Your statement that it requires one to give the source to anyone who gets the binary is INCORRECT.
Clause 3(b) of the GPL requires you to give the source to ANY third party (emphasis added). "Any third party" means any third party, whether they got the binary or not.
And you explicitly do NOT need to pay the scumbag's $3.99 binary fee before you can get his source.
Most of the airplanes in airline service do not carry anywhere near 250 people, and most of the legs flown are nowhere near 4 hours duration (door close to door open).
Embraer ERJ-145 carries 50 passengers. There are a LOT of ERJ-145s flying, and they are nowhere near the smallest of the regional jets.
Boeing 737 carries anywhere from 85 to 215 passengers. It is one of the most popular transport airplanes on Earth.
For historical perspective: Boeing 707 carried 140 to 189 passengers. As of 2011, there were still 10 airplanes in airline service. (Boeing builds good airplanes.)
McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 variants seat from 130 to 172 passengers. There are a LOT of these puppies flying, despite being older and more fuel-hungry.
Also note that there are two pilots in the front office on every flight. (If it is a long over-water flight, there will be more, and they'll rotate in and out of the cockpit, so that the guy (or gal) landing the airplane after 13 hours in the air is not exhausted.)
I originally came across the Pentel Slicci 0.4 mm in the stationery department in Tokyu department store, in MBK center, in Bangkok, Thailand. I bought a few then. I have since stocked up by mail order.
The line is as fine as a Pilot Razor Point, but not scratchy, and the tip is a ball tip as opposed to the Razor Point's fiber element, which can be broken if you drop it on a hard floor.
As far as I know, the Slicci is not available retail in the United States. Mail order through the Web, or eBay, seem to be your only options. (Or fly to Bangkok...)
They also make a 0.25 mm version, but I find that the line from that one is too faint and it feels scratchy.
No, web browsing will not benefit significantly from multicore. The vast majority of the slowdown in web browsing is downloading and running gigabytes and gigabytes of Flash garbage animations and TV ads. AND YOU CAN'T STOP OR PAUSE THE ADS!
This is not hypothetical. I bought a new machine earlier this year. It browsed like a bat out of hell with its tailfeathers on fire... until ONE SITE I thought I needed to hit that day demanded I enable Flash. The moment I turned Flash on, all web browsing on that machine slowed to a crawl.
The story goes that, when DC sued Marvel over Captain Marvel allegedly infringing on Superman, Marvel responded by having a villain take out either copyright or patent on the letters A-Z, and then sue anybody who tried to write or print anything without paying royalties first.
BASIC was developed by Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth to make computer programming accessible to students. It was designed to be easy to use on the machines at that time.
The original implementation was actually compiler-based, integrated with an editor. Today you'd call it an integrated development environment. Interpreter implementations came later.
Sura 9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the Ist, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun (see V.2:105) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), and give Zakat, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(I do not think you can argue with the word "kill" here.)
Sura 9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
(A case may possibly be made that "fight" here should be considered as "struggle", implying nonviolence. Given the apparent propensity of Islam for violent means, I tend to doubt that much credence could be given to such a case. And of course see Sura 9:5, supra.)
There are also explicit commands against poisoning wells, and against killing noncombatants. Women and children are defined in the Koran as noncombatants, and off limits. However, these attacks are aimed directly at female children.
There's a big difference between contingency planning (and wargaming, and practice) and cranking up the War Machine in earnest.
By the middle of 1941, the US was cranking up the War Machine, for real, to go into Europe. What I read in "Popular Science" from that period didn't indicate whether they also expected trouble from Japan in the same timeframe.
Sura 9 of the Koran, the last Sura dictated by the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh, and all that) and hence not subject to revision or qualification by later Suras, seems to call for killing of infidels, in pretty explicit language, repeatedly.
I don't have time to dig out the exact quotes right now. Maybe tonight.
The US was planning to enter World War II, and advance preparations were well underway, long before the Japanese carriers launched their airplanes. This is obvious from reading the popular press of the time.
Pearl Harbor pulled the trigger. At that point, a contingency plan for fighting simultaneous major wars in Europe and the Pacific was pulled off the shelf and put into operation. That plan called for fighting holding actions in the Pacific, winning in Europe, then winning in the Pacific. Perusal of the history books will reveal that this strategy worked.
I believe I first saw this in the late Robert Heinlein's "Take Back Your Government!" (edited by Jerry Pournelle). One physical letter is worth 10 phone calls. 1 phone call means that the Congresscritter has about ten constituents who feel the same way, This means that one physical letter means as many as 100 people ready to vote against that Congresscritter if the Congresscritter votes wrong.
If you are trying to influence a particular vote, TELEPHONE. Be polite. Large numbers of phone calls to Congresscritters have changed history in the past. Read up on the impact of the L5 Societ phone tree on the proposed Moon treaty. If you are expressing general concerns, write, on paper, and put a stamp on it. The six weeks anti-anthrax delay means it will take a while, but your concerns will still be there, and you will still tell him/her that there are 99 other Folks Back Home who agree with you.
It is a repeat of a story that happened decades earlier at IBM, back when Watson was running the company. The hapless salesman had just cost the company MILLIONS of dollars, when millions of dollars was still real money. He expected to be fired. Supposedly, Watson said something like "I can't afford to fire you now, not after spending millions of dollars on your education!"
On May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy committed the United States of America to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth, by the end of the decade (1970). On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins lifted off from Cape Kennedy. Four days later, Neil and Buzz landed the "Eagle" in the Sea of Tranquility. When Kennedy made that speech, the experts in the field were convinced he was out of his mind: the United States had not yet put a man in orbit. (John Glenn, Mercury-Atlas 6, 20 Feb 1962. Wikipedia has its uses sometimes.) It was at that time known that men COULD be put in orbit and recovered safely (Yuri Gagarin, 12 April 1961), but that was about it.
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States Navy, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. V-J day was August 15, 1945. (There was this small matter in Europe that had to be handled first.) Take a look sometime at the number of new airplanes that were developed, flown, and fielded in quantity during those four years. Take a look at the electronics development that took place.
"Killer asteroid" has been DONE. "Lucifer's Hammer", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, "Footfall", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, "Anvil", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [FORTHCOMING: they're writing it right now]. "Lucifer's Hammer" is a natural disaster. "Footfall" was an alien invasion, and they started the invasion by softening the planet up with a great big rock.
For that matter, see also "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Robert A. Heinlein, for technical details about throwing big rocks at the Earth, from the Moon.
I believe the late G. Harry Stine wrote something about this, possibly under a pseudonym. I remember seeing at least one short story on the subject, by someone else.
It has been done. Fredric Brown, "Expedition". The first Mars expedition was selected by random drawing. It came out 1 man, 29 women. When the second expedition arrived, they discovered that the population had doubled: all of the women had children, and one had twins. I'm not going to tell you the punchline; you have to read the story yourself.
Maybe, maybe not. They might not have the current manufacturing capability, but I would NOT bet on them not having the technical expertise.
Iran used to send large numbers of students to the best engineering and hard science schools in the United States. UT Austin had a pretty big contingent (and they were ALWAYS in the news, protesting one thing or another).
Range, refuel/recharge time, payload, and cruising speed are the critical parameters for any transportation system.
Range, because people sometimes want/need to go farther than down to the corner drugstore, or across town to work and back home. Not too many years ago, I was routinely driving daily round trips between West Fort Worth TX and North Central Dallas, moving from one apartment to the other. It was easier for me to do several trips in an old station wagon, than pack everything and call movers. There were also periods where I was driving from DFW to Austin (about 180 miles) every Friday evening and driving back on Sunday.
Refuel/recharge time, because people sometimes want/need to go WAYYY farther than down to the corner drugstore or across town to work and back. Some years back, I had to drive from Dallas to Colorado Springs, stay three months, and drive back. A few years ago, I drove from Austin to Huntsville AL (700+ miles, according to the airline). If you can refuel quickly, that's a long one-day drive. If you refuel overnight, after 100 miles, that's a week of travel time.
Cruising speed, because people sometimes need to go quite a ways in a reasonable amount of time.
Payload, because people sometimes need to haul a fair amount of stuff along with them, when they drive quite a bit farther than down to the corner drugstore or across town to work and back. Some guys have to be able to haul girlfriends and SCUBA gear for two people. (I know, this is Slashdot, but there is a Real World out there...)
OK, you appear to be warning us that a predator that preys on species A, B, and C will die out if species A vanishes, allowing species B and C to reproduce like crazy.
I fail to understand your apparent reasoning that the predator that preys on species A, B, and C will not simply eat more B and C if A goes extinct.
Certainly the predators of the passenger pigeon and the dodo did not go extinct when they did.
Back when the Apple II was state of the art, the official Apple II user's manual contained, among other things, full schematics *AND* everything a third party developer needed to know to build boards that would plug into the Apple II slots.
In an interview several years later, after he'd left Apple, Steve Wozniak expressed considerable dismay over the switch to closed hardware and no hardware documentation at Apple.
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Are you certain you have read the GPL?
Your statement that it requires one to give the source to anyone who gets the binary is INCORRECT.
Clause 3(b) of the GPL requires you to give the source to ANY third party (emphasis added). "Any third party" means any third party, whether they got the binary or not.
And you explicitly do NOT need to pay the scumbag's $3.99 binary fee before you can get his source.
Most of the airplanes in airline service do not carry anywhere near 250 people, and most of the legs flown are nowhere near 4 hours duration (door close to door open).
Embraer ERJ-145 carries 50 passengers. There are a LOT of ERJ-145s flying, and they are nowhere near the smallest of the regional jets.
Boeing 737 carries anywhere from 85 to 215 passengers. It is one of the most popular transport airplanes on Earth.
For historical perspective: Boeing 707 carried 140 to 189 passengers. As of 2011, there were still 10 airplanes in airline service. (Boeing builds good airplanes.)
McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 variants seat from 130 to 172 passengers. There are a LOT of these puppies flying, despite being older and more fuel-hungry.
Also note that there are two pilots in the front office on every flight. (If it is a long over-water flight, there will be more, and they'll rotate in and out of the cockpit, so that the guy (or gal) landing the airplane after 13 hours in the air is not exhausted.)
I originally came across the Pentel Slicci 0.4 mm in the stationery department in Tokyu department store, in MBK center, in Bangkok, Thailand. I bought a few then. I have since stocked up by mail order.
The line is as fine as a Pilot Razor Point, but not scratchy, and the tip is a ball tip as opposed to the Razor Point's fiber element, which can be broken if you drop it on a hard floor.
As far as I know, the Slicci is not available retail in the United States. Mail order through the Web, or eBay, seem to be your only options. (Or fly to Bangkok...)
They also make a 0.25 mm version, but I find that the line from that one is too faint and it feels scratchy.
No, web browsing will not benefit significantly from multicore. The vast majority of the slowdown in web browsing is downloading and running gigabytes and gigabytes of Flash garbage animations and TV ads. AND YOU CAN'T STOP OR PAUSE THE ADS!
This is not hypothetical. I bought a new machine earlier this year. It browsed like a bat out of hell with its tailfeathers on fire ... until ONE SITE I thought I needed to hit that day demanded I enable Flash. The moment I turned Flash on, all web browsing on that machine slowed to a crawl.
Supposedly, it has been DONE.
The story goes that, when DC sued Marvel over Captain Marvel allegedly infringing on Superman, Marvel responded by having a villain take out either copyright or patent on the letters A-Z, and then sue anybody who tried to write or print anything without paying royalties first.
Stratfor annual subscription is US$349/year, according to their website as of a few minutes ago.
I think that's about 3.5x what I used to pay for my Av Leak subscription, which I dropped a long time ago.
Something needs to be pointed out, quite loudly.
The REASON that "We didn't learn for years..." is that the containment structure WORKED AS DESIGNED. It contained the melt.
Sorry, but this is factually incorrect.
BASIC was developed by Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth to make computer programming accessible to students. It was designed to be easy to use on the machines at that time.
The original implementation was actually compiler-based, integrated with an editor. Today you'd call it an integrated development environment. Interpreter implementations came later.
OK. From http://www.dar-us-salam.com/TheNobleQuran/index.html:
Sura 9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the Ist, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun (see V.2:105) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), and give Zakat, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(I do not think you can argue with the word "kill" here.)
Sura 9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
(A case may possibly be made that "fight" here should be considered as "struggle", implying nonviolence. Given the apparent propensity of Islam for violent means, I tend to doubt that much credence could be given to such a case. And of course see Sura 9:5, supra.)
There are also explicit commands against poisoning wells, and against killing noncombatants. Women and children are defined in the Koran as noncombatants, and off limits. However, these attacks are aimed directly at female children.
There's a big difference between contingency planning (and wargaming, and practice) and cranking up the War Machine in earnest.
By the middle of 1941, the US was cranking up the War Machine, for real, to go into Europe. What I read in "Popular Science" from that period didn't indicate whether they also expected trouble from Japan in the same timeframe.
Really?
Sura 9 of the Koran, the last Sura dictated by the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh, and all that) and hence not subject to revision or qualification by later Suras, seems to call for killing of infidels, in pretty explicit language, repeatedly.
I don't have time to dig out the exact quotes right now. Maybe tonight.
Yes and no.
The US was planning to enter World War II, and advance preparations were well underway, long before the Japanese carriers launched their airplanes. This is obvious from reading the popular press of the time.
Pearl Harbor pulled the trigger. At that point, a contingency plan for fighting simultaneous major wars in Europe and the Pacific was pulled off the shelf and put into operation. That plan called for fighting holding actions in the Pacific, winning in Europe, then winning in the Pacific. Perusal of the history books will reveal that this strategy worked.
I believe I first saw this in the late Robert Heinlein's "Take Back Your Government!" (edited by Jerry Pournelle). One physical letter is worth 10 phone calls. 1 phone call means that the Congresscritter has about ten constituents who feel the same way, This means that one physical letter means as many as 100 people ready to vote against that Congresscritter if the Congresscritter votes wrong.
If you are trying to influence a particular vote, TELEPHONE. Be polite. Large numbers of phone calls to Congresscritters have changed history in the past. Read up on the impact of the L5 Societ phone tree on the proposed Moon treaty. If you are expressing general concerns, write, on paper, and put a stamp on it. The six weeks anti-anthrax delay means it will take a while, but your concerns will still be there, and you will still tell him/her that there are 99 other Folks Back Home who agree with you.
That may or may not have happened at Microsoft.
It is a repeat of a story that happened decades earlier at IBM, back when Watson was running the company. The hapless salesman had just cost the company MILLIONS of dollars, when millions of dollars was still real money. He expected to be fired. Supposedly, Watson said something like "I can't afford to fire you now, not after spending millions of dollars on your education!"
Argon is extremely narcotic, far more so than nitrogen. This makes it something you REALLY don't want to use in a breathing mix.
However, it has better thermal properties than air, which is why serious divers use it to inflate their drysuits.
On May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy committed the United States of America to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth, by the end of the decade (1970). On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins lifted off from Cape Kennedy. Four days later, Neil and Buzz landed the "Eagle" in the Sea of Tranquility. When Kennedy made that speech, the experts in the field were convinced he was out of his mind: the United States had not yet put a man in orbit. (John Glenn, Mercury-Atlas 6, 20 Feb 1962. Wikipedia has its uses sometimes.) It was at that time known that men COULD be put in orbit and recovered safely (Yuri Gagarin, 12 April 1961), but that was about it.
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States Navy, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. V-J day was August 15, 1945. (There was this small matter in Europe that had to be handled first.) Take a look sometime at the number of new airplanes that were developed, flown, and fielded in quantity during those four years. Take a look at the electronics development that took place.
Eight years is longer than you realize.
"Killer asteroid" has been DONE. "Lucifer's Hammer", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, "Footfall", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, "Anvil", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [FORTHCOMING: they're writing it right now]. "Lucifer's Hammer" is a natural disaster. "Footfall" was an alien invasion, and they started the invasion by softening the planet up with a great big rock.
For that matter, see also "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Robert A. Heinlein, for technical details about throwing big rocks at the Earth, from the Moon.
"The Gold at the Starbow's End", Frederick Pohl, 1972.
I believe the late G. Harry Stine wrote something about this, possibly under a pseudonym. I remember seeing at least one short story on the subject, by someone else.
It has been done. Fredric Brown, "Expedition". The first Mars expedition was selected by random drawing. It came out 1 man, 29 women. When the second expedition arrived, they discovered that the population had doubled: all of the women had children, and one had twins. I'm not going to tell you the punchline; you have to read the story yourself.
Maybe, maybe not. They might not have the current manufacturing capability, but I would NOT bet on them not having the technical expertise.
Iran used to send large numbers of students to the best engineering and hard science schools in the United States. UT Austin had a pretty big contingent (and they were ALWAYS in the news, protesting one thing or another).
Range, refuel/recharge time, payload, and cruising speed are the critical parameters for any transportation system.
Range, because people sometimes want/need to go farther than down to the corner drugstore, or across town to work and back home. Not too many years ago, I was routinely driving daily round trips between West Fort Worth TX and North Central Dallas, moving from one apartment to the other. It was easier for me to do several trips in an old station wagon, than pack everything and call movers. There were also periods where I was driving from DFW to Austin (about 180 miles) every Friday evening and driving back on Sunday.
Refuel/recharge time, because people sometimes want/need to go WAYYY farther than down to the corner drugstore or across town to work and back. Some years back, I had to drive from Dallas to Colorado Springs, stay three months, and drive back. A few years ago, I drove from Austin to Huntsville AL (700+ miles, according to the airline). If you can refuel quickly, that's a long one-day drive. If you refuel overnight, after 100 miles, that's a week of travel time.
Cruising speed, because people sometimes need to go quite a ways in a reasonable amount of time.
Payload, because people sometimes need to haul a fair amount of stuff along with them, when they drive quite a bit farther than down to the corner drugstore or across town to work and back. Some guys have to be able to haul girlfriends and SCUBA gear for two people. (I know, this is Slashdot, but there is a Real World out there...)
OK, you appear to be warning us that a predator that preys on species A, B, and C will die out if species A vanishes, allowing species B and C to reproduce like crazy.
I fail to understand your apparent reasoning that the predator that preys on species A, B, and C will not simply eat more B and C if A goes extinct.
Certainly the predators of the passenger pigeon and the dodo did not go extinct when they did.
There are places in the world today where eradication of mosquitoes would definitely be seen as a Good Thing.
Malaria, sleeping sickness, ...
Back when the Apple II was state of the art, the official Apple II user's manual contained, among other things, full schematics *AND* everything a third party developer needed to know to build boards that would plug into the Apple II slots.
In an interview several years later, after he'd left Apple, Steve Wozniak expressed considerable dismay over the switch to closed hardware and no hardware documentation at Apple.