Biggest problem with sourceforge and has been for ages.
You'll do a search and find a project description that makes you go "Wow! That's exactly what I'm looking for!", then you get the disappointment a few seconds later of realising that writing the description is actually the entirety of the effort ever expended on the project.
Sourceforge really need to purge all these vapourware projects.
When River shoots at the spaceman(woman) and misses (despite being already established as an excellent shot) she mutters something like "Yes, of course" which could mean she knows her shots went wide because it would be a paradox for her to shoot her younger self.
Evanagalist: YEAH JESUS IS GOOD, JESUS IS GREAT, JESUS WANTS YOU TO GIVE ME MONEY!!!! BTW The rapture happens 6pm on 21st May 2011.
Audience: PRAISE JESUS!!!
[Florida]
Evangalist: YEAH JESUS IS GOOD, JESUS IS GREAT... Hello sir, your left leg is longer than your right - [slides left shoe back on] - YOU'RE CURED!!!! BTW The rapture happens 6pm on 21st May 2011
Audience: PRAISE JESUS!!!
Guy in audience: Errm, excuse me - I attended your show in California and you said the rapture was at 6pm there too! What gives?
Evangalist: Errm, (bugger), Errm, yeah it's 6pm local time - PRAISE JESUS!!!
Guy in audience: So the rapture it sweeps across the earth from east to west and hits every time zone at 6pm?
Evangalist: Errm, (shit), Errm, yeah that's right - JESUS IS OUR SAVIOUR!!!!
Guy in audience: Why exactly?
Evangalist: Errm, (fuck), Errm - BECAUSE BROTHER, GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!!!!
Guy in audience: Oh yeah, that old chestnut. What about DST?
Evangalist: [looks around for where those bloody bouncers have got to] Errm, yeah Jesus takes care of that too - PRAISE THE LORD!!!
Guy in audience: [getting dragged away by bouncers] But that's bollocks!!! Gaaghhh Let Go!!! You're just a charlaten!!! Hey Put Me Down!!! Give me back my life savings you piece of shit!!!
Evangalist: (where was I, oh yeah) PRAISE JESUS!!!! JESUS WANTS YOU TO GIVE ME MONEY!!!
Sorry, forgot to add the rest of what I wanted to say...
So yes, it's all a matter of if you can convince the rest of the network to accept your block and transaction. If you could get enough people to do that (by getting them to install your version of the client) then yes, as I said, you will have fractured the bitcoin system into two distinct "currencies". However that's a big "if" - what incentive could you offer to convince a non trivial number of people to do that?
AIUI If you override the difficulty you can mine blocks more quickly, but those blocks won't be accepted by the rest of network - so they'll be worthless.
Similarly when you mine a block you are allowed to create a transaction giving yourself a specific reward, which is currently 50 coins and halves every four years. If you award yourself a different amount then that transaction will be considered invalid by the rest of the network and will be worthless.
The way it works, AIUI, is the "new" bitcoins are crytographically guaranteed to be incompatible with the existing coins.
So all you would have done is create a distinct bitcoin currency and would have to convince everyone to trade with your version of the coins if you wanted it to have any value.
OK it's a fair cop - my grasp of these matters is less than stellar.
Bloody hell - $14T increasing by 2.2T a year!!! I'm glad I don't live in the US! The only question is how much of the rest of world's economy goes down the shitter when the US goes bankrupt...
AIUI, the states demanding action are the ones that think Amazon having affiliates living locally means the same as Amazon having a business presence in that state. Most people (outside of the states' tax offices) think that's something of a stretch.
So the question is, where are you going to cut the other $1.4T?
Wait a minute do you mean that the US deficit is growing by $2.2T a year - holy cow!
OTOH if you mean it's currently $2.2T in total and growing relatively slowly - then paying it off a $800B a year will take - let me see - a little over 3 years.
Hell you could even pay it off a little more slowly and maybe even afford a decent health service!;-)
In taking insult though, you read implications into my words that I never made
Fair enough, that's just how it read to me.
Perhaps it means you find your job so satisfying that if they gave you two options: (1) here's your salary, every year, without you needing to ever show up, or (2) come work for me year in and year out for your salary, you would choose (2) in a heartbeat
Oh, its definitely a (1) for me - I code software for a living, which as a profession is something I enjoy - but given the choice, I'd sit at home coding things I want to rather than what my boss wants me to do.
Whilst I can imagine there are a small number of people that really enjoy sweeping floors or working in a factory - I suspect the vast majority do it mostly for the money.
Equally, while there are undoubtedly some that would happily draw a salary for eating nachos all day, I would like to think that for most people that would get boring eventually - and they would then seek to do something more fulfilling - and I stand by my opinion that everybody is capable of that.
While you say that all companies need grunts - I'd have to say that maybe that's true today but maybe that won't be the case in the future when all those boring, unfulfilling jobs would be automated or made unnecessary. It's already happening, you only have to look at the not so distant past - how many people work in typing pools these days, how many telephone operators are there compared to when switching calls had to be done manually?
Yes it might be a pipedream, or at least it might not happen until I'm long gone - but I like to imagine a future where everyone chooses option (2).
I think it's safe to say that there will, at least for the forseeable future, be plenty of jobs that require intelligence, skill and creativity that cannot be done by machines.
You seem to be implying that there's a whole bunch of people that are just too thick to do anything more inspiring than work on a production line, drive trucks or sweep floors. I actually find that idea quite insulting!
I prefer to believe that everyone is capable of aspiring to a more satisfying career and anyone that does not get that opportunity has been failed by our educational systems and/or by society in general.
Seriously, why does this meme just keep going round and round?
computers/phones already have hardware capable of decoding WebM - it's the same hardware used to decode h.264! In most cases all that is/will be needed is a firmware update.
Android phones will obviously be there first - it's already available in Gingerbread. Apple will follow suit eventually, they might resist for a while but with Android's rising market share and Google controlling Youtube, they're caught between a rock and a hard place and I'm sure they know it.
Firstly it's GP's analogy, not mine. Secondly it's just an example - the actual point I was making was to refute GGP's assertion that the GPL prohibition on distributing binaries without source makes it non-free by making the counter-point that living in a free society does not mean you are free to commit actions that abridge other peoples' freedom.
In any case you're completely mixed up wrt your use of involuntary/voluntary - the murder is voluntary on the part of the murderer but involuntary on the part of the victim. Distributing binaries without source is voluntary on the part of distributor but non-receipt of source is involuntary on the part of the recipient.
Hyperbole aside, they are in fact the same principle.
You live in a free country, however you do not have the freedom to abridge anyone else's freedom.(killing them would be a pretty convincing way of doing that).
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but I used to quite like the mini-comments view that gets embedded in the RSS feed. This is completely borked since the redesign, at least on Google Reader.
As for the rest - for me its all a bit Meh. What have they actually done that took all the time - changed the colour scheme and moved a few elements around? There are all sorts of functional changes and enhancements that would have been a lot more useful.
Yes, according to the classical picture of the atom the electrons should constantly emit photons, which causes them to lose energy, which results in them spiralling in towards the nucleus.
It is precisely the observation that none of this actually happens, that resulted in the discovery of Quantum Mechanics.
Can Google provide us, h264/mpeg sp accelerated device owners, such as less than a billion feature+ phone owners a software to play WebM?
As has been pointed out (several times over the current spate of similar articles) - h264 "hardware decoders" are not composed entirely of hardware at all. They invariably contain a significant software component in the form of firmware. In theory in many current phones the devices can be updated to work with WebM/VP8 in addition to h264. Whether this can be done in practice without sending the phones back to the manufacturer remains to be seen.
There should also be some kind of remote chip attachment innovation as satellite boxes, dvr and like billion of devices won't accept "new software" as they do their job on hardware level.
Next, they should replace the satellites as entire industry adopted h264 a long time ago.
No one is suggesting replacing h264 on existing DVR and Bluray devices or on Satellite or Digital TV transmissions. The only intent is to promote WebM for Web based video - the clue is in the name!
It doesn't outright disqualify them but it sure is a vote of no confidence in a lot of the popular String Theory models.
I'm not so sure this really means anything much. I'm no expert, but my understanding was that the creation of mini-blackholes was always a longshot, predicted by only one fairly left-field formulation of string theory.
AIUI there are basically two broad classes of string theories - there's the "Brane" theories that holds that we only experience 3D+time out of the possible 10D+time because the other six dimensions form a Brane - a large (possibly universe sized) structure where all quantum particles are constrained to a 3 dimensional "surface" and cannot move in any other direction (except for possibly gravitons). Think in terms of a large piece a paper where everything can move freely across its surface but cannot leave it.
Then there's the second class of string theories which says that the other six dimensions exist in the universe we live in but are somehow "wrapped up" into a tiny volume around each quantum particle rather than being "unwrapped" like the three we're familiar with.
Only this second class of string theory predicts the mini-blackholes. Not only that but the blackholes are only predicted if a least one of the six dimensions are "loosely wrapped" to about a millimeter in size. Most physicists AFAIK already considered it far more likely that all the six dimensions are tightly wrapped to somewhere around the Planck length.
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If it does, that'll be my cue to buy $100 worth and hope the price climbs back up again. And since I probably won't be the only one, it probably will.
Biggest problem with sourceforge and has been for ages.
You'll do a search and find a project description that makes you go "Wow! That's exactly what I'm looking for!", then you get the disappointment a few seconds later of realising that writing the description is actually the entirety of the effort ever expended on the project.
Sourceforge really need to purge all these vapourware projects.
I thought he was pretty good in Jumper.
Ahhh, that explains Bananaman! Thanks for clearing that up.
When River shoots at the spaceman(woman) and misses (despite being already established as an excellent shot) she mutters something like "Yes, of course" which could mean she knows her shots went wide because it would be a paradox for her to shoot her younger self.
Can we get those guys to work on Doctor Who canon, if they've finished with the Bible?
Here let me explain it to you:
[evangalist on tour - California]
Evanagalist: YEAH JESUS IS GOOD, JESUS IS GREAT, JESUS WANTS YOU TO GIVE ME MONEY!!!! BTW The rapture happens 6pm on 21st May 2011.
Audience: PRAISE JESUS!!!
[Florida]
Evangalist: YEAH JESUS IS GOOD, JESUS IS GREAT ... Hello sir, your left leg is longer than your right - [slides left shoe back on] - YOU'RE CURED!!!! BTW The rapture happens 6pm on 21st May 2011
Audience: PRAISE JESUS!!!
Guy in audience: Errm, excuse me - I attended your show in California and you said the rapture was at 6pm there too! What gives?
Evangalist: Errm, (bugger), Errm, yeah it's 6pm local time - PRAISE JESUS!!!
Guy in audience: So the rapture it sweeps across the earth from east to west and hits every time zone at 6pm?
Evangalist: Errm, (shit), Errm, yeah that's right - JESUS IS OUR SAVIOUR!!!!
Guy in audience: Why exactly?
Evangalist: Errm, (fuck), Errm - BECAUSE BROTHER, GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!!!!
Guy in audience: Oh yeah, that old chestnut. What about DST?
Evangalist: [looks around for where those bloody bouncers have got to] Errm, yeah Jesus takes care of that too - PRAISE THE LORD!!!
Guy in audience: [getting dragged away by bouncers] But that's bollocks!!! Gaaghhh Let Go!!! You're just a charlaten!!! Hey Put Me Down!!! Give me back my life savings you piece of shit!!!
Evangalist: (where was I, oh yeah) PRAISE JESUS!!!! JESUS WANTS YOU TO GIVE ME MONEY!!!
Audience: PRAISE JESUS!!!
Sorry, forgot to add the rest of what I wanted to say ...
So yes, it's all a matter of if you can convince the rest of the network to accept your block and transaction. If you could get enough people to do that (by getting them to install your version of the client) then yes, as I said, you will have fractured the bitcoin system into two distinct "currencies". However that's a big "if" - what incentive could you offer to convince a non trivial number of people to do that?
AIUI If you override the difficulty you can mine blocks more quickly, but those blocks won't be accepted by the rest of network - so they'll be worthless.
(this first link is in a bit of an odd place, being under "Weaknesses" but under subsection "Definitely not a problem")
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Generate_valid_blocks_with_a_lower_difficulty_than_normal
Similarly when you mine a block you are allowed to create a transaction giving yourself a specific reward, which is currently 50 coins and halves every four years. If you award yourself a different amount then that transaction will be considered invalid by the rest of the network and will be worthless.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Introduction#Creation_of_coins
The way it works, AIUI, is the "new" bitcoins are crytographically guaranteed to be incompatible with the existing coins.
So all you would have done is create a distinct bitcoin currency and would have to convince everyone to trade with your version of the coins if you wanted it to have any value.
OK it's a fair cop - my grasp of these matters is less than stellar.
Bloody hell - $14T increasing by 2.2T a year!!! I'm glad I don't live in the US! ...
The only question is how much of the rest of world's economy goes down the shitter when the US goes bankrupt
AIUI, the states demanding action are the ones that think Amazon having affiliates living locally means the same as Amazon having a business presence in that state. Most people (outside of the states' tax offices) think that's something of a stretch.
So the question is, where are you going to cut the other $1.4T?
Wait a minute do you mean that the US deficit is growing by $2.2T a year - holy cow!
OTOH if you mean it's currently $2.2T in total and growing relatively slowly - then paying it off a $800B a year will take - let me see - a little over 3 years.
Hell you could even pay it off a little more slowly and maybe even afford a decent health service! ;-)
In taking insult though, you read implications into my words that I never made
Fair enough, that's just how it read to me.
Perhaps it means you find your job so satisfying that if they gave you two options: (1) here's your salary, every year, without you needing to ever show up, or (2) come work for me year in and year out for your salary, you would choose (2) in a heartbeat
Oh, its definitely a (1) for me - I code software for a living, which as a profession is something I enjoy - but given the choice, I'd sit at home coding things I want to rather than what my boss wants me to do.
Whilst I can imagine there are a small number of people that really enjoy sweeping floors or working in a factory - I suspect the vast majority do it mostly for the money.
Equally, while there are undoubtedly some that would happily draw a salary for eating nachos all day, I would like to think that for most people that would get boring eventually - and they would then seek to do something more fulfilling - and I stand by my opinion that everybody is capable of that.
While you say that all companies need grunts - I'd have to say that maybe that's true today but maybe that won't be the case in the future when all those boring, unfulfilling jobs would be automated or made unnecessary. It's already happening, you only have to look at the not so distant past - how many people work in typing pools these days, how many telephone operators are there compared to when switching calls had to be done manually?
Yes it might be a pipedream, or at least it might not happen until I'm long gone - but I like to imagine a future where everyone chooses option (2).
I think it's safe to say that there will, at least for the forseeable future, be plenty of jobs that require intelligence, skill and creativity that cannot be done by machines.
You seem to be implying that there's a whole bunch of people that are just too thick to do anything more inspiring than work on a production line, drive trucks or sweep floors. I actually find that idea quite insulting!
I prefer to believe that everyone is capable of aspiring to a more satisfying career and anyone that does not get that opportunity has been failed by our educational systems and/or by society in general.
It called Project Icarus because it's a billing itself as the "son of" Project Daedalus from the 70's.
http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/
Seriously, why does this meme just keep going round and round?
computers/phones already have hardware capable of decoding WebM - it's the same hardware used to decode h.264! In most cases all that is/will be needed is a firmware update.
Android phones will obviously be there first - it's already available in Gingerbread. Apple will follow suit eventually, they might resist for a while but with Android's rising market share and Google controlling Youtube, they're caught between a rock and a hard place and I'm sure they know it.
Firstly it's GP's analogy, not mine. Secondly it's just an example - the actual point I was making was to refute GGP's assertion that the GPL prohibition on distributing binaries without source makes it non-free by making the counter-point that living in a free society does not mean you are free to commit actions that abridge other peoples' freedom.
In any case you're completely mixed up wrt your use of involuntary/voluntary - the murder is voluntary on the part of the murderer but involuntary on the part of the victim. Distributing binaries without source is voluntary on the part of distributor but non-receipt of source is involuntary on the part of the recipient.
Way to miss the point!
If I tried a car analogy, would you say "that's completely different, one is about cars the other is a voluntary acceptance of goods"?
Hyperbole aside, they are in fact the same principle.
You live in a free country, however you do not have the freedom to abridge anyone else's freedom.(killing them would be a pretty convincing way of doing that).
I can see you get you're concept of irony from Alanis Morrisette.
It's not ironic, it's just unfortunate.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but I used to quite like the mini-comments view that gets embedded in the RSS feed. This is completely borked since the redesign, at least on Google Reader.
As for the rest - for me its all a bit Meh. What have they actually done that took all the time - changed the colour scheme and moved a few elements around? There are all sorts of functional changes and enhancements that would have been a lot more useful.
Yes, according to the classical picture of the atom the electrons should constantly emit photons, which causes them to lose energy, which results in them spiralling in towards the nucleus.
It is precisely the observation that none of this actually happens, that resulted in the discovery of Quantum Mechanics.
Can Google provide us, h264/mpeg sp accelerated device owners, such as less than a billion feature+ phone owners a software to play WebM?
As has been pointed out (several times over the current spate of similar articles) - h264 "hardware decoders" are not composed entirely of hardware at all. They invariably contain a significant software component in the form of firmware. In theory in many current phones the devices can be updated to work with WebM/VP8 in addition to h264. Whether this can be done in practice without sending the phones back to the manufacturer remains to be seen.
There should also be some kind of remote chip attachment innovation as satellite boxes, dvr and like billion of devices won't accept "new software" as they do their job on hardware level.
Next, they should replace the satellites as entire industry adopted h264 a long time ago.
No one is suggesting replacing h264 on existing DVR and Bluray devices or on Satellite or Digital TV transmissions. The only intent is to promote WebM for Web based video - the clue is in the name!
It doesn't outright disqualify them but it sure is a vote of no confidence in a lot of the popular String Theory models.
I'm not so sure this really means anything much. I'm no expert, but my understanding was that the creation of mini-blackholes was always a longshot, predicted by only one fairly left-field formulation of string theory.
AIUI there are basically two broad classes of string theories - there's the "Brane" theories that holds that we only experience 3D+time out of the possible 10D+time because the other six dimensions form a Brane - a large (possibly universe sized) structure where all quantum particles are constrained to a 3 dimensional "surface" and cannot move in any other direction (except for possibly gravitons). Think in terms of a large piece a paper where everything can move freely across its surface but cannot leave it.
Then there's the second class of string theories which says that the other six dimensions exist in the universe we live in but are somehow "wrapped up" into a tiny volume around each quantum particle rather than being "unwrapped" like the three we're familiar with.
Only this second class of string theory predicts the mini-blackholes. Not only that but the blackholes are only predicted if a least one of the six dimensions are "loosely wrapped" to about a millimeter in size. Most physicists AFAIK already considered it far more likely that all the six dimensions are tightly wrapped to somewhere around the Planck length.