But what about goods that are sold within the same state? Why should online purchases be exempt, while mail order isn't? The only difference is the way in which the order is placed. --
That's rather complicated way of expressing it. And it's wrong too, since it's every 400 years, not every 1000 years, that a multiple of 100 is a leap year.
Wouldn't it be easier to just write: isleap = !(year%4) ^ !(year%100) ^ !(year%400);
Does anyone know if these things are available outside the US (e.g.,.nl) for reasonable prices? Are the US units compatible with the ones sold in Europe or do they operate in a different frequency band (like cell phones)? --
They've managed to embed iron filings in rubber. Forgive me but is this really new?
Except in this case, they have embedded the iron (and thus the magnetic properties) in the molecules themselves, as opposed to simply mixing it in, which was undoubtedly the case with your toy.
For even telephone-quality calls to go through IP *extremely* fast connections are needed at both ends of the call.
Eh? ISDN quality voice uses 64 kbps (56 kbps in the US) of bandwidth. Since we are talking about voice calls only (data calls over VoIP are pointless), they can be compressed quite well, so they can easily be handled on a slow link.
What kind of "extreme" bandwidth were you talking about? --
As someone on themes.org said, this is purely a trademark issue, since they left other themes that do not use the Apple symbol, but do use a MacOS look alone, e.g., Aqua. --
On the AA Project home page, there's a section on 'Software known to support AA'; and there, second on the list, is The GIMP. textmode GIMP! Waaahhh, that is so perverse. I greatly fear I shall have to play with this...
I hate to burst your bubble, but the gimp supports aalib because it can render (save) images to ASCII art format, not because the program itself executes in text mode.
Correct. And the select few (in this case, university people) who get the distribution are free to redistribute, so expect second-hand availability soon.
Indeed. You can decide to whom you distribute, but you cannot restrict them in distributing further.
FreeBSD is aimed at high end stuff. It has SMP and a bunch of perofromance twekaing that the other BSD's lack. That's why it was used for rendering [...]
Actually, for rendering you don't need SMP at all. You can simply set up a farm of cheap boxes and have each one do a frame at a time. SMP only makes things more expensive and can actually slow things down due to cacheing effects.
This is what I remember from a discussion on the LKML a few weeks back.
... offering the source to anyone who asks. I'm not sure that this allows them to refuse to give the source to someone.
Accompany it with a written offer... to give any third party...
First of all, they can choose to simply supply the source with the binaries, so that clause 3b doesn't hold at all.
Secondly, the clause explicitly mentions accompany. The GPL does not force anyone to distribute binaries, but if you do, and choose to use this clause, you have to accompany the binary distribution with the offer. Nowhere does it say that you have to give the written offer to anyone who asks.
Summarizing, if you don't give the binaries, you don't have to give the source.
I wish they would use Oracle, and then maybe they wouldn't have to flush all the past stories and comments (i.e., the whole database would be searchable). I would imagine the reason they do that is that MySQL is not known for scaling up to large databases. Unfortunately, Slashdot probably feels they need to use Open Source no matter what, even if that means using inferior software. That's the big problem with embracing a religion, rather than embracing "the best".
I remember hearing about a contest to write the shortest self-duplicating C program (i.e. something that would spit out an exact copy of its own code). Someone submitted an empty file once, which is kind clever. But does anyone know of the next shortest?
Actually, the empty program is not a valid C program according to the ISO / ANSI definitions. For one thing, it doesn't define main() and so will produce a linker error.
The only other one I off hand know is the one mentioned in the comp.lang.c FAQ
Linux is going down unless it gets some Winmodem support... BUILT IN! Win2k is winning...ahah...
WinModems based on the Lucent chipset work in Linux, with a proprietary driver from Lucent themselves. The WinModem in my Toshiba notebook works without a problem.
It is only a matter of time before other manufacturers will release drivers, and before open-source drivers will appear.
Before the end of the year, the open source project GNU privacy guard (GPG), coordinated by the programmer Werner Koch from Dusseldorf, will receive a financial injection of DM 250,000 from the federal department of economy and technology. With this, the federal government wants to unlock the potential of open source for privacy and hopes to make a statement with the gift. --
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But what about goods that are sold within the same state? Why should online purchases be exempt, while mail order isn't? The only difference is the way in which the order is placed.
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isleap = false;
if(year%4 == 0) {
isleap=true;
year%100 == 0 ? isleap=false;
year%1000 == 0 ? isleap=true;
}
That's rather complicated way of expressing it. And it's wrong too, since it's every 400 years, not every 1000 years, that a multiple of 100 is a leap year.
Wouldn't it be easier to just write:
isleap = !(year%4) ^ !(year%100) ^ !(year%400);
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Does anyone know if these things are available outside the US (e.g., .nl) for reasonable prices? Are the US units compatible with the ones sold in Europe or do they operate in a different frequency band (like cell phones)?
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They've managed to embed iron filings in rubber. Forgive me but is this really new?
Except in this case, they have embedded the iron (and thus the magnetic properties) in the molecules themselves, as opposed to simply mixing it in, which was undoubtedly the case with your toy.
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Eh? ISDN quality voice uses 64 kbps (56 kbps in the US) of bandwidth. Since we are talking about voice calls only (data calls over VoIP are pointless), they can be compressed quite well, so they can easily be handled on a slow link.
What kind of "extreme" bandwidth were you talking about?
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As someone on themes.org said, this is purely a trademark issue, since they left other themes that do not use the Apple symbol, but do use a MacOS look alone, e.g., Aqua.
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Where is the Holland library? Obviously not in the country by that name.
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On the AA Project home page, there's a section on 'Software known to support AA'; and there, second on the list, is The GIMP. textmode GIMP! Waaahhh, that is so perverse. I greatly fear I shall have to play with this...
I hate to burst your bubble, but the gimp supports aalib because it can render (save) images to ASCII art format, not because the program itself executes in text mode.
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And can Iget a copy of the VA Linux distribution for my computer at home?
Take a look here.
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But does your system run on Gnulix?
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Correct. And the select few (in this case, university people) who get the distribution are free to redistribute, so expect second-hand availability soon.
Indeed. You can decide to whom you distribute, but you cannot restrict them in distributing further.
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FreeBSD is aimed at high end stuff. It has SMP and a bunch of perofromance twekaing that the other BSD's lack. That's why it was used for rendering [...]
Actually, for rendering you don't need SMP at all. You can simply set up a farm of cheap boxes and have each one do a frame at a time. SMP only makes things more expensive and can actually slow things down due to cacheing effects.
This is what I remember from a discussion on the LKML a few weeks back.
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Accompany it with a written offer ... to give any third party ...
First of all, they can choose to simply supply the source with the binaries, so that clause 3b doesn't hold at all.
Secondly, the clause explicitly mentions accompany. The GPL does not force anyone to distribute binaries, but if you do, and choose to use this clause, you have to accompany the binary distribution with the offer. Nowhere does it say that you have to give the written offer to anyone who asks.
Summarizing, if you don't give the binaries, you don't have to give the source.
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I have never had trouble getting the source code for mysql.
That does not make it open source.
Besides, I was not claiming whether MySQL is better or worse than Oracle, just pointing out the fact that MySQL is not open source.
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I wish they would use Oracle, and then maybe they wouldn't have to flush all the past stories and comments (i.e., the whole database would be searchable). I would imagine the reason they do that is that MySQL is not known for scaling up to large databases.
Unfortunately, Slashdot probably feels they need to use Open Source no matter what, even if that means using inferior software. That's the big problem with embracing a religion, rather than embracing "the best".
Interestingly, MySQL is not open source.
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How does this affect the server51 (Andover) and sourceforge (VA) projects, since they both appear to have similar goals?
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If you used dpkg or rpm, it may have looped while waiting to replace things.
More likely, the package manager first deletes or renames the old binary before installing the new one.
Deleting a running binary or an open file is OK. The disk blocks won't be freed until all references are gone.
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I remember hearing about a contest to write the shortest self-duplicating C program (i.e. something that would spit out an exact copy of its own code). Someone submitted an empty file once, which is kind clever. But does anyone know of the next shortest?
Actually, the empty program is not a valid C program according to the ISO / ANSI definitions. For one thing, it doesn't define main() and so will produce a linker error.
The only other one I off hand know is the one mentioned in the comp.lang.c FAQ
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A function prototype with an empty parameter list is not an ANSI function declaration.
Actually, it is a function declaration, just not a prototype.
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I guess it would then be : 9/11/3111
What's wrong with 1/1/3111 ?
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Linux is going down unless it gets some Winmodem support... BUILT IN! Win2k is winning...ahah...
WinModems based on the Lucent chipset work in Linux, with a proprietary driver from Lucent themselves. The WinModem in my Toshiba notebook works without a problem.
It is only a matter of time before other manufacturers will release drivers, and before open-source drivers will appear.
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Take any product P*Q = N(P and Q both prime)
This is always true:
(N+1) MOD 6 == 0 or
(N-1) MOD 6 == 0
Trivial counterexample: P=2, Q=3, giving N=6.
Neither 7 MOD 6 == 0, nor 5 MOD 6 == 0.
Q.E.D.
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Post it to the sci.crypt USENET group.
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if we follow RMS to the letter then it should be GNU/Gnome/Enlightenment/GIMP/GTK+/GLibc/Linux.
Check out what the G in Gnome, GIMP, GTK+, and GLibc stands for.
I'm not sure about the g in Enlightenment, though :-)
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Before the end of the year, the open source project GNU privacy guard (GPG), coordinated by the programmer Werner Koch from Dusseldorf, will receive a financial injection of DM 250,000 from the federal department of economy and technology. With this, the federal government wants to unlock the potential of open source for privacy and hopes to make a statement with the gift.
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