In other words, if it weren't for copyright, there would be no need for the GPL. It exists because of copyright.
Beep! Wrong! If it wasn't for copyright, GPL wouldn't exist, correct. But if we didn't have copyright, the need wouldn't exist (in part the need would still exist!), but the GPL would be unenforcable - it builds very heavily on traditional copyright to make the one important restriction it includes - derivative works should only be redistributable under the same license. This restriction wouldn't be possible to make without traditional copyright - in fact, no restrictions at all would be possible to make, mooting the point of any kind of licensing scheme totally...
Yes, this is Slashdot. But you missed the part that you aren't really supposed to read the article - it's perfectly valid to make a complaint without reading it!
Raised throughput doesn't really equal higher velocity. It just means more cars can pass per minute. One "easy" (read: difficult but possible) way to do this is just to let the cars drive closer to each other. Of course - with human drivers, that's not possible (reaction time - at least 100 m between the cars necessary or something). Computer controlled cars, OTOH, has been demonstrated driving less than 4-5 m from each other - at normal (neither lower or higher) highway speeds. That equals a pretty big throughput increase...
think his point was we should learn the grammar of our language.
I very much agree with you - when I'm writing in my native language, Swedish, the grammar checker is more or less a PITA - it only objects to stuff that I know is correct (I know my grammar). Same thing, more or less, in English.
Where it really shines though, is when I'm writing in German or Spanish. Yeah, I should learn the grammar of those languages properly too, I know, but it takes loads of work to really do it and especially in German, with three different articles for the nouns you have to learn more or less by heart, you're still going to do some mistakes (even native Germans do once in a while)...
Actually quite a few did. The number of hispanics in US is growing bigtime and as far as I know it's already second biggest language in the US, in some states even close to English in size. In light of that, I wouldn't considering actually offering a spanish-speaking helpdesk, as an alternative, totally silly.:)
Nah. It's fixing them that's REALLY strange.
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My parents' Pentium 120 once died on us. Not very strange, it ran Windows 95 and the registry died somehow (of course you aren't surprised!). As the CD on it was already broke, I gave up on it, we used the new computer instead and used it only to run old DOS games (it started alright in DOS mode without the registry, but refused to boot in normal mode).
Until I about two years later, accidentally forgot to choose "DOS mode" on bootup. And it started flawlessly. And I hadn't done anything at all. That machine is still running strong, my sister uses it for playing old games... As it now works, I've upgraded it with a bunch of memory, and overclocked it to 133 MHz (yay!). Should make a fresh install too, but my sister refuses to let me do it (she doesn't want to lose the oldie games).
90%? Nah. You forget ICQ - it's still pretty big over here - I would guess > 10% at least, mostly consisting of techies though. But you do have a point - AIM is in the promille range in Europe...
Reminds me of my homework at the university, which I had at the beginning of this semester. It was to watch animated movies (ie Toy Story etc). Ok, the course was on computer graphics and animation, but anyway...
And BTW - the british policy won't really work and is fubar anyway.
The only thing that'll happen is the terrorists making their bombs go off when the carrying party loses pulse. Or when he doesn't push a button during more than 5-10 secs...
Yes, in theory you're right - but in practice there are quite many examples where the treaties indeed haven't been implemented in the member states' laws - you would still eventually win your case, but not before you had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which would then judge if your countrie is breaking your rights. There's quite many cases on the site BTW - the case database is online for all your reading delight!
Also I'm not shure how you come to the conclusion:"Also most people would like to install Grub on their MBR, since they don't even know what it is." HUH?!? If they don't know what it is how can they have a preference. And if they did why would they want all thier existing software and data suddenly rendered unreachable?
Most people really WOULD like to have Grub on the MBR. Less problems that way than installing it in one of the partitions (especially as THAT for sure would be able to render data unreadable...). What also is true though, is that most people would like it setup for dualboot if there is another OS installation available, giving them a bootup menu where you can choose between the different OSes you have installed at bootup.
If your 50 webcomics in tabs all are on the same server, they won't be downloaded at the same time in a gazillion connections, but after each other. At least if your browser is even close to standard compliance, and FF is...
Sweden IS one of those countries. Not sure about France, but there are also several others - AFAIK it's quite common in non-english-speaking countries.
Of course, some one that has done locale settings work should know more than me...
Actually, the variance in at least the summmary is far greater than that. In several countries, 1,333 is understood as 1.333 and NOT 1333. Which makes for a huge variance (although only two actual values). (And BTW, why wasn't that 1.337???).
1. IBM is going to churn out console processors from their own fabs?
2. It isn't very easy to "upgrade" a semiconductor fab to latest tech, building a new one might actually be easier as you can make the buildings fit the purpose perfectly...
BTW, I have an even better one, "Legoland" by Phobic, from The Gathering '99, but I can't find a good download section on gathering.org (there at least used to be one) and I haven't found the file elsewhere on the web. I would upload it if it wasn't for 1) copyright considerations 2) my crap Internet connection would hardly cope with even one download (100 kbps DSL) - I'm not even thinking about giving the slashdot crowd a link...
About ESA - they have had a lot of "spationauts" (we never say that in swedish, we just call them astronauts as well). But as far as I, and the wikipedia page I conveniently linked, know, they haven't actually been launched with ESA rockets, like the Ariane. They have all been sent up with russian or american space ship - that's why I didn't really mention them. You don't really have the technology unless you have all of it, right?
Uhm, you're forgetting our friends the taikonauts. I do understand the Chinese not doing this though - their manned missions don't have a very long history, and they wouldn't probably like selling vacation flights on the commercial market. It wouldn't look very good, would it?
Especially as the rest of the company this CEO (no one else makes so much money) really can't blaim him for not having his cellphone off and thus bein unreachable, whereas on a normal cruise you would be very much reachable...
2. Imagine having already filled all RAM position (lots of RAM), and adding another 4,8,12 or 16 GB with a bunch of these babies, for a total between 20 and 32 GB. Monstermachine, yes, but this IS Slashdot...
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In other words, if it weren't for copyright, there would be no need for the GPL. It exists because of copyright.
Beep! Wrong! If it wasn't for copyright, GPL wouldn't exist, correct. But if we didn't have copyright, the need wouldn't exist (in part the need would still exist!), but the GPL would be unenforcable - it builds very heavily on traditional copyright to make the one important restriction it includes - derivative works should only be redistributable under the same license. This restriction wouldn't be possible to make without traditional copyright - in fact, no restrictions at all would be possible to make, mooting the point of any kind of licensing scheme totally...
Is this really slashdot?
Yes, this is Slashdot. But you missed the part that you aren't really supposed to read the article - it's perfectly valid to make a complaint without reading it!
Raised throughput doesn't really equal higher velocity. It just means more cars can pass per minute. One "easy" (read: difficult but possible) way to do this is just to let the cars drive closer to each other. Of course - with human drivers, that's not possible (reaction time - at least 100 m between the cars necessary or something). Computer controlled cars, OTOH, has been demonstrated driving less than 4-5 m from each other - at normal (neither lower or higher) highway speeds. That equals a pretty big throughput increase...
I very much agree with you - when I'm writing in my native language, Swedish, the grammar checker is more or less a PITA - it only objects to stuff that I know is correct (I know my grammar). Same thing, more or less, in English.
Where it really shines though, is when I'm writing in German or Spanish. Yeah, I should learn the grammar of those languages properly too, I know, but it takes loads of work to really do it and especially in German, with three different articles for the nouns you have to learn more or less by heart, you're still going to do some mistakes (even native Germans do once in a while)...
only so many independent peaces you can split the application
Yeah, people ARE gonna fight in a 25 person team! :)
wait, was this really a dupe? I don't recognize it...
Actually quite a few did. The number of hispanics in US is growing bigtime and as far as I know it's already second biggest language in the US, in some states even close to English in size. In light of that, I wouldn't considering actually offering a spanish-speaking helpdesk, as an alternative, totally silly. :)
My parents' Pentium 120 once died on us. Not very strange, it ran Windows 95 and the registry died somehow (of course you aren't surprised!). As the CD on it was already broke, I gave up on it, we used the new computer instead and used it only to run old DOS games (it started alright in DOS mode without the registry, but refused to boot in normal mode). Until I about two years later, accidentally forgot to choose "DOS mode" on bootup. And it started flawlessly. And I hadn't done anything at all. That machine is still running strong, my sister uses it for playing old games... As it now works, I've upgraded it with a bunch of memory, and overclocked it to 133 MHz (yay!). Should make a fresh install too, but my sister refuses to let me do it (she doesn't want to lose the oldie games).
90%? Nah. You forget ICQ - it's still pretty big over here - I would guess > 10% at least, mostly consisting of techies though. But you do have a point - AIM is in the promille range in Europe...
Strategy games don't work well on TV screens...
change
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won't we?
Reminds me of my homework at the university, which I had at the beginning of this semester. It was to watch animated movies (ie Toy Story etc). Ok, the course was on computer graphics and animation, but anyway...
The only thing that'll happen is the terrorists making their bombs go off when the carrying party loses pulse. Or when he doesn't push a button during more than 5-10 secs...
Don't tell the terrorists, though. ;-)
Yes, in theory you're right - but in practice there are quite many examples where the treaties indeed haven't been implemented in the member states' laws - you would still eventually win your case, but not before you had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which would then judge if your countrie is breaking your rights. There's quite many cases on the site BTW - the case database is online for all your reading delight!
Most people really WOULD like to have Grub on the MBR. Less problems that way than installing it in one of the partitions (especially as THAT for sure would be able to render data unreadable...). What also is true though, is that most people would like it setup for dualboot if there is another OS installation available, giving them a bootup menu where you can choose between the different OSes you have installed at bootup.
It for sure isn't a traditional answer, but wouldn't this be kind of an answer to that question?
Sweden IS one of those countries. Not sure about France, but there are also several others - AFAIK it's quite common in non-english-speaking countries.
Of course, some one that has done locale settings work should know more than me...
Actually, the variance in at least the summmary is far greater than that. In several countries, 1,333 is understood as 1.333 and NOT 1333. Which makes for a huge variance (although only two actual values). (And BTW, why wasn't that 1.337???).
2. It isn't very easy to "upgrade" a semiconductor fab to latest tech, building a new one might actually be easier as you can make the buildings fit the purpose perfectly...
BTW, I have an even better one, "Legoland" by Phobic, from The Gathering '99, but I can't find a good download section on gathering.org (there at least used to be one) and I haven't found the file elsewhere on the web. I would upload it if it wasn't for 1) copyright considerations 2) my crap Internet connection would hardly cope with even one download (100 kbps DSL) - I'm not even thinking about giving the slashdot crowd a link...
About ESA - they have had a lot of "spationauts" (we never say that in swedish, we just call them astronauts as well). But as far as I, and the wikipedia page I conveniently linked, know, they haven't actually been launched with ESA rockets, like the Ariane. They have all been sent up with russian or american space ship - that's why I didn't really mention them. You don't really have the technology unless you have all of it, right?
Uhm, you're forgetting our friends the taikonauts. I do understand the Chinese not doing this though - their manned missions don't have a very long history, and they wouldn't probably like selling vacation flights on the commercial market. It wouldn't look very good, would it?
Especially as the rest of the company this CEO (no one else makes so much money) really can't blaim him for not having his cellphone off and thus bein unreachable, whereas on a normal cruise you would be very much reachable...
2. Imagine having already filled all RAM position (lots of RAM), and adding another 4,8,12 or 16 GB with a bunch of these babies, for a total between 20 and 32 GB. Monstermachine, yes, but this IS Slashdot...