X11 means the protocol is compatible. It means you know any X11 programs can be displayed on any X11 server, and vice versa. They'll only make it X12 if and when they break that compatibility, and they won't do that without a good reason. The extension architecture works fine AFAICS, is there an actual problem you have with it?
A better alternative to damn small linux is austrumi. Full versions of Abiword, the Gimp, gnumeric, mplayer etc., rather than the cut-down alternatives DSL tends to include. Also, in the medium range I recommend SLAX.
No, but it doesn't seem to be specified well enough. IIRC the Abiword people have decided not to implement it, while the KOffice people are basically saying "here it is as best as we can, we'll tidy it up once OOo 2 is released and we actually know what the format is". I think rtf is, at the moment, the best way to do this. It's supported by just about everything, and can do most of what you need.
Minor correction: Gnutella was before FastTrack and the first true P2P network. Every node was equal, in fact, at first. This caused scalability issues, and so it adopted FastTrack's supernode system once that was seen to be effective.
IME Gnunet does it much better than that. It's about a 5:1 penalty, and can be less if you have enough sources. (This is probably because it's designed for reasonably-sized files wheras freenet is optimised for text). It has a number of very advanced features, I'm convinced it's the future.
Anyway, though, how hard is it to do anonymous? Can't you just do something like gnutella, but every time you forward something there's a probability you decide to act as a proxy? I haven't bothered to implement it, but it shouldn't be that complex.
1. Release something we've never heard of in the hope it will get people clamouring for an open Java to shut up. This can be repeated as many times as they like, and this seems to be one of those times.
2. Actually open source the damn thing. Of course they won't actually do that until nearly everyone has given up on the language.
Sun can give away everything and detractors will be like: "OK but what about your first born child?"
No, sun can try giving away anything else it likes for publicity, and I'll be like "Thanks, but all I care about is Java". Props for opening Solaris, that is something that matters, but what the hell is the point of opening up Java3D (for example) when the base java is not open?
No. However, if you say "Our browser is great for getting lots of music and movies" it might well make it illegal, since you're promoting infringing uses.
But did they actually say "Use our software to copy copyrighted material without permission"? I don't think they did, I think it was more "Use our software to get cool music and movies". There is some good music that's freely available, and some movies too. So are they really promoting copyright infringment?
What about video recorders? Mass DVD duplicators? Turbochargers for cars? Pipes for smoking? Guns? Broadband connections? If you can be promoting illegal activity without openly saying it, where do you draw the line?
No they didn't. The Betamax ruling said that it was legal because there was *substantial* legal use for it. Not majority, just substantial. By saying that Grokster was illegal because the majority use of it is illegal, they contradict the earlier ruling. It's possible to have substantial legal use without that being the majority use.
Discs are small enough to be seen as units, redundancy on the disc itself (other than what there is for anti-scratching) isn't really worth bothering with. Do the parity at a higher level - perhaps a parity disc for every 5.
I want to get back into space as much as anyone - heck, if there was a chance it would work I'd strap a booster to my back and be launching myself. But cutting corners for PR deadlines was what caused the disaster in the first place. Take as long as you need, NASA.
It was once thought to be uniquely human - when AI research was getting started, a machine that could play chess as well as a human was thought to be a major milestone, similar to the Turing test. A computer better at playing chess than us is a step towards a computer better at being intelligent than us, and then a computer better at being human than us.
The current server farms (US and Paris) are far away from around there, it's nice if there's a server nearby for most users and this will improve that. As to why South Korea specifically, it's a country with very high internet connectivity (IIRC they have the greatest proportional broadband coverage for any decent-sized country) and also a strong interest in democracy (because they've got North Korea right next to them), so I'd imagine there are a lot of wikipedia users there.
There must be something you have an interest in. I found I was able to meaningfully contribute to the page on cdrom bootloaders, just because it's something I've fiddled about with a lot. Also the page on BoA (the singer) (which someone has subsequently come and done a better rewrite of, but for a time mine was the best version so far), again just because that's something I have an interest in. There is almost certainly a subject, however narrow, that you know more about than everyone who's contributed so far.
Slashdot links barely touch the database. Any popular links are handled by the squid caches. It's the zillions of people all looking at different pages that stress the database.
Slashdot Mirror
X11 means the protocol is compatible. It means you know any X11 programs can be displayed on any X11 server, and vice versa. They'll only make it X12 if and when they break that compatibility, and they won't do that without a good reason. The extension architecture works fine AFAICS, is there an actual problem you have with it?
They're only being leftist because of our currently right-wing government. It's their job to criticise the government position.
A better alternative to damn small linux is austrumi. Full versions of Abiword, the Gimp, gnumeric, mplayer etc., rather than the cut-down alternatives DSL tends to include. Also, in the medium range I recommend SLAX.
Yes, very much an accepted term. Means brainy but with connotations of lacking common sense and/or being a bit nerdy wrt socialising.
No, but it doesn't seem to be specified well enough. IIRC the Abiword people have decided not to implement it, while the KOffice people are basically saying "here it is as best as we can, we'll tidy it up once OOo 2 is released and we actually know what the format is". I think rtf is, at the moment, the best way to do this. It's supported by just about everything, and can do most of what you need.
Remember the thread about MS music store where someone was saying "It's IPOD not ITUNES"?
Minor correction: Gnutella was before FastTrack and the first true P2P network. Every node was equal, in fact, at first. This caused scalability issues, and so it adopted FastTrack's supernode system once that was seen to be effective.
Anyway, though, how hard is it to do anonymous? Can't you just do something like gnutella, but every time you forward something there's a probability you decide to act as a proxy? I haven't bothered to implement it, but it shouldn't be that complex.
1. Release something we've never heard of in the hope it will get people clamouring for an open Java to shut up. This can be repeated as many times as they like, and this seems to be one of those times.
2. Actually open source the damn thing. Of course they won't actually do that until nearly everyone has given up on the language.
No, sun can try giving away anything else it likes for publicity, and I'll be like "Thanks, but all I care about is Java". Props for opening Solaris, that is something that matters, but what the hell is the point of opening up Java3D (for example) when the base java is not open?
Code isn't considered protected speech, look at DeCSS.
No. However, if you say "Our browser is great for getting lots of music and movies" it might well make it illegal, since you're promoting infringing uses.
But did they actually say "Use our software to copy copyrighted material without permission"? I don't think they did, I think it was more "Use our software to get cool music and movies". There is some good music that's freely available, and some movies too. So are they really promoting copyright infringment?
What about video recorders? Mass DVD duplicators? Turbochargers for cars? Pipes for smoking? Guns? Broadband connections? If you can be promoting illegal activity without openly saying it, where do you draw the line?
No they didn't. The Betamax ruling said that it was legal because there was *substantial* legal use for it. Not majority, just substantial. By saying that Grokster was illegal because the majority use of it is illegal, they contradict the earlier ruling. It's possible to have substantial legal use without that being the majority use.
It isn't really the primary function of the telephone companies anymore though.
The shuttle has had one planned successor or another for about 15 years, one should have come in about 3 times over by now. Don't hold your breath.
Discs are small enough to be seen as units, redundancy on the disc itself (other than what there is for anti-scratching) isn't really worth bothering with. Do the parity at a higher level - perhaps a parity disc for every 5.
I want to get back into space as much as anyone - heck, if there was a chance it would work I'd strap a booster to my back and be launching myself. But cutting corners for PR deadlines was what caused the disaster in the first place. Take as long as you need, NASA.
It was once thought to be uniquely human - when AI research was getting started, a machine that could play chess as well as a human was thought to be a major milestone, similar to the Turing test. A computer better at playing chess than us is a step towards a computer better at being intelligent than us, and then a computer better at being human than us.
The current server farms (US and Paris) are far away from around there, it's nice if there's a server nearby for most users and this will improve that. As to why South Korea specifically, it's a country with very high internet connectivity (IIRC they have the greatest proportional broadband coverage for any decent-sized country) and also a strong interest in democracy (because they've got North Korea right next to them), so I'd imagine there are a lot of wikipedia users there.
There must be something you have an interest in. I found I was able to meaningfully contribute to the page on cdrom bootloaders, just because it's something I've fiddled about with a lot. Also the page on BoA (the singer) (which someone has subsequently come and done a better rewrite of, but for a time mine was the best version so far), again just because that's something I have an interest in. There is almost certainly a subject, however narrow, that you know more about than everyone who's contributed so far.
Slashdot links barely touch the database. Any popular links are handled by the squid caches. It's the zillions of people all looking at different pages that stress the database.
With the F5 key conveniently under my middle finger, fristage postage will finally be mine!
No. It's surprising that we got beaten at it.