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I have had a server there for nearly 6 months and have had one unscheduled reboot (due to the data center accidentally pulling a power plug which I assume is a very rare occurrance) and one scheduled reboot, to patch the host system kernel to secure it against a local root exploit. Aside from that, it has been 100% rock solid.
Linode.com's web site and host management are top notch too. The quality of the experience there really gives me confidence that Linode.com is a serious company which is going to be around providing great service for a very long time. When I looked into other virtual hosting services and saw web sites that looked like someone's little sister designed and implemented them, well they didn't give me much confidence in the company behind the site.
But Linode.com's excellent site, terms of service, and absolutely fantastic support have all made me a very happy customer indeed.
For what it's worth, you're also wrong. Clause 2 of the "Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution, and Modification":
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
[The conditions, which in brief simply state that you have to release the modified copies under the GPL]
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
This makes it pretty clear that portions of the derived work have to be considered separate works in and of themselves to be freed from the requirements that would otherwise be placed on them by the GPL.
It seems obvious to me that additional lines of code embedded in pre-existing files would not be separate works, and thus would not be free from the GPL requirements.
You may be right, but I never take very seriously comments made by people who start their response with "Bzzzt! Wrong. Try again". It's insulting and stupid. It's as if you want to seem like the guy with all of the answers; obviously it's meant to evoke the image of you as the game show host who has all of the answers, and everyone else as morons who are just guessing. Which is simply inane.
If you want to write a mature, intelligent response, drop the stupid "bzzzt" shit.
I've read many comments here blaming "hippie tree huggers" for this problem. The line of reasoning seems to go that if environmentalists hadn't insisted on a more environmentally-friendly substance, then this problem never would have happened. A corollary to this argument says that even more environmental damage will be done due to the premature failure of millions of devices which are then discarded, than would have been done by the original substance had it been used. The suggestion is that environmentalists are stupid and brought this on themselves.
I think this is a stupid argument. Obviously NO ONE knew that this substance would have this problem, or it wouldn't have been used. Would anyone have pushed for using the new substance over the old had they known that it would have had this problem? Of course not. Can you blame environmentalists for pushing for what looked like a more environmentally friendly, yet equally as robust and useful substance, as was previously used? Even when NO ONE was able to predict that the new substance would have a kind of failure that was never seen before?
If you are going to assign "blame" for this problem, assign it to the engineers who failed to understand this new substance well enough to foresee that this would happen. Obviously everyone thought this new stuff would work just fine or otherwise it wouldn't have been put in. You can't blame environmentalists for not knowing MORE about materials science than the materials scientists themselves.
Not true. If more people get more enjoyment out of the choice of four programs (say four NCAA basketball games) than out of a single hi-def program, then the station will make more advertising revenue off of those four channels than one HD, and will broadcast that way.
If instead more consumers are drawn to a single hi-def program, then that's what the broadcasters will broadcast.
Advertising is based entirely on popularity (more popular programs/channels command higher advertising rates because they get more eyeballs) so the user experience will *necessarily* improve. Maybe not in the way *you* want, but in the way that the majority of customers want.
Finally, I think it's highly likely that there will be a mixture of methods used by stations for splitting up their ATSC broadcast frequencies. There will be hi-def to satisfy those who want hi-def, and more channels to satisfy those who want more choices of what to watch.
The current trends seem to bear this out, as well.
I had never heard of Bill Biggart before this but did a search after reading your post. I find 9/11 stories to be utterly depressing, but this one is really worth a read. Check it out:
I have to say, that is really quite an incredible idea. In my experience the hard drive is one of the most limiting factors affecting performance in a notebook computer. If a RAID 5 array of microdrives was much faster than a single normal drive, and with the added benefit of tolerance to drive failure, I would say that would be pretty sweet.
Somehow I have the feeling that the added complexity, not to mention the all around unorthodoxy of putting a raid 5 array in a notebook computer, will prevent this idea from ever seen the light of day... pity, because it's such a cool thought...
Can someone who has owned an IBM Microdrive comment on the reliability of ultra-small hard drives such as these?
I've had too many hard drives (of the desktop or notebook size) fail in my day to feel very comfortable about having one in a device as likely to be subject to stress and shock as a digital camera.
Solid state memory like compactflash just seems so much more elegant than a tiny spinning metal disc with teeny little motors and gears... but, if these micro drives are reliable enough, then the storage capacity they offer would be mighty attractive.
True, but you'd have to watch a considerable amount of the commercial just to have enough data to make an accurate average, to determine that it is a commercial.
If these devices are smart enough to scan ahead and split the previously-recorded broadcast into segments based on average volume, then it might work. But if they're just trying to detect the "edge" where the volume goes from low to high, it won't.
No, I didn't get it. If someone made a movie out of a series of gory car accidents I wouldn't get it either. And certainly a bunch of losers would call it the greatest movie of all time. But it would still suck.
I cannot fathom how an obviously intelligent person such as yourself could like Kill Bill. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's like a normally compassionnate, caring person saying, "Hey, the holocaust was really great!" The Holocaust and Kill Bill are two things which should never be repeated and should never be praised. Period.
Kill Bill was so mind-numbingly boring and stupid that I could not believe it. I admit, the very first scene, the black and white of Uma gasping her last breath and saying "the baby's yours" or whatever she says, had some visual and emotional impact. But the rest was just DUMB. It was an insult to my intelligence. Its dialog was wooden and contrived. The fight scenes were repetitive and completely dull. The plot didn't go anywhere. Nothing fit together. I was not drawn in emotionally to any of it. Uma looked old and spent. There were so many bad things about that movie that I can't even remember because I think I blocked it all out.
Also, the anime was well drawn but dumb. A ten year old kid watches her parents disgustingly murdered, then disembowels a guy, then shoots the knees out of a couple more. Boring.
If you like Kill Bill I can only imagine that you're the kind of person who really gets a kick out of watching a dog get run over by a car. Oooh look, blood and guts spewing everywhere. What a masterpiece!
My friend and I both walked out on this one, about an hour and a half into it. He wanted to leave after about half an hour, but I made him stay because I was just *sure* it was going to get better. It didn't. It got worse.
Totally boring, totally stupid, totally a complete and utter waste of time.
How someone who could make a movie as incredibly good as Pulp Fiction could make a movie as incredibly bad as Kill Bill will remain one of the greatest mysteries of my lifetime.
You have an alternative. You can contact the author of unrarlib and ask them to license the code to you under different terms. As the copyright holder they have the ability to license it to you binary-only for inclusion in your program.
Of course, you'll probably have to pay them for this.
It sounds like you just want to get something for free and you probably wouldn't like that option.
I think you missed the part where he said that he trusts his own judgement over other drivers. And I'm sure that he factors what other drivers expect into his judgement.
I tend to agree with the grandparent post, I would rather use my judgement than obey marked traffic signals when I think it is safer for me.
I haven't been riding for quite 10 years (more like 8) and I must be an idiot because I don't count my gears as I shift up or down. As a result I often try to shift up to 7th (there is no 7th). Usually if I'm cruising at a "common" steady speed (one that I have mentally associated with a certain 6th gear RPM) I will know (for example my CBR600F4i runs at about 7,000 RPM at 80 MPH indicated in 6th), but more often than not, I don't. I just shift up when I need to and down when I need to, I don't keep track of what gear I am in otherwise.
I have tried to train myself to count as I shift up and down to get into the habit of remembering what gear I am in, but the habit has never stuck...
For more anecdotal evidence, all motorcyclists wear helmets, and I'd say 90% of those that I've seen are full-face (with visor). And CA surely has *alot* more riders than South Dakota.
I would really go for this technology if it integrated into the helmet (rather then being stuck on from outside).
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On the downside, they are awfully expensive compared to Linode.com and their choice of plans is also quite limited.
Linode.com's hosting services are very good. All UML hosting sites seem to be working through some teething problems as UML matures but Linode.com has been exemplary in doing everything possible to make UML work well on their systems and provide a solid hosting service. And I have found their offerings to be very reliable.
I have had a server there for nearly 6 months and have had one unscheduled reboot (due to the data center accidentally pulling a power plug which I assume is a very rare occurrance) and one scheduled reboot, to patch the host system kernel to secure it against a local root exploit. Aside from that, it has been 100% rock solid.
Linode.com's web site and host management are top notch too. The quality of the experience there really gives me confidence that Linode.com is a serious company which is going to be around providing great service for a very long time. When I looked into other virtual hosting services and saw web sites that looked like someone's little sister designed and implemented them, well they didn't give me much confidence in the company behind the site.
But Linode.com's excellent site, terms of service, and absolutely fantastic support have all made me a very happy customer indeed.
Highly recommended.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
[The conditions, which in brief simply state that you have to release the modified copies under the GPL]
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
This makes it pretty clear that portions of the derived work have to be considered separate works in and of themselves to be freed from the requirements that would otherwise be placed on them by the GPL.
It seems obvious to me that additional lines of code embedded in pre-existing files would not be separate works, and thus would not be free from the GPL requirements.
You may be right, but I never take very seriously comments made by people who start their response with "Bzzzt! Wrong. Try again". It's insulting and stupid. It's as if you want to seem like the guy with all of the answers; obviously it's meant to evoke the image of you as the game show host who has all of the answers, and everyone else as morons who are just guessing. Which is simply inane.
If you want to write a mature, intelligent response, drop the stupid "bzzzt" shit.
I've read many comments here blaming "hippie tree huggers" for this problem. The line of reasoning seems to go that if environmentalists hadn't insisted on a more environmentally-friendly substance, then this problem never would have happened. A corollary to this argument says that even more environmental damage will be done due to the premature failure of millions of devices which are then discarded, than would have been done by the original substance had it been used. The suggestion is that environmentalists are stupid and brought this on themselves.
I think this is a stupid argument. Obviously NO ONE knew that this substance would have this problem, or it wouldn't have been used. Would anyone have pushed for using the new substance over the old had they known that it would have had this problem? Of course not. Can you blame environmentalists for pushing for what looked like a more environmentally friendly, yet equally as robust and useful substance, as was previously used? Even when NO ONE was able to predict that the new substance would have a kind of failure that was never seen before?
If you are going to assign "blame" for this problem, assign it to the engineers who failed to understand this new substance well enough to foresee that this would happen. Obviously everyone thought this new stuff would work just fine or otherwise it wouldn't have been put in. You can't blame environmentalists for not knowing MORE about materials science than the materials scientists themselves.
Dude, you slashdotted *yourself*!
Nice one, man!
Not true. If more people get more enjoyment out of the choice of four programs (say four NCAA basketball games) than out of a single hi-def program, then the station will make more advertising revenue off of those four channels than one HD, and will broadcast that way.
If instead more consumers are drawn to a single hi-def program, then that's what the broadcasters will broadcast.
Advertising is based entirely on popularity (more popular programs/channels command higher advertising rates because they get more eyeballs) so the user experience will *necessarily* improve. Maybe not in the way *you* want, but in the way that the majority of customers want.
Finally, I think it's highly likely that there will be a mixture of methods used by stations for splitting up their ATSC broadcast frequencies. There will be hi-def to satisfy those who want hi-def, and more channels to satisfy those who want more choices of what to watch.
The current trends seem to bear this out, as well.
Perceptions of image quality are subjective.
My friend has a 100 inch front projection system and DIRECTV looks great at that size.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart _intro.htm
Oh, and thanks for the pointer ... I really appreciate it ...
I have to say, that is really quite an incredible idea. In my experience the hard drive is one of the most limiting factors affecting performance in a notebook computer. If a RAID 5 array of microdrives was much faster than a single normal drive, and with the added benefit of tolerance to drive failure, I would say that would be pretty sweet.
... pity, because it's such a cool thought ...
Somehow I have the feeling that the added complexity, not to mention the all around unorthodoxy of putting a raid 5 array in a notebook computer, will prevent this idea from ever seen the light of day
Can someone who has owned an IBM Microdrive comment on the reliability of ultra-small hard drives such as these?
... but, if these micro drives are reliable enough, then the storage capacity they offer would be mighty attractive.
I've had too many hard drives (of the desktop or notebook size) fail in my day to feel very comfortable about having one in a device as likely to be subject to stress and shock as a digital camera.
Solid state memory like compactflash just seems so much more elegant than a tiny spinning metal disc with teeny little motors and gears
True, but you'd have to watch a considerable amount of the commercial just to have enough data to make an accurate average, to determine that it is a commercial.
...
If these devices are smart enough to scan ahead and split the previously-recorded broadcast into segments based on average volume, then it might work. But if they're just trying to detect the "edge" where the volume goes from low to high, it won't.
They're probably doing the former though
Oh jeeze, that's even worse.
No, I didn't get it. If someone made a movie out of a series of gory car accidents I wouldn't get it either. And certainly a bunch of losers would call it the greatest movie of all time. But it would still suck.
Look around you man. McDonald's, Starbucks, The Bachelor on TV ... the general public's taste SUCKS. 84% of people have no clue.
I cannot fathom how an obviously intelligent person such as yourself could like Kill Bill. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's like a normally compassionnate, caring person saying, "Hey, the holocaust was really great!" The Holocaust and Kill Bill are two things which should never be repeated and should never be praised. Period.
Kill Bill was so mind-numbingly boring and stupid that I could not believe it. I admit, the very first scene, the black and white of Uma gasping her last breath and saying "the baby's yours" or whatever she says, had some visual and emotional impact. But the rest was just DUMB. It was an insult to my intelligence. Its dialog was wooden and contrived. The fight scenes were repetitive and completely dull. The plot didn't go anywhere. Nothing fit together. I was not drawn in emotionally to any of it. Uma looked old and spent. There were so many bad things about that movie that I can't even remember because I think I blocked it all out.
Also, the anime was well drawn but dumb. A ten year old kid watches her parents disgustingly murdered, then disembowels a guy, then shoots the knees out of a couple more. Boring.
If you like Kill Bill I can only imagine that you're the kind of person who really gets a kick out of watching a dog get run over by a car. Oooh look, blood and guts spewing everywhere. What a masterpiece!
Whatever.
My friend and I both walked out on this one, about an hour and a half into it. He wanted to leave after about half an hour, but I made him stay because I was just *sure* it was going to get better. It didn't. It got worse.
Totally boring, totally stupid, totally a complete and utter waste of time.
How someone who could make a movie as incredibly good as Pulp Fiction could make a movie as incredibly bad as Kill Bill will remain one of the greatest mysteries of my lifetime.
You have an alternative. You can contact the author of unrarlib and ask them to license the code to you under different terms. As the copyright holder they have the ability to license it to you binary-only for inclusion in your program.
Of course, you'll probably have to pay them for this.
It sounds like you just want to get something for free and you probably wouldn't like that option.
Well, I'm a motorcyclist and I would love for such a HUD. I would not call it 'distraction', I would call it 'relevent information' ...
But the miracle of it all is, even if they make it, only those who want it have to buy it!
Whoops, sorry for the typo, I meant to say that "*in California* all motorcyclists wear helmets" ...
I think you missed the part where he said that he trusts his own judgement over other drivers. And I'm sure that he factors what other drivers expect into his judgement.
I tend to agree with the grandparent post, I would rather use my judgement than obey marked traffic signals when I think it is safer for me.
I haven't been riding for quite 10 years (more like 8) and I must be an idiot because I don't count my gears as I shift up or down. As a result I often try to shift up to 7th (there is no 7th). Usually if I'm cruising at a "common" steady speed (one that I have mentally associated with a certain 6th gear RPM) I will know (for example my CBR600F4i runs at about 7,000 RPM at 80 MPH indicated in 6th), but more often than not, I don't. I just shift up when I need to and down when I need to, I don't keep track of what gear I am in otherwise.
...
I have tried to train myself to count as I shift up and down to get into the habit of remembering what gear I am in, but the habit has never stuck
For more anecdotal evidence, all motorcyclists wear helmets, and I'd say 90% of those that I've seen are full-face (with visor). And CA surely has *alot* more riders than South Dakota.
I would really go for this technology if it integrated into the helmet (rather then being stuck on from outside).
Amen, brother.
Bryan Ischo, Cupertino, CA, 2002 Honda CBR600F4i
You should get a user ID. I like the way you think.