and it is sensitive to whitespaces! I downloaded it and ran gv on it -- the image was OK. Afterwards I edited the source, adding *nothing* but newlines, to make it "more readable". gv produced a somewhat different picture then. hmm
Netscape's mailer autocompletes based on the addressbook items. This can be called speculation , IMO.
Then, you may say, the addressbook already exists
and thus the entries there are previous, but isn't
that the case with the Pokemon example too? I mean,
someone has already bought the Pokemon thing, and
so, from the point of view of there system, it is
previous.
Look at it this way. There are several different sports already competing for the word "football" (and most of them are not soccer!) It is quite confusing to try and also call soccer "football".
In contrast, there is only one soccer, so why not call it that?
In Italy, the game is known as "calcio".
In Argentina they call it "pellota",
AFAIK. In the US/Canada it is called "soccer".
Fine, different countries, different names.
Internationally, however, the game is known
as football. It has been like this for much more
than a century.
It is olympic sport
and the name they use is, of course, football,
not soccer:
The game is called football .
Check out
FIFA's
official site
if you don't believe me.
Why can't people agree to use that name
in international context, and call the
american game "american football", although
in it the ball is moved around
(AFAIK) mostly with hands?
how are they going to wire the thing?
Suppose the nanotubes are grown, properly
aligned and so on. How are they going to place
the wires between them? AFAIK, the current
technology for wiring the chips is exactly
the same that puts the transistors, namely
the photo-process. Obviously, this si not
going to work on the scale of nanotubes.
Arguably the most promising containment setup at the moment is the tokamak (from the Russian for bottle, iirc), which is a torus-shaped machine.
No, the Russian word for bottle is "butil`",
with soft "l" at the end. That is, IIRC, Russian
is not my first language. But tokamak is not bottle
in Russian for sure.
According to this link
http://ippex.pppl.gov/fusion/glossary.html
Tokamak is an acronym derived from the Russian words toroid-kamera-magnit-katushka, meaning "the toroidal chamber and magnetic coil."
OK, I just tried http://www.weather.com/
with mozilla, with a profile that does not disable popups or animated gifs (mozilla allows you to have multiple profiles, with independent settings).
I don't see any popup at this page. There is an
animated gif, which mozilla CAN block with the
appropriate setting, and a flash, which it
cannot block; or at least I dunno how how deal with flash, see my question below.
Mozilla saves me, and many others as well, judging by the responses so far, from popups.
Further, mozilla
prevents animated gifs from being animated
does not allow windows resizing and moving around
prevents the status bar at the bottom being modified by the page, so that when I move the mouse pointer over a link, I can see the real URL, not what the web designer wanted me to see.
However, I still dunno how how to block flash ads, or at least to disable their motion by default. Of course, I could remove the flash plug-in, but then I'd get all the time the dialog
window prompting me to download the plug-in.
Plus, sometimes flash is good.
I asked that in netscape.public.mozilla.general, and I saw others asking it, but there was no positive answer. It seems impossible at the moment?:(
disclaimer: I do graph algorithms,
not networks...
1. Isn't the networking "layered"?
IP is below TCP, right? Then, the
applications see only TCP and do not
interact with the underlying IP, be
it IPv4 or IPv6. How come that X
cares about IP(v6)?
2. Several years ago, I was hearing
a lot about something called ATM, a
revolutionary new protocol, substitute
of both TCP/IP and the underlying Ethernet/WAN,
that has very sophisticated features
like guaranteed bandwidth, etc. Plus,
ATM is... how do they say, connection-
oriented, rather than `each packet is
routed separately' as IP.
So why didn't ATM replace the TCP/IP
thing altogether?
Nothing is perfect, of course, but after the destruction of Columbia in Feb, many were pointing out how well does the simpler design of the Soyuz capsule work, as opposed to the too-complicated shuttle.
Well, not always. In the 70's (or early 80's... I think the 70's) all of the Eastern block countries sent their cosmonauts to the Salyut space station (that was before Mir). The Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov was very close to having a deadly accident because of the Soyuz. They could not dock for some reason, spent about 24h flying by the Salyut, and finally had to re-enter using auxiliary engines, and having precisely one try to fire them. They got lucky here, the engines worked and they entered the atmosphere in so called "ballistic trajectory" (how can it be non-ballistic?), with 9-10G overload.
I forgot to mention, there were two of them, the Russian Nikolay Rukavishnikov was the commander of the mission, G. Ivanov was the second guy.
This spring, several weeks after Columbia broke apart, there was an interview with G. Ivanov in a Bulgarian newspaper online, when he recalled how he himself was close to having a fatal accident back then. The reason was a malfunctioning fuel pump of their Soyuz.
Yesterday someone at netscape.public.mozilla.general suggested the name "Ashbird". Sorry, I don't have a ref right now, but google would find it quickly.
"Ashbird" sounds catchy, I think. Or maybe "Flamebird"?
Maybe I have to ask this in comp.lang.python, but anyway... The other day I gave python a try for the first time. I was a bit surprised by how the for loop is done. Rather than "for i from 1 to 600" that I expected, it is "for i in range(1,600)" That made wonder about how "range" is implemented. Is the whole range generated beforehand -- like is shell sctipting (when you do "for i in `seq 1 100000`", it generates the sequence first, and then i starts taking values from it); or it does it the smart way, generating the values one by one? Thanks!
Pardon my ignorance. Can you explain
the distinction between API and ABI?
I know what they stand for, I (think)
I know quite well what API is, but ABI
is a kind of mystery to me. google did
not help me much when I looked for
ABI, because all the hits I checked
out were some mail list archives,
where people discussed ABI issues.
that alpha and ia64 are the most advanced architectures. Now tried to find a ref to that with google, but could not. But I swear, I saw it once. Maybe a year ago...
After the BIOS hands the control of the machine to the OS, to what extent is the BIOS used, if at all? I mean, userspace code cannot circumvent the OS -- if it tries, the process gets killed by the OS. AFAIK, there is no such a relation between the OS and the BIOS: if the OS tries to circumvent the BIOS and talk directly to some device, it does not get killed.
So, the BIOS is not a layer below the OS, right? I am talking about real OS's, not DOS or 'doze 95.
So, why is Norway the right place to make heavy water? I have never seen an answer to this. Why did not the Germans make heavy water at home? Was it the abundance of energy in Norway? Even if so, if the $D_2 O$ production was so important for them, couldn't they (the Germans) have moved the production at home after the Norwegian facility was blown?
Hi, I said that here once (I think). Instead of simply filtering out the spam -- which cannot be a permanent solution from general conside- rations, since spammers are adaptive too -- act against it. Send them a false credit card number with some made-up name. People say that thus one may cause trouble to someone innocent. The chances are practically zero, methinks. If many people do that, the spammers will be flooded and drowned. It is a PITA to do it manually, but surely there must be a way to automate it mozilla ? . If they advertise web-pages, DOS them with continuous downloads. Actually, I do this once in a while with wget. Again, one person doing it can contribute nothing, but many ones CAN. If 1% of the "victims" download each a 10 000 copies of the page, the spammer will pay for bandwidth more than the eventual profit from gullible fools will be. And the spammer can do practically nothing against a multitude doing this. This approach is scriptable. . Finally, there are the spammers that do not give any web forms or pages. I got such one today, from the last dictator of Congo's son:) The pro-active defense does not work then:( . It seems that the real final solution will be not what I describe here, but creating subnets of trust that reject email from the outside unconditionally.
I stopped watching Hollywoods' films after I began to appreciate real cinema (European, American Alternative). OK, I did an exception for LOTR. Maybe the next star wars too. . Anyway, that's OT. The common sense tells me that I can modify the content *ANY WAY I LIKE*, provided I am not distributing the modified version, nor showing it to others. In fact, the latter should not necessarily be the case. I agree that the modified art cannot be shown in public exhibitions. But if I show it to my friends only, that should be OK, provided I indicate clearly that it's not the original. . Just think of bying a picture. Sure you can draw on it if you like, cut parts, etc. I see no problem with that whatsoever, unless you try to sell it afterwards. Or think of a book. If I want, I can use it as scratch paper, or I can tear some pages. This is a dumb thing to do with a good book, but it should not be illegal.
I was asking the same question last time this news came up. *Precisely* which patents do SCO have in mind? Does anyone know? The article mentions nothing concrete, just like last time. Hmmm... FUD?
Slashdot Mirror
and it is sensitive to whitespaces!
I downloaded it and ran gv on it -- the image
was OK. Afterwards I edited the source,
adding *nothing* but newlines, to make it
"more readable". gv produced a somewhat
different picture then. hmm
Here is the feedback page feedback to sco
Then, you may say, the addressbook already exists and thus the entries there are previous, but isn't that the case with the Pokemon example too? I mean, someone has already bought the Pokemon thing, and so, from the point of view of there system, it is previous.
Look at it this way. There are several different sports already competing for the word "football" (and most of them are not soccer!) It is quite confusing to try and also call soccer "football".
In contrast, there is only one soccer, so why not call it that?
In Italy, the game is known as "calcio". In Argentina they call it "pellota", AFAIK. In the US/Canada it is called "soccer". Fine, different countries, different names. Internationally, however, the game is known as football. It has been like this for much more than a century.
It is olympic sport and the name they use is, of course, football, not soccer:
The Olympic Committee
Why can't people agree to use that name in international context, and call the american game "american football", although in it the ball is moved around (AFAIK) mostly with hands?
how are they going to wire the thing? Suppose the nanotubes are grown, properly aligned and so on. How are they going to place the wires between them? AFAIK, the current technology for wiring the chips is exactly the same that puts the transistors, namely the photo-process. Obviously, this si not going to work on the scale of nanotubes.
No, the Russian word for bottle is "butil`", with soft "l" at the end. That is, IIRC, Russian is not my first language. But tokamak is not bottle in Russian for sure.
According to this link
http://ippex.pppl.gov/fusion/glossary.html
I don't see any popup at this page. There is an animated gif, which mozilla CAN block with the appropriate setting, and a flash, which it cannot block; or at least I dunno how how deal with flash, see my question below.
prevents animated gifs from being animated
does not allow windows resizing and moving around
prevents the status bar at the bottom being modified by the page, so that when I move the mouse pointer over a link, I can see the real URL, not what the web designer wanted me to see.
However, I still dunno how how to block flash ads, or at least to disable their motion by default. Of course, I could remove the flash plug-in, but then I'd get all the time the dialog window prompting me to download the plug-in. Plus, sometimes flash is good. I asked that in netscape.public.mozilla.general, and I saw others asking it, but there was no positive answer. It seems impossible at the moment? :(
Can you give an example? I'd like to try it with mozilla to see how it behaves there. Since I did
user_pref("capability.policy.default.windowinterna l.open", "noAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.popupsites.windowinte rnal.open", "noAccess");
I have not seen a single popup.
PS: of course, there are no spaces in the quoted strings above, /. put the spaces there.
disclaimer: I do graph algorithms, not networks... 1. Isn't the networking "layered"? IP is below TCP, right? Then, the applications see only TCP and do not interact with the underlying IP, be it IPv4 or IPv6. How come that X cares about IP(v6)? 2. Several years ago, I was hearing a lot about something called ATM, a revolutionary new protocol, substitute of both TCP/IP and the underlying Ethernet/WAN, that has very sophisticated features like guaranteed bandwidth, etc. Plus, ATM is ... how do they say, connection-
oriented, rather than `each packet is
routed separately' as IP.
So why didn't ATM replace the TCP/IP
thing altogether?
Well, not always. In the 70's (or early 80's ... I think the 70's) all of the Eastern block countries sent their cosmonauts to the Salyut space station (that was before Mir). The Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov was very close to having a deadly accident because of the Soyuz. They could not dock for some reason, spent about 24h flying by the Salyut, and finally had to re-enter using auxiliary engines, and having precisely one try to fire them. They got lucky here, the engines worked and they entered the atmosphere in so called "ballistic trajectory" (how can it be non-ballistic?), with 9-10G overload.
I forgot to mention, there were two of them, the Russian Nikolay Rukavishnikov was the commander of the mission, G. Ivanov was the second guy.
This spring, several weeks after Columbia broke apart, there was an interview with G. Ivanov in a Bulgarian newspaper online, when he recalled how he himself was close to having a fatal accident back then. The reason was a malfunctioning fuel pump of their Soyuz.
> (a) Pythagoras got some of his ideas from visiting India,
Really? Do you have a ref?
Yesterday someone at netscape.public.mozilla.general suggested the name "Ashbird". Sorry, I don't have a ref right now, but google would find it quickly. "Ashbird" sounds catchy, I think. Or maybe "Flamebird"?
Maybe I have to ask this in comp.lang.python,
but anyway...
The other day I gave python a try for the first
time. I was a bit surprised by how the for loop
is done. Rather than "for i from 1 to 600" that
I expected, it is "for i in range(1,600)"
That made wonder about how "range" is implemented.
Is the whole range generated beforehand -- like
is shell sctipting (when you do
"for i in `seq 1 100000`", it generates the
sequence first, and then i starts taking
values from it); or it does it the smart way,
generating the values one by one?
Thanks!
OK, thanks. So, the ELF format is part of the ABI specification on a Linux platform. Got it.
I was *not* asking about the acronym. I know what ABI stands for. I was asking about the *meaning*.
Pardon my ignorance. Can you explain the distinction between API and ABI? I know what they stand for, I (think) I know quite well what API is, but ABI is a kind of mystery to me. google did not help me much when I looked for ABI, because all the hits I checked out were some mail list archives, where people discussed ABI issues.
that alpha and ia64 are the most advanced
architectures. Now tried to find a ref
to that with google, but could not. But
I swear, I saw it once. Maybe a year ago...
After the BIOS hands the control of the
machine to the OS, to what extent is the
BIOS used, if at all? I mean, userspace
code cannot circumvent the OS -- if it tries,
the process gets killed by the OS. AFAIK, there
is no such a relation between the OS and the BIOS:
if the OS tries to circumvent the BIOS and talk
directly to some device, it does not get killed.
So, the BIOS is not a layer below the OS,
right? I am talking about real OS's, not DOS
or 'doze 95.
So, why is Norway the right place to
make heavy water? I have never seen
an answer to this. Why did not the Germans
make heavy water at home? Was it the
abundance of energy in Norway? Even if
so, if the $D_2 O$ production was so
important for them, couldn't they (the
Germans) have moved the production at home
after the Norwegian facility was blown?
Hi, :) :(
I said that here once (I think). Instead of
simply filtering out the spam -- which cannot
be a permanent solution from general conside-
rations, since spammers are adaptive too --
act against it. Send them a false credit card
number with some made-up name. People say that
thus one may cause trouble to someone innocent.
The chances are practically zero, methinks.
If many people do that, the spammers will be
flooded and drowned. It is a PITA to do it
manually, but surely there must be a way to
automate it mozilla ?
.
If they advertise web-pages, DOS them with
continuous downloads. Actually, I do this
once in a while with wget. Again, one person
doing it can contribute nothing, but many
ones CAN. If 1% of the "victims" download
each a 10 000 copies of the page, the spammer
will pay for bandwidth more than the eventual
profit from gullible fools will be. And the
spammer can do practically nothing against
a multitude doing this. This approach is
scriptable.
.
Finally, there are the spammers that do not
give any web forms or pages. I got such one
today, from the last dictator of Congo's son
The pro-active defense does not work then
.
It seems that the real final solution will be
not what I describe here, but creating subnets
of trust that reject email from the outside
unconditionally.
I was replying to the numerous posts above that
said basically "You can't modify art, it's
copyrighted!"
I stopped watching Hollywoods' films after I began
to appreciate real cinema (European, American
Alternative). OK, I did an exception for LOTR.
Maybe the next star wars too.
.
Anyway, that's OT. The common sense tells me that
I can modify the content *ANY WAY I LIKE*, provided
I am not distributing the modified version, nor
showing it to others. In fact, the latter should
not necessarily be the case. I agree that the
modified art cannot be shown in public exhibitions.
But if I show it to my friends only,
that should be OK, provided I indicate clearly
that it's not the original.
.
Just think of bying a picture. Sure you can
draw on it if you like, cut parts, etc. I see
no problem with that whatsoever, unless you
try to sell it afterwards. Or think of a book.
If I want, I can use it as scratch paper, or
I can tear some pages. This is a dumb thing to do
with a good book, but it should not be illegal.
I was asking the same question
last time this news came up.
*Precisely* which patents do
SCO have in mind? Does anyone
know? The article mentions
nothing concrete, just like last
time. Hmmm... FUD?