Actually, GPL is based mainly on property rights as we understand them...
Consider, for a moment. Is it legal for me to take the cars from a local car dealership, and open up my own car dealership, and then claim that all the cars are not only mine, but I built them, and all of the design ideas are my property?
In most states, I think not.
Car dealerships sell cars. They do not claim they designed the cars. The cars must be purchased from the manufacturer that made them, and even if you modify the cars, you must still pay ford/gm/chrysler etc for the original vehicle.
I know that there are legal subtleties that I am glossing over, but in its essence, the GPL says that if someone else wrote the code, you can't hide it and claim that it is your code.
I understand that they extend it a little bit, but the basis is the intellectual property rights OF THE PERSON WHO DID THE WORK!
In our capatalist society we are supposed to acknowledge the creator of any work and pay them what is their due. Forbes is arguing that it communistic to pay for someone else's work. Unfortunately, quite the opposite is true.
I must agree. I think the Word processor is simply cleaner than MS Word. Especially when it comes to numbers/bullets. With OO, if you want a second level of bullets, just add them. With word, you want either a single numbered list, or switch to an outline processor.
(The particular task was the creation of a test with question numbers, and letter of the alphabet answers. Word choked. OO "just did it".)
I will not dispute the better visual quality of a dedicated e-book reader, however, I still use my Palm for that purpose. The issue is really a trade off. Better visual quality vs. carrying something else. In the case of my Palm, (mainly reading stuff from Baen Books I am already carrying that beast with me (ok, it's rather small, but I'm still lugging it around to remind myself to do almost everything but eat). Same with my cell phone and laptop.
The next step will probably be to get the combo cellphone/palm device like the treo.
The e-book reader, since it can only do e-books, is just an extra piece of stuff to carry. If I were to do that, I might as well go all the way and carry a real book for the ultimate in video quality.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Mark Fisher reminds me of someone I worked with. He is brilliant with computers, and before I saw him code, I believed that he was supernatural. Then he told me his theory on programming (which someone coined as 'Mayer's first law...' "Steal what you can, write what only you have to..."
In case RIAA is spying on me, what he meant by 'steal' was to check all available PD/GNU/Published Code sources. If something was close enough, use it. He put together some amazing projects in a very short amount of time that way.
Given the past history of technical companies that decided to sit on any technology and sue competitors, rather than investing in that money in further growth of their business (IT Lotus vs Borland, Apple vs Microsoft, Ashton-Tate vs Anyone who thought of trying to create an Xbase language), how does SCO plan on avoiding the same fate?
One thing to be aware of, is that once you are presented with a screen, everything in linux is loaded.
XP on the other hand, will present a login prompt long before all of the background services are up and running. Redhat, on the other hand, has a fully running and functioning machine once it goes through its 1.5 minute boot up.
Also, you are shown exactly which services are loading at boot time. If you understand what these services are doing, then you have the ability to stop the services you don't want or need.
for example, in my 1.5 minute boot time, I have 2 database servers starting (postgresql and mysql) 1 web server, 1 dns server, a samba/netbios name server, nfs server, and I can't remember the rest. In order to get the same functionality in Windows, you need to purchase Windows 2000 server (I'm not trying to act as flamebait here, but I teach both linux and Win2k server, and I believe that Win2k server is a good product. My issues are with the pack of jackals that sell and sue over it!).
In other words, my linux box has a similar start time to microsoft's server product. If I wanted quicker boot times, I would configure it more like microsoft's desktop product, windows XP.
Someone else may want to elaborate about other things ms does to make the XP boot quickly. FWIW, my windows 2000 box has approximately the same boot time as my linux box.
coders are insecure about moving between languages. Programmers can move between languages without missing too many beats, always trying to use the best tool for the job.
ie.. anyone trying to do operating systems/drivers in anything but assembly/c/c++ has issues. OTOH, try to query a database in anything but SQL or some other database language and you are asking for trouble.
I always found it interesting that if we don't know how to program the computer to do it, then it is AI. As soon as we learn how to make it happen, it is straight computation.
Things in my lifetime that were once classified as AI : Chess; Character, Language, Speech, and Facial Recognition. The first is now 'just computation' the rest are just 'pattern recognition' and database queries.
Eg: To make it go ~12knots it would take roughly twice the battery power, reducing its effective time from 8h to 4h (I know there are more things..but that is the major factor).
Actually, to make the sub go 2x as fast, you have to use 4x the amount of power. Even though the sub is streamlined, a major component of the drag equation is the frontal surface area, which imposes a lot of drag. So, power required goes up by a factor of the square of the speed increase. IE 2x the speed, 4x the power, 3x the speed, 9x the power.
Which means that the effective time would be reduced from 8h to 2h.
Which actually points to what is really needed for a revolution in submersibles, a better battery. (The military managed this with nuclear power, but there are way too many problems for what this guy is trying to do to go with nuclear power). My guess would be some form of fuel cell.
Lastly, the standard (military) style submarine really does 'fly' like this guy's machine. Think of it, if he didn't use any kind of ballast system, then he would have to supply power in order to generate the 'lift' to keep him from bobbing to the surface. A regular submarine (military) will use ballast to become neutrally bouyant, then use the surface planes to manuver up/down/left/right. (If this seems odd for a sub with such small control surfaces, look at your average dolphin/whale/fish. They do it the same way. 2 billion years of evolution can't be wrong!)
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there are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who dont...
I have taught at New Horizons, and at IKON (now csec) and all I can say is that it really depends on the instructors. The former IKON that i used to work at was excellent, with tremendous instructors. When I moved to new horizons, I tried to make that same atmosphere, but the ownership was more interested in cheap than quality, so I was let go.
If you can, sit in a couple of their classes for half a day (most will let you do that at least once) and try to see more than one instructor. If they suck, move on.
I really don't think any one franchise or another is necessarily superior. just go with your feelings about the instructors.
to those who think you don't need training, from my own experience training myself and attending classes, I get the same skills, but I usually save 3-5 weeks if I can attend a class with a knowledgeable instructor. (That is, of course if you study the right stuff. I knew a guy who did it all on his own, and the only thing he knew how to install was a novell 3.x server with every workstation a 'diskless' workstation!)
I'm a little tired of having this thing called moore's law.
Gravity is a law. If you don't believe me, jump out of an airplane without a parachute, and you will become very familiar with it. The law means that it embedded into the fabric of the universe.
what happens if someone blows up all of the chip manufacturing plants? then chip speed doubles in 24-36 months, depending on how fast we can rebuild them. What happens if someone discovers something really cool and triples the speed of current chips? In both cases, this had nothing to do with the fabric of the universe.
Moore made an observation. Not a law. Which means that if it doesn't work, who cares. I can observe a cloud pattern, and if you don't see the exact cloud pattern, it does not mean that weather has stopped. It only means we have observed different things
So if moore's "law" doesn't work, so what? Since it is only an observation, it just means that the world has changed. And how many of us are really surprised by that?
What I want to know is how anyone thought the internet would revolutionize education when you need to know how to read and write before you can get any use out of the network.
Computers can be useful tools, but only as supplimentary to the primary teaching job. ie you must teach someone how to read, and write before a word processor is useful. You must teach someone how to research before 'going to the web' to research a paper.
there are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Do you like an open mind?
Unfortunately for the ufo crowd, their definition of an 'open mind' is "accept my explanation or nothing!"
A 'closed' mind sees the lights in the sky, watches it head towards the airport in the same pattern as the daytime aircraft flight, and assumes it is an aircraft. The ufoers hoot and hollar about how it must be a ufo.
this guy is a crackpot. If he has real evidence for his ufo, i want to see it. Otherwise, ignore him.
Also, the concept of ufo's landing on earth isn't new. the loony-tune (with apologies to bugs) von Daaniken claimed the same thing.
And it's all hooey.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" Sagan. The whole book requires a lot more proof than they want to offer.
'The sensors onboard the STM will watch for telltale signs -- such as a sudden deceleration force of about ten times that of gravity -- that precede a collision
If 10g is the deceleration before the accident, what kind of deceleration do you have duringthe accident?
Nope, not a boomer puke. Fast and Black, USS Billfish.
However, we had a series of good CO's who made sure the ship was well maintained and run. We got to chase bad guys in the Med and on 'special ops'.
Sure we had some excitement, but never a moment when I thought that my life passed in front of my eyes and there was nothing I could do about it.
What I consider 'tough' are things getting shot, having the machine break up in flight test, etc. Ever since the Thresher/Scorpion incidents, there have been very few fatalities in submarines. OTOH, on surface ships, aviation, and in the infantry, there are plenty of opportunities to buy your own piece of the farm.
As far as 'not seeing the sun'. There are plenty of people on surface ships that only see flourescent lighting for 6 months at a time.
That's why I claim that it wasn't that tough for me. (then again, I'm not claustrophobic,either)
Basically, I did my bit, and I don't regret it. But before someone makes me into some hero, look at the people that were doing the fighting and dying while I was cursing the lack of fresh milk!. Those people are the heros.
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I spent 4 years active duty on a submarine, and I will say that the toughest it really got was when the ice cream machine broke.
NR-1 was never designed for long duration operations. It was designed more as an ego booster for Rickover. The other nukes were small, but you still had about the same personal space as one would have on a destroyer. My vote for those people who had it toughest were the people who either (a) get shot at more often than submariners (army/marine corps infantry) or (b) operate such high power machinery that they only have a 75% chance of living to retirement age (air force/naval/marine/army aviators).
Actually, the kind of learning involved seems to be very similar to the neural network programming that has been a staple of AI for about 20 years or so (maybe more). This kind of learning allows a chess playing program to get stronger, the more games it plays against good players, (or for that matter, the more games of great players that it analyzes).
About 10 years ago, I started to write a chess program using neural network algorithms, but stopped when I realized that I was a lousy programmer!
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Remember kids, there are two kinds of vessel in the ocean...submarines, and targets.
Consider, for a moment. Is it legal for me to take the cars from a local car dealership, and open up my own car dealership, and then claim that all the cars are not only mine, but I built them, and all of the design ideas are my property?
In most states, I think not.
Car dealerships sell cars. They do not claim they designed the cars. The cars must be purchased from the manufacturer that made them, and even if you modify the cars, you must still pay ford/gm/chrysler etc for the original vehicle.
I know that there are legal subtleties that I am glossing over, but in its essence, the GPL says that if someone else wrote the code, you can't hide it and claim that it is your code.
I understand that they extend it a little bit, but the basis is the intellectual property rights OF THE PERSON WHO DID THE WORK!
In our capatalist society we are supposed to acknowledge the creator of any work and pay them what is their due. Forbes is arguing that it communistic to pay for someone else's work. Unfortunately, quite the opposite is true.
(The particular task was the creation of a test with question numbers, and letter of the alphabet answers. Word choked. OO "just did it".)
Nut cases like myself don't have to worry.
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That's why he carried the batteries on his back... to lighten the load.
The next step will probably be to get the combo cellphone/palm device like the treo.
The e-book reader, since it can only do e-books, is just an extra piece of stuff to carry. If I were to do that, I might as well go all the way and carry a real book for the ultimate in video quality.
-- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Mark Fisher reminds me of someone I worked with. He is brilliant with computers, and before I saw him code, I believed that he was supernatural. Then he told me his theory on programming (which someone coined as 'Mayer's first law...'
"Steal what you can, write what only you have to..."
In case RIAA is spying on me, what he meant by 'steal' was to check all available PD/GNU/Published Code sources. If something was close enough, use it. He put together some amazing projects in a very short amount of time that way.
Given the past history of technical companies that decided to sit on any technology and sue competitors, rather than investing in that money in further growth of their business (IT Lotus vs Borland, Apple vs Microsoft, Ashton-Tate vs Anyone who thought of trying to create an Xbase language), how does SCO plan on avoiding the same fate?
And we could go to the moon and play pong on it. All on 32 kilobytes of ram! Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie have some thoughts about these computers!
Of course, that wasn't the first time userfriendly pointed out amazon's progress about the patent process.
One thing to be aware of, is that once you are presented with a screen, everything in linux is loaded.
XP on the other hand, will present a login prompt long before all of the background services are up and running. Redhat, on the other hand, has a fully running and functioning machine once it goes through its 1.5 minute boot up.
Also, you are shown exactly which services are loading at boot time. If you understand what these services are doing, then you have the ability to stop the services you don't want or need.
for example, in my 1.5 minute boot time, I have 2 database servers starting (postgresql and mysql) 1 web server, 1 dns server, a samba/netbios name server, nfs server, and I can't remember the rest. In order to get the same functionality in Windows, you need to purchase Windows 2000 server (I'm not trying to act as flamebait here, but I teach both linux and Win2k server, and I believe that Win2k server is a good product. My issues are with the pack of jackals that sell and sue over it!).
In other words, my linux box has a similar start time to microsoft's server product. If I wanted quicker boot times, I would configure it more like microsoft's desktop product, windows XP.
Someone else may want to elaborate about other things ms does to make the XP boot quickly. FWIW, my windows 2000 box has approximately the same boot time as my linux box.
coders are insecure about moving between languages. Programmers can move between languages without missing too many beats, always trying to use the best tool for the job.
ie.. anyone trying to do operating systems/drivers in anything but assembly/c/c++ has issues. OTOH, try to query a database in anything but SQL or some other database language and you are asking for trouble.
Just my $.02
Things in my lifetime that were once classified as AI : Chess; Character, Language, Speech, and Facial Recognition. The first is now 'just computation' the rest are just 'pattern recognition' and database queries.
Eg: To make it go ~12knots it would take roughly twice the battery power, reducing its effective time from 8h to 4h (I know there are more things..but that is the major factor).
Actually, to make the sub go 2x as fast, you have to use 4x the amount of power. Even though the sub is streamlined, a major component of the drag equation is the frontal surface area, which imposes a lot of drag. So, power required goes up by a factor of the square of the speed increase. IE 2x the speed, 4x the power, 3x the speed, 9x the power.
Which means that the effective time would be reduced from 8h to 2h.
Which actually points to what is really needed for a revolution in submersibles, a better battery. (The military managed this with nuclear power, but there are way too many problems for what this guy is trying to do to go with nuclear power). My guess would be some form of fuel cell.
Lastly, the standard (military) style submarine really does 'fly' like this guy's machine. Think of it, if he didn't use any kind of ballast system, then he would have to supply power in order to generate the 'lift' to keep him from bobbing to the surface. A regular submarine (military) will use ballast to become neutrally bouyant, then use the surface planes to manuver up/down/left/right. (If this seems odd for a sub with such small control surfaces, look at your average dolphin/whale/fish. They do it the same way. 2 billion years of evolution can't be wrong!)
Richard Hubbardthere are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who dont...
If you can, sit in a couple of their classes for half a day (most will let you do that at least once) and try to see more than one instructor. If they suck, move on.
I really don't think any one franchise or another is necessarily superior. just go with your feelings about the instructors.
to those who think you don't need training, from my own experience training myself and attending classes, I get the same skills, but I usually save 3-5 weeks if I can attend a class with a knowledgeable instructor. (That is, of course if you study the right stuff. I knew a guy who did it all on his own, and the only thing he knew how to install was a novell 3.x server with every workstation a 'diskless' workstation!)
Gravity is a law. If you don't believe me, jump out of an airplane without a parachute, and you will become very familiar with it. The law means that it embedded into the fabric of the universe.
what happens if someone blows up all of the chip manufacturing plants? then chip speed doubles in 24-36 months, depending on how fast we can rebuild them. What happens if someone discovers something really cool and triples the speed of current chips? In both cases, this had nothing to do with the fabric of the universe.
Moore made an observation. Not a law. Which means that if it doesn't work, who cares. I can observe a cloud pattern, and if you don't see the exact cloud pattern, it does not mean that weather has stopped. It only means we have observed different things
So if moore's "law" doesn't work, so what? Since it is only an observation, it just means that the world has changed. And how many of us are really surprised by that?
Computers can be useful tools, but only as supplimentary to the primary teaching job. ie you must teach someone how to read, and write before a word processor is useful. You must teach someone how to research before 'going to the web' to research a paper.
there are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Unfortunately for the ufo crowd, their definition of an 'open mind' is "accept my explanation or nothing!"
A 'closed' mind sees the lights in the sky, watches it head towards the airport in the same pattern as the daytime aircraft flight, and assumes it is an aircraft. The ufoers hoot and hollar about how it must be a ufo.
this guy is a crackpot. If he has real evidence for his ufo, i want to see it. Otherwise, ignore him.
Also, the concept of ufo's landing on earth isn't new. the loony-tune (with apologies to bugs) von Daaniken claimed the same thing.
And it's all hooey.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" Sagan. The whole book requires a lot more proof than they want to offer.
If 10g is the deceleration before the accident, what kind of deceleration do you have duringthe accident?
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See, If tupac can still make cd's and tour, maybe we will still need our faces
However, we had a series of good CO's who made sure the ship was well maintained and run. We got to chase bad guys in the Med and on 'special ops'.
Sure we had some excitement, but never a moment when I thought that my life passed in front of my eyes and there was nothing I could do about it.
What I consider 'tough' are things getting shot, having the machine break up in flight test, etc. Ever since the Thresher/Scorpion incidents, there have been very few fatalities in submarines. OTOH, on surface ships, aviation, and in the infantry, there are plenty of opportunities to buy your own piece of the farm.
As far as 'not seeing the sun'. There are plenty of people on surface ships that only see flourescent lighting for 6 months at a time.
That's why I claim that it wasn't that tough for me. (then again, I'm not claustrophobic,either)
Basically, I did my bit, and I don't regret it. But before someone makes me into some hero, look at the people that were doing the fighting and dying while I was cursing the lack of fresh milk!. Those people are the heros.
NR-1 was never designed for long duration operations. It was designed more as an ego booster for Rickover. The other nukes were small, but you still had about the same personal space as one would have on a destroyer. My vote for those people who had it toughest were the people who either (a) get shot at more often than submariners (army/marine corps infantry) or (b) operate such high power machinery that they only have a 75% chance of living to retirement age (air force/naval/marine/army aviators).
Pass the caramel sauce!
About 10 years ago, I started to write a chess program using neural network algorithms, but stopped when I realized that I was a lousy programmer!
Considering that he had been editor of a Buffalo Newspaper for a couple of years, I find a little less irony in AC being invented in Buffalo.