True, but the also-POSIX-compliant time() is going to cause plent of interesting problems in Y2038.
So, how many people are still running 8-bit processors?
By 2038, no 32-bit processors will be in production. Heck, there will probably be no mainstream 32-bit only chips in production by end of next year (hint: AMD64, G5, etc..).
Actually in Africa it appears that a lot of HIV transmission is the product of their thriftiness and they reuse syringes etc. But throwing it away isn't a solution is it.
You can recycle these since you can make these out of two materials - plastic and steel. Since these are used once, you don't need to make these durable, just recyclable.
No bacteria/virus survives molten steel.
The ignorance of the dirtiest of places in the world is killing people like germ warfare
Ok germophobe. Go back into your bubble.
Honestly, you cannot tell me a sponge full of shit kills people as a cross between E-bola and smallpox!!
When you lower a cable, it is relatively easy to anchor it to a floating platform in the middle of the ocean. Therefore, there is no worry about equatorial real estate, local population, eminent domain, or other government-dominated nonsense.
Except if the cable breaks and wraps around the planet 3 times!
I'll just say I noticed the difference as far as "responsiveness under load" between a P4 2.8 (no HT) running at 3.06, and an actual 3.06 with HT, under Windows. Didn't notice any difference with Linux.
HINT: Because Linux does it the right way in the beginning.
BTW, HT is only supported in Win XP and Linux 2.6.x. Linux 2.4 does not have proper support for it, and Win 2k, well, knows nothing about HT.
For the Nerd types, REPLACE YOUR KEYBOARDS about every 6 months and clean them often
That's some stupid advice there. Just have people wash their hands before touching the keyboard *and* have their own keyboard. For "nerd types", like me, we already have more than one keyboard:)
If I understand the facts right, this guy paid a professional programmer to modify GPL code in order to produce (what he thought would be) a competititive advantage for his website. He never said that the programmer was allowed to give those modifications back to the Mombo team (he claims he has a "contract").
First, the source code has to be licensed under GPL so if a 3rd party gets it, then they can use it under GPL.
Second, if there was a contract then that "professional programmer" is liable for ALL and ANY damages that are specified in the contract for disclosing the source code to the third party.
after all, every web browser is expected to trust graphics and just process them.
No!!!!!:) I expect *every* browser to not trust *anything* it renders.
This is the entire problem with software. Developers just assume that data X will come in Y format with the constraints of that format. Then you get security holes and exploits.
I can already get SP2 and any other updates off of bitorrent.
I get all my updates from personal e-mail from the good people at Microsoft. On the downside, I can verify a significant reduction in speed after installing every single one of them...:(:P
Though this isn't a kernel exploit, I thought one selling point of Linux was the "millions" of eyes on the code to prevent problems such as this in such highly re-used software as libraries.
You seem to be missing the point. ALL software has bugs and those bugs need to be found the removed. That is the software cycle.
I can't wait for the proverbial monkeys to start pounding away on all the upcoming Linux boxes and the inevitable number of bugs to be discovered.
You know, I can't wait either because then these bugs will be fixed:)
Hmm, guess I'll stick with MS since they've already gone through the monkey-pounding.
How well would the transcoding to XViD work when they have sacrificed the CPU to the encoding gods? Wouldn't the machine take a serious hit trying to record and transcode at the same time when they aren't using a hardware encoder?
Well, you record at NICE=-10 and then you run the transcode at NICE=19..
Nobody said that the two processes have the same priority. This is actually an area where UNIX/Linux is much better than Windows since Windows priority levels are really @#$%ed.
Is it a case of "bugger it, 1gig ram is $100, cheaper than using good coding/design" ?
Sorry. Windows will still need swap. I have 1G and I still need at least 500MB ram. I have applications that can use about 300MB, and then after they run for a while and there is no swap, Windows will complain that it is low on "virtual memory". And there is still 650MB free!! I guess it used the rest for a disk cache and doesn't want to free it for the application. Ridicules.
Zero swap craps out windows no matter how much ram you have.:(
While it is theoretically possible to produce enough energy from wind turbines to supply all our needs, it's not technically feasible at present. This is because wind is an "intermittent" resource, i.e., the wind doesn't blow all the time.
Uhhm, wrong. It blows all the time somewhere. It stops blowing at plant A, then it blows at plant X. etc...
The intermitent "problem" is on a problem in isolated installations. If you have a grid spanning hundreds and hundreds of kilemetres, then it is not likely that you will end up with no power from wind at all of the plants.
If the grid is expanded in the future with high-temperature superconductors[1], then wind becomes as reliable energy source as fosil or nuclear. A superconducting energy grid for the entire continent would allow wind can supply ALL energy needs without interruption.
[1]HT superconductions do not yet exist, at least the ones that can carry enough current to be used as part of a power grid. Conventional superconductors are used already on the grid. I think Denver installed some to carry 100kA of current from one side of the city to the other.
Just like the advent of computers has given an extra meaning to the word 'bug'... It doesn't mean people don't understand you if you say, "ARGHhh... there's a bug in my hair..."
That's what you get for using C and forgetting to initialize those pointers.. *sigh*
In the summer of 2003, it announced that it had purchased patent rights to the process of identifying files on a peer-to-peer network using a "hash," or digital fingerprint based on the contents of the file.
Another glorious patent. Nobody could think of this one.
$file='kojo_againt_the_machine.mpeg'
$i=md5($file)
sql("INSERT INTO patented_database (movie,hash) VALUES($file,$i)")
mv($file,$i)
Now distribute $i, and profit!!
WOW! Another example of the genius that allows these patents. Next, the patent to patent the crypto hash! Oh, wait...
Certainly for your primary commercial auto-updated Linux distributions it does, but for anything else it usually doesn't.
Especially since the license of bsdiff is not even close to a BSD license (don't let the name of BSD Protection License fool you). Unless the license is changed to something like BSD, BSDiff is not going to be implemented anywhere except in closed source software. Debian cannot even package this software becauses it is non-free.
I guess the bottom line is if you want to have something accepted in open source *and* in propriatary software, you want to license under BSD. You want to cater to one group (closed source in this case), you will lose the other.
It's true of all reactors. The concrete is there not only to prevent explosions, etc. It is there to prevent radiation from getting outside the structure. You need thick walls for that.
Some of the rock is solid (no cracks) for cubic kilometres. It dates back a over billion years.
But the point is, why put it in long term storage? We might want the stuff in a hundred or two hundred years. Just look at what happened with the "useless" oil - was useless two hundred years ago.
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So, how many people are still running 8-bit processors?
By 2038, no 32-bit processors will be in production. Heck, there will probably be no mainstream 32-bit only chips in production by end of next year (hint: AMD64, G5, etc..).
My has Applications next to it. "Log off" or Shut down is under "Actions" menu... Lock Screen is there too..
You can recycle these since you can make these out of two materials - plastic and steel. Since these are used once, you don't need to make these durable, just recyclable.
No bacteria/virus survives molten steel. The ignorance of the dirtiest of places in the world is killing people like germ warfare
Ok germophobe. Go back into your bubble.
Honestly, you cannot tell me a sponge full of shit kills people as a cross between E-bola and smallpox!!
Except if the cable breaks and wraps around the planet 3 times!
Nooooo... The SG was about quantized spin for e bound to an atom. If SG was about an electron beam, then you would have some washed out CRTs.
IBM set and measured a single electron on a surface. SG was about a gas (or plasma if you like) and dealt with >1 electron.
And finally, the spin of a free electron is *meaningless*. It is only important in a bound states.
HINT: Because Linux does it the right way in the beginning.
BTW, HT is only supported in Win XP and Linux 2.6.x. Linux 2.4 does not have proper support for it, and Win 2k, well, knows nothing about HT.
That's some stupid advice there. Just have people wash their hands before touching the keyboard *and* have their own keyboard. For "nerd types", like me, we already have more than one keyboard :)
Creating more garbage is not the answer.
First, the source code has to be licensed under GPL so if a 3rd party gets it, then they can use it under GPL.
Second, if there was a contract then that "professional programmer" is liable for ALL and ANY damages that are specified in the contract for disclosing the source code to the third party.
Everything else is FUD.
No!!!!! :) I expect *every* browser to not trust *anything* it renders.
This is the entire problem with software. Developers just assume that data X will come in Y format with the constraints of that format. Then you get security holes and exploits.
I get all my updates from personal e-mail from the good people at Microsoft. On the downside, I can verify a significant reduction in speed after installing every single one of them... :( :P
You seem to be missing the point. ALL software has bugs and those bugs need to be found the removed. That is the software cycle.
I can't wait for the proverbial monkeys to start pounding away on all the upcoming Linux boxes and the inevitable number of bugs to be discovered.
You know, I can't wait either because then these bugs will be fixed :)
Hmm, guess I'll stick with MS since they've already gone through the monkey-pounding.
Go for it.
Well, you record at NICE=-10 and then you run the transcode at NICE=19..
Nobody said that the two processes have the same priority. This is actually an area where UNIX/Linux is much better than Windows since Windows priority levels are really @#$%ed.
More bugs. More fixes. More patches. This is the software cycle...
Sorry. Windows will still need swap. I have 1G and I still need at least 500MB ram. I have applications that can use about 300MB, and then after they run for a while and there is no swap, Windows will complain that it is low on "virtual memory". And there is still 650MB free!! I guess it used the rest for a disk cache and doesn't want to free it for the application. Ridicules.
Zero swap craps out windows no matter how much ram you have. :(
What about PDF? I see patents
If we invested $100 billion into fusion, we would not even want the oil from Iraq.
Uhhm, wrong. It blows all the time somewhere. It stops blowing at plant A, then it blows at plant X. etc...
The intermitent "problem" is on a problem in isolated installations. If you have a grid spanning hundreds and hundreds of kilemetres, then it is not likely that you will end up with no power from wind at all of the plants.
If the grid is expanded in the future with high-temperature superconductors[1], then wind becomes as reliable energy source as fosil or nuclear. A superconducting energy grid for the entire continent would allow wind can supply ALL energy needs without interruption.
[1]HT superconductions do not yet exist, at least the ones that can carry enough current to be used as part of a power grid. Conventional superconductors are used already on the grid. I think Denver installed some to carry 100kA of current from one side of the city to the other.
Just like the advent of computers has given an extra meaning to the word 'bug'... It doesn't mean people don't understand you if you say, "ARGHhh... there's a bug in my hair..."
That's what you get for using C and forgetting to initialize those pointers.. *sigh*
Another glorious patent. Nobody could think of this one.
$file='kojo_againt_the_machine.mpeg'
$i=md5($file)
sql("INSERT INTO patented_database (movie,hash) VALUES($file,$i)")
mv($file,$i)
Now distribute $i, and profit!!
WOW! Another example of the genius that allows these patents. Next, the patent to patent the crypto hash! Oh, wait...
Stop being so anti-american YOU TERORIST!!!
Especially since the license of bsdiff is not even close to a BSD license (don't let the name of BSD Protection License fool you). Unless the license is changed to something like BSD, BSDiff is not going to be implemented anywhere except in closed source software. Debian cannot even package this software becauses it is non-free.
I guess the bottom line is if you want to have something accepted in open source *and* in propriatary software, you want to license under BSD. You want to cater to one group (closed source in this case), you will lose the other.
It's true of all reactors. The concrete is there not only to prevent explosions, etc. It is there to prevent radiation from getting outside the structure. You need thick walls for that.
That's how *all* tall buildings fall, not because of design, but because of gravity.
OMG. Think. What happens when a plane crashes into a solid concrete wall? Big splat!
A reactor housing is not made out of paper and steel. It is a steel reinforced concrete structure.
But the point is, why put it in long term storage? We might want the stuff in a hundred or two hundred years. Just look at what happened with the "useless" oil - was useless two hundred years ago.