I'm sorry, but I think you're five years out of date. 9/11/2001 was a very important day, but I believe that everyone's heard of it by new, and there aren't really any new stories that will add to our understanding of it. It isn't really "News for Nerds" (although it was "Stuff that Matters").
Have you played this game, or the esp game? You just have to get one word in common (that hasn't been listed before). It's very easy to do - you can usually do it within 20 seconds. Imagine - you see a picture of a car. You try to guess what the other person will think you're thinking he will...think it is. Therefore, you both try to name the most important element of the picture - automobile or car, for example.
But without the existence of copyright, there would be no need for the GPL.
I wouldn't say that. The GPL wouldn't work if copyright didn't exist, but the GPL gives the user a right that wouldn't exist if copyrigt didn't exist: the right to receive the source code to a program in addition to the binary.
There's not just the risk of them patenting, but also the risk of them stealing the idea and developing it faster than he would. Remember what happened with Stacker and Microsoft?
Actually, it does help the company that releases the stock. IPOs can raise a lot of money for a company, which they can use to make more money. When the company becomes large and profitable, you get dividends, which benefit the person owning the stock. It works for both people.
But isn't the purpose of standards to not have to have Quirks Mode? To not have to plan for so many exceptions and spend time and/or money preparing for them?
Luckily, Microsoft doesn't have to spend time and money preparing for these exceptions. They already have a browser that supports all of them: IE6.
Robots are controlled by computers, with software. The city used to have a license for the software to operate the robots. Now they don't, so they can't operate the robots to remove the cars. If the software was open source, they would still have the license for it, so they could still use the robots.
Why would they have to have open source hackers in Hoboken? Couldn't they just hire another, unrelated company to work on the software? They might take some time getting used to the software, but if they have a big enough dispute with the original company that they got the software from that could still be worthwhile.
I assume that the spent fuel coming out of a nuclear reactor is quite warm, so they have to reduce its temperature to a few K. This cooling will also increase the radiation (=heat) coming out of the spent fuel, so you'll have to counteract that too.
It seems as though both of these guys are missing the point: the promise of the tail is not in increased revenue, but in decreased cost.
I don't know about that. I would be more likely to buy books from a brick and mortar bookstore if they have the books that I want (this is ignoring the issue of cost - Amazon.com doesn't discount mass market paperbacks).
Case in point - I wanted to buy Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) at the bookstore, but they didn't have it. If that book isn't there, the probability that I would spend the money I would've spent on that one book on another is less than 1.0, because the other book is less desirable to me. If the other options are less valuable than the $8 I would pay for the book I want, then the bookstore has lost at least some of that $8 of revenue.
Actually, AFAIK a significant fraction (all?) of the jet engines that are used in model planes use only the compressor from a turbocharger. They want an axial turbine, so they have to make that from a fancy material like Inconel (or possibly good stainless steel).
I don't know much about the format itself, but if they let you store 8 bits/character, then you could just put UTF-8 data in, and it should work fine. The unofficial CD Text FAQ does say that at least the lead in area does support storing double-byte characters (for Kanji), so it seems like that still should work).
I'm not using their native operating systems, so how stable the filesystems are there doesn't really affect me. What matters to me is whether the code in Linux that uses them is stable.
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That depends on if all the data is in cache, and if the speed of the cache increases at the same rate as the speed of the processor.
I'm sorry, but I think you're five years out of date. 9/11/2001 was a very important day, but I believe that everyone's heard of it by new, and there aren't really any new stories that will add to our understanding of it. It isn't really "News for Nerds" (although it was "Stuff that Matters").
Have you played this game, or the esp game? You just have to get one word in common (that hasn't been listed before). It's very easy to do - you can usually do it within 20 seconds. Imagine - you see a picture of a car. You try to guess what the other person will think you're thinking he will...think it is. Therefore, you both try to name the most important element of the picture - automobile or car, for example.
But without the existence of copyright, there would be no need for the GPL.
I wouldn't say that. The GPL wouldn't work if copyright didn't exist, but the GPL gives the user a right that wouldn't exist if copyrigt didn't exist: the right to receive the source code to a program in addition to the binary.
How about shorting the stock, so you get money when it's dumped?
There's not just the risk of them patenting, but also the risk of them stealing the idea and developing it faster than he would. Remember what happened with Stacker and Microsoft?
It's relevant to people who don't happen to have a Core processor and motherboard lying around.
It's called Fark
Actually, it does help the company that releases the stock. IPOs can raise a lot of money for a company, which they can use to make more money. When the company becomes large and profitable, you get dividends, which benefit the person owning the stock. It works for both people.
Even if your physical location can't be secured you can still keep the data private.
What about hardware keyloggers?
But isn't the purpose of standards to not have to have Quirks Mode? To not have to plan for so many exceptions and spend time and/or money preparing for them?
Luckily, Microsoft doesn't have to spend time and money preparing for these exceptions. They already have a browser that supports all of them: IE6.
I thought the 387 and Burroughs B5000 were odd, antiquated architectures, but apparently they're the wave of the future.
Robots are controlled by computers, with software. The city used to have a license for the software to operate the robots. Now they don't, so they can't operate the robots to remove the cars. If the software was open source, they would still have the license for it, so they could still use the robots.
Why would they have to have open source hackers in Hoboken? Couldn't they just hire another, unrelated company to work on the software? They might take some time getting used to the software, but if they have a big enough dispute with the original company that they got the software from that could still be worthwhile.
I thought that initramfs was the hotness? Why would we want to use initrd over initramfs (or vice versa, for that matter)?
I assume that the spent fuel coming out of a nuclear reactor is quite warm, so they have to reduce its temperature to a few K. This cooling will also increase the radiation (=heat) coming out of the spent fuel, so you'll have to counteract that too.
Finally, a way to prevent people from buying things advertised in spam: breed the susceptibility out of the population.
I don't know about that. I would be more likely to buy books from a brick and mortar bookstore if they have the books that I want (this is ignoring the issue of cost - Amazon.com doesn't discount mass market paperbacks).
Case in point - I wanted to buy Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) at the bookstore, but they didn't have it. If that book isn't there, the probability that I would spend the money I would've spent on that one book on another is less than 1.0, because the other book is less desirable to me. If the other options are less valuable than the $8 I would pay for the book I want, then the bookstore has lost at least some of that $8 of revenue.
Well, I did say passed. I just never mentioned whether they were still ahead.
I think the grandparent was thinking about retail market share, where AMD has indeed passed Intel. Overall market share is a different story....
Actually, AFAIK a significant fraction (all?) of the jet engines that are used in model planes use only the compressor from a turbocharger. They want an axial turbine, so they have to make that from a fancy material like Inconel (or possibly good stainless steel).
I thought you were supposed to upload your important stuff on ftp, and let the world mirror it.
It seems to me that if you have an impossible schedule, then you've already failed.
I don't know much about the format itself, but if they let you store 8 bits/character, then you could just put UTF-8 data in, and it should work fine. The unofficial CD Text FAQ does say that at least the lead in area does support storing double-byte characters (for Kanji), so it seems like that still should work).
I'm not using their native operating systems, so how stable the filesystems are there doesn't really affect me. What matters to me is whether the code in Linux that uses them is stable.