Researchers monitored the performance of three bots and then moved them in and out of the lineup like football players
So in a sense the computer wasn't really playing anyhow. I suspect that deciding which bots to move in and out is another skill that humans are better at than computers.
That's not what reversible computing means. Reversible computing allows for power consumption below the 1/2 kT per bit theoretical minimum for energy consumption in a computer. Feynman's lectures on computing describe it pretty well.
Windows is extremely profitable. Here, for example, is an article about how Google now has greater revenue than Microsoft's Windows division (called the Client division). But... it also says:
Operating profit was $2.8 billion in Microsoft's Client division for the quarter, a 74 percent profit margin -- the type of profitability that has made Windows legendary in the business world. Google's operating profit was $1.1 billion in the same period, a more modest 29 percent margin.
I say we give him just one *tiny* little pin prick for each of the spam messages he sent out. The pricks should be delivered at the same rate as the spam was delivered.
The difference is that you signed an agreement granting an easement for those lines so they are not your property. If your house is not new construction, then you became successor in interest to such an agreement.
The space inside my house has traditionally been considered sacrosanct in the U.S. and has been granted extra levels of protection way, way beyond the level of protection granted to me in my backyard.
What the law says is that I cannot make measurements on certain E/M signals that are present inside my house and perform mathematical operations on those signals. I think that is wrong. It is possible for transmission services to design a business plan that does not interfere with my freedom to tinker with the signals in my own house.
How exactly are the airwaves XM and Sirius use any less public than any other airwave? They use up bandwidth just like any other transmission service.
I'll tell you what is unethical. The government telling me what I can and cannot do with electromagnetic signals that private companies beam right into my house without my permission.
They really don't even like choice. They don't want to have to choose one of the 300 active distros. They want "Linux" and they want it to work as easily as Windows does.
If this is true, Microsoft is making a huge mistake offering no less than *six* different versions of Windows Vista. That is actually about the number of popular Linux distros tarketing the desktop.
Alright, I'll make my prediction with the same pledge. I predict Novell will do the same thing to Suse Linux as they have done with every other product they have ever touched, which has been described as
spinning gold into toxic waste. But that isn't really relevant to my post.
I must say, it grieves me, too. Novell has been a really solid community partner. Really! They seemed to "get it" when it came to the GPL community. I just don't understand it.
I should also point out that it is perfectly possible for the agreement to be the "best thing to happen to Linux in the Enterprise" and also be the worst thing for Free Software depending on your goal for "Linux in the Enterprise". I strongly suspect that Allison's primary goal is not increased market share. After all, he's obviously one of those "true idealists".
"Do you think that if we'd have found what we legally considered a clever way around the Microsoft EULA so we didn't have to pay for Microsoft licenses and had decided to ship, oh let's say, "Exchange Server" under this "legal hack" that Microsoft would be silent about it - or we should act aggrieved when they change the EULA to stop us doing this?"
I think this sums up both the reason why the GPL community is mad at Novell even if they didn't technically violate GPLv2 and why there is a need for GPLv3.
Some are saying that the community has no right be mad at Novell because they aren't technically in violation of the GPL. Fine for them. But many of those that contribute code to GPL projects do so because they believe in the intent of the GPL, which is that all who receive the code are to be on the same legal footing as all others regardless of how they receive it. If the GPLv2 is no longer sufficient to provide this guarantee, then changes are needed. And it is perfectly valid for Eben Moglen to craft the changes to plug specific legal-loophole, zero-day exploits in the GPLv2 such as this Microsoft-Novell deal.
Novell keeps trying to make this deal smell rosy by talking up the interoperability part of the agreement. Are they really so stupid that they do not see that the interoperability part of the deal is not what has GPL supporters upset? They could have made any number of deals with Microsoft to work on interoperability without trying to destroy the foundation of the GPL.
If law enforcement really wanted to catch these pump-and-dump spammers it would be easy to do. Just investigate the people who have purchased large volumes of the penny stocks being spamvertised. I doubt anyone cares enough to do it, though.
Oh, and Slashdot? If you keep hitting me with animated advertisements that cannot be closed, I will be moving to Digg.
You are not understanding the principle of exchange. If you have two quantum systems in *exactly* the same quantum state, then they are not distinguishable, even in principle. There is no difference between "quantum state" and "instance". Either system can be considered a "teleported" copy of the other.
You and your friend are not in the same quantum state no matter how similar your behavior.
The first thing I had to do when the computer was new was to type in the key on the top of the computer. It activated fine--it was when the drive went bad that I had problems.
I am an OEM builder myself (How did I end up with a Dell? Long story short, it was a gift...), and what you describe would be against the OEM agreement on the Windows XP OEM packaging. Of course, Dell can demand a different deal than I get, I suppose.
Also, it does not explain how it is that the WGA Notification Tool accuses my MAP copy of being pirated!
One of the fundamental laws of physics is that particles are "exchangeable." Essentially, this means that any two electrons or protons or whatnot are identical so they can be exchanged without changing the physical system (there is a complication related to whether a particle is a fermion or a boson or [in the case of a 2D system] an "anyon").
So, if I can transmit information in such a way as to make one group of particles be in exactly the same quantum state as another group of particles, I have "teleported" them in some sense.
I am a member of the Microsoft Action Pack (MAP) subscription. It comes with, among other things, 10 Windows XP Pro licenses. I am currently using only one Windows XP Pro license from my MAP subscription and the WGA Notification Tool flags it as counterfeit. Apparently Microsoft is distributing counterfeit copies of Windows XP Pro themselves. Of course, the WGA Notification Tool says that I owe Microsoft a wad of cash to get a "legal" copy. I got it from them, how can it not be legal?
My daughters have a computer direct from Dell. The hard drive went out. When I reinstalled Windows XP Pro on it using the activation code on the sticker, Activation flagged it as counterfeit. I had to call Microsoft and go through a long and complex process before I could get to a human who let me activate. Guess what, the new (refurbished) drive from Dell went out and I had to go through the whole process again. This time they asked some rather pointed questions, but eventually let me Activate.
I have told all of my clients *not* to accept the license agreement for the WGA Notification Tool. Too bad they won't have that option when Vista comes out.
Microsoft had better get its house in order with this WGA stuff or expect a huge class action suit. My understanding is that it is illegal to tell people that they owe you money when they do not.
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It could be that allofmp3 was, in fact, not violating any Russian laws.
Are you talking about how allofmp3 doesn't pay RIAA members or how RIAA members don't pay their artists?
So in a sense the computer wasn't really playing anyhow. I suspect that deciding which bots to move in and out is another skill that humans are better at than computers.
That's not what reversible computing means. Reversible computing allows for power consumption below the 1/2 kT per bit theoretical minimum for energy consumption in a computer. Feynman's lectures on computing describe it pretty well.
Windows is extremely profitable. Here, for example, is an article about how Google now has greater revenue than Microsoft's Windows division (called the Client division). But... it also says:
Ok, so some XP users switched to Vista.
There, fixed that for ya'
I say we give him just one *tiny* little pin prick for each of the spam messages he sent out. The pricks should be delivered at the same rate as the spam was delivered.
You've got the choreography reversed
Casino Royale plays just fine under mplayer, so I have to believe that mencoder can rip it, although I did not actually do so.
I certainly do not! Do you?
The difference is that you signed an agreement granting an easement for those lines so they are not your property. If your house is not new construction, then you became successor in interest to such an agreement.
The space inside my house has traditionally been considered sacrosanct in the U.S. and has been granted extra levels of protection way, way beyond the level of protection granted to me in my backyard.
What the law says is that I cannot make measurements on certain E/M signals that are present inside my house and perform mathematical operations on those signals. I think that is wrong. It is possible for transmission services to design a business plan that does not interfere with my freedom to tinker with the signals in my own house.
How exactly are the airwaves XM and Sirius use any less public than any other airwave? They use up bandwidth just like any other transmission service.
I'll tell you what is unethical. The government telling me what I can and cannot do with electromagnetic signals that private companies beam right into my house without my permission.
If this is true, Microsoft is making a huge mistake offering no less than *six* different versions of Windows Vista. That is actually about the number of popular Linux distros tarketing the desktop.
Alright, I'll make my prediction with the same pledge. I predict Novell will do the same thing to Suse Linux as they have done with every other product they have ever touched, which has been described as spinning gold into toxic waste. But that isn't really relevant to my post.
I must say, it grieves me, too. Novell has been a really solid community partner. Really! They seemed to "get it" when it came to the GPL community. I just don't understand it.
I should also point out that it is perfectly possible for the agreement to be the "best thing to happen to Linux in the Enterprise" and also be the worst thing for Free Software depending on your goal for "Linux in the Enterprise". I strongly suspect that Allison's primary goal is not increased market share. After all, he's obviously one of those "true idealists".
Like it or not, many of those "true idealists" are also the people writing the code. So maybe their opinion matters.
From TFA
I think this sums up both the reason why the GPL community is mad at Novell even if they didn't technically violate GPLv2 and why there is a need for GPLv3.
Some are saying that the community has no right be mad at Novell because they aren't technically in violation of the GPL. Fine for them. But many of those that contribute code to GPL projects do so because they believe in the intent of the GPL, which is that all who receive the code are to be on the same legal footing as all others regardless of how they receive it. If the GPLv2 is no longer sufficient to provide this guarantee, then changes are needed. And it is perfectly valid for Eben Moglen to craft the changes to plug specific legal-loophole, zero-day exploits in the GPLv2 such as this Microsoft-Novell deal.
Novell keeps trying to make this deal smell rosy by talking up the interoperability part of the agreement. Are they really so stupid that they do not see that the interoperability part of the deal is not what has GPL supporters upset? They could have made any number of deals with Microsoft to work on interoperability without trying to destroy the foundation of the GPL.
Well, if you are going to pick nits, at least get it right.
If law enforcement really wanted to catch these pump-and-dump spammers it would be easy to do. Just investigate the people who have purchased large volumes of the penny stocks being spamvertised. I doubt anyone cares enough to do it, though.
Oh, and Slashdot? If you keep hitting me with animated advertisements that cannot be closed, I will be moving to Digg.
How could you not list "Firefly"?
You are not understanding the principle of exchange. If you have two quantum systems in *exactly* the same quantum state, then they are not distinguishable, even in principle. There is no difference between "quantum state" and "instance". Either system can be considered a "teleported" copy of the other.
You and your friend are not in the same quantum state no matter how similar your behavior.
The first thing I had to do when the computer was new was to type in the key on the top of the computer. It activated fine--it was when the drive went bad that I had problems.
I am an OEM builder myself (How did I end up with a Dell? Long story short, it was a gift...), and what you describe would be against the OEM agreement on the Windows XP OEM packaging. Of course, Dell can demand a different deal than I get, I suppose.
Also, it does not explain how it is that the WGA Notification Tool accuses my MAP copy of being pirated!
One of the fundamental laws of physics is that particles are "exchangeable." Essentially, this means that any two electrons or protons or whatnot are identical so they can be exchanged without changing the physical system (there is a complication related to whether a particle is a fermion or a boson or [in the case of a 2D system] an "anyon").
So, if I can transmit information in such a way as to make one group of particles be in exactly the same quantum state as another group of particles, I have "teleported" them in some sense.
I am a member of the Microsoft Action Pack (MAP) subscription. It comes with, among other things, 10 Windows XP Pro licenses. I am currently using only one Windows XP Pro license from my MAP subscription and the WGA Notification Tool flags it as counterfeit. Apparently Microsoft is distributing counterfeit copies of Windows XP Pro themselves. Of course, the WGA Notification Tool says that I owe Microsoft a wad of cash to get a "legal" copy. I got it from them, how can it not be legal?
My daughters have a computer direct from Dell. The hard drive went out. When I reinstalled Windows XP Pro on it using the activation code on the sticker, Activation flagged it as counterfeit. I had to call Microsoft and go through a long and complex process before I could get to a human who let me activate. Guess what, the new (refurbished) drive from Dell went out and I had to go through the whole process again. This time they asked some rather pointed questions, but eventually let me Activate.
I have told all of my clients *not* to accept the license agreement for the WGA Notification Tool. Too bad they won't have that option when Vista comes out.
Microsoft had better get its house in order with this WGA stuff or expect a huge class action suit. My understanding is that it is illegal to tell people that they owe you money when they do not.
Actually, theater ticket sales are down too.
You are confusing copyright with trademark.