What about the Moon (which is larger than Pluto)? Shall we relabel the Earth/Moon system as double planet? Of course that would be nice for NASA, because in that case they already sent humans to another planet!:-)
What that translates to in this case is that not classifying it to accept both conditions (planet and non-planet) is a classification in and of itself - as "unclassified". Either it's classified or its not. See how the either-or emerges?
But if you classify it as unclassified, then isn't it both classified (namely as unclassified) and unclassified (because that's what it is classified as)?
I guess a solar flare large enough to melt ice at 97 AU (distance Sun-Xena) would probably melt stone at 1 AU (our distance to sun). Or more likely, evaporate it. So *poof*, no more Earth as well.
And I think your parent poster did understand that, but used it to add his own joke, asserting that "the worst editor known to mankind" unambiguously has to refer to vi.
Well, calling edlin a text editor is a bit far fetched anyway. It is program which was intended for tasks which would better be done with a text editor.:-)
I wonder how long it will be that this technology will be used in creative ways. E.g. if every digital camera has this stuff (including monitoring cameras, because after all you could buy such a camera and mis-use it for producing illegal copies), then you could make a "cloak of digital invisibility" by just printing a VEIL pattern on it. Any camera which would record you will instead just deactivate themselves...
Well, IANAL, but I think as long as those programs are not involved with any DRM stuff (i.e. part of the DRM subsystem or communicating with it), there's no restriction. Otherwise it would mean you e.g. cannot run a bash on a computer with a graphics card which supports encrypted HDTV (even if you don't have a driver supporting this feature of the card).
Don't forget, unlike the Windows "market", the Linux market is a real, working market. That is, consumers have the choice, and therefore the power. You don't want Linux with DRM? Then get another one without DRM. If there's demand for such a Linux distro, there will be supply for it. And if there isn't demand for Linux with DRM, those distros will simply die (or drop DRM).
And of course, even if there came a new generation of sound cards with built-in encryption, as soon as it leaves the speaker in the form of sound waves, there's no DRM left. Just put a microphone there and record it. Or is there something like VEIL also planned for audio?
Does that mean we can expect the probe to detect a large goatee on the surface?
It will not be seen on the pictures because it has a VEIL pattern all over it, and therefore the cameras will switch themselves off as soon as it would be in the image.
But why not just use the ordinary integer number sequence for your poems? It has the big advantage that your lines do not get too big even if you use a few more lines.
Oh no! How could that happen? I am sure I did originally start with the number twenty-one, but while I did count syllables, I somehow managed to mutilate the twenty-one into twenty-three in my head. But this time I think my poem is correct, although it may still be that I miscounted the syllables of the English words when writing it.
That is nothing against this poem which you are currently reading. It is just one line because it is about a single integer. You know it, don't you? I bet it!
Beat? You? Maybe. Anyway, I can do better by using up Fibonaccis up to a larger number than just your tiny eight. Indeed, my poem even gets up to a Fibonacci number as high as twenty-three!
Some example of a non-obvious way to make Linux look bad would be, if instead of telling the correct, straightforward and perfectly working way to solve a problem, to tell a partially working, instable, complicated way. Or to offer proprietary helper programs to achieve what you want (of course to use in a cumbersome way), instead of telling how to get it working directly under Linux. Or telling to do changes which destabilize the system (say, telling them to install alpha drivers, when there would be perfectly working stable drivers). You see, it's quite easy to harm a system by providing "support" for it.
Of course not. Just as in the days of Windows vs. OS/2 it was surely pure coincidence that NTFS got exactly the same partition type number that HPFS already had. And of course in the even older days, the warning you got when running Windows on top of DR-DOS was just to secure the customers, after all, if MS didn't make the DOS, how could they guarantee that Windows ran correctly on top of it?
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No, half a bit is obviously a system which has sqrt(2) different states, because two of them together have two different states.
What about the Moon (which is larger than Pluto)? Shall we relabel the Earth/Moon system as double planet? :-)
Of course that would be nice for NASA, because in that case they already sent humans to another planet!
But if you classify it as unclassified, then isn't it both classified (namely as unclassified) and unclassified (because that's what it is classified as)?
Everyone here should understand "\"".
I guess a solar flare large enough to melt ice at 97 AU (distance Sun-Xena) would probably melt stone at 1 AU (our distance to sun). Or more likely, evaporate it. So *poof*, no more Earth as well.
Or Persephone.
Aliasing?
Like coLinux?
And I think your parent poster did understand that, but used it to add his own joke, asserting that "the worst editor known to mankind" unambiguously has to refer to vi.
:-)
Well, calling edlin a text editor is a bit far fetched anyway. It is program which was intended for tasks which would better be done with a text editor.
I wonder how long it will be that this technology will be used in creative ways. E.g. if every digital camera has this stuff (including monitoring cameras, because after all you could buy such a camera and mis-use it for producing illegal copies), then you could make a "cloak of digital invisibility" by just printing a VEIL pattern on it. Any camera which would record you will instead just deactivate themselves ...
Well, IANAL, but I think as long as those programs are not involved with any DRM stuff (i.e. part of the DRM subsystem or communicating with it), there's no restriction. Otherwise it would mean you e.g. cannot run a bash on a computer with a graphics card which supports encrypted HDTV (even if you don't have a driver supporting this feature of the card).
Or simply to use another distribution.
Don't forget, unlike the Windows "market", the Linux market is a real, working market. That is, consumers have the choice, and therefore the power. You don't want Linux with DRM? Then get another one without DRM. If there's demand for such a Linux distro, there will be supply for it. And if there isn't demand for Linux with DRM, those distros will simply die (or drop DRM).
And of course, even if there came a new generation of sound cards with built-in encryption, as soon as it leaves the speaker in the form of sound waves, there's no DRM left. Just put a microphone there and record it. Or is there something like VEIL also planned for audio?
It will not be seen on the pictures because it has a VEIL pattern all over it, and therefore the cameras will switch themselves off as soon as it would be in the image.
You might have payed those royalties as part of buying your CD burner and/or your CD-R. I don't know, but I could imagine it.
But
why not
just use the
ordinary
integer number
sequence for your poems?
It has the big advantage
that your lines do not get too big
even if you use a few more lines.
Oh, :-)
yes,
indeed,
however
you should really note
that "funny" has two syllables!
But do not worry, I made my share of errors, too.
Oh
no!
How could
that happen?
I am sure I did
originally start with the
number twenty-one, but while I did count syllables,
I somehow managed to mutilate the twenty-one into twenty-three in my head.
But this time I think my poem is correct, although it may still be that I miscounted the syllables of the English words when writing it.
Of :-)
course
rabbits
which read or
post on Slashdot will
never find someone to hump with,
so here this topic is clearly just academic.
Shit,
this
poem
is faulty.
Just pretend
that in that poem
"business" has just one syllable!
Business
plan:
First: write
a poem
on Fibonacci.
Second: row of three question marks
Third: profit which is followed by exclamation mark.
And
also:
In North
Korea
Only old people
write poems with Fibonaccis.
But
the
question
is of course:
do Fibonacci
poems run on Linux systems?
Did
I
miss some
more of the
obligatory
Fibonacci poems? Of course!
I
just
hope that
I did not
mis-count anywhere.
That is nothing against this poem which you are currently reading. It is just one line because it is about a single integer. You know it, don't you? I bet it!
Beat?
You?
Maybe.
Anyway,
I can do better
by using up Fibonaccis
up to a larger number than just your tiny eight.
Indeed, my poem even gets up to a Fibonacci number as high as twenty-three!
Some example of a non-obvious way to make Linux look bad would be, if instead of telling the correct, straightforward and perfectly working way to solve a problem, to tell a partially working, instable, complicated way. Or to offer proprietary helper programs to achieve what you want (of course to use in a cumbersome way), instead of telling how to get it working directly under Linux. Or telling to do changes which destabilize the system (say, telling them to install alpha drivers, when there would be perfectly working stable drivers). You see, it's quite easy to harm a system by providing "support" for it.
Of course not. Just as in the days of Windows vs. OS/2 it was surely pure coincidence that NTFS got exactly the same partition type number that HPFS already had. And of course in the even older days, the warning you got when running Windows on top of DR-DOS was just to secure the customers, after all, if MS didn't make the DOS, how could they guarantee that Windows ran correctly on top of it?