"Secondly, if the GNU/Linux operating system were to use a different kernel, then it would be the GNU/XXXXX operating system."
If the Linux kernel is replaced with the GNU-Hurd, you end up with the GNU system (no/xxxxx). All the required components are GNU unless you add some extras (like a web browser or X). A kernel is a very non-trivial piece, and Linus is to be commended for his effort. However, he started with the entire GNU tool chain and utilities in order to write it - not to mention the GPL license. If these GNU things weren't there, we wouldn't have Linux today. Some people claim they can make a GNU-less Linux variant, but that would be a good trick since all the tools are GNU. Even the guys working on OpenBeOS are using which compiler? RMS more likely trying to associate Linux with Free software rather than allowing it to be associated with "open source" software. This means tying it to GNU.
I hope he's prepared for to pay up should his asteroid ever crash into the earth. In the mean time, he should just send the police over there to evict the probe since NASA won't pay.
How do these guys expect to collect the money without being caught? You need to show up in person to accept cash (or at least show up at a drop point) and large transfers can be tracked... Can't they? So how do they collect?
"With yet another mistake, does anyone still trust closed-source electronic voting?".
Get off the open/closed source debate already. If you use electronic voting, you open the door to electronic voting fraud. Open source is helpful in this regard, but not as effective as keeping to paper voting. Think about it. You can pay people to commit fraud anyway, but the cost goes up with number of votes altered/subtituted/whatever. With electronic voting, one guy can automate the fraud process with much greater effect. You raise the efficiency of the fraud as well as the voting.
People will argue the supposed cost and efficiency advantages of e-voting. Think about the cost of counting YOUR ONE VOTE and compare that to what YOU PAY IN TAXES each year - then tell me it's expensive. It's been working fine for over 200 years, there is little to gain from changing and everything to lose.
I've said it before. Use a portion of the IPV6 address space to tie IP locations to physical locations. This would eliminate some of the problems but not the more prominent domain handling one...
but since SCO started this latest crap like what, yesterday?
SCO has been making claims that violate Linus GPL for months, and he has taken no action. You could argue he was correct in waiting for something a little more concrete before doing anything. In fact, he may want to wait until they sell a copy under the new terms, not just say they will. I don't know how I got a +5 out of this either;-) Linus just doesn't seem to care much about it. I guess I'm just looking for an indication that he does - as are other people I know.
Do you have the url?
Also does that allow for dial in (can people call me?)
No, and Yes. He is in Michigan (only I believe), but calls can come and go anywhere. He also converts incoming FAX to email for you. He's tied to the traditional phone network and the net, this allows calls to cross between the two. I'll have to find more info on signing up...
"for any real display each letter is going to be several polygons and thus the number of objects goes suddenly from dozens to hundreds of thousands."
My current 3D ray tracing library handles millions of polygons very efficiently. The trick is to use a spatial index (BSP tree, OctTree, etc...) to reduce the number of intersection calculations. This gives you log(n) work for n primitives, so I can square the number of primitives with a 2X increase in CPU speed. This is the single most important part in any good ray tracer. Most people have not worked with RT indexes that are suitable for animation (BSP tree needs total rebuild after any movement for example). I have a good one, it just needs ported to 2.5D.
In a regular futures market, you're not gambling in a pure sense. Your commiting to buy something (a real tangible something) at some future date for a price you specify today. If that thing becomes more or less valuable by the time you are obligated to buy it then you win or lose money. Generally you sell your contract before the due date, and there is always someone who needs/uses the product that picks it up at the end. This is a bit different than betting on events. What is the market value of an event happening or not? I think this is a fancy way to disguise pure gambling as a legitimate financial instrument.
I want my email to come directly to my home server. For this don't I need a place in the global IP space? NAT won't cut it, and DHCP from my ISP keeps my 1 address changing. You'd think the router/firewall folks would want to make little always-on boxes that can receive email directly, but they can't do that today.
BTW I'm also for a huge subnet of IPV6 that translates GPS coordinates to an address (not to the LSB, so apartment, fridges, etc aren't a problem). This could aid routing, spam, etc...
I have recently done some experiments with raytracing 2D scene graphs. It's very preliminary and would require a speedy processor compared to X, but it's supprisingly fast @700MHz. This approach eliminates the need to compute intersections, unions, etc.. of arbitrary areas on the screen - this is handled per ray during rendering. It also prevents any primitives having to know how to paint themselves. You only need to trace dirty pixels. Bitmaps only need to be stored for objects that contain bitmaps. You can also do anti-aliasing with a little more CPU and transparency should be simple. The code is NOT a GUI by a long shot, it only demonstrates that RT might be a practical approach to 2D scenes today. Oh, and it doesn't have font support:-(
If you want to cause trouble for them, just demand a recount. When it is found to be impossible, people will notice. For the conspiracy minded, notice that the loser didn't contest the election and demand a recount - This makes sense if you think they are all really on the same side and the public is the enemy. I'm not that cynical yet, but a lot of/. readers are:-)
Will good old corn oil do the same? I used to use it to insulate capacitors made with salt water - it prevented the ring of corona around the pickle jars. I suppose it may reduce evaporation too.
I will gladly make a large FSF donation if Linus will get off his fucking ass and have FSF represent him in this case. I'd appreciate if other developers would join him, and if other/.ers would contribute with dollars. If you've been wondering when "that time" would come, it's here now.
"Patent examiners have from 8 to 25 hours to read and understand each application, search for prior art, evaluate patentability, communicate with the applicant, work out necessary revisions, and reach and write up conclusions."
And this costs HOW much to apply for? One problem is that the government made the PTO into a profit center by allowing their income to fund other spending/pork. This gives congress a reason to keep the "patent anything" system as-is.
But people keep saying he won't be able to pass any more nasty laws. Where does it say he's stepping down from his seat in Washington? Looks like a blatant coflict of interest to me.
"However, your first point is interesting, how would they know whether you agreed to the license or not? How do they know, or prove, that someone didn't give the jig to you... then they violated the eula, not you... and if you "can't remember" who gave it to you, well then, what agreement is there?
I am not a lawyer (IANAL) but the way I see it:
An EULA usually says that some action (like using the product) indicates your acceptance of the terms of the EULA. This is not legally binding. If I reject the EULA, I can still do as I want with the product because I am NOT bound by the EULA to do or not-do anything. Or to put it another way:
Me: I don't like this EULA - into the shitcan it goes.
Other: Hey, don't you have to return that product now?
Me: No, why?
Other: That EULA said so.
Me: I never agreed to that, remember?
Other: But you're using the product, and that indicates your acceptance of the terms of the EULA.
Me: Says who? The EULA? I rejected that, remember?
This goes against your statement that me getting to use the tool has something to do with consideration. I can use the tool all I want, I bought it. Nothing in the EULA applies until I agree to it - not even terms relating to my non-acceptance of the EULA, for they are part of it too. In the software world, you should be safe clicking the "I Accept" button to make the software work - it only means you accept the terms of the EULA if you have already accepted the terms of the EULA - otherwise, it's just something you must do to make the software function. Perhaps I should have been a lawyer:-) but I am not. This post is all just speculation.
IANAL but if I were ever standing in court for violating a EULA, I would want to ask the plaintif if they even know who they have "licensing agreements" with. For example, can you say weather honorable judge so-and-so here has such an agreement with you? How can you have legally binding agreements without signatures, without acknowledgement, and without even knowing who you have them with? The fact that you don't know/care who you have agreements with points to their one-sided nature. Doesn't a contract have to be mutually beneficial too?
BTW, one should not reasonably expect to make a living selling a product who's purpose is to replicate itself. Get another job, don't be a knob.
Try storing the 1781 as a visual pattern. It forms a nice little triangle on the left side of the keypad. If you train yourself to the pattern rather than the digits, you may be able to remember the other digits while punching that triangle. No as many numbers, but one visual. I agree with your general sentiment about the phone system though. I've suffered 3 area code splits in 20 years, all without moving.
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If the Linux kernel is replaced with the GNU-Hurd, you end up with the GNU system (no /xxxxx). All the required components are GNU unless you add some extras (like a web browser or X). A kernel is a very non-trivial piece, and Linus is to be commended for his effort. However, he started with the entire GNU tool chain and utilities in order to write it - not to mention the GPL license. If these GNU things weren't there, we wouldn't have Linux today. Some people claim they can make a GNU-less Linux variant, but that would be a good trick since all the tools are GNU. Even the guys working on OpenBeOS are using which compiler? RMS more likely trying to associate Linux with Free software rather than allowing it to be associated with "open source" software. This means tying it to GNU.
I hope he's prepared for to pay up should his asteroid ever crash into the earth. In the mean time, he should just send the police over there to evict the probe since NASA won't pay.
How do these guys expect to collect the money without being caught? You need to show up in person to accept cash (or at least show up at a drop point) and large transfers can be tracked... Can't they? So how do they collect?
Get off the open/closed source debate already. If you use electronic voting, you open the door to electronic voting fraud. Open source is helpful in this regard, but not as effective as keeping to paper voting. Think about it. You can pay people to commit fraud anyway, but the cost goes up with number of votes altered/subtituted/whatever. With electronic voting, one guy can automate the fraud process with much greater effect. You raise the efficiency of the fraud as well as the voting.
People will argue the supposed cost and efficiency advantages of e-voting. Think about the cost of counting YOUR ONE VOTE and compare that to what YOU PAY IN TAXES each year - then tell me it's expensive. It's been working fine for over 200 years, there is little to gain from changing and everything to lose.
I've said it before. Use a portion of the IPV6 address space to tie IP locations to physical locations. This would eliminate some of the problems but not the more prominent domain handling one...
SCO has been making claims that violate Linus GPL for months, and he has taken no action. You could argue he was correct in waiting for something a little more concrete before doing anything. In fact, he may want to wait until they sell a copy under the new terms, not just say they will. I don't know how I got a +5 out of this either ;-) Linus just doesn't seem to care much about it. I guess I'm just looking for an indication that he does - as are other people I know.
No, and Yes. He is in Michigan (only I believe), but calls can come and go anywhere. He also converts incoming FAX to email for you. He's tied to the traditional phone network and the net, this allows calls to cross between the two. I'll have to find more info on signing up...
My current 3D ray tracing library handles millions of polygons very efficiently. The trick is to use a spatial index (BSP tree, OctTree, etc...) to reduce the number of intersection calculations. This gives you log(n) work for n primitives, so I can square the number of primitives with a 2X increase in CPU speed. This is the single most important part in any good ray tracer. Most people have not worked with RT indexes that are suitable for animation (BSP tree needs total rebuild after any movement for example). I have a good one, it just needs ported to 2.5D.
In a regular futures market, you're not gambling in a pure sense. Your commiting to buy something (a real tangible something) at some future date for a price you specify today. If that thing becomes more or less valuable by the time you are obligated to buy it then you win or lose money. Generally you sell your contract before the due date, and there is always someone who needs/uses the product that picks it up at the end. This is a bit different than betting on events. What is the market value of an event happening or not? I think this is a fancy way to disguise pure gambling as a legitimate financial instrument.
A friend of mine said his company (which he owns) charges $8.00 per month and $0.03 per minute anywhere in the US. He's expanding...
BTW I'm also for a huge subnet of IPV6 that translates GPS coordinates to an address (not to the LSB, so apartment, fridges, etc aren't a problem). This could aid routing, spam, etc...
I have recently done some experiments with raytracing 2D scene graphs. It's very preliminary and would require a speedy processor compared to X, but it's supprisingly fast @700MHz. This approach eliminates the need to compute intersections, unions, etc.. of arbitrary areas on the screen - this is handled per ray during rendering. It also prevents any primitives having to know how to paint themselves. You only need to trace dirty pixels. Bitmaps only need to be stored for objects that contain bitmaps. You can also do anti-aliasing with a little more CPU and transparency should be simple. The code is NOT a GUI by a long shot, it only demonstrates that RT might be a practical approach to 2D scenes today. Oh, and it doesn't have font support :-(
If you want to cause trouble for them, just demand a recount. When it is found to be impossible, people will notice. For the conspiracy minded, notice that the loser didn't contest the election and demand a recount - This makes sense if you think they are all really on the same side and the public is the enemy. I'm not that cynical yet, but a lot of /. readers are :-)
I disagree. Most of the general public has never heard of them.
Will good old corn oil do the same? I used to use it to insulate capacitors made with salt water - it prevented the ring of corona around the pickle jars. I suppose it may reduce evaporation too.
I will gladly make a large FSF donation if Linus will get off his fucking ass and have FSF represent him in this case. I'd appreciate if other developers would join him, and if other /.ers would contribute with dollars. If you've been wondering when "that time" would come, it's here now.
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Better still would be to use a table, then a browser need not fetch another file at all.
And this costs HOW much to apply for? One problem is that the government made the PTO into a profit center by allowing their income to fund other spending/pork. This gives congress a reason to keep the "patent anything" system as-is.
But people keep saying he won't be able to pass any more nasty laws. Where does it say he's stepping down from his seat in Washington? Looks like a blatant coflict of interest to me.
I am not a lawyer (IANAL) but the way I see it:
An EULA usually says that some action (like using the product) indicates your acceptance of the terms of the EULA. This is not legally binding. If I reject the EULA, I can still do as I want with the product because I am NOT bound by the EULA to do or not-do anything. Or to put it another way:
Me: I don't like this EULA - into the shitcan it goes.
Other: Hey, don't you have to return that product now?
Me: No, why?
Other: That EULA said so.
Me: I never agreed to that, remember?
Other: But you're using the product, and that indicates your acceptance of the terms of the EULA.
Me: Says who? The EULA? I rejected that, remember?
This goes against your statement that me getting to use the tool has something to do with consideration. I can use the tool all I want, I bought it. Nothing in the EULA applies until I agree to it - not even terms relating to my non-acceptance of the EULA, for they are part of it too. In the software world, you should be safe clicking the "I Accept" button to make the software work - it only means you accept the terms of the EULA if you have already accepted the terms of the EULA - otherwise, it's just something you must do to make the software function. Perhaps I should have been a lawyer :-) but I am not. This post is all just speculation.
BTW, one should not reasonably expect to make a living selling a product who's purpose is to replicate itself. Get another job, don't be a knob.
This fits right in.
It IS in line with their intended use. It is NOT in line with their stated use.
Try storing the 1781 as a visual pattern. It forms a nice little triangle on the left side of the keypad. If you train yourself to the pattern rather than the digits, you may be able to remember the other digits while punching that triangle. No as many numbers, but one visual. I agree with your general sentiment about the phone system though. I've suffered 3 area code splits in 20 years, all without moving.