Why download 650 megs of stuff when you only need, say, 120 megs for your install?
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How about you just email the text of the article for all of us?
If slashdot determines that this is so bad, how about slashdot automatically caching the page's text for everyone [who is stupid enough to not find Google cache]?
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There can't be more than.5 spammers per person; by (most commonly accepted) definitions, spam has to be sent to multiple people.
I suspect that the actual number is several magnitudes of order lower; in fact, I'd guess that under 2,000 people are directly responsible for 75% of all spam (pure conjecture).
Yeah, those ad agencies are really tough about unauthorized airplay. They want to make sure that only the stations that pay them for the right to air the ads air them...
Feeding a troll, perhaps, but this is factually incorrect. Apache's license is fairly similar to that of BSD- Apple was not forced to release anything for Apache.
Considering quantum cryptography is still theory, and there have been no repeatable experiments that prove that cracking it is not possible, a more accurate statement would be "quantum cryptology, by today's understanding of quantum physics, would be uncrackable."
It's very hard to prove that something is not possible. Especially something that has only existed in theory.
Well, we'll see about scientist being locked up--I'm not buying the hysteria. Dmitri IMO was DEFINITELY not a "scientist" he made a commercial program specifically designed to circumvent copyprotection laws. In other words, he was making money off of selling pirated goods, indirectly.
And Dimitri doesn't have blue eyes because he owns yellow sneakers.
His work on the eBook decoder is most definetly computer science (cryptology). He's therefore a computer scientist. Regardless of what the software is used for, he is certainly a scientist. Now you might want to call him a 'rogue' scientist, but that's another issue.
Don't try to say that because you work outside of the law (Galileo) you aren't a scientist. And more importantly, what he did isn't illegal in Russia...
They haven't stopped. They're probably just not wasting any anthrax; for as long as people are afraid, they're doing their job. People get confident about opening mail again? Send some more..
RMS claiming that he is the father of open source is like Linus Torvalds claiming he is the father of Linux.
No, it's much worse than that. There was no Linux before Linus. There was most certainly open source software before RMS. Fast forward 7 years before there was a FSF and you have free development of UNIX extensions at Berkeley. Fast forward back an additional 10+ years to the first computers owned by individual hobbyists, and all software was free and open source. Open source is a concept much older than the FSF. Now, you could go into the whole "Free" Software thing, but frankly, I don't like people who redefine understood words such as free.
Assuming the pattern of the home user's usage doesn't change.
Lots of people, myself included, are now playing with hardcore audio manipulation- capturing albums/cassettes with their sound card and then digitally enhacning it to remove tape hiss and other noise...
Any idea how long this takes? For the last 45 minute cassette I did (Beatles' Get Back LP Compilation #1, if anyoen cares), I tally up the total computation time at around 7-8 hours on my 400MHz Celeron. Of course, I probably could have shaved 4 hours off if I did everything in 44.1KHz (I used 48 for the editing), but hey..
You could have told me when I got my 486 DX4/100 (coming from a 386 DX/33, which felt like a speed daemon compared to my 4.7MHz 8088...) that I'd never need more processing power, and I would have agreed. And that's true, too, if I don't use my computer to do anything that I wasn't doing in the early-mid 90s.
tar is not a compression utility. It is for
archiving many files into one (traditionally to be placed onto tape). Perhaps you meant to say gzip (.gz) and bzip2 (.bz2)
And frankly, PKZIP is not bad- maybe not be the greatest, but for it does what it does well. Without it, it would have been a long time before we saw good, affordable compression on PCs..
I think he's not confusing organic molecule with cell, but rather organic molecule with protein.
If you had a transistors that were proteins then yes, they could in theory be produced by a cell, i.e. the transistors would not have to be cellular for his dream to come true.
To defer the progressive swapping that you're talking about:
sysctl -w vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts=1
Or to stop all swapping (less useful):
sysctl -w vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts=0
The VM subsystem is _very_ tunable. You should note that under most situations, this won't help performance and in fact hurt it (when the time comes that you do need to swap) - but if you really have lots of extra ram, try it out- it just might increase performance.
There are a TON of knobs for tuning this. Oh, and by the way, check to see if you need the -w switch (it's being deprecated)
Touch, taste and smell are "immediate" sensors--they must be in contact with what they're sensing. Fooling them will be much harder. But are they necessary to a perception of "reality?" Probably not.
Not if they want to do well in the adult entertainment business. And don't think I'm kidding: the sex-starved portion of the population is willing to pay billions to see something like this developed.
It's great when you have developers, that are not looking to outdo the competition or sales, rather just build a product/project. I
guess that's one advantage of building free software. Making it better to well make it better, not to upgrade to sell more
copies. (Of course this doesn't apply to BSD)
Huh? Why doesn't this apply to BSD? It would seem to me that this would apply to every open source project, and even some commmercial efforts.
Fun tech jobs?! No, the only tech Jobs that I know, Steve, isn't that fun of a guy. He rules his company with an iron-fist, and I would NOT want to be on his bad side. (groan)
No, a computer does indeed know what time it is based on a clock- it's the same way digital watches know what time it is (counting pulses). The answer? Computers will still have some sort of calibrated oscillating circuit in them, but they won't be synchronizing processor activity.
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Why download 650 megs of stuff when you only need, say, 120 megs for your install?
If slashdot determines that this is so bad, how about slashdot automatically caching the page's text for everyone [who is stupid enough to not find Google cache]?
I suspect that the actual number is several magnitudes of order lower; in fact, I'd guess that under 2,000 people are directly responsible for 75% of all spam (pure conjecture).
Oh, I'm sorry, the concept of sarcasm is lost on me. Could you please explain to me how I could use it in my posts?
A little common sense, that's all I ask.
Feeding a troll, perhaps, but this is factually incorrect. Apache's license is fairly similar to that of BSD- Apple was not forced to release anything for Apache.
Considering quantum cryptography is still theory, and there have been no repeatable experiments that prove that cracking it is not possible, a more accurate statement would be "quantum cryptology, by today's understanding of quantum physics, would be uncrackable."
It's very hard to prove that something is not possible. Especially something that has only existed in theory.
And Dimitri doesn't have blue eyes because he owns yellow sneakers.
His work on the eBook decoder is most definetly computer science (cryptology). He's therefore a computer scientist. Regardless of what the software is used for, he is certainly a scientist. Now you might want to call him a 'rogue' scientist, but that's another issue.
Don't try to say that because you work outside of the law (Galileo) you aren't a scientist. And more importantly, what he did isn't illegal in Russia...
They haven't stopped. They're probably just not wasting any anthrax; for as long as people are afraid, they're doing their job. People get confident about opening mail again? Send some more..
And methane isn't a gas with a smell. It's perfectly odorless.
You're apparently some sort of media drone; perhaps you should reevaluate yourself before you criticize the media.
Please look up what Jihad means. It's not about war; it's about striving.
Here's a link to get you started:
http://www.moslem.org/jihad.htm
No, it's much worse than that.
There was no Linux before Linus. There was most certainly open source software before RMS. Fast forward 7 years before there was a FSF and you have free development of UNIX extensions at Berkeley. Fast forward back an additional 10+ years to the first computers owned by individual hobbyists, and all software was free and open source. Open source is a concept much older than the FSF. Now, you could go into the whole "Free" Software thing, but frankly, I don't like people who redefine understood words such as free.
We must all hope that smallpox has not fallen into the wrong hands, yes, but there are other deadly diseases out there. Ebola, anyone?
We only NEED one. Good luck trying to get everyone to agree on one!
Lots of people, myself included, are now playing with hardcore audio manipulation- capturing albums/cassettes with their sound card and then digitally enhacning it to remove tape hiss and other noise...
Any idea how long this takes? For the last 45 minute cassette I did (Beatles' Get Back LP Compilation #1, if anyoen cares), I tally up the total computation time at around 7-8 hours on my 400MHz Celeron. Of course, I probably could have shaved 4 hours off if I did everything in 44.1KHz (I used 48 for the editing), but hey..
You could have told me when I got my 486 DX4/100 (coming from a 386 DX/33, which felt like a speed daemon compared to my 4.7MHz 8088...) that I'd never need more processing power, and I would have agreed. And that's true, too, if I don't use my computer to do anything that I wasn't doing in the early-mid 90s.
And frankly, PKZIP is not bad- maybe not be the greatest, but for it does what it does well. Without it, it would have been a long time before we saw good, affordable compression on PCs..
If you had a transistors that were proteins then yes, they could in theory be produced by a cell, i.e. the transistors would not have to be cellular for his dream to come true.
If you're under-18 and live with gifted white parents.
a "security expert"
If you're in your mid 30s and wear a tie.
or a "terrorist"?
If you're an Arab, a Muslim, or are even Arab-looking.
Sad, but probably true.
sysctl -w vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts=1
Or to stop all swapping (less useful):
sysctl -w vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts=0
The VM subsystem is _very_ tunable. You should note that under most situations, this won't help performance and in fact hurt it (when the time comes that you do need to swap) - but if you really have lots of extra ram, try it out- it just might increase performance.
There are a TON of knobs for tuning this. Oh, and by the way, check to see if you need the -w switch (it's being deprecated)
Not if they want to do well in the adult entertainment business. And don't think I'm kidding: the sex-starved portion of the population is willing to pay billions to see something like this developed.
Huh? Why doesn't this apply to BSD? It would seem to me that this would apply to every open source project, and even some commmercial efforts.
It's no more shallow to try to protect their IP rights on Aqua than it is to spend the time to make all of these Aqua-ish themes for GTK+.
I've never heard someone defending skins by saying you shouldn't be shallow. It just doesn't make sense.
For as long as I can't find new things on gopher, that's not going to happen.
For as long as I'm typing on slashdot, that's not going to happen.
Fun tech jobs?! No, the only tech Jobs that I know, Steve, isn't that fun of a guy. He rules his company with an iron-fist, and I would NOT want to be on his bad side. (groan)
No, a computer does indeed know what time it is based on a clock- it's the same way digital watches know what time it is (counting pulses). The answer? Computers will still have some sort of calibrated oscillating circuit in them, but they won't be synchronizing processor activity.