A troll or not, it's a good point to start. Some people may know the GPL better than I do, I don't care I heared a lot about it from people who (at least pretend to) know a lot about it.
Linking GPL'd code to the QPL is for AFAIK (but what do I know) legal. I've heared there are some problems with some minor pieces of code included from the header files, but this won't hold up in any court (as long as rms doesn't become a judge). The Law is not that black and white (you know the differences between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, the difference between something being wrong and something being illegal).
AFAIK distributing the KDE binaries TOGETHER WITH the Qt binaries is illegal. But who's doing the distributing?
The KDE programmers? I guess not, they are way too busy programming all those nice kde*** programs.
The KDE foundation? I guess not, since there is no such thing as a KDE foundation.
Redhat etc? Well you're probably right, go ahead and sue them.
Me? Well you're probably right, go ahead and sue me;-)
I'm not even sure you'd win any of those cases, but what I'm trying to say is this: Although some people and companies mey have done things that may be perceived as illegal by some people, the KDE code itself isn't tainted by the fact that is was linked to QPL'd Qt in the past. So KDE code linked to GPL'd Qt is perfectly legal.
Let's take sweep this crap into one big pile, and try to make sense of it:
- You encourage a fork of the Mozilla codebase.
- You think a fork is bad.
- You want to take Netscape 6, and take all the crap out, to end up with Mozilla (Mozilla != Netscape 6, Mozilla is dual-licensed, not Netscape 6)
I'll tell you this, if you take all the crap out of your posting, nothing will be left of it.
Hmm, an old question in the gaming world, or should I say ancient.
Fact is differences between 30 and 60 fps are very obvious to most people. People playing at 60 fps have a distinct advantage overpeople playing at 30 fps.
he said: Really pisses me off when people forget that the ACCLERATOR is on the RIGHT.
So it pisses him off when people FORGET that the accelerator IS on the right.
Should I repeat that? He is stating that the accellerator is on the right, but some people forget about that from time to time, and that pisses him off.
Johan V. (who sometimes likes to cut away all the syntactic sugar generally referred to as English, although it's not a wise thing to do from a Karma point of view, but who cares about Karma anyway, enough rambling, I hope the message was clear and stuff)
Although I agree with must you said, especially the 'I don't know very much abount monitors or TV's..: That's obvious.'-part.....
But, well there's always a but...
ALL color monitors are made up of "primary colors" (actually red, green and blue, ehich are not the traditional primary colors, but oh well...). In addition, if you couldn't vary the luminance (i.e. of the pixels had only two states, "on" and "off") that would be TWO-bit color, not EIGHT.
This doesn't make a lot of sense. Two state pixels are ONE-bit. Pixels made from three two state pixels are THREE-bit (ie. 2^3=8 colors).
First of all 270,000 pixels on a 6.3cm screen works out to 141 pixels per square milimeter!
270,000 pixels is about the number of pixels on a TV screen. So if you enlarge the screen you'd get about the same resolution as a TV screen. So that's why they say TV-quality.
141 pixels per square milimeter is about 300dpi. The question remains, why aren't the using a 1440dpi printer:)
1945 Vannevar Bush proposes Memex in his article "As We May Think". 1965 Ted Nelson introduces Xanadu and coins the term hypertext. 1967 Andries van Dam develops the Hypertext Editing System at Brown University, followed by the introduction of FRESS in 1968. 1968 Doug Engelbart gives a demo of NLS, a part of the Augment project, started in 1962. 1975 A team at CMU, headed by Robertson, develops the ZOG system, which later becomes KMS. 1978 A team at MIT, headed by Andrew Lippman, develops the Aspen Movie Map, the first true example of a multimedia application including videodisk.
[Bush, 1945]. Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think" The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
[Nelson, 1965]. Nelson, Ted. "A File Structure for the Complex, The Changing and The Indeterminate" ACM 20th National Conference, 1965.
[Nelson, 1980]. Nelson, Ted. "Replacing the Printed Word: A Complete Literary System" Information Processing '80, 1980.
I could cite a lot more sources, but most can be found at:
I've just been reading http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html and http://cr.yp.to/immhf.html (rfc822, and an article about rfc822, both suggested by caolan) and I was shocked. I never imagined a standard could be so vague.
It suddenly realized how important it is to write precise specs. Not is english, not in lawyer-english, but in the only precise language in this world, mathematical-language.
rfc822 is a 47 page document. In which the authors try to specify a standard in english, and things still aren't clear (read the article about rfc822).
I'm quite sure that using a simple BNF grammar, I could 'define' the standard in no more than 5 pages. We have a very precise and powerfull language at our disposal, but somehow a lot of scientists prefer to use english. By the way, implementing a mathematical spec is a *LOT* easier than a spec written in english.
Thunderbird is able to leave its predecessor as well as Intel's Coppermine behind it, as long as this processor does not run on the BX133-chipset
I might be terribly wrong here, but there is no such thing as a BX133 chipset. The BX133 is a BX chipset overclocked to 133 mhz. AGP bus is overclocked to 89 mhz.
You won't be able to buy a computer with the BX133 chipset.
The valves in Formula 1 cars arer still operated by a camshaft. The valve return, traditionally done by a simple spring is replaced by a pneumatic system, the so called pneumatic valve return system.
I've read that the lotus engineering department was experimenting with a solenoid actuated valve system. But the problem was getting it to work at higher rpm's. It seems that although the systems works, it doesn't work well enough just yet.
There is some talk about the upcoming use of 'solinoid actuated valve systems' in formula 1 cars, so I guess they are tackling the rpm problem.
I should have spend my last moderation point yesterday.
Implementing malloc() in hardware not very smart
on
The New Garbage Man
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· Score: 1
Implementing malloc() and functions like that doesn't seem to be such a good idea.
Refenrence counting is the more basic solution to the same problem.
> If you don't use GC, you essentially are > "reference counting", which is one of the worst > performing GC algorithms, in fact.
Maybe so, but wouldn't it be a lot smarter to implement a couple of instructions that would speed up reference counting consirably, instead of implemention a couple of high level functions?
Well you can't rebut a findings of fact, which they don't:
Needless to say, Microsoft respectfully disagrees with many of the Court's findings of fact and believes that they are unsupported by the record. For purposes of preparing its proposed conclusions of law, however, Microsoft accepts arguendo the facts as found by the Court.
This seems to be the rebuttal to the proposed findings of law.
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Try http://people.redhat.com/brosenkr/experimental/
Johan
Try http://people.redhat.com/brosenkr/experimental/
Johan
A troll or not, it's a good point to start. Some people may know the GPL better than I do, I don't care I heared a lot about it from people who (at least pretend to) know a lot about it.
;-)
Linking GPL'd code to the QPL is for AFAIK (but what do I know) legal. I've heared there are some problems with some minor pieces of code included from the header files, but this won't hold up in any court (as long as rms doesn't become a judge). The Law is not that black and white (you know the differences between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, the difference between something being wrong and something being illegal).
AFAIK distributing the KDE binaries TOGETHER WITH the Qt binaries is illegal. But who's doing the distributing?
The KDE programmers? I guess not, they are way too busy programming all those nice kde*** programs.
The KDE foundation? I guess not, since there is no such thing as a KDE foundation.
Redhat etc? Well you're probably right, go ahead and sue them.
Me? Well you're probably right, go ahead and sue me
I'm not even sure you'd win any of those cases, but what I'm trying to say is this: Although some people and companies mey have done things that may be perceived as illegal by some people, the KDE code itself isn't tainted by the fact that is was linked to QPL'd Qt in the past. So KDE code linked to GPL'd Qt is perfectly legal.
Johan V. (who hopes to make any sense at all)
Sure, I take on a troll/flame, and get moderated down as flamebait. Moderation is a bit off today I guess.
Before modding: read the message, then understand what the writer is saying, then think about moderating.
Johan V.
Let's take sweep this crap into one big pile, and try to make sense of it:
- You encourage a fork of the Mozilla codebase.
- You think a fork is bad.
- You want to take Netscape 6, and take all the crap out, to end up with Mozilla (Mozilla != Netscape 6, Mozilla is dual-licensed, not Netscape 6)
I'll tell you this, if you take all the crap out of your posting, nothing will be left of it.
Johan V.
Thanks, I can't reach the win2000mag link, but now won't have to, since now I realize I've read the original posting by John Carmack already :)
Johan V. (who wonders wether win200mag will write an article about one of my postings someday.... neh I just stopped wondering)
Hmm, an old question in the gaming world, or should I say ancient.
Fact is differences between 30 and 60 fps are very obvious to most people. People playing at 60 fps have a distinct advantage overpeople playing at 30 fps.
Johan V.
Maybe it's finished already, and now he's a bit bored.
Johan V.
Can't anybody read english anymore?
he said: Really pisses me off when people forget that the ACCLERATOR is on the RIGHT.
So it pisses him off when people FORGET that the accelerator IS on the right.
Should I repeat that? He is stating that the accellerator is on the right, but some people forget about that from time to time, and that pisses him off.
He was trying to be humerous.....
Johan V.
> oh yeah? so in 2-D it's the 'inverse law' > (1/dist^1) and in 1-D the 'constant law' > (1/dist^0 = 1)??
>
> This is nonsense!
Actually this makes a lot of sense.
Johan V.
Come on, this is not a troll. It's about the first original posting about hotgrits since a very long time.
Johan V.
Mass = energy
Charge = energy
Johan V. (who sometimes likes to cut away all the syntactic sugar generally referred to as English, although it's not a wise thing to do from a Karma point of view, but who cares about Karma anyway, enough rambling, I hope the message was clear and stuff)
Although I agree with must you said, especially the 'I don't know very much abount monitors or TV's..: That's obvious.'-part.....
But, well there's always a but...
ALL color monitors are made up of "primary colors" (actually red, green and blue, ehich are not the traditional primary colors, but oh well...). In addition, if you couldn't vary the luminance (i.e. of the pixels had only two states, "on" and "off") that would be TWO-bit color, not EIGHT.
This doesn't make a lot of sense. Two state pixels are ONE-bit. Pixels made from three two state pixels are THREE-bit (ie. 2^3=8 colors).
Johan V.
First of all 270,000 pixels on a 6.3cm screen works out to 141 pixels per square milimeter!
:)
270,000 pixels is about the number of pixels on a TV screen. So if you enlarge the screen you'd get about the same resolution as a TV screen. So that's why they say TV-quality.
141 pixels per square milimeter is about 300dpi. The question remains, why aren't the using a 1440dpi printer
Johan V.
Hey, I was I was as 'smart' as you. I started reading /. 3 years ago when I was 23.....
/. didn't exist (how old is /.?) or at least wasn't available to the average 12 year old.
It's all relative you know.
When you were 12
Johan V.
1945 Vannevar Bush proposes Memex in his article "As We May Think".
j .h.veenstra/hypermedia/review.html
1965 Ted Nelson introduces Xanadu and coins the term hypertext.
1967 Andries van Dam develops the Hypertext Editing System at Brown University, followed by the introduction of FRESS in 1968.
1968 Doug Engelbart gives a demo of NLS, a part of the Augment project, started in 1962.
1975 A team at CMU, headed by Robertson, develops the ZOG system, which later becomes KMS.
1978 A team at MIT, headed by Andrew Lippman, develops the Aspen Movie Map, the first true example of a multimedia application including videodisk.
[Bush, 1945]. Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think" The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
[Nelson, 1965]. Nelson, Ted. "A File Structure for the Complex, The Changing and The Indeterminate" ACM 20th National Conference, 1965.
[Nelson, 1980]. Nelson, Ted. "Replacing the Printed Word: A Complete Literary System" Information Processing '80, 1980.
I could cite a lot more sources, but most can be found at:
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~g.vandijnsen/
Johan V.
I've just been reading http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html and http://cr.yp.to/immhf.html (rfc822, and an article about rfc822, both suggested by caolan) and I was shocked. I never imagined a standard could be so vague.
It suddenly realized how important it is to write precise specs. Not is english, not in lawyer-english, but in the only precise language in this world, mathematical-language.
rfc822 is a 47 page document. In which the authors try to specify a standard in english, and things still aren't clear (read the article about rfc822).
I'm quite sure that using a simple BNF grammar, I could 'define' the standard in no more than 5 pages. We have a very precise and powerfull language at our disposal, but somehow a lot of scientists prefer to use english. By the way, implementing a mathematical spec is a *LOT* easier than a spec written in english.
Johan V.
Thunderbird is able to leave its predecessor
as well as Intel's Coppermine behind it, as
long as this processor does not run on the
BX133-chipset
I might be terribly wrong here, but there is no such thing as a BX133 chipset. The BX133 is a BX chipset overclocked to 133 mhz. AGP bus is overclocked to 89 mhz.
You won't be able to buy a computer with the BX133 chipset.
Johan V.
The valves in Formula 1 cars arer still operated by a camshaft. The valve return, traditionally done by a simple spring is replaced by a pneumatic system, the so called pneumatic valve return system.
Johan V.
I've read that the lotus engineering department was experimenting with a solenoid actuated valve system. But the problem was getting it to work at higher rpm's. It seems that although the systems works, it doesn't work well enough just yet.
There is some talk about the upcoming use of 'solinoid actuated valve systems' in formula 1 cars, so I guess they are tackling the rpm problem.
Johan V.
It's a well known fact that anti-aliasing makes fonts easier to read on a monitor.
I've wondered for a long time why it not implemented on any personal computer system I've ever used, I never got an answer to my question I guess.
Johan Veenstra
I should have spend my last moderation point yesterday.
Implementing malloc() and functions like that doesn't seem to be such a good idea.
Refenrence counting is the more basic solution to the same problem.
> If you don't use GC, you essentially are
> "reference counting", which is one of the worst
> performing GC algorithms, in fact.
Maybe so, but wouldn't it be a lot smarter to implement a couple of instructions that would speed up reference counting consirably, instead of implemention a couple of high level functions?
With 5.500 million transisters, you could easily implement quake on the hardware.
This seems to be the rebuttal to the proposed findings of law.