I drive a Prius, and none of my passengers ever freaked out about the engine turning off; it's so smooth that you can only notice if the radio and fan are off and it's quiet in any case.
Imagine how much quieter cities are going to be at rush hour once a significant fraction of cars are hybrids.
If you can put the same power into your battery in one minute that your laptop sucks out in two hours, it follows that, for that one minute, your battery sucks 120x the power. So, if your laptop uses 100W or power, you need 12 kW for a minute to recharge it. It's going to take a special circuit to deliver that power (100 amps at 120V).
If the sun is at a lower angle in the sky, it goes through more atmosphere and more of the light scatters. That's why the sky is red at sunrise and sunset.
If there's a way to only turn on the backup if the organism isn't doing well, you could get a racheting effect, favoring positive mutations and limiting the damage from negative mutations. But it's too early to tell.
You are correct in saying that there is an important difference between Intel's hyperthreading and actually having independent CPU cores on the same die. But you're wrong in claiming that Intel's hypethreading has a very small real-world impact on performance; the win can be substantial for apps with lots of memory traffic (though the win disappears in number-crunching applications), and this is a common case. For "make -j" on a large project, the Xeon win is significant.
Fiorina's a woman, but she got to where she was by rejecting every attribute that is stereotypically female, like, for example, giving a crap about human beings. Her program of mergers, layoffs, ignoring the long term and trying to squeeze blood from stones is standard practice throughout most of the Fortune 500. Her gender, if anything, just forced her to be tougher than tough, maler than male. It was the same deal with Margaret Thatcher.
Copyrights and patents don't become invalid due to non-enforcement. Trademarks, however, can be lost if the trademarked term passes into common use and the owner doesn't do anything about it.
Don't give advice when you don't know C. C requires that when a 0 is converted to a pointer, the result is NULL, so it is absolutely false to claim that NULL could be defined as -1.
"ptr == 0" must give the same result as "ptr == NULL", always.
Choicepoint is the firm that Katherine Harris, who simultaneously served in the Bush campaign and as head vote-counter in Florida (no other democracy allows that, by the way), used to come up with a felon list. The list included thousands of blacks who weren't eligible to vote (at least 5,000). It was set up to disenfranchise everyone who had a similar name (even first initial and last name) as a felon. Considering that blacks voted 90-10 for Gore and that Bush only won the state (officially) by 537 votes, Bush owes his presidency to Choicepoint.
Because of this political debt, the Congress will block any serious investigation of Choicepoint.
You're free to write whatever license you want; they are free to refuse to certify it.
The problem with the proliferation of licenses is that you can't mix and match software. Right now there are basically three types of open source (or free software) licenses:
Copyleft. The GPL fits this category, as do a few other licenses like the OSL, IBM CPL, etc. Some of these exist for no other reason than to have something like the GPL without Stallman's rhetoric, but since the drafters weren't careful to maintain compatibility of conditions, you can't mix and match code.
Copyleft restricted to a body of code; the code can be linked to other code that uses other licenses or is even proprietary. LGPL, MPL (Mozilla), and a whole host of licenses that differ just slightly from the MPL because some corporate lawyer wanted to fine-tune. Where the licenses conflict, you can still mix and match code as long as you preserve file or library boundaries.
Non-copyleft (MIT/BSD style licenses).
These licenses differ from each other on technicalities, and on what happens with patents, or because someone wants to tweak a boundary case.
Some of them give a privileged position to the original contributor, some don't.
The community would be better off if we could just get down to three basic license choices, and the use of "special exception" clauses where needed. For companies that want special privilege (like the ability to use code plus fixes using other licenses), they can ask for copyright assignment of contributions, and treat contributors well enough that they actually get it.
Every important element of the modern GUI (windows, icons, menus, pointing device) was demonstrated by Doug Engelbart in 1968. His system even had something that looked a lot like a blog. The patents all would have expired long ago.
If the ISP claimed to run RHEL but really run CentOS, then they are fraudulently representing to you that they have Red Hat support available to quickly fix any problems, and they don't.
Unlike "normal" viruses, retroviruses actually rewrite the DNA of the cells they infect. Perhaps some day you could be cured of a genetic defect by having a retrovirus rewrite the bad gene in every cell of your body, or at least enough cells to cure the disease.
On the other hand, HIV mutates very rapidly, so attempts to control the cure, say, by having it die off when there are no more defective genes to rewrite might well fail (as any viruses that mutate in a way to work around the die-off mechanism would reproduce rapidly).
No, CNN's effort to out-Fox Fox News has led to his resignation. The repeated attacks on Arab journalists, resulting in many deaths, even after those journalists repeatedly alerted US officials as to their position, can be explained either as deliberate or as wildly reckless, and the latter is only a bit better.
Some White House correspondent said he saw "Gannon" wearing a regular White House press pass. Of course, that's not proof, but the White House has lied before.
You're mistaken; the GPL itself does not include the language you commonly see stating that a program is licensed under GPL version 2 or any later version is not itself part of the GPL. And the Linux kernel is licensed under GPL v2 only.
You are correct that if a program mixes code that is "GPL v3 or any later version" with "GPL v2 or any later version", then the v3 wins when applied to the program as a whole. However, the GPL v2 pieces can keep their same licenses when distributed alone.
These things can change over time. After all, in German there is in most cases no distinction between adverbs and adjectives, no "ly" suffix (adjectives get suffixes to agree with the gender and case of the nouns that they modify, but in some forms there is no suffix). It is possible that "ly" could disappear over time.
It's troubling to read so many comments that worry that the linguistic researchers will find "bad language", and worse, that people have moderated such comments up. It reflects a misunderstanding of what linguists do: they want to get a description of the language as it is used, and as it changes, and historically speaking, usages that start in the gossip of teenage girls often become mainstream a couple of generations later. They need it all, and they probably need the crappy stuff most of all, because it is closer to spoken English.
No, the issue has not been fixed. LSB 2.0 specifies a document, and then specifies a library that does not match the document (requiring that everyone be bug-compatible with gcc 3.3). gcc 3.4.x is much closer to implementing the ABI standard correctly, but the LSB specifies 3.3.
The IEEE, ISO, or whoever should not bless LSB 2.0, at least the C++ part. A newer rev of the LSB should be produced that fixes the issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Imagine how much quieter cities are going to be at rush hour once a significant fraction of cars are hybrids.
If you can put the same power into your battery in one minute that your laptop sucks out in two hours, it follows that, for that one minute, your battery sucks 120x the power. So, if your laptop uses 100W or power, you need 12 kW for a minute to recharge it. It's going to take a special circuit to deliver that power (100 amps at 120V).
You'd be right if there were no atmosphere.
If there's a way to only turn on the backup if the organism isn't doing well, you could get a racheting effect, favoring positive mutations and limiting the damage from negative mutations. But it's too early to tell.
Make a sequel for each super hero, of course.
The people working on the solar lighting system are, of course, not scientists, but rather are engineers.
You are correct in saying that there is an important difference between Intel's hyperthreading and actually having independent CPU cores on the same die. But you're wrong in claiming that Intel's hypethreading has a very small real-world impact on performance; the win can be substantial for apps with lots of memory traffic (though the win disappears in number-crunching applications), and this is a common case. For "make -j" on a large project, the Xeon win is significant.
Fiorina's a woman, but she got to where she was by rejecting every attribute that is stereotypically female, like, for example, giving a crap about human beings. Her program of mergers, layoffs, ignoring the long term and trying to squeeze blood from stones is standard practice throughout most of the Fortune 500. Her gender, if anything, just forced her to be tougher than tough, maler than male. It was the same deal with Margaret Thatcher.
Copyrights and patents don't become invalid due to non-enforcement. Trademarks, however, can be lost if the trademarked term passes into common use and the owner doesn't do anything about it.
The next firmware upgrade from Apple will break this; you can count on it.
"ptr == 0" must give the same result as "ptr == NULL", always.
Because of this political debt, the Congress will block any serious investigation of Choicepoint.
Unfortunately, the ITU has historically been the creature of the various telephone monopolies, using it to agree how to divide up the world.
On the other hand, ICANN has found it appropriate to give MIT more IP addresses than all of China. There is room for improvement.
My guess was that the LGPL was what the guy was thinking of by "commercial GPL".
You're free to write whatever license you want; they are free to refuse to certify it.
The problem with the proliferation of licenses is that you can't mix and match software. Right now there are basically three types of open source (or free software) licenses:
These licenses differ from each other on technicalities, and on what happens with patents, or because someone wants to tweak a boundary case. Some of them give a privileged position to the original contributor, some don't.
The community would be better off if we could just get down to three basic license choices, and the use of "special exception" clauses where needed. For companies that want special privilege (like the ability to use code plus fixes using other licenses), they can ask for copyright assignment of contributions, and treat contributors well enough that they actually get it.
Every important element of the modern GUI (windows, icons, menus, pointing device) was demonstrated by Doug Engelbart in 1968. His system even had something that looked a lot like a blog. The patents all would have expired long ago.
If the ISP claimed to run RHEL but really run CentOS, then they are fraudulently representing to you that they have Red Hat support available to quickly fix any problems, and they don't.
On the other hand, HIV mutates very rapidly, so attempts to control the cure, say, by having it die off when there are no more defective genes to rewrite might well fail (as any viruses that mutate in a way to work around the die-off mechanism would reproduce rapidly).
No, CNN's effort to out-Fox Fox News has led to his resignation. The repeated attacks on Arab journalists, resulting in many deaths, even after those journalists repeatedly alerted US officials as to their position, can be explained either as deliberate or as wildly reckless, and the latter is only a bit better.
Some White House correspondent said he saw "Gannon" wearing a regular White House press pass. Of course, that's not proof, but the White House has lied before.
You are correct that if a program mixes code that is "GPL v3 or any later version" with "GPL v2 or any later version", then the v3 wins when applied to the program as a whole. However, the GPL v2 pieces can keep their same licenses when distributed alone.
It could be argued that Forth is derived from RPN calculator languages.
These things can change over time. After all, in German there is in most cases no distinction between adverbs and adjectives, no "ly" suffix (adjectives get suffixes to agree with the gender and case of the nouns that they modify, but in some forms there is no suffix). It is possible that "ly" could disappear over time.
It's troubling to read so many comments that worry that the linguistic researchers will find "bad language", and worse, that people have moderated such comments up. It reflects a misunderstanding of what linguists do: they want to get a description of the language as it is used, and as it changes, and historically speaking, usages that start in the gossip of teenage girls often become mainstream a couple of generations later. They need it all, and they probably need the crappy stuff most of all, because it is closer to spoken English.
The IEEE, ISO, or whoever should not bless LSB 2.0, at least the C++ part. A newer rev of the LSB should be produced that fixes the issue.