That's true... Cosmology is one big fun exercise in making up the most outrageous bullshit and supporting it with wild theories:-) Quite a lot of fun, too. What really got me was when I studied up on the Inflation theory... I mean, most of it before was already far out, but that... I had great trouble explaining to non-physicists that it's not actually meant to have been pulled out of thin air...
Mind you, on that scale of things you could say physics is still in its infancy... who knows, maybe we'll find ways to break the axioms of physics in the future... stay hopeful:-)
Expansion of the universe doesn't actually mean the space between the atoms in your body increases. The atoms in your body are tightly coupled by strong electromagnetic forces, which are stronger than the expansion of the universe. Imagine a cardboard disc on the elastic surface that usually represents spacetime - several cardboard discs will grow apart as you stretch the surface, but the discs themselves will not grow, they are rigid because of the internal forces.
Those discs are actually of sizes somewhere around clusters of (billions of) galaxies, so the atoms in your body are fairly safe.
any other file systems on these (eg NTFS)? Or am I asking a stupid question (better to ask a stupid question and be stupid for a/. thread than to not ask it and be stupid forever!).
Daniel
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Depends what you define as "data". You couldn't exchange stories with them without speaking their language (XML dialects (eg an XML dtd that is structured like a language to allow you to tell stories with only tags) count as a language too, of course. If you can't exchange stories with it, it's not much to fuss about - you're missing out on 99.9% of human knowledge and communication.
Yup... pretty sweet that someone is finally doing it. Now wait 10 years for the result of the lawsuit... pfft... am I the only one who feels that something is wrong with this system?
Wrong. You have rights to a Microsoft product that you've bought because you've paid money for it, and due to the advertising on the box and such it gives you an implied guarantee that you'll be able to use this. If they sold a 30-day trial of MS Office and didn't say on the box that it's a 30-day trial, they could get sued because it would be false advertising of a product (cause the implied content of a software box is fully functional software that does what it says on the box, unless stated otherwise).
Anyway, so when you buy the box, you have a set of rights to make use of that software, already, because you've paid for it and entered an implicit contract (I pay money for box, you put CDs with binaries in box so I can use them). The EULA is an extra licence that restricts your rights to make use of that software.
So EULAs do take away rights from you.
In the case of freely distributed software, there is no implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a purpose, you haven't paid shit for it, so at first the rights you have are a bit up in the air, and most likely restricted to the standard copyright stuff (so you probably shouldn't even be using it) - and so the GPL expands those rights to allow you to use it, copy it, modify it and distribute it.
I don't think Microsoft would be very happy about that.
God knows... you're assuming they actually have some sense up there in Redmond. Given how many big corporations clearly don't know what's good for them (eg record companies, etc), I think that's going out on a limb!
There is a fairly large market in corporations and even smaller companies for high-end CPUs for use in servers. In this market, which is certainly not the smallest market, Intel kicks AMD's arse, sadly.
Don't.NET programs come in a kind of bytecode like java? I thought that was the whole point of copying the Java idea. In which case they should be equally portable on all those platforms.
It's not your computer, it's your company's computer, and if your company wants to make use of the computer it bought for your use in order to spread the resource usage across the company and avoid having to buy another huge server (or several servers) to serve files around to all the branches of your company in the world, then it's damn right to do so.
With the Mono effort,.NET will be supported under linux too - and I'm willing to bet my hat that the linux support will be better and more stable than the windows support. If that's not a blow to M$ I don't know what is:-)
I like the HOP technique even more... "Hang On Please" (was posted on/. long time ago, but I can't find it anymore). When called by a telemarketting person, ask them to Hang On Please and put the phone down without hanging up. They'll wait a minute or two and then go away, but you'll have wasted their time and made their business plan unworkable (if they have to spend minutes instead of seconds on negative calls, they're going bankrupt).
No, what I was saying is they have to upload something and be approved by hand to join in. For tight communities with lots of content that nevertheless want to stay open to the outside world that works.
Ok, whatever, I didn't take the Fluid Dynamics minor option during my degree, so sue me:-P (I do remember hearing something to the effect of what you're saying above though)
Maybe change "Lies to children" to "Lies to people who haven't studied Fluid Dynamics to grad level":-P
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That's true... Cosmology is one big fun exercise in making up the most outrageous bullshit and supporting it with wild theories :-) Quite a lot of fun, too. What really got me was when I studied up on the Inflation theory... I mean, most of it before was already far out, but that... I had great trouble explaining to non-physicists that it's not actually meant to have been pulled out of thin air...
Daniel
The operative word being very.
:-)
Mind you, on that scale of things you could say physics is still in its infancy... who knows, maybe we'll find ways to break the axioms of physics in the future... stay hopeful
Daniel
Expansion of the universe doesn't actually mean the space between the atoms in your body increases. The atoms in your body are tightly coupled by strong electromagnetic forces, which are stronger than the expansion of the universe. Imagine a cardboard disc on the elastic surface that usually represents spacetime - several cardboard discs will grow apart as you stretch the surface, but the discs themselves will not grow, they are rigid because of the internal forces.
Those discs are actually of sizes somewhere around clusters of (billions of) galaxies, so the atoms in your body are fairly safe.
Daniel
That's a neat idea though. And surely those cards' drivers support some way of direct-dumping bytes onto them...
Daniel
I'm annoyed that it takes 10 years for those lawsuits to be dealt with.
Daniel
any other file systems on these (eg NTFS)? Or am I asking a stupid question (better to ask a stupid question and be stupid for a /. thread than to not ask it and be stupid forever!).
Daniel
Depends what you define as "data". You couldn't exchange stories with them without speaking their language (XML dialects (eg an XML dtd that is structured like a language to allow you to tell stories with only tags) count as a language too, of course. If you can't exchange stories with it, it's not much to fuss about - you're missing out on 99.9% of human knowledge and communication.
Daniel
Yup... pretty sweet that someone is finally doing it. Now wait 10 years for the result of the lawsuit... pfft... am I the only one who feels that something is wrong with this system?
Daniel
Wrong. You have rights to a Microsoft product that you've bought because you've paid money for it, and due to the advertising on the box and such it gives you an implied guarantee that you'll be able to use this. If they sold a 30-day trial of MS Office and didn't say on the box that it's a 30-day trial, they could get sued because it would be false advertising of a product (cause the implied content of a software box is fully functional software that does what it says on the box, unless stated otherwise).
Anyway, so when you buy the box, you have a set of rights to make use of that software, already, because you've paid for it and entered an implicit contract (I pay money for box, you put CDs with binaries in box so I can use them). The EULA is an extra licence that restricts your rights to make use of that software.
So EULAs do take away rights from you.
In the case of freely distributed software, there is no implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a purpose, you haven't paid shit for it, so at first the rights you have are a bit up in the air, and most likely restricted to the standard copyright stuff (so you probably shouldn't even be using it) - and so the GPL expands those rights to allow you to use it, copy it, modify it and distribute it.
Daniel
I don't think Microsoft would be very happy about that.
God knows... you're assuming they actually have some sense up there in Redmond. Given how many big corporations clearly don't know what's good for them (eg record companies, etc), I think that's going out on a limb!
Daniel
If you install bfilter as your proxy, you can turn all ads into big blank boxes instead, regardless of what browser you're using.
Daniel
Java.NET
Did I miss something or is that basically the same as C#? I glanced over a book on C# and it looked pretty darn similar syntax-wise to Java...
Daniel
Yeah, isn't life tough for today's bajillionaire?
Daniel
There is a fairly large market in corporations and even smaller companies for high-end CPUs for use in servers. In this market, which is certainly not the smallest market, Intel kicks AMD's arse, sadly.
Daniel
Happy birthday XML, then?
Get any cool presents?
Daniel
Don't .NET programs come in a kind of bytecode like java? I thought that was the whole point of copying the Java idea. In which case they should be equally portable on all those platforms.
Daniel
Indeed, it is illegal, in most civilised parts of the world anyway. That's like a cop selling you some cocaine and then arresting you for possession.
On top of it, I doubt that "attempted to download an mp3" will be held as a criminal offence anywhere but in the most risible courts of law.
Daniel
It's not your computer, it's your company's computer, and if your company wants to make use of the computer it bought for your use in order to spread the resource usage across the company and avoid having to buy another huge server (or several servers) to serve files around to all the branches of your company in the world, then it's damn right to do so.
Daniel
With the Mono effort, .NET will be supported under linux too - and I'm willing to bet my hat that the linux support will be better and more stable than the windows support. If that's not a blow to M$ I don't know what is :-)
Daniel
I like the HOP technique even more... "Hang On Please" (was posted on /. long time ago, but I can't find it anymore). When called by a telemarketting person, ask them to Hang On Please and put the phone down without hanging up. They'll wait a minute or two and then go away, but you'll have wasted their time and made their business plan unworkable (if they have to spend minutes instead of seconds on negative calls, they're going bankrupt).
Daniel
No, what I was saying is they have to upload something and be approved by hand to join in. For tight communities with lots of content that nevertheless want to stay open to the outside world that works.
Daniel
Ok, whatever, I didn't take the Fluid Dynamics minor option during my degree, so sue me :-P (I do remember hearing something to the effect of what you're saying above though)
:-P
Maybe change "Lies to children" to "Lies to people who haven't studied Fluid Dynamics to grad level"
Daniel
Yup. They should be put away for murder. The bodies, that is...
Daniel
Corporate clients might, but I don't see why the /. crowd should care about a marketting piece directed at corporate bean-counters...
Daniel
So if this is a marketting piece targetted at corporate IT-budget-droids what the hell is it doing on /.???
Daniel