There seems to be very little innovation in light plane engines. I'd like to see engines that run on E85 or even even pure stuff. You mention it and people get all bent out of shape about water in their gas, but nobody tries to actually solve the problem - which I hear is not bad at higher alcohol concentrations. They moan if anyone suggests getting the lead out of their precious 100LL too. Oh we need the octane for our dinosaur engines with no electronic controls... BTW E85 has a similar octane rating as 100LL. I'm not a big E85 fan here, but it is one area that's being completely ignored. Another thing I found interesting is the folks putting rotary engines on aircraft - very interesting. I can't believe how resistant the aircraft industry is to change.
If that's what they meant, then obviously Novell really does have some say in the GPL 3 discussion. You don't spend years writing a new license with clauses to prevent certain types of agreements and then grandfather in a particular situation. The fact that they even asked this suggests the process is being infiltrated by folks with a contrary agenda, or being run by people who still don't "get it".
So a users manual can submitted to slashdot as a Book Review?!?!?! Not only is that insulting, it's poorly targeted advertising. Nobody around here knows how to RTFM.
Isn't the foam there for insulation of the tank before launch? Would it be possible to blow the foam off just before launch or at the time of ignition? Then they wouldn't have to worry about the quality of the foam or if pieces are going to fall off and cause damage. I'm just asking. I know making it fall apart completely might be nearly as hard as making it stay together, but it seems worth asking.
FAT itself was documented in 1983 (or earlier?) in Byte magazine. It can not be and is not patented today as I understand it. My understanding is that MS patented the long filename feature that came along later. Lets not confuse basic FAT functionality with long file names. It's also more interesting to call it a long filename patent, as it sounds even dumber than a FAT patent.
I've been complaining here and there for a while about this. The games menu in particular needs sub-menus. Someone needs to define a standard set of menus that will support applications other than those shipped. If not, packagers have a habit of making things go into one of the few existing standard menus. Games should have categories, for example: Action, Board, Cards, Gambling, Strategy, etc. There should be a standard place for things, for example kiCAD belongs under Engineering not Other. qCAD probably belongs there too, not under Graphics (these are Fedora examples, your distro may vary). It's ultimately up to the distros and the package maintainers to decide, but I think Gnome itself should provide some guidance on this issue. They could at least set an example in the games area where they ship enough things to make sub-menus sensible. The HIG tries to reduce menu levels, but there is a point where sub-menus are simpler than a big long list.
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Surely that was a joke and not informative. Performance testing and regression testing should be the developers job, not the users.
I have what I consider a very interesting explanation of how it all started and why. All sorts of neat implications too. Now if you can tell me how to get a large audience to listen to my theory and sell books and stuff I'll share it with you - read the book. But honestly I do have a neat idea - it's probably been discussed by someone else before and I just haven't seen it. The other guys who thought of it must not be able to get the public attention either.
Dude, you can decode HDTV with a Geforce 5200. I have a fanless 6200 (not a GT, just a plain one - oh and it AGP) in a 2GHz AMD64 box and I can play back HDTV with only 50% CPU load. My card has DVI output which can go straight to my HDTV through its DVI input, or I can get a DVI to HDMI cable and run it into the HDMI input on the TV. The only thing HDMI output on the video card does is allow HDCP (DRM) to be used with Vista. BTW the HDTV is recorded via an obsolete HD2000 from pcHDTV.com. I'm not sure why you've been waiting for HDMI/HDCP - it has nothing to offer that wasn't already available (except DRM).
OK, so would it be helpful to do a 3D FFT of the density of the space containing the molecule centered at the CG ?? The frequency content is invariant under rotation, and the lowest spatial frequencies should be representative of the overall shape of the molecule. Just asking if you've tried this and how well it worked. It's just off the top of my head, but very old-school for image processing. I also suspect it may have some usefulness in matching molecules with the inverse space of other molecules.
1) Can anyone film the proceedings, or is C-SPAN given special permission? If they get special permission, then they should be stripped of all rights including the ability to require attribution. Otherwise we then move on to the next question.
2) Does C-SPAN send someone in to shoot the video, or are they government cameras with C-SPAN just picking up a feed and rebroadcasting? If it's the former, then sure they should get attribution. If the later, they should not.
Since I don't know the situation, I'd guess the answer to #1 is special permission so they should not be able to force attribution. If that's not the case then I suspect the answer to #2 is that they do all the work and it's OK to claim copyright. But like a lot of./ers I'm just guessing:-)
"Hopefully, they are seriously considering Linux regardless."
FAA is outsourcing the whole flight services infrastructure to Lockheed. A rep from Lockheed gave a presentation to our local EAA chapter on the new system and it's rather cool. Each person gets a multi-head display and all the software is running on Linux. I don't recall the distro. So when you call in for a weather report or to check if there are TFRs in your flight path, you will be talking to a guy running Linux. It makes sense for the FAA to switch because they will likely want access to the same software. The only downside is that there will be fewer of these people, so you may be talking to someone far away who doesn't know the local area and local weather.
Sorry. My dumb. I read too fast and saw all this stuff about gama radiation and my brain converted protons into photons. Hey, there you have it - proton decay due to dim gray matter - er uh dark matter.
Is this the object at the center of the galaxy? A while back someone posted a link to video of a star orbiting the center of our galaxy. It had a period of about 10 (11 or 12?) years and a closest approach to the black hole at a distance similar to the orbital radius of pluto. Since this star is observable and much closer to the black hole than 10 light years, it seem improbable that photons take a "random walk" out to a distance of 10 light years. That would make said star unobservable - wouldn't its light be spread all over the place? Or is the actual path not truely random, and the light is just delayed? Can someone explain the apparent discrepancy in this theory and the observed star?
That's great, but it's hard for a teacher to close the annual income gap by working the summer. It is what it is. You get more per hour but less overall. I've been wanting to look closer at exactly what the tradeoff is. I loved working as a math tutor in my uni days.
Much of slashdot is missing the larger issue here. The EC is telling Germany what to do. A couple years ago I warned a German co-worker friend of mine that they must keep an eye on that whole EU/EC/E-whatever or it will try to become a single government over all of Europe. "Oh no, that won't happen" it was all just about having a common currency and other such nice things - the power will remain with the member sta.. err countries. This sure looks like federalism vs states rights all over again. Let's hope the EU doesn't have to have a civil war over it. This isn't just a German issue, all of Europe should be upset about it.
Quicksort has a typical runtime of O(nLog(n)). It has a worst-case time of O(n^2). For this reason I have a preference for heapsort which has a worst case of O(nLog(n)) even though it is typically slower than quicksort by a constant factor depending on the implementation. I consider the constant a minor point, others may consider "typical" versus "worst case" a minor point. When talking O() one should use worst case.
My main side project is real time ray tracing software. It is very nearly not subject to Amdahl's Law. In the terminology of the Wiki article, F is approximately zero for Ray Tracing. It will scale very well past 10 cores and may well be able to make good use of 100 cores. Memory bandwidth seems to be the limiting factor (that determines F) but that may not be a problem with enough cache and good code. It's also the only potential mass-market use for a lot of cores. nVidia your days are numbered.
He could have used a normal bittorrent client to share a linux distro and get the same results.
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No, he could not.
Bit torrent only shares the files you download. The one right now, and not the one from last week (unless you are nice and leave it active). The company software joined a swarm sharing a file with their clients content. This guys software claimed to have pieces of that file available for others to download as well as asking others for parts of the file. He software was not just "hanging out", it was soliciting and offering parts of a specific file. RTFA - He specifically joined a swarm that was sharing NBC content because he knew NBC is a client of this company. Lots of people here today seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how bittorrent actually works, and as a result they think this is a very broad net they are casting when it is actually very specific.
I have some copylefted textbooks that are available for free on the web, and the tarball of the sources is 185 Mb. I was actually thinking of making it available via bittorrent rather than http, in order to ease the load on my server. So for someone in my hypothetical situation, offering his own stuff via bittorrent, (a) is the RIAA likely to send a takedown notice to my webhost?, and (b) would the software I was running on my server actually be cooperating in the illegal redistribution of copyrighted music and videos? I'm not really that familiar with how the whole thing works. Are the "swarms" disjoint sets of nodes that are only sharing certain types of files?
(a) no
(b) no
Yes, the swarms are disjoint sets sharing a single file - as I understand it. Not even the people downloading your stuff would be doing anything wrong, nor would they be flagged as doing anything wrong by the RIAA as a result of using your torrent and participating in that swarm.
Contrary to what the article implies, the method used to target this guy is very accurate. His software solicited parts of a copyrighted work, as well as offering to transfer parts of that file to others. Only his custom "broken" software prevented an actual data transfer.
Or it'd be like getting arrested for engaging in prostitution (or whatever the actual offense is) if you're seen with a prostitute, even if you haven't actually had sex. I've always been amused by that one, too.
You might actually know someone who is a prostitute. You may meet someone and not know they're a prostitute. Same for drug dealers. As a human being, you can talk to these folks, or have beers or whatever. You can have a casual conversation, so in those cases getting arrested would be something to complain about. The ONLY reason to be connected to a bit-torrent swarm is to download or upload a file - a specific file. There are no legitimate reasons to be connected. Notice that the author had to write a special client program to avoid doing anything wrong while connected.
No, you're not missing anything. Notice that this guy had to write a special bit-torrent client in order to avoid actually doing anything wrong during his tests. Anyone connected with normal software would be either a) downloading the file and/or b) providing parts of that file to others. No one connects to a swarm just to "hang out". They are only targeting people connected to swarms that are sharing copyrighted works. I'd say the media companies method is sound, and accurate - if you're going to pretend to engage in illegal activity, you have to expect people to treat you like a criminal.
Check out the nouveau project. You're right, there is only a blob available today. If these guys continue to have success, there may be a proper open source driver later this year. GLX Gears is running (sans depth buffer) on NV40 hardware. Other hardware is sure to follow, and fuller implementations will also follow. The key is that they have something working and a way to figure out how to get the rest working.
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There seems to be very little innovation in light plane engines. I'd like to see engines that run on E85 or even even pure stuff. You mention it and people get all bent out of shape about water in their gas, but nobody tries to actually solve the problem - which I hear is not bad at higher alcohol concentrations. They moan if anyone suggests getting the lead out of their precious 100LL too. Oh we need the octane for our dinosaur engines with no electronic controls... BTW E85 has a similar octane rating as 100LL. I'm not a big E85 fan here, but it is one area that's being completely ignored. Another thing I found interesting is the folks putting rotary engines on aircraft - very interesting. I can't believe how resistant the aircraft industry is to change.
If that's what they meant, then obviously Novell really does have some say in the GPL 3 discussion. You don't spend years writing a new license with clauses to prevent certain types of agreements and then grandfather in a particular situation. The fact that they even asked this suggests the process is being infiltrated by folks with a contrary agenda, or being run by people who still don't "get it".
So a users manual can submitted to slashdot as a Book Review?!?!?! Not only is that insulting, it's poorly targeted advertising. Nobody around here knows how to RTFM.
Isn't the foam there for insulation of the tank before launch? Would it be possible to blow the foam off just before launch or at the time of ignition? Then they wouldn't have to worry about the quality of the foam or if pieces are going to fall off and cause damage. I'm just asking. I know making it fall apart completely might be nearly as hard as making it stay together, but it seems worth asking.
FAT itself was documented in 1983 (or earlier?) in Byte magazine. It can not be and is not patented today as I understand it. My understanding is that MS patented the long filename feature that came along later. Lets not confuse basic FAT functionality with long file names. It's also more interesting to call it a long filename patent, as it sounds even dumber than a FAT patent.
I've been complaining here and there for a while about this. The games menu in particular needs sub-menus. Someone needs to define a standard set of menus that will support applications other than those shipped. If not, packagers have a habit of making things go into one of the few existing standard menus. Games should have categories, for example: Action, Board, Cards, Gambling, Strategy, etc. There should be a standard place for things, for example kiCAD belongs under Engineering not Other. qCAD probably belongs there too, not under Graphics (these are Fedora examples, your distro may vary). It's ultimately up to the distros and the package maintainers to decide, but I think Gnome itself should provide some guidance on this issue. They could at least set an example in the games area where they ship enough things to make sub-menus sensible. The HIG tries to reduce menu levels, but there is a point where sub-menus are simpler than a big long list.
Surely that was a joke and not informative. Performance testing and regression testing should be the developers job, not the users.
I have what I consider a very interesting explanation of how it all started and why. All sorts of neat implications too. Now if you can tell me how to get a large audience to listen to my theory and sell books and stuff I'll share it with you - read the book. But honestly I do have a neat idea - it's probably been discussed by someone else before and I just haven't seen it. The other guys who thought of it must not be able to get the public attention either.
Dude, you can decode HDTV with a Geforce 5200. I have a fanless 6200 (not a GT, just a plain one - oh and it AGP) in a 2GHz AMD64 box and I can play back HDTV with only 50% CPU load. My card has DVI output which can go straight to my HDTV through its DVI input, or I can get a DVI to HDMI cable and run it into the HDMI input on the TV. The only thing HDMI output on the video card does is allow HDCP (DRM) to be used with Vista. BTW the HDTV is recorded via an obsolete HD2000 from pcHDTV.com. I'm not sure why you've been waiting for HDMI/HDCP - it has nothing to offer that wasn't already available (except DRM).
OK, so would it be helpful to do a 3D FFT of the density of the space containing the molecule centered at the CG ?? The frequency content is invariant under rotation, and the lowest spatial frequencies should be representative of the overall shape of the molecule. Just asking if you've tried this and how well it worked. It's just off the top of my head, but very old-school for image processing. I also suspect it may have some usefulness in matching molecules with the inverse space of other molecules.
1) Can anyone film the proceedings, or is C-SPAN given special permission? If they get special permission, then they should be stripped of all rights including the ability to require attribution. Otherwise we then move on to the next question. ./ers I'm just guessing :-)
2) Does C-SPAN send someone in to shoot the video, or are they government cameras with C-SPAN just picking up a feed and rebroadcasting? If it's the former, then sure they should get attribution. If the later, they should not.
Since I don't know the situation, I'd guess the answer to #1 is special permission so they should not be able to force attribution. If that's not the case then I suspect the answer to #2 is that they do all the work and it's OK to claim copyright. But like a lot of
"Hopefully, they are seriously considering Linux regardless."
FAA is outsourcing the whole flight services infrastructure to Lockheed. A rep from Lockheed gave a presentation to our local EAA chapter on the new system and it's rather cool. Each person gets a multi-head display and all the software is running on Linux. I don't recall the distro. So when you call in for a weather report or to check if there are TFRs in your flight path, you will be talking to a guy running Linux. It makes sense for the FAA to switch because they will likely want access to the same software. The only downside is that there will be fewer of these people, so you may be talking to someone far away who doesn't know the local area and local weather.
Sorry. My dumb. I read too fast and saw all this stuff about gama radiation and my brain converted protons into photons. Hey, there you have it - proton decay due to dim gray matter - er uh dark matter.
Is this the object at the center of the galaxy? A while back someone posted a link to video of a star orbiting the center of our galaxy. It had a period of about 10 (11 or 12?) years and a closest approach to the black hole at a distance similar to the orbital radius of pluto. Since this star is observable and much closer to the black hole than 10 light years, it seem improbable that photons take a "random walk" out to a distance of 10 light years. That would make said star unobservable - wouldn't its light be spread all over the place? Or is the actual path not truely random, and the light is just delayed? Can someone explain the apparent discrepancy in this theory and the observed star?
That's great, but it's hard for a teacher to close the annual income gap by working the summer. It is what it is. You get more per hour but less overall. I've been wanting to look closer at exactly what the tradeoff is. I loved working as a math tutor in my uni days.
Snake Oil. Actually, they don't even have a product yet. What's the term for raising money for an idea that will never fly?
Much of slashdot is missing the larger issue here. The EC is telling Germany what to do. A couple years ago I warned a German co-worker friend of mine that they must keep an eye on that whole EU/EC/E-whatever or it will try to become a single government over all of Europe. "Oh no, that won't happen" it was all just about having a common currency and other such nice things - the power will remain with the member sta.. err countries. This sure looks like federalism vs states rights all over again. Let's hope the EU doesn't have to have a civil war over it. This isn't just a German issue, all of Europe should be upset about it.
Quicksort has a typical runtime of O(nLog(n)). It has a worst-case time of O(n^2). For this reason I have a preference for heapsort which has a worst case of O(nLog(n)) even though it is typically slower than quicksort by a constant factor depending on the implementation. I consider the constant a minor point, others may consider "typical" versus "worst case" a minor point. When talking O() one should use worst case.
Any argument MS makes here is in regard to Patent law, not copyright. Don't confuse the two - they are entirely distinct.
My main side project is real time ray tracing software. It is very nearly not subject to Amdahl's Law. In the terminology of the Wiki article, F is approximately zero for Ray Tracing. It will scale very well past 10 cores and may well be able to make good use of 100 cores. Memory bandwidth seems to be the limiting factor (that determines F) but that may not be a problem with enough cache and good code. It's also the only potential mass-market use for a lot of cores. nVidia your days are numbered.
Bit torrent only shares the files you download. The one right now, and not the one from last week (unless you are nice and leave it active). The company software joined a swarm sharing a file with their clients content. This guys software claimed to have pieces of that file available for others to download as well as asking others for parts of the file. He software was not just "hanging out", it was soliciting and offering parts of a specific file. RTFA - He specifically joined a swarm that was sharing NBC content because he knew NBC is a client of this company. Lots of people here today seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how bittorrent actually works, and as a result they think this is a very broad net they are casting when it is actually very specific.
(b) no
Yes, the swarms are disjoint sets sharing a single file - as I understand it. Not even the people downloading your stuff would be doing anything wrong, nor would they be flagged as doing anything wrong by the RIAA as a result of using your torrent and participating in that swarm.
Contrary to what the article implies, the method used to target this guy is very accurate. His software solicited parts of a copyrighted work, as well as offering to transfer parts of that file to others. Only his custom "broken" software prevented an actual data transfer.
No, you're not missing anything. Notice that this guy had to write a special bit-torrent client in order to avoid actually doing anything wrong during his tests. Anyone connected with normal software would be either a) downloading the file and/or b) providing parts of that file to others. No one connects to a swarm just to "hang out". They are only targeting people connected to swarms that are sharing copyrighted works. I'd say the media companies method is sound, and accurate - if you're going to pretend to engage in illegal activity, you have to expect people to treat you like a criminal.
Check out the nouveau project. You're right, there is only a blob available today. If these guys continue to have success, there may be a proper open source driver later this year. GLX Gears is running (sans depth buffer) on NV40 hardware. Other hardware is sure to follow, and fuller implementations will also follow. The key is that they have something working and a way to figure out how to get the rest working.