Also, while I don't dispute that psychological addiction is "real", it is not "real" in the same way that physical addiction is. If it were, we wouldn't make the distinction.
To be honest, I often wonder why we make the distinction between body and mind in the first place.
many benchmarks have shown that a modern optimized JVM with JIT compilation is roughly equivalent with most implementations of C++, with some benchmarks being better for Java and some being better for C++.
And many studies have shown that going with Microsoft software is cheaper than going with open sourced software.
Colloquially known as "pointer-envy", this condition may affect all programmers, but is especially prevalent in java and C# developers. It is most easily recognized in a release announcement, where for no reason whatsoever the afflicted developer suddenly interjects a statement like "and it's just as fast as C", to the bewilderment of the audience.
Treat suspected cases with caution, and under no condition contradict the patient. There is no known cure.
There's an investigation. They claim to find something. The other side claims the investigators are lying.
No. The purpose of an investigation is to find and present facts. If these facts suggest evidence of wrongdoing, then the judicial system decides whether or not there was wrongdoing. They then claim to find something and their claims have tangible consequenes.
How is everyone getting upset and no-one every finding out exactly what happened the same as a massive electoral investigation which most likely would find out exactly what happened?
Mellow out a bit. Nobody is comparing the US to a dictatorship, you started that on your own.
Your own government is concered about what happened in Florida, particularly about the deregistration of large classes of people. I believe the "Help America Vote" is intended to address that. And when your own government is concerned why is it a suprise that the OSCE is too? After all, the US is a participating state.
Russian mathematicians are a special breed. If you ever do any original mathematical research, especially a high powered area like analysis, the chances are some Russian did it in the 60s.
One of the points that is seldom made is that printed journals provide a pedigree for the articles that is hard to forge: the article was authored by a certain person, published on a certain date, said whatever it said.
And journal articles are always reviewed, whether by peers or editors. I think Wikipedia needs some sort of review system if it's to become a useful resource.
Quantum computers don't require any fundamental new breakthroughs, they are now almost an engineering problem. There is a real chance that the manhattan-style approach being taken by NIST will succeed in the next 20 years.
... for us to have the equivalet of today's computers (or better) in QC.
They're not equivalent. And they don't need to be.
Because it's the minimum number of qubits needed for universal error correction in quantum computing
Well, the smallest error correcting code that can protect againt a single error requires five qubits. To actually do error correction you need quite a few more.
Product coalescence? Diversity is a *feature* of the open source method. Two different desktop environments for linux have emerged because two groups have different ideas about what they want in a desktop environment. You'd think people would be happy they have a choice.
And from the end users point of view, both are themeable to the point where they look exactly the same. Only a zealot would rant about having redundant libraries loaded into memory. The core kde libraries (including qt) on my system come in at a whopping 6.8M. That's less than *one percent* of my memory.
And hey, there's plenty of petroleum out there, so who gives a crap about driving an SUV instead of a Prius or Civic Hybrid?
There's not plenty of petroleum out there, it cannot be reused (unlike ram), and using it has serious consequences for the health of the environment and the people living in it.
Coincedently I do drive a Civic, and hope to buy the hybrid as my next car.
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Like we didn't have enough waste of memory with Qt/kdelibs and GTK/Gnomelibs having to be both loaded in memory most of the time (who restricts his choice to either Qt programs or GTK programs, but not both?)
Join the 21st century. At $130 for 512MB of DDR2 who gives a crap about wasting memory any more?
First - if I can write player with your decoder then anybody else and his dog would write other players using your decoder. They may sell it cheaper, they may give it out for free, they may license it as GPL
And the best outcome for the community at large is that the player, and its source code, is freely available to anyone.
If you want your work to benefit individuals, a BSD or LGPL licence is fine. The most likely beneficiaries will be entities like Evil Company because they have readily available resources to turn your work into a product they can sell, so they gain more resources to profit from more people's work and so on. And so
Millions of users of their Evil OS use their program and have no idea who wrote original decoder.
Exactly, the original decoder has become irrelevant. If the Evil Company wants to write their own decoder that's fine, they can do what they like.
What *I* am interested in is making a small contribution to a public repository of software, and to ensure that any work based on mine is also contributed to that public repository. I want that public repository to be as large as possible to provide maximum benefit to anyone who needs software. And the most effective way to do that is to licence my work under the GPL.
For example if I write program and BSD license it I can't link to readline library because it's GPLed. And I can't because GPL would overtake my code. What kind of gift it is?
Suppose I write a decoder for some funky new music format and BSD licence it. The suppose you take my decoder and write a music player which you decide to sell for $19.99 without making the source available.
Then the only person that benefits from my gift is you. If I GPL the decoder then you are obliged to make the source available (but you can still sell it). Anyone who wants to improve your music player or customize it for themselves or heck, offer a free version, can do so.
Lots of people who don't want to play around with a decoder but would like to play around with a music player have now benefitted.
So there's the GPL - the gift that just keeps on giving.
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Also, while I don't dispute that psychological addiction is "real", it is not "real" in the same way that physical addiction is. If it were, we wouldn't make the distinction.
To be honest, I often wonder why we make the distinction between body and mind in the first place.
(though, sadly, there may be in the native libraries that they sometimes call)
Such as libjpeg?
many benchmarks have shown that a modern optimized JVM with JIT compilation is roughly equivalent with most implementations of C++, with some benchmarks being better for Java and some being better for C++.
And many studies have shown that going with Microsoft software is cheaper than going with open sourced software.
Colloquially known as "pointer-envy", this condition may affect all programmers, but is especially prevalent in java and C# developers. It is most easily recognized in a release announcement, where for no reason whatsoever the afflicted developer suddenly interjects a statement like "and it's just as fast as C", to the bewilderment of the audience.
Treat suspected cases with caution, and under no condition contradict the patient. There is no known cure.
There's an investigation. They claim to find something. The other side claims the investigators are lying.
No. The purpose of an investigation is to find and present facts. If these facts suggest evidence of wrongdoing, then the judicial system decides whether or not there was wrongdoing. They then claim to find something and their claims have tangible consequenes.
#3 is covered under #2
How is everyone getting upset and no-one every finding out exactly what happened the same as a massive electoral investigation which most likely would find out exactly what happened?
Mellow out a bit. Nobody is comparing the US to a dictatorship, you started that on your own.
Your own government is concered about what happened in Florida, particularly about the deregistration of large classes of people. I believe the "Help America Vote" is intended to address that. And when your own government is concerned why is it a suprise that the OSCE is too? After all, the US is a participating state.
Type 'cat /dev/core' at a shell. Then see what you have to say about Red Hat.
Heh. Kudos for working it out. I just went to the online encyclopedia of integer sequences. My doh was probably just as loud though.
Russian mathematicians are a special breed. If you ever do any original mathematical research, especially a high powered area like analysis, the chances are some Russian did it in the 60s.
I suspect it's the long winters.
One of the points that is seldom made is that printed journals provide a pedigree for the articles that is hard to forge: the article was authored by a certain person, published on a certain date, said whatever it said.
And journal articles are always reviewed, whether by peers or editors. I think Wikipedia needs some sort of review system if it's to become a useful resource.
I think QC will suffer a similar fate, as its designers slowly realize how they might be able to build a general QC framework.
The current framework allows for arbitrary quantum computations. Exactly how much more general do you expect to get?
NIST is funding a large scale effort to build a QC capable of factoring a 128 bit number in 30 seconds.
... for us to have the equivalet of today's computers (or better) in QC.
http://qubit.nist.gov/FoQuS/foqus.html
Quantum computers don't require any fundamental new breakthroughs, they are now almost an engineering problem. There is a real chance that the manhattan-style approach being taken by NIST will succeed in the next 20 years.
They're not equivalent. And they don't need to be.
Because it's the minimum number of qubits needed for universal error correction in quantum computing
Well, the smallest error correcting code that can protect againt a single error requires five qubits. To actually do error correction you need quite a few more.
Product coalescence? Diversity is a *feature* of the open source method. Two different desktop environments for linux have emerged because two groups have different ideas about what they want in a desktop environment. You'd think people would be happy they have a choice.
And from the end users point of view, both are themeable to the point where they look exactly the same. Only a zealot would rant about having redundant libraries loaded into memory. The core kde libraries (including qt) on my system come in at a whopping 6.8M. That's less than *one percent* of my memory.
You've got to be joking. A grammar checker? Anyone else here just dying for a grammar checker?
I'm dying for one on irc clients. It's really embarrassing saying "omg strongbad is 2 kewl" when the correct expression is "omg strongbad si r0x0r"
And hey, there's plenty of petroleum out there, so who gives a crap about driving an SUV instead of a Prius or Civic Hybrid?
There's not plenty of petroleum out there, it cannot be reused (unlike ram), and using it has serious consequences for the health of the environment and the people living in it.
Coincedently I do drive a Civic, and hope to buy the hybrid as my next car.
Like we didn't have enough waste of memory with Qt/kdelibs and GTK/Gnomelibs having to be both loaded in memory most of the time (who restricts his choice to either Qt programs or GTK programs, but not both?)
Join the 21st century. At $130 for 512MB of DDR2 who gives a crap about wasting memory any more?
First - if I can write player with your decoder then anybody else and his dog would write other players using your decoder. They may sell it cheaper, they may give it out for free, they may license it as GPL
And the best outcome for the community at large is that the player, and its source code, is freely available to anyone.
If you want your work to benefit individuals, a BSD or LGPL licence is fine. The most likely beneficiaries will be entities like Evil Company because they have readily available resources to turn your work into a product they can sell, so they gain more resources to profit from more people's work and so on. And so
Millions of users of their Evil OS use their program and have no idea who wrote original decoder.
Exactly, the original decoder has become irrelevant. If the Evil Company wants to write their own decoder that's fine, they can do what they like.
What *I* am interested in is making a small contribution to a public repository of software, and to ensure that any work based on mine is also contributed to that public repository. I want that public repository to be as large as possible to provide maximum benefit to anyone who needs software. And the most effective way to do that is to licence my work under the GPL.
For example if I write program and BSD license it I can't link to readline library because it's GPLed. And I can't because GPL would overtake my code. What kind of gift it is?
Suppose I write a decoder for some funky new music format and BSD licence it. The suppose you take my decoder and write a music player which you decide to sell for $19.99 without making the source available.
Then the only person that benefits from my gift is you. If I GPL the decoder then you are obliged to make the source available (but you can still sell it). Anyone who wants to improve your music player or customize it for themselves or heck, offer a free version, can do so.
Lots of people who don't want to play around with a decoder but would like to play around with a music player have now benefitted.
So there's the GPL - the gift that just keeps on giving.
So software can be a true gift without any "strings" attached
Don't you think it's a bigger gift if you ensure that not only your work, but extensions of your work are freely available to the community too?
I really have trouble believing that any sort of fusion project, especially one funded by the states, has a measly budget of 2 million a year.
Two million per year will buy you 200,000 grad students.
Especially as sll these funky effects will looks crappy on a grainy 800x600 data projector anyway.
Grrrr ... you just reminded me of php4's 'object oriented' facilities. What a complete dud they were.
I heard they were bundling an SCO source license in with their Unixware stuff. So they can count Unixware sales as SCO source as well.