I dont know who modded you funny, because it's not in the least.
However, it is very interesting that reversible programs are gaining traction.. Let us hope that reversible CPU's are also coming soon.
Side note for those who do not understand: The heat in our CPU's has been equated to the entropy in the die itself. Numbers are continually thrown away and recalculated then thrown away. These numbers, represented as information, do not just "go away", as they represent quanta of heat (work, if you will). With enough work emitted as entropy, we have heat emanated from the core. A reversible CPU could literally step back through the equation and recover the energy it used in processing with no heat loss.
If we're talking about mathematical analysis and transformations, yeah.. We need provable software. Complex math is formulas and it just makes sense to implement them in a provable way.
However a lot of programming is GUI code, button code, action code and other niceties. Yeah, we need the pretty buttons, but they should have no bearing in the nuts and bolts of our program.
Exactly. I've used a mac (dont want to buy one though) and have used Safari and Itunes on Windows and Mac. The Mac itunes is well done, but Windows one is cobbled together as some sort of crashing software heap.
On Linux (the only host OS installed - ubuntu) I use Amarok as it only categorizes my 100K + songs. When I ran Windows on a prior laptop and installed Itunes, it crashed on a subset of my library.
When I said that (under a previous account), it was not free. It was ad-ware or pay-ware.
Even now, I have a problem with possible sources of spyware as evidenced by Opera as a form of ad revenue. I also have questions about firefox, but Iceweasel fixes those concerns.
Firefox: The only real browser right now. Supports a bunch of anti-crapware plugins (like adblock plus, which gets rid of/. ads) and general power-user scripts for those who want them. Aside from that, its everywhere on every platform that supports any form of graphical manager.
IE: MS has had to work because they prior have sucked and dragged down most every website that does "IE only" websites. It's a good thing that Firefox and standards are taking a front seat.
Opera: They're still around on X86 platforms? I thought they died out and only did DS and Wii browsers and diddled with X86 adware. Havent looked at them since their software didnt fit on a floppy.
Chrome: eh? Its alpha buggyware with none of the plugins we're used to. Im not going to even look at it until it has more what I would consider basic features.
Safari: I dont own a mac. I dont care to own a mac. And I dont even want to pirate OSX for my very compatible Thinkpad-T61 to run it. And pretty much every software ported from OSX to Windows is bad, and I mean BAD.
Konqueror: Too bad I mainly run Gnome and dont usually run KDE, but where's this browser? It traditionally has ran rather well for me, but Im not sure of the recent features.
And you seem not to terribly smart. _I_ would have claimed shipping damages and demand that your shipping insurance cover it and I have a working laptop as per waranty.
Then again.. Try not dropping your laptops. It's not good for them.
It really means you have infinite ACCESS, not usage. Try using cell phone monitoring and pushing txt's through a cell phone as a syslog monitor onsite.. 1 Million txt's/mo would get you disconnected..
Venti is Italian for twenty. Oz. size of the venti is 20.5 . The prior size was only grande (16 oz.) but people wanted more, so they responded. However, due to Sbux being more health conscious, I cannot see them making a Venti+1 size... A Iced venti white mocha is already 500+ calories. make it breve and it's 700 or so the last I checked.
Note: venti iced cups are 26 oz due to ice, as they plan it still to be averaged as a 20.5 oz hot cup amount of liquid.
And our current batteries are lithium based.. High energy storage, flammable metal, and that equals bad situation if they are opened forcefully.
A LNG release isnt that bad.. Just some frozen stuff. Igniting metal that cannot be put out by a traditional 3-type fire extinguisher is in a class by itself.
True, but some laptop and desktop designs have went away from USB connectedness.
For example, on my Thinkpad the SD reader is its own bus. The Bluetooth is a USB 1.1 (grr) device, so I need to rmmod the bt modules and remove usb old modules to be power efficient.
It really is a crapshoot on what the computer maker put on the USB bus. I just lucked out.
---Are you implying that the University would attempt to use the fact that the author asked about the legality of his IP rights on Slashdot as evidence of bad faith against an argument of contractual vagueness? That on the stand, the attorney would produce several screenshots of this very post, hand them to the defendant, and say, "Well, what about these Slashdot posts?" The jury gasps, "He asked about it on Slashdot? He must have known it was illegal. Guilty, guilty, guilty!"
Well, yeah. Most likely, his work isnt that important and will be shuffled around the academics and used internally, and perhaps be sold to a few universities. What could happen is his work could be used for commercial exploitation (sold by university for profit).
His very question of "losing rights worth it" shows that he understands the ramifications of accepting that kind of agreement. I know one district judge that doesn't take lightly to those that understand a contract and flaunt it that they will refuse to abide by it. I'm not a lawyer but stuff that like calls for things like treble damages (ugh). I'm not a lawyer, but I can read a contract and understand the gist behind it. I know when it's stupid to sign an agreement heavily skewed against me.
---Trust me, it's very clear that you are not a lawyer. I, however, am a lawyer, and can tell you that you really should not become a lawyer. Or post answers to legal questions on Slashdot.
That's why I was blunt. Questions regarding employment, at-will, and contract work are reserved for lawyer types to deal with, especially when dealing with intellectual material. That law is ugly and you can get screwed quick.
ObStory: I worked at a company that wasn't terribly ethical. I worked at their company for 1 year (one year after that, they declared bankruptcy and skipped town). I set up much of their infrastructure for their little wireless internet fly-by-night operation. 6 months in, they realized that if they were to lose me, they'd be screwed. So instead of treating their people better, they decide to have everybody sign a "contract". Yeouch. It was a "you cant work anywhere in the world with computers" kind of trash. Of course they demanded that I signed it then and there. I said I needed to have a lawyer to check it over. Bad mistake on their part. I kept it and refused to relinquish it, then used it to quit my job and get unemployment. There's a section in Indiana code that disclaims that no company can force after-employment contracts and the recourse is that you get unemployment if you wish to quit right then and there.
I filed for my hearing with the unemployment judge. They never showed up. The bad side is I only received unemployment for 1 month (got a job, I hate being on the public dole).
Well, laptop mode's an obvious. However, I would not enable swap at all, or at least put it on the FS somewhere. If you do that, you wont be able to hibernate properly. Nor will hibernation work properly if you encrypt swap (partition).
You're looking at standby or poweroff events due to encrypted partitions and systems. That's the pain you pay for. There is another way... TCPA, and IBM has writen the requisite linux tools to utilize it properly. Just everybody's too scared to use it properly.
Well, the sucky thing about USB is it requires an inordinate amount of CPU. Normally this isnt a worry, but if you're using a encrypted loopback.. well ouch.
One thing you could instead use is the SD card slot and a USB loader. If you choose a 8GB class 6 SD card, you could have plenty of room for whatever, and 6MB/s minimum speed. You're still going to take the CPU hit for encryption, but that is your choice. The big thing is to stay off the USB.
Perhaps, along with the books you could include a CD which would have similar books by current authors...
I look up to these guys due to the fact that realize that the problem with content creators is they are not known. Trading(piracy- damn those libraries) and being popular is a good problem to have.
What I do know is I have a fair selection of books and many novels are baen. The only time I would have qualms about "stealing books" are the damned college books and eleventy-billion editions to thwart re-using books. Last I checked, differential calculus didnt change and the math is still good. grr.
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I dont know who modded you funny, because it's not in the least.
However, it is very interesting that reversible programs are gaining traction.. Let us hope that reversible CPU's are also coming soon.
Side note for those who do not understand: The heat in our CPU's has been equated to the entropy in the die itself. Numbers are continually thrown away and recalculated then thrown away. These numbers, represented as information, do not just "go away", as they represent quanta of heat (work, if you will). With enough work emitted as entropy, we have heat emanated from the core. A reversible CPU could literally step back through the equation and recover the energy it used in processing with no heat loss.
Here's a good link to get you started.
If we're talking about mathematical analysis and transformations, yeah.. We need provable software. Complex math is formulas and it just makes sense to implement them in a provable way.
However a lot of programming is GUI code, button code, action code and other niceties. Yeah, we need the pretty buttons, but they should have no bearing in the nuts and bolts of our program.
Are you a moron, or can you not read?
I know Opera still makes their browser, but I thought it was relegated to do-little platforms like the Nintendo DS, the Wii and some smartphones..
If you do count the DS, I use opera at least once a month.. As I only really bought the cartridge for the memory expansion.
Exactly. I've used a mac (dont want to buy one though) and have used Safari and Itunes on Windows and Mac. The Mac itunes is well done, but Windows one is cobbled together as some sort of crashing software heap.
On Linux (the only host OS installed - ubuntu) I use Amarok as it only categorizes my 100K + songs. When I ran Windows on a prior laptop and installed Itunes, it crashed on a subset of my library.
When I said that (under a previous account), it was not free. It was ad-ware or pay-ware.
Even now, I have a problem with possible sources of spyware as evidenced by Opera as a form of ad revenue. I also have questions about firefox, but Iceweasel fixes those concerns.
And I also posted this post so long ago. And I still stand by it.
Firefox: The only real browser right now. Supports a bunch of anti-crapware plugins (like adblock plus, which gets rid of /. ads) and general power-user scripts for those who want them. Aside from that, its everywhere on every platform that supports any form of graphical manager.
IE: MS has had to work because they prior have sucked and dragged down most every website that does "IE only" websites. It's a good thing that Firefox and standards are taking a front seat.
Opera: They're still around on X86 platforms? I thought they died out and only did DS and Wii browsers and diddled with X86 adware. Havent looked at them since their software didnt fit on a floppy.
Chrome: eh? Its alpha buggyware with none of the plugins we're used to. Im not going to even look at it until it has more what I would consider basic features.
Safari: I dont own a mac. I dont care to own a mac. And I dont even want to pirate OSX for my very compatible Thinkpad-T61 to run it. And pretty much every software ported from OSX to Windows is bad, and I mean BAD.
Konqueror: Too bad I mainly run Gnome and dont usually run KDE, but where's this browser? It traditionally has ran rather well for me, but Im not sure of the recent features.
"Upgrade to Vista"
Must have been from Mac.
And you seem not to terribly smart. _I_ would have claimed shipping damages and demand that your shipping insurance cover it and I have a working laptop as per waranty.
Then again.. Try not dropping your laptops. It's not good for them.
Heh, that's what you think.
It really means you have infinite ACCESS, not usage. Try using cell phone monitoring and pushing txt's through a cell phone as a syslog monitor onsite.. 1 Million txt's/mo would get you disconnected..
I work at Sbux.
Venti is Italian for twenty. Oz. size of the venti is 20.5 . The prior size was only grande (16 oz.) but people wanted more, so they responded. However, due to Sbux being more health conscious, I cannot see them making a Venti+1 size... A Iced venti white mocha is already 500+ calories. make it breve and it's 700 or so the last I checked.
Note: venti iced cups are 26 oz due to ice, as they plan it still to be averaged as a 20.5 oz hot cup amount of liquid.
And our current batteries are lithium based.. High energy storage, flammable metal, and that equals bad situation if they are opened forcefully.
A LNG release isnt that bad.. Just some frozen stuff. Igniting metal that cannot be put out by a traditional 3-type fire extinguisher is in a class by itself.
True, but some laptop and desktop designs have went away from USB connectedness.
For example, on my Thinkpad the SD reader is its own bus. The Bluetooth is a USB 1.1 (grr) device, so I need to rmmod the bt modules and remove usb old modules to be power efficient.
It really is a crapshoot on what the computer maker put on the USB bus. I just lucked out.
---Are you implying that the University would attempt to use the fact that the author asked about the legality of his IP rights on Slashdot as evidence of bad faith against an argument of contractual vagueness? That on the stand, the attorney would produce several screenshots of this very post, hand them to the defendant, and say, "Well, what about these Slashdot posts?" The jury gasps, "He asked about it on Slashdot? He must have known it was illegal. Guilty, guilty, guilty!"
Well, yeah. Most likely, his work isnt that important and will be shuffled around the academics and used internally, and perhaps be sold to a few universities. What could happen is his work could be used for commercial exploitation (sold by university for profit).
His very question of "losing rights worth it" shows that he understands the ramifications of accepting that kind of agreement. I know one district judge that doesn't take lightly to those that understand a contract and flaunt it that they will refuse to abide by it. I'm not a lawyer but stuff that like calls for things like treble damages (ugh). I'm not a lawyer, but I can read a contract and understand the gist behind it. I know when it's stupid to sign an agreement heavily skewed against me.
---Trust me, it's very clear that you are not a lawyer. I, however, am a lawyer, and can tell you that you really should not become a lawyer. Or post answers to legal questions on Slashdot.
That's why I was blunt. Questions regarding employment, at-will, and contract work are reserved for lawyer types to deal with, especially when dealing with intellectual material. That law is ugly and you can get screwed quick.
ObStory: I worked at a company that wasn't terribly ethical. I worked at their company for 1 year (one year after that, they declared bankruptcy and skipped town). I set up much of their infrastructure for their little wireless internet fly-by-night operation. 6 months in, they realized that if they were to lose me, they'd be screwed. So instead of treating their people better, they decide to have everybody sign a "contract". Yeouch. It was a "you cant work anywhere in the world with computers" kind of trash. Of course they demanded that I signed it then and there. I said I needed to have a lawyer to check it over. Bad mistake on their part. I kept it and refused to relinquish it, then used it to quit my job and get unemployment. There's a section in Indiana code that disclaims that no company can force after-employment contracts and the recourse is that you get unemployment if you wish to quit right then and there.
I filed for my hearing with the unemployment judge. They never showed up. The bad side is I only received unemployment for 1 month (got a job, I hate being on the public dole).
Well, laptop mode's an obvious. However, I would not enable swap at all, or at least put it on the FS somewhere. If you do that, you wont be able to hibernate properly. Nor will hibernation work properly if you encrypt swap (partition).
You're looking at standby or poweroff events due to encrypted partitions and systems. That's the pain you pay for. There is another way... TCPA, and IBM has writen the requisite linux tools to utilize it properly. Just everybody's too scared to use it properly.
Well, the sucky thing about USB is it requires an inordinate amount of CPU. Normally this isnt a worry, but if you're using a encrypted loopback.. well ouch.
One thing you could instead use is the SD card slot and a USB loader. If you choose a 8GB class 6 SD card, you could have plenty of room for whatever, and 6MB/s minimum speed. You're still going to take the CPU hit for encryption, but that is your choice. The big thing is to stay off the USB.
Wow. 40+MBps speeds on cell networks, and text messages will still be .20$ per.
Meh.
Mm Mmmm Mmmm...
I could deal with Urd. She'd be rather fun to, ahem..
Talk to a fucking lawyer.
Or back down.
You're talking out your ass here.
TCP and UDP are similar protocols that use IP as the transport.
TCP provides session, exponential backoff, and many other features.
UDP does very little.
---How many pieces of Shareware lay unpaid on your computer right now?
None. Illegal, yes. Shareware or crackware, none.
Im running Ubuntu 8.10 + medibuntu. I knowingly "infringe" on the DMCA and codec patents. Damn those CSS dvd decoding softwares!!
Damn straight. Around these parts, I hunt deer and they hunt me. I use a 2 ton missile, and they use their bodies :(
Too bad Ive wrecked 2 cars, including cracking the engine block in 2 on a 10 point buck. That one sucked.
People actually think that? Disgusting.
I actually thank the creature that died so that I may live. It may have not chose to die, but it did so keeps me living, and that I am grateful.
Perhaps, along with the books you could include a CD which would have similar books by current authors...
I look up to these guys due to the fact that realize that the problem with content creators is they are not known. Trading(piracy- damn those libraries) and being popular is a good problem to have.
What I do know is I have a fair selection of books and many novels are baen. The only time I would have qualms about "stealing books" are the damned college books and eleventy-billion editions to thwart re-using books. Last I checked, differential calculus didnt change and the math is still good. grr.
Yes.
A = B = 501 at step number 57515.