You are exactly wrong. You have *NO* right to use/distribute/sell code that isn't yours. The GPL *gives* you right to do that, which is quite different from a eula which restricts your rights.
If you dont like the GPL, you are *always* free to write the code yourself. No one was ever forced into the GPL, ever.
Gps generally does not work indoors:) Generally it dosen't even work through tree leaves, car roofs or anywhere thats not line of sight. You may wish to consider this.
Few years ago during "the college years", I was taking Math 46, Differentials. For some reason cell phones would ring EVERY day in class, sometimes two or three times. The teacher was *quite* annoyed but he was being far too polite about the whole mess.
One day, a phone rings and it was the scooby doo theme, my buddy next to me says "FAAAAG!!!" and the whole class bursts out laughing. The next day another phone rings and I yell "FAAAAAAG!!!". This went on for about two weeks until everyone got the picture: Turn your phone off or the entire class is going to laugh at you and call you a fag.
Social pressure really worked in this case, people started using vibrate mode, and it was a good thing.
So to Laurence Fishburne: way to go!
(now I know someone is going to attack with some PC crap about the word fag -- get over yourself, that was what really happened, and it was funny, and I dont wanna hear it:)
At the time the P4 came out, AMD's Athlon processors were SMOKING Intel, and that is Intel's fault, they certainly could employ enough engineers to destroy AMD. Fact is, they got lazy. Previously AMD processors hadnt been as stable as Intel and they could still sell on that point but to AMD's credit by the time the Athlon came out it was a stable platform (still had a couple minor issues). And Intel was worried.
What Intel has been doing to make chips faster ever since the 486 has been adding more execution units. The 386 had 1 execution unit, 486 had two, PII and PIII had 4, and I *think* the P4 had 8 units?... Anyways, this is really like putting more tires on your car. It SOUNDS like more, but you ain't goin any faster, the fact is that 4 execution units and 4 wheels is about as many as people will ever need. The problem is, that it becomes impossible to schedule instructions for 8 units, having 8 instruction units is essentially saying, your code should have 8 seperate threads [using the term threads loosely] that dont depend on eachother to avoid interlocks... *IMPOSSIBLE*. Second of all, intel stretched their pipeline to 40+ stages, this means that the penalty for pipeline stall, branch perdiction miss, context switch, etc is *HUGE*. AMD's Athlon pipeline was a lean 7 stages.
Why did Intel do this? They were scared because AMD beat them at their own game. Intels self esteem was damaged -- So they launched an agressive marketing campaign, and used these tactics to maniupulate the marketing metric, MHZ. Ceartinly sleazy.
You'll notice now that Intels best P4 is faster then AMD's best part right now -- they've backed off the agressive advertising. However, they burned enough geek karma that I'll never buy intel again.
To remedy the situation, processors ratings need to be measured in IPC*MHZ [instructions per cycle] for both integer and floating point operations. Then it would be pretty clear to consumers what was going on.
Ive been involved in so many failed software company ventures I couldn't count them all...
#1 - Do *not consider* starting a company unless you know exactly what niche you are going to fill. #2 - Under no circumstance start a videogame company, if I see one more shitty Allegro/Clanlib game Im going to scream:) #3 - Get a day job, a couple close friends, and work nights. That way when you fail it wont hurt as bad:)
When I went to university, students were QUITE vocal about what they hated. Fuck Java, fuck Microsoft, fuck Visual Studio, fuck assembley, fuck linux, fuck makefiles, fuck everything.
MS is never going to win any mind share, but they still have the upper hand... Because every last person I heard say "Fuck Microsoft" didn't turn down a job offer doing development on MS platforms/compilers -- if an offer was made.
I remember another study where students were asked to fill out a small survey. The professor then reviewed all the surveys and gave each student a customized personality profile. The students were asked the rate the profiles, and all gave them very high rankings.
Although im sure alot of professors have done this excercise, one of the most noteworthy is James Randi, as part of a PBS special on psychic phenomenon. Check out the James Randi Educational Foundation
I'm a musician, despite doomsday predictions, synthesizers haven't replaced real musicians -- even when they sound better then the real thing (drum synths sound better then all but *great* drummers).
What synths have done is make it possible for new kinds of music to exist, and make it possible for people who previously couldn't to make music [like me].
Note to article submitter: please disembark the hypetrain
A voltage divider consists of a single resistor in series with one resistor or two resistors (in paralell)... definatley not the situation here.
What I think you are thinking of is a current divider, which is two paralell resistors, in which case (H1= resistance of human, A1=resistance of air) the equation for the current in the HUMAN would be Ih=A1/(A1+H1). Nope you didnt read that wrong, the current thru you is a function of the resistance of the AIR.
Which could be quite dangerous if you offer less resistance then the air...
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I would like to politely remind you that resistance causes a voltage drop but no change in current:) You could concievably suck up all 100ma and be in ALOT of pain:)
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and theres a damn good reason its 100ma,
(from Electrical Saftey Engineering 2nd Edition)
Physioligcial Reaction to Current 3-5 mA Barely Perceptible 35-50 mA Extreme Pain 50-70 mA Muscle Paralysis 500mA Heart Stoppage (books word not mine)
Besides, dialectric strength is like voltage*thickness right? So a high current would be a waste of electricity... assuming you DONT want to kill stuff:)
I had some domains with Netsol for some customers... I decided to cancel this particular customers domains (they felt they shouldn't have to pay anymore, so I felt they shouldn't have a website anymore:) ), so I sent in a cancelation slip to Netsol *two* months before the domains expired. 7 weeks later they sent me a letter saying they couldn't cancel my domains because *they were up for renewal* (which they wouldn't have been if they hadn't waited 7 weeks to process my cancelation).
Long story short, they wanted me to pay the renewal on the domains to cancel them... I let them lapse...
Just one of the reasons Im never gonna go back to the HTML business:)
I guess I am too young ...
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It never occured to me that there might be a place that there *ISN'T* TV.
In high school I was in the jazz band, and during "jazz season" we would travel all over southern california eating fast food, getting sick, commiting misdemeanors and oh yeah, every once in awhile we'd play some jazz.
One day we're in this god forsaken town, I'm sorry I dont recall the name. Anyways, in this town there are lots of hills, cactus, lizards, probably some bleached cattle bones somewhere, a college and a gas station with attached minimart. The place was a complete wasteland. If you've ever been to a jazz compo, basically you wait for 5 hours, play a 20 minute set, wait 5 hours for the results, go home. Sometimes it can vary though, maybe you wait 2 hours, play 20 minutes, and then wait 8 hours for the results:) you get the idea...
Of course this compo is in the california heat and it's 110 degrees out. We'd been sitting in the sun for 4 or 5 hours, and well, I have an allergy to a chemical in most but not all sodas, and everything at this freaking college I was alergic to. So I grab my friend and we get in the car and goto the gas station where they have, no lie, 128 ounce sodas. We were floored! The thing was as thick as a coffee can and made of pvc plastic, we could have used it for a terarium afterwords and it cost something like 2.99 (in 1995 no less). We *had* to have them so we filled up (thank jebus for dr pepper which Im not alergic to).
Theres not much more to the story besides the unavoidable consequences of two 17 year olds doped up on caffine and sugar. We ran around wild in the college for a few hours seeing what doors had been unlocked, leaving strange notes on the dry-erase boards in any classroom we could open. After our blood sugar crashed there was hell to pay of course, headaches, empty:) At the time we figured the 128oz drink was a test product of some kind, but for obvious reasons Ive never seen another one in my life --and thus ends the story of the elusive and much sought after 128 ounce coke.
Where would DIVX be without ATI All In Wonder, or Haupage WinTV cards? Maybe we should jail them, oh wait, they're corporations and they're above the law.
Probably some reporter wants out of his contract:)
Im just imagining this conversation between Stephen Shankland (the author) and his boss.
boss, "Hi Steve, what did you want to see me about?" Steve, "Well, um, fox news offered me 2x what you're paying me, and they have neater graphics, neat DNB music between segueys, and gretta van sustren is kind of cute." boss, "Steve steve steve, do I have to remind you that you signed a 5 year contract?" Steve, "I know boss, I was hoping you'd let me go...(trails off)" boss, "fat chance!!" steve, "Fine then, we can do this the hard way!" boss, "Yea and what is that?" steve, "I'll start writing LINUX STORIES!" (just then the office goes dead silent and you hear the gasps and jaws dropping) boss, "You just try it buddy!"
And this is the [speculative] story of how pro-linux articles appear on MSNBC. Actually, if you read the article praising linux for being only a year behind, REALLY ISN'T HIGH PRAISE. Second of all, there was a time when journalists were supposed to have *ethics*, independance, and a responsibility to the truth.... Hopefully someone at MSNBC still thinks like that.
While thats a gross simplication of the power consumption of a computer -- its not hard to imagine that a printer with moving parts requires much more voltage and current then a computer which is pretty much stationary save for the hard disk (requires alot of current to spin up then just a fraction afterwords).
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Theres alot of prior art for sites that used to be funny and now arent.
If you dont like the GPL, you are *always* free to write the code yourself. No one was ever forced into the GPL, ever.
Gps generally does not work indoors :) Generally it dosen't even work through tree leaves, car roofs or anywhere thats not line of sight. You may wish to consider this.
You need to take back your mind from the TV.
One day, a phone rings and it was the scooby doo theme, my buddy next to me says "FAAAAG!!!" and the whole class bursts out laughing. The next day another phone rings and I yell "FAAAAAAG!!!". This went on for about two weeks until everyone got the picture: Turn your phone off or the entire class is going to laugh at you and call you a fag.
Social pressure really worked in this case, people started using vibrate mode, and it was a good thing.
So to Laurence Fishburne: way to go!
(now I know someone is going to attack with some PC crap about the word fag -- get over yourself, that was what really happened, and it was funny, and I dont wanna hear it :)
Thanks for the #'s, I tried to look them up but I went from memory when I coudln't find them :)
At the time the P4 came out, AMD's Athlon processors were SMOKING Intel, and that is Intel's fault, they certainly could employ enough engineers to destroy AMD. Fact is, they got lazy. Previously AMD processors hadnt been as stable as Intel and they could still sell on that point but to AMD's credit by the time the Athlon came out it was a stable platform (still had a couple minor issues). And Intel was worried.
... Anyways, this is really like putting more tires on your car. It SOUNDS like more, but you ain't goin any faster, the fact is that 4 execution units and 4 wheels is about as many as people will ever need. The problem is, that it becomes impossible to schedule instructions for 8 units, having 8 instruction units is essentially saying, your code should have 8 seperate threads [using the term threads loosely] that dont depend on eachother to avoid interlocks ... *IMPOSSIBLE*. Second of all, intel stretched their pipeline to 40+ stages, this means that the penalty for pipeline stall, branch perdiction miss, context switch, etc is *HUGE*. AMD's Athlon pipeline was a lean 7 stages.
What Intel has been doing to make chips faster ever since the 486 has been adding more execution units. The 386 had 1 execution unit, 486 had two, PII and PIII had 4, and I *think* the P4 had 8 units?
Why did Intel do this? They were scared because AMD beat them at their own game. Intels self esteem was damaged -- So they launched an agressive marketing campaign, and used these tactics to maniupulate the marketing metric, MHZ. Ceartinly sleazy.
You'll notice now that Intels best P4 is faster then AMD's best part right now -- they've backed off the agressive advertising. However, they burned enough geek karma that I'll never buy intel again.
To remedy the situation, processors ratings need to be measured in IPC*MHZ [instructions per cycle] for both integer and floating point operations. Then it would be pretty clear to consumers what was going on.
Ive been involved in so many failed software company ventures I couldn't count them all ...
:) :)
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#1 - Do *not consider* starting a company unless you know exactly what niche you are going to fill.
#2 - Under no circumstance start a videogame company, if I see one more shitty Allegro/Clanlib game Im going to scream
#3 - Get a day job, a couple close friends, and work nights. That way when you fail it wont hurt as bad
good luck
I am the major model of a modern major general!
MS is never going to win any mind share, but they still have the upper hand ... Because every last person I heard say "Fuck Microsoft" didn't turn down a job offer doing development on MS platforms/compilers -- if an offer was made.
Having principles can be damn expensive
Although im sure alot of professors have done this excercise, one of the most noteworthy is James Randi, as part of a PBS special on psychic phenomenon. Check out the James Randi Educational Foundation
You're lucky if computer nerds are using kleenex/toilet paper on their NOSE/ass.
What synths have done is make it possible for new kinds of music to exist, and make it possible for people who previously couldn't to make music [like me].
Note to article submitter: please disembark the hypetrain
I give up, I dont think arguing is going to get us anywhere :) I propose you test your theroy its not dangerous. If you live, shoot me a line :)
A voltage divider consists of a single resistor in series with one resistor or two resistors (in paralell) ... definatley not the situation here.
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What I think you are thinking of is a current divider, which is two paralell resistors, in which case (H1= resistance of human, A1=resistance of air) the equation for the current in the HUMAN would be Ih=A1/(A1+H1). Nope you didnt read that wrong, the current thru you is a function of the resistance of the AIR.
Which could be quite dangerous if you offer less resistance then the air
I would like to politely remind you that resistance causes a voltage drop but no change in current :) You could concievably suck up all 100ma and be in ALOT of pain :)
and theres a damn good reason its 100ma,
... assuming you DONT want to kill stuff :)
(from Electrical Saftey Engineering 2nd Edition)
Physioligcial Reaction to Current
3-5 mA Barely Perceptible
35-50 mA Extreme Pain
50-70 mA Muscle Paralysis
500mA Heart Stoppage (books word not mine)
Besides, dialectric strength is like voltage*thickness right? So a high current would be a waste of electricity
I had some domains with Netsol for some customers... I decided to cancel this particular customers domains (they felt they shouldn't have to pay anymore, so I felt they shouldn't have a website anymore :) ), so I sent in a cancelation slip to Netsol *two* months before the domains expired. 7 weeks later they sent me a letter saying they couldn't cancel my domains because *they were up for renewal* (which they wouldn't have been if they hadn't waited 7 weeks to process my cancelation).
... I let them lapse...
:)
Long story short, they wanted me to pay the renewal on the domains to cancel them
Just one of the reasons Im never gonna go back to the HTML business
It never occured to me that there might be a place that there *ISN'T* TV.
One day we're in this god forsaken town, I'm sorry I dont recall the name. Anyways, in this town there are lots of hills, cactus, lizards, probably some bleached cattle bones somewhere, a college and a gas station with attached minimart. The place was a complete wasteland. If you've ever been to a jazz compo, basically you wait for 5 hours, play a 20 minute set, wait 5 hours for the results, go home. Sometimes it can vary though, maybe you wait 2 hours, play 20 minutes, and then wait 8 hours for the results :) you get the idea ...
Of course this compo is in the california heat and it's 110 degrees out. We'd been sitting in the sun for 4 or 5 hours, and well, I have an allergy to a chemical in most but not all sodas, and everything at this freaking college I was alergic to. So I grab my friend and we get in the car and goto the gas station where they have, no lie, 128 ounce sodas. We were floored! The thing was as thick as a coffee can and made of pvc plastic, we could have used it for a terarium afterwords and it cost something like 2.99 (in 1995 no less). We *had* to have them so we filled up (thank jebus for dr pepper which Im not alergic to).
Theres not much more to the story besides the unavoidable consequences of two 17 year olds doped up on caffine and sugar. We ran around wild in the college for a few hours seeing what doors had been unlocked, leaving strange notes on the dry-erase boards in any classroom we could open. After our blood sugar crashed there was hell to pay of course, headaches, empty :) At the time we figured the 128oz drink was a test product of some kind, but for obvious reasons Ive never seen another one in my life --and thus ends the story of the elusive and much sought after 128 ounce coke.
Where would DIVX be without ATI All In Wonder, or Haupage WinTV cards? Maybe we should jail them, oh wait, they're corporations and they're above the law.
Im just imagining this conversation between Stephen Shankland (the author) and his boss.
boss, "Hi Steve, what did you want to see me about?" Steve, "Well, um, fox news offered me 2x what you're paying me, and they have neater graphics, neat DNB music between segueys, and gretta van sustren is kind of cute." boss, "Steve steve steve, do I have to remind you that you signed a 5 year contract?" Steve, "I know boss, I was hoping you'd let me go...(trails off)" boss, "fat chance!!" steve, "Fine then, we can do this the hard way!" boss, "Yea and what is that?" steve, "I'll start writing LINUX STORIES!" (just then the office goes dead silent and you hear the gasps and jaws dropping) boss, "You just try it buddy!"
And this is the [speculative] story of how pro-linux articles appear on MSNBC. Actually, if you read the article praising linux for being only a year behind, REALLY ISN'T HIGH PRAISE. Second of all, there was a time when journalists were supposed to have *ethics*, independance, and a responsibility to the truth.... Hopefully someone at MSNBC still thinks like that.
While thats a gross simplication of the power consumption of a computer -- its not hard to imagine that a printer with moving parts requires much more voltage and current then a computer which is pretty much stationary save for the hard disk (requires alot of current to spin up then just a fraction afterwords).
nahhh, gotta be a coincidence.
* Broadband, 8 Idle PS3's
* "Fantasy Freak" status in one or more of the following areas: - LOTR - D&D - Materia Magica or similar MUD
* No Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Wife (Recomend: Squaresoft FFXXI Divorce Kit). Note: Internet Boyfriend/girlfriends are OK
* Star Wars fanatic status (jar jar sucks) - Star Wars Stratego game owners +10 HP
* Active dislike for star trek fans
* Fanatic status for atleast two Anime series, one of which must involve robotic suits.
**** Requirements waved for The Dragon Master