1.Think about how much energy/fuel you waste with the machine just by running it. I bet its far more of a problem. Order a P-133 today. You don't need all that much power most of the time.
If I could get a P133 that was actually more energy efficient, I might consider it. Given that I can't...
3.Maybe jewel cases should go away in favor of the recycliable cardboard covers (HP did a good job with this).
Those things are EVIL. They don't protect the CD and they make it hard to organize them. No, I think the jewel case is about the right size for a CD package. Perhaps a bit thinner and more robust, but that's the only change I'd make. It's gotta have actual sides to it, unlike those cardboard holders that come to a corner. ---
If you want to have various data types in a single document (say, text with various defined style classes and some exceptions, a few images of various types, and a movie with audio), then which is the better choice: XML or TeX? Even without the movie, XML is still better. XML can do just about anything with the right DTD; TeX can format text. ---
Eventually, as other peole see that my protocol is better, it will get used in more and more applications, and could eventually replace the current standard.
How can it get used in any applications other than your own if you don't let other people use it? ---
You want protocols to use existing RFCs. So every time I want to add a new feature which the existing RFCs don't cover, I'm required to go through a lengthy process of getting what I'm doing "approved" by a bureaucratic process.
Use existing RFCs if they're there; otherwise, create a new one, but leave it OPEN so other people can interact with your products. ---
... MUL is DIV, ADD is SUB, SHR is SHL, Freedom is Slavery, War is Peace... ---
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This is a single incident. It doesn't prove anything other than "Bugs happen in Open Source software, and can go undiscovered for a long time." It says nothing about the general case, and nothing about the difference between closed and open software. ---
I bet users (and I.Q. has nothing to do with it) will learn more about computers about the same time that geeks learn social skills and the joy of interacting with live people rather than trying to look up Lara Croft's undies.
Then that time is now. I am a geek, and I have many friends are geeks, and none of them want to "look up Lara Croft's undies". And I, at the least (I won't speak for my friends in this), have social skills and know the joy of interacting with live people (in real life, even, not IRC (!) or somesuch).
Besides, once they learn more about the computer, they cease to be purely a 'user', as the term is widely used. ---
What was the warranty on those CD drives? I've noticed that a lot of computer equipment/software comes with an explicit disclaimer of a warranty for such things as "fitness to task". They basically end up saying, "we don't guarantee it'll work [well]".
So if those units had such a warranty, then this case may be a precedent for the invalidity of such warranties.
As always, IANAL (don't any lawyers post on/.? Oh wait, I saw one... once... ever...) ---
You may notice that every such violation that people praise is one that they believe either is not or should not be a violation, and that the claim of a violation is spurious. I can't think of any cases where this wasn't true. ---
If we were to successfully terraform Mars, and survive because of that, that would be natural selection. Saying that it wouldn't be is like saying that the fact that sea otters use rocks to open shellfish means that they are dodging natural selection. ---
The source to versions of MySQL newer than 3.20.32a (the GPL version) is available under the MySQL FREE PUBLIC LICENSE.
From a 15 minute reading of the license, it looks like it's similar to the GPL, excepting that it's a bit more restrictive about providing source code (must come with every copy; pointing isn't good enough, though if they're in the same archive (say, an ftp site) but different files/packages, that's fine), and there can be no charge for the program alone (it may be charged for in a collection, as with the GPL). Oh, and this license only applies when not on a Microsoft O/S (no joke, read the license); that has a seperate shareware license.
As for using wearables with one eye, it's definitely possible. Many of the display technologies I've looked at are partly transparent, allowing the user to see both the physical world and the display.
Not all of the displays work that way, and it seems that they are more expensive, but I know I'd spring for it to avoid losing stereoscopy and I'm sure a lot of other people would too. Combined with people who need the transparency, there should be enough market to get them out there. ---
Hey, if you're going to put a useful script on it, put some encryption on! Would be better if it were a few months ago; then you could drink your munitions! Mmm, yummy ammo... ---
WeirdX and WiredX are different things. WiredX comes in two versions, WiredX and WiredX-Lite, which are described on WiredX's web site. WiredX.net was created by JCraft, who also created WeirdX, the GPL derivation of the Java X server.
WeirdX is the one with the transparency hack. WiredX does NOT have this. ---
Give screen a try. It'll let you have an arbitrary number of `windows' at console. They can be pretty easily switched between, though I prefer not to run more than 10 at a time (only 10 numeric keys, after all), but if you add in virtual terminals to the mix...
There are a lot of things that X just does better than the console, though. Netscape, LyX, TiK, licq, xmms, dockapps, and just the general ability to have sooo many things on one screen at once is very useful. And besides, what use is a big monitor without lots of things to put on it?;P ---
My personal favorite is email addresses of the/etc/aliases kind. I run my own email server, with my yi.org domain, so I can have all the accounts I want. Mail filters take care of the rest.
Whenever I give out my address, I give out an alias. Giving it to ebay.com? They get ebay.com@otter.yi.org. If I discover that an email is spreading to other people, I know who not to trust. I can also easily cut them off. ---
One tip, and I think it may apply to most software packages. Tell the software that your connection is a little slower then it actually is. This may degrade the voice quality a little, but it gets rid of that annoying lag.
Not so. I discovered the other day that Linux RealPlayer7 (and, I assume, other versions) will not use all the bandwidth available if you tell it you have a slower connection. It now thinks I have a T1 (I have cable), since none of the other settings made it use all the available bandwidth. Sure, it'll screw up some bandwidth negotiations, but few streams will want more than I have anyways.
I wouldn't be surprised if other apps have this `feature' as well. ---
I know a 13 year old that cares about "Hello World". He's been programming for years, and uses Windows, BeOS, Linux, BSD... prolly a couple of others I don't know about. So there must exist 10 year olds that care about "Hello World" as well.
And I cared about "Hello World" when I was 8, and learning to program in QBasic on my 386 (first computer I had). So:P ---
You may use this thing that I patented, if everything you use it to create also comes under this licence.
It's a licencing issue. Patented idea/etc. get licenced out for use. If you require as part of the licence agreement that the person licencing will licence everything created using your patent under the same licence, then you have a viral patent. Huzzah!;)
(note: no statement is made as to the good/badness of the GPL; even proponents must admit that it is very good at propogating itself, like a virus) ---
Say, you know, this printer can be used to make illegal copies of copyrighted works. We should change all printers so that anything they print can be traced back to whoever printed it.
"Napster is basically a press which was designed explicitly for conterfeiting. It was designed to share mp3's on the internet without regard to their legality or legitimacy." And hey, my printer doesn't check to see if what I'm printing is legal or illegal either, what a coincidence!
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If I could get a P133 that was actually more energy efficient, I might consider it. Given that I can't...
3.Maybe jewel cases should go away in favor of the recycliable cardboard covers (HP did a good job with this).
Those things are EVIL. They don't protect the CD and they make it hard to organize them. No, I think the jewel case is about the right size for a CD package. Perhaps a bit thinner and more robust, but that's the only change I'd make. It's gotta have actual sides to it, unlike those cardboard holders that come to a corner.
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If you want to have various data types in a single document (say, text with various defined style classes and some exceptions, a few images of various types, and a movie with audio), then which is the better choice: XML or TeX? Even without the movie, XML is still better. XML can do just about anything with the right DTD; TeX can format text.
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Interesting that I'm using netscape and I render PNG fine... ah, ImageMagick...
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How can it get used in any applications other than your own if you don't let other people use it?
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feature which the existing RFCs don't cover, I'm required to go through a lengthy process of getting what I'm doing "approved"
by a bureaucratic process.
Use existing RFCs if they're there; otherwise, create a new one, but leave it OPEN so other people can interact with your products.
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... MUL is DIV, ADD is SUB, SHR is SHL, Freedom is Slavery, War is Peace...
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This is a single incident. It doesn't prove anything other than "Bugs happen in Open Source software, and can go undiscovered for a long time." It says nothing about the general case, and nothing about the difference between closed and open software.
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It would be linked into my mediated reality and object/person recognition rig, of course. Yet another data point...
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No, only a few.
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Then that time is now. I am a geek, and I have many friends are geeks, and none of them want to "look up Lara Croft's undies". And I, at the least (I won't speak for my friends in this), have social skills and know the joy of interacting with live people (in real life, even, not IRC (!) or somesuch).
Besides, once they learn more about the computer, they cease to be purely a 'user', as the term is widely used.
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So if those units had such a warranty, then this case may be a precedent for the invalidity of such warranties.
As always, IANAL (don't any lawyers post on /.? Oh wait, I saw one... once... ever...)
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You may notice that every such violation that people praise is one that they believe either is not or should not be a violation, and that the claim of a violation is spurious. I can't think of any cases where this wasn't true.
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Except that in this case, the post you responded to didn't make that claim; it only said that it would be a "good idea".
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If we were to successfully terraform Mars, and survive because of that, that would be natural selection. Saying that it wouldn't be is like saying that the fact that sea otters use rocks to open shellfish means that they are dodging natural selection.
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From a 15 minute reading of the license, it looks like it's similar to the GPL, excepting that it's a bit more restrictive about providing source code (must come with every copy; pointing isn't good enough, though if they're in the same archive (say, an ftp site) but different files/packages, that's fine), and there can be no charge for the program alone (it may be charged for in a collection, as with the GPL). Oh, and this license only applies when not on a Microsoft O/S (no joke, read the license); that has a seperate shareware license.
So yes, MySQL is open. Sort of.
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Not all of the displays work that way, and it seems that they are more expensive, but I know I'd spring for it to avoid losing stereoscopy and I'm sure a lot of other people would too. Combined with people who need the transparency, there should be enough market to get them out there.
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Hey, if you're going to put a useful script on it, put some encryption on! Would be better if it were a few months ago; then you could drink your munitions! Mmm, yummy ammo...
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WeirdX is the one with the transparency hack. WiredX does NOT have this.
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There are a lot of things that X just does better than the console, though. Netscape, LyX, TiK, licq, xmms, dockapps, and just the general ability to have sooo many things on one screen at once is very useful. And besides, what use is a big monitor without lots of things to put on it? ;P
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My personal favorite is email addresses of the /etc/aliases kind. I run my own email server, with my yi.org domain, so I can have all the accounts I want. Mail filters take care of the rest.
Whenever I give out my address, I give out an alias. Giving it to ebay.com? They get ebay.com@otter.yi.org. If I discover that an email is spreading to other people, I know who not to trust. I can also easily cut them off.
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actually is. This may degrade the voice quality a little, but it gets rid of that annoying lag.
Not so. I discovered the other day that Linux RealPlayer7 (and, I assume, other versions) will not use all the bandwidth available if you tell it you have a slower connection. It now thinks I have a T1 (I have cable), since none of the other settings made it use all the available bandwidth. Sure, it'll screw up some bandwidth negotiations, but few streams will want more than I have anyways.
I wouldn't be surprised if other apps have this `feature' as well.
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I know a 13 year old that cares about "Hello World". He's been programming for years, and uses Windows, BeOS, Linux, BSD... prolly a couple of others I don't know about. So there must exist 10 year olds that care about "Hello World" as well.
:P
And I cared about "Hello World" when I was 8, and learning to program in QBasic on my 386 (first computer I had). So
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You may use this thing that I patented, if everything you use it to create also comes under this licence.
;)
It's a licencing issue. Patented idea/etc. get licenced out for use. If you require as part of the licence agreement that the person licencing will licence everything created using your patent under the same licence, then you have a viral patent. Huzzah!
(note: no statement is made as to the good/badness of the GPL; even proponents must admit that it is very good at propogating itself, like a virus)
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I burnt a monitor just last month. And when I say burnt, I mean burnt. The smell didn't go away for a day.
Damn clockchip...
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Say, you know, this printer can be used to make illegal copies of copyrighted works. We should change all printers so that anything they print can be traced back to whoever printed it.
"Napster is basically a press which was designed explicitly for conterfeiting. It was designed to share mp3's on the internet without regard to their legality or legitimacy." And hey, my printer doesn't check to see if what I'm printing is legal or illegal either, what a coincidence!
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