I really was not so much responding to your post as to that specific point. That said...
Most people do not need or even want specialized tools for everyday jobs.
You'd better tell that to the people who use a dishwasher rather than the less specialized sink to clean their dishes.
Certainly, learning LaTeX is pointless if you never write papers. It does not have much application aside from that. However, the time to learn how to use LaTeX well enough to be able to have a decent looking paper is dwarfed by the time it takes to actually write said paper, at which point it frees up time for me to concentrate on more interesting tasks than document design.
Certainly, just because people don't need or want specialized tools for their everyday uninteresting tasks does not mean that they would not gain a significant net benefit for learning how to use such tools and actually using them to do said tasks more quickly.
With regards to TeX.. if I had a need for producing lots of highly professional documents, I would definitely use it, as long as I don't have that need my time is better spent on other things (and as a geek I know of a lot more fun technical challanges then document layout, but I bet that is a matter of taste).
Oddly enough, that's basically the entire point of LaTeX; you don't need to worry about document layout.
Welcome to gravity, its pretty much the same for everybody on earth.
The issue isn't gravity, but air resistance. A feather doesn't fall as fast as a bowling ball in air. Since this stuff is fairly light, one would expect air resistance to slow it considerably.
IHNDTMB (I have not done the math, but) yes; I would assume they mean that it would have enough energy to orbit the sun at the same speed, and thus the same distance, as jupiter.
(This is similar to the difference between simply flying 100km up and actually going into earth orbit at a 100km radius; the latter involves a lot more energy than the former)
Once you think you've got a possible GPL violator, how you can get a company to show you their source code? Is going to court the only way to defend your copyright? That would put the burden of proof on the original author who released their code under GPL. Does the FSF automatically jump in to defend GPL code?
To force them to show you their source code, you probably would have to sue them, at which point you could probably get them to show you their code during discovery.
Note, of course, that if you had to go this far, you could almost certainly recoup your legal fees in statutory damages, assuming you don't bankrupt them first.
I ask because I was considering releasing a project under a GPL/dual license for businesses, but I don't have the resources to pursue any violators when/if they occur.
As in, you intend to have it available under a different license to people who pay you? This would give you the additional stick of probably making it easier to argue damages.
Of course, chances are you wouldn't actually have to go to court. Of course, you almost certainly would have to consult with a lawyer, and you would have to be *willing* to go to court, but you almost certainly wouldn't actually do so.
HP no longer produces the wide range of RPN calculators that they used to, and consequently if you are looking for a simple RPN calculator, you end up buying them on Ebay at 200-500 dollars a pop.
I got an HP-48G on ebay in september for something like $60-70, complete with documentation. I'm sure that it would fill the requirements of a 'simple RPN calculator' in a pinch.
A laser is a beam of coherent light (to maybe oversimplify a bit)
Phasors are a method of dealing with waves by just dealing with their magnitude and phase (eg, rather than dealing with 100sin(x-pi/2), you look at the phasor "100 with an angle of pi/2", or alternatively the complex numper 100i). If you wanted to find the result of adding two or more waves, you can then add the phasors as vectors and then convert back to waves.
This is useful, say, for doing calculations of laser interference (generally covered in a college physics course)
(okay, okay, you said "phaser" and not "phasor," but I'm not a spelling nazi.)
largely because I'm a math major, and like to typeset with OO's formula editor. I'm too lazy to learn LaTeX just yet
Really, you need to Just Do It. It doesn't take that long to figure out how to use LaTeX to the point where you can typeset your math homework... find time some afternoon or something and get started; you'll have to do so sometime. You can probably find someone to walk you through it. (Once you can do your math homework, then you can start figuring out how to use the rest of LaTeX's nice features)
Okay, I tell ya what... You take a single AND gate able to switch at 2000Mhz, and I'll pull out my old 16Mhz 386. Which is going to be able to do real computations faster?
That must be why the Radeon 9700 Pro, with a GPU clock of 325MHz, was equivalent to the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, with a GPU clock of 500MHz.
The clock speeds of GPUs are irrelevant unless the architecture is fixed.
The kernel is software. I'm suggesting that RPC and DCOM are fundamentally tied in to windows in a way that apache and bind are not to any *NIX system; after all, my primary machine is a linux box and it runs neither apache nor bind.
Most of those exploit holes in APPLICATIONS, troll. Most end users don't run BIND or apache, whereas every windows user who doesn't specifically disable it runs this rpc dcom crap.
I think it's fairly implicit that it has to at least use your ISP's connection, but it would have the advantage that it wouldn't raise as many red flags as quickly as using your ISP's mail server would.
Of course, I see such software as a crappy substitute for a real mail server and a quick script.
modulo latency. When the other person is loading a page or doing a download or something, it takes on the order of two or three seconds at least (sometimes on the order of 10) to do the combination of a dns lookup and a ping.
(I have a similar setup at home, using a normal old router box.)
Because then people would flee from money. I'd thought about this problem myself; replacing, say, a 30% income tax with printing of money such that money loses 30% of its value. The problem is that it's just money that loses value, not, for example, land or gold or other property. As such, this would not act to tax income, it would act to tax people who hold on to money. (translation: rapid inflation, as nobody wants to hold the hot potato cash)
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I really was not so much responding to your post as to that specific point. That said...
Most people do not need or even want specialized tools for everyday jobs.
You'd better tell that to the people who use a dishwasher rather than the less specialized sink to clean their dishes.
Certainly, learning LaTeX is pointless if you never write papers. It does not have much application aside from that. However, the time to learn how to use LaTeX well enough to be able to have a decent looking paper is dwarfed by the time it takes to actually write said paper, at which point it frees up time for me to concentrate on more interesting tasks than document design.
Certainly, just because people don't need or want specialized tools for their everyday uninteresting tasks does not mean that they would not gain a significant net benefit for learning how to use such tools and actually using them to do said tasks more quickly.
With regards to TeX.. if I had a need for producing lots of highly professional documents, I would definitely use it, as long as I don't have that need my time is better spent on other things (and as a geek I know of a lot more fun technical challanges then document layout, but I bet that is a matter of taste).
Oddly enough, that's basically the entire point of LaTeX; you don't need to worry about document layout.
Yes, I know (although it might not have been obvious from my tongue in cheek post)... I have a set of Knuth's TAOCP on my shelf. :-)
I dunno about MIX, but gcc (sorta) has support for MMIX, so you don't need to code in MMIX asm if you don't want to.
You know, your server would probably survive a slashdotting if you people didn't split the article into 100 fucking pages.
Welcome to gravity, its pretty much the same for everybody on earth.
The issue isn't gravity, but air resistance. A feather doesn't fall as fast as a bowling ball in air. Since this stuff is fairly light, one would expect air resistance to slow it considerably.
IHNDTMB (I have not done the math, but) yes; I would assume they mean that it would have enough energy to orbit the sun at the same speed, and thus the same distance, as jupiter.
(This is similar to the difference between simply flying 100km up and actually going into earth orbit at a 100km radius; the latter involves a lot more energy than the former)
Obligatory IANAL.
Once you think you've got a possible GPL violator, how you can get a company to show you their source code? Is going to court the only way to defend your copyright? That would put the burden of proof on the original author who released their code under GPL. Does the FSF automatically jump in to defend GPL code?
To force them to show you their source code, you probably would have to sue them, at which point you could probably get them to show you their code during discovery.
Note, of course, that if you had to go this far, you could almost certainly recoup your legal fees in statutory damages, assuming you don't bankrupt them first.
I ask because I was considering releasing a project under a GPL/dual license for businesses, but I don't have the resources to pursue any violators when/if they occur.
As in, you intend to have it available under a different license to people who pay you? This would give you the additional stick of probably making it easier to argue damages.
Of course, chances are you wouldn't actually have to go to court. Of course, you almost certainly would have to consult with a lawyer, and you would have to be *willing* to go to court, but you almost certainly wouldn't actually do so.
at no more than the cost of physically distributing the source
That isn't true; my understanding is that the cost for the source simply can't be more than the cost for the program.
The short answer is that there is no center point of creation.
HP no longer produces the wide range of RPN calculators that they used to, and consequently if you are looking for a simple RPN calculator, you end up buying them on Ebay at 200-500 dollars a pop.
I got an HP-48G on ebay in september for something like $60-70, complete with documentation. I'm sure that it would fill the requirements of a 'simple RPN calculator' in a pinch.
I understand it from having lurked LKML for a while, and reading the kernel-traffic digest before that.
A laser is a beam of coherent light (to maybe oversimplify a bit)
Phasors are a method of dealing with waves by just dealing with their magnitude and phase (eg, rather than dealing with 100sin(x-pi/2), you look at the phasor "100 with an angle of pi/2", or alternatively the complex numper 100i). If you wanted to find the result of adding two or more waves, you can then add the phasors as vectors and then convert back to waves.
This is useful, say, for doing calculations of laser interference (generally covered in a college physics course)
(okay, okay, you said "phaser" and not "phasor," but I'm not a spelling nazi.)
The problem being that, as I understand it, getting XFS into 2.4 would involve significant modification of other code.
If it were purely a matter of adding another filesystem driver, said driver would have been merged two years ago or so.
largely because I'm a math major, and like to typeset with OO's formula editor. I'm too lazy to learn LaTeX just yet
Really, you need to Just Do It. It doesn't take that long to figure out how to use LaTeX to the point where you can typeset your math homework... find time some afternoon or something and get started; you'll have to do so sometime. You can probably find someone to walk you through it. (Once you can do your math homework, then you can start figuring out how to use the rest of LaTeX's nice features)
nah... just watch them, say, remove verisign's key from the default set of authorities for signed certificates.
Okay, I tell ya what... You take a single AND gate able to switch at 2000Mhz, and I'll pull out my old 16Mhz 386. Which is going to be able to do real computations faster?
That is maybe the most moronic statement of the year.
huh?
That must be why the Radeon 9700 Pro, with a GPU clock of 325MHz, was equivalent to the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, with a GPU clock of 500MHz. The clock speeds of GPUs are irrelevant unless the architecture is fixed.
The kernel is software. I'm suggesting that RPC and DCOM are fundamentally tied in to windows in a way that apache and bind are not to any *NIX system; after all, my primary machine is a linux box and it runs neither apache nor bind.
Most of those exploit holes in APPLICATIONS, troll. Most end users don't run BIND or apache, whereas every windows user who doesn't specifically disable it runs this rpc dcom crap.
I think it's fairly implicit that it has to at least use your ISP's connection, but it would have the advantage that it wouldn't raise as many red flags as quickly as using your ISP's mail server would.
Of course, I see such software as a crappy substitute for a real mail server and a quick script.
Let the rest of the world skin their player
Except for the CLI mplayer people.
modulo latency. When the other person is loading a page or doing a download or something, it takes on the order of two or three seconds at least (sometimes on the order of 10) to do the combination of a dns lookup and a ping. (I have a similar setup at home, using a normal old router box.)
Because then people would flee from money. I'd thought about this problem myself; replacing, say, a 30% income tax with printing of money such that money loses 30% of its value. The problem is that it's just money that loses value, not, for example, land or gold or other property. As such, this would not act to tax income, it would act to tax people who hold on to money. (translation: rapid inflation, as nobody wants to hold the hot potato cash)