The endpoints of a connection are specified by IP addresses. If NAT is illegal because the "source" is disguised, they're really dictating what software you can use and what you can do with it - the source is obviously the machine doing NAT. They need to understand that they operate at the packet level - they sure don't offer any higher level capabilities that I care about. If they want to regulate what's in your packet, then they can be responsible for kiddy Pr0n and any other illegal activities taking place over "their" network.
I used to work for a small ISP/Telco, and my boss always liked the Common Carrier status because it exempted them from liability. Apparently big ISPs don't understand this yet. If you monitor it, you're taking some responsibility for what's in it.
In response to question #4 he says "I don't know of any good measure of growth rates." I think market share is a good one in an established or saturated market. His claim is about market share, yet he gives NO numbers for anyones market share. If there are 100K Unix developers and 1M Windows developers and I get 20K converts from each of these segments, who lost more? Unix lost 20 percent (of it's market share), while Windows lost 2 percent (of it's market share), yet this ButtNugget thinks the 50% ratio over in the Linux world means the 2 OSes are losing equally. If that trend continues, which OS will have zero developers first?
I'd bet there are far more Windows developers than Unix, so his data suggest that Unix will lose to Linux before Windows - exactly opposite what his conclusion seems to indicate.
MS wouldn't open source their products. Instead, they'd do their own GNU/Linux distribution with some key changes. They'd integrate DRM into X along with some other "features" that make it more proprietary. Remember X is closable source (to coin a phrase) so they can indeed compromise one of the most important parts of Linux and make it their own. Remember, they don't want 10 instances of Office running on a single machine with 10 different users on X-terminals. X would clearly be the first thing they "fix". You'll get D3D or whatever they call their 3D API these days. Many stupid people will jump for joy because they can run their D3D games on Linux, meanwhile OpenGL would die off completely, leaving Linux with another proprietary standard that has no alternative. More things would happen, but I'll hold out for a job offer from them before I go on. This was just a very brief hint of a viable attack on their biggest competitor.
In the mean time, I suggest moving ASAP to completely free (as in GPLed freedom) software. Somone please coin a pleasing phrase for GPLed so people can hop on the bandwagon. For starters I'd like to see Mozilla ported to Fresco, along with GNome. Hell, merge GNome and KDE while doing it. If that's too complex, someone should do a GPL version of X, since the maintainers seem to be having issues lately (see recent/. article) and like to remain "closable". I have been looking in to some of these projects, but I'm just one guy with not much spare time.
If you need more current, add a logic-level FET (one that can switch with 5V). Connect the source to ground and the gate to the 5V signal from the port. Connect the drain to your high power LED. A 1 high on the gate will turn it on. Use an appropriate current limiting resistor - based on the max current of the diode, as the FET should take more than enough.
They say that after open-sourcing an application, a company may go on to build another version. The new version need not be open or escrowed. This doesn't solve the problem of proprietary software. No one is going to actively develop the open source branch if a company is actively developing a closed one. They also don't mention what open source license is to be used.
Wouldn't it be cool if they allocated a little more bandwidth to the voice channel instead of allowing users to "download a spreadsheet" to their phone? When I can't tell you're calling from a cell phone, I'll be willing to listen to claims of high bandwidth.
I was suprised they didn't resurect the Charles and Diana run when she died. I had cut those out and saved them in high school, but later tossed them. I remember the prince (baby) calling mom a "Sausy Wench".
So over half of the Linux developers used to be Windoze developers. Big deal. A better question is: What percent of Windoze developers have switched to Linux development? I'm sure this number is much smaller, but growing.
If purchasing pirated music promotes terrorism and you can't tell what's a pirate and what's not, your only choice is not to pay for it. Buying music may promote terrorism. Sharing it however does not.
Electric generators can be really small if they run really fast. Perhaps one of those little engines could spin a tiny generator and run a Segway. Segways use very little power most of the time - balancing is very efficient. BTW, my old RC engine is 0.4cid 1 HP @ 16000rpm. Too noisy and messy though.
I may well be missing something. So can you please give me a mathematical definition for a 2D surface of finite size with no "end". And please provide this in 2-Space. This will likely require me to do some reading to understand, so could you provide some good links or a reference? I guess I can search on "intrinsic geometry" for a start.
One thing in the review that caught my attention was the reference to best practice. Check out the MISRA guidelines for automotive software development. It's supposed to be derived from "best practices". They forbid a lot of things (pointers, recursion, anything too abstract) because green programmers tend to make errors using them. A craftsman would teach someone the proper use of such things rather than just avoid them entirely. So I'd have to agree with the book in this case and not the review - Published best practices are not necessarily craftsmanship, they are cost reduction efforts.
I don't think AMD has even realized the benefit they will get in benchmarks just from the addition of SSE2 instructions. Barton isn't even feature complete in this regard. They're 32bit offerings will never catch up because of this.
I just want to malloc a terabyte. Even if I don't use it for a little while (4GB is a limitation to me now).
So this means you can "pirate" all the free downloads you want since you already paid for them at the time you purchased your PC. Right? As an author, where do I go to get my cut? Oh, your share will probably depend on how many 100 year old titles you have in your archive.
Oh how I wish I had moderator points today, and that the scale went way above 5. That was the funniest thing I've ever read on/.
But more than likely I've just been working too long and this is really stupid. You should have stopped at "we can all fly around the universe without ever leaving our planet". I just lost it at that point.
I just mentioned this in the electric vehicle discussion. One of the biggest problems for cars is getting enough energy per pound. It's very hard to beat gas for this. Even using hydrogen, the best way to get high energy density is to store it in hydrocarbon chains which would be ummmm gasoline.
The solution is likely to be finding a good reformer to strip the H from gas and then generate electricity with a hydrogen fuel cell. This preserves all the infrastructure and allows renewable fuel alternatives in the future, while getting better efficiency today.
Bush doesn't get it. Don't throw money at hydrogen research, increase the CAFE requirements and let the market figure out a solution. Don't increase it a lot at one time or you'll kill them, but do raise the requirement 0.5 or 1.0 MPG per year for a few years at least.
Unrelated, A peeve of mine is that we still call them the "Big Three" even though there are really only 2 American car makers now. If you've ever seen Chrysler HQ, it's hard not to think they're a local company:-)
I pulled together a team of 3 for the IGF a couple years ago to do rtChess for 2 reasons. 1) I needed a real application to test my ray tracing engine - actually using it revealed how much the API sucked. 2) Entering the IGF provided a solid deadline and goal to work towards. I never expected to win - though making the top 10 would have been nice.
Anyway, the IGF was important. Independants who are working part time (for free) have a terrible time keeping motivated and focused. I did the game in order to focus on the design of the API. I entered IGF to stay focused on the game.
No IGF game got published, but how many entrants have been hired by game companies? It not about the games as much as it is about following through. It's a case where everyone who actually enters is a winner. The other 10,000 people are just wanna-bes.
Status update: 1) The API has improved a lot since then. 2) The ray tracer has gotten significantly faster than it was. 3) There is documentation coming together. 4) I just don't have time to do something really cool with it - need a new project with real goals again...
There are no electric energy storage devices with a high enough energy density to make EVs practical. You get something like 100 miles per charge. Not only is that not far enough (in America anyway) but then you can't charge them nearly as fast as dumping in gas. Detroit has known this for a long time, but they kept trying anyway to satisfy regulations.
I've heard physicists use the analogy of a balloon when talking about the universe expanding. People in a 2-D universe on the surface of the balloon seem to be getting farther apart because their universe is expanding. Expanding into what? Well it's a closed 2-D surface in 3-Space. I always thought this was supposed to explain how we are a closed 3D "surface" in 4-Space. They always get so abstract I think most of them overlooked the fact that this implies wrap-around.
So my friend is having such a hard time kicking his bad surfing habbit that he asks me to monitor his activity. Does this make me a criminal if he goes to an under-age pr0n site? Or some other illegal stuff? Remember, this is someone who couldn't kick it on his own. Does this get me in trouble because I didn't report him?
Not that I know anyone into THAT stuff (except maybe a priest), but I might know some hardware tinkerers that may have ordered a mod chip at some point.
I wish I could say the same thing about computers now-a-days. (Most are considered "old" or "out of date" within 6 months.)
Turn those "old" computers into X terminals. If your really good, you can make them boot from the network and put all the HDs into the new machine. Then again, the old HDs don't contribute much compared to todays drives.
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I used to work for a small ISP/Telco, and my boss always liked the Common Carrier status because it exempted them from liability. Apparently big ISPs don't understand this yet. If you monitor it, you're taking some responsibility for what's in it.
I'd bet there are far more Windows developers than Unix, so his data suggest that Unix will lose to Linux before Windows - exactly opposite what his conclusion seems to indicate.
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Naturally, this includes links to the NASA Blue Marble site and the SRTM project and many others. :-)
My own viewer isn't due for some time yet
MS wouldn't open source their products. Instead, they'd do their own GNU/Linux distribution with some key changes. They'd integrate DRM into X along with some other "features" that make it more proprietary. Remember X is closable source (to coin a phrase) so they can indeed compromise one of the most important parts of Linux and make it their own. Remember, they don't want 10 instances of Office running on a single machine with 10 different users on X-terminals. X would clearly be the first thing they "fix". You'll get D3D or whatever they call their 3D API these days. Many stupid people will jump for joy because they can run their D3D games on Linux, meanwhile OpenGL would die off completely, leaving Linux with another proprietary standard that has no alternative. More things would happen, but I'll hold out for a job offer from them before I go on. This was just a very brief hint of a viable attack on their biggest competitor.
In the mean time, I suggest moving ASAP to completely free (as in GPLed freedom) software. Somone please coin a pleasing phrase for GPLed so people can hop on the bandwagon. For starters I'd like to see Mozilla ported to Fresco, along with GNome. Hell, merge GNome and KDE while doing it. If that's too complex, someone should do a GPL version of X, since the maintainers seem to be having issues lately (see recent
You asked, and now have been warned.
If you need more current, add a logic-level FET (one that can switch with 5V). Connect the source to ground and the gate to the 5V signal from the port. Connect the drain to your high power LED. A 1 high on the gate will turn it on. Use an appropriate current limiting resistor - based on the max current of the diode, as the FET should take more than enough.
They say that after open-sourcing an application, a company may go on to build another version. The new version need not be open or escrowed. This doesn't solve the problem of proprietary software. No one is going to actively develop the open source branch if a company is actively developing a closed one. They also don't mention what open source license is to be used.
Wouldn't it be cool if they allocated a little more bandwidth to the voice channel instead of allowing users to "download a spreadsheet" to their phone? When I can't tell you're calling from a cell phone, I'll be willing to listen to claims of high bandwidth.
I was suprised they didn't resurect the Charles and Diana run when she died. I had cut those out and saved them in high school, but later tossed them. I remember the prince (baby) calling mom a "Sausy Wench".
So over half of the Linux developers used to be Windoze developers. Big deal. A better question is: What percent of Windoze developers have switched to Linux development? I'm sure this number is much smaller, but growing.
And how is that different that buying M|cro$oft products that fund the BSA?
If purchasing pirated music promotes terrorism and you can't tell what's a pirate and what's not, your only choice is not to pay for it. Buying music may promote terrorism. Sharing it however does not.
Electric generators can be really small if they run really fast. Perhaps one of those little engines could spin a tiny generator and run a Segway. Segways use very little power most of the time - balancing is very efficient. BTW, my old RC engine is 0.4cid 1 HP @ 16000rpm. Too noisy and messy though.
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I just want to malloc a terabyte. Even if I don't use it for a little while (4GB is a limitation to me now).
So this means you can "pirate" all the free downloads you want since you already paid for them at the time you purchased your PC. Right? As an author, where do I go to get my cut? Oh, your share will probably depend on how many 100 year old titles you have in your archive.
But more than likely I've just been working too long and this is really stupid. You should have stopped at "we can all fly around the universe without ever leaving our planet". I just lost it at that point.
The solution is likely to be finding a good reformer to strip the H from gas and then generate electricity with a hydrogen fuel cell. This preserves all the infrastructure and allows renewable fuel alternatives in the future, while getting better efficiency today.
Bush doesn't get it. Don't throw money at hydrogen research, increase the CAFE requirements and let the market figure out a solution. Don't increase it a lot at one time or you'll kill them, but do raise the requirement 0.5 or 1.0 MPG per year for a few years at least.
Unrelated, A peeve of mine is that we still call them the "Big Three" even though there are really only 2 American car makers now. If you've ever seen Chrysler HQ, it's hard not to think they're a local company :-)
Anyway, the IGF was important. Independants who are working part time (for free) have a terrible time keeping motivated and focused. I did the game in order to focus on the design of the API. I entered IGF to stay focused on the game.
No IGF game got published, but how many entrants have been hired by game companies? It not about the games as much as it is about following through. It's a case where everyone who actually enters is a winner. The other 10,000 people are just wanna-bes.
Status update: 1) The API has improved a lot since then. 2) The ray tracer has gotten significantly faster than it was. 3) There is documentation coming together. 4) I just don't have time to do something really cool with it - need a new project with real goals again...
There are no electric energy storage devices with a high enough energy density to make EVs practical. You get something like 100 miles per charge. Not only is that not far enough (in America anyway) but then you can't charge them nearly as fast as dumping in gas. Detroit has known this for a long time, but they kept trying anyway to satisfy regulations.
I've heard physicists use the analogy of a balloon when talking about the universe expanding. People in a 2-D universe on the surface of the balloon seem to be getting farther apart because their universe is expanding. Expanding into what? Well it's a closed 2-D surface in 3-Space. I always thought this was supposed to explain how we are a closed 3D "surface" in 4-Space. They always get so abstract I think most of them overlooked the fact that this implies wrap-around.
Not that I know anyone into THAT stuff (except maybe a priest), but I might know some hardware tinkerers that may have ordered a mod chip at some point.
SASI for short. Much better than the pronunciation of SCSI.
You can't polish a turd.
Turn those "old" computers into X terminals. If your really good, you can make them boot from the network and put all the HDs into the new machine. Then again, the old HDs don't contribute much compared to todays drives.