movement of the center of mass nor axle has anything to do with smoothness: it's movement of the rider.
20 or 30 years ago (i searched the web, sorry, couldn't find) honda (an engineer there, for an internal contest) built a bicycle with square wheels that rode smoothly on a flat surface. It worked with a cam on the swingarm, so the axle could move up and down while rolling, and the bike frame (and rider) stayed level. I'm sure the center of mass also moved.
yes, he was being sarcastic, but yes he's also being mildly racist: he is making fun of an entire race of people, on the basis of one man's skin color. this particular man, had not made any reference to his own skin color in that cafe, he came in as a customer. but, he's not a customer in this cafe, he's a "blackie". scratch the skin of half of you enlightened hip young anti-globalists, anti-americans, and that's what we find: racists.
ok, so the man was a petty criminal, which fact was determined on the basis of some dangerous vigilante invasions of privacy: what if he is a political dissident in his home country, using stego to hide important human rights messages in spam to evade detection? Do petty criminals suddenly become subject to racism?
imagine yourself to be a person of african descent: what do you call yourself? "black", a word that 40 years ago was a slur? 40 years ago activists resurrected that word, to a word of moderate pride. but still, it's not a nice word, "blacklist" bad, "whitelist" good, blackhat, whitehat, black-heart, white-soul.... no, so, in the US, a land of immigrants, they wish to point out that in addition to irish americans, and italian americans, we have african americans. so what? is it his fault that american culture and movies are exported as a business and the word spreads? just like New South Wales and New England and New France are nowhere near the "old" ones, so what if the word African-American takes on the connotations of the "African diaspora"? It's called "linguistics", that's how words work and spread. Did you know that the word "slave" comes form the word "Slav"... does it make you snicker, ha ha, how can "they" complain about slavery? THEY AREN'T SLAVS! no, that would be idiocy.
you guys have it all wrong: IMHO, microsoft posted the code themselves. they are planning ahead, so they can be like SCO, and accuse linux of incorporating their IP in the future... the problem is, they had to leak it first... notice they released only old versions.
Why did they take the risk? Because it's not a risk. It turns out they've learned the lessons from opensource, and now they embrace it, though in a familiar embrace, extend and smother way.
I like the sound of this! if, by faulting his arguments, i prove that his views fall short of optimal, will you be more impressed by my views?
And as I pointed out elsewhen, buying used CDs leaves you in possession of a piece of personal property, roughly worth what you payed for it. You have reduced your liquidity, but actually retained net value, thus, in a sense, obtained the music for "free."
any economist could tell you that this is not the reason to buy something, this is: if you would derive more pleasure from a CD than from some of the money in your pocket, exchange the money for the CD, and your happiness will increase. The store that sold it to you would rather have the money than the CD, so their happiness increases. Thus you can see that trade (all trade, but especially free market trade) increases happiness in society. (This is part of what is called "utility theory")
Other minor points he got wrong:
there is a significant bid-ask spread between buying and selling used CDs. You do not have something roughly worth what you paid, it is only more roughly worth it than the difference between what you can purchase a new CD for and what you can then sell it for used. But, new CDs offer you more choice and more freshness premium and a scratch-free disc that will last longer. Free markets come up with pricing differentials that exactly adjust for the differences in happiness supply and happiness demand.
it's the license, it's the license, it's the license. you didn't mention the license: KDE has no plan or vision for the license, except it's proprietary.
Of course, we all know he meant 'factor large numbers to primes
no, what he meant was, as mathemeticians say, "factor large relatively prime numbers".
The difference is, 2^1024 is a large number that's easy to factor to primes.
it's all the sweeter to think that some of these computers were puchased with that rebate of--$400 was it?--if you signed up for MSN, even though they forgot and you could cancel.
It makes a big difference. If it's a Poisson Process, no matter how long we wait, every day our probability of being struck remains the same. If not, every day that we don't get struck, increases our probability for getting struck the next day.
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i mean, the creative energy that went into the linux intellectual property, how is graphix any different?
Microsoft will prove their honest intentions when STL programs work. They broke them on purpose.
pineapple, crabapple applesauce
20 or 30 years ago (i searched the web, sorry, couldn't find) honda (an engineer there, for an internal contest) built a bicycle with square wheels that rode smoothly on a flat surface. It worked with a cam on the swingarm, so the axle could move up and down while rolling, and the bike frame (and rider) stayed level. I'm sure the center of mass also moved.
yes, he was being sarcastic, but yes he's also being mildly racist: he is making fun of an entire race of people, on the basis of one man's skin color. this particular man, had not made any reference to his own skin color in that cafe, he came in as a customer. but, he's not a customer in this cafe, he's a "blackie". scratch the skin of half of you enlightened hip young anti-globalists, anti-americans, and that's what we find: racists. ok, so the man was a petty criminal, which fact was determined on the basis of some dangerous vigilante invasions of privacy: what if he is a political dissident in his home country, using stego to hide important human rights messages in spam to evade detection? Do petty criminals suddenly become subject to racism? imagine yourself to be a person of african descent: what do you call yourself? "black", a word that 40 years ago was a slur? 40 years ago activists resurrected that word, to a word of moderate pride. but still, it's not a nice word, "blacklist" bad, "whitelist" good, blackhat, whitehat, black-heart, white-soul.... no, so, in the US, a land of immigrants, they wish to point out that in addition to irish americans, and italian americans, we have african americans. so what? is it his fault that american culture and movies are exported as a business and the word spreads? just like New South Wales and New England and New France are nowhere near the "old" ones, so what if the word African-American takes on the connotations of the "African diaspora"? It's called "linguistics", that's how words work and spread. Did you know that the word "slave" comes form the word "Slav"... does it make you snicker, ha ha, how can "they" complain about slavery? THEY AREN'T SLAVS! no, that would be idiocy.
seems like it would make it infinite but not boundless.
from now on, i'm going to call patents that steal obvious applications of technologies from public use "pirate patents".
Why did they take the risk? Because it's not a risk. It turns out they've learned the lessons from opensource, and now they embrace it, though in a familiar embrace, extend and smother way.
sure it's not Aldrich Ames?
maybe carnivore sticks the n-"A"-sa in if it sees a story about NSA.
except, his roommate didn't even have a 266: he had just beowulfed [drool] the other 133 in the room to get the bogomips.
I like the sound of this! if, by faulting his arguments, i prove that his views fall short of optimal, will you be more impressed by my views?
And as I pointed out elsewhen, buying used CDs leaves you in possession of a piece of personal property, roughly worth what you payed for it. You have reduced your liquidity, but actually retained net value, thus, in a sense, obtained the music for "free."
any economist could tell you that this is not the reason to buy something, this is: if you would derive more pleasure from a CD than from some of the money in your pocket, exchange the money for the CD, and your happiness will increase. The store that sold it to you would rather have the money than the CD, so their happiness increases. Thus you can see that trade (all trade, but especially free market trade) increases happiness in society. (This is part of what is called "utility theory")
Other minor points he got wrong: there is a significant bid-ask spread between buying and selling used CDs. You do not have something roughly worth what you paid, it is only more roughly worth it than the difference between what you can purchase a new CD for and what you can then sell it for used. But, new CDs offer you more choice and more freshness premium and a scratch-free disc that will last longer. Free markets come up with pricing differentials that exactly adjust for the differences in happiness supply and happiness demand.
People want the freedom to do whatever they want: GPL allows this, Trolltech does not.
it's the license, it's the license, it's the license. you didn't mention the license: KDE has no plan or vision for the license, except it's proprietary.
Of course, we all know he meant 'factor large numbers to primes
no, what he meant was, as mathemeticians say, "factor large relatively prime numbers". The difference is, 2^1024 is a large number that's easy to factor to primes.
your insult to his intelligence is too subtle, i don't think he got it. hey original poster, he's calling you stupid with this.
yes, wrong, indeed: Gregor Mendel was born in 1822.
it's all the sweeter to think that some of these computers were puchased with that rebate of--$400 was it?--if you signed up for MSN, even though they forgot and you could cancel.
but, that guy has it on his resume and has the respect of the slashdot community...
It makes a big difference. If it's a Poisson Process, no matter how long we wait, every day our probability of being struck remains the same. If not, every day that we don't get struck, increases our probability for getting struck the next day.