The problem is treating Linux on the desktop the same as Linux everywhere. I can run Linux off a floppy on a 386 or on a thousand-node GRID supercomputer costing millions - or anything inbetween.
LSB is a Good Idea as it lets commercial developers release binaries that Just Fucking Work on a machine that would otherwise be running Windows XP. People releasing software for low-MHz devices or massive parallel processing systems will not be releasing MS Word replacements and accepting LSB as a global standard allows them to build for LSB instead of "Linux and some libs we hope you have".
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I was in Saudi about a decade ago and it was a legal requirement for all cars to be fitted with pseudo-speed limiters - if you went over the highway speed limit it would issue an incredibly annoying BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. It didn't physically limit the speed, perhaps because the lawmakers realised the occaisonal necessity of speeding, probably because the average Saudi driver takes it as an Allah-given right to drive like Dale Earnhardt on acid.
There was nothing in the law about the device being operational, merely present, so everyone used to disconnect the device the 99% of the time the car wasn't being serviced.
Won't happen. DC is a pain to transmit over non-trivial distances and is lethal at much lower voltages than AC - indeed at ultra-high frequencies it's possible to not notice an AC shock as it's contained in the layer of skin above nerves.
If it's too restrictive legitimate uses of phone-home software could be rendered illegal. I don't think anyone wants commercial software checking the validity of its licence key over the internet to be outlawed, for example.
The few Sun workstations we had went two years ago. The servers that run busy NFS and mail systems, on the other hand, are alive and kicking; they seem to be pretty reliable too. Evidence of a focus shift?
iPods are mass market devices and so their software/firmware caters for that. Just because most people on slashdot keep their mp3s organised and so find it easier to use drag-and-drop doesn't mean Apple's target market do.
Any minute now someone's going to boast about using WorldWideWeb on a greyscale NeXT, one of the alpha builds, yeah, so unstable it was like running an earthquake, I filed the tenth bug report, etc.
"Colours? What next? Some glorified scripting language that freezes your computer for ten seconds every time its plugin loads?"
No, it's a real-time OS that can run Linux binaries. Linux isn't really a real-time OS, although there's been a lot of hackery recently to change this.
I believe that's a loss leader, just like razor blades - they don't mind dropping a few bucks on the initial sale as they can rake it in from licence fees when the customers start buying games.
There's a way to transcode that keeps the same end waveform (well, almost) but just changes the file format - once you've extracted the frequency components for a particular frame in the original file you make sure those exact same components go into the respective frame in the output file.
Depending on the way the format stores the components the output file could have a significantly different size, and some artifacting is unavoidable if the formats are radically different (e.g. mp3 uses ints whereas oggs use floats, casting betwen the two datatypes usually results in some fudging, not to mention the different transformation algorithms they use to convert the waveform into frequency components).
However, it's still possible to transcode from one format to another with no loss of quality, at the possible expense of huge files.
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Actually "It Just Works" was a slogan MS were using to describe Windows XP at one point. Four years ago if this is any measure.
I don't mind my privacy being violated as I'm far too lazy to actually bookmark things I want to visit again.
This is really true.
The problem is treating Linux on the desktop the same as Linux everywhere. I can run Linux off a floppy on a 386 or on a thousand-node GRID supercomputer costing millions - or anything inbetween.
LSB is a Good Idea as it lets commercial developers release binaries that Just Fucking Work on a machine that would otherwise be running Windows XP. People releasing software for low-MHz devices or massive parallel processing systems will not be releasing MS Word replacements and accepting LSB as a global standard allows them to build for LSB instead of "Linux and some libs we hope you have".
You can release code you own the copyright to under any licence you want to. That's what "copyright" means.
Read the FAQ!
How much does it cost?
Google is not charging users to send a query or receive results at this time. However, your mobile operator's standard rates for sending and receiving text messages still apply.
We've also got Google SMS now, which is actually useful.
Your computer may be broadcasting an IP ADDRESS!!!
127.0.0.1, in this case!
I hope one of the new gospels has something that will really get the Bible-thumpers in a rage.
Something like "Thou shalt not discriminate against gays", or "Thou shalt not fuck around with elections".
I was in Saudi about a decade ago and it was a legal requirement for all cars to be fitted with pseudo-speed limiters - if you went over the highway speed limit it would issue an incredibly annoying BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. It didn't physically limit the speed, perhaps because the lawmakers realised the occaisonal necessity of speeding, probably because the average Saudi driver takes it as an Allah-given right to drive like Dale Earnhardt on acid.
There was nothing in the law about the device being operational, merely present, so everyone used to disconnect the device the 99% of the time the car wasn't being serviced.
Won't happen. DC is a pain to transmit over non-trivial distances and is lethal at much lower voltages than AC - indeed at ultra-high frequencies it's possible to not notice an AC shock as it's contained in the layer of skin above nerves.
If it's too restrictive legitimate uses of phone-home software could be rendered illegal. I don't think anyone wants commercial software checking the validity of its licence key over the internet to be outlawed, for example.
The few Sun workstations we had went two years ago. The servers that run busy NFS and mail systems, on the other hand, are alive and kicking; they seem to be pretty reliable too. Evidence of a focus shift?
BASH? What does the B stand for?
iPods are mass market devices and so their software/firmware caters for that. Just because most people on slashdot keep their mp3s organised and so find it easier to use drag-and-drop doesn't mean Apple's target market do.
He'd be too busy filing for bankruptcy.
This paper was recently accepted as a "non-reviewed" paper!
So... no-one organising the conference has actually read it? Anything would've gotten through in that case. Even slashdot trolls.
Any minute now someone's going to boast about using WorldWideWeb on a greyscale NeXT, one of the alpha builds, yeah, so unstable it was like running an earthquake, I filed the tenth bug report, etc.
"Colours? What next? Some glorified scripting language that freezes your computer for ten seconds every time its plugin loads?"
Who'd really be stupid enough to fake a judge's signature?
Yeah man that'd be a TOTALLY original thing to do!
Yeah, they do have more Nobel prize winners per capita than any other nation. Dismissing them as some Communist backwater is a gross underestimation.
No, it's a real-time OS that can run Linux binaries. Linux isn't really a real-time OS, although there's been a lot of hackery recently to change this.
I believe that's a loss leader, just like razor blades - they don't mind dropping a few bucks on the initial sale as they can rake it in from licence fees when the customers start buying games.
I read it as porncorn
There's a way to transcode that keeps the same end waveform (well, almost) but just changes the file format - once you've extracted the frequency components for a particular frame in the original file you make sure those exact same components go into the respective frame in the output file.
Depending on the way the format stores the components the output file could have a significantly different size, and some artifacting is unavoidable if the formats are radically different (e.g. mp3 uses ints whereas oggs use floats, casting betwen the two datatypes usually results in some fudging, not to mention the different transformation algorithms they use to convert the waveform into frequency components).
However, it's still possible to transcode from one format to another with no loss of quality, at the possible expense of huge files.
Yes, all the high-availability, high-demand servers here are Sun boxes. They're pricey but very reliable and extremely well supported.