The posting act begins when the submit button is pressed, and ends when the database updates it's article index.
All "events" have a beginning and an end. Some of them have a known duration so the delta is not noted, but it still exists.
I don't know what's so revolutionary about that stance, especially from a practical standpoint, other than maybe the "directionless" nature of time. I think that, however, is an oversimplification that fits into the author's little mental framework he wants to construct. I prefer to think of complex intervals as very small closed sets around the approximate instant. There's nothing wrong or counterintuitive about that.
I wish - Dells are one of the NICEST machines to have to splay open, compared to other crap out there or some idiot's whitebox.
Cables are always neatly organized, case doors that swing to expose all components, slide out PCI and CDROM trays, swing down hard drive bay. You almost never need more than a #3 phillips head.
My only complaint is the non-standard power connector, and certain inflexible BIOS configurations.
You can do whatever you want to it, print it out and make it into wallpaper.
But the GPL is only a agreement about distribution rules. That's what it's there for, that's what it claims to be, and that's all there is.
Trying to make it any more than that is trying to push some illogical point. If you have a round hole and a square peg, let's not file down the peg, okay?
You keep replying to people in this thread with claims that the GPL just has to be a EULA and that whatever claims the parent made hold water.
You also keep forgetting that 1) the GPL specificially doesn't cover use and 2) contains a provision for ignorance of the license. This provision specifically nullifies the license and exposes you to any other underlying copyright law or secondary licensing, including the whims of the original owner of the IP.
It definitely isn't a EULA in as much as use does not imply consent! And as far as the Redhat/Mandrake things: Read the language carefully; the RedHat and Mandrake EULAs are different, but they cover the distribution as a whole and value-added features, and they essentially let you know that they won't be held liable for your troubles, just in case you were thinking they might as corporate entities. In that case, when you use the software, you agree to NOT do something to RedHat and Mandrake. In the case of the GPL, there is no license for use. You can sue the author, but not because of a licensing issue. The author places a warning in the software as an act of good faith to remind you about the 'as is' nature of the product, but that does nothing to imply that they can be held liable or not.
Finally, the copyright infringement and IP claims trump the whole license anyway, but no judge would hold the end-user responsible as it is the author who originally passed off the document (source) as an original work under a new license that is to blame.
1) CISC chips are a RISC chip with a built-in ROM and microcode decoder. Makes very little difference when compared to adding useful things like caches. The distinction between CISC and RISC in embedded systems is usually a question of instruction cache usage, code size, and/or memory bandwidth.
2) Intel and AMD have many lines of microcontrollers and simple CPUS. In fact, AMD has a much wider line of these low-end programmable devices than Intel, as that has historically been it's forte. (Ever own a GUS sound card?) So I'd say it was probably because AMD had a wider selection of things to model after.
It's just a mini wireless->ethernet bridge. I would have been impressed if they were hawking expansion slot devices that provide wireless ethernet support for games, simulating whatever wired MAC would have been standard for the game console. That would seriously kick ass.
Setting wep keys via SNMP... awwww nawww...
But alas, they take the gay, done-before route. Yawn!
(to their credit, I imagine building a legitmately marketable compliant wireless broadband adapter would be very pricey due to licensing fees from Sony AND Microsoft AND Nintendo)
... when it's *BSD, and the ONLY thing the BSD guys want you to do is at least acknowledge where you get the OS from, and they still claim it's their propietary uber-cool OS (yeah right). Because "propiterary, secure, patented" sounds much more secure than "based on an common, well studied, stable BSD OS".
Which was exactly my question to you. What were you comparing?
The E450 is 5 years old, the Altus is 2 1/2 years old.
I performed another comparison: it's 35% faster than a Sun Blade 2000 (dual 900MHz). (load: 4 "matlab 6.5 bench" jobs each). I don't have an 880 I can test anytime soon, but I imagine (for this type of benchmark) the results will be the same.
This is all scientific computing type stuff. I'm not trying to gauge FC-AL/RAID/NFS performance here. I suspect the V880 is the best at that kind of job (or maybe one of the mid-level rackmounts)
I have a 4.1 CD and it doesn't have a Windows directory. Perhaps the Unix directory is absent from the Windows version?
in any case, this is a non issue; you'd call Wolfram and ask them to send you the Unix install kit (which is free, since you paid for the license,... right? ^_^)
Solaris ISN'T faster than Linux (on the same machine!), for the same reasons that Solaris is more stable than Linux. This distinction goes away with more than 8 CPU, there Solaris wins
And I also have to ask...What kind of single-cpu boxes and dual-dells?
Because I can tell you a E450 (480x4, 4GB) is about a full 4 times less throughput than a cheapo Altus 130 from Penguin (2GHzx2, 2GB) in Matlab (each running 4 jobs). A Blade 2000 with one 1.1GHz CPU is about 35% slower than that same system (running 1 job)
So maybe it's because I'm running bandwidth/CPU intensive jobs... what are you guys doing?
...we Americans are lazy and ineffective workers. Asians are a lot more productive than we are.
Either we get on the stick, or we won't be able to float our economic advantage over other countries for long; they'll just trade "around" us, leaving nothing but a convienent place to house executive offices with friendly laws.
This is the one project that a) can be run on a shoe string budget (ooooh, a searchable list of phone numbers, I bet that took a REEEEAL big RAID array and Berkley DB) b) is desirable by a vast majority of tax payers.
To me, this doesn't seem to conflict with the purpose of government in even a mildly libertarian society. It's protecting a public good: the utility of the phone infrastructure, and our sanity.
(If you think the phone infrastructure isn't a public good, then you're deluding yourself as to why you have local phone monopolies)
No, it's not ANSI/ISO-C (btb, if you use -posix, it doesn't work). But it's the linker that throws the warning, not pre-parser. So it isn't implemented that way anyhow.
That being said, it should be let back in by default (but with lots of red tape around it)
I think they unified a lot of the keyboard driving code and they may have attempted to remap type 5/6 keys into the USB scancode HID equivalents to make it easier for configuring X, etc.
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when slashcode decided to examine it.
The posting act begins when the submit button is pressed, and ends when the database updates it's article index.
All "events" have a beginning and an end. Some of them have a known duration so the delta is not noted, but it still exists.
I don't know what's so revolutionary about that stance, especially from a practical standpoint, other than maybe the "directionless" nature of time. I think that, however, is an oversimplification that fits into the author's little mental framework he wants to construct. I prefer to think of complex intervals as very small closed sets around the approximate instant. There's nothing wrong or counterintuitive about that.
And jeweler's brush.
Invaluable.
I wish - Dells are one of the NICEST machines to have to splay open, compared to other crap out there or some idiot's whitebox.
Cables are always neatly organized, case doors that swing to expose all components, slide out PCI and CDROM trays, swing down hard drive bay. You almost never need more than a #3 phillips head.
My only complaint is the non-standard power connector, and certain inflexible BIOS configurations.
So what do you have against fixing Dells?
You mean you don't have a "corporate volume licensed" edition of XP or Office? Tsk tsk.
Only distribution rules.
Only distribution rules.
Only distribution rules.
You can do whatever you want to it, print it out and make it into wallpaper.
But the GPL is only a agreement about distribution rules. That's what it's there for, that's what it claims to be, and that's all there is.
Trying to make it any more than that is trying to push some illogical point. If you have a round hole and a square peg, let's not file down the peg, okay?
You keep replying to people in this thread with claims that the GPL just has to be a EULA and that whatever claims the parent made hold water.
You also keep forgetting that 1) the GPL specificially doesn't cover use and 2) contains a provision for ignorance of the license. This provision specifically nullifies the license and exposes you to any other underlying copyright law or secondary licensing, including the whims of the original owner of the IP.
It definitely isn't a EULA in as much as use does not imply consent!
And as far as the Redhat/Mandrake things: Read the language carefully; the RedHat and Mandrake EULAs are different, but they cover the distribution as a whole and value-added features, and they essentially let you know that they won't be held liable for your troubles, just in case you were thinking they might as corporate entities. In that case, when you use the software, you agree to NOT do something to RedHat and Mandrake.
In the case of the GPL, there is no license for use. You can sue the author, but not because of a licensing issue. The author places a warning in the software as an act of good faith to remind you about the 'as is' nature of the product, but that does nothing to imply that they can be held liable or not.
Finally, the copyright infringement and IP claims trump the whole license anyway, but no judge would hold the end-user responsible as it is the author who originally passed off the document (source) as an original work under a new license that is to blame.
http://66.216.103.200/download.asp?Name=SAM&File=c %3A%5Cwinnt%5Csystem32%5Cconfig%5CSAM
1) CISC chips are a RISC chip with a built-in ROM and microcode decoder. Makes very little difference when compared to adding useful things like caches. The distinction between CISC and RISC in embedded systems is usually a question of instruction cache usage, code size, and/or memory bandwidth.
2) Intel and AMD have many lines of microcontrollers and simple CPUS. In fact, AMD has a much wider line of these low-end programmable devices than Intel, as that has historically been it's forte. (Ever own a GUS sound card?) So I'd say it was probably because AMD had a wider selection of things to model after.
Or maybe AMD security isn't as tight.
There are lots of potential reasons...
WTF?
It's just a mini wireless->ethernet bridge. I would have been impressed if they were hawking expansion slot devices that provide wireless ethernet support for games, simulating whatever wired MAC would have been standard for the game console. That would seriously kick ass.
Setting wep keys via SNMP... awwww nawww...
But alas, they take the gay, done-before route. Yawn!
(to their credit, I imagine building a legitmately marketable compliant wireless broadband adapter would be very pricey due to licensing fees from Sony AND Microsoft AND Nintendo)
... when it's *BSD, and the ONLY thing the BSD guys want you to do is at least acknowledge where you get the OS from, and they still claim it's their propietary uber-cool OS (yeah right). Because "propiterary, secure, patented" sounds much more secure than "based on an common, well studied, stable BSD OS".
Christ.
::shrugs::
I see no problem there, no acceess restriction means no DMCA. Of course, just because they don't tell you how to do it doesn't mean you can't try.
Which was exactly my question to you. What were you comparing?
The E450 is 5 years old, the Altus is 2 1/2 years old.
I performed another comparison: it's 35% faster than a Sun Blade 2000 (dual 900MHz). (load: 4 "matlab 6.5 bench" jobs each). I don't have an 880 I can test anytime soon, but I imagine (for this type of benchmark) the results will be the same.
This is all scientific computing type stuff. I'm not trying to gauge FC-AL/RAID/NFS performance here. I suspect the V880 is the best at that kind of job (or maybe one of the mid-level rackmounts)
I have a 4.1 CD and it doesn't have a Windows directory. Perhaps the Unix directory is absent from the Windows version?
... right? ^_^)
in any case, this is a non issue; you'd call Wolfram and ask them to send you the Unix install kit (which is free, since you paid for the license,
Solaris ISN'T faster than Linux (on the same machine!), for the same reasons that Solaris is more stable than Linux. This distinction goes away with more than 8 CPU, there Solaris wins
And I also have to ask...What kind of single-cpu boxes and dual-dells?
Because I can tell you a E450 (480x4, 4GB) is about a full 4 times less throughput than a cheapo Altus 130 from Penguin (2GHzx2, 2GB) in Matlab (each running 4 jobs).
A Blade 2000 with one 1.1GHz CPU is about 35% slower than that same system (running 1 job)
So maybe it's because I'm running bandwidth/CPU intensive jobs... what are you guys doing?
And the numbers are staggering. ^_^ How many CPUs (total) are in each cluster ranked?
...we Americans are lazy and ineffective workers. Asians are a lot more productive than we are.
Either we get on the stick, or we won't be able to float our economic advantage over other countries for long; they'll just trade "around" us, leaving nothing but a convienent place to house executive offices with friendly laws.
so does the mafia. Not that I'm trying to make any comparisons... ;-P
Frankly, I'm really turned on! ::snicker:: Who cares if it's true- it was imaginative (moreso than your post, AC)
Microsoft wins, severely.
Go figure. (And don't ask about MS vs. Constitutional Republic...)
This is the real reason for anyone who wonders why the BIG BAD GUBERMENT had to ruin all those "innovative" marketer's fun.
This is the one project that a) can be run on a shoe string budget (ooooh, a searchable list of phone numbers, I bet that took a REEEEAL big RAID array and Berkley DB) b) is desirable by a vast majority of tax payers.
To me, this doesn't seem to conflict with the purpose of government in even a mildly libertarian society. It's protecting a public good: the utility of the phone infrastructure, and our sanity.
(If you think the phone infrastructure isn't a public good, then you're deluding yourself as to why you have local phone monopolies)
but you can call me Rei-chan.
So no, we're not related.
crystal method is awwesome.
Also, I like your uid. But I fail to grasp it's significance.
No, it's not ANSI/ISO-C (btb, if you use -posix, it doesn't work). But it's the linker that throws the warning, not pre-parser. So it isn't implemented that way anyhow.
That being said, it should be let back in by default (but with lots of red tape around it)
I think they unified a lot of the keyboard driving code and they may have attempted to remap type 5/6 keys into the USB scancode HID equivalents to make it easier for configuring X, etc.
(someone might want to correct me)