What exactly was the GPL's problem with Qt? AFAIK, the GPL limits what can link with it, right? c.f. using readline in non-GPLed programs.
But that isn't the case here; here a GPLed progaming is using a non-GPLed program. Surely that is ok? (assuming the non-GPL licence was ok with it. and if it wasn't ok, isn't it Qt that should be bitching?)
I'm really curious. Does anyone with a clue care to share? Even a pointer to the proper FAQ?
Well, since it's running a fullfledged os, why not include a really stripped down ftp client (there is one of these configured in/etc/services, i forget the name. tftp?) that can send a driver to the computer? Write it in java for that run-anywhere experience.
Of course, you'd better hope the OS has the equivalent of nobody users, but I digress.
... or is this what PnP is supposed to do -- include the software driver in the hardware? I seem to recall something about a forth-based configuration language.
Standard response is that they want to catch cached references (laft-alt, you know). However, I'm a bit confused as to why the image isn't cached as well, unless it is retrieved via a POST (GETs are cachable -- they're supposed to be idempotent).
So mailreaders that helpfully linkify (I think hotmail does this) things that look like addresses turn formerly legal documents to illegal ones? Mind you, that's email, not http, but still.
Is this how they explain the temperature of a black hole? A small one has a close event horison, so infalling matter orbits faster and faster (due to conservation of angular momentum), thus producing hot cyclotron radiation, while heavy holes have large event horisons, so matter doesn't orbit very quickly before it falls beyond the horison?
But how does this explain evaporation of holes, which seems to happen w/o any infalling matter?
Also (completely unrelated) Given a sufficiently heavy hole (where sufficient means the event horison is distant enought to not imply huge tidal forces) would it be possible for infalling matter to become trapped in orbit inside the horison?
I notice that this year, the competition is on a single processor machine.
FOR RAYTRACING!
hrm.
ok, this post is way late (the competition is over in a few hours), and maybe someone has made the point below, but, you know, hrm. That's not a great machine for what should be a trivially parallelised task.
I had heard somewhere that a full usenet feed was a couple of GB per day, so I figured that getting rid of binaries left you with 5 or so decigig per day.
Although, if people are swapping DVDs, that would up the estimate a bit. My number must be from before the video days.
Following up that argument, I think the text/binary ratio is likely lower than 25%. More like 2% . It takes ALOT of typing to make up for one movie. We could make some estimate based on wpm of an average typist and the number of people who still use usenet for text... but that's hard work.
either way, you're right. A couple of Gig per week is more likely. Although, if they analysed for intra-thread quoting (represent a quote as a source,offset,length tuple), they could represent it in a much more compact form, and someone else already mentioned crossposting.
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Well,
IIRC/. is also repeating itself. Again. Tho the inability to search old articles (hey, Rob! fix this) makes it hard to verify.
But I definitely do recall a story about a big multi-speaker array; record localised sound using an array of mikes, and then play it back on the array to recreate the sound coming from the old location.
Now all we need to do is figure out the phase interactions and you can make the array move the location anywhere you'd like.
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c.f. Eric Cartman finding the "brown note" and rewriting the sheet music for the world recorder meet. Kenny G and Yoko make the world go apeshit...
Also, wasn't mark mothersbaugh (sp?) of devo fame looking for this note?
If later versions automagically convert older format (like the 2.6.2i I think I have) keys to new formats that would could be conceivable. However, automagically doing anything seems contrary to the whole security ethic, no?
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This is interesting. I never thought about it before, but it really is the old readline argument, but in reverse.
readline is the prototypical demostration of the viral properties of GPL -- it is GPL, so any application wanting to link against it also must be GPLed; otherwise, the Free Software becomes "enslaved".
For KDE it is backwards; here we have a GPLed application that wants to link to a proprietary library. What is the problem with that? Sure this isn't against the GPL? The Free Software isn't being "used" by the Evil NonFree Software (tm).
So the only concern is that Big Evil Corporations installing KDE would have to Pay to use the Evil NonFree Software that comes with KDE. So what?
Can anyone explain why it would be visible twice tonight (the 24th) in boston, within 2 hrs, once heading eastish, the other time heading westish?
I could understand if it were in a really low orbit that it came overhead once ever two hours, but then shouldn't it tend in the same direction? and then another 20 hours till we see it again?
I've always thought that either bio-reactive or ust UV-reactive tats (to borrow from Sterling) would be neat. Esp bio-reactive. I'd love to have some horns that only became visible when I was pissed off.
The fact that so many people are suprised by the fact that some dead pixels are acceptable would possibly allow you to pursue the matter in a small claims court, it if came to that. A defect is a defect, regardless of what the manufacturer considers acceptable.
The problem is the same as that of airlines; we are all whores to lower prices, but still bitch and moan when we stub our toes on the corners that businesses need to cut in order to acheive them.
If laptop manufacturers were forced by law or convention to sell only 100% functioning LCDs then the prices would be much higher.
Does anyone know what percentage of sold LCDs are bad (ie have one nonfunctioning subpixel or more)? My family has had 5 laptops with 800x600 displays or better, and not a really bad pixel among them (one laptop had sticky, but not stuck pixels -- a tap would unstick them, likely a bad trace). Have we just been lucky?
I was going to write a polite letter informing him of the inadvisability of making such threats, but then I realised that noone can rise to be VP of an entertainment industry and not be three times better at manipulating people than I will ever be.
So there must be reason to this madness. Looking back at other recent debates, we have the judge in the 2600 case being openly predjudiced and microsoft intentionally pissing off that judge in order to try to force a mistrial.
When I first heard the microsoft theory, I was more amused than intruiged, but I do get the feeling that the players of these games are playing for the long run. I guess in those cases it is sometimes desirable to get a highly visible defeat so you can yell "DoOver!" when the stakes are hihger.
I just can't figure out why Sony want to piss off their customers. What is the upside to that?
well, 200 mph mentioned in the article isn't quite mach2. If it has enough range, a non-uniformity (bias?) in the random-walk target searching routine will eventually bring it full circle.
but I'd expect their firmware to be pretty well debugged.
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Clearly a FAQ/RTFM, but I can't seem to find it:
What exactly was the GPL's problem with Qt? AFAIK, the GPL limits what can link with it, right? c.f. using readline in non-GPLed programs.
But that isn't the case here; here a GPLed progaming is using a non-GPLed program. Surely that is ok? (assuming the non-GPL licence was ok with it. and if it wasn't ok, isn't it Qt that should be bitching?)
I'm really curious. Does anyone with a clue care to share? Even a pointer to the proper FAQ?
How do you use a hash function to secure anything? To sign it I see, but can't quite grasp securing.
Seems to me that this would fail under the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence argument.
Even if your logs are clean, there is nothing to prove that someone didn't send an unlogged email with decompiled assembly code, f.ex.
s/client/server/
Well, since it's running a fullfledged os, why not include a really stripped down ftp client (there is one of these configured in /etc/services, i forget the name. tftp?) that can send a driver to the computer? Write it in java for that run-anywhere experience.
Of course, you'd better hope the OS has the equivalent of nobody users, but I digress.
... or is this what PnP is supposed to do -- include the software driver in the hardware? I seem to recall something about a forth-based configuration language.
Standard response is that they want to catch cached references (laft-alt, you know). However, I'm a bit confused as to why the image isn't cached as well, unless it is retrieved via a POST (GETs are cachable -- they're supposed to be idempotent).
bitch bitch moan moan
... you.
informative? informative!?
funny, that I see, but how was that informative.
I could even give you insightful if you twisted my arm, but you have to give me a hint before I see how that was informative.
This, this post is cranky. I'm hungry and I like to take it out on
Great!
So mailreaders that helpfully linkify (I think hotmail does this) things that look like addresses turn formerly legal documents to illegal ones? Mind you, that's email, not http, but still.
but surely if you can Sing the body electric then singing the virtual game station shouldn't be so hard?
Ah!
Is this how they explain the temperature of a black hole? A small one has a close event horison, so infalling matter orbits faster and faster (due to conservation of angular momentum), thus producing hot cyclotron radiation, while heavy holes have large event horisons, so matter doesn't orbit very quickly before it falls beyond the horison?
But how does this explain evaporation of holes, which seems to happen w/o any infalling matter?
Also (completely unrelated) Given a sufficiently heavy hole (where sufficient means the event horison is distant enought to not imply huge tidal forces) would it be possible for infalling matter to become trapped in orbit inside the horison?
I notice that this year, the competition is on a single processor machine.
FOR RAYTRACING!
hrm.
ok, this post is way late (the competition is over in a few hours), and maybe someone has made the point below, but, you know, hrm. That's not a great machine for what should be a trivially parallelised task.
Oh, c'mon. Look at the great job they did with Jar Jar. Of course they'll be able to recapture the charming character of ol' R2.
You'd think that after making each movie better than the last, you'd cut Lucas some slack.
shesh!
Whoa!
I had heard somewhere that a full usenet feed was a couple of GB per day, so I figured that getting rid of binaries left you with 5 or so decigig per day.
Although, if people are swapping DVDs, that would up the estimate a bit. My number must be from before the video days.
Following up that argument, I think the text/binary ratio is likely lower than 25%. More like 2% . It takes ALOT of typing to make up for one movie. We could make some estimate based on wpm of an average typist and the number of people who still use usenet for text... but that's hard work.
either way, you're right. A couple of Gig per week is more likely. Although, if they analysed for intra-thread quoting (represent a quote as a source,offset,length tuple), they could represent it in a much more compact form, and someone else already mentioned crossposting.
Well,
/. is also repeating itself. Again. Tho the inability to search old articles (hey, Rob! fix this) makes it hard to verify.
IIRC
But I definitely do recall a story about a big multi-speaker array; record localised sound using an array of mikes, and then play it back on the array to recreate the sound coming from the old location.
Now all we need to do is figure out the phase interactions and you can make the array move the location anywhere you'd like.
c.f. Eric Cartman finding the "brown note" and rewriting the sheet music for the world recorder meet. Kenny G and Yoko make the world go apeshit...
Also, wasn't mark mothersbaugh (sp?) of devo fame looking for this note?
I want to know why they took down historical data. It's just disk, right? How large can their archive be? A couple of gig?
That disk is going to really valuable to sociologists one day, so I hope they've kept it.
Johan
even from earlier keys?
If later versions automagically convert older format (like the 2.6.2i I think I have) keys to new formats that would could be conceivable. However, automagically doing anything seems contrary to the whole security ethic, no?
This is interesting. I never thought about it before, but it really is the old readline argument, but in reverse.
readline is the prototypical demostration of the viral properties of GPL -- it is GPL, so any application wanting to link against it also must be GPLed; otherwise, the Free Software becomes "enslaved".
For KDE it is backwards; here we have a GPLed application that wants to link to a proprietary library. What is the problem with that? Sure this isn't against the GPL? The Free Software isn't being "used" by the Evil NonFree Software (tm).
So the only concern is that Big Evil Corporations installing KDE would have to Pay to use the Evil NonFree Software that comes with KDE. So what?
Can anyone explain why it would be visible twice tonight (the 24th) in boston, within 2 hrs, once heading eastish, the other time heading westish?
I could understand if it were in a really low orbit that it came overhead once ever two hours, but then shouldn't it tend in the same direction? and then another 20 hours till we see it again?
confused.
I was about to do this, but a moment's thought convinced me I was wrong
Johan
I've always thought that either bio-reactive or ust UV-reactive tats (to borrow from Sterling) would be neat. Esp bio-reactive. I'd love to have some horns that only became visible when I was pissed off.
The fact that so many people are suprised by the fact that some dead pixels are acceptable would possibly allow you to pursue the matter in a small claims court, it if came to that. A defect is a defect, regardless of what the manufacturer considers acceptable.
The problem is the same as that of airlines; we are all whores to lower prices, but still bitch and moan when we stub our toes on the corners that businesses need to cut in order to acheive them.
If laptop manufacturers were forced by law or convention to sell only 100% functioning LCDs then the prices would be much higher.
Does anyone know what percentage of sold LCDs are bad (ie have one nonfunctioning subpixel or more)? My family has had 5 laptops with 800x600 displays or better, and not a really bad pixel among them (one laptop had sticky, but not stuck pixels -- a tap would unstick them, likely a bad trace). Have we just been lucky?
I was going to write a polite letter informing him of the inadvisability of making such threats, but then I realised that noone can rise to be VP of an entertainment industry and not be three times better at manipulating people than I will ever be.
So there must be reason to this madness. Looking back at other recent debates, we have the judge in the 2600 case being openly predjudiced and microsoft intentionally pissing off that judge in order to try to force a mistrial.
When I first heard the microsoft theory, I was more amused than intruiged, but I do get the feeling that the players of these games are playing for the long run. I guess in those cases it is sometimes desirable to get a highly visible defeat so you can yell "DoOver!" when the stakes are hihger.
I just can't figure out why Sony want to piss off their customers. What is the upside to that?
well, 200 mph mentioned in the article isn't quite mach2. If it has enough range, a non-uniformity (bias?) in the random-walk target searching routine will eventually bring it full circle.
but I'd expect their firmware to be pretty well debugged.