if this holds up in court then there WILL be a replacement
just like ogg vorbis was made to replace mp3 and png to replace gif.
and there will still be software availible to handle the old format either through underground channels or through paying licesees or both.
those making self contained systems will either license the patent or use the unencumbered technology (note that for example ut2k3 uses ogg)
the big problem i can see is for web browsers. Imagine if firefox could no longer render jpeg without a third party hack. (afaict unisys never managed to enforce thier patent against *DECODERS* in court only against encoders)
ms DOES have the option of just paying up if they lose
they also have other possible tricks availible.
i heared somewhere else in this story that the patent was expiring fairly soon anyway. Maybe this is a case of trying a last ditch attempt to get as much as possible out of the patent before it finally expires.
if you can get multiple pairs you can bond them (ie run say 12 megabits each down 4 pairs or whatever)
this situation is good if you wan't to get lots of bandwidth for a few customers and have the spare pairs handy or can make them availible by multiplexing other peoples pots lines using systems like dacs (dacs is a system used by bt to put two pots lines down a single pair i suspect other telcos have similar tools)
maybe not quite as much but probablly still quite a lot
also iirc there is some point in the spectrum above which water vapour in the air gives huge attenuation. (i think its somewhere around 20ghz but don't quote me on that)
maybe we will see gigabit wireless but i doubt we will see much above that and even then there are likely to be contention problems
cables (copper fiber whatever) keep your data within a controlled and private environment giving you basically limitless total capacity. (ie you can zip-tie 100 cat5 cables together and still run them all at 100mbit try getting 100 similtanius wireless links at that speed)
thing is javas idea of wrapping primitives in immutable objects basically relies of some form of GC
and people wanted java to be able to handle untrusted code situations where a direct free would be a rather risky thing to allow (javas gc does not use refcounting btw)
java is pretty intimately tied to gc if you ripped that out you would basically have to start from scratch with all the libs
p.s. i don't like gc either but if you rip it out of java than what you have isn't java anymore
maybe although there are issues for sid with sarge this close to release
basically stuff that is part of the base system is no longer being allowed into sarge without human permission (as is normal in the last stages of release preperation) the result is the packages in sid need to be kept in a state where what they build can propogate into sarge.
don't be surprised if this doesn't make it into sid until after sarge release.
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sure the thing is you can't measure "shipments" of free software since by definition its freely redistributable so there is no small handfull of vendors shipping it.
its really not feasible to measure how widely free software is used using traditional metrics like marketshare if you try you will end up with a huge underestimate.
are always going to have that problem with any higher load device on a non-powered hub
i dunno what the power consumption of a typical flash stick is but i'm willing to bet its more than 100ma. With usb you are allowed to draw 100ma without asking and can request more up to a max of 500ma but a bus powered hub can never allocate you more than 400ma (as it can only request 500ma from the upstream hub or computer) even in theory and i think most won't allow more than the miniumum 100ma.
boot viruses are a posisble problem on flash sticks though they would have to learn to infect them.
file infecting viruses can go anywhere thier files do flooppy email flash-stick whatever makes no difference
HOWEVER the arms race on the internet regarding viruses has meant that virus scanners are on update schedules that frankly don't give traditional viruses much of a chance.
its cheap it works on most fairly recent pcs without extra drivers (win2K and up definately and i think winme too and i'm pretty sure most reasonablly recent linux distros do too)
why do we need yet another standard when usb handles it so well?
yeah a good lecturer or professor (the title professor seems reserved for the more senior ones here in the uk) will interact with the group and adjust his lecturing based on what he thinks the groups strengths and weaknesses are.
you won't get that with a recording of a lecure.
i'd be pretty pissed if the person supposed to be doing a lecture just used a recording from a previous year.
i'm at the university of manchester in the uk (in the part that used to be umist)
ok so if a lecture grew to much bigger than its normal size people may start asking questions otherwise they'll just assume your a student at least in big first year lectures (your talking nearly 200 students in some) The timetable isn't really conviniant for dropping in to one lecture course though its not like thier
just as non students could drop into the various university catering establishments and buy a meal and noone would notice
one thing that surprises me though is the way the uni hide some things that you would think have little value. like the uni i go to require a login to download the past exam papers, crazy!
sure when most people think of autism they think of classic autism which IS very debilitating.
but there are a lot of people around who are diagnosed with high functioning autism or aspergers syndrome (which are both more or less the same except in minor details) which also come under the general clasification of autism.
i've never really found a problem with the advertisting on osdn sites. (slashdot sourceforce etc)
sure its sometimes animated sometimes even flash but it doesn't pop up or move round the page or anything like that and it quickly scrolls off once your actually reading a longer page.
i think i've seen a pop-up blocked notification on slashdot exactly once.
simple banners don't bother me much even if animated its the pop-ups and thier in window but equally annoying descendents that piss me off. Especially bad are those that move back to the top when you scroll with huge lag.
i notice firefoxe out of the box only blocks popups (which to be honest should never have been added in the first place) but doesn't come will fully fleged ad blocking out of the box. I think this is a sensible descision in the long term.
are transporters and warp drive really that innovative concepts?
they were both introduced to solve otherwise largely unsolveable problems (transporters were about not being able to stage lots of landings on a low budget, warp drive was about faster than light travel which is pretty essential for any sci-fi series)
sure you might have to do them in slightly different ways but doing a star trek like series would be basically impossible without some form of faster than light but still finite speed drive for the ship (wormholes stargates etc are ok but they imo lead to a very different dynamic with basically instant travel to largely defined locations) and doing it on a low budget would be near impossible if you had to do a shuttlepod landing for every planetry visit.
generally in controversial articles we state the facts and we state opinions from well known sources on both sides.
most of all you don't start the hitler article by saying hitler was a bad man you document the facts and let the facts convict him or not.
deciding what is a fact can be hard and sometimes on fringe issues or if a person is sufficiantly hardline they will see bias but mostly we manage to get reasonable cooperation.
also if you try and wage a revert war to get your version of an article in against the community consensus you WILL end up with first temporary and then permanent blocks aimed in your direction.
the first thing to realise is that fighting is pointless. If you get reverted you need to find out WHY you were reverted and deal with the issue not just get into a mindless revert war. Sometimes this involves putting your own opinions aside or
others simply decide to stick to articles that aren't surrounded by controvesy and thats fine too.
oh and finally if you see a big article with a talk page it pays to read the talk page BEFORE making any big edits.
the root servers aren't recursive resolvers so you aren't really pulling from them in any meaningfull sense.
you are just hitting them very occasionally when you use a new tld. Most of your data comes direct to your resolver from the authoritive nameservers.
also the root nameservers are things that ABSOLOUTELY MUST STAY UP and measures would be taken to spread the load further if needed (this has already been done with bgp anycast for k-root).
thats just fine until you run a script that expects rm to MEAN remove and your trash ends up full of useless temp files created by the script
you could patch it so that rm did different things in scripts than when run interactively but thats going to cause confusion when people try something interactively before putting it in a script.
maybe you could add a new command like rmmac or mtt (move to trash) but most of the guys who use the command line wouldn't realise it existed anyway.
btw windows also only uses its trash eqivilent (recycle bin) for deletes from the windows gui not deletes by apps or from the
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if this holds up in court then there WILL be a replacement
just like ogg vorbis was made to replace mp3 and png to replace gif.
and there will still be software availible to handle the old format either through underground channels or through paying licesees or both.
those making self contained systems will either license the patent or use the unencumbered technology (note that for example ut2k3 uses ogg)
the big problem i can see is for web browsers. Imagine if firefox could no longer render jpeg without a third party hack. (afaict unisys never managed to enforce thier patent against *DECODERS* in court only against encoders)
the unisys patents have expired
there is the ibm patent but afaict that has never been enforced and could probbally be blown away by using the expired unisys patents as prior art
ms DOES have the option of just paying up if they lose
they also have other possible tricks availible.
i heared somewhere else in this story that the patent was expiring fairly soon anyway. Maybe this is a case of trying a last ditch attempt to get as much as possible out of the patent before it finally expires.
possiblly bonded dsl
if you can get multiple pairs you can bond them (ie run say 12 megabits each down 4 pairs or whatever)
this situation is good if you wan't to get lots of bandwidth for a few customers and have the spare pairs handy or can make them availible by multiplexing other peoples pots lines using systems like dacs (dacs is a system used by bt to put two pots lines down a single pair i suspect other telcos have similar tools)
maybe not quite as much but probablly still quite a lot
also iirc there is some point in the spectrum above which water vapour in the air gives huge attenuation. (i think its somewhere around 20ghz but don't quote me on that)
maybe we will see gigabit wireless but i doubt we will see much above that and even then there are likely to be contention problems
cables (copper fiber whatever) keep your data within a controlled and private environment giving you basically limitless total capacity. (ie you can zip-tie 100 cat5 cables together and still run them all at 100mbit try getting 100 similtanius wireless links at that speed)
afaict borland is a shadow of its former self
they make thier money by charging insane prices to those companies who are still locked into thier products
they are here now and they will probablly still be here for many years to come so long as they can keep the books balanced.
but there is so much good free software around now that borlands days as a relavent compiler firm must surely be numbered
thing is javas idea of wrapping primitives in immutable objects basically relies of some form of GC
and people wanted java to be able to handle untrusted code situations where a direct free would be a rather risky thing to allow (javas gc does not use refcounting btw)
java is pretty intimately tied to gc if you ripped that out you would basically have to start from scratch with all the libs
p.s. i don't like gc either but if you rip it out of java than what you have isn't java anymore
you just have to hope they don't get thier hands on the hashes then
with a decently fast pc testing 10 billion passwords against a hash is well withing the bounds of feasibility.
maybe although there are issues for sid with sarge this close to release
basically stuff that is part of the base system is no longer being allowed into sarge without human permission (as is normal in the last stages of release preperation) the result is the packages in sid need to be kept in a state where what they build can propogate into sarge.
don't be surprised if this doesn't make it into sid until after sarge release.
sure the thing is you can't measure "shipments" of free software since by definition its freely redistributable so there is no small handfull of vendors shipping it.
its really not feasible to measure how widely free software is used using traditional metrics like marketshare if you try you will end up with a huge underestimate.
are always going to have that problem with any higher load device on a non-powered hub
i dunno what the power consumption of a typical flash stick is but i'm willing to bet its more than 100ma. With usb you are allowed to draw 100ma without asking and can request more up to a max of 500ma but a bus powered hub can never allocate you more than 400ma (as it can only request 500ma from the upstream hub or computer) even in theory and i think most won't allow more than the miniumum 100ma.
i keep mine in a part of my wallet (i have two that i keep on my person)
;)
they can't fall out when they are zipped into an outer part of a wallet
boot viruses are a posisble problem on flash sticks though they would have to learn to infect them.
file infecting viruses can go anywhere thier files do flooppy email flash-stick whatever makes no difference
HOWEVER the arms race on the internet regarding viruses has meant that virus scanners are on update schedules that frankly don't give traditional viruses much of a chance.
and we have it in the form of usb flash sticks
its cheap it works on most fairly recent pcs without extra drivers (win2K and up definately and i think winme too and i'm pretty sure most reasonablly recent linux distros do too)
why do we need yet another standard when usb handles it so well?
yeah its somthing like that
i don't think lilo can handle kernels over a certain size so they can compile more in if they used a compreressed kernel.
yeah a good lecturer or professor (the title professor seems reserved for the more senior ones here in the uk) will interact with the group and adjust his lecturing based on what he thinks the groups strengths and weaknesses are. you won't get that with a recording of a lecure. i'd be pretty pissed if the person supposed to be doing a lecture just used a recording from a previous year.
i'm at the university of manchester in the uk (in the part that used to be umist)
ok so if a lecture grew to much bigger than its normal size people may start asking questions otherwise they'll just assume your a student at least in big first year lectures (your talking nearly 200 students in some) The timetable isn't really conviniant for dropping in to one lecture course though its not like thier
just as non students could drop into the various university catering establishments and buy a meal and noone would notice
one thing that surprises me though is the way the uni hide some things that you would think have little value. like the uni i go to require a login to download the past exam papers, crazy!
sure when most people think of autism they think of classic autism which IS very debilitating. but there are a lot of people around who are diagnosed with high functioning autism or aspergers syndrome (which are both more or less the same except in minor details) which also come under the general clasification of autism.
i've never really found a problem with the advertisting on osdn sites. (slashdot sourceforce etc) sure its sometimes animated sometimes even flash but it doesn't pop up or move round the page or anything like that and it quickly scrolls off once your actually reading a longer page. i think i've seen a pop-up blocked notification on slashdot exactly once. simple banners don't bother me much even if animated its the pop-ups and thier in window but equally annoying descendents that piss me off. Especially bad are those that move back to the top when you scroll with huge lag. i notice firefoxe out of the box only blocks popups (which to be honest should never have been added in the first place) but doesn't come will fully fleged ad blocking out of the box. I think this is a sensible descision in the long term.
are transporters and warp drive really that innovative concepts? they were both introduced to solve otherwise largely unsolveable problems (transporters were about not being able to stage lots of landings on a low budget, warp drive was about faster than light travel which is pretty essential for any sci-fi series) sure you might have to do them in slightly different ways but doing a star trek like series would be basically impossible without some form of faster than light but still finite speed drive for the ship (wormholes stargates etc are ok but they imo lead to a very different dynamic with basically instant travel to largely defined locations) and doing it on a low budget would be near impossible if you had to do a shuttlepod landing for every planetry visit.
generally in controversial articles we state the facts and we state opinions from well known sources on both sides. most of all you don't start the hitler article by saying hitler was a bad man you document the facts and let the facts convict him or not. deciding what is a fact can be hard and sometimes on fringe issues or if a person is sufficiantly hardline they will see bias but mostly we manage to get reasonable cooperation. also if you try and wage a revert war to get your version of an article in against the community consensus you WILL end up with first temporary and then permanent blocks aimed in your direction. the first thing to realise is that fighting is pointless. If you get reverted you need to find out WHY you were reverted and deal with the issue not just get into a mindless revert war. Sometimes this involves putting your own opinions aside or others simply decide to stick to articles that aren't surrounded by controvesy and thats fine too. oh and finally if you see a big article with a talk page it pays to read the talk page BEFORE making any big edits.
or just tell them to change thier dns servers to some public one that has the updates.
the root servers aren't recursive resolvers so you aren't really pulling from them in any meaningfull sense. you are just hitting them very occasionally when you use a new tld. Most of your data comes direct to your resolver from the authoritive nameservers. also the root nameservers are things that ABSOLOUTELY MUST STAY UP and measures would be taken to spread the load further if needed (this has already been done with bgp anycast for k-root).
anyone fancy putting up a mirror of the translation (assuming you managed to save it before the translator was toast)?
so you wan't rm to move files to the trash?
thats just fine until you run a script that expects rm to MEAN remove and your trash ends up full of useless temp files created by the script
you could patch it so that rm did different things in scripts than when run interactively but thats going to cause confusion when people try something interactively before putting it in a script.
maybe you could add a new command like rmmac or mtt (move to trash) but most of the guys who use the command line wouldn't realise it existed anyway.
btw windows also only uses its trash eqivilent (recycle bin) for deletes from the windows gui not deletes by apps or from the