Don't sane operating systems use copy-on-write anyway? So all those code pages should be shared - if you load a 100MB.so 5000 times you use 100MB of RAM...
Well, to better control for individual variation and boredom, maybe start with 20 identical siblings. Then put them in a closed system until the system reaches equilibrium before starting the experiment.
That's what you get when you ask physical scientists to dabble in psychology. But you gotta admit this experiment would get rid of any psychological problems...
1. I advocate having full-time professionals local to every school. Maybe not one per district, but big districts would probably have dedicated staff. In really rural areas they might be subcontracted if that makes sense.
2. Public employess don't get fired at all for the most part. Can't do much about that other than general government reform...
Part of the problem is that schools are run as isolated organizations. Why does every school district in the state need its own IT shop? Why not have a central state-run IT group that handles technology issues. Every school goes on a VPN to a few regional datacenters, or maybe direct to the internet but with standardized firewall rules in place. Administrative issues (user accounts, etc) could be managed on a state level, and there would be local personnel to handle local issues (deploying PCs, etc). The same would apply for state offices - no need for the police to have its own PC-deployment group separate from that used by the garbage collectors in the same building.
Imagine if your fortune 500 company had an IT department for every little subdivision or office. Actually, that isn't hard to imagine since it used to work that way in many places. But, most companies are learning and central services mean that you don't have to have 1000 experts in firewall rules each maintaining the same set of rules on 1000 different routers. You can have 10 experts doing the job 10X better and copying those rules all over the place...
Said DVD will have to be readable using the old compromised key (for the old readers to read it), and must contain the new not-quite-yet-compromised key (to be able to read new movies).
Kind of like using the cracked Enigma system to transmit the cypher keys for the next day.
A DVD-based update will only work if those DVDs are kept inaccessible to anybody with an interest in learning the key. Even if you just distributed them to the local Best Buys they'd get out...
Uh, have you ever used an HP-48? You can enter equations in algabraic form (infix), and bring them up in the graphical equation editor on-screen. They can easily be saved on the stack or in variables. And, you can use RPN to compose an equation using symbols (X enter Y + Z / gives you (x+Y)/Z). Often if you're making up an equation that is how you end up thinking anyway (take this, multiply it by that, etc).
How are the TIs with vector arithmetic? One thing I loved about the HP48 was the ability to treat vectors just like any other number (in rectangular, cylendrical, or spherical notation). You didn't have to go into a special vector mode where you interactively typed in vectors - they were numbers like any other and could go in variables, equations, etc. e^i*pi works just fine too...
For the most part though the US only exports to fairly stable nations (at the moment) - not too many petty dictatorships. (If I'm wrong please be sure to point it out - I'd be curious to learn...)
Most US arms are probably going to Europe, which isn't all that controversial (the mobs in France aren't that bad:) ). Probably the most controversial beneficiaries are Israel and Taiwan, but both are stable democracies that are unlikely to need an invasion anytime soon (whether they will actually have one anyway is anyone's guess though).
I dunno - the US used to sell arms all over the world too. That buys you goodwill initially, but long-term I'm not sure what it gets you except more of a mess if you eventually need to occupy. Who do you think armed Iraq to begin with? Actually, Iran too to some degree, although that was under a different regime.
But maybe I don't want to saturate the connection 100%?
The issue isn't that ISPs are filtering. It is that they are advertising unlimited service, but then limiting it.
If they were just completely upfront about their policies then I'd be right next to you saying that you get what you pay for.
How would you feel if your company paid for a T3 line and your ISP started putting filters on it? You were promised one thing, and you got another. For the average home consumer the same applies to their broadband connection - they don't know what the market rate for bandwidth is...
And what is the penalty for refusing to comply with a testimony order? Life in prison? That sounds like unusual punishment to me, which is constitutionally forbidden.
Oh, and he never got a trial by jury either - despite spending 8 months in prison.
Contempt of court should be a criminal charge like any other, and should require a court trial and sentence like any other crime. It shouldn't result in a person being held in prison indefinitely without a trial.
The summary had a link to a cheating-for-hire website. Out of curiosity I took a look at it. I loved the chemistry quiz posted on the front page. The bounty was all of $5. I looked at the submitted answers, and one was by the number-1 earner on the site (based on the content of the front page). He apparently made around $450 or so $5 at a time. An excerpt of his answers was shown - it was certainly verbose, but I was amused that he had a nicely detailed and explained answer to what looked to be a trick question - that he solved incorrectly.
When you offer $5 for somebody to do your homework, you get what you pay for...
(The question involved with starting with 50g of some isotope of iron with a given half-life, and determining the mass of the sample after so many days. If you just go by half-lives you'd think that not much is left, but while little of that isotope would remain, the mass of the sample would be about the same since the decay products weight about as much as the original material - if it is beta decay then the weight loss would be almost indetectable, and even with alpha decay I'd think most of the He would end up embedded in the sample. Maybe it wasn't a trick question but rather a poorly worded question - I'd have to know whether the teaher was any good to figure that out and I'd probably supply both answers just in case...)
That sounds nice as a decree, and if you were dictator it would work fine (of course, we don't even need ballots of any kind then).
The problem is that when the loser of an election loses by 3 votes by people who wrote checks instead of X's in his box, your utopian vote-counting system will face a court trial. Now, checks instead of X's is an obvious case, but now picture EVERY shade of gray imaginable - humans are VERY good at not following directions - unlikely computers...
Uh, but in the case of voting the only thing that matters is the ballots. If they hack the paper record then they'll get caught when the voters look at the paper record and see that it is wrong. We're not talking about a paper tape in the bowels of the machine - we're talking about a printout in plain view - possibly behind glass, or possibly given to the voter to drop in a box...
As long as there is mandatory auditing of a voter-verified paper audit trail I think that computer-tallied votes are fine.
The problem with paper ballots is the need to determine voter intent. Suppose you have two boxes checked for one office, but otherwise a straight-party ballot - did they intend to vote straight party across the whole ballot? How about a small line in one box and a big one in another. How about a check with an X over it in one box, and a check with a circle in the other? If the race comes down to 5 votes, this will be a big problem.
The advantage of computers is that the ballot can be validated while the voter is standing there to fix errors. If they click on one candidate, another candidate will be automatically unchecked, and so on. Go ahead and print to paper, but let the computers do the part they do well...
I'm still a bit puzzled about why they allow this kind of cross-site interaction in the security model. Shouldn't the sandbox be designed to not allow code on different html files to interact, or to only interact if they were loaded from the same site? And shouldn't the sandbox only allow TCP connections back to the site from which the code came from - and that includes connections created by loading URLs as well. I can see allowing redirections of the entire webpage (ie what is in the location bar), but that should flush all code/data out of memory, not allowing any interaction with the new site.
I guess that is still a problem if the user has a cookie that allows them to bypass a login screen and the script redirects them to http://bank.com/transferallcash?destacct=1234. There are probably solutions to this as well (don't allow GET/POST of form variables on redirects, don't allow redirecting at all across domains, don't design web apps with such simple interfaces that can be guessed).
Other mp3 player vendors out there will probably drop wma support and pick up AAC quickly if this takes off. Both formats are better than mp3, but AAC is a lot less encumbered than wma, and now ipod owners can consider buying your player as their second device without having to re-buy their entire collection, and vendors can make software that will import itunes songs without running into the DMCA.
For its part, apple enlargens its itunes market to many more players, and now becomes the dominant distributor.
Sounds like a win-win for everyone. Even MS since it greatly increases the value of their zune players - maybe they can even reduce the DRM-encumbering of their file sharing if the underlying files aren't DRM'ed in the first place.
And watermarking will discourage random trading of files with complete strangers on P2P nets. And if price/convenience is set at the right level people will pay money. Right now people with non-ipods probably tend to find allofmp3/etc more convenient than most of the DRM'ed alternatives. If Apple makes a nice open itunes API those same people might be buying from itunes...
I tend to find devices that charge via USB annoying. I don't leave my computer powered on 24x7, and maybe I want to charge my mp3 player for an hour without having to boot up a computer (that draws 30W+) to charge up an mp3 player that probably needs 50mW.
I'm sure that somebody sells an USB-AC adapter for such things, but what is wrong with just putting a standard DC power adapter on the device?
If you ask me - the most dangerous interface in a modern high-tech car is the steering wheel - that is the component they should be getting rid of. Why should humans micro-manage the entire process of getting from point A to point B? When was the last time your computer needed a little more RAM and popped up a dialog box asking you which page of memory you'd like to swap (about 300 times per minute)?
First of all, if B has no agreement with A, why wouldn't they give out the source? Just one copy - to one person - so they could copy like mad and save them a ton of headaches/protests/lawsuits/etc? The only reason B would refuse to distribute source at all is if they have a binding agreement with A not to.
In forming such an agreement B is acting as an agent of A. So, I'd think that A would be liable for their actions, and they are violating copyright unless they distribute their software under the GPL and make the source available to anyone who receives it (even from B).
Show me any place under the law that a person can avoid contract terms by hiring a 3rd party. In every case I can think of when you hire somebody else to do a job for you, you're responsible for the work they do if you know that what you hired them to do creates a tort of some sort. If I know that my neighbor goes into life-threatening seizures at the sight of a strobe light and I intentionally encourage a rock band to set up stage across the street with this purpose in mind, I'd be liable for any resulting seizures. If I'm operating an aircraft and buy parts that turn out to be defective I'm liable for any crashes if I didn't obtain them from a reputable source.
If I pay a printing service to make me 10,000 copies of the latest Harry Potter book, and then I sell them on the street for $5 each, not only is the printer liable (assuming they didn't do due diligence), but I'm liable as well even though I didn't personally make a single photocopy of the book and I never made any agreements with the publisher at all forbidding me from distributing copies that others made. You don't have to personally run the photocopier to be guilty of copyright infringement.
In theory shareholders in corporations are not liable for company actions, and yet if I set up a company with one share of stock that I own, and that company defrauds a bunch of people with my brother at the helm, I'd probably be completely liable.
Courts generally seek justice - not game-playing. Sure, it is best when contracts don't contain loopholes. However, creating an artificial construct with the goal of circumventing contractural obligations is legally very risky - it not only may fail to shield you from liability, but it can also make you look malicious. You can't argue that you didn't realize what the GPL required when you set up 5 layers of shell companies just to try to get around it, and that makes you potentially liable for treble damages for willful infringement.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not a lawyer. If one wants to speak up I'd be glad to listen. However, I think you've constructed a scenario that no major corporation would be likely to attempt - why build a product around a risky legal maneuver which could land you in really hot water?
Ok, imagine I sell you a house at a discounted price, with the condition that I be allowed to live in it for two years (this sort of arrangement isn't unheard of in real life, although not normally for two years).
You promptly call a demolition company and have the house completely destroyed to get a head start on your office-building construction project.
I complain, but you point out that you didn't do anything to prevent me from living in the house - the demolition company did, and they're not party to the original agreement.
Now, the demo company is probably free from liability provided they did due diligence and didn't discover the side-agreement. But, you'd probably be in hot water in court and would almost certainly have to reimburse full cost of replacement of stuff, cost of living for two years under comparable conditions, and probably non-tangables as well if I had aunt Edna's photo in the basement. The court would see the demolition as being your act and you can't disavow your responsibility under the contract by hiring a 3rd party.
I'd think the same would apply to the GPL. If you hire a distributor they are acting as your agent.
Uh, not sure why mods who don't know math are bothering to mod posts like this... As the other poster indicated it is in fact 25cm^3 - which is equal to 25mL or the volume of a 25cm x 1cm x 1cm rectangular solid. 25cm^3 is NOT the volume of a 25x25x25cm cube. That would be (25cm)^3.
Likewise 100N = 100kg*m/s^2 - and it is not traditionally written like 3.16kg*3.16m/(0.316s)^2, although I suppose you can do it that way if you really want to and get appointed to the JPL navigation team...:)
Sorry for the redundant post but I wanted to add a little weight to the counterargument.
Yes, I find this a bit annoying. I used to use gtkatalog to track my software collection. It was replaced by a mono-based application that I have yet to get to work correctly - even on 32-bit linux (let alone 64-bit). I was left scratching my head as to why they'd use the mono platform for something like that...
I'm actually big on punishing drug driving. However, I'm not sure a lifetime ban on driving is the solution. And the reason is a pragmatic one:
When you take away somebody's ability to hold a decent job you essentially turn them into a net-cost to society - they don't pay much in taxes and they'll probably be a drain on social systems. Now, if you're talking about incurring that cost to put a rapist who can't control his urges behind bars to keep everybody safe I'd say that is a good tradeoff. On the other hand, if a person is unlikely to be a repeat offender it is a needless cost to society.
Make penalties stiff to deter crime and deter repeat offenses. However, make the penalties such that a person doesn't just check out of society for a lack of anything else to do. If the penalty for stealing is being banned from ever holding a job, how do you think an ex-con is going to feed himself?
Now, if we're talking serious violent crime I'm all for locking people up simply to get them off the street - we have to consider the danger to others. But you have to be practical about denying a livelihood to somebody who is 20...
Faster RAM will help you clock your processor to higher speeds. Period.
Well, that is mostly because of locked frequency multipliers. The only way to increase CPU speed is to speed up the bus, and that means speeding up your RAM/etc. It is really an artificial limitation - if you could adjust the multiplier you could just overclock the CPU - and just let it wait longer for memory fetches if necessary.
Sure, faster RAM is better than slower RAM - the question is whether this is the best place to spend your money, since faster hard drive is better than slower hard drive, faster video is better than slower video, etc...
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Don't sane operating systems use copy-on-write anyway? So all those code pages should be shared - if you load a 100MB .so 5000 times you use 100MB of RAM...
Well, to better control for individual variation and boredom, maybe start with 20 identical siblings. Then put them in a closed system until the system reaches equilibrium before starting the experiment.
That's what you get when you ask physical scientists to dabble in psychology. But you gotta admit this experiment would get rid of any psychological problems...
Well, there are two issues there:
1. I advocate having full-time professionals local to every school. Maybe not one per district, but big districts would probably have dedicated staff. In really rural areas they might be subcontracted if that makes sense.
2. Public employess don't get fired at all for the most part. Can't do much about that other than general government reform...
Part of the problem is that schools are run as isolated organizations. Why does every school district in the state need its own IT shop? Why not have a central state-run IT group that handles technology issues. Every school goes on a VPN to a few regional datacenters, or maybe direct to the internet but with standardized firewall rules in place. Administrative issues (user accounts, etc) could be managed on a state level, and there would be local personnel to handle local issues (deploying PCs, etc). The same would apply for state offices - no need for the police to have its own PC-deployment group separate from that used by the garbage collectors in the same building.
Imagine if your fortune 500 company had an IT department for every little subdivision or office. Actually, that isn't hard to imagine since it used to work that way in many places. But, most companies are learning and central services mean that you don't have to have 1000 experts in firewall rules each maintaining the same set of rules on 1000 different routers. You can have 10 experts doing the job 10X better and copying those rules all over the place...
Said DVD will have to be readable using the old compromised key (for the old readers to read it), and must contain the new not-quite-yet-compromised key (to be able to read new movies).
Kind of like using the cracked Enigma system to transmit the cypher keys for the next day.
A DVD-based update will only work if those DVDs are kept inaccessible to anybody with an interest in learning the key. Even if you just distributed them to the local Best Buys they'd get out...
Uh, have you ever used an HP-48? You can enter equations in algabraic form (infix), and bring them up in the graphical equation editor on-screen. They can easily be saved on the stack or in variables. And, you can use RPN to compose an equation using symbols (X enter Y + Z / gives you (x+Y)/Z). Often if you're making up an equation that is how you end up thinking anyway (take this, multiply it by that, etc).
How are the TIs with vector arithmetic? One thing I loved about the HP48 was the ability to treat vectors just like any other number (in rectangular, cylendrical, or spherical notation). You didn't have to go into a special vector mode where you interactively typed in vectors - they were numbers like any other and could go in variables, equations, etc. e^i*pi works just fine too...
For the most part though the US only exports to fairly stable nations (at the moment) - not too many petty dictatorships. (If I'm wrong please be sure to point it out - I'd be curious to learn...)
:) ). Probably the most controversial beneficiaries are Israel and Taiwan, but both are stable democracies that are unlikely to need an invasion anytime soon (whether they will actually have one anyway is anyone's guess though).
Most US arms are probably going to Europe, which isn't all that controversial (the mobs in France aren't that bad
I dunno - the US used to sell arms all over the world too. That buys you goodwill initially, but long-term I'm not sure what it gets you except more of a mess if you eventually need to occupy. Who do you think armed Iraq to begin with? Actually, Iran too to some degree, although that was under a different regime.
But maybe I don't want to saturate the connection 100%?
The issue isn't that ISPs are filtering. It is that they are advertising unlimited service, but then limiting it.
If they were just completely upfront about their policies then I'd be right next to you saying that you get what you pay for.
How would you feel if your company paid for a T3 line and your ISP started putting filters on it? You were promised one thing, and you got another. For the average home consumer the same applies to their broadband connection - they don't know what the market rate for bandwidth is...
And what is the penalty for refusing to comply with a testimony order? Life in prison? That sounds like unusual punishment to me, which is constitutionally forbidden.
Oh, and he never got a trial by jury either - despite spending 8 months in prison.
Contempt of court should be a criminal charge like any other, and should require a court trial and sentence like any other crime. It shouldn't result in a person being held in prison indefinitely without a trial.
The summary had a link to a cheating-for-hire website. Out of curiosity I took a look at it. I loved the chemistry quiz posted on the front page. The bounty was all of $5. I looked at the submitted answers, and one was by the number-1 earner on the site (based on the content of the front page). He apparently made around $450 or so $5 at a time. An excerpt of his answers was shown - it was certainly verbose, but I was amused that he had a nicely detailed and explained answer to what looked to be a trick question - that he solved incorrectly.
When you offer $5 for somebody to do your homework, you get what you pay for...
(The question involved with starting with 50g of some isotope of iron with a given half-life, and determining the mass of the sample after so many days. If you just go by half-lives you'd think that not much is left, but while little of that isotope would remain, the mass of the sample would be about the same since the decay products weight about as much as the original material - if it is beta decay then the weight loss would be almost indetectable, and even with alpha decay I'd think most of the He would end up embedded in the sample. Maybe it wasn't a trick question but rather a poorly worded question - I'd have to know whether the teaher was any good to figure that out and I'd probably supply both answers just in case...)
That sounds nice as a decree, and if you were dictator it would work fine (of course, we don't even need ballots of any kind then).
The problem is that when the loser of an election loses by 3 votes by people who wrote checks instead of X's in his box, your utopian vote-counting system will face a court trial. Now, checks instead of X's is an obvious case, but now picture EVERY shade of gray imaginable - humans are VERY good at not following directions - unlikely computers...
Uh, but in the case of voting the only thing that matters is the ballots. If they hack the paper record then they'll get caught when the voters look at the paper record and see that it is wrong. We're not talking about a paper tape in the bowels of the machine - we're talking about a printout in plain view - possibly behind glass, or possibly given to the voter to drop in a box...
As long as there is mandatory auditing of a voter-verified paper audit trail I think that computer-tallied votes are fine.
The problem with paper ballots is the need to determine voter intent. Suppose you have two boxes checked for one office, but otherwise a straight-party ballot - did they intend to vote straight party across the whole ballot? How about a small line in one box and a big one in another. How about a check with an X over it in one box, and a check with a circle in the other? If the race comes down to 5 votes, this will be a big problem.
The advantage of computers is that the ballot can be validated while the voter is standing there to fix errors. If they click on one candidate, another candidate will be automatically unchecked, and so on. Go ahead and print to paper, but let the computers do the part they do well...
I'm still a bit puzzled about why they allow this kind of cross-site interaction in the security model. Shouldn't the sandbox be designed to not allow code on different html files to interact, or to only interact if they were loaded from the same site? And shouldn't the sandbox only allow TCP connections back to the site from which the code came from - and that includes connections created by loading URLs as well. I can see allowing redirections of the entire webpage (ie what is in the location bar), but that should flush all code/data out of memory, not allowing any interaction with the new site.
I guess that is still a problem if the user has a cookie that allows them to bypass a login screen and the script redirects them to http://bank.com/transferallcash?destacct=1234. There are probably solutions to this as well (don't allow GET/POST of form variables on redirects, don't allow redirecting at all across domains, don't design web apps with such simple interfaces that can be guessed).
Other mp3 player vendors out there will probably drop wma support and pick up AAC quickly if this takes off. Both formats are better than mp3, but AAC is a lot less encumbered than wma, and now ipod owners can consider buying your player as their second device without having to re-buy their entire collection, and vendors can make software that will import itunes songs without running into the DMCA.
For its part, apple enlargens its itunes market to many more players, and now becomes the dominant distributor.
Sounds like a win-win for everyone. Even MS since it greatly increases the value of their zune players - maybe they can even reduce the DRM-encumbering of their file sharing if the underlying files aren't DRM'ed in the first place.
And watermarking will discourage random trading of files with complete strangers on P2P nets. And if price/convenience is set at the right level people will pay money. Right now people with non-ipods probably tend to find allofmp3/etc more convenient than most of the DRM'ed alternatives. If Apple makes a nice open itunes API those same people might be buying from itunes...
I tend to find devices that charge via USB annoying. I don't leave my computer powered on 24x7, and maybe I want to charge my mp3 player for an hour without having to boot up a computer (that draws 30W+) to charge up an mp3 player that probably needs 50mW.
I'm sure that somebody sells an USB-AC adapter for such things, but what is wrong with just putting a standard DC power adapter on the device?
If you ask me - the most dangerous interface in a modern high-tech car is the steering wheel - that is the component they should be getting rid of. Why should humans micro-manage the entire process of getting from point A to point B? When was the last time your computer needed a little more RAM and popped up a dialog box asking you which page of memory you'd like to swap (about 300 times per minute)?
First of all, if B has no agreement with A, why wouldn't they give out the source? Just one copy - to one person - so they could copy like mad and save them a ton of headaches/protests/lawsuits/etc? The only reason B would refuse to distribute source at all is if they have a binding agreement with A not to.
In forming such an agreement B is acting as an agent of A. So, I'd think that A would be liable for their actions, and they are violating copyright unless they distribute their software under the GPL and make the source available to anyone who receives it (even from B).
Show me any place under the law that a person can avoid contract terms by hiring a 3rd party. In every case I can think of when you hire somebody else to do a job for you, you're responsible for the work they do if you know that what you hired them to do creates a tort of some sort. If I know that my neighbor goes into life-threatening seizures at the sight of a strobe light and I intentionally encourage a rock band to set up stage across the street with this purpose in mind, I'd be liable for any resulting seizures. If I'm operating an aircraft and buy parts that turn out to be defective I'm liable for any crashes if I didn't obtain them from a reputable source.
If I pay a printing service to make me 10,000 copies of the latest Harry Potter book, and then I sell them on the street for $5 each, not only is the printer liable (assuming they didn't do due diligence), but I'm liable as well even though I didn't personally make a single photocopy of the book and I never made any agreements with the publisher at all forbidding me from distributing copies that others made. You don't have to personally run the photocopier to be guilty of copyright infringement.
In theory shareholders in corporations are not liable for company actions, and yet if I set up a company with one share of stock that I own, and that company defrauds a bunch of people with my brother at the helm, I'd probably be completely liable.
Courts generally seek justice - not game-playing. Sure, it is best when contracts don't contain loopholes. However, creating an artificial construct with the goal of circumventing contractural obligations is legally very risky - it not only may fail to shield you from liability, but it can also make you look malicious. You can't argue that you didn't realize what the GPL required when you set up 5 layers of shell companies just to try to get around it, and that makes you potentially liable for treble damages for willful infringement.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not a lawyer. If one wants to speak up I'd be glad to listen. However, I think you've constructed a scenario that no major corporation would be likely to attempt - why build a product around a risky legal maneuver which could land you in really hot water?
Ok, imagine I sell you a house at a discounted price, with the condition that I be allowed to live in it for two years (this sort of arrangement isn't unheard of in real life, although not normally for two years).
You promptly call a demolition company and have the house completely destroyed to get a head start on your office-building construction project.
I complain, but you point out that you didn't do anything to prevent me from living in the house - the demolition company did, and they're not party to the original agreement.
Now, the demo company is probably free from liability provided they did due diligence and didn't discover the side-agreement. But, you'd probably be in hot water in court and would almost certainly have to reimburse full cost of replacement of stuff, cost of living for two years under comparable conditions, and probably non-tangables as well if I had aunt Edna's photo in the basement. The court would see the demolition as being your act and you can't disavow your responsibility under the contract by hiring a 3rd party.
I'd think the same would apply to the GPL. If you hire a distributor they are acting as your agent.
Uh, not sure why mods who don't know math are bothering to mod posts like this... As the other poster indicated it is in fact 25cm^3 - which is equal to 25mL or the volume of a 25cm x 1cm x 1cm rectangular solid. 25cm^3 is NOT the volume of a 25x25x25cm cube. That would be (25cm)^3.
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Likewise 100N = 100kg*m/s^2 - and it is not traditionally written like 3.16kg*3.16m/(0.316s)^2, although I suppose you can do it that way if you really want to and get appointed to the JPL navigation team...
Sorry for the redundant post but I wanted to add a little weight to the counterargument.
Ouch! I was running it in Xvnc and the session completely froze - and ssh was very unresponsive.
killall -9 konqueror didn't help
killall -9 kio_http didn't help
killall -9 Xvnc didn't help
killing xdm (and X on a DIFFERENT DISPLAY) did the trick.
Not sure how konqueror managed to bork X11 on a different display, although it did have access to it via xauth.
That was rather painful. I'm just happy I got the system back up without having to call somebody to hit the reset button...
Yes, I find this a bit annoying. I used to use gtkatalog to track my software collection. It was replaced by a mono-based application that I have yet to get to work correctly - even on 32-bit linux (let alone 64-bit). I was left scratching my head as to why they'd use the mono platform for something like that...
I'm actually big on punishing drug driving. However, I'm not sure a lifetime ban on driving is the solution. And the reason is a pragmatic one:
When you take away somebody's ability to hold a decent job you essentially turn them into a net-cost to society - they don't pay much in taxes and they'll probably be a drain on social systems. Now, if you're talking about incurring that cost to put a rapist who can't control his urges behind bars to keep everybody safe I'd say that is a good tradeoff. On the other hand, if a person is unlikely to be a repeat offender it is a needless cost to society.
Make penalties stiff to deter crime and deter repeat offenses. However, make the penalties such that a person doesn't just check out of society for a lack of anything else to do. If the penalty for stealing is being banned from ever holding a job, how do you think an ex-con is going to feed himself?
Now, if we're talking serious violent crime I'm all for locking people up simply to get them off the street - we have to consider the danger to others. But you have to be practical about denying a livelihood to somebody who is 20...
Faster RAM will help you clock your processor to higher speeds. Period.
Well, that is mostly because of locked frequency multipliers. The only way to increase CPU speed is to speed up the bus, and that means speeding up your RAM/etc. It is really an artificial limitation - if you could adjust the multiplier you could just overclock the CPU - and just let it wait longer for memory fetches if necessary.
Sure, faster RAM is better than slower RAM - the question is whether this is the best place to spend your money, since faster hard drive is better than slower hard drive, faster video is better than slower video, etc...