So URLs have been around for 20 years now or whatever, why haven't people learned to paste them properly yet ? Posting an URL with an obvious session ID is stupid. It's also annoying when I look in the geek section of the newspaper and they go "blahblahblah/index.html" , hello people you dont need the index.html. Equally annoying to me (but I guess objectively less bad) are people who ruin aesthetic URLs by throwing 'www.' on the front.
I don't quite get all this, maybe you can fill me in
What do these fees apply to? I've seen ads for digital camcorders that support MPEG4, so if I buy one of these will I have to stick coins into it before I can view my movies? Or is it the case that 50c of the purchase price of the device goes to the MPEG4 group?
Are there free MPEG4 encoders and decoders for Linux? If so, howcome the MPEG4 group didn't get paid for them and aren't suing?
Well, cars are different because you can't mass-produce a clone. No Korean startup can offer even, say, a Holden Monaro. Sure, they could make something that *looks* the same but it will not have the great durability, reliability, toughness, and power and crash specifications that the real thing does.
This is different to Xbox etc. , where some Korean startup can and will offer a version for half the price, with the annoying features (DRM etc.) disabled.
If the story is correct, then an IE client behind a NAT firewall will always be slow, because the first packet will get lost (NAT uses the SYNs to establish NAT connections).
Can someone test this experimentally? (I'm not in a position to..)
Nah. It's pretty damn obvious when somebody is not a physicist. This is different to law, where the kind of crap that comes out of American courts makes it impossible to tell. For example, how could a court find that the baseball bat manufacturer is at fault when a fielder got hit in the head by the ball ????
Momentum is zero means the particle is not moving. If dx/dt is zero then x is not changing.
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you seem knowledgable.. so can you explain how a photon works?
when you say 'there is an electric field' you mean that if there were a charge in the area then it would feel force.. so how can a bit of field move so far away from its source (without losing its strength?)
When you look at a star does that mean there is an electric field between you and the star?
also, normally when you talk about waves, it's force propagating through something (eg. in water waves the energy moves along and the water moves up and down). You can distinguish transverse waves from longitudinal waves by which direction the 'something' moves. With light waves, what's moving up and down? (and if you say 'nothing', then how can you call light waves transverse?)
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Since when is (c - an infinitesimally small number) smaller than c?
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Funny that you open your post with "30 + 30 isn't 60" and your tagline is making fun of "50 + 1 - 1 isn't 50":)
Very trusting of you to give the kid the receipt... he could have been a thief.. he would take the receipt, then run to store security and say "this guy just stole my dvd player, heres the receipt to prove i just bought it"
Well, the Moon is about 200,000 miles away, so you are saying that the lander is about the size of a grain of sand?
Let's be more realistic.. say the lander is 3m high and the grain is 0.3mm wide (I pulled these numbers out of my ass but they should be on the right order of magnitude) then it's like looking for a grain of sand from 20 miles away.
At any rate, you're right about this not being a realistic prospect
How can you believe he exists when you've only seen him on TV? You haven't seen him in person.
Also why has no other country got him for president? He hasn't even had a second term.
So why not be skeptical.
(Or why not enrol in Logic 101 at your local polytech..)
As for your final assertion that the "only proof is a video tape", you can actually see things on the Moon that they left behind, with the aid of a telescope. Unless you are also going to claim that they have held a shield in place over the moon since then that displays an image that looks as if people have been there?
Dunno why you guys got modded to 3, you're talking rubbish. The flag doesn't flutter. The "sun wind" isnt even enough pressure to make michael jacksons penis flutter either. In one instance, the flag got photographed when it was being held in the "blowing in the wind" position by a piece of metal at the top of the pole (the astronauts thought it looked cool). In the other instance, the astronaut rotated the pole (thus the flag got centripetal acceleration).
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Apart from #1, these seem to be application features, not OS features. In fact I would argue that Windows 2000 allows an application to do all your 5 points fairly easily.
#2) Copy, alt-tab, paste isn't hard. Nor is Windows-D, right-click, Tile. Windows within the same application can use Docking.
#4 (first)) Application should save in the system Application Data so the path is always the same
#4 (second)) If you shut down with Explorer open, the windows restore when you repower. Application should detect if OS is shutting down when it receives the close command (winapi allows this) and add itself to startup.
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So URLs have been around for 20 years now or whatever, why haven't people learned to paste them properly yet ? Posting an URL with an obvious session ID is stupid. It's also annoying when I look in the geek section of the newspaper and they go "blahblahblah/index.html" , hello people you dont need the index.html. Equally annoying to me (but I guess objectively less bad) are people who ruin aesthetic URLs by throwing 'www.' on the front.
(Love IE autocomplete... just type 'IN' and the rest of the topic came up straight away :)
1) No profit!!!
2) Piss off the little bit of population you have left!
3) Release beta versions of nerve gas onto the public
I don't quite get all this, maybe you can fill me in
What do these fees apply to? I've seen ads for digital camcorders that support MPEG4, so if I buy one of these will I have to stick coins into it before I can view my movies?
Or is it the case that 50c of the purchase price of the device goes to the MPEG4 group?
Are there free MPEG4 encoders and decoders for Linux? If so, howcome the MPEG4 group didn't get paid for them and aren't suing?
Well, cars are different because you can't mass-produce a clone. No Korean startup can offer even, say, a Holden Monaro. Sure, they could make something that *looks* the same but it will not have the great durability, reliability, toughness, and power and crash specifications that the real thing does.
This is different to Xbox etc. , where some Korean startup can and will offer a version for half the price, with the annoying features (DRM etc.) disabled.
If the story is correct, then an IE client behind a NAT firewall will always be slow, because the first packet will get lost (NAT uses the SYNs to establish NAT connections).
Can someone test this experimentally? (I'm not in a position to..)
Journaling file systems never lose data even if the plug is pulled repeatedly.
Linux kernel isn't writter in C99 is it?
Nah. It's pretty damn obvious when somebody is not a physicist. This is different to law, where the kind of crap that comes out of American courts makes it impossible to tell. For example, how could a court find that the baseball bat manufacturer is at fault when a fielder got hit in the head by the ball ????
Momentum is zero means the particle is not moving. If dx/dt is zero then x is not changing.
you seem knowledgable.. so can you explain how a photon works?
when you say 'there is an electric field' you mean that if there were a charge in the area then it would feel force.. so how can a bit of field move so far away from its source (without losing its strength?)
When you look at a star does that mean there is an electric field between you and the star?
also, normally when you talk about waves, it's force propagating through something (eg. in water waves the energy moves along and the water moves up and down). You can distinguish transverse waves from longitudinal waves by which direction the 'something' moves. With light waves, what's moving up and down? (and if you say 'nothing', then how can you call light waves transverse?)
Since when is (c - an infinitesimally small number) smaller than c?
Funny that you open your post with "30 + 30 isn't 60" and your tagline is making fun of "50 + 1 - 1 isn't 50" :)
Traffic lights hack you
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Well, a dollar would produce 100x the results if you invested it for 40 years or so
Very trusting of you to give the kid the receipt... he could have been a thief.. he would take the receipt, then run to store security and say "this guy just stole my dvd player, heres the receipt to prove i just bought it"
Let me know when you get back to the real world
Well, the Moon is about 200,000 miles away, so you are saying that the lander is about the size of a grain of sand?
Let's be more realistic.. say the lander is 3m high and the grain is 0.3mm wide (I pulled these numbers out of my ass but they should be on the right order of magnitude) then it's like looking for a grain of sand from 20 miles away.
At any rate, you're right about this not being a realistic prospect
Is anyone else sick of people who rush around going "blair witch was fake, blair witch was fake" ??
NO SHIT SHERLOCK.
I can only ask why you don't also rush around going "independence day was fake!!!"
So why can't George W Bush be a hoax?
How can you believe he exists when you've only seen him on TV? You haven't seen him in person.
Also why has no other country got him for president? He hasn't even had a second term.
So why not be skeptical.
(Or why not enrol in Logic 101 at your local polytech..)
As for your final assertion that the "only proof is a video tape", you can actually see things on the Moon that they left behind, with the aid of a telescope. Unless you are also going to claim that they have held a shield in place over the moon since then that displays an image that looks as if people have been there?
That kind of thinking is so last century
Dunno why you guys got modded to 3, you're talking rubbish. The flag doesn't flutter.
The "sun wind" isnt even enough pressure to make michael jacksons penis flutter either. In one instance, the flag got photographed when it was being held in the "blowing in the wind" position by a piece of metal at the top of the pole (the astronauts thought it looked cool). In the other instance, the astronaut rotated the pole (thus the flag got centripetal acceleration).
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Do I also see you saying "NO! I do NOT want all application configuration to go under /etc!"
... that's what the environment is for
Change your home dirs and config dirs out of the C:\WINDOWS tree if you want
Your second point about application startup - surely this is again part of the application space - providing the option 'resume where we left off?'
Apart from #1, these seem to be application features, not OS features. In fact I would argue that Windows 2000 allows an application to do all your 5 points fairly easily.
#2) Copy, alt-tab, paste isn't hard. Nor is Windows-D, right-click, Tile. Windows within the same application can use Docking.
#4 (first)) Application should save in the system Application Data so the path is always the same
#4 (second)) If you shut down with Explorer open, the windows restore when you repower. Application should detect if OS is shutting down when it receives the close command (winapi allows this) and add itself to startup.
#5) Clearly the app's fault
When you're browsing your pr0n and only have one hand available, the mouse is a lot cleaner.