I won't take the time to include the links, but the term "GNU/Linux" strictly speaking means only the Kernel. Some interpret it to mean the Kernel plus any GPL software. In any case, I used the term "GNU/Linux Kernel" because I wanted to include the "GNU/" while still referring specifically to the kernel.
<flamebait> That's retarded! any links you could possibly find would be wrong since even
the GNU Project calls the kernel linux. </flamebait>
The linux kernel has nothing to do with GNU other than the fact that it can run GNU software and is released under the GPL.
The PageRank values assigned by Google are not susceptible to being proved true or false by objective evidence
Unfortunately, that's false
Actually, it's true. I believe google's argument here is that what they publish as PageRank is their own business. They can form PageRanks any way they want, for example by throwing printouts of the web pages down a flight of stairs. The fact that they form their opinions based on a mathematical formula is irrelevant. Google should be free to change it's PageRank algorithm in any way it sees fit to improve it as a measure of relevance. That's all they ever claimed PageRank was.
These days, although it hasn't always been the case, investors are much more likely to require at least a hope of profitability.
Also, I personally would like wi-fi to be profitable so that my vendor doesn't die, and I have a chance that my card and AP will be supported in the not too distant future
I believe the holdup was developing an integer only arithmetic implementation. Embedded devices don't usually have that powerful an fpu. Anybody know how much progress has been made in this area?
Re:Inflation != Multiple Universes
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I didn't see the explanation in the article, but from what I've heard the explanation is pretty simple. I think I read it in A Breif History of Time or something like that. I probably don't remember it correctly but here goes nothing...
The trick is that the collapse from an inflationary situation to normal spacetime can't happen instantaneously. By the time the collapse has happened and created a universe of normal spacetime, the inflation has already created more than enough (inflating) space/spacetime/cosmicstuff to replace it. So there will always be inflating stuff left over. Eventually this new inflating stuff will start collapsing into pockets of normal spacetime, creating new universes each time. The point is that the inflating stuff inflates too quickly to be consumed by the collapse process, so the process continues indefinitely.
imagine a beowulf cluster of...
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I swore I'd never post one of these, but seriously, this is an irresistable setup.
Re:JUSES FAKING CHRISTO!!!
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Can anyone explain why I keep coming here? Every day at work, probably a dozen times. I hate the stories, I hate the editors. I'm not a big fan of Linux. I hate almost all of you, and I loathe the group-think that goes on here. It oozes out of all the highly modded comments... the/. party line.
Because we're mind control experts. We know you hate us, but we just love to have you around telling us how much you hate us, so we force you to come back. insert obligatory "all your base are belong to us" joke here
I refuse to believe that it's wrong to buy a product just because the company that made it is a monopoly. If it's a good product, I'm not going to deprive myself of it in some vain effort to "stick it to the man."
I hadn't paid for a microsoft product in about 4 years, but it wasn't because they were an abusive monopoly, it was because they weren't producing anything that I thought was worth the prices they were charging. The xbox changed that. I bought an xbox, and have been satisfied with my purchase.
If you don't agree that the xbox is a good product then that's fine, don't buy it. But that doesn't make it wrong for other people to buy it.
the benefits of all of ogg's codecs are, in my opinion, the licensing. the technology of the codecs is competitive to proprietary formats, but free of the licensing restrictions. this means you won't have to pay royalties for encoders, decoders, streaming servers EVER. sounds pretty cool to me...
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I won't take the time to include the links, but the term "GNU/Linux" strictly speaking means only the Kernel. Some interpret it to mean the Kernel plus any GPL software. In any case, I used the term "GNU/Linux Kernel" because I wanted to include the "GNU/" while still referring specifically to the kernel.
<flamebait>
That's retarded! any links you could possibly find would be wrong since even the GNU Project calls the kernel linux.
</flamebait>
The linux kernel has nothing to do with GNU other than the fact that it can run GNU software and is released under the GPL.
The PageRank values assigned by Google are not susceptible to being proved true or false by objective evidence
Unfortunately, that's false
Actually, it's true. I believe google's argument here is that what they publish as PageRank is their own business. They can form PageRanks any way they want, for example by throwing printouts of the web pages down a flight of stairs. The fact that they form their opinions based on a mathematical formula is irrelevant. Google should be free to change it's PageRank algorithm in any way it sees fit to improve it as a measure of relevance. That's all they ever claimed PageRank was.
He has a really good .sig which says... er, oh crap!
.sig dude.
And it's at a 4 already too, never mind then.
Anyways, I like your
Where have we heard that before?
These days, although it hasn't always been the case, investors are much more likely to require at least a hope of profitability.
Also, I personally would like wi-fi to be profitable so that my vendor doesn't die, and I have a chance that my card and AP will be supported in the not too distant future
I believe the holdup was developing an integer only arithmetic implementation. Embedded devices don't usually have that powerful an fpu. Anybody know how much progress has been made in this area?
I didn't see the explanation in the article, but from what I've heard the explanation is pretty simple. I think I read it in A Breif History of Time or something like that. I probably don't remember it correctly but here goes nothing...
The trick is that the collapse from an inflationary situation to normal spacetime can't happen instantaneously. By the time the collapse has happened and created a universe of normal spacetime, the inflation has already created more than enough (inflating) space/spacetime/cosmicstuff to replace it. So there will always be inflating stuff left over. Eventually this new inflating stuff will start collapsing into pockets of normal spacetime, creating new universes each time. The point is that the inflating stuff inflates too quickly to be consumed by the collapse process, so the process continues indefinitely.
I swore I'd never post one of these, but seriously, this is an irresistable setup.
Can anyone explain why I keep coming here? Every day at work, probably a dozen times. I hate the stories, I hate the editors. I'm not a big fan of Linux. I hate almost all of you, and I loathe the group-think that goes on here. It oozes out of all the highly modded comments... the /. party line.
Because we're mind control experts. We know you hate us, but we just love to have you around telling us how much you hate us, so we force you to come back. insert obligatory "all your base are belong to us" joke here
give credit where it's due, this is originally a microsoft policy.
how is this not modded as flamebait???
so that's why I spend so much on alcohol...
I refuse to believe that it's wrong to buy a product just because the company that made it is a monopoly. If it's a good product, I'm not going to deprive myself of it in some vain effort to "stick it to the man."
I hadn't paid for a microsoft product in about 4 years, but it wasn't because they were an abusive monopoly, it was because they weren't producing anything that I thought was worth the prices they were charging. The xbox changed that. I bought an xbox, and have been satisfied with my purchase.
If you don't agree that the xbox is a good product then that's fine, don't buy it. But that doesn't make it wrong for other people to buy it.
the benefits of all of ogg's codecs are, in my opinion, the licensing. the technology of the codecs is competitive to proprietary formats, but free of the licensing restrictions. this means you won't have to pay royalties for encoders, decoders, streaming servers EVER. sounds pretty cool to me...