Maybe I was to lazy to read your post thuroughly, but still... Are you implying that the positioning of particles in space are quantitized, i.e. digital/discrete?
Not that I have ever used a 10^40 times zoom microscope to check it out, but that sounds very unlikely.
Nice use of math to prove the existance of several universes though.
If your double hypoteticly could cross universal boundaries, and was to visit other instances of himself, there is a perfectly logical explantion for why he hasn't visited you yet.
Even if he could visit other universes, he'd need an infinte of time to visit an infinite of universes. He probably wouldn't have time to visit you, but quite many others before he died. He'd have to be immortal (live infititely) to visit all the universes. Because in an infinte number of universes, the chance of visiting you is zero if the given amount of time is finite.
So don't worry about your parallell you being a prick. It's the laws of physics and general probability that is the asshole.
I kinda like the way Douglas Adams explains all these theories alot simpler. By introducing "probability-dimensions".
It goes like this: If something could have happened, it did, and the results exist. It just happens to be located in a parallell dimension along the "probaility-axises".
Ofcourse that doesn't explain what you were rambling about, the origin of it all and the nature of universal laws, but I actually learned alot of the multi-dimensional theories reading Hitchhikers guide.
It actually sparked my interest for multidimensional theories.
I recomend anyone who want to a humoreous introduction to the theory of multidimensional universes to read the last Hitchikers book!
entering RIAA-mode:
"Listen here now boy! This sounds mighty like independent thinking, and we don't want any of that around here!"
People are wrong when they say the RIAA are getting it both ways. They are getting it in three ways.
1. "You dont buy the CD, you buy a license"-WhyYouCantDoWhatYouWant-gibberish
2. "You dont buy a license, you buy the media"-NoReplacementForYou-gibberish
3. "You pay taxes because you steal, but you are not entitled tto steal, even though you paid for it"-gibberish.
If I was to loose all moral standards, I'd actually admire the guy who accomplished that list of achievements.
Dunno about you and how it is where you live, but in Norway getting shell-access to do server-side filtering is not in the standard-package. In fact it's quite rare.
Napster did indeed offer indexing, but Napster created the network that was being indexed. So Napster was liable for the damages.
This network however, was a pre-existing Windows SMB file-sharing network, which could operate (and indeed did) without the WAKE-service he is being sued for.
See the difference? Its like Google should be held resposible for copyright infridgement, when they merely locate a site that breaks copyright law. The siteowner is the one that should be sued, not Google. And indeed noone sues Google, so why suit for this?
It's stupid, stupid, stupid and anyone within their right minds should be able to see that.
You all probably know this, but I didn't until recently.Anyway:
He is being sued for a pure indexing service! No files supplied, no network established, just searching the (pre-existing) local princeton SMB-network. Which ofcourse is filtered, so it's only useful for Princeton-students.
If assisting people in finding information that has been put public by others can give you a 96 {insert redicilously large unit here} dollars fine, I'd f*cking flea the country allready!
This is madness. I'll go and get a criminal record now, to ensure that I'll never ever will get the chance to enter US territory.
It is quite possible this is a misunderstanding, and they may have had no intention of it being interpreted this way.
Yeah. Today perhaps. But tommorrow or next year... Maybe it wasn't a misunderstanding at all? All of a sudden maybe it was intended. They just needed the TOS to sleep a little while, while people got used to more BS.
Never trust corporate bastards. That'll keep you safer.
You mean... Like most people think about the fact that they allow people to download their 100% shared C:-drive when they start the newest P2P-fabware?
This is bad and only bad. It further deprives us rights and stamps us as criminals before anything has even been done.
In the UK anyway. Thank god Im in... Oh, too late, nevermind...
I'm not trying to start a major troll-sequence here, but...
As long as you got something as configurable as todays UIs, themeable, skinnable, audioable (yack!), pluginable... You get the idea. As long as todays Desktop environments are so utterly configuarable, it is a rather worthless way of testing these environments if you just glance at the defaults.
You may agree or not, but this is my way of looking at it.
Despite the *many* complaints I have about Windows XP - the UI is pretty darn stable, and graphically pleasing to the eye.
So the UI is stable. I dont see how that helps the kernel, but this is another matter. The fact the the Win32-platform has the worst architecture ever (reboots anyone?) is another discussion as well. This goes for the dekstop environment. I think it looks bloated. Guess it a matter of opinion.
I've even managed to configure the desktop environment in such a way that the system was hanging upon shutdown of X until I deleted my desktop preferences/settings files and created fresh ones.
So you say X is lousy because you couldnt configure it properly? Some hardware is troublesome. That goes for all OSes or desktop-environments.
Even if KDE or Gnome was 100% bug-free, there's still the issue of how the color palettes get handled when a video card only does 256 colors.
Yeah. Thats why we love X, KDE and Gnome: the ability to configure it to our (in this case) minimalistic needs.
In conclusion: The XP-interface and architecture is made for people who dont like to do anything advanced at all (there goes my Karma!). If the reviewer likes things simple XP is good in the review.
If, however, the reviewer chooses to live experimentally, XP will be the worst nanny ever. So XP will be bad.
Conclusion in conclusion in blah...:
XP will magically appeal to some, and magically not appeal to others. Just like any other UI. But to claim that XP is the best from piss-poor material like this is just ridicolous.
How is it flamebaiting to complain about useless UI "features" being introduced, which can't be removed?
It is true (to alot of people, not all though:) that the Desktop Environment of Win XP is far less useable to proffesionals than the one of Win 95. Pros dont need 40 warnings to delete files. XP is useless to people who knows what they are doing.
It is a matter of taste. This guy obviously didn't like being babysitted by his computer. How is that flamebait? Its an honest opinion, dammit!
Actually he seems to think anything but BeOS is slow and sloppy. While having Microsoft as a second, I don't see how this is M$-tainted i particular.
What makes this article truly worthless is the absolute lack of in-depth analysis. It just says "KDE is ugly. Yeah you got themes, but who would ever bother to press two buttons to get things done?!?!". Something similar to that anyway.
This guy is not near technical enough to rate any desktop environment. He just takes a glance at the defaults, says what he thinks, and comments that it might be possible to improve this. And he does this for the lot.
So I agree and disagree. Worthless? yes. M$-tainted? No. Just plain stupid.
"Always remain skeptical and ask yourself why they want everyone to have this information."
Somehow this comment avoided getting moded up, while telling people that the cellular isn't off when the battery is disconnected got moded "Informative".
How about friggin' minimum IQ for moderators? Be gentle on typos though. I tend to make such:)
I dunno, but if this goes trough... I'll just patent "Drinking wine by removing the cork to allow the wine to pass trough the bottleneck".
That should be a just as valid patent as I see it... Or maybe someone allready got that one pending? You never know, specially not when it comes to the USPO.
Free software. Free as in free speech, not as in free beer. That software which is free as in speech usually also is free as in beer doesn't make them in any ways dependent...
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So Debian is not a GPLed distro? I thought you could do whatever you felt like with GLPed stuff?
Like altering it slightly and renaming it slightly... Quite like this, actually. Isn't this what we all usually praise the GPL-liecense for?
And I believe that this is the legal way of seeing it. Unless I'm wrong and someone would be so nice and correct me.
No, not "The salmon of doubt". Thats not really a Hitchikers book. Its a leftover book, and mostly a Dirk Gently book.
I was referring to the last, story-ending part of the Hitchikers book series written long time ago. All Adams, all complete.
In case anyone got confused.
Maybe I was to lazy to read your post thuroughly, but still... Are you implying that the positioning of particles in space are quantitized, i.e. digital/discrete?
Not that I have ever used a 10^40 times zoom microscope to check it out, but that sounds very unlikely.
Nice use of math to prove the existance of several universes though.
If your double hypoteticly could cross universal boundaries, and was to visit other instances of himself, there is a perfectly logical explantion for why he hasn't visited you yet.
Even if he could visit other universes, he'd need an infinte of time to visit an infinite of universes. He probably wouldn't have time to visit you, but quite many others before he died. He'd have to be immortal (live infititely) to visit all the universes. Because in an infinte number of universes, the chance of visiting you is zero if the given amount of time is finite.
So don't worry about your parallell you being a prick. It's the laws of physics and general probability that is the asshole.
I kinda like the way Douglas Adams explains all these theories alot simpler. By introducing "probability-dimensions".
It goes like this: If something could have happened, it did, and the results exist. It just happens to be located in a parallell dimension along the "probaility-axises".
Ofcourse that doesn't explain what you were rambling about, the origin of it all and the nature of universal laws, but I actually learned alot of the multi-dimensional theories reading Hitchhikers guide.
It actually sparked my interest for multidimensional theories.
I recomend anyone who want to a humoreous introduction to the theory of multidimensional universes to read the last Hitchikers book!
entering RIAA-mode:
"Listen here now boy! This sounds mighty like independent thinking, and we don't want any of that around here!"
People are wrong when they say the RIAA are getting it both ways. They are getting it in three ways.
1. "You dont buy the CD, you buy a license"-WhyYouCantDoWhatYouWant-gibberish
2. "You dont buy a license, you buy the media"-NoReplacementForYou-gibberish
3. "You pay taxes because you steal, but you are not entitled tto steal, even though you paid for it"-gibberish.
If I was to loose all moral standards, I'd actually admire the guy who accomplished that list of achievements.
But really, it's just perverted and sad.
If you noticed how effective the antitrust case against Microsoft was in real, practical life, you might wanne choose civil disobedience instead.
Just a thought.
Because you can cluster BSD as well, can't you?
*unsure and confused since there arent any cluster-remarks*
Dunno about you and how it is where you live, but in Norway getting shell-access to do server-side filtering is not in the standard-package. In fact it's quite rare.
Not that I have that problem anyway :)
In norwegian the strip is located in my Dilbert-archive.
Ofcourse I got an English archive as well, for you Dilbert fans out there!
Napster did indeed offer indexing, but Napster created the network that was being indexed. So Napster was liable for the damages.
This network however, was a pre-existing Windows SMB file-sharing network, which could operate (and indeed did) without the WAKE-service he is being sued for.
See the difference? Its like Google should be held resposible for copyright infridgement, when they merely locate a site that breaks copyright law. The siteowner is the one that should be sued, not Google. And indeed noone sues Google, so why suit for this?
It's stupid, stupid, stupid and anyone within their right minds should be able to see that.
Which ofcourse excludes the RIAA completely.
You all probably know this, but I didn't until recently.Anyway:
He is being sued for a pure indexing service! No files supplied, no network established, just searching the (pre-existing) local princeton SMB-network. Which ofcourse is filtered, so it's only useful for Princeton-students.
If assisting people in finding information that has been put public by others can give you a 96 {insert redicilously large unit here} dollars fine, I'd f*cking flea the country allready!
This is madness. I'll go and get a criminal record now, to ensure that I'll never ever will get the chance to enter US territory.
Yeah. Today perhaps. But tommorrow or next year... Maybe it wasn't a misunderstanding at all? All of a sudden maybe it was intended. They just needed the TOS to sleep a little while, while people got used to more BS.
Never trust corporate bastards. That'll keep you safer.
Yeah. Just in time for christmas. Aren't these fellas just nice?
You mean... Like most people think about the fact that they allow people to download their 100% shared C:-drive when they start the newest P2P-fabware?
This is bad and only bad. It further deprives us rights and stamps us as criminals before anything has even been done.
In the UK anyway. Thank god Im in... Oh, too late, nevermind...
I'm not trying to start a major troll-sequence here, but...
As long as you got something as configurable as todays UIs, themeable, skinnable, audioable (yack!), pluginable... You get the idea. As long as todays Desktop environments are so utterly configuarable, it is a rather worthless way of testing these environments if you just glance at the defaults.
You may agree or not, but this is my way of looking at it.
I just assumed that anyone doing a comparison like this had to be a big, bad tech-geek guy. I never bothered to check, and I guess I was wrong.
Except for that blunder, I still stand for my points though.
So the UI is stable. I dont see how that helps the kernel, but this is another matter. The fact the the Win32-platform has the worst architecture ever (reboots anyone?) is another discussion as well. This goes for the dekstop environment. I think it looks bloated. Guess it a matter of opinion.
So you say X is lousy because you couldnt configure it properly? Some hardware is troublesome. That goes for all OSes or desktop-environments.
Yeah. Thats why we love X, KDE and Gnome: the ability to configure it to our (in this case) minimalistic needs.
In conclusion: The XP-interface and architecture is made for people who dont like to do anything advanced at all (there goes my Karma!). If the reviewer likes things simple XP is good in the review.
If, however, the reviewer chooses to live experimentally, XP will be the worst nanny ever. So XP will be bad.
Conclusion in conclusion in blah...:
XP will magically appeal to some, and magically not appeal to others. Just like any other UI. But to claim that XP is the best from piss-poor material like this is just ridicolous.
How is it flamebaiting to complain about useless UI "features" being introduced, which can't be removed?
It is true (to alot of people, not all though :) that the Desktop Environment of Win XP is far less useable to proffesionals than the one of Win 95. Pros dont need 40 warnings to delete files. XP is useless to people who knows what they are doing.
It is a matter of taste. This guy obviously didn't like being babysitted by his computer. How is that flamebait? Its an honest opinion, dammit!
Actually he seems to think anything but BeOS is slow and sloppy. While having Microsoft as a second, I don't see how this is M$-tainted i particular.
What makes this article truly worthless is the absolute lack of in-depth analysis. It just says "KDE is ugly. Yeah you got themes, but who would ever bother to press two buttons to get things done?!?!". Something similar to that anyway.
This guy is not near technical enough to rate any desktop environment. He just takes a glance at the defaults, says what he thinks, and comments that it might be possible to improve this. And he does this for the lot.
So I agree and disagree. Worthless? yes. M$-tainted? No. Just plain stupid.
Somehow this comment avoided getting moded up, while telling people that the cellular isn't off when the battery is disconnected got moded "Informative".
How about friggin' minimum IQ for moderators? Be gentle on typos though. I tend to make such :)
I'm still looking at it as an evil thing (not trademarked yet).
There is still no reason what so ever why americans and britains specificly should be allowed to monitor worldwide communications.
I dunno, but if this goes trough... I'll just patent "Drinking wine by removing the cork to allow the wine to pass trough the bottleneck".
That should be a just as valid patent as I see it... Or maybe someone allready got that one pending? You never know, specially not when it comes to the USPO.
Or it might just be that "there is nothing to see there, now move along". Nothing useful ever came to Office since Office2k anyway :)
Free software. Free as in free speech, not as in free beer. That software which is free as in speech usually also is free as in beer doesn't make them in any ways dependent...
It shouldn't be that hard to memorize...