Forks spur competition. It is a bit like evolution. In nature, a new species survives if the differentiation from the dominant group gives it an advantage for survival in a hostile world. That is why the dinosaurs died out and the mammals survived.
So they're saying we should drop an asteroid on the XFree86 developers?
As an example, here's what the slashdot article looks like on a normal CRT, and here it is on an
LCD monitor. Notice how the LCD version makes your eyes bleed.
But if there's a buffer overflow vulnerability in the One True Rendering Engine, that would affect all web browsers. Far better to have several distinct engines that try to implement the HTML/etc standards correctly.
Also, Microsoft would never accept a rendering engine that they don't control and can't "extend" (remember that adding extensions to the rendering engine breaks 100% compatibility).
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Betamax. Betamax is a high quality video format from Sony, but the consumers chose VHS. Now think about that. That does not make sense. Why would consumers - intelligent consumers - want to live with an inferior video format? That does not make sense!
Alternatively...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the music industry. The music industry is a price-fixing behemoth, but consumers chose to get their music for free from Kazaa. Now think about that. That... er, does make sense.
You have to remember that Mozilla was started by Netscape - they decided to open-source Netscape Communicator, but then decided to throw that code away and start again, creating what we now know as Mozilla. A large amount of Mozilla was written by Netscape developers, and Netscape 6.x & 7.x were rebranded/enhanced versions of the Mozilla suite.
Pay some space agency to launch a tiny satelite, just a transponder with a n-million dollar check rolled up inside. The first private team to go up and retrieve it in person keeps it.
I'm not sure about your spin directions - I thought that ferromagnets aligned with the field. Could be wrong though.
Ferromagnetic materials will become paramagnetic above a certain temperature (the Curie temperature) - as the material heats up, the extra kinetic energy of the atoms causes them to wobble out of alignment, and above a certain temperature, there is no intrinsic magnetism unless an external field is applied. It's a nice example of a phase transition.
As I recall, Heisenberg states the impossibility of measuring both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time.
Yes, but it's more general.
In QM, you measure a property of an object by applying an "operator" (you put in a function, and it spits out another function) to its wavefunction. Heisenberg said[*] that certain pairs of operators don't commute (meaning order is important - AB != BA), and so some pairs of properties can't be measured together.
"Position and momentum" is a particular example of a pair, as is "different components of angular momentum" (L_x and L_z, say). I can't remember how 'spin' fits into things, though...
[*]Pedantry: Yes, I know Heisenberg talked about matrices, Schrodinger about operators.
According to Weebl (the creator), you shouldn't link to badgerbadgerbadger.com any more (there's some dispute involving ad revenue going on). Use www.badgerx3.com
(The news post relating to this seems to have slipped off Weebl's front page now - use the "goto page" links at the bottom to find it, or read the forum thread)
The reason they say its safer is because they took advantage of the new processor features that allow you to mark a block of memory as "non-executable" thus stopping buffer overrun 'sploits and similar problems. Linux doesn't have this feature.
Oh, and also, if it goes out of control and creates a small black hole that slowly starts consuming everything, we'll have time to use the bits of the moon that are left to shove the whole mess off into the Sun.
Yes, 'cause if there's one place we should dump an all-consuming singularity, it's in the middle of our most important source of heat, light and food (via photosynthesis). At least we'll have a backup source, namely... er, the fusion research station we just fired into the sun. Fuck.
If a bit was set to 1, and you overwrite it with a 0, it may actually end up as 0.1 - a slight residual magnetic field is left over.
Overwriting a 1 with another 1 might actually produce 1.1 - the second write leaves the field slightly over what it needs to be.
So you take your signal representing the actual field strengths on the disk, subtract the idealised strengths based on the bit pattern, and see what's left - it may let you recover fragments of the old files.
But what about women who are interested in CS, but are intimidated away from it because they see it as male-dominated? What about men who would enjoy nursing, but are afraid of the stigma (real or imagined) attached to male nurses?
Sure, don't try to force a 50:50 ratio no matter what, but it's good to encourage the breaking of badstereotypes, so people don't feel the need to take crap like that into account when chossing a career.
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To be fair to Windows, I've found that FF 1.0 installs extensions into the users' profile folder, even when I'm in as Administrator.
Aargh, FUNimation. May they forever burn in HFIL.
I think it's more that they're trying to make up for years of Micro-soft penis jokes by talking about their incredible Long-horn.
So they're saying we should drop an asteroid on the XFree86 developers?
This gives photocopying your bum a disturbing new dimension ...
As an example, here's what the slashdot article looks like on a normal CRT, and here it is on an LCD monitor. Notice how the LCD version makes your eyes bleed.
But if there's a buffer overflow vulnerability in the One True Rendering Engine, that would affect all web browsers. Far better to have several distinct engines that try to implement the HTML/etc standards correctly.
Also, Microsoft would never accept a rendering engine that they don't control and can't "extend" (remember that adding extensions to the rendering engine breaks 100% compatibility).
No-one can tell you what TX Matrix is - you have to RTFA for yourself :)
Alternatively ...
And then you could replace Linux with FreeBSD, and run FAPP!
You have to remember that Mozilla was started by Netscape - they decided to open-source Netscape Communicator, but then decided to throw that code away and start again, creating what we now know as Mozilla. A large amount of Mozilla was written by Netscape developers, and Netscape 6.x & 7.x were rebranded/enhanced versions of the Mozilla suite.
So will they machine-gun the shit out of people they catch with cameras, like Scott Tracy did to the Hood occasionally?
Step 5: Realise that you attached the antenna the wrong way around ... oh wait, that's NASA :)
[Joke shamelessly pinched from a Charlie Brooker cartoon about the Doom movie from several years ago ... ]
The movie features a cameo appearance by Macauley Culkin:
Unless the USAF shoots it down first ...
I consider myself an expert in FAP.
Random points:
Yes, but it's more general.
In QM, you measure a property of an object by applying an "operator" (you put in a function, and it spits out another function) to its wavefunction. Heisenberg said[*] that certain pairs of operators don't commute (meaning order is important - AB != BA), and so some pairs of properties can't be measured together.
"Position and momentum" is a particular example of a pair, as is "different components of angular momentum" (L_x and L_z, say). I can't remember how 'spin' fits into things, though ...
[*]Pedantry: Yes, I know Heisenberg talked about matrices, Schrodinger about operators.
According to Weebl (the creator), you shouldn't link to badgerbadgerbadger.com any more (there's some dispute involving ad revenue going on). Use www.badgerx3.com
(The news post relating to this seems to have slipped off Weebl's front page now - use the "goto page" links at the bottom to find it, or read the forum thread)
Yes it does
Yes, 'cause if there's one place we should dump an all-consuming singularity, it's in the middle of our most important source of heat, light and food (via photosynthesis). At least we'll have a backup source, namely ... er, the fusion research station we just fired into the sun. Fuck.
My guess would be something like the following:
But what about women who are interested in CS, but are intimidated away from it because they see it as male-dominated? What about men who would enjoy nursing, but are afraid of the stigma (real or imagined) attached to male nurses?
Sure, don't try to force a 50:50 ratio no matter what, but it's good to encourage the breaking of badstereotypes, so people don't feel the need to take crap like that into account when chossing a career.
All Your Booms are Belong to Us?