I love the absolute terms in which this is posed, as if there was a single, worldwide, copyright law, or even better, a single, worldwide law system. I would love to see common law jurisdictions trying to cite a case in New Zealand as precedent.
Yes, it would have effect, but nowhere as clear cut and definitive as TFA tries to present them.
Sounds like he spent some time reading about Roko's Basilisk, and since he's trying to prevent its creation, we all know what the next headline will be...
He converted it to dicarbon monoxide, which is going to react with the nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, eventually releasing nitrogen molecules into the atmosphere.
You are looking at it from a engineer's point of view. Look at it from a marketing department's point of view: to change a lightbulb you need no tools. Unscrew, screw, done. To change a fixture you need tools, and need to fiddle with wires and screws, and things that can go wrong.
The study in the article comes from a government-funded agency which operates within a public university, which, in Costa Rica, effectively makes the researchers public employees.
Yes, Yahoo still has an email thing. I know exactly one person who still uses it. And pays for it.
When reading the summary, I was sure that this:
gently lambasting staff who refuse to part with Microsoft Outlook
... was going to read "gently lambasting staff who refuse to part with Gmail" and Yahoo was imploring their employees to switch to Yahoo! mail. As bad as Yahoo's mail system is, Outlook is worse. I figure 75% of Yahoo is sales people.
No, they are saying that you can always find a pair of primes separated by 600. Let's say you list all the primers between 2 and N. You enumerate all the pairs whose difference is 600. What they are saying is that if you look beyond N, you will always find another such pair. They are NOT saying how much further you have to look.
They are *not* saying that given any prime number p, then p+600 is also prime.
Their goal is to demonstrate that the same is true for 2 instead of 600.
You have the hubris to say that you are going to fix everything that is wrong with X11 / X.org AND also provide a compatibility layer on top of your new shiny solution to support running the programs that still use the thing you are claiming to fix... and now you are surprised because getting said compatibility layer right turned out to be thornier than you had expected?
Several years ago I wrote a transport mechanism on top of VNC that allowed you to access high end graphics services (read OpenGL) from devices without any hardware acceleration to speak of (back then it was an ipaq). I did the initial implementation in one evening, which worked for 80% of the use cases. Together with another developer, it took us probably a month to get it to 90%. A third party worked for half a year to get it to 95%. Several years later it was up to 98%... maybe.
Whenever you try to pull this kind of stunt off, you are going to run into the same situation. Most of the stuff that you are interested in is easy. Then there's the stuff that makes "creative" uses of existing APIs. And then there's the stuff that works because of, not despite of, existing implementation bugs. And then you run into the really weird...
The name of the main character in the series "Doctor Who" is neither "Who" nor "Doctor Who". That character is referred to as "the Doctor". Calling him "Doctor Who" is like saying that Darth Vader is a Jedi or that Picard was captain of NCC-1701-C. The name of the Doctor is not known but to a few within that universe, and calling him "Doctor Who" simply reveals lack of research on the topic at hand. Please see http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor
So, their astronomers less than a 50 light years away ran their version of Kepler, looked at Sol, found Sol-5 and Sol-6, and with some luck Sol-3 and they noticed the liquid water fingerprint and selected it as a likely candidate for a life-hosting planet. Then they made more and better observations and they found the CFC fingerprint and figured that Sol-3 must have a technological civilization living there.
What do they do next? Build their version of SKA and point it at Sol-3 hoping to catch radio signals? There won't be much to find yet. They probably need to keep observing for another 20 years at least. What if they looked 100 years too early? They would have noticed the water, but not much more. They might be able to figure out that Sol-3's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. Will they keep observing in the hopes that something interesting happens? How soon will they be able to notice the subtle changes in the atmosphere's composition?
If you could enter to the FTP site you could note there's an OSX directory there... but since the whole thing is slashdotted, you can't. I'm really sorry. Just be patient and wait a few hours, by then everyone will have stopped clicking the pretty links...
Just a few days ago there was another discussion at this fabulous web site about hacking the XBox, and several people pointed out that M$ uses various encription techniques in this machine which makes hacking incredibly difficult.
That means that there will be X86 Linux chipset drivers for NVidia's unified memory multimedia/graphics chipset
Truly interesting. What makes you say that? I'd love to see Linux and OpenGL running on the Xbox, it sounds like a great machine to run demos on, and I even think getting Linux on it is feasible. But the NVIDIA drivers? I doubt that, at least I won't hold by breath until it happens, I've kind of got used to life. NVIDIA doesn't seem to like the idea of documenting their hardware in an open way (old dogs don't learn new tricks, and that sounds specially valid in the case of ex-SGI engineers), and there's way too many people playing along (buying their stuff because there "are" Linux drivers), so the company doesn't even see the need to change its ways. Even if you assume you can use the already released stuff to drive the GPU, what about the nForce? NVIDIA has its own AGP drivers, they haven't released source for them, and they don't seem to plan on doing it. NVIDIA will probably gets a sizeable ammount of money out of Xbox sales, and they'll will do anything to increase sales by any ridiculous percent (even if that means providing Linux drivers for it), but daddy Microsoft won't like the idea, will he? That's a big but.
On Sunday I saw a news item on SF regarding a transition to Oracle. Yesterday it was gone. How convinient. You'll be hard-pressed to find source code for SourceForge on SourceForge. For *any* part of it. Not long ago you could visit SF's project page and browse the CVS. It's now gone and all file releases have been wiped out. The excuse up to this point has been that there are proprietary extensions and source for those isn't available. Ok, where's the rest then? This looks bad. Back when ESR came up defending VA's position I was skeptic (read my diary). Now I'm convinced VA's going the wrong way. I'm moving my code out of SF and I'll feel uncomfortable contributing to projects hosted on SF.
They put me in front of a VAX cluster and presented my with a grey wall. "Keep these babies running" they said. I started learning VMS and that was a trip. Sleepless nights learning both a new operating system, a whole load of new concepts and a new architecture... That was the place where I first compiled GCC. Eventually someone said "we need someone to admin this box, too", the box in question being an Alpha-station ("hey, it's from Digital, too, so it must be the same!" is what I think they had on their minds). Althought it did run OpenVMS (eventually), it had Ultrix installed on it. And I learned that, too. Based on my experiences with GCC I started installing the whole GNU toolset on it. And one day, back in 1994, someone introduced me to Linux... some seven years later, I'm known as the guy for whom Windows is a horribly complicated and hard to use environment (and also as the guy who can't understand why so many people put themselves to the pain that's called the C shell, but that's something else).
I was actually dissapointed at the quality of the print-outs. The halftone function wasn't carefully selected and many of the sunday strips (as well as a couple of the regular ones) are a blotch of black ink.
My other complain is that, in light of the price (US$12.95 list), I had expected some original, non-web, content. Contrast with the Sluggy Freelance books (to name just one example) which are not only of atonishing quality for the price, but has color pages too ("Game called on account of naked chick").
Complain about Erwin not being as good nor showing as often as three years ago avoided.
Part of the reason is habitual, but Slackware's simplicity and UNIX-ness
Pray, say, what does make Slackware more UNIX-ness than Random Joe Linux, hmmm?
For whatever is worth, Interesting is a rather appropiate moderation in this case. It is genuinely interesting to see some people say Slackware is more Unix than other distros because it lacks something. I mean, I usually think of my distro as very Unix-like because the stuff it has, not because of what it lacks.
[Slackware] is perfect for mission critical stuff where security is important
Another interesting point, particularly if you take into account that quite a few people here are defending./configure ; make ; make install as something good... (and a side note: exit status? what exit status?)
At work I've got a GeForce3... does anyone know of a good fan (read: the card won't melt away) that's quiet? The high pitched noise coming from the original fan is driving me nuts.
The sound of a thunderous BOOM was heard with the jostling and swaying of the WTC 1 building. The feeling was something akin to someone grabbing you by the shoulders and swinging you back and forth a few times. Startled by this, I looked out the window just a few feet away to see glass, thousands of sheets of paper and large metal pieces raining down from above.
A lot like a big earthquake, for those of us who have experienced one. Terrorifing <sp?>...
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I love the absolute terms in which this is posed, as if there was a single, worldwide, copyright law, or even better, a single, worldwide law system. I would love to see common law jurisdictions trying to cite a case in New Zealand as precedent.
Yes, it would have effect, but nowhere as clear cut and definitive as TFA tries to present them.
And objectively speaking, beyond their core product, which Bar has been a success? Arguably the X-box.
Windows phone? Nope.
Zune? Nope.
Surface? Nope.
Azure? Please, be serious.
WebTv? Nope.
Mice? Maybe, a long time ago, but not today.
Kin Studio? Nope.
Courier? Do you even know what this is?
Keyboards? Some people like them for some unfathomable reason. They are not unlike a myriad other keyboards out there.
Headsets? Nope.
Microsoft knows how to fail. That's good. Microsoft has a real issue with acknowledging they have failed. That's bad.
Sounds like he spent some time reading about Roko's Basilisk, and since he's trying to prevent its creation, we all know what the next headline will be...
He converted it to dicarbon monoxide, which is going to react with the nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, eventually releasing nitrogen molecules into the atmosphere.
You are looking at it from a engineer's point of view. Look at it from a marketing department's point of view: to change a lightbulb you need no tools. Unscrew, screw, done. To change a fixture you need tools, and need to fiddle with wires and screws, and things that can go wrong.
by twenty orders of magnitude in the blink of an eye after the Big Bang
A blink of an eye is in the order of 10^-3 seconds. The inflationary epoch lasted roughly in the order of 10^-33 seconds.
" Look at that UID. You must be like, 35! Yuck, old people!"
I must be ancient.
Don't worry, fiver, you aren't.
The study in the article comes from a government-funded agency which operates within a public university, which, in Costa Rica, effectively makes the researchers public employees.
Yes, Yahoo still has an email thing. I know exactly one person who still uses it. And pays for it.
When reading the summary, I was sure that this:
... was going to read "gently lambasting staff who refuse to part with Gmail" and Yahoo was imploring their employees to switch to Yahoo! mail. As bad as Yahoo's mail system is, Outlook is worse. I figure 75% of Yahoo is sales people.
No, they are saying that you can always find a pair of primes separated by 600. Let's say you list all the primers between 2 and N. You enumerate all the pairs whose difference is 600. What they are saying is that if you look beyond N, you will always find another such pair. They are NOT saying how much further you have to look.
They are *not* saying that given any prime number p, then p+600 is also prime.
Their goal is to demonstrate that the same is true for 2 instead of 600.
You have the hubris to say that you are going to fix everything that is wrong with X11 / X.org AND also provide a compatibility layer on top of your new shiny solution to support running the programs that still use the thing you are claiming to fix ... and now you are surprised because getting said compatibility layer right turned out to be thornier than you had expected?
Several years ago I wrote a transport mechanism on top of VNC that allowed you to access high end graphics services (read OpenGL) from devices without any hardware acceleration to speak of (back then it was an ipaq). I did the initial implementation in one evening, which worked for 80% of the use cases. Together with another developer, it took us probably a month to get it to 90%. A third party worked for half a year to get it to 95%. Several years later it was up to 98%... maybe.
Whenever you try to pull this kind of stunt off, you are going to run into the same situation. Most of the stuff that you are interested in is easy. Then there's the stuff that makes "creative" uses of existing APIs. And then there's the stuff that works because of, not despite of, existing implementation bugs. And then you run into the really weird...
The name of the main character in the series "Doctor Who" is neither "Who" nor "Doctor Who". That character is referred to as "the Doctor". Calling him "Doctor Who" is like saying that Darth Vader is a Jedi or that Picard was captain of NCC-1701-C. The name of the Doctor is not known but to a few within that universe, and calling him "Doctor Who" simply reveals lack of research on the topic at hand. Please see http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor
So, their astronomers less than a 50 light years away ran their version of Kepler, looked at Sol, found Sol-5 and Sol-6, and with some luck Sol-3 and they noticed the liquid water fingerprint and selected it as a likely candidate for a life-hosting planet. Then they made more and better observations and they found the CFC fingerprint and figured that Sol-3 must have a technological civilization living there.
What do they do next? Build their version of SKA and point it at Sol-3 hoping to catch radio signals? There won't be much to find yet. They probably need to keep observing for another 20 years at least. What if they looked 100 years too early? They would have noticed the water, but not much more. They might be able to figure out that Sol-3's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. Will they keep observing in the hopes that something interesting happens? How soon will they be able to notice the subtle changes in the atmosphere's composition?
Oh, that's an easy one... just don't go to see the film... wait until it runs for the nth time on TV. That way, Jar-Jar dies.
If you could enter to the FTP site you could note there's an OSX directory there... but since the whole thing is slashdotted, you can't. I'm really sorry. Just be patient and wait a few hours, by then everyone will have stopped clicking the pretty links...
The harder, the better. It's more fun that way.
Truly interesting. What makes you say that? I'd love to see Linux and OpenGL running on the Xbox, it sounds like a great machine to run demos on, and I even think getting Linux on it is feasible. But the NVIDIA drivers? I doubt that, at least I won't hold by breath until it happens, I've kind of got used to life. NVIDIA doesn't seem to like the idea of documenting their hardware in an open way (old dogs don't learn new tricks, and that sounds specially valid in the case of ex-SGI engineers), and there's way too many people playing along (buying their stuff because there "are" Linux drivers), so the company doesn't even see the need to change its ways. Even if you assume you can use the already released stuff to drive the GPU, what about the nForce? NVIDIA has its own AGP drivers, they haven't released source for them, and they don't seem to plan on doing it. NVIDIA will probably gets a sizeable ammount of money out of Xbox sales, and they'll will do anything to increase sales by any ridiculous percent (even if that means providing Linux drivers for it), but daddy Microsoft won't like the idea, will he? That's a big but.
On Sunday I saw a news item on SF regarding a transition to Oracle. Yesterday it was gone. How convinient. You'll be hard-pressed to find source code for SourceForge on SourceForge. For *any* part of it. Not long ago you could visit SF's project page and browse the CVS. It's now gone and all file releases have been wiped out. The excuse up to this point has been that there are proprietary extensions and source for those isn't available. Ok, where's the rest then? This looks bad. Back when ESR came up defending VA's position I was skeptic (read my diary). Now I'm convinced VA's going the wrong way. I'm moving my code out of SF and I'll feel uncomfortable contributing to projects hosted on SF.
Hey, that sounds familiar!
They put me in front of a VAX cluster and presented my with a grey wall. "Keep these babies running" they said. I started learning VMS and that was a trip. Sleepless nights learning both a new operating system, a whole load of new concepts and a new architecture... That was the place where I first compiled GCC. Eventually someone said "we need someone to admin this box, too", the box in question being an Alpha-station ("hey, it's from Digital, too, so it must be the same!" is what I think they had on their minds). Althought it did run OpenVMS (eventually), it had Ultrix installed on it. And I learned that, too. Based on my experiences with GCC I started installing the whole GNU toolset on it. And one day, back in 1994, someone introduced me to Linux... some seven years later, I'm known as the guy for whom Windows is a horribly complicated and hard to use environment (and also as the guy who can't understand why so many people put themselves to the pain that's called the C shell, but that's something else).
And I guess that's it...
I was actually dissapointed at the quality of the print-outs. The halftone function wasn't carefully selected and many of the sunday strips (as well as a couple of the regular ones) are a blotch of black ink.
My other complain is that, in light of the price (US$12.95 list), I had expected some original, non-web, content. Contrast with the Sluggy Freelance books (to name just one example) which are not only of atonishing quality for the price, but has color pages too ("Game called on account of naked chick").
Complain about Erwin not being as good nor showing as often as three years ago avoided.
Pray, say, what does make Slackware more UNIX-ness than Random Joe Linux, hmmm?
For whatever is worth, Interesting is a rather appropiate moderation in this case. It is genuinely interesting to see some people say Slackware is more Unix than other distros because it lacks something. I mean, I usually think of my distro as very Unix-like because the stuff it has, not because of what it lacks.
Another interesting point, particularly if you take into account that quite a few people here are defending ./configure ; make ; make install as something good... (and a side note: exit status? what exit status?)
At work I've got a GeForce3... does anyone know of a good fan (read: the card won't melt away) that's quiet? The high pitched noise coming from the original fan is driving me nuts.
You mean like Brian Paul, one of the persons sitting (well, remotely) at the ARB meeting?
From one of those links:
A lot like a big earthquake, for those of us who have experienced one. Terrorifing <sp?>...
CNN is reporting that the White House says those attacks in Kabul are part of their internal civil war and not a U.S. attack.