FYI: ackermann 6 6 is equal to .... 2 2 2 2 2 where exponentiation is made m times, where m is equal to .... 2 2 2 2 2 where exponentiation is made 65536 times. --
As far as photons travelling at a velocity greater than c, I don't know what to say.
I know. They don't.
It is very easy to achieve a superluminal phase velocity, but it doesn't help very much, as phase doesn't transfer energy, matter, or information.
Here's how to make something "travel" FTL. Take a powerful laser. Aim it at the moon. Power on. Sweep across, rapidly. The lightspot will cross the moon surface faster than light. It is extremely useless.
Here's another method. Take two sheets of metal. In one of them, drill 1000000 small holes 1 micron apart, all on one straight line. In another, drill 1000000 holes 0.999999 micron apart, all on one straight line. Now if you put these two sheets so that the two straight lines coincide, you will see one small hole. All other holes will be obscured. Now if you move one sheet relative to the other along this line, you will see a "hole" that moves 1000000 times faster than the sheet. (In reality, you will see 1000000 distinct holes open up in a rapid succession.) So if velocity of the sheet is 500 m/s, then "velocity" of the "hole" is faster than light. This is extremely useless too.
In both cases you see phase extrema moving FTL, not real objects. --
A black hole suspended in an absolute vacuum (no matter, no radiation, nothing) will slowly radiate at a temperature which is inversely proportional to its surface area, and thus shrink.
Now let's say we have a black hole and an external background radiation. Black hole now absorbs radiation and grows (but still continue to shrink at the same time). If the temperature of the radiation is greater than that of black hole, the latter would grow faster than it shrinks. Now throw in some matter, and the black hole will grow even faster.
BTW microwaves don't travel 300x the speed of light. Phase velocity can be anything you like, but phase does not "travel". --
Send me a binding offer, signed and all. My email is posted on./; send me yours; I'll send you a fax #; you fax me your offer. I'm dead serious. Not that I'm hoping to ever collect that $1M from you. I just want to frame the offer and hang it from my wall.
place the consumer in some type of marketing pay-per-view big brother hell.
There's an easy way outta this hell. Repeat after me: DON'T WATCH THEIR MOVIES. It's that easy. I don't. I have an impression that I miss exactly nothing.
I do sympathize with the DeCSS cause, but DeCSS (or any similar program) per se is of no use to me. I don't watch Hollywood movies. (And rarely non-Hollywood ones.) I have better things to do in my life.
Judje: The normal procedure for viewing this document is running the executable and clicking the "Ok" button on the click-through agreement. So why didn't you do just that? Defendant: Your honor, I was advised to never, ever run a program downloaded from an untrusted source. --
Surprize! Linux does not have a command line. Nor does it have a GUI. It is a kernel. Kernels don't have UIs. (At least well-designed kernels don't.) That's what shells are for. Some command-line shells run under Linux. So what? Most of them sort of run under NT too.
I know the parent post is a troll. SFW? Have a nice day. --
GPL does not disallow anything that you are allowed to do under copyright law. It allows you to copy stuff if you comply with its terms. It does not attempt to regulate activities other than copying, modifying and distributing GPLed programs. If you don't do any of these thing, you are not affected by GPL. Last time I checked, writing a program to a known API does not constitute copying.
If you do copy GPLed code, then conditions of GPL do apply to things that you combine with that code. That is, if you distribute yourapp and gplapp and a script that contains "yourapp|gplapp"together as a whole, you may have to licence yourapp (and the script) under GPL. --
Gutenberg invented his printing press thingy a long, long time ago. Things have changed.
At that time it was impossible to publish things impartially and indiscriminately. Now people do this all the time. Activity of this kind is so different from traditional publishing, it really deserves a new name.
Impartial, indiscriminate publishing should be immune from libel suits. --
People argue that this is bad. Running Usenet server should not be considered publishing.
Imagine that you have a video camera that looks down the street. It records everything it sees 24/7. You publish all the records.
Now suppose somebody said something defamatory in front of this camera. Are you liable? Should you stop publishing this piece?
I believe that the answer should be "no" in both cases. You record events that are beyond your control. If somebody doesn't like the event, it doesn't mean he has a right to erase impartial records about it.
Running a Usenet server is akin to recording history of events: who said what, and when. Erasing history is...well, erasing history. 1984, anyone? --
An old joke. So this guy wants to emigrate out of his totalitaruan country. The KGB person in charge shows him a globe and explains what's bad about each of his potential destinations. US: high crime rate. Israel: permanent war. NZ: it's booooring. Soon all countries are ruled out. The guy asks: Do you have another globe?
I'm afraid your best option is Mars. Failing that, check out Canada. I've never been there, but from what I hear it's less evil than pretty much everything else. --
Sorry, I have to re-iterate. Mark this redundant if you wish.
If Disney and Warner intended their work to be used fairly, they wouldn't put them in a format with encryption and region codes, and wouldn't sue people who distributed DeCSS. This does not mean that people who distributed DeCSS are somehow wrong. --
There's no difference between dynamic linking, static linking, and IPC as far as GPL is concerned.
GPL permits you to copy things, if you agree to certain conditions. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you write your non-GPLed app to call anything GPLed, and don't copy anything GPLed in the process, you may distribute your app provided that you don't distribute non-GPLed stuff and GPLed stuff together as a whole. The whole may be in the form of statically linked executable, or source tree. It doesn't matter. --
Isn't it funny that although libreadline is far from rocket science, it's been a stumbling block for a number of programs? Nobody's bothered to write a competent replacement, can that be right? And they call us whiners instead of coders?
libreadline is not a stumbling block at all (see my other post about Hugs)
there is a replacement, though I don't know how competent it is
A GPLed program if free to link to whatever it wants.
Fine. You have a GPLed library L0. Convert your non-GPLed program (P1) into a library (L1), release it. Write a small GPLed program (P2) that uses L1 and L0. All calls from L1 to L0 will go through P2.
You will not be able to distribute all three components together. So what? --
Slashdot Mirror
When talking about Microsoft Research, don't give a pointer to Microsoft. This is almost like confusing, say, NASA and U.S. Government (here or here).
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FYI: ackermann 6 6 is equal to
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2
2
2
2
2
where exponentiation is made m times, where m is equal to
2
2
2
2
2
where exponentiation is made 65536 times.
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It is very easy to achieve a superluminal phase velocity, but it doesn't help very much, as phase doesn't transfer energy, matter, or information.
Here's how to make something "travel" FTL. Take a powerful laser. Aim it at the moon. Power on. Sweep across, rapidly. The lightspot will cross the moon surface faster than light. It is extremely useless.
Here's another method. Take two sheets of metal. In one of them, drill 1000000 small holes 1 micron apart, all on one straight line. In another, drill 1000000 holes 0.999999 micron apart, all on one straight line. Now if you put these two sheets so that the two straight lines coincide, you will see one small hole. All other holes will be obscured. Now if you move one sheet relative to the other along this line, you will see a "hole" that moves 1000000 times faster than the sheet. (In reality, you will see 1000000 distinct holes open up in a rapid succession.) So if velocity of the sheet is 500 m/s, then "velocity" of the "hole" is faster than light. This is extremely useless too.
In both cases you see phase extrema moving FTL, not real objects.
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Yes, but there's a limit. When its temperature approaches zero, growth rate does not approach infinity; it approaches constant. Or so I think.
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A black hole suspended in an absolute vacuum (no matter, no radiation, nothing) will slowly radiate at a temperature which is inversely proportional to its surface area, and thus shrink.
Now let's say we have a black hole and an external background radiation. Black hole now absorbs radiation and grows (but still continue to shrink at the same time). If the temperature of the radiation is greater than that of black hole, the latter would grow faster than it shrinks. Now throw in some matter, and the black hole will grow even faster.
BTW microwaves don't travel 300x the speed of light. Phase velocity can be anything you like, but phase does not "travel".
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You'll get the proof anyway.
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If I prove to you that Halting Problem is not in NP, will I get my $10M?
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or shut down your services. It applies to hotmail, geocities, slashdot... a huge chunk of the Internet as we know it.
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I still can see his page in Lynx...where's that magic "no ads, no page" site?
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I don't know if it's good for you, but probably you should take a look at Zope.
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I do sympathize with the DeCSS cause, but DeCSS (or any similar program) per se is of no use to me. I don't watch Hollywood movies. (And rarely non-Hollywood ones.) I have better things to do in my life.
Now moderate me down as troll or something.
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Judje: The normal procedure for viewing this document is running the executable and clicking the "Ok" button on the click-through agreement. So why didn't you do just that?
Defendant: Your honor, I was advised to never, ever run a program downloaded from an untrusted source.
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I know the parent post is a troll. SFW? Have a nice day.
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I don't think function names are copyrightable at all. Otherwise projects like WINE would be in a big trouble.
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If you do copy GPLed code, then conditions of GPL do apply to things that you combine with that code. That is, if you distribute yourapp and gplapp and a script that contains "yourapp|gplapp" together as a whole, you may have to licence yourapp (and the script) under GPL.
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At that time it was impossible to publish things impartially and indiscriminately. Now people do this all the time. Activity of this kind is so different from traditional publishing, it really deserves a new name.
Impartial, indiscriminate publishing should be immune from libel suits.
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Imagine that you have a video camera that looks down the street. It records everything it sees 24/7. You publish all the records.
Now suppose somebody said something defamatory in front of this camera. Are you liable? Should you stop publishing this piece?
I believe that the answer should be "no" in both cases. You record events that are beyond your control. If somebody doesn't like the event, it doesn't mean he has a right to erase impartial records about it.
Running a Usenet server is akin to recording history of events: who said what, and when. Erasing history is...well, erasing history. 1984, anyone?
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I'm afraid your best option is Mars. Failing that, check out Canada. I've never been there, but from what I hear it's less evil than pretty much everything else.
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If Disney and Warner intended their work to be used fairly, they wouldn't put them in a format with encryption and region codes, and wouldn't sue people who distributed DeCSS. This does not mean that people who distributed DeCSS are somehow wrong.
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GPL permits you to copy things, if you agree to certain conditions. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you write your non-GPLed app to call anything GPLed, and don't copy anything GPLed in the process, you may distribute your app provided that you don't distribute non-GPLed stuff and GPLed stuff together as a whole. The whole may be in the form of statically linked executable, or source tree. It doesn't matter.
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You will not be able to distribute all three components together. So what?
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