Even assuming that you are correct about the longevity of these devices, you're still assuming that the drive is empty when you start writing, and when the drive is full, you continue by overwriting the drive sequentially ad infinitum. If the drive began 99% full to begin with, and you're recording and rotating logs, say, for a web server, the situation is very different...you have the equivalent of a drive 1% of the capacity to wear level over.
CFLs may contain lead and mercury, but they also emit a lot less waste heat than incandescents. I imagine you'll see a lot less houses burn down from someone sticking a piece of paper on a CFL lamp than on an incadescent lamp.
approach to fighting DRM. Your idea will not work in today's America. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Record companies will twist it into a pro-DRM marketing campaign
( ) Legitimate music fans would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It is defenseless against RIAA lawyers
( ) It will stop DRM for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Ordinary music listeners will not put up with it
( ) Technology doesn't work that way
(X) The government doesn't work that way
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(X) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from RIAA labels
(X) Your solution goes against the principles of corporate American culture
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many musicians cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential labels
( ) RIAA labels don't care about whiny Slashdot nerds
(X) Big American conglomerates would lobby against it
( ) It is trivial to circumvent technologically
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Bittorrent
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Russian pirates and/or TPB
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) iTunes
( ) The general public hesistation to install open-source media players
(X) The steadfast unaccountability and moral vacuum of the typical RIAA label CEO
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(X) The average person doesn't know or care about rootkits
( ) DMCA
( ) Richard Stallman
( ) Steve Jobs
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with record labels
( ) Dishonesty on the part of RIAA labels themselves
( ) CowboyNeal's extensive WMA collection
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
You were looking up the hashes for those strings plus a newline. Remove the trailing newline and you'll get more results (the last three all return results without a newline).
If it's so simple a problem to solve, there is a lot of money waiting for you in the Boston area in the hands of frustrated consumers. Go ahead and pioneer the practical, workable solution to public transportation in Boston (move over MBTA!) and reap the profits!
Mathematics was designed to work within the neural circuitry of the human brain, not the other way 'round.
Mathematics was not designed, it was discovered. Of course my use of designed meant "evolved by natural selection".
Perhaps, the Pirahã had little environmental pressure to retain or develop the circuitry for mathematical skills.
Two problems with this:
Even supposing that mathematical ability is a domain-specific mental faculty, the Pirahã would have needed to separate from the rest of humanity very early for everyone else to share this adaptation. Likewise for losing this adaptation; the evolutionary timescale is just not there.
The Pirahã have frequent sexual relations with outsiders (who subsequently leave). If the Pirahã originally represented some un-mathematical substrate, that would have disappeared long ago with the continuous influx of fresh genes.
The notion that primates are genetically predisposed to have mathematical ability is tenuous. Why should we believe there is some neural circuitry designed explicitly for math? First of all, all studies teaching non-human primates to count involve extensive training of the primates; it doesn't just "click" for them. This would suggest that it is a struggle for them to learn the concept of counting and mathematics. (Of course it doesn't help that TFA is extremely light on the gory details of the methodology and results of the study.)
Secondly, the Pirahã people of Amazonia do not have numbers or counting. Professor Everett, despite months of instruction, was unable to make any progress in teaching them how to count. The Pirahã themselves were highly motivated learners, as they didn't want to be ripped off in trade by visiting merchants, but nevertheless, they had no success in learning the most basic concepts of math. Indeed the Pirahã language has no numerals, and is claimed to have no quantifiers, either.
Relevant readings: Everett, D.L. (2005). Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Pirahã. Current Anthropology, 46, 621-646. Hauser, M.D., Chomsky, N. and Fitch, W.T. (2002) The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science, 298, 1569-1579. Pinker, S. & Jackendoff, R. (in press). The components of language: What's specific to language, and What's specific to humans? In M.H. Christiansen, C. Collins & S. Edelman (Eds.), Language universals. New York: Oxford University Press.
...that they'll be selling these on the next Pink Floyd tour with Duke Nuke Forever preinstalled its WinFS-formatted partition. Also on sale will be pocket cold fusion generators, cell phones running Skype, and CmdrTaco tshirts.
I'm sorry, Osama worked for the CIA? As we know, Wikipedia contains all knowledge at this point, yet makes no mention of this fact in its Osama Bin Laden article.
The only thing they can avoid *GPLing and distributing source for is a stand-alone part that they wrote from scratch - and then (since it's a single software load rather than a distribution containing clearly separable components) only if the underlying code was licensed under the LGPL rather than the full-blown GPL.
The way you word this seems to imply that if the software was built on a platform released under the GNU GPL that the source code to the software must be released. This is not the case--it is typically understood to fall under the mere aggregation clause in section 2 of the GPL; such works are not typically considered "derived".
Dynamic linking, however, is a more interesting issue. Should a work which simply links against a GPL library dynamically be considered a derived work? What if it simply dlopen()s a GPL library?
In fact, until this year, Eudora was the only officially supported fat email client by Cornell Information Technologies. Only as of fall 2006 do they support Thunderbird.
If you develop on several different UNIXes (and other OSes with UNIX like environments) getting used to all the extra features in vim can be a real pain, when you have to work with the classic form of vi.
You're right. Vim should not aim to improve on vi at all. It should only aim to be completely compatible, and not allow the user to enable extra functionality that makes them more productive, in particular because vim is locked down to only one form of UNIX.
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Don't know about Intel, but ARM shipped 1 billion processors last quarter
No, their licensees shipped 1bn units. ARM doesn't manufacture anything.
Sounds like a great plan if you want morale to plummet! I'm not kidding, this was tried at a former workplace and there was turnover in the aftermath.
I use an NSLU2 as a router and firewall for my home network, and I move more often than I have to reboot it.
Even assuming that you are correct about the longevity of these devices, you're still assuming that the drive is empty when you start writing, and when the drive is full, you continue by overwriting the drive sequentially ad infinitum. If the drive began 99% full to begin with, and you're recording and rotating logs, say, for a web server, the situation is very different...you have the equivalent of a drive 1% of the capacity to wear level over.
CFLs may contain lead and mercury, but they also emit a lot less waste heat than incandescents. I imagine you'll see a lot less houses burn down from someone sticking a piece of paper on a CFL lamp than on an incadescent lamp.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting DRM. Your idea will not work in today's America. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Record companies will twist it into a pro-DRM marketing campaign
( ) Legitimate music fans would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It is defenseless against RIAA lawyers
( ) It will stop DRM for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Ordinary music listeners will not put up with it
( ) Technology doesn't work that way
(X) The government doesn't work that way
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(X) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from RIAA labels
(X) Your solution goes against the principles of corporate American culture
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many musicians cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential labels
( ) RIAA labels don't care about whiny Slashdot nerds
(X) Big American conglomerates would lobby against it
( ) It is trivial to circumvent technologically
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Bittorrent
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Russian pirates and/or TPB
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) iTunes
( ) The general public hesistation to install open-source media players
(X) The steadfast unaccountability and moral vacuum of the typical RIAA label CEO
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(X) The average person doesn't know or care about rootkits
( ) DMCA
( ) Richard Stallman
( ) Steve Jobs
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with record labels
( ) Dishonesty on the part of RIAA labels themselves
( ) CowboyNeal's extensive WMA collection
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
You were looking up the hashes for those strings plus a newline. Remove the trailing newline and you'll get more results (the last three all return results without a newline).
If it's so simple a problem to solve, there is a lot of money waiting for you in the Boston area in the hands of frustrated consumers. Go ahead and pioneer the practical, workable solution to public transportation in Boston (move over MBTA!) and reap the profits!
The notion that primates are genetically predisposed to have mathematical ability is tenuous. Why should we believe there is some neural circuitry designed explicitly for math? First of all, all studies teaching non-human primates to count involve extensive training of the primates; it doesn't just "click" for them. This would suggest that it is a struggle for them to learn the concept of counting and mathematics. (Of course it doesn't help that TFA is extremely light on the gory details of the methodology and results of the study.)
Secondly, the Pirahã people of Amazonia do not have numbers or counting. Professor Everett, despite months of instruction, was unable to make any progress in teaching them how to count. The Pirahã themselves were highly motivated learners, as they didn't want to be ripped off in trade by visiting merchants, but nevertheless, they had no success in learning the most basic concepts of math. Indeed the Pirahã language has no numerals, and is claimed to have no quantifiers, either.
Relevant readings:
Everett, D.L. (2005). Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Pirahã. Current Anthropology, 46, 621-646.
Hauser, M.D., Chomsky, N. and Fitch, W.T. (2002) The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science, 298, 1569-1579.
Pinker, S. & Jackendoff, R. (in press). The components of language: What's specific to language, and What's specific to humans? In M.H. Christiansen, C. Collins & S. Edelman (Eds.), Language universals. New York: Oxford University Press.
...that they'll be selling these on the next Pink Floyd tour with Duke Nuke Forever preinstalled its WinFS-formatted partition. Also on sale will be pocket cold fusion generators, cell phones running Skype, and CmdrTaco tshirts.
OpenBSD fast? Is this a joke?
...
John Cage
I'm sorry, Osama worked for the CIA? As we know, Wikipedia contains all knowledge at this point, yet makes no mention of this fact in its Osama Bin Laden article.
Maybe the Senator was on to something...
Heh. I automatically assumed it meant 2 bytes by word.
The way you word this seems to imply that if the software was built on a platform released under the GNU GPL that the source code to the software must be released. This is not the case--it is typically understood to fall under the mere aggregation clause in section 2 of the GPL; such works are not typically considered "derived".
Dynamic linking, however, is a more interesting issue. Should a work which simply links against a GPL library dynamically be considered a derived work? What if it simply dlopen()s a GPL library?
Sony media imported from Japan is Taiyo Yuden as far as I can tell.
Even so...
It is the beautiful people that are the smart ones, and it is that very same smartness that makes them rich.
Citing DCOP as an advantage of GNOME only takes you as far as KDE 3, since KDE 4 will use dbus just as GNOME does.
In fact, until this year, Eudora was the only officially supported fat email client by Cornell Information Technologies. Only as of fall 2006 do they support Thunderbird.
...what is the letter between Q and S?