You don't care because GNU is not your baby, it's his.
It takes a very great man to see his life's work taken for granted by all without any recognition. In effect Linux has killed the ambition of the GNU project, which was to come up with an alternative Unix system written from scratch.
GNU started with the compiler and the utilities and put the kernel last. This made sense at the time if you wanted a usable system at every point. Linus came along with his kernel and stole the show. Nothing wrong with that but it is true that the community should recognize RMS's contribution. A few do but the majority see him as a crackpot.
He is not. In his place most people would react the same, or worse.
OK, my monitor's refresh rate is 85Hz, but that's for the *whole* frame. If the game framerate is higher than that you still might be able to detect a difference because *parts* of the frame are redrawn quicker.
My theory is that people might be able to tell the difference between 80 and 100 Hz (say) when they move around a lot and tearing int the image is occuring.
If you think this is crazy because movies give the impression of smoothness at 25Hz, in fact each image at the movie is 4x oversampled, so what you see on screen at the theatre is 100Hz.
As for analog sound vs. digital I suspect you mean LP vs CD? I can play something digital for you that will sound absolutely horrid (8kHz sampling, mono, MP3 compressed to 16kbps).
Some people will *swear* that they think their precious LP sound better than the same record in CD format. I can't tell if this is baloney or not, I just don't know. I do know that a lot of people complain of even high-quality MP3 and I can't tell the difference between CD and MP3 above 128kbps, so I can't judge. Can you?
> we made the decision not to vaccinate our now six year old.
So you are counting on the rest of the population to get immunised so that outbreaks of polio, diphteria, tetanus, meningitis et al. don't occur in your vicinity?
If everyone did the same as you we would all go back to the nice pre-1930 old days of devastating children diseases, hospitals wards full of artificial lungs, etc.
Even if vaccination carries a small risk it is minuscule compared to the real risk of infectious children diseases. I hope your son does not suffer the consequenses.
Personally I like the X *feature* that make the display resolution change but not the size of the desktop. I find it invaluable as a global zoom feature, when developing GUIs or watching movies on systems without hardware zoom built in the display card (Xv extension).
I wish windows could do the same, but no. If you try to zoom in windows the desktop gets messed up. I wonder if windows users will ever get that feature?
These takes bloody ages to compile. BTW MSVC++ is the slowest compiler I know when compiling C++ (straight C is fine). On my code which doesn't have many templates it's 10 times slower than gcc.
1- Yes the RIAA is exploiting artists. 1$/CD or less goes to the artist, this is daylight robbery. Some people on Slashdot may be `pirates' (arrh) but the vast majority, I'll wager, pay for their music.
2- Windows is provably less secure than Linux. The SSH holes you are talking about are nothing like the ISS highways, bearing in mind that ISS is enabled by default on most installation of win2k (don't know about XP). Microsoft takes a lot longer to patch known security holes than the Linux vendors. Some DoA holes on windows have never been patched and some are now a permanent feature of WinNT.
3- I don't have an opinion of HB1s, but if you let people in when you need them you need be prepared that some time will come when you might need them less. I agree with you that this debate is silly, every country I know which has imported foreign workers during a time of boom has had problems later during the bust. The thing is there is no choice in the matter: if you don't employ these people when you need them most, the bust happens sooner and might last longer. There will be a boom again and tech workers will be needed again.
4- Yes, sweatshops are absolutely evil. Don't buy from manufacturers who run sweatshops. Yes their product might be more expensive, but often this is not even the case, eg: Nike, which sells the most expensive shoes around. If you think this is propaganda think again, in some sweatshops people have to work 12h+ in a row with no break whatsoever, even toilet breaks. If you think this is impossible do your research. Workers in Europe in the 19th century had similar working conditions. Read Emile Zola's `Germinal' if you don't believe me.
This is a commonly held belief but this is wrong. The probe will hit the singularity in finite distant observer time. The voyager will not see the end of the world or anything like it.
See this link or read MTW's gravitation (referenced on the linked page).
You can still make assumptions as to what happens after you cross the horizon. For example would a traveller see the end of the universe, since time passes infinitely fast at the horizon (the answer is no)? How long would a traveller have before actually hitting the singularity in the middle (depends, not long usually)? If the BH is rotating, can the singularity be avoided after all (yes)? if so what happens (various theories there)?
All of these can be computed and their consequences drawn, and these consequences might one day yield a test that can allow to distinguish between a gravastar and a black hole.
There is a pair of pulsars orbiting each others that has been observed to have shrinking orbits like you write due to GR effects. In fact this pair is the most precise test of general relativity that we know.
Roger Penrose talks about it in his book `the emperor's new mind', and here is an excellent link
Yes, the NYT has to provide at least some of their content for free over the internet. Lots of other papers do it, CNN does it, here where I live the Sydney Morning Herald is all for free on the web with no registration. You can google search for all sorts of news on the web, not to mention weblogs of all kinds. As you know you can listen for news on the radio for free and you can watch them on TV, too.
The price of the paper version is just for the convenience of having your own copy to take away wherever you want to and to use as garden mulch when you are finished.
If the NYT wants to survive as a prime source of news that people read, they just have to provide their content. Their registration step is annoying and couterproductive (people will write whatever they want in these little boxes, and they do) so they should get rid of it.
BTW, the providing of news is nothing, this is not the business of the NYT in spite of all apparences. Their real business is the manufacturing of consent in the interest of bigger businesses and the economy in general.
Simple, really.
An O/S dies very easily, all that is required is for its kernel developer to is stop working on it. No driver -> stops working on new hardware -> no developer -> no user.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I'm with RMS on this one: without GNU there would not have been any Linux. I hope BK is a temporary solution.
The number you quote (2.1 child per woman of reproductive age) is called the fertility rate. The birth rate is the number of births per 1000 people. In the US the birth rate was 14.7 in 2000.
You are both right and wrong, of course FDA approval is a major hurdle, but companies won't even attempt that if they think their product might bring them to court. FDA approval is just a roughly known quantity of time and effort, whereas a single court case can put them out of business for good.
RU-486 is the `safe' abortive pill, has been in use in Europe for several years now (almost 15).
It has only just become widely available in the US (in 2000) even though using it is supposed to be less dangerous and simpler than the surgical procedure it replaces. The reason stated by Roussel-Uclaf, the makers of the pill, early in the proceedings was explicitely that bringing the drug into the US was far too dangerous.
Lots of details in a balanced essay on this charged subject at:
OK, the French in question that sold the Jews were the Vichy regime, an extreme right, fascist government put together after France's defeat in 1940. That governement was never elected. De Gaulle's governement in exile in London can't be accused of what the Vichy people did, most of whom fell on hard time after 1945.
> And they've been burning synagouges again, how > charming!
You are talking about the exact same people: extreme right minority facists who unfortunately still exist in Europe. Go watch American History X or read about the KKK to find out that the US are not immune from these kind of people either.
> The USA never did anything on the scale of > Algeria that wasn't in self defense.
Let's see: Korea?, Vietnam? the others are too small to count: El Salvador? Nicaragua? With all due respect you are full of **it.
> We, led by Ronald Reagan, defeated the > Communists through a sane policy of containment > when the Eurotrash wanted "arms-control" and > the insane "Mutually Assured Destruction."
Reagan, the Hero of the Right, is the one who restarted the arms race with star wars I, and gave nice Mr Hussein his weapons of mass destruction, in particular the chemicals and the delivery means (helicopters) with which Hussein took out the Kurds in 1988. In 1989 it took a special vote of Congress to stop the arms sales to Hussein, over Reagan's opinion!
> France, on the other hand, was the birth place > of that ideology, one which killed 100 billion > people, an ideology they still worship.
First MAD has killed exactly 0 people, if it had you would not be here to talk about it by definition, second if any policy has killed 100 BILLION people I wonder where you found them (sure it's not ants?) and third the US is the originator of the idea, being the one who came up with WMD in the first place and are the only country which actually has used them in anger: Hiroshima? Nagasaki?
> The French culture glorifies laziness, hedonism, > sexism, apathy and pseudo-intellectual fads.
Really? I thought the Greek were supposed to be lazy, the Italian hedonists, the Arabs of all description sexists, and the Spaniards somnolent.
For pseudo-intellectual fads you can't beat the Americans: tree hugging Californians? new age aromatherapy? anybody?
> Our culture elects fair and just leaders. > Neither our culture nor our government are > perfect, but they are a beacon of freedom and > democracy even today.
Your very own Noam Chomsky writes that if every US president were to be judged against the criteria of the Nuremberg Trial (where the Nazis were judged in 1945) every single one of them would have been hanged. Freedom and democracy for yourself, who cares about everybody else! can you remember Chile? Indonesia? The US governement is a bunch of control freaks who don't give a damn about either their own people (they are selling off their liberties as we speak) or anybody outside the border of their own beloved country.
In case you don't know, most of the world except possibly a minority of Israeli don't think much of the US, at the moment.
> A pity, they make such nice pastries.
Most French pastries are actually Austrian (at least the croissant).
This last bit proves beyond a single doubt that you don't know what you are talking about.
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You don't care because GNU is not your baby, it's his.
It takes a very great man to see his life's work taken for granted by all without any recognition. In effect Linux has killed the ambition of the GNU project, which was to come up with an alternative Unix system written from scratch.
GNU started with the compiler and the utilities and put the kernel last. This made sense at the time if you wanted a usable system at every point. Linus came along with his kernel and stole the show. Nothing wrong with that but it is true that the community should recognize RMS's contribution. A few do but the majority see him as a crackpot.
He is not. In his place most people would react the same, or worse.
OK, my monitor's refresh rate is 85Hz, but that's for the *whole* frame. If the game framerate is higher than that you still might be able to detect a difference because *parts* of the frame are redrawn quicker.
My theory is that people might be able to tell the difference between 80 and 100 Hz (say) when they move around a lot and tearing int the image is occuring.
If you think this is crazy because movies give the impression of smoothness at 25Hz, in fact each image at the movie is 4x oversampled, so what you see on screen at the theatre is 100Hz.
As for analog sound vs. digital I suspect you mean LP vs CD? I can play something digital for you that will sound absolutely horrid (8kHz sampling, mono, MP3 compressed to 16kbps).
Some people will *swear* that they think their precious LP sound better than the same record in CD format. I can't tell if this is baloney or not, I just don't know. I do know that a lot of people complain of even high-quality MP3 and I can't tell the difference between CD and MP3 above 128kbps, so I can't judge. Can you?
> we made the decision not to vaccinate our now six year old.
So you are counting on the rest of the population to get immunised so that outbreaks of polio, diphteria, tetanus, meningitis et al. don't occur in your vicinity?
If everyone did the same as you we would all go back to the nice pre-1930 old days of devastating children diseases, hospitals wards full of artificial lungs, etc.
Even if vaccination carries a small risk it is minuscule compared to the real risk of infectious children diseases. I hope your son does not suffer the consequenses.
This is fine work, I'm sure this will be useful.
Personally I like the X *feature* that make the display resolution change but not the size of the desktop. I find it invaluable as a global zoom feature, when developing GUIs or watching movies on systems without hardware zoom built in the display card (Xv extension).
I wish windows could do the same, but no. If you try to zoom in windows the desktop gets messed up. I wonder if windows users will ever get that feature?
With templates you have to have all your code in the headers. Do you have a compiler that implements `export' ?
These takes bloody ages to compile. BTW MSVC++ is the slowest compiler I know when compiling C++ (straight C is fine). On my code which doesn't have many templates it's 10 times slower than gcc.
1- Yes the RIAA is exploiting artists. 1$/CD or less goes to the artist, this is daylight robbery. Some people on Slashdot may be `pirates' (arrh) but the vast majority, I'll wager, pay for their music.
2- Windows is provably less secure than Linux. The SSH holes you are talking about are nothing like the ISS highways, bearing in mind that ISS is enabled by default on most installation of win2k (don't know about XP). Microsoft takes a lot longer to patch known security holes than the Linux vendors. Some DoA holes on windows have never been patched and some are now a permanent feature of WinNT.
3- I don't have an opinion of HB1s, but if you let people in when you need them you need be prepared that some time will come when you might need them less. I agree with you that this debate is silly, every country I know which has imported foreign workers during a time of boom has had problems later during the bust. The thing is there is no choice in the matter: if you don't employ these people when you need them most, the bust happens sooner and might last longer. There will be a boom again and tech workers will be needed again.
4- Yes, sweatshops are absolutely evil. Don't buy from manufacturers who run sweatshops. Yes their product might be more expensive, but often this is not even the case, eg: Nike, which sells the most expensive shoes around. If you think this is propaganda think again, in some sweatshops people have to work 12h+ in a row with no break whatsoever, even toilet breaks. If you think this is impossible do your research. Workers in Europe in the 19th century had similar working conditions. Read Emile Zola's `Germinal' if you don't believe me.
Well sir, we're steeped in old-timey material, heck, we're silly with it, aren't we, boys?
See this link or read MTW's gravitation (referenced on the linked page).
You can still make assumptions as to what happens after you cross the horizon. For example would a traveller see the end of the universe, since time passes infinitely fast at the horizon (the answer is no)? How long would a traveller have before actually hitting the singularity in the middle (depends, not long usually)? If the BH is rotating, can the singularity be avoided after all (yes)? if so what happens (various theories there)?
All of these can be computed and their consequences drawn, and these consequences might one day yield a test that can allow to distinguish between a gravastar and a black hole.
Roger Penrose talks about it in his book `the emperor's new mind', and here is an excellent link
Only one word: bravo!
Yes, the NYT has to provide at least some of their content for free over the internet. Lots of other papers do it, CNN does it, here where I live the Sydney Morning Herald is all for free on the web with no registration. You can google search for all sorts of news on the web, not to mention weblogs of all kinds. As you know you can listen for news on the radio for free and you can watch them on TV, too.
The price of the paper version is just for the convenience of having your own copy to take away wherever you want to and to use as garden mulch when you are finished. If the NYT wants to survive as a prime source of news that people read, they just have to provide their content. Their registration step is annoying and couterproductive (people will write whatever they want in these little boxes, and they do) so they should get rid of it.
BTW, the providing of news is nothing, this is not the business of the NYT in spite of all apparences. Their real business is the manufacturing of consent in the interest of bigger businesses and the economy in general. Simple, really.
I tried your link and on this particular .mov the rad tools can't convert the sound (uninformative error message).
The output video-only output with divx5 is twice as big too.
Did anyone get better luck?
An O/S dies very easily, all that is required is for its kernel developer to is stop working on it. No driver -> stops working on new hardware -> no developer -> no user.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I'm with RMS on this one: without GNU there would not have been any Linux. I hope BK is a temporary solution.
Not just the rubber tire, right?
The number you quote (2.1 child per woman of reproductive age) is called the fertility rate. The birth rate is the number of births per 1000 people.
In the US the birth rate was 14.7 in 2000.
See http://www.census.gov/statab/www/part1.html
You are both right and wrong, of course FDA approval is a major hurdle, but companies won't even attempt that if they think their product might bring them to court. FDA approval is just a roughly known quantity of time and effort, whereas a single court case can put them out of business for good.
RU-486 is the `safe' abortive pill, has been in use in Europe for several years now (almost 15).
It has only just become widely available in the US (in 2000) even though using it is supposed to be less dangerous and simpler than the surgical procedure it replaces. The reason stated by Roussel-Uclaf, the makers of the pill, early in the proceedings was explicitely that bringing the drug into the US was far too dangerous.
Lots of details in a balanced essay on this charged subject at:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/aboru486.htm
Actually there are stupid people everywhere, and the more educated they are, the more dangerous.
OK, the French in question that sold the Jews were the Vichy regime, an extreme right, fascist government put together after France's defeat in 1940. That governement was never elected. De Gaulle's governement in exile in London can't be accused of what the Vichy people did, most of whom fell on hard time after 1945.
> And they've been burning synagouges again, how
> charming!
You are talking about the exact same people: extreme right minority facists who unfortunately still exist in Europe. Go watch American History X or read about the KKK to find out that the US are not immune from these kind of people either.
> The USA never did anything on the scale of
> Algeria that wasn't in self defense.
Let's see: Korea?, Vietnam? the others are too small to count: El Salvador? Nicaragua? With all due respect you are full of **it.
> We, led by Ronald Reagan, defeated the
> Communists through a sane policy of containment
> when the Eurotrash wanted "arms-control" and
> the insane "Mutually Assured Destruction."
Reagan, the Hero of the Right, is the one who restarted the arms race with star wars I, and gave
nice Mr Hussein his weapons of mass destruction, in particular the chemicals and the delivery means (helicopters) with which Hussein took out the Kurds in 1988. In 1989 it took a special vote of Congress to stop the arms sales to Hussein, over Reagan's opinion!
> France, on the other hand, was the birth place
> of that ideology, one which killed 100 billion
> people, an ideology they still worship.
First MAD has killed exactly 0 people, if it had you would not be here to talk about it by definition, second if any policy has killed 100 BILLION people I wonder where you found them (sure it's not ants?) and third the US is the originator of the idea, being the one who came up with WMD in the first place and are the only country which actually has used them in anger: Hiroshima? Nagasaki?
> The French culture glorifies laziness, hedonism, > sexism, apathy and pseudo-intellectual fads.
Really? I thought the Greek were supposed to be lazy, the Italian hedonists, the Arabs of all description sexists, and the Spaniards somnolent.
For pseudo-intellectual fads you can't beat the Americans: tree hugging Californians? new age aromatherapy? anybody?
> Our culture elects fair and just leaders.
> Neither our culture nor our government are
> perfect, but they are a beacon of freedom and
> democracy even today.
Your very own Noam Chomsky writes that if every US president were to be judged against the criteria of the Nuremberg Trial (where the Nazis were judged in 1945) every single one of them would have been hanged. Freedom and democracy for yourself, who cares about everybody else! can you remember Chile? Indonesia? The US governement is a bunch of control freaks who don't give a damn about either their own people (they are selling off their liberties as we speak) or anybody outside the border of their own beloved country.
In case you don't know, most of the world except possibly a minority of Israeli don't think much of the US, at the moment.
> A pity, they make such nice pastries.
Most French pastries are actually Austrian (at least the croissant).
This last bit proves beyond a single doubt that you don't know what you are talking about.
Good day to you.
The wrong shielding (heavy) on beta radiation gives off X-rays due to bremsstrahlung.
It's thermos, not thermus
Nothing personal, but your attitude sucks.
> You could always get a second one ;-)
Wife, or TiVo?
To be or not to be; that is the question, Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or by opposing, end them. . . .