Well, if compression time matters depends on how you intend to use it. If you want to have compression on the fly, you certainly care about compression speed. OTOH if you just want to build up an archive and put it up for download, compression speed is of course largely irrelevant. Also in some situation decompression speed might be largely irrelevant, e.g. say you are sending data over an extremely slow link (in which case a better compression rate will save you more time than a faster algorithm, however in that case you would care if decompression may already start before you received the whole file).
Well, a true Darwinian scheduler would have to measure user happyness. Linux kernels all around the net would share and try different scheduling policies. Then they measure the happyness of the user. The algorithms running on the machines with the most happy users get an evolutionary advantage.
Possible explanation: More people know about Linux now, so there's less need to Google to learn about it. Alternative explanation: People have less problems now using Linux, so they google less for solutions on Linux problems. Third explanation: Linux documentation got substantially better, so people have less need to use Google as a substitute. Fourth explanation: The larger density of Linux installations comes with a larger density of Linux experts, so people are more likely to consult their local Linux guru than Google.
Pick your favorite choice or make up yet another explanation.
Yes, those explanations are all completely made up, but so was the explanation you had in mind.
Can I patent a fictional plot if I phrase the application so that it's a part of a physical device for conveying a story?
You mean, like a certain arrangement of pits on a DVD, causing the playing of that DVD to show a movie based on that plot? Maybe you should also add a claim for specific arrangements of color particles on Celluloid generating that same plot. Oh, and the arrangement of ink, toner or other colored material on paper or other surfaces to form an arrangement of letters which, when read, results in a story following that plot.
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Amazon lawyers, please note: parent AC is a different AC than the crazy "JB is a pedo" poster. Well, which pus up the question how you can know that. The obvious solutions are that you are either the parent AC or the crazy "KB is a pedo" poster. If you had been the parent AC, you could have noted the difference directly in that parent post. Therefore I conclude you're the crazy "KB is a pedo" poster.:-)
OTOH they are still occasionally burdened by the -1 cursed blue screen of death. I'm not sure if they still read every scroll of attachment, though, which is bad because a lot of them are cursed as well.
Well, given that this theory has 3 time dimensions, you'll have to specify a three-dimensional waiting time. As in: "We will deliver in about 30 minutes t-time, 15 minutes u-time, and 40 minutes v-time."
In the 6-dimensional version presumably it would simply be a curve in this 6-space.
I'm not sure about this: Conventional movement means that you have a mapping from one-dimensional time to 3-dimensional space, which means that in 4-dimensional spacetime you get a one-dimensional manifold (i.e. a curve). The obvious generalization to three time dimensions would be that you have a mapping from three-dimensional time to three-dimensional space, which in six-dimensional spacetime would result in a three-dimensional manifold.
OTOH this is generalized directly from the classical description. Probably the right thing to do would be to formulate a quantum field theory in (3,3)-spacetime, and then take the classical limit.
In Soviet Ubuntu, apt gets you? Well, from the article: this version of Ubuntu will not include any video footage unless it also includes either the source content or access to the source content. Well, the source content of a video is whatever was filmed. So better make sure you're not on a video distributed with Ubuntu.:-)
Cookies aren't reliable, because people clear them.
That's not the only reason. If you surf the same site from work and from home, you inevitably will be counted as two different users, no matter what you do with your cookies. I'm sure that alone will increase the user count of certain web sites by a high margin (I guess for Google it will probably mean an almost doubled user count). The same is true if you happen to have several computers, e.g. a desktop and a laptop, not sharing the browser data (which esp. for the desktop/laptop scenario is probable, since you'll want to use the laptop when away from home).
OTOH several persons using the same computer and not having separate user accounts will be counted as single person. I'm sure that especially for home installations this is not uncommon.
No, room 101 always has the worst for that particular person. Which means, for any true slashdotter, it will be filled with Windows machines DRMed to hell.
Well, we've already seen MRAM and FeRAM, both already in production. None of them seem to have replaced Flash or even DRAM yet. So what is it about PRAM that one should expect it to be different?
BTW, is there anywhere a concise table comparing the characteristics of different RAM technologies?
It means that you can create List and pass it to a legacy method which takes only unparameterized List.
Whether that is a useful compatibility mechanism or a fundamental weakness in the type system that defeats the entire point of generics is left as an exercise to the reader.
Especially since the summary states: "safer way than C++ templates" (why does virtually every text about Java add some C++ bashing?).
I'm still missing a nice corporate conspiracy theory in the list. What about the following:
Some company has developed some (as yet secret) new way (of course using some GM) to get plants that don't need pollination to carry fruits. Of course, such plants will be much more successful if they are presented as solution to a pressing problem. Thus the company is actively killing the bees.
What if I take some (mathematical) matrix, make a recording of me reading it aloud, and put the result on p2p under the name "The_Matrix.mpeg"? Will that system detect that it's not the movie?
Well, if you get such a letter, you better have a log file to show them it wasn't you. Of course, such log files can also be faked, but I guess you are in a much worse position if you can't show at least some evidence that it wasn't you.
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Well, if compression time matters depends on how you intend to use it. If you want to have compression on the fly, you certainly care about compression speed. OTOH if you just want to build up an archive and put it up for download, compression speed is of course largely irrelevant. Also in some situation decompression speed might be largely irrelevant, e.g. say you are sending data over an extremely slow link (in which case a better compression rate will save you more time than a faster algorithm, however in that case you would care if decompression may already start before you received the whole file).
Well, a true Darwinian scheduler would have to measure user happyness. Linux kernels all around the net would share and try different scheduling policies. Then they measure the happyness of the user. The algorithms running on the machines with the most happy users get an evolutionary advantage.
Possible explanation: More people know about Linux now, so there's less need to Google to learn about it.
Alternative explanation: People have less problems now using Linux, so they google less for solutions on Linux problems.
Third explanation: Linux documentation got substantially better, so people have less need to use Google as a substitute.
Fourth explanation: The larger density of Linux installations comes with a larger density of Linux experts, so people are more likely to consult their local Linux guru than Google.
Pick your favorite choice or make up yet another explanation.
Yes, those explanations are all completely made up, but so was the explanation you had in mind.
One ring to rule them all
If XAML is the problem, then what about Mozilla's XUL?
BTW, wouldn't a web site with separate HTML (content), CSS (form) and Javascript (function) be affected that patent as well?
You mean, like a certain arrangement of pits on a DVD, causing the playing of that DVD to show a movie based on that plot? Maybe you should also add a claim for specific arrangements of color particles on Celluloid generating that same plot. Oh, and the arrangement of ink, toner or other colored material on paper or other surfaces to form an arrangement of letters which, when read, results in a story following that plot.
In Soviet Russia, it failed you.
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Of course those two statements are no contradictory (although they also don't support each other). After all, people can control money they don't own.
OTOH they are still occasionally burdened by the -1 cursed blue screen of death. I'm not sure if they still read every scroll of attachment, though, which is bad because a lot of them are cursed as well.
Or maybe space simply has complex coordinates: X = x + i t, Y = y + i u, Z = z + i v.
ds^2 = dX^2 + dY^2 + dZ^2 = (dx + i dt)^2 + (dy + i du)^2 + (dz + i dv)^2 = dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - dt^2 - du^2 - dv^2 + 2i (dx dt + dy du + dz dv)
The real part is exactly the spacetime metric proposed here. The imaginary part might then have an as-yet unknown meaning.
Well, given that this theory has 3 time dimensions, you'll have to specify a three-dimensional waiting time. As in: "We will deliver in about 30 minutes t-time, 15 minutes u-time, and 40 minutes v-time."
I'm not sure about this: Conventional movement means that you have a mapping from one-dimensional time to 3-dimensional space, which means that in 4-dimensional spacetime you get a one-dimensional manifold (i.e. a curve). The obvious generalization to three time dimensions would be that you have a mapping from three-dimensional time to three-dimensional space, which in six-dimensional spacetime would result in a three-dimensional manifold.
OTOH this is generalized directly from the classical description. Probably the right thing to do would be to formulate a quantum field theory in (3,3)-spacetime, and then take the classical limit.
All major distributions (well, actually the distributors) except Debian are already selling it today.
Now about what's there to stop anyone from making it closed source: The GPL.
this version of Ubuntu will not include any video footage unless it also includes either the source content or access to the source content.
Well, the source content of a video is whatever was filmed. So better make sure you're not on a video distributed with Ubuntu.
That's not the only reason. If you surf the same site from work and from home, you inevitably will be counted as two different users, no matter what you do with your cookies. I'm sure that alone will increase the user count of certain web sites by a high margin (I guess for Google it will probably mean an almost doubled user count). The same is true if you happen to have several computers, e.g. a desktop and a laptop, not sharing the browser data (which esp. for the desktop/laptop scenario is probable, since you'll want to use the laptop when away from home).
OTOH several persons using the same computer and not having separate user accounts will be counted as single person. I'm sure that especially for home installations this is not uncommon.
No, room 101 always has the worst for that particular person. Which means, for any true slashdotter, it will be filled with Windows machines DRMed to hell.
Well, we've already seen MRAM and FeRAM, both already in production. None of them seem to have replaced Flash or even DRAM yet. So what is it about PRAM that one should expect it to be different?
BTW, is there anywhere a concise table comparing the characteristics of different RAM technologies?
Whether that is a useful compatibility mechanism or a fundamental weakness in the type system that defeats the entire point of generics is left as an exercise to the reader.
Especially since the summary states: "safer way than C++ templates" (why does virtually every text about Java add some C++ bashing?).I'm still missing a nice corporate conspiracy theory in the list. What about the following:
Some company has developed some (as yet secret) new way (of course using some GM) to get plants that don't need pollination to carry fruits. Of course, such plants will be much more successful if they are presented as solution to a pressing problem. Thus the company is actively killing the bees.
There's also no hair color distribution.
What if I take some (mathematical) matrix, make a recording of me reading it aloud, and put the result on p2p under the name "The_Matrix.mpeg"? Will that system detect that it's not the movie?
Well, if you get such a letter, you better have a log file to show them it wasn't you. Of course, such log files can also be faked, but I guess you are in a much worse position if you can't show at least some evidence that it wasn't you.
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