't matter much, since it's _almost_ the latest; the sourcecode(openut.sf.net) however is just version 4.02 or something. UT 2003 looks really portable (not that I had seen that leaked beta or something), it uses OpenAL (which Epic even had certified for some surround sound) and probably has portable code (due to the Linux server version). The only problem with porting is Direct3D->OpenGL, but that will probably happen anyway, since I guess they will want to support Mac OS X. Oh well, I'll buy it, no matter what, and I'll be happy to be able to play it under Linux.
Probably would make more sense to always encrypt everything and simply store the decryption key on the watch, instead of starting with encryption when the laptop is stolen:-)
Yeah, I know what's probably meant, but what you (and the summary above) describe is just plain stupid... (but not enough that someone wouldn't implement it)
Re:What does this mean for OS X?
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OS X mostly uses Objective C (like the various Step implementations) which doesn't have the C++ ABI problems: methods are implemented as messages of sorts. This approach means that you can have completely different objects which simply have some method in common, and call them the same way.
Also, the Apple branch of gcc has many improvements over the main branch, namely the ability to mix Objective C and C++ (Objective C++). Everyone keeps naggin' the gcc maintainers to include those changes... perhaps now they'll have finally time to do it, so we can use programs like Chimera under GNUstep... I believe there are also many PPC optimizations in the apple version lacking in the main branch.
So, it's really not that bad for apple...
You obviously are brainwashed.
Medium - Large - Extra Large makes no sense; Normal - Large - Extra Large would be okay, but why not just keep on calling it Small - Medium - Large?
Boy, it's getting late here; gotta go to bed now.
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Bzzzt, wrong.
The passage (as quoted from the article) is:
"You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the OS Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the OS Product that will be automatically downloaded to your computer."
With the automatic update functionality both in Windows 2000 and in Mac OS, you actively check if there are updates available for your system. This may happen through a cron job (whatever that's called in Windows), but it is your computer that checks.
The new passage of the EULA says that _Microsoft_ may check _your_ computer, without your notice, and then "upload" their "fixes". This is, if you haven't noticed, the other way around.
The automatic update can be disabled (it is on my working machine), but this? Since you gave _them_ the right to mess around with your computer, I doubt that you can disable this "push update".
Furthermore, this may constitute a serious security problem: if MS can upload what they want on your system, some other people could do, too.
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Well, take e.g. all the matter in the universe. Put it in a measurable space. -> finite density.
Make the space smaller. -> finite, but larger density.
As the space available goes to zero, the density would go against infinity.
However, when the space has shrunk to point size, there is no space anymore. So the density wouldn't be infinite, but (some matter/zero space) undefined. So that's my 0.02 .
Actually, my bad conscience was over zero before I read that letter.
I'm german, so I believe I understand it.
Twenty minutes ago, I didn't think much about ripping&sharing music, because I didn't do it much; plus, I'm sitting in front of a big board full of original high-quality music CDs, probably enough for my next two lives. Now, having read this letter, I'm angry. Really angry. Wanting-to-go-out-and-hit-someone-angry.
Anyone an idea on how to actively _hurt_ the music industry?
Well, then why do you troll? What about Quake I, II, UT (all open source) and UT2003 and Quake 3 (Linux ABI layer) [has Q3 a Linux version]? Last time I checked, they were pretty graphics intensive. I guess this hasn't changed. But I'll gladly check again. They certainly exist, too.
Now I could, of course, start to list all those other (open source) programs out there, but I think this is already enough. Plus, I still gotta check if UT2003 is still as beautiful as five minutes ago.
Yeah thanks. I like Microsoft being able to remotely kill my countries facilities. Oh, and I love how they can also kill the computers of many äöüber-communist competing companies all over the fucking globe. Thank you, MS. Just one question: why would the People's Army refrain from using SQLserver?
Please tell me I've been trolled. Please.
Well, the german translation for "tank" would be "tank" (Nein!) or "Panzer", the exact translation for that long word would be "trench destruction armored force vehicle".
In the Bundeswehr something like "Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen" would probably become something like "SGVPKW".
I can safely assure you that _noone_ ever uses such words in Germany. They are understandable, but they would be incredibly bad style. In fact, every normal german text could probably translated word-by-word (except for the word order) and would be accepted as a perfectly ordinary text by native english speakers; the same goes for english->german translations.
We have given up. Oh, and not wanting to change our business cards, we also had to turn evil...
What I like is that the Apple way (GUI-wise) is not an undocumented API which nobody can fully understand (like on Windows), but a nice implementation of OpenStep (sp).
Granted, they've changed some file formats from NeXT, but they've always changed _from_ obfuscated binary to XML. That makes it easier to have cross-platform compatibility supplied by multiple vendors.
Now if only the main gcc branch would include the ObjectiveC++ patches...
Of course, actually being able to buy one of these things would be even better. Try the links on their dealer page; most shops don't even give projected availability dates for the boards.
I'll gladly look over to slackware-current and BeOS on my Athlon XP and Mac OS 9.2, YellowDog, DebianPPC and SuSE PPC on my iBook...
But I shudder when looking at my dad's x86 (Win2000): don't even try to use PnP on the mouse, it won't work at all. So it all goes to show, YMMV.
Even Lynx fucking rocks if you have to use our universities SunStation4 with Netscape 4.7... Half the pages simply crash this pathetic excuse for a browser, and using Opera is not possible (too large for the quota).
Furthermore, according to the FAQ: :-)
"Any X application that restricts the display to 240x320 will directly run on the Simputer."
So you could even build your graphical player of choice on this thing. Of course, with only 24 Mb flash, this thing wouldn't be that much fun. With a 20 GB USB HD, OTOH...
I'd add that you can also have hard links and symlinks in ext2fs, and various types of "link files" (.lnk, .pif) plus symlinks + "junctions" on ntfs.
So this kind of design is accepted across the industry.
The study was not conducted by the "enlightened" lawmakers of France and Germany.
That set aside, you should try to remember who lighted the lawmakers of Germany: the (at that time) current occupying powers, namely Great Britain, France and the USA.
I personally think our current laws in that respect are good, and who am I to argue with the US?
No, but perhaps we're talking about a guy who is a mentally unstable reject and thinks he'll be accepted for killing someone as bad as those "baby killers".
Or whatever pro-abortionists are called by anti-abortionists.
It's not as if those laws had been passed only yesterday. The respective (german) law has been in place since around fifty years. That is, if they act according to 130 StGB.
It says, basically, that whoever produces, offers or advertises "hate speech", which is defined as material "which incites to hate or violence against parts of the population or which violates their human dignity". A later addition also bans material "which denies or plays down crimes committed during the reign of national socialism".
Anti-abortionist speech is not banned at all, but it could be that it also falls under this law if it calls for acts of violence against e.g. physicians.
[ ] You have read the article.
"U10 General Unix Authentication -- Accounts with No Passwords or Weak Passwords"
I don't see myself fit to comment on this.
At the german elections 2 weeks ago, we had all our statistics sponsored by them. Yeah, right. .NET"
"This election brought to you by Microsoft
Knowing what's written in their EULAs makes me hope that our next chancellor won't be "remote administrated" by billg...
It makes much sense to release the Linux version first: half of the current UT servers run Linux (and the DediServer version of UT). So a DediServer for UT2003 is needed anyway. The windows version already has an OpenGL renderer, the sound is handled by OpenAL, and Ryan C. Gordon does the SDL support (kudos). So there's no problem with releasing a Linux version.
A Mac version, OTOH, would additionally require support, which the Linux version explicitly doesn't have. That means that the Linux version has all the advantages of a hobby project, whereas the Mac Version has to be polished. Nevertheless, I think they'll have it ported to OSX in no time.
In net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:tcp_retransmit_timer in Linux 2.3.99pre6,
/* Increase the timeout each time we retransmit. Note that
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there's a comment lines 590-604 saying:
* we do not increase the rtt estimate. rto is initialized
* from rtt, but increases here. Jacobson (SIGCOMM 88) suggests
* that doubling rto each time is the least we can get away with.
* In KA9Q, Karn uses this for the first few times, and then
* goes to quadratic. netBSD doubles, but only goes up to *64,
* and clamps at 1 to 64 sec afterwards. Note that 120 sec is
* defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess
* we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the
* University of Mars.
*
* PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once
* implemented ftp to mars will work nicely. We will have to fix
* the 120 second clamps though!
*/
Found on http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/lists/netdev/200005/msg00
The guy in the post proposes a 240 second clamp as upper limit, but I guess that wouldn't really help with this special problem...
The Linux client works (better than the windows one on my PC), but it's not the latest version. That doesn't matter much, since it's _almost_ the latest; the sourcecode(openut.sf.net) however is just version 4.02 or something.
UT 2003 looks really portable (not that I had seen that leaked beta or something), it uses OpenAL (which Epic even had certified for some surround sound) and probably has portable code (due to the Linux server version). The only problem with porting is Direct3D->OpenGL, but that will probably happen anyway, since I guess they will want to support Mac OS X.
Oh well, I'll buy it, no matter what, and I'll be happy to be able to play it under Linux.
of the engine of Sam & Max at http://scummvm.sourceforge.net .
It also plays DOTT, Indy 4, Monkey Island 1 & 2 and others (those are the ones I have).
Probably would make more sense to always encrypt everything and simply store the decryption key on the watch, instead of starting with encryption when the laptop is stolen :-)
Yeah, I know what's probably meant, but what you (and the summary above) describe is just plain stupid... (but not enough that someone wouldn't implement it)
OS X mostly uses Objective C (like the various Step implementations) which doesn't have the C++ ABI problems: methods are implemented as messages of sorts. This approach means that you can have completely different objects which simply have some method in common, and call them the same way. Also, the Apple branch of gcc has many improvements over the main branch, namely the ability to mix Objective C and C++ (Objective C++). Everyone keeps naggin' the gcc maintainers to include those changes... perhaps now they'll have finally time to do it, so we can use programs like Chimera under GNUstep... I believe there are also many PPC optimizations in the apple version lacking in the main branch. So, it's really not that bad for apple...
You obviously are brainwashed. Medium - Large - Extra Large makes no sense; Normal - Large - Extra Large would be okay, but why not just keep on calling it Small - Medium - Large? Boy, it's getting late here; gotta go to bed now.
Bzzzt, wrong. The passage (as quoted from the article) is: "You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the OS Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the OS Product that will be automatically downloaded to your computer." With the automatic update functionality both in Windows 2000 and in Mac OS, you actively check if there are updates available for your system. This may happen through a cron job (whatever that's called in Windows), but it is your computer that checks. The new passage of the EULA says that _Microsoft_ may check _your_ computer, without your notice, and then "upload" their "fixes". This is, if you haven't noticed, the other way around. The automatic update can be disabled (it is on my working machine), but this? Since you gave _them_ the right to mess around with your computer, I doubt that you can disable this "push update". Furthermore, this may constitute a serious security problem: if MS can upload what they want on your system, some other people could do, too.