Not that I'm trying to defend the parent poster (because I disagree with him), but while I'll say that GR is not truly falsified, but it is probably incomplete. The biggest problems are quantum gravity and spacetime singularities. See this discussion, which includes details about Hawking radiation, black holes, dark matter and so forth.
Yes! With VirtualBox on Linux (and probably others), since you can route all traffic in a VM through a standard Linux NIC on the host, you can use iptables to do just that.
Virtual Machines are GREAT for Dev/Testing. You can setup machines with several different configurations, operating systems, etc., for testing and development. Plus, for N-tier web/database apps, you often want to be able to test a variety of different infrastructure choices for scalability and performance testing.
Nothing really beats the way you can change things around on-the-fly with virtual machines. It really gives you the ultimate in flexibility.
Realistically, how many viewers did he lose? 1000?
Wow. Your perception of reality is really screwed up, dude.
System requirements for Silverlight 1.0:
* Supported operating systems: Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 2
* Supported browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Windows Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8, and Firefox 2.0.x.
and for Macintosh:
# Supported operating systems: Apple Mac OS X # Supported browsers: Firefox 1.5.0.8, Firefox 2.0.x, and Apple Safari 2.0.4
That pretty much cuts everyone else out of the picture
Okay, so out of those 69%, how many of those are running Service Pack 2? No, it's not 100%. But let's be generous and say it's about 80% of those. How many of those remaining have taken the extra step to install Silverlight, which is not automatically installed and does come installed by default?
Oh, probably 10-15% would be me guess. Most of the rest either haven't heard of it or can't install it by themselves because they lack the technical expertise. (Really!) Probably the same for Vista.
So, by this math, at least ~15% of Web users (accounting for those still using Windows 2000 and older) can't run Silverlight at all. And maybe 20-25% of Web Windows or Mac users have it installed (that's being generous)
So you have 15% who can't run it, 60% who can but aren't or won't, and 20-25% or are. That means about 75-80% of your potential Web users are, as of this date, cut out of the picture. That's pretty serious. So serious that at this point, the only major Silverlight websites that I've seen are Microsoft's (the Visual Studio Express site uses it).
No one in their right mind on Slashdot should want to abolish copyright. As authors of free software under licenses like the GPL, we actually depend on copyright law to keep our creations free.
Minor nit: You wouldn't pay royalties to the RIAA over a live performance of Happy Birthday. You would pay BMI/ASCAP or whatever songwriters association holds the copyright.
I fail to see how anyone could become so obsessed with online gaming and social networking that they would become socially inadequate... sorry, BRB, my mom's yelling at me from the top of the basement stairs...
Thanks for that. I keep saying the same thing -- Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, essentially every major distro does the exact same thing. And there's nothing wrong with that. Debian could enter into the same arrangement Ubuntu has made with Mozilla, but for whatever reason they haven't.
Actually, having done bookkeeping for a 501(c)3 on a voluntary basis, I can say that there really aren't that many differences. Basically, a 501(c)3 is required to followed GAP accounting methods -- just as any other IRS-recognized corporation. They have to donate a certain minimum percentage of their annual income to charity. And they have to show that they are organized for the purposes which a 501(c)3 may be organized. Since a 501(c)3 is basically a 'miscellaneous charity status' with the IRS, this means pretty much anything that benefits the community or the greater good, except politics -- they can't directly or indirectly support a particular candidate or ballot initiative. (How non-profits often get around this is by saying "We don't endorse a particular candidate, but many of our members say they are voting for X." )
The important thing that IRS will be looking for is this: Is Mozilla money co-mingling with Google money? Are they keeping it separate? DOes it look like Mozilla is just a front for Google? And so forth. They'll do that by auditing the books, piling through receipts and conducting interviews with appropriate personnel. Mozilla as a non-profit can, believe it or not, sell almost anything. Selling things is not at all illegal for non-profit and actually 'making a profit' is not illegal -- the profit just has to go into a specific fund set aside for purposes that Mozilla is organized for. Such as, in this case, funding Firefox and Thunderbird development.
Meh. They could just splice in some elephant DNA where the missing stuff is and produce a bunch of woolly elephant/mammoths, which would be close enough. I know. I once saw a movie where they did this...what was it called...? MacArthur Park? No, that's not quite right...
The concept of lamas is one of the main differences in Tibetan Buddhism compared with other forms of Buddhism.
The term 'lama' literally means 'guru'. A lama is a teacher of the Dharma. Tibetan belief holds that a lama can consciously choose to reincarnate, although I still think -- though I'm certainly no expert in Tibetan Buddhism -- that although a lama may choose to reincarnate, the universal concept of reincarnation in Buddhism still applies, it's just that you dump the glass of water into the ocean and then immediately scoop that water back up, so that the essence of the soul is mostly, but perhaps not completely, the same.
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Not that I'm trying to defend the parent poster (because I disagree with him), but while I'll say that GR is not truly falsified, but it is probably incomplete. The biggest problems are quantum gravity and spacetime singularities. See this discussion, which includes details about Hawking radiation, black holes, dark matter and so forth.
Well, the OP said he'd buy a massive box to do virtual machines, so yeah. And you need lots of RAM, too.
You can also get off-the-shelf iSCSI appliances.
Yes! With VirtualBox on Linux (and probably others), since you can route all traffic in a VM through a standard Linux NIC on the host, you can use iptables to do just that.
Until the thugs from Liberty City show up in your hometown's Main Street and then you get jacked by total surprise.
Virtual Machines are GREAT for Dev/Testing. You can setup machines with several different configurations, operating systems, etc., for testing and development. Plus, for N-tier web/database apps, you often want to be able to test a variety of different infrastructure choices for scalability and performance testing.
Nothing really beats the way you can change things around on-the-fly with virtual machines. It really gives you the ultimate in flexibility.
Yes. SCO committed fraud. They sold those companies something they didn't own.
Oh, that's not too far off...just wait till everyone gets tried for the pump-and-dump scam...SEC will nail them to wall.
Hello? Steve? Is that you???
Yeahhhh.....I think maybe you've been smoking a little too much chronic and drinking a little too much malt liquor...
Niiiiccceee.... eXtreme Programming over XMPP or IRC.
And to think that thanks to Slashdot, I'm already using Eclipse, so I just need to install ECF and I'm ready to go... ;)
Realistically, how many viewers did he lose? 1000?
Wow. Your perception of reality is really screwed up, dude.
System requirements for Silverlight 1.0:
* Supported operating systems: Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 2
* Supported browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Windows Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8, and Firefox 2.0.x.
and for Macintosh:
# Supported operating systems: Apple Mac OS X
# Supported browsers: Firefox 1.5.0.8, Firefox 2.0.x, and Apple Safari 2.0.4
That pretty much cuts everyone else out of the picture
According to some recent surveys, the pecerntage of people running Windows XP or Vista hovers around 90%. Of course, this statistics are probably slightly skewed. Anyway, even ignoring any skew, the percentage of people on XP is around 70%, with 20% or so on Vista.
Okay, so out of those 69%, how many of those are running Service Pack 2? No, it's not 100%. But let's be generous and say it's about 80% of those. How many of those remaining have taken the extra step to install Silverlight, which is not automatically installed and does come installed by default?
Oh, probably 10-15% would be me guess. Most of the rest either haven't heard of it or can't install it by themselves because they lack the technical expertise. (Really!) Probably the same for Vista.
So, by this math, at least ~15% of Web users (accounting for those still using Windows 2000 and older) can't run Silverlight at all. And maybe 20-25% of Web Windows or Mac users have it installed (that's being generous)
So you have 15% who can't run it, 60% who can but aren't or won't, and 20-25% or are. That means about 75-80% of your potential Web users are, as of this date, cut out of the picture. That's pretty serious. So serious that at this point, the only major Silverlight websites that I've seen are Microsoft's (the Visual Studio Express site uses it).
Get a grip, man.
No one in their right mind on Slashdot should want to abolish copyright. As authors of free software under licenses like the GPL, we actually depend on copyright law to keep our creations free.
Minor nit: You wouldn't pay royalties to the RIAA over a live performance of Happy Birthday. You would pay BMI/ASCAP or whatever songwriters association holds the copyright.
I fail to see how anyone could become so obsessed with online gaming and social networking that they would become socially inadequate... sorry, BRB, my mom's yelling at me from the top of the basement stairs...
I smell a new TV show! Like CSI, but with accountants!
Yeahhhhh.....I'm sure that would be such a great shooo***yawn*** Zzzz. Zzzzz. Zzzz.
Thanks for that. I keep saying the same thing -- Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, essentially every major distro does the exact same thing. And there's nothing wrong with that. Debian could enter into the same arrangement Ubuntu has made with Mozilla, but for whatever reason they haven't.
I'm aware. I just knew that Mozilla is a 501(c)3, so I left the rest out. ;)
Actually, having done bookkeeping for a 501(c)3 on a voluntary basis, I can say that there really aren't that many differences. Basically, a 501(c)3 is required to followed GAP accounting methods -- just as any other IRS-recognized corporation. They have to donate a certain minimum percentage of their annual income to charity. And they have to show that they are organized for the purposes which a 501(c)3 may be organized. Since a 501(c)3 is basically a 'miscellaneous charity status' with the IRS, this means pretty much anything that benefits the community or the greater good, except politics -- they can't directly or indirectly support a particular candidate or ballot initiative. (How non-profits often get around this is by saying "We don't endorse a particular candidate, but many of our members say they are voting for X." )
The important thing that IRS will be looking for is this: Is Mozilla money co-mingling with Google money? Are they keeping it separate? DOes it look like Mozilla is just a front for Google? And so forth. They'll do that by auditing the books, piling through receipts and conducting interviews with appropriate personnel. Mozilla as a non-profit can, believe it or not, sell almost anything. Selling things is not at all illegal for non-profit and actually 'making a profit' is not illegal -- the profit just has to go into a specific fund set aside for purposes that Mozilla is organized for. Such as, in this case, funding Firefox and Thunderbird development.
In Soviet Russia, woolly mammoths reconstruct you!!!
Meh. They could just splice in some elephant DNA where the missing stuff is and produce a bunch of woolly elephant/mammoths, which would be close enough. I know. I once saw a movie where they did this...what was it called...? MacArthur Park? No, that's not quite right ...
I propose Skynet....
Am I the only one who imagined a very, very large pair of nicely-shaped tubes covering the Earth?
Thanks. I knew there had to be a real word there somewhere. I have a common brain disorder known as 'CRAFT' -- Can't Remember A Fucking Think.
The concept of lamas is one of the main differences in Tibetan Buddhism compared with other forms of Buddhism.
The term 'lama' literally means 'guru'. A lama is a teacher of the Dharma. Tibetan belief holds that a lama can consciously choose to reincarnate, although I still think -- though I'm certainly no expert in Tibetan Buddhism -- that although a lama may choose to reincarnate, the universal concept of reincarnation in Buddhism still applies, it's just that you dump the glass of water into the ocean and then immediately scoop that water back up, so that the essence of the soul is mostly, but perhaps not completely, the same.
Note the use of the word 'successful' in that quote. ;)